Dao Arts Tournament, the main event of the Brann Drage Continent, where all schools face off to decide who will receive more resources from the royal court and who will have almost nothing. The Dragão Martial School, the oldest institution, always won all the tournaments, becoming thus, for some feared, for others admired, and for many detested. In the middle of it all, Li Kuen was there, looking at those immense arenas and wondering if one day he would manage to at least get there, after all, being there means being strong and having strength means having power and with power you can do what you want, that is, with strength you can be free and that was what Li Kuen wanted, freedom. Seeing that dreamer boy, Chan Du, looked at him and thought: "this boy is not going to get anywhere, besides being from a poor agricultural family, he is still extremely weak being only in the Martial Spiritual Realm III".

 But despite that thought, Chan Du said nothing. It was time for the first battles, there were 8 arenas that formed an octagon. At the center was the audience who could look anywhere and see several fights going on.

 The schools that were going to battle were drawn. In total there were 16 schools with 2 people at different levels of strength to represent them, the weakest went first and then the strongest. Shortly after Chan Du's thought, the advertiser spoke in his grave voice: School of the Imperial Arts vs School of the Dragon Arts - Arena 1 School of the Phoenix vs School of the 7 attributes - Arena 2. . . And lastly: Dragão Marcial School vs Escola dos 9 Reinos - Arena 8 At that moment the crowd started to shout, vibrate, jump and so, each school sent its representative for the first battles. Li Kuen focused his gaze on the arena where the battle of the Martial Dragon School was about to take place, which he simply idolized. An interesting thing about this tournament is that any family from the 5 countries could go to watch, if they were a martial cultivator. To the pride of his family, he was the first of his lineage to be able to enter the Dao path, thus gaining access to the championship. At that moment, a powerful aura was felt by everyone, the first representative of the School went up to the arena and an air of majesty accompanied him. On the other side of the arena was his first opponent, who was one of the main members of the school's ninth realm, the main realm, however, close to Xu Zhan he was nobody. Along with them, the other 14 school representatives entered the arenas to battle and with a roar of a holy beast the fighting started. However, at the moment when everyone was waiting for Xu Zhan to defeat his opponent from the School of the 9 Kingdoms, an elder appeared standing around the clouds. When the crowd saw him, they started to get euphoric with shouts: "Elder Wang is here, Elder Wang is here, what does one of the chief advisers of the Royal Court do here?" "Will he choose his next disciple?" "Hasn't he admitted anyone for more than 50 years?" "What exactly is going on?" Meanwhile, Li Kuen was perplexed, he did not know very well what was happening, he did not know this famous elder, much less his position as advisor, he did not know his strength, nor what influences he had, but he realized that it was not a question of someone ordinary. However, despite so much excitement on the part of the fans and the fighters themselves, Elder Wang did not move or change his gaze for a second, he was fixed on the arena where the battle of Xu Zhan would take place. Only one word came out of his mouth: "go on". At that moment, everyone fell silent and fixed their attention on Arena 8, even the other fighters from the other arenas. At the same moment, Xu Zhan, realizing what was happening, attacked with his strongest scream, shouting: “Dragon Sword Attack” and with that his sword began to fill with flames, thus releasing an unparalleled pressure on his opponent Hu Suo. However, the moment his sword was about to cut Hu Suo, he simply froze, his legs started to shake and an extremely cold air invaded the place, not only arena 8, but all the arenas around and the place where the audience was also. All those who were in the Home Kingdom passed out and those like Li Kuen who were in the Spiritual Realm felt an extreme pain in their dantian, causing the majority to not stand it and also passed out, only Li Kuen and 3 more boys from the Spiritual Realm stood up.

 With that, Hu Suo proved to be in fact the number 1 disciple of the School of the 9 Kingdoms and not just one of the main disciples.

