Chapter 47 - 47: Spirit Harmonization?

A/N: Wrote this with a major headache, cause by a lack of sleep that I didn't get for the last couple of days, so I decided that I would write a long 3k+ word chapter so I won't update tomorrow.

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Star Dou Great Forest is an extremely dangerous place. It's known as the number one spirit beast forest, for it is the most favourite place of powerful spirit masters. Of course, it's also a place where spirit masters gets injuries.

Now you might be asking, what's the difference of this spirit beast forest compared to the rest?

Let's take those hunting spirit beast forests as examples. Those forests are under the jurisdiction of the Spirit Hall which makes the spirit beasts inhabiting in it more docile and also limited in cultivation, as even thousand year spirit beasts very difficult to encounter. Not only that but it's area is very small. Only Spirit Scholars and Spirit Masters kinds of levels would go there.

Star Dou Great Forest, however, is one of the Douluo Continent's most famous four great spirit beast habitats. The area is huge, practically equal to Balak Kingdom's territory, spanning the border of Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire, within it, two fifth's of the area are in the Heaven Dou Empire, the other three fifths are in Star Luo Empire. It's an immense primeval forest, the forest's interior terrain is complicated, with wetlands, swamps and so on. The spirit beasts there are also extremely terrifying, the closer to the center of the forest, the more powerful the spirit beasts. It is said, inside there are even hundred thousand year spirit beasts. Any Spirit Master, as long as he is powerful enough, with good luck, can find a most suitable spirit ring inside.

Star Dou Great Forest was located southeast of Balak Kingdom, sharing a very short border with Balak Kingdom, but Suotuo City itself was also in the southeast of the Kingdom, not far from Star Dou Great Forest, less than five hundred kilometres.

Right now currently, Xiao Yan and every student of shrek, alongside Zhao Wuji, was running towards the said great spirit beast forest.

Tang San was at the front, Oscar and Ning Rongrong in the center, protected by Dai Mubai and Xiao Wu, Ma Xiaotao and Ma Hongjun by the two auxiliary system spirit masters left and right sides respectively. Lastly, Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing was at the back. While Zhao Wuji was dozens of meters away from them, observing them and their surroundings with sharp and cautious eyes, while also rubbing his very bruised face.

'That esteemed senior really didn't hold back...' Zhao Wuji was sure that if his students wasn't with him right now, he was sure that he would both cry and laugh bitterly.

After all, it wasn't like he could received a painful punishment from a Titled Douluo and afterwards receiving a small reward of making a certain student of his stronger.

'Ah, I wouldn't want to meet that crazy lunatic ever again.' Zhao Wuji could still feel shivers running down his spine when he recalled that white robed Titled Douluo smiling evilly at him.

It was also embarrassing that Flender and another esteemed Titled Douluo, who was wearing a black robe, was watching them by the side when he got beaten up by the white robed Titled Douluo. What's worse, that senior had continued beating him up every other day with the two watching them!

That psycho had practically left Zhao Wuji near death's door after he was finished beating him up as well! He wouldn't have been moving around and be in mint condition, if it weren't for the psycho, ah, white robe senior leaving him a pill to both heal and rejuvenate his body.

Not only that, he also got another pill that can slightly benefit both his cultivation and body. If it weren't for that pill, he was sure he would have cried, manly he might add, to sleep everyday.

Zhao Wuji didn't really blame the senior for beating him up, especially after seeing the condition of one his students, if the senior didn't beat him he would have done it to himself.

Zhao Wuji let out a soft sigh, he glanced towards a couple of certain students of his, thinking, 'Who would have thought, that those two would be related to two infamous Titled Douluos in the entire Douluo Continent? Especially that lunatic! I thought he was spearheading the war between the Falling Star Pavilion and the Three Alliance?'

It was no brainer on who those robed men were, they were both Yao Lao and Tang Hao!

After seeing the condition of his grandson, Yao Lao had immediately went to beat up Zhao Wuji and afterwards went towards Xiao Yan to check him for any further injuries. Thankfully, his grandson was stable.

Every other day, Yao Lao would go check up on Xiao Yan's and beat up Zhao Wuji afterwards.

Xiao Yan's his grandson and disciple after all, what kind of a grandfather and teacher is he if he can't avenge him?

