Back in the forest, Yin Yu didn't know what Yin Liang and Yun Qian talking about right now and even if he knew about it, he wouldn't even care about it right now.
It has been few days since Yin Yu arrived in this forest and he is still earnestly training, no, it can be said he's earnestly running for his life right now.
Yin Yu can be seen running on top of the tree to tree without stopping at all. Soon, Yin Yu get tired from all the running and stops in one of the tree branches concealing himself while trying to breath as noiselessly as he can.
*huff* *huff*
Looking back, Yin Yu can't see the beasts that chase him anymore and sighs.
'Did I lose them? If only I'm allowed to banish them from this world...'
While thinking, Yin Yu suddenly feel a presence under him and sure enough, a large red-haired monkey grab the branches Yin Yu stand on and Yin Yu immediately fall from the branches because of his loss of balance.
While falling, Yin Yu can see bunches of red-haired monkey has been waiting to ambush him appearing from each tree and charge together to him.
"You force me!"
Without any reservation, Yin Yu threw the weight of his weapon to the nearest branch which becomes long and wrapped itself in the branches while slashing his sickle to the monkey that ready to hit Yin Yu before he falls to the ground.
The monkey that was about to hit the falling Yin Yu was slashed mercilessly by him which make its head separated from its bodies with its blood spurting all over the places while Yin Yu shorten his chain and fly back into the branches which are wrapped by his chain and let him avoid the other monkey charge while he hangs on the branches with the help of his chain..
*Phew*
Letting out a breath of relief, Yin Yu calmly look at the bunch of monkeys that got angered by their companion death and didn't give up chasing after him, yet all of the monkeys that chases him suddenly stop in their track together and run in fear without looking at Yin Yu.
*sigh*
"You have failed once again, but at least you didn't stupidly let them hit you this time."
Without turning his head, Yin Yu already know the one who suddenly appears above him is his mother and hearing his mother declared he has failed yet again make him a little depressed but he also knows that he's failed the moment he did what he did so his depression only show for a while and soon determination appears again in his eyes.
"Follow me, you need more training."
Following his mother voices, Yin Yu longer the chain while letting loose of his of his chain grip over the branches and soon followed his mother to go and train again.
***
"As I have said, Shadow step is the movement technique that focused not on speed but it focused on not getting detected by your enemies."
"No matter if it's sight, smell, sound, once you use shadow step, you need to conceal those three points all so that your enemies wouldn't know where you are."
"Any question?"
Speaking up to this point, Yin Ying asks her son if he has any question to ask of her and Yin Yu who has heard that he can finally ask some question, finally asked the question that makes him doubtful for the past few days.
"So, mom, what's the point of earlier training where I get chased by bunches of Redclimb Monkey?"
Hearing Yin Yu question, Yin Ying can only smile while she asks him back his question.
"Then what's Redclimb Monkey little Yu?"
"Redclimb Monkey is a demon beast comparable to a human 6th stage of Body Tempering and they can climb faster than a normal monkey, their speed was also fast enough and the existence of Redclimb Monkey King make them smart and able to use strategy."
"What else?"
"Although they're smart with a king by their side giving the command, it can be said that their king isn't wise which proved by how he still send monkey after monkey to attack me even after knowing mom presence."
"And…"
"And?"
"Without their king, they're entirely useless…"
Speaking up to that point, Yin Yu can more or less, figured what his mom is going to tell him while continuing to say.
"Mom, you mean…I need to silently go to their king and assassinate him while noiselessly disappear without any other monkey noticing?"
"You finally figured it out... The point of this test is to enhance your understanding of shadow step, while these monkeys work to pressure you to improve faster."
With that said, Yin Ying continues to point all the point which Yin Yu has felt fishy for these past few days while giving him some instruction.
"Remember, You can't kill the monkey because once you kill one, it's means you have declared your presence to them."
"You can't let the monkey hurt you because it means you have been discovered."
"You can't fall to the ground, for the ground was these monkey hunting ground, which means falling to the ground would mean you're already discovered by them."
"You also mustn't make any noise, you mustn't let them saw you and the most important would be, you mustn't let them smell you."
"You should have noticed already, didn't you feel some distinct smell on it?"
Hearing his mother words, Yin Yu remember that he has felt his clothes have some weird smell after entering this forest but he has always ignored it because he feels it's just an imagination.
"Yes."
"That's the smell of Low tier Beast Guiding Powder, now, what's its effect??"
"To lure a beast"
"Right, all along, you must be wondering how they can always find you no matter how you hide from their sight or make your step as noiseless as you can, even so, you forget to conceal your smell."
"With that said, all you need was go and silently kill your enemies and silently go back here without any monkey noticing."
"Any more question?"
Hearing all of the things his mother said, Yin Yu feels some doubt he needs to clarify for he faced his mother while awkwardly ask.
"Eh…Mom, why did this test similar to the test undergone by an assassin?"
"Hmmm, mom never tell you before?"
"Of course this test similar to those assassins you have read in the library."
"After all…"
"Your mom is an assassin."