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 Chapter 1 : A New Beginning

    Early morning. It was an important day of the year and every clan in Cloud City was preparing for something big.


    Cloud City, Feng Clan Mansion


    In one of the rooms of the Feng Clan mansion sat a handsome youth who was around 15 to 16 years of age with intelligent eyes, yet he seemed confused about something.


    "This is... strange. I''m sure i died... yet im alive, but this body doesn''t seem to be mine at the very least. It seems to be that i have reincarnated. My name is Feng Xing... I also still retain the memories of this person..."


    "Feng Xing!" Someone yelled.


    "Are you still not out yet! Today is a very important day come out now!"


    Feng Xing came out and saw a middle aged manoutside his door.


    This middle aged man was Feng Kong, his father.


    "So this is my father, current master of the clan" Feng Xing thought.


    "You unfilial brat!" Feng Kong yelled.


    "When were you planning to come out! Have you forgotten what day it is!?" Feng Kong had a face full of anger towards his son.


    "Father... I would like to ask what day it is..." Feng Xing calmly said.


    FengKong at this moment was even angrier.


    "You are my son and you don''t even know? Today is the day thegeniuses of most clans are gonna apply to join the Moonfire Sect!"


    "Moonfire Sect..." Feng Xing now recalled some memories.


    "Father if i remember correctly, then i should be atleast at the 4th Rank of the TemperingPath to apply right? I''m currently at the 3rd Rank so what does all this have to do with me?"


    Feng Kong sighed inwardly.


    "Son, you have been stuck at the 3rd Rank of the Tempering Path for 2 years already..." Feng Kong said.


    "What! The previous owner of this body had been stuck for 2 years at this rank?!" Feng Xing was shocked but maintaineda calm face.


    "I know." Feng Xing replied calmly.


    Feng Xing still didn''t have enough time to check the condition of his body yet, but he clearly felt that he was at a low level. The shocking part was that he stayed like this for 2 whole years. Normal cultivators at the 3rd Rank could atleast breakthrough to the 4th Rank in a year.


    "I paid a huge sum to buy a Rank 5 Tempering Pill for you... in hopes that you will breakthrough to the 4rth rank."


    Pills were very useful for cultivation they could make cultivating a lot faster or could even let a person directly breakthrough! Tempering Pills were mainly used by people in the Tempering Path realm. When reaching a higher realm, lower realm pills slowly begin to become inefficient. This was also why most pills were very precious in low level clans.


    "Hmm, this should be enough for me to breakthrough.." Feng Xing murmured.


    "Ofcourse, it''s a Rank 5 Tempering Pill after all... and your only at the 3rd Rank of the Tempering Path." Feng Kong said.The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.


    "I''ll come back in 4 hours... consume the pill and try to breakthrough as fast as possible so we can leave on time."


    "Alright." Feng Xing replied.


    Feng Xing now mostly had recalled all memories of the previous owner. Today was obviously an important day because one of the Three Major Sects of Clouty City was recruiting new talents, and every single young genius dreamed to enter in one of them.


    "Interesting..."


    The reason why they all wanted to enter one of the Three Major Sects was because they had actual cultivation manuals which made cultivation a lot smoother and faster, but most important of all, you could learn Tempering Path skills!


    For the clans in Cloud City cultivation manuals were already rare enough... but Tempering Path skills were even more rare! Only the strongest clans in Cloud City had a few, while most of the Tempering Path skills were in the Three Major Sects.


    For all the talented youths this was a huge temptation, but for Feng Xing who once stood at the peak of the Realm of Gods. This was all but a mere joke in his eyes.


    "Heh, eventhough this body can only handle Tempering Path manuals and skills currently... I can still use the best that is available."


    Feng Xing immediately chose one of the Supreme Tempering Path manuals that he already knew from his previous life.


    "Hmm...< Sun Energy Manual >I''ll pick this one for now."


    This manual not only increased the cultivation speed of normal Tempering Path cultivators by 3 times but also lets the cultivator build and have even more energy than normal cultivators of the same rank.


    "In the near future I will pick a different manual as the Sun Element doesn''t really fit my style..."


    In the cultivation world, strength was divided in realms.


    Tempering Path - Martial Path - Holy Path - Dao Realm - Ascension Realm - Immortal Realm


    The first three were only a build up for later realms, but most people don''t even get beyond the Martial Path. The Dao Realm is where everything truely starts, where you usually have your own Dao already, but they were already non-existent in Cloud City.


    The Tempering Path, Martial Path and Holy Path consisted of 9 ranks each. You could call a 3rd Rank Tempering Path cultivator someone who was in the early stages of the Tempering Path, while 4th up till 7th rank was withing the middle stages of the Tempering Path.


    The true powerful beings in Cloud City were only mere Martial Path cultivators.


    Feng Xing didn''t really care to much about the Sects, but he also discovered that he was the trash of the clan who stayed at the 3rd Rank of the Tempering Path for 2 whole years...


    Feng Xing didn''t want to let his father down who actually was the clan leader.


    "Alright, since I get a second chance at life I should just accept it. First I''ll shut up those brats who have bullied me since a year ago..."


    Feng Xing smiled coldly...


    2 hours later.


    "Hmm, I broke through faster than expected, and I now have20% more energy than a normal person at the same rank. The< Sun Energy Manual > isn''t bad... I''m content for now"


    "I guess i''ll go play around hehe..."


    Feng Xing has always been a playful person, even in his previous life when he stood at the peak. Because of this he also got easily tricked by one of his dear friends...


    Feng Xing walked to the training hall of the clan mansion, people didn''t even look at him, like he was invisible. Feng Xing already expected this, because he was deemed to be trash by them. This didn''t faze him, not even a bit.


    "Hey! trash!"


    A youth who looked to be Feng Xing''s age walked up to him.


    "Oh, it''s you" Feng Xing replied.


    "What did you say!? You dare to not say Master Yun!" Feng Yun looked to be a bit angry but also confused at Feng Xing''s attitude.


    "Hahahaha! calling you Master? Please dont make me laugh!"


    By now a few people were watching confused about Feng Xing''s attitude which normally wasn''t like this.


    "Y...you! what''s wrong with your attitude today! Have you forgotten who beat you up last week!" Feng Yun seemed to be genuinely surprised now.


    "Do you dare to go against me?" Feng Xing actually wanted to test his battle power, and right now there was an opportunity for it.


    "Dare to go against you? Dont make me laugh! What can you even do at the 3rd rank against me! I have been at the 4th rank for a few months already you know." Feng Yun boasted.


    "Less talking now and come at me!" Feng Xing arrogantly said.


    "So arrogant! Did he hit his head or something?" Someone said.


    "He is just asking to get beat up again..."


    "I would say that he will get defeated in less than 10moves by Feng Yun"


    "10 moves? You are overestimating Feng Xing! I would say that Feng Yun only needs 3 moves at most to subdue him!"


    The clan members were now gathering to see this fight play out, some of them were happy to see this happen while others felt pity for Feng Xing...


    "Oh I''ll show you don''t worry... hehe" Feng Xing smiled coldy...


    Feng Yunsuddenly felt a bit of fear, but didn''t know why...


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 Chapter 2 : First Battle

    More and more people gathered. Most clan memberseven started betting.


    "I''ll bet two bronze coins on Feng Yun!"


    "Me too!"


    The majority was on Feng Yun''s side while only a few people bet on Feng Xing. The people who bet on Feng Xing noticed his unusual behaviour and wanted to see if something interesting happened.


    At this moment, Feng Yun released his aura... which didn''t contain True Energy, but he still struck fear into the clan members who were below 4th Rank of the Tempering Path.


    People in the Martial Path could only use and cultivate True Energy, while Energy was only used in the Tempering Path.


    Feng Yun''s energy was especially dense because he stayed at the 4th rank for a decent amount of time already. This could be dangerous for Feng Xing if hewas a normal cultivator just stepping into the 4th rank, but fortunately Feng Xing already cultivated with the< Sun Energy Manual >. Feng Xing had energy comparable to someone of the middle 4th rank.


    Both of them fully released their aura''s. Some of them were surprised at Feng Xing''s aura which clearly indicated that he was at the 4th Rank of the Tempering Path.


    "So you finally broke through, but that still won''t save you at all!" Feng Yunlaughed, while actually being a bit surprised.


    Swoosh!


    In a flash, Feng Yun began his barrage of wild punches.


    "Fool..." Feng Xing obviously already expected this, He dodged every punch perfectly like he was used to it for years already.


    This surprised everyone.


    "Has he always been this agile?..." Most people thought.


    Pats!


    Suddenly a punch flied straight into Feng Yun''s face which made him stagger backwards...


    "How..." Feng Yun now bleeded from his nose, and his previous arrogant expression changed into a confused expression. He obviously didn''t see the punch coming.


    "To many openings... throwing wild punches doesn''t let you control anything. Only a fool would throw punches like you.." Feng Xing said.


    Feng Yun and the other clan members who bet on Feng Yun now had an ugly expression on their faces. They didn''t expect Feng Xing to actually win... and only in 1 move!


    This was way to humiliating.


    "You obviously cheated!" Feng Yunexclaimed. He just couldn''t believe he lost against the person who everyone saw as trash.


    "Yea! cheater!" Everyone who bet on Feng Yun started shouting.


    Feng Xing didn''t care and proceeded to go and get some food.


    "I still have over an hour of free time.. I''ll go eat something I guess."


    It was no surprise that he won, with his rich battle experience and reflexes. It was obvious that Feng Yun who was like a newborn child to him would lose...


    1 hour later.


    "The food wasn''t that bad... for this clan I guess." Feng Xing went back into his room and started cultivating. He slowly slipped into a wonderful state. In this state cultivating would be the only thing necessary, thus losing the sense of time. The cultivator could ofcourse wake up anytime he wished, but he would usually wake up at an unexpected time. For them it could of have been 1 minute, while in reality it had already been a week.


    It was about time, his father would by now return.


    Feng Xing felt his father''s aura and decided to wake up.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators!


    "Father, I have broken through..."


    "That''s good, but while i was heading over here, I heard that you cheated in a sparring session?" Feng Kong obviously was surprised because he heard his son won only while cheating.


    "I didn''t cheat, I merely beat him fair and square" Feng Xing still was calm like ever.


    "Really?" Feng Kong still had his suspicions about the battle.


    "You don''t believe me?" Feng Xing said while clearly disappointed.


    Feng Kong saw this and quickly said : "Ofcourse not, You''re my son I believe in you"


    "Let''s move to the front entrance now. Young geniuses of our clan are all waiting there." Feng Kong was feeling pretty good now. What father wouldn''t be happy when their son would beat someone.


    Feng Clan Mansion Front Entrance


    "Alright, this is the group of geniuses that are gonna apply" Feng Kong said.


    The group of geniuses looked weirdly at Feng Xing.


    Feng Xing didn''t mind it, and proceeded to stand next to a youth his age. This youth unexpectedly was the brother of Feng Yun. His name was Feng Ming, and was at the 6th Rank of the Tempering Path while being 16 years of age.


    "What''s a fool like you doing here..." Feng Mingcoldly exclaimed.


    "I''m also gonna apply" Feng Xing said while smiling.


    "You? You think getting in one of the sects is as easy as picking diamonds from the floor?" Feng Ming was even more irritated now.


    "No, but i can always try... haha..." Feng Xing sighed. He obviously didn''t want trouble right now with someone of the 6th rank while being at the 4th.


    "Try? Scram now! This isn''t for you to play games!" Feng Ming released his aura.


    Boom!


    Feng Ming''s aura got supressed by Feng Kong''s aura...


    "Clan leader... eventhough he is your son... it''s obvious he won''t get in the sect." Feng Ming said with fear in his eyes.


    "Shut up! If he gets in or not doesn''t concern you at all!" Feng Kong said.


    "Ok..." Feng Ming backed away in fear while glaring at Feng Xing.


    "Lets move out!" Feng Kong shouted.


    1 hour later.


    "We finally arrived..."


    The clan members were all now staring in shock... they couldn''t believe what they saw.


    The Moonfire Sect, one of the Three Major Sects of Cloud City, were now recruiting new talents. All theyouths participating were now sitting in a plaza filled with other youths from every clan in Cloud City.


    "So many people..." The Feng clan members thought. Only Feng Xing and the clan elders remained calm. Feng Xing had already seen plaza''s that were even hundred times bigger than this. This wouldn''t even faze him at all.


    A mysterious man floated in the air, he opened his eyes and was about to say something.


    "Welcome! All talents and youths who are at the 4th Rank of the Tempering Path or above may participate, but only if ur under the age of 16!" The man shouted.


    "My name is Cang Yang, seventh elder of the Moonfire Sect!" Cang Yang said while slowly floating downwards.


    Everyone was now all looking at him in envy. They all wanted to float and fly one day, but they knew that only Martial Path cultivators could float and fly. They now knew that this elder was in the Martial Path realm. Holy Path cultivators were rarely or simply never seen in city''s like Cloud City.


    "Middle Stage of the Martial Path..." Feng Xing murmured. He obviously feltthat Cang Yang was at the 5th Rank of the Martial Path.


    Nobody heard him, they were all to focused on the elder.


    "All youths who want to join have to pass three tests!"


    "The first trial will start when all elders from clans leave the plaza"


    Soon only young people were left on the plaza, while all clan elders moved away from it.


    "The first testshall now start! Everyone in this plaza will be tested at the same time!"


    The youths were rather confused now.


    Same time?


    Right now a list appeared in the sky out of nowhere.


    "This shall list the rankings of everyone! The first test will be testing your true talent!"


    The plaza lit up, but nobody panicked. They had by now seen all kinds of weird things happening so they weren''t to surprised anymore.


    The list suddenly changed and rankings began to appear.


    The list was full of names. From 1st rank all the way till 789th.


    "Only the people that are listed in the first 100 ranks qualify to proceed to the second test!"


    Everybody now had deadsunken faces. Only the people who were listed in the first 100 were happy.


    "Wh..what! This first test is absurd! Only 100 may proceed out of 789!?" Youths exclaimed. They were clearly not happy about this.


    "This is not fair!" Most of them shouted.


    Boom!


    Cang Yang snorted. The youths all spit out blood from the impact.


    "You dare to say something about how I do my tests!?"


    Eventhough the youths were unhappy. They could do nothing about it, and moved from the plaza.


    Only the remaining hundred stayed. Surprisingly on the 89th rank you could see Feng Xing''s name.


    He along with 3 others from the Feng clan stayed. One of them being Feng Ming.


    "Trash like you actually has the talent to stay?" Feng Ming and the other 2 youths seemed surprised.


    "Hmm, just my luck I guess haha..." Feng Xing said.


    One of the two youths was a girl with the other being a boy, both of them were at the 5th rank while being only 15 years old. Feng Xing was the only one at the 4th rank while being 15 years old, but it seems that he had enough talent to stay at the plaza.


    "Luck is also something that is beneficial to a cultivator" The girl said while smiling.


    Feng Xing seemed to be a bit surprised that the girl wouldn''t actually go against him.


    "My name is Feng Yue, and this is Feng Mu" Feng Yue calmy said.


    "I''m Feng Xing"


    "We know. You''re the son of our clan leader, and the famous trash of the clan I heard." Feng Yue said.


    "Hmm, I''m famous I guess haha..."


    "Famous my ass! Trash like you shouldn''t even belong here, and you dare to talk to Junior Sister Yue?" Feng Ming coldly said.


    Feng Xing remained quiet. He couldn''t afford to offend Feng Ming right now. He needed more power for that which he didn''t have currently...


    "This brat really..." Feng Xing thought.


    "Alright now that everyone who wasn''t listed in the first 100 have left. We can continue on to the second test!" Cang Yang said while still irritated from before.

 Chapter 3 : Test Results

    "The second test will be testing your sheer tenacity!


    Sheer tenacity was something that most cultivators lacked which is actually very important for later realms. This is also one of the reasons why most people get stuck at the Martial Path realm. Only by having strong willpower and tenacity could one advance through ranks smoothly, they wouldn''t doubt their own Dao. Only without any doubts one could ascend to the Dao Realm.


    The second test once again in a similar way like the first one was not tested individually but all at once. The plaza lit up once again, and likewise the list with ranking''s changed once again. This time based on sheer tenacity.


    "Hehe... someone actually ranked higher than me... interesting." Feng Xing smiled while looking at his rank. The Feng clan members stared at him weirdly...


    "How.. could someone like you.." Feng Yun now had eyes wide open. He just couldn''t believe the rankings currently. He was 23nd on the list while Feng Xing was2nd...


    "Mere luck... hahahaha." Feng Xing started laughing out loud.


    The other two Feng clan members were currently placed at 9th and 3rd. Feng Yue was placed 9th while the other boy who hasn''t talked so far was placed 3rd just below Feng Xing.


    Feng Xing by now was paying more attention.


    "This boy..."


    "Hey, whats your name?" Feng Xing boldly asked.


    "...Feng...Lao.." The boy softly said.


    Feng Xing looked at him weirdly. A normal boy like this with strong tenacity wouldn''t be this quiet. This would mean that his real personality was different than how he acted right now.


    "Ok" Feng Xing replied.


    Some people deliberately left the plaza after seeing that they weren''t atleast in the top 50. This tests clearly indicated how hard it was to get in the sect, so they didn''t expect to get in with such a ranking. This proved to be true.


    "All people who aren''t in the top 10 may leave right now." Cang Yang calmly said without a care in the world.


    This was merely absurd was what most people thought, to only have 10 people left after the second test. The sect clearly only wanted the best of the best so they wouldn''t waste cultivation materials and consumables.


    "No! I won''t accept this!" A youth yelled out. This youth was Feng Yun, he was clearly not happy about it.


    "How could I not pass while this trash next to me can!" Feng Yun just couldn''t accept Feng Xing passing while he didn''t. He clearly had a superiority complex.


    "Test results dont lie. He is more qualified than you, just accept it and leave." Cang Yang calmly said while getting a little bit irritated about Feng Yun''s attitude. How could he not get irritated when a Junior dares to yell at him.


    "No! I spend months preparing for this! Please give me another chance!" Feng Yun was desperate now. He couldn''t just let it end like this. All his hard work... all for nothing. This was something he never could accept.


    "Leave!" Cang Yang coldly yelled, while True Energy bursted out. Feng Yun spit out blood and received internal injuries. One word and all his hopes were crushed.


    Some felt pity for him while others were actually happy to see someone get hurt.


    "This is not the end of your life yet." Feng Xing said.


    "There will always be other opportunity''s. Just believe in yourself and everything will work out." Feng Xing''s words were actually soothing. Feng Yun in reality actually felt a bit thankful, but ofcourse he wouldn''t show it.


    "I don''t need your advice... sooner or later I''ll come back.." Feng Yun said while getting up. Feng Yun still didn''t have good feelings toward Feng Xing, but this was to be expected. Feng Xing also didn''t expect it to end their conflict as easily as that.


    Feng Xing now only needed to pass the last test and he would be accepted into the sect. Eventhough he wasn''t particularly excited, It would make his cultivation much smoother with support from the sect. This was atleast one of the things to look forward to, right now he needed strength. Only with strength could one dominate over all.You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.


    "The last test will actually be testing your total battle prowess." Cang Yang was actually looking forward to this test the most. Only with this could he actually see how one''s reflexes and battle sense were.


    "Ahahaha finally my fort has appeared" A burky youth said.


    "Finally some action!" Feng Xing also inwardly thought. He was already expecting something like this. He always liked to have intense battles only then would he truely feel alive. Ofcourse he wasn''t expecting any intense battles here, but he atleast could test his battle power a bit.


    "After this test only 5 of you will get accepted into the sect."


    "Only 5?" Most people already expected a number like this, but it was still shocking to the core. Out of 789 participants 5 could join.


    "This sect surely only wants the best of the best... hehe, they are lucky for having me join I guess..." Feng Xing already took his spot for granted. He only saw people of the 5th Rank of the Tempering Path. This he could still manage, as long as the opponent wasn''t of the 6th rank, nothing was a problem.


    "First you all have to come and drawnumbers. I''m sure the most of you have already figured out how this is gonna work." Cang Yang knew that these people weren''t idiots so he didn''t even bother to explain.


    3 minutes later.


    After everyone drew their numbers. They all looked at a list which indicated who fought who.


    "Number 1 and 2 come and fight against each other using your best moves, don''t hold back!" Cang Yang obviously wanted to see their true battle prowess.


    Two youths came forward and fought a long battle. Although both of them were at the 5th Rank, one of them had a low tier Tempering Path battle skill so it was obvious that he would win.


    Some of the youths were surprised at this, most of them had actually never seen a battle skill. They now knew how useful a battle skill actually was. It could actually turn the tides easily against someone of the same rank without a battle skill. They were envious now, Only the best clans had a few of them.


    "Number 2, Liu Yan... I''ll note this..." Cang Yang was a bit surprised to see a battle skill. He knew how rare it was in city''s like Cloud City.


    30 minutes later.


    "Alright finishing up with Number 9 against Number 10."


    "Finally my turn..." Feng Xing had been constantly waiting for this moment. He walked forward while another youth did the same. They looked at each other, slowly checking the other out.


    "Start!" Cang Yang was finishing up now and actually didn''t want to pay much attention after seeing them both, because it was obvious who would win. A 4th rank cultivator against a 5th rank. He already took for granted that the 4th rank cultivator would lose.


    After the fight began, Feng Xing dodged all his opponents punches like usual, Cang Yang noticed this and was paying slightly more attention now.


    "Number 9, Feng Xing, only at the 4th rank with this speed and battle sense?" Cang Yang knew that one could only dodge like this with immense battle experience, most youths didn''t have this, so he was actually very surprised.


    Feng Xing actually didn''t care to much about this match. He was actually testing how fast his body was currently.


    "My current speed would be considered at the peak of the 5th rank, this should be sufficient for now." Feng Xing seemed to be content with his current speed. He knew that unless his opponent had a middle tier Tempering Path battle skill, there would be nothing his opponent could do against him.


    After a while his opponent slowlygot tired of throwing punches. This was the moment Feng Xing would go all in. This caught his opponent of guard.


    Pats!


    A straight punch to the face!


    Feng Xing''s opponent fell unconscious, this was normal considering how much Energy Feng Xing put in that punch. It was atleast comparable to a punch of the peak of the 4th rank.


    Cang Yang and the other youths didn''t expectthis outcome of the match...


    "Ahem... the final results will now be shown on the list... based on your scores" Cang Yang didn''t have much words for that much and decided to finish the 3rd test.


    Feng Xing''s name could be seen at the 3rd rank. He could of have been placed much higher if his talent was higher, but this didn''t bother Feng Xing to much. He knew that he would slowly rise if given enough time.


    First place : Liu Yan


    Second place : Feng Lao


    Third place : Feng Xing


    Fourth place : Xu Feng


    Fifth place : Wang You


    "Feng Lao is actually second place." Feng Xing thought. He would surely pay more attention to him now.


    Feng Yue unfortunately didn''t make it, but that didn''t bother Feng Xing at all.


    "Alright, you 5 will be accepted as outer sect disciples!" Cang Yang now led them all to the entrance of the Moonfire Sect.


