Chapter 2: the past (1)

World dimension

In the south east of sky continent

Cloud Mountain

Cloud Mountain is known for being always desolate it’s covered by fog all year, at first all the people that enter always return to the point they came from, never finding their way in, but due to mortals curiosity some brave warriors from the villages thought of it as a challenge and forced their way in but with no use, so it changed, when they enter the fog, they began to see illusions and nightmares, people started fleeing from around the mountain.

Sometimes strong cultivators enter the fog but they never come back, the cloud mountain always remained a mystery to the villages around it, after some time the people stopped trying to enter as it became a forbidden zone.

At the top of the cloud mountain, there was a small city at the city gate there was a plaque written on it “Huang family clan” it gave off an overbearing aura as if it ruled the world, this city and the whole Mountain belonged to the hidden family, Huang family clan.

At the 100 years war the family had many supreme experts that participated, at the apex of its time it ruled a whole plane, but after the war almost all of its experts fell causing it to decline, and to hide in cloud mountain to recover their strength.

At night in the Huang family clan city, a boy was looking at the sky staring at the stars.

“12 years….sigh”

The boy sighed, as he thought he had been in this world for twelve years, twelve years ago he died, and also was borne, as he remembered he lived in a planet called earth, there people lived normal lives, with short life span compared to this world, he died there due to heart failure, as long as he remembered he always had a weak body, all he did in his life was eat, study, and sleep, he would watch all the other kids run and play while he couldn’t even spend a week without going to the doctor, and when he was eighteen he died at a hospital due to heart failure.

But it seems gods repaid him in this world, a loving family and an unprecedented talent, but he wouldn’t really call it the gods did it.

he remembers as he died he felt his soul leave his body and then rise, but as it was rising a hole appeared in space and he was sucked in it, after he appeared out of the hole he saw a scene he would never forget a war, an amazing war, countless beings fought, he saw the space shake, crack and merge again and again making holes appear as the one he went through around them as they fought, they used variety of magical abilities. He saw the whole war in his soul form, he felt his soul about to dissipate every second he spend there, as it seemed his soul can’t be sustained without a body, but he persisted he wanted to etch this war in his mind if he were to have eyes they would appear as they burned with desire for that power, he didn’t want a weak frail body, he didn’t want to die just because he was weak, he wanted power just like those who fought in front of him.

Every time he thought like this, it seemed to have an effect on his soul as he would fell rejuvenated, and filled with power again, he didn’t know how much time he spent there, but he watched it till the end, after it ended he felt satisfied and if he would dissipate now he wouldn’t mind, but then it appeared as if his soul had an instinct of its own, it went through one of the space cracks, it felt as if he will spend eternity going through it, but then he went out and went inside a body, or more specifically he entered a body inside the body an embryo, he was being borne again.

Huang tian sat on a rock and looked at the stars and the three moons that are in the middle of the sky and marveled.

“Are you going to stay all night staring at the sky again?”

Huang tian smiled, a beautiful woman was walking towards him holding some food in a basket, she was his sister Huang guang, she had like silver hair and dark black eyes, she was a little shorter from other women, but that didn’t diminish a bit of her beauty but instead, made her unique

“Here for you”

Huang tian took the basket at started eating the food inside.

“Tomorrow is the evaluation day, are you confident of passing it?”

Even though she knew Huang tian was an unprecedented genius, as his sister she was worried about his results tomorrow.

Huang tian looked at her and then smiled.

His sister almost punched him when he did that, although to outside people it seemed he was modest, she knew how much confidence he had behind that smile, it didn’t just come from his talent but also hard work, only their family, knew how much he effort he put into cultivation, he hadn’t stared at the sky since he learned how to cultivate, he would spend all time cultivating, still she wouldn’t let him off.

“You know one day somebody will really punch you if keep acting like that”

“Well I don’t mind, unless it’s you”

This boy, she lashed at him but he slipped away before she could touch him and ran down the hill towards the city, she ran after him till they reached the city.

As they were walking towards their home, Huang tian saw a figure walking towards their way and felt the headache coming with it.

“Huang tian tomorrow I Huang dong will beat you and get better results than you in the evaluation”

A young boy sprang up to Huang tian, the boy had brown hair, black eyes and appeared to be a bit muscular, and it seemed he would become a huge figure when he grew up.

Huang tian never really hated Huang dong, although he was 12 years old like him, but he acted like 7 years old, and he doubted that it was younger, he was typical brawn no brains, that only appeared in movies, he always gave him a headache, but one thing for sure, he enjoyed messing with him sometimes.

“Sure, you can beat me”

“No, I want to beat you with your spirit”

“What?”

“I want to beat you, with you being full of spirit”

“You want to beat me, and still want me to be full of spirit?”

“NOOOO!!!!, you understand what I mean”

“No, I don’t”

“Yes you do”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes”

“Alright, as long as you think so”

Huang guan laughed out when she saw what happened, she never got bored when she saw them exchanging words

Before Huang dong could even think what happened, Huang tian had already fled towards his house.

After realizing what happened Huang dong roared

“HUAAANG TIAAAN, I WILL BEAAAT YOUUU”

As Huang tian was running he heard the roar, he smiled and kept on running.

The next day at dawn all children at the age of twelve were gathered at a circle shaped arena it was too big that when they stood in the middle you wouldn’t be able to see the end of it with normal eyesight.

As they stood at the edge of the arena the children were waiting steady for someone, as their parents stood at the stands watching them.

Huang tian was standing in his place at the same time he was looking at the stands, after a second he saw them his family, his mothered appeared to be middle aged but that didn’t erase the beauty she had, her name was Huang mei, she was definitely a great beauty when she was young she had silver white hair and blue eyes, she looked at him with gentle eyes that could measure up to the sea, his father stood strong and firm with his backbone as straight as a rod, his name was Huang bai, he had black hair and dark black eyes he looked at Huang tian with resolute eyes behind them an encouraging look.

Huang tian smiled to them with a resolved look.

Then a middle aged man came, he was the instructor Huang jian, he was bold he was huge, steady and muscular he seemed as if he could destroy a mountain with his bare hands.

“Green horns, today we will be evaluating your talent and your hard work, and based on them, you will get your standing in the family”

The kids were shocked nobody told them that, they only knew that they were going to evaluate their talent and hard work only, nobody told them they would get their standing in the family based on it.

“Nobody told you that because, because every year the way it’s done is changed, so that nobody would know and prepare first hand also, if you only work hard for the benefit of yourself the family will keep you and support you but it will never give you an important position as you will only exploit for yourself”

“So you better all brace yourselves and do your best as this will decide your future, now let’s begin”