"Since the dawn of time gods have always ruled and reigned over man and all of existence, we all know that. But what truly reigned over before the dawn of time? From where do the gods originate? And from where did the origination of the gods' originate from? "

"DON'T ASK SUCH QUESTIONS! Such is blasphemy!" Yelled the old scholar as he threw his sandal with high accuracy and extreme speed and force at a young boy.

The boy's eyes glazed over as he was left speechless at the actions and words of the teacher, who was a cultivator. A serious attack from a low-leveled cultivator could instantly kill a man, much less a young sickly boy. The sandal stopped centimeters away from the boy's face as he let loose a sigh of relief.

'Damn old man, let's see whether or not this daddy here will kill you!' Cursed the young man in his head.

"And what have you to say now? Still, want to spew more dog shit about the gods?!"

The old scholar's gentle bearing was immediately switched with that of an angry grandpa! Yun Bai was truly shocked.

"Teacher, I apologize on my bluntness and rude bearing but I honestly asked this question seriously, may you atleast give me enough face to answer seriously?"

"Face your father! I cannot teach like this! I will not work like this! Not while you remain an unbeliever in the faith of the divine thousand!"

"Elder, elder, please! Do not lose your bearing, Yun Bai is young and stupid and has yet to realize what religion truly is. Don't worry elder, I as his father will see to it that he is punished and disciplined accordingly so that he could truly understand what the gods are and how much they have done for us."

"You speak good words, Yun Lei, truly a man of civility, morals, and wisdom. I can't fathom how you brought a child like that into this world!"

"Yun Bai, hurry and apologize to Elder Lin!"

"I'm truly sorry elder, this young one here is but a fool who knows near nothing about the world, I hope elder can continue to educate me as he sees fit! No matter how harsh the studying is, I will not fail nor will I disappoint you."

"Ahh, kid, from these past four months, I can't help but admit that you have a great head on you. You have near-perfect recall and great comprehension. Out of the subjects I taught you, you excel in 6 out of the seven. Your comprehension in the study of language, art, history, sciences, maths, and medicine have truly astounded me. I have almost run out of things to teach you! The only flaw is that you have too much a great brain. You are like my deceased wife, questioning this and that and arguing until the opposing side just gives up. Although this quality is a good one in many cases, it is not fit for religion. It seems that if you keep the same beliefs and mindset you have right now, even though you are a one in a million genius, you will never become a scholar! I ask you before I leave, to change yourself, I will be back in a month, when I am here I expect to see you to have grown from a naive boy, into a man!"

"Thank you elder, for your kind and overly gracious words!" Yun Bai quickly added before the elder left. This shameless 180 degree change could only be accomplished by the legendary Yun Bai himself.

The elder lightly smiled one last time before he left through the gate

"Ahhhh! Yun Bai! What have I said about questioning religion, especially in front of scholars!" Yun Lie reprimanded Yun Bai quickly.

"Father, if I am not mistaken, weren't you the one who told me to believe in my own beliefs and not let others control me? I merely defended my belief and also tried to learn the reasons behind everyone else's belief!"

"Ahh, how could I forget it, of course, I remember it, you are the one who won't let me forget! You are the one who drove away 5 scholars in the past year! Son, you can believe in what you want to, but if you want to live in this world, then you must feign in belief in the divine thousand. I myself am quite the hedonist, but the belief in the divine thousand truly causes me to feel fear from any attempt at excess pleasure and happiness. The blasted religion requires the believers to fast from sunrise until noon for 345 days a year. The 20 days off are for celebration of the gods! It also restricts sexual acts by a large margin, not only can a man only have sexual intercourse with only his wife once a month, they also cannot remarry if something would happen to the first wife. Such a blasted religion isn't actually believed by most people, but they feign belief on the outside for they fear those radical bigots who kill disbelievers! So son, to survive in this blasted continent, you must truly be careful, especially in the matter of religion."

Yun Bai nodded, as all of his father's words made sense.

"Yes father, what you said is indeed true and it is indeed the smartest option, but how could I, Yun Bai, son of Yun Lie, be scared of a bunch of bigots! I don't fear death if I can live my life freely and to the fullest. But to those who attempt to control my belief and faith, I curse them, those uneducated simpletons, those inbred meat sacks of dung! I will not live like this, I don't mind death if it means that I can show them my true feelings and represent everyone who is oppressed by them!"

Yun Lie smiled.'What a good son!'

"You are right, what do we have to fear! No, I do have something to fear. I already lost your brother and your mother, you are my last relative left! I cannot allow you to die otherwise my, Yun Lie's bloodline will be extinguished. For who will mourn for me during my funeral, who will mourn for me and pray to and for me years and decades, be it centuries after my death?"

Yun Bai nodded.

"mmm, yes father."

Yun Lie smiled widely, "Alright, you better get going now, I have some business to do."

"Yes, father." Yun Bai slowly walked up and limped out.

'Argh! Dumb body, why was I born like this!'

Yun Che continued to limp out and walk toward his room.

"Keke, it's the dog fart son of the esteemed owner of the Central White Fox Merchant Company."

"Ah, what a waste. With his father's connections, money, and resources, he could easily become a cultivator and obtain great resources and maybe become an inner disciple of a good sect. Too bad his son is a cripple, not only physically but in cultivation as well."

