The Way of the Sword (BL)

All novice disciples are staying at an inn near the battle arena, veteran inner disciples are also in the same place, the first floor belongs to the veteran disciples and the second floor belongs to the novice disciples, to prevent novices from escaping for a walk and getting in trouble, the Aurore Core realms disciples who are responsible for the care and safety of all disciples are on the third floor. 

The rooms have up to two beds, so the disciples were divided into doubles, of course, the boys and girls stayed in separate rooms. Quian Dalai and Tai-Yang are currently sharing a room, Wen Jie and Shou Zuo are sharing another room, and Chu Yue is sharing a room with Sun Jie. 

The servants of this inn quickly brought a large wooden tub to each room and filled it with water and heated, of course, each servant is at the Realms Foundation, so it was not difficult to use the affinity of the elements to control water and fire, so quickly all the disciples had a hot tub in the room.

Even before the disciples had bathed, the inn's servants diligently brought trays with a nutritious but light and easily digestible meal, there was also some soothing tea to soothe the restless spirits of the young.

Shou Zuo tipped a few silver coins to the servants who serviced his room, both servants bowed in thanks and withdrew from the room. Wen Jie can only sigh in his heart that his friend is a spender, these silver coins could buy many groceries.

Wen Jie came from a village, it was clear that he had a more economical view of things, but since the money is from Shou Zuo, he kept his comments to himself. Today Wen Jie had a lot to think about, Grandmaster Zhang talked to him privately shortly before everyone settled in the inn. 

Grand Master Zhang talked to him about the natural energy and demonic energy that was identified by the keys today, of course, Wen Jie was confused about that, as he had no idea what that kind of energy means. Honestly, he wouldn't have known it was so important and surprising if the old men hadn't been talking about it.

Wen Jie listened to a brief explanation from Grandmaster Zhang, he learned that Grandmaster Zhang is also a natural energy martial cultivator and also spoke of the difficulty of finding martial cultivators with this natural energy. This great teacher stated that many can be born with natural energy, but few of them can cultivate the martial path. 

Of course, the cultivators omitted this fact and wrote it down as natural energy is rare. On the one hand, it would be painful for a person to know that he has such powerful energy, but could not use it because he does not have the right body for martial cultivation. Having the proper body for cultivation has to do with food, physical care, and lineage, the first two are possible to acquire as long as you work early in childhood, but the lineage was something inherited, not exactly necessary to manipulate natural energy, but it was necessary for strengthening the body. Of course, could it also be that scholars and sects did not want the population to charge them for help? That would be hard to know.

Therefore, legends about divine fairies and charming men always appeared, even from ordinary people wiser than the gods, for they were natural energy bearers who had no talent for cultivation on the martial path or who never discovered that they had this natural energy. 

Of course, Grandmaster Zhang seemed very excited to speak, despite his arrogant manner and informal mannerism, he did not seem to be a difficult person to approach, but instinctively Wen Jie felt that this grandmaster should not be taken with him lightly. 

Great Master Zhang also made him a very interesting proposition, he wanted Wen Jie to be his personal disciple, even though Great Master Zhang was a martial cultivator who followed the path of the long, thin sword, which is the path of the opposite sword of Wen Jie 

Obviously, as a Great Master, he could teach any sword technique, from heavy to long and light, but in later cultivation, it would be more difficult to teach, in contrast, the control of natural and demonic energy would be much softer than if Wen Jie trained with someone who only knew the way of the heavy sword.

Wen Jie never imagined in his wildest dreams that a prestigious Grand Master from the greatest sect of humanity would ask him to be his personal disciple!

"Are you thinking of Grandmaster Zhang again?" Shou Zuo's voice was a seductive whisper in Wen Jie's ear, who shivered and nearly jumped out of bed. 

Shou Zuo had a mischievous smile on his handsome face, his peach eyes looked damp, he looked quite harmless, but Wen Jie felt he looked a little angry. 

"Yeah, how I wouldn't think of the great master when he made me such a good proposal!" Said Wen Jie sighing. There was more to think about, since if he accepted the Grand Master's invitation it meant that he would live on the Grand Master's mountain or somewhere other than the novice, which meant staying away from his new friends and Shou Zuo 

"I'm just wondering if it would be good for me to choose between the art of the sword or being able to control the energy of my body…" Wen Jie started talking about everything that Grand Master Zhang had talked to Shou Zuo and also about his concerns about the future. 

"You should go with Grandmaster Zhang and become a core disciple directly," Shou Zuo said after a few minutes of silence, he looked at Wen Jie's profile, the light from the orb of light illuminated his profile, the ugly scar looked like even redder as it was recent, from eyebrow to chin, which could ruin someone's face.

Shou Zuo felt his hand itch, he wanted to trace that scar with his fingertips and then make some lewd and meaningful joke, kiss Wen Jie's embarrassed face, unfortunately, the moment had to be serious and solemn, that was important to Wen Jie. 

"Why?" Asked Wen Jie clutching the sheet in his hands. In his mind, he knew that Shou Zuo was saying this for his benefit, but in his 16-year-old heart, he felt a little resentful! Didn't Shou Zuo want the two to be together? And why did knowing that makes him bitter? That made Wen Jie very confused and anxious!