by Tinalynge
The moment he entered he heaved a heavy sigh of relief. He started looking around, yet before he found Wan Qiao he felt a slim arm locked around his neck. The arm hooked around him constantly tightening causing the young man to feel suffocated.
Right as Hui Yue was about to give up the door opened and the guard rushed in only to see what looked like Wan Qiao hugging Hui Yue in an intimate, close manner. Something which caught him completely off guard.
“I… I beg your pardon for disturbing you oh heavenly eagle,” The guard stuttered as he bowed and backed out of the room.
Hearing his words, Wan Qiao laughed out loud and released Hui Yue, who fell to the ground gasping for air with tears in his eyes. It was as though Wan Qiao fully enjoyed torturing the young man in front of her.
“Why did you not visit me instantly?” Wan Qiao asked. Her brows furrowed as she asked the question. “You needed to hurry up so that I can help you control the beast inside of you,” She said with excitement in her eyes. She had an almost manic smile on her face as she looked at the young man in front of her. She inched closer and closer as she lifted his arm and stared at his hands. She stared at the back and in general went through his entire body with her hands before she finally stood behind him. She scratched her chin in admiration.
“To see such a full transformation and how you returned to a human this quickly again, it is amazing.” She said with admiration in her voice, “The transformation ability is at least that of a Saint ranked beast. Tell me, what do you know about this beast? Can you control the red mist? Maybe just a little?”
Looking at the woman in front of him who was asking multiple questions, Hui Yue felt a headache coming especially since both Lan Feng and the wolf-man were talking about how attractive Wan Qiao had become. Their voices which caused Hui Yue to become annoyed towards the two souls who had become the best of friends while he was dealing with the sadistic woman that turned into their teacher.
“I already managed to get him under control,” Hui Yue said with a sigh as he massaged his temples. “The reason I came late was due to this. Lan Feng is no longer alone within my lower dantian. He is together with wolf-man, the two of them seem to have become great friends.”
Hui Yue was filled with indignation as he did not wish for his body to suddenly turn into a host for multiple souls. Sharing with two souls was already troublesome, but having to share it with another eight would turn into a catastrophe. Hui Yue quickly told Wan Qiao everything which happened after he woke up. The woman was completely taken aback when she heard that there was a total of nine caves within his lower dantian; nine caves filled with various phenomena which happened to be souls of his previous life.
“Did you say there is a monk?” Wan Qiao was completely surprised when she heard about the souls, and she had to admit that she understood why Hui Yue was feeling uncomfortable about sharing his body with this many souls. She decided to look for a way to get rid of the many souls within him.
“Well, it’s unfortunate that it is like this,” Wan Qiao said with a sigh, but deep inside she felt that she had indeed found the next pillar of support for Shenyuan. Having control over the wolf-man he already had a huge power boost. A boost which caused him to be unrivaled amongst the middle dantian cultivators and even capable of defeating Kings.
“Well, your physique is still weak. Until the day where you can wrestle me fairly, you will have to follow my training program.” Wan Qiao said with a sinister smile on her mouth as she found a piece of paper which she handed the unknowing young man.
As he accepted the letter, hopelessness swept across Hui Yue’s mind as he saw the training schedule for the day. He had multiple exercises he needed to go through. Exercises which trained every single muscle in his body, sadly, Hui Yue had no other option than to go through with it. With a downcast nod, he left the room and went towards the training grounds to start the schedule as he was filled with mixed emotions. Although he did not wish to go through with the harsh training, he was excited about increasing his strength. About increasing his own personal strength; about becoming able to rely on his own strength, and not needing to constantly rely on Lan Feng or any phenomena within.
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“Deng Wu! Sha Yun! Wang Ju Long! Go, quickly! Go and fetch Ma Kong and Gao Yan. We got a letter from Hui Yue!” Rong Xing’s voice boomed throughout the private rooms of Rong Ming, everyone within the rooms suddenly roused to action. All of them amazed as they ran towards Rong Xing excited smiles everywhere.
Since Deng Wu, Sha Yun, and Wang Ju Long released the Laws and gave them their freedom back, all of them went to the capital where they were freeloading of Rong Xing and Rong Ming. Staying in their rooms at the Royal Academy’s Main Branch.
The students at the Royal Academy all had multiple rooms within a hostel; a suite with five personal rooms and their friends were staying in these rooms.
Xu Piao did not join them; instead, he now worked together with Gao Yan. Ma Kong worked for his family firm and Rong Xing and Rong Ming were both busy looking after their studies.
Although they all saw their three friends return, they had long since been terrified about what happened to Hui Yue, but today, a year and a few months after he vanished, a letter finally arrived.
Waiting for everyone to gather up, Rong Xing was as excited as them. Finally, she opened the letter and read it all out loud to the many friends who were gathered in the sitting room.
The words within left them all excited and relieved. Knowing that Hui Yue was still alive was something which mattered to these friends, but soon after their large smiles dimmed as they remembered their current situation.
