Own Problems Were Yours to Solve

Li Ang's figure turned into a blur as he left. He hadn't paid much attention to these matters.

After Tang San was suppressed, Tang Wulin wouldn't be able to stir up much trouble, even if he wanted to.

The night passed quickly.

Since the Class Promotion Tournament was being held today, there were no classes here either.

Instead, Class Five was the first to challenge for promotion.

As a genius from Class One, Li Ang naturally had to take part in the tournament.

But since he was being ostracized by his classmates, even he didn't know whether he had a spot in the competition.

While the other students went to watch the tournament, Li Ang went straight back to the Spirit Pagoda after asking for leave.

Ye Yingluo had no reason to deny his request, given the status the young man held.

Li Ang got into a car and returned to the Spirit Pagoda.

Ming Yue was a little surprised to see him back, but she still stood respectfully at the entrance to await him.

"Young Pagoda Master, what would you like me to do?"

"Nothing. You don't need to worry about me."

"Prepare lunch for noon. I might be spending quite a while in the Spirit Ascension Platform."

As he spoke, Li Ang glanced at Ming Yue.

He merely waved a hand and took the elevator upstairs by himself.

His current Soul Ring Configuration was a little strange: two purple rings and one yellow ring.

If anyone saw it, they would question whether it made sense.

After all, under normal circumstances, one couldn't add a Hundred-Year Soul Ring after already obtaining a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.

His configuration would definitely look bizarre.

What Li Ang planned to do was use the next few days to raise his third Soul Ring to a thousand years as well.

But that presented another problem.

Raising his third Soul Ring to a thousand years meant increasing the age of all three Soul Rings at once, which would be quite difficult.

So Li Ang was already prepared to spend a long time in there.

Of course, the main thing was to let the two Soul Beasts hunt on their own while he focused on his own research.

He lay down in the hibernation pod. As the feeling of the world turning dark washed over him, Li Ang appeared once more in the Elementary Spirit Ascension Platform.

He beckoned lightly, and the Little Black Dog appeared.

Taking in its familiar surroundings, the Little Black Dog lowered its head and sniffed, then stuck out its tongue at Li Ang.

The Little Butterfly appeared beside him as well.

It gently beat its wings, fixing its curious gaze on Li Ang.

"Take care of your own business. You two go hunt Soul Beasts and improve your strength. I have things to work on here."

After speaking, Li Ang looked at his two Guardian Beasts.

The Little Butterfly and the Little Black Dog froze for a moment.

Then the Little Black Dog drew in its tongue, its body swelling until it became a terrifying black hound nearly three meters tall.

It immediately dashed off to the side.

The Little Butterfly, meanwhile, paused in silence. Its body slowly blended into the air, vanishing right before Li Ang's eyes.

Li Ang wasn't particularly concerned that the Little Butterfly had mastered a trait resembling invisibility.

The Little Butterfly already had powerful traits, and with Ultimate Ice on top of that, its combat ability was actually quite impressive.

Li Ang was just wondering whether to adjust its Ultimate Ice trait.

After all, the trait seemed a little useless for the Little Butterfly. At present, it relied mainly on its sharpness and its terrifying ability to turn its body into metal.

"The Little Butterfly's Ultimate Ice ability isn't very useful."

"Then there's the matter of traveling to ten thousand years ago. I'll need a trait that's something like time."

"My four current traits are all focused on enhancing elements. That means I'll have to reach the fourth or fifth ring before I can travel ten thousand years into the past."

As he spoke, Li Ang wrote down the details he needed on a piece of paper.

He wasn't some top-tier, heaven-defying protagonist. Even though he had the terrifying boost of the Geo Archon Rex Lapis Template, he was still eager to learn.

At that moment, he was also studying the traits of Douluo Planet.

He needed a trait that could send him back ten thousand years, rather than changing the flow of time across the entire planet.

Changing time was extremely difficult.

After all, turning Douluo Planet backward wouldn't simply change the world. It would mean changing the rules of the entire world.

Apart from a few people who could cheat the system, Li Ang didn't think he could manage that easily on his own.

So he still needed to study the matter carefully.

Of course, besides these two areas, forging was also high on Li Ang's list.

His natural talent was astonishing—one could even call it heaven-defying.

He could use the power granted by the Geo Archon Rex Lapis Template to purify metals and create metals that were both simpler and stronger.

But Spirit Refinement was still a hurdle, and it had held him back for three years.

Thanks to Mu Chen's careful guidance, he had finally begun to see the way forward.

He still couldn't complete Spirit Refinement, but he had figured out some of the crucial steps.

"Once I can fully forge Spirit-Forged Metal, I can help the Little Butterfly improve again."

"By then, with the strength of Spirit-Forged Metal, the Little Butterfly still won't match Two-Word Battle Armor, but it'll be much stronger than One-Word Battle Armor."

Li Ang thought aloud as he continued with his next research project.

Time ticked by, minute by minute.

The Elementary Spirit Ascension Platform posed almost no threat to Li Ang anymore.

In a place without even a thousand-year Soul Beast, the Little Black Dog slaughtered at will.

The Soul Ring ages gained from this place were limited, though.

Even after the Little Black Dog hunted Soul Beasts all day, with the Little Butterfly acting as an invisible assassin alongside it, their combined efforts had only raised the Soul Ring age by nearly a hundred years.

That was unimaginable to most people.

After all, staying for ten days could raise a Soul Ring to a thousand years. That was about the same as entering the platform ten times.

But for Li Ang, raising the Little Black Dog from a thousand years to ten thousand years wasn't something he could accomplish in a short time.

Even if the Little Butterfly only needed to reach a thousand years, that would still take Li Ang some time.

At Eastsea Academy.

Today's match had ended. Class Five had faced Class Four.

With Gu Yue on their side, Tang Wulin and Xie Xie had gone all out.

Class Four had been defeated without putting up any resistance.

Seeing Class Four lose so easily, and especially seeing Gu Yue and Xie Xie's second-ring cultivation—

"What's the point of even fighting? Those two kids have both reached the second ring. Why aren't they in Class One? Why are they staying in Class Five?"

Class Four's homeroom teacher was a male teacher.

He grumbled, his face full of anger.

Anyone who ran into something like this would be exasperated.

Those two students were strong in battle, but their cultivation was even more terrifying. Two second-ring soul masters against three first-ring ones—how could that not be an easy fight?

The other teachers said nothing as they listened to the male teacher complain.

The sisters Ye Yingluo and Ye Yingrong stood side by side.

Ye Yingluo's gaze swept toward Wu Zhangkong, cold as ice, but Wu Zhangkong never looked at her.

Ye Yingrong glanced between her sister and Wu Zhangkong, then lowered her head without saying a word.

While Wu Zhangkong's presence put pressure on the teachers nearby, Tang Wulin stood off to one side with an odd expression.

From time to time, he looked at his left hand.

Something had appeared there—something he hadn't expected, or rather, hadn't even realized was there.