6 Chapter 5 : 3 Years Later and Spirit Souls
I'm sitting in the living room manipulating my 9-colour Blue Silver Grass into different shapes, such as intertwining them to make a rope and other useful shapes
Tang Ling: I wonder why Tang San and Tang Wulin never used their Blue Silver Grass creatively before they got their first ring.
Then Na'er comes in and looks at me playing with my Martial Spirit
Na'er: Big brother Ling, what is this?
Na'er asks seeing me playing with my blue silver grass
Tang Ling: This Nana is one of my 3 martial spirits, the 9-colour Blue Silver Grass
Na'er: One of your 3?
Tang Ling: Hum, but you must never tell others about what you're going to see, promise me.
Na'er: Na'er promise
I conjured up my Ancient Dragon behind me and my Keyblade in hand in front of Na'er but when she saw my dragon she was shocked for a moment.
Tang Ling (Thought): Her Silver Dragon King bloodline must have reacted to my Ancient Dragon bloodline, even if it's at a low level.
At that very moment my Ancient Dragon, as if he had a conscience, approaches Na'er before rubbing against her with his muzzle gently as if to calm her down, which seems to work, then starts to speak to her in a draconic language that I understand for some reason.
Ancient Dragon: Don't worry little one I'm not going to hurt you since you are a kin of my young master, you're also a kin of mine too.
I look with surprise at my Martial Spirit
Tang Ling (thought): Did he just speak? I read in some fanfiction that some Martial Spirits are conscious or semi-conscious but seeing it with my own eyes, it's something.
Na'er looks toward me with a face with many questions which makes me start massaging my temples seeing a big headache coming
Tang Ling (thinking): You know what, I'm too young for this crap
Thinking about this my dragon looks at me contentedly before dissipating.
Then without knowing why, the thought of a fanfiction telling the story of a reincarnator named Tachi having a Spirit Eyes Martial Spirit which is the Sharingan, using naruto power in Douluou world during Tang San era came to my mind.
Tang Ling (thought): No, it'll never work here.
And I continue to play with my grass making several structures while Na'er looks at me. Without knowing that some year later he would succeed at doing the same thing as Tachi.
// Three years later //
And so three years have passed and the novice class of spirit masters at the Red Mountain Academy is about to graduate.
Wulin and I have been at the peak of rank 10 for over a year now but decided to restrict our cultivation to rank 9 until we could purify all our spirit power and consolidate our foundation.
During these 3 years, I received a lot of good things from the monthly gacha. But the funniest thing is that I got a cultivation manual completely tailored for Wulin called The Azure Dragon Symphony
This manual is below mine since it only has 12 levels that represent the Mortal Realm but it still contains a cultivation technique, a Soul Core Condensation technique, a spiritual cultivation technique and a spear technique.
This in itself will allow him to become almost invincible if there are no problems in the future.
After using the Azure Dragon Symphony, Wulin was subject to greater regeneration (stamina, spirit power), a stronger body, a greater affinity with nature (heaven and earth), and can even passively cultivate.
Also, the aura of the Golden Dragon King has become more present in Wulin during these last 3 years. I speculate that he must have already released 1 of the seals that our real father put in him to protect him from the golden dragon king, the time for him to master its powers.
I think giving him some immortal pills to strengthen his body and spiritual consciousness must have been a substitute for the ingredients he should have to collect to unseal the first seal. Coupled with the cultivation manual must have helped to tame the dragon power in his body.
He didn't come to me to ask for help about the seal or the golden dragon king and I didn't confront him about it. I think it's time I let Wulin fly by himself now.
If my memory is good now he can use the Right Arm of the Golden Dragon King and the earlier the seals are removed the more time he has to unseal the next one, now Wulin can be at the same level as his peer.
As for me, I use my accumulated exp points and unlock my Ancient Dragon bloodline to 15%, allowing me to unlock the first power of my bloodline.
But compared to Wulin, the power that I awakened mutated my eyes, they didn't mutate into special eyes like Tang Sect the Purple Demon Eyes but into Spirit Eyes Martial Spirit called Divine Dragon Eyes or Ryutengan.
