Give me 20 minutes

Bai Jian looked to his right as he could hear his 5th Sister Bai Piao coming up the stairs to his courtyard behind his Villa.

He could also hear the panic in the voices of his relatives, as they rushed up the stairs toward the courtyard on Jade Peak near the top of Tiger Mountain, there yelling got louder and louder the closer they got.

When they got to his small courtyard they stopped running in a rush and walked past his garden where they saw him sitting near his Koi Pond where he was practicing his painting techniques with a Man in their Clan's attire but he had an all-white mask on, sitting and drinking tea with Bai Jian.

"Ummm, Young Master what's going on ... who's this?"

"Nevermind her, little brother Jian!"

"What going on?"

"The Hou Clan have come to our Clan's arena to cause problems, they haven't announced their presence officially yet, but our spies that your father and grandfather placed in their Clan years ago have told us that their here."

"Hmmm..."

" Young Master, Elder Tang here! " -

"Young Master Jian, our spies sent us a report several hours ago. That the Hou Clan and the Huo Sect were on their way to cause trouble for us, if the spies sent this then my guess is that there already here but haven't found the right time to strike yet!"

"Well, Young Master Jian looks like your request from the heavens has been answered, it looks like you'll get your first test here very soon!"

"Sound's like your right Uncle Shizi!"

(Uncle Shizi? who's this man next to young master) - Elder Tang

Bai Jian then lets out a light sigh.

"Young Master Jian, what should we do?"

"quiet down, I have an idea!"

"Sister, I want you to go to the Elder's Peak and try to get a couple of elders and Great Elder's and one of the 12 Grand Elders to come down the mountain!"

"But brother we need to do more than that because we-"

"Hey I don't want to hear you say but, do as I ask and it'll be fine!"

"Humph!"

Bai Jian's older sister Piao started to get so angry, that her face started to turn red.

"What the heck are you gonna do, your still weak and in the Dantian Stage, shorty!"

"Hahaha, don't worry sis I got this."

"But, you "

"Hey no But's, now leave with everyone and go to Elder's peak!"

After this, the group that had just shown us, minutes before has now left after just arriving. The guards that were at Jian villa were confused to see the large group that showed up minutes ago all frantic and with looks of panic and fear left looking confused and red in the face.

"Why is he so bossy he's just a stupid little kid, plus who's that man next to him he looked somewhat off it was a little fishy find out who he is!"

"Young lady Piao, you can't talk like that about the young Master, he's the Clan's future so just accept it for now when you see him next time when not in front other Clan member's you can give him a small lesson, don't worry I'll stay with him so nothing happens to him and check out who that man is that's next to your bro.. humph I mean Young Master Jian!" - Elder Tang

"Hmmm, fine but I don't like this I'm gonna tell daddy and mom!"

"Humph!"

"Cough! Cough!"

"What!"

"We should just get going were wasting time, young lady Piao!"

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Young Master Jian do you want me to go and get one of the Ancestors from the back of Tiger Mountain!"

"Hmmm ... No bad idea, too soon for you to meet them and they are in closed-door practice!"

"I think, I got a better idea!"

"Uncle let's go for a walk!"

"Also, more than half of the Clan's Grand Elders are in Practice retreat and 3 of them are out on a mission with the last 3 nowhere to be found for the last couple of weeks."

"Uncle Shizi, I think it's time I stretch my legs for a bit."

"Sounds like Fun Young Master but I have a better idea, better then you getting into a fight with our enemies and exposing you young Master Jian!"

"Oh, you do? Do you !"

"Yea, but do you have any more of those masks and Bai Clan robes from earlier? ...

I could use a couple more if you gave me like another 20 or 30 I could do something that could provide some entertainment for you!" - Shizi

"Hmmm, okay I have been bored lately!

"Let's go with your Idea Uncle Shizi!"

"Let's go have some fun"

" Sounds good Young Master "

" As you know I haven't seen a Fight in a long time."

"Hahaha, ah yes your right, your oh so right Uncle Shizi!"

Originally Bai Jian thought that this disturbance could cause a problem for his family and Clan members, but the more he thought about it the more he thought he could use this situation to his advantage to test out his family's enemies martial arts and see what entertainment they could bring him.

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When Bai Jian and other family members were going down Tiger Mountain, their separate groups of people were discovered by the strongest members of the Hou Clan and the members from the Fire Strength Sect, in White Crane City at the Martial Arts stage, gathered in a group.

