Eve of an Adventure

Ryuu just finished his daily exercise routine consisting of various physical, Ki manipulating and practicing of his skills, when he was greeted by his second eldest sister, Sylvana, "Good morning Ryuu have you finished your daily exercise."

"Good morning Second Sister, I have just finished my daily morning routine is there anything you need from me."

"Yes baby brother quickly wash yourself and join us for breakfast we have a surprise for you."

Ryuu was curious he now wanted to know about the surprise, so without any delay he got freshened up and went to take his breakfast.

Mentally grimacing as he now have to act as a prince with etiquettes, he liked when he could speak with his sisters informally instead of using such tedious etiquettes and what not.

He came to the dining table to find his older sisters already present, so he greeted them accordingly and before long he was treated with breakfast consisting of,

White bread

Bacon and Eggs

Fruit juice

After they had their breakfast, Antariskh led her siblings to her study, before making the study secure using array she began speaking, "Brother before I begin to speak, I want to apologize for losing my temper yesterday, when they did not believe you and started scanning you, it insinuated that you lied to them, and by extension they called us our parents even your mother a liar, thus I lashed out violently without thinking, I would hope you do not think I wanted to harm you, if I caused any discomfort to you for that I apologize." As she bowed her head to Ryuu to express her sincerity.

Ryuu quickly stood up from his seat and hugged his eldest sister, "Please big sister there is nothing to apologize, I will admit as I have never seen you so much angry before I was scared but seeing you defending my honor made me very happy, in fact I want to thank you big sister for defending my honor, also when you punished them you were so cool.", finished Ryuu with sparkling eyes.

Antariskh and Sylvana laughed awkwardly where as Shamiran had blooming satisfied smile on her face.

Antariskh coughed and changed the subject, "Brother do you remember how we promised to take you on an adventure", Ryuu gave a happy nod to his sister, "Well two days from today a ruin of an ancient school will open up. Every fifty years it opens up and is used by many martial schools and dojo sends their students to participate in a so called friendly competition, but is actually to search for legacy and various treasures of the school, the competition is actually survival course which was used by the ancient school to rank its students, so brother I hope you have some inkling to what we are planning."

Ryuu with great enthusiasm replied, "We will be participating in this competition."

Sylvana: "I am sorry to inform you brother it is not we but only you who would be participating.", Ryuu wanted to protest but was shushed into silent by Sylvana as she continued," I know baby brother you are disappointed and I do not blame you for it, but there is condition that everyone have to follow because of the array surrounding it, only someone below the level of Wanxiang adept and above a Xiantian may enter. Anyone who makes a breakthrough to Wanxiang Adept will be forced out of the ruins, even the strongest monsters are only mid Wanxiang Adepts as their cultivation are sealed and suppressed by the arrays so they never reach above the said level.", while inwardly thinking,' we can easily re write those instruction to allow us entry but there is no need for Ryuu to know, as such level of challenge is boring and beneath us.'

Shamiran: "As such we have formed a team of some of our most outstanding juniors from SHANGRI-LA PAVILION, they will help you to have better understanding of adventuring tomorrow we will meet them, they more experienced on matter of this ruins, so try to listen to their instruction carefully, do not try to be conceited and try to be helpful whenever they require also try to learn from their experience as much as possible. These ruins are dangerous so try to be careful or else you might cause the death of your teammates or yourself."

Ryuu gulped at that, "Now brother I would love if you go through and memorize all the information inside this jade slip and destroy it after memorizing it, finish this task by tomorrow or else we will be disappointed and cancel your trip.", stated Antariskh as she gave Ryuu him a green color jade slip.

Ryuu took the jade slip and after a few more talk and advice he left the three sisters alone.

"I hope Ryuu succeeds in his endeavor, this ruins can be dangerous."

"Do not worry Sylvana if his life is in imminent danger we will simply break those pesky array protecting that ruin and save our brother", chimed in Antariskh

"Ah now I remember where I have seen those ruins before", stated Shamiran with a bit of fervor."

Sylvana: "Where have you seen those ruins, sister?"

Shamiran: "It has been ages and the place looks worse for wear that is why it was difficult to recognize, remember the weakling of a Sect leader who got smitten with our eldest sister and tried to force her to be his mistress, the bald headed smelly Dao Father, what was his name again… ah I remember daoist 'thunder…something something. He managed to annoy you so much that you wiped him along with his entire school, also he had some relation to the previous Head of our eastern branch, also one of the reasons why he was also executed."

Antariskh: "Ah now I also remember about that idiot, meh he should be eternally grateful that we are using his legacy as stepping stone for our baby brother."

Sylvana: "So true sister so true."

Shamiran: "Even if everything goes well, Ryuu has never taken a life before I hope he does not get killed because of his innocence."

Sylvana: "Please sister do not worry, I have a perfect solution", as she showed an array to them, causing the sister to laugh in glee, far away Ryuu shivered, as he sensed a great disturbance in his peaceful life.

Next day his sisters escorted him to meet his teammates who will be entering the ruins with Ryuu.