Chapter 6 - 6: Fruits of the devil(1)

Within the Fiery Bright Forest, Xiao Yan walked around the forest with ease and looked around like a tourist.

Some might questioned him about not caring for his life in a spirit beast infested forest for being careless and unguarded but they would say otherwise when they see him in action.

Xiao Yan in his past life was a normal one. So in order to survive in this second life of his, that was filled with untold horrors and beings that can kill him with a flick of their finger/paw/claw, he would improvise and be prepared.

When the day came that his body could handle training, he trained his body to it's limits and when he discovered his hidden physique? He made used of it. When he wanted resources for the future, he used his knowledge from another world and became the youngest entrepreneur in the city. Selling innovative technologies like toys, common tools of the modern world, and cultures like; stories, songs, fashion, etc..

When he awoken his spirit essence, and finding out that its chaining him down, he gritted his teeth and regardless of what others tell him, he trained his spirit essence Heavy Xuan Ruler until he dropped in a pool of his sweat and blood. The day when he became sworn brothers with the main character Tang San, he trained with some of the Tang Techniques that was compatible to him, until he reached his limits of going further with the skills.

He will survive, strive and live in this world with his friends and family. He will use anything that he can to reach his goal. Even if he has to....

Shaking his head, Xiao Yan continued to walked around and trying to find a suitable spirit beast for his spirit essence.

His spirit essence is a Heavy Xuan Ruler. It isn't anything special. It could only smacked around and flattened anything he aim to strike it at. Which is always kinda hard to do when his opponents are taller than him, with him being a child and all that.

"Sigh~ Alright, I chose being a battle spirit master so I need a spirit skill that can either strengthen the power of my spirit essence or a powerful spirit skill that can one shot my opponent with minimal spirit power use. With the latter being impossible to find and somewhat useless if my opponent can block it and there's no way that there's a spirit skill that has minimal spirit power use, only with a certain worm comes to mind and he isn't compatible with my spirit essence, but with the former auxiliary to strengthen either the power or attack speed for my spirit essence or myself entirely. With the help of the Tang Secret Techniques, I would be a force to be reckoned with." It was obvious of what kind of spirit skill I want. But on the what spirit beast that would have it would be a question needed to be answered.

"This is gonna be hard, with how the spirit beasts around are with the fire attribute and can only give out fire related spirit skills. Sigh, I didn't want to come to this forest but it is the nearest to academy anyway that didn't have any spirit hall's lackeys and I don't want to walked to the second nearest forest free of the control of the Spirit Hall for a whole three weeks." Xiao Yan sighed once more. For some reason he wanted to say "How troublesome" but wanting to get home and relax in an actual bed than the hard ground, he shut up and quickly assessed his surrounding for suitable spirit beasts.

No matter how long it takes.

Xiao Yan sat down with a deadpanned expression on top of a tree branch. His eyebrows twitching as the tree shook heavily.

Looking down he cursed under his breath as a brown furred Moose like spirit beast took several paces back before ramming straight at the tree he was sitting on one of it's branches.

'How did it come to this?' He thought in irritation as the tree once more shook. Oh don't get him wrong. He wasn't sitting on top of a tree branch because he was afraid of a mere 325 years old brown Moose spirit beast. No. He was afraid of the big Moose sitting quietly at the back staring at the smaller Moose with warm eyes while looking sharply with clear killing intent at him.

'I can defeat a 325 year old spirit beast with some simple planning and traps but dealing with a thousand year old one? Nope.' Xiao Yan instantly decided. He would have already been gone and elsewhere in the forest continuing to search for a suitable spirit beast but there was something he wanted to get before he could do so.

See, two hours ago he was just wandering around looking and searching when he stumbled upon these duo of mother/father and son/daughter spirit beasts cuddling under a giant tree asleep and he was about to just leave them be when he noticed something peculiar about the tree.

Strange red swirl like fruits were on it.

The instant he saw them, Xiao Yan's eyes widened like plates and his jaw dropped.

"DEVIL FRUITS?!"