These two errand slaves followed Xiao Feifei in high spirits, running swiftly to the practice hall. The people that they passed along the way were puzzled by their behavior, thinking that the two cowardly errand slaves had woken up on the wrong side of bed that morning.
Being one of the top clans in the city, they had many practice halls
that are free for people to train in.
One had to admire Xiao Feifei's efficiency, by the time Alan and Jack had gotten there, she had already vented her spleen and was giving Bach a beating.
"Xiao Feifei, everyone including you know how I feel about you, how could I have possibly said anything bad about you? Who did you hear this from? "
Bach already had a spectacular bruise around his left eye as he ducked "Black Flare" attack. He took advantage of the respite to quickly protest his innocence and looked quite bedraggled indeed.
Bach had beaten Jack severely when the latter had bumped into him. Shura had suffered even more at Bach's hands.
Bach was the sixteen year old son of a small martial artists family, but he he became an outer clan member of Xiao clan due to his tier 2 martial talent and had already reached peak of flesh training.But now he was outclassed against a woman with potential no less than third young miss herself, not to mention that he was pulling his blows because he liked Xiao Feifei. No wonder he was quickly hit when facing a wrathful Xiao Feifei.
"Huh, that's none of your business. They didn't even mean for me to hear them, so it must be true. Since you are so mean, feel my wrath!"
Indeed, Alan and Jack hadn't "meant for" her to listen.He is just an errand slave,so he wouldn't dare to lie!
Since it had to do with one of Xiao Feifei's taboos, she would never say what she overheard when other people were around. She brought her best efforts to teaching Bach a lesson so that no one would make fun of her again.
"tiger claw!"
Xiao Feifei raised her slim, white hands towards Bach and restarted her assault.
Alan was gobsmacked as he watched on the sidelines. This was the first time he had seen a martial artist in play with his own eyes. His body about to burst in curiosity, he focused his eyes and attention on the action.
"Xiao Feifei's focus isn't that bad to be able to simultaneously cast two martial techniques!"
"Huh, these techniques barely managed to pass primary level of tier 1 martial skill, even
I could do that with some practice!"
…
All these practitioners started chattering after Xiao Feifei had continuesly used two martial techniques. From their conversations, Alan learned that the martial techniques could be divided into tiers and levels, similar to that of the different levels of martial artists
Bach was extremely depressed and inwardly cursed the rumor starter a couple hundred times. If Bach had enough focus and concentration, then Shura and Jack wouldn't be able to enjoy the show they were currently watching.
Xiao Feifei chased him frantically all over the place. Bach finally had to use defense martial technique "rock shield" to be not beaten into a pulp. One man and women again started fighting against each other.
Other clan members laughed loudly when they saw Bach in such a mess. Bach was affected by the jeers and lost his focus, resulting in one of Xiao Feifei's kick stomping him in the gut. His face grew purple with pain and he slowly sank to the ground.
Xiao Feifei hurriedly withdrew her leg when she saw that Bach had been hit and is lying on the floor.
After all, it wasn't a fight to the death, and the clan rules prohibited such fights anyways. Xiao Feifei did not dare to really hurt Bach, and the bulk of her anger had been appeased by Bach's injury.
Bach slowly stood up. He swept his gaze around and saw that in front of him, Shura and Jack were also laughing loudly at him. Bach was already feeling quite infuriated and so stomped over angrily, cursing, "You two low level errand slaves dare to laugh at me?"
Bach didn't dare to vent his anger on Xiao Feifei, and even less so on his clan members around him. He could only vent some of his wrath on the two errand boys, and the sight of them laughing at him only set him off even further.
Xiao Feifei had just about satisfied her anger when she saw Bach ignore her and focus on something else. This roused her rage all over again.
A dark cloud of gas formed as Xiao Feifei started her martial technique and flew towards Bach. The gas kept shifting as it floated through the air and finally materialized as a pulsing black flame.
Bach's expression shifted as he turned to see the "Black Flare" shooting towards him after he saw Xiao Feifei sprinting towards him. He then suddenly turned and ran towards Alan and Jack as if he'd thought of something. Just as the "Black Flare" was about to hit him, he ducked and rolled on the floor.
Bach's plan worked. The merrily laughing and utterly defenseless Shura watched as Bach suddenly tucked into a roll in front of him and the "Blacj Flare" was about to crash onto his body.
Alan's eyes widely opened by this sudden change in situation. He activated gluttony so that he could absorb the energy of "black Flare" but to his surprise he found that he couldn't do it.
Now all he could do was to brace himself and withstand the impact as it crashed onto Shura's body.
His eyes rolled backwards as every part of his body suddenly hurt, and he fell backwards straight to the ground and lost consciousness.
....
When Alan woke up, he found himself lying on the familiar small wooden bed in his house, with his body that was somewhat lightly burnt. Looking around he found that it was already midnight.
Thinking back about what happened in the morning he let out a sigh.
'It seems that I have to think of a way to get stronger or else I won't even know how I died'
while he was thinking of a way to get stronger the only thing that came to his mind was his gluttony.
'Here everyone possesses the ability to absorb spirit energy and they can even assimilate it within their bodies'
Still immersed in thinking about how to get stronger, he suddenly remembered the weird trance like state he was in the previous night while he was recalling about "Ancient art of Primal Cosmic Genesis"
'Now that I think about it the concept of this technique is similar to that of cultivation techniques in this world ,so I may succeed in cultivating this technique '
Thinking till here, he tried to recall the details of this technique but as the time passed the more flabbergasted he became and his face became incredibly pale and he became extremely nervous.
According to the this technique the first step is the most crucial but it's a step that will make most people afraid of cultivating it.
The first step is that the person has to destroy his own energy channels through which he absorbs energy.