Fighting Soul Clan Demoness

Chapter 18 Coming at the right time

Xiao Family, Fighting Skills Hall

The fighting hall is divided into two parts, east and west. The east part is where the family fighting skills are stored, while the west part is a large training ground.

This distribution is quite reasonable and interesting. After immersively practicing fighting skills, one can go to the training ground nearby to practice with others. This often allows one to capture some special inspiration, thereby speeding up the progress of practicing fighting skills.

Therefore, the quiet eastern part of the fighting hall formed a sharp contrast with the noisy other side.

"Low-level Yellow Rank, Stone-Breaking Palm; Low-level Yellow Rank, Stone-Piercing Strike; Low-level Yellow Rank, Stone-Breaking Hammer." Xiao Yan stood by the bookshelf, stuffing the scrolls of fighting skills in front of him into the sack in his hand, smacking his lips, feeling a little puzzled.

"This is weird. Could this low-level yellow-grade fighting skill be competing with a stone?"

It wasn't just these few volumes. Xiao Yan took a quick look and saw that all the fighting skills on the shelf had names that started with the structure 'X石X'. He even couldn't recognize the word '石' for a moment.

"Forget it, it's just to make up the numbers, why think about those things." After a few dry laughs, Xiao Yan's hands were not idle either. He stuffed the fighting skills on the shelf into the sack in his hand one by one.

It's not that he is greedy, but these low-level yellow-grade fighting skills are generally not watched by many people, and there is even a lot of dust accumulated on them. They are just sitting there anyway, so it's better to take them all back and put them away.

Previously, Xiao Yan was so obsessed with the joy brought by his improved cultivation that he completely neglected the training of fighting skills.

After all, compared to spending time practicing fighting skills, the improvement in cultivation is the most obvious and visible at a glance.

Because of this, even though he had good combat experience among his peers, he was still very miserable in actual combat. He couldn't even withstand a single move from Yao Lao, who was at the same level as him.
After realizing the importance of fighting skills, Xiao Yan made up his mind to pay attention to the practice of fighting skills. So he took advantage of the free time during his previous practice to ask Hun Ruoruo if she had any fighting skills that he could practice.

In Xiao Yan's opinion, with Hun Ruoruo's collection, wouldn't it be easy for him to get a fighting skill book for him to practice?
As a result, it just didn't happen.

The fighting skills in Hun Ruoruo's hands all start at the Xuan level at the very least, and Xuan-level fighting skills require at least the strength of high-level fighting energy to activate them in order to produce the corresponding power.

With only the thin fighting spirit that barely touched the fifth bottleneck, he obviously couldn't bring out the real effect of his fighting skills. His killing power was probably not as good as those of the 'X Stone X'.

In desperation, he had to come up with another idea.
Xiao Yan slowly stuffed the fighting skills into the sack and patted the dust that had accidentally rubbed off his clothes.

The young man picked up the sack, turned around and walked slowly towards the fighting hall.

If you want to borrow fighting skills from the Fighting Skills Hall to practice, you must first register at the entrance of the hall. Before passing through the entrance of the hall, you will happen to pass by the fighting skills training ground in the west.

"We have plenty of time, let's take a break first."

After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Yan found a secluded corner and glanced aimlessly at the people training on the field.

Most of the people on the training ground are in pairs of three or two. The difference in strength between these combinations is usually not that big, so the fighting seems to be back and forth and quite intense.

Xiao Yan actually didn't have much interest in the fights between the young men and women on the field, but cultivation required a balance between relaxation and tension, so it wasn't a bad thing to occasionally take some time out to relax his tense nerves.

After an unknown amount of time, the young man seemed to feel that more and more people on the field were looking in his direction.

"Hmm?" Xiao Yan, who was originally immersed in a state of emptiness, frowned, feeling a little confused.

Now, he didn't really like the focus of everyone's attention. No, it seemed that everyone on the field was more focused on looking behind them.
Xiao Yan looked back and saw a beautiful girl in a purple dress staring at him intently from above and behind him. Two cute dimples appeared on her pretty and tender cheeks.

He couldn't help but be speechless: "Xun'er?"

"Brother Xiao Yan, long time no see." Xun'er pursed her lips and smiled softly when she saw that the other party had come back to his senses.

"When did you come, girl?"

"Xun'er can't remember clearly, probably around noon."

"Noon." Xiao Yan glanced at the sun, which was half obscured by the eaves and had already set halfway in the sky. He then jokingly said, "I didn't realize how much time has passed. Nizi, you've been staring at me for so long, are you really mesmerized?"

"It's because Brother Xiao Yan is nowhere to be seen every day. Xun'er rarely catches you once, so I can't let you get away."

This was the first time the two met since they parted in the back mountain, a full month had passed, as Xiao Yan had been practicing day and night without eating or sleeping.

Xiao Yan said with a guilty conscience, "Isn't this for the family's coming-of-age ceremony? If I can't break through to the seventh stage of Dou Qi, I'll be assigned to help out in the family business."

"Seventh level of Dou Qi is not a difficult task for Brother Xiao Yan. In just one month, it seems that the Dou Qi in Brother Xiao Yan's body has reached the fifth level, right?" Xun'er's eyes were gentle, but there was a hint of danger in her expression.

"Brother Xiao Yan's improvement is so fast, could it be related to that woman in the back mountain?"

This girl really still remembers what happened in the back mountain!
Xiao Yan's face froze and he became restless. When Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo had made their agreement in the back mountain, Hun Ruoruo had used some unknown means to make it impossible to get rid of the scent of a woman on his body, leaving him speechless in front of Xun'er.

It had been such a long time since Xiao Yan had almost forgotten about this, but now it was brought up again by Xun'er, and for a moment he had no idea how to explain it to her.

After all, the fact that he could become stronger now was closely related to the "woman" mentioned by Xun'er.
Seeing Xiao Yan's hesitation, Xun'er said in dissatisfaction, "Brother Xiao Yan, although I don't know who that person is, it's a bit too shabby for her to ask you to choose this low-level Yellow Rank fighting skill. Fighting skills play an extremely crucial role in battle. I'm afraid even those with less talent in the clan wouldn't choose a low-level Yellow Rank one."

"This"

At this moment, he just felt bitter but couldn't say anything - after all, he couldn't tell Xun'er that choosing these low-level fighting skills had nothing to do with "that woman" at all, but was just something he was going to use to be a shrewd old man to cheat for fighting skills, right?
Regardless of whether Xun'er was confused or not, the old man in the ring was not so easily fooled after hearing this.
Just as he was racking his brains to organize his words, he suddenly saw a gloomy-faced but handsome young man walking towards them in the distance.

Xiao Yan felt as if he had been pardoned. He had never felt that the person in the distance looked so friendly.

"Well." He moved closer to Xun'er and whispered, "Nizi, you doubt my fighting ability, don't you? Just watch and see."

"Ah? Brother Xiao Yan, Xun'er isn't here..."

Xiao Yan suddenly stood up, and without caring about the reaction of Xun'er, who looked confused beside him, he walked straight towards the stairs, and happened to bump into the unhappy young man.

Seeing this, the young man put away his previous gloomy expression, smiled warmly, and said, "Hey, cousin Xiao Yan, are you leaving? It seems that I came at the wrong time."

"No, no, cousin Xiao Ning." Xiao Yan also had a smile on his face, which was indescribably strange with his slightly childish face.

"You came just in time."

(End of this chapter)