Chapter 117: Always Feel Like You're Mocking Me

"Taking you out for training, halfway through, you've broken through to Spirit Ancestor. If I can't even help you solve the issue of Spirit Rings, then I'm really not doing my job as your teacher."

Qin Ming expressed that helping Ning Rongrong and Su Wen obtain Spirit Rings is his responsibility.

Today, he has already spread the news to the Academy and applied to lead the team directly to the Star Dou Great Forest for spirit hunting after this training session.

After all, the Academy treasures its students; it's still risky to take them to the Star Dou Great Forest, so Qin Ming also needs to report.

However, passing the review is definitely not a problem.

Yet now, under Qin Ming's inquiry, receiving such an answer, he feels somewhat dissatisfied.

Could it be that as a Spirit Emperor, I still can't help you hunt for suitable Spirit Rings?

Su Wen was helpless.

He truly didn't need an additional Spirit Ring.

Moreover, even if he really wanted to hunt Spirit Beasts for Spirit Rings, Su Wen's fifth ring would definitely have to surpass thrithy thousand years old, and it might even reach fourty or fifty thousand years old, which was not entirely impossible.

Most importantly, according to Su Wen's plan, his fifth Spirit Ring was supposed to consider a spatial attribute Spirit Ring.

Not only were spatial attribute Spirit Rings of this age already sufficient to meet his requirements, but more importantly—

Su Wen was afraid he wouldn't be able to hunt down Spirit Beasts with such high ages.

"A ten thousand years old spatial attribute Spirit Beast?" Upon hearing Su Wen's request, Qin Ming fell silent.

It seemed like he truly had no solution.

His expression then became serious, as he said, "Xiaowen, the difference between a ten thousand years old Spirit Ring and a thousand years old Spirit Ring isn't just about the impact of Soul Power during absorption."

Su Wen mentioned that he was aware of the existence of Soul Shock and had ways to deal with it.

Seeing this, Qin Ming didn't continue to interfere with Su Wen's decision.

As a teacher, it was normal to give reminders, but forcefully intervening in a student's development path through continued persuasion wouldn't be appropriate.

This was different from worrying about Su Wen's safety and not allowing him to challenge the Spirit Ancestor Team beyond his level.

Continuing their previous journey, half a month later, they arrived at Suotuo City.

"Suotuo City," Qin Ming looked at the city gates of Suotuo City with a nostalgic expression.

"Let's go, let's find a hotel first."

Along the way, Su Wen got to see the famous Rose Hotel.

It had to be said that just by looking at the setup of the Rose Hotel from the outside, one could fantasize about it. It was clearly that kind of hotel.

...

Great Spirit Arena.

Su Wen and the others signed up one after another.

Because he had been paying attention, Su Wen heard the mention of the Shrek Team in the Great Spirit Arena.

The Shrek Team registered half a month ago, and so far, they have won every battle, becoming a legend in the Great Spirit Arena of Suotuo City.

"Brother Xiaowen, it's our turn," Ning Rongrong reminded.

"Okay."

Although Suotuo City was a large city, it didn't have a particularly strong atmosphere for cultivation.

There were two most important cities within the Kingdom of Balak, and Suotuo City was one of them. It was known as the granary of Balak Kingdom, the most fertile region within its borders. Despite being a large city, Suotuo City's overall level of Spirit Masters was only average. However, it had frequent commercial activities, with many merchants passing through for trade, making it a hub of commerce.

This frequent flow of people also enriched the variety of Spirit Masters in Suotuo City.

Although the overall level was lower compared to other major cities, Suotuo City surpassed many cities Su Wen had previously visited in terms of the diversity of Spirit Masters and Martial Spirits.

In the first battle in Suotuo City, Su Wen and Ning Rongrong faced a pair of twin brothers who possessed spear-type Martial Spirits.

As they fought, a middle-aged person with short hair in the spectator area was also observing the battle.

Grandmaster's expression was grave as he watched Su Wen demonstrate various Spirit Skills, his brows furrowing tighter and tighter.

"How did Su Wen manage to do this?"

While he felt that Su Wen's current rate of progress was undoubtedly the result of further mutation or even direct evolution of his Martial Spirit, Grandmaster couldn't deny Su Wen's own abilities.

"They are all self-created Spirit Skills!"

Grandmaster could confirm that many of the abilities Su Wen displayed were self-created Spirit Skills.

And it was precisely because of this that he couldn't understand.

With so many self-created Spirit Skills, even though many of them were inherited from Fire Demon Xiao Zhan, Su Wen demonstrated many Spirit Skills that didn't belong to the fire attribute.

Looking at Su Wen's ID "Ignorant Scholar," Grandmaster always felt like it was mocking himself.

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Four days later.

The Emperor Fighting Team finally got matched with the Shrek Team.

Rather than calling it a match, it was more like an arrangement by the Great Spirit Arena.

In any system of random matching, the controller behind it couldn't possibly arrange opponents completely randomly.

The Emperor Fighting Team, when battling in the Great Spirit Arenas of various major cities, would always face targeted attacks starting from the fourth day. This was actually arranged by the Great Spirit Arena.

Otherwise, how could it be possible that each time they coincidentally encountered the most famous and outstanding local teams, and almost always starting from the fourth day?

In fact, from the first day that teams from outside arrived, the staff of the Great Spirit Arena would pay attention, and then arrange matches on the second and third days.

Only after realizing the opponent's strength from two consecutive mistakes would they focus on arranging powerful local teams to target them.

In today's Suotuo City, the Shrek Team's reputation is at its peak, so it's very normal for the staff of the Great Spirit Arena to invite them to target the Emperor Fighting Team.

In the rest area.

"Here is the information about our opponents for this battle. You can take a look," Qin Ming organized the profiles of the Shrek Team members and handed them to the members of the Emperor Fighting Team.

"For this battle, Xiaowen and Rongrong don't need to participate. You will still be participating in a 2v2 battle. It's quite coincidental that this time you are matched against a team belonging to the Shrek Team," Qin Ming's expression was strange as he handed separate profiles of Su Wen's and Ning Rongrong's opponents to Su Wen and Ning Rongrong.

Su Wen caught sight of the IDs "Thousand-Handed Asura" and "Soft Boned Charming Rabbit" on the profiles, and he knew who his opponents were.

"Everyone, for this match against the Shrek Team, I have a request. Please try not to injure the opponents too much during the fight, especially Yanzi, you need to control your poison well."

Su Wen frowned.

Although he knew about Qin Ming's background with Shrek, Qin Ming's instruction was completely tying their hands and feet during their team's fight.

"Why?" the others were puzzled.

Only Yu Tianheng seemed to be contemplating something.

Since arriving in Suotuo City, he had actually inquired about Shrek Academy's information. Unfortunately, due to slow arrangements, he hadn't had the time to visit Shrek yet. Now, unexpectedly, his team was directly matched against them.

'Uncle, since it's your team that you've trained, let me see their strength' he thought.

Not injure the opponents too much?

Yu Tianheng would try his best, but he couldn't let this instruction restrain him in battle.

In battle, one should never let emotions interfere; otherwise, it would not only be irresponsible to oneself but also to one's teammates.

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