 Elder Wang received an anonymous message that he would be surprised if he went to the tournament, which he hasn't done in over 100 years. At the moment when this happened, everyone was scared, everyone wanted to give up, because they knew there was no way to face Hu Suo, after all releasing the Can r da Alma at such a young age was imaginable that the young man would have a bright future. In the next instant, something that everyone was waiting for happened, Elder Wang came down from heaven and walked over to Hu Suo and said: “young man, you really surprised me, I didn't expect anyone else from the Continent Brann Drage would get my attention, however , although you are clearly very talented, I want to be sure that this is the result of your interior, of your real Soul Power and not just of several miraculous medicines that your School may have put in you, besides, as there are several talented young people here, I want to show my impartiality, as everyone can reach the Celestial Kingdom with different developments, so I will take a test, a test just like I did 50 years ago, a test to see who my next disciple will be. ” At this moment, there was not a scream, everyone was sweating cold, with their hearts racing, because nobody knew what kind of test it was, after all none of those 18, 20 year olds were alive when Elder Wang recruited his last disciple 50 years ago behind. He continued: "It is extremely simple, the one who remains conscious will be the chosen one, and everyone over 20 years old will not be able to participate and will faint immediately." After that, their hands came together and first all the people over 20 passed out, soon after, the whole crowd was knocked out one after one, people struggled against a powerful amorphous pressure that was made on each one, in addition to a Power of Extremely hostile soul, which penetrated everyone's mind and completely destabilized them. After 10 seconds, only individuals with enormous willpower were able to stand, these were about 1000. Hu Suo was one of them, however, as the pressure increased, his body emitted green smoke. "Um, wanting to deceive this old man, it looks like now he is going to suffer the effects of all the drugs he has taken for so long." After 15 seconds, there were only 100 left. Paying no more attention to Hu Suo, he focused on Xu Zhan, who was fighting against his body to keep from passing out, but even though he had incredible willpower, he couldn't resist and was totally unconscious. After 20 seconds, only 5 individuals were fighting against the Soul Power that entered their minds, but one boy decided to stop fighting against the powerful force that shook his mind and against the amorphous pressure that dominated all the space around him, at that moment strands of blood began to roll out of the corner of his mouth, his mind seemed to be about to burst, all his veins were bulging, his face was the color of his scalding red hair, his thin face was with an expression of pain and anguish , at that moment only he was conscious. From a distance, Elder Wang had a frightened expression, mixed with surprise and a kind of admiration and even happiness, he had finally found his new disciple. At the same moment, his long, extremely white beard swayed in the wind and he flew to Li Kuen, put his hand on his wrist and sent a Soul Power totally opposite from the previous one, into Li Kuen's interior, along with that power, some memories Master Feng's penetrated his mind. In that instant, his body quickly changed to normal, and his expression became more serene and strong, like that of a warrior, memories of huge battles and the story of a great warrior, in addition to scrolls with information about various locations with many treasures, places that are extremely dangerous and hidden, as well as the memory of a scroll with a cultivation technique rang in Li Kuen's mind. At that moment Elder Wang flew in the wind and disappeared completely. After an entire hour had passed, everyone was still passed out, Li Kuen woke up with a strong burning in his wrist, after all the mental confusion he experienced, he was extremely pale. However, he remembered every detail of the information he received in his mind and thought: "Who was that powerful warrior who appeared in these memories that I received?" Thinking about it, he focused his mind on these newly acquired memories and located a scroll with an extremely powerful ancient cultivation technique. She used patents that progressed according to objectives that were being fulfilled, the scroll of the technique was like this: Military Technique of the Governor of the 12 Kingdoms: Grade 军人 (soldier): Learn 1 martial skill Hunt 100 wild animals Refine 1000 Spiritual Crystals

 Skills acquired by becoming a 军人 (soldier):

 Force: 100 Kg Speed: 50 Km / h The reflex is increased by 10 times. Your perception is increased by 20 times, making it possible to hear steps within a radius of 100 meters.

 After mentally reading the scroll, he decided what to do. I didn't want to waste an opportunity as good as this and thought to myself: “finally ... finally I found a great fortune ”, and with a determined look decided that it was time to get out of there. About 10 minutes, following the same path he did when he entered, he managed to leave the place where he was watching the fights. When he stepped on the ground, he felt a unique sensation, a sensation of someone who is extremely familiar with the place he is in, that he knows that whole land as if it were the palm of his hand. In his conscience was the feeling of total familiarity with the lands around him, it was as if a mental map appeared in his mind and he knew where everything is, and how many meters it is and how long it would take him to go to the places that he wanted. “Is this because of the memories? I keep in mind the scrolls and all those memories I can understand, because when you reach a certain level of strength, transferring memories is a simple process, but this feeling of familiarity is extremely different from that, it's as if I have lived here for many years, which is impossible, because I never even came to these arenas ”thought Li Kuen, but as he could not understand, he stopped his thinking there. As his clothes were old, his sword had almost no thread, and he did not have a martial ring, which would allow him to carry numerous items in an internal storage, he decided to go to a small village that was nearby. However, he had a big problem: he didn't have the money to buy even the most basic combat clothes. So he walked to a place near the village, where there was a large forest and decided to sit with his legs crossed on top of a huge stone, so that he could meditate in peace and think of some solution to his problem.

