Yu Wang look at his left and right and he recognized it. The Eight Sealing Trigrams. It is one of his teacher Sealing technique.

Yu Wang gets up from the ground and tries determine the limit of the boundary of the barrier and after walking in round he finally knows.

Four feet to his south, four feet to his north, five feet to his west, five feet to his east, 7 feet to the sky, and his teacher must also put 7 feet under the ground, preventing attack from all four sides, from heaven and earth.

Eight Sealing Trigrams is usually used by Heaven Realm cultivators to defend themselves against the tribulation of Heavens, its sturdiness and strength of the barrier is determined by their spiritual power.

Ranks and spiritual pressure isn’t the same. Some of cultivators that came from great sect could possess powers that could defeat even 3 ranks above them.

Then he sits cross legged and heave a sigh of relived. It seems his teacher has put him here. The initial plan of sending him of the mountain in the morning must not have panned out.

But why?

Yu Wang rack his brain and he believes it may have something to do with 8 Devil of the East from Penglai Mountain.

Could it be the 8 Devils attacked the primal Chaos Mountain and his teacher, in his sleep fly him to this bamboo forest?

Eight Sealing Trigrams is a protective seals, and one of the strongest. It can withstand even those of the first rank of Heaven Realm.

But Yu Wang knows that this Eight Sealing Trigrams of his teacher is modified for him. His teacher created this for him so that he could hide in the seals and get out of it with hand seals.

They teach him once.

He was taught only one of this seal technique. It is a unique technique of his teachers and they teach it to Yu Wang.

But now, knowing that he is safe in the seal barrier he contemplates on his dreams. The path of enlightenment is through understanding the answer.

Seeking answers to a question is the road to knowledge but understanding the answer and its meaning is how you gain wisdom.

He then meditate on his dreams and all the while the Human qi is swirling through the area to his soul scape rushing to his Soul item, the energy filling the empty gourd in his soul scape with the energy slowly unbeknown to him as he recall that dream.

’Dong Fang Qing Long, Azure Dragon of the East, brings hurricanes and storms punishing the common people for disregarding the Way of Heaven, giving the mandate of Heaven to the corrupt. Evil is given strength when good people turn a blind eye to tyranny. The Azure Dragon rages and punishes the people. The East river floods and the weather will be fill with Chaotic qi. What a disaster! What a disaster!’

He said and as he said this his dantian glowed with luminesce light, firm and strong, the white gourd in his Soul scape filling to half as his level rise to five.

He is now Profound Understanding Middle Level, energy bubbling in his body, sweats formed on his back, his eyebrows creased as his body is handling the shock of such leap in power, the Heaven shows benevolence to the Child born of Heaven blessing.

Then he once again meditate on his dream, trying to remember the tortoise and the image of the Northern region appeared on his mind, ice and snow covered mountains, people freezing and dying, cold that freezes corpse and blood, while a river flows with bizarre vitality, the snow could not touch it, the warmth gives protection.

And he gains understanding of his dream again. The four signs, the four beasts all of it is connected, an allegory, an allusion.

The Heaven is merciful; there is always a chance for the unbalance to be balanced, for the strayed to once again walk the path of the True Path.

‘Xuan Wu, the Black Warrior, the Guardian Protector of the North tramples the soldiers, fury that hath no mercy. The world in turmoil, the soldiers take the order of cruel men, crying and pleading, yet their action follows the evil orders. Heart and body conflicting with each other, the heart turns cold and then turned dark. Evil men roam the world, spreading terror and suffering. People becomes blind to the truth, the righteous executed, the scholars weep. How could not the protector cast his divine punishment?’

And light filled Yu Wang body his white gourd turns color, emitting a powerful spiritual pressure as the white gourd turns blue.

Profound understanding increased to Peak level while his soul items turns colors and slowly the gourd becomes bigger, as big as a barrel, that if it could be brings out it could fit an adult man as the energy flow inside it.

This is not a normal occurrence. Never before a Soul item turn colors or size. However there is another occurrence that is happening inside Yu Wang body.

The gourd in Yu Wang Soulscape then becomes empty after it changes size, the power that he absorbed inside the previous gourd becomes a ball of light and it rest at Yu Wang forehead between the eyebrows, the ball of light at first is black and without colour glowed into golden colors and shine with power.

The other half rest Yu Wang heart, the ball spins and spins collecting the energy until it formed like a small ball, like the one at Yu Wang forehead.

And the large gourd becomes empty.

When breaking through a realm, a new soul item will appear to show the cultivator that their power has increased but this is not the case for Yu Wang.

What does it mean?

What fill Yu Wang gourd is spirit energy and what it means when it becomes bigger is because it can store many more energy.

When breaking through a realm the more amount of spiritual energy you accumulated the powerful you are.

And now the impossible happens. The Way of the Heaven is mysterious but it is never without a cause.

Yu Wang does not realize it but he is breaking through the Profound understanding rank of the Human realm.

