Expectations and Class promotion finals

Leng Yaozhu( i will upload her picture as some of you may not know her )came near Nero and squatted down to his level. "It's been a long time Nero you may not remember seeing me but i am your aunt I was with you on the day you were born. You have grown so much it must have been hard living alone all these years. Sorry because of your safety i couldn't even visit you once" Leng Yaozhu gave a hug to Nero and said with tears in her eyes.

" It is fine Aunt Yaozhu i wasn't all alone Sebastian was there to accompany me and can you let me go? I am suffocating " Nero comforted Leng Yaozhu in a muffled voice as his head was squashed between two soft things. Leng Yaozhu laughed and released Nero from the hug. " I couldn't find anything special for you other than this soul tool your father gave me years ago. Now please take it as you are the carrier for all our dreams and hopes" Leng Yaozhu said in nostalgia and gave Nero a bracelet with various unknown markings.

" Aunt Yaozhu how did you meet my father " Nero asked Leng Yaozhu as in the original story there was no such plot like that. Leng Yaozhu looked up in the sky with a look of reminiscence in her eyes and said after a moment of silence " Children of the Leng clan were always under supervision and it was much more strict for me due to my innate soul full power. I didn't know what a normal childhood was like as most of my time was spent in either learning or cultivating. I met your father for the first time in the garden where i used to practice while no one observed me. Your father actually sneaked in there to give me candied Hawes, it sounds stupid and unreasonable right i also thought the same thing at that time. When i asked Brother Arlo why he did that his answer was because he saw me sad and lonely at the lobby of spirit pagoda monthly meetings and according to him no one should be sad and lonely perhaps because he had felt the same, from that day on he used to visit me and give me different gifts eventually i became his righteous sister. That was the kind of person your father was he didn't need a reason to do something for someone he deemed important he just did what he felt was right. In fact Brother Arlo went to fight the entire Shrek just because i had a crush on Yun Ming and he rejected me. No one knows about this incident because Shrek never allowed anyone outside to know the incident"

At this point Nero wasn't even surprised as according to all the things he has heard so far his father was calm and collected mostly but the exact opposite whenever the situation comes to someone related to him. " Aunt Yaozhu do you know a girl named Gu yue " Nero asked Leng Yaozhu as he was curious about what happened to the Silver dragon king. " Gu yue?? Ah! i remember there was a girl named like that in the previous spirit pagoda

meeting i think she was recommended by star luo empire's Vice Pagoda master and some other families of Spirit Pagoda. I wanted to accept her as my disciple but i stopped as she didn't seem like someone who will agree to how we view the future of Spirit Pagoda.What's the matter ? is my nephew in love, common you can tell your aunt " Leng Yaozhu informed Nero about Gu yue and teased him jokingly. " It's nothing like that i just saw her name in our school's admission list and found her martial spirit interesting" Nero shook his head at his aunt's antics and replied in a dead pane tone.

Leng Yaozhu ruffled Nero's hair and advised " Nero you don't have to worry about Spirit Pagoda just focus on your cultivation and live a happy life. All of us are with you and the moment you are ready to accept your father's last gift your father's allies will take Spirit Pagoda's ruling board down in one full sweep". After talking with Nero for a few more minutes Leng Yaozhu went back.

[ You do know that the silver dragon king will become your enemy right as she won't be able to control the spirit pagoda fully because of you. She also won't show mercy as she did to Tang wulin ] Nero nodded after hearing Aria's reasoning as this time the spirit pagoda will be divided into two factions unlike the original timeline where Gu yuena controlled the whole spirit pagoda. Nero knew that a fight with both Silver dragon king and Tang family is inevitable as he was an obstacle to both of their plans. Gu yuena wants to dominate the human race and although Tang san says he wants to evolve the douluo star using the abyssal plane but the situation of Douluo star in Douluo dalu 4 raises red flags.

Even though Nero doesn't care about what happens to others, he can't allow the people he knows or will know to fall in danger. Zhou Hongbuo sent Nero back to the academy after spending some time and giving pointers in cultivation to Nero. The next couple of days were nothing special to Nero as he just trained and strolled around the city.

It has been 1 week since Nero first met his relatives

while taking a stroll around the city a scene caught Nero's attention as some Gangsters were harassing stall owners for money. Nero remembered that there was a plot like that in the original book. Nero didn't do anything as firstly he didn't know the stall owners enough to fight a group of great soul masters and secondly even if Nero fought and defeated those gangsters and the backers behind them it won't solve the core problem as someone else will take their place.

Nero was about to leave the area when someone grabbed Nero's locket which was his mother's gift. " Hey boy! you need our protection right why don't you give this locket we will protect you in exchange" the lacky who was holding Nero's locket said with a hypocritical smile on his face. ' Why is this cliche! happening to me ' Nero thought while massaging his temples. " Oye! didn't yo..." The lackey was sent flying into a bush before he could say anything else. Nero quickly knocked everyone else except the leader as he didn't want to waste time. " Youuu don't come near me my brother Guang biao is the cap .." Nero didn't want to waste time so he knocked Guang long unconscious." Take care of Guang biao " Nero called someone to take care of Guang Biao and then went back to the school as he didn't have the mood to look around anymore.

