Chapter 4: My Egg is hatching

Crack, crack, crack.....

With the sound, the egg martial spirit on Tang Jiu's body, cracks grew denser and denser!

Then, a pair of insect-tipped jaws broke out of the egg.

Tang Hao's gaze became sharp and his heart couldn't help but be appalled, it was really just as he had guessed, Tang Jiu's previous body couldn't bear the martial spirit, so this beast martial spirit showed its most primitive state, the egg!

Once Tang Jiu's body could withstand it, the true form of this Beast martial spirit would break out of the egg!

A pair of sharp jaws like iron pincers, then six long legs, and a dark body, all black and shiny, with a well-proportioned body full of explosive power.

"This is an ant!"

Tang San immediately recognized it, in the last world, such insects were everywhere, and even in some places, ants could swarm and devour everything, and Tang Clan had also raised those ants.

No, this was not an ordinary ant, Tang Jiu's heart had a clear answer with a start, bullet ants!

In his last life, it was this guy who ate himself to death!

The pain of the bite still lingered in his spirit.

After the bullet ant broke out of its shell, it actually waved a pair of pointed jaws and devoured the eggshell, finishing it off in no time, and at this time, the bullet ant martial spirit seemed to have grown a size.

And at this moment, the spirit power on Tang Jiu's body actually grew at a terrifying rate!

Level one, level two, level three... It grew by a full 6 levels before it stopped.

And at this moment, Tang Jiu's spirit power had directly reached level eighteen!

After the martial spirit possession, Tang Jiu felt his body's strength skyrocket many times! It reached a six-hundred Kgs.

"What's going on?" Tang Jiu himself was dumbfounded.

"I don't know either, I guess you'll have to ask a spirit master to find out!" Tang Hao's eyes were straight, he was clear about Weapon martial spirits, as spirit power grew, Weapon martial spirits would also upgrade and evolve.

For example, Tang San's current Clear Sky Hammer was a small hammer, while Tang Hao's Hammer could be as tall as a man and weigh dozens of times more than Tang San's, so it could be called a divine weapon!

Beast martial spirits, in fact, would also evolve and become more and more powerful as their spirit power grew.

Tang Jiu's martial spirit, on the other hand, was an insect, and many egg-born creatures would eat the eggshell as the first energy supplement for their body's development.

And this eggshell of Tang Jiu's spirit is actually energy, and to a spirit master, it is spirit power!

When a martial spirit absorbs this energy, it is just like eating an immortal herb, of course, spirit power will increase drastically!

However, it was unexpected that Tang Jiu had broken through to level eighteen straight away!

There were only two levels left before level 20, which meant that Tang Jiu could possibly reach level 20 without a spirit ring, so how terrifying would the first spirit ring he'll acquire be!

Tang Jiu actually thought of this question as well, and he looked at Tang Hao and asked, "Dad, do you think it's possible for my first spirit ring, to be a thousand years?"

Tang Hao glared at Tang Jiu and angrily rebuked, "Don't look for death! Although I'm ignorant, I've never heard of the first spirit ring being a thousand years!"

Although Tang Hao wasn't as knowledgeable as a master and could not accurately know the maximum limit of no spirit ring, at least he was from the Clear Sky Sect.

He had never seen the first spirit ring to be a thousand years in the records of the Clear Sky Clan, even in his travels around the continent!

"Both of my martial spirits are so powerful, I'd be doing myself a disservice if I didn't put up a fight! Dad, I've decided, my first spirit ring, it has to be a thousand years! If I can't do it, I won't eat meat for the rest of my life!"

Tang Jiu said with conviction.

"When the time comes, you'll know how ignorant you are!" Tang Hao was too lazy to talk nonsense with Tang Jiu and went straight into the house to sleep, he would dispel this ridiculous idea when Tang Jiu arrived at the Notting Academy and studied martial spirit knowledge systematically.

"Brother, do you think I can do it?" Tang Jiu looked at Tang San who was washing the pot again.

"Little Jiu, I think you need to be more realistic!"

Tang San was in a rather bad mood at the moment, this was definitely really showing off, Xiao Jiu was almost at level twenty and he was still stuck at level ten, unable to save his face in the slightest.

"Brother, I know reality is harsh!" Tang Jiu bared his teeth and smiled.

Tang San: "...."

Tang San instantly didn't want to deal with this younger brother anymore.

Seeing that Tang San seemed to be struck, Tang Jiu was helpless in his heart, wasn't it normal that outstanding people would always bring endless pressure to the ones around them, making them feel doubtful about their lives?

Taking advantage of the night.

Tang Jiu came to the courtyard, thinking in his heart, how could he properly develop his martial spirit, he couldn't ask the master about everything, he had to delve into it too, after all, he was the master of the martial spirit but he was different!

"First, let's see if the spirit ring martial spirit will change as the spirit power rises and the spirit ring martial spirit is given to set to itself!"

Tang Jiu immediately summoned his martial spirit and put the spirit ring martial spirit onto his body, when the colourless spirit ring martial spirit revolved around the body, Tang Jiu suddenly found that the colour of the spirit ring was slowly turning darker!

