The Supreme Lord Donghuang

by Stayrr

Zhou Donghuang, a man from the Earth, is able to destroy any planet in the universe without lifting a finger. His supreme will can sweep across the vast cosmos in the blink of an eye. And his immortal spirit can depart from his body and wander around the universe! In Kunlun Mountains lies a circular slate, which brought him back to one thousand years ago…

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Chapter 161: The Transaction of a Hundred Spirit Stones

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After entering the capital city of the Shenguang empire and finding an inn, Zhou Donghuang left the Yuntai inn with Su Mo.

He had only one objective in coming to the Shenguang empire: to obtain some spirit stones.

Or at least to obtain enough to allow him to attain the Primal Core stage in the shortest time possible.

"The spirit stones of Ziyun are all from the five lodes of spirit stones on Ziyun: five lodes of spirit stones, controlled by the five great elite sects, including the Shenguang and Xuanyin sects.'

"Out of the five lodes of spirit stones, the one that has the highest output produces about two thousand spirit stones every year, and the one with the smallest output produces about one thousand three hundred spirit stones every year."

"Because of this, the punishment agreed on by the five great sects for meddling in the black market, four thousand spirit stones, is a considerable sum to any one of the sects."

…

After arriving in the capital city of the Shenguang empire, Zhou Donghuang had gained a better understanding of the availability of spirit stones on Ziyun.

The planet of Ziyun had only five lodes of spirit stones.

Moreover, they were all very small lodes.

The annual output of the five lodes of spirit stones combined did not exceed ten thousand spirit stones.

Because of this, spirit stones were extremely rare objects on the planet of Ziyun.

For any planet, the practicing environment created from the qi saturating the atmosphere also determines that planet's endowment of spirit stones.

Zhou Donghuang thought to himself, "Although the practicing environment on the planet of Ziyun far exceeds at of Earth in its age without practice, compared to those planets with accomplished practitioners, it can only be considered average.

"Five small lodes of inferior quality spirit stones cannot produce intermediate quality spirit stones."

"The five spirit stone lodes controlled by the Shenguang sect, Xuanyin sect, and the rest of the five great sects are also lodes of inferior-quality spirit stones and could not possibly produce intermediate-quality spirit stones.

"On some of the planets in the universe where there are greater resources of spirit stones, some of the medium- or large-sized lodes of inferior-quality spirit stones can sometimes produce some intermediate-quality spirit stones.

"The higher the quality of spirit stones, the more qi is accumulated in them. Moreover, the purity is also higher and is even more effective in aiding practice.

Of course, I cannot expect to find intermediate-quality spirit stones on Ziyun. But as long as I have enough inferior-quality spirit stones, I will be able to attain the Primal Core stage within nine months!"

Zhou Donghuang's eyes gleamed with self-confidence, and he allowed Su Mo to show him the way to the meeting point of the black market of the Shenguang empire.

The black market of the Shenguang empire was in a large single-story building in the northwest corner of the capital city. It looked ordinary from the outside, and it was impossible to tell that it housed a business run jointly by the five great sects.

At one of the main entrances of the black market stood several stern-faced middle-aged men dressed in black, and they blocked Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo as one of them spoke.

"The entry fee for two people is two hundred liang of gold."

When Su Mo heard this, he handed over a two-hundred liang gold note.

They were immediately allowed in.

"This black market is indeed black. Even entry is charged at a hundred liang of gold per person."

Su Mo commented sarcastically as he followed Zhou Donghuang into the black market.

"Those people who come to the black market to do business will not miss that hundred liang of gold."

Zhou Donghuang completely understood this principle. "Creating such a barrier avoids the problem of people entering to window shop. Only those people with real needs will be willing to pay the hundred liang of gold to enter."

"That's true, "Su Mo nodded.

After entering the main gate of the black market, they came into a long and narrow alley.

At the end of the alley, there were four prettily made-up girls standing on both sides.

They all carried a pile of black robes. "Sirs, you must put on these identical black hoods and robes to conceal your identities if you are entering the black market complex."

When Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo heard this, they took a set of black outfits each and wrapped them so tightly around themselves that if they did not look closely, they would not even recognize each other.

As they passed through the alley, it suddenly opened up, and they found themselves in a plaza thronged with people.

There were many people gathered, and there were numerous constructs and decorations that blocked their view. If one stared at any of the people passing through, the next moment, he would lose them from view unless he followed his target closely.

It was apparent that even those who came together to the black market would need to separate once they entered and could not move around together.

In fact, when Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo had exited the alley, they had seen an attention-grabbing notice written in red ink on a prominent wall: "None may move together upon entering the black market complex. Offenders will be killed without mercy!"

Inside the black market complex, besides the people in identical black hoods and robes bustling around, were also some people dressed in normal clothes walking to and fro, keeping a sharp eye on the surroundings. These were the people who maintained order in the black market.

Some of these people were middle-aged men; others were old men.

"Master, I've heard that these people maintaining order in the black market of the Shenguang empire are without exception Primal Core adepts of the Shenguang sect. Of course, they are all early Primal Core adepts."

Su Mo said to Zhou Donghuang before they split up, "The person in charge of the black market is apparently a Silver Core adept of the Shenguang sect!"

Silver Core adepts were also late Primal Core stage adepts.

"Mm."

Zhou Donghuang nodded and replied, "Let's go over."

As soon as he finished, Zhou Donghuang took the lead and headed off into the black market, slipping through the crowds and the structures and decorations, lost in the crowd in an instant.

Even if Su Mo intended to find Zhou Donghuang, he would not be able to do it.

The black clothes and hoods given by the black market were loose and broad at the shoulders, and there was no way to identify a person from his back unless that person spoke up and revealed his identity.

But in the black market, there were very few people who would speak up.

Even if someone spoke, they would lower their voice because they would be concerned about revealing their identity and bringing disaster upon themselves!

After all, the goods that were exchanged in the black market were all very valuable goods.

Spirit stones.

After entering the black market, Zhou Donghuang wandered at random, eventually coming upon some small wooden huts.

The signs hung outside the wooden huts advertised the goods offered by the people within.

Zhou Donghuang passed by some wooden huts, looking at the prominent advertisements on the signs outside the wooden huts.

"Half a horn of a Connate-stage rhinoceros demon in exchange for a liter of the blood of a Connate-stage pangolin demon?

"The people inside have probably brought a whole horn to exchange, but they have to give the other half of the horn over to the black market upon a successful transaction," Zhou Donghuang thought.

"Spirit stones?"

As he passed by two wooden huts, Zhou Donghuang halted because the people inside the huts were offering spirit stones for exchange. "One spirit stone in exchange for a pair of sharp talons from a supreme Connate-stage flying demon?"

The higher the level of practice of Connate-stage demons, the more powerful their bodies became.

Using the sharp talons of a supreme Connate-stage flying demon to forge a weapon would produce a weapon without equal, unless it faced a weapon forged by a Primal Core adept using the three Samadhi fires.

"Are spirit stones on Ziyun so expensive that just one can be exchanged for a pair of sharp talons from a supreme Connate-stage flying demon?"

Zhou Donghuang cursed silently to himself and moved on.

On some planets he had visited during his past life, a pair of sharp talons from a supreme Connate-stage flying demon could not be exchanged for anything less than five or more inferior-quality spirit stones.

Of course, Zhou Donghuang knew that the people in the wooden hut would fork out two spirit stones.

One of the spirit stones would be handed over to the black market after the transaction.

Even so, this still gave him a better understanding of the rarity of spirit stones on the planet of Ziyun.

"This wooden hut."

The third wooden hut that Zhou Donghuang passed had a sign outside with a single line of words: "This hut is empty; guests can hang a sign and enter to conduct business."

There were only middlemen from the black market in this wooden hut.

The fourth wooden hut had no sign outside. "There must already be people in the midst of a transaction inside."

…

Although a good number of the more than a hundred wooden huts that traded in spirit stones, Zhou Donghuang did not have what they wanted.

"I'll go look somewhere else."

After threading through a row of structures and decorations that obstructed his vision, Zhou Donghuang came to another corner of the black market complex. Here there was another whole row of wooden huts.

There were many people dressed identically in black robes and hoods milling around in front of the wooden huts. Occasionally someone would halt and look at the sign hanging outside a wooden hut, but many of them merely slowed to glance before moving on.

He seldom saw people take down a sign and enter the wooden huts.

"Mm?"

After passing several more wooden huts, Zhou Donghuang paused in front of one.

There was a sign hung on the wooden hut with the words: "A hundred spirit stones in exchange for completing the formula for a Qi-gathering core that increases the sense of qi a full two thousand percent. The formula is thirty percent incomplete. Anyone with confidence may take the sign and enter."

"A hundred spirit stones. This is a sufficient amount."

Zhou Donghuang smiled casually and stepped forward, taking down the sign outside the wooden hut before pushing open the door and entering, turning to close the door behind him.

Zhou Donghuang's actions attracted the gazes of several people who happened to pass by, and they halted as they looked at the wooden hut which Zhou Donghuang had entered. "Someone has entered?"

"A formula for a Qi-gathering core that increases the sense of qi a full two thousand percent. is there anyone who can fulfill that on the planet of Ziyun?"

"On Ziyun, the best Qi-gathering core can only increase the sense of qi by a thousand percent."

"A hundred spirit stones are not that easy to obtain."

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Chapter 162: Obtaining Spirit Stones

