42 Phoenix Rebirth

Tang San thought for a moment before he replied,

"Each Immortal Herb has the effect of increasing your Spirit Rank by 10 along with the effect of the herb themselves so it would depend on you as to how much you can get from the herbs"

When they heard him say a 10 rank increase they were all stupefied, what did 10 ranks mean it meant a complete level, for peak Spirit Elders like them, they would reach the peak Spirit Ancestor Rank and after cultivating for a while they would be able to reach the Spirit King Rank.

All of them were 13 to 15 years at most and even for a genius, it would take them at least 20 - 30 years before they can reach that Rank. Even their senior Qin Ming, who was regarded by the King as a genius was a Rank 62 Spirit Saint.

Even if they take 3 - 5 years to accomplish that they would still be below 20 years. It didn't take them too long to realize how precious those herbs were and when they remembered how easily Tang San had given it to them they felt very touched.

While they were thinking about that, Grandmaster then asked Tang San,

"Tang San are you sure that there wouldn't be any side effects from those herbs?"

"Teacher I'm sure of it unless you take more than one herb there wouldn't be any side effects to you"

When he heard that from Tang San he calmed down, he then said to the rest of them,

"I want all of you to go into seclusion and try to cultivate as much as you can, if what Tang San said is true then we'll focus on trying to get you all to the Spirit King Rank. We'll all leave to Sunset Forest in one week time, Dean Flender and Vice-Dean Erlong will accompany you to get your Spirit Rings"

Dai Mubai and the rest were still dazed from Tang San's information and when they heard Grandmaster say that they would help them reach the Spirit King Rank they woke up from their dazed state. Just then they saw a huge pillar of fire rising up from the forest, seeing that a part of the forest was on fire Tang San hurried and used his new ability with the Blue Silver Grass and turned it into water while trying to extinguish the fire.

Rongrong who saw that also used her ability to boost Tang San's spirit and Oscar produced his sausages to help Tang San replenish his spirit power after he was done.

When he finally extinguished the fire they all went towards the source of the fire and were all shocked by what they saw. Ma Hongjin who was absorbing the herb had fire all around him but the strange thing was that this fire was purple in colour and it gave off an evil feeling.

Tang San who saw this understood what was going on, his previous attempt to improve Ma Honjin's firepower was now becoming a huge problem to the purification of the fire. Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower was an herb which would help someone with Fire arts or a Fire Spirit to purify their fire and improve it.

Phoenix fire is one of the strongest fires in this world and Ma Hongjin who had the Evil Fire Phoenix Spirit had one of the strongest fire's in this world and with Tang San improving his fire with the herbs he used before it had become too much on the evil side so while purifying it a resistance was occurring from his Spirit.

Grandmaster who also noticed this asked Tang San,

"Will he be alright??"

"The Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower would definitely work on any fire in this realm unless one's cultivation doesn't reach a high level or their flame itself is at a high level then there won't be such a reaction but with this much resistance…. I'm not sure"

"Can nothing be done??"

"I have something which can help him but… it may also kill him if it fails"

While they were discussing Hongjin's case Flender and a couple of other teachers made their way towards the clearing where they were at. Flender who noticed Ma Hongjin's condition asked Grandmaster,

"What happened to Hongjin?? Did his Evil Fire react while cultivating??"

When Grandmaster and Tang San saw Flender they explained the entire situation to him. While also telling him about what they had discussed during this time. When Flender heard that he was visibly tensed and asked Tang San,

"What are your chances of helping him get through this situation??"

"Principal Flender, I have a 60% chance to help him with his current situation but on the off case that it doesn't work then there is even a chance that he would die"

Flender who heard that became even more tensed and was thinking about what decision to make and when he saw Hongjin's face his expression became firm and said to Tang San,

"Tang San, we all knew that Hongjin's spirit was something which would kill him if he didn't take care of himself so I won't blame you if anything happens to him. So whatever you do don't worry about it and make sure you do your best"

Nodding his head he went towards Hongjin and took out the Infernal Delicate Apricot from his storage, this one had its poison completely removed from it so apart from Fire cultivators, it would be no more than a cooking ingredient to others.

He had the Absolute Ice Fire body so the evil fire wouldn't hurt his body, he opened his mouth and put in the Infernal Delicate Apricot. He then used his Ice Jade Empress Phoenix Spirit to cool down Hongjin's body, this helped the herbs slightly and after nearly an entire hour with Rongrong and Oscar's support Tang San was finally able to succeed with purifying Ma Hongjin's flame and Spirit.

When they saw where Hongjin was a big Ice block almost the size of two adult humans was there instead. Tang San then used his spirit to remove the ice formed on his body and when the ice finally cleared they were shocked at what they saw.

Ma Hongjin who now had a lean and thin body along with the long red hair and the handsome face who was wearing tattered clothes on his body now stood there.

"Fatty… Hongjin is that you??"

Oscar who was the first to react asked the question,

Hongjin opened his eyes and saw that everyone was staring at him, he knew that his spirit was about to explode due to the herb and only when Tang San help him did his situation improve, but after that he was in an unconscious state where he was focused only on absorbing the two herbs and cultivating so he didn't know how long he was unconscious for.

"It's me, why did something happen to my face??"

"No well…. Yes"

Tang San who saw the pointless conversation between Oscar and Hongjin intervened and asked Hongjin,

"Hongjin, how do you feel right now, do you sense any changes to your spirit and how much did your rank improve by??"

Hongjin who heard Tang San sat cross-legged and while checking his body he let out gasping sounds every now and then. After a while, he got up and noticed that his tummy was completely gone and that he became completely thin.

"Brother San, Brother San, I finally became thin. Hahaha, Oscar, Brother Dai from now on whenever you go out to pick up girls call me too hahaha"

"Hongjin tell me if there are any changes to your spirit or rank??"

Tang San who became slightly impatient asked in a soft voice which did not sound soft at all.

"Y-Yeh. Oh! Right, Brother San, I can see that my fire now doesn't have any evil properties in it anymore and even my spirit looks different look"

Saying that he activated his spirit and golden-red flames came out of his body and formed fire wings on his back, this looked much like a phoenix compared to his previous chicken mutation.

"Ohhh, nice it looks like your spirit underwent a second awakening and transformed into a real phoenix, but what about your rank??"

"Yeah that's the strange thing Brother San look at this"

Saying that he let out his spirit rings and four rings popped up Two yellow, One purple and One Black. When they saw the black ring every one of them almost fainted, he actually had a Ten Thousand Year Old - Black Ring as his fourth spirit ring!!