Heavenly Curse Seal

"What are the drawbacks?"

Tang Jiu immediately grew serious. It was normal for powerful skills to have drawbacks, so naturally, he had to listen to a professional's advice.

When it came to Spirit Theory, Master was unparalleled in the world!

"The most likely outcome when using a Self Spirit Fusion Skill is bodily explosion! Your body may be unable to withstand the immense power it brings. Especially for someone like you with a devouring skill—what you devour is energy. If you cannot bear that energy, it becomes a huge problem!"

Master solemnly warned, "So when you devour, know when to stop!"

Tang Jiu immediately nodded to show that he understood. It was just like how eating too much could kill you.

Seeing that Tang Jiu had taken his words to heart, Master's stern face revealed a faint smile. "But you needn't be afraid! When your body reaches its limit, you will feel that something is wrong. Just stop in time."

"However, besides bodily explosion, there are many other side effects!"

"For example, Spirit Rings may dim, or even disappear altogether!"

Tang Jiu could not help giving Master a thumbs-up upon hearing this. A dim Spirit Ring—wasn't that precisely the aftereffect of Tang Hao's Explode Ring?

As for missing Spirit Rings, didn't Tang San sacrifice his Spirit Ring to save Xiao Wu?

Worthy of being Master. Who else would dare make such a guess without seeing it firsthand? Yet based solely on dim Spirit Rings, Master had deduced that missing Spirit Rings must exist. He was simply incredible.

"Teacher, are there any other drawbacks?" Tang Jiu hurriedly asked.

Master pondered for a while before saying, "I cannot think of anything else for now. Let us test your Self Spirit Fusion Skill!"

After saying that, Master directly summoned his spirit. The simple-minded Three Pao the Turtle appeared, but the instant it saw Tang Jiu's Evil Ring Devouring Heaven Ant, its chubby body shuddered. It immediately hid behind Master and kept making luoluo noises, expressing how frightened it was.

Master laughed at the sight. "It seems your Evil Ring Devouring Heaven Ant is an extremely powerful Beast Spirit. It suppresses ordinary Beast Spirits."

"Little Jiu, test its Soul Power and abilities now!"

Tang Jiu immediately activated his Soul Power. As the Three-Colored Spirit Ring lit up, a Spirit Incantation instantly appeared in his mind.

"First Spirit Fusion Skill, Speed Deprivation!"

Three-colored light descended upon Tang Jiu. He did not dare strike Master with any force and merely lightly patted him once.

With that one hit, Master's expression changed.

It was not because Tang Jiu's palm carried much force. In fact, Tang Jiu had not used any strength at all. Yet Master clearly felt his speed decrease.

"Little Jiu, continue!" A glint flashed through Master's eyes as a terrifying conjecture formed in his heart.

Tang Jiu followed up with another palm strike. At that moment, he could not help blurting out, "Holy shit!"

Tang Jiu was stunned. Every attack could actually plunder the opponent's speed and feed it back to himself!

The increase was as high as 5%!

This was clearly an upgraded version of the Spirit Ring Spirit's First Spirit Skill, Evil Ring of Speed!

Tang Jiu attacked three more times. Every time, it deprived 5% of Master's speed. By then, Master's speed had noticeably dropped!

"What a terrifying Self Spirit Fusion Skill! No wonder it is called the Evil Ring Devouring Heaven Ant!" Master was filled with envy. Then he asked, "Little Jiu, this skill should have a time limit, right? If I am not mistaken, the duration should be quite short."

"It really is short! It only lasts one minute."

Tang Jiu could not help complaining. Why did every one of his skills have a time limit, and why had none of them ever lasted more than a minute?

However, after his frustration faded, Tang Jiu smugly said, "Within that minute, as long as I attack an enemy, I can continuously stack the devouring of their speed!"

Master's pupils suddenly contracted. This could only be described as a divine skill!

"However, this skill has one major restriction. It can only be used once a month! And the speed devoured from the enemy will return to them after three minutes. In other words, I can only temporarily possess the enemy's speed for four minutes!" Tang Jiu was utterly speechless. This skill even had a cooldown!

The most frustrating part was that the cooldown was measured in months!

Upon hearing this, Master's expression seemed to improve considerably. That was more like it!

If this skill had no restrictions, it would practically be invincible!

"It seems your Self Spirit Fusion Skill cannot be used often either! Perhaps this is also a form of protection for you."

Master found this perfectly normal. If Spirit Skills capable of dimming Spirit Rings could be used repeatedly, that would be utterly unreasonable!

Anything beyond common sense came at a price!

Master then pointed at the three blood-red commas on the forehead of Tang Jiu's Evil Ring Devouring Heaven Ant. "Have you noticed whether this blood-red mark has any special ability?"

"No!"

Tang Jiu had not sensed any special ability, so he decisively shook his head. But then his eyes suddenly lit up. A mark!

Why did that sound so familiar?

A mark... seal... Curse Seal!

Tang Jiu was startled. No wonder this thing looked so familiar!

Three commas growing inside the pupils—that was the symbol of the Uchiha Clan in Naruto, the Sharingan, except those commas were black!

If they grew on the skin, then it was Orochimaru's Curse Seal!

The Heavenly Curse Seal!

The reason Tang Jiu had not recognized it was because the Curse Seal had three black commas. Once activated, it also appeared as black clouds covering the skin, whereas these commas were blood-red!

The Heavenly Curse Seal could massively increase every aspect of the body's strength. It was divided into Curse Seal State One and Curse Seal State Two!

Sasuke's incredibly dark Curse Seal State Two form had amazed many people when it first appeared!

Its power was simply absurdly strong.

But how was this Curse Seal supposed to be activated?

Did it require some special energy? Such as hatred?

Tang Jiu tried it—for example, hating Tang Hao for not giving him meat—but there was no effect at all!

He tried using Soul Power, but there was even less of a reaction, leaving Tang Jiu somewhat baffled.

Still, now that he had this thing, he would surely find a way to use it in the future. He was in no hurry. With the abilities he possessed now, he was fully confident he could slaughter his way in and out of the City Lord's Mansion seven times over!

"Teacher, One Month Later, when my skill's cooldown... ah, no, when my skill can be used again, I will go to the City Lord's Mansion and kill that bastard."

Tang Jiu confidently waved his fist.

"Can you manage alone? We can only discover whether your Self Spirit Fusion Skill has other drawbacks through actual combat. If anything unexpected happens during battle, you will certainly die!" Master said bluntly.

"You're right! I need to find a helper!" Tang Jiu automatically excluded Master. Honestly, if Master went with him, he would be useless beyond holding them back!

"Teacher, how about I write a letter to Big Owl and ask him to come help?"

Master chuckled. "Flander would not be foolish enough to go to the City Lord's Mansion and kill someone with you, especially when there are people from Spirit Hall there. Not unless he no longer wants Shrek Academy!"

"That makes sense! Then I'll write him a letter saying my father plans to hammer the Nuoding City Lord to death and ask him to come help deal with the City Lord's property. He wouldn't skip out on something like counting money, would he?"

Master's mouth twitched. He could guarantee that Flander would run faster than a rabbit.