Zhao Wuji let out a sigh once more.

'So how am I going to help alleviate Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire? I know I have to use the heavenly flame but exactly how?' Xiao Yan asked inwardly as he continued on running on the road along with Xiao Wu and the rest of the students.

'Well you got two options. One, dual cultivation, but judging from your embarrassed and ugly expression, I guess that's out.' Flame Emperor casually said. He was currently in Xiao Yan's mindscape along with Igneel, who was in his human form, both relaxing. Why? Well the mindscape has drastically changed since the last time.

What was once a empty space of the universe, had completely changed into a tropical island filled with clear serene ocean body of water, a beach full of sands, shells, coconut trees and stuff. The both spiritual bodies was relaxing in different hammocks with coconuts in their hands

Flame Emperor and Igneel are gods that governed fire related laws, and lightning as well with the latter, but even they want to feel the chill summer breeze of a beach.

Flame Emperor hummed as he sipped on a straw of his coconut.

"Second is the same, dual cultivation but no s.e.x.u.a.l stuff. But to do this, we need to see if you two have some spirit harmonization." Xiao Yan's eyes widened in shock.

'Spirit harmonization? You mean the thing which tells us spirit masters if we have the probability to use a spirit fusion ability?' Xiao Yan asked in confusion.

Spirit Fusion is the ability of two or more Spirit Masters with similar properties to fuse together and become one entity bringing out explosive power for a short period of time depending on the strength of the Spirit Masters.

This ability is extremely rare and requires Spirit Harmonization.

It is also said that it is one in a thousand, or even one in a hundred thousand, that can be found between two, or much more rarer, three spirit masters. Like the very famous spirit fusion trip called Golden Iron Triangle. Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang as the directing corner, Flender as the flying corner, and Liu Erlong as the slaughtering corner of the Golden Iron Triangle. Which will fuse all of their spirits into one big bad a.s.s golden dragon.

'Wait, now that grandmaster's spirit has evolved, what will happen to their spirit fusion?' Xiao Yan worriedly thought.

"Beats me." Flame Emperor shrugged. As without having the trio together in the same place, even he wouldn't know what would happen to their spirit fusion, now that grandmaster has evolved his spirit.

"But anyways, the reason why we need to confirm if you and Ma Xiaotao have a certain degree of spirit harmonization, is so that it'll be smoother it is for you and her to dual cultivate, non s.e.x.u.a.lly of course." Flame Emperor, tossed his now empty coconut aside, and turned his head to regard Xiao Yan with a serious expression.

"Everyone, whether they be humans, demons and even spirit beasts, cannot easily take in foreign energies inside their bodies without having to suffer some kind of consequences. Ma Xiaotao, even if she's mentally prepared and subconsciously alright to absorb your energy, cannot take it inside her body without feeling some kind of discomfort." Flame Emperor pointed his finger towards Xiao Yan's spiritual sense and said,

"If you and her have about 30% and more of spirit harmonization, then there shouldn't be any problems for the both of you. But if you don't, well, you just have to pray that you get some kind of heavenly encounter or that Ma Xiaotao can still hold back the darkness slowly rising within her. Or we're all going to face a rip-off version of the Dark Phoenix." Xiao Yan's nodded, glancing at the redhead running along with the entire group, determination flashed within his eyes.

A couple of hours later, as the sun set and night came, the entire group had stopped in a town, just a hundred or more kilometers away from their destination, to book in a hotel for an entire night and get some dinner.

Seeing that they would be unable to reach the destination today, Zhao Wuji issued orders to rest. Since they had just reached a small town, if they continued further, whether there would be supply was hard to say.

Entering the small town, it was much more bustling than Xiao Yan and the new students had imagined, the little town's size was roughly three times that of the village where Shrek Academy was, apart from not having any walls, this unexpectedly seemed like a small market town, streets with a great number of shops, various stores with everything one could think of.

Xiao Yan intently looked around, the main business of the shops in this place unexpectedly seemed related to Spirit Masters, for example some shops specialized in selling weapons, selling armor, selling detoxifying or restorative pills, even the clothes being sold all had a dozen pockets where it was possible to fit all sorts of junk, clothes suitable for use in Spirit Masters' adventures.