    They all had shocked faces except for Feng Xing and Cang Yang, they all saw 3 huge mountains floating in the air while in the middle a moon appeared. The moon was huge andreleased huge amounts of True Energy. This energy would make cultivating much easier for the people gathering around it.


    They all followed Cang Yang to the first mountain.


    "This mountain is where all outer sect disciples are currently. You shall stay here until you become an inner sect disciple."


    Cang Yang told them the basics of the mountain and what it''s name was.


    "This mountain is called Sunfire Mountain. Are there any questions?" Cang Yang asked.


    None of them had questions currently. They all knew how a sect usually worked, and knew that only inner sect disciples would gain the right to be fully groomed by the sect.


    "This will be first sect I join in this lifetime. I''ll be sure to remember it well." Feng Xing now accomplished his first goal.


    Feng Clan Mansion


    "I can''t actually believe it... my son actually got accepted!" Feng Kong was now ecstatic, but it still was weird...


    "Hmm, has he been faking to be trash?"


    "No, that can''t be... he always told me he wanted to become stronger since young." Even though Feng Kong was very happy, he still didn''t feel fully convinced.


    "It''s like he''s a different person..."


    "I''ll look into this more after he gets out of the sect."


    Feng Kong knew that alldisciples would only be able to leave the sect after staying for a year atleast, only after that could they visit their own family.

 Chapter 4 : Moonfire Sect

    In the Realm of Mortals there were only 12 huge continents, divided into 9 kingdoms each. Every kingdom had atleast 6 countries and countless cities, but the true powerhouses of the huge continents were not the kingdoms at all. The powerful and grand sects with deep inheritage were actually the true rulers of the continents. Feng Xing himself in the past also created a sect before ascending to the Realm of Gods. Eventhough the sect that he created at that time was very powerful, not everything stays the same. After countless years, the sect he made deteriorated and crumbled. Feng Xing wondered if it still existed currently.


    The sect, he made was in the strongestcontinent, Dragon continent. The reason why it was called Dragon continent was mainly because of the reason that dragons once appeared in that very continent. Dragons were very rare creatures as they would almost never appear in the Realm of Mortals. True Dragons were only seen in the Realm of Gods. Only a few people in the Realm of Mortals actually knew this fact, most people never even knew the Realm of Gods existed. Feng Xing knew that even though Dragons were pretty common in the Realm of Gods, they were seldom seen here.


    Feng Xing was currently in Nantian continent, a continent southern of Dragon continent.


    One of Feng Xing''s goals was to see what happened to his sect, but for now he needed to have strength first.


    Moonfire Sect, Sunfire Mountain


    It was currently morning, most people were already clearly awake while others were to lazy to wake up. Feng Xing in his room already decidedwhich body cultivation manual he would take. Body cultivation manuals were actually even more rare than cultivation manuals, but were also much harder to train. Only with true determination could one persevere, the path of cultivating a body cultivation manual meant that you had to go through pain greater than your body limits to strengthen it.


    "< God CrushingManual >" This manual was special as it was found by Feng Xing in the Realm of Gods, he managed to remember all the contents of it because it also was the only body cultivation manuals he ever used.


    "It has 9 levels. After reaching the first level, one could withstand attacks from Martial Path cultivators while having punches that couldeven crush 6th rank of the Tempering Path cultivators. In the past Feng Xing only reached the 8th level, by then he was already almost indestructible and could even crush Gods with his sheer pressure of his physique. This was also one of the main factors how he reached the peak in his previous life, but the only problem was that the pain you had to go through was immeasurable. Even if you could go through all that pain, there was still a lightning tribulation after every 3 levels! Each tribulation was more terrifying than the other. Feng Xing knew that he needed to have a solid foundation before passing even the first tribulation.


    Feng Xing decided to train with the two manuals later after he picked his battle and movement skills.


    "I now have a cultivation manual and a body cultivation manual, all I lack now are offensive battle skills and movement skills." Feng Xing knew that it would be suspicious if he trained a skill that wasn''t withing the power of the sect. Body cultivation manuals were one thing, but battle skills and movement skills were easily noticed.


    "I''ll go check some of the skills out." Feng Xing went to the Tempering Path skill building which was located on the third mountain, where only major things were located on.


    Only on the third mountain, inner sect disciples and outer sect disciples could meet eachother. Otherwise it wouldn''t be possible as they were both usually divided.


    The third mountain was called : Moonfire Mountain


    It was also the most important mountain as sect elders, core disciples and important guests would stay there. Most of the facilities were also managed here, for example the Tempering Path skill building.


    Moonfire Mountain, Tempering Path skill building


    There were three floors and outer sect disciples could only enter the first floor which contained low tier Tempering Path skills. Feng Xing could only enter this floor. Only inner sect disciples and core disciples could enter the second and third floor.


    "The skills here... sadly enough aren''t very good" Feng Xing frowned at the sight of this. There were only 3 battle skills and 2 movement speed skills available. Most of them weren''t even complete battle skills...


    "Well, with my comprehension I''m sure i can complete it anyways. I''ll pick these 2 skills." Feng Xing still took 2 books and took it to the counter.Stolen story; please report.


    There an old elder was currently sitting, He had white messy hair and it seemed to be like month''s since he had moves away from this spot.


    "Greetings, elder I would like to copy these two skills." Feng Xing asked politely.


    "Only 1 skill you may copy." replied the elder.


    "I read that outer sect disciples could copy atmost 2 skills."


    "That only is valid to disciples who have stayed in the sect longer than a year." The elder seemed to be used to this scene as most new disciples would also want to copy 2 skills.


    "Hmm, I see then I''ll take this one" Feng Xing took the movement skill as he didn''t really need any battle skill when cultivating with the< God Crushing Manual >.


    After receiving a copy of the contents of the battle skill, Feng Xing immediately went back to train. He decided that in the night he would train with the< Sun Energy Manual >and the< God Crushing Manual >.


    "< Basic Movement Tempering >, contains 4 levels. Reaching the first level would mean that you could be faster than an opponent of the same realm by two times." Feng Xing had already seen this movement skill countless of times in his previous life, and wasn''t that surprised at seeing it again. This was after all the most common Tempering Path movement skill.


    Reaching the first level would make you twice as fast as an opponent of the same realm.


    Reaching the second level would make you thrice as fast as an opponent of the same realm.


    Reaching the third level would make you four times as fast as an opponent of the same realm.


    Reaching the fourth level would make you five times as fast as an opponent of the same realm.


    This might sound overpowered, but this only is valid against a normal opponent of the same realm without movement skills. This would mean that if people do have movement skills, the skill would be less effective and wouldn''t make as fast as described. Movement and battle skills you only need to comprehend them to advance through levels.


    Most people would find it very hard to comprehend a skill, especially the higher ranking ones. Usually how stronger the skill how harder it is to comprehend and understand how the skill works. This is also one of the reasons why most people get stuck at the first level of this movement skill.


    For Feng Xing whose comprehension is very high this movement skill was very easy to learn. He instantly reached the 3rd level in two hours. After that he went to cultivate.


    2 weeks later.


    Feng Xing had been busily cultivating the two manuals, and perfected the movement skill. He was now at the peak 5th rank of the Tempering Path, this speed was very astonishing, but for Feng Xing who had the< Sun Energy Manual >. It wasn''t so surprising at all. Ofcourse others wouldn''t know this fact. He still didn''t reach the first level of the< God Crushing Manual >, but he could clearly feel his body becoming stronger.


    For the past two weeks nothing much actually happened, but soon the outer sect promotion trials would begin. This was actually only meant for the outer sect disciples who had stayed longer than a year in the sect, for them to get promoted after passing the trials, but ofcourse some new outer sect disciples along with Feng Xing had other plans. They wanted to become inner sect disciples as fast as possible.


    "In onemonth it will start, and you have to be at the 7th rank atleast. I guess I could manage that." Feng Xing wasn''t really worried about it to much as he for sure would reach atleast the 7th rank in a month.


    Hehasn''t really talked to any other outer disciple yet except for Feng Lao who he came with. Today he decided to get to know some others and went to the Moonfire Training Hall. This training hall was special, because inner sect disciples and outer sect disciples could both enter it. It was obviously located on Moonfire Mountain. The other two training halls were in the other two mountains, specifically for outer and inner sect disciples.


    Moonfire Training Hall


    It was actually very crowded. It seems to be something interesting was happening at the moment.


    "I bet 1 silver coin on Liu Yan!" There seemed to be a battle going on and people were betting on two disciples standing on top of the podium. One of them seemed to be Liu Yan, an outer sect disciple who ranked first on the test results.


    The other disciple seemed to be also of the outer sect, but this one had already been staying in it for a year.


    "Well this is atleast a good opportunity to meet people." Feng Xing thought.


    "Hey, what''s going on here?" Feng Xing asked a fellow outer sect disciple.


    "Ah, you sure missed some great matches. MasterLiu Yan has already won three consecutive matches and he now got challenged by an older outer sect disciple!" The outer sect disciple seemed to be very excited about the matches. It seemed to be that he was on pretty familiar terms with Liu Yan calling him Master...


    "Ah, thanks for the information. What''s your name by the way?" Feng Xing casually asked while smiling.


    "Song Dong" replied the outer sect disciple.


    The fight was now reaching its climax, in the end the older outer sect disciple lost. The crowd went wild at that moment.


    "Liu Yan! Liu Yan! Liu Yan!" Liu Yan''s named echoed through the training hall. Liu Yan seemed to be content with this.


    "Liu Yan, I challenge you!" suddenly a loud voicebroke out. After this pure silence remained. All the disciples looked at a young disciple where the voice came from.


    Song Dong looked with a shocked face, the person who just challenged Liu Yan was none other than Feng Xing!


    "Hey have you gone crazy? Liu Yan is already at the 6th rank of the Tempering Path you know!" Song Dong tried to stop him, but Feng Xing didn''t care.


    Feng Xing flew up the podium and said : "Hey, Liu Yan it''s been a while hasn''t it. Do you still remember me?"


    "Remembering bugs?" Liu Yan coldly said. He didn''t even put Feng Xing in his eyes back then.


    "..." Feng Xing now didn''t have any good feelings toward Liu Yan.


    "Brats, are way to cocky nowadays!" Feng Xing secretly thought.


    "Ok...if you are this cocky about me being a bug then try to defeat me!" Feng Xing coldly said with a stern expression.


    Liu Yan seemed to laugh inwardly and said : "Defeat you? You''re challenging me. Can you defeat me!?"


    After that the fight started. The crowd watched on and even started betting, but nobody bet on Feng Xing.

 Chapter 5 : Core Disciple

    Both condensed their Energy and started their fight. By now an elder came and was also enjoying the sight of a match.


    "Ohoh, this new patch of outer sect disciples sure seem promising" This elder had a special status, he was one of the three grand elders of the sect and was at the peak of the Martial Path realm.


    Flame Palm!


    Liu Yanseemed to noticethe elderand went all out, hoping to get noticed by this elder. One could instantly become a core disciple if taken in by a elder, this was also Liu Yan''s motive.


    Unfortunately his opponent was Feng Xing who was already at the 4th level of the passive skill< Basic Movement Tempering >. He dodged every single punch and kick thrown at him. He seemed to actually be rather enjoying this fight and testing his utter speed limits.


    The grand elder seemed to notice this and became surprised.


    "Ohoh, 4th level... already? Even core disciples wouldn''t reachthe 4th levelthis fast." The grand elder was actually joyful about it. Promising disciples were always appreciated.


    Liu Yan on the other hand seemed to be struggling, he just couldn''t land anything.


    "Can you only dodge!? Fight me like a man!" Liu Yan seemed to be furious about this, a grand elder was watching after all.


    "Sure!" Feng Xing replied. Now he was going to test his body''s strength.


    "Hehe, Fool" Liu Yan thought. He was obviously going to use his battle skill.


    Flame Palm!


    Feng Xing had no offensive battle skill ready so he casually threw a punch, but this punch contained immeasurable power! It was enough to hurt the current Liu Yan who was only at the beginning stages of the 6th rank of the Tempering Path.


    Pats!


    Blood splattered, it was obvious one of them had an injured arm. The crowd was now watching with shocked expressions.


    The one who was bleeding was not Feng Xing, but actually Liu Yan!


    "Wh..what! Did Feng Xing use a battle skill? It didn''t seem like it.." The crowd were now talking about the casual punch Feng Xing threw earlier.


    They were clearly shocked that Liu Yan''s battle skill actually lost against a rather normal punch.


    "Aah!" Liu Yan cried out in pain. His arm was basically almost crushed. He now looked to be in very bad conditions.


    The grand elder now was watching with serious and deep eyes at Feng Xing, Feng Xing noticed this and looked at him back.


    Both were now staring at each other...


    "Alright, this matter ends now!" The grand elder yelled. Now everyone noticed the elder and they all bowed.


    "Greetings! Grand elder." They all greeted in unison.


    Feng Xing casually jumped down the podium and tried to sneak out.


    "Wait! You will stay." The grand elder obviously noticed this, and wouldn''t let Feng Xing go.


    "Oh well... this might not necessarily be bad for me" Feng Xing didn''t seem to care that much.


    10 minutes later.


    After all the disciples and Liu Yan left except for Feng Xing and the grand elder. Thedeep silence started. Both were now staring at each other.


    "You... that body strength of your body clearly isn''t normal. I only want to know one thing." The grand elder broke the silence, he was looking at Feng Xing with rather deep eyes. He wanted to see through this youth.


    "Tell me, do you posses a special bloodline or... are you cultivating a body manual!" The grand elder released a bit of his True Energy, but this was already enough to pressure Feng Xing entirely.


    People could also posses special bloodlines, for example one could posses the Dragon bloodline they naturally would posses a very powerful body at birth, and would be able to transform into a True Dragon later on. Bloodlines were mostly very rare and appeared seldom.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.


    Feng Xing still stared into the grand elders eyes.


    "What would you do if I said I did posses one of them?" Feng Xing asked. He seemed to still be very calm even under this pressure. This surprised the grand elder, normal disciples would by now either have passed out or be scared witless.


    "You clearly don''t seem normal, I wouldn''t do anything about it, but i still want to know which one you do posses." The grand elder calmly answered while the pressure disappeared in thin air.


    "I do posses a body cultivation manual" Feng Xing didn''t care as he saw no enmity or greediness in this elders eyes.


    "..." The grand elder didn''t know what to say. Body cultivation manuals were so rare, in Cloud City there was sure to be not even one of them! He now suspected that Feng Xing was from a strong heritage.


    Even the Three Major Sects of Cloud City couldn''t insult them. Every powerhouse that contained a body cultivation manual was extraordinary...


    What the elder didn''t know was that the youth before his eyes was actually someone old enough to be his ancestor!


    "You.. would you like to become my personal disciple?" The grand elder asked, with probing eyes.


    Feng Xing was waiting for this moment, he actually knew that he would be noticed from the fight earlier.


    "Sure." Feng Xing didn''t seem to be to excited to become a personal disciple of a grand elder. He only needed the shelter of someone powerful for a bit of time after all.


    The grand elder didn''t seem pleased with Feng Xing''s attitude, it was like Feng Xing was actually giving him the honor to become his master.


    "Ahem, You may call me Master Shui now." The grand elders name was Ran Shui, second grand elder of the Moonfire Sect.


    "Also, you will now be living on this mountain... as a core disciple!" The grand elder was looking for a reaction from Feng Xing, but unfortunately didn''t receive the reaction he hoped for.


    "Hmm, ok" Feng Xing seemed to still be indifferent.


    Feng Xing didn''t really care to much about his position as an outer sect disciple or core disciple. This was just one of the countless small sects of the Nantian continent. He only needed to stay in this sect for a small amount of time. One year was enough for him. He would then leave and go to the Blue Water kingdom. The true powerful sects of the Nantian continent were located there, and only heaven defying geniuses could join.


    "I didn''t expect to be promoted to core disciple this fast...I better go tell Feng Lao that i won''t be participating in the outer sect promotion trials." Feng Xing still wanted to inform Feng Lao about his situation first, because Feng Lao was a fellow clanmember and the only person he actually frequently talked to.


    30 minutes later.


    "I understand..." Feng Lao was apparently shocked at how fast Feng Xing was promoted, the one who everybody had been calling trash in the clan was actually this brilliant?


    "Ok, I''ll see you around then." Feng Xing turned to walk away, but was stopped by a shout.


    "Wait!" Feng Lao seemed to be wanting to ask a question. Feng Xing turned around and asked :


    "What?"


    "Have, you been faking to be an idiot for all these years in the clan?" Feng Lao who was usually quiet now stared at Feng Xing with stubborn eyes, he obviously wanted a honest answer from him.


    Feng Xing didn''t say anything and just casually smiled. Feng Lao understood that Feng Xing didn''t want to talk about it.


    "Nevermind..." Feng Lao left.


    After Feng Lao left, Feng Xing also returned to the Moonfire Mountain as a core disciple. He immediately went to his room which was located in the second elders courtyard.


    He started slowly cultivating the two manuals. He decided to go and take a look at the offensive skills on the third floor of the Tempering Path skill building tommorow.


    Morning.


    He opened his eyes, while having a clear grin on his face. He succeeded in reaching the first level of the< God Crushing Manual >.


    "So now I am able to withstand attacks from early stage Martial Path cultivators... and im able to crush all under the 7th level of the Tempering Path." Feng Xing was actually happy, although his body still felt pretty sore. Cultivating with a body cultivation manual was painful after all. Although for Feng Xing it was nothing.


    He stood up and left to go pick up a battle skill at the Tempering Path skill building. By now all disciples knew that he was a core disciple and respectfully greeted him.


    "Greetings, elder." Feng Xing respectfully said to the same elder who was still sitting at the counter since two weeks ago. His hair currently was even messier.


    "It seems to be that the heavens have given you enough luck..." The elder seemed to be surprised. Normal outer sect disciples would only become core disciples after being in the inner sect disciple for atleast a year. He wondered what kind of luck this youth before him had.


    "Ahahaha...." Feng Xing awkwardly smiled and left of to the third floor.


    This time there were a few high tier Tempering Path skills. Feng Xing casually took one of the high tier battle skills and went to the counter.


    "I''ll take this one." Feng Xing wanted to go back and cultivate as soon as possible.


    "The< Thunder Wind Palm > battle skill... not a bad choice at all, but unfortunately that one is pretty hard to learn are you sure?" The elder doubted Feng Xings abilities. Eventhough he was a core disciple, a week or two ago he was still a outer sect disciple...


    "I''m absolutely sure." Feng Xing said with a resolute look.


    "Young ones these days..." The elder thought.


    Feng Xings room


    After returning to his room he began to comprehend the battle skill. This battle skill only had one level, but it was very hard to comprehend this battle skill. Because you needed to have an affinity for Lightning and Wind. Feng Xing already knew this. He already had affinity with every single element, so it wasn''t a problem for him.


    After training for a few hours he managed to get the feel of it.


    "First level, Able to attack with thunderous force while pulling the wind force with it. Creating a deadly strike." Feng Xing was actually a little bit surprised that this sect actually owned a high tier battle skill like this. He actually only expected middle tier battle skills.


    "I should be able to breakthrough tonight." Feng Xing felt that he was near to breaking through to the 6th rank.

 Chapter 6 : The Core Disciple Battle Begins

    That day Feng Xing sucessfuly broke through to the 6th rank. He now could fight on par with 9th rank cultivators, his body was already comparable to someone of the early stages of the Martial Path realm. He also had much more Energy stored up in his body than others. He clearly was happy about these facts.


    "Feng Xing!" and old voice yelled outside his room. He knew that it was elderRan.


    "Master Shui. What''s the matter?" Feng Xing answered. He still didn''t know why the elder needed him for.


    "I want to introduce you to some other core disciples in hope that you will become good friends with them." Elder Ran obviously wanted to let Feng Xing become familiar with other elders and their disciples.


    "Alright." Feng Xing also wanted to know how strong the core disciples were in this sect so he went along.


    Moonfire Elder Training Hall


    This Training Hall was specifically made for elders and their disciples. Right now a few elders were all sitting at a table in the hall happily chatting.


    "First Grand Elder. You sure struck gold this time! Xiao Ling is a heaven defying genius!" The elders were now praising the first grand elders disciple.


    "Ahahahaha, you''re being to humble third elder. Your disciple isn''t bad either." The first grand elder obviously felt prideful.


    By now they noticed Feng Xing and elder Ran.


    "Second Grand Elder, over here!" One of the elders merrily invited.


    "Hahaha, so you also got yourself a disciple." The first grand elder stared at Feng Xing.


    Feng Xing actually didn''t care about this meeting. He only wanted to see how strong the geniuses here were.


    While the elders were chatting, the disciples were also obviously chatting at another table. Feng Xing saw this and walked over to them.


    "Hey, can I join your conversation?" Feng Xing always asks politely first.


    "6th rank? What is someone like you even doing here..." A youth that seemed to be bulky and 17 years old said. He didn''t even put someone like Feng Xing in his eyes.


    "I''m the second grand elders disciple..." Feng Xing said.


    "What!? someone like you can be a Grand Elders disciple!?" The core disciples were now all shocked. Even they couldn''t become a Grand Elders disciple, only the best of the best could. They just couldn''t believe someone like Feng Xing was one.


    The core disciples now were careful with their words. They didn''t want to offend someone who had the backing of a Grand Elder.


    At this moment a stunning girl entered the hall.


    "Ah its Senior Sister Xiao Ling!" One of the youths yelled.


    Even Feng Xing was momentarily shocked by her beauty. Shiny black hair, creamy white skin with a seductive face of a perfect goddess. Was someone like her even from the Mortal Realm... Feng Xing thought.


    Xiao Ling was only 15 this year, but because of her status as a disciple of a Grand Elder, she was called Senior Sister.


    This was not the most shocking part to Feng Xing, he obviously felt a Martial Path aura from her.


    "This talent! She could even be compared to the super geniuses from Dragon Continent!" Feng Xing now had a shocked expression on his face for the first time since his reincarnation.


    "The heavens weren''t fair at all!" Feng Xing sighed.


    "Greetings, Senior Sister!" All the youths greeted. They all had red faces. It was obvious that they liked this so-called Senior Sister of theirs.A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.


    Xiao Ling didn''t put this at heart at all. She casually sat on one of the chairs and took a book out and began reading. She was emitting a cool feeling.


    Feng Xing also casually sat on a chair and waited till the elders announced something. He already knew how strong most of these geniuses were, most of them were at the 7th rank andsome of them were at the 8th while one youth was at the 9th rank. Only the girl named Xiao Ling was above the 9th rank.


    The only 6th rank cultivator here was Feng Xing...


    The elders were now done chatting and began to move towards Feng Xing and the other disciples. The First Grand Elder walked in front, while looking at Xiao Ling with a proud face.


    "Now that all of you have gathered, we wanted to have core disciple rankings!" It was obvious now what the elders wanted to know! They wanted to know whose disciple was the strongest!


    The First Grand Elder was still smiling because he knew that only his disciple was at the Martial Path realm.


    "You guys will not be fighting individually as that would take a long time! You guys will be fighting in teams!" The First Grand Elder exclaimed.


