Chapter 19: Get ready to fight

Tang Jiu did not rush to call Flender over, but nestled in master's dormitory to seriously cultivate his spirit power.

The master also did his best to teach Tang Jiu various theoretical knowledge.

Tang Jiu learned very seriously and was also pondering the use of the Cursed Seal, which surprisingly ran from the forehead of the Evil Ring Devouring Ant to Tang Jiu's left shoulder.

The blood-red three commas however never showed any special reaction, no matter whether it was spirit power prodding or other emotional stimulation.

"Try to use spirit power cultivation instead of sleeping."

The master also gave Tang Jiu a little trick to speed up the cultivation of spirit power.

Tang Jiu also kept trying, the current him needed 8 hours of sleep, replacing one hour with spirit power cultivation and felt full of energy, replacing one and a half hours with spirit power and felt a bit unhinged.

After 28 days of cultivation, Tang Jiu could now replace his sleep with spirit power cultivation for an hour and a half. His spirit power cultivation was now much faster than Tang San's, after all, he was physically fit!

Finally, he had broken through from level 26 to level 27!

Tang Jiu was so happy that everything was ready but the fighter, so he wrote a letter to Flender, the content was simple.

It was that the Lord of Notting City wanted to kill him and collect the reward from the Martial Spirit Hall but he was not dead and had told his father Tang Hao, who decided to take the head of the Lord of Notting City three days later.

The Lord of Notting City had so much wealth, many things were too valuable for Tang Jiu himself to understand, it was useless for Tang Hao to ask for money now, he needed someone with an eye to identify and to realise things!

When Flender received the letter, his two eyes were shining. He entrusted the school to Zhao Wuji, and flew over directly.

Upon entering Master's room, he immediately laughed out loud, "Little Jiu, I've missed you very much!"

"You're missing the money!" Tang Jiu grunted.

Flender was unimpressed, looking at Tang Jiu like he was a moving vault, rubbing his hands together, "What exactly does your father want to do? If you need me to cooperate, I am absolutely obliged to do so, it's just the ratio of this share, let's make it clear, how about eight for me and two for you?"

"Fifty-fifty, take it or leave it!" Tang Jiu grunted.

Flender was relieved now, if a kid as cunning as Tang Jiu didn't bargain with him, then there was a big problem.

"Deal!"

Flender poured himself a cup of tea with joy and sipped it comfortably, it smelled so good!

Master shook his head gently and didn't say a word.

Seeing that Flender agreed, Tang Jiu said, "This time, my father is out to conceal my identity, so it's necessary to draw out anyone who knows my identity!"

"What do you mean?" Flender raised an eyebrow, why did it sound a bit dangerous?

"It means that I must break into the City Lord's Mansion alone and let them come and kill me, calling you here is to prevent me from being killed in seconds, and when I have lured out all the people who know about the City Lord's Mansion, finally my father will shine and smash them to death with a hammer!"

Tang Jiu said his plan, Flender understood, the feeling was that he wanted him to go head to head with the city lord's men first!

"I won't do it!" Flender's head shook like a rattle.

"Afraid?" Tang Jiu hummed disdainfully.

"It's not a question of whether I'm afraid or not, it's an open secret that the Martial spirit Hall's Enforcement Corps is in the Notting City Lord's Mansion if I were to do it, I'd be making an enemy of the Martial Spirit Hall, and if things were to go bad, I'd have to flee everywhere, but my Shrek Academy will be finished!"

Flender's mind was clear and wasn't wound up by Tang Jiu.

"Moreover, did you know that after making a move, the Martial spirit Hall's people will infer the approximate spirit skill, spirit power level based on the battle traces remaining, this is no joke!"

"The Martial spirit Hall is so hardcore?" Tang Jiu didn't believe it.

"Experienced people can do it, the Martial spirit Hall is not short of such talents!" The Grand Master said frankly, he could do it.

