Chapter 20 - Persistance Is The Key To Success

At the crack of dawn, a small figure of a boy can be seen running around one of the training grounds of the Li family Castel where he can be seen panting, catching for his breath, and sweating heavily,

It was Li Jie who had decided earlier to exercise his body as he realized that to be stronger in the upcoming future, he has to keep his physique stronger and flexible.

Li Jie was wondering excitedly about what will he be taught by Mr.Teacher today as his lessons will start from today onwards, will he be taught some amazing sword arts or even better, some kind of supreme cultivation arts,

after all, Mr.Teacher was able to offer him an extremely high leveled bloodline, so it's obvious he will be taught some unknown fabled sword arts of legends which he mused about happily as he was running.

Soon it was time for his lesson, Li Jie before going out was checking on the sword given to him by Mr.Teacher which he was supposed to keep with him at all times,

not understanding what was so special about this sword except for the fact that it has this allure which would make one want to stare at it for a long period of time,

after staring at the sword for some time he shook his head, kept it tightened around his waist by using the leather belt.

When Li Jie reached inside the training pagoda, he was stunned by the sight of what greeted him, everything was the same,

except for the many lamps present all around the room and a small table present with a quill and an ink present on it with huge stacks of paper beside it,

Mr.Teacher can be seen standing smiling at the sight of Li Jie, he motioned him to the table across from him to sit behind the table and to place one of the blank paper on the table to start writing,

Li Jie wasn't able to fathom Mr. Teacher's directions, he thought he will be learning martial arts, so why were there writing tools present for writing, still Li Jie didn't question and started to do as he was told,

he sat on the mat cross-legged which was placed behind the table and was ready to write on the blank paper,

it was then that he looked at Mr.Teacher in a questioning expression, Mr.Teacher then nodded to him and took out a parchment from his chest pocket which was rolled,

when he opened it there were many words written on it row by row from top to bottom except for a blank space left on the topmost side of the parchment,

but looking closely at it made him realize that the words written on the parchment were all same except for their penmanship which differed,

none of the words on it looked the same, from what can be understood, all the words seem to be written by different people,

except for the fact that there was nothing special about the whole parchment which made Li Jie feel weird because he knew anything given to him by Mr.Teacher can never be simple.

"Li Jie from today onwards your training will start, no excuses will be accepted as you must work hard to achieve your goals, here is a parchment on which I made many of the swordsman I have met over the years to write the word sword, you have to start writing from beneath the left corner of the parchment you will not be writing any others that I have not instructed yet to you, lest you wanna court death".

Li Jie was shocked, why would he die just from writing any other word present in the parchment, except for the change in penmanship aren't they all same, thought Li Jie in a troubled expression which made Mr.Teacher chuckle a bit

"You don't have to get worked up over this, just do as I say, by the way, you have to write that word in the same way it is written on the parchment, no matter how long it takes you to write in the same manner".

Li Jie without question started writing, after which he understood that he had to write the word "sword" which was present at the leftmost bottom corner of the parchment, again and again,

and after some time of writing Li Jie noticed that he wasn't even able to copy properly what was written on the parchment as due to some odd reason he was getting pangs of a headache but he still persisted and tried writing,

no matter how long it would take for him to write the same or how painful the process was going on for him, he didn't want to disappoint Mr.Teacher,

seeing Li Jie persisting and writing no matter how heavy-headed or painful it felt for Li Jie, Mr.Teacher felt satisfied looking at his new student,

who was persisting and performing the task regardless of the discomfort present steadily, while many others in Li Jie's place might have given up then and there, for not being able to persist longer and the most shocking of all was the fact that Li Jie was just Five years old kid.

after a while Li Jie can be seen sweating profusely on his forehead where his veins can be seen popping out, his hand was moving steadily in writing the same word over and over again, but the word written didn't even closely match with the one present on the parchment, by now he had wasted quite a several papers by copying the word in which he was unsuccessful.

Li Jie felt horrible at the fact that he can't even copy a word properly, he felt ashamed to the degree that he didn't even dare to look at Mr.Teacher and ask him for further instructions because the task he got was simple as it looked,

it was just copying of a single word and why the hell was copying a word giving him headaches, without stopping he again took a new paper and started to write the word when he was almost finished writing the word,

he was suddenly interrupted "That's enough for today, now place down the quill" hearing his master,

Li Jie suddenly stopped in fright not knowing how to explain his failure, it was then he felt Mr.Teacher's hand on his head which felt like a pat,

it was then Li Jie raised his head and looked at Mr.Teacher who was smiling with a pleased expression,

"Very well, I am very pleased with your performance, why do you have such a downcast look, you really thought you could copy it in a day hahaha" chucked Mr.Teacher at the boy sitting next to him with a pleasantly surprised but also relieved expression.

Mr.Teacher then briefed him about how the words written in the parchment were not as simple as they looked to be and again with warning he mentioned that he should never try writing the other words, of course, he kept the part about Li Jie's performance to himself as he didn't want Li Jie to complacent.

Li Jie was happy that he hadn't disappointed his master, it was then Mr.Teacher gestured for Li Jie to get up and be ready, which made Li Jie confused but right at the moment when he got up,

the whole surrounding changed, literally, everything changed except for Mr..Teacher who was still standing beside him and now he found himself to be in the middle of a forest where only trees and various types of plants can be seen everywhere.