7 The Windertry Hills (1/2)
After deciding that he needed to get battle experience, Edward decided to go to the Windertry Hills. The Windertry Hills was a chain of small mountains that was situated a couple of miles away from Idirie. The Windertry Hills was full of different kind of demonic beasts and fortunate encounters that could help people with cultivation, such as resources and miracle plants, but all these opportunities came with an equal amount of danger, as nothing was truly free in the world. After making this decision, Edward hung his sword around his waist as he was ready to venture out immediately. He didn't want to take any food with him, since his storage bag had limited space, and he could kill demonic beasts there to sustain himself.
A thing that Edward had noticed when he was cultivating earlier, was that his comprehension seemed to have gone up another notch since he awakened his martial spirit. This was the reason behind his enormous growth in martial arts during this period, without this increase, he wasn't confident he would be able to get to the high-grade of achievement in most of the martial arts, except for his sword, which he was confident in.
After leaving his little courtyard, Edward headed to his uncle's residence to let him know he was going to be gone for a while. He didn't want his uncle to worry about him, which he was bound to do if Edward just suddenly disappeared like that. The Stone family residence was actually quite big, and it took a couple of minutes before Edward arrived at his uncle's residence, which was situated further inwards compared to Edward's hut, that was situated at the outer edges of the residency, but then again, an elder had a much more lofty position.
When he arrived at his uncles home, he noticed that it was a pretty decent sized house if you were to compare it to his old worlds standards. But since he had no use for most rooms that one would use in a modern house, the rooms were bigger. His uncle also had a couple of guards who stood and kept watch by the door. When he greeted these guards, he told them his identity and his errands, and they sent a maid to inform Pierre.
After about a minute had passed, Pierre stepped out of the door to his house, and next to him was a young lady, this lady seemed to be the same age as Edward, 14, and she had a beautiful face. Her eyes were a rare purple, and she would be considered a beauty by almost anyone you asked. Her eyebrows were fairly straight, taking after her uncle a little bit, and her complexion was rosy and healthy. Her hair was brown as well, draping over her shoulders. Her face did show a small hint of disdain when she first laid eyes on Edward, but she quickly hid it away, afraid her father would see. That's right, this lady was Pierre's one and only daughter, Cecilia Stone.
”Hahahaha, you never cease to amaze me!”
After seeing his nephews progress in cultivation, Pierre quickly laughed and gave Edward a pat on his shoulder.
”It normally takes longer for a person with a 5th tier human-ranked martial spirit to advance to the middle of the second stage of the body-tempering realm, you were even a bit faster than Cecilia.”
”Uncle overpraises me, how could I compare to cousin Cecilia?”
HEaring this praise, Cecilia slightly nodded her head and felt that this cousin of hers wasn't that bad, she had originally felt a little disdain towards him since he was only at the second rank of the body-tempering realm at age 14, but hearing her uncle praise him, and even saying he was a bit faster than her, her disdain quickly went away. And adding on the fact that he was giving her face, Cecilia's impression of Edward was pretty good.
”Uncle, I have something to tell you!”