Dragon King's Son-In-Law

by Dragon King

  Su Han hung up her windbreaker and turned on the heat in the apartment.

  The flexible purple sweater fit her body tightly, revealing her beautiful figure.

  Su Han lifted her wrist and checked her silver watch. “We’ll set off at midnight.”

  “Ok.” Hao Ren nodded.

  “The dinner… is instant noodles,” Su Han continued.

  “Ugh…” Hao Ren froze for a moment and had to agree to her suggestion.

  After taking off the pair of tall, white boots and pushing her feet into pink slippers, Su Han put a thin silk robe around her before getting busy in the kitchen. It seemed that she didn’t want Hao Ren to stare at her gorgeous figure in the sweater.

  Leaning on the sofa, Hao Ren turned on the TV and surfed through the channels, thinking that this might be the last casual moment before their adventure.

  Su Han clanked around with the pots and pans in the kitchen, and Hao Ren wondered why she was making so much noise while cooking only instant noodles.

  They were alone in the big apartment; it felt lonesome but also intimate.

  If she weren’t a cultivator, with her elegance and academic background, Su Han could easily have been a young business elite with a job paying over 500,000 yuan a year, living an uneventful and happy life.

  Hao Ren turned his head slightly and looked at Su Han who was in the pink slippers and black tights in the kitchen.

  Her black hair had some golden strands which were accentuated by the light, and her slightly curly hair fell on her cheeks, making her look gentle.

  Slap… Su Han returned to the living room with two bowls of instant noodles in her hands.

  Hao Ren smelled the aroma of the instant noodles and thought that Su Han’s cooking skills had improved. Meanwhile, the match-making show on the TV was showing the female guests with charming smiles.

  Seeing Hao Ren watching TV while eating the noodles, Su Han suddenly picked up the remote control and changed the channel.

  Hao Ren felt a bit frustrated when the channel was suddenly changed while he was ready to hear one of the female guest’s self-introduction.

  “After the rainy season, the mating season begins…”

  Su Han happened to change the channel to the Animal World, and the narrator was speaking these words.

  “Cough!”

  Hao Ren almost sneezed the noodles out from his nose.

  Su Han’s cold face blushed suddenly, and she picked up the remote control and turned off the TV.

  Since Su Han didn’t like to talk, the room was plunged into silence after the only sound was turned off.

  Hao Ren ate the noodles noisily, trying to lighten the atmosphere.

  “Get yourself ready. It’s not a field trip,” Su Han said.

  “Got it.” Hao Ren picked up the bowl and slurp the soup as well.

  Su Han frowned and pursed her lips, thinking that Hao Ren was acting as if this were his own home.

  However, she didn’t want to scold him or anything; she only thought that he was a bit too casual. After going into her room, she took a bathrobe and took a shower in the bathroom.

  While eating the noodles, Hao Ren listened to the sounds of the shower in the bathroom and finally hiccupped with great satisfaction.

  It was hard to say what would happen in the Nine Dragon Palace, and Hao Ren had planned to have a good meal before they set off. However, Su Han just treated him with instant noodles.

  “Forget it! I’m full anyway and ready to fight in the Nine Dragon Palace,” he thought.

  He dumped the two paper bowls into the garbage can in the kitchen and sighed heavily when he saw the sink that was filled with dirty plates.

  “Su Han is terrible at housework…” Hao Ren rolled up his sleeves, picked up the detergent, turned on the tap, and began to wash the plates that had accumulated for about five to six days.

  “I’m cleaning even though I don’t know if we can come back or not,” Hao Ren thought while he placed the clean plates and utensils into the cupboard.

  After walking out of the bathroom in her bathrobe, Su Han watched Hao Ren clean up the kitchen in a daze. Then, she went into her bedroom and put on her purple sweater and black tights while biting her lips.

  Hao Ren was acting like a great husband, but who could belittle him for that?

  Even Su Han had underestimated Hao Ren’s potential many times.

  “Maybe… He could reach the Heavenly Dragon Realm as well?” Su Han thought while she watched Hao Ren clean the kitchen.

