《Nameless》 CHAPTER 01: JADE IN THE MUD The battle in the plains of Zhou has ended. The victors and losers have been decided and the last of the soldiers have retreated leaving a path of devastation. Thunder boomed throughout the sky. From the rivers of stars it strikes the earth. Night become day for a few seconds. In the abandoned battlefield, blood flowed like rivers and corpse fills the plains like scenery from hell. One could say that it was like a painting of death. In a distance two person is peering, looking, and gazing at the distance battlefield. One of them looked at the stars while one of them realizes the glittering in the other persons eyes. The person flew down follow by the other one, revealing their power, flying like lightning, and both is trying to outdo the other. If the other became faster, the other one follow suits. They were like maelstrom of lightning of red and yellow, darting through miles of land in one step. Two people flew down from one of the mountains rushing to the battlefield, both of them are old men but possessing power that only a few experts would have. These two old men they are robed in different colors. One of them has a pearl as bracelet and he is in the red robe. While the old person beside him wears a yellow robe fanning his face, spreading energy. His look is most eminent and aged and he has a pure white beard which he sometime stroke. ¡®Old Daobao are you contending with me?¡¯ The old man in yellow robe asked the old man in the red robe while still fanning his face when they reached the desolate battlefield. ¡®Old Shibao it is you that are contending with me!¡¯ ¡®Hmpph!¡¯ ¡®Hmph!¡¯ Shibao fan his fan to one of the corpse and the corpse dissolved into dust revealing a baby under the corpse. Finally Tianzun understand why Shibao wanted to go down the mountain. In front of their eyes, such bright and golden spiritual energy is emanating from the baby. ¡®Golden Immortality spirit. Such rare energy surely would attract many troubles from other experts.¡¯ Shibao then said ¡®To be born under such circumstances. This is Heaven Will. This child is bound to do great things in the future. A Divine person that will help the weak and helpless if guided to the path of righteousness but a King of Hell if raised in the wrong environment¡¯ ¡®He is mine!¡¯ they both said in unison. ¡®No, he is mine.¡¯ Tianzun said ¡®He is mine.¡¯ Shibao said ¡®What do you want to do with the baby?¡¯ both of them asked each other at the same time. ¡®You first¡¯ Daobao said. ¡®No you first.¡¯ Tianzun reply ¡®No you first! Daobao said ¡®I want to teach him¡¯ both of them said again in unison. ¡®You are copying me¡¯ both of them said in unison again. ¡®See, you did it again!¡¯ they spoke in unison. They look at each other eyes. Then Daobao held up his hand and said. ¡®What about this? We both teach him.¡¯ Shibao look at Daobao and then he said ¡®Fine.¡¯ ¡®What name should we give this boy?¡¯ Shibao said as he flicks his hand and the baby flew to his embrace. ¡®HAHAHA. he is a healthy boy. To think a baby survived these bloodshed battlefields. Xiang Yi is truly a peerless warrior under heaven but let see whether these boy could not defeat him in the future.¡¯ ¡®I decided¡¯ Shibao said. ¡®His name is Yu Wang. His face is like Jade and he has a disposition of a noble prince and he would share the name of the Yu clan. Whoever his parents is, they must be great nobility.¡¯ ¡®Fine. It is a good name.¡¯ Daobao said ¡®Let us go before people realize we are here.¡¯ Then both of those people flew to the clouds and rush to their home and a new life begins for the child whose eyes gleamed with golden colors before returning back to the hazel eyes. ************************************************************************* 12 YEARS LATER The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. The Zhou kingdom is one of the Kingdoms in the western Plains. It is one of the large Kingdoms in the Huang Continent but it couldn¡¯t be compared with Great Ming on the border. It is situated near Wei, neighbors Qin and Xia Kingdoms and at the most westernmost point of the Huang Continent. On the north of Zhou is the Primal Chaos Mountain that is hard to traverse, with deep surrounding waters and steep cliffs of immense height, that no normal person would dare come for it is said only people of great spiritual energy and internal energy would dare go the mountain. It is a treasure trove of exotic plants that could increase spiritual power, spirts stiones thart amounts to thousand maybe hundred thousand and even poison mushrooms and herbs, numerous rare birds and other strange animals that resembles the Mountain Range of Sui. In one the many forest in the Mountain, a young boy of 12 is collecting berries. Today the young boy is once again roaming around the wilderness and searching for food. His teachers always ask him to make food for them. But Yu Wang is not complaining. This is like a vacation for him from all the training. In the Primal Chaos Mountain there is four houses. Three of them belong to his teachers while another belong to a woman of great beauty and her appearance unchanging. Yu once saw her when he was 7 and now he is 12 and every time he meets her, he is always shocked. Her face is beautiful with flawless white skin and of royal disposition. His teachers called him Xi Wangmu and even though Yu Wang knows that his teacher is strong and of great practitioner of cultivation, they all bowed their head and show respect to that woman. Her house is one of the most extravagant houses in this mountain, how she builds it and maintained it is beyond Yu Wang understanding. Near her house is a Shining Lake, a perfect blue of clarity, a lake she forbidden anyone to bathe on it. To be honest Yu Wang don¡¯t think of Madam Xi Wangmu house as a house, it was more like a palace, and look like a paradise. Once when he was eight he wanted to sneak out from training and he decided he should hide in Madam Xi Wangmu house but thankfully he was stopped by his teachers. It was then he heard that if Xi Wangmu heard about him entering her house without her permission she would not hesitate to end his life. But Yu Wang at that time nearly enter the house so how could he forget that Heavenly Place! In the house he managed to sneak a peek at Xi Wangmu, a cold looking regal female, her stature was of a divine Goddess, radiated with power and coldness, a Ying energy that surpasses anything that Yu Wang has ever felt, that he even thought if she glares at him, his heart would freeze and stop beating that instant. She is always surrounded by a group of female, that look like her disciples, all must have great cultivation. Her doors are made from jade and her palace is blue, and sealing formations of every kind is in place of the Palace. You can enter but you can¡¯t leave. But the reason why he is happy today is because he doesn¡¯t have to train. Yu Wang is not a lazy person but his schedule is hectic every day. In the House of his first teacher, Yu Tianzun, there is many books of spiritual energy and battle skills. In his second teacher house Yu Lingbao there is a variety of weapons of every kind from halberd to spears, to sword and sticks. In his third teacher house, Yu Shibao there is a lot of life skills book, a book on how to cook, medicinal pills, formula and prescription, and many more of such knowledge. Since Yu Wang was a child he has always lived in the Primal Chaos Mountain. In the morning he is trained in cultivating. In the afternoon he is taught about weapons , its type, strength and weakness. In the evening he will listen to the lecture of his third teacher about the outside world. Such life with no other person in existence made his life very stale and boring. He is now of Human Realm, third rank, Profound Understanding. He has strength that could rival ten normal soldiers and could climb high mountain with his own two hands but to run from this Mountain he is not able to. ¡®Hmm, Cinnamon, chestnut, tofu, a little meat, duck meat and I would like to borrow some herb from third teacher.¡¯ Saying all this Yu Wang returns back to the house and he could see his teacher is waiting for him smiling. Smiling himself he run to the house, like a child seeing his father. ************************************************************************* Ok, edited to correct the previous mistake. CHAPTER 02: THE KING ORIGIN In front of his teacher now is Cinnamon Duck Meat, red colors sauce with a little green chili is slathered around the meat creating an appetizing dinner, Chestnut Tofu that can restore energy, improve bone loss, and stimulates appetite, Boiled Meat with Fire Lotus of miniscule amount that will dispel cold and sickness, and Roasted Duck , a crisp and soft meat is produced because of the prodigious nature of Yu Wang talents in cooking. ¡®Yu-er like always your cooking is heavenly¡¯ his third teacher said slurping the soup and smiling with satisfied expression. ¡®It is thanks to Third Teacher teaching me about the culinary arts that I could make such delicacies.¡¯ Yu Wang reply ¡®HAHAHA.¡¯ Yu Shibao laugh with pride. ¡®See that! What a great student you are! You should become a cook! A great cook. The greatest cook of them all¡¯ he roared ¡®Hmph¡¯ Lingbao and Tianzun snorted. ¡®So what!¡¯ Tianzun said. ¡®Will knowing how to cook save his life fighting evil people, or save him from dangers?¡¯ ¡®Well, cooking and herbal knowledge will make him a Shenyi, a divine doctor, saving lives and garnering good deeds so his tribulation would be easier. What good if he learns weapons and killing technique, spreading bloodshed and chaos in the cultivation world, despised and reviled by the people under Heaven?¡¯ ¡®Hmph, and cooking would save him from the tribulation? This old man has gone senile Lingbao! Without learning about cultivation, without learning battle skills and martial arts, the moment Yu-er step down this mountain he would be pounced, taken advantage of, being made fun of, and have no face to hide! Without a cultivation base he would only become victims of this harsh world. The strong survives the weak dies. The weak could not choose how they die, but at least a strong man had the power to choose.¡¯ Tianzun said passionately ¡®First Teacher, what is this talk about going down to the mountain?¡¯ Yu Wang said, his heart is beating with excitement. He has never seen the outside world and he very much like to see it. From what third Teacher always told him, outside the Mountain, there are cities and Kingdoms, with many people, and with many schemes. Some are good, some are evil. Make acquaintance with good people, and avoid the bad people. Tianzun look at his other two brothers and then he sighed. ¡®You have reached 12 years old, Yu-er. How could we be so selfish not to let you wander the rivers and lakes, the hills and mountains, the abyss and the peak? To see the world and learn from it?¡¯ His other two brothers nodded. ¡®Yu-er all this years you have treated us three elders like your own father, listening to our advice and admonishment well. You are a good child, kind and wise beyond your years. In martial arts you are fast in comprehension, in weapons you are a quick learner, in memorizing formula and prescription of medicines your mind caught everything. We have taught you more than we ever taught anyone else.¡¯ Lingbao said Yu Wang looks at his teachers and suddenly his face turned solemn. ¡®Does..Teachers does not like Yu W-¡® ¡®How could that be!¡¯ Tianzun said. ¡®We three brothers are great cultivators but we never met any woman that could move our hearts and we never married anyone. Now we are old and searching for a bride is hardly inappropriate. But with you, us three could feel what it felt like to have a son, to watch you grow.¡¯ Lingbao and Shibao nodded ¡®You must leave the Primal Chaos Mountain before the end of this week. Senior Xi Wangmu will fight the 8 Devils of the East, who came from the Penglai Mountains and the surrounding Island because of a promised duel. Surely great devastation would happens, damage to the mountains, and surrounding areas, spirit pressure that will surely overwhelm such a child like you. We have always promised to help her and our word is our bond. Since it is like that we also feel that it is time for you to journey the world.¡¯ Yu Wang shed his tears. No matter how excited Yu Wang is, he is still a child. Since he was a kid, all he knows is his three teachers, and the Madam that lives in the Palace near the lake, and after he heard that he has to leave first his heart is full of excitement because he could see the outside world, then it changed into sadness knowing how long before he could return back to Primal Chaos Mountain? Yu Wang knows that in this mountains Spiritual beast, Demonic beast and its kind is also roaming the woods but none of them dare attack Yu Wang because of his teacher. With this alone, he knew that to enter might be easy but to get out is harder. But maybe that is not true. After all it is not like he enters the Primal Chaos Mountain; it was that he was invited in. Yu Wang of course doesn¡¯t know the importance of such events, to be invited to enter to Primal Chaos Mountain. Treasures for cultivation, herbs that could produce Heavenly Realm Soulscape and Heavenly Realm strengthening item for Spirit Items. Spirit item for everyone is different. For Yu Wang it is a gourd. But it will change. If so why has no one ever attack it? It is not for lack of trying but since Wangmu Niangniang guarded the Mountains who dares attack it? Not to mention his teacher who has magical items, and great powers, their spiritual pressure alone would ward of great beast of the Earthly Realm, even if the beast is the peak of earthly realm. Those who dares, already meet their maker, all of them bleeding from seven apertures. ¡®Tomorrow we will have our final lesson¡¯ his first teacher said. Yu Wang nodded and then he hugged his teacher and cries a bit. ¡®HAHAHA. Yu-er, you are a good child and you have a good head on your shoulder, you will be fine.¡¯ His Second teacher said. Yu Wang just nodded. ¡®Now come on, sit and let us eat. Yu Wang nodded, sit, grabbed the food stick (tell me if it¡¯s wrong) and began chowing down on the food, trying to ease his worries. Tianzun bitterly smile and patted the boy head. ¡®Slowly, Yu-er. Slowly¡¯ Lingbao on the other hand also like Yu Wang, chowing down on the food , tears in his eyes. Of all the three brothers, Lingbao is the most childish but he is also the most dangerous. In the world there is only a few that could match his mastery in weapons, and his mysterious weapons, a Ruyi that he held that has mysterious power. You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version. When his two brothers brought the child, the feeling that Lingbao has for the child is lukewarm but slowly that feeling changes. The child is very obedient, kind and very respectful to the elders. Even though most of the time his request is ridiculous. Yu Wang has always tried his best fulfilling his whims. How could he not be charm by such a young boy? Yu Tianzun on the other hand is calmer than his two brothers. Like he tells Lu Shang, his other disciple to go down the mountain, he too will ask Yu Wang to go down the mountain and attain his own destiny. In Lu Shang case, he is destined for fame and honour and he, of all the brothers would stay loyal to heaven''s will and effectively send Yu Wang away to his new destiny. It was destiny that he meets this boy in a desolate battlefield and it is destiny that he should leave. He understands better than to try to meddle with destiny and fate. They ate in silence that night each with their own feelings and opinion but suddenly Lingbao stood up. ¡®Yu-er, I¡¯ve finished eating. I have something to do¡¯ he said suddenly leaving the kitchen and fly outside with a flash of light he disappeared to the distance. Tianzun just nodded. Lingbao must be overwhelmed with grief right now. But unbeknown to the others, Lingbao is flying towards Senior Xi Wangmu house. Yu Wang just looks for a while on the direction of his teacher and then resume eating and then went to bed, thinking of the journey he will set out in a week. ************************************************************************* That morning he first went to his first teacher house. Quickly Yu Wang enters the house and then he could see his teacher is waiting for him. ¡®First Teacher!¡¯ In the hand of his first teacher is a book. ¡®Sit down Yu er. Today there is nothing for me to teach you.¡¯ ¡®That is impossible teacher. There are so many things for me to learn.¡¯ ¡®Yes, but all in due time. Forcing things is not the Way. Now sit.¡¯ Yu Wang obediently sits, his eyes did not leave the book. ¡®Today I will tell you something about yourself you don¡¯t know, Yu-er.¡¯ Yu Wang startled. Could it be¡­.they knows my true parents? From the very beginning he knows that he was found by his First teacher and third Teacher and brought into the Mountains¡­but could there be another story? ¡®Before that, tell me¡­.how many realms there is in the cultivation base?¡¯ Tianzun ask him Hmm? This is not what he is expecting, anyway he answers. ¡®There is the Human realm, Earthly realm, and Heaven Realm.¡¯ ¡®How many ranks for each realm?¡¯ ¡®6 for each realm.¡¯ ¡®How many levels for each rank?¡¯ ¡®Ten for each rank.¡¯ ¡®Explain¡¯ ¡®Low, Middle, Peak. Level 1 to 4 is Low, 5 to 7 is middle, 8 to 10 Peak.¡¯ ¡®Tell me the name of the rank of Human Realm.¡¯ Yu Wang recited perfectly ¡®New to the World, Profound Reflection, Profound Understanding, Profound Soul, Pure Soul and Union with Nature.¡¯ ¡®What about the Earth realm?¡¯ Once again Yu Wang recited it perfectly. ¡®Earth realm has Soul Intuition, Flowing Power, Great Spirit, Fortitude Adept, Peak Expert, Enlightened Expert¡¯ ¡®And Heaven Realm?¡¯ Heaven realm is the hardest to break into and only a few have ever broke it, it can be counted in one hand. Yu Wang knows that his teachers must be a heaven Realm cultivator but he does not know what rank. Still he answers his teacher question ¡®Heaven Soul, Divine Talent, Perfected Marvel, Primordial Lord, Supreme Primordial and Golden Immortality.¡¯ ¡®Yes, Golden immortality¡¯ his teacher said with a sighing. Then he looks at Yu Wang and his eyes is shining and then he speaks. ¡®In the entire time I have been alive, and believe me, I have lived very long, I have never heard of anyone breaking through the last rank, Golden immortality. I¡¯ve met a Primordial Lord but Golden immortality? Never. Yu-er do you know what happens when you first step into the heaven realms?¡¯ Yu Wang shakes his head. ¡®The Tribulation from Heaven will descend.¡¯ ¡®Tribulation from Heaven?¡¯ Yu Wang said. ¡®Yes, true. That is why people who have reached the peak of Earth realm do not cultivate anymore. Even though in front of Heaven Realm cultivator they are nothing but ants and trash even Earthly realm cultivators do not envy such power. Do you know why?¡¯ ¡®No¡¯ Yu Wang answered ¡®Earth realm practitioner could live up to 500 years old, that is always the limit even for the peak Earth realm cultivators. But a Heaven Realm cultivator could live infinitely unless they are killed by someone stronger than them. But why then there is only a few of Heaven Realm cultivator? It is because the Trials are too hard and eventually we will fall. Unless they reach the final rank the Golden Immortality, the trials will come every a hundred year. Everyone knows how to advance to the Heaven Realm but they purposely hold back. This is why Heaven Realm cultivators are feared but not envied. But you are different Yu-er.