Chapter 15 - Fourth Spirit

After capturing the Jade Empress, Tang San used his Ghost Shadow Perplexing Step to the extreme to run away from this place. He had run towards a direction told by Daydream Iceworm who said that one of his old acquaintance used to live nearby.

When they reached there, Tang San and Daydream found another cave so as to not let out their aura. Daydream placed a barrier around the place for extra measures, though this place was safe being the area of the Ice Empress he would definitely be dead if she knew that he was going to make the Jade Empress into a spirit ring.

But with no other spirit beast daring to approach this place it became the perfect place to do this process. Unlike when he became Tang San's Spirit Ring it wouldn't be so easy this time around.

Then both Tang San and Daydream went back into his Mind Sea, after absorbing the Gold of Life this was his first time coming here so he was shocked at the changes in this place. There was an entire ocean formed from spirit power and there was greenery all around indicating the life in this place.

After that they went to the place where they kept the Jade Empress, she was an Ice Jade Scorpion Empress spirit beast one of the Three Kings of the north.

Then Daydream told her about his plan to create a god, she was thinking that he was insane but she only had a few years left before she died so she had no other option but to accept.

'But tell me one thing Tian Ming, what is the possibility of making this kid reach the 100th rank??'

'Alone my chances are 50% but if you are willing to agree to my plan then it can well over be 70%'

'70% that high!!,…. though your plan is great I don't think that we can reach even 50% just with the two of us, so tell me what actually makes you so confident??'

'The reason that it is 70% is that of Tang San, though he is only a Spirit Master right now he has the greatest potential I have ever seen that includes even Spirit Beasts. He was born with Three spirits and had a full innate spirit power when he had awakened. He also absorbed three Heavenly Herbs to greatly increase his existing potential. If that's not all then just take a look at his Mind Sea were in right now, have you ever seen anyone's spiritual power with such great lifeforce??'

'…. Alright. I'll believe you but know this that if you ever betray me then even if I die I will take you down with me'

'Bing Bing are you truly willing to cooperate!!!'

'Hmph, know that I'm not doing this for you but that, I'm doing this for myself'

"So can you explain how are we going to make her my spirit ring. Though my body is strong I cannot bear anything more than a thousand-year-old spirit ring"

After Daydream told her about the process she directly rejected it saying that following his process would only ensure a 50% chance of success. She then proposed to let Tang San absorb the Spirit Bone from her and then merge with her spirit and finally spirit ring.

This would not only let him have a 389000-year-old ring but also would give him the Ice Jade Scorpion Empress Spirit. With his Nine Heart's Body, he should be able to support that and also improve the rate of success to 70% as long as he can bear through it.

When he took out the Spirit Bone he saw that it was a Torso Bone, he was a little reluctant to absorb it since he wanted to have the Deep Sea Demonic Whale's Torso Bone which was a million-year-old spirit bone but he decided to do so despite that due to the 1.000.000-year-old Spirit Bone Boost which he had.

He took the torso bone and first used the million-year boost on it, it was like a ball of light which was absorbed into the bone and got fused into it. Jade Empress who saw that was shocked, she didn't know what he did but he had somehow made the Spirit Bone stronger, she wasn't sure how strong as she wasn't so free to check about it yet so she thought of asking him later.

The bone then started to fuse with his torso, all his previous bones were now being merged with the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Torso Bone. This was an extremely painful process, if it was just the previous 400.000-year-old bone then it wouldn't be so painful but now that it had evolved into a million-year-old spirit bone it was almost unbearable, but if he survives through the process then he would have a easier chance to merge with the spirit and obtain the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Spirit with the 400.00-year spirit ring.

The process lasted for quite a while before he had completely merged with the spirit bone. He had told the Jade Empress to only help him when he would be in serious danger as bearing through the pain would help him completely absorb the bone.

After that, he now had to absorb the spirit ring into his new spirit, the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion. This was an easier process and was mostly due to the compatibility of the Spirit Bone with the spirit ring and the fact that the spirit bone was a 1.000.000-year-old bone.

After the process was done Tang San's Clothes were a complete mess and he now had smoother skin, he was able to see that the cold was not affecting him too much almost as if he didn't feel it.

A red ring was formed from his body, it had four golden markings indicating that it was a four-hundred-year-old ring.

