Xiao Lin nodded his head.
He then said "Certainly Master. I am up for any task that you would like to assign to me"
"Good!" Nine Calamities said with the impression of Xiao Lin in his heart increasing the more.
He then continued by saying "Now, there is this broken treasure that will arrive in this town many days from now. It would be delivered at a treasure house in a spatial ring by some people."
"I don't know how the treasure really looks, but all I know is that it's a treasure, one that looks broken, as it's incomplete in form."
"So, now that you have broken through into the ninth-layer Spiritual Ascendance stage, and have a formidable battle prowess, I want you and a few others who are at the Mortal Spiritual stage who I would assemble into a team to go retrieve the treasure for me."
"Although you might feel that what are you doing in the midst of Mortal Spiritual stage cultivators, you are only there to support them that's all. You don't really need to engage in any battle that might occur between our people and the people in possession of the spatial ring that contains that particular treasure."
"However, if it's necessary to enter into the battle, then you can do so. You know, without fighting in a life or death battle, there's no way one would be able to develop. Fighting in such battle will certainly bring out the best in us, and refine us, making us more stronger, tougher, faster and more powerful."
"Alright, Master" Xiao Lin nodded his head.
"Good!" Nine Calamities said.
He then said "You can return to your room to prepare for this mission. When it's time, I will summon you and the others"
"Okay" Xiao Lin said with a nod of his head.
He then left where he stood to return to his room.
When he arrived in his room, he sat down in the cross-legged position to read through the Way of the Demonic Blade battle art and the Myriad Chaotic Blood Armament battle art to understand the other battle techniques that he wasn't able to execute before due to the really small numbers of Ordinary Blood Symbols and True Demonic Marks in his dantian.
Therefore, now that he broken through into the Blood Acolyte stage for the True Vampire Origin Blood Force cultivation art, and had condensed a good number of True Demonic Marks in his dantian, he wanted to go through the arts again to understand them.
With his eyes closed, he began to comprehend a few other techniques of the arts. And these he did till 11pm in the night.
When he felt that he had comprehended them to an extent and would find a place later in the evening, the next day, so that he could master them and would be able to adeptly unleash them in a fight or battle, his eyes snapped open.
Then looking out through the window, he saw that the moon was already up.
He nodded his head and then closed his eyes back.
Then he began to use that Image Infusion technique to cause moonlight shining into his room from the moon to entirely converge upon his figure alone, which then turned into numerous wisps of silver-white energy within his body in the next instant.
Once the numerous, luminous motes of energy appeared in his body, Xiao Lin began to move them through his Paradigm Werewolf Meridians to his dantian, where they penetrated into one of the three tremendously massive, dark and murky images of werewolf in his dantian which had already gained a tiny bit of illumination, which was as a result of his earlier infusion of silver-white energy from the moon into it.
So, he continued to channel energy from that time till morning.
Once morning arrived, he stood to his feet to close the windows and the curtains in his room.
Immediately he sat down back in the cross-legged position to continue with other things, he first looked into his dantian.
He then saw that only a really small portion of the mountain-sized image that he was targeting in his dantian had gained illumination and solidness. The remaining part were completely dark and hazy, totally disabling him from making out the actual form of that particular werewolf image.
Then after a small sigh and a slight shake of his head, he sank his mind into other things.
So, he resumed his comprehension of the techniques that are slightly advanced than the ones which he already knew from some of the numerous tyrannical battle arts indelibly branded to his memory that he had taken time to study.
And, this he did till evening without taking a break. His aim was that even if he hadn't practiced them to really master them yet, he wanted to understand them to an extent that he would be able to unleash the attacks of the different battle techniques with a high degree of proficiency and speed at opponents that might unexpectedly appear around him.
However, when it was 5pm, a knock suddenly rang out from his door.
Knock!
Xiao Lin's eyes then snapped open with his brows furrowed.
"Who's there?" He asked.
"Duskeater" The person at his door answered.
"Hmm. Okay" Xiao Lin then stood to his feet from his cross-legged position to go see this person that had come to knock on his door.
Once he came out and closed the door behind him, he asked with a smile in his face "So, you can eat the dusk?"
"Certainly. That's why I named myself like that." The person called Duskeater answered with an indifferent expression in his face.
"Alright. So, what do you want?" Xiao Lin asked.
"I want you to follow me. Master Nine Calamities said that you should come with me." Duskeater said.
"Oh, okay" Xiao Lin said with a slight nod of his head.
He then said "Lead the way."
Duskeater nodded and then set into the direction where Nine Calamities and a few others were now staying. While Xiao Lin followed behind this person called Duskeater with a thoughtful expression in his face.
'Probably that broken treasure arrived earlier than expected, as there is no reason why Master Nine Calamities would suddenly request for my presence.'
Not long, they arrived at Nine Calamities's room with Xiao Lin opening the door and entering, while the person caked Duskeater turned around and walked away.
When Xiao Lin entered through the door and closed it behind him, he said "Master, you requested for my presence. Here I am"
Nine Calamities nodded his head.
He then said "Bloodfang, I want to show you to your teammates for the particular theft mission that I told you about."
"The treasure which I spoke to you about actually arrived earlier than expected. The people bringing the treasure should arrive in this town very soon. So, you and the rest are to gear up for this mission and bring me whatever item that treasure is. Okay?!"