"Each of you, remember that this Cultivation Art is something I refined for everyone to overcome the obstacle at the peak of Inner Qi Fighter Tier. With this Cultivation Art, you no longer required to search for other Cultivation Art because they will compliment everything you learned so far."

"As this Cultivation Art will carry you from the beginning of Inner Qi Fighter until the path of Half-Step Inner Qi Soldier, you must keep this a secret from everyone. By the time you reached 20th Stage of Inner Qi Soldier, I will provide a new Cultivation Art at that time," Zhang Wu Ji completes his words and take a deep breath.

"Master, what is this Cultivation Art called?" Tang Yuan asked Zhang Wu Ji. As the eldest brother of the eight of them, he's the only one that qualified to ask Zhang Wu Ji.

"Hu-Jia Inner Art, I refined this Cultivation Art according to a few aspects and concern related to the [Loyalty to Parents] inside. This is the reason it was named as Family Protection Art!" Zhang Wu Ji explained the name of this Cultivation Art to the six of them.

"Hu-Jia Art... Family Protection Art... No wonder master say it was a Cultivation Art he refined to compliment us..." Zhao Xiao Hua and Liu Yanni immediately caught the reason for its existence. It was for the sake of the family! This is why it exists!

"What's wrong with the manual? Take it. It belongs to you." looking at them trembling while holding the Cultivation Art Manuals, Zhang Wu Ji smiled. But there's one more person yet to reach her hand for the book. She's Meng Ran.

"Are you sure I'm qualified to possess a copy of this Cultivation Art Manual?" Meng Ran questioned him once more to make sure he will not regret in future for providing her the Manual.

"If it's not for you, why would I make six copies? Do you think I need one?" Zhang Wu Ji smiled as he answers. Actually, none of them know that inside his Spatial Ring, there's an even better version of Hu-Jia Inner Art. With the blessing from the System, what can't he creates if he has enough time, material, and experience?

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Zhang Wu Ji's Hu-Jia Inner Art + 10 (Unique)

-Ability Acquired (1): When Cultivating according to the content, this Hu-Jia Inner Art allows a cultivator to weave his Inner Qi 75% faster. The speed of absorption and assimilation of Natural Energy also increased by 50%.

-Ability Acquired (2): Cultivator that uses this Cultivation Art is more likely to obtain the Heaven's Enlightenment each step in his cultivation advancement. Natural Energy is more likely to evolve when accompanying the cultivator in his meditation.

-Ability Acquired (3): When the user entered the stage of Inner Qi Warrior, increase the previous two ability by 200%.

-Ability Acquired (4): When Hu-Jie Inner Art is used in a group fight, compliment the user with an increase of 1% Overall Performance (Multiplies) with the number of total users. (Limit to 100% Increment)

-Limitation: Copied Manual are not qualified to obtain further special status.

-Durability: 22/22

-Special (+0): The Manual increases the quality of Natural Energy by 50% when absorbed. When Meditation, the Natural Energy is more likely to swarm nearby the user.

-Special (+5): When Meditation, the User's recovery of Inner Qi is increased by 50%

-Special (+10): Allows the user to have better trust and relationship with people cultivating with this Hu-Jia Inner Art. The increment of Overall Performance is 2% and limit to 200%.

-Special (Permanent): The longer the First Copy of Manual exist in this realm, the better the Hu-Jia Inner Art will become. (Increase by 5% Every Ping An New Year)

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"Fine, I'll take it. But I will return this favor by making up for you." Meng Ran took the Manual and embarrassedly left the room in a hurry. With only nine of them remained, Zhang Wu Ji thinks it should be the time for him to tell them something.

"Except Li Yin and Li Tong, the six of you will make a trip to the Wen Yang City. I want you to collect information and persuade the City Lord to give up a part of the land for our Apprentice Hall. I will not question how you guys fulfill this task, but I have a few targets that the six of you must achieve before I went there."

"The first is weaken the influences of the Crystalline Pavilion within the Wen Yang City. I want them to close the business before my arrival." Zhang Wu Ji decisively stated what he's expecting to happen on the Crystalline Pavilion before he made his way there.

"Next, check the City Lord and the way he acts as a City Lord. Chop off this person's head if you found out any proof that he's selling the County to another faction." Zhang Wu Ji moved his hand and drew a line across his neck when he speaks.

"Li Jing understood." he immediately answered.

"Lastly, I don't mind about the money at all. Bring all the excess funding available from the Wen Wu City and Wen Qing City and go purchase everything you could from the Corporation scattered outside of the Golden Carapace City."

"What you need to get is how big is their corporation, the differences of their merchandise, and where did the source is found." Zhang Wu Ji completed his sentence, but that sentence caused an uproar amongst his eight attendants.

"Master, are you planning to do something I guess you're going to do?" Tang Yuan asked. In his mind, the scene Zhang Wu Ji took out everything in the stack of Wooden Universal Plates came out once again.

"Yes. Does that means you know what I want to achieve by sending the six of you there?" Zhang Wu Ji answered before he asks the next question.

"Yes! We understood!" everyone replied.

"Great, depart now and make sure you collected the excess fund from the two cities before you go there. And Li Tong, take this few Wooden Universal Plates and keep the treasure in front of us. Tell Vault Elder Feng Ming to sell everything with the highest profit but make sure we did not overcharge our own Hall members."

