Douluo Dalu: 9 Treasure Sword

One week passed, Shrek didn't fight against any important team winning easily all the matches. Now, there were only 3 teams who are unbeaten like Shrek, being the Godwing Academy and the Thunderclap Academy.

This week I heard strange news. It seems that some people suicide. The strange part is that 3 of them were the most powerful ones of teams that were competing in the tournament. It's not like they are the favorites like the 5 elementals academies, but they were near.

Being only 3 cases I would doubt it, but one thing took my interest. The 3 people were known to have a type of mental spirit, specializing in mental defense. Being a suicide of people with mental defense resistance, I thought that maybe a powerful mind attacker was the culprit of the suicides, wanting to eliminate them. That the so-called suicides were not suicides at all, being murdered by mind attacks.

Mind attacks are one of the most profound and mystic kind of attacks. Very few studies had been made due to the low number of them. This low number also made the people very frightened by them, is difficult to cope with the unknown. With mind attacks, it will easily make a murder seems like a suicide without leaving any proof of the contrary.

As I had free time, I was investigating the city, to find something strange. Until now, I could only make some conjectures. That I could find in Heaven Dou City there were only 3 people who could make these attempts.

Mao Xia, a spirit sage and vice-head of Heaven Dou City defense, with a Dreaming Ghost spirit.

Shi Nian, a spirit sage with Brutal Dream as spirit. He is the vice-dean of one of the academies participants, the Blue Sunshine Academy which specialized in mental powers.

Ji Jue, a spirit sage with a gemstone spirit. She is from Star Luo Empire, in my opinion, she came to spy in Heaven Dou teams. She is the most probably guilty of the three, wanting to lower Heaven Dou forces, but I am not really convinced of her. The top competitors are always watched careful and these little attacks wouldn't affect much the final progress of Heaven Dou Empire.

There's always the option of some secret expert or that all of this is simply my imagination and were natural cases, caused by the stress of them.

Just in case, I was observing the three of them. According to dad, my Mind Separation Control made me almost immune to mental attacks so I wasn't very worried for them to find me and attack. Mind oriented spirit master was very skillful in them, but if you could cope with the attack, they are mostly useless, having the actual physical strength of 2 lower realms.

Today most important match was the Elephant Armored School against the Thunderclap Academy, as the most important it was the one made in the central ring, being watched by the majority of the people.

As I was approaching the Arena I detected someone marching in the opposite direction. Curiously, I used my Mind Eye to see who was. It was a man who seemed over 60 years old, with purple hair and beard. I recognized him instantly as Shi Nian.

He seemed in a hurry and was actually hiding his presence. I used my Stealth Treasure, doing my cultivation undetectable and being extremely difficult to find me without any specific searching ability.

I sensed Shi Nian activating one of his abilities, one black ring shining. It seems that his control was good, the spirit energy exuded was despicable. I didn't know what ability was or who was its target, but not sensing anything different in my I didn't that I was targeted.

After some time he made it outside the city. I could also detect someone following near us, it was Tang San. His eyes were a little glazed with some purple light in them.

Seeing the situation, it seemed clear that Shi Nian was targeting Tang San. The most probable that Shi Nian was the culprit of all the other suicides cases. Leading the young spirit master outside the city and then killing them using his skills making it seems like a suicide.

After going inside the forest outside the city, Shi Nian stopped while Tang San who was more than 2 kilometers away was heading down towards his position.

Detecting that there wasn't anyone near except him. I decided to attack Shi Nian, stopping him from attacking Tang San.

I stealthily approached him from behind. I invoked my sword in my right hand. I swiftly charged toward him.

He seemed to detect me, being a mental type his detecting capacities were over the same realm. However, he was too late. Before he could turn towards me, I had already slashed him. My sword easily cutting his unprotected right arm that fell to the ground followed by a fountain of blood.

"Ahhhhh!" Shouted Shi Nian in pain "How do you dare, little shit?!" he shouted angrily.

I pointed my sword at his neck, leaving only 1 centimeter between us "I know of your crimes, it will be better to surrender. Maybe you could keep your life"

"Keep my life? How naive of you" he grinned "You lost your opportunity".

Sensing danger I pierced forward to his neck, easily piercing through, no! My sword passed through him like going through air.

The Shi Nian in front of me disappeared, then a multiples copies of Shi Nian appeared surrounding me, he was grinning "It was not my plan to kill someone of the most famous clan, but I won't lose this opportunity. I would only need to run away, surely Spirit Hall will appreciate my efforts and protect me" his smile grew bigger "Nightmare!"

Then I found myself in a familiar place. I was in the Seven Treasure Glazed Title Clan's mansion. My body rejuvenated returning how it looked when I was 6 years old. Beside me there was mu-mama. Yeah, she was trying to absorb her 9th spirit, she would be one of the youngest titled douluo, a strong one with a 100.000 years old ring.

Something went wrong and the fire around her started to burn brighter and uncontrolled. Mama was dying. I run towards her, I didn't know why but a wave of great anger came from me. I could help to be angry, blaming fate.

I also started burning, so much that I was reduced to cinders.

