Chapter 1 Jaime
Cold…
Drops of water fell onto his face, waking him from his deep slumber. He opened his eyes, but couldn’t see anything except darkness. He felt really tired; his body cold and stuck with slimy things. He pushed his hand forward, trying to move things that blocked him aside and forced himself to stand. Immediately everything looked clearer, sunlight s.h.i.+ning through the gaps of the murky clouds. He s.h.i.+vered as he found himself standing on a mountain of dead bodies. His body covered in sticky blood. Rain was falling heavily as it tried to wash the dark blood’s color from his body.
He dragged his tired body away from the mountain of dead bodies and looked around. Finding himself in the middle of a wrecked village. Houses broken beyond repair, dead bodies lying down like sand in a beach, scattered along the streets. Blood and rain’s water combining to form a red river.
“What had happened to this village?” An old man suddenly appeared behind him and shocked him.
He looked at the old guy and at the other people behind him. Hundreds of people were flying though the sky, standing on their flying swords or riding flying beasts. One by one slowly descending looking around confused.
“Elder Meng, we were too late.”
Elder Meng, the old guy, frowned. “Search for survivors around the village and check the forest, maybe some survivors are hiding there.”
“Acknowledge.” Hundreds of people dispersed quickly. Not long after, some of them started cursing.
“Demon Sect! They are animals!”
“They killed everything alive. Even chickens and dogs were not left behind.”
Elder Meng sighed sadly and his eyes fell onto the only survival of the village’s ma.s.sacre.
“What is your name kid?”
“Kid!!? I am older than you. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you my age, it is one hundred and ….”
Suddenly he became aware the old guy called Elder Meng appeared taller than him. His straight vision only reached around the shoulder of Elder Meng. He checked his hands and found they were smaller than usual. He was confused and silent for a long time.
“Maybe he is still shocked by the b.l.o.o.d.y ma.s.sacre of the villagers.” Another old man appeared behind Elder Meng. “From thousands of villagers here, only he got lucky to stay alive. Have you identified him? This skinny boy?”
“Who am I?”
Thinking about it, a dim light suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. The light created a transparent screen with a lot of words inside of it. He looked at Elder Meng and his friends but it seemed like they couldn’t see it.
He tried to read the words.
[ Name: Jaime ( 14 years old ), Health Point 35/100, Mental Point 50/100, Level: 5 (normal villager).]
“He is just a kid without any skill, a normal village kid.” Elder Meng locked his eyes on Jaime. “He really got lucky avoiding this ma.s.sacre.”
“Elder Meng, I will go back earlier to report this case to other elders. They don’t need to send all the disciples here anymore since it is already over.”
“Then, I will trouble Elder Fan for the report.”
“What should we do with him?” Elder Fan’s eyes locked on Jaime.
“What do you think?”
“His body is weak, his bones small and he almost has no muscle. Definitely not suited for cultivation, but I will take him to the Double Moon Sect.”
“You want to take him as a disciple?” Elder Meng was shocked. This Elder Fan is known for his stinginess in taking disciples. He leads sixth division of Double Moon Sect and all of his disciples are less than thirty, while the other divisions have at least hundreds of their own disciples.
“Disciple? He isn’t worthy.” Elder Fan grabbed Jaime’s hand. “But he will earn his worth if he is doing ch.o.r.es for my disciples. Cooking and was.h.i.+ng, so my disciples will have more time to cultivate.”
“Why don’t you use the outer disciples or eighth division’s disciple?”
Elder Fan sneered, “Too much of a problem, my disciples had killed a few of them, giving me a headache. I don’t want to cause any trouble to the disciplinary committee anymore. Taking an outsider is safer. My disciples can kill them without causing problems to the sect.”
Elder Fan hit a small pouch tied to his waist and a sword flew out from the pouch. The flying sword stood in the air and Elder Fan stepped on it. In seconds, Jaime felt his body flying in the blue sky with Elder Fan like a bullet.
Three people also flew with their swords, following Elder Fan leaving the village.
Jaime flew about forty meters from the ground. “Is this real? Humans can fly? Am I still dreaming?”
After a nearly two-hour flight, Jaime saw a colossal mountain ahead. There are eleven mountains’ peaks lined up and chained around the biggest mountain peak. There were simply twelve mountains joined as one majestic mountain. Nearing the mountain, he saw thousands of buildings spread from the surface of the valleys to the peak of mountains.
At least, there are tens of thousands of people staying in this place.
“Ba Zai, take this slave to Bamboo’s Peak!” yell Elder Fan. He threw Jaime’s body up into the empty air. Jaime felt that his heart was going to stop because three people pa.s.s him without bothering to catch him at all. Suddenly, he started falling really fast to the ground, while Eldest Fan and his followers have already flown far away. They just let him fall.
“F**k, I am going to die!” Jaime’s body rapidly fell and soon he will hit the tallest tree.
Immediately one person near the gate jumped five meters from the ground and caught him. He was around 30 years old and had a big body.
“F**k that stingy elder, making me work for free again!” He cursed while putting Jaime on his shoulder. He leapt quickly across the road and went to one of the peaks of the mountains. Before Jaime could understand what had just happened to him, he again felt his body flying in the air. The guy had thrown him high in the air, over a four meters gate, while shouting loudly, “Ba Zai has delivered the item that Elder Fan asked for. Disciples of Bamboo Peak please accept him while he is alive. I think he is your new slave.”
Jaime looked at the sky and felt fascinated.
“Ahh, I never realized how blue and beautiful the sky was. It is a pale translucent blue… Ahh… look at those white slender clouds…”
Then his body started to fall quickly.
