12 The Inheritance of Sword Monarch
Xia Tian understood why nobody able to pass through the Black Abyssal mountain, he suddenly remembered about the teleportation formation and asked Bai Hu in a puzzled manner "Senior, didn't you find any teleportation formations like the one I am teleported to?"
"We found ten such formations in the north of the southern wilderness, we have to use a special type of stone called spatial stone to activate the teleportation formation but due to strong influence from some unknown thing the teleportation portal formed is highly unstable and it rips off all the things entered it. We have tried all the methods possible and not able to cross that Black abyss," said Bai Hu, laughing bitterly.
Xia Tian is shocked to find that he is not able to return to his home, he is worried about Xiao Mi as he did not inform her where he was going and nobody is there to take care of her at Ye family. The happy thing is, due to soul connection he is able to induce that she is safe.
But he doesn't want to stay here all his life, there is his family which is worried about his safety, he has to return and there are so many of his dreams like practicing martial cultivation to the peak and wash of the humiliation he faced in the hands of his wife, Song Tingyu.
Xia Tian is terrified and asked Bai Hu "Senior is there anyway, to bypass the abyss and go to another side."
"there is no way I can think of, but you may have a slim chance," Bai Hu replied solemnly.
Xia Tian eyes turned bright and said hurriedly "Senior please tell me about the method, I willing to try even if there is a slim chance."
Bai Hu laughed slyly and said, "I will say it to you, but you have to promise that you will accept a request from me in the future."
Xia Tian agreed immediately saying, "Senior please inform me of the method, I promise you that I will definitely try to complete any request that will not go against my consciousness."
Bai Hu amiably smiled at Xia Tian and said "whether you agree to my request or not, I am bound to inform this to you. Sword Monarch Ji Mo, rescued our race from that plane, when a serious war is going on between two factions in the higher realm, there is no much information passed down by our ancestors on that war, at that time they want us to continue the race and live peacefully, so that future generation won't waste their lives on revenge. Due to that war and teleportation portal instability, the Sword Monarch is injured heavily and his strength is only at thirty percent of his peak strength.
"In spite of his injuries, he tried to explore the Black Abyss and his health got much worse. On his deathbed, he condensed all his experience, cultivation methods and techniques and transferred it to a specially constructed place. As he was from the human race, he wished in future, if any person from the human race found this place, he wanted to give his inheritance to that person.
"he gave this duty to the twelve heads of our race who are ancestors of the present twelve kings of the southern wilderness and died, after a long time you are the only human to found this place accidentally. His experiences included his research about the Abyss, it is said that he found the way to cross the abyss but he did not have enough strength to do it or not willing to do it, so it is the only way and chance for you to pass through that Abyss."
Xia Tian thought for a while and said: "I am willing to accept the inheritance and will try my best to find a way through the abyss."
Bai Hu laughed and said "I had a conversation with all the elven king's in the southern wilderness and all of them agreed to pass the inheritance to you but you are so weak and not in a suitable condition to accept the inheritance. You have to be, at least at the first level of the nascent soul realm to accept the inheritance, it is the bare minimum requirement."
Xia Tian dangled his head, and said in a sad tone "Okay then, I will try my best to improve my level and after reaching the first level of the Nascent soul realm, I will visit you."
Bai Hu laughed and patted on Xia Tian shoulder and said: "I can help you with your training, you can join in our army and train there, you can go to missions with your teammates and earn experience."
Xia Tian thought for a while and asked, "Senior may I know the minimum cultivation level of your soldiers".
"Third level of vein opening realm is the minimum qualification for joining in the military" Bai Hu replied.
Xia Tian laughed bitterly and shook his head "I am not suitable to join the military with my strength and I will only be a burden to the team, can you suggest me other methods to gain spirit stones for cultivation".
"you can try joining the mercenary guild and accept missions from them, the missions are ranked and can be chosen according to your skill and level of cultivation, but you have to be careful when you are doing missions outside, if you have any more doubts you can ask freely."
"I observed, there are a lot of people here with tails and ears different from human race but some people are just like me normal human race why is it like that?"
"Our people are like normal tiger cubs when there are born, but slowly will begin to change, in human form as their cultivation level increases, In the vein opening realm they have the nose, ears, tails similar to their race. when they reach the Nascent soul realm their nose changes to that of human race and when they reach the stage of the Spirit realm their ears will turn like human ears and when they reach the Heaven realm they completely will look like normal human beings like you, but they can change to their any of the previous forms at will when they reach the fulfillment realm and don't judge their realm based on their appearance. Sometimes they mislead you into a trap."
Xia Tian asked "what about high-level planes you have mentioned?",
Bai Hu bitterly laughed and said, "there are uncountable planes in this universe and there are many stars and planets in each plane, depending on the size of the planet and density of spiritual energy present in the plane, they are divided. There are huge transportation arrays to travel between planes. Generally, every plane has at least a hundred plane transportation arrays on different planets of a plane. As the planets are connected using teleportation arrays, one can easily transport to that planet containing the teleportation array and move to other planes.
