by Dragon King
The black-haired Su Han looked gentle even though she was cold, but the silver-haired Su Han looked unusually chilly.
“I’m cultivating the Ice Frost Scroll…” Su Han touched her hair. Layers of thin frost fell, revealing her dark hair underneath.
“Why don’t we… practice sword techniques?” Hao Ren came up with the idea and said.
“You think you can beat me on sword techniques after two months?” Su Han smiled.
When she smiled, it felt like everything around her was about to melt.
Looking at Su Han who wore nothing but a black robe, Hao Ren set his mind straight and pretended to be at ease. “Let’s try!”
He had a naughty idea. What would happen if he accidentally ripped Su Han’s robe open in the fight… He would probably be beaten to death!
“Come!” Su Han’s longsword appeared in her palm once again.
In the last two month, Su Han had been cultivating in seclusion. She only drank honeydew and ate no food in order to cleanse her body. She also slept on the unique bed which had helped to raise her realm.
Because the rooms in the Dragon God Shrine were spiritual-senses-proof, Su Han only wore the loose black robe in the room. The thin and light material of the black robe made her body feel cool and facilitated cultivation.
Her hard work paid off. She achieved a small breakthrough, and her sword technique, which she overlooked before, was enhanced.
When Hao Ren suddenly suggested a practice match, she felt a slight contempt in her heart. It was exactly what she wanted.
Buzz!
A light sword appeared in Hao Ren’s hand.
Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll could control tens of thousands of sword energies. These sword energies could be enlarged or shrank and were comprised of all five elements. When cultivated to higher levels, it could imitate any dharma treasure and easily transform into a five-elemental sword.
“Su Han, I apologize in advance if anything accidental happened!” Hao Ren held the sword with both hands and slashed at Su Han.
Seeing Hao Ren’s rough slashing technique, Su Han shook her head in disappointment and slightly sidestepped, dodging Hao Ren’s sword.
The black silk robe followed her graceful movement. Despite being in combat, her movements were aesthetically pleasing.
Hao Ren realized for the first time that Su Han was more beautiful than anyone when she was barefooted.
“What are you looking at!” Su Han’s longsword suddenly struck at Hao Ren. Even though Su Han’s arm was thin, Hao Ren didn’t dare to be careless.
Su Han was no ordinary woman!
Bam!
Hao Ren’s five-colored sword suddenly blocked this strike instinctively.
“Oh?” Su Han was slightly surprised. She never expected Hao Ren to react so quickly.
Hao Ren knew he was lucky. He was too busy admiring Su Han’s beauty and forgot about her longsword.
In a sense, Su Han’s beauty was an attack in itself!
In the last month, Hao Ren sparred with Zhao Kuo for a few hours every day. It was only strange if he did not become stronger!
Although Zhao Kuo’s realm fell, his combat techniques didn’t get worse. Zhao Kuo was a man who had come out of life-and-death battles countless times. In terms of combat techniques, he was more than 100 times stronger than Su Han!
Qin Shaoyang mocked Su Han’s sword techniques, but if he were to face Zhao Kuo without using nature essence, he would be killed in a second!
Hao Ren’s five-colored sword drew an arc while he strode half a step forward. The tip of the sword went around to Su Han’s back.
His first strike was to test out Su Han’s style. Now that he knew Su Han’s sword technique was majorly agile, he had a plan.
Hua… Hao Ren’s five-colored sword suddenly slashed down.
“Too weak!” Su Han’s sword tip gently flicked and blocked Hao Ren’s sword.
The two didn’t use nature essence and sparred only with sword techniques. Hao Ren used his Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll to create a sword and didn’t use more nature essence.
“Is that right…” Hao Ren’s sword suddenly thrust along Su Han’s long sword and slashed outward before shivering.
Su Han felt a pain in her wrist and almost lost her grip on the long sword.
“Such precise control of strength…” Su Han thought in surprise. She clenched her long sword and cleaved along Hao Ren’s long sword.
Hao Ren faintly smiled, took half a step back, and raised the sword with momentum. The two sword tips clashed.
