Soon the days passed , Chen Long reached the age of an adult : 15 years .

Nothing special happened , Chen Long gathered enough Qi to reach the peak of 5th Qi Stage .

Since he was quite bad at cultivating and probably had no future waiting for him , the Chen family ordered him to help the business branch .

Nobody cared about him these years , he stopped annoying his mother for 5 copper and earned his own money by helping the family business .

Since he voluntary joined the family business he gathered a lot of "face" for his parents which made them quite proud boasting about that its all the kids ability while the other flattered them about being good parents .

Chen Zhen , the one who tried recruting Chen Long prior to him getting some lackeys from his brother got beaten up by his father cause he tried to rape a women .

Now he has to work for the family which in the end was only supervising some shops in which he could live in comfort .

So the life of Chen Long isn't filled with power , neither its a life filled with adventure , friendship or hot beautys . Instead he lived the life of a shadow .

He tried to use his Low Mortal Flame for amazing abilitys , however he could only create a flame with his body . He couldn't shoot it .

Though the good thing is that he isn't harmed by the flame he created , so a backleash is impossible .

However he witnessed a member of the Chen family being the shining star . Dual spirit , Fire and water serpent .

Not only that , it seems that he deemed the inherited martial spirit as weaker than they are . Even the most weakest inherited martial spirit user would have a giant advantage over any other same talented cultivator .

Why ? Because it seemed like that they would get the inherited spirit as well have the choice of choosing a spirit upon their own choice !

However Chen Long couldn't cry about the unfair treatment of this world . After all doesn't it exist in every world ?

Not only that , the genius reached 10th Qi stage . Only a single stage lower than the family patriarch !

His name is Chen Tian .

Recently Chen Long wondered whether he should run away from home and choose the life of a mercenary . Maybe he would get a lucky chance and thus rise to the top of the world . Or at least be a strong force to be feared .

However just as he wanted to get into contact with other Chen family members who choose to leave the family an event happened which got the entire family extremely excited .

Chen Tian got accepted as a disciple of the 9 Union .

To say it short , its an alliance of 9 sects . Each of them ruling over billions of mortals .

The number shocked Chen Long , after all earth only has about 10 billions humans walking on it .

But it seemed that this number is only a drop compared to the rest of the ocean .

In the end Chen Tian will get picked up by one of the people . Naturally the Chen family has high hopes that maybe some children will draw the attention of the senior and thus take them away too .

So Chen Long stands in a long line with the other children waiting to welcome the senior .

Soon the senior arrived , though it isn't one senior . It's a group of seniors !

Exactly 9 .

Just looking at the name and the number of people visiting the Chen family , Chen Long could deem the 9 union as a weak alliance which can be destroyed pretty easily or as a Union which treats every sect equally .

"Let's hope its the latter ." sighed Chen Long while looking at every senior . Each of them is an old man , with white hair or without any hair .

"Greetings. These are the younger generations of my family . Can you look at them ? I must say that my single view isn't so great ." started the leader of the Chen family . An old man with white hair .

Smiling the group of old man first greeted Chen Tian before surrounding him and flattering him .

With disappointment Chen Long looked at the group of old man , where the heck are the earth shattering beautys or rivals appearing in such situations ?

With a smile Chen Tian greeted each senior before leading them to the house .

As soon as they left the females kyaa-ed about the handsome Chen Tian and his fame .

However single old man soon appeared in front of them , causing the adults to sweat .

Does he hate kyaaing females ?

However soon 2 more elders appeared , one of the said with a calm tone : "We will recruit youngster like you . Please show us your martial spirit , but before that seperate into inherited spirit and chosen ."

Soon the crowd divided into two halfs . One of the halfs 10 times bigger than the others . I guess you know whom is whom .

Looking at the inherited spirit , Chen Long could see serpents of different kinds appearing . Venom Serpent , battle serpent , normal serpent and one even got a lightning serpent .

Nodding with a smile the elders looked at the youth with the lightning serpent and asked him to perform some punches as well asked him about his cultivation stage .

Some youths next to Chen Long looked at the old mans with expectations as if asking : "When its our time to show our talent ?"

However the time never came . The 3 Elders selected a few talented people , naturally one of them is the lightning youth .

With glee on his face the Chen family Leader walked outside . It was as if the future of the Chen family is secured . After all this time some of the sect disciple may come back , or even act as ancestory for future generations !

One thing looked funny , from the 6 old mans coming out , 3 of them looked sad and 3 looked happy .

Mostlikely he got Chen Tian into his sect .

