Chapter 73

Just as he was pulled into this scene, his soul began to create a large shaking motion as the scene changed back to the cave while his soul entered into his body once more. As he woke up, Timothy could not help but to feel out of breath and lacking air as he continued taking several deep breaths. "What the hell was that, and why was my master in such a strange place?" he thought.

"You will never believe it! I actually was able to take down one demon beast all by myself and not a single other one was willing to get in my way. I simply found a way to kill it after two strikes to its head using this nice ax you gave to me!" Jacob shouted out as he walked into the cave with a big smile on his face. For him to be able to kill a level one demon beast all on his own just as Timothy did the day before, caused him to experience the pride he took a hit on.

"Oh please, you probably cooked another piece of meat from your own storage ring and built a small trap. I told you that we are here to temper our strength, not to figure out how to use little tedious methods to capture and kill demon beasts." Timothy replied now that he realized that he was back in the present and wanted to joke around with his brother in order to calm his mind now that he finally felt that he could breathe normally once again.

"Oh please, such tactics are for the weak! Strength is king and I will be using my strength to kill many more as long as you are not mean and go out of your way to kill them all while I sleep during the night." Jacob in a joking and teasing manner said back as he withdrew the demon beast's corpse from his storage ring so that Timothy could evaluate it and its potential value.

"At least I did not break my weapon while doing it either. So I suppose I am in the lead now!" Jacob said while sitting down at the small wooden table. He had several large claw marks around his body, and so he just wanted to relax and heal properly even though he felt he could go another round with the demon beast.

"Oh, so we are competing against each other now? What happened to us both working hard in order to support one another through this gruesome ordeal? I guess I will have to one day prove once again why I am the leader when it comes to the two of us." Timothy replied after examining the demon beast and putting it into his own storage ring with the other one he had killed the day before.

"You could say that again, how about once I feel one hundred percent, we can go out and kill as many demon beasts nearby as we could and whoever kills the most can be crowned the undeniable expert?" Jacob asked Timothy with a large grin on his face, as he began to flex his arm muscles to playfully tease him and to show his dominance.

Timothy did not mind that Jacob was one of if not the biggest training maniac that he had ever met even compared to how he felt Jack would be. Since Jacob was thirteen years old, his body began growing towards adulthood much faster than his, so although he did not mind this, it was rather funny that Jacob would use it against him during a playful argument. Timothy had just turned eleven years old, so even if he were to be one level higher than Jacob, it would not mean that he would look as old as him due to their figures.

Master Sei had told Timothy that due to his physique, he may actually be slightly taller and more muscular compared to his peers once he reached full adulthood. So in a way, since Jacob was teasing him now, Timothy had some ideas on how to pay it back in a non vicious manner in the future. "Well anyways, how about we just cultivate for the rest of the day and tomorrow we can have a small competition?"

"That is a good idea, if we neglect our cultivating, even if we end up having more combat experience, it would not necessarily make this period of time too efficient from the outside looking in. You should start cultivating now, I will when I am finished with my own daily regiment I have not started yet because of making all of these things." Jacob replied as he backed up to a different corner and began doing his daily dose of push ups and heavy lifting a small boulder he had handy.

Since Timothy was able to cultivate while being able to mentally talk to Master Sei at the same time, he began to ask many questions about the scene that he saw. Master Sei hearing what had happened actually appeared before responding. "Oh so things like this already started with you, that is much sooner than I expected but I suppose the heavens do not allow you to dictate these things sometimes."

Due to my soul fragment being in the metal ball which fused enough with your soul that unless you were to die in battle or of old age, it would exit your body but will not before such a time were to occur, a strange phenomena happened. Because my soul fragment and your soul after you absorbed the metal ball are closer together, some of the memories I have of my past will begin appearing."

"There is nothing to worry about, but some things I need to keep from you for at least the time being. As you continue to reach higher stages of your cultivation, I will begin explaining things more clearly. Trust me my disciple, if there were no risks in telling you some of these things, I would have done so already. Just continue to trust me and soon everything will be revealed." Master Sei told Timothy with a stern expression before heading back into the metal ball.