Douluo Continent: Starting with the Burning Blade, he was then entangled with Ma Xiaotao.

Chapter 89 Post-Match Arrangements

The Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Tournament has come to an end, and Star Luo City has returned to its usual state.

The final award ceremony was not open to the public; the process was simple and low-key, but the rewards were substantial and unambiguous. Besides the enormous sum of gold soul coins, the most eye-catching prize was a total of four soul bones. These included not only the three that the champion was entitled to, but also the Ice Jade Scorpion left arm bone that had previously sparked fierce competition at the Starlight Auction House.

Elder Xuan acted with extreme speed. As soon as the award ceremony ended, he swiftly made a round trip between Star Luo City and Shrek Academy in just one day. He did not have the team leader, Wang Yan, distribute these soul bones, which were enough to drive any soul master crazy, on the spot. Instead, he first dealt with the team's accounts at the auction house, and then ordered everyone to set off back to Shrek Academy without any room for doubt.

Only by stepping inside the academy's grounds could he truly put his mind at ease. Carrying such a precious treasure, remaining in a foreign land for an extended period would ultimately pose a hidden danger.

Upon returning to Shrek Academy, the Sea God Pavilion once again rewarded the participating teams based on their performance in the competition. In addition to the four soul bones obtained in the competition, the academy provided three more from its own collection, bringing the total number of soul bones available for distribution to seven. This reward was undeniably substantial.

Lin Feng ultimately chose a 50,000-year-old dark gold dinosaur claw bear right arm bone, whose value was no less than that of a 100,000-year-old soul bone.

He had already fused with the right palm bone of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and now this right arm bone could perfectly fit with it, further stimulating the full power of that terrifying external soul bone set.

The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear is an extremely rare existence among soul beasts, with those exceeding ten thousand years being even rarer. Once its cultivation surpasses ten thousand years, the combat power of this soul beast undergoes a qualitative change, reaching a terrifying level that makes most soul masters tremble in fear. Its strength is so great that even a titled Douluo-level expert would find it difficult to withstand it head-on.

Therefore, this soul bone was not obtained through hunting, but was dug out from an ancient swamp. It was filled with corpse energy, and many soul masters had tried to absorb it, but all of them were corroded and ended in failure.

Lin Feng wasn't afraid of this at all; he could purify the corpse energy with true fire.

Meanwhile, with the tournament concluded, the transition between generations was put on the agenda. Key members like Ma Xiaotao, Dai Yueheng, Ling Luochen, and Xixi were nearing graduation from the inner academy and about to embark on new journeys. Therefore, the title of the new "Shrek Seven Devils" needed to find its successors.

The atmosphere inside the Sea God Pavilion was solemn.

After giving encouragement and guidance to the new Shrek Seven Devils and Tang Ya, Mu En finally kept Lin Feng.

He led Lin Feng to a peculiar room deep within the Sea God Pavilion. The room was small, but the walls and ceiling were densely covered with the same triangular skulls. The skulls had unusually large eye sockets, pointed jaws, and a faint yellow light emanating from their eye sockets, like clusters of inextinguishable flames of the soul, illuminating the room in a dim yellow light.

"I had Xuanzi watch both the semi-finals and the finals," Mu En's aged voice broke the silence first. "Your performance was truly outstanding."

Upon hearing Xuanzi's name, Lin Feng understood. The Flame Dragon Armor used in the finals had indeed caught his attention. After all, the matter of the Fire Dragon King's True Fire had already been exposed during the Three-Eyed Golden-Faced incident.

"Please enlighten me, Elder Mu," Lin Feng replied respectfully.

Mu En slowly said, "Xuanzi reported to me about the Three-Eyed Golden-Faced Man, knowing that you possess the True Fire of the Fire Dragon King, and even condensed the Dragon King Fire Armor in this final competition, burning away the level eight soul tool. This power, which comes from the legacy of the gods, is certainly easy to use, but you must always be wary of its backlash."

He paused, then continued, "I know you have high aspirations and don't want to be too constrained by the academy. Consider today's encounter as a reward for your contributions to the academy in nurturing Xiao Tao and the others, and for your merits in this competition."

"Elder Xie understands," Lin Feng said sincerely.

Moon nodded slightly, his gaze sweeping over the skulls filling the room: "These 1,001 skulls were all taken from the Fear Dragon."

This dragon is a sub-dragon species, an earth dragon. While its physical combat strength is not strong, it possesses a rare spiritual attribute among dragons. Upon its natural death, a portion of its pure spiritual energy is sealed within its skull, remaining there for a long time. Cultivating within this area greatly benefits a Soul Master's spiritual power. Now, you should carefully comprehend it.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the aura surrounding Mu En, as deep as the ocean, suddenly vanished. However, the previously faint mental pressure in the room instantly surged, like an invisible tsunami, crashing down on Lin Feng.

Lin Feng felt his sea of ​​consciousness violently tremble, with waves crashing against him. The intense mental impact forced him to do everything in his power to guard his mind.

Just then, an icy blue light spontaneously shone from his forehead, and the phantom of the Ice Dragon King's skull faintly appeared. A chilling and powerful suction force suddenly arose, actively absorbing the pure spiritual energy surging from the surrounding skulls like a whale swallowing a sea.

One, ten, a hundred — the yellow light in the eye sockets of the hanging skulls dimmed at a visible speed.

The frenzied devouring only gradually subsided when the light from nearly half of the skull completely went out.

A hall somewhere underground in the Sea God Pavilion.

"Five hundred? That's almost four hundred years' worth of stock in the academy!" Yan Shaozhe gasped as he looked at the rapidly dimming dots on the soul guidance screen in front of him.

"It's alright," Moon's calm voice came through. "Resources are useless if not used; they only show their value when used on the right people."

Inside the room, Lin Feng, who had absorbed a massive amount of spiritual power, was undergoing subtle changes in his aura. The five orange-gold spirit rings that he had previously been unable to use were now slowly connecting with his own Ice Lotus Martial Soul, eventually completing their fusion.

At the same time, the Snow Emperor's soul deep within his spiritual sea also began to awaken—

The extreme cold spread uncontrollably, instantly coating the entire room with a layer of crystalline frost, and even the spiritual energy flowing in the air seemed to be frozen and stagnant.

"Ultimate Ice?! When did he acquire such an ability?" Yan Shaozhe was shocked once again upon seeing this.

"If I am not mistaken," Mu En said slowly, his voice carrying a rare hint of solemnity, "it should share the same origin as the Fire Dragon King's True Fire, both stemming from the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire. It originates from the ultimate ice of the Ice Dragon King's remains. In this chilling aura, I sensed—"

Bloodline suppression.

"Bloodline suppression?!"

Yan Shaozhe was shocked and moved. "Teacher, you possess the Holy Dragon Martial Soul of Light!"

Moon did not answer, but silently gazed at the figure of the boy surrounded by frost in the picture, his eyes filled with thoughts.