Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, on the outskirts of the valley!
In a very short time, several small wooden houses were built here, constructed by Wang Li and Dugu Yan together.
Previously, when Dugu Bo suppressed the extreme poison at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he would casually find a cave; even if there was a lot of commotion, it wouldn't affect anything.
Now, the grandfather and two grandchildren planned to seclude themselves for a year and a half, so they built these wooden houses.
It would also be a good place to rest normally.
Dugu Bo, most of the time, still found a cave at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to cultivate in seclusion, integrating the earth-attribute energy brought to him by the Earth Dragon Golden Gourd. The abundant earth-attribute energy gave his body a greater capacity for endurance, which was key to him being able to suppress the toxins on his own.
As for Dugu Yan, after consuming the Yearning Heartbroken Red and Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, she no longer feared the erosion of extreme heat and extreme cold spirit power. Many times, she would be by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, studying the Immortal Herbs and poisonous herbs.
With Dugu Bo's inheritance and the Breaking Clan's inheritance, if Dugu Yan fully comprehended them, it's likely that in the future, on the Douluo Continent, few people would be able to match her in the art of using poison.
Moreover, her Spirit could feed on poison to grow, which meant she could conduct various researches without restraint, without worrying about the toxins harming herself.
At the same time, after confirming that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was a treasure trove, Dugu Yan meticulously managed this medicinal garden, tending to the Immortal Herbs and poisonous herbs, ensuring that even when harvested, their roots would not be destroyed.
Then there was Wang Li; his cultivation was unusual. He left this valley alone and often disappeared for long periods.
Walking within the Sunset Forest, Wang Li, through his Blue Silver Domain, established a connection with all the Blue Silver Grass within the Domain, granting them life force and allowing them to kneel in submission.
Through the feedback energy, he improved his spirit power, mental force, life essence, and Blue Silver affinity. Such comprehensive improvement was far more efficient than cultivating on his own.
Wang Li's mind was peaceful. He disguised himself as an ordinary Blue Silver Grass and wandered around casually. He had witnessed Spirit Beasts fighting and Spirit Masters hunting for Spirits, always silently observing and then quietly leaving, with no Spirit Master or Spirit Beast ever discovering his tracks.
He didn't care about anything else, only focusing on the emotions of his subjects and giving them positive feedback.
The Blue Silver Grass was pitifully weak, but their numbers were vast, especially in the Sunset Forest, a wild Spirit Beast forest.
Wang Li united them one by one, and his own strength also slowly increased, a comprehensive improvement at that.
He was undergoing certain changes, perhaps even Wang Li himself hadn't noticed. This wasn't a change in height, physique, or appearance, but rather in aura and temperament, becoming closer to nature and more approachable.
At the same time, Heaven Dou Royal Academy!
The three Teachers were quite helpless. Since Dugu Bo took Dugu Yan and Wang Li, he hadn't sent them back to the academy for a long time.
With Dugu Bo's methods, hunting a several-thousand-year-old Spirit Beast for Dugu Yan's fourth spirit ring would be a piece of cake, an easy feat.
But now, with their prolonged absence, they considered another possibility.
Dugu Bo had once said that after hunting a Spirit Beast for Dugu Yan to obtain her fourth spirit ring, he would personally guide Dugu Yan and Wang Li for a period.
This was probably a lingering effect from Salas's threat to Wang Li and Dugu Yan in Heaven Dou City.
They were also very helpless about this.
However, with Dugu Bo's protection and guidance, Dugu Yan and Wang Li were absolutely safe, and their strength improvement would not be slow.
So they could only accept this reality, but the Heaven Dou Royal Team was now left with only five members.
These five people were Oslo, Yu Feng, Shi Mo, Shi Mo, and Ye Lingling.
Yu Tianheng hadn't returned, Dugu Yan and Wang Li weren't coming back either, and Qin Ming felt disheartened, only able to lead the five in combat training within the academy.
With incomplete personnel, team training couldn't be carried out, so they focused on improving individual strength, striving to have all members become Spirit Ancestors as soon as possible.
Xue Qinghe was also quite concerned about Wang Li and Dugu Yan. After learning that Wang Li and Dugu Yan had been taken away by Dugu Bo and had not returned since, he frowned, thinking that instructing Salas to threaten Wang Li and Dugu Yan had provoked a strong reaction from Dugu Bo.
With Wang Li and Dugu Yan not in the academy, he couldn't win them over, so he could only temporarily put this matter out of his mind.
Everything had changed, yet everything still seemed to have changed little.
Barak, Soto City, Great Spirit Arena!
A middle-aged man with a shrewd, merchant-like face, watching the Little freak from his academy win another match in the Spirit Arena, was overjoyed and began calculating how much more money he could earn.
At this moment, Yu Xiaogang, whom Wang Li had once met at Notting Academy, slowly walked over. He hadn't changed much, with a tall, thin figure and a rigid face. He approached the shrewd merchant and calmly said:
"Flender, you must have earned quite a bit again!"
The person with the shrewd merchant-like face was none other than Flender, the dean of Shrek Academy, the Four-Eyed Owl.
Upon hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, Flender's legs trembled, and he immediately put on a mournful face, pleading:
"Xiaogang, you took the last bronze coin from my spirit tool storage not long ago. If I don't earn something, this academy will immediately fall apart."
Yu Xiaogang shook his head upon hearing this and said coldly:
"Not enough, nowhere near enough. And, what about that matter? You should know that the current Shrek Academy cannot provide these Little freaks with the best cultivation environment. They are wasting time, wasting their talent."
Hearing this, Flender immediately fell silent and softly argued:
"Xiaogang, Shrek is my life's work, and you know that our academy only recruits freaks. Even if we let them grow freely, they can still succeed. As long as they succeed, they are the pride of our Shrek Academy. If they don't succeed, we can just expel them. Currently, all junior, intermediate, and senior Spirit Master academies on the continent handle those who don't succeed in this way."
Yu Xiaogang narrowed his eyes and said coldly:
"Then who do you want to expel?"
Flender fell silent again. Which of the current Little freaks could he bear to expel!
At this moment, Zhao Wuji, who had been following Flender, spoke up:
"How about we contact Qin Ming and borrow the Heaven Dou Royal Academy's cultivation environment? We are his Teachers, he definitely won't refuse."
As soon as these words were spoken, Yu Xiaogang burst out like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, saying vehemently:
"Heaven Dou Royal Academy! First, we don't know if we can even get in. Even if we do, they have their own geniuses, that Wang Li. Why would they value our academy's students? Why would they value Tang San? Why would they value Xiao Wu!"
Seeing this situation, Flender, in turn, had to comfort Yu Xiaogang, saying:
"No Heaven Dou, no Heaven Dou. If it really doesn't work out, there's another place. I'm very familiar with the dean there. Borrowing their cultivation environment shouldn't be difficult."
At this point, a peculiar glint flashed in Flender's eyes.