Chapter 112: Fifth Spirit Ring

The green coloured spirit power of the Heavenly Wood Laurel Tree drummed, a sharp wooden spear grew out from the branches, a full twenty metres in length, and with a shake of the canopy, whoosh, whoosh, the sky was filled with wooden spears stabbing at Xiao Jiu's head.

Xiao Jiu couldn't help but feel that the plant-based spirit beasts were really tenacious and had a more liberal fighting style.

"First, I'll barbecue you alive!"

Xiao Jiu opened his hand and nine fire dragons appeared around his body, opening his mouth and spitting out crimson flames, instantly igniting these wooden spears.

However, the downward power of these wooden spears was not to be underestimated, as they could actually pierce directly into the hard rocks from a height of 300 metres.

These wooden spears obviously had terrifying wood power, and despite being burnt by the flames, they still thudded into the fire dragon's body, breaking its scales.

"True to form, this is a 70,000 year old plant-based spirit beast, this battle power is truly terrifying, then you try my ice and fire two rites power again!"

An ice crystal fire phoenix appeared, its icy blue body burning with blazing flames, extreme cold and scorching heat blended into one, opening its wings and chirping loudly and clear, covered by the power of the two rites of ice and fire, those wooden spears shattered into pieces with a loud bang.

"Give me a blast!"

Xiao Jiu commanded the ice crystal fire phoenix and charged towards the Heavenly Wood Laurel Tree, and with a boom, the terrifying power of the two rites of ice and fire blew right through the Heavenly Wood Laurel Tree, causing it to break down the middle.

The human face on the trunk was terrified, it pulled up all its roots and fought to escape, but it was after all a plant-based spirit beast, although it was able to move, this movement speed was not much faster than a turtle.

Xiao Jiu raised his hand, and flames swept through the sky, burning the roots and whiskers of the Heavenly Wood Laurel Tree.

When the smell of burning came, Xiao Jiu smiled and said, "Come on, I'll cool you down!"

The field of ice covered the sky and a blizzard swept down, freezing the giant tree into an ice tree, freezing its trunk and roots so brittle that every time it moved, those tiny root whiskers were directly snapped off by itself.

The Skywood Laurel Tree was about to cry, was this the work of a human spirit master?

The human face on its torso gave a pleading expression.

"Alright, I'll stand here and not move, if you can run a thousand meters, I'll let you go!" Xiao Jiu lifted his Martial Spirit Fusion Technique and leaned against the rock with a smile.

The Skywood Laurel Tree's human face was wildly happy, and he didn't care if running rapidly would break more roots and stems as he kept moving towards the distance, the more ice power Xiao Jiu inputted, the more the Skywood Laurel Tree's roots and stems broke the more he ran.

Eventually, all of his hairy roots and stems broke, and even the larger branching roots were finished, leaving only the three main roots, moving forward like an octopus.

A thousand metres, soon, it was about to cross over.

But at this very moment, Xiao Jiu threw out her Spirit Ring Martial Spirit, directly limiting the cultivation of the Heavenly Wood Laurel Tree by over 60,000 years.

"First Spirit Skill, Evil Ring of Speed!"

"Second Spirit Skill, Evil Ring of Spirit!"

"Third Spirit Skill, Evil Ring of Defence!"

With the use of the three spirit techniques, the Heavenly Wood Laurel Tree was completely defeated, and with a forceful stride, its roots broke straight away, and it plunged to the ground with a loud rumble, falling onto the rocks, its huge coloured trunk being shattered into a sky full of ice slag.

Human spirit master, I will not spare you even as a ghost!

The Skywood Laurel Tree hissed reluctantly in its heart before it died, If you dare to absorb my spirit ring, I will make you explode!

You're too much bullying for the tree!

How about just killing me? I'm afraid I'll be the first tree to be frozen to death!

A black spirit ring floated out from the pile of wood shavings of the Heavenly Wood Laurel Tree.

"It's really not my fault, it's mainly because my teacher said to let spirit beasts experience extreme emotions so that they have a chance of exploding spirit bones! I hope you'll be able to die without resting!"

Xiao Jiu sat on the remains of the Heavenly Wood Laurel Tree and absorbed this spirit ring cross-legged, the limit of what he could absorb now was just a little over 60,000 years.

Absorbing this 70,000 year spirit ring was in constant danger of exploding.

Boom! ~~~

Just after introducing the spirit ring into his body, Xiao Jiu's body bulged up.

[I'm going to get you! The spirit power of the Heavenly Wood Laurel Tree that remained in the spirit ring, seeing that the chance for revenge had come, immediately went crazy with its spirit power and interfered with Xiao Jiu, eroding Xiao Jiu's will.

