Chapter 9: Opening of Monarch Inheritance

The Great Forest, core area, 1 weak later.

There are many beasts inhabited in the forest. It is said that even rank 6 Beast exist here. Elders from various sects in Jade Harbour city have already arrived here. They have also cleared the nearby area to prevent any accidents due to a beast charging in.

There are 5 factions here, in the order of strength:

1. Spirit Dragon Clan

2. Shadow Phoenix Sect

3. Thunderous Peak Sect

4. Moonlight Sect

5. Locals from Azure Mountain.

Within Spirit Dragon Clan faction, a young man with great temperament is standing alongside a middle aged man, who acts like a servant despite having extraordinary strength!

Long Yifan looked at the middle aged man and asked "How long elder Chang?"

"It would open anytime now, young master." Long Chang said politely.

Long Chang is a rank 7 Warrior, sent here for the protection of Long Yifan, who is the future Clan leader of Spirit Dragon Clan. There are also many Clan disciples present too, but all of them are from rank 3 to rank 4. There is another young man who is rank 5 early stage!

Long Yifan was a genius from the very beginning, with A grade talent. He reached rank 1 at the age of 7, rank 2 at the age of 11 and rank 3 in just 19 years of age! Now he is just 60 years old and has already reached rank 5 peak!

"Yo Long Yifan, why are you getting anxious? We will have lot of time in the inheritance. Two years are more than enough for you to accidently trip and die while walking!"

Long Yifan looked at the new comer. He snorted coldly and said: "Do you want to die, Huang Weimin?"

Huang Weimin looked at him disdain. "You really think too highly of yourself!"

Long Yifan snorted but didn't speak. He knows Huang Weimin is also very strong. He is already at rank 5 late stage with just 63 years of age. They has faced off multiple times, most of them ended up in draw and his victory, but there were also cases where Long Yifan lost against him.

At this time, Wang family, Li family and many other villagers from different parts of the Azure Mountain have gathered together. Among them, a couple was standing together.

Wang Xueyao and Li Gang looked at the drama and didn't speak.

'It's true. In a real world, everything is probabilistic. A rank 5 fighting rank 4 can never guarantee victory! They can only say they have higher chance of victory not a guaranteed victory!' Li Gang murmured inwardly.

Li Gang isn't wrong. Just take Earth as an example. If being a better chess player means guaranteed victory, then those World Champions would never face defeats. But, the reality is they do face defeat, just it's chances are low! But in fighting, even though the probability increases sharply as compared to mind games, it is still there.

For example, defeating rank 4 Warrior peak stage, a rank 5 Warrior early stage would have 90% chances, a rank 5 mid stage would have 99% chances, a rank 5 late stage would have 99.9% chances, and a rank 5 peak stage would have 99.99% chances!

These are just average data, in actual reality, it may fluctuate depending on the foundation of different Warriors! Sometimes, a rank 4 Warrior has combat strength of rank 5, and sometimes, a rank 5 Warrior's combat is at rank 4.

At this moment, A huge space-time turbulence opened a huge circular shaped gate. Surrounding air flow increased multiple times!

But, no one had the courage to enter such unknown place before others. They are all cautious person. People generally are rational. They won't do such idiotic thing.

As everyone was hesitating, two people suddenly ran forward. Li Minghui and Wang Jinlong immediately started sweating. 'Why these two...'

They were none other than Li Gang and Wang Xueyao.

Looking at Wang Xueyao, Long Yifan's heart skipped a beat. 'So beautiful!' He glanced at their camp, and asked. "Who are these two people?"

Wang Jinlong sweated but still said in polite voice. "Young Master Long, these two are my daughter, Wang Xueyao and my son-in-law, Li Gang.

Long Yifan looked at him deeply and said. "Son-in-law you said?"

Li Hao's face changed. He came closer to Li Minghui and said in low voice that only they could hear.

"He might target Li Gang!"

Even though he hated Li Gang for his rebellious nature, no family member would want their closed ones to die, unless there is some life and death feud.

Li Minghui's face turned serious and even deep helplessness entered into his heart. It has already been declared, only those below age of 100 can enter the gate. He could only pray in his mind.

'Oh Elemental God, please protect my child' He murmured inwardly.

Soon one after another, they all started entering the gate.

In a depth of a nameless forest

"Where are we?" Li Gang asked.

Wang Xueyao glared at him and said deeply. "You truly had a death wish. Why did you drag me?"

Li Gang looked at her and said calmly. "We would only be wasting our time there, time is precious."

Wang Xueyao looked at him deeply and said. "You might have annoyed those arrogant so called young masters."

Li Gang looked at her and smiled. "With you, I don't think they are any danger!"

Wang Xueyao replied coldly: "I won't help you in solving them, do it yourself."

