A Generous Reward
After Xuan Zi captured Feng Ling, he joined forces with Zhang Lexuan and the Shrek members, who had received amplification, to launch an attack on the remaining Evil Soul Master.
Finally, in less than an hour, they completely wiped out all the Evil Soul Master!
Soon, all the Evil Soul Master except Feng Ling had paid for their deeds with their lives.
After that, Xuan Zi and Zhang Lexuan headed towards the spot where the blood-red light had appeared, wanting to see who had freed them from their predicament.
There, they only saw Xu Xingyu had already lost consciousness, lying in Ma Xiaotao's arms.
They learned the whole story from Ma Xiaotao. Although they wanted to reprimand Xiaotao for disobeying orders and bringing an Outer Court student with her, they considered that if it weren't for their efforts, they would probably have perished here, or at least very few students would have survived.
The two then inquired about why Xu Xingyu had fainted, and Ma Xiaotao gave this explanation.
After successfully communicating with the strange stone tablet, Xu Xingyu managed to get it to provide the students with certain healing and enhancements.
After the battle ended, the stone tablet merged directly with Xu Xingyu, Xu Xingyu remained unconscious for nine to one day.
The two didn't doubt Ma Xiaotao's words, after all, they had indeed received amplification and healing from that blood-red light during the battle.
Xuan Zi also successfully awakened his Taotie bloodline for some unknown reason. Although Xuan Zi's Martial Soul reverted to the Godly Taotie Bull after the blood light faded, the ox attribute in his Martial Soul had been greatly reduced.
Xuan Zi is now confident that as long as he further comprehends the Taotie bloodline within his body, he will have a way to elevate his Martial Soul into a true Taotie Martial Soul.
It was at this Xu Xingyu woke up from Ma Xiaotao's arms. Just as he merged with the Myriad Beasts Blood Stele, he also recalled many memories of his first life as the Starry Dragon Emperor.
However, aside from some matters related to daily life and cultivation, most of them only had some special methods for using the Myriad Beasts Blood Stele, and none of their memories of the Dragon God War had been awakened.
This left Xu Xingyu slightly disappointed. She could only pray that she could recover more memories next time, so that she could learn the hidden truths of the Dragon God War.
When Xuan Zi and Zhang Lexuan saw this, they assumed that the other party had been injured while using the stone tablet, so they quickly asked where he was injured. They also thanked Xu Xingyu, because without his help, Shrek would have lost many students!
Xu Xingyu said that he was fine, but his Spiritual Power was a bit depleted. Afterwards, he and Ma Xiaotao were arranged by Xuan Zi to return to the main group they had been with.
Throughout the entire process, neither Xuan Zi nor Zhang Lexuan were tactful enough to bring up the topic of Xu Xingyu handing over the stone tablet. Although Shrek was protective of its own, it still had a certain degree of reason.
The other party could be considered a benefactor of the Shrek Academy, and the subjugation of the stone tablet was purely due to the other party's personal ability, so it was not unreasonable to regard the stone tablet as the other party's spoils of war.
Indeed, Xuan Zi had some ulterior motives regarding that stone tablet, as it was a shortcut to transform his Godly Taotie Bull Martial Soul into a true Taotie Martial Soul. However, he wouldn't stoop to fighting with a mere child for something (definitely not because the other party's backing was stronger than Shrek's ).
Moreover, even without the help of any stone tablet Xuan Zi was confident that he could completely remove the impurities from his bloodline and transform it into pure Taotie bloodline based on this experience.
It might take decades to achieve, but for a Super Douluo, spending decades on a path that could potentially lead to becoming Limit Douluo is well worth it.
After handling everything and reporting back to the Star Luo Empire, the group returned to the Shrek Academy's Sea God Island to announce the outcome of the incident.
Following this incident, possibly to replenish the lost Inner Court students, all Outer Court students who participated in the Spirit Star Village operation were recruited into the Inner Court.
Xu Xingyu, who made the greatest contribution to breaking the deadlock, was rewarded with a month of cultivation at the roots of the Golden Ancient Tree and the right to freely browse the Sea God Pavilion Library for a month.
Overall, the reward is quite good. The Sea God Pavilion Library contains a large number of Shrek experts' own notes, which are of great help in cultivation.
As for the so-called reward of cultivating at the roots of the Golden Ancient Tree for a month, in the past only the Sea God Pavilion Elder or the reserved members of the Sea God Pavilion could cultivate here.
The purity of the energy possessed by the Golden Ancient Tree, as the Child of Nature in the Douluo Continent, cannot be compared to that of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and the Lake of Life combined.
The roots of the Golden Ancient Tree are where the Golden Ancient Tree's energy gathers the most. Cultivating there can not only increase cultivation speed by at least four or five times, but also enhance one's personal understanding!
However, whenever someone cultivates under the Golden Ancient Tree, they try to suppress their desires and not absorb too much of the surrounding energy, which prevents their cultivation from progressing at an unbelievable speed.
This is because every bit of energy from the Golden Ancient Tree is extremely precious; it might take more than a decade to replenish the same amount of energy if even a single bit is consumed.
After all, the Golden Ancient Tree is just a plant that has not yet Spirit Gathering. Although the purity and quantity of its energy are enough to give it the potential of Limit Douluo, it has not yet become a Plant-type Soul Beast.
If it successfully condenses its own intelligence, it can autonomously absorb surrounding energy to replenish itself, while also limiting the energy it emits to conserve its own energy.
However, it remains uncertain whether the Golden Ancient Tree will still be willing to protect Shrek Academy and allow the Sea God Pavilion members to reside within its body.
Some Shrek Academy teachers speculate that the difficulty in condensing spiritual intelligence may be due to the excessive energy contained within, while others say it is a phenomenon caused by the suppression of the dimensional plane.
However, the reason why the Golden Ancient Tree failed to develop true sentience over these ten thousand years was mainly because it dared not develop its own sentience.
It was once the designated heir to the Life Core and possessed its own intelligence. However, ten thousand years ago, Tang San, relying on his God Level strength, forced it to hand over the Life Core to his mother and make it serve as a bodyguard for the Shrek Academy.
It was at that moment that Shrek deliberately erased the Golden Ancient Tree's intelligence to prevent it from causing trouble after he ascended to the Divine Realm, leaving only its plant-like instincts.
Because of this experience, the Golden Ancient Tree instinctively hesitated to regain its own sentience until the Douluo God Realm was swept away by the spacetime turbulence.
However, by then, Ah Yin and Tang Hao had already become powerful and had completely controlled all the power over Douluo Star except for the ocean. Therefore, even if Ah Yin Spirit Gathering, she could still only be forced to be a dog of the Tang family.