A breeze travels through the continent, meeting many people and animals. It arrives at a bustling city and within the city there was a market, never lefts empty. This is Twin Fire and Ice City, which is in the centre of the country of Fire, a country in the northern land of the continent of Azazel, borders by the southern countries of Water and Wind. It’s controls by a single force famously known as the Crimson clan. While the southern countries of Water and Wind were led by the Aqua and Ventus clans respectively.

As the morning sun rose in the country of Fire, incredible heat could be felt in every corner. The searing heat even extended past the borders of the Fire country effecting the Wind Country as well. Buried within the Fire Country, there is also rumor of a lava spot, where a spirit of fire is said to dwell and is the source of the heat. It is unknown whether these rumors are true or not as no cultivator has been able to withstand the massive heat that emanates from the flowing lava.

Elemental souls are masses of crystallised World Qi that has been blessed both by Heaven and Nature. Each soul is sentient and has a playful personality, which when combines with their natural defenses, made them incredibly difficult to find and capture. Of course, capturing a compatible soul could boost one’s cultivation to new heights. However, the mass of crystallised World Qi would just overwhelm the cultivator’s meridians and cause them to explode.

Only when a cultivator has attained the Earth Stage and enter the Absorption Realm by mastering their body and awakening their Dantian, could they begin to absorb Qi of the World. Even when reaching the Earth stage very few are brave enough to try to absorb an Elemental Soul. Therefore, even though there is a chance that an Elemental Soul, a heavenly resource, may be under the country it has not lead the country to a disaster if only by matching every cultivator’s greed with their fear of the legendary item.

The Crimson Clan has controlled the country of Fire for so long that no one could remember how old the clan actually was. The current clan leader is to be said at the Earth stage, which is enough to rule the Country of Fire without any resistance from other clans that reside in the country. No other clan can come close to the Crimson Clan.

An old man that appears to be around his 50s and a young boy can be seen in the courtyard of the Crimson Clan. The boy possesses the characteristic of the Crimson Clan, red hair and matching red eyes. If you look carefully the boy has an innocent and naive aura while the old man with a big scar covering his right eye emitting a solemn aura.

The elder’s black clothing is a wide and long sleeves robe that has a very plain pattern, around his chest area was a fold where item could be hidden and stored. There was also a wide sash that covers the belly area of the elder. The boy clothing however was white and instead of a long drape sleeve, he had tight sleeves around his arms and he didn’t have any sash, it was just simple white fighting clothes rather than the robe that the elder was wearing.

“Ignis, before we start our lesson tell me what you’ve learned so far.” The elder looks sternly at the young boy and said.

“There are 3 realms in cultivating; Human realm, Absorption realm and the mythical Self-Enlightenment realm. In the Human realm, a cultivator trains their bone and muscle and to reach the very peak of the realm they must be able master the body and know every single inch of the body. Some Human realm master that can completely change how they look and some train their body to resist many poisons because they fear of dying. As for the other 2 realms, I don’t know.” The boy carefully said as he tries to recall as much as possible.

“Hmph, you will know of it when you need to, continue” The elder responds.

“We, the Crimson clan possess the bloodline of the chaos dragon and we have the highest affinity with fire elements and darkness. However, the chance of a person with the darkness affinity is quite rare because it’s is one of the supreme elements so typically most of our clansman has a fire affinity.” The boy ponders with his arm crossed.

“What else?”

“Eh? uhmmm” The boy confusedly replies.

“Boy, listen to me carefully I will only repeat this one more time.” The elder sternly said.

The 6-year-old boy responds with a nod.

“In a battle between cultivators, there will be many unexpected factors so you must never underestimate your opponent, they may have backers that are far stronger than you might expect. Cultivators die because they are frogs in a well and offend crouching tigers and hidden dragons. Never be arrogant or it might be the cause of your death and even the Crimson clan won’t be able to avenge you if your murderer is someone who even we can’t afford to offend.” The elder said coldly.

