Chapter I: Yin Yun
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On the Yulan Continent, a vast world filled with earth and oceans, was a small village located in the Blue Azure Province within the large territory of the Qin Empire, in that small village, young people were training in the middle of the day in a large grass field while supporting the heat of the sun.
These youths came from every corner within the Blue Azure Province, leaving their home, they aimed to join the Xu clan, one of the strongest clan within the region and dreamed to become future Soul Warriors.
In front of these youths, an instructor was observing them with admiration in his eyes, he could see the motivation of the youths through their hardworking movements. The instructor was a 1-Star Soul Warrior from the Xu clan, the one charged to train them.
"Very well everyone, now let's do a ten minutes break before starting the sparring training."
The youths stopped their movements after hearing the instructor's instruction. Within the crowd of the young people, a brown-haired boy with blue eyes was sitting totally exhausted from the training. His name was Yin Yun, nothing more than a common fourteen years old boy from the Jiangsu Village.
Approaching him, a handsome black-haired boy with black eyes followed by two other young boys who seem to be his servants, they were looking at Yin Yun with mocking eyes, the black-haired boy was the son of a noble Xu clan's Soul Warrior and one of the most promising martial artist of the Jiangsu Village.
"Humph, already tired after that kind of training, you should give up in joining the Xu clan already you weakling."
"Hahaha, you're right young master Chen, such a weakling doesn't deserve to join the Xu clan."
The surroundings young boys were whispering to each other while looking at the scene happening in front of them, it was a daily bullying towards Yin Yun since he joined the Xu training camp. Yin Yun was the weakest of the youngsters amongst the Jiangsu Village, being the target of Xu Chen, the son of a noble Soul Warrior, nobody dares to get involved with him.
"Since the sparring training will start soon, you don't mind becoming my training partner, do you?"
It was oblivious that Xu Chen wants to bully Yin Yun, every time they started sparring, Xu Chen always targeted Yin Yun as "sparring partner" to beat him without any restraint. It was Xu Chen's way to threaten him to stop aiming to join his noble Xu clan he was proud of, such a trash like him doesn't deserve to join his clan was what Xu Chen thought.
Looking at Xu Chen, the instructor could only sigh with a depressed expression showing on his face and ignored the spectacle in front of him. The instructor was a 1-Star Warrior, it was easy for him to stop the bullying from Xu Chen but he was following the order of his superior, Xu Chen's father to nurture the youths of the training camp, afraid of being scolded by Xu Chen's father, the instructor didn't want to get into meanless troubles.
Yin Yun got used to the daily bullying of Xu Chen, accepting the training sparring without having really the choice to refuse, he let out a sigh and accepted Xu Chen's proposal and became his sparring training, being bullied by Xu Chen until he was fully satisfied, he get one-sidedly beaten up, the training ended once the sun was down.
Finishing the daily training, the youths left the training place leaving Yin Yun alone lying on the grass fields. Looking at the orange sky with bruises all over his body, he bit his lips in frustration.
Yin Yun's mother was a poor commoner of the Jiangsu Village, working hard every day to look after her sick daughter, he tried his best to become a Soul Warrior to help his mother to have an easier life. He didn't want to cause any troubles for his beloved mother, which was the reason why he didn't want to respond the bullying of Xu Chen bringing more harm than good to his family.
"Aaah...I should start collecting medicinal herbs soon."
With a sigh, Yin Yun stood up from the grass fields, directing towards the forest's entrance near the Jiangsu Village to collect medicinal herbs. At the forest's entrance of the Jiangsu Village, low-grade medicinal herbs grow in abundance. It could only be harvested during the night which was the most dangerous moment in the forest's entrance due to the wild beasts living inside the forest, but to Yin Yun, it was his favored spot due to the huge income he could earn through the medicinal herbs.
It was Yin Yun's usual everyday lifestyle since he was a child, training until the sunset to become stronger and picking up medicinal herbs until it gets dark to earn money.
Arriving at the forest's entrance, Yin Yun started to search around the forest's entrance for medicinal herbs, after searching for around two whole hours he succeeded to gather quite a good amount before calling to an end to his herbs gathering.
"I should head back before wild beasts appear."
Wild beasts appearing near the forest's entrance of the Jiangsu Village during night worried Yin Yun, it never happened to him until now but it didn't mean that it was safe to collect medicinal herbs during the night. When he was about to leave the forest's entrance, a sudden growl could be heard. Turning his head towards the forest's entrance, three wild wolves suddenly appeared in front of him.