( People on Jade Island call them Huo Sect)

"It looks like we will finally get to see some action."

"Let's hope so, so we can have something to report back to the Patriarch and Sect Leader so that we don't return empty-handed. I don't want to face the wall again for 10 years of meditation, that was brutal and my junior brothers and my oldest son Huo Li Hua have pasted me in Cultivation. It's humiliating already as it is, I don't want to be embarrassed again in front of my own family."

"Don't worry Huo Hou you'll do great on this mission given by the Patriarch, you'll even be able to receive a Blazing Fire Pill when we return to our Fire Strength Sect, and if you do well enough, the Patriarch will ask the Sect Leader of the Fire Strength Sect if we can send one of our children from each of our families to the Fire Strength Sect."

"I hope so Huo Fen, I really hope so!"

"Will you two be quiet, I'm trying to sense the cultivation of the two groups coming down Tiger Mountain you two monkeys."

"Gosh Weida Huo you are so grumpy and moody lately!"

"He just hasn't gotten laid in a while!

"Shut up Huo Fen, before I go over there and make it shut for you!"

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On Stone Peak on Tiger Mountain,

Bai Jian and his group were walking through one of the small Peak villages on Tiger Mountain down the mountain towards White Crane City.

When Uncle Shizi felt someone's Soul Sense wash over him as their group was walking down from the mountain.

"Hahaha, Young Master it looks like this group of people aren't complete idiots, I just felt their presence wash over me it looks like one of them noticed us already."

"Young Master, who is this man?"

"Don't worry about him Lady Li.

...

...

...

"well all you need to know, is that... he's Loyal!"

When they got to the small town on the next peak, Shizi stopped at one of the small shops that sell talisman and other magic or power imbued objects.

"Hahaha, young master look at what I found!"

"Oh wow, can't believe we had these on this small I island?"

"Hahaha, Sir you have a great set of eyes and picked one of my best items within this store!"

"Hmmm, and there are a couple of somewhat good ones in this store, Young Master look!"

"Hmmm, oh wow yes."

"Do you have any more of these sir?"

"I have a total of 13 of these!"

"Young Master Jian, this Elder thinks we should hurry down the Mountain we don't have time to shop around and play with these toys?"

"Elder Tang correct, I presume?"

"Umm excuse me, Sir?"

"Well do you know what these are?"

" Umm no, what are these they just look like manakins, no ...?"

"But Young master you have to check this in wit.....

"Lady Li, don't interrupt Uncle Shizi and Elder Tang again please!"

"Umm okay, Young Master Jian!"

"Elder Tang these are what people call Battle Puppets, on the mainland."

"Now Elder Tang, trust Uncle Shizi he knows what he is doing!"

"Okay Young Master!"

"Okay now, how long will this take, for you to get this to work?

"Give me 20 minutes!"

"Okay, Sir let my Uncle Shizi borrow your workshop in the back!"

"Yes, Sir anything for a paying customer!"

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Down the Mountain near the Bai Clan's Arena, the Hou Clan, and the Huo Sect were watching from the shadows and within the crowds in White Crane City, watching their surrounding for anyone that could be watching them or following them as they walked around the city.

They then took a small break to sit at an outdoor restaurant to eat seafood and soup, with some wine and saké along with their meals.

"Hey Hou Fao, when are we gonna get the signal bro, I want to start killing some little cat's and steal some loot from these bastards!"

"Hey, Gu Shi, shut it we don't want people to hear you and cause us trouble before the mission even starts. If it wasn't for you coming from a rich family and getting to know one the Inner Elders and being related to Great Elder Aufhocker you wouldn't have been able to come on this mission."

"Oh shut it, Hou Fao you are just jealous I get to use the Firework to lite the signal for this mission and you didn't get to do it because you fucked up the last mission when you went to the Divine Wind Kingdom."

"Shut it you two, we don't need to bring attention to ourselves before the start of this mission, now pass me that salmon and order a plate of teriyaki beef sticks and some salt and pepper cucumbers!

"Oh Siji Wan what's got you stuck in a pickle, this mission is gonna be easy, the great elder said most of the Bai Clan's strongest members haven't been seen for the last 800 to 1000 years and all of the top brass of this Clan were injured when they tried to get revenge for Bai Hu over 20 years or so ago!"

