Alchemy Emperor of the Divine Dao c1-1294

by Flying Alone 孤单地飞

  Everyone was astonished. How could a little girl who was only about 5-6 years old have such powerful strength?

  Ling Han grabbed a piece of cloth and wrapped the Golden Flower of the Stone in it. In such a public area, he dared not reveal the secret of the Spatial Ring. He turned to look at the other four ruffians, and asked with a smile, “Are you guys planning to snatch my stuff, too?”

  The four men hurriedly shook their heads, a layer of cold sweat collecting on their foreheads.

  Ruan Shi Zhong was the strongest of the five of them. He was in the eighth layer of Body Refining Tier, and was actually smacked unconscious so easily by a little snip of a girl, so it was predictable that this young man would be even more remarkable.

  He was definitely playing the pig to eat the tiger just now, definitely pretending to be harmless previously to fool them!

  Just now, this guy deliberately showed his fear, and was only trying to toy around with them. Now, they had, with their own hands, sold off a priceless treasure for the cheap price of 2000 coins. Whenever they recalled this in the future, they would definitely grieve and lament, with an increasing urge to commit suicide. To them, this was the heaviest kind of punishment.

  No wonder this brat revealed the Golden Flower of the Stone in public; he was trying to provoke them.

  Damn him!

  Ling Han held onto Hu Niu’s hand and left proudly. Liu Yu Tong smiled, because she knew that Ling Han must have noticed something about the rock to put on such an act.

  The two adults and one child left very quickly, leaving behind the envious and impressed gazes of the crowd.

  “Big Brother Shi Zhong!” The four ruffians hurriedly went to help Ruan Shi Zhong up. After pinching his Ren Zhong and pouring cold water on him, they finally managed to pull Ruan Shi Zhong back to consciousness.

  “Ah!” Ruan Shi Zhong shouted loudly. “My treasure!” He suddenly jumped up from the ground, and realized that there were people looking at him from all around, wearing expressions that showed they were enjoying his misfortune. He could not help but flush brightly at this, both humiliated and enraged.

  “Big Brother Shi Zhong, what do we do now?” the four ruffians asked.

  Ruan Shi Zhong thought for a moment, then said, “Two of you follow that brat and see where he’s going. The other two of you will come back with me and ask Hall Leader Ai to step out and snatch back the treasure!”

  “But, Big Brother Shi Zhong, if we ask for Hall Leader Ai’s help, the bigger share will definitely have to go to him!” one of the ruffians said cautiously.

  Pa , Ruan Shi Zhong gave him a slap and rebuked him, “Are you an idiot? If we don’t get Hall Leader Ai to deal with that brat, we won’t get anything at all. If Hall Leader Ai manages to snatch back the treasure, then we’d at least get something.”

  “Right, right, right. Big Brother Shi Zhong is indeed clever.” The four ruffians nodded in agreement.

  “Then let’s go!” Ruan Shi Zhong glared at them.

  “What about the things here?” One of the ruffians pointed at the items still laid out in the stall.

  “They’re not worth much anyways. Moreover, who would dare to steal my stuff?”

  The five of them immediately went off on their respective missions. Two followed behind Ling Han, while the other three went off to get help. How could they bear to simply let the matter go when it involved a treasure that was worth a few dozen million?

  “Young Master Han, there’s someone following us,” Liu Yu Tong said suddenly.

  “Just let them follow. When there’s enough of them later, I’ll deal with them in one go,” Ling Han said, smiling.

  “Niu wants to beat up ten!” Hu Niu said excitedly. The little girl had grown up by the side of a ferocious beast, and her wild nature was very dominant a part of her personality. She was especially fond of violence.

  “All right!” Ling Han laughed. There was an extremely weird Spirit Base in the body of this little girl. In the future, even the whole world could possibly tremble because of her, what more just to beat up ten people.

  Liu Yu Tong could not help but roll her eyes. Ling Han actually taught Hu Niu like this… wasn’t he just egging her on to do whatever she liked?

  As they walked, they soon arrived at the Heaven Military Hall.

