Well, since i'm feeling better at the moment, I decided to get a chapter done.

Enjoy.

Chapter 9: Father's Legacy

When Curo woke up, he didn't immediately start training or sulking, instead he started clearing his mind. He now had a specific goal he wanted to reach and to reach that, he needed a clear mind or else he would be too muddled to progress towards it. Days flew by and now a week had gone by. Jack had returned the day before and was “brought up-to-date” on what had happened in the meantime by Kertu. When Jack heard what Curo had done while he was gone, he could only sigh in praise, “For the love of… Such a young lad, yet he has the determination and heart of person who has practiced for decades.”

He had never seen someone who was so young but had such a clear mind, coupled with a determined heart. “He truly is your son, that's for sure. Maybe it is time to give him, what you left for him.” Jack mumbled to himself, he had made up his mind to give Curo what his father left for him. The things his father left for him were just a few things to aid him in becoming strong, so he could live his own life as he wanted.

1. The technique he trained in.

2. A high grade Spacial Ring with some.

3. A book that explained the Yang Flame.

Although the Yang Flame was something that only certain people could have, the information on Yang Flame and it's uses/possibilities was practically zero. Even the people who had the Yang Flame, only knew through trial and error, what they could do with the Yang Flame. Jack went to fetch the Spacial Ring holding the two items and prepared to give it to Curo.

When he reached the courtyard where Curo was currently sitting at, he saw that the young boy in front of him was currently staring at the sky. He approached Curo and started talking, “Hey little one, it has been a while.” Curo only shifted his gaze from the sky to look at Jack, “Ohh, you are back already. How was your trip to the capital?” Curo asked in a friendly voice. Jack was at a loss, the attitude of the boy in front of him, had changed quite a lot in the last week. Jack could see that he now had a goal in life, in his eyes was determination. Seeing that, Jack only nodded before continuing, “The trip went fine, listen I'm currently here on another occasion. Here bind this, it is yours now.” Jack threw him the Spacial Ring. During the three month “decision time”, Curo had learned a lot about the magic treasures of this world. He could understand that this was a high quality Spacial Ring that had 500 cubic meters of space inside. When he bound it, he discovered two things inside, two jade slips, which he extracted out.

When he took out the two jade slips, Jack said, “One of those jade slips is the cultivation technique used by your Father. It works together extremely well with Phantom Body. The other one, holds the records from your father on how to use the Yang Flame. Even I have to admit that even though the Yang Flame is strong, we know practically nothing about how to use it efficiently.” While Jack was giving a description of these two items to Curo, Curo was carefully inspecting them. Jack decided that it would be for the best if he just learned about them on his own. “Well, I won't disturb you any longer and will leave you to explore the possibilities of the two. Should you need something, don't be afraid to let us know.” Jack reminded Curo before taking his leave.

Curo sat there just looking at the two jade slips, “So these are the things father left for me. Well, guess it is time to see why the called him the Phantom.” As he mused to himself, he pressed the jade slip on his forehead and started pouring the little Qi he could, into it. Before cultivating in a technique, a person could use minimal amounts of Qi but he couldn't manifest it like someone, who did it in accordance to the technique he trained in. The first jade slip he looked through was the Phantom Song Sutra his father trained in. After looking through the jade slip, a smile formed on Curos face, as he murmured to himself, “No wonder they called him Phantom, this technique, when trained to a high degree, is seriously broken. I wonder, how many cycles father had completed.”

Phantom Song Sutra was broken into three subcategories, when you combined them, you would get an extremely overpowered technique. The only drawback of the technique was that there were no set attack methods, you had to figure them out on your own. However, that left a lot of playing ground on how to develop his strength. He could develop it in a way more suitable for himself.

The body cultivation part was named: Illusion Demon. It was divided into 4 levels:

1. Refining QI.

2. Refining the bones.

3. Refining the flesh.

4. Refining the skin.

The main point of this technique was that, every time you complete a cycle, you return to the starting point and start over again. With every completed cycle, you gain a stronger body and increased familiarity and control over your Qi. There were also movement techniques and attacking methods. The movement techniques were also divided into three different techniques.

1. Shadow step, training in it will leave an after image. Mostly used in dodging the attack of an opponent.

2. Illusion step, mostly used for escaping, can create afterimages to run in a different direction, the afterimage will have a built in instinct at creation. the number of afterimages depends on the users proficiency.

3. Phantom step, the user can move at extremely high speed, it can be considered a small distance transportation, range depends on the users proficiency.

The attacking techniques were the most vague. They mainly described, how to control the weapon with Qi and how to increase it's speed or sharpness by applying Qi to it. When Curo had finished reading Phantom Song Sutras description, he looked at the other jade slip that contained knowledge on how to use the Yang Flame. “Well, there is currently no point in reading it, since I can't use the Yang Flame at the moment.” He stored the jade slip back into the Spacial Ring and started pondering over the possibilities of Phantom Song Sutra.

The more he thought about it, the more he started wondering, how in the seven hells did his father die, when he was using this technique. He also started to feel more respect towards the person who had developed this Sutra. The origins of cultivating techniques were usually a mystery. They always seemed to pop out of nowhere, no one knew who made it and how. Usually, the ones who developed techniques, were eccentric old fellows, who wanted to reach the ultimate pinnacle of strength.

Since Phantom Song Sutra was a blade technique Curo started pondering, “Seems like I need to find a good blade if I want to use this technique.” According to the technique's description, the longer someone used the same blade for this technique, the better he could use the techniques. It was no surprise as the more you use a weapon, the more it starts feeling as a part of ones own body. Curo decided that first thing in the morning he would search for a good blade. He wanted to seriously train in this technique as it was something left to him by his father. He wanted to reach at least the bone refining level before he had to leave to the academy. The academy was a place where people from the ages of 8-16 could go. Jack had told him before that he wanted to send him there so he could learn more about the world, the people and all other things. He would leave for the academy in 3 months and that left him too little time to just run and joke around.

Since the sun was about to set, Kana came to bring Curo eat dinner. Curo ate ate dinner and told Jack and Kertu about his plans. They both looked with caring eyes as they heard that. Jack promised to find him the best blade there is to go with the Phantom Song Sutra.