Di Tao

The royal clan of Jiao was itself a very proficient ad powerful ruler of this region. It was visible from the years of rule Jiao clan was maintaining with absolute hegemony. It could be said that the Jiao were successful enough to maintain their sovereignty over the country with their strict and efficient conduct. One of the major backbones of such a long rule was the forces that the clan had under control. The Jiao clan made sure that royal family members were at the top positions in the military. The only exception to this case was the north-eastern regions. The chaos present in there just deemed the most powerful as the master. That was the only region that Jiao had no control over. But this was not enough to maintain an efficient rule. Hence what the clan required was a private institution to train a personal force for themselves. This was the origin of the Royal military academy of the country. It was established by the clan in thoughts of training both the descendants of the royalty and nobility as well as, creating their own force. The Royal military academy was something that was totally backed up by the Jiao country's royal clan. But of course, the most important was given to the imperial people. The commoners who joined, unless very highly talented were not given many benefits relative to what the royalty obtained. Long Tao's main motive behind entering the royal military academy was to gain knowledge and control of the Jiao country's core people. For this, he needed to gain control of the Military academy first. Hence, he not only needed to show his talent but start establishing his own prestige soon enough to gain some control over the governing situation of his life in the academy. It was this reason which compelled Long Tao to create a relationship and familiarity with the third prince. He required to have some sort of backing first, before taking over the whole region. He knew his time within the Jiao country was very limited and the minimum amount of strength that was required to dominate the country, even without the sect's interference was mid-level Qi general for Long Tao. But of course, this was just a rough estimate. If the current trend of power growth continued, then his estimate was the mid-Qi general realm. But he knew that there were many other factors that affected his strength. It included the meridians, Qi points, the 12 forges, the body that would be provided when he steps into the Qi master realm, and the Weapon Tempering art was something he hadn't even tried. There were also a bunch of defensive arts he was going to practice simultaneously from both the crimson lord world and the royal treasury. And the most important changing factor was the set of Blood tempering art and Flesh tempering art. These two were kind of special variables. The blood tempering art gave him a bloodline ability when he stepped into the QI Child realm. Long Tao was expecting another ability to pop up when he steps into the QI master realm. Even upgrade in the cultivation realm, with the practice of the blood tempering art, gave him new abilities. As for the flesh tempering art, it condensed, reformed, and tempered the outer flesh of the practitioner. This resulted in Long Tao having such a thin and sleek figure even after devouring such a number of beasts and pills. The flesh of his was condensed.

The flesh tempering art gave Long Tao, not only a different set of technique which buffed his power to an insane extent but also it opened up new horizons for thinking into the development of a new set of techniques. Flesh tempering helps up layering the flesh one over the other and condense it. Each, tempering, not only restructure, but the biggest function is the condensing and densifying ability of the flesh tempering method. Now Long Tao desired to use the same theory to the Qi in his body. He wanted to condense and densify QI originating from his body. The benefit of this particular process, if successful were unlimited. But it had a long way to go. Now entering the Royal military academy. Long Tao soon enough reported to the incubation center where he was instantly recognized as the third seed of the royal gathering held some days back. He was someone who was in the good books of the king and the third price's friend. Hence, he has welcomed Long Tao went through the scrutiny process as usual, and he showed the thunder and fire compatible natural body of rank 4 and small accomplishment level of 1st stage spear will. This was enough to create an uproar in the upper management of the academy. This was one of the biggest talents that could be found in the whole region. Soon enough the peoples started flooding in, but the highest cultivation of the elders who offered him to be their disciple was mid- Qi general. This was just too low for Long Tao. Hence, he rejected the offer and decided to stay as a normal disciple who just complete tasks to get sect points for exchanging his requirements. Although the elders were upset about this action of Long Tao, no one tried to object his action in a forceful way because they know that he was someone valued by the king himself. Long Tao left after being appointed as an inner disciple and soon reached his dwelling. This was a normal quarter. Long Tao kept his luggage away and was about to go into practice when there was a loud bang on his door. Long Tao proceeded to open it and found that a group of people was standing outside the door. "Are you Di Tao?" , Long Tao didn't say anything and just nodded. "You are to come with us to meet the boss." Long Tao, verified their cultivation, and it was just beginner levels of QI master.

