Dragon King's Son-In-Law

by Dragon King

Xie Yujia and Zhao Yanzi were slightly shocked and quickly chased after Hao Ren. Lu Linlin and Lu Lili twisted their waist lightly and followed.

Those young cultivators were shocked when they saw Hao Ren and others moving in this traveling speed. After seeing them disappearing into the clouds, they talked to each other and land in East Ocean University.

“Hao Ren!”

Xie Yujia and Zhao Yanzi yelled at the same time, but they could only see Hao Ren’s blurred figure.

Duan Yao hesitated for a bit before flying toward Fifth Heaven.

Hua… Hao Ren flew into Fifth Heaven and rushed inside Ethereal Summit.

Due to the effect of the outer and inner array formations, the nature essence intensity in Ethereal Summit was on par with Seventh Heaven. It was more than ten times the nature essence intensity on land.

All sorts of spiritual herbs flourished in the spiritual fields in the center of the valley.

The three Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus already grew out new leaves in the spiritual pond which was composed of the combination of top-tier spiritual herbs.

The power of the array formation around them melted these spiritual herbs gradually and turned them into the liquid form. This made the three lotus seeds the best environment to grow.

This liquid could be called celestial liquid. One drop could make the effect of a spiritual herb increase by hundreds of years, and a few drops were could increase the medicinal effect by thousands of years.

“Gongzi, it was a success!” Lu Linlin and Lu Lili dashed inside Ethereal Summit and saw the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses with new leaves.

“Um…” Hao Ren’s mood was a bit depressed, but it was slightly better when he saw these three Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses waving their leaves.

The difficulty in nurturing Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses was abnormally high. Even Sky Mountain Sect that was famous for nurturing spiritual herbs only had the record in ancient books. They might not succeed even if they were given enough materials.

Now that the three seeds all sprouted and were growing, it seemed like they weren’t far from maturing.

The celestial liquid which was made of many spiritual herbs ashes and top-grade spiritual herbs acted as the fertilizer, and the three Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses had absorbed a small portion. For them to fully mature, the celestial liquid that could bring dying spiritual herbs back to life would eventually all be absorbed by them.

Hao Ren thought for a bit and threw the remaining level 10 demonic cores into the celestial liquid to replenish the nutrient.

The level 10 demonic cores emitted bright and colorful light and were soon melted within the celestial liquid.

These demonic cores were rigid and similar to crystal bead. Even if Little White were to digest a demon core, it would take her a few days.

Yet, this celestial liquid dissolved the demonic cores instantly. It was clear that the celestial liquid had extreme power. If cultivators touched it with bare hands, they would melt right away!

However, the three Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses were growing steadily in the celestial liquid; they were ultra-tough.

With the addition of the several demonic cores, the leaves of the three Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses had changed slightly and became greener just like a top-tier jade carving.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Zhao Yanzi, Xie Yujia, and Duan Yao who were slightly slower entered Ethereal Summit one after another.

Xie Yujia was very surprised when she saw the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses were more than ten centimeters tall and had grown new leaves.

Duan Yao was shocked when she saw the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses as well. Sky Mountain Sect was known for nurturing lotuses, and that was why she knew that the best lotuses in the world were Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses.

Yet, she had only heard of this type of lotus and never seen one in person. Unexpectedly, Hao Ren’s valley nurtured the legendary and holy lotus.

Due to their unique attributes, they couldn’t be used to make elixir pills, and cultivators wouldn’t be able to consume them directly. It could only be used to create five-elemental dharma treasures, but very few cultivators could use such dharma treasures.

Duan Yao looked at Hao Ren in confusion and didn’t know why he was nurturing the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses that even Sky Mountain Sect couldn’t nurture.

Zhao Yanzi’s mood was bad as well, but she immediately paid attention to the three shiny plants when she saw them.

“According to this speed, they will mature in five days,” Xie Yujia said.

She thought it would take about ten days originally, but Hao Ren threw level 10 demonic cores inside. This raised the nature essence intensity of the celestial liquid, and the growth speed became even faster.

