59 You can take it if you can

Jiang Chen "Well I left it to those guys, they decided to avoid trouble."

Ha Ling "Hmm, difference in them is quite evident. Brother Jiang are there any who are as per our expectations."

Jiang Chen "I found couple of dozen members, I will let them decide whether they want to come or not."

Jiang Chen immediately told their names to rest of them.

Ha Ling "They are good bunch. They are good with character too."

Su Mo "Brother, we are grabbing too much attention." Su Mo said looking in the surroundings. Almost everyone are watching their group.

Ha Ling " Not us, brother Jiang Chen. He destroyed their pride."

Ha Ling "There are exactly thousand available seats for the admission."

Ha Ling "In the initial 300 so seats , Xie family took heavy lead gaining 50 admissions, followed by Sai family, Xue family they took over 30 seats so each and there were more than couple of dozen Han family members and Yin family members. Remaining are almost distributed evenly. Even we got dozen members that is our highest till now to enter the sect. Even the previous admissions combined also were only 6."

Ha Ling "Then brother Jiang brought 126 members, combined with us ten, we already crossed 1/8th of total seats. That is what major families used to do previously."

Su Mo "True. Brother Jiang."

Jiang Chen "Brother Bai Mo come here?"

Jiang Chen called out for Bai Mo who was standing with his two cousins. Bai Mo was startled at this but proceeded to go.

Bai Mo "Did you save them ?"

Jiang Chen "Not exactly, they were doing good thing hiding themselves. We called them out as it was almost time the test ends."

Bai Mo has an expression less face, he didn't have courage to speak properly.

Jiang Chen "Don't worry about them, brother Bai Mo, we will take care of them as our own."

Jiang Chen "Lets see who else are coming?" Jiang Chen said looking at the exit of the forest.

Ha Ling "Are you expecting anyone?"

Jiang Chen "Not exactly, but I believe we will have few coming now. "

Ning'er "Did you encounter any one trouble some."

Jiang Chen "Not so troublesome. People from Ning family died in hands of Han family members."

Bai Mo for a moment thought that Jiang Chen was lying.

Bai Mo "How sure are you?"

Jiang Chen "They tried to use their heads to threaten us to submission, I eliminated their group." said in a serious tone.

Ha Ling watched in the direction of Han family and found worried expression of Han Ming, who was still looking at the entrance.

Ha Ling "From number 7's faction."

Jiang Chen just nodded his head.

Ning'er "Jiang Chen what does Number7 mean?"

Ha Ling passed her the list Jiang Chen wrote that day.

Ning'er "Hmm. My name is not in it." it was the only thing she noticed.

Jiang Chen "That is list for top 50 here. Not the list of people whom I feel pleasing in my eyes."

Shangguan Ning'er was blushing hearing this, she was sure if that list was made she would be there in it.

Su Mo "Hmm. It should be order of our threat right now."

Jiang Chen "We don't know yet who are threat to us and who are not?"

Jiang Chen "I believe there would be few in that list who will be coming to us?"

Jiang Chen "Ha Ling, how are those from the islands?" he was asking about the rest of people who gained direct entry into the sect.

Ha Ling "I don't find them that reliable. There is infighting between them too."

Jiang Chen "Don't bother about them, we don't need them if they can't even please your eyes."

Ha Ling almost felt emotional as Jiang Chen said that but then Jiang Chen continued "If they can't even hide their intentions before you, they are almost good at nothing."

Ha Ling "Brother Jiang it was harsh."

Jiang Chen "Leave it, there are no one good at you at what you do."

Ha Ling "What is that?"

Jiang Chen "Find it out yourself?"

Ning'er "About people from islands?"

Jiang Chen "Yes. They are the weak link for now in that group. I don't know how reliable they could be."

Ha Ling "They seem mixed well with the group."

Jiang Chen "Yes, but what if they get invite from a better group."

Ning'er "There would still be your factor right, your alchemy skills and weapon making and other things will tie them down."

Su Mo "But they won't be reliable if we are using that to tie them down. It would be just like Bai Mo, a bomb that can explode any moment."

Bai Mo was right there when they were speaking about him. He was thinking what his life turned into, he was one of the top two geniuses from River Spring city and he was now reduced to a nobody.

