Long Hao keep on his training day by day and never misses. He didn't even play with his toys or looking out the windows anymore. His training exceed his father expectations as Long Chen thought that he might get bored or lazy as time went by but somehow Long Hao training time getting longer than it should. He gets up at 6 in the morning taking a bath and eating breakfast then straight to continue his training without others to told him to or supervise him. He always trained alone in the morning until afternoon then takes a short break to eat lunch.
By that time, his grandfather will see his progress and supervise him to correct the wrongs while showing the right way. He only stops on late evening to help his mother cooking after washing himself clean. After dinner, he straight go to his room to cultivate his qi until midnight then go to sleep. Such was his everyday schedule that even make Ai Li his mother worried and warned him about getting a good rest everyday which he accepted and lessened his martial arts training for one hour everyday. His father shakes his head when seeing him training while thought "This kid of mine is either a genius or a monster."
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3 years passed again.
Long Hao turns 9 years old. It is common sense that children learn martial arts and cultivation at the age of 7 but there are some exceptions like Long Hao. Most of the village kids learned it as they hail from families or clans of martial artists or lone cultivators. Some kids can't learn it because either they born crippled or are just from normal families. Normal kids from normal families can change their fate if they are lucky to encounter a dead martial master arts or by entering sects or other great families or clans but will need to change their surnames and serve them forever if they want to learn the secrets of the sects, great families or clans cultivation, this is the so called slaves. While the born crippled fate is much worse because of their already broken meridian channels and vessels. Only the ones who are lucky can get their meridians fixed or restored but the chances are nil.
The village looks almost like a small city except that it did not have a school or castle that inhibited and governed by a strong family. It only have town hall for people to gather to discuss about management of the village or enforce the law towards the guilty. The way that their village was build is very strategic as rivers from the four mountains flowed down to converge together to form a big lake and flow towards the north to the sea. The houses was separated into four sections between the rivers and lake. To the north is the Wei clan, the south is the Song clan, the west is the Fa clan while the east is the houses of lone cultivators or run away families that seek shelter in the village and that is where Hao Long house is built. In the middle of the lake has an island that existed town hall and arena.
As Long Hao grew, his cultivation 'Voidless' leveled up and he managed to achieved Body Mortal peak stage as he trained crazily for 3 years. Kids his age excluding the genius or hardworking ones should have only reached at the Body Mortal low level but somehow because of Long Hao persistent training everyday he almost level up to Body Warrior low stage. The rankings of the cultivations should be Foundation, Body Mortal, Body Warrior, Body Master, Qi Mortal and so on.
While Long Hao cultivation is at the great level for his age, almost all of his martial arts stuck at the middle level because of his dabbled at everything. Thou Long Zhou was shocked because that is already considered high if he was compared with Long Chen or Long Zhou himself.
But still only his bare handed 'Body Might' martial arts is at the high level as he focus on it more than the others. As he learned the martial arts, he realized that his body became more tough just like a rock. His body developed good muscles and abs even though its still barely visible. The martial arts used qi to strengthen his body as he trained it with his cultivation everyday. It will gradually level up as his cultivation ranked up.
Hao Long trained and trained until suddenly his village announced that the yearly competition will begin in a month. The yearly competition existed to let the kids show their true worth while representatives from other sects will come and take away the children to bring them to their sects. The competition also grants the winners prizes. Many kids gets excited when they heard the news and almost all of them train crazily.
"Long Hao, do you want to give it a try? You might win if you join the tournament." says Yan Hua.
Long Hao looks towards his grandmother at the dinner table and replied "Do I have to?".
"Well if you want to and with you level and skills you might just win easily." said Long Zhou.
"If you win you can join the sects and learn much more martial arts." said his mother as she put some meat on his bowl.
Long Hao quietly eats his dinner while deeply thinking. Then, he looks at his father and asks "Can I not join the sects if I win? Can I decline them?".
Long Chen put down his chopsticks and said "Well yes you can but are you sure? The sects can provide you with more resources and more martial arts."
"Yeah I don't want to go to the sects. I want to stay here." he replied.
His family look at each other and smiled. After they finished their dinner, Long Hao brought by his father to the underground training grounds. Then Long Chen said "Long Hao, now that you already big enough I think it is time for you to know our family history." Long Chen then proceed to bring his finger to Long Hao's forehead.
Suddenly, Long Hao feels dizzy then he realized he is at a different place. He saw a black book in front of his eyes and as he tried to touch it an old man with long beard appears and said "Keep it with you. Use it wisely and with kindness intention. As long as this book doesn't fall to other people hands then it is fine." Then the space warp and Long Hao is back to the training grounds.
"This family secret of ours has been kept for 3000 years. Although not many people remembered but this book had once bring chaos upon the world. So we were entrusted by our ancestors to hide it. Thou now we used it as it contained cultivations and martial arts that we learned." Long Chen smiled.
"But will other people realized it if we use the arts. Will people not recognized it?" ask Long Hao.
"Well as far as I can tell there is no one who recognized it. Might be because our family doesn't show ourselves that much. We stay in hiding to keep the secrets to death. But then people won't recognized it because no one ever saw the book contents other than us" replied Long Chen.
Long Hao then ask "I was wondering what is grandfather and your cultivation at dad?".
Long Chen reply "You can say at the Qi level but I won't say which level because it might make you slacking off if you know that your family are strong."
While Long Hao was curious but he did not pester his father anymore. He walks up toward his room to cultivate and after that he sleeps.