1 Mo Fan
The Tianhai Continent, a vast piece of land that covers a great distance of over one hundred thousand li. On this continent, talent and cultivation are everything. With great strength, one will be respected and loved by all. A world where the strong is justice and the weak are evil.
The Year 10016 of the Tianming Calendar.
In a small village located around the very borders of the Tianhai Continent, a young man is seen lying down on a stack of hay whilst chewing on a single strand of golden yellow hay. "Mo Fan!!! Stop slacking off and go feed the animals!" the voice of a haggled middle-aged man resounds in the young man's ears.
The young man wakes up from his slumber and replies, "Alright! Alright! With I Mo Fan here, none of the animals will go hungry!"
Mo Fan who shouted back at the middle-aged man jumps off the pile of golden yellow hay as he drags the old wooden cart stacked full of hay and animal feed along with him.
Mo Fan is sixteen years old this year, he is a bright and handsome young man who catches the attention of all the young females in his village, however, Mo Fan is known throughout to be extremely lazy. One day he was woken up by his father, Mo Fan was so lazy that he told his father "Father, can you bring the loo here? I can't be bothered to go myself"
Hearing this, Mo Fan's father shouted at him "What in the heavens? Go to the f*cking loo yourself!" he then slapped Mo Fan a few times to wake him up before joining his wife and children for breakfast.
Some of his neighbors heard what had happened with their very own ears which made him the laughingstock of the entire village for an entire week!
Suddenly, as Mo Fan dragged the old wooden cart behind him, a dark shadow stands in front of him to block his way. "Ge! Bring me with you!" a beautiful young girl wearing some old clothes at the age of sixteen says to him.
"Yingyue, your elder brother needs to feed the animals! How can I let my younger sister help me feed them, your clothes will get dirty and our parents will scold me!" Mo Fan chuckled.
"No! I'm coming with you! If you don't agree, I'll tell our parents you went to peek on sister Guo last week!" Mo Yingyue replied sharply.
"Wha! Not so loud! Fine, come with me but you will only be feeding the chickens from afar!" Mo Fan said, if he had a white flag with him, he would be waving it at her in defeat.
"Yay! Ge is the best!" Mo Yingyue laughed as she followed along with Mo Fan.
Mo Yingyue, the younger twin sister of Mo Fan. Both of these siblings were blessed with devilishly good looks that make others jealous whilst even some men have fallen in love with Mo Fan's looks! Mo Fan was born just a few minutes earlier than Mo Yingyue according to their parents which made him the elder sibling of the two.
The two are twins alright, Mo Fan didn't cultivate at all whilst Mo Yingyue only cultivated once or twice a month causing both their parents to give up. Even then, Mo Yingyue's cultivation is almost as great as most of the village elders who are at the Body Tempering stage four!
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After feeding the animals, his parents gave him the task to go sell coal and firewood to the neighboring town which is just half a day's distance of traveling. Mo Fan agreed reluctantly as he dragged a bunch of wood and coal on his back and left the village.
"Sigh, I wonder when Fan er will decide to cultivate. All the other kids, including his siblings, have all started at the age of four, but he is already sixteen and he doesn't want to begin! The golden age for cultivation was over years ago for him" his mother sighed.
"Well, I'm sure one day he will come around, after all, who doesn't want to become a powerful cultivator?" his father consoled.
That's right, cultivation. The Tianhai Continent is filled with cultivators, they who are able to split the sea and crush mountains with a wave of their hands. Using their Qi that's absorbed from the heaven and earth, they are able to take flight and soar in the sky and battle others to become stronger! Not only that, the higher their stage in cultivation, the longer their lifespan! Those who are talented enough can stay youthful forever even when they are hundreds or even thousands of years old!
Everyone on the continent wants to be a cultivator! Whether they are from a great sect of cultivation or even from a simple village such as Mo Fan's, everyone dreamed of one day becoming a great figure whose name is written down in history. Everyone but Mo Fan, who wants to stay as a mortal forever.
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Shh* Shh*
The rustling of leaves falling from trees catches the attention of a young man carrying wood on his back.
Shh* Shh*
Mo Fan who was carrying the heavy firewood and coal on his back continues walking amidst the noise created by the rustling of the trees. Even when it continued for a while, Mo Fan didn't stop until eventually, he shouted out loud, "Yingyue, you cheeky brat, you're following me again! Father and mother will scold both of us!"
