Chapter 7 - Sharing

After their fight he was a little tired but since he still had things to do so he didn't idle for too long and let her go. This time he wasn't on guard as he knew that after failing twice she would stop but she was still pouting and a little unresigned about the situation.

"Why are you still pouting, you lost fair and square right?? Besides you're the one to first start the fight"

He said with a calm smile, she also knew that her loss was completely justified as she even used her spirit ability and yet lost. She had no way to deny his loss,

"How about this since you don't have a bedding I'll share half of mine with you and can sleep on the bed next to me"

"Y-You actually want to sleep with me!!"

She said so with a shocked expression, if anyone saw that they would surely be tricked by her acting skills he just rolled his eyes and spread out the bedding and said,

"Well don't worry I'm not too into flat-c_h_e_s_ted people you can rest assured I won't do anything indecent to you and since you call me BIG brother how could I do stuff like that to you??"

Due to the unexpected reply she was a little taken aback but when she remembered his exact words she said,

"W-Who are you calling flat-c_h_e_s_ted??? I'm still growing you know, GROWING"

"….I see, you still have hope don't you it's good to dream…. Don't give up on it alright"

Though he said some encouraging words his face had an expression of extreme pity which made her even sad. Tears were there on the corner of her eyes, seeing that he couldn't hold back and just laughed out loud. Seeing him laugh she just ran out from the dorm.

He then left the school as he was supposed to get ready for today, he picked up the needle arrow which he threw at Xiao Wu and left. He went towards the smithy in the town which was close to school and got a part-time job there.

After that he bought radishes from the market and stocked up on medicine and antidote as he knew it would be dangerous while hunting. After that he bought a few things which would be necessary but nothing more. He was truly low on money and needed to save as much as he could.

The only reason he was able to buy all this was because Grandmaster already provided him with cash for the radishes and this stuff.

…

Soon a day passed and he was waiting near the entrance of the school, after a while two figures came out, they were Grandmaster and Renxue.

"Good Morning, Master

Good Morning, Renxue"

"Good Morning, looks like you woke up quite early not bad"

"Good Morning, Tang San looks like even you had innate full spirit power what a great coincidence"

"Do you also have innate full spirit power too?? But you look slightly older than me, probably two or three years I guess"

"I'm only two years older than you but don't worry you won't have to call me Big sister or anything like that you can still call me Renxue like you used to"

"W-Well thank you, I guess??"

"Let's not waste time we have to go early. Tang San, Renxue has more experience in this so listen to her advise carefully"

"Got it! But teacher where exactly are we going??"

"Were going to the Star Dou Forest where we can get your first spirit ring"

"S-Star Dou Forest!!"

"Yes. I know what you want to say but you don't have to worry too much we'll only hunt near the outskirts of the forest since we need rings of only hundred-years-old. I thought of going to the Spirit Hunting Forest near Nuoding city to get your ring but Renxue helped me change my mind and we can have more options to choose from that way"

"Will it truly be okay??"

"Don't worry if worst comes to worst Renxue can use her spirit to get us out of there and in the outskirts of the forest there aren't many spirits which can keep up with Renxue's current speed and even some of the spirit beasts in the middle layers can't keep up with her"

"I see. I'll have to thank you in advance then Renxue"

"You don't have to worry about that Tang San, you're my father's disciple after all. This is the least I can do and besides I have to go near Star Dou Forest to go back so it'll be fine"

"I'm sorry Xue'er and thank you for helping Tang San with his first ring"

During the journey Grandmaster kept giving his lectures to Tang San and didn't let him sit idle, even Renxue was paying attention to his lectures. After each lecture he asked various doubts and Grandmaster cleared them one by one. He was truly pleased with this disciple of his who had a great understanding than his peers even he dare not guess how much talent he had.

Even Renxue was shocked by Tang San's intellect, though she also listened to grandmaster's lectures she didn't have that many doubts and didn't understand all of his theories and needed some time before she was able to understand it all.

When they were not doing anything or while taking breaks Tang San would practise the Tang Sect Techniques and also focused quite a bit on Forbidden Heaven Technique as it would be good to have a higher rank after he breakthroughs after getting the ring.

Grandmaster also gifted him the Spirit Storage Belt which he named as Twenty Four Moonlight Bridges.

…

"We finally reached the forest, though it's only the outer area you still have to keep your guard up Xiao San"

"Yes Teacher!"

"So which beast are you going to choose for your first ring?? Since its for your Blue Silver Grass then it narrows it to plant type spirit beasts…."

"That's not true Renxue, according to my research a person with a plant type spirit can also integrate with a beast type spirit as long as it possesses some similarities. For your Blue Silver Grasses first ring its age cannot exceed 422 years and the best direction I can advise you to take it Control Category. But it all depends on you weather you believe me or not so…. What will you do Tang San??"

"I….."