  This was indeed a lively place. There was a great hall that was a dazzling sight, while a square-shaped plaza surrounded it on all sides. There was a large number of people on this plaza, and there were even some who were holding on to signs for recruitment, in order to form a group to complete a mission.

  Ling Han smiled faintly, and said, “Let’s hold up signs for recruitment as well!”

  They never imagined that buying a sign here would be so expensive—the seller actually quoted a price of ten silver coins. Ling Han did not mind, but Liu Yu Tong could not bear wasting money so pointlessly and glared furiously at the seller for quite a while.

  Ling Han began to write on the sign in his good penmanship. Then he tied it in a fixed position on a rock.

  Instantly, he became the focus of everyone’s attention.

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  Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu

  That was because the words written on the sign that Ling Han had put up were indeed a bit shocking.

  “Recruiting people to go to the Earth and Water Faction for a fight. Rewards are as follows: Gushing Spring Tier, 10,000 silver coins per day, Spiritual Ocean Tier, 100,000 silver coins per day, Element Gathering Tier need not apply.”

  Go to the Earth and Water Faction for a fight?

  What kind of a place was the Earth and Water Faction? It had a Spiritual Ocean Tier elite to oversee things, and was at the same level as a middle-class clan. Going there to fight, then that would mean having to stand against a Spiritual Ocean Tier elite! There were only so many Spiritual Pedestal Tier elites in Rain Country, and underneath Spiritual Pedestal Tier, the strongest would be Spiritual Ocean Tier. Who would dare go to make trouble?

  However, on the other hand, the rewards that Ling Han promised were indeed enough of a shock themselves. A Gushing Spring Tier martial artist would be able to earn 10,000 in one day, while a Spiritual Ocean Tier martial artist could earn 100,000 per day.

  Earning 100,000 per day; that would mean earning 3 million in a single month. What kind of unbelievable concept was that?

  Even if it was a Great Clan like one of the Eight Great Clans, their net monthly income would not exceed 10 million. And now a single person would be able to earn 3 million. That was comparable to one third of the monthly income of a Great Clan. How shocking was that?

  Moreover, the Eight Great Clans were only able to earn so much profit because they had Spiritual Pedestal Tier elites in their ranks, and now three Spiritual Ocean Tier martial artists would be able to earn about the same amount!

  All of a sudden, this attracted the attention of a lot of people, but all of them were merely watching. None actually approached to get the exact details of the mission. After all, Ling Han was really much too young. Who would believe that he would be able to produce such a massive sum of money? Moreover, the Earth and Water Faction was nothing to play around with.

  Thus, everyone merely chose to stand by and watch at this point in time.

  “You can’t simply set up a sign here. If the contract has not obtained the acknowledgement and guarantee of the Heaven Military Hall, everyone will not believe that you really have such wealth,” Liu Yu Tong reminded.

  “All right, then. Let’s go inside then.” Ling Han strode towards the Heaven Military Hall.

  He came to a free window, and said, “I would like to post a mission.”

  “Young Master, what mission would you like to post?” the young girl who was in charge of registering missions asked. She was quite a pretty girl.

  Ling Han smiled faintly, and said, “Going to the Earth and Water Faction for a fight.”

  The young girl’s pretty face twitched uncontrollably. She was na
turally aware of what kind of place the Earth and Water Faction was. She shook her head quickly, and said, “Young Master, don’t joke around. The Earth and Water Faction is a party of the Imperial City. Putting aside whether you have such ability, Young Master, even if you do have, the imperial guards will still stop you from going there to make trouble. The Heaven Military Hall will not accept such a request.”

  “Then, how about this?” Ling Han thought for a moment, then said, “Change it to going to the Earth and Water Faction for a walk, recruiting people to protect me.”

  For a walk?

  The young girl’s mouth once again twitched. Who would simply allow intruders to enter into their home to take a walk?

  “There’s no problem with this kind of request, right?” Ling Han asked, smiling.

