As Chunyu Kong’s blood splattered on the bracelet, the spiritual monitor lizard’s battle prowess immediately surged tremendously.

  It bellowed away, and its entire body was enveloped by a red glow. It entered a berserk state and its tail was sweeping out like a steel whip, its sharp teeth tearing out.

  The White Tiger Guard was latched onto, unable to break free. It could only bite at the monitor lizard’s neck. However, as a spiritual beast, spots like these were no longer considered vital ones.

  “Sun Mo, did you see that? You’re unable to understand how strong I am!”

  Chunyu Kong sneered.

  “Yes, yes, yes, you’re the strongest!”

  Sun Mo’s lips twitched. To speak the truth, he looked down on Chunyu Kong’s battle tactic.

  After Sun Mo’s art of spiritual beast control reached the grandmaster-grade, he focused on studying this subject.

  Whether beast tamers or spirit controllers were powerful or not depended on their beasts. The stronger their beasts, the more terrifying they were!

  As the era developed, some spiritual controllers started to reflect that they couldn’t solely rely on their spiritual beasts.

  Once the enemies bypassed the spiritual beasts and killed the spirit controllers, the spiritual beasts would stop attacking.

  Some spirit controllers started to temper their own battle techniques, but the others viewed such acts as vices. They said that people who didn’t put their full focus on cultivating spiritual beasts weren’t fit to be called spirit controllers.

  These traditional spirit controllers then tried hard to temper their mental energy to catch even more spiritual beasts to take on different responsibilities.

  Main attacker, main defender, and even one to coordinate both attack and defense!

  If spirit controllers wanted to catch even more spiritual beasts, they’d need powerful mental energy as their support. However, in normal battles, mental energy was useless.

  Chunyu Kong was a traditional spirit controller who relied on his spiritual beast for battle. However, he was a little different at the same time because he treated spiritual beasts as tools that he could easily deplete, not a companion.

  To use such a self-detrimental battle technique just to prove yourself was too merit-driven.

  Screech!

  An eagle’s sharp screech suddenly rang out. Then, a black shadow flashed and pinned down the White Tiger Guard’s head.

  Everyone discovered that it was a majestic eagle the size of a herding dog. Taking the opportunity when the White Tiger Guard was being latched on by the monitor lizard, it used its sharp claws to crush the White Tiger Guard’s head.

  Before other people reacted, Chunyu Kong had already darted over.

  Pa!

  The White Tiger Guard was shattered, becoming light spots like fireflies, scattering on the small square.

  Chunyu Kong immediately focused his mind and tried to sense the White Tiger Guard’s core. As long as he got it, he’d be able to obtain this guard. However, he was immediately stunned.

  He couldn’t sense the White Tiger Guard’s core!

  “Why is that so?”

  Chunyu Kong couldn’t understand. Without a core, how would a spiritual beast be propelled? Could it be on that jade statue?

  Chunyu Kong didn’t have much time left.

  After ten breaths’ worth of time, the scattered light spots shot out at the white tiger statue.

  Left with no choice, Chunyu Kong could only randomly grab a few times at the light spots. It was a pity that he wasn’t right on those attempts.

  Thereafter, great light burst from the statue. A new White Tiger Guard was born.

  Roar!

  It still had its majestic roar.

  Chunyu Kong’s countenance changed and called out.

  “Return!”

  If he didn’t find out where the White Tiger Guard’s core was, then it’d be useless even if he were to rush it 1,000 times.

  The spectators retreated from the small square at the fastest speed possible. The White Tiger Guard didn’t chase after them and just disappeared.

  “Oh, so this is what you mean by being strong?”

  Sun Mo turned his head slightly, revealing an admiring expression. He looked at Chunyu Kong. “Of course, I can’t understand it!”

  Swoosh!

  Chunyu Kong’s entire face had turned red like a monkey’s butt.

  Awkward! Indescribably awkward!

  Sky Orchid student group’s atmosphere was also very gloomy. After all, they had boasted so much but ended up failing. This was too embarrassing.

  A few other student groups were in no mood to mock Chunyu Kong. Right now, there were both excitements and worries on their faces.

  They were excited because this White Tiger Guard was considered a secret treasure of darkness. If they were to bring it back, they’d get quite a good ranking. The worrying thing was that Chunyu Kong, who worked in the Sky Orchid, was an outstanding graduate from the Nine Greats. He was also a spirit controller. If he couldn’t handle it, then the possibility of them being able to handle that wouldn’t be high either.

  “Then spirit controller master, should it be my turn now?”

  Sun Mo asked.

