18 Ego

"you with the tiger mask, where is Fu Qin?" Wu He yelled coldly as he walked towards Tiger. Tiger who was calmly waiting for his next match sighed softly. he thought of what he should do at the moment, he didn't want to bring trouble Sora, so he wanted to find a peaceful way to deal with this.

"Is my son looking for me?" everyone who was drawn over their lips twitched hearing this, someone else had fallen for the trap of this hateful person's name.

[Gained Attention- gained 102,109 SP

You have been Cursed- Gained 99,123 SP

You Have been Disbiaized- Gained 78,231 SP]

everyone's attention turned towards Sora who was walking forward with hands behind his back, while looking at him, everyone realized that Sora haven't fought on top of the stage. a few of them were waiting for his matches, but it was Sora just stopped getting on stage.

"Why hasn't he been fighting? did he get kicked out?" Someone asked in confusion, his voice created a chained reaction as everyone also began questioning. Wu He wanted to explode in rage, but with so many people talking his voice was shadowed. and it's not like anyone bother to make room for him to walk toward Sora,

"cough, well... the answer Is simple," Sora said with a smile, making everyone quiet as they all looked toward Sora, waiting for him to speak.

"I was told to act my age, how could I... your father take your opportunities? So, I moved straight to the next exam." Sora asked calmly,

{you have been cursed- gained 105,192 SP

You have enraged the crowd- gained 105,195

You have been envied- gained 9,102}

the notification kept refreshing by the sect, Sora smiled behind his mask while looking at the many dark faces around him.

"You dare?" a young master's face was red with rage, when was the last time he was looked down upon like this? and who dare have more special treatment than himself? he didn't believe this? everyone who had high confidence in their skill set was enraged, Sora sighed softly seeing this.

"sigh, they do dare. it hurts that I, your father can't play with you. but I'm an adult. ever since I left that day to get milk, I haven't seen you all for so long. so it hurts me greatly that I, can't spend time with you." Sora said while looking at the sky, everyone froze slightly. there was something off with Sora's voice.

it had this strange power that made them feel as if they were standing before their dad, making their heart ace. of course, Sora didn't have any ability of that kind. this was purely his charm at work, adding it to Sora's acting skills. it was a feeling that grew within those with weak wills

but the effect was only a slight feeling which came and left, everyone's rage grew, covering their shame with rage. they rushed forward to try and beat Sora up, but a powerful heat wave shot from Sora's body, making them all unable to get close.

"damn it, why is he so hot?" they yelled as they quickly backed off, but the heat suddenly disappeared stunning them.

"sigh, you all remind me of your mom. she is always saying 'you too hot, I can't get enough of you, and so on and so on'.... sigh." Sora shook his head as if he was remembering an event of the past, and everyone's face turned dark. just as they were about to rush forward to eat Sora alive, a pressure forced them all to stand still.

"please stop playing around here, or else you would not be able to return." a woman floated above everyone's heads, while calmly looking down upon Sora, Sora looked up at her with an innocent look, what did he do wrong?

the elder seeing those innocent eyes through the eye holes, her lips twitched slightly while looking at Sora. She instantly realized what type of person Sora was, a person who loved to bath in chaos,

"Fu... cough, this young man has strength allowing him to rival those at level 5 body tempering, because of which, he has been moved onto the next exam." She said calmly, catching herself from making a mistake. She couldn't help but cursed Sora deep down, just how hateful was this person?

everyone was in shock hearing her voice, they turned to look toward Sora in shock. but of course, they didn't believe this, who would so easily believe that someone of around the same age range outclassed them by so much?

the elder above sighed softly, she was even holding back. Sora's resistance to flames easily put him in Qi's gathering realm. Sora must have a unique physique, it was unknown if this resistance was limited to fire only,

"Well, I your father will be waiting for you all in the finals. the winner can take me back home, so I and your mother can be together once more." Sora said with a smile, everyone gritted their teeth, and killing intent filled the whole place, making the elder speechless. she hesitated for a moment before she disappeared... would if they all ganged up on Sora, then Sora would learn something new.

with her disappearing, nothing was holding them back, even a level 5 body tempering realm expert can't withstand all of them attacking at once. Sora moved slightly, and he went on to smoothly step around, dodging everyone's attacks smoothly.

"oh wow, son, you have gotten quite skilled," Sora said seeing as someone almost touched him, his head suddenly lowered as someone from behind him attacked. Sora was not even paying attention, he was forced on enraging everyone.

"..." Elder Thunder's eyes twitched none stop upon rushing back only to see this, he was busy somewhere else, but when he heard Sora was causing trouble, he came to see what happened, only to see this scene, which shocked him.

