The only pity was that there were none over a thousand years old.
The piece Lin Yuan had taken before was only a hundred-year-old one.
According to his mother, perhaps because it was too rare, whale glue of over a thousand years was almost impossible to make its way into Nuoding City.
Even if it did, they wouldn’t be able to afford it.
Because that stuff had already been hyped up to an astronomical price of over a thousand gold coins.
This made Lin Yuan increasingly certain of the possibility of there being other transmigrators.
Meanwhile, by continuously using the Palm Heaven Bottle to collect green liquid for eleven months to improve his Spirit quality, Lin Yuan’s Lone Bamboo martial soul had transformed from its original deep green color with faint dark lines on the surface into a dark ink-green, with fine bamboo patterns full of metallic luster covering its entire body.
This was a characteristic unique to a thousand-year Lone Bamboo.
And based on its physical characteristics, Lin Yuan deduced that its age was at least over three thousand years.
This happened to match the thirty-odd drops of green liquid Lin Yuan had collected.
And this was even with the impact of rainy weather.
Otherwise, his Spirit quality could have been even higher.
Even so, it greatly increased Lin Yuan’s Cultivation speed.
Before his Spirit evolved to a thousand-year quality, he had spent a full three and a half months just to Breakthrough to Rank four.
But after it evolved to a thousand-year quality, it only took him about two months to rise to Rank five.
His Cultivation speed had increased by more than half, and the Lone Bamboo was as hard as iron.
One can easily imagine the benefits this Spirit evolution brought to Lin Yuan.
Over the next six months, although his Soul Power’s improvement speed wasn’t as obvious as before, Lin Yuan still maintained a growth rate of about one Rank every two months.
Now, his Soul Power had already broken through to Rank eight.
According to his estimations, in three to five months at most, he would be able to reach Rank ten, and it would be time to consider obtaining his first spirit ring.
Thus, he had the idea of returning to Zhuling Village to accelerate the growth of a Lone Bamboo.
He had also collected a drop of green liquid in advance and kept it unused.
If he was lucky and it didn’t rain much during this one-month vacation, he could collect three or four drops of green liquid.
By the time he reached Rank ten, if he collected another drop in advance, he could accelerate its growth to over six hundred years.
A first spirit ring of over six hundred years wouldn’t be too bad.
However, before that, he still had to send Lin Tian away.
If this guy went to Zhuling Village too, it would be difficult for him to take action.
With this in mind, Lin Yuan arrived at Dormitory Seven.
Before even entering the door, Lin Yuan heard Tang San’s voice: “Xiao Wu, holidays start tomorrow.
Are you going home?”
Lin Yuan walked to the doorway and saw Lin Tian sitting cross-legged on the bed, holding his Lotus Martial Soul in his hand, his body surrounded by a blue aura.
Perhaps because of his Cultivation Technique, every time Lin Tian cultivated, a blue aura would envelop his body.
Therefore, to cover up his secret, Lin Tian would release his Spirit every time he cultivated.
Aside from him, several other working students had also released their Spirits, sitting cross-legged on their beds to Cultivate.
Following his example.
Tang San, on the other hand, was packing his luggage.
As for Xiao Wu, hearing Tang San’s words, she lost her usual liveliness and just leaned against the bed, looking a bit lonely.
“I’m not going home.
I’ll just stay at the academy.”
“You’re not going home?” Tang San asked.
Xiao Wu’s eyes lit up.
“Xiao Tian, are you going home?”
“Me?” Lin Tian withdrew from his cultivation state.
Perhaps because he had a Spirit to rely on, when he cultivated his Cultivation Technique, he didn’t need to find a secret room for secluded meditation like in his past life to prevent others from disturbing him and causing Qi Deviation.
As for why he knew Xiao Wu was a transformed Spirit Beast, that was something from his life before last.
Xiao Wu said with a face full of anticipation, “Yeah!
Isn’t your home not far from the academy?
