Spiritual Roots

Sacred Wind Academy was very famous two hundred years ago. In the records of the academy, it stated that the Royal God Sect had to show some face to the academy. That's how frightening it was. It produced many terrifying talents. But majority of them never wanted to leave the academy as they felt that the academy was better place compared to the Royal God Sect!

But no one knows what happened as there was no clear records regarding a terrifying incident. On a particular day, the academy was attacked by a bunch of foreigners. As for who they were, or why they attacked the Sacred Wind Academy, no one knew. No one knew the real truth.

Some people claims that they had seen a group of people attacking the academy. The Academy was close to the forest Kamanth was transmigrated to. So some people claimed that they had seen a bunch of terrifying beasts from the forest attacking them.

The truth is, no one knew what the hell happened. The only people who might be with the answers were the elders and the leader of the academy. But on that unfortunate day, they all perished.

The academy not only produced many quality disciples but also loyal talents as well. After that incident, many talented disciples left the academy and joined the Royal God Sect. Of course, the Sect was more than happy to receive them.

But there were other people who attached all their sentiments to the academy. These loyal talented disciples took over the responsibility to run the academy and continue the legend. They just couldn't abandon the place that took and thought them. So they decided to continue the legacy.

But alas, their level of teaching skills was not that good compared to their learning ability. So their academy started to decline. As of now, needless to say about producing the quality students, their situation had further worsened and their academy's survival was at stake now.

Today, the Royal God Sect further developed and many institutions were opened under their sect. So they decided to clean up as more academies will lead to headaches. The Sect announced that if an Academy failed to recruit at least 15,000 disciples per year, then their academy's license will be revoked and will be forced to shut down.

They had only one week to report the details of all the disciples recruited by all the academies to the sect. And the Academy sent all their disciples to the different part of the mortal realms to use any methods to fill the required numbers.

This is the reason why that "madman" was shouting and falsely raising the image of the academy in the mortal world so that he could fill the required numbers. This is also the reason why despite not having any qualifications to practice cultivation, he recruited Kamanth in the academy. In his views, Kamanth was there just to fill the numbers. As for what his future will be, it has nothing to do with him.

"By the way, my name is Jake." ,That "Madman" introduced himself and said, "What is your name Little Brother!"

"My name is Kam--- Ethan Hunt!" ,Kamanth introduced himself with a different name.

:Ethan Hunt?" ,Jake smiled and said, "That is actually a good name. I will call you Ethan then."

"No problem.", ,Kamanth said. Ethan Hunt is the character Shirley loved the most. Mission Impossible was her favorite movie. And Ethan Hunt was her favorite character of all time. Since he was about to walk on a different journey, he just wanted to change everything about him, including his name. So he gave a new name for himself in the memento of Shirley's favorite character.

He wanted to change his attitude as per the Novels he read. He knew that he might no longer see Shirley again. So he moved on with his new crazy life. He knew that he is in the cultivation world. Strangely, his dream which was impossible has come true. Now he wanted to make most out of it.

"So Ethan, how about go and give this good news to your relatives before we depart to the academy?" ,Jake smiled and asked.

Ethan shook his head and said, "I don't have anyone. So there is no need to do all this?"

He sighed while saying this. He knew that his parents will definitely be worried about his future. But there is nothing he could do now. All he could do is pray for their future. He is about to start a new journey. So he knew that he had to be strong. He is in the world he desired. So he will do whatever he can to get as strong as possible.

"Is that so." ,Jake said, "Well, let us go then. You are about to find a family now. So don't worry."

Ethan smiled. But he didn't care. He likes to live alone and mind his own business. He is ready to help people though. But overall, he is not the type of person who could go and have a social activity. Because he is the man of few words complete opposite to Jake.

Ethan nodded his head out of courtesy. He then asked, "Brother Jake! Could you tell me about the cultivation? I have no knowledge whatsoever."

Jake and all his academy members behind him wanted to cry after hearing this. This is the cultivation world. Even though this Ethan is a complete Mortal, considering his age, he should have a rough idea about the cultivation world. This kind of questions would be asked only by the amateurs and small kids.

Jake sighed. If it wasn't for the filling the required quota set by the sect, he would have kicked this Ethan out for sure.

Jake maintained his smile and explained, "Before you start the cultivation, we had to test your talent. One's talent is determined by the rank of their Spiritual Roots. The Spiritual Roots will let you gather Spiritual Energy of the world within your body and help you to cultivate."

"So only those with the Spiritual Roots could cultivate?" ,Ethan asked.

"Well, the fact is, every person has the Spiritual Root. There will be no person without any Spiritual Root. Spiritual Roots were like the the life essence for a person. A mortal will take the breathe and let it pass through to brain through the Spiritual Roots." ,Jake replied.

"Then what makes a cultivator different from the mortals?" ,Ethan asked with frown. The concept of oxygen inhaling here is a little different from Earth. So he couldn't help but ask.

"That is because of the different ranks of Spiritual Roots?" ,Jake replied.

"Ranks of Spiritual Roots?" ,Ethan was surprised, "So there are different types of Spiritual Roots?"

He was surprised. After all, the concept of Spiritual Roots were similar to those in the novels which he read back on earth.