Chapter 26 - Research (1/2)
Back at the dining room, Qin Ming was happily chatting with Flender and Zhao Wuji, while Tianheng was serving Grandmaster and the other students were waiting for the Shrek's members to come so that they can start to order food.
”Principle Flender even among the Emperor Team, Xie Lingling is a true prodigy, she is only 16 this year but she has already reached the 39th rank and is not too far from the 40th rank. She's also my direct disciple but it is only a pity that her Spirit only give her the healing ability otherwise she wouldn't be any weaker than those members of the Spirit Hall either”
Xie Lingling came forward and said while bowing,
”Lingling greets Grand-Teacher Flender and Grand-Teacher Zhao”
Since she was the direct disciple of Qin Ming she had to show respect towards his teachers.
”That is truly a talent, we also have someone who is only 16 years old and is at the 39th rank”
When they heard that everyone from the Emperor Team including Qin Ming were shocked, but Qin Ming came to terms with it and asked,
”Is it the Control Spirit Master called, Thousand Hands Asura??”
Shaking his head Flender said,
”No, he's not 16 years old but instead its the Attack Spirit Master, Evil Eyed White Tiger, his name is Dai Mubai and he had recently turned 16”
When they heard that they were shocked, they knew that Dai Mubai was the oldest in the group and for him to be only 16 years old then what about the other members??
”Grand-Teacher Flender, what about Tang San, what is his age??”
”Tang San had just recently turned 13 years, he is one of the greatest Spirit Master's I've ever seen”
When they heard that Tang San was only 13 years old they were shocked without a doubt, what sort of a monster was he??
Soon they saw seven people enter the room, and on seeing them they didn't doubt that they were only 12 - 13 years old. The dinner was quite peaceful and Qin Ming complemented the Shrek Devil's for their fight and said that he would surely love to recruit them to Heaven DOu if they weren't of Shrek.
When Grandmaster refuted saying that they can still do so Flender was enraged, after arguing for a while he gave up and saw that there were more benefits for the student's than the disadvantages for Shrek.
After that Flender left the room with a depressed face after stating a few of his conditions. Fatty who saw that rushed after him, he was after all his direct disciple, soon Tang San and the others too followed him.
While they reached a balcony where Fatty was saying that he would borrow the chicken to lay eggs and that he would always be a part of Shrek everyone had a slight smile on their face.
”Dean Flender, no matter what we will always be Shrek's Seven Devils and Hongjin is right we're just borrowing the chicken to lay the egg there isn't anything wrong with it, hahaha”
Dai Mubai said with a wide grin on his face, seeing that the rest of them also had a wide grin on their face and said,
”We're the Shrek's Seven Devils!!”
After that they went back to the room to finish their meal, they saw that the Emperor Team was quietly eating their meal while Grandmaster and Tianheng were talking about something. They didn't mind that and sat and continued to eat their meal.
”Tang San, can I speak to you for a while?? Alone”
When they heard that they were all surprised with Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun and Oscar giving him thumbs up while all the girls having an angry expression on their face. Even the members of the Emperor team were shocked at that, they knew that though she was a pretty face she never showed any interest in men before and for her to ask a man to talk alone...
Tang San just stood up not minding the gazes of all the people in the room and said,
”Sure, I too wanted to talk to you about something”
…
When they entered another room, Xie Lingling asked,
”Did you feel any resonance in your Spirit before the match??”
Tang San simply nodded his head and said,
”I feel the resonance in my body, not my Spirit”
”I think the reason you felt a resonance must be because I have a special physique known as the Nine Hearts Body, ever heard of it??”
When she heard that she shook her head, though she knew a little bit of medicine, it was only due to finding ways to further improve her Spirit and see if there is any method to solve its problem. She was really intrigued by his physique of Nine Hearts Body as her Spirit was really rare and unique such that at any point of time only two can exist in the world and there have never been any records of having a Spirit which displayed any resonance to the Nine Heart's Flowering Apple in her clan.
”I've never heard about such a physique but from its name I can find how it is related to my Nine Heart's Flowering Apple but can you tell me the origin of your physique, is it hereditary or is there any method of others to acquire it??”
”I acquired this physique from a special herb known as the Nine Hearts Lotus, it is what you would call an immortal herb and are extremely rare”
”Can you tell me where you found it and how it looks like??”
”There isn't any point in doing so as this herb similar to your Spirit there can exist only one herb at any given point of time and it takes 99,000 years for the next one to bloom. As for its description, I can surely tell you about it”
He then proceeded to tell her about the Nine Heart's Flower and also told her the ingestion process, he knew that this information is priceless and would be even more to her and her clan as it is directly related to their Spirit.
”You know if you want, we can test out if there is any fusion or changes to the Spirit itself if we try for a Spirit Fusion”
She was slightly disappointed when she heard about the Herb and more so when she knows that she couldn't get it in this lifetime. But when she thought of Tang San's proposal she was slightly interested in it and took out her Spirit. A pink flower with a red tinge to it and Nine petals came out from her hand, this was the Nine Heart's Flowering Apple Spirit, seeing the Spirit this close he could surely feel the resonance to it.
Tang San wanted to delay his breakthrough until he reached the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well as absorbing the energies from there would give him a better foundation but he wasn't sad about breaking through now as the energy he got to stabilize his foundations from Xie Lingling's Spirit was almost comparable to what he would have received at the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.
Xie Lingling felt that the energy which was produced when he came in contact with her Spirit was full of vitality and was also strengthening her body even Tang San was shocked by this, though she didn't get the Nine Heart's Body she was still able to get a better one than most Spirit Masters. Her previous Nine Hearts Flowering Apple also had a slight change where the flower grew much bigger and had a seed released from it.
