Chapter 20: His Relationship with Shui Bing'er—Heating Up!
[As Shi Nian's words fell, he wanted to see the look of despair on your face.]
[You casually waved your hand, and Shi Nian was frozen solid. Inside the ice, he was left with a certain amount of room to move—this was a deliberate move on your part.]
[Shi Nian stared at you in terror, utterly confused. He used many methods, yet none could break the icy seal.]
[You raised your left hand. A stream of flames pierced through the ice and landed on Shi Nian's body.]
[Horrified, Shi Nian screamed as he turned into ashes in utter despair.]
["A mere grain of sand—unworthy of even half of me."]
[You let Shi Nian die in despair, counting it as vengeance for the geniuses he had slaughtered.]
[You removed Shi Nian's head soul bone and swaggered back to Heaven Dou City.]
[In front of your godmother and the Sky Water girls, you took out the soul bone. For a moment, the atmosphere grew heavy.]
[You didn't care in the slightest. It was nothing more than a ten-thousand-year gem-type head soul bone.]
[Whoever among the Sky Water girls wanted it, you were willing to give it to them.]
[This was a gem-type head soul bone, which wasn't particularly suitable for the girls. But it was a ten-thousand-year gem-type head soul bone—extremely rare!]
The six standard soul bones are divided into: head, torso, and four limbs.
Among them, the torso soul bone is the most precious. Next come the head soul bone, right arm soul bone, left arm soul bone, left leg soul bone, and right leg soul bone.
Gem-type soul bones are the rarest of all soul bones, precisely because gem-type soul bones are exceedingly scarce!
In Wang Li's storage soul tool, there was a ten-thousand-year torso soul bone, obtained from the first ten-thousand-year soul beast he personally hunted—the Pit Demon Spider.
[Seeing that no one spoke, you thought for a moment and then took the soul bone to find Ning Fengzhi.]
[Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin were quite puzzled by your arrival. They knew your general background and held you in high regard.]
[You paid no attention to their scrutinizing gazes. Taking out the gem-type head soul bone, you explained your purpose.]
[This soul bone could serve as a legacy soul bone for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!]
[Ning Fengzhi's eyes burned with desire—he was determined to obtain it!]
[As long as a deal could be settled with gold soul coins, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had no habit of killing and looting.]
[Nor were you afraid of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect killing and looting.]
[After a round of bargaining, you obtained a one-thousand-year soul bone, a thirty-thousand-year right arm soul bone, and one million gold soul coins.]
[Ning Fengzhi was extremely optimistic about you. He was willing to take a loss to invest in you!]
[In his eyes, Sky Water Academy was merely an academy. Sooner or later, you will leave Sky Water Academy.]
[You exchanged a few awkward pleasantries with Ning Fengzhi, then left with the two soul bones and the million gold soul coins.]
[Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin examined the gem-type head soul bone, deep in thought.]
[In the end, this soul bone still ended up on Ning Rongrong.]
[You returned to the hotel where you were staying and handed the million gold soul coins to Shui Muwan. You knew that Sky Water Academy's finances were currently in the red alert—this money would help them weather the crisis.]
[Shui Muwan hesitated briefly. In the end, she accepted the gold soul coins without asking where they came from.]
[You laid the two soul bones out in front of the girls. This time, their breathing grew even heavier.]
[You told them the origins of the two soul bones, and Shui Muwan also learned where the gold soul coins had come from.]
[Shui Muwan wanted to say something, but stopped herself in the end. She was deeply worried about your transaction with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.]
[After all, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was one of the Upper Three Sects. For a child like you to go alone to negotiate—it was practically sending a lamb into a tiger's den!]
[Fortunately, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was considered relatively upright…]
[In the end, the thirty-thousand-year right arm soul bone was assigned to Shui Bing'er, while the one-thousand-year soul bone went to Xue Wu. No one had any objections to this distribution.]
[Aside from Wang Li, Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu were the strongest among them. Strengthening the two of them was naturally acceptable to everyone.]
[As time passed and many matches went by, you didn't take the field, because Shui Bing'er and the others needed tempering.]
[Today was the day Sky Water Team faced God Wind Team—and you took the field.]
[If you didn't, Shui Bing'er and the others might be blown off the arena by Feng Xiaotian and his team, losing the match outright.]
[Behind you stood the Sky Water girls. You faced Feng Xiaotian and the others head-on. Feng Xiaotian's fighting spirit was blazing—he looked like a hot-blooded youth.]
[He wanted to prove to Huo Wu that he, Feng Xiaotian, was the strongest among the Four Element Academies!]
[Feng Xiaotian challenged you and activated his martial soul. You casually waved your right hand—and the entire Soul Fighting Arena froze in an instant!]
[The entire venue fell deathly silent. A pin drop could be heard.]
[You stunned everyone!]
[You didn't use your martial soul. You didn't use any soul ring skills. There wasn't even a fluctuation from a soul bone. With just a "self-created soul skill," you instantly froze everything within a hundred-meter radius, plunging the entire Grand Soul Fighting Arena into winter…]
[This move left both enemies and allies completely dumbfounded.]
["Feng Xiaotian, if you want to defeat me, go cultivate for another twenty thousand years."]
[You waved your hand again. The frozen arena melted away, the ice and snow vanishing without a trace.]
[Leaving those words behind, you walked off the arena. Feng Xiaotian and the others stared at your back, trembling as they fell to their knees, the light in their eyes gradually fading.]
[You were about the same age as Shui Bing'er—seven or eight years younger than him…]
[Feng Xiaotian suffered an unprecedented blow!]
[Your strength drew everyone's attention. The Shrek group exchanged shocked glances.]
[Crown Prince Xue Qinghe took the initiative to invite you. You didn't care and went to meet him.]
[Crown Prince Xue Qinghe valued you greatly, wanting to recruit you. He also probed, asking what title you had reached.]
[You merely smiled and said nothing.]
[After you left, Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, smiled faintly and instructed She Long to investigate your detailed background. She wanted to know everything about you!]
[Ever since you made your move, there was no longer an opponent for the Sky Water Team in the preliminaries. One after another, they conceded.]
[God Wind Team became the perfect example—the chicken killed to warn the monkeys.]
[With first place in the preliminaries, Sky Water Team successfully advanced.]
[Half a month later, the ranking matches began.]
[Once again, the Sky Water Team stood at the center of attention. You didn't rush to act, giving Shui Bing'er and the others opportunities to hone themselves. From time to time, Shui Bing'er would seek you out for sparring—only to be pinned to the ground by you…]
[She seemed to really enjoy that feeling.]
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[Your relationship heated up rapidly. Shui Muwan saw it all but didn't stop it. After all, you were only an adopted son—there was no blood relation between you.]
[You could be together. The entire Shui family hoped you and Shui Bing'er would end up together. And if that wasn't enough, wasn't there still Shui Yue'er to provide support?]
[With just a slight display of strength from you, Sky Water Team once again had no opponents in the ranking matches.]
[The girls could only come to you for sparring…]
[Sky Water Team took first place in the ranking matches. After resting for two days, you set off for Spirit City.]
[To defeat Feng Xiaotian, Tang San exposed his Clear Sky Hammer martial soul—and was targeted by Spirit Hall!]
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