Then when he came out of the wine-drinking inn, he thought of getting a place to stay for sometime till the popular sect that he wanted to apply at will start admitting new disciples in.

So, deciding to execute this thought, he began to walk around to search for a low-key inn that he will hire a room at.

Then when he arrived before one after following people's descriptions to that kind of inn, he went in and headed for the desk at which the receptionist sat at.

"Hello, what can I do for you?" The receptionist asked.

"I want a nice room in this place." Xiao Lin replied with a smile.

"Alright" The receptionist said.

And after telling the costs to Xiao Lin who quickly paid for it since he had large amounts of coins with him, he was given the key.

Once Xiao Lin accepted the key, and which had a particular room number inscribed to it, he headed straight for that room. Then upon reaching there, he went in.

After closing the room's door behind him, he quickly sat down in the cross-legged position. Then he closed his eyes to start comprehension of some advanced battle and movement techniques that he hadn't really mastered.

So, this went on for days, with Xiao Lin not standing for once from where he sat at to enter a deep comprehension state.

At this moment, precisely six days after Xiao Lin arrived at the inn, Nine Calamities's men have spread throughout the town, with some appearing in other towns just to search for Xiao Lin. And equipped with Xiao Lin's image which was drawn by a talented artist amongst them, they asked from people that they came across in their path to ask if they had ever seen or heard of him.

But they were utterly disappointed as not any one of the the people that they met in their path and showed Xiao Lin's image to could really tell them his directions or give them his last seen position and location.

...

At a particular inn, six of the many dozens of men that Nine Calamities sent out to search for Xiao Lin, capture him and bring him back to the castle, could be seen resting on a massive bed in the widely-spaced and large inn that they all had to contribute money together to be able to pay for it.

"Do you think we would be able to capture Xiao Lin?" One of them asked with his brows deeply furrowed.

"Capture him? Of course. Even if it would take us ten years to do so, then ten years it will take us. We just have to capture him so that Master will be extremely happy with us."

"And, although we are really far away from our castle by now and would have to sort ourselves out, I believe that with the intense and rough training that we have all gone through back at the castle under our master, Nine Calamities, it shouldn't be that difficult for us, right? We should be able to easily survive out here. Then with our numbers, we should be able to do great exploits here" One of them said in a really confident manner.

While the person that asked that question that this person tried to answer, only shook his head with an uncertain expression appearing in his face.

"Hey! What's wrong? Why the sudden inexplicable expression in your face, Nightcloud?" One of them called Iron Blazer asked.

Once the person named Nightcloud was asked that question, he said "Bladetiger gave a completely different answer to the question that I asked him."

Then he continued, "The question that I asked is, can we truly capture Xiao Lin? And if you guys don't really understand my question, let me make it clearer to you guys so that I will get a better, nail head-hitting response."

"Now, do you guys think that we truly have the capabilities to be able to capture Xiao Lin? Yea, I know that he is just a first-layer Mortal Spiritual stage cultivator and should be nothing in our eyes. But we all know or can guess a bit accurately the level or degree of his shocking battle power, attacking and skill deployment prowess."

"Remember that when we first met him, when he was running from a particular street in the town to the Blackheart forest, he mentioned to us that he killed two government officers who tried to capture him and incarcerate him. And even if he used silly or outrageous methods to do that, the point is that he still killed them, he killed a first-layer and second-layer Mortal Spiritual stage cultivator. And what cultivation stage was he then? He was at the Spiritual Ascendance stage, a stage that he should be literally nothing to the government officers who could kill him with a strike to the forehead using a flick of their finger"

"So, what I am trying to stay is, if he can do that then, what about now? We can't tell what deadly or fatal tricks that he has up his sleeves now and could use against us if we try to antagonize him" Nightcloud said.

"Hmm. I see great sense in what you just said. But..." The person called Ironblazer said and then took a pause, seemingly thinking of what to say next.

Then after a brief moment of pause, he continued "But, we can't say because of that we won't try to capture him due to whatever killing cards that he may have up his sleeve."

"Come on, Nightcloud, we are six in numbers. And not just many in number but we are also individually powerful in our own right. We are each fifth-layer Mortal Spiritual stage cultivators that no matter what trick he has up his sleeve, he won't be able to do a thing to us. Ugh. Nightcloud, to be sincere, I don't like your thinking. I suddenly feel like you have become retarded because we left the castle"

Hahaha!

Immediately Ironblazer said that, everyone except Nightcloud burst into loud and raucous laughter. While Nightcloud only produced a smile in his face and then slightly shook his head.

Actually, he still felt that he was right, and that they were all wrong.

He had an inexplicable feeling surface in his heart anytime he thought of capturing Xiao Lin.

'These guys don't know or have a slight idea of what they are up against. Even with our relatively overwhelming numbers and high cultivation stage, we would still be useless before him. That boy is much more powerful than we imagine him to be' Nightcloud said inwardly and then shook his head once again before producing a sigh that won't be perceivable by anyone gathered around him.

Then when they all stopped laughing in the next instant, one of them called Gravekeeper asked "So, when are we moving out again to search for Bloodfang? And I wonder what town that animated corpse has arrived at now."

Then once this person called Gravekeeper asked that, he questioned further "Guys, do you think Bloodfang found us boring and then left to go join another one that is really far away from the town that our master's castle is located?"

"Hmm. I can't say." Nightcloud said with a thoughtful expression appearing in his face.

He then continued, "Actually, our master Nine Calamities sent him to a particular place rumored to be a treasure storage house that contained a particular pill that could probably allow him, our master, to have a vast increase in his cultivation. I mean, the pill could allow him to break through many layers to arrive at a higher cultivation stage."

"But perhaps when Bloodfang got there and was able to successfully retrieve the pill and possibly many other types of pills and treasures stored on there, he suddenly developed an overwhelming greedy thought in his heart, which then tried to influence him."

"And since he was now being controlled by that thought of greed to have the pill and the other pills and treasures that he acquired at the treasure storage house for himself, he chose to dump his position at our master's bandit organization and run far away with the pills, artifacts and treasures that he was able to obtain at that treasure storage house." Nightcloud mentioned and then kept quiet so as to give room to his colleagues to be able to contribute to the ongoing topic.

"Hmm. What a bastard the guy is. Haha! But come to think of it, and let's be sincere with ourselves, won't you rather chose to leave the group that you are in and run far away with the tons of pills, treasures and artifacts that you were able to acquire at the treasure storage house? Eh?"

"So, I won't really blame him as he was bestowed with that evil opportunity. Instead, I will blame Master. He brought this upon himself, since he trusted that lying-ass bastard and arrogant traitor way too much."

"If he didn't allow Bloodfang to run that mission for him and instead went for it himself, none of these would have cropped up. Now, we have to clean up his terrible mess, which will certainly expose to many hidden or open dangerous elements that could take or snap away our wonderful, youthful lives.. Ugh!" Someone in their six-male group called Shadow Wrecker, said with a displeased expression in his face.