 For cultivators, meditation is essential, as it is from there that new insights emerge in their minds and they acquire greater mental stability. Martial Cultivation is divided into Kingdoms, the first is the Martial Realm of Origin, where the individual is able to use the Power of the Soul. Then it is the Spiritual Kingdom where Martial Power can be stored in the dantian, followed by the Master Martial Kingdom, Elder Martial Kingdom and the Celestial Kingdom.

 Within each Kingdom, there are levels, these levels range from I to V, the fifth being the most powerful. When martial cultivators pass the fifth level, they go to the first of the next Kingdom. When he was just under an hour meditating, he was able to decide what to do. With his newly acquired memories, he realized an extremely quick way to earn money while he was near the small village. Then he opened his eyes, stood up, took off his white shirt and kept only his pants and his supply bag. His red hair flew in the wind and he jumped from the rock towards the forest, at that moment two great spiritual wild animals looked at him. Sensing Li Kuen's hostile intention, the two animals looked at each other and in less than 1 second they ran towards Li Kuen, aiming, with their long horns, to wound Li Kuen, however, to the surprise of both, he did not run, nor at least he looked up, looked into their eyes, closed his right hand and when the animals were about 1 meter apart, he punched the first between his eyes, jumped and kicked the other in his spine, breaking it into several pieces . After that, with his hands he tore off one of the horns of the huge animals and then tore a little below the stomach of both to collect the spiritual crystals, which were nothing more than special stones that store soul energy, very used for cultivation. However, at that moment Li Kuen needed money to be able to buy his equipment and with that, Li Kuen's plan was set in his mind: he would hunt as many wild animals as possible to first beat his goal of 100 slaughtered wild animals, sell a part of the crystals to get money and buy your equipment, and with new equipment, get the 1000 Spiritual Crystals and thus refine them. Li Kuen knew that these spiritual crystals were of extremely low quality, as they were the fruit of spiritual wild animals from the Kingdom of Origin. After all, he had the memories of the great warrior and although most of them were still a little hazy, he managed to know the level of those crystals. With that, Li Kuen decided that he would not go too deep into the forest, not least because he did not know what dangers there could be, much less the level of power of the spiritual animals that existed there. Knowing that at the beginning of it there were animals that he could handle, he decided to stay there. After that, more and more spiritual wild animals noticed Li Kuen's presence, until a moment came when he was completely surrounded, where he was looking, there were enemies. At that moment, Li Kuen closed his eyes for a second and when he opened it, a soul force appeared with him, generating o great pressure on spiritual wild animals. His eyes portrayed pure determination, in his heart there was only one thing: to defeat all his enemies. So he closed both hands and screamed and ran towards a large wild animal that was in front of him, when the beast realized, he was already a few meters away and with a shout, he threw his long trunk in the direction of Li Kuen. When this happened, Li Kuen did what the big animal did not expect, jumping on his trunk and using it as a ramp for his head. Reaching the highest part of the animal's body, he used his hand to land a powerful punch right in the middle of his skull. With that, the animal was enraged, Li Kuen took this opportunity to slaughter all the other animals that tried to escape. With many blows he killed about 50 animals and quickly took the horn of the animal he had killed in the beginning and used it as a knife to get his spiritual crystals. After doing this, the gigantic animal spotted him and ran towards him, a smile broke out on Li Kuen's face and he started running towards the largest number of animals together, realizing this, everyone started running, but the huge wild animal was at extremely fast speed, and with its long legs, it soon caught up with them. To the fear of the smallest wild animals and the joy of Li Kuen, the real massacre began, in a few seconds, almost 100 animals were already dead, and their crystals were already being pulled out by Li Kuen. However, more extremely strong animals started to emerge from the depths of the forest due to the great noise. In total there were 5 huge spiritual wild animals that started to chase Li Kuen, they were all different, but they all had one thing in common besides their sizes: they were extremely ferocious. However, Li Kuen was not afraid, in his mind came thoughts of what he had to do if he wanted to stay alive. Blows and martial skills surfaced