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Early the next morning, Chen Feng performed his daily morning exercises and then went to the cafeteria to have breakfast.

    After Chen Feng had eaten enough, he wanted to go to the Forge to craft the *Peacock Plume* as soon as possible. When passing by the playground, he saw Tang San and others training, so he stopped to take a look.

    The first stage of Grandmaster's Devil training is divided into two, the first is combat training and the other is weight training. The combat training consists of seven people fighting in groups, sometimes 1 vs 1, sometimes 1 vs 2, Duo battles (2 vs 2), they would even do 3 vs 3 and 4 vs 4 battles.

    In each battle, Grandmaster would include conditions they had to follow, such as restricting the use of a certain Spirit Ability.

    Today's battle includes Tang San, Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong fighting Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing. Tang San is restricted from using his 3rd Spirit Ability and his Eight Spider Lances.

    After obtaining his third Spirit Ring, Tang San's strength improved a lot, because a Control System Spirit Master can restrain Power Attack System Spirit Masters, insinuating that in a 1 vs 1, Dai Mubai would not be Tang San's opponent.

    Although everyone played well in the match, Chen Feng shook his head in disappointment.

    "Stop," the Grandmaster ordered.

    Everyone had been training with the Grandmaster for almost three months. Hearing a command, they all immediately obeyed.

    "Xiao Feng, come here." Grandmaster shouted at Chen Feng.

    "Grandmaster." Chen Feng walked over.

    "You shook your head just now, did you see their shortcomings?" Grandmaster asked, when Chen Feng was passing by, he noticed him, Chen Feng shaking his head was naturally also seen by him.

    "They all have good combat experience, their grasp of opportunities and use of their Spirit Abilities is very accurate, their teamwork and cooperation is also good, the only thing lacking is strategies and tactics." Chen Feng said bluntly.

    "Tactics?" Grandmaster asked in confusion.

    "It may be difficult to understand, why don't we have a match, you'll understand it easier that way." Chen Feng smiled.

    "Brother Feng, you don't need to use any tactics at all, you don't even need to your Martial Spirit nor your Spirit Power and you can easily defeat the seven of us with your Physical Fitness and body strength." Tang San commented.

    "It's not me that will fight you but yourselves. We just need to change the tactics one side uses to show you what I mean." Chen Feng said.

    There are still many good things he hadn't exploded from the Shrek Seven Devils, such as Tang San's unique knowledge of the Tang Sect and Ning Rongrong's Heart Separation Control.

    It's just that he is now friends with all of them so he can't abuse *cough* *cough* I mean hit them directly. There is a massive gap between their strength as well so he can't use sparring as an excuse, he can only find suitable excuses later.

    "Which side will you be on?" Grandmaster asked.

    "Tang San's team." Chen Feng said with a smile. Tang San is restricted from using his third Spirit Ability and his Eight Spider Lances, Tang San was obviously weakened so the victory would be more convincing when he uses tactics.

        "Well, I want to see how you will make a disadvantaged team win against a strong team." Grandmaster said.

    "Little San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, follow me." Chen Feng instructed.

    Chen Feng took the three of them to the side and began to tell them the tactics they'd follow. After a quarter of an hour, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong returned full of confidence.

    "It's time to begin." Chen Feng smiled.

    Tang San and the others walked onto the Spirit Fighting Platform in the middle of the playground, it is called a Spirit Fighting Platform, but it is merely a white circle drawn on the ground. As long as the opponent falls outside the circle, they are out.

    The formation of the two groups were different, Dai Mubai's group had Dai Mubai at the front, Zhu Zhuqing and Ma Hongjun were 3 steps behind him and were on his left and right ready to support at a moments notice. Oscar was behind all of them.

(T/N: Basically a Diamond formation)

    Tang San's group, three of them were standing in a row, Xiao Wu was at the front, Tang San was behind her with Ning Rongrong behind him. The gap between Xiao Wu and Tang San was relatively large whilst Ning Rongrong and Tang San were standing closer to each other in comparison.

    "Begin."

    After Grandmaster's announcement starting the battle, both sides moved at the same time.

    Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Zhu Zhuqing attacked together. Dai Mubai charged from the centre, Ma Hongjun raided from the left and Zhu Zhuqing from the right.

    "*First Day Of The Seven Treasures, Power*."

    "*Second Day of The Seven Treasures, Agility*."

    Colourful rays of light bloomed from Ning Rongrong's body, her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Spirit appeared above her right palm, her left palm pointed out lightly, four rays left her palm and submerged into Tang San and Xiao Wu's body respectively.

    "Boss Dai, how about we compare our strength." After Xiao Wu's strength and speed increased, she directly greeted Dai Mubai on her own initiative.

    "First Spirit Ability, *Bind*!"

    The first Spirit Ring on Tang San's body lit up, his Blue Silver Grass stretched along the ground towards Ma Hongjun, and immediately trapped Ma Hongjun.

    "Second Spirit Ability, *Bathing Fire Phoenix*." Ma Hongjun's second Spirit Ring lit up, blowing a crimson flame, the Blue Silver Grass trapping him quickly burned and fell apart.

    "Fire naturally restrains Plant Martial Spirits. Even if Tang San's Spirit Power Rank is higher than Ma Hongjun's, it will be impossible for him to bind and control him." Grandmaster concluded.

    "First Spirit Ability, *Hell Rush Stab*." The first Spirit Ring on Zhu Zhuqing's body lit up, her claws suddenly elongated and her speed increased suddenly as she sprang towards Tang San.

    The corners of Tang San's mouth raised slightly; he knew his trap had succeeded. He had trapped Ma Hongjun temporarily to prevent him and Zhu Zhuqing from attacking him at the same time.

    "*Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon*." When Zhu Zhuqing rushed at Tang San, Tang San used this unique skill to push and send Zhu Zhuqing to the side.

    "*Second Day of The Seven Treasures, Agility*." Ning Rongrong used her second Spirit Ability again, but this time she didn't use it on Tang San and Xiao Wu, but on Zhu Zhuqing.

    Zhu Zhuqing's speed was originally very fast because she had activated her *Hell Rush Stab*, she who was originally pushed and sent to the side of the Spirit Fighting Platform would have come to a halt at the edge of the Platform, but due to the additional boost Ning Rongrong gave her, she fell outside the Spirit Fighting Platform.

    "What!" Grandmaster eyes widened as he exclaimed.

    They had increased their opponent's attributes, this way of 'helping the enemy' is something normal Auxiliary System Spirit Master will not even think about.

    Zhu Zhuqing herself was stunned. As an Agility Attack System Spirit Master, even if her speed was twice as fast, she would not find it difficult to stop at the edge of the Platform, but Ning Rongrong increased her speed which she wasn't able to react to in time. By the time she reacted she had landed outside the Spirit Fighting Platform.

    Ning Rongrong blinked at Zhu Zhuqing triumphantly. She was shocked when she heard Chen Feng say this before. After thinking about it carefully, she felt that this was feasible since her opponent would never expect her to do it.

    "First Spirit Ability, *Phoenix Firewire*." The battle continued, the first Spirit Ring on Ma Hongjun's body lit up, he opened his mouth wide as he spews out burning hot flame in Tang San's direction.

    Tang San used *Ghost Perplexing Track* to easily avoid the attack, at the same time he shouted: "Xiao Wu!"