Qian Renxue thought that her Angelic Domain contained the angelic aura of light, and the Man Faced Demon Spider's poison should be dispelled by it.
The Angelic Divine Light landed on Hu Liena and the others, and it indeed began to counteract the poison, but gradually, the two forces were still in a stalemate.
Qian Renxue was a little surprised that her healing Spirit Ability couldn't help Hu Liena and the others detoxify.
Healing Spirit Abilities were not specifically for detoxification, but for treating external and internal injuries. Qian Renxue's healing Spirit Ability was effective at first because of its inherent sacred attribute, which countered poison.
However, complete detoxification was impossible.
After unleashing that attack, Tang San fainted due to exhaustion of spirit power and excessive blood loss.
In the void, a ripple appeared. Tang Hao had intended to act, but ultimately stopped.
His gaze lingered sinisterly on the Spirit Bone in Qian Renxue's hand. He hadn't expected Qian Renxue to act in such a way.
But now was not the time for him to act. His son wouldn't die now. Once he appeared, the Spirit Hall people would probably launch an attack directly, and then he wouldn't be able to save his son.
Of course, Tang Hao wouldn't admit the most crucial point: his grandfather hadn't arrived yet.
On the arena, Qian Renxue looked at the few still-conscious members of the Shrek Team and said coldly, "The antidote, and you should surrender!"
As she spoke, Qian Renxue dispelled her Angelic Domain, but her Martial Soul True Body remained.
Nearly twenty seconds had passed since the start of the competition, and Qian Renxue's tone carried a hint of urgency that even she hadn't noticed.
Yes, watching so many things happen, it was actually all in an instant.
Oscar noticed that Qian Renxue's Spirit Ability couldn't detoxify, so he bravely said to Qian Renxue, "This is a mixed poison, only Little San can detoxify it. You treat him, return the Spirit Bone, and surrender! Otherwise, if this stalemate continues, the four poisoned members of your Spirit Hall Team will surely die!"
Tang San had fallen. As the second smartest person in the team, he had to do this.
Why should the Spirit Hall Team surrender?
It was simply to disgust them!
They dared to openly pull out Tang San's external Spirit Bone. He knew that now was not the time to question; they had to treat Tang San first, and then they could use the situation to their advantage!
Qian Renxue heard something at this moment, then a mocking expression appeared in her eyes as she looked at Oscar, and she said coldly, "Then let's just keep this up and see which of the two teams dies first! I can promise to treat Tang San, but you must surrender within five seconds. With Tang San's injuries, if you drag it out for a few more minutes, he'll probably be beyond saving, won't he?"
"We surrender!"
Outside the arena, Yu Xiaogang said with a face full of unwillingness. He had received a telepathic message from Tang Hao and couldn't ignore Little San's life.
Everyone present could feel that if this stalemate continued, Tang San would surely be the first to die.
And could Spirit Hall truly not detoxify the mixed poison?
That was not necessarily true. Bibi Dong's own Spirit was the Spider Empress, which was much stronger than the poison in the Eight Spider Lances, and she knew that Tang San's Eight Spider Lances actually didn't contain mixed poison.
This was just Oscar trying to bluff.
After all, Tang San's Blue Silver GrassSpirit was gone, so where could other poisons be injected into the Eight Spider Lances!
Su Yuntao immediately announced the end of the competition.
Qian Renxue also didn't hesitate. A holy light from Angelic Domain entered Tang San's body. She also didn't want Tang San to die just like that, otherwise her Spirit Hall Team would be disqualified from the competition.
(Ten thousand years later, Ma Xiaotao accidentally killed someone, did Shrek continue to compete?)
On the Shrek Team's side, Oscar also tried his best to make a large number of Big Recovery Sausages to restore Jiang Zhu's spirit power and stamina. Jiang Zhu also activated her healing scepter, simultaneously treating Tang San.
At the same time, Dugu Yan walked out, revealing the same Eight Spider Lances Soul Bone as Tang San behind her. As Dugu Yan's strength increased, the original two-thousand-year-old Eight Spider Lances Soul Bone had now reached the ten-thousand-year level.
Dugu Yan, under the astonished gazes of the crowd, walked up to the four individuals one by one and absorbed the poison they had contracted into her own Spirit Bone.
The Eight Spider Lances Soul Bone behind her emitted a bright light as it devoured the high-quality Man Faced Demon Spider Empress poison. Dugu Yan nodded in satisfaction, thinking, 'Not bad, the toxicity of my Spirit Bone has increased by another point.'