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After Zhou Donghuang entered the wooden hut, many people began gathering outside the wooden hut, and as they discussed among themselves, they lowered their voices such that their voices became hushed and indistinguishable. After Zhou Donghuang entered the wooden hut, many people began gathering outside the wooden hut, and as they discussed among themselves, they lowered their voices such that their voices became hushed and indistinguishable. "The person initiating the transaction in the wooden hut is extravagant. The sign hung there earlier said, 'A hundred spirit stones in exchange for completing the formula for a Qi-gathering core.' Evidently, he intends to fork out two hundred spirit stones.""In the Shenguang empire, there couldn't be too many people who can afford two hundred spirit stones, could there?""The people who come to the black market of the Shenguang empire are not just from there but also people from other empires. They cannot find someone in the black markets of the other empires who can solve this problem and so they come to the black market of the Shenguang empire.""Indeed.""To be able to produce two hundred spirit stones, if he is a lone individual, the person must be at least at the middle Primal Core stage or above. An individual at the level of the early Primal Core stage will find it very difficult to produce so many spirit stones, unless he is a core-forging master at the early Primal Core stage!""If he is not a lone individual, he must be someone with great power on Ziyun. If that power is not of the five great sects or imperial courts of the five empires, it must be one that has many Primal Core adepts." Upon entering the wooden hut, Zhou Donghuang saw at once the person in black robes and hood sitting behind a wooden table. This person was of average build, and although he was sitting there looking straight at Zhou Donghuang, the lighting in the wooden hut was dim, and Zhou Donghuang could not even make out his features. Neither could he make out Zhou Donghuang's features. Beside the wooden table stood a middle-aged man dressed in everyday clothes, and seeing Zhou Donghuang enter, invited him to sit down at once. "Please have a seat, sir."Zhou Donghuang was not shy and sat down right away facing the person who initiated the transaction. "Let's see the formula."Zhou Donghuang said casually, not bothering to lower his voice because even if he was heard, no one would be able to identify him by his voice. He was not from the Shenguang empire. "Mm?"However, at the sound of Zhou Donghuang's voice, the person facing him hesitated, and paused before replying, "Sir, from your tone, you seem rather young. Are you really confident?"The voice was old and hoarse, and obviously deliberately lowered. "What? Afraid that I'm too young to be able to complete that formula?"Zhou Donghuang smiled teasingly. "Sir, please don't be offended. It's just that I was startled when I heard your voice."The person opposite Zhou Donghuang covered entirely by the black robe and hood was, from the sound of his voice, an old man. As he replied, he placed a piece of paper on the table. His hand did not look as old as his voice sounded, and looked like the hand of a middle-aged man, the result of his taking good care of himself. Zhou Donghuang took the paper the old man produced and glanced at it, shaking his head with a faint laugh. "You were careful enough."What the old man took out was not the formula for the deficient Qi-gathering core, but only the portion which stated in detail the principles related to the deficient portion of the formula for the Qi-gathering core, to explain it to the reader. "If you are able to solve this problem, the formula for the Qi-gathering core will be complete," the old man said. "Are you really confident?" the old man asked again. Zhou Donghuang did not reply but picked up a brush that was lying at one side of the table, as well as a piece of paper from the stack lying beside the brush. Swish! Swish! Swish! … Under the old man's watchful gaze, Zhou Donghuang wrote speedily on the paper. Soon he put the brush down and passed the paper to the old man. When the old man finished reading the words on the paper, his eyes widened and there was an expression of shock and disbelief on his face. Of course, no one saw the old man's expression because he was wearing the black robe and hood, and the lighting in the wooden hut was dim. In the stillness inside the wooden hut, however, the old man's breathing could be heard clearly. An instant later, the old man finally spoke up, his voice trembling with shock. "You—how did you come to have this formula?"The words on the piece of paper he was holding matched exactly the formula he had. The deficient portions were still missing. The rest was identical. It was as though the person before him had a formula identical to his. "Since it is a Qi-gathering core, naturally they should reach the same conclusion. Seeing the missing portions of your formula, it was not difficult to fill up the rest of the formula," Zhou Donghuang said matter-of-factly. As Zhou Donghuang finished, the old man slipped temporarily into a dead silence, evidently frightened out of his wits. "You … you can complete the formula?"The old man spoke again in a more respectful tone, evidently not daring to look down on Zhou Donghuang for his youth. "Of course."As Zhou Donghuang replied, he took another sheet of paper from the stack at the side of the table, and spent some time writing on it before tossing it to the old man as though he were throwing rubbish. The old man received it like treasure, looking suspiciously at the youth who jerked his head away to avoid suspicion, before looking in earnest at the words on the paper, getting more excited the more he looked. Although his expression could not be seen clearly, his emotion could be seen from the way his body trembled with increasing violence. "How is it?"Zhou Donghuang asked casually, not afraid that the old man would play him out. If the old man said that the core formula was useless, the black market would naturally summon a core-forging master, and therefore ensure the absolute fairness of the transaction. "You are a genius."The old man carefully kept the piece of paper in his pocket, and, containing his emotions by force of will, sighed repeatedly. At the same time, he glanced at the youth from the black market, "I am very satisfied with this transaction."As soon as he had spoken, he took out a parcel from his black robes, and upon opening it revealed a pile of white gemstones which were obviously spirit stones. "Altogether, two hundred spirit stones," the old man said to the youth from the black market, pushing the parcel toward him. The youth stepped forward, and after a short while he nodded. "Two hundred spirit stones; the number is correct."The old man then picked out a hundred spirit stones from the pile, pushing them in front of Zhou Donghuang. "Sir, this is the payment from this transaction."Zhou Donghuang did not reply and silently swept the hundred spirit stones into his pockets. He proceeded to stand up and turn around, preparing to leave the wooden hut. "Are you from the Shenguang empire?" the old man's voice sounded from behind him. "No," Zhou Donghuang replied casually, already opening the door of the wooden hut and leaving. "He's out!""He's come out!""Do you all think this transaction has been completed?""Need you ask? Most certainly not!" … Seeing Zhou Donghuang emerge so quickly, the several people outside the wooden hut who had still not left were still whispering, not believing that Zhou Donghuang had been able to fulfill his end of the transaction smoothly. However, when they saw another figure in black exit the hut after Zhou Donghuang, they were all stunned. "This … transaction was completed?""Not necessarily. Perhaps it's just that the person who initiated the transaction was preparing to leave and did not intend to wait for someone to complete it.""But we don't know if the one who left first was the one who entered to complete the transaction, or if the one who left later was the one who entered to complete it." … While those people discussed, Zhou Donghuang made his way past several structures and decorations and was lost to the sight or hearing of the group. It was not because he wanted to lose himself that he passed by these structures and decorations, but because his route forced him to pass them. This was intentional on the part of the black market, allowing customers to lose themselves easily and escape surveillance. After rounding the other two corners of the black market complex, Zhou Donghuang prepared to leave because he did not have any of the items that were in demand by those with spirit stones to exchange. There were indeed several people who offered spirit stones in exchange for core formulas, but although Zhou Donghuang had those core formulas, the value of those core formulas was too great compared to the spirit stones being offered in exchange. Zhou Donghuang would not allow himself to be taken advantage of. "A hundred spirit stones are enough for now." With this thought, Zhou Donghuang left the black market, entering an alley that led to the exit and taking off his black outfit, returning it to the girls stationed there before striding out. No one knew that when this youth in clothes whiter than snow left, he was carrying a hundred spirit stones in his pockets. When he returned to the inn, Zhou Donghuang saw that Su Mo had already returned. "Master, did you manage to get anything?" Su Mo, who was waiting in the courtyard, asked anxiously. "Let's go in and talk."Zhou Donghuang led the way into his room, with Su Mo following close behind. This guest apartment, besides having a spacious courtyard, also had two large rooms. Big Gold rested in the courtyard and Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo had a room each. Zhou Donghuang led the way into his own room. When Su Mo turned to shut the door, Zhou Donghuang leisurely took the hundred spirit stones from his pocket and put them on the table in front of the bed. "This."Although it was Su Mo's first time seeing spirit stones, it did not prevent him from recognizing them right away. "Master, how did you do it?" Su Mo asked with an expression of shock and disbelief. "I helped someone complete a core formula."Zhou Donghuang had a nonchalant manner as he replied, and his voice was calm, just as though he was describing something inconsequential. "That formula was probably not a simple thing? Otherwise, the other party would not possibly have paid two hundred spirit stones."There was a curious look in Su Mo's eyes. "A core formula for a Qi-gathering core that increases the sense of qi by two thousand percent" Zhou Donghuang replied. "Ss—"As Zhou Donghuang finished, Su Mo exhaled a breath of cold air, shaking his head as he said, "Master, you have been taken advantage of.""As long as the price is suitable, a core formula for a Qi-gathering core that increases the sense of qi by two thousand percent could be used to forge Qi-gathering cores that would monopolize the whole market for Qi-gathering cores on the planet of Ziyun once they are distributed!"At the moment, the best available Qi-gathering cores on the market of Ziyun can only increase the sense of qi by a thousand percent."

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Chapter 163: Space Ring

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"A Qi-gathering core that increases the sense of qi two thousand percent can monopolize the Qi-gathering core market of Ziyun?""A Qi-gathering core that increases the sense of qi two thousand percent can monopolize the Qi-gathering core market of Ziyun?"When he heard Su Mo, Zhou Donghuang did not know how to react. In the formula for the Qi-gathering core that he had completed for the man, he had finished the list of required herbs, even indicating the more valuable herbs. Although there were many cheaper herbs that could substitute for these more valuable ones, he had an ace up his sleeve. Not only could he produce an even better formula for a Qi-gathering core, in his hands the same formula would yield cost savings of over fifty percent. Because of this, the Qi-gathering cores forged by the other party would have a significant production cost and could not possibly monopolize the Qi-gathering core market of Ziyun. "How much does one of the best available Qi-gathering cores that increases the sense of qi by a thousand percent cost on Ziyun?" Zhou Donghuang asked Su Mo. A flash of inspiration had hit Zhou Donghuang, giving him an idea of how to earn many spirit stones in a single day. Half an hour later, Su Mo left with a core formula that Zhou Donghuang had written out for him and went alone to the black market. At the black market, it was usually the party that wanted to initiate a transaction that would pay a fee to the black market. However, there was one circumstance where the initiating party did not have to pay a fee: when the initiating party stated upfront that they would not bear the black market's fees. Under this circumstance, if the goods on offer were enticing enough, the interested party would agree to bear the black market's fees. Just half a day later, startling news spread out of the black market that rocked the highest circles of the Shenguang empire."Isn't the price of the herbs needed to forge a batch of Qi-gathering cores that increase the sense of qi by a thousand percent more than a liang of gold? Is this true or not?""The news comes from the black market, and that person is in the black market waiting for someone to do business with.""Since he went to the black market, I think he is probably not joking.""From what I know, the herbs needed to forge Qi-gathering cores that increase the sense of qi by a thousand percent cost a liang of gold to buy? A batch of those produces more than five, correct?""I heard a core-forging master mention before that the Qi-gathering core that increases the sense of qi by a thousand percent used in their circle of core-forging masters require herbs costing over three liangs of gold.""In other words: The formula that person is selling openly in the black market … that person, and the power he has, can potentially monopolize the market for Qi-gathering cores on Ziyun?" … The people in the highest levels of power in the Shenguang empire each sent agents to the black market, even though some of them did not have the authority to spend the money required to purchase the core formula. The person selling the formula for the Qi-gathering core was asking a thousand spirit stones while requesting that the buyer bear the black market's share of the fees. In other words, no matter who the buyer was, he would have to fork out two thousand spirit stones if he wanted to buy the formula from the seller. Besides the Shenguang sect behind the Shenguang empire, the number of factions in the area around the Shenguang empire with the power to produce two thousand spirit stones could be counted on the fingers of one hand. … The black market. Once it was presented, the formula for the Qi-gathering core that had rocked the highest levels of power in the Shenguang empire had shaken even the person in the highest position of authority. The person responsible for the black market was the third elder of the Shenguang sect, a late Primal Core adept, and a sprightly bald old man. There were nine marks on the old man's head, and he wore a set of silver monk's robes which identified him as an old monk. The old monk levitated above the bed cross-legged, a dull haze of silver light enveloping him, which was his silver essential core. A sharp-eyed person could see at once that this old monk was a late Primal Core stage adept, a silver core adept. "Third elder, should we?"At that moment, in a spacious room in the black market complex, a middle-aged man was looking at the levitating old monk, making the gesture of drawing his hand like a knife across his throat as he completed the implied question. "Obviously that person is showing such a formula because he is showing his intent to sell it to our Shenguang sect."An insightful look flashed across the old monk's eyes, and he said plainly, "If we kill him, even if we gain that core formula, we will have ruined the reputation of the Shenguang sect."To the extent that the four other great sects will take the opportunity to create trouble. and when that happens, it will not be as simple as just coughing up a thousand spirit stones."The black market had its rules, and if any one of the five great sects dared to abuse the rules over which they had authority, they would be punished with a fine of four thousand spirit stones. "That's true."The middle-aged man gave a start when he heard that and nodded his head. "Go according to procedure. Draw out a thousand spirit stones from the black market's vault and give it to that person in exchange for his formula. If there are not enough spirit stones in the vault, come and find me. I will pay on behalf of the black market for now."The old monk continued, "I recall that the core-forging master who recently came over to the black market from the sect is Alchemist Xu, am I right?""Correct," the middle-aged man nodded. "Alchemist Xu's achievements in the art of forging cores are considered outstanding on the entire planet of Ziyun. if he goes along with you, he will be able to tell at once if the core formula is genuine."The old monk finished and waved his hand, dismissing the middle-aged man. "Go on.""Your disciple will take his leave."The middle-aged man retreated respectfully. … In a wooden hut at one corner of the black market complex, swaddled from head to toe in black garments, Su Mo had already been waiting for several hours, but his emotions were far from calm. "Master: what kind of person is he? How could he possess such a formula?"Su Mo felt that he was further and further from understanding his master. Although his master was not very old, the depth of experience that occasionally showed in his eyes and the maturity he showed in his conduct, not to mention his ability in medicine and cores, far exceeded any of the medicine masters and core masters on Ziyun. Sometimes, he even suspected that his master was some old creature that had retained its memories when it transferred itself into a new body and was reborn.There was no other way to explain his master's incomprehensible ways. In the entire Shenguang empire, such a core formula could only be purchased by the Shenguang sect. Even if some other faction bought it, they would have to hand it over to the Shenguang sect eventually. Su Mo was certain about this. Therefore, when an elder from the black market appeared with an elderly core-forging master, Su Mo was not the least surprised. "This is a thousand spirit stones."The elder from the black market was the middle-aged man who previously gone to find the overseer of the black market, the third elder of the Shenguang sect. He placed a wooden box filled with spirit stones before Su Mo. "I want a space ring."Su Mo said casually, "If not, I will take the box and leave the black market, and anyone will be able to have access to the core formula that I'm selling."A space ring was an ordinary-looking ring, but it was a miraculous ring that could store non-living things and could be forged by using a space stone through special methods. As long as a Primal Core adept knew the techniques of forging a space ring, and possessed a space stone, he could always forge a space ring. The higher the quality of the space stone, the larger the capacity of the space ring to store objects would be. On the planet of Ziyun, the value of a space stone that was just enough to forge a space ring far exceeded that of spirit stones, because space stones were even rarer than spirit stones. "On the planet of Ziyun, even a space ring of the poorest quality is worth over a thousand spirit stones."A cold look flashed across the middle-aged man's eyes, and he growled, "You! Don't push your luck!""Since the Shenguang sect is buying this core formula themselves, you don't need to pay another thousand spirit stones in fees. I don't think that asking for a space ring is too much, is it?"Although Su Mo's tone remained calm and even, his heart was hanging by a thread. This was because he knew that the elder of the black market before him was at least an early Primal Core adept, or even a middle Primal Core adept!If he wanted to kill him, it would be as simple as squeezing an ant dead. "Harrumph!"The middle-aged man gave a cold snort as he turned his palm over to reveal a stone ring that looked simple and plain and placed it on the table. There was an almost identical ring prominently displayed on the middle finger of his right hand. Evidently, he also possessed a space ring. "Many thanks to you, elder."Seeing this, Su Mo smiled in thanks. "Don't be so happy too soon. If there is something wrong with the core formula, you will not be leaving here with this space ring and a thousand spirit stones," the middle-aged man said in a low voice. "That's understood."As Su Mo replied, he took the formula from his pocket and placed it on the table. "Alchemist Xu."At the same time, the middle-aged man stepped aside, respectfully showing the skinny old man in a grey robe who was behind him to the table. "Alchemist Xu?"Su Mo asked in a voice choked with emotion, "Are you the Xu Fu, Alchemist Xu of the sect?"Xu Fu, an acclaimed alchemist in the Shenguang sect, was also a middle Primal Core stage adept. Su Mo had lost his composure because Xu Fu was known as the "prime alchemist on the planet of Ziyun." It was said that Xu Fu was not born and raised on Ziyun, but had come to Ziyun from a planet that had adepts at the Primordial Soul level of practice to hide and evade the vengeance of his enemies. The Primordial Soul stage was the stage of practice above the Dharma Laws stage. Even the planet Tianxuan that Luo Qinghan was from had not seen a Primordial Soul adept appear in over a thousand years!"That's me."As the old man replied, he lifted the core formula to take a look. His expression started out normal, but as he continued reading, his face reddened and he became visibly excited. "Alchemist Xu, is there anything wrong with this core formula?" the middle-aged man asked. "There's nothing wrong!"As the old man shook his head, he could barely hide the excitement in his voice. "Even in my hometown, those formulas for Qi-gathering cores that monopolize the whole planet which the elite sects with Primordial Soul stage adepts possess are far inferior to this core formula!""A batch of Qi-gathering cores that similarly increases the sense of qi by a thousand percent cost more than double to produce than this formula!""A thousand inferior-quality spirit stones and an inferior-quality space ring in exchange for this formula is worth it. Really worth it!"

