Chapter 811: Hatching Eggs with a Borrowed Hen
Red Fire Dragon?
No!
Under the nurturing of Soul Power at the Soul Saint level for many years, Liu Erlong's martial spirit has already evolved into the Crimson Flame Saint Dragon, a being on par with the Radiant Saint Dragon, possessing the ultimate fire.
And at the moment when the martial spirit reattached itself, Liu Erlong's Soul Power also reached its peak, level eighty, a quasi-Soul Douluo.
Although her Soul Power was sealed, this does not mean that Liu Erlong did not cultivate over the years.
On the contrary, she cultivated extremely hard, especially in strengthening her physique and spiritual power.
For physical training, Sun Ming designed a set of the Subduing Dragon Skill combining breathing for her; for spiritual training, he created a sun diagram for her to meditate upon.
In the past four years, Liu Erlong has gone from visiting once every one or two months to once every one or two days, becoming quite harmonious with Sun Ming.
Now, it can almost be said that they talk about everything without reserve.
Therefore, Sun Ming was generous in teaching her some of his experimental results to verify their feasibility.
At least, the meditation diagram based on meditation techniques has had an extremely powerful enhancement effect on spiritual power.
Perhaps, various meditation techniques on the continent were initially meant to enhance spiritual power. It's just that most soul masters cannot perceive spiritual power, resulting in meditation becoming a basic method for increasing Soul Power.
"The Crimson Flame Saint Dragon, possessing the ultimate fire, is an exceptional beast martial spirit that has surpassed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. If you continue to follow the Soul Power Circulation method I've given you, and condense the Essence Pellet, Soul Pellet, and Divine Pellet, you might be able to make your martial spirit evolve further into the Golden Sun Saint Dragon, possessing the fire of the sun."
Sun Ming looked at Liu Erlong's curvaceous figure and said, "If the eighth and ninth spirit rings come from powerful soul beasts with the ultimate fire, this evolution process will be faster."
"Thanks." Liu Erlong smiled brightly, withdrawing her martial spirit, "How should sister repay you? How about offering myself to you?"
"No need, I've already gotten the corresponding experimental results." Sun Ming rejected Liu Erlong's suggestion, "Besides, I've always disliked the way of offering oneself or becoming a slave as a form of gratitude... People, at least, should have some dignity."
"You can 'repay a drop of kindness with a spring,' but you shouldn't take your body as a cost for repayment."
"Whether soul master or ordinary people, all born from parents, eating the same grain grown on this continent, drinking from the same river flowing across the land, why demean oneself?"
Liu Erlong admired Sun Ming even more.
As for the age difference? Note from the editor: Always check MV2LEMPYR for corrections.
She is confident of becoming an unparalleled Douluo, with a potential lifespan of a millennium, so what are a mere twenty-plus years?
Nonetheless, catching up to this young man in front of her is no easy task. Besides meeting the standards in strength, she also needs to match him in other aspects, otherwise, it would only mean him yielding to her.
She doesn't want it that way.
Love is about mutual attraction and concession, a matter for both parties, not just one yielding to the other.
This is the true compatibility between equals!
Regarding Liu Erlong's desire to pursue a younger partner, Sun Ming was unaware and continued saying, "Speaking of which, the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament is to begin in less than two years."
"What, are you going to participate?" Liu Erlong teased.
"Of course not, after all, I'm at level ninety-nine, what's the point of participating?"
Sun Ming shook his head, "But the students in the academy can participate— "
"Speaking of which, such a tournament is essentially an event where major forces select talented disciples. Demonstrating outstanding talent there will certainly result in receiving olive branches from various major forces, making it a very good path of elevation for talented individuals among civilians and soul masters from small families."
"It's just a pity that soul masters remain too few."
"Miracles are born from the human race as a whole, not from individual soul masters."
Liu Erlong whole-heartedly agreed, for in recent years, she has returned to simplicity, no longer as oblivious as before, and her fiery temper has turned into enthusiasm, with her mind now clear.
However, her Blue Tyrant Academy seems to have no opportunity—there were just three or four good students, while the others... could only be said to make up the numbers, or perhaps the teachers aren't very effective at teaching.
Even so, in recent years, the strength of Blue Tyrant Academy's students has also increased significantly—thanks to Sun Ming releasing numerous books related to martial spirit cultivation each year!
Of course, the most frequent publications Sun Ming releases annually are about improving people's livelihood... On this, most soul masters aren't interested, only the younger ones would take a look.
It can be said to subtly change the next generation of soul masters' mindset.
"By the way, how about merging my Blue Tyrant Academy into your Ming Lun Academy?" Liu Erlong suddenly said.
"Although the academy was founded by you, behind the scenes, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan pours in substantial resources." Sun Ming looked directly at Liu Erlong, revealing this fact.
Liu Erlong's face flushed as, considering from this perspective, she indeed had no right to determine the future of Blue Tyrant Academy.
She needed to say goodbye to being 'willful.'