¡¯ ¡®Me? What do you mean first teacher?¡¯ ¡®You are the answer¡¯ he said and his eyes shine with pride. ************************************************************************* edited chapter CHAPTER 03: THE GIFTS I¡¯m the answer? The words echoes through Yu Wang ears. The answer? Of what? What question? And it puzzles Yu Wang. ¡®You¡­do not understand. And it is fine. Teacher will explain as best as teacher can. You possessed a Golden Immortality Spirit. And do you know what that means?¡¯ ¡®No.¡¯ ¡®The tribulation for you would be different. Most of those who reached Heaven Realm do so by defying the heavens, severing the strings of fate and destiny but you¡­you are different. Your body is special in ways that could only be described as miraculous. Your body is destined to reach Heaven Realm. Your body is Heaven gift. The tribulation for you I concluded will not hurt you.¡¯ Hearing this, Yu Wang is shocked beyond belief. How could that be? If his teacher is telling the truth why did he never feel powerful? His development is only slightly fast and no more different than a quick learner. He could not be considered a genius and still at Profound Understanding. ¡®This is impossible first teacher. How could that be? You are mistaken. I never felt Heavenly Energy in me. My progress is mediocre.¡¯ And at this his teacher smiles. ¡®That is because we three have sealed your power deep inside you.¡¯ ¡®Seal?¡¯ And finally Yu Wang understand. After all anyone who have pass earth realm or cultivator of the earth realm can learn sealing magic, as their body have evolved from normal humans. ¡®Why?¡¯ Yu Wang asked. ¡®Such power is coveted. In the cultivation world, martial art manuals are coveted, sealing skills are coveted and even the mere mention of it could bring hundreds of sects into war. What if the world finds out that there is a boy that could pass the Tribulations of Heaven? They would hunt you and try to refine you. And it is because of that we three seal your power, unleashed only when you reach Earth realm. Each level will open 2 seals. And there is 9 seals with the ninth being the strongest seals. When you awoke your Golden Spirit, I believe there is nothing that would stand against you under heaven and even Heaven itself would bow upon you.¡¯ ¡®First¡­.Teacher.. ¡®Yu Wang doesn¡¯t know what to say. He knows that his teacher is telling the truth because his teacher has never lied to him and it is Yu Wang truthful nature to believe his teacher. If his third teacher is here he would instruct Yu Wang not to be too trustful But what should he do with this? ¡®I¡¯m telling you this so you will not share it with others. This is your secret. If your secret falls into the hands of a person with evil intention even we three could not help you then.¡¯ Yu Wang nodded, accepting his teachers intention. ¡®Now, that is what I want to tell you. But the main reason of why I want you to come is to give you this book.¡¯ Tianzun give his disciple the book. Yu Wang took it with respect and he look at the book. ¡®Primal Energy Manual¡¯ ¡®This is one of my techniques. It is an intense manual that aims at strengthening the muscles and tendons, promoting strength and flexibility, speed and stamina, balance and coordination of the body and to mostly it is used to increase your spiritual energy. It is of Yang element, strong and hard. It has 18 forms, each form is powerful. I integrate many of the martial skills I learn back when I was young in this Manual. The movements of Primal Energy manual are at once vigorous and gentle. Their performance calls for a unity of will and strength.¡¯ Yu Wang hears every world, reciting it in his mind and promise to remember it and his heart is yearning to learn the technique. ¡®The other you could learn from the Manual itself. This is my gift. Practice it always. The book is of Earthly realm but you can practice it. Considering your unusual disposition you could even learn Heaven technique but I will not teach you that so it will lessen the attention on you.¡¯ Yu Wang just nodded hearing the explanation of his teacher. ¡®Your Second teacher and third teacher also want to meet t you. After you meet them you will decide when you will come down on the mountain.¡¯ Yu Wang nodded and after hugging with his first teacher he went to his Second Teacher house. ¡®Come in Yu ¨Cer.¡¯ The voice comes from the inside as Yu Wang approaches the house. Quickly Yu Wang enters the house. His second teacher is proficient in weapons and behind him variety of weapons can be seen from the Hall of weapons, the large hall in the house of his teacher dedicated for weapons of every kind, each one of the weapons in his teacher hall has their own story and background, each one is powerful. ¡®Sit¡¯ his second teacher said and Yu Wang take his seat in front of his second teacher. ¡®Tianzun must have told you about your peculiarities.¡¯ Yu Wang nodded. ¡®Bah! I don¡¯t care about that! All I care about is your safety. Down the mountains there is many Sects, Kingdoms and eccentric. Snakes and dragons are hard to distinguish. Tianzun said your destiny is to go down this mountain. I said he is wrong. Tianzun said, you are destined for greatness. I said to Tianzun this is without a doubt! How could you not? Since you were a child you were trained by us. The theory and the practical have been embedded into you core being. Even the talented students of great sect wouldn¡¯t compare to you when you broke through the realm.¡¯ His second teacher praises Yu Wang and Yu Wang begins feeling uncomfortable being praised so much. ¡®There is no need to praise me too much Second teacher. Young Yu has many more to learn, and many more to see. Yu-er has not yet seen the mountains, could even mistake lake as a sea, there is to many that Yu-er still lacks.¡¯ ¡®HAHAHA.¡¯ His second teacher laughs. ¡®This is what I like about you. Humble. This is a great quality, to not be arrogant regardless of the situations. Treat gold like stones; treat win and loss as the norms. As Tianzun has gifted you with his manual I too will gifts you with a weapon. You can choose anything you want in the Hall of Weapons. But never forget your own capability when choosing¡¯ his second teacher said smiling mysteriously ¡®Can I?¡¯ Yu Wang asked. ¡®Of course you can¡¯ his teacher said. Yu Wang gets up and walks to the Hall. He looks at every weapon, his sage eyes looking at the weapons he only passed by, every time he comes here. There is the spears of Yang, a favorite spears of his second teacher, a spear he won from a great expert of the Yang family, a great clan outside the mountains, and he also glance at the Halberds of Misery, a heavy and mysterious halberds that his second teacher wrestle from a wandering eccentric during his youth. You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. Yu Wang knows all the stories of each of the weapon in his second teacher house. But Yu Wang knows his own limits. Each of this great weapons weight thousands of pounds each. There is even the Greatsword of Yu, belonging to Yu the Great the founder of Xia kingdom, weighing thousands and thousands of pounds, each strikes is truly terrorizing. But Yu Wang could not even lift it let alone move it. And his first teacher advice echoes in his ears. ¡®It is easier to carry an empty cup than one that is filled to the brim, the sharper the knife, the easier it is to dull, the more wealth you possess, your heart become more uneasy, pride brings its own trouble.¡¯ This is pride. Yu Wang mused. Trying to take more than he can chew. He knows that there is only few weapons in this hall that he can take, yet his heart covets. This is something to reflect on he mused. Slowly he returns back to his seat and he said. ¡®Yu er has look and Yu er has decided.¡¯ ¡®And your decision?¡¯ ¡®I would be satisfied in whatever Second teacher wants to give me even if it¡¯s a stick.¡¯ Yu Wang reply ¡®HAHAHAHAHAHA¡¯ his teacher laughed. It is true that he ask Yu Wang to choose is to test him. There is Illusion seals in hi hall of weapons, but he downgrades the power of his seal for Yu Wang. For one who covets everything, in the end he will get nothing. Too prideful and you spell your doom. Too rash and you will fall. Too slow and you will be left out. Yu Wang finally understands. When you have accomplished your goal, simply walk away. That is the pathway to heaven realm. He has gained many things from his second teachers, yet his heart still wants more. This is too ungrateful. If the master decides to give then let him give. If he doesn¡¯t want to give and you are not capable why force fate? Yu Wang knows that not one weapon in the Hall of Weapons can be given to him. He has to learn to measure his own abilities. The weapons in the Hall are all for Earthly realms cultivator and Heaven realm cultivator, each one possess powers that could shake the Huang Continent. Even if his second teacher gives him the choice to pick any weapons, he is not capable. Then he has to let go instead of stubbornly trying to force things and suffer in the end. His second teacher decision is truly wise and his test have make Yu Wang reflect in his own covetous heart. ¡®Then I give you this. It is of Human realm level, a sword called Ice White Princess. However this sword is unique by its own. You will understand one day¡¯ he said as suddenly a white sword appear in front of Yu Wang lap after his teacher wipes his sleeve. ¡®It is from my bag of holding.¡¯ His teacher said. ¡®I won these years ago, when I travel the Ice region of Huang Continent, winning it from a cultivator from some Sect in a honourable battle.¡¯ It was white like snow and very thin like a grass, yet Yu Wang could feel the sharpness of the light sword. Yu Wang took the sword and examines it and he said. ¡®Thank you teacher. I would treasure this weapon. ¡®Have you look at my Hall?¡¯ Yu Wang nodded. ¡®Yes, Isn¡¯t it wonderful Yu er?¡¯ ¡®Yes teacher.¡¯ Yu Wang reply. ¡®But all of it could not match one weapon of the Sanyuan Palace.¡¯ ¡®Sanyuan Palace?¡¯ ¡®It is far away from here, but there is such a place. The Golden Rod. Yu the Great use it to measure the floods, a magic weapon powered by his prodigious skills. It is a pillar of golden iron, 30 feet in height and the width of the largest barrel you could ever see. It complies with the wish of its owner, it is banded with gold rings on each end. Its weight is twenty thousand 899 catties. It is truly a heavenly Weapon but instead become the pillars of the Sanyuan Palace. What waste! What a waste! If only I knew I was destine to get a disciple, I would steal it when I had the chance and gift it to you on this day, and no one would dare bully you when you went down the mountain.¡¯ ¡®If it¡¯s as you said it is teacher, then how could I wield it? Wouldn¡¯t I be crushed to death by its weight?¡¯ And his Second teacher looks at Yu Wang like he is a genius. ¡®Of course! Of course! Ah! What a waste! What a waste! Even if I steal it how could you use it! I am muddle headed, muddle headed. What a waste!¡¯ ¡®It is fine teacher. This Ice White Princess is a fine sword. One needs to learn to be content.¡¯ ¡®Indeed, indeed. Now I have finished giving you what you need, come and hug your teacher.¡¯ Yu Wang hugged his teacher and then fearing that Yu Wang third teacher would be angry if he is late his second teacher urges him to quickly go to meet his third teacher but not before giving him a bag of holding, a bag that could hold about 10 thousand items. But before that he gives Yu Wang the Primal Chaos Sword technique. And he explain the essence of his swordplay to Yu Wang. ¡®To master these sword techniques, the key lies on comprehension and not simply rigid memorizing. Once the essence of the sword techniques is understood, it can be used in endless ways, hence the idea of no pattern as a stance. Thus during combat, the more these stances are forgotten, the less restricted the practitioner becomes by the original stances.¡¯ His teacher summarizing his technique. After that he said to Yu Wang to train in these technique without fail, to strengthen the spiritual energy to be apply in the attack. Simple actions accompanied with great spiritual pressure can be more effective than the most complicated forms of attacks. Getting more than he believes he deserved, Yu Wang thank his teacher and rushed to his third teacher. **************************************** Edited CHAPTER 04: THE KING DREAMS Yu Shibao is the third teacher of Yu Wang. He is waiting for Yu Wang fanning his face with his mysterious fan, his right hand holding a Golden Lotus. Of the three teachers, Shibao is the most casual. Tianzun is always curt and calm, his word is concise and short, he speaks only when needed. Lingbao on the other hand is very boisterous, he always leap to action first before thinking, like to talk, like to boast, but he is the strongest in weapon. Shibao is different. He is moderate. He likes to talk but he doesn¡¯t talk too much, he jokes but he does not joke excessively. Of all the three teachers of Yu Wang, his third teacher is one that he could find a little sense of moderation. From the distance he could see Yu Wang is running towards him. Reaching him Yu Wang kneels and pay his obeisance. ¡®Rise Yu er¡¯ he said. Shibao could see that Tianzun and Lingbao have given their gift and now it is his turn. Of the three brothers Shibao is the most talkative one but he is also the smartest one. Not book smart like his brother Tianzun but life smarts. Or street smart. He could not give test like Lingbao or give Yu Wang insight to the heaven realm, but he could teach Yu Wang the Way of the world, while his brothers could teach Yu Wang the Way of Heaven. ¡®Snow lotus¡¯ he suddenly said to Yu Wang. Yu Wang is startled. But he quickly recited from his memories. ¡®Snow lotus. It can increase spiritual energy levels and is also used to make longevity pills. Can ease poisons venoms, give stamina and strength if taken in small doses.¡¯ Then his third teacher toss to him something from his sleeve. Yu Wang grabbed it. It is Snow lotus! He screamed in his mind. ¡®Store it in your bag of holding.¡¯ His third teacher said nonchalantly. Yu Wang nodded and quickly he stores it inside. ¡®Hmmm¡¯ his third teacher said and then he said again. ¡®Thousand Years Lingzhi¡¯ Yu Wang begins to understand what his third teacher is doing. His third teacher is testing his knowledge about the herbs in the Herb Compendium of Thousands Healing Medicine compiled by his third teacher. This time he answers it. ¡®Like the Snow Lotus, it promises to boost spiritual and internal energy. It is also a vital medicine in many of the life threatening diseases or longevity pills. It has no known side effects when consumed. Lingzhi is rare in the wild as it will only grow on two or three of the stumps of 100,000 deciduous trees or some trees that absorbs heaven energy. It helps stops internal injuries, soul injuries and stop bleeding of even the acutest kind if grinded into powder in a furnace.¡¯ And the thousand year lingzi flew to Yu Wang hand and Yu Wang grabbed it. This is a test. If he could answer it correctly he will get it. Knowing this Yu Wang face lights up. After all he learns many things with his third teacher. Herbs, poisons, social etiquette, and many more. ¡®How about Thousand-Years Ginseng?¡¯ His teacher asked him this time his teacher showing a proud expression on his face, clearly proud of Yu Wang achievement. Yu Wang coughed a little before answering. Website Stats ¡®Usually the key ingredient in a prescription for life-threatening illness, or as part of an elixir for spiritual energy pills. It opens the mind, strengthen the body, improving memory, increasing vitality, extending endurance, cleansing the body of stress, fighting fatigue, resisting disease, bolstering immunity, balancing metabolism, preventing headaches, treating sleep disorders-¡¯ ¡®Good , good¡¯ his third teacher said and another flew to Yu Wang hand. And he grabbed it and quickly store it. ¡®And now this is my gift to you¡¯ and a golden lotus shot of to Yu Wang. ¡®It is a young lotus of Senior Xi. Your Second teacher gets it for you, begging Senior Xi to give him the lotus. He is too shy to give it to you and tell the story. You know that he hates owing anything to anyone. Eat it when it blossom and you will reach enlightenment. Use it in times of distress and your power will multiply. Use it when your heart and mind in a calm place, the benefit would be wondrous. Eat it, grind it to make pills, give it to another, it is yours to make what you will.¡¯ Yu Wang nodded and looking in awe of the golden lotus he shakes his heart and tries to calm his heart and quickly he stores the lotus. ¡®Now, let me ask you about the rules of the cultivators world.¡¯ His Third teacher said and Yu Wang like always nodded in respect. ¡®What is the Empress?¡¯ ¡®The Empress is usually evil¡¯ Yu Wang reply quickly and as quickly he answers his third teacher ask another question ¡®What you have to look when travelling with a companion?¡¯ ¡®Check if he is not a she.¡¯ Yu Wang reply His third teacher nodded. ¡®What is a common soldier, guards, bandits have to do with twigs and branches?¡¯ ¡®They are useless.¡¯ ¡®How about eunuchs?¡¯ ¡®Evil¡¯ Yu Wang said and his third teacher chuckles. ¡®Yes, good, you learn well my disciple. This is all because of my experience in the outside world. The Empress is usually evil, none of them have kind heart, plotting and poisoning concubine, destroying kingdoms and states. Check the gender of your companion above all else or you will be forced to enter into a battle of honour with people yelling accusing you to not know propriety. Eunuch? Well, they look evil, they spread evil and they have no balls. What an odd half man. They participate in the covering of secrets, cowards and have no spine, speak lies to their superior and engage in licentious activities in the palace. All of this I have seen happens. Of course there is always an exception to this people but rarely will you meet a kind empress, or a good eunuch. It is good if you remember my advice Yu er¡¯ Yu Wang nodded. ¡®Third teacher advice, this disciple will never forget.¡¯ His third teacher nodded in satisfaction. Then he approached Yu Wang and give him two books. ¡®This is Qi Jing Ba Mai, the Eight Extraordinary Channels, and this is the Jing Bie, the Five Divergent channel. Learn this and you can save lives, garner good deeds and become respectable.