Suddenly, Su Han felt like she and Hao Ren were coordinating too well.
This no longer looked like combat but more like sparring between a couple!
“Humph!” Su Han suddenly unleashed all her strength.
Her white jade longsword quaked five times on Hao Ren’s five-colored sword, and it borrowed the force from the quakes and hacked toward Hao Ren’s neck.
“Admit defeat!” Cold lights appeared in Su Han’s eyes
Hua, hua… Hao Ren’s wrist suddenly twisted agilely, and the first variation of Mystic Water Sword Techniques was used smoothly.
Rip… Hao Ren’s sword torn through Su Han’s sleeve.
The second variation of Mystic Water Sword Techniques, third…
Hao Ren’s five-colored sword drew a peculiar arc and shook off Su Han’s longsword. The sword seemed slow, but it tore Su Han’s black robe at the thigh!
The third variation, the fourth… Hao Ren used all six variations that he learned.
Su Han could not hold off the attacks and hurriedly retreated. However, her black robe was slashed at the sleeve and thigh, exposing a large area of her soft pink skin.
“My bad,” Hao Ren pulled back his sword and took half a step back as well.
Su Han looked at Hao Ren in surprise. She never expected his sword techniques to be so ingenious. As the ‘master,’ she was no match for her own ‘disciple.’
She looked down to her own black robe, and large pieces were torn. From wrist to shoulder and thigh to knee, her skin was exposed underneath the silk.
“Good. Your sword technique is not bad,” Su Han said calmly.
Hao Ren looked at her and was secretly relieved. He beat Su Han but was afraid that she would get mad.
He wanted to test the power of Mystic Water Sword Techniques. He knew he would win, so he restrained himself towards the end and did not hurt Su Han.
Su Han’s gaze landed on Hao Ren. “I see that your realm has increased.”
“Yes.” Hao Ren nodded. He went from mid-tier to low-tier Gen-level before and then recovered from low-tier to mid-tier Gen-level. It looked like the same realm, but the damaged meridians had been repaired, which led to a real enhancement.
“Eh…” Su Han reached for Hao Ren.
“What?” Hao Ren looked at her in confusion.
“I want to check your cultivation progress.” Su Han glanced at Hao Ren.
“Oh…” Hao Ren reached out his arm.
Su Han’s hand held on to Hao Ren’s wrist, injecting strands of nature essence into his body.
Hao Ren got closer to Su Han. From her torn black robe, he could clearly see a large area of delicate skin. His heart raced.
“Your heart is racing,” Su Han said faintly.
“Eh…” Hao Ren took a deep breath in a hurry.
“Your spirit stems are stable, and the five elements are balanced. Your realm of mid-tier Gen-level is firm. Do not easily attempt the dragon transformation. It harms your body,” Su Han said.
“Eh…” Hao Ren was about to pull back his arm when Su Han’s fingers suddenly tightly clenched his wrist.
Hao Ren’s heartbeat was now jumping wildly.
Su Han glanced at Hao Ren once again, which scared Hao Ren.
Slap! Slap!
Two cold things appeared on Hao Ren’s wrists.
The colorful Five-Mountain Bracelets slowly faded into Hao Ren’s wrist, entering his body.
Then, Su Han stared at Hao Ren coldly and said, “I’m going to change.”
“Hey!” Hao Ren understood it now, and he looked at Su Han’s beautiful figure and asked, “This is revenge, right?”
“This woman just doesn’t want to lose…” Hao Ren cried on the inside.
If he knew that two Five-Mountain Bracelets would cuff him, he wouldn’t have sparred with Su Han!
“No, your sword techniques are excellent.” Su Han went into the bedroom.
With her back turned against Hao Ren, she said, “You should turn around.”
Hao Ren did so in a hurry with his back facing the room.
In this suite, there were several rooms but had no door. Su Han was changing, and Hao Ren did not dare to peek. He knew that although spiritual senses could not penetrate the walls, he could still use his spiritual senses within the suite. However, any of his movements would be immediately picked up by Su Han.
