The emperor gathered the most loyal members from each of the 12 families except for the Zhu and the Zhang family, he left these groups to Naath. Naath had grabbed the Zhang trio, their father and the Zhang family head. Other than them he didn't know anyone enough to trust them as well as them he grabbed his brothers and a few of the servants from his family that had cultivation bases. Anyone who was a cultivator was potentially in extreme danger. One everyone was done they gathered at the library, once they were there Naath rushed everyone to start heading for the border immediately! With his insane sense of energy that now extended all the way to the edge of the solar system here he could tell that the armies were mere hours away.

It took the group of 30 people half an hour to reach the countries border, the disguised emperor and the rest passed through the gate without anyone recognizing them. After they were our of the range of sight for the guards on the wall they all picked up the pace to speeds only cultivators could ever reach. They soon reached the edge of a large forest. Once they were there they traveled forward for a couple of hours before Naath froze. He felt massive fluctuations in the energy at the country of Beginning. Of course the only reason Naath could sense these armies was because they were such massive groups of people clearly displacing the martial energy around them.

He looked at the emperor and they shared a look Naath nodded his head and the emperor understood silently lowering his head and clenching his fists and enduring as they moved forward again. After half a day they finally stopped and made a small camp where they silently sat around a small fire. After the silence went on for an hour Naath broke it by asking for a map and then looking over it in a scrutinizing manner. While he was looking at the map he was also sensing the energy in certain regions of interest. After a few dozen minutes Naath finally jumped up and spoke.

“Yes! Those will do just fine, not the most grand, but that hardly matters in our current situation now does it?”

Everyone else looked over at Naath like he had gone mad and his mother cleared her throat giving him a look. One of the Zhang trio spoke up thought and asked.

“Master Naath, what exactly were you looking for?”

The members of the 10 families not in the loop as well as the emperor and his guard all jumped at the word ‘master’. How did a child seemingly only just ten years old have disciples? More over, the members of the other 10 families wondered why such a young brat was brought along with them! The emperor was the least surprised and only shook his head getting used to Naath and his many surprises. One of the younger member of the Che family lost his temper, he looked to be around 19 years old and had fiery red hair that seemed to fit his temper quite well. His face was full of freckles and his eyes seemed to be a burning blue, clearly he was a fire element cultivator.

He gave off the air of someone in the later stages of the energy conversion realm. He stomped over and tried to grab Naath by the collar of his shirt. However before he could ever react Naath grabbed his arm and twisted it around behind the young man. Naath pushed forward slightly and the young man fell to the ground in an effort to keep his arm from being dislocated. After this Naath put his foot between his shoulder blades and spoke.

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“If you have an issue with me say it, you have a good fire energy and a strong cultivation. But brute force means absolutely fuck all in front of me. You lack technique or etiquette, you wield the heat of your flame like a weapon, yet you lack any control. Try to touch me again with that kind of intent and I will shatter your arm.

Now my wonderful disciples what I was looking for was a good mountain or set of mountains to settle down at while we train and maybe open up our little dojo. After scanning within my sensory field for a bit I found a small mountain range that does not seem to have any occupants, at least no cultivators anyway. There called the beast prowling hills. Part of the beast wave country, we can settle down there temporarily. Once we arrive I will begin everyones training. Ah that reminds me, all of you need to tell me what elements you work with so I may think up some better cultivation arts for you all.

You all have made due with what you have, but like this young man who is currently eating dirt under my foot at best your cultivation arts can be called sloppy. If I’m being honest its like something devised by people who could barely understand the world around them.”

Everyone first was shocked by how Naath had easily put a young elite many stage above him on the ground so easily. Next they were flabbergasted that Naath wanted to so openly make a dojo in another country on some mountains. Then they felt disbelief that he was going to make them cultivation arts. Finally they all felt rage at having their cultivation methods left behind by ancestors insulted like that! They looked to the emperor who let out a breath and informed everyone.

“Everyone here is trustworthy… Even if a little hot headed. Naath here is a reincarnator and honestly is probably smarter then all of us combined times three. I know you are apprehensive to reveal what you cultivate in but trust me, he can make arts that will in fact make what you use now look like trash. Lets follow his lead, after all he is the one who planned all of this so far and saved our lives.”

Naath smiled hearing this and seeing everyone concede to the emperors words. He let go of the arm of the young man on the ground and helped him up. The young man grunted and Naath waved it off. After this little event everyone gave Naath there elemental cultivation information. Out of the 30 people five cultivated in fire, seven worked with water or ice, three cultivated in earth, nine in wind. One in the darkness element, two in the metal element and finally three in the wood element. Hearing this Naath immediately sank into thought. For the wind element, water, ice and darkness elements, he had an answer already. For Earth, fire, wood and wood he would need to think for a little bit.

The whirlwind arts were very versatile, as long it was an element that could produce a vortex in nature in any way it was usable with the whirlwind arts. After thinking for a few minutes Naath had a basis for the other elements to use. Only the fire element cultivation was tricky. Still after a few hours Naath had rough outlines for every single one of them. Once he had this done Naath went into his tent and fell asleep quickly, like that the night passed and everyone started to head for the beast prowling hills in the morning. They all decided the sooner they got there the better. They needed to get stronger and take back their country.