by Dragon King
Hao Ren had the ultimate power in the East Ocean Dragon Palace, and he could even kill the purple-robed elder on the spot and report later when there were enough reasons!
“Ok, ok, we are not going to interrupt your sweet date now! We are going back!” Ma Lina pushed the guys out of the restaurant with a smile, leaving Hao Ren and Xie Yujia behind to pay for the bill.
In Ma Lina’s eyes, she tried her best to get Hao Ren and Xie Yujia together, and Hao Ren should thank her with great gesture now that he had gotten Xie Yujia.
“Let me pay for it,” Hao Ren took out his wallet and stopped Xie Yujia.
“It’s ok. I never officially treated Zhao Jiayi and the guys to dinner!” Xie Yujia stuffed the money in the waiter’s hand, “Plus, I never paid you back for the things you bought!”
She pouted seriously, and Hao Ren couldn’t help but laugh at her cute expression.
“I will be going to Su Han’s place in the next couple of days. I’ll help you set everything up right now, and I won’t be going up this evening. Can you look after Little White as well?” Hao Ren asked.
“Um…” Xie Yujia nodded. She hesitated but didn’t ask more questions.
Hao Ren let Little White out once they got outside, and it immediately walked around the Hongji Square in its golden-colored legs, wiggling its tail.
Its cute look attracted many loving girl’s attention without a doubt. Even the guys turned to look at Hao Ren and Xie Yujia who were walking the ‘dog’.
Fluffy Little White rolled around on the grey tiles with full energy like a rolling ball.
A husky owned by a florist got its head stepped on by Little White as soon as it got out of the flower shop. Although it was about ten times the size as Little White, it had to go back to the shop obediently.
No one could get in the way when Little White wanted to claim its dominance.
“Is that Hao Ren?… His girlfriend is so pretty… Isn’t Su Han his girlfriend?… The beautiful twins in first-year are also interested in him… He must be loaded…”
While Little White was having a lot of fun running around Hao Ren and Xie Yujia, some students started to gossip.
The tree wants to stay still, but the wind wouldn’t let it be.
Hao Ren wanted to keep a low profile, but he was in the spotlight over and over again. Everyone in the school knew who he was now.
Why would any student cause him any trouble? He even defeated Huang Xujie, the son of the deputy mayor. Why would any professor make his life hard? Everyone knew that Lu Qing, the Vice Principal, had been trying to protect him the whole time!
“Let’s go!” Xie Yujia clapped at Little White when more and more people were walking over to them.
Little White hopped up into Xie Yujia’s arms.
Xie Yujia looked down at Little White and laughed at how naughty it was. Then, she walked out of the Hongji Square with Hao Ren; they seemed perfect for each other.
For some reason, the girls in the area were suddenly jealous of Xie Yujia.
Hao Ren put up a red energy sphere after they walked around the corner.
Boom! Little White turned into its snow lion form.
Hao Ren had taught Xie Yujia how to create the energy sphere. In the future, she could head to Fifth Heaven to look after those spiritual herbs on her own as long as she had Little White with her.
Little White was in a great mood.
Shoo! It reached the Ethereal Peak on Fifth Heaven.
Hao Ren entered the array formation and landed in the valley. He took a lot of things out of his backpack: plastic mulch film, shed film, plant net, little spud, sprinkling kettle, drip irrigation belt, marking board…
If Xie Yujia didn’t learn about these things from Grandma, none of them would know that there was so much to know when it came to farming and planting.
After laying everything out, Hao Ren and Xie Yujia started to work. Hao Ren first made a shallow square pit in the ground with his sword energies. Then, he created a tunnel and directed some water from the little river in the valley into this pit. Lastly, he dug another tunnel and directed the water back into the river, creating a paddy field that was irrigated with running water.
Hao Ren and Xie Yujia next moved the spiritual herbs that liked water into the paddy field.
They opened another area for the fire-elemental spiritual herbs. They built the structure of a greenhouse with bamboo sticks and covered it up with shed film.
