“Sniff! Sniff!” Hu Niu wrinkled her nose, and suddenly, a ferocious light shone from her eyes. With a “teng,” she leaped out of Ling Han’s arms and regained the look of a wild beast. All her four limbs pushed off from the floor, and “xiu,” she rapidly jumped out of the room.
“Aiya!” Ling Han immediately realized that Hu Niu must have used her nose to sense the presence of the Liu sisters.
This little girl was like a wild beast, not only having a very good nose, but also a very strong territorial nature. Now that there were two strangers who had entered into her territory, the little girl’s ferocious character would naturally be roused.
Ling Han hurriedly chased after her.
“Peng!”
In a few leaps, Hu Niu had arrived at her own room. Without any further thoughts, she immediately barged in, and the door was actually easily shattered to pieces by the force. Like a little tiger, she pounced in, her mouth slightly open and her hands formed into claws that could attack at any moment.
“Damn scoundrel, you indeed had evil intentions!” since Liu Ru Er saw Ling Han’s bare upper body, her heart has been beating like a drum and her face was as red as blood. There was no way she would have been able to go back to sleep, so when she heard the sound of the door breaking, she naturally thought that Ling Han’s lust was stimulated and he had come to force himself on her. She instantly bounced up, and struck out her palm in an attack.
“Peng!”
Her palm struck Hu Niu’s body. Though her previous power had dropped to the bottom, after a few days of recovery, her power had already reached the level of Body Refining Tier. This palm strike of hers actually caused Hu Niu to be flung back.
However, she immediately realized that something was off. That was not a huge pervert, or a great lecher she had struck, but rather a little girl.
“Xiu,” Ling Han came in right after, stretched out his arms and caught Hu Niu who had been flung back by her blow.
“Damn, damn scoundrel!” Liu Ru Er could not stop herself from cursing when she saw Ling Han was there. And after such a big commotion, Liu Feng Er woke up as well. Her eyes swept over the scene in front of her, obviously a bit confused about what was going on.
“Kill! Kill!” Hu Niu struggled in Ling Han’s arms, and there was no sign that she had suffered any injury from the blow.
Ling Han was relieved, and said with a smile, “It’s a misunderstanding. The place that the two of you are staying in now is this little girl’s room. She was not here these few days, but has returned just now and discovered that you two have taken over her room, so she thought the two of you were enemies. That’s why she is a little agitated.”
That was not just agitation. She looked like she practically wanted to devour them!
The Liu sisters thought as they took in Hu Niu’s very ferocious appearance. However, this place belonged to Ling Han, so he was the one who had the final say in things.
“Haha, it’s late so we won’t disturb your rest,” Ling Han said with a laugh, and stepped back out. However, there was no way to close the door that Hu Niu had shattered. Never mind, he’d deal with the door tomorrow.
***
After he had returned to his own bedroom, Ling Han pushed Hu Niu down to sit on the bed, and said, “Little girl, those two girls are temporarily considered to be friends, so don’t attack them.”
Hu Niu pouted to show her displeasure. She did not like other living creatures trespassing into her territory, but since Ling Han had already said so, she could only accept it. However, little girls would be little girls, and she quickly forgot about her displeasure. She clung to Ling Han, and said, “Hug! Hug!”
Ling Han laughed loudly, and examined Hu Niu closely a second time, yet could not detect any kind of changes on her at all. He felt it very strange.
“That’s not right!”
He immediately shook his head. Hu Niu had sustained a blow from Liu Ru Er just now, but did not suffer any injury at all. There was a definite upgrade to the little girl’s physical body, but to exactly what extent, that would need to be confirmed through continuously increasing the force of attack.
Forget it, he’d just think about it later.
Seeing that there was a faint light in the sky, Ling Han decided not to sleep any longer, and chose to begin cultivation instead.
He sat down cross-legged and began to circulate the Five Elements Heaven Grade Skill. His Heaven Grade Spirit Base trembled lightly, and immediately started to swallow and suck in the Spiritual Qi around him like a whale. After he had taken the godly medicine and upgraded his bones, flesh, and veins, the speed at which he could absorb Spiritual Qi had also increased quite a bit.
It was not that his Spirit Base had become more powerful, but because his veins had become cleaner, which naturally allowed Spiritual Qi to flow through his veins more smoothly than before. This would also have the effect of increasing the speed of his cultivation.
Of course, this was also due to how awesome his Spirit Base was. Otherwise, after absorbing so much Spiritual Qi, if he could not manage to refine it into his own Origin Power in time, what would be the point?
At the end, he swallowed an Ancient Clear Pill to further speed up his cultivation.
Hu Niu watched him for a moment before getting bored, and imitated him in sitting cross-legged.
Ling Han immediately felt something was off. Because there had suddenly appeared the eye of a hurricane next to him that was absorbing Spiritual Qi, and fighting with him over the Spiritual Qi around them, causing his cultivation speed to drop drastically in a single instant.
