by Dragon King
Just like what he said, this place was beyond mortals’ reach, and other cultivators were not allowed to pass it. That was why no one would know what Hao Ren and the others were doing to him.
At this thought, Qin Shaoyang yelled, “I’m an inspector!”
“Inspector? Well, it seems like the rules don’t apply to us!” Lu Linlin and Lu Lili flew to his sides while snickering and each grabbed one of his shoulders.
Qin Shaoyang froze. Sure enough, Lu Linlin and Lu Lili didn’t belong to the Dragon Tribe, and they were powerful cultivators.
“You outnumber me…” Qin Shaoyang said as he held an emergency dharma note in his hand.
While inspectors were out on duty, they could release an emergency dharma note if they were in great danger. Receiving the notice, the nearby inspectors would come to their rescue while the signal would also fly back to the Dragon God Shrine.
However, on the territory of East Ocean, the nearby inspectors included the assisting inspector Hao Ren, who was standing against him, and the official inspector Su Han!
He didn’t think Su Han would help him. Furthermore, he didn’t want the Dragon God Shrine to know about this disgraceful incident.
He was angry with himself for underestimating Hao Ren and falling into the trap!
After all, Hao Ren wasn’t so powerful a month ago!
“What if we outnumber you?” Lu Linlin grabbed his ear and shouted.
With nature essence in her hand, her grip on Qin Shaoyang’s ear hurt him so much that he grimaced, feeling like his ear was being torn off.
Since he became an inspector or even since his birth, no one had ever grabbed him by the ear!
Disgrace! It was an absolute disgrace!
“Ok! You want a fair fight? I’ll give you one,” Lu Linlin rolled her black eyes and said.
The outpour of the nature essence from Qin Shaoyang’s body suddenly stopped.
The remaining nature essence was in the realm of Zhen-level, and out of the 300 plus unlocked openings in his dragon core, only 90 of them were in working order.
“Gongzi Hao, he wants to have a fair duel with you!” Lu Linlin called out to Hao Ren.
357 Life Is Precious~~
Hiss… Yin-Yang Bracelets expanded and released Qin Shaoyang’s body.
After gaining his freedom, Qin Shaoyang tried to flee but was caught singlehandedly by Lu Lili and got tossed into the two bracelets.
The black bracelet stretched vertically and became a circular wall, and the white bracelet expanded horizontally and turned into a round platform.
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili’s dharma treasures changed into a battle stage that was hovering on Second Heaven.
Qin Shaoyang, who was tossed in, dropped onto the platform on his butt.
“Gongzi, practice with him!” Lu Linlin said to Hao Ren.
“Ok!” Hao Ren leaped onto the round platform.
It dawned on Qin Shaoyang that Lu Linlin and Lu Lili were playing with him and were using him as a practice target for Hao Ren. However, he couldn’t run away from them.
While he was thinking, Hao Ren shot more than a dozen sword energies toward him.
“Here is your dharma treasure!” Lu Linlin drew out the golden weaving shuttle that was engulfed in the Life-Death Notes and tossed it onto the platform.
Meanwhile, Hao Ren’s sword energies were already in front of Qin Shaoyang. Cursing silently, Qin Shaoyang had to ignore the dozen or so sword energies and leaped up to catch his natal dharma treasure.
Whoosh! Several holes appeared on his body.
“You can kill me, but you can’t insult me like this!” Holding the golden weaving shuttle in front of him, Qin Shaoyang yelled.
Standing on the top of the black wall, Lu Lili snickered and said to Lu Linlin, “Sister, this inspector is hilarious. A moment ago, he was acting like a big bully, and now he’s complaining about being outnumbered.”
“He’s nothing compared to our Gongzi!” Lu Linlin ignored Qin Shaoyang while she looked at Hao Ren who was in a magnificent stance.
Degraded to Zhen-level, Qin Shaoyang felt uncomfortable with his natal dharma treasure which was made after he had reached Dui-level. He found it quite energy consuming when he activated it right now.
Without dharma treasures, Hao Ren’s sword energies twirled around him, creating wind and blowing his clothes and hair.
One was in a terrible situation while the other looked magnificent; the result of the competition seemed obvious before it even began.
