!"Grandma!" Feeling somewhat tired, 郝仁pushed open the ornate iron gate and called out."Ah Ren is back!" An amiable elderly woman came out of the house with a smile on her face. "Why are you home so la...Chapter 535: A Moving Treasure Vault! (Third Update!)
Duan Yao used some secret technique to fly at an incredibly fast speed. Her voice trembled with a mix of anger and fear.
This time, she didn't obtain the Defining Elixir; it must be that the Patriarch really wasn't in the valley. She would definitely come back again.
As for Zhao Yanzi's "City Sect," Duan Yao had never heard of such a sect before, but she was determined to search through the Fifth Layer Sky no matter what and find this sect.
The hatred from being robbed of the treasure sword, martial arts manual, jade pendant, immortal herb, and now the Defining Elixir made her more and more furious. She thought that perhaps the Patriarch might reward Zhao Yanzi with a Defining Elixir, which angered her to no end.
Zhao Yanzi could apparently use the Dragon Returning Grass she had stolen from the sect with great effort to exchange for a Defining Elixir.
While flying at full speed, Duan Yao touched her wet and sticky face and suddenly felt like crying.
This vicious woman actually sprinkled poison on me! After my face is ruined, even taking a Defining Elixir won't help!
Thinking this, the furious and anxious Duan Yao was almost about to exhaust all her spiritual energy. She disregarded her father's warning about the harm of blood telekinesis and quickly rushed towards the Sixth Layer Sky as tears flowed from her eyes.
If my looks are completely ruined, I will definitely tear you into pieces! Duan Yao fought through dizziness and channeled nearly half of her essence energy into the flying sword under her feet.
Zhao Yanzi had no idea that a bag of sweet soy milk could frighten Duan Yao so much. She laughed heartily as she saw Duan Yao fleeing in disarray, picked up the dagger left behind by Duan Yao, melted the outer layer of ice, and put it into her small necklace.
She then opened another piece of war loot, that is, the storage bag seized from Duan Yao. Inside was only a map of the Fifth Layer Sky, 16 Dragon Returning Grasses, six medium-grade spirit stones, and nothing else. Zhao Yanzi muttered "poor devil" before putting the storage bag away with no interest.
Actually, six medium-grade spirit stones were almost half the wealth of some small sects in the Fifth Layer Sky.
A single medium-grade spirit stone could be exchanged for a hundred low-grade spirit stones. However, such an exchange was unlikely because spirit stones not only served as currency among human cultivators but also as auxiliary cultivation materials. The abundant spiritual energy contained within medium-grade spirit stones far exceeded that of a hundred low-grade spirit stones.
Dragon cultivators had Dragon Pellets and wouldn't enhance their cultivation efficiency by holding onto spirit stones, so for them, spirit stones were merely energy storage devices for arrays. For human cultivators, however, possessing a single medium-grade spirit stone allowed them to convert the abundant spiritual energy within it into their bodies, greatly accelerating their cultivation progress.
Duanyao this time brought six intermediate spirit stones to the Fifth Layer Sky, almost emptying out her "private savings" accumulated over these ten or so years. She had planned that if these 16 grade five spirit herbs were not up to Grandpa Medicine King's standards, she would directly use precious intermediate spirit stones to exchange for them. Little did she expect that instead of meeting Grandpa Medicine King, she encountered her sworn enemy Zhao Yanzi, who snatched both the spirit herbs and the spirit stones… Duanyao’s frustration and anger can be imagined.
"The map…" Hao Ren picked up the map and examined it carefully.
He wasn’t interested in those six intermediate spirit stones, but he was very interested in this map of the Fifth Layer Sky. Zhao Yanzi had robbed other cultivators before and obtained some maps as well, but those maps were either too small or too vague.
However, Duanyao’s map of the Fifth Layer Sky was drawn on a large piece of sheepskin paper. After unfolding it, various mountain ranges in the Fifth Layer Sky, sect distribution, spiritual energy strength and so on were described very detailedly.
Hao Ren’s "Medicine King Valley" was also marked on this map, but the three small sects around it weren’t marked; apparently, these small sects hadn’t attracted Heavenly Mountain Sect’s attention — such minor sects might get wiped out every few months, and marking them wouldn’t make sense.
It was no wonder that a major sect like the Sixth Layer Sky would have detailed information about the Fifth Layer Sky. Hao Ren thought to himself as he put this map away.
After returning to the valley with Zhao Yanzi, Xie Yujia, Lu Linlin, and Lu Lili immediately surrounded them.
Zhao Yanzi was very excited about obtaining Duanyao’s dagger. The Purple-Qing Sword was too long and big for her to bring it down to the First Layer Sky before integrating it as a Life Treasure; however, this dagger could be placed in her Nada necklace.
It could fly around like Hao Ren’s sword light and looked very powerful. She had to study it… Zhao Yanzi tossed the storage bag to Hao Ren and ran excitedly back to her cave abode.
She kept plundering good stuff from Duanyao, and she suddenly felt that Duanyao was practically a walking treasure chest.
Then, she suddenly realized that she had forgotten to take off another jade pendant of Duanyao’s. When Duanyao took out her storage bag, she purposely covered the pendant with her clothes, which caused Zhao Yanzi’s careless nature not to think about it.
