《Doulou Dalu: Reborn As Tang San》 Chapter -1 - Current stats Wulin: Name: Tang san Age: 8 Spirit Rank: 30 Spirit: Blue silver grass and clear sky hammer Grass Spirit Abilities: ================= 1st Ring-Gold : [Constrict: Traps the target disabling their movements. Age of Spirit Ability adds different properties to the spirit] Yellow: Traps the target disabling their movements. Purple: Increases vine durability to that of wood and power of the grip. Secretes corrosive poison Black: Increases all previous effect and adds lumps on the surface of the vine where it would sprout more vines. Red: Increases all previous effect and adds high-speed regeneration on the vines Gold: Increases all previous effect and adds skill [Camouflage] Allows the user to appear as something or someone else in both form and aura. The user can even appear perfectly fine despite being greatly exhausted. Can be used to change the colour of one''s Soul Rings and create entirely fake ones. Allows him to ?ssimilate into the environment like a chameleon, but if the user so much as twitches his fingers then they would be revealed. ============= 2nd Ring-Black: Exploding Leech fruits Description: A Spirit Ability that produces fruits which explode upon impact. The seeds that are flung from the explosion can then be used to propagate blue silver grass. Purple: Increase its range (2m) and can change the fruits into smoke bombs. Black: The seeds can drain spirit energy when they are attached to a target. The user can also choose to have them explode upon impact, creating a cluster bomb effect. Red: The seed can now draw in surrounding spirit energy and use it to grow rapidly. Once fully grown they can bear more exploding fruits, freeing the user''s cost for creating one with spirit energy. Also once the trees are fully grown, they can supply the user with spirit energy by absorbing the surrounding energy in the air. Gold: The trees now semi-conscious and can be ordered to either throw exploding fruits at the selected targets or throw the fruits at a safe area to propagate more trees to give the user more spirit energy. =========== Spirit Bone: Martial Arts: Inner energy control, I''ve been trying to enhance a single body part instead of the whole limb that''s connected to it. This technique is to be able to use spirit energy efficiently and being able to attack or defend using a short but powerful burst instead of sustaining it for the period of the battle. Outer energy control, I''ve been trying to float a pebble as far away as I could and could currently reach 2m. This technique is to be able to use it to telepathically attack my enemies using my spirit energy. Domain: Special Abilities: Violet Jade Immortal Realm - Level 2, Spirit Ring Integration, Sharingan 3 tomoe Chapter -2 - Tang Sans Abilities Name: Tang san Age: 0 Years old Spirit Rank: 10 Full Innate Spirit: Not Awakened Spirit Abilities: No Abilities Yet ---------------------------- Special Abilities: Violet Jade Immortal Realm ¨C Level 1 (restricted) Spirit Ring Integration Sharingan Ability -------------------------- Violet Jade Immortal Realm: Time inside the realm is different compared to time outside the realm, and the Spirit Energy is more abundant in the atmosphere. Includes a portal to the Spirit Ascension Realm. The Violet Jade Immortal Realm upgrades with each new Spirit Ring. The Violet Jade Immortal Realm can only be used for 8 real world hours per day, resets at 12 pm (pm is correct because he sleeps at night and it would be weird if he gets kicked out at random times). Able to store and retrieve inanimate objects to and from the Violet Jade Immortal Realm at any time. Size of realm increases with each Spirit Ring. 1st Level: Time flows at a rate of 2:1. Spirit Energy is 2 times as abundant as the outside atmosphere. Cannot enter Spirit Ascension Realm before Spirit is awakened. Size: 1km x 1km 2nd Level: [Unlocks with the second Spirit Ring] Time flows at a rate of 3:1. Spirit Energy is 3 times as abundant as the outside atmosphere. Can use Spirit Ascension Realm: 2nd Level. Size: 2.5km x 2.5km 3rd Level: [Unlocks with the third Spirit Ring] Time flows at a rate of 4:1. Spirit Energy is 4 times as abundant as the outside atmosphere. Can use Spirit Ascension Realm: 3rd Level. Size: 5km x 5km 4th Level: [Unlocks with the fourth Spirit Ring] Time flows at a rate of 5:1. Spirit Energy is 5 times as abundant as the outside atmosphere. Can use Spirit Ascension Realm: 4th Level. Size: 10km x 10km 6th Level: [Unlocks with the sixth Spirit Ring] Time flows at a rate of 7:1. Spirit Energy is 7 times as abundant as the outside atmosphere. Can use Spirit Ascension Realm: 6th Level. Size: 50km x 50km 7th Level: [Unlocks with the seventh Spirit Ring] Time flows at a rate of 8:1. Spirit Energy is 8 times as abundant as the outside atmosphere. Can use Spirit Ascension Realm: 7th Level. Size: 100km x 100km 8th Level: [Unlocks with the eighth Spirit Ring] Time flows at a rate of 9:1. Spirit Energy is 9 times as abundant as the outside atmosphere. Can use Spirit Ascension Realm: 8th Level. Size: 500km x 500km 9th Level: [Unlocks with the ninth Spirit Ring] Time flows at a rate of 10:1. Spirit Energy is 10 times as abundant as the outside atmosphere. Can use Spirit Ascension Realm: 9th Level. Size: 1000km x 1000km ------------------------------------------ Spirit Ascension Realm: A realm with different biomes and terrains filled with infinite Spirit Beasts for Tang san to battle against and take their Spirit Rings. The realm upgrades every milestone 10 rank. Has a special Arena Mode to gain battle experience. Arena: allows Tang san to fight specific beasts or species. Cannot gain spirit rings through arena mode. If Tang san dies within the Spirit Ascension Realm, he will not be able to enter the Violet Jade Immortal Realm for a week. 1st Level: 10 ¨C 99 year old Spirit Beasts 3rd Level: 500 ¨C 999 year old Spirit Beasts 4th Level: 1,000 ¨C 4,999 year old Spirit Beasts 5th Level: 5,000 ¨C 9,999 year old Spirit Beasts 6th Level: 10,000 ¨C 49,999 year old Spirit Beasts 7th Level: 50,000 ¨C 99,999 year old Spirit Beasts 8th Level: 100,000 ¨C 499,999 year old Spirit Beasts 9th Level: 500,000 ¨C 1,000,000 year old Spirit Beasts ------------------------------------- Spirit Ring Integration: ------------------------------------------ Sharingan ability increases with each Spirit Ring: Unawakened spirit: [unlocks eyes of insight] The user can see chakra, giving it colour in order to distinguish it by its composition and source Awaken Spirit:[Unlocks observation ability] Observing Spirit Beasts ¨C Shows the Spirit Beasts name, Age, and the Spirit Ability the Spirit Ring will give. Observing Humans ¨C Shows the person''s name, Spirit Rank, and Spirit. Observing Herbs ¨C Shows the Herbs''s name, Information, and Use. 1st spirit ring: [Unlocks the second Tomoe] The user can perform what is generically called Genjutsu: Sharingan. While there are various manifestations and purposes of the ability, the better-known one is to, through eye contact, suggest thoughts and actions to a target, coercing them to divulge information or act in a particular way, potentially without the target''s awareness The user is granted incredible clarity of perception, enabling them to see fast-moving objects and, once fully developed, offers some amount of predictive capabilities: they can anticipate an opponent''s next move based on the slightest muscle tension in their body and act accordingly to dodge or intercept The user is able to copy almost any techniques they see, memorising them with near-perfect accuracy 3rd spirit ring: [Unlocks Eternal Magekyou Sharingan] Grants the trifecta abilities Amaterasu Tsukuyomi Susanoo 4th spirit ring: [Unlocks Rinne Sharingan 1st tomoe -Human path] Grants the Rinnegan user the ability to read the mind of any target by placing his hand on the target''s head or ?h?st and yanking the soul out of the body. Though it provides intel by getting secrets, the technique inevitably kills the target. Grants the Rinnegan user the ability to absorb energy attacks in any form. Can only absorb attacks within the user''s physical capabilities 6th spirit ring: [Unlocks Rinne Sharingan 3rd tomoe -Asura path] Grants the Rinnegan user the ability to augment their own body to summon mechanised armour and various ballistic and mechanical weaponry 7th spirit ring: [Rinne Sharingan 4th tomoe- Animal path] Grants the Rinnegan user the ability to summon various spirit animals and creatures to aid it in battle. These creatures appear to be immortal, as they were killed and later summoned again. 8th spirit ring: [Rinne Sharingan 5th tomoe- Deva path] Grants the Rinnegan user the ability to manipulate attractive and repulsive forces with objects and people. These gravity manipulating techniques, however, cannot be performed in rapid succession; the amount of time required to recharge after use varies depending on the scale of the technique used, five seconds being the basic minimum. The Deva Path also grants another ability: Chibaku Tensei which allows the user to create a huge makeshift terrestrial body from all the surrounding matter that is attracted to a black sphere released by this technique. 9th Spirit ring: [Rinne Sharingan 6th tomoe- Naraka path] Grants the Rinnegan user two main abilities: interrogation and restoration, by using the King of Hell. 10th Spirit ring: [Rinne Sharingan 9 tomoe- outer path] Able to bring back life and control 6 different bodies. Also unlocks all the remaining spatial abilities of the users Rinne Sharingan. Chapter 1 - Typical reincarnation I am Lee Mee, I am just your average, black-haired kid with dark brown eyes, skin that doesn''t stand out nor a body that would make any boy turn his head but I was known. The town of Nuuk in Greenland was a small quiet place, nothing much happens here but my parents like it that way. Growing up here my entire life made me yearn to see the outside world, so I drew and imagined what I would see beyond the Mountain and the ocean around me. Maybe skyscrapers so tall it pierced the skies. Or ever-expanding woodlands stretching as far as the eyes can see. A hidden world underneath my feet. A civilization above the clouds where no one can see them. Oh, how I yearned to see them. If they exist of course. So the story starts where I am walking home from university when a truck comes barreling down the street right toward me. "Aaa come on! how is this even possible? There''s literally only like 10 trucks on the island!" I b?r?ly had time to look at it when it was already in front of me ready to flatten me into a meat patty when a tall slender man grabbed me and carried me away, avoiding the truck at the last second. My mind was not processing what was happening when the man asked me something. I didn''t hear what he said but I nodded my head to signal I was okay. The man smiled and a sudden flash appeared and everything went dark. Sometime later I woke up to find myself in a room, it was very bright, simply decorated with minimum furniture and no doors. "Where am I?" I thought and a voice replies to me. "Welcome to my domain, I am the being you know as God" the voice replied. "Is this real, is this a dream?" I asked, my head hurt trying to process all this information. "It is very real, you almost died from a truck, the legendary, sending people to another world truck