Over the past four days, George refrained Kirk from combat training. Books upon books could be seen piled in front of Kirk. To a regular 4 year old, this may seem like torture, however, to Kirk who has very high spiritual senses, it was like a walk in the park. He took four days to finish reading all the over 300+ books which greatly shocked George.
"Rest up son, tomorrow I would guide you into your cultivation." George said slowly as he.
"yes dad" Obediently, Kirk went to his room and lay on his bed.
*Knock *Knock *Knock
The next morning, Knocking sounds could be heard from Kirk's room.
"Is he really still asleep?" George could not believe for the first time Kirk was fast asleep after more than a year of constant training.
"Well let him rest a while, he deserves it" George chuckled softly as he left and headed towards the training grounds.
On his way, he was thinking about what he should teach Kirk first.
"Hmm wonder which training style I should use when teac….Huh!!?" George was stupefied when he saw Kirk standing on the training grounds waiting for him.
"How long have you been her son" George couldn't help but ask.
"Since two hours ago Dad" Kirk replied with a somewhat unhappy voice.
"Haha good, you passed the first test, now let's move on" Being so thick skinned, George found a way to cover up his actions.
"Have you heard of sword intent?" George asked.
"Sword intent comes after you have comprehended (one with the sword). The stages of sword mastery includes, Initial Stage, Mastery Stage, Completion Stage, One with the sword and Sword intent being the last. After sword intent however comes the Sword Dao"
"SO which stage am I at Dad?" Kirk asked, disappointment in his eyes as he felt he had too long a way to go.
"Errm it doesn't matter son, today I want you to learn how to draw your sword. Do it let me see." George refused to answer as he didn't want Kirk to slack in training because he was a "genius"
"Errn" Kirk nodded his head and drew the sword.
"Good, now raise your head to look at your target before you draw,aim for a critical point you want to hit and strike." George guided as Kirk was still striking his sword in such a manner.
"Good Good" George complemented while he watched Kirk strike nothing. However, his excitement came from the fact that despite Kirk only having begun his training, he was improving at a visible rate. His strikes were becoming more and more perfect.
Meanwhile, in Kirk's Spiritual Palace, the "Faith" word was rotating as he trained. Unknowingly, Kirk was having enlightenment at this point. This stage lasted for about 6 hours however, George just took it as Kirk abscessing with training. The reason he was silent however was the fact that, Kirk was improving so much in one day that George wondered if he was too old and that a new era must have begun.
"How…." This time, George was stunned shitless on the spot, unable to move as he watched Kirk practice the sword.
Kirk could be seen striking back and forth with his sword standing at the same place. His strikes where so perfect they could be seen as though he was painting art. Suddenly, his strikes changed. Sometimes they where fast, sometimes they where slow, However, this did not reduce to impact or appeal of the strikes. Each strike was like God himself hand descended . They were fast and accurate.
*Bam *Bam
George heard a sound of someone falling, before he woke from his daze and hurriedly caught the falling Kirk. He was surprised by the progress Kirk had made and knew that one day, his son world shock the world.
"AAhh my head!!" Kirk woke up alone in his room unaware of what happened .
"Why does my head hurt so much, Ahh" Confusion could be seen in his eyes.
"Hey little fellow, don't over do it next time, you really exhausted all your spiritual energy back there, lucky I am here to help you"A voice boomed out from around Kirk.
"Who?"Kirk jumped out of his bed from fright.
"Relax Kid, It is me,remember I gave you a present once?" The old man smirked at Kirk.
"Hey what are you doing here, how did you get here, wait where are you even" Kirk just had so many questions at once.
"I am currently in the Heaven realm. However, I left my spiritual thought on you which should be enough to guide you as you are still in the mortal realm."the old man mysteriously smiled.
"Heaven realm, Mortal realm…?, what is this all about, how come I have never seen that in any book?" Kofi asked confused.
"Your world is but a small minor world in the vast Starry field, it does not have many experts who qualify to make it to the Heaven realm hence to keep the secret safe, they decided to not inform the normal inhabitants of its existence, which also serves as their way of accumulating more power for themselves."
"Right now, all that is unimportant to you as you need is to grow fast. The lord has placed his sight on you and you found mercy with him. Our vast Starry field is going to face an attack soon and the Lord gave you as a reply, hope you don't fail his expectations Kid."
Too much was being said right now, however, at this point, Kirk knew his training was not enough to make his arrogant and decided to focus on training once more.
"I can tell you have comprehended Sword intent to its initial success. This is amazing growth given you are four and have no cultivation base. Given your current strength, you can defeat a rank nine Houtian Stage expert no problem" A grin could be seen on the old mans face.
"What are you trying to get at oldy?" Kirk refused to believe the old man did not have an agenda for saying all that.
"Mmmm smart boy, what I am trying to say is that you are a genius hehe. However, in the vast starry sky, there are numerous geniuses who are more brilliant than you. Some kids are Alpha or Maxim experts as soon as they are born. Do you understand?" The old man had a playful smile as he watched the disbelieve on Kirk's face.
Initially Kirk wanted to retort, however, given he got this far after the old man had given him the "faith" word, he decided to take his word for it.
"Doesn't matter, one day I'll trample over all of them" Determination could be seen in his eye as Kirk replied.