The impact of Tang Hao's words was not small, the most obvious being that the Heaven Dou Empire would raise its vigilance, take precautions in advance, and its relationship with the Elemental Sacred Academy would also become extremely tense.
After all, when they came out of the Slaughter City previously, quite a few people had seen the appearance of the Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow.
If the Heaven Dou Empire investigated carefully, it would not be difficult to know that the one who finally rescued 'Xue Qinghe' during the Heaven Dou Palace upheaval back then was none other than Mu Yang.
Of course, this was nothing too serious. The Heaven Dou Empire lacked heavyweight experts to hold the line, and with quantitative change unable to form qualitative change in his eyes, Mu Yang had not placed them in his consideration.
In addition, in Mu Yang's view, Tang Hao's words were also a mistake. If Tang Hao had been in a calm state before, he would never have dared to expose his bottom line.
This move of borrowing a knife to kill was not wrong, but Tang Hao miscalculated one thing, and that was that Mu Yang possessed a very strong sense of precaution.
With Tang Hao's death, the Clear Sky Sect would inevitably investigate. If this matter became a headless case with no murderer found, the Clear Sky Sect could only let it go.
But now that his true identity as the culprit was exposed, in order to avoid the Academy as well as his relatives and friends being retaliated against by the Clear Sky Sect in the future, Mu Yang would inevitably take action in advance.
Without 'Land's Invincible' Tang Chen holding the fort, although the Clear Sky Sect was still not weak, since they still had Tang Xiao and several Title Douluo-level elders, they were nevertheless still within the scope the Elemental Sacred Academy could deal with.
It could be said that after Tang Hao exposed his identity, the only path awaiting the Clear Sky Sect was annihilation.
Some small characters without strength or potential could be ignored, but for forces or individuals like the Clear Sky Sect, though already in decline yet still retaining potential, Mu Yang would never allow them to continue existing in this world. Otherwise, it would be irresponsible to his own people.
Shaking his head, Mu Yang temporarily cast these matters out of his mind. His spiritual power spread outward, and with the wings of ice flame behind him vibrating, he went to retrieve the soul bones that had been blown away by the shockwave after Tang Hao's self-detonation.
Although Tang Hao's self-detonation was powerful, soul bones were still relatively sturdy, at least not shattered into fragments.
And such extremely valuable spoils of war certainly could not be left behind for outsiders to take advantage of.
After circling around, six soul bones were collected into his possession. Then, the Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow spread its wings and left the battlefield, flying north.
The spoils this time were not bad. The six soul bones on Tang Hao's body were all over ten thousand years.
Only, apart from the right arm bone and the left leg bone which had at least eighty to ninety thousand years, the other four soul bones were not very high in age, all under fifty thousand years.
Of course, even if these soul bones were not useful to Mu Yang himself, they could still be given to his own people to use.
A quarter of an hour later, far from the entrance to the Slaughter City, the Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow landed in a barren mountain forest.
As ice-blue radiance bloomed, the figure of the Ice Phoenix Flame Shadow twisted, revealing Mu Yang and Shui Bing'er wearing spirit-forged armor.
At the instant they exited the Martial Spirit Fusion Skill, a golden-red streak of light and a crimson streak of light flew out from the marks between Mu Yang's and Shui Bing'er's brows, transforming into two light screens.
Immediately, the two light screens shattered, turning into golden-red and crimson points of light, reentering between their brows.
The next moment, a majestic voice resounded within Mu Yang's mind.
"Asura's Nine Trials, Fourth Trial: Trial of the Strong, completed! Reward: Asura God Affinity increased by 15%, one God-bestowed Spirit Ring, all spirit rings' age increased by four thousand years!"
As the majestic voice fell, Mu Yang's first martial spirit appeared before him: the Icefire Immortal Jade Ginseng. Eight spirit rings of purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red, red radiated light.
All eight spirit rings glowed faintly with golden-red radiance. The others changed little, but the first and second purple spirit rings underwent great change, their color deepening gradually, transforming into black ten-thousand-year spirit rings.
Thus, the Icefire Immortal Jade Ginseng's spirit ring configuration was already raised to black, black, black, black, black, black, red, red.
Such a configuration already surpassed all spirit masters on the continent.
At present, apart from Mu Yang himself, there was no spirit master in the Spirit Master World whose single martial spirit possessed more than one hundred-thousand-year spirit ring.
Immediately after, the Icefire Immortal Jade Ginseng martial spirit faded, and the second martial spirit appeared: the Iceflame Holy Shadow. Its two spirit rings' ages also increased to one hundred and ten thousand years.
Similarly, Shui Bing'er's Ice Phoenix martial spirit, after this upgrade, also advanced to the configuration of black, black, black, black, black, black, red.
With accumulated rewards, all spirit rings had increased by ten thousand years. It had to be said that Lord Asura was indeed generous, considering the progress had only reached the completion of the fourth trial.
Then, two crimson rays of light appeared out of thin air before the two, precisely the two God-bestowed Spirit Rings rewarded after completing the trial.
Obtaining God-bestowed Spirit Rings again, Mu Yang nodded inwardly in satisfaction.
Although he had not obtained an increase in soul power level, receiving God-bestowed Spirit Rings and an age increase to all rings was enough for him.
After all, leaving himself aside, at the very least it resolved Shui Bing'er's future shortage of spirit rings.
'Already at 40% Asura God Affinity, I probably won't even need to finish all nine trials to reach 100%, right?'
Mu Yang thought inwardly.
"Mu Yang, do you think in the later trials there will still be chances to get God-bestowed Spirit Rings?"
Putting away the rewarded God-bestowed Spirit Ring, Shui Bing'er asked.
"There should be, right? After all, we've only just finished the fourth trial."
Mu Yang replied somewhat uncertainly.
Immediately, Mu Yang's consciousness sank into his sea of awareness to view the contents of the fifth trial.
—Asura's Fifth Trial, Eradicate the Evil Beast; the current King of Slaughter has had his mind controlled by the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King. Slay the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King. Time limit: one year.
"Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King, a spirit beast?"
Before Mu Yang could say anything, Shui Bing'er's surprised voice rang out beside him.
As expected, Shui Bing'er's top-level fifth trial was precisely to assist Mu Yang in slaying the Blood-Red Nine-Headed Bat King.
"Mm."
Mu Yang nodded.
At this moment, Shui Bing'er felt somewhat shocked.
After all, 'Shang' had said before, the King of Slaughter was not someone an ordinary spirit master could assume, at the very least also a trial taker.
Although she had not fought the King of Slaughter, Shui Bing'er could sense that the King of Slaughter's strength was not weak, definitely one of the stronger among Title Douluo.
Yet unexpectedly, such a powerful figure's mind was actually controlled by a spirit beast.
"So now should we go complete the trial, or…"
Shui Bing'er hesitated.
Mu Yang shook his head. "Let's put the trial aside for now. We'll first return to the Academy and settle a problem."
"Problem? What problem?"
Shui Bing'er was somewhat puzzled.
"Tang Hao wasn't a lone wolf…"
Mu Yang said faintly.
Shui Bing'er: "…"
Understood. If the Clear Sky Sect was not eradicated, there would surely be revenge in the future.
Indeed, for the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Hao was simply a bringer of disaster.
Back then after hammering Qian Xunji, Tang Hao caused the Clear Sky Sect to be forced into sealing the mountain and going into seclusion. Now, having encountered the petty-minded Mu Yang, not only did he die himself, but he also brought about the calamity of annihilation for his sect.
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