Chapter 127: Incompetent Tang San and Being Beaten to the Punch
Qin Ming stared blankly in the direction where Lin Mo had disappeared. His usually steady eyes were now filled with daze and disbelief.
Rank 50.
Fifth spirit ring.
A twelve-year-old Spirit King?
These words kept circling and colliding in his mind, yet he could not piece them together into a logical picture.
He even began to wonder if he had misheard, or if Dugu Yan was playing some kind of joke.
But Dugu Yan's expression was calm. Her green eyes held only the indifference of someone stating a fact.
At this moment, the rest of the Emperor Fighting Team members all looked as if their jaws had dropped.
Which one of them did not consider themselves a genius? At their current age, possessing their level of cultivation was enough to place them among the top tier of the entire Heaven Dou Empire.
But Lin Mo, twelve years old, Rank 50.
That number was like a giant boulder pressing down on them, making it hard to breathe.
A four-ring Spirit Ancestor in his early twelves was already terrifying. Across the entire continent, that was already an unbelievably fast cultivation speed.
But what if that were changed into a twelve-year-old five-ring Spirit King?
Before seeing it with their own eyes today, if anyone had dared to tell them that someone could cultivate to the five-ring Spirit King level at the age of twelve, they would have mocked that person mercilessly.
They would have thought the other party had cultivated themselves stupid, to the point where their mind was no longer clear.
But when this fact appeared right before them, they realized in horror that the ones who had gone stupid were themselves.
"Teacher Qin," Yu Feng said, his voice a little dry, "what should we do now?"
Qin Ming snapped back to his senses and shook his head hard, forcibly suppressing the chaotic thoughts in his mind.
"Leave this place first." Qin Ming forced himself to regain his composure. "The Star Dou Great Forest is currently too chaotic. It isn't suitable for outside Spirit Masters like us to linger here for too long."
He paused, then continued, "Stay close to me. Everyone else, maintain formation. We will head toward the outskirts of the forest and find a safe place to wait for Lin Mo."
Dugu Yan nodded.
She looked in the direction Lin Mo had left, and a flash of worry crossed her eyes, but she quickly hid it.
She had confidence in Lin Mo.
On the other side, Lin Mo and Charizard were already chasing in the direction of the Spirit Beast Charizard had sensed.
Lin Mo leaned forward on the dragon's back as the sound of wind whistled past his ears.
In Charizard's perception, that Spirit Beast's fire attribute was extremely pure. It was precisely because of this that Charizard had been able to sense its existence.
Furthermore, besides fire, it also possessed a fairly strong light attribute.
It was a composite attribute Spirit Beast, with fire as its main attribute and light as its secondary attribute.
Spirit Beasts with these attributes were rare, but they were quite compatible with the abilities Charizard currently possessed.
Obtaining a fifth spirit ring that combined both fire and light attributes would be an ideal choice for Charizard at this stage.
While Lin Mo was pursuing the Spirit Beast needed for his fifth spirit ring, Shrek Academy was suffering an unprecedented blow.
On the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, at a temporary campsite.
The campfire flickered, illuminating several pale faces.
Zhao Wuji sat beside the fire, his expression terrifyingly gloomy.
Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun were wrapped in blankets and leaning against a rock wall. The bandages on their bodies had not been removed yet, and now they had gained new injuries, making them look even more miserable.
Oscar squatted beside the fire, holding a Big Recovery Sausage in his hand, but he hesitated to put it into his mouth.
His eyes were somewhat hollow, and his face still carried lingering shock.
Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing sat farther away from the fire with their knees pulled up. Their academy uniforms were covered in mud, and their delicate faces were currently bloodless.
Tang San leaned against a tree with his head lowered, his hands clenched tightly into fists.
His body was trembling slightly.
It was not fear, but anger and despair.
Xiao Wu had been taken!
Right before his eyes, she had been snatched away by the suddenly appearing Titan Giant Ape.
They had not even been able to put up any effective resistance. The Titan Giant Ape had merely waved its hand casually, and the resulting gale had blown everyone away.
Then, it grabbed Xiao Wu and disappeared into the depths of the forest in just a few leaps.
From beginning to end, he could only watch helplessly from the side, unable to make any meaningful resistance.
