On the very day the anonymous report was sent, the Shrek Seven Devils and the Golden Iron Triangle left Heaven Dou City early in the morning by carriage.
As the outline of Heaven Dou City gradually disappeared behind them, the smiles on everyone's faces became impossible to hide.
"This time, even if Dugu Bo doesn't die, he'll at least lose a layer of skin. A brute who only knows how to fight and kill, how could he possibly understand what it means to kill someone without leaving a trace?"
Grandmaster's lips nearly curled up to the sky as he basked in pride over the Shrek Seven Devils' decision.
In his heart, he was even praising Yu Tianheng, thinking that his nephew had indeed inherited some of his wisdom.
To avoid exposing the matter and prevent Dugu Bo from questioning him later, Yu Tianheng had not revealed the contents of the letter. When he wrote it, he had simply acted on impulse. Since then, however, he had been thinking about how to turn this matter into one of his "achievements" and proudly boast about it at a future clan meeting.
He had never realized that the contents of the letter lacked even basic logic.
Seeing his confidence, the six other members of Shrek did not question his abilities.
Tang San smiled coldly, his eyes as venomous as a snake's.
"Don't get too excited. This can only be considered a small lesson for Dugu Bo. It's nowhere near enough to bring him down."
With their current strength, they had no way of understanding the gap between Titled Douluos.
However, Grandmaster had once said that the differences between Titled Douluos were limited, and that killing another Titled Douluo would come at a tremendous cost.
Therefore, after weighing the gains and losses, Spirit Hall would at most make things difficult for Dugu Bo. They wouldn't fight him to the death.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Dai Mubai wrapped an arm around Yu Tianheng's shoulders and laughed loudly.
"I think that with Tianheng's intelligence, he'll definitely inherit the position of Young Sect Master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and eventually become the Sect Master."
He looked at Yu Tianheng.
"Bro, when you make it big, don't forget us poor brothers."
Yu Tianheng patted his chest.
"Don't worry. We're classmates and brothers who have been through life and death together. I could forget anyone else, but I wouldn't forget you. However, we shouldn't spread this matter around for now. We need to keep a low profile."
"I also hope that this trip to obtain a Spirit Ring for Mubai brings us some gains. The stronger we become, the better our results will be in the tournament."
Seven Treasure Academy
The Team Selection Tournament and the Inter-Academy Exchange Conference concluded at the same time.
Four students were selected as substitutes for the team. All of them had recently joined Seven Treasure Academy. Three were battle spirit masters, while one was a support spirit master.
Logically speaking, an academy established by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan should have attracted a large number of support spirit masters.
However, that was not the case.
Across two enrollment periods, only a handful of support spirit masters had enrolled. The overwhelming majority of students were battle spirit masters.
Relatively speaking, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan had much stricter requirements for support spirit masters. Unless someone possessed extraordinary talent, foreign disciples received very poor treatment, far inferior to that of outer-clan battle spirit masters.
After all, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan lacked many things, but support spirit masters were not one of them.
The support spirit master among the four substitutes was named Ning Tianyu. He was the son of one of the clan's elders and had relied entirely on his own strength during the academy selection tournament to defeat all competitors and claim the sole substitute position for support spirit masters.
To avoid overshadowing the main team members, substitutes would not train together with the main team.
Some teams did not even select their substitutes until right before the tournament began, allowing them to join the team without receiving any prior team training.
The Seven Treasure Team would never do such a thing.
Wu Qi knew that his tactics were not unbeatable. Once they were exposed beforehand and the information reached Bibi Dong, she would undoubtedly order the scholars and experts of Spirit Hall to analyze their weaknesses.
Therefore, substitutes were extremely important.
As for their training, Wu Qi gave them only one requirement:
Determine your role within the team and train around that position under the guidance of the academy's teachers.
After handling the matter of the substitute members, Wu Qi was summoned to one of the academy's reception rooms, where Ning Fengzhi had already been waiting for quite some time.
The door to the reception room opened.
Upon seeing him, Ning Fengzhi spoke with an apologetic expression.
"Little Wu, I'm sorry for disturbing you at a time like this. However, the matter I've come to discuss today definitely won't leave you at a disadvantage."
With only a little more than half a year remaining before the Spirit Master Tournament, the teams from every academy had already entered the final stage of their preparations.
Recently, Wu Qi and the others had significantly reduced the frequency of their spirit battles.
Wu Qi didn't pay much attention to it. Even during preparations, being delayed by a day or two or even a mere ten or twenty minutes made little difference.
Ning Fengzhi smiled warmly and took out a blank-looking secret manual from his storage spirit tool, placing it on the table.
"Little Wu, this is one of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan's secret arts. As the captain of the team, you bear the responsibility of command. If you can learn the Heart Separation Control, you'll be able to pay attention to multiple battlefields at once."
It was indeed one of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan's secret arts, but its level of secrecy was not particularly high.
First, disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan could only receive the next stage of the technique after mastering the previous one, which already greatly reduced the possibility of it being leaked.
There were quite a few members of the clan who had reached the peak of Spirit Sage, but only Ning Fengzhi himself had cultivated the Heart Separation Control to the level of the Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart.
Everyone else had reached, at most, the Six Aperture Wishful Heart. Even if they wanted to record and spread the technique, without the cultivation method for the seventh stage, others could never reach its peak.
Secondly, ordinary spirit masters had little need for the Heart Separation Control.
Ning Fengzhi had only brought out this technique because of the upcoming Spirit Master Tournament and because Wu Qi had to fight while also directing the team, which placed a heavy burden on him.
After opening the manual, Wu Qi found that it only contained the methods from the Two-Aperture Divided Heart to the Four-Aperture Constant Heart.
Of course, that was already sufficient.
As a battle spirit master, multitasking was not an absolute necessity for him.
The fact that Ning Fengzhi was willing to provide the manual up to the Four-Aperture Constant Heart. stage was probably out of consideration for the Worship Hall.
As spirit power levels increased and one reached higher realms, unless one was a support spirit master, even control-system spirit masters had little need to learn multitasking.
After all, most future battles would be one-on-one encounters. Even in team battles, high-level control-system spirit masters generally possessed large-scale control abilities that consumed little spirit power, making multitasking unnecessary.
"Thank you, Uncle Ning."
Wu Qi expressed his gratitude.
Ning Fengzhi looked slightly embarrassed. After all, for Wu Qi, this secret art was something of a tasteless treasure too useful to discard, but not particularly valuable.
Even so, he still reminded him,
"Little Wu, this technique is, after all, one of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan's secret arts. I hope you can keep it confidential and not pass it on to anyone."
"Also, Rongrong has already reached the level of the Two-Aperture Divided Heart. You can ask her for some advice."
"That's all I wanted to say. I'll be waiting here for good news from all of you."
After Wu Qi left, Chenxin could not help but ask,
"Fengzhi, giving him the Heart Separation Control won't be of much use to him. I truly don't understand."
Ning Fengzhi let out a long sigh.
"The Worship Hall has brought stability to our commercial markets. We have to show our attitude somehow, don't we?"
"The Heart Separation Control is genuine, but we can make as many copies of the manual as we want. We lose nothing, and at the same time, we can build a good relationship."
"Uncle Jian, can you think of anything else that satisfies all those conditions at once?"
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