Chapter 2

A handsome young man was currently standing in the middle surrounded by two middle-aged men wearing magnificent red and golden multi-colored armors, the men wearing the armors were guards of the Ximen Family and had badges of an eye with 7 stars circled around its pupil on their left chest, a symbol that the Celestial Eye Clan used to rank their highest-ranked guard's cultivation levels. The two guards were holding a long whip that occasionally flickered with purple lightning sparks, a keen eye was able to tell their cultivation was much more powerful compared to the young man's.

The Ximen Family Guards sent their internal energy into the lightning whip, making the occasional lightning that flickered on the whip become more apparent and powerful, purple lightning snakes slithered around the whip emitting a very dangerous and electrifying aura waiting to strike at any given moment.

"Go."

The young man's voice could be heard talking to the two Ximen Family guards, the guards grunted once they heard his command and lashed at him continuously, the hot purple lightning whips whipped across the training grounds with brilliant illumination, the guards seemed to not be holding back at all as they attacked the young man with all their strength.

The lightning whips crackled with intense power as it descended onto the young man's back and chest, getting a clean hit on his bare upper body, creating deep and bloody gashes as they connected with his skin in succession creating a loud clapping noise.

The lightning attribute of the whip mercilessly engorged the young man's body after the whip slashed, making him look like he was submerging in ferocious purple lightning.

"Keep Going! Is that all you got!?"

The young man's deep voice rang out amidst the deafening roaring of thunder, he was unyielding like a crazy Asura as he ordered the two Ximen Family guards to keep assaulting him with the two lightning whips, the guards looked at each other with a weird expression, sighing like they've done this many times before and then complied with the young man's request.

The sound of whips hitting bare skin and the zapping of lightning and booming of thunder rang louder than ever for an unknown amount of time.

The young man's body would constantly get tempered when the purple lightning bolts from the lightning whip assaulted his body, refining his bones, blood, essence, and meridians as they underwent transformation becoming more sturdy and refined as he carefully guided the lightning throughout his body. The young man also seemed to not feel any discomfort while he was bombarded by the powerful whips, it was like he has done this sort of suicidal training a countless number of times and has become immune to the pain.

The young man was obviously Kai, the Scion of the Ximen Family and the 4th Prince of the Long Family, ever since he was a very young child, he would partake in many different training methods, the one he is currently training in is called the Lightning Cleansing Berserker Technique.

The Lightning Cleansing Berserker Technique is a technique with the purpose to have its user neglect the pain from attacks while also tempering one's own body with lightning.

A berserker is a warrior that could bring out their fullest potential, disregarding rational restraints such as pain and immersing themselves in combat. The ability to become a berserker can be a good thing and a bad thing, berserker's fight with a frightening level of stamina and are extremely unpredictable and erratic in combat making them extremely dangerous to fight against.

Kai was training to have all the good points of a berserker while also being able to keep one's mind level headed. When he gets constantly attacked by the lightning whips he is able to completely ignore the pain and cleanse his organs and body with the lightning. One wrong move with his mind and the lightning could completely destroy his insides. He has been training to have the rare tenacity and ferociousness of a berserker for years now and he was able to negate the pain from most attacks and even had the ability to wear a worthy opponent out without even fighting back.

An extremely beautiful young girl was standing off to the side, watching Kai get constantly whipped in the middle of the training grounds with droplets of tears coming down her stunning warm blue eyes, her name was Sydney, she was the young miss of one of the three Guardian Clan's inside the Arcane Dynasty.

There are 9 Dynasties in the World of Aeon, each Dynasty had one Imperial Clan and 2 Ancient Guardian Clans. The Arcane Dynasty, the one Kai and Sydney lived in, was where the Xiao, Ximen, and Long Family resided.

These families all had similar statuses since they were all descendants of the Ancient Gods and were the rulers of their respective clans, but the Long Family was chosen as the Ruling Guardian Family and clan of the Arcane Dynasty, the Xiao and Ximen families were the ruling families of their own Ancient Guardian Clans.

The Xiao Family was the rulers of the Water Diety Clan while the Ximen Family were the rulers of the Celestial Eye Clan and the Long Family were the rulers of the Divine Dragon Clan.

With his father and elder brother gone, Kai is now the Scion of the Celestial Eye Clan, which was like the crown prince of an empire, his mother was the Princess of the Long family who is the current ruler of the Divine Dragon Clan which made his status even nobler. He had a lot of expectations to live up to and for the most part, he passed all of them with flying colors, he was able to exceed them with his fifteen years of constant training each day, never missing one training session the moment he was able to cultivate.

His mental agility, physical ability, fighting qi, and talent were at the peak of those in his generation.

He was a Martial Grandmaster at the young age of 16 which was an astonishing cultivation speed and was one of the reasons that even with the most important men of his immediate family gone for almost a decade, he was still named as Scion and that his uncles, aunts, and cousins haven't yet dared to overthrow his position.

Sydney wiped the tears in her eyes as she continuously watched Kai's self-destructive training, she couldn't help but feel this way whenever she saw him get hurt. Her thoughts began to recall the words of her older sister as she watched the purple lightning whips constantly assault his body.

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"I regret not spending more time with Killian before he, you know....."

Sydney's beautiful sister, Rebecca, had a deep look of sadness, regret, and desolation as she remembered her time with Killian, Kai's older brother.

"There are so many things I regret not doing, or not saying to Killian, and now I live every single day with constant grief deep inside my heart." Rebecca and Killian were supposed to get married the month before he disappeared, Rebecca looked like she was on the verge of tears while talking about it, but she took a deep breath and calmed herself down.

"What I'm trying to say is, you never realize how much you love and miss a person until they are gone... and he looks like he is taking the same route as him, so you need to give it a try even if it's extremely embarrassing, okay?"

Rebecca looked at her younger sister who seemed like she was going to have a much brighter future than herself, she wanted the best for her so she decided to give her some advice, she caressed Sydney's delicate face, moving her light blue hair with her hands in a loving way.

"I just want you to be happy, Sydney, live a life with no regrets."

Rebecca said with a tender and ambiguous smile on her face.

Sydney nodded in understanding as the two sister's supple and elegant bodies hugged each-other tightly, Sydney's beautiful face flushed in determination after listening to her sister's words.

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"Zzzzzz." SNAP! CRACK!" "Zzzzz."

The sound of the whips and lightning continued to encompass all throughout the training grounds, but the handsome young man getting hit still didn't make any murmur of pain, he was standing straight and tall with his eyes closed, carefully tempering himself with the pure lightning power from the purple lightning whip, one mishap and the lightning will explode in his body and ruin the refining process, an unknown amount of time passed before the sounds stopped, once Kai finished tempering his body with the lightning, his eyes fluttered open, the red and golden ring around his galaxy-like eyes and pupils shone with an even more majestic light.

"Alright." Kai's voice called out silencing the entire room.

"That's enough, you all can leave now."

The Ximen Family guards halted and bowed toward their young master and left without saying a word, leaving Sydney and Kai as the only people inside the training grounds.

Kai's bare chest and back were left with deep gashes and cuts all over, the blood was endlessly flowing out of them as there were still small traces of lightning power within his body that had not been fully refined, slowly breaking down his defenses and constantly worsening his injuries.

Sydney rushed over and held up the fatigued Kai from collapsing, her eyes still a little teary at the harsh state Kai always trained his body.