Hao Ren was undoubtedly the strongest cultivator on Zhen-level!
Cultivating the five-elemental essence simultaneously and could construct sword array formations, Hao Ren was invincible among his peers.
Since he had to absorb five kinds of essences, it took him five times the effort to advance in levels. However, at the same time, his foundation was five times as solid as cultivators who were on his realm.
If Hao Ren was also at Kun-level, he could kill Qin Shaoyang with one attack!
Move!
Hao Ren took a step forward abruptly.
With only one step, Hao Ren’s fist was already before Qin Shaoyang. He seemed to have covered a long distance with this single step!
When he saw Hao Ren’s fist coming toward him like a missile, Qin Shaoyang raised his arms immediately and tried to block the attack.
However, Hao Ren turned in the air and flew over Qin Shaoyang’s head, kicking the latter in the back!
A green streak of wood-elemental nature essence shot out of Hao Ren’s foot, and the strong piercing force of wood-elemental nature essence immediately disturbed the meridians in Qin Shaoyang’s upper body!
After landing on the platform, Hao Ren bounced up like on a set of springs before punching at Qin Shaoyang’s back with both of his fists.
Earth-elemental nature essence!
Heavy!
As if two huge iron hammers hit him, Qin Shaoyang immediately stumbled forward more than ten steps!
Hao Ren didn’t have to use his sword array formations. With the fundamental boxing techniques, he forced Qin Shaoyang into submission!
While five-colored light flashed, Hao Ren’s continuous kicks and punches forced Qin Shaoyang into a corner.
Hiss… The black wall suddenly disappeared, and the stage no longer had any protective covers. If Qin Shaoyang took one more step backward, he would fall down the sky. At the moment, he was tens of thousands of meters from the ground!
As he was busy blocking Hao Ren’s attacks, cold sweat broke out all over Qin Shaoyang’s body due to the fear. After inhaling deeply, he unleashed a surge of nature essence and released a sharp metal-elemental nature essence beam!
While Hao Ren stepped back to dodge it, he instinctively reached out his right hand and caught the beam of metal-elemental nature essence!
Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll, absorb!
He took the nature essence into his body before launching a palm strike toward Qin Shaoyang!
Qin Shaoyang took one step forward and smashed his right palm with Hao Ren’s.
Almost instantly, the expulsion force Hao Ren was using became a sucking force, and Qin Shaoyang sense the nature essence in his body pour into Hao Ren’s right arm!
Alarmed, Qin Shaoyang immediately withdrew his arm, not daring to make contact with Hao Ren.
“Yang Bracelet, shrink!” Lu Linlin shouted.
Immediately, the white floor of the competition stage shrunk into a crisscross of lines.
With the black outer ring circling the white, intersecting lines, it looked like a giant tennis racket!
The thin white lines created many squares with the length of two meters.
If Hao Re and Qin Shaoyang were not careful and stepped into the empty squares, they would fall from Second Heaven.
With sword energies as well as Little White protecting him, Hao Ren wasn’t worried. However, cold sweat again broke out all over Qin Shaoyang’s body.
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili looked cu
te and sweet, but their act was vicious!
Since Qin Shaoyang was now at Zhen-level, he could barely use the golden weaving shuttle, let alone flying on it.
In short, if he fell and Hao Ren didn’t catch him, he would die here!
Qin Shaoyang began sweating again.
Lu Linlin stood by the stage with clenched fists and yelled, “Mr. Qin! Go with your full force!”
Her ‘encouragement’ frightened Qin Shaoyang so much that his legs weakened, and he almost fell!
Meanwhile, Hao Ren strengthened his legs and moved his steps carefully.
Clap! Clap! Clap!
Hao Ren launched two punches at Qin Shaoyang!
Faced with severe danger, Qin Shaoyang was forced to block each of Hao Ren’s attacks one by one.
Sitting on Little White’s back, Xie Yujia watched the battle anxiously. While she looked down at the white clouds floating beneath them, she was worried for Hao Ren.
Bang! After three strikes, Hao Ren bumped his knee against Qin Shaoyang’s, and neither of them backed off.
