Qing Yun academy Class -1:

"Alright, it was all for your first day. I believe all of you have chosen your Cultivation Technique ". An elder wearing purplish robes announced to a class.

" Also this is the class of geniuses but donot let it get to your head, without hard work you can still be overtaken by the others." he stroked his beard and moved out of the class slowly.

The whole class burst into chatter as soon as he left.

At the end of the class in a corner a youth with his elbow on his desk and palm on his cheek was in some deep thought.

He had an unkept look, his hairs which had the shade of deepish blue were not properly done, hence leaving some of them scatter above his forehead and blueish eyes. If someone looked closely the youth had quite a handsome face despite his age, it was not pretty or beautiful enough to catch someones attention.

But the slightly thicker eyebrows, sharp edes to the face and his deep eyes gave out quite a handsome and heroic appearance. Alas right now it had no such qualities due to being unkept.

He was no other than Li Feng.

Li Feng's perspective:

('Next 3 years are going to be spent while studying in the academy')Li Feng sighed in his thoughts.

('My Cultivation Technique has properly been modified and now is at the heaven grade, the elements have also been completely merged. Just that it took a lot more time than I expected and ended up laging behind in cultivation') he scratched his cheek lightly.

He was currently at the 7th layer of the Qi Gathering realm. The first stage of cultivation. It was by no means less progress but considering his talent and technique it was a joke.

Heaven grade cultivation techniques were not to be taken lightly in the whole Xia Kingdom only the Imperial family had one and that too was not as complete as the one he had.

The cultivation speed of a Heaven grade technique along with a single element spiritual root could be only termed as terrifying. It was clear from Li Feng's case.

Despite paying little to no concern to his cultivation in the past year he still reached the 7th layer , while a person with two elemental spiritual roots and a Earth Grade technique had to cultivate diligently to reach the same result in a year.

('Now that I am done with the technique I have to focus on my cultivation afterall I have to reach deep into the Spiritual Ocean realm in these 3 years. And it almost sounds impossible')

After the first realm of Qi Gathering came Qi Refining realm. Then,

Qi Manifestation realm

Spiritual Ocean realm

Pedestal Building realm

Dao Comprehension realm

and Spiritual Infant realm followed.

Above Spiritual Infant realm there was also the Transcendence Realm but it was only known among the top cultivators of Xia Kingdom and some rare cases including Li Feng.

As one progress the realms the difficulty and time taken to cross realms increases too.

"Anyways lets head home for now " Li feng stood up and walked towards the door.

"Isn't that Li Feng from the Li family. So the rumours are true he is truly uncivilized looking like that" another student muttered out, he was properly dressed and his slightly red hairs were also properly tied. He looks very beautiful as well.

" Guan Peng aren't you quite brave muttering so loudly, if you have heard these rumors I am sure you also should have heard of him breaking legs of some fellow who called him arrogant in front of him."

" Or do you think your Guan family is strong enough to avenge you from Li family..." A beautiful girl seated next to him chided him taking the opportunity. She was the young mistress of the Zhu family one of the three major families in the Jade Leaf city along with Li and Wang families.

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These two fellows knew each other quite well as their families were related.

Guan Peng shuddered " Ha. ha . Zhu Ling aren't you and your family with us" he said awkwardly laughing.

" I don't think my family will go to war for such trivial reasons" Zhu Ling giggled. She was quite mischievous from the childhood.

" Anyway it is such a waste of good talent, he has single element spiritual roots like you but still is around my cultivation level. While you have already reached the

Qi Refining realm" Guan Peng said while shrugging his shoulders.

Li Feng heard him when he muttered out about him but he had something else in his mind so he just walked out, there were quite a number of people talking about him, as he moved out of the academy.

" I wonder if the villa turned out as I described. It took quite a fortune to get it done " Li Feng decided to get his own small Villa near the academy and live there instead of acadmy dorms or his family Mansion.

Soon he reached his destination and opened the gate to enter a spacious villa. This was the Yun street , there was a lot of traffic as it was close to the academy and various shops selling different items from alchemy to talisman.

"Welcome home Young Master " a lady dressed properly in pinkish Robes greeted Li Feng. She was not that pretty according to the standards here but still had her own charm as a lady in her late 30 's.

She was Ruan Rong the newly appointed incharge of all the 5 servants in the villa. Ofcourse all of them were women as a virgin of two lives how could Li Feng not have some fun now that he had money and freedom to do so.

Li Feng noded " How is it going Miss Rong have all the servants settled"

(' He called me miss, ahh.. I feel quite younger. Who the hell said he was rude ') She had a sigh of relief in her mind she accepted the orders from the lady( Li 's mother) but was quite nervous as well.

" They have settled young master, I have also introduced them to their work" Ruan Rong answered quickly while bowing.

