Chapter 20 Registration Hall (Updated)

After some careful thinking, Nightin asked Aiden "What if I were to say, I want you to serve under me, what would you say?"

Aiden gave Nightin a brittle smile as he replied "I'll only serve someone whose talent is above me. Someone who is destined to be someone who heads towards the upper realm as well."

Aiden at this time is just like a great general that stands at the peak of the world back in the warring states, unable to find a lord who is qualified to be his master.

Nightin raised his cup of wine and toasted it towards Aiden as he returned it back.

By the time they had finished drinking, night had already fallen before they manage to know about it and the registration hall had already closed down for the day.

Without a choice left, they could only spend their night in the inn for the night and head towards the registration hall tomorrow.

Lying down on the simple yet luxurious bed in his room, Nightin started to think about his disciples: Are they still training? Are they still doing fine? Will they be okay without me?

Wild thoughts were flashing within his mind as he started to worry.

"Killing intent!" A killing intent suddenly surrounded Nightin's room and closed in on him. Even though it's not something that he wants to happen, the attacker has saved his life this time.

If not for him being disrupted away from his thoughts, he would have fallen to his heart demon and the consequences wouldn't be desirable.

Turning on the lights, what appeared in front of him was the same environment as compared to when he first entered the room. The same environment was reflected in his eyes.

In front of him was the same wooden table and chair at the side of the room,a simple window near his bed and the door at the opposite end of his room

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Even so, the killing intent surrounding his room still remained there and got stronger for every passing second.

"Die!" A sharp gust of air rose from the side all of a sudden as a dagger actually stabbed towards him from behind.

Not having enough time to take his sword out, he could only put his arms up in a cross to block the ambush.

"Damn it!" Although Nightin managed to block the assassin's attack, blood started to flow profusely from his arms from the clean cut on both of his arms.

Taking out his sword, he pierced it through the air as he aimed for the assassin's vitals, aiming for a one shot kill.

"Hey stop! It's me! Are you trying to kill me?" It was a familiar voice that Nightin knows and have just been hearing since just now.

Nightin barely managed to stop his sword one inch away from Aiden's body as he asked coldly with a darkened face, his body shaking in anger "Just what do you want from me?"

Aiden kept his weapon as he took a step backwards, got down on his kneels and said "Nightin ,do allow me to serve under you! For years since birth, I've been told that my destiny is to serve the person who I can't see through. Over the years, I've met countless experts who wanted to take me in as a disciple. Yet,I rejected all of them, one of them was even at the peak Emperor realm, the strongest in this world."

Aiden took in a deep breathe as he continued "After my countless years of searching, I've finally found you. Please accept me in."

Nightin looked down,only to see a young boy kneeling down facing him, hoping to be accepted could be seen on his face.

Nightin couldn't bear to reject Aiden anymore, even though Aiden might have been trying to lie to him, nothing but seriousness could be seen in his eyes.

The eyes of someone who has experienced the various struggles of life, clinging onto that little hope which might never come for them.

Nightin told him "Get up, from now on, you'll be the assassin hall master of my sect. Don't let me down."

Aiden got up excitedly as he shouted "Really? Don't you go back on yours words! A sect master? How strong is your sect?"

Nightin gave him a small smile "Mine is just a small sect still at the first rank, if you're talking about the official rank that is. Now then, lead me to the registration hall."

Aiden left the room as he got Nightin to follow him to the registration hall. After two right turns and a left turn, they finally arrived at the registration hall.

The registration hall was not just huge, but colossal. While the other stalls and buildings nearby occupy a whole street together, the registration hall itself is at least as big as that whole stretch.

Not only that, strong cultivators of at least the martial master realm could be seen everywhere on the streets, as though as if they are cabbages which can be bought easily.

Stepping into the registration hall, a pretty lady probably around her early twenties walked up to him and asked "Sir, may I ask if you are here to register for a token as well?"

Even though Nightin appeared to be much younger than her, she treats that as the reason to not offend him. Outsiders may not know, but only those who have at least stepped into the Martial Master realm can step into the registration hall this time around, the rules were sudden but a must to be enforced in order to ensure the survival of weaker cultivators.

Nightin nodded and pointed to Aiden who was behind him. The woman being experienced with the expectations of customers, knew exactly what Nightin meant.

Nightin was shocked when he tried to check out the cultivation of that woman, it was actually blocked off by another source of stronger spirit energy.

Cultivators at the Martial Spirit realm and above uses what is known as spirit energy while below that, all energies are actually just heavenly energy which is the energy in this world.

Compared to the spirit energy, the heavenly energy is at least ten times weaker if they were to be compared.

The woman seemed to have realised what Nightin was doing and just turned around, telling Nightin "Sire, please follow me."

On the way,the woman gave Nightin a stare while saying "Don't even try something like that again."

Being a wise person, Nightin kept quiet. It would be the stupidest thing for a man to argue with a woman. One word from him and he'll have to face continuous nagging and ranting from her. To add on, he was in the wrong for trying to peek into her cultivation base without even asking.

Nightin followed suit after her with Aiden behind him. After awhile, they arrived in front of an old man sitting on a wooden chair. In front of him was a simple table with ginseng tea in front of him placed onto the table. To the side of his tea set, was a small oval bowl with some red dates placed on it.

The old man drank a cup of tea before saying "Not bad, to think that there would be too geniuses this time, those who have actually experienced the cruelness of this world to be exact."

Nightin and Aiden were shocked, how did the old man know about this? That's the only thought in their mind right now. Taking into consideration that the old man did not know them before that, it could only show that he's an expert of this world. Of course, it might also be due him having discerning eyes after experiencing what it means to live after being in his golden years.

The old man then told them patiently "To your right is a formation array that can assess your true strength. Depending in your performance this time round, the initial reward you receive from us may very much vary as well."

Nightin gave Aiden the signal to enter the formation array as he stepped into the other one nearby as well. Unknown to him of course, everything he does inside can be seen by the old man outside.

Stepping into the formation array, what appeared in front of Nightin was a cultivator at the Martial Spirit second realm, exactly one sub realm above him.