When Tang San saw that seed he was shocked he felt tremendous energy coming from the seed and he was sure that it was the seed of an immortal herb. Though he wasn't sure of which herb it belonged to he saw the seed floating between the two of them and two chains of energies were released from it towards the two of them and tied it to their pinky fingers and it became a red string.
When he saw that he was surprised as he knew this string from his first life where he heard stories about it, it was the Red String of Fate. He didn't know how to respond to this and when he tried to move away he saw that the thread became almost invisible but he could still feel it and the connection he had with Xie Lingling.
She too was confused by this thread and as she didn't know about the history behind it she thought that it was just some connection made by her Spirit between her and Tang San due to his Nine Heart's Body. But when she saw Tang San right now she felt her perspective about him slightly changing, at first she just thought of him being talented and having a great body and a good face but now she didn't know why but he felt slightly more handsome than before.
”It looks like this thread is like a connection between the two of us and I can tell you position due to it and also it shares the healing ability between the two of us”
Nodding his head he said,
”Yes, I too feel the same and I also feel that if you want to use your healing ability on me you don't have have to use it by your Spirit and can use it directly on me through the thread. As expected of the Red String of Marriage”
When she heard the term Marriage she was shocked and asked while stuttering,
”W-What d-do you mean by m-m-marriage??”
”Oh, nothing much this string is called as the Red String of Fate or also the Red String of Marriage. It is said that it would tie the hands of the couple who were destined for each other”
Just when he said that the seed produced a few other strings from Lingling's side and shot across different directions. Even Tang San who saw that was shocked, he didn't expect this to happen from just touching her Spirit.
Despite having the Red God's Eye he was unable to see how many strings were there. He also couldn't feel any connections including the one with Lingling. For some reason, he instinctively knew that they would only appear after marriage or something of equal significance which was having s_e_x with the opposite party. He really didn't know whether he should laugh or cry after this.
Xie Lingling who was still in shock due to the marriage was also surprised at this and asked,
”Since there are other strings does that mean you will have other wives apart from me??”
Tang San just nodded instinctively but that only earned a glare from her and then she just walked out of the room and Tang San just followed back. When they went back to the dinning room the awkward atmosphere between Tang San and Xie Lingling was noticed by everyone but no one dared to bring it up expect Hongjun who was a complete idiot,
”Brother San, what happened between the two of you?? Did you propose to her or something??”
*Crush*
Just then the sound of glass breaking was heard and when the turned towards the noise they saw Xie Lingling looking at Hongjun as if he had murdered her entire clan. Fatty who saw that was scared shitless, though she was only a support type master he didn't know why but he felt that if he continued the topic it wasn't good for his health.
Now that she was willingly going towards a man they couldn't hide their surprise. Tang San who knew the actual reason why she had come didn't mind the gazes from others and silently got up and went to the other room with her. Xie Lingling who saw that didn't know what to say about this man who was supposedly tied to her by fate and was her future husband.
…
In the other room,
Dugu Yan and Tang San who entered didn't speak to each other for a while, she was a young woman who had just turned 17 this year and her talent was only slightly behind Lingling's as she was only a step away from the Spirit Ancestor stage and was sure to breakthrough by this month or so.
But for her to admit that Tang San who was nearly 3 years younger than she was had found an antidote to her poison which even she was unable to do would mean going against her pride. But she also knew about the problem with her Spirit so she was willing to let go of her pride and this was the reason she had called him to a separate room to talk about it.
”How were you able to find a cure for my poison??”
”Why should I tell you and if I do what will you give me as compensation??”
”You!!”
”I was willing to tell it to you for free but they way you behaved in the arena by trying to kill my friends and now where you just tried to force me to give you the antidote and the way you were acting so high and mighty, all these things made me change my mind to not give it to you.
I think we are done here so I will be taking my leave if you want the antidote, I will give it to you if you act with less arrogance”
After that, he just left the room and went back to their inn as he wanted to avoid the awkward atmosphere in the dining hall later on.
…
With the Shrek's Seven Devils all having gotten a Silver rank in the Colosseum and a gold rank as a team they didn't have anything more to do in there so they went back to the academy. Qin Ming had left along with the Emperor team as he still had to talk with the upper management of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy about them but with the talent of the Shrek's Seven Devils, it would be a sure thing for them to accept the proposal.
While they came back to the academy they had a vacation period of two months after which they would start their journey towards the Imperial Capital. Tang San didn't want to waste this time so he was going to practice his side occupations and improve his Blacksmithing and Designing to the 8-star rank.
He also decided to use all his money on his Spirit ring boosts as he knew that he would soon fight against Dugu Bo and didn't want to take any risks. He had spent a total of 1,040,000 gold coins to upgrade everything to at least the 100,000-year level.
His Blue Silver Grass's first Spirit ring which was in the 1,000-year rang needed 990,000 gold coins and his Man faced Demon spider ring which was 97,000-year-old needed 30,000 gold coins and his Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion Skull Bone which were 99,000-year-old needed a total of 20,000 gold coins for them to reach the 100,000-year level.
He had nearly 3,000,000 gold coins mainly due to his bets in the previous fights so this much amount was not much to him for a 100,000-year boost.
After he purchased all the boosts he went into the Magical Space and absorbed them all, all the ring were boosted to the 100,000-year level except his Three-Eyed Golden Lion and the Spirit bone.
That he took out two boosts one for the bone and the other for the ring, he knew that it would be much safer to upgrade them both at once since there is a synchronization between the two of them as they came from the same beast.