by Dragon King
While Premier Xia beat around the bushes, Hao Ren gradually understood his point. He was the Commanding General of the East Ocean Dragon Clan, but he didn’t live in the dragon palace and thus was not under the protection of the troops. This time, although the West Ocean Dragon Clan was almost destroyed, they wouldn’t admit defeat… Zhao Haoran put Hao Ren in the position of the Commanding General to prevent internal turmoil, but at the same time, his decision brought Hao Ren more dangers.
Although the palaces and the soldiers of the West Ocean Dragon Clan were destroyed, it still had quite a few Qian-level and Kun-level cultivators!
“However, from your vigorous look, I see that you have reached a higher realm,” Premier Xia continued.
“Thank you, Premier Xia,” Hao Ren answered politely.
He still remembered that when he first came into the East Ocean Dragon Palace, he asked Premier Xia about how to the Spirit Concentration Scroll. Only a short time had passed, and he now reached Gen-level.
“The old dragon king is fierce and hot-tempered, but he’s a rare good king. If you can get some tips from him, you will reach Dui-level very soon,” Premier Xia continued.
Hao Ren looked at Premier Xia and suddenly found him unfathomable. After all, Premier Xia had worked under two dragon kings, and he was very familiar with the mindset of his bosses.
When Premier Xia and Hao Ren entered the gate of Elder Xingyue’s palace, the female disciple on duty immediately went inside to report to Su Han.
“Senior Sister asked you to come in,” she said to Hao Ren as she dashed out.
Hao Ren walked into the garden while Premier Xia waited for him at the gate.
Walking under the moon and past the flowers in the quiet palace, Hao Ren suddenly felt nervous.
During the war between East Ocean and West Ocean, Hao Ren got a little worried about Su Han who was resting in the dragon palace. But from the looks of it, she wasn’t directly involved in the conflict between the two dragon clans.
Knock! Knock!
“Come in!” Su Han’s clear voice sounded from the inside.
Carefully, Hao Ren pushed open the door and entered. He found Su Han sitting cross-legged on the bed and cultivating with her eyes closed.
Her bright complexion seemed more beautiful with the increase in her cultivation strength.
“Commanding General of West Peace, what brought you here in the middle of the night?” Su Han opened her red lips and asked.
Hao Ren smiled helplessly and replied, “I just wanted to come and see you.”
The moment his words came out, he felt like it didn’t sound quite right. It seemed as if he was visiting his secret lover.
“I’ve fully recovered my cultivation strength, and I’m going go back to the Dragon God Shrine to report the conflict between East Ocean and West Ocean tomorrow, ” Su Han slowly opened her bright eyes and said.
Hao Ren nodded since he knew it was her duty. After all, the war between the East Ocean Dragon Clan and the West Ocean Dragon Clan under water almost disturbed the mortals in East Ocean City, and the Dragon God Shrine needed to know the details of it. As the regional inspector of the city, Su Han must give them an explanation.
“What happens when a cultivator’s lifespan is all used up?” Hao Ren asked after a moment of silence.
“The higher the realm a cultivator has, the longer they live. The dragon cultivators on Qian-level and human cultivators at top-tier Nascent Soul Realm can live for about 1,000 years. Then, they must follow the law of life cycle, unless they can reach the Heavenly Dragon Realm or the Soul Formation Realm to live as long as the universe and shine as brightly as the sun and the moon,” Su Han said.
“How about… extending one’s life with godly pills?” Hao Ren continued to ask.
“The rare fruits in nature probably can extend the lives of some cultivators, but for those whose ages have reached the limit, no elixirs can keep. Only through hard cultivation and reaching the Heavenly Dragon Realm can one live permanently and become the true masters of the world,” Su Han said lightly.
“Got it.” Hao Ren smiled lightly.
He thought for a while and asked her, “After you go back to the Dragon God Shrine, will you come back to East Ocean City?”
“I suppose… so,” Su Han turned her gaze to him and said.
“And… if you come back, will you return to the East Ocean University?” Hao Ren continued after pausing for two seconds.
“What do you want?” Su Han stared at Hao Ren.
Hao Ren gritted his teeth. “I want you to come back.”
Su Han looked at him in silence.