To be more precise they are more like Quasi Spirit Eyes Martial Spirit.
Quasi Martial Spirits are spirits that can have spirit rings attached to them and even soul spirits but the power and purity of the bloodline determine how far the spirit can evolve.
In other words, I have to unlock more of my bloodline to allow my eyes to evolve.
The initial abilities of these eyes are Time Perception enhanced by 4, telescopic vision x10, detailed vision and photographic memory similar to Huo Yuaoh Spirit Eyes but more powerful.
I welcome this addition but it also makes me have to work harder to develop them to their full potential
Now I have 4 Martial Spirits: one animal type, one plant type, one body type, one weapon type.
Well, the Spirit Master of the awakening ceremony wasn't wrong about me awakening Spirit Eyes.
These eyes were a great help to me, especially after I received an Array Formation and Inscription technique, with these eyes ability I was able to create high-quality inscriptions like Gravity Formation to train our bodies as well as a Soul Power Gathering formation for cultivation and many other convenient products.
They also helped me to advance a lot in Alchemy, becoming a Tier 3 alchemist allowing me to make more advanced pills. I have of course received new batches of herbs via the gacha to train myself.
Thanks to my immortal flame the Life Spirit Flame, instead of being destructive like other immortal flames, is famous for its life-giving power. The steam produced by this flame helps to accelerate the growth of magical herbs, and it is said that if one throws seeds into this flame, these seeds will germinate and grow quickly. In other words, thanks to this flame, it is no longer necessary to search for herbs and it is possible to obtain unlimited quantities of ingredients with simple seeds, so I do not lack any ingredients.
As far as blacksmithing is concerned, I made a lot of progress during the 3 first months of training. I've to first finish Mang Tian training program, which was hellish even for me, every day I have to smash the machine plate 9999 times with hammers becoming heavier day by day.
I'm very lucky that I have good regenerative power and my alchemy to heal me.
It's at that moment we became official blacksmiths and were able to start to work like the others, but we could only work on pieces given to us by Mang Tian.
At first, we begin with simple small pieces then it becomes a big and more complex part. We have to finish all of that during our two hours at the workshop, so we have to work under constraints.
Sometimes we even have to make a big quantity of pieces, when I unlock my Spirit Eyes, I can process pieces more quickly and with cheer, determination could finish my work with some margin which earns me more money.
Wulin And I quickly got the hang of it and at the end of the first years, we mastered the Hundred Refinements making us rank 2 blacksmiths. Mang Tian couldn't stop himself from calling us monsters.
The Hundred Refinements is a forging method that purifies and eliminates impurities from the metal, the metals made with the Hundred Refinements are evaluated in three grades, Low Grade, Medium Grade, High Grade
I use some of my free time to train myself with my own metal I got from the gacha to perfect my technique until I only manufactured high-grade pieces at 100%.
Now I am at the level of a rank 3 having already performed the Mille Raffinement for 1 year already after Mang Tian saw that my hammer blows in each arm exceeded the 700 pounds of strength under gravity seals and more than 1000 without them.
Mang Tian decided that day to teach me the Thousand Refinements, without knowing why that day I felt confident that I could do it. Wulin was also present to witness my first Thousand Refinement and to learn from it.
// Flashback //
Mang Tian: Okay Ling Ling remind me what the Thousand Refinement is.
Tang Ling: The Thousand Refinements consist of removing impurities from the metal by continuous forging, which increases its density. The most important effect of the Thousand Refinements is the refining. One can only speak of a Thousand Refineries if the metal is refined and improved.
Mang Tian: Indeed, the Thousand Refinements is also known as the refinement of the half-spirit. Indeed, smiths are able to breathe life and spirit into the metal, which they can then shape to their will, thus improving the quality of the final product. And that's the purpose of your test today.
Right now I am standing in front of my forging table in my forging room and front of me is a big chunk of Heavy Silver.
Heavy silver is an unusual silvery-white metal that is only found on the seabed at depths of over a kilometre. It is extraordinarily hard and has amazing ductility at high temperatures, and is also an excellent conductor of soul power.
