Chapter 27 - Heaven Dou Academy

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??"

After that, he explained all that happened when he came and when he finished he just gave a sigh and a sad smile while asking.

"So, Erlong how much are you willing to pay us?? Know that we aren't cheap"

"Boss Flender, it isn't a matter about me being able to afford you but instead about you being able to afford me, that Heaven Dou Academy dares to humiliate you so obviously I'm not going to stay still I am going to hand over this academy to you. I was never interested in managing an academy or anything and only wanted to live my life in peace so it doesn't matter if I have this academy or not"

The teacher who had accompanied them till now was shocked when he heard that. Their Dean gave away her position to someone else just like that. Even Flender who knew her for so long hadn't expected her to just gift him the entire academy, he knew that she was a straightforward person but this was a little too….

She then turned towards grandmaster and seeing that he wasn't looking at her she too didn't say anything as she knew that it wasn't the right time to do so yet.

She then gave a tour of the academy to all the students and teachers from Shrek. They were really impressed by it, though it was only one-third of Heaven Dou Imperial Academy it was still great. After the tour, they went to have something to eat and at that time Grandmaster looked at Tang San and said,

"Tang San will you accompany me out for a walk"

Hearing that Tang San just stood up and left with Grandmaster. When they reached a secluded place he was silent for a while and only after some time did he speak, he began telling him about his story,

"There was once a young boy born into a prestigious clan but because of a variant spirit, he was exiled. Even the woman he had loved so deeply had left him because he was weak so in order to prove himself, he began to study and research about various topics hoping that one day he would be able to prove himself. As he traveled he met two other companions one boy and one girl, though it happened at two different times. Both the boys had fallen for the beautiful girl but the stronger youth was the one to propose since the weaker youth was sure that history would repeat itself and she would reject him so he had buried his love for her deep in his heart. But surprisingly the woman had rejected the strong youth and instead chose the weak youth saying that the one she had loved was him.

He was elated when he had heard that but he was also sad for the other youth as he knew about the pain of losing the one you love to another man. But the strong youth then suggested them to get married and only then would he consider him his brother and her his brother's wife, listening to his friends request the two of them had gotten married.

From the story, you must have already guessed that the weak youth was me and the strong youth Flender while the woman being Liu Erlong"

Tang San just stayed quiet until then and then asked,

"Then what happened after…..."

"We got married but on the day of our marriage my uncle had come but the thing was that he wasn't there for me but instead he was there for Erlong, he had said that she was his illegitimate daughter and that he comes to recognize her as his daughter.

But when he saw us in those dresses he understood what had happened and I too was shocked at that and asked her not daring to believe it. But he turned to her and said 'How could you marry this trash??' I was heartbroken at that question, he was someone I had thought to be someone who didn't care about my spirit but it seems I was mistaken.

I then ran away from there and didn't stop for a long time I wanted to commit suicide but Flender stopped me from doing so. Soon I too gave up and dived into my research to be relieved from the pain but thirteen years back the woman who was my first love, Renxue's mother had found me she then confessed to me saying all that happened to her and that she was forced to marry someone who she didn't like and that they threatened to kill me if she didn't comply she had also told me that she was forced to bear his child and the only thing that was left for her to do was to commit suicide.

In order to save her life I had promised to….. get married to her, I who already had a wife had gotten married to her. Though it isn't uncommon in the Spirit Master world to marry multiple women I couldn't do it as I knew that I couldn't protect them, I guess that was also one of the reasons Renxue let you have other women (WN: I had no better reason to give, sorry). After my marriage I and she settled down in a small village at the outskirts, we lived a happy life for a while and just when I thought everything was good heavens had cursed me and the people from her side had found her, to save me she didn't say anything about our marriage and was soon forced to leave along with her child.

Renxue who was just a small kid who I had treated as my own daughter was also taken away from me. At that point nothing made sense and though I wanted to commit suicide for being such an incompetent man I stopped myself from doing so whenever I thought about what would happen to her after I die, she would mostly follow me to the afterlife or maybe wait until Renxue is grown up.

Because of that I went to Nuoding Academy and there I met you a few years later, I took you as a student and put all my hopes onto you, I don't want you to take revenge for me or anything, I just want you to be strong, strong enough that you stand at the top and then I can say that I am the teacher of Tang San"

After venting out all he had inside of him Grandmaster felt as if a burden was released from his shoulders. Tang San on the other hand finally understood most of the changes in Grandmaster's story from the actual canon.

He then said,

"Grandmaster from your story I can only say that you let your inferiority complex take the best of you, if only you had confronted your uncle that day or if you had met aunt Erlong later on you could have still made things right with her, but of course what happened with Renxue's mother wasn't entirely your fault as there wasn't anything you could do at that time. But the matter with aunt Erlong, the fault lies entirely with you. She had waited nearly 30 years for you and I think that she should not be treated so unjustly just because of your inferiority complex"

"...."