Jiang Chen "That reminds me of what happened in River Spring City, that bandits. Brother Bai has no place to go to. There are only few who can enter the sect too. "

Bai Mo ,What Bandits? It was clearly Jiang family which did it. But it went around like there were a vicious group of Bandits who attacked Bai family members searching for some secret treasure of Bai family. They were fended off by other major families together, they were late and couldn't save Bai Family. Jiang Family went of pursuing the remaining Bandits.

Jiang Chen "Don't worry about them brother Bai Mo, you will get justice, I will arrange a settlement for your survivors. You don't have to worry about them."

Bai Mo "Ning family is arranging settlements for us? We don't want to trouble brother Jiang"

Jiang Chen "Brother Bai you don't trust us. We are from same city. Didn't you call me Brother , how can I be troubled to help you." Bai Mo was never expecting Jiang Chen to let them go,but he was more angry at the way Jiang Chen speaks. It has been over two months since that incident and Jiang Chen never threatened him directly, but in his sugar coated words. It infuriated him more and more but he was in no position to respond for it.

Ning'er "Jiang Chen time is officially up, Elder Mo is making announcement."

Jiang Chen "Hmm. Yes it is almost time."

Just as Jiang Chen spoke , there was a huge movement from the exit of forest more than thousand members are coming from there. There should be around 2-3 thousand members.

Ha Ling "Who are they?"

Jiang Chen "Reserves of the major families? They will probably be entering the sect as retainers/ representatives."

Su Mo "Brother , there are some from our city too. What should we do about them." everyone from River Spring city gathered there.

Jiang Chen "What do you think we should do about them? " he asked the same in return.

Ha Ling signed to Su Mo to be silent, this question was not for them but people behind them.

Ha Ling turned to them to answer.

One of them responded directly "Brother Ha Lin'g instructions were very clear before the trial, we have to work together in the trial, they never kept those words in their mind, so we don't have to mind them now."

No one spoke a word more.

But as they watched the happenings below the ship their hearts were beating crazy fast.

Shangguan Chen "Brother Jiang, everyone of them is entering the sect this way."

Jiang Chen "What are you surprised about? What do you think we are the only ones with plans."

Jiang Chen "We are just too inexperienced in front of them."

Shangguan Chen "So it changes nothing."

Jiang Chen " We made a lot of difference already. We reduced over hundred admissions , so it would cumulatively affect around 600 people on their side. Don't forget the people we killed. We affected over thousand numbers already."

Ha Ling "Brother Jiang, some one from Xue family is coming."

Jiang Chen "You deal with it, you are the leader of us here."

Jiang Chen "Did everyone receive their medallions?"

They responded accordingly.

Jiang Chen "K. Then you deal with everything else."

As Jiang Chen was about to leave he was called out.

"Brother Jiang can I speak to you for a moment."

Jiang Chen wanted to avoid this kind of situation but he didn't expect them to be so open.

She is high earth rank genius from Xue family, Xue Ming.

Jiang Chen "Sure."

Xue Ming "Brother Jiang , I actually wanted to ask you a favor ."

Shangguan Ning'er who was standing beside Jiang Chen didn't really like that girl at all. Even she never dared to speak out so directly with Jiang Chen. She disregarded everyone else standing beside Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen "What is that?"

Xue Ming " Brother Jiang, can you let few of our family members enter the sect as your representatives?"

Jiang Chen "Hmm. My six spots are already filled. I can't take any more. I have few of my maids and servants too."

Xue Ming "Brother Jiang, about people from River Spring city. I just need hundred retainer spots."

Everyone were listening to their conversation. Waiting for Jiang Chen to respond.

Jiang Chen "You have to ask them regarding it. How can I make their decisions. What is there to ask me about it?"

Xue Ming understood the rejection directly. She did expect the rejection, but he was not even trying to hide his displeasure in it. He didn't even consider her request at all.

Ning'er "Jiang Chen you people take rest you should be tired of journey."

Jiang Chen "Yes, I will be taking my leave then."

Jiang Chen then left that place and Meera was waiting for him there to lead the way. The two cubs followed Jiang Chen giving an angry glare at Xue Ming.