1 Chapter 1. Fang Lin
Long ago, in the history of Tian Clan, a Demon suddenly appeared out of nowhere and wreaked havoc throughout the Starry River Planet. Dark clouds gathered, wild winds brushed past. The terrifying demons' aura was so exhilarating that anyone who is standing before it, would feel like their blood, energy and soul is being devoured.
Everybody felt puny and weak in front that Demon. Weaker cultivators' bodies rapidly turned into mushed flesh, powdered bones and blood mist which was then absorbed by the Demon. It appeared as if Doomsday had arrived. There was no one on this planet who was able to stop the demon. Even the combined forces of the 4 clans, Bing, Xian, Liu and Tian was not a match for Demon.
Finally, after gathering all the experts of the Bing, Xian, Liu and Tian empire, the Ancestors of the Tian family setup a sealing formation, known as Greater Heaven Fortifying formation.
The Demon was already gravely injured before it appeared on the Starry River Planet. Else, how could the strength of Greater Heaven Fortifying formation hold it down? If it wasn't seriously wounded, then all the people on the planet would have becomes it's food long ago.
Finally after expending most of the resources of the 4 families, they sealed the Demon deep within the Lunar Jade river which flowed below the Heavenly Path City with the Greater Heaven Fortifying formation.
Millions of martial artists and mortals had died due to the rampage of the Demon. The ferociousness and savageness of the Demon were engraved deeply in the hearts of all the experts of the Starry River Planet.
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Martial civilization flourished, cultivation thrived, cultivator civilizations were competing with each other for resources, more and more resources were being poured on the youngsters of all the families or people with extraordinary potential, all for withstanding a disaster which may happen at anytime, like the previous appearance of the Demon from unknown place.
Qi Conjunction, Qi Expansion and Qi Assimilation is the first level of a martial artists when one embarks on the path of Cultivation. This realm is known as the Qi Condensing realm where one condense the Qi from the surroundings and integrate it within their bodies. Each Qi Condensing stage is further divided into early stage, middle stage and late stages. The cultivators cultivate Qi within their bodies. The cultivated Qi courses throughout their bodies, flowing and assimilating inside the flesh, blood and organs.
After a Qi Condensing stage cultivator breaks through, the next is Qi Transformation stage, which is subdivided into Qi Siphoning , Qi Building and Qi consolidation which is divided into early, middle and late stage. The Qi transformation stage builds the Qi Veins in the body, forming a channel, which courses throughout the whole body.
Once when a cultivator breaks through the Qi transformation stage, next step is the Revolving Core realm. Revolving Core is the realm in which a cultivator develops a core Qi in their bodies in the region of their abdomen. Revolving Core realm is sub divided into Single sealed Core, Dual sealed Core and Triple sealed Core, which is further divided into early stage, middle stage and later stages.
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9500 years after the Demon invasion.
Present day.
Mylan Village was located within a green mountain range. All around it were tall mountain peaks and huge ravines.
Dozens of houses were found within the village. Young, tender faces ran happily within, while the old and middle aged people moved within the village doing their daily duties.
Fang Lin, a charming and handsome little boy with big black eye. He used to move very actively around the village greeting everyone while helping the old people and doing the tasks his Uncle Wei gave him. He appeared roughly 12 years old.
Uncle Wei is a sculptor, who makes a living by sculpting rocks and selling them for silver in the Mylan village. He looked around 35-40 year old man. The sculptures he made was dazzling and always had an enigmatic feeling to it. People who saw it would always be dazzled at the marveling piece of art work. Even the trading organization from the town of Green County, Pearl trading Company personnel, once in a month will come to Uncle Wei's store and purchase a lot of sculptures from Uncle Wei. That's why the head of the village Ma Liang, respected Uncle Wei too.
Fang Lin stayed with his Uncle Wei. Once in a while he used to think about his unknown parents.
It was a beautiful day, the morning rays of the sun penetrated the gaps in the ceiling of the hut.
Fang Lin walked up to the store in which Uncle Wei worked from his house. He went inside and saw his Uncle Wei sculpting a Three headed lizard. The Sculpture was almost 80% complete and Uncle Wei's hands moved along the Sculpture within a thin chisel in his hand, neatly removing the excessive stone from the sculpture.
Fang Lin watched in a daze, he always enjoyed seeing Uncle Wei when sculpting because Uncle Wei possessed an extraordinary demeanor whenever he was sculpting. After Uncle Wei finally finished sculpting, Fang Lin who in a daze, got up, "Uncle Wei...."
Uncle Wei turned around his head, faintly smiled at Fang Lin and said, "Lil' Lin, get me a wine Jug."
Fang Lin went to the table around the room and picked up a wine jug and a glass. He poured the wine into a glass and gave it to Uncle Wei.
Uncle Wei faintly smiled at Fang Lin, grabbed the glass and took a huge gulp and burped.
Fang Lin watched by the side, and immediately he made up his mind, there was a resoluteness on his face, "Uncle Wei .... I.....I want to know about my parents."
