8 Different Grades of Affinity

"Young Master, you really awakened your chakra root, but nobody helped you in awakening?", Qu He was very surprised that her young master awakened his chakra without external help. She is naturally very happy. Obviously, she doesn't know that the black door helped Ji Yun.

"I will go and inform master" saying that she dashed out of the room to inform Ji Kongyun.

Watching Qu He leave the room Ji Yun couldn't help to shake the head, telling his grandfather about the awakening of chakra root is not a problem, what concerns him is how am I supposed to tell that I possess darkness elemental affinity. 'There is no point in thinking about this and I will tell grandfather and let him decide what to do.'

Soon his grandfather came to his room, "Ji Yun, is your chakra really awakened?"

"Yes, Grandfather. I was doing my daily meditation then a stream energy came from somewhere and awakened my chakra root."

"Let me check, give me your hand.", Ji Kongyun came near Ji Yun and took his hand and sent a small amount of his chakra to inspect him. A few seconds later his grandfather's face showed many emotions like worry, joy, pride and astonished expression. Ji Kongyun turned towards Qu He who was standing near the door.

"Qu He, wait outside and don't come inside till I tell you."

Seeing Qu He went out of the room, his grandfather taken out a weird rectangular shaped metal plate and pointed his finger towards the center of the object, suddenly few lights came out from the object and surrounded both Ji Yun and his grandfather. Seeing the surprised on his grandson's face, Ji Kongyun began explaining,

"Its a sound concealing array if you activated it no can hear us. It's for safety purpose. I Know you are worried about your darkness affinity. Your father already predicted it would happen and told me to give you some instructions. This is also the reason why I told you that your awakening will be done independently by me." saying this Ji Kongyun taken out a pendant and gave it to Ji Yun.

"Your father told me to give it to you if you awakened darkness affinity. Wearing this pendant will neglect any search related thing in your body. So you don't have to worry about other finding your darkness nature." Ji Kongyun explained everything and let out a sigh.

"Grandfather, if one has darkness affinity is that means he will naturally be a cruel person?" Ji Yun couldn't help but ask. Even though he read many books regarding this world it doesn't mean everything is correct.

"Ji Yun, you don't have to fuddle yourself. Having Darkness affinity doesn't make one a cruel or merciless person if the technique they are practicing are bad and they will naturally resort to cruel and merciless means to improve their cultivation. Naturally, not everyone practices in this kind of technique. Everything has good and bad, it's up to you decide who you really are!."

"Let's don't talk about this. We will talk about your future if you want to join any academy or school you need to reach mortal realm at 14 years of age. Breaking through the mortal realm is easy but everyone decides to wait until they reach 13 years of age before they break through the chakra root seal stage. Do you know why?"

"No", replied Ji Yun, he didn't know about this. he only knows when one awakens their chakra root they will be able to cultivate.

"There is a reason why everyone will till 13, if you break through mortal realm before your physique reaches certain stage you will cripple yourself. Let's say you broke through mortal realm without any training in your body, when you try to absorb your elemental chakra it will definitely cripple you or injure you. When you reach certain toughness in your body then only you can absorb the chakra. Naturally, even if you trained in your body it will be painful on your first try, day by day your elemental chakra temper your muscles and organs according to your elemental affinity. So you will be able to skillfully use your elemental affinity in a period of time."

"Ji Yun, do you understand now?"

Yes, Grandfather. I shouldn't be in a rush to advance to the mortal realm. I need to strengthen my muscles and body to a certain degree and breakthrough.

"Correct. There is a reason why there are 7 seals of chakra root. It seals your chakra root so that you won't rush and enter mortal realm and destroy yourself. It's the way of heavens. Everything happens for a reason in this world."

Ji Yun naturally happy, he was wondering how to explain to his grandfather about his physical cultivation. Because he can't break any chakra root seal due to the restrictions in his physical cultivation technique until he reaches the 1st stage. Now he understands why the black door's 'First room of fortune' is physical. Its a way of helping him by forming the stronger foundation.

"Ok, Ji Yun. Now you know what to do. If you have any questions you can ask me?"

"Mm. I planned to train my body to the extreme limit and break through to the mortal realm in one fell swoop. Grandfather, you told something about the academy is there any requirement to consider."

"Every academy has a set of requirement, number 1 academy of sky continent is Sky Reaching Academy has very strict requirements when accepting students. You should have reached mortal realm stage 1 by 14 years of age. Your strength should exceed by 4000kg and affinity with your element should reach a blue grade. If you meet the above requirements you can directly join the academy or else you can attend the test conducted by them every year."

"Grandfather, you said something about blue grade with the elemental affinity. What is that?", Ji Yun couldn't help to ask. He didn't know anything about this.

"Yes, I forgot to tell you about that. When you reach the mortal realm your speed of cultivation will be different to others, what makes the difference will be your grade of elemental affinity. If your grade is high you will be able to absorb a large amount of chakra. Affinity Grade divided from low to high is Red Grade, Yellow Grade, Blue Grade, silver Grade, Gold Grade, and God Grade. If your grade is Red even if you cultivate for a whole day you will not be on par with others with a higher grade. Similarly, someone with a blue grade or high will be able to absorb abundant of chakra due to their affinity is high."

"Grandfather, if what you said is true then the chakra users with silver or above grade will be able to reach peak mortal realm in a few years. But from the books I read, there are only a few people who reached mortal realm stage 9. Why is that?"

"Haha, you think everyone will have a high-grade affinity. Even if you have high-grade affinity once you reach mortal realm stage-5 you will face a wall and it's very solid, to break and reach next stage it's very difficult. Similarly, you will face a wall in every stage above mortal stage 5."

"Grandfather, what is that wall?" Ji Yun hurriedly asked everything he hears today making his blood boil. Such a thrilling world.

"You don't need to know about this now. It will only slow down your cultivation when the time comes you will understand why. The physical cultivation technique you created is considered very good you can use that. It's better than most of the technique in Ji Clan. From today onwards you will train your body to an extreme limit for 5 years. Ji Clans training ground is quite good, you can train in there."

Ji Yun knows if he trains in the training ground, he won't be able the reach the limit of his body. Suddenly, he remembers about the house he was in when he woke up. It's near the green leaf village. If he trains there no one will disturb him and he can train to his heart's content.

"Grandfather, I will go to the house near Greenleaf village and I will train there. I liked the location of the house and the atmosphere also very good there."

"Oh, the willow house. It's considered good, but it's near the lost forest and there will be many ranked chakra beasts. If you stay near the house it's not a problem your father constructed an array there, but if you venture into an outer region it will turn into a complicated situation. You have to be careful in there. I will also send someone to protect you. OK, When are you going to set out?"

"I will leave tomorrow morning. Grandfather, help me get some weight training equipment and some medicines."

"Naturally, I will go and purchase some of the body recovering medicinal liquid and pills. Everything will be ready for you tomorrow morning." Saying this Ji Kongyun departed from his room.

Ji Yun who was sitting in his bed began to look outside the window and thinking 'From tomorrow onwards my peaceful life will be over and thrilling life is going to begin. This world is full of wonders and mysteries. I am going to enjoy this life.'