"I can probably survive 20 seconds against Tang San now," Yuehan says in excitement like it's a big achievement. "But why is it such a tedious process?, c'mon Yuehan what did Ms. Ziao say" Yuehan tried to remember what he was taught in class.
2 months ago "How do you think spirit masters control the spirit soul when it floats? and why?" Ms. Ziao An stern black hair blue eye teacher asks the class of 10 spirit apprentices. She waits for a couple of seconds before calling on a random student in the middle of the class. "Because it's his?" The student replied, unsure of himself. "That is the simple answer. Can anyone go into more depth? she asks while looking around. a white slender hand is raised from the back of the class. "Tang San, can you please elaborate on what Bio Xen just said?" she says with clear praise in her voice
"Yes, the soul is part of us and is like a muscle. "Tang San says in confidence. "Tang San, that's correct. The soul is part of us, needs practice to be able to manipulate it like a baby practicing how to walk, most soul masters rely on intent and instincts to control instead of practice, some can control with their mind but most spirit apprentice will not be able to this until having your spirit for a couple years and practice. so the body can get used to the new muscles."
present
Yuehan tries moving the second hand but only manages to turn his face red from holding his breath in.
Yuehan can't figure it out, so he decides to think of an escape plan instead of wasting his energy.
"Ok, I can just slow down time and walk out of here. If I could walk the speed of light maybe but I can't , the most I can do is manipulate time for 12 minutes with the lowest power and range setting using all my spirit energy and making one hell of a headache for a good five minutes until my spirit energy refills to 10 percent of my normal capacity afterwards. So I'll be vulnerable to the spirit beast on the way back. So that's out of the question. " Yuehan says in realization that he is practically back at square one when he didn't have his soul ring. Still trapped between soul beasts, eyeing each other as food, and almost no power to stop it. Yuehan digs a three feet hole with a piece of wood that he found from the ground.
After going three feet down and 5 feet wide, his stomach starts to growl in need of food, but the only food in the surroundings is the dead blue hybrid and plants that he has never seen before. Yuehan looks up and notices the sun overhead now and decides to start a fire in the now dug pit so he can roast the hybrid over the pit with the stick he just dug the pit with. He starts the first with Flint and the steel dagger. He doesn't have anything to evenly roast, so he only cooks one side.
1 hour later Yuehan gets the hybrid off the fire and cuts it with the steel dagger to take a piece of meat. When he does, he notices that it is undercooked, the whole hybrid was undercooked. not just the farthest from the fire. Yuehan still eats the meat after he splits it from the creature's other body parts. Yuehan eats the meat quickly, nervous about the beasts in the trees watching him cool and eat his meal and drooling at the mouth just watching. a few beasts start walking without thinking. A dire wolf, a red raccoon, and a black leopard that Yuehan couldn't make out from the distance.
The dire wolf and the raccoon both charge at Yuehan, too greedy for the food. The dire wolf gets there first and goes for a bite at the meat without looking at Yuehan. The raccoon seeing this decides to turn back thinking no food will be left because of the dire wolf after grabbing a small leg
Yuehan has noticed the dire wolf when it was just leaving the woods, and has been mentally preparing himself, Yuehan backs up two feet away from the meat and takes out his pocket watch, and quickly turns the seconds hand to 4, and the hour hand to 3. leaving the minute hand alone, letting the radius be nothing except him and conserve more energy.
When Yuehan saw the wolf jump for another bite of the meat, he swung the dagger, still covered in blood and meat bits. Yuehan catches the dire wolf off guard, causing a slash to the ear and making it focused on him while walking in cycles, ready to attack. Yuehan pulls the dagger in front of his face in a crouch like position yet easily able to move if needed. In doing so, blocking his head or at least making it harder to hit and being close enough to the ground to evade quickly. The wolf slowly lowers its body, waiting for an unguarded moment. it attacks when Yuehan was readjusting his position to his sudden lower body position.
The dire wolf swipes but misses when Yuehan lays on the ground to evade. Yuehan is able to react to the wolf attacks because his soul ring slows down his perception of time, but not his body's, so he has to think of the action immediately and prepare the necessary action. Without it he is a goner.
The wolf claws start growing longer, more shiny like iron. Yuehan rolls to the left, seeing the wolfs attack miss and leave a foot long scratch on the ground. Yuehan quickly gets up while the wolf repositions itself. The wolf launched itself faster than before using his claws in the ground for extra force.