¡¯ If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. Yu Wang respectfully accepts it and bow to his third teacher. Now go and let me tend to my sorrow his third teacher said and after Yu Wang hugged him he returns back to his room. He already informed his First Teacher that he will depart tomorrow. His first teacher would accompany him down the mountain and send him to Shang kingdom instead of Zhou. In Shang Kingdom there is his Senior brother. Lu Shang. Yu Wang first teacher once tells him the story of Lu Shang to him. His ancestral name is Jiang, his clan name is Lu, given name Shang and courtesy name Ziya. First teacher always called him Jiang Ziya. He served Di Yi , father of the crown Prince Di Xin sometimes called Zhou Xin. Teacher always said that Senior Brother Jiang is not talented in the spirits arts but very intelligent in strategy and very enlightened. The Dayi Shang, the great settlements of Shang. The predynastic founder of Shang is Xie conceived by Lady Jiandi, wife of emperor Ku after she swallowed an egg dropped by a black bird. Xie is also a great cultivator and helped Yu the Great to control the Flood and for his service he has been granted a place called Shang as a fief. Xie descendant 13 generations later, Tang of Shang fight the cruel ruler of Xia and gain independence from Xia and creat his own kingdoms. His senior Brother, Jiang Ziya worked in the palace of the Shang serving Di Yi as his strategist fighting the Zhou and Xia. His teacher will send him to his senior brother residence and for him to gain some knowledge about the outside world. He could even join the sect and school if he wanted to. After all his teacher wanted him to learn many more things in the world. Why not join the sects? But ultimately the choice is Yu Wang. Whether to join a sect or not it is his choice. To train in seclusion alone or to ask help it is his choice. After that he closes his eyes and went to sleep. In his sleep he dreams of a woman, a woman first with freckles and suddenly from this innocence appearance it turns into a godly beauty, but he could see blood in her hands and slowly the white robe of the woman turns red and her face turns into a perverted expression of ecstasy. He then saw a place with hundreds of animals, heard hard nauseating music, a music of evil, sees bawdy dances performed by naked men and woman all showing a solemn expression, some are crying while some are faking a smile, all looked unnatural, not in balance with the Way, the Ying and Yang unbalance. Then in a vast plain of grass, blood rain from the open blue sky forming rivers, dying the green grass red, skeletons mound into hills and hills, forming hundreds of skeletons hill with blood rivers around them, 4 rivers with four beast looking furious, a tiger roaring to people with distinguished clothes, a dragon that soars through the clouds bringing storms and hurricanes, a large tortoise that steps onto soldiers and grind them into meat paste and a flying bird with flames covering every inch of its body with each swipes of its wings people turns to ash and dust. The common people cry and scream echoes from Di Yu, screaming of the injustice and pray to the Heavens for justice. Sweat formed in the heads of Yu Wang, for he is now struggling inside his own dreams. This is one of the curse of Golden Spirit, to see the flow of time that the Heaven has described, seeing futures and past, seeing the threads of destiny, a glimpse of either the past or the future and what Yu Wang is seeing now, is not one would call a good dream. It is a nightmare, glimpses of a terrifying imagery of allusion to events that have either come to pass or will come to pass. He has this dream before, each time a different dream. Sometime he dream a good dream, sometimes a bad dream but never this intense. His hand is shaking, his throats become parched, his heartbeat increased, and sweats filled the back of his clothes making it wet. All this time Yu Wang never wanted to leave or forced to leave the Primal Chaos Mountain but now he is leaving, destiny hands took notice and because the path will be made, the thread first shows its Way. This is his destiny, his blessing and curse. Now another scene appear in Yu Wang dream, in a palace like-scene as he hovers inside the dream looking it like he is looking through a clear lake, seeing a reflection of other people below him. Yu Wang sees in his dream, a bronze cylinder covered with oil and is heated like a furnace with charcoal beneath until its sides became extremely hot, red with heat while the soldiers look in fear of the bronze cylinder, some showing a nauseated expression Yu Wang could hear people yelling Mercy! Mercy!, as an old man is dragged to the bronze cylinder with his young daughter An old man hugging her young daughter is made to walk on top of the slowly heating cylinder and he is forced to shift his feet to avoid the burning and the heat. The oily surface made it difficult for the old man to maintain his position and balance not to mention he is holding his daughter. And then accidentally because of the slippery surface he dropped his daughter while his daughter scream in agony and pain, crying a shriek unheard before in Yu Wang life, yelling Father, father save me!. The old man cried in grief , his heart is clearly torn with sorrows while trying to balance himself. If the old man fell into the charcoal below, he would be burnt to death in pain and agony. He is forced to dance and scream in agony before dying in hopelessness, his cursing can be heard from Di Yu cursing the nobles and the King, all the while two people are observing the old man laughing in delight. The faces of those two people are blurring and Yu Wang could not see clearly but Yu Wang tries to peer through the plan of destiny and thunder strikes him in the dream, a thunder of tribulations from Heaven and suddenly Yu Wang wakes up from his dream in shock. He takes his breath and sucks the cool breath air, calming his heart, wiping his sweat, relaxing his contracting muscles but then he realizes something is amiss. He looks up and he could see the stars. And he asks himself. ¡®Where is the roof?¡¯ ************************************************************************* Edited CHAPTER 05: THE KING MEETS THE FRECKLED GIRL Yu Wang look at his left and right and he recognized it. The Eight Sealing Trigrams. It is one of his teacher Sealing technique. Yu Wang gets up from the ground and tries determine the limit of the boundary of the barrier and after walking in round he finally knows. Four feet to his south, four feet to his north, five feet to his west, five feet to his east, 7 feet to the sky, and his teacher must also put 7 feet under the ground, preventing attack from all four sides, from heaven and earth. Eight Sealing Trigrams is usually used by Heaven Realm cultivators to defend themselves against the tribulation of Heavens, its sturdiness and strength of the barrier is determined by their spiritual power. Ranks and spiritual pressure isn¡¯t the same. Some of cultivators that came from great sect could possess powers that could defeat even 3 ranks above them. Then he sits cross legged and heave a sigh of relived. It seems his teacher has put him here. The initial plan of sending him of the mountain in the morning must not have panned out. But why? Yu Wang rack his brain and he believes it may have something to do with 8 Devil of the East from Penglai Mountain. Could it be the 8 Devils attacked the primal Chaos Mountain and his teacher, in his sleep fly him to this bamboo forest? Eight Sealing Trigrams is a protective seals, and one of the strongest. It can withstand even those of the first rank of Heaven Realm. But Yu Wang knows that this Eight Sealing Trigrams of his teacher is modified for him. His teacher created this for him so that he could hide in the seals and get out of it with hand seals. They teach him once. He was taught only one of this seal technique. It is a unique technique of his teachers and they teach it to Yu Wang. But now, knowing that he is safe in the seal barrier he contemplates on his dreams. The path of enlightenment is through understanding the answer. Seeking answers to a question is the road to knowledge but understanding the answer and its meaning is how you gain wisdom. He then meditate on his dreams and all the while the Human qi is swirling through the area to his soul scape rushing to his Soul item, the energy filling the empty gourd in his soul scape with the energy slowly unbeknown to him as he recall that dream. ¡¯Dong Fang Qing Long, Azure Dragon of the East, brings hurricanes and storms punishing the common people for disregarding the Way of Heaven, giving the mandate of Heaven to the corrupt. Evil is given strength when good people turn a blind eye to tyranny. The Azure Dragon rages and punishes the people. The East river floods and the weather will be fill with Chaotic qi. What a disaster! What a disaster!¡¯ He said and as he said this his dantian glowed with luminesce light, firm and strong, the white gourd in his Soul scape filling to half as his level rise to five. He is now Profound Understanding Middle Level, energy bubbling in his body, sweats formed on his back, his eyebrows creased as his body is handling the shock of such leap in power, the Heaven shows benevolence to the Child born of Heaven blessing. Then he once again meditate on his dream, trying to remember the tortoise and the image of the Northern region appeared on his mind, ice and snow covered mountains, people freezing and dying, cold that freezes corpse and blood, while a river flows with bizarre vitality, the snow could not touch it, the warmth gives protection. And he gains understanding of his dream again. The four signs, the four beasts all of it is connected, an allegory, an allusion. The Heaven is merciful; there is always a chance for the unbalance to be balanced, for the strayed to once again walk the path of the True Path. ¡®Xuan Wu, the Black Warrior, the Guardian Protector of the North tramples the soldiers, fury that hath no mercy. The world in turmoil, the soldiers take the order of cruel men, crying and pleading, yet their action follows the evil orders. Heart and body conflicting with each other, the heart turns cold and then turned dark. Evil men roam the world, spreading terror and suffering. People becomes blind to the truth, the righteous executed, the scholars weep. How could not the protector cast his divine punishment?¡¯ And light filled Yu Wang body his white gourd turns color, emitting a powerful spiritual pressure as the white gourd turns blue. Profound understanding increased to Peak level while his soul items turns colors and slowly the gourd becomes bigger, as big as a barrel, that if it could be brings out it could fit an adult man as the energy flow inside it. This is not a normal occurrence. Never before a Soul item turn colors or size. However there is another occurrence that is happening inside Yu Wang body. The gourd in Yu Wang Soulscape then becomes empty after it changes size, the power that he absorbed inside the previous gourd becomes a ball of light and it rest at Yu Wang forehead between the eyebrows, the ball of light at first is black and without colour glowed into golden colors and shine with power. The other half rest Yu Wang heart, the ball spins and spins collecting the energy until it formed like a small ball, like the one at Yu Wang forehead. And the large gourd becomes empty. When breaking through a realm, a new soul item will appear to show the cultivator that their power has increased but this is not the case for Yu Wang. What does it mean? What fill Yu Wang gourd is spirit energy and what it means when it becomes bigger is because it can store many more energy. When breaking through a realm the more amount of spiritual energy you accumulated the powerful you are. And now the impossible happens. The Way of the Heaven is mysterious but it is never without a cause. Yu Wang does not realize it but he is breaking through the Profound understanding rank of the Human realm. One more step and he will pass to the Profound Soul. Yu Wang then thinks of the flying birds, with flames covering every part of his body. Then the images of the volcanic mountains range appear on his mind, fire spurted out from mountains destroying the green forest, turning the trees into black ash, the smokes arising, constricting the heart and the lungs, the Yang energy strong and unbeatable, with the wind forming a fire storms, eradicating any signs of life all the while a large river promotes life, the water is cold, a river fill with Ying energy. The water if put into any other place other than the volcanic areas surely it would freeze everything but it was balance in the most perfected form. The cold water is not evaporated by the fierce heat, the lava that flows into the rivers instantly turns into solid stones. The Xuan Wu River full with Yang energy, the Zhu Que River fills with Ying energy. The balance is achieved, the flow is unrestricted. ¡®Nan Fang Zhu Que, vermillion Bird of the South, rains down fire, purifying the evil hearts, cleansing the sins, and eradicating evil. Summer and fire intertwined, the Seven Mansion burn with heavenly glows.¡¯ Then another scene appears in his mind, the White Tiger prowling the expansive plains, his steps leave a giant footsteps fill with power of Heaven, the wild wind sways the long grass, the bamboo forest trees plucked from the soil, thunder and lightning shines the land, striking the palace and houses, killing the nobles and common people alike, mountains crumbled, hills turned to dust, and hundreds of beast went out from the 28 mansions prowling the plains, killing and mauling the people, the roars of White Tiger drowns the screams and cries. ¡®Xi Fang Bai Hu, White Tiger of the West, majestic and powerful, his roar could reach the heavens, shattered mountains, rocks the sea. In fury he screams to the Kings and nobles, reminding them of the Mandate and duty to the people under Heaven. The disposition of a King. For he is the first in sequence, the events that will happen will start in Western plains. The man and woman is in the West¡¯ With this revelation and understanding his body once again glowed with light as all the energy in the bamboo forest concentrated into that one spot like a wave of the sea coming with great forces entering Yu Wang body and Yu Wang feel this refreshing feeling in every part of his body, the wei layer, the yuan layer, the superficial layer and the deep layer coursing with energy that clears Yu Wang mind, strengthen his arms and legs, his body becomes tough as steel, his hand has the force of 30 men, shattering boulders and bending steel is nothing, his feet could run over steep cliff, his body refining the energy. His dantian swirling with all this qi he absorbed, miraculous as it is turns the energy he absorbed into droplets of Heaven energy. If any cultivators found this out they would be shocked to death. A boy at the Human realm is cultivating Heavenly energy. Even though it is a drop, to refine such energy into heaven energy, this boy would have luck that defies the Heavens; surely many of them will said that. But it is not luck. It is Heaven blessing. The destiny of Yu Wang is an incredible one, his story is written, his destiny marvelous. And as he understand the meaning of Heaven, the clouds in the sky parted into two and light shines in the bamboo forest from the sky, only those of Earthly realm and Heaven realm could see this occurrence but whether by luck or coincidence Yu Wang is very lucky that during this time, not even one cultivators is near the area. If not they surely would rush to Yu Wang and attack the Sealing formations to know why such weird occurrence is happening. And he calms his energy, the swirling energy solidified into the gourd as the gourd slowly fill itself up until it reaches only the bottom part of the new gourd. Yu Wang is Profound Understanding Peak Level, but his spiritual pressure is almost like the Profound Soul Middle Level. Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. Then he opens his eyes and his eyes shines with a golden glow and for a moment Yu Wang could see farther than anyone, seeing through walls, sensing life and energy and then the feeling is lost. ¡®Huu¡¯ he takes a breath and then he feel his energy coursing through every part of his body. ¡®I have achieved Peak level¡¯ and he smiles. ¡®The dreams show me an event.¡¯ Yu Wang look towards the sky and wondered. What does Heaven plans for him? ¡®Hmm¡¯ he sighed and then he look back down to the ground and says ¡®Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise. I am young and ignorant, why do I need to worries about things I have no way of knowing. If these are a trial, then I have to overcome it. A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.¡¯ Saying this he then looks at the Eight Sealing Trigrams and he decided he needs to know where he is. If his teacher is fighting the 8 Devils then that means his teacher has sent him down the mountains and now he need to survive by himself. ¡®This is Xiantian Bagua¡¯ he said looking at the Sealing positions. ¡®The Heaven is in the higher part and the Earth is in the lower part. The Fire is located on the left and opposite to it is the Water. The Thunder and Wind form another pair, emitting Heaven energy. Mountain and Lake form the last pair, one opposite the other, both in balance and harmony.¡¯ Then Yu Wang concentrates his mind and emits his spiritual pressure. To be honest even heaven realm cultivator could not break this but how could Yu Wang break it? It¡¯s because this Xiantian Bagua is created for the sole purpose of Yu Wang. Others could not enter, but he can leave. There is a slice of wound in Yu Wang right finger, it is because his teacher use a drop of his blood in the sealing combined with their sealing skills. Doing this give the power of the sealing not to the people who did the seals but to the people whose blood is used in the making of the seals. Then the Eight Sealing Trigrams shattered like a mirror being shattered by an invisible force. Smiling Yu Wang get up from his cross legged position. And he walked to the bamboo forest. He first checked his bag of holding. Looking at it he thinks of the Ice Princess sword and with a light beam the sword appear on his hand, he gripped it, feeling the lightness of the sword like a caressing wind, the cold energy emanated from its edge, a white sword that almost glows like the moonlight. ¡®I need protection if I were to roam at night. Who knows if there is a bandit or beast, eccentrics or evil cultivator?¡¯ He said and then he walked. He looked left and right, his ear is concentrating, his soul search for a sign of life and then after about 2000 steps his soul detected something. He retracted his senses and rush to the area. He then spotted people, stumbled into a girl, almost as young as him, with freckled appearance, collecting herbs and grass, humming slowly, putting the herb onto her straw sacks, a man beside her. Based on Yu Wang experience the man is older than the girl, has a muscly body, a fierce expression and in behind his back is a great sword. Yu Wang then makes some noise by coughing. Yu Wang rarely communicate with people of the outside world other than his three teachers, he never communicate with any other souls. The older man hearing the cough quickly unsheathes his great sword and pointed it to Yu Wang. His eyes are fierce, and his posture is in the attacking stance. ¡®Who are you?¡¯ The older man said to Yu Wang. Yu Wang cupped his fist and said ¡®This young one is called Yu Wang. I would like to ask if senior could tell me where this is. This young one is lost and does not know where this is. Been searching for people and thankfully I notices senior here¡¯ The freckled girl is also startled and quickly shown wariness towards Yu Wang, her eyes darted towards Yu Wang and the older man. ¡®Who is that brother?¡¯ the girl said holding the sleeve of the older man. So he is her brother Yu Wang mused. On the other hand, the older man could not help but feel there is something weird about this scene. The man in front of him is younger than him, probably by a few years. He said he is lost but there is no trace of tiredness. He said he is lost yet his clothes look like a noble sons, without a trace of dirt and there is some force that emanated from him. This man is dangerous his instinct is telling him. ¡®Are you perhaps a cultivator?