Chapter 222: The Progress of His Friends

Tang San smiled and said, "Well, you must strengthen your spiritual power, because this technique requires higher spiritual power. How are you progressing with the Purple Demon Eyes?"

All team members were now cultivating the Purple Demon Eyes. Du Bai was progressing the fastest, as his bloodline was naturally the most adept at spiritual power. Wu Bingji also had decent spiritual power and had already started to work on it anyway.

"At first, I was progressing pretty slowly, but the Purple Sun Fruit seems very beneficial for cultivating the Purple Demon Eyes. Recently, I've made a lot of progress. I can now project my spiritual power outside and use it to attack."

"Good. Well, the technique is something I’ve shown you before, the Soul-Chasing Cluster Ball. If you remember, I created two of them, but you should start with a single Soul-Chasing Cluster Ball."[1]

The original Soul-Chasing Cluster Ball was a hidden metal weapon with extraordinary power. But with Wu Bingji's Ice Nymph Transformation, Tang San devised a way to use the ice element instead. With that, the technique would be even more powerful and effective.

"First, you need to condense ice needles and prepare them for the two-stage acceleration. Initially, you can start with two ice needles and wrap them in an ice shell that you throw at the target. The shell will explode on contact, or you can detonate it yourself. However, if the explosion crushes the ice needles, it’s all useless. You have to make it so it pushes the needles forward, so the way you condense this shell is the most important thing. Then, the needles get a second burst of speed in midair, so the opponent will find it very difficult to dodge them. And finally, when the needles hit the target, you can make them explode."

Listening to his theories, Wu Bingji was dumbfounded. "Can I really do something like that now? Wait, you’re able to do it using the wind element, right?"

Tang San shrugged. "Well, that was just an imitation. I can’t

really

do it. Not yet, anyway. I’ll be able to do the proper technique when I reach the god level, probably. The wind element is too wild, so it’s hard to maintain stability. But the ice element is much more stable. I think you can do it now."

Wu Bingji didn’t even know if he was supposed to laugh or cry. "What the hell now.... It took me so long even just to learn how to do that two-step acceleration thing, and now you want me to add all this stuff? Is it even something I can control?"

Tang San smiled and said, "If it was easy, everybody would do it. This is definitely one of the best hidden weapon techniques, so of course it’s challenging. So, let's take it gradually, step by step. When you can put a few hundreds of ice needles within one cluster, it means you’ve mastered it.

"Let me first teach you how to create the shell. You can start by clustering a small number of icicles, without the second acceleration stage. Actually, the Soul-Chasing Cluster Ball is meant to be launched in pairs. A single one won’t work if the target dodges and you can’t detonate it in time, it won’t work. With two, you can use the Moon-Chasing Meteor technique or Dragons Playing with Pearl to make them collide independently."

"Wait, what's this about meteors and dragons again? I'm getting a bit dizzy," Wu Bingji said helplessly.

"Take it slow. We'll go step by step. I'll first teach you how to refine the Ice Cluster, and you can start by mastering that," Tang San said and then began to explain the method of creating the ice cluster to Wu Bingji.

Although Wu Bingji felt that the Soul-Chasing Cluster Ball was a massive challenge, he listened very attentively. Slowly, without even realizing it, he entered a state of comprehension. By the time he understood the principles, Tang San had already left.

However, Tang San did not leave the academy directly but went to look for his senior brothers and sisters.

He had indeed been here a lot less recently, and since he’d just met his eldest senior brother anyway, he took the opportunity to check on the others' cultivation progress.

"Senior brother Du Bai," Tang San first went to Du Bai's room.

"Eh, Little Tang, you're back? I haven’t seen you around lately." When Du Bai opened the door and saw him, he immediately hugged him.

Tang San followed him into the room and closed the door.

"How's it going?" Tang San asked with a smile.

Du Bai said excitedly, "The Purple Sun Fruit is amazing! My spiritual power has now completely liquified, and my entire sea of consciousness has expanded. Recently, my spiritual power has increased a lot, and it’s increasing so much every day that I can’t even believe it. Also... I can feel that my bloodline power is changing. It's as if the spiritual power can filter my bloodline power and make it purer."

Tang San nodded and said, "That's the benefit of improving your spiritual power. Do you feel like you're about to break through to the fifth order?"

"Not yet. I've only eaten one Purple Sun Fruit. After I eat another one, I think I should have a good chance."

Tang San's eyes brightened, "That's great. I’m looking forward to your breakthrough! Activate your Purple Demon Eyes, and let me see the strength of your spiritual power now."

"Okay."

Du Bai turned around, facing Tang San. His eyes instantly turned purple, and two streaks of purple lightning-like rays flashed from his eyes.

The almost-tangible purple light shot out more than a foot, cohesive and undispersed, almost inducing Tang San's Discerning Eye of Heaven to activate on its own due to the strong spiritual fluctuations.

As the light receded, Du Bai, brimming with joy, turned to Tang San. "How is it? How is it?"

Tang San gave him a thumbs up. "Very good. In terms of spiritual power, you're already comparable to an ordinary seventh-order demon. Once your Celestial Fox Vision breaks through to the fifth order, I think you’ll get another boost in spiritual power."

Damn, this is a top-tier bloodline for you! He’s just at the fourth order, yet his spiritual power has reached the seventh order.

Tang San’s own spiritual power was greater, of course, but Du Bai didn’t have the advantage of a divine consciousness nurturing it, so the development of his spiritual power to this extent had to be strictly related to his Celestial Fox bloodline.

"I'm getting more and more confident. And I think the greatest luck the Celestial Fox Vision has granted me is bringing you to my side! Hahaha!"

Since the Celestial Fox Vision began to improve, the gloom in Du Bai's heart gradually dissipated. Just at the fourth order of the Celestial Fox Vision, it already played a significant role; naturally, it would only have a greater effect once it reached the fifth order.

Tang San said, "No, meeting you all is my luck."

Following Tang San’s cultivation method, Du Bai's Celestial Fox Vision should have the opportunity to advance to the sixth order. However, the threshold from the sixth to the seventh order could not be driven solely by spiritual power.

His spiritual power should reach the ninth order when he reached the sixth order. However, spiritual power alone couldn't reach the higher level of divine consciousness. Thus, when his spiritual power hit that bottleneck, in order to continue enhancing the Celestial Fox Vision, he could only do his best to evolve his bloodline.

This was a troublesome issue. It would only be possible if he could hunt a high-order member of the Celestial Foxes and use its blood. But the Celestial Foxes were children of fortune. Putting aside high-order members, even low-order members were ridiculously difficult to hunt.

This was a major problem. He could only see if the Redemption Society could find a way to collect blood from the Celestial Foxes.

Of course, he wouldn't tell Du Bai these things now. For now, he had provided Du Bai with as many as five Purple Sun Fruits. If two could stimulate him to advance to the fifth order of the Celestial Fox Vision, the other three were likely to bring him close to the sixth order, if not all the way across the threshold.

Tang San wanted to break through to the seventh order after bringing all his Demonic God Transformations to the peak of the sixth order, so they could break through together. The possibility for the Discerning Eye of Heaven to break through seemed slim, but the other ones had a good chance.

He had already prepared to replace the Leopard Flash, and what to replace it with was unquestionable. The Peacock Demon would grant him the power to control space, not to mention that it was a far higher-tier bloodline than that of the Flash Leopards.

𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

1. In the raws here, Tang San talks as if this is something entirely new, but the technique has already been mentioned in chapters 146-147, where he tells Wu Bingji that he must learn the ice needles and whatnot in preparation for learning this exact technique. He also demonstrates the technique, so this part has been amended to reflect that. ☜