Alchemy Emperor of the Divine Dao c1-1294

by Flying Alone 孤单地飞

  The Hu Faction!

  The founder of the Hu Faction was the ninth disciple of the Venerable Trinity. His name was Hu Xiangdi. He did not have any children, and the young master of the Hu Faction was his only disciple. Her name was Lei Linglong, an outstanding beauty.

  The Hu Faction’s inclination was… to beat down on Ling Han.

  Actually, by now, Ling Han’s matter was no longer important. This had become a stage for the disciples of the Venerable Trinity to show off their power. They were all fighting over the only qualification to obtain the true inheritance, and all wanted to trample over the others.

  Or in other words, they were making use of this matter to kick a few people out of their way.

  Ling Han was a fuse, and the joining in of the Hua Faction had announced the beginning of this battle.

  Next, more disciples of the Venerable Trinity joined in. The Tie Faction, Lang Faction, Nie Faction, Jian Faction, Lu Faction. Out of the nine great disciple, eight disciples had already joined in, and now the situation just happened to be four against four.

  Now, it was the only remaining Qu Faction that had yet to make their position clear.

  Who would have thought that a mere Mountain River Tier disciple would actually be capable of triggering a fierce battle among the nine great disciples, and that they would display their respective abilities?

  But the Hua Faction’s condition had also changed.

  Previously, the condition that Ji Yunzhi had set out on behalf of the Hua Faction was being willing to spend an exorbitant amount to purchase a drop of Thousand Source True Fluid, and in exchange, they would help Ling Han dissolve the oppression from the Gao Faction. But when the Tie Faction, Nie Faction, and Lu Faction also joined into the alliance, Ji Yunzhi came to see Ling Han again.

  “Apologies, to oppose the alliance of the Gao, Lang, Jiang, and Hu Factions, Young Master was forced to pull in the other three factions for help, but they could not possibly offer their aid for no reason.” Ji Yunzhi smiled apologetically. “Young Master said that we hope that Senior Brother Han could take out all four drops of Thousand Source True Fluid.”

  Seeing Ling Han’s expression darken, she hurriedly continued, “Naturally, Young Master would not treat Senior Brother Han badly. We can purchase it at 1,000,000 True Origin Stones per drop!”

  Are you committing burglary?

  Ling Han almost laughed out loud. Previously, when he had been selling alchemical pills at the Chaotic Stars Majestic Empire, he had earned more than 2,000,000 True Origin Stones, and now, a drop of Thousand Source True Fluid could actually only sell for 1,000,000?

  This was a treasure that even Heavenly Body Tiers would prize greatly!

  “Your Young Master is a real joker.” Ling Han shook his head. He finally understood. What Hua Faction and Gao Faction? In truth, they were no different—it was just a dogfight. And he had actually placed his hopes on the Hua Faction. He had really been too naive.

  Ji Yunzhi was also feeling guilty, but how could she possibly not do as Young Master commanded? She stretched out a hand to press down on Ling Han’s palm, and said, “Senior Brother Han, Young Master Hua will use other means to compensate you.”

  Ling Han withdrew his hand, and said, “Hehe, please keep a respectable distance, Junior Sister Ji! I, too, shall offer you a word of advice. A man that can treat you like an item to be freely gifted… Would he really be worth entrusting your whole life to?”

  Ji Yunzhi’s beautiful face couldn’t help but shift expressions drastically. Hua Yangwen had commanded that she could sacrifice some of her charms as the situation required to placate Ling Han. In her heart, she was naturally unwilling, but she dared not disobey his command. Now that Ling Han had pointed it out openly, she almost wanted to die in her fury and shame.

  “There is no need for Senior Brother Han to worry about my matters!” she said coldly. “Just one word. If you hand over the Thousand Source True Fluid, you can obtain me!”

  “Undress! Undress! Undress!” Old ginseng suddenly popped out. This guy’s eyes was already shining brightly. When he heard such seductive words, how could he possibly continue resisting? He had scrambled out from who knows where. “Girl, take off your clothes first, and let Grandpa Ginseng examine you.”

