Fighting Soul Clan Demoness

Chapter 14 "Encounter"

"Oh." Xiao Yan replied expressionlessly.

Seeing this, Yao Lao raised his eyebrows and continued to persuade him: "Hey! You little brat, your talent is indeed great, but you are already fifteen years old, and your fighting spirit is still only at the third level. Let alone competing with Nalan Yanran, even the family's coming-of-age ceremony will probably be difficult for you, right? If you are assigned to the family business to help others."

Having said that, Yao Lao paused, shook his head and sighed: "Tsk tsk, I'm afraid it will be difficult to turn things around in this lifetime."

It must be said that Yao Lao's words really hit Xiao Yan's heart. Even if the other party no longer absorbed his fighting spirit, it would be impossible for him to compete with Nalan Yanran relying solely on his returning talent.

After all, Nalan Yanran's talent was only slightly lower than his. It would be quite difficult to catch up with her accumulated cultivation progress in a short period of time.

His breathing was a little heavier, and he was a little agitated for a moment, but his expression was still full of vigilance.

"With my current training speed, it's indeed impossible for me to break through four stages of Dou Qi in a year. However, with just words, how can I know you're qualified to teach me? That Yao Ruoruo girl's strength is unfathomable, so I'm sure you're not much behind. If you really want me to become your disciple, then show some sincerity."

"Wow, what a sharp-tongued little kid! Okay, okay, to be honest, I do have something that that girl can't do."

Nodding helplessly, Yao Lao descended to the ground, looking at Xiao Yan several times, a strange smile of success flashed across his face.

His expression became serious, and he secretly set up a soul barrier to isolate his perception. Then he spread out his palm, and a ball of white flame suddenly appeared in the center of his palm that looked like jade.

An extremely cold, yet incomparably hot breath came over, as if it was going to place Xiao Yan in an endless purgatory.

"What, what is this?!" Xiao Yan looked terrified and stepped back subconsciously.

"Haha, little guy, do you want to become an alchemist?"

Hearing this, Xiao Yan, who was shivering with cold, swallowed hard, his heart beating wildly.
The next day, Xiao Yan walked on Xiaojia Street with drooping eyelids, obviously he had not been able to sleep for a long time last night.

With only the strength of the third stage of fighting spirit, he naturally couldn't ignore the fatigue of his body, so he had two thick dark circles under his eyes, which looked quite funny.

"Alchemist, and there are also advanced martial arts and fighting skills." Thinking back to Yao Lao's performance last night, Xiao Yan couldn't help but let out a long breath and yawned.

"It sounds very exciting, but the prerequisite is that I have to break through to the Fighter level first."

Whether one wants to become an alchemist or practice martial arts, the prerequisite is to become a fighter, because only a fighter can transform the fighting spirit in the body into fighting spirit and condense a fighting spirit cyclone.

There is only one word difference between fighting spirit and fighting spirit, but the degree of their power is as different as heaven and earth.

Only fighting spirit can support the practice of martial arts. After practicing martial arts and the properties of fighting spirit are manifested, Xiao Yan can be considered to have all the conditions to become an alchemist.

Xiao Yan, who had once been a fighter, was very clear about this, so keeping his feet on the ground was what he should do now.
So, Xiao Yan hurriedly walked out of the Xiao family's gate without caring about his tiredness, and ran straight to the market to start collecting medicinal herbs.

After Yao Lao and Hun Ruoruo parted ways yesterday, the girl had already prepared gold coins and necessary medicinal herbs in her storage ring. Yao Lao had also informed Xiao Yan of this.

With Xiao Yan's current weak body, he simply cannot withstand the impact of the elixir's effects. Therefore, if he wants to speed up his cultivation progress, he must use a gentler method.

That is the foundation-building elixir created by Yao Lao himself.

As a low-level medicine, the materials needed for the foundation-building spirit liquid were not difficult to find. It only required three purple-leafed orchids, two bone-cleansing flowers, and a first-level wood-attribute magic core to refine it. However, what made Xiao Yan extremely depressed was that the other party provided quite a lot of resources, but not all of them.

There were three hundred purple-leaf orchids and hundreds of first-level wood-attribute magic cores in the ring, but there was not a single bone-cleansing flower.

Xiao Yan absolutely didn't believe that the other party didn't intend to tease him.

But there was no other way. After all, one should be grateful to the person who helped him. Xiao Yan couldn't really complain about anything. He just regarded it as running an errand.

"Miss Ruoruo, you really like to make fun of me." Xiao Yan smiled bitterly and walked quickly to the market to buy bone-washing flowers.

The market town was quite lively, with people coming and going almost filling up the streets. However, the flow of people was quite fast, and there was no congestion or quarrels. It seemed that the market was well managed.

This market town is one of the several medium-sized markets under the name of the Xiao family.

After looking around, the fifteen-year-old Master Xiao Yan was unable to see all the shops around him due to his height problem. He had no choice but to find a vendor setting up a stall on the ground and squatted down to ask.
"Boss, how much are you selling these bone-washing flowers?"

"Hello, Third Young Master. One hundred gold coins for one flower, and a 10% discount for orders over a bunch!" A playful and teasing voice came, not acting like a merchant at all.

"Is that your voice?!" Xiao Yan was horrified and suddenly raised his head to look at the girl in front of him who was wrapped in a black robe again.

I saw the other person holding his face and looking at me, his big eyes blinking, causing his thick eyelashes to tremble.

"Miss Ruoruo, you really are everywhere!"

"Bone Washing Flower, Third Young Master, would you like to buy some?"

"I knew you had it, so why did you ask me to come all this way?" Xiao Yan complained, "I don't mind, but won't this delay my cultivation progress?"

"Getting something for nothing is not a good habit. Even if the price is very small, Third Young Master must learn to pay." The girl supported her cheek with her small hands, her eyes slightly narrowed, which seemed to contain some special meaning, but disappeared without a trace as if it were a passing cloud.

"Yes, I understand."

"Hehe, you are worthy of being the third young master that someone has taken a fancy to."

The momentary seriousness on the girl's face disappeared, and a silver bell-like laughter was heard.

The girl's voice was clear and pleasant, sounding very comfortable, but the laughter contained some truth and some falsehood, which Xiao Yan found difficult to guess.
After a moment, he took a deep breath and asked the question that had been buried deep in his heart for a long time: "Miss Ruoruo, Ruoruo, why do people around you seem to be completely unaware of your existence?"

When he said the word "Miss Ruoruo" again, Xiao Yan felt an inexplicable chill, and had no choice but to change his words and call her "Ruoruo".

Indeed, whether it was their first encounter under the moonlight, the peeping in the Xiao family hall, or the current market town, the people around her seemed to be completely unaware of her existence, which made Xiao Yan feel an indescribable emotion.

It is not entirely fear, but more like a curiosity and resistance to the unknown.
Seeing Xiao Yan asking about her, Hun Ruoruo rolled her eyes and said, "Third Young Master, since you already know about the soul power, there is no reason for others to hide it from you."

"After you reach the seventh level of fighting spirit, I will teach you how to use your soul power. How about that?"

(End of this chapter)