7 The Shòu family, Soul Sea Vs an Open Gate Path, and the true cultivator realm

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A/N: If I hit ten power stones I will release another chapter and rewrite the previous ones as well

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I just finished my little 'scuffle' with the Vice President when Baihe entered the abandoned classroom with her on the ground and myself standing there, "Alex, explain what this is now." she tapped her foot in impatiens for my answer.

I was going to give her a made-up story on the spot when I decided and figured, 'she already knows I cultivate and that I'm far stronger than half the girls our age, I might as well tell her.' so I told her about the situation and while I was explaining to her that to combat someone in a higher cultivation stage, I needed to do something incredibly stupid and risky to win.

When I was finished, she stood there in silence for a moment when she laughed, " Alex Cross you just defeat someone in the third level of Open Gate Path while being in the Soul Sea stage, not only that you are also a boy that is no older than ten. I need you to spar with me later to give me a chance to catch up. come let's go to my family's manor my family is waiting to meet you." she turned around and left as I stood there.

I decided to be a gentleman for today and covered the student council vice president with my jacket and left her inside the room.

I followed Baihe out and saw she was already by the main doors to the school, "come on my mother sent a car for us, she wishes to meet you and discuss the matter of the improvements you made with the family cultivation technique." she opened the entrance door for me as we exited the building to see a sleek black Mercedes Infront of the school along with it a typical bodyguard that was female.

"Ms. Shòu please pick up your peer and leave your boy toy here, the mistress is waiting to meet them, and she wouldn't want you to focus on the wrong thing with this important to the family at stake." the lady told Baihe as she pointed in my direction as she scolded Baihe.

"This is my peer Ms. Liz believe me or not, he is a cultivator as well, so treat him with the respect that is owed to him if you don't want to be thrashed by him." she forewarned the lady about my power and that I shouldn't be underestimated by either my appearance or cultivation base.

"This frail and weak boy is this so-called cultivation genius that you told the mistress about, young Mistress please don't joke about this." she looked at me and flashed her inner Qi at me to set my instincts to fight or flight, a level five of the Open Gate Path cultivator, she is even stronger than the VP in my last fight not too long ago.

This woman may be facing the surface demons of her heart to find her cultivation path, but I needed to remember my low level of cultivation as well, so I need to be careful in this coming 'scuffle', "I'm right here Linda if you don't believe me or her how about you spar with me. I promise to go easy on you."

I take up the Golden Dragon stance while having the leftover Qi that I could call upon to begin rushing into my head to reconnect my body with my mind, also using my mental energy and soul Qi circulates with my nerves and eyes to try and keep up with this lady.

"Boy listen here, if you apologize to me and warm my bed, I might let you live to see tomorrow. If not, then prepare for your death!" she took her shades off to finally look me in the eye only to try to use a surface demon to attack my mind.

Instead of being surprised at the attempt of a sneak attack, I covered my soul sea with my mind palace to repel the surface demon, 'so it seems she wants to fight dirty, alright little missy make sure you won't regret this.' I pretend to be in a daze as she approached me nonchalantly.

"See mistress he isn't a match for me, he can't even take on a simple surface demo..." was as far as she got as I sent a double palm strike into her stomach right at her core, using a chaos palm in my left hand and a swirling golden fist in the other I caused her Qi to go in disorder.

While the shock of my sneak attack was still in effect, I took advantage of it and further surprise the woman and the slight distraction of her trying to regain a calm core from her chaotic inner Qi, I formed a mental soul spear and aimed it at her soul sea and had it lay dormant at the right time.

While I'm about to attack her with it, I started to form one of my most devastating attacks in the Nine levels of Golden Ascension, the Golden chaos swirling dragon that is used to attack both the cultivators' body and inner Qi core.

I spun my inner Qi clockwise around my clawed palm while having to force the natural Qi in the air to spin counterclockwise around my arm to add power, then I skipped at high speed right into her while putting a finishing rotating momentum to add to the strike, this technique is powerful just before landing on the striking point, it forcefully sent her through a wall.

Breathing deeply and heavily at the amount of Qi I had to use today one after another I needed to try and gather Natural Qi to replenish my own while I stood there waiting for her to show herself.

I knew that, while powerful and devastating, the attack wasn't enough to take her down I can only hope that it's enough to slow her down enough to just trade a few blows before she collapses from her soul sea being attacked.

"That hurt you little shit!" the Lady pulled herself out of the debris of the former wall as she gritted her teeth from the obvious pain she is in, I think I can see a little bit of blood dripping from her lips.

Taking a quick breath, I went into my Golden Dragon stance once again to counter her next attack, "Come on Linda, I thought you were going to destroy a weak and frail boy? Aren't you stronger than a ten-year-old boy in the Soul Sea stage?"

She must have a sore spot with that statement as she charged at me with a cry that could raise even my hair on ends at the amount of rage and hate in it, I parry a fist to my face to the left side of my body and returned an elbow to her nose in turn.

