“Two and a half weeks!”Lord Xing said.”Three weeks!”Bai Hu Zong said,Lord Xing’s gray hair fluttered as the windows opened,allowing immense gusts of wind to enter.”Two weeks and six days!”He said.
“Fine but you need to return twenty five of the 255 Heaven Cores!”Bai Hu Zong shouted,Lord Xing smiled and sent 25 of the 255 heaven cores to Bai Hu Zong who caught them softly,like they were his treasure.
“When should I come?”Lord Xing asked,”As soon as possible,Lord Xing.”Bai Hu Zong said respectfully,his previous cold face had disappeared,and his normal face returned,his mission was complete.
“Then I will come inside one year.”Lord Xing said,to Soul Core Cultivators,who lived for five thousand years,just one year was simply not a lot,Bai Hu Zong nodded in satisfaction as he left the castle,”Then I will be expecting you one and a half year away from today.”He said slowly,his voice not leaving for dozens of seconds.
Lord Xing smirked as he looked at his junior’s disappearing figure,the windows had already been closed,the gates also slowly closed,allowing Lord Xing to return to his normal appearance,unlike his previous angry appearance,when he was trying to lower the time he had to teach a little brat like Bai Hu Jian.
“Well at least I have time to refine these Beast Cores,and also absorb them at the same time.”He smiled cheerfully as he took out a beast core,”Let’s start.”He smirked as his servant left the room,knowing his master was about to enter secluded training.
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Bai Hu Jian finally broke through to the fifth layer of the Qi Refiner Realm with great difficulty,it was not that he didn’t know how to,but to gather enough energy,it wasn’t easy at all,he needed a great supply of energy.
Even with his unique technique of cultivation,It hadn’t been easy to breakthrough to the fifth layer,especially with his young body,who wasn’t used to powerful energies and Qi,which affected it greatly.
With the cost to enter it,even Bai Hu Zong had felt helpless,although it wasn’t hard for him to supply Bai Hu Jian with Beast Cores,they costed quite a lot,they weren’t common items you could find in a corner of the trade market.
Now, the Trade Market.
Trade Market,it was the place cultivators used to get Slaves/Resources or weapons,but they weren’t normal Trade Markets they were Cultivator Markets.
The Slave Traders could be found at the middle of the city,slaving was not forbidden,but there were laws about it,and nobody could save you if you broke one,NOBODY.Even Bai Hu Zong couldn’t save you!
That law has been set up by a great Emperor of an empire,as for why it is still forced here,that is unknown,some say he was very strong,thus each empire admired him,some say they just liked that rule and other rumors.
The Slave Market,they had a lot of slaves. They could be Mortal Core Realm Cultivators,or even hidden Earth Core Cultivators.But they were rare.
To enter the Earth Core Realm, one had to gain enlightenment on the heaven and earth. After all just the name suggested it. Because when one formed a core of earth,the earth wouldn’t be created itself.
When one gained enlightenment on the heaven and earth the Heavens would reward them with a breakthrough.It was the same at the Heaven Core Realm,but to enter it...Was really difficult!
Even the greatest Earth Core Cultivators had to face great difficulty to enter it!That showed how much of a genius was Bai Hu Tian,who was Bai Hu Jian’s only uncle, and one of the few Heaven Core Cultivators of the Bai Hu Clan.
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Bai Hu Jian could be said to be a monster among monsters!Or a prodigy who had transcended the limits of Humanity.Although there were a few who might have greater talent than him,they were very rare,once every ten million years?
Who could live to tell the tale?A random beggar across the road you live?
Bai Hu Jian waved his hand allowing a Flying Sword to appear from his bag. It was the signature of every Cultivator. This sword was an early Mortal Artifact. Artifact were divided in several tiers:Human,Mortal,Earth,Heaven,Spiritual and Divine.
As for the next tiers? Nobody knew,at least nobody had heard of them,they were legendary! Maybe only the eldest of the kingdom knew that,but if they knew it, why didn’t they say it before ?
It was a mystery indeed.
He took a huge breath allowing himself to calm down. Just like his previous breakthroughs, his entire body was filled with steam. Although it was lower than before ,It was still there. Currently in his body he had over 53 Dragon Marks, but although seven may look few, for the current Bai Hu Jian, they were extremely hard to form!
He then grabbed the flying sword and started to swing it each way. It was him trying to remember how he used the sword. Currently he was three and a half years old. His current longevity was about 100-120 years. After that he would start to quickly get old.
