*ding*
a sharp sound resounded in my mind causing me to groggily wake up from my slumber.
Realizing something I immediately started searching through my memories and surely I found foreign memories about different herbs, medicines, pallets, poisons and how to write runes.
Feeling excited I muttered 'STATUS' as a translucent screen appeared in front of me.
[STATUS]
[NAME: ZEN LONG]
[AGE: 5 YEARS]
[CULTIVATION REALM: N/A]
[SP: 600]
[ABILITIES: RUNIC MASTER, DOCTOR, ASSASSIN]
I felt giddy seeing the new abilities option, assassin ability is obviously from my previous life, hmm I think I won't be an assassin this time well having an ability is always advantageous.
Remembering something I asked Jade " Jade, how much time is remaining for my profound veins to develop?"
[time remaining for profound veins maturity 4 yrs 11months and 29 days]
' shit! what's the point of having a system if I can't get a head start from the others' I thought as I ask my sweet system hopefully " Jade is there any method to speed up the process?"
[of course, the problem can be solved just by using an time alter formation on your profound veins, it will cost Zen 500 SP]
' so expensive!!, if I had profound energy then I could've just used runes on myself, huh I don't have any other choice ' I pondered as I made my mind and answered " fine, buy the formation and place it on my profound veins directly."
[of course Zen, Due to using a formation the estimated time for profound veins to develop has changed to 6 days, 12 hours and 53 second]
*sigh* ' still I have to wait for 7 days, huh. I should use this time to get used to and go through all the memories I got '.
(7 days-timeskip)
Finally I can now start cultivation, I can't believe I survived these five last years, now at least I can spend my time cultivating.
It is night time right now and I am sitting on my bed cross legged, even if am just a relative of the maid of the Manor they treat me as the same as Qingyue and adding to that fact that the lady of the house dotes on me then I don't have any problem with my standing here.
' Uhh.. Jade? how can I enter my personal realm for cultivation that I asked by god?' I asked a little embarrassed for overlooking such a minor detail.
[Zen has to imagine entering a portal to his personal realm, as for others you can take them with you by direct physical contact.]
I followed her instruction and opened by eyes to see that I am in a large room bigger than my room in Xia Manor. The room was empty but there was a little fog in the surrounding which I recognized as profound energy.
''oh my God! such dense profound energy, it is to the point that it has started materializing." I shouted in awe and excitement 'with this much profound energy I don't have to worry about depleting it in environment and with the addition of my profound veins my cultivation speed will be very fast.'
Without further thinking I started to feel the profound energy in the environment and trying to absorb in my body, with the cheat given by god as my veins it was very easy. I knew that to cultivate I have to fill my profound veins to bring by profound energy and try to compress it as much as possible.
after a few hours I stopped cultivating and exited my cultivation room (a/n: I will call his personal realm as his cultivation room because it sounds nice and he can only cultivate in there) and appeared at the bed in my room in Xia manor, giving a glance at the clock I realized that it is already past midnight. I sighed and thought ' if only I could cultivate in the day but that will raise many questions as well as my sudden disappearance will definitely cause a turmoil in the house.' I sighed again and left my room.
walking in the corridor I stopped in front of a certain room and silently opened it to find my cute little Qingyue sleeping peacefully inside.
She has grown in the last two years with now having shoulder length hair and her facial features started forming more mature but overall she looks even more adorable than before.
I tiptoed to her bed and silently sneaked inside her blanket and took her small body in my embrace with her face on the chest.
Probably finding a source of warmth she snuggled close me, I smiled and closed my eyes to sleep.
This is not the first time I came into her room and her parents also knew but shrugged it off because we are still children and sometimes I also find her in my bed in the morning.
(Qingyue POV)
I woke up in my bed in the morning eyes still closed due to the light coming from the window. Suddenly I realized that I am feeling very comfortable so I subconsciously moved closer to the source of this warmth. After a few minutes I opened my eyes and saw the sleeping face of big brother long. I pouted as he refused to sleep with me a few days ago when I asked him but now he sneaked here when I was sleeping. ' does he have nightmares?' I thought staring at his face but eventually ignored everything and closed my eyes again.
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(Zen POV)
three weeks have passed since I started cultivation and today I finally felt like I stepped in the 1st stage of elementary profound.
*ding*
the familar sound resounded in my ears as I stared at the floating screen in front of me.
[ALARM]
[HIDDEN MISSION COMPLETED: STEP INTO THE PROFOUND WAY UNDER 10 YEARS OF AGE WITHOUT ANYONE'S INSTRUCTION]
[REWARD: 2000 SP, 'UNYIELDING BLAZING ARTS']
(a/n: I know I have a bad naming sense so please cope up with that)
'' free SP yes!!! and that cultivation art it sounds cool I guess '' I muttered trying to calm myself down.
[THE CULTIVATION ART WILL BE DIRECTLY IMPRINTED TO ZEN'S BRAIN, DO YOU WISH TO START PROCESS]
'YES!!!' I shouted in my mind as a sudden headache caused me to groan. it was bad but not as painful compared to when I fused memories so I managed to get past it.
reading the cultivation art in my mind I opened my eyes and could only say one thing "dangerous".
