Chapter 22 - surprise

After an hour and a half, Zhang Yong opened his eyes to take a break when he looked around. All the students had returned, and Xiao Wu was talking to Tang San when he looked around.

Yuan Ling noticed Zhang Yong when he opened his eyes and turned to him

"Zhang Yong, you have finally woken up."

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"You didn't come to lunch?"

"I don't need lunch"

With these words, Zhang Yong returned to meditation mode again, ignoring Yuan Ling as she dragged him

"Why do you insist on ignoring me?"

"I advise you to meditate as well. Look at others. They probably have worse talents than you, yet they work hard."

When Yuan Ling looked up, everyone in the room was already contemplating

While Xiao Wu pulled Tang San out, so she also climbed onto her bed and began to meditate

Time passed quickly and Zhang Yong meditated excessively. When he opened his eyes, he felt his body go numb

"If I'm going to continue to feel numb like this, then I guess I should stop for a while." Zhang Yong got out of bed with difficulty and gathered his things. When everyone looked at him, Xiao Wu stepped forward.

"You, Zhang Yong, is it true that you are strong even though you have a healing spirit?"

"It is true that I have a healing spirit, but I am not strong."

"Impossible, Xiao San told me that you are strong, show your fighting spirit right now."

Zhang Yong showed the Small Tree of Life to Xiao Wu and she began to examine it

"It's impossible for Little-san to lie to me."

"Sorry but I have to leave"

Zhang Yong started to walk away from Xiao Wu before she jumped up and blocked Xiao Wu's path

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to get my Spiritual Ring, I've met a teacher from the academy who will take me in."

When everyone heard Zhang Yong's words, their eyes filled with envy, first Tang San and now Naoto, who would also miss the opening ceremony.

"You can go, but you have to come back early."

"It's the forest of the soul, not your courtyard so I can come back early."

Zhang Yong left the room in a hurry and did not look back, because he knew that if he did, she would quickly catch up with him and beat him up. He was not strong or experienced enough to confront her. As the ancients say, a smart person knows how to solve his problems and a wise person avoids them.

He went out from the academy gate, then from the city gate, and continued walking in a straight line. It was half a day's walk, then he rested in a village at night and continued on his way for the second day. On the way, Zhang Yong turned the tow wheel and got a black robe with a stealth function that he put on.

When Zhang Yong arrived at the Spirit Hunting Forest, it was the primary destination for those who wanted to hunt spirit beasts and obtain rings. It was more like a garden for raising spirit beasts. Despite its usefulness, in the entire continent, such a place was very rare.

From the outside side, Zhang Yong was looking at a group of knights patrolling back and forth, their job was to deal with any unexpected events.

So the robe came at its perfect time. The robe he obtained from the clouds had a stealth property and would not be discovered even by a thousand-year spirit monster. Although the matter seemed simple, it was important. A thousand-year beast is stronger than a hundred-year-old beast, and a hundred-year-old beast is equivalent to a spirit master. Big, so even a spirit expert wouldn't detect him, so all he could do was sneak out.

Not everyone can enter, only those with powers can, otherwise the intruders will be eliminated. Zhang Yong knew that he would not be able to attack any of them, as he was still a spirit cultivator.

As soon as he entered the area near the entrance, he heard the loud shouts of some Soul Masters, who were looking for members for their teams.

Zhang Yong could have joined a group, but who in their right mind would hire a six-year-old to work with them?

He took off the cloak and passed with one of the teams who were entering the reserve.

After some paperwork with the guards, the team entered with Naoto. Once Naoto was inside, he quickly moved away from the gate and nullified the effect of the cloak.

"This was close, I used up a lot of soul energy."

Of course, the cloak took soul energy to function, so it was difficult to maintain

Zhang Yong took out a map of the system, and this time it had spots with names and colors such as white, yellow, and others

"These must be spirit monsters."

Naoto started walking, hoping that the map would pick up a trace of one of the monsters he wanted. All he wanted was a hundred-year-old spiritual ring.

With the help of the system, Zhang Yong avoided most of it

Powerful monsters, and to shorten the time he ran through the forest quickly using wind steps, as time went by he was getting closer to the middle circle because the monster he was after was in the area between the outer and inner circle.

