Chapter 77 - Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament (7)

Saying that he left the stage along with the other members.

Flender had a huge grin on his face when he heard that, with this, the number of applications next year would increase by a huge margin. He was happily imagining the profit he would make from next year and made a note in his mind to praise Tang San for this.

Shrek's team left the arena, as usual, avoiding the crazed fans, with this match Tang San's fans were sure to increase by a lot, Flender didn't miss this and decided to start selling the Shrek Merchandise he had prepared. Shirts with Shrek's logo and the name of a team member, hats with Shrek's logo, and much more such merchandise.

He had even prepared a few with the Tang Sect logo due to Tang San's request. He was willing to do a small favor to his disciple due to the effort he was putting in this tournament. Out of all the members, the ones with the highest pressure were Dai Mubai and Tang San, Tang San was completely in charge of the whole tournament planning and team strategies while Dai Mubai was the captain and also the one who was continuously fighting alongside Tang San throughout the matches.

After the fight, the Blue Sunshine Team lodged a complaint against Shrek for excessively injuring their disciples but since their recovery only needed a week the tournament committee decided to reject their request, but Bishop Salas intervened and approved their request and decided to lead an investigation team against Shrek.

Ning Fengzhi proposed to go along with him to make sure that the investigation isn't one-sided. Bishop Salas wanted to reject but with the Emperor present he couldn't say no and accepted, naturally from the investigation it was found that the reason for their injuries was due to spirit fusion backlash. Salas's expression turned hateful when he heard that, he was a little unwilling to accept the final result but there was nothing he could do.

Flender and the other teachers relaxed after the results were announced, even they were worried regarding the investigation as the Spirit Hall might tamper with it to make it look like Shrek was in the wrong and making them forfeit from the tournament.

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The Thunderclap academy gave up their match to avoid showing their true strength but Godwind Academy didn't, it seems that their captain Feng Xiaotian wanted to fight Shrek no matter what due to Huo Wu.

Tang San only shook his head, this guy would sometimes lose thought over simple things. But despite fighting Shrek it seemed that they also didn't use their full strength and apart from three spirit ancestors their team was mainly composed of spirit elders.

No matter what Feng Xiaotian wanted the teachers of Godwind Academy wouldn't agree that easily to his whims especially if it was only to help him win over a woman.

Naturally, the Godwind Academy lost against Shrek, Feng Xiaotian also didn't use all his abilities and understood what was more important. But Shrek gained a great reputation due to that, they were the only academy in the qualifiers to win all their matches.

If there was a team that could be said as the crowd's favorite then it would be Shrek Academy. This team which was the dark horse for the tournament which had two spirit kings and was able to win against a team with a seven-man spirit fusion ability and it also won all of its matches, most people even had a thought that the victor for this Continental Tournament would be Heaven Dou's Shrek Academy.

Their last match was against Skywater academy who decided to go all out against Shrek, unlike the other two academies they seemed to have realized that Shrek may also be hiding their strength just like them.

During the start of the match Tang San saw that Dai Mubai's hand was shivering, he realized something and used his Samsara Eye's Divination ability and saw him losing all his spirit power after a few days and dying.

Dai Mubai who saw Tang San's shocked expression only put his finger on his lips telling him to be quiet and smiled at him. Tang San sighed and told him,

"After the match can we talk??"

He realized what was happening, unlike the canon Dai Mubai was gaining a god's inheritance. He didn't know why he was getting one now but figured that it must have been because of breaking through the Spirit King stage or getting the Devilgod Tigers Spirit Bone and Spirit Ring.

He remembered the legend of an evil god descending on the dark devil god tiger, he was quite worried about Dai Mubai and decided to look into it after the match.

The vice-captain of the Skywater Team, Shui Yue-Er was showing an interesting look towards Dai Mubai, he only gave a slight smile and winked back at her causing her to blush out of excitement but when her captain and sister Shui Bing-Er gave out a scolding she gave out a wronged expression and stood back into formation.

The fight was quite long due to Dai Mubai making a few mistakes but with Tang San's help he was able to cover up for them, Tang San had a worried expression on his face when he saw Dai Mubai. He was able to sense that Dai Mubai's spirit power was slowly dropping for some reason but figured that it must have been due to the Evil Eyes Sage God's Inheritance.

Seeing how serious the situation was he used his scale binding ability on his team to throw them all off the stage. Everyone was surprised at this, why would he do that? This was the question even on the minds of the Shrek's team and teachers.

