Soon the days passed , Chen Long reached the age of an adult : 15 years .


    Nothing special happened , Chen Long gathered enough Qi to reach the peak of 5th Qi Stage .


    Since he was quite bad at cultivating and probably had no future waiting for him , the Chen family ordered him to help the business branch .


    Nobody cared about him these years , he stopped annoying his mother for 5 copper and earned his own money by helping the family business .


    Since he voluntary joined the family business he gathered a lot of "face" for his parents which made them quite proud boasting about that its all the kids ability while the other flattered them about being good parents .


    Chen Zhen , the one who tried recruting Chen Long prior to him getting some lackeys from his brother got beaten up by his father cause he tried to rape a women .


    Now he has to work for the family which in the end was only supervising some shops in which he could live in comfort .


    So the life of Chen Long isn''t filled with power , neither its a life filled with adventure , friendship or hot beautys . Instead he lived the life of a shadow .


    He tried to use his Low Mortal Flame for amazing abilitys , however he could only create a flame with his body . He couldn''t shoot it .


    Though the good thing is that he isn''t harmed by the flame he created , so a backleash is impossible .


    However he witnessed a member of the Chen family being the shining star . Dual spirit , Fire and water serpent .


    Not only that , it seems that he deemed the inherited martial spirit as weaker than they are . Even the most weakest inherited martial spirit user would have a giant advantage over any other same talented cultivator .


    Why ? Because it seemed like that they would get the inherited spirit as well have the choice of choosing a spirit upon their own choice !


    However Chen Long couldn''t cry about the unfair treatment of this world . After all doesn''t it exist in every world ?


    Not only that , the genius reached 10th Qi stage . Only a single stage lower than the family patriarch !


    His name is Chen Tian .


    Recently Chen Long wondered whether he should run away from home and choose the life of a mercenary . Maybe he would get a lucky chance and thus rise to the top of the world . Or at least be a strong force to be feared .


    However just as he wanted to get into contact with other Chen family members who choose to leave the family an event happened which got the entire family extremely excited .


    Chen Tian got accepted as a disciple of the 9 Union .


    To say it short , its an alliance of 9 sects . Each of them ruling over billions of mortals .


    The number shocked Chen Long , after all earth only has about 10 billions humans walking on it .


    But it seemed that this number is only a drop compared to the rest of the ocean .


    In the end Chen Tian will get picked up by one of the people . Naturally the Chen family has high hopes that maybe some children will draw the attention of the senior and thus take them away too .


    So Chen Long stands in a long line with the other children waiting to welcome the senior .


    Soon the senior arrived , though it isn''t one senior . It''s a group of seniors !


    Exactly 9 .


    Just looking at the name and the number of people visiting the Chen family , Chen Long could deem the 9 union as a weak alliance which can be destroyed pretty easily or as a Union which treats every sect equally .


    "Let''s hope its the latter ." sighed Chen Long while looking at every senior . Each of them is an old man , with white hair or without any hair .


    "Greetings. These are the younger generations of my family . Can you look at them ? I must say that my single view isn''t so great ." started the leader of the Chen family . An old man with white hair .


    Smiling the group of old man first greeted Chen Tian before surrounding him and flattering him .


    With disappointment Chen Long looked at the group of old man , where the heck are the earth shattering beautys or rivals appearing in such situations ?


    With a smile Chen Tian greeted each senior before leading them to the house .


    As soon as they left the females kyaa-ed about the handsome Chen Tian and his fame .


    However single old man soon appeared in front of them , causing the adults to sweat .


    Does he hate kyaaing females ?


    However soon 2 more elders appeared , one of the said with a calm tone : "We will recruit youngster like you . Please show us your martial spirit , but before that seperate into inherited spirit and chosen ."


    Soon the crowd divided into two halfs . One of the halfs 10 times bigger than the others . I guess you know whom is whom .


    Looking at the inherited spirit , Chen Long could see serpents of different kinds appearing . Venom Serpent , battle serpent , normal serpent and one even got a lightning serpent .


    Nodding with a smile the elders looked at the youth with the lightning serpent and asked him to perform some punches as well asked him about his cultivation stage .


    Some youths next to Chen Long looked at the old mans with expectations as if asking : "When its our time to show our talent ?"


    However the time never came . The 3 Elders selected a few talented people , naturally one of them is the lightning youth .


    With glee on his face the Chen family Leader walked outside . It was as if the future of the Chen family is secured . After all this time some of the sect disciple may come back , or even act as ancestory for future generations !


    One thing looked funny , from the 6 old mans coming out , 3 of them looked sad and 3 looked happy .


    Mostlikely he got Chen Tian into his sect .


