Soul Land 2: Body Sect

Chapter 223: The End of Ma Xiaotao

Just as Huo Yuhao was in utter despair, Ma Xiaotao woke up...

A seductive moan escaped Ma Xiaotao's throat, a surprising sound from someone who resembled a walking volcano.

Ma Xiaotao opened her eyes, revealing her slightly lethargic and tired dark red eyes.

'Such a relief!'

Indeed, Ma Xiaotao felt an unprecedented lightness throughout her body.

Having been tormented by evil fire for over a decade, even under suppression, the side effects of her spirit always lingered, affecting her whenever she used her soul power.

When Huo Yuhao was thirteen and participating in the continent-wide Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament, Ma Xiaotao was about nineteen or twenty years old. Now, with Huo Yuhao at seventeen, Ma Xiaotao was twenty-three.

From her soul awakening at six until now, nearly sixteen or seventeen years of suppressed evil fire had erupted all at once. It was no wonder Ma Xiaotao felt such relief.

But for Huo Yuhao, who bore the brunt of this evil fire…

The situation was far from good.

At that moment, he lay staring blankly at the cave ceiling, a crystal-clear stream of tears flowing down his cheeks, looking as pitiful as a national treasure, and had drastically lost weight.

Nearly burnt out from exhaustion, he didn't even notice Ma Xiaotao waking up; he continued to dwell in self-pity.

Or perhaps, he noticed but didn't care. Firstly, he didn't know how to face Ma Xiaotao; secondly, he didn't want to deal with her, the succubus who had drained him dry.

Truly drained dry! To the extent of no return!

As Ma Xiaotao gradually regained consciousness and clarity, her red eyes focused. But when she saw the person she was holding, a piercing scream tore through the heavens!

"AAAAAAHHHH!!"

She sprang up and kicked out!

Bang!

"Ah!" Huo Yuhao screamed as Ma Xiaotao's meter-long leg kicked him in the waist, sending him flying against the cave wall in a brutal face-to-wall collision.

As Huo Yuhao was sent flying, the crisp sound of breaking bones echoed clearly.

Several of Huo Yuhao's ribs were broken by the kick, and he fainted mid-air, not even feeling the secondary damage of his nose breaking against the wall.

Exhausted from a week of being drained, he was too weak; Ma Xiaotao's ruthless kick nearly sent him to meet his maker, even giving him a fleeting sensation of his mother beckoning him from the horizon.

'Son, come here!'

Damn it!

Flushed with rage, Ma Xiaotao hugged herself, her hands protectively covering her upper and lower parts, but still, her enormous snowy whiteness and a tuft of light red hair were visible...

"How could this happen… How could it!" Ma Xiaotao looked devastated as she gazed at the dried dark-red stain on the ground, murmuring in disbelief.

That stain was the proof of her lost virginity.

Her virginity, preserved for over twenty years... gone.

She had fought hard against the evil fire, refusing to vent it in Ma Hongjun's way. Wasn't it because she didn't want her body to become tainted?

Not even Dai Yueheng had caught her fancy; no male student in the whole academy could attract Ma Xiaotao. What right did Huo Yuhao, a seventeen-year-old Soul Master of no significance, have to be with her?

Feeling the odd sensation in her body and the strange smell after seven days of 'battle', the previously relieving feeling had vanished. Now, Ma Xiaotao felt only mortification and despair, losing the spark in her eyes in this strange turn of events.

Usually strong-willed, Ma Xiaotao hadn't even bothered to dress and now crouched on the ground, sobbing quietly.

Eventually.

Slowly coming to terms with the fact of her lost virginity, Ma Xiaotao stood up, ignited flames to cleanse all traces of dirt from her body, and pulled out a red dress from her storage soul-guiding device to cover her porcelain-like delicate body.

Glancing at the still-unconscious Huo Yuhao, a hint of loathing flashed in Ma Xiaotao's eyes, but she couldn't bring herself to kill him outright.

Although her mind had been clouded by the evil fire at that time, she could still recall some details.

If she remembered correctly...

The virginity was given by her initiative...

Ma Xiaotao's face turned pale with despair, feeling utterly drained.

While she was reluctant to kill Huo Yuhao outright, Ma Xiaotao wasn't about to let him off easily either. Stepping over with her long legs, she stood in front of him, disgust in her eyes. Lifting her newly-shoed right leg, she stomped down.

The almost charred remains of little Huo unsurprisingly turned into a pile of black ash...

"Hehe... No academy, no home... Teacher, Elder Mu, all gone. What's the point of living...?" Ma Xiaotao stepped out of the cave, the sunlight falling on her but offering no warmth, only endless cold.

Recalling everything that had happened before Xuan Zi took her from Shrek Academy, including Xuan Zi's descent like a god, slaying many elders of the Sea God's Pavilion one by one.

All memories eventually froze at the last scene she could remember—many elders of the Sea God's Pavilion advancing in succession, intending to obliterate Xuan Zi with a suicide attack.

That was the last scene Ma Xiaotao could remember.

Before the explosion reached her, she had already been knocked unconscious by the terrifying waves. Why she appeared here, she didn't understand.

And didn't need to anymore.

Shrek was gone, her mentor Yan Shaozhe had been utterly killed by Xuan Zi, and even her chastity had been inexplicably taken away while her mind was clouded.

What's the point of living?

Her eyes gently closed, Ma Xiaotao tilted her head back, and a mournful phoenix cry sounded from her mouth.

A giant flame phoenix appeared behind her, but its eyes bore no pride or dignity of the king of birds, only endless pain.

Tears slid down Ma Xiaotao's pale cheeks, evaporating before they hit the ground. Her body ignited with purple-red flames, gradually enveloping her in a fiery figure.

Within the flames, Ma Xiaotao's figure became increasingly ethereal, all of her being ignited in the fierce evil fire.

'Teacher... I'm coming to you...'

A smile curled on her lips, the flames around Ma Xiaotao gradually extinguished, and only her ashes remained where her body had burned.

Ma Xiaotao, perished by her own flames.

(End of Chapter)

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