Next, Tang San and Yu Xiaogang went to the Spirit Hunting Forest to acquire spirit rings. Tang San only wanted to quickly grow stronger and reach Rank 29 as soon as possible. By then, he would be able to graduate from Nuoding Academy and head to Shrek Academy. For him, the learning experience at Nuoding Academy was insignificant; what mattered most were the life experiences at Shrek Academy. It was there that he met his lifelong companions, and it was there that his relationship with his wife rapidly warmed, transforming from siblings to lovers.
However, something puzzled Tang San. In his previous life, his teacher had given him a belt-type storage spirit tool, which he named Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night. But in this life, his teacher had taken him by carriage to the outskirts of the Spirit Hunting Forest, and even after entering the forest, he still hadn't given him that storage spirit tool.
Tang San couldn't help but ask Yu Xiaogang in a probing tone, "T-teacher, did you forget something?"
Yu Xiaogang looked confused, especially seeing his disciple's expectant gaze, and couldn't figure out what he had forgotten. Then Tang San stated frankly, "Teacher, in my previous life, on the way to the Spirit Hunting Forest, you gave me a belt. That belt had twenty-four jade stones evenly embedded in it. Each jade stone, though only the size of an adult thumb, had a cubic meter of storage space. In total, there were twenty-four cubic meters of storage space. You said it was a belt that had been with you for many years."
"Huh? Do I have that kind of spatial storage spirit tool???" Yu Xiaogang was stunned. A twenty-four cubic meter storage spirit tool would cost a lot of money. He didn't know why his past self had such a storage spirit tool; he only knew that his current self didn't. So Yu Xiaogang said with an apologetic expression, "I'm sorry, Little San, I don't have that kind of storage spirit tool right now..."
"Uh..." Tang San froze for a moment, then chuckled awkwardly. He knew his teacher probably wasn't lying; he likely didn't have that item anymore. If his teacher did, he would have undoubtedly given the Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night to him without hesitation. That Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night had helped him immensely in the early stages. But who would have thought that his teacher didn't have it now? He didn't know what else to say.
In the future, Tang San planned to buy one himself, or wait until he cured the Poison Titled Douluo's granddaughter. He assumed that the Poison Titled Douluo would still give him a Wishful Hundred Treasures Pouch, just like in his previous life. The ability of the Wishful Hundred Treasures Pouch to store living beings indicated that its quality was far superior to the Twenty-Four Bridges Moonlight Night.
The master and disciple walked deeper into the Spirit Hunting Forest. Having experienced it once before, Tang San knew where to go to encounter the Man-eating Demon Spider from his previous life...
At the same time, Tang Hao had been wandering in the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest for several days. Before Tang San went to Nuoding City, he had told him that there was a spirit beast called the Thousand Catties Ant Emperor in the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Beast Zone of the Star Dou Great Forest. There were three of them in total, each with a cultivation of ninety thousand years. These three Thousand Catties Ant Emperor were known for their immense strength, which would benefit the Clear Sky Hammer, a pure strength-type spirit, even more than a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring.
Originally, in his previous life, these three Thousand Catties Ant Emperor were all absorbed by Tang San and transformed into three hundred-thousand-year spirit rings after mutation. Tang San told him that he could hunt any of these three Thousand Catties Ant Emperor. Tang Hao was relieved by this; his son knew he was missing a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring and therefore allowed him to hunt the ninety-thousand-year spirit ring of the Thousand Catties Ant Emperor as compensation.
However, after searching for several days, Tang Hao still hadn't found the three Thousand Catties Ant Emperor, which made him so frustrated he wanted to spit blood. What was going on? Why couldn't he find those three Thousand Catties Ant Emperor no matter how much he searched? Tang Hao was losing his patience. If Tang San hadn't told him that the Sky Blue Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape in the hundred-thousand-year core zone were the two brothers of his future daughter-in-law and should absolutely not be provoked unless absolutely necessary, Tang Hao probably would have rushed into the hundred-thousand-year core zone to hunt the Titan Giant Ape.
Don't think he wouldn't dare; he was Tang Hao, capable of the Great Sumeru Hammer and Ring Detonation. When he detonated his spirit rings, the combat power he unleashed would definitely be stronger than many Titled Douluo. Of course, he had also heard from Tang San that the Sky Blue Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape were both powerful existences with domains. If they truly fought, he alone might not gain any advantage. Therefore, Tang Hao ultimately suppressed the urge to rush into the hundred-thousand-year core zone.
After wandering in the ten-thousand-year spirit beast zone for a few days, Tang Hao finally found a ninety-thousand-year-old earth dragon-type spirit beast. After killing it, he absorbed its spirit ring, finally stepping into the Titled Douluo level, with his spirit power directly reaching Rank 92. Although he still wanted a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring or a Thousand Catties Ant Emperor's spirit ring, time was running out, and he didn't have that much time to waste. Although the ninety-thousand-year earth dragon's spirit ring was clearly inferior in quality to a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, and perhaps even inferior to the Thousand Catties Ant Emperor in terms of pure strength amplification, he had no choice.
As he was leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang Hao also encountered a roughly sixty-thousand-year-old tiger-type spirit beast, over eight meters long, completely black, with a pair of wings on its back and a huge barbed tail. Upon seeing it, Tang Hao immediately activated his maximum escape speed. He had also heard his son mention this spirit beast called the Demon Spirit Great White Shark. According to his son, this spirit beast, the Demon Spirit Great White Shark, was exceptionally talented and could even manipulate time and space rules. His son said that the Demon Spirit Great White Shark could pull people into a special spatial realm called the Life-and-Death Arena. In that space, people or spirit beasts pulled in would revert to their juvenile forms, losing their spirit power and spirits. His son had once been pulled into that Life-and-Death Arena. If he hadn't carried various hidden weapons and killed that Demon Spirit Great White Shark, he probably would have perished then.
Tang Hao firmly believed this. Of course, among the Thirty-Six Stratagems, the best stratagem was retreat. Although the Demon Spirit Great White Shark was sinister, it was only sixty thousand years old after all. Faced with a Titled Douluo powerhouse fleeing at full speed, it simply couldn't catch up and could only watch Tang Hao escape.
After Tang Hao escaped the ten-thousand-year zone and saw that the Demon Spirit Great White Shark didn't continue to pursue him, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Then he planned to go directly to Nuoding City. Now that his son was studying at Nuoding Academy, it was natural for him, as a father, to make a trip. As for his son's teacher, Tang Hao naturally knew him: Yu Xiaogang, wasn't he the runaway second son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's patriarch? He and Yu Xiaogang could be considered fellow sufferers, so it was necessary to meet. After arriving at Nuoding Academy, Tang Hao planned to investigate how Xiu'er had met him and his elder brother, and he also wanted to investigate the woman named Ah Yin...