Chapter 2: little adventure

The next morning, as the sun just rose, Feng, who should still be sleeping abruptly woke up and looked out the window, at the sun. Unlike normal people, Feng was never blinded when he saw the sun, nor was he ever cold or hot. He knew this was abnormal, so did his mom and brother but they just thought that it was his talent.

This morning, Feng felt an irrepressible need to see the first sun rays, which woke him up. As he was staring at the sun in a daze, he unconsciously activated his spirit and the shadow of a white ring appeared behind him. As it appeared, a warm and soothing aura began to emanate from him. His brother, who was sleeping soundly began to smile in contentment, as if something gentle embraced him, making him feel good.

After roughly five minutes, Feng was brought out of his daze by the sound of the nanny brutally opening the door. The white ring shadow behind him faded as the nanny screamed " Wake up you sleepy heads! Today is your great day yet you are still sleep... Oh, you are awake feng'er? As expected of you. Good, wake up your brother and come eat your breakfast. "

Slamming the door shut as she left, the nanny went to the kitchen to arrange the already prepared dishes while Feng, out of his daze, went to wake up his brother, annoyed as he seemed even harder to wake up this morning. After beibei woke up, they went to wash their mouths quickly and went to the kitchen, sitting at their respective place around the table.

Astonished at the lavishness of the meal, which was steamed buns, rice noodles, dumplings, soybean milk, and Dim sum, they looked at the nanny speechlessly. " What? Why are you looking at me like that? Hmph, the road to spirit city is long, you need some strength to safely reach it. " Sighing, she added with a saddened face " Besides, this is most likely the last meal we will share so eat well. "

Now realizing that they wouldn't see her anymore, they both began to sob. As their mother was missing most of the time, the nanny became in a way their mother figure. They couldn't even remember a day spent without seeing her. Having some tears finding their way to her cheeks as well, the nanny said " Don't cry, my cute children, we will see each other again if you decide to visit. I will always be here. Finish your meals, elder Luo will wait for you at the village south gate. "

Nodding with difficulty, they both began to eat the extremely delicious meal, though in a sad mood.

After they finished, they took their bags and got out of the house. Looking at the simple, white-colored small house that served as their home for as long as they remembered and the quietly crying nanny.

Saddened, even more, they went for a hug with them crying their hearts out. After a few minutes of this, elder Luo appeared behind them and looked at the family with warm eyes. Coughing to get their attention, he said " Kids, it's time to go. In spirit city, you will get to reunite with your mother, and you will make many friends. Remember that you can always come back to visit the village. "

Taking both of their outstretched hands, he began to lead them to the exit of the village. The reason he decided not to wait at the south gate was because he expected something like that to happen. Departing is always hard, that he knew better than anyone else. Looking back at the nanny, he bowed as they left. The kids never knew of her name but her face, the feeling she gave them and her reprimands will always be remembered.

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On the way, Feng was trying to cheer up the sobbing Beibei, even though he was cheering himself up more by doing that. As they were traveling on a cart, the trip to spirit city would take a little more than a month. Not willing to waste their potential for even a second, elder Luo thought them how to meditate so that they could raise their spirit power a little on the way. Consequently, this was more effective in making them forget about their parting with the nanny.

As they were meditating, Feng not conscious at all of anything else happening, stood up and went to a direction. Of course, this didn't evade elder Luo's perception who caught Feng who was about to fall. " Feng? What happened? Feng! FENG! " Seeing no response from the kid, and after hesitating, he finally decided to make the coach stop the cart.

Then he released and followed Feng to whatever destination he was heading to while taking a sleeping beibei in his arms. He didn't want to risk losing one. The only clue he had was that this phenomenon was related to his spirit as his hair became white, from the originally pitch black.

After walking for about a kilometer, Feng, who still wasn't conscious stopped in front of an ordinary-looking tree. The only thing remarkable about it was a white crow, perched on it. It didn't look special at all, it was just short, cute and released a pleasant aura as it was staring at Feng.

Finally regaining consciousness, Feng was disoriented at first then his mind was only occupied by the crow. Extending his arm, Feng caught it... and squeezed it. It died and released a white ring which Feng began to absorb. Astonished by the turn of events, elder Luo didn't know what to think as the actions performed in front of him were way too peculiar. Not only did the kid go and walk straight to a beast, but he also killed it immediately after catching it and absorbed its ring.

Flustered as this was only a ten years old spirit beast, which could partly waste Feng's potential, elder Luo stood, rooted on the spot as he looked at Feng absorbing the ring. ' Maybe the beast was special, after all, Feng walked straight to it. His spirit really is special though, it seems like I will have even more things to report to the grand priest. '

Elder Luo's direct superior was the grand priest: Qian Daoliu. In fact, when he was young, he was the grand priest's disciple as he was quite the talent.

After waiting for three hours with Beibei who was sleeping, Feng finally opened his eyes again. As if the integration period helped to sort out his mind, he didn't look lost as he woke up but he seemed to have a faint grasp of it. Walking up to elder Luo who was about to ask him some questions, he said " Elder, I gained my first spirit ring! "

" I see that, tell me what happened? Your actions were a bit weird. "

" That, I don't know much. It's just that as I was meditating, I seemed to have heard a call and after that, the next time I could think, I was squeezing that crow but the same voice who as if called me told me to absorb the crow's ring. "

Nodding, elder Luo put the matter aside as he knew he wouldn't gain much detailed information from the kid. " Tell me, what can this spirit ring do and what is your rank? "

" Hmmm... I can passively release a sort of aura that helps with the health of people around me without activating my spirit and actively, the aura can enhance the healing factor of my allies by two and can enhance by two again the power of fire and light related spirit abilities. I call it sunshine. "

" Twice stronger light and fire spirit abilities! That's insane! Master will be overjoyed to hear this. Maybe, just maybe, you will be accepted as his disciple... Wouldn't that make us brothers? Haha! What about your spirit power? "

" As for my spirit power, it's 12. "

" That much! You really are a genius. Sigh, let's not waste time here. We have to get to spirit city the faster the better. A promising future awaits you! " After they were done talking, they got back to the carriage and resumed their travel.