Heavenly Rings

Because of was he just learn, Hai Yang couldn't help but remember what have happen all those past years.

Five years before, namely a year before he would pass in front of the elders of the clan. With all the other six year old children, in order to be lead and awoken their spiritual totem and make they first step in the world of cultivation. By advancing to the first layer of body refinement, they will be regarded as true child of the clan and will fully enjoy each of the position give by their parent one.

Because being a child of the clan, Hai Yang have previously enjoy a relatively confortable life, each day were fill with nutritious meal, even if they where core to do, i life and the one of his family member where easiest that exterior people.

Because of the clan tradition, each child will need to exit the clan the year before returning in order to let them understand the life of other one who couldn't beneficiate the protection and large ressource of a clan.

Obviously none of them will be alone during this time and will be accompany with a guard. To pursue fairness, none a single of them will be allowed to be with another thus, each of them need to set and travel as a destination have already being predetermine.

If one of the child were able to broken through the first layer of body refinement before coming back, they would be immediately return and be take with the elder to be train as a elite of the clan. Eventually, with the position came the ressource and even the family of the child will be up-rank among the clan.

Hai Yang was actually a child of the Hai clan in Linglong city. The Hai clan of Linglong city was one of the seven power present in the city. It could only be count as a second power uder the Linglong along the Song clan.

Out of the three clan, branch of the alchemist, blacksmith, inscription association as well as the national school of orchid country, the ruling power. Among orchid country, Linglong city fall only behind the capital of the country, making is clan a powerful one through the country, but lesser than Linglong clan with say to share tie with the ruling power.

Inside the very clan, his family could be say to be above average, his father was in fact the capitan of one of five corps of guard. Is mother old no power but have a high ranking among the women of the clan and his three elder brother have already join the rank of different corps. To be say, if Yang where to show great talent, is father would be able to be ranked as a potentional leader of the a corps while is brother could take a important role in each of they corps.

With a single person, the entire family would have the posibility to have a great power among the military force of the clan. If he fail, he will enter the last of the corps of the clan and pass his life as a guardmen for the clan.

In clear, is position where treatening no one as the real power was held by the main family of the clan while he was of the fifth generation.

On the day of the depart, less than a hundred children exit the bondary of the clan estate for the first time in order to gather experience. Once outside the city, the group further split in the eight direction, leaving around twenty some child in each group.

Amoung them, all the generation were mix but the first batch to quit the group where the child of the main family, letting them stay near the city. After, the lower the rank, the further will the be send. For Yang, he was part of the lower end, thus travel for fifth day and night before he would be allowed to settle.

Alas thing will not always go as smooth than one could espect. On the four day, as he was traveling with eight other child and soldier of the clan, doom befall. Without any warning, the group was attacked by arrows. For the guard, those arrows mean nothing but for ordinary child, those stealth arrows were soul reaper.

In a second, Five of the eight where killed without knowing how and why.

Being a child of a military, Yang immediately identifie the sound of bowstring and crouch on the ground instinctively, letting hear the sound of wind pass above is head before the one of something penetrating in wood.

With a second, he immediately escape, leaving behind guards, and the two other child. As he was running he could hear two screams behind before the silence and then sound of breaking twigs.

Is heart race harder and harder, he was pursued!

At this time he wasn't able to think, only is survival was in his mind. Not after five minutes everything came to the end, the soldier that was with his catch him up and start to calm him. Only after a good fifteen minutes that Yang regain his sense. o one was chasing after him anymore, it was as like he have imagine the entire scene.

Because of the intense outburst and the absurd situation, he find himself completely exhausted, accepting gladly the skin of water that the man pass him.

After the first mouthful did he sense that the water have a fishy taste but even before being able to

say a word, the world spin in his eyes as he lost consciousness.

After waking up, he found himself with a stranger bearing the same familiar features that his clan. Because of the previous experience, he immediately doubt the man. This same man, seeing this only smile before presenting itself. It was precisely the old man.

He say to Yang that he where on his way to return to the clan when he found him and the grad that was dragging him. Because of this, he have kill the guard and escape with his.

If It where to be any other child they possibly thrust him after being rescued by someone who look kind with familiar features, ad to this that the man was already old, what harm would a child who have grow up i a cage know of the exterior world and is dirty side.

Thankfully, Yang wasn't like the other child, his intelligence where clearly higher than other of his age, and once he carefully think about the situation, he found something was wrong.

At this time, the old man wouldn't have through that the more he speak in order to rassure him, the more would it growth suspicious in the child eyes. After all, who would encounter a alchemist of the same clan in a forest after being set up by is own clan guard, poisoning him, and more, that same alchemist was actually unable to detoxify him right away, needing him to take you far away the time he could heal? Why not directly return to the clan and warn the elder? Why this man have precisely appear when they just start the test?

Since that day, Yang have always take an eyes on the man action. Be it, the house, the two beds, the forest with large patch of herbs near, his talk, his comportement and his talk, everything was monitored by this little child, and now, he found this.

The day before, the old man see also quite entousiasic to return in the clan, as if he was longing for it, but in the last year, Yang have never suffer to severlly from the poison, only in some reccurence but they have never go back to allow him to be fully heal, staying here. After five year, the man seem to getting bored to stay but didn't go back, why?

Now Hai Yang start to realise that peraps this hunt was aiming them and all of them where all the same side of the piece and this story was a create one, not something natural.

While he was thinking, the last ray of light illuminate his face, making realize that Old Dong, will soon came back. Putting the book in is previous state, he rapidly took the two remaining of the fruits and put them away, hiding them in his chamber before washing all the tool an put them back in place, leaving the impression that he have throw of the fruits, wash the tool and tidy the desk.

Few minutes after, the old man came back before shooting a glance in his room, a stealth cunning smile flashing before vanishing as fast.

If Yang wasn't waiting for this he would clearly have miss it but now only coldness was in his heart.

'So he have really planned to further poison me with the solution, good. I was already plot agaisnt three time, they won't be a fourth.'