It's been a year since Jian Ziran had started watching Lao Chui forge. In this entire year there wasn't a single day that Ziran did not go to Lao Chui's smithy and watch him forge.
Ever since then Jian Ziran's daily routine had been Eat, Sleep, Train Nin Energy and Watch Lao Chui forge. The only other exceptions to his routine was when Sheng Lian would force him to play with her from time to time.
It was currently night time and Ziran could be seen sitting cross legged on his bed. With his eyes closed Ziran was watching recordings of Lao Chui forging within his mind.
Indeed! This was one of the Ninja God's Eye's abilities. The ability to record scenes that he had seen with his own eyes and then replay them within his mind whenever he meditates.
Ever since Ziran discovered this new ability he was overjoyed. With such an ability he could then record battles of powerful Spirit Masters and watch them to his heart's content.
When Ziran opened his eyes he smiled: "My understanding of forging has increased once again!"
Then Ziran remembered something and frowned: "That's right Uncle Chui had left this morning to stay with his relatives for an entire year. He wont be at the smithy to look after me anymore."
Although he had only been with him for a year Ziran had actually already started seeing Lao Chui as something similar to family. So Ziran was naturally saddened by his sudden departure.
Ziran then opened his right palm and a small ball of white energy appeared floating above it: "My Nin Energy has reached Apprentice Stage - Initial Phase... I can now start practicing my Shuriken Control Jutsu!"
Based on Ziran's knowledge from his previous life cultivating Nin Energy is divided into five stages. From lowest to highest they are: Apprentice Stage - Junior Stage - Adept Stage - Senior Stage - Advanced Stage.
Each stage is then further divided into five phases which are: Initial Phase - Intermediate Phase - High Phase - Superior Phase - Perfect Phase.
Remembering his past life Ziran gave a forced smile: "I'm basically a four year old Apprentice Stage Shinobi... If I was in my previous world I'd probably be hailed as a genius that appears once in an era."
Jian Ziran thought for awhile and muttered: "Based on the information I've gathered it seems that my current strength should be more or less comparable to a Spirit Master with a single Ten Years Spirit Ring."
Spirit Rings are the souls released by Spirit Beasts following their death, sacrifice, or contract with humans. The Spirit Ring can only be absorbed by the person who delivers the final blow and kills it and should be at a Rank (Rank 10, 20, 30, etc.) to be able to absorb it. If a Spirit Master doesn't obtain a new Spirit Ring for their Martial Soul during (Rank 10, 20, 30, etc.) it prevents them from increasing their Spirit Ranks. The higher the age of the spirit beast the more powerful the spirit ring it bestows. The spirit rings also have different colors depending on their age.
Author: Straight from the fandom...XD
White: 10 Year Spirit Ring (十年)
Yellow: 100 Year Spirit Ring (百年)
Purple: 1,000 Year Spirit Ring (千年)
Black: 10,000 Year Spirit Ring (万年)
Red: 100,000 Year Spirit Ring (十万年)
Gold: 1,000,000 Year Spirit Ring (百万年)
However ever since seven thousand years ago the hunting and killing of Spirit Beasts have become forbidden in the entire galaxy especially now that Spirit Beasts have a harmonious coexistence with humans. Normally such a thing would hinder the cultivation of all spirit masters but thankfully seventeen thousand years ago the legendary Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao found a solution to this problem and created the thing that revolutionized the entire Spirit Master world... The Spirit Souls!
Author: Straight from the fandom again...XD
Spirit Soul is a spirit in the energy body that use by soul master as a complement of the soul ring. It can be a animal, plant, or elemental spirit.
The one known to be the inventor of spirit soul is Huo Yuhao. The first spirit soul is Snow Empress which her life is binded to Huo Yuhao. After mastering the technique to create the spirit soul, Huo Yuhao built the Spirit Pagoda. Since then, soul master must go to Spirit Transferring Pagoda to get or purchase a spirit soul.
Spirit souls are superior to conventional soul ring because the age or quality of soul ring given by them could be grown or evolve. But generally, it could be done in the Spirit Transferring Pagoda.
Artificial Spirit Souls are still reliant on the genes of the Spirit Beast they were created from. As a result of the gradual extinction of Spirit Beasts, Spirit Beast genes had also unceasingly depleted. The researchers of the Spirit Pagoda had tried many times to use non-Spirit Beast genes to create a Spirit Soul and see if the result was acceptable. The experiment was a success, but the fact was, the Spirit Souls made from those genes were pitifully weak. Basically, no one would be willing to buy them.
When a spirit soul is being manufactured, it won't necessarily succeed every single time. Sometimes, defective ones may appear. The defectives ones are also very expensive to manufacture and they can also be fused with too. Low level spirit souls do not have any sort of intelligence.
The various ranks of Spirit Souls can bestow a Spirit Master with one or more Spirit Rings:
+10 years Spirit Soul: Can bestow only one white Spirit Ring.
