Ace Of Terrans

The five people had a meal, before Yang Xiaoling said, "Why don't you come with us? We are going to the Hunter Trade Center as well."

Shi Lang thought about it and nodded, these people were definitely not easy to get rid of. Lou Shin saw this but she did not make a move. The Terran did not wish to make a scene just yet. He wanted to handle this situation with as much peace as possible.

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Yang Xiaoling led the Terran through the bustle of the crowd and they reached the middle of the city where Shi Lang found another layer of wall spreading around the city. They were allowed to move in without paying anything. Yang Harwing said, "Welcome, to the inner Frontier City."

Shi Lang watched the scene before him as he got through the door and understood the difference between the two places. This place was much cleaner and quite. He noticed the array formations carved and embedded on the wall surface. Yang Xiaoling said, "These formations are to keep away the noises from the outer city. The occupants prefer their own peace and quiet."

Shi Lang nodded thinking, 'Yeah, such snobs y'all are.'

He survived his way through the introduction of the place with these guys and after an hour, Yang Xiaoling said, "This is the hunter's council. Here, you can go through the test and also sale the corpses of the Ten Thousand Race creatures."

Shi Lang nodded, and followed them all inside a large magnificent building which looked like a sword. Two guards stood at the gates, and one of them asked, "State your purpose."

Shi Lang stepped up and said, "I want to take the test for the spirit hunter."

The guard nodded and stepped aside. Shi Lang entered inside, and the lady said, "Brother Shura, we will wait for you outside in the square."

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Shi Lang entered the gates and suddenly he found that his spiritual energy has been blocked. He frowned but did not stop. As he came inside the place, he found many people moving around and chatting with each other. It was a circular lobby, with different counters in eight directions.

Four of these counters were trading counters, and the only thing audible was the wind flowing through the ventilation duct. The people here were using spiritual communication to talk, and they all walked without making any noise either. Shi Lang looked around for a bit before he made his way to a counter which was labeled, recruitment test.

Shi Lang stood in the queue, there were several people ahead of him. The young man took a deep breath and after half an hour when it was his turn, the old lady behind the counter asked, "Name."

The Terran could not help but say, "Shi Lang."

He was shocked that the speech of this elder could make him reveal the truth. The old lady had such heavy eyelids that her eyes were hardly opening. She asked again, "Realm Of Cultivation."

Shi Lang answered, "Dao Lord."

The lady asked many questions following that, such as, sect, master, and finally if he had killed any Ten Thousand Race individual. Shi Lang answered the questions and the old lady said, "Go inside, you will need to clear two stages before you can get the badge."

Shi Lang bowed to the elder and moved towards the passage beside the counter. Just inside the passage, he suddenly found himself in the illusion that he was walking along with Amelia. He snorted, and the scene changed. Following that, he was facing his old parents who were at the death bed, and again he only snorted.

He knew that even if he was not present, the descendants of the Shi Family would not let the older couple get away from the mortal world so easily. His elders were not just kind, but after such a long time, they were strong and wise too. The scenes kept on changing and Shi Lang just snorted to go through them.

It was that simple, his mental fortitude was at a level where this seven emotion array had nothing on him. After a minute, he found himself standing beside the young man who had entered the passage before him. Not only him but many of the people who had arrived before him.

Shi Lang looked at those people and found them standing in a daze. He understood that these people were still in the final level of the seven emotion array. He avoided them and moved forward before he found himself standing before a bunch of wooden puppets.

There were a few people who were moving to the other passage. Most of them were limping and only a few walked straight, but even they were not without any bruise. Shi Lang stepped forward and a voice echoed in his mind, "Take out seven puppets with the wooden sword to pass the bronze level test."

Shi Lang picked up a wooden sword from the side, and then he dashed forward with a quick speed. The first puppet that attacked him looked like a fox. Shi Lang located a shiny crystal stuck to the root of the tails of the beast.

The puppets were not simple either, they could recreate the attacks of the Ten Thousand Races beasts. The fox blew silver flames at Shi Lang, who dodged the attack with a quick side step and dashed behind the fox, before making a sudden sharp turn and stabbed at the shining crystal located at the root of the Fox.

The fox puppet froze, but before Shi Lang could even blink, a tiger puppet dashed at him and this guy used its claws to open small void fissures right where Shi Lang stood. The Terran was agile and quick, he could sense the void fluctuations coming his way and he skid on the ground to close the distance between himself and the puppet, before he stabbed his sword in the mouth of the tiger.

The tiger puppet came to a sudden stop as Shi Lang managed to attack at the crystal hidden in the tiger's mouth. The Terran then went on to face a python, an ape, and three demi-humans. His moves and performance was so good that none of the other people who were present had even woken up from the array.

Shi Lang let out a breath and placed the wooden sword back on the rack before walking out of the side passage. He found that the passage allowed him to come out from the other side of the test counter. The white haired old lady turned her head to look at him and she opened her eyes completely.

Shi Lang was surprised to see such beautiful eyes, they were silver in color but the depth in them was akin to that of the cosmos. The old lady said, "You did good. You have broken the record of the test. Do you want me to publish it?"

Shi Lang shook his head and said, "One shall focus on the path and avoid distractions."

The old lady nodded and said, "You are qualified to become a silver level hunter, but rules are the same for everyone. You will start at the bronze level, and then you will have to kill the creatures to enter the higher levels by earning merit points."

Shi Lang nodded, before he saw the old lady bring out a bronze plate from the void. She said, "Wear this on your shoulder when you hunt to make sure that your hunt is recorded."

Shi Lang thought about it and nodded before he said, "Thank you, elder."

The old lady smiled with her wrinkled face, and waved her hand for Shi Lang to walk away. The Terran collected his badge and headed to the assignment counter. He came over and was quickly assigned a bronze level assignment.

He was supposed to hunt a few feline creatures from the Ten Thousand Races. The task did not look very difficult, and was appropriate for the bronze level. Of course there was some risk involved but it could be avoided if the hunter was well prepared.

Shi Lang left the hunter building and wanted to get out of the city to get about his assignment quickly but the Yang disciples caught up to him, and Yang Xiaoling asked, "Brother Shura, were you going to leave us all standing in your wait?"

Shi Lang sighed and cupped his fists to them as he said, "Fellow Daoists, I apologize, but I am used to traveling alone and fighting alone as well. I hope you do not take offense."

He was not afraid of them but he did not wish to kick up a storm in the city governed by the forefathers of these people. Yang Harwing chuckled and said, "You look down on us a bit too much. We came here to give you the share of merit points we got from turning in the Void Barbarian Wolf."

Shi Lang was surprised and said, "You have my thanks."

Yang Xiaoling bought up her hunter badge and said, "Touch your badge with mine."

Shi Lang nodded and took out the small badge that looked like a sword piercing through different kinds of skull and sensed gentle wave of energy flow through Yang Xiaoling's badge to his.

Yang Harwing said, "When you have enough merit points, your badge will turn silver and you will qualify for the silver level hunter status."

Shi Lang nodded and said, "Thank you for your guidance and help all this time, but now I must go and deal with my tasks."

The people bade farewell to each other and Shi Lang left to deal with the mission.