Chapter 1: Holy Spirit Village

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Hazy sun rays peeked through the tree leaves, lighting up the atmosphere of the dark forest. A sweet fragrance flows in the air, luring everyone who had caught a scent of it. Green leaves slightly obscured the sun's light, creating a shadowed area.

Hidden by the shadows of the trees, a young girl leaned against the trunk. Her face was anonymously half-hidden by the dark, leaving only the sharp Irises to glow the dark in the color of a heliotrope.

"Hmm. Today is the day is it not?" Her lips turned upwards in a cold smirk. Eyes glinting like a predator founding its prey.

Turning slightly, she left the calm forest toward the village near it. Her steps are quite relaxed but her posture seemed to be aware of her surroundings.

"The day everything began." She whispered to the winds heralding the start of a tapestry.

The village she is going to be called the Holy Spirit Village. The reason for its name is because that is a legend it was said that once a hundred years ago, a spirit sage ranked spirit master came from the village thus giving the village thus the name. It was also the eternal pride of the Holy Spirit Village.

"San-ge?" She mumbled quietly. A young lad with bluish-black hair turned around to address the young girl.

"Ah! Yuan'er! You're here!" He nodded in greeting, ignoring how relief he felt when sister in all but blood appeared before his eyes. It seems there is only one person who hasn't come here yet.

"Is Mei Mei late?" Huo Yuan asked Tang San. "You have eyes, see it for yourself," He smiled mockingly. Her eyebrows twitched, "Brat, missing his princess already?" She smirked. Tang San glanced at her coldly, irked. "You littleβ€”"

"San-ge! Yuan-Jie! I'm here!" A beautiful young girl with black hair gradiently turned to brown nearing her waist cried out.

The two pair of friends turned their head, smiling in sync. "Mei Mei." They greeted.

"Mei Mei there you are." Yuan smiled as she patted the young girl on her head.

Seeing her Tang San grinned softly in greeting. His rough hands slipped and held her smooth hands, intertwining them together. Wu Mei smiled gently as she pressed her fingers with his.

Looking at the interaction Yuan smirked and being the good friend she is, decided to tease them.

"Go get a room lovebirds."

Hearing it, Wu Mei's faces heated up in a massive blush. Tang San smiled, smug. Huo Yuan rolled her eyes. The other children who are watching couldn't help but are jealous.

Because everyone had spirits, every year would have children undergoing spirit awakening. Therefore, Spirit Halls could be found everywhere on the Continent. Naturally, these were all only subsidiary halls, there was a distinct hierarchy.

The village children didn't have a very good opinion of Tang San. To favor the rich and disdain the poor is an ability not only among nobles but among common people the circumstances are instead even more distinct. With Tang San originally being a reincarnated person and his real age having long ago exceeded 30, naturally, he was also unwilling to come into contact with these children. To him, spare time was better spent on cultivation, consequently, the only ones he interacted are the Beauties of Nature, Wu Mei, and Huo Yuan, they are after all also the only ones that acted out of their physical age just like him.

In addition to village elder Jack and 10 children present, there was also one youth in the Spirit Hall. This person appeared to be just over 20 years old, with dashing eyebrows slanting above starry eyes, his facial features extremely bright and handsome. He was dressed completely in brilliant white clothes, a black cloak on his back, and right on the center of his chest, above his heart, was a palm-sized 'spirit' character. This was standard attire for staff directly subordinate to Spirit Hall.

On the left side of the chest was a carved badge with three crossed long swords. It seemed like Jack knew this kind of Spirit Master well; three in quantity represented a Spirit Master of the third degree, titled Spirit Grandmaster, and the long swords represented this Spirit Hall attendant was a Battle Spirit Master.

"Greetings, esteemed Battle Spirit Grandmaster, this time we will inconvenience you."

Old Jack respectfully bowed to the youngster.

The center of the youngsters' forehead betrayed an indifferent arrogance. Indifferently bowing slightly, he, at last, returned the greeting,

"My time is scarce, let's begin."

Old Jack said, "Very well. Children, this is a Battle Spirit Grandmaster from Nuoding City. Next, he will guide you to open yourselves to your spirit. You must cooperate well with the great teacher to conduct your spiritual awakening; Grandpa is looking forward to seeing who among you can become Spirit Masters."