His eyes snapped open and saw how Hu Niu was sitting cross-legged in a very serious manner, and there was actually a solemn expression on her little face.
‘Ya!’
Though he was already sure, he was still very shocked when he confirmed the fact with his own eyes.
…Hu Niu actually awoke her own Spirit Base and had officially stepped onto the path of a cultivator!
How inconceivable. This little girl was so young!
Typically, one would only awaken his Spirit Base at about eleven or twelve years old. Even if one managed to awaken his Spirit Base early, that would be one or two years earlier at most. However, this little girl awoke her Spirit Base seven or eight years ahead of time. Moreover, based on the extent she was snatching away the Spiritual Qi just now, Hu Niu’s Spirit Base was definitely Heaven Grade, and could even be a match for his own.
One had to know that his Spirit Base had all five elements, and was one of the top-rated even among Heaven Grade Spirit Bases. Then what was the little girl’s Spirit Base?
Ling Han concentrated his divine sense into his eyes, and used a sliver of the spiritual power he had retained from his last life to gaze into Hu Niu’s Dantian.
‘What?!’
Ling Han felt a sudden pain in his eyes, and quickly turned his head. He rubbed his eyes with his hand and actually found traces of blood on his hand. But he did not bother about this now, because he was still astonished by what he had actually witnessed just a moment ago.
‘Was that real?’
He saw Hu Niu’s Spirit Base, but was that really a Spirit Base?
Ling Han felt this was inconceivable, and his entire body experienced a coldness that came from a layer of cold sweat.
…In Hu Niu’s Dantian, that Spirit Base was actually a slumbering person!
That was a magnificent beauty, and though her eyes were tightly closed, causing her beauty to pale quite a few shades, she was still disturbingly beautiful. Even Liu Yu Tong and Li Si Chan seemed to pale in comparison with this sleeping beauty.
There was no mistake. It was definitely that magnificent beauty that was absorbing Spiritual Qi, and her efficiency at absorbing Spiritual Qi was not the least beneath him.
Ling Han had never seen such a Spirit Base that could actually take the form of a human being!
But this was not what caused him to feel cold. When he had been staring at this
magnificent beauty, her eyes suddenly snapped open, and a terrifying killing intent actually sliced to him through his own divine sense. If the black tower had not trembled slightly at an appropriate time, most likely, he would not just suffer his eyes bleeding, but have his divine sense completely obliterated.
Chapter 152
Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu
The spirit was the basis of a human being, and once divine sense was destroyed, what was left behind would only be an empty shell.
Just now, Ling Han had nearly stepped through the gates of hell.
‘Curiosity really killed the cat!’ Ling Han shook his head. If there had not been a monster inside his body as well, he would definitely have landed in a horrible state just now.
Without question, the godly medicine activated some kind of “power” in Hu Niu, or awakened her, which should have happened at least after another four or five years.
Yet a very weird feeling rose up in Ling Han, because that Spirit Base within Hu Niu’s body, that magnificent beauty, gave him a more powerful feeling than any ultimate warrior of Heaven Tier! In his last life, the Sword Emperor and the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Maiden had been the strongest existences among the ranks of Heaven Tier elites, yet neither of them had caused him to feel such heavy pressure before.
He was well aware that even if he had recovered the power he had at Heaven Tier, he would be completely defenseless facing such a being, just like how his body was easily shattered by a shockwave from the black tower in his last life.
This was definitely not a power that belonged to the mortal plane!
The black tower was already a great mystery on its own, taking his body as its new home, but Hu Niu was even more mysterious, having what he suspected to be an ultimate being taking the place of her Spirit Base!
Yet she was obviously just a little girl in Body Refining Tier.
But when he thought about it, weren’t the two of them quite similar?
Could that magnificent beauty be developed by some kind of ultimate treasure? If that was really the case, then forming into a very real human-like appearance did not seem that strange.
To hell with it!
Ling Han pressed a hand to his aching head. This lifetime was really weird. He had just seen the corpse of an ultimate warrior of Shattering Void Tier that he suspected had been killed off in a battle royale against an uncountable number of Heaven Tier elites not too long ago, a great amount of Level Nine Spiritual Tools floating out with the flow of an underground river, and there even appeared a rogue godly medicine and the formation of a Strange Fire.
And now, there was a being that was likely above Heaven Tier within Hu Niu’s body, while he had an ultimate powerful entity—the black tower—residing inside his body.
It seemed as if Shattering Void Tier had become cheap all of a sudden.
Hu Niu obviously did not have much patience. She only cultivated for a short while before stopping, and when she saw Ling Han was looking at her, she grinned and jumped into Ling Han’s arms. She rubbed her stomach and declared, “Hungry!”
That’s right. The little girl had not had any food for quite a few days.
“Cultivate obediently, and I’ll go and cook. If you don’t cultivate obediently, you won’t get any meat.” Ling Han issued a condition.
