The story of Duong defeating the leader of the Eagle gang with one punch quickly became famous, turning him from a useless freshman into a shining star known throughout the academy.
After a few days of rest, Duong’s soul had recovered. He was called to the office by Principal Le. Duong thought Le called him to complain about the fight, but it turned out not to be the case. In the room, besides Le, there were 4 students from year 4 and year 5.
“Ah… the new genius has arrived!” The one who spoke was a 17 year old girl with a slim body but quite full breasts and butt, and a beautiful, lively face that made Duong’s eyes sparkle.
The young girl quickly walked over, grabbed Duong’s hand and introduced herself: “Hello Duong! My name is Hong Dao, a final year student. Would you like to come to my Color gang to play sometime?”
“Humph!” A young man coldly snorted.
“Is there a problem, Quang Lam?” Hong Dao asked in dissatisfaction. The person who just snorted coldly was a tall, thin man with a handsome face but gave Duong an unpleasant, cunning feeling.
“Inviting me before anything happens, do you think this is a brothel?” Quang Lam said, he was a 4th year student, leader of the Cuu Long gang.
“You!”
“Alright! Don’t you feel embarrassed doing that in front of the freshmen?” A rather elegant looking young man wearing glasses spoke up and walked over to shake Duong’s hand: “Hello! My name is Van Hai, a final year student, leader of the Storm gang!”
Finally, a muscular, tanned man came to shake Duong’s hand and introduced himself: “Hello, I’m Chau Doc, leader of the Ba Den gang.”
“The leaders of the four most powerful gangs in the Goddess Academy gathered together, so why did they call me here?” Duong wondered.
“Do you know why I called you here?” Le asked Duong after waiting for everyone to get acquainted.
“Who knows, maybe we can make it to the 5 superheroes?”
“Every three years, the academies take turns holding a competition for their best students. And we plan to recruit you…”
“But I’m weak!” Duong interrupted.
“Yes, in terms of spiritual power you are not even as good as a senior student, but you have one strong point.”
“Alchemy?” Yang asked.
Le nodded: “Yes, the competition needs a candidate who is good at alchemy and you are the top choice!”
“But miss…” Quang Lam interrupted: “We have Vu Ha who is a level 1 Spirit Captain and is about to reach Alchemist, why not recruit him and choose a Spirit Warrior? In competition, high talent doesn’t mean anything, what matters is strength!”
Hearing Quang Lam speak, the other three students couldn’t help but nod. Duong might be smart, but after only a few months of studying, how could he compare to someone who was almost a magician?
“So I ask you guys, if you had to choose between a Spirit Captain who doesn’t have a mage license and a level 6 Spirit Warrior who can defeat a level 9 Spirit Warrior and also has a grandmaster license, who would you choose?”
The four students were all wide-eyed in surprise. Hearing the principal’s words, Duong already had a master’s degree? A 13-year-old boy had already obtained a degree that people would need to study for 30, 40 years to obtain? If that was true, it was too terrifying. At first, they thought Duong was chosen because he was the son of some powerful person or something. Although his achievement in defeating a level 9 Spirit Warrior was good, it was not enough to join the team.
Quang Lam was also surprised but still did not want Duong to join the team because Vu Ha was his close friend and a member of his gang: “But Duong is too young, how can he have competition experience?”
“That’s why I called you guys here, train him!”
“I haven’t agreed to join yet!” Duong spoke up.
“Must participate and win the championship, otherwise don’t even dream about that!”
“Fuck!”
…
Hoai Bao carried a basket of medicine on his back and a torch in his hand as he crossed the dark, bumpy stone path. Before him was a giant, majestic cave. Hoai Bao accidentally discovered this place while picking herbs. Thinking that there must be rare spiritual medicines in this cave, Hoai Bao decided to take a risk and go in.
Hoai Bao went deep into the cave, where a pillar of light shone down from the sky. Below was a deep blue lake and a tall spiral-shaped rock cliff. Surrounded by green moss and green grass, under the stalactites, it looked like an underground paradise.
“A beautiful cave! People in Doong village have never mentioned it, perhaps no one has discovered it… We should give it a name…” Hoai Bao pondered: “Let’s name it Son Doong!”
The majestic scenery made Hoai Bao curious, he explored the surroundings and climbed up the high mountain with a magical spiral-shaped peak.
Hoai Bao stood on the mountain peak, looked up to breathe the air and then intended to sit down to rest, but suddenly discovered in the middle of the relatively flat mountain peak something that looked like a black sword blade nearly two spans long stuck down.
“What is this?” Hoai Bao curiously touched the black sword and tried to pull it out.
The sword left the ground, dragging the soul of an old man out.
“Ha ha ha! I finally escaped! Au Co! I told you you can’t keep me locked up forever! Ha ha!” The old man’s soul looked up to the sky and laughed loudly.
Laughing for a while, the almost transparent old man looked down at Hoai Bao, a 13 year old kid was sitting there holding a broken sword and staring at him.
“Brat! Aren’t you scared?”
“I am a useless person whose life is worse than death, what is there to be afraid of?” Hoai Bao replied indifferently.
“Trash?” The old man frowned: “Do you see any animals in this cave?”
Hoai Bao shook his head, he was also mentally prepared to die if he encountered a wild animal, but since entering the cave he had not seen any living creatures.
The old man stroked his transparent beard and continued: “It’s because of Au Co, you know that girl, right? She created a layer of seal that forbids all living beings from entering here to prevent me from escaping. And you think you can pull out the sword in your hand whenever you want? Only the Colorless talent can overcome Au Co’s seal!”
“Colorless? You mean Colorless? I am truly a Colorless waste!” Hoai Bao laughed bitterly.
