Chapter 5

As the two left The Tree's behind them they followed a track, until they reached the street at a place not far away from spot his Sister had kidnapped him.

Continuing with an relaxed walk back as they had left the Forest meaning they were out of danger, they began walking slowly to Kyles home hand in hand.

Slowly approaching the house they could see Kyles mother standing inside looking at an Handyman installing a new door, she discovered the two and came outside to greet them and brought them inside and sat the two down inside the living room.

"Why did you two already return today you two still got one and a half day left from the 9 days you had time?"

"Our Last fight gave us a near death experience, which was just too close for us to still feel save enough to continue right now, so we decided to return a bit earlier and just cultivate for the rest of the Time." Explained Lisa to Kyles mom.

"It's good that nothing bad happened and you two made it out well, but I'm sure you two are hungry, I'm going to make something really quickly so just wait here for a few minutes." She answered nonchalant, before quickly walking to the kitchen Kyle and Lisa looked at each other.

"I think your mother did not recover from the shock of losing her husband and almost you to how she just fades out bad news like our near death experience."

"Yeah I think so too maybe I should keep her company until we leave instead of cultivating?"

"Yea someone should keep her company, but I will be the person to keep her company as she is my mother in law now and you still need to increase your realm a bit more before we leave." Lisa responded on Kyles Question and she clearly didn't want him to talk back to her about it , when his mother Returned already with two bowels of soup.

After Finished eating Kyle was sent upstairs by Lisa, while she grabbed some board games to play with his mother to distract her from other thing while talking with her to help her recover mentally a bit.

Sitting on his new bed, Kyle sat down in lotus position and thought about some things before starting to cultivate.

"MY urge to sleep is getting less and less since I became a cultivator, when I remember correctly once someone reaches the golden core realm he stops needing to sleep and is able to extract everything there body needs from the surrounding Qi and stop needing to eat anymore, but sadly this is still far away from the current me." Shaking his head he started cultivating when in an instant the Qi in a radius of 10 meters around him was absorbed into a vortex sucking in the surrounding Qi, after a few moments he noticed something in his chaos seed so he checked his system.

[Kyle Light]

[Profession: Cultivator / To be Alchemist]

[Daoist Partner: Lisa Latrimos (Soul Bonded)]

[Realm: Early 4th Layer Body Tempering ( 43 Suns)] (Compared to Peak qi gathering)

[Lifespan: 218 years ]

[Qi Strings: 2134 Strings]

[Martial spirit Fragments: 5 (spirit), 1 (high-earth)]

[Martial Spirit: Chaos Seed (High Monarch)Qi Purification+ Devour+ Qi Infusion + Can display any Grade below its own to hide its Real one (current: ungraded)+ Elemental Resistance 5% increases with Increase in Realm, Draconic Lizard (Low Spirit), Holy Light Spirit (Low Spirit),Lesser Demon (Middle Seed), Celestial spark (Low Seed),Fire (Low seed), Water (Low Seed), Earth (Low Seed),Wood (Low Seed), (Low Seed) Wind (Low Seed), Alchemy Furnace (Low Seed)]

 Looking at it he thought, where he could have gotten the Qi string it he saw the Martial spirit Fragments that where shown below it, that he was shocked about them. He was sure that they must have come from the six people that had attacked him and that his chaos seed must have taken the chance when he was searched there body's for valuables having him distracted from its doing.

 His Chaos seed quickly informed him about the function of the fragment after he discovered them, the Fragments can be used to enhance his Martial spirit easier than by using his Qi string to enhance them as it doesn't need to waste so much of its mass to change it to something integrable for the Martial spirits, unlike with the Fragment its only needed to revert it back into Martial spirit origin and it warned him not attempt to transfer it when he doesn't want them to die by their worlds fate backlashing on them after the thought appeared in his mind during its explanation.

Fear appeared in his eyes as he heard the consequences that would have happen if he would have followed his idea of transferring some Martial spirit fragments to Lisa and his mother, with which he would have unintentionally killed her.

Quickly having changed his decision he quickly used the 5 spirit grade Fragment on his elemental Martial spirits and kept the earth grade one for after joining a sect before choosing which he should enhance.

Fire (Low à Mid seed), Water (Low à Mid Seed), Earth (Low à Mid Seed),Wood (Low àMid Seed), Wind (Low à Mid Seed). All of them instantly increased by a small grade once he fused the fragments with them and together with them the speed of his absorption rose to another Level. Starting to cultivate by absorbing Qi strings suns where formed as following amounts of qi strings 114, 122, 130, 138, 146, 154, 162, 176, 192, 208, 224, 240 reaching a total of 55 suns he had suppressed his aura during the breakout to the 5th Layer to not damage the house before continuing his cultivation he run Low on Qi sting to form the 56th sun as only 128 where left after the 55th one was formed.

