by Dragon King
Zhao Guang furrowed his brows and nodded with a grim face.
Little Daoist Zhen glanced around and pointed at Hao Ren. “You seem to be only at Li-level. Well, you can do it. Go get the Seven-Colored Snow Lotuses for me, and I will make the elixir for him.”
Hao Ren looked at him in skepticism, feeling like there was more to it.
Seeing Hao Ren’s gaze, little Daoist Zhen told the truth, “Ok, I’ll be frank. I only need three Seven-Colored Snow Lotuses to save him. However, you need to get me three more as payment. To be clear, I want three; I won’t save him for anything less.”
“Ren, the task is too dangerous for you since you have no experience going on such trips. I’ll send someone else,” Zhao Guang interrupted.
“It’s fine. I’ll go!” Hao Ren raised his hand and stopped Zhao Guang. “The Sky Mountain in the Northwest is within Qin Shaoyang’s territory, and he will make trouble for people who are from East Ocean.”
“You mean…” Zhao Guang was baffled. With Zhao Kuo on the verge of death, as his elder brother, Zhao Guang couldn’t keep a clear head.
“I will go. I’m in a better position,” Hao Ren said as he pointed at his forehead.
“Oh? Inspector?” Zhao Guang suddenly understood.
In fact, when Hao Ren showed up on the altar with Lu Qing, Zhao Guang had noticed the mark on his forehead. But his mind was centered around the upcoming Heavenly Tribulation and had no time to ask about it. Now seeing the mark, he knew that Hao Ren had joined the Inspector System through Su Han!
Since this was the case, Hao Ren was a better candidate for this mission since Qin Shaoyang was technically one of his ‘peers’.
“Dad! I’ll go with him!” Zhao Yanzi stood up abruptly with tears on her face.
“Nonsense!” Zhao Guang glared at her. “You have no strength at all! It’s not a field trip!”
Zhao Yanzi bit her lip, feeling wronged and sad. After all, she wanted to help her Third Uncle.
“You must bring back the Seven-Colored Snow Lotuses in one day. This means that from now on, you have 24 hours, and I must sustain his life with elixirs. If you are late at all, then I can’t promise that I can save him,” little Daoist Zhen told Hao Ren.
“Ok! I’ll go right now! But I need one person to go with me!” Hao Ren said.
“Who do you need?” Zhao Guang asked.
“Su Han!” Hao Ren answered.Daluo Golden Immortal is a level higher than Heavenly Immortal.
198 Borrowing the Treasure
“Okay…” Zhao Guang nodded gloomily. Although he didn’t want to owe the Inspector a favor, Su Han was indeed the best person to deal with Qin Shaoyang.
“Please go with Hao Ren, Elder Xingyue.” he turned to Xingyue.
“Yes!” this female cultivator bowed without seeming like a girl at all.
“Elder Lu, Elder Xu, please take Zhao Kuo back to the Dragon Palace. General Hu and General Sun, lead your armies…” Zhao Guang recovered from his panic and started to arrange things in an organized manner.
Without wasting any time, Xingyue grabbed Hao Ren and headed somewhere on her sword in a flash.
The speed of the sword was extremely fast, and Hao Ren tried to keep his balance on the narrow sword.
However, since Xingyue grabbed onto his arm like a clamp, it wouldn’t be easy to fall even if he wanted to.
Maybe since she was extremely anxious, the sword flew faster and faster. Hao Ren who was in the front found it challenging to stay on.
“Don’t worry. This speed is within your limit,” Xingyue said coldly behind him.
Hao Ren thought that her tone sounded the same as Su Han’s. It never occurred to him that Su Han was brought up by no one else but Xingyue.
When Hao Ren was still confused, the sword suddenly dropped down to the city. It was so fast that it actually looked like a flash of light, and none of the mortals noticed Hao Ren and Xingyue.
They flew into Su Han’s apartment through the window. Su Han was cultivating, and she noticed the change and immediately walked out of her cultivation room with a sword in her hand.
“Who is it!” she shouted.
Her expression changed when she saw Hao Ren and Xingyue. Su Han slightly bowed to Xingyue and said, “Master!”
