Martial spirit awakening ritual

Li Feng and Li Tian walked together in the stairway path toward the battle arena. That place was exactly the place where the ceremony was being held. All outer sect members were already there watching the new generation of the outer sect awakening their martial spirit. Around sixty-five disciples had already awakened martial spirits and were allowed to apply in the city martial academy. The headmaster of Tianlong city martial academy was the brother of the city mansion lord. He was the only one strong enough to be compared to the Li sect leader and that's why the new generations of the Li sect had it hard there. The grudge between the city mansion and the Li outer sect started years before the city was established. It was said that the City mansion ancestor took the place of a city mansion lord by taking an army and hunting down the first leader of the Li sect who was portrayed as a traitor of the empire from the emperor itself. For this doing, the empire rewarded the ancestor of the city mansion lord with the city.

But the truth behind that was darker than it seemed and this was recorded in the Li Sect Headmaster notebook.

" I'm being hunted down by an army which I trained because I was framed as a traitor from them. But I served to the empire as nothing more. This was my disciple doing."

And from that moment the grudge between the two big factions of the Tianlong city kept going in hidden.

When Li Tian and Li Feng approached the group of students who were near the sphere of the awakening the sect Leader said something to the third elder.

" We said your son will not approach the awakening sphere, why is he there?"

" Don't worry! My son will stay there to give courage to Li Tian."

(Oh, again this Li Tian. What has this guy so special?)

The truth was that Li Feng was feeling more attached to Li Tian from the moment in the cave where Li Tian helped him to awaken his true potential. Well, let's say the true potential for the moment.

After a group of kids around 14 to 17, were going one after another to awaken their martial spirit, it was Li Tian time. He tried to stay calm and breathed heavily. Then he went and put his hand at the awakening sphere. The sphere that showed the potential of a martial spirit after inserting a bit of qi in the martial artist, was able to show the rank of the martial spirit.

Once a line was colourized then you had a grade one martial spirit and so on.

The sphere was emitting light but no lines were colourized when the qi energy entered his body.

( What is going on?! I'm more than confident that I have a martial spirit but why no lines are getting colourized? Where is my sword martial spirit? Why I'm failing this time? I'm a failure in this life?) Li Tian got panicked and lost his way of thinking. He was shocked to see that his sword martial spirit was no longer there. ( What the fuck did I do to deserve this kind of fate?)

And then, when he saw that that the crystal broke, it didn't break his spirit but made it maniacally strong. He went psycho for a minute. And inside, he was battling his demons. He directly entered an acceptance stance. An acceptance full of blood, hatred, sadden.

( Ohhh! So you want to give me a hard time? Don't you? Whatever the fuck you are! Then let's do it your way. Give me a harder time. Give me a harder fight. Everything you give to me give it harder. Then I will play hard too. You will not see me crying again after this. You will see me smile even when I face death or sure failure.)

Li Tian took parts of the broken sphere in his hand and crushed them. This thing made his hand bleed and also scared the shit out of Li Feng.

" Li Tian! Stop that! You are hurting yourself."

But his cousin's voice seemed that never reach Li Tian. And he still was trying to crush the parts of the sphere with his palm without even feeling any kind of pain. A punch came toward him, and his thousand years old tendency gave his muscles the right to move and to defend himself. He grabbed Li Feng punch and then put him down. And only then did he understand he was lost in a world of thoughts.

All the disciples, elders, families who were there to watch the awakening ceremony stood there shocked with what they saw. But only a few got shocked. How is possible that someone who still had not and was finding problems to awaken his martial spirit easily took down someone with a deep-blue-aura martial spirit.

(This guy?! His understanding of fighting is that of an old man. How is that possible?)

" Sect leader, sect elders and all the people who are attending today's martial spirit awakening ceremony, please be forgiving toward this disciple who was impolite! And I ask for permission to try once again in the city academy," said Li Tian towards all the people there pleading for forgiveness.

" Don't worry son! Your mom is here!" entered his mom into the stage crying for his son injury.

" Mom!". And only there did Li Tian understands how foolish he was being.

But not losing any more time on the stage, he left with his mom in his side.

" You can go to the city martial academy. No matter if you awakened something today or not. You will be accompanying my disciples."

That was the voice of the second elder.

Li Tian glanced at him and then smiled.