Xu Yuan's First Battle (Please Keep Reading!!!)

Xu Yuan's First Battle (Please Keep Reading!!!)

Xu Yuan held the Heaven Origin Brush and sketched through the air.

With every stroke, a winding stream of water coiled and danced through the air.

Streams of water tangled like water dragons, sealing off the Three-Headed Flame Lion's path.

Roar!

The largest Flame Lion did not slow down at all. Instead, it accelerated its charge, the flames around its body growing even more violent as strands of golden light flickered within the crimson fire.

Xu Yuan remained unhurried as he continued retreating, his Heaven Origin Brush never pausing as it traced through the air.

With a sweep of his right hand, a water dragon rushed toward the Flame Lion.

He fought as he retreated.

The violent flames evaporated the water, but water ultimately countered fire. Under Xu Yuan's repeated harassment, the Flame Lion's flames visibly weakened.

The Heaven Origin Brush continued drawing through the air, water dragons winding and circling as they repeatedly collided with the Flame Lion.

The Three-Headed Flame Lion was completely enraged. Its fiery aura surged severalfold as it suddenly charged, flanking Xu Yuan from three directions.

Xu Yuan fiercely swept the Heaven Origin Brush in his right hand, scattering a large amount of ink before him.

The ink fell to the ground, and thick blades of grass sprouted like vines, wrapping around the Three-Headed Flame Lion.

Although the Flame Lions broke free after only a brief struggle, burning through the vines with their flames, their charging rhythm was disrupted.

Xu Yuan retreated farther away again.

After being dragged around time and again, the Flame Lions seemed to lose patience. As though they had made up their minds, they turned and left.

At that moment, a beam of light shot out from Xu Yuan's body in the shape of a spear and merged into the Heaven Origin Brush in his hand.

The brush hairs instantly seemed to turn into sharp metal, extending and lengthening like metal spears.

The metallic brush hairs abruptly stretched out, encircling the smallest of the three Flame Lions.

Pfft! Pfft!

Sharp spearpoints pierced the Flame Lion's hide.

However, there was ultimately nearly ten meters between them. No matter how fiercely Xu Yuan unleashed the Gold Element Power, that distance prevented him from piercing through the young Flame Lion.

Yet vast amounts of fire elemental power rapidly surged through the metal spears.

Using the tips of those metal spears, the fire element Xu Yuan controlled instantly assimilated the flames on the Flame Lion's body. The merged flames immediately erupted in a violent explosion.

Rumble!

A tremendous boom echoed through the Primitive Jungle.

Xu Yuan stopped toying with them. His body shot forward as he charged at the largest Flame Lion.

Seeing Xu Yuan severely wound its companion and still dare to rush forward, the six-hundred-year Flame Lion roared. It raised its right claw, golden flames flowing over its enormous lion paw.

The Heaven Origin Brush in Xu Yuan's hand had already transformed into the Heaven Origin Spear.

The spear pointed directly at the Flame Lion with the greatest cultivation.

Since the Three-Headed Flame Lion had retreated separately, even if they wanted to come to each other's aid, they could not make it in time. Even if Xu Yuan thrust straight ahead, he could still change moves after the collision to block their attacks.

Thus, this spear strike contained all of Xu Yuan's strength.

The Five Elements fused at the spearpoint, and in that moment, all of Xu Yuan's Essence, Qi, and Spirit were poured into it.

At that moment, anyone in the surrounding space would have noticed that the world around him seemed affected by his presence, as if the momentum of heaven and earth itself had gathered under Xu Yuan's command.

This strike pierced through everything.

Pfft.

The spear pierced through the lion paw. Then, Five Elements Spear Light exploded from the spearpoint, scattering outward before Xu Yuan controlled it to stab down at the Flame Lion.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

The Five Elements Spear Light pierced into the Flame Lion's body one after another.

Bang!

The Flame Lion crashed heavily to the ground.

Xu Yuan did not even have time to finish it off, nor did he have time to pull out the Heaven Origin Spear before turning to block an attack.

The Heaven Origin Spear remained embedded in the Flame Lion's paw. Xu Yuan released it directly, gripping the Five Elements Spear Spirit horizontally before him. Earth Element Power covered the spear, and Xu Yuan's aura no longer felt like an unstoppable forward charge. Instead, it became incomparably heavy, the sharp spear in his hand seeming to weigh a thousand jun.

