The Geared Immortal

The war part 5

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The sun has arisen as a new day greeted every creature in the cultivation land. Every creature is being blessed with the golden rays of the emerging sun on the horizon.

Inside a tall building, a figure of a young man can be seen running to and fro. He has been busy for hours now. Currently, on an old wooden table lays a diagram where many symbols and runes can be seen. The young man is currently trying to follow what's on the diagram and has already finished half of what's drawn on it.

This young man is one of the many researchers inside the crafting building of the well-known academy called the Great Wu Academy. The busy schedule of the crafting students and teachers in this building is unlike the rest of the academy.

This is because of the long line-up of projects that they are presented with.

Meanwhile, in the canteen of the building, where students are having their break, many discussions can be heard.

"Sigh… I really wanted to join the advance crafting classes with the beautiful teacher Ouyang."

"Me too, teacher Loulou Ouyang is really my goddess."

"You boys are too shallow. For me, I like teacher Ki. His ability to enhance artifacts is truly fascinating."

"Yeah, I agree, but sadly we can't learn it because it is his innate talent."

"How about student Ai Ji? I heard that she is known as the mortal artificer in the city. Although she focused more on alchemy these days, she is still a 2nd tier artificer even as a mortal. Nobody knows how she became a cultivator thought."

"Well, talking about crafting experts, I would choose Sir Jiao. I think he is the best artificer in the kingdom."

"Haha, no question about that… But I heard that Sir Jiao is going to leave today."

"Ah… yes, I heard that he is going to do some academy mission."

"What? I thought that he would be exempted from that?"

"Actually he is, yet I heard that he is going to do the mission so as to help with the war."

Meanwhile, outside of the Great City of Wu.

The figure of Shin Jiao can be seen walking on the dirt road towards the northeastern direction near the border.

His purpose is to go to a city where mind stones are mined.

Shin Jiao didn't bother to take anyone with him because this journey of his is very dangerous. The war is already at hand and he needed to do things at his own pace. This way he could finish everything faster without ever worrying about anyone.

And so his journey to the seaside city of Cui began.

"I need to go to the clearing before I can take out the airship." Shin Jiao muttered as he remembers the instruction given to him by the academy mission center.

In this mission, Shin Jiao was given a small airship, some weapons, armor, and some pills. This is the standard equipment for cultivators who would be taking low to mid-level missions.

If he could accomplish this mission of his he would be rewarded with thousands of academy points which could be exchanged to items or spirit stones in the academy.

Although Shin Jiao didn't worry about money, it wouldn't hurt him to have more of it, right?

And so, he calmly walks towards the clearing where he can see many other people are walking towards.

"I guess these people are also taking missions for the academy." Shin Jiao thought as he observes the people and their clothing.

Then suddenly, Shin Jiao paused in his footsteps as he saw a familiar figure.

The young woman is wearing a blue satin robe with a Great Wu academy emblem on her back. The blue robe fits her body perfectly which insinuated her curvy figure and beautiful appearance. She tied her hair in a ponytail making her look heroic and strong.

That young woman was the reason why the Xiemen clan chased the real Shin Jiao to his death. She is Qilin Xiemen, the jewel princess of the Xiemen clan.

Qilin Xiemen didn't notice Shin Jiao because of his gaze. This is because she is already used to the feeling of people looking at her. Nobody can blame her, Qilin Xiemen is truly a beauty cut above the rest.

Shin Jiao's gaze didn't linger on her as he continues walking and standing in line for those who are going to use small airships.

Currently, in the clearing, there are two huge platforms. One is for large airships, which can carry at least 10 and at most a hundred people. The other one is for small to medium-sized airship which can carry one or less than ten people.

As Shin Jiao observes the orderly fashion the launching of an airship is proceeding he could not help but sigh in his heart. Although the process is primitive, yet it is efficient in maintaining the order in the sky.

As the line progresses, Shin Jiao suddenly feels a hidden killing intent. Although he didn't look back, he carefully grabs the simple sword and carefully looks at the shiny part of the weapon. From the reflection, he can see three people looking at him with malicious expressions.

"From the looks of it, those people belong to a mercenary group. But why are they looking at me like that? I don't have any enmity with them right?" Shin Jiao thought.

Shin Jiao knows that he made many enemies in his travel on this continent. So far when he escaped from the Heaven Crow sect area, he offended a lot of powerful people in that place. So right now, he is thinking if those people are from the Sect, or from the Nian family. If so then, he would not be polite if they make their move. He has already lost his dantian because of that place, and he would not tolerate it again.

Shin Jiao is not a vengeful person unless he is provoked or trapped then he would not cause anyone some trouble.

The people behind didn't hide their killing intent; however, Shin Jiao was not alarmed because he is confident that he would be able to dispose of those people.

After some time has passed, it was Shin Jiao's turn to take out his airship. Standing on a platform, Shin Jiao takes out a small airship from a special spatial container for the ship.

With a thought, the small one-man airship suddenly appears and floated in the air in front of Shin Jiao.

The airship looks like a small boat with two seats. It looks like a small speedboat from the earth without the water propeller.

Upon seeing that the airship is already out, he didn't hesitate and immediately jumps and rode the airship.

Although it didn't have any floatation parts, the small boat-like airship is able to float because of the power device inside the airship.

Shin Jiao is already familiar with this device because he had seen one when he bought the ancient airship in an auction in the town of Dis.

And so Shin Jiao maneuvered the small airship and flew through the air.

When the people looking at him saw that Shin Jiao took out a small airship, they sneered.

"Go back and tell the clan that we have found him." one of the men who look like their leader said to a small guy beside him.

"We will follow him and grab the chance to capture him alive." He said as he gestured to the other one to follow him.

"Wait, brother, you have to be careful. The second elder of the clan was killed by that guy. So you must not underestimate that guy." the small figured man said as he turns around and disappears.

The two men walked quickly towards the line where Shin Jiao launched his airship. This is because there is only 1 person left in line.

"That slave thinks that he can escape our clan just because he went to the main city of Wu kingdom. If the elders of the clan know that we captured this guy, they would reward us handsomely right?" the man muttered in a low voice.

His companion heard him and smile.

The two of them knew what happened in the clan and this information was covertly spread through all the clan members. They would be given 10,000 spirit stones if they can inform the clan of the whereabouts of a certain slave who escaped the clan. And if they can capture that slave, they would be given 100,000 spirit stones.

This reward was really tempting to all the clan members and so everyone was excited at that time. Yet, months have passed and still, no one knew where the guy is. Even with the vast connection of the people in the clan, they still didn't know where the person is.

The elders have already lost any hope in capturing this person. But the influence of the clan has not reached the main city of the Wu kingdom. Hence they are unable to discover Shin Jiao and his status.

These three mercenaries wanted to explore the Wu kingdom; hence they visited the main city of Wu. And in that city, they discovered the changes which are happening and they're very happy to report it to their clan.

So right now, they have bought some of those things they called the phone, to bring it to the clan. Yet as they were about to go home, they chance upon Shin Jiao and recognized him from the spiritual description of the elders.

Since Shin Jiao is highly sought by the leaders of the clan, they didn't use drawings and instead spend an effort to make a spiritual image of Shin Jiao which is more accurate.

Hence the three recognized him after observing him for a while. When they truly recognize Shin Jiao they feel that they wanted to kill him because he has killed the 2nd elder of their clan.

So, the three decided to do their duty as clan members of the Nian clan.