Chains Of Heaven

I look at the kid before me in annoyance.

"Look, if you continue like that you will definitely die soon, I am offering you an out and a chance to survive without depending on sheer stupidity so why are you against it?" I asked.

"Because if I have veins like you told me I should be able to improve it a bit in short order, with all these sects around it would not be that hard for me to be admitted by one of the sects as a disciple if my profound veins are good enough so it would be best for me to just go to them. They have centuries of history and many resources available, you are a goodie two shoes and a healer, no backing and no resources acc.u.mulated, why would following you be better than go to a proper sect?" Levy answered back and I could see his point.

"... Honestly, it could work." I admitted. "Very well, you can do as you please but until I am sure your veins are decent enough to be admitted in a sect and you are not going through a terminal phase of idiocy by doing something stupid you will follow me. You don't need to do this for long, I am confident we can do something for your veins before the competition is over so it would give you the chance you want AND you will not die because I told you about yourself."

He looks at me suspiciously before speaking.

"Do anything, and I mean anything, that I don't like and I might kill you for it."

I shrugged at his glare, it is like looking at a mean angry Chihuahua, could annoy me but is more endearing than anything else right now.

In the future, this attitude could be troublesome, but that is future me's problems.

"Do as you like. Now, I will be busy most of the day with the tournament but I don't trust you alone in this city, you are likely to do something stupid after all, and so you will accompany me. If you do not act out and do something stupid during the tournament I will help you with your training and developing your profound veins. Now, Medusa will be finishing with her clothes by now so you are not to say anything rude to her or I will leave you here and not care about helping you anymore." I told Levy as I saw the figure of Medusa coming out, but instead of the peaceful aura she had on before now, she was downcast and sad as if something bad had just happened.

I quickly approached her but notice some men coming out of the shop at this moment and her flinching a bit as they threw derogatory comments about her.

"You!" I said and was about to go there and teach them a lesson when Medusa held me back.

"Please, just leave it be. I was warned that in the outside I would hear these type of things anyway." She told me and I calmed down, somewhat.

"Heh, I guess there is a beast lover out there after all." One of the people there snickered and that made one of my eyebrows twitch.

"I guess it is to be expected, she might be just a filthy beast but she does have a nice body. He must be some desperate fool who has no decency and is too weak to take some proper human girl like you did brother Xing." A second one said and the third looked haughty and full on himself.

"Of course he can't match. I was ranked fifth in the entrance of the tournament competition and I am also a 1 star Master Teacher, I am a man of culture and refined tastes." This 'brother Xing' said.

"Oh, that is why you took the mother and daughter at once by force? Really, for brother Xing to be able to do that at any time is really impressive."

"As I said, I have refined tastes. Taking family members together and seeing how they react is highly amusing and it is not like they get nothing out of it. I do pay them some money afterward, I don't even know how many people my autruistic actions helped by this point. It is mutually beneficial, I cultivate my Yin Yang art by taking the women to bed and they get some monetary rewards, more than generous enough if you ask me." 'Brother Xing' said.

"Oh, brother Xing truly is a dragon amongst men and a true saint, how gracious your heart is for you to be willing to help mere mortals without cultivation like that. It is only fair they provide some service in compensation for your time."

"Yes, I even once showed the kindness of my heart by making a 1-star profound pill to treat the mother in exchange for the daughter to accompany me for a little while. It was quite delectable, hehehe."

I only heard this calmly, no reaction and I did not do anything towards the man who clearly is sc.u.m abusing his capacity.

"... Ehm, Enkidu, your grip is getting tight. Your veins are also bulging and is it just me or is a dangerous aura around you getting more and more violent?" Medusa asked but I obviously ignored this, I am a civilized person and clearly am not angry.

I just may go and show this man just how not extraordinary he is, just a tiny little bit. Take him down a few pegs, nothing much that is for certain.

Yep, definetly, definetly not over the top humiliation.

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3° Person's P.O.V.

"Oh my god, is this for real?"

"I can't believe someone so young could produce such a weapon."

"Forget about age, that is impressive regardless of that. That is a weapon that even an Emperor or a Tyrant Profound Realm practitioner would kill and die to obtain."

"And he had no fire attribute profound technique to help him in the process, for him to still be able to such is truly impressive."

"Truly, this young man is talented to the extreme."

"And to think that the previous favorite, the Master Teacher Senku Xing, created the same type of weapon but was of such poor quality."

"Well, young master Xing is still a talent, but compared to Enkidu he just can't match at all."

In the stage, Enkidu was holding a battle Axe with a heavy but stable Earth and Metal element energy circulating over it. He used unique inscriptions during the process that he knew, there were very few he knew since inscriptions in forging are something that only the Dwarves were ever good at and they had gone extinct tens of thousands of years ago and the last group who had their inheritance kept it under heavy lock, but he still used it in the forging to raise the level of the weapon.

In appearance, his weapon and the one that Senku Xing created were very similar but their difference in energy was so clear that it made the weapon of Senku Xing look like a hack and failed product. If not for Enkidu's weapon it would be the top of this competition but now it looked like a cheap copy.

Unsurprisingly, by creating an Emperor Peak Weapon he won the blacksmith competition.

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In the Beast Tamer competition Enkidu stood in the middle of all beasts that were to be tamed by the participants, Senku Xing could only stare in shock as he saw that even the beast that he was trying to tame turned tails from him and went to Enkidu after he passed by and kicked it in the b.u.t.t. Enkidu had actually injected some of his profound energy into the beast via the kick, making that beast think of him as a chance for evolution. The problem was that Enkidu wanted to make the 'genius' feel like garbage in comparison so he did not hesitate to do as such.

As everyone stared in wonder and shock some complain were spread about how unfair it is that Enkidu did such an over the top thing, that he ruined the competition and that he must have cheated.

To fix that they offered an alternative, they were to use their personally tamed profound beasts to battle one another. It would be like a mini tournament where everyone would put their beast to do battle in an arena in a free for all and the owner of the strongest beast would be the winner.

It was a crude and bad method, but the one deciding was Elder Sheng and he did not want to see Enkidu win after what he did to his now PTSD lion.

Everyone was happy as they all believed that they would certainly win, however as the competition had just started a blur of purple began going from one side to the other as Medusa showcased her power. Whatever beast she punched was sent flying and whoever she kicked recoiled and was sent flying.

"What? How?!" Many began asking amongst the participants, they had seen Medusa the day before when Enkidu had shown up flying in a blue dragon that right now was flying above the arena releasing wind and water attacks at whoever was foolish enough to get closer.

It was only after a moment of shock that they remembered one thing.

Elder Sheng felt his eyebrow twitch as he remembered something. It was hard to tell the profound realm of a Beastkin as they had a natural ability to hide their cultivation realm, but Medusa, he knew her cultivation realm.

While every other beast there was at most an Earth Profound Realm Beast Medusa was an exception.

She was a peak Sky Profound Realm beastkin!