Purchasing a Sword

"Of course, Elemental Stars can be considered also the foundation of an Elementalist, it is the compressed version of Elemental Energy, it's purer too. These are the indication for the stages you've reached in a realm for the first few stages, that's also the reason why I told you that the first few stages are easy to reach." Long Xiu explained.

"Oh, that makes sense." Xian Hei understood.

"In your current Cultivation realm, there are 3 stages, just like every other, but the indicators are in Elemental Stars, you've already reached the initial stage, the middle stage is 500 Elemental Stars and Late-stage is 700, and after that, you could reach up to 1,000 then you'd reach the next realm, the Energy Foundation Realm." Long Xiu added.

Xian Hei was surprised about the Elemental Stars needed, he thought about the next cultivation realm, and he wanted to hear more. "Master, can you tell the name of the Cultivation Realm? I just want to know."

Long Xiu was a little surprised to hear that but then he answered, "So the next Cultivation Realm for you is the Energy Transformation Realm, then the Origin Realm."

"Oh, I guess my goal is the Energy Transformation Realm and then the Origin Realm." Xian Hei decided after nowhere.

Logn Xiu just laughed at this, then he thought about when Xian Hei said 1,000 was a lot of Elemental Stars. Long Xiu thought with Xian Hei's capabilities, he could make a single Elemental Star in an hour or less, and it would be high quality, other kids, to reach that quality would take a day or 2. "Don't worry."

"Why won't you create an Elemental Star now, I'll help you." He suggested.

"Sure." Xian Hei replied quickly.

He meditated quietly, then he began absorbing the Elemental Particles and sent it to his Celestial Core, it started spinning and the Celestial Core was refining the Elemental Particles into Elemental Energy. It looked like there was a constant source of Elemental Particles just entering the Celestial Core from the top and the Celestial Core refined it into Elemental Energy. This continued for another hour, he had amassed a colossal amount of Elemental Energy from this hour, possibly rivalling the amount he had from Long Xiu.

"You're fine now, this is enough for a high-quality one." Logn Xiu's voice echoed throughout Xian Hei's head.

"Oh, ok, thanks." Xian Hei replied.

"Now, try compressing all that energy, into a little orb of energy, these orbs would have purer and thicker Elemental Energy, making your strength increase." Long Xiu told.

"I'll try." Xian Hei said with an uncertainness in his voice.

He tried to compress his Elemental Energy, and after a few minutes, it reached one-half of its' original size, he knew that wasn't his limit though, he knew this could be compressed more. he tried all sorts of methods and in another 15 minutes, it reached one-fifth of its' original size.

"This is a good Elemental Star, this would increase your strength and amount of Elemental Energy by a lot, and Elemental Star is basically a storage for Elemental Energy and even makes it stronger." Long Xiu said.

Xian Hei nodded, "If I compressed it further, I'm afraid that it will become unstable and all the Elemental Energy would erupt."

"Yeah, if that happens, it will injure you and make you lose your Cultivation somewhat. Luckily, the Dark Heaven Art would save you by immediately absorbing the energy that has erupted."

Xian Hei was currently praising and thinking about the Dark Heaven Art, it is a top-tier Elemental Art and it can save and strengthen you.

"Now we should stop, you should go to sleep." Long Xiu said. Xian Hei agreed, it was getting late, he would have around 5 hours to sleep at this rate.

"Ok." He simply replied.

He awoke from his meditation state and stretched, then he laid on his bed and put his blanket on top of him, he fell asleep after a few minutes of staring into the ceiling.

The Sun rose, it had been another day, currently, Xian Hei was looking around the City's center with his father, they were planning on purchasing a sword, it was Xian Yu's idea. They've been searching for a shop that Xian Yu knew for almost half an hour.

Xian Hei was tired, "Dad, where is the shop you knew about?"

"It's right around the corner, I swear, It was there." XIan Yu exclaimed.

They were walking for another 2 minutes and XIan Yu looked relieved. "There it is! My memory would never fail on me" He laughed.

"Finally." XIan Hei was tired of walking that much.

It was a fairly nice shop called Blue Moon, when they went in, there were swords and other weapons. Xian Hei looked around, he focused on the swords, he wanted to use a proper sword.

Xian Yu was also looking at the swords, he wanted to hold them to see their qualities, he then asked a worker there, was a red-haired man, "Can I hold some of these blades?"

"Of course! But don't damage it." He replied with a smile.

Xian Yu nodded, he had already found 5 noteworthy swords, he took them three out of their case.

'This man has a good eye for swords, those were one of the top swords we had on display.' The red-haired man thought. He was the son of the owner, named Xiang Jun, he took over because his father tuned old and couldn't do much.

Xian Yu was testing the swords and settled on 2 of them, one was a slim sword that was black and the other was a large sword that was blue. Although the swords were big, Xian Hei had a physique resembling someone 12 years old, which were enough to use these swords.

"Hei'er, test these out, the blade on the slim one is very sharp and has a nice balance, and since it's light, it can give you more mobility, the other one has domineering power, it isn't too heavy and although limits your mobility a bit, it is stronger than the first sword." He said.

Xiang Jun was impressed by his analysis in a short time, he was fully correct, he thought if Xian Yu was a swordmaster because it might just be his experience.

Xian Hei was deciding on which sword he should get, he was more in favour of the first one, he liked to have his mobility. All of a sudden, he sensed a faint aura away, it was not hostile, more like it was familiar. He walked towards where the aura came from, it was under some rags on a shelf, he was taking off the rags, this confused his father and Xiang Jun.

"What is this feeling?" Xian Hei was feeling very familiar with it and like it was calling him.

When he took off the rags, unexpectedly it was a sword, it was curved a bit, it had a black blade, and the hilt looked very mysterious, it was black with purple patterns on it that resembled a dragon.

Suddenly, an old man entered the room, "Father!" Xiang Jun exclaimed. That was his father, the owner of the store.

The old man spoke, "If you were going to buy that sword, the blade of it is not for sale, you would have to only buy the hilt."

"XIAO HEI, buy that hilt, I'll reveal its purposes to you, it would be extremely useful, buy it." Long Xiu said in his head.