14 S Ranked Mission

Xia Tian followed Niu Ming and entered a room in a restaurant, there are two people sitting there one woman of the ox race and a man of the tiger race.

"Where is the boss?" asked Niu Ming.

"She went outside for collecting some materials needed for our mission, who is this?" the ox race women pointed at Xia Tian and asked Niu Ming.

"he is called Xia Tian, I brought him to introduce to the boss and ask her, if he can join our team as the fifth member, so we can go on our mission immediately," replied Niu Ming.

The man frowned and asked Xia Tian, " what is your cultivation level?"

"the second level of origin realm" replied Xia Tian honestly.

The tiger race man dumbfounded and after some time laughed at Niu Ming saying, "Niu Ming, have you brain gone wrong or what, you know our mission ranking, if he comes with us he can only be a burden to us and he won't be able to help us even a single bit."

"that's right why did you bring him, Niu Ming, in a dangerous situation where we may not able to protect ourselves, how we will be able to protect him?" The ox race woman also said to Niu Ming in a grave tone.

"there is nobody at the Golden ridge mercenary who are willing to join us, I only found him after waiting there for two days, if you are dissatisfied then you can go and find someone as the fifth member of the team, I will show him to the boss, if she says that he is not able to join us, then I will quit searching for a team member and any one of you can go and search for the team member" Niu Ming replied to them in indignation.

As they are bickering Xia Tian is quietly watching them standing in a corner. At that time, the sound of footsteps came as someone is approaching the room, they all stopped bickering and waited for the person to show up.

The door opened and a beautiful tiger race women with a petite body and a charming face with a pair of pale yellow tiger-like ears entered the room swinging her light yellow-colored tail. Her eyes are deep black in color and her shiny black hair is tied in the form of a ponytail, she is around twenty years of age, she is dressed in a brown color leather armor which is tightly fitted to the body and accentuating her curves. Xia Tian first impression of her is a valiant woman with a charming beauty.

All the three members in the hall greeted her and Niu Ming explained the whole situation to her. She looked at Xia Tian and asked " we are going on a difficult mission and when we are in danger we may not be able to protect you, one can only gain benefits when they take the risk, think carefully and answer, if you wish to join us you can be my assistant and help me in arranging things, you don't need to participate in any battle and the reward is equally shared among us."

"ah, why in this world profit does not come from hard work but by taking risks. there is both risk and profit in this mission, she said they may not be able to protect me only if they encounter any danger that needs for the whole team to fight. If I go with them I will earn rewards which are able to help me with my cultivation, I should need to take some risks if I need to improve my cultivation level quickly. before also, I thought exactly like this and ended up in this place, taking risk one another time won't gonna make any difference."

After thinking for a while Xia Tian replied to her, "I am willing to join your team."

The tiger race man frowned and said to the woman " boss this is not fair how he can get the rewards without doing any work, just give him some money that should be enough for him."

The woman frowned at the man and said, "Ting Hu, I will just give my part of the rewards to him, I am not going on this mission for rewards, I am doing this mission for gaining experience. You don't need to worry about the part of your rewards, it will be the same as before but you should think about how to complete the mission to get the rewards."

The tiger race man did not refute after this, the woman looked at Xia Tian and said " I am Shen Xue, the leader of this team, you can call me or sister Shen" and she introduced all of the team members, the tiger race man is called Ting Hu, The ox race woman is called Niu Bing and all of them are in the mid-level of the Nascent soul realm, strength wise Shen Xue is the strongest followed by Ting Hu, Niu Ming, and Niu Bing.

They also don't know each other before and are newly formed three days ago for the purpose of completing this mission. Niu Ming informed Xia Tian that Ting Hu joined just to pursue Shen Xue.

After all the introduction is over, Shen Xue called all the team members to discuss the mission. " the mission we are doing is to find the 1000-year-old Red moon Lilly, it is one of the rarest items required by alchemists to refine high-grade pills, it is rumored to be spotted in the ancient ruins, which was discovered recently near the outskirts of Divine Tiger Kingdom, there are already different groups who are visiting the ancient ruins to find the flower but the ancient ruins is a dangerous place with many traps and poisonous insects. The level of the mission is S rank and you all have to be prepared for the worst once we enter the ancient ruins."

Generally, an S ranked mission can be performed by a spirit level martial arts cultivator but a group of five irrespective of their strength can also apply for this mission, all the team members here are in the nascent soul realm. So, if there is any danger they have to go all out with their strength. Thinking all this, Xia Tian made up his mind that he should be extra careful while doing the mission or else he will be the first the one to die.

