Chapter 44 - 44: Civet-Sword(1)

A/N: So there wouldn't be any confusion, Xiao Wu and Xiao Yan both consider themselves as real siblings. They both love each other like siblings so don't expect they would be together. Tang San and Xiao Wu are official pairings in this story. As well Yu Xiaogang with ****(I shall not spoil you on this one.)

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Silence.

Everyone in the arena was dead silent as they watched Dai Shu, someone whose bull beast spirit enhancement transformation deactivated, fell back on the ground with a large thud that echoed the entire arena.

Dai Shu's eyes are completely white and large amount of saliva leaked out of his mouth. His body kept on spamming and twitching like he was having a seizure. His c.h.e.s.t had a large slash wound, blood was spilling out. He looked as if he died.

Though thankfully that wasn't it as his body soon calmed down and everyone, who were spirit masters, leaned and squinted their eyes to stare and saw that his c.h.e.s.t rising up and down.

Everyone let out a long sigh of relief then cheered excitedly, causing the normal people around them to follow.

The announcer quickly shook off his surprise, taking a deep breath, he said.

"W-Winner without using his spirit, XIAO YAN! Matches 1 and 1 win, please come to the reception to register your acc.u.mulated points. Also, get that man healed! Quick!" With that the announcer turned towards the still rallying people and said his piece of what he thought about the fight.

"Oh thank the foods above Xiao Yan didn't kill him." Ma Hongjun said as he slumped down on his seat while releasing a sigh.

Ma Xiaotao and Dai Mubai, who now had both his double pupil eyes opened, nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, there would have been serious consequences if he did." Dai Mubai commented. While nodding, Ma Xiaotao leaned her face to further study Xiao Yan if he was alright, although his body was producing arcs of white blinding lightning, she was already certain and just shook her head in relief.

"Looks like we didn't have to worry, his body language dosen't show any signs of exhaustion nor being in pain. So it means he wasn't going all out on that technique of his, which explains why his opponent didn't die." Indeed, Ma Xiaotao's analysis was correct as Xiao Yan didn't really go all out with his technique, heck, he didn't even use the complete version of it!

Xiao Yan, with his legs spread apart, had his right hand out where he had struck Dai Shu. Instead of positioning his hand out to pierced his opponent, like what the name of technique is supposed to, instead, it was a open palm strike.

His whole figure was glowing in a bright blinding light, sparks of lightning dancing around his body, his hair went up high being spiky like a certain monkey alien race.

Xiao Yan let out a sigh of relief and deactivated his so-called godspeed but really, it was one of his techniques, the techniques he had once used as being the Flame Emperor, the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.

He used the first stage of the technique; Lightning Flash to move almost instantly in front of Dai Shu. As for his body being completely covered by white lightning and caused everyone to be momentarily blindness? Well that was just for show.

How was he able use the technique? Flame Emperor just basically uploaded how to execute and use the technique in his brain, as well as his experiences in using it.

That was why he had almost perfect control of using the technique, to the point of flawlessly executing the first stage of the technique, despite it being his first time of it.

He had gathered a dense amount of lightning and manipulated it to gather in his right hand and expelled it out the moment his palm touched the c.h.e.s.t of Dai Shu. Shocking his enemy with a whole a.s.s of lightning till he went unconscious.

Sounds easy and simple right? Well no, far from it. Xiao Yan had to really concentrate and calculate the enough voltage that he should be able to knock Dai Shu down than kill him. As well as not frying himself to death with his own lightning.

After all, despite the memories and experiences from his Flame Emperor's life, he was still a normal teenage boy in his earth past as Xiao Yan. He has never stain his hands blood, well, except from the time when he killed a chicken and other small animals for barbeque.

He knew that it was a disadvantage, a weakness for him. When the moment that he needs to necessary kill a person and then hesitates? That would cost him dearly. But he would cross that bridge sooner or later.

Shaking his head he turned away and went back to where Tang San and the others were while thinking,

'Well, that was pretty boring.'

.....

"Well that was pretty boring." Xiao Wu said as Xiao Yan got near them.

A wry smile appeared on Xiao Yan and Tang San's faces.

"What? Do you think I'm like you? A she-devil who plays with her food?" Xiao Yan retorted with a smirk.

A "tic" mark appeared on Xiao Wu's forehead. Her fist raising, she was about to smack the smirking Xiao Yan but before she could, she was the first to get smack and at the back of head by none other than Tang San who looked amused.

"Enough Xiao Wu. Weren't you supposed to congratulate him? Aren't you the great big sister Xiao Wu who would pat her little brother? Or are you the spoiled little sister who doesn't gets her way?" Tang San said teasingly.

A pink hue appeared on both Xiao Wu's face as she pouted and argue with Tang San.

Xiao Yan, Xun Er and Zhu Zhuqing watched their antics while looking at each other and shaking their heads with amus.e.m.e.nt.

"Xun Er, please come into the arena. Xun Er, please..." Xun Er perked up and turned to Xiao Yan with a small smile.

"Well looks like it's my turn, wish me luck Yan." With a smile of his own, Xiao Yan nodded and patted her head.

