Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 15 Burning Power

"Now I need to check the stage and the nature of your dragon spiritual power, then I will assignsome officers to teach you the basic spiritual method of the Dragon Master Clan—the MysteriousDragon Skill.

Even though the Mysterious Dragon Skill is the most basic spiritual method, every royal spiritmanipulator has to cultivate it. If you cannot master the basic spiritual method, you will certainly notable to cultivate the spiritual method at higher levels. This is especially important for royal spiritmanipulators. You all know by now that the Mysterious Dragon Skill has nine grades. After youreach the third grade, you can cultivate the spiritual martial arts according to your own nature of thedragon spiritual power. The spiritual martial arts are the skills which you can use to attack or defendin a fight.

Once your spiritual power becomes stronger, your martial arts will improve as well. You can even killan enemy in a second, granted you are powerful enough. That is because they are founded on yourown spiritual power. With your current status, you'd still be unable to break a small stone. Now, let'sget to it!" Mia finished her sentence with a brisk clap.

Six figures appeared next to her in a blink of an eye.

They were men and women who were almost thirty years old. They all emitted strong momentums,as their levels were between the Earthly Stage and the Heavenly Stage.

"Yes ma'am," the six of them said in chorus.

They were the six officers who worked for Mia.

Mia gave them a signal. A female officer came up to her holding a dark palm-sized stone.

"This is the spiritual power detecting stone. It can test the stage and the nature of your dragonspiritual power. You only need to put your hands on it and release your power in the Dragon SpiritMark on your arms. Come up when I call your name," Mia said as she took out the list she hadreceived by carrier pigeon earlier in the day.

"Tom Ma!"

"Yes," the young man raised his hand and walked up to her. He put his left hand on the spiritualpower detecting stone and closed his eyes to concentrate. The Dragon Spirit Mark showed up onhis left arm.

The stone detected the dragon spiritual power, rapidly emitting a red light.

"The second grade of Mortal Stage, Fire." Mia proclaimed, her experienced eyes spotting theindicators at once.

The dragon spiritual power had five kinds of nature: Fire, Water, Wind, Thunder, Ice. Each one hadits own features and advantages and the five natures restrained each other. The power of the naturedepended on the power of the spirit manipulator; there were no weak natures or strong natures.Besides, if the spirit manipulator cultivated the high-leveled spiritual martial arts, he could alsoenhance the power of his nature.

"Next. Frank Chen!"

Another young man walked up to her and released the dragon spiritual power to the spiritual powerdetecting stone.

"The first grade of Mortal Stage, Wind."

"Flint Jit"

"The third grade of Mortal Stage, Ice!" Mia glanced at him after saying his stage. This one washandsome and looked more composed than the other trainees his age.

"You are from the Ji Clan?" Mia asked without thinking.

Flint hesitated for a second, then he slightly nodded before walking back to the line.

"His name is Flint Ji..." Rocky had recognized that he was the arrogant man who bumped against himwhen he was entering the room.

“Mia seems to be interested in him. Does she like this type of man? But why him? He isn't as goodlooking as me," Rocky thought to himself as he touched his chin.

The process went on.

Rocky felt so bored that he nearly fell asleep as he dully watched at the series of detections.

"Basil Long," Mia called him coldly.

Rocky stood still because he did not realize she was talking to him.

The other men all looked at Rocky and laughed at him. They knew that something unfortunate wasabout to take place.

"Basil Long!" Seeing Rocky did not answer her, Mia called his name again. At the same time, sheswung her whip violently, then a sharp wind shot towards Rocky.

Rocky felt as though he had been hit by a bullet in the chest. It was so painful that he snapped backto reality at once. He rubbed his chest as he heard Mia repeat, "Basil Long."

"Basil Long? Oh, it's me," Rocky realized. He really had to get used to his new name! He slowlywalked up to Mia.

"Hurry up,” Mia shouted angrily at his sluggishness.

“Don't be so impatient. I am scared! Why does such a beauty act like a tiger?” Rocky thought tohimself as he looked at Mia. He put his hand on the spiritual power detecting stone and tried torelease the dragon spiritual power in his left arm.

But the Dragon Spirit Mark did not show up.

The other twenty nine trainees all looked at him with scorn.

"No wonder he is the “Prince Loser'!" someone shouted loudly.

Then they all laughed.

"Try harder. Concentrate on sensing the dragon spiritual power in your left arm.” Mia was confusedas well. The royal spirit manipulators were different from the regular spirit manipulators. As long asthey bonded with the Dragon Spirit Bead and gotten the dragon spiritual power, they could easilyrelease the power even if they had not learnt the spiritual method. Releasing the power would be aninstinct as involuntary as eating or drinking!