For the earth-elemental spiritual herbs, they liked being exposed to the air, but they still needed sufficient water. Hao Ren and Xie Yujia placed the drip irrigation belt in the field to provide them with a certain amount of water.
The metal-element spiritual herbs needed to be placed near minerals. Hao Ren buried a dozen of top-tier spirit stones he borrowed from Premier Xia at the roots of the herbs. He also buried some used and broken dharma treasures in the ground.
Wood-elemental spiritual herbs were relatively easier to take care of. They placed the plant net in the ground and covered it up with mulch film, allowing the spiritual herb seedlings to absorb the nutrition from the ground sufficiently.
Thus, they rearranged the messy herb garden into five sections according to their elemental-attributes. There were metal, wood, water, fire, and earth sections. A modern agriculture planting system had been initially completed.
The Herb King Valley of the Ethereal Peak was slowly becoming the biggest spiritual herb farm on Fifth Heaven…
388 Disciple of the Sec
Hu… After they finished, Hao Ren and Xie Yujia both exhaled deeply
Thousands of spiritual herbs swayed gently in the fields. Green, blue, red… they looked like beautiful colorful ribbons.
Hao Ren met Xie Yujia’s gaze, and they both smiled with pleasure.
Xie Yujia’s white hands were covered in mud, and so were Hao Ren’s sleeves.
“Look at you! You have mud on your face.” With a faint smile, Xie Yujia reached out to rub the mud off his face. However, her wet and muddy finger put more dirt on his face.
“Oops…” She withdrew her hand immediately and giggled at his dirty face.
At her giggles, Hao Ren touched his own wet and cold cheek and joined in on the laughter.
As two students who majored in engineering, they had planted a large stretch of field, feeling like they had returned to their middle school days when they learned about agriculture.
Growing in better environments, the spiritual herbs would flourish, and their medicinal effects would increase, making them excellent ingredients for high-level elixirs.
At this thought, Xie Yujia was satisfied with their half-day of hard work. Meanwhile, she found it quite rewarding and cheerful to work on this transformation project together with Hao Ren.
“Let’s wash our hands.” With a wave of his right hand, a narrow water beam came from the nearby river and entered Xie Yujia’s hands.
Nodding, she washed her hands before putting a few drops of water in her palm, cleaning the muddy marks on Hao Ren’s face.
Feeling her smooth palms on his cheeks, Hao Ren was moved by her caring act.
Dong… At this moment, a light blue voice transmission note rushed into the valley.
“Senior, I’m Liu Yan, the sect master of the Qin Yin Sect. One of our disciples, Ye Su, is dying, and I hope that Senior can save her!” The voice transmission note released Sect Master Liu’s message.
“What’s wrong?” Hao Ren asked in his resonant voice.
Another voice transmission note shot in.
“Master’s disciple came to order us to collect a Three Step Lotus. My direct disciple, Ye Su, stumbled into a nearby mountain which is under the control of the White Sand Sect when searching for the herb and was hunted down by the disciples of the White Sand Sect. Luckily, she escaped from their chase and returned, but she is severely injured!”
“The White Sand Sect! Humph” Hao Ren was not a fan of this sect.
“Master, please help us!” Anothe
r voice transmission note shot in, showing Sect Master Liu’s anxiety.
Hao Ren turned to look at Xie Yujia.
She nodded.
“Wait half an hour!” Hao Ren yelled.
“Thank you, Master!” Another voice transmission note shot in.
For a small sect on Fifth Heaven, the voice transmission notes which could penetrate through array formations were high-level dharma notes. Sect Master Liu must care for this disciple of hers a lot since she used several dharma notes in such a short time.
Also, she now called Hao Ren Master instead of Senior, showing that the Qin Yin Sect had regarded the Senior living in the valley as the most honorable guest of the sect.
Until now, none of the three sects near the valley knew how many people were living in the valley. They assumed that the true master was Hao Ren’s Grandma who once visited the Qin Yin Sect, and they thought that she had a female disciple who acted as her companion, a boy who ran errands and give them tasks, and a male disciple who just spoke.
