《Cultivation System》 Chapter 1 Zhao Cang is just a normal student at the age of 17, sadly for him though his parents died 2 years ago, leaving him alone with nothing but money which he used to survive until now. He started to avoid getting into contact with people due to his parents death, leaving him with no people around him. Zhao Cang just layed down on his bed to sleep so he is well rested for another tiring school day when something appeared in his view, causing him to swat at it out of reflex. Zhao Cang found his hand just passing through whatever it was that he swatted, leaving him confused as he looked closer at it. He found that it was something that resembled an advertisement, causing him to wonder if he is hallucinating or not. [Would you like to be one of the 500000 people to obtain the Cultivation System? Y/N PS: If you choose yes, everybody who has ever known you will forever forget about you and you will not be allowed to interact with them] Zhao Cang thought for a moment before he decided to just press yes since he has nobody he cares about anyways. Thinking this, Zhao Cang moves his finger to the Y letter and presses it, which instantly causes him to feel as if he is having an insane hangover. By the time the hangover disappears, Zhao Cang finds himself in un unfamiliar white space, all alone with nobody nor anything around him. He gets up, albeit groggily, and moves around a bit to examine this area. He finds that this white space he is in is around the size of what he thinks to be 75 meters or so. Just as he is about to walk around more, the familiar screen like thing appears in front of him. [Since you have accepted the Cultivation System, you will be given access to support from the system A.I which will act as your guide for the change. You are probably wondering what the change is, so I shall explain it to you. Currently the void covering Earth and another world which we have come to understand is called Li Yang World. Li Yang World is a typical cultivation world, with powerful cultivators who can decimate mountains and split a sea with a wave of their hands, I don''t think I need to explain that further for now. We have no idea why the void is currently distorting, but due to this distortion, Earth is fusing with the Li Yang World, which cannot be stopped from happening. 500000 of us Cultivation Systems were created and given to 500000 different humans around the world. Those that accepted will be sent to a space similar to this one with their A.I, while those that declined will have their memory of the system erased.] Zhao Cang looked at the screen in front of his face, shocked. He didn''t think that something such as this would suddenly happen, so it startled him quite a bit. After a while he calmed down and just accepted it calmly since he adapts to situations pretty easily now. Unknown to him or not, but after he accepted the situation, the A.I started talking again. [The time until the worlds come to fuse, as we call it, is only 1 year from now. During this year, everybody that accepted the Cultivation System will be given a new body and identity, as they cannot use their old ones now. During this year, the Cultivation System will guide the Hosts in Cultivation, Medicine and Poisons. The Hosts will not learn anything else from the system, so the rest will have to be learned in the Li Yang World a year from now. The Hosts will gain access to a type of status that will show them their basic info, after their new body is created. Right now, Host will have to create himself a new body. It can look like anything the Host wishes, even changing genders is possible, though not recommended. Please create your new body now.] Before Zhao Cang appeared a different type of screen. This one had things such as Appearance, Hair, Eye color, Height, Weight and so on. Remembering what the system said about creating a new body, Zhao Cang clicks the button that brings up a normal genderless body that is around 5 ft tall and about 150 pounds. He clicks the Height button and brings it up to exactly 6 feet tall. The body changed itself to exactly 6 feet tall, which is what he wanted. After that he started putting the muscles on the body. The body now had a perfect 6 pack, while his arms and legs had no wasted fat and looked perfect, not full of muscle nor fat. After this he began changing the face of the body. The once extremely normal adrogynous face now looked handsome and perfectly sculpted. The eyes looked sharp while the nose looked to be a perfect fit on his face. His chin became incredibly sharp and refined, while his lips became a seductive redA case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. Zhao Cang looked at the face and nodded to himself before opening the Eye Color tab. He changed his right eye from brown to blue, while the left eye from brown to golden. This gave the body a somewhat mysterious look to it. he opened the Hair tab, as the short shabby brown hair looked bad with the new body. He changed the hair to white/silver and made it go halfway down his back. The hair completely straight with no problems. His bangs went up over his eyes and fell down his back as far as it could. After this Zhao Cang changes the weight of the body from 150 to a 180. He stepped back and admired the body. Perhaps noticing he was down, the system A.I talked again. [Since you have finished creating your body, the system will put the Host into the new body. You will feel a little hangover, but please deal with it.] Zhao Cang barely had time to react before he started to feel really hungover, perhaps worse than when he was brought to this white space. The feeling lasted for at least an hour before it finally finished. After the feeling dissapeared he found himself standing higher than before, which means he successfully changed bodies, Zhao Cang assumed. [Now that your new body has been created, you will now be given a brand new identity. Zhao Cang will no longer exist from now on. Your new identity will be called Xuan Ye Feng, at 17 years old from now on. Now that you have a new body and identity, you will be shown your status.] [-Name: Xuan Ye Feng - Age: 17 - Cultivation: N/A - Elements: N/A - Money: G:0 S:0 C:0] Xuan Ye Feng looked at his status and felt like it has all it really needs, he is