  Hua… Hao Ren washed the rag and hung it on the hook above the sink before walking out of the kitchen.

  Standing at the door to her bedroom, Su Han looked at him and then turned her gaze away as she cleared her throat slightly.

  “Drop the insignificant work. There are only four hours before we set off for the Nine Dragon Palace. You must take the time to cultivate and get ready.”

  Despite her words, she suddenly felt like Hao Ren was her husband while he was cleaning the kitchen.

  This feeling was a mental blow to Su Han who had lived alone for a long time.

  “Ok!” Hao Ren entered her cultivation room and sat down cross-legged.

  Following him into the room, Su Han lit some incense and placed her longsword beside her before closing her eyes to rest.

  This time, she and Hao Ren would go to the Nine Dragon Palace, a place even the deputy shrine masters of the Dragon God Shrine couldn’t enter without permission.

  Su Han felt a bit nervous, and small ripples appeared in her mind. But quickly, she suppressed her emotions with her technique, and her mind became smooth again like the surface of a lake.

  Seeing her beautiful posture while she rested with closed eyes, Hao Ren placed his hands on his knees, exhaled deeply, and circulated his nature essence using the Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll.

  Just as Su Han had said, they were not going on a field trip, and they couldn’t afford to be careless.

  Time ticked away silently in the quiet cultivation room. When Hao Ren was gathering all the nature essence into his dragon core, Su Han’s voice broke the silence.

  “Let’s go!”

  With a slight push, Su Han opened the window. The slim and longsword rose in the air automatically, and Su Han slipped her feet into a pair of white boots before shooting out of the window on the longsword.

  Without hesitation, Hao Ren jumped out of the window. The moment he began to drop, the purple gold hairpin appeared beneath his feet. With a golden light, he followed Su Han tightly.

  The Nine Dragon Palace was on Fifth Heaven, but only Su Han knew its precise location.

  After traveling above the misty lakes and mountains, Su Han and Hao Ren entered Fifth Heaven.

  Ding!

  Su Han observed the terrain and shot out a dragon nail.

  The silver nail shot into the mountain with a radiant white light.

  Stepping on the longsword, Su Han swept to the distance with extremely fast speed and shot out another silver dragon nail.

  Another light dot appeared in the rolling mountains.

  As long as a palm, the dragon nails were very powerful at building array formations and locating other treasures.

  Su Han led Hao Ren around a mountain before shooting out another dragon nail.

  This place was far from Hao Ren’s Ethereal Summit, and he had never been here before.

  While her longsword swept across a deep valley, Su Han shot out another dragon nail toward the black mountain.

  After several tries, the five white lights flashed vaguely in the area with a diameter of 1,000 kilometers.

  “Go!”

  Su Han threw out the longsword with all her force, releasing all the strength of top-tier Qian-level.

  The black-and-white light instantly lit up this area with wondrous radiance.

  Su Han cultivated both metal-elemental and water-elemental nature essence. When the metal-elemental nature essence reached its peak, it was white, and when the water-
elemental nature essence reached its peak, it would be black.

  Su Han’s current realm was close to peak Qian-level!

  All the strength that she had accumulated was released suddenly!

  Boom! Boom… Muffled thunderous noises sounded on the quiet Fifth Heaven in the night.

  Following Su Han, Hao Ren saw a grey outline appeared in the dark sky.

  The Nine Dragon Palace!

  It was the Nine Dragon Palace that Hao Ren had once seen!

  Like a huge city hovering in the air, it had lots of soil at the bottom while the top was beyond his sight!

  Using all her cultivation strength in the attack, Su Han broke the Nine Dragon Palace’s stealth.

  Although it was only a vague outline, they had a chance to enter it!

  Swoosh!

  Stepping on the longsword, Su Han dashed toward the Nine Dragon Palace.

  The five dragon nails were stolen from the Dragon God Shrine, and they were holding the shadow of the Nine Dragon Palace in place. However, it would last only dozens of seconds!

  Possessing the power of seriously injuring peak Qian-level cultivators, the dragon nails were treasures of the sixth deputy shrine master, and each of them could be used only once. This deputy shrine master only had eight dragon nails left!

