Hu Liena immediately hugged Yue Guan's arm, shaking it playfully and whining, "Grandpa Ju, tell me, what exactly is going on?"
Yue Guan shook his head, "I can't say now, you'll know when the time comes. Anyway, Xiao Ze is currently at Tian Dou Royal Academy, and he's also the strongest among their academy members.
You all should work hard."
Yue Guan didn't disclose Xiao Ze's strength, as the competition hadn't started yet, so there might still be a chance.
Of course, if what Hu Yan Zhen said wasn't false, Nana and the others would have less than a ten percent chance of winning.
Hu Liena watched Yue Guan's retreating back, her mind buzzing.
"That dark-skinned little guy from back then actually made it to the finals? That's quite unexpected. But he was already acquiring his second spirit ring at that age; his talent was indeed decent, but not top-tier. How strange."
"Nana, what are you mumbling about?" Xie Yue and Yan slowly approached.
"Nothing, big brother, let's go cultivate." Hu Liena wasn't foolish. Grandpa Ju's earlier suggestion for her to cultivate felt like a hint about something.
Could it be that Xiao Ze was stronger than her?
No way, she was about to become a Spirit King!
That couldn't be right; that little brother was much younger than her. How was it possible?
Hu Liena's heart grew somewhat anxious.
"Uh... alright." Xie Yue was completely confused. When had his sister ever been so enthusiastic?
"Nana, I'll go with you." Yan immediately stepped forward.
Hu Liena ignored him and left directly, with Yan trotting after her.
Xie Yue looked helpless. He felt that Yan and Nana probably wouldn't have a future together.
Even if they did get together, their future would be very difficult.
...
Time flew by like a white colt galloping past a crack.
This year, Xiao Ze was fourteen years old.
His spirit power had also reached level fifty-four.
Four of those levels were gained from absorbing the Ice Dragon King's spirit ring.
At the same time, Xiao Ze's spirit rings and Spirit Bones were constantly improving in age.
Xiao Ze's fifth Spirit Ability, Symbiotic Contract, was an excellent life-saving Spirit Ability.
It could consume spirit power to transfer received damage to an Agricultural Sprite. It could also link all Agricultural Sprites, allowing them to share the damage equally.
The effect was excellent.
He didn't have a skill with such an effect among his sprites yet, so it came at just the right time.
Furthermore, within a year, all of Xiao Ze's Immortal Herbs were consumed, resulting in the birth of six sprites.
These six sprites were all Epic-grade.
Any sprites born in the future could not possibly possess such strength.
Meanwhile, the quality of his other sprites was slowly improving, though the speed of improvement was indeed slow.
Xiao Ze felt that at this rate, it would take another three or four years to reach Legendary-grade.
However, the energy from the Ice and Fire Dragon King was enough to accelerate the process for a while.
But the remaining Ice and Fire Dragon King energy was enough to raise these nineteen sprites to Legendary-grade; the remaining sprites would need to be cultivated slowly.
As for the subsequent Mythical-grade, there was no end in sight.
Xiao Ze decided to pause the creation of sprites.
Now that he was a Spirit King, he could have twenty-five sprites, but with twenty sprites, he was already struggling to cultivate them all, so he needed to take a break.
No rush, he would wait until all of them reached Legendary-grade before proceeding.
Anyway, he had plenty of time.
Besides Xiao Ze, the spirit power of Ye Lingling and the others also increased rapidly.
Even everyone's Spirit had evolved.
Ye Lingling's Spirit, the Samsara Begonia, had its healing ability maxed out, to the point where it could even revive anyone who hadn't been dead for more than five minutes.
However, the consumption would be a bit higher. Now, Ye Lingling's Spirit could truly be called the number one healing Spirit in the world. Being able to resurrect the dead alone was enough.
Not to mention her healing abilities had become even stronger.
Dugu Yan's Spirit was the Heavenly Poison Dragon Emperor, which possessed simple yet ultimate poison.
Xiao Ze had tested it, and even he would have great difficulty blocking Dugu Yan's poison.
It required the sprites to constantly heal and purify.
Moreover, even a Titled Douluo like Dugu Bo could be poisoned by Dugu Yan, which showed how formidable the Heavenly Poison Dragon Emperor was.
Furthermore, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling were also the only two, besides Xiao Ze, to reach the Spirit King level.
Water Binger's Spirit evolved from the Ice Phoenix to the Ice Crystal Phoenix.
She gained the ultimate ice attribute. Now, Water Binger was an extremely powerful presence in both offense and control. Her single-target control was even stronger than Dugu Yan's.
Shui Yueer's current Spirit was the Spirit Stream Dolphin. Although this Spirit's quality was not as high as the others, it was still very good, at least greatly enhancing Shui Yueer's strength.
Huo Wu's Spirit evolved from the Fire Shadow to the Fire Spirit.
The Fire Spirit, as a Spirit, surpassed the Fire Shadow in both quality and status.
The Fire Spirit was somewhat similar to Snow Empress's Ice Sky Snow Maiden, a naturally born and raised being.
However, the Fire Spirit's quality was not as high as the Ice Sky Snow Maiden, but Xiao Ze believed that one day, the Fire Spirit's quality would definitely not be inferior to the Ice Sky Snow Maiden, perhaps even stronger.
Ning Rongrong, needless to say, had the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
When it evolved, Ning Rongrong even wanted to go back and inherit the Sect, then give the Sect to Xiao Ze.
Xiao Ze had to talk her out of it, and even kissed her for a while to stop her.
The Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was too important to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.
For example, Ning Fengzhi still didn't have the Eight Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, but Xiao Ze had added some high-quality agricultural products, so it should be coming soon.
Meng Yiran and Zhu Zhuqing's Spirits evolved into Medusa's Gaze and Shadow Monarch, both considered extremely powerful Spirits.
Although they couldn't compare to divine-grade Spirits, they were close to the Seraphim.
At least they were much stronger than the Clear Sky Hammer.
Among the girls, the weakest now were Shui Yueer and Zhu Zhuqing.
One was level 42, and the other was level 43.
Everyone else was at least level 45 or above, all very formidable.
Of course, the most important factor was his powerful agricultural products.
One year of development, MVP Xiao Ze (agricultural products).
"Xiao Ze, I feel like it's about to recover." Ye Lingling's voice was a little excited.
"Is that so, let me see." Xiao Ze took the Life Tribulation Twin Lotus from Ye Lingling's hand.
This was Ye Lingling's demigod artifact. If it could recover, then for her, the increase in combat power and healing ability would be significant.
The girls also gathered around.
Water Binger and the other two also knew that Sister Lingling possessed a demigod artifact.
They often saw it, but it always looked half-dead.
Now that it was starting to emit a green light, it might really be useful.
Xiao Ze's gaze was quickly drawn to the jade green hairpin.
The two begonia flowers on the hairpin began to move without wind.
Then, they burst forth with dazzling light, as if the begonia flowers were blooming.
"God of Agriculture, has it recovered?" Xiao Ze quickly asked.
"Yes, that's right, it has indeed recovered. It took so long, but it finally recovered. It seems its injuries were much lighter than my divine artifact's."
Xiao Ze's mouth twitched.
Indeed.
Hers was originally a demigod artifact, while yours was directly obtained as a demigod artifact.
(End of Chapter)
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