2025-07-14 16:44:53When 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 aching even after the intense beating the night before felt like it was back to its normal form. "This is amazing." The wrinkled face of an old man sprung up before him with great vigour. "What's amazing fifth prince." Ling banged his head into the wall causing him to hiss out in pain as he massaged the sore spot. "Fifth prince you should be ashamed of yourself, getting drunk and falling asleep in the forest. I know you are tired of your pathetic life but at least have some dignity and stop sullying the Sky name." Ling gave the old man who operated as the chief physician of the royal household. His long oversized dress folded multiple times over his arms, his king beard reaching down to his chest. "What are you talking about, I was ambushed and almost beaten to death. I almost died there." The physician nodded his head slowly and looked at him like he had gone mad. "Fifth prince you don't have to come up with such lies, if you were injured there would be cuts and bruises on you. The traveler who passed by thought you were a poor boy dieing on the street so he brought you here and you slept for a full day. Nothing I did woke you up, I suggest you leave and go apologize to the family for this disgraceful behaviour." Ling knew the old man to be anything but a liar, but there was no way his injuries could have magically healed themselves. His mind strayed back to that god like figure that intervened when he was dieing. [Recovery complete] Ling's jaw dropped as he looked at the floating screen before him. "Sir Mink, you do see this now." The physician ignored him and walked out of the room. "Like I give a damn about another one of your damn tricks, I'll go report that your alive and well thought I doubt it'll be good news to the household." Ling was left all by himself to ponder what the strange screen floating above him was, just then the illusion of a red wingless dragon slithered in the air around him. Ling jumped back in fright causing him to smash his head into the wall again. The red wingless dragon stopped and stared directly at him. "What sorcery is this?" He asked himself. The dragon gestured for him to keep quiet before it spoke. "Excuse me but I am not a product of sorcery but of science." Ling kept the strange creature distracted while his hands tried to find something to fight it off with. "What's science, a martial art?" The dragon shook it's head and said. "No, in the future, how do I put this. Science is like sorcery but with logic." Now Ling was entirely confused, not finding anything to throw at the dragon he threw a blow at it only to have his hand go through it. "Black magic." He cried. The dragon rolled it's eyes at him. "Now that's rude after I fixed your body up." Hearing this Ling calmed down. "You healed me, what are you? What happened to that person from the night before." The dragon smiled, pleased that he had finally resolved his inner conflict. "To understand what I am about to say, I will have to start at the very beginning, the start of it all. What do you know about chi?" Ling despite having never wielded chi before knew this was a question even a baby would answer without delay but he was being asked by a dragon sprit thing, so it took him a bit of a while to respond. "It's the universal energy that flows throught all of life." The dragon laughed hysterically making Ling boil inside, after a minute it calmed down and the words it spoke changed Ling's world forever.
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Old Bai
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 popped up in
Ling's Proposal
Ling explained his proposal to her, with each word he sounded like a crazed lunatic than a business man. "I want the weeping shallows to align with me in future, I feel our dreams align in a way. You want to become number one and it will be beneficial to have you by my side."Li Yuan felt the urge to laugh but she barely suppressed it, his words were outlandish. "You want me to align with you, that is humourous as it is insulting. To think you had the chutzpah to make such a statement. Firstly the weeping shallows does not work under any external figure, and secondly I mean no offence but you are not someone anyone would want to align with."Ling felt a challenge biting at him. "What if I can change your mind?"The mistress of the auction house tapped her index finger on the fan, clearly not falling for his childish games. She had been a fool to expect something promising from him, he had yet to have gotten his money and yet he was already displaying all the needed arrogance.Ling fel
Li Yuan
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
The Weeping Shallows
The attendant started to leader the way up the stairs, when he reached the second floor he could see a big space hidden behind sound proof walls and a massive gate, this was the floor where things were being sorted out by the auction house. The third to fifth floor was where the bidding usually began, since it was three floors fitted into one, he had heard that on special occasions they would be filled to the brim.The attendant looked over her shoulders the the young man she knew very little about. She knew his status and how he was seen, but personally she did not know more than that. Aside from the fact that he was cautious when selling the things he stole from the family he did not show any other emotion, but this time felt different. He asked to see the boss which no one ever did casually, the only reason she listened to his request was because of the boss's own request.The boss had requested that whenever a member of the clan family requested to meet they should be allowed the
Teaching A Lesson
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
Sky Chu
Ling stood before his brother Sky Chu, the sixth prince who was two years younger than him but already at the peak of the late earth stage. When they were much younger they had common ground despite not being too close but since Chu started to awaken his inner chi he started to feel more confident and looked down on Ling despite him being the older.Ling did not want to fight Chu and expose his newfound strength, but he hated Chu for being the only one who casually sought him out. No one would put an end to it, since it was not against the law of their clan for the princes to spar with each other. Ling was always seen as a joke.Chu would be one of the people he could not attack if he could, the real reason he felt threatened by him was because of his mother— the second queen, Tasha. The clan leader married four wives, the first being Queen Jezbul was the most powerful of the wives. She had the highest privileges and respect in all of the noble household, she had never set her sights
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