“If any of you want to become an intermediate court disciple, you need to advance in your cultivation within the next month.” A lady, who seems to be in her thirties, was lecturing a room full of children. Their ages varied from 6 to 10. This lady was actually an outer court teacher at the Jade Dragon Spirit Academy. She always started her lectures this way reminding them of the requirements to enter into the intermediate court. After that she started the day's topic in her dry voice that could put a dragon to sleep.

After what seemed like an eternity, she finally said “Class is now over, and remember.”She eyed the class.” If you want to join the intermediate court, you have to advance your cultivation to at least the 1st realm 2nd rank in the next month.” After that, the bell rang and everyone left except for a certain 8 year old boy.

The boy seemed to be lost in thought and everyone who looked at him seemed to find this behaviour normal as if it happened all the time. “It has been two years since I started to cultivate and I finally think I’m about to break through to the 2nd rank. My speed is a bit slow, but compared to some, it is quite good. Right now I need to focus on advancing to the next rank as quickly as possible.” He muttered to himself.

“Terin!” Suddenly someone yelled his name derailing his train of thought. He looked at the new arrival to see that it was girl.

“Hey Terra, what’s up?” He said to the girl.

The body who seemed to be 8 years old was Zang Terin, and the girl was his 6 year old sister Zang Terra.

“Aren’t you going to go cultivate in your room? You always talk about how you want to advance to the 2nd rank but here you are lost in thought.” She lectured him.

“I was about to head there right now actually.” He said as he got out of his seat and headed to the door.

“Good luck.” She said as he walked out the door and toward his room.

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“How have I still not absorbed enough energy from the heavens and earth?” There was a boy sitting down in a room meditating. This boy was Zang Terin. He had been stuck at the late stage of the 1st rank for five months now.

“I guess I’ll go for a walk to calm my mind for now. It’s always good to have a calm mind when meditating. If your mind isn’t calm, it may lead you to a cultivation deviation.” He was thinking as he got up and walked through the door into the night lit streets.

As he was roaming the streets, he saw of a group of people walking in his direction. He recognized the group as one of those look down on people types. Terin tried to walk by them without getting noticed and almost succeeded until one of the people in the group turned and pointed to Terin while saying “Hey guys look, it's Terin. Why are you still even in this school? You’re pathetic at cultivating, and on top of that, you're a spiritless trash. You aren’t even worthy of licking my shoes clean.” Everyone in the group laughed at the final sentence.

“I’m trying my best despite all the setbacks, so what if I’m slow and a spiritless, all that matters is that I try my hardest.” Zang Terin stated with pridefully.

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“Your talking back to me? Everyone help me teach this trash his place.” After having said that, the group started to beat him until he was close to death and had bruises all over his body.

After the group left, Terin got up and tried his best to walk into an alley with no one in it. Once in the alley, he sat down and started to rest for a few minutes in order to regain his energy. After about an hour, he heard something from the other end of the alley. It sounded like an injured spirit was making the sound. After contemplating for awhile, he decided to go check it out.

Once he got close enough to see the source of the noise, he was shocked. His eyes were wide as he stared at an injured dragon. The dragon had torn scales and blood all over it. It seemed like it was about to die at any second.

Terin walked up to it’s face and said “Is there anything I can do to help you?” Most people would try to finish off such a weakened creature. But especially after what just happened to him, the boy sympathised with the once noble beast and immediately asked if he could aid it in some way.

“Ah a human boy.” The injured dragon said in a weak voice. This shocked Terin even more because most spirit beasts couldn’t talk until at least the 6th realm. “I don’t senses any arua from you, do you not have a spirit?”

“I..I’m a spiritless. But... what does that have to do with me helping you?” Terin asked in confusion.

“You have no spirit, and you were nice enough to try and help me instead of killing me.” The dragon suddenly coughed blood, then it met the boy’s eyes. “I want to know if you are willing to let me become your spirit?”

“Is that even possible?” Terin asked dumbfounded.

“Of course it is.” The dragon chuckled back weakly.

“Then of course you can become my spirit.” Terin said in an excitedly. This was his chance to change his fate for the better, who could he let it pass him by. But.. “How do you become my spirit?”

“Put your hand of my head and I’ll send my soul into you. You need to accept my soul and let it become one with yours. After that, I will become your spirit and I will become a part of you. My consciousness will be transferred to your mind so we can talk and discuss things. I can always help you with your cultivation if you need it. Now hurry!”

Without hesitation, Terin put his hand of the dragon’s head and felt something weird enter him. This scared him for a moment, then he remembered what the dragon said.

He realized that this was the dragon’s soul and he quickly accepted it. As soon as he accepted its soul, he felt it merge with his own causing his soul to grow stronger. Suddenly he felt intense pain coming from his chest. He knew that this pain must be the spirit mark forming. After the pain disappeared and his soul stopped increasing, he felt a second consciousness in his mind.

Terin started to cry tears of joy. He was finally had a spirit and could change his fate. This was probably the happiest he had been in all of the 8 years of his life. While he was crying, he heard a voice in his head say Such a cry baby.

I’m not a cry baby, Terin thought while he tried to stop his tears. I’m just happy that I finally have a spirit after so long. People would always call me trash because I was born spiritless. They would look down on me like I was nothing more than trash.

That is indeed sad, thought the dragon in a synthetic voice. I used to be beaten all the time by other spirit beasts because of how slow I was at cultivating despite me being a dragon. Sad stories behind, how is your cultivation.

I’m at the peak of 1st rank in the 1st realm, but with your help … uh. I apologise.

For What?

I never asked your name?

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