Chapter 17: Sixty-four Sacred Paths (below)

Back in the real human world, rick has become a little uncomfortable with the relentlessly bright sun.

Even though the two rushed back to the school as fast as they could, they had already started their first afternoon class.

Coincidentally, the class is taught by the very homeroom teacher who hates rick the most, and so it is that rick and elara are punished for standing guard in the hallway outside the classroom with their math books on their heads.

The sound of reading echoed in his ears, the empty playground became an amusement park for birds to play in, and the corridors, devoid of pedestrians, seemed to have become a world where rick and elara were alone again.

"Brat, do you have a plan for your life after being a hound?" Examining the wall, elara looked sideways at rick-do.

"What's the point of being a dog? I'll just hang out with you, cut whoever you say, beat them to death if they win, and run to death if they don't." rick laughed.

"Don't play rogue with me, seriously, we don't have much time to be hounds. By the end of the year the Heart Alliance will be hosting the 'Newly Entered Heart Soul Master Exam' matter, there is no time to hunt anymore." As elara spoke, she looked at rick again, "Are you interested in applying for the exam? The adult candidates of all the clans will participate, and you'll meet the descendants of other daemon clans."

"You know, I have absolutely no interest in inheriting the family business, and after helping you hunt enough 100 evil souls, I'll take the entrance exams, find a third-rate university, and muddle through." rick looked away into the distance.

"Yes?" elara responded calmly, "Then it seems that our cooperation can only continue until the end of the year, which is only half a year ... But I won't start hunting right away, the next 2 months must be spent on intense special training."

"A little confused, I thought you said you were in a hurry?" RICK was surprised.

"It's just a rush, so you have to make sure that every hunt must be successful. This is because it is stated in the Hound's code that a failed Hound may not take on any more quests for a month, just in case someone takes a chance on swiping a quest." elara had already memorized the hound code as early as last night, "Although you have the Path of the Condensed Heart, we don't know how strong an enemy ... or how strong a hound will appear to snatch food. You should have felt it too, how powerful that one called Cajun is."

Talking about the scythe-wielding henchman, rick's face hardened, "That guy is really strong, facing him is like facing asshole dad, can't find any chance of winning."

"Your biggest weakness lies in the fact that you've never had any systematic soul hunting training, what you can barely put on the table is your pervert-like heart strength and fighting skills, I'll try to make up for the rest of your deficiencies in two months." elara said seriously.

"You're the boss now, everything is at your disposal." rick bowed respectfully to elara.

The bell rang, many students ran out of the classroom like a wild horse, from rick and elara passed by the homeroom teacher glanced at the two, helplessly shook his head and sighed and walked away, which in turn let rick surprised up, we must know that he has been absent from class for a morning, just a hateful look, it is not like the homeroom teacher's sharp style.

No matter what, the urinary urgency rick topped the textbook directly rushed to the toilet, and when he came out, he actually met Chen Xin.

Wearing a sky blue dress Chen Xin is still so beautiful, in addition to still seducing people to death 34 body, but also deliberately put on a broken flower high heel sandals, looks well dressed traces are too obvious.

"rick..." Morningstar spoke in such a small voice.

"Something wrong? Benji?" RICK's cold tone made even himself want to slap himself.

"Just wanted to tell you ... that you and Feng didn't show up in the morning, the teacher asked me and I said that you guys had something to do and that you had already told me yesterday, so ... you guys need to make an excuse note for me." Chen Xin said at the end had lowered her head.

"I mean how come that old monster didn't come after me ... thanks." rick saw the loss in Chen Xin's eyes as he brushed against her, and his heart ached with how much he wanted to put an arm around her shoulders and say, "I love you," to her.

But rick couldn't do it because he was rick, the mouthy and twisted brat.

The teacher's one off is sort of solved, but harold's one off both of them put their hearts in their throats, knowing that staying out all night for a change would be offset by rick being on the parent-child game for a full 8 hours.

But when the two get home, HAROLD surprises them by coming out from behind them, smelling of booze and constantly apologizing and explaining why he didn't come home yesterday. He was throwing up like a pregnant woman and couldn't stand up.

Such an experience rick was all too familiar with, laid dad across the couch, got an ice pack on his head, and in a few hours harold was able to come back to life and continue to go out and spend his time.

After settling down with harold, the two went to elara's room, it was the first time rick had ever walked into a girl's boudoir, and to put it simply, the experience was gut-wrenching.

The curtains weren't drawn, the walls of the darkened room were covered with all kinds of weird objects that couldn't be distinguished as torture devices or weapons, there were no muppets or celebrity photos in the room, only wooden stakes and exercise equipment, and even the beds were piled high with all kinds of reference books on fighting and grappling.

"I ko, is this hell? Set up a frying pan and you can start frying people, right?" RICK sat on his ass on the floor.

"Shut up, I let you in because I'm in a good mood this young lady, don't be ignorant." elara bent over, rummaging around under the bed, unafraid to wiggle her little butt there and there, rick looking awkwardly at the weapons on the wall.

