Unfortunate Event

Two weeks passed in a blink of an eye, and with the help of pills and elixirs that Nie Li and Jin made everyone's cultivation skyrocketed, and increased rapidly. Du Ze was already at 3 star bronze rank, Lu Piao was at 2 star bronze rank, and Xiao Ning'er was really close to silver rank. As for the rest they were only at 1 star bronze rank. However, Nie Li and Jin weren't there yet, and since both of them had harder cultivation techniques, it took longer to progress, but it would be more powerful than the rest. It was surprising to see that Jin was almost at 1 star bronze rank since he had to cultivate two techniques at the same time, given a few more days and he and Nie Li would both breakthrough to 1 star bronze rank.

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All of a sudden they feel the whole library shake, and books are falling of the shelves and creating a mess. In a room somewhere in the library, there was a group of kids sitting around a table, and they seemed to be asleep or in a coma, as they weren't moving at all, and nor did the shaking of the library seem to faze them. One of the kids opened their eyes, and looked around.

"It's time" said the boy. During these two weeks Nie Li and group haven't left this room, but they had a fellow commoner come by every few days to keep them updated about their classes and the outside. The teacher, Shen Xiu, was at first very mad and upset that the group of boys, Du Ze, Lu Piao, Wei Nan, Zhu Xingjian, Zhang Min, Nie Li and Nie Jin, didn't show up for class during these two weeks, she wasn't worry about it since to her there was no way those boys could reach Bronze rank in the last two weeks so her bet with Nie Li and Jin would be over really soon and they be gone for good.

Other than the teacher, the other news was about a smallish beast horde coming, and it would get here later today.....but unbeknownst to the majority there was a small group getting together to go explore a nearby ruins to look for treasure. Although this ruins has already been looted a young master, Chen Linjian, belonging to the Divine Family's direct descendent, which happens to be one of the Major families. It was said that he had a secret map of the area leading to a hidden treasure trove, and he was planning on going there. Nie Li and Jin had met up with him and talked him into letting them join him even though they weren't 1 star bronze rank. He let them join since they guessed the exact location of the map and the route they were going to take, which surprised him and his group since only they knew. The only thing Chen Linjian had to do was let Nie Li have first pick of the goodies, which many of Chen's lackeys' disapproved but Chen agreed to it.

They had plan to leave when this beast horde arrived so no one would see them leaving and go unnoticed. Jin opened his eyes first as he knew this would happen since in the letter his grandpa gave him stated that this would happen and yes Beast hordes are very unfortunate events as it can lead to many deaths....this one won't...well at least will die, they might get hurt pretty badly but no deaths.

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"Young Master Chen, Why did you let those brats join us on the treasure hunt, they aren't even 1 star bronze rank, nor are they from a wealthy family?" ask one of the lackeys' Chen looks up from the map and takes a deep breath........"Do you know what language this map is in?.......No you don't and neither did my father the Patriarch of the Divine Family......so I had to go and see my Great-Grandfather and he said it was the language of the Dark Woodland Empire and that the language was lost and that there was almost no one alive that could read it."

"But if that was the case how did that brat Nie Li and Jin read it so well?" asked another lackey. "That's what has me shocked....like how could a 12 year old kid know of the Dark Woodland Empire and translate it so easily." Chen looks back down at the map in thought and then lifts his head up again. "Whatever you do, do not mess with Nie Li or Jin, and if they are in a bind help them help if you can....I don't want to hear any complains you will understand my reasons later." replied Chen.

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Nie Li and Jin get up to leave...."Hey where are going?" asked Lu Piao. Jin looks at Nie Li and nods his head. "We are going into the ruins to look for something....it is to dangerous for the rest of y'all to come so just me and Nie Li will be going this time."

And with that Jin and Nie Li met up with Chen's group behind the training ground. "Alright everyone is here, so lets move out." yelled Chen. There was Shen Ye of the Sacred Family, as well as Yi Ziyun of the Snow Wind Family. Yi Ziyun was with a group of girls, saw Nie Li and Jin and was shocked that they were here.

She walks up to them and asked them. "How do you know Chen Linjian?".....Nie Li laughs and says "We just met him a few days ago in the library and asked to join and he let us....."

"What really.....He let you join just because you asked?" replied Yi Ziyun.....Nie Li and Jin just looked at her and didn't say a word. So she huffed and walked away....."Fine don't tell me it ain't like I want to know." yelled Yi Ziyun

"Nie Li.....there's something that I should tell before we continue on our way....." say Jin. Nie Li looks at him and gestures to go on. "Well you see.....I'm ummmm... I've already been bronze rank before and truth be told I was Black Gold rank before I got to Glory City, but I had to reset my cultivation so that it wouldn't cause trouble for myself or the Heavenly Marks Family...." Before Jin could continue speaking Nie Li jumped in....."So what happened to your Demon Spirit!!!.....And how did you reset your cultivation back to nothing?!!"

"Remember the the dragon I told you about.......He has a technique that could change's one realm, but with the help of my Grandpa he changed this technique to suit me better.....but we won't see the effect until I get my demon Spirit back..." Nie Li was shocked as not even he had heard of such technique and nor did he think it was possible to have one. "What demon spirit did you have before?" asked Nie Li.

"My demon spirit was the "Supreme Shadow Devil of Time and Nature", one of the Supreme Emperors of the Shadow Devils......I'm guessing that your goal is the the Shadow Devil in this ruins right?" asked Jin. Nie Li was once again shocked because he knew how rare Shadow Devils are but he didn't know that they had Emperors that governs the Shadow Devil and now he finds out that there are 3 of them????

"Yes that was my plan...but how did you know about the Shadow Devil residing in this ruin?" asked Nie Li....."My grandfather left me a note telling me where I can find my Demon spirit, but also when he went to hide my spirit from lurking eyes he found that a Emperor Shadow Devil was in these ruins and told me about it, and so I thought that since you came from the future that you may have known about it and you wanted to get it as your first demon spirit...am I right or nah?" replied Jin

Nie Li looked embarrassed as his plans had been seen through before he could even tell Jin himself....."Yes that was and still is the plan."