All things come to an end and my mentoring of the boy is one as I enter the jindan stage where one condenses their cores energy into liquid and expand the exit holes of the body to accommodate the increased size of the energy.

I am set to leave and make sure to do one final act of kindness for the student of mine and that is to do the final step in the martial arts that I have made, I look to the liquid energy I have formed along with the crushed energy crystals and small pieces of core form my own body a little from each to make a core of its own.

I know it will be painful and intend to share the pain evenly between us so he may be spared some of it, I have him come to the cultivation caves and sit on the prepared bed for him.

He isn't happy with being strapped down and begins to become unhappy as he realizes something is wrong with the situation but I begin the process of engraving the energy patterns using the mixture and connecting it to the core I made from my own, the screams are horrible as he has never experienced this type of pain before but the process once started can't end so I continue and take half the pain.

The patterns on him are that of the flow of nature with each of the parts of the cycle engraved with only the last step being to merge this core with his allowing him a larger energy source and a more intimate connection with the earth, once done I will leave and enter enclosed cultivation in a prepared location to recover from the removal of parts of my cores.

I slowly merge it but no matter what his body rejects it making me worry until a hint of my scent leaks for the first time and it partially meld, I release my scent full force, and the feeling of my current heat is clear clouding the others mind.

By the time the month is over the process is completed and I look at the beautiful curls of wind changing into a raging flame to earth and finally that earth washed away by water and the water becoming the wind, it covers the boys back in a pattern so simplistic in nature but beautiful none the less while the energy it gives off is incredible.

I unstrap the man and leave while wiping the traces of my scent and the true events that took place here, I leave a martial arts manual and cultivation method behind as it is meant for him not me.

The man is dressed, and I ordered the cave a for a month-long seclusion for him to adjust to his sudden changes.

I leave without looking back as the door of the cave closes behind me and I grab my items before leaving for the self-made isolation location, it is at the hollow sect where I first saw the atrocities done by the demonic sect and to this day have not become home to anyone but the dead and grieving.

I have left the sect as the young master officially ended my service to him when his wife fell pregnant and claimed he didn't feel he could trust me near his unborn child.

I had the paper of release in my spacial pouch as well as all the communication talismans left to me by the other hunter squad members and the people I trained through the years even if our relationships as master and disciple was never official like it was with Yìchén.

Entering the old cultivation caves, I go to the one I cleaned and set up arrays in before sitting down and cultivating while taking a break to practice martial arts, inedia is now possible at the jindan stage but I snack every now and then for the sake of my sanity and satisfaction before sleeping and then starting the process all over again in a repetition.

I read through the books I brought with me and the many array materials I saved up for this, time passes unknowing in these tunnels and I finally recover from the damage but my cores are smaller then before as half my original energy amount is gone though it can recover some I will always be weaker then I was before this but I made my choice and this was it now all I can do is live with it and recover from it.

I advance through the Jindan stage unsure of the time passed or how long it took me to finally expand the exits to a large enough extent for the energy to flow smoothly, then I look at the next step to solidify the energy which means the so-called ascension time as all those who do this leave the continent for another.

I begin the process, and it is tricky as there should be more energy than there is but the first two failures that leave me injured and bleeding near a deviation don't deter me.

I am happy I brought those pills with me, or I may just die here from energy in-balance.

I finally advance on the fourth attempt and can feel the energy coursing through my veins, it is now time for me to leave and head for the immortal's continent.

I pack all I can but one thing I want to do before I leave and that I leave an inheritance behind, I set the array up and only those not yet formed a core can enter this space. Next is the tests and the best is ones matching of the cultivation style and one's honor, I make a test for both using my own body as a basis for it and for honor the person must duel the thing and win but they will lose and if they attack while it back is turned, they will fail.

I leave behind many resources and pills along with an imprint of me to guide the person through the early steps, with it set up and finished I leave the place I have holed away in since I left the sect.

The sun is bright and gleaming as I step out into it in the first time in a long period, though I am unsure how long.

I head toward the nearest town and then once I am rested on a proper bed, bathed, and clothed I will head for the immortal continent.

I enter the town and see it has prospered since I last saw it a good thing as it means the economy must be booming right now, I enter the inn and use the gold on me to book a room and use the hot springs that comes for free to relax after cleaning off first.

I sleep on the soft bad with a small smile, I wake to the sun in my face and the smell of food from the downstairs wafting into the room.

