Chapter 9 - Li Jie's Unexpected Encounter

At day time, in the Li family castle, in one of the bed chambers where Li Jie resided, two small twins entered his room and started making noises, after hearing the whole commotion Li Jie woke up rubbing his eyes while he noticed his pillow felt damp due to him having wept all night,

he shook his head and smiled while looking at his kid brother and sister in a loving way who was just messing with the whole room, "Shuangyan, Zhengji" he scolded firmly while looking at them who stopped playing around and sat down, afraid of the scolding they might get from their older brother, seeing their pitiful expression Li Wei nearly laughed "come,

let's go to mom and dad".

Both the kids nodded listening to their brother's instruction, all three of them then moved and went towards the main hall of the Li family where his mother and father usually are, while on the way he noticed that everyone no matter whether they were maids, servants or strong fighters of the Li family.

All of them were keeping their distance from them as if panic and fear were present in their eyes when their eyes contacted they would just politely smile and nod towards the kids, feeling the situation a bit weird and different from how he expected it to go,

he started ruminating about the whole situation and then he came up with his own conjectures that this situation must be related to his father and mother, comprehending which made him feel more and more guilty with everything that's happening, only if he had a bloodline, he would be respected instead without any force.

when the kids reached the main hall, where inside, their father was discussing some matters with his mother, he suddenly noticed his kids at the corner of his eyes and while beaming with joy he went towards them and picked the twins and started kissing them on their cheeks playfully, and then looked at Li Jie , he said in a warm expression,

"It's good you came here early Li Jie, your mother and I were just discussing your future and decided that is if you want you can be taught the art of using different weapons by our Li family Grand-masters or just the scholarly knowledge taught in academies, where apart from cultivation, they also teach weapon forging, accounting, anatomy, poetry, languages, reading, writing, mathematics, culture, music and much more.

Li Jie nodded after hearing this, but he felt dispirited by the fact that he couldn't cultivate and had to learn some menial things which most of the cultivators in this continent don't even deign to learn, also this knowledge was for the working officials who had extremely poor bloodline and talent who couldn't cultivate to higher levels, they would study such knowledge to work under a cultivator of high status and help them with menial day to day tasks.

Li Wei understood by looking at his son, even if he doesn't show it, his father and mother both could feel his sadness, knowing they couldn't do much they could only cheer him up and do the best they can for his son,

"Li Jie, right now you are five years old and the requirement for a person to attend the Sacred Heart Academy is that the person should be of 10 years or above regardless of their cultivation, while the only other requirement was to pay a high priced fees decided by the academy based on the individual if the person was extremely talented and with a high-grade bloodline,

they could even study there for free whereas the other academies worked differently they only took admission of those with mid-tier and high-tier bloodlines excluding those of low-tier.

That's why the Li family patriarch decided to send his son to the Sacred Heart Academy when he is of 10 years old. Li Jie alone came outside of the main hall in a dejected expression and remembered that his father had informed him for him to go to the training area which was specially built for him, where there were instructors for every weapon and that he can decide which one to go for.

when he reached the training area which was a pagoda reserved for training the most talented young generation of the Li family while Li Jie couldn't have gotten to train in this pagoda but his father was the patriarch,

so who could defy him while dwelling on this idea and his excitement for learning the art of fighting and weapons, he entered the pagoda and noticed that there was only one middle-aged man who was sitting cross-legged and staring with profoundness at a sword which was lying on the floor unsheathed

which was sharp two-edged, straight and cumbersome while it's features were normal it had some kind of allure which was hard to resist and understand, suddenly Li Jie remembered that there were supposed to be many instructors present yet there was only one man here and no one else,

Li Jie didn't panic he went beside the middle-aged man and sat because the mysterious middle-aged man didn't show any ill intentions instead he had a charm which made it hard for anyone to have a bad impression of this man, instead, many would get attracted towards this man out of curiosity just like Li Jie right now.

"Hello sir, may I know who you are? I have never seen you In the Li family castle", the man smiled and shifted his face towards Li Jie whose face expressed his curiosity, "I am no one important that's why you don't know me kid", said the man with an amicable expression

Li Jie was certain that this man was an outsider because anyone in the Li family regardless of their status would call him young master, but what was shocking was despite the security around the whole Li family the man was sitting leisurely in this training pagoda, he wanted to question the man for any ulterior motives but it was hard to think of the man as someone with evil intent.

Li Jie got quiet, not knowing what to say next, and just sat beside the man waiting for him to speak, "Looks like you are a pretty smart kid for your age well that will make things easier.

Tell me, boy,

What is a Sword?