at that, I will make sure Truck-Sama try to do that again" God laughs and then said, Luckily, thanks to all my fantasising during school I already had a basis of which world and what wishes I wanted. "I want to be reborn in the Douluo Dalu world in the same year as Tang San. As for my wishes, the first one will be to have the Violet Jade Immortal Realm of Qing Shui from Ancient Strengthening Technique combined with a Spirit Ascension Platform which will allow me to get real spirit rings. My second wish will be to have the ability to integrate Spirit Rings and add their years onto my existing Spirit Rings. For my final wish, I want the Sharingan evolution line with an observation ability that works on Herbs, Spirit Beasts and Humans. When observing Spirit Beasts, it will show its name, age, and the Spirit Ability it''s Spirit Ring will give me. When observing humans, it will show me their name, Spirit Rank, and their Spirit. When observing herbs it will show me its name, information about it and its uses." (Lee) God reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small booklet which read ''The basics of isekai-God edition: How op can I make my client?'' "Hmmm, I can give you the third wish easily although the levels will be based on your spirit rings, however the other two may prove to be a bit difficult. If you want, I can give you a powered down version of both, they will have all the same function''s, but they will be on a smaller scale with some restrictions." I think about it for a second before asking, "Can I know what kind of restrictions it will have?" "You will only be able to enter your personal realm for 8 hours a day, while you sleep, and it will only take your soul to the realm, so you cannot train your body there. However, you will still be able to use it as an inventory and make real items there. As for anymore, you will have to find them out for yourself. On the plus side, since it is only your soul going into the realm, you will not age while in there." (God) "Alright then, that shouldn''t restrict my growth too much." Although hesitant, I still accept it as it shouldn''t make much of a difference on my path to godhood. "Ohh yeah, can you rate and review your reincarnation experience today?" Seeing as it wasn''t much, I gave him a 5-star and copied and pasted a past review. Finishing up I handed his Ipad back to him "All done. Here you go!" "Sweet thanks man, I will reincarnate you in that world now." With a swing of his hand, I can feel a power fill me as I slowly become translucent and then my body disappeared "Welp, another happy client and would you look at that I still have like 5 minutes to spare, ~ka hahaha~ as expected of me." (God) Chapter 2 - Butterfly Effect Already!? I wake up slightly groggy and dizzy. Speaking about reincarnation, I seem to still be in the w?mb of my new mother, but I think I will be born soon because I feel fully developed. I try to open my eyes to look around, it is red everywhere and I seem to be submerged in liquids. While I was thinking stupid delusions of what my awesome spirit could be, the fluids in which I was floating in suddenly drained out of my mother''s w?mb. Hearing her muffled screaming I know that it was almost time for me to be born. Not long later I feel the walls around me start to contract, pushing me towards the only exit, and suddenly I was born! ''Hahaha I am finally born, today marks the birth of a new future GodKin-'' Gaa, aahhh! How come those Mcs from webnovels not find this painful!? For you see a foetus doesn''t use its lungs for breathing inside the w?mb. Ever. So during birth, the baby is forced to breathe on its own for the first time, expanding its lungs which causes pain and suffering. Hence, the baby cries - or more precisely - gasps for air. This ''cry'' of the baby is actually a strong respiratory effort, thereby aiding the baby in its first breath. This is also why newborns don''t produce tears on their first cry. Because it''s not really a cry, it''s a gasp for air. Shortly after my painful suffering, I was placed in my mother''s arms. I open my eyes to look at her, she has silvery white hair, and blue eyes that give a sort of chilling feel. The woman took the child into her arms, turned at the man who was guarding her and chided. "San¡­.. Tang San, it''s a nice name don''t you think?? ''Wait, Tang san!? like the main character, that Tang San!? Damn you god!'' Being unable to hold the feeling of despair and helplessness. I did what most men would probably do in my place; cry... and cry again, to the point where you begin to feel tired and fall into the comfortable embrace of sleep. As it is often better to sleep on a problem than beating yourself up about it. ------ Suddenly, I don''t feel tired anymore and I opened my eyes. I was in a massive expanse of land, with a pool of water in the centre of the realm. To the side of the pool was a large stone plaque, and on the other side, there was a large platform with a formation circle on the ground. Understanding that this is my Violet Jade Immortal Realm I quickly move towards the stone plaque to see its abilities. [Violet Jade Immortal Realm: A special realm in which time flows differently from the outside. The only human that can enter the realm is the owner of the realm. The owner of the realm can only use the Violet Jade Immortal Realm for 8 real world hours per day. Can be used to store/retrieve items and raise fauna and flora. Level of realm increases with each Spirit Ring. Current level: First Level First Level Benefits: - Time flows at a rate of 100 :1 (100 hours in VJIR : 1-hour real world). - Spirit Energy is 20 times as abundant - Access to the 1st level of Spirit Ascension Realm (locked until spirit awakening) Since I am still a baby there isn''t much for me to do except sit¡­ well, lay here and meditate. Cultivating Spirit Energy in this realm is about 20 times as effective compared to the outside world. For the whole 100 hours inside the realm I cultivated my spirit energy; luckily, I spent most of my previous life in solitude, so staying a couple hours on my own means nothing to me. Now, you may be asking yourselves, what I''m currently questioning myself at this moment, and that is: ''How do you even cultivate.'' Well I can tell ''How not to cultivate'' and that''s accidentally exploding your heart by pumping energy into it; Thank god the me here is only a soul copy, otherwise I may have met god sooner than expected. With 80 hours of trial and error, I finally came up with¡­.nothing as of yet, although I haven''t blown myself up as regularly as before during the last few ??ps. But yes, more experimentation will be carried out after. For now I shall be off to bed, as I''m quite knackered due to 4 whole days of consciousness; while my body is well rested, mentally I am exhausted. ---------------------------------------------------------------- As I awoke from my slumber, I noticed that I''m currently in my father''s arms, as he was flying at great speed; tears streaming down his face and my mother not present. "How long was I out? I can''t believe I slept through a battle of doulou; I guess being conscious for 4 whole days really drains you huh?Well, back to the matter at hand, so spirit hall huh? Yeah, they honestly have to go." During my stay in the realm, I didn''t only experiment with the spirit energy, but also I contemplated and ponder on how to make best use of my knowledge to gain the most power. "And one of them was joining the spirit hall, as they have the most extensive knowledge and information with regards to the spirits, as well as the going on''s of the continent. But now that they have killed my mom, that option has inevitably been cross out." "Well, I have to start slowly weakening the spirit hall, honestly I wanted to avoid making a confrontation with spirit hall. But unfortunately it is already set in stone, with reasons aside from them killing my mother and all. Is their stupid rule of removing those that threatens them in the future; either by enslaving them or killing them, which ever is the fastest." There are a few things that I could do to accomplish this feat "But the best way to destroy spirit hall, is to bring the pair of mother and daughter to my side. Which is honestly easy as I have a dirty little secret that could divert their hate at spirit hall itself if its skillfully done. This plan also has an added bonus of maybe claiming those pair of woman as mine." Chapter 3 - Childhood Training Douluo Continent, Heaven Dou Empire, Holy Spirit Village Three months have gone by since my birth. My dad and I have settled down on a remote village on the outskirts of the Heaven Dou empire. I have slowly been strengthening myself by trying to move around, so I could start crawling and stretching my limbs after every ''workout''; in hopes of maintaining my flexible baby body. As for my energy experiments, I started noticing that my Spirit Energy is easier to control and have started to implement some of it into my real body. Although I worked quite meticulously and cautiously for fear of accidentally crippling myself. Well not like there is a chance of that happening anyways, for I have only been nourishing my skin spirit energy up until now; as I''m still not brave enough to move the energy into my body. ---------------------------------------------- Once I turned one, I allowed myself to start talking and said my first words; which was naturally ''Tang San'' for I was still in the process of learning chinese. Which wasn''t hard at all as I was learning pretty quickly and I can only thank my baby brain for this incredible feat. For you see, since I regress back as a baby, my brain has been reset and my neural pathways along with it. Now this is where it gets interesting, as the brain develops, it becomes more specialized, reinforcing the neural pathways that are regularly used. This is a good thing because it makes the brain more efficient, but it also makes learning new things more challenging. But now that it has reset, I am able to form neural connections at a rapid pace, thereby learning things more quickly. Well that should be enough flaunting the things I learned during my bio courses¡­ for now at least. Anyways whether it was the Spirit Energy nourishing my body or what not. Surprisingly, I was able to start walking around too. After that day, I had managed to convince my dad in allowing me to explore the village and surrounding woods with the excuse of playing. He agreed and I was promptly introduced to some of the other children in the village during elders story time; although I didn''t really make friends with them as I felt like they were all untalented and will probably turn out to be as good as cannon fodder. Rude as it may be, but there is no way in hell that I would entertain a group of toddlers when I could be doing something more important, like planning for my future. So instead of wasting my time on that friendship nonsense, I started my foundation training which mainly consists of walking/jogging to build up my muscle and bone strength, while also increasing my cardiovascular, pulmonary (heart and lung) fitness for better sustainability. I have also put my 1-year experience in mixed martial arts (or mma as what you ''non practitioners'' call it) to good use and shadow boxed whenever I was able; to further hone my body control. Finally, I