They were battling with both physical force and nature essence!
“Our Gongzi’s battle instinct is getting better,” Lu Lili said with a smile.
“No, no. I’ll make it more difficult for them,” Lu Lili said before snapping her fingers.
Then, the Yang Bracelet that was creating the thin white lines shrunk again, turning into many small white circular platforms that were just enough for a foot to step on.
Qin Shaoyang almost cried. With the small circular white platforms at least two meters away from each other, it was difficult to get onto them.
Furthermore, the small circular white platforms were controlled by the Lu sisters, and Qin Shaoyang wondered if the platforms would suddenly disappear while he leaped toward them.
While he hesitated for half a second, Hao Ren’s leg that was empowered by water-elemental nature essence wept toward his shoulder.
Qin Shaoyang raised his hands to block it, but he was kicked two meters away. He quickly moved his feet and stood on another platform!
Although they were both at Zhen-level, he was no match for Hao Ren!
With shining eyes, Hao Ren was treating him as a dummy target!
A silent enemy was the worst enemy.
As he panicked, Qin Shaoyang didn’t notice that his nature essence was recovering, and the openings on his dragon core were refilled. Now, he had reached Gen-level, but he still couldn’t defeat Hao Ren who was at Zhen-level!
Bang! Hao Ren solidly kicked on Qin Shaoyang’s chest.
Clap.
The golden weaving shuttle in Qin Shaoyang’s pocket dropped, and he reached out trying to grab a nearby platform but failed; he fell directly toward First Heaven!
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili moved together.
They kept their speed the same as Qin Shaoyang’s, watching him from both sides while he fell with his head down.
“Beauties! Help!” Qin Shaoyang yelled.
“Sister, he called us beauties!” Lu Lili glanced at Lu Linlin and said.
“I don’t like it. Find another one,” Lu Linlin said.
“Heroes! Heroes!” Qin Shaoyang yelled again.
He was gaining speed in his fall. If he fell below First Heaven, the consequences would be…
“I don’t like Heroes, either,” Lu Linlin said in a measured tone.
At the same falling speed, they rested their hands upon their chins, seeming to be thinking.
“Savior! Savior!” Qin Shaoyang yelled again.
“Will you make trouble for Gongzi Hao in the future?” Lu Linlin grabbed his ear and asked.
“Never! Never!” Qin Shaoyang shook his head like a rattle drum.
The wind blew around him.
At this falling speed, he would surely die if he fell to the ground despite his Gen-level cultivation strength.
“Did Gongzi Hao come out of Fifth Heaven?” Lu Lili asked.
“No! No! I saw nothing!” Qin Shaoyang almost screamed.
By now, the boundary of First Heaven could be seen.
“You may live, but you will be punished!” Lu Lili casually put a red energy sphere around him.
Then, Lu Linlin and Lu Lili stopped descending.
Two seconds later, an earth-shaking sound came from the ground as if a huge crater exploded into a small hill.
Then, Lu Linlin caught the golden weaving shuttle falling from Second Heaven.
Three seconds later, Hao Ren and Xie Yujia came to their side on Little White’s back.
“Where is Qin Shaoyang?” Hao Ren asked them.
“Hehe, he’s alive, and his cultivation strength will gradually come back.” Lu Linlin flew to Hao Ren and waved the small golden weaving shuttle at him. “Reward…”
“Well, I’ll put it away.” Hao Ren put the golden weaving shuttle into his necklace. For some unknown reason, he felt refreshed all over after the fight with Qin Shaoyang.
Beep… Hao Ren’s cell phone began to ring.
Hao Ren realized that they were now on First Heaven and took out his cell phone.
“Ren, your mom and I will attend an important banquet tonight. You can go home and have dinner with your grandma,” Hao Zhonghua’s resonant voice came through his cell phone.
358 Praising Zi
“Ok. I got it,” Hao Ren answered.
“Where are you? How come it sounds so windy through the phone?” Hao Zhonghua asked.
“I’m behind the library, and there’s a vent nearby,” Hao Ren hurried to explain.
They were on the top of First Heaven which was almost 2,000 meters above the ground. With planes coming and going, it was undoubtedly quite windy.