    All the youths now were still happily chatting away and even teaming up with others, only Feng Xing, another youth and Xiao Ling weren''t teaming up currently.


    "The personal disciples of the Three Grand Elders will be forming one group!"


    Feng Xing was a bit surprised at this outcome. To be in the same team as this heaven defying genius, he clearly felt a bit lucky.


    The other youths name was Zhao Kon, he was at the 9th rank of the Tempering Path currently. He clearly liked Xiao Ling as he was constantly staring at her since the beginning...


    There currently were 3 teams visible including Feng Xings team. The first one contained 8 core disciples while the second one only contained 4. The second one was almost as small as Feng Xings group, but the disciples in that group were all at the 8th rank.


    You could say it was kinda evenly balanced except for Feng Xings group who had someone of the Martial Path realm...


    "Guess, I don''t even have to do a single thing this time..." Feng Xing thought. A Martial Path cultivator had True Energy and was clearly much stronger than a Tempering Path cultivator.


    The difference between the two realms was like Heaven and Earth. Almost no Tempering Path cultivator could defeat a Martial path cultivator.


    "All teams will be participating at the same time! Give it your best because there will be a reward for the top team!" The First Grand Elder exclaimed.


    The hall luckily was huge enough to be a battlefield.


    "You will all be given 5 minutes to think of a strategy to win, and Xiao Ling as we all know that you are in the Martial Path realm already. You must limit your cultivation base to the 9th rank of the Tempering Path!. The elders already knew that it wouldn''t be interesting if a Martial Path cultivator was participating so they wanted to limit her cultivation base.


    "As you wish." Xiao Ling calmly answered without any emotion in her voice, but even then her voice sounded very soothing and pleasant to hear.


    "Ah.. should of have known something like this would happen..." Feng Xing sighed, he already suspected a tiny bitsomething like this to happen. Otherwise it would be way to easy for their team to win.


    "It seems to be that I actually have something to dothis time..." Facing multiple opponents with several ranks higher than his was also taxing for Feng Xing after all, but as long as no Martial Path cultivators participate. Nothing could really harm him.


    "This should prove to be no problem..." Feng Xing was fully confident.


    While the other two groups were talking and thinking about a strategy, Feng Xings group stayed quiet...


    5 minutes later.


    "Alright, you may all start fighting after I give the sign."


    Every team moved to their respective starting points. A fight was going to start...


    "Start!" The First Grand elder gave his sign.


    By now the two groups actually focused Feng Xings group first. They knew that only defeating Xiao Ling and Zhao Kon would mean that one of their teams would be able to win.


    "...Shit. Eventhough I expected one of the teams to rush at us. Both actually did..." Feng Xing didn''t want to show his true strength at all. He could now only hope the other two could manage to defeat them, while he gave support.


    The elders were now currently asking about the Second Grand Elders disciple. Every Grand Elders disciple was outstanding after all.


    "Grand Elder Ran, please tell us why picked someone of the 6th rank." One of the elders asked. Most of them were also wondering about this.


    "Because that boy''s special..." Grand Elder Ran said while looking sharply at Feng Xing.


    The other elders were momentarily stunned.


    "Special?" They thought.


    "Let''s just watch how this plays out." The First Grand Elder casually said while also looking at Xiao Ling.


    "Don''t disappoint me, Xiao Ling." The First Grand elder thought. He had great expectation from Xiao Ling after all.


    "I''ll take on the group of four while you take on the group of eight." Xiao Ling said to Zhao Kon without even looking at Feng Xing. It seemed to her that a 6th rank cultivator didn''t even mean anything in her eyes.


    "I''ll try to help." Feng Xing suggested.


    "No, don''t do anything. You would only be a burden." Zhao Kon coldly stared at Feng Xing. He obviously wanted to be alone in a group with Xiao Ling, but because of this new so-called Grand Elders disciple he couldn''t.


    Feng Xing didn''t have any good feelings toward this Zhao Kon at all.


    "Fine, suit yourselves..." Feng Xing sat and crossed his legs while closing his eyes. He seemed to not care anymore.


    "Second Grand Elder... your disciple... just what is he doing?"


    All the elders looked at Feng Xing with weird looks.


    "I''m not to sure... lets just continue to watch on." Grand Elder Ran was still trying to figure Feng Xing out.

 Chapter 7 : Come at me all at once!

    Currently even after Zhao Kon and Xiao Ling noticed Feng Xing do this, they didn''t care at all. They also flew towards the opposing teams.


    The opposing teams all surrounded Zhao Kon and Xiao Ling, although Zhao Kon was surrounded by eight. Most of them were at the 7th rank while only one of them was at the 8th. He had it much easier than what Xiao Ling currently was facing.


    She was surrounded by four 8th rank cultivators. Even for someone at the peak of the 9th rank this would be hard to come out unscathed, it was even worse because all these 8th rank cultivators had high tier Tempering Path skills.


    5 minuters later


    Feng Xing still had his eyes closed, he seemed to not care about the battle at all. Xiao Ling seemed to be pretty worn out currently. The four 8th rank cultivators seemed to notice this and rushed in at the right time!


    Boom!


    For the first time they sucessfully landed a clear blow on Xiao Lings fragile body. She flew away while spurting out blood. A blow from four 8th rank cultivators was no joke. It was enough to hurt the current Xiao Ling atleast.


    On the other side, Zhao Kon actually already took three of the eight cultivators down, but he still seemed to be pretty worn out. This was obviously very taxing for the Xiao Ling and Zhao Kon.


    Feng Xing already decided to not make a move at all during this match. There was nothing to be gained from it after all. The reward they mentioned probably was some low tier pill or something.


    Feng Xing sighed. He would of have helped a bit if they were atleast a bit nicer. One of them even completetly ignored him...


    "They don''t know who they are ignoring..." Feng Xing also felt helpless at this situation. After reincarnating he hasn''t got any respect at all. He wasn''t used to this.


    He usually was the center of attention everywhere he went and everyone would pay his or her respects immediately.


    "How ironic." Feng Xing thought.


    The fights were now reaching its climax! In the end Zhao Kon got defeated, but he took atleast five cultivators down and two were slightly injured. Only the 8th rank cultivator of that team was uninjured. They were now looking at the other side. Unexpectedly Xiao Ling still managed to take three of them down while standing with an injured arm. The last cultivator seemed to be frightened by her.


    Pant.. Pant..


    Xiao Ling by now seemed to be out of breath, her beautiful appearance was now sullied, but in her eyes stood a resolute unyielding look. Even Feng Xing was surprised by her look.


    "This determination... and willpower..." Feng Xing once again got surprised. Feng Xing was even thinking to take her in as a disciple, but quickly put that thought away.


    Sigh.., "With my current power she wouldn''t take me serious at all."


    Grand Elder Ran was currently getting irritated, he couldn''t see through Feng Xing and wasn''t liking the situation to much. He didn''t want Feng Xing to embarras him after all. Every Elder had his pride, and so did he.


    "The prize is a Rank 1 Martial Path pill!" Grand Elder Ran yelled. He hoped Feng Xing would take it more seriously after hearing what the prize was, but unfortunately Feng Xing still seemed indifferent.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    The other disciples now had dumbstruck expressions. They now seemed to want to do anything to win!


    "Oh my god! The prize was actually a Martial Path pill!" One of the disciples seemed to be so excited he was already drooling.


    A Martial Path pill could let Tempering Path cultivators easily rank up atleast a level! The cultivators morale was now higher than ever.


    They all stormed at Xiao Ling. They wanted to take care of her first...


    "Damn! Aren''t they ashamed of themselves?" Feng Xing seemed to be disgusted. This was just disgraceful to all pound on a girl just because of greed, but Feng Xing still didn''t move.


    Some even had other idea''s they simply wanted to touch her smooth skin. Xiao Ling noticed this and just had a helpless expression on her face. She looked at Feng Xing, hoping he would help her atleast a bit.


    "You reap what you sow..." Feng Xing ignored her. Most men couldn''t stand not helping while seeing her eyes,but Feng Xing had a natural immunity to beauties. In his past life he already got used to seeing goddesses of beauty.


    Feng Xing seemed to be waiting for something. He was waiting for her to actually ask for help, but unexpectedly she was stubborn and didn''t want to ask for any help at all.


    "How stubborn... is it because im only at the 6th rank?" Feng Xing kept on waiting.


    The Elders seemed to already know the outcome of this match.


    "How unfortunate... if only Feng Xing was able to do something, it wouldn''t be like this." One of the Elders sighed.


    By now almost all Elders looked at Feng Xing with disdainful eyes. It was just a simple brat after all.


    "Guess it will be the group of eight that will win this match."


    Just as the First Grand Elder wanted to announce the outcome of the battle, he got interrupted by the Second Grand Elder.


    "Wait! I want to see more of this match." Grand Elder sternly said while staring at Feng Xing.


    The Elders looked confused and also stared at Feng Xing, unexpectedly he actually stood up and was currently walking over to the place where Xiao Ling was fighting.


    Feng Xing wanted her to owe him a favour.


    By now all the disciples were currently surrounding Xiao Ling. They noticed Feng Xing but paid no heed.


    "I''ll lend you a hand."


    "What can you do in a situation like this... your only at the 6th rank..." Xiao Ling still felt helpless even though Feng Xing was here to help.


    "Just watch." Feng Xing headed over to the two 8th rank cultivators.


    "..Wh..what? Have you gone crazy?" Xiao Ling thought that Feng Xing had become crazy or something, she just couldn''t understand his actions. It would be suicide to just rush into two cultivators who were two ranks above him.


    The second Feng Xing rushed in, very dense Energy emitted from him. It was comparable to someone of the 8th rank. The cultivators below the 8th rank actually got pressured! This surprised the Elders and Xiao Ling.


    ThunderWind Palm!


    At that moment Feng Xings Energy went mainly to his palm, Wind Energy also gathered. This was bound to be a devestating attack.


    He speeded and attacked one of the two 8th rank cultivators, they were clearly caught off guard and couldn''t react on time.


    Boom!


    Feng Xing threw the palm on the stomach of one of the 8th rank cultivators. The disciple flew away at a rapid speed while blood constantly flew out his mouth. He immediately passed out.


    His stomach area actually had a dent! Blood kept flowing out of it. Everyone by now couldn''t even react to this...


    "Unbelievable..." Xiao Ling broke the silence, by uttering a word.


    The Elders now were shocked! Some of them clearly flew over to support the disciple. The Elder now looked at Feng Xing with fear.


    "That was clearly the< Thunder Wind Palm >! One of the hardest skills to learn!" They were clearly shocked, because this skill wasn''t so easily learned.


    "..He''s only been a core disciple for a mere day..." The Second Grand Elder was the one that was shocked the most. He clearly knew that Feng Xing had learnt that skill. In an insanely small amount of time.


    Feng Xing slowly turned to walk back to Xiao Ling and said : "Do you trust my power now?"


    Xiao Ling still had a dumbstruck expression on her face, but immediately changed her expression after Feng Xing said something to her.


    "Don''t get to cocky now... it was only a mere 8th rank cultivator, I could also have blasted him away if i was in my peak condition." Xiao Ling still hadan unyielding attitude.


    "Stubborn girl..." Feng Xing thought.


    "Alright then keep your eyes on me right now, because I''m going to beat them all on my own." Feng Xing calmly answered. He now had a clear evil grin on his face, and even emitted a bit of killing intent, but suppressed it immediately after.


    By now the cultivators didn''t surround Xiao Ling anymore. They clearly found Feng Xing more of a threat currently, so they surrounded him. Feng Xing didn''t pay mind to this.


    "Come at me all at once!" He arrogantly said with a domineering air.

 Chapter 8 : Surprising Everyone

    "How arrogant." The disciples thought. Although he defeated an 8th rank cultivator instantly, they still didn''t believe that he would be able to defeat all of them.


    They all pounded on Feng Xing. Feng Xing still had a cold grin on his face. he was waiting for this moment, He already was condensing energy deep inside his body. Now it was time to let it all out!


    "Energy Burst!"


    Boom!


    Waves of Energy flew out of Feng Xings body. It injured everydisciple within a short radius of him. Once again he managed to surprise Xiao Ling and the elders further, by now even Zhao Kon was also watching. He seemed to be also shocked at Feng Xings strength. Although Feng Xing didn''t want to show off his strength. He didn''t actually care if people did know. They would obviously protect him if they knew he was a heaven defying genius.


    The Energy Burst was no battle skill at all, it was pure Energy Control. Only veterans could utilize and control their Energy like that. Even the Elders didn''t have such precise control over their Energy.(Authors NOTE : True Energy Control and Energy Control areboth basically almost the same thing only with difference in Energy).


    "Energy Control!" One of the elders yelled out in excitement. They now all looked at Grand Elder Ran with a questioning look on their faces.


    "..Where did you manage to gain such a disciple?" The First Grand Elder asked, this was something they all wanted to know.


    Grand Elder Ran remained quiet while looking at Feng Xing. He also seemed to wonder where Feng Xing came from...


    "Ahem, I.." Grand Elder Ran finally broke the silence and decided to say something.


    "I actually.. didn''t know he had such abilities. I only took him in as a disciple not to long ago..." Grand Elder Ran didn''t tell the other elders about Feng Xings body cultivation manual, but it was true that he actually didn''t know that Feng Xing had such extraordinary abilities.


    "A true genius who can even fight cultivators above his rank!" Most Elders currently had this in mind, but what they didn''t realizewas that they still underestimated Feng Xings true battle power because of his cultivation.


    All the disciples were now injured except for the last person who was at the 8th rank of the Tempering Path. Hecurrently experienced havingcold sweat. He justdidn''t know how Feng Xing managed to fend them off like that.


    He seemed to be quite scared but still mustered up enough courage to rush in. Feng Xing noticed this and shook his head.


    "Rushing in like a fool won''t do you any good in this situation..." Those were the last words the 8th rank cultivator heard, before hearing a clear hard sound.


    Pats!


    Feng Xing immediately dodged andthrew a casual punchstraight to the face of his opponent. The 8th rank cultivator immediately fainted and was blasted away.


    What currently remained was pure silence...


    Nobody could believe it if they had not seen it with their own eyes, a cultivator of the 6th rank actually beating people from the 8th rank, and it even seemed to be like childplay for him! How frightening was this!


    "...Ahem!" The First Grand Elder was also dumbstruck, but still managed to come back into reality. This was truly a shocking matter. He would talk with the Sect Master later about this matter.


    "The..... winner of this match is Xiao Lings team!" He announced. By now all elders and disciples were warping back to reality, but still had clearly shocked expressions on their faces. This day they would never forget.


    Feng Xing still seemed as calm as ever and walked back till he stood in front of Xiao Ling.


    "Do you still have something to say?" Feng Xing said with a grin on his face, but unfortunately for him Xiao Ling still was unyielding.


    "So what if you have a bit of skill? If I could use my total battle power I could easily wipe all of them out, and that includes you!" Xiao Ling was clearly surprised, but still felt that she was much stronger than Feng Xing.Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation.


    Feng Xing helplessly smiled. This girl was way to unyielding and stubborn, but what she said wasn''t particularly wrong. If she was allowed to use her Martial Path cultivation base. She could definitely wipe all of them out easily.


    Sigh...


    "Girl, I''ll tell you a secret if you become my disciple." Feng Xing didn''t care anymore. She was way to stubborn, so he just asked straightforward.


    Xiao Ling currently had a weird look on her face.


    "Are you seriously asking me this?"


    "...Indeed I am but the choice is yours." Feng Xing didn''t expect much, but still went with the flow.


    "Although I feel that you are inferior to me. You still are special, you were able to precisely control the Energy after all... what do i gain from this?" Xiao Ling was a bit curious. Anyone who could control Energy precisely at the age of 15 was special after all.


    Feng Xing was surprised. He thought she would immediately refuse, but unexpectedly she seemed to be curious what the benefits were.


    "Ahem, I will tell you a groundbreaking secret, and teachyou alot... you won''t regret it. Trust me" Feng Xings words currently were like a magical power that almost made Xiao Ling actually want to accept immediately, unfortunately for Feng Xing the willpower of Xiao Ling was very good.


    "Still not yielding? Damn she''s tough!" Feng Xing was beginning to get tired of this. He only wanted to have her as disciple because of her talent.


    "I''ll consider it." Xiao Ling wanted to think about it first so Feng Xing had no choice, he couldn''t force her to give a immediate answer after all.


    While the two of them were talking, other disciples watched in envy. They never had the chance to talk Xiao Ling alone after all. The Elders were also finishing up their business and leaving. The Grand Elders decided to give the prize after all the other disciples and elders left.


    10 minutes later.


    Feng Xing, Zhao Kon and Xiao Ling gathered. Only Zhao Kon was excited for the prize while Feng Xing and Xiao Ling seemed to not care at all.


    Suddenly the Three Grand Elders revealed 10 pills that had a strange aroma, but with only a single glance you could tell they weren''t ordinary Tempering Path pills, but actually Martial Path pills!


    "We intended to give the winning team a pill for each member, your team thus will obviously be receiving three pills." The First Grand Elder handed over a pill to each of them.


    Only Zhao Kon started drooling instantly, but after a thought quickly put away the pill. Feng Xing and Xiao Ling also slowly put away their pills.


    "Alright that''s all, Zhao Kon you will be dismissed for today while the others stay for a bit longer." The First Grand Elder said.


    Zhao Kon didn''t know why, but didn''t care as he wanted to breakthrough to the Martial Path immediately with his pill so he left. Even though he would be able to breakthrough to the Martial Path realm, he still wouldn''t be as outstanding as Xiao Ling since he was already 17 years old this year while Xiao Ling was only 15.


    Feng Xing already knew that he would be questioned after the match, but he didn''t know why Xiao Ling also had to be present.


    "Feng Xing...we won''t question you about your origins, but as we have seen that you actually are a top class genius. We would like to recommend you to a sect along with Xiao Ling.." The First Grand Elder spoke slowly. He didn''t want Feng Xing to be pressured after all.


    Feng Xing now seemed to be a bit more interested and said : "Sure I''m fine with that, but which sect are you talking about?"


    "I see you that you are willing, but I still have to talk to the Sect Master about this matter, and the Sect that I''m talking about currently isn''t important. Just know that it''s very hard to get in it."


    Feng Xing now realized that they were talking about a top sect of the kingdom. Xiao Ling seemed to already know this, as she didn''t even blink a eye after hearing all this.


    "A top sect of the Southern Nantian Kingdom... interesting." Feng Xing seemed to be interested, but also surprised. He had not even been in this sect for a year and would already be possibly moving out...


    How funny. Although Moonfire Sect couldn''t teach him anything, he still expected to stay in this sect much longer, but that didn''t matter since no Sect could actually teach him anything.


    "Alright, thats all I wanted to say. If you both get accepted into the Sect, please care for each other." The Grand Elders smiled. They hoped Feng Xing and Xiao Ling would be accepted, since that would bring honor to the Moonfire Sect.


    Just as Feng Xing wanted to walk away a clear voice resounded behind him.


    "Don''t fail the Sects expectations." Xiao Ling coldly said and then walked away.


    "Hehe, and don''t you forget about my proposal! Whether you accept or not is your choice!" Feng Xing yelled. He was sure Xiao Ling heard it.


    The Grand Elders also heard it, but paid it no heed.


    20 minutes later.


    "Greetings, Sect Master." The Grand Elders were now in a room greeting an old man who had a head full of white hair. A righteous air lingered around him, and his eyes were especially sharp for his age. This was the current Sect Master of the Moonfire Sect, someone who was at the peak of the Martial Path realm.


    The Grand Elders immediately explained the details.


    5 minutes later.


    "This Feng Xing, are you sure he is qualified to be recommended?" The Sect Master seemed to be unable to believe it, a 6th rank cultivator able to beat cultivators down cultivators of the 8th rank?Unthinkable was the only answer.


    "Yes, we''re sure. We saw with our own eyes that he beat 8th rank cultivators downeasily. I''m sure he is qualified enough." The First Grand Elder confidently said.


    "Alright, then.. I''ll also recommend him... to the Black Gods Sect.." The Sect Master seemed to believe it after he saw how confident the First Grand Elder was, and he had complete trust in him.


    Feng Xings room


    "Hmm, I should atleast inform Feng Lao and my father about it. I''ll ask the Grand Elders tommorow if I''m able to leave the sect for a bit." Feng Xing clearly wanted to let his father and Feng Lao know about this. After deciding this he immediately closed his eyes and began his cultivation. He didn''t use the pill yet and wanted to reserve it to breakthrough to the Martial Path realm.


    He slowly felt his cultivation base climb.

 Chapter 9 : Time To Move Out

    Feng Xing approached the 7th rank of the Tempering path with an astonishing speed. He felt that he only needed a day or two to breakthrough.


    Feng Xing decided to go ask Grand Elder Ran if he could visit his family first, The Grand Elder accepted immediately and let Feng Xing go. On that day Feng Xing went to Feng Lao and his clan, only to be met with shocked faces everywhere. Although Feng Xing already expected this, his father just went crazy.


    "Feng Xing.. you clearly have been hiding your strength haven''t you? If not..." Feng Kong suddenly calmed down and asked Feng Xing.


    "Yes, father.. I''ve been hiding my strength for a while now. This is the truth." Feng Xing sternly replied. After hearing this Feng Kong felt a bit of relief. He almost thought his son had been taken over by someone.


    "But why had you never told me this... your own father, and you always told me you wanted to become stronger." Although Feng Kong felt a bit of relief he still needed to get to the root of this.


    "I wanted to surprise you." Feng Xing smiled. He hoped that his father wouldn''t question any further after his reply.


    "Ah, I see now... ahahaha... you sure fooled me huge.." Feng Kong felt a bit disappointed in Feng Xings answer, but also felt shameful not noticing that his son had been fooling him all along. He didn''t feel good at all.


    "Father, what''s wrong? Aren''t you happy for me?"


    "Unfilial son... of course I''m happy for you..." Feng Kongs proud face suddenly returned. What father wouldn''t be proud if his son was outstanding. This would always remain.


    After the two chatted for a while Feng Xing wanted to leave immediately, but suddenly met some familiar faces.


    It was Feng Yun and Feng Yue. Feng Xing had not seen them ever since the day of the recruiting by the Moonfire Sect. Unexpectedly Feng Yun and Feng Yue also heard that he was going to proceed to another Sect that was even more powerful than the current one.


    Feng Yun came here to apologize, and ask for forgiveness while Feng Yue only came tosee Feng Xings progress.


    "Please forgive me, Feng Xing... I was being a bit unreasonable back then. I''ll also apologize on behalf of my foolish brother." Feng Yun sincerely wanted to apologize. Feng Xing wasn''t narrowminded so he forgave him, they were family after all.


    "Don''t mind it, we''re family after all." Feng Xing said with a smile. Feng Yuewas getting a bit impatient, It seems she wanted to ask a question.


    "Speak, seeing you act like this isn''t fun after all." Feng Xing didn''t have much time, he had to return within a time period. That''s what he promised the Grand Elder.


    "Alright, I''ll be straightforward then. What''s your current cultivation base?" Feng Yun seemed to also be curious. They stared at Feng Xing trying to figure him out. The past month Feng Xing just changed way to much after all.