Grandmaster just stayed silent for a while and only let out a sigh,

"Your right Tang San, thinking things back I should not have treated her that way but the fact that she is my cousin doesn't change and I can't let her suffer because of me"

"Teacher, I think that she is still suffering without you and many times more than you think, who cares if she is your sister, who cares about what the world thinks about you the only thing that should matter is whether she is happy or not and accept it or not she is your wife this doesn't change just because she is your cousin"

At that time they both heard a voice,

"He's right Xiaogang, I will always be your wife no matter what and I only want to stay by your side even if you don't treat me as such. I have waited so many years for you and I don't care about what the world thinks about us the only person that matters to me is you"

WIthout saying anything Grandmaster just hugged her and let out some tears from his eyes, she too didn't say anything and just hugged him. Tang San who sensed someone approaching knew who it was and left the two of them alone. After making his way to another secluded area he saw a person descend from the sky. He had green long hair and jade green eyes, the area he landed on had started to wither slowly as if it was poisoned.

He just stood in front of Tang San who was feeling dizzy at the moment his golden blood was trying to counteract the poison but due to the rank difference it was a slow process but it was still surprising for Dugu Bo to see that an early stage Spirit Ancestor had actually resisted his poison to such a degree but he then let out some of his Qi making Tang San unconscious.

But this was felt by Liu Erlong who was close by and by the time she rushed there he was already gone.

…

Tang San who just woke up found himself in a different scenery from before, he knew that this was the Sunset forest which he had previously visited. He saw that he was close to a mountain and figured that this was the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well.

"Finally woke up, it looks like you beating my granddaughter wasn't really false as you were able to resist my poison to such a degree. So tell me how were you able to do it??"

"Your poison is trash and all I needed was some alcohol and fire to counteract it though it isn't a cure it was more than enough for the battle. But I have to admit, this poison of your is truly shit that it kills its own users"

Dugu Bo who heard that gave a glare and asked with an ice cold voice,

"Watch your tongue kid as you will find that I am not so easy going just because I feel that you are slightly talented and the matter about my poison what do you know about it?"

The last part he asked while releasing a bit of his killing intent, the matter about his poison killing the user wasn't false but he had never told anyone about it.

"Really? Then let me ask you when the sky is overcast and raining, isn't there an ache over two of your ribs, moreover one that gradually grows stronger, flaring up around noon and midnight?

In your current condition, it should persist for two hours or more each time. Also, late every night, approximately around midnight, on top of your head and your heart should have a pricking pain like a pincushion. Your whole body spasming for at least an hour.

That kind of pain that makes you wish you were dead doesn't need my description. You're not just poisoned, the poisoned has even entered your bone marrow. But what baffles me is how you still haven't died. The poison within you isn't something that can be suppressed with spirit power"

Dugu Bo who heard that was shocked since what he had described was exactly what was happening to him. This was something he had not even told his own granddaughter so it was impossible for him to have heard it from someone else, which meant that he deduced all that from the time he had seen him or maybe even from when he had seen his granddaughter back at Suo Tuo City.

After hearing all that he was unable to hold back his anger and grabbed Tang San by his neck and was choking him, right now Daydream and the others wanted to intervene but stopped after they heard Tang San,

"You… You can kill me but by doing so you would even kill your own daughter. You know it don't you, the poison in her body… though not as severe as you it is still starting to affect her and it will slowly kill her but since she isn't as strong as you, she would most likely die within… 5 to 7 years… cough, cough"

When Dugu Bo heard what Tang San said he stopped attacking him and let him loose. He had a solemn look on his face, he too knew the state of his granddaughter and this caused him more suffering than the poison itself.

After a while, he just gave a cold look towards Tang San and asked with an icy voice,

"You know how to cure it don't you, the way you said all those symptoms and how you deduced that my poison was also hurting me, you wouldn't have said all this just to make me angry. So tell me do you know how to cure my poison??"

Tang San was not affected by the cold look he was given he just stood straight and dusted off his shirt and said,

"Your poison is truly strong and I can only guarantee a 50% chance of curing you or a 10% chance of death and a 40% chance of crippling you. Though the main reason for this would be the difference in our cultivation if I had more resources I could effectively increase the chances to 70% and 30% of making you lose all your spirit power due to which you would have to start cultivating all over again.

