Spirit City is located at the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, an area with independent and autonomous jurisdiction.
From Heaven Dou City to Spirit City, it spans more than half of the Empire from north to south. The fifteen teams from Heaven Dou City basically traveled together, riding in the knight-drawn carriages prepared by the Tian Dou Royal Family.
As Peach Garden Academy, which achieved first place in both the preliminaries and the promotion rounds, it naturally sat in the leading carriage team. Each team generally had 2-3 carriages, divided into student carriages and teacher carriages.
In the Tianshui Academy's carriage team.
Water Binger and Shui Yueer sat together, occasionally looking out the window, trying to find the location of Peach Garden Academy.
They held the apprenticeship gifts and a letter of advice their teacher had given them.
"Bing'er, the secondary immortal-grade flower I, your teacher, prepared for you—the Frost Soul Orchid Ice—after absorption, can make your Spirit more substantial and promote the cultivation of Frozen Ice Cotton Palm and Heaven Frost Fist - Ice Frost Sky Phoenix. In the finals, the core teams will be much stronger than in the preliminaries. For Tianshui Academy to break through, it not only needs good luck but also relies on your strength as the Tianshui captain."
"The Ice and Snow Drifting Spirit fusion ability relies on your Ice Phoenix's release, supplemented by Snow Dance's snowflakes, to unleash powerful area-of-effect damage. This Spirit Ability allowed you to defeat many opponents in the preliminaries, but relying solely on a two-person fusion ability will be difficult in the finals."
"In fact, Spirit Masters who pursue extreme attributes are the easiest to cultivate multi-person Spirit fusion abilities. If you can have Yue'er and the others join your Spirit fusion ability, forming a three-person or more fusion ability, and allow Ice and Snow Drifting to transform into a tracking ice and snow attack with the help of Yue'er and the others' power, then its power and effect will be greatly enhanced. Coupled with diligence in unique skills, Tianshui can join the ranks of top teams. The details and methods, I have already informed you in the attached letter… "
"Yue'er, your personality is impulsive, prone to wild thoughts and fantasies, so you always struggle to settle down. This — Azure Water Lily of the Valley can bring you peace and calm, smooth your Flowing Water, and also make you and Bing'er more harmonious. You are sisters, and your Spirits have a strong resonance. If you can absorb it peacefully, even with just elementary Flowing Water Fist and Wave Subduing Art, it can significantly enhance the Tianshui team's strength… "
Those were two extremely beautiful flowers. When the Tianshui Academy team members saw them, they all showed expressions of surprise.
Although they didn't know what these flowers were for, the aura of affinity flowing from them told them they were precious.
"Are these from the teacher of Peach Garden Academy?"
"Yue'er, Captain, you two really don't treat us as your own. You secretly got together with Peach Garden Academy. We should have thought of it earlier. That Peach Blossom Branch that sent you, Bing'er, to the arena in the preliminary match, should have been that Su Teacher from Peach Garden Academy, right?"
"This Su Teacher's Spirit is really beautiful. The name Peach Garden lives up to its reputation."
Recalling the scene after the promotion rounds, when Su Teacher from Peach Garden Academy released his Spirit to the Platinum Bishop of Spirit Hall, Snow Dance and the others had a look of admiration in their eyes.
Girls, after all, love beautiful and pretty things the most.
And Su Ran's Peach Blossom Branch was arguably the most ethereal and beautiful Spirit on the continent, with few Spirits able to contend with it. It could be said that it was loved by everyone, making young girls' hearts blossom and their flower buds stir, ready to bloom.
Leng Yuehan also called Shui Yueer and Water Binger to the teachers' carriage for a discussion. Water Binger and Shui Yueer did not hide the matter from their aunt, Leng Yuehan, truthfully informing her that they had already become apprentices of Peach Garden.
Leng Xuehan was silent for a long time, because Tianshui Academy was the most suitable place for them to study.
But was Peach Garden Academy an exception?