  “Get lost!” Ling Han shot out a foot, and Old ginseng was instantly sent flying.

  “Ah…” Old ginseng screamed out. “Brat, you are kicking me to the curb when I’m no longer useful! You are having the lion’s share, so can’t you save some scraps for Grandpa Ginseng! A man cannot be so disloyal, you petty brat! You hide all the good stuff for yourself, Grandpa Ginseng ***** you!”

  A muscle twitched involuntarily in Ji Yunzhi’s cheek. And what the heck was this?

  Ling Han waved his hand dismissively, and said, “Go back, and you won’t have to come again in future. Since Young Master Hua is insincere, then our previous agreement will be completely considered nullified!”

  “Senior Brother Han!” A sinister expression appeared on Ji Yunzhi’s face. “Since you have already offended the Gao Faction, if you continue to offend our Hua Faction, you would progress with great difficulty within the sect!”

  “Hehe, you speak as if the whole world belongs to you guys,” Ling Han said carelessly. “If you speak a few less words now, I will only detest the Hua Faction at most. But if you continue to garner my dislike, the Hua Faction will also be on my list of future targets.

  “I can also offer you a warning. Those listed on my list of targets definitely will not reap any nice fruits!”

  A confident smile appeared on his face. There would be a day when he would stride over the Heavenly Body Tier to become Eternal River Tier, and by then, even if Venerable Trinity moved, he would not be able to stop him from seeking justice from the so-called Gao Faction and Hua Faction.

  He, the Rain Emperor, Feng Po Yun, Ding Ping… Which one of them was not a genius in his own right? As long as they were given enough time, they would even be able to punch a hole in the heavens!

  They should not take unfair advantage of him just because of his youth!

  Ji Yunzhi couldn’t help but yield in the face of Ling Han’s forcefulness. After a long while, she finally said, “Since Senior Brother Han is obstinately clinging to his own course, I will report this to Young Master as it is. Excuse me!” She turned and left.

  Since their negotiation had soured, there was naturally nothing else that needed to be said. It would only cause their relations to become even worse.

  “Brat, you are practically too stupid. Since there was a girl that willingly offered to take off her clothes, why didn’t you just go ahead?” Old ginseng ran back, a perverted expression all over his face.

  Ling Han sighed, and said, “You have really reincarnated into the wrong body. Since you love to watch people undress so much, why don’t you go and stay at the public baths?”

  “Hehehe, hehehehe!” The old ginseng released a series of mischievous snicker. “How do you know that Grandpa Ginseng hasn’t gone there?”

  F***, this perverted ginseng!

  Ling Han shook his head, too lazy to squabble with him.

  Now that he had also pushed out the Hua Faction, then even if the Hua Faction and the other factions did not fall in with the Gao Faction, there were still as many as four factions targeting Ling Han. Now that things had come so far, the arrow was already notched. No matter if Ling Han had committed a crime or not, they would all have to crucify Ling Han. Otherwise, the four factions would all lose face.

  One Gao Faction was already capable of suppressing Ling Han to the point of suffocation, what more when there were now four factions?

  Chapter 1204 - Day of the Auction

  Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

  There were still 47 days until the auction.

  Obviously, the Gao Faction would definitely not allow the auction to proceed, because once the Thousand Source True Fluid had been auctioned off, the buyer would either be
an elite of the Heavenly Body Tier or a force that had the backing of one. No ordinary person would have that kind of wealth.

  And in the face of elites of the Heavenly Body Tier, the Gao Faction would firstly be too embarrassed to try to snatch the treasure, and secondly, they might not be successful either… unless Venerable Trinity moved personally. But if Venerable Trinity had been willing to move, there wouldn’t have been an auction in the first place.

  Hence, the Gao Faction would definitely have to rush against time to deal with Ling Han before the auction started. In that case, the Thousand Source True Fluid would be theirs.

  As for how the four drops of Thousand Source True Fluid were to be divided, and how Ling Han would be finally dealt with, that was their internal business. In short, they had to first snatch the Thousand Source True Fluid.

  “These few days, I have already discovered that there are people keeping a surveillance in secret!”

