Ryuu was so excited that he started to walk back towards his house.

After a few steps he stopped as he still had a ridiculously huge smile on his face, he remembered something.

He spun around and sat down on the stone and started to pull out some medicinal herbs and a grinding bowl from his bag. Next he pulled out an alchemy book from the Ancestral Oracle Rings library and his fathers key journal.

He flipped through the journal till he found a section titled 'cultivation pills & elixirs' next he found the recipes for a high grade healing elixir and a soul nourishing pill, which couldn’t be obtained in the mountain due to the lack of herbs and knowledge.

With these his cultivation speed will be greatly increased and so will his recovery speed, allowing him to train much harder.

Ryuu opened the medicinal alchemy book and double checked all the herbs, then started to grind them into a thin paste and rolled them into pea sized spheres and let them dry while he pulled some more medicinal herbs out and grinded them. Then gabbed a small pot and boiled them, then poured it into a bottle to let soak while he began to cultivate.

After a while he popped one of the soul nourishing pills and continued to cultivate.

A few hours later he opened his eyes, placed the pills into a glass bottle and put them and the elixir in his bag and started to walk back towards the village.

The village started out as just a small cave but thanks to the master earth style user, Ueno Hanzo. He single handedly carved out more and more of the mountain. As a hide out for survivors.

After a while more and more earth style cultivators helped and it grew from just a small hideout into a full village.

Lord Hanzo became the first city Rex, but lord Hanzo's goal was to not hide forever in the mountain. But instead was to strengthen and build up the human race, then reclaim their planet.

So lord Hanso founded the 'Soul Academy', the first cultivating school of its kind. The academy trains all kids 13 years old and up, the power in the mountain is determined by cultivation strength.

The strongest in the mountain was Ueno Hakso, Ueno Hanzo’s son.

But the heavens were cruel and four years ago he was injured during cultivation, and became crippled from his waist down. Two years later he was found dead in his house. With no successor to Bedrock village, Hanzo declared he and the other three founders, Suzu Hanako, Ryūo Hajime and Shimizu Kei would select the next village Rex from among the seniors at the academy.

Currently there are six eligible families with their seniors competing, three of which are in the same class as Ryuu.

There’s also two others, one comes from one of the farming families. He’s apparently a young prodigy, he’s also a black sun realm who skipped his first year at the academy.

As for the sixth guy Ryuu didn’t know anything about him.

When the city’s Rex Hanso was only 21 he was already a Gold Sun, 5 Ace realm expert, and by 30 he was a Yellow Dwarf, 1 Star.

Even with the academy no ones cultivated higher then the Gold Sun realm.

Ryuu walked through a small cave into a vast open cavern, inside this space was an enormous dome shaped stone wall with a barrier inscription covering the entire thing, a guard next to the wall checked Ryuu's ID then using earth style he pressed both palms to the ground and lowered a small section of the wall.

As the section opened up, Ryuu stepped through the opening and back into the village.

This is the outer section, district ‘D’ of Bedrock village. This part of Bedrock is all the farmers, who have very few cultivators; and most of their cultivators end up as alchemist because of there botany knowledge.

Ryuu continued till he reached the next stone wall with another guard. He also checked Ryuu’s ID then lowered the wall, the was District ‘C’ this is where all the middle class cultivators live. This is also where Ryuu lives.

Ryuu was walking down the road in between houses carved from the stone as he slowly walked towards the back of the district. He finally reached a small opening in between two large boulders, he squeezed behind them and climbed up the narrow path. At the top was a small cave carved into the stone, this was Ryuu’s home. Since a kid he had been in a foster home in district ‘D’ but after he turned 13 hes lived in this cave.

Ryuu climbed into the small space and started to unpack, he laid out his sleeping bag then he brought out his dads journal and laid down and started to study and eventually dozed off.

When he woke up it was early the next morning, he got up and got ready then climbed back out from behind the rocks and headed towards the edge of the district. There he walked up to another guard at this wall. He checked Ryuu then lowered the gate and let him through into district ‘B’, he then made his way to the center of the district.

At the center of the district was a twenty foot high earth wall, where there stood another guard.