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"Little Wen, you're finally back."
Seeing Su Wen, Qin Ming and the others sighed with relief.
Since Su Wen set out to hunt his third spirit ring, he had been cultivating with the Poison Douluo. They knew this much through Dugu Yan.
But they were still curious about what level Su Wen had reached in his cultivation.
"Little Wen, since you're back, you should participate in the next stage of training," Qin Ming said.
Yu Feng then quietly told Su Wen about their plan for the next stage.
"Little Wen, Teacher Qin is planning to take us to the Great Spirit Arenas in all the major cities. We'll go to the major cities in the Tian Dou Empire that have a Spirit Hall Main Temple. We'll fight seven matches in each city to experience different styles of spirits and combat."
Su Wen understood.
So that was it.
To put it bluntly, they were going around kicking down dojos.
In the Tian Dou City Great Spirit Arena, although there were many geniuses and outstanding Spirit Masters gathered from all over the empire, it was ultimately their home turf. They were familiar with it.
But other cities were different.
If a strange team barged in and won seven consecutive days of challenges, the local Great Spirit Arena would suffer huge losses.
Because the main source of income for the Great Spirit Arena was betting, and due to the home-field advantage, the audience would usually bet on the famous local teams.
After losing for three consecutive days, the Great Spirit Arena would generally start to specifically select teams to snipe the outsiders, preventing them from continuing their winning streak.
In Tian Dou City, the opponents arranged for them might not be the most troublesome ones, and the probability of encountering them wouldn't be too high.
But in other cities, over seven days, they could expect to be sniped for at least three days, fighting against the most outstanding local teams.
This was why Qin Ming had made this plan.
"By the way, Little Wen, you probably don't know yet, but our Teacher Qin broke through to level 60 while you were away," Yu Feng revealed to Su Wen, his face full of admiration.
"It's said that Teacher Qin is the second youngest Spirit Emperor in Spirit Hall's records. Even his sixth spirit ring was hunted with the personal help of Chairman Meng Shenji from our three education committee members."
Su Wen expressed surprise at this news.
Qin Ming broke through to level 60?
But he quickly accepted it.
Qin Ming's talent, placed in the current era of the Douluo Continent, was indeed very high.
However, this title of 'second youngest Spirit Emperor' was probably going to be squeezed down soon.
"I'm already level forty-eight..."
Su Wen wasn't even sure if the goal of level 60 would last him until he was eighteen.
"By the way, Little Wen, what level are you now?" Yu Feng asked curiously.
In this year and a half, the seven members of their battle team had made remarkable progress.
The captain had now reached level thirty-eight.
"Just went to Spirit Hall for certification. Thirty-nine," Su Wen replied.
"How much?" Yu Feng suspected his ears had deceived him. His voice cracked as he stared at Su Wen in disbelief.
Su Wen scratched his head and said sheepishly, "Grandpa Dugu has too many good things over there. My spirit power cultivation just... sped up a bit along the way."
The seven fell silent.
Dugu Yan looked thoughtful.
My grandpa has a lot of good things?
To be honest, I really didn't know that before.
"Captain, and Yu Feng, you guys need to work hard. Sister Yan will probably have an explosive period of spirit power growth soon," Su Wen reminded them.
Yu Tianheng and the others looked at Dugu Yan.
"Sister, sister, do you think I have the potential to be a gigolo?" Yu Feng asked shamelessly, leaning in.
Yu Tianheng narrowed his eyes, emitting an aura of dominance that made Yu Feng shut up immediately and retreat consciously.
Dugu Yan was still thinking, ignoring Yu Feng's joke.
She roughly understood what Su Wen meant by a period of spirit power growth.
"Grandpa definitely has good things that can accelerate cultivation without side effects. But because I was suffering from the backlash of my spirit's poison before, accelerating my cultivation would only worsen the backlash, so he never gave them to me."
However, as Dugu Bo explored techniques and with the aid of Su Wen's blood, the toxins in Dugu Yan's body had been alleviated significantly.
Not eliminated, but preliminarily controlled.
If they could find a suitable spirit bone, she would truly have no worries and could use the treasures to accelerate her spirit power cultivation.
Qin Ming interrupted the exchange between the nine team members.
"The plan to go to the major cities for spirit battles has been set. We will depart in half a month. This last half month is your final intensive training period. I hope you can return with a complete victory record from the upcoming battles."
"Big Brother Wen, I've already cultivated to level twenty-nine!" Ning Rongrong said proudly, showing off her cultivation results to Su Wen.
She wasn't even fully twelve yet, but she had already cultivated her spirit power to level twenty-nine.
And she was an auxiliary-type Spirit Master.
Of course, this cultivation speed was also due to her superior conditions—medicinal baths, mimicry environments, and Su Wen even gave her the version of the internal spirit power circulation pathway he had when he first arrived in Tian Dou City.
"Not bad. After these three months of challenges, you should be able to break through to level thirty."
"Hehe, still a long way off compared to Big Brother Wen." Ning Rongrong stuck out her tongue.
The spirit power circulation pathway she was cultivating now was given by Su Wen, and developed by him, so she naturally admired him.
Of course, the main thing was that if she wanted to play with fire, she could only rely on... Su Wen.
For an auxiliary-type Spirit Master, the feeling of mastering power was truly addictive. The current Ning Rongrong was like an addicted little girl, unable to extricate herself.
"By the way, Big Brother Wen, my dad has looked for you many times. He said if you come back, he wants to meet you," Ning Rongrong said.
"No problem."
"Hehe, then I'll have someone notify my dad right now."
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Nuoding City.
A burly man appeared, wearing a tattered black robe that covered his entire body.
After eating a meal, the black-robed man left Nuoding City.
His pace was fast; two or three steps covered dozens of meters as he quickly headed deep into the mountains outside Nuoding City.
In the mountains, within a valley gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the man in black leaped down from a nearby peak, arriving at the edge of the lake.
Tang Hao, returning to this valley, had a gaze filled with infinite nostalgia that instantly turned sharp.
He sensed something was wrong.
He quickly pushed off the ground, leaped up, passed through the waterfall, and arrived at the cave behind it.
However, the cave was now dim. The blade of grass emitting a soft blue light was gone.
Tang Hao's aura began to stagnate, and a terrifying pressure radiated outward.
Blood-colored spirit power filled with slaughter intent pervaded the air.
His eyes were crimson as he walked step by step to the place where he had personally planted Ah Yin. Looking at the traces left after Ah Yin was uprooted, endless killing intent burst from his body.
He looked up at the top of the cave. The black box containing the spirit bone left for his son was also gone.
"Who!"
"Who was it?"
"I want you dead!"
Tang Hao's killing intent was fully revealed, then he spat out a mouthful of old blood and fell backward to the ground.
(End of this chapter)