Chapter 334 Simple Capture

After a night without words, Lin Manshan, Zhu Zhuyun, and Dugu Bo set off toward the Star Dou Great Forest the next day.

After a few days of rushing, they arrived without any difficulty.

Afterwards, with the results of their earlier exploration, they found an Agility-type Spirit Beast with an age of over 90,000 years in the core area. After feeding it with pills, it was helped to successfully advance to the 100,000-year level. After hunting and absorbing the spirit ring, Zhu Zhuyun's spirit power also directly reached the 83rd level.

After that, it took a few more days for her to absorb the dropped 100,000-year-old right leg bone, successfully advancing to level 85.

After a simple rest, the three of them continued to set off, rushing to the Lake in the Core Area. Because they were already within the core area, it only took them a day to arrive.

When they stepped out of the forest and looked around, by the side of the beautiful winding lake, the Titan Giant Ape was prostrate and reaching out to scoop up water to drink.

"Eh?" Sensing outsiders approaching, it almost instantly became alert and turned its head around, "Roar!" Without the slightest hesitation, it instantly turned around, hammered its chest a few times, and its thick legs fiercely bowed and bounced, rushing towards the three.

And right at this moment, the rear lake surface burst forth seething and churning, and a huge bull's head then drilled out.

"Moo!" It let out a low roar.

The Titan Giant Ape that was charging stopped in its tracks.

"Humans, this is not the place for you to come, so please leave quickly." The Sky Azure Bull Python uttered human words.

On Dugu Bo and Lin Manshan, it didn't sense any aura, so they were most likely extremely powerful spirit masters. Facing an enemy of unknown strength and attacking hastily, the consequences would be hard to predict. Therefore, it showed up at the first opportunity to stop its brother.

"Please forgive us, the purpose of our trip is precisely for the two of you." Dugu Bo's face was bland, as he spoke out, his right hand lifted, "Time Freeze!" Without even a chance to react, with just a fluctuation in the air, the two beasts in front of them froze in place.

In the next second, within their line of sight, the space in front of them twisted slightly, and a figure instantly appeared above the Titan Giant Ape's head.

Immediately, a gentle palm landed on the forehead of the Titan Giant Ape, a grey airflow surged along the palm, and the latter's body instantly trembled.

"Plop." Both eyes closed down heavily, and its body collapsed softly on one side.

A hundred-thousand-year-old spirit beast is powerless in front of a god.

Without a change in countenance, Dugu Bo reached in front of the Sky Azure Bull Python's forehead with another flicker of his body, and in the other party's horrified eyes, he similarly knocked him out with a palm strike.

Lin Manshan followed closely behind, putting the two beasts into the spirit tool one after another.

With a glance at the deep water of the lake, he turned his head to Dugu Bo, "Grandpa, let's go, we should head back now."

"Hmm." Dugu Bo nodded and stepped forward.

Lin Manshan also followed, and after meeting up with Zhu Zhuyun who was waiting in the distance, they returned without delay.

And just as the three of them left, deep in the misty lake, underneath the lake's sparkling surface.

Water flowed calmly, fish swam freely, and the sunlight seeped in sparsely, reflecting a layer of almost completely transparent semi-circular light cover, a large area of the bottom of the lake space shrouded.

It was like a dream, like a dream bubble.

"God?" Inside the glossy space, the huge beast shadows that surrounded a circle all raised their heads, and a humanoid figure at the forefront even frowned slightly, turned his head to glance behind him, and then turned back, "The Lord is still sleeping and recovering now, so don't pay any attention to what's going on outside to avoid disturbing the Lord."

"Damn it, do we have to keep enduring like this?" A wrathful response came at once.

"Xiong, then what do you suggest?" A rhetorical question rang out, "With our strength as it is now, we are simply unable to fight against a god. If we go out at this time, not only will we not be able to turn the situation around, we might even attract the prying eyes of the gods and expose the position of the Lord. Can you afford the consequences of that?"

"The old demon is right, at this point in time, we can only choose to continue to hibernate and wait for the Lord to awaken to preside over the situation. In addition, we should be rejoicing that god didn't discover our existence just now."

"Ai," A soft sigh like a silver bell sounded, and the atmosphere suddenly fell into a tranquil state.