"Found it!" I saw elara pull out a big old suitcase, open it and see all kinds of things, just like RoboCat's treasure pocket, "Put this on, see if it fits?"

elara dragged a blackened iron suit out of the suitcase, the reason why I dragged it was because the thing was as heavy as an iron anchor, the full weight was over 100 kilograms, and the weird thing was that the iron suit was as thin as a t-shirt.

"Wear this? No?" It took rick a great deal of effort to barely lift the iron suit half a meter.

"Step 1 of the special training program: physical fitness. It's impossible to finish a soul hunt in half an hour every time, many times it's normal to fight for 3 days and 3 nights or even longer. Without strong physical fitness, how can you exhaust yourself before you finish off the evil souls?" Elara said.

"Honorable Sensei-sama, aren't you afraid that I'll wear this torture gear and already give in to exhaustion before I even start hunting souls?" The corners of rick's mouth kept twitching

"Don't talk back, wear it or not?!" The black-armored dignity beside elara stepped forward again.

"Fine, fine, I'll wear them, I'll wear them, don't let your tin can touch me." rick stripped down to his boxers in front of elara, in turn forcing elara to blush and look to the side.

A set of interlocking iron suits, like the tight locking armor worn by medieval knights, encased the body.

"I ko, even the pants are iron, at least make a hole for me to use the toilet!" rick depressedly examined the crotch.

"Listen, for the next 2 months, even sleeping you'll wear the iron suit for me, and I'm sure you'll feel transformed when you take him off." elara nodded in satisfaction.

"Heh heh, I hope so, I wouldn't want it to be the undertaker who takes it off." RICK smiled miserably and walked out like a robot.

Actions, rick realized that he was fooled, this set of bizarre subway clothes not only dead heavy dead heavy, a move actually like a shrunken sweater, to the meat contraction, will squeeze the muscles cackle. Just walk up two steps, than before running a thousand meters to the pit.

During the meal, elara sipped her milk and ate the baked ham, smiling as she watched rick's hands shaking like a Parkinson's patient's while holding the chopsticks, unable to lift them to the height of his mouth.

"Yes, that's it, stick your tongue out a little longer and you'll get it." elara grinned wickedly.

"Just be smug, sooner or later you'll get what's coming to you." rick was on the verge of tears.

HAROLD finally wakes up, rubbing his swollen head as soon as he enters the living room, and sees rick, who looks like a clown, wrestling with a plate of ham and fried eggs.

"Silly boy, why are you wearing the Bone Shaping Training Clothes? Although this method of training physical fitness is good, the process is too painful, and the Heart Alliance canceled such a method of training the juniors eight hundred years ago. Speaking of which, where did you find this antique set?"

rick looked to elara with tears in his eyes while elara looked sideways at the ceiling.

"Never mind that, I'm hungry, you're not eating, are you? I'll help you." HAROLD sat his ass down on the table and took the dinner that rick hadn't even touched and ate it straight away, rick's hands shaking even more.

"Here you go, I'm full anyway." elara stood up, and after placing most of her remaining dinner in front of rick, she tapped harold on the shoulder again, "uncle harold, can we talk alone?"

"Okay, it just so happens that I have something to tell you." The two people completely treated rick as air, and harold and elara went to the roof. At this moment, it was already full of stars and moon, and the gust of breeze comfortably brought some coolness.

"Uncle, I ..." elara just opened her mouth and forgot how to go about it.

"You want 'Starscream', don't you ... "harold helped elara to say what was on her mind, "Back in the day, your dad and I were passed the Heart Soul Master exam together, that guy and I peeked at the female bathhouse together, and he was always the one who got caught. Every time he suffered for me, but never once did he confess that I was the mastermind.

From that moment I vowed that even if I betrayed the world, I would never fail this brother ...

We can't tell you how happy we were when we learned that our wives were pregnant at the same time, and it was then that we decided that future generations of the same sex would be bound to marry, and the opposite sex would be married.

It's a bit of a tease, but we really just want this friendship to last forever in future generations as well.

And when rick came into the world without a heart ghost, the entire White Tiger family became the laughing stock of the Heart Alliance.

Even so, your father refused to cancel the agreement, and even said that he would take the Iris Condensation Ring as a dowry, shaking the entire Heart Alliance. The people of the other clans all called your father a fool, saying that my son will end two clans in one breath ...

I ... am sorry for my brother ..." Hands on the edge of the roof, harold closed his eyes against the wind.

"Uncle harold, am I not despicable, obviously 'Star Trace' is your White Tiger family's 'Shock Clan Divine Soldier' ... "elara looked at harold's back, her heart was filled with guilt, "you also once said that this would be rick's bride price, but you know, there is no way that we can be together, he only wants to live an ordinary life, and I am bound to revitalize my family."

"Silly child, whether you are my daughter-in-law or not, you and rick are my children." HAROLD touches ELARA's head and smiles kindly like a father, "This is the key to my studio, and what you want, is in the box under the desk. No matter what path you choose, remember to be safe. Anyone who dares to bully you, just say out loud to him that your dad's name is 'harold'!"