Chapter 5 The Recruitment of Martial Institution Started

Day broke. If standing on the mountain, one could see clearly the burned-out Lin Family’s Mansion in Fengjian City. Lin Xi had already woken up. She was looking in the direction of the mansion and sobbing, her tears streaming down.

“Xi, don’t cry. Your brother is with you.”

Lin Tian consoled her in a tender voice.

Lin Xi wiped off the tears, gave a bright smile and said, “Well, as long as my brother is with me, I have nothing to fear.”

A lump came into Lin Tian’s throat. How couldn’t he see that the little girl was forcing a smile? He was aware that Lin Xi just didn’t want him to worry about her.

An eight-year-old girl was actually so considerate.

“Xi, my good girl, I swear that I’ll definitely make them pay back double what they owe us.”

He vowed.

The sky was already bright. Lin Tian didn’t go back to Fengjian City, but stayed in Qing Mountain for the time being. In the next few days, he was practicing Siji Scriptures all the time, and occasionally glanced over those strange patterns flooding into his mind. Finally, he actually sorted out another set of mysterious footwork, called Dual Position Step.

“Swoosh!”

“Swoosh!”

“Swoosh!”

In Qing Mountain, Lin Tian shuttled from one spot to another rapidly. Although the forest was dense around him, and the cracks were simply too narrow to walk through, Lin Tian could always pass through each crack very quickly, light on his feet.

After a while, Lin Tian stopped.

“How amazing Dual Position Step is! I feel as if I’m walking on air while practicing it.”

Lin Tian thought to himself.

He wiped off the sweat on his forehead, rested for a while and began to practice again.

They picked wild fruits for food. Time went by very quickly, and five days had passed in a blink.

On this day, Lin Tian woke up from cultivation and looked up at Fengjian City.

There was a martial cultivation institution in Fengjian City called Jiuyang Martial Institution. On this day of the year, Jiuyang Martial Institution would recruit disciples from the public, and Lin Tian prepared to sign up for the entrance examination of Jiuyang Martial Institution.

Although Lin Tian owned the top-level exercise method of body cultivation, it was more than simply exercise method, and many more resources would be consumed. These resources included many aspects, such as elixirs, medical herbs, martial art techniques, special cultivation sites and so on. All these resources were hard to get on his own, but Jiuyang Martial Institution could offer them to him.

As long as Lin Tian wanted to be stronger and progress rapidly on the road of cultivation, he must enter Jiuyang Martial Institution. As long as he was enrolled and achieved good results in the institution, he would win endless awards. Some of them were elixirs, others powerful martial techniques, or some amazing treasures, which were all he needed.

“Xi, let’s go back to town.”

Lin Tian said to Lin Xi.

“Alright,” Lin Xi replied and then said in a low voice, “But brother, won’t it be dangerous?”

Lin Tian knew what Lin Xi was worrying about. He stroked the little girl’s head dotingly.

“Don’t worry. No matter what happens, I will protect you.”

Lin Tian said with a smile.

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It was early spring, but the square in front of Jiuyang Martial Institution was already filled with people.

Today was the day the institution recruiting disciples from the public, and there were countless people coming to sign up for the entrance examination.

Lin Tian and Lin Xi were at the edge of the square. Lin Tian didn’t take Lin Xi back to the Lin Family’s Mansion since it was already burned to ashes, and he didn’t want to depress her again.

“It’s said that many experts have signed up for the test this time. Some of them have already attained the fourth layer of body cultivation, and they’re still quite young, hardly 16 yet.”

“Really? Sounds so brutal!”

“Of course it’s real. Besides, it’s said that there’re many of them.”

“Well... Then we’re hopeless, I guess?”

Each year, Jiuyang Martial Institution would recruit disciples from the public, but the seats were limited, 150 people at most. If there were more experts, it would be less likely for those less competent people to be enrolled, and naturally they would be worrying.

Lin Tian was surprised to hear that. He felt a little shocked at heart too.

It indeed was brutal for a boy younger than 16 to reach the fourth layer of body cultivation.

“Now I have Siji Scriptures and Dual Position Step, and I’m at the third layer of body cultivation, so there should be no problem for me to be recruited.”

Lin Tian thought to himself.

As he was thinking, suddenly Lin Tian felt that many eyes fell upon him from afar. He turned around and turned pale instantly.

Mo Sen’s domestic servant, Liu Er, appeared a dozen meters away. He was walking towards Lin Tian with a sneer.

“Bastard, I knew you would come to take the entrance examination of Jiuyang Martial Institution. It seems that my waiting is worthwhile!”

Liu Er was followed by six people. Five of them were strong men, while the other one was a middle-aged man. The five strong men were all fierce-looking, while the middle-aged man looked indifferent, with his hands clasped behind his back.