Personal Growth

Li Yan's sparring practice with Sun Wu wasn't quite fruitless, as he manages to gained a few new useful skills in return.

Ding!

A mechanical beep resounded inside of Li Yan and Sun Wu's head, as the system log in the spirit grimoire is then updated.

[Skill proficiency has reached a designated degree! The skill {Punching Mastery Lv.1} has been acquired!]

[The skill proficiency has reached a designated degree! The skill {Punching Mastery Lv.1} has levelled up and become {Punching Mastery Lv.2}! ]

[The skill proficiency has reached a designated degree! The skill {Punching Mastery Lv.2} has levelled up and become {Punching Mastery Lv.3}! ]

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[Skill proficiency has reached a designated degree! The skill {Kicking Mastery Lv.1} has been acquired!]

[Skill proficiency has reached a designated degree! The skill {Kicking Mastery Lv.1} has levelled up and become {Kicking Mastery Lv.2}!]

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[Skill proficiency has reached a designated degree! The skill {Basic Footsteps Lv.4} has levelled up and become {Basic Footsteps Lv.5}!]

The skill proficiency of combat related skills of Li Yan and Sun Wu's continues to rise and levelled up as they continued to spar.

Ding!

A mechanical beep resounded inside of Li Yan's head, as the system log in the spirit grimoire is then updated.

[Skill proficiency has reached a designated degree! The skill {Basic Hand To Hand Combat Lv.1} has been acquired!]

Li Yan has managed to successfully obtained the skill {Basic Hand To Hand Combat Lv.1}, by continuously deflecting, blocking, and attacking with his fist.

The skills measures the proficiency of Li Yan's hand to hand combat skill when he is fighting Sun Wu, as the skill level rises would Li Yan combat powers improve and the movements of his hands become more accurate and precised, whilst wasting less energy and movement.

After two hours of continuous sparring, Li Yan and Sun Wu was pretty tired and exhausted, panting heavily.

Li Yan's body was extremely battered and bruised after the fight.

The external injuries weren't at all that serious, but it would generally take days to heal and gradually recovered completely from his light injuries.

Li Yan was already prepared for this, in case he incurred of any injuries during practice sparring.

'Unsummon.' Li Yan then unsummons Sun Wu, as Sun Wu returns to his spirit grimoire.

Li Yan then quickly flips through the pages of the spirit grimoire, landing on the back page of the spirit grimoire, the inventory space section.

He then takes out the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass, and plucked one of the leaves of the spirit grass.

The moment that the leaf was plucked off from the main stem of the blood violet spirit grass, it began to emit a faint red bloody mist from the fresh wound on the spirit grass.

Once the leaf is plugged off the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass, he then immediately stores the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass in his spirit grimoire's inventory space.

Without a second of thought, Li Yan then places the leaf he plucked off from the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass into his mouth, and consumes it.

Li Yan starts chewing on the plucked leaf of the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass, as the rich scent of metallic iron then exploded out into his mouth, covering his taste buds with a heavy scent of blood.

The rich nutritious accumulated amounts of blood qi then steadily rushes into his own body, healing all of his external injuries, and repairing the strained damaged muscle fibres at near break speeds.

Ding!

[You have consumed a piece of the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass! The rich blood qi of the blood violet spirit grass has filled your mortal body!]

[Your physique has slightly improved as a result from consuming a piece of the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass! Plus 2 to all physical base attribute stats and instantly recovers stamina and health points!]

His injuries completely healed, within the span of a couple seconds. With his physique strengthened slightly by consuming a piece of the hundred years old blood violet spirit grass.

'I should really save the blood violet spirit grass for in case of emergency, though the effects are limited to healing external wounds and recovering stamina.' Li Yan thought so to himself.

'It does not regenate severed or missing limps. It's regenerative prowess are limited to quickly recovery.' Li Yan thought.

It was at this time that Bei Bei slowly woke up from his meditative state, his spiritual energy completely recovered over the span of a couple of hours cultivating.

Bei Bei's cultivation levels was already extremely strong, and is an active fighter, so he could easily swept the exhaustion away.

Tang Ya then gave Bei Bei a bowl of prepared rations, cooked into a chicken veggie soup, as she said. "So how is he?"

Bei Bei smiled slightly and said, "You were actually right this time. The both of them each showed promising talents in their respective prospects."

"Huo Yuhao's body is not in that great enough condition suitable for cultivation, but his comprehensive capabilites in the mental attribute seems far unmatched. Furthermore, he can bear severe hardship, and his heart is steady and tempered. He's pretty much a good sprout." Bei Bei said, whilst complimenting Huo Yuhao.

"In addition to that, the mysterious heaven technique in and of itself has benefits towards his growth. If he cultivates it for a long time, it will help repair and strengthen the passageways inside his body." Bei Bei said.

"This is a technique that's also quite suitable for him. As for his future growth, it will depend on his own hard work, as well as what opportunities he obtains." Bei Bei said so whilst taking a spoon full of chicken soup, and then placing it in his mouth.

