《Emperor of the Universe》 1 The Start of an Epic Journey On a certain planet called Earth. In a castle. The sound of crying could be heard in the halls. "Waaa Waaa Waaa" a baby cried. "Calm down little Qin Lan, your mamma and your daddy will be here soon." The nanny''s efforts to calm the baby were in vain. "sigh" a look of helplessness could be seen in the nanny''s eyes. At the same time the natural energies of the world went wild, and rushed towards the castle. In Qin Lan''s room. Find authorized novels in Webnovel£¬faster updates, better experience£¬Please click for visiting. When the nanny looked up at little Qin a look of shock appeared in her eyes. The natural energies of the world were cradling little Qin. The nanny had a look of shock and fear appear on her face. "I must find the young lords." The nanny ran out of the room looking around frantically for little Qin''s parents. She turned around and saw two people. A man with a well built body standing at 1.9 meters tall with a long sword strapped to his waist, and his cold eyes would make someone naturally be afraid of him, he was looking at the nanny with an eyebrow raised. Next to him was a beautiful woman with a perfect body and a look that could make an entire empire fall. "What the hell are you doing out here you should be taking care of our son while we were gone!"said the man obviously angry at the nanny. "Speak quickly of why you left, otherwise humph!"the cold looking man said while reaching for his blade. The woman by his side had a puzzled look on her face, curious of what would make this nanny so nervous. The nanny trembled as she spoke "Lords, Qin Lan is turning into a warrior." The couple stood there with their jaws dropped wide open. Slowly looks of excitement could be seen on their faces. "Hahahahaha, who would have thought that a warrior born every 10,000 years would be born into my Qin Shan''s, Qin clan!" the man looked at the nanny and said with an excited look on his face. "Lead me to him. Lead me to my son!!!" 3 Qin Lans Power Hua! Hua! A young looking black haired youth is standing in a courtyard practicing with a sword. "I have to be able to use this sword as I do my own arm!" Creak! The door opened to the courtyard and a small little maid about 16 years old walked in. "Young master Qin Lan, the lord requests your audience." the maid said humbly. "Father?" "Yes Young master." "Ok lead the way." Qin Lan said with a smile. Although he was smiling, he was actually quite puzzled to why his father called to him, as he rarely does. When his father does call for him its for something important. They finally arrived in front of a large wooden door that had been eloquently carved, and had a dim light glowing from the cracks between the door and the floor. Qin Lan walked in the room pushing open the door slowly while it creaked. He saw a cold looking man sitting in a chair staring at him. "Father? You wanted to see me?"said Qin Lan puzzled about what his father wants. "Yes, I have decided to let you go onto the wilderness, and hunt. A true warrior has to have life or death battles to grow strong." Qin Lan could barely contain his excitement, he had been waiting for this moment for years. "I will send an elite hunting squad with you, because after all in the future you will become the pillar of the family, and we can''t have you dying on us, now can we?" Qin Lans father said with his eyebrows raised, and his cold eyes seemed like they pierced into his soul. "Yes father" Qin Lan said as he got chills run down his spine. "You will set out tomorrow morning and hunt some magical beasts in the forest." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next day In the woods Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua! Shadows could be seen dancing in the trees. Qin Lan saw a magical beast War-hog. Qin Lan jumped down into the hogs territory. The hog turned its head around abruptly, enraged that a mere human dared to trespass on its territory, enraged the hog ran towards Qin Lan who just sighed and said "The dumb animals get enraged so easily." as the hog was about to hit qin lan he swiftly dodged, at the same time bringing his sword down onto its neck. Chi! The blade got stopped by the hogs powerful muscles. The hog now truly enraged turned around and ran. Qin Lan just grinned "Seems like i''ll have to use this move after all." He filled his blade with his Qi and his blade started glowing a dim blue. At that moment the hog turned around and charged at Qin Lan, while Qin Lan was charging at the hog. "AAAAHHHHH!!!!" Their paths met, and a dim blue glow could be seen as a light flashed through the hogs neck. At the same time one of the hogs huge tusks cut across Qin Lans chest. Chi! The head of the hog flew off and a geyser of crimson blood sprayed out of its neck lying the ground red with blood. The hunters watching this were all shocked. "So this is a legendary warrior!" "I never imagined they were so powerful!" A myriad of praise could be heard for Qin Lan. Qin Lans first hunt, Success!! 