Chapter One: The Old-Man (1)

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"Mother! Father! Look I have caught the fish!"

Near the pond, Wu Feng was gripping a fish as its eyes nearly popped out.

Wu Feng ran towards his parents with excitement. Suddenly, the scene changed with corpses on the ground and fire on the surrounding. He was scared as he saw his mother smiling at him and was headless in the next moment. Then the scene changes again, and his father was murmuring at him on his last breath!

"Mother! Father!"

This time, Wu Feng opened his two tearing eyes and was about to prop up when suddenly he felt pain on his entire body.

"Ahhh... Where am I?"

He scan his surrounding feeling unfamiliar with this environment. In his view, darkness occupied the area as he was laying in the ground.

Wang Feng looked at his body, full of wounds but was wrapped up with white clothes.

"Your awake." Suddenly, A emotionless voice sounded out in the darkness.

Wu Feng endure the pain and stood up and asked as he swept his gaze. "Who?!"

The voice didn't reply and only a sound of two continuous clapping was heard and then the darkness was engulfed with fire-light. At the next moment, an old man sitting in a majestic bloody-rock had appeared on Wu Feng's eyes.

"Pardon my ignorance, may I ask the senior's name?" asked Wu Feng.

"Young man, you're only about twelve to thirteen years old, yet you wanted to fight for your destiny with your current power? Am I hearing wrong?" Said The old man as he didn't answer him.

Wu Feng thought that this old man probably heard him and replied. "Yes, I might a powerless youth right now. But time changes and future is unpredictable, as long as I can make it out alive here. I can train a hundred times harder and strive for power and take revenge!"

The old-man smiled. He never thought to find an interesting twelve years old kid with this mentality. This startled him a little and said in curiosity. "Oh, you wanted to escape here?"

"Yes." Wu Feng nodded. He had to leave this place as soon as possible and train or join a powerful sect for a better path in order to take revenge!

The old-man laughed and pointed in the sky as he curiously asked. "Look, you said you wanted to escape this place? Now, tell me how you gonna climb that tall?"

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One Year Later.

"Ahhh!"

Wang Feng had fallen in the ground, he screamed in pain due to grief and pain.

In this one year, Wang Feng had recovered his injuries four months ago and recuperate for another one week before planning out how to escape in this place.

Then the following months, every day he would try to climb up the rocks with his bare hands. At first, he could only make it to 10 feet before falling due to a lack of gripping strength. However, as time goes by he made it to 20, 35, 50 feet. Unfortunately, he was far away from the thousand feet cliff.

Laying on the ground, There's only darkness and fire-light that could be seen by his two eyes. He felt like he was on hell. A hell that chained all over his body. He felt despair for the first time.

"You said you wanted to surpass every obstacle and slaughter everyone on your path? Ridiculous, you can't even get the hella out on this place! Yet a kid like you have such big mouth but lack skill, pathetic!"

The voice of the old-man drifted on his ears. He suddenly realized that he lacks strength! He had an intent to strive to be the strong yet it was meaningless before strength?

Tears suddenly drip on his eyes, he raises his two hands in the sky and said. "I'm really weak! Cultivators can climb this cliff in a matter of seconds, yet I had struggled to climb? I'm not even half-foot in my goal and I have the nerve to talk big?"

Wu Feng thought about his parents, clan, and friends. These three brought him warmth and a comfortable life, but now coldness and pain had replaced those feelings at the moment they're gone! He had finally understood that no matter how strong a person is, they're always a stronger one hidden among the masses. As a thirteen years old, he had not even yet started cultivation and only comparable to an ant? Pathetic!

"Perhaps, I'm really a worthless person!" Thought Wu Feng.

He stood up and wipe the tears on his eyes, and the next moment, a coldness flash within his eyes.

Suddenly when Wu Feng was about to make another attempt, the old man who's silence all the time sounded.

"Young man, what if I say I can give you strength? What will you do?"

Wu Feng's heartbeat and looked towards the old man and replied. "You can give me power? Then that will be a great help for my revenge!"

The old man smiled as he said: "Young man, the path of cultivation is filled with suffering and pain, losing someone is only a part of your experiences. However, these memories will not be forgotten in your life, unless you sever its connection. So don't be blinded with resentment. I will ask you. If you wanted to achieve the peak of martial arts will you severe the scar? or brought the scar towards your journey? Now answer me! If I you could give me a satisfying answer, perhaps, I could give you guidance and strength."

Wu Feng was startled and directly answered without hesitation: "Your right! The path is filled with obstacles and losing someone is only part of one's life experiences. However, severing these memories is like cutting your own right to be reborn from the ashes that the law had bound. I might be an inexperienced little kid, right now! But I know that severing the emotion will bring tremendous power. But bringing the pain and the emotions in your path is like walking in the road filled with hellfire, giving you opportunities to encounter setbacks and life-and-death situations. Thus, Only by experiencing these, can one have the chance to be reborn and undergo samsara! Right now, I, Wu Feng might be an insignificant being! However, I prefer to walk the path that filled with obstacles and overcome them step by step, rather than a shortcut that only gives fleeting strength!"

"Hahaha, good! Good! Very good! I never thought that at the end of my life I will discover a youth that has an unshakable martial dao!" The old man laughed and continued: "But, if you think this is enough to convince me, then your wrong!"

WuFeng's heart instantly filled with helplessness as he inquired: "Senior, may I ask what I needed to do to convince you?"

The old man stood up from the rock and wave his hand, then a red feather appeared on his hand as he smiled. "Do you see this object in my hand? If you could surprise me and snatch this thing I will bestow you a cultivation technique that defy the common words."

"So you mean as long as I snatch the feather in your hand. You will give me a cultivation technique and guide me?" Asked Wu Feng. Although he said this, he didn't feel confident snatching the feather on the hand of this mysterious old-man.

"Yes! But don't think it will be this easy! I give you five months of time limit. The rules are simple. You can use any necessary movement and tricks in your hand. However, I will only use my right hand to counter you. Any injuries will be unavoidable, are you prepared?" The old man spoke the rules as he continued. "Don't worry, I will not use any spiritual energy to be fair. Now the time start!"

Wu Feng nodded as he understands all the rules. He made a long deep breath and said.

"Here I go!"