BATTLE OF THE FIVE GODS.

After this happened the energy in the thunderbird was all unleashed into the thunderbolt and the thunder bolt started spinning at a very fast pace feeding back to Ming Yan's body, his thunder clap vines gained a touch of gold and they seemed to be reborn, some of the energy rushed into the egg in his sea of spirit that had almost been transformed into purple white scales with a hint of purple gold at the top, when this energy arrived the gold color spread further across the egg reducing the white gradually turning the egg purplish gold, 60 percent of the energy was absorbed into the egg and 40 was absorbed by the vine, then there was a cracking sound deep in the vines and a strip of gold started appearing along the side of each vine, this golden strip seemed to be born from the center of the vine and appeared in the surface in the firm of a golden line, with this the vine seemed to have shed its outer layer gaining a crystalline appearance, it was now the look of bright Amethyst with a golden strip on each segment, 

The joints within each segment also turned gold and the soul power in his body was actually condensed so much that it seemed to decline from rank 40 seemingly wanting to drop to rank 39, but then the serpent on his sea of spirit started changing again its silver scales shone brightly and the purple silver scales on the back generated a second line, now it had two purplish silver scale lines from its head heading to its tail, here the lines were rooted on the head there were bulges like two horns trying to rise, then all the scales on the serpent's body actually turned into the appearance of polished jade reflecting lightning power, the serpent grew bigger reaching over five meters wide and its length also reached 35 meters is aura was more than doubled and the silver purple eyes turned silver gold,

With this change the originally purple soul rings started turning black just as the fourth soul ring from the thunder bird landed on his body, the soul power that was rapidly regressing stopped and instead started increasing, it returned to rank 40 and even started rising steadily, before long the thunderbolt in his sea of spirit stopped rotating and returned to rest, at that time the Thunderbird had recommended and gone into a deep sleep around the thunderbolt, however it left some thoughts in his sea of spirit, before dying it had released its core, that core contained majority of its power, if Ming Yan could find this core, it would be of great help to him and perhaps his power would enter a new level altogether, most importantly with the power held within that core, the egg in his dantian would be able to hatch instantly.

With this thought he set a new goal for himself, he needed to find that core, when he looked into his dantian he found that it was like he was reborn, the connection to the thunder and lightning elements in the air had deepened that now they took the liberty to rush into his body even without him urging them, with his Xuan Tian Gong running it he could even practice without meditation, what's more his soul power had risen to the peak of rank 43, and it showed signs of entering rank 44 any minute, his body also felt stronger, almost twice as strong as before, his endurance had risen again and and he no longer sensed the threat of his body exploding, he was safe for now at least, when he opened his eyes he found that he had long returned to the Tang sect, he didn't know how he returned but he could easily recognize his room, standing up he left the room and walked outside, 

Normally he could easily spot the other talents but this time there was no one, a thought returned to his mind and wth shock he set off to one direction, as he started running though he almost lost control of his body because he suddenly realized that his speed had more than doubled, his body had truly been reborn and he needed to find out exactly what his new limits were, before long he arrived before a structure, he could already hear noise on the inside, and he rushed inside, when he arrived he found people already cheering and at the center were two people in the middle of a competition, whence was noticed, the space around him warped and the next moment he was before the his teacher and the branch sect master, these were two god level powerhouses so it was no surprise that they could transport him to their side. 

Instantly he apologized, "I'm sorry for my tardiness teacher I don't know how time passed by me when I woke up from meditation it was already this time so i rushed here at the quickest time possible," the beach sect master then said, "it's okay the sect master had already predicted that this would happen we didn't even expect you to wake up this early, but the shrek academy qualification competition had to happen with or without you, as of now you have missed one round which was yesterday, your opponent at the time was also your biggest rival for this competition, since you were away without meaning to the match was decided to be draw should you return before the next match you would still have a chance to qualify however if the next match appeared before you returned you would lose the chance to challenge him,

Now that you are here, your match for today hasn't happened yet so you still have a chance, right now both of you have one draw, zero wins and zero losses, should you both win then you would get one win, one draw and zero losses, so to obtain a chance to win this competition you need to win all the remaining matches, you need to remember that during your week long meditation, your rival also broke through the to rank 59, he is infinitely closer to the sixth ring, while you just sealed your fourth ring, do you still hold any confidence to defeat him?"

