10 Meeting Ning Rongrong

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Ryusei and Tang Hao stepped inside the Star Duo Forest and started searching for a spirit Beast. Tang Hao asked him, "So, what's your plan right now? You first want to fight a Beast or just absorb the Spirit Energy in the forest."

Ryusei stayed silent for some time and replied, "I think that I should probably start with fighting the beasts as I don't really have any combat ability and after improving my combat abilities I will absorb the Spirit Energy from the area."

Tang Hao nodded at his reply and then both of them proceeded to search for a Beast. After some time, they came across a Phantom Leopard sitting on a tree's branch with an unreadable expression on its face. It was a 2000-year-old Beast and was pure Black in colour and Ryusei could see a faint yellow light glittering from its eyes.

He felt that the Phantom Leopard was vulnerable right now. After observing it for a while longer, he adjusted his body to jump on the tree. He was ready to use his Purple Lightning Dragon's Claw to kill the leopard, he sprang upwards like an arrow towards its location.

He soon reached near the Phantom Leopard, who seemed to have belatedly noticed his presence. Slowly turning towards Ryusei's direction, it jumped backwards to dodge Ryusei's attack.

When Ryusei saw it jumping back, he stopped channeling his Purple Lightning Dragon's Claw as it would have been a waste to use it. The Phantom Leopard turned his gaze filled with anger and injustice towards its enemy. It was enraged at the fact that someone dared to attack him while he was resting on a branch peacefully, minding his own business.

Ryusei reached the place where the Phantom Leopard was peacefully sitting and turned towards the Phantom Leopard, it seemed to be tensed up, ready to pounce at Ryusei at any time. After a lengthy staring contest, the Phantom Leopard gave up and finally jumped at his target. Ryusei smiled as he saw this and thought, 'Come!'

The Phantom Leopard suddenly pounced towards him but was countered by Ryusei who too jumped off towards the Phantom Leopard, kicking it away while they both were in mid air. As a result, the Phantom Leopard ended up thrown back towards a tree.

Ryusei landed on the ground maintaining his centre of gravity. He leveraged the excessive energy towards spinning around and turned towards the Phantom Leopard. It seemed to have managed to recovered itself from the hit and managed to blend in Shadows and vanish from his sight.

Ryusei was surprised by the spectacle as he didn't expect that a low level beast like a Phantom Leopard would have a stealth ability just like that. He then started to observe his surroundings, just as a shadow was creeping silently towards him. When the Phantom Leopard came close to his position, it tensed his hind leg muscles and pounced on Ryusei leaking the intent to kill. It didn't notice a smirk travel across the boy's face - Ryusei was ready for its attack.

He jumped upwards into the air, backflipped and used the tree behind him as a foothold and plunged speedily towards the Phantom Leopard face first. This time he activated his Purple Lightning Dragon Claw. His entire left hand transformed to a claw and had scales similar to that of a Dragon with Purple Lightning flickering around it. From afar, it simply looked like a blast of purple laser.

He swung his Purple Lightning Dragon Claw at the Phantom Leopard and tore apart its body, killing it at the same time. After killing the Phantom Leopard, Ryusei stood up and turned towards Tang Hao who came towards him.

Ryusei then ordered him, "I will now absorb the Spirit Energy around here, protect me till then." Tang Hao nodded as his protection was the reason why he came with him. He felt the Azure Dragon Spirit's aura emanating from his body as all the Spirit Energy in the area started gravitating towards Ryusei's body, which looked as the eye of a storm.

The absorption rate was very strong and after 6 hours, Ryusei's spirit energy had risen to Rank 19. It was really incredible that he managed to become Rank 19 from Rank 15 in such a short period of time. In comparison with the global average for geniuses, he was so far ahead that even Tang Hao was gobsmacked in disbelief at his talent.

After he was done absorbing the Spirit Energy, Ryusei stood up and was about to recall his Azure Dragon Spirit when he heard voices of someone fighting. He looked beside at Tang Hao's face and it seemed like he didn't hear anything. He was pretty surprised by this anomaly as it simply meant that his spirit granted him better senses than even a Titled Douluo. The powers granted by his spirit were truly ridiculous beyond belief, even altering his body's performance to a frightening extent.

He said to Tang Hao, "There is someone fighting nearby. Come on, let's go and see." Tang Hao seemed confused as he didn't sense anyone fighting in the area nearby. Nevertheless, he still followed Ryusei as he trusted his judgement and ran towards the northern direction - which was nothing but the inner area of the Star Duo Forest.

After running for a while, they finally reached the scene of the fight. It was between a man and a beast. They could hear the man speak, "Rongrong, I have managed to exhaust it completely. Come, kill it and absorb your 1st spirit ring."

Behind him was a small girl which physically looked around 6-year-old with pink hair and an extremely fair, delicate skin. Looking at her, he was surprised at the similarity between the faces of her and his childhood friend.This made him remember about his childhood friend Rou-Rou and he was bit saddened. Holding back his emotions, he turned his head towards the Beast that was in a near death state.

It was a Grey Steel Ape of about 300-year-old and its only distinguishable feature was a strength filled body. It granted a good amount of strength and a Strength type Spirit Ability. He observed the body of the Ape, noticing its breath and some suspicious movements of its body. He was a detective in his past life, and he had an extremely powerful observation.

He turned towards the man and the girl and loudly said, "Get away from that Beast. It is faking its exhausted state!" The man heard his voice and instinctively pulled back the girl, kicking away the Beast.

The man turned towards Ryusei and seemed visibly surprised that the one who warned them was a young boy who looked around 6-year-old. He then turned towards the man beside him and was surprised to see that the man feel familiar to him. Tang Hao looked at the man and said with a smile, "It has been a long time since we met, isn't that right, Ning Fengzhi?"

Ning Fengzhi smiled and answered, nodding, "Yes, it has indeed been too long since I met you Tang Hao." He then shifted his gaze towards Ryusei and inquired, "Who is this boy beside you? Is he your son?"

Tang Hao chuckled at that question, "No, he isn't. He is the son of my friend. He was requesting me to take him to the Star Duo Forest as he wanted to have his 1st spirit ring." Ryusei heard his words and quickly suppressed his Spirit Power to that Rank 14.

Ning Fengzhi smiled at the reply and then turned toward the boy and replied, "Thank you for that warning and saving my daughter. I was wondering... how did you manage to know that the Beast was faking its exhaustion?"

Ryusei looked at him with a deadpan expression, a trademark from his detective days and logically replied, "It was quite easy to notice how the Beast was faking it. The first point you neglected was that only his Breath was irregular which made you think that the Beast was exhausted while not paying attention to the fact how his muscles weren't moving. Basic knowledge of anatomy reveals how when we are exhausted, our heart pumps the blood very fast which causes the veins in our body to pulse, expanding and contracting quicker than normal. Increase in blood pressure would leave certain signs on the body, which, albeit hard to notice, would be visible.Yet, the muscles on the body of the Beast weren't showing any signs of that phenomena. It was easy to conclude from these observations how it meant that the Beast was just taking some deep breaths and acting as if it had been exhausted."

He then turned his head towards the western direction, looking at the tree and answered in a bored and annoyed tone, "Well, it wasn't like her life was in any danger. Our friend or acquaintance here already had his attack ready to kill the Spirit Beast in any unexpected case. Also, don't ask me why a random person would help out, I don't want to explain such an obvious thing."