Chapter 9 - Enraged Lion and Bao'er's spirit skill

Xingyun as always woke up early even though he slept late last night, the celebration of the village yesterday continued until midnight. Xingyun did his morning ceremony, then directly went to the courtyard with Blacky, the moment he arrived there Bao'er also arrived at the same time and they did their morning warm up, then sparred. Xingyun didn't wait for Bao'er to challenge him and they just without a single word said, he's just too tired of her pestering him to spar with her all day if he didn't agree to spar with her, because it distracts him from training.

As expected, Xingyun won a landslide victory, even though Bao'er's improvement in her techniques is astounding, she can never surpass Xingyun's attainments in his techniques. After a whole morning of spartan training, they at the same time came back inside the house and ate their breakfast with their parents, even when they are spirit masters now, and technically can survive longer than ordinary people without food, they just can't not attend the only time in the day that the family is complete.

"Soo.. Mom, Dad Bao'er and I have something to say to you guys, I'm pretty sure grandpas and grandma should know this by now, and you guys and uncle is the only ones out of loop", Xingyun stated. Before he said this, he made sure with Blacky that no other people except for their family is near.

"Huh? how can you guys tell a secret to your grandparents and not tell us?", both their parents is very confused because of what Xingyun said, they never hid a secret from the whole family, if their parents knew their grandparents should know too.

"Uhh... Bao'er c'mon tell them", Xingyun nudged Bao'er, which made their parents look at her.

"I didn't awaken the Golden Lion King spirit, I awakened the Golden Lion Emperor spirit", she said straight to them. When they heard what Bao'er said, they understood what Xingyun meant by their grandparents probably knew what the secret is.

"Actually, I'm the one who told her to not tell the villagers her true spirit when I sensed it was the Golden Lion Emperor spirit", Xingyun said.

"It's good that you guys hid it from the clan, the spirit hall's influence in douluo continent just keeps growing, you'll never know if we are housing a traitor in the village", Mao Feng said relieved, because of Xingyun's quickwittedness they might have survived a calamity.

"By the way father, we both will get our spirit rings today, will you be the one accompanying us?", Xingyun inquired.

"No, your grandpa Chen and grandpa Fang will be the ones to accompany you guys to get spirit rings", Mao Feng said.

The family just had idle talks while having breakfast, then after they all finished grandpa Chen and grandpa Fang came in and took them both away and brought them to Star Dou Forest.

Right now they are currently at the inner part of the Star Dou Forest, looking for a 1000 years old spirit beast for Bao'er. He estimated that with Bao'er's current physique he can absorb 800 year spirit rings and with his bloodline suppression helping her absorb the spirit ring easier, she theoretically can absorb up to 1500 year old spirit rings, but he chose to be safe and decided that a 1000 year old is the limit for the absorption of spirit ring to be competely safe, if a mishap happened it wouldn't have as much a backlash as absorbing older spirit rings.

After searching for an hour, Xingyun finally found a spirit skill suitable for her.

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Species Name: Hell Flame Lion

Age: 1056 years

Spirit Skill: Fire Manipulation

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Fire Manipulation spirit skill is perfect for Bao'er because, Golden Lion Emperor is known for three characteristics and it's abnormal strength, strong fire attribute, and Battle domain. Bao'er already has abnormal strength if she absorbed this spirit ring and learned how to control fire, her battle prowess will reach another level, in addition because of Bao'er's battle maniac characteristic, her Battle Domain, which can suppress opponents by using the user's battle intent and killing intent just came naturally to her, when Xingyun saw her use it the first time when they were training, he was shocked by how much control she has of it, it's like she had been using it all her life, and this made him jealous because he trained for a few months, just to use his domain properly.

"Bao'er were hunting that one, I feel like that spirit beast will give you the spirit skill you needed right now", Xingyun pointed at the Hell Flame Lion for Bao'er to see it, which made her nod, her eyes is full of fighting spirit. "I'll distract it, you'll be the one damaging it", he proposed to her, which she agreed on.

They battled the Lion after finalizing their plans, Xingyun walked up to it then taunted it, the Lion was successfully angered and it pounced on Xjngyun immediately, the battle began with the Lion chasing after Xingyun but never catches him, and Xingyun taunting him more, because of anger the Lion almost went berserk, but when he was about to pounce again something hit his sides which threw him a few meters away and hitting a tree, slightly injuring it. The Lion saw the two ants that is fighting it but it's anger for Xingyun is just so great it ignored the one who damaged it.

The grandpas watching the fight is speechless, because they've never seen a spirit beast before that ignored it's enemy just because of the taunting done to it. The battle between the siblings and the Lion continued for some time, Xingyun taunting it and Bao'er sneak attacking it, just by using this strategy Bao'er managed to kill a 1000 year old spirit beast.

After recovering her lost spirit energy for some time, Bao'er finally absorbed the spirit ring with Xingyun behind her and touching her back to help her by suppressing the spirit ring with his bloodline suppression.

After a half an hour, Bao'er fully absorbed the spirit ring with no mishaps, which relieved Xingyun's worried heart.

"Bao'er, show us your spirit skill", grandpa Fang said.

Bao'er opened her palms and a blackish fire resembling Hell Flame Lion's fire appeared on her palm. "My spirit skill is called Fire Manipulation, it helps me have a better control of my fire attribute", she stated.

"That's really good! even though Fire Manipulation only increases your control of the fire element, with enough practice you can do many things with it", grandpa Chen is very satisfied of her spirit skill.

Xingyun is also very satisfied of the spirit skill his sister got, the versatility of Fire Manipulation skill is just too great.