¡¯ He knows of those cultivators that trains in seclusion, in high mountains, and hidden places in the world. He himself is a cultivator but a self-taught cultivator. Yu Wang nodded. ¡®Junior is but a lowly cultivator.¡¯ He said. ¡®Which sects? Sky Palm Sects? Hundreds Sword Sect? Stone Fist Sect?¡¯ ¡®This junior does not belong to any sect.¡¯ Hearing that the older man sighed a relief. If he is not a cultivator of any sects then that must mean he is also self-taught, his power could not be more than him. ¡®There is no need to call me Senior¡¯ the man said. ¡®I¡¯m just a few years older than you. My name is Su Feng. Are you lost?¡¯ ¡®Yes.¡¯ ¡®This is the village of Ruifeng, in the Guilin region.¡¯ ¡®Which Kingdom?¡¯ Yu Wang asked. ¡®Shang¡¯ Su Feng said, and hearing that Yu Wang lights up. So this is Shang territory! That means I can still meet senior brother. Su Feng rarely meets cultivator since he lives in a backwater village so seeing such a young man, handsome in appearance and have a noble kingly air, Su Feng knows this boy background must be magnificent. He desires to forge some bonds of friendship. Not to mention it is a good deed helping those that in need. ¡®Since you are lost, then you can rest in our house. Wait us to finish collecting herbs and then you can follow us home.¡¯ Hearing this Yu Wang is truly grateful. Yu Wang cupped his hand again. ¡®Thanks for your generosity Brother Su Feng.¡¯ Yu Wang waits for them to finish picking the herbs and after that he follows them silently. As they are walking Yu Wang realize the freckled girl keeps looking at her and then after their gaze meet the girl would blush red. Thinking about it Yu Wang did not pay any attention to the girl, not showing any manners, not giving thanks. After all he is imposing on them. Thinking about this matter Yu Wang approached the girl in the hopes of relaying his gratitude to help him. But before he even have the chance to talk the girl ask, her eyes glowed brightly with the innocence of a young girl and ask him ¡®Is your name Yu Wang?¡¯ ¡®Uh¡­yes.¡¯ ¡®Why are you wandering the woods in the night?¡¯ ¡®I was-¡® ¡®Why are your clothes so clean? Are you even lost? Are you sure you are lost? Could it be you fall from a high tree and then lost your memories? Oh that cannot be! This is a bamboo forest how could you climb trees? Then could it be you run into the bamboo trees and then lost your memories? Or could it be you slip on-¡¯ ¡®I..uh..I¡¯ He was taken completely off guard and flustered. The girl is a chatter box. ¡®Forgive her, Brother Yu. She is curios of everything and she likes to ask question. Yu Wang just show an understanding look while the girl keep chattering. Trying to stop her from more talking, Yu Wang decided to ask her a question. ¡®If I may ask what is sister name?¡¯ ¡®My name?¡¯ ¡®Yes.¡¯ Yu Wang said. ¡®Su Daji¡¯ she said ************************************************************************* edited CHAPTER 06: THE WIND BLOWS AS THE GENTLE GRASS SWAYS They finally after a while come into a front of a house, not too big but not too small and possesses good spiritual energy. The house has a small courtyard with bright coloured flower, the fragrance is inviting and the energy is good. Yu Wang could sense all this as he entered the gates guarded by 2 muscly men, both are Profound Reflection rank, peak level. So, this two people come from a background Yu Wang mused. Why else would they have guards? Yu Wang then waited a while in the guest room while Su Feng and Daji went to inform their fathers about him. A few moments later, while he is sipping tea, an old man appeared, long beard and of dignity. His face has a little wrinkle but there is vitality, his hand has veins bulging yet his body is slim, he is tall probably 6 feet tall and Yu Wang is 4 feet high, high for his age. Quickly Yu Wang trying to grab a sense of the old man power level. He release his spiritual energy and he got his answer. It was Profound Soul Peak level, probably a few steps away from Pure Soul, forming cores of energy in his body. He is not weak though compared to my teacher he is weak. Still Yu Wang did not forget propriety ¡®Senior my name is Yu Wang, lost in the hills and thanks to the generosity of Senior children, they invite me here to Senior house.¡¯ Yu Wang said cupping his hand. The old man sits and looks at Yu Wang. The old man also use his soul sense to determine Yu Wang cultivation base and he found out that Yu Wang is of Profound Understanding Peak level. Oho! This young boy I quite talented. He thought to himself. In the old man eyes, Yu Wang is really young. While being Profound understanding is normal but of peak level! That is usually some people that enter some sects or school of cultivation. Of course YU Wang could not be called a genius. After all there are some people who reached the level of Profound Soul at the same age of Yu Wang. But that is because the old man don¡¯t know if Yu Wang really release the entirety of his soul pressure aided with the two cores of power that rest in his heart and the middle of his forehead, his power would be of Profound Soul middle level. That could be considered a genius. The old man nodded. ¡®My name is Marquis Su Hu. I am the Marquis of Jizhou. Me and my family are here in Guilin for our annual hunting. My son and daughter have relayed to me of your circumstances. It seems you are a cultivator with no sects?¡¯ Yu Wang nodded. To be so young and to be in no school or sect while reaching his cultivation base? This is impossible Su Hu mused. He must have some background he can¡¯t talk about. Anyway that is not a problem if his son want to forge some relationship with this kid he thought to himself. ¡®You are welcome to stay as long as you like in this house. Since my son treated you like a friend I as his father will also treats you like a friend.¡¯ Then suddenly from the front gate Yu Wang ears could hear the horse hooves coming in droves inside the house. Then rushing footsteps is nearing their room. ¡®Father I have returned¡¯ the voice bellowed outside. What powerful voice! Yu Wang remarked. Then a man enter the room, his body is muscly, holding a spear with some inscription in his left hand, holding it like a stick, his face is handsome and his hairs is flowing long to his shoulders. He looks like a young brave warrior and power radiated from him and combined with the way he carry himself, Yu Wang believes this man is very dignified. ¡®Su Quanzhong my older brother¡¯ Su Feng said as he approached Yu Wang and introduced the man that just enter the room. Yu Wang nodded. The man that is called Quanzhong enter the room and look at Yu Wang. And there is some confusion in his face. Clearly he is not expecting strangers. He look at his younger brother and said is a harsh tone. ¡®Explain¡¯ his voice is authoritative and Su Feng is startled and quickly he introduce Yu Wang to his older brother ¡®Older brother, this is a traveler I met in the forest while I and Daji went searching for herbs. Seeing that he is lost and alone, I invite him to our house.¡¯ ¡®In the forest?¡¯ Quanzhong said his tone was chilly and his eyes glares at Yu Wang, inspecting everything about Yu Wang from his clothes and the way Yu Wang carry himself. ¡®Father, have you verify his identity?¡¯ ¡®I have. There is no reason for him to lie to us. He is an unlucky cultivator and your brother just wish to help him. Do not show such scary expression. I know you are worried about the Prince threat but he is not one of the Prince men. I am sure of it.¡¯ Quanzhong looks again at Yu Wang and he feels that Yu Wang has a kind of face that make people want to believe him, a kind and generous face, and the way he carries himself is noble. This, Quanzhong could feel only by a glance. ¡®Father is too trusting. He might be a spy from the Prince Zhou. The Minister has warned us, didn¡¯t he?¡¯ ¡®How could he be-¡® Su Feng was about to say while Daji has begun sensing some trouble about to erupt. She knows the temper of her older brother. It is hard to calm him, even harder to make him see reason when he has become stubborn. ¡®Isn¡¯t his stories too weird? How could a young person as him roam the forest late at night and not to mention his clothes is very clean.¡¯ Then Quanzhong releases his spiritual pressure a Profound Soul middle level spirit pressure crashing down to Yu Wang but Yu Wang remain calm as the spinning core absorb the impact and the fluctuating energy disperse in an instant. But Yu Wang knows, trouble is brewing. Whatever this family problem it seems he is caught up in their troubles. Thinking about it he is suspicious even by his own standards. The fact that Yu Wang can remain calm when being attacked by such spiritual pressure shocked both Su Hu and Quanzhong. This just increase Quanzhong suspicion. A Profound Understanding peak level could bear the entire pressure of Profound Soul middle level. ¡®Who are you!¡¯ Quanzhong yelled his spear stand at the ready pointing at Yu Wang. ¡®Cease this Quanzhong! He is our guest.¡¯ Su Hu said words of advice while Daji quickly grab Su Feng sleeve and brought him farther away from the conflict, sure that his brother would cause trouble with the young kid. ¡®I am Yu Wang.¡¯ Yu Wang said calmly cupping his hand. ¡®What is your identity!¡¯ ¡®I am a young man lost at the forest.¡¯ Pei! You are the Prince lackey right! Father I heard from minister Jiang that the Prince has sent threats to your life. He said to be careful from strangers. And here is the proof! Just a few months after the minister warning, a stranger has appeared at night. He must be some kind of assassin sent to end your life.¡¯ And hearing this Su Hu also remembers the minister advice. When he think of the circumstances of this young man named Yu Wang, it is truly to bizarre. He also hesitated. Seeing that the people of this household doubt him, he does not want any trouble so Yu Wang cupped his hand and said. ¡®It seems everyone is uncomfortable with junior presence. If this is the case, then I will leave. There is no need to make this bigger than it is.¡¯ ¡®Hah! You want to leave wherever you want assassin? Not so easy! I will make you spill all the Prince plot!¡¯Quanzhong said in a mocking tone. Hearing this Yu Wang became a bit annoyed. This man, Quanzhong is clearly older than him by a few years and Yu Wang has shown him face but he keeps accusing Yu Wang. ¡®Senior this is too much.¡¯ He said, his voice is still calm but there is an edge in his voice. ¡®First you accuse me of a spy. Now you accuse me as an assassin. I said I want to leave; now you want to hold me. The Way of Heaven is to help and not harm. Your brother has help me and shown kindness why should I harm your families? Instead of listening to my story you hurl insults and accusation.¡¯ Then Yu Wang turns to Su Daji and Su Feng. ¡®I, Yu Wang am sorry for my presence has ruined your night. I ask the permission of Marquis Su Hu to exit this house. My presence is not wanted, why stay?¡¯ Then Yu Wang walk to the exit but Quanzhong is not satisfy with this kind of ending and he rushed to Yu Wang trying to wound Yu Wang , his soul pressure emanated from his body attacking Yu Wang with 10 percent of his power. ¡®You are the Prince lackey! How could I let you go when you in front of me!¡¯ He yelled. Feeling the malevolent sword pressure Yu Wang sense alerted him and quickly he turned back to face the spears that is coming towards him. Yu Wang exploded with the power in the core of rotating spiral in his forehead and heart and the pressure it emitted was of Profound Soul middle level the same rank as Quanzhong and one could imagine the look of shock in Quanzhong face as he realize this. When the explosive power is released the tree near the middle of the courtyard is broken into two while Su Feng had to endure the Spiritual Pressure and his knees almost buckled protecting Daji with his meager Profound Understanding power. Quickly Su Hu came near Su Feng and Daji and quickly release his spiritual pressure to hold down the malevolent pressure of the battle from his son and daughter. This is too impressive said Su hu in his heart while Su Feng look in awe at Yu Wang. ¡®And to think I dare call him Junior! My eyes must be going blind!¡¯ he said as the battle begins in the courtyard. Yu Wang power was explosive, the spear stooped in midair held back by the pressure of Yu Wang spiritual energy, as the rotating spiral in Yu Wang body spinning with great ferocity as the spiritual energy around the area is being sucked into Yu Wang body with an accelerated rate. A fierce look filled his face. And Yu Wang with his spiritual pressure pushed Quanzhong away and Quanzhong was sent two feet backwards but still standing. ¡®What did I say? This young man hides his cultivation base.¡¯ Quanzhong said looking at his father and then turned back looking at Yu Wang with hatred. His misunderstanding deepens. ¡®What was I supposed to do then, Senior Quanzhong? Let you stab me? I did not attack first. You attack first and I just return the favour.¡¯ On the other hand, Su Hu and Su Feng is shocked beyond belief seeing another display of strength from the young kid. This young man is clearly someone from great clans or sect. To reach Profound Soul middle level at such age, even younger than Quanzhong, this mean this boy is truly a genius. ¡®And again you accuse me. I am not anyone lackeys¡¯ If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. But Quanzhong is blinded by his belief and paranoia. Seeing that the young boy is not only the same level as him but can also hides his cultivation level it becomes more obvious to him, that Yu Wang is a spy. Of course if he thinks a bit why would the Prince send a young boy to do a man¡¯s work? It doesn¡¯t make sense. There must be even Earth realm cultivators in the Palace even though there is only a few. ¡®You are stubborn like rocks. Reason washes over you like droplets of rain.¡¯ Yu Wang said while shaking his head. Yu Wang then readies his stance seeing that Quanzhong rushed to him striking multiple strikes of spear strikes, yet Yu Wang effortlessly dodge it all. Comparing it to his second teacher strikes, Quanzhong strikes is too slow. But Yu Wang seeing the attack misses him by inches feel that this kind of strikes s familiar. He racked his brain amidst the barrage of piercing motions of Quanzhong. ¡®Here take this¡¯ Quanzhong said, this time his strike trajectory change to one of Yu Wang vital organs, the heart. And finally Yu Wang remembers. It¡¯s that! He thought joyfully in his mind. He then smiles. If it¡¯s that, then defeating him would be easy as long as he does not master until the fifth lesson. This time instead of using the Ice Sword Princess, Yu Wang intends to relay his true intention. He does not want this misunderstanding grew bigger. Using only his bare hands, Yu Wang makes an upward circular movement forward, yielding with his arms to disrupt Quanzhong center of gravity. ¡®He is warding of brother Quanzhong attack only with his bare hands¡¯ Su Daji exclaimed, her eyes shines with admiration. ¡®To fight an armed opponent with bare hands! He must have great confidence and reflexes.¡¯ Su Hu said. By now it is obvious to Su Hu that this Yu Wang means his family no harm. And by now Su Hu has had quite an inkling of who Yu Wang is. Considering his power and his word, Su Hu finally understands. He might not have sects but that doesn¡¯t mean he has no teacher thought Su Hu. He must be a disciple of some eccentric cultivator. If following that line of thought maybe his teachers send him into that forest for him to train. Confident of his conclusion he quickly orders his son to cease fighting. ¡®Quanzhong stop!¡¯ Su Hu ordered but how could Quanzhong stopped. He is confident that this young man is trying to harm his family. And he keeps changing his movement but none of it could even put a scratch on Yu Wang, as Yu Wang dodging it like the wind, dodging left and right. Quanzhong on the other hand is perplexed. No matter how fast his strike, none of it could even touch Yu Wang , not even one scratch of fabric on his clothes is affected. Even though his attack grows harder and stronger at each strike none of it could reach Yu Wang. It was almost like Yu Wang could anticipate the spear trajectory and movements. Then another strikes almost pierced Yu Wang heart but this time Yu Wang said ¡®Lu!¡¯ as he move his hand sideway in a circular yielding movement deflecting his spear and Yu Wang use his spirit pressure to push Quanzhong five feet away as he stumble to the ground. But quickly Quanzhong get up and look again at his enemies. He is confused. He is losing his confidence. Who is this young boy? He thought to himself. Yu Wang on the other hand is standing in equilibrium; his stance is stable and is waiting for Quanzhong to come at him. He could have pounced and attack Quanzhong before but he did not. Quanzhong become more confused. ¡®Spear Fang of Water Dragon¡¯ Yu Wang suddenly said smiling. ¡®Thirty moves, when mastered could even pierce the Mountains, rock the sea.¡¯ As Yu Wang said this Quanzhong face become pales. ¡®How could you know this!¡¯ Quanzhong yelled as he takes as step backward recollecting his breath. ¡®The Yang Spear Sect secret technique.¡¯ Yu Wang said and he smiles. He still remembers his second teacher told him about this technique. Then he recited the Thirty Lesson, The Five Moves, Hundreds Variations of Spear Fang of Water Dragon Manual. ¡®First lesson. What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out. The Spear strikes hard and fast. Stones crumbles, the wind sliced. The Second lesson. Strikes hard and fast, but becomes gentle like water, fierce like fire; the Five elements will work in your favour. Third lesson. Spring and Sumer, winter and autumn. Be fast, be slow, be strong, be gentle. These four movements collect it in your mind; remember it with your muscle. Lesson Four. The nerve and muscle must be trained. The Spiritual power must be channeled. Open the wei layer, attain great strength. Lesson Five. Wei, Ying, Yuan. Open the layers, attain enlightenment, strikes become wind, piercing motion become flash of thunders. ¡®Stop¡¯ Su Quanzhong said. Quanzhong is trembling now. And Yu Wang stopped reciting the manuals while Su Hu who listen at the words that comes out from Yu Wang mouths knows that that is the true manuals of the Water Dragon Spear Technique and quickly he committed everything that Yu Wang said inside his mind. It is true what Yu Wang said, Quanzhong thought to himself. This is the Yang Spear Sect secret technique. Su Quanzhong only mastered the two lessons while the other thirty lesson and movement he still does not mastered it. But who is this boy? To know so much about his sect and even his sect secret technique. Then Yu Wang cupped his hand again. ¡®So Senior is from Yang Sect. No wonder the spear strikes are so domineering. But if I have to give an advice, Senior has to lessen unneeded movement and focus more on the surrounding. The core of the Spear technique is the ability to use the environment to help the cultivator in battles and not the other way around. The Five Elements plays an instrumental part in the technique core.¡¯ Hearing this Quanzhong wanted to cough blood. This young man instead of insulting him is giving him advice. ¡®Quanzhong stop.