"Humph, you guys are stupid if you think that you can kill the Bai Clan off!"

After the group heard that, they all turned their heads to their left, to see a man in an all-black robe with a big hood with symbols and clouds all over the robe with a spear on his back covered in a white cloth covering the spearhead.

"Hey mind your own business old man or I'll kill you!"

After this young man got up, he took out his sword and pointed it towards the man with the tip of his sword only a foot away from this man's face.

"Fen Qi shut your mouth now and sit back down! - Siji Wan

"Auh" - inner roar almost muffled

Fen Qi was grinding his teeth right now in anger after being looked down upon by Siji Wan and the old man in the Shady clothing.

"But that old man disrespected us!"

"I said shut your mouth and now no more talking or do I have to show you what happens to people who misbehave around me." - Siji Wan

" Guys go get ready and assemble your squads of men and meet at the Bai Clan's Arena area, see you there in 10 minutes." - Shi Ma

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At the base of Tiger Mountain -

Jian and Uncle Shizi were now done descending the mountain and were now making their way towards the East Gate of White Crane City.

It was the checkpoint for the Bai Clan to stop people from leaving the city at this gate and was for Bai Clan members to enter the path for Tiger Mountain and renter the city from the mountain.

When the Guards, saw a group of people descending the mountain, they formed up in two lines, to allow them to pass and give their respect as they passed by.

The guards were all standing straight, with their eyes drifting a little as the group walked by.

Bai Jian and Elder Tang were at the front of the group with their and servant and personal aides behind them.

Lady Li was behind Bai Jian and Uncle Shizi, as Shizi was walking with the group his extra eye-catching outfit was getting quite a few stares here and there from beautiful women, and strongmen alike but at a loss from seeing a man in such a fancy outfit.

As he was wearing the beautiful White outfit with a robe that had a hood, that Bai Jian gave him.

It had clouds and White tigers on it, with the white mask have a spiral design to the eyes, covered in clouds with the Kanji for White Tiger on the forehead of the mask in Red.

It could be said for the same for his 20 or so Battle Puppets in all-white outfits with masks to match his, except the Kanji Symbol on his White Mask.

When the guards were staring at the Battle Puppets they were walking by, it was like looking at a group of beasts as they were emitting a suffocating feeling when they looked at them.

Giving the guards and nearby Clansmen who were part of the Bai Clan, a huge feeling of inferiority and uselessness when they compared themselves to these men.

But they didn't know that this group of masked men in all white were all Battle Puppets and not actual living humans.

When Qiang Shizi and the Battle puppets hid in a disguise behind him, walked by a guard with long red hair.

He had just fallen down, he was having trouble prior to falling keeping his cool as he had trouble keeping his emotions in check sometimes.

At this point as the Battle Puppets that stopped earlier in place, was now walking closer to the man with the red hair on the ground.

At this point, it had caused a small part of the group to stop, as they heard whispering from guards near them as they were walking.

When the Battle Puppet were walking by the guards, it had turned it's head to the left, it tilted its head slightly as it started to zone in on one of the guards next to Bai Jian's group.

The look and feel it was giving off was making all of the guards sweat and shake a little as it gave all of them quite a scare as if they were staring down at the face of a dragon.

When the guard with red hair did fall down, right then and there at that moment one of the guards fell.

It caused everyone in the group except Bai Jian and Shizi to stop and look back at the guard with red hair on the ground and the puppet in disguise who was staring at the guard down on the ground.

The man on the ground looked to be in absolute fear, giving Bai Jian's group who saw Shizi leave the shop with these things 20 or so minutes ago have a strange feeling when they seemed mindless unless they got a command.

"What's wrong Uncle Shizi?"

Bai Jian turned around and saw Shizi staring at the Gaurd on the ground.

"Hmmm, interesting very interesting."

(That's strange!)

( What's going on Qiang Shizi? )

( That Battle puppet was the 3rd strongest one I found in the back room at that man's workshop! )

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15 min's before -

After Qiang Shizi finished on working on the 13 Battle Puppets he bought from the shopkeeper, as he was walking back out to the display room with all the items for sale, he found 10 to 15 Battle Puppets hanging from the ceiling on hooks with scratches and holes on all them with the occasional burn mark or missing pieces were their slightly swinging in the backroom.

"Oh wow, he has a couple of goods ones and a slightly rare one too but it's broken!"

