Chapter 72 - Learning About The Treasure

When they arrived before the large castle, they met bandits outside who were training hard with weapons as they hacked and slashed out with them at imaginary opponents.

Xiao Lin only nodded at them as they practiced and went through the castle's passageway so that he could go to Nine Calamities's room. Then following behind him were Jade Destiny, Swordcloud and the remaining few who went for the mission who were looking at him strangely.

Xiao Lin could feel strange gazes at his back, however he maintained his composure like he wasn't sensing anything.

When they eventually arrived at Nine Calamities's room, Nine Calamities who could already sense them at his door due to his powerful hearing because of his cultivation stage said that they should come in.

When they went in, Nine Calamities asked "So, how did the mission go? Were you guys able to obtain the treasure that I sent you to snatch from the people transporting the treasure in that street?"

Swordcloud, Jade Destiny and the rest directed their gazes at Xiao Lin once that question was asked, while Xiao Lin who felt their strong compelling gazes in his body said, "Actually Master, we lost the treasure. We weren't able to maintain it"

Nine Calamities looked at Xiao Lin and then said "Why should you be the one to talk? I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to your seniors. It's them that I sent for the mission and you only as an assistance. So, why should you be the one to report about the mission's success or failure to me?"

Then directing his gaze away from Xiao Lin and towards both Swordcloud and Jade Destiny, he asked with his brows furrowed and his face turning red from excessive anger "So, what really happened? How were you guys unable to fulfill such a small mission?"

Swordcloud and Jade Destiny who were facing down with unsightly expressions in their faces, raised their heads to look at Xiao Lin, giving him the gazes that he should do what they demanded of him.

Xiao Lin then looked at Nine Calamities and said "Actually master, I am the one responsible for the treasure that my seniors couldn't snatch from those treasure guards that were assigned to protect the carriage transporting it down here."

He then said further with a false sad and fake remorseful expression in his face "I am really sorry, Master. If you ever assign me on this kind of mission again, such wouldn't happen. I promise."

When Xiao Lin said all that, Nine Calamities looked at him with an angry expression in his face and asked "But Bloodfang, why would you do that? I didn't ever think that you would be that stupid. But now, you have made me highly disappointed in you. I am really disgraced and embarrassed by the lamebrain actions that you took."

Xiao Lin looked down and said "I am sorry, Master. Such wouldn't ever happen again"

Nine Calamities then exhaled. Then he looked from Xiao Lin at Jade Destiny and the rest.

"You all can leave, I want to speak to Bloodfang alone." He said.

Once he said that, Jade Destiny and the rest nodded their heads. Then they left Nine Calamities's room. But as they did that, they looked at Xiao Lin with an indescribable gaze in their eyes.

When they all left and finally closed the door behind them and then moved to their various rooms, Nine Calamities looked at Xiao Lin and asked "But Bloodfang, I never expected you to carry out such an airbrain action. Now, because of your shaming actions, I have lost that wonderful treasure."

Xiao Lin who had no idea about what the treasure that he stole was, and felt that he could cunningly extract some information about it from his Nine Calamities, looked at Nine Calamities in the face with a false regretful gaze in his eyes, and then asked with a voice that no sense of curiosity would be detected in it "But Master, what treasure is that exactly, since it could cause you to feel so down because of our inability at hijacking it?"

"Hmm. Well, since you want to know that, I will tell you, as there should be no harm in doing that."

"Now, it's a treasure that was believed to have come from anyone of those higher continents that lie tens of millions of miles away from here. Then if you ask me what particular treasure it is, it's a treasure that should form a larger part of a powerful shield used by a cultivator called The Heavenly Basher."

"He was the ancient treasure-forger of a towering, rectangular-shaped, ruby and violet-colored ancestral shield that was believed to discharge visible, tremendously powerful waves of a brilliant and resplendent Spiritual Power that could actually turn the air, and even the water of the rivers, seas and oceans into highly destructive elemental forces that could seemingly shatter the infinitely vast Heavens, and the immense, boundless Earth itself." Nine Calamities said, causing Xiao Lin's mouth to open wide.

'Wow. What power!' Xiao Lin said within himself.

"But how come those measly-staged cultivators are able to transport it down here without any of those fearsome experts that reside in those major continents demand for it?" He asked.

"Well, the shield shattered apart when he was fighting a cultivator who was as powerful as him. So, ever since the shield shattered apart, it lost it power to infuse the air and the water and turn them into unmatchedly destructive elemental forces."

"Therefore, since the pieces of shield had lost that imbuement power, they became garbage materials that any of the formidably powerful experts living in those higher continents wouldn't want."

"It's simply like keeping trash with them, as not even small or insignificant pulses of Spiritual Power could be perceived emanating from anyone of them. And since these experts are always on the move to develop themselves so that they could become incomparable to any of their peers who are at their cultivation level, and then try to forge their own powerful and unparalleled treasures after learning and mastering unique treasure forging skills from lost ancient forging scrolls, they couldn't be bothered at the slightest about 'dead' fragments of a treasure that was used tens of millions of years before them."

"And so, that was how one piece of that shield could be transported down here. If not, it would only be a dream to any of us."