Xianxia: Against The Trend

Mu Bai achieves meteor realm.

While others were busy with their cultivation someone was currently in the depths of a cliff.

The surface of tge silvery water seemed to be so calm, that it brought chils down his spine.

Looking at the surface he couldn't be sure whether he was imagining things or it was something he had memories of.

The more he observed it he was somehow certain but he could not be sure at the moment. 

The place was somehow crepy and thus he lifted himself back to the surface. But at thr same time, the liquid before him had some slight flactuations. 

It was as though it was a life on it's own, thankfully he did not really witness it. 

He had plans to come back later due to having need to pro the actual substance was something he knew. 

But he was not in any hurry at all, at the same time, he was not feeling very secure in such a place.

The most correct way to put it is that he was scared, and seeing his expectations for some cave with cultivation treasures was an illusion he decided to ascend.

With the ropes it was very easy to climb back to his cliff.

After coming back he received messages from his token indicating that Su Tian wanted to meet.

At the same time he just overlooked the fact that he couldn't recieve messages from down in the cliff. 

His focus was on the message recieved about going to get involved in some competition. 

He was suspecting that the elders were pushing the event earlier than it should be. 

For the reason, even a fool could guess, each of them had taken some disciples under them to train. 

The only way to test how far they had reached is to fix a competition against the other students. 

The most being the older disciples in the sect branch. At this Haung had no way to refute, and could only play by the ear. 

Ever since he entered the sect branch he has not heard about the seniors but can be sure some of them are not to be trivilled with. 

He then moved to the residence, took some medical herbs and threw them into the huge pot after starting boiling water. 

With the passage of time the color of the liquid boiling started to change, and he added numerous medical herbs. 

After adding the final ones he jumped into the pot. 

Sitting cross-legged in the pot, he could feel pain everywhere, until he started to utilize the cosmic body technique he had comprehended. 

The medical liquid was being absorbed faster but the effects were clearly becoming less apparent. 

In the end he only managed to gain less than hundred killograms worth of strength from todays practice. 

His aim is 35 thousand killograms so as to count being in entry level of his technique. 

"This medical herbs are no longer useful to me, I should probably check in the library how to continue. If anything better exists I can try it out." as he thought of the library he sighed. 

In the beginning he could enter the library as he pleased but aftet this year in the city branch sect, everything would require a corresponding exchange. 

It was also at the time he realized why not many people were in the library as it might be better to use their resources on other things than reading.

As everyone was busy with their activities, in the evening something strange happened pulling everyone's attention over. 

Strange flactuations were erupting with the sound of swords being drawn, like when the other three geniuses left the spiritual pool before.

At this moment it was not water, or ice elements but rather sword chimes, but luckily it was not too much to effect the entire city. 

Based on the location of the sect branch the city could not even realize what had happened. 

The older generation disciples that were also about to go to leave or join the main sect were attracted over. 

They seemed to be viewing a new opponent.

 The truth is senior disciples never bother with the new disciples because their threat is very minimal and even for this moment it was only one the other three geniuses were taken away. 

But very smart people could tell who it was and the elders were so excited with eve elder Li rushed over. 

With him standing in the air no one could dare approach to cause trouble but some were envious.

Several discussions broke out from second and third year students. 

To them the situation of the city branch secy was more clear than the first years. 

"it seems this time a first year will have a chance to enter the list of those being sent to the outer sect."

"Its not easy, you probably don't know but in the past five years the number of fifth years that have managed to reach meteor realm are not weak." 

"Exactly, don't look down on the seniors. I heard someone from the past seven years is still in the academy. He is usually busy ao he has yet to participate in the selections." 

Listening to their discussions a hotheaded first year could sit still and blurted out, but "impossible!. One can't stay in the city branch sect that long especially if talented. Besides the age of the person will already have gone beyond the requirements to enter main sect." 

From the talk one could already guess the first year had some background to understand some things. 

A lady with red hair looked at the first year as though he was amusing and said," Little brother you are wrong. Senior brother Wen is about fourteen years. He is also ranked the strongest in the academy and last year he was second only to elder Li in the academy."

"How is that possible? Why has he not joined the outer sect or even inner sect then?" the first year asked more confused. 

As if he thought of something he immediately become even more frightened. 

"Ooh it seems junior brother is indeed very informed about a lot of things." seeing his reaction the senior sister was impressed. 

He could also see that the kid had some background. 

The both stopped talking but those with sharp eyes could see the boy had realized something they had not.

At the same time lost the desire to argue, if what he thought was true then the senior brother was very frightening to think about. 

The number of people that take such a choice are not many.

Every two decades which is about a year, there sre ussually some selections that occur around the country. 

The number of those selected do not join sects but rather the six organizations. 

They operate above sects and even mansions, that seem to have their power everywhere. 

In other words, the organizations are like a single entity divided into six departments. 

The truth is the six each focus on different areas but their disciples are not forced to follow a certain path. 

The information about it was once found by Huang in the library but it was very incomplete and disorganized to gain much. 

It seemed some disciples had backgrounds that allowed them to understand it. 

It took sometime before the chimes stopped and a stable saber phantom close to three meters appeared behind Mu Bai. 

It was still somehow looking virtual and when it fused with him, his aura started to rise. 

He stepped into the meteor realm using the way of tbe saber. The approach he had taken was also weird but nothing could be seen as unusual as entering meteor requires one to take their own direction. 

From then on development is based on hiw further one takes their way, but the general cultivation still is the same system. 

The way one comes up with determines their combat power in their realm. 

The further one takes it the stronger they can become.