Chapter 8: Purple Ring

CHAPTER 8

"How's everything?" San Tong asked, but before Xie answered, Bing Chuan said his progress firsts.

"Brother Tong, I have already grasped the technique Ms. Xiuxiu gave me and now reached level 8. I believe if understand a bit more of it I will reach level 10 before school starts." Bing Chuan bubbly expalined. Xie and San Tong clapped for Bing Chuan's achievement.

"What about you Xie?" San Tong asked. "Before I start please, Bing Chuan do not be jealous or envy me, okay?" Xie said to Bing Chuan while holding his hand. After his pact with the cyclops, Xie understood more things about the world. One of that is, people tend to be jealous or envy those who has more talent than them. In short, many people have inferior complex.

Bing Chuan nodded and said, "I won't be, mother said that no matter what happens, we two should be supportive of each other and make our small town proud." In all honesty, Bing Chuan already accepted the fact that Xie is more talented than him, so he was already prepared to anything miraculous that may happen.

Xie was relived after hearing that. However, he does not plan to tell San Tong everything. "Brother Tong, I have fully understand the Purple eyes technique, and I can now use a mental attack, the effects will be dependent based on the opponents mental strength. After mastering the Purple eyes, I killed and absorb the ring of the cyclops. But a strange thing happened." Xie was on full acting, he also learned this from the cyclops. Xie was only planning to reveal that he mastered the Purple eyes and have a thousand year old as his first ring. He also plan to act fool why he got a purple ring from a 600 year old beast.

"What is that strange thing?" San Tong curiously asked. The Xie released his martial soul. The previous bright white light that appears on his when he was testing his martial soul turned Purple, making San Tong believe that he really mastered the purple eyes. In fact, Purple is only a facade. The real light should be Black but he change it Purple to hide. After that a purple ring appeared that shocked San Tong. Bing Chuan on the other hand is not as he does not understand why San Tong was shocked so he asked him.

"Brother Tong, why are you shocked?" Then Xie, retreated his martial soul. San Tong take the two kids to sit and start explaining it to them. The one that he will tell wil be one of the basics that the Academy will teach them after enrolling, but it seems he now needs to teach them since things gone out of hand.

"First I will explain the variation of soul beast. Like Soul artist, the soul beast have also different categories, these are the attack, defense, and support. The cyclops that Xie absorbed falls under support type, spirit type soul beast. Spirit type soul beasts are very rare, so we are lucky that we are able to buy one without any challenge due to the conditions in the auction." San Tong explained.

"Next is the color of rings. The rings appeared when a soul beast is killed, and the color of the ring depends on their age. White for decade, yellow for century, purple for millennium, black for decade-millennium and red for century-millennium." San Tong added, then he continued to explain.

"The cyclops we bought supposedly give you a yellow ring, but it should be dangerous since according to research a 500 year is already the maximum age that one can absorb. You can only increase the age by absorbing more soul beast after reaching a certain level of strength, so it varies from person to person. Commonly, those who reached Titled level are only able to do so since they already have max rings, but even them are still having hard time to increase the age."

"Last is the Realm of levels, it changes after absorbing a ring. But you can only absorb your next ring after reaching the bottleneck which are levels by 10. The moment you awaken a martial soul and test the innate soul power, you are already a Soul trainee, like you Bing Chuan. Next to that is Soul Artist, it means you already have 1 ring. The next realms are Soul Teacher, Soul Master, Soul Elder, Soul King, Soul Emperor, Soul Saint, Master Artist and Titled Artist, respectively. However, after reaching the Titled Artists realm, reaching another level is 10 times harder than the previous, so the power gap between 91 and 92 is heaven and earth though it is only 1 level." San Tong explained. Then the two kids nodded only after understanding this.

"The other information will be thought to you in school, so it would be better if I do not speak more." San Tong said. Then, he stood up again and asked Xie another question. "So, since you already have a ring, it may be rude of me since it is forbidden to ask other Soul Artists their skills, but I need to know since you are still under us."

"It is no problem Brother Tong." Then Xie unleashed his first soul skill. Suddenly, San Tong's vision became more clear and the time flows slower. This skill shocked him, although he knows this type of skill, this is the first time he experienced it.

"Care to explain to me this skill?" San Tong asked, Xie agreed since it is no major secret.

"This is the skill I got from the cyclops and I call it 'Sharing', this allow me to share what I see to others, and I can also talk to them while this skill is active. Currently, I can only share it to 1 person." Xie explained.

"But, when you share it with me, I can feel that as if time flows slowly and I can clearly perceive things. Why is that so?" San Tong asked again.

"Brother Tong, have you forgotten the innate abilities when awakening a martial soul? My innate abilities are Telescopic view where I can see at most 100 meters, Slow Time where I can see the things 2 times slower." Xie explained. "Actually, 'Sharing' only allows me to share my thoughts and communicate, but after testing it to my eyes, it allows me also to share what I can see. But I consumes much mental strength, If I activate it, it can lasts for 10 minutes before draining my mental strength. If I want it to lasts longer and share it with more people, I need to train my mental strength more." Xie said.

San Tong now understand the situation. Though the skill is very good, it also has its detriments but the 10 minutes is already enough to change the battle tide if used efficiently.

"Would it be fine to report this to my Team manager?" San Tong asked the kids. He wants to gain the full trusts of the kids so that they won't be strange to him, because he still feel that they are quite wary of him.

The two nodded as an answer, and they now eat their lunch.