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Chapter 164: Energy-gathering Position

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The core formula that Su Mo had produced had unexpectedly earned the admiration of the best core-forging master on the planet of Ziyun, Alchemist Xu, and the transaction was swiftly completed.

A thousand spirit stones were stored in the space ring and brought out of the black market.

Of course, for insurance purposes, Su Mo did not leave the black market immediately after the payment was handed over to him but spent half a day window shopping before leaving.

This was to avoid someone following him.

People would have assumed he would leave the black market as soon as he could after completing the transaction.

However, he purposefully chose a different course of action, and after spending half a day loitering in the black market, he finally left the black market in the wee hours of the next morning and headed toward the inn.

What Su Mo did not expect was that he had still attracted attention.

"Seventeenth elder."

In a brightly lit room in the black market, an old man reported respectfully to a middle-aged man, "From the time last night you assigned me, I have thoroughly investigated everyone who entered and left the black market.

"There is a total of fifty-two unfamiliar faces among them. The people stationed at the various entrances all say they didn't recognize these people, that they could all be visiting the black market for the first time. There could also be some among them who have not visited for a long time. Drawings of the fifty-two people are all here."

As the old man finished, he took several steps forward and passed a stack of drawings to the middle-aged man.

If Su Mo had been present, he would have known immediately that this middle-aged man was the elder of the black market who had conducted the transaction with him the previous night.

This elder of the black market was also the seventeenth elder of the Shenguang sect, Liu Xuanyu, a middle Primal-Core-stage adept.

The ultimate authority of the black market, the third elder of the Shenguang sect, had not allowed Liu Xuanyu to do anything to obtain the core formula, as doing so might have damaged the reputation of the Shenguang sect.

Yet Liu Xuanyu was not disheartened.

He intended to vet all the people who had entered and departed the black market the previous day to identify unfamiliar faces.

The person who could produce such a formula for a Qi-gathering Core could not be someone who frequently visited the black market.

Fifty-two people …

Liu Xuanyu had drawings of fifty-two people altogether, including old men, old women, as well as middle-aged men and women, and even young men, young women, and a good number of young girls.

…

The fifty-two drawings Liu Xuanyu was flipping through included Zhou Donghuang's and Su Mo's images.

"Go and check on these people. At the same time, check those who left the black market over the past few days, and compare them against those who entered yesterday."

As he finished, a flash of insight gleamed in Liu Xuanyu's eyes. "I am afraid he may have stayed a few days in the black market before leaving. The people who left last night before I completed the transaction with him can be disregarded. This will make the checking process much easier."

As he finished, Liu Xuanyu added, "Go ahead. Remember to report to me if you make any progress."

Liu Xuanyu looked deeply at the old man before him. "If I can recover those thousand spirit stones and that space ring, I will give you a hundred spirit stones."

"Many thanks to Seventeenth Elder."

The old man expressed his thanks profusely and turned to leave with a spring in his step.

A hundred spirit stones.

Even an early Primal Core adept of the Shenguang sect could only draw one spirit stone each month, needing to save for eight to nine years before having a hundred spirit stones.

After the old man had left, Liu Xuanyu's eyes gleamed as he murmured to himself, "If you had only wanted dozens or hundreds of spirit stones, I would not have been bothered to go through all this trouble to investigate you … but for a thousand spirit stones and a space ring, you are worth my while!"

Liu Xuanyu's investigation of the sale of a Qi-gathering core formula to the Shenguang sect was neither on behalf of the black market nor of the Shenguang sect.

He was investigating for his own benefit.

After he had investigated, he would prepare to seize the spirit stones and space ring. The spirit stones and space ring would be his plunder.

Although Liu Xuanyu was the seventeenth elder of the Shenguang sect with a level of practice at the middle Primal Core stage, the Shenguang sect issued just three spirit stones to him every month.

A thousand spirit stones, along with a space ring worth over a thousand spirit stones, was worth every ounce of effort.

…

When Su Mo arrived back at the inn in the capital city of the Shenguang empire, he went immediately to the youth's room and knocked on the door.

"Master, the thousand spirit stones are in the space ring."

After the youth opened the door, Su Mo passed the space ring to the youth. The look he gave the youth was more respectful than it had been before.

The core-forging master of the Shenguang sect, Alchemist Xu, was the best on Ziyun. He was from a planet with great practitioners of the Primordial Soul stage and had vast experience of his own.

However, Xu Fu had said that no formula for a Qi-gathering core from that planet could be compared with the core formula that his master had produced.

What did this mean?

It implied that the level of mastery over the art of cores his young master possessed exceeded the level on that planet!

"I, Xu Fu, am acknowledged as the best core-forging master on the planet of Ziyun … but with my level of core-forging, I am barely worth a mention on my home planet!"

"I might not even make it into the top ten thousand."

This was what Xu Fu had said to the elder of the black market in front of Su Mo.

This is why Su Mo felt so strongly that there was more to his master than met the eye, and that if he continued on his current course, he would have the chance to attain the Dharma Laws stage, or even the Primordial Soul stage!

As for the Primal Core stage, it was a given for him at this point in time.

"Only one square foot?" Zhou Donghuang took the space ring and infused his qi into it. An image rose in his mind, that of a small space of one square foot.

A thousand spirit stones practically filled up the small space completely.

Space rings were classified into different grades depending on their storage capacity. Inferior-quality space rings had a storage space of less than three square feet, with the smallest no less than one square foot.

The space ring in Zhou Donghuang's hands had a storage space of one square foot, indicating it was the lowest quality of inferior-quality space rings.

"I'll just use it first. When I attain the Primal Core stage, I'll use the three Samadhi fires to remake it, and I'll be able to increase the storage space to two square feet," Zhou Donghuang said to himself.

With Zhou Donghuang's methods, he could maximize the use of a space stone to forge space rings.

Although the space stone used to forge his space ring was very low quality, he could nevertheless use it to forge a space ring with a storage capacity of two square feet.

"Take these one hundred spirit stones to practice."

Zhou Donghuang took out a hundred spirit stones and passed them to Su Mo, saying, "In the meantime, I intend to practice in seclusion. If you want to use these spirit stones and attain the Primal Core stage in half a year, you'd better practice in seclusion with Big Gold and me. If you have nothing else to do…"

Zhou Donghuang gave Su Mo another reminder before returning to his room.

Bang!

When the youth shut the door Su Mo was startled back to his senses and looked at the hundred spirit stones he was holding with disbelief.

"Master … Master said earlier … I … I can attain the Primal Core stage in half a year? Can it be true?"

Startled by the thought, Su Mo struggled to believe it. However, in the end, he chose to believe his master.

In the room.

Zhou Donghuang sat cross-legged on the bed, a thousand spirit stones intricately arranged on the mattress surrounding him.

At first glance, these spirit stones appeared to be randomly placed.

Upon closer inspection, the placement of these spirit stones was deliberate, not random.

"I didn't expect to be able to get a thousand inferior-quality spirit stones in such a short time. With these spirit stones, I might even be able to set up a small energy-gathering position."

As Zhou Donghuang placed his hands on one of the spirit stones in front of him, his movement immediately caused the thousand spirit stones to light up.

A thousand rays of light shot out from a thousand spirit stones, combining and finally forming a bell-shaped envelope of light that cocooned Zhou Donghuang inside.

"With this energy-gathering position added to the strength from the Buddha's lifeblood and the Connate elixir, and using the Lord of the Four Supremes, if nothing unexpected occurs, I will attain the Primal Core stage in half a year!"

With this thought, Zhou Donghuang closed his eyes and began practicing.

At the same time, the spirit energy was being swallowed into the energy-gathering position at an incredible rate, forming a clearly visible white haze that spun like a whirlpool at the top of the energy-gathering position.

After the spirit energy had been swallowed up, it flooded into Zhou Donghuang's body, following the pathways of the Lord of the Four Supremes, making circuit after circuit, and finally turning into qi that belonged entirely to him.

The energy-gathering position was a set-up for rapidly gathering spirit energy and could absorb spirit energy from the surroundings at an incredible rate.

Practicing in an energy-gathering position allowed one to progress in leaps and bounds.

Zhou Donghuang was now just a Connate-stage adept, and even a small energy-gathering position was enough to allow his level of practice to increase at a rapid rate.

Of course, while he was practicing Zhou Donghuang did not forget to look after Su Mo and the golden-crowned eagle Big Gold.

The strength of the Buddha's lifeblood reached out and enveloped them as well, aiding their practice.

…

One month later.

The black market.

"Seventeenth Elder, I can confirm that the one who sold the Qi-gathering core formula to the Shenguang sect was that middle-aged man with uncertain background," the old man reported to Liu Xuanyu in a room in the black market.

"Can't you find out anything else?" Liu Xuanyu asked with a slight frown.