Oscar, after dehydrating himself with a refreshing bottle of water, turned towards Xiao Yan and the new students. Sighing he said,

"What is called 'the mountain dweller lives off the mountain, the shore dweller lives off the sea'(2), I'm afraid it's for this reason. From the way how this little town looks, it clearly relies on the Star Dou Great Forest to survive. Around Star Dou Forest, towns like this probably aren't few."

Xiao Yan nodded as he now remembered this information from the story, except for Tang San, who somewhat astonished said,

"But, the distance from here to Star Dou Great Forest is still more than a hundred kilometres, isn't it a bit far?"

Oscar, with a curved smile he said,

"You're certainly used to going to the national hunting spirit beast forest. Those captive spirit beasts are comparatively mild, not too eager to attack humanity. The kind of wild spirit beasts inhabiting Star Dou Great Forest are different. The spirit beasts are not only more ferocious, but some spirit beasts also go out of the forest into the surrounding area, if a town was too close to Star Dou Great Forest, it might be in trouble."

Tang San smiled and the others nodded in understanding.

After the group of students and a single teacher registered for their rooms, Zhao Wuji went to his single room, while the students had decided to go down to the dining hall to eat.

Because Dai Mubai decided he would pay for their meals, as a welcoming party for Xiao Yan and the others, Ma Hongjun didn't hesitate to call out for the menu.

He just knew that this has got something to do with his now awakened Fire Dragon King bloodline.

As they waited for their orders, the shrek students started to converse with one another. The students had all sat together in a circular table. Tang San had sat between Xiao Wu and Dai Mubai, next to the latter was Ma Hongjun and next to him was his sister Ma Xiaotao.

Next to Ma Xiaotao was Zhu Zhuqing, then Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Ning Rongrong, and lastly Oscar which sits next to Xiao Wu.

Just as the atmosphere between the students and the hotel was getting good, a party of eight suddenly walked in from outside, somewhat similar to Xiao Yan's group.

The leader was a looking like more than forty years old middle aged man. In appearance he was also considered handsome, with combed hair exceedingly bright, all over wearing a moon white spirit master gown even more exceptionally exquisite, embroidered with a silver colored design, twinkling radiantly as he moved.

Following behind the middle aged man were six male and one female youth, seemingly about twenty years old. Similarly clothed in moon white Spirit Master gowns, only without the preceding middle aged man's silver thread embroidery. But whether it was the middle aged man or the youths following behind, on the left shoulder was a blue-green circular symbol, within the circle was embroidered similarly colored characters, Blue Sunshine.

From their attire one could clearly see that these people were spirit masters, Xiao Yan's party all wore what they wanted, looking no different from ordinary people, while these people showed off much more. Especially Xiao Yan, he wore the copy of the clothes that he had before taking the exam of shrek.

As the dining hall's proprietor saw them enter, he hurriedly went to welcome them, nodding and bowing unable to be courteous enough, just as what Oscar had said, this little town relied on Star Dou Great Forest to make a living, or to put it briefly, relied on Spirit Masters to make a living. Spirit Master was not only a noble vocation, it was also a wealthy vocation, the proprietor naturally dared not be careless.

"Whistle~ Dang that girl looks nice, ain't she boss Dai? Hm? Hold up, judging from their insignia, aren't those guys from Blue Sunshine Academy?" Ma Hongjun said.

"Only a minor Blue Sunshine Academy, nothing more. They're just no more than empty air."

"True, just look at their faces. Don't they just have very, very, very punchable faces?" Xiao Yan added with a smirk. He also wanted to have some fun and blow off some steam, hours of continuesly running around just sort of does that to someone.

Whether it was Fatty, Dai Mubai, or Xiao Yan, neither three deliberately lowered their voice. A spirit master's hearing power naturally was a bit better than ordinary peoples, and even though within the dining hall was somewhat noisy, among those eight the middle aged man still cast his gaze their way, brows wrinkling minutely. As he saw at the Shrek Academy table merely was a group of children, his expression immediately became even more unsightly.

Oscar sitting next to Xiao Wu, and Tang San who has a really good hearing, with a low laugh said,

"There's a good show to see."

Xiao Wu and Tang San somewhat puzzled gave him a look,

"What good show?"

