Ancient Modern Murim

Chapter 3: Coming of age

Yang Monji confronts him, "If you were not around all the cultivation resources shall go towards me, and yet here you are a trash that can't cultivate."

"Genius? not anymore"

"Hmmph, I abhor you, you better stop leeching on my parents we don't need a waste cultivator in our house"

He walked out after saying those words.

And Xiang Monji was left speechless.

Xiang bend 45 degrees facing the ground, as he depressingly state out his thoughts

["Jeez, it seems that I'm not fit for cultivation."]

["For the last 7 years I trained both my body and mind, 100 push up a day, 100 pull ups, 100 sit ups for 1 year, 200 push ups, 200 pull ups, 200 sit ups within those 2 years and so on and so forth, no matter how much I strengthen and exercise my body, I can never achieve such a cool strong bulky body, my body remains delicate and scrawny although I'm robust."] look on his wrist, as he clenches his right arm.

"The rest of my time goes to meditating heaven and earth, while absorbing the spiritual ki without a limit."

"I just realize that within these past 7 years

my spiritual ki is like water without a bowl to store the ki inside."]

" Sigh.....! " leaves a deep breath, as he closes his eyes for a moment, with a crooked posture.

An endless abyss without a limit, he didn't realize that his spiritual ki was absorbed, but in a manner of dispersing within his whole body. Those scattered spiritual ki are absorbed by his blood, and those blood carrying the spiritual ki were a nourishment for his blessed body that the goddess of lust  gave to him. 

Unlike any normal blood which brings oxygen and nutrients to all the parts of the body, his blood can bring oxygen, nutrients, spiritual ki and mana, these things are mainly transported to his heart, meridian and the brain.

At exactly age 13, his birthday, he started to produce spem, the spem started to absorb the life force in which right now he has two carriers, the blood and the spem. The blood carries mana and spiritual ki and the spem carries the *life energy produced from nature.

(*the reason why he never age, and stuck at the body of age 13)

He had a mana pool in his heart when he was young, but can't utilize it since he doesn't know anything regarding magic, at the age of 7 his spiritual pool is formed, yet he doesn't realize how to utilize it, since he wasn't able to put it in use.

All in all, at age of 13 he has 3 pools, the mana pool located in the heart, the mental spirit pool located in the brain and the spiritual ki pool located in his solar plexus. Later it will be merged into three elements and be called trinomous ki. As for the life energy, it will be absorbed by spem and converted into life force. Xiang Monji will live and stay young for eternity as his spem absorbs the life energy passively and converted into his own life force.

At 13, his strength is at level 9, which is at the peak cultivation of martial apprentice. Within those 7 years of toiling were not naught, martial artists will perceive him at the peak of martial apprentice, but his genuine strength is at the Martial Practioner level.

At afternoon, around 5 pm,

After the Confrontation with his pseudo young brother, he went to his Manor and was greeted sincerely by his personal servant Elianor and Ena, Elianor was Xiang Monji's childhood friend, she was 1 year older than him, she was with him since he was young. And she was the one who took good care of him, aside from his adopted parents. When Xiang Monji started cultivating in seclusion 7 years ago, Eleanor was left alone in the manor, she cleaned the manor pristine and waited for the moment her young master would come again to his manor.

When Xiang Monji was in seclusion, the Duchess filled another personal maidservant called Ena in his manor. This was to ease the work of Eleanor, and prevent Eleanor from being lonely in a mammoth house.

After the greeting, Eleanor prepares the bath, while Ena cooks food for the young master, he takes a bath and takes a small portion of meal to prevent from starving or full in the upcoming banquet.

Elianor said, "Young Master, Master and Mistress Call upon you in the Ceremony hall."

Xiang Monji asked, "Is this all about my birthday and my coming of age ceremony being held?"

Elianor replied, " yeah! There will be a banquet specially celebrated for you."

["Young Master, I am afraid that after the ceremony, tomorrow morning you'll be kick out from the clan, as a pretense of becoming a fief lord to a barren secluded land arrange by the elders."]