+100 years Spirit Soul: Can bestow maximum two yellow Spirit Rings.
+1000 years Spirit Soul: Can bestow maximum three purple Spirit Rings.
+10,000 years Spirit Soul: Can bestow maximum four black Spirit Rings.
+100,000 years Spirit Soul: Can bestow maximum four to five red Spirit Rings.
There are three ways of obtaining Spirit Soul:
1: Geniuses with an exceedingly fast cultivation speed can obtain the first Spirit Soul free of charge from Spirit Transferring Pagoda.
2: Ordinary individuals can purchase a Spirit Soul for a fee proportional to the Spirit Soul's age.
3: Make a contract with a spirit beast with mutual agreement.
The price of a 10 years Spirit Soul is 70,000 coins and 100 years Spirit Souls cost 1 million coins. There are also random Spirit Souls that cost 30,000 coins. You can try your luck in a lottery to get a 10-year spirit soul, or a 100 year Spirit Soul, for a certain price. There's a very high chance that the Spirit Soul gotten won't be suitable for the user's Spirit. It's also possible to obtain a defective Spirit Soul.
In battle, Spirit Souls could appear and those who have more than 100 years can help the soul master in combat with unleashing a spirit skill or other abilities.
Jian Ziran sighed: "Compared to powerful beings like aunt Qingrou my current strength should be considered to be that of less than an ant's."
Ziran still couldn't forget the overwhelming might his Aunt Jian Qingrou had displayed right after he was born. She was a nine ringed Titled Douluo that even possessed 3 Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Rings.
Ziran then got up and went to find Jian Qingrou. He wanted to ask his Aunt to help him with something.
When Ziran found his Aunt he immediately handed her a piece of paper. On the paper were drawings of what looked like star shaped toys.
Jian Qingrou asked: "You want me to make you these toys using wood?"
Jian Qingrou had this special hobby of creating sculptures made of wood she stated it helps her keep her sword arts sharp. Which is why Ziran thought of asking her to make small sized shurikens made of wood for him under the guise of them being 'toys'. In truth he thought of asking Sheng Duan to forge real shurikens for him but he was pretty sure no one in their right mind would ever make sharp weapons like these for a four year old child.
Jian Qingrou tilted her head and said: "Wouldn't you want Aunt to buy you a virtual game boy or spirit mech action figure instead?"
Deep down in Jian Qingrou's heart she very much felt sorry for her little nephew. Due to certain circumstances he had to grow up without his parents. Which is why Jian Qingrou decided that she would care for him and spoil him so much that it could compensate for the lack of parental love he had.
What's more she was very much displeased by the fact that Sheng Duan would take him to that smithy everyday. Jian Qingrou thought: "My nephew already has to grow up without his parents by his side must he go through the hardships of being a blacksmith as well? Absolutely Not!"
Hearing his Aunt's question Ziran thought Qingrou didn't wish for him to play with sharp wooden objects. Ziran thought for awhile, put on his trademarked puppy dog face then said: "But I want something that Aunt made."
Jian Qingrou immediately felt touched and replied: "Well ok Aunt will make you these toys Immediately."
Jian Ziran smiled as he thought: "Great! Once Aunt finishes making them I can start my Shuriken Control Jutsu."
The Next Day...
Jian Ziran held a toy Yoyo in his left hand and wooden Shurikens in his right.
Seeing the two items in his hands Ziran smiled and said: "Alright time to start the real training!"
Jian Ziran then infused Nin Energy into the shurikens then performed the sleeper trick with the yoyo. He then threw the shurikens upward and immediately made a hand sign with his right hand.
At that moment the shurikens stayed still in midair while still continuously spinning.
This was a method he was thought back in his second life. In that world there was a saying among Ninjas: Using Shurikens is the same as playing with Yoyos. The reason why this was said was because they pretty much followed the same principle. Similar as to how the user's finger is connected to the yoyo through the string a Ninja is connected to the shurikens through Nin Energy. Simply put by continuously practicing yoyo tricks and applying their understanding of it to their control of Nin Energy their ability to control and manipulate shurikens is also heightened.
It's the same as how Jian Qingrou has the hobby of creating wood sculptures to keep her sword skills sharp.
"Phew..." After practicing for several hours Jian Ziran finally sat down to take a rest.
Jian Ziran: "I gotta find a way to gain some real combat experience using my current abilities."
Although he could always wait until he awakens his martial soul and attend a Primary Spirit Master Academy to compete with other students, Jian Ziran thought that that wouldn't really be ideal. After all even though he was currently only four years old he still possessed the experience of someone who had once gained the recognition of becoming a Senior Shinobi. As such he felt that it wasn't really good to test his mettle against six year old children. After all no matter how talented those children were they were still only kids with literally no combat experience whatsoever. Jian Ziran felt as if sparing against those kinds of opponents would be meaningless.
Jian Ziran thought for a while: "I got it! I'll go to that place tomorrow!"
