Douluo Dalu System - Chapter 74

Back at Shrek Academy,

Grandmaster had called Ning Rongrong and Tang San to meet him, they didn’t know why he had called them so they made their way to his room and saw that he was reading some book, they could see that the contents of the book, it was written – Heart Separation Control

Ning Rongrong was a little surprised at the title of the book, Grandmaster who saw them enter closed the book and gave it to Tang San,

“School Master Ning agreed to give this to you after I requested it from him”

Tang San took the book and asked him,

“Teacher, what is this??”

“This is a technique widely used by the members of the Seven Treasured School, Heart Separation Control, quite a few of your abilities can be boosted under this technique, learn it well, Rongrong should have also learned this technique from her clan so you can also ask her help if you don’t understand anything”

“How can the Seven Treasures School give this out so easily??”

“Well, in a sense giving it to you cannot be considered as giving it to some outsider, Ning Fengzhi told me to tell you that, the future son-in-law of the clan can be considered as someone close to the Clan and you’ve also done a lot of help to them by selling them the hidden weapons. But the main reason was that this isn’t some particular secret of the clan and can easily be acquired outside as well so they had no problem giving it to you”

“With all Brother, San has done for the clan his achievements are even above mine and he might even be considered more important than me so this small thing isn’t of any consequence”

Ning Rongrong said from the side.

“Haha, that may not be true, after you’ve awakened the Nine Treasures Pagoda no one can replace you in the clan of course even if you didn’t awaken it then you’re still the she-devil in the clan”

“Ning Rongrong, what level have you cultivated the Heart Separation Control till?? Have you at least reached the Three Aperture Governing Heart??”

“Yes but I’ve only reached the starting stages of the three aperture’s governing heart”

“Tang San, try practicing this technique and tell me how you feel”

Tang San nodded and read through the book once and closed his eyes, due to the Skull Spirit Bone his intelligence has already reached an astonishing level he can memorize something by just reading it once of course, this was only the basic level of boost it had provided to him.

He was able to instantly connect to the Blue Silver Grass in the entire Heaven Dou Capital but this was without the use of his domain and all the grass seemed to have a slight gold glow or silver glow to them. Grandmaster and Ning Rongrong were surprised to see this happening, there was Blue Silver Grass near them as well so they noticed the change.

Tang San was able to easily use the Heart Separation Control and had directly reached the Three Aperture Governing Heart and advanced to the Four Aperture Constant Heart and then advance again to the Five Aperture Dispersed Heart while advancing again one last time to the Six Aperture Wishful Heart and finally stopping, he had felt that this was the maximum he could advance with the help of his Skull Bone to advance the last step he would need to do it by himself.

He opened his eyes and saw that it was already night, Grandmaster and Rongrong were still watching over him, he got up and asked,

“What happened?? How long did I cultivate for??”

“Brother San you were cultivating since afternoon, it’s already five hours since you’ve started and there was also a weird event when you started cultivating”

“What weird event??”

“All the blue silver grass in the city was swinging with a constant rhythm and they had a gold or silver design on them during that time, you can slightly see it now but it isn’t that visible”

Tang San then looked at the Blue Silver Grass near him and saw that there was a slight silver color on it, it wasn’t that visible but he was able to identify it, this was just like the gold or silver pattern his Blue Silver Grass had when he cultivated his [Forbidden Heaven Technique]. He guessed that this might have been due to him evolving his spirit with the [Forbidden Heaven Technique] followed by his awakening to the Blue Silver Emperor and then again with its evolution to the Golden Silver Emperor and when he connected to the Blue Silver Grass in the city they were influenced and acquired his [Forbidden Heaven Technique]’s benefit and obtained a pure energy source to grow and this energy must have been influenced by his Golden Silver Emperor and formed Golden and Silver Energy respectively.

He couldn’t understand if this was good or bad but seeing that there was no heavenly retribution falling on him or on the grass which acquired the benefit of the technique he felt it was maybe a good thing to the grass.

He then turned to Grandmaster and told him,

“Teacher, I think that it was because of my Blue Silver Emperor that I was able to connect with all the grass in the city which let me enter into a deep state, this also helped my cultivation speed become faster”

“Perfect Mimicry Environment”

When he said those words, even he was shocked, this was something that only those above the Spirit Saint stage could attain, in an environment which is beneficial or similar to a cultivators spirit their cultivation speed becomes quite fast and they can get twice the results with half the effort.

“Leave that, there would be no point in dwelling over this matter and tell me what stage has your Heart Separation Control reached??”

“Currently I’ve reached the Six Aperture Wishful Heart, but it was mostly due to my skull spirit bone”

Grandmaster wasn’t surprised at this, he knew that Tang San had a skull spirit bone which increased his intelligence and understanding helping him to cultivate techniques much faster than possible but it could only help him to raise the speed of cultivating the technique and he would still have to put in effort if he wanted to truly master the technique.

Rongrong was surprised that Tang San had a spirit bone and a skull spirit bone on top of that, this was the second most important bone to a Spirit Master, just after the Torso Spirit Bone.