Mang Tian: Your goal is to make a thousand refinements of this Heavy Silver, are you ready?
Tang Ling: Are you sure it's wise for me to use Heavy Silver for my first Thousand Refinements? I mean Heavy Silver is rare and expensive too.
Mang Tian: I would agree with you on this point if you and your brother were not forces of nature with your unimaginable strength at your age.
Wulin and I scratch our heads at the same time a little embarrassed by the remark.
Mang Tian: And you don't have to worry, the Heavy Silver can only show its potential by undergoing the Thousand Refinements it is like a rite of passage in the blacksmith world and you should know that our city is one of the hotspots where the heavy silver transits to the rest of the continent so it doesn't cost us much.
Tang Ling: Oh, I see.
I take a deep breath and then grab my two high grade one hundred refined tungsten vibranium hammers, these hammers are shiny black with a dragon engraving and my initials on them, made entirely by me.
Yeah, you're heard right, these hammers are made of vibranium, one of the powerful elements from the marvel universe.
I made them especially for my personal use using a few kg of the 2 tonnes of vibranium I receive from the gacha that I mix with Tungsten then hundred refine it.
Its effect of absorbing vibration helps me to cut by half my production time, I only use it when I'm doing serious work
I press a button on my table which opens the furnace door and places the Silver in it and let it heat up after the metal is well heated and has a bright red colour, I place it on my forging table, close my eyes and give it a light tap with one of my hammers.
Tang Ling (thought): Hard
Just by the sound, I can determine the disposition and the state of the vein lines of the metal.
After assimilating all this information, I take a deep breath, take my position, and then start hammering the heavy silver with force.
Tang Ling: Haaaaah
*PING**PING*
Each hammering is optimized to reduce as many impurities as possible in the metal but what I am trying to do is to communicate with the metal as Mang Tian says.
For about 1 hour I continue to hammer but I get no reaction from the metal, it refuses any form of communication with me. This irritates me a bit.
Without realizing it my soul power starts to circulate inside me and cover my body and my hammers, my Spirit Eyes also activate, becoming a dragon slit with a multicoloured glow.
Tang Ling: HAAAAAAAAAAAA
*ROAR*
*PONG*
I swing my hammer so powerfully as if we were one, the image of a dragon descending from the heavens seems to appear over my movement.
It is at this moment that I felt something, a sensation, a vibration that guides me on the step to follow on how to refine it. I continued to hammer the heavy silver with as much force as before, following the hint that the heavy silver was giving me. It was as if I was in a kind of trance and nothing around me mattered anymore.
At the last blow of the hammer, a multicoloured halo illuminates the room, as for me I am about to collapse on the ground, so tired I was to suddenly feel something grab my arm and feel pain at its level.
I turned my head to see that Mang Tian was causing this with a glint in his eyes and a smile. He was holding my arm with a cut on the hilt and blood started to flow down my Heavy Silver that had just Thousand Refined.
When the blood came into contact with the metal another flash of light illuminated the forge room and the metal began to cool down.
As for me, I immediately fainted without the slightest concern.
The next day when I woke up my mother didn't stop hugging me and crying thinking I was going to die, Na'er stayed by my side all day taking care of me.
It was the next day and after many complaints from my mother that I was able to return to the workshop, when uncle Mang Tian showed me my refined heavy silver I was amazed to see that it shone with a light multicoloured glow.
It was not the end of my surprise when he told me that my metal is a Thousand Refinement metal of grade 3.
Like the Hundred Refinement, the Thousand Refinement also has a grade ranging from 5 to Saint.
Learning that my first Thousand Refinement is Grade 3 shows that my ability as a Rank 3 blacksmith has greatly increased but Mang Tian tells me to not let this success get into my head and asks me to remember the sensation I felt during the process and make it mine.
Mang Tian also explained to me that when I managed to accomplish my Thousand Refinement he used my blood to make a Blood Sacrifice with the Heavy Silver.
