"Teacher, please let me fight!" I can't let my brother face that stubborn and reckless hothead Huo Wu!
Tang Sui tugged at the Master's sleeve, her clear blue eyes wide and sparkling with a hint of entreaty as she looked up at him.
She looked utterly pathetic.
Liu Erlong's maternal instincts surged, and she looked at her beloved, "Xiao Gang, why don't we let Sui Sui fight?"
No one could resist such pleading eyes.
The Master, who was being stared at intently, showed a troubled expression. "This... if we let Sui Sui fight now, I still think it's too early to reveal her."
Upon hearing this, Tang Sui thought, 'No, I absolutely must fight!'
I can't let my brother continue to draw hatred.
"Teacher, can you give me another condition! Even if you say I don't have to use my spirit power, I can do it!"
To get into the fight, Tang Sui was determined.
"Pfft!" Ma Hongjun, who was watching from the sofa, choked on his tea upon hearing this. He stared at Tang Sui, who was clinging to the Master's sleeve and acting spoiled, "N-no spirit power? This, this is too much!"
"Exactly, although Sui Sui is a few levels higher than us, she's still a Spirit Ancestor. How can Sui Sui be so arrogant?" Oscar stroked his chin. Even he couldn't pull off what Tang Sui was doing.
Hearing Oscar's words, Tang San paused. He suddenly remembered that they hadn't told their companions about Sui Sui's breakthrough yet.
Meanwhile, Tang Sui, who was stubbornly pulling at the Master's sleeve, turned her head and huffed, "Xiao Ao, you reminded me."
Oscar: "?"
What did he remind her of?
Oscar's expression changed slightly, and he stared cautiously at Tang Sui like a hamster guarding its pine cone, "Sui Sui, I didn't say anything wrong, did I?"
"I just forgot to tell you all. After I came out of seclusion yesterday, I am now a Spirit King," Tang Sui stated casually, taking responsibility, but dropping a bombshell into their midst.
Oscar and the others' expressions: "???"
Then—"!!!"
"Sui Sui, you're already a Spirit King?!" Dai Mubai couldn't stay still. He uncrossed his arms and stared at Tang Sui with his tiger-like eyes, trying to find a trace of joking on her face.
However, Tang Sui smiled, and didn't say anything more to indicate she was joking, not yet a Spirit King.
"Sui Sui, is what you're saying true?!" Qin Ming exclaimed, looking at the young girl still clinging to the Master's sleeve.
During the period before the opening of the Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament, shortly after Tang Sui returned from her father, they, the teachers, had noticed something.
They suddenly couldn't sense Tang Sui's specific spirit power cultivation level, as if it were deliberately hidden and restrained, making it undetectable unless she personally revealed her spirit power rank.
And now, with the Advanced Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament not even having been open for half a month, Tang Sui had broken through to Spirit King again?!
Thinking this, Qin Ming's speech became difficult, and he couldn't manage to ask another question.
"Xiao Gang, is this true?!"
Flander, who had been happily counting money with no regard for the matter,'s eyes widened at this. His hawk-like eyes now gleamed like a wolf's, fixated on Tang Sui as if she were a choice cut of fresh meat. He shrewdly asked, "Sui Sui, what level are you now?"
"Level 52," Tang Sui said with a smile.
Unsurprisingly, she elicited gasps from Ma Hongjun and the others.
Especially Ma Hongjun, who also hoped to fight, muttered, "Good heavens, Sui Sui isn't cultivating, she's riding a rocket launcher!"
Rocket launchers were small fireworks sold in some places during the New Year. Once lit, they would shoot up into the sky with a "whoosh" and burst into brilliant fireworks in the night sky.
Xiao Wu also looked at Tang Sui in astonishment, a thought beginning to surface in her mind.
She suddenly remembered a long time ago, when they "first" entered the Star Dou Great Forest and encountered Er Ming. Er Ming, using the unique communication methods and language of spirit beasts, had told her that Sui Sui was a young spirit beast.
Only when a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast transformed into human form would their cultivation speed abnormally skyrocket as if riding a rocket launcher.
But...
Xiao Wu looked at the human-like Tang San with a troubled expression. She didn't sense any other aura from Tang San at all.
But Tang San was indeed a person!
Sui Sui... she hadn't felt anything before, but now she was sensing something was a little off. What exactly was going on?
Tang San, sensing Xiao Wu's gaze, looked over. Their eyes met, and he smiled at her faintly.
Xiao Wu's eyes widened, almost revealing her rabbit ears. She quickly averted her gaze, pretending she hadn't looked over.
Tang San chuckled at Xiao Wu's self-deceptive behavior and shook his head inwardly. He didn't pay much attention to Xiao Wu's gaze, thinking she just found it peculiar that her brother was still at a standstill while she was riding a rocket launcher.
For a moment, Tang San's desire to become stronger intensified.
Meanwhile, the Master was almost out of patience with Tang Sui, but he was firm on some strategies.
"Since you've said so, Sui Sui, I will add one more condition," the Master finally relented, but not entirely.
Tang Sui's spirit lifted, "Tell me, Teacher!"
"My condition is that you can only use your auxiliary spirit skills, and for each battle, if you choose a spirit skill in the first round, you must use the same spirit skill for all subsequent battles. Can you do that, Sui Sui?"
Since Sui Sui was willing to reveal her trump card, so be it. It could be a feint for their opponents, hiding the truth that Sui Sui was even more capable, and also concealing more, such as the fact that the spirit skill enhancements could stack.
Upon hearing the condition, Tang Sui's lips curled upward, "Of course!"
This match was practically a father-son showdown.
Not to mention the difference in spirit power levels, she was confident she could absolutely suppress the strength of the Blazing Academy in terms of offensive power.
She was looking forward to everyone's surprised expressions.
However, after the boastful Tang Sui finished speaking with the Master, she was met with righteous indignation from her companions because she had forgotten to tell them such important news.
Tang Sui, experiencing pain and joy: It's fine, I can fight, and that's worth it (╯^╰)