It has been a year since everything went down, and this is by far the best year I had since coming to this world. It was so good that it made me remember the years when Wheller went looking for a job only for me to buy whatever company he entered only to tell him that he was fired.
The feeling I got those years were just as great as the feeling I have had during this year. Thanks to Qian Xunjie's death mother was free from his reign of terror, she went to become the new Supreme Pontiff of spirit hall as the Qian family only had Qian Daoliu, who only cared about praying for his stupid god and being an asshole, and Renxue who is far too young.
Daoliu decided to put mother as the leader as he thinks she is 'domesticated' and is 'easy to manage' which again proves that he is a complete idiot. Mother is probably just almost as cunning as myself, possibly even reaching my level, and that is not a compliment I say lightly. She already started amassing her strength to consolidate her as the leader in not only name but in reality of spirit hall.
This last year also had the effect of me managing to create some seeds of distrust between Renxue and Daoliu, he had taught her that the Qian family is supreme and none can ever match, so her father dying really helped dismantle this idea. I also managed to get a whole lot of dirty deeds Xunji had done during his life to show Renxue, his image was destroyed to the point that Renxue doesn't even want to be remembered as his daughter anymore.
Another thing of interest is that Lingling has adapted well to her new circumstances. She still misses her parents but now she has managed to become more open with others and also is adapting to her position as my employee. She wakes me up in the morning, always is waiting for any requests I might give, and is also helping me in my research into essence tools.
I plan on using them, later on, to recreate duel monsters in this world, more specifically how to recreate my duel disk. After much research I arrived in a conclusion, the people in this world are all idiots!
They virtually stopped any advancement in such an interesting concept hundreds of years ago, even production is rare since most people chose to just steal complete works instead of making a new and better one. Even their incapacity of trying to advance their technology in any area using this unlimited energy (spirit power) is absurd in my eyes.
Even the geniuses that could potentially be able to advance the world at large choose instead to focus on raising their own power just to, in many cases, fall young or fail to do much of anything.
In just one year of research (mother let me learn about this after she got super happy with the death of the bastard) I already reached a point where I am advancing on my own instead of learning from others. Essence tools are composed of two main things, the code where the spirit energy passes to produce the effects, which is not that hard to understand, and the materials where the said code should be put. The more complex the code the higher the requirement for the metal used, even spirit beast's materials like hide, tendons, and blood might be necessary to develop a higher level essence tool. It is similar to hardware and software, both things I was the biggest genius of in my previous life as I was capable of creating the duel disk when I was just seventeen and revolutionized virtually all camps of technology later on in life with the exception of military since I wanted to make the Kaiba Corp be as far from what it was during Gozaburo's rule.
After I saw how important the hardware was going to be (the software was ridiculously easy for me) I decided I wanted to go to Gengxin city to try and buy the best blacksmiths there are, but mother did not allow since I still haven't awakened my spirit power, according to her I can only leave the city if I become rank 25 and am accompanied by at least two tittle doulous at all times.
But it won't be long now since my spirit awakening ritual is today and I finally will be able to see what my spirit is like. I think a white dragon is an obvious result since Obelisk had said that it would accompany me, but I wonder if this is all or if I will get a second spirit like mother have. That could be interesting to happen.
"Young master, the pontiff has requested your presence." Lingling said as she entered my room. Looking at her it reminds me that she changed quite a lot, she has grown a bit, looks much healthier than before, and while she has a mostly empty and weak voice when speaking to others when it is with me or those she is more comfortable with she speaks with a lot more energy.
Her hair now is shiny and well cared for, being a lustrous light blue since I ordered her to change the color of it as soon as I found the hair dye of it. I even painted my room and bed sheets of white and blue and in my pillow I ordered the creation of a Blue Eyes White Dragon in it, when I slept in this I felt so much better. It is just a shame that mother did not like that pillow since it reminded her of the Blue Tyrant Dragon Clan and my sperm donor so she threw it away.
I never really met the guy but after hearing about him I can say I am simply not interested. He is somewhat smart, but he completely lacks the backbone to decide on something and follow through, he gave up on his research when it got hard to prove, gave up on mother in the first pressure, and gave up on the 'red slut' when he found out they were related. It is simply pathetic in my eyes, how can someone even marginally related to me can be someone of such weak spirit.
