by Dragon King
They both were cultivating all five elements, but Spells’ Origin Note Scroll could completely suppress Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll.
Xie Yujia had cultivated Spells’ Origin Note Scroll for a while now, but she still couldn’t control many notes simultaneously. However, it was still an easy task for her to transform a note into the shape of an arrow.
There was a small mountain far away from Ethereal Summit.
Xie Yujia focused and targeted it. Then she shot out a silver arrow.
“Ji…” the silver note turned into an arrow, and it let out a sharp noise. It flew out in the speed of light and made a bright path. It hit the mountain that was far away.
Peng! Peng! Peng!
It exploded and created a medium sized hole in the hard rocks.
This power of the silver notes was stronger than she had thought. Xie Yujia put down the long bow in shock. She had been afraid that she didn’t aim good enough so focused on the aim and decreased the power of the silver notes, so it wasn’t at its full power… If this hit one’s body, even a Core Formation Realm cultivator would be wounded.
There were six arrow grooves on this long bow meaning that she could shoot six arrows simultaneously. If she was able to perfect her skills, she could destroy a large area at the same time!
“Keep it so you can protect yourself. I saw that you’re still not really good at your notes from the way you shot it from your palm,” Hao Ren said.
Xie Yujia nodded. She didn’t like hurting people, so this treasure was great for her. She slowly retrieved her nature essence, and the demonic bow turned into a thumb-size pendant that was a shiny, dark golden color. It was very delicate.
Xie Yujia took out a red string from her pocket and put the little demonic bow on the red string. She wore it like a necklace around her neck.
“Hao Ren, help me,” Xie Yujia said.
“OK…” Hao Ren walked a step up and held the two sides of the string.
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili were playing in the grass not far away. They caught two chubby snow lion cubs and were playing with them.
They had watched Xie Yujia try out the treasure and Hao Ren and her talking, but they knew better not to interrupt their Gongzi and Big Zhumu.
Xie Yujia looked down a bit, showing off her white and soft neck. This demonic bow was different from the Mountain Tai Bracelets that Hao Ren had worn because when this demonic bow shrank, it barely had any weight, so she could easily take it around with her. She’d just have to wear it like an accessory.
Hao Ren suspected it was because the cultivators of the past did not have things like storage spaces. In the past, assigning a treasure as one’s Natal Dharma Treasure and putting it inside one’s body was not a popular thing to so, so they would just shrink the treasures and put it inside their pockets. However, maintaining the miniature size of the treasure still required a bit of nature essence.
“OK!” Hao Red stood behind Xie Yujia and clumsily tied a knot on the red string. He tried hard not to touch Xie Yujia’s soft skin with his fingers.
He was still able to feel the warmth of Xie Yujia’s body and smell her wonderful scent.
“OK!” Xie Yujia touched the delicate demonic bow pendant in front of her chest and smiled with satisfaction.
The bronze color contrasted with her white skin tone, so it looked as if a jade stone was put on a booth. The bronze also showed off how bouncy, and soft Xie Yujia’s chest were.
“Cough…” Xie Yujia softly coughed.
Hao Ren now had realized that he was staring too intensely at her chest so that he could only give an awkward laugh. “I’ll go around and visit the surrounding sects.”
“OK…” Xie Yujia nodded while her face was a bit red.
She was embarrassed when Hao Ren stared at her chest.
Hao Ren rushed to fly out, opening a array formation to leave the valley. Xie Yujia looked extra pretty even though she only put on a demonic bow pendant. She was so pretty that he couldn’t help but stare at her chest for too long.
According to what Xie Yujia had said, three smaller sects became subordinates of Ethereal Summit. That meant they could sort spirit grasses, organize information, and record the transactions, decreasing Xie Yujia’s workload so that she could have more time to cultivate and practice alchemy.
There were at least a thousand of these small and unknown sects on Fifth Heaven. These smaller sects had the risk of being absorbed into a larger one or being extinguished all the time, so when they had the opportunity to rely on a nearby Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, they would do so to protect themselves.