Hao Ren looked back at her and remained silent as well.
“Ok.” Su Han’s crisp voice sounded after a long while.
383 Controlling the Dragon Palace’s Lifeline
After coming out of Su Han’s room, Hao Ren returned to the gate of the palace, and Premier Xia was waiting for him patiently.
“Gongzi Hao, are you heading back now?” Premier Xia walked over and asked.
“No. I need to see another person.” Hao Ren shook his head.
“Who?” Premier Xia asked carefully.
Now that Hao Ren was not only the Fuma but also the Commanding General who controlled close to 1,000,000 soldiers, Premier Xia was subconsciously more cautious with his words.
“Zeng Yitao,” Hao Ren said.
Premier Xia froze, and he nodded immediately. “I’ll show you the way.”
Since Hao Ren was the Commanding General who controlled the military, Premier Xia couldn’t refuse his request to visit a captive.
The night in the dragon palace was so quiet that the only sounds were their footsteps.
Premier Xia led Hao Ren into the Ice Palace where Lu Linlin and Lu Lili were once imprisoned.
“Let me out! My grandpa will destroy East Ocean with great troops!”
Hearing their footsteps, Zeng Yitao immediately yelled.
Premier Xia led Hao Ren around several huge ice blocks and walked to the depth of the palace.
Thin and pale-faced, Zeng Yitao was prisoned in an iron cage. At his feet were some simple dishes which he had kicked aside.
At the sight of Hao Ren, he yelled louder. “How dare you come here! You are all going to die! Within three days, my grandpa will graze you to the ground with the troop of West Ocean!”
Hao Ren looked at him with a smile.
Zeng Yitao was the frog that was living in the well.
Imprisoned in the Ice Palace, Zeng Yitao knew nothing about the situation outside, oblivious to the fact that the West Ocean Dragon Clan had been defeated and that the West Ocean Dragon Palace had been razed to the ground!
“How dare you treat me like this? You have breached the alliance of the four oceans! The other three dragon palaces will deal with you together with full force!” At Hao Ren’s silence, Zeng Yitao shook the cage and threatened more viciously.
As a dignified crown prince of the West Ocean Dragon Clan, Zeng Yitao couldn’t bear the disgrace of being a prisoner in the East Ocean Dragon Clan!
He was planning to bring the most powerful elders of West Ocean to destroy the East Ocean Dragon Palace once he returned.
He didn’t know that the powers of the West Ocean Dragon Clan and the East Ocean Dragon Clan had switched places.
Otherwise, after Hao Ren destroyed half of the West Ocean Dragon Palace, Oldman Zeng would have brought his troops directly to the East Ocean Dragon Palace instead of forming an alliance with the other two ocean dragon clans to suppress the East Ocean Dragon Clan!
“Speak! Why don’t you speak? Are you afraid?! Hahahaha!” Zeng Yitao yelled even louder at Hao Ren’s silence.
“Let’s go,” Hao Ren turned to Premier Xia and said.
“As you wish.” Premier Xia turned and led Hao Ren toward the gate.
“Are you afraid to talk to me? I tell you, when I get out, I’ll deal with you!” Zeng Yitao shook his cage and shouted at Hao Ren.
Aft
er walking out of the Ice Palace calmly, Hao Ren suddenly asked Premier Xia, “As the Commanding General, I can deal with and treat the prisoners, right?”
“Of course, you have the power to do so,” Premier Xia answered immediately.
“Then, release him tomorrow,” Hao Ren said.
Premier Xia’s hunched back straightened a little as he looked up at Hao Ren. “Are you afraid that South Ocean and North Ocean will deal with us? Or do you think the West Ocean Dragon Clan will launch another attack?”
“Neither.” Hao Ren shook his head.
“Then, you mean…” Premier Xia looked confused.
“After we release Zeng Yitao, East Ocean will be safe for the next few hundred years,” Hao Ren said.
Premier Xia’s confusion on his wrinkled face gradually cleared.
Last night before the battle, Zhao Haoran had instructed Premier Xia to hold Zeng Yitao if East Ocean was defeated and release him if East Ocean won.