finish it off by strengthening my main muscle groups with all the standard exercise that I could remember, such as push-ups, squats, crunches, etc. Paying close attention to my core muscles especially. Making sure that I do them moderately as I don''t wanna ruin my toddler body. Since the surrounding woods don''t have any vicious animals, I started exploring it slowly filling up my realm with any known herbs that I find. Occasionally asking the grown-up whether a new flora that I discovered is valuable or not. -------------------------------------------------------------- Another year has passed. By now I have grown enough to start training my body using weights, so today I brought a basket and filled it with a kg of rocks, carrying it along with my morning runs. By now I have thought up and implemented 2 running regimes. As for my fighting regime, I have slowly incorporated the iron palm training that I have seen on youtube one time, strengthening the striking limbs by developing the tendons and ligaments from the shoulders to the fingertips, then striking or slapping relatively hard objects enclosed in a bag filled with sand. With this, I also took up a monk hand conditioning exercise; which involves striking a sack full of beans with fingertip thrust. Following every conditioning session, I carefully treat my hands with a medicinal ointment made from the crushed up medical herbs I grew in my realm. During the year I also gained a bit of reputation by helping the women bring back water to the village from the nearby river. Which is a ''killing two birds'' scenario for me, with it being a great exercise and also improving my reputation in the town; There is also the added benefit of being able to take a swim, while the woman are filling up the containers. Swimming is great as it not only feels refreshing on a hot day, but also tones your entire body; Although I made sure to in the eddies of the river, as I''m not strong enough to swim against the current. For nutrition, I''m sad to announce that I have in fact became a vegetarian as meat products were too costly in the village, well costly for a town blacksmith anyways. Thankfully I was able to replant different kinds of vegetables in my realm; courtesy of the village women that I help out with the water run on a daily basis, whom happily given to me some vegetables seeds. Also the meat problem should be solved soon as I''ve been able to acquire a couple of fish and turtles that live in the river, with the help from the older kids. So hopefully I should be able to eat the fish soon with the help of my realm. On the cultivation department, I can now expertly channel my spirit energy to circulate on my skin, I''m now in the process of trying out the chakra exercises on Naruto, trying to hover leaves over my fingers via spirit energy. ---------------------------- Another year of training, eating and cultivating, I was now a very healthy 3-year-old. The fishes and turtles I put into my Realm have grown enough and repopulated to the point of being self-sustained, so I can start eating them. Because of the excellent environment they now live in, these fish are much larger than their tiny cousins found in the River. Although I have never cooked anything special in this life apart from rice porridge and boiled vegetables, I used to cook all the time for myself in my previous life. I also knew a lot of recipes and ways to cook things, thanks to my Asian heritage. I started a fire to try out my harvest, cleaning up the insides of the fish and filling it up with herbs. Quickly roasting some fish over the fire, I then took a bite. Unto my training progression, I can now comfortably run up the mountain trail with 5kgs strapped to my back. I have also got a couple on 1kg ankle weights I receive from my dad, due to me almost burning myself from trying to forge them myself. He has also agreed to teach me his arts when I turned 5. As for my Iron palm training, I have clearly underestimated the nourishment I get from the spirit energy and I''ve moved on to striking birch-like trees (ones that don''t have a rough bark) further strengthening my hands greatly. For agility training, I have started slowly jumping from branch to branch on the treetops. Improving mainly balance and judgement, but also agility and foot placement. On the cultivation side, I can now hover 1 leaf using my spirit energy and am working on hovering one on each finger. ------------------------------------------------------------ Chapter 4 - More training Holy Spirit village is a village containing about three hundred households south of Fasinuo province''s Nuoding City. To the south of the Holy Spirit village, a vast expanse of farmland, where grain and vegetables are produced, which all goes to supply Nuoding City. Whilst the north lays a tall mountain surrounded by a dense forest and in that forest, we see a figure flickering from branch to branch. Logically we can only ?ssume it to be a spirit beast, but due to the diluted spirit energy in the surrounding area, it is impossible for spirit beast to grow past a century. Taking a closer look at the figure again, we can finally make out a young black haired boy with very noticeable red eyes. -------------------------------------------- Another year has passed and I have finally unlocked my Sharingan, giving me the ability to see spirit energy. This change has improved my cultivation speed by leaps and bounds; In the past I was comparable to a blind man struggling his way around, but now I can see clearly. Concerning my body training, I can now comfortably run with 7.5 kgs strapped to my back and two 1.5 kg weights strapped to my ankles and two 0.5 kg strapped to my wrist. Which is honestly ridiculous as I currently weight 23, so I''m almost carrying half my weight around. Day by day, I am truly astounded by the wonders of spirit energy. I have also started to increase my running distance moderately. To the point where I currently run up the mountain and then back down again and finishing the workout by running westwards for the river. Where I would swim a few ??ps back and forth in between a large eddy; working on my arm and leg strength while also toning my entire body. As for my shadow boxing, I have taken it to a ridiculous level. This all started when I found a hidden cavern on the foot of the mountain, with its entrance covered and hidden by the overgrowth. Well long story short, this particular cavern has now been proudly claimed by me as my hideout and has been transformed into my personal gym; complete with a few wooden logs for my training dummy and a wide pool, which took weeks to dig out. Anyways for my shadow boxing, I have begun doing it underwater weighing myself down with rocks and fighting that way. This activity has come with a lot of benefits. Seeing that exercising in water builds cardiovascular stamina, strength and flexibility help build up the lungs for more endurance, increases circulation, and with the water full of spiritual energy as it came from the realm; it has also been healing and tempering my muscles and joints that had been damaged during my runs. Concerning my Iron palm training. It has been coming along well and I''ve finally been able to move into striking trees with rough bark. Although after 3 months of training, I found that the fingers lose their dexterity. So I''ve been trying slowly gain it back, by using a few surgeon exercises that had been taught to me by my old flatmate; when I was complaining one day about having hand cramps due to excessive typing. One of them is called finger ups, which is like push ups for your fingers; this exercise not only help increase the range of motion and flexibility in your fingers, but you can also do it just about anywhere, here''s how it goes: 1 Place your hand flat, palm down, on a table or other surface. 2 Gently lift one finger at a time off of the table and then lower it. 3 You can also lift all your fingers and thumb at once, and then lower. 4 Repeat eight to 12 times on each hand. ----------------------------------------------------- I am now finally 5 years old and can finally learn the art of blacksmithing. Which I personally am looking forward to learning, ever since I''ve watched this TV show called bladesmiths, although I haven''t practised it myself, I do kinda have a general idea of what the processes are to blacksmithing. Besides being able to move and enhance my body with my spiritual energy there really wasn''t much of a big change in terms of my exercises. Apart from being able to swim against the current. After dinner, I finally asked my dad about the blacksmithing offer he gave me a few years back and he replied by handing me a hammer and some pig iron, telling me to hammer it out until it is the size of a fist. Chapter 5 - The Art Of Smithing In a rundown house, we find a 5-year-old clearing away all the dishes, Tang San returned to his room and continued his blacksmithing skills that his dad has finally taught him. With the collision between forging hammer and iron chunk, clanking noises resounded. Although he did not know at what time this chunk of pig iron could become the fist size that his dad demanded, but this type of forging had a not inconsiderable benefit regarding increasing his physical training and spiritual energy control. Tang San already started trying to exhaust less spirit energy when wielding the iron hammer if possible. This way, he could maintain the time he could successively swing the hammer even longer. From noon he beat another three hundred times, perceiving that every now and then a few impurities had been driven out of the chunk of iron. Lifting the door curtain, Tang Hao entered. This afternoon he seemingly had not forged any farm tools, at least Tang San had not heard the familiar beating sounds. "Dad." Tang San looked in his father''s direction, halting the hammer in his hands and lowering it. Tang Hao motioned him to continue, walking near to stand calmly at one side. He did not start to speak, only looked at him. Tang San only then continued to wield the hammer. By now his clothes were already soaked with sweat. With his current inner strength, he still could not adapt to the temperature level, let alone this absolutely heavy physical labour. Dang, dang, dang, dang, dang... Looking at Tang San dripping with sweat, Tang Hao finally set his determination. "Pause a moment." Tang Hao started to speak. Tang San lowered the iron hammer in his hands, faintly panting somewhat, quietly urging his body''s spiritual energy to adjust his breathing, in order to recover his physical strength. Tang Hao walked over in front of Tang San, taking the iron hammer in his hands, and looked at the stove where the iron chunk was glowing red hot in the fire, "Beating it like this, even with a year it could not become fist-sized." Tang san faced up, looking at his tall and big father, "Then how should I do it?" Tang Hao indifferently said: Tang San thought, then said: "It should be the waist, right. From the waist through the back, then afterwards along the arm to raise the forging hammer?" Tang Hao did not confirm nor deny Tang San''s statement, but continued asking, "Of the human body apart from the brain, which part is the most important?" "It''s the heart." Tang Hao paused for a moment, then said: "Then you tell me how many hearts a person has?" "A regular person