Volume 1 Chapter 11 - Forestry of Vineyard

Mu Zen leading in front, they wandered three miles to the north of Beast Bright Mountain Range. Along the way, they met several diremonsters of 1st rank. Although Xin An was aware of them, no battle happened, he didn't fight because he was conserving strength on the upcoming Treasure Trove.

Just like that, they traveled around the creepy-looking trees, cross over the slippery rocks of a stream, and ascended a small chunk of a valley.

Then after descending that valley, their destination was approaching according to Mu Zen. On their way, there were no single frenzied beasts that emerged from nowhere and thus the journey was fairly smooth.

As another half tea of time passed, Mu Zen halted around a Forest of Vineyard. Behind him, Xin An curiously looked around.

Mu Zen said that the Treasure Trove was located in the Forestry of Vineyard and Xin An imagined that it was miniature with wreckage trees and flat land. However, he never expected that this vineyard was a massive land! Furthermore, this place was very different from the typical vineyards!

The vineyard was about 100 feet distance. There was a waterfall by the side and near the wall of that waterfall's cliff, there was an ancient, shadowy cave capped by thick rattan vines. Although these rattan vines were severed by obvious sword slashes, the cave was obscured by strange formation symbols.

Young martial artists and diremonsters were around this vineyard waiting for the strange formation symbols to disseminate. When the symbols disappeared, the cave would then opened, and these people could explore the Treasure Trove.

Since there were still few hours of the opening, they were idling around the area. Some of these young martial artists and diremonsters were resting under the trees, some were performing friendly spars, and some were simply straight-up quarreling. Though two newcomers Xin An and Mu Zen came, these people simply throw a simple glance and didn't bother to introduce themselves.

Xin An similarly didn't find that odd and continued familiarizing the area. As he looked around, some familiar faces popped out amongst the guys quarreling.

"Isn't that the young shadow wolf and young spirit fox besides Jin Flamestar at that time? A few hours had just passed since our fight and yet we met again. Is Jin Flamestar also here?"

As Xin An muttered in surprise, near the river, the young spirit fox harrumphed at the opposite diremonster with goat horns in front.

"F y! Sa la ti be Jin ni wa mo xin!" The young spirit fox disdained as she stared at the Goat-horned diremonster. [How outrageous an insignificant someone dares to mock the son of His Highness. That peasant Ling Frosty or whatever they called him, he stood no chance against our mighty Jin Flamestar!]

"Peasant?"

The goat-horned monster replied, "No wonder no geniuses emerge from your fox race, you all are born with boobs but no brain. Yes, Senior Brother Ling is a peasant, but he had reached Essence Foundation earlier than that Jin Flamestar! Last time, that guy had been beaten till unconscious. Don't boast that useless brat in front of me." He then laughed and grinned as he greedily stared at the Spirit Fox's young alluring body and busty boobs. "You foxes are luck His Highness favors royals like you. If not for that, a mere fox like you would have been my warming bed."

Hearing him, the spirit fox was furious. She cursed on bestial language. Besides her, the shadow wolf was similarly furious that the woman he courted was insulted!

"Xa Nu Vi Wux Qi To." The shadow wolf mocked. [Peasant know your place! Someone of your blood, foxes are out of your reach. If not for His Highness generosity, you peasants would have been dead!"

"What did you say?!" The goat-horned diremonster angrily roared. His rank as 2nd level diremonster was not just for display. The moment his murderous aura unleashed, the shadow wolf was scared shitless!

Seeing how easily he wimped the shadow wolf, the goat-horned diremonster sneered. "You're very arrogant! Thank your luck that His Highness protected royal blood or else my dinner would have been you!"

Ignoring them, Xin An continued to look around. This time, his face turned serious, and hurriedly lowered his head. Someone had just arrived and they were two young men with sword symbols on their clothes. They were disciples of Sword Star Sect!

"Guo Niu and Cao Li?" Xin An frowned and didn't dare to raise his head as he plopped on the ground and pretend to meditate. Although Mu Zen was calling his name from behind, Xin An continued sitting and pondering.

If Xin An guessed right, these two were here to eliminate him. It was not without any evidence. Before, Xin An had similarly encountered many assassinations from before, albeit all of them had failed. However, throughout the years, he gradually learned that Wang Peng was behind all of them.

That guy, since four years ago, had become his enemy with no path of reconciliation.

They had similar strength and both of them had been fighting through the years. Out of the 19 life and death battles they had for over 4 years, Wang Peng escaped 10 times and Xin An fled 9 times. Although they had been fighting, the elders of Sword Star Sect had no faintest clue that the two young talents of their sect had been battling for the entire 4 years!

Although Xin An could save himself away from the trouble by reporting it to his Foster Father, he felt that it was a battle that he had to resolve by his hands. As for the assassination attempts, when Xin An was the Senior Brother of the Sect, he didn't underestimate his foe and similarly sends assassination attempts. It was a fair battle between them.

However, now that Xin An had lost his authority, he had to overcome this tribulation with his strength!

Xin An keep pondering when he remembered the mask on the spatial ring!

Although Xin An was oblivious of the mask's function, it was enough if he could use it to cover his face. Furthermore, he was bare-chested!

There was no way Guo Niu and Cao Li would discover his disguise!

Xin An took a deep breath and stealthily pulled the oddly-looking mask out from his spatial ring and wore it.

After done, he stood up as if nothing happened. Xin An gave Guo Niu and Cao Li a glance from the distance one more time and breathed in relief knowing that they didn't discover his presence.

At this moment, Xin An noticed that Mu Zen was looking at him weirdly. He cleared his throat and explained, "I prefer hiding my face."

"Oh?" Mu Zen thought it was pretty reasonable, however, his face suddenly change. "If you had that mask, why you didn't hide your face from me?"

"I have crowd fright." Xin An bluntly lied then said. "Thanks for bringing me here. Are you gonna leave now?"

"I'm coming with you. Little Mu is powerful ya know! My master once said I'm a genius! And geniuses are unafraid of dangers."

Hearing his obvious lie, Xin An throws a curious glance. "Then why did you run away from that pig?"

"That's a different matter." Mu Zen felt Xin An's gaze and anxiously replied. "That fat lord is trying to eat me! I bet everyone will start running when they see a pig or snake out of nowhere. On top of that, trying to consume your flesh! Everyone is afraid! I-I'm the same."

As Xin An looked at Mu Zen, chuckling, Guo Niu and Cao Li settled near a tree. They looked around for a brief moment and closed their eyes, similarly idling and waiting for the opening of the Treasure Trove.

After Guo Niu and Cao Li, another two young men appeared in the vineyard. The instance the crowd landed gaze unto one of the two young men, the surrounding clamor with discussion.