Liu Erlong's eyes were somewhat red, clearly she hadn't slept well last night. In the beginning she had still hoped Grandmaster would enter the tent and continue what they were doing before, but as she waited and waited, with no sign of Grandmaster, Liu Erlong's mood was as one might expect.
"Eh... Erlong, I wasn't talking about you."
At this time Flender didn't wish to provoke her, and simultaneously sighed inwardly, somewhat pleadingly looking at the apathetic Grandmaster, eating breakfast to the side.
"Erlong, enough."
Grandmaster finally spoke up.
Liu Erlong stopped her charge at Flender, turning her head to look at Grandmaster, her delicate body trembled slightly,
"You're even less good, even bullying me."
After speaking, she turned sharply and dashed back into the tent, leaving a string of sparkling drops in the air.
Grandmaster painfully closed his eyes, and even though he didn't say anything, the steamed bun in his hand had already been squeezed into paste.
After an hour the packing was done and the party set out once again, only the mood had clearly become a lot more delicate.
Liu Erlong gloomily walked behind the group, while Grandmaster, Flender and Zhao Wuji took the front, against expectations letting the Shrek Seven Devils walk in the center.
Oscar bumped Ma Hongjun,
"Fatty, dealing with the fourth spirit ring, how does it feel? Easily absorbed?"
Ma Hongjun nodded, saying:
"Very easy, it was settled in just an hour. It didn't even bring me any trouble. Really strange. Don't tell me, did that Giant Earth King already give up its wish to live under teacher Erlong's tyranny and believed I helped liberate it, letting me absorb it?"
Tang San said:
"In some sense, such circumstances can occur. In Teacher's research, if a spirit beast doesn't have any deep resentment when it's killed, then absorbing it will be a bit easier, relatively speaking. Vice versa, if the spirit beast carries extremely deep resentment, then absorbing the spirit ring will become severely challenging. Last time when I absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider's spirit ring was under such circumstances. But, Teacher also said, absorbing the spirit ring after the spirit beast died under these two kinds of circumstances will have benefits to the Spirit Master. One kind is when the spirit beast is brimming with extreme resentment, under such circumstances the chance of a spirit bone dropping is substantially increased. The other kind of circumstances is when the spirit beast dies voluntarily, voluntarily letting itself become a Spirit Master's spirit ring, there's practically a one hundred percent chance of a spirit bone dropping, and moreover the spirit ring will be perfectly absorbed, not suffering the restrictions of age limit. In other words, even if we're now only fortieth rank, if a ten thousand year spirit beast wanted to let us kill it and absorb its spirit ring, we still wouldn't suffer any backlash."
"So good?"
Oscar and Ma Hongjun spoke in unison.
To the side Dai Mubai said:
"How good? You think it's easy! Why would a spirit beast wish to let you kill it, wish to give you its spirit ring? This is only an ideal situation, one might say it's basically impossible for it to happen."
Xiao Wu rocked the 'Yearning Heartbroken Red' in her hands, calmly saying:
"Nothing is impossible. With a destined coincidence, perhaps it will happen."
Fatty somewhat disappointed said:
"Then tell me, was this spirit ring I absorbed the first kind, or the second kind of circumstances?"
Tang San said:
"If that Giant Earth King had been killed by senior Erlong, perhaps it would be the first kind of circumstances."
Listening to him, everyone couldn't keep from shivering, recalling Liu Erlong's berserk attack yesterday. Each person were somewhat shaking in fear at the bottom of their hearts.
Tang San continued:
"There's equally a large problem with the first kind of circumstances, in order to have the spirit beast's resentment reach such an extreme, it requires fighting it yourself. You can't use others, or the spirit beasts resentment will be scattered. But, in ordinary circumstances, the strength of the spirit beast a Spirit Master wants to hunt would be a bit stronger than himself. Something as difficult to accomplish as the one sided pattern like teacher Erlong yesterday would naturally be impossible to achieve. And although teacher Erlong could oppress the Giant Earth King like yesterday, since the strength difference between it and teacher Erlong was too great, even if teacher Erlong needed another spirit ring right now, she definitely wouldn't choose it."
Oscar thought deeply and said:
"No wonder spirit bones are so rare. These circumstances are too extreme. Oh, right, Fatty, what's your fourth spirit ability?"
Fatty had a secretive expression,
"Wait until there's a chance to use it, and I'll let you see. But it really seems very good! It's a pity the attack range is a bit small. Moreover there's no way to lock down the opponent again."
The morning air temperature in the Sunset Forest was low and the air was extremely humid, forming a morning mist.
