5 Tragedy!

Lu Min had turned one year old. His birthday consisted of his mother giving him an apple to eat. Not a spiritual apple or golden apple, just an apple. Still, this touched Lu Min's heart as fresh fruit was expensive

His father came in rarely, as he was always working in order to ensure him and his mother's survival. Lu Min had spent this past year analyzing the techniques in the inheritance orb his master gave him. He picked out the most suitable techniques for him.

For body refinement, he would cultivate the signature technique of his sect the Golden Sage Body Technique! For his soul he would cultivate the Myriad Heavens Visualization technique! As for his Qi cultivation...

Lu Min had chosen the invincible technique from his golden rune, the Great Fortune Reincarnation Art! It was the rune that had allowed him to reincarnate, and it was the rune which gave him this technique. Truly, it was fate!

For now he couldn't cultivate his Qi cultivation technique or body refinement due to lack of nutrition. As he is now one year old, Lu Min's soul had stabilized and he could practice soul tempering techniques. Among immortal techniques his Myriad Heavens Visualization technique was a level eight.

Techniques are divided by tiers and levels with each tier containing nine levels. The tiers are Mortal, Earth, Heaven and Immortal. Mortal techniques referred to techniques that could be used with or without Qi. A martial artist on a planet without Qi would be able to exhibit mortal tier technique.

Earth techniques could only be used by those who had broken through to at least Xiantian, and required the use of Qi. Heaven techniques could only be used by those of at least Dao body and are the height of power in the lower realms.

Immortal techniques are techniques that are best used with immortal Qi but could be used with Spirit Qi. Only a Divine Origin cultivator could make proper use of such a technique.

Lu Min had nearly no cultivation to speak of so he couldn't make full use of his soul tempering technique, but it still displayed incredible power equivalent to a heaven tier technique!

His Golden Sage Body technique was a level nine immortal technique, and even Lu Min could not ascertain the level of his Great Fortune Reincarnation Art.

Lu Min sat cross legged, a funny position for an infant and began drawing in Spirit Qi through his glabella. As he drew it into his spiritual sea, he mixed it with his mental energy to create soul power. Using this soul power he visualized the Myriad Heavens!

Well.. he tried to. The Myriad Heavens Soul tempering technique required one to use soul power to create a mental image of the Myriad Heavens. First, Lu Min visualized something simple. A clump of dirt! Then this dirt grew with more soul energy, it grew and grew shaping itself. Eventually it became the room Lu Min was currently in.

Lu Min continued constructing this room, striving to make it more realistic. He added grooves in the dirt. Dents and bumps where they are in real life, soon this room was identical to Lu Min's dirt room.

Lu Min poured every ounce of his remaining soul power into this construct, prolonging it's existence.

This refined and tempered Lu Mins soul! Lu Min's perspective returned to the real world, he was exhausted and drowsy. Lu Min went to sleep peacefully to recover his mental energy.

Lu Min dreamed of a dark and damp room. A man dressed in black with cruel eyes whipped him and children around him. He faintly heard the scream of his mother. He looked down to find his body thin and pale, marked by countless scars. The man repeated. "You serve the Qin. You die for the Qin. You die with the Qin."

Lu Min woke up in his fathers arms, he looked up expecting his mothers face to be there only to be met by his fathers.His father looked down on him and gave him a gentle, yet sad smile. " It's ok little Min. Father will find a way to make money for us." Lu Min's father, Lu Chen had injured his leg while working. He could no longer provide for his family!

Lu Min was powerless! He couldn't do anything to help his father, or his family. He wouldn't be able to even eat in future! Lu Chen spoke "Your mother has gone to the Qin Manor to plead" although Lu Chen knew that his son couldn't understand him, he felt the need to comfort him.

Little did he know, Lu Min could understand him! Lu Yue burst in with a pale face and watery eyes. "Lord Qin has given us an option! We must become his families servants! Little Min will not be allowed to know who his parents are, and you will have to be a Family guard!"

Lu Chen nearly cried. His son would not know him as a father! He would be forced to be family guard, the town had another name for the family guard.. cannon fodder! His some would most likely be brainwashed into becoming a Death Soldier, while his wife would become a maid!

Still, his family would be fed and safe for at least a few years. Even if they would lose their freedom and will, his child could survive! With a sad resolution on his face, he said "Let us go to the Qin Manor!"