"What happened? Can't you guys wait until I finish my seclusion training before disturbing me in the middle?" Zhang Wu Ji collected the ten treasured manuals inside his Onyx-Class Spatial Ring before he came out from his room.

"Master Senior Ninth! We wanted to wait as well, but your seclusion took eighteen days! We have no choice but to disturb you in the middle of your seclusion training." the disciple from his Apprentice Hall stated. Afraid of being penalized due to his bold action, he kneeled before the Master Senior.

"Alright. Tell me what happened." Zhang Wu Ji steps outside from his door and proceeds towards the direction where the Main Hall of his Apprentice Hall is located. Following him from behind, the disciple started to explain to him what happened in this eighteen days.

"Wait... I'm inside the room for eighteen days?" Zhang Wu Ji stopped in between his steps and turned to where the disciple stands.

"Yes..." the disciple nodded.

"No wonder..." Zhang Wu Ji scratched his head and continued with their way once more. In the way, he was briefed with what happened during these few days of seclusion Training. Being the one that received this news last, Zhang Wu Ji feels like he cannot smile at all.

On the third day of his seclusion, news related to the Upper South Merchant Corporation is establishing their branch in Wen Qing City is made known to every village, town, and cities inside this Seven Star County. Being the overlord of this county, Seven Star Sect not only did not stop the expansion but instead, supported them.

This news angered Liang Tian thoroughly, but there was nothing he can do at this moment. As the expansion branch is in construction, they started to grab the attention of many investors, merchants, and also visitors from the Imperial County. With such a disturbance suddenly appeared in the Wen Qing City, this hampers their initial intention to subjugate the city.

With the Wen Qing City being so crowded with visitors and business prospects, the subjugating action will not proceed as they wish. If they decided to continue with the initial plan, not only it may decrease the confidence of people towards the Apprentice Hall but allowing the possibility of allowing the current Seven Star Sect to have a reason to subjugate them instead.

Their control over emotion and rationality impressed Zhang Wu Ji, but it was only until the tenth day of his seclusion. News related to the incoming convoy belonged to the Jie's County merchants are coming through Wen Qing City. Although this act is something easily seethrough by the experienced businessman, it was still a good act to purchase the confidence of their customers.

With all these arrangements, it affects the business that was conducted in Wen Wu City. Because the news was spread everywhere through their wealthy manner of advertising, merchants coming passed the Heavenly South County went straight to Wen Qing City instead of where the Apprentice Hall is located.

Suffering from all these losses of revenue, Liang Tian and few management members went out to salvage this matter. As an honored Inner Qi Lord, the well known Lord of Seven Swords, he pays a visit personally to the Wen Qing City to see what kind of act they're planning ahead to destroy the Apprentice Hall.

Meanwhile, eight of the nine master seniors is out from the Wen Wu City to support their neighborhood village and towns to obtain their trust. By doing all these, they successfully convert a portion of the victim from the Upper South Merchant Corporation's advertisement and continue to support the Apprentice Hall.

But this did not last long. Unknown from where and what is their background, bandits strike when their defense is at the lowest point. Two of the villages that were recently visited by the Master Seniors is slaughtered by an unknown force of bandits. Forced by these kinds of threat, the people started to lost their trust towards their Apprentice Hall.

Worst of all, when all of these incidents happened, the person representing the Upper South Merchant Corporation Branch in Wen Qing City is busy with his time attending Liang Tian! This completely cut off the relationship between the corporation with this bandit attack matters!

And at this morning, before the disciple dares himself to disturb Zhang Wu Ji from his seclusion, the news related to two of the nine Master Senior came. The fifth and Sixth Master Senior, Liu Su Mei and Lin Mao Dan, was captured by the bandit forces operating around the Orchid Mountain!

Hearing all of this, Zhang Wu Ji explodes with anger!

His fury attracts the attention of the Silver Carapace Bees, where after a series of bee's buzzing sound, a large number of Silver Carapace Bees charged out from their safe haven in the Northeastern Forest and gathered before Zhang Wu Ji.

How all these Silver Carapace Bees shows loyalty at their master is so outrageous. Not even a word is needed from him before they gather just before him waiting for his next order. In front of everyone, Zhang Wu Ji calmly pets one of the bees before moving to another.

"Listen to my order. Find my two senior sister's current location and rescue them immediately. Capture the capturer and bring them back to me for questioning. Do all of you understand?" Zhang Wu Ji ordered. Under the watchful eyes of the members and visitors of Apprentice Hall, the Silver Carapace Bees nodded, but then fly around the square without a motive in them.

"Phew... I thought Master Senior Ninth can talk to Wild Beast..." one of the visitors make his comment.

"Yes... If Master Senior is even a Beast Tamer, how impressive is that? He's already an astonishing Blacksmith, Pill-Master, Formation-Master, Celestial Designer, and Herbalist. If he's even a Beast Tamer now, that means his talent is the top amongst the youth in Seven Star County.

With the Silver Carapace Bees loitering in the square, everyone felt they overestimated the ability of this Master Senior. But as they loosen up themselves, the buzzing sound came from the Northeastern Forest once more, with the Silver Carapace Queen coming out to pay her respect.

This face slapping moment came to them too fast. How can the Queen Bee arrive at this moment? At this moment, their curiosity is answered. Zhang Wu Ji might be confused but, the crowd isn't. He's a Beast Tamer, no matter how they look at it.

