The man in black robes was Tang Hao; at this moment, his gaze was fixed on the distant teachers' dormitory, and a cold glint flickered in his cloudy eyes.
His son, the son of the Clear Sky Douluo, was not to be trifled with.
That night, sounds of collision, surging energy, muffled groans, and screams echoed one after another through the forest.
Flender, hiding to the side, couldn't help but cover his eyes, not daring to look at Zhao Wuji's miserable state.
The entire battle concluded in just ten breaths.
Tang Hao stood with his hands behind his back, as if nothing had happened; his black clothes didn't even have a single wrinkle, while the pitiable Zhao Wuji lay on the ground, his head swollen a full circle, and both his eyes were a bruised black.
Blood seeped from the corner of his mouth as he lay on the ground, gasping for air.
After giving instructions to Flender and Zhao Wuji, Tang Hao's figure flickered, and he quietly vanished.
Zhao Wuji stood there with Flender, neither moving for a long time; his body could only stand steadily with Flender's support.
Zhao Wuji complained, "Flender, you're so disloyal."
Flender immediately retorted, "You're getting a good deal and still complaining! This is guidance from a Titled Douluo!
Besides, who told you to be so heavy-handed during the day? If you had just let Mubai handle the assessment, nothing would have happened, and you wouldn't have gotten this beating out of nowhere."
"Hiss... I didn't get off easy during the day either. I got beaten by two little girls' spirit tools during the day, and then I had to take a beating from the Clear Sky Douluo at night. Who can I complain to?" Zhao Wuji said with a bitter face. Today was truly unlucky; he'd been beaten twice in a row.
"But seriously, these spirit tools are really powerful. It's just a shame they're too expensive."
"Let's go, let's go. These are not things we can aspire to. It's more practical to focus on cultivating our Spirit. The academy is in a mess right now, and I have a headache," Flender's eyes flashed with the gleam of money, which eventually faded, and he rubbed his temples, looking troubled.
"Hehe, who told you to teach Mubai and the others without telling them to restrain themselves? Now you know the consequences, don't you?
Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong are not easy to deal with. If there isn't something truly good, it will be very difficult for them to stay at Shrek Academy." Seeing Flender's headache, Zhao Wuji, on the contrary, laughed gleefully.
"Don't worry, I've already made arrangements for this matter," Flender said with a confident smile, a figure flashing through his mind.
He believed that with his 'astonishing wisdom' and profound knowledge, he could definitely make Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing stay obediently at Shrek Academy.
Zhao Wuji looked at Flender's confident expression, suppressed his curiosity, and, limping with Flender's support, walked towards the academy... "Saint Spirit Village is just ahead."
High in the sky, a figure shrouded in black robes, standing on a massive Undead Bone Dragon, looked at the map in his hand and said in a hoarse voice.
From a high-altitude view, one could clearly see three simple, closed-door adobe houses at the head of the village, appearing as if they were casually stacked, as if a slightly stronger gust of wind could blow them down.
A wooden sign with an iron hammer hung above the middle house.
His gaze shifted to the back of Saint Spirit Village, where there was a continuous range of mountains. With a thought, the Undead Bone Dragon beneath his feet rushed towards the distant mountains.
The scenery of the mountain forest rapidly passed before Xu Tianyang's eyes as he headed deeper into the mountains.
He adjusted his flying altitude and direction, passing through dense forests. A faint roaring sound vaguely reached his ears, and the air gradually became humid.
As he continuously approached, the roaring sound grew louder and louder in his ears, deafening, and the air became even more humid. The temperature here was even several degrees lower than outside.
Not long after, a valley appeared before Xu Tianyang's eyes. To be precise, it was a pool of water, crystal clear to the bottom, tranquil and deep, like a giant sapphire.
On one side of the valley, a waterfall about twenty meters wide hung like a jade belt on a nearly two-hundred-meter-high cliff. The rumbling sound was precisely the result of it impacting the pool.
The waterfall cascaded down, crashing into the pool and splashing countless droplets.
"This is a good spot. Tang Hao is quite good at picking places."
After a sigh of emotion, Xu Tianyang flew to the center of the waterfall, his spiritual detection enveloping the stone wall behind the waterfall. Soon, he discovered a place with unusual fluctuations.
Xu Tianyang's figure flickered, piercing through the mist splashed by the waterfall like a Gui Mei, heading straight for that stone wall.
Disregarding the water on his body, he reached out and pressed the stone wall behind the waterfall.
"Rumble—" Starting from that stone wall, the rock began to recede inwards, revealing the passage within.
The cave was about three meters high and two meters wide, extending inwards, and the light inside was very dim.
As he went deeper, everything around him suddenly brightened. The light from outside poured in, and looking up, a stone hole appeared at the top of the cave wall.
And here, it was a stone chamber of only about ten square meters.
The stone chamber was empty, without any furnishings, but directly beneath the stone hole above, there was a small mound of earth.
On the small mound, a slender Blue Silver Grass swayed in the wind.
The Blue Silver Grass looked a bit longer than ordinary Blue Silver Grass, and what was most peculiar was that its leaves had golden fine lines.
In the dim stone chamber, it stood out particularly, yet it also revealed an indescribable state of wilting, its leaves drooping softly, with edges even turning yellowish.
It was noon at this moment, and the sunlight from outside the cave shone directly on her, causing the originally wilting leaves to tremble slightly, as if trying to absorb this rare warmth and light.
"This is Ah Yin!"
Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar Blue Silver Grass before him, the Tianmeng Ice Silkworm said with some surprise, "Is this the other Blue Silver Emperor that the Blue Silver Emperor from the Sun Moon Empire mentioned? Why is she in such a state?"
"That's because this Blue Silver Emperor sacrificed all her hundred-thousand-year cultivation to her husband, Tang Hao, and survived by relying on the unique ability of plant-type Spirit Beasts," Xu Tianyang slowly explained.
"Sacrifice!!!" Ice Empress and Tianmeng Ice Silkworm exclaimed in surprise. Even though they had already sacrificed themselves to Xu Tianyang, they were still deeply shocked to hear of a Spirit Beast sacrificing itself to a human.
After all, their situations were different; they sacrificed themselves to Xu Tianyang in pursuit of eternal life, while Ah Yin was different. She sacrificed herself to Tang Hao completely disregarding the consequences and her own life.
The shock of this deeply impacted Ice Empress and Tianmeng Ice Silkworm.
Xu Tianyang looked at the shocked Ice Empress and Tianmeng Ice Silkworm, chuckled softly, and turned around to slap the nearby stone wall. A dark object fell from above into his hand.