Zhu Zhuyun, 24 years old, Spirit Hell Civet, spirit power level 54, arrogant and cold-blooded, with a tendency for personality change, innate talent rating: S-.
Zhu Zhuyu, 15 years old, Spirit Hell Civet, spirit power level 35, introverted and well-behaved, innate talent rating: S-.
On the way to the Artifact Cultivation Pavilion, Su Ran's mind quickly reviewed the talent information of his two newly accepted disciples, and he had pretty much decided on their cultivation path—similar to Zhuqing's Grand Dao, with slight deviations based on their own Spirit Abilities and personalities.
This way, Zhuqing could also teach on behalf of her master in the future, ensuring their cultivation wouldn't be delayed.
With the disciple acceptance rewards distributed, combined with the rewards from the Slaughter City trip, Su Ran had gained a lot. His current strength was roughly as follows:
Su Ran
Spirit: Divine Show Peach Branch
spirit power: Level 95 Super Douluo → Level 96 Super Douluo
Spirit Bone: 200,000-year external Spirit Bone — Cloud Dream Immortal Wings, 180,000-year Right Arm Bone — Heavenly Craftsmanship, etc.
Domain: Divine Show Peach Sky, Master of Glory, Magic Ban Domain, Slaughter God Domain…
First Spirit Ability Year Limit: Plucking Branches as Dreams — Upgraded to 18,000 years.
Second Spirit Ability: A Dream Peach Sword Order — Upgraded to 25,000 years.
Third Spirit Ability: Chaotic Red Flying Snow — Upgraded to 35,000 years.
Fourth Spirit Ability: Scarlet Moon Peach Bloom — Upgraded to 50,000 years.
Fifth Spirit Ability: Burning Flower Thousand Peach Slash — Upgraded to 88,000 years.
Sixth Spirit Ability: Skill 1 Nine Luminaries Peach Blossom Sword, Awakening Skill 2 Blazing Sky Star — Upgraded to 150,000 years.
Seventh Spirit Ability: Red Dust True Body (100,000-year accompanying ring Domain, Heavenly White Jade Capital) — Upgraded to 230,000 years.
Eighth Spirit Ability: Skill 1 — Falling Moon, Skill 2 — Falling Sun. Upgraded to 250,000 years.
Ninth Spirit Ability: Skill 1 — Extreme Intent Freedom, Skill 2 — Peach Immortal's Guidance · Myriad Flowers Bloom. 400,000-year limit!
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Outside the pavilion, a beautiful woman in a plain peach-colored dress, holding a broom, looked back from afar, staring blankly at the Dean's back.
Before long, Su Ran brought Zhuqing and Meng Yiran to the third floor of the pavilion.
The pavilion was clean and tidy. Normally, apart from Su Ran coming in to study the system-rewarded artifacts, no one else had permission to enter here.
On the shelves of the third floor were many artifacts that even Zhuqing and Meng Yiran, who had studied the netherworld instrument thousand cry blueprints, did not recognize.
Meng Yiran, who usually loved studying Hidden Weapons, was full of curiosity upon arriving here. After looking around, her gaze finally fell on her teacher. Her small face flushed, and her grandmother's teachings suddenly echoed in her mind:
"Teacher, you just returned. Are you going to teach us new Hidden Weapons right away? Won't you rest a bit? Your disciple recently learned a massage technique from Grandma. Would you like your disciple to help you relax first?"
"No need."
Su Ran walked to a movable blackboard, picked up a pointer, and said indifferently:
"The reason I called you here this time is that, although Zhuqing's current strength can hold her own even against a Spirit Douluo, it will be very dangerous for her to face the strong individuals of the Star Luo Royal Family alone if she wants to return and deal with her family's affairs. I'm still a bit worried, so I have some things I want to give you."
Su Ran's words made the usually cold Zhuqing feel warm. Her teacher had helped her too much.
"Zhuqing, your advantage this time returning will be to take them by surprise, strive for a quick victory, use one powerful blow to overcome many, and overwhelm the Star Luo Royal Family with your momentum."
"However, even though your strength has advanced by leaps and bounds now, it might not be easy to achieve this. Fortunately, you have already mastered your movement technique. Unless it's an agility-attack system Titled Douluo, they won't be able to catch up to you now. If you can't win, you can still return safely."
"No matter if I can achieve it or not, I will do my best this time and absolutely not run away!"
Upon hearing this, Zhuqing's eyes were filled with determination.
But the next moment, Zhuqing's small face darkened. She bit her lip and said with some embarrassment:
"If I can't win, I will likely leave my life in Star Luo. For my family and my third sister, I will have no regrets."