  On the surface, there was naturally no issue with going for a walk, but anyone would know that this going for a walk was actually going for a fight. The young girl grimaced, then said, “There is indeed no problem, but, Young Master—”

  “If there’s no problem, then hang up the mission for me. You do not have to bother about any other things.” Ling Han smiled, handed over some monetary notes, and said, “The rewards are as follows…” He recited the rewards list, then added, “Ten Spiritual Ocean Tier martial artists would be enough, and Gushing Spring Tier… a hundred should be good enough.”

  The expression of the pretty young girl immediately changed. What a humongous expense was this? Her first reaction was that Ling Han must be joking, but there was nothing false about the monetary notes that he had handed over. The total amount was 6 million. It was enough to hire such a group for up to three days.

  This young master… was an extremely rich young man.

  She hurriedly registered Ling Han’s request. Anyways, as long as there was no breach of the Heaven Military Hall’s rules and the rewards were paid, then however weird or bizarre a request it was, it would be announced to all the members of the Heaven Military Hall.

  Because the reward for this request was so colossal, it instantly became the focus of attention.

  “What, hiring bodyguards to go for a walk at the Earth and Water Faction? Is this some kind of joke?”

  “Don’t care whether it’s a joke or not. Now that it is posted, then that means that there is absolutely no problem with the validity of the reward.”

  “Hiss, a day equals 10,000!”

  “If you’re in Spiritual Ocean Tier, you can even earn 100,000!”

  The whole plaza became lively. Some of them recalled the signboard that Ling Han had put up previously, and they went over to find him.

  Ling Han was already standing there, and those people immediately began enquiring him about the details of the request.

  “Young Master, I am in the ninth layer of Element Gathering Tier, and have one foot into Gushing Spring Tier. How about it? I only want 5000 silver coins.”

  “I am in the eighth layer of Element Gathering Tier, and I only require 4000 coins.”

  Those enquiring were mostly all in Element Gathering Tier, and were only there to join in on the excitement. Meanwhile, those Spiritual Ocean Tier elites were merely observing. After all, the Earth and Water Faction was not something to joke about.

  Ling Han merely pointed at the sign that he had put up. What did he need Element Gathering Tier martial artists for? He himself was in the ninth layer of Element Gathering Tier, and gathering a bunch of lackeys at this level was not impressive enough.

  His eyes swept over the surroundings, when a smile suddenly appeared on his face. He walked forwards, where a middle-aged man was sitting on a stone lion. There was a wine gourd in his hand, and he kept pouring wine into his mouth endlessly.

  “Yi, this brat has quite good eyes, to actually fix his eye on Master Guang Yuan!”

  “What, the Master Guang Yuan who is known to be able to shatter a mountain with seven punches?”

  “That’s right. He’s one of the top ten strongest warriors of our Heaven Military Hall!”

  “Hiss, his cultivation level is the fifth layer of Spiritual Ocean Tier. In the past, he was also considered as a genius of martial arts, but for some unknown reason, has been stagnating on the fifth layer of Spiritual Ocean Tier for such a long time.”

  “Are you an idiot? Every step in Spiritual Ocean Tier is as difficult as climbing to heaven. It is not uncommon for some to be stuck for their whole life in this tier.”

  When they saw that middle-aged man, everyone exclaimed in shock.

  Ling Han naturally did not know that this large man’s name was Guang Yuan. He had only noticed the latter’s cultivation level, and so had decided to approach him. However, as his attention became more focused, he found out even more information, and he could not help but smile.

  “The more you drink to forget your troubles, the more troubled you will feel,” he said to Guang Yuan.

  “What does a little brat know about troubles?” Guang Yuan asked calmly, not even turning around to look at Ling Han.

  “You’re cultivating the Large Sun Heaven Heart Scroll, right?” Ling Han lowered his voice considerably, only loud enough for just Guang Yuan to hear.

  Guang Yuan’s expression changed drastically, and he could not help but stop his actions of continuing to drink. He looked towards Ling Han, and similarly lowered his voice to a whisper, and asked, “How did you know?”