Li Gang smiled. "That's what I was saying. With respect to you, I don't find them any danger. I would rather fight a mad beast than a calm strategist."

Wang Xueyao didn't respond. Both of them got busy in scanning the surrounding. Li Gang suddenly said: "We need to find a top position for better view!"

Wang Xueyao looked at him like an idiot. Li Gang saw her face and asked, "What happened?" Wang Xueyao said, "you didn't find anything special?"

Li Gang thought about it. But he couldn't think about anything. Suddenly he said: "Is it about the clear mind? As soon as I arrived, I felt my thinking speed has increased. I thought it's just an illusion!"

Wang Xueyao looked at him deeply and said. "Is that it?"

Li Gang looked at her. "Is there anything else?" at the same time he thought: 'Is there something special at this place? Looking at her face, there must be something or else she wouldn't ask a meaningless question! Is it because I don't possess Spiritual Imprint? It doesn't matter since I can't take advantage anyway. Since this place is in entirely different space. There must be a way to leave this place, not to the Azure Mountain but entirely different place. It would be great to grab the whole inheritance and leave this place. Given Wang Xueyao's behaviour, I doubt she would take revenge on the family as long as she is aware I don't have any way to contact the family.'

Wang Xueyao also thought: 'He truly doesn't possess Special Ability! In that case, I don't think I have any use of him. Should I kill him now? Forget it, he might be a good pawn in this inheritance. Though I don't think anything here would impress me, but to rise quickly, I need resources. At the end of the inheritance, I will decide based on his usefulness.'

Both of the couples are scheming against each other. It's true that lovers often think alike!

At this time, Wang Xueyao opened her mouth. "This place is a small world, very suitable for Soul Cultivation."

Li Gang looked at her and immediately asked shamelessly. "Do you possess a soul cultivation method?"

Wang Xueyao looked at him with an eye full of pity and said. "I can give you many of them, but without ability to sense Soul, you can't cultivate at all!"

Li Gang chuckled. "No problem, you just give it to me. May be sometime in future, I might be able to use them."

Wang Xueyao glanced at him and threw two scrolls.

She said. "One of them is Celestial Serenity Technique, which can be cultivated to rank 9 Warrior, it is Spiritual Cultivation Technique! The other one is Arcane Soul Fusion Method, it can also be cultivated to rank 9."

Li Gang looked at her with shock. "You are quite rich!"

Wang Xueyao looked at him with disdain and thought inwardly. 'It's just that I don't possess any technique lower than rank 9. Rank 9 is the lowest technique known to me, or else I would have given you lower ones. And, I am too lazy to create one. The only reason I gave you is because I want to see if you can escape my clutches. If you are truly capable of surviving this crisis, I would do anything to find you back and either make you a puppet or an ally! I will never allow a Wanderer to escape my clutches. Wanderers are the greatest variables in this world.'

At the same time, the entire small world has become lively. Through gate, due to Space-Time fluctuations, they all were scattered in different places randomly! Only those who entered the gate together were randomly teleported together.

This small world is covered with Forest areas throughout. As we move closer to the center, large Mountain ranges and various valleys are present. There is also a large river, whose branches connects the whole world like a network!

Just like outer world, this small world also has day and night, without any Sun. Light shines every 12 hours, creating day and night!

2 Days later.

Wang Xueyao's impression of Li Gang completely changed during last two days! Ever since he got those exercises, he has been practicing 12 hours a day, while at the same time looking at Chess board and moving pieces time to time, multitasking them together!

He would even practice while moving on the journey!

Wang Xueyao suddenly asked. "Aren't you exhausted and fed up with practicing all day long?"

Li Gang was suddenly stunned and subconsciously asked. "What?" Wang Xueyao looked at him and repeated. "Aren't you fed up practicing all day long?"

Li Gang looked at her and said calmly. "I don't possess talent, this is the only way I can make up for it. Time is something I don't have! Also, I noticed my cultivation in this place is very fast as compared to before. It seems my aptitude has risen here!"

Wang Xueyao looked at him deeply. 'It's true. He doesn't possess talent! A D grade aptitude allows a person to reach rank 4 at most. But this based on the premise that he also possess same level Spiritual Imprint. So, in his case, his limit is rank 3 mid stage, if he works hard. But the way he is utilising his time, it means, he should be practicing around 9 hours everyday on an average! Even a hard worker can at most give 4-5 hours everyday, because sometimes they train whole day, and sometimes due to some reasons, they can't give time for training. But this guy is utilising every second, even while walking! If he continues like this, he might really reach that stage!'

She explained. "In this place, the compatibility between body and soul is high, so it increases the aptitude drastically!"

"Your current aptitude should be B grade!"