Dragon King's Son-In-Law

by Dragon King

  The three sect masters were all top-tier Core Formation Realm cultivators, and none of them could reach such a fast traveling speed.

  “This senior seemed to be traveling on a mount instead of on a flying sword,” Sect Master Song from the Qiong Hua Sect said after a moment of hesitation.

  “Are you sure?” Sect Master Han asked immediately.

  The three sects had been rivals over the ownership of the Herb King Valley, but now they were allies, depending on each other.

  “I was the closest to the senior and thus had the clearest view. His mount is a white lion,” Sect Master Song nodded gravely and said.

  “White lion…” Sect Master Han thought for a moment and said, “Is it possible that he is a cultivator from the Sky Mountain Sect on Sixth Heaven?”

  “I’m not sure if he’s a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator. But if Sect Master Song is right about the mount, the snow lion should be a spirit beast above level 4, right?” Sect Master Liu looked at the other two sect masters and asked cautiously.

  Sect Master Han and Sect Master Song exchanged a look; neither of them could answer the question. All they knew was that the Sky Mountain Sect from Sixth Heaven raised a lot of snow lions, and some high-level disciples had them as their mounts. As to what level this spirit beast was on, they had no clue. After all, the sects on Fifth Heaven had rarely seen spirit beasts.

  However, they were sure that a spirit beast with such a great speed couldn’t be at low level 1. Since the power of a level 1 spirit beast was equivalent to that of a Core Formation Realm cultivator, they estimated that this snow lion should be close to level 4.

  “Anyway, with such a spirit beast as his mount, the senior must have a high ranking in his sect,” Sect Master Song said.

  Since snow lions were the symbolic spirit beasts of the Sky Mountain Sect, they all considered Hao Ren as one of the elite disciples of the Sky Mountain Sect. It must be noted that the small sects on Fifth Heaven all looked up at the sects on Sixth Heaven with respect, especially the Sky Mountain Sect which stood out from other sects on Sixth Heaven since it had connections with some sects on Seventh Heaven due to their skills in raising spirit beasts and growing herbs.

  There were less than 20 sects on Sixth Heaven, and Sky Mountain Sect was one of the few that were well-known from on Fifth Heaven and Seventh Heaven.

  At this thought, the three masters began to look hopeful.

  “It is one thing if this ‘senior’ is only a hermit cultivator. However, he is obviously a high-ranking disciple of the Sky Mountain Sect, coming to Fifth Heaven to do business by himself. If we could befriend him…” they thought.

  “I think we’d better pay a visit to this senior. After all, while he is temporarily living in our Herb King Valley, we must show him our hospitality as the local hosts,” Sect Master Liu of the Qin Yin Sect said as she pulled a streak of hair behind her ear

  Compared with their determination to take back the Herb King Valley by force yesterday, their attitude had now taken a 180-degree turn.

  “Sect Master Liu is right. I think we’d better return to our respective sects and prepare some gifts before paying a visit to this senior,” Sect Master Han agreed immediately.

  After some consideration, Sect Master Song thought that the returning of dozens of flying swords was now a minor issue. If this senior disciple of the Sky Mountain Sect agreed to take his Qiong Hua Sect as a resting place on Fifth Heaven in the future, it would bring great benefits to his sect.

  After their discussion, the three sect masters flew in three directions. They each had their own thoughts, but they were afraid to act alone. By working together, they could face any potential problems together.

  Hao Ren didn’t know that there were three sects on three sides of the valley, nor did he know that the cave abode he built casually gave three sect masters two consecutive sleepless nights. He walked into his cave abode cheerfully and checked to make sure that no one had intruded into the cave before settling down to cultivate.

  Thanks to the array formation Zhen Congming gave him, the essence in the valley seemed to have grown even more intense.

  The Big Dipper Constellation Array not only prevented cultivators from breaking into the valley, but it could stop the essence from leaking out as well. Under the protection of the array formation, this valley wouldn’t be seen by the passing cultivators, and they would regard it as an ordinary valley that was filled by an area of intense white fog.