Just as they wanted to go suddenly Chen Zhen appeared , the one who tried to recruit Chen Long .

One of the happy Elders walked towards him while patting him on his shoulders .

The other happy Elder walked towards Chen Zhu , the little fatty while patting him on his shoulders as well .

With beaming eyes the Chen family leader looked how his family member got accepted into the sects .

Meanwhile the other 5 Elders who got nobody looked with envy to the other elders .

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Now 4 elders got talented people , the lighting serpent youth , Chen Tian , Chen Zhu with unknown reason and Chen Zhen with unknown reason .

Out principle they took a few random people with them . Just as Chen Long thought about how to live as a mercenary , one of the old mans pointed at him and said : "You , come with me ."

Shocked Chen Long could only slowly walk to the elder under everyone gaze .

In the end he was the only one of the chosen half to get selected . The reason ? Because the inherited spirit youths already got taken and the elder who chose Chen Long didn't want to have fewer numbers than the others .

Now every one who got an inherited spirit got chosen by one of the sects . It may seem a little bit dumb to let every member who got an inherited spirit go with a sect , but the Chen family is a white shark in sea . So morphing into a small shark wouldn't change anything . Besides morphing into a smaller shark while a dragon protects you would be better than being a white shark .

So the journey started . Chen Long got into the same sect as the lightning youth , however he didn't knew his name .

No wonder , Chen long only trained and cultivated without caring about the family situation . He didn't even knew other powers who would be able to rival the Chen family .

To sum it up , his life he lived previously is extremely useless to him .

Since this world is a world ruled by power , weak people have no right to say anything .

Looking up into the blue sky Chen long sighed : "It seems like i am not protected by the mighty plot armor ."

Staring at back of the old man Chen Long clenched his fist . Will he ever be able to stand above all others ? Destroy mountains with a single though ?

With a burning spirit Chen Long followed the group , though the feeling didn't last long .

Walking for two days Chen Long gazed at the old man .

"What for a monster !" thought Chen Long while panting and wiping his sweat away .

Chen Long panted and gaped , the only thing he wanted to do is sleeping for 10 years and eating tons of food . As well as drinking huge amounts of water .

Turning back to look at the group of youths the old man looked with a disappointed look . The only one who didn't panted was the lightning youth .

Comparing himself with the others Chen Long smiled a little bit , at least he isn't the one who needs a rest the most .

After all , even without an inborn spirit he is at the peak of the 5th Qi stage . To explain why it's so important to have a higher stage is quite easy . Imagine Qi as energy which beings are able to absorb , store and use for different purpose .

No wonder teenager are able to walk for 2 days straight , without any rest or any food . It is because they are using the energy called Qi .

Clapping into his hands the old man said something which caused the majority to smile : "Okay , we are resting here . Since it seems like that you are too weak to go any future i have good news , we have a transport array in a location which is about 2 weeks away from here ."

The last sentence caused the majority of the group to feel emberassed . However Chen Long didn't care , after all its a problem-free transport , so why don't use it ?

After that the old man took out a huge pot , noodles and ingredients . Wondering how Chen Long looked at the pouch the man used .

"Maybe a space pouch ? Or shrinking equipment ?" thought Chen Long while resting .

While Chen Long and the group waited for the man to finish his cooking a single youth meditated . It is the lightning boy .

It caused the old man to look at the lightning boy with a satisfied look . Followed by that the group started to meditate as well . Including Chen Long .

After distributing the noodle Soup , the old man even guided the lightning youth in his training . Drawing envious gazed from the other group member . However they started to flatter the youth .

Sighing Chen Long looked at the situation , if a little family already started to treat cousins as outsiders and starte to flatter them , then how would a bigger family manage all the branches ? Wouldn't the blood get lesser and lesser till two member of the same family would almost have no connection to each other ?

In a blink of an eye two weeks passed , the group arrived in front of the simple looking array . The array looked simple , a single circle .

Trying to identifiy the array , the only thing Chen Long got is [ ??? ] .

Chen Long deemed his two abilitys as pretty useless . The AI wasn't as practical as he thought it would be and appraisal only works on normal things like [Stone] , [Stick] or people names you already know . It couldn't identify magical objects , the only thing it could do was to mark the not-normal things with a [ ??? ] .

However Appraisal could train his mental energy , thus speeding up his cultivation speed . So he experimented a little bit future and indeed it can described things . However he needs to use a lot of mental energy to get the description . Though he only could get descriptions of normal Objects like [ Stones ] :

[Stone: ]

[A stone the size of a human eye , harder than wood , softer than iron .]

