Chapter 134: The Fire of Jealousy and Greed

"Really?" Zhu Zhuqing looked at Shi Quan with eyes full of shock. She had seen with her own eyes how painful and agonizing it was when Tang San absorbed a Soul Ring beyond his limit. She knew her own limitations; with her strength, she simply couldn't withstand it.

But now, with one Immortal Herb, she could absorb a Soul Ring of up to two thousand five hundred years?

Is the medicinal power of this Immortal Herb that potent?

"It is naturally true," Shi Quan said with a faint smile. "After you absorb the Soul Ring, your soul power level should rise directly to around level thirty-five."

"What?!" Upon hearing this, Zhu Zhuqing's expression immediately grew a bit worried. "To be able to increase so much—if strength improves too quickly, won't it lead to an unstable foundation?"

Shi Quan shook his head and laughed: "Rest assured, the Immortal Herb is a treasure for strengthening the foundation and nourishing the origin. All the improvements will not affect your foundation; not only will they not affect it, but they will also make your foundation even deeper and your talent will transform. You will understand the wonders of this Immortal Herb in the future."

"That powerful!?" Zhu Zhuqing's mouth opened slightly. After a pause, she looked at Shi Quan earnestly. "For such a treasure, what did Zhuang Zhou trade with you?"

Shi Quan smiled and pointed to his own head: "Knowledge."

Zhu Zhuqing was stunned for a moment and asked in return: "What does knowledge mean?"

Shi Quan smiled, signaling her not to worry. "Don't worry, it was just a matter of him opening his mouth; he didn't lose anything. As for me, I took a real, tangible Immortal Herb to trade with him."

"Really?" Zhu Zhuqing looked at Shi Quan, half-believing and half-doubting.

Xiao Wu tried her best to hide her aura in panic. After a Spirit Beast transforms, its soul power is collectively referred to as the Juvenile Period until it reaches level sixty. At this stage, any Spirit Master at the level of Spirit Douluo or above can discover her existence.

A guaranteed profit without loss.

"Mm." Zhu Zhuqing nodded. Calculating the time, she realized she had already been delayed for a while.

And sitting in front of her were three powerhouses at the Spirit Douluo level. If she were even slightly careless, her identity as a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast would be exposed.

Massive soul power fluctuations continuously pressed down on Tang San from all directions.

"Alright, since Shrek is going to merge into the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy anyway, I'll just find the Education Committee to have you transferred over later." Shi Quan nodded. "Let's go. The people from Shrek should still be waiting for you. If I'm not mistaken, you all are supposed to meet the Education Committee this morning, right?"

"That's fine." Zhu Zhuqing considered it for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

Another rare genius, and one who also came with two Spirit Saints, three Soul Emperors, and another master of Spirit Master theory.

"Many thanks to Spirit Douluo Zhilin for your kindness." Master stood up with a smile and bowed to Zhilin.

*Poof—*, the Blue Silver Grass surrounding Tang San scattered and flew away, and eight ink-green spider spears appeared behind Tang San's back.

Shi Quan said with a wry smile: "Of course it's true. By the way, how have you considered what Zhuang Zhou asked you to do—following me to cultivate? With me, you'll improve much faster than with that good-for-nothing."

They had originally felt that Tang San's talent was slightly inferior to Shi Quan's, but if he possessed an External Spirit Bone, that would be a different matter entirely.

Upon hearing about the External Spirit Bone, Meng Shenji and the others all revealed expressions of shock.

However, when they arrived at the courtyard, there was already no one in sight.

"They must have gone ahead. Let's go, I'll take you to the Education Committee." Seeing this, Shi Quan took Zhu Zhuqing and walked toward the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Education Committee.

The two then stood up and walked quickly toward the courtyard where Shrek was resting.

Because they were worried about keeping the Three Great Education Committees waiting, Flender and the others had no choice but to bring Tang San and the others to pay a visit to the Three Great Education Committees first.

With the existence of this External Spirit Bone, Tang San was enough to catch up to Shi Quan's talent. Moreover, Tang San truly possessed Innate Full Spirit Power; if one were to calculate carefully, perhaps Tang San's future achievements would be even higher than Shi Quan's.

Master smiled slightly, then explained the matter of the Soul-Devouring Eight Spider Lances merging with Tang San's body.

Inside the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Education Committee.

Fortunately, however, the attention of these three Spirit Douluos was focused entirely on Tang San.

Meng Shenji also promised to provide Tang San and the others with the best cultivation facilities and environment, and agreed that it would not matter even if Shrek did not represent the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy in the competition.

As a long groan faded, Tang San once again attracted everyone's attention. Under Zhilin's pressure, he not only fused the soul bone with his body, but his soul power also broke through to level thirty-four.

Flender then began to boast about Yu Xiaogang, saying that they dared not take credit for Tang San's abilities, as he was the Master's direct disciple, attributing everything about Tang San to Yu Xiaogang.

Hearing Flender's words, the gazes of the Three Great Education Committees could not help but fall on Yu Xiaogang. Facing the gazes of the Three Great Education Committees, Yu Xiaogang immediately held his head high and chest out, looking full of confidence.

"We have long heard of the Master's reputation. Seeing you today, you are truly worthy of the title of Master." Meng Shenji praised him without reservation.

