The Way of the Sword

Wen Jie felt nervous with so many looks from the powerful cultivators in his body as if they wanted to open him in half and look inside. Which wasn't far from the truth, how could these Elders not have the glint of greed and curiosity in their eyes ?! There were few legends about dual-energy humans! 

"Isn't this green color the wind energy? The energy of nature! But there is demonic energy too! This teenager is a miracle of nature! "Thought Lan Ruan looking at the fool Wen Jie. 

Wen Jie had the look of a simple village hunter, he was tall, tanned, with broad shoulders and strong body, large hands and messy long hair tied in a loose ponytail. There was even a set of scars on his body, particularly a rather ugly scar on the right side of his face.

Lan Ruan mentally decided to report on this village number 10, in addition to Wen Jie there was Zemin Yan who demonstrated powers that should only appear one in a few centuries, but this time there were two humans with powers that did not belong to humans! 

Of course, Lan Ruan didn't know that Elder Han already knew about Wen Jie, Shou Zuo, and Chu Yue, so he had high expectations for these children and had already informed the sect. But just as with Zemin Yan, the accompanying disciples Wen Jie and Shou Zuo were also forced to swear on their Dao roots to keep these innate and extremely rare energies a secret!

Moreover, Wen Jie was not informed of his dual-energy, as Elder Han feared that this honest and innocent young man would open his good carelessly, so he lied to Wen Jie, causing them to give a false assessment of his powers. So Wen Jie was relatively calm and ignorant, just a little nervous with so many glances on him, but he didn't know what was going on.

Already Shou Zuo clearly came from a powerful family who knew how to behave, and in addition, Elder Han felt that there was no point in lying to Shou Zuo, as this effeminate boy had a dangerous aura around him. 

Of course, when Elder Han saw these people become close to Zemin Yan, his heart became apprehensive, there were many powerful people around that silly child, that was a fortune, but it could also be a calamity!

"Hey, look at this person's key is a strange color too!" Someone from the wandering cultivators said. He noted that everyone was looking at keys that seemed to have unusual colors, so he pointed to one of the disciples who had different keys, of course, who did this to gain some attention.

The person who was pointed out by this wandering martial cultivator was ugly Chong Bo, who held a medium-sized key, but the colors were strange… It was a kind of dark blue, which seemed to burn like a ghostly blue fire. 

"Dead Energy!" The Elders gasped at the sight of that creepy key. The energy of death is not really energy, since everything that means energy in this world had something related to life. So there were only 5 energies in the world, but where there was no life, then there was death!

Death also produced its own matter, but since martial cultivation scholars could not fit this matter produced by death, so they commonly call it Dead Energy.

Of course, wizard scholars had a different classification for this dead energy, which could be divided into two types: 1. Dead Mana and 2. Phantom Energy. The first is to use magic to steal the feelings of hatred, anger, and sadness of living things, which is easier to do when killing people or dying of pandemics, etc. Then condense these negative feelings into mana so that wizards could manipulate this energy to use in their combat spells. This dead mana has the power theoretically to erode living beings, but studies prove that the blood or energy of nature has the power to purify this dead mana.

The phantom energy, on the other hand, was different because it came from the connection with souls that were crossing the great river of death. In other words, this energy was far beyond the capabilities of mortals, as it was extracted directly from the Styx River, also known as Rio of the Dead. 

Clearly, to manipulate this Phantom Energy requires the permission of the guardians of death guarding the great Styx River! These guardians are something like powerful and indifferent gods, of course, described in legends. There are some historical records that come from before the Age of Emperors that those who have Phantom Energy come from families that are made up of powerful Priests or equally powerful Necromancers.

It should be remembered that the Necromancer follows the "magic" side and the Priest follows the Dao of martial cultivation.

Chong Bo felt her face get darker and darker, she was truly pissed off at this stupid key as it revealed her secret! Only she and a few people knew about this Phantom Energy. Everyone knew that exposing this ability too soon would endanger the life of this talented female cultivator! So everyone who knew about her Phantom Energy also took the oath of silence!

But now that stupid key no longer has exposed her secret to the light of day! This was not raising a death flag on her head!

"I knew this ugly woman had a problem! The rumors were not false! She must be linked to the ghosts of hell! "Jun Lin commented to her colleague maliciously, causing other fellow cultivators to move a little further away from Chong Bo.

Chong Bo just sighed and didn't mind the comments and nasty gossip that began to circulate around her, as she always treated it like hot air. After all, these people are just foolish young people, what concerned her were the greedy old men who were there, and besides, this was all being filmed at the core of the sect. Those old mighty ones were already eyeing the new batch of disciples, so everything was being recorded for later analysis and then those old men would select their personal disciples.