Cold...
Drops of water fell onto his face, awakening him from his deep slumber. He opened his eyes but couldn’t see anything except darkness. He felt really tired, his body cold and stuck with slimy things. He pushed his hand forward, trying to move the things that blocked him aside, and forced himself to stand. Immediately, everything looked clear, sunlight shining through the gaps in murky clouds. He shivered as he found himself standing on a mountain of dead bodies, his body covered in sticky blood. Rain fell heavily as it tried to wash the dark blood's color from his body.
He dragged his tired body away from the mountain of dead bodies and looked around, finding himself in the middle of a wrecked village. Houses were broken beyond repair, dead bodies lying like sand on a beach, scattered along the streets. Blood and rainwater combined to form a red river.
"What has happened to this village?" An old man suddenly appeared behind him, shocking him.
He looked at the old man and at the people behind him. Hundreds of people were flying through the sky, standing on their flying swords or riding flying beasts. One by one, they slowly descended, looking around confused.
"Elder Meng, we were too late," someone said.
Elder Meng, the old guy, frowned. "Search for survivors around the village and check the forest; maybe some survivors are hiding there."
"Acknowledged." Hundreds of people dispersed quickly. Not long after, some of them started cursing.
"Demon Sect! They are animals!"
"They killed everything alive. Even chickens and dogs were not left behind."
Elder Meng sighed sadly, his eyes falling onto the only survivor of the village's massacre.
"What is your name, kid?"
"Kid!? I am older than you. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you my age; it is one hundred and..."
Suddenly, he became aware that the old guy called Elder Meng appeared taller than him. His straight vision only reached around the shoulder of Elder Meng. He checked his hands and found they were smaller than usual. He was confused and silent for a long time.
"Maybe he is still shocked by the bloody massacre of the villagers," another old man appeared behind Elder Meng. "From thousands of villagers here, only he got lucky to stay alive. Have you identified him? This skinny boy?"
"Who am I?"
Thinking about it, a dim light suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. The light created a transparent screen with a lot of words inside it. He looked at Elder Meng and his friends; it seemed like they couldn’t see it.
He tried to read the words.
[Name: Jaime (14 years old),
Health Point 35/100,
Mental Point 50/100,
Level: 5 (normal villager).]
"He is just a kid without any skills, a normal village kid," Elder Meng locked his eyes onto Jaime. "He really got lucky to avoid the massacre."
"Elder Meng, I will go back earlier to report this case to other elders. They don’t need to send all the disciples here anymore since it is already over."
"Then, I will trouble Elder Fan for the report."
"What should we do with him?" Elder Fan's eyes locked onto Jaime.
"What do you think?"
"His body is weak, his bones small, and he almost has no muscle. Definitely not suited for cultivation, but I will take him to the Double Moon Sect."
"You want to take him as a disciple?" Elder Meng was shocked. This Elder Fan is known for his stinginess in taking disciples. He leads the sixth division of the Double Moon Sect, and his entire disciples are fewer than thirty, while the other divisions have at least hundreds of disciples.
"Disciple? He isn’t worthy," Elder Fan grabbed Jaime’s hand. "But he will earn his worth if he does chores for my disciples. Cooking and washing, so my disciples will have more time to cultivate."
"Why don’t you use the outer disciples or eighth division’s disciple?"
Elder Fan sneered, "Too much of a problem, my disciples had killed a few of them and gave me a headache. I don’t want to cause any trouble to the disciplinary committee anymore. Taking an outsider is safer. My disciples can kill them without causing problems to the sect."
Elder Fan hit a small pouch tied to his waist, and a sword flew out from the pouch. The flying sword stood in the air, and Elder Fan stepped on it. In seconds, Jaime felt his body flying into the blue sky with Elder Fan at bullet speed. Three people also flew with their swords, following Elder Fan, and left the village.
Jaime flew around forty meters from the ground. "Is this real? Humans can fly? Am I still dreaming?"
After nearly two hours of flight, Jaime saw a colossal mountain ahead. There were eleven mountains' peaks lining and chaining around the biggest mountain's peak, forming twelve mountains joined as one majestic mountain. Nearing the mountain, he saw thousands of buildings spreading from the surface of the valley into the peak of the mountains. At least tens of thousands of people stayed in this place.
"Ba Zai, take this slave to Bamboo's Peak!" yelled Elder Fan. He threw Jaime's body up into the empty air. Jaime felt his heart going to stop because three people passed him without bothering to catch him at all. Suddenly, he fell real fast to the ground, while Elder Fan and his followers had flown far away. They just let him fall.
