Chapter 27 - Heaven Dou Academy (1/2)

After packing up all their stuff the Shrek Teachers along with the students departed from Suo Tuo City, while leaving Flender and the rest of the teachers were a little emotional about it but no one blamed them as this was the place where they had spent the past 15 - 20 years of their lives training quite a few geniuses along the way.

After leaving the city they had traveled for an entire two days and with Oscar's sausage the Seven Devils were able to have a lot of spirit power to spare and only Tang San who had the Nine Hearts Body along with the Divine Buddha Meridians had hardly used them. The teachers also had a food master with a peas spirit in the Spirit Saint rank to supplement for their spirit power but they had occasionally taken a few breaks along the way.

Only after two days had they reached Silver City where Flender had spent a lot on the Devils for them to recover to their peak state and then they went to the Spirit Colosseum. While they went there Grandmaster and Flender were seem to argue about something and after a while, they seemed to have reached a compromise on the matter.

Grandmaster then called the Shrek's Devils to the side and told them that they were allowed to use their hidden weapons this match and they should start the match with them. Tang San who understood what grandmaster wanted to do just stayed quiet.

The team they were going to face this time was the Fiend Team, though they were only a silver team they were of the Soul Ancestor rank and the Shrek's Seven Devils have only faced a few 42nd to 45th ranked Soul Ancestor teams while the Fiend Team had a minimum of 45th ranked Spirit Ancestors.

In the arena, the Shrek's Seven Devils had taken their position in a unique way such that there was one of the Fiend Team members opposite to ever Devil.

They had taken their Godly Zhuge Crossbows and aimed right at the opposite member. Just when the match began they pulled the trigger, with several high-speed arrows flying towards each member of the Fiend Team they had all met their deaths.

The entire arena was in a state of silence, no one had spoken except the announcer who had confirmed Shrek Teams victory. After that, they left the arena and no one spoke. Tang San also didn't say anything to comfort them as this was a truly important lesson for the team, no matter how much he improved their powers killing someone was not something that was uncommon in this world and the sooner they learned this the better.

After leaving Silver City they went straight towards Heaven Dou Capital, but while they had reached the capital instead of entering they went towards the outskirts of the city as that was where the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy was located.

Since Flender and Grandmaster didn't know the directions to the academy they had to rely on Rongrong who had known about it as some of her Clan members were studying in this academy. After the killing experience at Silver City Rongrong and the rest of the girls had a slightly solemn mood and were a little clingy towards Tang San.

But he still kept a serious mood and didn't let them develop any dependence towards him, Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu were the first ones to recover among the girls and only after having a 'talk' with Rongrong did she recover from it.

Among the guys seeing Tang San accept killing had slightly gotten on their pride so they too had recovered from it surprisingly quickly. So by the time they reached the academy they were all fine and were in their high spirits.

Right near the entrance, they met a few overly dressed Nobles led by a orange haired kid with a fan in his hand they were commenting about how they were poorly dressed and were calling the guards to throw them out of the campus saying that they were from some poor and worthless academy who had come for exchange.

Dai Mubai who couldn't bear the insult towards Shrek had gone ahead and punched a few of those nobles especially the arrogant looking one and while they were running away they were threatening him that he Xue Beng will take his revenge and kick them out of the academy.

”Greetings Dean Flender, I've spoken to the school committee and they have agreed to let the teachers join the academy but were slightly doubtful about the students themselves as they couldn't believe their talents were so high. I've arranged for a meeting with the directors so please accompany me to meet them”

Flender who saw this was proud of his disciple as he had such a great standing in the academy such that he was even respected by the directors of this place. They all followed him into the building and saw three old men wearing white robes with golden threading, this signified that all three of them were of the Spirit Douluo realm.

To Tang San, this was the highest level they had ever encountered and they could feel the imposing aura from these three directors of the academy. Flender and the rest of the teachers had their introductions as a sign of respect to the elders since they had shown such good hospitality to them, after that the three directors also gave their introductions.

”Esteemed directors as Qin Ming had already informed you all we are here to join the academy students and teacher included and we hope that you accept us”

Flender said while giving a slight bow towards them, he and the rest of the teachers had decided that they would close Shrek Academy and retire at this place before itself so showing some courtesy to the directors would at least leave them a slightly good impression.

