55 Little Abyss - Part 2
Xiao Lan chuckled happily with a grin when she saw the trance-like state Asura Ryuu fell in but just as she stopped, the furious roar of a dragon came from his belly once again. Now, she couldn't laugh anymore...
Xiao Lan: "Don't tell me... you're still hungry?"
Asura Ryuu's index fingers touched in front of him as his face showed a shade of childish guilt.
Xiao Lan sighed and plucked another fruit from the tree and handed it over to him.
As expected, the fruit disappeared in four bites. One had to know, the fruit was the grown man's fist. Being able to chomp it down that quick and in such big gulps was already a thing to be proud of for a kid of that age. This time, Asura Ryuu closed his eyes and carefully felt what was happening in his body.
The pieces of fruit gently slid down his throat as fiery feeling smeared along the way they passed. After a while, the Spirit Energy was completely extracted and dissolved into Asura Ryuu's blood as remaining pulp of the fruits continued onward to his stomach, however this time without any Spirit Energy.
Every fruit made a dozen points of Spirit Energy and after those two fruits, Asura Ryuu's blood finally contained a drop of Spirit Energy within.
Asura Ryuu's face twisted in pain. Nothing hurt him yet he was painful.
Why?
Just now, he calculated the amount of these kinds of fruits needed to advance one level.
One drop of Spirit Energy had a volume of 0.033 millilitres. That meant 30 drops for 1mL of Spirit Energy and to advance beyond the awakening stage, the amount of Spirit Energy needed was the same as amount of blood in his body. The average human body contained from 4 to 5l of blood.
Considering he was a child, let's halve that amount and we get 2.5L of blood.
To calculate how much drops he needed was easy - one litre contains thousand millilitres.
2.5L = 2 500 mL.
One milliliter of Spirit Energy has approximately 30 drops which means...
75 000 drops of Spirit Energy.
One drop was formed from two fruits...
150 000 fruits...
He wanted to cry.
Just at that moment, white dragon brought some bad news: "You mixed it up, little fella."
Asura Ryuu's Spirit Sense submerged inside his Divine World and asked: "What do you mean?"
Chaos Dragon: "When children reach the age of 6, they have around the same amount of blood as adults. That means, your calculations aren't halved like you thought... And you being Heavenly Dragon doesn't change that at all."
300 000 fruits...
This time, Asura Ryuu plopped to his knees and held his head with both hands as if being tormented by a Spiritual Attack.
Xiao Lan was only slightly surprised when his face twisted in pain the first time and thought that he couldn't absorb Spirit Energy within the fruit, but now that the little guy fell on his knees, she was actually concerned.
She quickly ran up and saw tears welling up in the eyes of little Ryuu. Seeing him in pain also made her painful, partially because of the master-slave contract and partially because of genuine liking she took to this child.
Xiao Lan: "Ryuu, what's wrong? Don't scare me! Are you hurt somewhere?"
Asura Ryuu closed his eyes filled with pain and opened them after a few moments then slowly looked at this beauty with concern in her eyes staring at himself. Asura Ryuu leaned inside her embrace and quietly asked: "Sister, how many of those fruits are in this forest?"
Xiao Lan: "Umm... in the entire forest, around a thousand. Why? Do you like them?"
Asura Ryuu: "Yes, but..."
Asura Ryuu raised his head and said: "Sister asked me what my Soul Spirit is. Let me show you."
Asura Ryuu extended his hand and Xiao Lan entered his Divine World in the next instant. She couldn't resist even if she wanted. She saw the beautiful scenery inside and a stunning beauty bathing in a rainbow-colored lake.
Xiao Lan's body wasn't ethereal but was actually condensed, which meant her Spirit Power was nearing the limit of this lower plane.
Asura Ryuu looked at the dragon and the pain from his eyes vanished, replaced by warmth. Regardless of how hard it will be for him to advance, at least he has a company of such a beautiful dragon girl.
