Dragon King's Son-In-Law, page 442
It kept on mumbled something as if it were complaining.
“Ok! I’ll bring you next time!” With his mind connected with Little White, Hao Ren sensed its sulkiness and said while rubbing its soft neck.
“Ruff! Ruff…” Little White wriggled its tail cheerfully and flew faster.
“Didn’t Sister Su come back with you?” When Hao Ren didn’t mention Su Han, Xie Yujia couldn’t help asking.
“She’s cultivating in the Demon Sea and will come back in a few days,” Hao Ren said.
“Demon Sea…” Xie Yujia nodded.
Since Lady Zhen was from the Demon Sea, Xie Yujia felt like Su Han must be staying with her while she cultivated in the Demon Sea.
In fact, Xie Yujia wanted to know if Hao Ren and Su Han had got more intimate but didn’t know how to approach the topic.
After all, it was a sudden leap for Hao Ren to jump from Dui-level to Xun-level; he must have gotten help from Su Han.
“I collected some spiritual herbs in the Nine Dragon Palace. You can take a look at them for me to see if they are useful,” Hao Ren touched her forehead and said, cutting off her confused gaze.
“Ok…” Xie Yujia nodded obediently.
She knew that Hao Ren cared for her, but sometimes he was too reserved.
Seeing their loving gestures at each other, Zhao Yanzi curled her lips but remained silent. In fact, she and Xie Yujia both were concerned about Hao Ren. If Hao Ren must choose between them, one of them would get hurt.
On second thought, Zhao Yanzi realized that Xie Yujia wasn’t that bad. Besides, in the past few days, the crown princes from other dragon clans had transferred to study in East Ocean City, and many dragon kings and crown princes had visited her home. She had found that most of the crown princes had more than one wife.
Comparatively, Hao Ren was considerate toward her and cared for her in many things.
Boom! Little White broke through the array formation of Fifth Heaven.
The moment that Hao Ren entered Fifth Heaven, he noticed some unique spirit senses traveling around on Fifth Heaven.
Since he and Su Han had forced the Nine Dragon Palace to show itself on Fifth Heaven, it had attracted the attention of the Soul Formation Realm cultivators, making Fifth Heaven the target for the Soul Formation Realm cultivators on Seventh Heaven.
Of course, with Qiu Niu in the Nine Dragon Palace, the Soul Formation Realm cultivators probably couldn’t find the Nine Dragon Palace. Furthermore, they wouldn’t dare venture into the holy place of the Dragon Tribe without good reasons.
Hao Ren directed Little White and avoided those spirit senses and entered Ethereal Summit.
Due to the condensation effect of the array formation, the nature essence in Ethereal Summit was more abundant than before, and the spiritual fields in the valley looked more prosperous.
The dozen snow lion cubs had gotten bigger. Three of them had officially reached level 1 while another one had reached level 2!
Sensing Xie Yujia’s scent, the snow lion cubs trotted over and surrounded her.
“Gongzi!”
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili had been planting spiritual herbs in the water fields with their pants rolled up. When they saw Hao Ren, they waved and yelled cheerfully.
Xie Yujia and Zhao Yanzi had been sleepless with worry, but the Lu sisters were doing better.
Since Hao Ren had attained the Immortal Physique through their Poison Pill Plan, they had rebuilt his meridians with their blood and flesh, establishing a connection between them and Hao Ren. If Hao Ren were in danger, they would receive some vague signals.
If Hao Ren were really in danger, they had a secret way of entering the Nine Dragon Palace, even though it would be quite risky.
Hand in hand, they leaped up and stood before Hao Ren with bare feet.
“Congratulations to Gongzi for reaching mid-tier Xun-level!” They looked him up and down before saying.
From their slightly mysterious smiles, Hao Ren knew that they might have known something about his situation with Su Han and felt embarrassed.
“Gongzi, you’ve encountered special fortunes, and your Immortal Physique is more stable,” Lu Lili leaned toward his ear and whispered.
Hao Ren thought that it would be a shame if his body didn’t experience any changes after eating two Immortal Fruits.
“Gongzi, your Vital Yang Energy is a bit used, but the benefits that you got suppressed the disadvantages,” Lu Linlin whispered in Hao Ren’s other ear.
