Chapter 4 - 4: Copyrights?!

Xiao Yan sighed as he packed all that he needed to survive in the wild forest filled with bloodthirsty spirit beasts. By his side were Xiao Wu and the boy by her side yesterday, Tang San.

A day has passed since his teacher administered his 'punishment' on him. Going to a spirit beast infested forest with someone who wasn't going to protect him from the beast he chose to hunt? Well, he can handle that.

'Perfect timing I guess. I already stabilised my cultivation so all I need to do is get my own spirit ring.' Xiao Yan thought. Truly grateful for the chance. Now that might cause people to misunderstand him to be resigned to his fate as food to the spirit beasts or secretly a m.a.s.o.c.h.i.s.t. But that wasn't the case. Although not a lot of people know, but when he turned seven years old he unexpectedly awakened a strange physique.

A year after he awakened my spirit essence I started to really trained his body. Not just some light physical activities but real sweat, blood and death inducing exercise. Now some people wouldn't find that weird, as everyone in this world and era know that tool spirit masters have a slightly weaker physique than beast spirit masters and they would try their best to train their bodies to the limits to just slightly catch up to them.

But Xiao Yan physique is a slightly weird case. Every time he would be near death and exhausted his entire body's spirit power, qi and stamina, he would suddenly become stronger than before with twice, or even thrice on rare occasions, of his overall power. Whether it be his physical strength or agility, it would all be twice or thrice more powerful than before although after getting a great beat down and having to be completely healed to feel the power up. But it had a side effect of not working the same as it did before. Meaning, whatever way he did to get the effect of upgrading his body won't work for the second time.

Now I know what you're all thinking, is this really a f.u.c.k.i.n.g Zenkai boost? Or some kind of Saiyan bs power that the author of this story took without permission from the DBZ world?

No, Xiao Yan does not know. But since it works like the Zenkai boost from DBZ he decided to name this kind of power of his; Zenkai boost to commemorate his past life's childhood.

Anyways, back to the present.

"Hey Xiao Yan, you sure you won't want us to accompany you?" Tang San asked in worry. He was a reincarnated Outer Tang Sect member from another world, one who had not felt the love of friends and family before in his past life before reincarnating in this new life.

On the day we celebrated their two year(that was just last year)Tang San gave Xiao Wu and Xiao Yan both hidden sleeve darts for self defense.

Xiao Yan was both surprised and grateful so much that he gave Tang San a bro hug and advise on how to handle a woman. Xiao Wu was also so moved that she hugged him and immediately sworn to be by his side and have his back when he needs it.

Though Xiao Yan became a little greedy and asked for another hidden sleeve dart for his other wrist and had wanted to add two hidden switch blades. Yeah, anyone who played that game knows where his going with this.

Patting the bag of necessities for his survival, Xiao Yan brought out his right fist and there fitted around his middle finger is a obsidian black ring with a weird design on it.

'A storage ring the old man gifted to me on my seventh birthday. Looks I'm finally bringing this bad boy out of the city. Though for some reason it looks like a black lantern ring, I mean, it's not like the DC universe influence extends to even here right? And this isn't a real black power ring right?' Xiao Yan snorted as he sorted out all the things he needed in the storage ring.

"..." 'I didn't jinxed myself did I?' Xiao Yan steps halted before he shook his head in denial.

Shaking his head to get rid of the thought of the black rings being real. Xiao Yan turned to face his sworn siblings who stood at the door of their shared dormitory.

Tang San and Xiao Wu walked towards him with worried expressions. And they looked as if they would follow up with him.

Especially Xiao Wu, she had a very panicked and worried expression as she continued to shook her head at Xiao Yan for him to not do what he was about to do.

Xiao Yan lightly smiled and shaked his head to stopped them at their actions. Making their worried expressions more clear and expressive. He appreciated and felt moved by their actions but this his 'punishment', and path to getting stronger.

'Even if I have my first spirit ring and trained like hell, they would be several spirit ranks and abilities above me. I would be left behind.' Call it his pride or ego, but Xiao Yan can't let that. He wanted to protect his family. He wanted to help shoulder their burdens and trials in the future. And to do that, he would go beyond his limits and surpass everyone's expectations. Plus Ultra.

Walking towards his friends, he put both of his hands on each of their shoulders and shook his head once more to stop them and let him go.

Tang San and Xiao Wu showed reluctant faces as they clenched their hands hard before tilting their heads down to the ground in resignation.

Xiao Yan smiled in gratitude and walked around his friends. He stepped in front of a black cabinet that had huge metal lock on it and let out a wide grin. 'Well, since I want my survivability to increased then I won't hold back.' He opened it to reveal...