Chapter 31 - Fourth Spirit Ring

"Other women??"

"Well didn't I tell you?? I already have like three to four women….. Five women now that I remember and who knows how many in the future. So I think that would be the only problem"

"....That might be a problem, well that's your problem, not mine, I'll trust you to keep to your word"

Tang San just gave a wry smile to that, he knew that handling more women would be tough unless you hold the superior position it would really be tough to handle them. He even remembered how in the original novel Oscar and Mubai were handled by their women and with him right now having so many women it would be even more difficult to do so.

"By the way, I've noticed that you have been at a bottleneck for a long time, even if it's to solidify your foundations isn't it too long??"

"Well you see according to my master's Ten Great Spirit Theories you can still train your spirit power despite not getting a spirit ring, the only thing is that you won't have access to that cultivation until you get one. So I think I'll hunt right before going to Shrek and I'll want to do it by myself so if they ask just tell that you helped me hunt for one"

"You really don't want my help??"

"Well I have my own secrets"

After he said that Dugu Bo didn't ask him anymore and just enjoyed the alcohol.

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Soon another month had passed by and Tang San had accomplished most of his goals which he had come here for. In the past five months, he had spent most of his time trying to transplant all the different herbs from here into his Magical Space. He didn't take the immortal herbs into space as he knew that they were special in their own ways as they were herbs which had the highest chance of developing intelligence and may even become Spirit Plants similar to Spirit Beasts which were able to give out Spirit Rings or even become human in the future.

He didn't want to put them into his Space as he knew that as of yet his space couldn't support any life inside it apart from his and with the current rate of 40 times time dilation and 40 times concentrated Spirit Power they only needed around a few decades to reach the hundred thousand year level and being Immortal Herbs they don't depend on age for their effect unlike the normal herbs.

It had taken the entirety of five months before it was completed and inside the area of the Well in his Space it had a total of 400 times the Spirit Concentration adding the time dilation of 40 times, there was a boost of 16,000 inside his Space. This was a terrifying rate as it would mean that he would need only one year to get herbs which are 10,000-years-old. If anyone else heard this being utterly shocked would be an understatement to their reaction.

He had also succeeded in making the Yama's Invitation along with a lot of alchemy pills, he had also progressed a great deal in his research on pills and the only thing limiting him to breakthrough to the 9-Star Alchemy rank was his cultivation which required him to be at the Titled Douluo rank.

He had succeeded in receiving the Hundred Wishes Purse from Dugu Bo and began his research on how it was able to store living thing inside it. He still needed time to completely figure it out so there wasn't much progress in that aspect. He had prepared to give the rest of the team their Spirit Weapons as he had delayed it for too long. Though weapons or external tools weren't allowed during the Spirit Master Tournament it was still useful to have these weapons as life-saving tools. He knew that if he was too strict on following the Tang Sects weapons and not progress with time the future of the sect which he was planning would not last very long.

He had already packed all his stuff and was ready to leave the mountain but instead of directly going to Shrek he went towards the Sunset Forest, he wanted to get his Fourth Spirit Ring and advance to the Spirit Ancestor rank.

He had spent nearly five days in the forest but was still unable to locate any suitable spirit beast for his next ring. He knew that the Pit Demon Spider was a good choice but it was still too lacking for his next ring. Despite searching for such a long time he was still unable to find any good spirit beasts for his Blue Silver Grass, he still had to get the third ring for his Ice Jade Empress Scorpion and since he could only get a good ring at the Northern Plains he was thinking of getting both his Third and Fourth at the same time after leaving the Sunset Forest.

Finally, he gave up searching and browsed the Shop for any suitable rings. He put in the keywords 'Water' 'Fast and 'Flexible'. This was his choice as he knew a few of the opponents he was going to face in the future and wanted development in the direction that he would benefit the most. He was also preparing his Blue Silver Grass for the inheritance of the Sea God. This way he would have higher compatibility and may even have a chance to enhance his divinity to a greater degree.

After inputting the keywords a list of Spirit RIngs popped up noticing multiple rings of the same type he added another keywords '10,000-year-old' this reduced the list of option to a fourth of the original number.

Sea Lion - 11,000 G

Mermaid - 11,000 G

Seahorse - 14,000 G

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Mermaid Empress - 50,000 G

Demonic Shark - 50,000 G

There was a huge list of Spirit Beasts and while browsing through them he was able to find a beast which caught his interest.

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Mermaid Empress

Price: 50,000 Gold

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He knew that the compatibility would be better for Samsara Eye considering that Mermaids have a good Spiritual Affinity but he still chose to use it on the Blue Silver Emperor because though it had a spiritual affinity it wasn't too high and it still had pretty good compatibility with his Blue Silver Emperor.

After that he searched for the 100,000-year version and found that it was the same except the price was at 500,000 G. He paid directly for the 100,000-year ring and found a reddish blue orb floating in front of him. He took it and absorbed it to his Blue Silver Emperor.

It was a slow process and he also felt a few changes to his body, he didn't know about it properly due to him still absorbing the ring. It took nearly four hours before he was able to completely absorb the ring. In his current state, he could absorb rings of the 100,000-year-old range due to his body, spirit, and Qi being at a far greater stage than the normal person.

After completely absorbing the Spirit Ring his body let out cracking sounds all over. He felt his Nine Hearts Body improve even more due to his breakthrough he was currently at the 45th rank.

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Name: [Tang San]

Age: 13

Spirit Rank: [Spirit Ancestor - 45]

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 Body]

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

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[Blue Silver Emperor (sealed)]:

Dragonscale Snake (100.000 years):

Scale Bind

Man Faced Demon Spider (100.000 years):

Peach Life Tree (100.000 years):

Petals, Life Steal

Mermaid Empress (100.000 years):

Water Control, Water Prison

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Water Control: Can completely control water and can change grass in the user's surrounding to Water.

Water Prison: Engulfs the target in a water sphere and will adapt to the targets movements and can be used to suffocate the target to death, can also be changed to the user's d_e_s_i_r_e

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