Tang San being so astute, he immediately inferred the reason his father had never appeared next to him. That was because he was afraid to influence his cultivation.
Indeed, everything his Teacher had instructed him in, he could already to do the best degree. Even his father as a Title Douluo, even that Supreme Pontiff, might not compare to Grandmaster in teaching.
“Turn around, your back to me.”
Tang Hao said to Tang San.
Tang San hurriedly did as asked.
The instant he had turned, a pair of powerful large hands were placed on his shoulders. The next moment, Tang San only felt two warm streams pour into his body from those rough big hands.
With two slamming sounds, Tang Hao’s hands rose and fell, striking Tang San’s back. Immediately afterwards, his hands swiftly moved across Tang San’s back like living creatures, and besides his head, he practically didn’t let any part of Tang San’s body escape.
Where Tang Hao’s hands moved, Tang San only felt a warm surge enter his body. The fatigue from these days of quick marching was immediately obliterated.
Where that warmth passed, it was half scalding, unspeakably comfortable. Tang San’s body gradually began to emit heat, and sweat that very rarely flowed since he ate the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Precious Apricot covered his forehead.
Tang San didn’t know how much time passed, he only felt himself gradually growing drowsy, his whole body like it was being smelted in a furnace. He was completely relaxed from his father’s strikes. In this world, there were a few people Tang San wouldn’t be on his guard against, and Tang Hao was certainly at the top of the list. He was currently Tang San’s only blood kin.
Suddenly, coolness flowed from the top of his head, just like being anointed with purest cream, it immediately roused Tang San from his drowsiness.
The coolness still didn’t change, the sound of the waterfall hitting the pool once again became clear. Tang San lowered his head to look at himself, and discovered his clothes were long since soaked through.
Tang Hao stood next to him. There seemed to be a fraction of exhaustion in the corners of his eyes, but his back was still perfectly straight. This might be the only part of Tang Hao that didn’t look old.
“Your body is better than I imagined. But it’s hard to avoid internal damage in these days of competition. Remember, being injured isn’t bad, but you absolutely have to recover properly afterwards. Otherwise, the internal damage left behind will cause no end of trouble. I’ve helped you heal all your internal damage now. Your muscles and bones are a lot stronger than that of ordinary people, it should be related to the herbs you ate at Dugu Bo’s place. This is exceptionally good. It can save a great deal of trouble.”
Tang San caught a rare trace of satisfaction on Tang Hao’s face. Of course his body was a lot better than that of ordinary people, being forged in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and sharpened by the two great immortal herbs.
If not for this, Tang San didn’t know how many times he would have died. It would also have been impossible to resist Xie Yue’s spirit fusion ability Full Moon ability that day.
“Little San, do you know what your greatest problem is right now?”
Tang Hao asked.
Tang San’s heart twitched. Was this his father’s consideration for him? Pondering, he said:
“It’s burst strength in battle. My spirit relies mainly on control, but lacks burst power. When encountering opponents like Xie Yue, dealing with them is comparatively difficult.”
Tang Hao nodded, saying:
“You’re right. In terms of control, Grandmaster’s instruction for you was absolutely flawless. Your control strength is already fairly outstanding, even if there are flaws, those are the flaws of the Blue Silver Grass. But there’s no need to worry, after you’ve obtained your sixth spirit ring, there will be a change in the fundamental nature of these circumstances.”
“Ah?”
Tang San looked shocked at his father. To be honest, even Grandmaster didn’t know how the Blue Silver Grass’ sixth spirit ring would change anything. Tang San didn’t dare believe that his father would actually know.
Could it be that there was still someone in this world who had cultivated Blue Silver Grass to the level of the sixth spirit ring?
From when his father talked about lore regarding hundred thousand year spirit beasts, until the possible routes of Blue Silver Grass now, to Tang San, it made his father seem even more mysterious.