There he found spirit beasts of the type of plants and trees that were more than suitable for his soul, but it was not what he was looking for. Suddenly the map showed a nearby interaction that did not appear to be that of spirit beasts. He quickly climbed up to one of the trees, and jumped between them with caution. When he arrived at the place, he saw a spirit hunting team formed. Of six people in a fight with a snake that looked like it was a thousand years old

The opportunity to watch the battle was an opportunity for Zhang Yong to gain more knowledge about the profession of a Soul Master

However, it was disappointing. After watching the entire fight, the first thing he noticed was that the strength of the team was weak. Even the strongest individual among them had a Spiritual Ring of the hundred-year category and the other of the ten-year category, and he had already defeated four people among them.

There was no need to watch, so he got up and continued on his way. After running for some time, there was a new change in the map. Naoto had found his desired spirit beast.

He stopped for a moment, then took out his sword Murasama from the storeroom, activated the invisibility ability of his robe, and slowly advanced towards a tree that was different from the rest, and with one blow, he cut it down before she could sense anything.

(Congratulations to the host for killing the 160-year-old Warm Mist Tree)

The host earns 2600 experience points

And 1000 sentiment points)

"Fortunately, it is less than a thousand years old. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to cut it."

This type of spirit beast was distinguished by its distal torso more than steel, but due to its immaturity, it did not have a dark blue heart, which gives its eater protection from the cold, especially the internal organs.

A yellow soul ring floated out of the corpse

glowing

Zhang Yong sat up and took out his martial spirit and began to absorb the spirit ring, his body feeling as if he was dipping into a hot tub.

But the feeling did not last long. When he opened his eyes, he found himself floating in a place that looked like an empty space. He tried to stand until he landed on the surface of something that looked like water.

"What is this place?"

"It's your spiritual sea, Naoto."

Naoto turned towards the voice

What he saw was an exact copy of himself, but the different thing was his eyes.

His eyes were pitch black and the pupils were tinted red. They were like the eyes of a demon

"Who are you?"

"This hurts a little, even though I helped you complete your revenge, and I even kept your fear in check for you. No, it would be more accurate to say that I was the cause of it, but this is how you treat me."

Zhang Yong narrowed his eyes as he looked at the person standing in front of him

"You are that mysterious voice"

"Bingo"

"How can you be here, and what do you mean by being the reason?"

"You better open your eyes now, save your questions for later."

With these words, Zhang Yong disappeared in front of the person

While he stared at where Zhang Yong was previously standing

"It's not time for you, my friend."

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Zhang Yong opened his eyes and looked around searchingly

"What just happened?"

Naoto's mind was filled with endless questions, but it seemed to him that he should focus on what was actually in front of him.

He looked at his soul but its appearance was normal, there was no change, Naoto showed the soul ring and tried using its ability.

When he pumped his spiritual energy, half of his energy was consumed to activate it

Then the ground in front of him opened slightly and a small bush emerged from it and began to pump fog around it. It was dense

If it had been someone else, he would have gotten lost in the fog and immediately canceled his spiritual ability and the bush disappeared

"It deserves to be called the Tree of the Warm Mist. If I had not cut it down before it discovered me, my situation would have been finished."

(Congratulations to the host for breaking through to level 11, you have begun your first steps on the path of Soul Master)

(Points will be calculated as follows:

A monster of 10 years = 100 experience points, 100 emotion points if you defeat it, and weakness if you kill it.

A monster of 100 years = 1,000 experience points and 1,000 emotion points if you defeat it, and a weakness if you kill it.

A monster of 1000 years = 10,000 experience points and 10,000 emotion points if you defeat it, and a weakness if you kill it.

A monster of 10,000 years = 100,000 experience points and 100,000 emotion points if you defeat it, and a weakness if you kill it.

A monster of 100,000 years = 1,000,000 experience points and 1,000,000 emotion points if you defeat it, and weakness if you kill it.

The same goes for Soul Masters, and each additional year will be counted as ten additional experience points

But emotion points will not be added to anything

)

"Good, if I rely on meditation, I'm afraid I won't reach a high level until I become old."

Zhang Yong then took a look at his condition

(the condition

Name: Chang Yong (Heigai Naoto)

Age: 15 years

Level 11 (15000/3600)

Strength: 32

Endurance capacity:24

Agility: 25

Intelligence: 17

Spiritual energy: 11

Status points: 8

Emotion points: 3978

Ability

Skills. the shop. The store. Missions

Gambling

)

"If I want to jump a full level on hunting a thousand-year-old spirit beast, it should at least be 1,140 years old."

Zhang Yong started to think a little and thought that since most Spiritual Beasts would be attracted to the plant's life energy, he could lure them, but first he had to retrieve the Spiritual Energy so he rested first.