Swordsmen, Martial Artists and Spiritualists

"Brother Ling, now you don't have a gang. Where do you plan to stay?" While running on the edge of the forest, Li Xian turned his head and asked.

"I think I will stay at an Inn for now. After earning some money, I will buy the house of my own." Ling Tan was a little sad. Even though he made a decision to leave the gang, it was still hard for him since he lived with them for a long time.

"Brother Ling, if you don't mind, I can arrange a small house for you. There are some empty houses that our family owns, so it won't be a difficult task for me." Suddenly, the lady in purple gown spoke as she ran with them. Currently, her cultivation was highest among them.

After the dual cultivation with Luo Tang, her cultivation reached the seventh stage from the fifth stage in an instant. Although she wasn't much happy with it because she was lost her virginity even before falling in love.

"Lady Cai, you don't need to trouble yourself. As a leader of the gang, I know many Inn to stay and cultivate peace." Ling Tan shook his head and instantly decline her offer. After she woke up, they had a normal conversation where they learned her name and about her family.

Cai Zhihao, a daughter of Cai Chun and Cao Fang. Five months ago, she awakened a blackfish. It had six yellow stars representing Profound Rank Sixth Level. She joined Nine Clouds Martial Sect. Four Martial Sects of Jingui city are Nine Clouds Martial Sect, Greenfield Martial Sect, Paramount Martial Sect, and Sunset Martial Sect.

Nine Clouds Martial Sect is a special martial sect for women only. Opposite to Nine Clouds, Sunset Martial Sect is only for men. Greenfield and Paramount are opened for both males and females. Three Associations were Alchemy Guild, Star Forging Guild, and Nine Color Talisman Guild.

Unlike Martial Artists and Swordsman, Spiritualists are divided into different realms with different kinds of strength. They only have five known realms. Bronze, Silver, Golden, True Soul, and Divine Soul. Each realm has nine ranks just like Martial Artists ranks.

They assimilate the power of the soul into their body and uses soul power for almost everything. The most basic task perform with soul power would be summoning. They can summon a bunch of different spirits for their specific job.

And they can also do various soul attacks which are deadly against Martial Artist. Soul Attack consumes soul power and ranks one can only perform Profound Low-Tier Soul Art three times. Number doubles with rank increment and once he has enough soul power for performing Profound Low-Tier Soul Art fifteen times, he can use Profound Middle-Tier Soul Art three times.

Unlike them, swordsmen accumulate sword energy inside their bodies. The first rank Junior Swordsman can only store ten swords condensed with sword energy. Two swords are enough to perform a Profound Low-Tier Sword Art once. Five swords are enough to perform a Profound Middle-Tier Sword Art. Numbers doubles as the tier- increases.

And same goes with swordsmen. The number of swords condensed with sword energy increases by ten with the increment of each rank. The ninth rank swordsman would only be able to use a Profound Top-Tier Sword Art four times.

Unlike profound sword art, spirit rank sword art takes more sword energy. Fifty swords for Low-Tier Sprit Rank, Hundred for Middle, Two hundred for High, and Five hundred for Top. And, the sword energy condensed by the swordsman increases with fifty on the increment of each rank.

Even ninth rank swordsmen can only use Spirit Rank Top-Tier Sword Art once. Of course, for geniuses, that's a completely different concept. Geniuses can comprehend Sword Aura. And, sword aura can burrow the energy from heaven and earth.

This decreases the consumption of sword energy from their body. Fortunately, Li Xian had Sword Aura. Otherwise, just Dark Shadow Sword Art is enough to consume his entire sword energy. Unlike Swordsman and Spiritualist, Martial Artist consumes spiritual energy and stamina.

And so, the first rank Junior Martial Artists can perform ten Profound Low-Tier Martial Art and three Middle-Tier. And the ninth rank would be able to perform ninety Profound Low-Tier, thirty Middle-Tier, fifteen High-Tier, and five Top-Tier.

And, here geniuses like Luo Tang can perform triple or even four times of this amount with his current rank. He has immense stamina and the spiritual energy is burning in each drop of his blood. Pure Inextinguishable Solar Heart Law makes his fire energy five times greater than the people of his rank.