Sora's martial art skills were scarier than he expected, for Sora to face attacks from all sides, yet to smoothly move through them like it was nothing. looking closely, he could slightly understand what Sora have done, he had engraved martial into every single cell of his body,

"... is he doing this to train? pushing martial art to the fullest, making sure each part of the body can move. it's like a reflexed movement, but trained towards making auto movement?" the old man's eyes glowed slightly while looking at Sora,

Elder thunder's eyes shrank when he saw Sora look towards him, time seemed to freeze as realization hit him.

'he is showing me?' Elder thunder was shocked at his thoughts, but why would Sora show him? was Sora trying to reawaken the flame within him? that flame to that had weakened to a point it could die out at any moment, slowly this flame began to reawaken, and his student was going all out to help the teacher. how could he, the teacher disappoint?

Sora jumped slightly as he hopped onto an empty stage, Sora watched the group of people who were about to rush up onto the stage. Sora quickly held his hand out.

"Alright, that should be enough, that was to prove my ability. 10 minutes straight, and no one could even touch me." Sora said calmly, making everyone freeze in their footsteps, Sora suddenly pointed towards someone within the crowd before anyone could say anything.

"you, the cultivation art you are cultivating isn't for you. that's why you feel that pain in your pinky. seek a cultivation art of the earth type... and you, you are pregnant, the cultivation art you are cultivating will damage the child. that children will soon feed off you if you're not careful." Sora went on to point out a group of people, telling them the mistake and their flaws, this stunned all of them frozen.

"you don't think I went out of my way to play around for nothing? we will be joining the same sect soon, we should support each other." Sora said with a smile. of course, Sora could care less about teaching them. but teaching them would give [Teaching] XP, as well as giving Sora a bunch of SP

but the best thing of all, Sora would slowly charm this foolish bunch, making them all another line of power. power in numbers. no matter who or what, be it a kingdom, sect, or city. those citing at the top were nothing without those below. if those below supported Sora, Sora would be as good as sitting at the top of things.

Let's say Sora managed to get every out-sect disciple to become a loyal follower of his, would an elder carelessly kill him? of course not, if all of them joined together to support Sora, an event the sect master would have to take a step backward.

the outer sect disciples were made up of more than 50% of the building, they were the foundation of this place. remove them, was like moving the pillars. the sect would lose a huge amount of its power, income, and reputation.

outer sect disciples did many tasks in the outside world, people would request jobs from the sect, and the sect disciples would take them, and get pain. the sect would take part of that pay, and with hundreds of thousands of outer sect disciples going out every week, one could guess how rich the sect was.

"..." the crowd was moved, those who Sora point out were the most moved out of everyone. to think Sora was only enraging them to test them. it was an old trick in the book to enrage people so they could show you their skills, and they fell for it. but Sora pretty much saved him by pointing out their flaws.

"T-thank." the pregnant woman Sora pointed out said with a slight bow, Sora just waved his hands slightly at his.

"I was wrong for enraging you, it was an underhanded move. so I apologize for that. so until next week, if you need anything, come and I will try my best to help you." Sora said with a smile, moving the crowd even more, they were the ones who lost control and attacked him. as cultivators, they would have a calm mind, they so easily lost control, how could they allow Sora to apologize?

{you have been respected- Gained 105,282 SP

You have awe the crowd- gained 105, 191 SP

You have been admired- gained 105,201 SP}

Sora looked at the SP before nodding slightly. it was rare to find someone who can point out their flaws and take a step back, acknowledge the mistake, and apologizes for it. in this world, people were too prideful for such action

'like that, I solved two problems.' Sora thought as he jumped off the stage and disappeared, Wu He had some seeking him, yet thanks to the crowd, he had nothing he could do. the guy would have to take until next time to bother him.

the thing about Wu He was his background, about 5 years ago, the sect master went out. a few people knew this, but when the sect master came back, he bought back an extremely talented person, who called himself the Son of Heaven.

Elder Mo thought he was the sect master child, and those few who knew of him had similar thoughts. but at the end of the day, the sect master took him in as his personal disciple, many people within the sect believed that he might just be the son of heaven,

His luck was unmatched, his talent was unmatched, and his look was unmatched. all of this added together drew many elders to support him. hell, even some sects had become closer with the sect because of this.

Sora was not in a potion to come into conflict with him, not just yet. Sora was; led through the sect, and soon stopped near a pond, why did he stop? because he saw a notification pop up

{you are being watched- Gained 1 SP}

no name or clue of the person who was watching him was shown, if Sora have seen the person or something of the kind, then the system would have said something like, 'the young lady is watching you- gained 1 SP'.

but instead of that, the system just said he was being watched, meaning the person who was waiting for him was someone he had never seen or sensed in any way. at the same time, this person was powerful enough for none of his senses to pick up on him.

