Noel and Anna closed their eyes and focused on channeling their energy to each other.
Noel was the first one to concentrate his Spiritual Energy on his right hand. This time, he didn't push the energy or something to knock Anna back. Instead, he waited for Anna to match it.
Due to the previous training, they had quite a mastery in handling this power. So, Anna easily matched the amount of Spiritual Energy on his right hand.
After that, Noel said, "I'll begin."
"Go on." Anna nodded.
As soon as he got the confirmation, Noel began to infuse ice elements into his palm. He didn't dare to use the fire element because the Undying Flame might burn Anna. Even if the other party was confident in repelling it and Old Ru was here, one single incident might leave a permanent mark on her skin.
Even with their competition, Noel would make sure that no harm was done to Anna.
The blue Spiritual Energy gradually moved to the hand, emitting a chilling wind.
Anna furrowed her eyebrows, asking, "Are you not going to use your fire? Do you think I don't have the ability to fight that stronger element?"
"Not at all. Is it wrong that I'm concerned about your well-being?"
"…" After hearing that reply, Anna couldn't help but fall silent. She let out a sigh and said, "In that case…"
Anna started sending forth her lightning element to match the amount of ice element.
As expected, since there were two elements coming from two different people, they would begin to clash the moment they encountered each other.
The lightning was trying to shatter the ice, while the latter decreased the temperature drastically to freeze the lightning itself.
However, they heard Old Ru warning them, "Proceed even more slowly. The lightning will become the river basin while the ice would melt and become the water flowing through that river."
Anna followed his instruction. She tried to disperse the lightning evenly and tried not to fight back. Because of that, she had to reverse the lightning current, following the ice element current.
Noel soon found that the resistance was gone, allowing his ice element to continue.
"Here I go." He warned Anna as she began infusing more energy to push the ice element.
Anna felt the chilling ice element and hurriedly reinforced her skin with another layer of Spiritual Energy. Surprisingly, the ice element flowed smoothly on her arm and was about to reach her body.
"Remember. Don't let the energy penetrate your body. Element can only be countered by element and Spiritual Energy can only be handled by Spiritual Energy. Disperse your lightning to protect your body from the chill and let the Spiritual Energy guide it." Old Ru instructed.
Anna hurriedly covered her entire body and face with a thin layer of lightning element. As Old Ru said, this would act as a tube where the ice element flowed. At the same time, she used Spiritual Energy to guide the fuel of the ice element, which was Noel's Spiritual Energy, forward.
Carefully and slowly, Anna moved the ice element across her body until it reached the other shoulder.
Once it passed her body, everything went even smoother.
Anna only needed to match the amount of Spiritual Energy of the one flowing on her body. Then, Noel did the same to receive his energy back.
"Take this back," said Anna while checking whether Noel had matched her Spiritual Energy or not. If he hadn't done it, she would have had to slow down the flow.
However, Anna was quite shocked by Noel's recent improvement. The more he trained, the faster his progress speed became. It felt like he got constant enlightenment.
It was quite surprising that his perception was already at the same level as hers. If this continued, it wouldn't be long before he surpassed her.
But for the time being, Anna wanted to complete this circulation first.
The moment the ice element returned to his hand, Noel immediately reabsorbed it back into his body.
"Hu…" Noel felt relieved that the process was smooth without any problems.
They gradually opened their eyes, staring at each other.
"It's smooth, right?" Noel asked.
"Yeah. It's kind of cold though."
"But it will be the same for your lightning. I might get electrocuted, or the spark will jolt my body and give me some sensation of pain." Noel shrugged.
"Fair enough."
Old Ru smiled and clapped his hands. "Good. Both of you have done well even though this is only your first time. You have allowed your energy to enter her body and return it back to the original owner."
Noel and Anna's eyebrows twitched as they complained about the same thing. "Why did you make it sound lewd?"
"Did I?" Old Ru chuckled. "In any case, this is what you're going to expect from this training. You will circulate your energy in succession. If you become the master of your energy, you will be able to protect your body without feeling anything.
"If I'm not wrong, you have used an ability to cut the Spiritual Energy, right?" Old Ru turned to Noel.
"Yes." Noel nodded. "How about using it to cut her lightning?"
Noel glanced at Anna, wondering if she was up for it.
"Here I go." Anna turned out to have stood up, looking very eager to do it. As soon as Noel stood up and raised his stance, Anna pointed her finger at him and shot out a lightning bolt.
Noel sliced the bolt of lightning in half easily with his Spirit Weaponry.
"Excellent. Now, shoot that lightning bolt at me." Old Ru nodded.
Anna followed his instruction and released the same lightning bolt.
Old Ru extended his hand and accepted the lightning bolt through the same technique. In that instant, the lightning bolt circled around his arm and gradually moved to his body as if it was trying to explore a new place.
It moved fast and played around happily before Old Ru released it into the air through the other hand. However, one thing was clear. Old Ru could actually control Anna's lightning even though he didn't have that element.
"Did you see it?" Old Ru smiled.
