Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 442 The Lost National Treasure of Tiandou

"How embarrassing."

Although it was the first time Chen Ping had ever seen the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda used to hover in mid-air and release buffing light, it did not stop him from returning to his old ways.

Just as Gu Li, who was standing next to Chen Ping, was still wondering what kind of embarrassment Chen Ping was talking about, Chen Ping slammed the Star Tumor Stick in his hand to the ground, and the entire stick suddenly grew to more than three meters high.

The beams of beneficial light that were originally directed at Gulipa now shone precisely on Chen Ping, making him feel a warm current flowing through his body.

"You! Get down here!"

Watching helplessly as his own buff was stolen, Gu Li's emaciated chest heaved with anger, and a phantom image appeared behind him once again.

This time, however, the skeletal phantom that Gu Li summoned was no longer a huge dragon head, but a dragon tail with distinct joints, like a steel whip, which seemed capable of splitting mountains and splitting the earth with a gentle flick!

"Shh!"

A fierce whooshing sound rang out. In front of Chen Ping, the bone dragon tail summoned by Gulipa suddenly lashed out and roared towards the star-shaped staff below Chen Ping, as if it intended to knock down Chen Ping's staff with one tail and then send Chen Ping flying like a ball with the second tail.

Unfortunately, there is always a gap between imagination and reality, and that is precisely what makes imagination so fascinating.

The next moment, Chen Ping pushed off with his arms, his whole body flying upwards. Then, he touched the Star Tumor Staff with his toes, spun around in the air, and directly retrieved the Star Tumor Staff into his hand.

Immediately afterward, the purple millennium soul ring beneath Chen Ping's feet lit up, and he shouted, "Beast Staff, Sky-Supporting!"

Immediately, the Star Tumor Stick, which was originally only the size of a rolling pin in Chen Ping's hand, suddenly expanded in size in mid-air, instantly becoming like a cement telephone pole, and ruthlessly smashed down on Gu Lipa below.

If this blow lands squarely, Gu Li Pa might only be called Gu Li Pa Sauce from now on.

However, to Chen Ping's surprise, although he clearly sensed the spying of Elder Chen Ying from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, the other party seemed to have no intention of helping him at all, as if he firmly believed that Gu Li was capable of saving himself.

As Chen Ping had predicted, things unfolded exactly as he had. Under Chen Ping's mental scan, Gu Lipa, who was below him, saw the star-shaped stick, which had instantly changed from the thickness of a clothesline to the thickness of a cement block, crash down from the sky. At first, Gu Lipa panicked, but then his right hand reached for his waist.

At this moment, Gu Li was afraid that what was hanging from his waist was not something else, but the strange soul-guided triangular pyramid that Chen Ping had observed earlier, which was held by Ning Junping and the other two.

"Han Hai, Protective Shield!"

The five words that Gu Lipa uttered with a serious expression were like a bolt from the blue for Chen Ping.

Immediately afterwards, a semi-transparent shield, hundreds of times larger than the previous soul-guided triangular pyramid, was erected on Gulipa's body.

With a loud thud, an extremely muffled vibration resounded. Although the triangular protective shield summoned by Gulipa below Chen Ping was covered with cracks, each side of the shield flowed with ripples like flowing water, transmitting Chen Ping's power into the earth as much as possible, preventing it from being directly shattered by the Heaven-Supporting Strike.

That wasn't the end of it. Just as Chen Ping shrunk the Star Tumor Staff back to its normal size and held it in his hand again, Ning Dashan, who had rushed to Chen Ping and Gu Li, also took off his Soul Guidance Triangular Cone from his waist and aimed it at Chen Ping.

"Vast ocean, raging waves!" With Ning Dashan's angry shout, Chen Ping felt as if all the soul power in Ning Dashan's body had been drained into that soul-guided triangular pyramid in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, a tsunami of soul power, like a monstrous wave, surged upwards from below, sweeping towards him in mid-air as if to blast him away.

Something's not right, it's definitely not right at all!

Chen Ping was deeply shocked, and even began to suspect that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School was actually within the scope of Tang San's grand plan of ten thousand years.

But when he summoned his flying soul tool and flew dozens of meters into the sky, avoiding the wave of soul power tsunami, and then landed, he first knocked out Gu Lipa, who was exhausted after releasing the Vast Ocean Protective Shield, with a blow, and then sent Ning Dashan, who was barely able to stand after releasing the Vast Ocean Raging Waves, into a dream with a punch. Chen Ping felt that things were not as he thought.

After all, it is common knowledge that Tang San himself does not possess the ability of the old Sea God Poseidon to create combat techniques out of thin air.

Therefore, Tang San usually treats everything he learns, whether it's good or bad, like a precious treasure and rarely shares it with others.

They promised to carry on the glory of the Tang Clan, but the core techniques of the Poison and Medicine Manuals were all hidden in the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. As a result, the Tang Clan's hidden weapons became inferior to soul tools, causing them to fall behind instantly and lose all their competitive edge.

As for the "exploding rings," it was spread with extreme caution. During the second season of the Warring States period, only Feng Ling knew a little bit about it, and it wasn't until the third season that it began to be widely circulated.

As a sect that received almost no attention throughout the entire Peerless Tang Sect period, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School was absolutely not worth Tang San paying such a price for, let alone sharing his abilities with the ordinary disciples of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School.

So to say
Just as Chen Ping thoughtfully put away his Star Tumor Cudgel and was about to carry the three people he had knocked unconscious to the pavilions on either side of the martial arts stage, he discovered that someone else had already done so.

The person was not standing in the light, but rather like an outline awakening from the depths of the shadows. He was about forty or fifty years old, with a slender but not bony figure. He was wrapped in an inconspicuous gray robe. With a wave of his hand, he controlled the three people at the same time, lifting them into the air, and then gently placing them on the ground of the pavilion.

"Greetings, young friend Chen. I am Chen Ying, the deputy commander of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School's secret guards. The boy Chen Nian, whom you first knocked to the ground, is my son."

"The reason I didn't stop you from fighting those three from the start was mainly because I was curious about what you, a top student from Shrek Academy, were really capable of besides your research on soul tools. I didn't expect you to really open my eyes."

"One of my soul skills has the effect of disappearing into the shadows. If an attack is launched or the user forcibly escapes before the soul skill ends on its own, it will enter a cooldown period of quite a long time. So when you first came to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School, even though you could sense me, I still didn't come out to see you. I hope you don't mind, hehe."

Upon hearing this, Chen Ping finally understood why, even though Ning Junping hadn't been hiding anything about the existence of Chen Ying from him, Chen Ying hadn't appeared yet. It turned out that the skill's duration hadn't expired yet, and appearing prematurely would cause it to interrupt the cooldown. It just goes to show how wondrous the world's soul skills truly are.

"How could I mind, Uncle Chen? Just don't take it too seriously that I was a bit rough with my hands on the martial arts stage just now."

Chen Ping gave an awkward smile. Beating someone's son unconscious in front of their father was a bit too much.

Seeing that Chen Ying shook his head as if he didn't care much, Chen Ping breathed a sigh of relief and carefully asked about his confusion during the battle.

"Uncle Chen, what exactly is that triangular pyramid that Ning Dashan and Gu Lipa were wearing on their waists? I've never heard of it before."

(End of this chapter)