'Tang San, looks like you've succeeded and that too you have a great fusion with your Torso Bone, but what exactly did you do to it, I can feel that it is no longer just 400.000 thousand years old but maybe higher'

"This is something that happens to do with my third spirit, the Samsara Eye. It sometimes has the power to increase a spirit bones or spirit rings age. But even I'm not too sure about how it works as it randomly activates without me knowing. Though I can choose which ring or bone to improve"

'Hmm…. Interesting, though I'm not sure about how it works either but it looks like your third spirit has a huge secret, it's best if you don't tell about this to anyone else'

"I understand, I was also advised by my teacher to tell them that this is called Ice Eye if anyone asks so I'll also have to keep your spirit also hidden for a while"

'That's good and you can also call me Sister Bing if you want from now on. I'll give you this privilege since you are now technically my master'

"Well thank you for that Sister Bing, and you can also call me Brother San just like how Brother Daydream calls me….Oh, I almost forgot I have another Spirit Bone which I got on the way here but that's only for my left arm and it was similar to your Torso Bone"

'That means it was from one of my clansmen I'm not sure what happened but let me see it'

He took out the Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone form his 24 Moonlight Bridges and let Sister Bing observe the Bone. After observing it for a while she was shocked, it was an ability which was rarely found in her clan, the Ice Explosion.

'San, absorb this bone right now. This is an extremely strong ability which is found in my clan and if I had it I would have ruled the entire north. It's called Ice Explosion and can only be used by those who have Ultimate Ice'

"I understand, I'll do it right now"

Though it was a hundred thousand year old bone with the help of Jade Empress it's ability had still increased a great amount and also absorbing it was still painful but compared to absorbing a million year old bone it was much easier. He again asked Jade Empress to not help him so it was extremely painful.

After he was done absorbing the spirit bone he changed his clothes and was ready to search out the second rings for his Blue Silver Grass and Samsara Eye. He decided to search for anything here before he went to Star Dou Forest as he would not come here many times in the future due to how far it was.

He also got a second ability from the Left Spirit Bone which was called Ice Assist. It was a passive skill and let him use any ice type abilities along with a decrease in Spirit power required for any ice type ability.

He then sat down and took out the third and last spirit bone he had, which was the Golden Trident External Spirit Bone. It was connected to his Skull and was a million-year-old bone. He didn't hesitate anymore and started to absorb the spirit bone. It was in the form of a golden trident, it would detach from him whenever he wanted, it was nearly 6 -7 feet tall and was a little out of proportion to his body.

The size could be adjusted and had no special abilities apart from fusing with an actual trident and making that as his Spirit Bone. It had a regenerating property and if destroyed would be reformed in a single day.

He knew that the best thing to do was to fuse it with the Sea God's Trident in the future and making it a part of his Divine Armament. In the actual novel the Trident was not a part of his armament and was only his weapon but with this, he could actually make it his armament.

He decided to use the 100.000-year boost to the man faced demon spider in the Star Dou Forest and obtain the Eight Spider Lances External Bone. But he still searched this place once to see if any suitable spirit beast was present.

While he was using Ghost Shadow Perplexing Step to look for Spirit Beasts, Daydream and Jade Empress suddenly told him to go towards a tall mountain. He didn't know why they were tensed but he went towards the mountain in a serious mood.

'There is no doubt about it, this aura belongs to her, the Ice Empress'

He heard Daydreams voice in his head, he heard rumors from the people near the Far Northern Plains about the ruler of the North, Heavenly Snow Woman also known as the Ice Empress.

"What exactly is this??"

'It looks like she tried to forcefully tried to transform into a human but….failed'

When Jade Empress spoke she had a solemn mood and spoke in low voice. He could see that she was extremely depressed about this matter, he wanted to console her so he asked,

"Did you know each other??"

But he got no reply, he went towards the crystal and saw that there was still a little life force left and when he went towards the ice cocoon he saw a few frozen bodies there. He understood that they were bodies of people from the Star Luo Empire, they had the logo of the Royal guards on them so they had come here on an expedition to target this cocoon.

When he went back and examined the crystal he saw that there was still a little life force left in it, he understood that they probably wanted to capture this and obtain a hundred thousand year ring or….. a second martial spirit.

He knew that they wanted to seal her memories and use her for either of those processes.

"There still might be a way to save her…."

When he said that Jade Empress was completely alert, his method was not only risky but may even be harmful.

"We can still use the same process we used for you and make her a conscious ring and bound her to the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion as my second spirit ring. I can't see another way….."

'What Brother San said was true this might be the only way to save her, we'll leave the decision in your hands'

'…..Let's do it'