Ice Phoenix Sect ch.3

After forming a successful spiritual pact with Lucky, Alex decided that it was time to choose what sect he should join. After listening to his parents' advice, Alex decided to join the Ice Phoenix sect. It was one of the seven big elemental sects. The other being the Fire Phoenix Sect, the Water Dragon Sect, the Eternal forest Sect, the Earth Emperor sect, the Storm Sect and the Sect of Shining Light.

Between those sects there was always some rivalry, especially with the Shinning Light sect. The Shining Light sect was known for their absolute arrogance, in the eyes of the Shining Light sect all other elements were inferior. Only Light was the one true element that was what they believed and taught their disciples. Sadly the Shining Light sect was also currently the strongest sect out of them all, which bolstered their arrogance even more.

But that didn't concern Alex for now, he chose the Ice Phoenix Sect. Obviously he was still too weak to join the sect now. In a half a year from now would be the time where all sects accept new disciples. The Ice Phoenix sect would let the new disciples join one of their branch sects. Once the disciples reached the rank of an advanced martial artist or mage they were allowed to receive training from the Ice Phoenix sect directly.

That meant Alex had half a year before he could join a sect. He decided to spend all his time training and to train Lucky till then. It would be a huge benefit if Lucky could reach the rank of a novice beast by then. Cats were born with neutral veins, neutral veins allowed the person to choose what element they wanted to learn, but they could also only use one element.

Alex taught Lucky ice martial arts once he could control his powers better. He led his ice force power carefully into Lucky's spirit vein. The spirit vein was slowly formed into an ice vein. Neutral veins needed to be exposed to the element in order to learn the power.

Alex kept training and his understanding of martial arts and magic became a lot better. His control over his powers became better too. He wasn't able to reach beginner rank tho and stayed in novice rank. But he was a lot stronger now even though his rank was still the same. Yet he was kind of disappointed in himself: he had expected to be able to advance quicker. But after reaching novice rank, he was stuck in a bottle neck and felt no matter how hard he trained he didn't come closer to an advancement.

Lucky was the total opposite, he quickly got used to the Ice element and advanced to novice beast rank. But that wasn't enough. Lucky also managed reach beginner beast rank. Alex was totally jealous about this because the advancement of his cat went much more fluently than his own advancement. But he was also happy for Lucky, who seemed to be a little genius at martial arts. But still Alex decided to train even harder or he would soon be just a shadow of his own cat.

The time of training was over and Alex prepared for his travel to ice Phoenix sect. He gave his parents a last hug and traveled together with Lucky. If wasn't long until he ran into trouble. On his way he saw a bunch of thieves attacking a village.