Hearing the analysis Ming Yan was initially scared but when he heard that his rival Jiang Chen hadn't reached the sixth ring yet he was partially relieved, perhaps he still had a chance, so in response to the beach sect master he simply smiled and said, "Everything can only be proven on the field, whether he wins or I do we will soon find out," hearing his response the teacher simply smiled while the beach sect master nodded with satisfaction, although Ming Yan's soul power was lower, his lightning power was still strong and even when he was still at the third ring he still battled on the same level as the five ringed Jiang Chen without battle armor, it was only when Jiang Chen wore his battle armor that he won the fight, now that Ming Yan Yan reached the fourth ring, if you take into account his lightning amplification to jump levels he would just be at the sixth ring however Jiang Chen at the peak of the fifth ring, his battle armor would place him at the peak of the seventh ring, could Ming Yan still defeat him and claim the position? That ea still to be seen, 

From Ming Yan's smile the branch sect master saw confidence which was what he wanted to see, with Ming Yan's strength he was ready to fuse a complete one word battle armor now despite just being at the fourth ring, during to this he had already fused a few pieces of battle armor before, as of now he had the shoulder and arms, then the legs and thighs as well, in total he had eight pieces out of the twelve pieces of one word battle armor, the metals for the remaining four pieces bad already been forged and shaped and all that remained was engraving the soul circuits and fusing the cores, as an armor maker, Ming Yan heeded to engrave these circuits and fuse the cores himself, 

The metals for his battle armor were the highest grade available which was fuse forged spirit metal forged by a fifth level blacksmith, to successfully engrave the sul circuits Mjng Yan needed to be at least a level 5 armor maker and before breaking through the fourth rank he had just successfully become a sixth level armor maker so all he needed was time to become a one word battle armor master, the beach sect master believed that by the time the Shrek academy entrance exams arrived one month from now Ming Yan would have become a one word armor master, with this even if he loses the inner court qualification in this competition, he would still be among the three that would qualify for the outer court entry exams and apart from Jiang Chen, he was the only one of the three with the absolute certainty to pass the exams and become and become a student at Shrek academy, in short there were now at least two students with an absolute chance to enter the academy.

What's even better is that they are all members of the Tang sect's battle hall, although Ming Yan was still a white level agent, he had already completed close to 15 important missions and all that he needs to become a yellow level agent was a complete one word battle armor, so although Jiang Chen was the student of the branch sect master he was always happy when Ming Yan became stronger not only because Ming Yan is the student if the Sect master but also because the stronger Ming Yan became the more pressure he would place on Jiang Chen making him work even harder, although they could be separated when they enter the academy at that time there will be even more talents to inspire Jiang Chen so the branch sect master was just pleased all through, 

Hao Lian then said, "Go and be with your fellows, i will stay and watch your match today, after the competitions you should find me to discuss the results of your fusion this time." Ming Yan simply bowed his head and responded, "Yes teacher," with that the space around him warped again and he found himself at the end of the waiting station where the rest of the competitors were located, he started walking towards his teammates and when they spotted him there were smiles all over, Jiang Chen saw him and a smile spread across his face, "Its good that you are here, I was worried I wouldn't get any actual competition? But now I can only happily take that seat after I defeat you in a fair duel, I won't have any mercy this time, I will go all out." 

Hearing that remark the rest of the students had worried faces but Ming Yan simply smiled, "Who needs your mercy, just make sure you don't slack off during our fight." Despite their rivalry in the field, these two were actually the best of friends outside the field and they were even sword life and death brothers, both of them had incredibly rare and powerful martial souls with Ming Yan having the Thunderclap vine while Jiang Chen had the premier ultimate light martis soul, the Seraphim martial soul, with his mystery over the sacred element and the light element, he could even purify Ming Yan's violent thunder and lightning lightnings filled with destructive power. 

It was also this power that challenged him so much that he was almost completing his second holy Angel baptism without help from his clan, this could only be described as miraculous, the two of them were also the stars of the talents academy despite Ming Yan being only of the third ring at that time.