Demonic cores also contained tremendous demon essence, which was the essence absorbed by demon beasts. Now, they were released into the celestial liquid to become nutritious fertilizer.

According to Sky Mountain Sect’s way of nurturing, the fastest time to nurture a Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus would be around 100 years. However, Hao Ren added ten types of top-tier spiritual herbs and an enormous amount of spiritual herb ashes into the celestial liquid. In addition, there were also level 10 demonic cores, which should make these lotuses mature in a few days!

Certainly, the consequence was that all the celestial liquid which were precious would be absorbed completely.

“Besides, these are 100,000-year-old Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses,” Lu Linlin added when she heard Xie Yujia.

The 100,000-year-old spiritual herbs were burned in Nine Dragon Palace by Qiu Niu, but the golden shield absorbed the ashes and spat them out in Ethereal Valley, forming the celestial liquid.

This celestial liquid was enough to add a few hundred years to all the spiritual herbs on Fifth Heaven.

Duan Yao slightly widened her eyes; she didn’t expect these lotuses to be on the level of 100,000-year-old.

Sky Mountain Sect had nurtured Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses during its prime, and they had to consume various types of top-tier spiritual herbs, but the success rate was only 50 percent. Yet, Hao Ren had three here!

“Can we… reduce it to three days?” Hao Ren thought for a bit and asked.

Xie Yujia looked at Hao Ren in surprise.

The Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses would be nurtured in five days, and this was already extremely fast. However, Hao Ren still wanted to reduce it to three days. Could it be that…

“I want to plant the mystic crystal before Su Han charges at the Heavenly Dragon Realm,” Hao Ren said. He turned his head slightly to look at the Lu sisters and Xie Yujia. “A 10,000-year-old lotus should be good enough.”

“Gongzi…” Lu Linlin and Lu Lili looked at Hao Ren and felt like it was such a pity.

It was a significant difference between 10,000-year-old and 100,000-year-old. Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses could only be nurtured given the right time, location, and people, and they might not be capable of appearing again within thousands of years.

Decreasing a 100,000-year-old spiritual herb to a 10,00-year-old spiritual herb for only two days…

Duan Yao also felt that Hao Ren was too impatient. She saw Hao Ren as her enemy, but she didn’t know why she still hoped that he could nurture a 100,000-year-old Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus.

“Su Han picked her day carefully, right?” Hao Ren asked.

Lu Linlin and Lu Lili frowned, calculated carefully, and looked at Hao Ren in surprise. “Gongzi, how did you know? The Heavenly Dao is the weakest on that day!”

In fact, Hao Ren was only guessing. A cultivator on Su Han’s realm would have a sense of connection with the Heavenly Dao. That was why Zhao Kuo prepared early for his Heavenly Tribulation.

“The Ancestral Dragons would be alternating in three days,” Lu Lili said.

“What does that mean?” Hao Ren asked.

“The God Dragon has nine sons. Eight of them guard eight directions, and the other one wanders around the world. Their positions rotate every 500 years, and Heavenly Dao will be loosened on that day,” Lu Linlin said.

They shouldn’t tell Hao Ren these secrets, but they didn’t see Hao Ren as an outsider. Also, it was fine since they would be punished when they return anyways.

“500 years ago, that metal-elemental dragon cultivator successfully ascended to the Heavenly Dragon Realm on this date as well,” Lu Lili said.

Hao Ren knew that Qiu Niu was the one who was on his 500-year vacation. He wondered who would be freed next…

“I will plant the mystic crystal in three days,” Hao Ren sent out two sword energies and picked out two Seven-Core F
ive-Color Lotuses from the left and the right.

Lu Linlin and Lu Lili were shocked, but they soon understood. Hao Ren took out two lotuses and focused on nurturing one. That would help this one become 100,000-year-old in three days.

They persisted on three lotuses and didn’t think of this.

Giving and taking were apart of the Heavenly Dao. Having three lotuses become 10,000-year-old, or having just one becomes 100,000-year-old; those were the choices.

