"Teacher, I feel danger nearby!" Tang San had a strong ability for sensing danger. He felt that this snake was not easy to deal with.
The Master said indifferently, "Mandala snakes. They are judged by their body length to determine their age! One hundred years can grow one metre, this Mandala Snake, with a body length of four metres, has reached four hundred years!"
"A 400-year-old spirit beast, can you deal with it, teacher?" Tang San asked.
"Of course I can't! If I ran into one in the past, I'd run as far as I could, but it's different when we have Little Jiu around! This Mandala Snake is just at the limit of your absorption, and it has a very powerful increase on your Blue Silver Grass too"
The Master looked relaxed and pointed at Luo San Pao, "San Pao, go and lure it over!"
"Hello!"
Luo San Pao was a cheeky dog, walking up to the Mandala Snake, barking twice provocatively, and humanely wiggling his butt.
The Mandala snake was furious, such a small thing was provoking it?
Whoosh!
Suddenly, the Mandala Snake moved extremely fast, its head dipping down towards Luo San Pao, opening its mouth ready to bite.
"Little Jiu! Set the spirit ring!" The master commanded calmly.
"Yes, Teacher!" Without hesitation, Tang Jiu flung out the spirit ring martial spirit from his hand and set it on the Mandala Snake's body, and in the next moment, the snake's body felt like it had been drained and with the sudden change, it couldn't react at all and fell to the ground with barf.
"Thunder Shock, attack! Fart like thunder, Bomb the Heaven, Crack the Earth, Thunder Shock!" The Grandmaster immediately launched an attack. (T/N: I know the incantation is wrong.)
The 'poof' sounded like a thunderous fart and a powerful wave of Qi swept out in a ranged manner, the timing was just right, the fart threw the Mandala Snake and slammed it hard onto the big tree, knocking it out.
"Little Jiu, hit its belly with the hammer! Don't get close, be careful of the poison." The Grand Master commanded.
Tang Jiu nodded and flung his war hammer, breaking Mandala's bones directly and flattening it down the middle, leaving the back half of its body paralysed.
The Grandmaster was satisfied that the Mandala Snake had been disabled and would basically have no ability to resist, before taking out a short sword and handing it to Tang San, "Kill it! Absorb the spirit ring." (T/N: Ho ho… Evil)
"Hello..." Luo San Pao walked up to the Mandala Snake. It could only look on in anger, helplessly, the strength to open its mouth gone and was finally stabbed to death by Tang San.
"Teacher, this is too easy!" Tang San couldn't help but shake his head, nothing happened to him the whole time.
The Grandmaster nodded: "A spirit master's battle is sometimes this simple, use your strengths and attack your enemy's weaknesses, life or death is a split second away!
However, it requires great judgement and the reason it seemed so easy was because we all worked together. Xiao Jiu controls first so that Luo's attack can deal maximum damage, following with Xiao Jiu. Use every skill to the extreme, this is the essence of a control spirit master and the path you will take in the future!"
Tang San nodded thoughtfully, then began to absorb the spirit ring as the master had taught him, as soon as he used his spirit power to tug, the yellow spirit ring that had appeared over Mandala Snake's body after its death immediately flew into his body.
When Tang San was absorbing the spirit ring, the master then inquired, "Little Jiu, how long can you suppress the spirit beast?"
"Teacher, I can control it for at least three minutes!" Tang Jiu was excited, every second in battle was precious beyond compare.
"Not bad! By observing it just now, by completely suppressing it, they are deprived of their abilities, which include not only speed and defence, but perhaps skills! This spirit ring martial spirit of yours is simply the spirit beast's nemesis!" The Grand Master sighed in admiration.
Tang Jiu was also excited in his heart. He nimbly took out the cauldron and started boiling water.
"What are you doing? Little Jiu, although most spirit beasts are afraid of fire, there are some powerful spirit beasts that love flames!" Master said with a frown.
"Cooking snake meat for dinner! Besides, this is a hundred-year spirit beast area, so it can't attract many powerful spirit beasts." With that, Tang Jiu pulled his short sword out of the snake's mouth and began cutting snake's meat and tossed piece after piece into the cauldron.
Large ingredients were used, salt was added and then stewed vigorously over high heat.
In a short while, the smell of meat filled the air. Master suddenly found it difficult to swallow the dry food he was gnawing in his mouth.
"Come, teacher, try my handiwork!" Tang Jiu took out a bowl, placed snake meat, sprinkled a handful of cilantro and small onions, then poured the boiling hot snake soup and handed it to the master.
The Grandmaster couldn't help but lick his fingers, at this moment he didn't say anything about not making a fire in the wild, with Tang Jiu's spirit ring martial spirit, what else was he afraid of?