They would not dare to refuse to complete a mission sent out by such as master. They would risk it all to complete it. However, Xie Yujia treated them well and would give them three foundation establishment pills every month. This action made them ecstatic! The 100 spirit stones were only a symbol of payment because the three Foundation Building Cores were worth more than 1000 spirit stones!
Xie Yujia was generous. However, Hao Ren understood the morale of “the talented attracts envy”, so Xie Yujia’s generosity would surely attract coveting from surrounding sects. This rationale was what led to Kongtong Sect’s attack on the Qin Yin Sect.
He didn’t know how well the Qin Yin Sect has been recovering… Because of this sudden thought, Hao Ren flew towards the Qin Yin Sect.
“Welcome Master!” The female cultivators who were cultivating on the square yelled uniformly as they saw Hao Ren flying in the sky above Qin Yin Sect.
Unlike the soldiers of East Ocean who were loud and shocking, these female cultivators’ voices were sweet and pleasant to the ear.
Hao Ren landed steadily on the square. Liu Yan, the sect master of Qin Yin Sect, heard the greeting, so she rushed out of the inner temple with her two disciples Wu Yan and Ye Su.
“Welcome Master!” They kneeled to Hao Ren when she saw that he had come.
They knew that Hao Ren was not the Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, but their real master hid in the valleys and did not appear before them. However, Hao Ren was the disciple of their master, which was equivalent to seeing their master. That was why everyone showed respect and called him ‘master’ too.
“No need to kneel!” Hao Ren rushed to ask them to stand up.
The two disciples beside Liu Yan were Ye Su and Wu Yan. They both had been saved by pills from Ethereal Summit and thus respected Hao Ren very much.
Especially Wu Yan because she had seen Hao Ren use his powers. She knew that Hao Ren was very strong despite his young age. She was prettier than her senior sister, Ye Su, but she knew she wasn’t a match for such a great cultivator with a strong family background like Hao Ren. She only secretly admired him and didn’t dare to think that something would happen between them.
“I only came to see how you guys were doing,” Hao Ren said softly. He let out a strong power and didn’t let Liu Yan continue to kneel down.
Over a month had passed since the last time he brought Wu Yan with him to Kongtong Sect to seek justice. However, he was worried that other sects would cause trouble for Clear Clan Sect.
“Please sit down, master,” Liu Yan led the way and said, “Wu Yan, why didn’t you get tea for master.”
“Yes!” Wu Yan, who was in white, turned around and rushed to get tea from the inner temple.
“We’re teaching some new disciples sword cultivation techniques. Master, would you please give us some advice,” Liu Yan led Hao Ren into a cool spot in the inner temple and said, trying to please him.
It was a great honor for them for this close disciple of their Nascent Soul Realm cultivator master to come all the way to Qin Yin Sect. Liu Yan, however, was here to convey the orders of their master, so she didn’t dare to neglect him.
“That’s the close disciple of their Nascent Soul Realm cultivator…”
“He looks pretty young…”
“He’s extraordinary. He has reached top-tier Core Formation Realm! I heard that Wu Yan who is at the Core Format
ion Realm respects him a lot. Even our master respects him a lot.”
“He was able to defeat Kongtong Sect alone! Only last month, before we had become disciples of Qin Yin Sect, he had fought for our Qin Yin Sect because Kongtong Sect had stolen herbal medicine from us. He fought 18 Core Formation Realm Elders that charged at him at the same time. He was able to fight off six elders with just one shot!”
“I also heard that… The thousand-year-old Kongtong Sect was destroyed in half a month… All the elders had fled. Even their master was killed…”
“Yeah… All because they angered Ethereal Summit…Looks like our decision to join the Qin Yin Sect is right!”
The new disciples were all talking amongst themselves, and Hao Ren heard them all.
522 Firm Control
Qin Yin’s sect master Liu Yan’s realm was lower than Hao Ren’s, and her five senses were not as strong, so she couldn’t hear what these new disciples were talking about and only saw them exchange words to ears. She then slapped the desk beside her, “Practice sword techniques!”