in his mind, while the 5 huge animals surrounded him. A tranquility washed over him. A strange force arose in his heart, he quickly became anxious and then closing his wrists he shouted quickly: "Strike of the Celestial Dragon" and with his fingers in the shape of dragon claws, he ran extremely fast while gliding in the air. At this moment, he went towards the wild animal that had been hit before, and with a single blow, on the animal's cheek, made him take several steps back, and when that happened, he didn't stop and did dozens of punches in the the animal's ribs and face, causing it to finally die. This caused the other 4 giant animals to be at a loss as to what to do, and the moment Li Kuen was afraid of having to face them all at once, all 4 turned their backs and ran into the forest. A sigh of relief formed in Li Kuen's heart, he knew he would be able to deal with them, but it would be extremely painful for him not to be hurt, so he was glad he didn't have to face them. After that, he took the long horn that he had kept in his supply bag and tore the extremely hard body of the animal just below its stomach, where the spiritual crystals were located. "I can't believe it! A medium level crystal !! It looks like this gigantic animal brought me a good thing after all". Looking at that crystal, happiness arose in Li Kuen, because according to his memories 1 medium level spiritual crystal is equivalent to 100 low level spiritual crystals !!! So, at that time, he had collected almost 500 crystals. However, there was still a long way to go. With the medium level spirit crystal, he could get a good amount of money, since these crystals were extremely rare in that region. He finally decided to leave that forest and went towards the village. Although she was quite small, she was one of the headquarters of the Commercial Flaming Clan, one of the main traders in the Country of Flame, her country of origin and where the tournament was held. With that, Li Kuen was excited, and soon arrived at the entrance of the city thinking: "wow, how many stores, how many salesmen, I am really in the right place". The next moment, Li Kuen went into a large store to see how the main currency system of the continent worked. After all, his agricultural family did not leave his village in the interior of the country and he did not know information about the exchange rates used in the rest of the continent. Entering the store, a slightly fat old man answered him with a kind smile, he wore a white shirt, with a scarf on his head and a chlorinated vest with details of several coins, a rather wide pants on his feet and a slipper of wood. Looking at the man Li Kuen had a good impression. But the moment he went to greet him, 3 big men entered the place, slamming the door and saying: "hey old man, we want to 6 bags of low-level spiritual crystals and 3 medium-level crystals. The old man looked at them, wiping the smile off his face and just said, "I'll get it, wait a minute." But it was no surprise to the 3 men that the old man was not friendly, they just looked at the store. However, his eyes fixed on Li Kuen and the one on the left end with dark hair with an unkind face said: "hey, brat what do you think you can buy here?" Li Kuen was wearing only his old white pants, being barefoot and shirtless, with his back, chest and arms totally dirty, besides he only had a bag of supplies, so he was expected to be offended by many people. However, unlike what the 3 men thought, Li Kuen was not irritated, nor did he change his serene expression for a moment. "Hey boy, didn't you hear him?" Asked the middle man. "Yes, I heard you," he said. "Then why didn't you answer it? What do you think is your little shit?" Li Kuen looked at the 3, knowing that he was going to have a battle at that moment, his gaze became cold, his hand was in the position of dragon's claws, while the 3 great men emitted a slight murderous intention. However, at that moment the old man who owned the tent came back with 7 bags in his hands and with an extremely firm look, focusing on the 3 men and said: "do you want to join the list of the Flaming Commercial Clan ?!". At the same moment that the old man said this, the 3 men gathered their intentions and bowing their heads slightly said: "sorry, we didn't mean to cause any problems" and soon after hearing this, the old man let out a small sigh of anger, then saying: "here are your order, 6 bags of low level spiritual crystals and as for the medium level, I have only 2 of them and not 3". Hearing this, the countenance of the 3 men at the same time became extremely downcast. "But we are one step away from the Deep Martial Kingdom" "Yes, we need this, we have already run the entire village and were told that only you have these average spiritual crystals, please pay any amount". The other man spoke. "It is not a question that I don't want to sell, I just don't really have it, they will only arrive in the distribution next week".

