Ch.18: Spar

Ch.18: Spar

'Ninefold Scarlet Nirvana Lotus'

That was the name of her martial spirits, known for being an extreme mutation of their family martial spirit.

Just like there is a Blue silver emperor among blue silver grass. It is the King like existence among Crimson Silver Grass which most of Fu Clan members possess.

It doesn't only have a very high fire attribute affinity but also possess unparallel medicinal properties.

Due to its explosive nature of soul power, it is often hard to control.

But she is able to control it to an extent which should be impossible normally.

'Turns out it's another ability of hers. Just like the one which allows her to sense my attacks even before they connect.'

Just as she summoned her martial spirit a sudden wave of heat rose in the surrounding raising the surrounding temperature to as high as 45 degrees Celsius.

'Isn't she just wasting her soul power like this.' I thought thinking it is a very foolish thing to do mid battle.

"Though you are strong in close combat, the fights between spirit masters are fought with their martial spirits. You will regret giving me chance to attack."

Her voice rang out, with unconcealed arrogance. This showed her own confidence power as a spirit master.

"Alright so I will take it seriously as well." Saying that Fu Xuan summoned his Karma Martial Spirit, an armorlike surface with runic symbols cast upon Fu Xuan's right hand. 

"Streaming Ember blasts!" She said as Fu Yue made multiple balls of fire appear midair.

This was one of her self-made spirit skills. Afterall most of her spirit ring abilities are auxiliary type, which can't be used in direct battle.

Hence, the solution she came up with is to make your own spirit skills.

Fu Yue started to throw projectiles made of fire while Fu Xuan dodged most of them trying to find ways to make counter as for now, he doesn't have any means to attack from long range.

While dodging numerous projectiles coming his ways, he had only limited space to move, seeing this Fu Yue cast a big mass of fire throwing towards Fu Xuan thinking he will try to dodge while she will capture him with her first spirit ring ability.

"Big Fireball Attack!"

But Fu Xuan, instead of dodging ran towards the fire projectile in the way, crossing half the distance between them while catching the ball of flame in his right hand.

'What the hell is he doing!!' That's the thought came in the mind of many from the audience.

As they have directly experienced such attacks coming from Fu Yue, they know how dangerous it could be if hit by it directly.

Even Fu Yue herself had her eyes widen in shock, for a moment she even thought of stopping the duel and try to stop Fu Xuan.

But she couldn't do it as she wouldn't make it in time.

Despite what others thought, his hands did not burn, rather the ball of flame disappeared as it touched his hands.

Fu Xuan continued running not minding confusion of others watching.

Just as he appeared in front of Fu Yue, he cast the same fire ball she had cast but with much more concentrated intensity and speed.

Fu Yue in her own confusion, wasn't able to react on time and got swept away with the explosion.

"Perfect!"

Said Fu Xuan with a smile, thinking that he won.

"Say what, 'fight between spirit master's is fought with their martial spirits', turn out it's right. Hahahaha…"

Fu Xuan's childlike laughter filled in the quite training grounds being the only sound being heard at the silent atmosphere.

*Rumble!* *Boom!*

But soon rumbling sound was heard from the side where Fu Yue had crashed.

Some scratches and burn marks can be spotted on her clothes, but her body was mostly unaffected.

The noticeable thing was that the red aura around her was just too radiant this time.

There was anger in her eyes, each of her step were as heavy as a boulder leaving behind footprints wherever she passed.

"Looks like I was just too lenient with you."

Her voice was not angry, nor did it sound annoyed, it was as indifferent as icy wind. Causing a chill to be rung out of his spine.

'She is serious this time!'

Soon Fu Xuan sensed danger, feeling the place he is standing on is not safe.

He didn't know where this feeling came from, nor did he have time to think.

He quickly moved from the spot dodging whatever it may be.

*Boom!!*

*Creak!!*

A huge pillar of ice was seen frozen there.

'Damnit! Does she want to kill me!'

I heard flapping sound with a bird's shriek. Followed by cold wind blowing which replaced the previous desert like heat to winter mountains breeze.

Only to see an image of Ice phoenix with a cyborg like look above Fu Yue's head.

I looked towards Fu Yue; she didn't have the usual carefree atmosphere around her.

With her eyes focused she said.

"This time, I will get a little serious. Spirit Possession: Digital Ice Pheonix!"

Following which, large silvery blue wings materialized behind her back. With black-sliver colored armor, which seemed to be capable of changing shapes and size as if it is formed by a nanotechnology of kind.

She flew out with her newly materialized wings making sky as her fort, as if declaring her rule over sky.

'She really got lucky with this martial spirit.'

While raising her hand above she formed shards of ice midair just like she did with fire some time ago.

"Try catching this one."

She said while lowering her hands towards me, as if taking an aim.

"Streaming Ice Bullet!"

Barrage of numerous ice shards concentrated with ice attribute soup power poured out, making it hard to move as freely.

Her control over her soul power was truly showing itself now when there is no obstruction of fire and smoke. She is even able to affect the directions of ice projectile after them being released.

Things are being hard for Fu Xuan still he is starting to adapt to these types of attacks. Finding patterns and limitations of such attacks.

Even without the use of Tenseigan eyes, he is not having any difficulty in sensing the flow of attacks and dodging them.

But this is not a way to win, he doesn't know why but Fu Yue is not showing any exhaustion or signs of depletion in soul power.

'Does she have unlimited soul power or something? I can still try tire her out, but it will take a long time… Let's do it the fast way.'

Thinking that Fu Xuan Resummoned his Karma Martial Spirit, absorbing many of the projectiles while he keeps running towards Fu Yue who is constantly increasing the number of projectiles and their size.

Fu Yue was flying in the sky making it harder to get close to her as whenever he got near her, she will simply change her position flying away from the place.

Even Fu Xuan started to get annoyed as he felts this that this is not going anywhere, and they are only running in circles.

No one is winning and no one is losing.

Fu Xuan was not able to attack in anyway and there was enough distance between them which did not allow Fu Yue to cast any effective attacks.

Cause if she made any big moves he will simply dodge while if she closed the distance between them, he will get an opening to strike.

As if both of them reached a mutual understanding they decided to end it in one big move.

Three Spirit rings appeared behind Fu Yue as she was about to cast her spirit skill.

But seeing her Spirit rings caused Fu Xuan to stumble for a bit.

'The Hell! How is that even possible?!'

Fu Xuan was genuinely shocked by what he saw. And everyone should be, but most of them were acting as if they have gotten used to it and it was no surprise to them.

There were only three spirit rings on her martial spirit but the main thing was the color of three of them.

Black, Black, Black.

All three of them were black, what surprised him even more was all of them were of same age.

Just from the aura he could tell they were all around 40,000 to 50,000 years old.

'Is this some kind of hoax?'

He though but quickly dismissed it thinking the spar is important.

"First Spirit Skill: Ice Pheonix's Meteor Dive!"

Fu Xuan also took out a bunch of paper tags from his back pockets, using his Karma martial spirit's Energy projection ability together with his soul power is reform Fu Yue's ice attribute attacks to coat it all with ice.

Making a ball of ice cover the paper bunch launching it towards her with full speed expelling all the ice attacks absorbed before in a combined single attack.

"Take this, Exploding Ice Cannon!!"

Both of their respective attacks were launched at the same time, with full force targeting one another.

Just as both their attacks connected…

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To Be Continued:

[Word Count: 1535]

A/N: Not that good.