"Anywhere strength is important because in one plane you may be considered invincible but when you move to a higher plane you are nothing but a weakling in front of them. Generally strong cultivators from higher planes disdain to visit lower planes, but due to a world restriction rule, a top powerhouse from another plane can only stay for a period of time in a lower plane, otherwise will incur divine punishment and his martial cultivation will be crippled and a lower plane cultivator has to meet minimum requirements in cultivation level to go to a higher plane. I think this planet is not connected to other planets due to the spatial interference. But in records of our ancestors, it is mentioned that cultivators with a high level of cultivation is able to create void cracks and can form instantaneous teleportation for a short distance like sword monarch Ji Mo."
Xia Tian took some time to digest this new information and confirmed what he is referring to plane is a galaxy that what he knows of and there are innumerable galaxies in the universe. Xia Tian found how much tiny, his existence is and how powerful the martial cultivators are.
He knows that earth is a planet in the milky way galaxy, but he did not know where that galaxy is.
Xia Tian nodded his head and want to take leave from here, he suddenly remembered about the black creatures he saw when Du Chen group got killed and asked Bai Hu "Senior, is there any race with thick black leather-like skin, amber eyes, three clawed arms and tongue hanging from the mouth."
Bai Hu has a shocked face and asked Xia Tian in a hasty manner "where did you saw them?"
Xia Tian replied, "I saw them at the edge of the southern wilderness, they killed my teammates and I hid from them and while I was escaping from the forest, I was chased down by the silver hoofed rhino and ended up here."
"they are able to enter the southern wilderness bypassing the space restriction and energy barrier, this is not good, we call them the Black Devils, they are in the south part of the southern wilderness, they are present here even before we came here, the north and south part of the southern wilderness is separated by an energy barrier placed by some unknown powerhouse preventing them from entering the rest of the continent, the creatures are formed by the mutation due to constant influence of the black profound energy, they are savage creatures and developed intelligence, before us some unknown force noticed them and sealed them in the south part of the southern wilderness, probably that force thought to utilize these people in the future and did not eradicate them, sometimes there will be small breaches in the energy barrier and they will slip into our territories, we will kill them as soon as possible when they are spotted.
Sword Monarch, researched on them for finding more about the black abyss, he said that energy barrier is created by someone who is a lot stronger than him, and they may be breeding this creature for the purpose of war against other planes or for research purpose. These creatures only know slaughter and try to kill anyone who is not of their race."
"I think, the creatures you saw might be creatures formed newly on that side due to the influence of black profound energy, but if they are creatures from the south side of southern wilderness and somehow found a method to enter into that region then I think the peaceful life of human race in that side will soon be over as they have to engage in a brutal war with these creatures."
Xia Tian sighed and said "anyway I am not able to do anything with my current strength, first I will improve my strength and later worry about these matters. Thank you, senior for patiently explaining the details to me and for your hospitality, if there is nothing more for you to ask, I will take my leave."
Bai Hu asked about the matters relating to the human race and Xia Tian answered as for as he knows.
In the end, Bai Hu hesitated to ask Xia Tian about the certain thing which puzzled him but decided not to ask for now. He gave two medical pills to Xia Tian and said, "one pill will change your appearance to that of the vein opening realm of our race and the other would turn you back to your normal appearance, these are called race changing pills generally used by us to infiltrate the terrorist and bandit groups as spies.
Use this pill so your appearance does not cause much stir and don't reveal that you belong to the human race to anybody to avoid any unwanted troubles." And he gave some money to Xia Tian to start his life in this new place. the currency here is same as in the human race and there are no purple coins and there are no cards to store the money. He was given 100 silver coins by Bai Hu.
Xia Tian thanked him and said farewell to Bai Hu. he ate the race changing pill in the guest room changing his appearance and walked out of the royal palace taking his backpack.
Bai Hu as king of Divine Tiger kingdom can provide Xia Tian with a lot of cultivation resources but in the way of martial cultivation to increase strength, one can only temper himself by engaging in a constant struggle and gaining experience, their foundation will be solid when compared to others.
So, all the martial arts practitioners participate in different competitions and go on different missions to gain experience and breakthrough their bottlenecks. Bai Hu knows that only by struggling hard one can make breakthroughs in cultivation and that's why he did not help Xia Tian excessively. Xia Tian also as a proud man and don't want to rely on others too much.
After leaving the royal palace, found the nearest hotel and took a room in it for 10 days, he entered the room and lied on the bed thinking what all happened to him up to here and unknowingly fell asleep.
He woke up in the next morning, he bathed and changed into fresh clothes, he ate the breakfast and there are two important things for him to do today. One is to get medicines and heal his fractured arm faster and to register in a mercenary guild and do missions to purchase spirit stones.
