Phoenix Emperor
Chap 14's. The emperor's plan.

Imperial palace.

"Sincerely servant, your highness" Xu Jiang bowed as he saluted emperor Bei.

"Welcome, Patriarch Xu. Please sit down" said Zhao Yujin, ruler of the Bei empire.

Xu Jiang nodded, then sat down on one of the chairs there, then his gaze was fixed on Shan Zhe Ming who had already been in the palace.

"Patriarch Xu, how was your trip?"

"Our journey has been very smooth, your honor. There was indeed a little obstacle, but we managed to overcome it easily" Xu Jiang replied.

"Thank God, I was worried because you were late."

"Pardon me for making your majesty wait."

"Xu Jiang, you should ask your Majesty for forgiveness, because in this empire you are the only one who dares to make his majesty wait" Shan Zhe Ming said.

Xu Jiang did not respond to Shan Zhe Ming's words, although there was still a sense of annoyance and anger left in his heart, yet he preferred to be silent rather than to address Shan Zhe Ming.

In addition, Xu Jiang had also been able to guess the contents of Shan Zhe Ming's mind and if he were to serve him, then an enormous problem would befall him as well as the Jade Lotus sect.

"Have it done, don't get into too much trouble. After all, there are important things that we should talk about" Zhao Yujin said.

"Okay, your honor."

Zhao Yujin then explained the reason why she gathered them all in the palace, it was related to the tournament that was about to start in two more days.

Unlike the previous years, the tournament of young cultivators this time would be slightly different, because in the first round cultivators would be required to hunt spiritual beasts.

For a cultivator, hunting spiritual animals was commonplace, but the problem was, the participants had to hunt within the extremely dangerous wilderness.

"Your highness, isn't this too dangerous for the participants? If it was only a spiritual animal hunt, it would be better to use another forest that was safer" Xu Jiang argued.

"If you're afraid, you don't have to take part in this tournament" Shan Zhe Ming said.

"It's not a matter of fear or not, but it concerns the lives of the participants!"

"I agree with Xu Jiang's opinion" said Long Aotian, the leader of the Heavenly Dragon sect.

"But, I'm sure your highness has his own reasons for doing all this" he continued.

Zhao Yujin did have a special reason behind her plan, only that she could not explain it to all of them, for fear that they would not accept it.

"You don't have to worry, I'll send some strong men to watch over the participants."

"Alright, but I have to talk about this to my students first, if they want to come along then I won't stop it."

The brief meeting ended and all sides agreed with the emperor's plan, but he warned that he was not forcing them to join the hunt.

***

Her night.

Xu Jiang gathered his sect members to talk about the emperor's plan, he also asked Yin Feng to come, but until now he had not appeared.

"Patriark, where's your student? Did he ignore the teacher's call?"

"If it was my student, I would have already punished him!"

"Unfortunately I'm not your student, second elder!" said Yin Feng who suddenly appeared behind the second elder.

The appearance of Yin Feng made them all startled, as none of them could sense the aura of his existence, including Xu Jiang.

Xu Jiang smiled kindly, "it's okay, come here and introduce yourself."

Yin Feng nodded, then introduced himself to all of them. "Include me, my name is Feng Huang."

Their gazes were all now focused on Yin Feng, despite having already mentioned his name, but his masked face even made them suspicious.

"Why are you wearing a mask?" ask the second elder.

"I could have shown my face to you guys, but I'm afraid you guys will feel disgusted" Yin Feng replied.

Various kinds of strange thoughts came to their minds upon hearing Yin Feng's words, for example the second elder who thought that Yin Feng's face was destroyed by the burns.

However, what Yin Feng said was indeed true, because they would all feel disgusted when they knew the face behind the mask was his face.

"Alright, since everything is gathered, it is time to discuss the matter."

Afterwards, Xu Jiang explained about the emperor's plan of suddenly turning the tournament into a spiritual animal-hunting event, then asked their opinion.

At first they questioned the reason for the change, but Xu Jiang also did not know the reason behind the change, as the emperor did not explain it.

"After all, we have to join the hunt!"

"That's right! It's a good opportunity to get a lot of resources."

"All right, then we'll be on the hunt."

Since everyone agreed to join the hunt, Xu Jiang could only agree and agree with them, when he actually did not want to attend the event.

"Teacher, there's something I want to talk about" Yin Feng said after the others left from there.

"Please, what do you want to talk about, Feng'er."

Yin Feng said that he had little objection and did not want to participate in the hunt, because after all, he had already felt the horror of the wilderness.

In his opinion, it was impossible for a Heaven Spirit realm cultivator to survive there and if he wanted to hold a hunt, he would at least have to deploy a Heaven Spirit realm cultivator.

Xu Jiang agreed with Yin Feng and he did not want to follow the hunt, but he could not do anything because the elders wanted him.

"Feng'er, the teacher wants your help."

"Of course, teacher, while it's still within my reach, whatever it is I'll do!"

"As you've heard, they want to attend this hunting event, so teacher hope you can look after the sect disciples."

"Teacher looks too high on me" Yin Feng said.

"Feng'er, the teacher asked for your help because the teacher believes in your abilities."

"Bright... Alright, I will take care of them as long as they don't make trouble" Yin Feng said.

"Thank you."

After conversing until late at night, Yin Feng then bid farewell to Xu Jiang to return to the inn, wanting to do some absorption.

"At the face of it I still can't read his cultivation level" Xu Jiang muttered who until now still didn't know his disciple's cultivation level.

Let alone reading Yin Feng's cultivation level, even Xu Jiang could not sense the cultivation aura of that disciple in the slightest, as if he was not a cultivator.

Despite that, Xu Jiang strongly believed that his disciple possessed extraordinary strength, as he himself had already witnessed the prowess of Yin Feng while heading to the capital.

With his current abilities, Xu Jiang was confident that his disciple was capable of carrying out tasks from him and he was also convinced, that Yin Feng was the strongest among cultivators his age.