They then left Grandmasters room while Tang San thanked him for asking Ning Fengzhi for the technique on his behalf.

“You know brother San I was only able to reach the Three Aperture Governing Heart after 10 whole years of practice, for you to reach the Six Aperture WIshful heart right after cultivating it for 5 hours is truly surprising”

“You already heard me tell it to Grandmaster didn’t you, it was mainly due to my Skull Spirit Bone”

“Right!! Brother San, you have a spirit bone?? Wait how many spirit bones do you have?? Which spirit beast’s spirit bone was this skull bone from?? When did you fuse with a skull bone?? Why-”

“Wait!!! I can’t answer all those questions at once, ask me one by one”

“Which beast did that skull bone come from??”

“It came from a Three-Eyed Golden Lion, a 90,000 year one at that”

“What!!!!”

Hearing this Rongrong was shocked, how could she not be, for him to have a ten thousand year spirit bone, no a spirit bone which was quite close to the hundred thousand year level at such a young age was truly unbelievable.

“I was able to get it because the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was injured and was almost on the verge of death, I was able to kill it using poison and get a spirit bone as it was quite unresigned to die or more likely because every Three-Eyed Golden Lion is sure to drop a skull spirit bone on its death”

When she heard that she was surprised, she had never expected a spirit beast with a guaranteed skull bone to actually exist.

“Wait, then if I hunt a Three-Eyed Golden Lion Spirit Beast will I get a spirit bone no matter what??”

“As long as you kill it, you’re sure to get a skull spirit bone but I advise you not to try it, every Three-Eyed Golden Lion is considered as an Auspicious Emperor and hunting on will not only bring you real bad luck but also a horde of spirit beasts from Star Dou Forest who won’t stop unless they kill you”

“Then how were you able to get its spirit bone??”

“I made a deal with it, being a 90,000-year beast its intelligence was quite high so she volunteered to give me it’s spirit bone”

“What deal did you make??”

“That’s a secret”

He said that with a wink. Seeing that he was unwilling she didn’t ask further about it but she then asked him.

“Brother San what other Spirit Bones do you have??”

“Not many only a few – Torso, Skull, Left Arm and two external”

Her eyes nearly popped out when she heard that, How was that nor many!! She was shouting in her mind. Tang San seeing her expression gave a kiss on her forehead and said,

“You look cute when you make that face, haha”

Rongrong face became red and she kicked his leg while walking off, Tang San didn’t follow her because he knew that she was embarrassed. After that, he went to his room and spent most of the night consoling Jinshi (Golden Empress) who was sulking due to what he said to Rongrong.

The next day when the Shrek Team made their way to the Arena they found that their opponents had given up, this left most of them sulking as to why they weren’t able to get a chance to fight. To all the substitutes the chance to fight opponents of higher levels was rare to come so they wanted to join in all the matches from now and gain as much experience as they can.

Today’s they planned to send Dai Mubai along with Oscar as they wanted to test how this combination would work out but with their opponents forfeiting before the match, they had nothing to do so they decided to observe the match between the other academies.

Even the audience was feeling sad that Shreks opponents had forfeited as they were all excited to see this team, especially the King Dai Mubai and Mysterious Tang San. When the Shrek Seven Devils heard this they all felt laughing at those ridiculous names which were given to the two. Zhu Zhuqing was happy that she wasn’t given any weird nickname like that and was relieved that she was being low key throughout the match, not earning the attention of the audience to give her such a weird name.

But when the audience saw the Shrek Team watching the other matches they all started shouting out – Shrek! Shrek! Shrek!

There were a few who were even shouting – King Dai and Mysterious San

Tang San and Dai Mubai wanted to hide their heads in shame, especially Tang San, what did they even mean by Mysterious San!!

The two of them decided to leave the match early and go back to Shrek, Tang San was on high alert because he had sensed something wrong with his Spiritual Detection, he felt that they were walking in an illusion but he didn’t break it off and alert the enemy. He knew that the best way to kill him would be to make him let his guard down and kill him.

He then used Spiritual Sharing with Dai Mubai and showed him that they were being followed and they were in an illusion. Dai Mubai was shocked but was told to keep calm by Tang San, he trusted him so he just started chatting with him to make it seem like they haven’t noticed anything.

They saw that they were being led out of Heaven Dou so Tang San used his spiritual sharing with Flender to alert him that Shi Nian was targeting them.

Flender who was in the Arena saw his vision change and saw Tang San and Dai Mubai being led out of the city by Shi Nian he was shocked and started running out of the Arena and used his spirit to fly towards their location. Liu Erlong was fast to notice that something was wrong so she too followed Flender while Grandmaster led the other students back to the Academy, the rest of them were able to figure out that there was some problem so they also complied and went back to the academy.

But when they returned and got to know that Tang San and Dai Mubai had not come back they became quite worried thinking that something might have happened to them.

After being led quite far from the City Tang San stopped and so did Dai Mubai, he then turned towards him and asked,

“Boss Dai, I think that this should be far enough right??”

