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The Stepping Stones Funny Brick Weapon
I could copy one's cultivation technique after looking at it once. Though I couldn't replicate cultivation resources, I was destined to be richer and stronger than the rest of my peers. You could call it cheating, you could call it all a sham but aside from all the moral questions, strength doesn't lie. It is real and crushing and overpowering. You don't believe me? Talk to me after I've broken your nose with a casual backhand slap. If one doesn't work, two will. That's just how is it. Back when I had first acquired this power, I was struggling in my academy. I couldn't differentiate right from wrong and was bullied by my peers every day. Then, everything changed, and I suddenly became aware... I was right, and everyone else... was wrong. It was just that simple. Everything else was just a preparation to make that a reality. To prove my worth. And so I struggled. I fought robbers and thieves and rapists and bandits and magic beasts. Everyone that I could easily kill and loot wi
The Stepping Stones Abyss
What is the abyss? it is the origin of all life and our eternal home after death.Humans would have never known of its existence if not for the distortion that occurred in it.For a reason yet unknown to us, strangely deformed monstrosities, vile creatures began to appear from the home of all souls.Quite literally, all hell broke loose. Our tiny pale blue dot wasn't spared either.It didn't take much time for the corruption to begin, and it was just a slippery slope from there onwards.Just as the casualty count escalated to a billion and all tools of humanity only ended up intensifying the disaster due to crazy radiation and mutation, the dark underbelly of human nature was apparent to all.Hope and self-preservation led to people trampling each other in crowded cities. People that considered themselves lost beyond the point of redemption committed all sorts of vile acts.Vigilantes appeared and disappeared in waves. Some people were even comforted in the arms of despair.But not e
The Stepping Stones Abyss(2)
For the next few days, he took me to a lot of hidden locations, secret bases, experimentation sites, and hidden treasures in the vicinity of the academy.When we found the genetic medicine or the miracle drug that the researchers called X-0242, we had a small argument.This guy was supposed to have seen countless secrets, conspiracies, and blood in his previous life, yet when it came to taking the drug himself now that it was manufactured, he stopped me from consuming it.I didn't mind it as much but his attitude was beginning to tick me off again.I wanted to ask him, 'Brother, if it was like that, then why did you even take me here', but before I could, he made a long dramatic speech, and consumed it himself.I was exhausted by the antics of this guy.After that, I took the drug as well and broke through to Grade-D.Reincarnated freak reached D-grade as well. Next few weeks, we didn't go to the academy and kept visiting places
The Stepping Stones The Bullies and the Victims(1)
"You are an absolute trash,""You're a shame to your family's name,""You don't deserve me, trash,""What are you doing here, trash?"I grew up hearing all sorts of comments like this. It wasn't anything special. It was just the norm but while overusing the word lost its edge to me, it wasn't the same for everyone else.They were blunt to the point of it being scary.How was this even possible? It was an edgy thing until I was over 7 years old.I heard new insults being tossed around every day, like 'I'm your Grandfather', 'Is that all you have?', 'I'll crush you like an ant, brat' but by the time I was 10, even that started to bore me.I could hear it all day with the most malicious intent, yet it wouldn't affect me, at most, it would make me wince a little inside.Now, things were different for the folks around. Every time they screamed, "TRASH", it was a mini victory for them, a cause of celebration, a reason behind t
The Stepping Stones The Honoured and the Fallen(2)
The crowd held their breath for some reason, waiting for the paralysis boy with a 'trash imagination' to pull off a miracle, and that's exactly what he did.The ball shone with a blinding white light and by the time the glimmer faded away, the five 'immortals' were on the verge of fighting each other, all keen to take him into their sect.The cause of this... was a Low-Heaven Spirit Root, one that hasn't been seen in the millions of miles of the region around us in ages.When the argument was about to scale up, the City Lord, my maternal uncle bowed and asked them to leave the choice to his son.Originally, the 5 of them would have slapped him shut, but considering his status as the father of the supreme genius, they shut up and let the boy decide.As the boy with spirited eyes hesitated to make his choice, I looked around at the rest of my bizarre cousins.The bullies were looking at it with a mixture of fear and uncertainty, probably cursi
The Stepping Stones The Domineering and the Pragmatic(3)
How did my cousin reach the third realm of Qi refining and become the strongest of our cohort was beyond me, but now that he did, it was bound to cause me trouble. Our sect was divided into the outer court, inner court, and central court. One wasn't allowed entry into the central court until they had established their foundations and transcended the Qi Refining realm. As for the inner court? These were the lifeline of the sect. They didn't have to complete missions, they had abundant resources and each one of them was nurtured lovingly by the sect. The purpose of this competition, in fact, was to select 10 more inner court disciples. Naturally, the disciples were already pumped up, intent on giving it their all to acquire a position in the top ten and change their fate once and for all. The battle spirit and fighting intent of the disciples was contagious but in my eyes, performing in a competition like a monkey with an abused and single-minded idiot
The Stepping Stones Egomaniac Cousins(4)
As time passed, the idea of my revenge didn't fade away like I thought it would. I was a cultivator as well, and in my humble hut, as I did nothing but cultivate, there was only so much I could think.I did a lot of mental gymnastics and enacted various plans in my head. All possibilities that I could think of though, seemed to be leading me towards a miserable end.One month after the tournament was done, an Outer sect elder came to my doorstep, to ask me of my reasons to admit defeat at the start of the tournament despite having the highest cultivation of our cohort.I shook my head and told him I wasn't prepared to risk my life for a tournament.He then started lecturing me seriously about the perilous cultivation world and the dangers outside. After he was done, he saw my uninterested expression and told me to 'man up' and face my troubles instead of always trying to escape them.After he left my hut, I thought long and hard about his superfici
The Stepping Stones The Regressor and the Reincarnater(5)
The tournament was about to start after 3 days and to 'protect' me from my 'ice-cold' cousin, the leading elder that interrogated me decided to let me stay with the other inner court and chief court disciples.The violent guy was locked somewhere else in isolation for three days by the elder.The second day after coming into the sect's inn, I had a visitor.I was surprised. It was my manipulative cousin. As I thought, she had arrived with fanfare to boost her reputation.I copied my cool ex-vegetable cousin and replied, "You don't qualify to meet me."But this was a tough opponent. Instead of being enraged, she made an even more pitiable and wronged expression and sobbingly said, "Why brother? WHY? What did I do to deserve this?"With just one move, she made the focus of the proceedings shift from the fight of the two ex-bullied guys in the tournament, cousins from a rival sect, to their 'arrogant bootlicking cousin' behind the scenes.<
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