The Nine Skies Swordsman

Episode 200's. Finding My Own Way... Budidayaku Road

Xionan appeared in one of the three trial Altar guarded by the Jiang Clan.

The altar looks ancient, with a height of up to 3000 feet. The four corners are adorned with fierce carvings of Phoenixes, and almost look like a temple, stretching high into the Violet Sky.

It was pitch-black and exuded a holy sensation of Heaven's will. Ripples pulsed out from the altar, merging with the Violet Heavens and the Star of Void River, making it as if it was part of the entire realm where the altar stood.

There, on top of the altar were already three other new Saint G.o.ds who had prepared to follow the selection, all three were the same as Xionan, an early stage Saint G.o.d. All three, two men, one middle-aged, one white-haired youth, and the other one was an old woman. Next to the three, stood a disciple from the Jiang Clan, a young man with cat-eye-like eyeballs.

“Congratulations to the four of you. Since there are already four that are successful, we can start this selection..” The cat-eyed youth fluttered his arms and a hexagon-shaped wooden board appeared hovering before Xionan and the other three, “I Jiang Zi, the inner disciple of the Jiang Clan... This selection will determine whether you will be accepted as an outer disciple, inner disciple, or inner disciple... There are two exams here and one exam later after you guys arrive at our Jiang Holy Clan.”

“The first test is the talent assessment and the second test is the soul assessment.. After that you will be given a new name with the Jiang clan, then take the third exam in the Clan Appeals Hall, the third exam will determine your fighting strength... You go forward one by one and send all the Energy you have to the Season Depth Board.” point Jiang Zi towards the hexagon wood board.

The white-haired youth was the first to react. As soon as Jiang Zi finished her remark, the white-haired Youth drained all of her Energy into the Season Profound Board. The white-haired young man glanced at Xionan then smiled wryly.

Xionan saw that but could not guess what the white-haired young man meant. He was just stunned, remembering the old figure who also had white hair, “Fanfan.. I will become even stronger and avenge your death.. Even if he is now the King of Hell or even the Emperor of Heaven, I will still avenge your death.”

As Xionan's shadow floated away reminiscing about the past, the Season Depth Board in front of the white-haired Youth buzzed and emitted a bright golden light.

From the light came out some kind of projection image. The image shows a land with wind and snow, the wind whirling to form a great blizzard and hitting the entire land, making the land very cold, to the point of freezing the entire land.

Then the projection of the image changed again, this time showing the ice on the land starting to melt and all the malay life, the aura of annihilation and death spreading, all life dead and deciduous, all life, all life was destroyed turning into ashes that swirled over the land.

After the Season Depth Board stopped glowing, Jiang Zi laughed at the projection image that had previously appeared, “Good!!... Two seasons... Winter, snowstorm.. Autumn, Destruction of life..Nice!..”

The four of them were puzzled to hear Jiang Zi's laughter and words, but the white-haired Youth could guess that whatever Jiang Zi meant was a compliment from the results of her talent test.

“This board shows how great your talent is in cultivation. The more seasons displayed the more things you can accomplish in the world of Eternal Cultivation.” Jiang Zi explained.

“There are a total of four seasons, namely, Spring, Autumn, Winter, and Summer. From every season will show you the Divine Ability element that matches you..”.

“As for this young man, he featured two seasons, it's a very good talent. The talent that appeared the most was the talent of One Season, the average Great Realm cultivator had the talent of One Season... By far the highest is only the talent of Three Seasons. If counted in numbers, out of the 1,000,000 cultivators, 800,000 were One Season talents, 140,000 were Two Season talents, the rest were Three Season talents, as for Four Seasons talents, it was rare talent, it was Two Seasons talent, throughout the history of the Great Realm, there have only been six ever seen, the current Celestial Emperor and the rebel Dragon God are two of them.”.

“Then each season clearly shows the Divine Ability that matches it, a kind of skill that you are suited to training in.” point Jiang Zi towards the white-haired Youth, after which she looks towards the other three, “Well now it's your turn.”

The old woman was the next one to advance, but there was nothing memorable, she only showed the talent of One Season, it was the same as the middle-aged Man, each showing the talent of One Season.

Xionan advanced, now it's his turn. He channeled all of his Energies, and the Season Depth Board in front of Xionan buzzed and emitted a bright golden light.

From that light came out the projection image. The image shows a land with heavy rain, a thunderstorm shaking the land, and a great flood drowning it until it turns into an ocean.

Then the image on the board changed, this time showing the ocean water drying up, all vegetation burning, a huge fire engulfing the entire land, and all the land, the mountains on the mainland continuously erupted and hot lava covered the entire land.

Not long after, the Season Depth Board buzzed again, this time the golden light disappeared and a bright blue light appeared.

