Against Tong Xun (3)

While the father and child were having their own part of the discussion, Yanglin's mind traveled into the Realm Vessel once again the moment he focused on the process of Spiritual Gathering.

<<I was surprised by your bravery today. To think that you accepted that brat's challenge for a one-on-one duel. But answer my question before we go further... Are you that confident about winning the fight?>>

The Reliance System asked. There's a hint of mockery hidden in its words as the system looks for the origin behind Yanglin's unrelenting confidence.

"Confidence? Of course, that's because I got by my side. Am I wrong?" Yanglin answered the Reliance's question with a smile on his face.

<<You...>>

The Spiritual Soul Infant rubbed its forehead after hearing Yanglin's reply. It was turned speechless for having his host dependent on him.

<<How dare you try to treat me like a goodie bag for a situation like this? Will this problem exist if you controlled yourself from making a mess back then?>>

Using part of the precious Spiritual Energy gathered from the spare Blood Foundation Pills scattered around, the Reliance System moved forward. It gave Yangling a flick on his forehead as a lesson for not causing trouble before measuring his own ability.

"Ouch!" Yanglin rolled on the ground. It never came to his mind that a flick by an infant could actually be this painful.

"Don't tell me that you have no way to help me?" Yanglin changed the way he talks to see what can be done. If the system couldn't help him, shouldn't he start collecting the required Foundation Pills first?

<<Who says I have no way to help you? But before that, I'll have to drill some common sense into your head first to keep you away from looking for more trouble...>>

The Reliance System flicked its finger through the other hand. That action made the scenery around them changed from the side of the hill into a spacious cavern.

"This place looked like the internal of the mountain. Did this place even exist in the first place?" Yanglin asked. From what he had known, there's not a single rabbit hole existed around the tiny peak of his Realm Vessel.

Based on his logic, there shouldn't be a cavern as spacious as this unless it was already here from the start. Except for the earth that covering it like a dome, this place was considered desolate. All there was is a magical circle in the middle.

The inscription on the magical circle looked primordial and mysterious and similar to the ancient text before the language he knows was modernized and simplified. It was glowing with a faint light as if the Spiritual Energy powering the circle is getting weaker.

"What are we doing here, system? Are you going to bring something out to help me?" Yanglin asked. Since the system was called Reliance, it wouldn't be so stingy from bringing out something that could help him, right?

<<He-He-He...>>

<<Of course, I'll bring something out to help you. I'm sure you've loved it to death...>>

The Reliance System was grinning as the mysterious magical circle shines brighter. A cried followed after that as the tyrannical-quality training started.

The following day, Yanglin had pain from head to toe. Although there were no visible injuries on the surface, the mental strain that he felt was about the same as getting hit physically. The black eye circles on his eye bag also hinted that he didn't get a proper sleep after returning from the library.

"Did something happened to you? Why do you look like this just after a night? Unable to sleep?" Xia Xuan-Xuan said while coming into his house with a platter of food as his breakfast. Yanglin's exhausted appearance shocked her as she imagines what was happened to him last night.

'Did he turn into this after cultivating for the whole night? That would be impossible, correct? Making Formation Pills is considered the most calming meditation technique that can calm the mind and soul itself, so it won't turn him into a living dead like this...' Xia Xuan-Xuan studies Yanglin's condition while coming out with some answers to her curiosity.

"Did you forcefully temper your body? But it shouldn't be that bad too... I wonder what really happened to you." Xia Xuan-Xuan continues to fire her questions at Yanglin. But all her questions were unanswered as the latter seems to have trouble keeping himself awake.

Was it not because she came here to deliver breakfast, Yanglin would likely still be inside the Desolated Cavern receiving the Reliance System's torture.

"I'm practicing," Yanglin replied with her question with a straight-to-the-point answer. The was no point for him to describe what he had gone through because Xia Xuan-Xuan won't even believe him if he were to tell her the truth.

Even if he tells the truth to everyone else, including the Village Chief, they would only laugh at him for having that kind of imagination at his age.

The reason was that he's not a legit Spirit Foundation Stage Cultivator yet. And even if he was, no one else except him had the luck of possessing a sentient Spiritual Soul and the experience he had gone through.

"Practising? What kind of practice you had to turn out like this? Why not you just train hard on running and dodging the attack from Tong Xun instead? You don't even have a single experience in getting into a fight with others, correct?" Xia Xuan-Xuan said.

Her words were just the same as the Reliance System.

That's what he was doing for the entire night. It seems that both Xia Xuan-Xuan and the Reliance System noticed that he had little to no experience in getting into a fight. Hence, the Reliance System decided to bring a function out earlier to assist Yanglin.

But the differences between Xia Xuan-Xuan and the system were that instead of learning how to dodge Tong Xun's attack, the Reliance System taught him how to retaliates instead. It can accept that its host was weak but not a loser.

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