It was unknown how many times Fang Lin had asked this same question, but Uncle Wei never got angry even once after hearing the same question again and again.
Uncle Wei carefully kept the Glass of wine down and looked deeply at Fang Lin, after staring at him for a long period of time, he let out a sigh, and began walking out of his store.
Fang Lin ran behind him, "Uncle Wei...."
Uncle Wei suddenly stopped his footsteps, without turned his head around, shook his head and said in a low voice, "It's still not time."
Previously, when Fang Lin always asked about his parents, Uncle Wei always said the same thing.
When Fang Lin asked 'when Uncle Wei would answer about his parents', Uncle Wei always used to stare at the sky for a long period of time and with a painful expression on his face. Fang Lin never again used to ask him so that he wouldn't hurt Uncle Wei.
Fang Lin suddenly felt a twinge in his heart, he lowered down his head and muttered softly, "I'm sorry, I will go out for a while" and ran to the back of the mountains.
Uncle Wei was silent for a while, and said muttered softly, "I should be the one apologizing you."
Fang Lin ran out from the shop, not slowing down, ran into the Forest back of the mountains. After running for a period of time, Fang Lin came near a black rock which was around 9 cubic feet and sat down on it, panting. He used to come here often and lay down on the black rock and look at the sky and would often fell asleep. Uncle Wei would later come here and picks up the sleeping Fang Lin and goes back when he was a kid.
Tonight, the stars were shining very brightly in the night. He looked up and his thoughts started drifting. Unknowingly, the starts started to move in a set pattern and Fang Lin didn't observe it as he was lost in his own thoughts.
Tonight past 12'o clock, it would be 12 years since Fang Lin was born, his birthday.
Fang Lin didn't care much about his birthday and when the time was just about to be past midnight, a bright shooting star was streaking towards the the Starry River Planet.
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When the shooting star passed by the Starry River Planet and Fang Lin saw it, opened his eyes wide, and suddenly felt an explicable connection to it.
Thinking about it, Fang Lin suddenly felt a wave of drowsiness and he fell asleep on the rock.
During his sleep, Fang Lin was in a dreamland. He thought himself as the shooting star and saw many scenes wherever the start traveled. The shooting star crazily accelerated and Fang Lin saw many stars in the Galaxy. He was drifting in the Endless space, seeing numerous stars. He drifted for a long period of time and finally arrived near a cosmos. There was no physical body of his, just a vision. Wherever he saw, he could see nothing but Primordial cosmos.
Fang Lin saw the Nebula, the Galaxies, the asteroids, the dust and crater fields. After a long period of time, he came across a planet and the shooting start gradually slowed down. When his vision fell on that Planet, he sensed a sharp, stabbing pain in his mind, and was suddenly ejected out of this vision.
Fang Lin suddenly woke up and felt a tearing pain in his mind. He couldn't be awake anymore and immediately fell unconscious. It was already early morning and when he woke up the early sun rays was already shining upon his face. He was sweating profusely and could feel his whole shirt trousers completely covered in sweat. However his face exuded a charm that had never been before.
Fang Lin suddenly thought about the tearing pain in his mind and he could suddenly sense all the things 30 feet around him very keenly and this sense was crystal clear. He examined the area around him, and he could even feel the movement of worms and caterpillars, even deep inside the ground.
He could see the mosquitoes moving around the Forest. He could even hear the mosquitoes buzzing and worms moving in and out. He could clearly hear the birds chirping and their wings flapping.
He didn't know how but he knew how to sense everything around him.
Inside Fang Lin's mind, one was able to see a small spiritual sea that had formed if they peered into his mind. It was the size of a small lake and was silver in color.
Fang Lin didn't know what had happened to him. He got from the rock and started running towards his house. He came back to his house, opened the door and shouted, "Uncle Wei...Uncle Wei..."
But he heard no response from inside the house. Fang Lin searched the whole house, but he couldn't find any traces of Uncle Wei.
Fang Lin went back to the shop to find Uncle Wei, but the shop was locked. He came back to the house pondering where Uncle Wei might have went.
He screamed, "Uncle Wei...", but Uncle Wei was nowhere to be found. Then he went back to his room and sat down on the bed.
He opened his spiritual sense again and saw a letter and a stone that was placed under the pillow.
Fang Lin held the stone in his hand, and without taking another look at the stone, he opened the letter.
Inside the letter, Fang Lin saw Uncle Wei's handwriting, which was written neatly, just like a beautiful sculpture. He read the letter.
"Lil' Lin, there are many things I have to tell you, but its still not the time yet. I am giving you a unique treasure, which is called 'Spatial stone', it's a gift from me for your birthday.
Happy birthday Little one.
Now, I will tell you how to use the Spatial Stone. First you should make a blood establishment contract. To do this, pour a drop of your blood on the stone and it will recognize you as it's owner. Once the blood seeps inside and disappears, the blood establishment contract would be then completed. There is a token inside the stone. If you are facing any problem, go to the Town of Lunar Peak and show it in the Pearl Trading organization.