How about I go back with you?”
Hearing this, the corners of Lin Tian’s mouth couldn’t help but curl up slightly, while Tang San’s movements of packing his luggage came to a sudden halt, and he felt a bit empty inside.
Over the past year, whether it was Lin Tian or Tang San, they had already become good friends with Xiao Wu.
Although Xiao Wu only saw them as little kids and what they went through were just daily trivial matters, she was still far from the point of falling in love with anyone.
But she truly treated both of them as good friends.
The relationship between Tang San and Lin Tian, however, was subtle; they weren’t enemies, and their relationship wasn’t bad, but there was always a barrier between them.
To summarize their relationship in one sentence: they were friends of a friend.
Both having Innate Full Spirit Power, as soon as Lin Tian obtained his spirit ring, his Soul Power rose to Rank fourteen, one Rank higher than Tang San’s, and the power of his Spirit Ability far surpassed Tang San’s Blue Silver Binding.
In the eleven months after that, he rose to Rank nineteen, a full five Soul Power Ranks.
In contrast, Tang San was only at Rank seventeen, having only risen four Soul Power Ranks.
The gap in Soul Power between the two widened once again.
If it were only this, it would be fine, as Yu Xiaogang had brainwashed Tang San quite a bit, saying that Lin Tian only had one Spirit, so a temporary gap meant nothing.
Tang San possessed twin Spirits; once he became a Titled Douluo in the future and attached nine ten-thousand-year or even hundred-thousand-year spirit rings to his second Spirit, he could instantly overtake Lin Tian.
Reaching a height Lin Tian could never hope to achieve in his lifetime.
Yet, he had discovered several times that Yu Xiaogang had privately approached Lin Tian, wanting to take him as a disciple, only to be rejected.
If it were only this, it would still be fine.
What Tang San found most unbearable was that when he sparred with Lin Tian and Xiao Wu, he had never won against Lin Tian even once.
Even when he teamed up with Xiao Wu, and even when he used his Hidden Weapons techniques to throw pebbles at Lin Tian, he still didn’t win a single time.
At the same time, because Lin Tian was handsome, eloquent, and had time to go shopping with Xiao Wu, while Tang San looked ordinary, had to do blacksmithing, and had to listen to Yu Xiaogang’s lectures, leaving him no time to go shopping with Xiao Wu,
Xiao Wu was much closer to Lin Tian than to Tang San.
This led Tang San to feel deeply jealous of him.
Even though he knew Lin Tian wasn’t a ‘bad person’ and they had never had any conflicts, Tang San was still jealous.
Now, seeing Xiao Wu wanting to go to Lin Tian’s home, it was even more so.
Lin Tian smiled faintly, “My home is more than fifty miles away from Notting Academy, and we have to walk on mountain roads for a whole day.
Are you sure you want to go?”
He was trying to make Xiao Wu back down.
There was nothing he could do about it; who told Tang Hao to be watching from the shadows?
If he dared to abduct Xiao Wu, wouldn’t Tang Hao act against Xiao Wu in advance and capture her?
In the past, in order to obtain a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, even though he knew Ah Yin was a hundred-thousand-year transformed Spirit Beast, he still took Ah Yin, who had not yet reached maturity, to stroll right under the nose of the Spirit Hall, ultimately causing Ah Yin to sacrifice herself.
He was absolutely capable of doing such a thing.
But Xiao Wu’s eyes lit up instead.
“Your home is in the mountains?”
“More or less,” Lin Tian replied with a smile.
“Then I want to go with you.”
She had lived in the Star Dou Great Forest since she was a child, so going into the mountains was just like returning home.
Besides, she had nowhere else to go anyway.
“Well…” Hearing this, while Lin Tian felt helpless, he was mostly happy.
He was happy that Xiao Wu was willing to return to Zhuling Village with him instead of going back to Saint Spirit Village with Tang San.
But the problem was that there was still a Tang Hao standing behind Tang San.