Fate Cultivation

"5th Young Master! You should come down and wait down here! If you were somehow hurt-".

"Silence, coward. You cannot tell me what to do. Lowly servant", the 5th Young Master of the Profound Lin Clan, Lin Yulong, stood tall as was watched the south facing clock tick. It was less than a minute till midday and that mortal, Shen Wenyan hadn't shown up yet.

Smirking he raised his head arrogantly causing the surround girls to scream and shout his name, hoping to draw his attention.

"Big Brother Yulong! You're so cool!", a girl a little younger than Shen Wenyan shouted hoping to draw the attention of her older brother. She had climbed up onto the stage ran towards he elder brother hoping to get a hug.

"Little Xia! Get down from there this instant! You'll ruin Yulong's reputation", another girl probably around 21-22 grabbed the little girl and pulled her back under a tent. The little girl was forced to sit in an uncomfortable chair and frowned at her big sister.

"4th Sister! You're bullying me! I'll tell daddy on you!", the little girl puffed out her cute cheeks and tried to appear angry, however it only ended up making her look even more adorable.

4th Sister appeared angry as twitch marks appeared on her forehead, "What did you say, little brat? I dare to to say it again".

The older sister drilled her knuckles in the head of the younger one causing Little Xia to cry.

"Wah! 2nd Sister! 4th Sister is bullying me!", she ran to a elegant woman wearing a mask that covered her entire face. She had an amazing figure that couldn't be hidden, even when wearing such a loose fitting robe.

"Little Zi, please stop bullying Little Xia. Please? For me?", said the elegant woman. She voice was soothing and calming. Everything around her seemed to stop and focus on her for a moment before returning to normal.

"The fight will begin shortly, wait patiently for Yulong's challenger to appear. After that maybe we can get some ice-cream. Okay?". The elegant woman pulled Little Xia into her embrace, letting the little girl sit on her l.a.p.

She beamed, "Yay! The tyrannical reign of 4th Sister is over! Long live 2nd Sister!". This caused the eldest sister to giggle while the 4th sister only raised her fist threateningly.

"Oh wait, there is only a few seconds left".

Everyone in the plaza went silent.

5...

4...

3...

2...

1...

Ding! Ding! Ding!

The City's bell rung out at exactly midday each day. Since the fight was arranged to be exactly at 12:00 pm, the challenger, Shen Wenyan was now late.

"Hahaha! What a coward! He actually tried to run away! And with that battle puppet. You hear that everyone! He ran-".

"You shouldn't slander people when they're right in front of you. Didn't you parents teach you anything?". A cold voice rung out through the crowd.

Everyone turned to face the sound of the voice and Lin Yulong recognized the face immediately.

"So you did show up? I commend you for not running away", he paused before looking around seemingly looking for something, "Were is the battle puppet? Did you forget the stakes?".

Shaking his head while walking forward, Shen Wenyan said, "Enkidu has his own soul. He has his own dreams and ideas. I can't force my will upon a creature that is alive. So I couldn't force him to be here today".

This caused a commotion in the audience.

"There was something bet on?"

"A battle puppet? Even the cheapest battle puppet costs hundreds of thousands of gold. How did a mortal afford one?".

The crowd wanted to demand answers but seeing the anger on Lin Yulong's face they didn't dare to voice their opinions.

Snarling at Shen Wenyan, he said, "So went against what we bet on? As expected of a common thief, you probably stole that from some dying cultivator. You deserve everything that's coming to you".

Lin Yulong was treating this like a performance. He was riling the audience up trying to get them on his side. While damaging Shen Wenyan's reputation in the process. It was a very dangerous game he was playing.

Even his older sisters frowned at his actions. They thought it was beneath them to verbally attack a mortal. Even if they did they wouldn't do so unless the the mortal made slandered their family. But their brother...

"I think I'm going to have a chat with 5th Brother when we return to Heavenly Night City. I very long one", the Lin Zi punched her hand while staring at her brother.

Their 2nd Sister nodded and narrowed her eyes. The more she looked at Shen Wenyan, the more familiar he felt.

'Have we met somewhere before?'. Throwing the feeling of nostalgia to the back of her mind she focused on the verbal assault her brother was dishing out. Her gaze moved to the mortal again and the image of another man crossed over with Shen Wenyan.

'No it can't be... he died...'.

Her eyes started to water and she wanted to move her mask to wipe them but refrained and merely dabbed at them with her sleeve.

"You're nothing but trash! Bottom-feeding sc.u.m that isn't fit to wipe the dirt off my shoe! Garbage, that should've been thrown away the moment you were born!", Lin Yulong's smirk turned into a hideous smile before saying, "You're mother! Was probably some no good whore and you're father some nobody who knocked her up! You're nothing. That will never amount to anything!".

The crowd grew silent and went didn't even have the guts to scream in support of the 5th son of the Lin Family. It was horrible. Just pure hate and rage. But there was no direction the hate was aimed at. It was just a dumb a.s.s dribbling shit until he finally decided to talk about that...