Besides, the dead Mandala snake was also a deterrent, many spirit beasts would come around and but after seeing it.
For the first time, he found that it was actually possible to have such a pleasant time in the wilderness, a mouthful of hot soup and snake meat filled his mouth while soothing his soul.
"Xiao Gang! You wanted me to come and help hunting dangerous spirit beasts? I really don't see any danger here? You are eating meat stew. Where is the danger?"
Suddenly, a disgruntled voice came from the forest, and a human figure then appeared on the branch of a large tree.
He stood on the big tree looking like an Owl, none other than Flender, the Flying Corner of the Golden Iron Triangle.
"Don't I have a good student." Master kept eating without even lifting his eyes.
"Xiao Gang, don't you even know to give me a little respect? I've flown all the way from Shrek Academy with my spirit skills on!"
Flender was unhappy, jumping lightly from the tree like a feather, after pushing his glasses, he directly grabbed the bowl and chopsticks from the master's hand and ate a piece of snake meat, taking a slow bite before squinting his glasses and saying, "Not bad, this tastes really good, if we go to sell it in Suotuo City, we will definitely make a lot of money!"
"Kid, is this your secret recipe? Do you want us to work together to make some money! We'll split the money 1:9" Flender patted Tang Jiu's shoulder and said.
"Me nine and you one?" Tang Jiu asked.
"How is that possible? I'm a titled spirit saint! There are multiple people begging to work with me! Why don't you cherish it at all?" Flender said discontentedly.
The Grandmaster couldn't listen to this anymore and pointed at Flender, "This is the helper I've found, Flender, a level seventy-eight Agility-Attack System spirit saint with the martial spirit Owl."
The Grandmaster pointed at Tang Jiu again and said, "Tang Jiu, six years old, Martial spirit Bullet Ant, nineteenth level Power-Attack spirit master!"
Pfft! ~~~
Flender spat out snake soup straight away!
"Nineteenth level, six years old! Is this possible?"
The corners of the Master's mouth curled up in a smirk, "Only this much stunned you? Then you'll see something even more incredible!"
"What could be more surprising to me than that?" Flender was not convinced.
"For example, I'm less than level 30, yet I can absorb the third spirit ring straight away! Become a spirit Elder, in fact, the main reason I asked you to come this time is to hunt for the thousand-year spirit ring for me!"
"Xiao Gang, you're not crazy, are you?"
"What do you think?" The Master's eyes were deep, that had never been more serious!
"That means I'm crazy! Is it that I'm dreaming ....." Flender felt that his brain was a complete mess.
Soon after Tang San finished absorbing the spirit ring, Flender hurriedly asked, "Just now I heard your teacher say that you're also a little monster, let's see how powerful you really are."
Tang San stood up and said, "First spirit Skill, Bind! Please instruct me."
With that, the Blue Silver Grass in his hand grew out and wrapped around a small tree, pulling hard, the small tree was uprooted and the colour of the bark darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It was tough and poisonous!
Flender pushed up his glasses and couldn't help but exclaim, "Quite a little monster, such a bizarre blue silver grass, it's the first time I've seen it! Xiao Gang has a good eye."
"Brother, try the snake meat I made, recover your strength and we'll go to the Thousand-Year spirit beast area!" Tang Jiu was already a little impatient to test master's theory.
Tang San didn't waste any time either, after nimbly eating the meat and drinking the soup, the four of them headed towards the Thousand-Year spirit beast area.
Flender didn't follow them on the ground but summoned his martial spirit to scout from the sky, which was much more efficient.
"Xiao Gang, what kind of spirit beast are you looking for?"
"My martial spirit can only go in the direction of auxiliary control, so it's best to attach field control skills, and since Luo San Pao's attack can only be farting, the main direction I'm considering is, elemental and poison. Ice, fire and poison, all three attributes of thousand-year-old spirit beasts are fine, spirit beasts preferably no more than one thousand one hundred years old, this is the maximum limit I can absorb."
The Grandmaster had long ago set his direction.
"Ice, fire and poison! This fart from Luo San Pao would be extraordinary." Flender couldn't help but laugh, thinking about that fat Luo San Pao farting that could carry this effect, regardless of the control effect, the image alone was comical.
When Tang Jiu heard Flender's teasing, he couldn't help but laugh as well. The master gave Flander a fierce glare and said angrily, "Cut the crap and get serious!"
"What's the point of being so serious? You must enjoy life!" Suddenly, Flender exclaimed, "Xiao Gang, you're lucky to find a red fire scorpion! It's a metre long."
The view ahead of Tang Jiu suddenly opened up, the forest seemed to be missing a part of it, and a clearing of more than two hundred metres in circumference appeared in front of him, the ground was not wet mud, but rocks and sand grains, and the temperature around it seemed to be a few degrees higher.