One more step and he will pass to the Profound Soul. Yu Wang then thinks of the flying birds, with flames covering every part of his body.

Then the images of the volcanic mountains range appear on his mind, fire spurted out from mountains destroying the green forest, turning the trees into black ash, the smokes arising, constricting the heart and the lungs, the Yang energy strong and unbeatable, with the wind forming a fire storms, eradicating any signs of life all the while a large river promotes life, the water is cold, a river fill with Ying energy.

The water if put into any other place other than the volcanic areas surely it would freeze everything but it was balance in the most perfected form.

The cold water is not evaporated by the fierce heat, the lava that flows into the rivers instantly turns into solid stones.

The Xuan Wu River full with Yang energy, the Zhu Que River fills with Ying energy. The balance is achieved, the flow is unrestricted.

‘Nan Fang Zhu Que, vermillion Bird of the South, rains down fire, purifying the evil hearts, cleansing the sins, and eradicating evil. Summer and fire intertwined, the Seven Mansion burn with heavenly glows.’

Then another scene appears in his mind, the White Tiger prowling the expansive plains, his steps leave  a giant footsteps fill with power of Heaven, the wild wind sways the long grass, the bamboo forest trees plucked from the soil, thunder and lightning shines the land, striking the palace and houses, killing the nobles and common people alike, mountains crumbled, hills turned to dust, and hundreds of beast went out from the 28 mansions prowling the plains, killing and mauling the people, the roars of White Tiger drowns the screams and cries.

‘Xi Fang Bai Hu, White Tiger of the West, majestic and powerful, his roar could reach the heavens, shattered mountains, rocks the sea. In fury he screams to the Kings and nobles, reminding them of the Mandate and duty to the people under Heaven. The disposition of a King. For he is the first in sequence, the events that will happen will start in Western plains. The man and woman is in the West’

With this revelation and understanding his body once again glowed with light as all the energy in the bamboo forest concentrated into that one spot like a wave of the sea coming with great forces entering Yu Wang body and Yu Wang feel this refreshing feeling in every part of his body, the wei layer, the yuan layer, the superficial layer and the deep layer coursing with energy that clears Yu Wang mind, strengthen his arms and legs, his body becomes tough as steel, his hand has the force of 30 men, shattering boulders and bending steel is nothing, his feet could run over steep cliff, his body refining the energy.

His dantian swirling with all this qi he absorbed, miraculous as it is turns the energy he absorbed into droplets of Heaven energy.

If any cultivators found this out they would be shocked to death.

A boy at the Human realm is cultivating Heavenly energy. Even though it is a drop, to refine such energy into heaven energy, this boy would have luck that defies the Heavens; surely many of them will said that.

But it is not luck. It is Heaven blessing. The destiny of Yu Wang is an incredible one, his story is written, his destiny marvelous.

And as he understand the meaning of Heaven, the clouds in the sky parted into two and light shines in the bamboo forest from the sky, only those of Earthly realm and Heaven realm could see this occurrence but whether by luck or coincidence Yu Wang is very lucky that during this time, not even one cultivators is near the area.

If not they surely would rush to Yu Wang and attack the Sealing formations to know why such weird occurrence is happening.

And he calms his energy, the swirling energy solidified into the gourd as the gourd slowly fill itself up until it reaches only the bottom part of the new gourd.

Yu Wang is Profound Understanding Peak Level, but his spiritual pressure is almost like the Profound Soul Middle Level.

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Then he opens his eyes and his eyes shines with a golden glow and for a moment Yu Wang could see farther than anyone, seeing through walls, sensing life and energy and then the feeling is lost.

‘Huu’ he takes a breath and then he feel his energy coursing through every part of his body.

‘I have achieved Peak level’ and he smiles.

‘The dreams show me an event.’ Yu Wang look towards the sky and wondered.

What does Heaven plans for him?

‘Hmm’ he sighed and then he look back down to the ground and says

‘Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise. I am young and ignorant, why do I need to worries about things I have no way of knowing. If these are a trial, then I have to overcome it. A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.’

Saying this he then looks at the Eight Sealing Trigrams and he decided he needs to know where he is.

If his teacher is fighting the 8 Devils then that means his teacher has sent him down the mountains and now he need to survive by himself.

‘This is Xiantian Bagua’ he said looking at the Sealing positions.

‘The Heaven is in the higher part and the Earth is in the lower part. The Fire is located on the left and opposite to it is the Water. The Thunder and Wind form another pair, emitting Heaven energy. Mountain and Lake form the last pair, one opposite the other, both in balance and harmony.’

Then Yu Wang concentrates his mind and emits his spiritual pressure. To be honest even heaven realm cultivator could not break this but how could Yu Wang break it?

It’s because this Xiantian Bagua is created for the sole purpose of Yu Wang. Others could not enter, but he can leave.

There is a slice of wound in Yu Wang right finger, it is because his teacher use a drop of his blood in the sealing combined with their sealing skills.