    "Oh, you only wanted to ask that? I''m only at the 6th rank currently."


    "What!" The two were shocked, even though the clan elders didn''t know. They knew that Feng Xing was only at the 4th rank not to long ago. This speed was astonishing...


    "How..." They both now wanted to know how he did it, but seeing Feng Xing only smiling and not answering they knew that he didn''t want to answer so they just let it slide.


    Geniuses always had a few secrets they didn''t want to let people know. It was normal, all geniuses had something to conceal, be it a treasure or a lucky encounter. They wouldn''t tell others.


    "Alright, I should be heading back now."


    After finishing his business with his family, he finally headed back to the Moonfire Sect. It was about time he asked what sect they were talking about yesterday. He also still has some business left with Xiao Ling, he was looking forward to her answer.The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there.


    30 minutes later.


    "Master Shui, would you just tell me already which sect it is?" Feng Xing was genuinely curious, he wondered which top sect of the Southern Nantian Kingdom it was after all.


    "Fine.. since you want to know so badly, don''t get discouraged after hearing. It''s very hard to get accepted in it after all." Feng Xing didn''t care about this, he only wanted to know the name of the Sect.


    "It''s called the Black Gods Sect! One of the 9 Great Sects of the Nantian Continent!"


    Each continent had 9 kingdoms, and each kingdom had one true powerful Sect that stood out. One of the 9 Great Sects of the Nantian Continent was the Black Gods sect. There were some rumours about the founder of the Sect, apparently he reached the Ascension Realm and ascended to the realm above. Nobody knew if this was true or not, but Feng Xing sure did!


    "What! That Sect still exists!?" Feng Xingnow had a shocked expression. He almost spurted those words out, but restrained himself. Grand Elder Ran seemed to notice this, and asked : "Hahaha, I see you are shocked now! Amazing Sect right? Only you and Xiao Ling will be recommended by us."


    The Grand Elder was finally happy seeing Feng Xing with such an expression, he finally succeeded in making Feng Xing surprised.


    Feng Xing actually knew the founder of the Black Gods Sect...


    In his previous life, they were actually very good friends. the founder''s name was later changed to Black God after he ascended to the Realm of Gods, so Feng Xing actually never knew his name, but Black God also didn''t know Feng Xings name as it was also later changed to Ancient Ruler. One of the things Black God talked about with Feng Xing was his own Sect : The Black Gods Sect.


    Both were very good friends and Feng Xing still remembered those good times. Black God was also one of the only people that didn''t betray Feng Xing. He even warned him, but Feng Xing didn''t believe that he would be betrayed. In the end he suffered.


    "Black God..." Feng Xing seemed to be in deep thought, so the Elder left after that.


    "Hahaha, do you regret now that I''ve told you? Just think about it more then ahahaha." The Elder left with a proud expression.


    "This sure is a small world ahaha.... I''ll take good care of your descendents." Feng Xing now was determined to pay back what he owed the Black God.


    "I guess when I come back to the upper realm I''ll have much to talk about with you." Feng Xing smiled. He knew that Black God was still alive, it was pretty hard to get rid of him after all. The last time Feng Xing saw him, he was already at the middle stages of the Ascension Realm.


    "Time to move and hear the answer of Xiao Ling." Feng Xing immediately sprinted out his room. He wanted to know the answer after all.


    10 minutes later.


    Currently in a room, a beautiful girl was cultivating on the bed. Peerless cold beauty, was one word to sum it up. Suddenly the door flew open and a handsome youth walked in.


    This was Feng Xing. The girl immediately opened her eyes, and coldly glared at Feng Xing.


    "Can''t you knock? What do you want." She coldly asked.


    "I want to hear your answer.. did you forget about my proposal last time?" Feng Xing didn''t seem to be affected by her glare at all. This girl was Xiao Ling.


    "Oh about that.. why not? Learning something like Energy Control is pretty important to me after all." Although Xiao Ling felt disdain for him. She still wanted to learn Energy Control from him.


    "Ahahaha, good choice. Like i said you won''t regret it." Feng Xing smiled. He was quite happy, now he could fully groom a disciple who had limitless potential.


    "But make sure to lend me a hand later when I need you." Feng Xing left after saying that. She was bound to be a strong comrade later if groomed right after all.


    Xiao Ling seemed to be confused, but didn''t care anymore and continued cultivating.


    They would leave tommorow to go and pass some trials to get accepted, so she wanted to be in top condition for that.


    10 minutes later.


    Feng Xing was now back in his room. He decided to breakthrough tonight for tommorow.


    "My strength should then be sufficient to pass." Feng Xing already calculated his strength. After breaking through he should be able to wipe out 9th rank cultivators of the Tempering Path very easily, and his body strength would be equal to the middle stages of the Martial Path.


    Reaching the second level of the< God Crushing Manual > won''t be soon. It was very hard to advance a level after all.


    Feng Xing then while cultivating suddenly remembered a voice... : "What''syour Dao?"


    "..." In his previous life he obviously had his own Dao, as that was required to breakthrough to the Dao Realm. His Dao then was already very special and defied the Heavens.


    "My Dao..." I wonder what my Dao in this lifetime will be...


    After thinking about it for a while he put that thought away and continued cultivating.


    Early morning


    Just as Feng Xing expected. He managed to breakthrough.


    "It''s time to go."


    Feng Xing left his room and went to Grand Elder Ran, after that they left. They both moved to stand just outside the Sect Gates. Feng Xing saw all three Grand Elders and Xiao Ling. Only one man he had not seen before. It was the current Sect Master.

 Chapter 10 : The Black Gods Sect Entrance Exams!

    The man seemed to be like an unmovable mountain, and everywhere he looked pressure would fall onto. Right now he looked at Feng Xing. Immediately pressure spreadtowards Feng Xing.


    Feng Xing didn''t seem to care and was even able to withstand the pressure. The man seemed to be surprised, but right after he nodded his head in approval.


    "I''m the Sect Master of the Moonfire Sect, just so you know. Hahaha.. I see you are just as incredible as the Elders said you were, but that''s not important currently." The Sect Master said to Feng Xing.


    Feng Xing didn''t mind all this testing. It was normal, if you considered his cultivation base. The Sect Master obviously wanted to know if he was strong enough or not.


    There was something veryimportant today after all.


    "Today is the day... don''t disappoint the Sect. We will recommend only you two, bring some honour to our Sect!" The Sect Master yelled out.


    "Yes!" Xiao Ling and Feng Xing both yelled out. They both seemed to be pretty confident.


    "The Black Gods Sect entrance exams will start in an hour, so were gonna depart right now." The Sect Master suddenly pulled out a magic device from his pocket.


    A Martial Path High Tier Treasure!


    "We won''t make it if we directly walk the whole distance, but I have already bought a treasure for a sky high price. It''s a teleporting device, but sadly enough it''s only usable once a day. We will teleport directly to the Sect entrace." The Sect Master had a pained expression on his face, but felt that it was worth it. He must of have paid a grand price.


    Xiao Ling was shocked. To teleport to a place hundreds of miles away... this was inconceivable for her. Feng Xing on the other hand still hasn''t even blinked an eye and still had that stoic look on his face.


    The Sect Master seemed to notice this,and frowned at Feng Xings expression. Xiao Ling would one day understand anyways with her talent, but... Feng Xing seemed to not even care...


    Why would Feng Xing care? What treasures had he not seen before in this world? It had to be a treasure of the Realm of Gods atleast to shock him.


    The Grand Elders noticed this and chuckled.


    "Ahem, well anyways lets move out instantly." The Sect Master dryly said.


    The magic device suddenly lit up while the surrounding area around it also lit up.


    Swoosh!


    A few moments later they were suddenly standing in front of a majestic entrance. Beasts were flying around above, a few hugemountains were faintly seen behind the entrance. What a sight to behold, but the entrance to the Sect was crowded as hell.


    Loads of people came to the Sect Entrance exams, mainly from Sects themselves.


    Suddenly the Sect Master saw some familiar facesand called out to them.


    "Qing Yu!" The Sect Master called out to a man in the crowd, he also brought along three Grand Elders and two disciples.


    "Ohoh, Sikong Tian how have you been doing for the past year." They seemed to be on pretty good terms, but then they realized that there was a kind of rivalry going on between them.


    "Ahahah, don''t mind me. I have been doing great. I even have these two genius disciples." The Sect Master now had a smug expression on his face as he boasted.


    "Ohoh, although your disciples look alright, mine are even better!" Qing Yu was the Sect Master of a Sect nearby Cloud City. After he said that a boy and a girlwalked up. The boy was average looking with a strong build while the girl was actually pretty cute, but when compared to Xiao Ling. She would just be a normal average looking girl.


    The two youths had rather above average talent. Both were at the 9th rank of the Tempering Path, they were just as strong as Zhao Kon atleast.


    Qing Yu only paid attention to the stunning girl, and didn''t pay to much attention to Feng Xing as he was only at the 7th rank. He was even way to shocked when he found out Xiao Ling was even in the Martial Path realm, but didn''t let it notice.If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    The boy that suddenly came was stunned after seeing Xiao Lings beautiful looks, he was slowly admiring her beautiful body curves and beauty.


    "What a feast to the eyes! Hehe..." The boy immediately wanted to impress her and said : "Hehe, may I know Junior Sisters name?"


    But got ignored by Xiao Ling instead, she didn''t put those that were under her cultivation base in her eyes, Feng Xing was the only exception.


    The boy didn''t seem to mind that at all though.


    "I see playing hard to get! I like that, ahaha. My name is Shi Lian. Make sure to remember it, Junior Sister." Shi Lian smiled while constantly looking at Xiao Ling.


    Feng Xing and Xiao Ling were disgusted by him.


    "What a playboy..." Feng Xing thought, but paid it no heed. He wouldn''t meddle in ones love affairs after all.


    Suddenly he noticed the stare from someone. It was the girl, with pretty nice looks. Except Feng Xing didn''t care about all that at all. He only wondered why she stared at him.


    "You... are only at the 7th rank?" The girl seemed to be surprised, why would there be such a low ranked disciple here?"


    "That''s right." Feng Xing replied, he stared with deep eyes, like he was above all.


    The girl now seemed to be confused at this.


    "Ahem, I believe you shouldn''t try your luck out here... you won''t make it." She roughly said, she was slightly irritated, but hold back.


    "Oh? How do you know I won''t make it? Only because of my cultivation base? Girl you have much to learn..." Feng Xing said.


    "What? I was only giving you advice! Nevermind then." The girl seemed to be angry after that rebuke from Feng Xing. She sincerely wanted to offer some advice, but Feng Xing immediately chased her away.


    Just like that an hour quickly passed by with a blink.


    The girl suddenly walked to Feng Xing and said : "Then show me your skill in the tests! Do you dare to bet with me? If you don''t pass, you will apologize to me while kneeling down!"


    Feng Xing seemed to be amused by her upfront attack.


    "Sure, why wouldn''t I dare, but if I win you will have to be my maid ahaha." Feng Xing smiled. He couldn''t wait to see her face after he passed.


    The girl obviously thought that a 7th rank cultivator would never pass so immediately said : "Ahahaha, fine. Good luck. Oh right, the name''s Rou Xue!"


    "Hmm, nice name. You can call me Feng Xing."


    "Alright, I''ll meet you after the tests." Rou Xue seemed to be very confident.


    The main reason why Feng Xing made that bet was to have her as maid, because she secretly possesed a special bloodline... Feng Xing was the only one who noticed this, even the Sect Masters didn''t.


    "She sure concealed it good.. unfortunately it won''t escape my eyes.."


    "Interesting..." Feng Xing thought.


    The main event was gonna start. Suddenly an old man flew out of the Sect entrance, you could tell he wasn''t ordinary. The aura he gave off wasn''t normal at all. It was a peak Martial Path expert. He was even half step into the Holy Path realm!


    The experts outside the Sect were shocked at the power of the Black Gods Sect, but Feng Xing wasn''t. Feng Xing already heard from Black God that his Sect even had experts from the Holy Path realm. This was just considered normal.


    The man was about to talk.


    "My name is Ling Fong! The twenty-first Elder of my Black Gods Sect, pleased to see you all gather here. I will be the tester for todays occasion." Ling Fong gave a short introduction.


    "Alright, for the recommended disciples by various Sects please move over to that side." He pointed to the right side.


    Currently all recommended disciples moved over to the pointed side. Only people who wanted to try their luck and possibly pass stayed. The two were now divided.


    "Hmm, I see now.." Ling Fong saw how many disciples and country bumpkins there were.


    "Alright, only disciples should stay. Sect Masters, Elders, and various others please leave the site if you aren''t applying."


    All the Sect Masters, Elders and others immediately left. Only people who wanted to pass were left over.


    "Let''s start then!" Ling Fong announced.


    "The first test will test your talent!"


    As usual, the first test always tested your talent. Only with sufficient talent could one progress through realms, but that didn''t apply to Feng Xing. Feng Xings talent wasn''t that outstanding in this lifetime. Luckily Feng Xing already knew this would happen and so prepared something, he would trick the test a little bit. He changed his talent momentarily for the whole day with his Energy. This was considered to be expert class Energy Control! To change your own characteristics, talent and aura with only Energy. It was truely rarely seen. Only true experts could do this with their own Energy. There was a time limit though. You couldn''t actually change them forever, but it was still useful.


    "This should be enough." Feng Xing was sure make it believable and not overly ridiculous.


    Suddenly once again a list appeared in the sky, this was the ranking list. What also suddenly appeared were countless crystal colourless balls. They appeared in front of each disciple. Suddenly Ling Fong yelled out.


    "Just touch the ball and it will show you your talent. If the ball turns into a color you pass."


    Feng Xing also touched the ball, and it turned into an azure colored ball. He passed.


    All disciples touched the ball, some lit up while some didn''t even react, but the ones that did all had various colors.


    "If your ball has a colour, I will show you how that represents your current talent!"


    Suddenly a list appeared next to the ranking list. It listed all possible colours.


    Black : Heaven Defying Genius


    Purple : Genius Among True Geniuses


    Azure : True Genius


    Red : Genius


    Green : Above Average


    "Good enough." Feng Xing nodded and looked over to Xiao Lings ball. He saw a Black coloured ball. This means she had limitless potential...


    "Sigh, the heavens sure favourthis girl..."


    "The rest that didn''t light up a ball with a colour, you may leave." Ling Fong said.

 Chapter 11 : Geniuses!

    "Sigh..." Most cultivators were thinking at the moment, they didn''t manage to pass. Currently only two people remained on the side that wasn''t recommended by a Sect. Both were guys, one unexpectedly lit up a ball with azure colour while the other one lit up a greencoloured one.


    It seems to be that there was unexpectedly atalented youth unnoticed by a Sect.


    One the side of disciples recommended by a Sect a lot more people remained. This was normal after all, usually youths with talent get recommended by a Sect, while others just want to try their luck. It usually ended up in failure, but not always does it end in failure. Those two boys who were at the other side currently passed the first test, so there might be a chance. Especially for the boy that lit up an azure coloured ball.


    Swoosh!


    The ranking list lit up! The ranking list was now changing! Time to see who the real geniuses are! The names now were appearing.


    Swoosh!


    Naturally Feng Xing recognized the first name immediately, it was Xiao Ling.


    Xiao Ling : Heaven Defying Genius!


    The list stated.


    "Well, this was to be expected.. there aren''t many geniuses in this continent that can compare to her after all."


    Only in Dragon Continent could there be possible people who could match up to her.


    Swoosh!


    The names were rapidly appearing, all the way up to the 87th place. Feng Xing now realized that he actually recognized another name in the top 10...


    3rd place...


    Rou Xue : Genius Among True Geniuses!


    "It must be because of her unique bloodline." Feng Xing nodded, this was a little bit out of his expectations, but it was close enough. Rou Xue would pass while being atleast in the top 20, this was his prediction, but he underestimated her a bit.


    Feng Xing was now looking for his name, he immediately found it in the top 20.


    "17th place, not bad. It seems to be that there quite a few people ranked above me. Not a bad patch of geniuses." Feng Xing smiled, he wondered how all these geniuses would face against eachother later and against him.


    Feng Xing : True Genius.


    Xiao Ling and Rou Xue saw his place, but seemed indifferent about it.


    "Hmm, it seems to be that he atleast has a bit of talent.. but that doesn''t matter for the next tests!" Rou Xue sneered, she still wasn''t worried about the bet.


    Since all names have appeared, they all waited for Ling Fong to speak.


    "All who aren''t in the top 40 may leave."


    Yet again 37 people were immediately eliminated, but on the side where two youths once were on. Now only one remained, he was ranked higher than Feng Xing actually. At the 15th place.


    Shu Li : True Genius!


    More people were now paying attention to him, he was the only one left on that side after all. The rest were all on the other side. He was one of the people Feng Xing paid attention to.


    "What bloodlust, for such a young youth.." Feng Xing saw through the stern looking youth immediately, he felt intense bloodlust coming from him. Feng Xing wondered what this youth experienced, it wasn''t normal for a young youth like that to have such bloodlust. Only people who have killed countless people could have such an aura. Unfortunately eventhough the youth concealed it with his stern face, Feng Xing was more experienced in these kind of things.


    "Interesting..." Feng Xing was still smiling, he didn''t care if someone was bloodthirsty at all. It wasn''t his business, as long as he doesn''t get in his way.Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions.


    Suddenly the youth noticed a stare and looked directly at Feng Xing. Their eyes were now locked on to each other. The staring battle has begun...


    The youthcouldn''t see through Feng Xing, while he felt exposed. This was the first time he felt like this.


    "That guy..." The youths stern expression became more dark and cold, but immediately supressed it.


    Feng Xing suddenly chuckled at this sight, irritating the youth even more.


    Feng Xing then looked away, he was more interested in another person... it was the only youth other than Rou Xue thatwas a Genius Among True Geniuses, on the second place.


    Song Jiang : Genius Among True Geniuses


    This youth was also only 15 years old just like Feng Xing , Xiao Ling and Rou Xue. He was very handsome and had a noble air. You could call him every girls dream boyfriend, but at this moment he seemed to be looking at Xiao Ling in a daze.


    "Sigh.. she attracts to much trouble." Feng Xing sighed, having a disciple that naturally attracts trouble was troublesome for him.


    "Well, it doesn''t matter for now." Feng Xing naturally accepted everything thrown at him, so it didn''t bother him to much except that it was a bit troublesome.


    "The second test will be testing your comprehension ability! I have a high tier Tempering Path skill here, which I will show you all in a second. Your rank depends on how fast you comprehend the first level!"


    Many youths were shocked! They now had a chance to look at a high tier Tempering Pathskill! Some youths here didn''t even have a chance to look at them in their own Sects, so they were ecstatic currently. Especially Shu Li, one who didn''t even enter a Sect. Most youths here were at the Tempering Path realm, and he also was only at the 8th rank of the Tempering Path. So a high tier Tempering Path skill in his eyes was a huge treasure.


    Immediately Ling Fong send an imprint from the first level of the skill in the minds of everyone. Everyone closed their eyes to comprehend it.


    "When light shines upon you, you will have passed! Time limit is 30 minutes!" Ling Fong seemed to calculate a bit, he found 30 minutes a good time limit since it wasn''t a particularly hard skill to comprehend, but as soon as he said that... light suddenly descended!


    The ranking list once again reset, and lit up. A new name appeared on the number one spot!


    "WHAT!?" Ling Fong seemed to be flabbergasted! This comprehension speed! There was one word to describe it : Inhuman!


    Ling Fong seemed to be now looking at the spot where light shone upon, currently a youth was sitting there. It was none other than Feng Xing who was still smiling, which gave others a feeling of being unable to see through him.


    "Hehe, comprehension ability? Who in this world can match up to me." Feng Xing also wanted to have a high ranking in the end so he didn''t hold back at all.


    "That youth! His comprehension ability is even better than the Sect Master!" Ling Fong was now going to pay more attention to him...


    A few minutes later light shone upon Xiao Ling, it was like light shining upon a goddess. She opened her eyes, she was sure she was first since one of her special forts was comprehension, but then saw the ranking list... one person was better than her in comprehension ability. It was Feng Xing...


    She suddenly looked at Feng Xing only to discover that he was staring at her while smiling...


    "You''re not simple at all..." She wondered who Feng Xing was... he gave her a weird feeling.


    Quickly the 30 minutes passed. A few people couldn''t even comprehend it... they obviously knew they wouldn''t pass.. so they left. Only 34 people remain, and the ranking list was now complete. From first all the way to 34th.


    Shu Li, Xiao Ling, Rou Xue and that playboy Shi Lian were all bound to pass since they were in the top 20. Only Rou Xue was a bit worried now...


    "1st place, Feng Xing... don''t tell me he''s actually going to pass! No this won''t happen!" She consoled herself. Suddenly a young boy came. Rou Xue immediately had an ugly expression after discovering who it was.


    "Feng Xing... your luck has been pretty good I guess hahaha..." She awkwardly laughed.


    "Luck? Hmm, I see.. luck is also a factor in comprehending skills. You sure have weird thoughts hehe." Feng Xing was still smiling, his expression hasn''t changed yet.


    "About that bet.. make sure to be a good maid when I order you ahaha.." Feng Xing said.


    Rou Xue''s face immediately turned red from anger.


    "Who said you will pass! Don''t get to cocky." Rou Xue rebuked.


    "Ahahaha, We''ll see." Feng Xing seemed to not mind such attitude, and left to walk to Xiao Ling.


    "I believe there is only one test left. After we get in the Sect stay close to me." Feng Xing nonchalantly said to Xiao Ling who seemed to be surprised. She seemed to have misunderstood him.


    Feng Xing noticed this and immediately said : "As my disciple ofcourse... not romantically."


    "...Alright." She answered.


    "Those who aren''t in the top 20 leave!" Once again 14 people got eliminated. It was time for the final test.


    "There will be one last test! Both sides come together." Ling Fong ordered.


    Now Shi Li was also in the group of recommended disciples. People felt disdain for him, but didn''t show it.


    "The final test will test your battle sense. It''s simple."


    This was a thing most disciples currently lacked, battle experience.. couldn''t be cultivated after all.


    "Once again I''ll send an imprint to your minds. There will be 10 choices you can choose from, only one is right."


    Suddenly all the disciples saw a scene play through in their heads. A tiger was attacking a man, what should the man do?


    10 Choices appeared...


    1. Leave and run from it.


    2. Battle it fiercely.


    3..................................


    5 minutes later.


    They all made a choice, it was time to show who passed and who didn''t. The ranking list once again lit up, but one thing still didn''t change. The number one spot was still Feng Xing!

 Chapter 12 : Secret!

    Everyone saw this and looked over to Feng Xing, slightly surprised after feeling his cultivation base. Especially Rou Xue felt a huge blow... this now meant that she lost the bet...


    This was the final test after all. Rou Xue was ranked at second place, this was also to be expected. Feng Xing knew what bloodline she had, and that bloodline had a deep connection with tigers... so it was normal that Rou Xue knew what to do immediately, only to be behind Feng Xing. Rou Xue even felt more bitter.


