A Failure's hopeful Journey

You Xi Wang heard all the reports and monitored the training of the phantom troops for the whole day and at night when the people gathered for a meal he stood up and clapped his hands hard. 

The people all gazed at him. Not only the humans but also the wolf spirit pets. The boy said, "You all have been very brave in implementing the death parade training protocol. However, I have a few things that I would like you all to know before the actual pain kicks in. 

You may be thinking that the death parade is called the death parade because of the training intensity. You are wrong, this detail is not known to a lot of people, and according to what I know, you all did not listen to the warnings issued by the phantom team. Let me tell you the reason they all tried to dissuade you from implementing this training. 

If the trainee is unable to handle the stress and he decides to give up on the training, he will not be allowed to just walk away from the session but he will be shot to death at that very moment." 

His words sent shivers down the spines of everyone. They did not understand what it was that demanded them to be dead if they quit the training. 

You Xi Wang was aware of their confusion and continued to speak, "Those who quit will have their Dao Hearts collapse. Do you know what happens to those who lose their Dao Hearts? They turn Dark. I think I do not need to tell you the obscurity the dark contains within itself. The dark practitioners will not spare anyone, not even their own families. 

You may be thinking that a person with a broken dao heart is easy to deal with but look at it from this point of view. The person with nothing to lose will go to the extremes beyond extremes to prove himself. He will desire power to stand back among his peer yet once he tastes darkness, he will never be the same. 

So, if anyone of you decided to quit the training in between, I will kill you, including the members of you family, and my elder sister. Do not think that I am joking but I would rather carry the burden of your deaths over myself than to watch you become something that may stain your family names and all that you have been till the moment you fell."

His words were true and the people knew that You Xi Wang was not a person to joke about such things. The boy looked at the serious mood and said, "You all do not have to worry, we are all in this together. If something like this happens to any of you I will carry the burden, and if anything like this happened to me, I implore you all to act and kill me as soon as possible. I do not wish to harm my family. 

Or to ease your pains, I swear on my blood, that if I quit the training, I will turn to a mound of ash."

You Zhichi placed her palm on her forehead as she saw this. She sighed and said, "This kid will never let me be at ease. Why does he always have to make such foolish oaths?" 

She also stood up and with a faint smile on her face, she also made a similar oat. This act of the blood oath taken by the siblings surprised the people. The whole You Family disciples stood up decisively and took the blood oath. The boy just now was the master of their family and the girl was the guardian of their family. 

The disciples were aware that the reason they did this was to uphold the dignity and the values of their families. They shall perish for the sake of their families, this message was very clearly read by all of them. After the disciples of You Family took blood oaths everyone stood up and did the same. 

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After the blood oath was done, You Xi Wang said, "Back in the lost sector, our team was not the only one with spirit beast companions, but we were certainly the one with the same type of beasts. You all, now have your own spirit beasts and coincidentally they are also wolves. From today on you, all are officially phantoms. 

You can wear the wolf head sigil on your chest with pride and I hope that you do not shame the name of the phantoms." 

The crowd replied, "Hoo-ah!!!"

They all chased after the phantom team with all their might just so that one day they could stand in the ranks. The phantom squad was the best that they have ever since. You Xi Wang, today have not just given the honor but he had also made them hungry. Hungry to prove that they were worthy of being called the phantoms. 

He sat down next to You Zhichi and the girls said, "You are already at the bottleneck to the primal soul realm, Gougou. What do you wish to do now?" 

The boy raised his head to look at the sky and the two little girls beside him looked at his face. Celestia suddenly spoke, "Charge at Nirvana rebirth realm?" 

Her words made the seven people stop the spoons in their tracks. Yuki opened her eyes wide and then with a sigh she said, "You better not die, Xi Wang. Or I will commit suicide beside you." 

The people turned their heads from You Xi Wang to her in shock. Even the boy himself was looking at her in surprise. Gena nodded and said, "I will do the same. And just so you know, the other sisters all will do the same. They do not care for the world if you are not there." 

Fenny gazed at Gena and mumbled, "She has been seduced by my baby wang to the point of insanity. To think these two beauties will follow this hedonist youth while they are virgins." 

This remark immediately changed the tense mood to a funny one, where Yuki and Gena blushed and You Xi Wang was left with a twitching face. He said, "I am not a hedonist okay you wooden bimbo." 

Fenny smirked and said, "Oh so, now we are talking back to big momma? Kitty boy, arrange for a room. Baby wang is in heat again. Arrange for this ice cube to chill him down." 

Neo stood up in alert like a soldier and with a salute, he said, "As you command mom." 

You Xi Wang took out his dagger and said, "Neo, if you took one step, I will discount you of your genitals." 

You Zhichi palmed her face at this. Celestia and Lily shook their head like grown-ups and said, "Big sister Fenny, you need to get laid." 

The crowd froze at this, Fenny asked, "Do you know what that means?"

Lily blinked her doe eyes and said, "We read it in a book, Madam ilex told us that when someone is tired and has a lot of emotions to vent they need to get laid."

At this, even Fenny could not help and burst out into loud laughter followed by the rest of the people. The night passed away with a lot of jokes and laughter. 

The sun came up on the sky and the practice began. The people began to engage in tireless events. Some tempered their bodies, while some polished their skills. some cultivated their mind and soul. The process of improvement for everyone was different as they all had different weaknesses.

The intensity of the training was increased regularly. You Xi Wang was sitting on a boulder, naked, with a few spirit gathering arrays formed around him. The place he was cultivating happened to be an isolated cave. He did not wish to be disturbed. Only Maya followed him to guard the place and cultivate alongside him. 

The process of Nirvana rebirth was divided into three parts. First, shed all his skin and blood and use the spirit energy to cast it anew, then for the second step, all his organs like the brain, heart lungs, etc, recast with spirit energy. 

The third step would be to cast all his bones with spirit energy. The moment he finishes this third step he will have to pass the tribulation of the heavens. If there was a flaw in his recasting, he will vanish from the world forever. 

However, he was confident. Also, the steps cannot be completed in one go. His body will need time to get to the next level. He closed his eyes and said to the system, "Dude, you do not control the pain." 

The system replied, "I know, the cultivation system in this world is sadist but okay, you are a lunatic as well. But try to prevail, failure will stop the journey you know?" 

"I do." and then You Xi Wang became silent.