83: Chapter 83 unlocks new features, allowing interaction with the goddess.

There was a month of preparation time for cultivation. On the night of his return, Su Ling distributed some Medicinal Pills to everyone, basically ensuring that they could achieve a Breakthrough.

However, for Ning Rongrong, the effect of the primary spirit power pill was no longer significant for her; whether she could reach Rank 50 depended entirely on herself.

In the evening, everyone returned to their rooms. Su Ling also called the sisters Zhu Zhuxin and Zhu Zhuqing together—or rather, they went to Zhu Zhuxin's room.

One man and two women in the same room was somewhat suggestive, and both women were very nervous.

"Zhuqing, Zhu Xin, you have both reached Rank 51, but I hope you can advance even further."

After Su Ling finished speaking, he took a small medicine bottle out of his System space.

"These are two Elementary Spirit Ascension Pills. You can take them once you reach the Spirit King Rank. They can allow you to rise from Rank 51 to Rank 52 in one go."

"Thank you, Brother Su!" Zhu Zhuqing said. She was now used to Su Ling giving her things.

"Thank you, Brother Su!" Zhu Zhuxin also said.

[Ding... Zhu Zhuxin favorability +1, obtained Black Treasure Chest *1]

Success!

What Su Ling wanted was Zhu Zhuxin's favorability. After Zhu Zhuqing's favorability reached 99, it was difficult to increase further, so Su Ling could only start with Zhu Zhuxin.

Zhu Zhuxin's favorability had already reached 97 points, but unfortunately, this time he only obtained a Black Treasure Chest.

Looking at the other goddesses around him, the ones whose favorability could still be farmed were Liu Erlong at 96 points, and Jiang Zhu also at 96 points.

The goddesses not around were Xiao Wu, whose favorability had already reached over 80, and Huo Wu, who was currently at 92 points.

The rest were quite far behind and couldn't provide any useful treasure chests for the time being.

That night, everyone was also improving.

From time to time, a prompt echoed in Su Ling's mind.

[Ding... Jiang Zhu favorability +1, obtained Red Treasure Chest *1]

[Ding... Huo Wu favorability +1, obtained Black Treasure Chest *1]

By the morning, Su Ling received another prompt from Zhu Zhuxin.

[Ding... Zhu Zhuxin favorability +1, obtained Red Treasure Chest *1]

In one night, favorability increased by four points, with two Red Treasure Chests and two Black Treasure Chests—a very good harvest.

The key was that Huo Wu's favorability also increased, which took Su Ling by surprise.

"System, open two Red Treasure Chests," Su Ling said directly.

[Ding... Opening two Red Treasure Chests, congratulations to the host for obtaining Intermediate Spirit Ascension Pill *3 bottles, eight-petal immortal orchid *1]

There was no need to mention an immortal item like the eight-petal immortal orchid.

Looking at the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Pill, an Elementary Spirit Ascension Pill could allow a Spirit King to rise by one Rank, but what about the Intermediate one?

[Intermediate Spirit Ascension Pill: Can be taken by Spirit Emperors. One pill provides an effect that allows a Rank 61 Spirit King to rise to Rank 62. The first pill has 100% effectiveness. From the second pill onwards, the efficacy decreases by 10% for each pill taken. No side effects.]

Could the effect of this Intermediate Spirit Ascension Pill actually last so long?

He remembered that for the primary spirit power pill, the effect decreased by 20% each time it was taken, but this one only decreased by 10%. This point was very comfortable, and the key was that he was given three bottles at once.

In the morning, Su Ling did not leave his room. After taking an Intermediate Spirit Ascension Pill, he also entered cultivation.

It wasn't just Su Ling who was cultivating; on this day, every member of Shrek was working hard to Cultivate and improve their own Soul Power.

Su Ling cultivated from morning until midnight. With the help of the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Pill, his Soul Power successfully rose to Rank 63.