Sora's eyes, nose, ears, tongue, and eyes twitched as Sora pushed them to the fullest. Sora moved forward, as this would force whoever was watching him follow him. and soon, Sora barely heard the sound of some eyeballs moving.

as Soon as Sora heard that sound, all of his senses locked onto that spot, and chills ran down Sora's spine upon finding out where the person was. slowly looking to the side, Sora saw an old man standing next to him, looking at him in intreast.

just a moment ago, Sora couldn't sense anything about this old man, but upon looking at him, it was like the breath the old man was holding was released, allowing Sora to sense the old man's existence once more. but Sora pulled back his senses as they felt as if they were on fire.

Sora's ears felt as if they were on fire, Sora's nose felt as if he just breathed in fire, his tongue felt as if it tasted the sun, his body felt as if it was on fire, while his eyes felt as if they were about to metal.

"... who are you?" Sora asked avoiding looking straight at this old man, just sensing him almost killed him. the old man rubbed his chin slightly while looking Sora up and down for a moment, he nodded slightly while thinking to himself.

"interesting, to think I would only need to wait 30 or so years to find someone who could cultivate it." He said softly, confusing Sora slightly, the old man smiled while looking at Sora confused look, Sora was sweating slightly, a part of his attention was on the notification bar, trying to see just how long he was being watched.

upon closer look, he found that he was being watched back at the arena, he of course didn't notice this as many people were watching him. but the watch notification remained even when he left, by which point Sora was thinking about how to deal with Wu He

"from this moment on, you shall become this old man's disciple," the old man said with a smile, stunning Sora slightly.

{you have been requested- gained 1 SP}

Sora looked at this notification for a moment, with the eyes of a normal human, Sora storied the old man for a moment. the old man didn't seem ill will toward him, but Sora had to throw out his biggest trump card to test him.

"cough elder, Elder Thunder has taken me as a disciple, I would have to ask him to see if he would accept me taking in another master," Sora said calmly,

"I know, I just called him to ask him about you. he didn't dare you to take you as a disciple because he knew I would take you in." He said calmly with hands behind his back. he gave off the aura of a true expert, with that long white beard, long white hair, and long white eyebrows. he looked like the perfect image of an elder. looking at him once more, Sora thought he saw a man glowing slightly like gold. a treasure, to think a powerful backing would throw itself at him

"you're the sect master?" Sora asked with bright eyes

"Haha, No" the old man laughed with a shake of his head

"the sect ancestor?" Sora asked with brighter eyes

"No," The old man said with a shake of his head, stunning Sora slightly, was this old man a ripe off? but he had to know just how the old man was.

"Are you someone of the royal family?" Sora asked

"No" the old man shook his head

"The Jade emperor?" Sora asked

"... No" the old man's lips twitched slightly as he shook his head

"Holy Emperor?"

"Celestial Emperor?"

"... Are You God?" Sora asked with the list hint of hope disappearing from his eyes, the old man's face by now was completely dark. did this brat think that the holy emperor would just appear before him? what was with him asking if he was God? God your mother.

with each question, Sora asked, Sora only went higher and higher on the food chain, just who did this brat think he was?

"t-than, if I may ask. who is an elder?" Sora asked, a random person just up and appeared and had no huge background and was trying to take him in as a disciple. he was looking for a weak backing, then he would have taken Elder thunder as his master,

"..." The old man was in no mood to play with Sora, he came here in a good mood, to think he found someone who could carry his legacy, but he had to be hammered down by his brat words none stop. how could he speak after such huge names were spoken?

{you have been cursed by the old man- gained 1 SP

you have been cursed by the old man- gained 1 SP

you have been cursed by the old man- gained 1 SP

you have been cursed by the old man- gained 1 SP}

Sora went blank seeing the roles of notification, the old man was not mad. seeing this, Sora had no choice but to change the subject for his beloved life. you know the thing where you breathe and stuff, Sora likes doing that.

"Elder don't take offense, with your mighty aura, and amazing entrance, this junior couldn't help but believe you were the Jade Emperor," Sora said quickly, the old man froze slightly before he nodded, indeed that made sense.

"It was a pleasure meeting someone as cool and amazing as an elder, it was the first time I felt my senses just burning up. truly, if you're not god then who is?" Sora said making the old man's lips twitch, he couldn't help but smile slightly. this brat had a point.

"Well, I should get going back to cultivate. I don't want to waste elder time on a foolish junior like myself. how could I, who isn't even in the sect dare to burn away more of elder time?" Sora said to which the old man nodded in understanding. seeing this, Sora quickly turned and ran away.

the old man watched Sora leave for a moment, but just as he was about to turn and leave, he realized something. was he not here to take that brat as a disciple,

"Get back here." He said angrily, Sora was about to jump away suddenly felt. the old man's stairs made him free like flames were surrounding him, a move and he would be burned alive.

'This brat feed into my ego, he turned his mistake into an opportunity for a win... how hateful.' He thought while looking at Sora with narrowed eyes