But for your granddaughter, I can say that I have a 100% chance of curing her. In the end, you can choose what you want to do, the final decision is up to you"

"Just because you were able to deduce my symptoms and a few traits of my poison doesn't mean that I would just believe you with my life, you would have to prove yourself. I will give you an entire day to concoct antidotes and after that, you will have to let me poison you, if you are able to survive I will accept the risks and no matter what I will fulfill three of your wishes as long as they don't harm me or my granddaughter. Do you dare accept??"

"....It's not that I don't want to accept, it's just that how am I supposed to make antidotes in the middle of this forest with no materials at all??"

Dugu Bo just walked away while just saying,

"Follow me"

…

After walking a while they were at the top of a mountain in the sunset forest, this place had a humid atmosphere and on feeling the rich Heaven and Earth energies he knew that this was the location of the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well according to the Tang Sect records. He could already feel his Blue Silver grass benefiting from this as his Divine Buddha Meridians constantly absorbed the Heaven Earth energies from the atmosphere.

Even his Samsara Eye was slightly benefiting from these energies, though he felt something missing in it he couldn't exactly find out what.

He then heard Dugu Bo speaking to him,

"Stay away from the hot spring in the center of this place, even I can't survive form the poison there"

He just nodded his head and when he saw Dugu Bo leaving he went searching for the different herbs in this place. He wasn't really afraid of the poison Dugu Bo would use against him due to his Golden Blood Body which gave him complete poison immunity.

After gathering the herbs for his friends he then went to check out the Octogonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot, he knew that these two herbs are best only when taken within 10 breaths after they are removed so he would have to bring whoever was going to absorb these herbs here to help them with the absorption.

He had planned of giving Ma Hongjun the Infernal Delicate Apricot and for him to take the Octogonal Mysterious Ice Grass. With the Golden Blood Body, he was practically immune to all poisons and with his Nine Hearts Body he could easily develop resistance by soaking in the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well for a few months so taking both these herbs would be a complete waste. Instead, he had other plans for them as he wanted their poisons.

He would take the Octogonal Mysterious Ice Grass to improve his Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Spirit and the poison from it and the Infernal Delicate Apricot to upgrade his Twelve Spider Lance's poison. Being a Hundred thousand-year-old External Spirit Bone it could use those poisons to upgrade itself.

He knew that after taking away the poison from the Infernal Delicate Apricot it would lose the fire poison resistance which it gives it would still help Ma Hongjun upgrade his fire to a greater degree but he would give this only after he took the C_o_c_kscomb Phoenix Sunflower to purify his fire because such a high increase in Evil Fire would only lead to more problems but after purifying the flames the improvement in to Ultimate Fire or Ultimate Phoenix Fire would instead bring more benefits to him.

He went towards the Octogonal Mysterious Ice Grass and using his Ice Jade Empress Scorpion Spirit's first skill the Jade Pincers along with his Forbidden Jade Hands he broke the grass and ran straight towards the hotter side of the spring which had the Infernal Delicate Apricot.

He took out his Twelve Spider Lances and stabbed them into the Apricot in twelve different directions forming a clock-like pattern and started to only absorb the poison from it. When he absorbed the fire poison he didn't waste any more time and ate the Octogonal Mysterious Ice Grass.

Due to his Ultimate Ice from the Ice Jade Empress Scorpion, he didn't have to suffer much pain and his body was slowly developing an Ice Fire Protection due to the poisons. But he would have no use of it as his Golden Blood Body already gave him an all poison immunity. The only use would be the improvement of his Nine Hearts Body which was due to the tempering of the Ice Fire Poisons.

After a while, he opened his eyes and saw that the area around him was half scorched and half frozen but his body was completely safe despite being at the center of all this.

He opened his Status and saw that he got a new skill in it.

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Name: [Tang San]

Age: 13

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

Spirit Rank: [Spirit Ancestor - 40/43]

Spirit Bones: [C_h_e_s_t: Ice Jade Empress Scorpion] [Left Arm: Ice Jade Scorpion] [Skull: Three-Eyed Golden Lion] [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] [Red String of Fate] [Ultimate Ice Fire Protection]

Profession: [8-star Blacksmith] [8-star Spirit Tool Designer] [8-star Alchemy] [8-star Spirit Doctor]

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[Ultimate Ice Fire Protection]: Gives the user complete immunity to all types of ice and fire attacks and poisons along with an attribute of Ice and Fire to the user's blood.

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He was a little surprised at this outcome, he knew that there would be an influence of his Ultimate Ice on these herbs but gaining the Ultimate Ice Fire was not something he had expected. Unlike Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire, the Ultimate Ice Fire was a combination of both of them and gave a major boost to the term Ultimate as Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire reign in their respective domains but Ultimate Ice Fire was at a level even higher where he could even heal his body if there is some ice or fire and even use ice and fire to replenish his Qi.