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Moving forward, under Shi Quan's lead, everyone quickly encountered their first Spirit Beast.
It was a top-tier agile dark-attribute Spirit Beast with a cultivation age of around 6,700 years, known as the Blood Shadow Demonic Leopard, a top-tier Spirit Beast in terms of Bloodline Rank.
Its pure speed was comparable to that of the Hell Civet, but its sharp claws were incredibly keen, imbued with the Sharp Gold attribute, making even heavy armor as fragile as tofu before them.
Wherever it went, blood would inevitably be spilled, which earned it the nickname 'Blood Shadow'.
Zhu Zhuqing currently didn't lack offensive Martial Spirit Abilities, so Shi Quan specifically chose this Blood Shadow Demonic Leopard for her.
If she absorbed the Blood Shadow Demonic Leopard's spirit ring, the sharpness, armor penetration, and armor-breaking capabilities of the Hell Civet's claws would be greatly enhanced, and she would likely gain an amplification-type Spirit Ability.
This time, Dugu Bo did not make a move; instead, Shi Quan led the Heaven Dou Battle Team members to act together, which was one of the purposes of this trip.
After a fierce battle, with everyone's coordinated efforts, the Blood Shadow Demonic Leopard was quickly stunned.
After Zhu Zhuqing finished it off, she spent several hours successfully absorbing the spirit ring, and her spirit power also reached Rank 41.
The Spirit Ability she gained was exactly as Shi Quan had planned: Hell Blood Shadow, which increased her speed by 30%, enhanced her perception and negative resistance by 20%, and increased her attack power by 50%, adding armor-breaking and penetration capabilities.
The amplification for Zhu Zhuqing was almost comprehensive, and the consumption of this Spirit Ability was not high, which meant that the amplification state of this Spirit Ability could last for a long time.
In addition to the Spirit Ability, the Martial Spirit's own attack power and speed also improved to some extent, especially its armor-breaking capabilities, which were significantly enhanced.
It was quite a fruitful harvest, but unfortunately, no Spirit Bone dropped.
However, Zhu Zhuqing was still very satisfied with acquiring such an excellent Spirit Ability.
After a simple tidying up, Shi Quan once again released his Blue Silver Domain; this time, the speed was very fast because Shi Quan had already identified the Spirit Beast for Yu Feng earlier, and since Zhu Zhuqing was absorbing her spirit ring, Shi Quan had temporarily withdrawn his Blue Silver Domain.
Now, setting off again, Shi Quan searched along the previous location and quickly locked onto the Spirit Beast he had previously identified.
Under Shi Quan's guidance, everyone once again changed direction, leading them towards another side.
After walking for about half an hour, amidst a gust of wind, they encountered their second target for this trip—the Wind Spirit Eagle.
Both the Wind Spirit Eagle and the Blood Shadow Demonic Leopard are top-tier Spirit Beasts; the Wind Spirit Eagle is even known as the Son of Wind, with incredibly astonishing speed.
The group chased and besieged it for more than half an hour before finally finding an opportunity to capture the Wind Spirit Eagle.
After absorbing the Wind Spirit Eagle's spirit ring, Yu Feng's spirit power Rank also reached 41, and he acquired his fourth Spirit Ability, Wind Martial Spirit.
Wind Martial Spirit is also an amplification-type Spirit Ability, especially its speed, which reached an astonishing 60%; moreover, after Wind Martial Spirit is cast, Yu Feng's perception of wind elements becomes more acute, and it has a certain amplification effect on his three Martial Spirit Abilities, making it an excellent Spirit Ability just like Zhu Zhuqing's Hell Blood Shadow.
With Yu Feng's spirit ring absorption completed, the trip to Sunset Forest also came to an end.
Everyone returned to the Academy, rested for a day, and on the second day, everyone began a new day of training as usual.
Shi Quan had many abilities, and there was too much for him to adapt to and master, so every day was very fulfilling.
Under Shi Quan's arrangement, Zhu Zhuqing and Yu Feng were preparing to accelerate their adaptation to their newly Breakthrough power through a certain amount of high-intensity training.
The Cultivation of others didn't change much; it was just a constant cycle between martial arts, Martial Spirit, Spirit Ability, and spirit power.
Time quietly slipped away.
In the blink of an eye, it was already the day before the competition.
Although the grand competition hadn't started yet, the entire Heaven Dou City had been preparing for tomorrow's start a month ago; the streets were bustling with people, filled with young men and beautiful women.
There were a total of twenty-eight participating teams in the Heaven Dou City division, and as the competition approached, all participating teams had already arrived in Heaven Dou City.
To demonstrate the Empire's Pay attention to of the competition, the Heaven Dou Empire arranged special hotels to welcome each Academy.
Of course, if an Academy was close enough, or if they were dissatisfied with the accommodation and wanted to arrange their own lodging, they could choose not to stay; the Heaven Dou Empire did not impose mandatory requirements.
Heaven Dou Royal Academy is located on the outskirts of Heaven Dou City, and the round trip is not short; although the Heaven Dou Battle Team, as the Empire's seed team, does not need to participate in the preliminary or promotion rounds, they still have to attend tomorrow's opening ceremony.
So, after a day of Cultivation, Shi Quan and the others gathered together and, along with Dugu Bo, arrived at the designated hotel in Heaven Dou City, planning to rest there for a night and head directly to the opening ceremony tomorrow.
As a hotel specially arranged by the Empire, its scale was naturally not small, and most teams chose to stay in the hotel arranged by the Empire.