“F**k, if I live I will hit those two guys hard!”
Immediately he saw someone on the ground and was sure that the nice guy would catch him. Unfortunately that nice guy kept standing there and shouted, “You are so dirty, I won’t catch you. Please take care yourself!”
Jaime flew into the bamboo’s trees. He hit dozens of bamboo causing them to be bent like a bow, before snapping and breaking them all. It was painful but luckily he had pa.s.sed out before he felt any of it. Not knowing how many hours or seconds pa.s.sed, Jaime woke up because someone splashed water on his face and body.
“Get up you lazy b.u.m! Or I’ll kill you.”
An arrogant guy used his feet to kick Jaime’s face. Jaime tried to sit up while the guy sneered. “New slave, you will serve 28 inner disciples of Bamboo’s Peak.” He pointed at a hill. From the hill to the peak of mountain, there were some caves spreading from the bottom to high peak. “Understood?”
Understand what? Can’t you see I am in agony right now? All of the bones in my body are splitting!
“Starting tomorrow, you will have to put fresh food in front of each cave. No matter if they eat it or not, you have to keep serving the fresh food! Fill the water into each clay barrel in front of each cave. Take their dirty clothes and wash them. And remember to clean weeds and bushes around the cave too.” The guy moved to one of the cave and shouted, “If I find nothing tomorrow, I will take your dog-s.h.i.+t head!”
Jaime took a deep breath and checked his status, his health point only had 1 point left. Any random chicken kick and he will die.
s.h.i.+t!
With a lot of difficulty Jaime tried to stand. “Where am I? Why are people here like s.h.i.+t and barbarians! Never asked me my name, yet they have made me their slave!”
Inside Jaime’s mental realm, one book was hanging in the middle of the darkness opened immediately.
“Books of Karma!” Jaime knew it by instinct. The book opened and a little information rush into his brain.
[You are inside Double Moon Sect in Double Moon Mountain on the Dragon and Phoenix Continent…]
At the same time some of his mental energies rushed into the book. “Equal exchange!” He understood. Under the law of karma, offering something as an equal exchange to get something is needed. His mental energy exchanged with the information from the Book of Karma about his location.
“So, I am in Double Moon Sect, one of the six biggest sects on the Phoenix and Dragon Continent. This sect occupies the land and mountain peak around the colossal of Double Moon mountain range.” He stopped because some of the information kept flowing in his mind. “People living around the mountain are outer disciples of Double moon sect. Inner disciples stay inside the mountain, occupying each mountain peak. Inside this sect there are eight divisions of inner disciples. Every division is under one Elder’s command. I am in Bamboo Peak, sixth division, whose leader is Elder Fan.”
And luckily for Jaime, there were some bonus information from that almighty book for him.
[Jaime has been made into a slave for Bamboo Peak, if he fails to serve food and satisfy the inner disciples of Bamboo Peak in the future, he will die without an intact body in no time.
Day one of 100 years’ time to conquer the three realms has started.]
He was shocked. “Is this for real? Conquer the three realms? Human’s realm which has more than one continent and I don’t even know how many universes are out there! Demon realm and G.o.d realm too? Who do you think I am? Am I someone like King of Vali, Ravana and some other legends that can conquer the three realms?”
Jaime felt thirsty and moved his body to the nearest bamboo house.
“Kuaahhh!!” Jaime stared in horror when he saw a body without a head laying inside the bamboo house and ran out quickly. His stomach was lurching. “Who is that dead boy?”
Book of Karma processed the request and gave him an answer while taking 2 point of his mental energies.
[Dead body, known as Hu Hai, a brave warrior who was picked up by Elder Fan while running outside Double Moon Sect for fun. He was forced to become a slave for Bamboo Peak’s inner disciples for a week before being killed by Zhou Wei—the nephew of Elder Fan—because his cooking couldn’t satisfy him.]
“I am a dead man! The killing is not a joke!” Jaime glanced at the way he came in and started moving towards his only way out. Before he could reach Bamboo Peak’s gate, he was alarmed by something cold in his back.
“If you think that you can run away from this place alive, you can try.” The sound was filled with killing intent and made Jaime stiffened.
“I… I… am going to collect food.” He tried reasoning.
“Hmm, go to the west, you will find a forest and a river there. One step out of this gate and you will have to pay with your head.” The voice coldly said.
“Acknowledge.” Jaime turned his body to the west and moved to the deep forest. He was extremely infuriated. “I need my f**king lawyers! Paid them monthly and never use them once in my lifetime and when the time I need them the most has arrived, they aren’t here. Oh, I need cops too, paid my taxes every month for them, believed in my country, in human rights and in Democracy. And when I need them the most, no one is here! F**k! slavery!”
After moving through the forest for about an half hour, Jaime immediately turned around.
I forgot to take any tools with me. What can my two hands do without them?
He went back to the bamboo house, collected anything he could grab from the house and the dead body.
Dead men need nothing.
As for the dead body, he dragged it for a while and threw it into the nearest valley. No family, no friends, he won’t waste time and sweat to dig a grave for him.
“Hu Hai brother, don’t think of me wrongly. We are a brothers that share the same miserable fate, so please don’t rest in peace. Be resentful and bring your whole ancestors to haunt the disciples of Bamboo Peak. Make them pay for what they had done to you. Make them sleepless, sick and take them with you to h.e.l.l.”
Jaime looked at the forest and let out a deep breath. “If I can’t feed those 28 pigs, I will follow you without fail. Please book my place in advance and have two or three beauties accompany me later.”