Mean while at the cave of patriarch misty peak , or other known as "Loyal Baron" :
A female disciple which certainly could be descriped as beautiful looked at the patriarch . Clear eyes , long black hair as well as a S-curve . If placed on earth she would certainly look asian .
(AN: Sry , i need to mention it since i realise that literally the only one described is the mc : A face like those typical traitors and sly persons . Like rats )
"Why does Master need disciple ?" bowed the female .
"Meihua , soon Li Xue will visit this old man for a while before going to another sect as a disciple . I hope you start forgive her , she wanted to help your family but she .... ." sighed the patriarch .
As soon as the patriarch mentioned Li Mao the eyes of Chu Mei became void of any emotion .
Bowing she replied : "Yes Master!"
Stepping onto the transport array she vanished .
Looking how she vanished the patriarch sighed . As a man who experienced so many things in his life , why can't he fix a broken friendship easily ? Looking at the surrounding spirit stones he could only find one answer : To be able to fix anything one need a certain amount of power . It doesn't matter whether it is brute force of intelligence .
Sighing for a while he started to meditate , around him the spirit stones .
"So you are the inner disciple who need squeezed stones ?" asked the warrior branch elder with a suprised face . After all if one is bringing materials to a location and the one who made the order is a young teenager who wouldn't be surprised ?
Cupping his hands together he boy replied : "Yes elder , my name is Shen !"
Clearly feeling that Shen isn't his real name the warrior didn't said anything .
He turned towards the countless youths who carried the stones and arrived in front of his cave .
"Good , i think ten each day is enough . For inner disciple twenty !"
Shen was surprised as the elder asked him about the squeezed stone , after all he did nothing wrong .
However as one of the disciple whispered to his friend : "Why does Ma Fan has to ridicule the legacy disciple of Elder Bo , not only that why did we joined in ?"
"Yeah , that bald elder shouldn't come out to meddle in our generation . I didn't even witnessed him fighting . Even some older elder battle once in a while against monsters who invade !" replied another one in a low tone .
Suddenly the voice of Bruno sounded through the air : "HOW DARE YOU SAY ANYTHING TO MASTER !" Veins popped out of his head as he wanted to hit these disciples .
However a hand stopped his fist . Precisely it was Elder Bo .
Smiling at these two disciple he turned towards Shen : "I think a young mage like you need some strong warriors to organize the amount of squeezed stones right ? I believe these two young disciples are perfect for you . Since they seem to have enough time to complain about their training ."
Cupping his hands and bowing Shen replied : "Naturally i need manpower ."
Laughing Elder Bo grabbed both disciple and looked at them with a wide grin .
Their face turned pale , however they subdued their souls to the elder .
"Here my friend , do you need more stones ? Since Bruno needs to be trained for a while i will take him away . But if you really need more stones i can ask the other disciple to help you ." smiled Elder Bo while handing over two souls .
Receiving the souls Shen stored both of them away while thanking Elder Bo : "No problem , no problem . Bruno don't have to carry more stones , however since i indeed need more stones i hope that each disciple will carry around 50 stones in the end of the month towards my cave ."
Nodding Elder Bo turned and walked towards the disciples who carried the stones .
Both of the cursing disciples looked at Shen with a hopeful look , after all a kid is way easier to manipulate . Say some honey words and maybe they won't treat you like shit .
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Looking at the two disciples Shen coldly said : "Move to my cave and take your entire belongings in it , from now on you two live with me ."
Bowing both of them withdrawed , after all the rule is never say anything to a kid who holds your life in the hand .
Thinking for a while Shen moved to his cave , he already achieved his goal . Although faster than the planned . Now the only thing left is to get stronger .
Sitting in his cave he started to create more minds , each with the size of one spiritual ball .
Suddenly he could sense how his soul with 9999 spiritual energy started to devour the other souls which looked tiny compared to the 9999 soul .
Sharp pain flashed through his body . However nothing else happened except sweat poured out of his pores .
He could feel how the souls started to devour the other souls . With each souls being eaten he could feel how he got pierced with ten thousand swords and afterwards salty rainwater poured out of the cloud .
Concentrating his tiny souls he started to control them . Because he couldn't stop the rampage of the biggest soul he went to war with his own mind . Blow upon blow the tiny spiritual balls split and opened in variant battle formations . However the other started to calm down from his rampage and defended the attacks of the small minds .