And never reveal the stone or the contents inside of it to anyone!
I will be going on a journey to a place very far from here. The next time we meet, I will explain everything to you. Till then, remember to take care of yourself.
-Uncle Wei"
After reading the letter, an unknown amount of sadness coursed through Fang Lin, and two streaks of tears fell down on the bed.
He held the letter in his hands and then fell asleep.
Fang Lin suddenly awoke after a while due to blabbering and chatting of other people on the outside his house. Suddenly, there was someone knocking on the door. He opened the door, and suddenly a laughter rang in Fang Lin's ear, "Hahaha kiddo Lin, you woke up now? Call out your uncle, there is an important event that's going to take place in our village." It was Ma Liang, head of the village.
Fang Lin suddenly thought about his uncle, a very sad feeling arose inside him, his lowered his head sadly and said, "Uncle has left due to an important work. He wont be back for a while." He didn't speak about his Uncle's departure and the about letter or Spatial stone.
Ma Liang then asked, "Oh? Where has he gone? When will he be back?"
Fang Lin shook his head and said, "Uncle Ma, I don't know where he went or when he will be back. He said that he will be back after some days."
Fang Lin didn't want to tell Uncle Ma that his Uncle Wei has abandoned him, a 12 year old kid.
Ma Liang frowned and said, "Where has this guy left for now? Such an important thing is happening in our village and he is absent. *Sigh*. Alright it doesn't concern him if he comes back now or not anyway. Kiddo Lin, get ready and go to the center of the village, we have received a letter that the Green Bamboo sect of the Green County is coming to our village for conducting an entrance test for the people within 15 years of age. They will be conducting a selection here to select a few young ones from our village to participate in the main trial of the Green Bamboo sect. If any young ones from our village get selected into the Green Bamboo sect, it will be an honor and opportunity to both the village and participants. And an instructor from the Green Bamboo sect will be coming in a few hours from now, make sure you dazzle in the competition this year. I will be looking at your performance and I hope you to get selected and bring honor to our Mylan village, hahaha." After laughing loudly, village head Ma Liang turned around and left to another house. Clearly, he was very happy. He had to inform all the households about this selection process. The hubbub outside gradually increased and didn't stop and it seemingly will increase further more until the Instructor from the Green Bamboo sect arrives.
Fang Lin didn't care about any of this and went back to his room, sat on the bed and held the letter in his hand.
Suddenly Fang Lin thought of something, and held up the Spatial stone in his hand which was lying on the bed.
He looked at it and it didn't seem anything special, but an ordinary grey stone.
He stopped thinking about it, took a pin and pricked his finger tip and squeezed out a drop of blood from his finger. He carefully put the drop of blood on the Spatial stone.
As soon as the drop of blood fell on the stone, it immediately absorbed the blood completely without anything remaining on its surface and the stone glowed for a second before it shot towards Fang Lin's glabella and disappeared.
Fang Lin was suddenly startled and looked around him. He stared at his hand only to see the disappeared stone and looked around everywhere. He then thought about the dazzling light and then touched his glabella with his fingers and nothing had changed.
He suddenly thought of something and operated the spiritual sense and scanned inside his whole body. He found that inside his spiritual sea, he found the Grey color stone floating inside a silver sea. The silver colored sea was absorbing the energy from the stone very slowly. It looked as if the stone was nourishing the silver colored sea. He tested it out and suddenly found that he could sense 300 ft now instead of 30 ft!
'Wow! its 10 times the amplification. Previously, he could only sense 30 ft around him, but now, he could sense 300 ft! This was a massive increase in the distance and suddenly thought why his Uncle Wei said not to tell it to anyone!
Fang Lin suddenly had a feeling that he could control the Spatial stone which was inside of him with a thought. He then pushed the stone out of spiritual sea with a thought and the Spatial stone suddenly came out of his glabella and he caught it with his hand.
Next what he found was like a burst of a thunder in his head. He was completely shocked at what he saw! Fang Lin had just injected his spiritual sense inside the stone and what he saw a space which was around 100 cubic feet!
'A space of 100 cubic feet!'
He tried to store small items in the room and all of them were stored inside perfectly!
Inside that space, he found 100 coins of gold, a short sword in a sheath and Jade colored slip. His thoughts moved and Fang Lin took out the Short sword from the Spatial stone and then examined the Short sword in his hands. It looked like an ordinary sword and he felt nothing special about it. On the Sword, there were 6 markings which he couldn't identify.
Fang Lin didn't think about the 6 markings for now and kept the Short sword inside the Spatial stone and then he saw the Jade slip in the Spatial stone. He was about to take the Jade slip out from stone when suddenly the front door in his house burst open and a chubby kid who looked like 14 years old ran inside shouting excitedly, "Fang Lin.....Fang Lin...."