A Blood Sacrifice allows the metal to join with your blood vessels, creating a kind of fantastic bond between the blood and the metal. It then becomes a part of your body. By combining the Blood Sacrifice with a metal that has undergone the Thousand Refinements, your blood vessels are similarly enhanced and can bring out stronger innate qualities!
Once a blacksmith has used the Blood Sacrifice, that piece of metal can only be used by that person. Even if other people tried to forge with it, it would not be possible because the metal would not recognise anyone else. Even if they tried, the metal would break, it only recognises its master.
In other words, this metal is mine, so I decided to keep this metal so that I could forge it into an alloy with other metals in the future.
Some month later Wulin also underwent his Thousand Refinement test and forged himself a pair of thousand refine Tungsten Hammers with Stacking effect
// End of the flashback //
As for Na'er she has changed a lot since she has been living with us she expresses herself more than before and seems happier, as in the canon at her 6 years old she did not awaken any Martial Spirit and have to go to normal school.
It has become a routine for me to pick her up from school and bring her home before going to the workshop.
Sometimes when I am unavailable Wulin brings her home, Wulin and Na'er get on well together, play together when they have time but Na'er seems to be more attached to me than Wulin although we treat her the same.
I don't know if it's because I left a very strong impression when I rescued her or if it's because she sees me as the reincarnation of the dragon god.
It doesn't change the fact that she is my precious family. Although Na'er is not martial-minded, I taught her the Amagiri school spear style so that she could protect herself.
// Tang Family Garden //
Wulin and I are meditating while circulating our respective cultivation techniques when I feel my soul power reaching a ceiling.
All of a sudden I feel several elemental energies moving towards Na'er's room.
Tang Ling (Thought): It's already time
Then I open my eyes and Wulin too we look at each other and nod at the same time.
Ling Yue: Wulin, Ling where are you?
Wulin: Here mother.
Ling Yue: This is where you were, I was looking for you everywhere, I was worried.
Tang Ling: Sorry Mum, we were meditating and lost track of time.
Lang Yue: Come on, go home.
Twin: Aye
Arriving at the house Wulin runs to our excited father
Wulin: Dad, we've breakthrough rank 10
Tang Ziran: Really? That's great! You two really did it! As I expected from my sons, Dad knew you could do it!
Dad said with tears in his eyes as he took Wulin in his arms.
Hearing him say this, I snore silently in front of him.
Everyone is rejoicing at the news except for one, Na'er, since we entered the house, I can see her mood turning darker than her cheerful face.
All I did was to go to her and pat her head to get her out of her thoughts.
Tang Ling: Do you want to go for a walk with your big brother, Nana?
She has a look of hesitation and then she nods to me, after telling my parents we go to the beach near our house.
We walk alongside the beach hand in hand.
Tang Ling: What's going on Nana, you all dark like this?
Na'er: ... Tell me, big brother... if one-day Na'er left... would you miss her?
Tang Ling: So let me ask you if you were to leave one day, would you miss me?
Na'er: Um Na'er will miss big brother Ling a lot.
Tang Ling: Then your big brother will miss you too.
Then I hug her and stroke her head.
Tang Ling: Do you have to go?
Na'er: Um, Na'er has to leave, for the sake of everyone.
Tang Ling: Even though I don't want this to happen, I know it's necessary but you have to remember this, whatever happens in the future, I will love you and if you need my help, I will come running. That is my commitment to you.
Na'er: Thank you.
Na'er and I stay like this until the sun disappears over the horizon.
// The next day //
The next day, my father, Wulin and I go to the spirit pagoda to get our spirit soul which will give us our first spirit ring, making us officially spirit masters.
After talking to the receptionist she contacts a Spirit Master to accompany us to get our Soul Spirits.
The person who showed up turned out to be the same Spirit Master from the awakening ceremony.
Spirit Master: Huh? Isn't that Wulin and Ling? We meet again! It must be fate! Coincidentally, I'm replacing someone today...
Tang Ling: He is the spiritual master of the awakening ceremony who tests our martial spirits.
Tang Wulin: I am glad to see you again, sir...
Tang Ziran: Tang Tang, Ling'er you know this teacher?