    Just as they wanted to go suddenly Chen Zhen appeared , the one who tried to recruit Chen Long .


    One of the happy Elders walked towards him while patting him on his shoulders .


    The other happy Elder walked towards Chen Zhu , the little fatty while patting him on his shoulders as well .


    With beaming eyes the Chen family leader looked how his family member got accepted into the sects .


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    Now 4 elders got talented people , the lighting serpent youth , Chen Tian , Chen Zhu with unknown reason and Chen Zhen with unknown reason .


    Out principle they took a few random people with them . Just as Chen Long thought about how to live as a mercenary , one of the old mans pointed at him and said : "You , come with me ."


    Shocked Chen Long could only slowly walk to the elder under everyone gaze .


    In the end he was the only one of the chosen half to get selected . The reason ? Because the inherited spirit youths already got taken and the elder who chose Chen Long didn''t want to have fewer numbers than the others .


    Now every one who got an inherited spirit got chosen by one of the sects . It may seem a little bit dumb to let every member who got an inherited spirit go with a sect , but the Chen family is a white shark in sea . So morphing into a small shark wouldn''t change anything . Besides morphing into a smaller shark while a dragon protects you would be better than being a white shark .


    So the journey started . Chen Long got into the same sect as the lightning youth , however he didn''t knew his name .


    No wonder , Chen long only trained and cultivated without caring about the family situation . He didn''t even knew other powers who would be able to rival the Chen family .


    To sum it up , his life he lived previously is extremely useless to him .


    Since this world is a world ruled by power , weak people have no right to say anything .


    Looking up into the blue sky Chen long sighed : "It seems like i am not protected by the mighty plot armor ."


    Staring at back of the old man Chen Long clenched his fist . Will he ever be able to stand above all others ? Destroy mountains with a single though ?


    With a burning spirit Chen Long followed the group , though the feeling didn''t last long .


    Walking for two days Chen Long gazed at the old man .


    "What for a monster !" thought Chen Long while panting and wiping his sweat away .


    Chen Long panted and gaped , the only thing he wanted to do is sleeping for 10 years and eating tons of food . As well as drinking huge amounts of water .


    Turning back to look at the group of youths the old man looked with a disappointed look . The only one who didn''t panted was the lightning youth .


    Comparing himself with the others Chen Long smiled a little bit , at least he isn''t the one who needs a rest the most .


    After all , even without an inborn spirit he is at the peak of the 5th Qi stage . To explain why it''s so important to have a higher stage is quite easy . Imagine Qi as energy which beings are able to absorb , store and use for different purpose .


    No wonder teenager are able to walk for 2 days straight , without any rest or any food . It is because they are using the energy called Qi .


    Clapping into his hands the old man said something which caused the majority to smile : "Okay , we are resting here . Since it seems like that you are too weak to go any future i have good news , we have a transport array in a location which is about 2 weeks away from here ."


    The last sentence caused the majority of the group to feel emberassed . However Chen Long didn''t care , after all its a problem-free transport , so why don''t use it ?


    After that the old man took out a huge pot , noodles and ingredients . Wondering how Chen Long looked at the pouch the man used .


    "Maybe a space pouch ? Or shrinking equipment ?" thought Chen Long while resting .


    While Chen Long and the group waited for the man to finish his cooking a single youth meditated . It is the lightning boy .


    It caused the old man to look at the lightning boy with a satisfied look . Followed by that the group started to meditate as well . Including Chen Long .


    After distributing the noodle Soup , the old man even guided the lightning youth in his training . Drawing envious gazed from the other group member . However they started to flatter the youth .


    Sighing Chen Long looked at the situation , if a little family already started to treat cousins as outsiders and starte to flatter them , then how would a bigger family manage all the branches ? Wouldn''t the blood get lesser and lesser till two member of the same family would almost have no connection to each other ?


    In a blink of an eye two weeks passed , the group arrived in front of the simple looking array . The array looked simple , a single circle .


    Trying to identifiy the array , the only thing Chen Long got is [ ??? ] .


    Chen Long deemed his two abilitys as pretty useless . The AI wasn''t as practical as he thought it would be and appraisal only works on normal things like [Stone] , [Stick] or people names you already know . It couldn''t identify magical objects , the only thing it could do was to mark the not-normal things with a [ ??? ] .


    However Appraisal could train his mental energy , thus speeding up his cultivation speed . So he experimented a little bit future and indeed it can described things . However he needs to use a lot of mental energy to get the description . Though he only could get descriptions of normal Objects like [ Stones ] :


    [Stone: ]


    [A stone the size of a human eye , harder than wood , softer than iron .]


