A new day began and Kai Yang woke up. He then wiped himself off and picked up the broom in the corner of the small room and left. Standing in the front door he stretched a little. He stared at the touch of gray in the dawn of the sky and closed his eyes as he breathed deeply. He was enjoying this moment of peace before having to reopen his eyes to start sweeping the floor and wiping away dirt and leaves.
He was dressed in black clothes that were simple and clean. The color of untimely aged clothing highlighted the solitude and years of isolation of the young man. Kai Yang's back was straight as a spear and his face had a meticulous expression. Even though he was completing the lowest work, his actions were very calm, he did not exercise much force on the broom and his body did not even move much. With only the twist of his wrist, the broom moved effortlessly. As his body moved, dust and garbage on the floor seemed to magically accumulate in a place around him, just as if they had grown a pair of feet.
Kai Yang was a disciple on trial of the Tower of Heaven. For three years he trained in school, but he had only reached the third stage of the temperate body. However, the other disciples who had entered at the same time as him, had long ago passed him and reached the highest stages. They were all able to enter the main building, pay their respects and make advances toward their future, while he could only regret about their inadequacy in the outer courtyards.
Having third stage of tempered body in three years can not be called good or bad, but very, very mediocre.
Helpless, Kai Yang could only continue to sweep here on the outside patio. Working hard to sustain and also for training.
Tower of Heaven was a very original school. This uniqueness is seen through relentless competition among the disciples. In school, the strong are like kings, while the weak are eliminated. The strong eats the weak; the law of the jungle at the Tower of Heaven School was actively followed by all.
In other schools you might be able to have a friendly competition, fraternal ties and people who would work together to achieve the same goal. But in Tower School of Heaven, you would only be able to have false titles in order to use the other and rise in power. Passing over each other is the only way forward.
The rigorous system of the Tower of Heaven was well known throughout the Han Dynasty. Although the motives were not great, the brutal nature of his disciples made his power unequaled! This is also why the disciples' abilities were like a ferocious tigers when they left. No one in all the rivers and lakes dare to provoke them. *
[Grads: This is a martial term similar to "Heavens and Earth", to say how their power is baccarai fuck. ]
The Tower of Heaven School had a rule; Disciples enter at most fourteen years of age, and the first three years of their acceptance were considered the testing phase. In these three years all the disciples' food, clothing, and shelter are provided by the outer court. Disciples need only focus on cultivating. If in these three years they could advance the temperate body, then they would be able to enter the inner court to pay respect to the elders and become their students. Of course you do not have to have a teacher and you can practice alone, but the difference in learning for yourself and having a teacher is very great. In a way, the rules of the Tower of Heaven have some flexibility and freedom.
In these three years, if you do not move forward, you have two options: you can either drop out of school or be relegated to a Disciple in Trial.
Disciple in Trial is the current state of Kai Yang! He is also the shame of the School of the Tower of Heaven!
Compared to normal disciples, the treatment is very different. Disciples in Judgment must provide their own food, shelter, and clothing so that the outer court no longer wastes resources on cultivating these wastes. Once downgraded to Disciples in Judgment, basically you can never advance. Unless you can increase your level of cultivation quickly. Only then will the school let you try to become a true disciple.
The whole Tower of Heaven consists of three thousand disciples, while the Disciples in Judgment? You can count them on your ten fingers! Kai Yang has faith that he can still become a true disciple!
For the Disciples in Judgment who want to survive in the Tower of Heaven, it is like wanting to reach the heavens. Take Kai Yang as an example, the current hut in which he is living was built by him, one board at a time. The holes in the small roof, he does not even have time to fix them. When it rains, the water can not come out properly and accumulate in the room. He buys his own clothes, must get his own food and is responsible for all his own needs.
The little Kai Yang hut was in the most remote and uninhabited place of the school.
Usually with such horrible treatment, it is hard to bear. That is why the school has only a very small number of these disciples. Most of those who could not advance the temperate body chose to leave, but Kai Yang stayed.
That was equivalent to being expelled, how could he be well?
A few months earlier, when a Disciple on Trial was made, Kai Yang accepted a sweeping job to survive on his own.
Now Kai Yang was both a Disciple in Judgment and a small servant to sweep the tower. But just sweeping to keep life is difficult. There were times when he was cold or hungry, but this was the life he had chosen. Even so, he did not play the retreat drums, because in this life he had chosen he had vowed to continue. That's what men do.
In Kai Yang there was resistance, if you do not want to hit a brick wall, then do not look for this kind of hardness!
[Chinese Saying, something like always continue with your own plans / ideas / decision]
Clearing the tracks and sweeping the dirt into space, the sky gradually began to illuminate and the sun appeared.
Although sweeping itself does not use much energy, without food or drink since morning and in constant motion, Kai Yang was covered in sweat. This had nothing to do with force, for his physique was very poor. Two of three meals he would be hungry. For someone living like him, how could his physique be good?
The few disciples of the Tower of Heaven began to surround him. These disciples had awakened early, not to cultivate, but to look upon. They had great interest in Kai Yang, looking at him with greedy looks as if they were looking at a naked beauty or a sweet fragrance while boxes of juicy meats floated.
