Chapter 2

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Chapter 2: Be Born With

The cottage was like a fairyland, as the steam curled upwards with a fragrance striking the nose. In the middle of the room, there was a big wooden tub that was above the fire. It was faintly visible that a heap of medicinal herbs and beast bones were floating in the water.

Such a bath was not a usual regular bath. It was a medicated bath.

Beside the wooden tub stood a grey-haired old man. His back was a little hunched. He was squinting at the hot, steaming water and holding a stick to stir it.

Looking at this old man’s figure, Jiang Yun felt a warmth in his heart. This old man was his grandfather, Jiang WanLi. Jiang Yun grew up happily because of his grandfather’s care and protection.

“Grandpa!” Jiang Yun welcomed Jiang WanLi. Then he removed the animal fur coat and proceeded towards the wooden tub. Without his coat, it was evident that he had hundreds of scars on his muscular physique, which looked dreadful.

Especially as there were several scars on his back, which arranged like a blurry shape of the word “cloud.”

There were dangers in the deep Mang Mountains owing to the presence of several ferocious beasts. As a result, because Jiang Yun spent nearly the whole year in the Mang Mountains, he was constantly injured when fighting those dangerous beasts. That explains why he has so many scars on his body. However, the wounds on his back were not real scars. They were his birthmarks. Jiang WanLi called him Jiang Yun based on the form of his birthmark.

Jiang Yun was used to bathing. He had to take such a medicated bath at intervals for as long as he could remember.

It sounded like bathing was an enjoyable and comfortable thing. But the fact was just the opposite one.

A normal person couldn’t bear immersing in boiling water, not to mention the strong property of the medicinal herbs and beast bones, which would stimulate one’s body.

Jiang Yun still remembered the first time when he was taking the bath; he was scared and cried, thinking that grandfather was going to cook him and eat him.

But he finally did it and kept bathing. Because he knew that grandfather was in good intentions to help him to build a much stronger body.

Though he couldn’t cultivate together with his playmates, his physical fitness was far better than many of theirs due to years of bathing with herbs.

Jiang Yun closed his eyes and submerged his entire body, including his head, in the water, experiencing the high temperature of the steaming water and the potent properties of the herbs and bones, which continued to stimulate his body.

Several hours later, Grandfather’s voice sounded, “Yun, do you want to cultivate Tao?”

Jiang Yun almost jumped out of the water in a flash with a huge sound. Looking at his grandfather, he was so shocked that he couldn’t say a word at once.

Although Jiang Yun has never left Mang Mountains, he knew that there was a bigger world beyond Mang Mountains. There were tens of thousands of ethnic groups, such as Humankind, Demon Race, and Ghost Race, in this vast world, and each of them would advocate cultivation.

Even in Jiang village, a small village that was almost isolated from the world, people from the young to the old were cultivating hard.

Cultivation would definitely keep you fit and make you stronger, furthermore give you strength and power to change the world, or even grant you immortality.

“Do I want to cultivate? Of course!

“But I have asked grandpa about this more than once, and grandpa always answered that I’m unable to cultivate due to my different physical conditions. Then why will grandpa ask me this question? He should have known it.

“Maybe grandpa has found my way to cultivate?”

Jiang Yun was thinking.

Looking at Jiang Yun’s shocking face, Jiang WanLi’s eyes squinted much narrower, with only a seam left.

“Of course I do!”

Following Jiang Yun’s answer, Jiang WanLi asked another question, “Then tell me, what do you cultivate for?”

Jiang Yun was in silence.

Because he didn’t know why he had been obsessed with cultivation. For physical fitness? Or for immortality? It seemed not to be his answer.

For as long as he could remember, when he even didn’t know what cultivation meant, he seemed to get an idea to cultivate in his mind.

This idea seemed to be born with him!

Apparently, Jiang WanLi knew what Jiang Yun was thinking. Not waiting for Jiang Yun’s answer, he smiled benevolently and said, “Alright, Yun, if you really want to cultivate, then…”

Suddenly, a distant loud thud interrupted his words.

“People of Feng village, come again!”

Jiang WanLi seemed to know what happened outside. He was in a huff, with a face full of seriousness, two lights flitting past his eyes. He left these words, then turned around towards the outdoors.

Jiang Yun showed a grim face at the same time. He was very angry. Not because grandpa’s words were interrupted, but he knew that the Feng people were coming for him.

The Hundred Thousand Mang Mountains encompassed a wide area. There were many additional villages besides Jiang village. Even if they didn’t get along, they wouldn’t be hostile to others. They only had minor disagreements with one another occasionally.

Feng village was the closest village to Jiang village, and its overall strength was a bit more powerful than Jiang village’s.

There were always small conflicts between them because they had frontiers with each other. However, since Jiang Yun had come into Jiang village, conflicts between these two villages were sharpened.

When Jiang Yun was young, Feng village always came and made trouble every once in a while, aiming to take Jiang Yun away.

As for why Feng people wanted to catch him, Jiang Yun had no idea. He just felt that the Feng people regarded him as a rare treasure. Because every time he met them, Jiang Yun could see greedy expressions in their eyes clearly.

Then after Jiang Yun was ten years old, what Jiang WanLi had done was unknown, but no one in Feng village had come since then. However, they came again today.

Jiang Yun jumped out of the wooden tub in a hurry, put on the coat, and rushed out.

At this time, all children and women in Jiang village were ordered to stay at home. Only approximately thirty men had gathered at the village’s gate. They gazed at a group of powerful men from Feng village, like ravening tigers.

People living in the Mang Mountains were very strong. However, Feng people were not only strong but savage.

Through the cracks between Jiang people, Jiang Yun saw the fragmented gate on the ground.

Such a scene hurt him. A village meant a big family. The act to break one’s door was definitely a declaration of war.

Apparently, Feng village came to look for big troubles.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yun clenched his fists and pushed through the crowd.

“Feng Ling!” Jiang WanLi stood in front of the group of Jiang people, glaring at a man who was over six meters in height, and said with eyes squinted, “Haven’t seen you for six years; you feel emboldened, aren’t you? Are you going to disobey Liu TianRen’s words?”

By hearing that, Jiang Yun among the crowd finally understood why the Feng people hadn’t appeared during the period of six years.

Because he knew that Liu village was the most powerful clan among villages in the Mang Mountains. Its Village Head Liu TianRen was the most powerful person of the Mang Mountains.

Apparently, Jiang WanLi had asked Liu TianRen for help so that Feng people dared not come for six years.

Feng Ling licked his lips, smiled sinisterly, and said, “You! Old Jiang! I might have been scared of Liu TianRen in the past years. But now I’m not. He’s not as strong as he used to be. Haha, you know what! You’d better hand Jiang Yun in, or I will make the whole Jiang village into a bloodbath!”