by Dragon King
“Ok…” Xie Yujia took out the Ruyi Cloth from her storage ring and beckoned at the golden shield.
Swoosh! The golden shield flew over and touched Xie Yujia’s palm intimately.
After glancing at Hao Ren in surprise, Xie Yujia tried to scrub the surface of the shield carefully. Lying comfortably on Xie Yujia’s hand, the golden shield turned vigorously to rub against the Ruyi Cloth.
“Damn! It’s as shameless as Little White,” Hao Ren thought after seeing golden shield’s shameless behavior.
While some Nascent Soul Realm cultivators hadn’t ever seen a supreme spiritual treasure all their lives, Xie Yujia could scrub it as a Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator.
If those Nascent Soul Realm cultivators could see this sight, they would be green with envy.
The supreme spiritual treasure could strengthen itself by following the super powerful cultivators, and low-level cultivators could also strengthen themselves by being in contact with a supreme spiritual treasure constantly.
Cultivating with the supreme spiritual treasure around her, Xie Yujia would increase her cultivation speed by five to six times.
There was the agreement between Hao Ren and the golden shield; Hao Ren had to get rid of the black rust for it.
The golden shield’s dark appearance didn’t match its current realm and status, which was why it did everything it could to make Xie Yujia scrub the black rust from its body.
After all, only a shiny golden appearance could match its status as a celestial treasure!
Creak…
Like an ancient broken tool, the golden shield moved around in Xie Yujia’s Ruyi Cloth.
“Ok. Just scrub it for a little while each day. It won’t be satisfied even if you scrub it for five hours without stop,” Hao Ren said after taking the Ruyi Cloth from Xie Yujia’s hand.
Seeing the Ruyi Cloth leaving Xie Yujia’s hand, the golden shield followed it to rub against it.
“Ok. I got it.” With a gentle smile, Xie Yujia put the Ruyi Cloth into her storage ring.
The golden shield moved around Xie Yujia anxiously, wanting to scrub one smaller black dot on one corner of its surface, but Xie Yujia had put away the Ruyi Cloth already.
Hao Ren had agreed to clean its body but didn’t set the time for the job. He could finish the job in five to six days or weeks, so it must stay with Hao Ren if it wanted to become pretty.
“From now on, you stay with Yujia when you’re on the land,” Hao Ren said to the golden shield, not caring if it understood his words.
He would bring the golden shield with him to Fifth Heaven and Sixth Heaven. But in the meantime, he was afraid that some ignorant and block-headed Soul Formation Realm cultivator would make a move against Xie Yujia.
Moving around Xie Yujia, the golden shield saw that she had put away the Ruyi Cloth, and it couldn’t squeeze into her storage ring. Then, it changed into a black button and attached itself onto her collar.
“You are smart,” Hao Ren said with a smile.
The supreme spiritual treasures weren’t very smart, but they possessed the intelligence of one to two years old children.
Little White, on the other hand, had the intelligence of a three to four years old child. Except for the fact that it couldn’t speak, it was able to think logically.
Since Xie Yujia had marks from Qingfeng Hermit and Lady Zhen on her body, the inspectors of the Dragon God Shrine, the Soul Formation Realm cultivators above Fifth Heaven, and the demon beasts in the Demon Sea wouldn’t dare to make a move against her.
With a much higher realm than Xie Yujia, Zhao Yanzi was the princess of the East Ocean Dragon Clan and had a top-tier natal dharma treasure and the colorful traditional dress that Lady Zhen gave her. Ordinary people wouldn’t dare to mess with her.
At this thought, Hao Ren looked back and saw Zhao Yanzi following them happily on the Purple Green Treasure Sword.
Suddenly, another thought struck him. “With Zhao Yanzi’s Core Formation Realm and strong physique, it might be the time to return the dragon core to her…”
Flying behind them, Zhao Yanzi blushed and gave Hao Ren a stare when she saw him looking back at her.
In the early morning when she was in the weakest moment after just reaching the Core Formation Realm, Hao Ren had taken… advantage of her!
Zhao Yanzi flushed, and her eyes turned fierce.
However, deep down in her heart, she wasn’t furious and didn’t blame him, thinking that it was no big deal to be touched by Hao Ren.
