Li Sect

It was just another day like always. Disciples of the sect sparred in the early mornings. None of them were allowed to injure anyone seriously. All of them took these training sessions seriously. Many of the disciples of the main sect came from the branch sects. Through fierce competitions these disciples were picked. Hence they were the seeds of the next generation. These disciples were the core of the next generation. Hence they were the foundation of the next generation. This foundation had to be strong or else the the future of the sect wouldn't be good. For this sole reason the sect paid immense attention in nurturing these seeds.

The sun began to set. Li Chen and his sister Li Rong were with their mother in her room. Li Rou was reading out a story book to her kids.

"And that's how the prince rescued the princess and lived happily ever after!"

Li Chen gave a smile to his mother. He thought how foolish this story was and the concept of happily ever after but he couldn't tell it out.

"OH MY GOD! This god forsaken family's gonna kill me! Really? Happily ever after?! I want to puke!" Li Chen thought to himself.

"Waahhh! Mother will I also find my prince?!" Li Rong exclaimed.

"Yes you will dear" Li Rou replied.

Li Chen didn't believe in fairy tales. The only thing he believed in was power. One that had power could carve out his destiny as he wished. This was what Li Chen believed in. After numerous life and death experiences he had in his previous life it wasn't surprising at all.

Li Rong was five years old. She was his only real sister. Well, he did have two half brothers and a half sister. Li Rong was very mischievous. She used to throw tantrums everyday. Li Rou found it really hard to discipline her. But she was just a child. So, Li Rou just let her be like that. At least for now.

Li Chen had never met his other siblings. In fact he had never met his father's first wife. For some reason they had decided to stay in one of the branch sects. He had heard some maids talk about how Li Daiyu was jealous of his mother as his father showed more affection towards her. Yes, the first wife's name was Li Daiyu. She was the daughter of some elder of the clan. Li Chen didn't know the specifics.

"Pheww! I feel so tired!" Li Chen thought to himself as beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. "Damn this body! Weak! Weak! Weak!!!" Li Chen was fuming. He was a three year old boy. Any child of that age would feel tired fast and would even start sleeping. But Li Chen was different. He wanted to try some of the training methods from the books but his body thought otherwise. He hadn't come in terms with his body yet. Finally he realized his body was not ready. He came to realize the reason of why everyone used to start cultivating energy from age of twelve.

That night Li Rou sent Li Chen to bed herself. She kissed him on the forehead.

"Good Night little Chen!"

"Good Night Mother"

Li Chen was exhausted after trying some stupid things during the day. Now he needed some good rest. Li Chen closed his eyes and after a while went to sleep. It was three hours since he had slept. He was dreaming. A person was holding his hands. It was a girl. They were strolling in the grasslands. Her hair was so beautiful as it gently waved about in the breeze. She had golden hair. She looked at him with a smile on her face. She tried to tell him something. He couldn't hear it. He then realized. These were his memories from his his previous life. He thought of how good his life was at that time. Everything that was good would never last long. He thought how of his life had come down crumbling. Despair was all that remained in his heart. The girl was his sister. The only person he cared about the most in his previous life. His only family.

As he thought of all this, he was lost in his dream. He saw all those images again as if it happened again right in front of him. If someone looked at his soul, one could see the despair and deathly loneliness radiating out. He heard someone call out his name. The sound grew louder and louder.

"Chen wake up!!!! Li Chen!"

He woke up. He saw his mother trembling. Her eyes were filled with fear and desperation.

"Mother what happenned?!" Li Chen was startled.

*BOOM*

The ground began to shake as if it was an earthquake. All of a sudden a series huge blasts could be heard.

*BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*

"No time for answers!" Li Rou replied as she grabbed him. Behind her there were two servants. They were both in the rudimentary profound realm. They were like ants in front of experts. Li Rou gave her son to one of the servants. She looked her son in the eye.

"Li Chen there is lot I must say but there's not time for that. You must be brave! I have arranged a place for you to stay. Its one of the branch sects. You will be safe there. These servants will take you there. Be good."

Li Chen understood the situation was really serious. He knew there was some sort of an emergency.

"My s-son....." she muttered. Li Rou kissed him on the forehead. Tears rolled down from her eyes. She didn't know whether she would see him again. Li Chen's safety was her top most priority. She would never even imagine in her dreams that a situation like this would occur. Right now, Li Sect was under attack.

The servants took Li Chen and hurried out the door. Li Rou knelt to the ground and started to cry. She didn't want to part with her son. But this was for his safety. She had no other choice.

The two servants reached the courtyard holding Li Chen. When Li Chen saw the scene outside he came to a conclusion. The sect was under attack. The two servants were shivering. They saw experts fighting everywhere. They were dead scared. In front of all these experts they were like ants! As they held Li Chen they rushed to the corridor towards east. There was an exit after the corridor. As they sped towards it, Li Chen's gaze was fixed towards on two experts. They were in the sky battling. He realized these were what they called as supreme experts. The person on the left was wearing a black robe with the Li Sect's crest on his left part of his chest. He was an elder of the sect.

The elder had a fierce expression on his face as he stared at the green robed man in front of him. The elders of the Li Sect wore black robes with a golden lining. Both the experts stared at each other. There was absolute silence. Both of them had intense glares. The killing intent the both of them posed could kill even a mid-level expert of a heart attack. The pressure these two created was immense. The black robed man was furious.