just confused about the Elements and money. He figures the system will tell him though. Like he thought, the system speaks again. [The Cultivation spot in your Status will display what your current cultivation is. The cultivation ranks are as follows: Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent, Heavenly, King, Emperor, Monarch and Saint. Each realm has a total of 9 stages.] Xuan Ye Feng understands what the cultivation realms are now, which helps him alot. He figures that the 9 stages in each realm, each time he rises in a stage his strength will grow, is his guess. [Next is the Elements. The elements are as follows: Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, Metal, Wood, Dark, Light, Lightning, Space and Void. Fire and Earth are the most common elements that there are. People normally have only one element while lucky people will have two or three, though that is rare. Space and Void elements are the strongest elements to ever exist, and to date in the Li Yang World, only a total of 1000 people have had either of the 2 before in it''s history.] Xuan Ye Feng finally understands what the Elements was for. ''So it seems that every cultivator will have up to three elements, though rare.'' though Xuan Ye Feng. [The Money tab is seperated into Gold, Silver and Copper. 100 Copper is 1 silver while 100 Silver is 1 Gold. For commoners, Copper is what is mostly used while a few Silver will last them for a year atleast. Cultivators will need a lot of Silver and Gold, especially Gold. Gold can be used to buy things from auctions that are usable for cultivators.] ''That is how I figured it would be. Gold is most useful to me it seems, so I should try and get alot of it when I get to the other world.'' though Xuan Ye Feng, understanding the concept quite clearly. [Since you have your body and know about all the tabs on your status, it is time to give you your Elements. You will randomly get any of the elements previously listed, ranging from 1 to 3. System will now begin the Element Roulette.] [Spinning Element amount... Congratulations to Host. You can obtain 3 Elements.] [Spinning Elements... Host has obtained Fire, Wood and Space Elements.] Xuan Ye Feng looked at the screen a bit startled, since he understands that Space is the rarest element with void, while Wood is also quite rare. Not to mention that he actually obtained 3 elements, with one being Space and another Wood.''it seems that my luck is really good, for me to get 3 elements, all being good elements.'' thought Xuan Ye Feng. [Congatulations for obtaining 3 good Elements, Host. Fire and Wood Elements will allow you to become an Alchemist, which are very rare and a very useful occupation, as you can create pills to assist your cultivation. System will add Alchemy to the Guide list for Host to learn over the next year. Since Host has a new body and identity, while also completing everything they need inside this space, Host will now be sent to a random spot that Host will live at for the next year. Host will be living away from all populated areas and will live out of the range of any city or town for the whole year, as Host cannot be distracted during his training.] The last thing Xuan Ye Feng remembered before he fainted was a very bright light shrouding his body. Chapter 2 When Xuan Ye Feng woke up, he found himself looking straight up at the blue sky. He then remembered what happened before he fainted and figures this will be the area he is living at, so he sits up to look around. The first thing Xuan Ye Feng sees is a large forest to the right of him. There are thousands of giant trees, and those are only the ones he can currently see.''This forest will most likely be hundreds if not thousands of kilometers in length.'' concludes Xuan Ye Feng. He looks towards the left of him now and notices a small manor sitting there, clean and seemingly well taken care of. He figures that this is where he will be living for a year so he shrugs and starts walking towards the manor. Once Xuan Ye Feng reaches the gate of the manor, the system popped up again. [This manor is where you will be living at for the year. Inside it there is a kitchen, a room with a bed, a medicine chamber, a poison chamber and an alchemy chamber. The forest towards the front of the manor where be where you will be able to find things such as herbs for poison, medicine and alchemy. There will also be beasts that will be roaming around, which you will use to train on at a later time in your cultivation. All the herbs you will need to get for your poison creation, medicine creation and alchemy will be found by yourself on the outskirts and outer circles of the forest. System has made it so that there will be no beasts in either of these parts, only inside the inner area, so you will be safe.] ''The system is most likely going to be making me get used to every herb so when I get to the Li Yang World, I won''t be completely clueless even though I was trained in using herbs.'' figures Xuan Ye Feng. He notes that he will have to memorize everything about each herb he finds, so he doesn''t use poisonous herbs within medicine. He enters the manor and the first thing that appears is just a basic room with different exits. The first one leads to the kitchen, which looks like one from thousands of years back, nothing modernized. The opposite side of the kitchen lays a room with a bed, where he assumes is his sleeping courters. He continues walking and ignores both ways and finds 3 different rooms. Above each room door has a sign reading either: Poison Chamber, Medicine Chamber or Alchemy Chamber. As he is thinking which chamber to enter first, the system appears. [Host will sadly have to give up either Poisons or Medicine due to having added Alchemy to the guide list. System recommends giving up poison, as medicine will be much more useful to Host within the Li Yang World. To choose which one to keep, either enter the Poison Chamber and the Medicine Chamber will dissapear, or enter the Medicine Chamber, resulting in the Poison Chamber dissapearing.] Xuan Ye Feng somewhat expected this to happen, so he is not that startled. He doesn''t think much before he enters the Medicine Chamber, because as the system said, medicine arts will be more useful in a world full of fighting. Once he