Staying too long in front of the forest's entrance, it was the first time that Yin Yun actually encountered wild beasts during his herbs gathering. His body started trembling once the wild wolves entered in his sight.
"Shit! This is bad..."
With Yin Yun's actual strength, it was hard for him to escape them. He wasn't strong enough to fight those wild wolves not even talking about escaping them with a bag of medicinal herbs on his back.
'This is where I'm going to die? Don't joke with me! I'm Yin Yun, the son of the 3-Stars Soul Warrior Yin Mu!'
Encouraging himself to move his trembling legs, Yin Yun tried to run towards the village's entrance but his speed compared to the wild wolves was too slow, getting caught from behind by one of the wild wolves, he fell on the ground. Turning his head, he tried to kick one of the wolves who was on the top of him but in vain. Bitten by the wolf on his leg, he tried to keep kicking him but didn't succeed to repel him.
Suddenly, behind him, without him noticing it, a dark portal appeared out of nowhere. The wild wolves who saw the dark portal appearing quickly returned inside the forest due to their survival instinct telling them to get away from that strange dark portal. Suprised by the wild wolves retreating, Yin Yun muttered surprised.
"Eh? Why are they retreating?"
Turning his head behind him, Yin Yun saw the dark portal and crawled a meter away from it. A book came out from the dark portal and right after the dark portal disappeared as if he never appeared. Slowly approaching the book that was lying on the ground, when Yin Yun touched the book, a notification popped into his head.
Do you want to learn the Legendary All Jobs Book? Yes/No
'The Legendary All Jobs Book? What the heck is that?! There is the word Legendary written on it, it may be a legendary book? But where did it came from? Legendary book... If I was to sell this book, I may become rich!'
Such thought appeared in Yin Yun's mind. When he was going to choose the "No" button, he fell into a deeper thought.
'No... Forget it, Yin Yun, even if you tried to sell this book, there is no way that you can have a fair price for it. Since it's a legendary book, even your own life will be in danger if you were to sell this... For now, you need to become stronger! Right, maybe with that book, becoming a soul warrior is not a dream!'
In the end, after falling in deep thought and hesitating for a while, Yin Yun decided to bring back the book with him and head back home without choosing an option ignoring the notification in his head.
"Yun'er why did you come back so late? And what did happen to you?! What are those bruises all over your body?"
When he arrived at his home, his mother who was waiting for him at the house's entrance shouted with a worried tone.
"Sorry mother... I was training more than usual today and ended retarding my herbs gathering..."
Trying to find a good excuse, Yin Yun lied to his mother to not worry her too much.
"Ai... I already told you Yun'er, you don't need to force yourself to help me to earn money with herbs gathering... As long as you returned safely from your training, I don't mind working hard all the day."
Even though her mother didn't want his son to gather medicinal herbs to help the family during the night, a proud smile could be seen on her face.
"Hm, sorry to make you worry mother."
Sitting on the wooden chair, Yin Yun and his mother started eating the dinner his mother prepared. After he finished eating, Yin Yun returned to his own room and laid on his straw bed. He took out the book that was hidden in his bag filled with medicinal herbs and decided to learn the "Legendary All Jobs Book" by pressing the "Yes" button.
An incalculable number of data started entering in Yin Yun's brain once he pressed the "Yes" button, the unbearable pain due to the data entering in his brain collapse him on the spot.
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"Ugh... I see I ended collapsing after learning the book."
After waking up, Yin Yun noticed that it was already the morning. Recollecting his memories, he became excited all of sudden due to the new pieces of knowledge he obtained through the book. Standing up from his bed, he took the bag filled medicinal herbs that he gathered last night under his straw bed and took out a medicinal leaf within the bag while saying "Analyze" in his mind.
A detailed notification of the medicinal herb appeared into his head.
Item: Medicinal Green Leaf Grade: Low Ingredients of: Alchemy, Soul Regenerating Pill Crafting Requirement: 10 Soul Energy
The notification that appeared inside Yin Yun's head proved him the fact that the information he learned from the book was real. Just by thinking about all the possibilities from the book, he had chills on his back. Taking a closer look at the information within the notification, a thought entered Yin Yun's mind.
