after wuxi settled in the academy hes in the middle of his spirit and mental excercises when Qin Ming comes in into his room. " not neglecting practice is a good thing, but over practicing is bad on your body so rest early, we will hunt your second spirit ring tommorow morning."
hearing what qin ming has said, wuxi' whos in practice suddenly opened his eyes. " Teacher Qin is that true? is it your idea or the academy's idea? "
He reply. " Its both me and the academy, ive been with you since youve been promoted into rank 20, but i didn't ask you to hunt not until today because i know you need to carefully configure your spirit rings and also the headmaster took a liking of your talent as he instruct me to personally teach and assist you ont whatever you need. so i guess you already had prepared enough for this right?. Qin ming said. He continue to ponder for abit before replying his answer. "yes teacher Qin ive decided to get Poison Quill Porcupine as my second ring." Wuxi continues, "if i am not wrong, the skill i will get with it is greatly compatible with my gun."
Qin Ming then asked, " is it really that good?, theres alot more better than Quill Porcupine, did you really think this through?"
wuxi with a determination look answered. " Yes teacher Qin, im definitely getting this spirit beast as a ring." Qin Ming sighed, as he walks off his room and said, "get rest, well leave as soon as the sun rise." and continue to wonder if wuxi really did a good decision about it. wuxi continue to meditate alittle while before he decided to rest and sleep.
it is dawn but there is two people can be seen whos going out of the academy and it is heading into star dou forest. that duo is xiao wuxi and qin ming as they were about to get a spirit ring for him. after passing two cities, the two now reach the star dou forest and started to enter the outer land. they are both keep vigilant as theres multiple of beast in the forest that could sneak attack. they continue their venture from outer forest into the inner forest as they still hadnt spotted a quill porcupine, after searching for so long they decided to camp for awhile and eat something. while they were eating, they heard a sounds of fighting, as wuxi scouted the area, he saw a big spider chasing alot of spirit beast running as one of them caught glimpse of wuxi's eye and decided to chase it. Qin Ming saw that action and started to shout. "Hey Kid, stop, do not chase theres too many beast there, might put yourself into danger."
wuxi on the other hand continue to chase as he replied, " teacher, theres a spider 70meters in front, please hold it first as i chase and kill the porcupine. ill leave it to you teacher." as he dissappear in the forest, Qin Ming realised what wuxi has said awhile back and thought "Fuck, a spider? dont tell me its.." after a series of looking left and right, he saw a big black spider with a clearly formed human face at the middle of the belly. "it really is a man faced demon spider and judging on its face, this might be atleast 10k years of age or older. damn how unlucky i was." as he showed his six rings and prepare to fight the spirit beast.
meanwhile, wuxi stops as he shot multiple spirit created bullet at porcupine. the porcupine fires back a multiple stingshots, he is shocked to know that the porcupine could block his bullets, starting to analyze the opponents and is surpirse to know that the porcupine he's chasing is a 3.5k years of age. both of them is on the stalemate when wuxi started to move a decisive action as he continues to fire multiple shots, one needle lightly pierce his arm while giving him chance to see a slight opening after trading shots , he immediately move into the beast weaker side and he shouted, "Lightning Shot!" as the yellow ring showned above his head, a thunderous bullet shot horizontally in the nozzle tip of the gun and flew directly at the rib part of the porcupine and electrocuted it. "Phew, luckily the paralyzing effect triggered." he walk in front of the beast and pointed the gun in the middle of its forehead and said. " forgive me as i need to do this. (BANG!)". a purple ring started to show above the dead beast. wuxi sat down besides the beast and started the handsign and absorb the ring.
half of inscense stick later, Qin Ming found wuxi sitting in the corner starting to absorb the ring. Hes in a mess, bruise scratches, spiderclaws could be seen in his body and clothes but no real wound could be seen. " This damn kid, making me fight that spider with my life on the line. Good thing i damage the face in his belly or things would get more ugly as i cant escape from it." he continue to observe wuxi, hes frightened as wuxi is absorbing above the years of a ring that hes body could handle. he want to stop him but the integration is already starting.
Wuxi on the other hand is in his spiritual lake, the porcupine started to invade,he continues to counter but suddenly his body started to feel pain. the poison toxin started to kick in as it gives more advantage to the porcupine and continue to attack.
on the other hand, Qin Ming started to see Wuxi mouth and eyes drip a blood and starting to panicked. " Hey wuxi stop or you will die "as he was to grab wuxi to stop the process, he saw a needle like wound and a bruise in his arm and started to think, " hes poisoned, what should i do?" as he keeps on looking on his spirit storage, he found a detoxifying medicine and feed it to wuxi and use his spirit power to guide the medicine into his body.
fighting inside his spiritlake, wuxi felt refresh for some reasons and now starting to counter attack the porcupine. after a series of full attack, the beast dissolves but before he could catch a break, the backlash started as it invade him.
"Ahhhhhrg!". wuxi started to shout as blood starting to drip in every pores of his body. In his mind, he saw alot of people on his previous life continues to blame him, seeing himself helplessly. when he is supposed to give up,he saw sudden figure standing infront of him, smiling and said, " i love you little wuxi." the pain and suffering suddenly vanish as well as the illusion created by the quill porcupine and the determination to fight back return as he mentally pushed back the power and crushed it to pieces.
when he opened his eyes, he see qin ming carrying his mummy like body thats full of bandage as they were leaving the forest. qin ming notice that hes awake and said. " you're one hell of a crazy kid wuxi. you and i almost died back there."