Xi Chen ran straight to his house, as soon as he emerged from the underground black market. He did not slow down for a bit.
What he did not know was that, after 2 minutes of he leaving, two men, one fat and one thin, emerged from the market and searched him.
"He left way too quickly." The fat one of them said coldly.
Smacked..
The other thin one smacked the back of his head.
"What the hell man?" He complained in a aggrieved tone.
"I told you to watch the flower. And how did you do it!? By dozing off with a freaking chicken leg in your mouth..." Then thin man scolded the fat one.
Hearing the thin man's harse words, the fat one complained in a soft low voice. "I was just hungry. Who knew I would get sleepy after eating 5 chicken legs."
But they both stayed there standing still, looking at the direction of Green River Town.
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By the time Xi Chen reached home, the house was already quiet.
Tonight, both his little brothers was already sleep. They already had their dinner before Xi Chen left for black market.
Xi Chen did not try to wake them. He just enters his room quietly.
He sat down on his bed and pulled out two packages and a bloodied white flower with 4 petals.
It was the two packages of body tempering and the flower he bought from the black market.
He puts the packages aside, on a table near the bed.
Then he checked the flower.
It was not the unknown flower that caught his attention at the black market. It was the details of the blood that caught his eyes.
He activated his Crimson Blood Eyes.
[Item: A Normal White Flower.
Rank: Ungraded
State: Mutated
Details: A normal white flower. Tainted with the blood of a Fierce Giant, an Acquired QiRealm. The petals are mutated.
Property: Consuming the blood tainted petals can generate a graded Bloodline or enhance a Bloodline or mutates a Bloodline.
Requirement: One must atleast be in peak Blood RefinementRealm.]
A Bloodline generator blood of Fierce Giants.
Fierce Giants are humanoid Beasts. They live in the deep parts of the Giant Forest.
Seeing the details of the blood, Xi Chen eyes lit up. But soon he calmed down.
"I need to be atleast a peak Blood Refinement Realm expert or early Organ Strengthening Realm. It will take atleast about more than a year to do that." Xi thought to himself.
He plucked off the petal which was not tainted with the Fierce Giant blood.
The moment he plucked it off, the petal withered off.
'It seems the whole is supporting the petals. Or rather the blood is supporting the whole flower and keeping it from withering.' He supported his chin with his hand and thought.
He walked out of his room and went to the underground base to store the flower.
If he placed the flower in his room, he might loss it when some trouble arises.
Then, he went back to his room.
He did not went to sleep immediately, after entering the room.
He started cultivating. He circulated the Crimson Tyrant Blood Sutra to temper his blood.
His whole body redden when he circulate his cultivation technique. Both his hands appears more redden than the rest of his body.
The name Ghost Hand literally mean it.
After more than 2 hours of cultivation, Xi Chen lay flat on his bed thinking about the future.
He was worried if they will ever be discovered by other people. What he will do then. Do they run or stay.
The three of them can not occupy an area even if they are all Acquired Qi Realm. Unless, they are all at the high level of the realm.
And to reach that realm they need resources, which basically means they have to have a constant supply of it. To do that they need to establish a way. A organization is needed to that. And only three of them can not manage that alone.
Xi Chen has two options in front of him now. Either establish a gang. Which he did in his past life at earth. But Xi Chen eliminated this option as soon as he thought about it. He can not trust any outsider after the gang war. Or he can starts a clan that are consist of blood related members. And to do this he needs partner.
He needs well trusted partners or their secrets could leak.
The secrets of them being a Martial clan can be leak. But only when they are at the level of top 3 great clans of Green River Town.
Until then, they can not afford any troubles.
"Argh.... I need to first reach Acquired Qi Realm. Then I will think about it. Its too hard.' Xi Chen stopped thinking about it. Then he closed his eyes to sleep.
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The next day, Xi Chen work at the shop all day with his two younger brothers.
He did not talk about the flowers or the two packages of body tempering powder.
His two brothers asked him about it and he said to wait till night.
Clang...clang...clang...
The sound iron hitting each other was echoing the room.
"How much left?" Xi Chen took a deep breath and asked.
"Only 3 is left to be forge." Xi Bing replied, wiping the sweat off his face.
"Then hurry up and start forging. We need to make all the tools today." Xi Chen urged his brothers.
Xi Bing and Xi Xuan did not question or showed any unsatisfied expression.
When sun sank behind the distant peaks, spilling molten gold and blood red light across the sky like a final breath of a slain God. Shadows deepened, and a hush fell over the land as the first star pierced the twilight veil.
Xi Chen and his siblings finished their works. They closed the shop. They did not get orders today.
After a bath, the trio went to the vegetable market to buy food for dinner.
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After the dinner was done cooking, they sat down to eat the dinner.
During the dinner nobody spoke.
The air was fill with silent.
When they were about finish, Xi Chen spoke. "After cleaning the dishes, come down at base." Then he finished his food and left the table.
Xi Chen went into the base first.
Seeing him left the table, Xi Bing and Xi Xuan looked at each other. They thought maybe it has something to do with the body tempering powder.
So they also quickly finished their meal and cleaned the dishes.
When both of them reached the underground base, Xi Chen was there meditating with a lotus position in the middle of the base.
Xi Bing and Xi Xuan waited on the side without disturbing their big brother.
After few minutes later, Xi Chen opens his eyes.
He breathed out a foul air from mouth.
"You guys must be wondering why I asked you to come here." Xi Chen said. Then before they could say a word, he continued. "Well..its nothing. I just want to have a deep talk of our future."
"Sit down." He pointed in front him.
"Tonight, I will tell you two what to do in the future and how do we make it a bright one." Xi Chen started explaining. "I know you guys will keep growing and keep getting stronger. And one day, you might surpass me. But I want you guys to know that we can not reach a higher Realm, if there are three of only.
We need resources, a constant supply of that. And to do that we need a force.
I am thinking of establishing a clan.
Of course it will be in the future when I reach the Acquired Qi Realm.
On the outside, we will be ordinary blacksmith. On the inside, we will be a ghost clan of martial artist."
Both Xi Bing and Xi Xuan nodded seriously.
Xi Chen continued explaining. "To build a clan, we need trust worthy people. Since we can not trust outsiders, we need blood related people. But we don't have any blood related people except the three of us. So we will build a clan, starting from us."
He also added. "The clan will be of small members but that doesn't matter as we will focus on quality than quantity. Trust worthy are much for this.
I know you guys will grow up and fall for someone. It doesn't matter if she is of low birth or not. But she must be a person that can keep secrets for you. Got it?"
"We will keep it in our mind. And we will not disappoint big brother." Both the boys replied firmly.
Ever since their parents died, it's their big brother who did anything to make them feel fulfilled and always supported them. How can they take his words easily.
"Just keep it in your mind for now. From tomorrow, after we gave away the tools, we will be leaving our home to train in the wilderness." Xi Chen drooped a bomb.
Xi Chen stopped them from saying a words. "I know you guys must be thinking that it is too dangerous. Don't worry we will only roam the outskirts to find wild beat and some early level Qi Beasts.
I am Okey. But you guys need real combat experience. Or else you guys will be beaten to dead when meeting people of same level.
And real life combat experience helps you grow fast."