...

...

"Excuse me, Sir can I buy these broken Battle Puppets as well back here?"

"Oh those old things you can have those for free, the ones you bought earlier were based on those old things my Grandfather found those in a dungeon almost 50 years ago.

"Oh really, okay give me five more mins!"

"Okay, sure!"

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Back in the current -

( Bai Jian, I used some of the materials this body had in his ring to fix most of those Old Puppets except the two strongest ones as I don't want to use all the materials in this guys Ring to just fix those two Battle Puppets, I don't want to be disrespectful to this guy he worked real hard to gather all these materials over his 1,300 plus years that he was alive. )

( Hmmm, it would be a little irresponsible to that body of yours, to the old owner! )

( I used a metallic, I got from some meteorites in his Space ring, and I think it's called Star Steel it would be rare in your old Immortal Realm but uncommon in the Sage Realm, then some Arcane Phlogiston, 2 Metric Tons of Tungston Iron, 100 Kg of Chardalyn, 20 Kg of Adamantine, 100 Grams of Dragon Amber and finally I used 4 High-Grade Spirit Stones to restore the missing left arm and 2 Top-Grade Spirit Stones to restore the Spirit Energy Spear. )

(It's not a Black or Yellow Grade Rank Battle Puppet, but it's a Quasi - Grand Ranked Battle Puppet! )

( Quasi - Grand Battle Puppet? )

( Bai Jian, Grand Ranked Battle Puppets are the 5th Tier from the bottom of the Battle Puppet Rankings. )

( Not Bad! )

( It goes like this Bai Jian - )

For every Tier, there are 3 levels to each Tier of Battle Puppets

( 1-3 Low Rank

( 4-6 Mid Rank

( 7-9 High Rank

( 10-12 Great Rank

( 13-15 Grand Rank

( Yellow Rank

( Black Rank

( Jade Rank

( Earth Rank

( Sea Rank

( Sky Rank

( Space Rank

( Immortal Rank

( Sovereign Rank

( Sage Rank

( Divine Rank

( But after Divine Rank I don't know what comes after that, I wasn't good at studying at the time, I heard more after that but I wasn't focused on the class as trying to leave so I could go to my Clan so I could go see my Fiancée at the time. She was all I was thinking about at that time, sorry. )

( But Bai Jian it seems that the broken Battle Puppet that I couldn't fix completely because I don't have all of the materials to fix it, seems to Have found something off about on that guard after I had you release your Clans Aura and Spirit Qi on them. I think it recognized someone that doesn't have your Clans unique Aura! )

( Well, what is it? )

( Your BaI Clan that you belong to, from what I can sense and feel, have the characteristics and power that mainly comes from the Lighting, Wind, and Water Qi Elements on all of them but from what it is saying, this guard is completely different! )

( Let me hear it speak )

( Master, this Humen has the Death, Fire, and Earth Qi Elements on him. )

At this moment, Elder Tang was getting a little impatient and decided to step out from the group and fold his arms together.

"Augh, what are we doing here?"

"Elder Tang"

"What?"

"It seems one of Uncle Shizi's Henchmen found something interesting!"

"What could be so interesting about a little guard about to piss himself!"

"...Wahh... What are you saying?"

"Shut up and stand back up in order Guard!"

"He looks like he's gonna piss his pants."

"I'AM NOT GONNA PISS MYSELF!!!"

( Why is this dude in the Mask keep looking at me with that Scary Death stare. )

"If you are wondering why he keeps staring at you and won't take his eye's off of you so deeply, it's because he thinks your not who you're trying to pass off as!"

"WHATTT!!!!"

At this second the guard jumps back real quick and then immediately draws his sword and points it at the Quasi - Grand Battle Puppet in White Clothing. He began to start shaking slightly at the puppet who was tilting its head to the side even more now.

( Wait a second, how come I can't see his eyes. All I can see is Blackness and I can't hear any breathing or feel him give off any Aura! )

"Uncle Shizi Grab Him!"

"What, noooooo!"

"Augh! Fuck you, your all idiots, Bai Clan members I've been undercover for over 13 years and you never noticed me!"

The Guard Captain that was stationed at the East Gate began to give out orders and then all the guards in the area started to surround him.

"MEN GRAB THAT BASTARD NOW!!!!!"

Immediately one of the lieutenants started to charge and attack the Spy.