  The array formation prevented the probing eyes of the three surrounding sects, but it also blocked Lu Linlin and Lu Lili from the valley.

  “Sister, the array formation is annoying. Now, we don’t know what Gongzi is doing in the valley,” Lu Lili complained after flying around and finding no loopholes in the array formation.

  “This array formation is fragile, but Gongzi built it; we shouldn’t break it,” Lu Linlin comforted Lu Lili helplessly. She was more impatient than Lu Lili, but the latter seemed to be more eager to see Hao Ren.

  “What should we do?” Lu Lili looked at Lu Linlin, pouting.

  “We will go back! After all, the cultivators in the Core Formation Realm can’t break this array formation, and Gongzi built it to keep his privacy,” Lu Linlin said with a smile.

  “Ok…” Lu Lili agreed reluctantly.

  During their patrol over the last two days and nights, they had sensed that Hao Ren was trying his best to absorb the essence in the valley, and he made significant progress. While they were happy to see his progress, they were worried that he might encounter dangers.

  Cultivating in seclusion was a fast way to elevate realms, but the cultivators would receive great harm if they were attacked during seclusion.

  “I’ll kill anyone who dares to hurt Gongzi!” Flying with Lu Linlin toward the boundary between Fifth and Fourth Heaven, Lu Lili mumbled.

  Shaking her head with a smile, Lu Linlin took Lu Lili’s hand before shooting down from Fifth Heaven. Lu Lili had always mocked her sister for falling for Hao Ren, but it seemed like Lu Lili was the one who was in the real danger.

  During the peaceful night, there was no wind in the valley.

  After eight hours of cultivation, Hao Ren had successfully unlocked two more openings. It was indeed helpful to cultivate in a place full of essence.

  Even Little White, who was absorbing the nature essence with its demon beast instinct, strived toward level 2. In fact, demon beasts had their own cultivation techniques. However, since Little White didn’t activate its intelligence, it could only launch basic attacks with the nature essence accumulated in its body and couldn’t circulate the nature essence in its body at will.

  Since Hao Ren didn’t have any skills and experiences in raising spirit beasts, he didn’t know how to nurture it with his own nature essence. He could only communicate with Little White with simple gestures. Otherwise, Little White should have in level 2 or even level 3 with the amounts of elixir pills it had consumed.

  Jumping out of the cave abode, Hao Ren practiced the fundamental boxing techniques three times before practicing the sword array formations several times. After that, he felt like his entire body was refreshed.

  Little White was rolling in the fields of wildflowers. Since there were no other animals in the valley, it didn’t have to act like a dignified demon beast. It bit into the wildflowers and raced around.

  It looked exactly like a typical dog in the villages.

  The 160 sword energies entered Hao Ren’s body through the back of his neck. No sword was better than having a sword; it was so-called state of a sword god.

  “Little White, stop playing! We need to head back!” With one hand, Hao Ren grabbed Little White that was covered in flower petals and tossed it into the air.

  Little White rolled in the air and landed on the ground as a magnificent snow lion.

  “Let’s go!” Hao Ren patted Little White’s rump, and they shot out of the valley!

  After returning to their respective sects last night, the three s
ect masters carefully prepared gifts and placed three treasure boxes at the entrance of the valley. However, Hao Ren didn’t see them since he was in a hurry to go back to First Heaven.

  About 50 kilometers from the valley, a golden lion roared suddenly, and the girl who was riding on its back was so startled that she almost jumped onto the nearby mountain summit.

  “Luojia, what happened?” The girl hugged the golden lion’s neck and complained.

  The golden lion called Luojia looked in the direction of Little White and shook its head with force.

  Just a moment ago, it had felt the distinct aura of one of its kind.

  “the Elder Senior Brother was sent by master to find a spirit stone mine in Fifth Heaven and hasn’t returned after three days. Luojia, use your senses and see if there are any traces of snow lions nearby.” The girl rubbed Luojia’s forehead and urged.

  While she spoke, Little White carrying Hao Ren flew past her in a dash.

