"A grade ten Martial Spirits, it turned out to be a grade ten martial spirit!"
A grade ten Martial Spirits was scarce, not only in Canglan County but the entire kingdom.
Huang Ming looked the three-eyed black tiger floating behind his son; both of his fists were clenched tightly barely able to contain the excitement he felt at this moment, even so, his body trembled slightly.
Huang Qide's laughter continued to reverberate in the hall for a while. He did not expect his impromptu visit to the Martial Hall would give him such a wonderful surprise!
"Good, good, good!" Huang Qide repeated three times the word 'good' with a wide smile. Inhaling deeply, he gathered himself as he tried to suppress the excitement in his heart.
His eyes were full of joy as he looked lovingly at his grandson possessing a grade ten martial spirit. He believed with the support and cultivation from the Huang Clan Manor in regards to his grandson's practice, Huang Wei surely will surpass him and achieve the realm that he could only dream of in his life.
At this moment, Huang Peng walked towards Huang Ming to offer his congratulations: "Congratulations Big Brother."
Huang Ming looked at Huang Peng's sincere face, Huang Ming hand patted Huang Peng's shoulders and said: "Thank you, Second Brother. Let's wait awhile, Xiaolong has yet to awaken his martial spirit, there is a chance that he too might possess a grade ten martial spirit." However, those who heard this understood that they were only words of comfort. After all, grade ten martial spirits weren't white cabbages.
In the big hall, Huang Clan Manor Elders and some stewards were busy congratulating Huang Ming.
"Wei'er, come here." At this time, Huang Qide at the center of the hall laughed as he waved at Huang Wei.
"Yes, Grandfather." Huang Wei replied. Before arriving at Huang Qide's side, he passed in front of Huang Xiaolong, and Huang Wei's eyes inadvertently swept past Huang Xiaolong, carrying obvious complacent and arrogance. This little exchange went unnoticed by others however, it did not escape Huang Xiaolong's notice.
Grade ten martial spirit, Huang Xiaolong calmly looked back at him.
Although Huang Wei was his cousin, the two of then weren't close. Two years ago, Huang Wei and several children of the Elders were bullying his sister Huang Min and coincidentally, Huang Xiaolong chance upon this scene. Thus the consequence needed no explanation. Huang Wei and the several Elders' children were beaten up miserably, ever since then Huang Wei has held a grudge.
Huang Wei came to stand in front Huang Qide, and Huang Qide's hand reached out to rub Huang Wei's head, smiling and filled with love. Laughing, he turned to Huang Ming and said, "Huang Ming, you did a good job of giving birth to a good grandson!"
On the other end, listening to his father's praise, Huang Ming felt a little embarrassed, "Dad, don't you think we should first continue with the awakening ceremony?"
Huang Qide nodded in agreement; this was not the proper time to discuss this matter, smiling amicably, he said, "Right, let's continue with the awakening ceremony."
After Huang Wei, it was Huang Xiaolong's turn. When Huang Qide spoke, the elders, stewards, and disciples could not help but turned to look at Huang Xiaolong. Huang Wei as one of Huang Qide's grandsons has a grade ten martial spirit. What about Huang Xiaolong?
With the assembled clan members watching, Huang Xiaolong calmly stepped into the hexagon-patterned light beam.
Huang Peng and Su Yan could not help but hold each other's hand nervously, even their heartbeats quickened watching their son, Huang Xiaolong stepping into the hexagonal light beam.
Huang Xiaolong did not stay long inside the light beam area, and just like Huang Wei, a black light also appeared around Huang Xiaolong's body. Seeing this scene the crowd stared blankly, subsequently, a blue light suddenly appeared next to the black light; two different lights flashed intermittently, giving a devilish feeling.
Then, a black shadow and a blue shadow appeared behind Huang Xiaolong's head. Everyone saw a serpent-like creature that has two heads − one with a black head, the other a blue head.
The people around exchanged glances with each other.
A double-headed serpent martial spirit?!
Within their knowledge of beast type martial spirits, a double-headed serpent was either red or yellow in color, but this double-headed serpent appeared in black and blue.