enters the door to the Medicine Chamber, he finds himself in a small version of the white space, probably only 1/5 of the size. [Since Host has chosen the Medicine Chamber, the Poison Chamber will dissapear once Host exits the small space. Inside this Medicine Chamber, Host will learn all the vital points of a human body and will be made to completely memorize them. After Host has done so, Host will then learn acupuncture. Upon learning acupuncture, Host will be able to heal himself or any other person Host wishes to with it. Acupuncture is designated as the best medicine art by system. Host will now completely learn and remember every vital part of the human body before he is allowed to leave. Please follow the white arrow and do as told.] Xuan Ye Feng was surprised that he will be learning Acupuncture, but thinking about it further, the Li Yang World is an ancient world where modern stuff will not exist, so it makes a lot of sense now. He looks around and glowing white arrow, which he follows. He walks for 5 minutes before he reaches a little area that has a human body and a table there. Not sure if the body is real or not, he doesn''t mind and walks to the table. On the table, Xuan Ye Feng finds a detailed report about the human body, which he reads over. He takes 3 hours to fully memorize it and can recall it at any time, so he figures his new body has a perfect memory. The contents of the report were basically each and every acupoint on the body, as well as organs and the such. He then is told to examine the body to find each part written in the report on the body. Xuan Ye Feng first decides to find each and every organ in the human body before anything else. He spends 8 hours locating and memorizing each spot of the human bodies organs, completely embedding them inside his mind, keeping each spot memorized. Afterwhich he decides to do the bones and joints of the body, so he can fix them should anything happen in the future.If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. Xuan Ye Feng does not know how long he took to memorize each bone use and position, but he found he is not tired, so he figures that he will not be tired ever inside these chambers. He finally memorized each bone in the human body, so Xuan Ye Feng decides it is time to work on the acupoints. Xuan Ye Feng truly lost himself in memorizing each acupoint, as there is apparently 72 acupoints that he needs to memorize each flow, use and position of. He feels like he took at least 2 days to memorize the acupoints, even though there are less than the bones. After he managed to memorize everything, the system decides to pop up. [You took a total of 53 hours to memorize each Organ, Bone and Acupoint. This is a very good result, as people would normally take up to a week, while you took less than 3 days. Since you have memorized each vital human part, it is time for you to practice acupuncture. On the table you will find a set of silver needles, as well as a cloth and water to clean them. You will be given a live human body that is injured and you will need to save it. There will be no mind in the body, just the flesh. If the body dies, you will fail and have to restart on a new body. Do not panic whilst doing acupuncture on the body, as the clearer your state of mind is, the better the result of acupuncture will be. You will be learning how to seal bloodflow, make the person unconcious so they won''t feel the pain during the treatment and so on.] Xuan Ye Feng didn''t need another reminder and instantly went back to the table and found everything there. He picks up a few silver needles and heads back to where the new body is. There are numerous wounds on the body, making it look gruesome. Xuan Ye Feng doesn''t mind it though, as he is used to seeing bloody bodies such as these. He quickly remembers the acupoint where he can make the target fall unconcious and instantly hits it with his silver needle, making the body fall asleep. After he does so, he starts placing silver needles on spots that can seal the bloodflow of the wounded areas, giving him more time to heal the body up. 2 hours later he has finished cleaning the wounds and making all the wounds start to close. Xuan Ye Feng looks at the closing wounds and finds the acupuncture just seems to be pretty magical. No wonder the system wanted him to learn it, he thought. He spends the next 20 hours experimenting with all types of wounds and safely manages to heal the body up each time, leaving no wounds, just scars. As Xuan Ye Feng finishes with the latest body and wounds, the system pops up again. [You have dealt with every kind of wound that is possible to heal with acupuncture and completed in doing so each time, so you have completed learning acupuncture. System was reading to teach Host over the next month, however since Host is simply a genius in acupuncture, Host will be given a lot more time for cultivation and alchemy. The next thing Host will be doing will be cultivation, because it is very hard to do any alchemy without profound energy, and the only way to get profound energy is when you are a cultivator. Host needs to get to at least stage 5 of Qi Condensation before starting alchemy, so that Host won''t be too exhausted by trying to make a single pill.] Xuan Ye Feng is actually pretty happy because even the system said he was a genius in acupuncture, which means he is probably going to be one of the best at it in the Li Yang World. He notices that a door appeared behind him, which he assumes will just let him exit the medicine chamber. He walks through the door and it is as he expected, he is back outside the entrance. He notices that the Poison Chamber is now gone, like the system said. Since the system said that he has to cultivate now, Xuan Ye Feng assumes that he will be doing it in his room, so he heads there. Once he enters his room, the system talks again. [You will be cultivating in your room from now on until you reach at least stage 5 of Qi Condensation before leaving. To start cultivating, you will need to guide a strand of spiritual energy into your dantian, which is located below your navel. Once you have that one strand in your dantian, you will officially become a cultivator. After that you will just have to constantly do the same thing, though it will be