The youngster somewhat impatiently said, "Very well, you said the same thing last year. Do you think becoming a Spirit Master is that easy? I already passed six villages, and not one of them had a person with spirit power. They also didn't have suitable spirits."

Old Jack's eyes showed a trace of dejection, sighing, he said, "Yes, ah! Only one in very many inherits the aptitude to become a Spirit Master. Among us ordinary people, it is indeed most difficult."

Shaking his head, he moved away from the Spirit Hall.

The youngster's gaze fell on the eight children before him. As a Spirit Hall inspecting attendant, helping ordinary people undergo spirit awakening was his compulsory assignment, and he was long since used to it.

"Children, line up."

Towards these children, his manner was quite lukewarm.

The eight children stood in order before the youngster, Tang San stood at the leftmost side. He was a little thinner and smaller than other children his age.

The youngster smiled and said, "I am called Su Yuntao, a twenty-sixth-ranked Spirit Grandmaster, and will be your guide. Now, I will have you undergo spirit awakening one by one. Remember, regardless of what happens, do not be afraid."

While speaking, Su Yuntao unfolded a bundle on a desk to one side, taking out two things from inside: six round pitch-black stones and one sparkling blue crystal ball.

Su Yuntao placed the six black stones on the ground in the form of a hexagon, then motioned the first child on the right to stand inside.

"Don't be afraid, close your eyes and feel careful."

While speaking, Su Yuntao's eyes suddenly lit up, and before the children's appalled eyes, he shouted in a deep voice,

"Lone Wolf Body Enhancement."

A wisp of thin blue-green light rose from between his eyebrows, following straight up, entering into the hair knot.

Su Yuntao's hair was originally black, but just after that blue-green light poured in, it had turned grey in a flash. Furthermore, it quickly grew longer, and similarly, colored fur appeared on both his uncovered hands. At the same time, his body also seemed to expand a great deal compared to before, his whole body swelling with muscle.

The Spirit Hall attire had very good elasticity; it didn't rip when filling to the point of bursting because of his body growing large. Su Yuntao's eyes had already changed to a faint green color. Sharp claws stretched out from the ten fingers on both hands, glimmering coolly with a dazzling gleam. Two concentric halos of light shone brightly up from underfoot, constantly moving from underfoot to the crown of his head. Among them one was white, and the other one was yellow. Exceedingly strange.

The boy he told to stand among the black stones, with eyes staring at Su Yuntao's body transforming, suddenly shouted,

"Aaaaah~~~~~~", about to run away from fear.

The fresh green radiance in Su Yuntao's eyes was truly frightening. Catching hold of that child, he said:

"Don't move. I said not to be afraid. This is my spirit, Lone Wolf. If one of you is capable of becoming a spiritual master in the future, they will also be able to employ similar abilities."

The only one not immediately at the height of terror was Tang San, immediate results appeared all over Su Yuntao's body as he transformed.

Instead of astonishment, Tang San's heart was full of curiosity, 'Grey fur appeared all over him, green eyes, these are wolf characteristics, could it be that after spirit possession people transform into wolves? No, not right, it should be that he possesses a wolf ability, right? Then, within the spirit master vocation, there should be a better use of spirit abilities.'

For the first time, Tang San realized, he became interested in the spiritual master vocation. He now already somewhat impatiently wanted to know what his spirit was.

As Su Yuntao clapped both hands together, at lightning speed, six faint green lights poured into the black stones on the ground. At once, a layer of golden misty light released from the stones and rose.

For some reason, as the previously noisily crying child was enveloped in the faint golden light, he immediately became quiet, just somewhat dully standing there.

Every speck of the golden light came fluttering up from the black stones, further entering the body of the boy.

The boy's body began to lightly tremble, not knowing whether to shout or remain quiet.

"Extend your right hand."

Su Yuntao's two moss green eyes stared fixedly at the boy, majestically commanding.

The boy extended his right hand with a start, then paused. All the light specks surged out, and instantly a sickle appeared in his hand.

It would appear, that sickle wasn't any trick of the light, and rather it truly existed.