Premier Xia didn’t understand at first, and Zhao Haoran explained to him, “This kid has no talents, no virtues, no ambitions, and no strategies; he is a blessing for East Ocean.”
Currently, Hao Ren’s words showed the same perception.
Zhao Haoran prisoned Zeng Yitao and observed his behavior, and thus knew that this kid was useless.
Oldman Zeng had used a secret method to suppress his realm, so he wouldn’t activate the Heavenly Tribulation and could continue to control the West Ocean Dragon Clan!
It meant that the moment Zeng Yitao took the helm of the West Ocean Dragon Clan, the force would enter a true decline.
That was why the East Ocean Dragon Clan must keep Zeng Yitao if they were defeated and must release him if they got the victory.
While the power of the West Ocean Dragon Clan decreased recently, Zhao Haoran took the opportunity to destroy most of their powerful elders with brute force. Now, the West Ocean Dragon Clan couldn’t launch a head-on battle against the East Ocean Dragon Clan in the next 200 years. Then after 200 years, Zeng Xin would reach the end of his life, and Zeng Yitao would take over…
This was Zhao Haoran’s last move on the chessboard before the end of his life.
“What’s wrong?” Seeing Premier Xia standing there like a statue, Hao Ren asked.
“Gongzi Hao, are you heading back now?” Premier Xia asked with a smile.
“Well, yeah.”
“I’ll show you the way.” Premier Xia walked forward with lightened steps.
“Although this Fuma only started as a mortal, his mind and vision are close to those of the old dragon king. On the surface, it looks like the old dragon king doesn’t like this Fuma. However, he is in fact quite appreciative of him.”
Now, Premier Xia began to understand why Zhao Haoran placed Hao Ren in the position of the Commanding General.
Although Hao Ren had no battle experience, his mind far surpassed those of the generals in the dragon palace!
After all, Zhao Haoran had ruled the East Ocean Dragon Tribe for 1,000 years, and his eyes were really sharp!
“Premier Xia, you said that if the old dragon king could teach me personally, I can reach Dui-level quickly, right?” Hao Ren asked Premier Xia suddenly.
“The cultivation strength of the old dragon king has reached a godly realm. Last night when we were battling with the forces of West Ocean at the main gate, the old dragon king personally battled with Zeng Xin who is also at top-tier Qian-level. Zeng Xin was severely wounded by our old dragon king with only half a strike,” Premier Xia said.
Hao Ren thought that the battle must have been thrilling. With two top-tier Qian-level cultivators battling with full forces, the battle must have been earth-shaking!
Half of an attack from Zhao Haoran was enough to force back Zeng Xin! If Zeng Xin had forced himself to continue the battle, he would have died on the spot! That was why he would rather retreat.
It was regretful that a master like Zhao Haoran still couldn’t break the limit on his age… If he put his 1,000 years of cultivation strength into hundreds of Gen-level cultivators, it would help them all break through to Dui-level instantly!
384 Big Zhumu, Little Zhumu 2 in 1 Chapter
Hao Ren returned to the house from the dragon palace, and it was still the middle of the night.
Each room on both floors seemed to be quiet.
There were a lot of things on Hao Ren’s mind so that he couldn’t fall asleep.
“Ruff, Ruff…” Little White squeezed out of Zhen Congming’s room and hopped onto the couch like a fluffy ball.
Hao Ren put it on his legs and started to practice the Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll to recover.
Zhao Haoran used a bodily-filling technique, which was a very aggressive method. It had caused some damage to Hao Ren’s body.
Although he was still on Gen-level, his nature essence was no longer balanced amongst the five elements.
Even though it was the purest water-elemental essence, Hao Ren needed a few days to absorb and convert it.
The tiny sword energies of the Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll traveled slowly through Hao Ren’s meridians. They were like many little detectors that were looking for the damaged spots of Hao Ren’s meridians, and they repaired them with soft nature essence as soon as they found the places.
One centimeter above Hao Ren’s dragon core, there was a spiritual core that was spinning at a very high speed.
The spiritual core was only half a thumb big. However, it sucked in all the nearby small sword energies like a high-density black hole!
Zhao Haoran’s 1,000 years of cultivation strength was compressed and stored in this small spiritual core!
