Since the beginning of time the strong have always ruled, this is the only true rule which is still unchanged to this day.
Xuan Wu was calmly cultivating in his home, suddenly a man kicks down his door and yells "the demon is here!" indicating that Xuan Wu is a demon.
Xuan Wu would stand up as he looked at the man as more people would arrive, all of them have a higher level of cultivation, they're in the late stage of The True Qi realm and Xuan Wu is merely in the initial stage of The True Qi realm.
the difference between the men and him are too much, as one of the men steps forth, he is an older man with countless of years of experience "Xuan Wu, you demon, I hereby declare that you shall be executed for your crimes."
he looks at the man before asking "my crimes? what have I supposedly done?"
The old man looks at Xuan Wu with a gaze of annoyance "stop pretending you don't know your deeds, demon"
being called a demon even though he has always helped people in need really annoyed Xuan Wu.
"I have not done anything wrong." Xuan Wu explained "I have always helped others even if i didn't have the resources myself!" the anger in Xuan Wu's tone is visible
The old man then looked at the young man on his right side "tell him what you told me."
The young man then looked at Xuan Wu before looking back at the old man and he began telling lies.
"me and my brother were going to the village down the mountain and when we arrived there we saw this demon slaughtering people in the most evil ways possible, when he saw us he began chasing me and my brother endlessly. My brother sacrificed his life there so i could escape and this demon killed my brother" the young man said as he pretended to sound sad and convincing.
The old man then looked back at Xuan Wu "there you have it, demon."
At this point, these lies have angered him as he looked at the old man. "those are obviously lies! i have not killed anyone since moving up this mountain 30 years ago!"
The old man was having none of it as he ordered the young man to his right and the young man on his left to restrain Xuan Wu before taking out his sword.
Since the 3 of them were all in the late stage of The True Qi realm compared to Xuan Wu at only the initial stage he stood no chance.
He was quickly held down by the young men before having the old man cut off his head.
Then suddenly everything turned dark as there was only Xuan Wu as a sudden voice began talking. "Young Man, you were blessed by the heavens, thus i shall give you a second chance at life."
Suddenly the scene changed to a 17 year old boy as Xuan Wu's soul was put in the body, he then looked at the heavens thinking of what the young man said before he was killed. "if a demon is what you want me to be, then a demon is what i shall be!"
He then looked down and realized that the body his soul had occupied was his own, except it was his body from 33 years ago as he smiled menacingly "seems like i can prepare in advance for this all huh?! lets see who dies this time around!"
The only downside is that this body has not yet awakened since his and the others from the same generation their awakening process would be in 10 more days
"seems like I've come back to the time where i was just a mere mortal, i know how to break through but i should wait until the mass awakening process." Xuan Wu exclaimed as he doesn't want to be suspicious to others.
10 days would pass with the blink of an eye as Xuan Wu would go to the hall where the mass awakening would be held, he was the last to arrive as the process would then begin.
An older man would come up on stage. "Greeting everyone, i am Ming Yue. As you all know, there are 6 realms we can cultivate to after awakening, each of them has the initial stage, the middle stage and the late stage. The 6 realms we can cultivate to are; The Body Refining realm where we physically strengthen our body, The Foundation Building realm where we officially begin building our foundation, The Qi Gathering realm where we can gather a lot of spiritual energy. The True Qi realm where we purify the spiritual energy and turn it into Qi, The Golden Core realm where we gain a golden core next to our dantian where all of our life experience is held, and The Martial Spirit realm where we begin to form our martial spirit."
Ming Yue then continues "first we will test you on your aptitude using these stairs" he stepped aside revealing a very high and long staircase "the higher you can climb the better your aptitude"
He then began calling people up on stage and saying the results "Zhu Qing, 12 steps, low grade aptitude. Chen Xi, 18 steps, low grade aptitude."
Ming Yue continued making people climb the stairs as most people were low or mid grade aptitude.
"we are halfway done" he said "now Xuan Wu, you're up" Ming Yue exclaimed.
Xuan Wu walked to the stairs as he thought [i cant make it look too easy but not too hard either, lets pretend to struggle a bit] he then walked to the stairs before taking a step...