Gravity Law Intent
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- Xue Provence, Yu City
The sun was starting to set, the wind was moving, the trees and the thick forest started to move, and wild beasts and animals began to awaken from their slumber.
On the other side of the small Gu pond located north of Yu City and behind Tai Lang City, there were several meetings about to take place, the air was stale with silence and an intense discussion was about to begin.
Inside an abandoned Temple in the forest behind Yu city, a tall man dressed in dark and suspicious clothing was waiting for the annotated time with his contact from Yu city.
The yard was very deprecated, the tiles on the roof had lost some of their color and started to crumble, and the marble tiles through the courtyard had cracks in them from the many years of them not being taken care of.
The front and back courtyards of the temple were not well maintained and the back yard courtyard where the old zen garden, had grass weeds starting to grow out from the sand, most of the trash and rubbish was taken away and the roof's hole's had been recently fixed and the floors have ben sweep clean and washed.
The main hall had been fixed up enough to have a meeting, and a new table and serval chairs were built and placed in the center of the hall.
A deep breath could be heard, there was a sigh that followed. But was soon interrupted by a whistle, up from the rafters.
"Light some incense."
Standing above the black-robed man, up in the rafters of the Temple were men dressed in black clothing face wraps covering everything but their eyes and black Sandogasa's on their heads from Iron gale Wicker, were positioned all around the temple and high up in the rafters hidden from plain sight.
Swoosh.
"Elder Chu, 3 men approach from the east!
"Hide yourselves, and conceal your presence, send someone to notify my Master that our guests have arrived finally."
Swoosh!
After a couple more minutes the shadow of three figures showed up at the entrance of the old Temple.
Hmm...
"Shadow Temple? What an interesting name for a Temple that used to be run by monks?"
"Master there is someone inside!"
"Haha, Elder Chu we meet again!"
"So has your Blood Master decided on what he wants to do?
"He thinks that the last discussion wasn't good enough and he wants to resettle."
"Elder Cheon, it's not a bad deal. But you guys keep changing your mind and keep going back and forth with us on what you want, changing the outline of our deal and removing and adding conditions, that we don't need or we don't want. So let's get this settled today, so we can get on with this and finalize this deal so we can go home!"
"Well, we want Tai Lang City and Mountain Vally Pass and everything in between!"
"And we told you, that's not possible! Our Clan will control the entire State in the future, why would we let you control land within one of the core provinces within it, we told you this before! You came to us for help, not the other way around! Why would we give in to you and compromise ourselves to your group?"
"You're not compromising, it's only temporary for you at best it will only be 50 to 100 years at most then we will leave the province and go back to our home country."
"The fact that your still here trying to form a deal with us means you're willing to work with us on this situation, but don't forget we don't need you, you need us. We can always find someone else to help us.
"Situation!"
"Yes a Situation, what else would you call this problem?"
Humph!
Haha," Problem?"
"?"
The 3 men in Dark Burgundy robes froze from the surprising voice they heard.
"This isn't a problem! This is an opportunity at best!"
"Isn't that right Elder Chu!"
Swoosh!!!!!
"What the heck is this, Elder Chu!"
Another hooded figure showed up in front of Elder Chu, he was accompanied by four other people, in Black robes and black masks covering their faces, all you could say about them was they didn't feel like they were there even though they were standing in front of the 3 men.
"Sounds about right Master!"
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"What is going on here Elder Chu, we said to come alone!"
"You said you were to come alone last time, and you brought two people with you!"
Elder Chu walked up slowly towards the hooded man, and placed his left hand on the man's shoulder the man grinned, nothing but an intimidating grin was seen, then the man dropped his hood and looked back towards Elder Chu and hugged the man.
"How are you doing Chu, it's been years since I've seen you, I left seclusion and when I left my cultivation retreat, I couldn't find you so I asked your father he told me, you left the clan's lands to help with the ancestor's grand plan, I know I had to come to see you, you even have some grey hair in your beard now! Haha"
The two held a hug for a minute then began to chuckle to themselves happily, then they separated and looked towards the 3 men standing on the other side of the hall.
"Now come over here and sit down with us!"
The 3 men walked over hesitantly, slowly but they did walk over, the hall felt heavy with a heavy pressure that someone could cut it with a knife.
The two groups began a long conversation that went back and forth for hours, the moon was now high in the sky, and the stars could now be seen clearly.
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"Gentlemen, I grow tired of these talks, so?"
Swoosh!
Another Hooded figure Showed up at the entrance to the back courtyard, a shorter and smaller figure was standing behind this one.
"What has been taking you so long Elder Chu?"
Elder Chu and his Master were caught off guard, not just the other 3 men on the other side of the table trying to discuss favors with them.
"I'm Sorry, I didn't mean for it to take this long! They have been giving us much to debate about!'
" Hmm... oh really!"
"It seems like people don't respect our family that much anymore?"
Suddenly the inside of the temple was brought upon by a thick and heavy force of gravity pressing down on everyone's body except Elder Chu and his Master's body and the guard behind this figure.
" Gravity Law Intent!"
"Oh, Elder Chu we got ourselves a smart dog here?"
"It seems so, I guess not all of the Bloodhounds are useless, a couple of them can still surprise us still.