4 Qin Lans Master Qin Lan looked down upon his sword, and wiped the blood off of it. Sigh "I wish I could fight stronger beasts!" Qin Lan complained to himself. Although it looked like he went all out in his fight with the War-Hog in actuality he only used 40 percent of his power. Sighing he prepared to head out. He was about to raise his hand to let the hunters know it was time to go back, until he saw stones covered up by moss behind a tree. He motioned for the hunting squad to follow him, as he stealthily moved towards the stone buildings door. He motioned for the squad to stop. He reached for the door knob his hand shaking, because he didn''t know what to expect what lies behind that door. Qin Lan slowly opened the door, trying to be sneaky, but to no avail. The door creaked loudly. As he saw what lay behind the door, he displayed an expression of shock. Qi training manuals were stacked on bookshelves in a neatly decorated room, everything clean and tidy. "You guys wait out here." "Yes young master." the hunters said in unison with a slight bow. Qin Lan looked around the room and found an old man sitting in a desk looking at him with a surprised expression. "hmm strange I didn''t think I would find someone like me here." the old man muttered under his breath. The old man stood up, and an earthen yellow aura suddenly appeared around him. Looking at the man "He can use the primal energies like me, and he is much more powerful." Qin Lan mused to himself. The man chuckled, as though he heard something funny. Qin Lan suddenly felt as though this man was crazy. He looked right at Qin Lan, and said "I am quite powerful indeed." the old man looked at Qin Lan straight in the eyes, his gaze alone seemed like it could pierce through his soul, and kill him instantly. Cold sweat permeated Qin Lans back as he tried to move back only to find out that he couldn''t move. The old man looked at Qin Lan seriously, and said "You have good talent, would you consider being my disciple?" the man questioned. Qin Lan looked stunned, and thought to himself "With such a powerful master, I could become the strongest person on the entire planet!" The old man looked at Qin Lan waiting for a reply. Thud! Qin Lan''s head smacked the ground as he know-towed three times, and said "Disciple greets his master!" Qin Lan said. A smile blossomed on the old mans face. Soon the silver haired old man stopped smiling and said "Although I can teach you personally, and help you make breakthroughs, fighting life or death battles really helps on break through." the old man said in a stern voice. " I want you to experience two of these life or death battles every week, as for the rest of the week train hard, and increase your power." "As for know" the old man said "pick out a training manual for Qi, maneuvering techniques, and a body art." Qin Lan looked at his teacher, confused "I understand why I need to train my Qi, and my maneuvering, but why do I need to practice body arts?" Qin Lan questioned. His teacher looked at him seriously, and said "When one cultivated Qi too much, their body can''t handle all the energy, and they end up dying as a result, but if you train your body along with your Qi, you will only continue to grow stronger." Looking slightly annoyed by all the questions he said "No more questions! Just find a technique that suits you, and start training already." Qin Lan moved his gaze over to the books and manuals his eyes gleaming in anticipation. He looked at many powerful techniques, some that allowed him to destroy mountains, and crush the heavens. He suddenly stopped. Qin Lan felt a calling of some sort. Curious, Qin Lan walked towards the origin of that calling. He stopped in front of a tattered, worn out book. he pulled it out of the shelf it was called "Soaring Dragon", and read inside the cover, and saw it had 9 parts. this technique can train Qi, maneuvering techniques and a body art. Qi training had 3 stages them being: Jindan stage- when your soul and consciousness become solidified, increasing your lifespan by 10,000 years, however only 1 in 10,000 people could reach this level. The second stage was the Deity stage, which allows you to have a tough immortal body and fuses your soul and consciousness together, but what was astonishing was that only 1 in 10,000,000,000 people can reach this stage. The final stage was the Godking stage, which allowed someone to fuse willpower, Qi, Consciousness, and one''s soul into one increasing the users power by leaps and bounds, but it would be rare for one to pop up in a crowd of 10,000,000,000,000 deities. However this was only for humans, for magical beasts it was far easier, and this "Soaring Dragon" manual allows one to change their very genetics, in 3 transformations. This art allows you to become 8,000,000 times stronger than your base form. The first form is as a normal human being whose power has been raised by 20 times. The second transformation allows scales and spikes to grow on you body increasing you power by 200 times the first form. The third form makes you grow scales, and spikes on your body, and adds razor sharp wings that allow