In a similar situation to the two beauties of Tianshui were the three young women from Plant Academy, Yao Zi, Mu Yunzhu, and Mu Yunteng, who also received a secret letter of advice from their teacher, Su Ran. The letter detailed cultivation precautions and how to best utilize their specialties and strengths in the finals.
The young women rode in the carriage, heading south, gazing out at the changing scenery with a hint of melancholy and emotion.
Teacher, in fact, was very busy.
The Spirit Master team of Peach Garden Academy was cultivated and accompanied by him personally. He planned competitions for his senior brothers and sisters, taught them how to cultivate, and at the same time, did not neglect them, diligently teaching them unique skills suitable for their physiques, patiently guiding them on details, and teaching them how to play matches.
Could such a teacher be found a second time on the entire continent?
It would be difficult, wouldn't it?
Or rather, there simply wasn't a second one.
...
In Peach Garden Academy's carriage.
Su Ran sat alone in a carriage, his eyes now open, crimson moon peach blossoms fluttering within them, as if twin ice and fire dragons swam. He let out a long sigh:
"Still can't do it."
"How exactly should I pass the test of the Ninth Tribulation?"
The teacher's title tempering given by the system was not merely about strength, but a test of the character and artistic conception of being a teacher, and also the system's evaluation of Su Ran's current teaching ethics.
In each tribulation, Su Ran entered a lifetime of reincarnation from a meditative state.
"The First Tribulation: Endured poverty, served as a slave, had no one to rely on throughout life, wandered for sixty years, and drifted for a lifetime."
"The Second Tribulation: Struggled throughout life, toiled like an ox, barely made ends meet, cared for parents above, raised wife and children below, content with basic sustenance, a common life."
"The Third Tribulation: Held power, deeply entangled in mire, touched upon high authority above, suppressed the common people below, accumulated jade and piled gold, a revered official; yet, disaster struck suddenly, turning everything into nothing. Where is the five years of glory and wealth now? No different from a dream in Nanke."
"The Fourth Lifetime Meditation: Wielded a blade like an owl's shadow, where cold light splattered blood — stealthily took lives in the dark night, a The bloody wind swept through the dream and soul. One day, his heart awakened to the lingering karma, half a lifetime fallen, lamenting the demonic evil."
"…"
"The Sixth Tribulation: A profligate son, a heaven-blessed talent, looked up to the gates of heaven, trod upon the human world, looked back, a wasted life, all past events scattered like ashes."
"…"
"The Eighth Lifetime: A generation's Sword Immortal fell to the dust, endured the cold eyes of the world, discussed wine and swords, walked the path of wine and sword again, yet what of it? The clear night moon was unbearable."
"…"
Several lifetimes of meditation had made Su Ran's mental force extraordinarily strong. Even if not comparable to the superposition of eight lifetimes, it was at least equivalent to three souls.
These lifetimes of meditation also allowed Su Ran to witness the coldness and warmth of human nature, to understand human affairs and accept fate, and also to realize that pitiful people must have hateful aspects, and hateful people must have pitiable aspects, the principle of not viewing the world with prejudice and not living life with stubbornness.
However, what Su Ran sighed about was that he couldn't enter the state of meditation for this Ninth Lifetime, no matter how he cultivated in seclusion.
It was as if this Ninth Lifetime of meditation simply didn't exist.
This made Su Ran, who usually had a calm mindset, a little anxious.
If the Ninth spirit ring could not be attached, this trip to Spirit City would become even more perilous.
Could it be that the best option now should be to hunt for a spirit ring on his own?
After a long journey, passing through a valley, during a rest period, Su Ran slowly stepped out of the carriage, looking at the loess-like valley, feeling a bit worried.
With his current strength and his own precautions, he wasn't afraid of Spirit Hall making a move against him. Su Ran was only worried about his students.
"Dean Su, sighing, are you worried about losing the finals?"
At this moment, in front and to the side of Su Ran, a beautiful woman in green suddenly shook her head vigorously, then sharply knocked the golden circlet on her head twice with her fist. This could alleviate her headaches, but as the finals drew nearer, her thoughts became more numerous, often difficult to suppress.
Seeing Su Ran slowly approach, she couldn't help but ask.
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