  Pffft!

  Both Li Ziqi and Gu Xiuxun couldn’t hold back their laughter. Was Sun Mo trying to drive the other guy to death with his sharp tongue?

  “Please go ahead!”

  It was just a simple reply, but Chunyu Kong said it while gritting his teeth.

  “Teacher Sun, can you do it?”

  Qian Dun was worried.

  “Don’t worry, I have never seen a problem that Teacher Sun can’t resolve!”

  Lu Zhiruo looked very confident and put up a thumb. “It’s all good! Just get prepared to cheer!”

  “What is it? Aren’t you going to make a move? Be quick!” Chunyu Kong urged, “You can’t be scared, right?”

  “Hey, you’re a teacher of a famous school after all. Can you not be such a schemer?”

  Sun Mo asked. “Aren’t you just trying to agitate me, not wanting me to be prepared before I make a move?”

  “Schemer?”

  “Tsk, this term is a little interesting!”

  “But it’s true that this teacher is scheming and isn’t open and aboveboard.”

  The surrounding students mumbled.

  Chunyu Kong heard that and he was so angry that he almost coughed up blood. What was the most important thing that a teacher should have? It was character and teaching ethics. If students were to think that he was a schemer, it wouldn’t be a good thing.

  But very soon, the students ignored Chunyu Kong because Sun Mo had walked out.

  “Teacher Chunyu, could he subdue this White Tiger Guard?”

  Liang Pei was worried.

  “Don’t worry, if I can’t do it, then it’d be even more impossible for him.”

  Chunyu Kong was very confident. He then let out a stifled laugh. “Don’t worry, he’s dead!”

  “Huh?”

  Guo Zihao was baffled.

  “The White Tiger Guard’s responsibility is to guard this place. Therefore, if an invader were to walk toward the city gate, it’d charge over to block them. However, Sun Mo is walking toward that statue. Tell me, isn’t it like a sheep walking into a tiger’s mouth?”

  Chunyu Kong sneered.

  However, after a while, he realized that the statue didn’t show any reaction at all.

  “Huh?”

  Chunyu Kong was stunned. What was going on?

  Sun Mo released his mental energy, wanting to call a truce with the White Tiger Guard. As a spirit controller master, this was the fundamentals.

  There were many strange species in the Darkness Continent such as ghosts, astral world’s lifeforms, and undying lifeforms. They couldn’t speak the same language as humans and it was impossible for them to communicate.

  However, spirit controllers could perform simple communication. It was because mental energy was their ‘language’.

  Sun Mo’s guess was right. As the work of an ancestor-grade spirit controller, the White Tiger Guard’s level was extremely high and it had simple spirit intelligence.

  “Leave here, human! Otherwise, die!”

  The White Tiger Guard bellowed.

  Sun Mo tried to calm it down. However, the White Tiger Guard kept on repeating this.

  “This guy seems to be a spirit controller?”

  Guo Zihao looked toward Chunyu Kong, wanting to get an answer. He then noticed that all his colleagues looked very envious.

  “Communicating with the White Tiger Guard? Isn’t this something that only grandmaster-grade spirit controllers can do? No, how old is this guy? No way!”

  Chunyu Kong’s mind was in chaos.

  Boom!

  White light flashed on the jade statue and the guard appeared. However, it didn’t attack Sun Mo outright. It just roared at him in an attempt to drive him out.

  Sun Mo wanted to persuade him, but the White Tiger Guard’s patience ran out. It charged toward him, pouncing to kill him.

  “Is fighting the only way?”

  Sun Mo was helpless.

  If he could get this White Tiger Guard to submit through peaceful communications, then it would still retain its memories, capable of acting as a guide to help Sun Mo. However, once it was killed and forced into submission, then that would wipe out its previous memories. This was to prevent it from rebelling.

  A battle erupted.

  Since there was no cultivation art for Sun Mo to obtain from the fight, he went all out from the very beginning.

  Zha!

  Sun Mo let out a furious bellow!

  Buddha’s Mouth Serpent Heart!

  Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

  Golden waves suddenly appeared in the air and entangled onto the White Tiger Guard, binding it tightly.

  “Ahh!”

  Some students couldn’t stand the furious buddhic chants. It made them feel giddy. It was as if they had been hit in the head by a big hammer and it was extremely painful.

  Sun Mo looked very dignified as he swung his fists heavily.

  Eternalism, Great Mercy!

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  His heavy punches landed on the White Tiger Guard. With each strike, a large area on the white tiger’s body would sink in.

  Swoosh!