¡¯ Once again Su Hu orders his son to cease fighting. The winner has already been decided and knowing that Yu Wang must be some disciple of some eccentric even Su Hu dares not to find out for himself how powerful the kid teacher is. It is true what people said. Sometime in life you will encounter an absurd situation. And this is one. Su Hu mused. Who would have thought he would encounter a boy with such cultivation base in the middle of nowhere as he rested a while from the Palace. Yu Wang looking at Su Hu nodded,. Yu Wang understands that Marquis Su Hu understand that he means his family no harm. For the entirety of the battle, not once Yu Wang use any weapons but he still perfectly dominates Quanzhong. If Yu Wang uses weapons, Quanzhong head would be forfeited by now. By now Quanzhong has already realize he might have made a mistake. This time Quanzhong cupped his hand. By now he already realized and understands why Yu Wang didn¡¯t use any weapons fighting him. If Yu Wang knew the core of his technique, it also means he knows his technique weakness. If Yu Wang wanted to defeat Quanzhong it would be very easy. But now Quanzhong fighting spirit is aroused. ¡®Yu Wang is it? I apologized to Junior Yu for suspecting but one can¡¯t be too careful¡¯ Quanzhong said his head bowed down, a sincere apology is offered. Yu Wang relaxes his guard then said ¡®A great nation is like a great man. When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it. He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teachers. He thinks of his enemy as the shadow that he himself casts¡¯ Yu Wang said and accept Quanzhong apology and Quanzhong hearing this laughed. So, this young kid equates me as a great man, not once he yelled of the unfairness, appeasing me, even though he won? Too humble. Too humble! For someone so strong yet so humble what kind of book he read what kind of teacher that teaches him? Su Quanzhong mused. But then Quanzhong recalled Yu Wang words. Then doesn¡¯t that mean he equate himself as my teacher, my rashness is my enemy? Is he humble or arrogant? Equating himself as my teacher means he is more knowledgeable than me, telling me of my faults he see himself as a benevolent teacher, my rashness is the enemy so why become so serious? The rashness and worries is the shadows he cast, so the consequence of such actions is his fault and not Yu Wang. Quanzhong doesn¡¯t know whether to be angry or thank Yu Wang. But then Quanzhong look at Yu Wang with determination. ¡®I am confident now that you are not a spy of the Prince but your talent in cultivation and battle technique is truly outstanding for someone so young. If you don¡¯t mind I would like to exchange some pointers with Junior Yu.¡¯ Yu Wang eyebrows creased hard. He doesn¡¯t like to fight but in front of Quanzhong passionate determination Yu Wang nodded. ¡®Come then. But let us battle outside this house. I would not want to make a mess.¡¯ And the battle started anew as Quanzhong body emitted spiritual pressure and the energy around the house begin spiraling near the feet of Quanzhong. ¡®I may be the disciple of the Yang Sect but that is not the only technique I grasped.¡¯ Yu Wang smiles hearing Quanzhong words. ¡®Then please enlighten me Senior Quanzhong.¡¯ The audience on the other hand back away more than before as they watched this battle between cultivators of Profound Soul. Su Feng and Su Hu eyes are open. Truly there are snakes and dragons in this world and now accidentally they invite a dragon inside their house. Su Hu is not that worried considering he is of Pure Soul Peak Level but this youngster truly degrading his confidence. His son is amazing enough but now thus Yu Wang appears out of nowhere, 12 years old and already possessing powers of Profound Soul Middle Level. Both of the cultivators then jump outside the house and landed into a lake behind the house. Su Hu grabbed his son and daughters with both of his arms and follows Yu Wang and Quanzhong as their battle begins again. ************************************************************************* edited CHAPTER 07: WITH NO DESIRE, AT REST AND STILL The wind blows and the lake is still but when the two cultivators arrived it was like the wind was thrown into chaos, the still lake boiled like it was being heated by some mysterious power. They are still of human realm and already possess such terrifying spirit pressure. It could be said both of these two cultivators are genius. And the wind caresses Yu Wang cheeks as he looks calmly at the fierce determination of Su Quanzhong. He was calm like the lake and he looks at the boiling lake and he sees his own reflection¡­..distorted and then slowly the spirit pressure fluctuation in the lake stopped. He could see his own face¡­still in the lake waters, looking at it¡­almost entranced by it. Yu Wang blinked his eyes but then once again he sees his image distorted. Is the lake distorted¡­or is it me? He asks himself. Then he looked again in front of himand he remembers where he is. Yu Wang cupped his hand and said ¡®Please have the first strike¡¯ Yu Wang offered.Quanzhong laughed. ¡®This boy is really underestimating me.¡¯ He said but he is not that confident. By now he has feel that this kid must have some expert teacher. He has to go all out. He then tapped his bag of holding and a bronze sword appears on his hand while the spear is automatically stored into his bag of holding. On one side of the blade, two columns of text are visible and Yu Wang looks with his heightened senses. Belonging to Swift Tiger Su Quanzhong, made for his personal use by Patriarch Wen. That is what is inscribed on the bronze sword. It was 22 inches in length and it seems that it weighs more than normal bronze weapons seeing that Quanzhong veins bulged withstanding the pressure. For a weapon to even force ProfoundSoul cultivator to exert this much force it must not be an ordinary weapons. Then Quanzhong smiles and said. ¡®This bronze sword is forged by my teacher Patriarch Wen of the Hua Xing Sect. It was forged by the fires of the Fire Region of the Southern Volcanic Mountain range. It is called the Hopeless Misery. I hope brother Yu will not humiliate me by staying your hand.¡¯ Yu Wang smiles. ¡®If Senior Quanzhong is determine then Junior Yu will also be determine¡¯ and he think of the Ice Sword Princess and then a flash come out of his bag of holding and appear on his hand a sword that emitted Ying energy, so chilling and the air turns humid when Yu Wang channeled his Profound Soul spiritual pressure into it. The Ying and Yang energy of both weapons collided and for a while there is like some weird combination of chillness and heat in the area, half of the lake that separated these two cultivators, on the left side is boiling, on the right it is freezing. ¡®Then here I come. Ready yourself!¡¯Quanzhong yelled and he rocketed forward to Yu Wang, his foot treads the waters of the lake like he is stepping on the wind, water biling beneath his feet, evaporating into air, as Quanzhongrunning on water to attack Yu Wang from the opposite side of the lake. Yu Wang readies his stance. And then Quanzhong arrived and barrage of assault is hurled towards Yu Wang, chopping, stabbing, slicing, you name it, every variation of sword attack is employed, and with the power of Profound Soul pressure the trees nearby all were sliced into two, some exploded into nothingness, while some trees caught in fire and turns to ashes almost immediately. This weapon by Patriarch Wen is clearly not a normal weapon. The water of the lake is in turmoil, exploding like some geyser every time Su Quanzhongrelease his power with the strikes. Su Hu seeing this battle from far away nodded. ¡®Quanzhong has improved. His strength and speed has improved by leaps and bounds. And that weapon complemented his strength very nicely¡¯ ¡®Older brother is really amazing. Such strikes are employed like lightning fast beyond comprehension.¡¯ Su Feng said. ¡®No¡¯ Daji said. ¡®If we are talking about impressive isn¡¯t that kid is more impressive? He is younger than older brother, yet not once older brother attack ever reach him. It is so close but not enough kind of situation¡¯ Su Daji said. Su Hu nodded. While his son attack is powerful and fast, then what does that say about Yu Wang? He dodges it perfectly, using the least movement, tiring his opponent. While Quanzhong is decisive and powerful Su Hu knows his son is too impulsive. Yu Wang is younger but he has an air of an educated scholar. His word is fluent and has deep meanings. Surely he is verse in the Way of Heaven and have great teachers that instruct him. His potential would be immeasurable. If he enters the government, he surely would be some captain of some units and after reaching the same age as his son, he could even lead army. On the other hand, Quanzhong is still trying to attack Yu Wang with no show of success. He was trying to scratch even one fabric on Yu Wang body yet Yu Wang dodge again but this time using his sword to deflect the oncoming barrage, the clanging of swords and clashing produces spark, and both practitioner could feel the Ying and Yang energy coiled around them each time they clash. Even though this is Yu Wang first time fighting but he has no disadvantage whatsoever. How so? Because he has been sparring with his teacher since he was child, learning all about weapons with his Second Teacher, learns the Sects and techniques from his third teacher, about Way of Heaven from his First Teacher. Raised by his teacher, even though he is 12, he has the same wise temperament of his First Teacher, the same skillful technique of weapons like his second teacher and the same powerful mind like his third teacher about battle techniques. Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! It is only the fact that his teacher cultivation base I too high for Yu Wang if not he might master all that his teacher could teach him. But seeing him people might misconstrued his intention as arrogance considering his age. Su Quanzhong teacher might be powerful but could it compare to Yu Wang teacher? If Su Quanzhong and the rest know who Yu Wangteacher is they might even prostratethemselves upon Yu Wang. As the battle grew longer they have already traded hundreds of strikes and by this time Yu Wang has already recognize Quanzhong techniques. ¡®Lotus Blooming In the Middle of the Desert¡¯ Yu Wang said smirking at Quanzhong knowing exactly what technique Quanzhong used. Quanzhng look at Yu Wang and thought to himself. He really knows my technique! Who is his teacher? How could he be so knowledgeable about battle technique? Quanzhong smiles bitterly but he did not stop his assault and finally the Ice Sword Princess and the Hopeless Miseryfinally clashed, this time with the full power of their spirit pressure, producingfire sparks and glacial snow as flames erupted beneath Quanzhong feet while icicle is formed near Yu Wang feet, the grass is frozen into ice on Yu Wang side, obliterated when Yu Wang step on the grass. On Quanzhong side, the grass is burn by the sparks; disappear into ash in not even a second. Waves of energy is release as they contend using their spiritual power. Su Hu could even feel it from where he was standing, the heat and the cold and Daji is shivering while Su Feng is hot. ¡®This is hot¡¯ Su Feng said while Daji said. ¡®No, it¡¯s cold.¡¯ Su Hu quickly envelope his children with his spiritual power to prevent them from inhaling malevolent spirit pressure. Yu Wang on the other hand is shocked by this appearance of icicles as the ice begins covering the area around him. He never knew his weapon has that kind of ability. Looking at each other their spiritual power exploded out. Both of them began to tremble as their power both descended on the other, both taking the full brunt, and they both moved backwards six steps from each other. Quanzhong feel like he is going to cough some blood to release the malevolent spirit pressure that enters his body but he is to prideful to allow it so he held it down. ¡®Junior Yu, are you content on only defending?¡¯Quanzhong said bitterly. Hundreds of strikes but Quanzhong still couldn¡¯t see any prominent sect techniques or some technique he recognize. If Yu Wang could deduce his technique why can¡¯t he? On the other hand Yu Wang also want to cough some blood but seeing Quanzhong is fine, and he could still bear it, he also hold it down and answer Quanzhong question. ¡®Do not worry. Junior will start now. Ready yourselves Senior!¡¯ and Yu Wang rushed forward closing his distanceand Yu Wang uses his sword employingvariations of chopping and stabbingmovementwhileQuanzhong is deflecting it with apparent hardness. Yu Wang attack is hard and mighty, and when Quanzhong thought he understand Yu Wang patterns, Yu Wang strikes then become tender and weak, his force neutralized, when Quanzhong countered with smoothness, Yu Wang attack become still and slow, attack with hardness Yu Wang becomes smooth like water. Yu Wang was dancing around the lake, he steps the ground lightly, his hand moves with perfect harmony with the sword, the breeze of wind lift him up, the grass sways like an open plain, like there is not two cultivators fighting in the area. Be still like the lake Yu Wang thought to himself. He then thought to himself. If he has time he should learn the Primal Sword Technique. No stance, variation limitless. Then as Quanzhong spotted an opportunity he attack Yu Wang but Yu Wang uses Wriggling Serpent Shedding His Skin, the main key of the form is defenses and their swords clashed. Wriggling Serpent is a slow form and followed by a fast form of attack by Yu Wang who has baited Quanzhong perfectly to enter his line of attack. ¡®Hawk Diving For His Prey¡¯ Yu Wang yelled as Yu Wang agility increased and almost a second later his sword rested only a few inches from Quanzhong neck and he stopped. And he looks at Quanzhongcalmly, a 12 years old defeating a 16 years old of the same level. Quanzhong almost couldn¡¯t believe it! ¡®Surely SeniorQuanzhong has no more complains¡¯ Yu Wang said.And Quanzhong smiles at Yu Wang bitterly while the audience looks in awe of the result, not believing their eyes. ¡®He won!¡¯ Daji said excitedly ¡®He actually won¡¯ Su Hu said. Su Feng is in admiration looking at Yu Wang and slapped himself on his head. ¡®Ai! I have truly gone blind. How could I think he is the same level is me! His potential is truly great. But I have great foresight. I know from the very first second that he is special and as such I wanted to forge friendship with him.¡¯ On the other hand Yu Wang still does not remove his sword from Quanzhong neck but one could see Yu Wang has no killing intent whatsoever. ¡®Be still like the lake¡¯ the word echoes in Yu Wang mind. And the battle ended. ************************************************************************* Has anyone check abut Su Daji? You can google her. And AOH NG new release. check it out CHAPTER 08: THE FIRE BENEATH THE HILL The sky was blue and from the distance there are two birds flapping their wings, flying through the open skies. Under the birds was an area with apparent weirdness. A lake¡­one half is frozen the other half is boiling, wasp of smoke moving upwards. Quanzhong looks at the sky and then he laughed. ¡®HAHAHAHA. Truly the world is vast. I accept my defeat, Yu Wang¡¯ he said. ¡®Addressing you as Junior is inappropriate. We are cultivators. In cultivators world the strong is the senior. But addressing you as senior will also not be appropriate since you are younger than me. So I will address you as my equal.¡¯ Yu Wang rested his hand and drew away the sword from Quanzhong neck and said as he cupped his hand. ¡®I have no problem with that, Senior. It has been an enlightening experience to me¡¯ Yu Wang said. He discovered that the sword hat his second teacher has gifted to him possess such unique ability. To form ice, like holding the power of nature in his hand. Yu Wang never knew. He of course knew that melding spirit energy into weapons will give the strikes a different intensity according to the cultivator sprit energy but to actually control elements using weapons? Only Earth Realm cultivators have the ability to control elements and that is usually two or three elements. He and Quanzhong is clearly only Human Realm cultivators and they can control elements. No Yu Wang mused. They did not control it. Their weapon did. Sealing? he thought to himself. He will examine his sword later he thought to himself. He never thought such weapon would end up in his hand. His second Teacher did say his weapon is a bit special. Thank you second teacher he said gratefully in his mind. The audience looking at their battle finally approached them. Su Hu jump beside Quanzhong and pat his son back. ¡®It seems you need some more training, Quanzhong.¡¯ ¡®Yes father, it seems I do.¡¯ Then Su Hu looks at Yu Wang and laughed. ¡®HAHAHA. Yu Wang was it? Who would have thought you are an expert!¡¯ ¡®The world is vast; I¡¯m merely a lowly cultivator. I¡¯m no expert I just wanted to prevent bigger understanding. My cultivation is meager compared to others, and my win is only because I know of Senior Quanzhong technique. The Lotus Tears Sword technique is one of the famous techniques of Hua Xin Sects. If Senior Quanzhong mastered all of its move even I will not win and the result will be entirely different. Seeing Senior Quanzhong attack it must be only recently that Senior Quanzhong learns this technique. And this must be the first time that Senior Quanzhong use that technique on a person. To bravely use a new technique with no prior experience. Senior Quanzhong gains my admiration.¡¯ Hearing this Su Hu and Quanzhong is shocked again. First he knows about the Yang Sect Spear technique now even Sword technique of Hua Xin sects? What is he? Library of Techniques? Truly he must be some disciple of powerful cultivator. Su Hu and Su Quanzhong both thought. ¡®I hope Junior Yu will not hold it against my son.¡¯ Su Hu said, cupping his hand respectfully. ¡®It is a misunderstanding and there is no need to address me so respectfully. I will not hold it against your son and no harm is done.¡¯ Hearing this Su Hu is relieved. Then Yu Wang begun to leave ¡®Where are you going?¡¯ Quanzhong said. ¡®I said I want to leave. So, now I will leave.¡¯ ¡®You said you didn¡¯t hold it in your heart.¡¯ ¡®I didn¡¯t¡¯ ¡®Then why leave?¡¯ Su Hu asked, perplexed at Yu Wang behavior while Daji is chuckling behind Su Feng. Su Feng also hopes that Yu Wang stays. Daji think to herself. This young boy is very na?ve in certain matters, wise in others. His word is profound, humble and polite, yet social etiquette and certain social queues, this boy did not understand. Mused Daji On the other hand, Su Feng wants to forge some relations with Yu Wang and maybe gain some pointers. He has never beaten his brother in a battle. How could he not admire such a person? Surely one day this young person in front of him will be a great cultivator. To Su Feng, his brother Su Quanzhong is like a wall that he could never surpassed but today a young boy, younger than even him has defeat his brother. Surely if he gains some pointer from Yu Wang, maybe he could improve. After all unlike his brother, Su Feng did not train in any sects. ¡®Would you like me to stay then?¡¯ Yu Wang ask, scratching his head in confusion ¡®Please do¡¯ Su Hu said courteously Yu Wang looking at this does not understand. He has no hatred towards Quanzhong only annoyance when he was accused. Now the matter is resolved he is intending to leave as he has said. But now they invite him back. Should he leave? Should he- His thoughts are dashed as Daji came to him and grab his hand. ¡®Come on, let me show you our house.