14 The Passing

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[4 Years Later]

Qing Tian stood in front of a grave with Han Sen, who maintained a somber expression.

On the front of the gravestone Han Sen's father' name was engraved on it.

[Han Yufei]

"My father isn't dead..."

Han Sen whispered those words to himself over and over as he tried to stop himself from crying. He kept looking at the gravestone for a couple of more seconds before turning around and leaving.

Following Han Sen after looking at the gravestone for a while longer, Qing Tian walked next to Han Sen.

"My father didn't die… It's… it's too fishy. There was no body found at the crash site, his manner of death is too weird, and Starry Group took over my father's company too quickly to be called coincidence," muttered Han Sen as he walked forward with squinted eyes.

Qing Tian only looked at Han Sen from the corner of his eyes before focusing back to the front.

Han Sen and Qing Tian were now 11, and Han Sen's mom gave birth to a daughter before Han Yufei 'died'.

It's not too long until they enter God's Sanctuary now.

Han Sen's family is even going through tough times now. His aunts and uncles sold Han Yufei's company and took all the money, leaving nothing for Han Sen and his family. Han Sen's mother is even being mistreated by them, making her hand over all her valuables to sell and earn more money.

Qing Tian silently used his connections with his Master, Huangfu Xiaocheng and slowly got the Han Family to leave Han Sen and his family alone. He even personally paid the 'debt' and got rid of the contracts binding Han Sen's family to the Han Family.

This was a turning point for Han Sen where he realizes that he can't rely on others and starts trying his best to become someone others can call for help. Qing Tian needed this trait of Han Sen's in the future if he wishes to give him tips and pointers when they're both getting stronger.

'Let's see how Han Sen handles this tough time in his life...'

Qing Tian kept a close watch on Han Sen whilst also trying to help Han Sen's mom as much as he could without Han Sen noticing.

He knew that soon, Han Sen would no longer be going to that Private School he goes to since his family had taken all the money with them. He will eventually join a public school with integrated compulsory education.

It was then Qing Tian had decided on teaching Han Sen to thoroughly practice in the basic moves of the weapon of his choosing. Slowly telling him the importance of it.

Qing Tian wasn't about to invite him over to the Ares Martial Hall. Han Sen had a future already destined to himself, all Qing Tian is doing is to make him stronger and prepared for his future so that he may breeze through it.

…

Qing Tian stayed at home with the curtain of his window removed to keep a close watch on Han Sen's family and make sure nothing happened to them. Qing Tian began training as he kept a close look on Han Sen's house.

However, this time he didn't continue to work on the Basic Sword Moves Technique, but worked on his foundational art that can strengthen his bones and flesh that bow entered the Large Success Stage, Myriad Bone Tempering Art.

The Myriad Bone Tempering Art draws its strength from the five main Elements; Wood, Fire, Water, Earth, and Gold(Metal).

Wood for great vitality and toughening of the bones and the body.

With the wood element, the bones and flesh will heal faster with their great vitality. The bones will also be more difficult to break with attacks with the great toughening feature of the Wood Element, making his muscles stronger and his bones tough.

Fire for an abundant life force and powerful strength. The body will be improved thanks to the bones abundant life force affecting their bone marrow and improving the blood. With improved blood and the Fire element in the bones, the muscles receive a stronger stimulant for great strength.

It even increases his vitality, making it difficult for Qing Tian to die. If someone stabbed him and waited for him to die out from blood loss, someone who was stabbed the same way would die in 5 minutes. Qing Tian on the other hand would live even if his heart was stabbed.

Metal for dense bones and sharp attacks. The bone density rises and it becomes harder for sharp weapons to cut through bones. With metal being renowned for being used in weapons that can cut, the Metal Element improves the sharpness of Qing Tian's movements and attacks.

It even makes the attacks heavy.

Earth for a solid foundation and improved endurance of the body. With the Earth Element improving everything of the body and it's endurance. It makes him tough and difficult to hurt.

Water for flexibility and fluid movements. Water Element, known for its numerous changes and yet great flexibility. No matter where water is placed, it takes upon the shape of whatever it is put inside of, that is its flexibility. The fluidity, yet powerful movements, comes with a calm river flowing through a small grove, yet gradually gets rid of its obstacles with time.

With the myriad of intents fused into the bones and the Five Elements, the user is shrouded in a cloak of mystery. Besides those who already know the practitioner of this powerful foundational art.

This foundation art increases and enhances every aspect of the practitioner whether it is speed, dexterity, strength or the density of the bones. Which means, the bones and teeth are strengthened to their utmost potential and are enhanced. Making Qing Tian's bones and teeth stronger than the average person.

The more he improves in this technique, the more his bones and teeth will become stronger.

Qing Tian reviewed the forms of the Myriad Bone Tempering Art and began to move slowly. Training quickly this technique would bring Qing Tian no benefit, in fact, training slowly will bring him more benefits. The slower he practices, the better he infuses the myriads of intents of the universe into his bones and the better he can control his muscles to produce the movements.

He also needs to be drinking a lot of milk and even eating bones, sometimes. Luckily for Qing Tian, he knew how to make hundreds of delicious dishes centered around bones.

Sadly his mother looked at him weirdly whenever he at the bones.

Qing Tian earnestly practiced in the Myriad Bone Tempering Art whilst thinking of ways to help Han Sen grow strong without being heavily involved.

Handing him a foundational technique or a cultivation technique will be helping him out too much. He doesn't want to be a heavy influence on Han Sen's growth career.

