On the mountains Sei Sei, next to the clan Sei, close of a ravine, there can be seen a big rock, with aproximated 300 kilograms or 350 kilograms, moving up and down by a margin of 30 centimeters, and under this rock, a little kid with fair hair, soft and white skin, with some visible scars, one of them was a long scar going through his eye, and in his eye an almost not visible black line passed through, making the illusion of a "split eye", and then, his clothing, it was just a pair of underpants. The kid had the rock on his back, being he who pushed the rock up and down, with both hands holding up part of the rock, the kid used all his streng to lift up the rock, making his body use all of his usable strenght, this, caused the body of the kid sweat to the point of dehydratation.
The kid, noticing the exhaustion of his body caused by the effort and dehydratation, left the rock and nextly jump down the ravine... The ravine... Well "the ravine", down the ravine were a big river with alkaline and special water, and the distance between the river and the top of the ravine was just six metters, not a dangerous height.
The kid saw the sky with his honey-coloured eyes with half of his left iris on a green tone, and then, shortly after, he decided to rest in this "water bed".
His name was Yiang.
Yiang is a kid with almost five years old, that day, he was about to reach five years old, his surname was Sei, being part of the clan.
The clan Sei was a big and famous clan on the Mary continent, the clan is divided on four circles of members and disciples, people of the clan worships the strong and despises the weak. The four circles are: First circle, Center or Inner Circle, here, most of the legimate and ilegimate children of the clan members live to grow strong, and also, the patriarch, the elders, and some important members of the clan live here; Second Circle, it is the Four Sided Circle, here, some strong masters and disciples live and train to become the most important forces of the clan, this circle is divided in four "factions", and that is because of some different paths that they traverse on the Martial Arts, and the cultivation of the Qi, thus, this division causes some rivalry between them, even so, that doesn't hinders the develop of a sense of unity between them and the clan; Third Circle, it is the Novice Circle, where the foreignes with strong will of power, arrives to train and thus, ascend to the next circles of the clan, of course, that is with a suitable strenght to grow here, here is where most people (suitable) hosts and reunites, so there are a lot of houses, some big plazas, halls and markets with "meh" and good objects, and of course, training places; Then the despised Fourth Circle, the Outer Circle, where margined people of the clan are expelled to live here, some "vagabonds" and "wanderers" come here to live, some people with wishes to live on a place come to host themselves, and so.
We'll take a rest to the explanations for now, well, then, Yiang is an ilegimate child of the clan, who once was worshiped on the Inner Circle of the clan, but later was expelled for the simple reason of being crippled.
Yiang was a "normal" talent when he was born, however, he was a little... "peculiar", his first peculiarity was his abnormal "self-awareness", of which he was born with, being able of think faster than a 0-years old baby, with an agile and analytic mind, that was his pirst peculiarity, his second paculiarity was the reason behind the first peculiarity, he was born with his past life memories, well, just two or so memories, but with these memories there was those quick-mind skills, the third peculiarity was his extraordinary physical abilities, and with that, he had hyperactivity, those extraordinary physical abilities were, a big energy capability, what made people envy him, and a healthy adult strength, being able of lift easily a juvenile kid three times bigger than him. And because of All those peculiarities, made him be very loved by, basically, everyone in the clan, and in fact, Yiang was a very good friend of the "Princess of the clan", a child three years older than Yiang, named Qiao Qing Sei, being in a weird friendship. And of course, in all that love, existed exceptions, like the saying: "where there is love, there is hatred too", the legimate principal child of the clan, a little kid of the same age of Qiao Qing, named Cain Sei, son of the patriarch and a cunning vixen woman named Berai Sei Chao, that woman, who hated every concubine related with his husband, directed his hatred to the children of those women, so giving his son some instructions, and with the envious nature of Cain, of which, had a crush on Qiao Qing, it ended on a challenge duel between Yiang and Cain, of which the winner was Cain and the loser was Yiang with his Qi container being crippled for a life, and in consequence, expelled from the Inner Circle with his mother, all that happened shortly before the birthday of the one year old, Yiang.
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Yiang lived on a house in the Outer Circle with his sick mother, being visited by Qiao Qing occasionally, that was, of course, until the day the mother of Yiang died and Qiao Qing was enclosed on the Inner Circle, leaving a four-year old Yiang with a sorrowful and grieved hearth.
The personality of the child became as cold as the artic hell, the mind of Yiang turned on a quickier analytical mind, having more flexibilty to learnings.
Yiang at start of the expelling begun a hardful and strict physical training, understanding the consequences of being crippled, he resolved himself to start the essence path, trying to enhance his body, since that thing was still possible, but although that was a possible path of cultivation, detecting essence was a very complicated task, at the point of becoming a almost extinct path, so at the momment that Yiang became crippled, all people on the clan lost hope on Yiang.
Thus, Yiang started the hard training, enhancing his usable force to an aproximated of 310 kilograms and his Emergency force to an aproximated of 800 kilograms on four years of hard and painful training, having transfixed life and death situations ond the Saivage forest, but that was almost a little surprising considering that any kid on the clan that practice qi, can enhance his usable force to an aproximated of 500 kg of usable force and 1 Ton of Emergency force, demostrating the amplitude between a cultivator and a commoner. And that was the problem, on two of the three forces that humans practice to survive, the Qi and the Essence, and although one could intuit if you knew about the three dantians and the three sacred treasures, both things were a completly different thing... well, on this story, of course.
The Essence is "the matter", and practicing it until change the nature to that of the energy could enhance the abilities, and other things of one prracticioner, but that was a truly difficult thing, considering that to start the cultivation you have to "feel" the energy or in this case, the "essence", however the qi was an easier thing, Qi was "energy", a invisible element that made living (and non-living) things to move, everything flow and especially, enhance, so if one "cultivated" the Qi, it would make it adapt to one's own body and make it better, it would flourish.
Yiang was inhabilitated to keep qi and make something with it, be circulate it, be refine it, if he tried to pracice with it, it would escape from his container of Qi, so he just could try to enhance his strenght by searching to practice the Essence Path, that was at least ten times harder than practicing the Qi Path; although, repairing his Qi container was not impossible, it was very complicated to repair it, needing a lot of complicated stuff, and doing it before the kid turned ten, if not, then it would start a countdown of his body becoming dust on 60 or 80 years of time, being the causses, his meridians becoming unuseful and his life force dissipating very quick. Yiang didn't knew, he just knew of an unknown Path, with a hardful method of starting it.