the Qin family

The moon continent

Qin Yao was cleaning his father's furnace, he had been learning how to make weapons from his father for twelve years, he will be 13 in two days time.

The Qin family is a very successful family in the Wu dynasty of Moon continent, they might not be as powerful as most families but they were recognize thanks to his father's keen skills in weapons making.

The Qin family compound was reasonably large with three courtyard, a little pond in the middle of a beautiful garden which was by the side of the master's courtyard, a field used for training the guards was in between the other two courtyards which was for the guards and maids.

Qin Yao who was cleaning the furnace came across two old moles the molds were very dusty as if there had not been touched for a long time, Qin Yao use the broom in his hand to dust them when he finished dusting the two molds strangely there were in good shape outwardly.

"why is father not using this molds? They look to be in good shape or are they bad from the inside?" He murmured and then went ahead to upon the molds, in the first mold, they was a blue translucent sword lying on it, Qin Yao was surprised to see a sword lying inside although it wasn't completed yet he knew the materials used to make this sword were special.

Qin Yao suddenly stopped his actions and looked behind him there was no one there, he then walked to the door and opened it to check outside there was no one there as well.

"I felt like someone was looking at me, my instincts had never failed me or is it the sword that is giving me chills?

Qin Yao went back to the workshop and continue to scrutinized the sword. Opening the other mold there was another sword inside, it was exactly the same with the previous one with just minor deferent.

Qin Yao who dedicated all his life to his father's blacksmith shop immediately identify the deferent and the problems of those swords,

Qin Yao picked the second sword up scrutinizing it in all angles the second sword was of superior quality to the first although it would not be noticeable to other people even other blacksmith might not be able to tell.

The Qin family craftsmanship was the best in the entire Wu dynasty and Qin Yao was to inherit it someday so naturally he had been impacted with all the knowledge and secret of the family's craftsmanship.

He raised the blue translucent blade up taking a closer look as he licked his dry lips.

"the color of this blade is lighter than the other, it is a superior quality blade but something is still missing," Qin Yao murmured.

General Bong Su manor

A little figure was kneel in front of the general.

"Are you sure of what you are telling me?

"yes my Lord, I saw it with my own eyes even before I left Qin Yao The son of the house master had unknowingly taken it out of where his father had kept it and was playing with it, I think Lord Qin Liu Feng had decided to abandoned it since it was the cursed of his brother's death."

General Bong Su laughed devilishly and looked at the petite figure in front of him.

"What is your Name child?

That was the first time the petite figure raised his head, my Name is Zhen Wei my Lord.

"Zhen Wei, if what you are telling me now is the truth, I, General Bong Su will keep to my promise and grant one of your requests but if you are wrong you will be severely punish."

Zhen Wei shivered " I don't dear lie to you my Lord everything I have said is the truth."

General Bong Su nodded his head, "so what is your request?"

Zhen Wei raised his head and drop it back, it was as if he find his request too difficult to say.

"Speak, I General Bong Su will grant your request as long as your information is genuine."

"I..I" Zhen Wei stammered his eyes moved from side to side as if he was afraid he will be beheaded immediately the words comes out of his mouth.

"I want to beg my Lord for the freedom of my mother and sister." He said then held his breath with his face buried on the ground, waiting for result he is not sure of "will he be granted his wish or will he be crucify"

A moment pass and it was like a rock was added to the weight he was carrying every second.

General Bong Su looked at his strategist who only gave him a nod.

Hahaha General Bong Su laughed "that is a small thing as long as your information is correct the you and your family are free."

Zhen Wei looked up in surprised his face was over shadowed by joy"thank you my Lord" he bow three times.

The General only waved his hand and two guard dragged Zhen Wei away to luck him up.

"What do you think?" he asked his strategist without looking at him.

"About the information, we have to go take a look to know if he is saying the truth."

"What about the boy?"

"it won't be had to do away with him,"

General Bong Su nodded in agreement but his strategist continue, "but I find it a waste of talent to be honest."

That was when General Bong Su turned his head to look at him,

"What do you mean."

"think of it this way, if the information he brought is the truth is he not talented? To infiltrate the Qin family and lay low till he found what took him there without being discovered, something you have sent out skilled people to do yet they could not even get a clue of it's way about,"

General Bong Su nodded in agreement then he went silent for a while as if he was in deep thoughts before asking again "so what do you suggest?"

"I will advise my Lord to grant his wish and give him and his family a small courtyard to live in, these way they won't be able to run away, then place people to secretly monitor them if my Lord shows that he really care for his family you will be able to send him to infiltrate any where for you even if it is the palace, not just him even others that sees these will work even harder to gain such privilege."

"But that is only if we find the sword." He added and General Bong Su nodded in agreement.

The Qin family

Qin Yao placed back the sword and closed the molds he then returned to the main courtyard without knowing he had coursed a lot of trouble for his family.

Qin Liu Feng was standing facing the morning sun, a beautiful ember color light crawling out from the horizon like a snail crawling out of its shell. He was putting on a blue robe his heir was neatly tied up with his hands behind him.

Qin Yao walk quietly and stood beside him without saying a word enjoying the warmth of the morning sun.

They stood like that for a very long time before Qin Yao broke the silence.

"Father, who are those blue translucent sword in the shop for?" he asked in a very low tone such that even if someone was standing next to his father on the other side he would not have heard him.

Qin Liu Feng looked at his son for a while as if hesitating to tell him but when Qin Yao thought he would not get an answer his father began.

"Years ago our family was among the top powerful Family in the Wu dynasty, we had two legacy to uphold, our blacksmith technic and our chill moon sword technic, the chill moon sword technic has thirteen stands, wish are all very powerful, the first ten stands can be mastered by any good sword but the last three stands need an extra ordinary blade to reach perfection."

"your Grandfather reached perfection and was unrivaled in the entire Wu dynasty. A few yes back about a decade or so there was a war between the Wu dynasty and the Tang dynasty, the Wu dynasty was on the verge of losing the war when my father your grandfather was summoned by the Emperor, his chaos blade was known by everyone so the Emperor put the faith of the entire dynasty on his shoulder and that was how my father Qin Meng Yao went to war, the Wu dynasty won at the end but my father and the chaos blade didn't return."

"Three years ago, a phenomenon appeared in the sky, such phenomenon only appears when a treasure is born so the entire Wu dynasty was in uproar looking for the treasure in including the Emperor's people. During the search for the treasure my brother Qin Mengzhu who inherited the chill moon sword technic found three blue translucent crystals and brought them to me, he asked if I could use them to make another chaos blade or something better but somehow he got himself into trouble, all the sword men in the dynasty and even visiting sword men soon gut the information and came after him for the stones my stubborn brother will never surrender to anyone so he was killed in the fight"