Chains Of Heaven

At the very center of the gorge, two hundred young talents who could shake their entire areas where they lived and were considered as phoenixes and dragons in the young generation were all sitting on the floor. Some were treating their own injuries while others were attempting to recover their energy.

They had followed the profound beasts in hope of hunting them down to be able to participate in the tournament, but they actually fell into the beasts scheme, and they would end up being the prey instead.

Nearly every single one of them had sustained significant injuries. If not for the Beguilement Formation the young man had set up, they might have all died by now.

A pale-faced participant who had his clothes torn in many places and was still recuperating from his injuries exclaimed, "I know that man, he is Enkidu, the first and only disciple of the medical saint Yun Gu! I had the honor of meeting him when he and his teacher visited the Golden Fist city!"

Enkidu ignored their mutterings of comments about him, he was somewhat well known after all but he didn't care much for recognition and it was not like he would become famous or anything of the sort after all.

Enkidu simply waited for them to speak what problems they might have, but seeing that they didn't seem inclined to actually talk of their injuries he simply decided to look at them and see what was wrong with them. As he looked at them he quickly took out a few pills and launched them at different people, all the pills were actually of not that high a rank and of normal herbs to boot but his skills in creating them were absolutely perfect as he followed the Heaven's Path Pill Forging art.

They were definetly extremely high quality and he launched each and every one of them at different people depending on their injury.

When these people received the pills they looked at them a bit disdainfully as they could recognize these pills as being of low rank, but they took them anyway since it was the person who just saved them who gave it to them.

"This, did you really made these?" One of them that came from a family known for their technique of pill forging asked. It was understandable, he was not even sure their old ancestor could produce a pill of this sort of quality if he were to use the same materials that Enkidu clearly used.

"Yes, don't worry about cost, the herbs were quite cheap overall and you can consider this as we creating some karmic ties due to a chance meeting." Enkidu said as he waited for them all to recover themselves.

Not that the one who heard him could even react. Forget the formations or the beast taming, just his pill forging was absurd to beyond any limit. How else could he explain his technique being above even that of the old ancestor in his clan?

He ended up guarding that pill and took others from his own space ring to heal himself, it would be better this way as he doubted he could have the heart to consume a pill like that. Perhaps he could give it to his old ancestor to study and perhaps advance in his pill forging techniques.

Who knows, it might be something great after all.

After they all finished healing he noted that these people would hardly be able to go down the mountain, much less hunt profound beasts.

"Damn it, this way how can I explain it to my clan?"

"My family's name, our honor, how can I even uphold the name of my ancestors if I fall here."

"What the hell, I can't even enter the tournament despite the hard work I put on the last 10 years? Was my life until now a waste?"

By one side, he could just ignore them and take the beast cores he obtained and that should do nicely. After all, this was a competition and he could get a nice position or perhaps even first place if he were to just take these, it was only fair.

But, but seeing the distraught faces of the other participants and knowing that this was because of an ambush made by the profound beast organized by some other beast.

Thinking on that Enkidu thought, 'what would those from my clan do?'.

As he reached an answer he did the exact opposite, even feeling a bit giddy at the opportunity to do the exact opposite of them.

"You all, take the profound beast cores here and the profound beasts as well. You can claim that you tamed them as long as you release the later back in the wild, I already ordered them to never attack a human unless provoked or if there is no other choice so this should be fine. This way you all can get good scores and participate in the competitions of the tournament." Enkidu said before moving away not bothering about waiting for any thanks, he had to search for a specific profound beast after all and it would not be an easy thing to deal with for sure.

"Sufficient points for us to clear the examination?" one of them said in wonder after a moment.

"Enkidu means that, that he wants us to take these profound beasts and inner cores back to clear the examination?"

"But these are the profound beasts he tamed and killed personally! Is he giving them to us? This…"

Staring at the figure disappearing from the gorge, the crowd clenched their fists tightly, and their eyes reddened.

Now, he was doing the same for them as well, never asking for anything in return but simply being glad to help.

To selflessly act with the welfare of humanity in mind without any hesitation…

They suddenly realized something. In legends, there were those who were in the forefront in protecting humanity against the devils and that lead humanity after the fall of the Gods. They were the supreme symbol of hope for a better future for humanity. They mastered every other profession and selflessly helped others and taught them all they knew.

This, this was what Enkidu looked like in these people's eyes just now. A true master teacher!

Enkidu's P.O.V

Phew, I should have thought better before taming these beasts. What would I do to take care of that many? I am not that rich here, and I don't need that much attention on me. I will just try and find out what has happened about this beast attack exactly and try and make sure this doesn't happen again. If possible I can just tame some other smaller beast who would not raise my food costs and that should do plenty enough.