"I'm going to die!" Jaime's body rapidly fell and soon would hit the tallest tree.
Immediately, one person near the gate jumped five meters from the ground and caught him. He was around 30 years old and had a big body.
"That stingy elder makes me work for free again!" He cursed and put Jaime on his shoulder. He leapt very fast across the road and went to one of the peaks of the mountains. Before Jaime could understand what just happened to him, he felt his body flying in the air again. The guy had thrown him in advance, high into the air over a four-meter gate and shouted loudly, "Ba Zai has delivered the item that Elder Fan asked for. Disciples of Bamboo Peak, please accept him while he is alive. I think he is your new slave."
Jaime looked into the sky and felt fascinated.
"I never realized how blue and beautiful the sky is. It is a pale translucent blue... Look at those white slender clouds..."
Then his body started to fall quickly.
"If I live, I will hit those two guys hard!"
Immediately, he saw someone on the ground and was sure that the nice guy would catch him. Unfortunately, that nice guy kept standing there and shouted, "You are so dirty, I won’t catch you. Please take care of yourself!"
Jaime flew into the bamboo trees. He hit dozens of bamboos and caused them to bend like a bow before snapping and breaking them all. It was painful, but luckily he had passed out to feel any of it. Not knowing how many hours or seconds had passed, Jaime woke up because someone splashed water on his face and body.
"Get up, lazy bum! Or I'll kill you."
An arrogant guy used his feet to kick Jaime's face. Jaime tried to sit up while the guy sneered. "New slave, you will serve 28 inner disciples of Bamboo's Peak." He pointed to a hill. From the hill to the peak of the mountain, there were some caves spread from bottom to high peak. "Understood?"
Understand what? Can't you see I am in agony now? All the bones in my body feel like they're splitting!
"Starting tomorrow, you have to put fresh food in front of each cave. No matter if they eat it or not, you have to keep serving the fresh food! Fill the water into each clay barrel in front of each cave. Take their dirty clothes and wash them. And remember to clean weeds and bushes around the cave too." The guy moved to one of the caves and shouted, "If I find nothing tomorrow, I will take your doggy head!"
Jaime took a deep breath and checked his status; his health points were only left with 1 point. Any random chicken kick him and he would die.
"Shit!"
With a lot of difficulty, Jaime tried to stand. "Where am I? Why are people here like shit and barbarians! They never asked my name yet have made me their slave!"
Inside Jaime’s mental realm, one book was hanging in the middle of darkness, opened immediately.
"Book of Karma!" Jaime knew it by instinct. The book opened, and a little information rushed into his brain.
[You are inside the Double Moon Sect on Double Moon Mountain in the Dragon and Phoenix Continent...]
At the same time, some of his mental energies rushed into the book. "Equal exchange!" He understood that under the law of karma, offering something as an equal exchange to get something is needed. His mental energy exchanged with the information from the Book of Karma about his location.
"So, I am in the Double Moon Sect, one of the six biggest sects in the Phoenix and Dragon Continent. This sect occupies the land and mountain peak around the colossal Double Moon mountain range." He stopped as some information kept flowing into his mind. "People living around the mountain are outer disciples of the Double Moon sect. Inner disciples stay inside the mountain, occupying each mountain peak. Inside this sect, there are eight divisions of inner disciples. Every division is under one Elder’s command. I am in Bamboo Peak, the sixth division, whose leader is Elder Fan."
And luckily for Jaime, there was some bonus information from that almighty book for him.
[Jaime has been made into a slave for Bamboo Peak. If he fails to serve food and satisfy the inner disciples of Bamboo Peak in the future, he will die without an intact body in no time. Day one of a 100-year time to conquer three realms has started.]
He was shocked. "Is this for real? Conquer the three realms? Human’s realm, which has more than one continent and I don’t know how many universes outside there! Demon’s realm and God’s realm too? Who do you think I am? Am I someone like King of Vali, Ravana, and some other legends who can conquer three realms?"
Jaime felt thirsty and moved his body to the nearest bamboo house.
"Kuaahhh!!" Jaime stared horror-struck when he saw a body without a head lay inside the bamboo house and ran out quickly. His stomach was throwing up. "Who is that dead boy?"
The Book of Karma processed the request and gave him an answer while taking 2 points of his mental energies.
