The door to the staging area slowly opened, and a stunning jade-green figure walked out at an unhurried pace.
Dugu Xianmeng had jade-green hair draped over her shoulders and wore a matching snake-shaped earring on her right ear.
Her figure was absolutely breathtaking.
Dressed in a high-slit cheongsam, she walked barefoot, her translucent toes looking like little round candies that made people want to…
Seeing this great beauty, Zhou Sichen raised an eyebrow.
The real person was far prettier than the portrait.
This beauty, this figure…
she could definitely compete with his sister.
His sister had an angelic older-sister vibe, while Dugu Xianmeng exuded a dark, alluring older-sister aura.
Each had their own strengths and overflowing charm.
Stepping onto the platform, Dugu Xianmeng gave Zhou Sichen a dangerous yet captivating smile.
“Little brother, you’re the first person to choose me.
Big sister definitely won’t let you down.”
Hearing her alluring voice, Zhou Sichen returned a warm smile.
“I hope big sister won’t hold back, then.”
Listening to their exchange, the four candidates who had passed thought they were hearing things.
Don’t hold back?!
It seemed this kid was blinded by her looks and had no idea how terrifying the Poison Witch truly was!
“Sure,” Dugu Xianmeng replied, her smile radiant.
Then, under everyone’s gaze, Zhou Sichen slowly raised his right hand.
A magnificent Book of Contracts, looking as though it were forged from solid gold, slowly materialized.
The elegant and noble book added a strong scholarly aura to Zhou Sichen’s already refined bearing.
Appearing alongside the gorgeous golden book were the three soul rings circling his body.
Purple!
Purple!
Purple!
The moment these three rings rose, everyone’s breath hitched.
The crowd in the training hall, the Inner Courtyard seniors in the break room, and even Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo behind the soul glass…
A thousand-year first soul ring…
hearing about it was one thing, but witnessing it in person was a completely different level of shock.
Furthermore, the pressure radiating from those three purple rings far exceeded that of ordinary thousand-year rings.
“Zhou Sichen.
Martial Soul: Book of Contracts.
Rank 38 Battle Soul Elder.
Please advise.”
His voice, gentle as a spring breeze, pulled Dugu Xianmeng out of her daze.
“A thousand-year first soul ring?
That’s impossible!” The smile vanished from her face, replaced by an unprecedented seriousness.
Even though he was only rank thirty-eight—a full ten ranks below her—his ring configuration was far too terrifying.
Du Weilun stared unblinkingly at Zhou Sichen, but no matter how hard he looked, the three purple rings glowing brilliantly around the boy remained unchanged.
“He truly is…
heaven-defyingly talented,” Du Weilun muttered.
Everyone else had similar reactions, including the two Deans behind the glass.
Perhaps only Beibei, who had already seen this, appeared somewhat calm.
Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo exchanged a glance.
The appearance of a genius like this meant something profound.
If they could keep him at Shrek, he could absolutely guarantee the academy’s prosperity for another century or more!
On the platform, Dugu Xianmeng bit her lip slightly.
She hadn’t expected her first opponent to be a genius of this caliber.
Fortunately, the soul power gap between them was large enough.
And she was extremely confident in her poison.
A diamond-shaped, jade-green crystal appeared on her forehead, and her jade-green eyes slowly morphed into vertical slits.
As her waist twisted, her long, flawless legs fused together, transforming into a snake tail covered in exquisite, diamond-shaped jade-green scales.
At the same time, her four optimal soul rings—two yellow and two purple—rose around her, and the soul power pressure of a high-level Soul Ancestor surged toward Zhou Sichen.
“Dugu Xianmeng.
Martial Soul: Biphosphor Snake.
Rank 48 Control System Battle Soul Ancestor.
Please.”
Like a venomous snake flicking its tongue, Dugu Xianmeng looked even more alluring and enchanting after releasing her martial soul, yet no one dared to approach her now.
Du Weilun snapped back to reality and announced, “Match…
begin!”
