<====The Next Day, Jin's Room===>
A few hours after Jin woke up, he decided to take the Skeleton Hardening Pill to increase his cultivation. Putting one of the pills in his mouth then quickly activating his cultivation art, sweat could be seen falling down from his face as his bones are being constantly tempered until they harden, much like how a blacksmith quenches his blade.
A few hours later.
Boom!
A strong but domineering aura exudes out from Jin's body , signaling that he just made a breakthrough before quickly stabilizing.
"I've broke through from the the mid stage of Body Tempering Third stage all the way to Pinnacle of Body Tempering Third stage! Only one more step away from Body Tempering Fourth stage! Now that my cultivation broke through, I should go back to Slaughter God's Cave, seeing as how 2 days have passed since I last went to the Martial Skill Library!"
after saying that Jin reads the words on the side of the ring which causes a spacial crack to appear and pull him in.
<===Martial Skill Library===>
Jin could be seen climbing the ladder down to the Martial Skill Library ,but before he touches the ground Jin takes a look around at the names above the shelves only to stop on one that says 'Movement Techniques'. After planning out his target, Jin touches the ground and hurriedly runs towards it as he hears the voice in his head say, 'You have 5 minutes to choose a Martial Skill'. As he arrives at the shelf he planned , he quickly scans through the books only to stop on one called 'Domineering Ghost Steps'. Quickly grabbing the book, Jin dashes back to the ladder and quickly climbs up.
(Note:Slaughter God will be SG from now on, Martial Skill Library will be MSL from now on)
<====SG Cave, above MSL====>
After catching his breathe, Jin opens Domineering Ghost Steps to the first of three moves called 'Shadow Steps'. After comprehending the first move as best as he can, Jin goes over to an area of the cave which has a few large boulders then starts running towards them before trying to weave out of the way at the last second only for him to fail and run straight into it. Jin decides to spend a day training inside SG's Cave before leaving (Note:1 day in SG's Cave is 4 hours outside)
<===The Night Before===>
After getting humiliated by Jin, Wang angrily storms home to tell his father, the new sect master, about this incident. Quickly entering his house and running to his fathers room, Wang recounts to him exactly what happened.
After hearing what happened this morning , Wangs father, Shen, Burning Tree's Sects new sect master, is shocked to say the least, he then starts to think 'If he finds out im the one who crippled his father to become sect master, he will definitely try to get revenge! He must be killed!' after thinking this he pulls out something then gives it to his son while saying seriously "Wang, this is a Qi Magnet Pill which, much like it's name, pulls Qi towards you like a magnet. This should help you breakthrough into Body Tempering Fifth stage." Wang quickly pockets the pill while saying "Thank you." before heading to his room to cultivate.
<===Present Time===>
Jin could be seen walking around SkyStrike city market looking for something to do when he hears a female voice saying "Looking for people in Body Tempering Third stage! Were going on a mission to eradicate a Rainbow Python that has been terrorizing the nearby villages close by!" turning towards the voice he sees a 15 ro 16 year old red haired girl. After thinking for while, Jin walks up to her and asks politely "Excuse me miss, can I join?". The girl, slightly suprised that someone younger rhan her wants to join, she says, "Show me your cultivation and if its sufficient you can join." Jin, deciding to hide his full strength, decides to show her the Peak of Early Body Tempering Third stage. After checking his cultivation, the girl says, slightly shocked, even though she doesn't show it, "Your strength is sufficient. We will be leaving in two hours, if there is anything you need to do you should do it now." the girl then leaves to go recruit more members. After she leaves, Jin decideds to get a himeself a weapon, so he goes to the nearest blacksmith shop called
Blacksmith Long's Weapons and Armor.
<===Inside the Shop===>
As Jin is walking around looking for a weapon, a middle aged man walks up to him and says "Welcome to my shop! What do you need?" Jin decides to ask "I am looking for a weapon but I dont know what to choose, do you think you can help me?". Hearing this the man walks up to Jin than grabs his arm before exclaiming "Aha! You should be a natural scyth user my friend!". Jin looks at the man with a confused expression before asking "How could you figure that out just by grabing my arm?" the man proudly responds by saying " I have a Special Body!" seeing that what he said only caused Jin fo ge even more confused he said "A Special Body is very rare and the only way to have one is to either be born with it or use a heaven defying item. My Special Body is called Weapon Teller. All I have to do is touch someone and I will automatically know the best weapon for them!" after hearing all this Jin thank the man before buying scythe while silently vowing to go to the library after this eradication mission.
After leaving the blacksmith shop Jin found out that he only had around 8 minutes left before mission started so he hurriedly ran towards the city square.
As he arrives there he sees multiple different types of people,some young some old, until his gaze stops on the red haired girl from earlier who walks in front of everyone before she starts to speak.
"As you guys know we are going on a mission to eradicate the Rainbow Python."she pauses to look around only to see people nodding in agreement before continuing "What you may not know is that the top 3 people who contribute the most will recieve rewards while others will only get 35 gold." after saying this the crowds eyes lit up.
"3rd place will get 50 gold and a Qi Returning Pill. 2nd place will get 75 gold and a bottle of Body Tempering Liquid. 1st place will get 100 gold and 3 Qi Magnet Pills. hearing this the crowd grew crazy.
"Did you hear that? 1st place gets 100 gold and 3 Qi Magnet Pills!"
"I'll finally be able to pay off my debt!"