Wulin/Ling: Yes!
After everyone introduces themselves, the Spirit Master named Quian explains the procedure for acquiring spirit souls.
Quian: There are 3 options you can choose to acquire a Spirit Soul
//
- Option A: A ten-year white spirit
- Option B: A hundred-year yellow spirit
- Option C: A random spirit
//
The ten-year white spirit has seventy-three options, the price is seventy thousand! The hundred-year yellow spirits have eleven options, the price is one million!
Tang Wulin: What about the random spirit option?
Quian: For the random spirit, there is a chance to draw a ten-year spirit or a hundred-year spirit as well, the price is thirty thousand! Of course, there is also the possibility of drawing a dysfunctional spirit... and there is no guarantee whether it is appropriate or not...
Tang Ling (thinking): I see, for my Ancient Dragon, I already have a Spirit for it, I can use my Spirit of Unlimited Growth for my Keyblade, but for my Blue Silver Grass, and my Spiritual Eyes, how am I going to do that?
Then an idea comes to my mind: I'll try my luck with the gacha.
Tang (thought): I haven't done my draw this month. "Gacha On"
[SSPS Gacha On]
[ DRRRRRRRRR ]
[ Ding ]
[ You have received an "Intermediate Hypnotism Talisman" ].
[ Miracle Drawing Chance]
[You have received an 'Orb of Luck']
Tang Ling: Hmm, Nice!
I received a talisman of intermediate hypnotism that allows me to hypnotize anyone below the Spirit Ancestor level by mental link without leaving a trace. As for the 'Luck Orb', it increases my luck by 100% for 10 minutes.
Tang Ling: I would like to try the random option.
Everyone looks at me startled
Tang Wulin: Big brother Ling?
Tang Ziran: Ling'er?
Quian: Young Ling I think you should choose the other options.
Tang Ling: Oh don't worry I would just like to test my luck and if the spirit I get doesn't suit me I will take another one, of course, I will pay for them.
Quian: Although it is not the Spirit Pagoda's custom I will make an exception for you but you have to pay upfront.
Tang Ling: Okay I'll pay for a Random Spirit Option and a Hundred Year Yellow Spirit Option for me
I ask her as I take out an orange card with a gold outline to pay. After all the procedures are done. Wulin decides to take the Random Spirit Option as well.
Quian took us both to a room to have our Spiritual Power tested. Of course, he did it for free mainly because I paid in advance.
He gave Wulin an explanation of the purpose of Spiritual Power and its different levels.
He put us one after the other in a machine that measured our Spiritual Power, Wulin got a result of 60 while I got a result of 120 which surprised Quian and a little Wulin.
Quian: 120, Spirit Connection realm, how?
It is at this moment that I discreetly tear the talisman of hypnotism in my pocket while looking at Quian and the effect acts immediately
Tang Ling (Mental Link): Okay, Mr Quian you will remember that my real result is 70 and you should change my result in my file by justifying a machine malfunction and whatever the result of my random draw is you will conclude that it is a defective Spirit when I snap my fingers.
After snapping my fingers, for a slight moment Quian runs and changes the info on my file then brings Wulin and me in front of a kind of drawing machine with a lot of balls inside.
Wulin does his draw and falls on a hundred year Grass Snake Elder which surprised me that he fell on a Grass Snake and it's a hundred years one.
Then it's my turn to draw my Random Spirit. I use my Luck Orb to increase my chances, after the ball drops and is activated, a purple light comes out of the orb leaving a small white dragon with patterns on its wings.
Tang Ling (thought): Is this a Thousand-year spirit? How?
While I think about this phenomenon as implanted in his memory, Quian has a disappointed expression when he sees my draw.
Quian: Too bad this dragon is a defective Spirit.
Tang Ling: It's okay, at least I take my chances and I can keep it even if I know it's for 24 hours.
I say trying to replicate a face that tries to hide its discomfort.
Quian: Sure, let's go down the list of hundred-year spirits you can get that is compatible with your earth dragon.
Then he took me to another machine with a screen and shows me a list of spirits, while I'm browsing through this list a Spirit name catches my eye.
