Chapter 14 Xiao Wu vs. Tang San
"The first Spirit ring in a millennium!"
"Purple... the first Spirit ring is purple!"
"How is this possible?!"
"A food-type Spirit Master with a thousand-year Spirit ring?!"
For a moment, Wang Sheng and the other work-study students exclaimed in surprise, their trembling voices filled with disbelief.
It wasn't white!
It wasn't yellow!
Instead, they saw the purple Spirit ring they had only seen on academy teachers—deep, dazzling, noble yet understated.
That was a thousand-year Spirit ring!
A thousand-year Spirit ring that only true Spirit Masters could possess!
At this moment, it had appeared on a boy who looked about the same age as them, and it was even his first Spirit ring?!
Looking at the purple Spirit ring at Tang Chuan's feet, they felt their worldview had been completely overturned!
"Impossible!"
"The teacher said that most Spirit Masters choose a Spirit ring that's less than four hundred years old as their first, because a thousand-year ring would cause the body to explode..."
Some instinctively wanted to argue, but after seeing the Spirit ring beneath Tang Chuan, they could only fall silent.
The facts were right in front of them—no one could deny it.
Xiao Wu was completely stunned.
Her pink lips parted slightly, and her bright eyes were filled with shock and confusion. As a hundred-thousand-year-old Spirit Beast in human form, she knew better than anyone the limits of a first Spirit ring.
A food-type Spirit Master with a thousand-year first Spirit ring?
How was that even possible?
This wasn't just talent; this was a monster among monsters!
Tang Chuan looked at the stunned crowd, his expression calm. He waved the Blue Silver Grass in his palm and said lightly, "So? Not going to try it?"
"My Blue Silver Grass tastes much better than the ones you used to eat in the Star Dou Great Forest."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Wu froze again.
How did he know about the Star Dou Great Forest?!
Before she could think further, Tang San had already stepped forward.
"Hey! Are you still going to fight or not?!"
Seeing the way Xiao Wu stared at his brother with shining eyes, Tang San felt inexplicably irritated and interrupted her.
Xiao Wu came back to her senses.
Her gaze swept between Tang San's yellow Spirit ring and Tang Chuan's purple one. The shock in her eyes shifted into excitement.
"Fight!"
"Of course we have to fight!"
"After we're done, I definitely want to try your Blue Silver Grass!"
Xiao Wu stood with her hands on her hips, her expression charming yet confident. Her eyes gleamed with competitive spirit as she looked at Tang Chuan.
"Good."
Tang Chuan smiled and nodded, the Blue Silver Grass swaying gently at his fingertips, its fragrance growing stronger.
The chatter among the other students gradually faded. Their eyes, fixed on the purple Spirit ring, were filled with deep awe.
"Tang San, Spirit: Blue Silver Grass."
"Level 12, first-ring control-type Spirit Master."
"Xiao Wu, Spirit: Soft Bone Rabbit."
"Level 10, agility-type Battle Spirit Master."
Xiao Wu took a stance, showing no fear even when facing Tang San, who already possessed a Spirit ring. She believed that with her combat experience, dealing with a boy her own age would be no problem.
As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Wu launched the first attack.
Her body moved like a rabbit; her right leg drew a perfect arc through the air, a fierce whip kick sweeping toward Tang San's shoulder with a sharp whoosh.
She was fast—so fast that only a faint pink afterimage could be seen. The other students couldn't even follow her movement.
Tang San, however, was prepared.
He spun lightly on his toes, unleashing the Ghostly Shadow Steps. His figure blurred, leaving afterimages as he dodged.
Xiao Wu's first attack missed. A flicker of surprise flashed in her eyes, but she quickly adapted, her legs moving like soft whips as she struck again and again.
Tang San didn't take her head-on.
He relied solely on Ghostly Shadow Steps, moving within a small area, narrowly and precisely evading every blow.
At the same time, he raised his right hand.
Three Blue Silver Grass vines emerged from his fingertips, covered with countless grass seeds. As he dodged Xiao Wu's kick, he flicked his wrist, scattering the seeds all around the dormitory.
"First Spirit Skill: Endless Life!"
A bright yellow Spirit ring lit up beneath his feet.
Instantly, the sound of rustling grass filled the air.
The pale-blue grass blades shimmered with silver light, bursting forth rapidly from the floor, the bed frames, the walls, the ceiling—filling every inch of the room in seconds.
Everything was blue and silver.
"What?!"
Xiao Wu gasped. Her attack halted mid-motion.
She did a graceful backflip, dodging the Blue Silver Grass that shot up beneath her feet—but even more surged in from all directions.
She used her agility to dart between the growing vines, punching and kicking, channeling Spirit power into her limbs as she struck at the encroaching grass.
But as soon as she destroyed one vine—
New shoots immediately sprouted from the shattered ends, thicker and stronger than before, wrapping around her ankles.
The Blue Silver Grass regenerated almost instantly.
Its growth speed completely overwhelmed Xiao Wu's destructive power.
Her expression grew tense.
She smashed through a wall of vines, only for an even denser one to rise behind her.
She charged again and again, but she couldn't even touch Tang San's shadow.
She was like a rabbit caught in a thicket—no matter where she fled, there was more Blue Silver Grass waiting for her. She broke one, only to find another blocking her way.
Her speed advantage had been completely nullified.
"Damn it!"
Xiao Wu struck the vines around her, shattering them into fragments—but new grass sprouted from the broken gaps almost immediately, sealing her in again.
She tried to break through eight times, but each time, she hit the wall and failed.
At last, she couldn't even tell which way was north, south, east, or west.
"Stop! Stop!"
"Enough! Enough already!"
Xiao Wu, panting and flustered, shouted through the dense, impenetrable Blue Silver Grass, "I surrender!"
"You win!"
"Take these Blue Silver Grasses back!"
"I'll do whatever you said I should do!"
The moment she yielded, the Blue Silver Grass in the room stopped growing.
Tang San raised his fingertips slightly, and the vines receded like a tide, retreating outside the dormitory.
But unlike ordinary plant-type Spirit skills, they didn't vanish after the Spirit power dissipated.
These grasses, like those in nature, remained alive.
Tang San's first Spirit skill, Endless Life, transformed Spirit power into life force, stimulating the Blue Silver Grass seeds he spread to grow rapidly—perhaps even giving them the potential to evolve into Spirit Beasts one day.
He carefully guided the remaining vines outside, but left some behind.
They no longer grew wildly; instead, they twined along the damaged walls and ceilings like natural decorations.
Even the floor was covered by a soft, thin layer of grass—forming a blue-silver meadow that shimmered faintly like stars.
The air was filled with a refreshing fragrance of nature.
Tang San looked at Xiao Wu, who was still panting lightly, and said seriously, "Remember your promise. Take good care of my brother in the academy."
"I will never let anyone who dares to harm my brother get away with it."
[end of the chapter]