With his Soul Power increased, Su Ling was in a great mood, so in the middle of the night, he left his room and went straight to find Liu Erlong, who was cultivating.

Knowing that Su Ling had come, Liu Erlong was in a great mood and immediately ended her cultivation to open the door and welcome Su Ling's arrival.

"Su Ling, what's wrong with you tonight? Did you take some medicine?" Liu Erlong discovered that Su Ling was exceptionally different tonight. If she hadn't already become a Spirit Douluo with a strong enough body, she wouldn't have been able to hold on.

"Sister Liu, I don't know if you've heard a saying: 'Force creates miracles'..."

"Miracles?"

...

[Ding... Liu Erlong favorability +1, obtained Red Treasure Chest *1]

Favorability finally increased. Could it be that he wasn't working hard enough before?

Or was it that Liu Erlong liked it a bit rougher!

For such a long time, Liu Erlong's favorability hadn't increased, so Su Ling decided to try a different method, and it turned out he had guessed right.

At this moment, Liu Erlong was sprawled on the bed, having fainted, and Su Ling also obtained a Red Treasure Chest.

"System, open the Red Treasure Chest."

[Ding... Congratulations to the host for obtaining 100,000-year Spirit Bone *1]

[100,000-year Spirit Bone: 100,000-year Flame Dragon Spine Bone, from a 100,000-year Fire Dragon.]

"Opened well. I can continue to farm Liu Erlong's favorability. Isn't this prepared just for her?"

This day, Liu Erlong was really tired, but also unprecedentedly comfortable.

When she woke up, it was already noon. There was a box and a note by her bedside.

Liu Erlong knew just by looking at the handwriting that this was left by Su Ling.

After just one glance, Liu Erlong's expression suddenly became serious, and she immediately opened the box.

"This is... a 100,000-year Spirit Bone. It really is. Where did Su Ling get it from?" Liu Erlong's breathing became rapid.

This was not an ordinary Spirit Bone of a few tens of thousands of years. A 100,000-year torso bone was absolutely top-tier on the continent. If placed outside, people would absolutely break their heads trying to obtain it.

Yet, such a precious Spirit Bone was placed right by her bedside by Su Ling.

"Since it's for me, then I won't be polite. Who told me to already be your woman?"

Liu Erlong was not polite either. She got up, tidied up, posted a note saying "Closed-door cultivation" on the door, and then went back to enter the newly built cultivation room to begin absorbing the 100,000-year Spirit Bone Su Ling had given her.

Using things obtained from Liu Erlong to give to Liu Erlong to continue increasing favorability was a bit like a Russian nesting doll, but the System did not stop it.

In the blink of an eye, half a month later!

[Ding... Liu Erlong favorability +3, obtained Red Treasure Chest *2, Golden Treasure Chest *1]

Su Ling, who was cultivating, immediately turned his gaze to the System. Adding 3 points of favorability meant it had reached 100. As the first goddess to reach 100 favorability, what changes would there be?

[Ding... Liu Erlong favorability reached 100, has reached the maximum value]

[Bound Goddess: Liu Erlong]

[Goddess Comprehensive Value: 96]

[Current Favorability: 100 (You are her whole World)]

[Binding Effect: The host can obtain 100% of the bound goddess's daily cultivation effect, without reducing the bound goddess's cultivation speed.]

[Binding Skill 1: Listen to Advice (Can be activated once a day, the bound goddess will 100% follow the host's advice)]

[Binding Skill 2: Guard (Passive skill, when the host encounters danger, if Liu Erlong is nearby, her combat power can increase by 300%)]

[Binding Skill 3: Teleportation (Trigger condition: When the host encounters danger, can let Liu Erlong teleport to your side, distance: within 10,000 meters)]

[Binding Skill 4: Fusion (Unleash Martial Soul Fusion Skill in a way that integrates into the host's body, can be stacked with other goddesses)]

The skills had changed somewhat, especially the cultivation effect, which had increased directly to 100%, and the others had also improved.