Tang Ling (thought): Ice Scorpion? Hmm, that would be a good addition to my Blue Silver Grass
Then I tell Qiuan my choice to take the Ice Scorpion Spirit
Quian: Um you sure you want this Ice Scorpion, I don't think it fits with your dragon.
Tang Ling: It would be normal to think that I should be an Attack System since I have a Dragon Martial Spirit, but my Martial Spirit is more of an Attack Agility System so the Ice Scorpion is a good choice for me.
Quian: I see it's your choice.
After getting my Soul Spirit we went directly home so we could absorb our spirits.
// Tang Ling Status //
Name: Tang Ling
Age: 6 > 9
Species: Half-Blood Dragon (Human 1/4, Blue Silver Emperor Spirit 1/4, Ancient Dragon True Essence 1/2).
Bloodlines: Sea God Bloodline (Blue Silver Emperor), Asura God Bloodline, Ancient Dragon (5%) > (15%)(+)
Innate Ability: Child of the Sea God, 9 Elements Affinity.
Physique: Ancient Dragon Physique, Nine Elements Physique, Life Affinity Physique
Cultivation method:
Ancient Chaos Dragon Spirit Method Lvl 1 (0%) > Lvl 4 (50%)
Ancient Spirit Alchimie Technique Lvl 3 (25%) > Lvl 5 (85%)
Ancient Inscription and Array Formation Technique Lvl 4 (99%)
Soul Power (Spirit Rank): 5 > 10 (+) (Spirit Scholar)
Spiritual Power: 90 (Spirit Origin Realm) > 120 (Spirit Connection realm)
Martial Soul (Spirit): Ancient Dragon, 9 Colours Blue Silver Grass , Keyblade, Divine Dragon Eyes (Quasi Spirit)
Spirit Soul: None
Spirit Ring: None
Spirit Skill: None
EXP Point: 999 985 > 3 100 000 - (1 000 000 (10% bloodline)) = 2 100 000
SSPS Evolution Barem :
Bloodline : 100 exp = 0.1%
Spirit Power : 100 000 exp = 1 rank
Spirit Ring : 100 exp = 1 year
Soul Spirit : 100 exp = 1 year
Balance: 15 000 000 Federal Coin
Skill:
- Amagiri Shinmeiryu :
- Sword Style Beginning Level
- Beginning Hand to Hand Style
- Beginning Spear Style
- Shiki
Alchimie
Inscription and Array Formation
Heavenly Flames: Life Spirit Flame
Housekeeping
Cooking
Pills and Elixir :
Tier 1 :
- Spirit Power Gathering Pill (x2)
- Spiritual Reinforcement Pill (x5)
- Body Refinement Liquide (x0)
- Foundation Building Pill (x0)
- Ultra Nutritional Pills (x10)
Tier 2 :
- Ultra Nutritional Pills II (x50)
- Spirit Power Gathering Pill II (x20)
- Spiritual Reinforcement Pill II (x25)
- Medical potion (x10)
Tier 3 :
None
Items (Storage Spirit Guidance Device) :
Spirit Painting Technique
Training Weapon Arsenal
Heavenly Medicinal Cauldrons: Ten Thousand Beast Cauldron
10 batches of Begging Spirit Ingredients (Immortal Herbs)
50 batches of Intermediate Spirit Ingredients (Immortal Herbs)
10 Kg Training Weight Armor
Various Metal (x100)
1,9 Tonnes of Vibranium Elements
Various Hundred Refined Metal (x100)
Various Thousand Refined Metal (x10)
Hundred Refined Tungsten Vibranium Hammer (x2)
Thousand Refined 9 Colours Heavy Silver
Inscription and Formation :
Gravity Seal (x5)
Spirit Power Gathering Formation flag (x5)
Talisman Parchemin (x50)
Formation Flag (x20)
Spirit Ink (x100)
Spirit Brush
Soul Spirits :
- Unlimited Growth Spirit Soul
- (Young)Ancient Dragon
- White Dragon
- Ice Scorpion