The fog was extremely cold, and along with a fluttering breeze, right now when the sun still hadn't risen, the fog was very dense.
Tang San pulled out a small porcelain bottle from Twenty Four Moonlit Bridges and dumped out some small black pills from inside, handing out one for each person, including Flender, Grandmaster and the others.
"What's this?"
Flender looked at that only rice grain sized pill, puzzled asking Tang San.
Tang San said:
"This is a miasma pill I made myself. In the woods and deep mountains, miasma will frequently appear. The miasma air is incomparably poisonous, and eating this pill you can at least avert the majority of the misma attack. It also has an invigorating effect."
Flender said with sudden understanding:
"This is what that old freak Dugu Bo taught you. It seems you indeed learned a lot of things from him."
Tang San smiled faintly, not explaining. With the cover of his half year together with Dugu Bo, the medicines he used wouldn't provoke anyone's doubts. It would be even less likely someone would associate this with his innate gifts.
The morning mist grew denser and denser, and although the morning cold didn't influence a group of generally over fortieth rank Spirit Masters like them, the visibility grew worse and worse.
Flender cautiously said:
"Everyone be careful, some spirit beasts are especially fond of moving in the early morning. With the visibility so poor right now, gather a bit closer just in case there are any surprises.
Liu Erlong quickly took a few steps forward, reaching Flender's side and patting Zhao Wuji's shoulder,
"You go in the back. We'll change places."
Although Liu Erlong seemed to have recovered her calm, Zhao Wuji didn't dare say anything against her and hastily changes positions with her.
Liu Erlong glanced at Grandmaster, standing on his other side and protecting him from both sides along with Flender. Even though this process was very simple, nobody would miss that Liu Erlong was afraid the weakest Grandmaster would meet any danger in the mist, and wanted to personally protect him.
Grandmaster naturally also understood Liu Erlong's intention, and secretly sighed, but didn't have anything to say, still silently moving forward.
Before they had moved forward three hundred meters, suddenly, a strange wind blew from the front, unexpectedly causing a change in color in the morning fog. The originally dense white mist instantly became pink, directly shrouding everyone within. That pink fog held a faint sweetness, giving people a kind of addictive sensation.
"Everyone careful, the mist's poisonous."
Flender shouted loudly, simultaneously as Liu Erlong making a palm strike forward, relying on their profound spirit power to scatter the poison fog in front. At the same time he also couldn't keep from inwardly sighing in admiration over Tang San's previous foresight. This seemed to be the miasma he spoke of.
However, everyone quickly felt something was amiss, this suddenly appearing poison fog was even thicker than they had imagined, and even though Flender and Liu Erlong's spirit power could scatter it, it condensed again very quickly, and in just a few eyeblinks their surroundings were already pink. Most shocking to the Shrek Academy party was that within that pink fog their visibility dropped to its lowest point, and it was difficult to even see the people next to them.
"This isn't miasma. Little Ao, detoxifying small sausages."
Tang San suddenly shouted, and immediately afterward a purple golden light was emitted from his eyes. The others might not see clearly in the thick fog, but the influence on his mustard seed stage Purple Demon Eye was a lot less, and he could vaguely see the surrounding scenery.
"Careful, it's spirit beasts."
Tang San called aloud once again. Stretching out his right hand, he pulled in Xiao Wu's hand, simultaneously swiftly releasing his Blue Silver Grass spirit, spreading it out in all directions, creating an early warning system around everything within several dozen square meters.
Stretching a hand into the Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse, he pulled out a large, faintly pink flower. The flower was leafless, its stalk three chi long, with an enormous flower with a diameter over one chi. Each petal was sparkling and translucent like crystal, the stamen was faintly purple as if it was a purple diamond inlaid there. A touching fragrance wafted out from the flower, penetrating the heart.
After Tang San drew out this flower, a bizarre scene immediately appeared. With Tang San at its heart, within a ten meter diameter that pink fog seemed to instantly melt away like snow meeting boiling water, forming a faintly purple stream of air that swiftly scattered into the surroundings, allowing the Shrek Academy group to again see their companions.
"Nobody leave this circle."
Tang San's left hand carefully held that large flower, calmly observing the thick pink fog in front. Everyone clearly saw that right now there was an incorporeal faintly purple air around them, and no matter how thick that pink fog was, or how the wind in the forest blew, that pinkness was unable to get into the ten meter range around them.
"In my hand is an Aromatic Silk Beauty Immortal Treasure, it has the effect of neutralizing ten thousand poisons, and within its range any poison will lose its effect. For the moment don't leave this range, this thick fog seems to be caused by spirit beasts, and it's not just one. We're surrounded."