This is why Li Xian wasn't in hurry to find Heart Law. Because he knows, Heart Law would be very important for his future and so he must find a heart law that suits him the best. Like cultivation techniques, Heart Law can be separated into Swordsman Heart Law, Martial Artist Heart Law, and Spiritualist Heart Law.

But there can be a Heart Law that can be used for all three of them. But it would be difficult to find it. Currently, he has Pure Yuan Energy Technique that he can use for sword cultivation but he doesn't have a matching heart law.

Pure Yuan Energy Technique has two major attributes. One would be the fire attribute and another would be the healing attribute that has wood attribute on it. If he uses Pure Yuan Energy Technique for sword cultivation, he must find a Fire or wood-related Heart Law.

And for sword arts, he can either use the same attribute sword art to improve the power of his attacks or he can use different attribute sword art which can't improve the power of his attacks.

Although Ling Tan declined, Cai Zhihao insisted on her words. Finally, Ling Tan had no choice but to stay in the house given by Cai Zhihao. Luo Tang and Li Xian were staying at the sect and school, so they had no problem.

Luo Tang decided to join Paramount Sect. But he needs to show his battle spirit first. But there was a problem with him. His Battle Spirit was full of stars and these stars were different than the stars on Li Xian's battle spirit.

So, he didn't know whether he can get chosen or not. But he still wanted to give it a try. After running for three hours, they finally came out of the Divine Wind Mountain Range. They traveled for half an hour until they finally reach Jingui City.

Surprisingly, there was a long line in front of the gate. Four of them frowned but decided to stay on the line. They found most of these people were coming from villages. While standing in the line, they heard few people gossiping with each other.

"Hey, did you hear the Silver Bell Village was destroyed by the wave of monster beasts? I wonder how many people survived."

"Well, not all of them died at least. I saw few people arriving in Jingui City. But its shame they have no wealth, so they were captured by the Iron Blood Manor people and sold as the slaves."

"Not only did they lose their home but also became slaves. But, why didn't City Lord take any action?"

"Why would City Lord offend Iron Blood Manor for the bunch of slaves? And why would he need to save them? It's their fault for being weak."

"Hahaha! I can't argue with that."

Hearing these gossips, a sharp murderous aura released out of Ling Tan. Suddenly, his hands got caught by Luo Tang when he was about to move.

"Brother Ling, don't waste your energy on them. Those guards registered the name of every individual that enters the Jingui City for the first time, we can ask them." After introducing each other, they found Ling Tan actually came from the Silver Bell Village.

Although he was an orphan, he was raised by the couple from Silver Bell Village and he treats them just like his own parents. After all, he was just a child at that time. If his adopted parents hadn't told him, then he wouldn't even know.

Hearing Cai Zhihao words, Ling Tan calmed down a lot and walked towards the guards. While passing by those gossipers, Ling Tan gazed at them with a murderous intent but didn't do anything at all. He simply passed by them.

There were many guards working to maintain the line. Near the gate, there was a small hut. It was a place for guards to rest. The hut was big though. When they were walking towards the hut, one of the guards suddenly appeared in front of them and shouted.

"Stop!"

Four of them stopped in front of them and he asked "Why are you cutting the line?"

"Sir, we are not cutting the line. We came here just to ask about the list of people that arrived from Silver Bell Village." Cai Zhihao took a step forward and calmly asked.

"We don't entertain guests here. Go back and don't cut the line." But the guard didn't even flinch while rejecting them.

"Sir, I am from the Cai family. I think our family has enough right to know about the list of people that arrived from Silver Bell Village." Cai Zhihao frowned when the guard rejected her with such a tone. Although the Cai family isn't big, it's not small either. Although it's not comparable to Iron Blood Manor, it's not very weak either.

She took out the Cai family token and showed it to him.

"Humph! So what if you are from the Cai family. I am the guard from Iron Blood Manor and that list was destroyed by me." The guard raises his tone as he threatens her with his identity.