Meeting Guan-Yin

Jin looked at the woman moving towards the table, while his grandfather confirmed Jin was indeed the boy she would be looking after.

“The old hag“ Jin blurted out confused, and stared at his grandfather to confirm the woman was his new teacher the old hag his grandfather had mentioned. Suddenly something hit Jins head, followed by the voice of the woman “who is an old hag?“.

Grandpa Yi quickly replied in a hurried voice shaking his head “no, no, he didnt mean you. Its someone else, yes thats it, somone else we was supposed to meet. Join us so we can discuss what happens next“

Jin was about to introduce himself when grandpa Yi cut him of and pointed towards hm saying. “ This is the boy i was telling you about, he is the grandson of a good friend of mine, and almost like my own grandson, please teach him well.“

Jin looked at the woman, cupped his hand. “ This junior greets teacher“ Jin said looking at his new teacher. The woman answered “No need for formalities, my name is Guan-Yin“

After the introduction, they discussed Jin leaving with Guan-Yin the next day.

Soon the conversation drifted to other subjects and as more and more wine was consumed at the table, Jin felt it was time for him to leave, he stood up walked to his grandfather, bendt down and whispered in his ear “Grandpa Yi i will go find a room in a inn or do we need two rooms?“ After those words Jin quickly ran towards the exit without looking back.

Jin walked to the nearest inn and paid for a room for one night, then asked them to deliver the key and room number to his grandfather.

Jin decided he would walk around the city before his grandfather would come to the inn. As he walked around and looked at all the people, he would occaisonally take out the green jade hairpin to look at and think of his own mother. Where is she, is she find, what will happen when she returns, should i tell her about father or not. Not that i care what happens to him at this point, but mother would she be hurt.

While he was thinking, he had wandered into an alley and didnt notice the presence of five unsavory characters. They had followed him, after wtnessing his spatialring and the gold chunk he gave to the woman as payment for the green jade phoenix hairpin

“Hey boy, if you want to live leave the ring and scram“ One of the men who had followed Jin said. He looked like the leader of this group. Jin scanned the area and saw a group of five older men, by the muscles and weapons in their hands, Jin could safely assume they were all warrior cultivators.

Jin could only sense the warrior rank from two of the men that were around rank 3, but the other three he had no idea. Jin could not get any feelings from them at all, but they shouldnt be to far apart in ranks, Jin was sure about that.

Jin looked at the group with a sly smile on his face and said: “A group of warriors ranked from three to five wants to rob me, do you have the ability?“

The group of five looked at each other and laughed. “You’re only a rank 1 warrior, why wouldn’t we have the ability. The leader spoke with a angry growl

The group of five didn’t question how a mere rank 1 warrior could tell their own warrior ranks, as it was common knowledge you could only tell one rank above your own. Jins plan was successful, he had managed to get the group into revealing the information he needed about their ranks from their own actions.

Jin flicked his wrist and black wind appeared in his hand, with two quick moves, he threw out two wind blades. The two rank 3 warriors in the front looked at jin with unwillingness and regret in their eyes, as one red line appeared on both their necks and their heads fell to the ground.

The remaining three Warriors looked on with shock at the situation unfolding in front of them not beliving their own eyes on what had happened. The leader quickly came back to his senses and ordered the two remaining warriors to attack. They looked at each other raising their weapons and ran towards Jin.

Jin looked calm, not a bit of hesitation as he stomped his leg on the ground and a dozen earth spikes pierced the two warriors feet. Jin quickly attacked the leader with regular wind blades as he sped towards the leader. Jin went through the last standing warriors sword like it wasn’t even there, just like he had done with the second prince. The difference this time was his palm smashed into the face of the warrior, and before he could strike a second time, Jin had jumped back to a safe position. All this had happened in the time it took to take a few breaths.

Jin looked at the leader of the warriors with a smile on his face as the leader started screaming in pain, blood leaked from his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, he then fell to the ground lifeless.

He looked back at the last two warriors trying to crawl away to safety. Jin gathered air in his hands and he threw two wind blades at the back of the warriors heads, splitting them apart.

Jin knew he had been lucky that the warriors he fought was taken by suprise and had underestimated him.

Jin buried the corpses in the alley with his earth magic.

After the fight with the warriors he had gained some insights to his fighting style, and knew he needed a scabbard for his black wind.

If he had a scabbard, he could easily send of wind blades the moment he drew his katana, and he wouldn’t need to carry it in the spatialring. Jin walked to the nearest blacksmith shop, entered and put his katana on the table.

Jin looked at the man who seemed to be the owner, and asked: “Can you make a scabbard for this sword, also the scabbard must be black and attached to the back of a belt horizontally“

The owner of the shop picked up the sword, measured the sword and answered “That will not be a problem, you can come pick up the scabbard in three days.“

Jin looked at the shop owner and said in an apologetic tone: “I am sorry, but i will be leaving tomorrow morning and need it ready by then.“

“If you want it finished by tomorrow, i will have to stay up all night to make it.“ The shop owner replied.

Jin pulled out another baby fist sized gold chunk and handed it to the owner, saying: “I hope that won’t be a problem?“ While looking at the shop owner.

After the shop owner saw the chunk of gold a happy expression could be seen on his face, and the tone of his voice changed to a more respectful one as he answered Jin. “ No problem sir, you can come pick the scabbard up tomorrow. I will spend all night on it, to assure you are satisfied“

Jin just nodded his head turned around and left. Jin was tired and decided to walk back to the inn to sleep, he knew tomorrow would be a tiersome and long day.