In a large courtyard,
A small boy was crawling on his all fours with two maids running along with him, he came out of the backyard while looking at the sky, that is filled lightning, his face filled with excitement, as a bright gleam passed across his pure brown eyes.
The boy is Ryan, six months have passed away since he was reborn in this world, Ryan stopped showing his expressions outward after his mother brought him to an old physician five months ago, to think the physician would say I have mental problems because he couldn’t find anything, Ryan wants to beat the shit out of old fart but alas! He could only glare at the old man.
It has been five months since he started practising fire, water, thunder and, life attributes of << World element nurturing essence gathering formulae>> , Ryan has already formed a spirit body(100% formed mortal spirit root) with fire, water, thunder and, life consisting of one fourth each, but as his soul strength is only at peak of essence condensation and not at spirit foundation he cannot divide his soul strength into four different parts to simultaneously practice four techniques of fire, water, life and, thunder at once.( only at spirit foundation can one open sea of consciousness and divide his soul strength into more than two parts and also to create multiple spirit roots all elements should be in equal proportions and one has to execute all formulas at once, to do this one need to divide his soul strength into multiple parts).
The reason Ryan is excited because his soul strength has reached spirit foundation and he opened his sea of consciousness two days ago, the reason for his wait is he wanted a perfect time when all four attributes are abundant in nature to break his spirit roots into four different ones, just then a booming sounded when a thunder flashed across sky, he knew that thunder attributed energy in the surroundings is increasing as there is already abundant life, water and, fire essence due to the trees, pond and, the fire in the house.
So he immediately closed his eyes sat on the floor, divided his soul force into four parts and started gathering foul different attributed nurturing essence from surroundings, he could feel the soothing water, vibrant life, fierce fire and, destructive thunder as he guided them into his spirit roots, Ryan felt an incomparable pain as his small became pale but he didn’t stop and finally with a crack!, The spirit root began tearing into four different roots each with light blue(water), light red(fire), pale silver( thunder) and, leaf green (life) even though they look unstable and seemed to be tear apart with slight force, he know it is success and he can develop them into four complete new roots with future nurturing.
Just then his mother came back lifting him in her arms while looking at him then said “ you brat! You’re always running away to the backyard when it is raining , tomorrow is your naming ceremony now go to sleep” as she brought him over to bed, Ryan remembered his father saying something about naming ceremony, he still didn’t know anything about it, but he still didn’t want change his name so he began to think a way to slowly Manu plicate so his name would still be Ryan as slowly went to sleep.
Ryan didn’t expect the naming ceremony to be this easy, there was just a large box containing huge amount of jumbled small sized wooden plates each with a character written on it, the first plate the baby picked will be the letter the name of the baby starts with, then they will shuffle again to select the second character and so on, as most names contain only 3 or 4 characters it doesn’t consume much time, like if the baby first selects a character ‘gre’ then the second set of characters only contain characters that make meaning with ‘gre’ like ‘gory’ or ‘mlin’ or like that, so only meaningful characters are displayed to avoid embarrassment, still it was not that big of a ceremony here, of course as expected Ryan first fiddled around the took character “rye” then in the second set he picked ‘yan’, there are also other people who came to his ceremony, two pairs of woman and man, the first pair is Lopez and Gracie, the second pair being Rothes and Amya they are sons and daughter in laws of second and third grandfather whom Ryan had never seen they brought along two girls around 2yrs. Of age, Lopez is around the same age as second uncle James and while Rothes being the same age as his father leaving the girls to play with me, while his mother and father along with uncles and aunts finalized his name to be Ryan Raymond.
Ryan also came to know about his five cousins who played with him by pinching his cheeks, by beating his butt and jingling his little guy, Ryan wants to cry as a 19 yr. old virgin he never played with a girl much less a girl who was not even 5 years playing with him, the eldest is Misa who was barely 4 years old, and there is also Mina who is around 2 yr old who is playing with his cheeks as though they are rubber balls, Runa whose age is 2.5yr, Latia age is also 2.5yr while Aria whose age is 1.5yr are all playing with his little guy or pressing his body like puffed toy, Misa and Mina are daughters of first uncle Robert, Runa is daughter of second uncle James, Latia of third uncle Lopez , finally Aria of fourth uncle Rothes, they looked Ryan like an exotic creature by touching various parts, he tried to defend but how can two hands match ten hands, he could sigh with defeat as his body is defiled.
The five brothers seemed to rather close as they talked entire day after they drank they all stayed in his father’s courtyard for the night, as the courtyard is large there's space for everyone one, Ryan used his soul force to check everyone is asleep, he used his soul force to transfer cultivation formula of << World element nurturing essence gathering formulaes>> .
Misa has impure metal, Mina has impure wind, Runa has impure fire, Latia has impure water and, Aria has impure wind, well he didn’t expect much as pure attributes may not be as rare as spirit body, but still they are not cabbages, but he didn’t feel disappointment as after practising formula for some time we can change the growth of spirit root, so there is no need to care about whether there are impure or pure or the quality of spirit roots, so he transferred metal formula to Misa, but storm(wind + Thunder) fusion and storm formulae to Mina, Lava(fire + earth)fusion and lava formula to Runa, ice( water + Wind)fusion and ice formula to Latia, featherlight(wind + light) fusion and feather light formula, the reason he didn’t change Mina is because metal is already a great element, even though he can create some element stronger than it by fusion, he has more powerful scriptures for metal elements than for fusion elements.