easier. Each time you will need to completely fill your dantian with spiritual power before you get ready to breakthrough to the next stage. Earth has a very low spiritual power, so it will take you a lot longer to cultivate he then it would on the Li Yang World.] Suddenly information and images appear in his mind, causing Xuan Ye Feng to cringe a little from the unexpected pain. Once all of the information is processed, he realizes that the system just gave him the proper way to cultivate, so he sits on his bed in the lotus position and starts to feel around his body for a while before he manages to find a flow to his dantian. Since he founds the flow he will use to reach his dantian, Xuan Ye Feng reaches out to try and absorb the spiritual energy into his body. He keeps failing at doing so, but he doesn''t get discouraged, instead he gets more motivated. By the time he actually manages to get a strand of spiritual energy into his body, it took him 7 or so hours. Finally getting a strand of spiritual energy in his body, Xuan Ye Feng gets excited and makes the strand of energy flow through his body on the path he found earlier to his dantian. The energy slowly but surely heads towards the dantian. After a while the spiritual energy strand finally manages to come in contact with his dantian and enters it, causing something akin to an explosion to happen in his dantian, causing it to expand, making Xuan Ye Feng feel a large amount of pain which he eventually cannot stand and finally falls unconscious, while his dantian keeps expanding itself, greedily absorbing all the spiritual energy around him. Chapter 3 When Xuan Ye Feng awoke, he clearly felt that his body was stronger than before. He remembers that just as he managed to guide the spiritual energy strand into his dantian, he was slammed with intense pain causing him to faint, beyond that he remembers nothing. [Well, system did not expect that to happen at all. Host is recommended to check their status.] Confused a bit by the system, Xuan Ye Feng does as it says and brought up his system, stunning him. [-Name: Xuan Ye Feng - Age: 17(130) - Cultivation: Qi Condensation Stage 3 - Elements: Fire, Wood, Space - Money: G:0 S:0 C:0] ''What? How did I suddenly go straight to stage 3? Shouldn''t I have barely entered stage 1 by absorbing that energy strand?'' thought Xuan Ye Feng quite confused. Suddenly going from no profound energy, straight to stage 3, it''s not something that should happen. [System really wonders if Host should really be living in the Li Yang World. For Host to jump straight from no cultivation to stage 3 of Qi Condensation, it wouldn''t be surprising if Host was already a Nascent rank cultivator if he was born in the Li Yang World. Normally, Host should have taken around 1 month to reach stage 3, yet Host used a mere nights time to do so. Host should continue to cultivate for a week straight to see how far Host can rise in cultivation, to see if this is a common occurence or not.] Xuan Ye Feng agrees with the system, it would be best if he found it whether or not this promotion speed will be his norm, as if it is, he would become very strong during this year. Xuan Ye Feng gets himself back into the lotus pose and guides the spiritual energy in the air towards himself. What shocked him the most was that the energy seemed to eagerly rush towards him, heading straight towards his dantian upon entering his body, without his guidance. Bang! Within an hours time, Xuan Ye Feng directly broke through to the 4th stage. This cultivation speed honestly surprised him to no end, yet after that surprise came glee, because this cultivation speed is for him. Xuan Ye Feng is positive he can become very strong within the year he has before ending up in the Li Yang World. Xuan Ye Feng doesn''t bother stopping, and continues to absorb the spiritual energy in the air, hoping to keep increasing his strength. 7 days later Bang! ''I finally broke through to the eighth stage of Qi Condensation!'' thought Xuan Ye Feng. He did not stop cultivating even once during this last week, directly increasing his strength all the way to stage 8. It would normally take people years to get to stage 8, yet he did it in a week. [Host is honestly a monster. Even a genius in the Li Yang World would need to cultivate for 5 years before entering stage 8 of Qi Condensation. Host doing this in a simple week makes system wonder whether or not Host will even need to use 6 months to cultivate. Since Host has reached stage 8, Host should head towards the Alchemy Chamber, so Host can start doing alchemy.] Xuan Ye Feng jumps off his bed and finally notices that he is covered in black gas, which completely ruined his clothing. He strips off his clothing before washing himself in a big bucket he has in his rooms corner. He looks in the dresser that is in his room, thanking the system for giving him multiple sets of clothing. Xuan Ye Feng slips on a simple pair of clothes and heads out of his room towards the Alchemy Chamber. When he reaches the Alchemy Chamber, Xuan Ye Feng directly enters it, appearing within another white space of similar size to the Medicine Chamber white space. He directly notices a table that has a report on it, similar to the one within the Medicine Chamber. Spread out on another few tables are a bunch of different herbs, which Xuan Ye Feng figures he will be using to practice alchemy with. In the middle of the tables is an ordinary looking pill furnace. Xuan Ye Feng reads the report and it even has pictures of herbs with a very detailed report about each and single herb, telling him the uses of each of them. Memorizing each of the herbs appearance and use, he finds the section that tells him how to create pills. He first has to seperate the essence from the herbs, before he starts to fuse the herbs within the furnace one by one. After that he has to keep the heat at a set level and keep rotating the herbs within the furnace, while being careful to not let his focus waver. After noting everything important and remembers the steps and herb details, Xuan Ye Feng directly heads over to the tables where the herbs are and picks 7 out of them. These 7 herbs will allow Xuan Ye Feng to create a simple tier 1 Profound Gathering Pill, which can assist him in gathering the spiritual energy