I eat and pay before leaving making sure to give extra for the warm meal and free hot springs dip, truly a place I wouldn't mind returning to but I will be leaving and so I bid farewell and head off west when I am far enough out of town, I remove the flying sword in my inventory and go.

I come to the sea after a long flight and look to the horizon that I know lies the immortal continent, I set off not even booking a room for the night but instead heading off for the new land.

I stop on islands and alcoves; I am attacked by a few monsters in the sea but with my ability to fly and strength they are unable to touch me though it is clear this is probably the only reason only immortal can reach the so-called blessed lands as it requires one to fly to do so.

I see land in sight merely a day's travel and set off to make it, I land in a forest before entering the large city, the energy around is incredible and the cultivation levels are impressive as many of the people seem to be body forging stage.

I see a few Jindan but the immortal realm is still rare as I do not feel anyone else in the realm besides me.

I approach an inn asking what type of payment they take, and she replies spirit stones, and I see a man pay with a stone concentrated full of earth energy, well that answers the question of what that is then.

I leave the inn too look around for the means of making money in these parts and see many mercenary and hunting tasks set up on the city board, it seems the immortal continent is in turmoil as the sign board has quite a few missions of hunting and killing different demonic sect people, of course there is also tasks for hunting monsters that are causing trouble but the majority seem to be about hunting the demonic cultivators.

Sighing as I have no interest in another war I decide to do just the hunting tasks, having seen the death and blood shed once was enough for me.

Taking the black rhino hunting task, I head out to the plains area where they are currently rampaging through causing mass destruction of homes and farmlands, I set off for the two-day trip that way and once out of the city I climb on my sword and head off.

For another person the trip would take 2 weeks, but it is only 2 days for me, and I touch down near the things last sighted area, I will track them down and get rid of them, if necessary, but I am hoping to find the reason for the rampage if possible.

Following the very evident tracks I find them about 400 miles south of their last known location and see they seemed to be calm for now but is said this was occurring without warning so even if these guys are calm now, they may suddenly go berserk for no apparent reason.

I approach them and release energy subduing them so they won't charge me, I would rather avoid harming one if possible, so I look for any signs of a problem.

Checking their bodies nothing seems off until I notice one of the females is pregnant which can increase their temper and anxiety but not to this extent, unless there is potentially something wrong with the fetus in which case they may very well be running from it.

Pregnant people are the most susceptible to demonic alterations and in theory it should be the same for beast, I approach the female and check the child in her, but nothing seems off until I send some of my own energy to it.

At first it was like a normal fetus but when the energy was introduced it suddenly turned carnivorous and the other rhinos began to panic but my energy kept them suppressed, I know this means the babe is no longer salvageable and so I put the mother to sleep and with my barrier set up to block the attacks the others will do I remove the fetus from the unknowing host making sure none of my energy enter it.

It comes alive when released from the rhino mother and I kill it before it can do anything, the other rhinos seem to have calmed down as although not as intelligent as humans can understand that this child was not theirs.

I heal the now childless mother rhino and wait for her to return to consciousness before leaving to make sure their is no signs of problems or complications from the abortion, I look to the now dead creature in my hand that looks like a black rhino but has crimson marks all over it's body and teeth meant for a carnivore not herbivores that the black rhinos are.

I take the body back to show the people and report the events that took place, they seemed shocked as they although have heard of this it is not common here as many of the herbs here can neutralize those toxins preventing the mutations.

They say they will send a report in on this and thank me for discovering it, I tell them it is rare on my side as well but because we are extremely careful not to send pregnant women to fight demonic cultivators but that the so-called neutralizers don't exist where I am from so for me this is rare but not unheard of.

They seemed shocked when they realize I said my side and ask which area I am from, the continent to the east of here about a month's journey by sword.

Several bow in respect to the immortal and ask me if I need any information or help in this new land, I tell them I am here to make money through work but that I have no interest in their current war against the demonic sect.

Nodding in agreement they ask me if I am able to do any crafts and I tell them I can do basic blacksmithing and array making, they say since I do not wish to fight I can make arrays for them and they will pay for them while also including it in the credit spot as the current buying price for arrays have been lowered to help the sects at war afford them.

I agree and they ask for several healing arrays and basic double-edged swords for them, I wonder if any of the others from the same continent as me are here and if so, are they fighting in this war or sitting it out like me.

