...Ringing...A young man with dark brown hair; half secured away on top of his head, struggled to get up as his ears rang. He tried to stand but the earth spun."Valley Master! Valley Master!" he heard himself called. A hand-held him up steady, allowing his balance to return to him."Valley Master, we won!" the person holding him up shouted excitedly. His ears rung harder at the shout causing him to wince and sway away from the one holding him, only to stumble back onto the wet ground. He knelt in place and stared up at his surroundings. He could see a jubilant bunch shouting out 'victory'. For a second he wondered what he was doing there, but then it all came back to him.Valley Master? That was him they were calling, yet it was unfamiliar to him. He was Edward Desecar, Prince of Emerald and Jurazel. He had arrived here a few years ago. Where he was from, he had been on a quest. One of the requirements of the quest was that he walked The Mist. The Mist. Yes, that is where this shou

Ed had spent the entire night reading through this text, but he was not drained. Instead, he felt energy like never before course through his veins. He examined himself and found he had reached the edge of his growth and was soon going to experience the spirit-picking stage. But the spirit picking stage is a very hard stage to reach. Many reached the stage which he stood, yet were unable to reach the spirit picking.Getting up, he stretched as he took a look at his body; it was overflowing with spirit energy. He was not sure how much spirit energy a normal person had at this stage, but was sure his was too much. When he had killed a valley master the last year, he had touched this man on his lotus diam, which was a point at the middle of his spine and for a second, his spirit energy connected to the man's spirit energy and his spirit energy was so large, it started to devour that tribal chief's own. He was sure that all the tribal chiefs were at least at the spirit awareness stage. Th

The outcome was as expected.The power of the commoner's fist tore through Hunten Gi's shields and reached his hands. His elbow was snapped like a twig as the fist met his ribs. Blood filled not only the stage but the air. That fist should have passed right through Hunten Gi, but the commoner had reduced its force after breaking his shield.Those with eyes saw what she did, including chief Gi. Anger could be felt as steam leaving his skin in a slow-burning rage. Hunten Gi had used all his strength to block that punch and had nothing left in him. His core was empty. He struggled to crawl away soaked in his own blood. As long as he left the stage the game should be over, he thought. She watched as he did so with a vicious look in her eyes. When he thought he had escaped, he noticed she came down the stage too."Have you forgotten? This fight is to the death," she crashed all the hope in his mind."Mercy," he begged pitifully. This was a shame upon the noble house, but he did not want to

"child, calm down and tell me what my disciple has done wrong," Lu Guan said cautiously. His words did nothing to calm Lady Jian, whose red eyes turned even madder."Then die with him," she said and a stream of power burst from her. Everyone in the arena felt it. It was a terrifying power, yet inside was laced with anger and hatred beyond anything. She pulled from her space, a dark cold sword. The sword seemed to take on some of her madness and rang a blood-thirsty screech through the arena.Lu Guan pulled seventy percent of his strength from his core and readied to tear this little brat apart. He saw her attack him with fury, swinging her deadly sword at him. For someone at this stage of anger, he would have expected that she would lose the ability to make calculated attacks, but he was wrong. He took out a whip from his space and blocked the incoming sword, holding it in place. Even though it was for a second, he saw that she used her other hand and made a slapping motion at his fac

Ed looked at the old man's piercing eyes for a second and looked away."I only heard of it in passing. Not sure where," Ed said. How could he explain that that was where he was from, that Those places were home?"Fine. I will not ask if you don't want to say," Tie Nse let the matter drop."I want to test how many energies you can perceive before I give you this technique. Do you want it now?" he said slyly. Ed nodded and Tie Nse's smile widened."Good! Then it is time you accept me as your master," he said and Ed stared at him blankly."What? It's simple, you bow to me and say master teach me," Tie Nse instructed as he saw Ed's unmoved face."You really are an old pervert," Ed said."What? You don't want the technique?" Tie Nse said loudly with his palm cupped around his ear, acting as though he could not hear what Ed said. Ed sighed and made a stiff bow while sitting."Old Pervert, teach me," he said and Tie Nse nodded his head proudly before he registered Ed's words and paused."How