Tang Hao calmly said:
“No need to ask me why. You will understand naturally later. My special training for you starts now. First take that spirit bone you got from Spirit Hall into your body. It’s quite useful to you.”
After the end of the tournament that day, Tang San had held on to the mind condensing wisdom skull bone without immediately fusing with it. How could he have fused it in front of Supreme Pontiff Palace! Therefore he had directly stored the wisdom skull bone in his Twenty Four Moonlit Bridges.
Now reminded by his father, he then took it out once again.
Faint blue light pervaded the air with intoxicating energy fluctuations. Looking at the skull bone in front of him, Tang San couldn’t keep his heart from flickering.
Spirit bone, would he finally obtain the first of the six spirit bones he could hold?
Part 2 (TL by Bagelson)
Tang Hao calmly said:
“The quality of this spirit bone is pretty good. Spirit Hall really doesn’t talk nonsense, it came from a spirit beast with at least fifty thousand years of cultivation. If not for Bibi Dong not needing, they wouldn’t have taken it out as a reward. This spirit bone should be prepared for that female Spirit Master of Spirit Hall’s three young Spirit Masters. Among those three, she’s the most outstanding.”
“You’re talking about Hu Liena? But isn’t Xie Yue the leader of the Golden Generation?”
Tang San somewhat shocked looked at his father. Xie Yue’s created spirit ability, Full Moon, gave him a too profound impression. That was a pain carved into his bones and engraved in his heart. Even breaking the Eight Spider Lances had barely blocked it.
Tang Hao smiled coldly,
“Of course not. What does Xie Yue’s created spirit ability count for? You don’t even need more strength, if your Clear Sky Hammer had reached the fortieth rank, it would take just one swing to to easily break it. That Hu Liena is the one you should watch out for. Her charm ability is extremely powerful. It might seem that the controller of the spirit fusion ability is Xue Yue, but in fact, the entire spirit fusion ability effect relies mainly on her. If they hadn’t used the spirit fusion ability, and her spirit abilities had come into play, it would have brought you a great deal of trouble. I don’t know how refined your eye skill is, but right now you can counter her perfectly. It’s also because of this that you don’t see how truly terrifying she is. Among the Shrek Seven Devils, if you weren’t there to counter her, she alone could send the rest of you packing. Bibi Dong is fostering her to be the next Supreme Pontiff.”
In Tang San’s previous life, he had never come into contact with anything from the outside world. He had wholeheartedly thrown himself into hidden weapons research, and so gained enormous accomplishments in the field of hidden weapons.
But it had also left him like a blank paper in terms of knowledge of the outside world.
In this life, he had only just lived for fourteen years. How could his experience in society compare to Tang Hao? Now being reminded by Tang Hao, he suddenly had a feeling of a wide panorama opening up, and he nodded repeatedly.
“Begin. Fuse with it first. With its help, your later cultivation will be twice the result for half the work. Your own intelligence surpasses your peers, adding everything Grandmaster has developed, as well as your eye skill, all of these can be boosted by this skull bone. In the absorption process, sense its energy with your whole heart. Don’t allow any distracting thoughts. I’ll protect you.”
With Clear Sky
Douluo’s protection, was there anything in the outside world that could be of concern?
Tang San directly sat on the big rock he stood on. Both hands clasping that skull bone flickering with blue light, he slowly closed his eyes.
Somewhat shocking to Tang Hao was that Tang San’s body unexpectedly gave rise to a spiritual[1] fluctuation.
Even though the spiritual fluctuation wasn’t strong, it was extremely distinct. In fact, Tang Hao himself could only cause such a clear spiritual fluctuation after he was twenty five.
And at that time, he was already regarded as the number one genius of the Clear Sky School. The Clear Sky School was also the number one sect under Heaven. But this son in front of him, had achieved it ten years earlier than he did.
Without Tang San’s attentive gaze, Tang Hao no longer hid his inner world. The lines of his face became a lot gentler, and he even had a slight smile as he watched that raging waterfall like before.