Spending the days making swords and arrays at the blacksmiths shop I see many children come to look at the weapons and arrays in interest but are scurried off by the other people, one girl catches my eyes due to the ragged clothes and thin body making it clear her home is poor or that she may not even have a home at all.

Once I have enough money, I buy a pavilion and have a blacksmith hut made off to the back so I can work from here instead, having the materials brought to me for crafting I have no need to head outside but do so anyway as the child will not leave my mind.

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I know I am far from a kind person but leaving a childlike that sits wrong with me, I will at least give her some food is nothing else, I find her once more at the blacksmithing shop and tap her on the shoulder.

"Child where are your parents, the clothes you wear now are much too thin for the coming weather."

"Mister they died in a demonic attack a few months ago." I see she is an orphan then and one on the streets most likely as I doubt her parents' owned property, or she would not be in this state.

Well then it has been a while since I taught anyone, looks like I will be gaining another student.

I bring the girl home and make her bathe and change into the pair of clothes I bought for her just in case she didn't have a home; I give her one of the servant rooms and tell her from tomorrow onwards I will teach her cultivation in exchange for her helping around the home in cleaning and upkeeping it.

The following morning, I wake her up as she does not have a set schedule for sleep like most people at this age would, she has been on the streets to long and such habits have fallen to the side for survival.

I make her bathe and change into the training outfit I bought last night after putting her to bed before taking her to the training area, it is an open area with no grass or trees, but many dummies and targets set up all over and a weapons rack in a room nearby for ease of access.

I start her on physical training as she is no longer as young as most disciples would be when they begin, she looks around 9 years of age and most start at 6 or 7.

From running around to holding certain items on a horse stance and even running with buckets full of water I force her to train hard to try and compensate for the time lost, I already checked her meridians and know her talent is below average but that never stopped me before as I begin to force her body to accommodate more energy from me to expand them and her absorption points before she builds a core.

Testing for her talent in weapons proves interesting as she has talent in many different weapons but the one she is best with is a recurve bow but they require immense strength to use, the upside is their light weight and smaller size make them good for hitting targets while running and moving if on a horse they also can be fired quicker then a long bow allowing for more close range use.

I have never had to use one before but have experience making a martial art for a bow though only for a long shot's person rather than rapid fire, I begin setting it up while training her arms and legs for grip strength even taking her to a few people to undergo dance training in the afternoon while I am busy with work.

She is 16 when her core forms an older age then most but workable, I have her going through her forms slowly and methodically while already having built her recurve bow for her using leftover materials from in my original continent.

I only have a little remaining after my inheritance set up, so I use only the best a five horned rabbit known for speed.

The bow sting is made of a wind horses' guts and the tendons mixed with the horns to give a better power behind the attack, the wood is a spirit bamboo tree that agreed to be chopped down as it had plenty of other trees connected to its roots so losing one tree wouldn't hurt it.

The bow was finished a while ago and I poured large amounts of my energy and spirit fat made from some fish I caught at sea to upkeep it after training with it myself, I dry it off and wrap it in a dry towel before putting it away in a dry area.

I would have put it in a spatial pouch but the engraved designs on it need to gather energy from the surroundings so keeping it out allows it to grow and strengthen itself, I hope she can help it gain a spirit of its own as it should be capable of it if she shows it enough care and use.

Time passes easily now that I achieved the immortal status but I lack a direction to continue my cultivation in as although I am an immortal and as long as I have energy I won't age or die to normal means I can still be killed and if my cores are destroyed I will begin to age once more, I have begun to try and find hints of the next stage which I have heard is called the master stage.

The girl is now around 26 and is 5th stage core formation, I have taught her to the extreme for her bow and made a dagger for incase, once she enters the body forging realm she will leave.

I have had a few people from the poorer district come and ask me to teach and raise the child and I agree to tech many of them but the ones that come without families are made servants like the girl and I teach them cultivation, I assign a weapon to each student and have built a massive repertoire of different martial arts over the years of training them.

As of now the amount of people I am teaching is nearly 200 people and I spend nearly all day doing it regulating my blacksmithing and array building to nighttime, I don't need to sleep or eat as much as normal people, so it is fine.

Their ages vary from some nearly 20 years old to a few that are only now turning 6 years old and all of them are taught physical body strengthening as soon as they join me while I find a cultivation style to match them and their main weapon, all of my students are still currently present but soon a few will leave either because they want to join a sect or because they are approaching the body forging realm and so I will stop teaching them.