Bang!
Little White pierced the white clouds and entered the city.
After dropping to the land, it tumbled and turned into a golden squirrel that was as big as half a palm before crawling from Xie Yujia’s feet to her shoulder.
Xie Yujia looked at it in surprise, not expecting Little White to change like this.
A level 4 snow lion could turn bigger but couldn’t turn smaller. However, a level 5 snow lion could change its size and shape at will.
After seeing Luojia, the level 5 snow lion, Little White realized that it could turn all its fur into a golden color and even transform into small and nimble animals.
Hao Ren pointed out a finger and tapped Little White’s nose.
Duan Yao had been so proud when she sat on Luojia and despised Little White, but now that ‘mortal’ snow lion had reached level 5 as well!
Each demon beast had the bloodline of an ancient godly beast, but the intensity of the godly beast bloodline was different. According to Sky Mountain Sect, snow lions could only reach level 6. However, Hao Ren knew that Sky Mountain Sky didn’t have the complete Transformation Scroll, and the nature essence intensity on Six Heaven was far less than that in the Demon Sea.
If Little White could continue cultivating, it had the chance of reaching level 10.
Looking at Little White who was jumping around on Xie Yujia’s shoulder, Hao Ren wondered how Little White would look at level 10, and how it would look after transformation.
“Ha! So cute!” Seeing Little White turning into a squirrel, Zhao Yanzi reached out to pet its small head.
“Go back to your class!” Seeing Zhao Yanzi having fun, Hao Ren said with a straight face.
“I got it!” Zhao Yanzi glared at Hao Ren.
“You’re pretending to be so strict now, but you did unspeakable things to me at Ethereal Summit,” Zhao Yanzi thought to herself as she pouted, picked up Little White, and put it into her pocket before walking toward LingZhao Middle School.
Hao Ren looked at her and suddenly realized that he had lost authority before her.
He was older than her, which allowed him to lecture her like a big brother. But now that Zhao Yanzi placed herself in the position of his wife, he realized that he was losing control over her.
“Let’s go to the class!” Xie Yujia touched Hao Ren’s wrist.
“Ok…” Hao Ren watched as Zhao Yanzi entered the gate of LingZhao Middle School. Then, he gathered his thoughts before entering East Ocean University with Xie Yujia.
“He’s Hao Zhonghua’s son…”
“Even the TV stations interviewed the Calligraphy Club, and it was released in yesterday’s news…”
“It’s said that he is a good friend of Song Qingya. How come I didn’t see that before…”
While Hao Ren and Xie Yujia walked on the campus, the people around them began to talk among themselves.
After yesterday’s club activity, he had become a celebrity of the school. The titles of ‘Hao Zhonghua’s son’ and ‘Song Qingya’s good friend’ were enough for people to gossip about him.
Others thought that he had purposefully kept a low-profile in the past by speaking nothing about his family background even though his parents’ social connections were way more powerful than Huang Xujie’s father’s.
Walking beside Hao Ren, Xie Yujia looked fresh and elegant while breeze caressed her face.
“Only such an elegant beauty can match Hao Ren…” the students thought.
In yesterday’s club activity, they had seen that Xie Yujia was very familiar with Hao Ren’s parents and grandma with their eyes, and they guessed that her relationship with Hao Ren had been recognized and accepted by Hao Ren’s family.
Judged from the intimate relationship between Xie Yujia and Hao Ren’s parents, other students guessed that her relationship with Hao Ren must be steady, and she must have known Hao Ren’s parents for at least half a year.
“She moved really fast…” The girls couldn’t help lamenting.
Yesterday’s club activity brought them great amazement, and they were now admiring Xie Yujia for catching Hao Ren, a perfect boyfriend.
All kinds of envy, jealousy, and hatred rose in their hearts.
If they had known about Hao Ren’s great background earlier, they would have pursued him themselves!
They didn’t know that Hao Ren and Xie Yujia’s families were old acquaintances, and their marriage had been arranged since they were little. Besides, Xie Yujia’s family wasn’t inferior to Hao Ren’s.
Hao Ren and Xie Yujia were a perfect match in every perspective! No one in the school could separate them!