[Grads: Huh? ]
Among the disciples gathered around Kai Yang in the tower, there was also a competitive and tense atmosphere in the air. Looking at each other warily, they all held a hostile gaze.
Someone in the crowd said quietly, "So many people, that's a bit excessive. "
It was at that time someone else also said, "You think anyone can walk this way huh. No one wants you to stay. "
That statement made the person who spoke embarrassed. All the disciples knew why they were assembled, because they were all looking at Kai Yang and waiting for that moment to arrive. The deadline was about to come, leaving now was not it a pity? If you could take the rewards, then today would be a harvest.
On the commotion beside him, Kai Yang naturally knew, though his expression never changed. They stopped him every five days, six times a month. He got used to it, and there was no way he could complain. He also noticed that the amount of people in front of him had diminished, probably not all had arrived yet.
While he was being discredited, he turned a blind eye * to the people next to him and began to sweep.
[Grads: Way of speaking he ignored people. ]
After some time, people around Kai Yang gradually increased. There were now between thirty and forty people.
Kai Yang suddenly stopped and sat down in the middle of the road. Slowly, he breathed in the morning air to restore his own physical stamina.
In this movement, the people gathered around him spread and surrounded him, with Kai Yang as the center. A tense atmosphere filled the air as if the air did not flow.
No one looked at him, but everyone seemed to be looking intently at Kai Yang.
If people saw this crowd, they would have a misunderstanding about the specialist in the middle. Or how could so many people surround such a person? In fact, Kai Yang was only a disciple on trial with the third stage of the temperate body. Anyone present was stronger than him.
"Kai Yang, there is no need to worry. Why do not you dutifully lie on the floor so I can hit you and save some time? "Seeing him like that, they really held sway.
How much energy can someone in the third stage of the temperate body restore? You're going to lose anyway, so why stay?
"Listen Listen. Kai Yang, please think about the feelings of our fellow classmates as well. We are not like you, after this game we need to go practice and cultivate. "
The statement was for Kai Yang to finish quickly and let them beat him. Making the act of restoring their inner energy similar to disrespecting them. But he only became deaf, like the Lao Buddha.
The time continued to pass until, suddenly, the melodious bells of the Tower sounded. He reached the ears of all the disciples who surrounded Kai Yang and himself, frightening the disciples. The bells rang nine times, and the east sun rose. It was a new day! Everyone's breathing calmed, helplessly looking at Kai Yang as he slowly stood up. He picked up his broom and looked at the people around him.
"Pick me Senior Yang!" Shouted one person. "I attack lightly, I can guarantee you no pain!"
"Garbage! Choose me, I will be merciful. I'm going to end it in a fist and I promise not to waste time at all. "
"Not me…"
"I…"
It was very clamorous, just like in a market where sellers were trying to sell their products and compete with those whose products were the freshest.
"Kai Yang, you can choose your own opponent!" Someone remembered.
Kai Yang laughed and he promptly picked up his broom and threw it into the sky. The dozen pairs of eyes looked up, full of anticipation, waiting for the broom to fall while praying, "Choose me, choose me!" Time seemed to slow down, the broom turned a few times in the air and immediately fell downstairs, with a big bang, no more moving.
The broom head pointed into a crowd at a burly teenager. With a pitiful sound, the crowd cursed with resentment and resignation. But this burly young man laughed loudly and ran: "Brother disciple, this brother won this battle today, but he expects the fellow disciple not to blame me."
"Che, lucky bastard!" A jealous said.
"Why can not you choose me, I come every five days, for a month! Kai Yang are not you doing this on purpose this? "
"It was nothing, I've come for a total of three months and not once have I been chosen!"
"Brother, you are more miserable than I am."
"It's not miserable, it's not miserable, watch a good show." The two brothers looked at each other, smiling secretly in their hearts.
In the courtyard, the others had already dispersed, leaving only Kai Yang and the stout teenager staring at each other.
"Disciple on Trial Kai Yang, third stage of tempered body!" Yang Kai introduced himself to his opponent.
"Common Disciple Zhou Ding Jun, fifth stage of the Temperate Body!" The burly teenager introduced himself.
Disciples of the Tower of Heaven were also classified. From the bottom up are the ordinary disciples, disciples of the lower base, the elite disciples and the core disciples; five classes. Zhou Ding Jun said that he was a common disciple, it means he still has to pay their respects and does not have a mentor. If the disciple's advance of the temperate body had a mentor, then his state would be greater than those of ordinary lower base disciples. And those elite disciples were selected from among the best low-base disciples.
As for the core disciples, they were treated as the hope of the next generation of the Tower of Heaven School and therefore cultivated accordingly.
The imposing hierarchy of disciples, though it did not seem reasonable and could stimulate the younger generation in the fierce sense of competition, is the foundation of the Tower's brutal regime. This is the main reason why Kai Yang fought countless people, another rule of the Tower of Heaven, the Rule of the Challenge.