you to fly, and grows a tail, that demolishes everything in its path, and it amplifies your power 2,000 times the second form. However only people suited earth, fire, and wind Qi would be able to use this. But Qin Lan was determined to use this Qin Lan''s master looked over at him in shock. "Jeez! This kid is only 10 years old, and he already has such strong willpower, not even some Deities have as much as him!" the old man said to himself in shock. "I must train this young lad well, so he becomes powerful." the old man muttered to himself, grinning wildly at the same time. 5 The Element of Fire! Qin Lan''s teachers voice rang out in the empty hall "It seems like you have chosen, a manual you like." the old man said with a slight smile curling up to the corner of his lips. "Now, if you don''t mind I will allow you to see your affinity rate for the primal elements. They are classified at average, excellent, and demonic. Normal warriors are at the average level, while geniuses are at the excellent level, while monstrous geniuses are at the demonic level. The Elements can be divided up into 7 categories, them being metal, water, earth, light, darkness, fire, and wind. Know lets test you shall we?" The old man man said "This will only take a second, now come over here." Qin Lan walked over, his small muscular legs trembling from excitement. he stopped in front of his master, and kneeled. The old man then placed his long bony fingers on Qin Lans forehead, and concentrated. After a few seconds a gask could be heard, as the old man stared at Qin Lan in shock. "Yo-You have incredible potential!" Qin Lans master said very surprised. "You have a demonic level of affinity for earth, fire, and wind, while everything else has an exceptional affinity!!!" Qin Lan stood there stunned not knowing what to do. "Ha ha ha ha ha! To think that I Yan Bo would have such an amazing disciple, the heavens are truly blessing me!!!" Yan Bo looked at Qin Lan and said "I can''t have you dying on in life or death battles early on, so for 5 years I want you to learn how to use the different types of Qi." Yan Bo said while waving his hand and causing multiple books to appear. "You can start studying know." Yan Bo said with a slight anticipation in his eyes. Suddenly he seemed to remember something, as he shouted to the already leaving Qin Lan "Wait!!!" Qin lan stopped and turned around confused. "Here take this spacial ring. It allows you to store any items that are non living in here at will, you just have to drop some blood onto it to allow it to recognize you as its master." Qin Lan immediately bit into his thumb, and winced slightly at the pain, and watched as a small crimson ball formed at the tip of his finger. The little droplet of blood slowly rolled off his finger, and landed on the ring, watching in fascination as the little droplet of blood got soaked up by the ordinary looking black ring. Qin Lan slipped the ring onto his finger, and started to practice putting things in and out of the ring. After he got familiar with the feeling of putting things in and out of his ring, he set out to leave. walking out of the loud creaking door. He looked at his hunting squad, and said "Let''s move out!" before making a mental map of where his master lives. By the time the squadron got back to the castle the sun was already setting. Qin Lan immediately rushed into his room, eager to start training. With a flip of his hand he got out the fire Qi training manual, and started to train according to the instruction of the manual. One had to close their eyes, and clearly think about flames, and see themself controlling them. Woosh! Qin Lan suddenly appeared in a black space staring at a monstrous amount of fire. "According to the Fire Qi training manual the more control one is able to exert over this fire the more powerful one would be. If someone could control half of the flames present then they will be able to break through to the Jindan stage. If you can control 75 percent of it you will break through to the Deity stage. If one could control all of it they would become a Godking! If one was somehow able to perfectly control all the power without wasting any amount of power, they would become a transcendent being. Qin Lan looked at the fire, and tried to make it succumb to his will, but to no avail. Qin Lan tried over, and over, and over again but to fail every single time. His eyes were bloodshot, and his hair was disheveled. He gritted his teeth "This time it will definitely work!!!" he roared as he tried again this time with determination. The fire rumbled as a small portion of it flew towards Qin Lan. Qin Lan was immediately ecstatic, and his focus wavered a tiny bit. BOOM!!!! A massive explosion rang out. Qin Lan''s face paled "The power of that massive explosion had enough power to wipe out an entire mountain range!!! What kind of hellish power is this!?" Qin Lan exclaimed. "I was this close to being able to control to control it if I hadn''t gotten so excited I could have succeeded!" Qin Lan said while smiling bitterly, looking back at the massive tower