Teaching sword technique was the job of a second-generation disciple of the Qin Yin Sect, but she was too busy checking out Hao Ren and had forgotten to teach the new disciples.
When she heard the sect master’s reprimand, she hurriedly turned to the dozens of new disciples, “Sky Spirit Sword Technique, first formation!”
She slowly performed the formation, and the new disciples in array followed suit.
This was similar to Hao Ren learning broadcast exercises in high school.
“These are new disciples. They are not yet skillful in sword techniques. Sorry you have to see this,” Liu Yan said cautiously.
“Master, please have some tea.” Wu Yan came out from the inner hall with tea on a tray.
Hao Ren felt weird hearing “master” but did not intend to correct their address. In the area of Fifth Heaven, cultivators of the Core Formation Realm were powerful cultivators, not to mention those of the Nascent Soul Realm. Therefore, their cautiousness was reasonable.
Hao Ren picked up the tea from the tray and symbolically took a sip. Wu Yan immediately stood beside Hao Ren cautiously. She did not dare to peek at Hao Ren.
The tea was not fragrant nor sweet, but it tasted ancient. This must be the best tea leaves the Qin Yin Sect could afford.
“Thanks to master’s care, the Qin Yin Sect now enjoys peace. There are more new disciples than the previous year. Except for Ye Su and Wu Yan, the other first-generation disciples are all selecting new disciples at the foot of the mountain, so they cannot be here to welcome master,” Liu Yan stood beside Hao Ren and reported the situation in the sect.
In the past, a low-tier sect like Qin Yin Sect could barely recruit a few disciples a year. Those that actively came to the sect were bad quality young cultivators who were kicked out from other sects.
Wu Yan had a special body type and so was mistaken by other sects as spiritually impure in the entrance exams. She fortuitously joined the Qin Yin Sect and fruited a golden pill. She was an extremely rare and excellent disciple.
Also, Wu Yan was grateful to Liu Yan’s support and teaching, so she continued to stay in Qin Yin Sect – for some disciples, once they first tasted achievement they pretended to be independent cultivators and joined other sects instead, much like job hopping in the secular world – with the weak strength of the Qin Yin Sect, there was no way to recall those disciples who ran out.
But this year the situation was very different.
The story of the disciple of the Nascent Soul Realm master of the Herb King Valley, Ethereal Summit, laying waste to Kongtong Sect with one move was widely circulated in the Fifth Heaven in various versions. Everybody knew this disciple did it for the Qin Yin Sect. And it was speculated that he must have the approval of the Nascent Soul Realm master. All of a sudden, the Qin Yin Sect who nobody had heard of became famous. Many female cultivators came to join Qin Yin Sect.
Now the Qin Yin Sect was extremely busy with cultivators coming and going. Liu Yan could only stay by Wu Yan and Ye Su and sent the rest of the first-generation disciples to the foot of the mountain to select new disciples.
During this time, all kinds of good news kept coming. Children with single spirit root or even double had come to join the Sect.
At the same time, the surrounding sects, large or small, all sent their “ambassadors” to make friends with Qin Yin Sect. The sect which hurt Ye Su in a fight before even had the clan head himself come to apologize with gifts of many spiritual herbs to show sincerity.
The status of Qin Yin Sect went from a low-tier sect directly to the treatment of a first-tier sect overnight. After all, some first-tier sects did not have Nascent Soul Realm cultivators in-house… Even some first-tier sects which were far away and had no dealings within Fifth Heaven sent disciples to make friends with Qin Yin Sect.
Including Qin Yin Sect, the three small sects around the Herb King Valley still bore the identity of “exchange agent”. The female disciple of the Herb King Valley Ethereal Summit would regularly issue Foundation Establishment Pills to the three sects. But the incident of the Kongtong Sect set an example for potential thieves. Now nobody dared to rob the pills.
On the contrary, big or small sects all wanted to curry favor with these three small sects. They knew the Nascent Soul Realm master of the Herb King Valley specialized in elixir making. And the importance of pills in the Cultivation World went without saying.
Except for the Sky Mountain Sect on Sixth Heaven which was known for their elixir making, it was harder than reaching the heavens to obtain a good pill in Fifth Heaven.
