Chương 38: Love Quarrels

"Bang!" Haotian, Meijing, Biyun, Chenxiang and the new addition Yan with Lingling following them entered the dining hall with a big bang, catching the attention of everyone at the crowded hall. Not like there was much need as with Haotian's handsomeness and the girls' beauty, they were incredibly eye-catching and difficult to ignore.

They walked towards the middle table of the hall that was already filled. With a glance of Yan, everyone over the table turned pale, quickly excusing themselves and leaving the dining hall as if their lives were in danger.

Haotian's group sat over the table with Yan sitting next to Haotian, all of them starting eating and talking(With Lingling's exemption that never talked) like normal.

That scene caught everyone's attention, Yan had been outside the academy for a month and nobody was clear about the reason. Now that she had returned, she had joined Haotian's group which was previously being loaded by her. What could have happened? Everyone in the hall started gossiping about it.

Why did Haotian openly showed this new relation with Yan, intentionally catching everyone's attention?

The answer was that Haotian hated people gossiping with it, creating their own stories and asking about them.

Haotian's group had already decided to leave the academy tomorrow during some time to train as a group, having already gained permission from the principal to do it. They planned to go to the Yin and Yang Ice Fire Well and train there while they search for a compatible plant.

So Haotian wanted to give the people only a little time of today to gossip in their presence and then leave the academy. Once they return, the rumors would have turned colder and even when some questions wouldn't be avoided, it wouldn't be as heavy as being here all the time.

"Bang!" Again the door opened strongly, this time only one boy entered the hall. With black hair, a slender body and an angry look in his face, he directly shot towards Haotian's table.

"What the meaning of this, Yan?!" He shouted angrily while stomped a letter over the table "Are you breaking with me?!"

"You disappoint me, Tianheng" Yan said calmly, not even looking at his eyes "For you to become so angry just for this" Yan sighed and looked at Tianheng "Were you really thinking that our little relation would last?"

"Yan!" Tianheng clenched the letter that was Yan's breaking their relationship "Did I realy not mean anything to you?"

"No" Yan shook her head "You were simply a temporary companion."

Tianheng clenched his hand in anger, however, he didn't direct it towards Yan, instead, his gaze moved a little, falling over Haotian "This is all your fault!"

"Slap!" Tianheng took out one of his gloves and threw it towards Haotian, hitting his cheek and falling to the ground "I challenge you to a duel!"

Haotian blinked confused as he looked at the glove. 'This really is also a thing in this world' Haotian could have avoid the glove but he was surprised by such trivial matters of nobility appearing here.

"Hahaha!" Haotian started laughing 'I never thought that I would be in this kind of situation, it's kind of silly.'

"Why are you laughing? You don't dare to accept my challenge." Tianheng scoffed.

"Of course, I'll accept" Haotian bent over catching the glove "What do you want to bet?"

"If I win, you will leave this academy forever!" Tianheng declared.

'Love really turn people silly. Not really thinking about the consequences and my backing' Haotian sighed "Okay. If I win, you will never meet Yan outside the completely unavoidable, never talking with her."

Tianheng backed for a second but quickly stepped forward "Okay, I accept"

...

Over a training ground, Haotian and Tianheng were facing each other, ready to start. Around them, a great of people had agglomerated, seeming half of the students from the academy were there to see that combat.

It was a fight between Yu Tianheng, the leader of the Emperor Team and considered to be the strongest student against Hu Haotian, a mysterious relatively new student and representative of the Prince Team. Haotian's background was unknown and even if it was talked that his strength was one of the highest of the Prince Team, it was unknown how strong that was, creating a mysterious air around him.

The mysterious handsome boy surrounded by beauties. Some people said that the girls were all his girlfriends and fiances, some said that the girls were their sisters and family, nobody knew the actual truth, hiding him in even more mystery. Nevertheless, this gave him the nickname of the Flower Prince. There was no way anyone would lose to see this fight, especially when they were fighting for a girl like Yan!

Over the crowd, Haotian's girls had calmed faces as they looked at Haotian, no uncertainty could be felt from them.

"Are you not worried?" Lingling asked with his usual emotionless voice.

The fact that Lingling asked something and seemed to have any interest in the fight was what truly surprised them. All of them looking shocked towards Lingling.

