5 Chapter 5: Forming the Third spirit ring, Soul core formation and an encouter with Ning Fengzhi

It has been exactly two days since Ragnar has parted ways with the Grandmaster, Tang San and Xiao Wu. Ragnar was now standing on top of a tree located deep within sunset forest. "Hmm. let's find a desolate cave for now" said Ragnar as he spread his divine sense to located a cave. After 2 minutes of searching, he found a good cave located deep within the forest.

As he ran towards the cave, he thought 'After I form the third spirit ring I need to, I need to establish a business to give me enough funds, to be able to use freely'.

After 10 minutes of running in the direction of the cave, he ran into a 1,000-years old spirit beast, this spirit beast was a demonic spider. It was also very big in size. 4meters in length, 2 meters wide, and it was bout towering over Ragnar by over 3 to 4 meters.

Ragnar smirked and thought 'well maybe I should use that knew spirit skill I made.

*whoosh* Ragnar disappeared from the place he was standing and immediately reappeared 6 meters above the demonic spider. "Giant spirit palm", as he spoke those words spirit essence started to condense into a giant palm. This palm made out of spirit power was about 5 meters in length and 3 and a half metres wide.

As the Giant spirit palm hit the demonic spider it was crushed to the ground while the spider screeched loudly for the final time. Due to the screech of the demonic spider, a lot more small demon spiders were rushing towards Ragnar's location.

Soon over 200 small demon spiders were surrounding Ragnar who was smirking.

This time instead of using his heavenly god gauntlets, he just unsheathed his sword 'Hehe, I should use sword Aura along with my blade, It'll cut through these small spiders like cutting butter with a hot knife', thought Ragnar.

Soon his blade was covered by a blue glow, he pointed his blade at the spiders in front of him and started to cleave through them, one after another he cut through them without a problem. While doing so he used his divine sense to ensure that any spiders attacking from behind didn't even get the chance to get close to him.

9 minutes had passed as Ragnar had already cleaved over 180 small spiders to their demise. 20 spiders were soon rushing towards him at the same time from in front of him.

Ragnar smirked as he spoke, "God Sword: Second Stance, spirit slash".

As he swung his blade horizontally a slash full of spirit power shot forwards cutting all 20 spiders in half at the same time.

"haha, even though I haven't done my daily sword training I'm already at the peak of swordsmanship", said Ragnar and continue on with

"All though I am only rank 30 when it comes to pure swordsmanship I should be able to beat the sword douluo", after finishing this sentence he let out a soft chuckle.

Ragnar looked at his surroundings and looked at all the dead demon spiders.

*sight*, While lifting both his arms to the side, palms facing the sky he summoned fire in both hands. To normal eyes who the fire they would think it's just normal fire created by spirit power, however, they didn't know that the fire that was lit in both of Ragnar's hands were the flames that burned internally in hell.

Bit by bit tons of smaller flames left from the two flames on Ragnar's hands. Each little flame landed on the corpse of the spider and soon engulfed the spiders, leaving nothing behind. Not even ashes.

Just like that, every single corpse had just disappeared nowhere to be seen ever again.

He walked towards the demonic spider which he had destroyed earlier to collect its beast core. 'I could sell this for some coins, I should probably also create some sword technique manuals', though Ragnar.

After snapping out of thought he ran towards the cave to resume back what he first came to do, which was to form his third spirit Ring.

As he saw the entrance of the cave, he stopped and looked at the surrounding of the cave. "Alright this should so for a few hours", spoke Ragnar as he walked into the cave.

Once Ragnar was inside the cave he looked for a good spot to start to meditate and create his third spirit Ring. 'This sport should do for now, though Ragnar, as he sat down, crossed legged to start his meditation.

Soon after Ragnar unleashed his GK aura to create his third spirit ring, he unleashed enough aura to ensure that no one could sense him while he was making his spirit ring.

It only took him a few minutes to create his third spirit ring which was an attach attribute type. "Excellent, after integrating with this spirit Ring it should increase my physical strength to 300% when activating both the second and third spirit rings", said Ragnar as looked at his third 10,000 years-old spirit ring.

"Time to integrate with it", said Ragnar closed his eye and focused on fully absorbing the spirit ring.

Soon two hours and 45 minutes had passed, Ragnar slowly opened his eyes and spoke "hehe, now I've fully integrated with the spirit ring my raw strength has increased by almost 100%".

while getting up he summoned his three spirit Rings, soon three black majestic spirit rings were shining behind Ragnar as he smirked and said "I've only been gone for only Two days since I've left the academy and I'm already at Rank 37".

Ragnar was laughing out loud and said "A six-year-old spirit expert", soon he started to calm down and once again spoke "That's right it shouldn't be possible but I am not an ordinary mortal", and then shouted, "I AM RAGNAR, THE GODKING".

As Ragnar spoke these words he unconsciously let out his godking aura, while his aura was out spirit beasts all over the forest were shocked to feel some of this power present and smile bower their heads to the ground to show their respect to whatever was unleashing this aura.

Soon Ragnar realised that his aura was unleashed and quickly bought it back into his body and sealed it so no one could sense it now.

