"Master Senior Ninth, the harvest for this time is very plentiful! We've harvested all the Golden Dandelion Flower Bulbs, Water Hawthorn Roots, Poisonous Lotus Root, and fifty bulbs of Crystal Rock Flower. As for the other productions, they were similar to before. The five of us has replanted all the seeds we've obtained from the harvest, so the next harvest is expected to be double compared to this time!" Tang Yuan reported the moment the Master Senior Ninth returned to his own courtyard.

But he did not notice the changes in his Master Senior Ninth's presence. The way he returns is much more desolate and composed as if there will be a great commotion expected to happen. Zhang Wu Ji did not delve too much into this matter with his own people, but in his mind, he was calculating for the best arrangement before he started with this purging process orchestrated by his own master and master mother.

"Ah... Arrange them in the Pill Making Room on my behalf. Get Hei Tie over to the Blacksmithing Department and get Li Jing, Li Yin, and Li Tong to meet me. And also... Help your master to check for the status of another two cities inside our Seven Star Sect. It will be the best of there is disciples that originated from there." Zhang Wu Ji gave his instruction to Tang Yuan to follow. As he completed, he returned to his room quietly.

"My master should have some difficulties. Hei Tie! Come here!" Tang Yuan noticed the differences at last and quickly instructed Bai Hei Tie before he heads to the Slave Disciples area to look for those people his master asked. The only differences no when he came to the Slave Disciples Area is that he's no longer a weakling like them, but an inner disciple and also the trusted attendant of Master Senior Ninth.

"Is there anyone here that came from the Wen Qing City and Wen Yang City?" Tang Yuan asked. The two name was well known to everyone growing up in the Seven Star County. With the Seven Star Sect in the middle, the Wen Wu City is the closest city from the west side, and the Wen Qing City on the far left, almost reaching the end of the Seven Star County's border. As for the Wen Yang City, they were located close to the northern border, which is one of the four routes to enter the Imperial State.

But his question did not get any reply from the slave disciples. Instead, Tang Yuan is surrounded by many other more unfortunate Slave Disciples and pestered to be introduced to the Master Senior Ninth. He was annoyed, but with the important task in hand, Tang Yuan held into his anger and continue to ask for the second time.

"Is there anyone here that came from the Wen Qing City or Wen Yang City?"

The crowd looked at each other and decided to enlighten this attendant of Master Senior Ninth.

"Senior Brother, the Wen Qing City, and Wen Yang City is even twice larger than the Wen Wu City, how can there be a disciple that entered the Slave Disciple Ranks? This place is only for those from the villages, those that lacked cultivating resources, Martial Arts, and luck," they explained to Tang Yuan, which soon, removed his anger deep inside his heart.

What was he trying to do from his previous call? Even he himself came from this area, but he forgets about the most basic knowledge about the members inside Slave Disciple Area. How will those from the City enter their ranks? The Slave Disciples Area is where all those from villages gather!

"Brother and Sisters! Please forgive this Tang Yuan for his lack of manner by asking such a thing, but may I personally ask, is there anyone of you that willing to presents the situation in his village to Master Senior Ninth? I may not able to promise any rewards, but I dare to say, one additional word related to your village may become the reason for it to rise in the future!" Tang Yuan stated. And from his response, the reaction blew him away, when the crowd gathered together to form ten groups.

Without even needed to ask, Tang Yuan leads them back as the eldest attendant for Zhang Wu Ji and invited them to take a seat inside their garden before Tang Yuan requested for his appearance. While their thirsty throat is moistened by the high-quality tea, Tang Yuan went to request for his master's attendance. The moment Zhang Wu Ji was informed with the results of his searching, he did not feel disappointed with him, but instead, praise him for his ability to change and decides when the first option is not available.

The moment he made himself present in his own garden, Zhang Wu Ji is greeted by over a hundred slave disciples. Their numbers divided almost equally in each group and form a total of 10 groups. Each one of the group represents one of the villages, but it seems like they're void of any people from the Bai Village, Lin Village, Tian Village, and Yun Village. It seems those that he met before are in the minorities, where only one to three disciples are inside of this sect, while the others are all remained in their own village to help.

One by one, the group of the representatives representing their village came out to describe their location and also the main product that was produced from their village for the day they were established. Among the ten villages, the Jiang Village and Peng Village are situated north of the Wen Wu City, where their villages are right after one travel past the Orchid Mountain. Their main product includes Qi Essence Silkworm in both living or dead condition, the extracted Qi Essence Silk, or also the Blood Juicy Fruit.

Because the two villages vicinity is extremely close to each another, they often cooperate together for their improvement, thus the two villages can be said to be the best sample of One Healing Blood, another Healing Qi. Their cooperation allows more window for improvement, where among the ten groups of slave disciples, their quality was the best. Following next is the Yao Village and Hong Village that located at the east side of the Seven Star Sect, and also the first and second villages that Zhang Wu Ji passed through during his travel to the sect.