faster. Xuan Ye Feng starts by removing the essence from each of the herbs, succeeding in doing so. After that he uses his fire element to create a steady fire within the pill furnace. With a steady fire, Xuan Ye Feng starts adding the herbs. He puts the first herb in, keeping it afloat just above the fire with his profound energy. Seeing that nothing went wrong, he adds the second herb, doing the same thing, just this time he starts attempting to put the two herbs together. He does it very slowly, focusing completely on fusing these two herbs. He manages to succeed in doing it, so he adds the third herb. As he was about to have the third herb fuse with the other 2, the herbs directly disperse, meaning he failed.This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. Not taking the failure to heart, Xuan Ye Feng grabs another of the same 7 herbs, this time removing all of the essence altogether inside of the furnace. He then starts fusing the herbs in the order that was told in the report, and an hour later, all 7 herbs have completely fused together. Since he has fused all the herbs together, Xuan Ye Feng starts to rotate all of the herbs that are in something akin to a giant moss ball. he starts slowly, before he starts speeding up slowly. 6 hours later, a bunch of smoke comes out of the pill furnace, nearly choking him. Xuan Ye Feng waves his hands around to get rid of the smoke and finds 3 white pills inside of the pill furnace. Seeing that the appearance of the pills is exactly as depicted in the report, Xuan Ye Feng starts to smile before grabbing the pills out of the furnace. Xuan Ye Feng remembers that he saw a table full of glass bottles, so he grabs one and places the 3 pills inside before sealing it. Xuan Ye Feng rests so he can fill his profound energy back again. After resting and having his profound energy full again, he grabs different herbs from the table. 8 months later Poof! a bunch of smoke appears in Xuan Ye Fengs face, though he is already used to this. He waves the smoke away before looking inside the furnace, seeing 3 green pills. He laughs out loud before grabbing the pills and placing them in a pill bottle. ''I finally created a tier 3 healing pill!'' thought Xuan Ye Feng happily. He managed to create hundreds of tier 1 Profound Gathering and Healing pills in the first month he started alchemy, so he decided ti was time for tier 2 pills. It took him only 3 months to create a hundred of each pill, just this time it being tier 2. During the last 4 months, Xuan Ye Feng has been trying to create a tier 3 healing pill, and he finally managed to succeed for the first time in the 4 months. Now that he succeeded once, Xuan Ye Feng knows that he will be able to make them a lot easier from now on. [Congratulations to Host for creating tier 3 Healing Pills. Host only took 8 months to do what most alchemists would take 10 years to do. Host only has 4 months until he is sent to the Li Yang World, so Host should focus on increasing his strength during these 4 months now. Host being at only Qi Condensation stage 8 will not be enough there, so Host should make use of the pills he has created to increase his strength fast.] Xuan Ye Feng agrees with the system there, that his strength is really too little now. He enters the door and appears back inside of his manor and walks straight towards his room to start cultivating. Sitting in a lotus position on his bed, he takes out a tier 2 Profound Gathering Pill and swallows it before guiding the spiritual energy towards him. Within a few seconds he already notices the huge advantage he has with these pills. If his cultivation speed before without them was insane, now it would be godly. He only takes 3 hours to breakthrough to the 9th stage, leaving him only that on leap to entering the Foundation Establishment stage. Xuan Ye Feng cultivates for another 4 hours before the pills use runs out, so he just grabs 9 tier 1 pills and swallows them. Though not as effective as the tier 2 pill, the effect is still there. 6 days later, Xuan Ye Feng hears that familiar Bang! and realises he finally broke through to the Foundation Establishment. He excitedly feels about his body and notices the massive change. His profound energy has at least doubled, if not tripled from when he was at the 9th stage of Qi Condensation. He cleans himself of all the filth that has gathered on his body the past few days and puts on new clothes before resuming his cultivation with another tier 2 pill. 4 months later Bang! Xuan Ye Feng hears that very familiar sound, which means he broke through to the Gold Core, finally.''I finally managed to enter the Gold Core realm, and it only took me a few months! I should at least not be a weakling once I enter the other world now right?'' wonders Xuan Ye Feng. [System really did not expect Host to actually enter the Gold Core realm within a few months. System is able to reward Host for doing something nobody of the other 499999 other Hosts has done. Host can choose between the following 3 rewards: A tier 5 sword and 10 years of battle experience from a sword cultivator 5 million Gold and a tier 2 weapon of Host choice An increase of Host cultivation directly to stage 9 of Gold Core. Please choose what Host wishes for.] Xuan Ye Feng is truly stunned this time. The rewards he can choose from are actually insane, but he already knows what he wants. Xuan Ye Feng directly chooses the tier 5 sword and 10 years of battle experience, as that will be of the most use in the new world to him. When Xuan Ye Feng chose his reward, a sword fell on the ground in front of him, while he has the familiar feeling of memory transfer. Xuan Ye Feng closes his eyes and allows the memories to come to him. In the memories he sees himself battling against hundreds of people alone with just his sword, firing out sword qi each slash. He remembers each and every position and way for him to attack with the sword. This continues in different scenes for seemingly years, yet he knows it is just in an instant. When Xuan Ye Feng opens his eyes, there is a drastic change to his temperament. He looks like a sharp sword waiting to be drawed, ready for slaughter. His face is completely cold, seemingly devoid of emotion. He stands up and picks up the sword that is on the ground, finding