Sorry for the late chapter, had a lot to do today.

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Chapter 2: Saving a little black monkey like thing

When Shaon decided to leave, he had already reached the second level of Master. Doing this by himself in two years, without the help of elixirs and mentors, was quite a monstrous feat.

The ranks were divided like this:

1. Student

2.Master

3. Grandmaster

4. Princes/Princess

5. King/Queen

6. Emperor/Empress

7. Saint

8. Half-God

9. God

In every rank there were 5 levels and after every third level was a bottleneck. There were some monstrous people who could reach the 5th level of Grandmaster in 5-6 years but never break through to Prince or Princess stage. There were no elixirs or treasures to help people break through a bottleneck, it was all up to the person itself.

When a person reaches Master stage, they can enter their Dantian. In the beginning, the Dantian is a pure white space but as time goes on, it get turned into a scenery suited to their cultivation technique. When Shaon first entered his Dantian, he had a big surprise waiting for him. The Dantian wasn't empty.

In the middle of snow white space stood a black coffin with chains wrapped around it. Since it gave out a very terrifying aura, he didn't dare to draw near it, let alone touch it. This coffin was something that should actually not be there. After discovering the coffin, every day he entered his Dantian and observed it.

He felt a familiar presence from it but he couldn't understand from where. As he couldn't figure it out, he just observed changes to the coffin. As of now, there weren't any but he didn't dare to miss a single day. Since there were two paths to becoming an immortal, choosing the way more suited to you was essential.

Qi Refinement focused on gathering Qi in your Dantian and using it to slowly nurture your body over time. Hence Qi refiners were weaker in upfront battle and had slower cultivation speed. However they were better at controlling magic treasures and could refine better elixirs than Body Refiners. Qi Refining was more painless as well.

Body Refining however focused on upfront close combat. Body Refiners circulated Qi according to their technique, while they were absorbing Qi. This strengthened their muscles and bones faster but it also brought pain. The amount of pain however was dependent on the technique. The higher grade the technique, the bigger change the muscles and bones have, causing more pain along the process.

Body Refiners focused more on fusing their Qi with either their body or a weapon that was in contact with their body. Qi refiners however focused more on infusing their Qi with treasures that might even be 10KM away from them.

When Body Refiners advanced in grade or stage, they felt immense pain from the transformation of cells, muscles and bones. Qi Refiners however did not feel that as they gradually tempered their body over a longer period of time. Body Refining was quicker and had more close combat strength but at the same time more painful than Qi Refining.

“Bloody Angel” was one of the strongest Body Refining techniques in existence. It's main advantage over any other cultivation method was that it used it's own blood as both a weapon and a shield. Upon entering the Master stage, Shaon felt the information on how to condense a “Blood Weapon” entering his brain.

“Blood Weapon” grew more powerful with its creator. And once a Blood Weapon has been condensed it could be hidden inside the owners body, giving him an advantage when people think he is empty handed.

Since Shaon decided to leave, he took one last look at the coffin before departing at the crack of dawn. Currently Shaon was still quite short but his body was quite built from the tempering he had done. His eyes were even brighter blue than before. His hair however was currently turning whiter.

As he stared at the coffin, he mused to himself, “I have no idea what it is but at the moment it is not trying to cause me harm, so it can just stay here. I have no means to even find out anything about it as getting closer to it is too big of a challenge.” He closed his eyes and opened them again in the real world. As the sun started to rise, he moved out.

When Shaon left his Dantian, the coffins cover moved a bit as a sapphire blue eye peeked out. “It is not time yet, he is far too weak to bear the full transfer, I can only transfer my power to him in tiny little pieces.” As a cold voice sounded out, the coffin closed again.

This was the secret behind Shaon's quick progress, whoever was in that coffin was transferring his power over to him. Who he was or why he did that, only time could tell.

As Shaon trekked through the woods like an agile monkey, he was soon forced to stop. He was currently wearing black shorts and shoes. His upper body was bare and his crimson red tribal tattoos were also showing. As for the reason he stopped, in front of him was a big white Yeti.

A Yeti was a type of humanoid Archaic Beasts and this one also had numerous bloody wounds on its body. In its hands was a little black monkey like thing. The little monkey was currently unconscious as furious howls echoed from the way the Yeti came from. The Yeti looked at Shaon and then behind it as if it was in a dilemma.

Shaon quietly started to condense his Blood Weapon as he felt that this was going to be a bloody battle, however he was proven wrong quite quick. The Yeti looked at Shaon with resolute eyes before kissing the little monkey on its forehead.

Seeing this Shaon was stunned as the Yeti walked closer to him, he didn't want to make a move too rashly. The Yeti said broken human tongue, “Take. Baby. Please. Run.” Hearing this Shaon was confused as he couldn't make heads or tails of the situation. Giant Yeti put the little monkey like thing on Shaon's back as it said, “Take. Care. My. Child. Now. Run.” Shaon had heard that High level Archaic Beasts were capable of human language but experiencing it for himself, it was just a big shock to him.

Before he could think on what to do, the Yeti gently pushed Shaon as if urging him to run. As Shaon slowly understood what was going on another Yeti showed up. This one was two times bigger than the one with the baby and he was clearly enraged.

Seeing this everything fell into place for Shaon. “So to the Yeti entrusted the little guy to me as it keeps the pissed off one busy. This isn't the time to be dumbstruck, I need to get the hell out of here now.” As he thought to himself, he gave the two Yeti's one last look before running away.

When the wounded Yeti saw that Shaon was running with it's baby, it gave what seemed to be a happy smile as it held the enraged Yeti off. Shaon ran through the woods twice as fast as before and soon the sounds of battle started to fade away. When Shaon reached the edges of the woods, an enraged roar echoed out from deep inside the woods.

He gave the little monkey on his back a glance and saw that it was still sleeping. He shook his head as he started running alongside the road. Where the road led, he had no idea but he did know this: Once he reaches a town, he would have some clue as to where the hell he is and how to reach Soradeen.

“This is going to be a long journey and when I reach the Prince stage I will come and annihilate this godforsaken Fang clan.” As he thought to himself with determined eyes a chuckle rang out in his head, “If you seriously want to reach the Prince stage, you need to start training more.”