Spirit Emperor

"Stinking brat, stop daydreaming. This old man is hungry." An old voice shouted. Although the old man had white hair, he was tall and sturdy. His face was rosy and his skin delicate. If it weren't for the old voice and the white hair, he would have thought that the old man was a sturdy young man.

"Sorry, please wait for another half an hour. I still have to practice the Non-Phase Sword Art for another half an hour." The one who replied was a youth around 20 years old. He was dressed in white and constantly brandishing an outrageous heavy sword. The heavy sword was about 2.5 meters in height. The young man's face was as fair as jade, and when he brandished his sword, he exuded an imposing aura. However, his face was slightly pale compared to the old man's.

"Bullshit, do you want to starve this old man to death?"

The young man continued to brandish his heavy sword in a disorderly manner. As long as one observed carefully, one would notice that the young man's eyes were glazed over, as he paid no attention to the direction in which his sword was swung. But if one were to observe carefully, their eyes would occasionally flash with a bright light.

"Hmph." The elder only let out a light snort before the sword in the youth's hand fell to the ground with a muffled sound.

The young man picked up his sword and continued to wave it erratically.

"Stinking brat." The old man seemed to have given up trying to force the young man.

It was unknown how many times this had happened, but the two of them were already used to it.

Half an hour later, the young man stopped waving his heavy sword. However, the youth didn't immediately go and help the old man get food. Instead, he walked to a spring in the cave, took off his clothes, and jumped down. Not long later, the young man jumped up with a fish in one hand.

Moments later, the aroma of fish filled the air. The old man's nose twitched, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived beside the young man who was roasting the fish.

"Stinky brat, how many times have I told you this? Although this old man is old, his body is still very healthy. Two fish from you are still not enough for me to eat alone."

"Just eat the two fish, I'm not hungry." The young man was expressionless and had an expression of indifference. Without waiting for the old man to continue speaking, he sat down cross-legged and entered a meditative state.

"Brat, I really don't know if it is because this old man owed you in his previous life." The old man took out a wine gourd and took a sip. Then, he began to eat the fish. "Yeah, it's delicious. The smelly brat's cooking skills are getting better and better." Looking at the remaining fish, the old man swallowed his saliva. In the end, he did not make a move and with another blink, the old man disappeared from the cave. However, he still left behind the wine gourd.

After an unknown period of time, the young man woke up from his meditative state. He looked at the remaining fish and wine gourd and smiled. Then, he took a big gulp of wine and began to eat the fish. After tidying everything up, the youth slowly walked out of the cave. He raised his head and looked at the full moon, his eyes glazed over once more.

The young man's name was Li Xun. Twenty years ago, he had been born on the day of the full moon. However, Li Xun's soul originally didn't belong to this planet. He came from Earth in 2010, and at the age of 26, he could be said to be in high spirits. As soon as he graduated, he declined the invitation from many celebrity companies. With the initial capital provided by his family of 2 million, he ran to an extremely remote mountainous area in the west to build a processing plant for fruits. The fruit had the ability to nourish one's face, so it had gained the favor of consumers in this world. Li Xun seized this opportunity and made canned fruits into various kinds of beverages. In just two years, he had gained quite a reputation in the industry. When Li Xun was on his way back to the processing plant after participating in a new product launch, he encountered a mudslide attack. Poor Li Xun had lost his young life just like that. As he lamented, he discovered that he was not completely dead, but that his soul had traveled through the womb.

When Li Xun once again opened his eyes and saw the light, he saw the face of an extremely exquisite woman with a face full of tears. The woman put a jade token around Li Xun's neck and said sorrowfully, "Xun'er, your father is currently defending outside, but the enemy is so powerful that your parents have no choice but to hand you over to Uncle Dao. Even if your mother dies, you must die together with your father.

"Big Brother, I'll leave Xun Er to you."

"Sister, don't worry. As long as I have a breath of air, I will definitely protect Xun Er."

Not long after Li Xun and Uncle Dao fled, a group of black-clothed people caught up to them. Although Uncle Dao's strength was far above the black-clothed men, he had to be distracted to protect the baby. After all, he was outnumbered.

"Xun Er, if I bring you along again, my foster brother might be doomed. He can only give it his all. "I know there's an abandoned wolf den up ahead, so I'm sorry about hiding there for the whole day. When I get rid of my pursuers, I'll come back and pick you up." Uncle Dao didn't care if Li Xun understood or not. He put Li Xun in the wolf cave and hid him there before leaving immediately.

Li Xun was depressed in his heart. He thought to himself, why is he so unlucky? He was just born and couldn't even drink milk before he had to run for his life. If Uncle Dao died in the hands of those black-clothed men, then wouldn't he starve to death in this wolf cave? However, not long after Li Xun became depressed, a huge female wolf quietly ran over. Li Xun did not dare to make a sound, and only stared at it with wide eyes as he prayed that the story of those wolf kids would happen to him. As long as he was alive, it was better than anything else.

