Douluo Dalu - The Story of Sheng Feilong Chapter 70

Sheng Feilong stood in front of Song Weihan frozen like a statue while his face was slightly pale . Looking at Song Weihan's eyes, he couldn't help but feel his mind and body tremble under the pressure as he spoke in a timid voice .

"U-understood . I won't use it against anyone if not necessary . "

After Sheng Feilong finished, Song Weihan calmed down and the pressure he gave off slowly dissipated before he went back to his seat . Sheng Lingtian frowned at the display, but said nothing as he seemingly understood the necessity of handling this situation thoroughly . Song Weihan looked back at Sheng Feilong with a small smile and spoke in a calm and reassuring voice .

"Sorry for scaring you just now, but it's really important that you understand the severity of your or Soul Skill . With a power like that, you could potentially kill anybody whose Spirit Power is weaker than yours without anyone noticing . Just for that, there'd be a lot of self righteous people who would hunt you down just to be sure nothing happened if word got out; An ability like that could easily qualify you as an evil Soul Master . If I knew that you'd get such a Soul Skill, I wouldn't have allowed you to fuse with the Purple Forest Witch to begin with . "

Sheng Feilong frowned . He hadn't looked at it like that before, but what Song Weihan said really made sense . From what he had heard about evil Soul Masters before, an ability like Playing The Dumbo Game really was too close to what they do . . . Still, the name might be even worse . . . Sheng Feilong's expresion soured when he thought about the Soul Skill's name .

That of course didn't go unnoticed by Song Weihan and the latter interpreted it as a reaction to the 'qualification of an evil Soul Master' part .

"There's no need to be troubled by that, Feilong . You're far from being an evil Soul Master; A single Soul Skill or even Spirit essence isn't enough to change that . That's right, wasn't there also that senior sister of yours from Shrek with a Fallen Angel Spirit Essence? She's a good example . The reason why the Fallen Angel is seen as a evil Spirit Essence by many is because of its powers, but even if the Spirit itself is evil, it still is the Soul Masters decision what to do with it . "

Song Weihan didn't go into detail about what kind of power it is that makes the Fallen Angel so dangerous in order to not worry Sheng Feilong; He of course knew about it, but that didn't mean that he would ruthlessly condemn everyone who possesses this Spirit Essence . He wasn't as radical as other 'righteous' Soul Masters or clans; As long as the Soul Master doesn't do anything evil, he would at most keep them under surveillance .

Sheng Feilong calmed down considerably and looked at Song Weihan with a light smile . His Master was right . Just because he had something that could be considered evil doesn't mean that he's evil himself and he wouldn't let himself be pushed down by something like that .

"Master, can you help me testing this new Soul Skill out? I want to know as much about it as possible . "

Song Weihan smiled and nodded contentedly . This was exactly the question he wanted to hear . The next few days, he and Sheng Feilong focused on testing out his new Soul Skill; Sheng Feilong would spend some time talking with the Purple Forest Witch, trying go get as much information as possible about it and its powers, as even the Spirit Pagoda naturally didn't have every single piece of information of such rare Soul Beasts .

After getting to know everything he could get out of the Forest Witch currently, he started testing the Soul Skill out for real . He tried activating and conjuring it up without a target under Song Weihan's supervision, getting to the process where he had to use the poisoned bit of Spirit Power to spiritually attack his opponent . Even when he first tried it, it worked perfectly and took nearly no time, but Sheng Feilong and Song Weihan were still shocked .

Unlike what one would expect, infusing the Purple Forest Witch's poison into his Spirit Power used up a huge amount of Soul Power, draining Sheng Feilong of nearly 40 percent of his current reserves . This naturally was a huge drawback . Be it in battle or not, losing nearly 40 percent of their Soul Power would weigh down heavily on any Soul Master, especially when this drain happened in an instant . After seeing it happen as speaking with Sheng Feilong for a bit, he came up with the idea that this was most likely caused by the opposing attributes of the poison and Spirit Power; They were actually the antithesis of each other, fiercely clashing whenever they met, but Sheng Feilong's Soul Skill was fusing the two together to bring out the desired characteristics of both .

After testing around for another day, Sheng Feilong got a solid grasp over the combining of both and was even able to more or less cope and ignore the sudden drain of Soul Power and Song Weihan allowed him to unleash the Soul Skill on himself . Letting himself be affected by Sheng Feilong's spiritual attack, Song Weihan cautiously observed the poisonous seed that planted itself in his spirit source and his heart shook fiercely . He was clearly able to 'see' it with his spiritual senses, but even as the seed started budding and rooting itself into his spirit source, he couldn't feel anything off; The seed or bud itself had absolutely no aura, Spirit Power fluctuations or anything else, it was essentially impossible to feel if one didn't inspect their spirit source on purpose .

