Chapter 20 - Star Dou Forest

After getting to know that she was a Spirit Douluo Zhao Wuji came ahead and said,

"Greetings Snake Grandmother, I never expected to encounter someone such as you here"

"I could say the same as I too never expected to encounter the famous Acala who was missing for so long here and it looks like you've broken through to the Spirit Saint level and only a little away from the Spirit Douluo level am I right ??"

"Haha, it is as you say. I am extremely sorry for taking away your beast as we didn't know about that, I was here with my students to get one of them his third spirit ring"

She looked towards Dai Mubai and gave an approving nod and said,

"Truly worthy to be a student of the Acala, you're so young yet you're already at the Spirit Elder Rank"

"Snake grandmother, I think you're mistaken the one who is getting his ring is this student her he's a food type spirit master"

Saying that Wuji pushed Oscar forward who gave a slight greeting to her. When she saw that a food master so young was at the Spirit Elder rank she was shocked, it was commonly known that food spirits are the hardest to cultivate and may hardly reach the Spirit Ancestor rank.

Knowing that he was only 13 to 14 years old his potential was truly great.

If the snake was still alive then she would have fought for it despite losing the chance to make some connections with him but now since the snake is dead she proposed something else,

"We have pursued the snake for so long and you're student killed it don't you think that this is a little unfair??"

"Had we known that you were pursuing this snake me and my students wouldn't have done so. But unfortunately, the snake is dead and we can't bring it back to life so we really can't do anything about it"

"I'm not talking about now but instead in the future, I hope that your student would help my granddaughter with a favor in the future. Seeing his talent I don't think he would not reach the Ancestor or maybe even a higher stage in the future, doing a small favor then wouldn't hurt him now would it??"

Before anyone could respond Oscar spoke up,

"In the future as long as it's something I can do then I, Oscar would surely not forget to repay this favor Snake Grandmother"

"Good, Well be taking our leave since we still have to find a ring for my granddaughter"

After they left, Tang San and the rest heaved a sigh of relief, though Teacher Wuji could deal with her it wouldn't be wise to do so if the Dragon Grandfather also joins them and not knowing where he was this was a relatively safer path.

"Brother Daydream are you sure that this beast you're looking for is in this direction??"

' I'm positive, this is the best beast I can think of for getting your third ring to the Samsara Eye and by luck, if you get its Spirit Bone then I can say no one can match up to you in Mental Spirit' ( Daydream)

"What is the name of this beast?"

'It's called the Three-Eyed Golden Lion also known as the Auspicious Emperor' (Daydream)

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Soon after an hour of running, he was able to find its whereabouts with the help of Daydream. Even Jade Empress was a little intrigued by this beast as for the Snow Empress, she kept a neutral stance on it. Soon he found out a 90,000-year-old lion which had a red pearl on its forehead.

This was the Auspicious Emperor, he saw that it was a little injured on its left leg, he then made his preparations with the Tang Sect Weapons, he knew that this was going to be a tough fight as this beast was nearly at the 100,000 year mark so he then took out a few poisons he had refined over the past few years.

He let out a sleeping and paralyzing poison and took their antidotes. He waited for a while and saw it slowly fall asleep, he used his Spiritual Detection and didn't find any other beast nearby so he went slowly using his camouflage hiding his aura.

He knew that this was a sneaky approach but he was still not strong enough to fight such a strong beast so he had no other option.

But while he was going towards the beast it suddenly opened its eyes and attacked him. Thankfully he never dropped his guard and was able to dodge this attack. He activated his Torso Bone and used the Ice domain, he had also used his Jade Empress's Pincers and counteracted against its attack due to the poisons the Lions attacks were extremely dull and didn't have their d_e_s_i_r_ed effects. He knew that dragging it would not be good for him according to Daydream so he then took out his 12 Spider Lance's and continued his attack.

Due to the domain, it's attacks were further reduced and with the attacks from the Lance's it could feel that it was poisoned.

Not wanting to lose it let out one of its attacks and a ray of light shot out from its third eye. Thankfully due to his Red god's eye and spiritual detection, he was able to figure it out a second early and used his Illusion ability to dodge it.

But when it figured out that its attack didn't work, it sent out its own spiritual sense and tried to locate him. If he was able to use the full power of his Spirit Rings then he would have never been discovered but unfortunately, he could only use a part of it and was thus discovered.

It then used it's right leg to attack him.

Since he was unable to avoid it he used his 12 Spider Lance's to defend, with three Heavenly Herbs he was able to strengthen his body to a great deal and was able to bear with the shockwaves of the attack.

The 12 Spider Lance's which were million-year-old spirit bones was able to take in the attack but his body was still hurt from the remaining pressure and spit out a mouthful of blood.

He then activated his final trump car - External Spirit Bone: Golden Trident.

After activating it, the top of the trident was formed on his head, it looked more like a golden crown on his head more than a trident. After that, it detached from his head and the proper trident was formed.

He used his Blue Silver Grass and wrapped it around the trident and took it far away to build up momentum.

The only drawback of the Golden Trident was that it took an entire day to regenerate and was only a one use attack.

