21 Companion (1/2)

A man the aged of 30 looked at the scene and instantly understood what was going on. Without even interrogating the children he rushed up to the beast and raised his hand. Black slime was oozing from the cut on the deer's throat. The man's hands turned scaly, almost reptilian and ripped the head clean off the beast. A black creature, a slug, slowly crawled out from the opening. It seemed injured and secreted a black mucus. As it came out, the deer shriveled up as if it were a prune and stopped moving. The man took out a jar and shoved the slug inside. He put a lid on the jar and set it on the ground.

”Phew...”

”Umm, sir? Who are you?”

”I am Jun Fan. A fourth year teacher.”

Tianfei investigated the jar. The jar had runes around the base of the lid. She could tell that it was a sealing formation. It wasn't strong and seemed like a temporary solution.

”Oh that's just something we carry around. We need to transport it to a recovery formation. You wanna know why the host even grew so big? It's cuz it absorbs life force around and makes primal energy. We need to reverse that process. If we just kill it the energy would go back to the source of darkness.”

The man was quite crude with his words. He seemed like a nice person to be around. Jun Fan walked over to Xin Fan. He took out a bottle containing it a green liquid and forced it down Xin Fan's throat. As Xin Fan was slowly regaining control over his body,he felt a warm sensation coursing through his veins. Xin Fan coughed out some black blood and fully regained control over his body.

”Oh! I'm back.”

Xin Fan could feel boundless energy in his body. He jumped around as if his injuries never existed and thanked Jun Fan.

”Don't thank me. The elixir only temporarily blocks out the pain and forces the body into recovery. Your body is still in terrible shape and you need to recuperate. ”

Eventually, people started to show up at the location. Of those who arrived, it included Wang Mei, Principal Yao and Yang Bing. They all let out a sigh of relief seeing the slug inside the jar.

”You guys are late.”

”Sorry, we had to grab the decomposition scroll.”

Principal Yao opened up a large scroll with a formation on it. He grabbed the jar and put it in the center of the formation. He sat down and chanted a few mantras. The formation on the scroll glowed up and seemed to sap away at the slug. The atmosphere seemed to be lighter and hints of green could be seen in the clearing. Eventually, the slug had simply became a fine, ash-like powder inside the jar.

”Phew”

The principal wiped away the sweat from his brow. Normally, the formation would be powered by a spirit stone however due to the emergency of the situation, Principal Yao used his own qi instead.

”Looks like we should increase security and change school regulations.”

There was a serious conversation in the background between the staff members. The topic of prohibited areas kept popping up. Xin Fan knew that there was going to be a great announcement the next day. The staff brought the students to the infirmary to recuperate. Xin Fan eventually started to feel the ramifications of breaking his body's limit. The pain slowly returned and ever so often, he was forced to drink a bitter medicine. They said that it was used to heal internal injuries. As everything settled down, he entered his domain.

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Xin Fan walked up to the tree and sat down under the shade. He sat in a meditating position and circulated his qi.

'Soul Expansion Art'

[ Error: Technique can only be used outside of domain]

Xin Fan exited the domain and once again attempted the technique. The surrounding qi in the air slowly gathered around and entered Xin Fan's body. He could feel as if something inside was growing. He could feel as if something was fixing itself but he couldn't put his finger on what it was. His soul was definitely healing itself from the fragmentation. However, the technique is just that, to heal. It doesn't reverse the fragmentation or even stop the process. It simply stops his soul from collapsing due to the shock of splitting. All Xin Fan can do is pray that he could heal himself fast enough so that he wouldn't die after it hits that 100%.