"It seems that I guessed correctly, the spirit ring's age of this spirit ring martial spirit increases as my strength increases, the limit it increases is the limit my body can withstand!" (T/N: I know its confusing. Just read it twice)

The year of the spirit ring started at two hundred years, slowly became three hundred years, and eventually reached five hundred years! The spirit ring then stopped changing, quietly rhythmically moving through Tang Jiu's body.

"It's broken through the limit of the first spirit ring!"

Tang Jiu's heart was overjoyed, but then he frowned, the limit of the first spirit ring, that was the limit of absorption when his spirit power reached level ten, he had now reached spirit power level eighteen, he could absorb a spirit ring of five hundred years, shouldn't that be quite right?

Tang Jiu's heart suddenly lit up: if his body, could withstand a spirit ring of seven hundred years, then wouldn't it be proper to reach level twenty and absorb another thousand-year spirit ring?

At this time, Tang Jiu's confidence in absorbing a thousand-year spirit ring had risen greatly!

All he needed to do now was to cultivate his spirit power, and then continue to strengthen his body to increase its tolerance!

"Let me see if there's any difference between a five hundred year spirit ring and a two hundred year spirit ring skill!" Tang Jiu was actually curious about this in his heart as well.

He couldn't wait to check the spirit skill attached to this spirit ring.

Berserk!

Instantly increases strength by 35%, which can be added according to the spirit ring! For every additional ring, the power of the Berserk skill would increase by 10% more! If you have a second spirit ring, the power increase of the Berserk skill is 45%! The duration is 5 seconds.

Tang Jiu clearly remembered that the previous first spirit skill, 'Berserk', was an instant 30% increase in power! Then with each additional spirit ring, there would be an additional 10% increase!

Still, the duration hadn't changed, it was still 5 seconds!

Tang San, who had finished washing the pot, saw the yellow spirit ring floating on Tang Jiu in the courtyard and felt very bad in his heart, finally speaking, "Little Jiu, use the spirit ring martial spirit on me, see if I can breakthrough level eleven as well!"

"Putting a spirit ring martial spirit on you and turning it into your spirit ring, it's not very likely!" Tang Jiu shook his head.

Tang San looked at Tang Jiu expectantly and said, "Try it, what if it comes true?"

His heart was also on fire at the moment, if he had an extra spirit ring because of it, wouldn't Heavenly Mysterious Skill be able to continue cultivating to the second level?

"But, this spirit ring I put on someone else It will be suppressed, restricted!" Tang Jiu said.

"It's alright, it's nothing to lose if you try it! Let's see if it works!" Tang San said.

"Alright then, Brother, I'm coming!"

Seeing that he couldn't argue with Tang San, Tang Jiu could only push his spirit power and lift the spirit ring martial spirit from himself and put it on Tang San's body!

"Ah! ~~"

Tang San suddenly let out a muffled grunt and was directly pressed down almost to the ground, fortunately, he was strong in perseverance and directly put up a sturdy horse stance, which was how he was able to stabilize his body.

"Third brother, are you alright!"

Tang Jiu hurriedly withdrew it and summoned the spirit ring martial spirit back into his hand, before Tang San stood up in cold sweat, with an exhausted look as if he had experienced a great battle. After taking a few breaths, Tang San then spoke,

"Your martial spirit is too terrible, it directly suppressed all my spirit power, making it impossible for me to use any of my strength! It's estimated that it directly restricts and lower the spirit power by 10 levels!"

Tang Jiu froze as soon as he heard that, depriving of 10 levels of spirit power, that was too terrifying!

Not true!

At that time, when I put a spirit ring on Tang Hao, it obviously didn't have much effect.

Could it be that this spirit ring martial spirit, the restriction on spirit power, was determined by my strength? The weaker it is, the weaker the restriction is!

Think about it!

Tang San felt disappointed, his good wishes had been dashed, it seemed that this martial spirit of Tang Jiu couldn't be controlled by the mind, as long as it was set on someone else's body, it would restrict them.

''So, I'm really stagnated at this level!''

Tang Jiu was also underestimated for a while in his heart, he wouldn't be able to assist his teammates in the future, he could only add a negative buff to the party!

It was just that he didn't know how exactly he could use his spirit ring martial spirit after it had a spirit ring attached to it?

That was something that made him very curious!

However, the only thing that was certain was that the spirit ring martial spirit's spirit skill must be extremely bizarre!

Next, Tang Jiu went into a frenzy of cultivation.

The importance of the body to a spirit master, Tang Jiu had a deeper appreciation in the past few days, and his Bullet Ant martial spirit was even a domineering power-type beast martial spirit, so he needed to toughen up his body, even more, to explode into an even more powerful potential!

The 120 Kg hammer at the beginning was no longer enough to meet his weight-bearing requirements, and this time his strength had increased so quickly that he directly used the raw iron at home to forge himself a 480 Kgs war hammer, the style of which was exactly imitated by the Clear Sky Hammer.

Starting from the village and moving forward towards the mountain, he didn't jump a step before stamping a deep mark in the loose dirt.