Hao Ren was surprised to learn that Xingyue was Su Han’s master. He took a closer look at their faces and found the resemblance.
“You have already left East Ocean, and you are now more powerful than me. There’s no need to bow,” Xingyue looked at her and said, “I’m here today to ask you for one favor. Zhao Kuo failed his Heavenly Tribulation, and his life is in danger now. To save him, one of the main ingredients is the 1,000-year Seven-Colored Snow Lotus. It only grows on the Sky Mountain which is located in the northwest. Since Qin Shaoyang is guarding that region now, we hope that you can make a trip there with Hao Ren.”
“Ok,” Su Han agreed without any hesitation.
“The East Ocean owes you a big one!” Xingyue jumped onto the sword and disappeared by the window.
Su Han turned to Hao Ren in her pajamas. “Let’s not waste another minute and get on our way!”
“Ok!” Hao Ren nodded in agreement.
Su Han grabbed a long trench coat and pulled it over herself. Then, she whipped out her white jade sword and made it float in the air.
She grabbed Hao Ren and walked onto the sword.
The white jade sword enlarged in the air, and it was broad enough for Hao Ren and Su Han to stand on.
Boom! It broke through the window and headed northwest at a fast speed.
It felt so cool to fly on a sword!
Hao Ren wished that he had a sword of his own. But since he was cultivating the Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll, it could create tens of thousands of sword energies, and he didn’t need a sword at all!
Su Han, standing in front, kept her mouth shut. Hao Ren had to lightly grab onto her arm from behind to prevent himself from falling off.
The sword was as fast as lightning. Since they were within the thin clouds high above the ground, the mortals in the city could only see a slight flash in the sky at most. They wouldn’t be able to see two people standing on a sword in the sky.
“You must keep Zhao Kuo’s failure a secret,” after a while, Su Han said abruptly.
“Um,” Hao Ren nodded as he circulated the Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll to keep the coldness away.
If this information were to get out, West Ocean would have a huge reaction! The East Ocean without Zhao Kuo, the No.1 Cultivator in the mortal world, wouldn’t be able to withstand a single blow from the West Ocean.
However, the most important thing right now was to save Zhao Kuo’s life. Other things could wait. From the look of it, it seemed like Su Han wouldn’t be able to stick her hand into the battle between East Ocean and West Ocean.
The best she could do was to save Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi’s lives.
Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! A few more flashes went by them.
These lights suddenly circled back, and shout sounded, “Who is trespassing Kunlun Mountain?”
“Inspector Su Han is passing by due to an emergency!” Su Han raised a small golden banner.
Shoo! Shoo! The flashes backed off from blocking them.
Su Han sped up and passed by the mountains at high speed.
The white Sky Mountain slowly appeared in Hao Ren’s view.
Su Han slowed down the sword to land.
Boom!
A white energy sphere appeared in front of their sword.
It was the Protection Array Formation of the Northwest Sky Mountain! It was the Northwest Earth-Elemental Dragons’ turf!
Water-Elemental Dragon Clans ruled the areas near the oceans, rivers, and lakes while the inner land was typically Wood-Elemental and Earth-Elemental Dragon Clans’ home.
They couldn’t exceed the Water-Elemental Dragon Clans in terms of the number of members, but they weren’t less powerful!
Su Han took out a piece of paper from
her ring. She poured her Nature Essence into it and threw it into the sphere.
The paper turned into a ray of blue light and disappeared.
Without saying anything, Hao Ren stood behind her as he knew that this was her voice transmission notes. If she needed to take care of some matters for herself, she could have barged in as an Inspector. However, she was here for the East Ocean, and doing that could displease the local dragons.
A moment late, a few elders in earthy yellow robes flew over. “Inspector Su Han, welcome! We apologize for not welcoming you sooner!”
“No need for that,” Su Han said directly, “I’m here to get some of your local specialties - Seven-Colored Snow Lotus.”
The elders looked at each other and asked, “What age do you need? We could prepare some for you if it’s not a big amount.”
Su Han turned to Hao Ren.
Hao Ren stepped forward on the broad sword and said, “We need six 1,000- year Seven-Colored Snow Lotuses.”