The Guard and the Spy then executed their techniques at the same time.

[ Shaking Strikes ]

Slice of the Gale Winds

[ The Green Whirlwinds ]

" Dance of the leaves! "

[ Palms of the Wake ]

" The Descent of a Fire Golem "

[ The Silent Steps on A Cloud ]

- 4th Move Crazy Cloud Steps -

[ Wrath of a Fire Titan ]

" The Five Palms of Fire Destruction! "

After that, there was a small explosion as the wind technique meets the fire-based technique it caused a 70-foot column of fire and smoke to rise into the air.

[ Rise of the Serpent ]

"Fire Slaps of the Red Fire Viper "

[ Shaking Strikes ]

" 33 Slashs of Lighting "

"Wow not bad, that Lieutenant learned the 6th move of the 10 moves of Shaking Strikes, that's not bad at all."

"Uncle Shizi, End this now we don't have time for this right now."

After the Bai Clan Guard landed the 15th Strike of his technique, the surrounding guards all charged at the same time.

They started to grab his limbs and all wrestle him at the same time, there tons of angry voices and clanging noises of tussling happening at the same time.

The guards were on top of the spy and then the spy bit one the guy's ankles trying to get him off of him.

Then you could hear all of the trusted voices in the dogpile.

"Augh, he bit me punch him quick!"

( Their fighting like a bunch of teenagers fighting at recess, like they're at school or something! )

"Hey, he got my sword, grab it from him quick!"

"Augh, ow stop punching me let me go!"

After a couple more minutes of wrestling the spy to the ground, and the sound of this guy crying and screaming, it finally calmed down and began to get quiet.

The guards all started to pick up their swords and gear that fell when they all went for spy hoping to be the guy to grab him in front of the Captain.

The guards then went back into a resemblance of order near the East Gate going back into there posts and position near the East Gate.

Then the Spy saw that there were fewer people around waited for when the Gaurd would let go of his shoulder and then he would take off, just waiting!

( Come on, Come on Let's GO! )

As soon as the guard let go of his shoulder and moved to his left and turned, the spy started to run toward Tiger Mountain.

After Qiang Shizi saw this he sighed lightly.

"Sigh"

"You idiot you took you hands off of him, grab him again lieutenant!"

Qiang Shizi then looked at the Gaurd Captain then at his strongest Puppet.

"Don't worry Captain, yo Grab him!"

Then Shizi pointed at the Spy.

The Battle Puppet then began to take off towards the Spy.

The Puppet caused a strong small wind breeze to formed after receiving his order from Qiang Shizi.

"Nooooooo, leave me alone !!!!!!"

The Battle Puppet raised his fist and threw a beautiful straight towards the Spy.

He went flying 50 meters after getting punched, getting a rise of the bystanders and causing the guards a quick sweat.

"GUARDS GRAB HIM AND TAKE HIM TO OUR DUNGEON!!!" - Elder Tang

( What did I just see right now?? ) - Elder Tang

( Qiang Shizi, Let's go have some Fun, hide within the crowd and make sure they don't see you until I give the order.)

"Let's go now, guys. No more dilly-dallying!"

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Run Down of Story so Far

( Bai Jian )

[ Has An Immortal Soul ]

[ Immortal Yang Physique] -

Sacred Sky White Tiger Physique

x1 Servant Elder Bai Tang

x1 Spirit Ring

x1 Inheritance

x1 White Jian Sword

x2 Black Katana Swords

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(Qiang Huo Shizi)

[ Has An Divine Soul ]

[ lesser Immortal King Physique ]

x1 White Clouds Spirit King Mask

x1 Spirit Ring

x1 Black Katana

x2 White Ivory Jian Swords

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x6 Martial Art Techniques

1st [ Graceful Gale Wind Techniques ]

2nd [ Toughening Finger Points ]

3rd [ Shaking Strikes ]

4th [ Gentle Wind Fist Techniques ]

5th [ Shadow Void ]

6th [ Suppressing Strikes ]

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F.Y.I

Qiang Means - Strong

Huo Means - Fire

Hou Means - Ape

Jian Means - Sword

Jiān Means - Unyielding

Láng Means - Wolf

Ji Means - Intellect

Lan means - Blue

Zi means - Purple

Bai means - White

Jian Sword is a Chinese double-edged straight sword

Feilong means Wyvern