From the blue light, another image appeared... A land showed a dense aura of sadness, all life showed sadness, anger, and deep pain made all the plants dry up and fall, the land became gloomy, after that all the images disappeared and the Season Inner Board calmed down again.

The white-haired youth was the first to be surprised, he had thought, that other than him, the others would only show One Season's talent. But now, Xionan attracted Jiang Zi's attention, even making her clap and walk closer towards Xionan.

“Antracious!!... Three Season Talent... What is your name?.” asked Jiang Zi.

Xionan's expression did not change, his face was still flat, even though the other three people were looking at him in surprise, “This girl is the number two talent after after after those with rare talent.”other third thought.

Xionan clenched hands, “My name is Xionan.”

“Xionan..” Jiang Zi touched her chin, thinking for a moment before smiling towards Xionan, “From now on, your name is Jiang Mulan... Hows it? Do you like that name?”

Jiang Zi moved quickly, a Three Seasons talent like Xionan was a valuable asset to his Clan, so quickly acknowledging him as part of the Clan was the most appropriate way to prevent Xionan from choosing another Holy Clan.

The other three were surprised, the second exam had not been conducted but Xionan had already got a clan and was recognized as a member of the Clan. This made the other three stare in envy, especially the white-haired Youth.

“Xion. Who would have thought, the friend of the White Devil turned out to have talent above me.” Inner White-haired youth.

“I like. Thank you Senior Zi on this good name, I am Jiang Mulan grateful to have been accepted inside the Clan.”

Xionan could certainly guess, why would Jiang Zi quickly give him a name and clan, if the other Holy Clans knew, naturally they would try to recruit him as well. For Xionan it didn't matter, any Holy Clan would be the same for him, his goal was only one, becoming strong as fast as he could and avenging Gofan's death.

“Hahaha... It's nothing, all the talented, of course will be directly accepted into Klan.”

In Jiang Zi's heart laughed in satisfaction, he was grateful that no other Clan cultivators were around the Altar where he served.

“Come.. Come.. Now it's time to do a Soul.” assessment added Jiang Zi.

***

[Slimle Cave-Heavenly Demon Forest]

Sweat soaked all over Gofan's clothes, his face was flushed red, his body was hot as it burned, trembling and golden light emanated from his bones and flesh. Another week had passed, he finally managed to absorb 1% of Heaven Energy.

Gofan opened his eyes, closed the Heavenly Silk scroll, “This is very slow.. It's been over a month, but I can only absorb 1%. To absorb the next part would be even more difficult. Before I reached Saint God, the Great Realm was like forbidding me to cultivate here.”.

“Now I understand, how important it is to reach the Saint God realm before entering the Great Realm Gofan sighed and thought for a moment, looking for a way to complete his absorption.

“I got into the Great Realm thanks to the golden bones and the body of a true Dragon Elephant... Does improving the quality of my bones and body make absorption easier?.”

Gofan channeled his consciousness into the Twin Dragon Golden Sticks, “Haiwa. Can this golden bone and my body still be improved?.” he asked.

Haiwa woke up from her meditation. After the battle against the Song brothers, he meditated to recover his life force.

“Finally the Master asked also about it, I think the Master will not notice it.” Sahut Haiwa's.

“So it can... Then, how to do?.”

Haiwa's body flickered and she appeared before Gofan. His hands waved and a screen appeared before the two.

Inside the screen, there was a picture of a body cultivator, sitting cross-legged on top of the purple clouds, that was... The God of War, Tianyuan.

“This is my memory of how the God of War improved the quality of his bones and body. This will not apply equally to Master, because Master obtained the way of processing the body of the Dragon God and obtained the bone quality of the Protective God, right?.”

“You know?.” Gofan could not tell about Tian Baixiang to anyone. He was shocked, when Haiwa found out about Tian Baixiang.

“At first I didn't know where Master got that White Ivory from, but when Master died, the God of War had explained to me, that the God of Protectors, Tian Baixiang also helped Master's resurrection. I guess that Ivory is his..”.

Gofan nodded slowly.

Haiwa continued her explanation, “Basically improving the quality of bones and the body will be the same, it's just a different way... The way the Guardian God and the War God cultivated the body was clearly different, but the point was the same.”.

There are three stages of improvement in bone quality, which apply equally to the improvement of body quality;

Blue-Body Blue Bones

Purple Bone-Purple Body

Each is divided into three levels, low, moderate, and high.

“...Last time, the War God managed to reach the high-level Purple Bone-Purple Body and stepped into the Eternal Swordsman, but in the end it was still not perfect either... According to him there are still other stages besides those three..”.

“Decars Lasting?.” asked Gofan.