of flame with heat so strong that it warped the very space around it. Qin Lan backed away from the tornado of intensely hot fire, and started to try controlling again. Suddenly he started laughing "Ha ha ha ha ha! I''ve been focused on controlling the entire thing, even deities can''t do that! I need to focus on a small part of the flame at a time, and I will definitely succeed!" Qin Lan then turned all his attention to a small flicker of flame from the huge ball of fire in front of him. The ball of fire rumbled as if it was reluctant of letting the small part of fire go. The small ball of fire, about the size of a fist, flew towards towards Qin Lan. The fist sized fire shot towards his forehead, and merged with him. A fiery red aura shot up around him, Qin Lan gritted his teeth. "The pain this made him feel, was like someone was burning his organs inside his body. "AAAAH!!!" Qin Lan screamed with bloodshot eyes "I must merge with this, and become more powerful!!!!" Qin Lan ferociously screamed. Blood could be seen flowing out of his nose, eyes, and ears. Qin Lan looked nothing like the elegant young man like before, he looked like a savage, brutal beast. "AAAAH" Qin Lan howled in pain, as he threw up mouthful after mouthful of blood. His face immediately turned pale. He bit his tongue to keep himself from falling unconscious. "Im almost done!" he said with bloodshot eyes. Suddenly the pain stopped, and his injuries started to rapidly heal, as the fiery aura around him diminished. "I succeeded!!" Qin Lan said as he looked around and saw himself back in his room again. He immediately ran into the training courtyard, and activated his fire Qi. A red aura suddenly sprung to life around him, as he swung his fist at a tree. Boom! a fist shaped dent could be seen in the tree. Not even a second later the tree exploded into tiny little splinters. Qin Lan shook in delight, and went to tell the news to his father. 6 Shocking News!!! Qin Lan was sitting in his courtyard training in a meditative position. Creak! the sound of a door opening was heard as a humble maid walked in, and said "Young Master Qin, Lord wishes to speak to you about a very urgent matter." the maid said while bowing deeply. "Lead the way." Qin Lan said uncaring. Before long they made it to Qin Lans father''s study. Qin Lan opened the door, and saw his father sitting in a dimly lit room looking grimmer than ever. "You know that you are a rare warrior that appears one in 10,000 years right?" Feeling something was off, Qin Lan nodded. "well, our spies have found that in almost all the big clans, a warrior has appeared, and the royal family of the world, has decided that in 10 years all the geniuses will have a competition that will decide the fates of their clans. The loser will get their clans wiped out!" Qin Lans father said with urgency. Qin Lan had a look of shock on his face. "Isn''t that just going too far!!! You can''t just have your clan wiped out because you lost in some stupid competition!" His father looked at him solemnly. "Little Qin you must train hard for the next 10 years and bring glory to our Qin clan!!!" Qin Lan nodded, and left the room. ___________________________________________________________ Qin Lan went into his courtyard and started to train. Soon he was in his consciousness, and saw the huge ball of fire, with similar sized balls of an earthen yellow material and extremely concentrated wind like substance. He was currently able to control a bit of each of the 3 big elemental balls. "According to my teacher, if I start fusing the elements early on, I would be unmatched within the entire mortal realm!" Qin Lan said with determination in his eyes. A fist sized portion of the Fire ball, and the wind ball flew towards each other. Gritting his teeth, Qin Lan roared "GO AND FUSE!!!" The chunks of the elements went into each other and started to mix into one element. Qin Lan immediately got excited, and lost his concentration. The two chunks of elemental energy lit up with a blinding light, and a 100 meter area within the two partially fused chunks got caved in. Qin Lan ran backwards, as he knew they were about to explode. After Qin Lan got far enough away to where he couldn''t see the light anymore, he stopped and looked forth. Rumble! The entire area within a kilometer of the ball caved in, as the ball suddenly condensed. A dangerous aura radiated off the now black colored ball, and it exploded. BOOOOOM!!!! A massive ball of fire, and intense wind erupted, and shook his very consciousness, with the power to destroy an entire continent! Qin Lan coughed mouthful after mouthful of blood, until he lay on the blood colored ground twitching in pain. Although he failed, he wasn''t disheartened at all, and in fact he was happy. "Now I know how to fuse the elements, I know the way!!!" Qin Lan said with an exited gleam in his eyes. He immediately started the fusion again. The two chunks of elemental power flew towards each other, and started mixing and started unleashing a heart wrenching aura of power. A smile blossomed on Qin Lans face, as he knew he had just succeeded. In his room Qin Lan opened his eyes, and looked at his surroundings, and saw himself to be covered in blood. He thought to himself, and realized he had little battle experience, and decided to ask his father to go out into the wilderness to train. Qin Lan rushed to his father quarters, and asked quickly, his father looked at him confused, but agreed anyways. Qin Lan went out of the castle, and entered in the wilderness. From this day forth Qin Lan would start a 10 year long training session to prepare for the tournament of geniuses, and shock the world. 