  “Snow lion!” The girl yelled, then she found something was not right. “So fast! Is it Jitian of Grand Uncle-Master? But a level 6 spirit beast wouldn’t come here…”

  While she hesitated, Little White and Hao Ren both disappeared from her sight in half a second.

  337 Coming Back Home!

  Hao Ren dashed down Fifth Heaven and patrolled around before he went back to the East Ocean University for his classes.

  Time flew by, and Hao Ren took Little White for a walk near the library at noon. During their afternoon class, Xie Yujia turned back and smiled cheerfully at him.

  Hao Ren knew that Xie Yujia was both sensitive and logical. Sometimes she would even sacrifice herself to make other people happy. She wished that everyone around her was happy even if she was not standing in the center of the crowd.

  Xie Yujia’s smile was her way of thanking Hao Ren for taking her to see her parents. However, a smile like hers made his heart ache a bit.

  “It isn’t her wish to live at my home. She spent as much time as possible with Grandma and didn’t cause my parents any trouble. However, in her heart, she still misses her parents a lot.”

  At this thought, Hao Ren felt like he should have treated her nicer.

  All the Friday courses came to an end with the sound of the school bell.

  Hao Ren packed up quickly and walked to the front of the classroom.

  “Woah, you didn’t sit beside Yujia, and now you are in a rush to come over!” Ma Lina teased Hao Ren while sitting beside Xie Yujia.

  Xie Yujia patted Ma Lina with her hand and squeezed in front of her. Then, she smiled lightly at Hao Ren. “Let’s go!”

  Hao Ren smiled back and walked to the door with Yujia.

  Ma Lina was left stupefied in her seat. After a few seconds, she looked at the backs of the two and breathed in deeply… “When did Hao Ren’s smile get so charming?”

  Hao Ren went back to his dorm to put a few things away. Then, he headed over to Xie Yujia’s dorm building to pick her up before they went to the bus stop. Xie Yujia wasn’t used to how detailed Hao Ren was today.

  They got on the bus and arrived at the house by the beach by four in the afternoon.

  Yue Yang was busy in the kitchen with a black and white sweater and white apron on. She came home earlier today on purpose to make a nice dinner for the family. Since she didn’t cook much, she started to prepare at four in the afternoon.

  When Xie Yujia saw Yue Yang busy with cooking in the kitchen, she dropped everything immediately to help.

  Zhen Congming came home a long time ago. He sat in front of the TV on the couch, having a blast on the new PS3 Hao Zhonghua got him.

  Grandma was in a good mood. She was drinking her tea and watching the exciting images on the screen, cheering for her second grandson, Zhen Congming.

  “Brother!” Zhen Congming shouted out as soon as he saw Hao Ren.

  His shout startled Hao Ren, and the latter took a few steps back. He pretended to be Zhen Congming’s brother last time when they went to the West Ocean Dragon Palace, but he never thought about actually becoming this demon’s big brother.

  On top of that, Zhen Congming had always tried to act cool, so it surprised Hao Ren when this kid called him his brother on his own.

  “Hehe…” grandma laughed out pleasantly when she heard this.

  After greeting him, Zhen Congming turned around and refocused his attention on the exciting game. Grandma had promised him three more games as long as he called Hao Ren brother.

  Between his dignity and the games, Zhen Congming decisively chose the latter.

  “The more I look at Congming, the more I like him. So, I am taking him in as a second grandson. He will call you brother in the future, and you need to treat him like a little brother too,” grandma said to Hao Ren, who was dumbfounded.

  “Oh, Oh…” Hao Ren walked to the couch carefully and thought, “Grandma bribed a mighty demon into becoming her grandson with a PS3 that is only a few thousand yuan…”

  Although he had no idea what Zhen Congming was as a demon beast, he knew that Zhen Congming had great potential due to his success in transforming into a human. Not to mention that he was also the disciple of Qiu Niu, one of the nine ancestors to all dragons.

  “Why don’t you play with Congming for a bit now that he is your little brother?” Grandma urged Hao Ren.

  Hao Ren saw that Zhen Congming was having the time of his life. He picked up a controller and started playing with him casually. Zhen Congming shouted out loud during the game and didn’t look like a demon beast at all. Little White was definitely similar to him.

