by Dragon King
Hua… Instead of going down, Zhen Congming shot up onto Fifth Heaven.
The green mountains and clear rivers made this place look like a celestial realm.
Zhen Congming’s black disk moved horizontally and entered the Ethereal Summit that was surrounded by three small sects.
Hao Ren chased him into the valley.
The red energy sphere was removed, and Grandma stumbled from Zhen Congming’s disk and walked into the valley.
“Congming, what are you doing?” Dashing into the valley, Hao Ren jumped off Little White and couldn’t help but smack Zhen Congming’s head.
However, a shallow shield rose and blocked Hao Ren’s hand. When Zhen Congming was prepared, Hao Ren, who was at Gen-level, was no match for Zhen Congming who had all kinds of dharma treasures on him.
“Grandma!” Landing with Little White, Zhao Yanzi and Xie Yujia called out to Grandma.
Grandma glanced at them before looking around with confusion in her eyes. “Is this… a celestial realm?”
“Grandma, this is Ethereal Summit,” Xie Yujia explained quietly.
Hearing Xie Yujia’s words, Zhao Yanzi widened her eyes and glanced around the valley with curiosity. Even though Grandma nodded, she was still confused.
In the valley, there was no chirp of bird and sound of insects; there wasn’t even wind. However, the presence washed out all impurities from the body, giving people a refreshed feeling.
“Grandma, I’ll show you around,” Xie Yujia took Grandma’s hand and said gently.
A stream flowed from the foot of the Ethereal Summit to the herb garden in the center of the valley through an irrigation tunnel which was dug out by Hao Ren at Xie Yujia’s request, giving the spiritual herb garden enough water.
With proper irrigation and nurturing, the herbs gave off bright luster while Zhen Congming’s essence condensation array accelerated their growing speed by two to three times. Such spiritual herbs would draw envy from the sects on Fifth Heaven.
Grandma looked up at the mountain peaks that were rising high into the clouds and walked around the fresh and fertilized valley with Xie Yujia.
“Hey! When did you find this place?” Zhao Yanzi looked around the valley excitedly and shouted at Hao Ren.
The place Hao Ren chose was surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there was a river on the last side. Quiet and large, this place offered them great freedom, and Zhao Yanzi loved this valley.
People wanted a place of their own, especially for girls at Zhao Yanzi’s age. Raising small animals, building a little wooden cottage, and getting treasures from the surrounding sects… Zhao Yanzi couldn’t help but giggle at the great promises the valley offered.
Mist floated around the Ethereal Summit, but Zhao Yanzi still saw three cave abodes in the middle section of the mountain.
“The left one is yours!” Hao Ren pointed at one cave abode and told her.
“A cave…” Zhao Yanzi didn’t look pleased.
“This is not a place for vacation; it’s a place for you to cultivate in,” Hao Ren lectured her.
“Humph!” Zhao Yanzi snorted with dissatisfaction. Then, she was pleasantly surprised to find that the essence intensity at the valley was much higher than any other places on Fifth Heaven!
“Hao Ren is lucky enough to find such a great place!” Zhao Yanzi’s eyes lit up with excitement as she thought.
After reaching Foundation Establishment Realm, she had been looking for a place to condense essence, and she was a little touched by the fact that Hao Ren made a cultivation cave for her without being asked.
She turned to look at Hao Ren with appreciation. Then, she immediately tried to hide it and snorted, “Humph! I think the essence intensity here is just ok!”
“Come, I’ll show you the cave abode.” Hao Ren didn’t mind Zhao Yanzi’s attitude. Taking her small hand, he flew toward the cave abode that was reserved just for her.
Zhao Yanzi tried to withdraw her hand. But after seeing Hao Ren’s fast flying speed, she grabbed onto his wrist in a hurry.
A big night pearl was inlaid in the wall of the cave abode, giving a soft light to the place. This cave abode was the smallest, making it the warmest one.
A small stone bed was made for her to take a nap on if she got lazy with her cultivation, and Hao Ren didn’t put other things in her cave abode, thinking that she would bring things up here from First Heaven and decorate it.
“I also asked Zhen Congming to build a small essence concentration array so that you can focus on your cultivation,” Hao Ren said while showing her around the cave.