7 10 years of Training! Incredible Power Unleashed! Qin Lan ran into the forest, and ran towards the area where he fought the boar. He looked around for a certain tree, and found it. He slipped passed the tree, and his eyes gleamed as his eyes lay upon an old stone building. He saw the door, and he ran towards it, and as he ran towards it the door slowly opened, and revealed an old man sitting upon a golden throne. "Master" Qin Lan said respectfully. The old man on the throne looked down onto him, and said in his hoarse voice "It is time for you to go and train in the wilderness, and train hard for the competition." Qin Lan looked at his master puzzled, he asked "Why do I need to train so hard? I already have extraordinary latent talent, as you told me before, and I have you as my teacher, and those insanely powerful training techniques." His master looked at him seriously. "I shouldn''t be telling you about this, but this planet is an extremely rare type of planet in the universe. For one it is a planet with life on it, and also this is a sentient planet with it''s own consciousness! There are less than 100 types of these planets that exist in the universe! This planet is about to be found, and the planet sacrificed its own life energy to create cultivators like you with incredible talent, some of which are even more monstrously talented as you! Qin Lan gasped as his desire to become more powerful grew stronger. Suddenly a thought ran through his mind, as he turned to his teacher and asked "How do you know all this master? Have you explored the universe before?" Qin Lans teacher smiled mysteriously, as he raised his hand and flicked his sleeve. For a moment everything went black around Qin Lan. Qin Lan started to panic a bit, but suddenly he felt and saw the light and warmth of the sun. Qin Lan Looked around and found himself in a forest, thriving with life, thick sturdy vines writhing about in the forest. Mountains could be seen in the distance. The clouds in the sky suddenly rippled and trembled, then moved towards in the sky right above Qin Lan. The cloud formed into a face, Qin Lans master! He spoke one word "Survive!" then dissipated. Qin Lan then found a horde of wolves around him, and he immediately activated his Qi and unsheathed his blade, and his blade turned blood red, and smoke could be seen coming off of it. He charged towards one of the wolves, which snarled coldly, and opened its mouth, and it''s sharp teeth collided with the blade. The teeth put up little resistance against the Qi infused blade, and sliced straight through the wolf''s teeth, and went upwards cutting straight through the wolfs face. The wolf then exploded, due to the fire Qi he used, and the blast burned away the surrounding trees in 5 meters, while killing 7 wolves in the process. The remaining wolves looked at Qin Lan with fear in their eyes, their bodies covered in blood, and some parts of their fur were still on fire. The remaining wolves cried mournfully, and ran off. Although Qin Lans expression had not changed, he was actually shocked that he had used his full power, and had caused such a "small" blast. It should be known that In his consciousness realm his energy had the power to destroy mountains. It was so small, because his body is not strong enough to support that kind of power yet. Qin Lan ran off to find a place to train his body quitely. He found a mountain, and carved into it using his Qi, and made a little cave to practice cultivation. He sat down in a meditative position, and he caused the Qi in the surrounding area to come towards him, as it nurtured his body, making it stronger. Cracking sounds could be heard as Qin Lans body trembled, and grew stronger, Sweat ran down his back, as he gritted his teeth and endured the pain. His muscled nearly tore, but he just sat there enduring the pain. He sat there for 6 hours, until his body trembled, and Black filth oozed out of his pores, releasing the impurities inside his body. His eyes suddenly snapped open, he stood up and found that he was a little bit taller, and he wasn''t hungry at all. He stood up and said "Its a good thing absorbing Qi replenishes my hunger, know I can train all the time!" He walked out of his cave and swung his fist at a nearby small bounder about 1 meter big. Bang!!! his fist hit the rock, and he drew his fist back, and a fist print appeared on the rock. Cracks spread across the rock as it collapsed into pieces. It must be known that when Qin Lan punched the tree before, he