3 Unsealing the Spirit

CHAPTER 3: Unsealing the Spirit

Tromer hasn't had any disciples before. Farjan is the first and maybe even the last.

"You are now a disciple of mine, and your first mission would be to... build a house for me."

Tromer doesn't have his own house in this world, since he has been living in Farjan's house, that's why he demanded a house. Besides, he can't build a house on his own as he has been seriously injured, and if he forces himself, the process of healing would slow down or he might even aggravate his wounds, causing them to open up and bleed.

Farjan looked blankly at Tromer. Clearly, he didn't expect that his first mission was to build a house for his master. He thought that his mission was somewhat connected to cultivation, but no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't see how building a house could help with his cultivation..

After a few seconds passed, Tromer said "What are you waiting for? Start now! Or else I will not teach you how to cultivate."

After hearing this, Farjan gritted his teeth and began to build the house.

Pok! Pok! Pok!

Rrrrr! Rrrrr! Rrrr

The sound of hammering and wood-cutting could be heard in the mountain as Farjan was building his master's house.

The sun was beginning to set and the horizon was already orange. A loud shout could be heard from some distance away.

"Haaaaaaaa!" A man shouted while holding a hammer in his hands. It's Farjan. After a whole day of working, he finally finished his master's house. Sweat could be seen all over his body.

"Master! I'm finished!", he said while panting.

"Don't shout, please! Oh! You're finished, okay now you can leave and take some rest. Come back tomorrow, and we will begin the first lesson regarding cultivation." Tromer said cooly.

Farjan excitedly left his master's house to go to sleep and let the day pass, so that tomorrow, he can start cultivating immediately.

The next day...

Farjan was so excited that he got up early, the sun had not even started rising yet.. Because of that, he did not go to his master, instead, he went to his family's farm and harvested some vegetables. But instead of personally selling the vegetables, he went to the market and asked a person, who he became friends with after selling there for numerous years.

Because Farjan will now start learning hot to cultivate, he could abandon some jobs, but that doesn't mean that he will abandon all of his jobs and little businesses. He still needs to give some support to his parents. After all, his father died long ago, and he has to take the responsibilities of being the worker to earn money for their family. His mother makes clothes to support the family and since that doesn't earn much, he doesn't have a choice.

After doing the things that must be done, the sun had now risen. Farjan did some stretching and after a few minutes, he began to walk towards a certain mountain called 'Mt. Tri-mus'.

When he reached the mountaintop, he saw a simple house, the one which he built for his master. There, he saw a middle-aged man looking around 30 to 40 years old, holding a cup of coffee sitting on a chair in front of the house. It was obviously Tromer.

When Tromer saw his disciple walking towards him with a smile of excitement, he couldn't help but smile too. He took a sip of coffee and after putting down his cup, his smile was now nowhere to be seen.

"Looks like you're excited."

"Uh... Yes?"Farjan replied, a bit bashful, looking towards the ground.

"That's okay Farjan, in truth, I like that kind of attitude. When you're like that I think you will advance faster in cultivation ." He said coolly.

Tromer was clearly pleased by his disciple, but his face contradicts what he feels.

After that, Tromer went inside his house. After a while, he emerged from his house holding some books. He put them in front of Farjan and said, "Study these books. After you finished studying and memorizing the things written in them, return and I will personally teach you." With that, he turned and entered his house.

When Farjan saw the books in front of him, his eyes suddenly brightened, the reason was, because in his whole life he only touched a few books and if you tried counting them, you only need to use one hand. Farjan loved to study, because he believed that knowledge is one of the greatest weapons in the world. But having the greatest weapon, for him,means that he must have the greatest wealth.

He immediately took all of the books and walked towards a tree where he started reading. He chose a book entitled 'Introduction to Cultivation'. The book was one and a half inches thick, but regardless of its thickness, Farjan still excitedly opened it and began to read.

While reading, he saw countless information regarding cultivation. It included information on how to start cultivating, how cultivation works, what needed to be done, what are the essential equipment needed and much more.

After he turned to a certain page, he saw how cultivation was divided by different realms of power. The first one was the Spiritual Stage, where you will cultivate to connect your spirit to the energy in the surroundings. It was divided into nine different levels and as you advance to different levels, you will become more powerful.

After finishing cultivating in the Spiritual Stage, you will start cultivating in the Soul Stage. There, the soul aspect is strengthened, up to the point where battles are fought using the soul force coming from the strengthened soul. This stage is also divided into nine levels.

The third one was the Profound Stage. Here, you will cultivate and make yourself 'profound' in the aspects of cultivation, it was also divided into nine levels.

These three levels were only part of the Earth Realm. There were higher realms aside from the Earth realm. There is the Heaven Realm, and after that is the legendary realm which all people dreamt of The Celestial Realm. All of the realms were divided into three stages and nine levels. As you advance higher and higher, the more difficult it becomes to cultivate to the next level.

Farjan carefully read all of the information and memorized all of it in his mind. As he read, you can sometimes see a shocked expression on his face after reading some phrases. Clearly, he has read some shocking things about cultivation.