  “Time for dinner! Time for dinner!” Yue Yang called out as she came out of the kitchen.

  Xie Yujia carried the dishes out with Yue Yang happily, and a few drops of sweat could be seen on her forehead. Hao Zhonghua, who had been working upstairs, also came into the dining room.

  The family gathering cheered Grandma up as the elder. Yue Yang made an entire table of dishes today, and the sincerity was more than enough to change Grandma’s impression of her.

  To make the room livelier, Grandma turned the TV to the news channel and called out to everyone, “Let’s eat! Let’s eat!”

  For her, work was not a priority. The most important thing was for the entire family to gather together and enjoy dinner happily.

  “Ren…has there been any problems with Zi’s dad’s company?” Hao Zhonghua suddenly asked.

  “No… no problems,” Hao Ren answered uncertainly.

  “Oh… I just heard some rumors about the mismanagement of Mingri Group. Their sales and profit had been declining lately, so I was a bit worried. That was why I asked,” Hao Zhonghua said.

  “Is that so?” Grandma frowned a little, “I haven’t been watching the stock market a lot lately, but I did notice the stock price of Mingri Group declining.”

  “Um… it’s normal for stocks to fluctuate,” Hao Ren laughed and answered.

  “No, I’m going to take another look!” Grandma suddenly left the table and went upstairs by holding the railing.

  The family all put their chopsticks down and waited nervously for grandma to come back. Zhen Congming was the only one who had no idea what stocks were. He took this opportunity to snitch several good stew pork pieces into his bowl.

  A few minutes later, grandma came back to the dining room from the stairs with a hunched back. She said seriously, “I took a look, and the Mingri Group’s stock has been dropping to the limit for seven days straight.”

  Hao Zhonghua and Yue Yang were both surprised at Grandma’s words. They didn’t know much about business, and that was why they didn’t focus on the news about the Mingri Group when they heard rumors. However, the stock market had been doing great lately, and Grandma had been delighted with the money she was making. It was weird for the Mingri Group’s stock to drop that much.

  “Is there… anything we can do to help?” Yue Yang asked Hao Zhonghua, who was sitting across from her.

  Hao Zhonghua frowned intensely as he didn’t
know what to say. The Mingri Group was a large business group in China, and the numbers on their financial reports were rounded to the nearest millions.

  However, Hao Ren’s parents were only scientists, and there wasn’t much they could do.

  “Zhonghua, make a phone call to Zi’s family and ask them about it,” Grandma said.

  “That wouldn’t be appropriate, Mom. Maybe Zi’s dad is stressed out about it now. It’s not a good time to call them and ask about it.” Yue Yang stopped her hastily.

  “Then tell them that even if they go bankrupt and fall in debts, I still want Zi,” Grandma straightened her back and said stubbornly.

  “And tell him not to worry about the business. I still have a saving of 800,000, and I can give it all to them to start again if they need it,” Grandma continued.

  Eight hundred thousand yuan a drop of water in the ocean compared to the amount of money Mingri Group was losing daily. Grandma probably didn’t understand this, but her concern showed how much she cared.

  “Rest assure, Mom. It’s nothing more than the normal ups and downs of business.” Hao Zhonghua comforted her after seeing how upset she was.

  He was very worried as well. Even though he wasn’t in the field of business, he knew that a seven-day-straight decline meant that the company was facing a tremendous crisis.

  There was a moment of silence, and Hao Zhonghua regretted bringing up this topic. At this moment, the TV station began reporting a piece of news.

  “The Mingri Group, China’s leading business corporation, has fallen under a crisis. Rumors have it that the corporation is undergoing a large replacement of its high-level executives. This has caused a sharp drop in Mingri Group’s stock. It has been declining for the past seven consecutive days, and the situation in Mingri Group in China is causing a chain reaction for its subsidiaries all over the world. According to experts’ conservative estimate, Mingri Group sees a loss of at least 200 million yuan per day…”

  This news completely crushed Zhao Zhonghua’s comfort.

  Grandma’s face immediately darkened.