Chapter 566

With Broly's deliberate cooperation, the two actually fought evenly matched, and Broly appeared to be at a disadvantage, being suppressed.

Broly was controlling the water temperature; he felt this temperature was just right, but for Jianshan Huangquan, it was completely not the case.

She had followed her Adoptive Father to practice swordsmanship since age six, and now it had been over eight years; although she hadn't used full strength, under circumstances where she had a significant physical advantage (longer reach), and both strength and speed superior to the boy's, she actually fought this child to this state — Jianshan Huangquan only found it absurd.

"Broly, I'm going to increase the intensity; you prepare yourself."

Jianshan Huangquan gave a reminder, then accelerated her speed and power.

【Is it because I have too little experience crossing swords with an opponent who also uses a sword?】

However, in Broly's eyes, this kind of increase seemed a bit too hasty.

Many openings appeared in her movements; even with just his current strength and speed, relying solely on technique and richer swordsmanship experience, he could easily disarm, pierce the heart, or sever the throat of the girl before him.

"Smack—"

In his mind he simulated twelve sword angles to finish off the girl at his current speed and power.

The next moment, the bamboo sword in Broly's hand was knocked flying by Jianshan Huangquan.

He could win, but he must not win, because right now he is not a master of the third-rate swordsmanship that unites the three sword styles of the Six-Faced World, merely an ordinary child who has just touched swordsmanship.

"I lost."

Broly slumped down, panting, sweat beading on his forehead, his expression somewhat dejected, just like a younger brother who had given his all yet still failed to satisfy his elder sister.

"Ah, Broly, you're actually already very good; for a swordsmanship beginner (practically a freak). Sister just trained for a longer stretch than you; believe me, as long as you work hard, you'll catch up to Sister soon (estimated you'll surpass me before long)."

Jianshan Huangquan hadn't expected the boy to show such a heavily crushed look after being defeated, and hurriedly began comforting him in a bit of a panic.

"Right, when the bamboo sword was knocked away, your hand wasn't injured, was it?"

She set down her own bamboo sword, ran over, squatted down, and started checking the boy's hand.

She put down the bamboo sword in her hand, ran over and squatted down, and began checking the boy's hands.

Only after confirming Broly's hand was uninjured did Jianshan Huangquan let out a long exhale.

"Sorry, Sister shouldn't have been this serious."

She apologized sincerely.

"It's fine; anyway I wasn't hurt either."

Broly felt a bit guilty; later if he shows his hand and the other party learns his true swordsmanship level, will she be very angry?

"We're both drenched in sweat; let's go clean up."

Finishing the swordsmanship training, Jianshan Huangquan took him to the bathroom.

"Next, what Sister will teach you is the Isayama Family's arts."

After washing up and coming out, Jianshan Huangquan brought Broly into Father's study, then entered the next lesson.

"Before learning the arts, I need to introduce you to the Isayama Family's school; the Isayama Family is a branch split off from the Tsuchimiya Family.

And the Tsuchimiya Family excels in arts that contract spirit bodies and spirit beasts; by manipulating contracted spirit bodies and spirit beasts to deal with evil spirits or monsters.

On this point, our Isayama Family inherits the same line — summoning spirits, contracting spirits, driving spirits — these three constitute the core of the Isayama Family's exorcism arts.

The functions of these three arts are respectively: awakening slumbering spirit bodies, forming contracts with spirit bodies, and driving spirit bodies into battle.

My Ran Guren is a powerful spirit beast passed down through generations of the Isayama Family; its original identity was the powerful monster Nurarihyon; now it resides within this Lion King Treasure Sword, receiving offerings and driven by the Isayama Family's user."

"So, Sister Huangquan, do I also need to go contract a spirit body or spirit beast?"

"Yes, but contracting a spirit is not a simple matter; weak spirit bodies and spirit beasts are easy to contract yet have little combat strength.

While powerful spirit bodies and spirit beasts have combat strength, they are comparatively dangerous existences; one careless move and the contractor suffers backlash.

So what you truly must do is train spiritual power, make your own spiritual power grow strong, only then will you possess the power to suppress and subdue spirit bodies and spirit beasts."

"Then what's the point of me learning these three arts?"

Broly felt it was somewhat subtle; to drive spirits you must first contract spirits, but the premise of contracting is that you yourself must be stronger than the contraction target.

Following the Isayama Family's logic, the premise for gaining strong power is to contract powerful spirit bodies and spirit beasts, yet here they are playing a closed loop.

