67 Settling Base in Jie Long Academy (1/2)

Jie Long Seventh Institute, the largest of Academy among the Six Academies. An Academy governed by Jie Long of Integrated Enterprise Foundation. Each Academies had their own emblems, and so did Jie Long. The Jie Long emblem was a yellow dragon, symbol of emperor from oriental culture.

Unique to Jie Long Seventh Institute, their method of prana training was called Seisenjutsu, with its training resulted to two different path of main techniques which was Daoshi and Martial artist.

Martial artists, like the name suggested were people who used Seisenjutsu for mostly enhancing their physical abilities, and incorporated martial arts with their enhanced physique.

While Daoshi used Seisenjutsu for mostly casting spell arts, manipulating prana to produce many different kind of techniques. Examples of those techniques could be like illusion technique, lightning elemental attacks, fire balls, water wall, earth moving technique, and many other techniques.

Although Daoshi mostly used spell arts, it was not to say that Daoshi couldn't use any martial arts. However, Daoshi only specialized more in using spell arts to defeat his/her opponents, unlike Martial artist who specialized more on their martial arts.

Inside Jie Long, two branchs of Seisenjutsu trainings thus formed their own factions, Water Faction for Daoshis and Wood Faction for Martial artists.

To a Martial artist of Wood Faction, Daoshi's abilities of using spell arts to strike opponents from safe distance was seen as cowardly and slicky acts, unlike Martial artists who defeated their opponents vigorously with martial arts, like a true warrior.

Although then, most of Water Faction's Daoshis also tended to look down on Wood Faction's Martial artists as their martial arts were not as elegant as Daoshi's spell arts, with martial arts were termed as barbaric method of Wood Faction.

Because of that differences, Water Faction and Wood Faction usually didn't see eye to eye with each other, eventhough they still respected each other's abilities as members of Jie Long Seventh Institute.

With Banyuu Tenra, the first ranker and strongest person in Jie Long, as their leader and deterrent, each Factions entered a state of fine rivalry as they keep strengthening themselves through training while hoping to gain Banyuu Tenra's recognition, receiving its guidance.

Because, Banyuu Tenra was a special existence in Jie Long Seventh Institute, as its status couldn't be compromised even by Integrated Enterprise Foundation, when The Foundation's reach could even cover most of the current world.

”...so, this is Jie Long Academy. It is indeed a good place.” Arriving in front of Jie Long gate, Rafi spread his divine sense widely, covering the place as he looked on all of its inhabitants.

When his divine sense reached a nine year-old girl inside an oriental tower, known as Oushinden, located in the centermost of Jie Long Seventh Institute, he could see her fearless smile as she muttered, ”I wonder who dares to pretend as one of Jie Long's student, but seeing you now, it seems like my days will not be boring anymore. Come here, stranger, let me have my fill! It has been a long time that I feel my blood rushes this fiery!”

”Hmm, that thousand-year old loli's sense is as sharp as ever. Well, let me prepare our stage first.” When Rafi looked at her muttering, he quickly understood her meaning as he then walked slowly to her place, while releasing a weak illusion to put some weaker students to sleep.

As he kept walking, almost all of the students immediately lost consciousness, down to their sleep, when some students in Page One was barely hanging to their senses and resisting Rafi's sleeping illusion. Thinking that they were under attacks, those students who were still awake quickly rushed to Banyuu Tenra's tower, Oushinden, as they instinctively felt that the assailant was heading there.

When Rafi arrived in front of Oushinden, he was greeted by the sight of pale-looking yet determined face of several students, and a fearless grin of nine-year old little girl. Looking at their expression, Rafi spoke with a teasing tone while looking at those students, ”Why are you all looking so tense? It is not like I will destroy this place you know. I've just applied a little illusion...”

'That is...only a little illusion?! Just, just who is this person?! Besides Master, even we barely hang on in it, not to mention other students who are unconscious! Since when does Jie Long have this monster as student?!!' Many similar thoughts raced in those top ranker students of Jie Long's Page One as they stared at Rafi incredulously, unable to speak as they spent their concentration to resist the illusion.

”What do you want to do, stranger? And, who are you? I don't remember knowing an existence like you in all my lifetimes previously.” Fan Xinglou looked at Rafi with curious gaze as she spoke.

”...I am Rafi. I am only a passerby in this world, so of course you will not know about me. As for my purpose coming here is, I want you to give me a position as one of Jie Long's. Although I have made necessary preparations, but gaining your approval directly is a quicker way, Fan Xinglou.” Rafi said with a smile as he strengthened his illusion, quickly putting the previously barely awake students to sleep.

”...so, you and me also share the same loneliness... It is a small task for me, but before that, I want you to give me my fill of battle! Give me that thrilling sense of battle again!! And you need to tell me more about 'it'!” Fan Xinglou spoke happily as she smiled.

Although, when Fan Xinglou first heard him, she smiled sadly as she also felt that loneliness when she stood alone on the peak, and thus caused her to mingle back in human world, creating a school of thought and training her future opponents.

Building Jie Long Enterprise and Jie Long Seventh Institute, training the students in Seisenjutsu, it was not because of a noble reason like passing on her martial art lineage. Hmm, maybe some it were the reason she did it, however, it was mostly only for her sake, relieving her loneliness and boredom when she already stood as peak expert in the world. As such, when she heard Rafi's strange request, she understood that he was also like her, a lone peak expert that looked to relieve his boredom.

And so, she then smiled happily as her lust of battle was roused, because her senses were tingling, telling her that Rafi's strength was much stronger than the current her. Moreover, she also didn't have full assurance to battle him even with her previous peak form. Even so, for her, that sense of being weaker than him was the thing that made fighting him worthwhile, as her only interest was someone that could fight her equally or even having the ability to kill her.

”Fine. Then, I will also match myself to your level, or else this world will be destroyed.” Smiling as usual, Rafi lowered his cultivation to somewhat bearable level that that world could handle, while he then entered a stance that was similar with Hyūga clan's Gentle Fist.