"The load has just reached the limit of what the body can bear!" Tang Jiu's gaze was firm as he frog-hopped meticulously, sweating gradually wetting his clothes.

With a thousand frog hops, he just reached the foot of the mountain, "Next, sprint up the mountain!"

Dragging the hammer with both hands, he sprinted up the mountain path as fast as he could, he could feel that his thighs and calves were like lead, and his whole body gradually started to float.

By the time he reached the mountainside, Tang Jiu felt like his heart was about to jump out of his chest.

"Next, rest your legs, a thousand push-ups!" Tang Jiu put the war hammer behind his back and started doing push-ups to exercise the strength of his arms.

One thousand swings.

One thousand kicks.

He exercised every part of his body's muscles to their limit of tolerance, and his whole body felt incomparably sore and numb before he untied the dried pork hanging around his neck and chewed it up in large bites.

Tang Jiu found that every time he broke through his body's limit, he would then eat these spirit beast meat, and be nourished by the energy more deeply

Making his body even more powerful.

"Martial spirit possession!"

Every day after his training, Tang Jiu would summon his martial spirit to attach the spirit ring martial spirit to himself, and then feel the changes in his spirit ring, every time he broke through his body's limit, his spirit ring would become a little stronger, Tang Jiu was immersed in this kind of progress that he could truly experience every day, and was happy to do so!

In the blink of an eye, the opening day of Notting Academy was approaching, and Tang Hao carried back another thousand-year-old spirit beast.

While Tang San was dividing the pork, Tang Hao brought Tang Jiu to the room and solemnly said, "Little Jiu, don't be overly ambitious, the first spirit ring absorbs a five hundred years or so, the second spirit ring in absorbing a thousand years is also very powerful!"

Tang Jiu blinked and said, "But, dad, after these two months of training, my spirit power has already reached level 19, and most importantly, my first spirit ring can already withstand up to 600 years!"

Tang Jiu said, summoning his martial spirit and putting a spirit ring on himself, a dazzling yellow spirit ring!

Tang Hao's eyes went round, his second spirit ring was around 700 years old!

"Dad, why don't you open your spirit ring and let me let try out the power of my martial spirit!" Tang Jiu's eyes were sizzling with enthusiasm.

"Fine!" Tang Hao opened his spirit ring, yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black and red, the last spirit ring was black with red.

Tang Jiu urged his spirit power and the spirit ring martial spirit flew out and was placed on Tang Hao's body.

"Eh?"

Tang Hao's face changed as he discovered with a shock that his first spirit ring had completely disappeared and could no longer be felt, along with the disappearance of his spirit skills!

However, the level of his spirit power was still there, but his spirit power had been suppressed by about one level.

"Ah .... Eight rings, you don't have nine rings now!"

Tang Jiu was really mad with joy at the moment, and grunted on directly, surprisingly really limiting one of Tang Hao's spirit rings! This meant directly scrapping one of Tang Hao's spirit skills!

Moreover, Tang Jiu felt that if his body was able to withstand the spirit ring limit, it should be the maximum number of years that he could limit the opponent.

For example, if he was able to withstand a thousand years of spirit rings, then what he was limiting now should be Tang Hao's second spirit ring, or simply wrongly, his third spirit ring!

"What a demon!"

Tang Hao was shocked beyond words, this was still such a perversion of the martial spirit without the spirit ring attached, so if the spirit ring was attached, how terrifying would the spirit skills be!

However, after hearing Tang Jiu's humming song, Tang Hao glared at Tang Jiu without good grace and said, "When you go to Notting City, don't reveal the secret of this martial spirit of yours, don't let anyone know that you are my son, and don't do anything against the Martial Spirit Hall, for revenge, there is me!"

Tang Hao unsummoned all the martial spirits, turned around and left the room, took out a money bag in front of Tang Jiu and Tang San, handed it to Tang Jiu and said, "There's enough money in it for your school fees! As for Little San, become a work-study student and study hard!"

Tang San was speechless and once again doubted that he wasn't his own son!

Letting his own son work and study, leaving the money for his adopted son to get away with. This was simply a piece of evidence!

"Little San, dad is also doing it for your own good! If you suffer, you'll become a man!" Tang Hao patted Tang San's shoulder with force, Tang Hao believed that Little San would be able to understand his bitterness in the future, that he had to rely on himself in everything to become the strongest!

"Brother San, look how well dad treats you! I'm jealous." Tang Jiu winked and smiled secretly as he put the money away.

"How about we switch?" Tang San said without good humour.

Tang Jiu laughed heartedly and didn't say a word.

"Little San, don't reveal the secret of your twin martial spirit! It's hard for ordinary people to detect Little Jiu's Twin martial spirit, but you should be extra careful with yours! Remember, don't attach a spirit ring to your Hammer martial spirit!" Tang Hao solemnly instructed.

"Yes, dad!" Tang San nodded solemnly, then looked at Tang Jiu and said, "Then, what about Little Jiu?"

"My martial spirit is a spirit ring, so I can't be treated with common sense!" Tang Jiu laughed.

Tang San: "...."