บท 19: Returning To Village.

The same routine happened the next day, Tang Ming woke up and trained as usual from dawn to noon. He still couldn't get through about Observation Haki but he feels that he is close.

After coming back both Tang Ming and Tang San went to the Grandmaster room and discussed something after which they both are getting ready to leave.

Before leaving Grandmaster stopped both and looked at Tang Ming who has still some bruises here and there left in his body and said :

" Xiao Ming you should keep training but do not be so reckless to injure yourself, I don't know why you're training so hard but you will have some internal injury left if you trained the way you're still training. And Xiao San keep Xiao Ming in check. Tang San you should go and register yourself in Nuoding city Spirit Hall, they provide a subsidy of one gold coin every month for a Spirit Master and Tang Ming you stay here, I have something to discuss with you."

Tang San nodded and left the room, after which Grandmaster looked at me and asked :

" Xiao Ming, you should not register yourself in the Spirit Hall, because of your first spirit ring being a thousand year old might cause some problems. And have you told Xiao San about your spirit ring and ability?"

" Yes, teacher I was also thinking to not register myself in Spirit Hall. And I haven't told anyone about my spirit ring and ability. Teacher, I would also be very grateful if you didn't tell Xiao San about my ring and ability. I will surprise them myself."

Tang Ming replied without hesitation and looked at Grandmaster with expectation.

" Well if you say so, but you should tell him yourself soon. Now you can go and be sure to don't overexert yourself."

After saying that Grandmaster once again sat in his chair and busied himself in the book.

Tang Ming nodded and then left towards the dormitory as he was already tired after training and cultivating.

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(Tang Ming's POV) :

Time flies, in this way a year passed.

Many thing happened after the event when Tang San registered himself in Spirit Hall. Both my third and fourth spirit manifested.

I have already condensed the thousand Qilin marks and I reached level twenty .Tang San and Xiao Wu has also reached spirit rank 20. I have also broken my limits two more times and it becomes harder each time to break my limit again.

Meteoric Tear also released the clear stream of energy which I used to purify my spirit power and Qilin marks. I would have reached spirit power twenty if not for compressing and purifying it over and over again. I seriously doubt that I'll ever be ahead of any of them.

Now all my marks are of the same brilliant platinum colour with a tinge of crimson mixed in between. My raw physical strength is more than five thousand kilos and after breaking my limits two more time it is already a little more than ten tons or ten thousand kgs.

I used the Monkey Wine Gourd to produce wine without any special effects. My Monkey Wine Gourd can produce the monkey wine infinitely as long as I have spirit power to spare. And producing the monkey wine without any effect takes very small amount of spirit power.

At first I bought two big barrels from a shop and then cleaned and polished it. After carving some patterns and ruins with the help of the spear and imbuing them with a little spirit energy, it makes them look quite exquisite. I also particularly wrote 'Monkey Wine' in the middle of the barrel and imbued them with a little lightning to give them a deep and sharp feeling.

I then poured the wine without any effect from the Monkey Wine Gourd till it filled half of one of the barrel and stopped pouring, then I filled the other half with the clean water and mixed them up to dilute it. Believe me when I say that my Monkey Wine is too strong and if I didn't dilute it, it will cause quite a ruckus and I have my other plans for it. I did the same with the other barrel and then covered them tightly without any leakage.

I then changes to a good looking cloth that I bought after saving a full month of my pay. I looked myself at the mirror and I have to say that I looked like a rich noble, with my already devilishly handsome face and platinum hair. I have altered my eyes and the forehead where the silver sun mark was, so I could look normal.

I was already slightly taller looking than my age because of my physical and spear training. I then put on a mask which I made with the help of Tang San. It is made up of steel and looks completely plain except for two holes formed for the eyes. It looks simple and good .

I then called for a carriage and hired it for the rest of the day. I then loaded both the barrels of wine and told the coachmen to make way for one of the most expensive restaurant in the whole of Nuoding city called 'Jade Fragrance Restaurant'.

I selected this restaurant because of the two reasons, first, it being backed by the Heaven Dou Empire and not having anything do with Spirit Hall, second, it's customer service.

Only rich nobles can afford to dine in this restaurant and it just happens to fits all the criteria, I was hoping for.

I told the coachmen to unload the barrel and placed it in my storage bracelet. And after that I went in.