While Ragnar was standing he thought 'I should take this chance to make my soul core'. Once again sitting down in a meditative state he started to focus on his spirit power.

Soon within his spirit power, a small Orb of crystallised spirit power was condensed. As Ragnar concentrated, his soul core then shone in a golden colour fully enveloping it in gold.

Soon another 3 hours had passed and when the golden light calmed down, The soul core was now fully golden in colour. The amount of spirit power that was currently within this soul core was comparable to someone who had just reached Rank 80, spirit Saint.

As Ragnar opened his eyes the golden he slowly said "Not only have I formed my first soul core at Rank 37, but It's also a divine core, this puts me at a huge advantage compared to other doluos and even titled douluos, I should now be able to form my send core at Rank 90 now and then my third soul core when I break into Godhood once again".

"Now that I have my third spirit ring and I am rank 37, I should create some sword techniques and sell them at an auction, I can use my ability to disguise myself when going to the auction. I should also be able to conceal my spirit Rank so not even tilted douluo's will be able to sense me".

As night was calmly settling in, Ragnar could be seen finishing his fifth sword art manual.

'Selling these at an auction should be enough money to create and establish a business' though Ragnar.

Soon night passed and morning came. Ragnar could be seen stretching near a river while staring at his face from the reflection. His white hair now ran wildly across his face, the length of his hair now came down past his neck. His pupil was golden in colour and iris black.

After getting reading in a new set of clothes Ragnar was now headed towards the Heaven Dou auction house. However, before going into the auction house, Ragnar had put on a robe that fully hid his body and his face was hidden with a pure white mask with only holes for the eyes.

His golden black eyes seemed domineering when looking at them while wearing the mask, he soon also concealed his spirit aura, 'now even a titled douluo shouldn't be able to sense what rank I am', thought Ragnar as he was walking towards the auction house.

while walking towards the auction house he did getting many eyes as it made him stand out more, but no one dared to move because they weren't able to sense his spirit power even a bit, which meant he was an unparalleled expert.

When he entered the auction house he went straight to the counter and said "I wish to auction some of the items I have, can you please call the person who manages the auction house".

The attendant at the counter seemed confused and asked "What items will, you be auctioning sir".

Ragnar looked into the eyes of the attendant and released an aura that said 'call your boss now'

The attendant was now frightened and quickly went to go fetch her boss. This commotion caused a lot of people to look towards Raganar.

*sigh* 'I didn't want to stand out, but I guess no matter what I will always stand out', thought Ragnar.

Soon the attendant came back with their boss, "what may I do for you sir", said the Auction house manager. This bought Ragnar out of his though as he looked towards the manager and said

"I have a few sword manuals I wish to auction", said Ragnar while looking at the manager.

"I see, then let us head towards a private room and discuss more of these manuals you have", spoke the manager.

after they were in the room Ragnar used his sense to see that they were the only people within this room and there were no hidden people or bodyguards.

When they were in the room, Ragnar summoned 5 Swords art manuals from his storage ring, which surprised the people who were standing in front of Ragnar, these people were the Auction house manager, and two his side were two people one of them was a man and the other was a woman.

Ragnar handed the manuals to the manager who looked at them and when he read them he was completely shocked.

'T-These manuals, t-there are no flaws at all, in fact, all these manuals are complete and are perfect', thought the manager in surprise.

"What's wrong", said the woman who was standing to his side.

"H-Huh N-Nothings wrong", spoke the manager.

After composing himself he continued and said "Esteemed sir, from where did you get these manuals?"

'The boss, just called him esteemed sir, just who is this person in front of us', thought the two people standing to the side of their boss.

Ragnar simply smirked behind his mask and spoke "Ahh, these manuals, well I created them In my spare time", and continued with "There's nothing wrong with them is there".

Ragnar knowing full well that there was nothing wrong with the manuals he created still asked that question to make the manager say that they were perfect out loud.

"N-No, T-There's nothing wrong, in fact, these manuals, they are more than perfect. each one of them is complete and there are no flaws within the techniques in them", spoke the manager carefully to Ragnar.

This statement surprised the two people who were standing next to the manager as they thought 'Huh, no flaws, t-thats impossible'

As the man spoke said to his boss, "sir are you sure there are no flaws within the manuals".

And what came back surprised him even more, "Yes, I am absolutely sure there are no flaws to be seen within the manuals", said the manager

The manager then said to Ragnar, "Please, esteem sir we get these manuals into the auction and get them sold at the highest price possible".

Ragnar nodded and then the manager spoke again and said "My name is Yang He, the man to my right is Tai Ben and the woman standing next to him is Kai Xue", as he bought his hand towards Ragnar.

Ragnar simply shook his hand and said, "I will be bringing more things in the future to auction".

As Ragnar left the building, the manager looked at his two subordinates and said "Never, and I mean never offended that person ever", and continued on saying "Even though you and say with his voice he sounds young which most likely intentionally left out, I can not feel any spirit fluctuation from him"

"But never should we offended him", said Tai Ben.

