Straw@hat publication: Chapter -4; Mysteries of Celestial worms & Masters :

Soon Huo Ling reached the courtyard it was a simple building with a hall and kitchen, the hall had a disciple bed and a cupboard to store things.

"It needs cleaning badly, was this courtyard abandoned for centuries or something like that, so much dust" saying it Huo began to remove the dust. After cleaning the home to a satisfying level he proudly looked at it and then left for the class. Today was the introductory class.

Huo ling reached the classroom and saw that many disciples were already sitting at their seats. The classroom was spacious and there were about 50 disciple seats arranged neatly at regular distance of 5 feet from each other. In the front portion there was a slightly raised platform with the teacher's seat. Huo Ling entered and sat at one corner of the classs. Soon an elder from the academy came and sat at the teachers table.

He looked around his late forties and had a intimating aura , had long hairs and thick eyebrows ,he was elder Yang who was going to be the incharge of the third class. Elder yang looked around the class and watched everyones faces.

"This is the third class and if you are here you should completely understand your situation, class third receives the lowest amount of resources and many of you are not that much talented either so listen to the class clearly and focus on improving yourself so that you can take parts in the upcoming competitions and earn some resources for yourself" elder Yang said.

"As you all have became celestial masters now you should now that there are many mysterious creatures in the whole universe, who contain the laws of universe and hence can use the powers of their respective laws. They contain all the laws and come in all shapes and sizes, there are many mysterious regarding them and many of them still remain unknown to us. Celestial worms are divided into different ranks they range from rank 1 to rank 6 and above that it is said that a whole new level of cultivation and celestial worms exist. Rank 1 are the weakest and as we go up the ranks their strength increases, also as the rank increases the celestial worms become rare too and very hard to catch".

Huo ling was lost in these thoughts after hearing elder Yang speak when a disciple asked "Master when will we receive our first celestial worm?"

Elder yang smiled and answered "After the class I will take you all to the academy celestial hall where you will get to choose a rank 1 celestial worm. Keep in mind like celestial worms Celestial masters also have cultivation stages from stage one to stage six. You all already might have noticed your celestial sea at stage one initial phase the celestial sea has two islands in it, meaning that you can only keep two celestial worms in there. Also the stage one celestial essence which is present in your celestial sea must be of gray colour , at initial phase it is light gray, at middle phase it is smokey gray and at last in upper phase it is dark gray."

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"After the upper phase dark grey the essence changes from grey to green and when it happens you have reached the second stage of cultivation after green it is blue , violet , orange and at stage six it is red."

Like this elder Yang kept teaching the disciples about the mysterious world of the wild and how they are going to face its might in future and the class time was over.

" Now everyone will follow me to the celestial hall to choose your first celestial worm" he stood up and began to move out.

After hearing it Huo ling became very excited and followed with other students" I wonder what type of celestial worms are present in the academy, i guess they will be all awesome types i cn not wait to choose one." Huo ling was dreaming about his first celestial worm and was thinking hard about which one will he choose.

" Well lets see them all first and then decide."

He looked forward and saw a three story tall pavilion. It was huge, magnificent and the guards standing at the gate gave strong aura.

Elder Yang said " This is the celestial hall you all will enter the first floor now and choose one celestial worm for yourself. The first floor only has the first ranked celestial worms, so you can choose any of them"

Huo ling entered the building and saw many celestial worms kept in different areas according to their types. He looked bat the first group, the worms had their introduction noted below them .

"Fire blast celestial, when injected with celestial essence produces a fire ball which explodes on touching the target attack and fire type"

"Water Barrier celestial, produces a shield of water which is very durable and can defend the user. Very special rank 1 celestial worm as it is able to even defend some weaker 2nd rank celestial attacks, costs a lot of celestial essence when used."

Huo ling read through the various introductions of the celestial's and pondered " there are many that attract me but should I choose an attack type or defence type. At initial phase of stage one I can only keep two celestial worms in my celestial sea" after thinking for quite a long time he finally decided:

" Wether it is attack or defence i don't think i can use them for much time with my stage one initial phase cultivation, so i should instead choose something to save myself from getting into a passive state like a movement type celestial to run from dangerous situations" he wondered if people will call him a coward for thinking so but then laughed why do I care what they call me, them calling me brave won't save me from a crises I should rather prepare an escape first.

Thinking so he stoped before the wind type celestials as in the building they were the best at movement he then browsed through them and finally saw the one which intrested him the most :

"Swift gale celestial, speciality of Chuntian forests a rare wind and movement type which can help move swiftly. It is even faster then some weaker rank 2 celestial worms but it consumes a little extra energy then others" ( it should be known that there is a huge gap of strength gap between rank 1 and rank 2 Celestial worms but some rare and strong celestials at the peak of rank one can be a little better than the considered trash of rank two celestials still it was considerably faster then rank one )

Huo ling read through the introduction and noded : " yup this is the perfect one i guess , even though with my rank one initial phase cultivation I cannot unleash full potential of it, after reaching middle phase I can be faster then second stage initial phase cultivators without proper movement celestials which can be kife saving wnd key moment in victory within stage one cultivation"

He chose the Swift gale Celestial and moved out of the building heading towards his courtyard excitedly where he could tame his first ever celestial worm.

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