"Silver Dragon Martial Soul!! Water, fire, earth, wind, light, darkness, and space--a full seven ultimate element attributes, and she has already carved out her own unique faction within the fire attribute!"
Yun Ming's gaze was like a burning torch. After scanning the young girl on the arena just twice, he relied on the vast ocean of knowledge in his mind to instantly pierce through the essence of Gu Yue's martial soul and its hidden attributes.
Yet, even someone like him, who was well-accustomed to the stunning and brilliant talents of the Douluo Continent, couldn't help but feel a massive shock in his heart, his deep eyes churning with uncontainable emotion.
An ultimate martial soul was, by its very nature, a once-in-ten-thousand-years heavenly endowment on the Douluo Continent.
Across the entire plane, anyone blessed with an ultimate martial soul, provided they were given sufficient time to settle and cultivate to the Limit Douluo realm, could truly utter the phrase "undefeated in the world" without a hint of falsehood.
Even in the golden age of rising prodigies and countless talents where Yun Ming lived, "undefeated in the world" might still be up for debate, but those possessing an ultimate martial soul could undoubtedly stand firmly at the absolute pinnacle of combat power.
Yet the young girl on the arena before him unexpectedly possessed a martial soul with seven ultimate element attributes! From that violent yet orderly elemental storm, one could tell that even though her mastery of each element had not yet reached the realm of perfection, this level of talent was already enough to leave people speechless with shock.
Let alone the fact that this martial soul also encompassed the most special spatial attribute on the Douluo Continent!
Looking across the entire Douluo Planet, stretching from ancient times to the present day through a long river of three tens of thousands of years and countless historical texts, there had never been such a thing as "ultimate space."
Furthermore, ever since the Douluo plane successfully swallowed the Demonic plane, the laws of the plane had become increasingly perfected, and the spatial barriers had grown unprecedentedly stable--
This single change directly resulted in the complete scrap of the spatial transmission soul guides that various families had spent countless resources painstakingly crafting.
Yet this also granted soul masters with spatial attributes a special "preferential treatment." Although their martial souls suffered unprecedented suppression, they could still execute soul skills like blinking, spatial shifting, and spatial leaping--feats that even a powerhouse standing at the peak of the mainland's combat strength like Yun Ming could not easily tear open right now.
Naturally, such a subversive spatial transformation also aroused the intense interest of Miss Herta, the Federation's number one genius.
Therefore, under the astonished witness of many top federation experts whose jaws dropped and who even drooled without realizing it due to the shock, Miss Herta derived and deduced complex spatial equations on the spot. Relying solely on a few sets of exquisite formulas and without using any spatial elements, she successfully completed a short-distance spatial jump.
Through that genius's personal verification, the spatial attributes of today's Douluo Continent were no longer the simple elemental forces of the past; instead, they had become a precise domain where mathematics and physics deeply intertwined--
Yun Ming gazed at the beautiful figure on the arena draped in colorful elemental radiance, leaving only endless amazement and uncontainable joy in his heart: "This can truly be called a god-grade martial soul!"
The light in his eyes grew increasingly fiery, and his tone was filled with thinly veiled excitement and anticipation: "This child is even more suitable to join us in Shrek than Na'er! The precious texts of my Shrek for ten thousand years, the heritage left behind by countless predecessors who exhausted their life's blood, can all be carried forward in her hands, blooming with unprecedented brilliance!"
Na'er was exceptionally talented, but she could only be Yun Ming's personal disciple--after all, the countless predecessors in Shrek Academy's history who excelled in spearplay had long been surpassed by him one by one. Today, he was the undisputed strongest figure in Shrek Academy for ten thousand years, so Na'er's spear-dao heritage was naturally personally governed by him.
But Gu Yue was completely different. In the history of Shrek Academy, there had been several legendary powerhouses with ultimate attributes such as Ultimate Fire, Ultimate Wind, and Ultimate Light. Even though there had never been a precedent for the Ultimate Space attribute, there were still numerous top grandmasters who played with the power of space to perfection.
Shrek Academy's foundation and accumulation of ten thousand years happened to be able to be thoroughly activated in Gu Yue's hands, making this heritage glow with new vitality at this turning point of the era.
This time, Yun Ming defied all opinions and resolutely approved giving way to this "number one genius" showdown match before Shrek Academy's solemn opening ceremony. Looking at it now, this decision had already paid off!
Not only did he see through the true nature of several geniuses expected to break through to Limit Douluo in advance and discover and identify quite a few hidden unpolished jades, but three leading figures capable of guiding the future had also surprisingly emerged.
And since Gu Yue hadn't followed Hei Loulan and Na'er yet could still appear here, it meant she came from a prominent background--
Yun Ming had already completely prepared himself in his heart for a massive bleeding of resources to come. Even if she were the direct disciple of Pagoda Master Qiangu Dongfeng, he was still willing to step forward and help out a bit.
The union of the strong had always been a strategy commonly used by Shrek Academy from ancient times to the present. Absorbing outstanding disciples from three major forces was even more common, and such talents were never in short supply.
What's more, he had long been aware of the internal and external troubles Qiangu Dongfeng was facing recently.
While this Qiangu Dongfeng occasionally had friction with Shrek, he still had to be called a generation's overlord, with a breadth of mind and boldness surpassing ordinary people.
In order to recruit Gu Yue under Shrek's banner, he was naturally willing to do Qiangu Dongfeng a favor and step in to help him ease his predicament.
For this peerlessly talented girl, he was willing to turn hostility into a gentle rain and let go of past petty grievances.
Just as thoughts surged wildly in Yun Ming's mind, a wave of scorching heat suddenly washed over him.
