“How many can you combine at once?" Yuri inquired.

"Right now only two, but I almost got the third down." Ryuu replied hesitantly.

“Mmm very nice, then we will began practicing control over multiple elements, follow me." Said Yuri

As the two talked Hibiki slowly came to. Seeing that he was still being restrained by the shadows and Ryuu standing over him without a scratch made his blood boil as he clenched his teeth.

As he thought back to the fight he still couldn’t tell what had happened.

Ryuu casually looked down, removed the shadow chains and followed behind Yuri who was walking back up the path to the courtyard.

Hibiki sat of the ground and narrowed his eyes at Ryuu, “Just who in the hell does this nobody think he is? Just who is he anyways?!” Hibiki wondered as he clenched his fists until his veins popped out and his knuckles turned white.

“I Kyūo Hibiki shall have my revenge for this humiliation, you will rue this day!” thought Hibiki iIndignantly as he punched the ground furiously.

As master Yuri and Ryuu walked into the courtyard a man in a grey robe rushed up to master Yuri and said "Sir the barrier core is requesting to speak to you immediately.” 

Yuri continued to slowly walk through the courtyard then turned to Ryuu and said "Ryuu I have some matters to attend too, please feel free to stay and cultivate as long as you’d like. There will be another test tomorrow, so be prepared.

When he finished speaking, him and the other grey robed man leaped off towards the temple at the end of the courtyard. Ryuu nodded his head, and crossed over a small bridge and started to walk down one of the paths.

As he followed the path he was simply dumbfounded at how big this secret cavern was. 

After walking for a while, when he could no longer see the temple. Ryuu found a nice rock along the river bank near a small water fall, he sat down and pulled out a small glass bottle filled with the soul nourishing pills he had made; he then popped two, closed his eyes and started to cultivate. 

As he cultivated the sound of the water fall slowly faded as he began to enter an astral mind state, as he sat in limbo he could feel himself slipping more and more into the mind state as he sowly left his body. 

After a couple hours his astral body emerged from his physical body, as he was in this state he turned into a beam of light and shot into the clouds. When he entered space he could here millions of voices and could sense a thick qi that was coming from the moon, sun, and stars.

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As he traveled deeper into space his whole body started burning up, eventually he couldn't handle the building pressure. He opened his eyes wide as he gasped for breath, as beads of sweat dripped down his forehead as he tried to regain his train of thought.

 “what in the hell was that?” Ryuu thought inwardly.

As he was sitting there, he heard the scuff of someone’s shoes kicking a few rocks as they walked. 

He opened one eye and saw it was Hibiki with two other students. As they approached, Ryuu sat completely motionless as he closed his eyes and continued meditating. 

After a while he asked “Can I help you gentleman with something?” as he slowly opened one eye to look at them.

The three men just stood there staring at Ryuu.

After another moment he said “Ah, You must be here for some cultivating tips?” as his lips curled into a thin smile.

Finally Hibiki couldn’t take it anymore and said “You got a lot of nerve talking to me like that! You think you can just get away with cheap shoting me?”

“Cheap shot?”

*Hahahahaha*

“Sorry buddy but that was no cheap shot, you just can’t fight.” Said Ryuu as he tried to hold back his laughter.

“Why you!” screamed Hibiki as he pounced towards Ryuu blasting fire balls at him.

“Same move again huh? Man you’re just a one trick pony with no self control, are you sure you dont want those tips?" Said Ryuu as he continued sitting casually.

All the fire balls then landed right on the rock destroying it creating a thick layer of smoke.

As the smoke cleared they saw Ryuu had vanished, as Hibiki looked around he saw Ryuu was sitting right behind him.

In a rage he hurled another fire ball at Ryuu, but again he just vanished.

After a moment they could hear someone laughing, “Man you really are pathetic.” Ryuu laughed madly.

“Above us!” screamed one of Hibikis friends.

As they looked up they saw Ryuu had somehow grown two large black wings and was now hovering a few feet above them.

All three stood motionless as they stared, jaws wide.

“Stop wasting my time!” shouted Ryuu as he began to fly away.

Hibiki started to roar as he merged with his dragon beast.

He then leaped into the sky as he exhaled a massive fire ball at Ryuu's back.