= Blue Gale Sect Meeting Hall =
Klein Xingye : “WHAT DID YOU SAY?! You want to take my Xingye to travel with you! Do you kids even know how dangerous the outside world is?!”
*Orphius [ An exile ]
* Barlock [ An orphan ]
* Zordick [ Trained killer ]
[ All of them traveled alone for some time. ]
Orphius : “Please calm down Sect Master, We were just asking if it’s possible otherwise we will not force the issue.”
Klein Xingye : “Although I hate to admit it, you kids are better than most of the same age, especially that Luo kid, I can’t see through him at all.”
Klein Xingye : “I was also at your age when my father made me travel the world. I will agree, but there are conditions!”
The brothers was filled with joy hearing Klein to agree, though there are condition they are willing to compromise.
Klein Xingye : “You should come back in a year and take by disciple with you.”
Orphius : “………………. By disciple do you mean……?”
Klein Xingye : “Indeed, he is who you think he is.”
Rogue Shin : “Rogue Shin greet Brother Orphius, Brother Barlock and Brother Zordick, as well as Junior Sister Ning Xingye. Please take care of me!”
The four of them looked at each other they agree to return in a year but they were hesitant to take Shin with them. Although Shin is a bit arrogant when they first met, his talent isn’t the worst, his talent is at least second-rate. In the end they decided to just agree, whether they like it or not, there’s no way the Sect Master would want anymore discussion.
Orphius : “Alright we agree Sect Master Xingye, we’ll take Brother Shin and return in a year.”
It was decided that 5 of them head out together and return in a year.
= 3 Months Later =
= Somewhere in some other uninhabitable* Plane =
* [ There are 2 types of Plane; Inhabitable & Uninhabitable. ]
[ Inhabitable Planes are Plane that are capable of housing and building civilization. They are home to multiple intelligent races that have already build and marked their own territory. ]
[ Uninhabitable Planes are planes that are either still unfinished ( on it’s infancy stage ) or created for the purpose of training for the creator or their disciples. Most of this types of planes are considered dangerous and forbidden for weaker cultivators. ]
[ Killed 3 Frost Rhino ]
[ Frost Rhino ]
Level : Human Phase - 5th Stage - 8th Level
[ Level 58 ]
Strength : 69 [ A+ ]
Speed : 47 [ B ]
Agility : 43 [ B- ]
Defence : 78 [ S ]
Intelligence : 39 [ C+ ]
Potential : 12 [ D- ]
Attribute : Metal, Ice, Earth [ B+ ]
Bloodline : 12.9% Ice Titan Rhino [ AA ]
Description : Loves to cover it’s body with snow and ice.
[ Frost Rhino ]
Lives in mountain are with thick layer or snow. It hides underground and ambushes its prey.
“I’ve been here for 3 months already but I’ve only advanced by 1 Stage. Hunting in this place is so inefficient. I can’t see clearly because it’s constantly raining snow and the monsters either hiding under the thick layer of snow and ice or hiding on deep underground caves.”
“The only reason I’ve persisting on this hell of a place is because Alpha told me that there is an item in this place that can help me gain either the [ Ice ], [ Snow ] or [ Water ] Attribute. But I’ve been walking for months now, I don’t even know if what direction I’m headed. The marks I’ve left either immediately got covered by snow or been swept away by the wind. I might have to come back empty handed at this rate. I’ve been running low on points now, I can barely hunt and get back points here, beasts are so scarce.”
Luo Kai kept on wandering for another 3 days but barely got anything. He only managed to hunt a few more beasts but never got any hint of the spiritual herb he’s been looking for.
[ A Strong Beast is observing you. ]
“I’ve been getting this notification for days now, it seems like this beast have been following me since. I’ll let it follow me for now, but I can’t let my guard down.”
= 1 week later =
“My points have emptied already, tomorrow I’ll be forced to teleport back by Alpha. It’s seems like I won’t be lucky this time. I’ll just be back here when I got enough points to spare. Attributes aren’t that easy to obtain, even father who is a peak Supreme master who have lived for tens of thousands of years only have 10. Me having 2 at this age can be considered a genius already.”
[ A Strong Beast is observing you. ]
“And here I have someone who’s more persistent than I am. And because of him the already scarce hunt become worse than it already is. His presence scare the weaker beast and tried to fled away. Now I’ve been just walking, I can’t hunt anymore.
