BoW: Martial World c19

Xiao Tian Long stared at the guy in front of him. They were standing in an arena in one of the many available duelling places.

The news of the duel spread rapidly, especially when it related to a guy who won the one spot in the entrance examination and the guy who won Qin Xingxuan's favour.

It helps that the girl is in attendance. People came just to see her.

Zhang Cang looked at the gathering peanut gallery and felt annoyed. He could hear that everyone was talking about him or that girl! 

The thing doesn’t help that he is annoyed about the wager. It makes him pissed that some brat could demand such a thing and could have such a wealth!

So without wasting time, he pulled out his thing sabre and his killing intent surged. 

“Look! It's Zhang Cang’s One with Sabre!” One of the dwebs from Human Hall commented. 

The thing about Seven Profound Valley Martial House is that it is spread out in Human Hall, Earth Hall, and Heaven’s Abode. 

Being ranked first would automatically make one a member of Heaven’s Abode. But, it doesn’t mean that this individual is a Core Member. For that specific task to be done, or in Qin Xingxuan's case, one needs to be talented enough to ignore everything. The girl doesn’t even need to be in the rankings.

“Umm, no?” Xiao Tian Long looked at the one who commented. 

“What you are experiencing is not one with Sabre.” The Outworlder rolled his eyes at such an observation.

“What are you even talking about? You think I don’t know what I am practising!?” Zhang Cang roared in pissed off tone.

It's getting more ridiculous by the minute!

“Well, moron. What you are channelling is killing intent, and what your weapon is doing is working as a medium for that intent.

It makes you One with Slaughter, not Sabre.” Xiao Tian Long pointed out, as if explaining to a toddler how to crawl.

“A weapon is a weapon. It should not care about YOU killing things.

Because the sword is similar.” With a hand motion, a Jian Sword appeared in Xiao Tian Long's left hand. It was a basic-looking weapon.

He pulled it out and revealed a white milky blade.

People looked at his weapon, as this was the first time everyone had seen it.

“That is how Sword Intent looks like, the next stage after One with Sword.” 

A golden aura surged around Xiao Tian Long, and everyone around the arena felt metal goosebumps, as if someone were touching their spines with cold steel.

The blade ignited with inscription symbols. Surging further with sharpness.

Zhang Cang who was closest could feel:  cut, cut, cut, cut. The sheer desire of cutting things down!

Now it made sense to him. What Xiao Tian Long is channelling is not the person’s desire, but what is the weapon!

Sword Intent!

“...so you are not just talking…”

“I do apologise beforehand.” Xiao Tian Long closed his eyes as the blade of his weapon began to turn golden. A golden metal-like aura spread around his body.

“No way! There is an aura around him! Isn’t it like how Houtian looks like!?” One from the peanut gallery said in disbelief.

“Can’t be! He is only in Initial Viscera Training!” 

“What are you…” Zhang Cang wondered what this guy was mumbling about, but then he sensed fear for his life as the Outworlder… just swung his blade.

The guy tried to block the incoming arc of golden light, but it shredded through his thin sabre and slammed into his body.

The impact caused him to fly off and slam into the stone ground several metres away. A red slash of a wound appeared on his chest as blood began to drip.

His tall, burly friend stared at this development in shock and disbelief.

Single move! All it took was a single move!

‘This Xiao Tian Long! No way he is grade three Martial Talent! What nonsense! This is impossible! Those examiners were drunk on the job!’

The peanut gallery was certain this was the case because, in their eyes, it's impossible for someone at such an age to have such a talent for the sword!

“This is what one with a weapon looks like.” Xiao Tian Long sheathed his blade as he recalled the weapon into his inventory.

“Now, why don’t you send all of your belongings to my house? I will be waiting for them.” With that said, he walked down from the arena and stood right next to his group.

The Lin siblings stared at him with disbelief. They never expected to see someone able to defeat someone who had been in the martial house for over two years!

Xiao Tian Long was a newcomer! This was ridiculous!

Not that the person in question cared much about this. All he wanted was to troll a bit. But it turns out what he did IS a bit too much.

Even Martial House Master Qin Ziya noticed this. The Master of the martial house began to consider whether he should invest in this youngster.

He will watch closely at the next Ranking War in the Ten Thousand Killing Array. Once he sees his ranking, it will be decided how he should progress.

While the elders were cautious, the people of Sky Forture Kingdom were not. Word swiftly spread about Xiao Tian Long.

They already knew about the youngest who got the affection of the number one beauty of their Kingdom, but now they learned that this guy beat someone who is ranked 109!

That’s absurd, as newcomers, even with great talent, only enter the Earth Hall around 170! They are among the top 3 winners of the entrance examination.

“You caused quite the commotion, Brother Long.” Lin Wu commented as he could already imagine how much chaos this wager fight caused. 

“I did? Well, all I wanted was to put vultures down.” Xiao Tian Long shrugged before changing the theme of conversation. “Instead, why don’t we return to what we were doing before?” As he said, Qin Xingxuan got back to holding his hand.

“I am amazed by your ability to wield sword intent like that.” The girl gushed at what she saw. She had only seen glimpses of this before, but now she saw the true extent of its power. It’s enough to beat someone at peak Viscera Training… casually.