  “Looks like the Gao Faction is finally going to make a true killing move!”

  “No need for a few days, and the sect would put me on trial. Though this seems like farce to me, this is a world where only the strong rule in the first place. Now that the Hua Faction has shrunk back, unless Venerable Trinity spoke up, this battle would not be easily fought!”

  Ling Han was pondering deeply. Even he had not foreseen that things would have progressed to this level. At the time, he had only given his full effort in battle just for the sake of safeguarding his own treasure. He had not predicted that this would have given the Gao Faction an opening to raise difficult questions and place the deaths of Shi Ming and the others on his account as well.

  Though this matter was indeed slightly related to him, it had been the Gao Faction provoking him in the first place. It couldn’t possibly be that since you were about to rob me, I would have to smilingly surrender my treasure, right?

  Then what was the point of cultivation? He might as well just become a coward.

  “Though that’s the fact, how should I actually survive this ordeal?”

  Ling Han considered for a very long time, and finally came to a decision.

  “No matter if it is the Gao Faction or the Hua Faction, what they want is the Thousand Source True Fluid. Then, from this day onwards, I will stay in the Black Tower and not come out. I will drag it out all the way until the day of the auction, when I will rid myself of the Thousand Source True Fluid.

  “Then, the pressure I face would be considerably smaller. Perhaps only Gao Huang would be biting at me at that time like a mad dog.

  “Hoho, Gao Huang, Gao Huang, though we have never met, you should be very honored to become the first person that I want to kill before even meeting him!”

  Ling Han smirked coldly. He was forced so far that he could only stay in the Black Tower for his own safety. Naturally, he was furious.

  After sending Fan Ru off to Hu Feiyun’s, Ling Han informed Ding Ping, Feng Po Yun, Shui Yanyu, and the others, telling them not to come and look for him these few days. Then, he entered into the Black Tower, and continued to cultivate the Star Plucking Step.

  However, two days later, the Gao Faction could no longer bear it, and used a killing move: they summoned Ling Han for a trial to “investigate” the truth behind the deaths of Shi Ming and the others.

  Yet Ling Han had disappeared!

  This move caught the Gao Faction unprepared. They searched Ling Han’s quarters thoroughly in the name of the sect rules, yet they still did not manage to find him. This drove them crazy.

  To prevent Ling Han from fleeing, they had already had people stand guard at the doors. As soon as Ling Han left, they would be putting him under surveillance. Yet the person who was on surveillance duty solemnly vowed that Ling Han had definitely not left the palace.

  But where was he now? How had he disappeared?

  Ling Han had not been sentenced yet. Thus, as a seed, he could naturally come and go as he pleased. This was not against the rules of the sect. Hence, the Gao Faction could not treat Ling Han as a criminal and stick up wanted posters for him everywhere.

  …This was extremely interesting. To list Ling Han as a wanted criminal, they had to first prove that he had committed a crime. Yet Ling Han did not appear, so the trial could not be carried out. Then, he was innocent, and this was a complete cycle.

  Thus, the Gao Faction could only mobilize their own forces to search for Ling Han in secret. The other factions might also have joined in as well, but they ultimately could not command the whole sect and launch a search on a greater scale.

  Meanwhile, Ling Han was leisurely cultivating in the Black Tower. He had enough alchemical pills and True Origin Stones. Even if he was in the Black Tower, it did not affect his accumulation of Origin Power, and as he underwent comprehension underneath the Reincarnation Tree, it was natural that his grasp of the Regulations of this heaven and earth would be greatly improved day by day.

  When the day that the auction would begin came, Ling Han quietly advanced into the peak stage of the pinnacle level of the Mountain River Tier, and had become qualified to become a match for an opponent in the low extreme of the Sun Moon Tier.

  “I have never been this powerful before!” he murmured to himself. No wonder Shen Zhu’er and the others had been so confident previously. If they had exhibited their full power, they could’ve indeed suppressed him easily. Of course, suppressing him was one matter, and wounding him was another.