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Nero was looking at the storm outside which was caused by the typhoon.It has been a few weeks since Nero joined Spirit Pagoda, Nero practiced and wandered around in these last few weeks as he had nothing better to do until the fight against class V. Although Nero already mastered Vergil's legacy phase, he still wanted to fight the protagonist team.

" Aria Will Gu yue sense the Sparda bloodline" Nero asked Aria as although it didn't make any difference he still wanted to hide his bloodline as long as he could. [ No unless you are in Sin devil trigger mode which utilizes Sparda bloodline to its full potential Gu yue or Gu yuena won't be able to sense you ].

Finally the day of the confrontation between class 5 and class 1 arrived. " Class 1 Please send your team on stage " Long hengxu announced and in the unbelievable eyes of everyone Nero went alone on the stage. " Miss ying luo, are you sure to send only one player " Long hengxu asked Ye Ying luo who just nodded her head. Tang wulin, Xie Xie and Gu yue also arrived at the stage, all of them had serious eyes perhaps because of Wu Zhangkong's warning. ' Aria their status ' Nero inwardly asked

[

Name : Xie Xie

Age: 9

Martial soul: Light/ shadow dragon dagger

Rank: 22

Soul ring configuration: 🟡🟡

]

[

Name: Tang wulin

Age: 9

Martial soul: Blue silver glass (Variant)

Rank: 15

Bloodline: Golden dragon king

soul ring configuration: 🟡

]

[

Name: Gu yue

Martial soul: Elementalist

Age: ???

Rank: 21

Soul ring configuration: 🟡🟡

]

Nero smiled after seeing their status as sure enough Wu Zhangkong made them stronger compared to the original timeline. " Nero, Martial soul Yamato and spirit Rank 25 " Nero introduced himself first. Tang wulin, Gu yue and Xie Xie also introduced themselves

The crowd and teachers were shocked to hear Nero's spirit Rank as it was something very hard to achieve at this age.

Nero summoned Yamato and Iblis also came out as Nero wasn't going to fight all three of them alone at the same time. The crowd gasped at the emergence of Nero's soul ring configuration and Iblis, whose body was radiating a pressure comparable to a 9000 year old soul beast whilst still being 2000 years old. Gu yue stared seriously at Yamato as she could faintly perceive the Law of separation in it.

Class 5 also summoned their Martial soul, the people in the crowd who didn't understand why Tang Wulin was on the stage got slapped in the face after seeing Tang wulin's Golden Dragon claw and blue silver grass. All the dragon related spirit masters felt a slight bloodline oppression the moment Tang

wulin's right hand became Golden dragon claw.

[ Nero there is an extraordinary force hidden in that claw which i guess is Golden Dragon king's inherent power of destruction and annihilation. Although from the looks of it Tang Wulin can't use it because he is not fully fused with Golden dragon king bloodline and a human mind isn't strong enough to bear the Golden dragon king's resentment but there is a chance that in extreme situation Tang wulin can go berserk and use that power] Aria warned Nero about Golden dragon king's power of destruction.

Nero also nodded his head as he didn't want to expose his hole cards yet.

Gu yue was first to attack by firing a dozen fireballs strengthened by wind element half of them were evaded by Nero using light and shadow movement technique. Nero divided the rest of them by a few strikes from Yamato , at the same time Iblis emerged from Nero's shadow to confront Xie Xie who was attacking from behind.

Tang wulin summoned numerous Blue silver Grass vines and tried to bind Nero. Although Tang wulin's blue silver grass was tough, it wasn't something that could stop Yamato. Perhaps Tang wulin also knew that so he attacked Nero using Golden dragon claw. Although Nero had confidence in his physique he didn't want to withstand so many punches so he deflected Tang wulin's attacks using the combination of Yamato's sheath and guard. Gu yue trapped Nero's feet with dense earth elements and binded Nero hands with ice chains protruding from the ground. Just when Nero was curious what Gu yue was going to do Tang wulin and Gu yue attacked Nero from both sides. Tang wulin with his claw and gu yue with a earth and fire spear in her hand.

"????" Nero had imaginary question marks on his forehead while thinking why did this female tyranasarrous stop hiding behind Tang Wulin and engaged in physical combat. Attacks of both Tang Wulin and Gu yue devoured Nero and created a smokescreen. After the smoke cleared contrary to everyone's expectation where Nero should at least be injured, what came into view was two hands stopping both Gu yue and Tang wulin attacks but the strange thing was that the hands were made out of energy.

" External spirit bone " Wu Zhangkong murmured as this time even he was slightly shocked.

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