Everyone was stunned. If there were no surprises, the Eight Spider Lances Soul Bone that Tang San had previously had pulled out should have been absorbed by Dugu Yan, right?
Yu Xiaogang pointed at Dugu Yan and said coldly, "Is the Spirit Bone pulled from Little San the one on your body?!"
Dugu Yan smiled and said calmly, "I'm sorry, my fourth spirit ring also happens to be a Man Faced Demon Spiderspirit ring, Yu Xiaogang. You say the Spirit Bone on my body is Tang San's, you need to provide evidence, don't you?"
Facing Yu Xiaogang's questioning, she neither admitted nor denied it.
Your disciple can hunt two Man Faced Demon Spiders twice and both can drop an external Spirit Bone, and I can't?
And in Xiao Tian's mind, the system's notification sound also rang out.
[Congratulations to the host for completing the mission. Rewards have been distributed to the system space.]
Subsequently, another mission appeared.
[Mission: Compete against the Spirit Hall Team this afternoon and win.]
[Reward: Destroy the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, 10,000 points]
[Time limit: Two and a half hours]
Xiao Tian:
He suspected that this system was deliberate; he could never refuse its rewards.
The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud contained the Sea God's divine consciousness. Now Tang San had no way to obtain this spirit tool, and he had already attracted the attention of the Asura God, and his first Spirit was crippled.
Generally speaking, Tang San should have no connection with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, nor with the Sea God Position.
But thinking of how the Sea God and Asura God treated Tang San like their own son in the original work, Xiao Tian believed that he must eliminate future troubles.
The Sea God might not look favorably upon the current Tang San, but the Sea God and Asura God were allies, what if the Asura God asked the Sea God for help?
Divinities cannot interfere with matters in the lower realm.
But the divine force left in the lower realm can!
A quarter of an hour later, Tang San's originally bloody and deeply bone-deep wounds completely disappeared and healed, but he was still in a coma and probably wouldn't wake up in a short time.
This was not only physical pain but also the side effects of exhausted spirit power and mental force.
After Dai Mubai and Oscar helped Tang San to the resting area, Yu Xiaogang then looked at Bibi Dong, his tone full of questioning, "Supreme Pontiff, I think you should give us all here an explanation. Has Spirit Hall become so arrogant that it openly steals others' Spirit Bones?"
As his words fell, the atmosphere in the square suddenly froze, and Bibi Dong's expression also changed slightly.
Before Bibi Dong could answer, Qian Renxue spoke first, "Regarding this matter, I will explain it to everyone after the Soul Master Competition ends."
Then she looked at Yu Xiaogang and said, "Yu Xiaogang, this matter was my own idea, don't involve Spirit Hall. As for Tang San's external Spirit Bone, I'm afraid everyone present has thought about it, but most of you didn't dare to act because you couldn't afford to offend him and didn't dare to take it openly, but I dared.
Furthermore, in the theories you've learned, Spirit Bones can only be extracted when a Spirit Master is extremely close to death or even dead. You didn't have the confidence.
"Of course, the most important point is that we are in a competition. As long as we don't kill the opponent, it doesn't violate the rules, even if the opponent's arm is broken, or leg is broken! In previous competitions, such tragic matches have happened before."
Qian Renxue's clear and cold voice reached everyone's ears, her tone very strong, but they knew it was the truth, Qian Renxue was not mocking them.
Moreover, Qian Renxue indeed did not violate the competition rules, and many people understood her hint.
Why couldn't they afford to offend him?
Wasn't it because of Tang Hao!
At this moment, many people speculated that the reason Qian Renxue gave was probably related to this. Spirit Hall and Clear Sky Sect had a grudge, so Qian Renxue treating Tang San like this didn't seem strange anymore.
Just then, Xiao Tian looked at Bibi Dong and said, "Supreme Pontiff, since today afternoon's competition ended so quickly, the match between the Heaven Dou Royal Team and the Spirit Hall Team doesn't need to wait until tomorrow. How about we proceed directly later?"
"As for the Spirit Hall Team's consumption from the previous match, Spirit Hall can send people to help them recover their condition as quickly as possible. Our Heaven Dou Royal Team can wait."
Even without the system's mission, he had originally planned to propose this idea after the afternoon match.
After all, he did have a bad premonition now. Delaying would lead to complications, so it was better for the match to start earlier!
Xiao Tian's words made everyone in the Shrek Team's expressions extremely ugly. Ma Hongjun looked at Xiao Tian, fire almost spewing from his eyes, but he was directly stopped by Dai Mubai.