Contrary to what was expected, the Nascent Soul Realm master in the Ethereal Summit already declared that, except exchanging with level five or six spiritual herbs, other small amounts of pill requests should be handled by the three sects and no one should bother the valley otherwise.
One pill was hard to find. In order to obtain pills, the other sects must have good relations with these three sects.
Especially the Beauty Pill which female cultivators dreamed about was managed by the only all-female sect, Qin Yin Sect. The market price of a Beauty Pill was 200 spirit stone, and it was not always available.
But in here, it could be exchanged with spiritual herbs. Of course, there was a qualification on the amount and quality.
Combining these factors, in this month and a half, the Qin Yin Sect went from nonexistent to popular. The ceaseless stream of visitors almost flattened the threshold.
Correspondingly, all kinds of spiritual herbs resources kept coming to the Ethereal Summit from every corner of Fifth Heaven, continually replenishing the spirit field that Xie Yujia was tending to.
“The second formation, Falling Moon Picking Stars,” the disciples who taught sword techniques shouted.
The dozens of new disciples all switched to the new formation. In front of the disciple of the Nascent Soul Realm master, they all performed very seriously. In their hearts they secretly wanted Hao Ren to notice them and become a disciple of the Nascent Soul Realm master – despite this was almost impossible.
Of course, they did not dare to flirt or do anything out of line. Since this cultivator did not even take a glance at the graceful Wu Yan who had reached the Core Formation Realm, how would he like them? They only hoped their seriousness could attract this cultivator’s attention.
“En, it’s all good as long as the sect is progressing.” Hao Ren had another sip of the tea, waved his hand, and stood up.
He came to oversee the situation at the Qin Yin Sect and was not slightly interested in the sword technique practice.
These new disciples were disappointed to see Hao Ren losing interest and leaving. But if they thought about it, joining the Qin Yin Sect and train under the indirect blessing of the Nascent Soul Realm master was already an enormous gift. They should not be greedy.
Like Wu Yan who had reached the Core Formation Realm, the cultivator only remembered her name and that was it. They
must put great effort into cultivation.
Hao Ren strode a few steps. Liu Yan and the two disciples followed closely.
“Hua…” Hao Ren took off, and Liu Yan, Ye Su, Wu Yan and many Qin Yin Sect disciples cupped their hands hurriedly, “Farewell master!”
They deeply admired this disciple of the Nascent Soul Realm master who could directly take off without the aid of flying swords. Not many Core Formation Realm cultivators could do it.
But until now, they still didn’t know Hao Ren’s name, and called him master, because no one dared to ask… Hao Ren returned to the valley. Xie Yujia and the Lu sisters were helping each other feed the snow lion cubs.
Little White ate spirit pills and spirit herbs, which was of high quality, so its poop was the most nutritious, and it grew the quickest. But for these snow lion cubs, Xie Yujia could not afford too many spirit pills. Instead, she used the spiritual herbs received from the three sects to raise them.
“Ruff ruff… Ruff ruff…” A dozen snow lion cubs surrounded Xie Yujia and the Lu sisters, happily munching on a green spiritual herb.
Although snow lions were called “lions”, they were generally gentle creatures and ate meat only occasionally. It was only the spoiled Little White who would never eat raw meat.
“If Zi saw a dozen snow lion cubs being raised at Ethereal Summit, she must be very excited,” Hao Ren thought as he was looking at the three girls filled with happy smiles.
“Linlin, Lili, it is almost time to head back,” Hao Ren landed on the grass and said.
“Yes, Gongzi!” The two let go of the snow lion cubs in their arms and got up. When the snow lion cubs who were lazily rolling on the grass saw Hao Ren, they ran away all of a sudden.
“I almost have to head back as well,” Xie Yujia got up and said.
“When are you returning to China?” Hao Ren asked her.
“The day after tomorrow. School is about to start. I have to prepare for it.” Xie Yujia touched the bow on her chest. “Thank you!”
“For what?” Hao Ren laughed. “We are not strangers.”