I give all the students copies of the martial arts and cultivation style for them, also giving them books on the basic arrays and medicine.

A few times sect have come to ask about me and mine, but I told them I do not count as a sect as none of my students remain past the body forging realm, they seemed shocked but agreed that although I am their teacher since none remain after that stage my school doesn't count as a sect.

The war with demonic sects still rages even now many years later and I have warned all of my students of the risk it brings and that if they join a sect, it means fighting in the war.

Slowly my first batch leave and my next batch comes as I begin making the new weapons for them, I have made the weapons of all my students the second their main weapon and fighting style is decided allowing the weapons time to grow slightly before they are given to the students.

A few people have come to ask me to make those weapons for them, but I refuse stating they are for my disciples only, they leave but it is clear the sects are not happy with my actions.

I am unsure how long has passed since I started teaching as I simply stopped keeping count and went with the flow and natural bodies of all of the people studying under me, although all of my student is talented in one field or another the ones of mine that truly stand out are a handful of them.

The first girl I taught made quiet the splash in her acts of hunting down demonic sect cultivators as a bounty hunter, another boy I taught who uses wires gained infamy for his acts of fighting in the war with the cavern sect.

Another girl I taught went on to make an incredible dual swordswoman and is now quiet high standing despite not being in a sect for dealing with stray beast and monsters that the sect is to busy to deal with thanks to the war, and so on and so forth as only around 20 of the nearly 1000 disciples have stood out to an extreme during this war though all of my disciples have shown incredible capability in their field of expertise.

From ward makers to artisans and even a few medical people, all have shown incredible talent in their field of expertise and a few sects have asked me to check their disciples for their talents so they may properly teach them.

I came to an agreement with them that I would test their potential students and those that fit will be sent their way but I can take some of their people to help me with their early training and show them how and what to check for, they seemed more then happy as it means they will eventually no longer need to ask me for help in this as they could do it themselves.

Slowly the amount I teach dwindles till it is the ones with little cultivation potential and strange talents like weaving or music, although they can be good warriors with the unique martial arts and style, I have made for them no other sect wants them.

I become known for teaching people without any talent so when one day a girl with wild hair and the look of wanting to rip a throat out is brought before me by the city officials who discovered her stealing and knew that I took in strays, they left after I agreed to take responsibility for her.

I take the girl to bathe and change with her fighting me the entire time, I can already tell if I leave her alone, she will run so I put her into a room with an array to prevent her from running off.

The next morning, I found her sleeping in a tree clearly having tried to run the previous night, sighing at the girl clearly unwilling to take help I pick her up and put her to bed before beginning morning training with the students I still have after the last testing time.

I see the boy playing the erhu in the backyard, he is a take in like the girl who eventually cam to be one of my best students as although he is highly cultivated in cultivation his skill in a weapon and control of his body is poor.

But he is good at controlling his breathing and high accurate hand speed made him an excellent musician.

He can play an erhu, dizi, guqin, and guzheng made him truly versatile in the type of effects he can induce with his music, from inducing cuts like a sword to making them feel heavy or sick even making some lower grade creatures obey his orders like a snake or rats.

Despite this he is not seen as someone the sects want as they have no knowledge of such types of fighting style and cultivation as he uses a softer and gentler one then them.

I slowly have the young girl adjust to the changes by making her hang out with him and she comes out of her shell bit by bit, however when I let my guard down, she runs off no matter how much she enjoys here she doesn't wish to remain and after a while I learn why.

Her mother was sick from working in a brothel and was thrown out leaving them to starve, but another girl who owed her mother took them in exchange for the girl working for them in the future.

She wanted too take my offer but she owes these women to much to go back on her word which I feel nothing but respect towards, so I make a new offer I tell her I can teach her a means to allow her to help them while also cultivating and with my thoughts on my own method I test her meridians for the chance she may match and she does.

I have tried a few times to see if any had potential in my own but despite the thousands of people to walk in here most have talent in swords while some vary from one thing to another, but none held the potential for my own cultivation.

I tell her she can be not just a disciple but my official disciple that I will teach my own cultivation too and she can bring in many customers of high pay using it, I know when it gets out I know a method to rapidly increase cultivation speed it will be all eyes on me but right now all my current disciples are leaving and I have no one besides her and the boy here that aren't nearly at the body forging level.