" Good , now guide me to a tour around the villa" Li Feng ordered as he looked at the small pond near the entrance it was well maintained and some fish were also present.

" Of course, this is the front yard area , including the pond and flowers arranged as the young master demanded " Rong Ruan pointed at the peaceful and pretty looking garden area along the pond.

Then she moved forward and walked towards the side of the not so big villa and entered a path between bamboo trees plant there.

These were special breed of bamboo which only growed till 20 feet loved by the rich. Li Feng followed her looking satisfied with the view.

Soon they reached the end of the path , and reached a circular area of clear land between the surrounding bamboo garden.

In between there was a pond larger then the one at the entrance quite larger. In the middle of the pond was a small open pavilion made of some beautiful looking wood. It only had a round table and 5 stools around the table.

The pond was dug around the pavilion and a wooden bridge provided a way into it. There were various flowers surrounding the area making it a sight to behold.

" This is the bamboo garden you asked for. Young master had a very good taste of environment to live in as many times as I visit this area, the environment here still catches me off-guard " Rong Ruan praised absentmindedly.

The bamboo garden took the largest area in the whole mansion. The residential building was compromised in size by Li Feng for the garden.

" Oh you think so, well it has to be good after all I put all my Savings till this day into this residence. I even had to act cute in front of mother to get extra money " Li Feng said in a satisfactory tone. This area was just upto his liking he always wanted to own such a mansion in his previous life.

Rong Ruan was first stunned, than cold sweat broke out on her back

(' I again lost control and said that out loud , it is good that he is not as arrogant as the rumours or I would be done for').

While she was lost in her thoughts Li Feng entered the mansion and went to his room on the second floor.

The room was spacious, with a large bed , cupboards, bookshelves and a working area including a table and chair near the window. It was all planed by him.

He sat on the bed and took out two books from his green acadmy robes placing them aside and went to change his robes. The books were covered in black and read:

'Fist Of Flowing Water' and

'Water Treading The River' respectively.

The black cover meant that these were Black grade martial techniques. These were obtained by him through his family networks.

Li Feng soon finished changing into simple blue robes and picked the fist technique " Finally I got my hands on some water based martial techniques of my liking. Although the black grade techniques will only show their true potential when I reach the

Qi Manifestation realm I can still learn and familiarise myself with them already. Top black grade techniques even if not used to thier full power are still better than using yellow grade techniques anyway".

Soon he sat in lotus position and started to comprehend the technique as mentioned in the book.

The time passed and the new day began Li Feng opened his eyes.

" As expected the technique is quite

sophisticated and to truly use it I need to have the ability to manifest Qi outside my body which is only possible when I reach the

Qi Manifestation realm." Li Feng sighed.

" But I can still practice the circulations and stances, well I will do it later first of all I need to find someone to start my Talisman shop or I will die hungry . "

" Damn it I spent all my money on the mansion and techniques. The old man is already very disappointed with me he wont let me take any money. Alas so poor despite having a rich family" he shamelessly muttered.

The amount of money he had extorted out of the family by acting cute in front of his mother was also considerably large but he spent all that in no time.

" Today is a good day to find someone to work for me, I won't go to the academy till next month nothing great is gonna happen there anyway just some fights of the mc."

His plan was simple he had to find

Some weakling and let him make talisman for his shop, he will take some share as rent and protection while make the real money by selling his own talisman.

Yup he had learnt to make them and due to his great soul power he was quite good at it.

Li Feng reached his front yard and called for Ruan Rong, She was not only a incharge but also a high stage Qi Manifestation cultivator acting as his bodyguard when outside.

She soon arrived dressed in beautiful pink robes, her curves were masterfully hidden by the robes.

Li Feng watched her arrive and bow to greet him (' tch, it would be better if she wears something that appreciates those plump curves of her she would be more pleasing to the eyes that way. Still these work as well she looks quite pleasant already any more will only add trouble while outside ') he was lost in his own fantasy thoughts.

Meanwhile she also scanned him up and down(' my god why is he dressed like that even I have better clothes then him and those hair all over his face is he really from the Li family?') her train of thoughts was soon broken.

" Do you know any shop around which sells talisman?" Li Feng asked.

"Hmm, there are quite a few of them " she nodded.

" Take me to the one with the weakest owner" Li Feng ordered and started to walk.

Ruan Rong hastily caught up and lead the way (' What is he going to do? Why ask for the weakest one So hard to understand. Still I will have to follow orders sighh.. or where would I get such a solid backing of Li family, it is quite beneficial for my safety and cultivation') she may be a early widow and without much background but she had high ambitions.

Despite her 3 element spirit root and lack of background she reached the late Qi Manifestation realm and had hopes for reaching the Spiritual Ocean realm which was the entry to the exp

erts in the Jade Leaf city. She just had to stick around this brat less than half her age for now and her road will be smoother.