As the "lucky ones" in the Star Dou Great Forest today, they were the only Spirit Hunt team to face a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast, the Titan Giant Ape, and still manage to retreat after only "losing" Xiao Wu, a two-ring Spirit Grandmaster.
To other Spirit Hunt teams, this would seem like unprecedented luck.
Of course, the truth was that Xiao Wu had been picked up and taken home by the Titan Giant Ape, Er Ming.
But Tang San did not know that.
He only knew that Xiao Wu had been taken by a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast, and Xiao Wu was just a Spirit Grandmaster. In front of a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast, she was not even an ant.
She would die.
This thought was deeply rooted in Tang San's mind, making it impossible for him to calm down and think.
Tang San panted heavily, his eyes completely bloodshot, so red they seemed as if they might drip blood.
Even Oscar, who was beside him, was seeing Tang San like this for the first time.
"Little San..."
Oscar opened his mouth but did not know what to say.
Comfort?
At a time like this, any comfort seemed pale and powerless.
Tang San suddenly raised his head.
Those blood-red eyes looked at Oscar. The madness within them made Oscar subconsciously take half a step back.
"Little Ao." Tang San's voice was incredibly hoarse. "Give me a Mushroom Sausage."
Oscar froze. Looking into Tang San's blood-red eyes, the refusal on the tip of his tongue could not come out.
Whether it was the debt of gratitude from Tang San helping him obtain the Cockscomb Phoenix-Tailed Serpent from the Serpent Hag Chao Tianxiang, or Tang San's current crazed state, he could not just stand by and do nothing.
He gritted his teeth.
Then, in front of everyone, Oscar once again chanted the somewhat wretched incantation for his Third Spirit Ability.
"I have a Mushroom Sausage!"
Amid a peculiar fluctuation of spirit power, a strange-looking sausage slowly condensed in his palm.
The others from Shrek were all smart people and immediately realized what Tang San intended to do.
Zhao Wuji also stood up abruptly.
"Tang San! Don't do anything stupid!"
But before Zhao Wuji could stop him, Tang San had already snatched the Mushroom Sausage from Oscar's hand and shoved it into his mouth without hesitation, swallowing it down.
Six illusory transparent wings unfolded behind his back.
"Xiao Wu, wait for me."
Tang San let out a low growl, then flapped his wings. His body shot into the sky, chasing in the direction where the Titan Giant Ape had gone.
"Tang San!" Zhao Wuji roared, but it was already too late to stop him.
Just then, Ning Rongrong suddenly stood up.
She raised her right hand, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda appeared. A beam of multicolored light shot out from the pagoda, landing on Tang San, who had already flown dozens of meters away.
"Seven Treasures have a name, second: Speed!"
Ning Rongrong's crisp voice echoed through the night sky.
She once again displayed her nature as a little witch, acting on impulse and applying the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's second Spirit Skill to Tang San.
Zhao Wuji looked in the direction where Tang San had disappeared, his face full of dejection.
By coincidence, the direction Tang San was chasing overlapped somewhat with the direction Lin Mo was heading.
It was just that Lin Mo's destination was even deeper within the Star Dou Great Forest.
On the other side, Lin Mo and Charizard had already arrived at the place where Charizard had sensed the Spirit Beast.
It was a circular valley, and at the bottom was a churning lake of lava.
Crimson lava bubbled continuously. The rock walls around the valley had been baked red by the high temperature, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of sulfur.
But Lin Mo's expression was rather unpleasant.
Because someone had already beaten him to it.
In the center of the valley, beside the lava lake, a graceful figure stood quietly.
It was an extraordinarily beautiful woman.
She wore a long golden palace-style dress, and her golden hair fell to her waist like a waterfall. Her beauty was exquisite, her features were as refined as a sculpture, and her skin was as white as snow.
She exuded an aura of endless light and holiness, as if she were an angel who should not exist in this filthy mortal world.
Most striking of all were the wings on her back.
A pair of pure white wings spread out behind her, each feather shimmering with a faint golden glow.
And beneath her feet, five spirit rings slowly rotated.
Two yellow, two purple, and one black.
A standard Spirit King configuration.
When Lin Mo clearly saw the appearance of the person before him, his pupils suddenly constricted.
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