Chapter 6: First Class

His parents had listened to him telling stories of his adventures of his previous life over the years and they found one thing in common in all of them, He had been alone. That was the reason his parents sent him to school, to make friends, to learn how to detect good and bad not from reputation or Divine Techniques but from judging how they interacted with you and what things you had experienced together. Of course Tianshang had no idea about this as he was sitting in his first class waiting for his teacher to arrive. There were Five Schools, Warrior School at the Warrior Peak, Alchemy School at the Alchemy Peak, Weapon Refining School at the Weapon Refining Peak and Array Master School at the Array Master Peak. All of the student of these school were in different classes based on whether they were Core Students, Inner Sect Disciples or Outer Sect Disciples. Only the Best of the Best from each school's core students were sent to the fifth school Jade Peak School, where they had a chance to study core techniques of the sect and maybe become Personal Disciples of Grand Elders, Peak Lords and maybe even the Sect Master. There were around Five classes, One to Five, the way to advance was to show major improvement in cultivation or you supporting Occupation, have Battle prowess above your level or pass the end of the year exam.

Arriving at class One, he saw barely twenty students in his class, all of them were around eleven twelve years of age and had cultivation bases around early levels of Foundation Stage and their robes had at least one of the Occupational Emblems of Alchemy, Weapon Refining or Array Masters. These were the top geniuses of the Profound Creation Sect, talented in both cultivation and their supporting occupations. When they saw him come in, none of them came to greet him, except one, ``Hey! Are you going to be joining us as well?'' at first, Tianshang was shocked but he was also riled up in the excitement from the boy who asked the question. ``Yeah! My name is Zhu Tianshang, Nice to meet you.'' The boy was Zhao Feng, also from a family of Elders, his Mother was a Array Master Peak Elder while his father was a Warrior Peak Elder. He was a Heavenly Yellow Grade Array Master and a Second Level Foundation Stage cultivator. Zhao Feng brought him to sit next to him and started talking, the rest of class was paying a little attention to them at the start but went back to either reading or talking.

After about Five minutes, the teacher walked in, `` My name is Ao Li. I am your teacher for the Warrior Training. I am an Inner Peak Elder of the Warrior Department, if you have any questions regarding what I say during the class, keep them to yourself until the end of the lesson. Any Questions? No, good. Let's go out to the training grounds, the last person there will be punished,'' No giving them a chance to say anything, Ao Li walked towards the Training Grounds, but to the students it felt like he had vanished with his first step. A Nascent Core Stage Powerhouse can fly and although Ao Li didn't fly, at his level, a step was like a marathon for the students. When they finally arrived at the Training Grounds, all students were panting from running except for of course, Tianshang. He could have Teleported here in an instant but that was a technique available to only powerhouses with the cultivation base of Heavenly Dao Sage Stage. ``How… are… you… not…tired?!'' Zhao Feng wasn't the only one with that question, even Ao Li was surprised. The run to the Training Grounds was to show the Kids, there is always someone better, to not have them become arrogant. ``Oh! I have a great physique.'' To the students and Ao Li, this meant, ``I am a Body Practitioner.''

There were two ways to reach the top, Energy or Qi Refining and Body Refining. Actually there were more, but even with Old Man Zibo's memories, Tianshang didn't know of them. For Energy Practitioners, the process of cultivation involved, understanding the technique they cultivated and gather the energy in their Dantian and gather their understanding of the Laws they understood inside their Dantian and their Soul. Body Cultivators had the same process but they gathered the Energy in their body, refining it to become more and more aligned with the Dao, and gather their understanding of the Laws they understood on their bodies, inside and out. Both had advantages and disadvantages, usually, Qi Refiners were more suited to long range attacks either with Qi or weapons controlled by Qi while Body Practitioners were more suited close combat, most of them never use any weapons as their bodies are their best weapons.

Everyone who thought Tianshang was a Body Refiner wasn't wrong or right as he didn't intentionally refine his body but the excess energy in his body did it for him. Most Body Practitioners would puke blood if they ever found out about it, most Body Refiners had to endure harsh conditions and endure pain to advance but here was a Ten Year Old Kid who had body strength was equivalent to a Divine Core Stage cultivator. The rest of the class was just drills like, Running, weights, obstacle courses and none of the promised battle techniques and teaching from expert cultivators. Finally one of the students got tired of everything and went to Ao Li to ask him, ``Teacher Ao Li, we were told we would be taught the best techniques and taught by experts in their fields. But all we have been doing is drill. Could you please clear my doubts?'' at first Ao Li, ignored the student but when he asked the second time, Ao Li smacked him in the face and said, ``I told you all questions till the end of the class.'' The kid holding his face in pain and indignation saw out of the corner of his eyes, Zhao Feng smiling and glared at him in indignation.

The class went back to doing drills after the little fiasco and finally it came to an end after two hours. By the end of it, all of them, once again except Zhu Tianshang were dead tired, lying on the floor. But Ao Li wasn't done with the torture, ``Who told you to lie down?! Get up and start cultivating, use these Potions to help in your cultivation, the distribution schedule is in the ring.'' Telling them all that, he threw Storage Rings at them, they were minor storage rings, only had space to keep the necessities but it was a storage ring nonetheless. Only a Top Sect like Profound Creation Sect could do such a thing, a Middle-Class Sect would give the same level rings to Elders. They would receive potions every week, those with better performances would receive more and those with exceptional performances would be awarded with Pills. Black Grade Alchemists and below could only make Potions, only those from Earth Grade could start making Pills. The effectiveness of a pill was thousands of times more than a potion.

once the students had finished cultivating, they were amazed at the effectiveness of potions, but the Rich Kids knew that it was the exercise plus the potions that made it so effective. Before they could relish in the enjoyment of their advances, Ao Li started speaking, ``Now, the reason you were made to the Drills was because you are weak, only once you enter Middle Level Foundation stage and Higher would your body be capable of withstanding the High Level Battle Techniques of the Sect. any other questions?''

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Author: Thanks for reading. sorry, i didn't have access to my laptop yesterday. i will try to have backups on my phone for the next time. Thanks for reading. and leave suggestions in the comments.