Chapter 32: Silence in Emerald City

It took Feng Li several seconds to finally turn back to look at Feng Xue. A few years back when he came to this restaurant, he had just been declared a crippled young master. He accidentally or may be in a good luck met a young lady who introduced herself as the daughter of the restaurant owner.

At that time he was just a little over five years of age with a lot of tenderness and 'immaturity'. The young girl back then had on her own accord offered to refer to him as a brother even after only meeting for the first time with no past relations whatsoever.

"Big brother, i'm talking to you rascal aren't you hearing me?"

"Oh i heard you, it's just that the whole meeting with this girl and how friendly she is makes me feel like..."

"Feel like what? Are you trying to say you have feelings for her already?" Feng Xue interupted him with a fuming tone.

Looking at the fuming girl infront of him, Feng Li was speechless not knowing how to respond to her at all.

It was at this time that Feng Xue realized that she had mispoken and her face turned pink from embarrassment. It was true that she had grown up over the past few years to the current her. Despite this, she was still a small girl after all. How could she not be embarrassed in such a situation?

"I meant to say i feel like the whole situation is too fishy and there is more than the eyes can see."

Feng Li had a vast amount of memories and experience from his past lives. Although he had not actively been with women, he is still able to decern what Feng Xue was thinking at the moment and that is why he chose to elaborate his words further.

"Don't think so deep about the situation. Now tell me will you be joining the Myriad Dao sect or are you thinking of staying here and continue being the Young Master of the strongest family in Emerald city?"

"Strongest?

"Yes. Our family is amongst the top families don't you know that after all this time?"

"Little Sister, there is always a man beyond a man, a mountain beyond a mountain and also a peak above another. To reach the peak of martial art, you need to understand that whenever you reach the peak, you will realize that there is another mountain with a much taller peak than the one you are standing on. Our family is just strong here, but compared to the behemoths out there, we are just but insects that can be pinched between their fingers."

"Just insects that can be pinched between their fingers..."

Feng Xue begun reminiscing on his words and seemed to be very much intoxicated by these words as her face became even more resolved and more determined as her playful nature begun receding back and replaced with maturity and the thirsty for strength and dominance.

Maybe she wanted the strength to protect herself or maybe she wanted the strength to stand above the world or even maybe to be able to protect the ones she loved. All these reasons made her resolve to become more powerful.

Feng Li did not know that the words he just made casually had a complete change in Feng Xue's mind and for this reason, her future will no longer be the same again!

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Misty city...Rainblood sect.

At this time in one of the five peaks constituting the sect. At the Dao peak, a large throne laid at the centre of the huge divine hall where the sect master reigned and commanded his subjects.

Several individuals were standing bellow the large throne as they all had their eyes gazing up on the man gracefully seated on the majestic throne.

The man had a youthful appearance of one not more than 25 years of age though from a closer view, one would sense that in his eyes hid a great sense of knowlege, age and experience that could not belong to a man his age.

Blood rain imperial bloodline!

This bloodline did not just stand as a name but one amongst the strongest in the region. When fully awakened, one will achieve a slowed down growth as well as a boost in strength in a limited time in combat.

While the bloodline is strong, awakening it is only sorted for but not easily achieved to most of the blood rain sect clan descendants.

In the whole founding clan of the blood rain sect, only a few genius level practitioners had been able to fully awaken the bloodline. Awakening this bloodline is even harder than ascending to the heavens!

At this time a middle aged man stood at the middle of the hall with a respectful attitude while gazing up on the man seated on the large throne standing at the end of the hall.

"Speak"

The sect master on the large throne spoke as his voice reverberated accross the hall as a gigantic momentum oozed out from him despite the fact that he was restraining his aura at the moment.

He was at the late Nascent soul realm level seven!

Fan Bufeng was the name of the Blood Rain Sect, he was once a reknown genius amongst his peers in the olden days and he finaly got to succeed in inheriting the sect master's seat at a very young age.

"Honoured sect master, words have reached us that a messenger has been going around informing people of the fourthcoming intake of new disciples that extends to our region where they intend to recruit some disciples from around here.

"And what does that have to do with us Bu Fao!" The sect Master furiously asked with a commanding momentum.