Someone on whom no information could be found was either an obscure person from an insignificant place, or one with such a powerful background that there was no way to find out more.

He had to be extremely careful since the matter concerned the spirit stones and the space ring from the black market.

"At this moment, only that he and the youth with him rode the early Connate-stage demon golden-crowned eagle into the capital city."

The old man continued, "And before entering the city, that middle-aged man killed the eighth elder Yang Wei of the Yang family."

"The Yang family is still pursuing the assailant."

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"He killed the eighth elder of the Yang family?"

Liu Xuanyu raised his eyebrows and asked, "How did their conflict arise?"

"Apparently, that middle-aged man saw a Primal Core adept flying through the air into the city, and let out an exclamation in a loss of composure… thereafter, the eighth elder of the Yang family mocked him for being from the countryside and being a country bumpkin, and that's how it started."

The old man laid out the results of his investigation, "Yang Wei made the first move… however, he was only a middle Connate adept, and that middle-aged man was a late Connate adept, and he wounded Yang Wei in mid-air, causing him to fall to his death."

"He lost his composure and let out an exclamation when he saw a Primal Core adept?"

Liu Xuanyu's eyes lit up. "Just this detail shows… that middle-aged man very rarely sees Primal Core adepts.

"From this, we can disregard the possibility of him having an exceptional background."

"We cannot find out more about his origins probably because he is an obscure person from some small place."

Liu Xuanyu looked at the old man, and a look of greed flashed across his eyes. "Where is that person now?"

"Yuntai inn."

The old man smiled bitterly.

"Yuntai inn?"

Liu Xuanyu frowned. "He is actually staying at the inn sixth elder is in charge of?"

The sixth elder that Liu Xuanyu mentioned was none other than the sixth elder of the Shenguang sect.

Some of the elders of the Shenguang sect owned businesses in the capital city of the Shenguang empire. The sixth elder of the Shenguang sect, for example, had opened an inn in the capital city of the Shenguang empire.

That inn was named "Yuntai inn", and was located in the affluent and prosperous district of the capital city of the Shenguang empire, and was one of the best inns in the Shenguang empire.

"Precisely because he is staying at sixth elder's inn, and has not left his room in almost a month, the situation is somewhat tricky… even if he has no background and is ordinary in terms of ability, we cannot barge into Yuntai inn and take the spirit stones and space ring from him."

The old man said with a bitter smile, "Otherwise, sixth elder will definitely receive news and even discover what is actually going on… if the matter is exposed, the sect will not let you off easily, Seventeenth Elder."

"We can only wait for them to come out."

Liu Xuanyu's tone was gloomy. What the old man had said was exactly what he feared.

If it was an ordinary elder of the Shenguang sect, he could choose to work together with him and take the spirit stones and space ring from the youth, then divide the spoils.

However, that sixth elder belonged to a different camp within the Shenguang sect, and would dearly like to have leverage over him, so how could they cooperate?

"In that case…"

Liu Xuanyu looked at the old man with a cunning look and said, "Find someone to go to the Yang family, and tell them that the person who killed the eighth elder of the Yang family is staying at Yuntai inn."

"Let's see if they can find a way to lure that middle-aged man out from Yuntai inn… if they can't find a way, we can only wait."

Liu Xuanyu finished.

"I'll get someone to go the Yang family now."

The old man acknowledged and withdrew.

When the person sent by the old man had gone to the Yang family and told them that the person who killed the eighth elder of the Yang family Yang Wei was staying at Yuntai inn, the Yang family members wanted nothing more than to go immediately to take revenge, but they did not dare to proceed rashly.

Yuntai inn's background lead directly to the Shenguang sect, and was the personal business of the sixth elder of the Shenguang sect, a late Primal Core stage adept.

It was not something that the Yang family could trifle with.

"Send an invite to that person, and say that our Yang family is holding a banquet at Longteng restaurant tomorrow and invite him to attend… if he gives us the respect, we will only require his life for Eighth Elder's. If not, we will make the youth with him pay as well!"

The patriarch of the Yang family gave the order, and instructed someone to send the invite to Yuntai inn.

In any case, once the invite was sent out, it was like throwing a stone into the ocean, and there was no response whatsoever.

"Patriarch, according to the people at the inn, that person and the youth with him have not left their rooms for the past month… nevertheless, we can be certain that they are still there. We suspect that they are practicing in seclusion."

The patriarch of the Yang family very soon found out this news from several Yang family juniors who went to Yuntai inn to gather information, and could only order a rotating watch on the main entrance of Yuntai inn.

If that person or the youth with him were to leave, they would report it to the Yang family immediately.

Of course, while the people from the Yang family were keeping watch over the main entrance of Yuntai inn, the people sent by the elder of the black market, the seventeenth elder of the Shenguang sect Liu Xuanyu, would also be keeping watch.

The Yang family wanted to avenge the eighth elder of the Yang family.

Liu Xuanyu however, wanted to take his target's spirit stones and space ring.

…

There were no markers of time while practicing.

In a flash, seven whole months had passed since the day Zhou Donghuang used the thousand spirit stones to create the energy-gathering position.

Now, the Ziyun era had entered the end of the year 1230.

Winter had arrived, and the areas surrounding the Shenguang empire were blanketed with snow, and everything seemed to be draped in a layer of silver.

"Master really told me the truth… in only half a year, I, Su Mo, have attained the Primal Core stage!"

In a room in a spacious guest compound in Yuntai inn, the dignified middle-aged man who was sitting on the bed with his eyes closed as he practiced suddenly opened his eyes.

The next moment, there was a dull white haze that surrounded his body and wound itself around him, dragging him up unsteadily into the air.

I originally thought that I would need over ten years to break through… I never imagined that I would break through so quickly!

Now, the middle-aged man who was wobbling in the air was none other than the valley lord of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, Su Mo.

In just half a year, Su Mo had attained the supreme Connate stage two months before, and then smoothly attained the Primal Core stage in the six following months.

At this moment, the qi in his dantian was already compressed into a void of white primal core, his qi completely transformed into essential core.

Dantian was developed in the body when a Qi-gathering adept attained the Connate stage, and the qi of the Connate stage adept was stored in the dantian.

And after the Connate stage adept attained the Primal Core stage, not only did the qi in the dantian become compressed and transformed into essential core, the dantian and the meridians of the body also developed and became even more resilient.

Otherwise, there would be no way to endure the stress of the essential core.

If the greatest difference between a Connate stage adept and a Qi-gathering stage adept was whether qi could be projected, then the greatest difference between a Primal Core stage adept and a Connate stage adept would be the complete transformation of strength.

The transformation of qi to essential core was a change in quality…

The difference between them was unimaginable!

Connate stage adepts, and even supreme Connate stage adepts, were still in the world of ordinary people, and if they plummeted from the sky, they would have no chance of surviving.

However, Primal Core adepts were entirely different.

Primal Core adepts could physically fly through the air, and adepts at the Primal Core stage and above were also called "gods on earth" by common people.

This showed the great difference between the Connate and Primal Core stages.

I wonder… has my master also broken through?

Shortly after, as soon as he had familiarized himself with the essential core in his body that had his qi had transformed into, Su Mo slowly landed, then pushed open the door of his room and left.

Just as Su Mo opened his room door.

The door of the neighbouring room opened as if on cue, and a handsome, detached-looking youth in white strolled out from the room.

"Master."

Su Mo bowed respectfully before closely looking over the young man in white.

In the past half a year, the few traces of youthfulness on his master's face had disappeared completely, and he looked much more mature, and also seemed to have become even more mysterious.

"You've broken through?"

The young man in white was "Zhou Donghuang".

It was now December 27, 1230 of the Ziyun era, and he would be twenty years old in a few more days.

They youthful look on Zhou Donghuang's face had vanished, and he appeared much more mature.

"Many thanks to Master for helping me achieve my dream!"

Without warning, Su Mo prostrated himself on the ground in thanks to the young man before him.

As Su Mo practiced for the past half a year, it was obvious: The speed at which he advanced in practice was not just because of the aid of the spirit stones… it was more because the strength of the golden light that had enveloped him aided his practice, and it was over ten times as powerful as before!

Because of this, his level of practice had increased at an incredible pace.

And the reason Zhou Donghuang did not continue to hold back from Su Mo and increased the strength of the Buddha's lifeblood he gave to Su Mo to aid his practice was also because: Half a year ago, Su Mo had won his approval for bringing back a thousand spirit stones.

"Get up."

Zhou Donghuang spoke up casually while he was already walking to seat himself at the stone table in the courtyard. "Soon, I will prepare to make a trip back to the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley."

"Yes, Master."

Su Mo acknowledged and stood, moving to stand respectfully behind the young man, as he could not resist asking curiously, "Master, you… have you attained the Primal Core stage?"

Zhou Donghuang's eyes narrowed slightly at Su Mo's question. "I have attained it, but yet I have not."

Zhou Donghuang's words naturally befuddled Su Mo when he heard it.

In actual fact, two months ago, Zhou Donghuang had already smoothly condensed all the qi in his body into a primal core, giving him a level of ability equal to an early Primal Core adept.

However, while he continued practicing, he found no way to increase that Primal Core, but could only continue to transform the spirit energy he absorbed into qi, and begin condensing a second primal core.

In the past two months, he had finally condensed a second primal core after spending a great deal of effort.

The reason for these circumstances was entirely because Zhou Donghuang chose to practice the technique the Lord of the Four Supremes.

To ordinary people, condensing one primal core would be considered having attained the Primal Core stage.

However, to an adept practicing the Lord of the Four Supremes, only after condensing four primal cores would he be truly considered to have attained the Primal Core stage!

Now, Zhou Donghuang had only condensed two cores in his dantian, and was only halfway to meeting the requirements to the Primal Core stage.

He still needed to condense two more primal cores to have four in total, before he could truly be considered to have met the requirements of the Lord of the Four Supremes for attaining the Primal Core stage!

At first, Zhou Donghuang intended to strike while the iron was hot, and continue condensing the third primal core.

However, after practicing for barely several days, he noticed: The thousand spirit stones that made up his energy-gathering position had been totally expended, and were now completely worthless!

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"The power within the Buddhist relics mainly helped me to create an inferior spirit weapon so that I consumed nothing. In other words, it was as if I had obtained a thousand more inferior-quality spirit stones to amass spirit energy. So, I will need at most two months to cultivate a spirit weapon."

Zhou Donghuang clearly understood the current situation of his martial training.

The pace of his study was quick, and while using his using spirit stones to gather spirit energy was part of the reason, the aid of the Buddhist relics was also important. In fact, the relics were far more significant than the spirit stones.

Even if he had obtained a thousand more inferior spirit stones, without the help of the Buddhist relics he also would have needed to at least a month to finally produce an inferior spirit weapon.

"I might as well go for a stroll," Zhou Donghuang said to Su Mo, rising at once.

Zhou Donghuang left the Yuntai Inn to walk and think.

Since coming to the Shenguang Empire more than half a year ago, he had not had the chance to take a good stroll; he simply wanted to go for a walk.

He planned to go to several of the herbal medicine shops within the capital of Shenguang to purchase some medicinal ingredients.

Although he was no longer the Lord of the Four Supremes, those two spirit weapons within his body could already produce inner Yuan and even condense and create Samadhi fire.

He could already open a furnace to forge core energy.

"Starting today, you will be unable to rely on my Buddhist relics to aid the progress of your practice. These Buddhist relics can only help you during the initial stages of forging a spirit weapon. Thereafter, you'll have to depend on your natural ability along with core drugs, elixirs or spirit stones."

Zhou Donghuang said this to Su Mo as they exited the courtyard of the inn.

"Buddha's lifeblood relics?!"

On hearing Zhou Donghuang's words, Su Mo froze in place, dumbstruck, "Master, what are you saying? I don't understand. It was your Buddhist relics that made my power so intense! Are you a Buddhist monk?"

He lowered his voice, shaking his head. "No, that can't be it. Master, in the past you had not entered into the Primal Core stage, and you definitely didn't have those Buddhist relics."

"These Buddhist relics are the ones left behind by that Buddhist monk during that year in the Shenguang Empire. It just so happened I managed to get my hands on them," Zhou Donghuang said.