should have one heart" Tang Hao shook his head, saying: "No, you''re mistaken. Remember, people have three hearts, not one." Tang Hao reversed his grip on the iron hammer, using the handle to poke both Tang San''s calves, "Here. On people''s two calf muscles, in other words, are the second and third hearts. If a person wants to bring out one''s entire physical strength, in that case, he must use three hearts simultaneously to have a result. Therefore, when bringing out strength, it definitely does not stem from the lower back. The three hearts is the correct starting point." "When the heart inside your ?h?st beats rapidly, power originating from the two calves, force transmits up, reaching the th??h, passing through the waist, back, arm, and finally releasing. This is how to hit with all one''s strength. Hearts give force, the waist is the axis. Watch." Tang Hao raised the hammer in his hand, making Tang San drawback several steps. At the same time, the hammer in his hand already changed direction to return, and with a deep loud shout, his body half turning, both legs sticking firmly to the ground, uncovered by tattered trouser legs both calves momentarily tensed, his whole person resembling a fierce tiger ready to spring. Legs emitting strength, waist twisting, and the forging hammer was invisible in the midst of already being brought back down, with a clanging sound. Heavily coming down on top of the red hot chunk of pig iron. Tang San could completely feel that this was only a single person emitting physical strength. Tang Hao didn''t have internal strength, and even further he had not released some kind of spirit power. This was entirely the strength of the human body, and that chunk of previously red hot iron, still had completely caved in nearly a third from the smash, the deformation was extremely distinct. "With the lower legs emitting strength, controlling the body''s strength to successfully link it into a whole, is how to go all out." Tang Hao passed the iron hammer into Tang San''s hands, "You do it." Tang San hadn''t thought that forging also had this kind of striking method. This simple method of emitting strength could not only be used for forging. Both hands gripping the hammer handle, imitating Tang Hao''s posture from before, Tang San''s both eyes firmly fixed on the red hot iron chunk. Spirit energy slowly working deep in his lower legs, both feet firmly gripping the ground. Tang San shouted loudly, the physical power of the legs together with the Spirit energy burst from the lower legs, spreading in a flash, waist turning, through the back, across both shoulders, further into the arms. He distinctly felt as if his strength had become more powerful than ever before, that starting via the lower legs erupting up until the arms swinging the iron hammer, his body seemingly wanted to fly from this great force. Dang~~~~~~, the iron hammer accurately smashed down on the iron lump, emitting a loud sound. Because of Tang San''s whole body swinging the iron hammer both his feet left the ground, staggering forward a step. The iron hammer rebounded back up, and even though he had been practising the iron palm, his hands certainly did not have any trouble, but both arms suffered a burst of tingling from the shock of the rebound. Fortunately, Spirit energy worked without delay, and the tingling sensation gradually faded. The result was obvious, despite Tang San''s age. Adding on Spirit energy, that this result was inferior to Tang Hao was clear, but compared to his previous hits, this effect was even more than could be made with ten before. Seeing Tang San''s movement, Tang Hao certainly did not give praise, but in his eyes flashed a trace of an astonished look. Tang San''s work was clearly beyond what he had anticipated. Tang Hao did not expect Tang San to actually master this force emitting method in this short time. "Dad, did I do it right?" Tang Hao slowly nodded, "You understand the effect of the heart? Humans employ the most muscles precisely in calves, so the calves are the source of all strength. Use the power of the lower legs well, gathering strength to greatly increase effort." "In forging, the effect of the bellows is also especially significant. Fully heated metal can be forged even better, and this can cause its toughness to become even stronger. Any block of metal, even if it is very impure metal, it also has its own soul. If the temperature is inadequate, and when forging if too much physical strength is used it will shatter. Like that, even if melted and reforged this chunk of metal is still only waste. Therefore, when you use all your strength to hammer an iron chunk, you must maintain its temperature well. Pumping bellows is similarly also using the power of the lower legs. Not only can you as far as possible preserve physical strength, you can also cause the bellows effect to reach the greatest temperature." Both feet pressing down on the pedals, he abruptly released his strength. Starting at the legs, the whole body rapidly bounced back, both arms naturally driving the bellows handle to open, legs straightening and bending, again bringing the handles back. Between coming and returning, the bellows operated at full strength. Tang Hao''s movements certainly did not appear swift, but everyone brought into play the bellows to the utmost. The muscles on the calf lead down, and as his body with the bellows took on a particular kind of rhythm, flames suddenly leapt up from the centre of the furnace, the iron chunk at once burned a fierce red. "You, come draw the bellows, according to my movements just now." Tang Hao gave over his seat to Tang San. Having previously experienced wielding the iron hammer and carefully observing, Tang San sat on Tang Hao''s previous seat, very quickly grasping the method to work the bellows, although still somewhat jerky. But he attentively noted that every time strength released, it started from the lower legs. Sure enough, as Tang Hao said, not only did he save very much of his physical strength, but the result as compared to before was also incomparably better. Tang Hao held Tang San''s forging hammer, and coolly said: "Using all your strength in wielding the hammer to forge can fully bring your physical strength into use. But equally, with the hammer''s descent, the force from the rebound can create a very great load on you. In the event of being without a suitable guiding method, it is easy to injure yourself, and it can also cause part of the physical strength to be wasted, unable to act on the metal. Following my movement you must attentively observe, this is the key to whether you can beat this lump of pig iron into fist size in a short time." Inhaling deeply, Tang Hao''s eyes focused. Following Tang San''s working on the bellows, the whole lump of iron lump already burned an intense red, blazing flame leapt up, causing the inside of the room to grow exceedingly scorching hot. As Tang Hao moved, his motion did not seem to be any different from before, from leg to waist, waist to back, back to arms, with a clanging sound the iron hammer pounded down on the iron chunk. The iron hammer rebounded up high, and Tang Hao''s movement with the magnitude of the iron hammer''s rise seemingly attained a kind of perfect harmony. Not early not late, just in the split second the iron hammer reached its upward peak, his body drove the iron hammer in a full circle, to once again smash down. Tang San''s eyes shone. This was unmistakably a method to leverage force, utilizing the rebound force from the impact between hammer and metal and converting it into downward force. The motion was perfectly coordinated in order to the greatest degree avoid being harmed from the rebound force and instead transforming this physical force to especially add to the hit. Starting from the second strike, the physical force of every hit surpassed Tang Hao''s full strength but was still under his control. Tang Hao moved faster and faster, the forging hammer lashing down on the iron chunk like a violent storm, the iron chunk continuously being deformed by the beats of the forging hammer. It was shocking, the precision of Tang Hao''s strikes was unreal. Every time the iron chunk was hit it was reduced to half its former thickness, and when it started to become flat, the forging hammer in his hand would at once hit the iron chunk''s edge, causing it to flip. Thus, the iron chunk was evenly enduring his hammer blows and was not simply pounded into an iron flat cake. In a flash, the hammer had already struck thirty-six times, and Tang Hao''s both hands drove the iron hammer to spin overhead successively in three circles. Not until the force of the hammer was dispersed, did he stand down the hammer. His face not red, breath not laboured, as if that previous mad storm of blows had not been produced by him at all. The whole iron chunk, after just thirty-six blows in the whole small circle, with the n?k?d eye it was actually already hard to see any impurities within. This just now was true blacksmith mastery, a beautiful hammer method. "Understand?" Tang Hao looked at Tang San who was unceasingly pumping the bellows. Tang San thought, then said: "Leverage the force, I understand the principle. Only, this seems to be not simple at all." Tang Hao indifferently said: "If you want to accomplish my kind of level, there is only one way: skill comes from practice. Furthermore, you must bear in mind, if you are striking a piece of common metal, then when it is the most impure, it is also most likely to shatter. At that time, when you beat it the physical force must be smaller, and as its impurities gradually decrease, your physical force can begin to gradually increase to maintain the effect of the strikes. This way of dynamic control is pivotal. You slowly practice by yourself, ok. Don''t blindly increase force and speed: accuracy is equally important. At least you must understand the hammer''s descent unless you can hit any place, what use is more physical strength?" With the weight of the forging hammer returned into Tang San''s hands, Tang Hao turned and left. ''Father did not go back on his word, he really taught his forging methods, and also, from father teaching his point of view on these things, any profession all have their own profound mysteries, they are all not so simple.'' ----- In the next half months'' time, Tang San everyday practised the force borrowing hammer forging method Tang Hao taught him. Despite having his hand conditioning to ?ssist his strength control, and having the Sharingan to determine the position of his hammer blows, this forging method was still more difficult to master than he could have imagined. Since it was hitting with all his strength, using full strength was in itself very hard to control. Drawing strength from the rebound, and again controlling the body''s balance in order to position the hammer blow was extremely difficult. With increasing hits, the required essential force control increased somewhat, and the body''s unceasing rotation could not only cause a sense of dizziness but at the same time, the force of each falling strike also became even harder to control. Fortunately, he had already been striking that chunk of iron for a very long time, so its impurities were already very few and it was not so easy to shatter. Otherwise, he would not be able to control the weight of that