"System, this favorability has reached 100. Does that mean I can never get treasure chests from her again?"

[Ding... The host can interact with the goddess daily, and treasure chests can also drop.]

[Ding... Prompt for the host: The probability of obtaining treasure chests from each interaction is: Purple Treasure Chest 100%, Black Treasure Chest 50%, Red Treasure Chest 10%, Golden Treasure Chest 1%, Super Treasure Chest 0.1%]

"Interaction?"

"And there's a Super Treasure Chest, a one-in-a-thousand chance!"

"System, what counts as an interaction?" Su Ling asked again.

However, the System did not answer this question, so Su Ling immediately decided to go find Liu Erlong to see exactly how to interact.

Meanwhile, Liu Erlong had also finished absorbing the Spirit Bone at this time.

A 100,000-year Spirit Bone, and one that fit her perfectly, gave her a huge boost. The most direct result was that her Soul Power increased to Rank 83.

"Sister Liu, you've finished absorbing the Spirit Bone, right?" Su Ling knocked on the door directly.

At this time, Liu Erlong had just come out of the cultivation room and opened the door to let Su Ling in.

"Su Ling, thank you for the Spirit Bone." Liu Erlong said, and immediately hugged Su Ling, and the two began the next step of deep communication.

"Brother Su, Daddy Su..."

"Oh... Night meal! Did I get it right?"

...

[Ding... Congratulations to the host for completing an interaction with Goddess Liu Erlong, obtained Black Treasure Chest *1]

[Prompt for the host: Only one interaction per day with the same goddess can yield a treasure chest reward.]

So that was what interaction meant. Su Ling understood immediately.

Feng Yuer's favorability was 98; it was only two points away from 100. He could start from there when the time came.

However, currently, Su Ling didn't have anything suitable for Feng Yuer, but he did have quite a few treasure chests.

[Remaining unopened treasure chests: White *79, Yellow *22, Purple *17, Black *5, Red *2, Golden *1]

There were both Golden and Red Treasure Chests!

"System, open both Red Treasure Chests."

[Ding... Opening two Red Treasure Chests, congratulations to the host for obtaining 100,000-year Healing Spirit Ability Card *2, fragrant immortal grass *1]

The Red Treasure Chests were opened, but there was nothing Feng Yuer could use.

"System, open all five Black Treasure Chests too."

[Ding... Opening five Black Treasure Chests, obtained: High-level Soul Power pill *1 bottle, return-to-origin qi fusion pill *1 bottle, 50,000-year Spirit Bone *2, 10,000-year Mysterious Ice Marrow *1 piece]

10,000-year Mysterious Ice Marrow. It was actually this thing, but only this much?

Su Ling looked at the System; the 10,000-year Mysterious Ice Marrow was only the size of a fist, not much.

The two 50,000-year Spirit Bones: one was fire-attributed, the other was ice-attributed.

Hadn't Feng Yuer's Spirit already evolved into the Phoenix Bow? And her own attribute was also fire; this Spirit Bone was just right.

Looking at the Golden Treasure Chest in the System, Su Ling held back and didn't open it.

The next day, Su Ling gave this 50,000-year Spirit Bone to Feng Yuer. At that time, Feng Yuer's favorability increased by one point, giving Su Ling another Red Treasure Chest.

That same day, Su Ling gave the return-to-origin qi fusion pill to Ning Rongrong. The function of this Medicinal Pill was to help absorb the medicine in the body and accelerate the increase of Soul Power.

Two days later, Feng Yuer successfully absorbed the Spirit Bone. Originally, according to what Su Ling thought, Feng Yuer's favorability would increase to 100, but unfortunately, the System did not prompt it.

Feng Yuer's favorability was still stuck at 99.

However, Su Ling had made great progress during this period. With the help of the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Pill, he successfully rose to Rank 64.

Also, on the day before the promotion tournament, Ning Rongrong's Soul Power finally reached Rank 50.