Cultivating for 6 hours already he could only continue after having absorbed the last Qi strings, by purely relying on absorbing the surrounding Qi which was very slow as the conversion rate was very low for him.

As the tenth day was coming closer to its end he was getting close to forming the 56th sun with only a little bit missing his Body refinement had finally reached saturation allowing his strengh to reach the level of a Peak Qi gathering Cultivator using Qi, before finally the 56th sun condensed and elevated his strengh even more, but even with this his strengh was still miles away from approaching the Foundation establishment realm.

As he was sure that his cultivation speed was too fast for any ungraded Martial spirit even with his exaggerating Qi consumption he changed the Aura of his chaos seed to that of a Low-Seed one before he went to sleep.

Standing up early in the morning he went to the bathroom showering. After that he put on the Robe again which thanks to an special crafting way only known to great refiner inside the sects they had the ability to close most of the damage up even thought some damage was still there where the damage was more severe leaving some holes and the material around these holes stretched itself to repair itself became very thin, he went downstairs to prepare breakfast for the three of them.

Just having finished preparing the breakfast, Lisa and his Mother came downstairs, Kyle instantly noticed that a slight smile had returned on his mothers face after she had spent some time with Lisa.

Entering the kitchen Lisa began praising the smell of his cooking and while eating his mother and her praised is food even more.

"When did you learn to cook such delicious food, I didn't even know that you could even cook Kyle!" stated both over the heavenly taste of his cooking.

Kyle replied while eating on his own. "I don't know this is the first time I actually cooked by myself I just made it from instinct and also added the spices based on instinct?" questioned he himself to, when he suddenly remembered the knowledge transferred by the chaos seed about Alchemy he thought how similar cooking is to alchemy and it might be related to it.

After eating their fill they Lisa and Kyle got on there way after saying goodbye to his mother, Lisa lead the way to an open field close to the ruin that was left from the school building where already more than thousands of other students were already waiting. After waiting for some time approaching 1 pm, when 4 giant beast descended from the sky casting there shadow over the whole field with a wingspan of at least 25 meters in the middle of the field.

Almost everybody of the younger student began trying to flee while screaming for help upon the appearance of the beast, the present Teachers had a hard time stopping them from running as this sight is for the teachers and many of the other students like Kyle and Lisa not the first time, who knew that where the tamed transportation beast from the sect who bring them to the testing ground to test if they have the potential to enter an sect, before being allowed to use the Teleportation formation to the sects if accepted.

Even though its usually just one beast to transport the few graduates of the age of 18, that are seen to be talented enough by the principle to enter a sect which was since the founding of the school never more than 5 student in each graduation batch, which usually only two ore three of the 5 are able to succeed.

Looking at the beasts Kyle saw that A small hut was attached to each of the beasts backs with a seat on top of it where the masters of the beasts had their seat.

Kyle wondered how they planned to fit all of them which are in total over a thousand students and teachers altogether for these small huts.

 "Lisa, do you know how they plan to fit all of us in there in these small huts?" 

"Yeah, I read about it these hut are spatial tressures which inner space got expanding to be far bigger from the inside than what is seen from the outside and are Golden core grade treasures, but they don't have any defensive capabilities and can only be used for a few flights ."

After a few Minutes the rider had opened the doors of the hut and shouted to them to line up and enter.

In the front of one of the lines both of them entered, by jumping up on the 3 meter high back of the bird like beast and entered the hut, they saw a room big enough to accommodate hundreds of students they quickly moved to the back to keep the entrance free for the other students to enter and sat down next to the girls that had entered before them. The hut was filled quickly filled with students and one young female teacher sat down in the seat right in front of Kyle constantly mumbling about something to herself.

 The door was closed after the last few open seats where filled with more students, there body's got pressed into the seat from the sudden ascend for multiple seconds before it stopped and the flight became very smooth with the exception of a small rocking from the flapping of the beast wings giving the flight a calming atmosphere.

After the mumbling between the other students had calmed down after a few minutes of the flight, Lisa told Kyle she would sleep a bit to pass some time of the flight and laid her head on his right shoulder where she quickly fell asleep.

After a few hours gone by he had listened to some conversation close to him.

The girls siting to his left spoke about that with their low grade Martial spirit and there low cultivation should work hard to seduce some inner disciple to get extra resources if they don't want to be demoted from outer disciple to a handyman disciple which is like servants for the other disciple if they don't show enough improvement in there cultivation and loose there access to resources until they become Qi Gathering Cultivator, while another group talked which sect is better than the other with another group besides them talked what they should do after joining a sect.

