After making all the necessary preparations, early the next morning Oscar and Dai Mubai were ready to set out with Zhao Wuji. But before the three of them could leave, a piece of good news arrived.
Flender, who had previously taken the Ninth Grade Hunyuan Pill and raised his strength to the peak of level 79, had finally broken through. After several months of consolidating his cultivation and undergoing secluded training, he had successfully reached the milestone of level 80.
Compared to the original timeline, this was at least five or six years earlier after all, in the original story, even two years later Flender was still only at level 78.
Flender's breakthrough obviously disrupted Oscar and the others' plans again. After all, since Flender had reached level 80, Zhao Wuji would definitely need to accompany him to hunt for his eighth spirit ring.
Oscar, of course, was delighted by Flender's breakthrough. It meant that the power of the force backing him had increased again, giving them even greater strength to support whatever they did in the future.
Before the group could finish celebrating, more good news came Gai Yue had also successfully broken through to level 88, raising his strength once more.
With two breakthroughs in a row, Shrek Academy was filled with joy. After all, the teachers' improvements meant the academy's strength as a whole had grown.
However, Flender's breakthrough didn't seem to disrupt Oscar's plan after all, because with Gai Yue's current strength, helping Flender hunt his eighth spirit ring would be more than manageable.
After all, when Gai Yue had just reached level 80, he could already hunt a seventy thousand year spirit beast by himself. Now, not only had his spirit power reached level 88, but he also possessed two ten thousand year spirit bones, and had further enhanced his martial spirit by taking the Black Jade Divine Bamboo Pill.
With his current strength, Gai Yue could even stand his ground against a hundred thousand year spirit beast, and might even be able to kill one outright.
So, even if the spirit ring Flender needed came from a flying type beast, Gai Yue's power alone would be enough to help him obtain it. Zhao Wuji and the other teachers wouldn't need to help Gai Yue could simply take Flender himself.
After agreeing on this plan, the group rested for another day. The next morning, under the leadership of Gai Yue, Flender, and Zhao Wuji, Oscar and Dai Mubai also left Shrek Academy, heading toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
Since Gai Yue was going to help Flender get his eighth spirit ring, he could also conveniently help Dai Mubai obtain his third one. After all, with Gai Yue already at level 88 and possessing strength comparable to a Titled Douluo, helping Dai Mubai get a third spirit ring would be effortless.
On the road, Flender was all smiles. Now, he felt his decision to keep Oscar at Shrek Academy had been incredibly wise.
If it weren't for Oscar, he might have broken through to the Contra realm in this lifetime, but that would have taken many years maybe over a decade.
But how long had it been since he met Oscar? Oscar was only twelve and a half years old now, and in just over six years Flender had gone from level 75 to level 80.
That was about one level of spirit power per year. And this wasn't the Soul Grandmaster or Soul King stage, but the Spirit Sage realm!
At their level, every increase in spirit power usually took one, two, or even several years of bitter cultivation. Now he was enjoying the kind of rapid advancement only top geniuses experienced still gaining a level per year even in the seventies.
For both Flender and Zhao Wuji, this was an enormous stroke of fortune.
Zhao Wuji's situation was similar when Oscar first joined the academy, he had only been level 73, but now he had reached level 78, just two levels away from becoming a Contra.
Perhaps in another two years, he too might break through to the Contra realm.
Dai Mubai felt the same. From his perspective, he had simply fled at age twelve, wandered for a few months, and ended up at Shrek Academy and from there his life trajectory had changed.
At the academy, he met Ma Hongjun, a super genius, and from Ma Hongjun and the teachers he constantly heard the legendary tales of Oscar.
After spending over a year with Ma Hongjun, and frequently hearing the teachers talk about Oscar, Dai Mubai's mindset had changed a lot.
Just a few days ago, Dai Mubai had inexplicably received the academy's reward for gifted students whale glue which gave his spirit power and physical attributes a huge boost.
In this past year, although he had only spent just over a month directly with Oscar, he felt that wherever Oscar was, things seemed different.
Dai Mubai also considered himself lucky. Shrek Academy was just a small, obscure place, yet it had gathered several geniuses, and its teachers' strength was frightening.
Flender and Zhao Wuji were impressive enough, but especially Oscar's teacher, Gai Yuenow at level 88, just one step away from the Titled Douluo level.
A high level Contra like that was a person of great importance even in the empire the head of the Zhu family from the Duke's household was only at this levelyet such a man was willing to teach at this little academy.
Dai Mubai truly felt fortunate to have come to Shrek Academy, and fortunate to have met Oscar and Ma Hongjun. Without the two of them, he might have spent his whole life decadent and fallen.
The group spent more than half a month traveling before arriving at the Star Dou Great Forest. During that time, Flender made preparations for his eighth spirit ring, targeting a few spirit beasts with at least fifty thousand years of cultivation.
Dai Mubai also told Gai Yue what kind of spirit ring he needed. For him, the choice didn't require much consideration the Dai family had long since determined the optimal configuration for the first few rings.
For his third spirit ring, he would choose the Diamond White Tiger, a top tier beast perfectly matching the Dai family's hereditary White Tiger martial spirit. Absorbing this ring would grant him a powerful augmentation skill called White Tiger Vajra Transformation.
This soul skill would become one of Dai Mubai's core abilities in the early stages, greatly boosting his combat power.
One thing did change, however the age limit for the ring he could absorb. After taking whale glue, his third ring could be from a beast with at least 2,700 to 3,000 years of cultivation.
This increase was incredible for Dai Mubai. Traditionally, his third ring's age would never exceed 2,000 years, but now he could absorb one that surpassed the limit by more than a thousand years.
For him, this was undoubtedly a huge improvement.
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