Once safely hidden away in a remote cave far away from the level nine beast bear, Tan Fang the Tian Xin Sect master and Luo Cheng Yuan the Qin Cheng Sect master, Lai Ming began to explore the gifts he got from these Ancient cultivators. Little did people know that these Ancient cultivators did not die from the last war but are true cultivators from a higher realm, higher than Tong Tian Continent.
From his right hand he felt the power of the green jade as he entered into a space that was filled with green grass and herbs and a spiritual lake lay in the middle of the landscape. Awaiting him was a forest spirit named Aryan. He knew the name of the forest spirit the moment he entered the space as information began to fill his brain. Of course for what was in the space was not transmitted to him but he knew the good stuff available in the space from the story that he had read when he was on Earth.
"Master !", the forest spirit named Aryan called out to him.
"Yes, can you bring me to see the books.", Lai Ming said confidently.
"You know about the books stored in this space.", Aryan called out in surprise. His master was even more powerful than he thought. Aryan looking lovingly at his new master with a look of pride.
"Ahem, of course...", Lai Ming said proudly. The only reason Lai Ming knew this detail was because he read the fan fiction story about this item. For the other items that Lai Ming got, he knows nothing about it as it was not written in the fan fiction.
"This way master.", Aryan said happily.
Aryan led Lai Ming past the field of spiritual herbs and past the magical spiritual lake to a mansion inside the space. Lai Ming was then led into a library filled with books on cultivation and pill making. Lai Ming chose a high level cultivation manual. He spent the whole night inside his space studying the high level cultivation manual. Once he was done, he walked towards the lake and took a bath. After that he spent days eating dried food inside his space and cultivating. Lai Ming did not care if cultivating and drinking the spiritual water would make his body softer than a females body, he wanted power.
As for the three magical items he got, he took a drop of his blood and refined the three items. The black black and white ball in the shape of ying and yang was an item that allowed its owner to lie and take as many oaths as it wants to without the slightest consequence. The treasure chest when refined with a drop his blood would produce endless amounts of spiritual stones, the currency of the Tong Tian Continent. The Mirror was owned by an Ancient Female cultivator who was into health and beauty and the mirror would make the owner healthier. Out of all the three treasures, Lai Ming was most disappointed with the mirror. Even though he was disappointed, there was no harm in being healthy. So he kept the mirror in his room to look at himself always. The mirror was magical and could expand to any size.
Days went by before he came back to Tian Xin Sect for the picking of candidates for disciples, as expected he was trash and was pushed into the capital peak because he refused to warm the bed of the sect elders or the sect master. But Lai Ming was happy as he always kept his head down, his face full of mud and dirt as well as he wore layers and layers of shabby clothes. No one would know how he looked. It was better to keep a low profile. Anyway there was only one deviation from the plot story, Tan Fang was injured together with Luo Cheng Yuan and was not there during the selection of disciples. However Jiang Lu was still selected as a inner disciple of Tan Fang the sect master.
Little would Lai Ming know that this little change in the story would cause waves of changes later in the story.
Happily knowing that nothing changed, Lai Ming spent the rest of his time cultivating in his magical space as well as making pills from spiritual herbs. By the time it was time for the process of eliminating all mages that failed to get to level 2, Lai Ming has already reached level four. Lai Ming by that time also went into the space in his left hand which was filled with forging techniques for cauldrons and weapons. There was a fire spirit named Prome waiting for him there. That space contained all the books for Warriors as well as weapon refining. However Lai Ming knew he was not a warrior but a mage. Still he found out from Prome even as a mage he could forge cauldrons and weapons here using his spiritual strength. Lai Ming spent some time forging a cauldron and created a cauldron which could be known as the number two cauldron in Tong Tian continent. However to him, this cauldron was trash, as it used the cheapest metal and did not contain any spirit beast's spiritual stones.
When the time for the test for making a level two pill came, Lai Ming made a easy mediocre level two pill and passed the test. While Yu Xiao Mo as per the plot created a difficult medium level two pill shocking the testers at the site. By then Ling Xiao was already by his side. Lai Ming looked at Ling Xiao and was glad that Ling Xiao did not know him. After the test, Lai Ming walked towards Yu Xiao Mo to greet him.
"Senior !" Lai Ming called out loudly.
"Hello, do I know you ?", Yu Xiao Mo asked as he looked at Lai Ming.
"Senior we met at the library at that time before the selection process.", Lai Ming said happily in a girlish voice.
Yu Xiao Mo looked at Lai Ming and remembered a young cute boy at the library and now what he saw a dirt covered cultivator with shabby dirty clothes.
"Uh... what happened to you ?", Yu Xiao Mo asked in confusion.
"Senior, it's better not to stick out... be careful of Kong Wen the master of capital peak. Senior trust me when I say don't trust him.", Lai Ming said with a smile.
"My name is Lai Ming senior, what is your name ?", Lai Ming added with a cute smile.
"My name is Yu Xiao Mo, it's nice to meet you.", Yu Xiao Mo said happily as he shook Lai Ming's hand.
"Come to my house, we can talk more freely. Then you can tell me why you are dressed as a beggar.", Yu Xiao Mo said.
"Uh... senior can we go to my house, I don't really want to meet Ling Xiao.", Lai Ming said with a smile.
".... okay... I think it might be better to talk in your house.", Yu Xiao Mo said as he thought that introducing this innocent looking person to the murderous Ling Xiao might be a bad idea.
To be continued...