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Published at 23rd of January 2019 01:27:23 PM


Chapter 2

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"Brother Zhixuan, happy birthday!" the younger generation celebrates his coming of age Banquet with a cup of juices themselves, while Zhixuan is holding a cup of wine.

To make sure the banquet went on successfully, his parents opened three Wine Jars of fifteen years of maturity. Such a ritual was practiced by the people not only in their Di Gua Village but many other places as well to celebrate the happy occasion going on a day like this.

The banquet comes with selections of dishes, although they're not very well accepted by the Elders and some Wealthier Family representative. Of course, Zhixuan was not bothered by their attitude because, in term of taste, he's much more selective compared to them.

How can a Pinnacle Legend of the Celestial Refiner be contempt with the Pitiful-Quality food served? The Sand Quail itself was food served to beggars outside of his doorstep before he passed away.

Even then, the Sand Quail that was fed to the beggars are the top notched Golden Sand Quail breed, ten times bigger than the tiny birds he catches for Aunt Lei.

Still, he did not behave as they did. As the role model of the entire Di Gua Village, how can he, the subject of praise, can become as ignorant and distasteful like them? Even if the Sand Quail is a Pitiful-Quality food, it's something he caught himself, and Aunt Lei prepared with all her heart to make sure its a platter of good food.

"Midnight is almost here... I can't wait to watch how his Spiritual Mineral looks." the elders and patriarch or matriarch from the wealthy family paid attention to the youth waiting on the stage built just for his Spiritual Mineral to appear.

Once the Spiritual Mineral descends and forms itself inside of a youth's body, they're differentiated according to four categories. Each contains their own unique characteristics, which will roughly determine the future they hold.

The four categories are differentiated by their name, such as Brilliance Mineral, Transforming Mineral, Beneficial Mineral, and Elemental Minerals. Each possessed a unique characteristic, with many things can be done with it.

Brilliance Mineral represents sturdiness and strength, Transforming Mineral represents malleability and flexibility, Beneficial Mineral represents vigor and healing, with Elemental Mineral is the representative of Nature.

As an example, Lady Hua's Tailoring Needle is a form of Transforming Mineral, which represents malleability and flexibility. Through frequent usage, one can maintain their characteristic even after the Spiritual Mineral turned into Spiritual Ore.

"Bling!" the moonlight shines on the youth seated on the stage, indicating the maturity ritual has begun. Stars started to fade from the sky as if they're pouring their power into the body of this youth.

After a minute of shock, the light from the moon vanishes, leaving them silently. The only light remained comes from the torches surrounding them, with the addition of dim lighting comes from the youth.

Zhang Zhixuan smiled with his eyes closed. He chuckled gently, attracting the attention of everyone presents.

"Look! How can such thing happened!" one of the patriarchs shouts and pointed at the Zhang Zhixuan on the stage. A beautiful and warm red light appeared on his Left side, extending further along with his hand.

But it did not stop here.

Blue light with piercing cold extends from his right side, surprising the spectators for the second time.

"Spiritual Mineral with Dual Element characteristic! One in a thousand years talent!" Elder Feng stands up from his seat with the word of [Impossible!] written on his forehead.

Then, he turned to the two elders beside him but was given a look of disagreement from them.

"Elder Feng, must I advise you to not fight with our headmaster? She did mention to us before we come here, that if the youth possess an Element Mineral, bring him back to her." Elder Li reminds him.

"Such a talent... Headmaster found herself a treasure without even making her appearance here." Elder Feng said and calmed himself from his earlier appearance of a selfish Celestial Refiner.

"Three elders, what do you think about my child?" Zhang Liang went closer to the elders to ask their opinion. Although the Spiritual Mineral wasn't something that inherited from the parents, still, their overall achievement in cultivation may affect the results.

"Brother Zhang, I have to say that the three of us are impressed!" Elder Li cupped his hand and gave the former a bow. His action might shock the others that make their appearance here but to make sure he gets this talent to their Baiyun Academy is most important!

How many of the patriarch and matriarchs here belonged to a different superpower or a two-faced snake? Perhaps, all of them here belonged to other academies scattered throughout the entire Township!