"What?!"

Su Mo was utterly shocked. He had never imagined that Ziyun's long-sought-after Buddhist relics, Buddha's lifeblood, had been taken and were in his master's possession. And, more than that, his master had, with the Buddhist relics' assistance, attained the spiritual level of Primal Core stage in such a short time.

"So master, are you saying that you are the one who got the inheritance of that monk of the Divine Light sect?" Su Mo asked curiously.

"Besides these relics… he… did he leave anything else behind?"

Zhou Donghuang responded disinterestedly as he and Su Mo exited the Yuntai Inn through the main gate.

Despite the passage of half a year, outside Yuntai's main gate still stood the allies of the Yang family as well as Liu Xuanyu's men, who were watching the people leaving the inn.

As soon as Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo left the inn, they were spotted by them.

"The target has appeared. The target has appeared!"

"It's them. They're finally here. They've finally shown up."

The Yang family's minions and the Liu Xuanyu allies had left behind some men to tail them. The rest returned quickly to the Yang family and the black market to report back with the information.

"Master, someone's following us."

Shortly after leaving the Yuntai Inn, Su Mo, who was closely following Zhou Donghuang, noticed the people following them.

By this time, Su Mo had entered the Primal Core stage and, luckily for them, his spiritual senses had reached the heightened level that came with this transformation. It was not hard for him to detect the two people furtively following.

"I noticed them when we first left the inn," Zhou Donghuang said simply.

"Should we deal with it?" Su Mo said with an intimidating glint flashing in his eyes.

"Doesn't matter; it's up to you," Zhou Donghuang said indifferently.

Behind Zhou Donghuang, Su Mo ceased speaking, came to a sudden stop, and pivoted toward their two pursuers.

Their position exposed, the two men behind them instantly looked to flee.

Though they were quick, Su Mo was far quicker, and in the blink of an eye, he grabbed hold of both of them, seizing them one by one, and dragged the two of them to an out-of-the-way alley, asking with a gleam in his eye, "Why are you following us? Who sent you?"

Once he received his answer, Su Mo killed them easily and without regard. He then caught up to the young man walking a little distance in front of him.

"Master, we've been spotted!"

Su Mo gave Zhou Donghuang a grave look and said, "Those two men were not normal hoodlums. One belonged to the Yang family. Half a year ago, when we came to the capital here in Shenguang, that person I fought and struck down was the Yang family's eighth elder.

"I don't know how the Yang family found out our whereabouts, but it turns out they have been watching us since then.

"However, the strongest in the Yang family is only a Connate-stage adept, nothing to worry about at all."

Having said that, Su Mo paused, and then continued with fear in his eyes, "But the other person was a senior member belonging to the black market, a member of the Divine Light sect, one of the seventeenth elder Liu Xuanyu's men. Over half a year ago, he wanted to capture me in exchange for a thousand spirit stones and space rings.

"I never expected that he would actually manage to find me."

Su Mo continued gravely, "Even if you and I, being early Primal Core adepts, worked together, we would still be no match for him.

"I just questioned that man sent by Liu Xuanyu. Liu Xuanyu did not dare enter the Yuntai Inn to face me since Yuntai is an establishment under the control of the sixth elder of the Divine Light sect. Liu Xuanyu is the acting seventeenth elder of the Divine Light sect. He belongs to a different camp than the boss of the Yuntai Inn, so he wouldn't want to start any trouble.

"Master, do you think we had better return to the inn and hide for some time? We can wait until you achieve the mid-rank level of Primal Core, and then we can stop hiding."

Being that the adept in question was a mid Primal Core adept, it was natural that Su Mo was frightened.

"That won't be necessary."

In contrast to Su Mo's fearfulness, Zhou Donghuang was calm and at ease, "If that measly mid Primal Core adept wants to commit suicide, I have no problem helping him go down that road!"

As his words faded, a voracious gleam flashed across Zhou Donghuang's eyes.

As Zhou Donghuang's words reached Su Mo's ears, he once again felt a quiver in his body. While he felt Zhou Donghuang's words were incredible, his face recovered its original color at once, and he was no longer fearful of that seventeenth elder, Liu Xuanyu.

Of course, his heart was like a raging and stormy ocean.

How could his master be unafraid of even a mid-ranking Primal Core master within the short space of six months?

In truth, in terms of Primal Core mastery, that sword his master wielded possessed no great, intimidating power at all.

In other words, this meant that his master must have some card up his sleeve.

"Master, um… do you intend to buy medicine?"

As they walked down the street, Su Mo realized that his master went straight ahead, neglecting every herbal medicine shop, until he finally entered one particular apothecary. His master wanted to buy medicine, but did he want to buy them to use as plain medicine or core drugs to refine spiritual energy?!

Primal Core adepts could use inner Yuan to cultivate Samadhi fire to refine their spiritual cores.

If an ordinary person had just reached the Primal Core Stage, he would not imagine that his opponent would have the ability to refine core drugs. After all, refining core drugs required skill, extensive study, and accumulation of qi.

Still, only half a year ago, his master could successfully create qi-gathering elixirs, so even if he could directly refine spiritual core drugs while in the Primal Core stage, Su Mo would not think it extraordinary in the least.

"Are you going to a core-forging master who sells the furnace you'll need to use?"

After buying a large batch of medicinal materials, Zhou Donghuang spoke to the shopkeeper of the medicine shop and got straight to the point.

"Sir, within the capital, there are no medicinal shops selling furnaces. If you want core furnaces, try looking in weaponry shops. For the most part, public weapons shops carry core furnaces for sale," the shopkeeper of the medicinal shop said.

"Understood." Zhou Donghuang nodded.

As Su Mo gave a pile of gold notes to the shopkeeper, his chest quaked violently, and it took a long time for it to return to normal.

Although he had guessed it beforehand, actually hearing the young master say he wanted a core furnace struck fear in him. Could his master really refine core drugs upon entering the Primal Core stage?

"It seems that my master could very well be the reincarnation of some extraordinary freak of nature," Su Mo then secretly thought. "Or perhaps… a strong, Primordial Soul has taken possession of him? Those martial adepts who have reached the Divine Essence stage are said to be able to shed their mortal bodies and take over those of other people. Afterward, the bodies of those who are supplanted are reborn with a new capacity and rank."

Although Su Mo had killed the Yang family's man who had been following them, their whereabouts had still been pinpointed by them.

The two left the herbal medicine shop but had not gotten far when they were stopped by a group of passers-by.

The man in front was an old man wearing a blue robe. There were also several other people standing behind him, all glaring menacingly at Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo.

"You two! I am the fourth elder of the Yang family, Yang Zhui. The head of our family requests that you come for a meeting at the Yang residence." The old man in the blue robe stared at both of them with a grave expression as he spoke.

"You…" At that moment, Su Mo broke into scathing laughter, ready to cut down the man in front of him and resolve the situation. Zhou Donghuang cut in, interrupting his words, "Since they are showing such great kindness in inviting us, let's go with them."

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Chapter 167: The Might of the Primal Core

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In order to enter into the upper echelons of society in the capital of the Shenguang Empire, a clan needed to have at least one Primal Core adept at the helm of the family. In order to enter into the upper echelons of society in the capital of the Shenguang Empire, a clan needed to have at least one Primal Core adept at the helm of the family. In the case of the Yang family, an adept had appeared two hundred years before, and it was at that time that the Yang family entered the upper social classes of the Shenguang Empire. Although that particular Primal Core adept of the Yang family had died of old age ten years before, the current Yang family had remained in the upper circles by allying with several other families possessing Primal Core adepts through marriage. The Yang family mansion was not in the expensive and flourishing area of the Shenguang Capital but it was easy to see from its expanse how glorious it had been. "Go and inform the head of the family; say the 'guests' have arrived."The fourth elder of the Yang family, Yang Zhui said this to a low-ranking member of the family before entering the Yang family mansion. The latter quickly ran into the mansion. Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo followed the fourth Yang elder Yang Zhui, casually entering the Yang family mansion. When they entered the drawing room, the patriarch of the Yang family and several elders had already assembled there. The Yang family patriarch was a middle-aged man wearing a white robe with silver trim. He was of tall and sturdy stature and had dignified features. He sat at the head of the table, with the posture of a judge meting out judgment on everything. Two people stood on either side of him. On his left stood one middle-aged man and one old man. On his right stood two old men. These four men were all Yang family elders. "Master, we've brought them."The fourth elder Yang Zhui entered the drawing room and reported to the patriarch sitting at the head of the table. At the same time, he again turned to look at both Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo informing them in a low voice, "The man sitting at the head of the table is the head of our family, Yang Ting.""This is the second elder of our family.""This is the fifth elder of the Yang family."… After he had introduced the Yang family patriarch, the fourth senior member, Yang Zhui, continued to introduce the four members ranking below him, the other four elders. The four senior-ranking family members glared at Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo like tigers eyeing their prey: the two men were not guests but personal enemies. "Are you the one who killed the eighth elder of our family, Yang Wei?"The family patriarch Yang Ting's icy glare fell on Su Mo as he spoke in a low voice, his tone filled with murderous intent. "Since you have come today, you will pay with your lives. You will stay here with the Yang family forever. Depending on whether you cooperate or not, I may allow you to remain in one piece!"Facing Yang Ting's stare head on, Su Mo's expression was unchanging, and he simply said, "Get up.""What?"Su Mo's words not only stunned Yang Ting, but it also made all the others unsettled. "In the presence of my master… how dare you remain seated!"Su Mo continued speaking, and now he saw the glare on Yang Ting's face, a look of warning flashed across his own. "Master?"Hearing Su Mo's words, Yang Ting and the elders of the Yang family, subconsciously glanced to the young man in a snow-white robe standing in front of him.It was only then that they realized that Su Mo had been standing behind this young man the entire time, just as if he were this young man's footman, as if he were accompanying a superior. "You, an adept of the latter Connate Stage, recognize a youth such as this as your master?"Yang Ting examined Su Mo's gaze. It was overly condescending; still, several elders of the Yang family were now looking at Su Mo with similar condescension. If the courteous and refined middle-aged man referred to the youth in white as "young master," they feared the possible background of the man, but his calling the young man "master" still surpassed their ability to understand. A latter Connate-stage adept, recognizing a youth who was clearly barely twenty years old as master?"How can you be a latter Connate-stage adept and go so far? This is truly a disgrace to all Connate-stage adepts!""At this age, are you still living like a dog?""My fellow Connate-stage adept, I'm personally embarrassed for you!"The Yang family elders each looked at Su Mo scathingly. "I gave you a chance."Then, despite the condescension in the Yang family elders and patriarch's faces, Su Mo seemed to have heard none of it, just as if he had not seen their looks. He began to speak softly, taking a step and then several more toward the one sitting at the head of the table, Yang Ting. "What?" Yang Ting laughed grimly. "Even though the patriarch of our family is a latter Connate-stage adept like you… in all the Shenguang empire, not to mention among all Divine Light sect's members, and all those of Connate stage, there are very few who could defeat him!"The fourth elder of the Yang family, Yang Zhui, disdainfully looked at Su Mo as he approached Yang Ting, step by step. The other four Yang family elders were also watching Su Mo with similar scornful expressions. That is until Su Mo raised his hand and swung it down like lightning. Crash!As Su Mo raised his hand, a vast expanse of white power condensed in his palm then soared, becoming a tremendous white palm print which formed, floated and then flew above the head of the Yang family, Yang Ting. As Su Mo's hand came down, the area around Yang Ting's seat was enshrouded in the white palm. Bang!!A loud sound rang out, and the whole drawing room trembled as if there had been a violent earthquake. The Yang family elders turned to look, struck dumb with astonishment, they realized that after the immense, white palm attack fell like lightning, a gaping hole had emerged where Yang Ting had been sitting. Within the large hole, they could dimly make out a chair, strips of clothing, and a still pool of thin blood. "Ugh …""Ugh … ah." …. The present scene scared the Yang elders as if they had forgotten they should be astounded. They stared dully at the scene as if in a daze, looking at the large hole, taking large gulps, unable to tear their eyes from the spot. "Who is capable of heading the Yang family now?"It was only when the youth's indifferent voice sounded in the drawing room that the several Yang elders each began to look at Su Mo's expression. Their faces were filled with astonishment and fear. "A Primal Core adept!""He is a Primal Core adept!" …. At this point, while fear remained in their hearts, they were also filled with resentment toward whomever had passed on false information to the Yang family. Who had said that the one who had killed the eighth elder was only a late Connate-stage adept?Had this been an intentional trap for the Yang family?This person who had killed the eighth Yang family elder was actually a Primal Core adept!If they had known that it had been a Primal Core adept who had killed the eighth Yang elder, even with the great depth of the Yang family's courage, not even they would have dared to seek revenge. "My master spoke to you, didn't you hear?"In no time, the Yang elders' faces paled with fear as they hurriedly looked at the youth in the snow-white robe, saying promptly, "Sir, if our Yang family patriarch is gone, then the former patriarch will take over as head of the family.""Yes! The former head will become the family patriarch!"'The former patriarch is still one of the two ultimate Connate adepts in the family. He will be the head of the family!" …. Hearing the Yang elder's words, Zhou Donghuang said simply, "If that's how it is, then call him here."As he finished speaking, Zhou Donghuang walked toward one of the seats in a row placed at the side of the Yang family drawing room. Insightfully, Su Mo had already rushed in before him and pulled out the chair, placing it before him. "Master, please sit."After the young man sat, Su Mo folded his arms and stood reverently and deferentially before the youth. As soon as the youth finished speaking the fourth Yang family elder, Yang Zhui hurriedly left to find the former Yang family patriarch. The remaining elders shook with fear and were filled with curiosity:What was the background of this youth who looked less than twenty years old? How had he made a Primal Core adept willingly become his servant?However, thinking of the Primal Core adept's power, they only glanced at the youth, and one by one lowered their heads, so terrified that they dared not even breathe. "Pen and paper."Zhou Donghuang indifferently eyed the four elders. As soon as he finished speaking, one of the Yang elders went and brought pen and paper, and then rushed to reverently take the pen and paper from his robe and gave them to Zhou Donghuang. Zhou Donghuang took them and then began to write with a vigorous flourish. As the pen in Zhou Donghuang's hand stopped, roughly a dozen short moments later, rapid footsteps could be heard outside the Yang family drawing room. In came a burly, white-haired old man in gray clothing, with the fourth Yang family elder as his escort."Esteemed gentlemen, I am the patriarch of the previous generation. Yang Qi, my unworthy son, offended you all. I hope you will pardon the offense."After the old man entered, he noticed the gaping hole at the head place in the drawing room, but he quickly bowed, cupping one hand in the other, and apologized, his voice filled with modest courtesy. Ten years ago, when their family's Primal Core adept was still alive, the Yang family did not need to fear a first-stage Primal Core adept. But now, a first-rank Primal Core adept was enough to easily wipe out the head of the family! In the presence of a Primal Core adept, the Yang family elder could not lift even a finger. Although the Yang family had several marriage connections with other families who possessed Primal Core adepts, none of these families would offend a Primal Core adept for the sake of the Yang family. "Within half a month, collect the medicinal ingredients on this paper and give them to me. After half a month, I will come and collect them. If there is even one missing, I will kill the ultimate Connate-level adept of the Yang family."Zhou Donghuang stood up at once and raised his hand. The paper in his hand was surrounded by a white mist then fluttered and flew directly toward the Yang family patriarch Yang Qi, floating in the air before him for a moment. Yang Qi's face paled with fear as he took it. Zhang Donghuang's action also terrified the other Yang family elders whose facial expressions contorted. "He … he's also a Primal Core adept?!""Heavens! He doesn't even look twenty; how can he be a Primal Core adept?!""Goodness! How … how can this be?!"