“Erm-hem! Erm-hem!” Hao Ren cleared his throat.
He had indeed been impulsive in the Nine Dragon Palace, but it would be a lie if he said that he had no thought about Su Han.
There was no man who didn’t like Su Han, but most of them just admired her beauty. Only Hao Ren loved her personality and even cherished her after getting to know her better.
Under her cold appearance, Su Han was very lonely, and she even had low self-esteem. Due to her fragility, she had never wanted to lose or reveal her soft side.
Seeing Hao Ren’s awkwardness, Lu Linlin covered her snicker with her hand. Hao Ren was the most decent man that she had ever seen since he didn’t lose his head while interacting with so many beautiful girls. It made her and her sister liked him more.
The best way to know a person was through time. In the long time that they had stayed with Hao Ren, they knew that he wasn’t a man who would lose his head in front of beauties.
If Hao Ren had done anything outrageous, they would have returned Hao Ren’s favor and gone back to the Heavenly Realm. However, since Hao Ren acted better than they had imagined, they had stayed by his side for this long.
Instead of teasing Hao Ren like her sister, Lu Lili looked at him and smiled with her eyes.
“Yujia, take a look at them for me and see which ones are useful.” After taking out that box from his necklace, Hao Ren dug out some spiritual herbs one by one.
“Iron Essence Flower, Soul Grass, Golden Hammer, and Daphne…” Xie Yujia selected four level 6 spiritual herbs and looked up at Hao Ren in excitement. “They are all 100,000-year-old herbs!”
All the 10,000-year-old spiritual herbs were the top-tier spiritual herbs. Hao Ren had just picked a few spiritual herbs randomly on top of the Origin Dragon Grand Palace, and they were all 100,000-year-old herbs!
Remembering how Qiu Niu had burned all the spiritual herbs into ashes in a fury, Hao Ren’s heart ached for the loss.
“We are almost done except for several 10,000-year-old Black Herbs!” Xie Yujia looked up at Hao Ren with joy and a bit of disappointed.
With a frown, Hao Ren thought that the Demon Sea had abundant nature essence, and Lady Zhen’s prosperous and wealthy demon kingdom might have 10,000-year-old Black Herbs. However, he felt embarrassed to trouble Lady Zhen with this request while her husband was still healing from his severe injuries and she was busy tutoring Su Han.
If he went to ask Zhen Yuan Zi for help, he would look frail.
“Gongzi, we’ve searched for the 10,000-year Black Herb that you want and heard that there are some on Seventh Heaven,” Lu Linlin said.
726 Seventh Heaven!
“Seventh Heaven?” Hao Ren looked at them doubtfully.
“Yeah. We got the information from Sky Mountain Sect who said that they had tried to ask for the herbs for Ethereal Summit, but the sects on Seventh Heaven didn’t want to help,” Lu Linlin said.
In the last dozen days, since Xie Yujia didn’t have the energy to take care of the spiritual herbs in Ethereal Summit, the Lu sisters had often come here to manage the spiritual fields.
Hao Ren knew that the information from Sky Mountain Sect was reliable. They had told Ethereal Summit the information to gain favors.
Hao Ren studied Lu Linlin and Lu Lili’s realms and found that they had recovered to mid-tier Qian-level in a short time; they would reach top-tier Qian-level in a little while.
“Then… Let’s go and have a look on Seventh Heaven,” Hao Ren said.
Now that he had reached Xun-level, he needed the mystic crystal the most at this moment. If they could successfully cultivate the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus, he could plant the mystic crystal into his dragon core and reach Qian-level in three years. Then, it would be relatively safe for him to transfer half of the dragon core back to Zi.
“I… will go as well,” Xie Yujia said softly.
“Me too,” Zhao Yanzi offered bravely.
“You two stay in the valley and cultivate. In a place like Seventh Heaven, we’ll work better with fewer people,” Hao Ren said.
Xie Yujia thought about it and kept silent, knowing he was right. With her low realm, she would become a burden if she went with them.
Zhao Yanzi had wanted to see what Seventh Heaven was like, but she decided against it when she heard Hao Ren’s words. After eating the Immortal Fruit, her belly felt warm, and she felt like a breakthrough was near.