    Feng Xing walked up to Rou Xue while smiling and said : "Don''t mind it, I''m your master from now on after all."


    This made Rou Xue feel even more broken.


    Only 6 names appeared... this meant that the rest failed...


    Shu Li was 3rd, Song Jiang was 4rth, and Xiao Ling was 6th...


    Only Feng Xing needed just a second to choose the right decision immediately, the others thought a bit more.


    "She still needs more battle experience for the future I guess." Feng Xing felt that he had to train Xiao Ling much more after settling down in the Sect.


    "The playboy didn''t pass, oh well that''s okay."


    Unfortunately Shi Lian didn''t pass, but Feng Xing didn''t care. He was disgusted by Shi Lian anyways.


    Feng Xing now noticed a youth he had not noticed before in previous tests. Currently at the 5th place on the ranking list.


    Xiu Zhi, he seemedto be a 16 year old youth that was at the 9th rank of the Tempering Path.


    Feng Xing didn''t pay to much attention to him, for Feng Xing the youthwas just an average genius after all with no special bloodline.


    Only the 6 who were on the ranking list passed.


    Now the list suddenly lit up once again, time for the final results!


    1. Feng Xing


    2. Xiao Ling


    3. Song Jiang


    4. Rou Xue


    5. Shu Li


    6. Xiu Zhi


    This was to be expected since Feng Xing was ranked 1st two times, and the rest was also explanatory.


    These 6 youths were going to get accepted into the Black Gods Sect, this was now decided by Ling Fong.


    "Since you guys have passed all the tests, you may now call me Elder Ling." Elder Ling smiled kindly, these were now also disciples of the Sect after all.


    "Lets move into the Sect, you will all become outer sect disciples."


    After they went in they saw 4 huge mountains... this sect spanned thousands of miles. It was huge, and the aroma here... was special. Feng Xing once heard Black God talk about it.


    He said that he blessed the lands of the Sect with a special aroma, this aroma would calm most cultivators and help them cultivate and breakthrough much easier.


    "It indeed smells nice." Feng Xing and the other disciples were enjoying the aroma. Soon after they were at the Outer Sect Dorm, a place where all outer sect disciples stayed. Only by becoming an inner sect disciple would they move.


    The disciples all received a personal room, and the sect rules were basic so nobody asked.


    "Number 914, here is my room." Feng Xing found his room, unexpectedly the room next to him number 913 was his maid... Rou Xue''s room. Rou Xue and Feng Xing saw eachother.This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it.


    While Feng Xing smiled, Rou Xue had an ugly expression.


    "... why is my room next to his." Rou Xue bitterly smiled at Feng Xing.


    "Oh how convenient." Feng Xing laughed, this must of have been fate.


    "Hey Feng Xing..."


    "Feng Xing? You mean master?" Feng Xing chuckled.


    "Y..You!.." Before Rou Xue could even finish her sentence Feng Xing already opened his mouth once again.


    "Don''t tell me... you''re going to deny the bet?"


    Rou Xue felt helpless... they did make a bet and she couldn''t just ignore it, she had her pride after all.


    "Don''t worry... being my maid isn''t a bad thing for you.." After Feng Xing said that he went into his room. Rou Xue didn''t feel any better after his words.


    "Sigh... it''s my own fault." Rou Xue sighed and also went into her room.


    Feng Xing decided to cultivate a bit more, he now had a new goal to achieve. He wanted to reach the Martial Path as quickly as possible, only then could he learn a few skills from his previous life. His body strength was already enough, only his cultivation base was rather a bit low.


    1 day later.


    Feng Xing went out of his room and decided to look for Xiao Ling, he wanted to teach her a bit to start off with. Searching for Xiao Ling wasn''t to hard... just right outside the dorm she was already surrounded by countless disciples including Song Jiang. Her beauty was peerless after all.


    They were all trying to get on her good side, but got plain ignored by her. Suddenly a voice traveled over.


    "Xiao Ling!"


    Xiao Ling seemed to recognize this voice, and thus walked towards it. This surprised the others. They saw her walking to a youth who was at the 7th rank of the Tempering Path. They wondered what their relationship with each other was...


    "Come over to my room, and we can start with the first lesson." Feng Xing casually said like it was nobody''s business.


    "That fool actually thinks Celestial Beauty Xiao Ling would go along." The disciples already thought of Xiao Ling as a goddess in their minds, even giving her a title. They seemed to be amused by Feng Xing, but suddenly they heard something that they never thought they would hear.


    "Alright." Xiao Ling replied, she was eager to learn after seeing Feng Xing control Energy. They both left off right after.


    "What!? She went with him!? Who is that boy!" The disciples were shocked, they now wondered who that boy was and what his relationship with her was.


    "That boy''s name is Feng Xing, a new outer sect disciple." Suddenly a youth answered. This youth was Song Jiang, one of the disciples who got accepted along with Feng Xing and the others. He currently despised Feng Xing, for getting close to someone he fancied.


    "Ohoh, Young brother. You seem to know him well?" An older outer sect disciple said.


    "No... this Junior Brother only knows his name and does not know their relationship unfortunately."


    "Ah, I see... but they sure seemed to be pretty close...I don''t like it..." The older outer sect disciple seemed to be planning something, he suddenly ordered two lackeys of his to investigate this matter. The older outer sect disciple was 17 years old this year. His name was Mong Gu, and seemed to also fancy Xiao Ling''s looks.


    5 minutes later


    Feng Xing and Xiao Ling finally entered the room, It wasn''t to big of a room, but it was enough to have atleast two people come over.


    "You better tell me an extraordinary secretor I''ll leave immediately." Xiao Ling was still curious about that secret of Feng Xing.


    "Oh.. that..." Feng Xing suddenly became a bit different, he didn''t have his usual smile on his face. The tone in his voice also became slightly different.


    Xiao Ling seemed to notice all this, but paid it no attention currently.


    "Would you believe me if I said... that I have died once?"


    "What bullshit are you spouting now." Xiao Ling seemed to not believe it at all, dying? Then why are you still alive.. Xiao Ling thought.


    "Believe it or not.. it''s true." Feng Xing''s aura was now a bit sinister. Xiao Ling could clearly tell he was not joking around.


    "... How can I believe you?" Xiao Ling replied.


    "That depends on you..."


    "...You really aren''t lying?"


    "Little girl... why would I lie? Who do you think I am?" Feng Xing''s tone became even more dominant.


    "Little girl? You... just who are you?" Xiao Ling was getting a little stupefied. She never had been called little girl before... this also secretly implied that Feng Xing was a Senior character to her.


    "That''s not important currently. I only need you to become stronger so you can help me later. Do you accept or not?" Feng Xing stared deeply at Xiao Ling.


    "...Fine one day I will find out anyways..." Xiao Ling was shocked and a bit scared, but didn''t show it. This secret was still unbelievable to her, but somehow she eventually believed it.


    Suddenly Feng Xing''s normal attitude returned. Scaring her a little bit was the right choice. Feng Xing needed her strength later after all, so he won''t pressure her to hard. He also didn''t tell Xiao Ling everything. One day will come when she will know about it all after all, so he didn''t bother explaining currently.


    "Ah, I see haha.. lets start the lesson than. Be sure to keep to not leak that secret." Feng Xing''s normale smile returned. Although Feng Xing knew that with Xiao Ling''s personality she wouldn''t reveal it to others he still needed to remind her. Xiao Ling would never forget this moment...


    Dying means it''s over... yet Xiao Ling clearly heard that he already died once...


    "I''ll be sure to find out one day..." Xiao Ling silently thought, she was now a bit more respectful towards Feng Xing. She didn''t know who Feng Xing truely was.... he surely wasn''t such a simple character in his previous life right?

 Chapter 13 : The Three Halls

    Feng Xing wanted to teach her Energy Control first, since it was one of the most important things. This was also what Xiao Ling wanted to learn.


    "I''ll teach you Energy Control like promised, first feel your True Energy." Feng Xing didn''t rush and slowly taught her. Patience was key.


    Xiao Ling''s True Energy aura immediately leaked off her, this was easy. It was just simulating the Energy, anyone could do this.


    "Next, try to make an Energy Ball on the palm of your hand like this." Feng Xing pulled out his hand, and slowly a small Energy Ball was created. This step required a bit more practice, you must concentrate your Energy on the place where you are creating the ball, you could also make it bigger or smaller depending on how much Energy you put in it.


    Xiao Ling''s True Energy immediately burst out, but it wasn''t what she wanted. Her whole body was currently giving off the Energy while she only wanted the Energy to go to her palm.


    "It''s okay everyone fails the first try, I believe that you can master this part in a few days if not weeks." Feng Xing gave her a reassuring comment.


    Xiao Ling kept trying, she was stubborn and wanted to master it as quickly as possible. This quality about her Feng Xing liked. Feng Xing also sat down and began cultivating. He was getting closer to the 8th Rank of the Tempering Path.


    Both were now busy... with a blink a few hours passed just like that. It was now night. Feng Xing stopped cultivating and stood up and looked at Xiao Ling''s progress. He was shocked, he saw Xiao Ling condensing a small Energy Ball.


    "Not to hard if you ask me." Xiao Ling arrogantly said, but inwardly was proud of herself.


    "Hehe, that''s good." Feng Xing gave her a genuine smile, he truely was happy with her learning speed. She learns fast. A perfect disciple for him.


    Xiao Ling was surprised, this smile Feng Xing gave off was different than usual...


    "So he can also smile like this..." Xiao Ling was a bit mesmerized by his smile. Feng Xing noticed this and immediately stopped smiling and said : "So... you aren''t planning to stay here all night? Hehe... I''m fine with it."


    Xiao Ling was a bit caught off guard,her face got slightly red after hearing that comment. She rebuked immediately, but forgot to keep up her cold made up personality.


    "O..of.course not. I''ll go practice in my own room. The number is 874 for your information." She left immediately.


    "Ahahaha, her personality is kind off interesting. Usually seeming cold while actually..." Feng Xing seemed to like teasing her a bit, and continued cultivating. If he wanted to reach the second level of the< God Crushing Manual >. He would truely need to start harming his own body... to make the progress even more painful and faster. Feng Xing currently obviously had no plans for that. He just wanted to reach the Martial Path realm.


    Morning


    Feng Xing was still cultivating with his eyes closed. Suddenly someone knocked on the door, and opened it. It was a middle aged Elder at the earlystages of the Martial Path. Feng Xing opened his eyes and stood up.


    "Are you called Feng Xing?" The Elder asked.


    "Indeed, I am Feng Xing."


    The Elder seemed to be surprised, and felt disdain for Feng Xing immediately. Feng Xing''s cultivation base was kind of low to be a genius. This kid was Feng Xing? He thought.


    "Come with me immediately, you were called by a Grand Elder."


    Feng Xing seemed to be surprised first, but immediately knew why he was called.


    They moved to the 4th mountain : Black Gods Sect Main Mountain. The headquarters were also located here.


    The middle aged Elder led Feng Xing into a room in a small garden next to the headquarters of the Black Gods Sect. This place was the special area of a Grand Elder, he could do what he wanted here.The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.


    When they went in they saw an old man that gave off an odd feeling. Head full of white hair,long beard and deep old eyes with wrinkles around it that could pierce through anything. This man was the Grand Elder that called for Feng Xing. He was an expert at the late stages of the Martial Path realm!


    "Greetings, Grand Elder." Feng Xing and the middle aged man said. Feng Xing secretly was disappointed after feeling the Grand Elder''s cultivation rank. If a Grand Elder was only at this level, this would mean that the only Holy Path cultivator must be the Sect Master..


    "Sigh...the Sect has deteriorated quite a bit. From what I heard from Black God... a Grand Elder usually was in the Holy Path realm." Feng Xing sighed, time was something that couldn''t stop and would wait for nobody.


    The Holy Path realm, after reaching this realm you no longer were a mortal. The three big realms after that was divided in 12 ranks each! It was then truely considered hard to advance each level, but after advancing you would become many times stronger than before!


    "Good work, Elder Kuron you may leave now." The Grand Elder spoke with unconcealable dignity. The middle aged elder bowed and left.


    The Grand Elder stared at Feng Xing... with piercing eyes, trying to see through this youth before him. In the end he couldn''t and asked : "I heard you comprehended a High Tier TemperingPath skill in mere seconds?"


    "Yes, that''s right." Feng Xing nonchalantly replied. Not feeling nervous at all, even after being stared at by a Grand Elder.


    "If that''s true I would like to test you. I will show you a semi-Martial Path skill! Try to comprehend that in 1 minute." The Grand Elder took out a book and gave it to Feng Xing. Feng Xing looked through it and smiled.


    "Elder, I believe that I''m done."


    "...Show me." The Grand Elder still didn''t seem to believe it, but still wanted to see if it was true anyways.


    Wind Slash!


    Feng Xing made a slashing motion and immediately cut down with huge speed that contained Energy. The Elder immediately blocked it and had a surprised face.


    "You actually managed to do it. Your talent... I believe you should join my Hall and work under my wing. The True Skill Hall, we are theones who truely train and want to become powerful.We also are the Sect''s true force. We test every single skill and place them in the right category''s, I believe that with your skill. You could possibly comprehend every skill.. including Martial Path skills!."


    "How about it boy?" The Grand Elder wanted to rope Feng Xing in with all these benefits he mentioned, but sadly enough Feng Xing had no interest in such things.


    "I''m sorry, but could I ask about the other Halls I could possibly join?" Feng Xing asked respectfully. He didn''t want to anger a Grand Elder.


    "Sigh... there are two other Halls you can possibly join.. also managed by the two other Grand Elders." The Grand Elder seemed to be disappointed in Feng Xing''s answer.


    "You could join the Pill Concocting Hall and the Array Master Hall... as what they specialize in, I''m sure you already know after hearing the name. You can joinimmediately after passing a test held every week." The Grand Elder informed Feng Xing.


    "Pills.." Feng Xing could become stronger much faster with pills! Luckily this was also one of his strong forts, he was a 9th rank Pill Master in his previous life! Unfortunately he was more famous thanks to his Strength. He only concocted pills for himself and friends after all, so nobody truely knew his skill in this field.


    "Thank you, Elder. I have decided to join the Pill Concocting Hall."


    The Grand Elder seemed to regret having Feng Xing''s talent wasted in pill making and quickly said : "Pill Concocting isn''t that easy... one would need to spend atleast 10 years to remember the first 10.000 known ingredients and after that you would need even more time to remember more ingredients as you go through ranks. You would waste your talent, reconsider it."


    "Elder I''m pretty sure of my decision. I want to join that Hall. So I''ll be leaving now." Feng Xing quickly bowed and left before the Elder could even speak any further.


    "....He will come back sooner or later... when he realizes how hard it is..." The Grand Elder nodded, he was sure that Feng Xing would return. Feeling how hard it is. Is also okay.


    Feng Xing while heading to Xiao Ling''s room met Rou Xue on his way, Rou Xue quickly wanted to hide, but unfortunately Feng Xing already called her.


    "Ahem, Rou Xue come over here." He demanded.


    With a sigh, Rou Xue walked over to Feng Xing.


    "What do you want... Master." Uttering those words must of have been hard for her, Feng Xing thought, but it sounded pretty pleasant in his ears so it was okay.


    "Which Hall have you decided to join?" Feng Xing asked.


    "You mean the three Halls of the Sect?" Rou Xue seemed to be surprised at Feng Xing''s question.


    "Mhm."


    "I decided to pick the Pill Concocting Hall." Rou Xue was sure someone like Feng Xing would never pick the Pill Concocting Hall, and her strongest fort was Pill Concocting. She was already a 1st rank Pill Master at the age of 13, so she was pretty confident in the upcoming test. She already memorised the first 10.000 ingredients and she was currently learning the next ingredients after that.


    "How convenient, I just needed an assistant... I''ve also decided to join the Pill Concocting Hall."


    Rou Xue almost got a headache, but suddenlyremembered how hard it was to pass.


    "Good luck then Master." She replied and left with a mischievous smile on her face. She was sure that this time he wouldn''t pass, and she could see him failat the test and mock him a bit.


    Feng Xing didn''t care and walked over towards Xiao Ling''s room. After knocking he entered and saw that Xiao Ling was close to mastering the first lesson.


    Feng Xing told her all the details regarding the three Halls and asked which one she would decide to join. After thinking for a bit she didn''t even hesitate to choose the True Skill Hall.


    "I''ll join the True Skill Hall." She said.


    "Hmm, alright." Feng Xing only came to hear her answer and he approved. With her talent it was better to just focus on the Martial Dao completely.

 Chapter 14 : The Pill Concocting Test!

    Feng Xing returned to his room to cultivate. Tomorrow he would go and ask when and where the test will be held this week, as he didn''t know the details yet.


    1 day later.


    Feng Xing opened his eyes, and stood up. He was going to go to the room next to his... Rou Xue''s room.


    "Time to ask her the details."


    Feng Xing knocked three times, after that he heard a reply.


    "Who is it?" Rou Xue asked, she was currently memorising a book.


    "It''s your Master." Feng Xing opened the door and went it. Rou Xue didn''t seem to mind that though.


    "What are you reading?" Feng Xing asked.


    "I''m memorising the first 10.000 ingredients... don''t you know the test is today?" Rou Xue stared at him with weird eyes...


    "....Is that so? Well then, that''s good for me." Feng Xing awkwardly smiled. He didn''t know it was today, but that didn''t mean it was necessarily bad for him. He looked at Rou Xue memorising the book.


    "Lead me to the test later." Feng Xing demanded, as her Master, this was absolutely tolerable. Right?


    "Oh... sure. Ofcourse I will.... Master" Rou Xue smiled innocently, seemingly happy to serve Feng Xing. She couldn''t wait to see Feng Xing fail. How could she let a chance like this slip away?


    Feng Xing simply smiled back.


    "Hehehe, this time... for sure" Rou Xue thought inwardly, while maintaining her innocent smile.


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    Currently in a different place, one youth was talking with two others who were reporting something. This youth was Mong Gu, he seemed to know a few details now.


    "Are you sure that they stayed in the same room for hours!?" Mong Gu seemed to be enraged, nobody can take away what he covets!


    "Yes this is true, we definitely saw her walk into his room. A few hours later she came out with a red face! We don''t know what happened inside, but it surely..." One of the two youths reported.


    "I''ve heard enough. You two may leave now..." Mong Gu''s expression immediately became cold, this terrified the two youths so theyleft in a hurry.


    "Feng Xing....."


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    Feng Xing and Rou Xue were currently heading over to the location where the test was held at.


    "You really don''t know any of the details... do you really think you will pass?" Rou Xue asked.


    "Still asking your Master such things? If I say I shall pass then, pass I shall." Feng Xing sternly replied. His usual smile gone, replaced by a casual expression.


    "Alright then."


    Rou Xue proceeded to head over towards theBlack Gods Sect Main Mountain. When they arrived.they saw hundreds of people sitting on the ground at a plaza, they were waiting for an Elder to come to give the test. Just as Rou Xue and Feng Xing wanted to sit down, an Elder flew down from the top of the mountain. He stared at everyone and said : "At this plaza, the Pill Concocting Hall test will be given. If you want to join the other Halls, you may come back at a later time."The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    Nobody left, apparently everyone here was for the Pill Concocting Hall test...


    The Elder''s eyes squinted at the sight of this. Passing this test wasn''t so easy at all, memorising the first 10.000 ingredients could take someone years! After passing this test you could finally learn how to make pills, but who said that this wasn''t hard? The Elder thought that most people here were trying out their luck, but didn''t care anymore.


    Every youth wanted to try atleast, maybe they had a talent to recognize every single ingredient? Thus they came to take the test anyways.


    The Elder sent an imprint towards all the participants. The imprint disappeared in their foreheads. The test was being held in the mindsof the participants.


    Feng Xing currently saw an ingredient appear, he only needed to know the characteristics, name and usage of the ingredient. In easier words. One needed to know every detail about the ingredient to proceed further.


    In Feng Xing''s mind countless ingredients appeared and disappeared straightaway, he remembered all of these ingredients and every single detail. Just like that one minute passed by... He was finished.


    Feng Xing opened his eyes, this would indicate that he was done and passed the test. The test had a time limit, if one couldn''t pass the test in an hour, then they would have failed.


    The Elder seemed to notice Feng Xing and stared at him in shock. Feng Xing casually stared. Their eyes met, The Elder seemed to be unable to believe it. Finishing the test in one minute? Just like that? Even he himself couldn''t do that! He would definitely tell this to the Grand Elder who supervised the Pill Concocting Hall.


    The rest seemed to struggle as the expressions on their faces kept changing. Feng Xing looked over to Rou Xue. She seemed to be still calmly proceedingin her head. After 10 minutes. A few people were opening their eyes. Rou Xue also opened her eyes. Her eyes seemed to be a bit exhausted, a lot of mental energy was consumed after all. She looked over towards Feng Xing....


    "..." Rou Xue''s tired eyes suddenly sprung open at disbelief. Feng Xing actually passed the test earlier than her!? And he didn''t even seem to be tired! Every other person would be tired after trying to recall thousands of ingredients!


    "How!?" Rou Xue thought, wasn''t this guy a country bumpkin that didn''t know anything about ingredients? Don''t tell me he already memorised the first 10.000 ingredients perfectly.


    Feng Xing seemed to enjoy Rou Xue''s expression and smiled at her. After that Rou Xue immediately closed her eyes to recover... she had no energy left for this...


    Similarly a lot of people who passed also closed their eyes to recover. Only Feng Xing had eyes that remained open. Suddenly a voice transmitted into his head directly.


    "Boy, do you wish to learn Pill Concocting from me personally?"


    The voice seemed to be from the Elder who was currently staring at Feng Xing.


    Feng Xing smiled back and shook his head.


    Only in the Martial Path realm could one transmit messages to others directly in their minds. Feng Xing couldn''t do that yet.


    The Elder sighed, but didn''tpersuade Feng Xing any further. It was Feng Xing''s own choice, he couldn''t force someone after all.


    An hour quickly passed, the ones who failed opened their eyes... the test disappeared from their minds... It was over. The ones who did pass were now currently standing, earlier the Elder asked the people who passed to stand up. So he could see who failed and who passed. Currently he saw that only a few people passed including Feng Xing and Rou Xue.


    The ones that didn''t pass left the scene. They had no intentions to stay.. if they didn''t pass.


    Rou Xue currently looked at Feng Xing with a face that longed for answers. Feng Xing didn''t pay any heed to this.


    "You guys will now be a part of the Pill Concocting Hall. You can read about the details after joining in these books." The Elder suddenly sent books over to each person.


    "It''s thick..." Everyone thought except for Feng Xing. It was normal after all, every single thing was in the book and most importantly the rules and ingredient distribution.


    Feng Xing decided to read it later in his room.


    "You may come to the Pill Concocting Hall, after reading everything." After saying that the Elder flew off.


    People envied the ability to fly, but only after stepping into the Martial Path realm was it possible to fly.


    Feng Xing went towards Rou Xue, but was immediately met with questions longing for answers...


    "How did you pass!"


    "Now now... didn''t I already tell you that? If I say I shall pass...th-" Rou Xue immediately interrupted him.