Throwing the Flying Sword in the air he jumped on top of it and used Qi to fuel the Flying Sword to fly. As for how it was made,little knew it, they only knew the Craftsman of the Kingdom crafted these amazing swords.
His Flying Sword was about 2 meters, it was specially made for flying,but it could get shorter, but not bigger , if one could make his weapon bigger and smaller whenever he wanted, wouldn’t that be cheating?
With a speed of about 150m for minute he flew with relax filling his body, but he was still ready to defend in case of any assassination on him. He was important, and it wasn’t rare for important people to get assassinated, especially for such a high ranked boy like him, who was also very weak.At least in their eyes he was…
With his current speed, he left the city and went to a close forest. It was a perfect place to train himself. He could refine his Qi and body there, tempering them would benefit him greatly, thus his cultivation would grow.
Well it seems he was unlucky or lucky?
The moment he entered the forest, a beast had already appeared before him. It was a common Jaguar.But this Jaguar had somehow managed to cultivate to the third layer of the Qi Refiner Realm, and somehow managed to live in a common forest.From his knowledge,Jaguars only lived in a jungle.
Bai Hu Jian smirked and grabbed the now smaller Flying Sword, which was smaller than him and got ready to attack.The jaguar looked at him with cold eyes and got ready to attack.
It attacked.
The jaguar raised it’s claw and thrust it forward,creating three waves of energy which flew towards Bai Hu Jian who easily dodged,the jaguar waved it’s tail and hit Bai Hu Jian in the stomach.
Taking the chance Bai Hu Jian jumped back and threw a single dagger at the jaguar,slightly wounding it.The furious jaguar jumped at him with it’s mouth opened ready to swallow Bai Hu Jian alive.
Seemingly having seen that,he threw his flying sword in the air.The jaguar stopped.’So it noticed what I was about to do,huh?’He smirked and thought.
He would use Qi to make the Flying Sword come back faster,piercing it’s head instantly. Not wasting a second,Bai Hu Jian caught the sword and slammed in into the ground,dust and smoke rose.
The jaguar growled.With it’s weak eyes it wouldn’t be able to see deep in the smoke, thus all it could do was leave the area of the smoke and dust, but it was too late.
Bai Hu Jian had appeared behind it.The jaguar jumped,it jumped two meters.Bai Hu Jian’s eyes flashed with iciness as he threw his flying sword straight to the Jaguar.
“GRAAAWR!”It roared and released a ball of Qi allowing it to block the Flying Sword.Bai Hu Jian sneered and his fist formed a palm.He thrust it forward forming a small palm of Qi which shot towards the Jaguar,leaving a red imprint of his palm in it’s yellow fur,”RAAAR!”It growled.
It was currently in great pain.It howled,then several howl’s followed,”A pack?”Bai Hu Jian raised an eyebrow.
It was no wonder how it had survived and adapted here.It was not alone!”From the number of the howl’s,there are at least ten more Jaguar’s.”He calculated.Although he could leave whenever the situation got out his hands, he wanted to temper his body, he couldn’t just leave so easily.
“Well let’s try it.”He said. The current him had almost no technique to use. A cultivator without techniques was like a dog without its teeth or a cat without it’s claws. They wouldn’t be harmful or dangerous anymore.
He cracked his fingers and roared.His sword glowed in red. “One Of The Ninety Nine Heavens!”He shouted as the sword glowed in yellow light.The Jaguars who had been previously waiting for their chance behind the bushes,jumped in an amazing speed!
Some of them were even of the fifth layer!
Bai Hu Jian simply swung his sword once,and the yellow light shone even brighter,and a straight beam shot at the Jaguars! It quickly pierced their bodies! The light formed a wild lion as it ate the Jaguars or just bit them without mercy.
In the end only two had survived.These two Jaguars were filled with rage,fury,anger and hate.They looked at Bai Hu Jian like they could eat him alive. Well if hate could kill, Bai Hu Jian would’ve already been killed ten times in a second.
The two looked at each other and nodded.Suddenly their entire body’s skin disappeared,it’s body glowed in red! Bai Hu Jian looked at the two Jaguars carefully!
These two Jaguars used a forbidden Technique to directly enter the sixth layer! Meaning one layer higher than Bai Hu Jian. Also,they were two and not one, beasts were also stronger than humans at the same layer!