episode three

Nian fired off an arrow, it's been three months since he had left that world, it was the most surreal moment of his life, he had seen his coach open a transporting portal for him to come to this world, it was unbelievable, unimaginable yet it happened before him, the thought of leaving his coach whom he had know since he could walk overwhelmed him, he was not just his coach; he was his guardian too,the only relative he knew, he seemed like even he could not believe his eyes, entering this world, he met himself in a forest thicker than any in the other world and almost immediately he was welcomed by unthinkable beasts and extremely fierce animals, each exotic than the other, he had fought his way through, everything was so foreign yet so familiar, though it came with some few benefits, coach had given him a sumeru space ring; a ring that had indefinite space in it,he was taken aback by it, he began to feel like nothing was impossible in this world, the ring had some few treasures in it, Nian had found an alchemy manual in it, one he read anytime he found a place to rest and was bored, Nian had found some herbs that were used in alchemy, in the forest, the forest had exotic animals; it had exotic plants too some were poisonous, some were not. He also managed to extract the core of the animals he killed; he had read in the manual that they could be refined and used to make wonderful pills and artifacts too.

A thud followed, the sound of metal piercing through wood, the arrow; it hit bull's eye, Nian expected nothing less, although he still saw some mishaps and rough edges, he made a mental note to work on them.

“ I envy you, your precision is quite accurate” lei Cheng said

This boy, the farmer's son, his father had helped him when he was out of the forest bleeding; he had been scratched, bitten and Injured, he had washed his blood off his injuries and took him home, he had forever thanked the man for his kindness.

His son lei Cheng and he were good friends now, training together and cultivating together too, before he left his coach, he had explained to him about martial cultivation, the art of absorbing the qi energy and circulating the true qi in the body; he had also read manuals of basic martial cultivation; it was the first thing he noticed; the air density, it was denser than that of that world, it all felt surreal in the beginning but he now he was used to it.

lei Cheng's father had told him about lei Cheng, he was so determined and strong willed about being a martial cultivation, he didn't want to waste his life in this God forsaken village, even if he were to be a businessman he would be a good martial artist too; if he always one then he could guarantee that he would own a big shop or even something bigger like - a city. His ambition wasn't half bad anyways. With this Nian knew they would be together for not too long, they would depart at least after spending some time in the soaring cloud pavilion.

Yes, the soaring cloud pavilion; the sect he was going to join, a first class sect, at least it could provide him with enough resources to cultivate. He had heard that the sect leader and the grand father of Han family's patriarch are best friends, they cultivate together and even go into selueded retreat together, if he joined the sect then he would be one step closer to his family, he would also go pay tribute to coach Sir's twin brother, he still remembered the address; Brookdale lake, second forest of the nine jungles, soaring cloud pavilion, another reason to join the sect, he would hold high respect for him for giving up his life for his, he would extremely be ever grateful to him. It was his plan, First to become stronger, then to get a step closer to his family and then to pay tribute to that man that sacrificed his life for him. Lei Cheng was going too.

“ what?” lei Cheng asked “ thinking about your past?”

Nian nodded

“ you see we all have pasts” lei Cheng said.

How could Nian forget, lei Cheng was a good talkative, finding every moment talk worthy.

“even if you don't want to talk about yours, although I won't force you but I will advise you to only thing of the way forward and the way through, thinking of the past would only draw you back” lei Cheng said.

It was what coach had told him; not to expose his identity at least until he was strong enough to defend his title and even if not his title then at least himself.

“thanks” Nian answered, thanking lei Cheng for his advice.

“it seems you came from some at least second class family, you precision accuracy is a good testimony” lei Cheng said.

“ nothing of sort” Nian answered smiling “i just happen to train a bit well”

“ you are so weird” Lei Cheng said “i can only believe you because until you came here you have not started cultivation”

“ eenn” Nian answered

“ any ways your aptitude is quite high and somewhat weird too, you broke through to qi gathering realm level three, last week, I have been cultivating for five years and I am just at qi gathering realm level six.”

“ you have only cultivated for barely two months and you already broke through thrice, although my aptitude was high but I definitely didn't break through three minor realms within two months, I must say your aptitude is quite high - even higher than mine” lei Cheng said.

“ it was only by luck” Nian answered.

Even if he'd started cultivation lately his breakthrough speed was very fast and abnormal, it was noticable and from the corner of his eye he had seen cheng'er expression; he saw the slightest envy flash through, although even lei Cheng might have not noticed but he had, he was an expert at discovering such things but he would not blame him, if he were in his shoes he might have done the same.

All that was not what was in his mind right now, he was looking forward to the of disciples enrollment of soaring cloud pavilion.

“ soaring cloud pavilion” Nian said more of sigh than talk.

“ I look forward to it's enrollment too” lei Cheng answered.

Nian picked another arrow and took aim, he was indeed looking forward to it too.

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