It was said that up in the mountains behind the TianLong city, a dark guild named Shadow assassins guild, had its base. This guild was led by a strong human who was said to have killed thousands of people. Although, killing was a crime and the existence of this guild was known by all, they didn't want this guild to perish because this guild was their weapon for their enemies. If you had an enemy in Tianlong city then you could pay assains from this guild and make yourself a clean kill. And between the big factions of Tianlong city, a kind of unspoken agreement existed to let this guild be another faction.
And so one the shadow assassin guild had not any interference with any kind of other faction or any enmity. They just worked for whoever could pay them. And this was acceptable by all other factions.
And, at that moment Little Shadow, the son of the Shadow assassins leader, was the same time the only one who had never failed to complete a mission and had put a record about it, was escorting the disciples of the shadow assassins guild.
He was mysterious and he was the first person to ever had the attention of the city lord daughter. But he never showed his face, and now two people who were considered geniuses and had a slime affinity for each other would be in the same academy.
This group of people passed by the Li outer sect. And just there, those met the disciples of the Li sect that were led by Li Tian, Li Feng.
" Li Tian, this is little shadow leading the shadow assassin disciples toward the city. He is dangerous, be careful!"
But little did Li Feng know that Li Tian had, in his past lives met with little shadow. And in past lives, the record was finally lost because the little shadow was too great of an observer and he saw the capacity of Li Tian. For this, he chose not to try to kill Li Tian.
And at that moment when the two groups faced each other nearby Li Sect, Li Tian walked toward them smiling.
" So this is largely heard Little Shadow?"
" And, who you might be?"
" I'm no more than a failure who failed to awaken his martial spirit and I dare to challenge you in a one versus one duel. Do you dare to accept?"
" Where does a failure finds the courage to challenge me? Don't you know what I'm compatible with doing?"
" I already know and realize it will be hard, but harder is my new way of doing things," said Li Tian smiling towards Little Shadow. This smiling of someone who had failed to awaken his martial spirit but still dared to challenge someone who was known for never failing to kill someone triggered pleasure towards Little Shadow.
" Show your weapon then. Be ready because I will take my right to attack."
" I'm sorry but I don't have any weapon. I will be throwing hands. But you are free to use weapons and your martial spirit."
" You are trying not to let a face to me?! Aren't you?" said Little Shadow and showed his daggers.
" Li Tian what are you trying to do. He is a master of killing."
" Yeah, I know but he also is a master of friendship. If I could win his interest, we would not be his enemy in the future."
" Place your bets! Place your bets!" was a voice heard in the group of Li sect disciples.
And then both disciples of two different factions rushed towards each other.
" Shadow dagger! Dark steps!"
This is a combination of techniques used by Little shadow to use a moving technique to throw shadow daggers from all the sides of his enemy. If you never fought against this technique before you could never get away alive from it. But this was a simple thing for Li Tian. Those shadow daggers were imprinted with a dark figurine of the enemy so they would follow the enemy until they would get destroyed. But how could that dark qi dagger get destroyed? Easy, make them clash with each other. And that's what Li Tian did. He firstly avoided them all and when they went for a second time he stood there until the daggers got close enough and then he avoided them making them clash with each other. But why didn't those daggers stop before clashing with each other? Well, those daggers have imprinted on them a figurine of the enemy so it takes a bit for them to recognise that they are not the enemy but the other dagger.
And all this complexity of that combination was disbanded just by a few avoiding moves.
( This guy?! Did he know the weakness of my combination?) thought Little Shadow.
Then he put down his daggers.
"So that's why you challenged me? I must thank you to show me that my combination is weaker than I thought."
" Believe me that was not something you could think at the moment. So for the academy?"
" Yup. Care to go together? I know here in this mountain there are a lot of bandits."
" No problem for us. The more we are, safer we will be."
And so, the two new friends decided to walk together on that mountain toward Tianlong city.