Several men, wearing armor with the royal army symbol, appeared around a abandoned carriage in the forest, "Tsk, they have fled! Look around, they cannot have gone far," one of the men said and they all scattered to search.
'Lu Yin you will not run away. Especially with that girl slowing you.', the man touched the carriage causing her to turn to ashes in an instant, then he disappeared.
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The sun was rising, a man and three kids were in a cave miles of the carriage, "The sun has risen, let's carry on.", Lu Yin looked Shen Hua, 'The boy is very fast, it managed to reach a third of my speed during several hours.'
"We can't go yet." Shen Hua waved his hand and some makeup items appeared, "You two want to do it alone or I do it for you two." Shen Hua smiled for Lu Yin e Yami.
"We can do it," Yami replied angrily, 'There's no way I can let this guy touch me!'
"Okay, if you need help ask for Shen Ruo.", Shen Hua walked to wall of the cave and sited cross-legged closing his eyes.
'What is he doing, meditating? On second thought this is not the first time he doing this.', Shen Ruo had seen Shen Hua sitting in this position a few times, but as he never talked about it Shen Ruo didn't ask either.
Whenever Shen Hua had some time between his tasks and training he would sit like this trying to get in his subconscious to talk to Ichimaru, but with him blocking he never achieved. Now that Ichimaru woke up and was talking, he come in, now he was sitting in front of Ichimaru looking at him.
"What are you doing here? Want to give me your body? Finally you realized that this is the best. Your body is not much but is better than nothing.", Ichimaru with a superior expression spoke
smiling.
"With that look it's hard not to laugh when you talk like that.", Shen Hua said seriously making Ichimaru look at him angrily, "I came here because I want a deal."
"What kind of deal? If it's about giving up trying to take control of the body, forget it.", Seeing that Shen Hua was serious Ichimaru was serious too, 'If it are a acceptable I don't mind cooperating, after all doing nothing is a boredom.'
"If you get control of my body you will be able to use all my power. The deal I want is to help me choose the fire crystals and teach me how to use your black fire. It's a good deal, I can win power and you will have a bigger one if you can take over my body.", Shen Hua hoped that Ichimaru would agree, after all was to their advantage for both.
'If I help him I can make my firepower strong, that will be useful for me when taking his body.' Ichimaru quickly decided, "With you begging like this I have no choice. I'll teach you from now, call me master.", Ichimaru returned to his superior expression.
"I have to go, see you later, Master Ichimaru.", Shen Hua spoke smiling, just as Ichimaru said earlier.
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"All ready?", Shen Hua opened his eyes. Everyone was ready to go.
Lu Yin cut his red hair and dyed it black, changing his hairstyle, with makeup he looked like the father of Shen Hua, completely disguising himself. Yami dyed her hair red and put on her makeup making her look like Shen Ruo.
Shen Hua went to Lu Yin and laughed, "We look like a perfect family. What are our names 'daddy'."
Lu Yin gave a dry laugh, "My will be Feng Yu. Yours will be Feng Xi.", He pointed to Shen Ruo, "Your Feng Li. And Yami, Feng Xiao."
"Now that this is decided let's go. We have a crime to commit!", Shen Hua followed in front of the group.
"Crime? Are we still stealing the Monkey Fire Rod crystal, Older Brother?" Shen Ruo asked excitedly, following Shen Hua with Yami and Lu Yin.
"I don't recommend it. This loading is a trap, for sure.", Lu Yin warned Shen Hua.
"I won't steal this loading anymore. I don't be able to do anyway, they are thinking that you are going to do something with it so security must be gigantic, and chances are the crystals are already somewhere else.", Shen Hua said taking a deck of cards from his ring and giving it to Shen Ruo.
"And what are you going to steal?", Yami asked with little interest.
"The palace vault.", Shen Hua said with a greedy look, making the three of them stare at him in astonishment.
"Normally you'd be right, but that's not the case right now.", Shen Hua took one of Shen Ruo's letters and launched it. The card flew ahead until it lost its strength and fell.
"What do you mean?" Lu Yin wanted to know what Shen Hua had been thinking, since he found out about the trap, Lu Yin began to respect his opinion, 'If he gets it, it'll be great for the Empire.'
"You said the Diamond Kingdom and the Raven Empire have the same level of power. Right?" Shen Hua asked Lu Yin.
"Yes, we both have an equivalent number of cultivators.", Lu Yin watched Shen Ruo flipping the cards in various directions and curiously asked, "What is he doing?"
"Training. To get back to it, that means they have three silver growers, you know who they are? And can you tell me how many bronze and their levels?", Shen Hua was very interested in the answer, 'This number will define the difficulty of the mission.'
"Yes they have three, two middle levels and one high. The high level is the commander of the army, one of the other two it's from the army too and the last is the patriarch of the Xin family. As for the number of cultivators bronze rank.", Lu Yin made a Pause to think, "Hum, about one hundred and twenty cultivators, seventy must be low level, forty medium level and the rest high and rising level."
"Okay, that's great! It means we can steal the safe if we're fast.", Shen Hua was very excited, 'After seeing so many thief movies, I should be able to do that. It will be fun!'
"It's impossible for a failure like you to do that.", Yami did not like Shen Hua and took any chance to criticize him.
"Yami, silence." Lu Yin said seriously and authoritarian. He turned to Shen Hua, continuing in a serious but friendly tone, "Why don't you explain your plan to us."