[ Ding! ]
Alpha : “Host, It might be here in the vicinity. The aura of heaven and earth in this area is thicker than the other places we’ve been so far”
“Really?! Is my [ MAX ] Level Luck now working?”
Alpha : “Luck is still just a luck, you still need to work on yourself to achieve things.”
“Alright, now please scan the area, locate where the aura of heaven and earth is the densest.”
[ Scanning….. ]
Alpha : “The distribution of aura of Heaven and Earth are all the same within a thousand mile radius.”
“What? How did that happened? There should be a part where it have the richest aura of Heaven and Earth, that should be the epicenter where the spiritual herb is located.”
Alpha : “Are you saying that my functions are defected.”
“.…………………….. I didn’t mean it that way, I mean it’s weird that there is no epicenter.”
Alpha : “…………. Then host should use a formation to determine it’s exact location.”
“Formation? I don’t even have a points to extend my stay………… Formation! That’s it! There must be a formation laid out here! Alpha can you determine if there is a formation in the area?”
Alpha : “It’s nice if you use your brain sometimes. In that way I don’t need to spoon-feed you everything.”
“.………………………….. Why are you mad?”
[ Scanning for formation….. ]
[ 3 Formations found. ]
“Three? That’s an overkill!”
[ Everlast Blizzard Formation ]
[ Snow Illusion Formation ]
[ Ice Gale Killing Array ]
“2 Illusion formation and 1 killing array. It’s a bit too much of a protection for something like a spiritual herb. There must be more to this place than it seemed.”
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“Alpha, can you break it?”
Alpha : “It’ll take at least 17 hours to break it.”
“That’s a bit long, anyway how much longer can I stay here?”
Alpha : “Host have exactly 67 Hours 31 Minutes and 44 Seconds as I speak.”
“Alright, I have more than enough time. Alpha please begin breaking it.”
[ Beginning Formation breakthrough sequence…. ]
= 21 Hours Later =
[ Breakthrough successful. ]
“It took longer than your estimation.”
Alpha : “There a teleportation formation hidden behind the previous existing one. Alpha just found out while breaking the formation.”
“Really? It seems like the owner of this place is a meticulous person.”
Alpha : “Indeed he was.”
After breaking the Formation, what greeted Luo Kai is something he would have not expected. It was a secret realm full of greenery and vegetation in contrast to the world itself covered in ice and snow. The secret realm itself is pretty small it was only a few tens of mile surrounded by humongous mountain everywhere and in the middle is a patch of plains full of valuable spirit herbs. In the middle of the herb field is a small hut with no inhabitants. Luo Kai walked towards the hut. It was abandoned for a long time, dust piled everywhere. At one corner is a table and a book on top of it. Seems like a diary of some sort. There was a name written in the cover of the book.
[ Ice Flame Supreme Rob Heist ]
“Is this plane and secret realm created by [ Ice Flame Supreme ]? He’s a famous flame cultivator from hundred thousand years ago, he can still be read on some history books taught on class. It’s said that he was one of the few people who reached the peak of Supreme Phase on his time, also one of the first few people to create their own Plane, but suddenly got missing few hundred years after the completion of his Plane, he named it [ Ice White Flame Plane ], that means that I am currently at the [ Ice White Flame Plane ] right now?”
”But how did the [ Ice Flame Supreme ] died? Someone at the peak of the Supreme Phase isn’t just some random mob that can be slaughtered.”
Luo Kai walked around the small hut and cleaning some dust in hope of finding some clue and valuables. Few minutes later he stumbled upon some hidden compartment hidden behind a pile of books. It was small and only has a small pouch. It wasn’t an artifact but just a normal pouch. Luo Kai opened the pouch and was stunned by what he sees. An emblem that was quite similar to one they used as a communication device.
”Why is this here? There’s a small differences with the design, it’s more extravagant, but isn’t this the same one as the Imperial Token what we are using? I remember Alpha saying that this set of token is one from more than five hundred thousand years ago? Is the [ Ice Flame Supreme ] somewhat connected to that fallen sect?”
”There’s some secret this hidden realm is hiding, I’ll be sure to come back here somewhere in the future. I’m running out of time, I need to grab all the valuables here.”
“Alpha? Are you there? Can you mark the location of this secret realm, I feel like we need to come back here in the future.”
“Host, I’ve already marked the location, You only have a day in this secret realm, after you will be forced to return.”
