Chapter 2 - Yan Zaizen (1/2)

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”Not like this!” A youth hysterically shrieked. The youth who shouted as if the skies were falling was currently putting the pedal to the metal on his internal engine as he dashed ferociously across the grassy plains. Originally, these plains and knolls were his safe haven, but today, it seems like it may be his death sentence. His head, in curiosity of his impending status of death, couldn't help but turn backwards slowly in anticipation of presumed safety. However, what welcomed his eyes were sights far more disastrous than originally believed.

A meteor!

A crimson meteor of almost blinding light was descending from the skies at unimaginable speeds. A few seconds ago, this meteor seemed to have the destination of a far-off scene, and all the youth wanted to achieve was to avoid any possible fallout from its descent. Unfortunately for his little life, the meteor seemed to have eyes and a mission as it shifted directions ever so slightly and seemed even closer than before.

”What the fu-!” He couldn't help but curse the heavens for wanting his little life. What did he ever do to deserve this?

Thinking about it, perhaps it wasn't entirely unwarranted.

This youth, named Yan Zaizen, was amber-eyed, scrawny in physique, messy short black hair, no more than sixteen years of age, and possessed a face that was neither distinctively attractive or overtly ugly for the eyes. Currently, he cursed his life choices. Staying in an isolated plain with nearby knolls to get away from it all left him in his current predicament. The nearest human life was tens of miles away from him, so outrunning this hell-bent meteor seemed to be a sweet dream of impossibility.

The meteor reached ever closer until he could feel it radiating a sensation of distinct death.

His life flashed before his eyes so vividly at that moment.

Yan Zaizen was just a normal boy in a place called Meteorite City. It was named thus not because of the constant meteorites that would land near the city, but because a thousand years ago, tens of thousands of meteors culled the entire population - human and beast alike. The meteor shower spanned a thousand miles, and Meteorite City was created with its epicenter hoisting the largest existing meteor to date. Since then, only meteors that had a size that would be small and harmless upon entry to the world would fall. They were no larger than a basketball, and that's always been the case since the culling shower.

However, it seems like Yan Zaizen's luck will forever be bad.

Yan Zaizen originated from one of the strongest family clans situated in the city and should be enjoying immense favor as he was a grandchild of the current clan head from his mother's side, and for a time that was absolutely how he was treated. That was until his talent, at the age of five, was decided to be the lowest grade possible in both Body & Qi cultivation. This set off a series of events that soon lead to even more unfortunate events. It didn't help that before he was even five, both of his parents had already left this world and were now buried in the family's sacred cemetery, and thus he pretty much had to rely on himself from then on.

Misfortune tends to be followed by even more misfortune, and his life was a superb example of that. At the age of seven, he fell for a girl named Ya Qinqan. It was child-level infatuation. She had the dream of entering one of the five great sects — Water Veil Sect — it had high standards for cultivation and age requirements to enter. It also had one ironclad rule: Females Only! Recognizing this, he tried to aid her the only way he could think of, he gave her a majority of his own clan given resources.

The Ya Clan and Yan Clan were allied forces in Meteorite City, but the Ya Clan are direct subordinates of the Yan Clan and one of the lesser clans in the power standings; therefore, the given resources of someone, even one talentless and devalued, but in the descendants line of the clan head was vastly superior in both quality and quantity of what a normal member of the Ya Clan would receive. Not to mention, he still held the status as one of the grandsons of the clan leader.

To put it in perspective, he received far more resources than the direct descendants of the Ya Clan with exceptional talent! Let alone a basic member.

The difference was just too vast - heaven and earth essentially.

After this was done, his own cultivation into body & qi coupled with his lackluster innate talents put him at the bottom of the ladder as a cultivator out of all of the city's youths. Ya Qinqan's cultivation, however, explosively rose as she already possessed greater innate talents than many and coupled with the resources given to her by Yan Zaizen and the ones given to her by her own clan. With that, she directly entered the top ten of her generation in the city at the age of ten.

This, however, lead to even more problems for poor little Yan Zaizen.

Firstly, Yan Zaizen's decisions and lackluster results lead to the clan not giving him sufficient resources anymore at the age of ten, but the pigs fat had already been eaten. Ya Qinqan, unbeknownst to her clan about the resources given to her, had received the utmost attention from her family and was given top quality resources that could rival the total Yan Zaizen could give. They essentially funneled all their hopes and dreams into her, heralding her as a genius, and further giving her all sorts of earthly treasures with heavenly waters. They spared no cost. This caused her cultivation to explode even further and talents to be further accentuated. Even worse, although Yan Zaizen was given greatly reduced resources, he still gave her what he could to convey his determination and feelings for her. It was as if he was saying: 'Even if I became a useless person, as long as the person I love succeeds, be it disdainful gazes or dirty curses, I can bear it all!'