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A damp towel flew into a laundry basket as a boy with slightly damp hair was finishing brushing his teeth. "Little Sheng, you have school soon!"

"I know Mom. And and stop calling me Little Sheng, I'm going to be 14 next month." Yi Sheng groaned while putting his toothbrush away before looking at himself in the mirror.

He was quite odd looking compared to other kids in his village that were around his age. He had a generically handsome face while still retaining some of its boyish looks since he was only at the start of being a teenager. The strangeness was in his eyes and hair.

Pretty much everyone in the village had hair that was either white or shades of blonde, he mostly followed this trend by having silvery white hair since birth. But as he grew older changes started to appear. When he turned 4 years old, strands of his hair started to turn grey then eventually changed to black.

After almost 10 years of those changes happening, about ⅖ of his hair has turned black giving it a sort of salt and pepper look.

The second change took place in his eyes, where a similar situation occurred. While everyone having eye colours that ranged from light green to blue. At birth he was already an anomaly because of his silver eyes.

Once again after 10 years of slow changes his left eye was now almost completely black, with only a scatter of small white dots remaining that were still being slowly replaced by black. Most said his left eye looked like a starry night sky causing it to be a common subject in village gossip.

Yi Sheng fixed his hair quickly in the mirror before shrugging and turning to leave. He gently knocked the door open with his foot and walked into the kitchen where his mom was making breakfast for the household, and his father was sitting at the table reading.

Both his parents were highly respected warriors of the village, his dad being one of the 3 generals and his mom being his combat partner. Although she retired after having him. The birth had been a hard one, having taken a great toll on her body and making her unable to continue the life of a soldier. But it seemed to work out fine as she planned to retire afterwards anyways.

"Here's breakfast sweety" his mom Yi Lei said pushing two of 3 plates with breakfast sandwiches to the front of the counter. "Go give one to your dad and I'll join you in a moment, okay?"

"Alright, mom" Yi Sheng took the two plates and headed towards the dining table. They hand a pretty big house for a family of three thanks to his father's standing in the village. "Here you go." he said tiredly before placing one of the plates in front of his father.

"Mm, thanks." his dad Yi Gonglu grumbled not taking his eyes of what he was reading. His dad had quite a large muscular frame from cultivating as a warrior, involving both training the body, and the internal energies and strengthening the angelic core.

Yi Sheng sighed quietly as he began to eat. His home life was quite good, he had a loving mother and a father who set good goals for him and gave him ambition.

After taking a few bites Ya Sheng's mom sat down across from him with her own plate. "New Beginnings is coming up in a couple weeks, why is it that you don't want us to tell you what's going to happen? It happened to me too you know."

"I guess I just want to experience it for myself, and my teachers are going to talk about it anyways. Might as well let them do their jobs." Yi Sheng shrugged and continued to eat.

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"Well I guess I'm off." he said excusing himself and took his plate putting it in the sink. After getting a kiss on the cheek from his mom and a nod from his dad, he quickly collected his things and left the house.

After closing the door he saw his best and pretty much only friend waiting for him at the end of the street.