Witnessing his first battle

He snapped back from his thoughts and looked around the walls, which were filled with mission boards. On it were plenty of missions that had either been released by the sect or by someone within the sect by paying a fee.

Ren Ying, without looking or finding a new 'worthy mission', walked directly to the mission board that he had his eyes on and took down the mission called "Hunt down a hundred Spiky Rabbits."

He handed the mission paper details to the guy responsible for noting everything down while sitting behind the counter.

Just as Ren Ying had arrived in front of the counter and placed the mission paper down on the counter. The guy behind it stopped writing and put down his ink pen.

When their eyes met, Ren Ying spoke politely, "Senior brother, I would like to take on this mission."

The senior picked up the mission paper, and upon seeing the title of the mission, he immediately knew what he had to know.

He looked up and asked Ren Ying, "You are aware that the Spiky Rabbit was close to impossible to catch due to its fast and tricky movement, right?"

"Yes, I had read everything carefully, which is why I decided to take on this mission to improve my movement technique." Ren Ying replied.

"Hmm... A few days ago, a guy like you also took on this mission with the same intention as you.

Anyways, you are aware that if you were to fail the mission, you would have to pay a fee, right?"

"Yes, I am indeed aware of such things, senior brother." Ren Ying said it with a look of determination in his eyes.

Seeing this, the guy behind the counter no longer talked, he picked up a seal and pinned it down on the mission paper, leaving a sect logo on it.

"Make sure not to lose this mission paper, and keep in mind that you have a whole month to complete this mission, so take your time and good luck with that." The guy reminded Ren Ying carefully as he handed the mission paper back to him.

"Thank you, senior brother, I'll keep this in mind." Ren Ying bowed and put the mission paper inside his cloth after taking it from the guy.

Then he ran toward the main gate of the sect, which was mainly use for entering and leaving the sect.

The gate were worthy of being the entrance and exit of the strongest sect in this small region; beside the gate stood 4 guards.

The guards were responsible for guarding the door and preventing people from leaving without a reason or permission. They were also there to stop any suspicious individual from going in and out freely.

Ren Ying couldn't see through their cultivation as a rank 1 mid-cultivator, almost on the verge of breaking through another higher realm.

When he got close to the gate, guards didn't look at him with much caution, nor did they treat him too severely. After all, coming out of the sect without being seen entering it was like saying, "I am a disciple of this sect. I had joined the sect for a long time, but I rarely went out of it."

One of the guards approached Ren Ying, and he asked, "You are going out on a mission, right? Show me your mission paper, and I'll let you go without wasting any of your time."

"I am indeed going out on a mission; here is my mission paper, senior brother." Ren Ying took out his mission paper slowly, so as not to startle the guard, and passed it on to him.

When the guard received the mission paper, he looked at everything carefully, especially the sect seal, for fear of accidentally allowing trouble to slip in.

If a spy sneaked in successfully, then the punishment would fall on them, so every time someone passed by the gate, these guards must check everything just like how they were instructed and trained.

A while later, the guard saw nothing wrong with the mission paper, he relaxed himself, smiled, and gave Ren Ying back his mission paper, as he said. "There is nothing wrong with your mission paper; you can go out.

Good luck on your journey fellow junior."

"Thanks you, senior brother." Ren Ying thanked him while taking his mission paper away from the guard's hand and walking out of the gate.

Standing outside the gate, Ren Ying looked around and wished himself good luck on this journey.

After that, he ran away from the sect gate normally, so as not to expose his thunder trace to other people. Anyone could become your enemy, so being safe with them and not revealing any important information like your card and stuff from the start would always be a good decision.

After he got farther away from the sect, Ren Ying no longer hid his movement technique and took off in full speed using Thunder Trace.

His direction was toward the Spiky Forest, known for being the home of the Spiky Rabbits. But Ren Ying didn't go there directly, as he had other plan in mind.

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"Hand over your space ring, and I will spare you." Said Liang Chen, armed with a sword.

"You want me to hand over my life-belonging? Keep on dreaming." Zhang Wei clenched his teeth and took out his weapon as he replied.

"Don't say that I didn't give you any chance when your ancestor in hell asks you later on." Seeing that the other party didn't want to comply with his request, Liang Chen lost his patience and charged toward him.

Zhang Wei gripped his weapon tightly while waiting for Liang Chen to arrive closer to him.

"Huh! Why are you so scared to move now? Weren't you acting tough just now?" Liang Chen mocked him, but his movement only kept getting faster.

When Liang Chen arrived within the attacking range, Zhang Wei swung his weapon out without much precision but compensated by fast and fierce motion.

Liang Chen seemed to have predicted it, moved out his sword just in time to block the attack coming toward him.

Zhang Wei's hand shook visibly upon the conflict of two weapons, he frowned slightly.

Seeing this, Liang Chen looked at him playfully and said, "Now do you see the difference between you and me?"

Zhang Wei ignored him and kept on using more strength as to keep up from losing this first confrontation.

Liang Chen saw that he got ignored, smiled crazily, and continued, "Hahaha, do you regret it now?"

"Don't be too arrogant, you bastard." Zhang Wei finally replied to his provocation.

Just when Liang Chen wanted to reply, he saw his opponent back down from the confrontation and appear on his left side, changing the tide of the fight.

While these two people were fighting, one was trying to rob the other, and the other was trying to protect their valuable belongings from being taken away.

A pair of eyes blinking once in a while, hidden deep into the forest, close to these two people, was constantly observing them.

Ren Ying saw that everything did happen according to what he saw in those visions, which confirmed that his innate pupil truly existed.

Yet he wasn't happy; his mind was on the battle going on in front of him right now.

Ren Ying contemplated on what he should do in this situation.

'Should I save the other guy or not?'

'But what if he attack me after i wasted my energy saving him?'

Before seeing this battle, Ren Ying planned on waiting until Liang Chen, who would encounter the opportunity on this journey, became exhausted first before he appeared and finished him off, silencing him for good.

Now, seeing such a thing take place in front of him, Ren Ying hesitated whether to save Zhang Wei or not.

If he chose to save him, it would disrupt his careful plan.

Just as he had trouble making decision, the memories of how cruel this world appeared inside his mind.

The scene of people being killed brutally by bandits and the countless corpses of people who died in many unimaginable ways scattered everywhere, that had the existence of humans.

Even on his way here, Ren Ying saw a lot of corpses, some still had blood flowing out of them as they were still fresh, and some were simply pure skeletons.

'I don't want to end up like those people...'

'If I were to be in his place, would he save me? Of course not.'

'Just because the other is being robbed does not mean that person is a good person, after all, even a thief would have their moneys or stuff stolen by the other thief sometime.'

'So, why should I save him?'

After Ren Ying made his choice, his eyes turned a bit empty as he continued to wait for the right time to attack.

'This is going to be my first time getting my hand bloody, will I be fine?' He questioned himself.

Only now did Ren Ying know the difficulty of living in a cultivation world.