Huang Qide looked at the martial spirit behind Huang Xiaolong, his puzzled eyes were tinted with a trace of disappointment. In his opinion, this grandson's martial spirit was nothing but a variation of the double-headed serpent martial spirit. Some Huang Clan Manor disciples also possess variation type of martial spirits. Therefore, the emergence of variation martial spirit was not uncommon. Even though a grade seven double-headed serpents was considered as high-grade martial spirits, compared to Huang Wei's Three-Eyed Black Tiger the difference was like heaven and earth.
Huang Peng and Su Yan looked at the martial spirit hovering behind their son and Huang Peng's expression differed not from Huang Qide. Although compared to the majority of the clan people a grade seven martial spirit's talent was considered high, Huang Peng was still a little disappointed with the outcome. Which parents doesn't wish the best for their children?
"Old Manor Lord, what do you think?" Chief Steward Chen Ying couldn't help but refer to Huang Qide.
Huang Qide declared: "A variation of the double-headed serpent, grade seven martial spirit."
All Elders and stewards present in the temple hall nodded their heads, apparently agreeing with the Old Manor Lord's judgment.
Grade seven martial spirits, a variation of the double-headed serpent? Huang Xiaolong stepped out of from the hexagonal patterned beam, his face calm. Only he knew his martial spirit wasn't as simple as a variation of the double-headed serpent.
Seeing Huang Xiaolong's martial spirit was only a grade seven variant double-headed serpent, Huang Wei's mouth curved into a mocking sneer, his eyes provoking as they directed at Huang Xiaolong.
Huang Xiaolong naturally noticed Huang Wei's provoking eyes, but he doesn't mind in the least for he is too lazy to play a staring game with a little kid.
The child after Huang Xiaolong was Elder Zhou Guang's son, Zhou Xuedong. Zhou Xuedong was one of the Huang Clan Manor kids Huang Xiaolong beat up for bullying Huang Min.
Shortly, Zhou Xuedong's martial spirits were revealed, a grade six martial spirit − the Blood-Eyes Wolf. One by one, more than a dozen of the Huang Clan Manor's children stepped into the light beam and had their martial spirits awakened. Most of them possessed grade four martial spirits, some five, and even a few of grade six martial spirits. There were a number of waste martial spirits and low-level ones.
In this round of martial spirits awakening ceremony, though Huang Xiaolong's martial spirits came in second, but there were not much of a difference as he and the rest of the Huang Clan Manor children were just a sideshow, overshadowed by Huang Wei's grade ten martial spirit.
After the awakening ceremony ended, Huang Qide smiled and said to Huang Ming, Huang Peng, and the present elders: "I will personally be advising Huang Wei's practice from now on."
Personally advise? Everyone was astonished.
"Yes, Dad!" Huang Ming's face bloomed, agreeing immediately.
Looking at his own son, Huang Peng sighed regretfully in his heart after hearing his father's plan to oversee Huang Wei's cultivation personally.
After a while, the crowd dispersed and the Martial Hall was closed.
Returning to the Eastern Courtyard, Su Yan's heart was brimming with dissatisfaction, "How could Dad show such favoritism? He wants to oversee Huang Wei's practice personally, what about our Xiaolong, is Xiaolong not his grandson?"
Huang Peng frowned and waved his hand, his voice heavy as he said: "Don't mention this anymore. No one is allowed to bring up this matter in the future." However in his heart, he too, felt aggrieved but with Huang Wei's grade ten martial spirit, it was granted that his father would want to do so.
"Xiaolong, your talent is also good, put more effort into your practice, achieving an Eighth Order Warrior will not difficult for you." Huang Peng turned towards Huang Xiaolong and comforted.
"I understand, Dad." Huang Xiaolong opened his mouth wanting to tell Huang Peng and Su Yan that his martial spirit shouldn't be a grade seven, in the end, he could only reply as such, and not say anything more.
Before Huang Xiaolong left, Huang Peng gave him a cultivation technique for training battle qi and explained the important points Huang Xiaolong should focus on during practice. Huang Xiaolong listened attentively and memorized them in his heart.
After leaving the Eastern Courtyard's main hall, Huang Xiaolong returned to his own small courtyard and began practicing his battle qi according to the cultivation technique his father gave to him. He sat down on the bed and started absorbing the world's spiritual energy according to the first order instruction.
As Huang Xiaolong ran the cultivation technique, his martial spirits came out of his body; the variant double-headed serpent emerged behind Huang Xiaolong. The so-called grade seven double-headed serpent in Huang Qide's eyes suddenly stretched its jaw wide and devoured the surrounding spiritual energy at horrifying speed, attracting the spiritual energy around Huang Xiaolong.