At Evening, 6 pm,

After that he went to see his adopted parents, while walking he heard a blasphemy against him.

They were walking in preparation for an event, and stopped for a few minutes to chat.

maidservant Daisy inquired, " hey! I heard from an elder outside the meeting hall that the successor of the Duke is the youngest brother of Yang Monji?"

"And also this upcoming banquet is the mark of kicking out the eldest adopted son in the White Dragon Clan."

maidservant Consuela concur, "Yeah, the eldest brother is a trash cultivator, At age of 5 he was already a prodigy among his peers. But too bad he was raised in a family where cultivation and strength is a must. A successor of the house of generals should possess might, intellect and strength; without those qualities he will fail to boost the morale of the army and just be cannon fodder when the war comes."

Maidservant Daisy made a hypothesis, "If he was raised in a family of scholars, probably he wouldn't be treated as trash, but a treasure to the clan."

maidservant Consuela sighs, "Alas! Not everyone is gifted in everything, if it was, probably everyone is equal in status."

maidservant Daisy grinned, " hehe! you are like one of those scholars, hmm... I guess a philosopher"

maidservant Consuela face on the right and  avert, "hmp! Smooth talker"

Xiang face his head on the ground, clench his fist, and punch a magnanimous thick and hard tree, the tree leaves a circular hole at the center of it's stem and then he starts to walk out in frustration.

maidservant Daisy/Consuela was shocked "What's that!"

The surrounding was dim and dark, they only saw a silhouette of a child,

maidservant Daisy, "we better walk fast and get going, probably that was the young master punching the tree for fun in the middle of the night without lamps near beside him."

maidservant Consuela: "hmm?  probably we should."

Xiang Monji is not frustrated about the succession, but angry by the fact that he reaches bottle neck and has a hard time to break through, and most of all to be separated by his adopted parents who cherish and love him as if he was their own biological son.

 ["I know more than anyone else that I am just a mortal, but that didn't stop me from practicing, toiling to break through, I try my best, but I guess all the things that I work hard for are in vain.sigh..!"]

(Ceremony Hall, Private Celebration)

Xiang Monji arrived at the Ceremony Hall, His adopted parents were sitting in front.

The Elders are at the sideline, in-front of them is a miniature brown table, they sit cross legged while drinking sake, at their back were servants serving wine.

At the center was a luxurious red carpet and at the center edge is where food and drinks were put on a huge brown wooden table.

His youngest brother was sitting on the right, first side of the miniature table near the food and drinks on the huge table.

On the first left side of the miniature table was empty, this table was reserved for Xiang Monji.

When he walks at the center of the red carpet he can feel the nasty gazes of the elders, cold expressions mix with disdain and disgust.

He was sitting across to his younger brother,

The Duke made his speech and made the formal ceremony of the coming of age of Xiang Monji.

[*Duke Monji(Note:"duke" is not a name but title/position his in)name of Duke is Gyeden]

The father of *Gyeden Monji, Landeros Von Monji wasn't able to come to the event. The battle field was hectic not only were they defending and fighting the beast, but the thing they were wary of was the demonic beast.

Those demonic beasts are not formed naturally, but a byproduct of the demonic sect. develop and research. No one knows how it is done, but one thing they know is that it is a forbidden technique by assumption. Since the righteous sect doesn't know the origin of the demonic beast they dump it to the Evil cult.

The Evil cult. remain silent since they don't want to dig their own grave, as long as the righteous sect. doesn't have a proof, then they have no reason to be desperately hunted down by the whole righteous sect.

For thousand years the three main faction were in peace treaty:

The Righteous faction are rational when it comes to the interest and well being of cultivators.

The Demonic faction, are into seclusion, although they have a strong urge to fight, they don't fight other sects without a reason and they prioritize strength and power above all else.

The Evil Sect. are dormant they focus on research and development in an atrocious way to boost their army and manpower. Like reanimating corpses, taming demonic beasts and so on and so on.

If the righteous faction is in light, the Evil cult. are in the dark, and the demonic faction are just neutral in their stance.