Stepping on the array the old man commanded the group to stand in the circle before throwing some white powder on the outside .

Within a second the surrounding disappeared and Chen Long could see that they appeared in a different place .

Looking around he could see a square with 9 of those transporting arrays , people walking around while chatting .

With amazement Mike stared at the buildings surrounding the plaza , beautiful houses in the ancient china style .

The ground paved with bricks .

Hurrying the group to walk out of the circle , the old man walked in a certain direction .

After walking through the streets of the city they arrived in front of a house .

Telling the group to wait , the old man stepped in for a while before appearing with medals .

"Here is your sect medal , drop a little bit of blood on it . It will show you your sect points which you can use to trade for materials or martial skills . You can earn it by working or trading in this city , to remind you this entire city is part of the fallen leaf sect , so feel free to explore it . To explain the rules :

- First of all no killing

- You are all formal disciples so don't expect the sect to care about you

- If you want to be an outer or even inner disciple , prove yourself , or be talented

- You all have the duty of protecting the sect

- food and lodging is provided as long as work in the sect or pay for it

- You all have to do some sect missions to earn money , or find work in the sect

Any Questions ? None ? Okay , since you are all certainly buffed i have a surprise for you . You are allowed to learn the first martial skill for free , go with me ." explained the old man while giving everyone a medal .

After everyone marked their medals with blood the old man lead the group to the house with a hurry , he talked a little bit with the lightning youth before giving him a bottle of something .

Then the old man left . Being left alone the group didn't know what to do and so they waited for a while .

A steady stream of people walked in and out of the house , with an akward silence the group waited before another old man walked to them and asked : "Newbies ?"

The one stepping forwards is the lightning youth . Chatting for while the old man smiled and lead the group of people in while explaining with a clear voice : "Okay , we have cultivation techniques and martial skills . Which one do you want to choose ?"

"Which one would senior choose ?" asked the lightining youth while cupping his hands .

Smiling the old man replied : "Chen Lei i advice you to choose a cultivation technique , after all i bet you don't have one yet ."

It seems the lightning boy is called Chen Lei , realized Chen Long before pondering about the cultivation techniques , didn't cultivation mean only absorbig Qi ?

Thank goddness Chen Lei voiced the question : "Why cultivation technique ? Didn't one only need to absorb Qi to cultivate ?"

As if expecting the question the old man answered : "Normal Qi can be used for everything , however i believe all of you have a certain speciality you want to focus on . After all , all of you can choose 9 martial spirits . For example a sword master will take 9 swords as his spirits , a fighter will take certain beasts or defensive items like shields or armor as his spirit , a beast controller will try to take a good combo of beasts as his spirits etc. .

Hahaha , sorry i talk too much . Where was i ? Ah right , cultivation technique . To make it short , the cultivation technique will transform your Qi into another Qi , like fire Qi , or ice Qi or any Qi you want . There are many types of Qi in this world . They all can be transformed , for example if someone with fire Qi eats an ice treasure it will transform into fire Qi . However if someone with fire Qi wants to use an other Qi Spirit or weapon , the effect will halven or even be reduced to 10 or less percent ."

"No , no . Senior you don't speak too much . After all we Juniors should listen to some experience of the seniors . Senior can you explain us how the sect works ?" flattered Chen Lei .

Smiling the old man answered a few questions before they arrived in front of the cultivation technique section .

Some youths and girls of the Chen Family group already appeared to be nervous and even excited as they walked past different martial skills .

So they didn't listened much to the old man , however Chen Long heard everything . He heard the man talking about a job-center for newbies , the lodging , the major powers in the sect etc. .

To say it short : Necessary stuff .

Arriving in the cultivation technique section the old man turned to Chen Lei before asking : "What is your spirit ? I can give you some advice ."

"I have an inborn spirit which is the lightning serpent , no chosen spirit ." answered Chen Lei .

Smiling the old man answered : "Then a lightning or thunder Cultivation Technique should be good , go to the Iron road and hold your medal to the barried , you then can stay there as long as you want before going out . The first time its free , after that you have to pay . Good luck ."

With glee the group rushed to the different objects which are the cultivation technique , for example a pond of water for the water Qi . However all Objects appeared to be magical , so Chen Long tried to use appraisal on them . Every single one of them gave a [ ??? ] back .

Soon the group splitted causing Chen Long to walk around . Reading each description caused Chen long to feel that every type of Qi is amazing . Sword Qi allows the cutting of objects , Stone Qi allows one to have a body as hard as stone , Fire Qi causes one Qi to be as hot as fire and even ignites things etc. .