Tang San smiled and shook his head,
"Why would I? If I discriminated against Xiao Wu, wouldn't that be discriminating against my own mother? Don't forget that my mother was also a human form hundred thousand year spirit beast."
Liu Erlong smiled:
"Good then. After you see her, remember to tell her that I miss her. Even though she's actually a lot older than me, I'm still her godmother, this won't change."
Tang San smiled:
"Of course."
After leaving the Clear Sky School this time, the highest priority on Tang San's list was to go search for Xiao Wu, and afterward continue cultivating. He wasn't too worried about rising to the eightieth rank in ten years, he believed he had that ability. Of course, in this period of cultivation, he wanted to be together with Xiao Wu.
He'd already planned it out properly. After finding Xiao Wu, if Xiao Wu wished to stay in the Star Dou Great Forest, he'd accompany her there. If she wanted to leave with him, then he'd find a place to properly forge his hidden weapons, and cultivate further.
Tang San wasn't particularly fond of the pretentiousness of the outside world. As long as he could be together with Xiao Wu, other things weren't important. As for raising the Clear Sky Sect, that would also have to wait until he had the corresponding strength. Right now it was still premature.
Along with the rise in his strength, he already had a lot more Tang Sect hidden weapons secret lore he could cultivate, but the fiercer the hidden weapons cultivation, the more difficult, and they moreover had to pass an even more difficult refining process. Like those top-quality hidden weapons that even required a long forging process. Flender rolled his eyes, smiling:
"You're all the pride of our Shrek Academy, we also can't let you make this trip back in vain. How about showing off a bit of strength to the Academy?"
The Shrek Seven Devils smiled at each other. They knew that this lord dean wanted to squeeze them for any remaining value. But that was just Flender's nature! They didn't have any objections to this, on the contrary, okaying it cheerfully.
Flender spoke with frank assurance,
"For young spirit masters, having a suitable idol would have very great benefits to their cultivation. I'm certainly not equal to Xiao Gang in actual training, but I can still grasp such a mind. If you don't object, I hope you can reveal your strength in front of the students of the whole Academy once. Let them have a look at what level people of the same age can reach."
Liu Erlong snapped:
"Boss, this might also have the opposite reaction. If by some chance the students get the impression they're too lacking, and grow dispirited, what then?"
Flender unflinchingly said:
"Such students are unworthy of our cultivation. Xiao Gang. What do you think about my proposal?"
Grandmaster smiled faintly,
"I have no opinions. You're the dean, you decide."
Flender then looked at Dai Mubai, Tang San, and the others, revealing an inquiring gaze.
Dai Mubai smiled:
"No problem for me, it's just in time to also have a look at what level everyone's cultivation has reached. Just now because we didn't recognize little San outside the gate and fought him, it seemed that everyone has improved a lot. This is just the time to see what everyone's true strength is."
Tang San and the others also nodded simultaneously, expressing their approval of Dai Mubai's idea. The Shrek Academy could be called their other home, they absolutely wouldn't decline if they could do something for the Academy.
Flender smiled:
"Good then. Erlong, you go arrange it. The little fellows all have their own things to do, we can't hold them up for too long. I think arranging it for tomorrow is good."
Liu Erlong gave Flender a glance, her eyes revealing a crafty light. Nodding, she got up and left. As she walked out of Flender's office, a smile already rippled at the corners of her mouth.
Two hours later, Shrek Academy was already plastered with enormous posters. The title was: Five Shrek Seven Devils return, tomorrow they invite all students to display the results of their cultivation by comparing notes with the joint forces of dean Flender and vice dean Zhao Wuji.
Pitiful Zhao Wuji and Flender, right now were still full of joy and expectations, chatting with the Shrek Five Devils, unaware that they had already been sold out by Liu Erlong.
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Northernmost Heaven Dou Empire. Icebound Forest.
The Icebound Forest consisted of needle-leaved trees most suited to the cold. The tracks of men were rare.
This was simultaneously also a spirit beast forest, only the environment was too nasty, and the temperature very low. Therefore, only some Spirit Masters with cold attribute spirits would choose to come here to hunt for the spirit beasts they needed.
A party of more than ten people chewed on delicious sausage with big bites, the hot steam rising from their bodies showing how much they had spent themselves before.
The majority of people all sat on the ground, and only one person still stood. In front of him was an enormous dying spirit beast, seemingly entirely covered in magnificent rings of light.
This spirit beast was more than seven meters long, and the scales of its body were extremely unusual. Each scale was like a small mirror. If it stood motionless, its body could reflect the surrounding scene, and basically couldn't be discovered without careful observation.
But right now this spirit beast's surroundings were already sprayed with blue blood and those seated men. Among those people swiftly recovering their strength, more than half were injured. Clearly, that was caused by it.
