Chapter 9

The mysterious green liquid that appeared inside the Fengtian Tripod was indeed heaven-defying. After Shen Lang swallowed it, he immediately felt a strange energy coursing through his entire body. The injuries he had sustained from using the high-level technique "Zhenyu Dao Gong" to fight the black-clothed man, and the muscle spasms caused by the "explosion," were all completely healed within half an hour.

Not only that, when he looked inward, he found that his meridians had become much tougher and wider after the strange energy had circulated through them!

Many previously blocked meridians had been unblocked!

The strange energy traveled throughout his body, causing a tremendous transformation wherever it went!

Shen Lang, who now possessed the memories of the War Emperor Shen Lang, had seen countless spiritual medicines and even personally refined many medicinal liquids for meridian cleansing and bone strengthening... but compared to this green liquid, all those medicines and treasures were like garbage!

This green liquid not only had the power to revive the dead and regrow flesh and bones, but after just one circulation through Shen Lang's body, his meridians had undergone significant changes, giving him immense benefits...

Such a heaven-defying substance had never been seen on the Starry Continent!

Suppressing the joy in his heart, Shen Lang brought the Fengtian Tripod close and looked inside, wanting to see how this green liquid formed and where it came from.

Focusing his gaze, Shen Lang was taken aback.

Inside the Fengtian Tripod, a black and a white gas were intertwined like two small dragons, continuously moving around inside the tripod.

"What is this...?" Shen Lang's eyes narrowed slightly, and he sent his divine consciousness to probe the black and white gases.

However, something unexpected happened. The black and white gases, which had been moving slowly, suddenly surged with energy the moment they encountered his divine consciousness. In an instant, the calm inside the Fengtian Tripod turned into a raging sea!

"Oh no!" Shen Lang exclaimed.

He instinctively tried to withdraw his divine consciousness, but it was too late. The black and white gases followed his divine consciousness and shot out, entering his body through his forehead before Shen Lang could even react!

Shen Lang felt a momentary dizziness, but then quickly recovered.

"I was too careless!"

He quickly sat down in a cross-legged position and began to examine his body internally, starting from the sea of consciousness in his head...

It wasn't until he reached his dantian in the abdomen that he noticed something unusual.

In the dantian, a small Taiji diagram was floating, slowly rotating and emitting a faint light.

"Where did this Taiji diagram come from? What about the black and white gases?" As soon as Shen Lang thought this, the Taiji diagram suddenly disintegrated and transformed back into the black and white gases, which began to wander around the dantian.

"Don't tell me you're my martial spirit..." Shen Lang felt like crying.

Martial spirits are mostly innate, and only a few are obtained through extraordinary encounters. If this thing really became his martial spirit, it would be considered lucky, but the problem was that this martial spirit... was too weak!

A Taiji diagram no bigger than a palm, what could it possibly do?

Even someone like Shen Dao Feng had a powerful martial spirit like the Sky-Splitting Python, which was very intimidating when it formed behind him.

This palm-sized thing, regardless of its actual power, was simply not impressive.

"When fighting someone, if the enemy's martial spirit forms a giant shield, a large sword, or a huge python behind them, and I just have a palm-sized Taiji diagram behind my head, my morale would drop before the battle even starts, and I'd probably be laughed to death..."

Shen Lang smiled bitterly, picked up some clothes, and headed to the bathroom. After the mysterious green liquid entered his body, he secreted a lot of sticky and foul-smelling substances, and he couldn't leave the house without washing.

By the time he finished and arrived at the playground, more than an hour had passed. In a corner of the large playground, a group of students from Class One had already been in class for half a day.

Su Hen, who had sharp eyes, tugged at Lin Feng's sleeve and pointed, seeing Shen Lang yawning as he walked over.

Lin Feng almost jumped up, noticing that the teacher was dozing off, and quickly rushed over to Shen Lang.

"Shao Lang, you're in big trouble now. You're cursed with bad luck. Go back and find a place to hide," Lin Feng said, almost in a panic.

"Yeah, yeah, hurry up and go!" Su Hen added.

Shen Lang was at a loss: "How big of a deal is it to make you two so worried? Is it because Shen Jian Feng came looking for me?"

Lin Feng and Su Hen were taken aback: "You know Shen Jian Feng is after you, and you're still so relaxed? Can you beat him?"

"I can't," Shen Lang answered straightforwardly.

If you can't beat him, why are you so arrogant? Lin Feng and Su Hen almost fainted.

"Relax, relax, don't worry. I have a way to deal with him. I can't beat him now, but in a few days, I'll make him crawl on the ground like Shen Dao Feng. Is there anything else?" Shen Lang waved his hand, speaking with great confidence.

"This... Where does this confidence come from? Shao Lang seems a bit different now," Lin Feng and Su Hen looked at each other and said, "Let's put aside the issue with Shen Jian Feng for now. This morning, it's Qin Hun's talisman-making class. How dare you be late? Don't you know his temper? He's already very unhappy with you, and he's also Shen Dao Feng's homeroom teacher, who has a very good relationship with Shen Dao Feng's father. Now that you've crippled Shen Dao Feng and are late for his class, if he catches you, you're done... Hurry up and go, while he's still dozing off!"