I could have taken the profound beast cores back there, but that would link me to that place and even if I wanted to hide my accomplishments then it would be impossible. I can only hope those guys won't mention my name at all, with some luck I can just pass this exam without bringing that much attention to me.

Careful, must remain careful to not catch too much attention.

3° Person P.O.V.

"I decided, someone like that must be acknowledged! I will make sure to tell everyone about him back in my sect, that he is to be a guest of honor and someone worthy of respect."

"Yeah, yeah, in the future if he ever needs help I will make sure my sect is ready to help!"

"I agree, he deserves to be acknowledged. Someone like that must be recognized for his good deads!"

"That is the least we can do. We must all agree to only take the b.a.r.e minimum points to pass and the rest must all be accounted to him without fail."

"Yeah, he deserves this."

Enkidu's P.O.V.

"Well, at least I will not be too much on the limelight. It is best to be ignored a bit instead of the focus of attention."

3° Person's P.O.V.

After moving through the forest some more Enkidu noticed traces of a flying type profound beast since the ambush place. There was none of those flying type profound beasts in the ambush but there were traces there, thus he assumes that the profound beasts were being either commanded by this specific beast or it is relaying orders.

"Allow me to see what kind of incredible being that dared to tamper in this trial and kill so many talents of this continent!"

For a mere profound beast to disregard all the powers and sects of the continent and tamper with the examinations, intending to do the examinees harm, Enkidu was interested to see what kind of incredible existence the other party would be. What sort of beast would have the guts to do such an absurd thing.

Thus Enkidu began making his way up to where the few traces of the bird led to.

It led him to what seemed like a peak a fair distance away that was over 10,000 meters tall. The area beyond the halfway mark was cloaked with a deep layer of snow, and the terrain was treacherously steep. And, to make matters worse, there was a pesky formation that barred his path, Enkidu didn't know when he entered it but if this formation was on his path now he just had to bypass it.

Without incident, he understood the intricacies of the formation, a rank 3 sealing formation that made Enkidu surprised that the elders of the Formation Association would use such a thing as a simple trap.

'Well, they must really want to test us. This is, after all, a test to out capabilities so it stands to reason it would test us.'

Thus he found a point to breach the formation and bypassed it without much issue. It took him about 5 minutes to do so as he didn't want to destroy this formation completely since

The area at the top of the peak was rather vast, spanning for about two kilometers. A white layer of snow cloaked the b.a.r.e peak, creating a natural mirror that threatened to sear one's eyes through the reflected sun rays if the person was not careful.

This endless white snow in sight was extremely taxing on the Enkidu's eyes as it reflected the light quite a bit. Thus, not wanting to injury his eyes, Enkidu changed plans by closing his eyes and using a small trick he learned from the Heaven's Path Earth arts.

It was similar to the ability of Toff from Avatar in which he used his feel to send vibrations from the ground to locate where there were things on the ground. That was not perfect, of course, but he had some understanding in all elements due to the different Heaven's Path arts even if he was only truly proficient and capable with Earth, Wood, and Metal, but he could make do regardless. He also used his hearing and the ability to sense life to identify where there were life forms.

Enkidu moved slowly and with careful steps. Without understanding the true strength of the profound beast he would be facing Enkidu knew better than to act recklessly now that he thought more about it. He was much stronger than anyone at his cultivation level should have any right to be unless they had a cheat like a Creation God's inheritance, but even then he knew he wasn't already on the level that would allow him to challenge enemies of the higher levels in this world, much less those in the Realm of the Gods. Heck, his limit was facing those in the Sky Realm or those with weaker power in the lower end of the Tyrant Realm. Thus, before he advanced any further, he opened a hole on the ground and entered it before closing it and going to forming something that would be useful on equaling the battleground.

Poison.

In his studies about medicine and pill forging he obviously came in contact with many ways poison could be used to heal or how medicines could be turned into poison. It wasn't something he was overly proud off but he also wasn't overly concerned about using poison in a fight. He knew that poison was a way to close the gap between the strong and the weak and it was not inherently bad.

After all, how could one call it an art for evil and lacking righteousness when the same people who claim themselves as righteous could comit mass murders and call it honor? Besides, Enkidu was actually quite good at poison anyway since poison was a part of the Laws of Wood which he excels at.

As he finished producing the poison he nodded to himself, it would most likely help him in dealing with whatever problem might happen in the future.

With the preparations set he came out of the hole and moved forward, careful with each step as he stealthily approached the target in question until the point he could see it clearly.

It was that, his target.