"I declare the Five Great Elemental Academies Exchange Meeting, now open!"
As Feng Qingcang's voice fell, thunderous applause immediately erupted from the audience.
Feng Qingcang gestured with his hands, signaling for silence below.
After the scene quieted down, Feng Qingcang spoke:
"The Five Great Elemental Academies Exchange Meeting is held every three years. It is a stage for students from our five academies to interact with each other. I hope you will not be reserved and will showcase your talents. Do not fear failure; as long as you can make progress from failure, then this exchange meeting will not have been in vain."
Saying this, Feng Qingcang scanned the crowd below and saw fire in the eyes of many students. A slight smile appeared on his face and he said:
"Very good, I can feel the burning enthusiasm from you all. You were all undoubtedly geniuses outside to be able to join our Five Elemental Academies. Now, who is willing to be the first to step forward and start today's first soul battle?"
"Since Dean Feng has said so, then let me be the one to get things started!"
After speaking, a young man wearing golden-red clothing, with an ordinary appearance and seventeen or eighteen years of age, jumped onto the stage. With fiery eyes, he shouted to the crowd below: "Huo Wushuang from Blazing Academy, martial soul is the Unicom Blazing Dragon, a Level 36 Assault System Battle Soul Elder. Is there anyone willing to fight me!"
Although he was the first to go on stage, Huo Wushuang wasn't worried about a Soul Ancestor suddenly appearing to defeat him. It wasn't that he didn't think there were Soul Ancestor-level students in the Five Great Elemental Academies, but rather that such a competition only made sense if the levels were similar. Otherwise, why bother with this whole setup? Wouldn't it be simpler to just rank by soul power?
"Haha, as expected of my son, he's certainly brave enough."
Seeing Huo Wushuang take the stage, Huo Yangyan immediately raised his eyebrows at the few people beside him. However, the people around him were already aware of his character, so no one paid him any mind.
"I'll fight you!"
After waiting for a moment, a delicate beauty with long aquamarine hair, around sixteen years old, jumped onto the stage.
Facing Huo Wushuang, the beauty cupped her hands towards him and said: "Shui Bing'er from Heaven Dou Academy, martial soul is the Ice Phoenix, a Level 36 Control System Battle Soul Elder. Please enlighten me!"
"Ice Phoenix!?"
Upon hearing Shui Bing'er's words, Huo Wushuang's pupils constricted sharply, and his internal alert level instantly maxed out.
At the same time, on the high platform, the smile on Huo Yangyan's face instantly vanished. He looked at Shui Yueruo beside him with disbelief and said: "Your academy actually recruited someone with an Ice Phoenix martial soul?"
The other three also changed color, looking at Shui Yueruo with expressions of surprise and uncertainty.
The Phoenix martial soul is the most top-tier beast martial soul. Regardless of the type of phoenix, as long as it's related to a phoenix, its level will not be low. And the Ice Phoenix is one of the purest types of phoenix martial souls.
If it weren't for the fact that research on this type of martial soul in the soul master world is too limited, preventing them from reaching the optimal step in every stage, then purely in terms of martial soul strength, it would even surpass the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, which is known as the number one beast martial soul in the world.
However, facing the questioning gazes of everyone, Shui Yueruo smiled faintly and replied: "This little sister was just lucky. By chance, when I was out on an excursion, I happened to encounter the owner of this Ice Phoenix martial soul."
In response to this explanation, the other four could only roll their eyes. If the Ice Phoenix was so easy to encounter, their academies would have been filled with various top-tier martial souls long ago.
However, seeing that Shui Yueruo didn't want to elaborate, they didn't press further. The Ice Phoenix martial soul was indeed powerful, but they couldn't obtain it. It wasn't realistic to try and poach her.
And at this moment, Huo Wushuang and Shui Bing'er below had already started fighting.
But as soon as the fight began, Huo Wushuang felt an unusual sense of frustration. Although his Unicom Blazing Dragon wasn't a top-tier martial soul, it was a standout among high-level martial souls.
Normally, he wouldn't fear soul masters with water or ice attributes in battle, but when facing Shui Bing'er's Ice Phoenix, it felt as if his level was being suppressed, making the fight extremely difficult.
Just melting Shui Bing'er's first soul skill, Ice Seal, required considerable effort. After finally managing to get close to Shui Bing'er, her Repelling Ice Ring instantly sent him back to his original position. How was he supposed to fight like this?
Therefore, after fighting for about fifteen minutes, Huo Wushuang reluctantly chose to surrender, ending the first battle of the exchange meeting.
"Thank you for the match!"
After Huo Wushuang surrendered, a faint smile appeared on Shui Bing'er's face, and she cupped her hands towards him.
As for Huo Wushuang, his expression was grim. After bowing to Shui Bing'er, he quickly walked off the soul battle stage.
If possible, he never wanted to fight Shui Bing'er again. Being controlled to death, being managed to death, this kind of fight was too uncomfortable.
After watching this battle, Mo Hui frowned.
Hmm... how to put it? The level was indeed much higher compared to ordinary students, but in Mo Hui's current view, it was actually just average.
Subsequently, feeling bored, Mo Hui took out a book about the research of soul ring mechanisms from his soul tool and began to read.
"This kid Mo Hui!"
On the high platform, Feng Qingcang looked at Mo Hui taking out a book and felt a bit helpless. Mo Hui was good in every way, but perhaps because he was too outstanding, he couldn't really connect with his peers.
With the battle between Huo Wushuang and Shui Bing'er as a demonstration, the subsequent events were much smoother. Excellent students from each academy came forward one after another, and at the height of the excitement, even all four soul battle stages were full. Dazzling soul power fluctuations surged, and various soul skills were frequently used, drawing exclamations of admiration from the students and teachers watching.
During this time, Feng Xiaotian also went up and fought a few times, winning all of his battles.
There was no helping it. Feng Xiaotian's level was now close to Level 43, which was almost the highest among the student group. Furthermore, after being defeated by Mo Hui, Feng Xiaotian had diligently practiced his combat techniques and learned the multi-layer air blade, greatly increasing his soul power control. Not to mention fighting these students who had just broken through to Soul Ancestor, even some seasoned Soul Ancestors might not be able to defeat him.
For him to fight these students who had just broken through to Soul Ancestor was truly a bit of a dimensionality reduction strike.
However, somewhat unexpectedly for Mo Hui, Feng Xiaotian did not take this opportunity to challenge him. He wondered if it was for the sake of secrecy, not wanting him to be exposed.
After all, if Mo Hui were to fight, he would definitely have to use the multi-layer air blade and the cutting wind wheel. Without these two self-created soul skills, with just Mo Hui's not-very-strong Wind Blade, his combat power would decrease by at least half.
But how could Mo Hui have known that the reason Feng Xiaotian didn't challenge him was simply because he was afraid of losing again in front of so many people?
Feng Xiaotian didn't care about others, but today his beloved Huowu was present. Wouldn't it be too embarrassing if he lost?
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was already noon. Just as Mo Hui thought there was nothing for him to do, a sudden event caused Mo Hui to be slightly stunned.
From the Blazing Academy side, after listening to something a student from the Divine Wind Academy said, Huowu's mouth suddenly curved. Then she jumped onto the soul battle stage, pointed at Mo Hui, and shouted:
"I, Huowu from Blazing Academy, challenge Mo Hui from Divine Wind Academy!"