Chapter 3 : Out of the Cave

When the boy came out of the cave , what he saw was something horrible to extreme , surrounding his cave there were many caves but now some people wearing Daoist dress were pulling dead bodies out of the caves near except him there were no other people.

The Man who called the boy out spoke, "Sector A has 1 survivor , sector B has 12 survivors and sector C has 39 survivors , Total of 52 survivors is present , our transaction for All three peaks is completed , Peak of Silence will get Sector A survivors, Peak of Darkness will get Sector B survivors and Peak of Shadow".

The boy was fully covered in mud and blood that his face can't even be seen , his hair was like a sticky threads , only his eyes were clearly visible but his pupil colour was deep bright red , almost his pupils were like a snake's slit-like pupils .

The man after seeing the body condition of the boy thought that first he should clean the boy up before delivering him to the respective peak .

Man said , "Come let's go , ah and what's your name?".

The boy replied after being silent, "Ye Xuan ", The then continued, " Well , welcome to Phantom Blood sect , you will be living in the sect from here on out" .

What was Ye xuan's reaction when he heard this?

Realization , he realized that he has no escape route , he heard about this sect's evil deed even in mortal world , they kidnap small children and train them from a young age to become a fine assassin.

He then followed the man , and the man brought him to a bathhouse , ye xuan then went in started washing himself , suddenly the men in the bath house started screaming and running out , the man who brought ye xuan to bathhouse was alerted , he quickly caught one running man and questioned about what had inside.

The man who got caught trembled in fear and replied, " S-s-snakes are inside the bathhouse and a man was bringing them inside , we got scared and ran out " , then the man let him go and the man who got caught ran off.

The man immediately went inside to check the condition of ye xuan but when he went in what he saw shocked him as the the dirty and muddy boy who went in the bathhouse is nowhere to be seen but a boy with extremely pale skin , silver colored hair , pupil that look exactly like a snake's was inside .

And that was Ye xuan , actually this was not his original appearance as he had brown hair and brown eyes and normal skin colour before he was kidnapped but due to the 4 types of snakes buddies with him and their constant routine of biting him and secreting four different poisons inside him made considerable change to his appearance.

Ye xuan might not know this but due to the snakes poison he got unbelievable and extraordinary benefits that he hasn't till realized till now , his body has gone through a total metaphorsis [1] .

[1]- change of physical form, structure

His whole body is tempered by constant poisoning for total 8 YEARS , so it is normal for his body to change a LOT .

The man when he saw the snakes surrounding ye xuan he got a cold shivering from his back as he know that the 4 snakes are the deadliest snakes with deadly poison in the cultivation world .

Of four types of snakes around him , the white snake with red ring on its head has the extreme yang poison , the white one with black ring on its head has extreme yin poison , the black one with red and blue lines on it has bone corroding poison and last but not the least the black one with golden ring on its head is most deadliest of four and ranks top five in poison ranking in cultivation world , it has soul and mind corrupting poison .

Although ye xuan didn't feel extreme pain while being bit by each snake , he still felt different kind of pains when each snake bit him but he got resistant towards poison after so many years .

Due to being with ye xuan for many years the snakes got very close to him , he too got close to them , they even regard each other as best friends.

The man seeing all this got stunned and asked," Are you okay?" , ye xuan replied coldly , " I am fine , and I am ready as I got bathed , there is no issue if my friends tag along right?".

The man replied, " Friends? oh you mean the snakes , well I think it will be okay , come let me drop you in Peak of Silence ".

Ye xuan replied, " Hmm , ok by the way can you explain what will happen to me in peak of silence", the man was shocked as the kid was treating the matter like he didn't care if he died.

Ye xuan thought, 'Bullshit , I am shivering in fear right now but maintaining an cold appearance outside , if I make a wrong move in the sect , I am 1000% sure I will be shredded to million pieces , I hope I can get some useful information from the man infront of him' .

The man still replied as it was a public information known to all , " You will either be trained by the peak master or peak elders for learning the art of assassination and you will enter in path of cultivation, as you may not know but cultivation starts with Body refining realm, Meridian reconstructing realm, Spirit Body realm, Nascent soul realm , Earthly wheel realm ,Heavenly wheel realm ,Dao establishing realm ,Dao condensing realm and Immortal soul transformation realm, many more , a kindly reminder choose a cultivation method with easy requirements as resources are hard to get for a low level assassin like you , anyway only that much information can be disclosed to you".

Ye xuan asked, "what realm is the sect master in?" , the Man replied, " Dao establishing realm 5th stage , all realms are further divided into 9 stages first three are early stages , second three are middle stages and last three are late stages".

The both continued to walk towards a mountain which will be the place where ye xuan will stay for the following years to come.