The wind blows and Yu Wang long hair sways following the wind, his face was of determination and fiery passion.

This is his first step. His teacher has reminded him to gain knowledge in his journey this time.

Yu Wang enters the gate and a courtyard appears in front of him. He could see a young man sweeping the courtyard left and right, sweeping the dust.

‘Ah a visitor’ the young man said while not even looking at Yu Wang, his hand is sweeping the dust and the leaves on the courtyard.

Yu Wang is startled. The young man then look at Yu Wang, stopping his sweeping and smiles and said.

‘Forgive me for a moment’ the young man said.

The young man spread out his spiritual pressure towards Yu Wang and Yu Wang at the same time knew the level of cultivation of this sweeper.

A pure soul cultivator. The young man is a few years older than Yu Wang and it is clear he is shocked when he found out that Yu Wang is a Profound Understanding peak Level.

Knowing his cultivation is higher the sweeper assume the senior title.

‘Junior is visiting or joining?’ The sweeper said standing on the courtyard.

Yu Wang thinks in his mind. Should he join? Heh, he smiles. He already decided when he opens the gate.

After all right now he is in Zhou. Daji might be in Shang. But to reach Shang right now would be idiotic of him.

It is not his teacher teaching to be stupid and rash, and let emotion rule the virtues of a calm mind.

He does not know where are the roads and where is the path to Shang.

For now he needs to find a place where he can find information. He does not know if there is any city.

Thinking about it he should have asked the old man. There is also the case that the Transportation Tablet sends him under the mountain path.

There must be a reason why Su Hu set his transportation tablet to the state of Zhou instead of Shang.

Might there another reason why he is here? Yu Wang could not shake that thought from his mind.

‘Junior?’ The young man asked startling Yu Wang.

‘How can I join?’ Yu Wang immediately said. The young smiles in satisfaction. This a good seed. He mused.

Whether he will thrive that is to be seen.

‘Meet the Elders in the Elders hall. It is just In front. In it you will find Elder Li Shimin. He is an eccentric. Take care not to speak o much or you will annoy him’ The young man gestures with his fingers showing him the path he should take.

Yu Wang nodded but there is also one thing that is nagging his mind.

Yu Wang is feeling bizarre. Is it that easy to enter a sect? Don’t you have to pass many restrictions or test?

At least that is what Yu Wang thought.

He is not wrong but the sweeper job is not only sweeping. The Heaven Pillars Sect is one the Five Great Sect in Zhou.

How could even their sweepers be ordinary?

Their sweepers also doubles as recruiter. The sweeper would judge a person worth by their cultivation base or certain talents.

Seeing that Yu Wang has such a high cultivation for his age he did not have to dig any deeper.

The Heaven Pillars Sect accept anyone with talents. And the recruiter job is also to warded any unwanted guest.

It is a prestigious position and usually given to Pure Soul cultivator before they are given pills to enhance their cultivation base.

That is the way it has been in the Heaven pillars Sect from the beginning. But it also serve as to teach the seniors of humility and respect.

Then the young man introduce himself.

‘Junior my name is Lu Fengxian. What is Junior name? We might be the same sect brothers later.’

Yu Wang cupped his hand and reply

‘Junior name is Ying Zheng.’

The young man nodded. But he creased his eyebrows. Ying? He mused.

But he do not pay too much attention to it. How could this young man be a clansman of the Qin royalty?

Qin has their own sect and they might even be more powerful that the Heaven Pillars Sect.

‘Take care junior Fengxian’ as Yu Wang go to the elder hall.

Along the way he could see people practicing in the open. Some practicing swords, some practicing strikes using their hand and feet, while some is fiddling with the fields and some who brought with them worms and insect.

Yu Wang does not understand what he is seeing but he is excited.

The architecture of the Sect is also beautiful with pagodas and architecture that follows the principles of the 5 elements and the 8 symbols.

He could see from agar a statue of the White Tiger, a gigantic statue in the largest building of the sect.

It might be the Patriarch building and the statue is prominently displayed in front, almost like it is protecting the Sect.

Yu Wang nodded.

‘First Teacher would surely praise their architecture if he was here. Yu-er is too lacking. Could not find the right words to describe this magnificence and too ignorant of the beauty. Pity. Pity.’ He said in regret while remembering his First Teacher fondness for art, architecture and the finer things in life.

Yu Wang is confident if his first teacher is here he would surely compliment the way the Sect positioned their pagodas and Yu Wang could also feel the spiritual energy here is thick and powerful, like there is some essence that replenishes itself and giving this mountain a supply if spirit energy.

While admiring and looking around the sect he then finally arrived at the Elder hall.

The hall was large and there is some decorations and painting but it is also look like it is empty.

Yu Wang then spotted an old man sipping tea in the middle of the hall. This must be Elder Li he mused.

Yu Wang approached the man and cupping his hand he greeted Elder Li.

‘Junior name is Ying-‘

‘New seed.’ Elder Li said, still sipping his tea, looking at the distance and releasing a very satisfied sigh.

‘This tea is really good.’ Elder Li said not paying attention to Yu Wang. Yu Wang did not feel offended.

There are not many things one could do to offend Yu Wang other than doing evil deeds.

Yu Wang of course understands and nodded letting Elder Li to have his time to speak to him.

Elder Li mused in his heart.

This boy is humble and very polite. That is a good trait. But that could also be his weakness. Being too polite and humble will make people trying to step him down. The world of cultivation is merciless, hiding behind noble words, they all hold lofty ambitions.

Elder Li sighed.

