A Quan, You're So Bad

"What world?" Shi Quan raised an eyebrow and asked curiously, "A Meng, are you from another world?"

"I don't know either. I just have a feeling that I don't belong to this world, that some kind of power brought me here." Xiao Meng's voice was equally uncertain.

"Then why did you call me Master the moment you arrived, A Meng?"

Xiao Meng replied cheerfully, "Because you are my Master. All I know is that I must treat Master well, obey Master's commands, and help Master with all my heart."

Hearing Xiao Meng's words, Shi Quan nodded thoughtfully. The system's power really is formidable. Dream Butterfly definitely wasn't originally a Spirit Soul. Most likely, some power transformed it into one and instilled it with the awareness to be absolutely loyal to me.

He did not know whether the system would do anything to him in the future, but that was not something he could consider right now.

Back to the matter at hand.

"A Meng, can you disguise the colors of my two spirit rings as yellow?"

"No problem."

The moment Xiao Meng finished speaking, Shi Quan felt a warm current surge from between his brows. The two silver spirit rings beneath him rapidly changed, turning the ordinary yellow of Hundred Year Spirit Rings. They looked no different from normal ones, and Shi Quan nodded in satisfaction.

He turned his attention back to the spirit rings.

After experiencing the Spirit Abilities brought by the two spirit rings, shock filled Shi Quan's eyes. There was no other reason—the two abilities were simply too powerful.

Shi Quan named the Spirit Ability brought by the First Spirit Ring Dream Ripple. This ability could target either an area or a single person.

Once Dream Ripple was released, it emitted a special aura that continuously stirred up the enemy's drowsiness, exhausting their minds and steadily weakening their fighting spirit. Those with weak Willpower would even fall asleep on the spot under its influence.

That was its group effect. When facing a single opponent, Dream Ripple could form a special attack similar to hypnosis, luring the enemy into a sleeping state and reducing their reaction speed for a short time.

Shi Quan named the Spirit Ability of the Second Spirit Ring Dream Illusion. It could use Spirit Power to create nearly tangible illusions, whose contents were controlled personally by Shi Quan. Though they had no actual offensive power, they could easily disrupt an enemy's attacks.

Dream Illusion also had an exceptionally special ability: it could coordinate with Dream Ripple. If an opponent was affected by Dream Ripple to a certain extent, Dream Illusion could sense the fears, pain, and terrors buried deep in their heart and manifest them, creating a deterrent strike.

This ability was somewhat similar to Sea Illusion Douluo's Mist Domain on Sea God Island.

However, Sea Illusion Douluo's domain was more overbearing and realistic.

Mist Domain could not only uncover an enemy's most painful experiences and use them to strike at them, but the illusions within the domain were completely real, not merely deceptive.

Any attacks suffered within the illusion were entirely real, as though a brand-new world had been created. Once someone became lost or suffered an incurable injury within the illusion, they would die in reality as well. It was exceedingly tyrannical.

Dream Illusion could currently only confuse opponents, but Shi Quan believed that as his strength grew, Dream Illusion might one day achieve effects similar to Mist Domain.

Overall, the two Spirit Abilities were absurdly powerful. Based on Shi Quan's assessment, their actual power should be comparable to thousand-year Spirit Abilities.

After testing the Spirit Abilities, Shi Quan checked the condition within his body again.

To Shi Quan's surprise, his Soul Power Level had not changed at all. It was still level twenty-one.

Xiao Meng explained that because all of its power was pure soul power, it could not help Shi Quan increase his Inner Force and could only raise his Spirit Power.

That was fine too. It saved Shi Quan some trouble. After all, if his soul power had suddenly soared another few levels, he really would have had a hard time explaining it.

His Inner Force surged and poured into the spirit ring.

An invisible ripple immediately spread around Shi Quan's body. He reached out and clenched his hand. "Dream Ripple isn't tangible, so ordinary people can't see it. The consumption is also within what I can handle. I just don't know how effective it is."

After looking around, the ripple dissipated, and the Second Spirit Ring beneath him lit up.

Everything around the room began to change. Towering trees rose one after another, as though he had returned to the Beginner Soul Hunting Forest.

"It does look real. Unfortunately, it only has visual effects for now. There's no sound or touch." Shi Quan raised his hand and touched the giant tree before him, his hand passing straight into it.

"But that's not how illusions are supposed to be used." A wicked smile appeared at the corner of Shi Quan's lips.

After rapidly forming a string of random hand seals, he struck Naruto's classic pose and shouted, "Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"

The room instantly returned to normal, but more than ten identical figures of Shi Quan suddenly appeared within it, all making the exact same movements as him.

The already small room became unbearably crowded.

"Heh heh." A wicked smile suddenly spread across Shi Quan's lips. He once more formed a flurry of random hand seals and shouted, "Behold my strongest control ninja technique, Harem Technique!"

