Han Yan asked with a grave expression on his face.
"Uncle, why are you giving me this. Is there no food to eat for us?"
"Are you telling me to eat this pill? What is this pill?"
Old nodded and told to Han Yan. "Yes, you should eat this from now onwards. It is a fasting pill. Which makes your hunger goes away or you can say that it sustains your hunger. The path of cultivation is much longer than you think. The sacrifices that you need to make are enormous. So, think this as a practice for what you need to do in the future."
"But Uncl…" Just before Han Yan completed his word. Old Lin cut him off.
"Little yan, Don't pester me about it. Do as I say. It is all for your benefit only."
Han stood up and bowed to his uncle.
"Okay. Uncle, I will get into the room now"
"Good. Now go continue with your cultivation"
Han yan went to his room dispirited.
"Isn't the path of cultivation is about power."
"The strong power ruling over the weak."
"Doing as we wish by defying the Heavens and Earth."
"If what I think is correct. Then why we need to make sacrifices." Han Yan thought to himself. Han yan was puzzled over this matter. But soon Han Yan let it out of his mind.
Han Yan sat in the meditation position and took the pill bottle given by his uncle.
The pill is in green colour. Which gives a mild smell of flowers.
"So, this is the fasting pill that all cultivators had used in their lives."
"Gurrrrr..." Han Yan rubbed his stomach.
Thinking about the path of cultivation. Han Yan is filled with determination. He took the fasting pill and soon his mind, which was filled with hunger and food, immediately disappeared.
After that Han Yan took his foundation energy fasting pill and vigour pill and swallowed them both one after another.
Han Yan started cultivating soon after that. The surroundings SE slowly started converting into sparse golden SE and that is slowly moving around Han Yan.
Han yan cultivated until midnight and slept over after exhausting himself.
*****
In the room, Old Lin seemed to remember something as he rubbed one his eyebrow with his left hand.
"Hmm. It seems I forgot to tell him that he needs to fill his stomach with food once in a while. If he can't sustain the hunger with fasting pills."
"Anyway, It's not a problem for now. I will tell him when I meet him again"
Not knowing this, Han Yan is sleeping in his bed while drooling.
Han Yan is dreaming now.
In his dream land. All the fruits, dishes, and items are running away from Han Yan.
A naked chicken with no feathers is running away from Han Yan. It is a fully boiled chicken with added spices and flavour seeping from it. The smell of this dish is marvellous. Han Yan is now running with all his might towards the chicken in frenzy. His black pupils have become boiled chickens.
Suddenly a fish slapped his face. The fish looked like a fried mackerel with white paste and sauce over it.
Han Yan's eyes are now burning with hunger. Hunger Fire filled his eyes. Without wasting any time, he caught that fried fish with one hand and ate it. Han Yan continued on his food conquest in the dreamland of food.
*****
In the morning.
Han Yan fell off his bed and woke up. He immediately looked at his hand where there should be a chicken leg that he caught chasing all night long.
Han Yan smiled to himself by this scene now.
"Huh… Never thought that I would dream about food"
Han Yan stood up from that position and took one fasting pill to stop the sounds coming from his stomach. Han Yan sat in the meditation form and started cultivating again.
On the selection day.
Han yan is still cultivating in the room. Without worrying about anything.
Outside, in the Inner Sect. Zhao Shu is cultivating. He suddenly woke up and thought to himself.
"Hmm. Today is the selection day. Brother Han might be worrying about it. I should ease him as a senior brother"
Zhao Shu tided himself and came outside of the cultivation house.
For all the inner sect disciples. They will be given a cultivation house to cultivate all the time. Even though it is not as good as a house. It has a tiny lawn and a three rooms house. A hall, dining room and a bedroom.
Zhao Shu soon saw a beautiful mansion Infront of him as he walked. Zhao Shu entered the mansion and came to his master's door.
Knock... Knock…
"Disciple Zhao greets master"
"Master, I came to fetch brother Han to participate in the selections"
"Little Zhao, Take Little yan and go to the selections grounds."
"He might be nervous. Since it is his first time." said Old Lin to Zhao Shu.
"Master, what do you think about Brother Han's position in the selections"
Old Lin seemed to pause a moment, and in the next movement he said.
"Hmm. It will be Top 10. If we consider Han Yan talent in the sword arts."
Zhao Shu astonished by his master's evaluation of Han Yan.
Zhao Shu did not think Han yan would get in top 10 places in the selections and for what his master said, he thought he might overestimate him because Han Yan is his nephew.
Without giving much thought to it. Zhao Shu gave a bow to his master and walked away.
Zhao Shu arrived at Han Yan's room. Which he showed to Han Yan on the first day.
Knock… Knock…
"Brother Han. I came to pick you up for going to the selections"
A minute after that there is no sound coming from Han Yan's room. Zhao Shu thought Han Yan might be worried sick about selections and don't want to come out.
"Brother Han. I am coming in."
Zhao Shu walked inside the room and searched for Han Yan. But Han Yan was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly he heard a snoring sound coming under the bed.
What Zhao Shu saw today. He will never forget it for a long time.
In front of Zhao Shu, Han Yan is snoring under the bed while drooling some colourless liquid from his mouth.
Seeing this Zhao Shu Dumbstruck for a second.
"What the hell is going on here?"
"I came here searching for him to relieve him before going for the selections. But he is sleeping now without even caring for the selections."
"Ha haha… I am really a fool to think he will get nervous and came to give some advice. This kind of person will never get nervous for any kind of problems." Zhao Shu thought to himself.
"I should wake him up now or else it will be too late for the selections"