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Days passed by while the two cultivators inside the Ancient Pagoda continued with their daily routine.

The both of them had just tasted the forbidden fruit, such as, they couldn't stop themselves and continued to pleasure themselves; every time they finished their training.

In these past days... Feng Yexue and Kyle had already discussed their strengths with each other. They told each other their strengths, so they could obviously, perfect their teamwork.

Kyle told Feng Yexue about his tremor powers, but he only told her that, he could control tremors and earth quakes since telling her about everything, like it was a devil fruit or he came from another earth, was not relevant in defeating the child deagon.

Feng Yexue had already known about his quake powers since they have been training together for months already.

However, she always thought that, it was some kind of bloodline power, hence she did not asked for further info.

Nevertheless, telling each other their full strengths helped them advanced their teamwork with each other.

Feng Yexue had also explained the matters about Soul Attacks to Kyle.

The more he got to learn about it, the more he felt that it was kinda similar to his Haoshoku, so he also trained his Haoshoku in this past days.

He used Feng Yexue as his guinea pig since she clearly had a stronger soul power.

This also helped her familiarize with soul attacks.

The charm and the soul tempering pill worked since once she wears the charm and ate the pill, the effects of his Haoshoku greatly diminished and failed to penetrate her soul.

However, the reason why Kyle's Haoshoku was not able to penetrate her soul, might be, because her soul is much stronger than him.

But still... This gave them some hope as those charms and pills help diminish the effect of soul attacks.

They have already discussed their strategy in these past few days, so they decided to cross the 20th line and challenge the child dragon today.

Kyle had been inside the Ancient Pagoda for months already, such as, he could already cross the 20th line months ago, so crossing it now would be a piece of cake for him.

But because he felt that, he still couldn't defeat the child dragon, hence he never tried to do so in the past.

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Kyle and Feng Yexue are now standing side by side in front of the child dragon.

*crack..*

*crack..*

The statue slowly broke and pieces of it started falling down.

The couple was expecting this, so they just stood and waited while the statue was breaking down, but they didn't let their guards down since they were now on the battlefield.

Moments later...

The child dragon came out from it and he stared at both of them while falling down to the ground.

"Hoho... Look what we have here. It's been a while since you came back to challenge me. Still... I'm impressed, didn't expect you to have the guts to still challenge me, after what happened in the past. Not only did you not gave up, you even brought some reinforcements?" He spoke in teasing voice.

Hearing him made Feng Yexue's eyes glint, but she calmed herself since getting angry right now, won't help them in their situaation.

"Well... One weakling or two weaklings doesn't matter to me. You can come at me together. If you can last for a day, then I could let you pass the trial." He spoke with an arrogant tone.

This made both of them glad.

The child dragon might be very arrogant, but it did not anger the both of them.

At least... He did not increase the time limit.

They both look each other in the eye and they both nodded as if they communicated telepathically.

They have already been training arduously together in these past days, so they already have a plan to battle the child dragon.

Such, they initiated their plan.

Kyle moved forward.

"This humble one is called Kyle. Please forgive this lowly one for daring to challenge your excellency."

Kyle cupped his hands and bowed slightly.

He spouted some bullshit to praise the child dragon since he knew... that most of the cultivators took their reputation and faces highly.

Such, he praised him with flattering words to at least lower the child dragon's vigilance against them, especially since he tried to attack the child dragon in the past.

There are a lot of characters in those books that he read, who are professionals on kissing ass, so copying them was easy for him.

Their goal was to only last for a whole day, so he wants to at least lower the hostility from both sides.

When the child dragon heard his words; he smirked and thought: "Fuck! Who are you kidding? Lowly one my ass," but he acts maturely and said:

"A frog in a well knows nothing, so I can forgive you." He said while acting like a senior talking to a child.

Kyle almost let out a laugh when he heard this.

It would be normal if an older man or someone who looked old was the one saying these words, however, the one in front of him had the looks of a 6-year-old child; despite having some horns.

Such, he could barely hold himself from laughing.

Thankfully... He was able to control himself and calmed down; or else, he might anger the child dragon even more.

After calming down Kyle initiated the battle.

"Here I come!" Kyle declared while charging towards the child dragon.

He did not summon his soul weapon yet as he only used his bare hands in attacking.

The child dragon didn't make some moves a usual and only waited for him to come closer.

Once Kyle got closer, he did not use any martial skill or any of his devil fruit.

He only attacks the child dragon with a normal Ki infested punch.

However, the strength of this punch was not something to be underestimated.

In these four months, due to the formation, his body had already successfully stepped into the peak of the 3rd stage, however, his body's improvements had gradually slowed down once he reached the peak.

But he wasn't worried about this since Feng Yexue had said that this was only normal, as breaking through the fourth stage is like crossing a boundary and entering the middle stages of Xiantians.

Such, it was only normal for him to slow down in his improvements.

Kyle just threw a normal Ki infested punch to test out the waters.

Seeing Kyle's normal attack... The child dragon didn't waste any movement and deflected it with a simple slap and the force of this slapped threw Kyle to the sides.

But after he slapped Kyle's punch away, a lightning ray suddenly appeared behind Kyle and it met with the child dragon.

Obviously... This was Feng Yexue who attacked simultaneously.

The child dragon wasn't some nobody, such as he had already sensed this lightning ray, so he reacts and prepared to deflect it.

*CRRREEAAKK!!!...* (sounds of his hand touching the lightning.)

The lightning ray was deflected and it was directed towards Kyle.

The child dragon did not want to waste the attack, so he directed it towards Kyle who was slapped to the sides.

Seeing these events made Feng Yexue abruptly control the laws and she disintegrated the lightning ray before it was able to hit Kyle.

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"Don't underestimate me, Kid." The child dragon said as he shakes his head.

Kyle dared to attack him with a simple punch, so he wanted to punish him and let him have the taste of their attack.

Fortunately... Feng Yexue reacted fast and stopped her attack.

However, there weren't any embarrassed look or fright in Kyle's face as he heard the child dragon's mocking tone.

He slowly stood up and dust himself while saying: "forgive my incompetence."

He said it with a poker face.

Kyle wasn't underestimating the child dragon, but they needed to delay the fight as long as they can, such as, he did not want to go all out from the start.

Kyle could've dodged his swipe with his Haki, but if he did that, then the child dragon could be wary of him and start to get aggressive, so, he wanted to use some basic moves first.

They had already decided to fight the child dragon with simple attacks as they noticed that the child dragon only used defensive actions at the beginning of the battle.

Trying to go all-out in this early phase of the battle could only rile up both sides and increase the pace of the battle, so they decided to control the battle at a simple pace.

However, if he keeps on doing these type of attacks successively, the child dragon could notice their actions.

Such as, they needed to show some force in their attacks and mixed it with simple attacks while slowly trying to control the pace.

So, Kyle directly charged towards him again once he recovered, but this time... He used some of his earth techniques that he had learned in these past four months.

"Earth Gauntlet!" Earth started to gather in has hands as he charges to the child dragon.

While As Feng Yexue summoned lightnings as she attacked together with Kyle and both of them tag-teamed against the child dragon simultaneously with a perfectly synchronized combination.