The spiritual energy devoured by the double-headed serpent flowed into Huang Xiaolong's body, traveling along the meridians and gradually transformed into battle qi.
Night approached slowly, and moonlight came shining in from the small courtyard window.
A short while later Huang Xiaolong opened his eyes. His face wore an extremely weird expression. Earlier, he followed the instructions from the cultivation technique his father gave him, the Xuan Qin cultivation technique's first layer, to condense his battle qi by running spiritual energy along the meridians, and he managed to direct the flow of spiritual energy for one complete turn without obstacles or difficulties.
Within these few hours, not only did he successfully convert spiritual energy into battle qi, he broke through to First Order Warrior!
Huang Xiaolong's heart was filled with a sense of disbelief; if he remembered correctly, his father mentioned that his grandfather spent nearly six months before successfully breaking through to First Order Warrior!
His grandfather, Huang Qide's martial spirit is one of the top grade eight martial spirits, the Six-winged Golden Ape!
If others discovered that Huang Xiaolong not only managed to convert battle qi, but also broke through to become a First Order Warrior in just a few hours' time, it would probably scare them half to death.
Even Huang Xiaolong himself found it hard to believe, much less the others.
Although from early on Huang Xiaolong had the suspicion that his martial spirit was not just some simple grade seven martial spirit, still, this result was too heaven-defying. According to his father, the higher the grade of a martial spirit, the higher the cultivation talent and the faster one's cultivation speed. His grandfather, Huang Qide, possessed a top-tier grade eight Six-winged Golden Ape martial spirit and yet it took him half a year to breakthrough to First Order warrior, whereas he had only spent a few hours. In other words, his martial spirit's grade was even higher than his grandfather's!
Grade ten martial spirit? No, a grade ten martial spirits cultivation speed wouldn't be this terrifying. A thought streaked across Huang Xiaolong's mind …
Superb talent martial spirit!
Superb martial spirits existed only in myths and legends.
Above grade ten there was said to exist grade eleven and even twelve! Although people were unsure about the highest grade a martial spirit could reach, it was certain that Huang Xiaolong's martial spirit was definitely above grade ten.
Moments later, Huang Xiaolong managed to calm the excitement in his heart and continued running the Xuan Qin cultivation technique. The double-headed serpent once again emerged behind him with its mouths wide open, devouring the world's spiritual energy while battle qi circulated along his meridians, following the First Order Warriors' meridian route.
This time around, the battle qi's circulation speed was a lot faster than before and Huang Xiaolong clearly noticed the battle qi within his meridians had grown thicker. Although the difference was not obvious, after circulating his battle qi a dozen times, the battle qi's thickness increased by almost half the original density.
By the time Huang Xiaolong opened his eyes, the gentle moonlight had dissipated and was replaced by a ray of sunlight streaming in through the window onto his small body.
Under the warm morning sun, Huang Xiaolong stretched lazily and got out of bed. During last night's practice, not only did he experience a breakthrough and became a First Order Warrior, he actually reached mid-First Order.
"Mid-First Order." Huang Xiaolong's deep eyes watched the rising sun. According to this practice speed, within three days he would be able to reach late-First Order, perhaps even have another breakthrough and become a Second Order warrior!
Huang Xiaolong walked out from the room to the little yard, his small hands clenched into a fist. Gathering his battle qi in his fist, Huang Xiaolong punched towards a half-meter big rock at the corner of the small yard.
"Boom!" The sound of an explosion rang out and the half-meter big rock flew back and fell, rolling a few meters away. A corner of the rock crumbled into pieces and scattered on the ground.
Huang Xiaolong looked at the result and nodded his head in satisfaction. In general, a late-First Order warriors' battle qi has the strength of one stone. While he was only at mid-First Order, because he trained in the Body Metamorphose Scripture, his attack power was comparable to a late-First Order warrior.
The power of one stone was calculated at one hundred and twenty pounds.
Huang Xiaolong also noticed after one night of practicing battle qi, the muscles in his body were stronger and more firm.
Warriors from the First to Third Order were grouped into the initial stages of cultivation. In this initial stage, as battle qi flows along the meridians, it refines the body's muscles. By the time Huang Xiaolong reaches the pinnacle of Third Order warrior, his muscles will be fully developed, enhancing his reflexes, strength, and defense several times over compared to his current self.
