Chapter 79 - Contiental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament (9)

Dugu Bo was quite surprised that he survived, this also meant that he had gained the Evil Eye's Sage's Inheritance so he was quite interested and stayed in Shrek for the time being.

"Old Freak do you have any information on the prizes or the Spirit Hall's team for this tournament??"

"Hehe, the prizes for this tournament is quite interesting, they put out something quite precious"

"What??"

"Spirit Bones and three of them at that, all are at the 10,000-year range. They were left by the recently deceased elders of the Spirit Hall, the supreme pontiff actually wanted to give them to the spirit hall's team but was denied by the elder palace and instead they were kept up as the prize of this competition. That is the reason Salas feels threatened by you, he is afraid that Shrek would win this competition and the Spirit Hall would lose these Spirit Bones.

Frankly, I don't think that the Supreme Pontiff would be bothered upon losing these spirit bones as she isn't clearly in line with Spirit Hall's goals and wouldn't miss the opportunity to weaken the Elder Hall but that's all the inner workings so I doubt that they would help you much. But the Spirit Hall's team is quite interesting this generation, three of them are even Spirit Kings and there is even one Spirit Emperor in their team and she's apparently the daughter of the Supreme Pontiff"

When he heard that Tang San's mind had short-circuited, the Supreme Pontiff's daughter was in the spirit hall's team this meant that Qian Renxue was partaking in this competition!!!

Dugu Bo was quite pleased when he saw Tang San's shocked face, he thought that he was shocked because there was a Spirit Emperor in their team and he would thank him for informing him but Tang San asked something else than what he had expected,

"Old Freak, do you know her name??"

"When I was working for Spirit Hall I met her a couple of times, she looked quite like her mother and her name was Qian Renxue"

IT'S HER!!!!!!

Tang San was freaking out a little, he had not expected the storyline to change this much. He knew how powerful the Seraphim spirit was, it even had an innate domain, if it was a true match he wouldn't need to worry much but the problem was that he was too restricted, unless he was allowed to use his innate domain it would be extremely tough for him to defeat her.

He still wasn't sure about the abilities of his innate domain after the evolution to the Golden Silver Emperor.

"Truthfully her spirit it the Seraphim spirit which is a peak level spirit just like your Clear Sky Hammer or Blue Silver Emperor, so she would have the upper hand due to your cultivation, she's a rank 61 spirit emperor and you're…. What's you're level?? I didn't check the last time you showed it to me, I remember you were a Spirit King that's all"

Tang San was soon snapped out of his thoughts and released his spirit with no change in expression, he had limited it naturally so the spirit rings which were shown were - Yellow, Yellow, Purple, Black, Black, Red

When Dugu Bo saw the red ring he instantly stood up from his chair,

"How??"

"Hard work"

Those two words expressed everything he had to go through, he was still in thought so he didn't pay much attention to Dugu Bo's expression.

"Little Freak, give up this competition or at least don't participate until the finals"

"That's what I'm doing because I showed too much of my abilities in the last match, Teacher isn't allowing me to participate in the ranking matches at all and only in the finals"

"He truly has a lot of foresight, but you should consider something for protection, else I don't think that the Spirit Hall would let you live"

"I've already gotten Heaven Dou's and Seven Treasures Clan's support for the Tang Sect and after the competition, I'm going to train with my dad for a while so they won't be able to find me even if they wanted to"

"I see, that's good, with his protection you wouldn't need to worry about much, I was honestly shocked when I found that you were the sect master of the mysterious tang sect, though in truth you are the only member right??"

"Yeah, that's right, I'm trying to get the other single attribute clans who used to be under the Clear Sky Clan into Shrek but until now I've only been able to do so with the Strength Clan, I don't even have the time to meet the other three clans"

"Well they've declined to a really bad position after the incident with your father, it won't be easy to get them to join your Tang Sect"

"Wel, I have my plans to get them to join so let's not worry about that for now, what happened to your granddaughter these days?? I've written a few letters to her but she barely responds, if not for the tournament I would have gone to Heaven Dou Academy to meet her"

"Sigh…. You've put her under a lot of pressure, with your talent do you think she would feel relaxed if she doesn't catch up to you?? She's prideful by her own right, she would very well surpass me in the future with her talent. She won't even have to worry about the poison affecting her due to the spirit bone you gave her, I honestly don't know how to repay you for that, it's a ten thousand year spirit bone and I've already given her to you so I can't do that again"

"What repayment, old freak don't bother talking about that again, I have to go and cultivate, with the pressure from the spirit halls team I can't relax anymore"

…

A lot of pitiful voices were heard from Shrek for 10 entire days and the last 10 days they were allowed to rest and do as they wished.