"Wouldn't want him to think I was the reason he's strong and he owes it all to me. But if he gets too cocky…"

Qing Tian shook his head and decided to live this life as a 'normal' man as he grew stronger to ascend to the next plane. Helping Han Sen along the way by giving him some small gifts and giving tips.

Since Qing Tian already knows how the storyline will go, all he has to do is go ahead and tamper with the Dongxuan Sutra and make it stronger. As long as he can do that, Han Sen will be in easy mode.

Qing Tian even vowed to not use any of the Immortal Arts and Martial Techniques at his disposal. He would only be using Hyper Geno Arts that he had bought with his own money. The only thing he would be using that is on himself, is the cultivation techniques he has and the martial arts, as well as the foundation/Basic techniques he has been practicing.

He wants to know how far he could go with the Hyper Geno Arts of this universe. Once he could go no further, which would never happen, Qing Tian will bring out the real guns.

"I really want to enjoy this new world I'm in," said Qing Tian as he took a break from practicing and looked outside the window of his room.

Qing Tian had spent the last 11 years training and preparing for the sanctuaries. Besides spending every moment of his life cultivating the Myriad Bones Tempering Art and spending time with Lin Xue, his adoptive mother, Huangfu Pingqing, Queen, and Han Sen, Qing Tian would enter the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal and practice with the Sword, his other techniques, and his personal Martial Art.

Eternal Firmament.

Eternal Firmament comes from the personal and absolutely powerful set of techniques Qing Tian had made himself from the culmination of every type of energy, technique, and style.

Magic… Martial Arts… Cultivation… Meditation… Hunting… Footwork… many more stuff.

Qing Tian had everything he needed in his Eternal Firmament Arts. If he needed a movement technique, he would just look through the ones in the Eternal Firmament Arts.

Everything in the Eternal Firmament Arts is a powerful technique tailor made for Qing Tian himself. Any technique pulled from there is the strongest in its own right. As long as Qing Tian is alive, his Eternal Firmament Arts will remain the strongest in existence.

His Eternal Firmament Martial Art is strong in its own way that as long as he practices and reaches the Great Perfection stage, he will have an easy life. It's the end result from merging every martial art in existence, whether they were considered fiction or nonfiction, they were all merged into one.

When Qing Tian practices this martial art, it will bring a great strain on his body, but it will slowly start removing the imperfections in his form and body. It will balance his body out and will also use every single ounce of strength within his body to its fullest potential.

Once all the imperfections leave his body, using the martial art would be as easy as breathing.

Every martial art, whether Taichi or Baijiquan, boxing or judo, karate or Muay Thai… they were all in the Eternal Firmament Martial Arts, allowing Qing Tian to use all of the moves perfectly and even merge them to create new ones.

Eternal Firmament was made so that every technique, skill, art, ability, etc, was used to 150% of its capacity and strength. At the hands of Qing Tian, everything would rise in strength in his hands. If he manages to master the Myriad Bone Tempering Art and end up using intents, his strength would increase forevermore.

If he manages to reach Great Perfection, Qing Tian would be able to easily practice techniques many times faster. The profoundness of each technique would increase and so would it's strength.

If his Basic Sword Technique reached the Ancestor Realm, then all his other techniques and martial arts would reach the Grandmaster Realm automatically, a level below the Ancestor Realm.

Bringing a technique to Great Perfection is only a matter of a couple days instead of weeks or months.

Qing Tian would have practiced this martial arts at an earlier point in his life but it is very taxing on the body. If it wasn't because Qing Tian had reached the Large Success Stage of his Myriad Bone Tempering Art, he would have had to wait until he turned 16.

Once night approached Qing Tian closed the curtains in his room and headed into his Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal where he continued training in his Basic Sword Technique, Origin Needle Technique, Heavenly Vision Technique, Ancient Massage, Godly Spirit Meditation, Nine Death Arts and Eternal Firmament Martial Arts.

Hook!

Point!

Iaido!

Hanging!

Slic…!

…!

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Days passed and Han Sen was eventually transferred to a public school.

When Han Sen returned from school, Qing Tian noticed the depressed yet serious look on Han Sen's face. The depressed look didn't last long when Han Sen noticed Qing Tian sitting outside of his house.

"That's some amazing hand movement," commented Han Sen as he looked at Qing Tian's hands performing the Nine Death Arts, making the pencil appear and disappear, sometimes it would also spin around his fingers and hands.

Training in the Nine Death Arts for many years by now have turned the simple pencil into a deadly weapon. Since he turned five, Qing Tian spent his days practicing it every time after training in the Basic Sword Techniques and Heavenly Vision Technique in the Realm of the Violet Jade Immortal where time flowed 200 times faster.

"I can teach you if you want," offered Qing Tian after he remembered Han Sen will practice a similar, yet weaker, technique in the future.

Han Sen looked at Qing Tian for a second before smiling and shaking his head, "No, I don't want to practice playing with a pencil for the rest of my school life before the sanctuaries."

"Your loss," muttered Qing Tian with a smirk.

Han Sen failed to know that he just lost a major opportunity to grow even stronger than he will ever be in the future.

'Han Sen wants to be cunning due to his mother's teachings, but he's still a greenhorn. If he was really cunning and smart, he would have noticed how special my hand movements were, but I guess I can't blame him. Not even my master realized what I was doing. She thought I was just fiddling around with a pencil nervously,' thought Qing Tian as he continued to fiddle with the pencil in his hand.

Qing Tian turned to look at Han Sen and smiled, "Let's have a sparring match."