Xiao Chen loves to browse various books in his clan's library. Most of his time, he spends in the library reading books. Time seems to move faster as he was deeper and deeper inside the books.
It was not that Xiao Chen is a bookworm but he has to break down his loneliness. Without friends, his courtyard looks deserted bare land, even the birds seem to be avoiding this place.
One time he even tries to escape but his father found out and he nearly beat Xiao Chen to death. If clan elders are not there to stop him, his father already decided to kill Xiao Chen.
" Young master, it's almost midnight." the old librarian reminds Xiao Chen. In this entire clan, only the Old librarian treated Xiao Chen as an equal human.
" Ah! " Xiao Chen replies as his mind slowly adapts to reality. " Sorry, Old librarian. I forgot that you are still here." Xiao Chen smiled. He stands deliberately and walks towards the front door. The old librarian teaches him how to write and read and he is like a teacher to him even though they do not undergo a formal ceremony of worshipping.
" Good night, young master." The old librarian said after seeing Xiao Chen leave.
After reading all the books on the first floor and he has a rough idea of martial arts from the History of Azure Dragon Province and General Martial History.
First the body tempering. At this stage, the body is tempered to store Qi and the meridian is cleared allowing the smooth Qi flow. Followed by the initial foundation, Qi transformation, True foundation, the Nascent soul and the Transcendent. There are six martial realms.
Azure Dragon Province has three major clans. Lin, Xiao and Long Clan. Each clan backs three major sects. Moonlight school for Lin. Martial Peak Sect for Xiao Clan and Azure Dragon School for Long Clan. The Long clan is the main ruler of Azure Dragon Province.
Xiao Chen's father Xiao Feng was a vice Patriarch of the Xiao clan. Xiao Feng's strength is said to be equal to the Patriarch. However, he could not be a Patriarch of a Clan. Xiao Chen's father tries to fight with the main family through strength, but in the end, he was defeated by the combined attack of the main family elders. As a branch family, he can only be a vice patriarch.
Xiao Chen's mother died during delivery and his father blamed Xiao Chen for his mother's death. Xiao Chen, himself found it frustrating that he does not even has a one-class martial soul. Even trash martial souls like one-class can practice martial arts but Xiao Chen was born worse than trash.
Heaven was unfair toward him to be fated with such a terrible life. Why are you doing this? HEAVEN. Everyone is born equally under the same heavenly law but YOU heaven are too unfair towards me.
With this discriminatory Heaven and with awful Fate, Xiao Chen's life is in the process of gradual breakdown.
However, Xiao Chen does not care about such things or truthfully even if he cares, nothing will change because he does not have a martial soul. He was not very optimistic about his life therefore even though he tries to fight against destiny, nothing will change unless miracles happen.
This is all because of this stupid MARTIAL SOUL?
According to General Martial History, there are ten classes of martial souls. When one turns ten, someone with a higher realm has to unlock the martial soul of a young one. The martial soul remains inactive until they are unlocked with Qi. If someone tries to unlock it before ten, the out rust of the Qi will damage their Meridian and the person will become cripple and unable to cultivate, which they also known as trash like him.
Before ten years old, our body is in the growing phase and the meridian is not fully developed. But there is a legend that a person born with a fully developed meridian can cultivate before ten. But only a few people believe this legend as they haven't seen such a case in their lives.
Xiao Chen is twelve and his time for martial soul awakening is over and his life also looks like it is in its last step. Xiao Chem knows that his end is not so far because his father's patience is nearing its limits.
In his eyes, there is no right or wrong and family or enemy, strength is everything to him. Family bonds are like dirt between nails.
WORTHLESS
" Wow! What an interesting life!" Xiao Chen talks to himself as he walks toward his courtyard. With his father's killing intent, an unreasonable fate that loves to play with his life and unfair heavens that takes everything from him, his life is far worse than commoners.
Ordinary people who are not martial artists have at least a family love even though they work as a slave.
" Oh! I am jealous of them." Xiao Chen's thoughts wandered around.
" Young master" guards bow their heads. Xiao Chen nods his head and enters his room. Xiao Chen knows these guards are sent by his father to supervise his only son. These guards are not to guard against outside attack but to guard against inside.
What an IRONY!
When Xiao Chen closes the door the two guards start to talk about the patriarch's eldest son, Xiao Qian. Xiao Qian is a top genius of the Martial Peak sect, born with a sixth-class martial soul. He was said to be invincible in the same realms.
Xiao Chen does not believe that Xiao Qian is invincible because, above the six-class martial soul, there are still four higher martial soul classes.
Xiao Chen rolls around the bed as he tries to sleep but images of his father who want to kill him on the martial platform, where the awakening ceremony of the martial soul has been held appear again and again.
Damn! Xiao Chen swears to his soul that if miracles happen and he was able to cultivate, then he will cut his father's head as an offering for those who look down on him followed by an unfair fate and also that unreasonable heaven. I will crush them to the ground with a sword. Reassuring himself makes him soothe his nerves to fall asleep.