Departure

He started to say to me, "As you probably know, I was forced to stop you during the test. Do you know why?"

I said to him, "No, but if you did this it must have been for a good reason, otherwise you wouldn't have moved for something trivial."

The cultivator was surprised by the maturity shown by Cropta. Indeed, a person of his age should have been carried away by his emotions after what had just happened to him. But Cropta was acting like nothing had happened.

He continued, "I was forced to move and it was the fault of your power."

I was surprised by what he had just told me. My power, what power? I was just an average person, I couldn't own one until I started to refine my Qi.

So I asked him, "What power are you talking about? I don't have any."

He smiled at me and said, "This is where you went wrong, during the test just as your body was going to let go, you suddenly had a surge of energy. Am I right?"

I nodded and said, "Do you know why this happened to me?"

"I have the answer to your question, but it could change your life forever. Are you sure you want to know the answer? "

I looked at him for a long time and made up my mind "Before you stand a future immortal, how simple words can stop me."

He said to me "I appreciate your daring, I'll explain everything to you."

I got into a position and was ready to listen carefully.

Seeing that I was ready, he began to speak, "As you know, every person who can cultivate has Qi. Every person's Qi will have an element. This element may be common such as fire, wind, earth, water, and metal or it may be rarer such as lightning or ice. A person's power will be greatly influenced by its element. Your element is the problem that forced me to stop you. "

So I asked him "Why did you have to stop me?"

He said, "Unwittingly, you were able to use your Qi and you began to absorb the life energy of the people around you. This is the reason why you felt stronger and stronger, you fed on other people's lives, so I had to stop you or other people would have died there. "

I was shocked at what I had done, I could have killed people without even noticing it, so I asked him "What are you going to do to me? Kill me so that I don't cause any harm in this world?"

I was waiting for his answer and suddenly he put his hand on my shoulder and said to me "I won't do anything to you because, in my opinion, you can have demonic power but bring good in this world. It is not our Qi that decides. our future but us. So it's up to you to decide whether to become bad or good. If you were in the presence of other cultivators, I think they would have taken your life the moment they knew your Qi. But I'm not like them. It's only us who decide which life we ​​want to lead. "

As he started to leave the bedroom, he turned to me one last time and said, "Get up early tomorrow because we are leaving at dawn."

These words froze me and I said "Does that mean that I passed the tests?"

He didn't answer me and walked for the exit but as he was about to disappear, he turned to me and just nodded to finally disappear.

This nod said it all, I had really passed the tests. I was going to become a cultivator. Alone in my room, I got up and walked to the window. From this, one could see the moon. I looked at it and said, "Father, mother, I have succeeded, your son will become a cultivator."

So I went back to bed to go to sleep and be ready for the departure which took place tomorrow morning. So I lay down comfortably in the bed hoping to have a peaceful night and be in good shape for tomorrow.

Finally, the night passed quite quickly and I woke up a little before our departure.

I got up from the bed and the first words I spoke were "What a horrible night."

Indeed I do not know why I had only to chain the nightmares during this night and they were each time more and more horrible.

I had made a total of three. In the first nightmare, I became a bandit who looted and destroyed villages to acquire goods.

In the second nightmare, I had become a local tyrant who sacrificed the people who lived on my land to monsters.

Finally, in the last nightmare which was the most horrible of the three, I had become a cultivator who fed on baby blood and I was also using it to get stronger.

How one could use and sacrifice infants to become stronger. But there was a connection between these three nightmares. Indeed they all revolved around blood. So is this what would happen to me if I acted on the Qi I had?

I have to control my own life and not be controlled by my Qi so I will not end up like one of those people.

Then I say, "I think it's time to go."

So I opened the bedroom door and walked outside the tavern.

In front of the tavern were the cultivators but I was struck by the number of people who had passed the tests. Indeed we were only 20 while we were 575 to have passed the test.

When I finally came to join the group of young people, some gave me little looks and I could see fear hidden deep in their eyes. I could understand their feelings about what happened yesterday.

When the cultivators saw that everyone was present, 4 cultivators came forward and said, "We are from 4 different sects so before you leave you will each choose one of the sects."

Very quickly they explained to us the strengths of each sect. As everyone was picking a cult, I started looking for the cultivator who had visited me last night.

As I was looking for him, Alpha came up to me and said "What are you doing young man, you are not going to join one of the sects."

So I replied, "No, I'm looking for the person who visited me yesterday."

As I said that, Alpha said, "This person is gone, you won't be able to see him again so hurry up and join one of the sects."

As I was about to do this, the tavern door opened and someone goes out of it. I recognized this person, it was the cultivator who spoke to me last night.

He looked at me and said, "Looks like you wanna follow me."

I nodded quickly.

He continued, "You know, I don't belong to any sect. I was invited to this event as a spectator. I am only a wanderer if you follow me, I will not be able to bring you the resources or the cultivation methods of the sects. The only thing I can assure you is freedom. Are you sure you want to follow me? "

"Yes, I am."

He smiles and says, "Excellent, and call me Zong."

He then started to whistle and we could see a giant eagle coming towards us. Suddenly he landed next to us and Zong said to me "Come on, let's go."

So I mounted the eagle and under the astonished gaze of the young people, we flew away.

When we were up in the sky, I looked at the horizon and said, "This is how my adventure begins."