At the same time, on the other side, close to the core area at the Star Luo Empire's side, between the high mountains and lofty ridges, within a valley, Tang San ghostly opened his eyes.

Behind him, strands of golden silk swayed and swung, roots pulled out from the huge spirit beast corpse in front of him and gathered back together.

Craning his neck, he slowly stood up, raising his eyes to the depths of the forest, his gaze flickering, his thoughts wavering.

"Just short of the torso bone, when I break through the Titled Douluo level, I will go to meet Da Ming and Er Ming at once."

Over the past few months, to avoid being inadvertently found by Lin Manshan and the others who were in the territory of the Heaven Dou Empire, he relied on the Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul's ability to link the Blue Silver Grass Perception to explore the direction of the Star Luo Empire while hunting and devouring spirit beasts in an almost torturous manner, and soon evolved the Eight Spider Spear into the 100,000-year-old grade, and after that, he made another breakthrough and gained the Devouring Gold Threads ability.

At the same time, he also finally made up for all of the spirit bones except for the torso bone.

Even the left leg bone and left arm bone, which were originally on the lower side of the age range, had been replaced with better 60,000-year-old or more top-tier strength-type spirit bones.

Back in the Clear Sky Clan, Tang Xiao had mentioned when he was talking to him about the subject of suitable spirit bones, that Titled Douluo-level powerhouses could strip their spirit bones by severing their limbs. After his Eight Spider Spears had evolved the Devouring Gold Threads skill, the efficiency of devouring spirit beasts' life force and spirit energy had been drastically increased, coupled with the healing ability granted by the Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul itself. The rebirth of a severed limb became possible for him.

Thus, he boldly attempted to replace his low-aged spirit bones through bone replacement and successfully replaced them.

Moreover, just a short while ago, with the advantage of devouring gold threads and speed, he had stiffly worn out a huge-sized, top-tier power-type spirit beast, the Iron-Armoured Clawed Dragon, which was close to 80,000 years old, and luckily harvested a piece of right arm bone, which he had now finished absorbing.

So far, his left arm bone, left leg bone and right leg bone have all reached the 60,000-year mark, and his right arm bone is closer to the 80,000-year mark. The external spirit bone, the Eight Spider Spear, was even stronger, and now even exceeded the 100,000-year mark, reaching a certain height that even he found unbelievable. The only pity was the head spirit bone, which still remained at a 20,000-year level, which was really unsatisfactory.   

However, the head spirit bone could not be replaced, so he could only be forced to accept it now.

Fortunately, when he participated in the Divine Assessment in the Killing City, he gained a lot of experience, plus he had absorbed two 100,000-year-old spirit rings after completing the assessment, so his spiritual power was greatly enhanced, and his Purple Demon Pupil had broken through to the Boundless realm in one fell swoop. Now, he was already able to use his own strong spiritual power as well as the spirit bone enchantment to send out the spiritual attack skill, Purple Extreme Divine Light, using the Purple Demon Pupil technique.

In addition, the Illusory Space skill that came with the head spirit bone itself could increase his ability to link to the surrounding Blue Silver Grass for exploration. All in all, although the age of the head spirit bone was low, the benefits it brought to him were not bad.

As for the final torso bone, it was the same as the head spirit bone, an equally irreplaceable existence. Therefore, when it came to absorbing it, of course, he had to choose the best one to absorb directly.

Da Ming or Er Ming, is undoubtedly the best choice, with 100% acquisition of spirit bone.

"Now that my spirit power has broken through level 87, it's almost time." He could not help but squeeze his fists.

Breaking a limb to replace the bone needs to be done at the cost of self-decreasing one's cultivation, although one's cultivation will be restored after a successful bone replacement, breaking a limb will after all cause a certain loss of vitality and blood, and it's not as if one can immediately and instantly recover by absorbing vitality. As a result, his cultivation didn't get much of a boost after the bone replacement.

Instead, after absorbing the newly acquired 80,000-year-old right arm bone, he was only able to raise his spirit power level by a little more than 1 level.

"With the Devouring Gold Thread skill, next, my cultivation speed, will not slow down."

'After all, there are plenty of spirit beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, I'm not lacking in cultivation resources at all.' Between his thoughts, he took a step and continued onward towards the depths of the forest.