”Dean Flender, it should be us who should be thanking you for joining our academy and please feel relieved that none of you will be restricted in any manner and are free to do as you please and train your students however you like. I am actually interested in your students especially this control type Spirit Master who Qin Ming had told us about. Grandmaster's disciple I presume he was”

Grandmaster just said,

”Tang San”

Tang San just went in front of the directors and said with a bow while clasping his hands,

”Tang San, Spirit Blue Silver Grass, and Ice Eye control support Spirit Master 40th ranked Soul Ancestor, 13 years old”

When they heard that the directors along with Qin Ming and Xie Lingling were all shocked as they hadn't known about Tang San having Twin Spirits.

Then one of the directors who had a devil vine as his spirit released some of his spirit power onto Tang San reaching a pressure about 40th rank. They were surprised to find that he was able to bear it without any pain or spirit power at all and only with his physical body.

He then increased the pressure and it slowly climbed to about the 46th rank before he had to use spirit power to sustain himself, as he still hadn't used his Spirit yet they continued to increase the pressure and it slowly reached the 54th rank and when it reached the 55th rank he had released his Blue Silver Grass and it formes a type of cocoon with slight gaps and was moving back and forth helping him resist the pressure.

Seeing that they increased the pressure and when it reached the 60th rank he was unable to bear it and released his Twelve Spider Lances along with that he had a deep sense of relief and they let out a golden vapor this was being slowly inhaled and exhaled by his body and with each inhale and exhale the mist had gotten thicker and thicker and when the three Directors saw this they were shocked and one of them said out in a shout,

”S-Spirit Bone!!”

They had truly been shocked by this as they didn't expect him to have a spirit bone along with his Twin Spirits. The Twin Spirit was enough for them to gladly welcome all of Shrek as it was a heaven blessed gift. But this spirit bone had made them want to keep Tang San here no matter the cost but when they heard grandmaster next words they were scared shitless.

”Thank you, directors, for helping Tang San absorb his External Spirit Bone”

An external spirit bone, when they heard this term they just went towards Tang San and inspected his Twelve Spider Lances and when they confirmed that it was truly an external spirit bone they looked at Flender and said,

”Dean Flender the term of monster truly suits Shrek academy, and don't worry we won't reveal the matter of Tang San having an external spirit bone or Twin Spirits to anyone”

”The credit for Tang San all goes to Grandmaster as he is his direct disciple and as for the matter about keeping his matters a secret I truly thank you for it”

Just then Tang San had let out a groan and the Golden mist was much denser and was as if it was congealed, he then inhaled this mist completely and saw that everyone was looking at him. He just retracted his Twelve Spider Lances and went back and stood with Grandmaster and the rest.

He knew that apart from the Twelve common meridians and the Eight Extraordinary meridians a person also had 3 Hidden Meridians which was almost impossible to detect and can only be opened by luck, but these meridians had to all be opened for him to enter the ninth stage of the Forbidden Heaven Technique unlike only the Eight Extraordinary Meridians for reaching the Eight stage of the Mysterious Heaven Technique.

But these meridians had to only be opened following a particular cultivation technique which was at least at the level of the Mysterious Heaven Technique otherwise it would only give one, more problems than benefits. But for him after opening the first hidden meridian he his Spiritual Power (WN: It's different from Spirit Power or Qi as its more of a mental power) had greatly improved in quality.

While the Eight Extraordinary Meridians dealt with the Qi, the Three Hidden Meridians dealt with his Mind Sea and Spiritual Power. This effectively boosted his Samsara Eye's abilities and in the future, he would not encounter a soul shock for any 10,000 years or 90,000-year beast meaning he could now absorb any ring below the 100,000-year level.

While he was in a happy mood they heard a sound from the entrance,

”Is director Meng here??”

They all heard two sounds of steps and when they turned to see who it was they were shocked to see three people from the entrance, the third person was wearing a cloak and had his face hidden but he gave a deep and dangerous feeling.

One of the directors gave a salute while saying,

”Lord Prince what are you doing here??”

”You see I heard from my nephew here that these people attacked him at the entrance of the academy and had injured him. I want to know how are they qualified to join the academy if they have no respect for royalty??”

When the students of Shrek heard that they were slightly angry and wanted to fight but on seeing Flender was still calm they didn't say anything and let him deal with it. Then the prince looked at Flender and the rest of the teachers and said,

”Lord Dugu, please help us remove these people from the academy”

The person wearing the black cloak then came forward while he released his spirit and Two Yellow, Two Purple and Five Black Rings were floating in the air. Seeing that they were all shocked, it was a Titled Douluo Tang San and the rest felt a sense of danger from this person.

