I stand outside waiting for the young master to come from the hidden realm, these last five years have been me teaching and guiding the young master into the perfect student and cultivator even my own cultivation has slowed due to me not being able to focus on it as much.

I see a man appear with a cut off hand and feel sympathy as a low born without a hand has no chance at any jobs or positions, finally the week period ends, and I have both a change of clothes and a warm bath under a heat preservation charm ready along with the good room at the tavern for the young master. He shows up with a smirk and presents his catch's which earn him 15th place an incredible achievement for one so young, though someone his age gets 10th place he is of a great sect and is expected to do this well while my young master stands out due to him being from a lower standing sect.

I stay outside the room as the young master sleeps and see the man without a hand and the one who placed 10th named Bin Wu approach.

"We need to speak to your young master on recompense for the act of cutting off this man's hand, although he tried to steal such thing can thoroughly destroy his life and so I believe your sect should heal it as he has the hand placed under a stasis array I provided him." This is bad, he is from a greater sect so doing as he asks is for the best, but the young master will never agree to such a thing and if his master finds out it could hurt his standing.

"I will perform the array healing now if you don't mind, leaving the hand for too long can cause problems." Although far from a master the reattachment array is a more basic one that only is tricky due to the amount of energy needed but that has never been a problem for me.

So, I heal the hand, and they leave, I am exhausted and nap on the floor before the young master's room making sure to wake to help the young master get ready.

I set off with the young master that morning on the horses to return to the sect with the fact he achieved the 15th spot despite being only 17 going against those with almost 4 years on him in both experience and cultivation, and most of them are from the high-grade sects.

We spend two weeks with the young master both upset at his placement, but I knew when he was praised his discontent would vanish so knew it was only a temporary thing.

When he enters the sect and brings his results to the desk the look of awe seems to make the young masters haughty attitude return, he goes to the sword peak and speaks with his mast as I wait outside for him as I am sure he will be rewarded for this.

He comes out grinning and walks back to the courtyard he has to himself and tells me we will cultivate together now; I begin to help him absorb energy and integrate it.

He finally decides I am done, and I make the request for a two week leave for closed cultivation which he agrees knowing my habit at this point to have long expected this event, I return to my room off in the back isolated from everyone and set up the arrays I made to prevent anyone from coming in or disturbing me.

I feel the energy build in me like usual and slowly advance bit by bit until I am almost at the fifth stage, I snap out a week later nearly at the fifth stage and will enter it come the next indoor cultivation period.

I step out and remove all the scent with an incense and a wind array to blow off the scent, I take a bath and am ready to return to duty.

The young master is called to the front hall and I follow waiting at the front door as he speaks with the librarian who tells him he will now choose a combat style, I have given him one I made and taught him how to truly master the one he got from the sword peak but now all I can do is wait for him to choose and pray he chooses correctly as if not he will be looked down upon for it.

But I am surprised when the librarian tells me to come in and the young master takes me with him to look at methods, but the young master explains for me.

"I asked for you to also choose a sword style with me as you will be with me at all times and it would reflect poorly if you had a low grade one despite following a true disciple, now come help me choose my swords art then pick one from the shelves for yourself."

I look and find one that aligns with the young master's innate gold element along with his straightforward personality, it is called the golden lion technique and uses many things to enhance one's defense and offense.

I then pick a more plain looking one for me but it fit me as it was all about making oneself a living shield of near invulnerability using large amounts of energy when using and circling a specific thing to increase the things defense, for me it will allow me to protect the young master even though it is a bow staff fighting style it suits me and so I choose it.

I see the disappointed look sent me at my choice and the impressed look sent to the young master, everyone heard of me as a sword talent and yet here I am shifting weapons.

The next three months are spent with me learning the steps slowly and methodically before I enter enclosed cultivation and advance to the fifth rank in the core formation period, I knew the rumors of me using the young masters medicine but all of the medicine goes to the women he seduces and not even he consumes them as I have told him it can negatively affect one's talent in the long run.

I sit in the shut room and slowly condense my 20 cores until they are as small as they can go and then begin to absorb more energy into them for expansion, I have officially entered the 5th stage of core formation.

Performing my usual routine I just finish washing the scent off when someone comes to the backyard I currently reside at, apparently, they heard my enclosed cultivation ended today and wished to challenge me to a duel for the right to become a servant of the young master.

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He said the young master told him if he gains my approval, he may join but that he must wait until after I leave cultivation before challenging me, I knew it would come with the young master becoming an official disciple but so soon is unexpected.

I agree to the challenge and tell him to appear on the combat rink for him to prove himself, he nods and heads out while I grab my things to follow him out. I decide to use the bow staff for this fight as the person is young barely having formed his core.

I appear with my staff and normal clothes and the man appears pissed at my actions, I tell him it is so he can't claim I won using cheats which he seems to begrudgingly respect.

I get into stance ready for combat and when he sees my bow staff he is pissed as he asks me why I am not using my proper weapon in the fight, I tell him I have advance to the fifth stage and so to fight him using my sword would be unfair of me he seems to stiffen at this fact.