"The angrier you are, the happier I am!"

Xiao Jiu laughed in his heart, he had a strong life force, would he really explode his body? You think too much!

I'm just going to make your resentment reach its peak!

The remaining spiritual power of the Skywood Laurel Tree was messing around wildly, causing the energy in the spirit ring to become more and more violent.

Suddenly, strange noises rang out.

Click, click, click.

There was an additional deadwood on Xiao Jiu's spine bone, shaped like a shrunken version of the Skywood Laurel Tree!

"Haha, thanks, if only I had something to finally come! An external spirit bone! And it's still with the purest power of wood!"

Xiao Jiu's gaze gleamed, then the power of ice and fire quickly ran through his body meridians once, his body became stronger.

An hour later, he had perfectly absorbed the spirit ring of the Heavenly Wood Laurel Tree.

Xiao Jiu's Bullet Ant Martial Spirit evolved once again.

Ice, fire, gold and wood, four ring patterns appeared, making the Bullet Ant look even more mysterious and terrifying.

On Xiao Jiu's body, five spirit rings hovered silently, purple, black, black, red and black!

What's more, a withered wood grew out from Xiao Jiu's spinal column bone, attached to the spirit bone, the Heavenly Wood Laurel Tree!

Mighty wood power flowed throughout his body, Xiao Jiu pressed on blue silver grass, the wood power unleashed, and the blue silver grass began to grow wildly, in the blink of an eye it grew to three meters tall, as huge as a hundred-year-old blood sucking vine!

And Xiao Jiu also obtained the fifth spirit skill, the Power of Heavenly Wood Growth!

The Heavenly Wood Laurel Tree, rooted in rock, as it grew, its roots swelled to be able to crumble rocks, this power was incomparably terrifying.

After using the spirit skill, it instantly increases Xiao Jiu's strength by 110%, which can be added according to the spirit ring! For each additional ring, the boost increases by 10% more! It lasts for 5 seconds!

"The plant is terrifying! Its power increase is actually more than even the Azure Green Bull Python!"

Xiao Jiu couldn't help but smack his lips as he attentively experienced this power boost.

Base strength went from 24,000 pounds to 25,000 pounds, and because of the extra spirit ring, the power amplitude went from 28 times to 87 times!

The peak strength went from 640,000 pounds to a terrifying 2.17 million pounds.

Xiao Jiu's fist swung out and space felt like it let out a sad sound, "At this rate before I fuse the power of gold, wood, water, fire and earth to cultivate my divine power, I guess I'll just become a god with my power and become a god of power!"

This was only an 87 times increase in power, knowing that an ant's power increase could be hundreds of times, and his martial spirit was still evolving, so God knows what it would become?

"This time, I've obtained the power of wood, possessed the external attached spirit bone, and also melted the power of the two rites of ice and fire, and my power has increased drastically, I feel like I've already set foot on the path to becoming a god! All I need now is time to settle down and fuse more powers as soon as possible, gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, poison and spirit power!"

Xiao Jiu's eyes narrowed, if the nine elemental powers were fused together, he didn't think it would be possible not to become a god!

All that was needed now was sedimentation and time!

"The next step is to choose to major in one power and sense the domain first, then fuse it with the power of the two rites of ice and fire!"

Xiao Jiu quickly made a cultivation plan to cultivate the Wood Power first and comprehend the Wood Domain, after all, it was easier to comprehend the Wood Domain with his wood-based external attached spirit bone.

Xiao Jiu turned around and left the place.

A month later, in the Heavenly Dou Empire, at the gates of Sky Water Academy.

A young boy appeared, with green pupils, white hair, and a wooden mask shaped like a muzzle and walked in with great strides.

"Wow, here comes a handsome guy! What's he up to?"

"He's not here to harass Sister Shui Bing'er again, is he!"

The girls of Skywater College were depressed, why was there only one Shui Bing'er in the boys' eyes? They stopped the teenager.

"Who are you looking for? Don't you know this is a women's college?"

With a smile, the teenager said, "I'm looking for your dean! Can anyone tell me where the dean's office is?"

The girls were shocked and dismayed that they weren't looking for a pick-up artist!

"You're looking for the dean? Who are you to her?"

"Do you know what? Your dean almost became my stepmother! Who do you think I am?"

It was true, this teenager was none other than Xiao Jiu, who could change his appearance slightly after mastering the power of wood.

The girls were suddenly all gossipy, each scrambling to take the teenager to the dean's office .....