Tang San used his petals ability and a tree grew out from the ground made of his golden silver emperor which let out petals falling on the ground these petals went and attacked all the members of the opposite team. Grandmaster had an angry expression on his face, Tang San was showing out too much of his power which went against their entire plan for the tournament, this was true even for Flender but he kept a calm face thinking that grandmaster would handle it.

The petals which attacked the team members slowly drained their vitality and spirit power. He realized that none of them had any mental abilities so he didn't use his mental drain, seeing how serious the situation was Shui Bing-Er called out to her sister and used their spirit fusion ability, the rest of the team protected the two during that time.

But by the time their fusion was done, all the five members had fallen and were thrown out of the stage, Tang San seeing the spirit fusion didn't panic and used his silver spear, though they were prepared, they were still unable to doge or guard against the spear in time and when it struck them the spirit fusion was undone but they didn't suffer much from the backlash. Tang San had a cold expression on his face and readied his golden spear and threw it at the captain while he used the Scale Binding ability on her sister and when they were restricted he threw them off the stage and after the referee announced Shrek as the victor he got off the stage and went back while carrying Dai Mubai.

He didn't wait for any of the other members and rushed out on his own before the rest could even ask him about what happened.

But after he left the crowd went mad, perhaps he had not realised it due to thinking about Dai Mubai but he had actually defeated an entire team all by himself, and it wasn't any ordinary team it was one of the four elemental academies a prominent team which was one of the five teams representing Heaven Dou in the ranking tournament.

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Back at Shrek, Tang San had taken Dai Mubai to his room and asked him about it,

"Boss Dai, what's happening with you, I can sense that you're constantly losing your spirit power, at this rate you'll become a common man with no spirit power in only a few days, I doubt you'll even last for tomorrow at this rate"

"..... Sigh, You're right this happened since the time I absorbed the spirit bone of the Dark Devilgod Tiger, it wasn't as fast as it is now so I didn't pay attention to it, but due to the constant matches the rate has increased, it's as you've said I may even become a trash with no spirit power at al-"

"TANG SAN!!"

Before he was even able to finish he was interrupted by grandmaster and the other members who were standing at the door and grandmaster didn't have a pleased expression on his face.

"Tang San, I've already warned you about this but why did you use your full power during the match? The opponents weren't that strong to force you to use that much power and you could have won easily unless you give me a reasonable explanation I won't allow you to fight in the other matches from now"

"Teacher…. Boss Dai…. He's losing his cultivation"

When the other heard this they were all shocked and looked at Dai Mubai, Grandmaster who saw that understood and asked him for the details, Tang San then explained it to them, it was due to the spirit bone he had absorbed. Grandmaster became doubtful, there was no reason for this to happen at all, the spirit bone was compatible with his spirit, though it was a dark type spirit beast it was still a tiger beast and should possess no problem to him at all.

'Evil Eyes Sage' (Feng Hua)

It was Ice Phoenix's voice, Tang San heard her speaking during the match too but he had ignored her and focused on beating his opponents and on Dai Mubai.

But now he was sure of it, Dai Mubai was undergoing a god's inheritance, he had two inheritances but they were completely blocked by the system for some reason.

'So, it's a god's inheritance??' (Tang San)

'Yes, but I don't think that this kid might last against the inheritance' (Feng Hua)

'What are his chances??' (Tang San)

'5% at best and 0% on average and this isn't because of his cultivation, even if he's a limit douluo I would still give him the same chances' (Feng Hua)

When the others in his spiritual sea heard her they became shocked, this was too low, they were more worried about Tang San, he too had to undergo an inheritance in the future.

'Is there anything I could do to help him??' (Tang San)

'.....There is a way but I don't recommend it' (Feng Hua)

'How??' (Tang San)

'.... You can use your Eye of Destiny after reaching godhood to change his destiny' (Feng Hua)

Hearing that even Tang San felt like retorting to her.

'Or... upgrade your skull bone to a million-year level and use its eye of fate ability so that he would at least not die but there wouldn't be any guarantee that he won't change into a vegetable or lose all his spirit power after avoiding his death. But both these options might even prevent him from obtaining the inheritance and may even make you lose your own inheritances' (Feng Hua)

Hearing this, even Tang San was feeling depressed, he knew that Dai Mubai would die due to his divination so he wanted to prevent that but using his Eye of Destiny or Eye of Fate might not help him in any way and may even endanger both so he could only support him on his own.

Grandmaster then decided to ask him to call Dugu Bo for help, Tang San decided to stay with Dai Mubai for the time being and sent a letter to Dugu Yan to call her grandfather.

He could only hope for him to have some information regarding the inheritance.

After a while, everyone but Tang San left and went back to their rooms, who decided to stay for a while.