The Twenty-Fourth Decision Battle Spirit

  Tang Yan said to meet at noon, hoping to break through from Jiu Xing Dou Shi to Da Dou Shi within twelve hours. These people, Tang Yan was not sure if they were the claws of Tian Ying Jiao, but for safety's sake. Tang Yan asked them to give him half a day's time, believing that in this half-day period, they would not come to disturb him, and he could also focus on his cultivation.

  Back at the tavern, Tang Yan let Zilan sleep on the bed and sat cross-legged on the ground to meditate. As for the Snow Scale Beast, Tang Yan could only say that he would talk about it with her another time when there was an opportunity.

  Like this, Tang Yan sat on the ground like in a small forest, with his hands placed on the snow to enter stillness. Only Zi Lan lay on the bed staring at Tang Yan without falling asleep. You can say that Zi Lan was guarding the law for Tang Yan, or you can say that her heart was sweet and excited, because Tang Yan was about to become her husband, and she was about to become Tang Yan's wife.

  Tang Yan entered the snowy realm as usual and began to practice the Snow Seeking Gate Sword Technique, practicing for half a day and then meditating on the Devouring Dragon Heart Method for another half day. Repeating this process over and over again, until he had spent four days and four nights in the snowy realm, Tang Zi woke up from his meditation to find that Zilan's pair of panda eyes were staring at him.

  "Didn't you sleep last night?" Tang Yan asked.

  "Can't sleep, people worry about you!" Every time Tang Yan sat in the purple orchid and couldn't sleep, he was afraid that bad people would attack him. If it were before when he was in the boxing school, Tang Yan would sit for a long time, and the purple orchid wouldn't worry about him, because his father Tian Xiong would give him protection.

  "I'm fine, I'll just go for a walk around the market now, want to come with me?" Tang Yan asked as he got up from the ground.

  "Hmm!" Zilan didn't change into pajamas last night, so she didn't need to change clothes and followed Tang Yan out the door.

  As expected, the Shí Sōng Town vegetable market was indeed lively in the early morning. Although it was only 6 o'clock, there were more people buying and selling than in the evening. Many hunters were squatting on the ground with some small magical beasts waiting for buyers. However, most of them were first-class, without any second-class ones. There were over thirty heads, ranging from large ones like small sheep to small ones like rabbits.

  Tang Yan didn't buy, he just stood thirty meters away from the market, a sly and evil smile spreading across his face. Due to the hunters' small magical beasts being mostly injured, under Tang Yan's Dragon Devouring Technique... Heh heh, first-grade magical beasts, huh? In a little while, they'll all be dead on the ground. The yuanqi transformed into strands of energy that passed through the spiritual network discovered by Tang Yan, not entering his body, but instead transforming into internal energy and gathering in his dantian.

  "We're leaving, there's nothing we want here!" Tang Yan pulled Zi Lan's small hand towards the tavern.

  "Oh!" Zilan didn't ask anything either.

  Back in the tavern, Tang Yan asked Xiao Er to send some pastries to their room for Zi Lan to eat. He himself sat cross-legged on the bed and started meditating instead of on the floor. Because Tang Yan had absorbed the essence of thirty first-grade magic beasts at once, his internal energy slightly increased in strength. When he entered the snowy terrain, he didn't practice sword techniques but rather sat cross-legged on the snowy ground and operated the Xi Long Jue heart method. For a week, two weeks, repeatedly circulating within his body before returning to his dantian.

  Time flies, Tang Yan meditated for three days and three nights, but when he returned to reality, he didn't break through to the Great Dou Shi. However, he knew that he wasn't far from it. As long as he was given a few more days, he would definitely be able to break through. The problem was that he had to go meet that so-called old master now.

  "We'll go downstairs and have something to eat, then we'll go to the trade union for a bit!" Tang Yan said, waking up from his meditation.

  "Why go to the union?" Zilan asked.

  "For your safety, okay, let's not talk about this, let's have lunch first!" Tang Yan said.

  "Alright!" Zi Lan nodded and said.

  Although Zilan didn't sleep for a night, she was in high spirits, perhaps she's a cultivator. Ordinary people can't go two days and two nights without sleep without anything happening. Cultivators can go several days and nights without sleep without any issues, last time in the forest, Zilan spent two days and two nights just like that.

  Downstairs, the two guys who followed Tang Yan last night indeed walked towards them, thinking that Tang Yan would go with them. Unexpectedly, Tang Yan threw a sentence at them, saying to finish lunch first and then meet their family's old master later, they could only wait aside, afraid that Tang Yan would run away. Who knew that after Tang Yan finished eating, he said he wanted to take a walk to the trade union, seemingly not planning to go with them to find someone at all.

  Arriving at the guild, Tang Yan looked around and found that there were more than a dozen men sitting inside. It seemed that each mercenary group had sent someone to receive tasks here. When they saw Tang Yan appear, they immediately ran over and asked if there was anything they could help him with.

  A beauty, huh? These guys living on the edge of a knife won't lose their jobs for a pretty face. Although Zilan is quite attractive, they still prefer more gold coins. In this line of work, you can't afford to offend the employer, and who knows, maybe this beauty is their employer.

  As expected, they all guessed correctly, Zilan was their employer. Tang Yan's request was simple, the reward was high, and only required mercenary protection above the master level to take them to the Imperial City of Purple Dragon. The reward was 8,000 gold coins, leaving all the mercenaries speechless. 8,000 gold coins were indeed a rare job. Moreover, they didn't have to do anything, just rush for two months and get 8,000 gold coins.

  "Your Excellency, we only have a few Dou Shi mercenaries here. Can't the Dou practitioners also participate? Our lowest strength is at least seven-star Dou practitioners!" A big man with a national character face said to Tang Yan.

