1 Beginning of an overlord

Wind city

Soaring sect outer court

Inside a small house a boy of age 13,14 was meditating in his room. His name was Tang long and despite his small age he was already a mid stage rank silver warrior. Many people in the world can't reach this level even they are 20 year old. His talent was best in the sect and many where jealous of him.

(Nighttime)

After Tang long finished his meditation and his daily workout, he was going to sleep but suddenly a knock was heard on the door. He went to open the door and found out two people where standing outside.

"Senior brother Jing and chen what brings you here"Tang long said with a smile. Both of his senior brother were inner court and core court disciple and were quite famous in the sect.

But he didn't expect his senior brother chen to attack him directly crippling his veins and knocking him at the wall and look at him with disdain.

"Hahaha poor junior brother long who told you to be such a talented person"Ji jing said while laughing.

"Lets go"Ji po said and both of them left hurriedly because if any Elder found them in outer court it will create a big problem.

Tang long who was sitting there with blood blood coming out of his mouth and his eye vacant didn't knew what to do. Tang long had only seen his senior brothers few time and talked with them smiling. But he didn't knew that his talent will bring him this kind of misfortune. After 15 minutes he woke up with dull face and went to the bed not knowing what to do with his crippled veins. When he was sleeping he didn't knew that 4 people appeared at his bed. One of them moved towards him and did something which can make many people terrified. After half an hour after treating him he fed him a pill and they left his room.

Tang long veins were all repaired, the Qi in his dantain had 9 different colour. His cultivation which was lost started to recover but stopped at peak stage of bronze rank. Each rank were separated by early, mid, high, peak and perfection stage. His physique took a qualitative change. His muscles looked more robust and his soul had become more powerful. Now with peak stage bronze rank cultivation he can battle with low or even some weak mid stage iron rank warriors.

Morning when Tang long woke up he felt more spirited and powerful and started to check what happen to him then he suddenly remembered last night accident. But then he suddenly felt something amiss. Tang long was clear that his veins were crippled and his clothes still had blood on it. But why did he felt like he had more energy now. Then he checked his dantain and found out that he was a peak stage bronze rank warrior not a cripple. Tang long started to laugh wildly but after sometime he stopped laughing and changed his clothes and packed some clothes and some foods packed in his bag then picked his short sword and left the room.

He went to mission hall and quickly picked a herb collecting mission he left and reached at the horse stable and picked a horse and left. He started to move towards the forest were herbs and beasts were located. The name of the forest was Thousand peak forest because it contain thousands of mountain which lead to where nobody in the soaring sect knew.

After 2 days he reached a small village which was half a day walk from the forest. Tang long went to the small stable at the east of the village paid some silver coin to keep his horse feeding and left. Tang long reached a shop bought some dry food and water and started to move towards the forest.

Tang long wasn't unfamiliar with the forest when he was small he had came sometime with the old man who lived near him. Sometimes he didn't knew why that old man always took care of him. Tang long had asked the old man many times who he was and why he looked after him but everytime he got the same answer that he looked like his dead grandson that's why he looked after him. But when he reached 11 year old that old man left and never returned. After that Tang long came here many times to pick herbs alone.

After running for some hours he reached the periphery of the forest. Tang long then start to move southwest part of the forest because all the herbs at the outer side were already picked up and this side was less visited because number of beasts in this area was more. He had learned many things about herbs from the old man. That old man had given him many books about herbs and taught him how to take full benefit while absorbing the herbs. Due to his good memory he can recognize many type of herbs by looking at them.

After walking for an hour he spotted a tree under which there were red color cheery which has 5 petal like leaf. It was called crimson cherry. His breath became heavy because this fruit was extremely beneficial to low rank warrior and it was a rank 3 mortal spiritual fruit. Spiritual herbs and fruits are classified as 1-9 mortal rank, profound rank, origin rank, saint rank, mystic rank, heaven rank, immortal rank and finally divine rank.

Even when he had came with the old man he had found this fruit 3 time only. But he soon realized that he had never came to this side of forest with the old man. That old man had told him to come here when he was a peak iron rank warrior. But because of yesterday accident he started to realize that he need to become strong otherwise he will be crippled or killed by anyone who is jealous of him. Yesterday he was just lucky that they didn't kill him because he was in the sect. Who knows what others will do if they find him outside the sect.

That's why he had planed to stay 1 year in the forest to gain enough strength to face the inner court exam which will start little over 1 year from now. Anyone at age below 18 and above mid silver rank can participate in the exam. The exam is held every 3 years.

After picking the fruit he kept them in his bag . He then started to move further dipper in the forest. Night soon descended and he moved towards the cave which he had found at the evening. He went inside the cave which was big enough to fit atleast 10-15 people. He then sat cross legged and took small bag and opened it. He emptied his bag and found 5 rank 1 and 1 rank 3 mortal spiritual fruit. He then started to refine them and started to absorb the energy in his body.

All the energy from the herb started to fade at an alarming rate. After refining the herbs he reached at perfection stage of bronze rank. He was sure that he will break through into early stage of iron rank but he got dumbfounded that he didn't break into iron rank. But even after that he felt like he can fight mid stage iron rank warrior. He kept the worries back to his mind and started his daily workout, soon night came and tang long started to sleep because he needed fighting experience and from tomorrow he was going to fight low rank beasts.