Bu Fao is the Dao Peak master of the blood rain sect. He has a cultivation of the early sixth level of the nascent soul realm. altthough the gap between him and the sect master was just a single minor realm boundary, but coupled with the fact that the Sect master has the Blood Rain imperial bloodline awoken, he could easily dominate him like a child if the two were to fight.

"Some strong families around are going to have some of their promising geniuses join those prestigious sects which will increase their influence around here which will not be a good outcome for us as a behemoth of this region." Bu Fao Said with a sly smile on his face.

"That is a good observation and conclusion you have come up with, the sect will reward you well in this. Fan Qian, have all the sect peaks select some of the promising disciples and have them go to the misty city center i believe the sect's messengers will conduct the selection there. Make sure most of them get a chance into joining a prestigious sect. That will boost our control over here.

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Mean while in Emerald City...

Feng Li together with Feng Xue both returned back to the Feng Mansion from the restaurant a few minutes after Mei Yao left the restaurant. On their way back the two were enshrouded with utter silence as the both of them were deeply making considerations on whether they should take the chance of joing Myriad dao sect on of the most prestigious sect in the Eastern territory.

Reaching inside the divine hall, the two immediately caught the attention of everyone inside. Feng Li discovered that there was a large number of people currently gathered here.

"Young master and Lady Xue, we were just about to call out to you for this discussion also has alot to do with the two of you as it has with everyone of the younger generation. As you all know that prestigiuos sects from all over the Guan province are currently recruiting new batch of disciples into there sects in a few days."

"As the saying goes 'this is the era of the younger generation, we old bones can only do by supporting you lot'. Come in i have already spoke a lot already." One of the elders said with a smile.

"Thank you Elder." Both Feng Li and Feng xue replied.

At the very corner of the hall sat a few of the Feng family disciples who were currently carrying faces filled with eagerness and determination. Looking at these disciples, Feng Li could vaguely guess what was being discussed by now.

"Li'er, Xu'er, both of you join the other disciples so that we can commense with our family discusions already." Feng Tian slowly said.

The two slowly walked towards the rest of the students and sat down next to each other. At this moment at one corner a young man had a cold expression as he watch the two of the seated next to each other as he slowly clenched his fist. The expression written on his face was unreadable as know one could tell exactly what he was thinking of.

"This morning words from a trusted source reached toi us that it is now time that the top sects in the Guan region are going to conduct there recruitment and for the first time in history our Northern region. This is an opportunity that no sect or family around is going to try and miss as it relates to the future of families. As a family we have decided to select fifty of the best of the younger generation to participate in the trials for joining these sects." The Feng family partriach said while slowly scanning through the crown of disciples seated at the hall.

Soon the thin elder who was resposinble at carring out the talent measuring ceremony for the likes of Feng Li five years ago stood up with a list on his hand standing just a few meters infront of the group of youngsters.

"This is not a matter of fairness or equality but a matter of your abilities and talent that you have displayed since you begun cultivating in this family. If you happen not to be on this list then it means your luck and talent was not high enough and that you weer not destined for this and should rather put your efforts into cultivating harder."

It just took utmost ten minutes for the elder to read out all the names of the fifty selected students. Among these students were;

Feng Li

Feng Xue

Feng Bu

Feng Xu

Feng Qian

And many more youngsters with promissing talents in the family....

Thise who were not in the list should slowly stand up and leave the hall and remember this is not the end of your journey but just the begging of it. As for the rest of you, early tomorrow morning the messengers from various sects will be conducting there tests to determine your qualification of whether you xcan proceed to the main sect for recruitment trials. be there in time." The thin elder siad and directly disappeared from the hall without any word.

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At this time as the meeting being held in Feng family divine hall, similar meetings were being held in the Yang and the Li family as also fifty of there best disciples were selected to take part in the qualifications the next day.

As so many vagabond cultivators were also preparing eagerly for the next day to find a turning point of there lives possibly being admitted in a prestigiuos sect.

It did not take long and night had already covered the whole of emerald city as anyone familiar with this city will undouptedly say that there was smothing different about the city today. Normaly, the city is covered by a lot of bustling noises and errands here and there and small fights at random but today was awkwardly silent as though everyone had left the city.

If one was to find a better sentence to describe this it would undouptedly 'Silnce in Emerald City.'