  Su Han was taking a great risk to enter the Nine Dragon Palace! She would die if she failed!

  Hua… Stepping on the purple gold hairpin, Hao Ren followed her.

  With the aid of the five dragon nails, Su Han’s full-force attack only revealed the shadow of the Nine Dragon Palace. Instantly, the outline of the Nine Dragon Palace began to dim and would disappear in the darkness again.

  “It’s the aura of dragon cultivators!” A furious roar suddenly came from Seventh Heaven!

  704 Fragile Su Han

  Instantly, several powerful suppression crashed toward them from the high sky, choking Hao Ren and Su Han.

  Almost at the same time, five to six dharma treasures flew toward them with whistling sounds!

  The attackers were Soul Formation Realm cultivators on Seventh Heaven!

  After the appearance of a supreme spiritual treasure on Sixth Heaven, they had begun to pay attention to Fifth and Sixth Heavens by leaving a trace of spiritual senses in these places.

  When Hao Ren and Su Han entered Fifth Heaven at midnight, their movements couldn’t escape the spiritual senses left behind by the Soul Formation Realm cultivators.

  Especially when Su Han used all her power to force the Nine Dragon Palace to appear with the aid of five dragon nails, the booming sounds alerted the Soul Formation Realm cultivators who were living on Seventh Heaven.

  On Fifth Heaven which was far above the clouds on land, the thunderous noise could only mean that a cultivator was passing a lightning tribulation.

  With little effort, the Soul Formation Realm cultivators had sensed the aura of dragon cultivators on Fifth Heaven.

  Therefore, the Soul Formation Realm cultivators attacked immediately!

  Not expecting that the Soul Formation Realm cultivators would intervene, Hao Ren and Su Han were alarmed when the dharma treasures shot through the array formation between Sixth Heaven and Fifth Heaven and crashed toward them!

  Su Han had purposefully selected midnight to enter Fifth Heaven so that they wouldn’t alert the human cultivators on Fifth Heaven. With her top-tier Qian -level strength, she wasn’t afraid of the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, but she wouldn’t be able to force out the Nine Dragon Palace if a large group of human cultivators chased her.

  She had avoided the Core Fruition Realm and the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators but couldn’t escape from the spiritual senses of the Soul Formation Realm cultivators!

  The Soul Formation Realm cultivators had never cared much about the things happening on Fifth Heaven. But after the emergence of a supreme spiritual treasure and the incident around Ethereal Summit, they realized that they couldn’t ignore Fifth Heaven.

  “Go!”

  Seeing the dharma treasures crashing toward them at lightning speed, Hao Ren worked up the chaotic lightning energy in his body and managed to break off the suppressions of the Soul Formation Realm cultivators.

  While stepping on the purple gold hairpin, he dashed behind Su Han.

  Holding Su Han’s waist, he raced toward the base of the disappearing Nine Dragon Palace while the purple gold hairpin moved at its greatest speed.

  Hum!

  The five silver dragon nails suddenly shot out white lights on one spot at the base of the Nine Dragon Palace.

  After careful calculations, Su Han had found this spot for them to enter the Nine Dragon Palace. She had done her investigations on Fifth Heaven by concealing her aura, but they were discovered by the Soul Formation Realm cultivators from Seventh Heaven!

  Su Han’s longsword released a blinding light which opened a small crack in the Nine Dragon Palace’s array formation! It was the weakest spot in the array formation!

  With her full strength, Su Han was only able to create a small tunnel!

  Gritting his teeth, Hao Ren held Su Han’s waist with force.

  On one side was the small crack in the array formation of the Nine Dragon Palace, and on the other side was the dharma treasures launched by the Soul Formation Realm cultivators from Seventh Heaven!

  Swoosh!

  Hao Ren flew into this small crack that was surrounded by colorful lights with Su Han in his arms, feeling as if they had entered a wormhole with glowing lights.

  If they were a split-second slower, he and Su Han would be sealed in the array formation and squeeze into pieces!

  Hao Ren poured out the metal-elemental and water-elemental nature essence from his body, pushing the purple gold hairpin to its greatest speed.