forging hammer, and would probably already have smashed it to pieces. From the first day when he was only able to swing twice before starting to deviate in position, up until today half a month later, he could already continuously swing seven times, accurately striking the iron chunk without error. The improvement was extremely obvious. At the same time, the iron chunk under his full strength beating became smaller and smaller; every day brought results. Of course, this also had an inseparable connection with that lower leg force generating method. With this kind of force generating method, he could greatly reduce the consumption of the spirit energy, enabling Tang San to have even more time to pump the bellows and forge. Originally his father swung the hammer thirty-six times, but also it would appear that he had surplus energy. He himself could only swing seven times, he didn''t know when he could reach his father''s level. Every time Tang San thought about this, he immediately had additional motivation to practice. Three months'' time passed very quickly, and just as Tang San could begin to wield the hammer thirteen times, Tang Hao began to instruct him on how to forge tools. Tang Hao''s teaching method was very direct: exactly like before he would do it once, then let Tang San do it again, and as long as he saw some of the basics were learned he did not interfere with his practice, never having many words of direction. Only at crucial parts, did he say a few words. Precisely because of this, every time Tang Hao gave pointers, Tang San remembered it all the more clearly. (Copy and paste is a godly technique, with one click, I can write a thousand words) Chapter 6 - Spirit awakening I can now confirm without a shadow of a doubt, that I am probably hacking real life right now. At first, I presumed that my rate of improvement was the result of spirit energy and/or the nutrition I got from the realm; well that was until I found myself starting to brazenly surpassed limits that should be physically impossible. And I can tell you one thing; being able to comfortably carry 15kgs while going on a 50km run, managing to last 15 minutes straight while shadow boxing underwater, climbing a rock face by only using 3 limbs and finally being able to keep smithing all afternoon. Should''ve well surpassed what a 5-year-old boy could have handled, spirit energy or not, as those exercise should''ve destroyed or at least crippled my body. But here I am, fit as a snorlax, happily hammering away at a heated kunai. Which begs the question: ''How am I not dead yet?'' Well the most probable hypothesis I could think of is that, I somehow receive some residual DNA from when my mom was a spirit beast; granting me the tenacity and adaptability of the spirit grass. But this should be impossible as it was stated in the novel that when a spirit beast undergoes the human evolution they would lose previous their abilities. Unless by ''previous abilities'' the author meant they only lose their abilities/power and not their physiology, which now makes a lot more sense. As this would explain how Xiao Wu could keep up with Tang san, in terms of physical prowess without proper training; during their time at Nuoding academy. Sadly, what I did with this information was underwhelming.., for me at least. As this just meant that I could double or even triple the training that I could do, without having to worry about any injuries. And honestly, I truly do not despise training my body anymore; in fact I have actually grown so accustomed to it that now, I can''t even fall asleep peacefully, without having done a good workout. As for spirit control training, I''ve been trying out the tree climbing exercise, but have no luck in figuring it out. By now I''m starting to believe that it is only applicable via chakra. So instead I''ve dedicated my time to controlling my inner and other energy control. For my inner energy control, I''ve been trying to enhance a single body part instead of the whole limb that''s connected to it. For example, strengthening my just palms without the energy going through my fingers. My goal for this technique is to be able to use spirit energy efficiently and being able to attack or defend using a short but powerful burst instead of sustaining it for the period of the battle. In a decades time, I guesstimate that I should have enough control to be able to enhance the major muscle effectively. Finally, my time in the realm, is just me theorizing and experimenting about what exercises I could do next. Unfortunately I can''t cultivate or do physical activities alm, as it doesn''t transfer over to my real body. Although the realm does help me speed up my learning in the technique department; I found that, while muscle memory does not transfer over, the knowledge of the experience does. Meaning that by doing control exercise in the realm, I can accumulate memories of the experience, which aids me in learning it faster in my physical body. I can only compare this scenario to a decent boxer, who for some reason took a 10 year break and a complete newbie. Now, during that 10 year break, the muscle memory of the boxer should''ve disappeared or at least diminished. But I can guarantee that in a ''fair'' fight the boxer would win the fight between them, as he has more knowledge and experience than the newbie. I can confidently say that in the physical department alone, I have beaten the novel''s Tang San. But if him and I were to fight then the only conclusion I can see is: "Novel San spanking me" Which is understandable as I have only spent these years straightening my body, while he spent his practicing the ?ssassination arts and base on my hypothesis of the neural pathway development; Novel San should''ve already been as skilled as the average teenage practitioners in the Tang sect or maybe even more. Honestly I''m eternally grateful for receiving my gifts from God, otherwise I have no hope of ever surpassing Novel San. ------------------------------- I was now 6 years old and today was finally the day when the awakening ceremony was going to take place. In the Spirit Hall a Spirit Grandmaster name Su Yuntao explained about the ceremony and how it would be done, he didn''t have any hopes for these people to awaken Spirit Power. Just as he had said out of the seven kids apart from Tang San no one had spirit power and even their spirits didn''t suit battle. There were even some trash spirits among the bunch. At long last, it was Tang San''s turn, when Su Yuntao poured his spirit power onto the six awakening stones a pale golden light shone. Warmth, this was Tang San''s first sensation, as if his whole body was wrapped up inside nice and warm world, unspeakably comfortable. His Forbidden Heaven Skill''s internal power started to fluctuate, soon the warm energy surged into his hand and a blue light appeared on top of it, soon a Blue Silver Grass was formed, seeing this the Spirit Grandmaster was a bit disappointed. But he didn''t notice that this grass actually had a few golden veins on its surface. [Spirit Awakening Successful] The awakener then gave the crystal to Tang San to test if he had Spirit Power and when he took the crystal into his hands a shocking thing happened, the blue crystal started to glow with a blue colour with a slight layering of golden. "Heaven''s it''s actually full innate spirit power!!" After that, he was disappointed by the fact that his spirit was only Blue Silver Grass. He then went out and informed Old Jack about this year''s result. When he heard that there was actually someone who awakened Spirit Power he was extremely happy but when he got to know that it was actually Blue Silver Grass his mood hit the dumps. He then started to curse Tang Hao for not being able to give Tang San a good spirit. He then turned towards Tang San and asked if he wanted to go to Nuoding City to attend the school to learn about the Spirit Master Cultivation Method. Tang San truthfully replied that he would go only if his father allows him to go. In fact, the only reason he wanted to go there, was to read all the books that the grandmaster has and to get Xiao Wu. Which wouldn''t be worth 5 years of time, considering that if he could activate the 3rd tomoe of the Sharingan then he theoretically has a photographic memory and with the help of the realm, could easily read all of it in 1 or maybe 2 years. Old Jack then accompanied him back home to convince Tang Hao to let him go to Nuoding City. "Old Jack, what are you doing?" Jack angrily said, "Today is the day of your son''s spirit awakening. Don''t you know how important this is? Other people''s families have both their parents accompanying them. You should go as well" Tang Hao, ignoring Jack''s taunts, as usual, his gaze once again shifted to his son, "Little San, your spirit awakened? What is it?" Tang San said: "Dad, its blue silver grass" "Blue silver grass?" When Tang Hao rejected the offer he was shocked, no matter who, if they have an opportunity they would definitely want their kids to become spirit masters. But here, he was completely rejecting him. They argued for a while before Old Jack was sent off by Tang Hao. Tang San apologised in his stead and properly sent him off, he turned to his father who asked him to show his spirit. When he showed his Blue Silver Grass, Tang Hao''s mood was completely disturbed. He stared at it for a while before he went back to his room, "But dad, I still have another spirit" Tang Hao who went back to his room suddenly came out and when Tang San showed him the pitch black hammer in his other hand he was shocked, "This, this is¡­.." Chapter 7 - The Reveal "Dad, what''s wrong??" "Twin Spirits. It''s actually twin spirits. Son, my son" He then suddenly hugged him which startled him at first but then made the hammer go away and slowly patted his back. With the hammer gone the weight and pressure, it released had also disappeared. "Remember, in the future, you must use the hammer in your left hand to protect well the grass in your right hand. Forever" After having his meal he was just about to clean up the dishes when, "Little San, do you want to become a spirit master??" Finally hearing this question he sank into deep contemplation, he knew that it was time to reveal some stuff to his dad and if he played it right he would receive the help of a titled doulou, which would be a game changer in the early game. Feeling confident that there would be no loopholes at the lie he had begun concocting for 5 years now. Tang san then took a deep breath and used up his newly obtained skill ready to start the show. "Yes dad, I need to become stronger to exact my revenge" Tang san stated with a steely gaze looking up directly into the eyes of his dad and watch as his dad''s face transformed instantaneously from joy to complete seriousness. "I want to get stronger so that I could obliterate spirit hall from the face of this world and to take vengeance for them killing mom!" As soon as those words left Tang san''s mouth, Tang hao''s facade was completely broken. Utterly shocked at how his 6-year-old son could have found out about the circumstances surrounding his birth. "It''s because of my eyes dad" Tang san continued, activating his Sharingan to show his dad. "The copy wheel eyes or the Sharingan is said to be gifted by the heavens to the one who will be the bringer of a new