Anyway, I stood up and put on my white coat featuring shoulder pads and a raised studded collar, with black sleeves from my shirt coming out from underneath it. It also has extra belts in pairs strapped around his upper arms and shins, many small pockets inside said coat containing my prototypes of essence tools, it is a coat I made based on the one I used during my seventeen to twenties, and even now that I am cute and adorable it still looks awesome in me.
Feeling as confident as someone like me should (which is quite a lot) I went out of my room with Lingling. On the way, I passed by quite a few spirit douluos (rank 80 to 90) and spirit sages (rank 70 to 80) but I am not impressed by any of them or considered them more than weaklings in the great scheme of things. Before long I was in the Supreme Pontiff's hall, the place where mother spent a considerable part of her days at.
She was sitting there in the tallest throne, all around we had a grand total of 12 tittle douluos sitting in smaller thrones as well as quite a few spirit douluos and representants of a few great schools and clans of the land. They all were well known and tyrannical figures, but in this hall and in presence of mother they all were respectful and fearful. She was the second youngest tittle doulou in history and nobody knows exactly what is her current ranks except for me, she used the addition of rings to her second spirit to reach rank 96 during these few years since she became a tittle doulou and could probably match and win against those of rank 97 or 98, and considering that after rank 85 every rank is a huge difference this means quite a lot.
"I am happy to see you fine, my child." She said while smiling slightly.
I gave her a simple nod before she continued.
"As you already know everyone in our world has a spirit from the day we are born. This spirit can be divided between tool spirit or beast spirit, but it is also known that until a person is six years old his spirit still is developing and thus is far too unstable to be brought out, thus we can only execute this ritual when the person is 6 years old at the very least. Today is your birthday and as such you finally have the correct age for you to have your spirit brought out, now come here as I myself will do it for you." She said everything clearly and concisely, it is true that everyone already knows this simple fact but it is also a fact that others are dumb and may end up forgetting such a basic matter.
I approached her silently, it was possible to hear the sound of a pin dropping in this place as I positioned myself close to mother.
She put a group of extremely high-quality spirit stones around us as she started purring her power into them and me, the spirit power took a golden color around us, covering the entire hall before rushing into my body, making me feel a weird feeling like if I was enjoying the sun in my skin, and also feeling like a tyrant at the same time.
It was weird, to say the least, but before long I could feel something changing within myself and I could feel three things inside me, all three moving forward and disputing to see who comes out first.
I feel that waiting for them to 'decide' may end up being bothersome so I chose the golden energy first. As I did that I opened my eyes and saw a golden eye looking at me, I was instantly surprised byt when I took a better look I recognize what it is and could only barely resist a chuckle.
The Millenium Rod was right there in front of me, the item used by me when I was a priest during that weird hallucination when I ate a few too many 'special brownies' and also the item used by Melrik during my tournament of the city.
If I am to trust what people told me about it and the visions I had during that halucination then it can create ilusions, control minds, and seal enemies, a great control system weapon for sure.
"Now that we have completed this part we must go to-"
"Sorry, but I feel like this is not all I have." I told mother, stopping her from continuing as I dispelled the Millenium Rod and pulled the power from another one of the three sources. This one is a dark blue and feels unnaturally heavy and oppressive, and when I pull its power out I feel my whole body changing.
I felt a wave of energy around myself as both my hands turned deep blue and grew armored, almost as if a carapace covered them. My body also grew one more feet tall as I activated this one, arcs of electricity covered my hands as I decided to test them by punching in a pillar on the side and leaving a mark in them, which should be impossible considering that even those in rank 40 could not even scratch the pillars in this place.
I guess this means that Obelisk became my spirit, cool. I don't know why but I don't feel quite as close to this spirit as I few towards the Millenium Rod, but this one is definetly strong.
Huh, suddenly I feel like I can do something that I could not do before, a separate power inside the power of Obelisk. Stimulating it slightly I feel what its effects are quite clearly.
"A-A-A DOMAIN? He has a innate domain AND twin spirits?" Someone shouted, stating the obvious.
Yep, I have a domain. I can feel it clearly, this domain is called tormentor's domain, it can lessen or raise the damage and pain of all those inside depending on what I think. For instance, a paper cut could feel like a compressed three hours of torture every second or I can make someone not even realize when they are hurt if I so desire. I can make an attack that should cut someone in half be just a long scratch or make a simple impact be the same as breaking the bones.
