Chapter 12.

We moved up the ladder towards the next floor, slowly walking reaching the door on the second floor. Opening it we entered and we saw Chen Rong talking with a group of people, watching us coming he quickly said his goodbye's to them and walked towards us.

The village chief just smiled at him showing his fist towards him Chen Rong hit the fist slightly like a greeting, he then looked at me and smiled while saying.

" How have you been little Feng, it feels good to see you coming."

I nodded in return with a smile and greeted him.

" Hello, big brother Rong it feels nice to meet you again"

Chen Rong smiled gently while beckoning us to follow him as he moved towards the ladder going up.

" Now that you have come to the city, it should mean that you have got your first spirit star."

Seeing me nod he quickly asked what the ability is.

" My spirit ability is called Fire slash which releases a fire blade from the tip or bottom side of my spirit when I slash it forward, other than that it also increases my attributes that is the strength by 20%"

I haven't finished talking Village chief interjected from the side as he excitedly said

" This not the most important but his spirit attributes that is his strength will be increased by 20% each time he adds a new spirit star. That means when he reaches Spirit Emperor level with only the first spirit ability will give him an increase of 140%, and there will still be other increases after he uses this ability that means if his other spirit ability also has an attribute increase it will give him more power in future as they can be used at the same time."

Hearing this even Chen Rong got excited as he showed some envy when he looked at me at the same time a look of hope since if I gain a higher level he would also get support from me in the spirit pagoda and can increase his strength at a much faster speed.

The reason why they show envy is because other than the increase given by the assistant spirit warriors you can't have more than one spirit attribute increase since you have to stop using one spirit ability to move on to other, and this won't happen with me since the attribute increase will remain as it is for some time proper timing has not been determined yet but I will check it after returning to the village.

" How did he get such a good spirit ability, tell me everything." Chen Rong excitedly asked me, but the village chief on the side told him everything not given me a chance to talk as he wanted to brag about his wisdom for choosing Wind Chime Ape as my first spirit star, but I know that it was definitely Grandma who determined which spirit beast will give me better spirit abilities.

As we continued to talk and walk we quickly reached the 4th floor, the third floor looked like some task area. The 4th floor was like an office with few people inside sitting on their desks while there was a small room on the right corner while on the left corner there was a Spirit power check stone, it was placed there on a beautifully carved stone and anyone who wants to check their spirit power they can come here to check.

Chen Rong nodded to some people on the desk and ignored others and asked us to follow him into the small room. Inside the room, an old man was sitting behind his desk, calmly watching outside through the window as he slowly drank his tea.

Seeing us enter he looked at Chen Rong to enquire why we came, Chen Rong came beside him and said a few words, then the old man's face changed from calm to surprise to the excitement and then returned to calm again. He then looked at me, quickly stood up, and walked towards took my hands on his own as he excitedly.

" Little Feng you should have said that you would be coming here, I would have personally gone down to greet you." After greeting he turned to look at Village and nodded with a smile, which village return with a smile.

I looked at them in confusion not understanding how this older man knew me, it would be okay to know my information as a genius, but from the look of things, he seems to know Village Chief and me personally.

Seeing the doubt on my face they chuckled slightly while Chen Rong beside him said.

" Meet Chen lin you can call him old Lin he is my father, your village chief's biological brother. He is the 43rd level, Spirit Duke and also the head of this branch cities spirit pagoda."

Hearing this I drew a long breath in astonishment not understanding how Village-chief such high-level connection except Grandma side, It is not easy to become ahead inside the Spirit Pagoda even if it is only a branch city, not only do you need to possess enough strength but also need to have enough merits under your name.

Seeing this everyone once again chuckled as Chen Rong replied my doubts.

" Old Lin participated in last time's beast riot and luckily killed the commander beast who was leading the beast to attack our village. This merit of saving a whole village plus his years of hard work made him eligible to get this mission." After I heard this I looked at Old Lin with respect, while he just smiled at me.

Having finished our introductions everyone took their seats as I and the village sat in front of Old Lin while Chen Rong sat on the sofa.

After everyone took their seats, Old Lin once again asked me whether I am ready to join Spirit Pagoda to which I nodded, then he took out a few papers which Chen Rong has already filled and asked me to put a part of my spirit power into it. Not asking much and trusting him I put a part of spirit into the papers and just as my spirit power entered it, I could feel some sort of power passing through me and quickly entered my head. Looking at Old Lin in disbelief and anger I wanted to shout.

But before I could he said.

" Don't worry this is just a simple contract which has no restraint on you, It is like a charm which other high-level members of different forces will know that you have joined us and your current information will be retained and entered the records inside the main branch Spirit Pagoda as well as the Empires library when they see your 8th level innate spirit power this will only benefit you. It will not be updated until you sign again next time."

Although his explanation is reasonable I still couldn't help but feel angry as he didn't explain it before asking me to bind with it. I just didn't feel like wanting to see him so I twisted my head to the side, while Old Lin embarrassedly looked at Village Chief who just shrugged his shoulders.

Old Lin sighed and took the papers back into his hands and looked through it as some of my information was written on it like, the village name, the 8th level innate spirit power, and the name of my spirit which I gave it myself that is Flame-Demon's Stick as most of the techniques in Mysterious has something related to the word demon, and also the papers had my current spirit level which is 14 level, that I expected since my concentration of spirit power was already level 12 and I gained 2 more levels from absorbing the Spirit star.

Seeing this number Old Lin couldn't help but rub his eyes, seeing the odd behavior of Old Lin both Village Chief and Chen Rong came curiously beside him and looked at the data, seeing the data both of them also couldn't help but rub their eyes, and took another look at the data, looking everything was right, with this high-level spirit power just after gaining my first spirit star, coupled with the spirit ability, they couldn't help but look at me at the same time and said.

" MONSTER "

I looked at them with a 'what' expression.