Just imagine what a stunning sight Su Han changing her clothes would be…
“Okay.” A few minutes later, Su Han’s crispy voice sounded.
Hao Ren felt a great relief, and he could finally move his body.
Su Han had changed to a black robe again. This black robe was smaller than the last, and it wrapped around her body tighter.
“The Demon Sea does not seem stable during this time. Do you want to check it out with me?” Su Han asked as she slowly walked out of the room.
516 Su Han, First Time Cooperating
“The Demon Sea… Demon Sea again…” Every time Hao Ren heard these words, his nerve would jump.
“Also, you’re pretty eye-catching these days?” Su Hao waved the inspector’s token in her hand and said.
The inspector’s tokens were the famous dharma treasures from the Dragon God Shrine. Not only could they find the location of nearby inspectors, but they could also receive lots of different news from the Dragon God Shrine. Su Han read over the accumulated news she got in the token during the few minutes she changed, and she was able to immediately find out about what happened at the West Ocean Dragon Palace.
“Hehe… hehe…” Hao Ren smiled awkwardly.
He did not dare to be proud in front of Su Han. The two Five-Mountain Bracelets were able to suppress him.
“Don’t trigger those demon beasts in the Demon Sea. According to my information, the region of Demon Sea near East Ocean Dragon Clan has Snow Crystal Corals, which are good for improving the quality of natal dharma treasures. If you’re interested, you could come with me. If you’re not interested, I’ll go alone,” Su Han said.
Her voice was cold, but Hao Ren could tell that she wanted him to go with her.
“The information about the Snow Crystal Corals isn’t new, but Su Han hadn’t done anything up until today. This means that she is waiting for me to go with her…” Hao Ren thought.
“Sure. I’ll go with you,” Hao Ren said.
“Let’s go.” Su Han put the token back inside her body and immediately started moving.
Like what he had expected, Su Han was planning to go with Hao Ren. However, Hao Ren didn’t know that Su Han was planning to use him as a meat shield…
They walked out of the Dragon God Shrine.
Su Han took out her longsword and prepared to fly.
She had this longsword for three years now. She was only at Kun-level when she first obtained it. This longsword was enough for her before, but she was now at top-tier Qian-level and even made a small breakthrough at the Dragon God Shrine. That was why she needed to enhance this dharma treasure and prepare for the Heavenly Tribulation.
She wasn’t the only one who thought she should enhance her weapon. Hao Ren also felt that she should do it. After all, Su Han was a Qian-level cultivator, but her natal dharma treasure’s quality was worse than Zeng Yitao’s. It didn’t suit her status.
If a natal dharma treasure were too weak, it would limit the user’s power.
Another disadvantage was that it couldn’t withstand strong nature essences. If Su Han was fighting someone powerful, and her sword broke, there would be severe consequences.
Su Han took out her longsword and jumped onto it. She saw that Hao Ren froze on the spot and couldn’t help but rush him, “Why aren’t you coming on?”
“Use mine.” Hao Ren opened the River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting.
Su Han recognized that this was Zhao Hongyu’s River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting as she had seen it before. It was wider, but its speed wasn’t that fast; it was slower than the traveling speed of her sword.
Su Han wanted speed and not comfort.
Hao Ren didn’t care about Su Han’s reactions. He reached out and dragged her on.
Su Han’s face was cold, and she was getting angry. However, the River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting flew out of the Dragon God Shrine in the blink of an eye.
Hua… It was almost the speed of a Soul Transformation Realm cultivator.
Su Han did not expect this kind of speed, so she almost fell off the River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting.
When she was about to fall, she quickly grabbed onto Hao Ren’s arm.
Hao Ren smiled and increased the speed even more.
He wasn’t pretending to be cool. It was that the faster the speed, the safer it was.
Su Han’s longsword wasn’t slow, but with two people on it, those Transformation Realm demon beasts could create gigantic waves and drag them into the water.
“The primitive treasures from the Nine Dragon Palace are definitely incredible…” Su Han slowly let go of Hao Ren’s arm and thought to herself.