Hum, if Lingling does get the so-called best healing spirit and manages to develop a domain of healing then any army we control might as well be called undying, the soldiers will not feel pain and be restored at every second, dominating this continent will be a piece of cake.
"... As expected of the Supreme Pontiff's son, he is extraordinary and a rare talent throughout the ages. This Ning Fengzhi is impressed." The leader of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan said. His sect was the only amongst the three upper sect clans that appeared for this, which is expected since the Blue Tyrant is a bit ambiguous when it comes to me and Clear Sky is an enemy that was forced into hiding due to the pressure of spirit hall, or better saying the pressure of Qian Daoliu as he wanted revenge for his son.
I don't really care for either of those two clans, the Blue Tyrant is a stupid clan that is fully dependent on their somewhat decent spirit but is incapable of showing off the true power of a dragon and Clear Sky is just a bunch of conceited idiots. At least I was smart enough to talk it over with mother to instead of pressuring and damaging the four subsidiary clans make them closer to Spirit Hall after Clear Sky abandoned them. We made it clear for the four that we only attacked the clear sky clan with them being just in the way, but with no clear sky we would not attack them any further and are willing to extend a hand of friendship instead.
These two clans are not that great in strength, but the abilities of Seven Treasure Glazed TIla Clan are definetly ones I would rather have in allies then in enemies.
"You are too kind, sect master Ning. My child is still far too young and still has a lot to learn in the future." Mother said, she probably is already thinking on how to better approach him about a union between Spirit Hall and his sect since it is by far the weakest of the three great sects but also the one with the most potential to be useful to us. The two of us talked about it and I suggested trying to unite the two sides and slowly unite spirit hall and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan in such a way that slowly but surely we absorb them as just another subsidiary of ours, and if this fails, kill all of them except for one or two before making them produce children that will be trained to be loyal. This is a world where the strongest fist rules, Spirit Hall has the strongest fist but still is not enough to face the entire world as it is now, but give it a few years and things will be different.
There is also the matter that the previous Spirit Hall Supreme Elder was the father of Chen Xin, the Sword Douluo and one of the main forces of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan. If we approach him right we can draw him in together with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan in our intent of eliminating the constant threat that is Qian Daoliu.
"Until when do you intend to keep your spirit activated?" Mother said while turning to me.
I raised an eyebrow at this one before dispelling the Obelisk spirit, everyone was calming down before a dragon cry reverberated across the entire hall. I pulled in the final energy, and as I see the figure appearing before me I can't resist shouting in happiness.
"YES! Blue Eyes White Dragon in the flesh!!! YEAAAHHHHH!!!! YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I yelled as a four meters tall blue eyes white dragon appeared in front of me, it is an avatar spirit but I couldn't care less about anyone else as my blue eyes white dragon stood there in front of me.
Daoliu, you so are going to become its meal one of these days, just you wait, old fart!!!
If before the hall was noisy then now there was no lack of people talking openly, everyone was shocked to see this. I myself am somewhat surprised, three spirits in one person are something never seen before as no one else has ever had this, but I am not anyone else. I am Kaiba, and this alone ensures that I will be better than everybody else that isn't cheating (I am looking at you Atem, even if you are not better than me at all).
Mother looked shocked for a second before she looks pensive as she made a sign for me to go with her to the next part of the ritual, measuring the inborn spirit power. It is a well-known fact that the higher someone is when just awakening the spirit the higher the talent this person will have naturally, but it was to no one's surprise when my test showed what I already expected.
Innate full spirit power, which means I still must obtain a spirit ring before I can even know what would be my actual natural talent. The highest natural innate full spirit power recorded was Qian Daoliu's rank 19 from birth, but considering that he is old and influent enough to change the records if he wants to he might be much lower than that.
Well, it does not matter. What matters is that I am awesome and that now the entire world will begin understanding how awesome I am. And, most importantly, I HAVE MY BLUE EYES BACK!!!!!
That is right folks, three spirits!
Damn I wanted to show that to you all. Now, for slightly worse news, I will only update again after new year since there is a lot for me to do here, I have 3 other stories in FFnet that I must work with. Ideas for spirit rings are appreciated.