42 Third Ring Ability
As the smoke and dust settled down one could see that Xue Long had not a single scratch on his body.
He was dusting himself off with one hand. Looking like he just went through a dusty room instead of receiving a shower of fireballs which someone decided to call these balls of fire…meteorites.
"...Not a scratch!?"
"I have beaten a 270 thousand years old Great Beast in hand-to-hand combat. You think fireballs are going to affect me?" The Crown Prince said that as he finished cleaning himself off.
The old Dean frowned remembering that titbit. He was sceptical about all of it. Such overwhelming talent to exist is mind-boggling but now he is facing it!
Then Xue Long's third golden ring glowed and Golden Dragon King's eyes glowed red.
The beast released an earth-shattering roar which froze the old man in its place. He felt like shackles were placed on his very being. Like someone nailed him in a single spot and forced him to watch what is about to unfold.
Then the Golden Dragon opened its mouth and started to charge an energy ball. Once it reached a certain level of strength Xue Long wanted to have, the beast pointed the ball of energy at the sky and shoot it.
The force of the release caused several ripples in the very space in which this energy ball travelled through.
"Third Ring ability! Golden King's Judgment."
As the Crown Prince said that the energy ball exploded into a massive firework and the sky turned red.
Then nothing has happened…
'What is going on!? This brats Martial Spirit is enormously powerful! I doubt it's a fire— gods…what is that thing!?!'
The dean's eyes widened as he saw what is approaching from the sky and falling towards HIM!
A HUGE ball of burning stone is approaching at rapid speed! This was a real METEORITE!
What kind of ring ability is this!? This is bullshit!
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Go Yue who was in the crowd looked at this with wide eyes!
When did Xue Long get the Golden Dragon King Core!? The amount of power he wields is something she can't process! His speed of progress is something that does not make sense!
The only way she sees him achieving this is through those meditation techniques… she got some benefits from them. Her cultivation has soared…but to do this!? How did he create or summoned a freaking meteorite?
As the thing was getting closer and closer people started to get nervous like truly scared! This thing could kill them all!!!
But then… the meteorite cracked and exploded into tiny pieces and started to fall into a specific path!
This just showed how absurd this spirit ring ability is!
Though… she did take several steps back… just in case…
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***BOOM***BOOM***BOOM***
Explosions followed after and the redness of the sky disappeared turning into its formed blue. It looked like nothing has happened in the first place.
Though the arena was gone and there was a huge craters in it.
What was funny in this situation, was that a specific place was untouched! And that was where the Dean was standing. And at this moment he was not standing but dropped on his ass and with tears and sweat on his face twitching and spasming as the stun effect finally passed and he could move.
"Hmm… it appears I have missed. Let's try again! As they say, practice makes it perfect! What do you say, senior? Do you wanna try this again?" Xue Long, being the respectful young man he is asked the old man… kindly.
"N-N-No I give! I give up! You can have Xiao Wu! She can join your academy! I don't care anymore!!!" As he said that the old man quickly got on his all four rushed out, very… un-gracefully, before somehow got on his feet and running away properly.
Right after him were the people who came with him. They were utterly terrified and afraid of the prince.
"And this is why I don't use my Martial Spirit. Not only I beat them but I beat their morale too…" Xue Long said that as he looked at the disappearing people. His Golden Dragon King looked like he almost shrugged at him…
Or at least that is what the people saw it do.
"Anyway. Huo Wu this is how it looks like when I fight. What do you think?" The Crown Prince turned to the side and looked at the black-haired girl with golden eyes.
She looked like her soul has left her body as her eyes looked hollow.
"It appears you finally broke her down. Normally I barely feel any pity for my enemies for this girl… I might feel a little bit." Dugu Bo said with a small grimace. The sheer force of that Spirit Ring ability… it terrified even him. And he was just an observer. He had no idea what kind of crushing force, that Dean had to face, but that old man was terrified for life.
"Hmm, I suppose. But I could not use any other ring ability."
"Why?"
"That old man would have died on the spot." The Prince said that plainly because it's the truth. His first ring ability would slice that man in thousand pieces, his second one would turn the Dean into blood mist…
Not to mention his fourth ability which makes Xue long into the centre of a nuclear explosion which will turn the old dean into ash or the sixth one which burn him into nothing.
So the third one was the best solution to bring fear and make a point.
Though… eight one would be not bad way to mess with the old man but it doesn't have that much of a show-off power like the other ones.
Well, Huo Wu twitched when she heard that other Ring abilities would have killed off her Grandfather on the spot.
"Now let's go. We need to return to your training." As Xue Long said that he grabbed the girl and started to pull her away.