"Li Yin, you remain here." Zhang Wu Ji waved his hand and ordered the seven to leave. With only the two of them inside his room, Zhang Wu Ji started talking once more.

"Master, please let Li Yin do something for you." he half-kneeled before Zhang Wu Ji for the sake of a mission.

"I have one mission, and I want you to use your smartness in getting this mission done. But in return, you will be cut off from all your brother and sisters until this mission is over. If this mission is a success, our plan to subdue the whole Seven Star County will be completed before the end of the year." Zhang Wu Ji started to explain the danger of this mission.

"Master. Please go ahead." Li Yin steeled his mind and heart to accept this mission. Soon, the master and disciple started to talk until the time past midnight.

At the next morning, there's no longer a person name Li Yin inside the Apprentice Hall. All his task were taken by Li Tong without any explanation. The members of the Apprentice Hall questioned his disappearance, but nothing was discussed.

While at the next morning, Zhang Wu Ji went to Meng Ran's room and knocked on her door. From the amount of Natural Energy that flying through the door into her room, she must be meditating using the Hu-Jia Inner Art.

"What happened?" she came out after she put on some proper clothing. But because it was knotted clumsily, it revealed a small part of her inner garment as she opened the door. When Zhang Wu Ji looks at a small patch of her unprotected cleavages, Zhang Wu Ji felt a hint of urge!

"Shhruppss." he almost drooled from that little surprises, but it looks like Meng Ran did not catch him and his perverted behavior. The latter continued to loosen her hair slightly while waiting for Zhang Wu Ji to start talking.

"Miss Meng Ran, can Wu Ji requested for your time to accompany me into the Inner Qi King's Tomb?" Zhang Wu Ji brought the question up, where it shocked her for a moment.

The inheritance that he might gain is expected to be bountiful, but what she couldn't understand that why Zhang Wu Ji did not ask for Tang Yuan or his Seventh and Eighth Senior Brother to accompany him? She was an outsider, to begin with!

"Wh... Why... Why me? Don't you have other choices to choose from?" she replied. But when Zhang Wu Ji heard her, he clicked his tongue and shook his head left and right.

"Miss Meng Ran, the reason I choose you is that I believe your skills in handling formation is the best in the whole Apprentice Hall. In the term of fighting and handling problem, I'm the best, but when it comes to... You know?" Zhang Wu Ji embarrassedly scratch his head to let her know his meaning.

"Ah... Direction Blind... Pff!" she laughed the moment she caught the reason why Zhang Wu Ji selected her to accompany him. As a person with Direction Disorder, how can he get to the correct way if he got no guide at all!

Even a mouse can reach the main treasure earlier by giving Zhang Wu Ji a hundred hours of handicap start.

"Hmm... I'll accompany you then. But I won't get myself busy, deal?" she folds her hand just between her chest as she talks. Unconsciously pushing up he perky body a little.

"Sure! Sure! Shall we make our way two days later?" Zhang Wu Ji blushed and turned his head around and agree to her request. Next, he quickly runs back to his room and relaxes and prepares for the next two days.

In between of this two days, Zhang Wu Ji tried to engrave more Wooden Universal Plates and also practicing his Tyrant Martial Body that he has forgotten for so long due to his busy schedule.

Two days later.

Zhang Wu Ji went to the square to meet with Meng Ran who holds the Iron Kong-Que in her hand. His appearance is like he falls into a heap of trash, with a dark circle on his lower eyes. What nobody knows is because Zhang Wu Ji's concentration is disturbed by what he sees earlier, making him unable to rest, work, engrave, and cultivates!

Luckily, Meng Ran is the person in charge of controlling the Iron Kong-Que, which allows her to drive their way until they fly past Wen Yang City and heading to the Inner Qi King's Tomb. As for Zhang Wu Ji, the existence of Meng Ran by his side calm his mind a little before he continued with his training with his Tyrant Martial Body.

About four more days later, they fly past the Wen Yang City and reaches a location which was quite isolated from the public eyes. But the building that carries the impression of a Human Swordsman when one looking on the top betrayed its secret.

"This is the tomb!" Meng Ran said with one of her hand holding the map. But when she looked at Zhang Wu Ji whos seated on the back, she was caught with surprise as she stares at Zhang Wu Ji's Fighter Qi!

"What is wrong with this threatening strands of Fighter Qi? The usual strands of Fighter Qi are strong, but they weren't as intimidating as his Fighter Qi. Plus, even if you can control the way your Fighter Qi move outside of your body, how can you form a word with it?"

Meng Ran is staring at Zhang Wu Ji with his Fighter Qi forming a word.

[ZHANG]

And at this moment, every influential figure that lived in this Ping An Continent received a shock in their mind, with the Eastern Imperial Kingdom's Retired Emperor, responding with a smile on his face.

10th Generation Eastern Imperial Emperor, Zhang Yu.

"Finally, one of our Zhang Imperial Clan members activated his Royal Bloodline! Men! Inspect and report to me the current situation of all Zhang Clan in this continent! Find me the one that activated his Royal Bloodline!"

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[Author's Note]

Did some adjustment, tweak here and there for a bit. Let me know in the comment if its still the same, better, or worst.