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 "We will be leaving the city the next day, we cannot wait" accepting the fact that they would not make it, they asked the old man how much they had to pay for all the crystals. "Well, take it easy, each bag of low-level spiritual crystal, which is 50 units of them, costs 50 gold coins equivalent to: 5000 bronze coins or 500 silver coins or 5 platinum coins. The 2 crystals medium level spirituals cost 10 gold coins each. So totaling 70 gold coins ". After the Old Man said that, Li Kuen was frightened in his heart, he did not expect the spiritual crystals to be worth that much and at the same time he understood the currency system and realized that it was the same across the continent, although he never heard talk about platinum coins. However, the 3 men were not surprised, they already knew how much each spiritual crystal cost. Then, each took a bag of gold coins and handed it to the old man, after checking it out, the man gave a small smile and then kept them in a safe he had with the symbol of the Flaming Commercial Clan. After that, the 3 great men were leaving, happy to have got the 2 medium level spiritual crystals, but downcast, because they didn't get one more. Li Kuen thought in his heart why they simply didn't buy the equivalent of a medium spiritual crystal in low-level sperm cells, but kept it in his heart. When the 3 men were walking through the door, Li Kuen spoke in a low but firm tone: "wait", at the same moment, the 3 stopped, turning to him with an irritated look, but after remembering the old man's warning, the man on the right said, "what do you want boy?" "You want another medium-level spiritual crystal, right?" "Yes, of course we do, are you an idiot by any chance?" But the moment the man on the left said that, the middle man, who seemed to be their leader, turned his face serious and said in a calm voice: "young man, do you have one of these crystals?" "Don't be hilarious Wu Zaul, it is obvious that this boy has nothing, look at his clothes, his body, he is nothing more than a beggar!" the man on the left spoke. "Shut up!!" shouted Wou Zaul. "Young boy, do you really have an average crystal?" He asked again. Seeing how Wou Zaul's attitude had changed, Li Kuen just smiled slightly, put his hand inside his cufflinks bag and took the medium-level spiritual crystal, saying, "this?" At the same time, the 2 men who were next to Wou Zaul became extremely pale because of the shame they experienced and at the same moment spoke in unison: "sorry for doubting the young boy. "Li Kuen did not care how these men acted, he was thinking he was going to get good money." How much do you want for her? "asked Wo Zaul." 20 gold coins! "replied with a Li Kuen firm tone Wo Zaul did not hesitate at the same time and threw a bag of 20 gold coins towards Li Kuen, thinking to himself: "if this boy raises the price I will not be able to pay" and on the outside he kept a firm face , while his 2 subordinates looked at him with a questioning face, they knew that Wo Zaul didn't have much more than those 20 coins.However, they didn't say anything, but Li Kuen already understood everything, however, he didn't want to hinder things and create 3 enemies that he didn’t know where they came from. So right after he received the bag with the coins, he threw the medium spiritual crystal at Wo Zaul, giving a slight smile. "Thank you old man, thank you young boy" said Wo Zaul while the 3 greeted them hands closed After that, Li Kuen kept the bag with the coins in his purse and just when that happened, the old man said: "I didn't have a chance to introduce myself, my name is Zho Won, very happy" and greeted him closing his hands. hands, then Li Kuen said: "No problem, those men came suddenly and I also missed the chance to greet you, my name is Li Kuen", greeting him back. "How can I help young master Li Kuen" said the old man. "I'm actually going to need your help a lot, I'm a forester, and I'm out of equipment." Li Kuen replied "I realized that the young man is not from here, after all, I never saw him, and for a small village this is very rare" said Zho Won laughing. "Well, can we see the weapons first, what's the young man's style?" "Swords" replied subtly Li Kuen. "Good, good, come this way". In the meantime ... Dao arts tournament More than 12 hours had passed and now that the first people started to wake up. First the elders woke up with an enormous pain in the head, as if an iron could be heard hitting their heads. "What exactly was that?" "Wasn't it just to disagree? What is the reason for this pain?" "This Elder ... it really is a mystery" Dozens of comments came up as the younger ones woke up. "HU SUO, HU SUO what happened to you?" Shouted the Director of the School of the 9 Kingdoms, approaching him. Meanwhile, the school elders also arrived to see what had happened. "I failed you masters" and when he said that he closed his eyes as green smoke remained from his body. "Miracle drugs banned," said the director. "WHO GIVEN MIRACLE DRUGS PROHIBITED TO HU SUO?" shouted the director, as he burned with rage. On the other side of the arena, the director of the Dragão Martial School was walking calmly to Xu Zhao and said in a light tone of voice: "it seems that you were not the chosen one" ending the speech with a light laugh. "Sorry, master," he said as he lowered his head. "No problem, Xu Zhao, all I am wondering is that if it was neither you nor Hu Suo, who did Elder Wang choose as a disciple?" After the director of the Dragão Martial School said this, everyone started looking around and wondering who Elder Wang chose. However, there were thousands of people there, it would be extremely difficult to notice someone who was no longer there, but one thing they knew, there had been none of the main students of the 16 schools on the Mainland Brann Drage !! "So it means that there was someone here more talented, with a stronger willpower and who will have an even brighter future than all these young people who are participating in this tournament !!!" said a man of average height. "Exactly!" A man agreed, and from that moment on, comments were heard from everywhere. "And this chosen disciple was not a member of any of the schools on the continent? Was he an outsider? Or did they not have the ability to discover this unique talent?" The comments and questions continued for a long time ... Only one man, with a startled look, looked around him and realized something ... "That boy ... That boy ... He disappeared. .. "