Previously because his soul power is only at essence condensation he can’t transfer information, now it is at spirit foundation he can easily do it, but still he has to use special methods to transfer information to little girls so that they practice the formulas involuntarily( the same way a child does breathing without learning they practise formula without thinking it’s weird), but other spirit foundation cultivators can’t do it, because it requires perfect control of soul power and some incantations, but still he can’t do it for essence condensation cultivators as their soul is strong they experience a resistance, even though he might transfer information they might never practice it due to being cautious, or they might bring calamity if they bring it to a stronger cultivator to check its uses.
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The next morning everyone left for their courtyards, and Ryan started his practice as usual, even though he wanted to give formulas and scriptures to his parents he knows it has to wait as this schedule continued on.
One year has passed.
Now Ryan has mortal tetra spirit body of lava, ice, thunder and, life, during this year the girls visited him many times, especially Mina as she liked playing with his cheeks, this also gave Ryan opportunity to direct metal nurturing essence into her so now she was able to form mortal metal spirit body, today is the day when Raymond clan tests their 5-year-olds for their spirit roots and martial spirits as his cousin Misa’s talent is going to be revealed his mother brought him to the central building, at the back of the building in the square there on the elevated stage is a large transparent crystal pillar with prismatic top it has 3 divisions(4 segments) on it, behind the crystal pillar on a large stage there sat 4 old men on chairs with silvery white hair and wrinkled faces, there is another old man near the crystal pillar on the elevated stage, even though he has white hair he isn’t as old as the four on the stage, at a distance of 5 to 10 metres from crystal pillar there lay a large formation with a middle aged man in the centre, the man had an arrogant and disdainful look on his face as if everyone was below him, on either side there are a large number of seats arranged they are usually for direct descendants like his father and uncles, while the servants usually watch from the opposite side.
His mother brought him and sat in the third row of the left side, with aunt Floria sitting beside us, Ryan identified the formation it is
But the crystal pillar shown here is a lesser version of that with lack of 4th segment as well as crystal orb, so the cultivator can only determine up to mid quality spirit roots, even if a person litsup all four segments they can only say the quality is above mid, but they can’t exactly say whether it is high or supreme quality spirit roots or a spirit body, it also has another problem it can’t identify some sub attributes like storm or featherlight and some other, if they appear they only indicate one of the main elements ex: if its storm( wind + thunder) it shows either wind or thunder.
When all the clansmen gathered, the old man near crystal pillar looked around and spoke a stern voice ”All brats who are five years old stand here” pointing at the ground near measuring pillar, suddenly there was bustling in the crowd as the group of five-year-olds came from the stands as well as from servants, they stood at the place where the old man pointed, Ryan was shocked to see the total number of children is around 40 or 50, the first 2 rows of 10 or 20 Childs are magnificently dressed like some young masters and mistress, while the children at back dressed normal, from here one could see the first two rows are made of direct descendants and last rows of sub clans and servants, when Misa saw her mother and we are looking at her she excitedly waved her fists.
“ All the brats go to the formation and check your martial spirits then stand where you are now.” the old man said with a stern voice.
A blonde haired flamboyantly dressed boy walked from the first row followed by others, the blonde haired boy went into the middle of formation, the middle aged man in the formation closed his eyes and started forming symbols when suddenly a brilliant light lit up and a large magnificent eagle with shiny crimson feathers that has brownish shade appeared letting a high pitched cry, the middle aged man emotionlessly said ”Philip Raymond martial spirit Crimson lorian eagle.” the boy went back to his position and next one followed ‘Crimson lorian eagle’, ‘Crimson lorian eagle', and so on, with most people containing Crimson lorian eagle as it is the martial spirit of Raymond family, but there are some other like’ Jade furred panther’,’ Golden eyed ferret’, but they are minority, as expected Misa got the same Crimson lorian eagle.
When everyone reassembled the old man looked at them and said in a solemn voice "Everyone, come one by one and place your hand on the root measuring pillar.”, after that a cutely dressed bulky brown haired boy went to the stage and touched the pillar, suddenly the pillar glowed with a flickering brown light then it shot up one segment, two segments then it finally stopped at third segment, the oldman smiled giving a nod before announcing “ Baldor Raymond, Impure Earth attributed mid-quality spirit roots.” then one by one everyone came up most have impure attributes of basic four elements with low or mid quality spirit roots, out of which only one got above mid-quality roots that too of wind attribute and, only two boys got great elements one being the blonde kid with mid-quality impure light element and another one is a black haired kid with mid-quality impure metal element, suddenly the pillar flashed with a bright golden light and completely lit, the old man opened his excitedly and shouted” Misa Raymond, Pure metal attributed above mid-quality spirit roots.” even the four old man(elders) on the stage opened their eyes, it can be understood as its already hard to find a pure great element spirit roots much less one that is at least high-quality, every one on either side and ground fiercely discussed as they know how rare they came across one, the people around Fiona congratulated her as they know the prospects of someone with that quality spirit roots, aunt Fiona was smiling from ear to ear, who don’t want their child to great talents and soar to heavens, after Misa there are around 20 to 30 childs who determined their talent even though some are good but they paled far in comparison to misa.
After the checking, every child was brought to elders, while Jessica brought Ryan to home.