¡¯ She said smiling and Yu Wang could not help but smile as well and for a while his worries dissipated. Then he cupped his hand to Su Hu and said ¡®Then I will impose on your household for a few days.¡¯ ¡®No worries. No worries¡¯ Su Hu said and Yu Wang joins Daji as Daji shows him every nook and cranny of the house while chattering nonstop. ************************************************************************ Yu Wang is now in one of the guest room of Su Hu house. After the battle he was treated courteously by Quanzhong and Su Hu. They are also maids that come serve him some tea. After exploring the house even the house is a little small compared to the House of his teachers, it is still wide and spacious. Then he went to sleep in the room prepared by Su Hu. He has used his spirit energy and he wanted to rest. Yu Wang is grateful for the treatment he received. However a few hours before dawn he woke up and begin his spiritual training as usual. Now sitting cross legged in the room he focused his mind and refills his spirit power. He popped a few Spirit Rejuvenating Pills an dhis core quickly spins, sythesising the pills in merely seconds and Yu Wnag body quickly regain back his spirit power. ¡®The two cores¡¯ Yu Wang mused. He is really curios about it. He could feel that his large gourd needs more energy if he wanted to break through to Profound Soul. He is still Profound Understanding Rank but only his spirit pressure is Profound Soul middle level. But even that shows his future growth. If he is at peak level of Profound Understanding has the spirit power of Profound Soul middle level, what will happen when he reach Profound Soul low level? Wouldn¡¯t he have the force of Pure Soul low level? Isn¡¯t that too amazing? On Primal Chaos Mountain he usually broke through realm through understanding the Way of Heaven relying on enlightenment from heaven. If anyone hears this they would certainly be shocked. Why? Because to get enlightenment in training or fighting is extremely hard. While it will improve the cultivator soul by leaps and bound no one really used that kind of way to practice. Why? Because some may not reach enlightenment. It is easier to consume pills or absorbing the power of Heaven and Earth. In Human realm the cultivators could absorb energy from places with dense spiritual power, in some caves or mountains and any sect and clan is usually situated in such places. For example the Great Ming dynasty place is on top of the burial ground of an Immortal that die in one of his battle and many of the member of that Ming dynasty benefited with that area and this is why many of the Ming dynasty is very powerful cultivators. In Earth Realm the cultivators could absorb from earth and the life force of anything that reside on earth but with everyone they have a different way of absorbing it. Some sit in meditation, while some went into closed door training, some practice their battle techniques and gain faster spiritual energy after they expend their spirit power, expanding their soul, but all of this depends on their innate talents and will. And heaven realm? Not many know. But this is why Yu Wang energy is pure. If one who uses pills who have the same spiritual pressure as Yu Wang they surely would crumble when confronted the pure energy of Yu Wang spiritual pressure. The only one who could pressure Yu Wang is people who are several ranks higher than him. But Yu Wang has never offended anyone is very polite so he has never been involved in death or life battle. After convinced his body has been rejuvenated Yu Wang grab something from his bag of holding. By now it is dawn in the Su household. Then he leaves a letter in the room, writing that he is leaving for a while to train behind the hills and will return by sunset. Yu Wang does not want to bother the household early in the morning, the chicken just cuckoo and dawn is just showing. Yu Wang then travel into the forest. In his hand is a book. Then when he found a spacious space to train he readies his stance and begun training. First he tries to remember the Book of Eight Gates. The Book of Eight Gates is what cultivators would call a treasure manual. Why? Because it can be practiced even until Heaven level. For example Yang Spear Technique. Yang Spear technique has 30 lesson. The first ten lessons are for Human realm cultivator. 11 to 20 are for Earth realm cultivator. 21 to 30 are for Heaven Realms. While some techniques can be discarded when you have breakthrough to the next realms there are some manuals that does not have to be discarded. The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. The Eight Gates technique is one of such techniques. It depends on the spiritual pressure. The stronger the spiritual pressure the stronger the technique and it has no limit. Then Yu Wang began to train. ¡®Peng, circle, forward backward. Disrupt the opponent center, ward their attack with hands. Become alert, maintain power when oppressed.¡¯ Yu Wang said reciting the manual And Yu Wang started moving backward his hand in circular movement while imagining his fight with Su Quanzhong yesterday. ¡®Lu¡¯ he then said. ¡®Circle, yield and roll back.¡¯ And Yu Wang made a sideway circular movement in his mind, deflecting Quanzhong spear with his hand, imaging their fight yesterday. ¡®Ji. Press the attack away, the body remains calm.¡¯ And Yu Wang did a squeezing movement offset in a direction away from the body, done with the back of his hand sometime he alternates using the outside edge of the forearm. Then he did An, Cai, Lie, Zhou, and Kao the shoulder strike. The 8 Gates training is completed this time melded with his Profound Soul middle level intensity and the agility and power of the moves become entirely different from before. His gourd shows some sign of absorbing the energy around the hills. The cores on the other hand did not spin like yesterday. Yesterday the core spins and absorb energy with such ferocity that Yu Wang thought he would have a breakthrough. And the body is strengthened and Yu Wang body become light as spiritual energy flow unrestricted through the veins. Then he trains his Five Steps. The book he is learning from now is 8 Gates, 5 Steps. Now that he is confident he is fairly proficient using the 8 Steps he is training his Five Steps. The Eight Gates is the eight trigrams, the Five Steps is the five elements, their combinations create a powerful technique, repel enemies, deflecting attacks. Then after an hour of training the same motion he sits down and enjoy the scenery of the forest. Yu Wang does not have to train for long since he has only to remember the movement and not anything else. Not to mention he always do this. He did not force his body. ¡®Be like water¡¯ he reminded of his First Teacher lectures after they finished training a technique. ¡®Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong. Do not force thing. If it meant to be , it is meant to be. To live without forcing, to overcome without conquering¡¯ ¡®First teacher¡¯ Yu Wang said and he looks at the sky and the mountains. When will he ever sees his teacher again? he mused. The only thing he needs to do is to meld his spiritual energy into his attack. The stronger the spirit energy, the powerful the 8 Gates, 5 Steps. ¡®Now what should I do?¡¯ he mused. The first objective would be to see his Senior Brother Lu Shang. Maybe his senior brother could tell him something or maybe his teacher left a message for him with his senior brother. Considering using his power to return to the Mountain is impossible not to mention he doesn¡¯t know where the mountain is. All he knows is that the Zhou kingdom is near the Mountain range of Primal Chaos Mountain; Yu Wang doesn¡¯t know where the exact location of the mountain is. So, his first objective is finding his Senior Brother. He contemplated in asking Su Hu about his Senior Brother but then he doesn¡¯t want the Su household becomes suspicious of him. It is obvious that Su household is the household who works for the King of Shang and surely they know of Senior Brother Lu Shang. Then why won¡¯t he ask them? It is because he doesn¡¯t know whether the Su family have enmity or not with his senior brother. After all in politics and the court, there are friends and enemies. If the Su family is an enemy of his senior brother they would not help Yu Wang and maybe even harm him. This is usually stressed in the lesson of his Third Teacher. While Yu Wang is usually trustful of a person, and one of the qualities his first teacher always stressed, his third teacher always reminded him trust needed to be earned. Like love, it must not be given without prove or else the one who is hurt will be yourselves. While Su Quanzhong is not his match, Su Hu and Su Quanzhong combined, even Yu Wang couldn¡¯t beat that combination. So for now he will lay low for a while in the Su family and train. After he knows a bit about the general situation around this hill then he will leave. Sitting looking at the sky, Yu Wang remembers something. Then Yu Wang brought out Ice Sword Princess out form his bag of holding. ¡®This is a treasure weapons. It is elements sword.¡¯ Yu Wang said as he channeled his spirit energy into the sword and the surrounding area become cold. Just as I thought Yu Wang mused. Element sword can only be crafted by someone who is a Divine Crafter. They use their spirit energy to create weapon or shield but it is known that Grand Master Crafter can even seal elements inside weapons. Considering that Su Quanzhong weapons emits heat whoever crafted it must seal a fire elements in the weapon. And his is Ice Elements. The elements that are sealed can be obtained in the core of some Demonic beast or some spirit essence of the said elements if you¡¯re lucky. Then after an hour rest Yu Wang stood up and brought another book out from his bag of holding. The Primal Chaos Sword Technique. Once the essence of the sword techniques is understood, it can be used in endless ways, hence the idea of no pattern as a stance. Remembering this Yu Wang try to use Wind God Dancing in the Fiery Storm technique while only remembering the essence of the technique, the agility and fierce attack combined, trying to use it with hundreds of variation. However Yu Wang did not channel his spirit energy in the attack yet the attack is still so fierce, the sound of wind being sliced can be heard, leaves flutter about near Yu Wang, the bamboo trees around Yu Wang all were cut cleanly into two, some bore holes making the bamboo trees to resemble a flute as the wind go through these holes and produce sounds. It was about 8 hours he practice using the sword technique until Yu Wang truly grasp the essence and only then he stopped. He has forget about it. And he smiles. I forgot about it he smiles and he then swing his sword and with one strike the slice distort the air, and a row of bamboo trees were instantly frozen and a second later cracked, and fall like a broken teapot, producing crashing sounds. 8 hours of training! This just shows Yu Wang determination. He doesn¡¯t forget his teacher¡¯s advice to train diligently. His teacher has advised him to train in the technique so he will do it. By now it was almost night. ¡®I should return now.¡¯ Saying this he stored all the items into his bag of holding and start walking to the Su house. But then from a distance he could see the surrounding area around the Su house and he knows something is wrong. The birds are flying away from the area of the house and Yu Wang spirit sense the malevolent energy, so domineering, and so powerful. There is a battle going on around the house. Yu Wang becomes alert at this and he focused his eyes using his spirit power and since he is at the top of the hill he has an aerial view of the house. He focused and he could see two people are fighting one man. Su Quanzhong and Su Hu can be seen fighting with one man, sword strikes becomes flashes of light. The area around the house is burning; buildings crumbling, trees obliterated and their strikes produced sound waves. Normal people would have run away by now but Yu Wang in time of such danger still thinks about Su Hu and Su Quanzhong. When you see someone in danger you don¡¯t think of the danger of the circumstances but think first how to save them. This is how Yu Wang was raised, to be a righteous man and to not avoid helping people. To Yu Wang he has received kindness from the Su family how could he easily abandon these people without even trying to help. Anyone else would have already run. Yu Wang can be said, to lack some common sense. While Su family did treat Yu Wang good, they did not attach anything special to it. But Yu Wang is righteous, even though his teacher has always advised him that not every matter is what it seems and neither could Yu Wang save everyone, Yu Wang is stubborn. The Way of Heaven is mysterious. Not all good people have good lives, and not all evil people have bad life. Sometimes it¡¯s the opposites. Yu Wang who was taught in humility and kindness, of honour and valour how could he just leave those people alone in danger without even helping? This is what separates Yu Wang from the rest of human. He is a boy blessed by Heaven and as such practice the Way of Heaven. Help, but do not harm. Benevolence and righteousness go side by side. Mercy and compassion must be practiced. Embrace life and appreciate life because it is priceless. All these qualities are embedded strongly in Yu Wang since childhood and he made his decision in split second when he sees what is happening. ¡®What is happening?¡¯ Yu Wang said anxiously as he quickly rushed to the house, determined to help mediate the situations. ************************************************************************* Ok, this is the new chapter. And any question is appreciated. Give e your thoughts and any suggestion for the story future plot is apapreciated. CHAPTER 09: EXTERMINATION It was a cold night at the Su Hu house. The sound of the wind and the sound of crickets fill the forest. The maids are all preparing to go to sleep in their respective quarters. The people in the house were Su Hu, Su Quanzhong, Su Feng and Su Daji. The wife of Su Hu, Lady Ling is not present as she is in Jizhou waiting for her husband. Su Hu is sipping some tea after the dinner. He has read the letter that Yu Wang has left and he is just waiting for the young boy. He also thinks about why he had to go here. He sighed thinking on his current circumstances. ¡®The King and the officials¡­hah, I have been preaching to deaf ears all this time.¡¯ Su Hu said as he put down the tea cup. The house of Su has offended the Crown Prince of Shang since they do not stood in favour for the Prince for the crown and they have gone to Guilin both to hunt and to hide from the Palace. Su Hu has advises Shang Rong the Prime Minster of Shang to speak some sense to the Crown Prince but it falls to deaf ears. Shang Rong is a pleaser and rather praise the Crown Prince rather than talk some sense. One day he would surely be punished by the Heavens It¡¯s because of Minister Jiang they decided to retire a while form the matter of the Palace. Considering that they are one of the nobility and with recommendation by Minister Jiang the current King of Shang allows it. And here they are in Guilin a remote region in the Kingdom of Shang. Here at least they thought they will be safe for a while before Minister Jiang could put his plan into motion. Su Hu was just about to take another sip when suddenly he heard cries and scream. ¡®Run! We have been attacked¡¯ Su Hu heard his maid cried. Quickly Su Hu gets up from his seat and rushed outside, but not before he instruct Su Feng and Su Quanzhong to find their sister and hide her. He could see the bloody scene of 11 people riding warhorses slaughtering his maid before stopping in the middle of the courtyard while fire burns from the entrance gate. How could normal servant run from the warhorses of the palace? They were butchered and grinded to meat each time one of the man swings their weapons. Su Hu looks onto one of the men, who is sitting on the back and has quite the majestic aura and he quickly recognize the man. Su Hu balled his fist and yelled ¡®CHONG HOUHU!¡¯ Who would have thought that tonight he is facing a brutal attack by a dozen of elite soldier led by Chong Houhu a Union with Nature cultivator, a rank higher from Su Hu and at middle level too. His strength and brutality is famed even inside of the palace. Su Hu looks at the entrance gate and he surmised what happen. Chong Houhu must have used his strength to break through the gate. ¡®He should have brought guards¡¯ Su Hu cursed in his heart. And Su Hu thought is quite correct. When they first attacked, Chong Houhu use his sword pressure to destroy the wooden gate with one slash of his sword. Then another thing happened. Quickly Su Hu realizes the disturbance in the air, the malevolent energy rippling out and Su Hu leapt into action almost immediately. He leapt to the courtyard and he is in a safe distance from Chong Houhu. Houhu just smiled. Houhu killing intent flashed out and it is thanks to Su Hu sense that he quickly distance himself or he might have been attacked and die at the spot. The elite guard instead of attacking him, give way to their leader as Chong Houhu bring his horse closer to the front and they meet face to face. This men both look at each other, Chong Houhu sitting on top of his horse looking down on Su Hu who is standing straight on the ground, staring at each other. Chong Houhu has a large physique, and older than Su Hu, a fierce face, and possess a strict gaze like a blade. Energy radiated from him and waved around him. All behind him was 11 people with the cultivation base of Profound Understanding. ¡®HAHAHA. Su Hu we meet again!¡¯ Chong Houhu said his face betrayed his words, killing intent roiled out of him like an inbounding sea. ¡®Prepare to die!¡¯ He yelled. He is not a man of many words. Why be long winded? He is not a scholar, he is a military officer and he is doing what the royal family orders him to do. There is no need to explain anything. Chong Houhu then jumps from his horse back and flies to Su Hu while Su Hu uses his agility to take more distance from Chong Houhu while Chong Houhu laugh and started attacking randomly. The spirit energy released by his sword energy break the pillars of the house and the wall crumbles to dust. It was a display of power and also because Su Hu believes that Chong Houhu is trying to find other people in the house, witnesses or even his children. This is too cruel! Thought Su Hu. He intent to exterminate even my family Su Hu thought to himself as anger rise up from him. It is thanks to Heaven that Su Hu takes precautions and already hid Daji into one of the hidden rooms while the hidden guards of Su family went and try to delay the advance of Chong Houhu. The secret guards all leapt for the shadows and form a line in front of Su Hu. ¡®Please go Patriarch¡¯ the hidden guards said as they began engaging in battle with Chong Houhu. And one of the guards rushed forward in front, his speed was like the wind but easily stop in his track by Houhu. He holds the man neck using his hand brute strength. The man is feeling a short of breath, he could not speak neither could he moved. His body is attack by spiritual pressure of Union Nature cultivator. How could he have any chance? ¡®Trash! You sent me trash Su Hu. Running! What cowardly behavior from the Su clan.