used his Qi, but just now he used brute strength. He walked towards a slightly bigger boulder nearby, and dug his hands into it, and tried to lift it over his head. He struggled, and veins popped out of his arms, and his eyes grew slightly bloodshot, as he heaved it above his head. He then started to lift it. He did this to get used to his new strength. He did this for 30 minutes. Qin Lan Kept this routine for 7 years, doing it every day. Booms could be heard everyday from the mountain nearby, and the ground shook. After that Qin Lan went back in the forest, and killed his way towards the center of the forest. as he went on the monsters he faced grew stronger, to the point to where they were just as strong as him, and he was only halfway to the center. After he got defeated by a giant red gorilla, he went back to his cave, and cultivated for another 2 and a half years. In the distance intense rumbling could be heard as a young man with long black hair, Qin Lan,and a cold expression on his face could be seen bare chested revealing his powerful figure, and muscles. He had one hand in the air, and shockingly on top of it could be seen a mountain!!! Qin Lan looked as if he was holding the mountain as easily as he would a small rock. His body, suddenly shook as he reached the peak of the mortal stage, and his energy soared. He suddenly threw the mountain, and it flew 3 kilometers up in the air, as he took out his sword, and sliced toward it while activated his Qi, and his sword grew red hot, as smoke came off of it, and he sliced in the air, andsword light flew towards the mountain. As the sword light flew out, several booming sounds rang out in succession and it made contact with the mountain. The sword light slashed it straight in half, and glowing red molten rock could be seen where the sword Qi went through. BOOOOM!!!!! the mountain exploded, and a deafening boom rang out, and shook the ground intensely, as heat waves battered the surrounding trees and mountains, as they broke and got pushed back, and the surrounding 5 kilometer area got completely demolished, but Qin Lan just stood there looking at the destruction unfold with a calm cold look on his face, with his hair flapping behind him. He turned and ran towards the center of the forest, a loud sonic boom sounding out behind him. with his blade in his hand he quickly slaughtered his path there. Soon he reached the center, and saw a Jindan level Dragon. Its body was huge, nearly 50 meters tall, and its body was covered in dense azure scales. It had fierce spikes jutting out of its back, and a tail only slightly shorter than its own body. Its leathery wings spread out made it look like a true monster. Its head had two blood red eyes, and its mouth was red as if it was permanently stained with blood. It has two wicked looking horns coming out of its forehead. This was the demonic beast Blood Dragon! It emanated a majestic but slightly demonic air. Qin Lan''s eyes shone, clearly excited by the fact that he was about to undergo a battle with a High class early Jindan level beast. The beast looked down on him and waved his claw casually, seeing that it was a mere peak mortal human. Qin Lan swept out with his sword, and green tinted sword light came out, hitting the beast''s claw. The sword light and the claw collided and the paw was actually pushed back a little bit. The Dragon looked at him in shock, then started to rage, because a mere human dared to fight against it. The dragon stood up, and roared while liquid like fire exploded out of its mouth. Qin Lan engaged in battle, and everywhere they fought mountains and forest alike were crushed into oblivion. They Battled for 6 months, and gradually began to respect each other, Until one day Qin Lan broke through the barrier between the mortal, and Jindan stage!!! After that he crushed the Blood dragon every day, until it too broke through to The Middle Jindan Stage. The two, man and beast somehow developed a friendship, and deep respect for each other. While one trained the other guarded. The clouds in the sky suddenly formed into the face of an old man who was Qin Lans master, while the two were training with each other. Qin Lan and the Blood Dragon didn''t notice, Yan Bo''s face in the sky watching them. Qin Lans master thought to himself "He has a very good bond with this Magical Beast, so I will let this be his." Yan Bo coughed lightly, but it sounded like thunder in Qin Lans ears. He looked up to see his masters face staring down onto him lovingly. "Disciple greets master!" Qin Lan said as he knowtowed. Yan Bo just smiled warmly, with wrinkles covering his face. "I see you and Little Han have become friends." He said while pointing to the dragon with a cloud finger he created out of thin air. "How about you let him become your magical beast?" Qin Lans face immediately lit up, and he looked over at the Dragon, Han, which roared excitedly in agreement. Qin Lans master smiled and said "Come now, Let''s go home!" His master flicked his sleeve, and everything went black. Woosh!!! They were now in the forest right next to Yan Bo''s residence. Qin Lans eyes shone brightly as he looked over in the direction of his home. "Mom Dad, I''m home" he murmured quietly under his breath. Qin Lan lifted his head and looked at the familiar surroundings, nostalgia hit him like waves. Qin Lan was gone for 10 years, now he has reappeared, and will shock the world in the genius competition!!! 