The female wolf seemed to have heard Li Xun's prayers. She sniffed Li Xun, then used her tongue to lick Li Xun's face before actually feeding him some milk. Li Xun wasn't polite and didn't dare to be polite either. He contentedly drank the wolf milk. After feeding her, the female wolf howled in satisfaction and left the other end of the wolf cave with Li Xun in her mouth.

Although Li Xun was uneasy in his heart, he thought that he wouldn't starve to death for the time being. In the next few days, Li Xun was carried by the female wolf. It was unknown how long Li Xun walked for. Finally, the female wolf brought Li Xun to a thatched cottage, and at the same time, the old man appeared in front of him.

Since then, Li Xun grew up under the care of the old man and the female wolf. However, the female wolf died of old age when Li Xun was three years old, causing Li Xun to feel sad for a long time.

After the death of the female wolf, the old man started to impart to Li Xun various survival techniques, the most important of which were the Non-Phase Sword Art and the Heavenly Wrath Heart Sutra. Li Xun had been practicing for seventeen years now, but his Non-Phase Sword Art had only just entered the Phaseless Realm. The Non-Phase Sword Art had a total of five realms: corporeal, formless, heartless, and formless. The old man didn't say anything about the last Realm. According to the old man, once Li Xun reached the fifth Realm, he would know. If he couldn't, then he would never know. Li Xun had once asked this old man what his cultivation level was, but the old man's answer made Li Xun depressed for a long time because the old man had told him that he was not worthy to practice the Non-Phase Sword Art. Li Xun had already mastered the third layer of the Heaven's Fury Heart Sutra. However, Li Xun only had the first nine stages of the Heaven's Fury Heart Sutra, and according to the old man, the last three stages required Li Xun to look for them himself.

Before Li Xun was ten years old, he spent his days in the mountains, and from the age of three to ten, Li Xun suffered the most. For the past seven years, Li Xun almost daily ate strange things that the old man had obtained from who knows where, such as ginseng, lingzhi, snake gall, and most of them he did not recognize. Some of the herbs, grass roots, and even dirt, the old man did not wash them and let Li Xun directly swallow them, and some of them Li Xun knew that they were the internal organs of some demon beast, but because the smell of blood was extremely disgusting, he refused to eat them in the beginning.

However, the seven years Li Xun spent in the mountains could not even be described as ten days or half a month. For example, during the rainy season, he had to carry a hundred jin rock on his back before he could rest when the rain stopped. Once, Li Xun stood up for three days and three nights, and even Li Xun couldn't believe it. However, after that, he lay down on his bed for half a month. For example, Li Xun's legs were tied with a stone that weighed several dozens of pounds. He had failed countless times, and his fingers had fractured countless times. In any case, he had endured through this. As for fighting against various demon beasts, as far as Li Xun was concerned, this was the time that the old man had given him to play the game. He would rather fight to the death with a demon beast than accept the old man's strange training method.

After he was ten years old, the old man brought him to the current Heavenly Mountain Sword Sect. The Heavenly Mountain Sword Sect was considered to be one of the famous sects in the entire continent. It was located in the southern region of the continent, in the Sky Mountain Country, and was not considered a small country in the continent. However, with the support of the Heavenly Mountain Sword Sect, it had not been annexed for the past thousand years. Because of this, it was coveted by many of the surrounding powerful countries. However, every time there was a crisis, the Heavenly Mountain Sword Sect would send a few people to resolve it.

The old man had been appointed Heavenly Mountain Sword Master by the Heavenly Mountain Sword Sect and was in charge of teaching the basic disciples of the sect. Perhaps it was because the old man was too lazy, but in the first one or two years, the sword faction would send some talented youths to study here. However, gradually, the old man's place became a place where noble disciples came to gilt their wealth, because the old man didn't have any requirements for the strength of the people who came down the mountain. And he seemed to have his own privileges, unlike the other swordsmen, who faced the examination once every two years.

In the first five years of coming to the Heavenly Mountain Sword Sect, this old man had found a few strange people out of nowhere to teach Li Xun arithmetic, calligraphy, zither arts, military command, and cooking. Li Xun carried the memories of Earth with him. After receiving the guidance from those strange people, Li Xun gradually discovered that most of the knowledge of this world was very similar to that of Earth's. In terms of military command, he had the influence of the Chinese civilization. Although Sun Zi's military skills could not be considered proficient, he was still an experienced person and was much more experienced than the people in this world. Li Xun also understood that this was the era of cold weapons. In the beginning, he didn't understand, but since the old man told him to learn, he did the best he could. Li Xun was very talented in this aspect, ever since the old man ate the first dish Li Xun cooked, he stopped eating the food sent by the Sword Sect.

However, as Li Xun grew up, he slowly lost his direction. He didn't know why he lived in this world. He kept recalling his previous life on Earth, and he gradually became a bit dazed.