"Master Senior Ninth, here is some additional dishes. I noticed you were waving to us from afar so I brought you some additional dishes for you to fill your stomach." the kitchen worker earlier came with over ten more dishes for him to enjoy his fill, but Zhang Wu Ji wished he can tell the kitchen worker that he misunderstood his previous action. It wasn't to demand more food but he has the intention to improve their department.
"Is the Kitchen Department Head Chef busy at this moment?" Zhang Wu Ji asked. Being very understanding at this moment which is the rush hour of food preparation for the kitchen department, Zhang Wu Ji did not immediately ask to be entertained by their department head without prior appointment. It might be not a disturbance for him to personally ask about the department head, but for Zhang Wu Ji, a proper manner is the best approach to meet a person with a good impression.
"Elder Zhu? You're looking for Elder Zhu? He's busy now. The group of executive Culinary Master is busy preparing a hundred dishes for the Reflecting Pagoda because our headmaster is meeting with a group of mysterious people from the Upper South State's Minister Mansion." the young kitchen helper explained. Listening to his words, Zhang Wu Ji felt it was unfortunate, and leave after handling them about a hundred Qi Sensing Pills for his part of a good meal.
Only after walking for another hour Zhang Wu Ji returned to his courtyard. And at this time, it was crowded with some Slave Disciples and Inner Disciples again. When everyone noticed his arrival at the entrance of the courtyard, they successively greet the Master Senior before he entered through the door, but before the door was shut, Zhang Wu Ji asked them a question.
"Ahem..."
"Are you all here for the sake of learning something?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned. It wasn't difficult to answer, but the problem lies inside of the answer. If one answers them without thought, they're direct, but lack of reservation. If they answered too thorough, it means they thought, but lack of motivation. It was a trap question but yet, a very direct question that tests a person's aptitude.
Some hesitate, some ponder, but among the crowd, only two speaks out. They step forward before Zhang Wu Ji's entrance and answered him with two different answers.
"Yes! I am here to learn about how Master Senior Ninth conducts himself so graciously."
"Yes, I am here to learn about everything worth learning from the respected Master Senior Ninth!"
The two answer is different, and yet the same. It impresses some people for their bravery, and attract despise from others that were more negative. But this action they took obtained Zhang Wu Ji's approval. He may have decided to not accept any more attendants for his house as five of them inside the courtyard and three visiting attendants already give him an immense headache, but he will not be so cold towards the fellow member of the Seven Star Sect.
"I will give the two of you two Qi Sensing Pills. Use them to do or cultivate something that can be presented to me in three days. If the results satisfy me, I will consider letting you guys practice a new physical cultivation manual that I revised after reading some collections of physical cultivation manual in the Knowledge Pagoda." his test was simple and difficult at the same time.
The two took their sponsorship for the test and immediately excused themselves to look for something they can do. Leaving the others staring at the Master Senior Ninth with their blank expression. Zhang Wu Ji smiled as he looks at those that remain outside of his courtyard. After a minute of exchange using their eyes, Zhang Wu Ji continued with his words.
"Why would you loiter outside my courtyard if you don't dare to take the step forward?"
"It was because of confidence. You guys may grow up in a different situation. Some maybe came here after many struggles and fight. But you will always need to remember, Strength is something that can be trained, respect is something you build throughout your life, but Confidence comes from your heart. A person without confidence will not succeed, no matter how easy is that thing!"
"Do anyone of you don't understand my words?" he shouts out loud at a sudden, but after a line of lecture, the disciples before him were all enlightened, and replied him in the same moment.
"We understand!"
"Good! I will give each of you a chance as well. From today onwards, continuously go to the Kitchen Department to help the kitchen staff in their distribution of the Sect's meals. Tell them this is the order from the Master Senior Ninth. When you have done this works until the end of this month, come back and tell me what you think. If your mindset passes my test, you will know how to answer my questions."
"Now, if all of you understands, then disperse and return to cultivates. What are you guys still doing here without any production!" he completed all he wanted to say and ordered them to disperse. Within a few minutes, Zhang Wu Ji cleared the people surrounding his courtyard with merely a few sentences, which will actually benefit them in the future.
From everything he did, Zhang Wu Ji actually did not realize that all of this small reputations and seed of hope he spreads which initially going to return the favor to him in the future. But before this, he will need to make sure he's able to fulfill the promises of granting them a copy of his own modified version of Physical Cultivation Manual. Since this initial selection met with his need to provide his own five attendants with a better Physical Cultivation Manual, it was fine for him to get it done earlier.
But first, he needs almost all available Physical Cultivation Manuals to starts. Without a sufficient number of Fusion Materials, it will be pointless for him to try making something out of thin air. Sitting in the middle of his courtyard's garden, Zhang Wu Ji pondered about his option to mass purchase as much cultivation manuals as he could. It was until Zhang Ya Pin came back with Liu Yanni and Bai Hei Tie gave him a solution method.