  The White Tiger Guard backed off, planning to break free from the golden snakes on it first.

  That was right. On a closer look, those golden waves were actually slithering golden snakes.

  Sun Mo gave chase and glared over.

  Buddha Look!

  Swoosh!

  Two streams of golden light shot out of Sun Mo’s eyes, hitting the White Tiger Guard’s head and smashing off a chunk of it.

  “My god, what cultivation art is this?”

  Qian Dun was so astonished that his mouth was agape. One could see his thick throat.

  No one replied. It was because everyone was shaken from astonishment.

  Everyone saw how strong the White Tiger Guard was. Chunyu Kong had used three spiritual beasts to barely be able to kill it. However, Sun Mo was able to steadily suppress it.

  “With this attacking prowess, it’s at least a heaven-tier cultivation art!”

  Wang Chao guessed.

  “Sun Mo, is the reason you’re alive so that you can deal blows to others’ morale?”

  Gu Xiuxun was completely astonished. The prowess of this fist technique looked like a saint-tier one. This gave her a strong sense of defeat.

  There was probably no way she’d be able to catch up to him in her lifetime.

  “Teacher has kept things so well-hidden. He hasn’t displayed such an amazing cultivation art before!”

  Tantai Yutang exclaimed. Sun Mo was really a schemer.

  The sickly guy knew that Sun Mo treated Li Ziqi and the other two extremely well. As long as it was something they wanted to learn, he would teach it to them. However, given their expressions, they had never seen this cultivation art either.

  Although the sickly guy had no idea what this cultivation art was called, Sun Mo must have put in a lot of effort to train it to this stage!

  Chapter 380: I’m Sorry, The Spoils-of-War Belong to Me Now!

  Sun Mo caught up to the White Tiger Guard, his fists striking out like whirlwinds.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  Loud colliding sounds rang out.

  The White Tiger Guard couldn’t retaliate at all. It was just one-sided torture.

  When the teachers and students from other schools saw this scene, their eyelids twitched non-stop. Other than astonishment, they also felt baffled.

  Where did the majestic spiritual beast from earlier go? Why did it feel like a cat from the side of the road?

  Other than having a louder cry, it looked extremely weak!

  Howl!

  The White Tiger Guard’s voice changed, sounding like a wild dog whose leg had been broken. It cried out in agony.

  Alright!

  Now even its domineering voice was gone.

  Sun Mo looked neither sad nor happy. The disposition he emitted with his every action was like the Buddha had appeared in the world, looking dignified, magnanimous, and solemn!

  Ancient Buddha Oil Lamp [1]!

  Boom!

  The entire square had been illuminated completely by the white tiger statue earlier. But after Sun Mo struck out his battle technique, all the light rays suddenly turned dim as if they were entering a dark night where one couldn’t see their own hands.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  Only the sound of Sun Mo beating up the White Tiger Guard was clear.

  Gradually, faint yellow light lit up from Sun Mo’s body. It was like a small light in front of Buddha but was also like the light tower by the shores.

  This light was like hope, attracting people like moths flying into the flame!

  It was the same for the White Tiger Guard. Its gaze was completely attracted by Sun Mo. It yearned to enter his wings and listen to his teachings.

  Thereafter, its head was hit by Sun Mo’s Buddhist punch. It shattered again.

  Bang!

  Light spots splattered.

  Swoosh!

  Light returned to the small square.

  Everyone, who felt lost, suddenly shuddered and returned to their senses. They felt a strong sense of lingering fear.

  If they were the one to face Sun Mo’s attack head-on, they’d be crushed by now.

  “What cultivation art is this?”

  Guo Zihao gasped in surprise, his gaze filled with curiosity!

  “Saint-tier! It’s definitely at the saint-tier!”

  Liang Pei stared at Sun Mo and gulped. It was no wonder Sun Mo was so arrogant. It turned out that he had saint-tier cultivation art. Then, Liang Pei’s countenance became distorted!

  Jealousy caused humans to become ugly!

  The students there didn’t share the same thoughts. It was because their mind had been completely filled up by astonishment. There was only one thought left.

  (This fist technique is so amazing! I want to learn it so much!)

  Swoosh!

  Sun Mo appeared in front of the White Tiger Guard. He clenched his right fist tightly and sent it smashing out!

  The Unrivaled absolute technique, Dharma Skyshock!

  Spirit qi gushed out from Sun Mo’s body and the illusion of Buddha appeared. A golden arm hammered down on the White Tiger Guard’s body.

  Boom!

  The fierce and dominating White Tiger Guard was crushed, shattering into light spots.

  “Amazing!”