[Dead body, known as Hu Hai, a brave warrior who was picked up by Elder Fan while running outside the Double Moon Sect for fun. He was forced to become a slave for Bamboo Peak’s inner disciples for a week before being killed by Zhou Wei—the nephew of Elder Fan—because his cooking couldn’t satisfy Zhou Wei.]
"I am a dead man! This killing is not a joke!" Jaime glanced at the way he came in and started moving to that way, his only way out. Before he could reach Bamboo Peak’s gate, he was alarmed by something cold on his back.
"If you think that you can run away from this place alive, you can try." The sound was filled with killing intent and made Jaime stiffen.
"I... I... am going to collect food." He tried to reason.
“Hmm, go to the west; you will find a forest and river there. One step out from this gate, you will have to pay with your head.” The voice coldly said.
"Acknowledge." Jaime turned his body to the west and moved to the deep forest. He was extremely infuriated. "I need my f**king lawyers! I paid them monthly and never used them once in my lifetime, and when the time I need them the most arrived, they aren’t here. Oh, I need cops too, I paid my taxes every month for them, believed in my country, in human rights, and in Democracy. And when I need them the most, no one is here! F**k slavery!"
After moving through the forest for about half an hour, Jaime immediately turned around.
"I forgot to take any tools with me. What can my two hands do without them?"
He went back to the bamboo house, collected anything he could grab from the house and the dead body.
A dead man needs nothing.
As for the dead body, he dragged it for a while and threw it into the nearest valley. Not family, nor a friend, he wouldn’t waste time and sweat to dig a grave for him.
"Hu Hai brother, don’t think me wrongly. We are brothers who share the same miserable fate, so please don’t rest in peace. Be resentful and bring your whole ancestors to haunt the disciples of Bamboo Peak. Make them pay for what they had done to you. Make them sleepless, sick, and take them with you to hell."
Jaime looked at the forest and let out a deep breath. "If I can’t feed those 28 pigs, I will follow you without fail. Please book my place in advance and have two or three beauties accompany me later."
Jaime proceeded through the forest and found a wide river."Conquer three realms, be the king of all living things, and open one thousand beauties' hearts! Even Tong Sam Chong, who took a journey to the west, walking thousands of miles, had to start with a single step, devotion! As for my single step, it will be... taking a bath in the river!" Jaime looked at his body packed with dry blood and mud. He opened all his clothes, jumped into the river, and enjoyed its cold water.After a few minutes, he began to calm down. He looked around at this place far, far away from his original world. This place was much better than his original world. The air was much fresher. He didn’t know if he would ever go back to his world anymore. Jaime clenched his fist."My hundred years’ research failed, but I got a second chance to meet Ye Xiu. Not to mention conquering the three realms and 1000 hearts. Even if it needs more than that, I will take the risk." Jaime shouted with all his strength. "In 100 y
"Lalala... I am the almighty digger! I dig once, I find tons of gold. I dig twice, the spring of youth flows. I dig thrice, the goddess of beauty lies waiting to embrace me. I dig a fourth time, I awaken from my silly dream...!" Jaime dug a very large hole underground. With his level at 6, digging wasn't too hard for him. After half a day of digging, he placed some tree branches and dry leaves to cover the hole.His right hand grabbed a simple bow he made for hunting small animals and ran to the nearest demonic beast he could find. He tried to locate the dumbest demonic beasts with 1-3 points of intelligence that he could provoke. This was the law of the jungle: the smartest eat the dumbest. Immediately, he found one lazily eating grass."I am the future king of gods and demons! Behold my power! Tiny beast, please happily become my food!" He quickly pulled his bow with all his strength and let an arrow fly to hit the Hundred Horns Rhino.He kept shooting the beast with all his strengt
Hundred horns rhino weigh around 1-2 tons. With that much meat, Jaime made some dried meat. For a week, he kept busy with his demonic beast carcasses. He also tried to use the horns and the skin to make something useful. Then that morning, Jaime met his second arch enemy, another inner disciple of Bamboo Peak.“So you really hunted that demonic beast?”“Yes, I did.” Jaime glanced at a woman around thirty in front of the cave. Usually, most inner disciples of Bamboo Peak hide in the cave; only when he was really unlucky would he meet someone that would squash him dry.“Don’t lie to me; I could sense that you aren’t even in the elementary realm. How could you kill a demonic beast, which is at least in the elementary realm?” The woman didn’t look cold; instead, she gave the feeling of lust and danger at the same time. She was the type who liked to gain attention the most, but would happily kill or torture anyone that tried to take a bit of her, a natural-born sadist.“I am a humble perso
