A Battle

Ivor was watching Ai run about the road picking up small insects and letting small birds land on her shoulder.

It seemed to Ivor that Ai had a strong affinity with nature, Within Ivor's Divine Soul World there were multiple small birds and young snakes that Ai had asked Ivor to take care of so that she doesn't need to separate with them.

"Grandpa, look I found a ladybug, can we bring her along?"

"Alright" Ivor added the little ladybug into his divine soul and just as he did this, he felt a surge of energy coming going straight towards Ai.

Ivor was quick to react and quickly spun his staff extremely fast that it create a void which sucked in the energy and redirected it back towards the direction the attack came from.

Ivor them moved Ivor into his staff space, where Ai was excluded from the outer world affairs.

Ivor calmed down knowing Nellie and Ai were away from danger, "May I ask you, why did you attack my disciple?"

a man walked from the shadows laughing, he was a middle-aged man dressed in a purple robe.

"hehe, your staff is seventh-grade... give it to me and I will kill you quickly." The man was confident.

"You sir didn't answer my question." retorted Ivor.

"Would you like to see your master die in front of your eyes... I have some morals." answered the man.

"Are you confident?" asked Ivor.

"Hehe... just a large world..." said the man suddenly emitting an aura of peak world and an extremely poisonous murder intent.

"I see." Ivor let out his entire strength while emitting an extremely refined aura, the didn't have anything it was just refined.

"How unique..." the man pulled out a soul needle and shot it straight at Ivor.

Ivor pulled out his soul mallet, he then hit the needle directly hoping in smashing the needle but the needle stopped and disappeared.

"HAHAHA Fool! If this needle hits a soul weapon it will infect it with poison!" the man noticed that this fight was going to be quick from the foolishness of the latter.

Ivor coughed a mouthful of blood and noticed he was careless, but what the other did not expect was that Ivor had a way to retaliate.

Ivor quickly used his soul to penetrate the man's soul. Ivor entered a sea of purple poison, the poison was dreadful.

"How inhuman." Ivor said with a complex face.

"You say inhuman but a cultivator is no longer a human." answered the man.

"You say you have morals, but I do not see any."

"and what can you do, you will die soon." The man was laughing manically, within the divine soul world, you are god.

"Now, you are the fool." Ivor took out his hammer quickly and smashed the world edges

"Impossible! This! How can you?!?!"

Ivor hit 6 parts of the divine world areas, they were points to create the world.

Creation Point, Imagination Point, Soul Point, Physical Point, Control Point, and the Gathering Point, if these points were hit within 2 seconds it would shatter the world and drop the latter's cultivation to Nascent Soul Realm.

"NO!" shouted the man before he fell onto his knees.

Ivor was looking at the man but he was getting weak.

"Tell me what is this poison." Ivor felt that his soul was getting poisoned.

"Hahaha, even if I die. You will die soon! This Poison is the Purple Soul Poison. It will kill you within a matter of years." The man was a maniac and deadly.

"You will not die, you will live the rest of your lifespan in eternal darkness." Ivor then make a large elephant imprint from qi and smashed the man, sealing him into chains of locks and placing him in the first floor of the pagoda within his staff.

"YOU WILL DIE, HAHAHA." shouted the man before he entered the darkness.

Ivor fell onto his knees and started to cough out blood staining his white beard red.

"Cough... System... Cough, what is my condition?" asked Ivor with a weak voice.

[Host has been poisoned with Purple Soul Grass Poison]

[Purple Soul Grass Poison - Decreases the host soul which decreases the lifespan, within one year you will lose a thousand years of your lifespan.]

[Current lifespan 665/31000 - Host has 30 years to live, good luck]

"Is there a way to cure me?"

[Yes, but the system will not help you]

"I see..." Ivor was reluctant but had to accept it, he quickly cleaned up his beard and called Nellie and Ai back out.

"Grandpa, why did you send us into the house?" asked Ai curiously.

"Oh, there was a man but he left, he wasn't very nice."

"Ok, so can we go to the City?" asked Ai, this was their destination. It was a city called Blue Moon City and it was the second largest city of the Moon Empire.

"Oh yes but I think we will stay for a while."

"Huh? why?"

"Let's just settle for a bit." and Ivor continued his way towards the city.

The city was far, it will take Ivor at least 4 years to reach it but Ivor had heard it is a glorious city with magical buildings and many desired items could be found there.

Four years later...

Ai had reached the foundation stage at the age of six and the system had rewarded Ivor with a Disciple Kit.

These were techniques suitable for Ai, the cultivation mantra was named resonating with nature and she was given nature's sword technique with the following footstep work named roots path.

"Grandpa look, look there are floating buildings!" Ai kept shouting.

Ivor opened his eyes and saw hundreds of buildings floating in the air there were even floating forests and water walls everywhere.

"calm down... Nellie, enter my mind." Ivor realised that Nellie's skin was a slight problem.

Ivor and Ai entered the city and found an Inn. They asked for a stay paying the woman few golden coins. Ivor sat down at a table at looked at the menus.

"hmm... what is spirit wine?"