by Dragon King
Expecting to receive compliments from Hao Ren, Zhen Congming turned red at the doubt of Hao Ren’s question. “You can ask them to test it!”
“Good idea!” Hao Ren wanted to check it. He would have to ask Zhen Congming to build another if this array formation was just eye candy.
He turned to look at the Lu sisters.
“Gongzi, we’ll test it!” Lu sisters understood Hao Ren’s intention and flew out of the valley.
The cultivators who had been watching from a distance were surprised to see two female cultivators flying out of the valley.
When the Lu sisters unleashed their strength of top-tier Nascent Soul Realm, their faces turned pale.
“Attack!”
With a yell, Lu sisters shot out the black and the white bracelets.
The array formation that was engulfing Ethereal Summit shot out a white light and knocked back the Yin-Yang Bracelets.
After catching the rings, Lu Linlin and Lu Lili attacked again with full force.
Bang! After an earth-shaking sound, Ethereal Summit was intact, but Lu Linlin and Lu Lili’s Yin-Yang Bracelets were sent flying by 1,000 meters.
“All of you, attack together!” After looking around at the surrounding cultivators, especially the three Nascent Soul Realm cultivators who had recovered their realms by trading spiritual herbs, Lu Linlin urged them and asked them to attack along.
No one dared to disobey the disciples of Herb King Master. Thousands of Core Formation Realm cultivators and the three Nascent Soul Realm masters all shot out their dharma treasures.
Boom… The fierce attacks would have exploded mountains, but they did nothing to Ethereal Summit. Standing in the valley, Hao Ren didn’t even feel any shaking!
After a while, the cultivators who attacked Ethereal Summit with the Lu sisters became more and more astonished. None of them had ever seen such a powerful array formation!
“The array formation that was built up in one hour is so formidable…” they thought to themselves and never wanted to mess with Herb King Master!
“Let’s stop,” Xie Yujia said to Hao Ren with a smile.
It wouldn’t be good if the violent attacks disturbed Old Grandma who was cultivating in seclusion.
Looking at the dense attacks from the high sky, Duan Yao turned her gaze toward the cold-faced Hao Ren who stood beside her and suddenly felt lost.
637 You Are No Longer Needed
“Linlin, Lili! Come back!” Hao Ren yelled, afraid that Old Grandma would be disturbed.
After putting away the Yin-Yang Bracelets, the Lu sisters flew back into the valley.
As a genius and array formation master, Zhen Congming had changed the structure of the array formation, but the restrictions on entry remained the same. The Lu sisters still could travel in and out of the valley, but the other cultivators couldn’t.
Seeing that the Lu sisters had stopped attacking, the other cultivators also took back their dharma treasures. They had a good understanding of the power of the array formation and knew that it couldn’t be shaken unless dozens of Nascent Soul Realm cultivators attacked it with full force.
“You don’t need to stay around Ethereal Summit. Hand your spiritual herbs to Seven Star Sect, Qiong Hua Sect, or Qin Yin Sect, and you’ll get the notes when the conditions are met,” Hao Ren shouted with some nature essence.
After staying in Ethereal Summit for almost half a day, he could only accumulate enough nature essence which was on par with half Kan-level.
According to the Lu sisters’ Poison Pill Plan, it would take one week to recover his nature essence fully.
After hearing Hao Ren’s words, the sects outside the valley began to evacuate, not daring to linger around Ethereal Summit since the direct disciple of Herb King Master had said so.
“Besides, anyone who can find an appropriate thumb ring can trade for two notes,” Hao Ren continued.
Two essence-unlocking notes meant two Nascent Soul Realm cultivators!
Thumb ring! All the cultivators were excited.
It was hard to find level 6 spiritual herbs, but thumb rings were easier to find.
Xie Yujia turned her head slightly and glanced at Hao Ren.
Besides for decoration, the so-called thumb ring was useful to protect the thumb when pulling the bow.
Hao Ren had obviously announced this condition for her. For one thumb ring, Hao Ren would reward two notes which were equivalent to six top-tier spiritual herbs. He had set a high reward so that the sects would find the best thumb ring.