"All we can do is open a door for him, but how far can he travel will be all up to him." Bei Bei then drank the soup.

"So what about Li Yan's potential?" It was now Bei Bei's turn to asked the questions.

"On the contrary to Huo Yuhao's growth, Li Yan's potential seems limitless. His spirit grimoire seems to defy common sense, the normal boundaries of this world." Tang Ya said, whilst contemplating upon something.

Bei Bei then raised a curious brow, and said, "How so?"

"Normally in order for a spirit master to breakthrough to the next realm. They must first kill the spirit beasts and deal the final blow, in order to meet the requirements and absorbed the spirit beast's spirit ring." Tang Ya stated the obvious facts, in which Bei Bei then nodded his head in accordance, as he ate his meal.

"The spirit ring's age is predetermined and cannot be increased under normal circumstances. However, there are alternative ways and special methods in order to forcefully increased the age of ones own spirit ring..." Tang Ya said so, as her facial expressions then suddenly turned serious, implying something.

Bei Bei seemingly was able to caught the message, as they both thought, 'The demonic path...'

Demonic spirit masters, otherwise known as evil or dark spirit masters with an evil or dark elemental attribute spirit essence.

As they use such evil methods, such as killing, torturing, and absorbing another individual's soul, in order to forcefilly increasing ones own cultivation base.

These unusually dark methods of cultivating would allow the demonic spirit masters to develop their spirit power very faster, advancing, and sometimes skipping an entire spirit realm.

Even a spirit beast that turned into human through spirit beast evolution are not that as much fast, but it becomes unusually harder for them to cultivate in the later ranks of spirit cultivation.

"However, Li Yan's special existence is indeed an outlier, as the spirit beasts that has transformed into his spirit ring, thereby becomes a contracted spirit familiars." Tang Ya said.

"They are still able to grow and cultivate alongside its master. Thereby increasing the age of Li Yan's acquired spirit ring." Tang Ya said so, under a reasonable deduction after observing Li Yan's growth first hand.

Back at when Bei Bei was busy fighting against the thousand years old Datura Snake, Sun Wu which was originally a ten years old Yellow Vervet Monkey spirit beast.

It ate the numerous ten years old Wild Wind Baboons's spirit rings, thereby assimilating their cultivation base, and making it his own.

Sun Wu then broke through and evolved to become a hundred years old spirit beast, thereby giving Li Yan a hundred years old yellow spirit, corresponding with his hundred years old cultivation base.

"It's not like there have not existed any spirit masters, with weird kinds of spirit essence, that indeed falls under that category." Bei Bei easily retaunted, as he then sighs, wanting to quickly changed the subject that they are talking about.

"I guess. You're right." Tang Ya did not find any reason to refute Bei Bei, as she finds him to be telling the honest truth.

'The world is indeed big out there, who knows what there are left to be discovered or rather uncovered.' Tang Ya thought so to herself as she sat nicely next to Bei Bei.

Tang Ya then softly said, "Thank you, Bei Bei."

Bei Bei couldn't help but laugh, as he lightly said in a joking manner, "Just what has gotten into you, Xiao Ya? Normally, you would never say thank you to me. Could it be possible because of my junior brothers? I certainty won't stand for another love rival."

Tang Ya blushes and punches him lightly with her hand.

She said so in a playful tsundere tone, "You know what I'm thanking you for, so stop acting stupid. Bei..."

Bei Bei then gently moved his arm aside, around the back of Tang Ya, and smoothly pulling her on over into his own sweet embrace.

Tang Ya was certainly surprised, as she then lets out a startled girly cute voice. "Eep..."

Her blushed face then began to become noticeably a lot redder, unable to meet eye to eye with Bei Bei. She immediately broke eye contact out of embarrassment.

He said to Tang Ya, "Xiao Ya, I'll admit it. The reason as to why I agreed on joining the Tang Sect in the first place, was because I had fallen in love for you, because I fell in love at first sight."

Bei Bei then closes his eyes, as his arms were wrapped around Tang Ya's figure. "But as I cultivated the Tang Sect's techniques, I realised more and more just how deep our Tang Sect is."

"Although the Tang Sect has declined, wouldn't it be interesting if we were able to redevelop it, and bring it to great heights? Therefore, I'm already not just doing things for the Tang Sect solely because of you, but also because of the Tang Sect in and of itself." Bei Bei said as he then slowly opens his eyes.

Tang Ya blinked her large eyes and said, "Does that mean that you'll still work hard for the future of the Tang Sect, even if I don't like you?"

Bei Bei's expression immediately changed as he spoke with a slightly exasperated tone, "Be a bit more normal please."

"Heehee." Tang Ya smiled.

"I just love seeing you reveal your true colours. You normally have such a dignified look, aren't you tired of it?" Tang Ya said, giggling and laughing alongside Bei Bei.

Bei Bei then softly flicked his finger on Tang Ya's forehead.

"That's called being civilised, Xiao Ya." Bei Bei said to Tang Ya.

"Don't think that everyone's like you! You're always revealing your own thoughts on your face, Xiao Ya!" Bei Bei said so with a confident smile plastered on his face.