"It's preparation; after learning these three arts, if in the future you, Broly, gain the opportunity to manipulate powerful spirit bodies and spirit beasts, you'll directly know how to drive them."

Jianshan Huangquan pointed to the treasure sword in her hand; with Broly's talent he would surpass her sooner or later; this treasure sword hosting Ran Guren in her hand would sooner or later be given to the other party for use.

Jianshan Huangquan indicated the treasured blade in her hand; with Broly's talent he would surpass her sooner or later, and this treasured blade that housed Ran Guren would eventually be given to him to use.

"There won't be that case; but if there isn't, it involves spirit-nurturing arts; spirit bodies and spirit beasts aren't unchanging things; some spirit bodies and spirit beasts can be nurtured from weak to strong.

Of course, this process isn't fast; generally it takes several generations of offerings to create a powerful contracted spirit.

Ran Guren is this type; and the benefit is, contracted spirits nurtured through offerings mostly won't backlash against their own master.

Of course, if one encounters a defective, slumbering powerful spirit body or spirit beast, one can also complete a contract with it before it awakens.

However, this method may produce accidents; for example, the powerful spirit body or spirit beast awakens midway and attacks you; but if there is another powerful Exorcist standing by to cover you, the danger can also be minimized.

Mm, Broly, you properly practice these three arts; once you've mastered them, Sister will help you contract a powerful spirit body or spirit beast!"

As Jianshan Huangquan spoke, she thought to herself that later it might become a situation of swapping contracted spirits — Broly using the powerful spirit beast Ran Guren passed down by the family, herself using a later contracted spirit; and whether contracting a spirit beast or a spirit body is better, that point remains to be debated.

As Jianshan Huangquan spoke, she thought to herself that in the future it might be a case of swapping contracted spirits — Broly using the powerful spirit beast Ran Guren passed down by the family inheritance, while she would use a later contracted spirit; but whether a contracted spirit beast or a contracted spirit body would be better remained to be debated.

"What is it? You still have questions?"

"Can I ask, back when you learned these three arts, how long did it take you?"

"Eh, Broly, this child wants to compete with me?"

Jianshan Huangquan was a bit surprised, thought for a moment, then answered: "Sister is a super genius; back then I only used less than half an hour (actually half a month) to learn these three arts."

"Then what about ordinary people; generally how long to learn?"

Broly asked sincerely for advice.

【No, for ordinary people, they fundamentally can't learn it at all; this at minimum requires someone with spiritual power talent to have the qualification to learn this stuff.】

Thinking this in her heart, Jianshan Huangquan's face replied: "If it's an ordinary Exorcist, then it depends on talent; but generally it's just one or two days, and they can more or less grasp these arts."

Thinking to himself, Jianshan Huangquan replied on the surface, "If it's an ordinary Exorcist, then it depends on the Forest Elf's Talent, but generally it's just one or two days' time, and they can more or less master these Jutsu."

This is a lie; the art of commanding spirits and spirit beasts through spirit contracts is not considered common in the Exorcism Realm, but it is not very rare either — the difference lies only in the level of each family's methods, and the strength of the spirits and spirit beasts they can command.

As for those with spiritual power talent, learning it in a year or half a year counts as having spiritual aptitude; learning it within three months counts as a genius.

The reason Jianshan Huangquan exaggerated the learning speed of ordinary Exorcists was mainly because she thought of Broly as a super genius who would definitely be able to learn it immediately.

If she told the truth about ordinary Exorcists' learning situation, it would definitely be detected as abnormal and couldn't be covered up; therefore, she exaggerated.

And the definition of "ordinary," in Jianshan Huangquan's mouth, was at least enhanced three hundred times over, but Broly was listening seriously beside her.

"In any case, you, this child, don't aim too high; just practice hard properly!"

"Understood, Sister Huangquan, I will work hard."

【Strive to show a serious learning and practicing appearance within half a day, and after half a day, at a level much worse than a genius but slightly better than an ordinary person, make yourself master these three arts!】

With a plan, Broly began asking for guidance: "Sister Huangquan, there are some knacks within these three arts I still don't quite understand; could you teach me?"

"Of course, come, tell Sister me, which parts do you have doubts about."

Broly used the tricks he once used to capture Roxy; Jianshan Huangquan fell for it without any guard.

Under her guidance, Broly's mastery of the arts progressed almost visibly to the naked eye, giving the girl a full sense of teaching achievement.

And from the gradually rising Happiness Value of the other party on the Crystal Palace Panel, Jianshan Huangquan was clearly also enjoying the process of teaching him.