“Eternal Swordsman is a designation for cultivators who have surpassed the Little Heavenly Land and are able to step into the Heavenly Immortal Land and above. In other words, Eternal Swordsmen were those who had been able to step into the Third Sky Realm and meet the approved realm in that Realm.”.

“...As Master knew, the requirement of entering the Great Realm was Saint God, it was the initial realm that all Cultivators born in the Great Realm had... While the realm recognized as Swordsman is the realm of Star Pioneer, like the three Song brothers we met before.”.

As for the cultivation realm in the Little Heavenly Land, it consisted of;

Star Pioneer, starting from a Soul seed, then one Star Soul to six Star Souls. It consists of six different colors namely, Gold, Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple.

Mighty Star, the unification of the entire Soul and the reshaping of the Soul. Grouped in early, intermediate, and peak unification and formation.

Immortal Realm, Soul disconnection from Body. Grouped in the first break, the second break, and the third break. It was a recognized realm in the Heavenly Immortal Land and above.

“...The War God was a body cultivator, when he reached the high-level Purple-Bones Body, it was equivalent to the third-tier Immortal Realm severing realm.”.

Body cultivators and ordinary Cultivators had their own ways of reaching the Immortal Realm. Body cultivators formed the quality of bones and bodies, while ordinary Cultivators formed the realm of Soul severing cultivation.

“Haiwa. Didn't the Styx not have a Star Soul, but rather a Sky Beast original Soul?.”

“True Sir. The Styx as a descendant of the Celestial Beast, generally only formed three Soul Beasts, but it depended on what kind of Soul they had.”.

There were two types of Soul Beasts the Styx;

Soul Beast with golden light. One Soul Beast with a golden light was equivalent to two Star Souls, so they needed to form three Souls, this kind was common.

The Soul Beast with blue light, was known as the Demon Soul, just like the Soul that Jiang Buyi had. One Demon Soul was equivalent to three Star Souls, so it only needed to form two Souls, this was a rare type.

Gofan scanned the image on the screen, looking at the way the War God improved the quality of his bones and body while thinking about Haiwa's explanation.

“So, can't I cultivate six Star Souls at once three Soul Beasts, right?.”

Gofan had the body of a True Dragon Elephant, so he was a descendant of the Little God. Moreover, he had the Soul seeds formed with the help of the three Dragon Tribes. Gofan did not dare to ascertain what kind of Soul the Dragon Tribe had, for now he assumed, it was as a common Soul, not a Demon Soul. That led Gofan to reach the conclusion of his question.

Haiwa was flabbergasted, she did not expect Gofan to come to such a conclusion. But that was true, after all, the Dragon Tribe was the descendant of the Celestial Beast and it had something to do with the birth of the Demons in the Little Realm. Thus, with the Souls of the three Demon Dragons, it meant that Gofan had the seed of a Soul Beast.

“It's possible... I've never seen anyone cultivate two kinds of Souls. But, Master is endowed with it, so it's possible to do.”

Gofan gasped for breath, although Haiwa only said 'maybe' but that didn't close the fact, that Gofan had that chance. With that, Gofan's eyes sparkled with the intention to immediately reach Star Pioneer realm.

“In addition, Master is also the only Human God with the Golden-Bone Golden Body from the body of a True Dragon Elephant. If only Master had already mastered Divine Abilities, Master might be able to fight a draw with the Dark Gods.”.

Haiwa shook her head slowly, “If there is no barrier in the Little Realm, the memory of the Divine Ability will definitely be able to be passed on by the God of War to the Master... But the restriction was already created by the two Great Gods, thus all Divine Abilities have been reduced to moves that fit the restriction.”

“It is only fitting that all of my moves are capable of being broken by the Dark Gods, it is all due to the restrictions they created.” how lacking the two Gods are!!

“I mean... If Master could cultivate bones and bodies as well as Star Souls and Soul Beasts, what would Master be as strong as he would be? Even the Dark Gods, would never have imagined such a thing to happen.” Haiwa smiled meaningfully.

Haiwa flicked her arm and the screen in front of the two disappeared. He re-entered the Twin Dragon Golden Sticks, “Because Master is endowed with that uniqueness, Master can cultivate both Body and Soul. Now it is up to the Master to figure out how to reach the path of the Lord himself.”

Haiwa closed her eyes and returned in a long meditation.

“Finding my own path... Jalan budidayaku.” Gofan's eyes sparkle with enthusiasm, now the beginning to start his journey has opened.

Seriate...

A Little Note; ivory White obtained Gofan from Tian Baixiang's Soul fragment, then when he was in danger against the herd of Undead and the confinement of the Nine Curses of Heaven Formation. White Ivory helped him survive, then gave him the Golden Bone.