Before he could finish, Shen Lang's anger flared up: "So it's that old bastard Qin Hun's class. He acts all high and mighty but always tries to sabotage me behind my back! Last time at Wulong Slope, when I met the people from Tian Shen Academy, I accidentally stepped on his shoe while running away, and he's been picking on me ever since, making me do all sorts of ridiculous tasks. In the cold winter, he made me pick peach blossoms for his son, in the scorching summer, he made me take his son to see ice sculptures, and in the middle of the day, he made me take his son to count stars... Do you think I'm a god, that I can make flowers bloom and sprout whenever I want? Since it's his class today, I'm going to settle this score!"

Seeing Shen Lang angry and declaring his intention to deal with Qin Hun, Lin Feng and Su Hen quickly grabbed him from both sides to stop him.

"Hey, Shao Lang, calm down. He's a teacher, and you can't beat him... Teacher Mu Qin was also looking for you this morning. If she's not around, Qin Hun has a hundred ways to make you lose your limbs! Besides, you don't have to worry about Qin Hun, but another troublemaker is also approaching!" Lin Feng almost cried.

"Another troublemaker? Who?" Shen Lang asked, taken aback.

"Who else? Of course, it's the little devil Xue Dang! You called her name in your dream and asked her to take off her clothes, and this news has spread throughout Ta Yun Academy. She's looking for you to settle the score. She was at the other end of the playground just now, and now who knows where she's gone. She might have gone to the classroom to find you. If you don't leave now, when will you?" Lin Feng panted.

"Damn, why didn't you say so earlier!" Shen Lang's face changed, and he turned to leave.

"Stop right there!" A rough voice echoed across the playground. "Shen Lang, you have some nerve! You dare to be late for my class, and now you dare to run away! Do you want to be expelled?"

Hearing the word "expelled," Shen Lang stopped.

"Stay at Ta Yun Academy until graduation, and don't get expelled." This was his father's only instruction and requirement.

He rolled his eyes and turned around, speaking in a sly tone: "Ta Yun Academy isn't as scary as you say. As long as a student masters a certain skill, they don't need to attend classes anymore. Qin Hun, you can't be unaware of this, right? I've been proficient in talisman-making for years. Are you threatening me with this?"

"Ha, I didn't know our class's famous waste could make talismans. Can you tell us what talismans you've made? Ice talismans, fire talismans, or invisibility talismans?" The class president, Xu Qing, said sarcastically, mentioning high-level and high-quality talismans.

"Ha, that's right. We didn't know our class had such a genius who's already mastered talisman-making. Is our class going to become famous in Ta Yun Academy?" someone else chimed in.

"How can you say that? Our class is already famous in Ta Yun Academy, thanks to a well-known sleep god. Come on, dear Shao Lang, today's lesson is the simplest Divine Speed Talisman. Come and make a few for us and for Qin Hun to see."

A group of students began to mock Shen Lang, their eyes filled with malice.

This group was the most arrogant in the class, and most students didn't dare to cross them.

Shen Lang's lips curled, and he slowly walked toward Xu Qing, his bones cracking as he moved.

"You... What are you doing! Qin Hun, he... he's threatening me!" Xu Qing's face showed panic. He hadn't seen Shen Dao Feng being beaten, but he knew about it early on.

"Xu Qing, you're not stupid. The Xu family has been in conflict with the Shen family for many years, yet you made Shen Dao Feng your big brother and incited him to come after me. You're quite clever," Shen Lang said calmly. "But you're not smart enough... Shen Dao Feng, who is at the ninth level of the Force Martial Realm, was beaten to a pulp by me. You, at the sixth level of the Force Martial Realm, are still arrogant in front of me. Are you tired of living?"

"Shen Lang, you're too arrogant! You dare to threaten other students in front of me. Do you want to die?"

Qin Hun, on the podium, was so angry that his face twisted. He had never encountered a student who dared to be so arrogant and ignore him, treating his words as nothing!

And this student was the notorious waste Shen Lang!

"Ha, Qin Hun, you've misunderstood me. How could I dare to threaten other students in front of you? I just wanted to get closer to the class president," Shen Lang said, shrugging and spreading his hands to show he had no intention of doing anything excessive.

"Heh, I don't believe you! You just said you're proficient in talisman-making. Why don't you make a few for me to see? I'm warning you, if you can't make them, don't blame me for reporting to the vice-principal that you were late, threatened other students, and deceived the teacher... I'll tell him everything!"

Qin Hun's eyes and tone were full of threats, and he had no intention of hiding it, even in front of so many students.

"Making talismans? No problem, ha ha ha..." Shen Lang laughed, patting Xu Qing on the back a few times, making it seem like they were good friends. Xu Qing was startled, but when he realized Shen Lang hadn't really attacked him and there was no spiritual energy on his palm, he relaxed.

When he heard about Shen Dao Feng's miserable defeat, Xu Qing had already developed a fear of Shen Lang.

"It's just making talismans, right? It seems we're making Divine Speed Talismans today. Fine, I'll make a few. I hope you, teacher, can forgive my past mistakes." Shen Lang said, walking to an empty seat, picking up a brush, and dipping it in ink and cinnabar, starting to draw on yellow paper.

At first, Qin Hun was skeptical, but he immediately sneered.

"Without setting up a spiritual field on the yellow paper and with no spiritual energy in your body, you're just scribbling like a madman and claiming to be making Divine Speed Talismans in front of me! I'll make you lose face, and then I'll report you to the vice-principal, getting you expelled from Ta Yun Academy! Hmph, you dared to cripple my class's genius student Shen Dao Feng, making him miss the Thorn Valley trial in half a month. I won't rest until I've made you pay!"