Seeing everyone's expressions, Zhao Wuji knew he had said too much. He quickly turned to Tang San and changed the subject. "Tang San, are you all right?"
"I'm fine. Thank you for your concern, Teacher Zhao!"
"As long as you're fine. It's getting late. Go back and get some rest."
With that, Zhao Wuji turned and led the way into the academy.
"Flender and the others must suspect something. I think we need to be more careful from now on."
That night, after everyone had gone to sleep, Zhao Wuji came to Zhao Su's room.
"Don't worry. So what if they know? They aren't the ones I'm targeting!"
"Will taking the Golden Sacred Dragon summoned by the three of them really cause them no harm?"
Zhao Wuji looked at Zhao Su and asked the question in all seriousness.
Flender and Zhao Wuji were close friends. Back when Tai Tan, the chief of the Strength Clan, had hunted him down, Flender had taken him in.
Otherwise, he might have died back then.
Although he had agreed to help Zhao Su, he did not want Flender to suffer because of it.
"Relax. At worst, they'll no longer be able to use the Trinity Fusion Skill, but I'll also help him reach the rank of Titled Douluo. Consider it compensation!"
"Then what if they oppose Spirit Hall?"
"You need to understand that in this world, where murderous danger lurks everywhere, anyone who isn't a friend is an enemy."
Zhao Su had made himself quite clear. These were two separate matters: he would take the Golden Sacred Dragon they summoned through fusion and compensate Flender by helping him become a Titled Douluo.
But if Flender opposed him, he would no longer be a friend. He would be an enemy.
"All right. I understand!"
"Brother Zhao, sometimes you have to be ruthless. You may consider them friends, but they may not consider you one."
"Mm!"
Zhao Wuji said nothing more. He rose, opened the door, and returned to his own room.
"Master, we've just received intelligence. Qian Renxue is currently in Heaven Dou City, posing as Xue Qinghe, the crown prince of the Heaven Dou Empire."
After Zhao Wuji left, a shadow appeared amid the flickering candlelight and spoke to Zhao Su.
"Xue Qinghe?"
"That's right. And according to reports from Dark Shadow operatives hidden within the Heaven Dou Empire's imperial palace, Qian Renxue will very likely make her move against Xue Ye soon!"
"Mm, understood." Then something occurred to Zhao Su. "Has Bibi Dong made any moves lately?"
"According to Dark Shadow's reports, Bibi Dong went to Slaughter City two years ago and has yet to return!"
As Shadow spoke, her shadowy form gradually solidified. Wearing that black robe once again, she continued, "Qian Daoliu also seems to have been making moves recently. They're very likely aimed at you, Master!"
"Oh? Aimed at me?"
"Qian Daoliu may already know about the identity you've been concealing at Shrek Academy."
"Azure Luan, the Second Worship of the Worship Hall, left Spirit Hall a month ago. We still haven't discovered where he went, so please be careful, Master."
"He's just a little bird, nothing to fear. Just keep an eye on Qian Daoliu."
"Yes. Understood!"
Shadow nodded. Her figure gradually turned insubstantial, finally becoming a shadow and vanishing completely.
After Shadow left, Zhao Su summoned the system interface.
He looked over the rewards he had received that day.
In particular, he examined the dual cultivation manual, the Primordial Unrestrained Art.
But when Zhao Su read the description of the Primordial Unrestrained Art, he could not help feeling a little disappointed.
This so-called dual cultivation art was not actually the cultivation between a man and a woman that Zhao Su had imagined.
Instead, it was divided into two sections.
One was the Nine Serenities Underworld Art, and the other was the Nine Heavens Yang Art. "Dual cultivation" actually referred to cultivating both yin and yang.
Still, Zhao Su's idea of dual cultivation was not entirely wrong.
If one person practiced both the Nine Serenities Underworld Art and the Nine Heavens Yang Art, they could still harmonize yin and yang and temper their body.
But if a man and a woman practiced the Nine Heavens Yang Art and the Nine Serenities Underworld Art respectively, the results would be even better.
Man was yang, and woman was yin. Only together could they truly embody the fundamental yin and yang of heaven and earth, achieving the most perfect form of yin-yang dual cultivation.
It accorded with the Great Dao of heaven and earth.
For now, however, Zhao Su had no one with whom he could achieve that perfect yin-yang dual cultivation. He could only practice both arts alone for the time being.
After fully comprehending both cultivation methods of the Primordial Unrestrained Art,
Zhao Su attached the rewarded Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring to his Twelve-Winged Holy Angel.
His level also rose to that of a level sixty-one Soul Emperor.
He also gained the sixth Soul Skill of his Twelve-Winged Holy Angel.
Zhao Su's detailed attributes were now as follows:
Host: Zhao Su. Martial Souls: Twelve-Winged Holy Angel, Emperor Seven Kill Sword. Soul Skills: Twelve-Winged Holy Angel: First Soul Skill: Heaven and Earth Manifestation, Second Soul Skill: Heaven-Destroying Palm, Third Soul Skill: Ninefold Sword Art, Fourth Soul Skill: Holy Angel True Body, Fifth Soul Skill: Immortal Tyrant Body, Sixth Soul Skill: Death Spear. Emperor Seven Kill Sword: First Soul Skill: Supreme Sword Intent, Second Soul Skill: Sword Name: Destruction, Third Soul Skill: Sword Name: Slaughter. Fourth Soul Skill: Sword Name: One Sword Across Worlds. Fifth Soul Skill: Emperor Seven Kill Sword True Body, Sixth Soul Skill: Sword Name: Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars. Devouring-Heaven Dragon Cat: Martial Soul Fusion Skill: Seven Transversal Absolutes. Level: Level sixty-one Battle Soul Master, power attack system. Spiritual power: 28,200 points, Spirit Domain Realm. Energy points: 136,800 points. Fortune points: 43 points. World-Guarding Divine Dragon: Nine-Winged Yinglong Remnant Bone ×1.
Looking at his 136,800 energy points, Zhao Su thought for a moment, then opened the System Shop and spent 100,000 energy points on the Right Arm Bone from the six-piece Holy Angel Set.
When Zhao Su held the Right Arm Soul Bone, which shimmered with flecks of black and gold light,
he could feel powerful fluctuations of soul power emanating from it.
Since arriving on the Douluo Continent, Zhao Su had never felt such powerful soul power fluctuations from anyone.
Even the soul power of Qian Daoliu, Spirit Hall's Great Enshrined and a level ninety-nine Peerless Douluo, fell far short of it.
And this was only a single soul bone.
Zhao Su could not help looking forward to seeing just how powerful the complete six-piece Holy Angel Set would be.
Boom!
The instant the Holy Angel Set's Right Arm Soul Bone fused with Zhao Su's right arm, a thunderous boom seemed to erupt inside his mind, followed by searing pain.
"Aah!"
The agonizing pain forced a cry from Zhao Su.
At the moment his mind seemed to explode, Zhao Su's spiritual power began surging madly, eventually condensing into tangible golden liquid.
Then his head and entire body became connected. The golden liquid flowed into his body, coursing through all his meridians before gathering in his right arm.
"This feels incredible!"
Zhao Su could not help murmuring. From the excruciating pain a moment ago to the comfort now flooding his entire body, it was as though he had soared straight from hell into heaven.
That sensation was even more blissful than going straight to heaven.
Zhao Su was completely immersed in that feeling of power, unaware that the rapid surge of his immense spiritual power had been sensed by every teacher in Shrek Academy.
Liu Erlong, the strongest among them, felt her heartbeat quicken as she sensed that terrifying spiritual power.
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