  “I not only know that you’re cultivating the Large Sun Heaven Heart Scroll, I also know that you have made some mistake in your cultivation. At present, isn’t the third bone on your spine faintly aching?” Ling Han asked calmly.

  This time, Guang Yuan could no longer maintain his composure. He suddenly leaped up from the stone lion, stood in front of Ling Han, and asked, “Who are you?” It was only in this year that he had discovered there was a problem in his cultivation, and the symptoms were exactly like what Ling Han had pointed out, the third bone of his spine would faintly ache.

  “Come, come, come. Accept my request, and I will give you a very fortunate opportunity. It will not only solve your current problem, you may even be able to advance further,” Ling Han said, smiling faintly, like a demon bewitching a human.

  It was only now that Guang Yuan saw the sign that Ling Han had put up; he could not help but wear a strange expression, and said, “You have quite a bold personality.”

  “Not too bad. That’s why I’m looking for a few bodyguards!” Ling Han said, smiling.

  A thoughtful expression appeared on Guang Yuan’s face. Since Ling Han could tell that he was cultivating the Large Sun Heaven Heart Scroll, and could also tell that he had encountered a problem in his cultivation, then that would imply that there was a very high chance that Ling Han could solve his problem.

  He decided to take the gamble.

  “All right then. I’ll accept this request!”

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  Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu

  Guang Yuan had not purposely lowered his voice when he said this, so those around them heard his words very clearly.

  “What, Shatter a Mountain with Seven Punches, Master Guang Yuan, has accepted the request?”

  “That’s Master Guang Yuan we’re talking about here!”

  “With Master Guang Yuan there, what’s there to be afraid of?”

  “I’m applying too!”

  When they saw that Guang Yuan had accepted the request, a considerable number of Gushing Spring Tier elites too exclaimed, expressing their interest.

  “Please go to the Main Hall to obtain the mission,” Ling Han said, smiling. “Then, come back here to gather.”

  “Is today considered one day as well?” They all thought that this was inconceivable.

  “Of course,” Ling Han said casually.

  This brat definitely had to have enough money to burn. It was almost noon by now, which mean that half the day’s money had already been burnt. However, such a rich employer would be favored by everyone, wouldn’t he?

  With the part
icipation of a Spiritual Ocean Tier elite, the rest were naturally feeling braver. Even if the sky fell down on them, there would be someone taller to hold it up. The power of setting an example was great, as very soon, there were other elites of Spiritual Ocean Tier who decided to accept the request. In this manner, so what if they decided to barge into the Earth and Water Faction? If Yang Tian Du did not want to participate in a conflict that would damage both sides equally, he would only be able to swallow his anger.

  The more Spiritual Ocean Tier elites accepted the request, the more attractive this mission naturally became. Anyways, they only needed to keep Ling Han safe, and there was no need for them to flout the law in any way, so they would at least be able to retreat unscathed from this.

  After another hour had passed, the hundred Gushing Spring Tier martial artists were successfully gathered. In fact, there were even more Gushing Spring Tier martial artists who were interested in joining, but Ling Han did not need too many of them. However, there were only seven Spiritual Ocean Tier elites.

  After all, Spiritual Ocean Tier elites could definitely be considered the absolutely elite powerful warriors. It was not an easy feat for a lone cultivator to make it this far. In fact, being able to recruit seven of such powerful warriors in just over an hour’s time was enough of a miraculous feat itself.

  Firstly, it was because the rewards that Ling Han had posted were attractive enough, and secondly, with the participation of Guang Yuan, he influenced those who were still wavering and hesitating to join.

  Seven Spiritual Ocean Tier elites should be about enough.

  Ling Han considered for a moment. Though it was not as impressive as having ten to back him, it was not too bad either.

  “Young Master Han, when are we leaving?” those gathered asked Ling Han. Though they were all at a higher cultivation level than Ling Han, but who asked him to be their employer? Lone cultivators were not as proud as the clan members of prominent Clans. Otherwise, they would definitely not be addressing Ling Han as Young Master Han… unless they knew his background.