Compared to the Dragon Turtle, who had let him choose the abilities, the abilities given by the Sacred Magical Devil Ape's sacrifice were much more random.
Even so, they were all very good abilities.
The Sacred Magical Devil Ape's spirit core turned into a skull bone and fused with Chen Ming's head. Its pure spiritual attribute gave Chen Ming a huge boost to his spiritual power.
The blood-red hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring merged into Chen Ming's body.
Chen Ming's cultivation broke through the Level 50 bottleneck in an instant, then rose quickly.
His Dragon Spear Martial Soul already had a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring, and he had also absorbed a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone.
His Spirit Power had actually increased by a huge amount long ago. It just could not show because of the world's rules.
Now, absorbing this fifth Spirit Ring only opened the lock on his body.
Chen Ming's aura rose rapidly. Light kept flashing in his eyes.
As the Sacred Magical Devil Ape's pure spiritual power flowed into his mind, Chen Ming felt that the slow and dull feeling he had always sensed was finally broken.
Without realizing it, Chen Ming's eyes lit up.
At the center of his forehead, an illusory third eye began to open. It slowly devoured the power of the sacrifice and became more solid.
Time around him began to change strangely.
For a moment, the two people beside him felt Chen Ming's speed increase by dozens of times.
Then, in the next instant, he slowed down by dozens of times.
Everything became extremely fast, yet also extremely slow.
Time itself, on a large scale, had been twisted.
The trace of time attribute that had first grown from the change between ice, fire, light, and darkness was finally turned into an independent and solid attribute with the help of pure spiritual power and a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone.
It became a power Chen Ming could truly use.
Level 50, Level 55, Level 58, Level 60.
The moment he broke through the Spirit King bottleneck, Chen Ming's cultivation rose quickly and rushed straight to the threshold of Spirit Emperor.
His power kept growing, and everything around him seemed to twist like an illusion.
A few minutes later, Chen Ming left the sacrifice state.
He had already become a true quasi-Spirit Emperor.
Two hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast sacrifices.
Two hundred-thousand-year Spirit Rings and two hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bones.
Even for a Titled Douluo, this would be a strong boost.
Chen Ming, who had only been a Spirit King, was pushed straight to the quasi-Spirit Emperor level in an instant.
And his cultivation did not become unstable from rising too fast.
Instead, it became even more solid.
The Sacred Magical Devil Ape's Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone gave Chen Ming four excellent abilities.
The head bone came with two abilities: Spiritual Light and Time Freeze.
Spiritual Light used spiritual power to directly attack the enemy's soul and spiritual sea.
It could ignore the enemy's protective Spirit Power and turn pure spiritual power into a heavy hammer, smashing straight into the enemy's spiritual sea.
Time Freeze consumed a huge amount of Spirit Power and spiritual power to freeze time in the surrounding area for one second.
The first ability was pure spiritual power.
The greater the gap in spiritual power between the two sides, the easier it was to use.
The second used spiritual power as fuel to activate the power of time.
In theory, as long as the target was not a god-level being, or someone with divine power, Chen Ming could freeze them for one second.
As Chen Ming's cultivation rose, the time and range of this freeze would also increase.
The two abilities from his fifth Spirit Ring looked a little gentler in comparison.
The first ability, Spiritual Awakening, doubled the strength of his spiritual power and Spirit Power attributes. It also reduced Spirit Power consumption by twenty percent and increased recovery speed by twenty percent.
For a mage-type fighter, this was a top-tier boost.
The second ability was Withering Mark.
When it hit an enemy, it left a mark on them. This mark would keep draining the enemy's spiritual power, Spirit Power, and blood energy.
Chen Ming could track the target by sensing the mark.
And because the mark acted directly on the spiritual sea, it was very hard to erase.
Normal Spirit Masters could not touch this mark at all.
Outsiders would also find it extremely difficult to heal damage inside the spiritual sea.
Damage, control, buffs, and steady pressure.
The four abilities from the Sacred Magical Devil Ape could be called very good.
An unstable foundation for a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast would only affect its future life and whether it could survive the hundred-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation. It would not affect the quality of its hundred-thousand-year Spirit Ring or Spirit Bone.
Even if the Sacred Magical Devil Ape had been forced up to that level, there would still be no problem with its Spirit Ring or Spirit Bone.