His maids who saw this followed right after him. Unlike other people who felt fear from that display, his maids only felt awe and even reverie towards his display of power.
"Well, if you need me I will be cultivating in this place."
"Sure thing old Poison, I can sense that you are close to breaking into Rank 93."
The Poison Douluo snorted hearing that. The prince doesn't need to tell him that! He can sense that himself!
As they all split up, and the prince was gone with his maids. The rest of them started gushing over about the display of the power of the prince and the sheer amount of destruction he has caused here!
Many of them had goosebumps going down their bodies. Others finally were able to breathe again after spacing out when they saw the meteorite approaching.
Where Dugu Yan, the granddaughter of the Poison Douluo could not keep her eyes away from those maids and how incredible they looked.
Even though she was here for over a year now. She is not in the top 20 of students! She is not even in the top 25! Those maids are dominating the rankings!
The problem with her was not the cultivation or the meditation technique. She has the basics down but these girls have been training for longer and they are much more exposed to the prince's influence. Unlike her… she only sees him a few times per week!
None of this is enough to get into that top ranking! This is why her desire to become one of his maids only growing by the day!
Dugu Yan was not the only one who was feeling bad… Gu Yue was even worse. As someone who inherited memories of Dragon God, and its pride. She was extra hard on herself.
Training longer hours, spending more time studying martial arts and to her shame, she was trying to abuse everything that Xue Long is offering to teach.
Yet… she just like Dugu Yan was ranked 26 in the top student charts… behind maids who have the simplest of Martial Spirits!
'In the end, he is withholding the most Important parts yet teaching enough to make sure his academy is top-ranked.' While she was feeling bitter about this… there was quite a bit of respect there as well.
Though… the only hope she has to become Dragon God is when she absorbs Na'er and gained everything Xue Long has taught her and used it against him…
However… after witnessing this… she doubts that getting whatever she can from Na'er is enough.
Especially when she saw the demonstration of power he has now. Rank 81… Golden Dragon Core and pulling or summoning meteorites and using them as ring abilities…
While people are shocked to see this Xue Long didn't even use half of the power he can put into the ring. Or the attributes associated with his Martial Spirit. If he did that Gu Yue most likely would have a nervous breakdown at this moment.
Or be dead like most of the people who would have watched the match. Not that he going to tell anyone that, yet…
~~~~~~Somewhere Else~~~~~~
While Crown Prince's achievement brought awe and other positive things, for other people it bring their recklessness out and barely hidden despair.
Despair that they won't be able to catch up to his shadow. Especially the ones which have incredible talent and even a second chance at life.
Such a person in truth exists and it's not just Xiao Long who got a second chance in his life. This was Tang San, a boy with two martial Spirit, who remembers his previous life. Just like Crown Prince, he utilises the things he learned in his previous life to fight and cultivate.
Though… he wasn't a martial artist. No, he hailed from a place called Tang Sect. If Xue Long would have seen this place he would scoffed and turned around and left.
Since it was a sect of assassins and hidden weapons utilisation.
Not something a martial artist shouldn't be proud of…
Though in the situation Tang San was in right now his tricks are keeping him alive…
The kid was facing a thousand-year-old jade spider which has green and yellow skin. Its poison slowly is turning the jade into yellow that yellow will eventually turn darker and darker until it's completely black but that beast needs close up to 10 thousand and above years.
There was deep urgency in the boy's eyes as he wants to kill this thing and make it his second ring!
The only reason he is aiming this high was…again Xue Long and his talent which is casting an enormous shadow over the would-be assassin.
With deep cuts all over his body. The boy used his hidden weapons to slowly immobilise the spider's ability to move and eventually deliver a crushing blow to its head with his second Martial Spirit the Clear Sky Hammer.
Once the spider was dead he looked around and saw his incapacitated teacher. He could see his skin is slowly turning yellow.
'Teacher… damn… I need to absorb the ring as soon as possible!' As Tang San thought about that he looked at the purple ring manifesting above the dead spider.
It was a 1 thousand-year-old ring. Way above his nearly 500-year-old first ring. However… if Xue Long made his first spirit ring a purple one he can do so too! By making his second ring Purple!
And so, after a short break, he started to absorb it.
Though… he didn't release how difficult it's going to be! Difficult to fight the urge to release this enormous energy flowing through his very being!
*Cough*
It was so hard that he nearly lost control several times. Each time he nearly did it, his hair slowly started to turn jade green and yellow…
As several hours passed he finally breathed a sigh of relief! He did it!
He absorbed the ring! Yet, he didn't notice how his hair has turned jade and yellow with some glittering happening along the way!
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