Chapter 18: Present
The people around them saw what happened and were surprised, the adults were smiling and the boys were jealous, 'what a lucky bastard! To have snagged two goddesses, heaven will punish him for that.'
"Why did you kiss me?" asked Shen Yue very calmly and looked very composed.
"Because I feel grateful for Brother Yue helping me and Sister Ning'er out, you are very considerate of us, you gave me 'that' yesterday so I'm thankful to you." said Ye Ziyun.
"Or When you got rid of him, I'm very thankful as well. And you care for us, you help us all the time like the time when I accidentally hit a fighter you defended me." Xiao Ning'er added
"When I was climbing the mountain range and nearly feel to my death, you caught me just in the nick of time." said Ye Ziyun
"You teach us many many things, things no one has ever heard of."
"That's why we like you Brother Yue!" said both of the girls at the same time.
After a second of blanking out Shen Yue nodded and simply said "Thank You" before telling them he needed the rest room which was obviously a lie.
'Well that was something. If this escalates any longer then they might truly fall in love with me which is troublesome' Thought Shen Yue but then something spat in his mind 'What do you mean troublesome! It's great, having two great chicks as your wifus would be amazing! Who wouldn't want them. What! Are you fucking gay!' It was his inner otaku screaming at him.
'No i'm not, dickhead! Beauties simply attract trouble towards them, especially the beautiful ones from those powerful or foolish ones. I don't want to risk offending a powerful people in every new city I go to. That's what happens in most eastern fantasy novels, it's too fucking cliche!And annoying!' said Shen Yue in his mind. 'I can't believe Me is such a coward, you're reincarnated in a world of kung fu and magic, you can grow powerful and take all the bitches so you don't have to be scared of those so called powerful, you are the protagonist now! But you're such a pussy, you have chosen not to have romance with these two beauties and furthermore within a year you only reached Silver Rank whilst Nie Li! Nie Li! He reached Legend Rank within a year, how pathetic are you?' ranted Otaku side of Shen Yue. 'How much of a lazy ass pig are you? Fuck off!' Shen Yue obliterated the otaku side of his from his train of thoughts.
"Can't believe I had such a shitty side of me...was I always that pathetic?" said Shen Yue as he was wiping his hands that he dipped in water.
He went back to the party and saw his so called friends waiting for him, in there hands were objects that seemed to be presents. Niu Wang went up to him and gave Shen Yue his present.
"Here you go Brother Shen Yue. I heard you study how to forge, I found this incredible log out in the woods, figured you'd be needing this."
What Niu Wang gave him was a wooden log that would flash red and then flash blue; this was a Wet Fire Log, a log that was buried beneath the crust, nurtured between an underwater lake and the mantle for over 10000 years, some how this one managed to resurface. The Wet Fire Log has magical properties that strengthen both the water element and fire element at the same time, it can be used to make handles, staffs or even armour since the wood is harder than steel. Shen Yue didn't know what this was but he was interested in it and was now the best birthday present currently.
"Thanks Brother Wang!" beamed Shen Yue.
Then Li Chum came and gave Shen Yue gave Shen Yue his present.
"I heard from Niu Wang that you started learning forging. I also found an interesting material for you to have, there's this red stone, I think it's an ore, I found it in a cave." Li Chum told Shen Yue whilst passing Shen Yue a large red rock in his hands.
That rock was an ore, specifically a Fire Spit. It mas produced by a long extinct demon spirit called Rock Swallowing Beast, if it eats something with fiery contents then it will spit it out as red vomit which is soaked into the ground and turns to an ore after 100,000 years. Fire Spit Ores can be used to make weapons embedded with fire effect e.g. A sword made from that ore could turn very hot up to 1000 degrees; if a fire inscription is added then the inscriptions effects are strengthened by 100 times.
"Thank You very much Brother Chum." said Shen Yue.
Shen San came up to Shen Yue and gave Shen Yue his present
"Brother Shen Yue. My present is a silver rank demon spirit, it's a fire imp." said Shen San as he passed Shen YUe a litle box that had a talisman placed on top of it, it was so that the fire imp wouldn't escape and remain trapped in a special demon spirit container.
"Thanks." said Shen Yue.
Few minutes later and he got a few more presents from his friends ranging from materials to demon spirits, he stored everything in his new interspatial ring, Shen Yue liked it it was very, very useful. Shen Yue went to an empty table, sat down and drank some tea.
"I have a present for you." said Master Kang as he sat next to Shen Yue. "It's a slave print. You collect your target's blood, infuse your life force and you soak the character of the slave print in that blood. You then jab the slave print on your target's skin, once that happens the target will become enslaved, they won't be able to attack you and if they go against you then they will feel extreme pain as their blood is being boiled. It's something you wanted right?" smiled Master Kang.
"How did you...know?" Shen Yue was surprised by this present, this was truly something that would make his dream easier to achieve with less bloodshed and annoyance, he is still not comfortable with killing, he hasn't even killed anyone yet.
"I had a talk with your father yesterday at night after you went to sleep. He told me your ambitions and what path you want to take, I decided to give you a present to make it easier in the future." smiled Master Kang.
The slave print was looked like one of those slave brands used in ancient times, it was made from iron and had a square print face at the bottom end of a rod, there was a character 奴 that meant 'slave'. The brand rod had red mystical runes etched on the side and lined together making the slave print look more mystical.
"Thanks Master...But-" Shen Yue got cut off by Master Kang.
"But what?" asked Master Kang.
"Why are you so good to me? You give me good things, such as that technique and now this brand. You even personally teach me everyday and spend hours less managing your business. Why do you care for me so much?" Shen Yue spent a year with Master Kang who treated him like his own son, he gave him good things and taught him techniques and knowledge, Shen Yue felt closer to Master Kang but he was still slightly wary.
"Why? Because I saw my younger self in you, when you first came here I saw loneliness, fear and hatred. When I was young I was a penniless orphan that begged on the streets, I hated the world and everyone in it, I felt I was going to die and was sad especially by the fact that I was alone. Even tough you weren't a poor beggar orphan like me, I still saw similarity between us, I know you don't trust everyone but I want you to trust me. Before I would die from starvation my master helped me and accepted me as his disciple, he wanted me to help him achieve his goal but since I had a bad talent I couldn't get strong fast enough to achieve his goal but your talent is greater than mine. I want you to one day be stronger than me and help my master." Said Master Kang as he sounded slightly depressed, he then proceeded to down a jug of wine.
"By the sound of it, it sounds like I'm being used...But you know what, I've been kinda using you Master, So I don't mind helping you." smiled Shen Yue.
The tiny fragment of fear that was in Shen Yue's heart in fear of Master Kang wasn't there anymore and started feeling warmth and trust from Master Kang, he was like family to him now.
"You know Master, I'm actually a...a..I'm actually a-" Shen Yue felt like telling Master Kang the truth as he felt like he wasn't going to live with himself, master kang was honest with him so he should be honest back. Shen Yue was interrupted by Master Kang.
"It's alright, you don't have to tel me. You can tell me later if you want until you are ready." Master Kang knew Shen Yue was hesitating to tell him a secret so he was considerate and decided not to hear.
"Thank you Master, I promise I'll tell you when the time is right."
"Ya. Anyway, you know those demon spirits you got, you know how you can't be a demon spiritualist, well that doesn't mean you can't use demon spirits, once a demon spirit falls in your soul realm the spirit flame will devour it, it won't get it's properties and powers but it will grow stronger and bigger."
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