"Such impudence! How dare you people of the Ling Sect attack us?!!! Not only did you attack us, you even ganged up with the Zhao Sect!! So shameless!!" the black robed elder fumed.

"It rather good being shameless than being D-E-A-D" the green robed man replied. He had a cold smile on his face.

"Y-Y-You think you can kill me?!!!!!" the black robed man shouted.

"Well, we won't know unless we give it try now won't we?" the green robed man replied as he had a smirk on his face. The green robed man was an elder from the Ling Sect. Both the men were extremely powerful. The green robed man chuckled. He knew this day would be the end of Li Sect. They had planned this attack. Ling Sect together with the Zhao Sect and Yin Sect had planned this attack. Their plan was a success because neither the Sect leader Li Cheng nor his son Li Feng were there in the sect. Li Cheng was called for a meeting by the other three sects. He was ambushed and killed. Together with Li Cheng there were three elders of the Li Sect. All of them were killed by the combined forces of the three sects. As for Li Feng, he had gone to meet his first wife Li Daiyu in one of branch sects. He was to be killed later on as the three sects wanted to trample upon the main sect first.

The green robed man made the first move.

He raised his left hand as a beam of light appeared. The beam of light turned into a huge serpent. It hoovered above him in the sky. The serpent was over a hundred meters long. As his hand waved towards the black robed man the serpent thrust towards the black robed man.

"Thorn Devil Serpent!" the green robed man yelled.

The black robed man raised a finger. The air around him started to resonate as a wave of wind in the shape of a tiger shot forward and clashed with the serpent.

*BOOM*

The pressure of the attack was too severe. The two experts closed in on each other and began attacking. As they were both completed immersed in the fight they both stopped attacking all of a sudden. They both felt the presence of many supreme experts. They were surrounded. The black robed man was dumbstruck.

"H-How can there be so many experts??!!" he thought to himself as he looked at the sky.

There were around fifteen people. Some of them wore green robes and some of them wore red robes. As they closed in on these two, a smile appeared on the green robed man's face.

A red robed man from the group of fifteen people yelled "What the f**k is going on here??!! We don't have time for your puny dog fights!!"

"This cannot be prolonged any further! Elders slaughter everyone!!!" another red robed man from the group shouted.

As soon as he said that the group of fifteen people charged forward. All of them focused their attack on the black robed man. He was killed in an instant. He had formidable strength but in front of fifteen other experts, he was squashed like a fly.

"Pity he died such a sad death" the green robed man who had fought him earlier thought to himself.

The red robed men were the elders from the Zhao sect. Together with elders from Ling Sect they started to destroy everything in front them. The other forces of the two sects had already destroyed more than half of the sect. The disciples of the Li Sect were slaughtered. They were killed in some of the cruelest methods. For some of the disciples, the hands and legs were cut off first. Later their heads would be cut off. The Li Sect right now had five elders. Two were killed by the forces of the two sects. One was killed by the red robed men. All that remained were two others. One of the elders was with his disciples pushing back the forces. He was in a terrible shape but he continued to hold on. The other elder was in charge of providing a safe route for Li Chen to escape.

The black robed elder was fighting of some cultivators from the other forces. He kept good distance between him and the servants who were carrying Li Chen. He would kill anyone who would obstruct their path. After a while the servants reached the exit and left sect not even looking a back a bit. His job was done. He returned to where the other elder was fighting. What he saw made him shiver. Everyone were slaughtered.

"H-How can this.." as he was about to finish his sentence a sword pierced through his heart from the back. A green robed elder from the Ying Sect killed the wounded black robed man in an instant.

A group of robed men appeared from the shadows. They looked at sight in front of them. They were very much pleased to see this. Blood splattered over the wall, heads hanging from the pillars, bodies all over the ground. The Li Sect had come to an end. The elders from two sects and their forces gathered together. They began to have a light moment. The elders started a conversation.

"Well that takes care of the Li Sect. We won't be having troubles from these bastards again!"

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha" everyone began to laugh.

"As a matter of fact, we did this world a favor!"

"Hmm..........What about Li Feng?"

"No need to worry. The Yin Sect would have probably killed him by now!"

"What about the descendants of the Li Sect? There happened to be a son of Li Feng here?"

"As you can see, everyone here from Li Sect are dead and we made sure no one got out. So he's probably dead here somewhere."

"Fine. That takes care of that. Even if he was alive and wanted revenge, who would support him?? Even the branch sects of Li Sect will be destroyed in the next two days anyway."

"Right. Let us focus on the matter at hand right now. Let us depart from here and begin our attack against the branch sects of the Li Sect. When the Yin Sect takes care of Li Feng, even they with their forces will join us."

"Right!"

Everyone nodded. They began to depart from the Li Sect or formerly know as Li Sect. The elders rose up in the air and vanished as a beam of light.

*Swoosh*

A cold wind blew across the Li Sect. It was the land of the dead. Everyone dead. From this day the Li Sect would cease to exist. The reason for why the three sects conspired against the Li Sect was a mystery which only a handful of people knew.

After two days the news of Li Sect's massacre spread like wild fire throughout the continent. No one knew who was the culprit because everyone single member of the Li Sect was dead and there were no witnesses.

As of now, there were not five but four major sects in the Yellow Shield Empire.