So, Su Ling let the others participate in the promotion tournament, and he took Ning Rongrong alone to look for her fifth spirit ring.

Su Ling's requirements for everyone in the promotion tournament were actually quite simple.

He didn't care about winning or losing. Ma Hongjun, Tai Long, Jing Ling, Huang Yuan, as well as Luo Sha and Xu Yanyan—these six people would go on stage. If they couldn't beat the opponent, they should just admit defeat. Anyway, the promotion tournament was just an individual performance for the Heaven Dou Empire and wasn't important.

In the Sunset Forest, Ning Rongrong and Su Ling walked together.

"Brother Su, it's really too happy to be out with you." Ning Rongrong was very excited all the way. After all, she rarely had time to be alone with Su Ling.

However, since they were in the Spirit Beast Forest, Ning Rongrong was still very careful to stay by Su Ling's side without holding onto him the whole time.

"Rongrong, me too. This time, I will definitely find you a good fifth spirit ring, over 10,000 years." Su Ling said.

"Mm!" Ning Rongrong nodded. Her fifth spirit ring, how could it be lower than 10,000 years?

Bringing Ning Rongrong along, Su Ling originally planned to go to Dugu Bo's poison array and use the method of attracting Spirit Beasts to do it again.

But before they even reached Dugu Bo's poison array, Su Ling met an old acquaintance.

Huo Wu, who should have gone to participate in the promotion tournament, was now appearing in the Sunset Forest.

Together with Huo Wu was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties. Huo Wu looked somewhat similar to him.

"Brother Su, you guys came to the Spirit Beast Forest too?" Huo Wu was very excited to see Su Ling.

She had already finished taking the Medicinal Pills Su Ling gave her. Just last night, she took the last one, and her Soul Power successfully broke through to Rank 50.

Not only her, but her brother Huo Wushuang had also risen to Rank 45 this month. In over a month, he had increased his Soul Power by two Ranks, and most of the Medicinal Pills were eaten by her.

"I came to find the fifth spirit ring for Rongrong. You are too, right, Wu'er?" Su Ling said.

Wu'er?

Ning Rongrong suddenly smelled something different and thought to herself: It seems I guessed right, this Huo Wu has already gotten together with Brother Su.

Just how many confidantes does Brother Su have?

Sister Zhu Xin, Zhuqing, me, Sister Yuer, and now this Huo Wu.

"You are Su Ling?" The middle-aged man beside Huo Wu spoke up.

"Yes, Senior." Su Ling responded.

"My name is Huo Lie, Huo Wu's father."

"Brother Su, Dad is also the Vice Dean of our Blazing Academy, and he is also a Rank 72 Spirit Saint."

"Pfft, what's so amazing about a Spirit Saint." Ning Rongrong showed a look of disdain, but she said this in her heart and did not say it out loud in front of everyone.

"Brother Su, since we are both looking for a fifth spirit ring, why don't we go together?" Huo Wu invited.

"Of course, we can look out for each other if we go together." Su Ling said.

This Huo Lie didn't seem so willing, but seeing that his daughter Huo Wu had taken the initiative to invite him, he didn't say anything.

Huo Lie didn't talk much. Along the way, he kept observing Su Ling, and Su Ling was also observing Huo Lie.

For some reason, Su Ling felt that although the other party was a Spirit Saint, looking at his body and aura, he didn't seem very powerful. Upon closer observation, it made Su Ling feel that he was very weak.

Could it be that Huo Lie also had a serious injury?

Huo Wu didn't seem to know about her father's condition either.

In the original work, the Four Element Academies ended up very miserable later on and were calculated by Tang San to be merged into Shrek. The reason was that there was no powerful background to support them.

At that time, in addition to the withdrawal of nobles, it was also possible that some important high-level figures of the Four Element Academies died, such as this Huo Lie in front of him.

"The early stage of the Spirit Master Tournament feels boring, so I'll write a few chapters quickly to get past it!"