The next day all the remained members, we reunited at breakfast.
When I entered the room there was some gloomy aura "Still down?" I asked.
"It's only now that we don't have Fen-Chenxiang that I really miss her. She really makes every time more lively" said Osler.
"Try to enjoy the new silence. Her behavior was always unbecoming for us" Yan said drinking a tea, but couldn't completely hide a sad tone.
"Don't think too much about her, it's not like we will never see again" said Tianheng "Talking about other things. Anyone of you knows where's Lingling? It's strange for her to arrive late"
"Oh yeah. Lingling returned to her clan due to some improvement in her spirit. She said that she will return in two weeks, no need for us to worry" I explained.
"Do you know exactly the reason, Bai?" Asked Yan.
"You will find sooner or later so I will explain. Her spirit evolved to a spirit that it was legendary for her clan, so she went to inform of her new spirit" I explained.
Yan frowned "I hope that all go well, if not maybe she will be forced to stay at her clan. It's big news when a spirit evolves especially one so powerful. It is like if your clan Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolved to the Nine Pagoda" I spat my drink shocked. Yan looked at me strangely, but continue "it will be big news and your clan will retain the responsibility to know if it can be replicated"
"Wait a moment the Nine Pagoda is secret, how can you know about it, Yan?" I asked.
"I explained to her, sorry Bai" said Tianheng.
"This didn't explain anything!" I shouted a little pissed "How do you know about?"
"My uncle explained to me when I was young about the top spirit. Following his words, It's kind of obvious that the Seven Pagoda spirit is limited to spirit sage cultivation a don't know can they still consider a secret after so many generations without anyone, no matter the talent arriving at douluo spirit. Seven layers, seven rings, Seven Pagoda, so if the achieve an evolution of their spirit it will be nine layers, nine rings, Nine Pagoda" Tianheng explained.
"Yeah, common sense" said Yan.
"Another secret revealed by Grandmaster" I sighed.
At that moment Mayi hugged my arm "I like this tranquility and absence of loud flies" she then looked at Yan and Tianheng "Yan is safe" she smiled.
I finished my breakfast "I'm finished. Today I will have special training with Mayi. Please, don't disturb us" I left taking Mayi's hand to our room.
When we arrived I said "Mayi, do you know what caused Chenxiang mutation?" Mayi shook her head.
"I obtained a 4th ring for my Oreo Spirit, this ability improves the foundation and spirit power of light and plant spirit. It can only be used 10 times and I had already used 3 times, in Chenxiang, Linling, and dad. This ability also use all my spirit power, no matter how much I have left" I explained
"I want to use it in myself. But due to the lack of spirit power, I couldn't really use it well, so I asked you that will give me your spirit power after I used the ability. I will first circulate the energy alone, making it mine, once I accomplished that we will double cultivated" I said.
"Okay, Bai" said Mayi "Could I try it later? I want to taste your new sweet"
"Sorry, Mayi. But this is kind of strange one, if your spirit is not light or plant-based there will be a huge rejection, maybe even dying. Chenxiang survived only by sheer luck" I said. She puffed her cheeks, a little annoyed at not being able to try it.
"♪Wonder if I gave a Golden Oreo♪" I chanted invoking a Golden Oreo and I ate it. Then I approached Mayi and kissed her. She gave me her spirit energy, I was very cautious to make the exchange only one-sided in fright of some energy of the Golden Oreo enter her body.
After 1 minute of kissing, I had enough spirit energy and we separated "Sweet!" Mayi said with a seductive voice licking her lips.
I sat in lotus position and started to cultivated, circulating the new pure energy that entered my body. I sensed light green particles inside my body, with every circulation they became more whiter decanting toward the light element of it, discarding the plant element.
After 2 hours of cultivation, I could finally make mind the new energy, now with my attributes, I was sure that it won't injure Mayi.
