Five years passed since that day, Da Niou and his brothers were more busy since that day. They spent the first few months after they kidnapped acquired Kong Shang baby proofing the houses. No small feat since all their houses were full of weapons and backup weapons.

After that, they took on more jobs so they could afford many sprit medicines to feed Kong Shang. Some of the medicines they gave him were enough to make poorer sects drool buckets. As a result, his body should have been comparable to the prime disciple of poorer sects when it came to fleshy body strength and spiritual sensitively . They even begun to teach him some general knowledge and the basic techniques of the assassin order and cultivation world. It would not be a stretch to say that they were all grooming him to be their successor.

In the assasin world, one was vulnerable once their successor existed. This was because of the five rules of thes assassin world.

1: An assassin shall not attack another unless they leave behind their legacy.

2: An assassin may choose to break all rules except the first five.

3: Unless permitted, one shall not kill in the name of the assassin order.

4: One must not leak any information on their mission unless it is justified.

5: All contracts under B rank must be complete in a fortnight unless otherwise stated.

Although there were many other rules, these five were the ones that let the assassin order's good name and existence guaranteed! There were many assassin orders and groops within the assasin world. However, all the assasination sects kept these five rules to the letter! Those who did even slightly less than that were viewed as despicable even by the assassin world. Of course, for the rules to be the universal rules, it was enforced by the strongest 10 assasination sects. The bloody hands! When someone said the assassin order. It was safe to assume that they were referring to the local overlord, one of these few sects.

The Everheart mountains, the mountain that Da Niou's groop, The Silver Kings, belonged to The Holy String Divine Mountain! The seventh ranked bloody finger! It could be said they could suppress the eight directions with their strength despite only being the seventh rank! Every sect in the area all looked up to the Divine Mountain. Rumour had it their prime disciple was extremely strong. During a mission, if she met Buddha, she would slay Buddha, If she met Devil, She would slay Devil!

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Thus it could be said that the The Kings had taken a risk by showing this much favour to Kong Shang! He had to be kept a secret lest their rivals find out and destroy them.

Kong Shang was unusually excited as he listened to his Uncle Rong An teaching him general knowledge. Because this time he would teach him the levels of the cultivation world. he was curious about the levels.

" The various levels of the cultivation world are as follows, The Body Saturation Realm, The Genesis Realm, The Foundation Development Realm and The Core Formation Realm. Each of which are divided into ten sub-realms. There are other main realms, but I do not know much about them."

"Most of us brothers are at half-step Core Formation Realm. While only your eldest uncle, Jang Chen has reach mid-Core Formation Realm."

"Shang' Er, when you grow up, work hard to surpass us and reach a higher realm. Then, we brothers can say that we groomed a powerful expert," as soon as he said this, he revealed a conflicted expression.

Right now, the brothers had trained Kong Shang in two different spiritual energy training methods, The Thousand Strands Art made by Da Niou' s ancestor and The Prime Blow Art which was merely a common art.

The two methods complemented each other as the former allowed one to split spiritual energy into a thousand strands whereas the latter allowed one to condense their spiritual energy to unleash one great blow.

Normally, training two different methods would result in Qi Deviation. The brothers had fed a Yin-Yang Jade Fruit to Kong Shang.Thus allowing him to do so without suffering consequences.

This might sound impossible at first, but some sects could even afford to give their normal disciple five condensation methods.So it was actually quite common.

"Your body is suitable for cultivating. So, I predict you will break through to The Genesis Realm after half a year. When you are half a realm to The Genesis Relm, your real training will begin."

After that, his expression changed to a gentle one. All of a sudden, he drew his sword! His sword blade was made of multiple parts which made the sword longer when separated. His sword elongated to a hundred kilometres in length and cut down an apple from a tree.

"Remember, even if you are invincible, there is always someone more invincible than you," he said with a bittersweet expression while passing the apple to Kong Shang.

Thus, they sat quietly under a tree eating an apple together.