'I wonder what is the Soul Energy that is required to craft the Regenerating Pill...'
After having such thought, he decided to craft this so-called Soul Regenerating Pill.
'Craft Regenerating Pill!'
In the next second, his mind went blank as if something from the innermost parts of his soul has been used. But even before he could have realized what It was, the Medicinal Green Leaf in his hand shined brightly before disappearing from his hand, what replaced it was a red-looking pill instead. A short message popped into his head.
Craft Created!
Following that notification, another detailed notification similar to the last one popped into his head. Looking at the red pill in his hand, a shocking expression could be seen on his face.
Item: Soul Regenerating Pill Grade: Low Effects: After using the Soul Regenerating Pill, the user regenerates 20% of his total Soul Energy. Upgrade Requirement: 500 Soul Energy
'I can also upgrade the pill?!'
'Upgrade!'
Trying to upgrade the Soul Regenerating Pill, this time nothing happened.
'I see, the Soul Energy is an energy within my body, using this Soul Energy, I can create this pill and upgrade them, I can't upgrade the pill if the Soul Energy within me is lower than the requirement... Using this pill will regenerate my soul energy...'
A sudden idea falls into Yin Yun's mind, taking out all of his Medicinal Green Leaves within the bag, he started to create Soul Regenerating Pill using the Medicinal Green Leaf until that his soul energy exhausted to the point of him collapsing, before using Regenerating Pills to regenerate his soul energy and restarted creating Soul Regenerating Pill with the Medicinal Green Leaf.
After several minutes passed, Yin Yu succeeded to create fifty Soul Regenerating Pills, using a total amount of twenty Regenerating Pills during this process. Picking ten Regenerating Pills with him, he put them in his pocket and put the forty other Regenerating Pills in the bag hiding them under his straw bed.
After leaving his bedroom, he entered in his little sister's bedroom.
A young girl could be seen lying on a straw bed. Feeling depressed about his little sister's disease, Yin Yun walked towards his little sister who was in a deep sleep with sweats falling all over her body. Wondering if he could Analyze to learn more about her disease, Yin Yun used Analyze on her. A notification popped into his head giving him the information of his little sister's condition.
Name: Yin Meng Conditions: Cold Wolf's Disease Medicine That Can Restore The Conditions: Hot Chilling Pill
Once Yin Yun learned that he could cure his little sister's disease, he sighed in relief.
'Meng'er... I can do it; big brother will definitely help you to restore your health back! Just wait a little longer...'
With that thought, Yin Yun directed towards the kitchen, he didn't want to wake her up and let her sleep in peace. Sitting on the wooden chair next to the kitchen table, he started eating his breakfast that has already been prepared by his mother before going to work. It was only grilled eggs, but for him, it was enough to satisfier his hunger.
Yin Yu was a poor commoner and couldn't afford to eat a luxury breakfast, eggs were not expensive and excepted for potatoes during winter due to the lack of eggs, it was the only food that his family could afford to buy and eat.
The wooden house Yin Yun and his family was living was the house that his father bought when he was still a child, it was a small wooden house with only 4 rooms but it was enough for him and his family to live. Compared to being homeless, it was better than nothing.
Leaving the house, Yin Yun directed towards the Jiangsu's market that was already busy early in the morning. It was the only market of the Jiangsu Village; thus, a lot of people came during the morning to do their usual daily shopping.
Directing towards a medicine store, Yin Yun entered the medicine store.
Walking toward the owner of the medicine store, the owner welcomed him with a smile but after that, he suddenly takes a closer look at him, his expression changed from a pleasant one into an annoyed one. With his tattered clothes, the store owner wondered if such a poor youngster could afford to buy medicine.
"What's your business here, young boy? Don't stay too long if you don't intend to buy anything."
From the annoyed tone of the owner, Yin Yun already guessed that he didn't want him to waste his time, he took out a Soul Regenerating Pill from his pocket and put it on the counter.
"This is a Soul Regenerating Pill, using it, one can regenerate one's soul energy; how much can you buy me that pill?"
Looking at the red pill in front of him, the owner frowned and showed a shocking expression before smiling at Yin Yun with a wicked smile.
Soul Regenerating Pill was the base of the alchemy and was one of the basic pills created by the alchemists, such a common pill could be sold for quite a good amount of money to the Soul Warriors to regenerate the Soul Energy they used during training or after a fight.
