I'm sorry for the dey. The st few days were instead occupied since I (after nearly two years, thanks to a) met with an old and very dear friend.-------

  The way back was actually rexing, almost fortable. Tang Yin discovered that her first spirit ability included the perks of varying the thiess of the ranks she used. Some were as thick as tree trunks, others thin as spider silk.

  Lize, Ari, and Yule observed the kids with growing fasation and fear. Their abilities and skills grew armingly, even more so for the Tang twins. Even though Tang Yin's spirit power was under trol for now, it was clear that she would break through the thirties before anyone else.

  During their maring Feng and Yu Hua joiang San's and Tang Yin's m routine, whicluded meditation. But, instead, Tang Saated, and Tang Yin sat beside him, drawing into the muddy ground with her left hand and failing miserably. Ning Feng and Yu Hua also started to meditate but uood after a while that they had done something wrong. Tang Yin finally decided to stop moping and showed them how to move and a few modern exercises. Yu Hua got them down rather quickly, but Ning Feng struggled.

  After their exercises, Ning Feng often had to be carried for a while due to exhaustion.

  Two days after the storm, they finally returo more known parts of Spirit Forest and khey were heading the right way. Then, Tang Yin saw Ning Feng and Tang San talking to each other a bit farther away from the rest while she took out her meal for Jiang, as promised. So she put dowew from this evening and walked towards them, already guessing what was going on from Tang San's troubled expression.

  "Still about joining Ta?" She asked, and Ning Feng nodded.

  "Yes, she is determined she will nret it even though we have little money and only a few resources.", Tang San said, and Ning Feng nodded, unonly eager.

  "I-I t-thought about i-it, I w-will join T-Ta a-and leave S-Seven Treasures, t-the only thing there that m-means something t-to me is my m-mommy an-anyway, and s-she will n-not bme m-me. So I want to w-walk my o-oay.", Ning Feng said and cuddled her teddy. It was a habit she noticed that Ning Feng did when she felt unsure of herself or was making a decision.

  "Okay, as the Vice Master, wele to Ta." Tang Yin held her hand, and Niook it, smiling.

  "Thank you for having me.", she answered and smiled brightly, taking Tang Yin's hand.

  "You are wele.", Tang San said and looked at her, "You are now hree."

  Smiling and chatting, they headed back to close the fire where the others were already eating.

  "You left us something, right?" Tang Yin said happily and looked into the rge pot. Empty. "That's a joke, right?" she asked, and the others shook their head, "It has to be a joke; there was a lot.""hahaha hahaha." Lize started to ugh, and the others joined in, "Gods, your expression." she wheezed between ughing, and Tang Yin was not very amused about that but had to ugh anyway at her own stupidity. For a moment, she thought they really had eaten it all.

  "Now, where is it?" she asked, and the Grandmaster pointed o him where Luo San Pao was lying and guarded three bowls of stew with a bright smile on his face.

  "T-thanks fuarding." Ning Feng muttered, and the three of them took their bowls, happily wolfing down their food when a cry was uttered and had all of them turning and jumping into a.

  "Pack your stuff, kids!" Yule shouted, and everyone hurried up, gathering their things together.

  "What kind of spirit Beast is it?" When he icked up by Lize, who was shoving her duffel bag into Tang Sans's hands, Yu Hua asked but received no answer. " you and your Sis mao keep up?" She asked, and Tang San nodded.

  "We are fast enough."

  "Good."

  "Not even dinner!" Tang Yin whined, rushing after them, using her Spirit ability to catapult herself forward. Lize stormed forward, closely followed by the Grandmaster. Ning Feng ran by herself until Yule picked her up and the Tang twins in the middle by themseles.