Hearing the praise from Meng Shenji, a Spirit Douluo, Yu Xiaogang felt a bit carried away.

"Then it is settled. Teacher Qin, I will trouble you to make the arrangements."

After further discussion, the matter was finally finalized under Meng Shenji's order.

The Shrek group then stood up and bid farewell to the Three Great Education Committees. Only after walking out of the Education Committee did Xiao Wu let out a sigh of relief.

Because of Shi Quan's actions yesterday, Xue Beng did not bring Prince Xue Xing to cause trouble for Shrek today.

Shrek Academy was officially merged into the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

Just as the group walked out of the Education Committee, they happened to run into Zhu Zhuqing and Shi Quan coming toward them.

Upon seeing Zhu Zhuqing, Flender immediately frowned and scolded sternly: "Zhuqing, where have you been? Don't you know today is such an important event? Fortunately, the Three Great Education Committees didn't blame us, otherwise the entire Shrek would have been implicated because of you."

"Dean Flender, don't go around pinning such big labels on people," Shi Quan said indifferently.

"Forget it, Dean. The junior must have been busy with something urgent, which is why she was delayed. It's fine." Qin Ming spoke up hurriedly, then looked at Shi Quan. "Xiao Quan, you show some respect too. Dean Flender has already led the entire Shrek Academy to merge into the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy. All of them are now members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy. In the coming time, they will train with us, and you can all get to know each other."

"Train together?" Shi Quan raised an eyebrow and looked at Qin Ming with a half-smile. "Training together is fine, but first, let them call me Teacher Shi and let me hear it?"

"You..." Dai Mubai and the others were immediately furious.

Qin Ming hurriedly said: "They are only training with us; the training plan is formulated by themselves. Xiao Quan, you don't need to be responsible for their training."

"Is that so?" Shi Quan glanced at Yu Xiaogang, then looked at Zhu Zhuqing.

Zhu Zhuqing finally spoke up: "Dean, I have broken through to level thirty."

"What? Level thirty?" Flender said in surprise. Tang San and the others were also shocked, their gazes all falling on Shi Quan.

Last night, when Zhu Zhuqing left, her strength was only level twenty-eight, on the verge of breaking through to twenty-nine. Yet, in the span of one night, Zhu Zhuqing had directly broken through twenty-eight and reached level thirty in one go.

"Zhuqing, why has your strength suddenly increased so much?" Ning Rongrong couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

"Guess?" Shi Quan looked at Ning Rongrong.

"Did I ask you?" Ning Rongrong glared at Shi Quan.

"Prying into other people's secrets is not a good habit."

"Hmph!" Ning Rongrong's mouth opened slightly, and after a cold snort, she said: "If I don't ask, I don't ask. I'm not curious at all."

After the group looked at each other, seeing that Ning Rongrong had said so, they were embarrassed to take the initiative to pry into the secret of Zhu Zhuqing's strength increase. Such a big change was clearly because of the things Zhuang Zhou had asked Shi Quan to bring for Zhu Zhuqing.

As for what exactly it is, I am not clear.

"Qin Ming, if I remember correctly, Heaven Dou City is very close to the Sunset Forest, right?" Flender looked toward Qin Ming.

Qin Ming nodded, "Yes, Zhuqing can go to the Sunset Forest to obtain her Third Soul Ring. The Sunset Forest has very abundant Spirit Beast resources, so it is not difficult to help Zhuqing find a suitable soul ring."

"Good, tomorrow we will go help Zhuqing obtain her Third Soul Ring." Flender nodded happily, his previous annoyance vanishing completely.

"Zhuqing, we will talk about other matters later, there is no rush; I am going to busy myself with other things first." Shi Quan could not be bothered to deal with the people from Shrek; if they were not still somewhat useful, he would have wished for Xue Beng to drive them out quickly.

Master and Tang San had not spoken from beginning to end, watching Shi Quan's departing figure while wondering what they were thinking.

Ning Rongrong also spoke up, "Dean, since there is nothing to do today, I would like to go home for a visit first."

Flender nodded and gave his consent, and Ning Rongrong subsequently left.

Qin Ming continued to lead the group from Shrek toward the place where the Imperial Fighting Team trained, introducing the various training grounds and training equipment of the Imperial Fighting Team as they walked, while the group also greeted Yu Feng and the others.

Upon hearing that the people from Shrek Academy were going to train with them, the expressions of Yu Feng and the others were somewhat unpleasant; only Yu Tianheng was exceptionally happy.

As for Shi Quan, after parting ways, he left Heaven Dou Imperial Academy directly and headed toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

The improvement of Zhuqing's strength had already lit the fire, and it was time to let Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling return to help this fire burn even larger.

He was gambling, gambling that Tang Hao was definitely at Heaven Dou Imperial Academy; after all, the Blue Silver Emperor and the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone had been stolen for so long, yet he had not heard of any big news occurring in the Spirit Master world.

Since Tang Hao had not caused any trouble, he would definitely be guarding his only current hope—Tang San.

As long as this flame of jealousy and greed could be ignited, then Tang Hao would definitely not let this opportunity pass.

Evidently, Shi Quan had bet correctly.

Night fell.

Tang Hao's figure appeared inside Master's room.

"Master."

Hearing that familiar voice of Tang Hao, Master stood up abruptly and looked at Tang Hao excitedly, "Your Excellency Haotian, you have come..."