After Su Ming forged the corresponding Thousand Refined First Grade metal for Wei Na, she also contacted the Tianhun Empire's royal family and Body Sect elders, preparing to return to the Douluo Three Nations and head to the Star Dou Great Forest for a Spirit Ring hunt.
Su Ming thought the same—letting Wei Na normally go hunting with the elders.
After all, he wasn't a real nanny, and he couldn't possibly have the patience to help a senior sister, who wasn't that closely connected to him, hunt five ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings, all with spiritual attributes, one after another.
The opportunity Du Busi created for him to win people over, he felt a set of top-tier Spirit Metal was sufficient.
Moreover, he knew that with the stack of five ten-thousand-year Spirit Rings and the Martial Soul's Second Awakening, Wei Na would likely break through to Level 60, requiring a sixth ten-thousand-year Spirit Ring.
That was a real hard work.
However, after he, as if blessed by divine insight, conducted a combing of future timelines, he changed this thought.
Troublesome?
No patience?
Impossible.
"This hunting expedition actually has a chance to encounter that Golden Hawksbill Turtle that stole and ate the Blade of Life's essence."
Viewing the future was also one of Su Ming's bug-level abilities now.
Of course, he viewed the future derived from the River of Time's deductions, filled with infinite variables where different situations existed. Su Ming might not necessarily see the future he wanted to see and might even see completely opposite futures.
This time, he was blessed with divine insight, guided by fate to find that future useful to him.
"Not just the Golden Hawksbill Turtle. Going on this hunting trip with Senior Sister Wei Na also presents an opportunity to... hunt Elder Xuan."
This...
Is this fate?
"My destiny has increased, so my opportunities should arrive. Elder Xuan's Qi is declining, so he's about to face a calamity?"
Thus, when the two collided, this guidance of fate appeared.
Su Ming found Wei Na.
"Senior Sister, I'll go hunting with you this time."
Wei Na looked at Su Ming in surprise.
"Doesn't Junior Brother need to cultivate?"
Su Ming had many cultivation projects. He not only had to cultivate himself but also prepare for his future Spirit Core, including participating in the development of the forging system and the Battle Armor system.
Therefore, Du Busi had long told the Body Sect members to trouble Su Ming as little as possible, letting him focus on cultivation.
"Mindlessly secluding oneself will eventually lead to exhaustion of ideas. Going out more often leads to encountering opportunities."
Su Ming gave a simple explanation, then looked at Long Aotian and the others.
"You're coming too."
Long Aotian, Lan Susu, and Lan Luoluo were all taken aback.
Meeting Su Ming's unquestionable gaze, the three subconsciously nodded.
"And..."
Su Ming's mind flashed through a list of acquaintances, preparing to bring them along.
Simultaneously, during this process of selection, he also locked onto the future, observing its changes.
"Zhang Wei."
Bringing Zhang Wei would also give him an opportunity.
Since they were already mobilizing, Su Ming didn't mind giving these Body Sect disciples a boost.
Zhang Wei had resigned as the head of the Shrek branch two years ago when Su Ming pressured Shrek. He went to the front lines against the Evil Spirit Masters, narrowly escaping death multiple times, and had already undergone his Martial Soul's Second Awakening.
His Spirit Power had now reached Level 59.
A single step away from Level 60.
Su Ming saw in the future a scene of Zhang Wei breaking through during the hunt.
Not only that, after adding Zhang Wei to the group, the team's route changed, and they even encountered the Heaven-Shaking Roar.
In the original story, when Huo Yuhao obtained his fifth Spirit Ring from the Silver English Beast, the Heaven-Shaking Roar that fought with the Silver English Beast.
The group not only encountered the Heaven-Shaking Roar but also that Silver English Beast.
"Fate..."
"No, this is fortune."
"It's due to the plane's fortune. The development of Huo Yuhao, the Son of Fortune, is stunted. The plane is beginning to redistribute the fortune belonging to the Son of Fortune."
Su Ming took out a Spirit Communication Device, contacted Zhang Wei, and told him to head towards the Star Dou Great Forest, where they would meet up halfway.
Naturally, Su Ming didn't need the Silver English Beast.
He already had the Mirror Image Beast's Spirit Ring, his copy ability had reached its peak. The Silver English Beast was completely redundant for him.
Instead, Wei Na could fuse with this Spirit Ring, and then Su Ming could copy it from her later.
"Imprint" was redundant as a Spirit Ring, but the Spirit Skill itself had meaning. Its difference from "Copy" was that it didn't require switching Martial Souls; it could directly simulate the corresponding Spirit Skill using spiritual power.
Mingdou Mountain Range.
Su Ming's group of five met up with Zhang Wei.
They proceeded towards the Star Dou Great Forest.
At this moment, within Su Ming's Sea of Consciousness, Di Rui called out to him.
"What is it?"
Su Ming diverted some attention to ask Di Rui.
Di Rui, currently in her original form, leaped up excitedly and exclaimed, "I feel my cultivation increasing! It's different from normal cultivation gains. This seems like my cultivation has increased out of nowhere!"
Electrolux said, "This was originally your power, just cultivation that was previously sealed by fate."
He was right there in the Sea of Consciousness, sensing Di Rui's changes very clearly.
"Teacher Yi, you mean... I couldn't actively increase my cultivation before not because I didn't cultivate, but because my cultivation was sealed by fate?"
"Roughly. It's similar to the principle of when a Spirit Master reaches a tens level but doesn't obtain a Spirit Ring, the cultivated Spirit Power lies hidden within the body."
Di Rui let out a cheer.
"Then doesn't that make me invincible?"
Although she had only lived for over seven thousand years, her cultivation qualifications were not poor at all; she just couldn't gain cultivation through practice.
She had tried cultivating.
She secretly practiced a bit every day.
Unfortunately, it yielded no results.
Now, Electrolux said her past efforts weren't in vain, which delighted her immensely. She ran several laps and jumped around in Su Ming's Sea of Consciousness.
The reason for such joy was naturally her confidence in her own cultivation efficiency.
"My cultivation sealed by fate is at least fifty thousand years," she stated categorically.
"Besides my own efforts, all those light-attribute Spirit Beast brains I ate were also good stuff. They definitely count for a lot of cultivation years too."
Su Ming was thinking on the sidelines.
The fate seal had loosened.
That meant the root cause was related to fate.
Had Di Rui had any breakthroughs related to fate recently?
No.
Then the answer could only lie with himself.
"I relied on fate's guidance this time, discovered this particular future timeline, and then took action, moving towards this future, thus harmonizing with fate?"
It probably wasn't that simple.
This harmonization was Su Ming's action. Why would it affect the Auspicious Beast?
If a fate seal really existed, it must have been on the Auspicious Beast. To loosen it should directly involve the Auspicious Beast.
If he couldn't figure it out, it didn't matter.
He would look in the future.
As Su Ming traveled with Zhang Wei and the others towards the Star Dou Great Forest, he simultaneously viewed the future.
He discovered that countless futures were now contracting, converging towards the one he was striving for.
"During this process, where did the Auspicious Beast participate?"
Su Ming checked dozens of times but couldn't find the Auspicious Beast's figure.
How could it not be there?
He still hadn't found a clue by the time they reached the Star Dou Great Forest.
"Never mind, let's not search for now. When we truly reach that point, Little Rui will definitely undergo more drastic changes, with more cultivation and unsealing. Everything will become clear then."
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