"There's no need to worry" Biyun was the one that answered with a smile "It would have been a challenge last month, but now..." Biyun shook her head "There's no way for Big Brother to lose."

An old man stepped forward. He was a professor at the academy and would act as the referee. He was there to make sure that they wouldn't grievously injure each other, stopping the fight at the minimum danger of a life-threatening attack.

"Ready!" The professor announced, both contenders readying themselves. "Start!"

"GRRR!" Tianheng growled as he activated his spirit, a blue lighting dragon appearing over him followed by 4 spirit rings, 2 yellows and 2 purples.

"Your pressure is indeed over the average. As it could be expected from the strongest beast spirit of Heaven Dou Empire." Haotian nodded. "But if we are talking about pressure, I think that I can easily surpass it." Haotian grinned as he extended his arm, a sword covered in blue flames appearing over it.

Around him, 4 spirit rings shined brightly, 3 purples and 1 black.

"4 spirit rings!" "Spirit Ancestor!" "A 10.000 years old ring!" Voices of shock and awe were heard from the venue. It was a fact known that Haotian was able to somehow age his spirit rings due to a mutation of his spirit, but to be able to breakthrough to Spirit Ancestor at his age, without counting already having a 10.000 years old ring. Genius was too low to describe him, he was a monster.

"Don't think that this would scare me!" Tianheng growled. He stepped forward, shooting towards Haotian at great speed while his first ring shined.

"Thunder Dragon Claw!" A claw made from lighting appeared over his arm as he shot towards Haotian, trying to pierce him with it.

Seeing it, Haotian remained calmed. He lifted his sword, blue flames formed around it crystalizing it.

"Clank!" Tianheng's claw crashed with Haotian's sword, pushing him over 2 meters, but unable to even distort his posture.

"That's all?" Haotian teased.

"GRRR!" Tianheng charged again, swinging widely his claw trying to hit Haotian. However, every attack was easily seen by Haotian's superior sensed, being able to block it with his sword.

"Stop this!" Tianheng lifting his hands to the sky as his second ring started shining "Thunder Crash!" Lighting snakes formed around Tianheng, shooting towards everywhere around him.

It was a wide attack with low focus as it was mean to escape a surrounding or for speed-type spirit masters, becoming very tricky to avoid.

Haotian stepped back as his second ring shined, blue flames exploded from his sword covering him in them. As the lighting hit the blue flames, these ones rebounded over it, being unable to pierce over it.

"Sorry, but ice is not a good conductor for electricity," Haotian stated. The fact that he wasn't damaged at all by Tianheng's lightning was indeed this. The most frightening property of lighting was its piercing power, but against an insulating, it lost this advantage, needing a far greater power to destroy it.

"Take this" Haotian's first ring shined "Yin Slash!" Haotian slashed forward, shooting a condensed blade of yin flames over Tianheng. The blade cut over the lighting in its way, reaching Tianheng who was unable to avoid it as the aftermath of his own attack.

"Boom!" The blade exploded over Tianheng, covering him with a blue mist, and freezing most of his left side, his arm and leg now caged in ice.

"Are you going to surrender?" Haotian said as he calmly landed on the ground, resting his sword over his shoulder in a laidback way.

"I will show you the strength of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon!" Tianheng said angrily "DRAGONIFY!"

"Bang!" The ice around Tianheng exploded into thousands of pieces, completely freeing him.

"Interesting" Haotian whispered as he looked at Tianheng's arms. His arms had a great transformation, gaining a blue scaled armor with eternal lighting running over it. Both the lighting and the pressure given by Tianheng increasing some folds.

Dragonify was the transformation of body parts, becoming part of a dragon acquiring a great boost in attack and defense. Thanks to this ability the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon became known as the strongest beast spirit. If one was able to fully Dragonify, the power that would accomplish wouldn't be much different than a spirit avatar of a Spirit Sage, being considered a cheat of their spirit, being able to receive the boost of something akin to 2 spirit avatars.

Of course not all was positive, Dragonify was incredibly rare and difficult even over the main line of their clan, only the Titled Douluo and patriarch of the Blue Lighting Tyrant Dragon Clan being able to fully Dragonify. Tianheng being able to transform two arms as a Spirit Ancestor and at his age, showed his immense talent. However, that and winning against Haotian were different things.