  756 100,000-Year-Old Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus

  Whoosh!

  Hao Ren stepped on a sword energy and flew into his cave abode.

  The golden shield made a humming sound while hovering around twice before laying inside the crevice of the cave.

  Lu Linlin and Lu Lili looked at each other and released their Yin-Yang Bracelets toward the spiritual field. The bracelets floated on top of the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus and released an energy sphere.

  In the next two days, both Hao Ren and the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus had to be protected. Lu Linlin and Lu Lili would stay in the valley and stop any possible problems from happening.

  Xie Yujia also insisted on staying in Ethereal Summit. She would take care of the snow lion cubs while trying to create elixir pills at the same time.

  Making level 6 pill might be slightly a reach above her limit, but she still needed to give it a try. Due to the effect of the array formation, spiritual herbs in the valley grew tremendously, and she had plenty of materials.

  Duan Yao followed Hao Ren and came to Fifth Heaven, an she stayed in the valley because she didn’t want to go to Sixth Heaven. She made a cave abode for herself and flew inside to take rest.

  Zhao Yanzi saw the small array formation in front of Hao Ren’s cave and knew that Hao Ren wanted to adjust and cultivate. He wouldn’t see anybody for sure, and no one could disturb him.

  She stayed in the valley for a while and saw that nothing was happening in Hao Ren’s cave. She was still worried about her third uncle, so she talked to Xie Yujia before flying toward the land.

  As if it were the calm before the storm, nothing happened to the stifling Ethereal Summit as time passed.

  The area near Ethereal Summit was the forbidden zone in Fifth Heaven. Even the cultivators from Sixth and Seventh Heaven had to detour around here as well.

  Pop!

  Two days had passed, and that Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus in the middle of the spiritual field suddenly burst out a small bud.

  Then, a light aroma instantly permeated through Ethereal Summit.

  The pure white flower bud bloomed with a bright glow, looking like white jade. Just by looking at it, one could feel that it was not an ordinary object.

  All the plants in the valley seemed to be cleaned immediately. The other spiritual herbs in the spiritual fields grew tremendously, and even the normal grass became as pretty as emeralds.

  The snow lion cubs roared as their fur turned from white to gold, and their demonic cores that weren’t condensed gradually solidified in this vibrant atmosphere.

  Xie Yujia who was making elixir elixirs in her cave abode felt like the meridians of her body were cleansed, and her control of Life-Death Notes became faster.

  Duan Yao who was cultivating in her cave abode also sensed a refreshing aura passing through her body, and it helped her make a small breakthrough.

  Lu Linlin and Lu Lili were already at the Soul Formation Realm and wouldn’t be affected as much, but they knew that this was the sign that the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus was about to mature.

  Pa! Pa!

  Following the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus in the middle, the other two Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses that were moved away also grew out two small flower buds.

  The three lotuses, a big one and two small, released an enlightening fragrance.

  The surrounding spiritual herbs seemed to lose their colors instantly!

  The three small sects outside of Ethereal Summit saw that the array formation around Ethereal Summit was emitting a gentle radiance.

  Even though this radiance was light, it spread very far.

  Hao Ren sat inside his cave abode and isolated himself from the outside to solidify his mid-tier Xun-level strength.

  Xie Yujia quickly struck out hundreds of dharma notes and finally took out three level 6 pills from the furnace. Then, she promptly flew out of her cave to look at the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses in the spiritual field.

  Lu Linlin and Lu Lili were already beside the spiritual field and paid close attention to the change of the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses.

  Color began to appear on the white petals.

  Whoosh!

  Duan Yao also came out from her new cave above, and she was surprised when she saw colors beginning to appear on the petals of the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses.

  The five colors represented the five elements of nature.

  The color change was extremely slow and silent. However, without the catalysis of the celestial liquid, this process would take hundreds of years!

  The radiance emitted from Ethereal Summit gradually changed from white toward the five colors of white, red, black, green, and yellow. These colorful lights almost dyed the entire Fifth Heaven.