I am the almighty hunter! This whole jungle is mine! All the animals and demonic beasts bow to me!” Jaime ran for his life. Four demonic beasts were chasing him restlessly. “F**kkkkkkkk!!!”He jumped and two demonic beasts fell into the hole-traps behind him. The other two kept chasing him a few meters before they fell into the next hole-traps.Without resting, Jaime jumped into the hole, killed the demonic beasts, and sucked out their own-less energy. His level advanced to level 21, Junior Realm. These last four days, he was working like crazy, killing as many demonic beasts as he could.With bloodshot eyes, he cut the demonic beast’s head and collected their core. Finishing the work, he looked around. There were fifty demonic beast carcasses. Some had started to decay and turned smelly.No matter how hard Jaime worked, reaching 200 stones for two sets of ceramics seemed to be impossible. He only had 50 low-level demonic beast cores worth 50 spiritual stones, even though he had been
A shadow suddenly flashed in front of Jaime, a cold sword appeared out of nowhere and stopped at Jaime’s neck.He didn’t dare move a single finger as the sharpness of the sword had slightly sliced his neck skin.“Dear goddess of beauty, I am really sorry, I never intend to peek at anything. Please believe in me. I am the most honest guy of three realms. If you don’t believe me, you can ask any random person passing by, they will tell you how honest I am as a human.”The girl wore white robe and appeared in Jaime vision. Her eyes looked a little curious.“What? You don’t know me? I am very famous,” said Jaime quickly. “I am a slave of Bamboo Peak; I make food and wash your clothes every day. I was there to take fishes for your breakfast. Not having any dirty mind.”The girl’s eyes suddenly appeared resolute and the sword moved to cut Jaime’s neck. Seem like slave really had no reason for life.“Wait! Wait! I am not a slave for real. I am future king of three realms. But now I am here b
At the moment he walked out the gate of bamboo peak, surprisingly a silhouette flashed and stopped him.The cold girl stood there like a stone, she was wearing black veil to close her face, leaking a flower scent from her body and her dark long hairs were fluttering by the wind like a shampoo advertisement.“You dare to run away!” The killing intent was so thick causing Jaime uncontrollably pouring cold sweat. Xiao Yun had regretted letting Jaime escape with his life.“No... No... No... Please believe me, I just want to go to the market and buy things to make pill for you. I don’t have a cauldron and herbs with me right now. Even if I have three legs, I won’t dare to run away from you. I had been searching for you for thousands of years. This man may run because of a demonic beast, but will never run away from you, before making you happy. You can kill me if I lie to you.”Xiao Yun stared coldly. “I follow. Move.”At the market, Jaime felt an icy cold chill at his back whereever he mo
“Alright, tell them, if they succeed in making pills, this shop will be happy to buy it on market price.” The old lady took care of the order. “The total price is 5.700 spiritual stones.”Jaime turned his face to Xiao Yun. “You know I don’t have money. When I finished the pills, I will pay you back with 5% interest.”Jaime thought that Xiao Yun must be very rich so he put orders for making a lot of pills and space storage pouches too. He would take any opportunity while he could.“Don’t have anymore. That was the last of my savings.” Xiao Yun coldly answered, causing Jaime to be frozen.She is broke?Xiao Yun looked at Jaime and sighed deeply. She threw a jade bottle to the old woman.“First Dragon Pill!” The old woman checked pill inside the jade bottle. “It is priced about 3.000 stones market place. I will take it for 2.900 stone. So, added with your 3.000 spiritual stones and minus your buying stuff, you still have 200 stones left.”Jaime smelled a faint scent from the pill and bec
The bird screeched with pain as the formation symbols one by one suddenly shone brightly and flew to ram into the bird’s body.The fire element essence slowly sucked out from the bird’s body and flew into small formation inside Jaime’s dantian. It caused Jaime to feel his body burning.All of his meridians, meat and bones boiled by the fire element essence.Soon he fainted by the over painful process but the process did not stop there. The big formation symbols kept squeezing the fire element essences out of the bird’s body and forcefully pushed it into Jaime’s dantian.The progress has been running for four hours, until the entire fire element essences were gone from the bird. Inside the space near Jaime’s dantian, there was a core of fire which kept burning.Yet, he fainted for the rest of the day. As he awoke, his body felt warm with the sensation of burning in his stomach. He knew that he had succeeded to get his own fire. At night, Jaime made a big fire inside of Xiao Yun’s cave.