“Oh.” Hu Niu pouted, obviously not very happy. She did not like cultivation. It was too dull and boring.
Ling Han went into the kitchen to cook. Since the glutton was back, the food that had accumulated like a little mountain here would most likely be completely finished within a few days—he guessed that Hu Niu’s appetite must have increased considerably after such a drastic transformation.
He was already prepared, but the great increase to Hu Niu’s appetite still gave him a scare.
Her appetite… actually more than doubled!
“Thank goodness I have money now, and can take advantage of the Third Imperial Prince’s kindness. Otherwise, I really would not be able to keep this little girl fed,” he said, shaking his head.
When they were half-way done with their meal, the Liu sisters had also awakened. When they arrived at the kitchen, they were shocked and their faces could not help but twitch.
That really was a little girl?
When she saw the girls, Hu Niu immediately moved as if she was protecting her food, her eyes glaring ferociously at the two girls. A low growl came out of her throat, and she had a violent expression that said, ‘if you dare to stretch out your hands, I will bite off your heads.’
“Damn scoundrel, you really are a pervert!” Liu Ru Er’s face paled drastically. There was a little girl living in the home of a young man, so this was obviously a very big problem.
“I am not a pervert, just a bad man,” Ling Han said, editing Gu Feng Hua’s trademark words.
“Little girl, come over here quickly, we’ll protect you!” Liu Ru Er beckoned a hand at Hu Niu. However, in Hu Niu’s eyes, such a move was seen as a challenge, causing the little girl to leap onto the table. She had all four limbs on the table, and looked ready to move at any moment.
“Forget it, don’t argue with someone ignorant.” Ling Han picked Hu Niu up, and stuffed a piece of meat into the little girl’s mouth in passing, causing the little girl to instantly become happy as she chewed on it.
“Who are you calling ignorant?” Liu Ru Er asked, not accepting Ling Han’s opinion of her.
Ling Han snickered, and said, “The two of you have been recovering your wounds here in my place for quite a few days, right? Isn’t it about time for you to pay rent or something of the sort?”
“Heng, so you want money?” Liu Ru Er said in a derogatory tone, “How much do you want?”
“Then I’ll casually collect this amount per person.” Ling Han raised a single finger.
“A million coins?” Liu Ru Er humphed, “Deal! However, once you take our money, we’ll become your employers, so we will have the right to command you!”
“Che, a million coins?” Ling Han shook his head, “You have to understand that if I hand you over, the two of you will definitely die, so what we’re talking about now is the price of selling yourselves. Do you really think a mere million coins is appropriate?”
“Sell, selling ourselves? You’re the one selling yourself!” Liu Ru Er suddenly paled, but immediately said, “Then how much do you want, ten or twenty million?” she shocked even herself when she said ten million.
It was not because they could not earn such a large amount of money, but because they did not have so much money saved up, since they had just recently started their careers.
“That’s wrong. Beauties like yourselves would have to be at least worth a hundred million, right? Don’t be modest with me. Why don’t I deliver the two of you to the Cherishing Flower Pavilion to ask how good the business would be for two beauties in Gushing Spring Tier?” Ling Han appeared to be very impassioned and generous.
Liu Ru Er blinked. She felt that agreeing and disagreeing were both not an option.
If she agreed, where would she get so much money from? If she disagreed, then wouldn’t that be lowering her own value?
She did not have enough ability to adapt, and was instantly left stuttering, obviously at a loss at what to say.
“Brother Ling, don’t bully my little sister so much,” Liu Feng Er smiled faintly.
“You damn scoundrel, you were actually playing with me!” Liu Ru Er finally reacted, an angered expression on her face.
“Silly girl,” Ling Han shook his head, “If you want to stay here, then you’ll have to follow my rules. Doing something like entering without knocking would be what a scoundrel would do.”
Liu Ru Er knew that he was talking about how she had accidentally peeked at him bathing the night before and could not help feeling very embarrassed. She pouted. She was not a scoundrel. Who would have guessed that there would be someone bathing in the kitchen in the middle of the night? Were you washing pig’s feet, getting ready to co
ok pig trotters?
When she thought this, she could not help but show a weird smile. This was what was called a mental victory.
“In the future, preparing all meals will be your responsibility,” Ling Han said.
After he told Hu Niu not to come into conflict with the other two girls, he told her to cultivate obediently. At first, he wanted to visit Mo Gao, but when he recalled that Mo Gao should have begun his seclusion to break through to Gushing Spring Tier, he could only give up.
Ling Han switched to a farther location to cultivate to avoid staying too close to the little girl. Otherwise, they would be fighting over the Spiritual Qi in the vicinity, and it would impede the greatest display of the advantage of a Heaven Grade Spirit Base.
After cultivating for about half a day, Ling Han smiled in satisfaction. After about another five or six days, he would be able to advance to the next level, and not too long after, he would be able to give Feng Yan a very big surprise.
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