It hung above Hao Ren’s dragon core and established its own system.
It captured the nature essence that was passing by, and it would release the nature essence back into Hao Ren’s body from the center due to its extremely high density. The core had become a mysterious balancing vertex which couldn’t be detected by the Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll.
Hao Ren sent several sword energies there, but none of them came back to him, harming his spiritual senses. Therefore, he had to give it up.
Little White rolled over lazily on Hao Ren’s belly. As a level 1 spirit beast, its intelligence was even higher than before. It also got more intimate to Hao Ren.
Hao Ren’s dragon core landed steadily in his dantian, and it already had 123 openings on it. The dense spiritual core, on the other hand, was spinning quickly at where the Qihai acupoint was.
One of them was the dragon core of a dragon cultivator, and the other was the internal core of a human cultivator!
There were two systems inside Hao Ren’s body, and they didn’t interfere with each other at all!
Zhao Haoran didn’t even expect this to happen.
As a matter of fact, Zhao Haoran believed that Hao Ren was honest and sincere with no ill intention toward East Ocean. Therefore, he decided to transfer as much of his nature essence as possible into Hao Ren before his life was over. To his surprise, there was something special about Hao Ren’s body, and it allowed Hao Ren to collect all the 1,000 years of cultivation strength from Zhao Haoran. Although Hao Ren was still on Gen-level, he gathered a large amount of hidden energy and potential.
Zhao Haoran was able to pass down all of his 1,000 years of cultivation strength, and it left him no regret.
What Hao Ren didn’t know was that Lu Linlin and Lu Lili saved his cultivation progress with their natal spiritual lotuses, and the old Grandma, who was cultivating somewhere above Fifth Heaven, also helped out by pouring some natal vital energy into Hao Ren as well.
Hao Ren thought Zhao Haoran compressed the 1,000 years of cultivation strength on purpose and temporarily stored it inside his body. Therefore, what Hao Ren was thinking about was how to transfer it to Zhao Kuo when they met in the future.
The 1,000 years of cultivation strength stored inside Hao Ren’s body was Zhao Haoran’s top-tier Qian-level strength. Now, Hao Ren was walk
ing around with an extremely precious treasure!
Hao Ren had an internal core which was equivalent to top-tier Nascent Soul Realm. This meant that he was absolutely the most powerful Core Formation Realm cultivator!
Time flew by, and Little White fell asleep curled up in Hao Ren’s lap.
Hao Ren tried to search for a new path to circulate his natures essences in his body, and he finally formed a new circulation path which bypassed the Qihai Acupoint which was above Dantian.
Creak!
A door opened.
Xie Yujia walked out of her room and saw Hao Ren cultivating on the couch. She ignored him and went into the kitchen to prepare breakfast.
Hao Ren saw her walking by right in front of him in her pajamas and didn’t know what she was upset about.
Little White hopped off Hao Ren’s legs and followed Xie Yujia; she smelled very refreshing.
“Gongzi!”
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili appeared cheerfully at the stairs and ran toward the couch.
Seeing that they were about to knock over the couch, Hao Ren reached out his hands to stop them.
Taking this opportunity, the Lu sisters threw their soft bodies into Hao Ren’s arms. Then, they grabbed onto his arms with both hands.
“Metal: 12, Wood: 15, Water: 36, Fire: 18, Earth: 19!” Lu Linlin and Lu Lili reported the numbers in turn and looked at Hao Ren in surprise. “How come all your five-elemental essences are imbalanced after one night’s time, Gongzi?”
“I didn’t cultivate properly last night. I’ll make the adjustments gradually,” Hao Ren secretly put force into his arms and lightly push them up.
Xie Yujia was walking out of the kitchen at this moment, and she lightly snorted when she saw this scene.
“Big Zhumu, let us help you!” The twins ran toward Xie Yujia like two butterflies.
Xie Yujia couldn’t reject them, and it suddenly put her in a passive position.
“Are we going to Fifth Heaven today, Uncle?” Zhao Yanzi appeared on the stairs surprisingly early in her dotted pajamas.
Little White then dashed onto the stairs and climbed onto her arms and shoulders.
“Um, we’ll head out after breakfast,” Hao Ren said.
