First time desire for power

Watching from afar was the second elder Yin Muxiang and her new direct disciple Feng Yu.

Feng Yu whispered anxiously "Master you should help junior brother now that he is in trouble."

Yin Muxiang replied "Let this serve as a lesson to him for stealing the pills that elder sister made for me. He should understand the martial world is based on strength and people without strength are cockroaches that are trampled by others. He will have to leave the sect when he grows up and motivation for cultivation is required to achieve greatness in the path of cultivation."

She added "My sister pampers him a lot everyone in the sect is too indulgent on him. These lesson must be taught to him by an outsider so that he dispels his naive thoughts about the world. I have seen him getting very mischievous nowadays. He has great talent in all things from poetry to literature to the war arts but he seem to like trolling in the sect and lazying around nowadays. This will wake him up to atleast run every day and tell them to teach him to cultivate early. I feel that he will greatly change the destiny of the sect for he has the potential to be one of the greatest the continent has even seen. It will also serve as a lesson for the third given her reckless personality"

The rising sun put an end to the nightly celebrations. The people cooled down and the bustling streets became empty. The disciples saw the third elder had a worried expression for the first time in their lives.

Shen Mengqing was wondering where that mischievous boy was. She had kept the girls waiting for more than two hours as she searched for him in all the places possible. Dejected with not finding him she began to gather the disciples and return to the sect to inform the sect master. She suddenly noticed a haggard figure making his way covered with blood, dirt and garbage with torn clothes but familiar eyes. Trying to figure out who he was she came close to him.

The boy was indeed our hero Li Tian and in sharp contrast to his usual to cheerful, mischievous look. She felt a pain seeing him like this and anxiously fidegeted items from the space ring that was not tidy at all and soon the whole street was soon filled with items. She gave him a pill and washed him with water such that the wounds began to heal and he clean again. When she had finished dressing him up, she saw the whole street was filled with people curiously watching the stack of items on the ground. The whole stack vanished right at that moment, she was so angry that she wanted to raze the town in the ground but reason prevailed in the end.

Shen Mengqing asked in a pained angry voice "Li Tian who was responsible for you to end up like this tell third elder, I will end his life along with those close to him.'

Li Tian just motioned for them to go back to the sect.

Helpless at the fact that he was not telling her she had to take the disciples back to the sect. Things were not so calm in the sect when word spread that Li Tian was beaten up by someone in the town so badly. The first elder was the first to rush to see him and comforted him. The sect leader was also distressed and tried to cheer him up. The third elder was also harshly rebuked for the fact of teaching him to steal and not taking him care of him while he was with her.

Li Tian was in a daze for two days thinking about the matter over and over again.

Yin Muxiang came to him on the third day. The stern elder commented "You have got the punishment for stealing pills that should have been mine. Did you learn anything from your experience? Remember, you will never truly belong to the sect, so you will not have any identity left when you grow up. In this world, only the strong are allowed to rule apart from those who have the protection of the strong. Without strength only humiliation is the result of the weak. You are too young to cultivate now but that does not mean you cannot work hard, strengthen your body, learn skills, wisdom is the only way that can overcome strength. When you have both the world will be at your tips. Your mischievousness and naivety can only bring about your demise. I have already discussed with the others not allowing them to touch the boy. This is your personal grievance which was must be addressed by you personally."

Li Tian looked at the second elder and then raised his up to the heavens resolutely deciding that he will be one of those strong whose words will be heeded by all the people in the planet. He will never let anyone humiliate himself again and he will take revenge for any grievance he suffered personally. He will be the one in charge of authority instead of letting others to decide his fate and the fate of his loved ones.