Xiao Lan was breathless when she saw the white beauty, and her bloodline started surging. If this was not Asura Ryuu's Divine World, maybe even the surroundings would be basked with thunder. But here, Asura Ryuu and white dragon have full control of everything. Naturally, the Divine Energy here is not to be used up, as Dragon God said. That's why even though Asura Ryuu could bring someone strong in, he wouldn't easily use the power of this place to deal with them, even though it's possible.
Xiao Lan's head suddenly filled with information that came in the form of white light that shot off from white dragon's claw and landed on her forehead.
Then, the two of them returned to the real world.
It was merely a blink but Xiao Lan already knew lots of things that happened when the twenty four kids underwent awakening.
She looked at Asura Ryuu with slightly strange look in her eyes: "It's really hard on you..."
She understood how hard it is for Asura Ryuu to advance. It's too hard.
Xiao Lan: "Three hundred thousand Fiery Flame Fruits... If others knew, I'm afraid they'd be shocked. About Spirit Energy, the fact that you can't sense it is normal because there's no Spirit Energy drifting about in this little space. Everything is directly converted into life here. When you go out, you'll naturally feel it."
Asura Ryuu: "Sister Xiao Lan, how much Spirit Energy is contained inside that fruit? Is it something very valuable?"
Xiao Lan looked at his panicked face and smiled: "It's not that unique of a fruit but it is rare because of its effects on blood. But I guess you didn't feel the effect, so that's why you don't know..."
Just at this moment, Lan Yao flew down with Asura Tenka.
She overheard the conversation between the two and immediately asked with trembling voice: "Y-you gave Fiery Flame Fruit to a little kid?!"
Xiao Lan meekly smiled with a strange smile and scratched her head in irritation: "He's not a little kid."
Lan Yao: "Huh? What do you mean?"
Xiao Lan: "Despite his young looks, he is nowhere close to the term 'little kid'... It'd be better to call him Little Abyss..."
Lan Yao and Asura Tenka said at the same time: "Little... Abyss?"
Asura Tenka saw the embarrassed expression on Asura Ryuu for being called Little Abyss and started chuckling aloud which them turned into unrestrained laughter.
Asura Tenka: "He...hehehe... hahahah... Dear brother, that name fits you perfectly!"
Asura Ryuu immediately rebuked: "Hmph! Just you laugh at me... I'll enjoy seeing you fall in despair when you figure out how much Spirit Energy you need to advance!"
Asura Tenka: "Haha... eh? What do you mean?"
When she heard what Asura Ryuu said and saw his expression, Asura Tenka immediately figured out that she was likely in a huge trouble regarding the Spirit Energy. Knowing how hard it is for Asura Ryuu to lose his calmness and seeing him with genuine pain and worry, she knew something's not right.
Asura Ryuu's eyes flashed with strange pain once again as he looked at the sky: "The two of us... are doomed."
Just at that moment, in Asura Tenka's head, information about what just happened appeared, along with the amount of fruits needed for her brother's advancement. "If he needs 300 000 then I... I'll likely need... 3 000..."
A familiar voice of the Chaos Dragon appeared in her mind at this time: "30 000."
Asura Tenka immediately shuddered and focused on the source of that voice: "What?!"
Chaos Dragon: "Originally, it would be only 3 000 as you needed only ten times more effort than others for cultivation. This is because you need to from ten-segment Dragon Core in order to be able to control everything that Dragon God could, but..."
Asura Tenka collected herself, preparing for the worst, and asked: "But?"
Chaos Dragon: "If it was merely Dragon God then it would be ten times, as you know. But because of my influence, the Dragon God has evolved while turning into Soul Spirit and became Avatar of Creation. Elements and Creation are different qualitatively so the difficulty for you has risen another ten times. Although it means your brother will be only ten times stronger than you, it also means you need a hundred times more energy than others while he needs a thousand times more..."
Asura Tenka's face now became the same as Asura Ryuu's a moment ago.
The two Asuras fell in despair.
