As I awoke I found my head lying in the dirt being stepped on. "Good luck trash better finish quick or we won't let you come back to the dorms".
A fit youth about thirteen to fourteen lifted his foot and started to walk back with three others, I was trying to get up to reprimand him for his actions when I noticed that my hands were bound and my feet were tide to a small flag.
Looking around I noticed that I was lying in the middle of a dirt path and was looking at some weird gate without doors, I started to try to remember the last thing I did and memories old and new came flooding in my mind but some of them were not mine!
Let me explain my name is Anthony and I was 32 and a worker at a lumber yard where I worked and helped people for about ten years after graduating college, I was board of my life sure but by no means was I ready to die by riding my bike to work and getting caught up in a dam car crash.
As I was remembering my past I also had another set of memories burn itself into me. My name in this world was Nan Feng and I was or am a worker at a large sect called Light of Dawn kept there even though I had no talent cause I was able to memorize almost everything I read, but sense I had no talent in cultivation I was unable to use any of it and was used to helping others grow and being thrown away or bullied.
I learned everything I could to make up for my lack of talent but That only made the bullying worse as the seniors would come around often to ask me things and pick on me while the other servants would bully me and force me to tell them what I new to help them get stronger.
I could only ever be a little stronger then a mortal, then some others decided I was getting cocky when a female senior was asking me many questions and getting close to me. They invited/forced me into joining them for a mission exterminate some ghosts that appear in front of the cursed mountain some times, easy contributor points for energy gems and techniques.
Little did I know that they were just looking to kill me cause I talked to the girl there leader liked, we left me oblivious to the danger and they made me carry the supplies as usual, it was only when the mountain was in site they knocked me out and tide me up to a evil gathering flag to make me bait so they could gain rewards and get ride of an eye sore.
After my head stopped throbbing I started to go through nan fengs memories to see what I could do to get out as I didn't want to die. Then I heard a shrieking and looked behind me to see the morons falling having the life sucked out of them and the ghosts that killed them coming at me.
I was still reeling from the sudden turn when one entered me, the pain was horrible but I kept hold of my senses somehow and as I was used to pain in both my lives and did the only thing that came to mind I started to cultivate.
Crazy as it sounds I wanted to live and I had the knowledge to cultivate normaly but that never worked cause I couldn't sense the qi in the world but when a being of pure evil qi just comes to you it is sink or swim.
I started to push threw the pain and move the qi draining my life force and freezing me from the inside and it actually worked though not completely I started to open up my channels and feel myself getting stronger as the pain was getting stronger.
Giving me no time to think the other ghosts started to try me as well so I stopped thinking and just tried to survive, after what seemed like a whole day the pain subsided and I took stock of my situation my cultivation that was non existent even with the help of seniors, it only got me more healthy and made my mind sharper nothing else even manuals did nothing, but know I was level three in the body realm and was surprised to feel my pressure points and channels were open and kinda warm.
The nine realms are the body realm the soul realm the forging realm the ruling realm the the evolving realm the sage realm the saint realm the god realm and the immortal realm.
All realms have nine levels to them and the difference in levels only gets more crazy as you go up realms.
Most people are mortals and are not in the rankings but those in the body realm can get strong enough to lift boulders with ease and those that get to the soul realm are able to use magical items to fly or creat fire in there hands, you are only a cultivator if you get to the forging realm were you combine the two but I will save that for later, with my power I was able to break the ropes with time I was out and just went over my situation.
I was not well liked for being weak and was mistreated all the time even when I was useful as a servant and now as a cultivator of evil arts I knew I would be hunted for sure.
" Well sense I can't go back." I said I looted the dead bodies of my bullies and found just a few gems and some talismans for protection and extermination standard kit for this mission.
I also noticed that there clothes were torn and frayed then I looked at mine and realized that they were the same the clothes must have had a charm to protect the wearer in case they made a mistake.
Taking what I could I walked over to the flag the and picked it up and entered the gate to the cursed mountain to try and get stronger, if I was going to be hunted anyway might as well do as those cultivators in the story's I read and grow stronger.
You might be asking why I am so calm and not freaking out well besides the fact that I had to fight for my life when I just woke up I was a gamer and a lover of fantasy story's this included cultivation novels and comics.
This coupled with the fact that I am a go with the flow kinda person means I do not care about over thinking things and just focused on finding a safe place to rest and freak out in.
Why the cursed efing mountain, cause ONE no one would think that a weak mortal would go there and TWO if evil qi was how I was going to get stronger then best place in my opinion.
Going up the trail was easier then I thought thank you body level four. I got to a cave that was to the side of the trail but close enough and hidden enough that I didn't need to worry about being found.
I sat down in the small but comfortable cave and was exhausted sense it was getting to be night I eat some of the rations that was Brong along and started to cry about all that happened as I fell asleep I could only mumble "what the hell".