At once, a group of naked beauties appeared and disappeared amid swirling smoke.

"A Quan, you're so bad." Xiao Meng's voice rang out with a hint of shyness.

"Cough, cough." Shi Quan coughed lightly, only then remembering that Xiao Meng could see it too. He hurriedly dismissed the illusion.

Still, he had to admit that thinking about it in his head and actually seeing it felt completely different.

With his chuunibyou spirit mostly spent, Shi Quan sobered up as well.

The consumption of Dream Illusion was directly related to the size of the illusion. The larger the area and the more complex and detailed its contents, the more soul power it consumed. The simpler and more singular the illusion, the less soul power it used.

He had more or less tested the two Spirit Abilities. Next came Xiao Meng's innate abilities.

Since it was daytime, there was no point in trying to Dream Entry during the day. He could only test that ability at night.

What Shi Quan looked forward to most was the use of Spirit Sense.

Shi Quan slowly closed his eyes and poured Inner Force into his Niwan Palace. Spirit Power and Inner Force activated together, and in the next second, everything around him appeared directly in his mind. He did not need to look at all—everything in the room was displayed in his mind in three dimensions.

He did not even need to think deliberately. The distance between himself and the bookcase automatically appeared in his mind, as did every tiny movement and shift of the breeze brushing against the curtains.

The scene outside the Dormitory was the same.

What a miraculous feeling. Shi Quan marveled inwardly. This was the effect of Spirit Sense. Its scouting and detection capabilities were truly powerful. It was practically a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree view with no blind spots, and it even came with a certain degree of analytical ability. It was more detailed and comprehensive than observing with his eyes.

With this ability, do I still need to worry about someone spying on me nearby? Shi Quan secretly rejoiced.

After checking these abilities, only one remained: the spiritual inheritance Xiao Meng had brought him.

He checked the time. It was still early.

Leaving the Dormitory, Shi Quan hurried toward the Back Mountain.

Spirit Sense spread out along the way, and everything in every direction was so clear in Shi Quan's mind. With his Spirit Power, he could now cover an area fifty meters in radius centered on himself.

With Spirit Sense's detection, Shi Quan finally discovered the person observing him in secret. That person was not an academy student, but an academy teacher.

So it was a teacher. I thought it was a student.

Shi Quan sighed inwardly. That teacher had taught at the academy for many years. He did not know when the man had been recruited by Spirit Hall.

If he wanted to watch, then let him watch. Shi Quan could not be bothered to care.

In the woods of the Back Mountain.

Shi Quan sat down cross-legged and began cultivating.

Xiao Meng had said that he would be able to experience the wonders of its spiritual inheritance while cultivating.

His inhalations were long and gentle, his exhalations soft and faint. Everything around him seemed to become empty, yet not empty.

Unlike his previous cultivation, air carrying the fragrance of plants flowed in through his nose. The skin of his body felt the temperature around him, while the sounds of insects and birds entered through his ears. Everything around him became clear.

Is this the ability to sense nature? Just as Shi Quan wondered inwardly, that special feeling from the dream returned. Everything around him felt so familiar and intimate.

The world perceived in his mind also changed at that moment, becoming a brilliantly colorful realm.

"A Quan, you can summon your Blue Silver Grass Spirit Soul," Xiao Meng's voice said at just the right moment.

Though puzzled, Shi Quan still instinctively raised his right hand. Deep blue light surged in his palm, and the Blue Silver Grass Spirit Soul appeared in his hand.

"This is—!"

Shi Quan's entire body shook. In that instant, he discovered that everything around him seemed to have changed. He seemed to become Blue Silver Grass once more, and the previously blurry outlines around him became clear in an instant.

Countless strange energies came rushing in from all directions. The energy entered the Blue Silver Grass, then Shi Quan's body, gathered in his Dantian, circulated through his body once, and slowly flowed out again. Through this simple process, Shi Quan saw everything around him clearly.

Water droplets on the grass and trees, insects and birds—everything was formed from countless special points of light. That was nature's energy.

The feeling was extraordinarily strange. To deepen it, Shi Quan directly entered the Spirit Enlightenment State.

As his perception of the spiritual world grew clearer and clearer, Shi Quan discovered in astonishment that the energy from every direction was not merely the energy of heaven and earth. It also came from the grass, trees, earth, and everything around him.

Everything around him felt so intimate, as though Shi Quan were kin to all creation. That intimacy made everything around him seem to become his eyes, ears, and nose, sending all that surrounded him into his mind. At that moment, Shi Quan seemed to become the center of the entire Back Mountain. His perception gradually spread, and before he knew it, it had encompassed the whole mountain...

This profound sensation was indescribably moving.

Shi Quan only felt that his aura had merged with everything around him. At that moment, he seemed to blend into the forest. The aura that had originally belonged to a human had vanished. Now, he was like the Blue Silver Grass beneath him, like the towering tree beside him, and also like a small stone nearby.