    "No! I want to hear a genuine answer!"


    Feng Xing looked into Rou Xue''s longing eyes...


    "Sigh..."


    "It''s simple... I memorised the first 10.000 ingredients." This was the truth, although it wasn''t really what Rou Xue was looking for. Rou Xue couldn''t say anything in reply to that.


    "Not happy that your Master passed?" Feng Xing said while looking at Rou Xue.


    "...Very happy.." Rou Xue said without any emotion in her voice.


    "Hmm, not very enthusiastic... as punishment, clean up my room for me." Feng Xing smiled. He knew that Rou Xue couldn''t refuse anyways.


    "......Why me... sigh.." Rou Xue thought, but couldn''t refuse it... she was his maid after all.


    They slowly went towards Feng Xing''s room, but on the way they met Xiao Ling. Xiao Ling seemed to be a little bit disturbed after seeing the two of them together, but paid it no heed and proceeded further, walking past them.


    "That expression..." Feng Xing smiled, and proceeded to his room with Rou Xue.

 Chapter 15 : Walking Around

    A few minutes later, Feng Xing and Rou Xue arrived in front of Feng Xing''s room.


    "This is my room. If you ever feel like cleaning.. you''re always welcome here."


    "......"


    "Hmm, When I come back, I want everything tidied up." After saying that Feng Xing opened the door with his key and casually left.


    "Sigh..." Rou Xuesincerely did regret her bet with Feng Xing that day. Sadly enough there was no medicine for regret...


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    Feng Xing wanted to go and see Xiao Ling''s progress, so he headed over to her room. He wondered if she already mastered his first lesson, he knew that learning that first step was already very hard, but it was Xiao Ling... with her talent... she might already have mastered it.


    A few minutes later.


    Feng Xing finally reached his destination, but after knocking on the door for several times. There was still no response, this would either mean the following possibilities...


    1. She refuses to respond.


    2. She is in very deep cultivation.


    3. She is not in her room.


    "Hmm... disturbing her is not good if she is in deep cultivation, and I have no way to know if she refuses to respond or she''s not in her room... I''ll just return later." Feng Xing decided to come back later since he didn''t want to disturb her if she was in deep cultivation.


    Feng Xing wanted to grab a meal... although most cultivators didn''t need to eat and could survive only by cultivating. Eating a meal for some was still refreshing, Feng Xing was one of such people. He hadn''t eaten for a while so he decided to go to some stalls in the Sect. Unexpectedly a lot of cultivators were hanging around the stalls...


    "...."


    Not many cultivators would usually hang around this place, this was a bit weird, but the next second after Feng Xing heard someone speaking. Everything was clear...


    "Junior Sister Xiao Ling, please accept this!" A youth in the crowd offered some food to Xiao Ling. Feng Xing once again sighed at the sight of this, she was here all along.


    Feng Xing decided to speak with her later about her Energy Control, for now it wasn''t convenient to talk about it with her while there''s a huge crowd like this. Feng Xing moved towards a stall that was less crowded than the others.


    Xiao Ling noticed him, and also proceeded to move over. Feng Xing frowned a little at the sight of this. He just wanted to have a peaceful meal currently.


    "She''s just bringing trouble over to me isn''t she..." Feng Xing decided to buy somesnacks and tried to quickly leave, but unfortunately was stopped.


    "Wait." Xiao Ling''s voice flew over. Why couldn''t she just transmit messages straight to my mind, had she not learned that yet? Feng Xing decided to learn her that immediately after today.


    "Oh, well if it isn''t Xiao Ling." Feng Xing said nonchalantly while looking at Xiao Ling, somehow she currently looked a bit different. She looked like she wanted to ask something...Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation.


    "Feng Xing, have you come here only to eat?"


    Currently the whole crowd was surrounding the whole stall... they were all silently listening to their conversation like it was nobody''s business...


    "Mhm, wanted to enjoy a meal today." Feng Xing casually began eating.


    "Who is that boy?" One of the youths in the crowd asked. It seems to be that they all wanted to know this, someone who could casually talk to Xiao Ling...


    "I don''t know, but they kinda seem to know each other pretty well." They were all staring straight at Feng Xing with dead stares, suddenly another voice resounded.


    "Maybe he''s just her brother or something!"


    Immediately all the youths looked over to the youth who just said that... they had a weird expression on their faces. Looking at the youth like he was an idiot.


    "...Both of their surnames are obviously different. You idiot!"


    "Oh...." The youth just couldn''t accept someone close to Xiao Ling, so he just spat that out.


    Feng Xing and Xiao Ling were currently still talking.


    "It seems to be that you are also enjoying quite a bit of company." Feng Xing smiled.


    "It''s that smile again..." Xiao Ling thought...


    "I was casually walking around, but then I somehow got some lackeys... having lackeys is not a bad thing you know." Xiao Ling unexpectedly answered with a different answer than he expected.


    "Ohoh, having support indeed isn''t a bad thing." Feng Xing seemed to support her decision.


    More people gathered at the stall, wondering what was going on. Feng Xing decided to finish the conversation since to many people were coming.


    "Alright then, It''s time for me to go." Feng Xing stood up and left after saying that. Xiao Ling didn''t seem to mind though, and she also left after that.


    The crowd just stood there... not knowing what to do, they were constantly listening to their conversation. They got called lackeys by Xiao Ling...


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    Feng Xing decided to go back and see how his room looked now, there wasn''t much to clean after all. So she should be done.


    A few minutes later.


    Feng Xing unexpectedly met with a few lackeys of Mong Gu, while on his way to his room. Four youths all at the 9th Rank of the Tempering Path. They seemed to have hostile intentions.


    "Feng Xing right? Tell us your relationship with Xiao Ling, and after that never talk to her again! Or else..." One of the youths demanded. If Feng Xing refused, a fight would definitely unfold.


    "Hehe, this can''t be avoided I guess." Feng Xing was in the mood to battle after some snacks, he smiled at the youths and said : "I refuse to tell you..."


    Everything was silent, the four immediately burst their aura''s out after Feng Xing refused. No more words needed to be spoken, they decided to beat Feng Xing into a pulp. This should teach him they thought, but unexpectedly Feng Xing also let out an aura, that seemed to be even more powerful than theirs!


    A fight surely couldn''t be avoided now!


    One of the youths immediately sprung in action as he quickly rushed towards Feng Xing to throw a punch. Feng Xing stood still, just as the fist almost connected. He dodged at the last second. Suddenly his foot lashed out towards the youth.


    The youth unfortunately couldn''t retract his fist in time after putting quite a bit of strength into it.


    Boom!


    The youths stomach was immediately kicked severely by Feng Xing, Feng Xing smiled cruelly.


    "Urgh!!" The youth screamed in pain, whilesaliva dripped out of his mouth. He couldn''t breathe properly anymore. Feng Xing didn''t wait for him to catch his breath and immediately punched him brutally on the head.


    Pats!


    The youth was now knocked out while bleeding from his head. The other youths stared at this in a daze... Feng Xing''s Energy was actually this dense!?


    They felt a cold chill running up their spines when Feng Xing looked at them cruelly. They couldn''t believe that this guy was actually this powerful and brutal. They looked at each other and decided to attack all at once.


    Feng Xing coldly smiled, he knew that they would attack like this. He already condensed his Energy....


    The youths were now just 1 meter away from Feng Xing, they were now feeling even more confident as they all threw their fists at him.


    Energy Burst!


    Huge dense waves of Energy immediately supressed and injured the youths.


    The three youths spit out blood, they were internally injured by the very dense Energy from Feng Xing. Feng Xing calmly walked up to one of the youths.


    The youth immediately panicked and said : "WAIT! We only got orders from someone!"


    Feng Xing immediately stopped.


    "Ohoh, and who is this someone you mentioned?" Feng Xing coldly stared at him.


    The youth was very scared and immediately told Feng Xing all the details...


    "Hmm, Mong Gu... alright thanks for the information." Feng Xing patted the youth on his shoulder and left off.


    A few minutes later.


    Feng Xing finally arrived in front of his room.

 Chapter 16 : Luo Ai

    Feng Xing opened the door. Everything indeed was tidied up more than the last time he saw this room. Rou Xue was currently sitting on the bed cultivating. It seems to be that she is actually using a cultivation manual. Feng Xing recognized it immediately. It was the< White Tiger Energy Manual >. A supreme cultivation manual, by cultivating with this manual she would be able to boost her power tremendously after breaking through to the Martial Path realm, especially combined with her bloodline... her power and physique would be terrifying.


    Feng Xing moved closer and stared at the current cultivating Rou Xue. White Energy revolved around her, she suddenly felt like she was being watched. Her face twitched a little bit, but her eyes were still closed. Feng Xing looked away and also sat down to cultivate, at some point she will wake up anyways.


    In this manner two hours passed by within a blink, Rou Xue was starting to open her eyes. Her cultivation session was almost enough to let her breakthrough to the Martial Path realm, she knew sooner or later she would atleast be able to step into that realm.


    "...Eh.." Rou Xue opened her eyes just to see someone across her cultivating...


    "......"


    Feng Xing seemed to notice that Rou Xue was done, and also woke up, they were now staring at each other, Rou Xue didn''t know what to say and worried that she has been found out, while Feng Xing seemed to be amused by this.


    ...The silence remained for a good while... suddenly Rou Xue couldn''t stand the silence anymore. She broke the silence by saying : "For how long have you been here?"


    She stared intensely at Feng Xing.


    "Hmm, I just entered the room. Why?"


    After hearing that Rou Xue had a moment of relief, "Sigh... next time I definitely won''t try to breakthrough again carelessly..."


    Previously, after she was done with cleaning, she felt that the moment was right to breakthrough. She felt way to tempted so tried it, she didn''t expect Feng Xing to return this fast though...


    Luckily after hearing Feng Xing''s words, she felt relief. He couldn''t have seen her cultivate right? That''s what Rou Xue thought. Unfortunately for her Feng Xing didn''t only see her cultivate, but also knew that she cultivated with a special cultivation manual. This was something that Rou Xue would not know.....


    "Not bad, although there are very little changes... it got less messier atleast." Feng Xing smiled, he approved of her cleaning skills currently.


    For some reason Rou Xue felt very proud of herself after hearing Feng Xing''s words.


    "Of course." Rou Xue smiled brightly, as if she finally got acknowledged by Feng Xing.


    Feng Xing looked at her with weird eyes, but that didn''t matter he quickly changed his look. It was time to ask her an important question, since she was his maid. She also deserved to getguided personally by him.


    "Say... you. Would you like to explore the Dao of Alchemy?"


    "Dao of Alchemy?" Rou Xue had a bewildered look on her face, she probably never heard of this before. Well it was normal considering her cultivation base currently. Feng Xing immediately changed his words, so it was considered understandable for the current her.


    "Hmm, you seemed like you wanted to become a high rank Pill Master?" Feng Xing asked.


    "Oh, of course I want to become a high rank Pill Master! Who doesn''t?" This seemed to be one of Rou Xue''scurrent goals, that''s why Feng Xing asked. He noticed that she was pretty confident and passed the previous test pretty fast compared to a normal person.


    "Hehe, that''s good then. I can teach you if you want guidance." Feng Xing said while smirking, Rou Xue obviously sneered at the sight of this. Who did he think he was? Only passing the simple test with a fast speed doesn''t mean that he can teach pill concocting directly.


    "No, thanks. I don''t need any guidance currently." Rou Xue refused the offer immediately with no hesitation, although she believed Feng Xing was out of the ordinary, but he couldn''t also be good in pill concocting just as his martial prowess right? Otherwise.... he would be a crazy genius.


    Feng Xing seemed to be a bit disappointed in Rou Xue''s answer, but it wasn''t to important. It was her own choice after all, he wouldn''t force anyone. He would give them a chance, but if they refused, then he wouldn''t go any further. He slightly felt that Rou Xue would sooner or later still want his guidance. Feng Xing smiled after thinking it through.


    "Hmm, I see. That''s unfortunate." Feng Xing kept the smile and said nonchalantly like it didn''t matter at all.


    "It''s about time I go, it''s getting late." Rou Xue stood up and prepared to leave.


    "Ehh? Your room is just right beside mine, why not stay for a bit longer? Your Master also needs some company..." Feng Xing asked teasingly, Rou Xue seemed to be disgusted by his attitude. It was normal after all, but Feng Xing didn''t seem to mind this. He just wanted to see her reaction and how their relationship currently was. Just as expected... she hated him probably.Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings.


    "No, thanks. Bye." She left and closed the door leaving Feng Xing alone. Feng Xing suddenly remembered something, but didn''t do anything and continued cultivating. He was approaching the 8th Rank of the Martial Path. Soon he would reach it!


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    The Realm of Gods


    In a desolate area that seemed to be completely destroyed by something... currently were two figures standing across each other. Two heavenly beautiful womenwere currently battling each other, one of them had a tattoo on their arm that resembled a dragon, while the other had pure white hair and deep eyes that seemed to contain the universe and dao itself. They both seemed to use all their daoist magics,battle skills, and Dao understandings! After a very long time, one of the two suddenly fell on their knees...


    "Haah..." The girl who was currently standing was the one with the tattoo, she was panting a bit, but right after she smiled a deep cold smile full with hatred towards the girl who was currently on her knees, unable to stand up.


    "Hahahaha! Even you can''t defeat me currently! With the power I''ve gained from the Dragon God!" The girl with the tattoo shouted at the girl, the other girl currently had an unyielding look.


    "You... slut... after betraying him... you even joined... the Dragon God''s group.." The girl seemed to have a deep hatred for the girl with the tattoo.


    "Shut up! What do you know about me!?" The girl immediately rebuked.


    "He only showed you good will! He never caredabout me at all in the end!"


    After hearing that. The girl who was kneeling down suddenly had aconfused expression on her face and said : "What are you talking about? He was the one who saved you and cared for you!"


    "Hmph, Luo Ai... what would you understand! Well it doesn''t matter since... it''s time for you to join him." The girl showed a cruel smile, she deep full killing intent.


    After hearing those words, Luo Ai immediately used a treasure that wasn''t supposed to be used! Her last resort!


    "You!" The girl with tattoo suddenly speeded across and quickly wanted to finish her off.


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    Blinding light suddenly appeared from Luo Ai, and she suddenly spurted out a mouthful of blood, and disappeared right after. The girl with the tattoo was to late and could only attack air...


    "HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!" The girl screamed like a crazy beast. She knew that the treasure Luo Ai used was a common one, but nobody in the Realm of Gods would use that one... as it would reduce your cultivation base by atleast a full realm! She couldn''t chase her either... since she went to the Realm of Mortals! Only by reaching the Ascension Realm once again could one return to the Realm of Gods... but that was easier said than done! Nobody would risk going back to the Realm of Mortals! Reaching the Ascension Realm was as hard as reaching the heavens!


    "......" The girl quickly faded away into thin air. Her job was actually done... Luo Ai was no longer here in this world atleast...


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    Feng Xing suddenly felt his heart tingle slightly... he woke up from his cultivation and frowned... he checked his body all over, but couldn''t find anything weird with it. After a while he paid it no attention and continued cultivating throughout the night. What he didn''t knowwas that someone he knew actually descended down to the Realm of Mortals...


    Suddenly blinding right flashed in a forest not to far from the Southern NantianKingdom, after the light ended a girl was currently almost unconscious. She immediately didn''t care for her whereabouts and tried to heal herself with pills. She also talked to someone in her head for a while. They seemed to be figuring things out.


    A few hours later.


    The girl currently was cultivating to heal up ... she still was bleeding a bit from her mouth. The internal injuries she received were not healed completely yet. It would take a few years for it to heal completely, but she still consumed her best pills. She finally opened her eyes, this girl was Luo Ai...


    "....My cultivation base..." She sighed... she dropped from the 4th Rank of the Ascension Realm to the... 4th Rank of the Dao Realm and she was even weakened! Although the Dao Realm was already an unreachable realm for many people...


    For her.. the strength of a Dao Realm cultivator was like an ant compared to her previous strength. It was painful, but she didn''t regret her choice... she would of have been deadby now if she had not done that. Suddenly she heard a voice in her head.


    "Master! Summon me now, It''s important!" A soft quiet voiceresounded in her head. She seemed to be a bit confused, but still summoned a creature that looked like a huge cat with dark blue fur. The beast seemed to have sensed something.


    "What''s wrong, Dio?" The girl asked curiously, what was so important in this lower Realm? There wasn''t anything interesting at all, but Dio still seemed tobe concentrating.


    "I sense someone familiar... but no.. it can''t be!" The beast named Dio seemed to have a shocked expression.


    "What? Who is it..." Luo Ai seemed to be very curious now. Who would be familiar? This was the Realm of Mortals, it had been quite a while since she last was here...


    "...He''s supposed to be dead...but I have to see it with my own eyes. Only feeling his soul wouldn''t be enough to confirm it!"


    "Dead? Who are you talking about?" The girl frowned, Dio still didn''t answer her. Dio seemed to be way to shocked.


    "Master... do you remember... JiangHao?"


    "Of course, I do... but what does that matter currently... besides he''s already..."


    "The soul I just felt could be his since it''s just so familiar!"


    "What!?!?! That''s impossible! I saw him die with my own eyes!" Luo Ai had an expression of disbelief on her face, but somewhere deep in her heart she hoped that it was truly him. Slight tears fell out from her eyes when she remembered him once again. That one person she was indebted to for the rest of her life...


    In his last moments, she could do nothing... but stay at the sidelines to watch.... everything unfold itself... powerless to help. She truely hated herself for being to weak that moment...


    At the thought of possibly seeing him once more, her heart tightened.


    "Where is it tell me!"


    Dio immediately gave her the location, suddenly she and Dio immediately disappeared into thin air. Teleportation was used to immediately travel through space to reach their destination fast. Dao Realm cultivators usually use this to travel very fast! Although Luo Ai was weakened, simple teleports were still easily usable.


    "Hmm?" Feng Xing opened his eyes. He felt something... suddenly... two figures appeared in his room...

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 Chapter 17 : Reunion

    "This...." Feng Xing''s eyes opened wide, he was shocked... he couldn''t believe what he currently was seeing...


    "Hmm? Dio are you serious? It''s just a brat..." Luo Ai transmitted her message to Dio, she seemed to be clearly disappointed, and her heart rate immediately went to normal once again.


    Somepeople just teleported inside the Sect... and clearly nobody probably noticed, this would mean that the person was atleast in the Holy Realm or had an incredible Skill for disguising one''s self. If normal people saw this, that''s what they all might of have thought. Feng Xing thought differently though, he obviously knew these two... but he was still way to shocked to react...


    "Ehh... now I''m not sure anymore.. although his soul is clearly.. his, but this boy doesn''t even look like him and his... cultivation base is way to low." Dio transmitted back.


    The two were currently transmitting to each other, but Feng Xing couldn''t hear it... Feng Xing was still shocked and stared blankly at the scene in front of him. Never in his life would he have ever thought of meeting someone he knew this fast...


    The two seemed to have decided that this boy wasn''t him, and currently were thinking of disposing him or just letting him go. Luo Ai looked at Feng Xing coldly with her beautiful starry eyes and asked : "Brat, what''s your name?"


    She decided to still ask him name, and hopefully find out why he had the same or a similar soul to someone she knew. After hearing the girl''s spoken words, He immediately snapped out of it and slowly a tear fell out his eye.


    "Hmm? Scared little boy?" Dio teasingly asked, he seemed to not even have a care for the world currently. He also only wanted to know the reason why Feng Xing''s soul was like that.


    After a good while Feng Xing spoke.


    "...Y-you.... w-what are you doing here?..." Feng Xing asked while having an expression of pure shock and hapiness. He couldn''t suppress his current emotions and facial expression. One of the girls he cherished and thought he would never see again or until many years later, once again appeared in front of his eyes...


    "I''m currently the one stating the questions. Tell me fast or else..." Luo Ai seemed to be a bit confused about his attitude, but still continued to force an answer out of him. Although she found it weird for him to currently cry and even seem happy, she was not softhearted for such kind of things. She continued to stare coldly at him.


    Feng Xing simply smiled, and calmed his emotions down and seemed to ponder about something. Luo Ai was getting slightly ticked off by his smile, but somehow his smile felt a bit familiar. Where did she see this kind of smile once again? She had forgotten... but Dio had not!


    Dio suddenly transmitted something over to Luo Ai, and she suddenly stared deeply at Feng Xing. Trying to figure something out...


    Feng Xing suddenly spoke: "My name is Feng Xing...". Those words were spoken without any fear.


    Luo Ai and Dio seemed to be a bit surprised.. he suddenly spoke and it seemed to even be without any fear, but Feng Xing didn''t stop talking, he continued with a quiet voice after.


    "That name... is only valid for this lifetime.. though."


    Luo Ai and Dio seemed to be shocked after hearing the last phrase. Dying means it''s over... but then suddenly Luo Ai and Dio thought of a possibility,although they unconsciously hoped for it, but also denied it since it was impossible... or was it possible? Was it truely the one they once were indebted to? The one they unfortunately couldn''t help... when he needed it the most? Was it truely him!?


    Feng Xing''s smile currently wasn''t fake anymore, it became even brighter. Feng Xing truely was happy for this reunion between them.


    "Don''t you recognize me anymore? Little Ai and Little Dio..." Feng Xing spoke while slowly a tear dripped out his eyes.


    Silence remained for a good while after those words were spoken out, tears flew out of Luo Ai and Dio. Only one person had ever called them that.. they couldn''t believe it. Never in their dreams would they ever have thought of seeing him once again after returning to the Realm of Mortals...


    Dio was once a Martial Path Beastthat was picked up by Feng Xing, when Feng Xing was still in his younger days. Dio always accompanied Feng Xing and his adventures. Dio even gained the ability to speak when he managed to reach he Holy Realm, becoming a Holy Beast. That moment Feng Xing and Dio made a Friendship Pact, no longer would Dio call him Master, but he would call him by Feng Xing''s personal name "Jiang Hao" and Feng Xing would call. Years after, Feng Xing would secretly take him to the world above... the Realm of Gods.


    There Dio also managed to reach the Dao Realm, finally having a true sole solid dao foundation, but it wasn''t him who experienced the most. Dio witnessed something incredible, and something he would never forget. Feng Xing who was once still a rookie at the 1st rank of the Ascension Realm, slowly reached even higherheights, battling countless of times, making quite a bit of comrades and enemies... in the end he finally became one who stood at the top of the whole Realm! By that point his name was not Jiang Hao anymore...


    His name Jiang Hao was already unrecognizable for most...Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    Most people in the Realm of Gods knew his title... and they all called him the Ancient Ruler. Jiang Hao received such a title because, they all knew that he would stay a Ruler for a very very long time...


    But what nobody expected, was that he actually got struck down! Not by normal means, he actually got betrayed by some! In Feng Xing''s last moment''s... he said something to Dio...


    The supposed to be last request... : "Dio..., after I''m gone... please...protect Ai. She... must be protected at all costs..."