The fact that Hao Ren still remembered the injuries on her fingers by the sharp bowstring and he was willing to forgo spiritual herbs warmed Xie Yujia’s heart.
“Go!” Hao Ren said.
Whoosh! The cultivators from Sixth Heaven scrambled to pack.
Standing in the valley, Duan Yao watched the chaotic scenes outside and sensed the power and confidence that couldn’t be suppressed by anyone.
Beside this ‘pervert’ stood two beauties who were at the Nascent Soul Realm, a dharma note master, and an array formation master. Also, there was the pretty and vivacious Zhao Yanzi who wasn’t here.
“Maybe he is Herb King Master…” Duan Yao stared at Hao Ren in silence as she stared at her from a distance.
Although she didn’t dare to stand with him, she still regarded him as her enemy.
After all, all her misfortunes were caused by Hao Ren.
Despite all this, she felt an indescribable sense of relief after leaving Sky Mountain Sect.
A moment later, the cultivators had all disappeared with their tents.
The large group of cultivators from Sky Mountain Sect had flown to Sixth Heaven as well.
Sky Mountain Sect had sent more than 1,000 cultivators to help Ethereal Summit rebuild its array formation, but they didn’t dare to ask for rewards in return. They were content that three Nascent Soul Realm masters had recovered their realms despite their losses of hundreds of years of cultivation strength.
With three mid-tier Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, the severely damaged Sky Mountain Sect got the chance to catch a breath on Sixth Heaven that was filled with powerful potential enemies.
These grand cultivators of Sky Mountain Sect didn’t know if Herb King Master removed the lock on their realms because of Duan Yao, but they didn’t dare to ask to take her back.
Returning to Sixth Heaven, the sects were going to search for all kinds of valuable spiritual herbs and thumb rings.
“Let’s head back,” Hao Ren glanced at Xie Yujia and said.
“Ok.” Xie Yujia nodded and then looked at Duan Yao who stood about five meters from them. “What should we do with her?”
“She can go back. We don’t need her anymore,” Hao Ren said.
After hearing Hao Ren’s words, Duan Yao widened her eyes and stared at him in astonishment.
She had been taken to Ethereal Summit against her will, and she was still thinking about how she could fight them. However, Hao Ren just abandoned her?! She felt like she was just an object that could be thrown away once not needed.
After being hurt by her father, Duan Yao got another severe blow.
Oblivious to her thoughts and what happened between her and Sky Mountain Sect, Hao Ren summoned Little White and sat on its back before pulling Duan Yao up on his way out of the valley.
Zhen Congming and the Lu sisters followed Hao Ren closely and flew out of Ethereal Summit. With the new array formation, the intensity of nature essence in Ethereal Summit was higher than before, and the spiritual herbs could rest and recover better.
Hao Ren put Duan Yao on the top of a mountain outside of the valley, and he flew into the distance with the others without looking back.
Seeing Hao Ren fly away and becoming a black dot, Duan Yao had tears in her eyes, and she felt like knives were cutting her heart.
After being abandoned by Sky Mountain Sect, even Ethereal Summit didn’t want her. The former little princess had become lower than a beggar in one day.
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In the vast world, where could she go? Sky Mountain Sect wouldn’t send anyone to pick her up, and she didn’t want to go back to Sky Mountain Sect either.
Duan Yao walked a few steps forward in dizziness and felt the acute pain in her wrists. After she smacked away the elixir pills that Xie Yujia tossed to her, the latter didn’t give her any more medicine to heal her wounds.
When she was brought out from the Repentance Cliff in Sky Mountain Sect to Ethereal Summit, she had no dharma treasures or spirit stones on her, and even her clothes were ragged.
She was totally on her own… Looking down at the misty Ethereal Summit, Duan Yao bit hard on her lips and walked to the West.
In the past, whenever she left Sky Mountain Sect, she had been accompanied by many senior brothers and had lots of dharma treasures on her.
However, that was because she was the only daughter of the Sky Mountain Sect Master!
She was cut off! She would never go back to Sky Mountain Sect even if she would die on Fifth Heaven!
