Pathway To Eternity 21 Becoming A Disciple Of The Flying Stars Sec

And he had learned a lot from his three room mates Jiang, Fa and Chaun.

The planet, Charat, was a major mortal world of humans which was located in the same Oclegus galaxy as the planet Lorra, the homeworld of Hader. Charat was a ma.s.sive giant planet with a surface area of over five billion square kilometers and a population of over twenty billion people.

Planet Charat was under the rule of an supreme sovereign who went by the name emperor Qing Yuan. Emperor Qing Yuan was an hegemon cultivator who had reached the stage of immortal ascension but refused to ascend to the heavenly realm. Though, he would never be able to reach G.o.dhood, he had already attained natural immortality, unless he was killed, he would live for eternity.

Supremacy in a mortal world was determined by the level of cultivation and artifacts. Therefore, any ruler with a divine atifact was regarded as a supreme. Emperor Qin Yuan was a supreme sovereign in the possession of the Stellar Star divine armour. A water affinity armour with the total power of the universe, one of the divine artifacts created by the universe during the primordial creative expansion period. This made him a ruler of a ma.s.sive planet with almost non existing opposition for hundreds of millions of years.

The planet he ruled, planet Charat, was divided into ten ma.s.sive continets. Maferion[The Fotune Empire], Tioborat[The Etherel Yonder], Amuzan[The Jade Sanctuary], Cholinica[The Golden Lands], Nutipia[The Scarlet Empire], Vlethora[The Azure Nexus], Solicia[The Sacred Vale], Chilador[The Eclipse Domain], Emmirim[The Infernal Territory] and Palitara[The Undying World]. Each of these continent was being ruled by an Overlord.

Each continent was divided into ten Kingdoms with each of these kingdoms being ruled by a king. Each kingdom was made up of many cities and villages. The cities were gorverned by the lords and the villages by the chiefs.

His three room mates were from the same continent, Maferion but from different villages.

Jiang was from the Cloud Sea village.

Fa was from the Spring Moon village.

And Chuan came from Oracle Reach village.

The Flying stars sect that he found himself in, was regarded as one of the smallest sect on the Maferion continent despite being bigger than the Last-Sword sect on his home planet. Sects were ranked according to the size of the sect, the levels of the cultivators in the sect, the types of artifacts and ma.n.u.scripts they possessed.

With all the recieved information, he had a proper idea of the planet and how things worked in the world.

Despite being one of the smallest sects on the planet, the premises of the Flying Stars sect was already extremely large and wide. It had more than five hundred disciples and over twenty masters and forty a.s.sociate masters.

If the sect was one of the smallest sects on the planet, how will the biggest look like?

The light of the morning was already seeping into the room which signified that daybreak was happening. By the look of it, the day had the potential to be a very bright and beautiful one.

He reached for the water basin and quickly washed his face. He used some of the water to clean his mouth before he quickly put some mint leaves in his mouth. He checked his robe to make sure it was in good condition before glancing at the other boys who he saw had already finished preparing themselve and were standing beside their beds. He hurriedly followed suit by standing beside his bed of woven bamboo mats..

There were rules and regulations that every sect followed. For the Flying Stars sect, one of the regulations was that, every morning at daybreak, the sect stewards in charge of the outer sections of sect premises, will entered the rooms to check their states. Then, they would marched outside ahead of him where they would be a.s.signed their tasks for the day.

Some disciples would be sweeping and maintaining the premises, some disciples would be cutting the bamboo trees after which they would be arranging them in rolls, meanwhile, some disciples would be attending to the farms and gardens and others would be following stewards hunters to hunt

But today was different.

They would be following the sect stewards to the sect arena where the names of the successful disciples would be disclosed.

After they had all a.s.sembled together, they were arranged into groups of ten. Their faces were radiating their anxiousness, the anxiety of antic.i.p.ation that was mostly affecting the outer disciples. Not knowing if you are successful in becoming anninner disciple or not.

