Sitting on the back of the bull, Wu Shuang kept looking at the desolate streets before him, but his mind was preoccupied.
"Master! Why do I have to enter the wilderness?" He indeed was curious.
"Are you feeling unwilling to leave this county?" The female voice sounded in his mind again.
"Not really! I'm just curious, after all it was said that only after someone reaches the third level of Innate Ability do they have any ability to protect themselves when leaving this place. I'm still far from it." He replied based on what he had read from the clan library.
"The path of innate abilities is indeed interesting, but with your martial path. One thing you can't have is fear, you need the heart to keep moving forward unrelentingly. As for danger, it would indeed a big problem for others, but for you, entering the wilderness is a greet chance." The voice didn't continue to say any more, clearly leaving the decision in Wu Shuang's hands.
"Master! I'll follow your advice!" Wu Shuang finally thought about it and the pain he had suffered all this year's just to attain the peak of mortal realm.
What he didn't know was that the soul of his master was more shocked.
In place without enough resources, she never expected the random child she chose would have such a smooth cultivation of Ancient path as they call it.
Wu Shuang directed the bull to head back, and the aura he was realeasing was already restrained at this moment.
As the bull walked around the streets, finally he arrived at the shop with the supplies he wanted.
Surprisingly, there were a group of three old men, seated on the outside playing a card game.
"The Wu clan is at it again! Aren't they satisfied with living in this wastelands?" One of them holding onto a smoking pipe spoke.
He glanced at Wu Shuang inadvertently, causing him to tense up slightly.
But the old man looked away, as though it was just a coincidence.
"Old Li what do you mean? Isn't everyone doing everything they can to raise their clan strength to the point they can leave this damned place?" Another old man asked when he heard this words.
In his view, regardless of what the Wu clan does, it didn't matter, after all the other clans also did the some extreme things.
For the Wu clan, it was just tilting resources to a minority with the best Innate Ability. But the method was not necessarily the most extreme.
As for the act of chasing their descendants without good talents away, it wasn't a big deal.
Wu Shuang that had come to shop, couldn't help but pause to listen to the old men's discussions. He always had a feeling that the words being spoken by this old guys was directed at him, but he was not sure about it.
"Hmm! Which of the three clans is a good thing? But claiming the Wu clan is any better is just a joke. How many of their older generation goes missing on missions from time to time." The old man placed a card on the table.
He didn't know if he was seeing things, but a whale was drawn on the card that seemed to have come alive and moving.
The moment he set his eyes on it, he unconsciously retreated five steps before he stopped and his eyes shifted away from the table. His face was pale, and his breathing difficult.
The way he looked at that old men was no longer the same, and he didn't dare look at the cards they were playing. He was hesitant, but didn't leave. He stood in place and let them continue playing, he would buy what he wanted when they were done.
"Ha! The Wu clan is ruthless enough. Letting the Younger generation leave to focus on training a few? What a nice way to put it indeed." The old man sneered and even Wu Shuang could hear it from his tone.
He didn't dare to communicate with his master at this moment, but her voice still reached his mind.
"Purchase what brought you to this place and leave as soon as possible."
When they finished their game, Wu Shuang gained some confidence and stepped foward.
His pale face showed sings of recovering, and he spoke, "Seniors! I want to buy supplies!"
Only one old man turned to look at him with turbid eyes and spoke in a hoarse voice.
"Okay! Hurry up!"
Wu Shuang didn't delay and collected all the dry foods he could get his hands on. As for why he didn't get water, he had some on the small animal bag tied to his waist.
After spending almost all the silver coins on him, he jumped on the bull's back and had it rush foward.
Watching the back of the young man on the bull, Old Li turned to look at the table before them, before asking, "What technique did he use to enter the Mortal realm in this part of the wilderness?"
"How could I know? But it is good that we are not the last taking the Ancient Path. Old Li! I thought you knew him, otherwise why would you pass on the Giant Whale Devouring Catalog! Don't tell me you want to take him as a disciple?" One of them looked shocked.
"Why do I have to know him, since he has such a solid foundation, it just means he lacks means to go foward. My incomplete inheritance should be of some assistance, as for taking in disciples, Old Drunkard should be aware is of no use to me." The voice of Old Li was still hoarse as before.
As for the coin that Wu Shuang had paid with, the old man grabbed them, and they vanished, in its place was a slight white mist.
He looked in the direction Wu Shuang left before sighing.
"The Wu clan let such a good seedling escape, their days in the future are not going to be good!" Speaking as though he knew everything about Wu Shuang, the old man casually mentioned.
If Wu Shuang knew that in just that small moment his information had been found out, he might be scared out of his wits.
Only when the town was out of his sight, did he communicate with his master again.
"Master what is the deal with those old men?" He was indeed scared, but he still acted tough.
"Which aspect specifically? What they said or that card that almost hurt you?" The voice in his mind responded again.
"Huh!" Wu Shuang was confused.
He didn't even understand how to respond, after all he knew in such cases she might not provide him with any explanation. But surprisingly, he heard her voice again, only this time it was solemn.
"Celestials! But what would a group of celestials be doing in this kind of place? It's indeed a good idea to leave this place or we might not be able to even if we wanted to." She replied without even explaining to Wu Shuang what Celestials meant.
But he could imagine they were strong, considering his master didn't mention them with disdain.
"Master! Are celestials strong?" He asked as he sat on the bull, looking at the ever approaching desert like land.
"That is very far from you. Now the thing that you should be concerned about is to make a breakthrough to the True martial realm." She didn't let him dwell on the issue.
"Huh!" He was about to complain but stopped himself instantly.
Changing the topic fast was his trick in this situation.
"What is the True Martial realm? You have mentioned it to me more often, but didn't explain anything." He was smart enough not to continue dwelling on a topic he was asked to not ask.
"That is indeed something I should inform you about. The mortal realm before, was called a foundation, but what was far from the truth. The real foundation is the True Martial stage. It is divided into ten stages, and the first stage is the most difficult. It requires not only a strong body, but also strong comprehension." As she spoke, Wu Shuang listened.
"All the Qi that has been refined into the body all this time, will need to be slowly used to quench the body until a martial body is formed. Once that happens, you will have officially stepped into the True Martial realm." She didn't mention how he would accomplish the quenching, apparently it would become easier to understand in the wilderness.
The bull he was sitting on continued to move foward, but it's speed seemed to reduce drastically. Clearly he had entered a completely new domain.
But it didn't take him long to understand. His body was being eroded by a strange force, all he felt was like tiny endless ants crawling on his body.
He almost called out the bull to retreat, but a familiar voice sounded in his mind.
"You feel it don't you? If you where from some well off clan, perhaps it might not have been a problem to get access to a medical bath, and this process would have been slightly less painful. But you have no choice, but if you manage to persevere and forge a Martial Body, it would be stronger than those in the same realm." He gritt his teeth and didn't even reply, because the pain was intensifying.