An Jian was responsible for scouting ahead their road, thats why he was sprinting ahead of the group while trying his best to stay hidden and avoid any possible encouter with Beasts! It was at this moment that his ears shook as he could hear footsteps! It took him only a moment to realize that there was another group nearby! While he didnt really want to, as a scout he was supposed to at least take a look at them. While his body was huge and fully equiped in heavy armor he was still as nimble as a monkey!
"Qi art - One with Nature" It was kind of common Qi Art that not many bothered to learn. It was good for mid stage fundation cultivators to blend into enviroment and hide their aura, scent and breath. While it couldnt be used in combat, this art was perfect for those who wanted to hide. The only downside was that this art was useless against those who crossed sixth stage and fully awakened their spiritual senses!
It didnt take much until An Jian slowly made his way towards the source of the sound. In kind of open patch of the Forest, a group of people wearing red robes and red armors was currently resting! While An Jian never seen of these he could with certanity say that the emblem on the robes were from Bloodlight Sect! Droplets of blood was their symbol and they all had it! While he had no idea who they were, looking at their equipment and listening to their talks he could more or less guess that it was one of the weakest groups. As one of the disciples was praising a young male sitting in the centre of their group saying that with his might as a inner disciple there were no dangers ahead!
Making sure not to create any noise since the group didnt heard him, An Jian made his way out in the direction of his own group to warn them of danger ahead!
"So You are nearly 100% sure that its a group of a Inner disciple? If so then they should have 9 outer disciples of 2nd and 3rd stages while inner disciple should be weaker than 6th. Excellent! Group like this is a perfect for our first target! But we cant be careless either, who knows if they werent faking it and making us drop the group and in truth discovered Your presence. I am too smart to fall into such a trap! While the propability for is low, we have to test the waters first" Lin Ke heard a lot of her Master and parents! One of the most common lessons was to never look down on anyone as they may be in truth faking everything making her fall into their traps! While those legendary super cunning cultivators who planned 10 steps ahead and digged a trap on every step took were rare, most were smart enough to at least prepare something that can caught their enemies out of guard!
"Miss Lin, i dont mind going to test their power. I happen to master a technique just before leaving the Sect and my heart is itching to test it out. While i dont dare to claim, that i am powerful to ignore any threats, i am strong enough to retreat at will" Argon words suprised everyone! After all no one wanted to be a scape goat or a cannon fodder. After all anything could happen, while in group they were strong, going alone against 10 cultivators wasnt something anyone was willing to do! Even if there was no one on par with Argon, who knew what kind of tricks they had and if he got caught by suprise then dying in one exchange wasnt impossible either. Fundation realm still made it possible to in favorable enviroment and situation kill someone many stages higher than oneself! Only by ascending to Void Core realm each another step on the cultivation path would more or less increase their combat power by tenfold! But till then they had to behave and protect themself!
Actually at this Lin Ke didnt really wish to force anyone into taking this mission, as it would place her in bad light and the possible gains werent worth it. Hearing Argon words made her look at the swordsman another time, her dimples naturally formed as smiled looking while being pleased! "I wish You luck Argon"
While she did so most male members were charmed by her! They were young and hotblooded, such a beauty like Lin Ke had it too easy to affect them! And in truth this was Argon goal, while he was quiet and seemed wholy focused on the roam in truth, he was the one taking the most peeks at Lin Ke still developing rear! And on top of that, he wanted to show them all how strong he was! To make them respect him, but his main goal was to fight! While he fought many Beasts, he never had opportunity to fight life and death battle with another human. The very reason why his Master agreed to send Argon on this "cannon food mission" was to let him expierence the world! In truth Argon value to his Clan and Sect was immense! He was even aware about this hidden plot! But he didnt care, with his power nothing could come even close to harming him much lose pose any threat! In his very deep core Argon was a pure battle maniac and he yearned for blood!