Although only a few short months had passed, the number of spirit beasts he had hunted and killed was so many that he couldn't even count them himself. However, the spirit beasts and spirit masters are supposed to be arch-enemies, so if he kills them, he won't have any psychological burdens, the weak will eat the strong, and each one will just take their rightful role.

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A few days later, Skywalker Academy.

Lin Manshan's trio returned to the academy early.

As family members gathered together, Lin Manshan also learned about the recent events under the idle chat.

The Academy is still calm, on the contrary, on Qian Renxue's side, many big moves have been made. Previously, he and Dugu Bo also participated in the succession ceremony, and only a few months after the succession, Qian Renxue had already consolidated the power and boldly issued a series of decrees, which had a great impact.

However, it didn't have much impact on their Skywalker Academy, the ones who had been affected were the several major duchies of the Heaven Dou Empire.

The new policies enacted one after another were almost all aimed at recovering the autonomy of the duchies.

'Solve the internal problems first, then the external problems, when Qian Renxue completes this series of centralization initiatives, the next step should be to unite with the Martial Spirit Hall to deal with the Star Luo Empire.' After briefly pondering over the situation at hand, Lin Manshan also understood Qian Renxue's plan.

Although in some ways she was a one-track mind, for political affairs, she really did have a few knacks. Inwardly, he couldn't help but make an assessment.

'To be so thunderous, I guess she wants to get it done earlier so she can return to Spirit City to start the Divine Examination. Of course, it can't be ruled out that after being pointed out the truth by me back then, she suffered a blow.' When he was thinking like this, he was interrupted by a look from Zhu Zhuyun and followed her into the bedroom.

Giving a reward when he returned, was what his wife had promised him on the way.

After breaking through the Spirit Douluo level, Zhu Zhuyun's physical strength increased significantly. That night, there was a blistering wind and rain outside the window, and the bed shook violently.

The next day, Lin Manshan brought the imprisoned Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python to the back of the mountain and chose one valley for a beast to put in.

Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming, the three beasts had been with each other for countless years, and their feelings could be described as deep. And they couldn't use three spirit rings at once on his side. Therefore, if the three beasts were put together, the three beasts would inevitably have to face the pain of separation in the future. This kind of thing would be too cruel.

Even though it was the natural law, they could be killed but not tortured, he didn't want to go too far.

Therefore, keeping them in separate custody, out of sight is the best choice.

As for roaring and screaming being heard by each other, he had already fed medicine to the two big guys, so they couldn't scream loudly and wouldn't be able to move around.

After doing all this, Lin Manshan returned straight to the small courtyard and continued his cultivation days.

More than a month later, at the beginning of November, Dugu Yan successfully broke through to level 80. There was no doubt that the Sky Azure Bull Python possessed the bloodline of the Dragon Clan and the water attribute, a spirit beast most suitable for Dugu Yan. Lin Manshan naturally wouldn't be polite to a spirit beast that was destined to become nothing but an enemy.

Therefore, at the first opportunity, he brought Dugu Yan to rush to that valley to finish off the Sky Azure Bull Python.

Because Dugu Yan already possessed a torso bone, a left arm bone, a right arm bone, and a head spirit bone. Killing a 100,000-year-old spirit beast would inevitably drop a part of the spirit bone that the killer didn't have, therefore, this time, the Sky Azure Bull Python dropped a right leg bone.

After absorbing the spirit ring and spirit bone, Dugu Yan's spirit power also made it to a little over level 85.

Just half a month after Dugu Yan's breakthrough, Lin Manshan also made another breakthrough and his spirit power was promoted to level 89.

Immediately afterwards, he sprinted towards level 90 without slacking off.

Time passed little by little and 2 months later, the academy announced the end of the semester and the start of the annual leave.

After that, just a few days later, the Speed Clan scouts sent word that Qian Renxue had sent out invitations for the kings of the great principalities to come to Heaven Dou City to participate in the annual convention, and at the same time, sent invitations to the academy, inviting him and Dugu Bo to go and participate as well.

"Qian Renxue wants to put the game to an end" Lin Manshan had a realization and replied that he would surely go there.

A few days later, the annual convention that Qian Renxue had hosted began, and Lin Manshan brought Dugu Bo with him to the convention.

As for the rest of the family, a few of the girls said that they didn't like this kind of occasion. Thus, he could only bring along Zhu Zhuyun, who had prior experience, to attend as his female companion.

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