Whoosh! The River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting created a rainbow as it flew crossed the sea. The primitive treasures from the Nine Dragon Palace were mostly simple, but this River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting was one of the few treasures that were delicate and beautiful.
Hao Ren had used the River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting to fly people around these days, and he suddenly felt like he was a taxi driver. However, he would still have to return this River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting to Zhao Hongyu. Little White was coming back soon, so he could leave the duty of carrying people around to Little White.
The soldiers of East Ocean who were hidden in the ocean saw the River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting. However, they did not have enough time to come out and greet since it was too fast.
The Demon Sea!
The Immortal Spirit Island, which was between East Ocean Dragon Clan and the Demon Sea, appeared before Hao Ren.
“Into the sea!” Su Han said.
She took out her longsword, indicating that she was alerted.
Hao Ren created an energy sphere as they dived into the sea.
The sea seemed no different from that of the territory under East Ocean Dragon Clan’s control. Everywhere was quiet, and the green aquatic plants flowed softly.
Hao Ren put away the River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting and followed Su Han closely. Su Han’s long black robe fluttered with the waves, and she exhibited a calm and peaceful beauty.
“Don’t open the energy sphere. It’ll alert the demon beasts nearby.” Su Hao’s words were conveyed to Hao Ren’s mind through the tokens.
Usually, only those cultivators above the Nascent Soul Realm could send voice transmission. However, with the inspector’s token, they could communicate through spiritual senses, which made it a super convenient dharma treasure when they went on vacations or were inspecting a crime scene.
Hao Ren heard Su Han’s warning when he was just about to put away the energy sphere. He quickly stopped and tried to hide his aura.
Su Hao came to the Demon Sea to get Snow Crystal Corals. She came with Hao Ren because they could look out for each other and could communicate conveniently through the tokens. She didn’t expect him to be able to scare away those high-level demon beasts.
Inspectors would move in teams after getting missions from that elder on the first floor of the Dragon God Shrine. Su Han didn’t like teaming up with people and always worked by herself. This
meant that she couldn’t go to dangerous places. However, Hao Ren was a trustworthy partner.
“Demon beast,” Su Hao warned and turned invisible immediately.
“Damn…” Hao Ren realized that he couldn’t sense Su Han’s aura, so he knew that she had used a Qian-level’s technique and went into complete stealth.
“Level 3 demon beast, not strong. You’re responsible for luring it away.” Su Han first swam elegantly like a squid to hide amongst dense aquatic plants and then ordered Hao Ren through the token.
Hao Ren’s head numbed; he realized that he was a bait!
The level 3 demon beast came over. It saw Hao Ren and rushed over with a roar.
“Thanks!” Su Han’s crisp voice was transmitted to Hao Ren through spiritual senses.
Hao Ren rushed to back out of the Demon Sea, but the level 3 demon beast swam and chased him closely. This type of low-level demon beasts didn’t have intelligence so that they couldn’t estimate the difference in strength between themselves and their opponents. They only knew how to attack.
There were lots of these types of low-level demon beasts in the outskirts of the Demon Sea. As soon as a cultivator was slowed down by one, many would follow.
The Snow Crystal Corals that Su Han was looking for were in the outskirts of the Demon Sea, very close to the territories of the East Ocean Dragon Clan.
She was a Qian-level cultivator, so she wasn’t scared of these low-level demon beasts. But if these low-level demon beasts followed her and made huge noises, she would attract level 8 or 9 demon beasts. There was a possibility that she might even draw the attention of demon kings.
However, cultivation was about taking risks and getting big rewards. Su Han hid her aura while her spiritual senses spread into the area.
The nature essence intensity of the Demon Sea was high, so the spiritual herbs and dharma treasures were many times better than those outside. Rumour had it that the nature essence intensity in the center of the Demon Sea was thousands of times stronger than that of the outskirts. The center was like a nature essence spring, and the nature essence below Fifth Heaven came from there.
However, no one had proved this theory. It was heard that a Heavenly Dragon had only gone one-third in, and he was kicked out of there.