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Chapter 168: Primal Core Spirit Weapon

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In the history of Ziyun planet, the youngest Primal Core adept had been at least 35 years old. The young man in front of him looked as if he was not more than 20 years of age. Could he already be a Primal Core adept?

In the hall of the Yang family, the Yang family members watched a young man dressed in a flowing white robe lead the middle-aged man away. Their eyes filled with shock. The look of disbelief remained for a long while.

After leaving the Yang family, Zhou Donghuang found a weaponry and bought a Core furnace, as well as some rare metals that he needed.

"Master, I can understand why you bought the Core furnace, to produce the Core drugs, but why did you get all of these metals?" Su Mo asked Zhou Donghuang curiously, looking at the heap of precious metals in his hands.

"To produce spirit weapons," answered Zhou Donghuang flatly.

"Primal Core weapons?!" Hearing the words that had just left Zhou Donghuang's mouth, Su Mo's eyes narrowed rapidly. "Master, you … you know how to make spirit weapons?"

Martial artists beyond the Primal Core stage could make use of their inner Yuan to crystallize a Samadhi fire that could not only be used to produce Core drugs but could also be used to produce weapons. The weapons that were forged in the Samadhi fire were called "spirit weapons." The space ring was one such spirit weapon. Spirit weapons were special not because of the methods used to forge them. Instead, they required a special material to be used in the forging: the space stone.

However, his master had not purchased a space stone among the rare metals that he had just bought. This meant that his master was about to produce another spirit weapon besides the space ring.

"Very rare?" asked Zhou Donghuang. In his past life, he had been most proficient in producing Core drugs, but he could also easily forge spirit weapons beneath the heavenly spirit weapon tier without any effort.

While purchasing the Core furnace, the rare metals that he had bought together were the materials that he was planning to use to forge inferior Primal Core spirit weapons.

Hearing this, Su Mo laughed as he said, "Master, it is extremely difficult to forge a spirit weapon, and it is much harder than what is needed to produce most other Core drugs. I have heard that among the ten premier sects of the Ziyun planet, two sects each have one spirit weapon. Furthermore, these weapons were obtained by one of the sects a few centuries ago, when they were bought from a Dharma Laws adept who had arrived on Ziyun by accident. They paid a huge sum of money for the weapon. It was only an inferior Primal Core spirit weapon, but even so, it allowed the user to increase the power of inner Yuan by a tenth!"

As he spoke, Su Mo's eyes seemed to glint with a burning flame.

"Just as I thought … in Ziyun planet, the spirit weapon is indeed a rare item." Zhou Donghuang's eyes flashed as he thought this.

"We will return to the guest inn first. Tomorrow I want to make a trip to the black market and get some spirit stones, " said Zhou Donghuang to Su Mo.

The two of them made their way back to Yuntai Inn. Their journey was smooth. It seemed like the seventeenth elder of the Divine Light sect, Liu Xuanyu, had not sent anyone to stop them, as if he had simply disappeared into thin air. Of course, Zhou Donghuang was well aware that the fact that Liu Xuanyu was in no hurry to make any move did not mean that he had given up, and most likely was just observing Zhou Donghuang's actions.

Just as Zhou Donghuang had predicted, not long after he and Su Mo returned to Yuntai Inn, Liu Xuanyu, the seventeenth elder of the Divine Light sect, who was waiting in the black market, received the information report from his men.

"Seventeenth elder, the two people not only killed the men we had sent to Yuntai inn, but were even brought to the Yang family household by the Yang people." The old man stood respectfully in front of Liu Xuanyu, as he continued seriously, "However, they left the Yang family household in one piece. Our plan clearly failed."

"The Yang family did not try to stop them?" Liu Xuanyu was surprised. "Isn't that man just a late Connate-stage adept? Even if the two late Connate-stage adepts in the Yang family did not make a move, the Yang family would have had no problem stopping him."

"Seventeenth elder, " said the old man with a bitter smile. "At the start, I had the same doubt. But I asked around and found out some news which I am unsure about. The son of one of the Yang elders personally released the news that both the man who had killed the Yang eighth elder, Yang Wei, and the young man alongside him were Primal Core adepts! In fact, the older man even calls the young man 'Master.' The young man looks to be not more than twenty years of age." As he spoke, the old man's eyes could not help but seem extremely suspicious. "A Primal Core adept who is not even twenty years old? Even though this news has been circulating, I don't really believe it."

"A Primal Core adept who is less than twenty years of age?" Liu Xuanyu was first taken aback, then could not help but chuckle. "In the history of Ziyun planet, the youngest Primal Core adept achieved the Primal Core stage when he was thirty-six years old. And that man is none other than the ancestor of our Divine Light sect, one of the only two Dharma Laws adept in the history of Ziyun planet. A Primal Core adept who is not even twenty years old … maybe in those planets which have more training resources … but, here in Ziyun planet, such an occurrence is simply impossible!" As the seventeenth elder of the Divine Light sect, Liu Xuanyu had the authority to say this.

"My thoughts exactly," agreed the old man with a nod of his head.

"As for that middle-aged man, it is possible that he may really be a Primal Core adept, " continued Liu Xuanyu. He turned to look at the old man. "Has he returned to Yuntai inn? If not, you keep a close eye on him, then send someone to call me over. I will meet him for myself!"

As he spoke, Liu Xuanyu's eyes shone with greed. "We must not wait any longer. If he really is a Primal Core adept, within half a year, of those thousand pieces of spirit stone he will have used more than a hundred!"

"Yes, seventeenth elder, " responded the old man as he left.

…

Yuntai inn.

After returning, Zhou Donghuang began producing the Core drugs in his room as Su Mo observed from the side. Of course, Su Mo had not dared to make such a request, but Zhou Donghuang had personally offered to allow Su Mo to observe him.

"Refining Core drugs is similar to producing elixirs or potions, but only in terms of the pharmacology. The refining of Core drugs is very particular about the management of the fire, besides the mixing of the ingredients…" shared Zhou Donghuang as he released the inner Yuan from within his body. It circled around the Core furnace, bringing the Core furnace to float in the air in front of him.

Next, the many different ingredients were sliced into near blocks using the inner Yuan that had been converted into a knife in his hands. "Cutting the herbs helps allow the medicinal effect of the herbs to spread evenly throughout after they are thrown into the Core furnace…"

A young man who was not even twenty years old was here sharing the ways of refining the Core as he worked. On the other hand, there was an old man who was more than seventy years old, but who looked at most forty years old, looking on like a curious baby, learning intently as he watched the young man refine the Core drugs, as if he were afraid to miss a single detail.

After half an hour, the young man lifted his hand and patted the Core furnace. With that, pieces of Core drug shot out from within and entered the bottle which he had prepared earlier.

"These are ten Connate drugs, with the same effect as the Connate elixirs which I had made previously, but the effect is three times that of the Connate elixir." Keeping the bottle, Zhou Donghuang looked at Su Mo as he told him what he had just produced.

"Three … three times?!" Su Mo was stunned. He had already been amazed by the Connate elixirs that his master had produced. Now, his master was telling him that the effect of the Connate drugs which he had just produced was three times stronger than the elixir?

Before Su Mo could recover from his shock, Zhou Donghuang had already picked up the precious rare metals that he had just purchased. His inner Yuan made them float in the air, then Zhou Donghuang used the Samadhi fire to melt the metal.

Next, as Su Mo watched, after he had recovered from his shock, the Samadhi fire from Zhou Donghuang's inner Yuan transformed the mix of molten metals into an Exquisite Hill about the size of a fist.

After the Exquisite Hill had taken its shape, Zhou Donghuang, who had originally looked relaxed, now had a serious expression. His hands waved rapidly in dance as thousands of streaks of inner Yuan flew across the surface of the Exquisite Hill, like pulling the silk from a cocoon.

These actions all amazed Su Mo. "Master, this is setting up a shield?"

"In forging a spirit weapon, the essence of it is setting up a shield. The stronger the shield, the more complex it is and the more difficult it is to set it up, " Zhou Donghuang said. "The spirit ring can only be considered among the most inferior tiers in terms of difficulty of forging the spirit weapon. The spear sphere is roughly similar in difficulty to the space ring, but the difference is that the material used in forging the space ring, the space stone, is so rare and precious that the material used to forge the spear sphere cannot compare at all. Hence the spear sphere cannot be considered a spirit weapon, and will not be of any assistance to a Primal Core adept."

