Demonic Fate.

'Why me?'

The boy thought in his head as he laid down hopeless.

'What did I do to deserve this? Why do I need to die like this, in a place like this?'

The poor boy whose fate was cursed by the heavens, awaited his unfortunate death in some random back alley of a huge city. He always dreamt of living a normal life, of having friends, but what he could do? A poor 5 years old boy with an empty stomach couldn't do anything to change his fate, only hate the world for it and accept his imminent death. 

*Step, Step*

Someone was approaching the young boy lying down on his belly on the cold ground. 

Sei barely looked up, using all of his remaining strenght. He saw an old man, wearing a strange Eastern black and red robe, pale and wrinkled by his old age, with dark eerie eyes staring down at him. He approached him and stopped within two meters from him. He opened his old mouth and said:

'Look at this poor creature, all ragged up, skinny like he never ate... But those eyes, look at those green eyes of yours.'

His beard moved as he formed a smile beneath it.

'I like that look of yours... that look of hate you have for this world... for your own cursed fate.'

'But here you are, about to die like a dog all washed up and beaten.'

He sneered at the boy lying on the floor. Sei looked at him, unable to say or do anything about this old man ridiculing him, not even having enough energy to curse him in his head.

'I like your hate' the old man stated.

'I shall take you with me and teach you the ways of the d-'

Before he could finish the sentence, Sei blacked out.

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As he barely opened his eyes, he found himself in a darkened room, lying on a futon, a traditional eastern bed. He kept blinking his green eyes in confusion wondering what happened.

Before he could move a muscle, he heard something slide in his left. It was that strange old man with a strange jar coming inside the room. He was still weakened, but somehow he had enough strength to speak now. 

'W-who are you?' he asked the old man.

'W-Where did you take me?' his voice started to tremble, as he was more aware of his situation and scared.

'Relax, I decided to take you as my discipline kid' the old man said.

'Discipline?' Sei asked.

'What do you mean disciple, you kidnapped me of the streets old man. And why do I have the strength to speak, I was on the verge of dying. Did you... save me?'

'You sure have many questions kid, yes I indeed saved you from your fate for now, but from now on, everything depends on your talent and effort kid' The old man replied.

'What do you mean?' asked Sei.

'Silence, as I said, I decided to take you as my disciples and teach you my martial arts kid.' replied the pissed off old timer.

'Martial arts? I can barely move my body, and I never fought back before' 

'Listen here kid, I took you because I saw you can be useful kid, all you have to do is do everything I tell you to do, and let this be clear, if you don't follow that I teach you, you will die.'

Sei once again blamed his fate and luck. 'Why me' he asked himself.

The old man sat down in front of him , put that strange jar on the floor, opened its lid and took out a pill.

'Take this pill and swallow it' he said as he handed the pill to the boy.

'What is that pill old man?' Sei asked cautiously.

'It's a rejuvenation pill, you have to ingest it and circulate its energy through your body, it will satiate your hunger and heal some of your internal wounds, though it's not that potent as higher class pills, but it will work for now.' said the old man.

'Circulate its energy through my body? What is energy, and what do you mean?' asked the child.

'Energy is your qi, qi is the life energy your body has, your own life you could say. Every living creature has qi, without it, you are basically dead. Do you follow kid?' 

'Uhh, I guess?'

'Hmm.. you will learn all of these with time.'

'Now, take this pill, take off your shirt and turn your back towards me, I will teach you how to circulate your qi inside your body'

'O-okay.' Sei did as he was told, though he was confused and a little scared of this old's man intentions.

The old man put his cold and wrinkled hands on the boy's battered back.

'Relax your body, close your eyes, take deep breaths and focus on your breathing'

The boy did what he was told, he relaxed, closed his eyes and started breathing, trying to empty his mind and focus only on his breathing.

The old man closed his eyes, and began circulating his own energy inside the boy's body. 

'What the hell is with this boy's constitution, it's perfect, almost like, he's that legend himself' The old man thought to himself as he examined Sei's body from within. He was astonished with what he saw the boy's potential. He smiled with all of his mouth, 'he is perfect.' he thought, 'his compatibility with demonic qi is out of this world, I can't believe I found him, my disciple and my successor' he was barely able to contain his happiness.

Sei felt something circulating inside his body, he felt that through his entire being. 

'What is this?' he wondered as he focused even more.

He felt that energy, that qi circulating in his veins, in his organs, in and out of his skin. He could feel his entire body like he never could before.

'Do you feel the energy kid?' the old man asked.

'Yes, I feel it in my whole body, wow.' Sei replied.

'Good, now I'll take off my hands from you, continue circulating like that for another five minutes before i'll give you this pill, remember to focus, understand?'

'Yes old man' replied Sei.

He did as he was told, but this time he tried to concentrate even harder, causing his energy to move even faster. That's when he felt a sudden surge of strength rushing inside his own body. 

'Woahh , w-what's going on?' he asked as he was shocked.

The old man was in for a shock as well, as the boy suddenly started to float in air. He started to glow, exuding huge amounts of energy from his body.

'I-I can't believe my eyes, he already has an aura? At his age, without any sort of knowledge of cultivation? Not even those bastard's kids didn't achieved that level of power and qi mastery yet, and they are known to be the world's most talented martial artists' He thought as he was utterly perplexed.

After about thirty seconds, Sei slowly descended back on the ground, this time black ooze came out of his body. His constitution started to improve, even though he was still as pale as ever. 

'My word, he achieved body reconstruction as he only started to learn to cultivate.. Ha ha, looks like I found myself a golden discipline, looks like fate hasn't abandoned me yet' he thought. 

'That's enough boy, you can open your eyes now' the old man asked.

'How do you feel?' he asked the boy.

'I feel tired old man..'

'Of course you feel tired, your body went through some changes. Now take this pill, and as you learned, you have to focus on it's energy and circulate that through your whole body'

He handed the pill.

Sei took the pill, he was a little hesitant, but he decided to trust this old man, as he saved his life once.

He swallowed the pill and did as he was told.

He started to slowly circulate the pill's energy through his body. His hunger was slowly disappearing as he was circulating his energy, and he felt better than before. 

After he was done circulating the pills energy, he looked behind, up to the old man and thanked him.

'Thank you old man. Thank you from saving my life.'

'Hmph, go wash yourself up, the bath is down the hall to the right. After that sleep, tomorrow we'll begin your training' the old man stood up, and walked down the hall to the left.

'Yes sir' the boy did as he was told.

He took a bath, which made him very happy as he didn't had such a luxury before, even though it was a normal day to day commodity for normal folks, it wasn't for him.

After that, he went back to his bed, and slept through the rest of the day and night like a log.