UNYIELDING BLAZING ARTS
THIS PROFOUND ART GIVES THE USER ABILITY TO CONTROL AND ABSORB EVERY FIRE EXCEPT FOR PHOENIX'S, GOLDEN CROW'S AND AZURE DRAGON'S FLAMES.
1nd STAGE ( HELL'S FIRE): DEADLY FLAMES THAT COULD EVEN DO DAMAGE TO SPIRITUAL FORMS MUCH LESS PHYSICAL MATTER. WITH ENOUGH PROFOUND ENERGY THESE FLAMES CAN BURN ANY PHYSICAL MATTER IN EXISTENCE.
2rd STAGE (BLAZE SHOWER): A RAIN OF DEADLY FLAMES WHICH DO DAMAGE IN A WIDE AREA, WITH ENOUGH PROFOUND ENERGY THIS SKILL CAN DESTROY KINGDOM'S IN SECONDS.
3rd STAGE (COCYTUS'S TRIAL): THIS PROFOUND SKILL IS MOSTLY TO TORTURE SOMEONE BEFORE KILLING THEM. BLACK FLAMES BURN THE SKIN, BONES AND THEN INTERNAL ORGANS OF THE TARGET.(THIS SKILL CANNOT BE USED ON SOMEONE OF SAME OR HIGHER CULTIVATION REALM).
I had an evil smile on my face as I read the third skill, this skill suits someone like me well I thought.
Putting a stop on my evil thoughts I got off my bed and started preparing for the day ahead.
walking into the main hall I saw old man hongyi sitting the chair with an gloomy expression, looking around I saw Qingyue crying and my sister consoling her.
Without even taking a minute I realized what happened, I knew that Dongxue regains her memories as yue wugou when Qingyue is four years old, I was so focused on cultivation that I failed to realize when she left. well it's not like I could do anything, I could use formations but it would have been unrealistic because unlike runes, resources or SP in my case is needed for formations as they only last 1 week and I honestly didn't have that much SP. My primordial energy (*his veins convert profound energy into primordial energy*) is also very low to cast permanent concealing runes so I could just sit and watch. at least I have confidence that I will be able to handle Qingyue.
Qingyue remained sobbing the whole day about her mother but I didn't do anything yet since I wanted to give her some time to sort out her own thoughts.
At night after everyone went to sleep I decided to head to her room to help the poor girl.
Reaching there I could still hear low soabs coming from inside, I felt very bad for her but it was inevitable for her mother to leave.
Entering the room I saw Qingyue wrapped inside her blanket, making my there I lifted the blanket to see her curled into a ball with tears in her eyes. "big*sniff* brother*sniff*" she managed to say after detecting me. I immediately took her into my arms and warmly said " don't cry, yue'er I am here with you." she held onto me tightly and started asking " big brother *sniff* why did mother leave? is it because of me? I am not a bad girl." I shook my head at her self blaming and gently said while patting her head "no, yue'er is a very good girl, your mother left because this wasn't the place she was from, she went to her own home." I tried to indirectly tell the little child the reason for her mother's departure but she just continued asking
"but this is her home" she had stopped crying by now. "no, you are born here so this is your home yue'er your mother also went to her home, when you get older you can find her and visit her again" I looked at her eyes saying this, she also looked at me and replied "mother said that she is going back to divine realm, is that where her home is?" I nodded my head smiling a little feeling proud that I could make her understand what I meant "then when I will get older then I will visit mother and ask her to come back." she said with determination and then looked at me "big brother you shall also come with me then" I nodded at her words " I will always be at your side when you need me, yue'er".
I asked Jade and bought a item from the shop called 'Sweet dreams pillow' I deadpanned at the name but eventually ignored it if it can help her.
I knew that even if I had a talk with her she will still get nightmares after what happened so I bought this pillow to prevent her from having stress.
After everything was in place I proceeded to sleep with hugging Qingyue from behind for tonight in case any problem happens.
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Following days were quite busy for me as I had to follow Qingyue to library everyday because she wanted information about divine realm. I knew that she won't be able to find anything but decided to go with her whims.
After not managing to find anything she came to me tear-eyed and asked " big brother I can't find anything about the place mother went to" I sighed as I knew this will happen and explained to her " Yue'er, the place your mother went to is extremely important and very few could reach there. Even if there is any information regarding that place it will be a secret kept by the emperor of our kingdom or those famous sacred grounds."
Even as a four and a half year old she was quite intelligent maybe because of her 'heart of snow glazed glass ' and ' nine profound exquisite body'. She said in a worried tone " then what should we do big brother?" I chuckled in amusement as even when worrying she looks extremely adorable.
"don't worry, yue'er we still have time before we can go to her, in the meantime you have to work hard so that you have necessary strength to reach to her." I lightly reminded as I am ready to walk alongside her but she still have to give her own effort.
"I will, big brother" she said pumping her fist in the air and I couldn't control now and scooped her up in my arms while she started complaining and telling me to let her down.
Due to my cultivation being at 1st of elementary profound I could pick her up rather easily.
letting her down after a few minutes I apologized to her while she continued giving me an accusatory look.
After that little interaction I went back to my room and start cultivation again.
' i have to get stronger for her ' I internally remarked as I teleported in my cultivation room.
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