Zhou Donghuang's words gave Su Mo a greater understanding of spirit weapons. In the past, he had known only that spirit weapons were extremely precious, but knew nothing about why. Now he had a newfound respect for the young man in front of him.

"Done, " declared Zhou Donghuang. He finally finished his work after an hour. Clearly the effort needed to forge a spirit weapon was far more than that needed to refine a Core drug.

"Try it, " said Zhou Donghuang as he threw the Exquisite Hill in his hands to Su Mo carelessly, as if he was throwing away a piece of rubbish. Now, the Exquisite Hill was not only extremely realistic but on its body there were also visible tiny lines clustered densely.

"For a Primal Core adept, whether activating a spear sphere or a spirit weapon, one would not need to be familiar with the shield within. As long as one injected energy into it, it can be used directly, " added Zhou Donghuang.

Su Mo nodded as he tried to inject some of his inner Yuan into the Exquisite Hill. In that instant, the Exquisite Hill flew up under his command. As it fell with a loud booming sound, the energy that was released made Su Mo widen his eyes in shock.

"The power increased by a whole tenth!"

This was the hallmark of an inferior Primal Core spirit weapon.

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Chapter 169: Tuo Ku

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Looking at the Exquisite Hill in his hands, Su Mo could not help but be in awe. This was the inferior Primal Core spirit weapon of which there were just two on the whole Ziyun planet? And from that moment on, including the Exquisite Hill in his hands, there was one more inferior Primal Core spirit weapon on the Ziyun planet.

"Master, how… how did you do that? The metals that you bought from the weaponry were all rare and expensive metals, but they are all materials that could be obtained with money, so are not considered the rarest items on the Ziyun planet." Su Mo, the shock on his face clear, looked at the young man in front of him dressed in white. "Just using those materials, you were able to forge the third inferior Primal Core spirit weapon on the Ziyun planet?"

"To forge a spirit weapon, of course the materials are important, but they are not the most crucial, " said Zhou Donghuang flatly. "The spell that is placed on it is the most important. Of course, only inferior Primal Core spirit weapons can be forged out of metals that can be bought with gold or silver; in order to produce even better Primal Core weapons, one has to obtain the materials from another method, using metals that even gold and silver cannot purchase."

As Zhou Donghuang spoke, his eyes flashed. "At the black market, besides getting another batch of the spirit stone, I also plan to get the materials to forge a spirit weapon of even better quality."

"Master, are you truly confident of being able to defeat the seventeenth elder of the Divine Light Sect, the middle Primal-Core-stage adept Liu Xuanyu?" Su Mo could not help himself from asking, "If Master is not fully confident, I don't think there's a need to take the risk. After all, the thousand spirit stones that you bought previously would be enough for Master to use for a while longer. They should be able to last long enough to enter the middle Primal Core stage."

"That thousand pieces of spirit stone?" Zhou Donghuang shook his head. "I used them all two days ago."

Utilizing the spirit stones to set up a spell used so many resources that it was what was used by just absorbing the spirit energy the spirit stones contained. The problem was that the former was more efficient. Even if it was wasteful, it was worth it.

Now Zhou Donghuang was equivalent to the fusion of two early Primal-Core-stage adepts, because he had two Primal Cores within him. The energy emitted from either of the Primal Cores was not less than what any ordinary early Primal Core stage adept emitted.

"What?!" Su Mo was shocked. "Used … used it all?!" This was something that he had not anticipated.

Now that he thought about it, his Master had achieved extraordinary progress in a short half a year, achieving the late Connate stage then skipping two levels to achieve the Primal Core stage in that short time. In light of this amazing progress, it seemed reasonable that he had used up a thousand spirit stones.

"Master, you don't intend to bring this inferior Primal Core spirit weapon to the black market to exchange for spirit stones, do you?" Su Mo looked at the Exquisite Hill in his hands, a flash of worry in his eyes. "If you are thinking of doing so, I do not advise it. In the eyes of the Divine Light sect, this inferior Primal Core spirit weapon is worth much more than just four thousand spirit stones! Such a weapon is enough to make the Divine Light sect willingly accept punishment and hand over four thousand spirit stones to the other four big sects, " said Su Mo.

"No." If Su Mo had thought of it, Zhou Donghuang would already have considered it. "Tomorrow, when I go to the black market, I will use other methods to obtain the materials I need, as well as the spirit stones." As he spoke, Zhou Donghuang's eyes shone.

This time, if he could amass the materials he required and forge the spirit weapons that he wanted, by the time he left the black market, he would be capable of defeating anyone within Ziyun planet!

…

The next day.

Zhou Donghuang left the Yuntai inn early in the morning. He left alone, without Su Mo, because he felt that there was no need to bring him. When they had reached the black market, the two of them would have had to split up anyway.

Once Zhou Donghuang left, he attracted the attention of an old man who was stationed nearby the main door of Yuntai inn. This old man was one of the trusted men of Liu Xuanyu, the seventeenth elder of the Divine Light sect and the elder of the black market. This old man was an early Primal-Core-stage adept of the sect.

In the Divine Light sect, only if one entered the middle Primal Core stage and became an elder could one enjoy the good treatment. Of course, there were also some disciples who were being groomed by the Divine Light sect. Even if their level of skill was low and they had not achieved much growth, the sect would also invest great resources in these disciples. The resources invested in these favorite disciples would make even the sect elders go green with envy. The premier ones in the Divine Light sect were all disciples who had been groomed with the help of all these resources since they were young.

"Just him?" The old man frowned as he turned behind to one of the two people behind him and said, "You go back and inform seventeenth elder that just the young man left the Yuntai inn. To avoid alerting that middle-aged man, I do not intend to touch him right now." The disciple left.

After leaving Yuntai inn, Zhou Donghuang went straight to the black market and walked right into an empty wooden hut. Of course, by this time Liu Xuanyu, the seventeenth elder of Divine Light sect, was already aware that Zhou Donghuang was coming, but could not be sure which was him.

"Just the young man is here? I want to see for myself if he will create the ruckus he did half a year ago when he came with the middle-aged man."

Zhou Donghuang did not disappoint.

"The recipe for a Qi-gathering elixir that can heighten the senses by twenty times … the cost of the raw materials for a pot of this elixir is less than ten liang of gold. Is this for real?" As soon as Zhou Donghuang placed a sign outside the wooden hut, a huge group of people gathered around the hut.

These people, who were all dressed fully in black, spoke in whispers. "Till today, the best Qi-gathering elixirs in the market could only heighten the senses by twelve times. The best was released just half a year ago, and its price was high. After all, the raw cost is very high as well."

"The recipe for a Qi-gathering elixir that can heighten the senses by twelve times was released in a black market too. The cost of producing a pot of it is more than ten liang of gold. How can this one be cheap, with such high costs?"

"If there really is such a recipe, three thousand pieces of spirit stone is not expensive."

"Indeed. To obtain the recipe for such a Qi-gathering elixir would allow one to monopolize the market for superior Qi-gathering elixirs in the Ziyun planet. Furthermore, if any of the premier sects obtain it and keep it to themselves, their future disciples will be able to grow at much faster speeds, making them able to set themselves apart from the disciples of the other four sects."

"Not sell it to others? That is not feasible. Once such a Qi-gathering elixir appears on the market, the other four sects will certainly exert their pressure on the one sect that has the elixir to force them to either share the recipe or sell the elixir to them."

…

Inside the wooden hut, Zhou Donghuang was also dressed in full black, his face shielded by a large black hat. He sat patiently in front of a wooden table. On one side of the wooden table, the worker from the black market, a Connate-stage adept from the Divine Light sect, looked at the man dressed in black in front of him, his eyes filled with suspicion. He doubted that this black-robed man could produce such a recipe.

Despite his suspicion, since the man had requested to place a sign, he could only do as the man wished. If someone wanted to purchase the elixir recipe, and this man could not produce it, it was the man who would be in trouble, not him.

"It is elder Tuo Ku!"

Outside, a bald old man in a silver gown walked toward the hut, flanked by two middle-aged men. A group of black-gowned people opened a path as some of them recognized the man in the middle. He was the manager of the black market and the third elder of the Divine Light Sect, Tuo Ku.

Tuo Ku was one of the late Primal-Core-stage adepts of the Divine Light sect and was a silver core adept.

"That is the fifteenth elder of Divine Light sect, Zheng Yong, and the seventeenth elder, Liu Xuanyu … my goodness! The head of the black market and the two supervisors are all here personally!"

"This is normal. After all, if there really exists such a good recipe for the Qi-gathering elixir, the level of progress of the Qi-gathering adepts in the Ziyun planet would be able to increase drastically. If they spend less time in the Qi-gathering stage, they will attain the Connate stage more quickly, and have more time to try to achieve the Primal Core stage, or even the Dharma Laws stage!"

…

As the group of men in black discussed this, the three of them, led by Tuo Ku, the third elder of the Divine Light sect, had already entered the wooden house.

"Third elder, fifteenth elder, seventeenth elder." As the three of them stepped in, the worker inside, who was a disciple of the sect, hurriedly bowed in greeting.

"You may leave." Tuo Ku glanced at the young man. He had already backed out of the door respectfully and closed the door behind him.

Tuo Ku sat in front of the wooden table opposite Zhou Donghuang. As he looked at Zhou Donghuang, he asked seriously, "Sir, do you really have the recipe for a Qi-gathering elixir that can heighten the senses by twenty times?"

"Otherwise, what would I be doing here?" retorted Zhou Donghuang.

"This voice…" Just as Zhou Donghuang spoke, Liu Xuanyu, who was standing behind Tuo Ku, was surprised as his eyes narrowed." Such a young voice! It looks like he is most likely the man who sold the recipe for another Qi-gathering elixir to one of our Divine Light sect disciples."

"Your voice is really youthful, " said Tuo Ku as he looked with surprise at Zhou Donghuang. "Looks like you are helping your elder to sell the recipe?"

"Think what you like, " replied Zhou Donghuang flatly.

Just then, another voice came from outside. "Third elder, Alchemist Xu is here."

As Tuo Ku responded, an elderly figure pushed open the door and entered. Tuo Ku stood up as he eagerly led the other two men to greet the newcomer. "Alchemist Xu."

"Show me the recipe." The old man nodded to Tuo Ku as he came in front of Zhou Donghuang, his eyes flashing.

Just as they thought that the man in the black robe would hesitate, he simply took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to the old man. The old man was none other than Xu Fu, the top alchemist and core-forging master in Ziyun planet.

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Chapter 170: Zhou Donghuang's Strength

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Xu Fu came from a planet where there were many Primordial Souls and where resources were vast. He had seen much. However, now as he looked at the recipe in his hands, his expression changed as he exclaimed, "Incredible! Genius! Simply amazing! These ingredients could be put together like this. This combination is indeed more effective. Amazing!"

Xu Fu reluctantly handed the piece of paper to the man in the black robe behind the table, who was Zhou Donghuang.

"Alchemist Xu, how is it?" Tuo Ku, the manager of the black market and the third elder of the Divine Light sect, looked at Xu Fu. He asked, but he already knew the answer to the question. After all, Xu Fu's reaction had said everything.

"The recipe is real, " answered Xu Fu seriously. "However, even if that recipe comes to me, I will need to take another ten days to half a month of studying it before I am confident of using it to produce the Qi-gathering elixir. Third elder, please buy this recipe." Xu Fu's eyes flashed eagerly.

"Buying this recipe for three thousand spirit stones… In the future, the other four sects will definitely want us to share this with them. Then we could accept payment of a thousand spirit stones from each of the other four sects. Even if we do not share the recipe, and just provide them with the Qi-gathering elixirs, we could easily earn three thousand spirit stones." Xu Fu spoke seriously. "With this recipe, the Divine Light sect's most talented Qi-gathering adepts will be able to reach the Connate stage a few years earlier!"

Tuo Ku naturally trusted every word that Xu Fu said. He looked at Zhou Donghuang and said, "Sir, regarding three thousand spirit stones … we are not able to produce that right now. I will send a message back to the sect to send the spirit stones immediately."