He and Yali beside him turned their heads at the same time. Leng Yaozhu had quietly appeared at their side, her long, flame-burning hair swaying gently in the breeze. A cheerful smile hung on her face as she looked at Gu Yue on the arena with great interest, her deep eyes filled with inquiry and undisguised appreciation.
"How is it? Looking at my personal disciple, are your eyes turning red with envy?" Leng Yaozhu lightly twitched the tips of her hair with her fingertips. Her tone lacked half of the flattering obsequiousness she used to have toward her crush, carrying instead the casualness and banter between good friends.
"I know what you, Yun Ming, are plotting! Forget it, it's impossible! This girl's special status simply doesn't allow her to join any organization; the Spirit Pagoda only employs her."
"Leng Yaozhu, I don't believe there is anyone on the Douluo Continent who can teach her better than our Shrek Academy!" Yun Ming remained completely unshaken by her words, his gaze still locked onto the figure on the arena, his tone full of confidence in his own foundation.
"To possess a dragon martial soul with seven ultimate element attributes, only Shrek has a massive amount of resources and heritage to truly help her grow into a new generation of leading figures."
"Having high aspirations is a good thing, but lacking self-awareness is wrong."
"! " Leng Yaozhu helplessly waved her hand, pointing at Gu Yue on the stage and saying, "I won't take that line~ After all, I suppressed her and beat her into submission before letting her learn fire element control."
"Gu Yue is good material, but her aspirations are ridiculously high. She basically looks down on everyone. When I wanted to teach her the Phoenix True Flame, I had to suppress my cultivation and force her to use the 'Heart of Elements' to fight me to the death with her Ultimate Fire! Only after she lost did I let her learn it!"
The ability to control the seven elements was indeed a very powerful capability, and right now Gu Yue's martial soul wasn't some so-called element master anymore; it was truly and properly the Silver Dragon King, which she simply hadn't released yet to accommodate certain people.
Element control evolved from the high-ranking power of creation--dare you say this wasn't an ultimate attribute? But precisely because of this, Gu Yue looked down on human knowledge altogether, which led to the fact that when she subsequently used things like the Heart of Elements and elemental storms, her actual combat strength hadn't really progressed.
However, after the guidance of a "good master" like Leng Yaozhu--who directly suppressed her to the same rank and thrashed Gu Yue's ultimate fire with the Phoenix True Flame, which wasn't even ultimate fire at the time--she was finally forced to start taking the elemental forces she wielded like her own limbs seriously.
"Shrek Academy is inherently a gathering place for monsters. Having high aspirations is just that--it doesn't count as a problem." Yun Ming's tone was flat, yet it carried an unquestionable certainty, "With Shrek's foundation, there are plenty of resources to resolve all of this."
Hearing this, the look Leng Yaozhu gave Yun Ming changed slightly, as if she were meeting him for the very first time.
Why hadn't she noticed before that Yun Ming possessed such a stubborn and unyielding temperament? How interesting. Could it be that everyone who came out of Shrek Academy was this unwilling to turn back until they hit a brick wall?
"Fine then~" She shook her head helplessly, a playful smile curling the corners of her lips. "If you can really convince Gu Yue to take you as her master and join Shrek, I won't say another single word~ But you must remember, the one who truly made her submit, besides me, is also Dr. Mobius, you know!"
As her voice trailed off, Leng Yaozhu收回 (withdrew) her smile and said no more.
Yali watched from the side and sighed inwardly--it seemed Leng Yaozhu had truly and completely let go of her obsession with Yun Ming. Otherwise, given her old temperament, she would probably be arguing until her face turned red right now.
While the few of them were conversing, the battle on the arena had changed in the blink of an eye. Na'er's movement technique was like lightning, her figure turning into a blurry afterimage as she closed in on Gu Yue in an instant, the tip of her spear flashing with cold light and every single strike fierce and sharp. Yet right at the moment of engagement, Gu Yue suddenly reached out and grabbed Na'er's other arm.
"Have you lost your mind!" Na'er's pupils suddenly constricted, her eyes filled with bewilderment. Her other hand tightly gripped the Silver White Dragon Spear, the cold light on the spear tip surging violently as she raised it without a single hesitation to thrust straight at Gu Yue, who was right before her. "You dare to grab me proactively even in close combat? You're simply courting your own death!"
Yet before her words could fully fade, a piercing, bone-deep numbness surged from the grabbed arm, spreading through her entire body like a tidal wave. She saw that on the dragon claws with which Gu Yue had grabbed her, silver-white scales and patterns were circulating among the scales, and fine silver-purple electric sparks were frantically spawning and leaping from the gaps of the scales!
That tingling and excruciating pain of current piercing through her meridians made the hand holding the spear violently tremble. The offensive momentum of the Silver White Dragon Spear abruptly halted mid-air, and even her fingertips began to tremble uncontrollably.
"Ah!"
The next second, a shrill cry of pain pierced the sky. Using Gu Yue as the medium, a violent-to-the-extreme bolt of lightning erupted. Purple-white current danced like an angry dragon, instantly shrouding the two of them in its vicinity, and the dazzling lightning glare made almost the entire arena sink into a blinding brilliance.
In an instant, Na'er's entire body jerked upward from the electric shock, her four limbs stiffening and tightening uncontrollably. Her silver-white hair was fried into a fluffy afro, and the crackling, popping sounds of silver-purple electric arcs wrapped around her whole body.
The current pierced through her flesh and blood straight into her bone marrow, faintly outlining the skeletal contours of her figure under the strong light, resembling an exaggerated yet highly impactful scene straight out of an anime.