Shocking! The female protagonist unlocked her powers by killing people!

Bei Qianning landed on the ice and said to Ling Yi inside, "I'll let you out if you admit defeat."

Ling Yi's voice rang out from inside the wall: "I don't acknowledge it."

Bei Qianning frowned and said, "Ling Yi, don't push yourself. Staying inside for too long will hurt your health."

"This bit of cold air can't hurt me." Ling Yi raised his hand and pressed it against the ice wall. The cold air immediately wrapped around him, trying to freeze him, but the next moment, the flame that rose from Ling Yi's hand dispelled the ice.

Before any more chilling air could get to him, the flames on Ling Yi's hand darkened in color.

Ling Yi clenched his fist, concentrated his strength in his hand, and slammed it down.

With a "bang," a hole appeared in the ice wall.

Bei Qianning was startled and leaped down. Looking at the hole, she raised her hand, intending to use her strength to patch it up. However, before she could finish, a large hole appeared in the ice wall that was responsible for sealing the top. Ling Yi flew out and looked down from above: "Bei Qianning, is there enough special ice water for you now?"

Bei Qianning looked up at Ling Yi. The girl's eyebrows were like a painting, and her pair of dark eyes were as bright as the finest pearls. When she spoke, her beautiful lips slightly curved up. It wasn't too bright, but it was impossible to look away.

That smile was a little mischievous.

Bei Qianning looked at Ling Yi and thought of the snow fox she had chased in the snowfield.

Snow foxes are small and not very strong, but they are incredibly fast and intelligent. They are good at stalking people. If a person can't keep up with them, they will stop and stare at the person with their eyes. Sometimes, the fox's face looks like a smile. So whenever that happens, the person being stalked by the snow fox will feel that the snow fox is smiling, a wicked smile.

Just like Ling Yi now.

A breeze picked up on the competition stage, ruffling Bei Qianning's hair.

A chill emanated from Bei Qianning's body, intertwining with her white hair and making it easily overlooked.

But Lingyi saw it clearly.

The next moment, Bei Qianning was in front of Ling Yi, and a bone-chilling coldness rushed towards him. Ling Yi instantly dodged and created distance, and a look of joy appeared in his eyes as he looked at Bei Qianning.

At the same time, Tian Yan's voice rang in Ling Yi's mind: [Otherworldly Frost Source, Level Two.]

"I haven't seen the strange fire yet, but I've seen the strange ice first." Ling Yi looked at Bei Qianning and said to Tian Yan, "After unsealing the ice attribute and reaching level ten, it undergoes a mutation. To become strange ice, you need a strange ice seed. If I take her spiritual root, would that count as a strange ice seed?"

Tianyan: [...You want to take her spiritual root?]

While dodging Bei Qianning's attacks, Ling Yi answered, "Does it count?"

Tianyan said: [Yes, but...]

"That's fine." After Ling Yi finished speaking, he stopped dodging and faced Bei Qianning head-on.

Ling Yi's fire attribute has advanced to level ten, and it is currently a mutated flame. Without a mutated fire seed, it cannot be considered a mutated flame. Normally, it cannot deal with mutated ice, but... Ling Yi's body has been unsealed by 0.5.

The mutated flames, combined with her physical strength, were enough for her to resist Bei Qianning's mutated ice.

Bei Qianning never expected that Ling Yi, who had been hiding all along, would become so powerful after he stopped hiding. His speed and strength were several times higher than before.

If it weren't for the protective ice around her, Bei Qianning felt she would have been thrown down.

So weird.

This is not the strength of an eighth-level spirit master, but the spirit testing stone is correct. If the spirit testing stone is correct, could it be that Ling Yi's cultivation is really that of a spirit saint?

No, if she really is a Spirit Saint, so what if she has the strange ice?

She could have easily crushed him in one move, but Ling Yi didn't. So what exactly is going on with Ling Yi?

Under Ling Yi's constant close-range attacks, coupled with the continuous use of the strange ice, Bei Qianning's spiritual power began to deplete.

After blocking Ling Yi's attack once again, Bei Qianning's gaze fell on Ling Yi's hand. Her nails had become sharp, and for some reason, the color of her nails had turned black, giving people an extremely dangerous feeling.

Bei Qianning looked at Ling Yi with disapproval: "You used poison?"

"This..."

Ling Yi smiled and said, "It's just a part of my body."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ling Yi attacked again, and Bei Qianning had no choice but to distance herself once more.

Meanwhile, Tianyan was saying to Ling Yi: "[01, taking her spiritual root under these circumstances won't do you any good. I don't want anything to happen to you.]"

Extracting spiritual roots is an extremely cruel method. If Ling Yi really extracted Bei Qianning's spiritual root on the competition stage, she would inevitably be attacked by everyone.

Ling Yi did not reply, but instead approached Bei Qianning step by step.

【01…】Tian Yan called out softly, “Frost Source isn’t a very good ice type. We’ll have better ice types in the future, so there’s no need to worry about her ice type.”

Ling Yi remained silent and attacked Bei Qianning again. Bei Qianning's power was almost exhausted, and she could no longer condense strange ice to stop Ling Yi. She could only watch helplessly as Ling Yi approached and his poisonous hand attacked her.

Just when Bei Qianning thought she would be half-dead if not dead, Ling Yi's hand stopped at her face. At the same time, Bei Qianning heard Ling Yi say, "Are you relieved now?"

"Hmm?" Bei Qianning asked, somewhat puzzled.

What are you worried about?

Ling Yi glanced at Bei Qianning, then turned his consciousness back to Tian Yan and said, "I said it's fine, I didn't say I was going to take it. You're disturbing me while I'm fighting. What if I get hurt because of it?"

Tianyan: [I'm sorry.]

Ling Yi: "Is 'sorry' enough?"

Tianyan was very understanding: "I'm willing to compensate you with ten top-grade fire spirit stones and ten top-grade water spirit stones."

"Forgive you."

Tianyan: [...]

After ending his conversation with Tianyan, Ling Yi withdrew his hand and looked at Bei Qianning: "Can we still fight?"

"If you can't fight, then you should admit defeat."

Bei Qianning looked at Ling Yi: "Your strength is beyond what an eighth-level spiritual master would have."

"That's all the spirit stone results we got." Ling Yi looked at Bei Qianning: "Instead of wasting time thinking about these things, we should save our energy for the elimination rounds."

Bei Qianning nodded and then said, "I admit defeat."

Bei Qianning conceded defeat. Although the audience who supported Bei Qianning were disappointed, they had watched the whole match and knew that Bei Qianning had done her best.

"That Ling Yi is really strong in close combat."

"How could someone be so physically strong that they're not even afraid of alien ice?"

"Her flames are also strange; they don't seem like exotic flames, but they're not ordinary flames either."

"What exactly is going on with this student from Lingyang Kingdom?"

"Where did you find such an outrageous student?"

Just as the audience was buzzing with discussion, the teacher announced the result: "Lingyang Guoling wins the first game!"

"We won! We won!"

Ye Qingshuang excitedly hugged Lin Chengtian. Lin Chengtian stiffened and before he could say anything, Ye Qingshuang turned around and hugged Teacher Li, who was sitting one seat away.

Teacher Li was just as excited as Ye Qingshuang.

Ling Yi defeated Bei Qianning, securing a spot in the top six. This is the first time their Lingyang Kingdom has entered the top ten in all the times they've participated!

How could I not be happy? How could I not be excited!

As soon as Ling Yi returned from the competition, Ye Qingshuang hugged him. If he hadn't dodged quickly, he would have gotten a slap on the face.