it familiar. He finally remmebers that this is the sword that was in the memories he just had. The sword seems to be extremely happy being in his hands as it starts to tremble and transfers a feeling of happiness to him. [There is only 1 day until Earth fuses with the Li Yang World. System recommends that Host rests for the final day, so his mind is well rested and ready to go. System will notify the Host when there is 1 minute until the fusion, so Host should rest until then.] Xuan Ye Feng simply lays down on his bed and places his sword to his side, before he falls asleep for the first time in nearly a year. Chapter 4 [Host, there is 1 minute remaining until the world fusion. Recommended for Host to get up and get ready.] Xuan Ye Feng gets up and stretches his body for a while before he picks up his sword. Having the sword in his hand feels so familiar that he feels like those memories were not actually memories, though he can''t be sure of anything. [Unknown interference detected... Interference blocks world fusion... Earth and Li Yang World no longer in danger of fusion... 500000 Hosts will be forcefully transported to the Li Yang World...] Before Xuan Ye Feng can do anything, he is suddenly sucked into a type of door similar to that of the ones that take him to the white space. The next thing he knew was that he is currently within a forest. Xuan Ye Feng recalls that the system said something about interference, which caused the worlds to no longer fuse, yet since the 500000 people have the system, they were forced to come here. [Due to unknown reasons all 500000 hosts have been transported to the Li Yang World. There was no alternative. Someone or something directly stopped the world fusion, resulting in only the hosts being sent to this world. All systems were given permission to give their Host an apology gift, which is the following: 100000 Gold, Silver and Copper Coins, one unlimited Spatial Ring and 10 loyal shadow guards. The Spatial Ring will be directly fitted onto Host finger, while the coins will be placed directly inside. The shadow guards will listen to anything Host says, even if Host tells them to commit suicide, they will. There is 5 male and 5 female shadow guards, all of which are at the 5th stage of Gold Core.] Suddenly, Xuan Ye Feng felt something tighten itself around the index finger on his right hand. Looking down he notices a good looking ring and realizes that this should be the spatial ring. The next second he notices 10 people dressed in fully black clothes suddenly appearing and kneeling down to him "Master!" they all call out towards Xuan Ye Feng. He realizes that these must be his new shadow guards. He looks are them closer and notices that they all seem to be in their early twenties. "Get up. Tell me your names." Xuan Ye Feng says. The ten shadow guards get up, but they don''t speak. They just look at eachother for a while until one of them finally steps forward. "Master, we have no names. Master is supposed to name us, however he wishes." replies one of the male guards. Xuan Ye Feng is startled for a second, before he realizes that this makes sense, since they were just created. Xuan Ye feng thinks for a minute before speaking. "Okay. From now on your names will be, Ye Sha, Ye Gu, Ye Mo, Ye Zho, Ye Wu, Ye Shi, Ye Xi, Ye Yi, Ye Yue and Ye Na." states Xuan Ye Feng. They all kneel down again and thank him before standing again. Xuan Ye Feng remembers his spatial ring and decides to check inside it by putting a wisk of profund energy into it. The next second his mind entered a little black space, inside of it there are hundreds of chests full of Gold, Silver and Copper coins. His tier 5 sword is also there, which relaxes him since he was wondering where it went. "Ye Sha, Ye Gu, you two go search for a city. Ye Xi, Ye Yue, you two go find a wild beast to kill and bring it back to eat." orders Xuan Ye Feng. The four reply and head out in different directions. Xuan Ye Feng and the other six shadow guards remain in the same spot. 30 minutes later, Ye Sha and Ye Gu return, another 15 minutes after that Ye Xi and Ye Yue also return. "Master, me and Ye Gu have found what seems to be the capital city of this place. It is about 10 or 15 minutes of a run from this spot." reports Ye Sha. Xuan Ye Feng nods and tells Ye Xi and Ye Yue to roast the beast they hunted. They quickly create a fire and expertly skin the beasts before roasing the meat perfectly. They all eat the beast meat before heading in the direction Ye Sha and Ye Gu previously went. Running for 20 minutes, Xuan Ye Feng and his shadow guards find a giant city, which Ye Sha reports is the capital city. Xuan Ye Feng orders his shadow guards to hide themselves and sneak into the city, while he uses a weird movement technique from his memories. He dissapears like a ghost and appears in an empty alleyway inside the capital, with his shadow guards appearing a few seconds later. "Ye Sha, you go search for a good manor we can use as our base from now on, keep it clean. The rest of you 9 will go around the capital and gather all the information about this area as you can. gather information about the rulers, the continent and so on." orders Xuan Ye Feng. The 10 of them all obey and dissapear in a flash, going to complete their orders.Enjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site. Xuan Ye Feng finds a random mask and picks it up and checks it out. After determining that there is nothing wrong with the mask, he decides to use this as his mask from now on, and puts it on his face. The mask hides his whole face except his eyes. Having found a mask which is something he figured he would be needing in this world, Xuan Ye Feng decides to check out his status, as he has not done so recently. [- Name: Xuan Ye Feng - Age: 18 - Cultivation: Gold Core stage 1 - Elements: Fire, Wood, Space - Money: G:100k, S:100k, C100k] ''So I can see all my money by simply checking my status, rather than counting it'' muses Xuan Ye Feng. Looking around the alleyway while still hiding a bit, he notices a clothe shop and snatches a black robe before placing it on his body, rather than earths clothes. Having clothes that can be considered normal here, Xuan Ye Feng finally decides to leave the alleyway. Walking out of the alley, he instantly attracts