"Yeah! If I can get those I'll be able to make a breakthrough!"
After a while the red haired girl puts her hand up which instantly silenced the crowd.
"Now, the village that the Rainbow Python was last spotted at is called Tai villiage. Let's move out!"
Meanwhile
In his study, Shen could be seen pacing back and forth with a cup of tea in his hand when the door opened and a servant walked in.
"Master, that boy you told me to watch has left the city." hearing this Shen looked up at the servant and asked "Oh? Do tell, why did he leave, and where did he go? And is there anyone else with him?"
"From what this servant knows, he joined a mercenary group led by the City Lord's daughter Miss Bing who are on a mission to eradicate a Rainbow Python that has been terrorizing the nearby villages. And the last sighting of it was at Tai village."
Hearing this Shen sighed with relief 'A Rainbow Python should be enough to deal with him but just to be sure I'll send my son and a few disciples to make sure he dies' After thinking this he says to the servant
"Go get Wang and a few disciples who don't like Jin and tell them that he has left the city with a mercenary group who are on a mission to eradicate a Rainbow Python and it's last seen location was Tai village." After getting the order the servant bowed towards Shen as he left the room before heading towards Wang's room.
Meanwhile,Jin, oblivious to the scheming going on behind his back, has just arrived at Tai village by following the lead of the red haired girl who he just found out that her name was Bing and that she is the SkyStrike's City Lord's daughter by listening in on the conversations of the people around him.
As they walked around the village, there is only 1 word that he can use to describe what he saw:Massacre. Everywhere one looked there were multiple severed heads and limbs of people both young and old. Seeing this scene some of the more weak stomached mercenaries ran into the nearby forest and vomited while some of the stronger ones faces turned slightly pale. The only 2 people with indifferent looks on their faces were Jin and Bing. Jin because, even though this is his first time seeing a scene like this, he has a ring that was owned by multiple generations of Slaughter Gods, or at least thats what he thinks anyway. He also thinks that the reason Bing hasn't vomited out her guts yet is either because one, she doesn't want people to think she is weak and that she is trying her best to hold it in, or two, she is already used to seeing this.
After a short break, Bing decided it was a good idea to split up into smaller groups of 3.
Jin ended up being put on Bing's team with another guy going by the name Mo.
"Now, after we split up , if you find anything related to the Rainbow Python, crush these. They will shoot out a flare." she said as she handed out a talisman with the word flare on it. "Remember, if nobody finds anything in 3 days time, we meet up back here, got it?" Seeing them all nod in agreement she walks back over to Jin and Mo and says "Lets go."
After walking around for a few hours, they end up finding a large cave and as they walk in they see multiple skeletons and what looks like fresh rainbow colored snake skin. Seeing this, Mo walks up to Bing and asks "Should we use the flare?" hearing this Bing looks towards Mo and says "There is no need, from what the reports say, this Rainbow Python should only be a peak rank 2 demonic beast. With all 3 of us at Mid Third stage Body Tempering it should be easy to kill." after saying that she starts to walk further into the cave as she signals them to follow.
As they go deeper into the maze like cave, Jin starts to put markers by leaving traces of his Qi on the wall when they walk into a large room with multiple stacks of bones and an even larger stack armor, gold, and weapons. Seeing the treasure, Mo's eyes lit up as he ran towards them as fast as he could only to stop halfway. Slowly backing up, he accidentally steps on a bone which easily cracks under his weight.
Hiss!
A loud hissing noise coming from deeper in the cave could be heard, and in a flash, a 40 ft rainbow colored python appears next to Mo and quickly swallows him whole.
The Rainbow Python has appeared!
Seeing the Rainbow Python looking around fo more people, Jin takes Bing's hand and quickly hides behind a pile of bone.
Seeing how easily the Rainbow Python killed Mo, Bing looked at Jin with fear in her eyes as she said "What do we do now? That Rainbow Python should be at least a rank 3 , not the peak of rank 2 like the report says!"
"I already marked the way out, so if we leave quietly we should be able to escape, but..."
Jin says as his eyes linger towards the stack of treasure.
"But what?" following his gaze, her eyes land on the stack of treasure. "Don't tell me that your going to risk your life for treasure now? Your my way out of this maze like cave! If you die, I die to" seeing as how she already found out about his plan, acting obliviously to what she said after,he said "Yes, thats exactly what im planning to do." after he said that he took a large bone from the pile of bones hes hiding behind and threw it with all his strength, all the way to the other side of the cave, almost 20 meters away from the treasure pile.
As the bone landed, it made a loud clank noise, which pulled the Rainbow Python's attention towards it.
Hiss!
The loud Python made a hissing noise as it hurriedly slithered towards the direction of the bone. Jin, seeing this, ran as fast as he could towards the treasure pile. As Jin goes to grab something out of the pile, the ring on his finger touches it, which causes a tiny spatial crack to appear and it pulls all the treasure in it. Seeing this scence, though shocked,he runs back towards the pile of bones where Bing was hiding.
Seeing the treasure instantly vanish, and because she was to far away to see the tiny spatial crack, Bing starts to assume that Jin has a spatial ring, which can only mean 2 things. 1, he is extremely rich, or 2, he has a powerful background.
'If it is a spatial ring, I must never offend him'
(Here you go, this is what would of been the next chapter, but I don't really like how its going, so im done with it, but i might come back, but anybody else can use it if they want.)
( PS: I started a new novel, and i really like how its going, so you can check it out if you want!)
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