Chapter 1 (1/2)

Chapter 1- Dream of a thousand autumns

The day wasn’t bright yet and the night’s veil covered the Great Wilderness of a hundred thousand li, but sunlight already shone on the Sword Sect’s e ht first fell on the golden peak

Froolden light in every direction, illu to the eyes

And on theantique hall similarly floated above the sea of clouds, sacred and solemn

This place was the common holy land of the three thousand human tribes in the hundred thousand li Great Wilderness, the Sword Sect!

Qi Refining Warriors poured forth from the Sword Sect and protected the hundred thousand li Great Wilderness Everyone in the three thousand hu Warrior of the Sword Sect; it was the highest of glories

The Great Wasteland’s environment was harsh and humankind eak Without the protection of the Sword Sect the three thousand hu been exterminated to ashes

The sect h the clouds On its back were the residences of the sect disciples where tens of thousands disciples lived

There wereWarriors in the Sword Sect The three thousand hu men and wo would usually live there Tribes with deep backgrounds usually had Qi Refining Warriors in the Sword Sect who could direct the disciples to their residence

Zhong Yue woke up very early He stood bare-chested beside the well and poured a bucket of water on himself He quivered fiercely then drowsily turned back

The water slipped down from his body and splashed on the slabs of limestone

He had solid htly wrapped over hisThere were three deep claw marks on his chest left by some unknown fierce beast; they had already become scars

When Zhong Yue turned around there were also trace after trace of claws on his back, and there were marks left by the bite of a fierce beast on his left arm He had a dozen scars all over his body and did absolutely not look like a fifteen years old

Zhong Yue carried a medicine basket on his back and quietly walked out of the sect’s gate, going down the mountain

Outer sect disciples had a very low status and could only learn the most superficialspirit completion would you become an inner sect disciple in name Then you would be able to worshi+p at the hall of a Hall Master and obtain the Sword Sect genuine inheritance But for a an outer disciple without any backing, how difficult was it to become an inner disciple?

In the Great Wilderness were three thousand hureat tribes had over several million people Countless people drilled towards the Sword Sect withto beco Warrior The competition was this fierce

The Sword Sect had the rules of the Sword Sect, and if you couldn’t cultivate to spirit completion before sixteen years old you would be expelled frohters of tribes big and small would naturally have various spirit herbs and spirit dan to enhance their cultivation, helping their sons and daughters to cultivate spirit completion before sixteen years old

Even if their aptitude was average, as long as you had enough spirit herbs and spirit dan you could be choked full on the Warrior!

While poor and ordinary children didn’t have this treatent cultivation

It was difficult for houses to produce noble sons, and few poor people couldWarrior

Zhong Yue canificant little tribe with only less than a hundred people left due to successive years of famine It could be said that it was the smallest of tribes in the Great Wilderness

This kind of tribe even had trouble guaranteeing their own survival, how could they provide enough for so Warrior?

Hence even if Zhong Yue strived a hundred times harder than others, he was still a distance away fro to spirit completion

This tione down the mountain so early in a search for spirit herbs inside old forests deep in the mountains, so he could to refine Feather Spirit Dan and nourish his soul

Feather Spirit Dan was the most common medicine dan, and the herbs needed for the Feather Spirit Dan were likewise ordinary, but he couldn’t afford to buy even such ordinary spirit dan or spirit herbs and he could only refine them himself

Gathering herbs hi dans himself, the ah were naturally her than others

The sky was already bright two hours after Zhong Yue had left the Sword Sect mountain in search of herbs The Sword Sect’s inner sect disciples and outer sect disciples had already long been awake and cultivating when they suddenly heard hasty bell rings co auras flen from the peak and shouted loudly from afar: ”The Demon Souls Haze has appeared Every disciple in the Sword Sect listen to orders, everyone is prohibited fro outside!”

”No one is even allowed half a step outside the sect mountain!”

”The Deerous, only the Sword Sect can defend against it, no one is allowed to leave the sect or they will most certainly die!”

The whole Sword Sect was in an uproar There was a loud ru Mountain Gate suddenly closed In the air at half the ht, the halls covered within the curly olden light was bursting fro the darkness with htness

”How could this Demon Souls Haze break out in advance? Normally it should have broken out five days later?” A sect disciple murmured

At this tiround, like deround Suddenly black air surged out in a valley not far froudu” spraying black haze in the air!

Very quickly this black pillar became even taller than the Sword Sect mountain It pierced the clouds, then the black haze scattered in every direction This scene rese open

Heaven and earth suddenly becaht illu black haze pressed down from above and was stopped outside the Sword Sect mountain when it caht curtain protected the Sword Sectinside

And inside that black haze were see roars From time to time the creatures in the black haze crashed on the Sword Sectone loud oppressive sound after another It see

In front of a big tehts of the Sword SectWarriors looked at this inco Demon Souls Haze, and soone out of the ate and haven’t co back anymore…”

The place Zhong Yue had gone to pick herbs was called Cloud Gathering Mountain There wereMountain It was located in an area southeast of the Sword Sect mountain He had been a Sword Sect outer disciples for all those years and although he hadn’t learned any profound technique he had built a sturdy body One step of his could cross a distance of more than ten feet, so he could wander around the mountains with unmatched ease

When he reached Cloud Gathering Mountain the sky was already bright and from the mountain came from time to time the roars of beasts

This place was off the beaten track and there was no nearby tribe hunting there There were a greatYue carefully walked inside the forest, searching around, and in a short tiathered several spirit herbs

”Other spirit herbs are all easy to find, there’s only the Five Fragrance Grass that’s hard to search for I have to rely on luck”

Traversing the e herbal fragrance, faint and indistinct, easy to rance became more pronounced

In this herbal fragrance were five kind of strange scents, sweet, fragrant, refreshi+ng, fiery, rance Grass!