Murmurs go through the area at my advancement while some speak on how the young master will also soon break through, which is true as I can help him absorb denser energy now that I have advanced.

I am now 27 years of age, and the young master turns 18 soon meaning he will officially have his first rut since he presented as an alpha, he isn't the first alpha I will be close to during their rut as I have made sure to train my body not to react or even show signs of its gender to others.

I suppress my body using my cultivation at all times except when my heats come to allow my body to reset itself, I am sure once I advance enough, I could stop the heats but they help me cultivate and so I don't intend to.

Waiting for the signal to start we stare each other down and wait for the neutral party to send us on our way when a bang is heard and he rushes at me, a point off as he is meant to protect the young master but if he is good enough it can be overlooked.

He rushes at me like most too young to understand the act of sizing up your opponent a point off, but despite this he is agile and quick with a clearly clean and steady foundation and a talent for swords.

I use purely defensive measures, and he can't get closer than the length of the staff no matter how much he tries, I block every strike he sends with ease without attacking or evading and I can see the look of frustration and anger as he realizes I am simply that much better.

By the end he is gasping out of breath and energy while I stand in the same spot with my energy untouched and with no signs of even a hint of tiredness on my body, it is a clear call on who is the winner.

I look at him and then turn around to leave the rink leaving my back open to him as I walk off and he only watches me leave without a complaint or attack, he had proper etiquette and good morals add on his high talent and potential as well as the willingness to wait for me to exit seclusion all leads me to one outcome.

"Are you coming or not, you need to get the servant symbol from the young master as well as clean your place out before night fall."

I hear gasps and excited chatter after I speak this out loud for all to hear and when I look out of the corner of my eye the young man is smiling ear to ear, he runs after me trying to keep up with my larger strides and I slow slightly though not enough for him to notice.

He is given the room two down from me and told to study under me as much as he can by the young master which seems to confuse him, but he agrees.

I take him to the room and help show him how to clean it and how to organize things as he will be helping do so from now on, he nods along to all my explanations and once he is all set up I tell him to begin cultivating here for now and he will have an array set up for energy gathering to help him.

Returning to my own room where small hints of sweet smell that can be passed off as an incense smell thanks to the Benzoin scent of his pheromones, he knew most omegas had smells like sweet sugar candies or flowers, but his vanilla and cinnamon smell is easily covered up making him quite pleased that he smelled the way he did.

He aired out the last of the scent and then light an incense candle with benzoin to cover up any that has potentially penetrated into the wood and fabrics.

He began to cultivate in his room that also had the energy gathering array that he set up, although it isn't as advance as the one, he made the young master so that they don't draw to much energy away from him it is still nearly triple what one gets in the other cultivation rooms.

I then wake to the boy outside waiting for me to order him around, I tell him to clean and brush the courtyard while I got the young master ready for the day, he goes off and I meet with the young master for cultivation.

We spend the entire day cultivating together while the new servant cleans making me somewhat guilty but the young master ordered me to spend this week doing this with him now that I have advanced, when late afternoon comes I fix dinner and meet with the new servant to explain I am talking to the young master about my advancement as is practice for us and he seems happy that I am willing to explain my process.

I tell him to speak with me if he has any questions and he nods while I head to his room while he cleans the dishes, I set up the energy gathering array then head to my own room for the day.

The following week is the new one doing different tasks and cultivating while I help the young master advance to the 4th stage, finally on the 10th day he advances, and the new servant seems shocked I am allowed with him during advancement which I tell him is because he feels safer with me there than not.

He learns of me serving him since he was seven and understands better our close relationship and trust of one another, the young master has ordered me to focus on training the new kid now that he has advanced.

I begin with seeing his sword style, which is the average one, I can tell he is not cut for large or even medium size swords as his strength is relatively lower than most cultivators but his speed is impressive and so I begin to build a basic form for him using this.

It is very free flowing and open allowing for many combinations, it throws any defense away for incredible attack along with fluidity.

Sixth months after the boy joins I begin to teach him the sword style and he falls into it as it is a style meant for duel swords I give him two Degen swords for usage, he picks it up rapidly as well as progresses in his cultivation cleanly until the first year of his stay here he is 14 and seen both as a sword protégé and already in the second stage despite only recently having formed the core.

He is an orphan picked up so originally didn't have a name but after being acknowledged for his abilities he is named Tai; he doesn't have a surname as he hasn't been deemed to have done enough to warrant one but as long as he continues like this, I have no doubt he will earn one.

Time moves quickly as I am pulled every which way having to train the young master along with Tai and the one week break every three months for his own cultivation, he finally advances at the age of 29 to the 6th stage though thanks to slowing his aging he still only looks in his late teens while Tai advanced to the 3rd stage a week after he did but the young master hit a bump at the fifth stage.

Advancing requires good energy control, and the young master is having trouble with it but should pass through this period easily with me here to support him.

Finally late august we all are advanced one more level and Tai has turned 15 years old.