Second Round Opponents.

A/N : Hello everyone! I don't know what to say for going on hiatus for over a month without any notice but it's over..for now.

I was quite busy with my two jobs so I didn't get any time to write any chapters and the few hours I do get, I mostly spent it reading instead of writing.

I'm not saying I don't like writing, infact I love writing but still I consider myself more of a reader than a writer, so I hope you all may forgive me for not posting a single chapter over a month. And that's all.

Those who still check out my fanfic for any updates or ask about it has my gratitude for being so patient.

Your Allfather Author - PrimorDious. Peace Out ✌️.

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Tang Ming returned to the Shrek Academy's compound while cursing his teen hormones. He suddenly felt a disturbance in the forc..nature as he activated his Divine Sense that covered every direction in 500m only to find Grandmaster guiding Tang San in what he thinks the technique from Ning Rongrong clan's.

He can also sense Ning Rongrong some distance away as she too can be seen training while sitting cross legged on the ground.

Purple lightning snaked all over his body as he disappeared from his place as he activated [Godspeed].

Meanwhile Grandmaster at this time was explaining the technique to Tang San.

"This Separating Heart Control cultivation technique is indeed very challenging. Without perseverance and willpower, it'll be very difficult to succeed. The starting stage is especially difficult, once you can grasp the threshold, the latter part of the cultivation will instead become easier."

"Three Apertures Governing Heart means letting the mind master three Apertures. Don't be too anxious to control, first you need to feel it. Experience it with your heart, whether it's the air, smell, colour, sound, touch they will all tell you a great many things. Let the use of each Spirit Ability become a conditioned reflex..."

Grandmaster continued to patiently guide Tang San as the latter tried to understand as much as he can.

Listening to Grandmaster, Tang San seemed to find a trace of enlightenment as he immediately closed his eyes and immediately entered in a trance like state as he tried to comprehend the technique.

He suddenly raised his right hand, as blue and purple light rushed out of his palm and with Tang San as centre, Blue Silver Grass slowly started spreading in all directions, making rustling sound as they passed.

Tang San already has a great sense of perception because of cultivating his Mysterious Heaven Technique and Purple Demon Eyes but now he felt his sense of perception grow several times stronger. It was as if a veil was lifted and his vision is cleared. Everything around him become very clear to him.

Each spreading strand of Blue Silver Grass brought back more and more information. Even though he didn't use his eyes to see, he still already had a vague outline of the world around him.

A sudden low crackling of electricity sounded as Tang Ming suddenly appeared right beside Grandmaster as he observed Tang San situation. Grandmaster also noticed him but didn't say anything. They both didn't say anything and continue to patiently wait. After a while Tang San awoke from his immersion.

Ning Rongrong too had arrived just a few moments earlier only to see Grandmaster and Tang Ming standing some distance away from Tang San and was going to ask but stopped after seeing Tang Ming gesture to stay silent.

Tang San looked at them only to see Grandmaster and Ning Rongrong looking at him with odd expression while Tang Ming was simply standing there with a light smile of approval on his face.

"Teacher, why are you looking at me like this?" Tang San puzzled, asked. Just as he woke up from his concentration, the frantically spreading Blue Silver Grass returned back to normal, as if nothing happened.

"Little San, what did you feel just now? Tell me."

Grandmaster asked in a low tone. Tang San though puzzled still recounted everything he felt while still in his immersion.

"First, I'll tell you what i saw..." Grandmaster said after listening to Tang San explanation.

"How is it possible?"

Tang San looked at Grandmaster with evident shock visible on his face.

"Teacher, you are saying that the wild Blue Silver Grass here just now grew like my Blue Silver Grass? But I didn't consume any spirit power instead it seems to have increased a lot, maybe about the same as a single night of cultivation."

"I also didn't know why such circumstances appeared. According to what you said, all BS grasses felt familiar to you, without the slightest trace of rejection. As a low grade plant, BS Grass can at most be considered as having instinct, it can never be regarded as an intelligent organism. It might have to do something with you having a similar martial spirit..."

Before Grandmaster can complete his sentence, he was cut off in the middle by Tang Ming's voice.

"It looks like Xiao San has awakened some kind of domain related to his Blue Silver Grass. Who would've thought that Blue Silver Grass which the world deemed as a trash martial spirit would have its own innate domain. Though it's also because of Xiao San innate talent." Tang Ming said with a smile though he had obviously known that it was because Tang San Martial Spirit is Blue Silver Emperor instead of simple BS Grass.

"What?? INNATE DOMAIN?!" Ning Rongrong yelled as Grandmaster also looked a little taken aback at what Tang Ming said.

"Xiao Ming, how can you be so sure its an innate domain?" Grandmaster immediately asked.

"Its because I too have one." Tang Ming said as the three present looked extremely shocked.

"You also have an Innate Domain? But why have I never seen it or you mentioning it before?" Grandmaster asked with slight confusion as he didn't continue to be too surprised as Tang Ming had already did many outrageously strange things. Having an Innate Domain doesn't seem impossible for him.

"It's because I never had to. And as for Xiao San case, I can feel that what Xiao San did is the same as using his domain but it feels like it still has not been fully awakened yet. It might be because of your cultivation stage being low or maybe it need some external stimuli to fully awaken it." Tang Ming said with a thoughtful expression.

