Seperation

It had been five years since Ivor moved into a mansion in Blue Moon City, the courtyard had a pond and a small forest where he let all of Ai's beasts free.

Ever since Ivor discovered Spirit Wine, he has been drinking litres of it every day. He was called the Drunken smith by locals since he would sell and create requested weapons up to the Spirit stage.

"GRANDPA! Did you hear the Moon sect is recruiting!!" Ai had reached the Peak-Foundation stage at the age of 11 which is considered a true genius.

"And why do you want to join a sect Ai" asked Ivor.

"Well... I heard being in a sect will make me immortal and if I become Immortal, I can make you live longer." answered honestly, she was getting worried seeing how old her grandpa was.

"What makes you think I am dying!" shouted Ivor as a response, sounding like a normal cranky grandfather.

"YOUR AGE!" responded Ai with a facepalm as she was showing the obvious to him.

"You cheeky..." but before Ivor could grab her, she had run away.

Ivor sat back down, he didn't have long to live just 20 years left... maybe a sect was a good idea, they could protect her and there was a possibility an elder would take her as a disciple, then he can rest in peace.

Ivor had heard of the Moon Sect, they are the strongest sect within the Moon Empire with the sect leader and grand elder within the Somatic Void Realm and senior elders in the Soul Law Realm and Junior elders are in the Soul transformation realm.

The Sect is to be there within a week, Ivor decided that he would let go of Ai and look for a possible cure.

It was that Ivor had not been looking for a cure, he had put a request in the Information Pavillion with a reward of 1000 Supreme Spirit Stones. This made people mad in order to find a cure but not many people knew of this poison.

A week later...

"Ai, let's go it is time."

"Yay, Grandpa can you also join the sect?"

"No, but it would make me proud if you did."

"Really?!?!" asked Ai excited.

"Yes, if you do imagine how much I can brag... I might even get free wine" said Ivor with a proud bragging voice.

"Grandpa, you need to stop drinking."

"I know, I know..."

Ivor finally reached the recruiting arena, there were almost a million people there. All were young youths also few older generation were there.

There were five people sitting on flying chairs, there were four junior elders and one senior elder, they kept scanning the young cultivators below.

Their eyes had caught the attention of a few cultivators and the rest seemed average, the next moment a junior elder stood up.

"Quiet! People call me Elder Jing, I will be taking the lead in this examination... Now everyone will have an aptitude test. everyone line up and wait for your turn." after Elder Jing ended her words, the crowd erupted.

"Look how young she is!" shouted a woman.

"I hope I can have smooth skin as her!"

"hehe... that's my future wife." said a man proudly but he was just a fourteen-year-old boy...

Then another elder flew down onto the stage and called for the first person.

"4th stage Qi cultivator, Age 14, Aptitude: Water, Talent: Below Average... FAIL! NEXT!" and the boy left crying.

"5th stage Qi cultivator, Age 14, Aptitude: Earth, Talent: Average... PASS! NEXT" and the girl left excited.

a day went by, there were a few youths at the age of 15 to 17 who had reached the foundation stage also there were a few young children with a talent in the earth stage.

Talents went Poor, Below Average, Average, Above Average, yellow, earth, the great earth, sage, and so on.

The next moment Ai walked up and the Senior Elder who had not been paying attention woke up.

"AMAZING!" so did the other elders say.

"Young girl, who is you, master?" asked the Senior instantly.

Ai was a bit nervous and pointed at Ivor "No, No... he is my grandpa, not master." answered Ai.

The Senior elder looked at Ivor quickly... "Hmm, Peak Soul Transformation Real, but why would he reveal a genius..." The next second Ivor, released his aura to let the senior see sense the poison.

"I see... Little girl, you will be my personal disciple from this day on!" announced the female senior elder.

"REALLY!" Ai looked at Ivor quickly but Ivor told Ai too quickly to bow and she did.

Ivor turned around and walked away, without telling Ai goodbye but when he reached his house. He felt someone was behind him and it was the elder from before.

"Good brother... can we have a chat." asked the elder although she looked young, she was old.

"Let's go in." answered Ivor.

Ivor and the elder sat at a seat inside the house.

"So where is Ai?" asked Ivor.

"I asked my junior to take her to the sect." answered the woman.

"I see..." Ivor was sad about the separation but he asked "What is your name, elder."

"Just call me Sister Daiyu."

"You take care of her."

"She is my disciple but may I ask where did you find this staff." She asked curiously, a 7th-grade artifact wasn't common, they were competed for within the Soul law realm.

"I forged it." answered Ivor.

"Amazing, you aren't even in the Soul Law Realm and can create weapons beyond your realm!" Daiyu said in an explicit voice.

"Tha's the pass, here this is my last gift to Ai and this is for you." Ivor through two storage rings.

Elder Daiyu looked inside Ai's first and saw countless armour, clothes weapon, boats and material ranging from 3rd grade to the 6th, no there was even a 7th-grade sword which was made out of tree roots and had an individual river flowing through it.

Then she looked inside her ring and saw 50 thousand Supreme Spirit stones.

"WHAT! you know these can make the cultivation world mad, and how do you have fifty thousand spirit stones? The sect only makes about 1000 supreme stones a year and spends them on resources." Explained Daiyu with a shocked face.

"Remember even if you try to take a weapon for yourself from the ring, the energy will rebound a send a Peak Somatic Void strike."

"Wasn't even thinking of it... Elder." Daiyu chose to call him elder, he had many more skills than her, she respected him.

"Also she has a strong affinity with nature, she is cultivating a technique named resonating with nature. This will allow her to at least reach beyond the Somic realm, the rest is up to you and..."

"Elder, you worry too much. I will be a good master but your condition may be cured."

"You are lying?"

"No, but an individual would not heal you... it is a place that you enter, once an elder entered who was meant to die within a year but send a message explaining his condition recovered instantly.... when he entered. Unfortunately, he could not escape the place."

"I see, it seems that it may be my last hope..." said Ivor with a solemn expression.

"Elder, the place is in the dark moon forest. Ask locals and you will find the location."

"Well, this is goodbye." Ivor shook her hand and then he dissipated to thin air disappearing from her sight.