Standing in front of the seven-meter-long spirit beast was a man of indeterminable age. The full beard across his whole face practically concealed his appearance completely. He was tall, his hair disheveled. The only parts of his features that could clearly be seen, were perhaps his pair of peach-blossom eyes.
Below his left eye, a scar stretched from the corner of his eye straight down into the beard covering his jaw. Right now, those eyes flickered with extremely ice-cold light.
Muttering to himself:
"Twenty thousand year cultivation Mirror Image Beast, I hope you can give me the spirit ability I expect."
His hand rose, and a dagger fell, the more than one chi-long dagger in his hand thrusting deeply inside a wound at the Mirror Image Beast's neck where it had lost its scales from a wound, ending the life of this formidable spirit beast.
Among the more than ten people behind him, right now at least half the faces all displayed an avaricious light, but looking at the three people standing next to the man there, they still forcibly restrained the voracious desire in their eyes. After all, those three were their bosses. They were also the most powerful of this hunting team.
"Little Ao, be quick about it. It's not safe here, if we meet another few spirits beast as powerful as this, I'm afraid we'll be completely wiped out."
This man thrusting the dagger, killing the spirit beast, was just the figure Ning Rongrong yearned for day and night. Big Sausage Uncle Oscar.
By now, that face hidden beneath the full beard was already a lot more stalwart. Even though the scar on his face ruined his original beauty, he still seemed to have a particular male charm.
Five years, a full five years had passed. In these five years, he had experienced countless suffering, spending his sweat and blood in painful suffering. At that time, he had joined this hunting team with only one request, which was to help him hunt the spirit beast he needed when he needed it. And now, this twenty thousand-year cultivation Mirror Image Beast was just becoming his sixth spirit ring.
The previous speaker was a more than fifty-year-old man. Among everyone here, the imposing manner he released was the most impressive. He was also the one who stood closest to Oscar. He was also the only person Oscar could completely trust in this team.
This person was a seventy-sixth-ranked Spirit Sage. The highest ranked among the rest of the Spirit Masters in the team was only sixty-fourth ranked. In spirit power alone, Oscar could already stand among the top five.
In order to kill this Mirror Image Beast, they had sought it for more than a month before finding an opportunity. The Mirror Image Beast was a kind of exceedingly rare and formidable Spirit Beast, otherwise, those team members also wouldn't have displayed such greedy gazes.
Sitting down cross-legged in front of the Mirror Image Beast, just when Oscar prepared to close his eyes, suddenly, at the same time as he discovered that just dead Mirror Image Beast release its spirit ring, his dagger thrust out, revealing a faint beam of light.
His heart twitched, but Oscar didn't move impatiently, only when he drew out the dagger, he subconsciously shifted the Mirror Image Beast's position, using its body to suppress that wound from before.
He then sat cross-legged in front of the Mirror Image Beast, starting to absorb the spirit ring.
His movements were extremely stealthy, even the not-distant Spirit Sage near him didn't notice.
To be able to display light from within an already dead spirit beast, there was only one possibility, spirit bone. Oscar knew that after he had finished absorbing the spirit ring, the Mirror Image Beast in front of him would definitely be broken down.
The hunting team wouldn't let anything valuable it had to go to waste, and they would, even more, want to look for the possible appearance of a spirit bone.
The value of any one spirit bone was absolutely an astronomical sum.
To this hunting team, a spirit bone was absolutely a treasure that could cause a massacre. Oscar understood that it was impossible for him to take away the shining spirit bone while absorbing the spirit ring.
He could only absorb this spirit ring before anything else.
The others all quietly waited for Oscar to complete the absorption while recovering. That seventy-sixth-ranked Spirit Sage stood coldly at Oscar's side with his eyes closed, resting, and the other two not far away from him also began to rest.
With the team's three great powers gathered to protect Oscar, the others naturally wouldn't have any ideas.
An ice-cold current constantly revolved around Oscar's body. Gradually, as that ice cold condensed to a certain degree, it began to charge around violently within Oscar.
Oscar understood that the more intense the pain meant that the strength was more formidable. Wasn't it after enormous pain that Tang San possessed such powerful spirit abilities back then?
Five years had passed. He knew that he still only had five years remaining.
The fifth spirit ability hadn't reached his desire, so this sixth spirit ability was all his hope. Because he wasn't sure he could advance another ten ranks in the next five years to obtain the next spirit ability.
Five years of sharpening himself on the grindstone. The pressure on a food system Spirit Master's spirit abilities in a team could be well imagined. In the eyes of those sects or nobles that seemed to thirst for talent, food system Spirit Masters were perhaps rare talents.