"Oh well, I’ll remember next time." Realizing that she hadn’t plundered everything from Duanyao, Zhao Yanzi felt a bit disappointed and shook her head.
At this moment, Duanyao, who had already flown to the Sixth Layer Sky, felt her ears inexplicably hot as blood rushed upwards. She spat out half a mouthful of blood — she was about to be furious.
In Mystic Peak, Xie Yujia’s acquisition of 16 Returning Dragon Grasses made her very surprised. The Returning Dragon Grass was a grade five spirit herb, second only to the top ten supreme spirit herbs like the Seven-Colored Snow Lotus and was also good material for alchemy.
From the value of these 16 grade five spirit herbs alone, these spirit herbs could be exchanged for three Ageless Elixir. If Duanyao knew this news, she would certainly have spat out another mouthful of blood.
"Hehe, Hao Ren, these are good items. In the Five Heavens, it's hard to find such Level 5 Spirit Herbs." Xie Yujia gently held the Returning Dragon Grass and noticed that they were still fresh, as if just recently uprooted. She quickly transplanted them into the Spirit Field to preserve their spiritual essence and attempt to cultivate them further.
Hao Ren knew how precious these Spirit Herbs were, so he helped Xie Yujia with the transplanting process. Lu L琳琳和陸莉莉看到郝仁動手幫忙，急忙也一起加入。
They transplanted 16 stalks of Returning Dragon Grass into the Spirit Field. Then, Xie Yujia quickly went to her cave and retrieved a small white paper packet, scattering some golden powder onto the medicine field.
The leaves of the returning dragon grass that were nearly wilted suddenly regained their luster at an observable rate, with drooping leaf tips gradually extending.
"What is this" Hao Ren was surprised by what Xie Yujia held in her hand.
"Little White's poop," said Xie Yujia, pointing to Little White.
"How... can it be powder..." Hao Ren was puzzled.
"Little White’s poop is very nutrient-rich and hard to control the amount. So I just dried its feces in the valley and ground them into powder. This way, I can precisely control the dose since different types of Spirit Herbs from various years require varying amounts of spiritual energy," Xie Yujia explained earnestly.
Hao Ren looked at her in surprise, amazed by how meticulous she had been with this matter.
Little White seemed to know they were talking about its poop and shamelessly came over, wiggling its butt to take credit for the effort.
Hao Ren glanced at the remaining golden powder in Xie Yujia’s paper packet. No one would have thought such a dazzling color could come from Little White's rear...
But truly, Little White’s poop was more valuable than gold...
Hao Ren put away the storage bag and the map of the Five Heavens in the Treasure Light Pavilion and then rested for a while. When he thought it was time to go back, he took Xie Yujia and the others back to Donghai University.
Zhao Yanzi happily received a dagger artifact which she hadn't fully refined yet but had managed to erase Duan Yao’s divine sense from it; with some more nurturing time, Zhao Yanzi could imprint her own divine sense on it and practice controlling a small flying sword.
Dragon cultivators focus on individual cultivation. Generally speaking, they don’t overly rely on pills or artifacts like human cultivators do, resulting in fewer alchemists and artifact refiners; everyone makes their own artifacts as long as the materials are decent and have compatible attributes—like Su Han’s jade sword.
Therefore, Zhao Yanzǐ was overjoyed to obtain this flying dagger-type magical treasure. Even in the Dragon King's Palace of the East Sea, there were none like it; it was an excellent magical treasure—indeed, one must rob to enrich oneself.
"I'm heading to school now, don't come looking for me unless it's necessary," Zhao Yanzǐ gleefully said as she rode her bicycle towards the main gate of Donghai University, throwing a sentence at Hao Ren.
Hao Ren helplessly watched her, thinking that whenever you're free, you keep coming to find me. This is completely an unfair agreement.
"The class assembly is about to start; let's go," Xie Yujia looked at Zhao Yanzǐ’s cute figure in the sunset and nudged Hao Ren, saying so.
“Alright then, let’s go,” Hao Ren nodded.
The course selection had ended today, and tomorrow marked the official start of school. The military training for the freshman class was over, and they would be starting their first day of university courses tomorrow.
"Yeah yeah, let's go, sir," Lu L琳琳和陸莉莉先後坐上了她們的雙人自行車，望著郝仁。
“你們兩個……乾嘛？”郝仁看著她們。
“班級大會啊”陸家姐妹用理所當然的目光看著郝仁。
“你們……應該……是大二吧？”郝仁問道。
所謂的班級大會，其實不是簡單的班會，而更像是學院的年級大會，把一個學院的所有班級都聚攏起來，由院長進行開學訓話，然後頒佈獎學金和獎狀。
“今年大二是和大三一起的大四的主題是畢業論文和就業形勢，大一是迎新晚會，所以都跟我們不是一起。”謝雨嘉解釋說道。
郝仁看看她們，再看看自己，忽然覺得……要悲劇。
陸琳琳和陸莉莉是陸清的“孫女”，院長不會不知道這個事情，必定會介紹這兩位成績優異的轉院生，而這樣的話……
The ratio of males in the School of Mechanical and Automatic Engineering was as high as 80%, and when Lu L琳琳and Lu 莉莉transferred to this school...) has progressed beyond the ninth level. I won't keep you any longer," said the woman gently."Thank you very much, Madam." Elder Sun slightly bowed and got into the black Lincoln, which then drove awa...