For the next two weeks, life at the Heaven Dou Royal Academy became uneventful. Due to the approaching holiday and the recent incident involving Zhu Zhuqing, Qin Ming canceled all of the Imperial Fighting Team's competition schedules, instead focusing on daily practical training and theoretical instruction.
During this period, every evening after dinner, the carriage bearing the royal crest would appear on time in front of the villa on the back mountain. Xue Qinghe would come almost without fail, rain or shine, and every day under the pretext of "inspecting security" or "discussing political affairs," he would drag Gu Tian into the master bedroom.
With a "click," the door was locked tightly from the inside, preventing anyone from entering.
Afterwards, strange light would always shine through the crack in the master bedroom door. It was the holy golden light of the Six-Winged Angel and the magnificent Nine-Colored Divine Light of the Chaos Dragon God intertwined and entangled, accompanied by extremely strong Soul Power fluctuations. Because the resonance of the Snow Heaven Power required complete immersion and physical contact, the two would stay in the room for two or three hours at a time.
This greatly worried Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and the other girls who were waiting in the living room.
" Rongrong, tell me... what exactly is Gu Tian doing locked up with His Highness the Crown Prince every day?" Xiao Wu hugged her cushion, her rabbit ears drooping uneasily. "He won't tell me, he just says it's top secret. What top secret needs to be discussed like this every day?"
Ning Rongrong bit her nails, her usual spoiled young lady temper vanishing, replaced by a deep sense of crisis. She leaned close to Xue Ke and asked in a low voice, " Xue Ke, you're his sister. Tell me honestly, is your brother... is his sexual orientation really normal in the palace? He wouldn't be trying to turn Brother Gu Tian gay, would he?"
Xue Ke, who was drinking tea, nearly spat it out upon hearing this. She recalled the two alluring and stunningly beautiful older sisters she had seen when she broke into her brother's bedroom a while ago, and quickly shook her head. "No, Sister Rongrong! My brother... he's perfectly normal! I've seen very beautiful women in his room with my own eyes."
"That's really strange..." Ning Rongrong touched her chin, her pretty face slightly flushed as she muttered, "If it weren't for the fact that Brother Gu Tian still has to do his routine dual cultivation with us every night after everyone is asleep, I would really think that he has changed his nature and started to like men."
The others remained silent, but they too were suspicious of the matter. After all, it was quite arousing to see two grown men locked in their room every evening after dinner without fail, and not allowing anyone to disturb them. Anyone would have doubts in that situation.
Meanwhile, inside an abandoned warehouse in the Heaven Dou City.
Tang San stared intently at the dark red Death Warrior Pill in his hand.
Bu Le, Tian Ya, and E Kao were standing behind him. The auras of these three had undergone a dramatic change, becoming cold and violent, and their Soul Power Level were rising at an abnormal rate. After observing them for a week, Tang San confirmed that the pill could indeed instantly purify Martial Soul, and so far there seemed to be no side effects such as loss of consciousness, indicating that the pill provided by Xue Xing was very effective.
"Since they can do it, there's no reason why I, with Twin Martial Souls and a strong physique, shouldn't be able to withstand it."
Some time ago, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. Before leaving, they didn't say when they would return. Although Tang San still wanted to discuss the specific effects of the Death Warrior Pill with Yu Xiaogang, he couldn't wait for Yu Xiaogang to return. Whenever he thought of Gu Tian chatting and laughing at the auction, surrounded by beauties, and even being treated as an honored guest by Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, his heart felt like it was being bitten by a poisonous snake.
"Although the Mysterious Heaven Skill is fast, it is still far from enough compared to that monster, Gu Tian."
He originally planned to have Tai Long take one as well, so as to demonstrate the Tang Sect's strength to Tai Tan, but he decided to try it himself first. As long as he breaks through to level 20 Soul Grandmaster, and is equipped with the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and Hidden Weapon, he can truly stand tall this holiday to subdue the Strength Clan and establish the prototype of the Tang Sect!
" Gu Tian... In this life, I will never lose again! As long as I consume this Death Warrior Pill, I can truly refine my bones and muscles, and then you will truly be no match for me!"
Tang San took a deep breath and counted down from three in his mind.
Three, two, one!
He suddenly opened the box, grabbed the dark red pill, and swallowed it in one gulp without any hesitation.
In an instant, he felt a violent energy carrying a murderous and destructive will explode from his throat and surge wildly into his limbs and bones!
"Ah--!"
The veins on Tang San's forehead bulged, and his eyes instantly turned a strange scarlet red.
"Ah--!"
A piercing scream echoed through the secret chamber. Tang San's body convulsed violently from the excruciating pain, and his skin faintly revealed a chilling dark red hue. Just as that evil energy was about to tear his meridians apart, Tang San desperately guarded a sliver of clarity in his mind and frantically activated the Mysterious Heaven Skill within his body.
The milky-white Mysterious Heaven Skill acted like a sturdy dam, fiercely resisting wave after wave of dark red raging tide.
"Give it to me... to refine!"
Tang San roared inwardly, his consciousness sinking into his dantian. The Mysterious Heaven Skill Technique circulated for nine full cycles, and the originally violent and chaotic effects of the medicine were finally tamed little by little, flowing with the gentle Soul Power to his limbs and bones. His tense muscles gradually relaxed, the previously ferocious bulging veins slowly disappeared, and the scarlet color in his eyes faded, restoring their former clarity. However, a barely perceptible gloomy black light appeared deep in his pupils.
"Call--"
Tang San opened his mouth and exhaled a thick, inky breath. The breath struck the ground and produced a sizzling, corrosive sound.
He slowly opened his eyes, feeling an unprecedented surge of power coursing through his body, as if he could tear apart the space before him with a mere gesture. He calmed his mind and carefully sensed it, a wildly joyful smile appearing on his lips.
Level 20!
This single Deathsworn Pill allowed him to bypass his long period of accumulation and directly reach the bottleneck of level 20!
"Third Brother... you, you've succeeded?" Bu Le approached, looking at Tang San, whose demeanor had drastically changed, with a sense of awe.
Tang San didn't speak; he first extended his left hand.
Buzz--!
The jet-black Clear Sky Hammer emerged. Unlike before, it was now Bind in visible black evil energy, adding a chilling and eerie quality to its already heavy aura.
Then, he extended his right hand.
"Surprises... always arrive unexpectedly," Tang San murmured to himself.
In his palm, the once thin and withered Blue Silver Grass, which had become shriveled from absorbing the Lone Bamboo, underwent a terrifying mutation. The originally dark blue leaves turned purplish-black, and dense, dark red thorns sprouted from their edges, appearing as sharp as saw teeth, their tips gleaming with a sinister poisonous light.
This is no longer an ordinary Blue Silver Grass, but a completely evolved and mutated product— Blue Silver Thorns!