So it was definitely not normal that Rocky could not release the dragon spiritual power.

However, Mia considered something else. Compared to the rest of them, who had receivedspecialized training at home, Basil had never gone through anything like this. So he might have notadapted to the power he just attained.

Rocky glanced at Mia, taking a deep breath. He gulped nervously, growing determined about thedetecting. He concentrated on sensing the dragon spiritual power in his left arm per Mia'sinstructions.

Soon, a faint Dragon Spirit Mark showed up on his left arm. It was such a relief!

What surprised him was that the spiritual power detecting stone emitted an extremely dim light as itsensed Rocky's dragon spiritual power. What was more, the light was gray which represented noneof the five natures.

Mia was also surprised by this scene, because it was the first time that she saw a dragon spiritualpower with no nature. It was common for regular spirit manipulators because most regular spiritmanipulators’ power did not have natures. However, it was extremely strange that the dragonspiritual power of a royal spirit manipulator did not have a nature. It was especially strange becausethe bead Rocky had bonded with was the Holy Dragon Bead.

When the other young men saw his power have no nature, louder laughs came from the line-up."He is truly a loser. Ha-ha, he got the dragon spiritual power, so what? His power even doesn't havea nature!"

"I am so confused. How does such a loser succeed in bonding with the Holy Dragon Bead!"

"Well, the universe certainly has a good sense of humor. Ha ha ha!"

Hearing the mockery, Rocky was so angry that he clenched his fists.

"Just give up. Aren't you ashamed?”

"You are just a loser. Give up! You will never make it."

"I'd rather die if you I were you! Then the Royal family won't have to be ashamed.”

Rocky frowned as a fierce fire of the anger burned inside his body, then he suddenly felt an intenseheat on his left arm. He unconsciously clutched the spiritual power detecting stone.

The Dragon Spirit Mark on his left arm still did not change, but the feeling of burning grew moreand more intense.

"Ah!" Rocky roared as he could not withstand that great pain anymore.

Heard Rocky roar, everyone looked at him, puzzled.

All of a sudden, the dark cloud gathered in the sky with lightning and thunder and the wild windblew the dust into the air.

No one knew what was happening.

Rumble!

As loud thunder rang out, a shadow of a dragon appeared in the dark clouds. It suddenly burnedand rushed towards the ground from the thick cloud, cracking like a huge lightning bolt.

With a deafening bang, it carved a big hole near them, emitting a lot of smoke.

Everyone including Mia was all surprised by the lightning.

"What strange weather,” Mia murmured, looking at Rocky who had roared just now.

Rocky was now at ease since the burning heat had disappeared after he roared.

"Loser, you won't become powerful just by roaring,” someone sneered at Rocky.

Rocky turned around and saw a muscular guy looking at him with a sneer. Rocky remembered thathe was from the Ximen Clan, so he came up to him and said, " I dare you to say that again.”Though that guy was a head taller than Rocky was and he looked much stronger than Rocky, Rockylooked him in the eye without a sign of weakness.

"I said you are..." Seeing Rocky was so arrogant, that guy retorted immediately, but Mia interruptedhis words, "Do the two of you want to be punished?" That guy shut his mouth at once.

Rocky was staring at him angrily, but as Mia looked at him coldly, he stopped his stare and smiled atMia before he went back to the line.

The man from the Ximen Clan stared at Rocky, dragging his finger across his throat.

Rocky sneered and gave him the finger.

The man's face flushed with anger.

"That's all. Now you should all know the grade and the nature of your power," Mia said as sheglanced around at the young men.

"Yes, Ma'am," they answered in chorus.

"Alright. If anyone makes no progress in one month, I have the right to kick you out without priornotice. I don't want to hear any excuses. Do you understand?" Mia said seriously.

"Yes, Ma'am," they all responded nervously. They could all tell she was not the kind to joke.

"Now, every team will have one officer to teach you the pithy formula of nine grades of theMysterious Dragon Skill. You only have two hours to memorize the nine formulas. Come back hereafter two hours. Basil, stay here,” she commanded.

The officers immediately led their teams to different parts of the field and began to teach them theformulas of the Mysterious Dragon Skill.

Mia looked at Rocky as she pointed to one side of the field and said, "Go there and wait.”

"Alright," Rocky replied as he wondered if Mia wanted to play tricks on him. Then he walked towardsthe side of the field.

Rocky seemed to suddenly remember something as he reached the spot where she pointed. Helooked at his left hand and muttered, "What was that strange feeling? It felt like I want to fart but Icouldn't. But after I roared, it was so relieving, although I didn't feel anything special...”