The Past Had Passed

Fifteen years of memories and experiences.

Yu Xuan was born into an ordinary family, both his parents were at the 5th-stage Body Refining Realm, they were not cultivators, and it would take a long time for them to reach the 9th-stage Body Refining Realm.

In this great world, one had to reach a Foundation Establishment Realm to be a Cultivator. The Body Refining Realm was the first and basic realm of all living beings. Every living being was a Body Refining Realm since it was born, by practicing, one would be quicker advance, by not practicing, one would slowly advance as time passed.

However, no matter what, the 10th-stage Body Refining Realm was the limit for them. That was the unbreakable barrier for all Body Refining living beings since ancient times. Only possessing a Cultivation Technique, one would be able to break that shackle and officially become a genuine Cultivator. Yu Xuan's family, of course, didn't have the qualifications to possess that treasure. As a result, his parents did farming in a small village for the sake of living.

Since Yu Xuan was born, he was a very obedient guy, but not naive, he helped his parents do the chores without blaming a single word. In his free time, he would observe nature and the living being, always being in a daze for hours. He loved spending time alone, whenever he had a chance he would read and learn new stuff by himself. His parents felt that their son was quite far from them, it was as if he was not their real child, however, they still loved him a lot and supported him in every aspect.

In terms of appearance before becoming a genuine Cultivator, Yu Xuan's appearance was very ordinary like a mortal who had nothing special, his current body's facial features were considered very ordinary and youthful. His skin was quite yellow and tender. His black hair reached his waist. When mixing with the crowd, no one would notice his existence if they didn't know him before.

He had a little sister who was younger than him by 5 years. Her name was Yu Xue, She really cared about him since she knew how to speak. Different from her brother, she was really cute and cheerful. Everyone in the village adored her. She would receive gorgeous gifts from the villagers from time to time.

When his age reached 10, he was recommended to join the Five Elements Sect by Si Liu.

Si Liu was the Master of the Tea Peak, she had quite a reputation and status in the Five Elements Sect. When she was still a fifteen years old youth, she was on her way to getting experience outside to inspire her breakthrough in cultivation, however, she met an unexpected incident, and she was injured. Fortunately, she was saved by Yu Xuan's parents. So that's why she recommended Yu Xuan to the sect and promised to take care of him to not be bullied by other disciples for 10 years.

"Ha..." Yu Xuan sighed as he recollected his memories. It's worth ordinary, truly ordinary.

He then closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and started to recollect his 5 years of experience in the sect.

Joining the Five Elements Sect was almost impossible for normal people who didn't have good backgrounds or good talents. Especially, for a person like Yu Xuan, it was impossible to accomplish that. Even reaching a Foundation Establishment Realm and becoming a genuine Cultivator, one needed to pass the strict test to be an outer disciple. This was the great dream of many people from many people lower rank cities.

However, even if Yu Xuan was recommended by Si Liu, the sect had to test his aptitude first. If his aptitude was good, his treatment would be special. If not, his treatment would be slightly better than normal on account of giving face to Si Liu.

There were two aspects to measuring a good aptitude. One was talent and another was a Special Physique.

Having good Talent and a good Physique was a special genius.

Having good talent and a normal Physique was a genius.

Having normal talent and a normal Physique was called normal.

Yu Xuan was undoubtedly the last one, a normal one. As a result, Yu Xuan was supposed to arrange into the residence where he had to live with another roommate. However, due to Si Liu's status, he was arranged to live in a private room and had the qualifications to pick the Cultivation Techniques. In the end, he ended up picking Deep Water Culture Technique.

From then on, Yu Xuan had been cultivating Deep Water Culture Technique. He was like a child finding the toys, he had cultivated diligently.

Before he joined the sect, he was a 5th-stage Body Refining Realm. Upon having a Cultivation Technique, he reached a 10th-stage Body Refining two years later. This speed was normal for a normal like him.

If it were a genius, a year would be enough.

If it were a special genius, half a year would be enough.

Deep Water Culture was a mortal-grade Cultivation Technique, it was the most basic water element technique, and any disciples could practice it.

When comprehended, one could break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

When comprehended to the extreme, one could break through to the 5th stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm.

There were such techniques as Fire Borrow, Earth Absorb, Wind Come, Lightning Descend... Which were all Mortal-Grade Cultivation Techniques, which were suitable for new disciples.

There was no doubt that water was the easiest one.

In this cultivation great world, although there was an extremely pure natural primeval essence, one couldn't absorb it when one reached a 10th-stage Body Refining Realm.

One must use Cultivation Technique. Every Realm had its Techniques. The Foundation Establishment Realm used earth-rade, the Core Formation Realm and the Core Evolution used heaven-grade.

Nonetheless, the Foundation Establishment Realm could use the heaven-grade as well, but the result would be slow down and hard to comprehend.

Deep Water Culture Technique was not an easy Cultivation Technique, one must dive to at least two meters to observe the profundity of water elements, the deeper one dive, the speed of absorbing water path primeval essence faster.

Normally, an earth-grade talent spent a year on breakthroughs from a 10th-stage Body Refining to a Foundation Establishment Realm.

If one had both an earth-grade talent and Water Element Physique, one only needed half a year.

For example, one of the top 10 outstanding outer disciples lists:

Shui Ying had a heaven-grade talent and a heaven-grade Mermaid Physique, she spent 3 months comprehending an earth-grade Cultivation Technique, Glaze Water. This meant, that the higher the talent, the faster one could comprehend the profundities of a Cultivation Technique.

However, Yu Xuan who had a mortal-grade talent and a mortal-grade Physique spent three years comprehending Deep Water Culture Cultivation Technique to break through a 1st-stage Foundation Establishment Realm.

During these three years, Yu Xuan spent every five hours a day at the depth of a lake to comprehend this Deep Water Culture Technique.

Normally, Cultivators who did not comprehend Deep Water Culture Technique could only hold their breath at the depth of water for no more than ten minutes.

Yu Xuan must dive up and down many rounds per day.

This showed how important talent and physique were.

However, Yu Xuan didn't feel discouraged or too sad about his performance.

"So what if I have a mortal talent, mortal Physique... It can never defy me!" He exclaimed with a confident look.

As his gaze fixed on the Deep Water Culture Technique and murmured" I must create my own cultivation technique!"