Brother (I): Learning About The Sect

It took a while before Alex and Laozi made their was to the foot of the mountain, it wasn't as difficult as when Alex first climbed the mountain, that's because then he was still in the body refining realm, and now he was in the open meridian realm, so something like this wouldn't be as stressful to him as before. It's just that he took his time coming down for a variety of reasons.

First it was because he was terribly nervous, second he spent his time asking Laozi questions about the sect, expanding his knowledge, mostly about the little things his grandfather seemed to have glossed over. The few things of importance that he had to pay attention to, was the rankings of the disciples. And most disciples if not all of them are denoted by their level of cultivation, but sometimes it's not the case.

Body refining realm disciples wore grey robes over their normal clothes, open meridian disciples wore, green, open Dantian realm disciples wore red, true essence disciples wore purple, and then true element disciples wore yellow. And this were just the color scheme for the students who were still cultivating within the mortal gate.

When a disciple passes the peak of the mortal gate, which in this case is the true element realm and enter the first cultivation realm of the earth gate, they become core disciples of the sect, with some of them even taking up official positions and having students and followers of their own.

In the earth gate cultivation realms, a cultivator would focus on strengthening the power of their soul, which was why the first realm was known as the soul refining realm. Cultivation was a little complicated but at the same time simple. It's divided into three gates of mortal, earth and heaven. And in the mortal gate, a cultivator is issue expected to strengthen every aspect of their mortal body, pushing it to the peak and making it the most suitable for cultivation.

In the earth gate, the cultivator is considered powerful enough to roam the earth and bring about great changes to it. But then they would be facing on the unseen and may serious aspects of cultivation. Which is why they focus on their souls, and learn so many unique and powerful techniques that didn't need the body or a weapon to utilize as opposed to the mortal realm that needed catalysts for it's skills.

The heaven gate was the most powerful, men and women in the heaven gate were as powerful as gods and hero's of legend. They could change the weather with just a wave of their hands, create life from nothing if they so wanted, and could travel through space and dimensions, going to other worlds to battle for resources. And it was that last tidbit of information that shocked the shit out of Alex.

According to Laozi, this was not something he had to worry about at his current level of cultivation, but it was an open secret to cultivators that on this plane of existence, there existed other cultivation worlds that were separated by either hundreds if not millions of galaxies, or dimensions. And once you get to the peak of cultivation and ascend to a higher plane of existence, it would also be the same there.

But all Alex had to do now was focus on his cultivation and get stronger, strong enough that he could be considered a chosen amongst the six young dragons and six young phoenixes of earth. Extremely talented youths between the age of sixteen and 25 who would be considered the brightest stars of their generation. Laozi seemed to be believe that Alex had the potential to reaching them and surpassing them, of course that list wouldn't apply to him until he gets to sixteen. But never the less it was a novelty that had been placed in the head of the young man.

Alex didn't know what it would take to reach such a level, but he would try his best to reach there. But even after all the off track explanation, they were still able to come back to their main topic. Alex was given a black robe with white borders on it. And after asking Laozi about it, he realized that black robes were for the direct descendants of the Wudang sect leadership. And him being the grandson of the former sect head more than qualified him for it.

Anyway, because of that, there was no way Alex could hid who he was, and the moment he came down his mountain peak, he caught the eyes of every one around him. Laozi led him through pavilions, open parks and grasslands were other students were training, but in some place or another he could find stores that sold different things, apartments complexes and even a massive public lake where young children were swimming and having fun without a care in the world.

And

This wasn't exactly what he expected the sect to be like, but it was nice. It made this place seem more like a home than Alex thought it would be. But the stares were not stopping, and it was beginning to freak Alex out. Alex had to grab at Laozi and asked with an even firmer voice why people were so focused on him.

"Young master…..it's really not my place to say...but since you what to hear it, I guess I don't have much of a choice. Well I would say the reason why they're so focused on you, is because you're the only half-blood legacy disciple on Wudang mountains. Your home, the dark continent....Africa as your people call it young master, is a colony. And while slavery is no longer in circulation, many still think that people of the dark continent are not really to be mingled with." Laozi said with somber tone.

"So you're saying that they're racists?" Alex asked without a single hint of hesitation in his word.

"Not exactly young master, in this world power is all that's respected, not skin color, race or family background, though being the grandson of the former sect head and peak heaven gate cultivator helps. What I'm trying to say is that it's practically rare, if not completely unheard of for someone of your mother's status and position to have a child with someone from the dark continent. You're one of a kind young master, which is why they don't know how to approach or relate to you."

Though Laozi did explain things a bit better to Alex, and in a way that made him feel better about himself. But it didn't change the fact that as far as the people around were concerned, he was not supposed to exists. But then again, they can all go suck a dick! Alex wasn't going to let himself be bothered by their archaic views, in this world only power matters, in front of power even talent won't matter.

"Come Laozi, can you please show me where other disciples mingle and get together?" Alex asked, only for another voice to interrupt.

"Why the hurry half breed, you can mingle with us just fine. Except of course by the time we're done mingling you would have to be carried back to your land of mud and dirt!" a voice filled with no small amount of animosity said to him.

Alex turned surprised at the young boy who looked about a year or two older than him, and the sheer venom that was dripping through his words.

"Who are you?" Alex asked with a confused look on his face.

"Oh! Please let me introduce myself little brother, my name is Lu Wen, and I'm your step brother!"

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