Stepping on the sharp broken rocks, Duan Yao stumbled toward the foot of the mountain, feeling like Fifth Heaven which had been a playground to her was now full of dangers.
No longer the pearl of Sky Mountain Sect, she wasn’t protected by snow lions and didn’t even have a weapon for self-defense!
Any cultivator above mid-tier Core Formation Realm could capture her, and no one would know or believe that she was the daughter of the Sky Mountain Sect Master!
“Dad doesn’t want me, and I will never take him as my dad too!”
Without tears, Duan Yao’s steps became steadier.
“No wonder I couldn’t find you in Sky Mountain Sect! You’re here!” A purple light shot from the East.
“Little girl, come with me! After some thought, I have decided to take you with me!”
After wind swept over, Duan Yao disappeared from the mountain.
638 The Arrogant Golden Shield
When Hao Ren returned to East Ocean City from Fifth Heaven, it was drizzling.
Zhen Congming hurried back to his elementary school. After skipping half a day of class, he wasn’t afraid of the teacher scolding him. Instead, he worried that Wu Luoxue from the neighboring class would change her impression of him!
Xie Yujia and the Lu sisters went back to their respective dorm rooms to rest while Hao Ren returned to his dorm room.
As the Nine Dragon Palace mission with Su Han was drawing near, he would be a burden to her plan if he didn’t improve his realm. Standing on the balcony, Hao Ren saw Zhao Yanzi sitting in class, dozens of meters away.
Zhao Yanzi was still oblivious of the fact that Hao Ren’s dorm room faced her school on the other side of the wall, and he could see her sitting next to a window.
The misty drizzle made LingZhao Middle School quite beautiful and quiet.
Turning back to his room, Hao Ren climbed up to the upper berth and sat cross-legged. Zhao Jiayi and the others had gone to class, and Hao Ren was alone in the dorm room, cultivating without interruption.
The intensity of nature essence in Ethereal Summit was about four times greater than before, and Hao Ren had stored some of it in his body. However, his cultivation speed was much slower than before.
With no flowing nature essence in his body, it took lots of time and energy to convert the little amount of nature essence that he had stored.
The Sun had set, and the Moon rose. Zhao Jiayi and the others returned to the dorm room and went to sleep after some boisterous exchanges.
Hao Ren regulated his breathing while inhaling and exhaling the natural essence little by little. Suddenly, he understood Zhao Kuo’s difficulty to start cultivation again after his failure in the Heavenly Tribulation.
After cultivating for one night, he had accumulated only a little bit more of nature essence, barely reaching Kan-level.
While the guys in his dorm room were still sleeping, Hao Ren ran into the school and practiced the fundamental boxing techniques several times before going to the academic building for class.
The cultivation process was tedious, and his cultivation speed would have been slower if not for the nature essence that was stored in his necklace.
In the classroom, the Lu sisters were surprised to see that Hao Ren had reached Kan-level. After all, the Poison Pill Plan had cleansed his body and gotten rid of all the impurities and nature essence in his body.
However, after practicing the fundamental boxing techniques, Hao Ren had comprehended the Heavenly Dao once more through martial arts, which unblocked all the acupoints in his body again and accumulated some nature essence in the process.
After the side effects of the Poison Pill Plan passed, Hao Ren’s realm would return, and this process was equal to cultivating for the second time!
In other words, the nature essence that Hao Ren cultivated now would increase by multiple folds when his old realm returned, and the new nature essence was going to become his origin essence, the most precious energy for cultivators!
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili looked at each other in surprise, but they didn’t tell him anything. It was the secret of Heaven Dao, and Hao Ren was lucky to achieve this.
Feeling like his nature essence could continue to grow, Hao Ren continued to cultivate in his four morning classes.
Although he didn’t break through to Li-level, he had reached peak Kan-level, which was equivalent to mid-tier Foundation Establishment Realm.
After the morning classes were over, Hao Ren went to the club office while holding an umbrella. He walked steadily on the uneven road with no water on his shoes.
If martial art masters had seen this detail, they would have known that Hao Ren was a true master!
The Vice President of the Club, Lu Qi, was in the office, and he immediately greeted Hao Ren.