Doing this give the power of the sealing not to the people who did the seals but to the people whose blood is used in the making of the seals.

Then the Eight Sealing Trigrams shattered like a mirror being shattered by an invisible force.

Smiling Yu Wang get up from his cross legged position. And he walked to the bamboo forest.

He first checked his bag of holding. Looking at it he thinks of the Ice Princess sword and with a light beam the sword appear on his hand, he gripped it, feeling the lightness of the sword like a caressing wind, the cold energy emanated from its edge, a white sword that almost glows like the moonlight.

‘I need protection if I were to roam at night. Who knows if there is a bandit or beast, eccentrics or evil cultivator?’ He said and then he walked.

He looked left and right, his ear is concentrating, his soul search for a sign of life and then after about 2000 steps his soul detected something.

He retracted his senses and rush to the area.

He then spotted people, stumbled into a girl, almost as young as him, with freckled appearance, collecting herbs and grass, humming slowly, putting the herb onto her straw sacks, a man beside her.

Based on Yu Wang experience the man is older than the girl, has a muscly body, a fierce expression and in behind his back is a great sword.

Yu Wang then makes some noise by coughing.

Yu Wang rarely communicate with people of the outside world other than his three teachers, he never communicate with any other souls.

The older man hearing the cough quickly unsheathes his great sword and pointed it to Yu Wang. His eyes are fierce, and his posture is in the attacking stance.

‘Who are you?’ The older man said to Yu Wang.

Yu Wang cupped his fist and said

‘This young one is called Yu Wang.  I would like to ask if senior could tell me where this is. This young one is lost and does not know where this is. Been searching for people and thankfully I notices senior here’

The freckled girl is also startled and quickly shown wariness towards Yu Wang, her eyes darted towards Yu Wang and the older man.

‘Who is that brother?’ the girl said holding the sleeve of the older man.

So he is her brother Yu Wang mused.

On the other hand, the older man could not help but feel there is something weird about this scene.

The man in front of him is younger than him, probably by a few years. He said he is lost but there is no trace of tiredness.

He said he is lost yet his clothes look like a noble sons, without a trace of dirt and there is some force that emanated from him.

This man is dangerous his instinct is telling him.

‘Are you perhaps a cultivator?’ He knows of those cultivators that trains in seclusion, in high mountains, and hidden places in the world.

He himself is a cultivator but a self-taught cultivator.

Yu Wang nodded.

‘Junior is but a lowly cultivator.’ He said.

‘Which sects? Sky Palm Sects? Hundreds Sword Sect? Stone Fist Sect?’

‘This junior does not belong to any sect.’ Hearing that the older man sighed a relief. If he is not a cultivator of any sects then that must mean he is also self-taught, his power could not be more than him.

‘There is no need to call me Senior’ the man said.

‘I’m just a few years older than you. My name is Su Feng. Are you lost?’

‘Yes.’

‘This is the village of Ruifeng, in the Guilin region.’

‘Which Kingdom?’ Yu Wang asked.

‘Shang’ Su Feng said, and hearing that Yu Wang lights up.

So this is Shang territory! That means I can still meet senior brother.

Su Feng rarely meets cultivator since he lives in a backwater village so seeing such a young man, handsome in appearance and have a noble kingly air, Su Feng knows this boy background must be magnificent.

He desires to forge some bonds of friendship. Not to mention it is a good deed helping those that in need.

‘Since you are lost, then you can rest in our house. Wait us to finish collecting herbs and then you can follow us home.’

Hearing this Yu Wang is truly grateful. Yu Wang cupped his hand again.

‘Thanks for your generosity Brother Su Feng.’

Yu Wang waits for them to finish picking the herbs and after that he follows them silently.

As they are walking Yu Wang realize the freckled girl keeps looking at her and then after their gaze meet the girl would blush red.

Thinking about it Yu Wang did not pay any attention to the girl, not showing any manners, not giving thanks.

After all he is imposing on them.

Thinking about this matter Yu Wang approached the girl in the hopes of relaying his gratitude to help him.

But before he even have the chance to talk the girl ask, her eyes glowed brightly with the innocence of a young girl and ask him

‘Is your name Yu Wang?’

‘Uh…yes.’

‘Why are you wandering the woods in the night?’

‘I was-‘

‘Why are your clothes so clean? Are you even lost? Are you sure you are lost? Could it be you fall from a high tree and then lost your memories? Oh that cannot be! This is a bamboo forest how could you climb trees? Then could it be you run into the bamboo trees and then lost your memories? Or could it be you slip on-’

‘I..uh..I’

He was taken completely off guard and flustered. The girl is a chatter box.

‘Forgive her, Brother Yu. She is curios of everything and she likes to ask question. Yu Wang just show an understanding look while the girl keep chattering.

Trying to stop her from more talking, Yu Wang decided to ask her a question.

‘If I may ask what is sister name?’

‘My name?’

‘Yes.’ Yu Wang said.

‘Su Daji’ she said

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