  Xuanyuan Po’s eyes opened wide. He clutched onto his silver spear tightly, having a strong urge to spar against Sun Mo.

  Right now, the other students from the Central Province Academy were also deeply astonished.

  Teacher Sun was really powerful!

  Ding!

  Congratulations, you’ve received a total of 3,120 favorable impression points.

  “This guy’s cultivation realm should at least be at the fifth level of the blood-ignition realm, right?”

  Guo Zihao guessed.

  “I don’t know!”

  Liang Pei shook his head. It was because saint-tier cultivation arts were too powerful and it could allow one to engage in a battle against a stronger opponent. Therefore, he couldn’t be sure of this. He only knew that Sun Mo was very strong.

  “Don’t panic, the crucial moment is just starting!”

  Chunyu Kong stared at Sun Mo while smirking. “If he can’t grab the core, then it’d be useless even if he were to kill the White Tiger Guard 1,000 times.”

  When Sun Mo crushed the White Tiger Guard, he activated his Divine Sight and observed those light spots. Various data appeared in front of him.

  With the great experience brought by the grandmaster-grade spiritual control technique, Sun Mo only needed three seconds to lock onto the seven core light spots.

  Sun Mo reached out his hand.

  Pa pa pa!

  He grabbed onto the light spots and immediately chanted. Mental energy gushed out from him and formed a connection with the core light spots.

  There was no negotiation nor exchange, it was the simplest and most brutal enslaving contract.

  As the White Tiger Guard was crushed, its ability to retaliate was extremely low right now. It only struggled for a few seconds before it was enslaved by Sun Mo.

  Its ferocious and violent aura disappeared. Lu Zhiruo’s eyes lit up and couldn’t help but clap. “Teacher has succeeded!”

  The other teachers and students knew that Sun Mo had subdued this White Tiger Guard even though they didn’t know the spiritual control technique. It was because those shattered light spots didn’t return to the white tiger jade statue but were all shooting out toward Sun Mo’s right hand.

  Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

  When Sun Mo opened up his hand, everyone could see a translucent pearl the size of a walnut. It was emitting a clear white light.

  There was a shrunken little white tiger in the pearl, looking very life-like.

  “How is that possible?”

  Chunyu Kong was astonished. This guy had managed to do something he couldn’t do. (No, it must be luck. There’s no way that I’m worse off than him.)

  The countenances of the teachers and students from the other schools became extremely grim.

  This was also considered a type of secret treasure of darkness. It was probably not an issue for the Central Province Academy to be ranked in the top ten after having gotten it.

  “Are we going to lose again this round?”

  Liang Pei frowned and suggested in a soft voice, “We have to think of a way to wipe out this student group, snatching the secret treasure of darkness!”

  “That’s right!”

  Chunyu Kong stared at the spiritual pearl in Sun Mo’s hand, wearing an expression that seemed as if he wanted to take it for himself.

  A treasured pearl like this that hosted a ferocious beast’s soul was known as a spiritual pearl. It was very valuable.

  “Ziqi, take it!”

  Sun Mo tossed the spiritual pearl to the little sunny egg.

  “Congratulations!”

  Zhang Yanzong immediately came forth to offer his congratulations. There was inevitably some envy in his gaze. The other students also had similar expressions.

  The schools’ rankings were based on the treasures of darkness they obtained in the competition. However, after the competition ended, the schools didn’t have to hand over all the treasures of darkness they had. Then, these hidden treasures would belong to the school.

  The White Tiger Guard might not be considered too powerful, but it was a little amazing that it could revive endlessly. At the very least, it would be very useful as a reinforcement.

  “No, I can’t take it. This is too precious!”

  Li Ziqi immediately refused.

  “Is this considered precious?” Sun Mo chuckled, “You’re a spirit controller. You can use it!”

  Li Ziqi’s chest was filled with bliss because her teacher was doting on her. However, after a moment of hesitation, she still refused.

  “Teacher, why not give it to Martial Junior Zhiruo?”

  She was the eldest martial sister and should learn to give way to her juniors.

  “Eldest Martial Sister, I won’t take it!”

  Lu Zhiruo refused. “Your motor skills aren’t good and with this white tiger as your ride, it can make up for your weakness.”

  After the papaya girl said that, she suddenly realized that the way she said things could hurt Li Ziqi. Therefore, she quickly changed her words.

  “Eldest Martial Sister, I’m not saying that your motor skills are horrible, it’s…… it’s……”

  Lu Zhiruo didn’t know how to lie and was stumped.

  “I understand what you mean!”

