Tang Hao's luck was actually quite good this time.
It was after he learned that his sister, Tang Yuehua, had actually taken such a step and even moved the entire Moon Pavilion into the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
Tang Hao, who had originally planned to secretly infiltrate Heaven Dou City to question his sister in person, immediately followed his heart and returned home.
His empty right arm still throbbed with a faint pain; it had been forcibly severed by that super Douluo named Zhao Yun!
Through this series of abnormal actions, Tang Hao, that old fox, had also roughly guessed the truth.
His sister had most likely completely betrayed the Sect and secretly sought refuge with that man named Lin Yuan.
To put it at the extreme, even if Yuehua hadn't joined Lin Yuan, she had joined the Heaven Dou Imperial Family to seek the protection of the Royal Academy.
In Tang Hao's current view, the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, guarded by Zhao Yun, was a literal forbidden zone for him!
With his current cultivation having dropped to the Spirit Douluo level, if he dared to rashly charge into such a dragon's pool or tiger's den...
One careless move, and forget about bringing his sister back to face justice—he might lose his life there entirely!
Therefore, Tang Hao chose to endure in silence.
After this storm of betrayal that shocked the Spirit Master's world, the Clear Sky Sect, which had suffered the loss of the Seventh Elder, remained surprisingly quiet without any movement.
It seemed they either knew some inside information or were wary of some unknown powerful force, choosing to temporarily swallow this grievance.
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Spring went and autumn came; winter departed and summer arrived.
Time flew by like a white stallion passing a gap.
In the blink of an eye, four peaceful and fulfilling years had passed.
The green boys and girls who had first entered the Heaven Dou Royal Academy back then had now fully matured, entering the most flourishing years of their lives.
Inside the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, on an open training ground covered in lush green grass.
The sunlight spilled down as a gentle breeze blew past.
By now, Lin Yuan's height had grown to 1.9 meters. He was tall and slender, and his already peerlessly handsome face had been carved by time, shedding its former youthful innocence.
Now, with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, his features were well-defined. Every gesture exuded an irresistible dominance of a superior and the charm of a mature man.
Xiao Wu, standing beside him, had long since grown into a graceful young woman.
Her signature scorpion braid still hung behind her head, but her figure had developed into exquisite curves, and her long, straight legs were particularly eye-catching.
Xiao Wu's appearance was pure and refined. Between every frown and smile, she possessed both the charming innocence of a girl and the allure of a mature woman, leaning closely against Lin Yuan's side.
On the other side, Ning Rongrong wore a form-fitting light green long dress. Her skin was as white as snow, and her temperament was noble and elegant.
Her slender waist and increasingly full chest line all manifested her peerless elegance.
During these long four years, Lin Yuan's spirit power Rank had already undergone a world-shaking improvement.
Currently, he was only one step away from the Level Seventy Spirit Saint Realm!
Not only that, during these four years of hard cultivation, besides continuously improving his own cultivation...
He also expended energy for Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and his other closest female companions.
He had custom-made and forged a full set of one-word battle armor for each of them that perfectly matched their Spirit attributes!
Among them, after Ning Rongrong successfully obtained her one-word battle armor and revealed its terrifying power during a visit home to the Sect...
The Sect Master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, Ning Fengzhi, was instantly astounded.
After learning that this miraculous armor on Ning Rongrong, which allowed one to fight across Ranks, was actually handmade by Lin Yuan...
The quick-witted Ning Fengzhi also paid a personal visit.
He tactfully proposed that he wanted to pay a heavy price to have Lin Yuan help make a set of this armor for the core Elders in the Sect, or for himself.
However, this tempting proposal was temporarily and very decisively rejected by Lin Yuan.
After all, making a complete set of one-word battle armor required a vast amount of mental force and painstaking effort.
Moreover, because Ning Rongrong and the others were not like the Spirit Masters of the Douluo III era, they didn't understand forging techniques or mecha maintenance at all.
So, the battle armors Lin Yuan gave them were composed of ready-made parts he obtained from the System's lucky draw, combined with some parts he forged himself.
If Lin Yuan wanted to custom-forge these battle armors for them...
He had to be extremely familiar with their physical data, Spirit attributes, and the routes of their spirit power circulation.
Only by reaching this level of intimate knowledge could he ensure the final battle armor achieved a 100% perfect fit with their own Spirits.
But Lin Yuan was not familiar at all with those two old men, Ning Fengzhi and the Sword Douluo Chen Xin.
Naturally, he couldn't grope in the dark to create battle armor that perfectly fit their Spirits.
Therefore, Lin Yuan used the excuse that his current forging skills were still insufficient to refuse them without hesitation.
Regarding this result, although Ning Fengzhi felt somewhat disappointed in his heart...
He felt that Lin Yuan's so-called "insufficient skill" was likely just a pretext to avoid revealing core technology.
However, who could blame him when Lin Yuan not only possessed powerful talent but also had a super teacher behind him who could insta-kill a Titled Douluo?
Ning Fengzhi didn't dare to push too hard, and in all fairness, Lin Yuan was indeed exceptionally good to his precious daughter, Ning Rongrong.
And what about their cultivation?
During these four years, Xiao Wu and the others would more or less receive various random rewards from the System, plus the accumulated pity rewards over time.
Most of them had already successfully broken through Level Fifty.
Among them, Dugu Yan's current cultivation was even more terrifying, being only one step away from the Level Sixty Spirit Emperor Realm.
As for Zhu Zhuqing, with the "Flickering Light Shadow Step" and the "Nine Yin Manual," she had accumulated much and was now a powerful low-tier Spirit Emperor!
If the overall improvement speed of this group were to be spread, it could be said to be extremely shocking and absurdly fast.
During these four years, another noteworthy event occurred in the Spirit Master's world.
Because the Moon Pavilion Master Tang Yuehua publicly betrayed the Sect, she stopped sending any daily supplies to the Clear Sky Sect.
The Clear Sky Sect, which was using up its reserves, finally reached the end of its rope after struggling for two years.
For the sake of survival, two years ago, they had to bite the bullet and let some Sect personnel and several Elders secretly leave the mountains.
They founded a high-level Spirit Master academy named "Clear Sky" in a city within the Heaven Dou Empire.
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