Slow and steady

Slow and steady

Few months later..

Bai Chen was with his mom in his room when he suddenly heard howls of beasts in the distance. Bai Chen's eyes widened in happiness.

Perhaps the Black Heaven military academy guys have come again to announce recruitment date.

He ran out of his room to go outside and look.

Truely, it was the Black Heaven military academy guys. They had come again to announce recruitment into their academy.

They came on massive fearsome beasts while the men themselves radiated battle auras.

The one at the front whose colour of uniform was darker than the rest jumped down from the beast she was on. Like this person could control the air, she landed lightly on the ground. It was like a leaf fell to to the ground.

"What a soundless landing. Like a ghost dropped to the ground." he said in his mind.

Bai Chen looked on with amazement. He couldn't help but shake his head. These military guys were powerful.

She was wearing a mask which she didn't remove. But the armour she wore couldn't hide her figure. Although it was a decorative leather armour, but it had toughness and could withstand some attacks, like a knife stab. When Bai Chen looked at the armour, he felt it was kevlar armour. But this armour couldn't conceal this woman's busts. They were stretched by the melons on her chest. Also, she had a pear figure as she had a large waist. She was tall too, her long, slender legs were responsible for this.

This was what Bai Chen could make out. He couldn't see any other thing as she was wearing a mask that hid her face completely. But he believed she must be very beautiful too. Such a figure would go with a striking face.

"She is pretty busty and too curvaceous to be in a military academy." he said inwardly.

Bai Chen shook his head. Then he tried to listen to what she wanted to say.

"I believe you all know who we are. So, we are here to announce that recruitment is in a week time. Bring your children that have reached twelve to our headquarter in the city for enrolment. That's all the information I have for you." she said.

Then a purple disc condensed from energy surfaced beneath her feet. Then it lifted her up onto the back of her beast and dematerialized.

Her beast turned around and ran back in the direction they took. While others followed.

Bai Chen was amazed. He wanted to ride on that kind of beast too. But he knew he couldn't have such privilege now.

He went back with his mom and sisters into the house.

"Mom. Would you miss me when am gone?" Bai Chen asked with a smile. "Yes I would son. Why won't I?" she asked back with a smile. Bai Chen nodded. "Alright. Mom when I grow powerful, I would take all of you away from here to go live in the city" he said.

"That's my boy. Well, you don't need to stress yourself. We are already used to this place. Going to live in the city is like going there to start a new life. See me, am slowly getting old. Besides, it isn't that easy to quickly reach such a stage. Only someone who has great power and has done a lot can be given such privileges. Don't let such get into your head son or you would loose your way. Don't try to quickly grow powerful, people who do that in the end become dangerous sinister people. My heart will bleed if you become such, so don't think of power now, just grow slowly. That's the best. In this case, as they say, slow and steady wins the race. Any shortcut could bring about your downfall. But make sure you are hardworking and diligent" Bai Chen's mother said.

Bai Chen nodded. "Alright mom. Your advice is worth more than carts of diamond. I will act by it. I appreciate it" Then he stood up and went to hug his mom where she sat for sometime before he separated from her. "Mom, I am going back to my room to cultivate" he said. "Alright. Son." She said and nodded. "And I would help you prepare the things you would take with you to the city" Bai Ling said.

Bai Chen nodded with a smile and went back to his room.

Once he got to his room. He sat down in the cross-legged position on the ground and began to cultivate.

Since he had broken through the barrier between mortal and cultivator to become a cultivator. His cultivation level was at the initial-phase flow activation stage. But the energy he cultivated was the energy of the way of sword.

At the moment, he was trying to reach the mid-phase flow activation stage. But through the 'self percipience' ability he gained when he achieved a cultivation breakthrough, he knew he was not there yet. It was like he was a bottomless hole. He continued to pour profound cosmic sword-energy into his energyhouse. But the boundary for the mid-phase flow activation stage was still far away. He didn't know why it was it was like that. He should have reached the next cultivation phase few weeks ago but with what he was seeing. It was like it would take a lot of time to get there. But he wasn't in a rush.

"Slow and steady wins the race." he said inwardly.

The energy of the way of sword he is cultivating is called 'profound cosmic sword-energy'. It is one of the numerous profound cosmic energies in the world. If he cultivated fire, the energy would be called 'profound cosmic fire-energy' or water, 'profound cosmic water-energy' and so on.

He continued to cultivate until he was called out for dinner. After interacting with his family for sometime, he dashed back to his room to resume his cultivation which he did till morning.

......

A week later.

Bai Chen, his mom and two sisters arrived in the city by a horse-drawn cart. On the large wooden cart which they sat in pulled by the horses, there were bags that had raw food materials in it.

Bai Chen's father had given his son a lot of his farm harvests so he wouldn't have to go hungry there. He didn't know how good their feeding system there was. So, as a prospering farmer, he couldn't allow his son to go hungry in there. He had also loaded his son with lot of bronze coins.

"Son, am so going to miss you. Come here, let me give you a hug" Bai Ling said emotionally. Bai Chen smiled and went to his mother who gave him a tight hug for sometime before she pulled out from him.

Then he went to meet his sisters who gave him tight hugs too. "Be good alright. When you go in there, don't start chasing after girls. If I get to hear about it, I would come here to spank you in public." Bai Meixue gave a warning. Bai Chen smiled, he knew she was only joking.