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Su Wen's spiritual power naturally also sensed Tang San's trace of wariness.
This was something even he hadn't anticipated.
They were classmates, after all. Why would Tang San be so wary?
And this was after recognizing him.
Is his intuition that sharp?
"Su Wen? What are you doing in Holy Spirit Village?" Tang San asked.
Su Wen shrugged. "Just got back to Nuoding City. I'm wandering around the area, experiencing life, gaining some worldly wisdom to prepare for my spirit cultivation."
He wasn't entirely spouting nonsense.
Traveling, witnessing the customs and landscapes of the continent—for him, this was also a form of mimicry cultivation.
Tang San frowned, completely unable to grasp the cultivation theory Su Wen was talking about.
Having studied under Grandmaster for six years, the current Tang San hadn't even learned the theory of mimicry cultivation yet...
Realizing this, Su Wen was speechless. He changed the subject, "I went back to the academy earlier. I heard from the principal that you've already graduated."
"Mm," Tang San replied indifferently, his face expressionless.
Seeing this, Su Wen didn't continue chatting with Tang San and turned back the way he came.
Only after Su Wen left did Tang San drop his guard against him, wondering inwardly why he had sensed a threat from Su Wen.
A fatal threat.
He couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he thought.
Since he wasn't sure if Tang Hao had noticed his conversation with Tang San, after returning home, Su Wen followed through on what he had said. He traveled around the surrounding villages, witnessing the customs and people, while also recording the surrounding topography. While cultivating, he was also preparing for his future search.
A Spirit Ancestor's spirit power fluctuations... with Su Wen suppressing them, Tang San might not be able to sense them clearly, but Tang Hao was a Titled Douluo; he might be able to distinguish them.
If Tang Hao discovered him, he would definitely pay attention.
After all, such an illogical spirit power fluctuation would make anyone curious.
Su Wen wasn't just traveling around the surrounding villages; in two months, his footprints covered more than ten cities around Nuoding City.
Nuoding City was located in a remote area, surrounded by great mountains and rivers, and this was the main reason for Su Wen's travels.
He recorded this topography into his spirit, imperceptibly carrying out a form of mimicry cultivation.
And this kind of mimicry cultivation was different from cultivating within a mimicry environment; it couldn't be replaced by his visualization method.
But this also meant that this kind of mimicry cultivation could stack with the effects of his visualized mimicry environment.
Two and a half months later, Su Wen's spirit power broke through again.
Besides the medicinal power of the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid that had settled in his body, the portion that was absorbed to directly increase his spirit power was enough to raise him to level forty-four. Coupled with the 20,000-year Mirror Image Beast ring he absorbed, Su Wen's spirit power had broken through to an unbelievable level after obtaining his fourth ring.
Level forty-seven!
After he began applying the Source Spirit Power cultivation method, the effect wasn't obvious during the Grand Spirit Master stage, as he had developed the method a bit late. However, during the Spirit Elder stage, Su Wen had cultivated the Source Spirit Power method throughout, accumulating Source Spirit Power the entire time.
Basically, the transformation of his spirit could be substituted with the accumulated Source Spirit Power.
Therefore, the Eight Petal Immortal Orchid plus the 20,000-year fourth ring had pushed Su Wen's spirit power rank directly to forty-seven.
Even among Spirit Ancestors, this could be considered a high-rank Spirit Ancestor.
And now, Su Wen had broken through again, reaching level forty-eight!
He was getting closer and closer to the goal of Spirit King he had set for himself when he left New Moon Village alone to hunt spirit beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Thinking back, when Su Wen was at Nuoding Primary Spirit Master Academy, before he had truly put his theories into practice to develop real techniques for accelerating spirit power cultivation, his spirit power had been surpassed by Tang San.
He was two years older than Tang San. (Corrected in Chapter 1, two years older.)
Yet despite being two years older, Su Wen obtained his first and even his second spirit ring later than Tang San.
However, now, in just three short years, he had closed that gap and re-established a two-year lead, and was even widening it further!
"Knowledge is power!"
Su Wen believed in this more and more firmly.
After traveling for two and a half months, Su Wen returned to New Moon Village.
He didn't rush to help Old Jack get his second spirit ring. He had already taught Old Jack the external technique and the Spirit Fusion Art, and even personally helped him explore the techniques of the Spirit Fusion Method.
The goal was for Old Jack to master the Spirit Fusion Method as quickly as possible, so that his second ring could be a thousand-year spirit ring.
Perhaps he could even absorb a third spirit ring directly after that.
"Tang San has been gone for five days. Tang Hao should have followed him by now, right?"
Based on the distance between Nuoding City and Soto City, with the foot speed of two level-twenty-nine Grand Spirit Masters carrying no luggage, ten days should be about enough to arrive.
Of course, the two might delay by sightseeing along the way.
But Xiao Wu was a 100,000-year spirit beast. Since Tang Hao was paying attention to Tang San joining Shrek, he probably wouldn't be so careless as to not even bother following them.
"Tang Hao might really leave after beating up Zhao Wuji. Regardless of what he goes to do, it's possible he came back midway, so these few days are my best opportunity," Su Wen thought to himself.
Propelled by airflow, and blending perfectly into the sky with the changing colors of his paper pages wrapped around him, Su Wen overlooked the earth from high above.
"A valley..."
Su Wen guessed that the valley was likely similar to the one where the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was located, completely surrounded by high mountains on all four sides.
That was the only way it would be hard to find.
From high in the sky, Su Wen searched for targets that met the conditions of being surrounded by mountains and having a waterfall. With his previous reconnaissance, his search was extremely methodical.
Five days later.
Su Wen's gaze instantly sharpened. His eyes, glowing with splendid light, became even brighter, and a magnificent vertical pupil faintly appeared on his forehead, looking down.
"Perfectly meets the conditions!"
As for spirit power fluctuations...
None!
Retracting the Phantasmal Spirit Eye, Su Wen slowly landed on the peak of the mountain on the east side of the valley.
Observing the waterfall carefully, he discovered the cave hidden within it.
"Tang Hao is definitely not here right now." Comparing the time, Su Wen took a deep breath, rode the airflow up again, and flew towards the cave hidden behind the waterfall.
Splash!
Passing through the waterfall, Su Wen landed in the inner cave.
In the dim cave, a small blade of grass emitting a soft blue light was quite eye-catching.
Seeing this Blue Silver Grass with faint golden leaf veins, Su Wen finally confirmed he hadn't found the wrong place.
"Mm, the Blue Silver Emperor. Other things aside, let me replicate it first and see what abilities it has."
Su Wen's replication ability worked on spirit beasts as well.
However, given the Blue Silver Emperor's current state, Su Wen wasn't sure if he would replicate the abilities of this powerless seedling, or the abilities it had before its sacrifice.
But there was no loss in trying. A book page merged into the Blue Silver Emperor. A minute later, a page engraved with the image of the Blue Silver Emperor and numerous blue-gold patterns flew out and returned to Su Wen's hand.
(End of this chapter)