Xie Yujia immediately entered her cave abode and set up the elixir furnace. Then, she tossed the spiritual herbs she had just collected into the furnace.
Last time when she visited the Qin Yin Sect with Grandma, Xie Yujia had a good impression of the sect which consisted of only female cultivators. Besides, this disciple was wounded while she was collecting spiritual herbs to help increase the variety of plants in Ethereal Summit, and soft-hearted Xie Yujia wouldn’t stand by and watch her die.
Little White spat out its demon fire, and the raging fire began to burn under the elixir furnace. A refreshing aroma gradually floated from the furnace.
With a thin layer of sweat on her forehead, Xie Yujia accelerated the movements of the Life-Death Notes.
Boom!
Four level 3 Essence Replenishment Pills shot out of the furnace.
With quick reflexes, Hao Ren caught the four elixir pills immediately.
“I was a little impatient and didn’t control the fire well.” Xie Yujia was disappointed when she saw that the pills she made were only level 3 elixirs.
“Little White, deliver the pills to them.” Hao Ren put the pills into a small silk bag before hanging it around Little White’s neck.
Little White, who was a more intelligent level 2 spirit beast understood his order. Immediately, it rushed out of the array formation that was surrounding the valley.
“We’ll never forget this big favor you did for us, Master!” A voice transmission note traveled through the array and sounded automatically.
Obviously, level 3 Essence Replenishment Pills had far surpassed Sect Master Liu’s expectation, and there were four of them!
Leisurely, Little White flew back into the valley.
After some consideration, Xie Yujia was still unsettled. She took out a small porcelain bottle from her bracelet and hung it around Little White’s neck.
“These are six Beauty Pills that I made while practicing. You go and give them to that sect master!”
Since Qin Yin Sect’s disciple was wounded while she was collecting herbs for Ethereal Summit, she thought it was not enough to just heal the disciple’s injury. That was why she gave them a bottle of Beauty Pills as compensation.
At her order, Little White immediately flew out, but no more voice transmission notes came in. Either the sect master had left to save her disciple’s life, or her voice transmission notes ran out.
“Zhen Congming is really making use of these small sects,” Hao Ren said helplessly when he saw Little White flying back leisurely
“It’s a good idea. Since the small sects have lots of disciples, it can save us a lot of time if they could collect spiritual herbs for us. We just have to remember to share some elixir pills with them when I make them,” Xie Yujia said.
“Yeah…” Hao Ren had no objection to her suggestion. Besides, he wanted to teach a lesson to the White Sand Sect which freely hunted down and killed disciples from small sects.
He still remembered when he and Zhao Yanzi stumbled into the White Sand Sect by mistake. The elders and disciples of the White Sand Sect had tried their best to kill them.
This sect was aggressive and vicious; it had no regard for the lives of cultivators from other sects.
However, Hao Ren’s top priority right now was to prepare for the exams of the Dragon God Shrine in a few days. He decided to postpone his visit to the White Sand Sect.
“Yujia, let’s go!” Hao Ren said when Little White flew back to his side.
“Ok!” Xie Yujia nodded contently and sat on Little White’s back.
When she glanced at Hao Ren, she saw a fierce look on Hao Ren’s face; she knew that this expression meant Hao Ren wouldn’t let anyone bully people who were close to him.
She had seen this look when Hao Ren was in his first conflict with Huang Xujie, and now that look got even more powerful!
However, when Hao Ren turned around to her, his gaze turned mild.
He reserved this mild and harmless side of him for his friends and family.
A sense of security suddenly rose in Xie Yujia’s heart.
389 Getting Looked at in a New Ligh
When Hao Ren and Xie Yujia returned to school, it was almost six o’clock.
“I will leave Little White with you! Besides, I texted Zi and told her that she could come to you if she wants to go to Fifth Heaven.” Hao Ren picked Little White, who was in its mini version, up by the neck and placed it into Xie Yujia’s hands.