An after Listening to the mumbling of the young teacher he had kept listening while having listened to the others, he finally had deciphered what she was mumbling about on repeat while knowing on her finger nails, after having listened to her for almost another whole hour. "Why would they go to such a sect instead a more honored one, there so young and throw their life away to enter this brothel like sect the Flower Valey sect! They had the possibility to enter any of these sect and even if they became handyman disciples it would have been better than this." hearing this Kyle was shocked hearing something like this from this teacher expecting a more open mindset from her, but it had also answered his thought why there were so few of the female upper classmen's in the crowd before there departure.

When he remembers correctly the Flower Valey sect was a sect which follows the path of dual cultivation which is cultivating through the union of man and woman and cultivate techniques to charm men, but even then he wouldn't call the a sect of prostitutes as the also can cultivate normally while mostly those with low talent chose to sleep with all kinds of cultivator and those with higher ones chose a disciple of the other sect who are unable to progress fast enough anymore to become there Daoist partner which mostly succeeds as they are thanks to their technique as attractive as a succubus and the dual cultivation would also bring their partners more benefits than without using a technique which makes relationships with them very attractive to male cultivator. But even with all of this they won't accept woman below the age of 18 and relationship with ones below 18 is also forbidden and his punished very serious if it's happened and might even cause expulsion or death.

Many hours later the beast began his descent and had a slight bumpy landing, waking up Lisa, before the doors where even opened to let them out.

As Lisa and Kyle had entered almost first they needed to wait a few minutes before they got out and had a breath taking view after exiting the hut, seeing a giant Field of stone with majestic creatures engraved on it leading to Five permanent Teleportation arrays made of a gold like material inserted in the stone, with an ocean behind it as far as the eyes could see.

Walking towards the area in front of the Array he began reading the names of the sect engraved in the ground in front of them from left to right. Flower Valey sect, Mountain crushing sect, Dragon blood sect, Divine sword sect, Beast master sect.

After the Last person joined the crowd one of the rider of the beast sudden raised his arm a wave of true Qi separated everybody to four groups and throw pushed them into different direction, when the person shouted. "The Four sects decided to spit everybody equally instead of letting you chose as they want to keep the resources loss equal, to not brake the balance between them which could lead to war. Now move towards the arrays behind you."

Immediately there was a commotion among many of the students that this wasn't what was promised by them or that they wanted to enter a certain one and didn't even knew at which sect Array they are standing ending in a commotion, but the commotion was quickly ended when the person released his aura and shouted at them angrily. "You nobody's dare to question the sect decision, if it weren't for their goodwill you would keep rotting here, now move!"

Those who just made a Tumult got scared out of their wits by the aura and some even peed there pants in fear while the others were just forced to their knees, while only Lisa, Kyle and one other person from another group where barely able keep themselves from kneeling.

The person said before retracting his aura. "At least some good seed are within this mountain of garbage."

Once the aura disappeared everybody quickly moved towards the arrays in fear of something like this to happen again. Each of the beast that transported them entered one of the Array together with there rider, when each rider pulled out a token and hold them above there head when the Formation below them began to shine and the space on top of the arrays started to distort the space together with them before they disappeared and reappeared on top of an platform in midst an open yard with one small stone and one giant boulder which he identified as Testing stone for Martial spirits with a raised grandstand with a total of 13 seats standing to its side giving great view to the stones surrounded by buildings. 

Only 12 of the seats where filled out of the 13 seats, the one in the middle which was slightly larger and was decorated with various materials and must have been for someone of high rank in the sect that Kyle was sure to be the sect master.

A man standing below the grand stand turned to them and spoke Loudly "Please step forward one after another and go to the stone to show me bone age and cultivation before going over to test your martial spirit. If your talent Attracts an elders attention you can be taken as a personal disciple, once completed you follow the path at the end of this space to the registration hall where you will receive your robe and identification token."

Quickly one after another stepped forward to test their bone age, cultivation and Martial spirit but no one caught the eyes of a elder and while this went on Lisa had begun talking with Kyle.

"Kyle I was very scared for a moment, that we might have gotten split up when they suddenly split us in group, but luckily we were standing close enough together and got moved together."

"Yea we got Lucky, but as long we are together everything should be fine."

After the people needed to be tested was reduced to around a hundred the was just one person left in front of Lisa and Kyle

The man in the grandstand announced just as before the result of the Tests

"Name Borus Melkras, Bone age 18, cultivation early 9th Layer Body tempering realm and Martial spirit Blood Wolf Spider Mid Seed grade. Outer disciple!"

Again no elder Appeared to take a disciple.