8 Something Mysterious is Going on Here! Qin Lan walked to the front gate of his clan, and remembered how it was always so huge and majestic with the name of the Qin clan written in exquisite golden letters. He used to believe that no one could just barge through, but now given his strength he could instantly blow it into smithereens without even trying! Two guards were standing next to the clan gate, guarding it with heavy iron spears. "Halt who goes there?!" the guards said in a loud booming voice. Qin Lan merely gave them a glance before he took out a jade identification plate identifying him as the young master of the clan. The two guards faces turned ashen as they bowed many times asking for forgiveness. "Young Master, we beg for your forgiveness we were both in the wrong, we shouldn''t have scolded the young master like that!" Qin Lan looked at them and snorted coldly. "In this world there is only one person that can scold me, and that is my master, not even my parents would dare scold me, because i am now the pillar of our clan, so show some more respect next time you see me!" Qin Lan looked at them and seemed to have a sudden thought. "This young master will forgive you if you kowtow three times and call me your granddaddy!" The two guards were in shock, because the young master that left ten years ago was a kindhearted person and wouldn''t dare act so haughty, but the evidence was in front of their eyes, that the young master seemed to have turned into an arrogant brat. All the guards could do was to clench their teeth and comply with Qin Lan''s words. After the guards kowtowed he walked in to his parents room, and said in an extremely respectful tone "Old Man, Old Hag where are you???" Qin Lan''s father looked at him in shock, because he couldn''t believe that his son would dare speak to him in this way, and the same shocked look could be seen on his mothers face. "Little Qin, you shouldn''t speak to us that way, it is disrespectful!" Qin Lan''s father said with his brow furrowed. Qin Lan merely laughed coldly, and said "I was gonna let you off easily, but now i''ll make you call me Lord Lan, and remember that i am the hope for our measly Qin clan!" Qin Lan''s fathers face turned red, seemingly from anger "Qin Lan You! ~" Qin Lan suddenly slapped his fathers face, and said coldly "I remember telling you to call me Lord Lan didn''t I?" after he said that he turned around ignoring the red hand print on his father face, and walked away. Qin Lan''s arrogant nature can be counted as the result of how much he was praised since he was a kid. As a child everyone who saw him would slightly bow, and call out in greetings, Young Master! after that his father told him that he would become the pillar of the Qin Clan, and most of all his master always telling him how his talent was amazing, and his aptitude was amazing. ...... At roughly about the same time that Qin Lan came home, the leader of the hunting squadron went towards Qin Lan''s masters residence, wanting to see what he was like. As he neared closer and closer to Yan Bo''s residence he found out that it became more and more silent. he suddenly stopped 500 meters away from Yan Bo''s residence he looked at the scene in front of him in shock. There was a giant corpse of a demonic dragon that was withered up, and had a terrifyingly horrible wound, that was clearly of an animal, yet he had absolutely no idea of what animal can make a wound like that, even though he was the leader of the hunting squadron. The more he thought about it, the more he felt he was missing something. Suddenly it struck him, looking at the wound one would realize that there is no blood, and the inside of the dragon was turning slightly gray. He realized that whatever could kill a demonic dragon could kill him with ease, so he quickly walked faster towards Yan Bo''s home. As he arrived he noticed the door was slightly open, and just as he was about to head in, he heard the whine of a beast that was clearly in extreme agony. The beast clearly was pleading for a quick painless death, the likes of which would send shivers down a mans back, and make one forehead glisten with cold sweat. Slowly he backed his hand away and saw a horrifying scene that he would never be able to forget in his life. He saw a large dark green scaly "creature" covered in black lines, that seemingly would take the shape of a dragon when completed, that was bent over a human body sucking out all the blood and life out of the body, when it was done the creature, no the abomination slowly morphed into a man in his fifties, and he calmly looked over at the door straight into the hunting squad leaders eye, and said "How did you like seeing your own death?" The hunting