Wilderness of Garkash.

A group of men are sitting around a campfire, they are eating what looks to be scorpions and other animals that can easily be found on the desert. Beside them are three prisoners being interrogated by a confident looking child.

"Greetings! It is rather late for introductions, but be that as it may, it is never too late to make new friends. Myself is Ouyang Jianjun from White Camel Mountain manor. I have long heard of seniors' names and your fame in jianghu greatly astounds me."

Lin Feng said as he signalled the retainers to remove the gags in the hostages mouths. After removing the gags, before the hostages can shout, they immediately threw some pills inside the mouths of the hostages. The hostages choked and their eyes became red as they tried their best to vomit the pill, but their effort was to no avail for the retainers hit their chins to make them close their mouths while also reflexibly bringing their tongues back.

"Haha! Martial friends are too humorous. Don't be ashamed if you are lacking air, look at where we are now, we have all the air for ourselves here in this place."

"Hateful! Untie me this once, my father is the Eastern heretic and this boy next to me. He is the godchild of the Great Khan of the Hulnora."

Upon hearing what the girl said about the Hulnora. Lin Feng's eyes shined with a cruel light. You have to remember, Lin Feng's father was killed during a Hu raid, and even sadder was that it happened on the day Lin Feng was born.

"Really?!"

Seeing the harsh gleam on Lin Feng's eyes, Huang Rong immediately contradicted herself by saying...

"Hehe! Xiao Jianjun, big sister is just kidding. You know, this boy is too daft, how could he catch the attention of the Great Khan. Even if he grew up on the Hulnora steepe, his mother still raised him as a Han true and true. In fact, Guo Jing was only staying with the Hulnora just to be able to kill the Great Khan, but he failed and just killed a few bodyguards during the attempt. You have to believe this big sister, how could a sister as beautiful as me lie to a cute child as little brother."

"Hmmm... Good! Good! A worthy Han you are, brother Guo! A pity you never managed to kill the hateful Hu Nijumet. But fear not, sooner or later, I shall do it myself."

Lin Feng said with such fervor that the blood of everyone in the area became hot and fierce. He continued...

"Among the Hulnora, there circulates a question. A question as old as the time of barbarism. With this question, I found an answer that resonates with myself."

"What is the question?"

"The question is, What is best in life?"

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The retainer Li Cha replied...

"That's easy, the open steppe, a fleet horse, falcons in your wrist, the wind in your hair."

"Wrong! Ask me this question."

The retainer Li Cha first looked at Lin Feng, scrutinizing the boy so deeply, and founding nothing wrong with the boy's serious face, he finally asked him with a disdainful voice...

"What is best in life?"

"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!"

"Is that it?"

"Damn it! You're supposed to say that is good! I'm removing you from the next training list, you're getting no training until you've learned your lesson."

"Bastard! I mean, bugger! Boss, I'm sorry!"

"Li Cha, I can make you an expert, but I cannot keep you an expert. There is talk of an imperial inheritance, Li Cha. There is talk of a promise made to the late general Nuo Kesi. Swear to me on oath that the talk is just idle gossip, or by the heavens, Li Cha, you will walk out of this place an unranked waste fighter."

"I swear on oath that no one heard me make a promise in respect of an imperial inheritance to general Nuo Kesi's descendant, sir."

"Good! Now fall back in line. Ahem, ladies, where was I again?"

"Shut yer trap stinky boy! Just get on with it! Why d'ya hafta bring us out here in the middle of nowhere at this heaven's forbidden time?"

The blind woman Mei Chaofeng was getting impatient with the idle gossip of the group.

"Oh, right! I was just getting to that part. You see, ladies and gentleman, I, am what you may call, a dealer. What I deal in is the hidden secrets of the human mind. That which you hold dear, I shall extract it out from you, and the compensation for you, depends on what are you willing to reveal. If you voluntary dedicate it yourself, we have no problems in serving toast, but in case you dare hide anything of value, don't blame us for giving you forfeit instead."

"So, what exactly do you need?"

"Nine Yin True Scripture!"

After hearing Lin Feng finally state his demands after what seems to be like an eternity of stalling and speaking in circles, they were, at first silent, then the quick thinking Huang Rong, who noticed there's something wrong about keeping silent this time, decided to break the ice.

"What? The famous art able to make a martial artist the greatest of their generation? How can such peerless art be found on someone as destitute as us?"

"Hmmmph! It seems that miss Huang does not take us seriously."

He then looked at the freckled retainer Huo and the withered-like-a-dead-tree retainer Huang behind Guo Jing, who after seeing Lin Feng's gaze with many meanings, immediately forced Guo Jing to stand. They then dragged the young man to do what is supposed to be something unspeakable, if not for the terrified Huang Rong shouting.

"Okay! Okay! You win, we have the Nine Yin True scripture indeed. It is on me. I memorized it."

After miss Rong said those words, Lin Feng, at the corner of his eyes, saw Mei Chaofeng impercebtibly relax after hearing Huang Rong admit having the Nine Yin true scripture, but before that, she was tense, and even before that, also shocked when she first heard Lin Feng spoke Nine Yin True Scripture.

"Why, yes of course miss Huang. In fact, all of you are here because you all have a destiny with the Nine Yin True scripture. But before we go on, I first have to ensure that the Nine Yin true scripture you will give to me is correct, for it seems you have a bad case of giving wrong instructions to those who are asking for the appertained Nine Yin True Scripture. Am I correct, miss Huang?"

"Wha? How could you..."

"And so, just to make this business as profitable for everyone as possible, we have to ask all of you to dictate the Nine Yin True Scripture in your hands to my trusted people, separately. Should any of you fail to match that of the others, Hmmmmph! I shall demonstrate to you why the flowers are so red! Take them away!"

"NOO, BOSS!!"