With the stewards leading them, they marched towards the arena. Audience were still streaking into the arena in numbers.

Not long after they arrived, the grandmaster putting on a white robe arrived alongside the masters and a.s.sociate masters all in white robes.

He raised his hands to gain silence from the audience.

"I welcome you all to the second and final day of the Bloodgrit compet.i.tion which started yesterday. Today, you will be engaging in the Twenty Golem Steps. There were twenty sinkable bamboo sticks erected on the ground of the arena, these bamboo sticks are guarded by iron golems. You will need to move from the beginning to the end on these bamboo sticks. If you stay on a bamboo stick for too long, it will start to sink. If your feet touched the ground, the arena will be locked down and you will be attacked by dark steel golems for five minutes before the lock is removed. You have the maximum of fifteen minutes to navigate the arena, if you didn't get to the other side, your time will be up. "

The grandmaster halted his speech as he looked from one face to another.

"Intelligence and strength. These are needed to achieve success in this compet.i.tion. If you are successful, you will be accepted by a master. Put your heart into it and success is yours. Wish you all well. Now, let's commence."

There were fifty outer disciples left after the first phase of the compet.i.tion. They formed ten lines of five near the entrance of the arena from where they will be entering one after the other.

Intelligence with strength was truly the nature of the game. There were twenty sinking bamboo sticks arranged on the ground at irregular pattern from one end of the arena to the other. The bamboo sticks were continually changing in pattern according to the star movements making it difficult to navigate.

Temporarily imbued in the ground, was the s.p.a.ce Seal array, a formation that would activate when a cultivator stepped on wrong bamboo stick and the cultivator's leg touched the ground.

Navigating the arena is all about the stars movements. But, the problem was the ever changing pattern.

Talismans were imbued into the core of these golems that were going to be facing. Talismans that made them recognize and follow the rules and regulations of the ground. Any wrong step on the part of the cultivator and they would instantly be sorrounded by dark steel golems of the same level and strength.

One by one, they started undergoing the heavenly mammoth dance.

The first disciple to enter the arena moved with great determination, he was navigating the transverse when something happened to him that made him lost his focus and triggered the arrays. He was with incredible strength that made him fought his way out of the array two times but the time was his undoing. The time had ran out while he was about to advance to the last four bamboo sticks after battling the second set of humanoids.

With great agony, he admitted defeat and exited the arena..

One by one, they continued to enter the arena.

Not too long after, it was Haider's turn to pa.s.s through the transverse of the arena. He could have navigated the arena by using the swift spine technique for a much more faster speed steps but the audience, especially the elders, would have noticed that the technique wasn't something an outer disciple would have known. Something an outer dsciple couldn't have learned..

It was either the generally available flashstep or quickstep. Not that there was any difference, but he decided to stay with the flashstep. He enforced his body with a bit of Chi energy since the humanoid levels would automatically transform to the same level of strength and speed like him because of the talismanic seals in their cores.

With his body strengthened with a small amount of Chi, he stepped on the first bamboo stick which immediately started to sink.

He had never been in a compet.i.tion like that before. It was exhilirating yet concerning.

The moment he stepped on the, the humanoids attacked him. Since he wasn't using any weapon, they too didn't use any weapon. He didn't know the pattern to use to navigate the transverse but he had been watching the disciples as they stepped onto the arena. He had a vague idea of their movement but the bamboo pattern was always changing.

He was using the shifting heavens technique to battle the humanoids, he was mainly using it to block their attacks then he would quickly used the flashsteps to move to the next bamboo stick. Too many blows were landing on his body but he didn't stop. Whenever his strike landed on a humanoid, he would quickly use its body to launch himself to the next bamboo stick.

Luckily for him, he was getting nearer as he continued using that method. He was almost through to the Cloud spirit fruit when he stepped on the wrong bamboo stick triggering the arrays.