Walking into the hotel under Dugu Bo's lead, everyone's gaze swept across the lobby and caught sight of a beautiful sight.
Tight-fitting blue uniforms revealed their beautiful figures, with long, straight, fair, and tender legs beneath short skirts; their attire was neat and uniform, their faces lovely, and they were all stunning beauties.
They didn't even need to look at the Academy's emblem on their arms to guess that this group of people must be the Skywater Academy's participating team.
Not far from Skywater Academy, there was also the Blazing Academy, dressed in fiery red, and the Thunder Academy, clad in purple, making the atmosphere quite lively.
Upon seeing this, Yu Feng almost instantly straightened his back, trying to appear very gentlemanly.
Ye Lingling subconsciously moved a few steps closer to Shi Quan.
Hearing footsteps, the teachers and students of Skywater, Blazing, and other major academies in the lobby all turned their heads.
"Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Heaven Dou Battle Team." A glance at their attire immediately identified them, and their gazes involuntarily moved to the person at the front.
Dugu Bo!
The news that the Heaven Dou Battle Team's leader was a Titled Douluo had already spread, and everyone looked at Dugu Bo with awe.
"Is that this year's Heaven Dou Battle Team? To have a Titled Douluo as their leader, it seems the Heaven Dou Battle Team is determined to win this year's championship."
Everyone present immediately began to discuss in low voices.
"Is he the one who drove Yu Tianheng from the Heaven Dou Battle Team to the Heaven Dou Second Team?" Yu Tianxin of Thunder Academy's gaze fell on Shi Quan.
As rivals, he and Yu Tianheng naturally kept a constant eye on Yu Tianheng's news.
"Is that Shi Quan? He's quite handsome." Shui Yue'er from the Skywater Battle Team whispered.
"..." Everyone looked at Shui Yue'er speechlessly.
"Yue'er, stop being so infatuated; didn't you see his girlfriend is still beside him?" Her teammate, Xue Wu, couldn't help but complain.
"Hehe, I'm just purely appreciating him." Shui Yue'er playfully stuck out her tongue, "Besides, isn't it said that this Shi Quan is the strongest in the Heaven Dou Battle Team? I'm just observing the enemy in advance."
"This time, Heaven Dou Royal Academy is very different from before. The original Heaven Dou Second Team, for some unknown reason, changed its name to something called Shrek Team, and Yu Tianheng, who originally belonged to the Heaven Dou Battle Team, for some unknown reason, withdrew from the Heaven Dou Battle Team and joined the Shrek Team."
The leader of Skywater Academy, watching the Heaven Dou group go upstairs, seriously reminded them, "The strength of this year's Heaven Dou Battle Team is by no means simple; everyone, pay close attention."
"Understood." The Skywater Battle Team members quickly nodded.
On the other side, the Shrek Team had arrived at the hotel earlier than Shi Quan and the others and had already checked in.
"Qin Ming, hand out our team uniforms." Flender's voice came.
Qin Ming agreed and moved a stack of uniforms from a nearby table. The pale gold uniforms had the characters "Heaven Dou" embroidered on the left chest, and on the back were seven silver stars, the emblem of the Heaven Dou Empire; they looked quite normal.
But as Ma Hongjun was the first to take a uniform and flipped it over, his expression immediately became a bit strange, "Teacher, are you serious?"
Saying that, Ma Hongjun held up the uniform with both hands and gave it a gentle shake, displaying the entire top.
On the right side of the uniform, there was a green monster Shrek pattern, with the three large characters "Shrek" embroidered on it, instantly lowering the otherwise luxurious-looking uniform by several grades. Moreover, the Shrek pattern on the clothes looked truly odd and mismatched no matter how one looked at it.
Flender cleared his throat a few times, "Although we are Heaven Dou Academy, we are also Shrek. Half and half, it's very reasonable, isn't it?"
Hearing this, everyone also looked speechless, but the disgusting green color of Shrek was just too ugly.
"Teacher, can't we just change the color?" Ma Hongjun said with a bitter face, looking at Flender. After all, they had seen many beautiful girls when they came to the hotel, and he didn't want to lose face in front of them.
Flender glared at Ma Hongjun and said, "What do you know? It's precisely this color that makes us stand out. Otherwise, how would other Academies know about our Shrek?"
Dai Mubai gritted his teeth and said, "Isn't our team name already Shrek? What about these uniforms..."
Flender immediately said, "What? You've forgotten your roots just because you've entered Heaven Dou? Is wearing half a Shrek uniform going to kill you?"
With things said to this extent, everyone couldn't say much more and could only reluctantly accept.
Before long, Qin Ming had distributed all the uniforms, and Flender, Qin Ming, and the other instructors also each received a set.
However, compared to their uniforms, the instructors' uniforms were clearly much more normal, with only a Shrek pattern embroidered on the right chest, about the same size as the Heaven Dou on the left chest, which looked much more coordinated and not strange at all.
Seeing this, Ning Rongrong was also extremely speechless. As teachers, not setting an example was one thing, but giving them such ugly team uniforms was another. Moreover, as Heaven Dou Royal Academy was an Imperial Academy, and they were the team representing Heaven Dou Royal Academy, wearing such uniforms out would be a disgrace to the Heaven Dou Empire. Weren't they afraid of the Heaven Dou Empire's wrath?
The others also had somewhat aggrieved expressions.
But they were quickly suppressed by Flender.