Chapter 9 - 9: Revenge is spicy~

Opening his right palm a single round pill appeared from his storage ring. It was a simple blue pill without any significance except for spirit masters. It was one of the very first of his creations. The soldier pill.

'I'm gonna thank you for all the lessons you taught me when I get back home old man.' Xiao Yan popped the pill in his mouth and swallowed it. White energy seemed to come out of the pill and course throughout his body.

Xiao Yan breathed in a deep breath, feeling some of his spirit power returning, then he breathed out.

The soldier pill, named after watching a certain anime, is an alchemist pill he himself brew when under a certain white haired old man. It can help him naturally recover his spirit power five times than normal. Sounds great and easily popular for every spirit masters to sell right? Well the effects of the pill doesn't much affect of those with Soul Elders cultivation or higher and when Spirit Masters of the 20th rank digest them the effects are of twice.

Enough of pills and time for action. Xiao Yan recovered all his spirit power a couple of hours later. Opening his eyes, he gaze at the Moose spirit beasts and made his face turn emotionless.

He wore his equipment and clothing and using two of the Tang Sect's Secret Techniques, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track and Purple Demon Eye, he jumped back off the tree and vanished within the darkness of the forest.

The thousand year old Moose immediately realised the human's disappearance as it quickly roused itself back up with it's guard up and using it's senses it tried to find the human. It might not have awakened it's intelligence as it was only a thousand year old spirit beast but it had something to protect. It's offspring.

The giant Brown Furred Moose looked down to watch it's youngling waking up from it's sleep when it lost the warmth of it's parent.

It might not understand much but the need to protect it's young is greater than it's own survival. The maternal instincts granted to every parental beings in the Omniverse. The need to protect the little one(s) they gave birth to the world.

The giant Brown Furred Moose gave off a big huff and it's giant antlers glowed in a darkish red color. Having been born and lived in the Fiery Bright Forest a small mutation had surfaced within itself and probably it's child as well. It had the small ability to gave off intense heat coming from it's antlers even to the point of melting iron when near it.

It stood a little higher than before, even if the little human that hidden itself was weak the giant Moose wanted to protect it's child with everything it had.

Well, unfortunately for the giant Moose and also the little Moose, they are against someone who would use any dirty trick in the book in a fight.

"Surprise motherf.u.c.kers!" The last thing the two spirit beasts saw was red smoke and everything had turned red and wet.

"RAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!!!"

"RAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!!!"

Cried of pain and agony spread throughout the forest as two spirit beasts sprinted forward in a crazed frenzy. Their eyes red and watery as they continue to roar in pain and bulldozed the around the trees.

Back at the tree of Purification Fruits, Xiao Yan hummed as he harvested the last remaining fruits.

"Hmmm... Revenge is spicy~! Oh! A hundred year old Purification Fruit! Lucky~ This is the third time now. Things are really–" Xiao Yan froze.

"Who are you?" A calm soft and yet cold voice sounded out behind him.

Xiao Yan slowly turned as he readied a bolt under his right sleeve's hidden crossbow. He turned to see–

Fate is truly a weird concept. Something that can predetermined someone's future. In a certain country's culture. A red string of fate can bring together two people and intertwined together for all eternity. Even in death and in the next life.(I half made this shit up)

And in that moment, the strings of fate seemed to work once more.

The shadows in the sky cleared making the moonlight shine on the land.

"I asked you..." A girl at his age with long raven black hair and bright golden eyes that seemed to hold great power and knowledge that no mere mortal would have, especially a girl at her age, her pretty little calm face and pale smooth baby like skin made her seem like a porcelain doll but when her face expressed cold una.d.u.l.terated fury, it was terrifying.

"Who, are you?"

Any normal kid his age would have been scared to shit in his/her pants and would have ran for his/her life at the incredible display of flames but Xiao Yan wasn't focused in that. Even if the temperature around him made breathing hard and caused his cheeks to turned pink, no, what he was more concerned about is–

"Why the hell are you n.a.k.e.d?!"

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I know it's anticlimactic but it is a reasonable outcome. The Xiao Yan in my story is cunning, smart, shrew and would use anything to quickly finish battles. He would not take the long road to victory when there is a short way to do so without any casualties to himself or others. And it is not because I was lazy or anything.

Oh the hot springs are amazing! Warm water(very, very, very hot water), free snacks and drinks(I did not know they had them for free), the greatest place to be when wanting to relax. I highly recommend it to people who wants a place to go to when wanting to relax. ????????????♨️♨️♨️????????????

For those who voted for hamburgers, congratulations! You guys won! I've just eaten three minute bacon and cheese burgers and they were delicious~ Tbh, I wanted to get pizzas as well but the shop was closed for a whole day due to a chef being arrested for having brought along a rat to cook with him.

Peace ☮️✌️