  "This is fine, no matter how many of you join, I'll just pay eight thousand gold coins, it's best if there are a few Dou Shi among them." Tang Yan said. In his heart, he also thought: "The more people, the safer, this way, Zilan won't have to guard every day!"

  A two-month journey, it's possible that Tang Yanhua will take three or four months, unless Tang Yan stops practicing halfway. The mercenary matter was settled like this. As for how to arrange things, Tang Yan didn't ask them about it, believing they would handle it properly. First, he paid them 2,000 gold coins and had them wait here for Tang Yan's next message.

  "Zilan, wait for me here for a while, I'll go take a look at what kind of person their so-called master is!" Tang Yan threw two thousand gold coins to the leaders of the two mercenary groups.

  "Alright! You have to be more careful!" Zilan nodded and said.

  "Don't worry, even if I can't win a fight, I'll just run away. I'm second to none when it comes to running, no one dares to say they're the first!" Tang Yan patted his chest and said.

  "Go ahead and boast!" Zilan said with a smile.

  "Alright then, if you're tired, rest here for a while!" Tang Yan said.

  Leaving the union, Tang Yan shook his head and said: "Making money is hard, spending it quickly, sometimes I really want to be a robber and rob a rich man!"

  Money, in Tang Yan's spatial ring there was still a bit left, if it really wasn't enough to spend then Tang Yan could only consider selling the Snow Scale Beast's magic core, 50,000 gold coins should be enough to spend for a while.

  Following the two families, they arrived at a place in Shisong Town that looked like a drying field, but there were some stone chairs around it, making people feel that this was not a drying field, but rather a theater. In fact, this was an arena for fighting, but Tang Yan didn't know that. In the middle of the arena stood an old man with his hands clasped behind his back, as if he had been waiting for Tang Yan's arrival all along.

  After the two finished their task, they retreated, leaving only Tang Yan and this old man here. There were originally a few people watching from a distance around them, but they were immediately chased away by some people.

  "Old ghost, what are you looking for me? If there's something to say, then speak quickly. If not, I'm leaving!" Tang Yan said, staring at the old fellow who was a head shorter than him.

  "Do you think you can still leave here alive today?" The old man slowly turned around and said to Tang Yan.

  "Is that so? I knew you've been sending people to tail me, and at first, I wanted to kill them all off. But then I thought, in the end, killing you, the mastermind, would be the most efficient way to settle everything!" Tang Yan was certain this guy was much stronger than the old ghost he had killed in Zhangjiatown.

  "You're just a martial artist, do you think you can defeat me, a one-star martial spirit? In the eyes of our Tianying Sect, as long as we move our fingers, we can crush you to death like crushing a small chicken. Sometimes I really don't understand why Old Five that idiot favors you so much and wastes so much time on you!" The old man said with a glance at Tang Yan.

  "What's a Dou Ling? Hmm, sounds pretty good, wonder if it'll be like that idiot and split in two with just a few hits!" Tang Yan said with a smile on his face, thinking to himself: "Damn, how did I end up with a Dou Ling? I'm not even a Da Dou Shi yet."

  At this moment, the two stood facing each other, with an air of being ready to start fighting at any time. Similarly, Tang Yan's hand tightly grasped Bixue and stared at the opponent's body, where a layer of Dou Qi shield had formed, saying: "Give you a chance to make a move!"

  Even if he didn't make the first move, Tang Yan would still take the initiative. The old man had said that when facing a powerful enemy, if one move couldn't defeat him, then immediately retreat. Against this Dou Ling who was two levels higher than him, Tang Yan believed in his own strength and the weight of Xue Feng's gravity. With the Nine Star Dou Shi's power added to his hard training in the snowy realm over these past few days, as long as he didn't encounter someone too powerful, he should still be able to put up a fight.

  First, Tang Yan's hands tightened, and he slashed out thirty-two sword techniques in a row, each one slashing at his arm, just like the previous guy. He concentrated his fighting energy on his fingers, transforming them into claws that continuously blocked Tang Yan's heavy blows, retreating step by step. On the ground, thirty-two large and small pits were left behind, and after thirty-two loud noises, this guy was unscathed, staring at Tang Yan with a pair of unbelievable eyes.

  "Damn it, is this kid a god of strength? His power is so strong!" A numbness spread through his ten fingers as he retreated twenty meters away from Tang Yan, staring at the weapon in Tang Yan's hand.

  Similarly, Tang Yan didn't plan to give him a chance to catch his breath. After finishing the 32 routes of swordsmanship, he immediately used the "Dian Xue Xun Men" sword technique. As soon as it was unleashed, it was like a violent rainstorm, with countless snowflakes swirling and dancing towards him at an extremely fast speed. Although Tang Yan was twenty feet away from him, in just the blink of an eye, hundreds, thousands of sword shadows enveloped him.

  "Hmph, some tricks to cover one's eyes, might work on Master Tai, but on me? You..."

  He hadn't finished speaking when he felt hundreds, thousands of sword tips striking his body, each one containing a powerful explosive force, densely bombarding him!

  "Hmm...Hmm...Hmm..."

  "What's with the aura shield? Let's see how many moves you can block!" Tang Yan shouted loudly, his speed increasing as he unleashed a flurry of sword strikes towards him.

  "Damn it, destroy everything for me!" The Second Elder was hit with hundreds of blows, each blow like a giant stone crashing into his body, spitting out several mouthfuls of blood. He knew that if he continued like this, the Dou Qi shield would eventually be broken by him, and at that time there would only be one dead end. So he turned from defense to offense, his ten fingers transformed into claws, constantly waving, one after another, the Dou Qi formed claws collided with the sword rain in the sky.

  One is a form of Dou Qi, and the other is a form of speed transformation. Both have their own strengths!