“Alright, a day is enough for me to harvest this herbs and also to get that spiritual herb. Alpha please locate the herb, there’s just too many of them, I don’t know which one is it.”
“Hundered meters to your 3’oclock there a pure white colored flower, that’s what you want.”
Luo Kai walked toward the direction told by Alpha.
“Wow! This flower is so beautiful and white, pure and untainted. What do you call this spiritual here Alpha”
“ It’s called [ Silver Ice White Rose ]. It has a really high chance of awakening an Ice Attribute after in-taking properly.”
“Alright, with you by my side that high chance is a guaranteed.”
= A Day Later =
“Alright we’ve got what we came here for. It’s been 3 months since I came here, I’ve emptied my points but it’s pretty worth it. Let’s go back, Alpha.”
Luo Kai returned to Mother Plane after travelling the [ Ice White Flame Plane ] for more than 3 months. He then sell some less valuable herbs for some money to use for his expenses then got some decent inn for a couple of days stay.
“I’ve collected a lot of herb in that herbal garden but the most valuable of all is this [ Silver Ice White Rose ] that can help me awaken an Ice Attribute, that would be my 3rd attribute after awakening it.”
“Alpha how do I process this flower?”
“Host need to agitate the flower, release a small amount of aura and pressure the flower, once the flower sense a danger it would activate its ice attribute as a defense mechanism, host need to contain the aura that it releases and not leak anything otherwise it would lower the purity of the ice attribute. After the flower releases all it’s Ice attribute how need to move all the ice attributes to the center of the flower, pluck all of its petal neatly and make it cover the ball of ice attributes before ingesting it. That way the petal would protect your body while the ice attributes slowly seeps through your innards.”
“Phew! That sounds like a lot of complicated and dangerous procedures in a row.”
Luo Kai proceed all according to Alpha’s instruction. And after ingesting, Luo Kai started to cultivate the ice attribute and with the help of the [ Silver Ice White Rose ] the comprehension of the ice attribute went smoothly.
= 7 Days Later =
An explosion of ice attribute burst out in Luo Kai’s room.
[ Ding! ]
[ Ice Attribute have successfully comprehended! ]
“It’s a success, it had taken too much time. My body is still just of a 6 years old, forcing to merge a third attribute even with the help of [ Silver Ice White Rose ] it still takes a toll on my body. Let’s look at my stats and see where we are at.”
Name : Luo Kai
Race : Divine Demon
Title : Reincarnator blessed with Alpha
Level : Human Phase - 7th Stage - 2st Level [ Level 72 ]
Strength : 130 -> 175 [ S+ ]
Speed : 107 -> 150 [ S+ ]
Agility : 99 -> 143 [ S+ ]
Defence : 149 -> 203 [ SS ]
Intelligence : 81 - 121 [ S- ]
Spiritual Root : Mid - Apex Grade [ AA+ ]
Potential : MAX [ Perk ]
Constitution : Divine Demon Body [ S ]
Charm : MAX [ Perk ]
Arts : Chaos Breathing Volume 6 [ A+ ]
Attribute : Sword, Light, Ice [ S ]
Luck : MAX [ Perk ]
Flexibility : 25 -> 31 [ C+ ]
Remaining Points
Stat Points : 55
Perk Points : 2
System Points : 27
Roulette Points : 1
Techniques :
[ A ] [ 12 Moons of the Moonless Night Sword Dance ] [ Level 5 -> 6 ]
[ A ] [ Lightless Blade Arts ] [ Level 0 -> 2 ]
Beast Companion :
Fire Blood Hound [ Warwick ] [ Level 21 -> 35 ]
Items :
[ B+ ] [ Azure Steel Blade ]
“It’s pretty good. My stats increased decently but my cultivation level only increased by 1 stage in three months. That three months was painful, only the last couple of days we’re productive. But overall it’s still fairly satisfactory, gaining a third attribute outweighs all of those painful experience.”
“ [ Warwick ] also improved quite a lot this 3 months. Hey there lil’ buddy.”
