Xie Jianyu was walking carefully, trying to make sure he didn't miss any valuable spirit plants, he needed them to eat, after all. Xie Jianyu was an orphan, so he got lived by being ripped off by greedy merchants whenever he wanted to buy or sell something. When he was younger his family was a wealthy clan of alchemists, so he had no trouble getting food, but one day it all went wrong.

He was playing outside with his neighbour when suddenly his family's house went up in flames, and him, being a small child, didn't know what happened until later. He was put in an orphanage a week later and wasn't told what had happened, and he cried for days until one of the caretakers got fed up and threw him outside and he had to survive on his own, which was how Jianyu got to the Great Ocean town.

Usually, he wouldn't go so deep into the forest looking for plants, as it was infested with spirit beasts, but for some reason, he hadn't encountered a single one, so he decided to go deeper. Now Jianyu was sure there was something strange going on, he hadn't even heard any of the birds, so he made sure to be extra quiet. He didn't have any secret techniques, but living on the streets taught him how to avoid being noticed, and if something did notice him here, he'd probably die.

While he was picking a spirit herb he found by a tree trunk, he noticed that, ahead of him, part of the forest was on fire, he wasn't sure how he hadn't noticed, but now that he had, he would check it out. So he carefully tucked the spirit herb away and slowly crept forward, and when he finally reached what the fire had come from he was slightly confused.

He was looking at a giant crater in the middle of a clearing, with embers dancing through the air happily and debris was thrown all over, the strangest thing though, was the bloody old man lying in the middle of the crater, and he was looking right at Jianyu!

Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

"Hey! Young man, I'll die soon and I don't have a disciple, do you want to be mine?" The old man asked in a cheery voice. Jianyu was, obviously confused, and although he should be wary of strangers, the old man was dying anyway, maybe he would give him some ancient inheritance or an awesome technique!

"Sure!" Jianyu replied in an equally cheery voice after a few minutes thinking of about it. H didn't have anything to lose

"Haha! Great! Come closer, I need to give you something." The old man laughed and beckoned him with a gesture. Jianyu did as was asked and walked into the crater and to the old man's side.

Now that Jianyu had a closer look at the old man, he thought he looked just like all the other old cultivators he'd seen walking through town. The old man had silvery hair tied into a bun, patchy eyebrows, a long beard that reached down to the belt of his maroon robes, and a wrinkled old face! Strangely though, the old man had huge muscles that reminded him of the nice metal-worker in town.

"Good. Good. Put your arm out disciple." The old man told him and Jianyu complied, he was wondering what the old man was doing.

The old man smiled at him and pulled a giant, bronze coloured bracelet out from his sleeve and slid it over Jianyu's hand and onto his wrist. Jianyu was confused, was the old man trying to make him wear it? If so, it definitely wouldn't fit, it looked more like a choker than anything else.

"Woah! How did it do that!" Jianyu exclaimed as he watched with wide eyes as the bracelet shrink down and fit snugly on his forearm. He had heard of tools that can do similar, but they were all in the capital and thousands of gold coins, so seeing one in person really amazed him. He also realized that this old man was probably super strong!

"Hehehe! You'll find out in the future. That right there is called the Starlight Bracelet! It's a storage space I found it a long time ago, it has all you'll need as my disciple, just drop some blood on it and look inside!" The old man told him while bragging about his luck.

"Now, go, some old guy like me will come along soon, and I don't want my new disciple to be killed. When you get home, look inside the bracelet-it's not safe to do it in the forest-and follow what the letter says." The old man told him. Jianyu, of course, didn't have a home, but he wouldn't tell the old man that. So he got up and left with a thank you and a bow. He didn't know if he really got some super treasure-if he didn't he wasted a few minutes, and if he did, his life was about to get a lot more exciting!