As fion traversed the outskirts of the Amber mountains, he encountered two lorn beasts. One was a grey hedge hog which was at early phase, having the land attribute Elemental Qi. It strength rivals that of Yu clan’s elder Shigi, and it’s control over earth elements even exceeds the latter. But, after the massive power up that fion recently undergone, the hog cannot match up to fion neither in speed nor in strength. It was crushed by the former in a single kick,after which fion took the nuclei and stored it in his ring.

The second lorn beast, he encountered was a little bit tricky, which was a mountain boar. It was also a land attributed Elemental Qi and it’s at middle phase of the realm but the reason fion found it difficult to kill was because of the beast’s overwhelming speed. Generally, some beasts have some special traits depending upon their species and familia. Like red eyed rhino for example, even though it is a fire attribute beast, it was also famous for it’s defensive trait and it’s body have one of the toughest scales protecting several important parts of the beast.

Likewise, the mountain boar had the special trait of super speed. These beasts were generally unmatched in speed by any other beasts in the same realm and attribute type except a very few. Initially, when fion encountered the beast, the latter only thought of fion as a weakling because of his lower cultivation realm and exchanged several blows with him. In that few crossing of blows, it discovered that fion was beyond ordinary and since then, it only focused on defending itself and tried to escape from fion as much as possible. So, When ever fion tried to deliver a finishing blow, it would evade it one way or an another.

The cat and mouse chase continued for several minutes before fion finally pushed the beast into a corner of the hill. Even then, it tired to escape by climbing the hill, but fion quickly executed the Yu clan’s Martial art ‘Dragon breath’. Since the beast was so focused on climbing the hill, it didn’t see the incoming arrow a bit sooner and couldn’t evade in time. Finally, the Almost solid arrow made of Yuan Qi pierced through the beast body, thus killing it instantly. Fion collected the nuclei from the beast before finally storing it in the space ring.

Now fion has three space rings of which two were from the leader of Silver eagle group and Shigi respectively. He neither used nor wore Shigi’s ring as it has the design of twin dragons entwining each other, which is Yu clan’s emblem and it can lead to unexpected problems. Like always, he only stored the valuable items in his own ring and now two more nuclei beasts were stored in it.

He even thought of improving his strength further since he now has two lorn beasts nuclei, but let it slide on account of the fact that he just had a major power up and whether his body can handle another major increase in strength in a short time with out any backlashes. He decided to wait for another 4 days before forming more mitogenes.

“ I guess there won’t be many lorn beasts on the borders of these mountains. But i can’t go any deeper since the beasts were already stronger along the border, there was no need to guess the strength of them inside the mountains HUH! ” While fion was lost in thoughts, he suddenly heard the sound of humans.

It was the second time he was encountering humans after entering the forest. If Shigi was not counted as a natural encounter then this will be the first time he came across humans. He hesitated whether to reveal himself or to avoid them altogether. At that instant, he heard a loud voice

“Who is it ? Come out and show yourself !” fion stumbled a bit since the other party easily found him and that even the voice had a certain amount of power backing it. Since he didn’t know anything about the other humans, he decided not to take any risks and moved forward to reveal himself.

Fion carefully analysed the opposite group members and their strength. To his surprise, there was an Yu Clan elder along with them.

“Hmm , 3 teens of which two were males and one female, an old aged expert .. i guess the strong voice should be his … and two middle aged man … their strength … should be around mid phase condensation realm and finally the Yu Clan elder … really a diverse group … but why is an Yu Clan elder tagging along with them ”

“Excluding the Yu Clan elder and the female teen, all of them wore a blue coloured robe having different flower patterns in it. And the three young teens were particularly outstanding in their attire. One of the male was long and thin with deep brown eyes, with long hair and handsome face wearing a head band. The other male was a healthy young man with white skin, revealing his forehead. He wore a simple traditional costume with only his robe which was particularly outstanding.His whole demeanour was very composed and very amiable. The only female teen was very slender with slim waist and green energetic eyes, having a cute face with smooth flowing black hair that stopped at her waist. She wore a light blue gown which was imprinted with exquisite designs of flowers”. With a glance, fion could tell that these teens should be young masters of some clan.

At the same time, the opposite party members were also shocked by fion’s stature and strength. They saw that fion was only an early phase mitogene realm cultivator and he came alone treading into the forest. From his dress, they can infer that his background must be very ordinary .That moment, the only female of the group suddenly spoke

“humph, a dumbass who don’t even know his own limits and came for his death ” she coldly snorted and turned away her head.