“Anyway, your mom and I won’t come back for dinner tonight.” Hao Zhonghua hung up.
Hao Ren put away his cell phone and put up a red energy sphere around him before riding Little White toward the East Ocean University.
When Qin Shaoyang climbed out from the crater with a black face, Zhao Haoran who was in a suit was sitting in the armchair in the CEO’s Office on the top floor of the headquarter of the Mingri Group with a cup of coffee in his hand, glancing at the news on Wallstreet Journal.
The Mingri Group’s funds were behind some of the recent international financial activities. Since the group went abroad, it had become one of the main force behind the curtain of the global financial market. Since Zhao Haoran was leading that group, Zhao Guang didn’t even know about it since he was only in charge of the domestic businesses.
It was ridiculous and suicidal for the West Ocean Dragon Palace to attack the business of the East Ocean Dragon Palace!
After finishing the last page of the paper, Zhao Haoran tossed it onto the desk and turned to Zhao Guang who was sitting on the couch by the wall. “You’ve contacted them all?”
“Yes, we have,” Zhao Guang answered.
Zhao Haoran didn’t reply; he picked up another newspaper, Financial Times, and began reading.
The elders had personally gone abroad to buy the papers for him since Zhao Haoran was used to reading newspapers while drinking coffee each morning.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
The measured knocking came from the door, showing that the person on the other side of the door was afraid to disturb Zhao Haoran.
“Come in!” Zhao Haoran said without looking up.
Elder Lu and Elder Sun walked in.
Zhao Haoran put the newspaper on his lap and sipped his coffee. “Speak.”
“Your Majesty, the South Ocean Dragon Clan took the notice of war and didn’t give an answer,” Elder Lu said.
“Your majesty, the North Ocean Dragon Clan also took the notice of war and didn’t give an answer,” Elder Sun reported.
“Ok.” Zhao Haoran nodded with no expression.
Elder Lu and Elder Sun exchanged a look while Zhao Guang who was sitting on the couch had a grim expression on his face.
Accepting the notices of war meant that they had taken the challenge issued by t
he East Ocean Dragon Clan. If they sent acceptances of war back to the East Ocean Dagon Clan in a day or so, the war would begin.
However, the notices of war had been issued, and it was impossible to withdraw them.
Despite all this, Zhao Haoran sipped his coffee before lowering his head to continue reading the newspaper.
Without further instructions, Elder Lu and Elder Sun stood still. They looked like they were in their fifties and sixties, but their physical strengths were more exceptional than athletes and could stand there all day long. However, the situation…
After more than ten minutes passed, Zhao Haoran was still reading the newspaper.
In the spacious office, the only sound was the rustling of the newspaper.
Hua!
Zhao Guang stood up from the couch abruptly and hurried toward the door.
“Where are you going?” Zhao Haoran looked up at Zhao Guang and asked.
“Father, I need to make arrangements. Since Brother Kuo is not in the dragon palace, I’ll lead the generals,” Zhao Guang answered.
He sounded a little displeased. He wasn’t happy with Zhao Haoran’s iron-handedness and the current attitude.
“When did I tell you to leave?” Zhao Haoran looked at Zhao Guang casually and said.
“I…” Zhao Guang refrained from retorting.
“Elder Lu, Elder Sun, sit down!’ Zhao Haoran said to them.
The two elders walked to the chairs in the office and sat down uneasily.
In fact, they wanted to hurry back to the dragon palace to inform people of the situation and get prepared.
Zhao Guang stood where he was, not knowing what to do.
“You deserve to be punished for your failure in disciplining Zi!” Zhao Haoran looked at Zhao Guang sternly. “Stand! You’re not allowed to sit!”
With that, he lowered his head and sipped the coffee before him while continuing reading the newspaper.
Sitting in the chairs, Elder Lu and Elder Sun looked at Zhao Guang who stood in the middle of the office and felt a little embarrassed for him. However, it was the old dragon king’s order.
While time ticked on, Zhao Guang was burning with impatience, and the two elders were also fidgeting with unease. Meanwhile, Zhao Haoran flipped through the newspapers and poured himself another cup of coffee.
