At night, two figures, one large and one small, broke out of the sea. A dark golden figure, carrying Tang Wulin like a chick, shot out of the sea and landed on the balcony of Tang Wulin's cabin.
"Hey, Uncle Mu Ye!" A voice came from the next-door balcony. The dark golden figure, which was Mu Ye, turned his head and saw Qian Mo waving at him from the adjacent balcony.
Qian Mo teased, "Oh, Uncle Mu Ye, kidnapping my Shrek Academy student in the middle of the night and throwing him into the sea to abuse him? If I let out a yell right now, that old fellow Cai Yue'er would come over and fight you to the death."
Mu Ye rolled his eyes at Qian Mo and said, "Then shut your mouth. I'll cover your meals tomorrow."
Qian Mo made a zipping motion over his mouth, indicating that he would definitely keep quiet.
Inside the cabin, Mu Ye tended to the exhausted Tang Wulin, then walked out to the balcony and saw Qian Mo quietly looking at the sea under the night sky.
"Uncle Mu Ye, have you made up your mind? Even if Wu Lin refuses to leave Shrek Academy and Tang Sect, are you still going to teach him the Body Sect secret technique?" Qian Mo asked.
Mu Ye was silent for a moment before slowly saying, "It's not easy to find such a good prospect for cultivating vital energy and blood. He's worth me abandoning my prejudice."
"I used to always hear Teacher talk about how difficult the Body Sect's situation was, and I never quite understood it, but today I do," Qian Mo's leisurely voice sounded, making Mu Ye's expression grow even more somber.
"A Sect that is fundamentally based on Body Spirit is willing to pass down its heritage to a Spirit Master whose Spirit is not a Body Spirit. This shows that this Sect is indeed hanging by a thread."
Hearing Qian Mo's words, Mu Ye's eyes were filled with an unresolvable sorrow.
"However," Qian Mo suddenly changed the subject, "to be honest, the foundation of the Body Sect is not in the secret technique, but in the Body Spirit."
"The uniqueness of the Body Spirit and the power of the Body Spirit's second awakening are the true cornerstones of the Body Sect."
"You passing the Body Sect secret technique to Tang Wulin is passing down the technique, but it doesn't solve the fundamental problem. Because you are the Body Sect Sect Master, not the Vital Energy and Blood Sect Sect Master."
Mu Ye gripped the railing tightly, his earlier joy at finding an excellent inheritor for the Body Sect secret technique completely gone. His brows furrowed into a knot, and his voice was full of desolation.
"What can I do about this? There are already few Spirit Masters born with a Body Spirit, and even fewer Body Spirit Masters who meet the cultivation requirements for the Body Sect secret technique. How is this something I can decide?"
Qian Mo sighed. Indeed, who can awaken a Body Spirit is not something that Spirit Masters like them can decide.
The problem of the small number of Body Spirits cannot be solved. Everything Mu Ye did was just a dying struggle.
For the next period of time, Tang Wulin cultivated the Body Sect secret technique and endured Mu Ye's torment, while Qian Mo steadily continued his step-by-step cultivation.
Forty-nine days later, Qian Mo and Gu Yuena were discussing cultivation issues in a cabin.
"Hmm?" Qian Mo's ears twitched. He stood up, went to the balcony, and glanced outside. His brows furrowed slightly, then relaxed moments later.
Qian Mo turned back, waved at Gu Yuena, and said, "Come, Na'er, let me show you something."
Gu Yuena came as told. She walked to the balcony and looked down, seeing Tang Wulin entangled with a group of Devil Spirit Great White Sharks in the sea.
"What is he doing? Fighting Devil Spirit Great White Sharks instead of sleeping in the middle of the night!" Gu Yuena said doubtfully.
"Tang Wulin is undergoing the tempering of the Body Sect secret technique," Qian Mo explained Tang Wulin's current situation to Gu Yuena.
"Achieving the goal of cultivation by putting himself in life-or-death crises and constantly pushing his own potential?" After Qian Mo's explanation, Gu Yuena instantly understood the essence of the Body Sect secret technique.
"Today should be the last day of cultivation," just as Qian Mo finished speaking, blinding blue-gold lights suddenly lit up from the Blue Silver Grass wrapped around Tang Wulin's body.
Within that blue-gold cocoon, strands of Blue Silver Grass suddenly grew wildly. They quickly drilled into the body of the Devil Spirit Great White Shark and rapidly spread outwards. An indescribable aura rapidly erupted outwards.
It was an incredibly rich life aura, so dense that it felt almost tangible even in the middle of the ocean.
Qian Mo reached out and grabbed at the void, and a wisp of life aura landed in his hand.
"Such a rich and pure life aura. The Blue Silver Emperor truly lives up to its name as the king among plant Spirit Beasts."
Evolving from the ubiquitous Blue Silver Grass, which could be called weeds, into the Blue Silver Emperor, known as the king of plants, is truly a classic example of an ugly duckling turning into a swan among Spirit Beasts.
The outward-expanding Blue Silver Grass vines' blue-gold light became increasingly intense. The blue was the original color of the Blue Silver Grass, while the gold was the leaf veins visible inside. At this moment, the reason its light became so intense was naturally the strengthening light emitted by those leaf veins.
These Blue Silver Grass vines grew thicker at a speed discernible to the naked eye, and as the leaf veins inside became clearer, they began to undergo a strange transformation.
Within each leaf vein, the golden patterns converged inwards, undergoing a bizarre mutation amidst the dazzling light.
The surface of the Blue Silver Grass vines also seemed to bloom, giving rise to patches of shimmering blue scales. The appearance of these scales was strikingly rhombic.
Blue vines, a golden spine, blue-gold scales. This was the brand new Blue Silver Grass, or rather, the Blue Silver Emperor!
As Tang San's son, Tang Wulin possessed the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline. Although it was suppressed by the golden dragon king Bloodline, the Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline didn't manifest at first, but sooner or later, his Blue Silver Grass would evolve into the Blue Silver Emperor. It was just a matter of time.
Mu Ye's life-or-death tempering of Tang Wulin stimulated his potential and shortened the process of Spirit awakening.
On Tang Wulin's body surface, faint golden light began to appear, then gradually turned into bright gold. Scales emerged, and his aura also began to rise accordingly.
His cultivation breaking through to level forty also happened during the process of his Spirit's second awakening. Tang Wulin's spirit power finally broke through its limit and entered the level forty realm.
The small Tyrannosaurus Rex Dragon Soul drilled out from within Tang Wulin, granting him his fourth spirit ring.
After a while, Mu Ye descended from the Sky, landing beside Qian Mo, and said proudly, "Hahaha, how about it? Isn't my Body Sect secret technique amazing?"
"Being able to make a Spirit complete its second awakening, Uncle Mu Ye's Body Sect secret technique is indeed extraordinary," Qian Mo said with a smile, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.
Mu Ye held his head high and turned to leave.
After watching Mu Ye leave, Gu Yuena turned to look at Qian Mo and said coolly, "Is there something wrong with Tang Wulin's second awakening?"
Gu Yuena, who was familiar with Qian Mo, saw at a glance that Qian Mo's expression wasn't right, and she asked out of curiosity.