  Li Ziqi pat Lu Zhiruo’s head.

  “Zhiruo is right. The reason I gave it to you is for you to use it as a ride.”

  Sun Mo had long since thought of catching a battle pet with strong attacking prowess for Lu Zhiruo. However, he was very satisfied to see the great relationship between the two martial sisters.

  When Sun Mo played games in the past, he had seen cases whereby a single weapon had led to the entire guild being disbanded. Take the Greatsword of the Brotherhood for example, it was said that it was a sword of guild disbandment as there’d be no brothers when this sword appeared.

  Many top-notch guilds went through great difficulty to defeat the final boss, but they ended up disbanding over the distribution of this high-quality weapon.

  Chu Jian looked at this scene and suddenly felt a little regretful. (Back then, if I agreed to enter under Sun Mo’s wings during the student recruitment meet, I’d be his eldest disciple now!)

  Ding!

  +100 favorable impression points from Chu Jian. Friendly (410/1,000).

  “Sigh, why won’t Teacher take me in?”

  Lu Qi felt regretful.

  Shi Qiao opened his mouth and almost wanted to ask Sun Mo to accept him as his disciple. However, he still held it back in. He didn’t wish to let other people think that he only wanted to acknowledge Sun Mo as his teacher due to Sun Mo’s generosity.

  “Then I’ll be accepting this!”

  Li Ziqi bowed at Sun Mo then released her mental energy to communicate with the White Tiger Guard in the spiritual pearl.

  “Don’t use a contract of equals. Just enslave it!”

  Sun Mo had wiped out the enslavement contract between him and the White Tiger Guard. Otherwise, there was no way the little sunny egg would be able to enslave it.

  “En!”

  Li Ziqi looked at the spiritual pearl and started to do as Sun Mo instructed.

  “I recall that Ziqi is a spirit rune master, right? She seems to know some herbology as well.” Zhang Yanzong said with great emotion. “However, I didn’t expect that she’s also a spirit controller.”

  Zhang Yanzong self-proclaimed to be a genius and was the top person amongst this batch of new students. However, he was feeling a little inferior at this moment.

  Li Ziqi’s battle prowess was bad, but she won against him in other areas. For example, her ability to take command and lead, her mentality, and most importantly, her knowledge.

  “Ziqi is so amazing!”

  Li Fen was envious.

  “I’d say Teacher Sun is the amazing one. Don’t forget that these are all things that Teacher Sun had taught her.”

  Lu Qi was filled with admiration for Sun Mo.

  Look at Sun Mo. Not only was he knowledgeable, but his battle prowess was also on an explosive level. How on earth did he learn all that?

  Ordinary people would be considered amazing to be able to accomplish one thing. But he was good in all aspects.

  “There’s no way to compare! There’s no way to compare!”

  Qian Dun sighed.

  “Hehe!”

  Sun Mo secretly felt pleased as he had gained another wave of favorable impression points.

  “What should we do?”

  “What else can we do? We can only give up! We can’t possibly try to snatch it, right?”

  “Don’t be kidding. Who’d be able to win against that Sun Mo?”

  The teachers decided to give up, but their gazes landed on Chunyu Kong’s group. (The reason we’re cowardly is because we are weak. You Sky Orchid can’t be cowardly as well, right?)

  Guo Zihao saw that Chunyu Kong and Liang Pei’s gazes weren’t right and quickly tried to persuade them.

  “Just give up, it’s too risky!”

  “I can’t accept this!” Chunyu Kong lowered his voice, “Let’s hold Sun Mo back, then let the students make a move to wipe them out and snatch the secret treasure of darkness!”

  As the competition was primarily testing on the students’ capabilities, the rule stated that the students must be the ones holding onto the secret treasures of darkness. Moreover, if the students didn’t attack the teachers, the teachers mustn’t be the first to raise their hands.

  “How could the elites carefully selected from our great Sky Orchid Academy not be able to win against them?”

  Chunyu Kong didn’t believe it. Right now, he just wanted to see Sun Mo suffering.

  Swoosh!

  White light flashed on the spiritual pearl and a translucent white tiger appeared, releasing a furious roar. Its stripes were a light blue color and it looked extremely beautiful.

  “Teacher, I’ve succeeded!”

  Li Ziqi beamed.

  The white tiger walked over. Like a big cat, it used its neck and back to rub against Li Ziqi’s leg.

  “Good!”

  Li Ziqi squatted down and rubbed the big cat’s neck.

  [1] Chinese idiom to the lonely life of Buddhism through glimmering green oil lamps and an aged Buddha statue.