by Dragon King
Every single shell symbolized a small piece of memory.
“I wore your mom’s clothes today. I’m just going to grab my clothes from here.” Xie Yujia walked to the bedside and picked up a plain-looking white t-shirt.
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili set up a small invisible Five Elemental Array Formation while Hao Ren and Xie Yujia were talking. This array formation could help Hao Ren sense and absorb the five elements.
“Finished touring? There isn’t anything special, right?” Hao Ren looked at the twins and said.
“It is very normal,” Lu Linlin stuck her tongue out.
Hao Ren glanced at her, didn’t say anything, and exited the room. Xie Yujia, who held her clothes in her hand, felt terrible when she saw that the cute Lu sisters were already so close and so intimate with Hao Ren in just a few days.
“Why don’t Yujia and Ren go to the beach and reminisce about your childhoods?” Grandma didn’t want Xie Yujia to go back so early, so she made a suggestion.
“Grandma, I still have to visit my relatives with my dad. I’ll find another time to come and visit you,” Xie Yujia smile at Grandma and said.
“That’s true. Your dad rarely comes back, and you guys haven’t visited relatives yet. Fine, spend some time with your dad first! We’re a family from now on. Grandma will always think about you, Little Carrot!” Grandma said.
“Mom, I’ll drop them off back in the city,” Hao Zhonghua said.
“Also bring Linlin and Lili to the city,” Hao Ren said right away.
“If I don’t send them back, who knows if they will stay here or not?” he thought.
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili looked at Hao Ren sadly. “We wanted to utilize this weekend and help Gongzi to break through…… We also want to play by the beach too…” they thought.
Seeing Hao Zhonghua’s white Ford driving away, Hao Ren went back inside the house. Yue Yang stood at the door, faced Grandma, and tried to advise her, “Mom, you shouldn’t treat every girl so nicely. Ren won’t know where to stand.”
Grandma stopped smiling. “Aren’t you and Zhonghua going to Beijing for some Academic Conferences?” she asked.
“Um…… This time, it might take a month. It’s a big project for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and it involves many subjects,” Yue Yang said in an apologetic tone.
“That’s right! If an old woman like me doesn’t find a few companions, won’t I be bored to death?” Grandma walked inside the house and said again, “These two young girls, Linlin and Lili, are pretty nice. Besides, their parents aren’t with them, and they usually stay with their grandpa. Isn’t that pitiful?”
Yue Yang felt like Grandma was actually hinting at Hao Ren even though Grandma mentioned the Lu sisters. She knew it was her fault and could only save her opinions for later.
It was a calm and tranquil weekend, and it passed by promptly. Hao Ren had been going for walks on the beach every morning and every evening for the past two days. Yue Yang and Hao Zhonghua thought that something might be bothering him, and they didn’t ask since they didn’t want to make him feel more anxious.
They didn’t know that Hao Ren was trying to feel the earth elements and increase the earth element ratio in his body.
Only when all five elements reach the absolute equilibrium of precisely 20% could the foundation be successfully built. It would be the first step in cultivating the Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll as well as leveling up to the realm of Kan-level.
It was even difficult for a master like Su Han to achieve this. For example, adding one type of drink into a cup was easy, but adding five types of drink into a cup with the exact same ratio would be difficult.
Yet, these weren’t problems to Hao Ren. Currently, he had Lu Linlin and Lu Lili as two ‘automatic detectors’ since they could precisely measure the five elements in his body. He only needed to adjust constantly, and then he could reach perfect equilibrium.
This was just the same as mathematics’ ‘interval algorithm’. By continually measuring and valuing, one could reach the most precise value.
Cultivating using data was pretty much his original creation.
Carrying a bag full of snacks and returning to the dorm, it was already eight o’clock on Sunday night. Hao Ren sent Zhao Yanzi a text message to make sure she arrived in East Ocean City. Then, he urged her to do her homework and most certainly got a reply of “stop nagging”.