    Stepping on the array the old man commanded the group to stand in the circle before throwing some white powder on the outside .


    Within a second the surrounding disappeared and Chen Long could see that they appeared in a different place .


    Looking around he could see a square with 9 of those transporting arrays , people walking around while chatting .


    With amazement Mike stared at the buildings surrounding the plaza , beautiful houses in the ancient china style .


    The ground paved with bricks .


    Hurrying the group to walk out of the circle , the old man walked in a certain direction .


    After walking through the streets of the city they arrived in front of a house .


    Telling the group to wait , the old man stepped in for a while before appearing with medals .


    "Here is your sect medal , drop a little bit of blood on it . It will show you your sect points which you can use to trade for materials or martial skills . You can earn it by working or trading in this city , to remind you this entire city is part of the fallen leaf sect , so feel free to explore it . To explain the rules :


    - First of all no killing


    - You are all formal disciples so don''t expect the sect to care about you


    - If you want to be an outer or even inner disciple , prove yourself , or be talented


    - You all have the duty of protecting the sect


    - food and lodging is provided as long as work in the sect or pay for it


    - You all have to do some sect missions to earn money , or find work in the sect


    Any Questions ? None ? Okay , since you are all certainly buffed i have a surprise for you . You are allowed to learn the first martial skill for free , go with me ." explained the old man while giving everyone a medal .


    After everyone marked their medals with blood the old man lead the group to the house with a hurry , he talked a little bit with the lightning youth before giving him a bottle of something .


    Then the old man left . Being left alone the group didn''t know what to do and so they waited for a while .


    A steady stream of people walked in and out of the house , with an akward silence the group waited before another old man walked to them and asked : "Newbies ?"


    The one stepping forwards is the lightning youth . Chatting for while the old man smiled and lead the group of people in while explaining with a clear voice : "Okay , we have cultivation techniques and martial skills . Which one do you want to choose ?"


    "Which one would senior choose ?" asked the lightining youth while cupping his hands .


    Smiling the old man replied : "Chen Lei i advice you to choose a cultivation technique , after all i bet you don''t have one yet ."


    It seems the lightning boy is called Chen Lei , realized Chen Long before pondering about the cultivation techniques , didn''t cultivation mean only absorbig Qi ?


    Thank goddness Chen Lei voiced the question : "Why cultivation technique ? Didn''t one only need to absorb Qi to cultivate ?"


    As if expecting the question the old man answered : "Normal Qi can be used for everything , however i believe all of you have a certain speciality you want to focus on . After all , all of you can choose 9 martial spirits . For example a sword master will take 9 swords as his spirits , a fighter will take certain beasts or defensive items like shields or armor as his spirit , a beast controller will try to take a good combo of beasts as his spirits etc. .


    Hahaha , sorry i talk too much . Where was i ? Ah right , cultivation technique . To make it short , the cultivation technique will transform your Qi into another Qi , like fire Qi , or ice Qi or any Qi you want . There are many types of Qi in this world . They all can be transformed , for example if someone with fire Qi eats an ice treasure it will transform into fire Qi . However if someone with fire Qi wants to use an other Qi Spirit or weapon , the effect will halven or even be reduced to 10 or less percent ."


    "No , no . Senior you don''t speak too much . After all we Juniors should listen to some experience of the seniors . Senior can you explain us how the sect works ?" flattered Chen Lei .


    Smiling the old man answered a few questions before they arrived in front of the cultivation technique section .


    Some youths and girls of the Chen Family group already appeared to be nervous and even excited as they walked past different martial skills .


    So they didn''t listened much to the old man , however Chen Long heard everything . He heard the man talking about a job-center for newbies , the lodging , the major powers in the sect etc. .


    To say it short : Necessary stuff .


    Arriving in the cultivation technique section the old man turned to Chen Lei before asking : "What is your spirit ? I can give you some advice ."


    "I have an inborn spirit which is the lightning serpent , no chosen spirit ." answered Chen Lei .


    Smiling the old man answered : "Then a lightning or thunder Cultivation Technique should be good , go to the Iron road and hold your medal to the barried , you then can stay there as long as you want before going out . The first time its free , after that you have to pay . Good luck ."


    With glee the group rushed to the different objects which are the cultivation technique , for example a pond of water for the water Qi . However all Objects appeared to be magical , so Chen Long tried to use appraisal on them . Every single one of them gave a [ ??? ] back .


    Soon the group splitted causing Chen Long to walk around . Reading each description caused Chen long to feel that every type of Qi is amazing . Sword Qi allows the cutting of objects , Stone Qi allows one to have a body as hard as stone , Fire Qi causes one Qi to be as hot as fire and even ignites things etc. .