    Dio obviously didn''t refuse that request... after Feng Xing died, he immediately went and made Luo Ai his master. He would try his best to protect her, but unfortunately he wasn''t even in the Ascension realm yet... being only at the 6th rank of the Dao Realm. He could only try his best to do atleast something for her, that''s what he decided in this life. Currently he isat the 8th rank of the Dao Realm, being stronger than the current Luo Ai by a huge amount. His chance to protect her finally came, if she ever had any problems.


    But Dio would of have never thought of meeting Jiang Hao once again...


    Luo Ai also thought that she would never be able to see him again...


    She was someone who was heavily indebted to Feng Xing... but what she didn''t realize was that Feng Xing actually was indebted to her! Feng Xing''s Dao Path became much smoother after meeting Luo Ai, one who he fell in love with and gave him alot of support through his hard moments. Unfortunately Luo Ai stayed at the 1st Rank of the Ascension Realm, so she was being threatened everywhere because of her beauty. Feng Xing decided to make Luo Ai much stronger, so she would be able to become a true strong independent cultivator that didn''t need his protection anymore. Luo Ai would already have been death if not for the support of Feng Xing.


    Feng Xing saved her countless of times and even had to risk his own life to do it. Those moments pained Luo Ai''s heart, so she decided to become much stronger to stand beside him, and help him if he ever needed it. The years slowly passed by without much problems and she managed to reach the 4th Rank of the Ascension Realm. Slowly she was becoming much stronger, and reaching her goal. But it was still far from enough. In the end, before she even reached that goal Feng Xing had already been betrayed and killedby people she and Feng Xing trusted. The ambush they set for him on that day was terrifying... she never wants to remember that ever again. How heartless and cruel her former comrades became...


    Now they all reunited with each other...


    The silence was still there, Luo Ai and Dio just stared, while Feng Xing simply smiled.


    Just as Feng Xing wanted to speak, someone knocked on the door. Feng Xing gave Luo Ai and Dio a meaningful look, and turned around and said : "Who is it?"


    Following after the look he gave towards Luo Ai and Dio, they immediately cloaked themselves invisible. Nobody would be able to detect them, even the current Sect Master and Feng Xing wouldn''t be able to.


    "It''s me."


    Feng Xing immediately recognized the voice behind the door, it was Xiao Ling.


    "Alright, you can come in." Feng Xing already expected her to come, but not this soon. He thought that she would come for a new lesson after she mastered it, but it seems to be that she either mastered it or just came for something entirely else.


    The door opened and Xiao Ling dressed in the Black Gods Sect attire casually walked inside, and sat down across Feng Xing. She first stared at Feng Xing, noticing that he was currently a bit different looking. His smile currently was a bit more genuine.


    This was true, Feng Xing actually was really happy. Xiao Ling didn''t really mind that smile though and pulled out a space bag.


    "Today, the Sect distributed the Black Gods Sect attire, and a space bag to every disciple. I brought yours, since I still had to come here for a different reason anyways." Xiao Ling explained, and gave a space bag to Feng Xing which only contained the Black Gods Sect attire.


    "Hmm, I appreciate it. Thanks, but you came here because you wanted to ask something right?" Feng Xing also wanted to teach her mind transmission, so she could atleast inform him directly in his mind and not call him out in the open, since she attracts alot of attention usually.


    "That''s right... I actually already mastered the first lesson, look." Xiao Ling slowly reached out her hand, and True Energy slowly condensed at the palm of her hand. Slowly a ball was being created. Feng Xing already prepared himself, but was still inwardly shocked at the learning speed...


    "Impressive... indeed." Feng Xing praised. Xiao Ling after hearing that immediately retracted all the energy, and asked : "Can we continue, since I already mastered this."


    "Hmm sure, but before that. You need to learn mind transmission first." Feng Xing stated.


    Xiao Ling after hearing that, only had a blank expression on her face.


    "Oh, that... I had already learned that." She blankly said.


    Feng Xing was still smiling, but his face twitched just a little...


    "Why... did you not directly transmit messages to me..."


    "Didn''t want to." Her answer was simple and blunt. It seems to be that she intentionally called him out, hoping for him to be troubled. Was it because she saw him and Rou Xue together?


    "Sigh... well alright then, I won''t ask any further but don''t casually call me out unless there aren''t many people, ok?"


    "Why?" She asked. Feng Xing''s smile disappeared and a blank expression was left on his face. Did she truly not understand that she attracts alot of attention? Completely oblivious of her own beauty? Feng Xing once more checked Xiao Ling''s appearance.


    Soft shiny black hair. Beautiful skin,bodyproportions and a face that could truely seduce ever man below the heavens... if only she didn''t have that cold expression on her face most of the time. In a few years she could even match Luo Ai... who was also a beauty that gave others a cold feeling when being stared at.


    As Feng Xing was looking, Xiao Ling noticed this and seemed to become slightly red, but her face remained cold and indifferent.


    "Ahem?" Xiao Ling coughed.


    Feng Xing after hearing that retracted his gaze. It seems to be that even he kept staring to much...


    Suddenly a snort resounded out of nowhere...


    "Hmm!? What was that?" Xiao Ling was immediately alerted and stood up. She immediately checked every corner of the room, she clearly heard someone snorting, but she couldn''t sense anyone.


    Feng Xing''s smile remained on his face and he was still sitting down, as if he had not heard anything at all.


    "...Jealousy, is truely something that can even shaken up the deepest parts of a person." He obviously knew that the one who just snorted was Luo Ai, who was still somewhere in the room watching the two...


    Suddenly a voice resounded in his head...


    "So... Jiang Hao, I see that you have been living a pretty comfortable life... and who is that girl? You two seem to be on good terms with each other... and you''re even teaching her... I expect an explanation after this." Her voice contained a bit of anger and annoyance.


    "Sigh..." Feng Xing immediately also stood up and said : "Xiao Ling, what''s wrong?"


    He stared at her innocently, as if he had not heard anything at all.


    "Did you not hear anything?" She looked weirdly at Feng Xing.

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    NO DAOIST MAGICS, WITHOUT HIS DAO YET. I TRIED MY BEST TO NOT LET THE BATTLE SKILL BELONG TO A CERTAIN DAO.


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 Chapter 18 : Pills

    After hearing that, Feng Xing just stared at her weirdlyand said : "Hear what? Did you hear anything weird?"


    "Hmm?" Feng Xing seemed to not notice anything at all, and even looked at her weirdly like she was paranoid or something.


    "Hmm... I''m pretty sure I heard someone snorting..." Xiao Ling refused to believe that she didn''t hear anything, she clearly knew very well that she heard someone snorting that moment. Nothing could fool her ears, she was sure, but seemed to be a bit troubled by Feng Xing. According to how he was acting currently... it was as if he didn''t hear anything at all...


    "Things like this also happen, in life alot of things happen that might be confusing, weird and unexpected, but sometimes you might really be overthinking it. I didn''t hear anything after all, must of have been your imagination." Feng Xing stated, hoping that she would pry any further. Luckily for him, she seemed to just let it slide.


    "...Hmm, alright." Xiao Ling seemed to trust Feng Xing''s senses, and let it slide this time. It could also have been her imagination since she seemed to be the only one to hear it, and there wasn''t any trace left after all.


    After that Feng Xing decided to teach her a few things about Energy itself and the Control, so she would know more about it. Learning about something you don''t understand is also very efficient after all. He felt that if he gave her enough time, she would slowly become a true master of Energy. The two chatted for a while, and Xiao Ling kept asking questions about Energy Control. Since she had been testing alot of things with her Energy, some things were mysterious to her. The things she didn''t understand she would ask.


    "Hmm, I see so that''s how it is." Xiao Ling seemed to be enlightened, after hearing Feng Xing explain everything so clearly. She would definitely remember everything he said, like someone thirsty for knowledge.


    "Indeed, Energy is something that isn''t profound at all, atleast at our current stage. So you shouldn''t think to hard about it." Feng Xing seemed to be very content with her clever questions, she wanted to know everything.


    Feng Xing and Xiao Ling had already been talking with each other fora few hoursstraight already, It was even already morning...


    Feng Xing slowly was even forgetting that there were still others somewhere in this room, he was answering all Xiao Ling''s questions very profoundly. Even he himself was absorbed in answering every question perfectly. Xiao Ling eyes constantly lit up after beingenlightened, She truely had respect for Feng Xing now. She knew that if she stayed under his guidance, then she would become a master one day! The only thing she still couldn''t get out of her head was... this.


    Who was Feng Xing? He knew all this, some masters probably didn''t even know. How...? Just who was he, she thought. One day she would definitely try her hardest to find out, and how he reincarnated...


    She set this as one of her goals which she would definitely try her best to fulfill it. Suddenly aknock resounded from the door... followed up by a girl''s voice. It was Rou Xue...


    "Feng Xing, it''s about time we go check out our Hall or have you not memorised everything in the book yet?"


    Xiao Ling seemed to realize something, and her face paled a bit... wouldn''t this mean that she spend the night with a guy? If Rou Xue were to open that door...


    Feng Xing suddenly also realized some things... it wasmorning, he spend so many hours talking... but the worst part of all... wasn''t Dio and Luo Ai just.....


    Feng Xing shook his head and sighed and said : "Hmm, sure let me get ready first, you can wait for me in your room since it''s just beside mine."


    "Mm, alright." She answered, luckily she didn''t open the door... or else she would see him with Xiao Ling, and it would lead to some major misunderstandings currently...


    Feng Xing stood up, and said to Xiao Ling : "It''s time for you to go for now, come back the next time while thinking about the things I told you." Xiao Ling nodded, stood up and left. Now Feng Xing was the only one in the room, or so it seemed...


    "Alright, come out now. I have 5 minutes. After that I must leave for now..." Feng Xing gestured them to come out, immediately two figures slowly appeared... they were at the corner of the room...


    Luo Ai didn''t seem to be happy and Dio seemed to stare weirdly at him. This made Feng Xing feel a bit uncomfortable...


    Feng Xing sighed and said : "Don''t hold back and ask or say what you want to say." He got straight to the point, he didn''t have much time after all. Luo Ai immediately spoke up first.


    "Who was that girl you taught, and what have you been doing all this time and how are you still alive?" These things were the things she wanted to know the most currently, she looked at Feng Xing with eyes that could make any man below the heavens spit out the truth, although it wouldn''t have much effect on Feng Xing which she knew...


    "I have planned out some things, and need to get strength and support as fast as possible. I have planned to train people that could help me greatly in the future like that girl you just saw, and I''m planning to go back to that Realm once again, I can''t let the Dragon God get away with this... The reason why you''re currently here is also probably connected with the Dragon God right? And as for the question why I''m alive... I have no clue to be honest, It might be because of a Grand Dao someone cast on me in the past or it was because I was close to becoming the Dao itself, but currently I''m residing in this body and I''mactually grateful for this, since with this I can still have the chance to do something."


    Luo Ai and Dio seemed to be shocked after hearing all this. They never expected him to be alive while harbouring these plans! It fascinated them a bit, but they knew who he really was. This truely was the Jiang Hao they knew! The one and only! They felt really happy to see him once again in this lifetime. Currently Feng Xing though had another thought in his mind.


    "If it really is true that I have reincarnated because of the Grand Dao of Reincarnation which the Reaper had... then doesn''t that mean that before this, the host was already dead? From what I heard from the Reaper, you can only reincarnate into a body if the soul from the original owner dissipated, and you can''t choose in which body you want to reincarnate in. Hehe... once I get back to that Realm, I have much to tell the Reaper I guess."The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.


    The Grand Dao of Reincarnation, a Dao only two people had ever used in history because of the difficulty and mysteriousness. One of them being the Reaper, another big shot from the Realm of Gods. He previously casted one of his special Grand Dao magics on Feng Xing just to test it, if Feng Xing ever died it had chance to let Feng Xing reincarnate. Of course Feng Xing didn''t pay any mind to it nor did the Reaper, because they never expected Feng Xing to die anyways... Unexpectedly he really did die... and reincarnate. If the Reaper knew this, then wouldn''t his Grand Dao basically be invincible? Well technically taking big risks would also result in huge rewards, but this was ridiculous... reincarnation? The Dao was just way to difficult to comprehend and understand in this world... yet it had such beneficial........


    Luckily the Reaper himself didn''t know this fact yet... or else he might get banished... by the Dragon God... who is probably the current ruler of the Realm of Gods. Luckily Feng Xing and the Reaper were on good terms with each other. Feng Xing would owe him a debt if it truely was because of his Daoist magic. Feng Xing couldn''t think of another possibility currently...


    "Alright, no more questions?" Feng Xing asked the two, who were still standing there.


    "Mhm, no questions anymore. We will formally meet later!" Luo Ai seemed to not care about Xiao Ling anymore and dragged Dio away who seemingly wanted to ask a question. Feng Xing stared weirdly at the two disappearing. Meet formally later? What did shemean? He slightly had a weird feeling... but didn''t pay it any mind for now and left his room. Feng Xing would ask Luo Ai''s details later, but he seemed to already have an exact idea about it.


    Feng Xing stepped out of his room, and went towards the room next to his, Rou Xue''s room. He knocked once and said : "I''m ready, let''s go."


    After a short while the door opened and Rou Xue walked out. She seemed to be already in her Sect clothing... Feng Xing inspected her a bit. It looked pretty well on her, as if it was natural.


    "Alright, let us go then." Rou Xue said, while holding a book in her hands. It was the same book she received from the tests. She was still studying it a bit more, by now she probably knew every single thing stated inside.


    Feng Xing and Rou Xue were currently moving overto the 4th mountain area.


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    Meanwhile in another area... in the Sect.


    Currently a young man who seemed to be mad was standing across four youths kneeling down in fear... the young man in front of them was emitting a terrifying aura that was half step into the Martial Path realm... sooner or later he would completely step into it!


    "You useless fools! Can''t you do anything right!? What do you mean he beat u guys up! he''s only at the 7th rank!" The man who was angry was Mong Gu, he heard that they even told Feng Xing his name and all his plans...


    The youths had cold sweat dripping everywhere... they seemed to be more scared for Mong Gu than Feng Xing, probably because Mong Gu''s pure cultivation basewas higher than Feng Xing''s cultivation base...


    "Please, forgive us. It''s true that he is actually stronger than what we had thought! Please believe us. He might even have the strength of someone at the peak of the 9th rank!" One of the youths spoke out.


    Mong Gu looked at him with disdain, how could he believe something like that. Someone at the 7th rank comparable to the peak 9th rank? Laughable! How could that be! Mong Gu simply looked at them and said : "Alright, since you guys admit it. I will believe it for now."


    The eyes of the youths all lit up, Mong Gu actually believed them, but what they didn''t know was that Mong Gu just said that to shut them up for now and end the conversation...


    "I''ll take care of this myself... you guys just stay out of this for now." Mong Gu didn''t believe them at all, so he would now take it in his own hands. Since Feng Xing was only at the 7th rank and already knew it was him anyways.


    The youths stared at each other and left hurriedly since they just wanted to leaveheavy atmosphere... leaving Mong Gu standing there all alone.


    Mong Gu smiled coldly and muttered: "Defying me is not good... hehe.." Mong Gu had absolute confidence in himself, Half step into Martial Path realm! How could a mere 7th rank cultivator compare to that! He decided to take care of Feng Xing himself. Maybe he could even show off in front of Xiao Ling since she seemed to have a good relationship with Feng Xing.


    Mong Gu laughedand walked off into the distance.


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    Feng Xing and Rou Xue were currently arriving. It was time for them to officially join the Hall, and to learn how to concoct pills!But it seems to be that both of them already knew how to concoct pills, especially Feng Xing... who was a high rank Pill Master in his previous life.


    Theywalked into a large building where a sign stood. This was what stood on the sign : "Pill Concocting Hall Division 3" When they came in, they saw all kinds of rooms with people inside trying their best to concoct pills... pill cauldrons were everywhere... the rooms and even the building itself was filled with all kinds of aroma''s...


    Some pill cauldrons exploded... this meant that the procedure failed, and that the pill ingredients will all be wasted... This was one of the reasons why there were not many high rank Pill Masters... grooming a good Pill Master was actually very expensive... Only the strong have enough ingredients, this would mean that the strongest Pill Masters are usually also very strong cultivators...


    It was a cycle actually, stronger cultivators get more ingredients to increase their own strength and to improve their concocting technique! This was also a reason why alot of people wanted to become high rank Pill Masters! It was very beneficial, but some didn''t even try due to it being way to hard... or they just wanted to focus on another aspect.


    "In the book it was stated that we can use any room as long as we pay for the pill cauldron and ingredients used. Usually you can only buy ingredients with contribution points, but luckily we are new. It''s stated that new members get a free trial try." Rou Xue explained to Feng Xing since he probably didn''t read the book at all.


    "Hmm, I understand now. Well let''s go talk to that Elder over there at the counter then." Feng Xing pointed to an old man who sat behind the counter, he would give them permission to a room and grant them the ingredients they wanted.


    Feng Xing and Rou Xue walked over to the counter, there were quite a bit of people around. When Feng Xing and Rou Xue walked in, everyone looked over at them. They noticed that Feng Xing and Rou Xue were new... to the Hall.


    Some had disdain for them while others found them rather interesting, but most people didn''t think much of it. It was pretty usual for newcomers to come to this facility... they would want to try out pill concocting once after all... especially with the free trial...


    Feng Xing and Rou Xue plainly ignored them and talked with the elder, both of them got a room for free, but the ingredients that they would receive for free were still limited. It wasn''t like the Sect was going to let them spend it all for free...


    With the ingredients they received the max level pill they could make was only a Rank 1 pill, but that was still okay. A Low Tier Martial Path pill was still very beneficient for both of them, especially if the essence is atleast above 50%... usually when making pills most of the essence goes to waste in the process... only with precise control could one get the pill to contain 50% essence or above.


    Feng Xing and Rou Xue immediately went to the rooms they were designated to... of course they were right beside each other. Both of them now stood outside their rooms.


    "Good luck, Master." Rou Xue simply said before going inside her room. Feng Xing simply smiled also and went in.


    "Rou Xue probably also plans to make a Low Tier Martial Path pill... but how much of it''s pill essence would she be able to keep?" Feng Xing was a little bit curious about her abilities, when he went into the room hesaw some simple things a Pill Master would need for concocting. A Low Tier pill cauldron, Low Tier fire essence and of course a place for him to put his stuff.


    Feng Xing threw his bag of ingredients down and thought for a bit.

 Chapter 19 : Pill Essence!

    "Hmm... should I just go with the flow and concoct it perfectly... or..." Feng Xing was currently thinking, should he reveal his mastery or should he just make it a bit believable... after thinking for a short while he just decided to go with the flow. At max Feng Xing would be able to keep 70% of the pill essence with his current cultivation base, because his cultivation rank was still to low. He wouldn''t be able to keep it up for long, so if he wanted to keep 100% of the pill essence... then he would need to focus with all his might and shorten the progress with hand gestures and Dao insights.


    "Hmm, fuck it. It''s not like anyone is going to check it except for Rou Xue... atleast if she doesn''t tell anyone. Let''s go all out!" Feng Xing took the pill cauldron and placed it in front of him. It was time to start, he immediately directed the fire essence to the pill cauldronwith his Energy Control. The flame sizzled a bit and danced around the pill cauldron. The key to concocting was also to keep up a good tempo. In the end the flame essence will be used to bring all ingedients together, sortoff melting it together.


    Feng Xing let the fire essence rest in the pill cauldron, and walked over to his bag of ingredients. He took out all the ingredients and placed it next to him, he needed to be easily able to grab it after all.


    "Hehe, let''s see if I have degraded a bit." Feng Xing threw down the first ingredient, and it immediately melted... now the ingredient''s essence was currently in the flame...


    Boom!


    The pill procedure now started, it was time to be quick! Feng Xing immediately directed the flames in a pattern, while throwing down ingredients at the perfect time. Feng Xing also did some hand gestures to direct it even more accurate, and to let the flow of Energy go more smoother. He controlled even the temperature of it! Everything went faster and faster, slowly Feng Xing was completely absorbed in his concocting. He slowly forgot about everything... only focused on the concocting progress!


    Boom!


    More! Faster! Ingredients flew in and hand gestures flied by, currently everything Feng Xing knew about the Dao of Alchemy came in play! He moved automatically, after a while the final step was here. Currently 70% of the ingredients had been used. The final step was not the hardest, but if you failed it... then it was over the cauldron would explode! That would mean that something the final step went wrong and some ingredients would reject each other! This would result in the fire essence completely going wild!


    Luckily Feng Xing was a Master, his final hand gesture signaled the end.


    Boom!


    The dancing flame inside the pill cauldron all fire essence condensed into a deepblue coloured ball of fire essence which in the end changed slowly into a solid small ball... a pill! Immediately a pill was formed and the aroma of it burst out! Feng Xing currently was sweating alot, unable to catch his breath. The progress was done with huge difficulty...


    Usually concocting Martial Path pills were done by Martial Path realm experts and not below... or else you would have insufficient strength for it, especially if you wanted to make a 100% essence containing pill. Even if you were in the Holy Path, you probably won''t be able to create it, except if you are adept at concocting and have studied the Dao of Alchemy.


    "Haah...hah...." Feng Xing finally caught his breath, and took the pill. He looked disappointed, he could notice with just a glance thanks to his experience that this pill was not 100%.... but somewhere around 90%.... after seeing that he put the pill in his pocket.


    "Sigh... this progress probably took me atleast half an hour... if it were me with my usual cultivation base this wouldn''t even have taken me a second!" Feng Xing felt a pain stab in his heart a bit, but seemed to let it go. There was no use to think about it and feel bad, one day he would still get back up there and even stronger than before!


    Feng Xing took the pill and left the room, this was considered to be pretty fast for concocting a pill. Some concocting sessions would even take days or weeks! Especially if you wanted to try to make a pill that didn''t exist yet. Some would even try to make a pill for years that was not seen before! It would either take you years or if you would be enlightened in the Dao of Alchemy you had a incredible high chance to be able to concoct a pill that was your own in all rights! If you weren''t enlightened and still managed to make a pill, then no Dao fire essence would descend...


    Feng Xing once made such a pill, that was when he was still in the Realm of Mortals. His cultivation base was only in the Holy Realm then, but yet he had been enlightened... on that moment he immediately pulled out his pill cauldron and went with the flow with what he was feeling, he felt like he could make something extraordinary. Dao fire essenceeven appeared before him... which he used to complete his pill even further. One of a kind! The only pill in the world with such effects! Of course if one would make the pill with the same ingredients after with a normal fire essence it wouldn''t be as incredible as one with the Dao fire essence. This is why the first pill created was always also the best!


    Dao fire essencewould only appear when one gained incredible enlightenment in the Dao of Alchemy, only then would Dao fire essencedescend! Feng Xing only managed to bring it down two times... in his previous lifetime... he made two pill formulas!


    One was made in the Realm of Mortals and the other in the Realm of Gods... after thinking about the past for a bit Feng Xing walked to the next room and peaked inside Rou Xue''s room.


    "Hmm, she still needs an hour I guess, or half an hour if she doesn''t wantto make it contain more than 50% essence, but that''s unlikely I guess..." Feng Xing sat down outside Rou Xue''s room and closed his eyes, but not to cultivate since there were still alot of people around. It wouldn''t be smart to cultivate currently. He slowly waited...


