Tang San said flatly, "These things are mine. Is there a problem?"
Meng Yiran immediately had an idea. "I didn't expect you to play with these things too. I have a way to compete."
Meng Yiran took out twenty of her self-made soul-breaking knives from her spirit tool and then continued, "Later, each of us will have ten soul-breaking knives. We'll compete to see who hits more leaves, and that person wins!"
In the end, as expected, Tang San won.
Meng Yiran gritted her teeth. She hadn't expected that her proud soul-breaking knives would lose just like that?
Could she really only give up on this Phoenix-Tailed Crested Serpent?
At this moment, the Dragon Duke also happened to arrive, and for a time, the atmosphere between the two sides became a bit strange again.
The Snake Granny was wondering if she should go against her principles just for her granddaughter.
"Ahem, actually, there's a better solution here. I wonder if you'd like to hear it?"
Xiao Tian said indifferently.
Hmm?
At this point, the Dragon Duke Snake Lady noticed Xiao Tian standing behind everyone. The Snake Granny asked somewhat doubtfully, "What method?"
Flender and the others also looked over.
Xiao Tian said, "After Oscar absorbs his third spirit ring, we still want to hunt a thousand-year sub-dragon Spirit Beast. We only need the sub-dragon's meat, not the spirit ring, so..."
As soon as these words came out, everyone knew what Xiao Tian was thinking.
Flender secretly thought that Xiao Tian's mind worked quickly. So he looked at the Dragon Duke Snake Lady and said, "If the Dragon Duke Snake Lady doesn't mind, how about you come with us later? If I'm not mistaken, your granddaughter's Spirit should be a snake staff, right? A suitable sub-dragon Spirit Beast would be even more suitable, wouldn't it?"
The Dragon Duke Snake Lady exchanged glances, then asked for their granddaughter's opinion: "Yiran, what do you think?"
Meng Yiran was also somewhat interested in Tang San's so-called Hidden Weapons and Xiao Tian's cleverness, so she said, "Grandpa, Grandma, I have no objection. Anyway, I lost this competition to begin with."
Zhao Wuji gave Oscar a look, and Oscar excitedly stepped forward and stabbed the Phoenix-Tailed Crested Serpent's tumor with a dagger. Before long, a purple thousand-year spirit ring emerged from its body.
Oscar guided it to his side, then sat cross-legged and began to absorb it.
Now that there was no longer any conflict, the Dragon Duke Snake Lady's attention shifted to Oscar, Tang San, and Xiao Tian.
"Flender, you've also opened an Academy now? How come you have so many talented young ones by your side?"
The Dragon Duke stroked his beard and spoke.
When Flender heard the Dragon Duke say this, his vanity immediately surged. He chuckled, "Oh, no, no. Don't look at Oscar reaching thirty ranks at fourteen years old; among this group, his cultivation is considered the lowest."
Immediately, Flender proudly gave the Dragon Duke Snake Lady a brief introduction to his students' strength, and all three of their gazes instantly fell upon Xiao Tian.
Xiao Tian: ...
Xiao Wu turned her head and pouted, 'What does our current strength have to do with you? It's all from our own diligent cultivation, isn't it?'
"Little fellow, are you interested in joining my family? I can guarantee you ample resources!"
The Dragon Duke immediately extended an invitation to Xiao Tian.
He hadn't expected that Flender would have such a remarkably talented person by his side, a high-rank Spirit Elder at only twelve years old!
Meng Yiran also looked at Xiao Tian with some expectation.
"Hey, hey, hey, Senior Dragon Duke, that's a bit unkind of you. Xiao Tian is already a student of my Shrek Academy, how can you..."
"Hahaha, I'm just eager for talent. Your team has a noble lady from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, so I'm afraid she wouldn't agree to join a small family like ours."
As expected, Xiao Tian politely and tactfully refused, "I apologize, Senior Dragon Duke, but this junior is unwilling to join any family. As you can see, this junior cultivates the sword and likes to advance bravely without being bound. Moreover, my innate spirit power was only rank five, and the reason for my current strength is different..."
As he spoke, Fifteen also actively floated beside Xiao Tian.
"Oh?"
The Dragon Duke looked at Xiao Tian with some surprise. With such strength, his innate spirit power was only rank five and not rank ten?
Based on his many years of experience roaming the Continent, this was absolutely impossible.
Then, the Dragon Duke subtly glanced at Yu Xiaogang, and his heart suddenly understood.
Could it be that this Grandmaster really discovered some method to increase cultivation speed, which is why his students' cultivation has all improved so quickly?
His interest immediately waned. If it was a method of pulling up seedlings to help them grow, that would simply be harming them. What a pity.
He had originally thought about whether he could poach these geniuses to the Strange Beast Academy, but it seems...
Meng Yiran frowned and said, "Xiao Tian, you didn't use some crooked method to forcibly increase your strength, did you? I'm kindly warning you, this is just pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and it will damage the foundation of your cultivation. You—"
"Yiran, shut up!"
The Snake Granny reprimanded her, then smiled at Xiao Tian and Flender and said, "My granddaughter is ignorant; please don't take offense."
The Snake Granny believed that this was their own Academy's business and it was not for them to meddle.
Meng Yiran could only close her mouth, feeling wronged.
She just thought Xiao Tian looked good and wanted to kindly remind him...
Xiao Tian felt helpless. What were they thinking? The Dragon Duke Snake Lady couldn't possibly think that he used some evil method to forcibly increase his strength, could they?
How could that be!
Tang San remained silent beside him, 'Crooked methods, huh?'
If Xiao Tian also had memories of a previous life like him, it wasn't impossible for him to possess such a secret technique that could accelerate his cultivation.
Tang San also had such secret techniques, but most of them damaged the foundation and were generally used to cultivate dead warriors.
Understanding this, Tang San suddenly realized, 'So that's how it is!'
Tang San got it!
The reason Xiao Tian's strength improved so quickly must be because he secretly used some evil secret techniques from his previous life. It definitely wasn't because of Sword Intent improvement!
He had said it before. After studying with his teacher for so long, he knew that there were many Spirit Masters with sword Spirits on the Continent, but their achievements were basically linked to their innate spirit power.
As for Sword Intent, most owners of sword Spirits didn't have it!
According to his teacher's explanation, the only one currently on the Continent with Sword Intent was Sword Dao Chenxin!
All signs indicated that Xiao Tian was definitely a reborn person, and his previous life must have been from a martial arts background like him, from a Sect that practiced swordsmanship!
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