Chapter 4: Black Fire of Supreme
"Little Yue, before I teach you anything, I first need know your soul attribute, soul realm and soul form. Did you have it checked out?"
"No, master!"
"I see...Well, I have a spare soul crystal on me, come let's go test."
"Master, why do you need to check my attribute, form and realm. It's not that I question you but aren't I just learning smithing?"
"Little Yue, I am not only going to teach you smithing but also cultivation. Not only that but the smithing technique that I use requires my other cultivation technique to strengthen it and make stronger artifacts. No one could make what I do because they lack those techniques." Explained Master Kang as Shen Yue nodded to show he understands.
They arrive in a small room that was decorated with chairs, a table, beautiful pictures of boats and fishing, cups and tea.
"Sit down" said Master Kang; Shen yue sat down with Master Kang sitting next to him side by side.
"Take this" Master Kang passed Shen Yue a soul crystal. "Take deep breaths and exhale, once you relax you will feel a faint tingling in your veins, imagine that the tingling feeling is flowing to your fingers to inside the soul crystal."
Shen Yue starts doing what Master Kang has told him to do but failed because he was distracted by his thoughts.
"Don't worry, I don't expect you to be able to get it on your first try, keep trying and you'll get it just clear your mind, no distractions and be determined." advised Master Kang.
'What a kind master' thought Shen Yue before he tried to clear his mind once again and transfer his soul force into the soul crystal.
Fail!
He tried again.
Fail!
He tried once again!
Success!
He managed to channel his soul force into the soul crystal on his fourth try, that was slightly better than commoner kids who use soul force on their first try, it usually takes them five to six times.
When Shen Yue saw his attribute he saw a black flame with violet lightning, both the black flame and violet lightning looked incredibly dangerous and ominous in the eyes of any human being that laid their eyes upon it
"Black fire with purple lightning...hmmm.... interesting, I have never seen such an attribute before in my life but I sure know it's one of the strongest in the entire world." Said Master Kang, "But since you have a flame attribute this means that you have the requirements to train my technique. Now let us see what your soul form is."
The black violet thunder flame suddenly starts changing shape within the crystal, it had four limbs suited with razor sharp talons and claws, it had black scales as armour, four dragon heads with four dragon necks; purple eye dots were in the its eye sockets for each head, it was a black hydra with violet lightning as aura.
"It looks like a black hydra with purple lightning...I don't really know what it means, it looks wonderful" 'but I don't know if I should teach you it. Fuck it!' "I'll teach you my technique. It's called-" Master Kang was cut as the soul crystal started releasing blinking light.
Inside the soul crystal, the black hydra was looking directly at them as if it was conscious and sentient, it gave a grim, creepy menacing smile like psycho murderer, you could hear faint laughter. The soul crystal had a faint crack as the beast disappeared.
"Well that was surprising...Let's check your soul realm next then!" said Master Kang with a bead of sweat hanging on his temple 😅 (like a typical anime character).
Shen Yue nodded whilst a bead of sweat was also on his forehead. Shen Yue once again channelled his soul force into the soul crystal, this time it was smoother than last time since now he has tiny experience in using soul force.
The soul crystal turned red. Which surprised Shen Yue, wasn't his soul realm supposed to be green, the level of a rare genius why is it then that it's red the level of a commoner. Why and how did it change, did his soul cause the change in his realm because he reincarnated.
Whilst Shen Yue was sulking in his chair, Master Kang had a different expression compared to Shen Yue, he wasn't disappointed but he wasn't happy, he was curious.
"Little Yue, something is not right" Master Kang looked into Shen Yue's eyes and used his eyes to tell him to look at the soul crystal.
'Obviously something isn't right old man! My genius talent is gone, green was replaced by red that's what's not right!' angry, Shen Yue was screaming at the old man in his mind as he didn't actually want to shout at Master Kang otherwise he'd lose a master.
"Yes master. All I see is a red soul realm." depressed Shen Yue.
"Take a closer look, it is not a normal red, the normal red is light red but this red is dark red it is the colour of blood, I think this is a variation. I heard that people with a variation in their soul realm are comparable to high-ranked soul realm cultivators. So don't sulk now." smiled Master Kang trying to comfort his disciple.
"Even if you had a red soul realm, so what? Are you just gonna give up just because of that? I have met many people that still persevered and managed to reach great heights. Even if you had a red soul realm I would always care for you, I wouldn't treat you no worse than a person with an Indigo soul realm believe me ! There's nothing bad about being a red soul realm."
Mhh
Shen Yue nodded and then started looking deeper into the soul crystal trying to find anything else that indicated that he's different.