Along with that spiritual fluctuation pouring into the wisdom skull bone, the blue light of the skull bone suddenly grew intense. In practically an instant it had enveloped Tang San’s body, distributing blue sprouts of radiance.
The reason why spirit bones were even more precious than spirit rings was that, besides being more difficult to obtain, the more important reason was that there were no spirit power restrictions on absorbing spirit bones. In other words, if you were lucky enough to obtain it when you only had one rank of spirit power, you could still absorb even a hundred thousand year level spirit bone.
Therefore, even though Tang San was now absorbing the spirit bone from a more than fifty thousand year spirit beast, there still wouldn’t be any danger. It would even be a lot safer than when he originally absorbed the Man Faced Demon Spider’s spirit ring.
Within that blue light, the first thing Tang San felt was an ice cold spirit power fluctuation pouring into his brain. That was a kind of energy fluctuation that made him feel comfortable and snug.
A cool aura drilled straight into the space between his eyebrows, gradually stimulating his brain. Where it passed, it was as if his brain began to open up.
That bizarre piercing made Tang San feel more comfortable than he ever had.
This moment, he discovered that a lot of things he had never clearly understood before were wide open and connected.
Even more astonishing to Tang San, under the effect of those cool streams, his whole brain seemed to be stripped away from his body. That spiritual power of his had come into existence after he took that Penetrating Gaze Begonia. But this spiritual power wasn’t something Tang San would use.
Right now, under the influence of this cold stream, not only did that originally intangible spiritual force grow with astonishing speed, but furthermore the relationship between Tang San and it became inseparably close. He could easily direct it with just a thought.
Truly worthy of being called a mind condensing wisdom skull bone. The unprecedented spiritual force condensation made Tang San’s brain seem to open up. Without using his eyes to see, he could already clearly sense everything in the world around him.
Where the spiritual force passed, within a hundred meter range, there was nothing that could hide. He even saw that gentle expression on his father’s face. And the range the spiritual force could scan increased with astonishing speed.
Suddenly sensing his son’s spiritual force abruptly expanding, and moreover sweeping in all directions, Tang hao’s facial expression immediately tightened, coldly shouting:
“Condense your mind, don’t release it externally. Avoid losing control.”
Tang Hao’s voice wasn’t loud, but it brought a tyrannical spiritual shock. The spiritual force Tang San released was unexpectedly forcefully returned to his body.
Hearing his father’s voice, Tang San’s heart immediately shivered. Hastily restraining the spiritual force, he condensed it within his mind.
The split second before he withdrew the spiritual force, he vaguely sensed something seem to echo it from behind the waterfall.
Before Tang San had time to carefully reflect on it, that ice cold stream abruptly became a lot more powerful. In practically an instant it drowned his spiritual world.
Tang San uncontrollably suddenly opened his eyes. That pale blue spirit bone had at some point already grown to the same size as his head. The moment Tang San opened his eyes, in the eye sockets of that pale blue skull bone, two blue flames suddenly ignited.
In practically a split second, those two balls of flame shot out, straight into Tang San’s eyes.
A fierce stabbing pain came from his eyes. Tang San couldn’t see it, but right now the pupils of his eyes had become completely blue, and immediately afterward they turned purple. The blue and purple colors replaced each other to glitter alternately nine times, and finally settled into a crystal clear deep blue.
The enlarged wisdom skull bone grew once again, enveloping Tang San’s head like a great helmet, then slowly contracted again.
As it approached Tang San’s head, the entire skull bone had already become illusory, and quietly merged into Tang San’s head.
Right now, Tang San was submerged in a clear cold ocean, no longer feeling anything in his surroundings, as if his body and soul were stripped apart, to the extent that he couldn’t even feel the stabbing pain in his eyes any more.
Blue light spiralled overhead, continuing for a full three days. To Tang San, these three days passed in only the blink of an eye.