If she could reach mid-tier Core Formation Realm, she would be more powerful! By then, the purple green sword mark on her belly would probably shrink!
Right now, that mark extended from her chest to her belly, and she must cover it with her clothes. It was very ugly!
“Linlin, Lili, come with me,” Hao Ren looked at the Lu sisters by his side and said.
“Ok!” The Lu sisters said without hesitation. After all, they had the highest realms among the group.
“And you!”
Hao Ren suddenly shot out a white sword energy.
The sword energy flew toward a black disk which suddenly jumped up from a piece of black rock.
The sword energy shattered the rock.
The flying black disk was the golden shield. It had been lying on the big black rock and not moving at all, thinking that Hao Ren wouldn’t recognize it.
When this thing flew out of the Nine Dragon Palace, Hao Ren knew that it would return to Xie Yujia or go to Ethereal Summit to replenish its nature essence.
The golden shield spun two circles before slowly going to another rock and lying on it.
Seeing its lazy look, Hao Ren knew that it was useless to call it again. With a slight snort, he patted Little White on its rump.
Little White changed back to its snow lion form and carried Hao Ren on its back. The Lu sisters flew out of Ethereal Summit with Hao Ren each stepping on a ring.
“The Master is back! The Master is back!”
The cultivators in the three small sects around Ethereal Summit yelled in excitement when they saw the pure white snow lion and the two fairy-like female cultivators stepping on rings bare-footed.
In the past dozen days, Hao Ren didn’t appear around Ethereal Summit, which made the three sects anxious. They wondered if the Herb King Master had left Ethereal Summit. If he did, what should they do?
The disciples of the sects were instantly relieved when they saw Hao Ren’s sudden appearance.
In the last while, the three sects had been expanding fast. The constructions had spread over half of the mountainside, and the number of new disciples had doubled.
Some new disciples hadn’t seen the Herb King Master before. When they saw Hao Ren coming out riding on a hill-sized snow lion, they were filled with amazement and admiration.
“The Nascent Soul Realm cultivators are indeed magnificent!” they thought.
The new female disciples of Qin Yin Sect were attracted by Hao Ren’s powerful presence and youthful look. However, they got the warning from their senior sisters very soon - the Herb King Master didn’t even like their beautiful senior sister Wu Yan, let alone others!
All the cultivators were awed by Hao Ren’s powerful presence and subconsciously ignored the Lu sisters who were very pretty.
Watching Hao Ren and the Lu sisters flying toward Sixth Heaven, the cultivators couldn’t control their surging emotions. They were filled with pride even though they only got a glimpse from a distance!
After all, a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator was a mighty figure on Fifth Heaven. Besides, the Herb King Master who provided them with protection was a great figure whom even the large sects on Sixth Heaven couldn’t mess with!
Qin Yin Sect, Seven Stars Sect, and Qiong Hua Sect’s supplies of Foundation Establishment Pills were several times more than the other sects. Besides, they had many other kinds of level 3 elixirs! With such great fortune at hand, they must cultivate hard!
Watching the white snow lion disappearing into the clouds, the cultivators were filled with great admiration.
Hao Ren didn’t know that him simply coming out of Ethereal Summit had caused such an upheaval among the young cultivators in these three sects.
He was just flying toward Sixth Heaven to ask Sky Mountain Sect for more information; he wasn’t trying to put on a show. However, the cultivators watching him admired his presence as a master.
With its level 5 strength, Little White traveled through the array formation between Fifth Heaven and Sixth Heaven before flying toward Sky Mountain Sect.
After a period of resting and rebuilding, Sky Mountain Sect had gradually recovered its previous glory. Lingwu Master who represented the highest seniority in Sky Mountain Sect hadn’t recovered to the peak Nascent Soul Realm, but he could cultivate again, which greatly boosted the morale of the disciples.
As long as Lingwu Master was with them, even if he couldn’t reach peak Nascent Soul Realm, his rich cultivation experience would bring the juniors great benefits. Also, the overall strength of the sect would grow a lot.
At this moment, the two cultivators who were guarding the gate of Sky Mountain Sect tightened their grips on their swords when they saw a white mass flying toward them from a distance.
