Cao Guang felt more pain than usual as he focused on a double break through. His Space Nebula had almost completely broken the Galaxy Barrier when he felt his soul sublimating as he reached the Fourth level of Mental Strength.
From the fourth to the sixth levels of mental strength, it was like possessing a Soul grade seed for magics associated with Mental Strength, his efficacy with the Space element would be outrageous even if he didn't learn the Advanced spell Blink yet.
Speaking of which Blink was the most convenient and unstoppable means of travel as a spell and so much so most Organisations Headquarters had formations banni this convenient spell. The amount of concentration and control required for this spell was nothing to scoff at either.
" That's his third advanced element right?" Guan Chen was the first to break the silence as the group pondered.
Only the four of Gao Xuan, Song Xia, Du Ling and Jiang Shaojun knew that this was his fourth element at the advanced level. And all except Gao Xuan were raging with envy, owing to his break through in the secondary element Gao Xuan was also the target of envy this time around.
There were three Advanced mages on the team already and they had yet to challenge another National Hall.
Every national team also had a national hall, they were made up of the substitutes and defended the flag when challenged by other national teams, any national team that collected four victories would make it to the Final Tournament in Paris.
The Japanese National Hall was in the Twin Towers of Osaka, for now all they had to rest up for the night before fixing a travel method to Osaka first and Tokyo later.
They had came to Xixiong town, a pretty remote area in Japan, since they lacked identities and didn't want to camp in the wild, Cao Guang pushed his agenda slightly by suggesting to donate some money to the temple in Xixiong and staying there.
The Xixiong temple was famed for being able to bless happy marriages. It was moderately famous in Japan.
Cao Guang walked slowly with the group to the temple and pressed the bell supposedly for knocking and a young priest with a bald head in a priest's robe turned up.
"The temple is closed for visiting, please come back tomorrow" the priest said.
" We want to make a donation to the temple" said Song Xia handing the priest an envelope.
"I need to inform the head abbot" the priest was about to walk away when Cao grew curious and asked him a question.
" My name is Nara Arisora"
The priest gave him an answer Cao Guang had expected.
If there is a second chance will he make a different choice, time to find out.
The group stayed in the temple by lieu of the Head Abbott's decision and were given two rooms for men and women.
All of them were rather impatient to sleep on any kind of mattress without swaying like a pendulum and went quite quickly to sleep except Cao Guang and the other two that he didn't allow sleep.
" Fancy an adventure?"
" At this time of the night?" Jiang Shaojun wanted nothing more than to sleep now.
" Hehe brother, you had some plan in coming to this place right, I know you asked Song Xia to push for a trip to Japan quite strongly some time ago, now spill the beans what is the plan."
" Do the two of you know about Totems?"
Cao Guang asked a question that solved Jiang Shaojun's sleep in a matter of femtoseconds.
"Like the White Tiger and Vermillion Bird?"
" Yes, but there were more than just four Totems during the ancient times, believe me I have done my research on the matter, do you know some of the Totems can come back to life even now.
It is said that every Totem had died and was reborn using a ritual, their vessel and their guardians help. However very few such creatures exist in this period, afterall it's been a few millennia since their peak."
" Why are speaking about Totems all of a sudden now?" Jiang Shaojun was more interested than anyone else in the room.
" It's simple, I am a Totem guardian myself, I guard the west under the White Tiger, besides the reason I am talking about this is because I saw a living Totem undergo ecdysis in Hangzhou, the guardians there call it a God or the Totem Black Snake.
It's at the Supreme Ruler rank at it's peak and one of the strongest creatures I have seen, it also guards over Hangzhou like an appointed guardian"