9 Chapter9: Possibilities

Sun rays falls on the green lush mountains and life was going like always. Crowd these days were gossiping about the tragic incident that took place in the village a few days ago, obviously they are talking about Te hun and others death.

Inside a house situated near the outskirts of the village a young man was sitting near the windows. He was none other than Xun shung, after the matter closed both the brothers were allotted a new house by elders due to the trauma both 'innocent' victims faced in their own house.

Watching outside the windows Xun shung was thinking about all that happened a few days ago in elder's meeting hall. He was amazed by the cruelty of the cultivation world as not even one elder saw both him and his brothers as children but as a material to be used for the sake of their benefits. This was the main difference between earth and a cultivation world. No one is above, only eternal benefits are there.

Xun shung 'now that I have freedom to do anything as I please and with 8 years of advantage over fang yuan I must find a way to fuck off from this place.'

He knew his own capabilities and limitations, that's what his gains are after reading RI several times. He knew that even after he become a rank 2 gu master he is not fang yuan's match as fang yuan is afterall a 500 old demon.

'I must find a way to take aperture awakening ceremony I can't wait for another 7 years, my only advantages are my 8 years and knowledge of future events nothing more, I must learn refining and flying to be able to hold my own in tough times'

Thinking so he started to read books that he borrowed from Chi lian as he is planning to take the awakening ceremony in the next 2 years he needed to do his best in learning about this world even more.

Several days later in Xun's house,

Xun shung: "hey! come here"

Gaurd: "yes lord?"

Xun shung: "I need to train, come spar with me"

Gaurd was surprised after hearing this but he nodded and followed his orders. With the house alotted, 5 mortal gaurds were also assigned to them for safety and investigative purposes.

After sparring with the gaurd for 3 hours, Xun shung went inside the house to ate his dinner and also thinking about his shortcomings.

As he estimated he was not a match of gaurd, not because of his skills but because he isn't a fully grown up yet.

Xun shung 'I need to work harder, as according to my speculation I can defy fate to a certain extent.'

It wasn't just a baseless theory, as being a half otherworldly he was someone who is not tied in fate's web and fate isn't even half healed till now, so to a limited extent it was true.

Xun shung 'But iam just a mortal now so I can't change anything now, but can't I atleast change my fate to a certain degree?'

'At the time of immortal ascension, a gu master's own accumulation is directly proportional to their future aspects in immortal level and a mortal gu master's Primeval essence is also in coordination to their immortal essence counterpart. Like rank 1's green is similar to rank 6's green stone and so on'

'So aperture awakening should also be in proportion to immortal ascension and if what Iam thinking is right then a mortal's awakening should also require accumulation.'

'Awakening ceremony is always done after 13-14 years of a child's birth and it couldn't be a coincidence that in every region this rule is followed, so maybe my speculation are right.'

He was not sure about this but an idea was planted deep down his heart and no matter what he can't uproot it. After some time of pondering he decided that he will follow this train of thoughts and thinking this he falls asleep.

Next day, Xun shung was meditating, according to his plan for awakening ceremony he must increase his accumulation and to do this his only ideas were body tempering and meditation. It's not like he didn't think about other ways but they weren't feasible enough as of now and after solidifying this plan he started to work on it with every ounce of strength in his body. He would spar with the gaurds one by one, meditate for hours and finally tries to understand and think about different paths and about Ren Zhu's legends.

Days gone by, weeks gone by, seasons changed, months passed by and wolf tide came. This wolf tide wasn't that dangerous but even then many elites were killed and fang yuan's parents were among them.

Then after some mourning and silence for days, life continued in gu yue village. Days turns into weeks, weeks into months and months into years and finally 2 years passed by in a blink.

It was the time for another wolf tide, villagers were scared and clansmen were hungry for opportunities to shine and Xun shung was ready to take action.