Then from the Three-Eyed Lion, a black ring with a red border could be seen rising up, without waiting for anything he just sat down and brought the ring towards his Samsara Eye, the process was quite smooth as he was now used to the process.

He then checked his status.

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[Samsara Eye]:

Devour, Store, Refine, Absorb

Magical Space

Daydreaming Ice worm (1.000.000 years):

Spiritual Detection, Spiritual Sharing, Spiritual Shock, Spiritual Interference

Imitation, Camouflage, Mind Control, Memory Alteration

Three Eyed Golden Lion (99.000 years):

Divination

Spiritual Dominance

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Divination: Able to see a few seconds ahead into the future

Spiritual Dominance: A pseudo-domain which can only defend from mental attacks.

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He then went near the corpse and saw its head glowing, he knew that this was due to a Spirit Bone so he didn't hesitate and extract it from the corpse.

He absorbed the bone and felt his Eye of Life having a change after the absorption.

He checked his status again.

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Name: [Tang San]

Age: 12

Spirit: [Blue Silver Emperor] [Clear Sky Hammer] [Samsara Eye] [Ice Jade Empress Scorpion]

Spirit Rank: [Spirit Elder - 39]

Spirit Bones: [C_h_e_s_t: Ice Jade Empress Scorpion] [Left Arm: Ice Jade Scorpion] [External Bone: Golden Trident] [External Bone: Twelve Spider Lances]

Skills: [Forbidden Heaven Technique] [Forbidden Jade Hands] [Red Gods Eye] [Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon] [Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track] [Hidden Weapon Hundred Separation] [Nine Heart's Body] [Divine Buddha Meridians] [Golden Blood Body] [Eye of Destiny]

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His previous Eye of Life now became the Eye of Destiny which gave him the ability to view the destiny of others of course it still retained the perks of the Eye of Life.

His skull bone improved his intelligence and thinking capabilities basically giving him a parallel thinking ability.

Paired with the Eye of Destiny he can use the Light of Destiny ability this gave him the ability to alter a person's destiny as he pleases but he can't change his own destiny.

This ability lasted only for 3 minutes but to him, this was truly a must need ability.

Even the Spirit Ring gave him Two abilities like a Hundred thousand year ring, he felt that this was due to the spirit beast being quite close to the 100,000 year mark.

Just these three abilities pushed his control and combat abilities to a great extent.

Feeling quite satisfied with this harvest he silently went back towards the camp and was able to reach before most of them even realized he was gone.

When asked he told that he went to relieve himself, after that they didn't ask anything more.

Late in the night, they heard a roar, when they all woke up they saw two moons in the sky, Wuji who saw that said,

"That isn't a moon, it's a 10,000-year-old Titan Ape!!"

Tang San who recognized who it was just said,

"Don't try to attack, it's useless to try only to flee. Split up in pairs, Mubai and Oscar, Zhuqing and Rongrong, Me and Xiao'er. Leave your backs to Teacher Zhou and run away, he's experienced and us staying here will only drag him down"

"Tang San is right, all of you leave this place"

"Teacher don't try to attack it, flee and try dragging out the fight and after a while, it should leave us alone"

Saying that he took Xiao Wu into a carry position and started to run,

"Follow Me!!"

The others hesitated a while before they chose to trust him and ran along with him. He took out a few black cloaks and gave them to everyone while running. He already gave one to Zhao Wuji before leaving, when wearing the cloaks they were able to hide themselves within the jungle but he then used his Camouflage ability to hide their aura's, he didn't use this on Wuji because if the Titan Ape tried then they would all get caught so he needed someone to draw its attention to use this ability.

When he saw Wuji's Real Guard, he used his ability, Rongrong also gave a boost to Teacher Zhao before fainting in Zhuqings arms.

With Xiao Wu's aura vanishing, Dai-Ming was quite angry and started to thrash the nearby areas.

But unfortunately for him, they had already moved away from the area. Even Teacher Zhao escaped when Dai Ming became enraged and lost control.

After escaping from the Titan Ape they all went to the town near the forest before booking three rooms for themselves. No one spoke or asked anything that night may be due to fear, anger, sadness or maybe even due to the feeling of being powerless.

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The Next Day,

With all of them recovering from the events of last night Zhao Wuji asked a question to Tang San,

"How were you able to mask our aura's from the Titan Ape??"

When he asked this question everyone's attention drew towards him. He just gave out a sigh and said,

"Teacher and all of you guys I'm sorry but I lied to you about something. I not only have Blue Silver Grass as my spirit but I have another spirit as well"

He then activated his Samsara Eye and used his Spiritual Detection and Spiritual Sharing ability.

When they saw this they all felt shocked at this, with this ability they can know an attack from every direction it was literally the perfect support ability.

"My second spirit is called Ice Eye, its mainly a support and control type spirit but also has an ice attribute to it"

He didn't release any of his spirit rings but only showed his spirit. They were all shocked after hearing that but resumed their usual attitude towards him.

Saying it was fine keeping it from them and all that. In fact, he wanted to also tell them about his other two spirits but due to Grandmasters warning, he didn't do so at all. After eating breakfast they all left back to Shrek Academy.