When Vin had returned to the the sect, he was stopped at that sect gate by those manning it, but when they saw his patched red robes they let him in thinking he was someone who was on a mission.
It wasn't strange for those on missions to return looking like that especially if it was a beast hunting mission, after entering the sect he went directly to the mission hall.
That was the best place to turn in all the parts of the beasts he had slain, but before he got there he branched somewhere and removed various things from his spacial ring.
These were all the most important things worth points that he had removed from the beasts, then he placed them in a sack, his sword was also tied to his back.
He didn't want to reveal the existence of his spacial ring so easily to anyone in the sect, after that he tidied himself and went on his way, on the way he naturally noticed the quiet atmosphere of the sect, he suspected something was going but he didn't think much of it.
When he got to the mission hall, he met an old man at the counter who seemed to be dozing, when he noticed that someone had come, he opened his eyes looked on with surprise.
"Ohh, a deciple, there's someone who's taking missions at this time" he said as he assessed Vin, he noticed he hadn't seen him before but didn't think it was strange.
There were a lot of deciples in the sect, it was impossible to know all of them.
"Are you here to turn in a mission?" he asked taking a glance at the sack hung on Vin's back "No, but I was wondering if I could get points for these" Vin said as he casually emptied the sack on the counter.
Elder Feng's eyes lit up immediately, naturally he recognized all the beasts parts and it was because of that there was a shocked expression on his face.
These beast could only be found in the middle layer of the dark wind forest, a place that was even dangerous for spirit sea realm deciples, but this boy was only in the ninth stage of Body refining realm.
'How inconsivable, this boy is a genius, a demon level genius' he thought as he looked at the lazy expression on Vin's face.
"Of course you can, what's your name " he asked excitedly "Vin. Eremiel Vin Celestra" Vin replied casually, but it was a different reaction from the listener.
"Vin, huh, wait Vin!! You're that guy, you're not dead yet?" Elder Feng's eyes widened as he exclamed "Huh, who said I was?" Vin was quite surprised, the sect thought he was dead, how come.
"Well, there was rumors saying you died in the dark wind forest few weeks ago" Elder Feng replied surprised that he was talking to a supposedly dead person.
"And who spread those rumors" he asked, there was already someone he suspected but he wanted to confirm, "It was a lad called Suzanne I think" Elder Feng replied but...
"Boom!!"
Vin's aura flared as blazing killing intent radiated around him, there was also a berserk bestial aura mixed with it and his eyes were almost narrowed to slits.
Naturally this was accumulated through all the beast he had killed, Vin had stayed in the dark wind forest for close to two weeks so it was to be expected.
'Such intense bestial aura, such killing intent, it almost close to bloodlust.' Elder Feng thought as he asked "Does she have something to do with this?!" even he was affected by the aura despite being at the peak of Spirit sea realm.
"Elder Feng, can you give me the necessary points please?!" Vin said ignoring Elder Feng's question as he reined in his aura "Ohh, sure, all this parts are quite precious so it would net you a total of 1000 points." Elder Feng said not minding that Vin had ignored his question.
Even he wouldn't want to offend someone like him, he had felt like he might die under that aura and killing intent alone, after calculating the points, he transferred it to his sect token.
Vin sent his awareness into the token and confirned the points, the sect token wasn't just used for identity alone, there were also some other functions such as storing sect points and even checking the ranking in the outer court.
After doing that he turned around to leave but stopped with his back still turned to Elder Feng "Elder Feng, please where can I find her?" he asked calmly but that calm tone was laced with a hidden killing intent.
"At the outer court martial stage, all the sect deciples are there, the outer court Mortal Rankings is taking place right now" Elder Feng replied immediately as he knew something bad was about to happen.
"Mortal Rankings huh! Got it, thanks" Vin said as he vanished, he rushed towards the martial stage with his fastest speed.
After a while he could see the location of the martial stage in front of him but the entrance was blocked as it was packed with people and rather than waste his time wading through the crowd, he decided to do something crazy.
He stomped his foot on the ground and using the momentum he had built from running, he leapt into the sky towards the martial stage, a loud booming sound rang out as the ground cracked under his feet.
The air made loud whooshing sound as he passed through it, when he passed above those geniuses, it caused no small amount of commotion.
"Look, what's that..."
"What the hell...."
"Whose that..?"
"How can someone jump so high?"
Heightened cries spread among them as they talked about what they were seeing, and while still on the air Vin glanced at the stage and roughly understood what was going.
He looked around and after spotting his target he made a quick decision "Nine Chronicles of Hell ~ First Chronicle ~ Tears of Asura" he said in a calm and serene voice
It felt like the wailing of ghost as it sent shivers down the spine of everyone present.
And then black tear drops began forming on the air, a total of hundred in number, before dividing themselves and shooting towards forty-nine people with presiton, this showed the incredible control he had over the skill.
The moment those geniuses were touched by the tear drops, they were blasted off the stage immediately. It was at that moment Vin landed with a a heavy bang.
When Vin landed he was standing just across from his worst enemy, it could be said that she was the person whom he hated the most right now.
"Hey Suzanne, it's been a while, have you been well?!" he said with a cold smile plastered on his face. Although it looked like he meant well, the crowd knew that things were weren't so simple.
Besides they didn't know who this genius was but he seemed to hold a grudge against someone, and that someone was shivering with wide eyes at that very moment as if she had seen a ghost.
Although he looked different now, she would still recognize him anywhere, after all she had... "How, ho..w how are you still alive" her voice quaked as she asked
"Oh, are you surprised, actually I should thank you, after all if you hadn't set me up and sent dozens of demonic beast to hunt me at the overhanging edge cliff, I wouldn't be where I am today." his words immediately sent a wave of uproar among the deciples.
Plotting to kill your fellow disciple was a capital crime in the sect although it was a different story outside, that was only if there was no witness, but if found out it was punishable by death.
But Suzanne didn't care about that right, she was still reeling in shock "But how is that possible?, I saw you fall over the cliff, you're supposed to be burned to ashes in the magma below" she screamed in heisteria.
"Well haven't you heard the phrase, a Phoenix rises from the ashes" he replied casually before turning to Elder Ling who had been silent the whole time and bowed slightly.
"I'm sorry for the sudden disturbance Elder Ling but this junior has a presumptuous request." he stated.
"Go ahead" Elder Ling said, he already had an incline to what this request would be, it was too obvious to everyone here.
"This junior has a life and death fued he would like to settle against her" he replied curtly. "What is your name?!" Elder Ling asked, he was quite curious about this genius junior which he hadn't seen before.
He had entered the competition with a dramatic entrance and eliminated forty-nine people in one fell swoop, it would be hard not to be curious about such a person.
"Vin.. Eremiel Vin Celestra" Vin said, there was dead silence everywhere for a moment before another uproar louder that the last one arose again, this time they were truly shocked.
The trash had suddenly became a genius, who wouldn't be shocked, besides wasn't he supposed to be dead, oh right he was plotted against by the same person who spread the rumors.
These were the thoughts running through everyone's mind but a different thought was running through the mind of Elder Ling after all he knew inside information.
'A Phoenix rises from the ashes huh, so this is the one favored by old Bai, he has indeed rose from the ashes, most especially his cultivation' Elder Ling thought.
Even though Vin had concealed his aura so this geniuses wouldn't be able to see his cultivation, he couldn't hide it from a Sea expansion realm expert like Elder Ling.
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