Nothing but the endless blood coloured light that looked to span endless space, no other detail could be perceived. Shen Yue gave up on looking for anything else and looked at his master ready for a response from him
"Little Yue, I would love to check your spiritual root but I haven't got heaven's spiritual crystal on me right now. I decided that I will teach you my technique that was passed down to me by my master. It's called Black Fire of Supreme."
Shen Yue was caught off guard by the word 'Supreme', that word carried immense weight to it. The reason being that being with the title of Supreme are simply at the level of beyond gods. They can create worlds and have strength enough to wipe out all the gods of TDG universe. For an old forger to simply call his technique 'supreme' was too arrogant that even god would not forgive.
"Master. Do you know what supreme means?-" said Shen Yue, trying to make his master understand the weight of the word supreme. But was cut off my Master Kang.
"Of course I do! Boy... I am old enough to be your ancestors ancestor, I have seen everything the world has to offer. I know who the supreme are. They are extremely powerful beings that can create or destroy world with least effort. The tiny world that we live in, the entire world we live in was created by a supreme. Question is how do you know about the supreme?"
"I...I met this very poor old man down the streets, he was angry saying something like ' stupid younger generation, the sage emperor isn't the most powerful! The Supreme are!' he was ranting in the public where everyone heard him but they chose to not believe anything he said and even shunned him away and considered him an idiot."
"really...why did you believe him then?" Master Kang squinted his eyes trying to find every little detail to find Shen Yue's lying.
"Why would an old man lie, he doesn't need to show off as he is old and girls aren't attracted to old men. The old man probably knew that so why would he want to bother."
"Probably. Good analysis."
"What does the Black Fire of Supreme Technique do exactly?" inquired Shen Yue.
" The Black Fire of Supreme causes a flame from your very soul to grow in your soul realm, that flame devours and generates qi and soul force, the flame allows you to control fire which you can use for blacksmithing and create inscriptions and merge with flames which can boost your power twice or more depending on your level. Not only that but it tempers the body and makes it stronger as you can use the flame whilst training to refine your muscles and even bones to make them stronger like metal. To make the technique grow stronger you need to eat flames from anything that is not from you as eating your own flame has no effect other than making you sick. The reason it has black fire in its name is because as the fire grows stronger it changes colour with the peak being black fire. Not only that but each fire has different effect such as the green which is where I am now, can absorb the stamina from my opponent or like the orange flame has an acidic effect able to melt weapons, armour or even flesh (once you reach a higher level of course). Once the flame evolves it cannot keeps its abilities from its previous form but you can make more than one flame (which requires more resources and slower cultivation than with one flame) but your soul realm has limited space which can be upgraded by training your body. When your body grows stronger so does your soul realm grow bigger which can hold more flames. But the down side is that you cannot hold demon spirits in your soul realm otherwise they would be devoured by the flames which could strengthen the flame but the demon spirit would be wiped from existence. So what do you think? Do you want to learn it and lose your chances of becoming a demon spiritualist?"
"I...I THINK I'M In LOVE with this Technique!!! I want to learn this technique immediately, pretty please!" said Shen Yue hurriedly like his life was on the line (wasn't really but his future was).
"I thought you'd say so!" said Master Kang with a smug grin, "I will teach you it now but promise me that you will never reveal it to anyone and that you won't teach it to anyone without my consent." Said Master Kang grimly.
Shen Yue nodded and Master Kang started out with telling him important advice when starting out, telling him to watch out for 'that' and don't do 'that' and teaching him how to use soul force better and how to cultivate the Black Fire of Supreme.
After a few hours...
Shen Yue finished off the session with hammering a slab of iron a thousand times for an hour again which left him with red hands the whole afternoon.
Shen Yue was heading back home with the fatty Chang Jiao Rao waiting at the entrance in the front courtyard like a dog waiting for its master.
"young master! You have arrived on time for the meal is prepared!"
Shen Yue went to the dining table, sat down. The table was filled with a grand feast that a king would have, after all he was the young master of this house, he was like royalty to them.
Shen Yue picked up a meatbun with his chopsticks and stuffed it in his mouth like a boss. He tossed dumplings into his mouth. He grabbed a riceball in one hand and bit down and the other hand had sushi on a chopstick flying to his mouth like a choo-choo train. He finally finished his meal by drinking the soup and then placing his chopsticks, without crossing them, flat on the bowl.
"Young Master, I heard from a friend that young lady Ye Ziyun was looking for you just an hour ago." Said Chang Jiao Rao as he took all the plates away.
'Hmmm. Ye Ziyun was looking for me, guess I'll see what she wants.'
Shen Yue started heading towards the city lord's mansion.
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I had a hard time writing this chapter today. Always have to help family which reduces my writing/releasing chapter speed. E.g. I had to look after the puppies whilst my parents went shopping, couldn't count on my younger brother or sister as both of them are useless idiots that only cause trouble.
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