Becoming polite all of sudden after learning that Yin Yun possessed such pills, the owner of the medicine store proposed a price for the Soul Regenerating Pills.
"Young master, I can buy you this pill for a silver coin each pill."
'This kind of low-grade Soul Regenerating Pill must cost quite a good sum. Not that I mind being scammed, but let's try to negotiate a better price.'
With Yin Yun's actual wealth, being scammed doesn't matter much to him.
Right now, he needed to earn as much as he could afford to, no matter what to help his mother who's working hard every day to buy his little sister's medicines. Even if he succeeded to win a single additional copper coin from the bargaining, it was worth it.
"I'll sell you ten of those Regenerating Pills for two silver coins each, not a single copper coins less."
Stating his price, the owner of the medicine store smiled towards Yin Yun and quickly accepted the proposal before that Yin Yun changed his mind. After selling the Soul Regenerating Pills, Yin Yun left the medicine store and started walking towards the training camp of the Xu clan.
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Inside of the medicine store, the owner was looking at the Soul Regenerating Pills with a greedy expression.
Those Soul Regenerating Pills actually costs around ten silver coins each, buying them for an amount of twenty silver coins the ten of them was an amazing deal.
"But to think that such a poor youngster have Soul Regenerating Pills... He's probably not an alchemist, there is no way that an alchemist can be living in that poor village... I need to investigate about him but in any case, doing business with him is really good."
Calling out one of his servant who just came back from his work and entered the store, he ordered.
"You, follow that young boy who just left and starts gathering information about that young boy. You better do your work discretely without getting caught!"
"Yes, sir!"
The servant quickly left the medicine store with great haste right after returning from his work.
"Hehehe, if I can discover a way to force him to sell me for such good pills for a cheap price, I'll be able to start a commerce in the Xu Village. Even becoming a wealthy merchant of Qin City isn't a dream anymore!"
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Arriving in the training camp of the Xu clan, Yin Yun joined the group of youths who already started their jogging around the grass field. It was necessary for the future Soul Warriors to train their stamina, it was a daily physical training that the instructor recommended to the youths until the time that he arrived in the training camp.
As soon as the instructor has arrived, the youths who were running around the grass field started to gather in front of the instructor waiting for his instructions.
"In two weeks from now, an elder from the Xu clan will be coming to choose several promising future warriors to join the Xu Village. A test will be held with a soul crystal to decide either you will be chosen or not. Be sure to thoughtfully train your physical strength until then. Now let's start the daily sparring training after a short break."
Hearing the instructor's sudden announcement, the crowd became agitated; It was finally the time for those youths to have the chance to become a soul warrior, they finally felt worth receiving the harsh training during all that time since they first joined the Xu clan's training camp.
During the break, they couldn't help but becomes excited. Discussing amongst them about the incoming test that was held in two weeks, Yin Yun, as always was alone in a corner of the crowd sitting on the grass fields in deep thought. Noticing that three people were approaching him, he let out a depressed sigh, they were Xu Chen and his servant.
"You weakling still didn't give up to join my honorable Xu clan huh? Today I'm going to beat you so hard that you'll totally give up the idea of joining my Xu clan."
After warning him or rather after threatening him, the sparring training started and obliviously, Yin Yun became the training partner of Xu Chen.
Receiving an even harder beating than usual, Yin Yun noticed that Xu Chen's beating didn't hurt that much compared to yesterday or the days before.
'Is he holding back? From his look, probably not... Which means that he becomes weaker compared to yesterday? No... Did I become stronger?'
With such thought in Yin Yun's mind, he ended gave up thinking too much and didn't want to try out his theory, if he was to block Xu Chen's blows or tried to hit back, he was afraid to infuriate him or worst-case scenario; hurting him.
As soon as Yin Yun finished the daily sparring, the sun was down. Once again lying on the ground from exhaustion with bruises all over his body, he looks at the beautiful orange sky and recalled what the instructor announced this morning.
Yin Yun hoped that he could join the Xu Village to become a Soul Warrior. If he was to succeed, he'll be able to change his lifestyle and face poverty, becoming someone else, the dream of becoming a Soul Warrior, it was finally the opportunity for him to change.
With such thought, he stood up and directed towards the forest's entrance to collect medicinal herbs, it was the everyday lifestyle of that young boy called Yin Yun.