5: Chapter 5: Listening to Advice – Why Did I Agree to Su Ling's Advice?

Su Ling tidied up the room and lit some incense to dispel the lingering medicinal smell.

He sat cross-legged on the bed.

Glancing around the room, it finally felt like a home.

His eyes moved, and the System interface appeared before him.

Xiao Wu Favorability: 8

Ning Rongrong Favorability: 10

Zhu Zhuqing Favorability: 61

white treasure chest * 4

yellow treasure chest * 1

purple treasure chest * 2

He had also previously opened two yellow treasure chests, obtaining 5,000 gold coins and ten primary spirit power pills.

On the interface was also his own attribute panel.

Host: Su Ling (Healthy)

Age: 19

Spirit: Water Moon Bow

Soul Power: Level 40

Mental Energy: Level 51

spirit ring: Yellow (320 years, Water attribute), Yellow (652 years, Wood attribute), Purple (1358 years, Fire attribute)

Spirit Bone: None

Perhaps it was due to the Fusion of his predecessor's memories, combined with the torture of illness over the past month, but Su Ling's Mental Energy had improved significantly, reaching the Spirit King level, just like his Soul Power.

Apart from his Mental Energy, his character attribute panel had no other special features!

He had three spirit rings; the first was obtained at the age of seven with the help of his Family.

The subsequent two were obtained with the help of Flender and other teachers at Shrek Academy.

Within the Five Elements, Water generates Wood, Wood generates Fire, Fire generates Earth, Earth generates Metal, and Metal generates Water; they are both mutually generating and mutually restricting.

Su Ling's spirit rings followed the order of Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal.

Speaking of this, one must mention a secret regarding the body Su Ling now occupied.

Su Ling came from the Water Moon Clan, a vassal Family of the Clear Sky Sect.

However, twelve years ago, the Clear Sky Sect chose to live in seclusion, abandoning or sacrificing their vassal families.

At that time, the Water Moon Clan was incredibly loyal to the Clear Sky Sect, so they fought on the front lines against Spirit Hall.

Unfortunately, Spirit Hall was simply too powerful. Coupled with the abandonment by the Clear Sky Sect, almost the entire Water Moon Clan was killed in battle, and Su Ling, who was only seven years old at the time, escaped under the protection of experts within the clan.

Later, he was rescued by Flender, who was out looking for suitable students.

This was the reason why he came to Shrek.

The reason he absorbed spirit rings of different attributes was because, in the Legacy of the Water Moon Clan, there appeared an extraordinary clansman over two hundred years ago.

He had taken a different path, allowing the first five spirit rings of the Water Moon Bow to absorb spirit rings of five different attributes: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth.

After the five spirit rings reached equilibrium, he successfully condensed the Heart of the Five Elements, evolving the Water Moon Bow into the Five Elements Battle Bow, causing his combat power to skyrocket.

Innate Soul Power determines the upper limit of Soul Power, while the level of the Spirit determines the upper limit of combat power.

Bearing the hatred of his Family, his predecessor worked hard to Cultivate and embarked on this path of evolving his Spirit.

It was just a pity that he failed when absorbing the fourth spirit ring, allowing the current Su Ling to take advantage of the situation and possess the body.

Thinking of this, Su Ling took out an ancient-looking book from his spirit tool.

It recorded the detailed process of how that ancestor in the Family condensed the Heart of the Five Elements to upgrade to the Five Elements Battle Bow.

The process was extremely difficult. Over the past two hundred years, dozens of clansmen had died because of it, with none succeeding.

The main issue was that absorbing five different attributes was too difficult. It was a huge test for the body, especially when absorbing the fourth and fifth spirit rings.

"It seems I must also walk this path," Su Ling whispered.

Although he appeared to have three spirit rings and three Spirit Abilities now, in reality, he could only use the first one. Because the attributes of the second and third spirit rings were incorrect, the power of the Spirit Abilities was truly too lackluster to be effective in combat.

Only by evolving his Spirit into the Five Elements Battle Bow could he unleash the power of the other attribute Spirit Abilities; in the early stages, he could only use the first Spirit Ability that matched his own.

But fortunately, the Family's three-hundred-year Legacy also included a precise archery technique.

Techniques like continuous arrows, multiple arrows, making arrows curve, and archery techniques that condensed Soul Power were in no way inferior to the Spirit Abilities of ordinary Spirit Masters.

However, Su Ling had just inherited the body and had not yet fully mastered it.

His predecessor was indeed a Genius who had almost learned the entire Family Legacy; he only needed to master it again according to his memories.

Putting away the Family Legacy book, Su Ling looked at the System interface again.

"Open all treasure chests!"