“Ok.” Xie Yujia held Little White carefully. Since it was small, she could bring it into the dorm building and hide it there.
“Oh, another thing. Zhao Yanzi’s final exams are drawing near. If you have time, please tutor her,” Hao Ren continued.
“Got it.” Xie Yujia nodded.
“That’s all. Please take care of Little White for me.” Hao Ren smiled at her.
“Ruff! Ruff!”
Little White twitched its pink nose and barked.
“You are still playing cute as a level 2 spirit beast!” After casting a disdainful look at it, Hao Ren walked toward the administration building in the school.
Meanwhile, Su Han was sitting in a chair in her office close to the window. With her right elbow on the window sill and right hand supporting her face, she was quietly looking at the garden outside the window.
The square window was like a natural picture frame, focusing in on her upper body.
She was looking distractedly at a small flower in the distant garden, and she could clearly see each vein in its petals. Then, she moved her gaze to the wings of a nearby bee.
She could see the fast fluttering wings of the bee with ease but didn’t notice the many guys who were standing on the road below her window gazing up at her beauty.
“Su Han!”
Hao Ren’s voice sounded outside her door.
Su Han finally gathered her thoughts. With a wave of her right hand, she released a surge of nature essence to open the energy sphere at the door.
In a simple white shirt, Hao Ren walked in with a shy smile.
The sunlight shone on the floor from the window, and the reflecting light rested on the door, making him look exceptionally clean and crisp.
“Here you are. Let’s go.” Su Han gave him a slight smile.
It suddenly dawned on her that it was her first time waiting for a man.
Seeing Su Han’s face disappearing from the window, the guys who were standing on the road were disappointed.
“Yeah! Let’s go!” Hao Ren nodded.
Su Han stood up gracefully. She waved her hand and put out the sandalwood incense on her desk before walking to the door.
Shoulder to shoulder, they walked from the corridor to the stairs, then down the stairs and into the hall.
Those guys who were about to leave the grounds of the Administration Building looked astonished when they saw Hao Ren and Su Han walk out together.
“Gen-level, not bad.” Ignoring the gazes from the male students and even som
e male teachers, Su Han said as she walked alongside Hao Ren.
“What are the levels of the cultivators who will be attending the exams?” Hao Ren asked.
“At least Gen-level. At your previous realm, you could only watch. But now, you have better odds,” Su Han continued coldly.
In reality, she had been secretly astonished when she found out that Hao Ren had reached Gen-level.
She had thought that his talent was ordinary, and his future would be limited. Therefore, she didn’t have high expectations of him.
In her opinion, it was extraordinary of Hao Ren to reach Zhen-level, and she had never expected that he could reach Gen-level just a few days before the exams of the Dragon God Shrine.
Now, she saw Hao Ren in a new light.
The cultivation speed of Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll was slow, but it could significantly improve one’s body type by balancing the five elemental essences in the body and making it the natural physique for cultivation.
Although Hao Ren’s elevation speed was not as fast as Su Han’s, he would be a top cultivator if he were a member of a comparatively smaller dragon clan and gain a lot of support and resources.
“What are the odds?” Hao Ren leaned toward Su Han and asked.
“Very low,” Su Han said.
“Ugh…” After hearing her answer, Hao Ren didn’t want to continue the topic since his enthusiasm dampened.
He didn’t know that most of the dragon cultivators didn’t even have little odds at all.
Some of the dragon cultivators who had cultivated hard for 300 to 400 years attended the exams every year but couldn’t get in the top 50, thus were not even qualified to become assisting inspectors!
After cultivating for less than half a year, Hao Ren could enter the exams of the Dragon God Shrine and even easily became an assisting inspector at Su Han’s recommendation, which made him a target of jealousy for the cultivators who had never entered the Dragon God Shrine in the past hundreds of years!
For example, Wang Xi, the genius from the Earth-Elemental Dragon Clan on Wuyi Mountain, had reached Dui-Level and got the precious collective recommendation of the elders from the Wuyi Mountain Earth-Elemental Dragon Clan.