Unncessory fighting

"You don't need this." Bai Yun told the three guys behind him.

"I'll be the judge of that." The guy in the middle said. "You only need to leave whatever it is that is there and get lost."

"Why are you even here?" Bai Yun asked.

"You are the only one who can understand the formations here. There is no way I am stupid enough to think that you would leave the best things here for us. And I was right." The guy replied arrogantly.

"This thing is indeed valuable. But not for you. You have no idea what this is. And you would have no way of utilizing it. So give it up, and fight for the other things. Leave this alone." Bai Yun reminded them.

"You don't need to worry about how I would use it. If you can find a use for it, so can I. Just leave it behind and get lost while I'm still being merciful." He said once again.

Bai Yun sighed when he heard the guy speak. He wasn't lying when he said that no one would be able to utilize it. It is entirely possible than Bai Yun as the only person who knew how to properly utilize the object in front of him in the entire world. Maybe even the entire universe.

Bai Yun quickly picked up the piece of stone on the podium and put it inside his storage ring. Standing up, he slowly turned around to face the three people blocking his way.

"Now that wasn't very smart of you." The guy in the middle spoke once again. "Now I changed my mind. I don't want you to just give me the stone, I want you to give me your life. I would kill yourself if I were you. Else you would not die easily."

"I should warn you, this is a bad idea." Bai Yun tried to reason with them one last time.

"Yes. For you." The guy in the middle said once again smugly.

Bai Yun pulled out his sword with a sigh. He knew that this was going to fight. He was already ready to fight.

"What's going on over here?" Suddenly a voice sounded out.

Bai Yun and the other three turned to look only to see Shadow One shading there. He was standing there with a sword in one hand and a small orb in the other.

"This has nothing to do with you one. Get lost." The guy in the middle said.

"Oh, I don't think so Two." Shadow One replied. "You are trying to harm a member of my team. I can't just let that pass."

"Do you think I care what you think."Shado Two replied. "This isn't the classroom. Also, he is an outsider. Don't think that you can do whatever you want just because you are a little stronger than me."

"There is no need for you to get involved shadow one." Bai Yun suddenly said. He swung his sword lightly and casually walked over to the trio who were blocking his way.

"Thinking of going down fighting are we." Shadow two said. "No matter, I'll end you in an instant."

"You talk too much." Bai Yun said. "You are training to be an assassin right? Assassins aren't supposed to talk so much. Their only job is to kill by any means necessary. Let me give you a good lesson on the art of assassination."

The moment Bai Yun finished speaking, he had reached the trio. Without pausing, he thrust his hands at the neck of the one on the left. They were completely unprepared for the sudden attack, and before they could react, Bai Yun had driven his knife that he had hidden in the folds of his cloak into the one on the left. For a moment the group just watched in silent horror as the one Bai Yun attacked grasped at his neck to try and stop his bleeding. But he was unable to and finally collapsed onto the ground dead.

"You bastard!" Shadow two was both scared and angered at the sight. He shouted and turned to look at Bai Yun only to find that he had disappeared from his sight. "Where is he?"

"An assassin is always on the look for a chance to kill." Suddenly Bai Yn's voice sounded in the ears of the remaining ones. And then his sword suddenly thrust out from the chest of the man standing on the right, right through the heart.

"An assassin kills first and only then thinks of the consequences." Bai Yun's voice sounded out from behind the man on the right. He simply stared at the sword on his chest and did not react until it was pulled out by Bai Yun. Seeing that Bai Yun had already killed two of his companions, Shadow two quickly swung his sword at Bai Yun.

Bai Yun casually took a step back and dodged the attack. The attack fell on the man on the right, causing him to tumble down to the ground, dead.

"Not bad." Bai Yun said. "You didn't mind hurting your ally to kill me. That's how an assassin should behave."

Shadow two just kept on hacking at Bai Yun. Bai Yun casually just twisted his body to easily dodge the attacks. Shadow felt as if he was simply stabbing at the air, and Bai Yun was standing at a great distance from him.

Then Bai Yun suddenly took a single step with wind motion Shaodw two felt as if his entire field of vision was covered by Bai Yun. Bai Yun casually swiped away Shadow two's sword, opening up his defenses in the process. He then sharply turned and jabbed his shoulder into Shadow two's chest, sending him flying.