“Hmm, since you are that excited, we can practise sword mantra,” he smiled and suggested it to her.

“What do you two think? Do you want to join?” he suggested to the pair of Lin siblings. I would offer this to Lin Ming, but he doesn’t like the sword.” He looked at Lin Ming.

“You should figure out your weapon preference.” 

“...This… we don’t want to impose.” Lin Wu wasn’t sure what to think. His and his little sister's talent was mediocre compared to Qin Xingxuan's.

But then again, they saw how he took care of Lin Ming. Who is said to have martial talent at Grade 3, A talent with a limit of Bone Forging state as their limit.

Unlike Lin Ming, their talent is of medium Grade 4, and they have a chance of reaching the Pulse Condensing Stage by the time they are around thirty years old.

“Think nothing of it. Socialising is important.” 

Qin Xingxuan rolled her eyes when she heard that. The girl realised that he just wanted to show off his wealth and get that girl.

Honestly, she should have realised that he was a womaniser, but he swept her aside with his talent and abilities.

That is why she is not angry. Nope. Instead, she should continuously show him that she is superior to these girls with her actions.

“I do think that I have a weapon that I would like to use.” Lin Ming, being a blockhead, suddenly changed the atmosphere with his words.

“Oh? Nice.”

~~~

After walking to Xiao Tian Long’s hut next to the pond, the Outworlder began to pull out things from thin air.

Though for the cultivators it looked like he had an storage ring. Which he did but, it was nothing more than cover up.

Regardless, he pulled out a table, chairs, and a grill. Meanwhile, Lin Ming went to bring his collection of spices.

The guy might have been a martial arts freak, but he can’t escape from his restaurant boy roots.

In the meantime, Xiao Tian Long decided to learn more about the inner workings of the Lin Family.

He was always fascinated by quantity management in a cultivation universe like this one.

It's quite simple, effective and brutal in many ways.

That is why he finds it extremely easy to get into a girl’s panties.

It works very easily. Once a talented cultivator surfaces, he wants to continue his lineage; not all the time do children inherit their father’s or mother’s genius.

So they have as many as possible. Eventually, such a child is born, but what about the rest? Are they a waste?

Yes, most of the time. But not all. Some are relegated to lesser duties; in Lin's case, they are taking care of businesses. 

In Lin Ming’s parents' case, they used to manage a restaurant. However, because of Lin Ming’s second-place achievement, the Lin Family had already transferred ownership to his parents.

Limited resources mean that many are getting neglected. That is why such a reaction occurs when he casually throws around pills.

Many people have many fewer resources.

‘A never-ending cycle of trying to produce a genius versus the resources produced by the land. 

Thankfully, there is a cheat in the building.’

Internally, Xiao Tian Long could not stop smiling. He is about to break this cycle in the craziest way possible.

All he needs is a group of people who follow him.

In other words, something completely opposite to what the cultivation novels usually are.

Regardless, what he learned is something he suspected about the inner workings of families and work overall.

These two siblings have Grade 4 martial talent, so they naturally are sent to the Seven Profound Valley Martial House.

It’s where they will spend five years before graduating. 

Very, very rarely does anyone stay longer. None of the Lin Family members ever stayed longer as they returned to the Lin Family in Green Mulberry City, where they became protectors of the family.

A lucky member who reaches Pulse Condensing Stage becomes a pillar of the family with preferred treatment.

Most are from the main family, like Lin Wu and Lin Fengyuan. The pair are future pillars of the family.

At least Lin Fengyuan, as Lin Wu is a bit too indecisive, that is why it reminds Xiao Tian Long of a Japanese MC…

Regardless, while these two are from a respectable family from a decent-sized city, their talent level is very common in the Seven Profound Valley Martial House.

Everyone here is mostly Grade Four talent, to the point that elders deeply care if it's inferior, medium, or high-grade rank four talent.

This means that it's so common that 95% of people here have grade four talent. 

That is why everyone thought that the clow Wang Yanfeng will reach something with his superior Grade Four talent.

Maybe even a chance to reach Houtian…

But many forget that mental state is important too.

After a while, Lin Ming returned, and Xiao Tian Long began to work on that meat with the restaurant boy. They are preparing that barbeque!

Meanwhile, Lin Fengyuan gathered her courage to ask Qin Xingxuan something. After all, not every day can one speak with someone who is more important than the Emperor of a Country…

“Umm… Miss Qin… how did you meet brother Long?” Lin Fengyuan asked respectfully.

“Hmm?” The girl moved her gaze away from her darling and looked at the delicate girl sitting opposite her.

“Well, I met him in the zither department. He was studying materials for inscriptions.” Qin Xingxuan smiled before dropping a piece of information that made the girl blush.

“If you want to get close to him, you should do it soon. Otherwise, there will be others who will take that spot.” She shrugged while saying that.

“I can’t keep up with his progress.” 

After seeing his battle prowess, Qin Xingxuan accepted the fact that he was above even her talent. Before this, part of her hoped she had some grounds to stand next to him as an equal. But… she was lying to herself.