The Blue Silver Mark. In every area Su Ming passed through, he could leave a mark. Within a certain range, he could use these marks as coordinates to teleport.
This was considered the core part of Tang San's Blue Silver True Body, which Su Ming had acquired. Although he needed to condense the marks himself, which could be considered a nerf, at least it didn't have the limitations associated with Blue Silver Grass.
This Spirit Skill, born from the Blue Silver Emperor, did not completely belong to it, because the final piece of the Spirit Bone's origin came from Su Ming.
The second Spirit Skill provided by the 100,000-year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone was "Even a prairie fire cannot destroy it, it grows again with the spring breeze."
Unfortunately, this ultimate skill could only be utilized to its fullest by the Spirit Beast Blue Silver Emperor itself. On a Spirit Master, it lacked the ability for true rebirth. However, it could still repair bodily damage. As long as there was sufficient energy, even regenerating severed limbs wasn't a problem.
This was still a god-tier skill for a Body Sect Spirit Master like Su Ming.
"I'm not lacking anything now."
Starting from this point, he had truly reached the threshold of 'train until you almost die, then train some more'.
While Su Ming was reaping his rewards, Tang Hao and Tang San on the other side finally returned to the valley.
The father and son pair both had satisfied expressions.
Clearly, during this trip, they had secretly learned quite a few things. Now, returning to the valley, they planned to properly convert the techniques they had learned into their own skills.
"Listening to Dad was indeed the right choice. Although it was risky this time, it finally cleared up many of my doubts. I also identified the problems I could never solve in my forging before. And although Dad himself has mastered the 'Thousand Refinements, Spirit Awakened' forging technique, it's ultimately an old version. Applied now, it only reaches the level of Thousand Refined Fourth Grade. Yet, the Blacksmith Association actually has techniques capable of Thousand Refined First Grade."
The so-called Thousand Refined Fourth Grade was actually a polite term. If placed in the Douluo 3 era, many would say it was unranked.
Just as they returned to the valley, Tang Hao's expression changed drastically.
Tang San, not understanding why, watched his father swiftly rush deep into the valley, a bad premonition rising in his heart.
Looking at the cave entrance, blasted by various elements, Tang Hao's eyes reddened.
He cautiously approached the cave, entered it, walked to the very depths, and saw the pit left where the Blue Silver Emperor had been uprooted and the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone had been dug out. His Spirit Power surged, and a blood-red power erupted around him.
The entire valley instantly turned crimson.
Within the Killing God Domain, endless killing intent permeated the air.
Pfft!
A mouthful of blood sprayed out, and Tang Hao collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
The Killing God Domain that enveloped the entire valley disintegrated in an instant, dissipating into nothingness.
"Dad!"
Tang San exclaimed in shock and hurriedly checked Tang Hao's injuries.
Upon checking, he instantly gasped.
The meridians within Tang Hao's body were simply riddled with holes, some even atrophied.
"Dad used Spirit Metal to circulate Spirit Power in place of his meridians for too long, causing his meridians to lack Spirit Power nourishment over time, leading to atrophy. This outburst caused the Spirit Power to impact his meridians, worsening the injuries further."
He infused his Mysterious Heaven Technique internal strength into Tang Hao's body to help soothe his meridians, but found his own Spirit Power was still too weak, utterly incapable of withstanding the erosion of the residual killing intent within Tang Hao's meridians.
"If I had known Dad's condition had deteriorated to this extent, I should have agreed to let him take action and find a way to seize that Spirit Refined metal."
Tang San was filled with regret and self-blame; he had been too cowardly.
If he could do it over, he would definitely urge Tang Hao to get his hands on that Spirit Refined metal.
Spirit Metal was still too inferior; it couldn't integrate into the body. Even if it could act as a medium for Spirit Power circulation externally, it was ultimately an external object.
Only Spirit Refined metal could truly integrate with a Spirit Master.
"They're back?"
After sensing the changes within himself, Su Ming finally realized that Tang Hao and his son had returned to the valley.
"Quite the wanderers, going out for three months in one trip."
Even as he said this, Su Ming knew that this father-son pair would have had their home plundered even if they had only been out for three days.
"Can't be helped, my efficiency is just too high."
After briefly checking on the Tang duo's movements and confirming they hadn't come out for three days, Su Ming relaxed.
He came to the place where A Yin had taken root again, looked at the Blue Silver Emperor sprout that had not yet regained its consciousness, used his own Spirit Power to soothe it, and imprinted it with his own mark.
"My task is pretty much complete. Next, it's up to the me in Douluo 3."
[Douluo 3]
"Trinity!"
Su Ming borrowed power, feeling the Spirit Power coming from the Douluo 1 Su Ming. He extracted the part related to the Blue Silver Emperor and carefully comprehended it.
He also utilized the Trinity state for forging, using the Spirit Power from Douluo 1 Su Ming as the key and the Blue Silver Emperor part to conduct the refinement.
"The Sea God Faith part can also be integrated a bit more."
And so, very quickly, Su Ming became a bona fide, legitimate direct descendant of the Tang family.
"Not enough. I'm going there to gain benefits, not to be morally shackled."
Aside from the risk of being blown up, the biggest issue with Shrek was brainwashing, and the foundation of that brainwashing was expulsion.
If you didn't accept everything about Shrek, they would expel you.
Therefore, he needed to find a way to place himself outside the normal student system, for instance... as an exchange student.
Whether it was the Blacksmith Association or the Spirit Transmission Pagoda, both should have opportunities to facilitate this, but overall, the Blacksmith Association side was easier.
"The preparations are fairly sufficient, but there's still over half a year until Tang Wulin's batch enrolls. I still have time to get more insurance."
Su Ming thought for a moment, then set his sights on the Douluo 2 period.
[Douluo 2]
After returning from the Spirit Hunting trip, Su Ming focused wholeheartedly on cultivation.
He had far too many things he needed to cultivate.
He continued the series of practices from before, while also increasing the development of his fourth Spirit Skill.
Replication. This was absolutely a Spirit Skill that could qualitatively change his Spirit Power and Martial Spirit, and it would become his core skill in the future. Not to mention, he also planned to use it as a foundation to additionally create vessels for his Douluo 1 and Douluo 3 selves.
There simply wasn't enough time.
Naturally, he didn't waste energy on other matters.
"If I'm to join Shrek, it's necessary to change Shrek's teaching environment. Also, I need to knock down Shrek's arrogance a peg."
This wasn't impossible to arrange.
Taking out his Spirit Communication device, Su Ming had an exchange with Su Can.
"Let the exchange program proceed as scheduled."
In the original storyline, the exchange activities only started a year and a half after the tournament.
Now, due to the devastating defeat in the tournament, Shrek Academy sought its own development, made contact through the Blacksmith Association, held talks with Jing Hongchen, and proposed the exchange activities.
"Going to Shrek is impossible. In this era, Tang San is watching. Going to Shrek would be a death sentence for me. Only in the Douluo 3 period do I have a chance to enter and guarantee my safety."
"Let Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen go for the exchange. As for me, I'll stay and keep an eye on Huo Yuhao, to prevent him from stealing our technology."
"Ah, right, and the most crucial point: no delays. Since we're doing an exchange, send the people over now. Delaying further only gives Huo Yuhao more time to learn how to be a spy."
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