Xiao Jiu walked to the door of the dean's office and suddenly scratched his head in embarrassment and asked, "Speak, what is my stepmother's name?"

The girls from Skywater College: "...."

Many of them were rubbing their fists together, wanting to beat up Xiao Jiu, how do you know our dean is your stepmother if you don't know her name?

Skywater Academy, office.

A woman sat behind the office desk, she was the dean of Skywater Academy, Shui Xinrou, a level 86 Spirit Douluo, her personality was just like her name, as gentle as water.

She looked at the strange teenager in front of her with a helpless face.

"When did I, almost become your stepmother?"

"I wanted to introduce you to my father at the time, but he was too indefatigable and suddenly hung up! But don't worry, we'll be a family sooner or later, I've found you a more reliable one!"

Xiao Jiu thought to himself, "Flender seems to be good, let's set him up, You both are not married anyway! We're making merit!

"I think you are the most unreliable!"

Next to her, the girl Xue Mai, with her almond eyes glaring angrily, wanted to freeze Xiao Jiu into a popsicle.

Did they look like if the dean had a good temper, so they could be so reckless!

Their dean is a Spirit Douluo, not just anyone can come and be worthy of him!

"Little girl, I am a professional matchmaker! We take the high-end route, specializing in matching people with each other!" Xiao Jiu glared at this Xue Wu, don't you know, I almost set up two super douluo before! We're so good at what we do"

But Shui Xin Rou waved her hand gently and told Xue Wu to keep her mouth shut, she just gave Xiao Jiu a reproachful look and treated it as a child's play, not taking it to heart.

She advocated teaching without class and recruited commoners' children, offending many nobles and big families. The man she could look at did not share his philosophy; those who looked at her, were of low strength and wanted to climb on her, so she stayed single.

"Say, what is your name and what do you want from me?" Shui Xin Rou still asked patiently, she really loved education and cared for every child.

"I heard that only your Skywater Academy and Shrek Academy are recruiting civilian children, I also want to participate in the Senior Spirit Master Competition, so I want to join your Skywater Battle Team."

Xiao Jiu thought that while diving into cultivation and secretly protecting Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu from the dark hands of Qian Daoliu, participating in the Spirit Master Competition was the best way to do so.

But, his identity was a big problem, he couldn't impersonate a noble, it would be easy for people from the Martial Spirit Hall to find out.

But as a commoner, the Higher Spirit Master Academies simply didn't want him!

The only ones that could accept him were Skywater Academy and Shrek Academy, and he didn't want to go help Tang San, so Skywater Academy was the only option.

"What makes you want to join our Skywater Battle Team?" Xue Wu hummed.

"Kid, we're a girls' school, we only recruit girls!" Shui Xin Rou spoke much more gently and gave Xiao Jiu an apologetic smile.

Xiao Jiu laughed, "As long as I'm on board, I will definitely let you guys get the championship of the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament!"

"With just you? Hmph! ~~ Probably not even as good as me! And you're still talking big, don't think that just because you're handsome, you can come to our Skywater Academy and harass the girls, this is my sister's territory!"

Xue Wu snapped and hammered her fist on the table, smashing a frosty flower.

"Kid, come out! Spar with this sister!"

Xue Wu snorted coldly, about to teach Xiao Jiu a lesson.

"Brat, you can't! I, alone, can challenge all of your Skywater Battle Team! And I won't even release my martial spirit." Xiao Jiu leaned back in his chair and shook his head gently, he had to show his great power, which was the only way he could stay here.

"Then let me try you!"

Xue Wu was exasperated, how arrogant was this!

A six-petal frost flower emerged behind her, and four spirit rings emerged from her body.

"Ice Roar!"

Xue Wu's first spirit ring lit up, dense clouds of ice above Xiao Jiu's head before a huge chunk of ice frantically smashed down.

"Xue Wu! Show some mercy!"

Shui Xin Rou spoke out to stop it, Xue Wu was the vice captain of the Skuywater Academy battle team, a level 42 Battle Spirit Ancestor, second only to Shui Bing Er in strength.

She was afraid that Xue Wu would not strike lightly and seriously injure Xiao Jiu.

But the next second, her eyes widened in shock.

A chunk of ice smashed down, and without Xiao Jiu moving, the ice was crushed into ice slag by Xiao Jiu's ice power, forming a huge human hand around Xiao Jiu and raising a middle finger in Xue Wu's direction.

"You can't! Hurry up and call Shui Bing'er and the girls, after the fight, I'm still waiting for dinner!" Xiao Jiu said with a grin.

