章節 22: First encounter

On another region, huge immortal mountains could be seen, and on one of them, a middle-aged man could be seen. He was sitting below a huge tree, his appearance was not that impressive, it resembled a normal person.

The man's eyes were closed and suddenly he opened them and a token flew from the void, stretching his arms, it fell in his hands. In the same instant, a projection could be seen and it resembled the current Musk with a little boy's appearance.

When the projection collapsed, a message was passed onto the man, and he looked into the direction the token came from before bowing down.

"Master! You want us to take this person into our faction, it seems more like a baby and realm still so low. Well, it does not matter since you said I should act based on circumstances! What does that mean?"

After being shocked by the information his master passed him, the man decided to spread the information among their recruiters. This was one of the strongest factions in the nearby territory and they were also involved in the trials at the base level. In this way, they could also pick some overlooked talents at the start of such competition. As long as the involved parties did not perform well during the competition, they could be left behind for the local forces to choose from.

This was a Realm; unlike the place he had been before the ice storm caused by those individuals fighting knocked through space dimensions. This realm seems to be called, Nirvana Martial Realm.

The realm is controlled by a being referred to as a realm Lord and they stand at the top of the martial arts Realm in t, if one wants to take this position, they have to challenge the current Realm Lord or wait for the realm lord to ascend after a certain time period since their cultivation would start to develop at snail's pace even with the whole Realm under them.

It is just that sometimes, people with talent might be too perverted and kill the realm Lord due as their combat power almost rivals or in some rare instances surpass the Realm lord.

Many of the competitors had agendas, and some of them seemed to be directed towards the position, but eve if one were to attain that position, many of those participants will not even manage go all the way to the way to the realms before the peak of this realm.

The strongest sect at the moment had the blessing of the entire realm, since the most powerful individual at the moment was from their side. That was not the case for the last era, and the reason why those that occupy the position do not force it for the next realm lord to come from their territory or faction was the benefits that came with producing numerous geniuses before their deadline arrive.

In this realm, those factions that have generated Realm Lords are referred to as Lord factions, all this information was something known to those with some factions while Musk seemed not aware of this.

All the information he had was generated from the inheritance steles, and at the moment the number of techniques he had learned seemed to be increasing with the same amount of time. In this moment he had been in this place for almost a millennium, but his size had not changed at all, and his eyes were silvery bright. This did not seem to reflect his age at all, or perhaps the increase in lifespan to such a degree made it hard for him to revert back to his usual appearance. His hair seemed to have stayed the same for some reason.

By the time the first person to step on the island arrived, he had his will tempered to the point of taking the next stage of the techniques, but he did not dare take that step. For some reason his intuition told him doing that would mean losing something important.

This however did not stop the illusionary manifestation of the martial arts he had studied from gathering behind him and overtime it has managed to become somehow more solid.

On a big screen, focused on the first group to enter the island, one could see a woman with red hair, being the one to set foot on the island first.

She seemed to be the one that benefited the most, and those behind her also seemed to jump off the raft they were on in a rush to enter the island. They never expected her to jump into the water when just about to arrive at the edge being the first.

Even the people on the outside watching from projections were speechless, but the projection moved from her to the ones behind her.

Only a few of them stood on the island and appreciated the work they had to do reaching this place, but the one that benefited the most was not even among this people.

The moment others reached the island they sprinted off into the distance, wanting to reach the highest stone steles, that could be seen from the distance. They had lifelike carvings on them, obviously the opportunities that came with them were better.

In less than a decade the number of people that entered the island seemed to have reached hundreds of thousands. But one thing was common with all of them, they rushed off into the distance, until one day when Musk came out and discovered some of them. Off course they also discovered him, but due to the fact that he covered up his aura from learning some techniques with such function, they could only feel contradictory vibes from him.

Even though he had covered it well, they managed to sense that his body was in a weird sense, albeit not knowing what it actually was.

When he looked at them, they cast him a glance before rushing of into the distance, leaving him alone and fifty years came by before he met another person when he was about to enter the next stone stele space.

The man seemed to have some crafty eyes, and when he landed his eyes on Musk, who seemed to have arrived before him asked, "Brother! Why are you not going to the front?"

Musk seemed to know what the man was asking and said, "I don't feel like it." But he found this person very interesting, and unlike everyone that saw he was not rushing to the front, just seemed somehow mocking him. Some might not show it on the surface, but he was older than most of this people so, how could he not see through their little thoughts.

The man before him was another one, that thought that Musk knew some information and was hiding it from him. In that case he was in a hurry to leave until he saw him enter the stone stele space.

One could see some hesitation on his face, before he chose the one next to him also entered. This action was seen by some people on the outside. But most were focused on the huge stone Steles could be seen towering into the heavens.