Even the girls who wanted Hao Ren had to face reality reluctantly.
Tap, tap, tap, tap…
In a black windbreaker and a pair of white high heels, Su Han walked out of a building in front of them.
701 The Prince Circle?
“Ms. Su…” Xie Yujia immediately greeted Su Han after seeing her walking toward them
“Erm.” Su Han answered coldly and looked at Hao Ren. “We’ll be leaving tomorrow. You come to my home tonight.”
Her tone was cold and indisputable.
Baffled, Xie Yujia looked at Su Han and then Hao Ren, wondering what Su Han was talking about. However, she didn’t feel it was right to interrupt.
“I… have school…” Hao Ren said.
“I’ve talked to Lu Qing, and you’ll take a one week leave,” Su Han interrupted Hao Ren.
“Ok.” Hao Ren knew that the time was near but didn’t expect Su Han not giving him any time to prepare.
“Well, we may never return,” Su Han suddenly continued.
Hao Ren’s heart lurched, and he sweated when he looked at Su Han’s cold face.
Taking a one week leave and might never return…
Su Han was always cool but never cold. In fact, she was easy-going occasionally.
Hao Ren knew that her ice-cold expression would only appear when she met someone she didn’t like, or she was very nervous.
The Nine Dragon Palace was not less dangerous than the Demon Sea.
Su Han and Hao Ren were going to face Qiu Niu, one of the ancestors of all dragons, and he was fiercer than Lady Zhen.
“That’s all.” Su Han turned sideways and walked through Hao Ren and Xie Yujia toward the cafeteria calmly.
Xie Yujia turned her head and looked at Su Han helplessly.
Su Han was like half a master to Xie Yujia since the former had once tutored her in cultivation, but she looked colder than before.
“Does… Su Han like Hao Ren as well?” Xie Yujia’s heart tightened a bit when her intuition whispered the words to her.
“Let’s go.” Seeing Xie Yujia standing there in a daze, Hao Ren held her slim hand and strode to the academic building.
Seeing Hao Ren walking while holding Xie Yujia’s hand, the guys could do nothing but envy.
Xie Yujia walked alongside Hao Ren obediently and quickened her steps. Hao Ren walked fast, but she liked being led by him.
The students were already all in the classroom. When Hao Ren and Xie Yujia arrived, they were several minutes late. As Hao Ren showed up at the entrance while pulling Xie Yujia behind him, all the students turned to look at them.
“Sorry, we are late.” After apologizing in a low voice, Hao Ren pulled Xie Yujia into the classroom and found seats beside Lu Linlin and Lu Lili.
While blushing, Xie Yujia followed Hao Ren to the seats with her head lowered.
Since she was a good student since little, she had never been led into a classroom by a guy in front of other students and teachers.
“Hehe, Big Zhumu has elevated the realm,” Lu Linlin said after glancing at Xie Yujia
Lu Lili looked at Xie Yujia in surprise as well. With Xie Yujia’s physique, her cultivation speed was supposed to be very slow, but she had advanced to top-tier Foundation Establishment Realm, which showed that she had worked hard in cultivation.
The students in the classroom all glanced at Hao Ren when he sat down.
They had thought that Hao Ren had done well in the school, but they had never imagined that he was Hao Zhonghua and Yue Yang’s son. He was a special figure.
Xie Yujia borrowed Lu Lili’s notes and copied the key points while she listened to the teacher. Meanwhile, the golden shield spun on her collar slowly like a button, releasing weak nature essence.
The Life-Death Notes circulated in Xie Yujia’s body and worked together with the golden shield, forming a vague black-white Tai Chi pattern on the surface of the shield.
The original dharma note that Qingfeng Hermit injected into Xie Yujia’s body contained a trace of Heavenly Dao which were represented by Yin and Yang, Life and Death.
The golden shield had absorbed so much nature essence that it overfilled itself. The Life-Death Notes in Xie Yujia’s body circulated automatically, drawing out the excess nature essence from the golden shield and transferring it into Xie Yujia’s meridians.
Sitting beside Xie Yujia, Hao Ren didn’t know that he got some of the nature essence while the Life-Death Notes were adjusting the balance of the nature essence in Xie Yujia’s body.