The moment his voice fell, Dugu Xianmeng slithered rapidly toward Zhou Sichen, staying low to the ground.
She intended to use absolute suppression to defeat this exceptionally talented little brother.
During her advance, all four of her soul rings lit up simultaneously.
Seeing this, the spectators’ expressions changed drastically.
This was their first time seeing Dugu Xianmeng get so serious.
Using four soul skills at once—even a Soul King might not be able to block that!
The Biphosphor Snake poison was already a terrifyingly lethal toxin, but Dugu Xianmeng had taken it further, using poison to cultivate poison.
Building upon the base of the Biphosphor Snake poison, she had added the ability of the Biphosphor Five Poisons.
The fusion of the Biphosphor Five Poisons multiplied the original poison’s potency several times over.
A mere rank thirty-eight Zhou Sichen probably wouldn’t last a single second before being melted into a puddle of pus!
Red Poison Centipede, Purple Poison Gecko, Ice Poison Toad, Fire Poison Scorpion, combined with the innate Biphosphor Snake poison—all five deadly poisons together!
The four soul skills activated in succession, and the five lethal poisons fused into a colorful toxic mist that took the form of a brilliant, multi-colored poison arrow shooting straight at Zhou Sichen.
“Biphosphor Five Poisons Formation!”
When the colorful poison arrow was less than three meters away from Zhou Sichen, it silently exploded into an illusionary, multi-colored toxic fog.
It swept toward him at a terrifying speed, threatening to envelop him entirely.
But Zhou Sichen had never intended to dodge.
He didn’t even make a move to resist.
He simply flipped open the golden book in his hand, revealing the first page.
Illustrated on that page was a magnificent Ice Jade Scorpion.
With a light tap of his finger, his first purple soul ring lit up.
A ray of ice-jade light flew out from the page, materializing into a three-meter-long Ice Jade Scorpion.
The moment the Ice Jade Scorpion appeared, the freezing aura it emitted instantly dropped the surrounding temperature by at least twenty degrees.
Without needing a single word of instruction from Zhou Sichen, cold light surged on Ah Da’s long scorpion tail.
Channeling the power of Ultimate Ice, it fired a beam of icy blue light.
“Ice Seal!”
Although Zhou Sichen’s soul power was ten ranks lower than Dugu Xianmeng’s, in terms of soul power quality, the gap was much smaller.
Furthermore, Ah Da’s cultivation had reached 9,999 years.
Powered by Ultimate Ice, Dugu Xianmeng’s Biphosphor Five Poisons—which dominated the Outer and even Inner Courtyards—was frozen solid before it could even spread.
Dugu Xianmeng stared at the scene in absolute disbelief.
“That’s impossible!
Even fire and ice, which naturally counter poison, shouldn’t be able to restrict my Biphosphor Five Poisons!
You…!”
By absorbing the soul rings of the Biphosphor Five Poison beasts, her poison had developed immense resistance to the elements that normally countered it, like fire and ice.
Ordinary fire and ice had almost no effect on her Biphosphor Five Poisons.
But the ice of Zhou Sichen’s contracted beast was different.
Its ice was far colder and more unparalleled.
Even Ling Luochen, the Inner Courtyard student who possessed the element of ice and had already reached the Soul King realm, couldn’t match it.
It wasn’t just Dugu Xianmeng; everyone else, including Du Weilun, was astounded.
Du Weilun had actually been prepared to step in and save Zhou Sichen, since despite his heaven-defying soul rings, he was ultimately only rank thirty-eight.
But looking at it now, his worries were completely unfounded.
This kid’s strength was too terrifying to be measured by common sense.
After all, he had only used his first contracted beast.
Behind the soul glass, Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo both widened their eyes.
“Ultimate Ice!
The cultivation of this Ice Jade Scorpion is infinitely close to the ten-thousand-year level…
and this is just his first soul skill?!”
Beibei nodded from the side.
He had actually already told them this, but until they saw it with their own eyes, the two Deans had found it hard to believe.
Now that they had seen it, they found it even more unbelievable.