“President, the information that you told me to gather is ready.” Lu Qi put a form before Hao Ren.
He looked at Hao Ren and was surprised to sense the aura of only Kan-level on Hao Ren, but he thought Hao Ren was suppressing his realm on purpose.
Out of the building, the drizzle continued. When Hao Ren put away his umbrella, no moisture could be found on him.
On the form were the requests of hundreds of club members. Lu Qi had categorized them into over 50 kinds, most of which were dharma treasures that could assist the cultivation process.
“Ok, I got it.” Hao Ren put away the form and asked, “How is the preparation for the calligraphy exhibition?”
“It’s scheduled in the lobby of the library next Tuesday. I’ve borrowed the place from the school,” Lu Qi answered.
“Ok.” Hao Ren nodded. He organized this club activity to put on a show for the school and to unite the members at the same time.
Undoubtedly, the Calligraphy Club would become the most powerful club in the school and the first unofficial club in the Dragon Tribe.
After walking out of the club office, Hao Ren went to find Yue Zilong.
Yue Zilong signed his name without speaking after glancing at the form that Hao Ren handed to him before giving it back to Hao Ren.
These items on the form were neither valuable or ordinary; they were beneficial to cultivators around Zhen-level.
Seeing that Yue Zilong was in a bad mood, Hao Ren didn’t strike a conversation with him. With the signed form in his hand, he turned to leave the office.
“I was about to return to the Dragon God Shrine when the news came that Wang Shitong, the metal-elemental dragon cultivator who came to East Ocean City, was killed,” Yue Zilong said suddenly.
“Wang Shitong…” Hao Ren was surprised.
“This old man who was at peak Qian-level had fought with Yue Zilong, but I remembered that Yue Zilong didn’t kill him,” Hao Ren wondered how the old man had died.
“Wang Shitong was an elder in the metal-elemental dragon clan and the Zixuan Cave Master. His death will certainly be reported to the Elders Council of the metal-elemental dragon clan. You must be careful,” Yue Zilong said
lightly.
Yue Zilong didn’t know about Wang Shitong’s death until the second day, and he was astonished.
This metal-elemental dragon cultivator was not only a member of the Elders Council of metal-elemental dragon clan and the Zixuan Cave Master; he was also a disciple of Taiyi Cave Master.
Being one of the five top-tier caves, the Taiyi Cave had an extraordinary background. The Taiyi Cave Master had reached peak Qian-level more than 1,000 years ago, but due to some mystic techniques, he was still alive although he hadn’t entered the Heaven Dragon Realm yet.
Since the Taiyi Cave was almost the oldest branch in the metal-elemental dragon clan, the direct disciple of the Taiyi Cave Master was highly valued by the metal-elemental dragons.
Since Xu Ke hadn’t reached Qian-level or Kun-level, he wasn’t an official disciple of the Taiyi Cave yet; that was why Yue Zilong didn’t take him seriously.
However, Wang Shitong was an established disciple of Taiyi Cave, and his death in East Ocean City was a big deal.
The problem was that after his careful investigation, Yue Zilong couldn’t find the killer who was powerful enough to instantly destroy Wang Shitong, a peak Qian-level cultivator!
This was a powerful master hiding in East Ocean, and this person was probably more powerful than ordinary Soul Formation Realm cultivator! According to the intelligence from the Dragon God Shrine, Ms. Hong, who was also Lady Zhen, had returned to the Demon Sea after her trip to the Kunlun Mountain. It meant that it wasn’t her doing.
“Even the East Ocean Dragon Palace couldn’t do it. Maybe Lu Linlin and Lu Lili could kill Wang Shitong, but they had no motive, and they couldn’t kill him so quickly…” The more Yue Zilong thought about it, the more alarmed he was. This was why he decided to remain in East Ocean City!
He told Hao Ren this news to remind him to be careful. On the other hand, he wanted to see Hao Ren’s reaction to this news.
However, Hao Ren’s reaction convinced Yue Zilong that he had nothing to do with Wang Shitong’s death.
“Ok… I got it.” Hao Ren thought for a while and backed out of the office.
He wondered how Wang Shitong had died in East Ocean City.