I looked quite unique because of my hair and the demeanour I have because of spear training.

As I made my way in, a beautiful women in red tight-fitting cheongsam with white roses pattern drawn all over, which looked to be in her mid twenties came towards me and asked with a smile :

" Little brother, what are you doing here. Are you here looking for someone.

"Thank you for your concern sister, but I'm here to talk with the manager of the restaurant, as I wanted to make a deal, could you please guide me to where he is." I replied with a slight smile.

She looked at me for a few moments, sizing me up and down and then said :

"Okay, come with me."

She took me toward a private room in the second floor and asked me to sit and then said :

" I'm the manager of this restaurant, my name is Qing Xue, you can call me sister Xue, tell me little brother what deal do you wanted to make."

She sat opposite to me with her legs overlapping each other, with one hand holding her cheeks and asked me with a smile.

I've already guessed that she was the manager by the look the people were giving her. And she confirmed it.

I with an indifferent voice said :

"Well, I'm here to make a deal with you related to wine. My brand is new and I need someone who can help me popularize it."

" I first have to taste the wine you're going to sell. And don't mind me but as noble restaurant only the best wine are sold here. So if it isn't up to mark, I'm sorry I can't accept your deal." She looked at me playfully and said.

"Sure. You can have a taste and check it right now."

As I said that I took out two jade cups and a wood wine gourd from the Spirit tool.

She looked surprised, well it's not her fault. Only very rich people can afford to have a spirit guidance tool.

As the lowest quality one costs more than thousand of gold coins. And you can tell by looking that my bracelet was a high quality one.

Her whole demeanour changed from playful to serious. I chuckled and poured both of us a cup of wine.

The monkey wine looks like a light yellow golden liquid. As I poured it, a light mellow fragrance wafted through the room. I passed the cup to Qing Xue.

I gulped down the cup in one swing.

She took the cup in her hand and sniffed it. She then brought the cup to her mouth and took a sip.

As soon as she took the sip and swallowed it, she has her eyes wide open. She then placed the cup back in the table and looked at me and said :

" I really didn't think it would have this good taste. It is the best wine I've ever tasted.So let's talk about business."

"I would provide you with the wine and all you have to do is make it the most expensive one in your restaurant." I told her.

" It's okay, I can do it and make this wine the most expensive one and it also deserve to be one. The profit can be shared 70-30." She offered me.

"80-20, after all I'm providing the wine, all you have to do is sell it."

"Deal. So when can you provide the wine and how much." She agreed instantly.

"I can give you two barrels of wine right now. And I need the money for it. I will provide you ten barrels of wine every month at your restaurant."

"Okay." She replied and led me to her office and we signed a contract.

After that I left the restaurant and entered a quite street from where I teleported myself to the gate of the academy.

After that I delivered the ten barrels of wine to the restaurant each month. The Monkey Wine was a hit. The nobles paid extra just to get a single cup of it. The first money that I earned from selling wine is already more than 2000 gold coins. And it kept increasing every month. And last month I earned more than 7000 gold coins from the same ten barrels of wine.

Qing Xue also asked for me to increase the amount but I refused her with a lie, telling it is already hard to produce ten barrels. Now I was literally one of the richest person in the whole Nuoding city.

I didn't slack in my practice and kept doing physical and spear technique training and Observation Haki.

At first I didn't feel anything but after some days I started to sense something around me. It was very vague but after one month it all started to come around and I can sense anything within one metre of me very clearly.

And after one whole year of practicing, I can sense everything in diameter of 10 metre and passively one metre in diameter. It will take some years of practice to reach the level of Yonko and Admirals.

My control over lightning also improved in this time. Now I can imbue my fist with lightning without quadrupling my strength. It will have the basic properties of lightning, like paralyzing and numbing.

I still can't use [Godspeed] due to the insane focus needed for it. My brain can't even comprehend what is happening at that speed.

But I still trained in it. My reaction speed improved significantly and it is now very fast and I can easily dodge all the hidden weapon of Tang San without moving from my place.

Now the holidays came and all the students are preparing to go to their home.

During the year students are not allowed to go home. Tang Ming and the others are in the room, packing their belongings and chatting with each other.

"Tang San, what are going to do in the holidays?"

At this moment Xiao Wu asked Tang San.

"Me? I of course intend to go home, it's already an year since I last saw father."