  It was fortunate that the purple gold hairpin wasn’t an ordinary dharma treasure. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be able to fly under the violent suppression of the array formation!

  With widened eyes, Su Han’s body tensed up like a piece of iron. Her calculation was perfect, but the unexpected delay caused by the Soul Formation Realm cultivators at the most critical moment made them enter the crack in the array formation half second late!

  They should have passed the crack with little risk, but now the situation was extremely dangerous! The array formation was closing right behind Hao Ren’s heels!

  Bang! Hao Ren and Su Han suddenly fell on the ground after being spat out by the array formation.

  Meanwhile, the dharma treasures of the Soul Formation Realm cultivators crashed on the edges of the array formation around the Nine Dagon Palace, and the dark outline of the Nine Dragon Palace was revealed again.

  However, even the dharma treasures of the Soul Formation Realm cultivators couldn’t open the Nine Dragon Palace’s array formation, and they were bounced off one by one.

  Hum!

  The Nine Dragon Palace vanished into the darkness.

  “Hu… Hu…” Lying on the ground, Hao Ren panted heavily and touched his cheek with his left hand, finding that he was still alive.

  Suddenly, he saw his right arm holding Su Han’s soft waist while his right palm was gripping the softest part of her chest.

  Hua!

  Hao Ren withdrew his right hand hurriedly, knowing that Su Han would kill him for touching her body this way.

  After receiving no reaction from her, Hao Ren turned to look at her cautiously.

  Su Han’s body was listless, and her eyes lost its usual sharpness as if she had exhausted all her strength and couldn’t even get up from the ground.

  Hao Ren sat up and tried to pull her up by grabbing her wrist.

  “Let me… rest for a while,” Su Han panted her words out while leaning her head on Hao Ren’s shoulder.

  Hao Ren suddenly remembered that in the Nine Dragon Palace which sealed the five elements; any cultivator who didn’t have hundun energy which was the combination of all five elements were as weak as mortals.

  Despite her top-tier Qian-level strength,
Su Han was just a mortal who couldn’t use any of her cultivation techniques!

  Right now, Su Han wasn’t a master but a fragile girl who needed Hao Ren’s protection!

  It was night outside of the Nine Dragon Palace, and it was the same inside. It was so dark that Hao Ren couldn’t see his own fingers if he didn’t use his nature essence.

  With his super eyesight, Hao Ren could only see himself and Su Han and nothing beyond half a meter.

  Not able to cultivate or recover her nature essence, Su Han leaned on Hao Ren’s body and tried to recover some of her strength by using the traditional breathing method.

  While grabbing Hao Ren’s wrist with her left hand, her shoulders moved slightly with her breathing.

  In this dark night, if they got separated, they wouldn’t be able to find each other. It seemed that the sounds were blocked, and they couldn’t travel far.

  The dull space felt like an invisible cage.

  Hao Ren thought that Su Han wouldn’t be able to make it by herself if he didn’t come with her.

  “Besides, she has no nature essence in the Nine Dragon Palace and can only rely on me, entrusting her life in my hands. It is a great trust…” Hao Ren thought.

  In fact, Su Han was quite emotional as she tried to breathe evenly. She remembered that when the array formation closed, Hao Ren still held her tightly even though it slowed him down; he hadn’t let her go despite the risk of being swallowed by the array formation…

  Su Han pressed her cheek on Hao Ren’s shoulder, feeling a sense of security that she had never experienced before.

  Su Han had been alone all her life and had never relied on anyone, but in the Nine Dragon Palace, she had to rely on Hao Ren.

  Snap!

  A thread of hundun lightning energy appeared on Hao Ren’s fingertip and shone on Su Han’s beautiful face.

  “Don’t…” Su Han immediately reached out and covered his fingertip.

  “Let’s find a place to hide during the night.” Hao Ren looked at her in bafflement.

  “We can’t wander around,” Su Han said in a low voice.

  Roar… Roar… From a distance came roars of monsters.

  The roars sounded distant, but in the Nine Dragon Palace where the sounds were blocked, the fierce beasts might be very close to them.