"Bastard! I'll kill you!" Xue Wu was furious, a sharp ice cream appeared in her hand and stabbed towards Xiao Jiu's face.

Xiao Jiu's face was black, why was this chick's temper so explosive!

He didn't want to tangle with Xue Wu, the Ice Domain was activated, the ice hand turned into an ice fist under Xiao Jiu's control, and a fist blasted Xue Wu's body, sending her flying out of the dean's office.

Shui Xin Rou's eyes stared and leaked a thoughtful look, the power just now didn't feel like a martial spirit's spirit skill!

Instead, it felt like a domain!

But, how could it be? A domain was something that only a high ranking Titled Douluo could master!

"Wow! How handsome! Dean, I strongly request to keep him!"

"Yes, yes, even Xue Wu can't defeat him, he'll be able to protect us in the future!"

The girls gathered around were all bright-eyed, boys are a scarce resource in a girls' school! Especially a handsome guy with great strength!

Xue Wu's face darkened as she hummed, "What a bunch of sluts!"

"Dean Shui, now, is it possible for me to become a student of Skywater Academy? I can introduce you to someone oh!"

Xiao Jiu winked at Shui Xinrou.

"Are you bribing me?" Shui Xinrou burst into tears and laughter!

Many boys wanted to enter Skywater Academy and came up with all sorts of excuses, but this was definitely the most bizarre reason she had ever heard!

"We're family sooner or later, really! Today you let me into the academy, tomorrow I'll take you on a blind date! I'm going to introduce you to someone who is strong, can make money, has a high moral character, is gentle and humorous, tall and handsome, ancient and warm-hearted, truly a wonderful man!"

Xiao Jiu was lying on her desk, trying his best to sell Flender, thinking, "Look how good I am to you!"

Shui Xinrou was so embarrassed, she was definitely not Xiaojiu's stepmother.

The girls around them all covered their mouths and snickered, they had never seen the dean so embarrassed!

"Get out!"

Suddenly, a cold cry rang out as a beautiful girl with ice blue hair and a blue dress entered, her blue eyes staring at Xiao Jiu as she said in a cold voice, "Do you think that because my teacher has a good temper, you can be so reckless!"

"Sister Shui Bing'er is here!" The girls around immediately halted her, Shui Bing'er was actually not very old, younger than many of them, but she was strong, so all of them called her sister.

"Bing'er, you're here! I was just about to look for you, I've decided to recruit him as the first male cadet in our academy!"

Shui Xinrou said with a warm and forgiving smile.

"What?!"

Shui Bing'er was stunned, but the girls around her were all cheering, as the saying goes, men and women work together, with a handsome man, there's motivation to get up early and practise! There was someone needed who could appreciate their pretty clothes too!

Shui Yue'er blinked her eyes inquisitively at Xiao Jiu, then asked for her sister, "Teacher, why are we recruiting boys! We're a girls' school."

Shui Xin Rou smiled gently and said, "To find you guys a flower protector! If anyone bullies you in the future, you will have someone to stand up for you! This year's Spirit Master Competition, your opponents are very strong!"

"We'll be bullied? Teacher, you don't believe in us?" Shui Bing'er was very unconvinced, this was disapproval of her strength.

She turned back to Xiao Jiu and coldly snorted, "What kind of mesmerizing soup did this kid put in teacher?"

Xiao Jiu shrugged and said, "Please call me Brother Jiu!"

"Hmm? Anyone who tries to take advantage of me, I will freeze him into a block of ice!" Shui Bing'er's face turned cold.

"My name will be Brother Jiu! My parents name me Brother Jiu. If you feel uncomfortable calling it that, you can add little to the front and call me Little Brother Jiu!" Xiao Jiu explained.

Shui Yue'er, Xue Wu and the others: "....."

Is this name serious?

Shui Xinrou was stunned for a moment, who was so unethical to name their son such a name!

Shui Bing'er's face was cold, just because the name was so unethical, this person should never be allowed to come into the academy either!

"You said that you want to challenge our Skywater Academy battle team? I won't take advantage of you either, as long as you can defeat me! I'll let you enter the academy!"

Shui Bing'er glared angrily at Xiao Jiu.

Xiao Jiu shyly said, "Actually, if you really want to take advantage of me, I wouldn't normally refuse under normal circumstances!"

There was cheeky laughter from the girls around, "Wow, Brother Jiu is so funny!"

"Bunch of nymphomaniacs!" Xue Wu was furious.

With that, Shui Bing'er gently stepped on the ground, and just like an elf of ice, she slid outside, a beautiful ice phoenix rising from behind.

Battle intent boiled over!