The Black cloaked person removed his hood and they all saw that he was a middle-aged man with a handsome face and green hair he then spoke,

”Get out or I will kill you”

Seeing that the three directors came forward and said,

”Lord Dugu please show some mercy, they're just children and they haven't done anything wrong”

They had prepared their spirits for the worst case scenario where they had to fight him. But despite that, they were still not sure if they could deal with this person as he was one the most infamous Poison Douluo who was feared throughout the continent and even Titled Douluo didn't want to face him due to his poison.

”Titled Douluo with the name Dugu and using Poison, are you the Poisoned Douluo Dugu Yan with the Jade Poison Serpent spirit??”

”Oh, it looks like people still know this old man's name, yes it is true that I am the Poison Douluo now scram from here”

Nodding his head he turned towards Flender and the rest and said,

”Let's leave, we are not welcomed here so it's better to not waste our time”

Flender who was angry shouted at grandmaster,

”Xiaogang how can we leave after such humiliation?? So what if he's a titled douluo, we can still fight”

Grandmaster also shouted back

”If you want to die then die, but do you also want to implicate these students with such bright futures into this fight??”

With that reasoning Flender just kept quiet, he knew that even if he fought with this person he could not win and could only satisfy his pride but doing so he would implicate Tang San and the others too and he didn't want them to die due to his stupid mistake so he just shut up and left while looking towards the three directors of the academy and thanked them for standing up for him and the others and he would surely remember their gratitude.

Qin Ming who saw that resigned and left with them, Xie Lingling who was Qin Ming's direct disciple also wanted to leave with them as she deeply respected her teacher and seeing him humiliated she too couldn't stay here so she went to the principle and said,

”Principle Meng, Sir Qin Ming is my teacher and being his student I have chosen to follow him, as for my family I will explain it to them personally after this matter settles down and they have already given me the freedom to do what I want with my life so I hardly doubt that they would disagree so please accept my transfer from the academy”

Saying so she didn't bother for a reply and left, seeing Qin Ming and Xie Lingling leaving Prince Xing shocked and a little tensed as he knew that with Qin Ming's talent in the future he would soon be a titled douluo and his disciple is also one of the members of the Emperor team which was going to participate in the upcoming year's Annual Spirit Master Tournament as a support category Spirit Master.

He didn't care about those from Shrek as he didn't know of their talents but these two were really important for the Imperial Academy and them leaving at this time was a crucial blow to them.

…

Flender and the rest who left the Heaven Dou Imperial academy had a depressed mood amongst them. After that Dai Mubai proposed of restarting Shrek academy and competing with Heaven Dou Imperial Academy but this was soon rejected when Tang San told him the reality of his plan, without proper backing and influence they wouldn't be able to do anything and to start an academy in the capital was easier said than done as there were even more restrictions to do that and Shrek being unaffiliated to any kingdom was not able to do so.

While they were near the entrance gated of the capital they saw a banner with a recruitment offer for an academy in the capital, it was called the Blue Tyrant Academy and the condition was that it didn't accept nobles only commoners.

When Flender saw that he had a sly idea in his mind, he looked at the others and said,

”I've thought about what Dai Mubai said and I too agree with Tang San's view about the difficulties about doing so but that doesn't mean we have no other methods to take our revenge on Heaven Dou Imperial Academy”

Everyone understood Flender's intentions by looking at the banner it also had a condition that it accepted teachers who were Soul Ancestors and above only. Qin Ming who knew about the academy explained to Flender and the rest about it.

They were all impressed that they were able to beat one of the teams of the Heaven Dou Academy but when they heard that this year's prospects weren't so good Flender said,

”Who said that they won't be able to anything this year, we'll represent Blue Tyrant Academy. Qin Ming since you know about this academy more than all of us lead us to it”

When they reached the academy they told them their purpose of coming and when asked about their cultivation Qin Ming just showed his rings and said his rank along with his age. They were shocked to know that he was so young and they took them all towards their Dean's residence.

While going there they heard the voice of a woman singing, Flender and Grandmaster who heard this suddenly stopped in their tracks and were dazed. Grandmaster had tears coming from his eyes and said,

”I wrote this song for her”

He tried to run away but Flender pulled his arm and dragged him towards the voice when they reached a hut near outside the academy the teacher who was guiding them said,

”Dean Erlong, I've brought people who want to be teachers for the academy and ask for your help to test them”

”I've told you not to distu- ”

When she saw the people who had come she too had tears from her eyes but her gaze was directed completely at Grandmaster and only when she saw Flender did she regain from her stupor and with a shocked expression she asked,

”Boss Flender, what are you doing here??”

”I and my friends are here to enroll as teachers in your academy and these kids are our students. So can you let us join your academy??”