บท 47: Chapter 47: Intent
It took a while but Tang Wulin had finally believed what Xiu Ye had said. Now they were wondering what to do, which the latter quickly had.
"Wulin, stab yourself in the ass with that pretty boy's sword." Xiu Ye said with a completely serious expression.
"Go freeze yourself in the extreme north and die." Tang Wulin instantly retorted with an angry scowl.
Even if you're like a brother to me, I wouldn't be that dumb enough to follow your every word like they're the words of god.
Xiu Ye chuckled. "Well, your bloodline activated because you got stabbed by the guy's martial soul right? So, by that fact, it would work again. Just stabbed yourself with his sword already." His statement was true but in his eyes flashed a mischievous glint.
Tang Wulin's brow twitched. "I thought you said to word myself better, bro, you're just a hypocrite."
Xiu Ye shrugged his shoulders. "I just wanted to make a joke, lightened up the mood you know. Alright, since the guy is still sleeping let's continue this discussion next time."
Tang Wulin nodded.
Xiu Ye stood up and went out of the room and back to his own. He ignored his roommates and immediately dropped to his bed and activated the Soul God Cultivation Method.
Time passes and it was already the next day.
Students were already up and eating in the dining hall but they were all silent. Their gazes were on a certain red head who was enjoying another meal from the first window, but instead of Pizza Dragon Rolls, he got twenty Fiery Elephant Burger King. It was like a regular burger but the ingredients had traces of heaven and earth energies but only by a little.
As Xiu Ye passes by other students, due to his spiritual power's evolution, he could hear the hushed whispers of the surrounding students.
"Wow, you see that? He ordered twenty Fiery Elephant Burger King without batting an eye! Every meal from the first window is worth a thousand federation coins, something that only those from big families can easily afford. Does this mean, that the Demon Lord has a powerful background?"
"Well duh, he was granted a special permission from the principal himself after all."
"Ugh, don't remind me of that day. It gave me a nightmare."
"You're not the only one..."
Xiu Ye's lips twitched, speechless and guilty in hearing about what the other students were saying. He just wanted to show off a little to everyone, was that so bad?
'Yes.' Ryūjin Jakka said. Xiu Ye ignored his subconscious voice.
Xiu Ye continued walking and found his cousin devouring extravagant delicious looking meals that could only be found in the first window, and standing besides him with a pale ugly face, sporting a speechless expression, was Xie Xie, the guy who was knocked out cold by Wulin.
'This looks interesting.' Xiu Ye thought with a smile, he greeted them with a wave of his hand. "Yo, dude, did you scam another guy to treat you with a meal again?"
Tang Wulin stopped eating for a moment and frowned. "What do you mean scam? I'm not such an evil person to do something like that, Xie Xie here wanted another rematch with me but I declined. I was just going to get my own food when he said he would treat me with several meals from the first window, with such a generous offer, how could I decline such a stu–kind person?"
"You were about to call me stupid weren't you?!" The pig faced boy glared at him in anger.
I'm treating you here with several expensive meals, and you have the gall to call me stupid? That's so mean man! I hope you choke on that food you're eating.
Xiu Ye chuckled and shook his head in amusement of the situation. Holding his tray with his left hand, he raised his right hand up to the boy. "Hi, I'm Xiu Ye from class one."
The pig face turned towards him, in an instant, his posture straightened, lips thinned, and eyes flashed with fear.
'Oh shit, it's the Demon Lord Xiu Ye! I actually forgot about him for a moment there, which is strange cause his the guy who whooped me and my bodyguards' asses in an instant.' A shiver run down his spine as he remembered that day, the day he had first came across a monster around his age.
He was just heading towards this academy to enroll when he came across two boys his age, which wasn't all that strange as this was a big city where he can bumped into anyone. But what came after was what was strange and unbelievable, because Xiu Ye had defeated him and his Soul Grandmaster level bodyguards within a few seconds without breaking a sweat!
That was the day he had opened his eyes on what is truly a genius.
Gulping nervously, he held his tray with one hand and shook his other to Xiu Ye. "H-Hi, I'm Xie Xie from class five. Nice to meet you..."
Xiu Ye nodded and let go. He stood by the side and started eating his burgers. As he took a bite of one and swallowed it, the energy within the burger's ingredients spread across his entire body from head to toe, nourishing him slowly.
