"Ah Yin, calm down!"
"Our son wasn't killed by Little San; he was killed by that damned Spirit Hall!"
"Little San occupying our son's body is simply another way for our child to live on and remain by our side!"
Faced with Ah Yin's demand that he kill Tang San, Tang Hao hurriedly tried to persuade her with all sincerity.
However, unlike Tang Hao, who had spent six years living with Tang San and had gradually developed some attachment, Ah Yin had never had any real contact with him. Between them, there was no emotional bond whatsoever.
After learning from the comparison video that her true son had died, Ah Yin, as a mother, felt only grief and indignation.
Moreover, she was not foolish.
She recalled Tang Hao's words from the second stage of the comparison video, when he had carried the child after her sacrifice and knelt before Tang Zhen's grave with the Clear Sky Hammer. A vague suspicion had already taken root in her heart, though she had been unwilling to believe it and had instinctively tried to avoid facing the truth.
Yet she never expected that Tang Hao would refuse to let their real son rest in peace, instead allowing an ungrateful, hypocritical, and selfish soul to occupy and defile their child's body.
This was something Ah Yin could no longer endure.
"Brother Hao, I know it was Spirit Hall that killed our child!"
"But that does not conflict with my wish to let our son's body rest in peace!"
"Our child passed away just after entering this world."
"Yet his body is now occupied by an ungrateful, hypocritical, and selfish soul. Is it wrong for me to want my son to rest peacefully?"
Ah Yin's emotions surged as she controlled her slender vines, writing rapidly across the small mound to express her thoughts.
Tang Hao felt a splitting headache and could only continue to placate her.
"Alright, then I'll go to Shrek Academy first and find Little San!"
He said this aloud, but in truth, he had no intention of doing so.
With Ah Yin in such a state, he knew he could not bring her to meet Tang San. Instead, he took her away from the valley behind Saint Spirit Village, flying out of Fasno Province and eventually arriving at the Jianshan Mountain Range within the Balak Kingdom.
There, he found another secluded valley, dug out a hidden chamber once more, and carefully transplanted Ah Yin into it.
Only after settling her did he set off toward Suotuo City.
Along the way, the comparison video resumed.
Seeing that the fourth stage had revealed Tang San's destination as Shrek Academy in Suotuo City, Tang Hao could not help but sigh inwardly.
It seemed his judgment had been correct; he needed to reach Shrek Academy as soon as possible.
About an hour later, the vast comparison heaven screen that covered the sky once again erupted with brilliant golden radiance, and lines of golden text slowly appeared.
[Welcome Back!]
[White World: God of Life and God of Destruction Tang Chuan, Fourth Stage Comparison Video]
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In the next moment, both the Black World and the White World were once again illuminated as new images appeared.
[Within the Blue Silver Forest, after absorbing the hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone, Tang Chuan's cultivation advanced to Rank 20 quasi-Spirit Grandmaster. His martial spirit evolved into the Blue Silver Crystal Vine, and he also awakened the innate domain, the Blue Silver Domain.]
[Because of the fusion with the hundred-thousand-year spirit bone, his physical body had been significantly strengthened.]
[Tang Chuan judged that with his current condition, he could likely absorb a thousand-year spirit ring as his second ring.]
[However, doing so would attract far too much attention.]
[If he sought help to hunt a spirit beast and others discovered that his second spirit ring was of the thousand-year level, it would inevitably bring him serious trouble.]
[Therefore, he decided that he must hunt his second spirit ring on his own.]
[Tang Chuan did not consider this an impossible task.]
[Within the Blue Silver Forest, he first devoted himself to cultivating the Blue Silver Grass Meditation Technique. Surrounded by an immense number of Blue Silver Grass, along with the presence of the Blue Silver King and his mother Ah Yin, he was able to resonate with them and form a unified whole, jointly absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.]
[As a result, the efficiency of his cultivation reached an astonishing level.]
[Although his cultivation had already reached the Rank 20 bottleneck, and further cultivation could not increase his displayed rank, he clearly understood that spirit power was still being generated and accumulated within his body.]
[Once he absorbed his second spirit ring, all of this stored power would immediately be released.]
[More importantly, he had already found a way to utilize this accumulated spirit power.]
Black World, Shrek Academy.
"This Tang Chuan is simply indulging in wishful thinking!"
Upon seeing Tang Chuan's claim, Yu Xiaogang clasped his hands behind his back and let out a disdainful snort, his stiff expression filled with arrogance.
"Although I do not know how he discovered that spirit power continues to accumulate after reaching a bottleneck, this is already one of the principles outlined in my Ten Core Competitivenesses of Martial Souls."
"Perhaps he learned it from me in the White World."
"However, the accumulated spirit power cannot be used or displayed. This is a fundamental law of the Douluo Continent, just like water flows downward, rain falls from the sky, and the seasons change."
"These are unchangeable truths."
"The idea that he can alter such laws is nothing more than a delusion."
Yu Xiaogang shook his head calmly, his tone carrying absolute certainty, as though his words alone defined the truth.
Beside him, Ning Rongrong felt a surge of disgust.
Your so-called Ten Core Competitivenesses are far from universal truths!
Just the claim that "there are no useless spirits, only useless spirit masters" is fundamentally flawed.
And yet you dare to boast so confidently!
However, with Tang San and Flender present, the others nodded in agreement after Yu Xiaogang finished speaking.
Ning Rongrong suppressed her emotions and remained silent.
She believed that Tang Chuan would soon prove him wrong in the most decisive way.
The comparison video continued.
[While cultivating in the Blue Silver Forest, Tang Chuan began experimenting with compressing the spirit power within his body.]
[He believed that a Spirit Master's spirit power consists of two aspects: quality and quantity.]
[Quality refers to the refinement and strength of the spirit power itself.]
[Typically, each breakthrough in cultivation leads to an improvement in this quality. When using the same spirit ability, higher-quality spirit power results in greater power.]
[For instance, the power of a third spirit ability used at the Spirit Elder rank cannot compare to the same ability when used at the Spirit Saint rank.]
[Quantity, on the other hand, represents the total capacity of spirit power that the body can contain.]
[Generally, the higher the cultivation level, the greater this capacity becomes.]
[These two aspects are similar to the relationship between volume and density.]
[For the same volume, a higher density results in greater weight.]
[Likewise, at the same cultivation level, higher-quality spirit power leads to stronger explosive force and greater endurance.]
[Therefore, compressing spirit power can significantly enhance a Spirit Master's overall strength.]
[What Tang Chuan aimed to achieve was to compress the spirit power within his body at Rank 20, where his total capacity could no longer increase, thereby raising its density and quality.]
[By doing so, the previously filled capacity would be reduced, freeing up space within his body.]
[This would allow the accumulated spirit power, which had been unusable, to be released and become active.]
[Naturally, Tang Chuan intended to continue compressing even this newly released spirit power.]