Immortal Journey of the Wu Clan's Twin Dragons

Chapter 3- Pandemonium At The Training Grounds

The training grounds for the Wu Clan were located at the foot of the Battle Pavilion's mountain, quite some distance away from the Ancestral Mountain which was located in the center of the clan.

The Ancestral Mountain was surrounded by four mountain peaks' that had four divisions of study. There was the Alchemy Division on the east mountain, the Demonic Beast Taming Division on the north mountain, the Rune and Formation Division on the south mountain and the Battle Division on the west mountain.

In the center of these mountains and around the Ancestral peak, clan members residing in households, along with shopping districts, sub-branches of the four divisions, and other buildings present.

The four divisions only allowed their disciples to live on the mountain peaks. To become a disciple of one of the four divisions only one requirement has to be met, which is to have a spirit root.

A Spirit root is essential when Cultivating Spiritual Qi, without it a person would be doomed to stay a mortal.

Every three years each division would send a representative down their mountain to test the children of the Wu Clan between the ages of ten and twelve for Spirit roots. Even though they develop around the age of ten, some children might be late bloomers in developing them. But after becoming twelve years old, there was no possibility of developing it.

For the children who have Spirit roots, they would be allowed to spend one month on each of the four peaks to learn the basics of the four divisions and then be allowed to choose which one of them to enter.

For those who show a slight or outstanding affinity for one of the divisions, like in Alchemy or Beast Taming, they would be taken in straight away or even become a highly desired personal disciple for an Elder in that division.

For the 1/10 children without a spirit root, they would have to settle with being an external member of the clan, who dealt with the clan's daily necessities, like food and clothing, which basically means they were caretakers of the clan.

But that's how the Wu Clan operates, they don't hire servants outside of the clan, and no one in the clan is an outsider. Everyone's related either by blood or by marriage, which to some might seem peculiar.

A little distance away from the entrance to the training grounds, Longwei was hunched over with his hands on his knees out of breath.

'I should have taken the teleportation circle.'

He thought to himself, but after catching his breath and walking closer to the training grounds he was a bit stunned at what he saw.

Located at the entrance of the training grounds were three teleportation circles allocated to the divisions, besides the Battle Division that was nearby of course.

The Ancestral Mountain also had a teleportation circle allocated to them, but that was what stunned him, he couldn't see it.

The three divisions' teleportation circles were flashing wildly as a countless number of disciples from the Alchemy Division, Formation Division, and Demonic Beast Taming Division frantically rushed out of them. And even more were coming on foot from the surrounding area as well.

That Ancestral Mountain's teleportation circle was somewhat closer to the training grounds entrance than the other three, so normally when disciples exit from their division's teleportation circle they would walk around it, but currently, that teleportation circle was being run over by those maniac disciples.

The guards that were responsible for the teleportation circles were trying to get the disciples to walk around it, but even they were starting to be run over.

"W-What's all this madness for?”

Longwei wore a dumbfounded expression as he stutteringly asked that.

He had encountered clan members in groups rushing this way, but he wasn't expecting to see a situation like this.

"Everyone hurry, if we don't reach the training grounds before it's crowded we won't be able to get a good seat!"

‘A good seat? A good seat to what?’

Turning around, Longwei saw a group of six running in his direction.

At the front of the group was a young man that looked around his late teens, while behind him were five other young men and women that looked to be the same age as him.

Before they could rush past him Longwei called out.

"Wait! Could one of you kind senior brothers or sisters tell me what’s happening in the training grounds?"

Hearing the question, everyone in the group paused and turn to look at Longwei, weird expressions displayed on their faces.

The young man at the front said in an annoyed tone.

"Kid, what are you asking? Don't you know that today is the day Young Master Longmin is giving a lecture on cultivation?"

He then put on a threatening expression as he released his cultivation base that was at the mid-stage of the Foundation Building Realm and said again.

"If your delay caused us to miss front-row seats don't blame me for finding and teaching you a lesson!"

The young man seemed to be really upset about being stopped to be threatening a random clan member all of a sudden.

After letting out a snort, he led the others towards the crowded entrance.

Longwei had completely ignored the threat, a thoughtful look was on his face.’

'Is he finally interacting with clan members more now? That’s a good sign, he’s usually cooped up on the mountain I was starting to worry about him.'

Longwei, however, narrowed his eyes into slits while his expression slowly turned to one of indignation.

'But to think he would be showing off by holding a lecture instead of welcoming his big brother home. How distasteful.'

The group from earlier was already halfway through the crowd shoving and kicking people.

If that young man from before was to ever find out who he had just threatened, he would probably die from a heart attack.

But before he left the Ancestral Mountain, Longwei had disguised his appearance while also using a Runic Seal to suppress his cultivation back to the 9th level the Qi Gathering stage.

This was not the first time he had done something like this, in fact, this was a habit of his that he had ever since he was younger that he would do to pass time.

Though a result of this was that almost half of the clan hadn’t seen his true appearance.

As for his hidden cultivation base, the Runic Seal allowed him to hide it from anyone below the Nascent Soul Realm, which was impressive considering his low-level cultivation.

Coming out of his thoughts, Longwei looked at the crowded entrance and smile bitterly.

"If I were to try and pass through here, I'm afraid I'd be squeezed to death"

The entrance to the training grounds wasn't small, it was big enough for six horse carriages to enter side by side, but due to the influx of people entering even a drop of water would find it difficult to squeeze through now.

Not willing to be trampled to death, Longwei chose to enter the side entrance that was only accessible to the Patriarch and Elders of the clan.

Leaving the crowded area, he hurried towards the side entrance that was a few meters away from the main entrance.

Unlike the main entrance, the side entrance was a regular size door that had two guards there to prevent intruders from intruding.

One of the guards after noticing Longwei's approach stepped forward.

"Halt! You're not allowed to enter through here, you know the clan rules. If you want to enter the training grounds use the main gate like everyone else!".

Longwei released a smile at that before he tap the pouch attached to his waist. Suddenly, a purple token appeared in his hand. On the token, the character 'Wei' was carved on it.

The guard upon seeing the token was taken aback, quickly cupping his fist he said.

"Forgive me Young Master Longwei, I did not know it was you."

The other guard was also surprised as he saluted in a hurry as well.

"It's okay."

Longwei said as he walked through the now open door.

Someone in the crowd at the main entrance shouted out in surprise.

"Look over there, someone is using the side entrance!"

Everyone in the crowd who heard him whipped their heads around to see Longwei entering the side entrance.

"Who's that?"

"He's so young, is he some personal disciple of an Elder?"

"No! Not even a personal disciple of an Elder is allowed to use the side entrance."

"Then who is he? How can he use the Elders' and Patriarch's entrance?"

Everyone in the crowd started to discuss the identity of the youth that had been allowed to use the side entrance.