Sorry, had a lot to do yesterday.

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Chapter 8: Conclave Disciple

When Berserker was leading the way to Shaon's new residence, he explained a few things about this school. He learned that there were 4 types of students: Outer, Inner, Core and Conclave.

Of the four, the one with most freedom and at the same time most resources was a Conclave Disciple. A person could reach the Core Disciple status with hard work but for the Conclave Disciple there were certain requirements. The person had to be monstrously talented, the person couldn't be a member of any faction. The person wasn't allowed to be a self centered egoist brat.

When Shaon asked about the third point Berserker just smiled to him, “I hate people who think they own the world just because they are a bit better than their peers.” Shaon just stayed quiet after wards, the rules were quite fair to a person as long as he conducted himself/herself well. He also learned that Berserker was the Fief Lord of Soradeen Fiefdom. “If you have any enemies in this Fiefdom, let me know. I can make their lives a living hell.” Berserker smiled as he said it to Shaon.

Remy immediately said to Shaon, “How about letting him deal with the Fang clan. If he deals with them, no one can say anything. Heck probably no one even dares in this kingdom. Also ask him, how many of the Heavenly Dragon are in this world anyways?” Shaon asked him about the Heavenly Dragon and he was also tempted to let Berserker deal with the Fang clan but first he needed to get strong enough himself.

It was obvious that they were going to hold a grudge for it, so he needed enough strength to stay alive after getting rid of the clan. Since his Grandfather stepped into the Prince realm recently in a few more months, he will have enough strength to protect himself when he steps into the Prince realm as well.

Berserker also said that there were 4 more members currently in that world. Collectively they decided that only after Shaon steps into the Prince realm, will they summon everyone. While they were talking, they soon reached Shaon's new house. It was on a lonely mountain peak and in the surrounding, there were no people.

He got the entire mountain, which was huge but the house was a little two story hut. There were only a few rooms meant to be used daily, the biggest and most valuable was the cultivation/training room. It was under the house and was over 100 square meters. It was designed to be the training room for Conclave Disciple's that didn't want others to know their cultivation method or people to know their killing moves.

It was understandable as every ace up your sleeve was another ticket at surviving a fight. As Berserker was introducing on how to control the restrictive formation, the elder from before came again. This time, there were four people in Outer Disciple robes behind him.

As Berserker saw them arrive, he brought Shaon to them and said, “You can pick a personal attendant from these four here. You can choose more than one if you want but remember you have to teach the person as well.” Shaon had heard about the attendant on the way to the hut.

Every Conclave Disciple had one or more personal attendants that took care of everyday tasks for them. If Shaon chose one, all he had to do was give the person pointers on how to improve in their cultivation and break through bottlenecks. Shaon eyed the four people that were brought to him, two were male while two were female.

The youngest was one of the females who seemed to be as old as Shaon while the oldest was one of the males, who seemed to be old enough for Shaon to call him great grandfather. “It isn't pick your helper but more like pick your poison.” Shaon sighed to himself, the last thing he needed right now was someone to stall him.

Remy didn't have much time left and he needed to reach the Prince realm before he disappeared. While Shaon was sizing up the four people, his gaze suddenly stopped at the youngest. He walked closer and looked at her, he felt something from her but he couldn't understand what it was.

It was a very weird feeling and Remy's voice sounded out in his head, “You have good eyes or at least good intuition. Her comprehension is vastly superior even to me and if you groom her well, you will have a very powerful ally behind your back. Also you are in luck as I have a few things that might be right up her alley.” When Shaon heard that, he made his decision.

It was a rule to choose at least one so he might as well pick the one with most potential. When he chose the little girl, everyone else put on a dejected expression. It wasn't every day that you might become an attendant of a Conclave Disciple and the benefits of becoming one outweighed all the demerits. The elder took the three, who were not chosen, away.

Only Berserker, Shaon, Maho and the little girl were remaining. Veri had run off somewhere already but Shaon wasn't concerned about that as it was a usual thing and he always came back. The little girl was half a head shorter than Shaon and had long black hair, her cultivation was at the beginning stages of the Student rank. She was nearly frozen stiff when she was chosen, she was happy but felt very pressured.

In front of her was a boy who looked to be only about a year older but was already approaching the first bottleneck. This left her in awe and she felt immense respect for him. At that time, Berserker turned to her and said, “This little demon is Shaon, he has been cultivating for 2 years without any elixirs or mentors. One friendly word of advice is that don't try to kiss his ass too much as he hasn't had a servant in his whole life.”

When the little girl heard that, he looked towards Shaon in shock. To reach the peak of fourth stage of Grandmaster Realm in two years, without elixirs or mentors as well was unheard of. Shaon just let out a dry laugh as he said, “My name is Shaon, pleasure to meet you.”

The girl hurriedly cupped her hands and introduced herself, “My name is Alice, it's an honor to meet you and be your personal attendant.” Seeing Alice's flustered bearing, everyone present let out a laugh as Shaon said, “Ease up, I am not a devil or a monster so you don't have to treat me like someone you can not dare to offend. Relax.”

Berserker showed Alice all the rooms and told her what a personal attendant needed to do. He left her to familiarize herself with the house and went outside where Maho and Shaon were talking.

They talked about what was each of them was going to do from now on when suddenly a scream sounded out form the house. Everyone ran inside and saw Alice shivering in a corner and Veri trying to comfort her. It was a funny sight to see a giant yeti looking like he was at his wits end trying to sooth the situation.

Shaon introduced Alice and Veri and also told her that he was Shaon's “pet”. They talked a bit more with everyone present and it was time for Maho and Berserker to leave. Maho had to continue her travels while Berserker returned to doing what he was doing before Maho and Shaon came.

As the sun was about to set, Shaon told Alice to go to sleep and tomorrow morning they were going to talk about cultivation. When Shaon entered his room, he saw that there was a bed a night stand and a few bookshelves. In the corner there was a table and a chair. His room also had a balcony and he decided to go sit on the balcony for a while.

He entered his Dantian and sat down across from Remy as he said, “Now then, what else have you not told me?” Remy just gave a wry smile and started, “Well, a few things but you will know about them all in due time. As for now, I'd like to ask, are you sure about your weapon of choice? Once you choose one Blood Weapon to be your primary, you will find it harder to master other kinds.”

Shaon looked at him and said, “Yea, I am sure. Even though it is a lot harder to master than a normal weapon, it has a lot more merits.” Remy gave a rare smile of proudness as he said, “If you truly choose that weapon, then I will give you these two jade slip.”

He held out his hand and two jade slips hovered around his palm. Shaon eyed them as he asked, “What are these?” Remy gave a sly smile as he said, “One is “Blood Weapon Bindage” method and the other is something is going to be extremely useful to your weapon of choice.” Hearing that Shaon accepted the jade slips and looked through them.

When he read the Binding method, he slowly nodded but his face turned to astonishment when he read the other one. Remy's smile got a lot bigger when Shaon muttered to himself, “Blood Crystal Chains?”