Chapter 26: Refining the Dragon Origin Fruit, Breaking Through to Level Fourteen!
"Brother, why didn't you say so sooner?" After piecing everything together, Yu Luomian snapped, clearly annoyed. "If we had known about this from the start, how could we have disagreed over a mere Dragon Origin Fruit?"
"Cough, cough." Yu Yuanzhen cleared his throat lightly. At the beginning, they had not even prepared a proper reason yet.
An elder nearby hurried to smooth things over. "After all, Tianlin gained such an extraordinary opportunity. It's understandable that the clan leader wanted to keep it hidden."
Yu Luomian remained unsatisfied. "Since you chose to keep it secret from the beginning, you should have kept it secret all the way through. What kind of nonsense is this, suddenly telling us now?"
"I wanted to keep it hidden too, but I can't anymore." Yu Yuanzhen turned around, hands clasped behind his back, and sighed as he looked up. "Didn't you notice? It's only been four months, and Tianlin's first Spirit Ring has already turned yellow. In a few years, reaching the thousand year level will be effortless. Once his first Spirit Ring turns purple, even an idiot will realize something is wrong."
Hearing that, Yu Luomian's expression eased a lot. He nodded slowly. "That's true. If it were just a Spirit Bone, as long as you never used it openly, others might not notice. But a Spirit Ring is different. As long as the martial spirit is attached to the body, the Spirit Ring will appear. There's no way to hide it."
"That's why I'm telling you now." Yu Yuanzhen's tone softened. "Two heads are better than one. Let's discuss it together and decide how to handle this. Should we keep it secret, or reveal it to the outside world directly?"
As he spoke, he took a golden fruit from his storage Spirit Tool and handed it to Yu Tianlin. "Tianlin, this is the Dragon Origin Fruit. Take it back first. I'll discuss your matter with the elders."
Then he added, "Take Tianqing back with you."
Yu Luomian spoke as well, passing the unconscious Yu Tianqing into Yu Tianlin's arms.
Yu Tianlin nodded. He accepted the Dragon Origin Fruit, stored it in his Dragon Pattern Ring, then lifted Yu Tianqing and left the main hall.
After exiting, he first carried Yu Tianqing back to his home, making sure he was settled, before returning to his own residence.
At that moment, Yu Tianlin's parents, Yu Mingfeng and Yu Rou, were waiting anxiously inside.
The moment they saw him, Yu Rou rushed forward. "Tianlin, how did it go? Did you win?"
Yu Mingfeng said nothing, but the slight tremble in his hands exposed how tense he was.
Yu Tianlin smiled, pulled the Dragon Origin Fruit directly from his Dragon Pattern Ring, and held it up. "Of course. Look what this is."
When Yu Mingfeng saw the golden fruit, his face finally relaxed into a wide, excited smile. "Well done. Truly worthy of being my son."
"It's good that you won. It's good that you won." Yu Rou let out a long breath, her whole body loosening. She knew how fiercely her son had trained these past four months. If all that effort ended in failure, she feared it would crush his morale.
After the brief excitement, Yu Mingfeng calmed down and said seriously, "Go to your room and consume this Dragon Origin Fruit. It will definitely replenish the dragon power you've lost. I'll guard the door for you."
"Mm." Yu Tianlin nodded and carried the Dragon Origin Fruit to his room.
There was no special method to consume the Dragon Origin Fruit. You simply ate it. Yu Tianlin sat cross legged on the bed, stuffed the fruit into his mouth, chewed twice, then swallowed it.
Almost immediately, a wave of heat surged up from his dantian. He entered meditation at once, activated the Thunder Dragon Technique, and began refining the fruit's energy.
Time passed. About half an hour later, the Dragon Origin Fruit fully took effect, and changes started appearing in his body.
The lightning pattern between his brows flickered. His entire body became wrapped in faint arcs of electricity. Under that glow, a pale blue purple phantom of dragon scales surfaced along his right arm.
The most striking change was his Spirit Ring. That pale yellow ring flashed wildly, spinning and circling around him at high speed.
Half an hour after that, Yu Tianlin finally finished absorbing everything. The electrical glow faded, and the changes in his body settled down.
He exhaled slowly, opened his eyes, and muttered, "I didn't expect the Dragon Origin Fruit to replenish dragon power and raise my Spirit Power too."
"My Spirit Power should be at level fourteen now."
Feeling the increase within his meridians, he compared it to before and quickly confirmed the result.
After consuming one Dragon Origin Fruit, he rose from level twelve to level fourteen, advancing two levels.
As expected, the Dragon Origin Fruit was far inferior to true celestial herbs. Yu Tianlin was only a one ring Spirit Master, and even then he gained just two levels.
When the Shrek Seven Devils consumed celestial herbs, they were already three ring Spirit Venerables, far beyond his current stage. Yet even at that level, the lowest of them rose five levels, while the highest jumped seven.
Fortunately, Yu Tianlin had not eaten it for cultivation. His main goal was replenishing dragon power. The two extra levels were just an unexpected bonus.
He stretched out his right hand and clenched it in the air. A new force pulsed within his arm, exactly the dragon power his grandfather and the others had mentioned.
He tried to activate it, but it felt unstable and incomplete. No matter how he guided it, the dragon power remained unresponsive.
"As expected, it's still too weak. I can't enter Dragon Transformation at all."
With a faint sigh, Yu Tianlin shook his head.
He had thought that as a transmigrator, he might be different. A normal Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Spirit Master entered Dragon Transformation at the third ring, so he had hoped he could do it with only one ring.
Reality reminded him that being a transmigrator did not mean he could ignore the rules of the world.
"I'm six years and four months old now, and my Spirit Power has reached level fourteen."
"From what I know, I'm about one month older than Tang San. That means he's only six years and three months old."
Thinking of that, Yu Tianlin could not help but smile.
Tang San was still in Holy Spirit Village. His father barely cared for him, so he could only wait for Spirit Hall's yearly awakening ceremony. His martial spirit might not even be awakened yet.
Even if Tang San awakened his martial spirit now, he would still have to wait until the junior Spirit Master academy opened a few months later to meet his second uncle, Yu Xiaogang. Only then, under Yu Xiaogang's guidance, would he obtain his first Spirit Ring and reach level thirteen.
By that time, Yu Tianlin's Spirit Power should already have broken through to level fifteen, letting him suppress Tang San by two levels.
Setting everything else aside, at least in Spirit Power, he was ahead for now.
Even though they had never met, Yu Tianlin had always considered Tang San a rival.
As long as I stay stronger than Tang San, becoming a god will be easy.
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