"My strongest attack!" Tianheng bent his knees, lowering his body as he crossed his arms in front of him. His 4th ring shining brightly "Lighting Dragon ROAR!" He roared as he extended his arms, from his mouth an incredibly powerful and condensed lighting, amplified by his Dragonify shot towards Haotian, leaving a scorched trail under it.

Sensing the attack, Haotian knew that if he wanted to stop it he should face it with his Sky Blizzard. However, what Haotian did surprised everyone, even his girls.

"Let's try that." Haotian let go of his sword that started falling to the ground as his 4th ring shined and he withdrew his first ability, the sword disappearing "Sword Absorption!" He shouted as he activated his 4th spirit, his eyes became slices with a green tint and all over his body, tiny black-green scales appeared.

That was Yan's spirit the Phosphor Hydra, the spirit with the strongest poison with it. It was clear that it was too late to poison his enemies, but poison had other uses. Haotian controlled the poison over his body, increasing his blood circulation, increasing his senses and strength. Controlled poison could become the best medicine.

Haotian backed his right leg, bent his body lower and extended his left arm, his palm extended and facing Tianheng's Lighting Roar.

"Crrrrr!" The Lighting Roar hit Haotian's palm, but didn't explode. Instead, it was absorbed by Haotian's arm.

"TC!" Haotian gritted his teeth as he had full control over his body, controlling the ravenous lighting that entered it, making it flow all over his arm, crossing all over his body and finally shooting to his right arm, now extended over his back, shotting outside of his body.

"BOOM!" The Lighting Roar completely passed over Haotian's body, seemingly ignoring it and crashing 10 meters away from Haotian, causing a great explosion.

Haotian bent his neck, cracking his shoulders as he looked at Tianheng showing a tint of killing intent "Anything else?"

Seeing the scene, Tianhen fell on his knees. He had exhausted most of his spirit power in his Dragonify and last attack and it hadn't affected Haotian at all. He didn't know how Haotian had done it, but he knew that he couldn't win.

"I surrender" Tianheng declared finishing the combat with Haotian's victory.

"Remember to not approach Yan again." Haotian said while he turned back, walking towards his girls' group.

"Tian!" Meijing jumped over his body, Haotian taking her into a hug "You shouldn't worry me so much. What if something had happened to you."

"How did you do that, Haotian?" Yan asked curiously.

"Let's go to a calmer place and I will explain" Haotian said. Then he turned to Lingling "Could you also come, Lingling."

Lingling tilted her head but nevertheless nodded. Then, all the group left the training ground leaving all the people behind awing talking about the combat.

...

Over Meijing's room, everyone sat over the sofa "Will you tell us, how did you do, Haotian?" Asked Yan again.

"I used to ways to fight against lightning. The first one was using an isolating and the second one using a conductor" Haotian explained.

Seeing the confused faces of the girls, Haotian continued "Lightings are incredibly dangerous and powerful, being able to annihilate strong monsters and culminate people. However, at the same time, a normal person can be hit by lighting and come out unscathed. That their body acting as a conductor to the lighting letting it go across their body to a greater conductor, usually the earth. While they are able to avoid damaging the organs, the damage could be minimized."

"But that Tianheng's attack had a great heat source, being capable of scorching even the ground. Wouldn't have burned your body and damaged your nerves?" Meijing quickly deducted and asked worriedly.

Haotian smiled at her "Yes. I needed to use my 4th skill, to numb my nerves, to be able to completely focus on controlling my body."

At that Meijing's eyes went widely. She turned to Lingling with a desperate face "Hurry, Lingling! Heal Tian!"

"You are always so intelligent" Haotian smiled "Cought!" He coughed black smoke, a burning smell permeating the room as he fell over the floor, quickly being watched by Meijing before reaching the ground.

Lingling quickly acted invoking her spirit, a beautiful flower appearing over her arms and a fragrant aroma cleaning the room. Lingling's 4 spirit ring shined brightly, 2 yellow and 2 purples, a rain of blue petals started to fall over Haotian.

Haotian could feel a warm feeling spreading over his body, healing his inside.

"Why did you such an idiocy?!" Meijing asked angrily.

Haotian grinned "I wanted to try the Lightning Refinement of the body" He turned towards Lingling "Especially with such talented healer near me." That gained a confused frown from Lingling who didn't know how to react.

"Don't do it again" Meijing said "Idiot."