"Tell your boss, whoever he is, to come to visit me himself.", Long Tao was about to enter his house again when one when suddenly one of the people in the group, launched an attack on him. Long Tao simply avoided his attack and kicked the guy in the abdomen with just 30% of his physical strength. The guy was sent flying, broke away the stone wall nearby and heavily injured, unable to even move. Long Tao didn't bother with the injured guy, turned around, and faced the rest of the group" I will give you insects one last chance to fuck off from my face. Don't dare to open your mouth while leaving, and pick that bastard up while you screw off. You have 10 breaths to do that." The group was scared by the amount of power Di Tao displayed. They didn't expect him to be so powerful. But how could they give up so easily when they have been ordered by the boss to bring him in to meet. The leader (The one who was the most powerful among them), raised a finger and pointing at Long Tao shouted "How dare you to hurt the underlings of the Boss. You will pay up for it.". "Your time is over. None of you walk out of here on your feet.". Long Tao attacked instantly. He kicked the face of one of the members while punching another. As per the one who had raised a finger against him, he grabbed his fist and broke it. Then he held the should and dislocated it instantly. Mad howls of pain started to gush out of his mouth. Long Tao then serially broke the leg of each one of them, making them incapable of even running. He then individually started slapping the face of each one of them, until they were unrecognizable. The loud noises soon attracted the attention of the nearby students and when they say the harsh situation at hand, they chose not to interfere. The whole group was beaten shitless, not even able to oppose the beating. Finally, they were thrown out of Long Tao's compound. Long Tao looked around and entered his house. Entering, Long Tao sat down "It is unethical to enters someone's house without their permission. Unless you want the same ending as the people outside, you should get lost now." A sleek figure soon appeared in the view of Long Tao. This was a beautiful woman in a red dress. The dress was a bit revealing and complimented the girl's figure well. "You are quite the perceptive one. To able to identify me while I was hiding my aura, you are quite capable. No doubt my brother is impressed by you." A sweet voice sounded. Long Tao looked a bit seriously at her and asked "Who might you be?". "Jiao Lengruo, I am Jiao Shen's elder sister and your senior here. You should show me some respect." Long Tao looked at her and said mockingly "Seniority is decided by power, a peak mid-level Qi master like you don't deserve my respect, your highness." Lengruo was shocked by seeing the casual behavior of Di Tao towards her. What shocked her, even more, was the fact that Long Tao could gouge her real cultivation level. This was something unexpected. "You are quite gutsy; I will give you that. Are you sure I am not powerful enough? You might have defeated that guy outside, but he was just a peak 3rd level Qi master. I am at the peak of the 6th level. I can easily crush you." Long Tao gave maniac laughter before looking her into the eyes and said" I would have already thrown you out if you were not one of the royal clan members. Regarding the strength part, I suppose you didn't see the earlier confrontation properly. Try to visualize it properly and you will understand the situation. Now kindly get out of my dwelling." Long Tao showed her the way out. Jiao Lengruo glanced icily towards Di Tao and left with her face red with anger.

Getting a little instance away, Jiao Lengruo was pouting and stomping her feet on the ground." How dare he show me such contempt. I will make him pay." "Who has made my disciple react so violently. "an elderly figure appeared before Jiao Lengruo. "I bow before master.". This elder was none other than Lengruo's master and one of the grand elders of the royal academy. A core member of both the academy and royal clan. "It was that dimwit whom my younger brother and father appreciated so much, the third ranker of this year's royal gathering. My brother asked me to take care of him while in the academy, but that bastard is quite ungrateful. Although he has quite some talent and was able to defeat Qi master 3rd realm peak, this is the royal academy, where dragons roam hidden. He had offended one of the bosses of the inner circle. Let him be. When I was about to offer help, he not only rejected me but actually looked down on my strength, asking me to contemplate over the fight he just had." Jiao Lengruo was fuming with anger at the moment. Her master sighed for some time and then said with a strict voice" He did say the right thing. You are not capable enough to provide him support with your strength. Jiao Lengruo was taken back by what her master just said. "What do you mean by that master?". "That boy is quite the hidden mystery. In the fight earlier he didn't even use any Qi or soul power. He beat them with pure physical strength alone. And from what I see, he didn't even utilize all of his strength. Maybe 50% at best. You should be able to understand his power now, don't you. I suppose if you had a fight with him, the probability of you winning is very low.". Jiao Lengruo was shocked to the core. If what her master said was true then, Di Tao did say the right thing. She was beneath him in strength and he didn't require to show her respect of any kind. "You should try to have a good relation with him. He rejected all the offers given to him by the academy elders. It shows not that he thought less of himself, but rather that he looked down on the elder's strength. Your Younger brother and father have good eye for talent. "Jiao Lengruo was standing there in a daze. "Good news for you. Your father has managed to break through the Qi General realm. And is starting to train in the royal forbidden zone from now on." This brought Jiao Lengruo back to reality, and the news was quite rejoicing.

Di Tao was back in his apartment, sitting down and starting to cultivate Qi. He had started his break-through into the Qi master realm, by gathering up the ultimate amount of Qi he could. Soon enough he was expecting to step into the next stage. Qi master.