[ Fire Blood Puppy ] - [ Warwick ]
Level : Human Phase - 3rd Stage - 5th Level [ Level 35 ]
Strength : 19 -> 47 [ C -> A+ ]
Speed : 23 -> 51 [ B -> S- ]
Agility : 22 -> 53 [ B -> S- ]
Defence : 17 -> 44 [ D - A- ]
Intelligence : 8 -> 22 [ F -> C+ ]
Potential : 19 -> 25 [ A ]
Attribute : Fire, Blood, Magma [ S ]
Bloodline : 1.41% - 4.01% Magma Blood Fenrir [ SSS ]
“It’s stats increased quite a lot, he’s not the sickly little puppy anymore, he’s got [ S- ] now, although the [ Intelligence ] is still rather low but we can work on it overtime. The biggest gain was increasing the purity of its bloodline by a lot.”
“Alright we’re getting some decent progress, let’s go eat something decent since we got money from selling some herbs we don’t use.”
Luo Kai and Warwick walked through the stall market and grab some street foods and candies. Not too long after they started walking the market they witnessed some commotion ahead. They walked closer and see what’s going on.
What they see is something normal for this world, a slave being abused by their owner. The owner doesn’t seemed from a really rich family by their clothes, they might be someone from a middle class, they got angry at their slave for falling to the ground. It was obvious that the slave didn’t eat anything for a couple of days, it was thin, and shaking from hunger. It was pretty normal, slaves of those middle class people mostly die of hunger and mistreatment. They are not spared some clothes and food, no decent living spaces, most of them sleep on stables or pig pens, some just sleep under the hay bales especially during the winter season, just to have a little bit of heat in their body and not die of cold. During winter hundreds upon hundreds of bodies are buried in a mass grave everyday and almost all of them are slaves of middle class people.
“Let’s go little guy, there’s not much to see here. Let’s at a nearby restaurant.”
Alpha : “Host, you might want to see this slave.”
“What do you mean?”
Luo Kai looked at the slave again out of curiosity with what Alpha mean.
Name : Ken Dra
Race : Primeval Star Asura
Title :
Level : 0
Strength : 3 [ E ]
Speed : 1 [ F- ]
Agility : 2 [ E ]
Defence : 4 [ E+ ]
Intelligence : 5 [ E+ ]
Spiritual Root : Low Emperor Grade [ SS ]
Potential : 80 [ SS ]
Constitution : Primeval Asura [ SSS- ]
Charm : 60 [ S+ ]
Arts : None
Attribute : None
Luck : 92 [ SSS- ]
“!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“What?!?!?!? This guy is insane!! What the hell is wrong with this guy!! He’s got this kind of stats but allow himself to be a slave!!”
Alpha : “He might not know of his origin, most likely he was born without someone guiding him and though he was just a normal human.”
“I need to get this guy!!”
“A high class Asura, with tremendous potential, luck and high quality spirit root.”
After looking at the hidden elements of the slave Luo Kai without a second though intervened with the matter of slave and it’s owners. In this world intervening in a matter between a slave and it’s owner is not a taboo but can be spelled as an unspoken rule.
The owner of the slave is around the same age of Luo Kai around 5 or 6 years old. Just by his behavior Luo Kai deduced him as a spoiled brat. Just as the owner was about to hit the slave Luo Kai intervened and block his hits.
“Who are you! How dare you intervened with my matters!”
“I don’t want to intervened but I feel like you’ve hit him enough. He’s already shaking from hunger, you don’t even feed him well but still have the guts to hit him till he’s black and blue.”
“What does that matter with you! I own this slave so I do everything I want! If you want to step in that much why don’t you just buy him!!”
“Alright, I’ll buy him! How much is it?”
“W-W-What do you mean buy?? Are you making fun of me?”
“You told me to buy him, so I will buy him. Everyone here heard you. Are you going back on your word?”
“I-I-I didn’t mean it like that!! I was just saying it so you would stop!!”
“So you’re going back on your word?”
People mumbling thing on the background.
“Young people nowadays, really just spout everything without even having the guts to admit it.”
“I did heard him say it, but now he don’t want to admit it.”
“All words no action.”
“He should be ashamed.”
The slave owner began to panic hearing all kinds of rumors behind his back. He knew that he would now win with a battle of words so he got no choice but to concede as not humiliate himself any further.
“A-Alright I’ll sell him! 100 Silver taels!!”
“What? Aren’t you ashamed of yourself selling your slave for a high price when he isn’t even in a good condition, look at his body? He look like he would shatter and splatter anytime!”
“Ahrm! 90!”
“45!”
“What?! 80!”
“50!”
“60! That’s the lowest I can go!”
“DEAL!”
Inside Luo Kai’s mind.
