3 Seven spiritual elements

As soon as Chen Xiang stepped into that tray, that white powder gradually turned to a sparkling golden. It raised by some invisible force and began to circle around him, first slowly then rapidly. Though Chen Xiang could find similar mystical occurrences in the memories of Chen Xiang, to witness it with his own eyes left him with a certain degree of awe.

Different colors erupted in the cold golden light surrounding him.

Chen Xiang closed his eyes and found himself in the center of infinite small different colored sparkling particles. Those particles slowly being sucked by the darkness emanated by the powder that completely surrounded him.

He was right. The previous Chen Xiang couldn't feel the spiritual energy with such intensity. And according to the knowledge of the previous Chen Xiang, no one else could see them as material particles. But his connection to the spiritual energy was very strong to the point where he could feel and see them as material particles. It was this strong connection that had enabled him to create that spiritual shield at that time.

Chen Xiang focused and tried to prevent black colored spiritual particles representing demonic element from being absorbed by the powder.

The powder landed back on the ground in six different colored lines extending outward with Chen Xiang in their center.

Blue for water.

Red for fire.

Brown for earth.

Green for nature.

Gray for animals.

White for air.

Black for demons. The line that Chen Xiang prevented from appearing. It was the most powerful and the most dangerous one. And the one possessing it would eventually succumb to darkness and turn to a conscious-less demon that fed on killing.

"Pfff. Did you see that? Chen Xiang we've to admit you are an unlucky bastard born only once in thousand years ", Wang Wook burst into waves of laughter noticing six different colored lines, completely forgetting that there was no black line confirming no presence of demonic element and thus proving his senior wrong.

A mumble of whispers was heard from the surrounding nobles in the court.

Was this the person chosen of all candidates to accompany the princess to Shanguan mountains?

Apparently, higher the number of elements a person possessed, slower and less defined was his cultivation and the weaker was he considered.

But what they didn't know was that Chen Xiang could see the spiritual particles. He could recognize and separate them.

"This proves my claim so I hope that young master of the Li family will apologize for wrongly accusing me", Chen Xiang systematically put forth his demand ignoring Wang Wook taunt.

Li Yui Ying was frozen with shock at his spot. As much as he was happy to discover that the weakness had no chance to get stronger, he was proven wrong of what he firmly believed. He felt humiliated. He felt like he had been slapped hard across his face.

But he was sure that Chen Xiang used that demonic technique. He had felt the unfathomable strength of that shield that Chen Xiang created.

"He must be using some artifice to hide himself!"

How could he, the possessor of three elements, bare to humble him and beg that pathetic six element possessor! That weakness!

"First your juniors bully someone at a lower rank than you violating the King's verdict, second you falsely accuse him of using demonic practice and now being exposed, you are shamelessly denying it?", a light and mild cheerful voice was heard from a side.

Chen Xiang looked in a direction to find a golden-haired guy, perhaps at the same age as him. Searching through the memory of the previous Chen Xiang, he found that the person was Prince Yuan Hao-the second prince and half brother of princess Yuan Hua and full brother of crown prince Yuan Suoluo

Possessor of a single element Fire.

"Exposed? What do you mean by that?", Li Wei Ying said angrily. It was obvious, he was not in good terms with the second prince.

"Do you think everyone here is an idiot. It was clearly all an act to bring Chen Xiang to testing and show it to others that he possessed six elements", Yuan Hao said in a playful tune, "So that people would question King's verdict of Chen Xiang princess escort", he said quietly, "But do you realize that falsely accusing someone of using demonic technique is a punishable offense?"

Chen Xiang didn't know whether that Yuan Hao stepped in to help him or he was here for his personal reasons.

The court broke into heated discussions. There was no way one could affect the result of the spiritual analyzer in any way so Chen Xiang was clearly innocent and had no connection to demons. Now everyone also believed that Li Yui Ying did it to expose Chen Xiang spiritual roots. The fact would drive a grudge between him and the king.

"These are all lies!", Li Yui Ying gritted his teeth and glared at Yuan Hao, "I brought him here because I clearly felt strong demonic aura from him and worried for the safety of our kingdom!"

Yuan Hao simply smiled at him. He had already said the most pivotal words already and sowed the seed of suspicion in the king's heart. Now it was the time to lean back and enjoy the show.

"Now that you are proven wrong Li Lui Ying. Why don't you beg for forgiveness from Chen Xiang like you promised?", Yuan Hua taunted him.

Li Lui Ying was truly angered. His fists tightened.

"For the safety of all, I request the king to further test his spiritual roots!", Li Lui Ying said, joined his fists and went on his knees. He was desperate. He wouldn't bow in front of Chen Xiang.

He wouldn't let him win.

That was something alarming for Chen Xiang. He didn't know if he could elude further tests. As the king was in the state of silence, deciding whether to agree to Li Lui Ying request or not, out of sudden Chen Xiang stated these words confidently and took everyone's off-guard,

"I, Chen Xiang, challenge Li Yui Ying to a dual next month. If he succeeds, I'll forget about the apology and willingly step back from the position of princess's escort and if I succeed, he'll have to sign the old Phoenix library under my name"