“Sigh, how come kids these days don’t like studying,” Hao Ren thought as he gave the big pack of snacks from his Grandma to the surrounding dorm rooms. However, he instantly got attacked by many guys. “Hand us the cell phone numbers of the twin sisters!”
“Old-fashioned! Why do you need cell phones to contact the twin sisters? They will appear immediately in front of me if I shake the bell and think about them,” Hao Ren thought.
“Qin Shaoyang…”
Suddenly, shouts came from the other Dorm Buildings.
“Those crazy women are yelling again!” Cao Ronghua opened up the snacks and said in dissatisfaction.
Zhao Jiayi walked over and closed the balcony door as he sighed. Over the weekend, he had been at the school participating in training and didn’t go home. Every night, he endured the torturing shouts coming from the girls.
“What does this Qin Shaoyang look like…” Hao Ren was busy cultivating during the weekend and completely forgot to look his picture up online.
The moon fell, and the sun rose.
Half a day’s classes were over.
As promised, Hao Ren went to Su Han’s office to cultivate.
As he opened the door, he heard Su Han yell, “Get out!”
Soon after, Hao Ren felt tremendous pressure coming at him!
Hao Ren grabbed the wall, barely able to stand on the ground. Then, he found Su Han standing beside the window. She was holding a sword single-handedly as she pointed it at another person in the office!
143 Nothing Good Is Coming!
Su Han was pointing at a man in a grey shirt with her sword when Hao Ren rushed into her office.
That man whipped a ray of golden light out at Hao Ren without thinking.
Dang!
Suddenly, a blue ripple appeared in front of Hao Ren’s chest. At that moment, Hao Ren felt a sharp pain as the necklace Su Han gave him suddenly cracked.
“How dare you!” Su Han got furious. The white sword in her hand turned into a dash of white light and struck towards that man’s chest.
However, this man took called back the golden light and waved it casually to block Su Han’s white sword.
Tink!
The sharp noise gave Hao Ren a headache.
Hao Ren circulated the Spirit Concentration Scroll to calm his mind down. After he took a second look at this man’s weapon, he realized that it was a golden weaving shuttle.
He looked out of the window at the passing students, and he saw that they were chatting and laughing; no one realized that a fight was going on in Su Han’s office.
After missing, Su Han slashed the sword out single-handedly again and aimed it at this man’s waist.
However, this man in grey lowered the golden weaving shuttle lightly and blocked Su Han’s sword once again.
Dang!
Su Han used her full strength this time, and the noises from the battle even shook the array formation of the office.
“If you keep on going, this little guy may not make it,” that man said to Su Han.
“Humph!” Su Han was unwilling to submit. She chopped down at that man’s head, but it got easily blocked once again. Then, she took a few steps back, and the sword vanished from her hand.
Even though Hao Ren was standing close by, the man in grey paid no attention to him. He kept staring at Su Han with a smile. “Hehe, Han, you are still the most attractive when you are mad.”
Su Han frowned to show that he was not welcomed at all.
“After just two years, you have advanced to mid-tier Qian-level, half a tier higher than me. How hardworking have you
been?” he continued.
Su Han stood quietly by the window.
“But it’s useless to level up in Cultivation Realms without improving your techniques. Your sword technique is bad as usual. How do you expect to defeat me with that?” this man smiled at Su Han and said.
“Get lost!” Su Han wasn’t friendly at all.
That man laughed and finally turned to Hao Ren to look at him.
“You even gave the body-protection necklace to him, and he could come into your office without authorization. Is he your disciple?” that man turned to Su Han and asked.
Su Han kept quiet.
He turned back to Hao Ren. “The five elements in his body are messed up, and he has no future. You have really gotten a great disciple, little Han.”
“I will say it one last time… Get Lost!” cold lights flashed in Su Han’s eyes.
“It’s no use cultivating that hard if you can’t become a Heavenly Dragon. Do you really think that your hard work can get you to the Heavenly Realm? It would be a better choice to enjoy your life with me for a couple of hundred years!” that man said.