Tang San replied without hesitation. Xiao Wu then looked at Tang Ming and asked the same question.

"What are you asking me the same question for? Of course I too am going to home, afterall it's been a year since I last met father and Grandpa Jack."

Tang Ming shrugged. In this year Xiao Wu and Tang San challenged Tang Ming very often.

But still they can't defeat him. At first they can last 2-3 minutes against him but it kept getting worse.

Now Xiao Wu can't even sneak attack, which she used to do a lot. Tang Ming always dodged her attack like he has an eye on the back of his head.

"Xiao San, you're going home? I heard your home is not far from here. How about I come to your house to play."

Xiao Wu stared at Tang San with big eyes, her small hand on her lips, looking very cute.

"You want to come home with me? This is the only vacation we have this year. Don't you have to go back Xiao Wu?"

Tang San stopped the work he is doing and looked at Xiao Wu with some surprise.

Everyone was looking forward to go home, how could this girl think to come with him to play?

"Just answer yes or no." Xiao Wu grumbled.

"Of course you can come, as long as brother Ming gave you permission and you don't have any problem with my poor family. I don't have anything to entertain you there though."

Tang San shrugged and said to Xiao Wu.

Xiao Wu then looked at Tang Ming making that cute looking face with her big eyes.

"I don't have any problem after all you are my sister in law." Tang Ming chuckled and said. Tang San stumbled after hearing what Tang Ming said and even Xiao Wu blushed.

Xiao Wu then looked at Tang San angrily and said :

"Are you still poor? You don't spend the monthly allowance, I don't know how much money you've saved.

And you have such a big backer like brother Ming and you're afraid you can't entertain me?"

Tang San and Xiao Wu only knew that the place where Tang Ming worked gave him monthly salary of 10gold coins. Nobody even knew that he was the person behind the famous Monkey Wine.

Xiao Wu then looked at Tang Ming as if remembered something and shouted loudly :

" Who are you calling sister-in-law? I have already told you so many times not to call me that. You.."

Tang Ming interrupted her mid sentence and said in a laid back manner :

" Yeah yeah, ghost will believe that you're not. You both are sleeping together in a single bed for a year now. And I have even sometime saw you cuddling with Xiao San."

At the mention of sleeping, even Tang San has a little blush on his face. He tried to look serious and said :

" It's not like that brother Ming, me and Xiao Wu are just friends. It's not complicated as you think."

After packing their belongings, the three came to the door where a brand new carriage is waiting for them.

"Wow, we are going by carriage."

Xiao Wu said excitedly.

"The village is still far from here, so l bought this carriage, so let's go back now." Tang Ming said.

"Brother Ming, we can just walk to the village, there is no need to spend so much money." Tang San mouth's twitched at the spending of brother Ming.

If you really want to go with carriage, it just cost ten copper. But the carriage that brother Tang Ming bought cost no less than ten gold coins.

"You're welcome, I should probably go by carriage alone, you two love birds can came slowly by walking."

Tang Ming rolled his eyes and looked at Xiao San.

"Quickly get in the carriage Xiao San, brother Ming is so rich, he doesn't care about some gold coins. Right brother Ming."

Xiao Wu ran into the carriage first and then said to Tang San.

For Tang Ming, Xiao Wu has only three impression of him that is Very Strong, Mysterious and Super Rich!!.

"You're still mentioning this, you forgot that you still owe brother Ming a few dozen gold coins."

After sitting in the carriage Xiao San said meaningfully to Xiao Wu.

"You can keep that money, I don't care about it. After all you are my sister-in-law." Tang Ming joked from the outside as he pulled the carriage and started driving towards the village.

Now he have tens of thousands of gold coins, he can care less about few dozen coins.

"Who's your sister in law. After I became a Grand Spirit Master, I'll have a subsidy of ten gold coins, I'll pay you then. Hmph" Xiao Wu said arrogantly lifting her head a little high.

Both Tang San and Tang Ming laughed.

As they were riding the carriage, they quickly arrived at the village.

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A/N : Here's today's chapter, SO ENJOY.

I'm going for a time skip again after one to two chapters and it will be directly at Shrek Academy arc.

I posted it just after I wrote, so there may be some grammatical mistakes.

Any suggestions, reviews or comments are appreciated either good or bad. I'm out.

Your Allfather Author-PrimorDious.