"Twelve years old, Level 60. As long as nothing goes wrong, I should be able to become a god in my twenties. If I create my own god position, it'll probably take longer, but that's still fine. I just don't know how Tang San is doing right now. Will he still follow the original path…?"
Twelve years old was an important turning point.
Before this age, Tang San had wasted time in a primary Spirit Master academy. After that, he entered Shrek, which led to a series of events.
It could be said that if Tang San simply studied step by step in primary, intermediate, and advanced academies, he would still become strong. But he would never become a god as quickly as he did in the original story.
At this very moment, inside the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan, Tang San was being beaten by a group of clan members.
"Sneak attack again! And again! And again! How many times has it been, and you're still sneak attacking?"
"A Spirit Master battle should be fought properly! Yet you keep using poison arrows and things like that to ambush us. You're shameless!"
Several young Spirit Masters from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan pinned Tang San to the ground and beat him hard. Strong lightning shocked him until every strand of his hair stood up.
Tang San tried to use his Blue Silver Grass and hidden weapons to fight back, but the moment his hand moved, a Spirit Master stepped on his arm and stopped him from moving.
When he first came to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan, because of Yu Yuanzhen and the others' orders, most people did not directly clash with him even if they looked down on him.
After all, there was no point in doing that.
The problem was, ever since Yu Xiaogang's random "updated cultivation method" was exposed, Tang San had become a target because of Yu Xiaogang.
And Yu Xiaogang's disappearance, along with the pointing and whispering around him, made Tang San feel even more like he was being targeted.
Could Tang San endure that? Of course not.
At first, they only argued with words.
Later, Tang San simply started fighting people in challenge matches.
But the problem was, with Tang San's current strength, even with the Mysterious Heaven Skill and the rest, he still could not deal with Spirit Masters who had the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.
Tang San's innate full Spirit Power was fake. It came from cultivating the Mysterious Heaven ability.
The Mysterious Heaven Skill increased his cultivation speed, allowing him to cultivate at a normal innate full Spirit Power speed, or even faster.
But now, the whole continent was cultivating Chen Ming's Douluo Heart Method. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan's version had been improved even further, giving them even faster cultivation speed.
According to the canyon theory of relativity, when everyone else speeds up while Tang San's speed stays the same, that is basically the same as Tang San slowing down.
Right now, Tang San's basic stats were not enough. His cultivation was not enough either.
Aside from some little tricks, he no longer looked special at all.
The cultivation speed that had once been his only standout trait among his peers had already begun to fade into the crowd.
Among Spirit Masters of the same age, there were already people with cultivation close to Tang San's, and even people who cultivated faster than him.
Tang San himself knew where his cultivation speed came from. He also knew that his Mysterious Heaven Skill cultivated faster than Chen Ming's Douluo Heart Method.
But in front of others, he could not say that he had always been cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
So he could only pretend to cultivate the Douluo Heart Method.
But cultivation speed could not be faked.
He had indeed cultivated quickly before. But in the eyes of others, after switching to the Douluo Heart Method, his speed was still the same as before.
Because of this, people also began to look down on him in terms of cultivation.
Even if the other side stood still, Tang San still could not break their defense.
Even after following Yu Xiaogang's earlier advice and adding a Ghost Vine Spirit Ring, both his Binding and Parasite still could not break through.
The power of lightning could instantly turn Blue Silver Grass that had not awakened the Blue Silver Emperor bloodline into a pile of black ash.
When Tang San was pushed into a corner, he used hidden weapons.
At first, they did have some effect.
But after that, he was surrounded and beaten on the ground.
Even in a martial arts world, people would look down on someone who used hidden weapons.
In the Douluo world, Tang San's actions were even more shameful.
Right now, inside the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan, Tang San got beaten three times a day. And most of the time, he had asked for it himself.
An invisible divine thought descended from the Divine Realm and awakened inside Tang San's mind.
The Asura God, one of the five great God Kings of the Divine Realm, wanted to see how far his chess piece had grown.
But the moment he woke up, he saw Tang San being pinned down by several people and beaten like a dog.
Seeing this scene, the God, who had thought he had already planned everything and would later leave with his harvest after a million years, fell silent.
He thought for several seconds before finally understanding what Tang San's current situation was.
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