In the middle of the sand, a scorpion with armour-like fire suddenly crawled up, its body a metre long with pincers waving angrily, its tail stinger rose high and shone with a scarlet light, and its whole body was as magnificent as if it was made of rubies.
"A red fire scorpion, just in the first millennium." Master's gaze was fixed.
"Xiao Gang, let me beat it to death first!" Flender landed and laughed.
"Alright! The Red Fire Scorpion, a spirit beast with two attributes, fire and poison, and exceptionally hard armour" The Grandmaster nodded his head.
Flender stepped forward and was about to strike, but Tang Jiu suddenly stepped in front and said, "Teacher, I want to try it alone first!"
"You? Don't joke with your own life! This is a thousand-year spirit beast, even for a level 30 spirit master to hunt this Red Fire Scorpion that has attacks and defences, it would require a team of five to do so!"
Flender snorted coldly, thinking that Tang Jiu was being too arrogant.
"Little Jiu, do you really want to try? This is very dangerous!" The Master's face was grave.
"You're guiding me and there's a spirit saint watching out for me, if I don't dare to fight for my life, then how dare I call myself invincible across the ranks?" Tang Jiu directly took out his war hammer and carried it in his hand.
"Invincible? You'll have to be invincible in your class first! Kid, don't wave yourself to death, even the best talent will be useless then!" Flender felt the need to knock Tang Jiu around a bit.
"Want to make a bet! I can take out this Red Fire Scorpion by myself! I have a thousand gold coins in my hand, and I'm worried about having nowhere to spend them!" Tang Jiu smiled towards Flender.
"One thousand golden spirit coins! Your lord is really generous, it's better to waste it on me than to let me keep it for you!" Flender' eyes lit up and immediately patted Tang Jiu's shoulder happily, saying, "Kid, I actually think highly of you, go ahead! Teenagers should be reckless and flamboyant, that's what gives them energy!"
The Master rolled his eyes, but the corners of his mouth curled up in a smile and glanced at Flender in pity, and then opened his mouth to point out Tang Jiu, saying.
"The Red Fire Scorpion is the least good at speed, you have to be careful of its tail stinger, and pincers. Especially the tail stinger, it can fire flames, and it also has a neurological toxin, if you get stuck by the tail stinger, you'll just have to wait for death!"
"Understood!" Tang Jiu immediately understood that is to say, as long as he found a way to break the Red Fire Scorpion's tail stinger first, the Red Fire Scorpion will turn into a toothless tiger.
Tang Jiu immediately summoned his martial spirit, his body's strength skyrocketed and he charged towards the Red Fire Scorpion with his War Hammer.
"Did I read that right! Not a single spirit ring?" Flender took his eyes off in surprise, rubbing them in disbelief, only seeing the bullet ant with the martial spirit attached to it, not a single spirit ring!
"Not bad! Technically speaking, Xiao Jiu is a zero ring nineteenth level spirit master!"
The corners of the Master's mouth curled up into a smile, he was not much better than Flender when he learned this information and was almost doubting his life as well.
Flender struggled to swallow his saliva, unable to figure out how he had risen to level eleven without a spirit ring!
The corners of Tang San's mouth relieved, his heart finally balanced out a lot, seeing as how a level seventy-eight spirit Sage wasn't much better than himself!
At this moment, a sharp insect cry rang out, the Red Fire Scorpion was very angry, although it was afraid of Flender' huge spirit power, it couldn't tolerate a tiny Tang Jiu daring to charge into its territory!
The ruby-like pincers swung towards Tang Jiu. Tang Jiu didn't rush to use his spirit ring martial spirit, but swung his war hammer at the Red Fire Scorpion's pincers, to test his opponent's strength.
Dang!
The hammer collided with the pincers, surprisingly making a sound of metal striking. Tang Jiu was also lifted three or four metres by the Red Fire Scorpion's huge force, and only after a beautiful flip did he stand on his feet.
Tang Jiu calculated that the Red Fire Scorpion's strength was around 1200 Kgs, so he could not crush himself!
With one successful strike, the Red Fire Scorpion immediately marched towards Tang Jiu at full speed, its tail stinger raised high and swaying, ready to deal a fatal blow to Tang Jiu.
"Can you do it, kid? If you can't stand it, say it quickly! Don't be sore about the 1,000 gold coins!" Flender laughed out loud, he had never seen such a money-giver, although he was surprised at Tang Jiu's strength, he really couldn't see Tang Jiu having any chance of winning!
Seeing the Red Fire Scorpion attacking at full speed, Tang Jiu advanced instead of retreating, and the spirit Ring martial spirit in his hand was placed on the Flying Red Fire Scorpion.