He was testing Yu Wang fortitude and mental strength. Many noble kids or people from respectable clan would be offended if they are not given face.

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Many of them would try to interrupt his tea drinking and always spoke rudely to him.

Either way they also enter the Heaven Pillars Sect. Elder Li job is to ascertain people attitude.

Not to screen people out of the sect. People, who are prideful, people who are humble.

Each one has their own disadvantages and advantages.

Those who have pride in their hearts would always trying to be better and stronger than anyone else, if they were to maintain their prideful position.

Though the destination is strayed and the path is crooked, talent is talent.

For this kind of people most of them, believes that the end justifies the mean. This could be a good quality or bad.

For someone who becomes a general, sometimes they have to choose the cruel position, inviting the mockery of the heroes under heaven but still the state would remain secure.

Such cases happen before by General Yue Feng, the great clan of the Yue, who produces many great generals for the state of Zhou.

Zhou has many great generals and many of them have their own way to secure the state. Which one is wrong, which one is right?

In the grand scheme of things maybe none of it matters.

But being humble shows humility of the hart, and learning would be easier. The means is as important as the end.

The journey is as much as important as the conclusion.

This kind of people would win the praise of the people, the heart of the people will be with them, prosperity will come.

If the sweeper is to ascertain cultivation base, he is to ascertain the attitude of the new seed.

For a time of two incense stick (sounds wrong. Any ideas? ) he ignores Yu Wang and Yu Wang just stand there waiting, his face shows only calmness, no hint of being angry.

Then Elder Li finally relents.

‘Here.’ The old man tossed a tablet and information fill Yu Wang head. Then the old man resumes his drinking and said

‘Go choose your residence among the 4 factions.’

Yu Wang nodded in understanding.

And he stooped a while under the tree to take a breath. The information was given to him by the Information Relaying Tablet.

From that he understands that the Heaven Pillar Sect has 4 factions. The Sword Cultivators who cultivates their cultivation with sword, by battling and experiencing life and death battle.

Their power in sword is unmatchable, their attack is deadly, using sword they reaped lives of the wicked and save the people.

Their Elder is Elder Cao Ren from the Cao family descend from the fallen kingdom of Han.

Then there is the spirit cultivator who advances through the understanding of Way of Heaven and by using spiritual attack skills and understanding the energy that resides inside them.

They cultivated in using the energy of Heaven and earth. This is the path of Yu Wang training.

Yu Wang teacher did not each him about sword essence or sword force since his First Teacher forbids it.

Why? He doesn’t know but it’s not like he can’t. He just was to focus only on cultivations of his spiritual force.

Then he smiles and remember the crux of the spiritual training.

Turning spirit into air, air into spirit, turning it back to emptiness, turning emptiness into the indescribable.

The elder of this faction is Elder Wang Zhong. If he want to enter this faction he has to go to the West Elder Hall.

Then there is the Alchemy faction, creating pills, refining energy. Their elder is Master Zhou Yu, a master in alchemy refining.

The North Elder Hall is where he is practicing his alchemy.

Then there is cultivation farmer which as the name say farming. There is not many information about it in the tablet.

But maybe they have something to do with cultivating Immortal food. Or maybe they use it to help the alchemy or planting herbs?

Yu Wang does not know too much. The elder is Elder Dong Xi. There is this four faction in the sect.

And now he has to choose. Once he chosen his faction he must go and live there. He thinks of all of this and then he decided.

I will go to Alchemy faction he then started walking. As he walked to the North Elder Hall, he could once again enjoy the scenery and beauty of this sect.

There is fountains, there is statues and then he arrives in the North Hall.

He did not choose the sword faction because he knows all the sword techniques he has there is.

This is not arrogance but confidence in the skills of his second teacher.

His First Teacher once told him that there is not one swordplay skills in the world that his second teacher did not master.

His second teacher has went to the Icy region fighting the experts there, fighting the Eastern demons in an expedition with the Great Ming army, travel with Third Teacher to the Southern Burning Land and have learn all that is from the Western Plains before he went to seclusion.

He did not choose spirit cultivation because it will not challenge him.

Always take the challenging path, to reap a great benefit. That is what his second Teacher teach him while his third teacher teach him caution in making decisions.

The farmer is because Yu Wang did not want to be here for long.

And after all after he finished learning alchemy then he can go to the other factions to learn.

Yu Wang did not understand of course that sect is not a place where you can go whenever or wherever you want.

Yu Wang of course is not taught of this common sense.

In his mind he wanted to learn from the alchemy faction and when he finished learning there he will then learn from the other faction.

After all he learned from three teachers. Many cultivators only have one teachers. It’s not like there is restriction but having two teachers could be seen as unfilial and unloyal act.

How could he know that to choose one faction means that you have to always be in that faction?

Yu Wang is happily thinking and excited to learn alchemy.

He opens the North Elder Hall and enter excitedly. The smell of herbs enters his nose as he sees a large cauldron hanging in the air in the middle of the hall

And blue fire is underneath it. Behind it is a man having a white long beard and long white hair, smiling madly controlling the fire.

With one step he enter inside the North Hall.

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Actually to guess Yu Wang identity is not hard. The clues have already been put out before. And now the week writing for Nameless has ended. Here I ask: next week focus? What will it be? Nameless? AOH NG? Or Lord Shadow? Give me your thoughts and comments below. Recommend the story and enjoy reading. Thanks to Shadow blade and the people trying to help me think of adventurer rank. I might use animal ranks or metal ranks. Tell me which one you like better.