Series of buzzing sound came from the Queen Bee as she presented the tributes to her master. Over 400 kg of Fighter Qi Nectar Grains was given to the Master Senior for his personal investment, which caused jealousy to people surrounding him.

What is Fighter Qi Nectar Grains? They're the main ingredient for Bee Nectar Pills, a treasured commodity that can easily hook each of them with a random lady even by gifting an inferior quality Bee Nectar Pill! With the amount of 400kg of them in his hand, won't that equals to 800 of the highest quality 500gm Bee Nectar Pills?

That's an 800,000 Qi Sensing Pills worth of tributes, about 800 million in gold coins! And what is the 500gm Bee Nectar Pill? The pills are sold in auction and not shops! 800 million gold coins are just the base price of this commodity!

With how wealthy is the founder of this establishment, won't everyone wishes to share a piece of the pie? When they were planning with the method to approach the Master Senior, Zhang Wu Ji gave the order to the Queen Bee once more before she releases a series of buzzing sound.

The moment this order came in, the group thousand Silver Carapace Bees charged outwards from the Apprentice Hall and started their patrolling across the forest and plains surrounding the Orchid Mountain, Wen Wu City, Southern Bamboo Forest, and the vicinity of Wen Qing City.

Using these 10th and 11th Stage of Inner Qi Warrior Wild Beast, the confidence of finding his two senior sisters is almost expected. With the dangerous bees is gone, the visitor approached Zhang Wu Ji with the intention to strike a deal between them and him.

Few presented him with some gifts, but most came forward with the expectation to create a good impression inside this Master Senior's mind. It did not take him too long to entertain them, but when his remaining six senior brothers came back, everyone retreated to allow the Master Seniors to meet.

"Junior Brother Ninth, it is great that you're out from the seclusion. Do you know what happened?" Han Gen tap Zhang Wu Ji's shoulder. The others were surrounding them as they started to talk. Looking at his seventh and eighth senior brothers, he knows that not only the fifth and sixth is under attack.

All of them were attacked except Zhang Wu Ji as he was protected in their main establishment. When they shared the belongings and item taken from the bandit forces for inspection, Zhang Wu Ji took his part in the examination and found out two main parties related to this attack.

[Golden Wolf Syndicate]

[Tiger City Forgery]

"Again... Jie's Clan and the people from Wen Qing City..."

"Is there no choice but to slaughter them until they're no longer a threat? Should I learn from how the movies and dramas proceed back in my previous life? Remove the Roots Cutting the Grasses?" Zhang Wu Ji felt he must steel his heart from being too compassionate.

He pondered. While the other is still searching for some clue. Moments later, Zhang Wu Ji's way of looking at the others changed. He turned... Ruthless. As he absorbed all the weapon inside his Wooden Universal Plate, Zhang Wu Ji talks.

"Senior Brothers... Is there any group of people from Jie's Clan coming in recently?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned them. Being secluded from the world for eighteen days seriously took him by surprise. If their answer on this question is a yes, that means the culprit is most likely them.

"How did you know? Recently the Jie's Clan is getting pretty disturbing with their three cities fighting with each another for the resources. A large group or around 1,500 people came to see refuge in our county, where most of the towns accepted them." Fourth Senior Brother Cheng Hao answered.

"Xiao Xiong!" Zhang Wu Ji called. Following from his call, a group of bears under the leadership of the Silver Horn Bear came to him.

"Senior brothers, Wu Ji say sorry first. The reason will be explained later, but for now, please take a few of these Tusked Copper Bears with you and apprehend as much of the refugees from the Jie's County and bring them back here." Zhang Wu Ji started his instruction.

"You may keep the females inside a confined chamber, but make sure all the men are restrained. I want this matter to be done as soon as possible in seven days. I will try to save fifth and sixth senior sisters from the bandit's hand." Zhang Wu Ji completed his instruction to them and activated the Iron Kong-Que.

With only the Silver Horn Bear following him, Zhang Wu Ji departed to somewhere unknown to everyone. While the two of them is flying on the Iron Kong-Que, Zhang Wu Ji took the weapon out again for his last inspection.

Jie's Clan Iron Tiger Sword

-Attack: 14 | Defense: 13 | Durability: 21/21

-Item Description: This sword is designed especially for soldiers from the Jie's Clan Tiger City. Manufactured in Ma Hua Town of Seven Star County because the Jie's Clan has expanded their Establishment in this town.

-Special: When the weapon is used by people with Jie's Clan Tag, this weapon will increase their functionality by twofold.

"Hehehe... How irony is this... I am trying to build this county to make my father and my master proud, but before that happened, the townsfolk instead betraying the sect for their own good. If this is the case, then I suppose I'll have to cut off all these tumors from the Seven Star County." Zhang Wu Ji smiled. He waved his hand once more to take out one book from the ten new manuals and went through the contents.

Face Molding Technique +10 (Phase-Less)

-Ability Acquired: Upon the payment of 500 strands of Fighter Qi, allows the user to change his appearance as he wished. The character can be stored inside the Manual for repeating use.

-Limitation: Appearance usable for 6 hours before a new application is required. Appearance can be exposed by opposing forces with cultivation strength seven stage above the user. Appearance cannot be altered to the opposite sex.

-Durability: 22/22

As he finished reading through the manual and their description, Zhang Wu Ji's appearance is now changed into a different youth in his 16 to 17th in age, but with the same cultivation strength.

After thinking for a while, he decided with a new name for this personality.

"Let's call this persona of mine, Qian Long!"

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[Author's Note]

Would the readers be so kind as to give me some good reviews?