Chapter 43: Progress
=== Time Skip ===
Lin Feng is meditating below the waterfall as three black spirit ring dancing around his body.
With the sword birth in his hands, Lin Feng calmly raised his sword as the waterfall doesn't seem to affect him.
(One year) Lin Feng thought while staring at the skies.
''WindThunder Sword Art...''
''Huu...''
Lin Feng took an enormous amount of oxygen into his lung as he slashes out his sword with a fast speed.
''Zero Form...''
''Sky Cutter.''
*Slash!*
A powerful energy slash got launched from his sword and flying directly toward the skies as its cutting the cloud.
*Boom!*
''It's been one year since we stayed here, huh...'' Lin Feng muttered while looking at his sword birth.
''I only need a few months until I can use you again,''
''Well, let's see my progress this year...''
(Grey, Status) He thought as a blue screen appears in front of his face.
[Affirmative]
[Opening status...]
[...]
[Status]
[Name: Lin Feng/Steven Goldsmith(Former)]
[Age: 7(23)]
[Spirit power: Level 35/40]
[Martial Soul: 1. Spectral Dark-void Dragon, 2. Golden Lotus, 3. Sword Birth(Innate Ability Sealed/Four Months)]
[Skills: Synchronization, Flickering steps, Wind-Thunder Sword Art, Sword Mastery, Close Combat, Perfect Vision, Ghost Sword Art, Alchemy, Blacksmith]
[Sync skills: Intimidation, Energy Burst]
[SD. Spirit Skills: Ghost State, Abyss Bind, and Shadow Dragon Transformation]
[GL. Spirit Skills: Full Recovery, Status Recovery, Golden Regeneration]
[SB. Spirit Skills: Aura Manipulation, Full Counter, Space Manipulation]
[Spirit bone skills: Annihilating claws, Water Shell Shield]
[Conditions: Normal]
[Summons: Kro(Inugami), Aria(Enhanced Homunculus]
[Summoning scrolls: 20x Common SS, 40x Uncommon SS, Rare SSP(103/50), Epic SSP(101/100)]
''Hahaha...'' Lin Feng laughed.
''That's a lot of improvement for one year.''
''My spirit power has reach level 35, its progress becomes slower after I breakthrough to level 31, though...'' Lin Feng commented.
The next day after Lin Feng absorbing the golden-eyed monkey spirit ring, he goes to the dungeon to find another suitable spirit ring for his martial soul. He's able to found a black tiger, a white deer, and a mirror beast!
After a not so intense fight, he could quickly kill them and absorb their spirit ring, which gives him three spirit skills.
Abyss Bind, using the darkness in the abyss to form large vines to attack or bind his enemy. This spirit skill weakens all of his enemy attributes by 50% while darkness is corroding their body.
Status Recovery, well basically, this skill will remove any harmful state on the target while increasing their mental fortitude by 60%.
But the more dangerous the harmful states, like a potent poison, the more spirit energy will be used.
Full Counter, this spirit skill reflects attacks aimed at him back at his enemy, but with more than double the power. This skill only reflects energy-based attacks at the moment while using a fair amount of spirit energy based on the incoming attacks.
(An: Meliodas, Boys!)
After absorbing these spirit rings, which is around 7000-8000 years old, Lin Feng's spirit power has reached level 28, and he needs another one month to reach level thirty.
While grinding in the dungeon for one month, Lin Feng also using summoning a few times, well only ten uncommon summoning scrolls to be specific.
Well, let's say that he was lucky and not lucky at the same time.
Even though he got eight useless items, he also got two books because of his luck, and those two items are the ghost sword art book and the blacksmithing book.
Lin Feng instantly learned these books that he summoned and gained, Alchemy, Blacksmith, and Ghost Sword Art.
He was also pretty fortunate to create a self-create ability when fighting Aria and the spirit beasts, which is the perfect vision.
Lin Feng can see through his opponents through grasping their fighting styles. Using this, he can figure out their attention and predict their moves in advance.
Searching for another suitable spirit ring for his martial soul, and this time, he found a shadow dragon, which variation version of the dark dragon, a golden slug, and a silver squirrel.
Well, you know what happens next, right.
He killed them and absorbing their spirit rings.
Lin Feng got three new spirit skills, Shadow Dragon Transformation, Golden Regeneration, and Spatial Manipulation.
Shadow Dragon Transformation increase his strength, defense, and speed by 150% while increasing his dark based attack damage by 100%.
Golden Regeneration, this skill grants a regeneration effect for thirty seconds that will heal injuries and even growing new limbs, alas using a generous amount of spirit energy.
This skill only regenerates physical strength without any energy got refilled.
Somehow, Lin Feng gained a passive ability from this skill, and as long he has spirit energy, he can regenerate his body or injuries.
As for Spatial manipulation, even though the name is grand, this skill only allows Lin Feng to control space around him, which ten meters around his body as the center.
Well, these skills can grow as long his improving them with essence crystals.
After he reached level 31, his progress seems become slower, and Lin Feng needs two months to increase his spirit power by one level.
In this year, Lin Feng is also able to age all of his spirit rings into ten thousand years old.
Oh, yeah, Lin Feng also learn the first unification of the wind thunder sword art, which is zero forms: sky cutter.
As for his summons, Kro's bonds reached 95%, and grown into an adult as his body becomes bigger than before while his strength had reaches the boundary of twenty thousand years old.
About Aria, her battle power has reached the spirit sage realm while her actual spirit power level is only level thirty-one.
She's also become more closer to Lin Feng as she is always sneaking into his bed and hugging him.
Two of them then agree to use one hour per day to cuddling with each other, which Aria's stated this one hour as CS or Cuddling Session.
Lin Feng sheepishly smiled when the first time they do their cuddling session, but after a few weeks, he becomes used to it as it was wholesome to him.
Somehow, Aria is always happily smiling while hugging him as she enjoyed his warmness.
''Huu...'' Lin Feng calmly releasing a small breath while staring at the blue skies.
He then walked away from the waterfall, and Aria's voice suddenly comes into his ears.
''Master...''
''Aria,'' Lini Feng averted his gaze toward his maid.
''It's time...'' Aria said with a smile on her face.
''Ah, Oh...'' Lin Feng smiled.
''Okay.''
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