[Ding... Congratulations to the Host for opening white treasure chest * 4. Obtained 1 case of red wine, 200 gold coins, 1 ten-year ginseng, 1 fine iron dagger.]

The rewards from the white treasure chests were average; they were all very ordinary items.

[Ding... Congratulations to the Host for opening the yellow treasure chest. Obtained 1 bottle of primary spirit power pill.]

[Ding... Congratulations to the Host for opening the purple treasure chest. Congratulations to the Host for obtaining 1 Immortal Herb Record, 1 Five Elements Internal Breathing Cultivation Method.]

Five Elements Internal Breathing Cultivation Method? Immortal Herb Record? Good things had finally appeared.

Su Ling immediately took the Immortal Herb Record out from the System space.

The Immortal Herb Record was about two centimeters thick, had 358 pages, and recorded 131 different types of immortal medicinal herbs.

It included harvesting methods, storage and consumption methods, and even cultivation methods; the introduction was very comprehensive.

With this thing, why worry about not being able to get the medicinal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well?

Su Ling used to have worries about this, but now he felt relieved. The most difficult of the three major obstacles to going to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had been solved.

The remaining two obstacles were Dugu Bo himself and his poison array.

Putting the Immortal Herb Record away, Su Ling took out the Five Elements Internal Breathing Cultivation Method.

However, just as he took it out, the door was knocked upon.

"Boss, Boss, are you there?" The voice was Ma Hongjun's.

"Fatty, what's wrong? What is it!"

Su Ling put away the book in his hand and opened the door to see Ma Hongjun looking anxious.

Judging by his impatient look, it seemed his evil fire was about to burst out.

"Boss, congratulations on your recovery. Can... can you lend me some gold coins? I need to go to Soto City; Second Brother Dai has already gone."

Su Ling took out ten gold coins from the System space and said, "Take them."

A single gold coin was enough for Ma Hongjun to find a decent helper to help him dispel his evil fire, let alone obtaining ten gold coins at once.

Ma Hongjun immediately had a new goal and said, "Thanks, Boss. Then I'll go first. This time I'm going to the place where Second Brother Dai spends his time."

After Ma Hongjun left, just as Su Ling was about to close the door and go back to study the Five Elements Internal Breathing Cultivation Method, he saw Zhu Zhuqing come out of her dorm room and look towards him.

Their eyes met, and Zhu Zhuqing felt a bit embarrassed, unable to help looking in another direction.

Su Ling simply closed the door and walked towards Zhu Zhuqing.

"Zhuqing, may I call you that?" Su Ling asked.

"Uh, sure!" Zhu Zhuqing said.

"Today is your first day at the academy. Why don't we go to Soto City for dinner together?" Su Ling said.

"This, that... wouldn't be good," Zhu Zhuqing wanted to refuse.

Refused? Su Ling immediately activated the Listen to Advice skill to bind the goddess. With a thirty percent success rate, he didn't know if it would work, but since the day was almost over, it would be a waste not to use it.

Moreover, Dai Mubai was likely looking for women in Soto City at this time. If Zhu Zhuqing caught him in the act, it would definitely be interesting.

"Alright! I'll listen to you." Zhu Zhuqing suddenly changed her mind and agreed. The Listen to Advice skill had naturally succeeded!

"Take me with you, I want to go too."

Somehow, Ning Rongrong walked over from somewhere, looking mischievous as if she had succeeded in something, and also showing the look of a little troublemaker.

"Fine, then I'll take you along!" Su Ling said.

Actually, he had a purpose for taking Zhu Zhuqing. Didn't Ma Hongjun just say that Dai Mubai went to a certain place? Perhaps he could let Zhu Zhuqing go and see, allowing the two to have a resolution sooner.

"Brother Su, should we take Xiao Wu and the others with us?" Ning Rongrong suggested again.

"Of course!"

Su Ling had originally intended to go with Zhu Zhuqing alone, but Ning Rongrong had come to disturb them. The key was that he couldn't refuse now, as Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu were also targets.

"Zhuqing, let's go call Xiao Wu." Ning Rongrong pulled Zhu Zhuqing and ran towards Xiao Wu's dormitory.

After they had moved some distance away, Ning Rongrong whispered in Zhu Zhuqing's ear: "Zhuqing, you haven't fallen in love with Brother Su at first sight, have you?"

"No, no I haven't." Zhu Zhuqing hurriedly retorted.

"Then why did you agree to go out to dinner with him alone? And you still say it wasn't love at first sight!" Ning Rongrong said.

"I don't know why I agreed just now either," Zhu Zhuqing said. In fact, she was also repeatedly asking herself, why did she agree just now?