The surrounding changed. I grew a little being like 8 or 9 years old. I looked at my surroundings and I was in a forest, a big tree was beside me. (What happened to mama?) I thought nervously.

At that time a breeze passed me and I was completely calm. I invoked my sword pointing at the big tree "You will be my second ring!" I shouted.

From the earth shot roots like lances, that pierced my body. I could keep calm and started shouting in pain.

The scenery changed, I found myself in a bigger forest I even grew more. I touched around my body trying searching from some injured. Then from nowhere appeared a lot of wolves, there was also Rongrong and a girl. Then I listened to a *zap*. "Why think about when you can always act?" I shouted.

I started attacking the wolves without thinking, only concentrating on fighting. After 2 seconds I could listen to a shout. I turned towards it and saw Rongrong being eaten by the wolves. Her dead body looked at me and said "Why, Big brother?".

"F.u.c.k! Rongrong!?".

The surrounding changed again, the forest seemed very similar to the other one with only some little changes, I also grew a little. My hands were still trembling thinking about Rongrong being eaten because I didn't think about protecting her.

At that moment next to me appeared a beautiful brown haired girl, beside me also appeared a white dragon. I cold air passed through me, my mind cool down, controlling my unstable emotions.

"Mayi, let's go," I said with a cold and indifferent voice. Both of us charges towards the dragon. The dragon seeing us coming near it growled. Its head's sword started to shine, from it a white light ray shot toward us.

I stepped back, using Mayi as a shield. Mayi stopped for a second using her body. Then a used her to impulse me towards the dragon. I slashed at him, with only one slash I easily cut its head that now fell to the ground.

I indifferently looked at Mayi. She had a big hole in her c.h.e.s.t. Then sorrow came to me, I let my sword fall to the ground, looking at my hand disgusted "What the f.u.c.k did I do?" I lamented crying.

Then the scenery changed. I was in a forest a lot less leafy than the last one. I was surrounded by the people of Shrek, there was also Mayi. Besides us, there was an uncountable number of beast.

I listened a *crack*. I smirked, I turned to all the others "Follow my command!" I signaled one of them "You to the left", "You to the right".

They didn't follow my order and stayed completely quiet "Why are you doing? Follow my orders" I said domineeringly.

"I'll do it myself" I charged towards the beast, that easily beat me.

The scenery changed, this time it was one very strange that I didn't remember. It was some kind of room. The room was full of chairs with a desk, there was a big window on one side, the window had bars seeming to want to trap the people inside. I was different, I had a very average complexion, not fat or fit, with straight short black hair. After I second I found that in all the 20 chairs were sat, boys and girls. They were all looking attentively towards the front at an old man of maybe 60 years who was writing something in a green board.

I jumped up shouting surprised "Where I am?". All the people turned towards me and started laughing "Hahaha".

I shouted angrily at them "I'm serious, don't laugh" I tried to invoke my sword and swing it around intimidating, this only made them laugh louder "Hahaha, what a chuni!" "Really a fool" "Where do you think you are? Hahaah".

The old man looked straight at my eyes a little angry "Return to your seat, Mr. Blanch. And start copying the blackboard". I felt a sad air. I bowed to the old m-teacher "Sorry professor Martin. I am a little sleepy. Sorry for distracting the class" I returned to sit. "I expect that it won't happen again" the teacher said grumpily.

"Too much time playing games? Hahaha" said one boy. "Quiet!" shouted the teacher making all the laughs stop. I took my pen with my left hand like always and started copying the board.

After finishing the class, I left the school to return home, I really was bored with that everyday life without any meaning. I stopped before a crosswalk for the red light of the traffic lights. When it became green I started crossing it.

While crossing I heard a loud claxon, I felt my heart squeezed. I put my hand at my c.h.e.s.t feeling a lot of pain [Like hell!] I listened to someone shout.

I was pushed back to the ground. The pressure at my c.h.e.s.t disappeared, now I became more handsome with silky white hair.

In my previous position, I was there. I exactly copy of me was there standing, no! At my previous position, there was Paul Blanch with an angry look in his face.

Paul approached the truck that used the claxon, It was stopped before the crosswalk talking with a person.

Paul started to be surrounded by a black aura. He kicked the truck, completely destroying it pushing more than 50 meters away and crashing and destroying a nearby building, killing a lot of people in the process "Next time, don't use the claxon in a populated area, little f.u.c.ker!" shouted with a mix of anger and relieve while he grinned.

All our surroundings dispersed leaving both of us in a black world. Paul looked at me with contempt and sneered "Useless!". Then, he ignored me turning 180º and walked forward.

In front of him appeared diverse figures. Shrek's members, the emperor's team members, uncle Sword, uncle Bone, mum, dad, Qinghe, Chenxiang, and Mayi.

Like being all the same person they talked at the same time being easy to understand "Leave!", "Monster!", "Liar!", "Impostor!", "You're not Bai!" they said with angry and sad voices, some of them even crying.

Paul grinned, from his left hand a completely black sword appeared "As if I care!" he shouted swinging the sword that shot a black aura dispersing all the people. He finally looked to me "Stay there lamenting" he turned again to the front "Now it's my turn" said disappearing, leaving me alone in the black world.