Douluo Dalu: Legend Of Xiao Yan

"Winner, Flame Sword Emperor! Wins: 2 and Losses: 0!"

Xiao Yan rolled his shoulders around as he left the spirit arena's battleground, leaving behind a charcoaled figure on the ground at death's door while the announcer announced his victory, and released out a disappointed sigh through his skull designed mask with flame designs on the right side.

A while before the matches had started, Xiao Yan decided to design his mask to make it look cooler, as the plain green color just made it look ugly, which prompt the others to follow his lead as they also wanted to make themselves look cool.

Dai Mubai designed his mask as a tiger's, Ma Xiaotao was of a bird on the right side of her mask and a dragon on the other all sides with flame designs, Oscar's mask is a dog, Tang San's mask was of a snake, Xun Er's mask design was a dragon with a sun on the forehead, Ma Hongjun's mask is a bird with flame designs, Ning Rongrong's mask is that of a fox, and Zhu Zhuqing's designed hers as a cat.

Everyone designed their masks based off of either their personalities, spirit or simply preference.

'Even someone at the same rank as me; rank 36, couldn't even take one punch from me. Granted I went a little overboard by spamming my movement techniques but he was a total weak spirit elder; with two white and one yellow spirit rings. Haiz, is this what Saitama always feels?' Xiao Yan entered, with dropped shoulders, the public lobby rest area of where other fighters like himself rested or waited for their battle. He walked towards the area where his friends were while ignoring the looks of others shooting at him and his friends.

They were all sitting in a half circle sofa with a oblong wooden table in the middle. Each of them still wearing their masks and form fitting skin tight black clothes, making them look like ninjas; also provided by the Grandmaster to further hide their identities.

"Good work out there boss! You one punched the guy!" Ma Hongjun congratulated Xiao Yan with a big thumbs up and a grin, which the later returned with a grin of his won and high-fiving the former.

"Well it was to be expected." Dai Mubai said as he also gave Xiao Yan a congratulating high-five. "With how monstrous his strength is, you think anyone would easily take him on?"

Xiao Yan snorted.

"Speak for yourself, "I don't have to move to crush you" guy. Really put on a show out there huh?" Dai Mubai had the decency to looked away and scratched his cheek in embarrassment.

The others let out chuckles.

"So that makes the end of the individual battles right?" Ning Rongrong said.

"Yup!" Oscar replied as he stretches himself on his seat. "Ugh, Rongrong and I have been dying out of boredom here waiting. You all got wins right?"

The ones who participated and battled in order with flawless wins are: Dai Mubai, Xun Er, Ma Xiaotao, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ma Hongjun and Xiao Yan all nodded.

Their battles were fairly normal; fighting against higher or equal ranked spirit masters. But the same couldn't be said to their opponents who faced against such monstrous spirit masters.

For example Xiao Yan, he had sped around the entire battleground that his opponent and the audience had mistaken him as a agility system spirit master only to be proven wrong when a fist covered in red flames struck his sternum and completely engulfed his body in red flames soon after contact.

Now normally he would be fine, let his spirit power strengthen his body to protect against Xiao Yan's fist and just roll around to out the fire. Problem is however, this is Xiao Yan.

His physical capabilities equal to that of Spirit Sage, even if he's holding back, no Spirit Elder's physical body and spirit power would be able to defend against such strength. The pain of being struck on the ċhėst, torso bone slightly caving in and almost probably killed him, made him unable to focus on circulating his spirit power to help put out the fire surrounding and relieved his pain. Making the judge announced the spirit master's defeat and help put out the fire.

This was a scene that would forever scar the opponent spirit master and audience members till the day they die.

As for the others' battles? .

Dai Mubai had simply stood rooted in his position and smacked his opponent to the ground with a burst of strength after releasing his spirit.

Xun Er had simply punched her opponent's face, without using her spirit or any spirit power, unexpectedly causing him to immediately fall into unconscious. Ma Xiaotao was more or less the same, without using her spirit or any spirit power, she bitch slapped her opponent out of the ring who, ironically, was a total bitch towards her.

Tang San's battle was... interesting as he had used Instant Movement Technique to appear behind his opponent and covered his opponent's eyes, and spoke in his ears so low that no one had heard. Soon after that the opponent had yelled out a forfeit with a completely paled face.

Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing quickly disposed of their enemies with quick teleportation and speed respectively while Ma Hongjun had, both ruthlessly and funny, burned his opponent's crotch to ashes.

This sort of ruthless and powerful spirit masters had quickly gained the awe and fear of the audience and many spirit masters in the spirit arena.

"We have an hour until the duo battles starts, so I'mma go meditate(sleep) till then." Xiao Yan lazily said as he sat down on the ground in a meditative positive. "You guys remember your teams right?"

Everyone nodded.

Dai Mubai and Xun Er, as the only spirit ancestors in the team, Tang San isn't considered as one till he gets his fourth spirit tomorrow, partnered up and formed the Vast White Sun Team.

