Tradition

"Do you have any specific techniques or martial arts in mind or were you hoping Your Father an I would recommend some to you?" Vanessa asked

"That reminds me it's been a long time since we've sparred hasn't it son?" Dante asked while stroking his chin with his eyebrows raised

'This likely a good opportunity to convince Mother that I've improved significantly and get more used to this body, especially in regards to fighting humans or humanoid cultivators it's simply an entire different ball game as opposed to fighting low level mindless magical beasts' King inwardly thought

"I suppose that is the case Father, would you perhaps be interested in continuing that ongoing tradition now?" King asked with a large smile plastered onto his face simply shaking with pent up excitement

"Can't we at least wait until we finish our discussion before you to start another father-son bonding session as you like to call it?" His mother asked in such a way it showed she was used to these kind of interactions.

"The boy provides a valid point Dear as a father it is my responsibility no my duty to guide our son in the ways of combat, same rules as usual bodily cultivation only and I'll suppress my stage down to yours and every 5 minutes I'll increase it a minor stage until you yield, you're allowed to assume any state you want be it your hybrid state or full beast state as well" His father replied brimming with excitement to the point he was also shaking

"Alas boys will be boys" His mother said while walking towards the training grounds with both Father and son

They all began making the trip to the training grounds located in the middle section of the house where there were three separate square shaped battle platforms two on the left and right with the last and largest platform in the middle.

The reason they came here instead of fighting in the room is although the room itself would be able to contain the shock waves and undulations from their fight and cultivation bases erupting it wouldn't save most of the furnishing inside of the room however.

Thus they opted to come to the training grounds considering the time of night/morning everyone would be in their rooms or doing their jobs elsewhere since their were shifts for everything someone was always working but the training grounds were only occupied in the early morning and shortly after dinner time at night otherwise it was completely vacant, with the additional bonus of the training grounds being internally soundproofed via formations to not disturb other areas within the home, the other formations pertaining to keeping the surrounding area from being entirely ravished, and finally a regenerative formation on the fighting platforms.

"Are you ready son?" His father asked

"Whenever you are Dad" King replied

As soon as that exchange ended King abruptly dashed forward in hopes of getting the jump on his father by taking the initiative, quicker than even his father anticipated, once he reached his father he threw a low kick at his father's legs which he dodged by jumping, which was within King's expectations as soon as his father jumped he was met with a roundhouse kick to the face which he blocked.

"Whew your actions and words are quite contradictory you almost ruined my beautiful face" His father said while he was quite surprised with how precise and decisive King was in his attacks

King responded with actions instead of words realizing with how much ease his father blocked his attack he decided it was time to turn it up a notch, his nails growing and hardening turning more into claws than fingernails, his toenails doing the same turning into talons as opposed to regular toenails, and lastly a purple and white wing sprouting out of his back making him look like a deity had just descended from the higher heavens to punish all mortals on this plane.

Immediately after completing his transformation he proceeded to dash at his father once again almost creating an afterimage in his wake but this time instead of starting with a low kick he lead in with a punch directed directly at his gut.

To which his father abruptly adjusted his guard to block as he currently was matching his son's body cultivation he was at a disadvantage with him being a human he inherently was weaker than his son on a fundamental level at the same stage, but surprisingly the attack never came and instead his instincts were screaming it him if he didn't dodge he would be in dire straits.

He quickly backpedaled only to see the same fist he had expected to hit his gut fly past his chin at speed that made it appear as a blur slightly grazing his chin in the process, surprising his father once again since he believed that he'd evade whatever it was do to him preemptively dodging.

"Haha That's my boy, going in for the kill immediately no matter the opponent although I never said I'd just defend did I?" His father asked while guffawing

This time his Father went on the offensive the undulations increased twofold around him and even further in his limbs dashing forward he decided to return the favor to King with a low kick and roundhouse to which he barely blocked only due to him noticing his father was imitating the attacks he'd just previously done back to him, however he still ended up flying back several meters due to the impact.

Giving him no room at all to think or prepare for a counter attack his father dashed in as King was still flying back.

He whispered Emperor's Fist while aiming towards his gut, King expecting him to once again imitate his previous move preemptively dodged the attack he anticipated to go to his face in preparation to counter attack as soon it reached his arms that were held up in a guard position covering both his chin and stomach, however to his surprise he felt a sharp pain in his right rib realizing he was mistaken and his father was not going tit for tat with him but simply used that to get in his head.

Shortly after noticing the pain in his ribs from the hit connecting King once again was sent flying only this time he used to momentum to lift into the skies and flapped his wings to increase the speed into which he propelled into his father, which seemingly caught him off guard but he responded by enhancing his body with the light element and increasing his sturdiness with the earth element to withstand the blow.

It still managed to move him slightly backwards and by the time he'd gathered himself King was right In front of him throwing a flurry of punches and kicks at him as if his life depended on them connecting although most were it was simply because his father was parrying them while stalling for time.

As this continued 15 minutes had passed and even without augmented his body with light element or increasing the hardness of his body with earth he was now releasing undulations at the peak of the 3rd stage and was equal to King prowess solely in his hybrid from at least based off of what he was showing as of yet without any martial arts or bodily cultivation techniques.

Something his Father noticed however was the longer the spar went on and the more attacks they exchanged the smoother, more precise, and more refined King's attacks and approaches were becoming, which was welcome but definitely shocking the speed at which he was improving was more so like he was regaining his battle senses more than he was forming them.

At this point and time they were both essentially in their starting positions standing several meters in front of each other eyeing one another waiting for someone to make a move.

"Are you not going to turn into your magical beast form, I don't want you to feel as if your old man is bullying you just as I can increase my cultivation every 5 minutes I welcome you to take every advantage you can to best me" His father said

"I appreciate the offer however it would do me more harm than good this hybrid humanoid form I am both more comfortable fighting in and it provides me more than fully transforming to a beast would considering I would be much larger than I currently aim and have large vital points to protect as opposed to now where I get the majority of my strength increase in this form with much more flexibility" King said

'I may have very well underestimated our son more than I had realized he has the ability to realize his limits and strengths all while minimizing and maximizing them, he's also putting up quite the fight with his father although he's only using his bodily cultivation to fight someone 3 minor stages ahead of you definitely is a great indicator of his talent although that's only in one area of cultivation impressive nonetheless' His mother inwardly thought

"Very well then come at me then very soon I'll be a full realm ahead of you this would be your best time to seal the deal in our spar, you may be talented and a magical beast but breaching a realm is another story altogether, however preventing that from happening perhaps you have a chance to do that" His father said while beckoning him to attack with his hand

"I'll try not to disappoint you then Dad" King said before once again lunging in the direction of his father.