When it became afternoon, he stopped reading and went to look for something to eat. He went deep into the forest and there, he saw a wild boar, which he hunted and killed. After 10 minutes, Farjan emerged from the forest holding a dead boar.

Due to his status in life, hunting beasts is an easy task for him. He often hunts wild animals to eat and sometimes to sell in the market.

He went directly towards his master's house and asked him if he would like to take some. Tromer sliced a part of the boar's belly.

Unexpectedly, Tromer gave the sliced part to Farjan and he returned inside holding the large part of the boar's meat.

Farjan was shocked by this scene, but still, he roasted the sliced meat, while gritting his teeth and then ate the meat. After that, he continued reading.

Read, read, read, and read, that was the only thing that kept Farjan preoccupied for almost all of his time. He kept on reading until the five days later...

The sun was hung up high in the sky, it was afternoon and Farjan was walking up to the top of Mt. Tri-mus excitedly, why? Because today, he had just finished reading all the books that his master has given him. There were a total of ten books in his hands and all of them, are just books about the fundamentals of cultivation. He will return all of these books and after that, he will start the 'true' cultivation under the guidance of his master.

After a few minutes, he arrived at the front of his master's house and then knocked the door multiple times because of his excitement.

Knock! Knock! Knock! Knock...

Inside, Tromer was focused on doing something to his body, especially to the parts which had severe wounds.

"I can't heal these wounds completely; it had a curse! That damned Darnce! What kind of weapon is that Demon Bone Sword?! It can inflict a curse on me even if I am in the Heaven Realm...urgh! Right now I'm only in the Earth Realm because of that thing! " He furiously said while gritting his teeth.

Indeed, the Demon Bone Sword was no ordinary weapon. It had a curse that was very hard to treat. Tromer had done everything in order to remove the curse but no good results appeared. As for the treatment given to him by Farjan and his family, they are just 'first-aid'.It was not enough, even if all the clan's resources were to be used. He himself is the one who treated him using the methods of cultivators.

After a moment he heard multiple knocking sounds from his door that made him frown. He was expecting something because of the way the door is knocked. He expected that some emergency has happened but when he opened the door, he saw a familiar face holding books and an excited look on the face.

When Tromer saw his disciple, he asked, " Why are you here?" And when he saw the books in his disciple's hands "Don't tell me you can't handle reading those books and decided to quit?"

"Of course not! I'm came to bring these books back to you and start the true cultivation."

When Tromer heard what Farjan said he couldn't help but be shocked. "Don't tell me you have finished reading those books in just five days?" he thought.

He couldn't believe it, so he again asked a question, " Did you read everything that was written in them? Or did you just scan all of those books? "

When Tromer started cultivation, he didn't read all of the written things in the books, he just scanned it, so he thought that maybe, Farjan did the same thing too.

"Of course I read them all. After all, it is required for newbies in cultivation, and this is my first time having these many books, so I'm very encouraged."

"So you're a knowledge-loving man huh... If you want to read more I can give you more books. As for that books you hold, you don't need to give them back. Those are just trash in my spatial pouch."

When Farjan heard the words 'spatial pouch' he couldn't help but be shocked. Because of what he had learned from the books that Tromer gave, spatial pouches were pouches that stored almost everything, even something as large as his clan's Ancestral Mansion.

"You have a spatial pouch?", he asked with surprise.

Seeing this, Tromer couldn't help but laugh. Spatial pouches are ordinary things for cultivators, and he had many of those.

"I'll give you one when you enter the first level of Spiritual Stage, because the spatial pouch is operated using spiritual energy. That will also be my congratulatory gift. But before that, we must first unseal your Spirit."

"Unseal my spirit? There are no things written in books regarding unsealing the spirit before entering the spiritual realm!"

"That's right, but in your case, it must be done. I don't know the reason why your spirit is sealed, in fact, all of the people here in this world have their spirit sealed."

After that Tromer produced a brown-colored potion and a torch with no fire. He didn't give time for Farjan to speak or ask again. He gave the torch to Farjan for him to hold. Then, he drew a circular strange pattern on the ground.

When the pattern was finished, Tromer commanded Farjan to stand in the middle of the strange pattern holding the torch. Tromer put the potion in the part where the torch is supposed to emit fire. Then he lit the torch.

When the fire started to burn, the strange pattern suddenly emitted a dazzling blue light. It became brighter and brighter as time passed by. After a minute, it began to emit blinding light and when that happened, the torch's fire began to burn stronger than before.

Then suddenly, after some time, the torch fire was extinguished, and the glowing lights started to fade away.

Farjan felt refreshed after that. As if some severe disease was now gone from his body. The unsealing of his soul was a success!

"Now, you can finally start cultivating because the chains that bounded you are now gone. Take some rest and adapt to the changes that occurred to you."

"Thank you, master." Farjan bowed deeply and an expression of joy could be seen all over his body.

After that, he went back to his house to rest and to adapt, and started to explore the changes in himself.