    A few minutes later.


    "Hmm?" Feng Xing opened his eyes, as he felt he was being stared at by someone pretty close. What Feng Xing saw were three disciples... wearing the outer sect clothing, just like Feng Xing. Two boys and one girl... Feng Xing wondered what they needed him for. The three of them were quite good looking, this meant that they rather had a good background probably.


    The three walked up to him, so Feng Xing stood up and looked at them with a questioning look. What did they want?


    "Calm down, Junior Brother. We mean you no harm" The girl smiled, hoping to calm downFeng Xing a bit since she noticed Feng Xing was getting a bit alert. Feng Xing still seemed to be a bit confused, but calmed down. It seemed to be that they aren''t going to harm him in any way...


    "Hahaha, did you guys need me for something?" Feng Xing smiled, and went straight to the point. He wanted to know why they suddenly walked up to him. Suddenly one of the two boys walked up...


    Feng Xing saw his face, and it was currently bright red as if he was embarrassed of some kind...If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    The girl then suddenly spoke, "Hehe, my Junior Brother seems to fancy that girl inside that room... and we were hoping you could... you know..."


    ...


    The boy''s face became even more red and he kept staring at the room Rou Xue was in. It seemed to be love at first sight... Feng Xing suddenly received a bit of a headache and said : "Ahem, I''m sorry to disappoint Senior Sister here, but I can''t do anything."


    "Eeehh? But you seemed to be so close with her? Do you guys have a special kind of relationship with each other?" The girl questioned Feng Xing, expecting an answer that will satisfy her.


    "..." Feng Xing stared for a while at her and the boy, and sighed.


    "Hmm,that relationship is something that you can''t ask me about." Feng Xing smiled, he didn''t want to say anything Rou Xue didn''t like others to know. He would let them ask Rou Xue herself, since he himself didn''t really care to much about others knowing since he was on the upperhand.


    "...Is that so?" The girl had a smile on her face that seemed to be warm and open, but contained a bit of disappointment. She looked at her Junior Brother and signaled him something.


    "Well, that''s okay if you can''t help my Junior Brother." The girl seemed to have another plan.


    The boy understood and also signaled the other boy to come, they both then stood next to each other. The girl then began introducing themand herself, Feng Xing found this rather... amusing. Firstly walking up to him without introducing or anything... while asking loads of questions, and now they want to introduce themselves after the questions aren''t really getting answered?


    "Junior Brother, I am Bing Yue and my two Junior Brothers are called Bing Chen and Bing Han." Bing Yue introduced. The boy who seemed to like Rou Xue was called Bing Han, probably the younger brother of the two boys.


    "If we would may ask for your name, Junior Brother?" Bing Yue politely asked while smiling. They probably wanted to get close to him so Bing Han could also use these connections to get closer to Rou Xue...


    Feng Xing smiled at the sight of this and said : "I''m Feng Xing, nice to meet you three."


    They probably already realized they couldn''t really ask Feng Xing to help Bing Han, but atleast they could use him a bit just for the connection. Although this seemed to be a pretty weird conversation and meeting... Feng Xing just went with the flow as he didn''t really care to much currently.


    "Alright then, Junior Brother Feng, from now on we''re friends alright?" Bing Yue shamelessly said with a smile. Feng Xing simply smiled and nodded.


    "Hehe, why not?" Feng Xing thought.


    "Eh, by the way when will the girl come out and what''s her name?" This time it was Bing Han who spoke, he was getting a bit impatient... and kept staring at the room...


    "Sigh.. youths these days truely have no patience at all..." Feng Xing thought, and then looked at Rou Xue in the room. Estimating how long it would take.


    "Hmm, I estimate it would take an hour at most... and her name that''s something you should ask her yourself later." Feng Xing said nonchalantly with the same smile he always keeps on his face. Only with a smile... nobody could tell what a person truely was thinking. It was impossible to read information out of Feng Xing''s face...


    Only the ones truely familiar with Feng Xing would possibly know a bit, but for the rest? Not possible...


    Bing Han nodded, and sat down outside the room to wait. It seems to be that he is okay with waiting for an hour... The other two also joined quietly. Now Feng Xing and the three were quietly waiting outside Rou Xue''s room...


    45 Minutes later.


    Rou Xue finally was done! She looked at the small pill in her hand and smiled, it was okay for her level.


    "Hehe, probably around 40% essence contained! I''m sure this will even surprise Feng Xing finally ahahaha! I will show him what I can do!" Rou Xue laughed maniacally, it seemed to be that this pill was the best she ever made, with the feelings to defeat Feng Xing in this field atleast!


    The four outside also heard the weird laugh...


    "What the...?" Feng Xing was also surprised, and slowly looked inside with the other three. They saw Rou Xue slowly walking towards them, while having a grin. She didn''t even notice the four looking at her...


    But just as she reached out for the door, she saw the four of them... Her face widened a little bit.


    "What the fuck, Feng Xing is already done? And who the hell are those guys? They didn''t hear me right..." Rou Xue changed her expression to a normal one and slowly walked out the door like nothing happened.


    "... Master... when did you finish?" Rou Xue painfully said since she didn''t actually want others to know their relationship..., but when the other three heard this, their expressions flickered especially Bing Han. Master? This relationship...


    "A good while ago... but anyways these fellow Senior Brothers and Sister would like to know you it seems." Feng Xing nonchalantly said, while staring at the three. Bing Han immediately straightened up and walked towards Rou Xue and bowed on one knee. Which surprised everyone... even Bing Chen and Bing Yue were surprised.


    "May I ask for the name of this Junior Sister?" He politely asked Rou Xue. This action made Rou Xue''s face twitch a little bit, but she still answered nicely.


    "Eh.. sure, my name is Rou Xue... you can stand up now..."


    Bing Han stood up with a complete red face and said : "Rou.. Xue... what a beautiful name befitting someone who is as gentle and generous as snow..."


    After this sentence was said, Bing Yue and Bing Chen had shocked faces. Wasn''t their Junior Brother someone who was very shy and timid? You''re not going to tell me that love really can make someone invincible right? Feng Xing also looked on with a weird face, but still didn''t say anything as he didn''t want to meddle in currently.


    "What the fuck..." Feng Xing thought, isthis the power of love or was he just a hypocrite. Feng Xing was sure this never happened before when he was in love...


    Rou Xue after hearing had a weird face on... nobody knew what she was thinking of currently.


    "Eh thanks... I guess?" Rou Xue simply said, this had never happened to her before. After getting in this awkward situation Rou Xue gave Feng Xing a meaningful glance to help her. Feng Xing of course understood and decided to end the fun for Bing Han.


    "Ahem, I believe I and Junior Sister Rou Xue must go now."


    When the other three heared this, how could they not catch on? Bing Chen then suddenly decided to step in.


    "Hold on, Brother Feng. Can''t you just them talk it out for a bit?" Bing Chen hoped for something after all since Bing Han was his little brother.


    "I''m sorry, but we really have to go." Feng Xing said with a hidden domineering aura, after saying that the others had no choice but to let them go.


    "Alright then, Junior Sister Rou Xue. We will see you around sometime!" Bing Han quickly said and also left the place with Bing Chen and Bing Yue. What Feng Xing did notice was how Bing Han looked at him. It was filled with jealousy...


    Feng Xing and Rou Xue were currently returning to their rooms. Feng Xing and Rou Xue talked about their concocting... and then it was time to show the pills.


    Rou Xue suddenly revealed a small pill, it was a Low Tier Martial Path pill with around 40% essence contained... Feng Xing could see that immediately. After seeing it, Feng Xing nodded. It truely was pretty good for someone Rou Xue''s age.


    "Hehe, surprised?" Rou Xue said with a smirk on her face. Feng Xing simply smiled while not saying anything and revealed his pill.


    Immediately aroma surged out, and a shining pill came out of his pocket. This was probably the best pill Low Tier Martial Path pill in the Sect currently. Rou Xue seemed to be so shocked that she kept staring at it for a solid 10 seconds before saying anything.


    "Wh..What pill is that!?" Rou Xue asked.


    Feng Xing put the pill away so it wouldn''t cause any attention, and then began answering.


    "This pill is the same kind of pill you just made... but the essence contained within is a little bit different and the procedure..." Feng Xing said, expecting a reaction from her.


    And she didn''t disappoint him. Immediately her face changed completely, she was flabbergasted. Same kind of pill? Different essence contained?


    "What!!!! Samepill!? How much essence does that contain then!?" Rou Xue stared at Feng Xing waiting for an answer, she just had to know! Every cultivator aiming to become a high rank Pill Master wanted to know after all.


    "How much do you think?" Feng Xing asked. He wanted to test her current skill at estimating the essence of a pill.


    Rou Xue''s face then turned serious and she thought seriously for a short moment before saying : "Is it around 70%?"


    "70%... well I have to disappoint you.."


    Rou Xue was still shocked, but she managed to get calm again. She would surely shamelessly ask for a little bit of guidance later...


    "Oh well, It''s okay if I thought to much of it. Tell me how much is it? 60%? 50%? It''s okay to tell me, I won''t be shocked anymore hehe."


    To her it was still incredible if it was around the 50 - 60% essence pill, but she wouldn''t be as shocked since it was still acceptable... 50% was already very good after all... especially when u consider Feng Xing''s cultivation base... was it even possible for him to reach 70%?


    "Oh, alright then. It''s just around 90% essence." Feng Xing casually said,while once more expecting a reaction and enjoying it.


    Rou Xue''s face once again froze...

 Chapter 20 : Supressing Aura

    Feng Xing saw that her face froze again, and smiled. He knew that now for sure... she would definitely ask for his guidance later on, this was also one of his main reasonsfor deciding to give it his all andconcoct a high essence containing pill.


    Rou Xue''s face was still blank with her eyes wide open... she trembled slightly. Only after a while did she come back to reality. She immediately wanted to confirm something and said : "Ar..around... 9..90%!? Did I hear it right, ahahaha..."


    "Hmm, indeed I suppose you did. It truely is around 90%" Feng Xing seemed to be indifferent when mentioning something like that, which confused Rou Xue even more than before... was 90% nothing in his eyes!? But she didn''t inquire any further as she knew that Feng Xing probably wouldn''t answer seriously anyways...


    ...


    "...So...eh, is the offer still... you know?" Rou Xue shamelessly said with a smile, Feng Xing simply smiled and asked : "Hmm, what offer? You mean me teaching you?"


    Rou Xue nodded with a smile. This girl truely had no shame when it came to things like this Feng Xing thought. She had refused his offer so solidly earlier, and yet here she was asking Feng Xing to teach her now? But of course Feng Xing wouldn''t refuse something like this, since he planned to guide her anyways. This was a good opportunity to accept anyways.


    "Hmm, alright then. Hehe... you really have no shame don''t you?" Feng Xing said with a smile, but right after Rou Xue answered with a straight answerimmediately after hearing that.


    "Of course I have shame... I''m only a bit thick-skinned... but I do feel shameful when I made that bet with you... but this doesn''t matter anymore. Since you''re going to guide me anyways, I can also call you Master along the way." Rou Xue smiled cheerfully at Feng Xing.


    "Heh... that''s true." Feng Xing didn''t seem to be to surprised at her answer. Only thick-skinned people could probably say that, he himself was quite thick-skinned usually... atleast in his previous life. He didn''t dislike thick-skinned people, since he himself also had some thick-skinned disciples himself. Rou Xue reminded him of some...


    He smiledcalmly and said : "Shall we return and just spend the rest of the day cultivating? Maybe you will breakthrough tonight."


    "Hmm, alright why not. Since I don''t really have anything else to do today. I''m just going to breakthrough for sure this time since I have this pill! You probably will also breakthrough... with your pill..." Rou Xue deep in her heart felt a bit bad, she was very confident about her pill concocting skills before this and she was pretty sure she was better than Feng Xing in this aspect... but unfortunately she didn''t expect that Feng Xing was... this good.


    BOOM!


    Terrifying sound came out of nowhere while everyone in the Sect got supressed by a tyranic Energy... and aura that covered the whole Sect! Feng Xing and Rou Xue were immediately supressed and went on their knees! The aura was like one from the heavens! Supressing all living beings!


    "What the hell!?" Rou Xue was the one who was surprised the most, what was this feeling!? Even Feng Xing couldn''t hold his calm, but he realized something. This aura felt rather familiar... was it...


    Seconds after the aura disappeared and everyone received a message from the Sect Master. In the message was stated that they were testing something new, hoping to get everyone calm again. But of course Feng Xing didn''t believe that crap, he already realized something... but he wasn''t to sure about that. Of course Rou Xue calmed down after receiving the message. She believed it fully and was surprised at how powerful the Sect was... Feng Xing played along with her and didn''t mention it anymore. They continued to walk back.


    While talking about various different kinds of stuff like pill concocting they went back to their room. After reaching their destination and saying goodbye to each other they both immediately went into their rooms to cultivate or do other things. Feng Xing decided to breakthrough to the 8th Rank of the Tempering Path today since he was actually quite close.


    After concocting the new pill he decided to use the pill given to him by the Elders from the Moonfire Sect, so he could easily breakthrough and make some progress towards the 9th rank. The process would take probably one hour for him, he wouldn''t let anything of the pill go to waste after all.


    While cultivating he slowly wondered where Dio and Luo Ai went... but he couldn''t really think of anything possible... After an hour Feng Xing finally broke through! It wasn''t long anymore before he would reach the Martial Path realm! After reaching that realm he would possibly make a trip to the Blue Water Kingdom, but he didn''t know for sure yet.


    "Hmm? Someone is approaching my door..." Feng Xing immediately detected someone. This person was probably an Outer Sect Disciple, since he wasn''t at the Martial Path realm yet. But he wasn''t to far off it either... Normally only Martial Path cultivators would be Inner Sect Disciples and not Tempering Path cultivators. Someone like Xiao Ling usually would already be in the Inner Sect... yet the Sect didn''t put her there. Was it because she was inexperienced? Or did they really not notice her talent? Or... did everyone start as an Outer Sect Disciple...


    If this was the case everything was understandable, Feng Xing deeply thought about such matters in the past few days.


    Knock! Knock!


    A person knocked on the door. Feng Xing immediately stood up, walked towards it, and opened it. He was greeted with a punch immediately, which he caught with his reflexes. The power behind that punch was actually ofthe 8th Tempering Path.This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    Boom!


    The person who threw the punch seemed to be surprised... It was Mong Gu, a Disciple who previously wanted to take care of Feng Xing with his lackeys, but unfortunately couldn''t and had to step in himself.


    "Fellow Brother, what''s the meaning of this?" Feng Xing smiled without any emotion.


    Mong Gu''s face slightly changed and he pulled his hand back, then he said : "Heh... you actually could block a punch with 40% of my strength? Not to shabby... but unfortunately... this was only a warning. So if you know what''s good for yourself... then you should know what to do..."


    Mong Gu revealed a cold smile, of course Feng Xing knew what Mong Gu meant. But he paid it no heed at all, why did he every need to fear someone like Mong Gu. Currently Mong Gu was simply just a joke to him.


    "And what if I don''t?" Feng Xing then revealed a meaningful smile that gave Mong Gu a slight chill in his back. Mong Gu himself suddenly started sweating, but he didn''t know why. Feng Xing''s hidden air slowly but surely came out.


    "What the..." Mong Gu seemed to be surprised and he didn''t want to believe that he actually felt slight fear! He didn''t want to believe it! He actually feared Feng Xing for a split second!? Even if it was a just a moment... it was humiliating! His face became colder and colder.


    "Alright then... I''ll let you in on a little secret of mine... Do you know why I''m usually the leader? It''s because I have connections... that''s why if I mention just a word... you will be kicked out of the Sect and killed..." Mong Gu started to threaten Feng Xing. Feng Xing still seemed indifferent even after hearing that.


    "The only reason why I haven''t removed you out of this Sect yet is because I received some info... about you being very close with Xiao Ling... that''s why you first have to end your relationship with her completely... only then can u safely leave this Sect alive." Mong Gu smiled coldly. His status in the Sect was actually not very high, but it was still easy for him to remove a Outer Sect Disciple like Feng Xing easily. Especially if he asked his older brother who had an even higher status in the Sect to request it.


    The Mong family''s patriarch once saved the current Sect Master, that''s why the Mong family''s Disciples are usually treated very nicely. For example Mong Gu''s brother who was immediately set into the Inner Sect because of his status in the family, while Mong Gu''s status was lower than his brother and he was only put in the Outer Sect.


    Feng Xing still seemed indifferent, which irritated Mong Gu a lot. Mong Gu expected Feng Xing to atleast sweat a little or be scared, but this wasn''t the reaction he was looking for... Suddenly Feng Xing laughed out loud.


    "Pfft... ahahahaha!" Mong Gu threatening him? Who did he think he was? The lord who rules over Feng Xing''s life? No, of course not!


    Mong Gu seemed to be shocked and surprised at the same time, he never experienced something like this before. Had Feng Xing gone crazy or something? Why the hell was he laughing.


    "What''s so funny!?" Mong Gu yelled at Feng Xing.


    Feng Xing finally managed to stop laughing. He then smiled meaningful and moved towards Mong Gu with slow steps, of course Mong Gu wouldn''t just stand there and do nothing. He instantly moved in to strike Feng Xing down. His rule was : The one who strikes first, strikes twice!+


    Mong Gu was confident in his cultivation base and immediately used his full power to strike at Feng Xing! He threw a simple punch containing his Energy at Feng Xing, it wasn''t even fully concentrated, showing his lack of Energy Control.


    Feng Xing unexpectedly didn''t decide to dodge, but also punched with full force against Mong Gu''s fist, but his punch was fully of concentrated Energy! He wanted to compete with Mong Gu! Mong Gu slightly became delighted, was Feng Xing a fool? Didn''t he know that Mong Gu was at a higher rank!?


    "Hehe... a mere loser like you should just stay down!" Mong Gu yelled outbefore the fist collided with Feng Xing''s fist! Energy also collided, making the impact even more terrifying.


    Boom!


    Energy exploded outwards! Feng Xing''s door and part of his walls got wrecked immediately from the impact of the collision. Mong Gu''s smiling face slowly changed... as he looked over towards his arm... it was no longer there...


    "AAARGH!!!!!" Mong Gu yelled out in pain, as his arm was basically destroyed completely as blood flowed out. This was a severe blow to every cultivator, losing an arm basically meant losing half of one''s true power. Only high rank Holy Path realm cultivators could do something about it... but the realms below that? No chance! Healing that basically was impossible now... the Mong family probably won''t even spend a huge amount of wealth to heal it. Mong Gu wasn''t that oustanding after all.


    Mong Gu almost fainted, but he managed to gain a hold over himself. He stared hatefully at Feng Xing, but he secretly also had fear in his eyes. How was this possible!? Many thoughts were suddenly appearing in his head. But the only thing on his mind was truely revenge and hatred towards Feng Xing.


    "You''re... dead meat!" Mong Gu immediately ran away after saying that, he knew that he had to stop the bleeding or else it would be even more fatal. Cultivators still would have enough strength to atleast leave. Feng Xing only allowed it to happen and didn''t give chase. He knew that he had broken the rules of not fighting openly in the Sect. Only official fights were allowed in the Sect, and obviously this one wasn''t official at all... Ofcourse small fights were still allowed, but blowing one''s arm off... sure wasn''t one a small scale.


    The one who was hurt was Mong Gu...... who had connections to the Sect Master. This didn''t look good for Feng Xing, but Feng Xing only sighed slightly. But he had an idea of his own which he didn''t know yet if would work or not.


    "Sigh... I hope Iam right... although I''m 70% sure... it still doesn''t guarantee anything. Better not disappoint me..." Feng Xing was taking a risk, he trusted his own instincts and the aura he felt! But he currently couldn''t do anything about the matter with Mong Gu, so he went back into his broken down room and cultivated to pass time. He seemed to be surprised since Rou Xue didn''t hear anything... It was like nobody even saw their fight... Mong Gu probably did something to prevent people to come here while this was happening.


    And Rou Xue was probably in deep cultivation... this explained why she didn''t hear anything... since the sound of the fight was pretty loud.


    Slowly time passed by...


    1 day later.


    Rou Xue came out of her room and immediately saw that Feng Xing''s room was broken down. She realized something happened and had a confused face, but she still seemed to be happy. She walked into the room and saw Feng Xing simply staring at her, and she smiled. Her aura currently was vastly different... her current strength couldn''t be compared... to yesterday.


    Especially with her cultivation manual and bloodline. Feng Xing seemed to be satisfied, her bloodline truely was good. He had met some others in his previous life with the same bloodline and they were fierce and powerful.


    "So... are you going to tell me what happened?" Rou Xue asked curiously. It was pretty weird for a door and half of a room to be completely wrecked and worn down. This wasn''t a sigh that was usually seen... so she wondered what Feng Xing did now. Especially with Feng Xing''s weird personality which she didn''t understand.


    "Hmm... that''s not important... but I''m currently waiting for something.." Feng Xing said.


    Rou Xue looked weirdly at him... waiting for what? But as soon as she wanted to say something. An Elder came, looking for Feng Xing. Feng Xing simply smiled.


    "This room... you''re Feng Xing right?" The Elder asked.

 *IMPORTANT*

    Alright... I''m going to be honest with you all, especially the ones who are still looking forward to my chapters. I can''t keep up anymore with this... here are a few reasons why I''m actually going to quit...


    1. As I read my own story, I slowly start to cringe as I basically have no clue what I had been doing here. Since I nowadays create like 1 chapter per week. I also slowly start forgetting the whole plot, thus having no clue what I am going to do.


    2. I''m starting to dislike my own plot, as I have created a lot of plot holes. This makes me just want to stop the novel, but I have tried to keep it up and write atleast a bit more chapters. But the end result is that I still dislike it to be honest.


    3. To be really honest with you all. I have no freaking clue what the hell I am doing with my story, which means just going with the flow. This also indicates that a 1 week gap per chapter... disrupts my flow very hard. Thus creating weird chapters that feel very different and illogical. ( I have no Idea how to continue or where I usually left off...)This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    4. It''s to much for me to handle, it might sound crazy... but I''m really having a hard time making even one chapter... In the beginning I just totally went with the flow... having fun creating chapters, but now it feels like torture making even one chapter... Sorry but if I myself am not having fun making something like this. I''ll just call it quits.


    5. Basically this novel is not fun anymore for me, I have been forcingmyself to make a chapter per week, and I seriously tried really hard forcing myself to go further. But after a few weeks, I can''t do it anymore... I don''t like it.


    For the people who were really looking forward or have supported me. I''m very sorry that I can''t finish this but thanks for all your support and you may just delete this novel and rate it badly since I have disappointed you, but it doesn''t matter anymore. It had been a somehow fun and very tiring experience for me and that''s enough. Atleast I have felt how it is to make a story. Truely respect for the people who keep making chapters and persevering!


    You may hate my story and me! But I''m staying honest with myself, and I believe that this is the best for me.


    Although the story was bad, thanks for reading it! If one day.. I''ll create another story once again, I''ll probably be more prepared. But I don''t think that''s very soon.


    Status : Discontinued