“Now follow me, yesterday you turned 6 years old so now you can start cultivating. First up we must check for your element affinity and then we will decide on your cultivation method.” The elder then starts walking toward a heavily guarded area where there is another old man, that appears to be at the same age as the elder, sitting in front of it.

It goes against the clan’s law to go anywhere near this area therefore this is the first time Ignis has visits this place. He looks around nervously and then he spots a sleeping old man who has an aloof air around him.

“Hmph! Reigs, wake up!” The elder snorts and said coldly toward the man in front of the heavy doors. After a while he then slams the table which woke up the old man.

“Aurelius what did I say about disturbing me when I’m meditating” Reigs yawn as he furiously shouts at the elder.

“Hah, if you do meditate then I wouldn’t disturb you, now would I? Ignis, this is Reigs he is in charge of security of the library behind him. In the library, there are 5 levels but you will only have access to the first level. However, we are here because not only does Reigs protects the library, he is one of the few people who has an origin crystal that can test your element affinity.” Aurelius introduces the old man Reigs to Ignis who was curiously looking at Reigs.

“Haha, so it’s Zephyrus’s son huh. Hmm, boy you don’t look like your father at all. Instead you have your mother features.” Reigs laughed.

“Enough talking! Reigs test this boy’s affinity now.” Aurelius looks coldly at Reigs.

“Hmph, hurrying me it’s not going to change anything, so take your time.” Reigs rebuts.

“Okay, boy place your hand on this crystal” Reigs then produced a crystal out of nowhere.

Ignis follows the instructions and once his hand is place on to the crystal, a bright red light shines out of the crystal which was immediately follow by a dark aura that suddenly covers a small part of the crystal.

Aurelius expression change very quickly showing different emotions ranging from shock, happiness, curiosity and lastly wariness. After taking a deep breath, he calms down and give gaze carefully at Ignis and then looks at Reigs.

“Reigs.” Aurelius solemnly said.

“Hmph, I know what to do” Reigs snorts and then the crystal in his hand disintegrates.

The eyes of Ignis displays his confusion but he didn’t say anything since he could sense the mood of both Reigs and Aurelius.

“Ignis, you have fire affinity like all the rest of us and unlike your father you didn’t inherit his lightning affinity. Don’t be sad, you should be delighted because majority of our cultivation method belongs to the fire element.” Aurelius informs Ignis of his affinity and consoles him.

Ignis nods without understanding what Aurelius meant.

“Ignis follow me, remember you can only look at cultivation method on the first floor” Reigs waves his hand gesturing Ignis to follow him and then opens the heavy steel door behind him.

Ignis follows behind without saying a word and enters the dimly lit corridor.

The corridor had eerie atmosphere while there is no one except Ignis and Reigs. Ignis could feel people watching his every movement and action.

Ignis move his head and look his surrounding before nervously asks, “Reigs, is there someone else here in this room?”

Reigs was shocked momentarily but he quickly recovered without letting Ignis notice his expression.

“Haha, boy who else could be there. Don’t be a coward, you are the 2nd son of the mighty Zephyrus you must be brave because you will be a cultivator. Never show you fear or else you would lose not only your face but also the face of the Crimson clan.” Reigs heartedly laugh.

They continue walking through the corridor until they finally reached the room filled with shelves of books.

“Ignis this is an important step, choose your cultivation carefully. Remember don’t aim too high, when you have chosen your cultivation method go back to the way you came from.”

Ignis bows as Reigs left the room.

“You guys can come out now”

Suddenly two shadows appear out of nowhere and stands beside Reigs while looking at the direction of where Ignis is.

“That boy, he felt our presence. How is that even possible?” One of the shadow made a comment.

“He has a bright future ahead of him, if he was able to sense our presence.” The other shadow praises Ignis and send another gaze at the direction of Ignis.

“Hmph, don’t give him that idea. We all know, no matter how talented a cultivator is there is always someone stronger and arrogance can ruin a genius cultivator.” Aurelius suddenly appears behind of the 2 shadows and Reigs. They all nodded, seemingly agreeing with Aurelius.