squad leader turned to look at the body''s face and sure enough it was his own. The illusion passed by as he opened his eyes and blinked, and found himself already dead. The fifty year old man said "That Qin Lan sure has given me a lot of life force, and the brat became someone arrogant who I can''t stand, so now I definitely won''t care when I take his life. The man was none other than Qin Lan''s own master the old man Yan Bo!!! ....... After Qin Lan walked away from his parents after slapping his father, he ran off into the forest to go back to his master as he was walking one stand of his hair turned white, but Qin Lan didn''t notice. As he arrived he opened the door and saw his master sitting in his chair, with his old wrinkly face looking worried and said "Look Lan''er your hair is turning white, you need to cultivate the soaring dragon art gave you more often, so you can stop getting stressed out too much" Qin Lan replied without any of the previous arrogance before, but with extreme respect "Yes Master." Yan Bo gave a smile that wasn''t really a smile, but Qin Lan didn''t know so he smiled back. ....... Far away at the edge of the galaxy a swirling black hole opened up and a young man stepped out. "Demon Soul Emperor Yan Bo In one months time you will be brought to justice for your crimes in the Divine Beast Star System by the hands of my Hall of Beast Slayers!!!" 9 Disaster Qin Lan had just gotten to the competition site, and as he took a look around, he was stunned. The Arena they will be fighting in is just enormous, There was enough space in it to fit a small city! Something odd, though, was that even though Qin Lan had never met any of his opponents before, he felt an odd sence of fimiliarity towards them, but he quickly wrote it off as simply being a side effect of cultivaitng. In the middle of the arena there was a stage, and everone was gathered around it, so Qin Lan swaggered his way over there as well. On the stage was an average looking middle aged man, shouting instructions at the contestants. ¡§Draw numbers from this box up here, in front of me and the other person with the same number as you will be your opponent. The rules are: No killing, and no use of magical treasures, or weapons of any kind. If you are caught cheating, you will be disqualified. On that notte you can begin drawing your numbers.¡§ Everyone formed a line and drew their respective numbers, and talked about what they got. Soon enough it was Qin Lans turn to draw a number. He reached his han into the wooden box, and picked a number at random. He looke at the paper in his hand an on it, it said the number one. Qin Lan asked around for a bit, and eventually found the other person with the same number as him. It was a short man with brown hair and small eyes. He sttod at about 5 foot 5 so he really was quite small. Looking at him Qin Lan got the idea that he was weak and easy to give up as the man seemed to be keeping away from the others. After 10 minutes it was finally time to begin the first match. Qin Lan and the short man both stepped onto the stage. ¡§Greet each other.¡§ the announcer said. ¡§Sneasle, nice to meet you¡§ the short man spoke first. ¡§Qin Lan, likewise¡§ Qin Lan said in a humble voice. ¡§BEGIN!¡§ Qin Lan made the first move as he dashed towards the short man, and launched a blast of energy at Sneasle. Sneasle seemed to anticipate this, as he sidestepped out of the way, and retaliated with his own blast of energy in the shape of a Roc. Qin Lans eyes widened and he retaliated with activating the soaring Dragon technique and focusing it on his arms as he put them up to block the incoming attack. BOOOOOOM The stage shattered underneath Qin Lan, and a huge cloud of dust appeared. Sneasle tried to look through the dust, but couldn''t because Qin Lan used his power to make a large barrier inside the dust cloud, so Sneasle couldn''t see inside. Sneasle ran up to the smoke cloud, and launched another attack in the chape of a Roc into the dust cloud, shattering Qin Lans barrier. He inspected the dust cloud, but no one was inside. WOOOOOSHH Qin Lan emerged from the side of the dust cloud, and in a flash was behind Sneasle, and grabbed both his arms. "Admit defeat" Qin Lan spoke, his haughty nature fully comming out on display. Sneasle struggled, and heat butt Qin Lan in the face. Blood flowed down a shocked Qin Lan''s nose. "Good, now I can beat you down. You should''ve surrendered when I said so." Qin Lan said while glaring at Sneasle. "Im not the type of man to just give up because someone says so. I''m not that weak willed." Sneasle retorted. Qin Lan suddenly started laughing. "Good, now thats the spirit!" Qin Lan instantly fully activated his Soaring Dragon art. He was quickly covered in draconic scales, and his shirt ripped and his pants tore, as a tail popped out with. Sneasle looked on with total shock in his eyes. In a flash Qin Lan appeared behind Sneasle, and delivered a horizontal chop at Sneasles neck. In that instant a large crater erupted, and a dust cloud engulfed the entire stadium, shocking everyone watching.