In the past, Sky Mountain Sect didn’t need people to guard the gate. However, the current situation on Sixth Heaven was even more unsettling than that of Fifth Heaven, and every sect was wary of others and afraid that they would be attacked.
The white mass shot toward them at a speed surpassing the Nascent Soul Realm; it was almost as fast as the Soul Formation Realm cultivators.
Before the two cultivators could release a warning to the sect, Hao Ren had passed the gate. The grand array formation that had just been re-established couldn’t block the level 5 Little White, and Hao Ren didn’t even sense the existence of the array formation.
It was easy to rebuild the houses but not array formations. The grand array formation that protected Sky Mountains Sect had just been barely put up and thus was as fragile as an eggshell compared with the previous array formation. It couldn’t block any Nascent Soul Realm cultivators. Instead, it acted as a warning system.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Three Nascent Soul Realm cultivators instantly flew out from the Scroll Pavilion. When they saw that the intruders were Hao Ren and his two female cultivators, they immediately turned respectful.
When they saw that Hao Ren had reached mid-tier Nascent Soul Realm, they were astonished.
They had thought that Hao Ren was the senior disciple of the Herb King Master, but now they began to suspect that this youthful-looking cultivator was the Herb King Master himself!
“He probably is living as a hermit on Fifth Heaven due to a huge realm drop either caused by an injury or a secret technique…” the three Nascent Soul Realm cultivators thought while they welcomed Hao Ren respectfully.
“I need several 10,000-year-old Black Herbs. It’s said that there are some on Seventh Heaven, right?” Hao Ren asked directly.
After the three Nascent Soul Realm cultivator looked at each other, one of them said, “Herb King Master, you might find the 10,000-year-old Black Herbs in the Black Herb Spiritual Field in the Mystic Sound Faction on Seventh Heaven.”
“Ok.” Hao Ren nodded. “Who will show me the way?”
Hearing Hao Ren’s request, the three Nascent Soul Realm cultivators looked at each other again.
It was already very risky to give out information about Seventh Heaven. If they led the Herb King Master to take the spiritual herbs from Seventh Heaven, it would be… After all, Seventh Heaven was backed by Soul Formation Realm cultivators!
“Master, what can we do for you?” Lingwu Master in a red Taoist robe came from the back mountain while riding on the level 6 snow lion, Jitian.
Sensing that a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator had come to Sky Mountain Sect, he immediately came out to see who it was and saw it was the VIP, Hao Ren.
“I want to borrow several 10,000-year-old Black Herbs from Seventh Heaven. Which disciple can show me the way?” Hao Ren asked him.
“This…” Lingwu Master looked hesitant when he heard this request.
“If it’s not convenient, you can just tell me the direction,” Hao Ren said directly, not wanting to waste time.
“I have connections with Mystic Sound Faction. I’ll go with you.” Lingwu Master gritted his teeth and said.
The three Nascent Soul Realm cultivators all looked at him in shock.
The rules on Seventh Heaven were stricter than those on Sixth Heaven, and no cultivator of Sixth Heaven was allowed onto Seventh Heaven without permission.
Due to his previous realm of peak Nascent Soul Realm, Lingwu Master had been occasionally called up to Seventh Heaven, but his movements were restricted within certain areas.
Now that Sky Mountain Sect had been beaten into such a pathetic state, and Lingwu Master’s realm had dropped to a low realm, the sects on Seventh Heaven didn’t show any reaction.
If Lingwu Master tried to bring other cultivators onto Seventh Heaven, it would be…
However, the ancient-looking Lingwu Master had his own ideas. He had thought that the Herb King Master was a cultivator from Seventh Heaven who had gone to live as a hermit on Fifth Heaven for some reason. However, Hao Ren’s unfamiliarity with Seventh Heaven meant only one thing in his mind - the Herb King Master was a cultivator from Eighth Heaven!
He never imagined that Hao Ren, who could use the five-elemental cultivation technique, wasn’t a cultivator above Fifth Heaven but a cultivator on land!
“Ok! Let’s go!” Without hesitation, Hao Ren patted Little White’s head and turned toward the gate of Sky Mountain Sect.