"If Blue Tyrant Academy truly wishes to join Ming Lun, that's fine. I can allocate a plot of land in Ming Lun, and in the future, after you've persuaded the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, they can relocate, then we can sign an agreement and contract to be mutually observed." Sun Ming suggested.
"Is it really necessary to be so complicated?" Liu Erlong said powerlessly.
"The corresponding rules must be established and followed, otherwise if I get confused in the future and send you as cannon fodder, would you agree?"
Sun Ming replied with a smile, "The academy is not a sect, it doesn't use brainwashing education to make you loyal. You have more choices."
"If in the future you want to leave, I won't force you to stay... Instead, I will consider whether there is any rot within Ming Lun."
Liu Erlong submitted humbly, then hurried back to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. With the strength of an eighty-level quasi-Soul Douluo and her Crimson Flame Saint Dragon martial spirit, there was nothing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon members could say.
As a result, Blue Tyrant Academy merged into Ming Lun and was renamed Extreme Fire Academy.
All teachers with fire elemental martial spirits within Ming Lun visited, and many were even reassigned to Extreme Fire Academy.
Through Liu Erlong's connections, many disciples of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan joined Ming Lun as students or teachers, and Yu Yuanzhen engaged in a secret trade with Dugu Bo, exchanging a nearly seventy-thousand-year-old soul bone for an immortal treasure named "Saint Dragon Grass" by Sun Ming.
After using it, Yu Tianheng's martial spirit did not complete its evolution, but his Soul Power increased by eight levels, and his cultivation speed was boosted by forty percent.
Because the Radiant Saint Dragon wants its inheritance to continue, the martial spirit must evolve step by step.
Sudden transformation would only be strong for a moment, and the probability of future inheritance would greatly decrease.
Thus, when choosing an immortal treasure, Dugu Bo only provided the supportive Saint Dragon Grass.
On this point, Yu Yuanzhen had no objections.
It would be a major issue if Yu Tianheng's martial spirit directly evolved into a Radiant Saint Dragon, but the bloodline of his body could not be inherited.
It is better to proceed slowly.
Moreover, Yu Tianheng is now a forty-sixth level Soul Ancestor with a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring; before the start of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, pushing for the Soul King level is not impossible.
While some are pleased, others frown.
The leadership of the three major elemental academies: Extreme Fire, Heavenly Water, and Divine Wind, started to feel unsettled.
The growth and strength of Ming Lun Academy made them lose many students each year.
The issue is, they couldn't say much about it.
They couldn't match them in a fight, and the advanced teaching theories still originated from Ming Lun.
What should they do?
As for Thunderclap Academy among the four elemental academies, it's also an asset of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, so they didn't mind, considering it an egg in a second basket.
However, the forces behind Extreme Fire, Divine Wind, and Heavenly Water are not as formidable as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Thus, after observing for some time and realizing the relationship between the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon and Ming Lun is merely cooperative, these three academies were tempted and successively merged into Ming Lun.
While retaining certain autonomy, they belonged to Ming Lun. In future competitions, the honor would be shared by Ming Lun, but the tournament prizes would be distributed by the academy reasonably and independently.
If the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament were to be held in the future, Ming Lun could send teams for Divine Wind, Heavenly Water, Extreme Fire, and Ming Lun.
As for Extreme Fire, since they were all fire-attributed, they were merged into Extreme Fire Academy.
The Crimson Flame Saint Dragon of Liu Erlong suppressed all teachers from Extreme Fire Academy and the strong fire-associated individuals behind them.
In this regard, the Soul Master world still follows the 'law of the jungle,' but Ming Lun does not deny it, as martial strength is the fundamental way to ensure reason prevails and influences.
And the only remaining among the four elements, Thunderclap Academy, is well known to all academies as another asset of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
However, with the other three elements joining Ming Lun, the existence of Thunderclap Academy seemed a bit awkward.
Yet the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan held the attitude of "As long as I'm not embarrassed, the ones embarrassed are others," causing discussions about Thunderclap Academy to gradually fade.
It was during such a situation, after more than half a year, a group arrived in Tiandou City, heading for Tiandou Royal Academy.
They were none other than the Shrek Academy group.
Because the academy had three geniuses, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong, along with Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar, there were already six little monsters.
But the training environment of the academy was really too poor, leading Flander to be persuaded by Yu Xiaogang to come to Tiandou City to "borrow chickens to lay eggs."
However, the prosperity of Tiandou City was more impressive than ever, making the group feel like Liu Grandmother entering a grand sight—everything was novel.
But Flander wasn't in the mood, as Shrek was his life's work, and now that it was gone, it pained him.
Yet, for the sake of providing his students with a better learning environment, he had to seek the Tiandou Royal Academy.
Originally, Flander wanted to go to Ming Lun, but Yu Xiaogang found the place to be filled with strange individuals, unsuitable for the kids' training, coupled with Sun Ming, the Monkey Master, operating it, which made him less keen.
Moreover, within Tiandou Royal Academy, there was a genius who graduated from Shrek Academy: Qin Ming.
At this place, the children from Shrek Academy might be able to take advantage of connections, gaining better training resources.