¡¯ Chong Houhu said as one of his strike just decapitate done of his guard. ¡®We will try to hold him off. Just go Patriarch!¡¯ another guard yelled as the guard keep battling and trying to endure the spiritual pressure of Chong Houhu. The elite guards of Chong Houhu on the other hand went to the back to search for other survivors. They had strict orders to kill everyone on this Hill. And they don¡¯t have to be worried about their leader since their leader is an expert. On the back, they meet Su Feng and Quanzhong who was about to help their father in battle. Su Hu then arrives at the back, when he sees the elite guards went another way. Su Quanzhong and Su Feng and Su Hu made their stand against the squad of Chong Houhu after making sure Daji is hidden in a safe place. ¡®Attack!¡¯ One of the 11 people yelled. And they quickly ride their horse to the three people; their sword is ready to reap lives. ¡®Father let me give them a taste of my abilities.¡¯ Quanzhong said to Su Hu and he leapt and move with unbelievable speed. Then Su Quanzhong arrived at the squad, while one of the squad look in open eyes of shock of such terrifying speed, and with one strike of fury, Quanzhong cleave one of the 11 people to half. Su Feng also joins taking the right side while Su Quanzhong takes the left side. Su Feng aimed at one beside his older brother, piercing the man throat. But then an evil laugh resound in the back of the house. ¡®Chong Houhu is here!¡¯ he yelled, his hand is holding one of the heads of Su Hu secret guard. Then Houhu throws the head to the side. ¡®Li Feng!¡¯ Su Hu said as he recognized the head. ¡®Chong Houhu! You will pay for this!¡¯ Su Hu yelled,aner and fury that could not be hidden. Chong Houhu on the other hand just laughed. ¡®Weaklings and trash all of them.¡¯ His sword is red with the blood of Su house guard . If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. ¡®ARGHHH!¡¯ Su Hu in rage rushed to Chong Houhu and his strike was fast and precise but with one move, Chong Houhu deflect the attack effortlessly, while at the same time inflicting a spirit attack to Su Hu, melded with his sword strike injuring Su Hu both physically and mentally. ¡®Su Hu! Old friend! Your skill has rusted! Why offend the Prince if you have no abilities! HAHAHAHA¡¯ Chong Houhu laughed again. ¡®I¡¯m no friend of yours, Houhu!¡¯ Su Hu is hurt and maintaining a considerable distance with Choung Houhu. Houhu just look calmly at Su Hu like he is playing a game. Then he ask ¡®Should I end this, old friend?¡¯ Houhu ask Su Hu Then suddenly Chong Houhu dash to Su Hu and try to use his sword to decapitate Su Hu head. But Su Hu was prepared for this sneak attack and quickly he dodge the attack and takes some distance away again, his eye is glaring. His neck then shows some sight laceration, as traces of blood appear. Almost¡­.Su Hu mused. He nearly lost his life in a moment of carelessness. Even though he has expended all his attention to the battle he is still in precarious position. Chong Houhu is a different level than him and Chong Houhu spirit pressure is more domineering than even him, almost tyrannical. ¡®The Prince dog. Who would have thought a cultivator like you would rather become a dog to the Prince. Heaven will punish you one day. Di Xin will bring Shang kingdom to ruins. Hear my words¡¯ Su Hu said spitting blood to the ground. Using such speed and exerting his spirit pressure to the utmost to dodge the attack create a disturbance in his spirit energy. Su Hu may be weaker than Chong Houhu but he will not let that deter him. Not to mention spiritual energy is not the only determinant in a battle. Battle techniques, armour and weapons and, if one have miracle pill even a man of one rank below can win people of many level atop him. It is unfortunate he is not at his main house. If he is, then he surely has some weapons to deal with Chong Houhu. He is fairly certain Chong Houhu will exterminate his family. And it must be done secretly. Considering the damage done to his house, Su Hu is sure the Prince will cover up the story of his death as some random bandit attacks or that Su Hu is caught up with some territory struggle with some other nobles. At this thought Su Hu is determine. He will rather die stopping Chong Houhu instead of letting Chong Houhu hunt his sons and daughter. Then a sword appears in Su Hu hand, it looks like a normal sword but there is power radiating from it. But it must be said compared to Yu Wang and his son sword his sword is not on par. Bad luck! Bad luck he mused. In his household there are many other weapons stronger than him but he did not bring it. Minister Jiang wisdom is unfathomable. Su Hu can only blame his lack of foresight. Minister Jiang has warned him repeatedly that the Prince will send people to harm him and ask him to take precaution but he treated Minister Jiang advice as unnecessary worries. In the end he had doom himself. Gripping his sword he made his last stand. ¡®I will not let you terrorize my house and harm my family. Do not force me. You may be stronger than me but don¡¯t underestimate a desperate man trying to protect his family.¡¯ SU Hu said, his hand is hard gripping the sword, there is still some traces of blood on his lips. ¡®Leave, Chong Houhu. Leave and I will regard as nothing happen here today. There is still room for negotiation.¡¯ ¡®Negotiation? Time for negotiation is over. The Prince has given his order. Just give me your life and this will end easier.¡¯ And suddenly Chong Houhu moves and the battle begins. Chong Houhu began attacking with a strike, fast and precise while Su Hu employed a dodging maneuver. He is laughing maniacally, smiling and leering, even when he is wounded he is smiling like a crazy person. On the other hand, Su Hu is proficient in some lightness skills and he dodges most of ftal attacks of Houhu. But Chong Houhu release the sword strike melded with his spirit energy how could Su Hu dodge safely. His spiritual sense shake to the core and his head becomes dizzy, his hand becomes weak and nearly his head got cut off if not for Su Hu strong will and determination. On the other side of the house Quanzhong is killing the squad, leaving only about 6 people from Chong Houhu death squad. The 6 people look at each other clearly not expecting Su Quanzhong to be so domineering in battle, with his flaming sword. All around him was charred corpse. He is standing among the fire like an avenging gods. Su Feng also helps. Su Feng acts as a distraction while Su Quanzhong finishes the job. The 6 try to make a formation but it is easily destroy by the domineering strength of Su Quanzhong. One by one they fall. Then with one last stab to the final man of the squad, Su Feng crumbles to the ground because of exhaustion. Su Quanzhong leap to his younger brother side, expression of worries and anxiety can clearly be seen. ¡®Are you alright Feng er? Here take this¡¯ and Su Quanzhong produce a pill. ¡®The Energy Returning pill will help your recover your spirit energy.¡¯ Hearing this Su Feng took it and quickly swallows it. Quickly energy returns to him and his sprit power refills itself. Seeing his brother begin regaining colors on his face, Quanzhong is relieved. Then he makes a decision. ¡®Go and bring Daji far away from here.¡¯ Quanzhong said to Su Feng. ¡®Brother how could I let you go alo-¡® ¡®Go! Protect Daji. Go¡¯ Su Quanzhong said again looking at the hesitation in SU Feng face. Su Feng realized that his brother is certain that they could not all survive this. Su Feng heard of this but never thought it will happen to his family. Extermination of family. Su Feng nodded and run to the direction of Daji hideouts. Near him he could hear the battle. The strikes has no eyes, and the house was like a ruins, pillars and wall all strewn about, crushed, tumbling down, each strikes sound like a thunder strikes the earth and then he heard the battle cry of his brother. Su Feng cry a little knowing his brother has sacrifice himself to make sure he and Daji is safe ,and then balling his fist he begin thinking of his sister. Quickly he went to his father bedroom and then pulls the candle on the right corner of his father bed and a passage opens. A pair of big eyes looks towards him ¡®Daji!¡¯ ¡®Brother!¡¯ Daji said, trembling and tears on her eyes. ¡®Come on get out. We have to leave this place.¡¯ Daji did not say anything and quickly she grabbed her brother hand. And then Su Feng taking his sister hand, quickly they ran from the back while the battle keep raging on. ************************************************************************* What do you think will happen? Will SU Hu and Su Quanzhong survive? Or will they die? Will Daji be saved? Ah, who am I kidding? Daji surely will be safe, as will be our protag. But Su Hu? Quanzhong? Live or die? That¡¯s the question. And Yu Wang will appear in the next chapter. One must understand nameless is half the word count of AOH. AOH is usually 2000-to 3000 words for each chapter while Nameless is 1000 to 1500. Only certain chapters will reach the same length as AOH. Ok, that its author notes for this time. Also check my other novels. And AOH ! Mega release...ROAR...And praise me!!!!HAHAHAHA(Chong Houhu mode) REJOICE Nameless has been so long from being updated. Rejoice! Because this week I will be focusing on nameless release. Expect a chapter on next Monday or Tuesday. Maybe a double release. CHAPTER 10: FIRE, SNOW AND LIGHTNING When Yu Wang arrived all he could see was fire and dust. He could see Su Hu and Su Quanzhong are fighting another man. The man that they are fighting is full with killing intention. Each and every strike he performed is designed to kill! ¡®How ruthless¡¯ Yu Wang said. Then Quanzhong begin using his battle technique, and Yu Wang could feel the man spirit pressure and he gasped. ¡®A Union with Nature cultivator. But his aura and sprit pressure is too disgusting. Too disgusting! Evil thoughts, evil deeds¡¯ Yu Wang said. Yu Wang was still at a distance and since the duo of father and son is busy dodging the attack they did not realize Yu Wang was near. That man has no good intention. He is trying to kill and Yu Wang look at the surrounding. He quickly deduces that man is from the Prince. It is not that hard considering Yu Wang heard that Su Hu has some altercation with the Prince. Then Yu Wang quickly made his decision and Ice Princess appear on his hand. ¡®BROTHER QUANZHONG, SENIOR SU HU, LET ME AID YOU!¡¯ Yu Wang yelled and Yu Wang jump and enter the battle and quickly he use his sword to deflect the oncoming sword strike. It must be said to enter a battle especially a battle as fierce as this is not easy, but Yu Wang was like the wind, dodging the strikes and effectively deflecting Chong Houhu sword strike. Seeing this Chong Houhu is surprised. A young boy enters the battle yet he is able to deflect each of his word strike. And he did it so gracefully, like a butterfly flying in the prairie. ¡®Who are you!¡¯ Chong Houhu asked but how could Yu Wang answer while dodging and deflecting the fierce attack of Chong Houhu. Yu Wang is using his utmost concentration to make sure he deflected the opponent strikes accurately. At the same time the two cores spinning with such great strength that it gives Yu Wang temporary boost of power. Yu Wang knows that his body is a special than normal cultivators. And he knows that these two cores are trying to protect him but he also knows that it won¡¯t last long. To even hold out for this long is admirable. His spirit is shaken to the core, trembling and shivered in front of such spiritual power disparity. On the other hand as each strikes is deflected anger and frustration is bubbling inside Chong Houhu heart. How could he not even attack this boy in front of him! The boy is clearly 2 ranks lower than him in cultivation. ¡®Recover your energy Seniors!¡¯ Yu Wang yelled to Su Hu and Quanzhong when Yu Wang saw that they wanted to rashly enter the battle again. Yu Wang wanted Su Hu to regain his strength before entering the battle again. They take a considerable distance from Yu Wang, knowing exactly what Yu Wang is thinking. Even though Chong Houhu is two ranks higher than Yu Wang, Su Hu is only one rank below Chong Houhu. Yu Wang is confident if two Profound Soul cultivator sand Pure Soul cultivator fighting one Union with Nature cultivator, they stand a chance. Each time Chong Houhu wanted to attack Su Hu he would leap to Su Hu but he is quickly followed by Yu Wang. Chong Houhu could not let his guard down. Not to mention the sword technique of Yu Wang is highly profound and confusing. It adapts to every situations. It stabs, it slices, it hacks in the most elegant way without at all losing its ferocity. Lightness and strength combined. Quanzhong shares his pill with his father, downing pills like food. Doing so will have adverse reaction but now they are at death door, who cares about some adverse reaction? Better injured, than die, better survive to fight another day. As Yu Wang keeps deflecting, Chong Houhu began feeling that this boy must come from some great sect or some great cultivators clan. If Chong Houhu wanted to attack right, Yu Wang deflects it to the left. If Chong Houhu wanted to attack left Yu Wang deflect it to the right. It incensed Chong Houhu to no end. But this doesn¡¯t mean that Houhu is overwhelmed. It is just that Houhu is cautious towards the young boy. It is clear whoever the boy teacher must be a great cultivator or might be some cultivation master in swords or swords saint. But does this mean Yu Wang does not feel anything clashing with a Union with nature cultivator? Of course not. Chong Houhu is two ranks higher than him. His spirit is pressure trembling and shaking with great pressure bearing down on his body, his internal injury is numerous, his spirit is cracking and Chong Houhu keeps bombarding Yu Wang spirit with shaking attacks. If not for his two cores he might not last long. The cores soften the spiritual attack, spinning even fiercer. Each time the spirit attack is employed by Chong Houhu the cores will dull it a little. After deflecting 15 strikes Su Hu who was recuperating for a while enter the battle with Quanzhong behind him supporting Yu Wang. ¡®It is fine now Junior Yu, please step back and recover while we stall this dog¡¯ Quanzhong said in anger and hatred towards Houhu as he tossed three pills to Yu Wang. And Yu Wang retreated back, and landed on the ground while the fiecr fight continues onto the roof. He coughed up blood the moment he landed, drips of blood fall to the ground from his mouth. ¡®Too powerful¡¯ Yu Wang said. Even though his clothes is without a scratch how could his spirit not unharmed by such power? External is fine, internal is shaking. He did not immediately swallow the pills, knowing his spirit is now in chaos. It is trembling and bubbling up. This is the price he pays for trying to fight someone of two ranks above him and using his spirit power to the utmost. Eating it will make his spirit more chaotic and may even leads to internal injury. ¡®He is strong¡¯ Yu Wang said wiping the blood from his lips. But after trading those 15 strikes and feeling the pressure it emitted, Yu Wang already knows the battle technique that Chong Houhu used. This is Yu Wang advantage. His eyes discern every technique and luckily he once see this technique in one of the scrolls in his Second Teacher house. ¡®RED BLOOD SWORD ART!¡¯ Yu Wang yelled his voice is amplified using his spirit pressure, so that Su Quanzhong could hear. The battle in the roorf wqas temporarily halted for a second as Su Hu and Su Quanzhong take a distance from Houhu. Su Hu also hears it and he understand and Su Hu look at Chong Houhu with a disgusted expression. Chong Houhu on the other hand is surprised and asks himself who is this young cultivator? First he meddles into his battle now he even accurately guesses his battle technique? ¡®Evil! Evil! Such evil technique he practices. How many he has killed to solidify the energy to such extent?¡¯ Yu Wang said. It is clear Yu Wang hated this technique to his core, looking at Houhu with a disgusted expression. Then Yu Wang summarized the essence of Red Blood Sword Art while saying it out loud, so that maybe it could help Su Hu. Su Hu after all might know more that he does and maybe by summarizing the technique could give insight to Su Hu on his enemies.. ¡®The grip of darkness is powerful and elusive; like an ant in a dark night, it crawls under the stone, the art relies on spiritual attack, consuming cores of cultivators, strengthening the body, corrupting the soul. The Red sword art has three stages. The Red Blood. The Blue Blood. And the Black Blood. Mastering the Trinity, give rise to Blood Red aura, destroying lives, and inflicting misery.¡¯ Yu Wang said and then he look at Houhu and sighed. Then he said ¡®From Senior spiritual pressure Senior have practiced this technique for about two years if I¡¯m not mistaken. The body might be strong, but the soul becomes dark. Senior will not survive the Tribulation of Heaven. Repent and stop this. More killing, the more you will anger the Heaven.¡¯ And hearing this Chong Houhu laugh with a loud laugh, almost like thunders striking besides Yu Wang ears. Houhu look at the boy direction, hearing Yu Wang preaching him how could he remains silent? At the same time Su Hu attacks again while Houhu just deflect the attacks with apparent ease. The young boy piqued his interest so he push Su Hu back and then take some distance from the father and son combination attack while yelling to Yu Wang who was on the ground still recuperating. ¡®Boy! Which sect are you from! Daring to lecture to me! Talking about Heaven? Hah, do you even know about Heaven?¡¯ Yu Wang shakes his head. ¡®Junior does not dare. Junior doesn¡¯t know all of Heaven Way but the Way of Heaven is certainly not inflicting harm. The more evil deed senior do, The Tribulation will be harder.¡¯ Chong Houhu snorted with derision. ¡®We cultivators defies the Heaven, it is guaranteed that each of us will have great tribulation. Who could run from the Tribulations?¡¯ Hearing this Yu Wang shakes his head. ¡®If Heaven give us the power to practice cultivation why is it called against the Heaven. If it happens, it is because the Heaven gives permission. How shallow this kind of thinking. Senior Chong. Is there anyone can defy the Heaven? Fate and destiny in a mystery to us but not to Heaven. How arrogant are the cultivators who said they are going against Heaven. If the Heaven decides to fight who would win against it?