Arena lockdown and dark steel golems.

And they attacked him in their numbers. He was blocking, he couldn't even land attacks of his own because of their numbers were telling on him. Whenever he used the flash steps, they would use the same. He tried the quick steps with the same results and he was sure that they will reciprocate if he used the swift spine technique.

If only he could use swift spine technique, maybe he would have left the arena since.

The time was winding down and they kept on attacking him until one of them got in the way of a blow meant for him. Seeing that it was shaken by the blow, he quickly hit it with the shifting heavens in the chest which sent it sprawling on the floor. He quickly used the golem's body as a support to clevely cross to the other side s.n.a.t.c.hing up the spirit fruit.

That was close.

The compet.i.tion continued until the fifty disciples had partic.i.p.ated in the Twenty Golems Steps dance. The twenty disciples that were sucessful were ushered to the front where one of the sect stewards was standing with the element affinity detector.

The detector was a pure metal scale that could determine the element affinity of a cultivator. If the cultivator had more than one affinity, it would display the one that was most dominant or major in the cultivator. The masters will use the results to select their disciples and the disciple would be taught on the dominant affinity.

The way of Charat planet, all cultivators specialized in one affinity. Any other affinities were side effects.

The disciples were expressing their happiness as they were being lined up in front of the masters for their affinity detection. Haider was among the last twenty along with his room mate, Fa and Genji.

When it was his turn, Haider stepped forward and stood at the front of the metal scale.

"Light and lightning. Lightning the major."

It continued until all the successful disciples had finished determining their element affinities.

Then again, the sect grandmaster raised his voice which covered the arena.

"Well done to all of you that partic.i.p.ated in the compet.i.tion, you all performed very well. Big congratulations to the twenty of you that made it successfully through the stages. Those of you that fell short, continue to practice and prepare properly for the next compet.i.tion. I hope this will serve as a motivation for you. Those of you that were chosen, will now join the other direct sect disciples under your masters. Your sect master will provide you with your own acre of land to farm. There are seeds, stems and roots of different crops. That incude some plants. Yes, you can also rear approved farm animals. What you produce, you can sell at the sect's market place or exchange with others. Remember, you work for your wellbeing. Alright, don't relent in learning and training. Aim to bring honor to this sect and yourself. I bid you Welcome."

Thirty minutes later, he was at the mainhall of the inner sect together with the other nineteen disciples where they were being attended to by the sect stewards. They swore oath of allegiance and good behaviour before they were given the sect disciples tokens, two new sets of blue robes and a Red Beryl spirit fruit.

After collecting their items, they followed the steward to the Flowing Sanctum hill range, hundreds of hills chained together, the place they would be living as inner disciples.

As they started to walk towards the place, he was joined by Fa.

"h.e.l.lo Haider."

"h.e.l.lo Fa, i didn't know you were that good. You were like a flowing river."

"You flatters me. It was my second time partic.i.p.ating in the compet.i.tion, been preparing for it a long time. Although, the golems still made it very difficult. What happened to you in there?"

"I couldn't remember both the alignment and the movement of the stars. I suffered a complete memory loss, it really affected me."

"But you managed to pa.s.s through, you are really good too. And i saw you are lightning affiliated, really impressed. Anyway, try not to electrocute me. Hehe. "

"Hahaha, you flatters me. You know it was nothing compared to yours, Air affinity. You controll everything. By the way, try not to suffocate me. Haha"

"Hehehe, now you flatters me beyond my heart's hold. We should be grateful for pa.s.sing. If not, it would have been another year waiting."

"Yes, we should be grateful. Ah, look!" Haider pointed to the caves that appeared in their views.

"The Flowing Sanctum!"

"Truly wonderful."

The hills were chained together in a beautiful manner with each hill having an acre of land located at the back for farming, they would be able to plant everything they would need for their wellbeing and cultivate without disurbance.

Heavens tears.