"If I was him, I would have already become a core disciple of a good sect, I would have also been able to snatch this city's greatest beauty; Meng Jia. Bah! What a waste, it makes me sick to my stomach. What kind of henious actions has the boy committed in his past life to become this deformed and nasty, he makes me wanna throw up."

"Look at the shape of his large body in correspondence with his height. Argh, is it even suitable to be even called a dwarf at that point? His face is all deformed!"

"Eww, look at the bones of his skull pushing outward from deformity, I feel pity for his future wife, what dogshit luck she has!"

Yun Bai could hear all the mocking from others and decided to ignore it, even if his father fired or even killed any of them, more will come and even if they don't dare say it to his face, they say it behind his back. Yun Bai was generally a calm, kind, and peaceful person.

"Everyone shut up!" Someone shouted.

"Huh?" All the gossipers looked over to the middle-aged woman who had a familiar face.

"Bi Tang! Why are you defending this trash? Can it be that you like him?"

"No no no! It is just that I heard a story about Yun Bai recently."

"Hmm, what is this story you speak of?"

"Yun Bai is a very calm and peaceful person, although he constantly gets bullied and made fun of, he never openly argued against someone or even used his position and authority. There was a time, however, when he did get pissed and I swear it by the divine thousand that he bloody killed a full grown man with his bare hands!"

"HUH!?!"

"Hahaha," All of the crowd laughed. Little did they know that Bi Tang wasn't Joking and that the rumor was quite real.

"I'm not joking! I heard that some young master of some rich family tried to bully and rape his cousin and although the young master had bodyguards Yun Bai still passed through them and got to the young master. Keep in mind this young master was at least 1.87 meters tall and he had a strong build which was supported with many medicines and strength enhancers, although he couldn't fight a cultivator, he could certainly kill a normal man with his bare hands. Yun Bai apparently jumped on him, looking wilder and eviler than he usually looks and ripped the man's head completely off his head in an instant. Believe it or not this came from a very credible source!"

The people weren't laughing anymore, not because they believed her but they were pissed off that people believed such things about Yun Bai who was but a piece of dog shit.

"And who exactly is this credible source?" Asked a man who was part of the crowd.

"Ten Ten!"

1 odd name froze all the people instantly. Ten... Ten!!

This wasn't a name that a person could simply use without consequences. One would only be an idiot to use this name without a reason. This instantly birthed a fear in the hearts of the Yun Manor's employees.

"Yun Bai is that fearsome?!?!"

The group quickly dispersed with white faces filled with fear, they definitely won't talk shit about him anymore with anyone around. For they feared him from what they heard about him.

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Yun Bai's Room

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Yun Bai stood in front of a painting, this painting was of a beautiful girl smiling brightly, and next to this beautiful painting of this beautiful girl. He slowly moved his gaze from her to the ugly monstrosity known as him. His height not exceeding a meter while his body wide and fat, rough patches and acne scars littered his coarse skin. Lanky 1.8-meter arms stretched out of his body. These arms were always dragged on the floor when he walked, little deformities within his bones caused portions of his bones to stick out like long blades. Of course, all these imperfections were reluctantly drawn by the artist. This painting was of him and his fiance, Meng Jia, who was also recognized as the greatest beauty of the city.

"Ah," Yun Bai sighed in melancholy as he lovingly stared at her painting as if entranced.

"Meng Jia, you are the only human other than my father and my 2nd cousin who treat me like a human. You have no obligation nor do you have a blood relation with me but you kindly smile at me and take care of me. You aren't even afraid to touch someone as disgusting as me. It truly saddens me that all I can give someone as great as you is money. I only have to offer this disgusting body and my father's money. I truly am the most incompetent dog husband, aren't I? Oh how much I love you Meng Jia, oh so much! But in the end, I am but a sickly young boy. you were promised and betrothed to me but with the arrival of Sung Ban I fear that I cannot compete. We both come from equally wealthy and prestigious background, but he is tall, handsome, and is a cultivator! I am yet again, but a mere sickly young boy!"

Yun Bai sat in his room staring at the painting of him and his fiance crying and crying. Yun Bai wasn't one to feel fear but there was one thing he feared more than death in this world, the fear of losing loved ones. Not only in the sense of death but the separation between them. And now his emotional mainstay and pillar was capable of disappearing within the next month. Of course, Yun Bai couldn't be calm, even with his great bearing and advanced mind, he could not cope with such stress and grief.

So there he sat and cried his worries away all night.

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Across the city, in the Meng Manor, Sung Ban sat across the beautiful Meng Jia. Both were smiling peaceful smiles while their fathers talked and negotiated the topic of breaking off the previous engagement and creating a new one. Sung Ban looked like he was a kind and orderly young man, but underneath that expression was a demon. A demon who couldn't wait to bite into Meng Jia, he definitely had ideas for her and what he could and would do with her once married. But in his head, his evil thoughts weren't limited to Meng Jia, but also to Yun Bai.

'I will kill that nasty little vermin who dared to even accept a betrothal from my woman!'

The engagement wasn't even set nor was it accepted yet but he already considered Meng Jia his woman, this Sung Ban was evil but one had to admit that he was quite an ambitious person.

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While Yun Bai sat and cried, little did he know that changes in his world were coming right next to his doorstep. Maybe sooner than he ever could and would have expected at all.