"Why are you here? You are not supposed to leave the core area" Li Kui reprimanded.
"Don't worry chief. I made sure there will be nothing will be amiss there" the latter faintly smiled without much respect.
Qing Wutian is a charming man with sword like eyebrows. He became vice chief solely with martial might. He is the strongest existence known to the tribe and the one with great potential.
He has always been aggressive since young and dominated everyone with his strength and arrogance. The clan was always in the dark about their history. They were told that their ancestors fled due to a powerful enemy.
Only the peerless geniuses with great aptitude were allowed to practice the original scriptures. Over many generations, many strong men and women have made great progress in cultivation.
Li Kui was also a young woman three hundred years ago who had the best aptitude and was thus appointed as the next Supreme chief. Only the Supreme chief and supreme elder were aware of the clan's tragic history.
The other clan members who grew strong eventually getting agitated and were headstrong that they could kill their enemies.
Li Kui could only scoff at them. A mere Golden Yuan ant dares to scream to kill an enemy which it cannot even stand a single sneeze of the enemy.
This caused a rift in the clan with some conservative elders forming the outer layer and supported the Supreme chief while the other strong men were rallied by the vice-chief.
The only thing which exasperates Qing Wutian is, no matter how much increase in his strength, he could not even stand three moves from her.
Many a times Li Kui was frustrated with this faction always being a hindrance. She consulted the supreme elder whether divulging the clan's hidden history to Qing Wutian might change his perspective and stop these childish acts.
The Supreme elder outright rejected her proposal. That man has arrogance imbibed in his bones and fails to accept reality. A man with no humility cannot bear such burden.
He shall only divulge more into mad ravings and rile up the clan. This will cause a huge unrest and when fighting powerful people in this world, there is high chance that our core skills will be used in attack. This will only impend doom to the entire clan.
Li Kui had to accept the fact the child she saw had grown to one hundred twenty years but he was not humbled no matter how many times he lost. She had to appreciate his tenacity and in fact this also let the core geniuses have competition with each other.
So, he was given the duty to monitor the inner layer and cultivate the core geniuses. Afterall, though she believed in the prophecy mentioned in the legends about the child of doom, she cannot pin her entire hope upon it.
The clan needs to be strong enough when the time comes. If she had to withstand this nuisance, for the clan's strength, she was willing to give it a chance.
"By the way, I seem to have heard of an incredible news about a young boy carrying the 'Supreme' token" Qing Wutian enquired looking at the elders. In fact his question was posed to someone else, but he did not dare be so blatant to rudely question the Supreme chief.
He knows that she is being lenient on him only for the clan's improvement. Removing him from this world would be as easy as single true blow from her.
Li Kui did not even bother to answer him and asked one of the elders to inform the scouting team to form a strong five man team and their mission.
Qing Wutian twitched and remembered to pay special attention to this 'Ju Hai'. Even he was never given a such a token being the peerless genius in the past century and yet some outsider who was rescued was given this privilege.
'Something doesn't add up' he was thoughtful.
Soon the scouting division was aware of a new mission and the strongest team of five members shall be formed for that. Ming Shin was the first to be selected without a doubt. He has proven his capabilities in these three years.
He can pinpoint details almost half a mile away with his incredible eyesight. He has good combat power and also incredibly calm at making correct judgements. Si Juan and Rei Shi were next appointed for their martial might.
Yue Nai, the commander of Silent team was the fourth member while Han Shuang from the strategic team was included to make sure that right tactics be used to just trail the monster beast herd.
Except for Ming Shin who is Condensation stage peak fifth layer, Yue Nai is eight layer, Rei Shi had recently broken through ninth layer. Both Si Juan and Han Shuang are in seventh layer of Condensing realm.
Though all of them excluding Ming Shin are in their late teens, their foundation can be some of the finest even on par with geniuses of Supreme sects. Though next year, all of them are going to the inner area.
The five were quickly gathered together and were reported their mission. Sure enough, after hearing it, Ming Shin clenched his fist. He has a vague idea that it must be the monster beast attack. He never understood why do they even attack the village?
Is there something in the village that attracts them? No, wait...there's that hidden place inside the holy tree, but how do they know about it. Since monster beasts do not possess intelligence, at least the ones under level - 5, is someone behind the scenes?
When I have time I have to check that place again. Also I need to got the Boundless Saint remains and what was his spirit doing in such a place. He had few things to check upon before he sets out for Henji town in an year.
As the five of them came to the main hall, all the elders, Li Kui and Qing Wutian also inspected them. Li Kui was clearly astonished seeing Ming Shin's growth. She is the only one who is clear that his potential has far exceeded what makes common sense.
Even the core geniuses in the inner core cannot compare to his depth and foundation as she noticed he had already opened 44 meridians and he is still in mid Condensation stage. How about going to foundation?
Even though going forward as the realm increases, opening up higher meridians is almost an impossible feat. But she had enough intuition that he is going to cross fifty four meridians by the time he transcends. Perhaps this child of doom is really the only hope for us.
As she sighed at his remarkable growth, Qing Wutian was also quick in weeding out others and focusing his gaze on Ming Shin. As he locked his gaze, the latter felt that he was inspected unscrupulously with his consciousness.
The average person below sea spirit realm cannot even guess that they are being inspected, but it is definitely not the case with Shin. His face was ugly but did not show much in the surface. It was lucky that he has void soul and it covered up the important secrets in his body.
Qing Wutian did not find anything special after a sweep. Not satisfied, he decided to direct pry open his mind. As Ming Shin began to experience a heavy toll on his soul, Li Kui waved her hand and dissipated it casually making the latter gasp and looked at her gratified.
The vice chief wrinkled his brows but could not say anything as no one was aware of what just happened except the three of them.
"So, you are Ju Hai who was favored by the chief and got the Supreme token?" he openly asked.
The other four were astonished 'Did such a thing happen?'. But they were in position to question anyone. They can only ask Ming Shin later.
'Sure enough, this guys has a bad opinion on me' Ming Shin could instantly tell.
"Junior Ju Hai has seen senior" he politely responded as he did not know who this man was and even the Supreme chief tolerates his behavior.
"Junior brother Hai, He is the esteemed vice chief of our tribe, Qing Wutian" Si Juan timely reminded him to which the latter nodded his thanks for this information.
"Boy, tell me what is so special in you that you were given the supreme token?" the former inquired again.
"That's enough. Since he is an outsider and cannot enter the inner layer, I have given him the token to access the third floor library and some special missions recognizing his potential" Li Kui interjected.
'Tch' he twitched and remarked "Oh? I am also looking forward to the great potential".
"Yes" Ming Shin politely bowed his hand.
"Since the five of you are here, you must have also been briefed about your mission. This is not a mission to engage in fight but to only find their motive and destination" Li Kui prompted again.
The five of them complied with the mission objective except one who is having other thoughts.
"If you are prepared, set off now" she commanded.
Qing Wutian faintly nodded at Si Juan while they set off into the forest following the trail.