"Sect master, I am back from the task you gave me." Elder Liu's voice was heard outside the Sect master study.

"Come in," came a calm and composed voice from inside,

Hearing the words, Elder Liu opened the door and entered the room. Inside, he saw the Sect master sitting on 'his' usual desk, looking toward him.

"Speak what you have found," the Sect master said as soon as 'he' saw Elder Liu enter the room.

Hearing the serious tone the Sect master used to question him, Elder Liu became a little nervous but still started to talk,

"I investigated the village Kai Ren talked about, and indeed, it was destroyed." Elder Liu said, "After that, I started to look for the villager Kai Ren talked about, and when I found him, I probed his memories, and indeed, Kai Ren belonged to the village."

"Hmm, So did you investigate the cultivators that destroyed his village?" The sect master questioned after hearing Elder Liu's report.

"Yes, Sect master, that was what took most of the time, as there was little to no clue about their identity, but I still found a lead from the memories of the villager," Elder Liu continued while explaining the reason for taking too long in his investigation.

"In his memory, I saw that one of the cultivators was using a sword that had the seal of the great blacksmith, Master Emberforge," Elder Liu told the sect master about the clue he had found.

"So I decided to contact him, and when I showed him the design of the sword, he told me that he made it for the young master of the Feng family that is based in Solara, The capital city of Astrolan Kingdom." Elder Liu finally revealed the name of one of the culprits.

"The young master of the capital's Feng Family, huh, this is going to be troublesome. Anyway, who's the other one?" The sect master said this after hearing the identity of one of the culprits.

"After I found out about one of the culprits, finding the other was quite easy, as I had to just look into the recent battles of the young master Feng and I found out the other one," Elder Liu said after hearing the sect master question.

"It turns out that the other one was the young master of the Xu family, that is based in Eldoria, The capital city of the Valoria Kingdom." Elder Liu also revealed the name of the other culprit as well.

"The young master of the Xu family? Hmm, this situation has become even more troublesome than it already was."

"Both families are not something our Emerald Peak sect can casually provoke," the sect master said in a grim tone after hearing the identity of the other cultivator.

"Sect master, what are we going to do now? Will we take revenge for Kai Ren, or will we stand at the side?" Elder Liu asked when he saw the pondering look on the sect master's face.

"I don't know that yet, on one side, I don't want to get the emerald peak sect implicated in this, and on the other, I want to help my student take his revenge." The sect master replied with a helpless look on 'his' face.

"Sect master, it does not matter what decision you take. We will always support you no matter what," Elder Liu comforted the sect master.

"I know that Elder Liu, and this is the main reason I am hesitant, but let's just leave it till Kai Ren comes back from his training. Then I will discuss it with him and see what does he decides." The sect master replied to Elder Liu with a melancholic smile.

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Back in the Shadowfang forest

Kai Ren and Jian Li decided to venture into the deeper parts of the forest.

As they continued to go deeper into the forest, their encounters with the beasts got more and more frequent, to the point where they started to encounter a beast every two hundred or so meters away from each other.

Naturally, it was Kai Ren who dispatched all of them. At first, Kai Ren was having difficulty facing against the beast, but as he gained more experience, he started to finish all the battles in less than 30 seconds.

"Boy, I sense a treasure five hundred meters to your left, and it is buried one hundred meters into the ground. It will be helpful for your little master."

As they were moving inside the forest, Azarion's voice sounded in Kai Ren's mind, which led him to come to a complete stop.

"What's the matter, Brother Kai? Why did you stop?" When Jian Li saw Kai Ren suddenly stop moving, he questioned him with a confused tone.

But Kai Ren did not answer him, instead, he started to move toward his left.

Although confused, Jian Li followed him from behind. Kai Ren stopped moving after he got to the place Azarion mentioned.

After getting there, he once again asked in his mind,

"Elder, am I at the right place?"

"Indeed, you are at the right place," Azarion replied.

Hearing Azarion's confirmation, Kai Ren immediately took out his Skybreaker sword and started to channel his spiritual Qi inside it.

'Blooming Sword slash'

A flower whose petals looked like they were made out of sword blades started to bloom around his sword. When he started to bring the skybreaker down, the sword flower came down with it as well.

After Kai Ren bought his sword, the flower started to move downward, digging in the ground. The sword flower only stopped after digging for more than eighty five meters.

After that, Kai Ren just jumped down there and started to channel his spiritual Qi into his fist.

Meanwhile, Jian Li and Elder Hun, who were watching from the side, was stunned by Kai Ren's antics and couldn't understand why would he suddenly start digging into the ground.

Though they were confused, they still kept quiet and preferred to watch quietly.

'Heavenly fist'

After Kai Ren has gathered the right amount of spiritual Qi in his fist, he smashed it downward.

The technique that Kai Ren used was strong enough to destroy mountains if used properly but he held it back a lot on purpose so that the treasure does not get damaged.

The impact from his fist again digged around twelve meters. After that, he started to use his hand to dig downward until he came across a flower that looked like a blossom.

After he got it out from the dirt and dusted it, the flower really looked like a blossom but he could not understand how it will be helpful for his master so he asked Azarion in his head,

"Elder, is this the treasure you told me about, and how do I use it?"

"Indeed, it is the treasure I told you about. It's called a Serenity Blossom, and it can increase the talent of female cultivators if they drink it's essence." Azarion replied to Kai Ren's query.

"It can increase talent for female cultivators? What will happen if a man consumes it?" Kai Ren further inquired out of curiosity, as he did not have any need to increase his talent and his master is the closest person to him.

"Simple, they will not be able to bear the Yin Qi inside it, and there mandrians will explode, essentially turning them into a cripple."

After hearing Azarion's reply, Kai Ren nodded and put the Serenity Blossom into his storage ring before starting to climb out of the hole.

After he climbed out of the hole, he saw Jian Li standing their with an intrigued expression, Seeing him get out he immediately asked,

"Brother Kai, what was the flower you found down their? And how did you even knew that it was down there?"

"It was a Serenity blossom, and it can increase talents of female cultivator's if they consume its essence." Kai Ren told Jian Li about the Serenity Blossom and it's uses.

"As for how I knew about it, Let's just say everyone have their secrets," Kai Ren smiled mysteriously while saying this.

"Fine just keep you secret, but next time warn me before doing something like this. I thought there was an enemy around us you know." Jian Li complained about Kai Ren abrupt actions from before.

"Alright, I will warn you next time if something like this happens," Kai Ren said with an amused smile, "now I think we should go somewhere else, I've already know how to deal with all the beasts here."

"Hmm I think so as well, let me think where should we go next," Jian Li said and a pondering look appeared on his face, "oh I know let's go to....."