When the bud slowly grew larger and started absorbing his spirit source, Song Weihan felt his Spirit Power being drained, but it wasn't the feeling of using it up, but more like slowly getting tired and exhausted . In a battle, even he would just brush it off as having underestimated his own fatigue and wouldn't recognize it as something being wrong with his spirit source . He frowned and attacked the poisonous bud, directly obliterating every last bit of it, not even leaving dust or ashes behind .

After finishing up, he opened his eyes again, looking at Sheng Feilong and telling him about his findings . According to his estimations, the poisoned seed would take about two hours to fully absorb his spirit source and Spirit Power, but that was while Song Weihan's Spirit Power was nearly 10 times that of Sheng Feilong . Counting back, that would mean Sheng Feilong would need around 10 minutes to turn someone who had the same Spirit Power as himself into a vegetable state, most likely even less as Song Weihan's Spirit Power wasn't just stronger, but he was also at the Spirit Abyss realm while Sheng Feilong was still stuck at the Spirit Sea realm .

They tested around for a while longer, mainly to give Sheng Feilong experience in removing the bud on his own violation, and after a few tries, with long breaks in between to allow Sheng Feilong to restore his Soul Power, he was able to do so with just a thought, shocking Song Weihan again . If Sheng Feilong could remove it with just a thought, that meant that the seed or bud still had Sheng Feilong's Spirit Mark on it, but Song Weihan was completely unable to find any traces of it .

The next day, they asked Sheng Lingtian for help regarding the time it took for the bud to abosrd the whole spirit source of someone with weaker Spirit Power than Sheng Feilong . Currently, Sheng Lingtian's Spirit Power was around the 3 . 500 mark, while Sheng Feilong's was still unshakingly remaining at 4 . 735 . Sheng Lingtian allowed Song Weihan to observe his spirit source in detail as Sheng Feilong used the Soul Skill against his father and saw the bud take root much, much faster than against himself, quickly beckoning Sheng Feilong to remove it after less than half a minute .

Song Weihan sighed, once again telling Sheng Feilong to be absolutely alerted when he used this Soul Skill . To completely devour Sheng Lingtian's Spirit power and spirit source, who was about 30 percent weaker than Sheng Feilong, the bud only needed approximately 3 minutes! After this test, the rest of the day was used for experimenting; Sheng Feilong still wanted to rename the Soul Skill, while Song Weihan gave him some pointers with this, while also making sure that Sheng Feilong trained to sense the growth of the poisoned bud .

By the end of the sixth day of intensive training since Sheng Feilong came back to Heaven Dou City, he was finally able to fully observe the poisoned bud's growth and could even slow it down or force it to stop with a thought, not to mention completely removing it . However, what excited him even more was that he finally managed to rename the Soul Skill! Instead of the ridiculously childish 'Playing The Dumbo Game', Sheng Feilong would now call it 'Spirit Infestation'!

Sadly, today also marked the last day of Sheng Feilong's visit to Heaven Dou City . Tomorrow, he would return to Shrek Academy in the morning while his father and Master will remain in Heaven Dou City . The three of them spent the evening together and Song weihan and Sheng Lingtian accompanied Sheng Feilong to the station the next morning . Before setting off, Song Weihan gave Sheng Feilong a little 'present', though: a small envelope with a wax seal that Sheng Feilong was only allowed to open once he had returned to Shrek Academy .

After a long train ride, Sheng Feilong was back in Shrek City and his his way over to the academy where he returned to his dorm room . After unpacking his stuff, he went for the dining hall to grab a bite before he reported back to the Shen Yi in the teacher's office, informing her that he had returned and then headed over to the Maker's Association, reporting back there as well . On his way out, he met Xu Lizhi and Ye Xinglan who were on their way to meet up with Tang Wulin and the others and decided to join them .

He hadn't told them the real reason why he left for the week, only saying he asked teacher Shen to allow him to return home for a week . After meeting up with them, they talked for a while and updated Sheng Feilong on what had happened before asking how his trip home was . Taking this rare chance to be able to shamelessly boast, he released his Radiant Emperor's Phantasmagoric Eyes and his four Soul Rings appeared behind his back; 3 purple and his new, black one, greatly shocking everyone with just the pressure, while Sheng Feilong himself cynically grinned at them .

"Well, what do you think how the trip went?"

Chapter end