Boom!

After the muffled impact, Xu Yuan was sent flying backward. He rolled two and a half times in midair before barely landing steadily.

Xu Yuan's gaze turned fierce.

Only one Flame Lion still had the strength to fight. Naturally, he would not continue circling around it.

Holding the Five Elements Spear Spirit, he calmed his surging blood and qi before advancing.

The frenzied Flame Lion also disregarded the consequences, burning its last flames as it fought Xu Yuan.

The result of this battle was Xu Yuan's victory and the deaths of all three Flame Lions.

Xu Yuan pulled the Heaven Origin Spear from the strongest Flame Lion's paw. A crimson glow floated out from each of the three Flame Lion corpses toward Xu Yuan, and after a single breath, all of it merged into his body.

The rules of the Spirit Ascension Platform stated that one-tenth of the cultivation of a slain Soul Beast would merge into the body of the Soul Master who killed it, then be divided evenly among that Soul Master's Soul Rings.

Xu Yuan had only one Soul Ring, so all of that energy merged into his First Soul Ring.

One was two hundred years old, one was five hundred years old, and one was six hundred years old.

The spiritual power provided by these three Flame Lions was already comparable to that of a Thousand Year Soul Beast. His First Soul Ring's cultivation had increased by more than one hundred and thirty years!

In less than half an hour of fighting, Xu Yuan had increased his First Soul Ring's cultivation by over one hundred and thirty years.

The significance of the Spirit Ascension Platform to Soul Masters was evident.

Of course, Xu Yuan's hunting efficiency was not something an ordinary Soul Master could replicate.

After all, a Soul Master capable of easily killing these three Flame Lions would need to be at least a three-ring Soul Elder. If the gains were shared among three Soul Rings, each Soul Ring would only gain at most forty years.

The difference was even greater by comparison.

This battle had lasted quite a while, mainly because Xu Yuan sought stability and used attrition tactics in the early and middle stages.

Had he fought forcefully in the Heaven Origin Spear form, he could have ended the battle quickly.

However, the result certainly would not have been better than it was now.

There was no need to mention the Soul Power expenditure. In the Heaven Origin Brush form, nearly sixty percent of the Elemental Power consumed came from the Heaven and Earth Origin Qi of the outside world. In contrast, fighting in the Heaven Origin Spear form truly consumed his own Soul Power. Sixty percent was the best ratio Xu Yuan had developed for the Heaven Origin Brush form, one that did not affect his fundamental control over Elemental Power.

Besides the Soul Power consumption, Xu Yuan estimated that he would have suffered some injuries as well.

"Leave this place first."

Xu Yuan quickly left the area and found a safe place to recover.

Xu Yuan had gained greatly from this battle.

It was also the first battle of his life in the truest sense.

It had been tense and exhilarating.

At the same time, it had made his blood boil.

Although Xu Yuan had appeared calm and steady throughout the battle, whether in the early and middle stages of dragging things out or in his decisiveness after finding an opening, his heart had remained burning hot.

Outside.

The smile on Xu Shengqun's face could no longer be restrained.

"Xiao Yuan has a talent for fighting."

Because he was still young, Xu Shengqun's practical combat training for Xu Yuan over the past year had been insufficient. Yet Xu Yuan's performance had pleasantly surprised him.

After killing the Three-Headed Flame Lion, Xu Yuan had swiftly left the battlefield and found a relatively safe place to rest, which also satisfied him.

However, what Xu Yuan did next froze the smile on his face.

I saw some readers saying that the protagonist's Martial Soul was a brush, yet he fought using a spear form, that there was no creativity or anything.

I'm speechless. Since I established it as a brush, I obviously wouldn't use a brush as a front for a spear. Otherwise, what would be the point of taking such a roundabout route just to write about a spear?

It's just that the spear has stronger single-target burst power, okay? The protagonist's Heaven Origin Brush forms will be developed too.

That kind of elegant combat where he waves his brush and splashes ink everywhere is something that can only be developed in the middle and later stages. It's hard to pull off with only one Soul Skill.