For a moment, Vin was quite shocked to say, this wasn't what what he expected and besides what kind of strenth was need to pull a stuff like this "It seems the old man isn't always what he seemed" he concluded.
He returned his attention back to the small room he was in and found quite a good number of things, there were pills and potions of different types ranging from healing to raising of cultivation.
Even the least of then could be used by those in the spirit sea realm, there were also beast repellents and even potions used to attract beasts, when he saw this he was reminded of his pathetic past but he shook his head, he wouldn't think of that now.
He looked past that and was amazed, there was a table, chairs, a bed, tents and even dried rations, no wonder the old man said to run wild, he literally meant, take your time.
But what really surprised him most were two things, first was a deep violet sword that matched the color of his hair and second was a bookshelf which only held three books.
He walked up and picked up the sword first, it was a beautiful design that was intricately made. He ran his fingers along the blade and it made a small cut on it. He was surprised given how strong his body currently was that got to show how sharp the sword was.
But something strange happened, the drop of blood that landed on the blade disappeared like it was swallowed. And immediately the sword became vibrant letting out ringing sound like it was alive.
"Wow, a spirit weapon, old man you sure left me something good." Vin exclamed, after all spirit weapons were weapons harnessed by those in the spirit sea realm and even then only those in the sea expansion realm could even bring out the power of even the lowest spirit weapon.
He didn't know what grade this sword was but, he knew it must be quite high after all that had happened so far. After the ringing of the sword stopped an information appeared in his mind.
"Void Calamity, huh, so that's your name?!." Vin mused and the sword chimned. "Alright then Void, from now you shall be my companion, and we will reach the peak of the world together.
"Now then what do we have here"
He said as he finally paid attention to the shelf
He walked towards it and wiped away the dust before picking up the first book, on it was a single word that sent shivers down his spine. "Eridoria" he muttered, thus wasn't the first time he had come on with that word but he couldn't learn anything about it.
But now he could, immediately he brought the book out and started reading, quickly becoming engrossed in it.
A few hours later, he raised his head and smiled helplessly "I really can't believe that I have been living on a small island all the while, and to think I had looked up to the Cloud Plane empire, how foolish."
It turned out the Cloud Plane continent was just a small island in a forgotten part of the world and there was a wider place out there but this didn't discourage him, no it only fuelled his fighting spirit the more.
One day, he would also venture out there, but for now "So it turns out this entire world is called Eridoria, then doesn't that mean that whisper belonged to....." he said but stopped immediately, he didn't think it would be wise to venture into that topic yet until he got stronger.
He sent his awareness into the ring and placed the book back before picking up the second one "Hmm, Wordless sword manual" he read aloud before opening it surprisingly it only had one page with two bold words on it "Sword one" immediately he said that the words turned bright and he closed his eyes immediately.
When he opened them, he found himself in a vast plane standing at the peak of a mountain. When he looked toward the plane he almost jumped in shock, there where hundreds of people, warriors rushing towards him.
Then he raised his hand, no that wasn't his, he just realized something, his consciousness was in the body of another, there was a sword on him which he hadn't noticed before.
He, that is the body, raised the sword up and said only two words "Sword one" before bringing the sword down and immediately it felt like the world was split in two, the hundreds of people vanished into blood mist.
The scene ended and he returned to his body, his back drenched in cold sweat, he tried to calm himself down with labored breaths but it still took a while to get himself together.
That scene was..... Terrifying! Sword one, it was just a simple stroke but it wipe out hundreds 'Since it's named Sword one, is there also Sword two or three?!" he thought to himself.
Anyways no point thinking about it now when he hadn't even learned the basics, he kept it and picked up the last book which he had great expectations for, when he saw the name he noded in approval.
"Nine Chronicles of hell" he whispered under his breath and opened to the first page "First Chronicle ~ Tears of Asura" he smiled when he looked at the explanation of how to cultivate it.
He followed the instructions and formed hand seals ad he chanted "Nine Chronicles of Hell ~ First Chronicle ~ Tears of Asura" it seemed lije there was weeping sounds everywhere as tear drops the color of blood formed around him and immediately they whooped down with force towards a tree in the distance.
A part of the tree splintered as a third of it was blasted to pieces, "Wow, so powerful and that was only using blood force, what would happen if I used spiritual energy!" he exclamed in excitement.
"Hmm. My gains are not bad" he said as he stood up and prepared to set off but he quickly realized something was wrong, yes he was still naked.
He looked into the spacial ring and found three new sets of deep red robes with the Insignia of the Flaming sun sect, a mountain with a bright yellow sun at its peak.
He put on one of the robes before looking beside the other two and smiled "The old man sure did prepare well." he said as he brought out a token,
It was deep red on color with the insignia of the Flaming sun sect at the front and and behind was his name boldly written, with this token he was automatically a member of the Flaming sun sect outer court.
"Now then, it's time to hunt, let's grind it up" he said exitedly, yes he was going to hunt, and how would kill till he could no longer after all.... He looked at his body in amazement.
"I almost can't believe my cultivation spiked this much" he stated, yes, his cultivation truly spiked as he was now in the ninth stage of body refining realm. The very peak of body foundation.
But since his realm increased too quickly, he needs to get used to his strength before returning to the sect and what better place that the dark wind forest.
And with Void in his hands he set out killing everything he saw and this continued for a while until.
"Sword one" he said as he brought down his sword wiping out five beasts at a time, those where the last of the horde he was fighting.
"Too weak" he stated as he looked at the corpses of the beast surrounding him, naturally he had used the beast attraction posion to attract this horde but he was quite disappointed to say the least..
"The wild beast in the outer layer are quite weak, too weak in fact " he said as he deliberated on what to do, but it didn't take long to come to a decision.
"Seems I have to go to the middle layer of the forest, there I can fight true demonic beasts" once he had said the he set out immediately and rushed to the middle layer, it was time for another grinding.
Once he had made that decision he quickly made his way to the middle layer while conveniently killing wild beasts on the way. And not long after he entered the middle later he met the first demonic beast.
It was a feline beast with Flames burning around it called the blazing leopard, it was three meters in height and was quite huge in size. Vin assed his opponent in anticipation while the leopard did the same.
And as if in cue, they both rushed towards each other, the leopard swiped its massive claws while Vin threw a heavy punch, he wanted to test the limit of his body without any skills, when the two connected...
"BOOM!!!!!"
A large booming sound echoed as both of them was pushed back at the same time, each acknowledging there opponents wasn't easy to deal with "Hahaha, C'mon give me more" Vin laughed manically as he rushed forward again.
The duo exchange a flurry of blows which caused booming sounds to ring out in the forest scaring away some weaker beasts, after a while they both separated again.
Vin was breathing heavily, his body filled with scratch marks and his robes torn on places, but the leopard wasn't uncattered either, there were heavy blow marks on its body with a few broken bones.
"Alright it's time to end this" Vin stated like he was giving a decree
"Nine Chronicles of Hell ~ First Chronicle ~ Tears of Asura"
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