a lot of attention, though he decides it is normal, considering he has a mask on. Xuan Ye Feng walks around the capital city ignoring all of the stares, while noting all the city details, so that he knows his way around it in the future. After walking around for about an hour, Xuan Ye Feng decides to stop at a restaurant to wait for his shadow guards, so he enters a nearby restaurant. A waiter quickly comes over and greets him. "Hello sir, would you like a table or a private room?" asks the waiter. Xuan Ye Feng looks down at him for a few seconds before he replies. "Get me a private room." says Xuan Ye Feng. The waiter looks at Xuan Ye Feng a little bit stunned, before quickly leading him towards a private room on the second floor. Upon entering the room, Xuan Ye Feng simply tells the waiter to get him a meal that has meat, which the waiter quickly nods and leaves the room. Xuan Ye Feng sits down on a chair and leans back on it, waiting for his food. Before the food even comes, Ye Sha appears silently in front of Xuan Ye Feng kneeling. "Did you find a good manor, Ye Sha?" questions Xuan Ye Feng, while still relaxing in his chair. Ye Sha looks up at his master for a few seconds, admiring his overall beauty, before quickly snapping out of it and replying. "Yes, master. I found a perfect manor that is located near the palace. It is a bit expensive, but master should have enough money for it. The positioning and size of the manor is perfect, second only to the imperial palace, where the emperor and his family lives." replies Ye Sha. Xuan Ye Feng gives a quick hum of acceptance, and ignores Ye Sha while waiting for his food. After a few minutes, a knock on the door and the smell of food tells Xuan Ye Feng that his food is here. Ye Sha quickly dissapears and Xuan Ye Feng says "Come in." The door opens and the waiter comes in with a big plate of meat. There are also some vegatables on the side, though he isn''t quite sure what they are. "Sir, the meal costs a total of 25 silvers." the waiter says, to which Xuan Ye Feng raises an eyebrow under his mask, but doesn''t mind it and waves his hand, directly giving the waiter 25 silver. The waiter bows a bit before leaving, while Xuan Ye Feng takes off his mask upon the door closing and starts eating. The meat is quite juicy and tastes very good, so Xuan Ye Feng figures that this is probably one of the best restauraunts restaurants in the city, which would explain the price. Xuan Ye Feng eats his meal for a good 40 minutes before he sits up and walks out the door, and heads towards the exit. Leaving the restaurant, Ye Sha tells him that the person selling the manor is waiting for him there, so he heads over to the manor with Ye Sha leading. A few minutes later, Xuan Ye Feng and Ye Sha arrive in front of a large manor that seems better than the one he lived in for a year back on Earth. Noticing them come over, a fat person starts walking over to them. He looks at Xuan Ye Feng up and down, before he starts speaking to them. "Are you the one that wants to buy the manor? The cost for the manor is 4000 gold coins. Do you want to pay now, or later?" asks the fat manager. Xuan Ye Feng waves his hand and a bag full of gold coins appears in front of them. The fat manager opens the bag, and seeing all the gold coins inside, looks at Xuan Ye Feng differently. Taking the bag of gold coins, the fat manager hands some papers over to Xuan Ye Feng, which seem like proerpty deeds to him, so he puts them inside his storage ring. Now officially owning the manor, Xuan Ye Feng heads inside with Ye Sha following behind him. He notices that the manor is clean and looks quite expensive inside, which he doesn''t mind much. Xuan Ye Feng heads towards the master bedroom and looks at it. The room is perfectly clean, with nothing wrong with it. The bed has brand new sheets, so he figures that the manor was just completely cleaned and changed. "When the other 9 come back with their information, just tell them to wait until tomorrow, as I am going to cultivate. They can tell me everything tomorrow, so don''t disturb me." orders Xuan Ye Feng. Ye Sha quickly obeys and dissapears out of the room, going who knows where. Xuan Ye Feng doesn''t bother any further and sits down on the bed in a lotus position, whilst taking out 3 tier 2 Profound Gather pills and putting them into his mouth, before he starts cultivating. Chapter 5 Xuan Ye Feng opens his eyes upon feeling the familiar feeling of breaking through.''Li Yang World really is a much better place to cultivate at then Earth is... Directly breaking through in just a nights cultivations.'' muses Xuan Ye Feng. He gets up from his bed and heads out of the bedrooms doors. Probably noticing that his master is done cultivating, Ye Sha appears in front of Xuan Ye Feng. "Master, the other 9 are currently waiting for you within the middle room with their information." reports Ye Sha. Xuan Ye Feng nods and walks towards the middle room, which he considers to be the living room. Once he enters, he finds the other 9 shadow guards are waiting for him. They are about to greet him, but he interupts them, "Tell me what you all learned." orders Xuan Ye Feng. They all look at eachother before Ye Gu finally steps up. "Master, the continent we are on is called the Ji Zhi Continent. It is one of the 5 continents that exist in the Li Yang World. It is also the weakest one. The other 4 continents are called the Bo Pa Continent, Ka Mi Continent, Qi Hao Continent and the Central Continent. The continents are also ordered by strength, with Ji Zhi being the weakest and the Central Continent being the strongest. The Central Continent is larger than the other 4 combined, and the weakest people there are Heavenly cultivators." reports Ye Gu. Xuan Ye Feng is a little surprised that the weakest cultivators on the Central Continent are already Heavenly realm, but after thinking about it for a while, the continent itself is larger than the others combined, so it makes some sense. Seeing as how Ye Gu is done, Ye Mo also starts reporting. "Master, this capital city is called Ji Capital City. The royal family here are surnamed Nangong. The emperor is called Nangong Zhi Mo, and he is currently at Nascent stage 6, being the strongest person in Ji Zhi Continent. He has 30 guards, all being