The return

The group headed toward the sect, early in the morning. The majestic sect gates were visible from far, showing how great the sect was. Many people stood outside, some wore the same clothes as them, those were the sect hunters.

With how huge the Darkness Forest was, the group hadn't met anyone within it, nonetheless, there were many hunters within the sect. leaving the sect one time per week, that was the sect's rule unless they had another mission or if they had achieved a great thing, only then will they be exempt from going.

"If it's not brother Fuigui, where are your group members?" asked an obese man who had a big spear on his back and a horizontal scar on his face, beside him were three other hunters each had an air of coldness around them, clearly they were veteran hunters.

"Oh Fushi, long time no see you don't need to worry they are within the sect. I'm the only one who left. I took the mission of accompanying those new hunters in their first hunt, nothing happened to sister shu."

Hearing the last sentence, Fushi's face turned red. "Fuigui, hunting for many years has made your mind nasty, you really need another beating"

Hearing that, the Fushi group started laughing loudly. They knew that their brother Fushi had fallen in love with Su Mei, a member of Fuigui's group.

While speaking the group didn't notice that a man was walking behind, he was tall and had a strong build, eyes like swords. The man was carrying a bear's skin on his back, he was only a few years older than Fu Shu and yet the way he walked showed how confident he was.

"So those are newbies, not bad," said the man, it was worth noting that when he started speaking Fuigui and Fushi's group stopped laughing.

"Yes brother Mu, those are the last batch of hunters this year," said Fuigui respectfully to the man. Even Fuigui showed reverence to the man which made Wang Yu's group rather surprised. For them, Fuigui was already a very great hunter to think that he regarded this mysterious young man with such esteem.

Taking another look at the group, especially Ah Shu, he turned around and continued his way toward the sect's gate.

Only after he was far from them did Fuigui start to breathe normally.

"He hunted a bear by himself, as expected of Situ Mu," said a man within Fushi's group.

Fuigui then looked at Wang Yu's group. "I know you are curious about this man. He's one of the best hunters within the sect."

Fuigui's gaze was that of respect, yet there was a trace of jealousy while talking about Situ Mu.

"The sect has its merit system, each time you accomplish a mission you'll be rewarded with not only sect coins but some merit that depends on the hardness of the mission. The best scores are shown at the mission hall."

"Brother Mu is third on the panel, he hunts by himself. He has reached an imaginable level of strength for a mortal. Unfortunately, his talent wasn't good enough to enter the outer sect and become a true disciple but with sect coins, he has amassed he shouldn't be far from that." Even Fushi seemed respectful to Situ Mu, his last sentence was said with earnestness, for those who didn't have enough talent they earned for cultivation more than anything else that's why they go on dangerous missions just so they could become cultivators, the allure of eternal life is truly great.

"Brother Fushi, you still have time left," said Fugui consoling, he knew full well that at their age it was unlikely that they will start after they are already in their thirties and yet they hadn't made the least progress.

Fushi then looked at Wang Yu's group and spoke for the first time "Right now you are young and can still cultivate so work hard if not you'll regret it when you are old."

The atmosphere changed after they had met Situ Mu. The group continued their way toward the sect gate waiting in line before they entered the sect.

They then went directly to the hunter hall where they purchased the skin of the tigers with eight coins Fuigui didn't take any coins from them despite the fact that he was the only one who hunted all the prey, which made the group rather touched.

In the end, Fuigui took them toward the sect repository.

The sect repository wasn't as big as they imagined, which made them feel a little disappointed after all Fuigui had been boasting about how it contained whatever they could search for.

Fuigui laughing at the group's expression said "Don't be disappointed too early, you're in an immortal sect. Here they use a spatial bag to stock goods, it's practical since the time passage within the bag is slower than the outside it allows to keep material longer and also to better exploit the terrains."

Everyone was amazed by what they heard, so it was possible to hold all those resources within a bag. It was then that Wang Yu remembered how that old man threw them two bags out of nowhere.

"Brother Fuigui does the servant district manager have a spatial bag"

"Absolutely yes, he's after all responsible for all servant district affairs. Even though we're only servants doing manual labor, still we're part of the greatest sect in the land" Fuigui was talking with pride about the sect. Only now did Wang Yu understand how the manager had managed to throw a bag out of nowhere.

There weren't many people in line so the group entered quickly. The building was simple with ten desks, Fuigui approached a desk in which an old man was wearing white clothes and drinking tea.

The old man moved his gaze toward the approaching group "long time no see, little Xu, how's your daughter doing?"

"Thanks for the concern senior, my daughter's better, thanks to the medicine I exchanged the last time."

"That's good to hear" The old man's gaze then moved toward Wang Yu's group, "I've never seen you before, you should be the newcomers this year"

Fuigui responded, "Yes Senior, they have just finished their first hunt, so they've come in hope of seeing the catalog and maybe, buying something."

The man then pushed ten or so catalogs toward the group; he then continued sipping tea, beside him was a boy the same age as Wang Yu who poured tea for the old man.

Each member of the group opened a catalog, Wang Yu opened a catalog that contained weapons, different kinds of weapons were within be it bows, swords, spears, and knives, there were some weapons that he had never seen nor heard about before, as for the prices, they were ranging from one coin to thousands, he was flabbergasted. The same happened with his companions while reading the other catalogs.

For them the most interesting catalog wasn't that of weapons, it was the one that contained cultivation medicines, the only problem was that the cheapest was hundreds of sect coins.

This was a great hit for them, this time with the help of Fuigui they managed to hunt two tigers yet they only got 8 coins, so how much time would it take for them to buy the cheapest medicine, besides Fuigui had told them on the way that even though it wasn't impossible to start cultivating after being twenty-five years old, it was unheard of.

Being untalented the only way for them was to buy cultivation medicines. But after seeing the prices they were shocked, this was a devastating hit to their morals.

In the end, the group bought a big bathtub and some herbs with six coins for Wang Yu and Lu Fu who even though wasn't as hurt as Wang Yu the training last had been hard on him, with that the group left the repository.

"I've shown you the most important things you need to know as hunters, the rest will depend on you."

He looked at the group and said. "In terms of strength, you don't lack much but confidence and teamwork are your weak points."

The group understood well what they lacked, in terms of strength besides Wang Yu and Lu Fu the group was strong. Nonetheless, without good teamwork and experience, they couldn't show off their abilities.

"This time you didn't meet much danger but bear in mind that danger is everywhere within the Darkness Forest, so don't get anxious about amassing the sect coins. Do your best but bear in mind that life is more precious than cultivation."

The group then parted with Fuigui and went on with their daily life of training, the biggest change was that the group has become more serious in training.

For Wang Yu the herbs bought at the sect repository were of great help to him, his body was no longer as numb as before, he started to grow accustomed to training, he will train from morning and when it was night, he will enter the bathtub which contained the herbs, he started to feel progress as he trained.