With a twinkle in his eye, Tang Jiu laughed, "Don't worry, when the time comes, my father will hammer the city lord's residence to pieces and then write a few big words on it, Murderer, Tang Hao of the Clear Sky Sect! Where would the people from the Martial Spirit Hall need to investigate, they would just go after my father."

Flender's eyes lit up, that was still something to consider!

The corners of the master's mouth twitched, Tang Hao! Where Tang Hao was Tang Jiu didn't even know!

But the master didn't warn Flender, because Tang Jiu was determined to kill the city lord, and if he had to scare Flender away, Little Jiu would be in danger!

Whether to go or not, it was up to Flender's own choice!

Tang Jiu looked at Flender's torn face, so he pulled up his fingers and began to calculate: "The city lord's guard costs 2,000 gold coins and Notting City also owns a spirit-hunting forest, this year's taxes, the income from spirit-hunting forest spirit beast corpses... This city lord's wealth must be at least a million gold coins!"

Flender slapped the table and said angrily, "Bottoms up!"

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Three days later, at night.

Tang Jiu and Flender, wearing masks, entered majestically through the gates of the City Lord's residence and fought their way in, beating people upon sight.

"I'm here to seek revenge on Lord Notting City, so all those who don't want to die should get lost!"

Flender was so domineering in his use of spirit power pressure that a group of soldiers from the city lord's residence were pressed to crawl to their feet, and when Flender released his pressure, it was the soldiers of low strength who all withdrew, they wanted to die for nothing.

"Humph! How dare you barge in the City Lord's residence!"

A voice echoed within the luxurious mansion, then a figure shot out from the house, followed by a total of four people, all in their forties, each wearing the insignia of the Martial spirit Hall, with arrogant expressions.

The moment Notting City Lord saw Tang Jiu, his pupils suddenly shrank.

He had found the corpses of Sox not long ago and was worried at first, fearing that it was Tang Hao's doing, but after checking, he found that it wasn't Tang Hao at all and that Tang Hao only needed a hammer.

The greedy Lord of Notting City did not report this to the Martial spirit Hall, the reward of a spirit bone was not enough to satisfy him.

He also wanted to continue probing Tang Jiu's whereabouts and then assassinate him.

Never would he have expected that Tang Jiu would come to him! Although he followed a spirit master, it was not Tang Hao by looking at his age, and he then led this Martial spirit Hall's law enforcement group out to snipe Tang Jiu.

"Brat, five spirit masters of around level forty should be the limit, there's no one else, you can inform your father to come over!"

Flender felt that this mission was completed too easily and couldn't help but smile, he could just count the money later.

After he got the money, he would make Shrek Academy bigger and stronger!

"What? My father? I don't even know where he is, it's just the two of us tonight to fuck them up! You go first!"

Flender was struck by lightning and his whole body was dumbfounded.

"Who am I, where am I, what am I going to do?" (T/N: I will do one better… How are going to do it?)

A myriad of questions flashed in Flender's mind, his whole body was dizzy, his face twisted under the mask.

As smart as he was, he had been shaded by a little brat, Flender just felt like his IQ was being pushed to the ground and rubbed constantly, all because of greed for money!

He looked around in bewilderment, then underestimated, "Sorry, I went to the wrong door!"

After saying that, he ran straight out of the City Lord's residence in a huff, leaving several of the Notting City Lords to stare at each other!

"Brat, your helper ran away!"

After the Notting City Lord was stunned, a flash of wild joy appeared on his face, it seemed that the helper Tang Jiu had found was afraid of the Martial spirit Hall, wasn't this the same as Tang Jiu throwing himself into the net?

"He's gone, I'll hammer you all to death as usual!"

Tang Jiu seemed unconcerned, he wasn't surprised that Flender had escaped from the battlefield, he wouldn't fight to the death with the Martial Spirit Hall.

However, given Flender's guts, he wouldn't dare to leave now, if Tang Jiu died here, he wouldn't have any good consequences.

So, at this moment, Flender must be somewhere watching this battlefield, waiting for himself to be seriously injured and saving him.

