Tong - 342

In the depths of a small cave, a group of bears that seemed exactly like the brown bears from earth surrounded a bear that was laying down on a bed.

In her paws was a weird looking creature. Although one would not know it if they were not present, that creature had just been born from the female bear.

Each of the bears in the cave were at the core formation realm, and boasted an intelligence similar to that of a mortal human.

They were all scratching their heads as they looked at the newborn child.

Unlike the surrounding bears, the newborn had white skin with only a few patches of fur in random areas. 

Although they had never seen a human before, the newborn bear was undoubtedly a humanoid creature.

"Is this some sort of deformity?" One of the bears asked after a moment.

"How dare you speak of my child like that!" The mother bear screamed at the bear that had spoken. "He is just special. A little different from us." 

"Uhhh. Whatever you say, sister." The bear responded.

At this time, Ying Xiong silently and invisibly arrived above their cave. He had felt an unnatural disturbance on the planet while cultivating, leading to him going towards the planet.

As he looked at the scene and observed the planet, he was shocked. The boy just born seemed to be the first humanoid creature ever born on the planet, a sign of a great evolution.

Despite that, Ying XIong felt slightly worried. He could feel what the bears could not, and that was a vile and dark aura within the child, although he seemed to be an innocent kid for the moment.

Since he had spare time, he decided to wait a few years and watch the child grow. He would only make his decision at that time.

Eventually, the child was given a simple name, Tong.

Despite the bears being animals, they were one of the most naturally intelligent races on the planet. They had almost perfectly imitated a human society, with houses, schools, restaurants, and such.

As expected, the child, Tong, grew up while being treated differently from other children.

Although some children would occasionally pick on him or call him names, the worst came from some adults.

When he was alone, they would often throw things at him or call him horrible things. As he grew older, the child began to only feel a connection to his mother, the only person that seemed to love him. Even his father only acted.

At the age of 7, he finally began to go to a school, but not a normal school. It was a martial arts and cultivation school.

Unsurprisingly, his life got even worse. At the martial arts school, fighting was not forbidden and even encouraged. The child did not show any promising talent, and was in the bottom 10% of the entire school.

Only getting beat up 5 times in a day was considered lucky.

Still, despite feeling rage, humiliation, and loneliness, the child remembered his mothers words.

As long as he was kind, he would be the happiest one in the end.

He could only painfully wait for that day.

Then, a few days after his 11th birthday, he received a letter from his father. His mother had been killed as a bystander in a robbery.

He stayed in his room, a room for four bears, but with only one person living in it due to his weirdness. 

Only after a week did he step out again. Not a single person had checked in on him in all of that time.

Only a few moments after he left his room, a common face appeared in front of him, followed by a bunch of his lackeys.

"Hello Tong. It's so good to see you again. For our reunion, why don't we have a little spar?" The boy, Jared, asked.

For the first time since he entered the martial arts academy, Tong ignored the boy. He attempted to walk past him while muttering his mothers words, but a hand reached out and pushed him to the ground.

"You think you can ignore me?" Jared said as he watched Tong stand up.

"I heard your mother died. Thank god she didn't give birth to another you before she did. Isn't that just a miracle?" Jared taunted.

Ying Xiong, silently and invisibly floating above, finally began to pay attention again. He could feel a faint movement within the boy's body.

Standing across from Jared, Tong clenched his fists, but he remained silent.

"Since you don't want to fight here, why don't you come with us. We can go to your mothers grave, and we can fight there. Wouldn't that be fun?" Jared asked.

Tong's anger continued to build. He was about to make a decision, but he suddenly heard a voice in his head.

"Release me now!" The voice screamed. causing Tong to crouch to the ground while covering his ears.

"How dare they talk to us like that! Why are you cowering you pathetic fool! Kill them!" The voice screamed in a rage, but nobody besides Tong, and Ying Xiong who was spying on his mind could hear.

'Where is this voice coming from? Is it inside? An innate talent?' Ying Xiong asked himself.

Jared continued to blaber on, insulting Tong and his mother over and over again, until the voice inside Tong's head finally exploded.

"Fine then! I'll take care of this myself!" It screamed.

Suddenly, Tong felt like his body was not his anymore. He felt like his soul was disconnected, and he was merely watching from the side.

Tong's body stood up.

"Finally decided to do something? What will it be?" He taunted.

Tong's body raised his hand up and punched down at the ground. Surprisingly, nothing happened. Even if he was only at the foundation establishment realm, something should have happened.

Just as Jared was about to taunt him again, the ground began to shake, and then break apart.

Not just the surrounding people, but the entire martial arts school and everyone in it was forcefully pulled underground and buried by the sudden earthquake.

When Tong felt like his body was his own again, he could see nothing around him but cracked ground.