“Cultivate, cultivate, cultivate… All you care about is my cultivation!” Pouting, Zhao Yanzi pounded Hao Ren’s chest with her small fists.
Hao Ren looked down at her calmly.
She stopped her pounding, and her face turned pink… She felt like she was flirting…
She took two steps backward immediately and walked to the entrance of the cave abode, looking at the outside as if nothing had happened.
Outside the cave abode, Xie Yujia was taking Grandma beside a stream of water to take care of the Piercing Heart Grass.
When she was young, Grandma was a great farmer in her village. Although she had never seen these herbs, she was more experienced at planting than Xie Yujia.
Farming and growing herbs were, in fact, the same in theory.
“It seems like these herbs like sunshine. If you want them to grow well, you’d better build a plastic greenhouse around the field,” Grandma said while she walked around the herb garden.
“Grandma, how do you build a plastic greenhouse?” Xie Yujia asked immediately.
“To build a plastic greenhouse, you must solidify the edges of the fields with bricks and use bamboo sticks to support two layers of plastic above the field. The big plastic greenhouses in the countryside are built this way; you must curve the bamboo sticks and keep them into position with horizontal sticks…” Grandma explained.
Nodding, Xie Yujia listened attentively. During the time that she grew the spiritual herbs, she found that the plants needed different growing conditions. Some, like snow lotuses, came from cold environments, while others like Red Flame Grass came from hot climates. Others needed to grow in a pond instead of in the ordinary soil… Grandma’s farming experience gave Xie Yujia many tips.
The abundance of essence could sustain the spiritual herbs’ lives, but it didn’t mean that they would be in good conditions.
“Should I grow the plants that love water in a water field?” Xie Yujia asked.
“When I was living in the countryside, the paddies were used to grow rice. We used to dig out big ditches with a depth of one palm, a length of one meter, and a width of half a meter. There were openings on both ends, and water came in from one end and went out from the other…” Grandma gave a detailed explanation.
The sects on Fifth Heaven was oblivious to the fact that this ordinary-looking valley was brewing a Spiritual Herbs Planting Revolution!
Here, the spiritual herbs the cultivators used to make elixirs would be grown on a large scale with modern agriculture techniques!
Xie Yujia learned the properties of the spiritual herbs from Zhen Congming and got the growing methods from Grandma!
Loose cultivating, furrow irrigation, sprinkler irrigation, mulching, ridging, planting, deep cultivating, division propagation… Grandma taught Xie Yujia all the different planting techniques.
On Fifth Heaven, Grandma found her blood flowing more smoothly, and her energy seemed inexhaustible. She even demonstrated how to build plastic greenhouses with bamboo sticks to Xie Yujia.
While Grandma, in high spirit, taught Xie Yujia how to organize the garden better, Hao Ren showed Zhao Yanzi around the nearby areas of the Ethereal Summit.
Around the Ethereal Summit were three small sects: The Seven Star Sect, the Qiong Hua Sect, and Qin Yin Sect.
As the weakest sects on Fifth Heaven, these three sects weren’t even qualified to be affiliated sect
s of the sects on Sixth Heaven. After all, the combined size of the three sects was smaller than half of White Sand Sect.
Riding on Little White, Hao Ren flew across the sky above the three sects, and the disciples in these sects immediately kneeled and kowtowed to him.
Last time after Hao Ren gave some Foundation Establishment Pills to them, the three sects were ecstatic, and all their disciples knew that a super master lived in the valley and had a white lion as his mount!
“You even controlled three sects on Fifth Heaven!” Zhao Yanzi said excitedly as she sat behind Hao Ren.
Although she was the princess of East Ocean Dragon Palace, she couldn’t move one soldier in the clan. Seeing the respectful expressions on these disciples’ faces as they looked at Hao and her, she found Hao Ren quite remarkable!
“Zi, do you have anything to give them?” Hao Ren turned his head and asked.
Zhao Yanzi touched her ring and took out several top-tier spirit stones. “Only some worthless stuff…”
Since dragon cultivators didn’t need spirit stones to help them cultivate, they used these stones to power array formations. Therefore, in Zhao Yanzi’s opinion, they were not valuable.