Without saying anything, Su Han’s white sword appeared in her palm again. This time, it was surrounded by chilling lights and icy energy.
“Alright, I’ll go.” That man finally got intimidated a little and backed himself to the door.
Even Hao Ren could tell that Su Han was furious this time. She would be using her ultimate technique if this man stuck around longer.
Just when this man turned around and was ready to leave, Hao Ren noticed that the color of his pupils was gold!
The dark red room became normal all of a sudden, and the sunlight shot right into the room through the window. Hao Ren could hear the birds chirping and smell the aroma of flowers again.
The sword vanished from Su Hao’s hand, and she glimpsed at Hao Ren. “Sit down and cultivate.”
Hao Ren rubbed his chest and sat opposite to Su Han.
“Although the technique I’m cultivating is different from yours, the basic concepts are the same. Since you picked the Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll, it is important to comprehend all five elements at the same time. Your Dragon Core is Zi’s, so it has more water element. Therefore, you should be cultivating a water elemental technique,” Su Han slowly calmed down and said to Hao Ren. She was cultivating both metal and water elements at the same time and was a mid-tier Qian-level cultivator. Her information was beneficial to Hao Ren.
As for Lu Linlin and Lu Lili, although they were mighty, their cultivation method was different from Hao Ren’s and Su Han’s. They were on the level of top-tier Kun-level, but that was only a conversion to the cultivation levels of the Dragon Tribe. Therefore, they could offer Hao Ren some help and information, but they wouldn’t be able to give him too much instruction on cultivation.
Two hours went by quickly, and the sandalwood incense had burned down as well.
Hao Ren didn’t want to bother Su Han’s cultivation too much since it was already six o’clock. He stood up and said, “Let’s call it a day, Su Han.”
She nodded and took a little golden pearl off her bracelet. “This is a Dharma Golden Pearl and is a precious treasure. It functions the same as the water elemental amber Zi gave you. However, this would help you with the collection of metal elements.”
She threw the pearl at Hao Ren, and he hastily caught it.
Seeing his hesitation, Su Han said coldly, “Don’t worry, there is no trick about this pearl.”
Hao Ren unhooked his necklace and added the pearl on it. He now had Zi’s amber and Su Han’s golden pearl, if he could collect wood, earth, and fire elemental pendants, this necklace would be complete with all five elements.
“I used this pearl with my cultivation before, and I’m giving it to you because I hope it could help you advance into Kan-level soon,” Su Han continued.
Hao Ren nodded. Although Su Han was always cold, she had shown extreme patience to him.
“Also, your necklace had been attacked by that jerk just now, and some of the array formations in it are damaged. It can only defend one more attack of the same level at most. I don’t have much time to restore the necklace for you now, so you have to be careful,” Su Han said.
Hao Ren was going to ask about that guy, but he stopped himself after some consideration. He turned around and left the office.
The priority for him was to reach Kan-level as soon as possible, so he didn’t want to stick his hands into other random things.
As he walked outside, Hao Ren felt the weight of the golden pearl on the necklace. It was still warm since Su Han was wearing it just now.
Hao Ren realized that this pearl had just intimately touched Su Han’s skin, and his body temperature raised a little as well.
Su Han was a beauty who would make people excited just by thinking about her. If Zhou Liren and the guys were to find out that Hao Ren received a pendant from Su Han, one which she was wearing before, they would be jealous to death.
When Hao Ren was walking towards the Dorm Building in the south, he passed by the library and saw that it was still open.
The billboard for the ‘Qin Shaoyang’s Personal Art Exhibition’ was still on the door. Hao Ren thought for a bit and went inside.
This ‘Qin Shaoyang’s Personal Art Exhibition’ was held in the lobby of the first floor. The showing would be on Wednesday, two days from now. However, everywhere but the elevator to the second floor was covered up by tall whiteboards.
It seemed like although the paintings weren’t hang up yet, the whole place has already been decorated.
Hao Ren scanned the place and was about to leave when Qin Shaoyang, who was in a grey striped shirt, secretly sneaked behind him.