“Don’t worry, when Hui Yue comes back we’ll be able to get revenge,” Rong Xing said with a gentle voice as she patted Deng Wu on the shoulder. The young man looked at her with sad eyes, but a small smile appeared on his face. His blue hair was hanging in disarray, and his blue eyes were filled with gratitude towards the young woman.
Seeing those azure blue eyes looking at her and the sadness within, Rong Xing had no other urge than to give him a large hug and tell him that everything would be okay.
“We must endure,” Wang Ju Long said. Her eyes black with hate and anger, her voice trembling. “We must endure until Hui Yue returns, and while we wait we must increase our strength so that we are no longer are a hindrance to Hui Yue.”
Hearing these words, everyone nodded and with a last glance towards the letter they all started cultivating within the room.
Chapter 13 – Life in Shenyuan
Leaving behind Wan Qiao’s room, Hui Yue decided that he would follow the training schedule to the letter, not doing anything halfway or with a slacking attitude. Hui Yue knew that this training was made specially for him. It would push him to transcend his limits over and over again. But it was not so harsh that his body was incapable of handling it. Hui Yue knew that although Wan Qiao was a sadist, she seemed sincere when she passed him the training schedule. The woman gained nothing from making him hurt his body. If anything she seemed interested in him gaining control over his inner phenomena and also boosting his strength.
The schedule included push-ups, vertical push-ups, running, weightlifting, and other various exercises which altogether balanced his training. The running was what Hui Yue had to do the most because he was already rather agile due to training Velocity Flow all these years. Working on increasing his nimbleness further was a goal of Wan Qiao.
The training schedule made by Wan Qiao took ten hours a day to complete, after which he got two hours to relax in a hot spring bath. Then the rest of the day was used to cultivate his inner energies.
After having been there for some time, Wan Qiao ensured that he ate food every day. Food filled with magical and medicinal herbs. Being a Lord of the Forest, and especially the strongest one, she got plenty of medicinal herbs gifted to her each year, not to mention the workers within her fiefdom who planted and harvested herbs.
Within all of Shenyuan, the One-Ho
rned Jasmine Eagle, Wan Qiao, was the most feared creature. Her strength was far superior to every other Lord of the Forest, and her age far outstripped even the oldest magical beast within the kingdom. She was revered and within her capital, she was worshiped like a deity.
This woman, who usually stayed in her office or personal chambers had recently changed, and the thing which had caused her to change was a young man. No one knew where this young man came from, nor who he was. The only thing known about him was that he was invited into Wan Qiao’s private chambers at least once a day, that he was training hard, and that she would often oversee his training. They also knew he was capable of maintaining full human form although he did not have the aura of a Saint.
What everyone was unaware of was that Hui Yue was summoned to Wan Qiao’s personal chambers for the sake of training. So he could train himself even more. This time, not physically or mentally, but to learn how to fully control the strength of the magical beast which resided within him.
Through tough training, Hui Yue found out that the beast in his dantian cave was not a second soul as he had expected, no the beast in his dantian cave was a part of his soul.
This also meant that Lan Feng and the wolf-man were two completely different kinds of souls. Although Hui Yue and Lan Feng’s souls were connected they were two individual souls; however, this red wolf was a part of Hui Yue. Because of this Hui Yue could ultimately control its strengths as though they was his own.
At first, both wolf and man were apprehensive about accepting this fact, and even now when they stared at each other oddly, knowing they were the same person. They eventually came to accept the facts because they could merge and allow for Hui Yue to use the strength of the wolf.
This made Hui Yue fully understand that this wolf was indeed himself. No matter how he looked at it, the wolf was his former life. Also, this meant that the others were his previous lives as well. If they were to materialize themselves, Hui Yue could control them much more efficiently.
Another thing Hui Yue learned from when the wolf freed itself from his soul was that his affinity with Fire increased tremendously. This was due to the wolf having an elemental affinity for fire.
Thinking along these lines, Hui Yue could not help but look at the green pearl within his dantian cave. If he managed to gain control over this pearl he would become much more proficient at healing. Alongside being able to become an alchemist. Knowing this was incredibly tempting, however, the only way to make his soul manifest was for it to grow stronger.
Increasing the green pearl’s strength meant that Hui Yue had to be saved by the pearl, and that happened rarely. Another option was to feed the pearl high-quality medicinal pills, but Hui Yue found that the pearl refused to absorb them as though it knew what his plans were.
Sighing deeply, Hui Yue came to the conclusion that he could do nothing but see what happened in the future. Standing in Wan Qiao’s room his body once more transformed into the shape of a wolf-man. The final transformation, the transformation to a full wolf, was still not possible for him.
Although he could not fully transform just yet, his strength had already increased by an astonishing amount when he became a wolf-man. In this shape, when using his beastly mist energies alongside his spiritual energy, and elemental affinities he was as powerful as a King ranked expert.