"This isn't good", said Merlin looking from high up in the air.

"It's not. Not at all. At this rate he might end up destroying the City if he does 'that'". Said Enkidu.

Lancer of Black nodded and her crimson spears appeared in her hands. She was about to descend onto the plaza and rain an unholy amount of death and destruction on anybody who dared stand between her and that 'slug' wearing human flesh.

Enkidu grabbed her by the wrist and said, "Wait. Somebody is making a move".

Scathach, or Lancer of Black narrowed her eyes at the other Lancer Servant but restrained herself. Her Gae Bolg still materialized.

Merlin snickered, "Master's going to go absolutely crazy on him. It'll be like watching him attack Zelretch all over again, only this time... the roles will be reversed".

Shen Wenyan's eyes grew lazy as the young man in front of him spouted bullshit, after bullshit, after bullshit, until,

"You're mother was a whore! Your father a nobody!".

Something inside of him cracked and anybody who was anybody in the crowd knew that something had changed within the young man.

"You know", his voice as happy as a little kid welcoming his parents home after a long day of work, "I was planning on breaking your legs when we first agreed to this but now I've completely changed my mind".

He took a step forward and rolled up his left sleeve revealing a multitude of lines connecting in a number of ways. Every cultivator in the audience gulped and looked at the intricate designs and shapes that all together formed the image of spears.

They didn't know what it was. But from the moment they looked at it they felt their bottlecaps loosening and the cultivation was slowly beginning to increase.

His left arm was a treasure!

Lin Yulong looked at his arm and mentally started to drool, 'If I can bring that home, Father is surely to put me in his eyes!'.

But looking back at Shen Wenyan's eyes he took several steps back.

They contained no pupils. They were completely void of all and any trace of emotion whatsoever.

"I've changed my mind. Anybody with the surname Lin will die today. Starting with... that little girl". Shen Wenyan ignored Lin Yulong and walked towards the tent with slow yet confident steps. The rhythm of his steps irregular yet ascetically pleasing to the eye.

"Halt. Do not approach!" Several dozen armed guards stoop between Shen Wenyan and the little girl each of them pointing their spears and unleashing their Xiantian level cultivation.

He stopped and the guards believed they had stopped him before he said, "Root Directory found, Search, _ True Ancestor _, Action _ install _"

A bright light came emanating out of his left hand causing everyone to look away. After the light receded their mouths dropped to the floor.

All the guards standing between Shen Wenyan and the little girl were dead. Their c.h.e.s.ts had been pierced and the place where their hearts once were now had a hole from one side to the other.

Shen Wenyan had changed too. His hair, now blonde and his eyes, now as red as blood carried the hearts in hand but only for a moment before he threw them in the direction of Lin Yulong.

"I will stain my hand with the blood of who attack those you cannot defend themselves. The corrupt Clan that sullies the dead in the name of justice? I will give a chance to everyone who has been wronged by you! I will slaughter every single person you love! I will take away everything you have every cared about! Only then I will allow you to die". Shen Wenyan's voice sounded righteous despite looking at like a Demon God right this instant.

He raised his hand to the sky and said, [Marble Phanta-]

"Master wait! If you use that, everyone in the City will die!"., Enkidu's chains wrapped around Shen Wenyan's raised arm, restricting the flow of mana in the air. It didn't drain him of his strength as now that Shen Wenyan had become similar to Enkidu as they both 'came from the Earth'.

"Enkidu! You heard what they said! You know what they did! I will kill them! Kill them all!". The Chains of Heaven were truly tested as Shen Wenyan's blows as a True Ancestor, which could topple a mountain will a single fist, kept it in place.

Two other figures appeared in the sky. Although the crowd really only focused on one.

"Master, please stop look at them. How scared they are". Shen Wenyan turned his blood thirsty gaze to the little girl he promised to kill. She had tears in her eyes but stood in front of the other two girls here arms wide open.

"I-I-i won't let y-you hurt my big sisters!", Shen Wenyan's heart wavered when he saw the child's tears.

'She is around about the same age as you when you lost your parents'. A part of him said.

'They don't know what it's like! To lose everything! Show them! Show them!'. Said another part.

A figure stood in front of the little girl, her twin spears, pointed at her Master, "My servant. I would gladly follow you to the depths of hell and I would gladly kill that 'urchin' behind you however", Scathach took a deep breath and continued, "I will not let you kill this child".

The audience was captivated by the four of us. We were all standing mid-air. An ability that only Martial Sky level cultivators could achieve. Many wanted to run away, but were scared moving would set off Shen Wenyan.

Everybody watched Shen Wenyan and only saw as his raised arm started to glow and the other three shouting, "Please don't! Stop!".

"By the power of my command seal, I order you three, to retreat back to the sky and don't interfere. I have work to do".