On a backyard of a house, a young man is sitting on a rock cultivating. Red qi can be seen emitted from him. Qi can be seen dancing beside him. If one focused his eyes and looked very carefully one can see a light projection of a bird on the back of the young man. The projection appeared to disappear at any moment.
The bird is the size as small as a fist. It was red in color. It was the image of a phoenix.
This young man is Derek Fenix. He was trying to condense phoenix from his bloodline to reality. He was current at origin 7th stage.
In the origin state, a bloodline cultivator must bring their respective creature into reality. Then only he/she can enter the earth stage.
Since he has phoenix bloodline he must learn how to do it. During this process purity of bloodline increases. After reaching a certain level of purity then only he could condense a phoenix.
"I managed to tap into my bloodline and bring this projection. Even though it may be an illusion." He opened his eyes and said felling excited. Normally only peak origin 9th stage cultivator can do it.
Just as he was going to practice it again a servant came running towards him and said, "young master, clan master requests your presence"
"what is dad calling me for?" he asked confused. Normally his father won't disturb during this time of the day as he knows his son will be cultivating.
"I don't know," the servant said with his head hung low.
"Okay" saying that Derek got up and went towards main clan house.
"did you see that carriage just now. It had a crest of Lafea clan?" a youngster said to another youngster beside.
Hearing about Lafea clan coming. He thought
'is Lafea clan a middle-class clan. What are they doing here?'
Fire Phoenix clan was an upper-class clan in the kingdom. While Lafea was middle-class family located at the south of the country.
After he reached the main hall he saw his parents talking to a man while laughing occasionally. Beside the man was a young lady. From looks, she was slightly older than him. He entered and greeted his parents.
"Derek greets uncle Dixon and his daughter Kalea," his father said to him pointing towards the man and young lady.
"Hello uncle Dixon and lady Kalea" Derek greeted them.
Dixon was looking at Derek from top to bottom with smiled and said, "good ..good" and continued talking with his father. Derek couldn't understand what's going on.
He moved closer to his mother and slowly he said, "Mom, what's going on?"
Esvele looked at her confused son's face and smiled and said, "Dixon and Kalea are from Lafea clan. He is an old friend of your father during his younger days. He came today to fulfill a promise your father and he did during younger days"
"What promise?" Derek asked
"Marriage," she said.
"whose," Derek asked surprised
"yours and Kalea," she said and smiled
"wh....WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Derek voiced echoed through the hall.
"what the hell you are shouting for?" his father turned towards him and asked. With his cultivation, he heard everything talked between mother and son.
"dad, are you serious about the marriage. I am still young you know" he asked his father
"what young. You are an adult. Your marriage will be decided by us. I called you so that you could see your future wife. Now go and show her around the city" his father said seriously.
Derek was currently 16 years old. Here one reaches adulthood when he/She reaches 15 years.
"for a cultivator, 16 year is younger and." Derek couldn't finish he heard his father saying "what are still doing here? Get going"
"yes," he said and left the hall with Kalea.
Seeing his son leave Alder turned towards Dixon and said, "Brother, don't mind about him. He is still childish"
"it's okay," Dixon said seeing his daughter leave with Derek. He thought both of them are a good pair.
After leaving the main hall he looked to Kalea. She was a beauty. She has fair skin with a round face. She has black pearl-like eyes with black hair. She has a tiny nose and moist lips glittered due to sunshine. She has a curve body. She wore a light blue dress.
"Lady Kalea, forgive me for my earlier action. It just that they never told me about having a fiance and calling me suddenly, showing her and saying that I am marrying her. I was shocked. Till now I haven't considered about marriage as cultivator has a long lifespan" Derek said while looking at her while feeling embarrassed.
"it's okay. My father told me about it a few days earlier. I was also shocked" Kalea said while giggling looking at Derek's face.
Seeing her smile, he was enchanted. He blushed and thought
'Having her as a wife is not a bad idea'
Building up the courage. He leaned towards her and asked, "My lady Kalea, where should I take you?"
"show me all the famous places in the city," she said
"Okay, my lady. It's a date" Derek said
Hearing him say it is a date, she blushed.