Wan Qiao managed to bring countless guards from her many armies into the palace to spar against Hui Yue. This let the young man learn how to use the strength he gathered in real battle.
The guards whom Wan Qiao found all had to stay in the palace. None of them were allowed to tell anyone about what they did for her. All of them were curious as to what the relationship between this young man and the woman known as Shenyuan’s Queen was.
Today was a day just like the others. Hui Yue had previously finished his physical training then his body had been sore, so he relaxed within the hot spring bath for an hour. After that he ate his lunch and now he was within Wan Qiao’s chambers, standing in front of her as a wolf-man.
The amount of time Hui Yue could last in his transformed stage increased day by day. His control over mist energy, the energy used by magical beasts, was something which took time to control, and Hui Yue was working hard on it every single day.
Magical beasts did not have dantians; instead, they had beast cores which were located within their heads. Although they were said to have the same ranks as cultivators, their energy was not the same as human cultivators.
Beasts refined the essence of the heavens and the earth which would naturally circulate within their body, and after it was refined a mist would enter the beast core where it would combine with their elemental affinity. Unlike humans, beasts had elemental affinity from when they were born. Some had more than one affinity while others had only one. The mist energy would have the same color as Qi when the beasts were younger. As they grew older, it would turn silvery before it eventually took its color after their elemental affinity.
This color was also the reason many inexperienced experts believed that magical beasts had the same sort of energy like humans, and ranked their strengths as such.
Hui Yue did not know the actual difference between beasts and human energies until he had the beast within him. This was due to Lan Feng. Although he was a beast, he used Qi, spiritual energy, and Wu Wei.
Having a magical beast within his body using the same sort of energies as himself, Hui Yue did not understand that this did not apply to all magical beasts.
It turned out that the reason Lan Feng could use these energies was because he was a divine beast.
Divine beasts were beasts far stronger than other beasts. From when they were born, they were capable of taking full human form, alongside cultivating the same way humans do. Lan Feng and the other three sons of the four Divine Beasts were all cultivating like humans. This was one of the few things which set divine beasts apart from standard magical beasts.
Thinking this, it was evident that the wolf whom Hui Yue had been in his previous life was not a divine beast; however, his strength far surpassed that of Lan Feng. That was something which Hui Yue knew for sure.
All of these things Hui Yue did not know before but learned at the time he underwent Wan Qiao’s personal training. Having transformed into a wolf-man, Hui Yue quickly turned back to a human.
He had a limited amount of time he was capable of keeping up his wolf-man form, and he knew that Wan Qiao planned yet another battle for him to participate in; a fight he could only win if he was in his wolf-man form.
It was Hui Yue’s bad luck should he not manage to keep his wolf-man form long enough to defeat his opponent in which case he would be beaten black and blue by his opponent. This was something which Wan Qiao ensured happened often. The reason that Wan Qiao used this sort of training was so that Hui Yue, who disliked being beaten, would take the fights seriously. Due to this, he would strive his best to win. If Hui Yue did not have the ability to win then, he would learn from the match and train harder to become stronger.
Hui Yue fought the same guard each night until he was capable of defeating them. This was done to ensure that he would increase his strength little by little.
The guard he was set to fight tonight was one he had already met three nights in a row, obviously, he had not won any of the matches. The first night, Hui Yue had no chance of victory. He lost with record speed in a few minutes. The second night he managed to last for about ten minutes, and last night he came very close to winning with the match ongoing even after fifteen minutes.
These fights were what made Hui Yue truly understand how much he was progressing every single day. Standing within Wan Qiao’s room, Hui Yue looked out the window only to see a seemingly young man making his way through the courtyard outside the window. He was headed straight for the building in which Wan Qiao’s personal rooms were located.
Looking at this young man, Hui Yue could not help but smile a depressing smile. He knew that this man, who was an eagle-man, was no
where as young as he seemed. He had chosen to stop his body from aging; a sign that he had long since entered the upper dantian becoming a King ranked expert.
When Hui Yue said that he had long since entered the upper dantian, he was not overstating. The guard had indeed been a King for over a hundred years by now, and he was one of Wan Qiao’s most trusted guards.
Not waiting for the young man to enter the premises, Hui Yue sighed deeply as he stood up and left the room in which he was standing together with Wan Qiao. The woman following him behind, a smile on her face as she looked forward to the battle that was about to commence.
Chapter 14 – Prowess of a Wolf
Leaving behind the chambers the three of them, the eagle man, the white-haired young man, and the beautiful woman all headed towards a small arena. This arena was in a courtyard that led up to Wan Qiao’s private chambers. Not many servants came here so the two men would be able to fight one another in peace.
Hui Yue’s eyes glistened with determination. This time, he would win and avoid being beaten silly. This time, he would show that he had what it took to defeat the guard Wan Qiao picked out.