At this moment, sounds of light footsteps could be heard from outside the yard. Huang Xiaolong was startled for a moment and then shook his head, smiling when he realized the visitor was his little sister, Huang Min.
Sure enough, Huang Min's innocent, tender voice sounded: "Big Brother, Big Brother!
Huang Xiaolong turned around and saw Huang Min running into the yard. When she reached Huang Xiaolong, Huang Min was panting heavily: "Big brother, Mom and Dad are arguing."
"Mom and Dad are arguing? What's the matter?" Huang Xiaolong was confused for a moment. To his recollection, his parents had never quarreled.
"I don't know the reason, but it seems it's related to Eldest Uncle." Huang Min said.
"Eldest Uncle?" Huang Xiaolong frowned slightly, saying: "We'll go and see." Leaving the small courtyard with Huang Min, they hurried to the Eastern Courtyard. However, even before they reached the Eastern Courtyard's hall, from some distance away, the sound of their parents quarreling echoed out.
"Big Brother is too much!" Su Yan's anger filled voice exclaimed. "After the martial spirit awakening ceremony, all the children received a Battle Qi Dan except for our Xiaolong!"
Huang Xiaolong's pace halted.
Battle Qi Dan?− a second-grade pill. After awakening a martial spirit, if one could get a Battle Qi Dan, it would speed up battle qi conversion. Of course for warriors belonging to the initial stages, a Battle Qi Dan also aided in enhancing battle qi's quality.
"Didn't Big Brother already say the Manor's supply of Battle Qi Dan just ran out? He will compensate Xiaolong next time." Huang Peng's irritated voice was heard coming from inside the hall.
"There was a total of twenty-six children during the martial spirit awakening ceremony and even those with low-level and waste martial spirits received a Battle Qi Dan. All others received one except for our Xiaolong who has a grade seven martial spirit!" Su Yan raised her voice in anger.
"Why is it so? Our Xiaolong is his nephew!"
Huang Xiaolong furrowed his brow. Listening to his parents' quarrel, he understood clearly – other than him, all other children were given a Battle Qi Dan to aid their cultivation.
Two years ago, when Huang Xiaolong seriously beat up Huang Wei, Huang Ming did not say anything at the time. It seems Eldest Uncle Huang Ming's resentment towards him had been stewing for a long while.
Although his grandfather Huang Qide had yet to pass the Manor Lord position to his Eldest Uncle Huang Ming, it was irrefutable that most matters of the manor were handled by him, especially in recent years. Just as his mother Su Yan said, even those with waste and low-level martial spirits were given a Battle Qi Dan. Only Huang Xiaolong, his nephew, did not get any. This was blatant bullying!
No matter what, Huang Xiaolong was Huang Ming's nephew-- was it really necessary for Huang Ming to act so crudely?
Huang Ming's action not only proved he resented Huang Xiaolong, it also equaled sweeping face for Huang Xiaolong's parents, Huang Peng and Su Yan, in front of all the Huang Clan Manor Elders.
"This cannot be. I'm going to ask Dad to judge the fairness of this matter!" Inside the hall, Su Yan discontentedly retorted for she was unable to swallow this down.
"You come back here!" Huang Peng shouted furiously, "For some small matter, you are going to trouble Father. Do you think that I haven't lost enough face?"
Outside the hall, when Huang Xiaolong heard this, he silently turned to leave. A small matter, is it? A glint flashed across Huang Xiaolong eyes. His Uncle Huang Ming has yet to obtain the Manor Lord's position, but once he has officially taken over, these types of small things will become much bigger!
Huang Min saw Huang Xiaolong remain silent, turning to leave without a word. She could not help but stand there in a daze for a moment before reacting. She tried to catch up to Huang Xiaolong: "Big Brother, Big Brother!"
Huang Xiaolong did not reply, the two of them left the Eastern Courtyard. Coincidentally, just as he stepped out they came face-to-face with Huang Wei. Trailing behind him was his usual gang of brothers, the same group that bullied Huang Min.
Seeing both Huang Xiaolong and his sister exiting the Eastern Courtyard, Huang Wei was startled for a moment before he stepped towards Huang Xiaolong with the group.
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