Shen Xiu distributed the important pills to all the team members and said to get ready in thirty minutes, after that they will go to the mercenary guild and register their team. They all bought horses with their own money and set out to the Ancient Ruins after registering for the mission. It takes around a week to reach the outskirts of the Divine Tiger Kingdom, they will camp at night and resume their journey in the morning.

Xia Tian work is to carry all the materials of the Shen Xiu and arrange her camp when needed and also cooking food for them. With the camping experience in the previous life, he is pretty good at making tents and doesn't have any difficulty in the process. Niu Ming became the best friend of Xia Tian and they talked about all the things regarding the kingdoms and lifestyles in various kingdoms of the Southern wilderness.

All the kingdoms have friendly relations with each other and are united, the twelve kingdoms train the army to control the bandits and station them at the energy barrier in the southern border to prevent black devils from entering the southern wilderness.

The divine dragon kingdom which is adjacent to the energy barrier is mainly responsible for protecting the border. Ting Hu is trying his best to pursue Shen Xue, Niu Bing sometimes chatted with them and most of the time remained silent. It is already the third day of their journey, they just encountered some small bandit groups in their journey and carefully avoided it. It is already evening and they chose a plane ground to set up their tent. Xia Tian quickly set up the tent of Shen Xue and began to set up his own tent which is at a little distance from Shen Xue's tent.

Shen Xue, Ting Hu, and Xia Tian ate the roasted meat, while Niu ming, Niu Bing ate the fruits and vegetables they brought with them. All of them after chatting for a while went to their own tents to rest, one of them has to be awake and should guard the tents.

They will keep changing for every four hours. It is the duty of Ting Hu now and he is sitting outside guarding the tents. Xia Tian is not feeling sleepy, so he sat on a wooden log and gazed at the full moon thinking what all happened till now and reminisced about his previous life, sometimes there is a happy smile hanging on his face and sometimes a bitter smile thinking about the humiliation he faced here.

He just lost in thought and sat there for hours. Ting Hu did not speak with Xia Tian as he did not consider Xia Tian worth making friends with. After four hours Shen Xiu came out for Guarding the tents and Ting Hu went to sleep. "what are you thinking so deeply about?" a gentle voice woke Xia Tian from his thoughts and seeing that it is Shen Xue, he smiled and replied, " I am thinking how my life changed drastically within one month."

Shen Xue became curious about Xia Tian story as she felt bored guarding here alone, she asked Xia Tian to tell about his story, Xia Tian reluctant to tell his past but seeing the expectant eyes of Shen Xue, he made some tweaks and said it like this " I am considered a trash in my family as I have poor martial talent, but father and grandfather always supported me. My childhood friends all separated from me as their strength improved and the distance between me and them got bigger.

"I am isolated and lived a lonely life from then on, but unexpectedly a month ago my grandfather fixed my marriage with the daughter of another family, the other family agreed for the marriage as they owe a favor to my grandfather. Our marriage is completed and my wife has good looks and she has a good talent in martial arts. I was prepared even before the marriage that I won't get any respect from my wife with my little strength, if possible I don't want to marry her but seeing the expectant looks of father and grandfather I agreed to the marriage. Finally, we are married but on the day of marriage itself, I was humiliated so badly by my wife, that I will never forget in my life. I vowed that I will surpass her in martial arts cultivation and return the humiliation she given to me. So I decided to improve my strength and left home, to join the mercenary guild is my first step in order to gain the resources needed for my cultivation and I am here now."

After hearing the story of Xia Tian, Shen Xue truly pitied him and don't know how to comfort him, in this world strength is important and with only strength, one will gain respect, everything else doesn't matter.

Xia Tian kept silent for a while and asked her, "what about you, why do you want to do this mission?"

"from my childhood onwards I have all the things I want, I am good at cultivating martial arts, I just want to gain experience in this mission, only by fighting with our lives on the line and gaining experience we will have a good foundation in cultivation and the future breakthroughs will be easier," replied Shen Xue honestly.

"yes, I am also thinking about gaining experience in this mission, it is already late, I am going back to sleep," Xia Tian said to Shen Xue and returned to his tent to sleep. naturally, Xia Tian felt happy speaking with a beauty but he knows he doesn't have enough strength and due to the inferiority complex, he did not continue the conversation and returned to his tent.