age. These eyes are said to grant the bearer godly powers from being able to pull out souls from one''s body and even see the future. Which is how I know the truth surrounding my mother being the spirit beast of the blue silver grass empress and how you are the brother Tang Xiao the next head of clear sky clan. Also, dad, I think it''s about time to head back to the clan or at least visit the pavilion, because from what I see uncle Xiao and auntie yuehua really miss you. " Tang san finished his well-practised speech with a smile, enjoying the expression his father has on currently and feeling proud of the lie he brewed. Confident about the belief this civilisation has on superstitions and wouldn''t further question him of the only loophole his story, which is ''where did the eyes come from?'' "I..I....Wha..." Tang hao was utterly frozen, trying to recover and recollect his thoughts from shock after shocked he had received from his 6-year old son...A 6-YEAR-OLD!!! After getting off his current predicament, Tang hao started chuckling while quickly transformed into a full-blown roaring laughter "Wahahaha!!!" "So, what is your plan right now?" Tang San shook his head, shrugging his shoulders and said, "None at the moment I was thinking of finally leaving this village as it has nothing left for me anymore and continues my training elsewhere." Tang Hao nodded, he then asked him, "Where are you going to train? If you don''t have a good place in your mind right now, then I recommend you to come with me and train at the Star Duo Forest." Tang san raised his eyebrows not expecting his dad to give him such an offer at all and quickly agreed, "Alright! Ok, I accept, so how long would you train me, dad? Would you help me reach titled doulou too?" Tang Hao shook his head and said, "No, I will be with you until you are a Rank 30 Spirit Elder then you should be able to protect yourself better and then I will leave to train on my own and reach my next rank up." Tang san nodded as this was what he thought of as well, it was the best plan at the moment. He also wouldn''t have to worry about food or any of the necessities. With Tang Hao, he also wouldn''t have to worry about someone killing him as he was indeed too weak at the moment. ------------------- A couple days of travel later, A pair of travellers were about to enter a dense forest, on the right was a child that looked no younger than 10, while the one beside him was a well-built man. "Will do, dad!" "So which beast are you going to choose for your first ring?? Since it''s for your Blue Silver Grass I highly suggest for you to take up the control system role, just like your mother. Also considering your age, it is usually advised that a first ring''s age cannot exceed 422 years but considering all the training you have done until now, I believe your body could withstand an 800-year spirit ring. Nevertheless, this choice all depends on you ¡­. What will you do Tang San??" "I¡­.." Chapter 8 - First spirit ring "What will you do Xiao San??" "I¡­ I''ll take up your advise Dad and choose a control type ring for my first slot. But I want to build my blue silver grass as a healing type too, which in the long run would grant me the adaptability of the control type and the sustainability of a medic type. Paring that with my clear sky hammer which I''m planning to build an offence and defensive spirit, I believe that this would grant me an insane amount of versatility." "Good, You didn''t disappoint me with your answer. Don''t worry I''ll choose a good spirit for your first ring" "I''ll believe in you Dad" "And don''t worry about others calling your Blue Silver Grass weak or trash spirit, as it is anything but. Your mother has in fact shown me the limitless potential of this spirit, in exchange for attack power, this spirit offers endless flexibility. You can choose it to be anything, if you increase its strength and hardness you can even go towards the attack or defence direction, increasing its range you can even go towards control or support category. But that still isn''t enough, I think choosing the right spirit you can give your grass the ability of¡­ Poison" When Tang san heard this, he was shocked, disbelieving the words he has heard. As this was the day that his dad had actually taken the time to explain these stuff to him and in his own way is actually consoling him. Smirking at his current success he then continued listening. "It''s still early so let''s get moving the creatures in the night are quite dangerous so we have to get this done by today. I''ll be leading the way, but Xiao San I want you to keep an eye out on the surroundings as well, so don''t slack off. Tang hao then led the way, scouting out ahead for any dangerous spirit beasts but he still kept a close distance from him so that he could come back if anything happens. While moving along they met a few 10-year-old spirit beasts but they just avoided them and moved ahead. There were a few beasts which tried to attack them but were easily taken care of by Tang hao. ==== Name: Demonic grass python Spirit Ability: Bind ==== Soon as they were going in towards the forest they were able to encounter beasts in the 100-years range they were able to find plant type spirit beasts but even Tang San wasn''t interested in the abilities they offered him. ==== Name: Venom Ivy Spider Age: 233 Spirit Ability: Poison secretion ==== There were a few which gave him some poisonous abilities but he ignored them as their poison was too weak for his use and also their age was too less for him to gain anything out of it. Soon they encountered a devil vine which was in the 400-year range but Tang San didn''t want that as his first ring so he decided to choose another spirit beast. The snake which was closer to a lizard, had a long green body, being dragged along by 4 scaled legs and instead of the regular snake having 1 head, this one had 3! (Pic: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/4e/a6/2f4ea63662a34173bd9da2560d22998e.jpg) ''Observe'' ==== Name: 3 headed forest hydra (Mutated from a 2 headed forest snake ) Age: 796 Spirit Ability: Constrict ==== ''This Spirit Ability is quite good, better than the novel tang san even and from what the name hydra suggest, I can be sure that this ring would at least have something to do with regeneration.'' "Dad, I have decided, this will be my first Spirit Ring!" Once it got at almost its striking distance, Tang hao then lunged down upon it, diving down with a corkscrew motion to gain more velocity and with a thunderous blow which shook the ground, smashed one of the hydra''s heads in one hit. When Tang san saw this he quickly activated the Sharingan to find any weak spots on its body and soon enough he was able to see an odd coloured scale, where the heads converge, compared to the other scales which was overflowing with spirit energy this scale was strangely empty. If not for the Sharingan even he wouldn''t be able to identify this oddity and understood that this was probably the legendary reverse scale on dragons. Tang san then took out a couple of kunais that he had been forging for a year now and threw them towards the eyes of head that was the furthest from his dad. Knowing that they were probably gonna miss as he was still practising how to throw kunais. But it whether they hit or not, it would still accomplish the d?s?r?d action. Which was to divide the attention of the beast so that Tang hao could weaken it without any problems. "Xiao san, make sure you keep your distance. From what I same you still don''t have any combat experience and might misjudge the distance of the strike. So just stay where you are and keep doing what you''re doing." "Understood. Leave it to me" Tang san then continued throwing kunais at en masse, aiming at the general direction of the beasts'' eyes and at other times aiming at its reverse scale. And at one way or another, a kunai ricocheted off the hydras scales and manage to hit and buried itself right where the reverse scale was, very much hurting the beast. With the opening Tang San had created, Tang hao released one of his spirit ring abilities that ended up cleaving the beast in two and soon enough the 3 headed forest hydra lost its energy and fell straight to the ground. Seeing that Tang San went towards Tang hao and said, "Dad, is it safe to got there now?" Tang Hoa said handing him a sword as he went near the beast and sat in a lotus position and with his Blue Silver grass he attracted the ring and started to circulate his spirit energy. A yellow Spirit Ring appeared from the Hydra''s corpse and I used my Spirit Energy to bring it towards me. Since it was lower than my current Spirit Ring age tolerance there were no problems with absorbing it. Quickly, I gain information about Spirit Ability. [Constrict: Traps the target disabling their movements. Age of Spirit Ability adds different properties to the spirit] Yellow: Traps the target disabling their movements. Purple: Increases vine durability to that of wood and power of the grip. Secretes corrosive poison Black: Increases all previous effect and adds lumps on the surface of the vine where it would sprout more vines. Red: Increases all previous effect and adds high-speed regeneration on the vines Gold: Increases all previous effect and adds skill [Camouflage] Effects: Can be used to change the colour of one''s Soul Rings and create entirely fake ones. Allows him to ?ssimilate into the environment like a chameleon, but if the user so much as twitches his fingers then they would be revealed. Chapter 9 - Far Northern Plains A spirit after obtaining the spirit ring, all abilities must undergo a process of variation to evolve. Different spirits with similar spirit rings evolve completely different abilities, and vice versa, even if the spirit ring only is different in age, the abilities will still have great differences. Regaining consciousness, Tang San first of all thought of his dad, he was eager to tell him about his success. "Dad, I''m done" "Excellent, now pack up your throwing weapons and we''ll be picking up your mom with us. But are you really sure that your subspace will be able to heal her faster?" Tang hao asked, still stumped that his son had such an ability to contain a small world into himself, but not only that it also runs on a different time dilation as the world, truly fascinating. "Yea dad, I already showed you. Geez, don''t tell me you''re already starting to get senile." Tang san smirked Tang Hao smiled at this interaction, joy filled him as he can now finally reconnect with his son that he had neglected for years. "You brat! Hmph just watch I your father will handle you during your tortu-training" "Hmpf, If you so much as do anything ruthless then I your grandpa will tell mom about breaking your promise by neglecting me!" Tang san teased "*Ahem* After picking up your mother, we''ll be travelling to were you will be continuing your training for the next 2 years." "Where will that be, dad?" "Far Northern plains" --------------------- Tang Hao pointed next to him, as he was facing a slender blue silver grass. That blue silver grass seemed a bit longer than ordinary grass, but most extraordinary was the thin golden line in the centre. Taking a few steps forward, he knelt in front of that blue silver grass as his father instructed. Raising a hand, the expression in Tang Hao''s eyes suddenly became