"Hm, what Xiao Ming seems plausible. Many people get their domain as their ninth spirit ring but some especially powerful martial spirit have an innate domain from the beginning like Clear Sky Hammer, Spirit Hall Six Winged Angel. But I never in my dreams thought that even BS Grass can also have its innate domain."

Ning Rongrong suddenly walked over to Tang Ming and stared at him and then at Tang San fixedly.

Her beautiful eyes were breath catching and further adding their close proximity, they were able to feel each others breath. Tang Ming seeing this raised one of his eyebrows in confusion but did not back down as he asked.

"Rongrong, what are you doing?"

"First you, now even third brother. Sometimes I really want to open up both your heads and know what's going in there. Next to the two of you, the rest of us can't call ourselves monster, except maybe Zhuqing, hmph!"

Rongrong said with a pout as she glared at both Tang Ming and Tang San as both only laughed in response.

"You know, you just need to get used to it. It's as simple as that." Tang Ming looked at Rongrong as he tried to enlighten her which obviously backfired.

"Why you....!!"

After this little event, the dull cultivation continued as two days passed. Both Rongrong and Tang San trained in the Separation Heart Control technique diligently.

The tournament had already been going on for two days and all Spirit Master Academies had also completed their first round of qualifiers. Among these twenty eight teams, the one with the worst luck was certainly Heaven Dou Imperial Academy's second team. Even though they had healing system Spirit Masters, broken bones and snapped tendons wasn't something that could be healed in just two days.

Today was the start of second round of the qualifiers. When the Shrek Academy and the others arrived outside the Heaven Dou Great Spirit Arena, they immediately felt the difference in treatment compared to before.

When the people saw the Shrek Academy in their regal attires, the previous discontent and disdainful comments from before died down immediately.

As the first match of the first round of qualifiers, Shrek Academy left a deep impression in the hearts of the audience. Even though the fight was very short, the overwhelming power of the Shrek Academy member on the stage, them toying with the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy's second team, none failed to make the audience's heart flutter with excitement.

The strength they revealed made the spectators and other academies no longer underestimate them. Showing three fourtieth level Spirit Masters alone already made them the hot topic of the qualifying competition not to mention two members having ten thousand years old spirit ring as their fourth spirit ring.

As a result of Shrek Academy's perfect display in the first match, when they entered the Great Spirit Arena under the gazes of the spectators, this time they were greeted by two functionaries which respectfully brought them to the competition teams rest area.

Now starting from yesterday, each day would host fourteen matches. Seeing the Shrek Academy's arrival, there were a lot of gazes from the other teams. The one who earned the most attention were no doubt Tang brothers and Mubai, especially Tang Ming who ended the previous match with his ten thousand years old spirit ring.

At this time Mubai walked toward Flender and asked :

"Dean, who are our opponents today?"

"How would I know? Is it me participating in the competition or you?"

Flender retorted as he was quite distracted at this moment as he thought he would still be able to earn another fortune today by betting on Shrek Academy with lower winning chances only to find that ratio of winning to losing has been changed to 1:1 from previously 1:3.

Dai Mubai was speechless for a moment, even Tang Ming and others were quite taken aback.

The hell?!

'Even if you are only after money and don't care much about the team, atleast pretend that you care'.

"Dean, you can't only care about money. You should still show some concern for us." Dai Mubai said. Before Flender could say something Tang Ming interjected.

"Ah...Dean, you can't be like this. I think I'll have to cut some fundings for the academy this year...."

"Ahaha! I was just joking with Mubai, Xiao Ming. You don't have to take away academy's fundings. You should not take my words seriously, everyone knows that. And how can I not care about our Shrek Academy, afterall I'm it's Dean."

"I had already asked Erlong to observe your opponents, she'll give you a detailed rundown of your opponents later. You don't have to worry about it." Flender said while boot licking Tang Ming as he fixed his glasses.

Flender attitude turned one eighty degree as he started flattering Tang Ming so that he didn't cut off his money.

As he spoke, Grandmaster and Liu Erlong came walking over together. They were dressed in their own clothes contrary to Flender who wore the clothes Tang Ming gave him as the representative of their academy which looked quite identical to theirs except more regal.

Seeing everyone's attentive gazes, Grandmaster spoke in a low voice :

"Your opponents for the second round of qualifiers are very powerful. You have three options right now. The first is to give up on this match to preserve your strength. Second, is to go up with the formation from the first fight, you would have sixty percent chance of victory and Third, is bringing out your full force but even if you win your strength will be certainly exposed."

"You've all heard about the Elephant Armored Academy, right? Ranked sixth of the seven great academies. Your opponents today are them. All seven members of the team are direct disciples of the Elephant Armored Academy. Three of them have reached fortieth rank and the other four also have close to fortieth ranked strength."

Everyone except Tang Ming were a little surprised as they hadn't thought they would face a strong opponent so soon. The Elephant Armored Academy hereditary martial spirit is Diamond Mammoth, a top tier martial spirit with extremely high defense, it's main attributes embodying strength and defense, with latter being over the top.

It is said that on equal level, no spirit master could ever hope to breach their defense. If it wasn't for their lack of Title Douluo, perhaps they would have been in the upper ranks in the seven clans.

"Um, I think you are underestimating us, teacher. Even though the Elephant Armored Academy boast impenetrable defense on the same level but isn't our team prepared and trained to fight these kinds of situation. Even though I won't be participating in this match I do have full confidence in Tang San and the others. Though I would advise to change few members."