According to the legends, powerful dharma treasures could function automatically and increase the nature essence intensity in an area with a diameter of 100,000 kilometers. The nature essence that the golden shield released was little, but it brought great benefits to Xie Yujia who was at the Foundation Establishment Realm.
If Qingfeng Hermit were in East Ocean City, Xie Yujia could ask her for help. However, with Qingfeng Hermit cultivating in seclusion on Eighth Heaven, Xie Yujia had to cultivate by herself. It was a strenuous process.
In contrast, Zhao Yanzi could ask the dragon elders such as Lu Qing and Sun Yun for guidance. Also, when she returned to the dragon palace occasionally, Elder Xingyue would check her cultivation process.
Only after Qingfeng Hermit come out of her seclusion cultivation would Xie Yujia be taught properly.
Parents, Master… All the seniors whom Xie Yujia could depend on were not in East Ocean City, leaving her alone.
Hao Ren looked at Xie Yujia as she copied the notes in earnest with her head leaning to one side, and he suddenly felt passionate toward her.
“After I come back from the Nine Dragon Palace, I will help Xie Yujia cultivate if I can gain a major breakthrough,” Hao Ren thought.
The four classes passed in the blink of an eye.
While Hao Ren was helping Lu Linlin and Lu Lili pack up, Lu Qi appeared at the door and beckoned at him.
Beside him was Chen Su, the Royal Prince of the Taibai Mountain Dragon Clan, who had just transferred to the school.
“They are probably here to invite me to lunch…” Hao Ren smiled and thought.
Lu Qi had introduced the Royal Prince of the Taibai Mountain Dragon Clan to this school due to his admiration of Hao Ren. From the perspective of the East Ocean Dragon Clan, Hao Ren should get to know him better.
When Hao Ren walked to the door, he saw a big group of young men standing on the other side of the door.
“Brother Hao,” Lu Qi looked at Hao Ren and said with a little awkwardness, “They are friends from different dragon clans. Chen Su invited some of them here, and others are friends of our friends.”
Hao Ren looked at them and realized that there were more than 30 young men in here. They had different realms and elemental attribute. Also, some dressed extravagantly while others wore plain clothes.
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p; “This is the Royal Prince of the Min Mountain Dragon Clan; this is the Royal Prince of the Hongze Lake Dragon Clan; this is the Royal Prince of the Qinling Mountain Dragon Clan…”
Lu Qi introduced some guys beside him.
Hao Ren remembered that Zhao Guang had mentioned that some royal princes of other dragon clans would come to study in East Ocean City before leaving, and he was surprised that these dragon clans had acted so quickly. The royal princes of these dragon clans had come to East Ocean University together on the second day!
“They are here to take a look first. Their registrations are still in process,” Lu Qi continued.
While he was dealing with some business in the office of the Calligraphy Club, a large group of dragon cultivators suddenly came in. They were all young royal princes of different dragon clans, and they were coming to meet Hao Ren. That was why Lu Qin had led them to find Hao Ren here.
In the dragon circle, Hao Ren was very famous, especially among the younger generation. The dragon kings and elders who had come to see the calligraphy exhibition had praised Hao Ren after they returned to their respective dragon clans.
Hao Ren’s achievements had spread among different dragon clans instantly.
Since Hao Ren had stood out in the Dragon God Shrine’s general exams and became a level 4 inspector, the royal princes were all curious about him, which was why they came to East Ocean City to see him with some doubts and admiration in their hearts.
Escorted by their elders, the young dragon cultivators had flown to East Ocean City during the night in a few hours.
Now that they saw Hao Ren’s ordinary look, they began to wonder if he were as powerful as the rumors said.
“Good. Now that you’re here, you are my friends. I’ll invite you all to lunch,” Hao Ren said generously.
Then, Xie Yujia and the Lu sisters walked out of the classroom and stood on both sides of Hao Ren.
These sharp-eyed royal princes immediately saw that two girls were at Kun-level while the other was at the Foundation Establishment Realm!
An ordinary dragon clan only had a few Kun-level cultivators, but two Kun-level cultivators followed Hao Ren. As to the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator, they knew that she was quite extraordinary since she could live on land which was controlled by dragon cultivators.