“Idiot! The Colorless aptitude is one of the two peak aptitudes, but because its cultivation method was too cruel, it was crushed into the worst aptitude! You know that brat Chong Lam, right?”
Hoai Bao shook his head.
“It is your supreme being, called Lac Long Quan, he is a person with the Colorless nature!”
“Really?” Hoai Bao shivered.
“Why would I lie to you? The Colorless talent has a tyrannical talent called Plunder! As long as there is a suitable cultivation method to activate this talent, it will be comparable to the Dark talent!”
“Deprivation? What does that mean?”
“It is to take the soul of another to nourish one’s own soul!”
“How to get it?” Hoai Bao was agitated. The reputation of being a waste had made him humiliated and ridiculed, living like a dead man for so long. If there was a way to become stronger, he would pursue it at all costs.
“Accept me as your master, I will teach you!”
“But who are you?”
“Me? I don’t belong to this country! You just need to know that I am your master!”
Hoai Bao did not hesitate, directly knelt down and kowtowed three times to the old man: “Master!”
The old man stroked his beard with satisfaction: “To let you see the terror of the Colorless talent, I will teach you a cultivation method: God-Demon Food!”
“God of Food Demon, a special soul refining technique, cultivating to the first level can devour the souls of Spirit Warriors of level 7 or below to nourish one’s own soul.
Requirement: Colorless Soul.
The cultivation method is divided into 13 levels from 1 to 13, level 1 is equivalent to Elementary cultivation method, level 13 reaches Supreme cultivation method.
To increase a level requires the process of merging the soul with a God or Demon.”
“Lucky for you! I am a Demon! Learn the technique and then use your energy to fuse me into your body, and you will immediately reach level 1!” The old man said. He was not afraid of being devoured by Hoai Bao because fusion is a form of soul symbiosis, different from fusion and also different from depriving.
“What level is a ghost?”
“No matter, practice!”
Hoai Bao followed the path out of Son Doong cave after completing the fusion of the mysterious master’s soul into his own, his mind filled with questions.
“Master! How is integration different from fusion and deprivation?”
“Fusion is two souls coexisting in one body, your soul is the master, I am just a guest, you cannot command or devour me, but I can still use your body if you allow it.
Fusion is when two souls are one, if one soul is hurt, the other soul is also hurt. Love is a low level soul fusion method, so when one person is sad, the other also feels pain… ah, you’re only 13 years old, you probably don’t understand this…
Deprivation is when you completely turn the other person’s soul into nutrients to nourish your soul.”
The old man’s soul merged with Hoai Bao’s soul so the two could convey their thoughts to each other without speaking.
“So what is the Dark trait?” Hoai Bao continued to ask.
“As the top of all aptitudes, someone with this aptitude possesses a soul that is denser than others and a talent even more domineering than your Deprivation!”
What talent?
“I don’t know, in my entire life I have never heard of anyone possessing the Dark talent, I don’t know what talent it is, I only know that it is the natural enemy of the Plundering talent.”
Hoai Bao nodded, did not ask anymore but focused on getting through the narrow and difficult cave.
After the difficult part, Hoai Bao continued to ask: “Master, can we take away all living beings’ souls? Like chickens and ducks for example?”
“No, the soul is too thin, it is not good for a normal person or above or a spirit beast.”
“Then I will find dangerous spirit beasts to train…”
The old man sighed: “He also said the same thing as you…”
“Who?”
“Lac Long Quan…”
Hoai Bao had now left the cave and was about to ask more when from above a man called out loudly: “Prince!”
Hoai Bao waved his hand and shouted: “I’m here!”
“Oh! You’re also a prince?” The old man said with delight. No one would have thought that a plainly dressed boy with a medicine basket on his back in this desolate mountainous area would be a prince.
Hoai Bao, full name Nguyen Hoai Bao, son of the lord of Hue Imperial City. Since childhood, Bao was considered a genius with intelligent and hard-working nature, but when tested for his nature, he revealed the lowest colorless nature. Faced with the contempt and ridicule of his brothers and sisters, Hoai Bao was discouraged and dropped out of school to go to the remote countryside to find medicinal herbs to learn to be a doctor.
Hoai Bao followed his only bodyguard back to Doong village, a village in the mountainous region of Quang Binh.
“Master, have you ever met Lac Long Quan?” On the way back, Hoai Bao continued to ask the old man.
“I am his master, and the Devil Food technique was also something I worked hard to find for him.” The old man replied, and Hoai Bao heard a hint of pride in his voice.
“Master is Lac Long Quan’s master, why did Au Co lock him up?”
“Ah… what a shame… I thought she would lock me up for a few days, but for thousands of years she didn’t even bother to look at me. Where is that girl now?”
“You mean Au Co? Is she still alive?”
The old man was stunned: “Do you think anyone in this sealed area can kill her?”
“I don’t know, Au Co and Lac Long Quan are now just a legend, no one thinks she’s still alive.”
“Oh… And the old turtle, I wonder if he’s still swimming in that lake or if he’s already mummified in a museum!”
“Master, do you mean the turtle god of Hoan Kiem Lake?”
“Where is Hoan Kiem Lake?” the old man asked. During the thousands of years he was imprisoned, many place names had changed.
“In the past, it was Luc Thuy Lake. After several name changes, it was renamed Hoan Kiem Lake according to the story of Le Thai To returning the sword to the divine turtle. When Le Thai To was boating on the lake, a turtle emerged and said: Your Majesty, return the sword to Long Quan! So Le Thai To gave the Thuan Thien sword to the divine turtle.”
The old man nodded: “So that’s it, the Thuan Thien sword is in the hands of the turtle god, besides we also have a piece of the Nghich Thien sword…”