Ma Xiaotao and Ning Rongrong, as the latter didn't want to partnered up with a different phoenix, partnered up and formed the Phoenix Treasured Glazed Dragon Team.

Lastly, Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing, both who are originally partners when they last visited the spirit arena, partnered up once more as the Civet-Sword Team.

Everyone stayed with each other, either meditating or talking to each other; to pass the time.

Almost an hour passes by and the battles for duos is almost started so they all moved to their own different districts; so they wouldn't meet each other when they battle.

An hour passed and like last time, Xiao Yan let out a disappointed sigh.

"Winner, Civet-Sword Team! Wins: 2 and Losses: 0!"

"Weak..." His head slightly fell as a slap hit him on the back of his head.

"Be nice." Zhu Zhuqing monotonously said while holding her now stinging right hand. 'Owowow, that wasn't a good idea.' She completely forgot about Xiao Yan's abnormal body and he probably still has spirit power covering his body.

Xiao Yan pouted under his mask, completely undisturbed of the slap that was given behind his head, and straighten his posture.

"Oh like you weren't thinking the same as me." Zhu Zhuqing remained silent at that although Xiao Yan couldn't see her face, he knew she was smirking mischievously at him behind her mask.

An example of this, is Dai Mubai and Xun Er's battle against a control system spirit master with a spider type spirit and speed system spirit master with a panther type spirit.

Control system spirit masters are known for fighting 10 ranks higher than them before they reached rank 60 due to their numerous control capabilities in battle and speed system spirit masters being simply as ȧssassins.

Although the Vast White Sun was able to eliminate their opponents, Dai Mubai had sustained slight injuries against his bout with the control system spirit master. Though by this point of time he's probably had a complete recovery with the help of some pills Xiao Yan provided.

Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at the team spirit arena lobby where the rest of their team were currently waiting for them.

The other teams of spirit masters in the lobby all watched the strange masked individuals. All of them watched as the masked individuals greeted each other before they sat down to meditate to both cultivate and wait for the match to start.

Wearing a mask isn't really that a big of a deal as one or two people would wear one due to their own reasons. But an entire group of ten people wearing the same masks and looking like ninjas? Not only that but half of the group are girls; which is pretty rare as female spirit masters are counted to be one fifth as many as the male spirit masters population. Lastly, some of these spirit masters had first seen and experienced how powerful those masked individuals are.

All of them were anxiousness and nervousness filled them at the thought of them encountering these masked individuals.

Time passes and the team names of who'd battle in field are now announced.

"Our match are second from last to appear? Shrek Ten Commandments vs Mad Battle Team huh..." Xiao Wu muttered. "San-gege, they're a seven people team. How many of us would they choose?"

In this case, since the Mad Battle Team has a smaller count of members they could choose what number of team Ten Commandments members would be able to fight them, though for fairness they wouldn't be allowed to choose a lower number count of Ten Commandments members than theirs.

"They'll most likely have a seven vs seven team battle with us. So we'll just have to worry on who to choose the members to participate in this fight. 1st brother and Xun Er won't be able to participate since they're spirit ancestors so that leaves one of us not joining." Tang San quickly hypothesize the Mad team's probable choosing and soon asked which member to not participate.

As the group decide, a more than two meters tall, extremely sturdy large man suddenly walked in their direction. From his appearance he was over thirty years old, with a nȧkėd torso exposing exaggerated suntanned muscles, no need to ask, he was the stereotypical muscle headed bully.

"*Whistles* Hey, well lookie here, what are y'all bitches doing covering your faces? Let big brother have a look."

He spoke to the top three among the five girls of the Shrek Ten Commandments with the most fiery figures: Xun Er, Ma Xiaotao and Zhu Zhuqing. The man was closest to the latter so he spoke to her foremost.

Right now with face covered by a mask, there was basically no indication she was just a twelve year old girl. Even so, the guy is certainly going to get called by some certain officers.

"Piss off."

Her reply was very consistent with her usual personality, only one cold utterance.

"Is it that your face is shameful? Little girl, don't you know who I am? You dare talk to me that way."

"She told you to piss off, are you deaf mister?"

Xiao Yan stood protectively in front of Zhu Zhuqing, his pupils turning into emerald slits but was unseen from anyone. Although he stood smaller than the two meter tall man, the aura he exuded made people think that the man was the small one between the two.

And the tall man also felt the sudden atmosphere around him feel strange, especially around the boy in front of him, regardless, his hormones for Zhu Zhuqing and his pride made him angry.

"Seeking death!" The man yelled as he swung his right fist forward for a jab at Xiao Yan's masked face.

The onlookers watched with baited breaths as the tall man intended to start a fight against the mysterious group of spirit masters.

While Xiao Yan's friends watched with narrowed angry filled eyes at the tall man that dared harassed their friend. They all wanted Xiao Yan to beat the fuċker up and have him know his place.

Unknown to everyone around her, behind her mask, Zhu Zhuqing watched from behind Xiao Yan; protecting her, with a very flustered face.

Xiao Yan's widened his eyes in anger and swung his own right fist to meet the incoming fist.

A crack was heard and a scream followed.