Yang He looked at his subordinate and said "The sword techniques he created are comparable to peak sword techniques from the major clans within Douluo Continent".

Both Tai Ben and Kai Xue were shocked when they heard their boss those words.

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It's been four days since he had left the auction house.

He was sat on top of bed In an Inn within heaven Dou city, 'After I get my money from the manuals, I shall invest in a restaurant and most possibly make a wine business, nobles love to spend thousands and thousands on alcohol', thought Ragnar.

"Now that I've reached Rank 40, I should leave for Star Dou Forest after collecting the money from the auction house and investing in the best restaurant within Heaven Dou city", said Ragnar.

*Knock* *Knock*, Ragnar heard someone knock on his door, "who is it", spoke Ragnar.

"Sir, there is a person from the Heaven Dou auction house for you here", said the receptionist who works at the Inn.

"Okay, I'll be down in a minute", said Ragnar. 'just In time for my plans to begin, Excellent', thought Ragnar as he put on his robe and mask as he left the room.

When he reached the bottom floor of the Inn he was met by Tai Ben who said "Esteemed Sir, your things are ready at the auction house, please follow me to collect them".

This made everyone on the Inn stop what they were doing, be it the people eating or the people drinking, even the workers stopped and looked at Ragnar.

They all had one thought in their mind 'Who is this person'.

"Okay, let us get going", Ragnar said to Tai Ben.

They had left the Inn in a carriage which was provided by the auction house. After a few minutes of idle chatter, they reached the auction house.

As Ragnar stepped outside the carriage he was met by Kai Xue and Yang He who both said "Welcome back, Esteemed sir" at the same time.

Ragnar being polite responded back and said "Thank you for having me".

Yang He responded with a smile and said "please esteemed sir, you are welcome at this auction house whenever you wish to come".

Ragnar simply nodded as they walked into the auction house and into Yang He's private office.

Once they were in this private office Yang He said "Each of the 5 sword manuals sold at exactly 5,000,000 gold coins, so a total of 25million gold coins and after the 15% the auction house takes from all sales made from things sold the total comes to 21,250,000 gold coins"

Ragnar was simply surprised by how much the manuals sold for as to him they were nothing but third rate sword arts. He was only expecting a couple of hundred thousand gold coins, but instead, it was in the millions.

Ragnar smirked under his mask and said "well thank you for your hard work Yang He"

"Nonsense, it was no problem at all", spoke Yang He while smiling. He continued on and said, "ahh yeah 2 of the 5 sword manuals were bought by the head of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan".

Ragnar looked towards Yang He and said "I see, Is there anything else that happened?"

"Yes, the head of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan would like to meet you and talk to you in regards to the sword manuals", said Yang He nervously.

Ragnar saw this and said, "there's nothing to be nervous about, Well I would love to meet him before going on my journey again".

Yang He calmed down after hearing this and immediately said "The Head of Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan is waiting in a separate VIP room right now, shall we go?"

"Alright, lead the way", spoke Ragnar calmy.

As they walked to a certain room Ragnar was thinking 'I can sense that there is one titled douluo and his giving of a small aura of sword intent, though it's small it's noticeable, that must be the Sword Douluo, Chen Xin'.

Yang He opened the door and they walked into the room where the current head of Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan was and he was accompanied by the Sword Douluo Chen Xin.

"Clan Head, we've bought the esteemed sir, the one who made the sword manuals that you bought", said Yang He to Ning Fengzhi.

"I see, thank you, If you don't mind can we talk to him in private", Fengzhi said.

"Yes, of course, clan head", said Yang He and continued With "I shall see myself out esteemed sir", while giving a slight bow towards Fengzhi and Ragnar.

The only people in the room were now Ragnar, Ning FengZhi and Chen Xin.

"I'll be straightforward and say, where did you get the sword manuals from?" spoke Ning Fengzhi towards Ragnar.

Ragnar simply laughed and said, "Clan head you seem to misunderstand something, as Yang He said I made those manuals, not find them".

This shocked Both Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin.

Then Chen Xin stepped forward and said "Do not lie, there's no way you could create sword manuals with no flaw like that, and to the two sword manuals that we bought rival mine in technique" he spoke seriously.

Ragnar simply laughed and said, "again you misunderstand. Those are nothing but third rate manuals I created to gain some spare change, to do business".

Ragnar lifted his hand and enveloped his hand in an aura that greatly shocked Chen Xin.

As he spoke he Stuttered "T-That's S-S-Sword I-Intent", this revelation shocked Ning Fengzhi greatly as he knew That Chen Xin may be the sword douluo but h even he struggles to learn and master sword intent but the person in front of them had covered their hands in sword intent with no effort

This made Ning Fengzhi come to a realisation that they were messing with some they should, as the person in front of them was a far better swordsman than the sword douluo, but another thought also clouded their mind 'why can't we feel his spirit power'.

Then they were bought out of the thought when Ragnar released his GK aura and said "I am not someone you can easily intimidate Fengzhi".

Both Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin took a step back as the Aura Ragnar released was entirely controlled and aimed at them.

They both had the same thought 'What is this pressure, who is he'.

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