Can I take Multiple Masters?

"Oh my!" The old man speaks, despite his lung being punctured by a broken rib.

"You saved me! Here, have my lifelong inheritance since I'm going to die anyway! I'm passing this on to you so that my inheritance doesn't go to waste! Have fun!" The old man dies.

Nope. Reality doesn't work that way.

*Gasp* *Gasp*

Li Shi Zhen sews up several of his organs before using heat to seal them up. The old man has long fainted from the pain of an open surgery (in the middle of an unsterilized desert) without anesthesia.

So, after the old man is healed and all, Li Shi Zhen disappears yet again!

The Mysterious Samaritan Healer -- Li Shi Zhen!

Jiang Nan, who wants to exploit this sage, carries him on his back as he makes his way through the sweltering desert. Well, did you think a desert could be frigid?

It's very uncomfortable because the old man is drooling (thinking about his wife?), and his sweat-soaked shirt scrapes against his back each time he moves. A bead of sweat rolls into his eye, but he can't rub it because of the heavy old man he's carrying. His soft skin is damp with perspiration, and his glistening black hair is plastered onto his forehead.

The drool spirit following him is touched at his compassion and perseverance, something not easily shown in Saga. This is how an author fills up the word counts and makes a sentence about walking into a 1000-world-long filler chapter.

Faraway, another random sage happens to see this scene and chuckles.

"It seems that I, Sword Saint Zylner, has finally found a good descendant!"

About twenty kilometers in, Jiang Nan collapses from heatstroke, exhaustion, and dehydration or at once. As Jiang Nan's consciousness fades out, the old man next to him wakes up and smiles, patting him on the back.

"Great! A good person to impart my wisdom on!"

And this is how when Jiang Nan wakes up, he sees two and a half masters waiting to take him on.

The long-forgotten Sword Saint Zylner, who walked to this cave several kilometers away!

The (Drool Spirit) Eckser, the almost departed spirit of an ancient sage!

The (Pretending to have been fainted) Nacrownz, one of the most powerful (obviously not the most powerful) Summoners in all of Saga!

Nani!?

Now, after taking on two and a half (not very satisfied) masters, Jiang Nan begins to learn about Saga, as well as the arts of summoning.

Then, after a time skip of seven years, in which Jiang Nan practices hard and ventures through the Red Sands and into the Regent Capital, he gains several hundred more Heroes (from another world)!

Sun Shooter Houyi, Sun Chaser Kua Fu, Ancient Sage Laozi, Ancient Sage Confucious, Peacekeeper Rulai and more from Chinese mythology!

The Twelve Olympians; Stormbringer Zeus, Family-keeper Hera, Sunbringer Apollo, Lovebringer Aphrodite, Warbringer Ares, Artemis of the Hunt, Winebringer Dionysus, Firekeeper Hephaestus, Divine Messenger Hermes, Deathbringer Hades, Earthshaker Poseidon, and Demeter. As well as the unlucky thirteenth, Hearthkeeper Hestia.

The Ancient Egyptians -- Amun-Ra of the Sun, Horus of the Moon, Isis of Magic, Apophis of Chaos, Bast of the Cats, Osiris of the Underworld, Anubis of the Dead, Thoth of Wisdom, Set of Destruction, Nephthys of the Night, Ptah of Creation, and Sekhmet of Lions. There were more which Jiang Nan didn't remember.

The Mayans, the Romans, the List goes on(s), wait, that wasn't a civilization?

Now, he enters the Capital a fourteen-year-old boy, to face-slap people. He hears some people talking.

"You know, I've heard that the Temple of Scripthor is opening again!"

"Scripthor is the God of Wisdom, right?"

"Indeed! The Temple can show you your potential, as well as how many Heroes you have and will get, stuff like that!"

Jiang Nan: How convenient! I'm going to go there to face-slap people!

"Yes, I've also heard that the Fourth and Fifth Princes, as well as the daughter of the Spear Duke, is going to be there as well!"

"Yep, if the Fourth Prince can show good potential, he'll become a strong competitor with the Crown Prince."

Jiang Nan: Where is this Temple of Script... Scriptures?

Person #1: Over there!

Jiang Nan: ?

Person #1: Are you dumb? I said over there!

*points to a magnificent marble dome*

[ Ah. I thought that was the Palace. ]

Jiang Nan happily heads there to face-slap people. Face slapping is such asn enjoyable activity, for both yourself and others (except the victim).

Well, your drone has 1% battery left, and I don't see any power sockets here. Hey, old man, since you're so nice to give him your entire inheritance, please come and pass me a power bank too?