Around three in the afternoon, Broly timed it to exactly six hours, and successfully used the three arts in front of Jianshan Huangquan.

His small face timely showed an excited little expression; he turned his head and said quite happily to Jianshan Huangquan beside him: "Sister Huangquan, look, I've learned them!"

"Eh?!"

Jianshan Huangquan to the side was somewhat stunned; although she had accompanied Broly the whole time watching his progress, Broly being able to successfully cast the Jianshan Family's three core arts this fast still made her feel a bit shocked — she had thought it would take at least one or two days.

"Sister Huangquan, are you not happy?"

Broly received a prompt that Jianshan Huangquan's Happiness Value had decreased; he didn't know what he had done to cause the girl's Happiness Value to drop.

【It's not that I'm unhappy, but rather I've taken a bit of a blow; however you put it, I was once called a genius girl, but now seeing your speed at mastering arts makes me feel ashamed of my own inadequacy, feeling like I'm just a piece of scrap iron~】

Seeing someone younger than oneself yet more excellent, jealousy, distress, and suffering a blow are inevitable; but how to handle these negative emotions depends on what kind of person one is.

"I'm not unhappy; on the contrary, Sister is very happy, happy that your talent, this cute little brother, is much better than ordinary people……"

Jianshan Huangquan quickly sorted out the jealous emotions naturally produced in the human heart, and she began to feel happy for the powerful talent for learning arts that Broly displayed.

On the path of an Exorcist, the stronger the talent, the stronger the future strength; and the stronger the person, the less likely they are to die.

After the girl converted her mood, Broly also received information that the Happiness Value had risen; it only dropped one point, but rose three points — she wasn't lying.

"As long as Sister Huangquan is happy, that's good."

Broly said this, yet wondered in doubt about the reason for the Happiness Value drop just now.

"Broly, since you've already mastered the three arts of Spirit Summoning, Spirit Contracting, and Spirit Driving, taking advantage of the free time now, Sister will take you out to practice!"

Jianshan Huangquan proposed, interrupting Broly's train of thought.

"Sister Huangquan, you're going to take me outside to find spirits?"

"Mm."

The girl nodded.

"But how to find them?"

Broly's Ki Sense is relatively easy for finding living things, but for finding ghost creatures it's a bit unskilled; without close-range perception or sufficient familiarity, it's very easy to overlook ghosts as air; he didn't know how Jianshan Huangquan planned to take him to search.

"The Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau where Sister works has a device monitoring the entire Tokyo spiritual power field; we can use that to find places where spiritual anomalies are more likely to appear, and generally in those kinds of places, there should be spirits existing."

Jianshan Huangquan pulled Broly out the door, directly taking a taxi to the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau Headquarters.

"Miss Huangquan, how come you're here? No mission today?"

People inside the Supernatural Countermeasures Bureau saw the girl enter, and all showed surprised expressions; during non-exorcism missions, Jianshan Huangquan rarely comes to the Countermeasures Bureau Headquarters.

"Eh, this child following you is the one you mentioned on the phone the day before yesterday, right?" Nikaido Kiri leaned her head out, looked at Broly behind Jianshan Huangquan, and asked, "Is there a problem on Naraku's side, needing our side to help place this child?

If so, Director Shinguuji gave an early reminder to have this side prepared, and investigated some not bad welfare institutions."

Hearing this, Jianshan Huangquan instantly became like a mother hen protecting chicks, spreading her arms to shield Broly in front of her, and said sternly to the woman in black professional OL attire before her: "Miss Nikaido, Broly is currently our family's child, is my, Jianshan Huangquan's, cute little brother; please don't say words that might make this child misunderstand that I want to abandon him!"

"Put that way, Mr. Naraku is willing to take in this child."

Shen Gongji Shobu pushed a wheelchair out and asked.

"That's right; last night, Broly officially joined the Jianshan Family."

"Then that's my mistake; truly sorry."

"It's fine; as long as you understand this point."

Jianshan Huangquan spoke like that, yet turned around, squatted down, and picked Broly up, as if worried the boy might be snatched away by someone else and sent to a welfare institution.

Shen Gongji Shobu looked at this situation, formed some guesses in her heart, thought for a moment, and asked: "So, Miss Huangquan, you brought this child here to?"

"Almost forgot the main business; I actually came prepared to borrow the Countermeasures Bureau's spiritual field detection device to search for locations where spirits might appear."

Jianshan Huangquan stated her purpose for coming here.

(Chapter End)