“What a steal! Getting this precious talent for just a measly 60 teals is a total rip off! WHAHAH. Not even a Mid Class City is of equal value to this guy!”
Luo Kai handed 65 teals of silver to the slave owner ( 5 bonus for a guilty free conscience ) and their transaction concluded. The slave owner thinks that he ripped Luo Kai selling a slave on the verge of death who don’t even have a market value anymore.
“Heheheh! That slave is a lost cause and would probably die in a day or two. It’s nice to be smart.”
Luo Kai looked at the pitiful state of his newly bought slave that collapsed just a minute ago. He shaking terribly and looked like he would die any second now. The crowd also started to disperse. He brought the slave to the room he rented in an inn.
“Alpha, I would like to buy a medicinal elixir enough to stop this lil fella from dying.”
[ Ding! ]
[ Low Grade Medicial Exilir purchased ]
[ 120 points deducted ]
Luo Kai gave the medicine to his new slave. The slaved regained consciousness after a minute. Though he’s wounds and bruises healed, he’s still weak, no strength in his buddy from over exhaustion and hunger. Luo Kai decided to take him to eat to regain some strength.
“Alright let’s go grab something to eat. Lil buddy let’s go. Come with me lil Ken.”
The slave was astonished upon hearing his new Master call him by his name and he was more astounded upon hearing that his new Master even know his name when he didn’t even tell him even his previous Master no one knows his real name everyone just call him as slave, bastard, and all sorts of insulting names. He feels like his new Master isn’t that bad at all.
After walking for a few minutes Ken thought that they would go straight to the restaurant but contrary to what he believe they stopped at a clothing shop, a pretty expensive one. They entered the shop.
Worker : “Welcome costumer, What would you like to buy?”
Luo Kai : “Please assist this little guy, dress him up, and also give some other few spare. Just make him look decent.”
Worker : “Understood, young master!”
Ken : “W-W-Wait, Master! A-Am I allowed to get this clothes? W-What if I messed it up and it ripped?”
Luo Kai : “Why would it get ripped? Anyway, if that happens I’ll just pay it. So just go with it. Hurry up, I’m hungry.”
Ken : “W-W-Wait!”
Ken got dragged by the clothing shop workers and made him try various outfits.
= 1 Hour Later =
Worker : “Young master, we’ve completed our task. A trendy outfit fit young master’s companion. And a few to spare. A total of 1 Gold and 500 Silver Teals.”
Ken : “O-O-One gold?!?! MASTEERRRRR I will return all this back!!!!”
Luo Kai paid everything in full and handed the amount necessary.
Luo Kai : “What the hell is wrong with you? Why do you keep on shouting every time? Can you behave yourself?”
Ken : “B-But Master, t-that was one gold, one whole gold.”
Luo Kai : “I know how to count, that’s one gold and I know it. What? Do you want me to run away and take the clothes? Do you want to go around walking like a corpse who just got out of grave?”
Ken could not respond both to his master’s words and his feeling. His master payed a huge amount of money just for his clothing when his previous master doesn’t even spare a single copper teals on him.
After getting out of the clothing shop, they head straight to the restaurant at the end of the stall market. As soon as they entered they are greeted by a worker and Luo Kai ordered after getting a menu.
Luo Kai : “Give me 3 sets of today’s combo dish. Add more sets of desserts.”
The table was packed with all kinds of foods and desserts that Ken have only heard but not seen, they are foods that he never would have imagined eating all his life, and there are multiples of them in one table. Ken though that even though his master is young he’s got a huge appetite.
Luo Kai was about to start eating but then he noticed something.
Luo Kai : “Oi! What are you doing there standing like an idiot?”
Ken : “???”
Luo Kai : “What the fuck? Are you actually an idiot? Sit down here and start gnawing this food, do you expect me to eat them all?”
Ken : “I can also eat?”
Luo Kai : “What? If you don’t eat then do you want to just die starving? I don’t mind you dying but I won’t allow you to die starving. I have enough money to buy foods so of course we gonna eat. Sit down there you little shit.”
Ken have never dreamed of eating such luxurious meals and beside his master nonetheless, he always eat rock hard breads and few leftovers if is lucky. Ken was quietly eating his meals and tears flow his eyes, he said to himself that even if he die, he won’t allow his master to be hurt in this lifetime. That moment he silently swore to his martial dao to become loyal to his new master.