It also helped steadying his cultivation base, as the direct breakthrough to the 23rd rank had caused it to be slightly unstable and cause his cultivation dropped to rank 21.
Seeing Xiu Ye silently eating his meal by the side, made Xie Xie to let out a sigh of relief.
Lunch ended and Xiu Ye was about to go back to his dorm to stabilize his cultivation when he notices a group of students and a tall handsome man in the field; the students looked to be fighting each other in matches.
'This looks interesting.' Xiu Ye decided to observed the situation as he had noticed Tang Wulin and Xie Xie were in there.
As he came closer to the group, only the ones that weren't fighting and the man had noticed him.
Wu Zhangkong's cold eyes turned towards Xiu Ye, and asked frankly. "What are you doing here?"
Xiu Ye shrugged and sat down on the ground in a crosslegged position. "I was just curious."
Wu Zhangkong's gaze stayed on him for a while before ignoring him and turning back to the current match of students.
Xiu Ye smiled and stayed quiet, watching as he sees Tang Wulin expertly defeats a student with a series of fluid and fast hacks and thrusts of his Blue Silver Spear. He didn't appear to be exhausted from the entire exchange as he bowed to his classmate and walked back out.
Wu Zhangkong observed the entire exchange with a peculiar expression on his face. "Tang Wulin is the winner. Next!" He said icily. The loser of the match walked back with sagged shoulders.
Wu Zhangkong glanced back to see Tang Wulin interacting with Xiu Ye joyfully. His brows furrowed, it was strange.
Tang Wulin, a boy with rank 11 soul power and Blue Silver Grass as his martial soul. By this facts he should have been a weak soul master, but with his current streak of victories against other soul masters would say otherwise. But, what really caught his attention to him was his developing spear intent.
Wu Zhangkong thought he had imagined it at first glance but the next couple of matches proved that Tang Wulin had a developing spear intent, through only his makeshift spear made out of his Blue Silver Grass.
In mastering and understanding one's weapons, there are four stages. Intent, will, soul, and god. Those who are able to master the intent of their weapons are typically ones with a high cultivation stage, has years of combat experience together with your weapon, and lastly, those born destined to be one with their weapon.
Wu Zhangkong was of the former two, thanks to his soul emperor cultivation and rich combat experience with his sword, he has reached sword will. Even for someone like him at his age, it was very rare to happen. So for Tang Wulin to start developing his spear intent at his age, it was a possible case that he had been born with the affinity for the spear despite having a Blue Silver Grass as his martial soul.
Next is, Xie Ye. No matter how much one is talented, they couldn't possibly be a soul ancestor at the age of nine years old. The next logical, but also illogical, would be that they had an abundant amount of soul power that equals one. It just doesn't make any sense either.
Also, his fire. It was so intense that, Wu Zhangkong felt like even for his ice with his full power would melt like what any form of ice would in a hot lit up furnace. Not only that but, it was so perfectly controlled as well, as the only reason why Xiu Ye's fire didn't melt the barrier he put up to defend the students, was because he did not have any intent to hurt any of them.
Geniuses. When Wu Zhangkong decided to moved here, he thought that he would never see any heaven defying geniuses that could be found in his former academy, but he was proven wrong.
For the first in years since he lost his lover, before his heart froze entirely from the outside world, he felt excitement coursing throughout his body. Had he finally found promising students to enter Shrek?
Xiu Ye continued watching the matches with patient, calm and... okay he's bored.
He had thought at first that this was entertaining, but no. The students except Tang Wulin and Xie Xie had the skills of academy students, they are completely amateurs. They mostly only rely in their soul skills and toss out predictable weak punches and kicks when they can't rely on either of the former and their martial souls.
Xiu Ye let out a sigh and decided that he'll just go back to his dorm to cultivate and wait for Tang Wulin to finish his classes so they could both go to the blacksmith association.
"Xiu Ye." Xiu Ye stopped in place as he was about to stand up, he stared up confusedly at Wu Zhangkong's cold and calm eyes.
"Do you want to participate as well?"
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Okay, for those who has read the original source of this fic, weapon mastery, like spear, sword, axe, etc. is divided into four stages: intent, consciousness, soul and god. The second stage of mastery, consciousness, I'm replacing that with will cause it sounds more cooler.
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