"Although you don't need it, as someone who spars with you through the years, I know what you're really capable of, but since you ask for it... good luck Xun Er." Her face fl.u.s.tered, she looks down on the ground for a moment looking slightly meek before raising her head, Xun Er looked at Xiao Yan's eyes and nodded.

"Un!" With that she left to the arena while also getting encouragement from Tang San, Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing.

Turning to Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Yan looked confused as he saw her exhausted and a bit drained.

"Are you alright Zhu Zhuqing?" Xiao Yan asked worryingly.

Zhu Zhuqing merely nodded and replied.

"Yeah. After you were called, I was also called into another arena for my match." A grin appeared on Xiao Yan's face as he noticed that she didn't looked distraught or saddened.

"Looks like you clearly won?" Zhu Zhuqing smiled and nodded.

Without saying anything, Xiao Yan gave her a soldier pill and a rejuvenating pill, the latter is a 2nd tier pill that makes whomever eats it have their stamina slowly returned to them.

Zhu Zhuqing only looked slightly confused but then shrugged, and without even asking him, she ate them.

Xiao Yan raised an eyebrow at her display, asking.

"You aren't going to ask about what they do?"

Zhu Zhuqing, looking at Xiao Yan intently for a moment before shaking her head, replying.

"Although we've known each other for several days, before you got yourself into a coma, some hours and minutes just now, but..." Looking at Xiao Yan, Zhu Zhuqing allowed a small smile appear on her face.

"I think I'm a pretty good judge of someone's character, so I can confidently say that if I trust anyone most in the academy, that would be you."

Xiao Yan looked slightly dazed. The smile on Zhu Zhuqing face and her expression had surprised him so much, that he didn't notice Tang San and a pouting Xiao Wu besides him, arrived next to him.

Tang San, raising his eyebrow in confusion, asked the still and dazed Xiao Yan.

"Yan? Oi, you alright?" Tang San's question and Xiao Wu nudging his rib had woken up Xiao Yan from his state.

Slightly glaring at the cheekily smiling Xiao Wu, Xiao Yan glanced over to Zhu Zhuqing who had returned to her cold and indifferent face.

Soon after that Tang San, Xiao Wu and Xiao Yan engaged themselves into a conversation while Zhu Zhuqing meditated to recuperate.

Later on Xun Er returned with a calm and collected face.

Xiao Yan turned towards her with a grin and said.

"Congratulations Xun Er! Looks like the match had gone well?" Tang San, Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing, who had finally recovered, turned towards her and said their own congratulations for her.

Slightly fl.u.s.tered at the attention she was getting, Xun Er nodded and replied while taking a seat.

"Yeah, though it wasn't like I didn't ran into trouble, my opponent was a speed attack system spirit master who kept on running away while waiting for a chance to attack me."

"Wait, why was he running away and how did you win?" Xiao Wu asked curiously.

Xun Er smiled.

"I have two thousand year old spirit rings and a ten-thousand year old one, I'm probably sure he was going to forfeit before a look of determination appeared on his face and maybe decided to take a chance. Also, I pretty much had won the moment he had came close and attack me. You know how my second spirit ability works." A dawn of understanding appeared on Xiao Yan, Tang San and Xiao Wu while Zhu Zhuqing looks confused.

Then Xiao Yan asked Xun Er with a mischievous expression.

"By the way, when you released your spirit rings how did everyone react to it?"

The same expression appeared on Xun Er's face and replied.

"They had turned completely silent and was in constant disbelief."

"Nice!" Xiao Yan and Xiao Wu said as they fist bumped with each other and Xun Er.

"Three-Five combination team, please come into the arena. I repeat, Three-Five combination team..."

"Civet-Sword combination team, please come into the arena. I repeat, Civet-Sword combination team..."

Xiao Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu and Tang San had all perked up and looked at each other.

Nodding and saying words of encouragement at each other, with Xun Er saying her own piece, they all walked separately into their own assigned arena.

Arriving at their assigned arena, Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing took a moment to observe their surrounding before taking a look at their opponents.

Unexpectedly, standing side by side were a pair of brothers! Although they weren't twins, as one looked clearly older than the other, both in their middle or early twenties. They were lean but had muscle filled bronze bodies, wearing brown trousers and sleeveless white shirts with their hair covered by a bandana, they both stood taller than Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing by a head.

They were called the Sword-Spear, clearly it meant that their spirits is related with their combination name. So one of them has a sword spirit and the other a spear spirit.

'Two tool type spirit masters huh? Especially one has a sword spirit! Who would have thought that my luck would be this great today?' A excited smile appeared on Xiao Yan's face. Turning to Zhu Zhuqing he said.

"Zhu Zhuqing, I'll go for the one who has a sword spirit while you go deal with the other one but before careful. Get as close as you can with him, his spirit is great to use in close combat as a spear user, so he's more dangerous, but as long as you don't give him any chance to distance himself from you to gain ground, you can win, but only if it goes well. Looking at them they clearly has more experience than us in fighting. So I'll assist you as best as I can, but if it gets dangerous you retreat back without any hesitation, alright?" Zhu Zhuqing pause, staring at Xiao Yan who had a serious expression on his face, and nodded.

"Yeah." They both exchange small smiles with each and turned back to face their opponents.

*Ding!*

[FIGHT!]