The Yao Village focused on their production of textiles, while the Hong Village skills lies in embroideries, As this two profession wasn't something that can be learned in a single day or with a mere manual, Zhang Wu Ji did not step too deep into their village method in producing their products, but from the way they explained their village situation, it seems that their business is a mere quality one, because all the higher quality textiles and Embroideries are collected by the merchants weekly to be delivered to the Imperial state.

Next comes the Qing Village and Lan Village, both located right outside of the Southern Bamboo Forest from below the Wen Wu City's south side, and the Seven Star Sect's Southern side. The two villages excel in their hunting ability and possess some strong martial arts, but their population is a little too low to be compared with the others. The products they refined, such as Animal Pelts and flesh or internal organs could fetch a very good price in the market, but unlucky to them, the expired date for most of their product is very short, thus they always struggle in this matter.

The Mu Village and Ye Village are similar to their name, they excel in Timber and Medicinal Farming. Their location is situated at just north of the Li Jiang Village, and only one day distance to the border's Bai Village. Lastly, is the Gang and Liao Village that focused on Pill Concoction. The final two village disciples are quieter than the others, but from their look, it seems that they do possess some ability themselves, but lack of chances and opportunities.

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After some further consideration and discussion with each of them, Zhang Wu Ji started to have his own rough guidance in where he shall starts. After distributing Five Qi Sensing Pills to each of them, Zhang Wu Ji bid them farewell and also thanked them for their help in deepening his understandings regarding this county itself.

Among the thirty villages, Zhang Wu Ji already afflicted with fifteen of them, and for Li Jiang Town, it will be easy for him to get their help. As for the three cities, Zhang Wu Ji got the support from at least half of the population. If this revolt is going to work out, Zhang Wu Ji will need to obtain the support from the City Lord as well.

But with his strength, on what capability he worth the assistance of the City Lord? Zhang Wu Ji understands this fact and decides that unless he makes a choice to strengthen himself, it will be not only difficult for him to obtain the support from the City Lord, perhaps not even the Slave Disciples will be completely standing by his side.

While he was considering about this matter, Li Jing, Li Yin, and Li Tong are here from his summon. Unknown what their master needs them for, the three of them noticed a small change in their master's usual composition, and decided to ask. "Master! Did something happened and you need the help of the three of us?" Li Yin, the most sensitive among the three of them asked.

"Great that you noticed that. Let me ask the three of you one question." Zhang Wu Ji completed his sentence before he stands up from his seat and walks towards one of the trees that grew past his courtyard's roof. He calmed his mind before he speaks the most sensitive word he could even think about.

"I want to reform the Seven Star Sect and the County. Are you with me or not?" Zhang Wu Ji asked.

"My master! You're trying to... Revolt!" the question shocks the three of them into their core, but still, they did not retreat. Li Jing stands up and walks closer to his master, wanting to stops him from continues, but the action was a second too late! A total of eleven Inner Qi Fighters dressed in black went into the courtyard's garden, with the intention to kill!

"Assassins!" the three was shocked by their master's words, but they were more shocked by the existence of assassins within the sect! How low did a sect will need to drop before it was infiltrated by assassins belonged to the people not from their faction? Since Zhang Wu Ji has naturally belonged to the Headmaster's Faction, it was natural that nobody will place assassins surrounding his courtyard, but if this happens, won't that means the Headmaster's Faction was nothing in their eyes?

"Protect master!" Li Jing took his own sword out from the scabbard, but before they managed to take an action, Zhang Wu Ji who was always with his Jade Ruler by his side already took an action! In the term fast execution of ability, how can there be any assassins in their Inner Qi Fighter's strength competes with him?

Before the eleven assassins even managed to withdraw their weapons, numerous air blades already consumed the air and space inside the courtyard and canceled all their attacks before it was even executed. The quick reflex from their master shocked them, but what comes next, was even more so.

Without even a preparation is needed, Zhang Wu Ji executed the Twin Star Piercer and attacked eight of the eleven assassins while they handle one of the assassins each. the moment the fight is over, Zhang Wu Ji skilfully applied the air blades he released to moves the assassins in a row before it turned into sharp blades that removes all their disguise and articles of clothing, leaving each of them bare naked.

"Speak, who sent you here!" Zhang Wu Ji questioned, but at that moment, a burst of Qi came out from their body and taking away their life force as qi escapes from the body. It turned into a total of eleven dried corpses in a flash without any hint of how the person behind them took an action. This puzzled the four of them, but soon, Li Jing came closer to his master and asked the incomplete question.

"Master, Disciple wanted to know, will the Seven Star Sect remained?"

"It will. It is for the sake of Seven Star Sect that I take such action." Zhang Wu Ji replied.

The three of them looked at one another, and after an exchange of their eye contact, the three bowed before their master and said. "Master, from today onwards, everyone inside of the Blacksmithing Department is yours to command!" they replied.

"Good! For the first task now, return to the Blacksmithing Department, and rearrange all the position and also re-evaluates each single members of the Blacksmithing Department. If you found any suspicious characters, caught them and inform me, I will personally question them myself!" Zhang Wu Ji left with his order to the three of them.

