"Come Mayi. Let's obtain our 4th ring!" I said to Mayi. Mayi looked around a little worried.
I approached Mayi and hug her calming her "Don't worry. You can trust my family, they will keep your secret".
Mayi nodded "Hi. I will trust my future family".
We both kissed. I started to attract the black spirit ring towards my now floating sword on my head.
The ring was easily destructed seeming that it was the truth that I killed him and not an external person. I started absorbing it.
For the Ring Combat I used all my spirit energy to changed the nature of the spirit ring controlling its rampage spirit power. Just as it was about to overcome me I sensed Mayi spirit power helping me. And just as she was about to run out of spirit power we finished the Ring Combat.
For the soul of the ring I only noticed a very weak part. In my mental world there was a little sword dragon I only need to expend 10 second striking the almost immobile beast to destroy it completely finishing this step.
For the Ring Internalization, all the previous spirit energy spent plus the energy of the ring traversed all my body changing where it goes, my body becoming stronger. While it was flowing I directed the flow toward Mayi.
Mayi took advantage of the energy and started her Ring Creation. Using my given energy plus the energy around her, specially the biggest source of spirit energy being dad and uncle. Detecting Mayi absorving their energy creating a kind of vortex surprised them a lot.
Mayi's body was strengthening slowly creating her own ring while the new increased energy was circulating between both of our bodies, further strengthening not only my body, but also my spirit energy and spirit rank.
After 1 hour of absorption we finally finished the all the process. I opened my eyes to see the smiling face at Mayi that quickly launched hugging me.
"30.000 years old! My ring became 30.000 years old!" Happily shouted Mayi.
I separated Mayi from me and activate my sword spirit showing the sword now surrounded by 4 rings, purple, purple, black and black. With a quick analyze a determinate the age of the new ring "40.0000 years old. When it was alive it was only 30.000 years old" I observe the corpse seeing that its sword length hadn't changed "It is 30.000 years old. So it seems that our method improve the ring gaining for both of us around 10.000 years"
"Ejemp!" My dad interrupted our dialogue with a serious face that scared me a little "It seems that you need to explain a lot of things Bai".
"Before anything I want to confirm some thing. Then I would explain all" I said.
I approach the Dragon corpse and try to eat one of its sword. Slowly a much first being afraid of hard can it be. Luckily it seems like Glut like it so when I bit it it became completely soft being easily eaten.
I sighted in relieve and started devouring all the Dragon. In less than a minute all the corpse disappeared in my body.
After that I started meditating concentrated in my Oreo spirit. Entering the black and white world I can see Glut at its center happy while he ate the dragon's body.
{AN: In the mental space ( ) or [ ] will become dialogue}
Sensing me Glut stopped and looked at me. I observed some change in his eyes, they are bright with intelligence. (What did you do before to stop the Dragon's attack?). He looked at me and suddenly information entered my mind (So it is that. Have a good meal) I said to him. Glut quickly returned to eating. After 5 minutes he finished and started to glow. Knowing that the evolution takes its time I left the Oreo world.
Opening my eyes I turned to dad and uncle "Okay, all ready! Ask whatever you want".
"First, what is the relation with her and you?" dad asked.
"Like we said before she is part of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy main team like me. Moreover, she is my girlfriend. In the future I want to marry her so in a near future I will go to pay my respects to the Strength Clan asking them for their blessing in our marriage. For the clan rules I don't see any problem. She is a extremely talented and powerful attack system being rank" I looked at Mayi.
"43!" Mayi answered.
"Rank 43! With only 13 years old. If nothing happened she will surely become a titled douluo. There's also the fact that I won't be your successor me not being a supprt system. So I don't see any problem at all" I finished.
"Stop joking!" shouted dad angry "I know that your relation is not explicit against the clan rules. However, do you know what she is and how can affect to your future?".
"I know she is a humanized spirit beast. I would be blind if I didn't know it after seeing her creating her own rings. For the risk, I know about them. If she is discovered all the powers around the country will turn mad towards her. A 100.000 spirit ring plus a 100.000 spirit bone is enough for a lot of people to offend our clan" I said.
"But I have my reasons. Subjectively, I love her and I want to be all my live with her. Yeah I know that is not a particular good reason seeing it as the clan leader. Objectively, with her talent in the future will be a powerhouse. With enough time both of us will be able to ascend the clan to new weights becoming undoubtedly the number 1 clan of the continent".
"Moreover, we have almost 100% spirit fusion compatibility. We have our own spirit fusion and both our cultivation are boosted when we are together. Also, you saw the ring's absorption, I could absorb an older ring even aging it thanks to her" I paused a moment.
"Finally" I turned to uncle Bone "Can you detect her as a spirit beast? I let you even touch her hand to analyze her".
Bone observed Mayi and frowned. Then he took Mayi's hand and did another inspection. "I didn't detect anything, is like she is a normal human without any cultivation at all" Uncle Bone turned to Mayi "What is your secret?".
"I was a Fifteen Ton Ant. The main factor of you not detecting me being that our spirit energy it can only move internally. It's impossible for us to externalize it, being unable to use any kind of spirit skill. Due to this while growing it's only our body that grow stronger, being usually stronger that same aged beast and having a better defense toward spirit energy attacks thanks to our spirit insulating armor" Mayi explained.
"It's also the reason why we need to kiss to cultivate. It's necessary an internal connection." I said dad and uncle nodding.
"So with all of this you can easily see that there's a lot of gains in front of little risk" I finished.
"I understand. I will permit your relation" dad turned to Mayi "Don't worry we will keep your secret. I don't want to make Bai sad. However, before accepting some kind of marriage I want to see how both of you fight together. The true sentiment emerge in battle. But we will wait for your mother return" I was about to ask about mum when he said "Your mother is fine. She is outside now traveling but I informed her. She will return tomorrow. Surely she would want to be the one to fight you. Be prepared" I nodded "Can you finally explain what happened in your ring hunting?".
I then explained them all that happened without hiding anything, except I don't know why the mysterious voice, explaining that maybe thanks to the rage I gained enough strength to kill the dragon, but I don't know what exactly happened