It has been a week since the convoy reached Henji town. News was quickly relayed to the three major clans of Wu, Rin, Ye and also the town's mayor castle. The news of beast attack was wildly being spread across the entire town as well as a new batch of people from the three villages.
The people selected through different assessments were then lead by the various clans accordingly to their place. Ye Ling along with Ning Shu had taken both Ming Rui and Tai Xue to the branch of Ye clan to which the former belongs.
The various clan lords after receiving the news, agreed upon a joint meeting with the town mayor Chu Yue. The three clan lords can be controlled without being rampant and not fight with the other two only because the Chu clan has a huge influence even in tier - 1 cities.
Despite being a small town mayor, Chu Yue is a strong woman in Sea spirit realm. When she initially held the post few years back, the clan heads themselves tried to propose relations by mentioning their respective outstanding heirs.
Chu Yue is a young woman in her early twenties and has the body of a seductress with voluptuous body. Many hot blooded young men wanted to show their heroic abilities to impress her. Alas they were not even fit to let her maids unveil their true strength.
To such clowns, Chu Yue could not even spare a glance. She is rarely seen outside the mayor's castle and most of the time spends it on retreat. The meeting with the clan lords was approved by her. After all there is also the matter of recruiting disciples by various sects this year.
Ming Rui despite being a follower, was given the title of deacon on the insistence of Ye Guang. Though he left for Sho city five years back, a deacon has to report to the main branch at least once in an year and tabs could be kept on them.
Each deacon would be assigned some area and will be responsible for the clan business and influence. The Ye clan branch is one of the two branches of the main clan and is located far from the center of the town.
Having already sent Ye Guang and other potential heirs of the main clan previously through the assessments to other sects, Ye Ling from the branch family was given a chance to increase their sphere of influence in the sects and city.
The Ye clan branch was still huge and this was the first exquisite building seen by this group after entering the town. Except for Tai Xue and Ming Rui, the other fourteen recruits were settled in the outer courtyard. Both of them then followed Ning Shu and Ye Ling to the inner court yard and were shown respective residences.
Ye Ling soon rushed to her parents to narrate them the exciting journey and the ferocious battle she witnessed these past few months. Truth be told, she was really scared and panicking throughout the beast attack.
After the clan lords met up with the town mayor, necessary preparations were discussed in inviting various sect representatives and arranging proper place to conduct the assessments. With limited time, it is not possible to let huge number of people part take in the test. Hence each clan was only given a quota of one hundred people and the town mayor can also select fifty people.
There is a fourth group although minor present in Henji. It is the refiner group which is overlooked by the town mayor. Hence their services cannot be exploited and can only use proper means. They refine weapons and armor and there are only a handful of refiners who can forge level 2 weapons or armor.
The Rin clan paid a lot to get a bunch of those and send to Rin Meihun secretly with the convoy. A total of three hundred fifty people shall part take in the assessments and the three major clan's heirs can take an entourage of five additional people as their followers.
This special privilege is not available to common people. The whole town of Henji is getting ready to receive various sectors from the surrounding cities for the upcoming assessment in three months time.
Ming Shin has been practicing both these techniques for a while now. One of these days, he suddenly felt a crazy thought of combining the two skills. It was only a bold speculation he held initially, but as he envisioned in his meditation, he could not make up the proper combination.
Whenever his mental stamina depleted, the shiny stone would immediately supplement his mind and he could continue with his experiment without a stop.
Everyday he used to train along with his unit in combat and during the nights, he used to practice these two techniques. It has been three weeks and Ming Shin has quickly integrated within the unit.
On this night, he comprehended the various flaws and slightly adjusted them to finally bring out the best form of the two skills. This new move when displayed portrays silent steps along with controlled breathing. It is as good as being invisible and can strike lighting when possible.
The traces of escape can also be quickly lost due to this new skill. This shall be the first major move I have seriously deducted. Nobody can even doubt this skill's existence. This supreme skill shall be named " Death Step ". But this move also consumes more energy as more focus is needed when in combat.
After vigorous practice for the next five days, he was getting a hand of it when the entire unit was gathered by Ya Min. They have received a mission and Hei Lan will lead a team of ten people for this. Ming Shin was asked to join them and get used to it.
This was also a relatively simple mission with the other four units and an entire fifty people shall soon go to the north-west a few hundred miles down to scout as a something was discovered earlier by a scout.
They shall regroup tomorrow morning and the five vice commanders shall then lead these fifty people of which Han Shuang, the deputy of the strategic team shall be in charge.
Many of the youths were attracted to Han Shuang when they laid their eyes on her beauty, but the strategic unit only consists of women team and do not accept men. It is also the team with least number of people roughly thirty members in entirety.
In the past few days, Ming Shin successfully broke through seventh layer of Bone Forging, so he was raring to go out to see the extent of his new move and improve combat skills. The night before the mission, Jin Hao was also selected in the ten man group along with Ming Shin.
Through the past few weeks, he was also aware of Ming Shin's temperament. The pretty kid usually doesn't bother you much with anything, but he does not seem to care much about anything that may not concern him.
On this mission, I will show him how to properly perform and expose his poor abilities. By then I can also impress vice commander Hei Lan and thinking of those *gulp, I have to present my best side and be of any help to her.
The next day, all the five vice commanders have gathered up the fifty people in the center. Many of them seem excited while a few of them were cowardly and seemed to be scared of what they had to encounter by scouting in this new discovery.
Ming Shin was surprised to find Si Juan among them and also a man with a mask who seem to be clad entirely in black. Then there was Han Shuang who almost has everyone's attention now. Her robes were so short that they barely cover her tanned inner thighs.
Most of the youth were drooling at the sight and thinking 'just a bit further', while some tried see somewhere else due to embarrassment. Ming Shin might not be aware of many things, but he knew that she must wear such clothing definitely not for obscene purpose.
His guess seemed even correct when Han Shuang's eyes had contempt for the men and while secretly figuring out each person's mental caliber. She needs to assess each person's fortitude when deciding on every move.
She was surprised to find out a young boy who is still pretty is not affected by her charm and he still seems to be in serious mood. 'This is interesting' she thought.
Soon she began to organize the teams in orderly manner. Spreading out wildly would take more time for the relay unit to spread message and action taken can be delayed. Hence, to maintain equilibrium, the spotter squad only spread around 500 meters.
The silent unit shall be on par with the latter to assist them from the dark or any traps and ambushes. After sorting out the plan and chain of command, they have set out to their destination.