Chapter 6: Running Away

The day to leave the body sect has finally come, the time and opportunity for it is perfect. I'm not so young anymore, I have some cultivation base, and the stronger people of the sect are gone for some kind of mission.

I have been thoroughly preparing for this during the past 3 years of my cultivation, once in a while I would steal some coin from the house. Step by step I have been redrawing a map we have at home.

The thing that took me the longest is getting a bag for my things and a pouch for money. Well getting some clothes suitable for sneaking out at night was a bit of trouble too .

So let's just check if I have everything prepared by reviewing everything. So there is water, there are two sets of clothes, a pouch filled with coins, a bag, a map, and a knife. I guess that's all, I can't really bring much with me it will be more of a trouble then help.

Thankfully even as a 9 year old I'm quite strong, especially as a Soul Grandmaster with quite a bit of soul rings. If I remember correctly every soul ring improves the physical abilities of the body, and the improvement depends on the year of the ring. Anyway there is still one thing I have to do. And that's writing a letter.

"What should I write here" I take a pen and paper as I begin thinking.

'I guess I will go with something like. Dear mother and father, when you are reading this I'm probably already gone, I have decided to run away from home after long thinking. Being in the body sect is quite hard and tiring after all, and besides look at the bright side of things. You know what they say about flowers in the greenhouse, you could take what I'm doing here this way.'

What else should I add hmmm, how about something like:

P.S. I know I'm quite cute but you don't have to worry about me, I can protect myself from assaulters. :)

We have to end things of at a positive note after all, this should be good enough. It may have been thought up on the spot, but I never was good in that kind of things in the first place. I know it's not much of an excuse, but what can I do.

I fold the paper once, place it on the desk and put my pen on it.

"I guess it's time"

I change into my darker clothes for my escape, and put the candle in my room out. With one last look at my room I open the window and leave.

'I guess when it comes to things I'm still quite unwilling, huh' I take a moment to think 'But still I already made this decision.'

1 and half an hour passed since I escaped, escaping from the body sect was quite tasking, but most of the things were prepared to keep out unwanted people, not for keeping them in.

I have also been preparing for this for 3 years so I quite know how this place is guarded, and they weren't exactly keeping this a secret from me as well.

Unfortunately breaking out from the sect is the easiest part, they will most likely send a search party for me tomorrow morning and I need to survive as well. So in short I'm in the middle of the night, in the wilderness, tired and cannot stop cause I need to make as big of a distance between me and the sect.

"Calm down you should plan this all out" I take out my map from the bag, using Caliburn as a flash light to see what's on it.

"I'm severely lacking in spirit rings for my water pen, so my direction should be somewhere near the sea" I ponder for a while.

"There is a forest in the direction I should go at, and it's quite decent sized as well, but it should take me a few hours to reach there" Thinking for a little while longer I finally decided.

"I cannot hesitate now, I will go there as fast as I can, set up some camp, and get a rest"

"I should be able to fast for a few days at most too"

After deciding my destination I put the map back into the bag and start moving.

Currently I am in something that could be described as plains, it's actually quite cold during the day not so much, but now at night when I breath out I can even see some steam. I'm really not used to these kinds of things.

It's quite hard doing something so unfamiliar, but I am determined to see this through, it's just easier to bear if I complain about my situation.

While thinking all sorts of things time slowly passed and before noticing 4 hours passed in the blink of an eye.

"Finally I see the beginning of the forest" I was quite elated to see this, so I started running towards it, only when I passed the first few trees did I stop. I was already panting while I was walking back there now I'm panting even more heavily.

I sit under one of the trees.

"I remember that you shouldn't ration water so I guess it's time to drink" I took out my water pouch and drank a few big gulps of water before putting it back.

"It's still dark but the sun should be going up in about an hour or 2"

"I guess I should make some makeshift shelter" Back in my previous world I had some "survival" lessons so I should be able to make one with moss and sticks.

"I should have taken some sort of string or rope with me huh" Nothing always goes according to plan I guess I will just have to make do and learn from my mistakes.

"Please my luck enhancing effect go into work" I pray for myself.

And thankfully my bloodline did work, I found two trees quite close to one another where I could place a stick in between two branches, and it's not that high too. I put a good enough stick I found there.

Afterwards I started gathering more sticks and leaned them on the one I placed before so I will have a makeshift roof. I filled the gaps between the sticks with moss and my shelter was just about finished. (Honestly I have no Idea if I've written this correctly I couldn't find the right word for it so I used a bunch of translators and the closest one I had was lean I probably just comment the picture of what I meant)

"Next up should be a fire, I guess my only option is to use the drill method" The building took me 30 minutes I hope this will take up another 30 minutes max. I quickly gathered some rocks to stop the fire from spreading and some sticks for the fire etc., I took me around 10 minutes to prepare everything.

Starting the fire however wasn't so nice, but after 20 minutes I finally managed to light the campfire I made.

"YES! Finally! I did it!" It may have taken me twenty minutes but it's my first time remember that. It was an incredible feeling lighting it, this sense of accomplishment was bigger than when I got my first soul ring.

*Growl* a sound resounded, and the location of the sound was my stomach. I grit my teeth and sit under my makeshift tent, it's not yet time I have to hold on. I took a few gulps of water to calm my stomach down, and hydrate myself a bit.

'I may be hungry but I have plenty of will to keep me going' I made a sigh, there isn't much I can do after all.

I use my bag as a pillow and lie on my side, while I was looking at the fire, I got overcome by sleepiness.

'Problems for tomorrow should be left for tomorrow" I think before falling asleep.

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[I was supposed to write half of the chapter today and the rest tomorrow since it's a busy day today for me, but then I looked at the time it was 10 pm, I finished the first half like 5 hours ago already, and decided fuck it who needs to sleep anyway, well apparently I do since I'm quite tired. Well it's not much of a bad thing you know gotta make writing into a habit so I won't forget this or get lazy, you know how it is you do something every day and then it feels like you cannot end the day without doing it, that's the kind of thing I want to feel. Today we got some survival, pretty drastic change from cultivating every day. Well you know what won't kill you will make you stronger. I'm sure after mc gets through it he will be hardened, and once he fights with some spirit beasts he will definitely be polished quite a bit. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and remember to give me some feedback if you can. Well that's all from me I'm out.]