  If this happened in the past, the cultivators on Fifth Heaven, Sixth Heaven, and Seventh Heaven would come and check out the situation. However, even though these grand cultivators were extremely curious and surprised right now, no one dared to come to this forbidden area.

  The maturing process of three Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses was quite tranquil and not tense at all. Yet, the calmer it was, the more nervous people were.

  Nobody knew if the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses, which were extremely sensitive to the nature essence, would suddenly wither.

  Pop!

  The Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus in the center bloomed, and a gigantic lotus appeared.

  Its petals contained the five colors, and the center was a black seedpod.

  On the surface of the seedpod, there were seven circular holes which were absorbing the nature essence.

  Lu Linlin and Lu Lili squeezed their hands together nervously, and Xie Yujia also put both of her hands in front of her chest and breathed carefully.

  The two Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses on the sides bloomed as well, but the lotuses and the black seedpods were smaller.

  Other than emitting colorful brilliance, nothing else was going on.

  The brilliance was also very weak. If Ethereal Summit didn’t have this array formation, the colorful lights wouldn’t be projected out that far.

  Xie Yujia and the others stood still and didn’t move at all; it seemed like the time froze.

  Even those snow lion cubs also didn’t move.

  Unexpectedly, these lotuses that were natural dharma treasures and were beyond top-tier spiritual herbs didn’t have any special energies around them after they matured, and the colorful petals gradually turned into a regular white color.

  If Xie Yujia and the others didn’t stare at them, they couldn’t be able to tell these three lotuses apart from insignificant water lotuses.

  If they grew inside a pond and were mixed in with the other miscellaneous flowers and weeds, no one would pay attention to them.

  Even the Soul Formation Realm cultivators couldn’t sense their nature essence.

  Also, since these lotuses would only grow around top-tier spiritual herbs, why would cultivators pay attention to ordinary-looking lotuses when they discover other top-tier spiritual herbs?

  Puff!

  As a few lotus leaves fell into the water, they immediately grew into a large field of lotuses.

  Xie Yujia was about to get excited, but she suddenly realized that these lotuses were ordinary lotuses.

  The three Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses hid in the ordinary lotuses. If Xie Yujia and the Lu sisters didn’t pay attention, they almost couldn’t find them.

  However, this wasn’t a big issue. Since the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses were extremely tough, they could find them after chopping down
all the ordinary lotuses. However, no cultivator would be bored enough to chop down ordinary lotuses when they encountered other top-tier spiritual herbs?

  The Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses were extremely rare, and not many cultivators knew of them due to their excellent disguising abilities.

  The sky gradually darkened, and the petals of the three Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses fell off. In this process, more and more lotuses grew out one after another.

  The black seedpods finally fell off the two small Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses on the side. Lu Linlin and Lu Lili’s two Yin-Yang Bracelets packed them up and sent them to the Lu sister’s hands.

  The Lu sisters peeled the seed pod and took out a black lotus seed from each seedpod.

  The two lotus seeds were like two small black pebbles and didn’t have any fluctuation of nature essence. No one would notice if they fell inside a pond. However, they were both 10,000-year-old.

  Lu Linlin and Lu Lili looked at each other and finally smiled with relief. No matter what, they already had two mature 10,000-year-old lotus seeds. They didn’t have to worry too much even if the 100,000-year-old lotus ran into issues.

  As they were just thinking, the black seedpod that was as big as a human’s hand in the large Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus finally fell.

  Xie Yujia was anxious, and she ran over and held onto the seedpod before dashing out.

  All the celestial liquid was completely dried up, and those ordinary lotuses also withered. A ditch was revealed in the spot where the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotuses grew.

  Xie Yujia picked out the big lotus seed. After she shook the seedpod more, three small lotus seeds fell out.

  “Big Zhumu, you are very lucky. You can nurture these three lotus seeds again in the future,” the Lu sisters said with a smile.

  The two lotus seeds that they took out were not that matured, and that was why there were no more lotus seeds inside. Yet, the one that Xie Yujia picked had absorbed enough nutrients, and the big lotus seed nurtured three small lotus seeds.