That would be enough!

He was going to do it in a big way!

"Summon the martial spirits!" Lord Notting City let out an explosive cry and then summoned his Martial spirit.

"Level 42 Control System Artifact spirit Clan, Martial Spirit, Blood Sucking Vine!"

A blood-coloured vine appeared in his hand, and four spirit rings appeared on his body, yellow, yellow, purple and purple.

"Dealing with a little doll and you have to put out your full strength, aren't you afraid of scaring him to death?" The men from the Martial spirit Hall's Enforcement Corps smiled arrogantly.

They then summoned their Martial spirits as well, not to clean up Tang Jiu, but in case Flendere returned.

"Level 41 Agility Attack Department, Martial spirit Lightning Panther! spirit ring two yellow and two purple."

"Level 43 Support Departmen, Martial spirit Five Leaf Grass! spirit ring of two yellows and two purples."

"Level 42 Attack Department, Martial spirit Flaming Bird! spirit ring two yellow and two purple."

The three people summoned their martial spirits, gorgeous spirit rings surfacing on their bodies, before turning their attention to the last person.

A smile hung at the corner of his mouth, and a purple gem was attached to his hand.

"Level 44 Attack System, Martial spirit Amethyst! Two yellow and two purple spirit rings."

Tang Jiu's brow furrowed, gemstone type martial spirits, according to the master's theory, most of these types of martial spirits were attacking martial spirits.

Tang Jiu also quickly summoned his martial spirit, the Bullet Ant martial spirit possessed his body, the spirit Ring martial spirit rested in his hand, and a purple spirit ring appeared on his body.

"The first ring of the millennium!" The four men from the Martial spirit Hall's Enforcement Corps couldn't help but exclaim.

"No wonder he dared to come to the City Lord's Mansion to cause trouble!" Only then did they understand Tang Jiu's strength, but even if it was the Thousand Year First Ring, it was still not enough to compare with a level 42 spirit Sect.

Lord Notting City turned towards the Martial spirit Hall's Law Enforcement Corps and said, "I'll take care of this kid. Afterwards, I will definitely thank you heavily."

Lord Notting City didn't want these people to take action, in case Tang Jiu died at the hands of someone, how would the reward for the bounty be calculated?

"Be my guest, City Lord!" The Martial spirit Hall Enforcement Corps didn't think so and nodded with a smile, Tang Jiu, an attacking spirit master, was obviously restrained to death by the City Lord's controlling martial spirit, so they didn't bother to make a move at all.

Tang Jiu fished out the 3,500-pound war hammer from the twelve golden hairpins and took up a fighting stance.

"Weapon martial spirit? Twin martial spirit?"

"No, the spirit power fluctuations are minimal, that's an ordinary hammer!"

"That belt is a spatial spirit guide! The hammer was taken out from there."

The moment the people from the Martial spirit Hall's Enforcement Corps saw Tang Jiu's war hammer, their eyes all lit up, they thought it was the Clear Sky Hammer, but they soon realised something was wrong, but there was a glint of greed in every one of their eyes, the Spatial spirit Guide was just as precious!

Lord Notting City also recognised the spirit guide and secretly said a pity, he couldn't have this item all to himself.

"Go to hell, brat! First spirit skill, entangle!"

Lord Notting City didn't want the night to be too long, directly using his spirit skill, the Bloodsucking Vine quickly grew and wrapped itself around towards Tang Jiu.

"Berserk!"

Tang Jiu directly activated his spirit Bone skill, his strength and speed skyrocketing as he wielded the war hammer in his hand and smashed it fiercely towards the blood-sucking vine.

Hearing only a boom, the blood-sucking vine that was winding over was unexpectedly smashed by the hammer, dissipating into raw spirit power.

"What furious power!" The Flame Bird spirit Master exclaimed.

"Second spirit skill, Bloodsucking Vine Cage!"