She stumbled back at the hit that caused her nose to bleed a bit, not one to wait I charged at her and formed a palm and struck at her stomach to offset her balance further while using my dragons' windmill fist that I referenced from Wing Chun against her chest to get her to stand down.

I dodged a knee to the gut and put some distance between us only to rush back at her and used the devouring fist from the God Beast of War, the top palm was clawed like a maul of a beast while the bottom one is the claw of this beast.

When this fist is executed in a perfect form it unleashes a wave of natural Qi like a Demon Beast when it roars, and the claw gathers and uses the dispersed Qi to act like real claws that can tear through flesh and bones.

Right when I was going to unleash this technique to the best of my ability, Baihe stepped Infront of me with her palm raised, "stop you made your point no need to kill her, how about we take this as a draw and leave it at that?" she pointily looked at the woman when she said to leave it.

"Of course, my young mistress, come let's go see the monarch. Your good boy maybe you are even better than the young mistress has explained to us." The lady dusted herself off as she headed to the car, I rolled my eyes as I let the acclimated natural Qi go and dropped my clawed hand only to bisect the remaining wall that was still standing.

It was a long drive to the Shou family manor, I decided to continue solidifying my level twelve cultivation base of the Soul Sea stage so that my next breakthrough won't have me falling into a state of destruction as my inner surface demon takes over my body.

I just finished solidifying my base and refilling my inner Qi when the car stopped, "Young mistress we are at the manor, should I announce your 'peer'?" I heard the seething anger in her voice, I just shook my fist at her daring her to fight me again.

With a huff, she exited the car to open our doors, and what greeted us was a line of butlers and maids leading to the front door of the home, "Wow Baihe your house is huge, I can tell why you have grown lax in your cultivation." I step toward the manor with Baihe behind me, the Manor is two stories tall and about two hundred yards across, the walls are made of finely sculpted marble and the outside statues are made of high-quality jade.

"It isn't because of how to offset on the wealthy side my family is on, but it's just that I couldn't advance quick enough with the cultivation manual our ancestor left for use. Besides, what does being rich have to do with cultivation?" she asked me as we entered the doorway.

"It is because you don't have to put in risks to gain cultivation materials, meaning you can't grow as powerful as those who have to fight and force through enemies to further their cultivation, they have to become stronger to gain opportunities to further their cultivation. Thus, the saying, 'To cultivate you must fight, to fight you must cultivate.' It is a cycle of giving and taking." I just finished when I hear a clap in Infront of me.

"Well said boy but tell me, who taught you the way of cultivation because most men can't even reach the Qi Gathering Stage not to mention the dream of the Soul Sea realm. Baihe is this the peer that helped you with your technique, I thought it would be someone from the great families that solved the slow start to cultivating the War Beast technique. So boy, how about you tell us the secret of why our cultivation is so hard and weak in the beginning stages." While faint I felt it, the Soul Realm cultivation base, I won't be getting away with anything now.

Gulping I look into the woman's eyes, "My master is the Dao, my teachings are of my own conclusions of the Dao, my teacher is the path of life and the long path it has along with the Dao." I told her the truth of my power since I wouldn't even be able to lie in any sense.

I felt a wisp of Soul Qi brush around me to confirm my words, "Strange, anyway show me how you made my daughter more powerful than those a few levels higher than her in cultivation. I will bring in a Qi Gathering Stage, Foundation Stage, And Soul Sea Stage cultivator to show me how you did it." With a snap, three girls entered the entryway with said cultivation levels, the girl my age is about a few inches shorter than myself struck me with an ox palm, a level nine Qi gathering stage cultivator.

I counter her attack and strike her with a golden spiral palm I did for Baihe and it caused her Qi to go berserk, in response I also forced a chaos palm into her core going the other way and causing the Qi to refine itself into a level three Qi core with the impurities gathering and condensing into a honeycomb pattern.

With my Qi as a stimulant, her core started to gather Qi at a fast rate and before anyone could do anything.

BOOM

She reached the Foundation stage in one go without any complications with a stronger core to boot, before anyone could stop me, I sprinted at the Foundation stage girl that looked to be about twelve or thirteen and used the Golden Dragon Fire fist in quick secession I input my Qi into every point of the girls' body.

BOOM

The girl Refined her entire body and was covered with awful impurities from head to toe, but her body was sturdy and lean like a well-trained athlete, the people were further shocked at two impossibilities that happen Infront of them.

I focus my mind and forge three spears to have a typhoon like circulation pattern and sent it into the last girls' Soul Sea, she seemed to be about sixteen or seventeen and launched them inter her mind, the spears hit their target and had the girls Soul Sea to start to rotate in three different directions to grind out the impurities.

BOOM

The girl broke into the Open Gate Path cultivation base like her sisters before her, and like them due to the high amount of destruction and healing at the same rate caused them to faint.

I sighed and turned to look at the monarch when she gave me a smile that caused a shiver up my spine at the familiar way when my fiancé came to meet me, a hungry smile.

Uh-oh.