It's just... Zhang Ya Pin and Bai Hei Tie came back with a bruise on their face, indicating there were caught in a fight not too long ago. The appearance of their Master Senior at the garden is unexpected, making the fact they got a bruise on their face cannot be covered. Zhang Wu Ji was furious the moment he noticed the injuries on their face and sternly question them.
"What happened?" he adjusted his facing towards the three, and question them. The three quickly kneeled on the ground noticing that they stirred his anger, and quickly explains the situation to Zhang Wu Ji. As he listened to their explanations, his anger roused into a greater height, especially when the situation turned into such a way.
The three went out to an open market not too far outside of the sect, because they were interested in checkout what kind of wares is available outside of their sect out of their curiosity, but as they window shop through a few road stalls, a group of rascals tried to take the advantages of their eighth sister Liu Yanni, and touches her beautifully curved bottom.
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Of course, this caused the youngest to screams, but this action thoroughly provokes the group of rascals to behave even worst until they tried to forcefully take Liu Yanni away. As her scream soon got her two elder brother's attention, they got into a fight, but amongst the group of rascals, one of them was a young master of a Study Hall belonged to the South Wen Wu City's wealthy family. Using his strength as a 3rd Stage Inner Qi Fighter strength, he defeated the two without too much effort is needed.
But because the two did not hesitates to land a strike from their Fist of Destruction Qi on the young master, their action provokes his anger even further, until he smacks the two with his Pole Hammer right on their face. This caused the two to end up with a bruised face, and a loss of few teeth on their left jaw.
"What a daring Young Master from some wealthy family. I wonder do the people in their family understand the quotes [Know the owner before you beat somebody's hound] because the owner of this three hounds is soon to come back and gave them a lesson. But wait... I just remembered that they don't have such a common sense, thus it would be better for me to give them a lesson personally..."
"Wait. Did the two of you say that he belonged to a Study Hall?" Zhang Wu Ji remembered the issue when he was also quoting the sentence [ You don't bite a hound back when you've been bitten by them], so it was pointless to teach them about this quote, but when he remembered the word Study Hall, he suddenly end up with a very wicked smile that can swallow a person into endless darkness.
"The three of you, each of you find ten slave disciples to come over with me. We will pay a visit to the Study Hall belonged to the Southern side of the Wen Wu City!" Zhang Wu Ji swings his wrist as he stares at the lazy bull grazing on the entrance just by the side of the farm entrance. The moment it noticed the stare from its master, the Iron Scale Bull quickly went over to the master for a little patting, and immediately take it's master to where he wanted to go.
Listening to his order, the three soon gathered the remaining two people before going to the Slave Disciple's area to recruits people to follow them over to the Wen Wu City. With a group of fifty-five people strong, Tang Yuan leads everyone over to the direction of the Wen Wu City's Southern Entrance, following after their Master Senior's Ninth footsteps.
As the group followed the path he went past, Zhang Wu Ji is busy having an animal-human conversation with the Iron Scale Bull to determine the right or wrong in his upcoming action. In his deep thought, he considered the action of heavily injuring his attendants is a grave mistake that could end up destroying the instigator's family but does the mistake worth such a big counter-reaction just because a few teeth of his attendants were forcefully pulled out from the smack of a hammer?
Zhang Wu Ji considered his action thoroughly before he conducted them because the fact he was still a Master Senior of the Seven Star Sect means that each movement and action he took, will end up affecting the name of the Seven Star Sect. The consideration of this matter caused Zhang Wu Ji to evaluates the intensity of his action against the name of the Seven Star Sect, either it was a positive or negative impact on the sect.
Pointless to consider the seriousness of this matter alone, he questioned the Iron Scale Bull.
"Lazy Bull, do you think it was bad to destroy the Study Hall and confiscate their collection of the books just because of a mistake was done by their foolish young master?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned the Iron Scale Bull, only to get an intense nod from the bull as it walks.
"So, you think my action is not overreacted?" he asked again and got an intense nod again.
"Alright, Then I'll reduce the amount of QI Sensing Pill in your meal." Zhang Wu Ji continued. The Iron Scale Bull continued to nod, but suddenly, it noticed the differences in the sentence, and complaint in its sadness.
"MOOOO!!!" it swings the head left and right to express its dissatisfaction. But with a laugh, Zhang Wu Ji put away the joke he just did, because they were almost outside of the Southern Entrance right now.
When he appeared on the Iron Scale Bull, with an appearance of a Black Disciple Robe with seven stars on both of side of the arm further expressing his status in the sect. With a voice enhanced with the strands of Inner Qi, Zhang Wu Ji stated his name and position as the Iron Scale Bull moved further one step after another.
"I am Zhang Wu Ji, the Ninth Master Senior of the Seven Star Sect and Hall Master of the Apprentice Hall, I request to enter through the southern gate along with my fellow disciples to look for some guidance from the Study Hall of the Southern side!"
"Young Master Senior, Please come in!" the soldiers standing right on top of the wall greets the Master Senior as they opened the gate to allow his entrance. It did not take too long before the fifty-five disciples entered the Southern Entrance as well and followed the direction led by the soldiers to the outside of the Study Hall. Of course, his entrance when still outside of the Southern Entrance gave the opportunity for people to deliver the message to the Study Hall Owner, but he failed to react in a short notice.