Casually, she tossed out six spirit stones, and they fell into the territories of the three sects, instantly eliciting a wave of screams!
After all, even sects on Sixth Heaven treasured top-tier spirit stones!
“Let’s go to the east side and have a look!” Zhao Yanzi clutched Hao Ren’s clothes and urged in excitement.
Although she had been to Fifth Heaven before, she now had a home base. Also, Fifth Heaven was way better than First Heaven.
Little White flew to the east as five-colored flames appeared around its paws.
Suddenly, a clear shout sounded hundreds of meters from them.
“You! Stop!”
Hao Ren turned his head slightly and saw a girl in light cyan gauze clothes, sitting on a golden lion, and pointing her finger at him.
376 Can Level 5 Be Arrogant?
Hao Ren didn’t have a deep impression of this girl, but he remembered the large golden snow lion. He searched his memory and recalled that when he came up to Fifth Heaven to attend the Trading Convention with the Lu sisters, he saw this snow lion and this girl.
“Who are you!” Zhao Yanzi was displeased with the girl’s tone.
“Who are you?” Staring at Zhao Yanzi, the girl asked her.
Zhao Yanzi curled her lips. “I asked you first!”
As the princess of the East Ocean Dragon Palace, she wasn’t that arrogant under the discipline of her father, Zhao Guang. However, she was still a little haughty.
“Luojia hit them!” The girl in cyan didn’t say anything back. Instead, she patted the head of her mount.
The level 5 snow lion immediately spat out a mass of fire.
The power of the level 5 snow lion was equivalent to that of a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator; it could burn Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi with half of its strength.
“Sword array formation!” Hao Ren quickly put up a sword array formation.
The 320 sword energies appeared instantly in three layers to block the fire.
Despite his efforts, the heat of the fire burned off a small amount of white hair near Little White’s nose!
The girl in cyan was surprised that Hao Ren had blocked the attack, and his technique with sword energies aroused her interest.
Sitting behind Hao Ren, Zhao Yanzi was furious.
She was haughty, but she never hurt people just because she quarreled with them. However, she was on Fifth Heaven, and her title in the East Ocean Dragon Palace was useless here.
She gritted her teeth in a fury, wanting to rush over and pull this girl’s hair.
She didn’t know that this girl in cyan was Duan Yao, the daughter of the sect master of Sky Mountain Sect on Sixth Heaven.
The sects on Sixth Heaven looked down at all the sects on Fifth Heaven, let alone Duan Yao who was the only daughter of the sect master of the influential Sky Mountain Sect.
Except for the few places where Nascent Soul Realm masters were cultivating in seclusion, Duan Yao could go anywhere and do anything she wanted on Fifth Heaven. She could easily deal with any cultivators below the Nascent Soul Realm with her level 5 snow lion, Luojia.
That was why she had little regard for Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi who appeared on Fifth Heaven.
Last night after the White Sand Sect was attacked by powerful enemies who robbed them of spiritual herbs and destroyed their grand hall, Duan Yao, who was playing on Fifth Heaven, got the news and asked for permission from her father to investigate this incident.
She was patrolling around when she sensed the activity of another snow lion through Luojia. When she chased over, she saw Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi.
“Where did you steal this snow lion from?” Duan Yao stared at Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi arrogantly and asked.
The Sky Mountain Sect excelled in raising snow lions, and Duan Yao knew that Little White was a level 2 spirit beast after one glance. Seeing that Hao Ren was not one of the disciples of the Sky Mountain Sect, she immediately became suspicious.
Staring at Hao Ren, she felt like she met him before but couldn’t remember from where. If she didn’t suspect that he was a new disciple that one of her Uncle-Masters had taken from one of the sects on Fifth Heaven, she would have ordered Luojia to launch another more powerful fireball at them.
“Uncle, stop talking to her. Hit her!” Zhao Yanzi urged Hao Ren with fury.
She had never been treated this way before, and she would have rushed over to give this girl a lesson if she had enough cultivation strength.
“You dare to hit me?! Luojia, attack that girl!” Duan Yao pointed at Zhao Yanzi.