extraordinarily soft. He extremely gently ??r?ssed that golden lined blade of blue silver grass, "Ah Yin, I''ve brought our son to see you. Our son has already grown up now. He''s got your beauty, and he''s even more outstanding than me. Do you see? Our son is here." Tang San''s heart shook, stupidly watching that slightly swaying, distributing a gentle aura, blue silver grass. He also gently ??r?ssed a blade of that blue silver grass. At this moment, a strange scene appeared. Among that blue silver grass, the two longest blades unexpectedly slowly moved, one twisting around Tang Hao''s hand, and one twining around Tang San''s fingers "Hey Mom..." -------Timeskip Tang hao looking at his son dumbfoundedly, feeling that he had misheard his son. "Yea, dad its easy and plus mom would feel more comfortable with it" Tang san then transferred the entire mound, earth and all into the realm. Leaving behind a perfectly square hole that seems like it had been dug out ------------------------ Endless snow as far as the eyes can see, within the vast white we see two figures travelling side by side. ==== Tang San following behind his father stopped his steps, following Tang Hao''s gaze forward. Appearing in front of them, was a rolling snowy mountain range stretching into the distance overlooking the blinding white plains. They were unable to see all of the mountain range from where they stood, but even the outmost mountains were high enough to pierce the clouds. "Have you recovered?" Tang Hao asked. "Already recovered." Tang Hao gave Tang San a smirk, "Alright. Try to keep up with me." Leaving only six words, Tang Hao already soared up, climbing straight up the mountain wall in front. The mountain wall in front was extremely precipitous, close to ninety degrees, but Tang Hao still walked as if stepping on the level ground. Each time the tips of his toes touched the mountain wall, his body would ascend more than ten meters, swiftly rising towards the top. Tang San drew a deep breath, condensing his spirit power on his feet, calves and hands. crouching forward, calve muscle bending, his ?h?st close to the ground. Then with a burst of power, his legs abruptly exerted themselves, Tang San shooting up like a bolt of lightning, directly ascending close to ten meters. Feeling relief that he had incorporated rock climbing during his childhood training. With the rhythmic sound of his breathing, Tang San felt the blood within his body gradually warm up, his whole body indescribably comfortable and no longer cold. Tang Hao was like an untiring machine, bringing Tang San across one mountain peak after another, using close to half a day to penetrate deep within the mountain range. While Tang San was starting to get dizzy with blurred vision. because using inner energy control consumed spirit power, and half a day of travel made Tang San dizzy with blurred vision. Just at this moment, a faint rumbling sound reached his ears, and the air also gradually grew cold with frigid mist. As they constantly came closer, that rumbling became more and more deafening. The surrounding area was slowly getting enshrouded in mist, while the temperature was even a bit lower here than in the mountain peaks they had passed. At last, Tang Hao halted once again. This was a mountain valley, to be precise, it was a pool. The deep water was so clear, tranquil and serene, like a giant blue gem. On one side of the valley was a twenty-meter wide waterfall, covering the two hundred meters high mountain wall like a jade ribbon. That rumble was the sound of it striking the pool. The waterfall poured down in torrents, smashing into the pool, striking up countless splashes. Tang Hao sat there quietly, his gaze all along falling on the waterfall pouring down like a silver river. For some reason, his always cold expression had changed, and that aged face revealed an unconcealable tenderness. Perhaps it was because Tang Hao sensed his gaze, but his expression mended and he slowly turned to look at Tang San. "For the next two years, We will be training here. I will be teaching you all the necessities about combat. The training will start tomorrow, for now, do as you please. And take out your mother I wish to bring her along somewhere" "Sure dad" Seeing as the day was already over Tang san decide to set up tent and sleep. Needing to do a few things in the realm such as levelling his spirit ring, practising the genjutsu: Sharingan and finally learning to control his spirit vines so that he could braid it like a rope with ease. He was even thinking about taking up sewing and using the grass as threads for control practice. \ But for now, he must rest. Chapter 10 - 1.5 years Later Plains biome, Spirit Ascension Platform, Violet jade realm ====== A young boy was currently surrounded by hundreds of beast of different colour and sizes, The boy was currently armed with a pair of tri-prong kunais that he has on each hand, holding them in a reverse grip. But just by looking at the ground filled with throwing weapons, we could ?ssume that this battle had been ongoing for a while now. With a sharp intake of breath, the boy had once again engaged the incoming beast. Red flaring eyes flickering side to side, as he narrowly dodges each incoming strikes while returning one of his own. Each one of his swings was swift and deadly, bringing about the whistling of the wind as they sliced through the air, causing deaths of the Spirit Beasts between the ages of 100 ¨C 499, down they drop one after another before they could even approach him. Ziiing¡­ Ziiiing... A large wave of blue vines appeared in midair braided together to form a rope-like effect, As the vines held and restrained the beast that was coming at a tricky spot, as the boy kept killing more than tens of them a minute. If one were to look closely at the fight, they would notice that whenever the beasts made eye contact with the boy the majority would stop and pause their movements, there are even some that would outright attack other beasts near it. "Ha...haah.. alright, let''s try out the second ring ability" The boy thought as a purple ring flared behind him. His initial ragged breathing had already calmed down after he regulated it. He adjusted his shoulder so he could tighten his hold on his weapons. He then jumped up, sent what looks like orange horned fruits below and landed in the centre of the horde, as the fierce battle between young man and a hundred beasts, continued. Bang! bang! bang!... Fierce explosions went off around the general direction where the fruits landed, killing, injuring or maiming the ones that were nearby. Looking at this, the boy smirked feeling no regrets at his ring choice. Pulling out another kunai from somewhere, the boy took his fighting stance once more as he had landed back on the ground, preparing for another fight once more, as his hands had already begun to feel numb from all killing. splurt. Blood splattered out, as a nearby horned baboon had a chance to batter him with his makeshift stuff. The nearby baboon''s face was smashed with a flying little hammer. He then suddenly flung his right arm, commanding the blue vines once more to restrained a pair of beasts at his side, as he dashes past them while slitting their throats, ending the slice with his arms crossed in front of him. Right after, he repositions the weapons on his finger, then threw the tri-prong kunais at the last remaining hyena-like beast, cracking its skull open and effectively killing it. "Fuck yea!" The blood covered boy cheered under his breath as the last one of them had died. --------------------- 1 year ago I had finally reached the next stage and became a spirit master (20 ranked). So once it had gotten dark, I enter the Immortal Realm. Trying out the spirit the next level of the spirit accession platform. Once inside, I am greeted by a large dragon-like Spirit Beasts that was playing around in the snow inside the Immortal Realm. This was a Lugia that I had accidentally destroyed and enslaved its mind, while pouring out all my spirit energy in the Sharingan: genjutsu. When it scared the hell out of me as it suddenly came out of the pool, while I was bathing. Apparently, they were rare now according to my father, so I decided to take care of it in my realm. As I kinda want to look badass while flying on it. Honestly, despite being a semi-retard, he was growing quite quickly thanks to the beneficial environment of the realm, I had even added a good amount of snow that he seems to like playing around in. After watching it playing on the snow for a couple more minutes, I once again ordered it to only eat the fruits of the normal trees that were now fully grown. I then leave to the Spirit Ascension Realm, now that I have reached the fiftieth rank, it has upgraded to the fifth level. I casually stroll through the forest region, travelling from tree to tree. Suddenly, a shadow streaks across from my side and rapidly approaches my position, it is so fast that I can only see a bright orange blur. Unprepared by the sheer speed of the shadow, I could only react by holding my arms forward. Bang! The shadow struck me and exploded, sending my body crashing towards the ground. I felt bones cracking ad the ground created a pit where I landed due to the strong impact. I then activated my Sharingan, trying to find what hit me, It was a plant type Spirit Beast, but one that I have never seen before. It seemed to be a tree with bright orange vines as arms and orange horned fruits hang from them. The entire Spirit Beast emitted a strong presence, it didn''t feel violent or dominating, but more holy and suppressive. The Spirit Beast seemed to be staring at me from a distance, observing my actions calmly. I quickly use my Observation Ability on it to find out what kind of Spirit Beast it is. == Age: 499 years old Spirit Ability: Explosive fruits == I won''t be able to worry about my Spirit Power wastage with this Spirit Beast if I don''t want to experience death and get thrown out of the Immortal Realm for a week. I use the Sharingan to increase my the field of my vision as I, unfortunately, haven''t unlocked the 3rd tomoe yet, and got ready to battle. ---------------time skip, brain cannot think of a fight scene The tree fell down lifelessly as the Demonic horned melon tree was finally slain. A yellow Spirit Ring floated out of the body of the spirit beast. Once I saw the Spirit Ring, I knew that the Demonic horned melon tree finally died as I sighed with exhaustion. All of my Spirit Power was gone, and I could only rely on my physical body now. I quickly dragged my body to the corpse of the Demonic horned melon tree and sat down. ====================== 2nd Spirit Ability: Exploding fruits Description: A Spirit Ability that produces fruits which explode upon impact. The seeds that are flung from the explosion can then be used to propagate blue silver grass. Purple: Increase its range (2m) and can change the fruits into smoke bombs. Black: The seeds can drain spirit energy when they are attached to a target. The user can also choose to have them explode upon impact, creating a cluster bomb effect. Red: The seed can now draw in surrounding spirit energy and use it to grow rapidly. Once fully grown they can bear more exploding fruits, freeing the user''s cost for creating one with spirit energy. Also once the trees are fully grown, they can supply the user with spirit energy by absorbing the surrounding energy in the air. Gold: The trees now semi-conscious and can be ordered to either throw exploding fruits at the selected targets or throw the fruits at a safe area to propagate more trees to give the user more spirit energy. =========== Chapter 11 - Leaving for moon pavilion As a result of my two years of training, can now confidently say that my body is comparable to any user spirit beast user of my rank, which was my goal as my fighting style could easily catch up by using my cheatigan..I mean Sharingan. And to prove this point, this was what my training schedule looked like at the end of my training. 