Although Baiyun Academy is one of the Governing the White Cloud Township Division, they're only one of the ten thousands of Township Division representing their County Division Representative.

And the Di Gua Village belonged to one of the members of the White Cloud Township Division. But this doesn't mean they're restricted from sending their younger generation members to enroll in outside Academies.

"Three elders, you're too polite. This surname Zhang should be the one to do this!" Zhang Liang returned the three of them with a bow each. By hearing the word [Brother] coming out from their mouth is already a matter he can be proud.

"Brother Zhang. I hope you don't think us making things difficult to you, but our Headmaster did give the three of us an instruction when we come to pay the Di Gua Village a visit." Elder Luo joins into their conversation.

"Elder Luo, please continue." Zhang Liang extends his hand with palm facing upwards, which indicates as a gesture for the former to keep on with his words.

"Headmaster said, we should immediately bring the student back if he's blessed with the Elemental Mineral Aptitude. I hope brother Zhang will not consider our next action as forcing your family to separate from each another." Elder Luo finishes his words after revising them to sound better.

"Elder Luo, Baiyun Headmaster really say that?" Zhang Liang cannot believe what he just heard. He did not wait for the elder to reply and made a gesture so the will come forward.

"Zhixuan, quickly pay respect to the elders. They're representing the Baiyun Headmaster to bring you back." he pats the youth's back to show him what to do.

"Zhixuan will follow what elders have arranged. Please allow this junior to collect some of his belonging before he bid farewell to his family and friends." Zhang Zhixuan already expects what will happen on his adulthood and prepared everything earlier before they dropped the bomb.

After going into his room and took the hidden pack of belongings and a secret space where he hid all the treasure he found, Zhixuan returned to the Village Square where the Banquet was held.

He purposely forced a few beads of sweat to make himself look impatient to follow them to the Baiyun Academy.

"Hahaha, look at the youth, already impatient to go? No worries, you're going to be treated like a king there." Elder Luo said and pointed the youth to steps inside the Carriage.

"Damn! To think that there's a day I have to ride inside of the Celestial Powered Trash Carriage!" Zhixuan complained in his mind about his bad luck to ride on this trash collecting carriage. But with his strength and status, riding in a Garbage Collection Truck is better than nothing.

"Father, Mother... Please forgive your child for not being able to accompany you like before..." Zhixuan kneeled before his father and gave him three kowtows before he moves to his mother's side to finish his three kowtows.

Lady Hua was going to pull her son up from his knees, but Zhang Liang, his father, disallow her to do so. Such a pampering action will only bring their child ignorance and disaster.

As for Zhixuan, this is something that he must do.

Although his mindset might be ten thousand years older than them, they're still his parent. He remembered a word before he passed away, which was used to describes what a parent gives to their child before he was born.

"My father gave me my bones, and my mother gave me my flesh."

"Father, Mother... Zhixuan will leave now..." he stands and gives his mother a hug, a gesture that he's been doing for fifteen years. And to Zhang Liang, Zhang Zhixuan holds his father's hand and place them on his forehead.

After handling all his attachment with the people inside the Di Gua Village, Zhixuan gave the three elders a bow and steps inside the Celestial Powered Carriage that made everyone feels proud by taking a ride inside.

Marking his journey from this day, Zhang Zhixuan cannot wait until the day he reaches the Pinnacle of Cultivation his former life achieve.

"Zhixuan, Although you're a Celestial Refiner now, consolidating your cultivation is a must, especially you're just promoted. For now, meditates as we made our way to the Marshall Bai City." Elder Li said.

The three of them wishes to teach the youth using their understanding in the path of a Celestial Refiner in their cultivation, but as this youth is fated to become the student of their headmaster, they kept themselves back from stepping outside of their jurisdiction.

Well...

If only the three elders know that the youth before them is somebody with the knowledge of all their ancestors combined...

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[Author's Note]

Hou = Marshall in Chinese. Which means the Marshall Bai City can also be named as Bai Hou City. But that sound not that good.




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