Not long, Xiao Lin arrived at Nine Calamities's room.
Knock!
He knocked on the door.
Then Nine Calamities's voice rang out.
"Come in!" He said.
Xiao Lin nodded his head and then opened the door to go in.
Once he stepped in and closed the door behind him, he bowed before Master Nine Calamities and said "Good evening, Master Nine Calamities."
After he greeted, he continued "I am done with the mission that I gave myself."
Hahaha!
Nine Calamities laughed.
"Good!" He said.
Then before Nine Calamities could say anything else, Xiao Lin said "Could master please allow me to go on a mission to attack outer court disciples of a sect that may be at a valley or forest, or some other place to do something? I will attack them and snatch their spatial rings from their hands which I will come submit to you. I want to do so to contribute to the growth of our bandit group. At least, the spatial rings of twenty to fifty people combined together would amount to a small heap of resources that would be beneficial to some of my colleagues who are at the same cultivation level as me, which is the Spiritual Ascendance stage."
Nine Calamities looked at Xiao Lin and said "Although I have fully decided within myself to allow you go on many evening missions with some of my men to raid some particular places in this town, in neighboring towns and in numerous faraway towns situated in other cities. But since you would like to go on some missions of your own which is to contribute to the growth of my bandit organization, you are free."
"However, when you are done, you will go with many of my men for the raiding missions to be carried out in those places that I mentioned about to you. Am I clear?" Nine Calamities asked.
"Yes. Very clear, Master Nine Calamities." Xiao Lin answered with a nod of his head.
"Good!" Nine Calamities said.
He then asked with a strongly curious expression appearing in his face "Now, do you have the battle prowess to be able to attack twenty to fifty outer court disciples all by yourself?"
Xiao Lin nodded his head with a smile in his face.
He then said with confidence emanating off of his voice "Yes. I am really strong. I believe I can do so."
"Hmm. That's good. I like your utmost confidence in your abilities" Master Nine Calamities said with an impressed tone in his voice.
He then continued "However, to do what you just said isn't by mouth alone. It must be carried out with pure action. Now, for me to fully believe that you can handle them on your own, I will make you face twelve of your colleagues who are at the ninth-layer Spiritual Ascendance stage. If you can beat them flawlessly all by yourself, you are good to go. If not, then I will have no choice than to reject your suggestion and make you follow my men on the evening raiding missions that I specifically designed for you alone so that you can quickly grow in strength and power and be promoted."
Xiao Lin broke a smile in his face and then said "Bring it on, master."
Hahaha!
Nine Calamities laughed.
"Good!" He said when he ended his laughter.
He then stood to his feet and left his room with Xiao Lin who followed directly behind him with an indecipherable smile in his face.
When they appeared at the training field before their residential castle, with everyone now fully gathered around them, Nine Calamities said with a loud, excited voice "Now, I want to announce that a battle shall take place between Bloodfang and twelve of his colleagues who are at the ninth-layer Spiritual Ascendance stage."
Once he said that, all sorts of questions began to ring out.
"What?!"
"Why?!"
"What has the proud fool done now?!"
...
As soon as Nine Calamities said that, everyone began to ask these questions and other sorts of questions with strongly puzzled and intensely bewildered expressions in their faces.
They couldn't believe what their boss, Master Nine Calamities just announced.
Seeing their facial expressions and reactions, Master Nine Calamities chuckled.
He then continued to elaborate on why he made such an unbelievable announcement, "Bloodfang has said that he wants to contribute to the growth of our bandit organization by attacking twenty to fifty outer court disciples of a sect or some sects that could be found at a particular place or gathered together for an event and then snatch their spatial rings from them which he would come to submit to me as his one of his contributions to the growth of our organization."
He then said further "So, since he confidently claimed to have the battle prowess to face at least fifty outer court disciples of a sect and overpower them to the point of hijacking their spatial rings from them, he must first prove to us that he is capable of doing so, which is by facing twelve colleagues of his who are at the ninth-layer Spiritual Ascendance stage. Haha!"
"Wow! What an idiot!"
"This Bloodfang or whatever he calls himself should be called Bloodfool instead. So stupid! Argh! I can't believe he thinks that he can actually face even only ten outer court disciples of a sect all by himself. And maybe because he was fortunate enough to kill two government officers who were at the first-layer and second-layer Mortal Spiritual stage that he thinks can beat everyone now. Hahaha! Moron."
"I will like to see how our colleagues will bash your face and turn you into a bloody pulp! Hahaha!"
Nine Calamities who could hear what everyone was saying only ignored them.
He then continued "Now, if you will like to fight your junior, Bloodfang to prove to him that he is only living in an unreal, fantasy world, come out now to do so. Or never come out again!"
As soon as Nine Calamities said that, close to fifteen bandits at the 9th-layer Spiritual Ascendance stage presented themselves to Xiao Lin, with smiles that concealed all types of meanings and hid all forms of agendas appearing in their faces.
"Here we are, Master" One of them respectfully said with a bow.
"Good!" Nine Calamities said.
He then turned his head to look at Xiao Lin and said "Bloodfang, fifteen of them have appeared with none of them ready to forfeit this match for the other. Would be able to handle all of them? Or you will rather decide to forfeit the whole match?"
Xiao Lin smiled.
"I am okay with their numbers, Master." He said with a fearless smile in his face.
He then continued with the smile in his face disappearing as it was instantly replaced with a dead serious expression "And I will like to give some nice, acceptable conditions for the match to go on. If I can beat all fifteen of them, they will handover their spatial rings to me. But if I don't, I will handover mine, and the two spatial rings that belonged to those government officers that were slain by me. Also, I will act as their servant for three months. What do you say?!"
When the fifteen bandits heard what Xiao Lin mentioned, their eyes shone hard with incredulity. They wouldn't ever conceive that Xiao Lin would mention such a thing to them, despite their glaring disparities in strength. Then without wasting time, they began to say 'I accept' one after the other.
Once they all accepted, Nine Calamities who also couldn't believe Xiao Lin, said with a somewhat devilish smile appearing in his face "Be as brutal as you want to be in this match. You are allowed to crack every bones you see, and heavily smash apart every internal organ that will come your way. Now, fight!!"