Chapter 8: A Coincidence meeting with Graves

At the misty mountain sect.

Reeves watched over Ray while she was cultivating. Her progress was good. Reeves thought about himself. 'Since I know which cultivation path I took, 'Wind' which is ideal for cultivation with swords, I should have some swords somewhere in my cave.

I was searching for a few minutes until I found a room where weapons were stored. 'These weapons look good.' One sword was catching my eyes. 'Is this not a Katana?'

I took the sword and wielded it. 'This sword is well processed!'. 'I need to take this opportunity to find out if I can actually do martial arts. Since I have no memories about this, I guess not.'

"Ray, I will go for a walk. I'm coming back in a few days! You have something to eat here. Don't open or go outside the cave since you aren't able to go inside the cave again. There is a communication talisman. If you have serious problems with your cultivation, call me! You activate it by sending Qi into it!"

"Yes, Master."

At the training hall in the misty mountain sect.

Disciples were running through the hall. It was a very noisy place. I saw disciples waiting in front of rooms. I was curious what these rooms were. I decided to ask them what these rooms were supposed to do.

"Hello, can I ask why you guys are waiting in front of these rooms? And what are these rooms?"

They looked at me with startled eyes. They saw my robe, which had a symbol of a core disciple. "Senior, we are waiting to get a training room. Currently they are used. That's why we wait until the user is finished with his training."

"Oh, why don't you use your cultivation cave for training?"

"Senior, you are funny. We normal disciples have no rights to have a personal cave!"

Reeves was shocked."Oh, well, eh, sorry for asking. I actually didn't know this."

The disciples looked at each other, since they didn't know if he was joking."No problem, Senior, if you want to know something else, please ask!"

"I'm searching for these moving combat puppets. Do you know where I can find them? I would prefer a room with them as well. You know I don't want people to see my abilities."

"We have no private rooms with these combat puppets. If you go outside at the back of the library hall, you will see a large training area where these puppets are."

"Okay, thank you!"

"No problem, Senior!"

As I walked away, the disciples talked to each other "These Core disciples nowadays, how are they core disciples, if they don't know common knowledge of our sect!" They were all nodding to agree.

I walked to the back of the training hall and saw my sworn brother Graves Martell. "What a coincidence. He is the best sword cultivator in the sect. He could be able to help me! "

I walked to Graves Martell while he was training hard to defeat this puppet. After a few seconds he saw me and deactivated the puppet. "My sworn brother Reeves. How come that you are here? Do you want to train?"

"Yes, Martell, it's a coincidence that you are here. I need your help."

"Huh?'' How can I help you?"

"I have some information that I'm actually a sword cultivator. I want to test out if I can actually fight."

Martell laughed loudly "Well, you were once an acceptable sword cultivator who knows how to defend himself. If your memories didn't return then forget it. You need to rebuild your foundation! However, I am able to rebuild your foundation."

"Really?"

"Yes, you just need to fight with me! And I will show you your flaws." he smiled evilly and thought 'I will destroy you. You may think you can be lousy in front of me, hmph. With my training you wouldn't be able to crawl back to your cave!'

Reeves was happy and replied. "Okay, let's do that. Enlighten me brother!"

"Oh, I will be sure that you will get the best enlightenment you ever had. Draw your sword, we start immediately! And don't be so shy, I will only use the power of the Peak Core Formation." Without saying anything further, he rushed at Reeves!

Bam

Bam

"Are you trying to kill me?! How is this showing me my flaws?"

"Fool, don't speak while in battle!"

Every clash they had, Graves Martell would say what Reeves did wrong. "Your standing is false! Protect your limbs, otherwise you would be dead by now! Where is your movement? Stop being slow! Why are you using any martial arts!"

Reeves ran out of breath. "Wait a second!"

Martell replied angrily. "Do you think in a battle you can wait?!"

bam

bam

"Why are you not using your martial arts?! You think I'm not your match?" He stopped the constant attacks. Even the disciples were slowly joining to watch the fight. Among the disciples, someone said, "This Elder is so shameless I would be already dead if I would train with him!"

I tried to say something "ples hav mer cy… I cant use martial arts because I don't know a martial art!"

"Why didn't you say this earlier?"

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"What I can see is that you need a defense, mobility and an attack art. You also have to learn the concepts of wind. You are lucky to meet me today. I have something that will be perfect for you. This is an item which stores memorized data. It engraves information into your soul. Three martial arts are inside of it. Since Time is limited, we have to use this to force you to learn my martial arts. This is the fastest way to learn. You just send Qi into this item, then you have learned the information which was contained there! What a nice item, hah perfect for disciples that are not able to understand martial arts!"

"It sounds too nice. Where is the downside of this?"

"It hurts a little!"

"That's all?"

"Yes."

Not wasting any time, I sent Qi into this item. The Information was so much it was hurting my brain and soul.

I roared "argh"

A few minutes later. The transportation was complete.

"Brother Martell! You said it would hurt a little! This item nearly killed me! I will never use this item again!"

Martell laughed."What can we do? We need to continue our fight, there is no other way! I will give you this Item, as a present. It's from brother Kong. You can ask him for more!"

"There is! I would train these martial arts with the puppets and thank you, I'll be sure that I'll throw it in his face. This item is for people who like to have pain!"

"Nonsense! I'm the better training partner!"

"Yeah, the best training partner at causing pain!"

"No pain, no gain. You are a cultivator, you should know this."

"I'm speechless."

"Stop complaining. Let me see if it worked!"

They clashed again, but Reeves could use the arts that Martel Graves gave him. Without any flaw.

"Good, now try to destroy this puppet. You can activate it with your Qi. The puppet is copying your movements and cultivation realm. You can also deactivate it if you send your Qi to it."

'Now let's test my abilities out.'

The puppet moved fast. If I were to fail a strategy attack, it would copy my moves to do the same!

At some point, the puppet was defeated.

"This flying sword technique called 'Rising blade' is good. And this movement technique called 'five steps to the clouds' is also wonderful. I can run faster now! Even the defense technique 'Flowing defense' is great."

"I know. I personally created them. You are the first one besides me that learned these techniques. I think I helped you enough out. The elders hall is where I need to go now. I have heard that our archenemies have sealed our sect from the outside!"

"What do you mean by that? Our sect is sealed from the outside?"

"I'm sorry you are not an elder. I can't give you anymore Information. Believe it or not, I don't know. Since I'm finished with my daily training. I'm on my way."

'This was a great experience for me. At least I will be able to defend myself. I wonder what the Hidden Assassin sect is trying to do. Somehow, I have a bad feeling about this. I should go to the library for more martial arts'