I tell the girl she is not to tell anyone of this until after I leave and she swears as long as I can help the kind women bring in more money, so I take the girl who is currently 5 years old and begin her in physical training while trying to see what weapon she suits and realize I can't train her like the others as she also needs to remain a thin figure.

Too many muscles are not something one is interested in meaning I need another approach; I head to the red-light district to ask around and see many types of dances but two stood out to me a sword dance and a ribbon dance.

I know I need to adapt them to a style the girl can use but having trained in normal dances of these two will be the start so I not only have them teach her but also me how to perform such things, they are shocked when I tell them I am learning them due to the girls promise so I need to make a battle style that also fits with her wants.

Pulling me around and dressing me up I soon become another one of their own as they love my dedication to letting her make her own calls and supporting it as much as I can.

Many proposition me but I refuse and I also have them show me to where to buy aphrodisiac as she needs to be trained in ignoring such things for her safety, they ask me how I know of such training and when they learned I had undergone such training myself they begin to slip little hints of chocolate and pomegranate that some of their customers brought them.

They teach the girl many things while I help her learn the art of go and Mahjong, I form her fighting style which uses the ribbons as defense and the swords to attack while looking fluid like a person dancing.

It is a high energy requiring fighting style and if not for her using my own cultivation style their is no way she could even hope to perform this before the jindan level but she will need to hold off until the body forging level before truly using this martial arts, but it doesn't stop me from making her study and go through the steps and learn all she can on arrays and energy flows so when she can she understands everything about it from the start.

Time passes rapidly and she forms her core at the age of ten with my constant aid and the boy finally sets off in the body forging stage leaving only me and her behind, I make her lay in baths to keep her body smooth and her energy powerful and to preserve her looks as much as possible.

As she grows her beauty attracts many as she is everything a man wants with pitch black hair and eyes with pure jadelike skin and phoenix eyes that draw one in, a small mole beside her right eye simply makes it better not worse.

Her bright red lips and perfectly shaped body that although not as large as some is perfect size for one like her as it is a more modest but sexual look, she has learned to play the guqin and shown incredible intellect through board games and perfect body control in her ribbon and sword dances but the thing that brings in the most is her singing.

Even I find her voice melodic and soon begin to have her trained in it and look into making a means for her to also use it, and it is surprisingly simple as she seems to have a natural talent for it.

By pushing ones energy into their voice they can increase it but if they control it to be softer and more gentle or firmer they can slightly sway people using their voice to do things, although it won't control people or force them to do anything it will take away some of their inhibitions like a little alcohol or the slight incense used in most red light pavilions.

She uses it now when singing to induce the effect she wants through the song, the money spent has increased and the people coming have risen sharply but she has yet to allow anyone to bed her making many anxious.

Once she advances I will leave the copies of all the cultivation styles and the ribbon and sword I have made for her as she is definitely going to bring a mass effect once the fact her talent becomes known, she is a member of a red pavilion which falls under the seduction sects protection and no one can force her to do anything as the seduction sect is the second highest sect only after the god sect which are in alliance with the seduction sect.

I on the other hand am free game and have no interest in being used as a short cut for some old men's privileged children, on the day she advances I tell her to give me a month before she shows the talent and that no one can buy her without her say so and even if they threaten the place it is protected by the seduction sect.

Leaving her with the house and all the copies of cultivation and the less desired martial arts like music and dances, even the artisans and weaving ones are left for her as she now just inherited from me a mass of highly sought after items.

I wonder how those greedy bastards will react when they realize all these estates and businesses where mine and I left them in the hands of a whore who is protected by the seduction sect, honestly if I wanted, I could have built a merchant guild no one could touch or even go up against, but I hold no such interest though the girl may.

I leave but before heading out the girl tells me the stage name she has chosen for herself as she has only used a base name till now, her mother had already been too ill to name her on her name day and she was too old for the women to name her by the time she came to them, Jiefan is the name she has chosen and I can't help feel it fits her mask but not who she truly is as a person I tell her this and she says by the time we meet again she will decide a name that truly fits her as her actual name not a stage name.

Smiling at this I leave her everything and wonder just what she will do with all that she has been given, I head to the northern border of this continent as there is supposedly a more desolate but powerful continent to the north with unique beast and materials but only immortals and above may go and I hope to find the hint to my advancement there.