The level 5 spirit beast had enough intelligence to understand Duan Yao’s order. It spat out an arrow of flames that was about half a meter long toward Zhao Yanzi.
This fire-elemental attack was even fiercer than the previous fireball attack. Hao Ren immediately circulated his full nature essence and shouted, “One-Line Snake Array Formation!”
The 320 sword energies lined up, forming a long snake and dashing toward the arrow of flame.
Pu! Pu… The arrow of fire that the level 5 snow lion spat out broke the 320 sword energies released by Hao Ren!
At Gen-level, Hao Ren was in between the Core Formation Realm and Nascent Soul Realm. Therefore, his sword array wasn’t able to block the attack from a level 5 spirit beast whose power was equivalent to that of a mid-tier Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.
At this critical moment, Little White shifted instantly and backed off 100 meters with colorful energy flames around its paws!
“You…” Zhao Yanzi glared at Duan Yao furiously; she wanted to cuss but didn’t know what to say.
Seeing that Hao Ren’s sword energies could merge freely and spotting a level 2 spirit beast who could move at such a high speed, Duan Yao clutched Luojia’s fur and sat straighter. “You are good! Oh, I know it! You are the two cultivators who made trouble for the White Sand Sect the first time. One can use sword energies, and the other is a female cultivator…”
Then, she looked at Little White with a sudden understanding, remembering that Luojia had once sensed a snow lion’s presence on Fifth Heaven but couldn’t catch up to it.
Seeing Little White’s movement speed, she yelled, “A level 2 snow lion can move at such a speed! It must be a mutant! Hand over the snow lion, and I’ll spare your lives!”
“You dare to take my Little White by force?!” Zhao Yanzi glared at her. “Little White, attack them!”
Little White lifted its head, and a fireball instantly flew toward Duan Yao.
“How dare you!” Furious, Duan Yan drew out a green jade longsword and slashing her sword at Zhao Yanzi as Luojia maneuvered and dodged the attack.
Having just reached the Foundation Establishment Realm with no proper technique, Zhao Yanzi was no match for Duan Yao who was already a Core Formation Realm cultivator
, and she had to hide behind Hao Ren.
Hao Ren wouldn’t just stand by and watch. He released his sword energies and the hundun godly lightning to block this attack from this girl.
Buzz!
It looked like Hao Ren caught Duan Yan’s longsword with his hand.
Hiss!
A surge of powerful lightning energy traveled along Duan Yan’s green jade longsword and entered her body.
Hundun godly lightning could break all of the five elements!
Not able to withstand such shock, Duan Yan let go of her longsword due to the numbness in her arm.
Hao Ren grasped onto Duan Yao’s green jade longsword. Then, with a quick twist of his fingers, he turned the tip of the sword against Duan Yao’s smooth neck.
“Good! Good! Uncle, you are awesome!” Zhao Yanzi shouted.
This series of counterattacks were so smooth that his rival didn’t have time to react, earning great admiration from Zhao Yanzi.
Uncle, uncle… Exasperated, Hao Ren turned his head and looked at Zhao Yanzi but didn’t know what to say.
Not expecting that her longsword would be taken from her in the blink of an eye and she would be held at sword point, Duan Yao was furious and frustrated. Biting her lip, she yelled abruptly, “Luojia!”
The level 5 spirit beast suddenly released its aura!
Little White, with Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi on its back, was bounced hundreds of meters away!
The invisible aura of this level 5 spirit beast froze Little White, who was a level 2 spirit beast, in place.
Meanwhile, a more powerful aura suddenly appeared!
Level 10 demon beast.
Standing on a black disk, Zhen Congming dashed over from thousands of meters away.
Luojia, a level 5 snow lion who was magnificent a moment ago, shivered under such overwhelming suppression.
The aura of a level 5 spirit beast was powerful; even Hao Ren and Zhao Yanzi were greatly affected. However, Zhen Congming’s aura was aiming only at this level 5 snow lion, making it unable to circulate any nature essence to escape!
While this level 5 spirit beast bullied Little White like a six-feet tall, sturdy man bullying a toddler, Zhen Congming bullied this level 5 spirit beast like an eight meters tall giant bullying a mortal!