  “As for the Star Plucking Step, I have also grasped a bit of it. Cooperating with the present level of my Origin Power, I can definitely experience a short burst of speed that would surpass the majority of Sun Moon Tiers.

  “It’s time to go to the auction!”

  He exited the Black Tower, calmly opened the doors, and came out.

  Pu!

  Seeing him suddenly appear, the eyes of the person in charge of surveillance outside almost popped out. Even his brain short-circuited.

  They were keeping a watch here, but it was merely routine business. After all, they had searched the palace a considerable number of times before. Who would have thought that Ling Han would actually come out from inside?

  When they saw Ling Han, they only felt as if they had seen a monster!

  Thus, it was only when Ling Han had walked quite some distance away that they came back to themselves, and shouted, “Stop right there!”

  Ling Han smiled. ‘Just because you said so?’

  Not only did he not stop, he instead ran even faster.

  “Quick, send out a signal quickly! We’ve found Han Lin!” one of the people on watch duty said.

  The other person nodded hurriedly, and drew out a signal bomb. Pa, a “Gao” letter instantly appeared in the skies. This was the unique communication method of the Gao Faction.

  Suddenly, elites of the Sun Moon Tier appeared, and quickly rushed over. Additionally, there were even more Mountain River Tiers that had rushed here. However, they were much slower.

  When they found out that Ling Han had appeared, they were both pleased and shocked. Their pleasure was because Ling Han had finally appeared, and their shock was due to the fact that today was the day of the auction!

  “This brat must be rushing to deliver the goods to the auction!”

  “Cut him off!”

  “Old Yu, we’ll move separately. I will pursue by following the traces of that brat while you head directly for the auction,” an elite of Sun Moon Tier said.

  “All right!” The other person nodded.

  Two great elites of the Sun Moon Tier were moving separately. They had absolute confidence that whichever of them moved, they would be able to easily subdue Ling Han.

  The one in pursuit of Ling Han was precisely Zhu Tianchou. Previously, he had experienced a loss in Ling Han’s hands in secret, so he would naturally bear a grudge against Ling Han. He wanted to apprehend Ling Han personally, and put him in a little bit of suffering first.

  Zhu Tianchou’s speed was extremely fast. Though Ling Han circled and
turned here and there, attempting to hide the traces, how powerful were the senses of the Sun Moon Tier? He pursued him the whole way, and in a short while, he could already catch sight of Ling Han’s back.

  “Hahahaha, Han Lin, there is no way you can flee!” he declared wickedly.

  “Hoho, you are threatening me again. Have you forgotten the lesson from last time?” Ling Han asked smilingly.

  Zhu Tianchou almost exploded in anger. This brat actually dared to still speak of the matter from previously? He released a furious roar, and his feet suddenly sped up as he raced towards Ling Han. “Brat, don’t even think of running away this time!”

  “That may not be the case!” Ling Han sped up as well. Xiu, he burst into a terrifying speed, which was actually not the slightest bit slower than Zhu Tianchou’s.

  Star Plucking Step!

  Chapter 1205 - Failure?

  Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

  Zhu Tianchou was astonished.

  Ling Han was merely in the Mountain River Tier, yet the burst of speed actually made him faster than even him. Was this possible?

  However, even if he didn’t want to, he had to believe this. Not only did the gap between himself and Ling Han not shorten, it was instead widening endlessly.

  ‘So fortunate,’ he thought. Previously, it’d indeed been wise of him to have the other person stand guard to wait for Ling Han at the auction grounds. Otherwise, the two of them would only be able to sigh helplessly as they followed Ling Han fruitlessly.

  Yet Ling Han knew he would not be able to maintain such speed for long. This was a little like the Ultimate Arrow, though it was not as exaggerated. For a short time, he could burst with a terrifyingly fast speed, and he could maintain this kind of high speed more or less for about six or seven minutes.

  And this was taking into account the fact that he had not completely grasped the Star Plucking Step. If he could completely understand the true essence of this movement technique, the burst of speed would be even greater.

  Soon enough, Ling Han’s speed had decreased. However, he had already arrived at the foot of the mountain, and the small town had appeared in front of him.