Su Yuntao creased his brow,

"It's a Tool Spirit. Can a sickle be regarded as a weapon? It ought to with effort."

The golden light gradually disappeared. The boy, somewhat amazed, looked at the not particularly small sickle in his hand, rather at a loss.

Su Yuntao said, "Your spirit is Sickle, a Tool Spirit. Come, let me test if you have spiritual power. If you possess spirit power, even a tool spirit can undergo Battle Spirit Cultivation. After all, a sickle certainly has potential for attack."

"Great-, great teacher, what should I do?"

The boy timidly asked.

Su Yuntao coolly said, "Intentionally recall your spirit. From now try to remember the time you employed it and use that thought to call it out."

The boy tried for a long time, just to recall the sickle. Su Yuntao's hands held the blue crystal ball in front of him, motioning him to place his right hand on it.

The boy's immature little hand and Su Yuntao's wolf claws above and below the crystal ball respectively, there was a clear contrast.

A moment later, Su Yuntao somewhat dejectedly said, "No spirit power. You can't become a Spirit Master. For now, step aside.

Similar scenes continued to play out, and one after another five children had their spirits awakened. Their spirits were all a few pickaxes, sickles, and such farm tools. In succession, no Beast Spirit appeared, and as for spirit power, all were judged by Su Yuntao to be 'nil'.

When the seventh child's turn came, this was also the last one ahead of Tang San.

After sustained use of spirit power, Su Yuntao seemed to already be rather exhausted, but he still intended to help all eight children complete the awakening process.

Golden flecks of light gathered, and this once, finally it was no longer a farm tool, and something different appeared. A small stem of light blue grass appeared in this girl's palm, softly fluttering to and fro.

Tang San vaguely felt that he had seen this blue little grass before. Very quickly, the thought came to him; this grass was known as blue silver grass. It showed up everywhere in the village. Resembling his original world's green grass, it was just as widespread, except its vitality was comparatively even more tenacious. It didn't have any other function. Only because the girl was covered in a layer of pale golden light, he did not recognize it at first.

Even though it wasn't a farm tool, the disappointment in Su Yuntao's eyes was even more evident,

"It's a useless spirit. It doesn't have the potential for attack, doesn't have defensive power, and doesn't have to assist ability. Blue silver grass is also considered as the standard of useless spirits."

While speaking, he held out the blue crystal ball to the girl by procedure, and just like he predicted, like before no spirit power appeared.

At long last it was Tang San's turn, Su Yuntao didn't have to speak, he already stepped ahead to stand in the center of the six pitch-black stones.

In peace with Su Yuntao's six streams of spirit power pouring into them, the pale golden light once more shone up brightly. Warmth, was Tang San's first sensation as if his whole body was wrapped up inside a nice and warm world, unspeakably comfortable. No wonder those children before could smooth their emotions when wrapped up in the light.

Warm breath permeated into the body, and Tang San distinctly became aware that his own Mysterious Heaven Skill internal power seemingly fluctuated. Immediately afterward, in that warm energy's traction, within the body just as if something had broken, in a split second warm breath surged towards the palm of his hand.

Su Yuntao's eyes abruptly shone, because, within that golden light, there appeared so many golden flecks that it was even more than what all the previous children possessed together. He faintly sensed, as if a correspondingly powerful spirit would appear. Excitement showed in his manner.

Speaking of those Spirit Hall attendants responsible for ordinary people's spiritual awakening, if they could awaken a potentially outstanding child, then bring him to Spirit Hall, they could acquire many first-class benefits. Getting promoted was enormously advantageous.

But very quickly Su Yuntao lost heart.

Tang San subconsciously lifted his right hand, he saw something blue. This type of blue had already appeared twice at the village's Spirit Hall that day. Blue silver grass, identical to the previous girl's blue silver grass.

The standard for useless spirits.

Su Yuntao had no choice but to say: "Again a useless spirit, it seems. Holy Spirit village this time was again a waste of time. Ok, children, next."

The previously great quantity of golden flecks of light that appeared, at first gave him a lot of expectations, but when finally unexpectedly it was merely blue-silver grass, the sense of disparity caused Su Yuntao to feel somewhat in a bad mood.

"Uncle, I haven't tested my ranks yet."