"It's just that I won't be able to repay Teacher's kindness. How should Zhuqing repay you? Perhaps... perhaps!"
Zhuqing deliberated for a long while before she was about to blurt out the words "offer myself."
"No problem!"
Unexpectedly, Teacher Su Ran took down a mysterious weapon from the black shelf. It was entirely dark black, about 1.5 meters long, and placed it in front of her.
The body of the weapon resembled profound iron tempered in ice, feeling heavy and cool with the unique chill of metal. Most striking were the carvings on both sides of the receiver—not intricate patterns, but a scene of "collapsing mountains": half a mountain range was splitting from the middle, debris splashing like a sudden downpour, with dark patterns faintly visible in the cracks, like magma surging beneath the rock layers. The carving was so sharp it seemed as if it would break free from the gun's confines in the next second.
Zhuqing and Meng Yiran had never learned about this weapon before, but at first glance, it reminded them of another weapon: the Hell Revolver equipped by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.
And the one before them, whether in weight or volume, was much larger than the Hell Revolver, inspiring an inexplicable sense of awe.
"Teacher... this... what is this thing?"
Zhuqing and Meng Yiran both asked in a daze.
"I call it: Soul Bursting Sky Piercer."
"Soul Bursting Sky Piercer?!"
Upon hearing this name, both of them trembled. The fact that their teacher named it so clearly indicated its powerful lethality.
"You should know that the basic principle of Hidden Weapons is very primitive; they merely utilize simple force relationships to achieve instantaneous bursts. Therefore, Hidden Weapons can often only be used by surprise, in secret, and are not suitable for public use."
"However, the netherworld instrument thousand cry you've learned often incorporate spirit power and dark nitrate substances when used, sometimes even embedding other gems to better control their direction and explosive power, such as the upgraded version of the Ghost Shuttle — the Hell Ghost Shuttle and the Golden Revolver."
"Although these artifacts are extraordinary, they are only slightly more effective than ordinary Hidden Weapons, and can be considered the rudimentary version of the concept Teacher is about to discuss."
"And this Soul Bursting Sky Piercer that Teacher is about to introduce to you truly transcends the concept of Hidden Weapons. It is a spirit tool killing weapon. Even if an ordinary enemy knows you are going to use it, it will be very difficult to counter, and they will only be filled with awe, because it only requires a minimal amount of spirit power as a medium to activate its switch, yet it can unleash power capable of instantly killing a Spirit Douluo and severely wounding a Titled Douluo expert."
Teacher Su Ran's words refreshed Zhuqing and Meng Yiran's Worldview. Instantly kill a Spirit Douluo? Severely wound a Titled Douluo? What kind of destructive power was this?
And there was a new term: spirit tool killing weapon.
This was something they had never heard of.
"Teacher, what is a spirit tool killing weapon?" Meng Yiran couldn't help but ask.
"Humans possess strength and used the relationship of force to create Hidden Weapons. Then Spirit Masters should also have equipment that matches them — spirit tools. Most Spirit Masters nowadays only see the spatial storage properties of spirit tools and use them as storage bags.
But I call these artifacts, which are driven by spirit power and utilize energy substances like spirit tool gems to unleash terrifying explosive power, spirit tool killing weapons."
"And this Sky Shattering Cannon is an eighth-level spirit tool killing weapon."
"Although the Sky Shattering Cannon still needs optimization, it already possesses terrifying propulsive force. Consider it a self-defense weapon that I, your master, am giving you for your trip to Star Luo this time."
"The method of use is very simple: just load it, insert the corresponding size of profound iron steel sand, activate it with spirit power via the trigger, aim at the target, and it can crack a person's soul and shatter their skull!"
Bang—
Su Ran demonstrated the usage method to Zhuqing and Meng Yiran.
The target hit was a piece of profound steel material, twenty centimeters thick, normally used by Senior Sister Rongrong for advanced Inch Punch training. Even Senior Sister Rongrong found it difficult to leave a fist print on it.
But with the violent recoil, dense steel ball marks appeared on the profound steel, deeply indented inwards, indicating incredibly terrifying destructive power.
Zhuqing and Meng Yiran's eyes were already wide, unable to believe what the scene would be like if this hit a human body.
"However, this item has considerable recoil, and each loading only allows for five shots. Zhuqing, you must remember this point."
"Meng Yiran, this is why Teacher brought you along. Teacher knows you always enjoy studying these kinds of artifacts, so the next stage of your learning plan that Teacher has set for you is to personally create a Soul Bursting Sky Piercer."
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