Flying Sword Sect

"T...T...T...This..." Mo Zhou stuttered like a baby who just started speaking. He has never seen anyone penetrate the scales of a Fiery Lizard known for its nearly impenetrable defense with a single sword strike, let alone with such ease!

"So? Why did you continue to fight that thing despite the obvious conclusion?" he asked just to avoid being suspicious

Mo Zhou then explained why his life is on the line if he failed to obtain the Fiery Lizard monster core

Yuan glanced at the Fiery Lizard corpse. "Take it" he said while pointing

"Eh?" Mo Zhou looked at him with a face full of surprise. This Fiery Lizard monster core is no doubt a valuable treasure that even the sect elders would covet, yet this young man was willing to give it to him, who he just met, just like that?

"Thank you, I Mo Zhou of the Flying Sword Sect, will be forever in your debt!"

"Brother Yuan is really kind. If it were anybody else, they would have definitely kept it for themselves." Xiao Hua thought to herself as she watched Mo Zhou fall to his knees to kowtow to Yuan as a way to show his gratitude.

Yuan simply nodded

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After Mo Zhou calmed down

Yuan introduced himself as rogue cultivator which shocked Mo Zhou

Xiao Hua then looked at the dumbfounded Mo Zhou and said "Brother Yuan is special. Don't compare him with these geniuses. Even these so-called Chosen are nothing in front of Brother Yuan"

Yuan didn't say anything and just smiled.

After Mo Zhou took the Fiery Lizard monster core, the three headed towards the Flying Sword Sect.

Along the way Yuan would hunt down every monster in their path, collecting a few more monster cores.

"Fellow Daoist Yuan is really... incomprehensible..." Mo Zhou trembled in shock as he watched Yuan slay high-level monsters with ease, and all in a single strike. "Even that high-level Spirit Apprentice Bull Ape was slain in a single strike..."

Those monsters weren't even a challenge for Yuan since he could easily fight monsters at the level of a Spirit Warrior.

"Thirteen so far, huh..." Yuan counted the number of monster cores he had obtained, and the bundle of glistening monster cores in Yuan's grasp dumbfounded Mo Zhou to the core, who thought he was in an auction house.

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"We have been running into a lot of high-level monsters, haven't we? That was already the sixth one..." Mo Zhou pondered as another high-level monster falls to the ground with its head detached from its neck.

"You really like beheading things..."

"It's efficient and easy, after all." Yuan smiled casually: "Tch. No monster core from this one..."

"Easy, huh..."

Mo Zhou inwardly compared Yuan with the Chosen in his sect. Would they be able to say such bold words so casually? Would they also be able to behead high-level monsters with such ease? Most likely not.

A thought suddenly appeared in Mo Zhou's head: "Since he is a rogue cultivator... there is a chance I can rope him into joining our Flying Sword Sect...?"

"Say, Daoist Yuan... have you ever considered joining a Sect?" he decided to ask him

"I don't have any intention to join a Sect currently" Yuan replied since he didn't want to prolong the conversation.

"Is that so..." Mo Zhou was dispirited due to Yuan answer

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After walking for a few more hours, the group finally arrived at a vast valley surrounded by high mountains.

"Please wait here for a moment while I go ask for permission to give you a tour around as a guest."

"Un." Yuan nodded and waited outside for him.

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"A genius rogue cultivator, you say?" An old man sat in his exquisite wooden chair, his gaze at the young man standing before him.

"That's right, Elder Jiang. He managed to slay a high-level Fiery Lizard with a single sword strike, even piercing its steel-like scales known for its impenetrable defense!" Mo Zhou shared his experience with Yuan to the old man before him.

The old man was Elder Jiang, a sect elder of the Flying Sword Sect, who was also in charge of the administration for the sect.

"If this young man is really as good as you praised him to be, then I'd like to meet him myself." Elder Jiang stood up and walked towards the door. "What are you waiting for? Let's go."

"Yes!"

Mo Zhou led Elder Jiang outside the sect where Yuan and Xiao Hua waited patiently.

"Fellow Daoist Yuan! Thank you for waiting... umm..."

"Hmm... Ninth Level Spirit Apprentice... how old are you, young man?" Elder Jiang could tell Yuan's cultivation base with a single glance.

"You seem to be around Mo Zhou's age... not bad for a rogue cultivator who cultivated without any proper guidance." He nodded with approval.

"You are...?"

"This is Elder Jiang, he is in charge of the sect's administrations for the Outer Court disciples." Mo Zhou introduced Elder Jiang to Yuan.

Yuan nodded

Elder Jiang gently brushed his white beard and said, "I will get straight to the point, do you want to join my Flying Sword Sect as a disciple? The Sect provides countless benefits and resources to its disciples to help them grow. If you join, then your cultivation base will definitely rise faster than before. Perhaps you may even qualify to become an Inner Court disciple one day."

Yuan shook his head " I will have to decline your offer"

"...Very well..." Elder Jiang said with his eyes closed, "If that is your decision then so be it. However... do not come back one day and ask for my generosity again as you have already lost it once."

"Elder Jiang could he still tour around the Sect?" asked Mo Zhou

Elder Jiang coldly snorted and said, "Let him see what he's missed out."

He walked away afterward.

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After that Mo Zhou showed Yuan the Sect, and while he was showing Yuan the stone tablets

Suddenly, a loud voice resounded from the distance.

"Hey, isn't that the kid who tried to court senior apprentice-sister Xing and ended up offending you?"

Both Yuan and Mo Zhou turned to look in the direction of the voice, and Mo Zhou's face paled the instant he saw the two handsome young men in the distance looking at him.

"S-Senior apprentice-brother Ren! Senior apprentice-brother Zhen!"

When Yuan saw how Mo Zhou's legs were shaking like jello, he knew just how fearful he was towards these two individuals.

"Where have you been hiding? Didn't I say that today was the last day for you to bring me a monster core from a Fiery Lizard or else—?!"

"I have it! I have a Fiery Lizard monster core with me! Here you go!"

Mo Zhou pulled out a small red crystal from his robe pockets and showed it to Ren Fuchen.

"How did you get it? Don't tell me you bought it?"

"It doesn't matter how I obtained it! I have gotten what you asked, so leave me alone from now on!"

"Of course, I will honor my words and forget about your disgraceful act of courting senior apprentice-sister Xing. However, after you give me the Fiery Lizard, it will no longer be about that. How dare a lowly trash such as yourself have feelings for senior apprentice-sister Xing! Just your feelings are enough for you to get beaten!"

"Wow, what a statement!" Yuan suddenly said loudly, while thinking that he will get his first Human kills in this life today.

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