When fion heard this, he was pissed off, but he knows that he has to control his anger and not let his emotions get the better of him. First is he didn’t know the full strength of the opposite party especially the old geezer. Secondly, he guessed that these people should be from a clan, which was far more powerful than Yu Clan. And lastly, he full well know the temperament of these young masters and didn’t want to initiate a meaningless life or death duel over this simple matter.So, he acted as if he didn’t even heard it.

That time, the Yu clan elder came forward and stared at fion.

“Who are you ? What are you doing here ?” he asked the most obvious question any person would ask in that situation.

Even before fion met the group. he prepared a reason in these situations so he quickly gathered his thoughts and spoke in a respectful tone.

“Greetings, fellow Cultivators, I am fion Yuusha and i am a member of silver eagle mercenary. While we were traversing along the forest hunting beasts, suddenly a red eyed rhino came out of no where and attacked us. During the escape, i got separated from my martial brothers and was roaming the forest alone. It was my luck that i didn’t encounter any powerful beasts , else ..” fion stopped his words and acted as if he was trembling in fear of even mentioning about it.

“Humph , a lucky bastard ” the teen wearing the headband sneered at fion to which the latter smiled as if he didn’t bother.

At that time, the old geezer stepped forward and asked fion “Say, when did you split up with your brothers ? ”

Fion twitched his lips in secret before replying “just this morning, about some 6 hours earlier when a rhino ambushed our group”

Hearing this, the old man sized up fion as if he was scanning every part of his body.Fion naturally know how to act and faked his expressions, showing fear in his face.

Fion suddenly noticed that not only this geezer but a teen was also staring at him. It was the teen who wore simple traditional clothing. “Tsk How did i end up in this situation …. Even though ,my reason and acting was not perfect, it hope it should be enough just to confuse them”

Abruptly, the teen who was staring at him walked towards fion. He held out his hands and asked fion “Can you give me your space ring ? Don’t worry, i won’t take anything from you …just felt like wanted to see ”

Veins began to protrude on fion’s hands as he looked deeply at the teen. The teen looked gentle yet mysterious and fion felt like he was staring into a deep well as he can’t read a bit about the former’s expression.

Fion without any hesitation handed over the ring to the young master who used his sense and connected with the ring. Then, the young master began to take out all the materials inside the space ring of fion.

All the things which were taken out were completely ordinary and were necessary items needed while traveling in a forest. On seeing this, the eyes of the youth fluttered a little before returning to the normal gentle mode.

“Is it only my imagination or …” the youth deeply stared at all the items which gave a impression that he was analysing the things,but in reality he was deep in thought.

He had suspected fion from the beginning when he said that he travelled alone. What surprised him was fion’s lack of emotions when he discovered the presence of humans. Normally, a person would exclaim in joy in his situation but he even tried to ran away and only after the old man spoke, he came before them.

Next is his cultivation, which was at early phase of mitogene realm. Even though it’s not much, but considering his age , his talent should be comparable to even some of the average geniuses in a large clan. It would be impossible for him to gain this strength when he was in a mercenary group which he didn’t even hear of. On the other hand, if he had amazing talent, he should already have been recruited by some clans as an inner disciple.

Next is his space ring. Just wearing one symbolises that the person was not ordinary. Even in famous and powerful mercenary groups, only the leader and may be some more important person would wore such a ring, since space ring was extremely costly. And in these groups, they would only use space ring for storing valuable items, and that’s why the youth specifically asked fion for his space ring. But in fion’s case, even though he was only a junior , he has one and it has simply ordinary things which one can even carry in a pouch or a bag. If it was a huge clan, they wouldn’t bother much but for a mercenary group, space rings are invaluable and here it was completely wasted on fion.

At the time, the Yu Clan elder had different thoughts “This fella …. is he from Shi clan as a spy … but he is too talented to be wasted as a spy … considering his talent, he should be one of the top five geniuses in the clan, so there was no way that Shi clan would send him as a spy. Then if he really is a mercenary, and with his talent, he should be having a great influence in the group …. Hmm ..no wonder he has a space ring … then … haha ” the old elder grinned evilly.

The Yu clan elder finished his thoughts and finally spoke “ Hello fella, i am an elder of the Yu Clan. It is my duty to protect the people of the Yu province , so don’t worry, i will safely take you to the near by village”. His eyes glittered and his expression resembles a person who had found a great treasure.

Both fion and the teen sneered at the same time. They both had easily figured out the reason as to why the elder was being gentle towards the former. “This old fox actually wants to recruit me into Yu Clan … pst …. well, i would return to Yu Clan eventually but not as a member but ….. hehe …. until then …Dream on” Fion played out very well and hid his expressions. He cupped his hands in respect and acted excitedly as if he was truly saved from a great danger. Even tears began to swell in his eyes.

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