Hence, his subordinates came out and greet the Young Master Senior, but he was pulled aside by Tang Yuan who was standing at the front most of their arrangement. The Longfeng Jade Ruler made it's appearance to the public for their first time, but this first time is also the instigator for the sudden rise of demand in using Long Ruler as a weapon in the future.
With the support of the Upper and Middle Seven Star Sword Art, Zhang Wu Ji created a total of twenty Air Blades with the sizes of a rampaging bull as it strikes at the outer wall at both sides of the Study Hall outer entrance. The ferociousness of this twenty air blades destroys the study wall without leaving any part of the wall remain standing. Worst of all, it was all shattered into small pieces of gravels, without further effort is needed to recycle them.
"The owner and the young master of the Southern Study Hall, come out and face this Master Senior's Wrath!" like how he did when outside the Southern Entrance, Zhang Wu Ji's shout alerts all the fighters and hired elders inside of the establishment to come out and face this commotion from a disciple from the ruler of this county. As for Zhang Wu Ji, he was still standing on top of the Iron Scale Bull as the stupid bull is chomping on the two Qi Sensing Pills in its mouth.
"This Master Senior, please explain the reason for this sudden action! I am afraid that I will need to report this to the City Lord and the Headmaster of the Seven Star Sect if the reason weren't strong enough for the Ninth Master Senior to destroy all my blood effort to build the Study Hall!" the owner of the Study Hall came out fuelled with anger seeing how the outer part of his building is destroyed.
"Where is the young master of yours?" Zhang Wu Ji questioned. The moment he questioned, Zhang Wu Ji to ignites the fire hidden deep inside of his heart, putting aside the peaceful and timid personality as he took out the Zhang Wu Ji's personality that filled with an oppressive force so heavy it made people feeling difficult to breathe. The question he brings out suppressed the Owner of Study Hall's question, as he ends up trying to reply instead of insisting for the answer for his own question.
He looked at the left and the right for a reply, but seeing that his question is getting nowhere without an answer, Zhang Wu Ji raised the tip of his Longfeng Jade Ruler once more, with twenty air blades hovering in a circle waiting for their actions. This overbearing attitude was suppressing all the cultivators right in front of the two sides, and even those in their Inner Qi Warrior stage is not excluded from the pressure.
"S... Stop..." the Owner of Study Hall was a second too late to stopped Zhang Wu Ji from taking his action. With a simple swing towards the Study Hall, the twenty air blades strike like they possess an eye on their own, attacking twenty different parts but did not completely destroy the Study Hall yet. This surprised the Owner of the Study Hall because even as a peak 19th Stage Inner Qi Warrior himself, he'd yet to achieve the ability to manifest an air blade at all, yet this junior in his 2nd Stage Inner Qi Fighter is playing with twenty of them like nobody's business.
"Master Senior, please! Please stop! Search for the useless child of mine and drag him here if you needed to!" the Owner of Study Hall's oppressive forces is completely gone seeing how resolute is Zhang Wu Ji's action. "So what if I'm stronger than him? He was the doted disciple of the leader of this county, yet I'm only a small Study Hall owner. This was a battle that cannot be won unless I am as strong as his master." the owner though.
About five minutes later, a youth was dragged on his butt as the elders from the Study Hall forces him to make his appearance before the Ninth Master Senior of the Seven Star Sect. From his appearance, Zhang Wu Ji can feel an urge to gave this youth a few slaps because he could see the former Zhang Wu Ji from his terrible appearance of a debauchee. Looking at the pair of father and child, Zhang Wu Ji started to speaks.
"Did you tried to teach my youngest follower a lesson?"
"I am exactly here to see what gave you the guts to land your hand on my people, and where did you come out with the obsession to play with a hammer!" Zhang Wu Ji left the Iron Scale Bull and take a few steps closer to the father and son pair, with plenty of air blades hovering by his side, sometimes dense, sometimes missing as he stands five steps apart from them. It did not take him further to continues.
"Come, I give you the chances to make your step. If you succeed to touch a strand of my hair, I will give you this pouch with fifty million Gold Coins inside." Zhang Wu Ji took the pouch from his waist and throw them right in between the father and child and him. All the air blades vanish from his side as he waved his Longfeng Jade Ruler without a concern on the two.
Although the life of his child is important, the attraction from the fifty million gold coins is not weak either! The father softly tapped his son's back, indicating him to take a step forward and attack. As long he managed to touch a strand of his hair, that was enough for him to earn that fifty million gold coins! "What is so difficult about that? You're still a 2nd Stage Inner Qi Fighter at the end of the day!" the Owner of the Study Hall thinks.
With the Pole Hammer in hand, the youth steps forward in a charge. Unfortunately, before he managed to take his fourth step, a gigantic air blade like a wave already throws him up in the air before the raging torrent of air blades pummels him in each part of his body without allowing the body to fall onto the ground.