Training

Time kept passing, and rumors about Jian Nantian spread through the city.

"I heard he was able to talk fluently only one year and a half after he was born"

"I heard that kid started running around every morning before breakfast only three months after he learnt to stand up"

"You won't believe me, but I personally saw that kid going alone in the library of the guests building trying to pull books out of the shelves. Believe me, I was doing the cleaning service there at that time and I found him looking at the symbols on the book as if he could read. And he was only two at that time!"

"That's impossible, his father requests to get him a teacher got approved two years and a half ago, are you saying that he knew how to read before he even got a teacher?"

"I'm only stating what I saw. I'm not sure he was reading, but he sure looked like he was trying to"

Rumors like these were everywhere in the guests building, spreading from servant to servant. Everyone was waiting for the next record the Governors son would break in his growth speed.

Five years had passed since his birth in this world with him working hard to improve himself and gain a stable foothold in the family.

He kept running every day, adding some light workout in order to make his still frail body less weak. This gave him a slim but rosy figure and he felt his body growing stronger every day. Yet, even if he was stronger than the average kid, he was still just a kid. He would only do half an hour per day of training since that was the limit of his young body. The rest of the day was spent eating large meals made of rice and meat, sleeping or reading.

Two and a half years ago he finally got his teacher, so he could stop sneaking out at night trying to decipher the strange symbols they called writing.

His teacher name was Zhan kong. He was one of the scholars hired around the city.

zhan kong was a man in his sixties, with grey hair tied in a ponytail and a short black beard noticeably cured. He had an apathetic face as if nothing was of his interest and explained things in a slow but concise manner. Yet, even this lofty character had to change his disposition toward Jian Nantian when he found out that he learnt how to read in less than 6 months of teaching.

After that, he would finish every book the scholar imparted him in less and less time and he even had time to rent books of his interest from the library on the ground floor. The servants were so used to him picking books that they would not even remind him to bring them back.

At the age of five, Jian Nantian had a general understanding of the topography near the mansion,and finally, he found something regarding cultivators.

The mansion was situated near Evergreen Forest, called like this for the type of trees that forest was made of. The big stone road of the main gate flowed into an even bigger road that led to the nearest city,sunset city, that was ruled by the chaotic void sect.

purple moon city was an underling of the chaotic void sect, and had to pay an annual tribute of gold or goods in order to keep his rule over city.They were the landlords of 50 kilometers square around the mansion and had to exact annual taxes from the surrounding villages in this area and protect them from the attack of bandits or magical beasts.

Magical beasts! In this world, there were species of animals with the innate gift to absorb energy from the world and using it to empower their natural abilities. The lance of flames used by the dragon years ago was a type of usage of the energy of the world that empowered its already powerful flames, giving them more range of attack and destructiveness.

Finally, about a year before, Jian Nantian found a book about cultivation. It was an old and heavy book,written by a cultivator, the book did not mention the name of the expert. The book carried detailed information about the path of cultivation. The author mainly focused on the basis introduction to the path of cultivation.

Today Jian Nantian was currently having a lesson with Zhan kong in a room on the first floor of the mansion.

''Magical beasts have an innate ability to manipulate and absorb the "spiritual energy" and they will learn to use it naturally in the course of their life, it can be said that their bloodline is quite advantageous according to this aspect. Yet, Heaven and Earth are fair so most of them lack the intellect to better use their gifts.Humans, on the other hand, can strengthen their body by absorbing the spiritual energy but they need techniques in order to absorb and use the spiritual energy." Zhan Kong lectured.

''No wonder this book wasn't destroyed by cultivators and managed to survive till now." Jian Nantian said.

"The best this book can do is give a better understanding of the cultivation system.'' Zhan Kong replied.

Going through the book it gave a detailed explanations about the realms of cultivation.

According to the book,

the first realm of cultivation was know as " The mortal realm." After absorbing the spiritual energy within heaven and earth into their body,one need a cultivation technique to transforming them into spiritual power.

To become a Warrior one needed to absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth and then to cultivate spiritual power in his body.

Spiritual power was fundamental to every Warrior. It was impossible for one to be a Warrior if one could not cultivate spiritual power. Such a person would be looked down as trash in this world where strength was everything.

Reading through all this only made Jian Nantian blood boil.

"I guess it's not bad been reborn here." Jian Nantian thought while smiling.