“I don’t know Little San, but seeing that no one would know if anyone was killed here I think it would be fine right??”

“That’s exactly what I was thinking, you should also stop hiding, we know that you’ve been using illusions to lead us out of the city Vice Dean of Blue Sunshine Academy – Shi Nian”

Shi Nian who heard that was shocked, how was he discovered!! His illusion was perfect unless one was a spirit saint or higher they wouldn’t find anything wrong with their surroundings especially so if they were inexperienced kids like these two.

“Kid how were you able to discover my illusions. Do you have some artifact or was it one of your spirit abilities??”

Dai Mubai then said in an arrogant tone,

“Why should a man who’s soon going to be dead know??”

“Haha, Kid I agree that the title of the youngest spirit king goes to you but due to that arrogance you’ve underestimated the power of a spirit saint and though that kid was able to discover my illusion he can’t do anything to protect you from me”

Tang San was secretly gathering his spirit power to his arms and activated the Forbidden Jade Hands, he was using to the extreme and hardening it as much as possible, he slowly took out the Yama’s Invitation from a separate spirit tool in which he had kept them for emergencies, this tool looked like it was almost rusted but that was mainly due to not being able to contain Yama’s invitation. He had already changed spirit tools 4 times due to them being completely damaged from the aura of Yama’s Invitation.

Luckily he was able to create spirit tools and was able to make more spirit storage tools else he would have run out of space to keep the Yama’s Invitation he had created. In the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well, he was able to create three Yama’s Invitation which looked like three pitch-black needles the size of his palm.

Shi Nian wasn’t able to notice anything and he was able to finish his preparations due to Dai Mubai buying him some time but he saw that Shi Nian’s patience was about to run out and said,

“You know, I’m sorry to intrude in your conversation Boss Dai but why bother talking to a dead man??”

They both were confused by what Tang San had said, he then used his arm strength to throw the pitch-black needle towards Shi Nian, he was smart enough to use an illusion to talk to them but Tang San’s [Red God’s Eye] was able to see through any illusion even if it was from a God what was a spirit saint in front of that.

He threw the pitch-black needle straight to the actual location where Shi Nian was at. He was startled seeing that his illusion was seen through but he still had the experience of a Spirit Saint and was able to regain himself quite quickly.

He was able to catch the black needle by applying spirit power to his hands but he was still pushed back by the force from the throw and went back nearly 10 feet before he was able to balance himself.

“I can see that you have a strength type spirit but even then you won’t be able to match up against a spirit saint”

“You’re already a dead man why bother talking when Yama calls for you at night don’t ask him to wait till morning. Goodbye”

Shi Nian was confused at what he meant by that but he saw his hand with which he had caught the needle was starting to turn black, this black spread through his whole body and he was unable to feel anything from those parts which were affected just like they were dead.

He felt fear when he saw this, he thought that he was in an illusion but he knew very well that this was not an illusion, he was going to die – this was reality.

Dai Mubai was shocked at what was happening, he felt a chill up his spine when he saw a spirit saint die just like that, any arrogance he had in being a spirit king was completely drained away. What worth was a Spirit King, when even a Spirit Saint died just like that in the hands of Tang San’s poison?

Flender and Liu Erlong were able to make it just when the poison was going to spread to his head, seeing then he wanted to say something but before he could his breathing stopped and he was gone. Even his body broke down into ash and fell, Flender was shocked at this, he wanted too go and see what happened to him but he heard a shout,

“Dean Flender don’t touch that”

He hastily pulled back his hands and got some distance from the black ash pile. Tang San then took a branch from a tree nearby and poked around it and found a ticking sound, he then used the branch to pull out a crystal skull from inside the pile of ash.

But the branch which touched the ash started to turn black and soon met the same fate as Shi Nian, Flender was scared at that, he was almost about to touch the pile of black ash and if it wasn’t for Tang San’s warning he would have been the one to turn ash not the branch.

Tang San then took out a bottle of water and washed the crystal skull, he took out another bottle which had a green liquid and poured it onto the skull, a sizzle was heard and black smoke rose from the skull but the skull itself was undamaged.

He then used his own hands without any spirit power or techniques to hold the skull Flender was alarmed but seeing nothing strange happening he heaved a sigh of relief.

Dai Mubai who was unable to hold it back asked Tang San,

“Little San, what was that black needle?? It was able to instantly kill a spirit saint”

“That black needle is a poison condensed into a needle, the poison is called Yama’s Invitation, this poison has no known cure and even if it does the speed of effect is so fast that one would die before they could take any antidote, as long as one touches the needle without using a special technique they would be affected by the poison, that’s not all even if their spirit power touched the needle they would be poisoned and they can’t stop it even if their hand is cut off. It has the power to even kill a titled douluo as long as he touches it”

When they heard that even a titled douluo can be killed with it and in such a way all three of them suck in a long breath.

“Dean Flender, I don’t think we need to worry about anyone finding out who killed Shi Nian unless we tell them, he didn’t seem to have anyone following or accompanying him so he should have acted by himself without telling anyone so there wouldn’t be anyone to suspect us”