Shadow two stumbled back a few steps and stabilized himself. "You-" he started to say, but he found his words suddenly cut off.

Shadow two looked down incredulously at his neck. Bai Yun had thrown the knife he had used to kill the guy on the left and it had stabbed into Shadow two's neck perfectly up to the hilt. Shadow two stared at the knife, feeling his life slowly slip away.

"And an assassin never misses a chance to kill." Bai Yun said. "Shadow one you should remember this. After all, the chance to kill someone might only be a split second. You should never miss it."

Bai Yun walked past shadow two and pulled his knife out in the process. Blood spurted out of Shadow twos neck, and he collapsed to the ground, dead.

Shadow one just stared at Bai Yun incredulously. He had come back as he also figured that Bai Yun had kept the best item for himself and was afraid that Shadow two might harm him when he noticed that shadow two did not go into the two paths. But it was only now that he realized just how useless his actions had been.

"It seems I was unnecessary." Shadow one said.

Bai Yun just chuckled when he heard him. "Why didn't you go for the inheritance or the other items?" He asked SHadow one.

"I was worried about you. Besides I am an assassin, formation inheritances mean nothing to me." Shadow one replied. "And as for the other items, I am confident in my team. Besides my position will only rise now that two and three is dead."

"Shadow three's was the group that got done in by the Grootslang?" Bai Yuna asked.

"Yes." Shadow one replied.

The two of them stood there in silence for a while. Less than fifteen minutes later, people started to return from the two paths. The rest of shadow one's team who were still alive came back to shadow one. From their reports, it seemed as if the two paths both led to the same place, a giant vault filled with many formation treasures.

In it were many formation treasures all the way from the most basic to treasures that could be used in the dao step. There was even an inheritance ball containing Tian Ming's inheritance.

Since there were many items here, the participants all collected their share. There were more than enough to go around. Besides the only items here were items for formations use. Thus none of them was of any use to any of them. So they decided to hand over all the items to the blood moon and split the credit equally among all the participants.

Both Bai Yun and Shadow One agreed to this. They had no reason to disagree and start a new round of negotiations.

When the rest of Shadow Two's team saw the corpses that were lying behind Bai Yun and Shadow One, as well the antechamber which still hadn't closed, they were startled. But they did not try to take revenge. The three who died were the strongest three members of their team. If even these three were killed so easily without any injuries to Bai Yun and Shadow One, they knew that stood no chance.

Even after seeing the antechamber and knowing that Bai Yun must have taken something valuable from there, the rest of the participants also did not ask about it. The three corpses were a good warning. And they had already gained a good contribution from the vault. They had no reason to risk their lives for something else. Especially since they had nothing to do with finding whatever it was.

Once they were all in agreement, Bai Yun opened the door to the outside world. Then they all left the secret abode and returned to the outside world.

When they reached the outside world, they were immediately captured by blood moon. They wished to know if any of them had gained the key of the secret abode.

But the reports that the participants gave them completely stunned them beyond belief. Not a single one of them had expected that the secret abode that they were so hopeful about was actually such a huge trap. At first, none of them believed what the participants had to say. But after separately asking them and still getting the same result, they were forced to accept the truth.

During this time the remaining members of Shadow Two's group tried to create trouble for Bai Yun. They mentioned the antechamber and how it was empty when they all arrived. But the blood moon did not take them seriously. They knew that what Bai Yun took was most likely the item that was powering the formation. But since thy had already promised the external members that they could keep everything except the key to the secret abode, they could not stop him. Besides they had gained quite a huge loot from the secret abode anyway.

Once the entire thing was completed, they were then dispatched back to the warehouse that they started out at. Once they returned, they were free to do as they like.

Bai Yun walked out of the warehouse and headed towards the place where old Hai had left him. A few minutes later, old Hai appeared before him and took him back home.

When he reached home, he found a rather angry Xiao Mei-er. She was furious that Bai Yun had gone for a mission with blood moon without informing her. She only let him go after more than an hour of lectures.

Once Bai Yun was free, he headed back to his room and collapsed on to his bed. Even though a lot had happened since he headed out for the mission, it had barely been a day since he left. But it felt much longer to him.

And he finally fell asleep for a well needed rest.

Tomorrow was going to be a busy day.