5-7:00 AM: Breakfast then 10,000 Netero punches and low kicks under the waterfall, while having 20kgs of weight strapped to each of my limbs and wearing a 50kg body armour. Which honestly was practically suicidal for any 8-year-olds. Considering that my current body weight was only 50kg and that being said was already double the amount of weight an 8-year-old should have back on earth. 8:00 AM: Sparing with my dad in the mist without using my Sharingan, as I from what I had learnt on naruto a blind uchiha is a dead uchiha and there''s no way I''m dying just because I''m blind. 9:00 AM: Spirit control- learning to braid my vines together, currently I can braid 3 vines together instinctively and at the process of 3x3 vines together 10:00 am: Lunchtime, packed with nutritious food freshly grown from my realm. 11:00am-2:00 PM: Weighted runs and shadowboxing underwater. I can now hold my breath for 30 minutes straight, which would be a world record back on earth. While only needing 5 minutes of time to regain my breath and do the exercise all over again. 3:00 pm: Hand conditioning, as I found that the stronger the limbs the more I could pour more spirit energy in it. 4:00 PM: Rock climbing with no weights but only using 1 limb, to get used to moving around without weights and also to improve my balance, grip strength and most important observation prowess. 6-7:00 PM: Forging, Repairing the weapons I had damage during the day and also to get the feel of handling a hammer. 8:00 PM: Hunting for wild meat or collect any rare beast, which had become a hobby of mine and had recently caught and tamed a kyurem with the help of my dad. This period also consists of eating dinner. 9:00 PM: Go to the realm and rest my real body ===== Realm training consists of 3 parts 1: Training my spirit energy, by using my theoretical training of the inner and outer energy control. Which I had renamed as the ying and yang. 3: Leveling up my rings in the spirit ascension realm while also learning to control my Sharingan. So far I have maxed out my first ring, while the second one was already at the black stage. ---------------------------------------------- -3rd person After Tang San had finished cultivating he had finally broken through the bottleneck and became a Spirit Grandmaster (Rank 30 Spirit Master), just in time too as they were moving toward the next training area. Curious at where it was he asked his dad. "Dad, I''ve to finish cultivating and had finally broken through the bottleneck reaching hit the 30th level. By the way, where are we going next" "Excellent xiao san, I''ve just got the spirit beast for you. As for your other question, we will be heading to moon pavilion to visit your aunt yuehua and make you less...socially awkward" Tang hao answered with a smirked "What do you mean I''m awkward!? I''ll have you know that I am practically a social bu??erfly" Tang san exclaimed Tang hao hearing this smiled and replied"...Yea first off you do know that a prerequisite to being a social bu??erfly is to at least have one friend right?" "What!? But I do have a lot of friends!" Tang san cried out "Well....let''s see....Lulu is clearly one.....and...uhh Rem..yeah!..Rem is the second one..then uhhh...mom!..Yes! Mom always hangs out with me!" Tang san hearing the question, began to ponder. Slowly realising that he had accidentally spent all the time until now just focusing on training. "So let me get this straight....your overall friend count consist of 2 spirit beast. With one of them being practically brain dead..and finally your last friend is...haahh your own mother....who I may add, is currently just a patch of grass....Wow...Ok.....yeah...Im just gonna stop now. Cuz this just keeps getting sadder the more I continue." Tang hao summed up in a deadpan voice Hearing this, the black haired boy reasoned "Look it may sound bad at the moment, but don''t worry dad I''ll start making friends once I reach head to Nuoding academy and finally Shrek. Plus I can learn all the social skills at Nuoding academy anyways. So can we just go to like the seaside to train instead?" "Yeah...no. Call me a bad dad all you want, but there''s no way I''m gonna let my son out into the real world while being socially inept. Also, I highly doubt this Yu Xiaogang fellow you keep telling me about could teach you about social skills. I mean, the man is like a 50-year-old v?r??n who had spent his life reading books...so yeah, he is not really painting the picture of social prowess is he? Nor is he making me feel relief while your in hos hands. While on the other hand, we will be going to the capital and who know you may find a nice girl there" He finished as he wiggled his brows. Seeing as there was no way out, Tang san accepted his fate and like his dad has said he may meet Qian Renxue there."Ughh..fine. But you have to promise that you will help me get something from the Sunset Forest after getting my third spirit ring. There''s a certain well, that I think would look good in my realm" "Ughhh...I know that I''m gonna regret this but fine. Ill help you retrieve this ''well'' of yours" Seeing the expression on his son''s face, Tang hao knew that this request would be more troublesome than the time where he had to hold down a 10k-year-old kyurem, while his son tried to hypnotise it. But nevertheless agreed, as he was now noticing that his son would only move or intervene when there is something of a gain for him. "Yes! hahaha, don''t worry dad this would only benefit us hehehe." -------------------------------- For those who are asking, Shrek academy chapter will probably be in the next 4-5 chapters. Kyurem pic: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4e/1e/ba/4e1ebaedd205adae60781a7c5a5f916f.jpg Chapter 12 - Third spirit ring and notice Having decided their course, the father and son pair left the North and head towards Sunset Forest. where they will search for the third ring for Tang san''s Blue Silver Grass. Which is the dividing line of many spiritual masters, as the 30th rank is when their cultivation speed would start decreasing A few examples of this is; Yu Xiaogang being considered a failure as his cultivation stopped at 30th rank or Qian Renxue''s Seraphim spirit which is a supreme beast and considered as the strongest spirit only producing a Spirit Rank of 20 when undergoing Spirit Awakening. Which means that most of Tang sans high-speed cultivation would start to reduce but with this, he would have quite some time to solidify his potential and hone his combat skills and experience at that time. But even if his speed his reduced he would still be considered a genius with that. Even his current stage of a rank 30th itself is enough to make people drop their jaws at his speed. By the time he joins Shrek he estimated himself to reach the 40th rank and the 59th rank before the Continental Tournament. He even decided to go to slaughter city before the tournament so he wanted to improve his physical strength at that time, but this is of course after he had conquered all the girls in Shrek academy. ---------------------- After reaching the Sunset Forest Tang hao used his Spiritual Detection to search for a Blood Spider Emperor. He found many of them but only a few were above 2000-year range and there was one who was at the 9000-year range. He decided to use that for his third ring, as it would be easier to upgrade it to 10,000-years or a higher ring later on. He also wanted to test out his Sharingan so he fought it head on, he didn''t even use the other spirits this time. While fighting he pumps spirit energy into his limbs and made his arms glow in Jade coloured, protecting it from the poison that covers the spider legs. He also used his 3 Tomoe Sharingan to keep up with the movements of this spider. This actually infuriated it, whenever it used an attack it missed but all his attacks landed on the beast perfectly. His fighting experience in the realm also extended in real life, so by fighting thousands of spider type beast he was able to easily find proper acupoints and weaknesses of the spider emperor. He was literally toying with the beast, he knew that this would push it into the corner and attack in a desperate manner but for him, the Eight Legged Lances were much more important so he didn''t care and infuriated it even further. When he was unable to dodge any attack his dad that was watching from the side would throw a rock at the incoming limb, which would then be redirected. Seeing that the Spider emperor tried to escape but Tang hao didn''t let it and crushed a few of its legs, so Tang san can still catch it if he tries. It also let out poisonous webs towards Tang san, forcing him to use his spirit, forming a wall of vines in front of him to block it. Only now did he notice that this Spider emperor was actually a variation and had 12 legs instead of the usual eight. He had no choice after coming so far so he decided to bet on it and continued to fight the beast. Soon the spider went crazy and gave up on all defences and let out a frenzied attack. He didn''t wait anymore and used his blue silver grass and tied it up to the point where it couldn''t even move an inch, although the spider emperor was trying its best to burn away all the vines with its corrosive poison it was all for nought as it couldn''t outpace the rapidly regenerating vines. Doing so the fight ended very quickly. He didn''t wait and started to absorb the ring as it came out of its body. It was a deep purple coloured ring he took out his Blue Silver grass and let it absorb the ring, getting the Origin of the Blood Spider Emperor and the Eight Spider Lances along with it. While he was absorbing the ring he was able to see a large black spider much similar to the one he had just fought. He went towards it and activated he devour skill. The spider let out a frenzied roar and did its last-ditch attack but that failed and was eventually absorbed by Tang San. He was quite satisfied with his gains, he then released his Blue Silver Grass and saw that it had two rings one golden and one purple. The purple ring had a slight black colour to it. ==================== 3rd Spirit Ability: Blood drain Description: A Spirit Ability that gathers the surrounding blood and uses it to heal the user, speeding up their regeneration speed. 1 liter=1x regeneration speed Black: 1 liter=10x regeneration speed Red: 1 liter=500x regeneration speed Gold: 1 liter=10,000x regeneration speed Unlocks the ability [blood clone] Produces a clone with 50% of the main body''s strength without intelligence, must be controlled. This 50% strength wasn''t just the physical body, but also included the first seven spirit abilities. ------------------------------------------------------------