When Sky Ling's eyes opened the first thing he saw was the wooden roof of a building he knew all too well. The physician house of the clan family, he had back home safe and sound. But how was the question he had to ask. He looked to his side to see the wooden window open, and outside the sun shining brightly, the wind blowing in the smell of medicinal herbs from the medicine garden outside.He pulled out his hands from the white blanket and felt his face, he expected them to be bashed in but they seemed perfectly fine. "What happened to me last night?" He could remember it in bits, it started with him being attacked and beaten to death by those strange men dressed in black. Then his memories became more fuzzy as he neared his death and met this strange figure that seemed like a god."I must be crazy to think that was real." He said to himself as he sat up straight, his strands of jet black hair falling over his face roughly. He found it strange that his body which should have been ach

The cultivation ranks of a martial cultivators started with the lowest rank being the Earth Rank, this was the foundation rank where chi would awakened and be able to be manipulated by the martial cultivators. There were three stages every martial cultivators would go through to achieve mastery on this rank. The early, mid and late earth rank stages.It was where a martial cultivators would solidify their foundation to start their cultivation journey. If Sky Ling was to achieve a breakthrough the next rank he would reach was the Sky Rank .The dragon materialised before him and spoke, "Now that your veins have been opened, since they still have the characteristics of a new chi veins the rate at which your body will absorb chi for the first time will be fast. Combined with the benefits I have given you by enhancing your DNA, you will become much stronger much quicker. But this will not help you breach the gap between your peers, since this will all depend on your own strength."Ling st

Chu was not given much time to grasp the change that soon happened in the next moment. Ling started to run forward at his usual pace which Chu was familiar with but decided to switch it up at the last moment where he circulated chi into his legs at the last seconds.Chu's eyes widened ed as he saw his elder brother become a blur for an instant, this sudden development caused his muscles to become tense for a second. But a second was all Ling needed to teach him his well deserved lesson.Ling could feel the energy circulating through the veins and muscles in his legs, relaxing them and energising as he ran faster than he ever had. When he reached Chu he threw the strongest blow he ever had at his face, the blow carried all the chi Ling could muster in that moment as well as all his pent up hatred for the person.His fist started to throb and burn, it's weight almost doubling. For the first time since their unfortunate spars had begun, Ling's blow connected with Chu's face and with a sa

Ling fought back the urge to relax his body on the sofa rest, he could feel the comfort softening his muscles and he wanted more than anything to leave there and get back to training. He looked at her then to the curtains then back at there before speaking."Is this place private enough?" He asked in a low, calculated tone.Li Yuan nodded gently and gestured to the curtains. "These are high quality soundproof curtains, we may not be the biggest in the village now but we use quality protection. This is needed since auction houses sell items of great rarity or perhaps stolen property of great worth. You can speak fifth young lord."He hesitated for a few seconds and studied her, she did not seem like a complicated person despite playing the part. He dug his hand into one of his pockets and took out a bright green emerald the size of a thumb, she held it up where she could see and said. "Are you interested now miss Yuan? I trust you know what this is."Li Yuan's eyes widened for a few s

Ling groaned inwardly, the illusionary dragon which had always remained quiet observing all his deeds was not making his day hell. "Damn, kid I never expected you to go that hard to expose your goals to her. You really do have guts, you don't have fear of being reported?" The dragon fley circles over his head. Ling continued to work down the market square with his hands tucked away in his pocket. "Shut it dragon, she can be trusted." "How so?" He grumbled but said nothing more about the matter. There was a long silence between them the only sound they that distracted them was the noise from the market square. There were people buying and selling to their heart's content, all of them enjoying the peace that came with the protection the sky family offered. Ling's goal was a shady merchant shop located within the market place, in the shop was hung various fireworks, and trinkets. The owner of the shop was a thing handsome man wearing a rice hat, and a long black kimono. Ling pop