Looking intently at the Summoning Flag Spirit and the Meditation skill, which were both in an idling state, Chu Chengzhou’s face darkened after a few seconds, despite his initial joy.
‘What a piece of trash!’
With a dark expression, Chu Chengzhou cursed inwardly.
This idling cheat wasn’t all that great; his Summoning Flag Spirit actually needed to be idled for a full hundred days just to upgrade the Spirit’s quality from Common to Advanced.
Furthermore, the idling Meditation skill was different from what he had previously imagined.
Previously, Chu Chengzhou thought that by putting Meditation on idle, his Soul Power would soar even if he was just lying still, entering a rapid growth mode that would lead him straight to the Peak of life.
After all, Meditation Cultivation consumes mental energy.
Spirit Masters who aren’t at a very high Rank simply cannot maintain Soul Power Cultivation around the clock, but idling could go on indefinitely.
It could be said that the efficiency of leveling up while idling was at least several times higher than relying solely on one’s own hard work.
Unfortunately, the idea was full of promise, but reality was harsh, dealing him a heavy blow.
Setting aside the fact that it took a whole month to upgrade the Meditation skill from Gray Rank to White Rank, it actually didn’t allow for passive leveling; only the skill’s level could be improved.
‘A common-quality Spirit and half a Rank of Innate Soul Power…
With my trash talent, I should be able to increase my Soul Power by 1 Rank if I Cultivate hard for a year, right?’
Chu Chengzhou thought, somewhat uncertainly.
Of course, gaining 1 Rank per year at the Spirit Scholar stage was the Cultivation efficiency of his current state.
An increase in the Meditation skill level should improve the speed of Soul Power Cultivation, and an upgrade in Spirit quality would likely improve his trash talent as well.
In Chu Chengzhou’s view, Spirit mutations didn’t actually distinguish between benign and malignant mutations.
The reason malignant mutations occurred was mostly that the Spirit Master’s own talent was too poor to support a powerful Spirit.
Take his mother’s Blazing Flame Flag Spirit, for example.
Aside from producing fire, it was useless at everything else.
If the quality were the same, it couldn’t compare to the Summoning Flag Spirit, which could summon Spirit Beasts.
Yu Xiaogang’s Luo San Pao was similar.
If the essence of Luo San Pao wasn’t strong, how could it trigger the three-person Spirit Fusion ability with Flender and Liu Erlong: the Golden Sacred Dragon?
Tang Yuehua was the same.
If her mutated Spirit was truly as poor as it seemed, then how could Tang Yuehua, who wasn’t even a one-ring Spirit Master, possess a Domain?
One must know that most Titled Douluo on the continent cannot even possess a Domain!
From this, it was evident that it wasn’t the mutated Spirit that was trash, but the Spirit Master themselves.
Ahem, as a fellow super-trash, Chu Chengzhou expressed that he definitely didn’t mean to look down on Tang Yuehua.
Yu Xiaogang: What about me?
With his cheat now active and his future secured, Chu Chengzhou began to look forward to a bright future.
Starting in Nuoding City, and with the timeline being similar to the original story’s trajectory, it was inevitable that he would have to deal with Tang San and that Rogue Rabbit, Xiao Wu, in the future.
Although the Rogue Rabbit had violent tendencies and was a “terrifying” hundred-thousand-year transformed Spirit Beast, she wasn’t actually that dangerous.
Furthermore, before Xiao Wu’s identity as a transformed Spirit Beast was exposed, whether they became friends or remained mere passersby, there would be no life-threatening danger.
But Tang San was different.
Making friends with him meant worrying about clashing with Spirit Hall in the future.
He had no grudge or enmity with Spirit Hall and didn’t want to go up against such a colossus.
Well, this certainly had nothing to do with the Angel Young Miss being both beautiful and cool.
Go against Tang San?
Even with a cheat in hand, Chu Chengzhou considered himself a late-game player; he definitely couldn’t beat Tang San in the early stages.
Moreover, that fellow often spoke of the so-called ‘Way of Seeking Death,’ thinking of taking lives at every turn.
Who knew if he might be killed by one of his Hidden Weapons one day?
Being friends wasn’t suitable, going against him wasn’t an option, so how about being an extra?
It seemed like a good idea, but in reality, it was also unsuitable.
With his cheat, his future speed of strength improvement would definitely far exceed his apparent trash talent.
What if Tang San or the hidden Tang Hao became covetous?
If someone truly targeted him, Chu Chengzhou couldn’t guarantee he could remain unyielding unto death.
Furthermore, keeping one’s lips sealed didn’t apply on the Douluo Continent.
When faced with hypnosis-type spiritual skills, as long as one couldn’t block them, they’d probably even reveal the color of their underwear.
“How about driving this father and son away?”
Since neither this nor that worked, the idea of driving the Tang father and son away arose in Chu Chengzhou’s mind.
So the question was, how could he drive them away?
After much deliberation, Chu Chengzhou had an idea.
His grandfather was the principal of Nuoding Primary Spirit Master Academy, so Chu Chengzhou remembered very clearly that the academy’s annual start date was the beginning of April, and the academic system consisted of one semester per year.
His birthday was in early February of the year 2629 of the Douluo Calendar, making him about a year older than Tang San.
Next April, which was three months after Tang San’s Spirit Awakening, Tang San would come to Nuoding Academy to study.
So, would simply sending an anonymous report to Spirit Hall after January next year to leak Tang Hao’s whereabouts be enough to drive the father and son away?
Although the former Supreme Pontiff of Spirit Hall, Qian Xunji, wasn’t killed by Tang Hao, because the real killer, Bibi Dong, had a special identity, this scapegoat could only be pinned on Tang Hao’s head.
He believed that as long as Spirit Hall learned of Tang Hao’s whereabouts, they would definitely send people over.
Regardless of whether the experts sent by Spirit Hall could defeat Tang Hao, what was certain was that Tang Hao and his son would definitely not be in Nuoding City by then.
“No, no, I can’t report it to Spirit Hall.
I should send ‘news’ to Tang Hao instead!”
Suddenly, Chu Chengzhou shook his head and changed his strategy.
If Spirit Hall sent experts after receiving a report, they would most likely have a fight with Tang Hao.
The commotion of Titled Douluo fighting wouldn’t be small.
At that time, the Nuoding City area would definitely be in an uproar.
What if that certain Rogue Rabbit, who was worried about her identity being exposed, was scared away?
Of course, that wasn’t even the main point.
The main point was, what if Spirit Hall sent Enshrinement Elders whose Rank exceeded 95, and more than one of them?
If Tang Hao couldn’t win and fled to nearby Nuoding City, using it as a battlefield and effectively taking the entire city’s population hostage to facilitate his escape, what then?
The Clear Sky Sect had now sealed their mountain and lived in seclusion, so they had no need to worry about their reputation.
Taking an entire city’s people hostage wouldn’t be much of a concern to them.
On the other hand, Spirit Hall’s stance was to protect the common people.
If they stood by and did nothing, Spirit Hall’s reputation would be ruined.
Although the probability of this was not high, Chu Chengzhou had to be on guard.
It couldn’t be helped; who told him to be in Nuoding City, and the aftershocks of a battle between Titled Douluo powerhouses were simply too terrifying?
The most secure method should be to wait until after Tang San’s Spirit Awakening, then write an anonymous letter to Tang Hao in the tone of ‘one of his own,’ informing him that his identity had been exposed and telling the father and son to flee quickly.
That way, no unknown risks would arise.
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