I opened my eyes, just beside me, Mayi was observing me very attentively. I embraced her and took her to bed. There I kiss her and we started to double cultivated.
Our energy circulating around both of us, this time a permit my spirit to use it, increasing its quality benefiting with its high purity, little by little, revitalizing my spirit improving it.
When we finished it was already dusk. We separated, Mayi's sweet scene still engraved in my lips.
"How do you feel, Mayi?" I asked.
She smiled happily "Great! My rank went up by 3, now being rank 49. Also, my vitality increased a little"
I nodded "The same for me, I also arrived at rank 49. Moreover, my spirit improved. It can now share the energy absorbed, however, it would only be 30% of mine so the support is no near even to a normal Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda" I sighed "As dad and Rongrong evolved increasing their support capability I expected mine to improve its absorption or power. Maybe my effects are low because Glut as my spirit already eat a Beautiful Silk Tulip in bad state gaining for me some kind of resistance" I resigned "Better than nothing"
"Today we have a free day let's go on a date" I proposed.
"Yes!" Mayi agreed, eagerly jumping hugging my arm.
After that we went to a little walk to the town, passing the day together.
We expend two weeks consolidating our new ranks, truly arriving at the 49 rank. Today I arranged a meeting with Qinghe. As Mayi didn't like it very much I decided to go alone even if it will be better to have her to quickly recuperate.
Arriving at the palace the guards let me easily pass. Even without showing them Qinghe's coin, they saw me enough times to remember me, also, they were probably warned of my visit beforehand.
Entering Qinghe's office. He greeted me "Hey, Bai! Long-time no seeing you. Do you have a complicated month?"
"Hi, Qinghe" I greeted him "Yeah this month was a little chaotic, some important thing happened, add the usual training and family matters that made impossible to have a lot of freedom these days"
"Welcome to the life of important people, Bai. I, as crown prince, have a lot of responsibilities, spending a lot of my time. In the future if you become your clan head, these chaotic days will become your everyday life" said Qinghe.
I laughed "I won't be my clan head" this surprised Qinghe "I will push the position to my sister. She is more capable. It will be estranged to have me as a head of a support clan, Rongrong will be better" I thought a little "Thanks for giving more reasons to not be. But I'll need to support a little Rongrong in the future"
"I thought that you would be, teacher explained that he is instructing you, teaching how the clan's matters go" said Qinghe.
"Nah, dad is only teaching me some common sense for the high society" I paused a moment. "Lately, dad is trying to teach me more thoroughly, and I never heard anything about him even talking too much with Rongrong" I said thoughtful "Fuck! He is grooming me to be the next clan head! That manipulator old man!" I cursed.
Qinghe started laughing receiving my death stare "Sorry, Bai. I couldn't help it" He apologized "Typical of teacher if I can say it. To slowly influence for the future. He always talks about how proud of you he is and that you will follow his steps"
I made a sad face "I don't want to be like dad, always with a mask in his faces, attend to all the surroundings, full of paperwork. If I must choose I will prefer to be like mum, at most she only stays at the clan protecting for usually nothing, only focusing on her training"
Qinghe made a solemnly face "Sometimes the choices are made by others, and we don't have any other options to follow it"
"As a crown prince you have it rough" I said.
"Yeah, as a crown prince" he said sadly. Then he returned to her usual face "In the future tell me how to go your conversation with teacher. Let's change the conversation" He turned serious "Why do you want to meet me? It's strange for you to notify in advance, moreover, you said to make all my day free. I doubt that it's only for light talk. Not that I'm saying I don't like our meetings"
"Oh? Yeah. First of all, you must promise me that anything that I will explain and happen today will be informed to anyone, even your father the emperor" I said seriously.
He hit his left chest with his right punch and lowered her head a little "On the honor of Heaven Dou's royalty I promised to keep it a secret" he did the typical vow of the royal family.
I smiled. I lifted my left hand invoking my Oreo spirit with his 4 rings.