Grandmaster prevented Tang San from participating in the ranking tournament as a punishment due to exposing a lot of his abilities in the qualifiers. This made him slightly depressed but decided on working on his other professions for the time being instead, he was still stuck on making a few pills which could help one in their cultivation for the Tang Sect.

A few days back Ning Fengzhi came to him and told him that he was highly valued by the Emperor due to the talent he had shown in the matches and he had accepted to support Tang Sect as long as he becomes the champion of the tournament. He even said that Gu Rong would accompany Shrek throughout the tournament for their safety, he looked worried about all that was happening.

Tang San spoke with grandmaster regarding what Dugu Bo told him, grandmaster was quite surprised that Qian Renxue would be participating in the Spirit Hall's team. He was a little worried when he got to know that she was a Spirit Emperor, the last time the Seraphim spirit had come out in public was in the fight between Tang Hao and Qian Xunji after which even the Clear Sky Spirit went into seclusion.

All he could hope was for history to not repeat itself, Tang San was his disciple, he had spent and learned more under him than under Tang Hao, he even thought of him as his son so he was really worried if anything were to ever happen to him.

…

With only ten days left for the ranking tournament, Tang San had spent all his time on his Blacksmithing and alchemy inside his Magical Space, researching, creating, testing, he had done everything he could think of to spend some time. He had even created a few new pill formulas, hidden weapons and spirit weapons designs. He compiled them into different books according to the different statuses in the Tang Sect with Outer, Inner, Core, and Elder books.

He even spent quite a bit of his time to write a few rules for the Tang Sect, he didn't know how the Tang San in the novel was able to do it but making and managing a sect required a lot of work. He wouldn't even be surprised if the Tang Sect in the novel had failed after a few years after he became a god and left to the Divine Realm.

He even made rules on how to decide the elder positions and sect master positions. This required a lot of thinking and he would also discuss with Tai Tan regarding these rules, quite a few of them were even taken from the original Tang Sect, he had wanted to implement them as they were but in his previous world where the original Tang Sect had been established, the cultivation method was quite different from the Douluo world so a lot of changes had to be made.

If he didn't have the Improved Intelligence ability from the Three-Eyed Lion's Skull Bone then he would have taken forever to finish all this. He missed his first life where he wouldn't need to worry about paperwork or anything like that, he was a doctor so he mainly needed to write out prescriptions at most or sign a few doc_u_ments, even for reports or anything as such he still had computers and typing was much easier than writing.

While thinking of computers he had an inspiration, why couldn't he create something like that using spirit tools, though he didn't know the actual workings of a computer he only needed the basic functions like calculation, time, communication, etc.

Such tools though may seem basic, in this world they would have a huge impact especially communication tools, if he was able to mass-produce these tools and use the Speed Clan, he would be able to secure a really strong information network in this world.

He put up a few plans and made various designs, he would still have to consult Tai Tan and see if any of these designs were able to be mass-produced, he had naturally encrypted these tools such that if anyone tried to study them they would break apart and be impossible to be put back together.

At times like these, he would wish for having someone who he could talk and discuss these things with, he would have to experiment and find everything by himself with no one to guide him, it was exhausting, to say the least.

…

The ranking tournament had started with Emperor Xue Ye giving out a motivational speech to all the academies participating, from Shrek Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing were the main force, the ranking tournament was a round-robin tournament with 7 members from each team, the order had to be decided before the match to prevent any cheating in the tournament.

Shrek's matches were easily won by Dai Mubai, most academies just gave up when they saw the five rings released with even two of them being at the Ten Thousand Year Level, a few academies tried to draw out the match and make him tired for the later rounds but they were still defeated.

One man was going through all the matches, this was Shrek. A lot of people were disappointed that Tang San hadn't come up to the stage, but the ranking tournament was put up that way so they couldn't do anything. In the match against Blazing Academy Huo Wu said she wanted to fight Tang San by herself and as long as he won, Blazing Academy would forfeit their matches.

Grandmaster was quite tempted by this offer so he allowed him to go on stage, Tang San could only smile wryly, he was supposed to be punished and not be allowed to fight but that was completely ignored.