144 Out of Seclusion Cultivation
Hao Ren suddenly felt intense pressure on his chest.
He sensed that something was wrong and turned back immediately. It was the man who was in Su Han’s office earlier standing behind him, sneering.
This man lifted a finger and flicked it at Hao Ren.
Boom!
Hao Ren felt like a giant hammer smashed him, and it forced him to pounce out of the library!
Thankfully, there were a few stairs at the door. Hao Ren stepped on them as he struggled to stand still.
Splash…
The necklace Su Han gave him suddenly broke open, and the amber from Zi and the golden pearl from Su Han both fell to the ground.
This ‘genius artist’ who was popular in the media only flicked his finger casually as if he was flicking off a speck of dust from his shirt.
He was in a pair of light-colored pants, a grey shirt, and black shoes. He looked like he was in his late twenties, and his handsome face was impeccable. His temperament showed what a gentleman he was as well.
“Don’t get near Su Han in the future,” he said lightly as Hao Ren finally stood straight.
He looked at Hao Ren condescendingly. If Huang Xujie’s attitude was out of jealousy, Qin Shaoyang’s was entirely out of despite.
Shoo! Shoo!
There went two rays of green light!
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili appeared by Qin Shaoyang’s sides!
Since the library was about to close, there was no student nearby. The sisters started attacking Qin Shaoyang without a word.
They both aimed at Qin Shaoyang’s handsome face!
He raised his hands to block the attacks, but Lu Linlin and Lu Lili suddenly changed the direction of their hands!
Pa! Pa! Qin Shaoyang got two hard slaps on his face.
He stepped back to defend as the sisters stepped forward.
Pa! Pa! Their hands went back to their original positions and gave him two more slaps.
Qin Shaoyang tried to block it with both of his hands up and his head down. However, Lu Linlin and Lu Lili changed their moves and went through Qin Shaoyang’s defense.
Pa! Pa! Two more hard slaps!
“Stop it!” Hao Ren shouted.
Shoo! Shoo! Lu Lin
lin and Lu Lili turned into two rays of green lights and appeared by Hao Ren’s sides.
Qin Shaoyang looked up in panic. There were six clear hand prints on his handsome face.
If it weren’t for Hao Ren’s call, Lu Linlin and Lu Lili would have kept going until his entire face was swollen!
“This is what’s going to happen if you bully Gongzi again!” Lu Linlin said angrily to Qin Shaoyang with her eyes wide open.
“Are you alright, Gongzi? My sister and I sensed that you were under attack, so we came over immediately,” Lu Lili asked Hao Ren softly, full of worries.
Qin Shaoyang felt the intense burning pain in his cheeks, and he was both shocked and furious. He was surprised at how these two girls broke through his invisible shield easily and mad at being slapped six times in a row; no one had ever hit him in the face before! If it weren’t for Hao Ren, he might have got slapped more!
Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! The sound of the six slaps was still echoing in his head.
After making sure that the twins of unknown background wouldn’t attack again, Qin Shaoyang raised his arms and pointed at Hao Ren.
“Attacking an Inspector. I am writing that down on my list!”
Hao Ren bent over to pick up the broken necklace and the precious accessories. Then, he left without a word.
He had written this incident down on his list as well!
Since he hasn’t reached Kan-level, he wasn’t able to use the first-level techniques of Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll. Therefore, he had to wait until later to deal with this Inspector who was at least on the Kun-level.
Those six slaps could be the temporary punishment for now. After all, Lu Linlin’s and Lu Lili’s help couldn’t be counted as his own.
Qin Shaoyang who was on the stairs suddenly remembered something when he saw the twin sisters leave with Hao Ren.
“Could he be that half-human-half-dragon Hao Ren? Humph… I don’t think they will be protecting you every single day!”
In just a second, a wave of extremely strong power streamed down from above. Then, Qin Shaoyang heard a roar, “How dare you bully members of our East Ocean?!”