Shh* Shh*
The rustling of the trees stops as the sixteen-year-old Mo Yingyue who wore a long blue ruqun jumps down elegantly from the trees and lands next to her brother.
"Hehe, it's ok, at least you won't be the only one being scolded." Mo Yingyue smiled.
Mo Fan face palmed himself as he let her come along with him once again to the neighboring town.
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Once the two siblings made it to the next town, they were greeted by familiar faces warmly. "Ah? Mo Fan, your little sister came with you again? Be careful not to get scolded again!" an old woman laughed.
"You twins are always together huh." someone else added in.
"Indeed, another scolding…. Well, I'm here to drop these off, anyone need some firewood?" Mo Fan asked.
"Me!" someone said from inside one of the nearby houses.
"Me too!"
"Me three!"
"Same here!!"
Suddenly, Mo Fan was surrounded by a crowd of both men and women both young and old. Naturally, the young woman was attracted to Mo Fan and used the firewood as an excuse to get close to him while some others really did need the wood or just wanted to help him get home earlier.
After selling everything, it was still noon so the two siblings began heading back home. "Mo Fan, do you two want to stay for the night before you go back up the mountain?" an elderly man asked.
"No, it's only half a day's worth of traveling, we'll be fine. Besides, Yingyue is a cultivator, she will keep both of us safe!" Mo Fan replied as he waved the old man goodbye.
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It wasn't until the sky became dark when the two siblings were close to their village. Suddenly, Mo Fan stopped his sister and said, "Hang on Yingyue, it's not even dusk yet but why is it so dark? Something's wrong here"
As he looked around, Mo Fan smelt a strong scent of blood lingering in the air around him. "Blood? And it's really strong, the village!" Mo Fan and Mo Yingyue ran with all their might towards their village.
Mo Yingyue using her strength of the Body Tempering fourth layer arrived first, when Mo Fan caught up, he saw his petrified sister standing at the gates of their village. Mo Fan stood by the gate and saw countless corpses of familiar faces dyeing the ground crimson red with their blood. "No! No! It can't be!" Mo Fan shouted.
He ran up close to his neighbor's bodies and shook them with all his strength "Wake up! Wake up! This is all a lie, right? Hahahaha! You're all just playing a prank on me just like always right?" Mo Fan said slowly as he shook their lifeless corpses.
Mo Yingyue too was horrified by the sight as she grabbed hold of her older brother who suddenly came to a realization "No! Father! Mother! Jian er and Ming er!" he screamed as the two siblings rushed towards their home.
Once they arrived at their doorstep, blood seeped through the very wood between the edges of their house. Mo Fan's eyes became blood-red as he ran towards the cold corpses of his family.
Drops!
Mo Fan dropped down on his knees as tears came crashing down from his eyes like a waterfall. "Father! Mother! Jian er! Ming er!" his head was covered by the very blood of his family where he placed his head, as tears came out uncontrollably.
"Arrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggg!!!!!!!!!" He screamed.
Mo Yingyue fainted from the shock as Mo Fan continued kneeling after he screamed with all his might. It wasn't until an entire three hours later did Mo Fan finally budge as the blood began to dry up and covered his entire body in red. His eyes looked drained and devoid as if all the tears for the next seven decades spilled out at once, he then carried Mo Yingyue and laid her down on his bed as he walked outside the door of his house and begun digging down into the dirt with his bare hands.
Dig. Dig.
Dig. Dig.
Mo Fan dug four holes in his yard using his own hands and dug as if he were immune to the pain. After hours he continued digging until the holes were big enough to fit the members of his family, Mo Fan then stood up and buried his family in the holes using his very hands.
Fsh. Fsh.
Mo Fan's hands were bloodied all over, however, he continued burying his family with all his might. After doing so he spent the next few days digging for every member of his village, an entire village filled with over a hundred people was the number of holes Mo Fan had attempted to dig. The more he had dug, the slower he dug. Mo Yingyue stood beside the graves of his family when she awoke and slaughtered the remaining animals to make meals for the two of them. Eventually, he fainted as a strange rock made contact with his blood filled hands, enveloping his entire body in golden light.