Lord Notting City didn't want to waste time, against an attacking spirit master, just keeping the opponent under control was the same as ending the battle, a cluster of blood-sucking vines suddenly grew under Tang Jiu's feet, forming a cage that trapped him dead in the middle.

"Open it for me!"

Tang Jiu waved his battle hammer and smashed it so hard that the blood-sucking vine cage shook, but didn't shatter.

"I've got a spirit ring that absorbs Bitter Bamboo spirit Beasts, it's exceptionally tough, there's no way you'll be able to smash it open!" Lord Notting City sneered with a grunt.

Then the first purple colour on his body lit up.

"Third spirit skill, Thorny Bloodthorn!"

This was the blood-sucking vine's native skill, with long wooden thorns sprouting from the vines, and when they pierced into the enemy's body, they could suck blood; blood-sucking vines were rare, animal-hunting plants.

As soon as the wooden thorns reached out, the cage trapping Tang Jiu began to shrink, and a wooden thorn was like a dagger, stabbing at Tang Jiu's body.

"This kid is finished! The City Lord's Bloodsucking Vine is not something he can easily smash through." Five-leaf Grass, who was also of the Plant Department, was well aware of the current situation, and he didn't think there were attacking spirit masters who could rely on their strength and break through the blood-sucking cage with just one spirit ring.

But in the next second, the corners of his mouth opened wide.

"First spirit Skill, Berserk!"

Tang Jiu's Millennium spirit Skill was finally used, his strength reaching a peak of 8,400 pounds, shattering the Bloodsucking Vine Cage with a single strike, and also disabling Lord Notting City's third spirit Skill.

After breaking the cage, Tang Jiu charged towards the Notting City Lord.

"Fourth spirit Skill, Ten Vines Wild Dance!"

Seeing Tang Jiu's speed surging and lunging towards him, Lord Notting City gritted his teeth and immediately wanted to activate his fourth spirit skill, a spirit skill that could make the number of blood-sucking vines change from one vine to ten vines, although it consumed spirit power, both attack and defence would be greatly enhanced.

But at this very moment, Tang Jiu's spirit Ring Martial Spirit, which had never been used before, finally struck out and set itself on the Notting City Lord's body.

Lord Notting City's fourth spirit ring quietly disappeared, and although the spirit incantation was recited, the spirit technique was not activated.

"First spirit Skill, Evil ring of speed!"

Tang Jiu immediately extracted the speed of the City Lord, the purple aura flashed on the City Lord, Tang Jiu's speed increased some more while the Notting City Lord felt his speed drop, with this delay, Tang Jiu had already pounced on the City Lord, his body leapt high up, and his war hammer came down from the sky towards the City Lord's head.

"This kid, what an impressive fighting talent!" Flender, who was standing high up, couldn't help but be secretly shocked, Tang Jiu had been pinching the spirit Ring Martial Spirit's skill without using it, instead of competing with his opponent's spirit power, he had used his advantage of bursting out just for this thunderous strike.

The strike was a killing move!

"Second spirit skill, Bloodsucking Vine Cage!"

As a vine martial spirit, which could be used for both offence and defence, there was no ambiguity in defence at all, as Lord Notting City immediately put a blood-sucking vine cage on himself, and he was worried that one would not be enough, and even spared his spirit power to put a second cage on himself when the war hammer fell.

"Berserk!"

A flash of madness flashed in Tang Jiu's eyes as he once again used his first spirit skill, summoning all his power and slamming down fiercely towards the bottom.

Boom!

The two-layer Bloodsucking Vine Cage still couldn't stop this berserk blow and was shattered in one blow. The City Lord's body leaned back, and although he dodged, his head, his chest was solidly smashed with a hammer, and his body flew backwards like a kite with a broken string.

"How is this possible!"

The crowd of the Martial spirit Hall Enforcement Corps were all shocked beyond belief, they simply couldn't believe what they were seeing in front of them, a First Ring spirit Master, had pushed a Fourth Ring spirit Ancestor just a few dozen meters!