The elders gasped at what Hao Ren had said. They looked at each other before saying, “We had three of those, but Inspector Qin Shaoyang was here not long ago and asked for two of them. So, we only have one left.”
Su Han sighed coldly as she thought to herself, “Qin Shaoyang started to act as a tyrant as soon as he was assigned here.”
Hearing her sigh, the elders thought that she wasn’t happy about what they said. They immediately explained, “Inspector Su Han, 1,000-year Seven-Colored Snow Lotuses are indeed very rare, and we do only have one left. But since you and Inspector Qin Shaoyang are colleagues, maybe you can borrow them from him for the emergency?”
Hao Ren thought, “Three 1,000-year Seven-Colored Snow Lotuses should be just about enough to save Zhao Kuo’s life. But that little Daoist Zhen probably won’t cooperate.”
He then said to the elders, “How about this. You guys can show us the way to the karst cave, and I’ll go get the lotuses myself.”
Hearing this, the elders looked at each other again, not knowing how to respond.
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“Hehehe… Little Han, how come you have time to visit me in this remote and poor place?” Qin Shaoyang’s voice came from the west.
Su Han furrowed her pretty eyebrows and said to the elders from the Earth-Elemental Dragon Clan, “Tell me where the karst cave is, and you can prepare that 1,000-year Seven-Colored Snow Lotus for me.”
“The karst cave is at Luoying Peak of the Sky Mountain, and it’s extremely dangerous. Inspector Su Han, please be extra careful.” The leader of the elders lightly nodded and took off with the other elders.
The two Inspectors didn’t appear to be friendly with each other, and the Earth-Elemental Dragon Clan did not want to get involved.
After all, the lotuses were grown in the dangerous area on the Sky Mountain, so they weren’t worried about Su Han taking many lotuses.
As soon as they left, Qin Shaoyang appeared right in front of Su Han and Hao Ren.
Su Han looked at him coldly, and she put away her sword and landed with Hao Ren.
Qin Shaoyang also put away the light around him and stared at Su Han who was incredibly charming. He said, “Little Han, you are in such a good mood; you are on a trip to Sky Mountain with your little assistant.”
Obviously, he had noticed the light mark on Hao Ren’s forehead. He was surprised and jealous of the fact that Hao Ren became Su Han’s Assisting Inspector.
“I don’t have time to chat with you,” Su Han said to him, “You may go back as soon as you hand over two 1,000-year Seven-Colored Snow Lotuses.”
“I should do it just because you told me to? I was letting you win when we were in East Ocean, but we are on my turf, the Sky Mountain, now!” Qin Shaoyang looked at Su Han arrogantly as his tone got impatient as well.
Shoo! The white sword reappeared in Su Han’s hand!
Su Han’s personality was like this; she would choose to solve the problem physically without bullsh*tting.
The golden weaving shuttle appeared in Qin Shaoyang’s hand as well. He looked serious as he never dared to underestimate Su Han’s strength.
Boom!
The white sword smashed into the golden weaving shuttle, and the ice and snow on the Sky Mountain slightly shivered!
Million Phantoms! Qin Shaoyang’s golden weaving shuttle spun, shining golden light all around as golden weaving shuttles were everywhere!
However, different from Hao Ren’s Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll where it could potentially generate millions of sword energies, all these golden weaving shuttles in the air were illusions to cover up the location of the real weapon.
“Piece of cake!” Su Han murmured and whipped out her white sword. Millions of swords also appeared in the air.
“Your realm is high, but your sword technique sucks as usual!” as Qin Shaoyang said that, the golden weaving shuttle shot straight at Su Han at the same time.
Millions of swords and shuttles crashed into each other in the air! As soon as one got destroyed, another would be created.
“What are you waiting for, Hao Ren? This is not a 1v1 battle! Come on!” Su Hao shouted at Hao Ren who was just watching from the side.
Hao Ren realized that he was too focused on watching and forgot to help. He immediately created a grey hundun sword energy and shot it at Qin Shaoyang.
He was only able to throw it like a grenade before. However, since he had broken through to Li-level, he was able to control the sword energy much better!