Tang San saw Su Yuntao already wanted to move on to Mei. She has a rejected face when Tang San hasn't undergone the soul power test.

When the golden light brought a warm feeling inside him, it produced a strange sensation, as if a great door opened and caused a subtle change in his Mysterious Heaven skill. At the same time, he also very much wanted to know, what the actual difference was between his inner strength and this world's spirit.

"Let San-ge a try, uncle." When Mei and Yuan said that. Su Yuntao was dumbfounded all of a sudden, turning around, to Tang San, Yuan, and Mei's calm and rather steadfast gaze. In his heart musing, these children are seemingly out of the ordinary.

"Very well."

Trying once could not waste much time. While speaking, he handed over the blue crystal ball to Tang San.

As before, Su Yuntao instructed to withdraw blue silver grass from within the body. He realized this was not difficult; concerning Mysterious Heaven Skill control, it was similar to what the skill to withdraw could accomplish. Simultaneously, he additionally discovered, the moment blue silver grass appeared, seemingly it also was his Mysterious Heaven skill pouring out, and like that blue little grass became condensed through his Mysterious Heaven skill.

With his palm just about to touch the blue crystal ball, Tang San's body fiercely trembled all of a sudden. He was shocked to discover, that seemingly very beautiful blue crystal ball unexpectedly possessed tremendous attraction, his inner strength surging out as if finding an outlet. He wanted to struggle free, but no matter how he tried he was unable to escape that strong attraction.

Su Yuntao was similarly amazed. To think that this situation would arise while the last spirit power test of this Holy Spirit village was taken. Suddenly, the blue crystal ball in his hand began to shine, dazzling blue light starting from a point spread in a flash. In an eye blink, this crystal ball looked just like it was a resplendent gem giving off sparkling luminescence. A cool blue flare showed, unspeakably moving.

By the traditional test, as long as the crystal ball gave some response, even a single trace of radiance, it would prove by tea st that spirit power existed, and at present t, the blue crystal ball radiated such dazzling radiance that there was only one explanation.

"Heavens, it is innate full spirit power."

Blue-green light released again from Su Yuntao's body, and the crystal ball shot out from Tang San's palm. At this moment, he saw before his eyes this boy's gaze had already become completely different. It seemingly resembled the appearance of a monster. Su Yuntao is also amazed about this and curious if another girl is the same. He shot his soul power, separating Tang San and the blue crystal ball.

Wu Mei naturally also noticed that his situation was different from the other children's test. Playing oblivious, she asked:

"Uncle, what is innate full spirit power?"

Su Yuntao dully looked at them, and subconsciously explained:

"For everyone at the time of spiritual awakening, apart from a spirit's form, while deciding whether it is big and powerful, the amount of spirit power is also extremely important. The vast amount of people at the time of spiritual awakening does not have spiritual power, like the several children before this. They are destined to be unable to become spiritual masters in their lifetime. But provided spirit power appears, even if only a little, anyone can undergo meditation cultivation. And at the time of spiritual awakening, the spirit power amount is crucial for setting the spirit master cultivation starting level. With a higher spirit power level, the acquired cultivation rate is greater. Moreover, because of starting level, the fundamentals will naturally also be practiced earlier than others. What is known as innate full spirit power is that at the time of spiritual awakening, one is innately capable of attaining the highest spiritual power."

"Highest spirit power?"

Tang San looked at Su Yuntao, his heart swirling. He did not know what his spirit power was, but it could certainly be, that the testing blue crystal ball absorbed his internal strength from Mysterious Heaven skill. Could it be said that his internal strength in this world transformed into spirit power?

Perhaps it was because Tang San's innate full spirit power caused no small shock to Su Yuntao, but he did not mind taking the trouble to explain.

"Our spirit is graded like this: every ten ranks is a title. After spirit awakening, one can automatically be known as a spirit scholar. Of course, only a first-level spirit scholar. By spirit strength intensity, it is subdivided into ranks. What is meant by innate full spirit strength is that exactly after awakening, spirit strength level is innately the highest tenth rank. I still have never come across a person with innate full spirit strength; originally when I awakened, I also was only second rank spirit power, nothing more."

Tang San had already collected

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