Dai Mubai found that after Fatty's Spirit evolved, although he hadn't lost his rationality, he had become increasingly irritable.
"Alright." Bibi Dong nodded faintly. She also didn't want to drag it out until tomorrow.
If they waited until tomorrow, the Shrek Team would probably have already left the city, wouldn't that mean letting Tang San leave?
Dugu Bo came to Xiao Tian's side and whispered, "Little freak, why are you in such a hurry?" He also noticed that Xiao Tian's face seemed a little off.
Xiao Tian thought for a moment and said, "Old freak, my sixth sense tells me that something bad is going to happen later. I want to finish the competition before that, after all, if an accident happens, these three Spirit Bones will be gone, and this championship honor can also be considered my compensation to Heaven Dou Royal Academy."
After all, after Xiao Tian and the others finished the competition, they would immediately go to Shu Mountain, and the Shu Mountain Sword Sect was neutral. If a war broke out then, his Sect would not choose to help the Two Great Empires. As for Spirit Hall? That would depend on Bibi Dong's attitude.
He could keenly sense that Bibi Dong had an inexplicable malice towards Xiao Wu, which made his heart sink.
70% probability, he was too naive and arrogant before, Xiao Wu's mother was killed by Bibi Dong.
At the time, he had actually denied this, even if the probability was high, because Xiao Wu's mother had so many life-saving Spirit Abilities: Paragon Golden Body, Teleportation, Nullification, and so on.
Even if she couldn't defeat Bibi Dong, she shouldn't have died.
So he was more inclined to what Xiao Wu mentioned in the God Realm, that she entered the central area and was severely injured by a fierce beast.
As for why her spirit ring and Spirit Bone appeared on Bibi Dong, there was a small probability that it was Xiao Wu's mother's self-sacrifice, as for the reason, he didn't know.
But not long ago, he suddenly remembered that Bibi Dong seemed to have a move specifically designed to counter Xiao Wu's mother's Paragon Golden Body: Eternal Creation!
Ignores physical defense, corrodes wounds, slows recovery.
This Spirit Ability was completely the bane of Paragon Golden Body. As for Nullification, it was even easier to counter; it only reduced 50% of energy attacks, unlike Paragon Golden Body, which completely immune physical damage.
Dugu Bo saw Xiao Tian's solemn expression, and his heart also tightened.
Regardless of whether what Xiao Tian said was true, it was worth being vigilant. He trusted Xiao Tian one hundred percent.
Xiao Tian also felt uneasy and said to Ah Yin in his mental space, "Ah Yin, from now on, constantly mobilize the Blue Silver Grass outside the city for reconnaissance. Once you discover any suspicious powerful individuals, immediately report back to me."
Ah Yin couldn't help but ask, "Xiao Tian, what's suddenly wrong?"
Da Ming and Er Ming were also slightly startled.
"A sword cultivator's intuition!"
The three of them:
The three of them felt that Xiao Tian might have been under too much stress recently, making him a bit paranoid?
However, Xiao Tian's judgment had rarely been wrong, but they couldn't understand why he was warning about outside the city instead of here.
Speaking of powerful individuals, Pope Mountain gathered powerful individuals from various major forces: Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, Spirit Hall, Tang Hao, and so on.
And with Xiao Tian's strength, he shouldn't have to worry too much.
However, due to the existence of the contract, the three of them could feel that Xiao Tian was not joking. Ah Yin also responded, "Don't worry. But Xiao Tian, if I use my full perception, you probably won't be able to use my Blue Silver Domain in the upcoming match."
She needed to concentrate her energy to continuously enhance the perception ability of the Blue Silver Grass outside the city, so that they could feedback information in time.
After all, ordinary Blue Silver Grass were only ten years old, and those a hundred years old were rare. Without her temporary enhancement, their limited lifespan might prevent them from transmitting any crucial information.
"It's fine, I won't use the Blue Silver Domain. Just do your best."
Xiao Tian knew that as the empress of the Blue Silver race, Ah Yin's ability to mobilize those Blue Silver Grass didn't necessarily require them to be within the Blue Silver Domain; it was through their race's special connection, and she could even transmit energy.
Otherwise, how could Ah Yin have retained a portion of her power in the Blue Silver Ancestral Land back then, specifically for Tang San to awaken his bloodline in the future?
She didn't know she would be hunted down or even sacrificed, so there was no need for such a contingency.
As long as she was alive, she could awaken Tang San's bloodline at any time, without needing to go to the so-called Blue Silver Ancestral Land.
(End of Chapter)
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