Qin Shaoyang was mad, but he couldn’t help but panicked; he didn’t expect to be in a 1v2 situation. Then, he realized that Su Han never played by the rules. Plus, the hostility between them was already obvious.
For the battles between Inspectors, as long as there was no death and no interference with the Inspectors’ job, the Dragon God Shrine wouldn’t get involved at all!
If Hao Ren were just a cultivator who attacked the Inspector, he would have been punished by the Dragon God Shrine. However, there was no need to worry about it since he was an assistant to Su Han now.
His hundun sword energy shot at Qin Shaoyang quickly. Qin Shaoyang remembered the fight that happened at Zhao Yanzi’s birthday party and didn’t dare to underestimate Hao Ren. Therefore, he covered his palm with Nature Essence before trying to block Hao Ren’s attack.
Pa… The sword energy exploded in Qin Shaoyang’s palm and made his arm numb!
Five-Elemental Lightning!
Qin Shaoyang covered his arm in surprise. Meanwhile, Su Han’s white sword slashed toward his shoulder with no mercy!
Su Han’s sword shouldn’t be able to harm him at all if she were alone, but the situation was completely different since there were two of them!
Without saying anything, Hao Ren created another hundun sword energy and threw it at Qin Shaoyang! Pa!
It exploded on Qin Shaoyang’s chest and burned a hole in his shirt!
Qin Shaoyang took five steps back, and Su Han went forward with her sword and created another wound on his arm.
“Lightning Grenade! You allowed him to use such a powerful Dharma Treasure!” Qin Shaoyang backed up and shouted in surprise.
He didn’t think that Hao Ren who was very weak could harm him, so he assumed that Hao Ren had thrown out the extremely powerful explosive Dharma Treasure, ‘Lightning Grenade’!
Although Qin Shaoyang had always kept his temper under control as an ‘elegant gentleman’, he finally lost it. He jumped away from Su Han’s sword with one hand covering the wound and the other pointing at Hao Ren. “Let’s him battle me one-on-one if you dare!” he shouted.
Su Han suddenly stopped attacking and said, “Ok, but you need to hand over those two 1,000-year Seven-Colored Snow Lotuses if you lose.”
Qin Shaoyang took a deep breath, and the wound quickly healed. He looked at Hao Ren and then at Su Han, knowing that she didn’t really put all her force in that attack just now.
Shoo!
A white sword energy shot directly at Qin Sha
oyang!
Hao Ren was worried about Zhao Kuo, so he didn’t want to waste any time. He went straight at it since he heard that Qin Shaoyang wanted to fight him one-on-one.
Qin Shaoyang blocked this sword energy with his golden weaving shuttle. Then, another yellow earth-elemental sword energy shot toward his face.
Hao Ren learned something from the fight with Su Han last time: if it weren’t possible to win by force, then he got to win by quantity!
Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! There went another three sword energies!
As soon as Qin Shaoyang blocked them with his golden weaving shuttle, there came another five!
Su Han returned to Hao Ren’s side and whispered as she put away her sword, “Beat his spirit so he won’t be bothering us when we pick the lotuses!”
“Ok!” Hao Ren shot ten more sword energies of different elements at Qin Shaoyang with all his fingers.
When he leveled up from Kan to Li, the amount of Nature Essence he was able to absorb and use was several times more than before! The sword energies were shot in all directions and hit some of the stones and trees around them.
Bom! Bom! Bom! Bom! The sound of explosions resonated in the sky.
Qin Shaoyang was surprised at the improvement in Hao Ren’s strength. In just a short period, Hao Ren has grown so much. If he had a year or two…
Hao Ren got more impatient when he thought of Zhao Kuo’s critical status. He didn’t have much time left, so he released all of the Nature Essence in his body!
Su Han walked to Hao Ren and grabbed onto his wrist lightly.
Hao Ren was just feeling exhausted, but a wave of Nature Essence poured into his body all of a sudden!
It felt just like when he did the landscape painting with Su Han!
Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll, absorb! Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll, release!
The sword energies that were only the thickness of a little finger suddenly enlarged into the thickness of a fist!