The POV of Yin Feng

My name is Yin Feng, I live in a small village nearby an ancient forest. I was born sickly and weak however both my older brother and my mother were always caring for me. But tragedy struck us four years later, my mother died because of a sickness. Fortunately, my brother was strong and hunted for animals for us to eat. And the villagers also took good care of us because of his strength, they say he can become an immortal. Well there is that one kid called Wu Li who bullies my big brother, but after my brother gave him a good trashing, he stopped.

Everything changed however when the immortal elder from the sect came, he said that my brother has not talent, and that he could never have hope on becoming an immortal. My brother showed almost no emotions after the statement of the elder, but after we went home, he began to cry and apologize to me. Then I also began to cry, because I am such a useless little sister, who is only a burden to my older brother. I can't even help him accomplish his dreams.

After the visit of the elder the whole village began to look down on us. They want to get a good relationship with our bully Wu li, who always tried to bully us without any good reason. This six-month period was a hell for my brother and me. We often got blamed for things that went wrong, even my brother got beat up by a stronger guard. But everything changed when he came.

My brother apparently saved a jewelry merchant in the forest and invited him home. It was an average looking guy, however his eyes where unfathomable. His eyes had a special kind of charm and looked like the eyes of a wise sage. Someone who isn't affected by worldly affairs. He introduced himself as Fionn and was very polite towards us twins. He even gave me medicine which helped my weakening body. But then he asked about our situation in our village, I don't know why but I told him everything about our current situation.

Shock came soon afterwards, he brought us high upon the clouds. And explained that he was an immortal. After seeing this I was dumbfounded because when the elder of the sect visited everyone had to kowtow in front of the village. We weren't even allowed to look at him, and he looked at us the same way he looked at ants. This man was more of a polite merchant, who everyone can seem to like. He also didn't have any strong pressure or flying swords. I hope he can forgive us and not punish me or my brother.

After we started kowtowing the man just shrugged it off like it was nothing. He then offered something inconceivable, that he was going to train us! First, I was excited, this way my brother and I can be immortals, and can be living gods! But then I realised that I myself have a sickly body, and my brother has bad veins. I told the immortal about it, but he started making a bet. If we can defeat that Wu Li, he will let us become his disciples. Me and my brother started to get excited, disciples of an immortal, this was a chance of a lifetime.

The day after our bet, teacher took us through the ancient forest towards a nearby mountain where he was going to train us. After running for about two hours we finally reached the top of the mountain. At first I was getting hit by a lot of wigs and branches, but it was getting less and less when we came closer towards the mountain. Teacher started explaining about a divine sense and the basics of cultivation, and the most important aspect, willpower. After hearing this I was elated, so everyone who has enough willpower can reach the peak, that's perfect for me.

After listening to his lecture about cultivation the body refining stage so we started training, we had to imitate a black turtle, he said that it will strengthen my skin. So I closed my eyes and felt pressure, this pressure helped my skin falling off. It was painful, however I remembered my teacher saying that willpower is the most important aspect. So I bit my teeth and pushed through the pain. When I opened my eyes, I saw a weird black sticky substance coming out of my pores. I panicked but after a couple of minutes it stopped, teacher said they were impurities. After cleaning myself me and my brothers' skin was whiter then before, and we became prettier. My body also became much stronger, teacher told us we have successfully reached the 3rd stage of the body refinement realm.

The following days we practiced the 3 other animals: The white tiger, the azure dragon and the vermillion bird. After we reached the peak of the 9th stage of the body refinement realm, I heard a large dragon roar which indicated that we completed the body refinement realm.

After this our teacher imparted us manuals to practise cultivation, by shooting a blue ball out of his fingers. He gave me a fire manual, and said I was going to specialise in long range combat. My brother was going to specialise in water and in hand to hand combat. After opening our inner world, we finally broke through the <martial seed> realm and planted our first seed. After completing our training, we returned to the village.

On the way back we were talking to our teacher, happily without worries. I never knew my father, and my mother also never wanted to talk about my father . So, me and my brother hoped that our father will be like our teacher. Kind, loving and wise. I hope he will one day acknowledge me as his daughter and my brother as his son. My brother thinks the same way about this, he also loves my teacher as a parent figure.

Just before we arrived at the village, teacher told us to cover our faces with dirt. He told us it would be a surprise when we revealed that we were already cultivators. Me and my brother agreed and rolled in the mud to cover our appearance. After covering ourselves with mud we started walking towards the village. The guards smiled with disdain towards our teacher, when I saw this a new emotion appeared in me, this should be called killing intent what teacher was talking about.

After we walked into the village, we saw it was decorated, for that returning scum Wu Li. The elder announced a tournament, which was obviously a scheme to improve the influence of the Wu family. Me and my brother snorted in disdain, we were confident enough to kill that Wu li during the tournament, with our new cultivation and martial arts. But we started to get worried after knowing about his background, an inner sect elders' disciple. If we kill him, we will get the rage of the entire sect upon us. We weren't scared about that however we couldn't involve our teacher in this.

The Heavenly sword sect is known for its brutal and unforgiving nature, if we involve our teacher in this he will get killed. We just hope the teacher will abandon us after we kill that Wu li. We will not even be angry towards our teacher. He is the one which granted us with a chance, to cultivate and reach the top. We just hope teacher won't be impulsive and challenges the Heavenly sword sect.

After this we just started cultivating and preparing for the tournament to come, during my cultivation I managed to create two more martial seeds, my brother also cultivated a total of three martial seeds. And before we knew it the sun was already rising, and the day of truth was approaching.