Douluo Continent: The Ruler of Time, Reigning Supreme

Chapter 209 The Ultimate Ice
Under everyone's watchful eyes, an enormous, dark red figure, enveloped in endless flames, burst forth from the fire in an instant.

When they saw the figure clearly, almost all the students couldn't help but gasp.

It was an enormous male lion, over five meters long and nearly four meters tall at the shoulder, practically a moving mountain.

Its entire body was covered in dark red mane, and on each hair burned a raging, seemingly inextinguishable demonic flame.

Its strong limbs trod on the sand, leaving behind charred marks.

On that enormous head, in a pair of lantern-like eyes, burned the purest desire for brutality and destruction.

The Millennium Soul Beast – Flaming Demon Lion.

This is a powerful fire-attribute soul beast known for its ferocity and destructive power.

Facing the roaring, blazing lion charging with immense force, Yin Chen, standing in the center of the arena, didn't even blink.

Just as the demonic lion was still dozens of meters away from him, opening its blood-red maw and preparing to spew out a destructive tornado of flames, Yin Chen finally moved.

He didn't even release his martial spirit or spirit rings; he simply raised his right hand.

It's such a simple action.

In the next instant, an extremely terrifying chill, seemingly emanating from the deepest abyss, erupted from his body with a deafening roar.

"Snap—crack—crack—"

The sound of air freezing was so crisp it made your teeth ache.

Starting from Yin Chen, within a fan-shaped area of ​​tens of meters in front of him, everything—from the dark yellow sand on the ground to the scorching air currents flowing in the air, and even the raging demonic flames on the body of the Flaming Lion—was covered by a layer of chilling ice in less than a second.

The mighty, thousand-year-old Flaming Lion, which had been charging forward in a precarious stance, froze abruptly in mid-air without even letting out a scream.

The raging flames in its eyes were replaced by eternal ice.

Finally, amidst hundreds of stunned gazes, as if they had seen a ghost, a living, thousand-year-old soul beast, along with the vast space around it, was completely frozen into a small, crystal-clear iceberg radiating terrifying cold.

"ice……?"

On the high platform, Wang Yan suddenly stood up from his seat, his face filled with disbelief and shock.

Han Ruoruo, who was standing next to him, also looked surprised.

The two of them, as well as all the teachers and students in the audience who knew and understood Yin Chen, were overwhelmed with emotion.

They all clearly remembered that Yin Chen's martial soul was the mysterious and unpredictable time-based element. When? He was actually able to manipulate ice?!
Moreover, this is no longer ordinary ice.

What terrifying cold this is!
With just a wave of his hand, in an instant, he froze a thousand-year-old soul beast known for its flames and rage, along with its proud demonic flames, into an ice sculpture.

This extreme, domineering, and unreasonable ice has completely exceeded their comprehension.

Is it his second martial soul? But he's only twelve years old, how could that be...?

While most people were still reeling from the shock, Gu Yuena, however, showed little shock in her beautiful purple eyes. Instead, a thoughtful look flashed across her face.

She seemed to... understand something.

At this very moment, Huo Yuhao's body was also trembling slightly in the Class 1, Grade 2 line.

But his trembling did not come from the cold outside, but from the sea of ​​his spirit.

"Ice, it's the scent of ice!!"

The shrill cries of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm nearly pierced Huo Yuhao's eardrums. Its spiritual body churned and surged wildly within Huo Yuhao's sea of ​​consciousness, unleashing wave after wave of mental storms.

"How is this possible?! How could he be here?! How did Bingbing's aura appear on this kid?! What on earth is going on?!!!!"

The voice of Tianmeng Bingcan was filled with anxiety, unease, and a sense of panic.

He was all too familiar with that aura. It was the aura of the Ice Emperor Scorpion, one of the three great kings of the far north, which he had admired for countless years but could never obtain.

Moreover, it is so pure, so powerful.

"Brother Tianmeng, Brother Tianmeng, don't panic."

Huo Yuhao suppressed the turmoil in his mental sea and did his best to calm the almost out-of-control Tianmeng Ice Silkworm in his consciousness.

"Calm down. After the assessment, I... I'll try to find a way to test the class monitor for you."

After this life-or-death journey to the far north, Huo Yuhao finally learned about Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's original plan—to find the Ice Emperor, then trick her into becoming his second martial soul.

He also learned that his brother Tianmeng seemed to have always been deeply in love with the Ice Emperor.

However, due to some unexpected events, they did not find Hyotei. Instead, they encountered another ferocious beast by chance and formed a cooperation.

But now, the aura of Hyotei, which should have been impossible to find, has appeared on his class monitor.

What exactly happened behind the scenes?
The iceberg, formed from the solidified form of a thousand-year-old fiery lion, stood silently in the center of the arena, emitting a ghostly glow.

The extreme low temperature seemed like an invisible domain, rapidly spreading and causing the temperature in the entire giant arena to drop several degrees.

The trainees outside the arena could even see their own breath in the cold air. They all hugged their arms tightly, as if the chill was not affecting their bodies but freezing their souls.

All sounds are silent.

Before the ice sculpture that symbolized absolute power, Yin Chen slowly lowered his arm.

He didn't look at the masterpiece that could be called a work of art, but instead turned his calm gaze to the referee teacher who was already dumbfounded.

"teacher."

His voice broke the deathly silence.

"My assessment is over."

Yes, it's over.

Yin Chen remained calm and composed.

A mere thousand-year-old soul beast could not pose much of a threat to a four-ring Soul Master.

Moreover, what he used was the ultimate ice from the 400,000-year-old Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, which surpasses ordinary ice and snow.

For him, this assessment was just a formality from the beginning, and there was no pressure at all.

The academy's upgrade assessments have never been designed to test students who are already at the top of their peers.

Its true purpose is to act like a sieve, filtering out those trainees who lack courage, ability, or character, in order to ensure the prestige of Shrek Academy's reputation.

If even he, the undisputed pinnacle of the new generation, has to go through so much trouble to pass a promotion test for a lower grade, then there are probably very few people in this grade who can successfully advance.

(End of this chapter)