¡¯ Yu Wang said. Hearing this Chong Houhu miss a step when the combination of father and son attacks and his arms is slash by one of Su Hu strikes Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original. His soul was shaken hearing Yu Wang words. It was normal words yet it was like divine words speaking to him. How many people has preached him the same thing but never before his soul feel such vibrations. This boy is not ordinary he mused. Not ordinary means dangerous. Yu Wang does not want this to end in bloodshed but even he understands that the man in front of him is evil. Evil must be punished. This is true. No one would say this is wrong. The heroes under heaven will support such statements. But the heroes under heaven are not Yu Wang. For him it is better if the evil doer could realize their fault and repent. If this could happen confrontation will be avoided, lives will be saved and the world will gain another person who would dedicate their life for good. Yu Wang does not seek to overcome obstacles by destroying them. One can always find a way around an obstacle, this is his believe. When water encounters rock, it does not seek to obliterate the rock. Instead, it flows to the left or to the right, over or under the rock without any extra effort. Confrontations and showdowns are simply unnecessary. If only other people shares Yu Wang ideals, the world might not have been so full of wars and killings. When he feels his spirit is stabilized he downs the pills and his spirit energy returns almost immediately, and his core started spinning again. Then he enters the battle. Houhu did not want to prolong this battle anymore. There is something peculiar about this boy he clearly feel this deep in his heart. He unsheathes his Lightning Spears and rushed to Su Hu and Su Quanzhong. ¡®ARGHHH¡¯ He yelled, his shouts were like a roaring lions in the Plains. Quanzhong also roars using his swords creating pillars of fire. Yu Wang also enter the battle, his sword emitting the coldness of Ying, icicles form around his feet, land of snow, around him was all white like a blank canvas. Thunders strikes the house creating craters and crackling with power, while fire burns anything within 10km radius of every direction. A pillar of fire extending high almost like the height of mountains, contain only by the chillness of Ying of Ice Princess which has frozen everything behind Yu Wang back. They traded strikes and slices, creating a spectacle of a great battle. Slicing marks covered the forest. Strikes becomes the hitting of the war drums, reverberating across the area. Su Hu did not retreat,. He couldn¡¯t. Since his father did not retreat Su Quanzhong also did not retreat. And since both of them did not retreat Yu Wang could not help but also stay and help them. Lightning fills the skies, fire burns the air, and ice covered the grounds. It was the most bizarre scene anyone could have encountered. The smell of bloods filled the air, splattering of blood filed the nearby walls. By now, Yu Wang is wounded on his left arm. Blood rushing down from his wound, the imbalance of energy inside him forced him to cough black bloods. Even with all of his knowledge in technique what good does it do him, if he could not receive it properly? The speed is also terribly fast making Yu Wang to expend all of his concentration just to dodge and deflect the attacks of Houhu. Each seconds his attacks become more faster and dangerous. Quanzhong is bleeding on his chest after his body is injured by Houhu sprit energy. Yu Wang cores also began to spins more slowly. Su Hu on the other hand is panting and his body is full with wounds and his chest has a deep gash. Since he takes the brunt of Houhu attacks and protect both Yu Wang and Quanzhong Su Hu has received many injuries. The house has already becomes ruins. Fire and ice dominates the regions while Houhu uses his pure spirit energy to reign supreme. They traded thousands of strikes and slowly all of them in the battles is exhausted and wounded. It was during at this time Su Quanzhong lost his concentrations and Yu Wang was too far away from him and Su Hu also just trying to recover from the last attacks when Houhu eyes flashed with killing intent and dash like lightning and strikes his spear at Quanzhong chest. ¡®ARGHHH¡¯ Quanzhong yelled. The flesh is penetrated and the blood gushed out from the hole. Quanzhong could not believe what just happens, his eyes wide with shock. Yu Wang could only grit his teeth in regret. Su Hu yelled ¡®ARGHHH! HOUHU! YOU WILL DIE!¡¯ But that is not enough for Houhu. He then shove his hand inside Quanzhong heart and rip the heart from Quanzhong body and toss Quanzhong body to the ground. In his hand is Quanzhong beating hearts. Then in front of Yu Wang and Su Hu, Houhu eat the hearts, like eating a chicken meat. YU Wang shakes his head. Su Hu on the other hand does not fear death anymore. His heir, his talented son is dead. He then looks at Yu Wang and he could not bear to let this young child also bear the same fate as his son. He is certain now that he, Su Hu of the Su clan will not survive this extermination. But¡­.he would not let other suffers for him. Su Hu is a noble man, honest without a faulty and worries about his nation. He is a heroic character, deserving of praise, his reprimand should be heard, yet the court is full with evil people, slandering him, whispering conspiracies and flattering the egoistic young prince. It was his honesty and his concern about the nation that landed him this calamity. When corrupt officials rule the court, the honest officials become the victim. Yu Wang is beside him, looking at Houhu with pity. Most people would look at Houhu with hatred but there is only pity in Yu Wang eyes. Not anger. Not hatred. Not disgusted. Only pity. This boy truly pitied Houhu. Su Hu closes his eyes and open it back, this time his eyes shone with determination. If this is his fate, so be it. Why bring unrelated parties to his own demise? He smiles at Yu Wang. ¡®Senior Su Hu, what should we do now?¡¯ Yu Wang asked, not sure what to do in front of such powerful cultivator. This time Su Hu smiles. ¡®Forgive me for this Junior Yu. But could I make a selfish request from you?¡¯ This puzzles Yu Wang. There are facing their death and this Senior wanted to ask help. He would not refuse, only fear that he is not capable. Yu Wang accepts his fate, with poise and calmness unbefitting of such age. He would die today under the hand of Houhu. He accepts it. He embraces it, like water that always hit the rock. The teaching of his First teacher echoes. Inscrutable are the Way of Heaven. You cannot force fate. Yu Wang did not answer yes or no, but Su Hu continues his word. ¡®If after this you manage to survive this, please find and protect my daughter Daji. This is truly a selfish request. Whether you accept or not, depends on you. I will not blame you if you did not search for her, but I would be smiling in the afterlife if you protect her. There is nothing I could give you but this small advantage.¡¯ Then Su Hu tosses a tablet towards Yu Wang. Yu Wang reflexively receive it. ¡®What is th-¡® Yu Wnag was about to say when the tablets glows in blue and a vortex appears sucking Yu Wang into the vortex. ¡®Teleportation Tablet!¡¯ Houhu yelled Su Hu chose to save the new generation instead of his old life. He has only one of that tablets. He was about to give it to Quanzhong but they were so occupied in fighting that Su Hu did not have the chance to give it to Quanzhong. Now his son is dead, what use if he survive? At least he could delay Houhu from chasing Daji. He has already left messages to Daji when he put Daji inside the secret room. He smiles. Either he dies or Houhu dies. Houhu just look at Su Hu like Su Hu is a crazy person. ¡®Have you given up on your life, Hu Shixiong?¡¯ ¡®No,Houhu Shidie¡¯ and he smirked. ¡®I bet on the future.¡¯ ¡®On the future? On what future? You could not escape this. Even if the kid survives this day, it will not be long before I found out where he teleported to. He will not escape my grasp. You bet your own life for a life of a child and not even of your own blood? You are crazy.¡¯ ¡®You will not understand Houhu!¡¯ He yelled and with all of his spiritual pressure , forcing all of his meridian to open, his veins blowing up, his dantian in chaos, like a hurricane, using his life as the catalyst, refining energy, as he charge towards Houhu¡­¡­smiling in content. That day Su Hu, the patriarch of the Su clan perishes in his battle against Houhu. In the capital his clan all died mysteriously, some from poisons, some from assassinations. The Prince covers up his involvement brilliantly. He left his son, Su Feng and his daughter, Su Daji which will make her own mark in the annals of history. **************************************************************** Come on guys...Give me some comments. keep m heart burning with enthusiasm. CHAPTER 11: A SINCERE PERSON IS UNDYING Yu Wang opens his eyes. What greeted him were green trees and a few birds chirping sounds flying around on top of the trees. Then immediately Yu Wang coughed up blood. In his cores was a globule of blood that tries to penetrate the shining golden core but the golden core was very pure that the trace of red black globule is instantly evaporated into nothingness. What happened? he mused. Then he racked his brain and his mind quickly recall the moments when he was fighting Chong Houhu, a very powerful cultivation expert and he was ready for his death when suddenly he is teleported to this place. He looks at his gripped hand and slowly he loosen his grip on the tablet. He could feel the tablet is still on his ahnd, and he already have an inkling what the tablet was. He hoped it was wrong. Then his eyes look at the tablet, seeing the glow has already disappeared and he sighed. ¡®Senior Su Hu is too kind! He sacrifices himself for this Junior! A lifetime, this Junior could not repay this deed!¡¯ Yu Wang could not help but be thankful and at the same time feeling sorrows in his heart, knowing that Su Hu could not possibly escape Chong Houhu. Teleportation Tablet. Also called Time-Space Tablet. In Yu Wang heart was admiration towards Su Hu. And then, come regret and pity in his heart. Regret for not having enough strength to help Su Hu, pity at his Chong Houhu seeing him practicing such evil cultivation technique. Only Yu Wang in this cultivation world would pity the evil. Yu Wang is not angry only regrets and pity. His First Teacher teaching have shaped the man Yu Wang will be. He is generous, kind, smart but not prideful. Humble and forgiving, he is the ideal principles of a sincere person. He will embodies the wu wei principles. At least that is what his first teacher tries to instill in him. His Second Teacher teaches him to be confident and appreciate strength but not cower before it. True strength comes from within. While he must appreciate strength and seek it, it must not blind him. His Third Teacher teaches him of the multi-faceted behaviors of people. There are evil en and good men. Which is the right answer for dealing with evil? Is there a right answer? The root of evil is in the heart and intent. From there sprouted evil actions. But never lose hope. This is the crux of his Third Teacher teachings. To not lose hope. He is not angry. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. For a man like Chong Houhu¡­he is to be pitied. Only Yu Wang would have this opinion. Most people would call him idiots for having such views. To even eat humans like a demon that lies beyond Ming Dynasty, such person should be beheaded and suffer the pain of a thousand cuts. He also felt regret towards what happen to Su Quanzhong. He only knew the man for a few hours but it must be said, that Su Quanzhong is an upright character. Pity! Such pity! He get up and sitting in a meditating position. He slowly circulates his breathing and he realizes that his gourd is almost full in his Sea Of Consciousness. Then he closes his eyes and he is transported to his sea of consciousness. And in front of him was the sea. And he is standing on a patch of land in the middle of the sea. And a hut of a very terrible condition. He never heard of a Sea Of Consciousness where the cultivators could enter like it was a dream. Unknown to Yu Wang, was that when someone reaches the Heaven Realm they have the ability to travel in their own Sea of Consciousness. The Sea of Consciousness in where energy resides, an imaginary space that stores the spiritual power inside someone and where spiritual manifestation occur in a way that humans could perceive. But why then Yu Wang could have the ability to enter his sea of consciousness? He did not know and most of the heroes under heaven will also not know. But heaven will show the way, someday. But for now Yu Wang who never heard of such thing just unconsciously drawn to the dilapidated hut. Then he feels the sun heat in his skins. Yu Wang looked upwards and he sees two suns. Bizarre he mused. Then he walks to the hut. He pushes the door and the door almost shattered, not because of Yu Wang force but because of its own frailty. Slowly Yu Wang enters. In it he sees a large gourd. This is his soul item. He spent some time looking in the hut. There is no bed, no furniture, an empty hut with only the large gourd in the middle of the hut. Seeing that there is nothing wrong with his sea of consciousness, Yu Wang awakened. His spiritual energy will take time to recover. Following his third teacher collecting medicines and debating about medicines he knew his own condition. It will take him a few months before his spiritual energy return to his previous condition. Then he looks at the sky and standing up. Then he kowtowed to the ground. Getting up from kowtowing he then said looking at the sky his hand ¡®The fierce wind blows, the ocean roars, a sincere person is undying. No matter how big the earth or high the heavens, in my life I''ll only reply with good. Cry without restraint, laugh without restraint, the pain of joy is undying. My teacher wanted me to wander the rivers and lakes. To live unrestrained. But Yu er will not forget the deed of the Su clan and Yu er dares not being ungrateful. This life, this moment, I Yu Wang pledge to heaven and Earth, the Sun and the Moon, the last request of Senior Su Hu, this Junior will honour. May Heaven , the all ruling, and Earth, the all producing read my hearts. If I turn from my promise, may Heaven and heroes smite me!¡¯ He said with determination, with zealous heart. It is not known what prompt him to swear such a pledge to Heaven and Earth but Su Hu sacrifices is truly one thing Yu Wang could not just forget or ignore. The old man sacrifices himself for him, how could he be so heartless to not honor his request and last wish? He then stand up and in his mind, there is only one objectives. To find Su Daji and protect her. But first he needs to know where he is. He has nothing on him other than his bag of holding. He checks on his bag and nothing seems to be missing. He then walked to the opening of the mountain. The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. In the time it takes 5 incense sticks to burn, he encountered an old man , maybe around 40 or 50, his face was tan, maybe because of the sun, his vein bulging with veins, and have a muscly body, wearing a black robe, shoveling around in a field. Yu Wang appearance gives an air of noble air, and power. With white robe and spiritual pressure that is purer than anyone in the Profound Understanding level. Yu Wang is Profound Understanding Peak level, fighting a Pure Soul cultivator is nothing. In Profound Understanding level no one could match the intensity of his spiritual pressure their heart would tremble, their soul will be shaken. But towards person of higher level of cultivation while he is pure he is still no match. How can his spiritual energy be pure? He has never killed with hatred, only as a final solution. Always for the greater good and always as last resort. At least that is what he is determined to do. In all his life he has never killed anything or anyone be it humans or beast. Living in the Primal Chaos Mountain with his teachers which beast dare cause harm to him? Not to mention the teachings of his teachers was profound and further help Yu Wang in perfecting his spiritual energy. Even though he is still of Profound level the grace in which he walks and the aura he emitted cannot be hidden. This is thanks to his calmness and understanding of The Way of Heaven. He then cupped his hand to the old man and asks ¡®Forgive me Uncle, my name is Yin Zheng. May I ask the name of this mountain?¡¯ He said politely and with courteous attitude even lowering his head. He did not say his real name. He remembers he might being chased by Chong Houhu right now. Yin Zheng is a name he remembered from accidentally taking a peek in the Annals of Time and Destiny belonging to his first teacher. He was scolded heavily by his teacher because it was madam Xi Wangmu scroll which she accidentally left out when she first came to visit his teacher. The name just pop into his head for no apparent reason. Mostly because what he reads about the man named Yin Zheng. He is still lowering his head to the old man. Yu Wang is a cultivator and it is clear in front of him just a normal mortal who does not practice cultivation. Yet, Yu Wang did not think such things matter. There is propriety and showing respect to the old is a teaching as old as time. The old man was f course startled. The old man than look in front of him and see a very comely young man with a very soothing aura. The old man quickly regains his composure and smiles. Then he remember the way the man introduce himself. ¡®Yin Zheng? The Qin royal family?¡¯ The man asked his eyes already shows that he is ready to prostate himself before the Yu Wang. Yu Wang quickly holds the old man arms preventing him from prostrating. ¡®No. I am not¡¯ he said. ¡®Why do you think I am from the Qin royal family?¡¯ The old man stopped trying tpo kneel and answer Yu Wang question. ¡®The Qin royal family name is Ying, descendant of the Xia. Seeing the noble air from sire ( tell me if this sounds wrong. Feel like it¡¯s wrong) it looks like Sire is descended from a noble lineage.¡¯ Yu Wang shakes his head. ¡®I am just a wandering cultivator, exploring the hills and mountain. Not royalty. I would appreciate if Uncle could tell where this is and what state is this.¡¯ Yu Wang said respectfully. The old man feel sure that this young man is not of some ordinary background but the young man insist that he is nothing but a wandering cultivator. If he wants to hide his identity it is not his problem. The old man then said, introducing himself. ¡®My name is Zhu Ren. I hail from Great Ming.¡¯ ¡®Ming people!¡¯ Yu Wang exclaimed. ¡®It is a long way from home.¡¯ Yu Wang said ¡®This old man wanted to see the world, exploring the hills and mountains¡¯ the man said smiling at Yu Wang and Yu Wang also smiles. This old man also has some secrets Yu Wang noted. ¡®To answer your question, this is the state of Zhou. This is the Buzhou mountain.¡¯ The old man said. ¡®Supporting the Heavens, Gong Gong smashes his head in anger, Nuwa repairing the sky¡¯ Yu Wang said smiling. He remembers the story his second teacher told him. ¡®HAHAHA¡¯ the old man laughs. ¡®True. Tales of Gods and devil battling has long been passed down. Young man is knowledgeable, must have great background.¡¯ ¡®This is nothing. This is nothing. Stories this Junior heard in my journey.¡¯ The old man is hesitating. This young man does not let even a chink of armour appear. ¡®This Buzhou Mountain in supported by the Heaven Pillars Sect.¡¯ ¡®Heaven Pillars Sect?¡¯ Yu Wang said ¡®Yes, if you climb a little higher you could see many houses in the mountains. Many of young cultivators of Zhou train in Heaven Pillars Sect. It¡¯s one of the five Great Sect in Zhou.¡¯ Then Yu Wang cupped his hand again and said ¡®Thank you for helping this Junior.¡¯ ¡®No need. No need.¡¯ The old man said. A little while later Yu Wang reached higher and then he stopped in front of a gate. On top of the gate is the inscription HEAVEN PILLARS SECT Beneath that inscription is written SUPPORTING THE HEAVEN, HELPING THE PEOPLE, LOYAL TO THE STATE. GREAT VIRTUES EMBEDDED, THE WORLD WILL BE PEACEFUL. 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