Oscar whispered,

"This is also part of our cultivation. Dean Flender said, spirit masters who dare not cause trouble are not good Spirit Masters."

Tang San couldn't help but smile,

"Our Dean's quoats added together can form a monstrous saying. Looking at their age, this Blue Sunshine Academy should be an advanced Spirit Master academy." A devilish grin appeared on Xiao Wu's face as she turned towards where the Blue Sunshine Academy students are.

By now the Blue Sunshine eight over there had already sat down, separated from the Shrek by two tables, from the corner of his eye Tang San saw that clearly a Spirit Master middle aged man muttered by the ear of a youth, very quickly, that youth rose from his seat, and facing Tang San's group walked towards their table, according to his walking route, precisely coming towards Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan's raised an eyebrow as his eyes expressed a trace of disdain. Those that clearly saw his eyes knew, that the fate of that youth would be terrible.

By now, the waiter just happened to serve their table's first dish.

The Blue Sunshine Academy youth suddenly sped up his steps, amidst the waiter's cry of alarm, just enough to bump into that waiter's body, in a moment that dish came down towards Xiao Yan from overhead.

"Here Zhu Zhuqing." However, using the energy of the Controlling Crane Catching Dragon to pull in the plate and it's contents perfectly back onto the plate, Xiao Yan had completely and perfectly caught it with a smiling expression. He gave the plate to a slightly amused and fl.u.s.tered Zhu Zhuqing.

The Blue Sunshine Academy youth stared blankly a moment, because of the waiter obstructing his view he did not clearly see Xiao Yan's movements, however, his face very quickly exposed a cunning smile,

"I am truly embarrassed."

Saying so, he still walked forward, looking like he must pass Xiao Yan's side, but one foot quietly swept across, directly kicking at a leg of Xiao Yan's chair.

That was only a common wooden chair, that's all, when kicked the chair leg would break, and Dai Mubai naturally could not sit steady. But the youth's foot motion was also extremely covert, his upper body motionless, if not specially paying attention, one basically would be unable to see his movement.

At the same time as the youth kicked, but instead of Xiao Yan retaliating, it was Xun Er.

"AAAAAAAAAAA---!" A shrill scream, like a banshee, permeated throughout the dining hall, the youth who was about to cause more chaos was kneeling on the floor. His face kissing the said floor as he screamed in pain while holding his genitals.

Xun Er, with a somewhat dented wooden bottle on her hand, turns towards a paling waiter and said with a completely innocent expression,

"Ah, I think you mistook us for someone else. We didn't order this bottle of juice, you see, the bottle we ordered was something that shouldn't have screamed like a whiny little piggy." A dangerous light appeared within Xun Er's eyes. Causing every men in the vicinity, even the ones who knew her, crossed their legs together and shut their mouths.

'Xun Er... what a terrifying girl!' Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Oscar thought with horrified and pale faces.

'Trust me guys, she's not the only one...' A wry smile appeared on Tang San's face as he watched his fellow student men staring at Xun Er with horror in their eyes. While he glanced at the girl besides him, Xiao Wu, nodding with a joyful grin at the sight of Xun Er destroying the family jewels of the youth.

Xiao Yan shook his head at the scene, as someone who's live with the girl for many years, he wasn't affected by it. As he knew, he and Xiao Wu had corrupted the once innocent girl into what she is now.

Oh well, there's nothing he can do about it except pitying the fools who would pissed her off. Though he wonders, what DID pissed her off enough to do this?

Anyways, Xiao Yan just took a sip of his cup of water, with a confident smile on his face he patted the head of Xun Er and said good work, which made her cool and confident face instantly turned meek and fl.u.s.tered of embarrassment. He stood up and turned towards the fuming faces of the Blue Sunshine Academy students and teacher.

Without any hesitation, he put his right foot on the back of the still whimpering youth, his right arm rested on his right t.h.i.g.h, and with a arrogant and haughty face that only young masters would have. He declared with a loud voice,

"So, are you going to stand there looking like little bitches all night, or, are we going to fight?"

The students of Blue Sunshine Academy snapped, and with a war cry, they charged at a grinning Xiao Yan.

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A/N: Didn't have the time nor state to edit it, so comment if you find any mistakes that I have made. Peace!