And Tang Hao stood calmly at his side the whole time for three days. Besides keeping his senses on his son, his gaze was always focused on the waterfall on the other side of the pool, day as night.
Opening his eyes, Tang San’s first sensation was that everything around him had changed.
All colors had become a level more vibrant, and he could even see each and every minute speck of energy floating in the air, everything around him seemed to be formed from all kinds of grains. Tang San was shocked to discover that his Purple Demon Eye seemed to have advanced to the peak of the third, Mustard Seed, level.
The distance to breaking through to the final stage, Boundless, was only a single step.
With the cool eye of a bystander, Tang Hao clearly saw how that deep blue light at the corners of his son’s eyes abruptly grew stronger after he opened his eyes. Along with his attentive gaze, suddenly, two rays of deep blue light shot out of Tang San’s eyes.
It no longer had the previous purple gold light of the Purple Demon Eye, however, those two deep blue rays of light didn’t only shoot out a chi or so like before, but rather continued perfectly straight, stretching across several dozen meters, directly entering the surface of the pool.
Tang Hao saw it, but Tang San felt it. He suddenly discovered that his eyes directly saw everything below the water surface, he could even instantly count the number of scales on the fish swimming around.
His mind was unprecedentedly incisive. Tang San raised his head, his gaze moving to the side. In that instant, the deep blue light in his eyes abruptly grew richer. The light from his eyes fell on an enormous boulder at his side, and a loud explosion resounded.
That boulder was unexpectedly turned into fine powder in an instant by the blue light in his eyes.
Watching this scene, even Tang Hao couldn’t help his pupils contracting violently.
This was the ability the spirit bone contained.
The ability that would arise after a spirit bone affected a Spirit Master would admittedly be related to the capabilities of the spirit beast the spirit bone came from, but at the same time it would also be related to the Spirit Master’s own capabilities.
Tang San’s Purple Demon Eye was undoubtedly exceptionally formidable, and this mind condensing spirit skull bone’s ability automatically affected it.
Part 3 (TL by Bagelson)
The meeting of two powers immediately made this ability even more unprecedentedly terrifying.
Tang San’s later description of this ability was: Seeing
through all living things in the world, extinguishing all injustice. Its name: Purple God Light[2].
Issuing a Purple God Light, Tang San’s first action wasn’t to be excited, but rather to calculate just how big the destructive power of this Purple God Light actually was. This was something he wouldn’t have noticed before, but right now his brain promptly calculated it automatically, everything happening so naturally and casually.
The thought of calculating it had only just flashed through his mind, when Tang San immediately had an assessment based on the situation of the boulder’s destruction and the marks left on the ground. He judged that the Purple God Light shooting from his eyes was a kind of point piercing attack. As a result of its attack power being focused, the resulting singular destructive force was especially frightening. Moreover, he discovered that the strength of the Purple God Light was related to his spiritual force output.
When he watched the pool just now, he hadn’t launched the attack effect, and his spiritual force consumption was exceptionally slow. But the instant he shifted the light in his eyes to attack that boulder, his spiritual force had immediately seemed to gush out. But his spirit power consumption was on the contrary very small. In other words, this ability should rely mainly on spiritual force output, the larger the spiritual force output, the more powerful the effect of its attack.
While understanding this, Tang San noticed that compared to before, his spiritual force was more than a hundred times greater. The originally intangible and formless spiritual power had now condensed into a river within his mind, flickering faintly silvery as it flowed. Where it passed, it illuminated everything within his mind, allowing Tang San to see even more.
Since Purple God Light’s attack power was related to his spiritual force, then it seemed he should start to cultivate his spiritual force.
Grandmaster previously taught Tang San the method to cultivate spiritual force, only at that time Tang San had mainly relied on Mysterious Heaven Skill’s cultivation. It seemed to him that spiritual force was just something illusory, and not necessarily particularly useful. But now he suddenly realized that the function of spiritual force was in no way small, and in some sense, even no smaller than that of his spirit power.
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