Once the symbol crumbled into fragments within him, Xiao Lin gave a bright smile.

"I knew it!" He said and nodded his head.

He then proceeded to find a room in the castle to stay.

Just when he was about to walk in any direction to find a room to dwell in, someone suddenly appeared and called our for him.

"Bloodfang, did our boss give you a place to stay?" The person asked concernedly.

"No. He only told me about the blood contract which he gave to me to sign and then left. Perhaps he wanted me to find a place for myself without any direction from him" Xiao Lin responded.

"Oh, alright. Anyways, there is this room that I can take you to. It's vacant. You could have there for yourself." The person replied.

Xiao Lin nodded his head.

"Thanks. I will be most grateful." He said appreciatively.

The person nodded his head with a smile in his face.

He then said "Come with me."

Xiao Lin nodded his head and then walked by this person's side to a place in the large castle.

After ten minutes of walking along a large hallway in the castle, they finally arrived before a room with bronze doors.

"So Bloodfang, this room is vacant. You can have it for yourself." The person said.

"Okay. Thank you. I appreciate this!" Xiao Lin said while the person just nodded.

Then when the person was about to turn around and leave, someone suddenly appeared from behind and said to the person that brought Xiao Lin here.

"Hey Shadow Reaper, this room has been taken. If you still have the time, take this person to another place in the castle." The person said.

This person was without surprise, Deathwind. He had come out of a room that was adjacent to the room that Shadow Reaper brought Xiao Lin to.

"Oh really? Well, I will leave you guys to settle that between yourselves. I am leaving." Shadow Reaper said with a smile.

But before Shadow Reaper could turn around to leave, Xiao Lin said to him with a cold smile surfacing on his pale-white lips.

"I understand what you did here, Shadow Reaper. You brought me here so that this donkey can either insult or humiliate me, right?" He asked with intensifying coldness in his voice.

Shadow Reaper gave a smile.

He then nonchalantly said "If that's what you think, then you are right. I have no time to give explanations to a damned newbie. In fact, an inferior. Then let me warn you, you should be careful of how you give bad names in here, or you will be dead faster than you know it. I have said my piece. It's up to you to use your wisdom and intelligence to avoid troubles and problems in here."

Once Shadow Reaper said that, he turned around to leave, turning a deaf ear to whatever Xiao Lin may say or talk about.

After Shadow Reaper left, Deathwind looked at Xiao Lin and said with a frigid tone in his voice "Brat, leave here this moment. This room has been taken"

Xiao Lin looked at Deathwind and said with a chilling tone in his voice "And you think I would leave because you told me to? Haha! I am going nowhere, Deathwind. This room is already mine. Whoever has it should come to me."

Deathwind looked at Xiao Lin with a smirk and asked "Then what will you do to the inhabitant of the room?"

"I will ask him to engage in a battle with me. So whoever wins, takes the room. Also, the loser will surrender his spatial ring to the winner" Xiao Lin said with a cryptic smile appearing in his sickly-looking face.

He then raised his hand to begin to flash one of the officers' ring worn on one of his fingers before Deathwind, who then looked at it with eyes that glittered with extreme greed.

Xiao Lin had long removed his own supreme-grade spatial ring and stowed it into the officer's average-quality spatial ring. He couldn't risk showing that one off to anyone, as he was sure that the bandit leader himself will definitely command him to give him his spatial ring.

'That is that spatial ring that belonged to that government officer which this damned fool was able to fortunately kill. If I accept the battle that he proposes and I beat him, I will take the ring for myself. And I am sure as hell that there would be lots of cultivation items and treasures in that spatial ring. Haha! This is certainly my lucky night. This fool just enriched me.' Deathwind said within himself as he contemplated a lot of things.

He then looked at Xiao Lin and said with a concealed delighted tone in his voice "Actually, I am also the owner of this room. So, since you have proposed a battle to the owner of this room, you have proposed a battle to me."

He then spoke further by asking with an indescribable light in his eyes "When should we fight?"

Xiao Lin gave a broad smile that was indecipherable to Deathwind.

"When should we fight? Of course now!" He said out loud with eagerness in his voice.

Haha!

Deathwind laughed.

He then said "Then let's go outside the castle and battle it out. Our colleagues have been wanting to see to a good fight ever since. So, let's entertain them."

Xiao Lin nodded his head.

He then left where he was to head to back to the land outside the castle. Same with Deathwind who followed directly behind Xiao Lin.

Not long, they arrived at the rectangular-shaped area of land that was before the castle. Then both of them walked to stand at the opposite ends of the land.

Now facing each other with cold gazes in their eyes, they silently prepared to fight each other.

"Guys! Come out of your damned rooms this moment! There is a fight happening between a pro and that newbie that slayed a government officer! Come out now or you will miss a lot. And you will be definitely hurt!" Someone who saw both Xiao Lin and Deathwind walk to the land to face off against each other screamed out in excessive delight.

Then in the next second, many other bandits trooped out of their rooms to come see the fight that this person had abruptly announced to them.

Then one that appeared by the side of the person that quickly made the announcement of a fight, alongside hundreds of others who rushed out of their rooms in the castle so they could witness the entire battle, suddenly asked with an intensely curious gaze in his eyes "Iron Smasher, Is it a duel to the death?"

The person called Iron Smasher shook his head and said "Killerblade, there are no murderous intents ensuing from either of the two of them. So, probably not. But whatever their battle is, let's sit back and watch. It has been a really long time we witnessed this kind of wondrous occasion."

Haha!

Killerblade laughed raucously with an agreeable nod of his head.

He then looked at Xiao Lin who was coldly gazing at Deathwind that only coldly gazed back at him with a perceivable aura of victory beginning to emanate from his body.

Then seeing that nearly everyone had gathered to watch them fight, they suddenly rushed towards each other with battle intents beginning to discharge like furious tides from their bodies.