[ Noir Forest, Night Void Altar clearing ]
Coming out of his memories, She Li relaxed his body and once again focused on the ongoing ceremony
Few feet behind She Li, three youths squatted on their toes in a circle. Facing each other, two of them were showing worried expressions.
"Brother Yan, I am really worried that you won't awaken your innate spirit. Your father has a flame element innate spirit and your mother didn't awaken hers, the odds are all against you."
Li Fan frowned as he looked worriedly at the chubby boy squatting opposite him who was groaning and rubbing his knees. Letting one knee down the boy, Yan Wei, smiled at his two friends and patted their backs.
"Ah... my dear Fan brothers, can't you see? This young master is destined to be a great Evil Immortal, bedding Goddesses and slapping Emperors. How can this one not awaken a dark element innate spirit?"
He then puffed out his chest and continued,
"During the Awakening Trails neither snake boy nor Little miss Cang could break my defenses. Seeing how powerful your bro is, you dare doubt his ability? Tsk, Tsk, tsk, I'm dissapointed my brothers, sigh."
"C'mon Fatty Yan, we're just worried that with your sturdy and impervious skin like a Bull and thick, compact fatty body, like a Boar Overlord, the dark energy from the Altar would be unable to enter your body."
Li Fan Dan mumbled under his breath after listening to Yan Wei's bragging.
"F*ck!"
Both Yan Wei and Li Fan cursed out loud.
'Is this jackass trying to flatter me or curse me?' Fatty Yan thought while fighting the urge to slap his best friend.
"Yan Wei"
Hearing the Village Head's voice, Yan Wei sprung to his feet, temporarily forgetting the incident.
Jumping onto the altar Yan Wei nodded at the Village Head and sat cross-legged in position, relaxing his mind. As the ceremony began Yan Wei could feel his body being shrouded with cold, dark particles. Closing his eyes, Yan Wei focused on the particles and then willed his pores to absorb the them.
Feeling the spiritual energy within him, the fatty's body felt refreshed.
With his spiritual aura blaring outside of his body Yan Wei felt some of the dark energy shoot to his mind space. As the dark energy reached his mind space it collided with a barrier but the barrier posed no problem to it as a crumpled like rice paper. When the barrier broke a purple light shot out of the space, swallowing the dark energy in a blink, it broke out of his body.
Opening his eyes with excitement Yan Li stared at his forming innate spirit. Slowly emerging was beautiful purple and grey... Leech.
'F*ck'
Yan Wei cursed in his his mind. He knew the name of the spirit... it was a Shadow Leech. This innate spirit was an inferior grade spirit, a grade lower than low-tier mortal grade spirits. Its only ability was to absorb shadows and shoot weak shadow needles the damn spirit even causes the owner to experience slight bad luck.
Sighing at his predicament, Yan Wei watched as the leech flew into his spiritual aura. His spiritual aura was eleven inches long and had a tyrannical red tint... it was still growing rapidly... 'such talents is expected of this young master' Yan Wei nodded his head internally, but when the Shadow Leech merged with the spiritual aura, it's growth immediately halted, it even decreased by an inch.
Pissed, Yan Wei offered teals of expletives up to the God of Luck. A nasty expression spread across his face, he wants to just leave this place and jump into a hole.
As he thought this, another light came out of this forehead and swiftly formed into a black crow. Not giving Yan Wei or anyone else time to wrap their heads around what is happening, the crow shot into Yan Wei's spiritual aura. Without a pause it swallowed the Shadow Leech.
Staring blankly, everyone was dumbfounded. Everything happened so quickly, Yan Wei awakened a useless innate spirit immediately after he awakened another one that seemed to have.... uhh... eaten its predecessor???
The Village Head almost tripped as he looked at the black crow in Yan Wei's spiritual aura. Its presence caused the aura to grow by an astonishing four inches. Staring upwards Yan Wei had a silly smile on his face
'Eight star talent, eight star talent, eight star talent ', in his mind Yan Wei continously chanted these words. He even unconsciously began to mutter his chant outloud.
A minute later the dark spiritual energy dissapated and Yan Wei's spiritual aura retracted into his body. Rising to his feet, his head was still pointing upwards.
" HAHAHA EIGHT STAR TALENT HAHAH..." Laughing towards the Heavens, Yan Wei was in high spirits. All the other events during his awakening was momentarily forgotten. For even if he had no innate spirit with this kind of qualifications he could join a powerful force like a sect and cultivate.
Eight star was a major threshold when it comes to talent. It guarantees that the holder will be able to breakthrough to Crystal Stage if they cultivated diligently. Yan Wei did not know much about the stages above the Spirit Path stage but he did know that to become a City Lord one needed to be at the Crystal Stage.
A City Lord is a person who could order families to death with a wave and battle strong demonic beasts. A legendary person in the eyes of a villager like Yan Wei. To have the potential to be one made him almost go crazy with excitement.
'Hahaha fuck that Shadow Leech, this daddy is going to be a Crystal Stage expert!"
Thinking of his Shadow Leech innate spirit Yan Wei's giddy face stiffened. 'Was it destroyed? If it was, will that leave a hidden wound on my soul? Will It interfere with my progress?' His mind was in chaos. Looking towards the Village Head he opened his mouth to ask.
" Don't worry innate spirits of the same owner can't destroy each other so easily. Just focus your mind and you will be able to feel your connection to the Shadow Leech."
Smiling the village head, affirmed Yan Wei after guessing what he was troubled with.
Relieved, Yan Wei got off the Altar and pulled his two brothers to a side while waiting for the Village Head to announce his qualifications.
" Yan Wei, war-soul based eight-star talent, exceptional progedy, awakened Inferior grade Shadow Leech and Middle-tier Mortal grade Night Gardian Crow."
Acknowledging the gasps of astonishment and words of praise along with the pats on the back from his friends Yan Wei smiled faintly. A few minutes later the commotion wore down and Yan Wei relaxed.
Nervously sinking his perception into his mind space Yan Wei ignored the ceremony and its last participant, She Li.
In his mind he found his two innate spirits. Sighing in relief Yan Wei was glad everything was alright. A destroyed innate spirit would cause a would on the soul, ultimately obstructing a cultivator's future prospects and Yan Wei could not risk that.
Impatient, Yan Wei focused his mental power onto his Guardian Crow spirit connecting his power to the Crow's inorder to be able to know its abilities and uses. Yan Wei had high expectations for this top class innate spirit.
A few breaths passed, and Yan Wei removed his mental power from the innate spirit.
"That's surprising!"
Yan Wei mumbled. From the probe of his innate spirit he learnt that the spirt he awakened was actually a Spirit Sealing Darkness Crow. An innate spirit that can only be awakened along with an Earth grade and above innate spirits with an uncontrollable element to regulate and control its power.
Yan Wei was ignorant as to what all that means but he knew since he has this innate spirit, the Shadow Leech is not as simple as it looks and is a probably powerful Earth grade innate spirit that should be above the Mortal grade innate spirits that are commonly seen.
Yan Wei excitedly rushed to check out his other innate spirit determined to confirm that the Shadow Leech is infact not a trashy spirit but a powerful one.
Pushing his mental power towards the Leech Yan Wei was suddenly shaken by loud screams of astonishment and disbelief from the outside.