In the end he could feel how the giant mind crumbled . However with no short sacrifice . Of his ca. 7000 souls only about 600 remained .
Closing his eyes he began to think , why did this happen ? Does that mean that i can't nourish one soul with the absorb power of many ? After all the mind nourished couldn't control himself causing it to destroy more than 90% of my fighting power .
If he would follow his former cultivation path nothing would went wrong . However in his 500 years of life he read many cultivation methods . After all knowdledge is power , and reading through the countless abilitys one would gain from a single cultivation was quite interesting .
So how could he follow his former path which was build by countless parts of different cultivations arts ? Since it caused his cultivation to stop he decided to follow an unknown foundation building cultivation art with useful abilitys . Naturally he chosed his most complete cultivation art .
And that was the art of dividing his soul .
After confirming that nothing worse happened he started to cultivate again , this time only creating more souls .
Reaching 1000 he stood up and looked at the mountain of stones in front of his cave .
Two shades of people appeared , holding a little bag .
"We are done with packing shen , what should we do now ?" asked one of the people after arriving in front of Shen .
"Don't call me Shen , call me master ." replied Shen in a cold tone , while adding : "Build a golem out of these stones , i need them as practice targets ."
Both of the disciple cursed inside : "We are inner disciple the same grade as you , so why should we call a little brat master ?"
However they didn't complain , after all their lives are in Shen hands .
"Yes Master ."
Both of them started to build golems out of the transported stones , though they didn't believed that Shen would use them as practice targets . It seemed to be a waste of energy to build a golem and then destroy him . However it seemed quite logical since there is a mountain of stones and controlling one or two golems is already an amazing feat .
Watching the disciples carrying stones while sweating and panting like their lives depent on it Shen slowly moved back and cultivated .
Pondering about his future Shen decided only to create single souls without nuturing one soul more than the others . After all it seemed quite dangerous if one soul ate the rest .
The years of youth passed in the blink of an eye , the former skinny boy with the code name Shen sat in his cave . Naturally he cultivated more souls .
He only reached 5 thousands though , way less than his former 7000 .
However he tried to connect every single soul with each other , causing his mind to be like a puzzle . Looking whole if looked from far , however close it would be small pieces creating the whole .
Investing this year to connect all souls as well as creating more was a successfull year for Shen , now he could gather the needed spiritual energy for a spell as fast as one soul .
(AN: If somebody missed it , he could cast a spell with his souls , however it took a long time to gather it . Now with the "connections" the gathering process is as fast as one would normally with only one soul .)
Supressing his urge to copulate with females he tried to create more souls .
However it was impossible to win against his own desires , especially in ones adolescence .
Walking out of his cave which in no way resembled a housing for a mighty mage he shielded his eyes from the sun .
About 60 Golems appeared in front of him , build by his two servants as well as Leylin and Yun Che .
After drinking some water he changed into clean clothes .
Calling out for his two servants he shouted : "One , Two ! Come !"
It seemed like a spoiled kid calling out for his servants one or two .
Both of them stopped their work and arrived in front of Shen .
At first they believed that their duty would it be to flatter Shen , however both of them only build the golems while daily things like food , water etc. got send to them automatically .
Not only that , Shen didn't disturb them , neither did he expect them to flatter him or beat anyone who oppose him .
Instead they got to train , eat , sleep and repeat that for a whole year .
Shen did the same , his daily necessarys got send by the sect . After all a sect care about their inner wizard disciples , or else some of the crazier ones would starve because they got too absorbed in their experiments .
Naturally his only happened in youth . However if somebody experienced that they almost starved to death would they see the sect in a good light ? Everybody would answer with no .
This system created some sort of dependence , which was good for the sect .
"I will take a mission from the sect board . You two follow me ." commanded Shen while turning towards Leyling and Yun Che : "You two continue to build golems ."
Unhappyness was written over the face of Yun Che , even though he was part of the Yun Family , which was one of the 3 influent Familys in the Fallen leave Sect he is only a small fry . Who cares if a small fry die ?
And now he forced to do labor for an inner disciple .
Leylin just replied : "Yes ."
Following the path of one could see three figues walking towards the sect centre .
A youth with a hideous face , and two young adults following him from behind .