"It seems, your fight and mine will be happened in anytime in the future..." Zhang Wu Ji smiled as he inspects the weapon in his hand.

Golden Wolf Syndicate's Fang Dagger

-Attack: 7

-Defense: 5

-Durability: 12/12

-Special: When the weapon is in use during a contract, allowed the assassin to obtain complete immunity to poison. (Current Contractor: Yang Chen Kun)

"Yang Chen Kun, what a loyal Grand Elder of the Left you're... Golden Wolf Syndicate... Seems like the time for me to get overboard is here." Zhang Wu Ji walked to a corner of his room to took out a beautiful case with a treasure stored inside. When it was opened, the treasure stored within is exactly the uneaten Converging Qi Fruit!

Ripe Converging Qi Fruit +5

-Usage 1: Increase the strand of Inner Qi by 16

-Usage 2: Increase the strand of Inner Qi by 16

-Usage 3: Increase the strand of Inner Qi by 16

-Usage 4: Increase the strand of Inner Qi by 16

-Usage 5: Increase the strand of Inner Qi by 26

-Durability: 0/20

-Special: When the fruit is placed in a place void of light and heat until it was rotten, a drop of solid Converging Qi Essence can be extracted from the fruit.

He smiled when looking at the number of Inner Qi the piece of rotten fruit can bring after eating them, but what is much more important for him is the piece of teardrop size Converging Qi Essence inside. He did not waste his time but went straight to extract that solid pieces out before he swallowed the fruit. Although it was just a mere 90 strands of Inner Qi, a small strand is still a meal for his hungry Dantian.

But looking at the piece of Converging Qi Essence, Zhang Wu Ji smiled. He did not even have a hint of hesitation as he upgraded the treasure to +5 as he swallows it.

Converging Qi Essence +5

-Usage 1: Increase the Strand of Fighter Qi by 10

-Usage 2: Upon consumption, increase the speed of Strand of Qi creation by 10%

-Durability: -/-

-Special: Double the effect when eaten.

The moment the Converging Qi Essence entered his throat and sent down into his stomach, a surge of Fighter Qi burst out from the Converging Qi Essence and assimilates into his body, allowing him to become an Inner Qi Fighter with 141 Strands of Fighter Qi now. without too much effort needed, he can expect that his cultivation stage will be at least 3rd Stage when he participates in the battle royale.

The only thing left for him was to handle his own faction, but since it wasn't established at this moment, Zhang Wu Ji decided to order the Blacksmithing Department to stop their supply of weapons for now and started to increase the number of refined metals in their vault. Only with sufficient supply of metal can the Blacksmithing Department continue with their task, but he believed his instinct, that when his faction is established, the first to take his act to destroy Zhang Wu Ji will be the Grand Elder of the Left, Yang Chen Kun!

Leaving in secret using a reason to inspect his Apprentice Hall inside the Wen Wu City, Zhang Wu Ji departs in a hurry. He took roughly a half day to reach the Apprentice Hall and inspects his people once again before telling them the truth. But unexpected to him, the 150 Slave Disciples inside of the Apprentice Hall all pledge their loyalty to Zhang Wu Ji and will support him and his faction no matter what he does. Their demand was only a simple request of;

"Please allow more people from our village to cultivates, and grow our village further. We had enough of the ill-treatment from the sect because of our worthless strength!"

"Yes! We will pledge loyalty to Master Senior Ninth as long you can make sure that in the future, we will not be treated like before, and obtain the chances to cultivates properly too! We don't mind work like a cow, but we must worth the resources we worked for!"

"Loyalty to Master Senior Ninth! Master Senior Ninth as the next generation of Seven Star Sect's Headmaster!" the crowd inside of the Apprentice Hall completely show their supportive side at Zhang Wu Ji. With this matter is handled, Zhang Wu Ji next went to the Northern Side, to see which side will the people will stands.

"Master Senior Ninth! As long as those people that stay in the houses you built, Working as your employees in creating all the Masonry Bricks, and survived because of you, we're all standing by your side!" the residents in the Northern Side reveal their support to Zhang Wu Ji.

With the Apprentice Hall and Northern Side is taken cared and showing their complete supports on him and his WUJI Faction, Zhang Wu Ji ride the Iron Scale Bull and went through the east side to the south side because of the entrance into the City Lord's Fortress is located here.

But before he managed to reach the guard's post outside of the City Lord's Fortress, his path is disrupted by the people from the southern side. In his rough estimation, at least, if not all, 90% of the residents living in this side is outside blocking his path.

"Brothers, Sisters, Aunts, and Uncles, can this junior ask why is his path to continue ahead is obstructed? Did this junior did anything wrong to everyone here?" he asked.

"You're Zhang Wu Ji? The one everyone called you Master Senior Ninth in the Seven Star Sect?" the crowd asked.

"Yes! This junior is indeed Zhang Wu Ji you're talking about!"

"That's himmmmm!!!!" the crowd step forward and moves like a stampede towards him.

"What did I do wrong to you guys!" Zhang Wu Ji lamented in his heart as he slowly retreated backward.