in Gold Core between stage 3 and stage 8. There are 4 Princes and 2 Princesses. The crown prince, Nangong Zhi Hao is a 26 year old Gold Core stage 4 cultivator. He also has Fire and Wind elements, and is praised to be a complete genius. The second prince, Nangong Zhi Yun is 24 years old and is a Gold Core stage 2, with Fire element. Though not compared to the crown prince, he is also somewhat of a genius. The third prince, Nangong Zhi Shu is 16 years old and is currently at Foundation Establishment stage 6, which people consider normal for a royal family. The fourth prince, Nangong Zhi Ki is 8 years old and hasn''t started cultivating yet. The first princess, Nangong Zhi Lin, is 16 years old and is at Foundation Establishment stage 3. The second princess, Nangong Zhi Yue is 13 and is considered trash, as she is not able to cultivate. She is apparently very cowardly and is always alone with a single servant." reports Ye Mo. Xuan Ye Feng raises and eyebrow at the cultivation of the royal family, realizing that he is still too weak. Ye Xi steps up next to report her results. "Master, the forest we appeared in is called the Death Forest. It is a massive forest that lengths at a few thousands Km. The outer layers of the forest are filled with Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment beasts, where people from all over train their young. The inner area is filled with Gold Core and some Nascent beasts. There is also a possibility that there is a Heavenly beast somewhere there." report Ye Xi. Xuan Ye Feng narrows his eyes at the mention of a Heavenly beast, but doesn''t bother about it after a bit of thinking.Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. Ye Shi also steps up now. "Master, there is an academy called White Snow Academy. It accepts people from all over the continent, though most of them fail the exams. The headmaster is a stage 4 Nascent, almost as strong as the Emperor, and it appears they are good friends. The are thousands of Foundation Establishment and hundreds of Gold Core cultivators there, not to mention the amount of Qi Condensation ones. The Academy sends people to train at the outer area of the Death Forest every month as a test. Those that do the best will be rewarded, while those that do the worst will be punished, though I am not aware of what the rewards and punishments are." Reports Ye Shi. Xuan Ye Feng figured there would be an academy such as this, so it does not come as much of a surprise. What surprised him is the headmasters cultivation. Ye Zho steps up this time. "Master, there is a Prime Minister called Zhao Jiu. He is a Gold Core stage 7 cultivator, not considered that strong, though he is very smart and gives a lot of ideas to the Emperor. There is two generals in the capital, both of which are Nascent stage 2. The first general is called Song Jin and he is very close to the crown prince, so I assume he is under him. The second general, Zhu Cang is similarily under the second prince. I think that the crown prince and second prince are secretly fighting, to see who will be the true crown prince." reports Ye Zho. Xuan Ye Feng is once again reminded that his cultivation is currently too low. The others report that they have nothing to say that hasn''t already been said, so Xuan Ye Feng dismisses them and decides to constantly cultivate until something big or interesting happens. After telling his shadow guards this, they all understand and won''t disturb him unless something big is going on. Xuan Ye Feng heads back to his room and sits on his bed and takes out one of his few tier 3 Profound Gathering pills and puts it in his mouth. After swallowing it he finds that the spiritual energy around is constantly rushing towards his body in surges, and in a matter of a few hours he broke through to Gold Core stage 3. 1 month later, Xuan Ye Feng is at Gold Core stage 9 and is about to swallow another pill and continue cultivating before he hears someone knock on his door. "What is it?" asks Xuan Ye Feng. The door opens and Ye Sha comes in and kneels at the edge of his bed. "Master, the Emperor, Nangong Zhi Mo, is celebrating his birthday tomorrow, and an invitation was sent to our manor inviting you to go. Should I dispose of the invitation?" asks Ye Sha. Xuan Ye Feng thinks for a bit before shaking his head. "No need. I should head to the Emperors birthday to meet him at least. Go buy me a good pill furnace aswell as all these herbs." orders Xuan Ye Feng while writing down a long list of herbs. Ye Sha takes the list and looks it over before dissapearing and heading to buy everything. Xuan Ye Feng waits for about an hour before Ye Sha comes back. He hands over a spatial ring to Xuan Ye Feng and he looks inside it. Xuan Ye Fend finds an exquisite looking pill furnace, aswell as thousands of herbs and leftover gold inside the spatial ring. He sends Ye Sha away and brings out the pill furnace and a bunch of herbs and starts the same old steps. He fails a few times, and succeeds a few times over the next few hours and at the end of it all, he has 4 bottles of tier 3 Profound Gather and Healing pills. Xuan Ye Feng decides to gift the Emperor a bottle of each pill, as tier 3 pills are rare as heck outside of the Central Continent. Xuan Ye Feng sees that it is still not that late, so he decides to just continue his cultivation until the time for the Emperors birthday comes. Notice Thing Hey! I am the brother of SwordGod Vastarael. My brother figured that you would all probably be wondering why there has been no chapters out even though it has been nearly two weeks, so he told me to come and tell you all. About two weeks ago, the same day as the last chapter my brother released, he got into a car accident and has been in the hospital since, so he isn''t able to write any new chapters. His laptop also broke so he cannot write at the hospital, so it will have to wait until he comes back home.Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. My brother should be home in 2 weeks, since that is when he get''s discharged, so two more weeks and then he will finally be back to writing his novel. I should have wrote this note a lot earlier but I forgot, so sorry about that. My brother should be back from the hospital on November 23 or 26, so please wait until then. Thank you!