"I cannot wait for so long, " replied Zhou Donghuang. Another piece of paper slid out of his sleeve, surrounded by a faint white glow as it floated to Tuo Ku and waited for Tuo Ku to take it.

"Primal-Core-stage adept?" Tuo Ku was shocked. From hearing the voice of the man in black just now, he had guessed that the man was just twenty years of age at most. He had not expected that the other party was a Primal Core adept. Even if he was just in the early Primal Core stage, that fact was shocking.

"He really is a Primal Core adept?" Behind Tuo Ku, Liu Xuanyu's eyes narrowed as he said, "He really is the young man who was beside the middle-aged man?"

Liu Xuanyu had already quietly confirmed the identity of the man in front of him. But now, seeing the inner Yuan appear, revealing that the man was an early Primal-Core-stage adept, he could not help but wonder whether the man in black was really that young man? A young man who was not even twenty years of age was already a Primal Core adept?

He could not believe that.

But hearing the "fake news" that he had received from his men the day before, he could not help but falter.

"The materials on the paper can be used as payment instead of the spirit stone. The prices are all indicated there, " said Zhou Donghuang flatly. "I give you three days. After three days, if you are not able to procure the things I want, I will sell this recipe to the other sect."

"Sir, three days is too short a time." Tuo Ku looked at the materials written on the paper. It was clear that these materials were rare on the Ziyun planet. Since they were not able to be bought with gold or silver, they had to be exchanged for spirit stones.

"Two days, " said Zhou Donghuang.

Hearing this, Tuo Ku's expression changed. The two elders standing behind him also looked at Zhou Donghuang furiously.

"Lad, this black market is the territory of our Divine Light sect. if you want to leave here in one piece, you had better know your place, " said Liu Xuanyu in a low voice.

"Threatening me?" Zhou Donghuang raised his head as he glanced at Liu Xuanyu. With a swift motion of his hand, the inner Yuan within his hands tore the Qi-gathering elixir recipe into pieces that could never be pieced back together. "One day… within one day, if the items I asked for are not ready, this recipe will never be in the hands of the Divine Light sect."

"Also, he shall now give me a hundred spirit stones for scaring me just now with his threat," said Zhou Donghuang as he stared at Tuo Ku, pointing at Liu Xuanyu.

"Lad, you're asking for it!" Liu Xuanyu's expression turned dark. He had never expected that the man in front of him would dare to cheat him. He was furious.

Zhou Donghuang ignored him as he continued staring at Tuo Ku.

"Seventeenth elder, you give him the hundred spirit stones first. The black market will cover half of it for you; later I will ask the store to hand you fifty spirit stones." The dominance of the man in black was unfathomable for the third elder of the Divine Light sect. But he was profoundly aware that the sect had to lay its hands on the Qi-gathering elixir recipe, so he could only give in for now and accede to this man's request, to stop him from being even more audacious.

Tuo Ku had ordered Liu Xuanyu to pay attention. If the man in black was indignant, he could remove just a hundred spirit stones from his space ring and hand it over to Zhou Donghuang. He glared at Zhou Donghuang murderously. He only needed to fork out fifty spirit stones, but that was no small amount. Although the sect distributed spirit stones to him each month, it would take more than a year for him to save fifty spirit stones.

"Sir, we will do our best to prepare your items within a day. Please wait here patiently." Tuo Ku did not dare to bargain anymore.

"Mm, " responded Zhou Donghuang loosely. Tuo Ku led his men to leave the wooden hut.

As the crowd outside watched, Tuo Ku returned with his men to his room in the black market.

"Third elder, that young man is simply ridiculous!" As they entered the room, Liu Xuanyu could not help but cry out. "We should just kill him straight away and take the recipe from him! Even if the news gets out, it would be worth it for us to fork out four thousand spirit stones to the other sects as punishment for breaking the rules of the black market." Liu Xuanyu's eyes were murderous.

"The recipe has already been destroyed by him, " responded Tuo Ku as he shook his head.

Liu Xuanyu replied, "Then we can torture him to force him to write the recipe out again. Judging by his behavior, he knows the recipe by heart and can write it out anytime. Otherwise, he would not have been able to bargain with us even after he destroyed the piece of paper."

"Torture him? Force him?" Tuo Ku shook his head again. "If he does not wish to be tortured and wants to die, we cannot stop him. Then we would have totally lost our chance to obtain the recipe for that Qi-gathering elixir. Your suggestion is not feasible at all."

Tuo Ku then turned to look at Xu Fu beside him and asked respectfully, "Alchemist Xu, when you looked at the recipe just now, how much of it do you remember? Is it possible to reproduce it?"

Xu Fu shook his head. "I only saw it once. I can remember just ten or twenty percent of it. That recipe is extremely complicated; even if I saw it a hundred times, I would only be able to remember half of it unless I had a photographic memory."

"In that case, we will have to accede to his request and prepare what he asked for."

With the order of Tuo Ku, the third elder of the Divine Light sect and the highest manager of the black market, all the elders and disciples of the sect who were not busy at work in the black market were all sent out. They headed to all the clans of the Shenguang empire, and even some sects outside of the capital, to search for the precious and rare materials that the man in black had demanded.

It must be said that the black market was extremely efficient.

By the next dawn, more than half of the precious materials that Zhou Donghuang had requested had already been prepared. The remainder could only be acquired by using spirit stones as payment.

Inside the wooden hut, Tuo Ku asked the man in black, "Sir, the things that you asked for are here. Will you hand me the recipe now?"

On the wooden table inside the hut, beside the half-opened wooden box containing a thousand spirit stones, there was a huge variety of other precious materials laid out on the table. It was clear that they were no simple metals; rather, they were incomparable to ordinary metals.

"Yes, " answered Zhou Donghuang as he glanced at the materials and spirit stones on the table. He nodded and looked at Tuo Ku as he said, "You can come back in a day to retrieve it. I destroyed the recipe previously, so I need to write it out all over again. No-one shall disturb me in this wooden house, otherwise you shall bear the consequences!"

"Alright, " responded Tuo Ku as he led his men out of the door. However, Tuo Ku remained in the vicinity of the wooden hut and even called some other elders of the sect to stand in different directions outside. They watched the wooden hut, as if afraid that the man inside would escape.

"Now, he is just an early Primal-Core-stage adept, and even a middle Primal-Core-stage adept would not be able to escape from here!" Liu Xuanyu stood at a corner outside the house as he glared at it, his eyes murderous.

Inside the wooden hut.

Of course, Zhou Donghuang did not need a whole day to write the recipe. Zhou Donghuang had asked Tuo Ku to come back after a day so he could forge the spirit weapon he wanted using resources provide by Tuo Ku. "The list of items that I gave to Tuo Ku is the ingredients list of an ultimate Primal Core spirit weapon, but he did not manage to get all of it. Even then, these materials are enough for me to produce a superior Primal Core spirit weapon!"

Primal Core spirit weapons were spirit weapons used only by Primal Core adepts. Inferior Primal Core spirit weapons could increase the power of the infused inner Yuan by ten percent. Middle spirit weapons could increase the power by thirty percent. Superior spirit weapons could increase it by sixty percent. Ultimate spirit weapons could double the power of the inner Yuan!0

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Chapter 171: First Blood of the Spirit Weapon

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"Third elder, correct." In the wooden hut a day later, Xu Fu looked at the recipe for the elixir and nodded to Tuo Ku who was standing by his side.

With that, Zhou Donghuang stood up and walked straight out without so much as a glance behind. Tuo Ku, the third elder of Divine Light sect and late Primal-Core-stage adept, had no intention of stopping Zhou Donghuang and so allowed him to leave.

But once Zhou Donghuang had left, Tuo Ku turned to Xu Fu and asked, "Alchemist Xu, what you said just now; is it true?" Tuo Ku had heard Xu Fu say that the recipe for the Qi-gathering elixir that the man in black had produced, which could heighten the sense by twenty times, could not be found even in planets with Divine Transformation adepts. Divine Transformation was a level that transcended the Primordial Soul stage, was two levels above the Dharma Laws stage, and three full levels above the Primal Core stage!

Because of what Xu Fu had said, Tuo Ku felt even more fearful of the man in black. That he was able to produce this elixir recipe meant that he must have received a huge treasure. He had either gotten it from someone from another planet, or his master had left him to practice on Ziyun planet for some reason. Within the endless universe, there was no shortage of such examples.

If he had gotten it from someone on another planet, he could easily kill the man and take back what he had taken from the Divine Light sect. However, if his master had left him to practice, once the matter had been found out by the man's master, then their sect would be ruined! After all, the man selling Qi-gathering elixir in the black market was not a secret. His master could easily link his death to the Divine Light sect. Tuo Ku did not want to take the risk, and the Divine Light sect would not take such a risk for a thousand spirit stones and those materials.

"Third elder, are you doubting my words?" Xu Fu's expression turned dark.

"Alchemist Xu, please do not misunderstand, I just wanted to further confirm," apologized Tuo Ku with an awkward smile.

Xu Fu was not as powerful as he was, but his alchemy skills were unparalleled on the whole planet and he was the highest-ranking ally of the sect. Xu Fu's position in the Divine Light sect was even higher than his own.

…

After leaving the black market, Zhou Donghuang returned to the Yuntai inn. Just as he had come, he did not fly through the skies but walked slowly in the big streets and small alleys of the Shenguang empire capital, enjoying the hustle and bustle of the city. After shutting himself away for half a year, he was not repulsed by the noise; it was a familiar and welcoming sound for him.

However, as he walked into a small alley with just a few stalls and about ten passers-by, he sensed something that made him stop in his tracks. In that instant that he turned around.

Woosh! Woosh! Woosh! Woosh! Woosh!

With the piercing sound, all the people in the small alley dropped dead as flashes of white light passed through them. These people, who were just passers-by or stall owners, had no time to react at all. As they collapsed to the ground their expressions did not change. Those who had been looking around still had faces filled with curiosity. Those who had been bargaining with the stall owners still had their furrowed brows. And two children who were not even ten years old still had innocent smiles plastered on their faces. All of this happened within an instant.

Ho!

Just as Zhou Donghuang frowned and looked up toward the source of the white flashes, a figure landed out of nowhere.

"This is Liu Xuanyu?" The man in front of him was not unfamiliar to Zhou Donghuang, as he was the man who had demanded a hundred spirit stones just the day before. He had not known the man's identity, just that he held high status in the black market.

Now, seeing him appear, he could easily guess his identity: the seventeenth elder of Divine Light sect, Liu Xuanyu. The previous day, Su Mo had killed a man who had been following them, sent by this Liu Xuanyu. It was then that he knew that he was being watched by Liu Xuanyu.

"Lad, did you not think that I could find you?" After landing, Liu Xuanyu smiled coldly at Zhou Donghuang.

"So what if you found me?" replied Zhou Donghuang calmly.

"It is indeed you!" Hearing Zhou Donghuang's voice, Liu Xuanyu was sure that the man who had cheated him out of a hundred spirit stones was none other than the young man in white in front of him. He had not believed that the man was a Primal Core adept, but now he had to believe it.

"Lad, I don't care if you received a treasure or have the backing of a powerful master. Today, you are not getting out alive!" Liu Xuanyu looked at Zhou Donghuang with a murderous glint in his eyes, the greed unmistakable. A thousand spirit stones, and precious metals that were worth at least two thousand spirit stones.

If he killed this man, he would own everything that the man had gotten in the black market. Furthermore, he could take back the hundred spirit stones that he had given to him!

"You killed them just to shut their mouths so that nobody will find out that you are trying to attack me?" Zhou Donghuang glanced at the ten corpses in the small alley, his tone stone-cold.

"Indeed! As long as nobody witnesses my killing you, even if you have the backing of someone powerful, the blame cannot land on me!" As he spoke, his inner Yuan seemed to surround his body, lifting him straight towards Zhou Donghuang.

"Lad, if anything, just blame the fact that you have something valuable, but are too weak to protect it!" He had already come next to Zhou Donghuang, and with that, he lifted his palm and struck out with it.

Weng!!

The piercing sound of a knife slicing through the air could be heard as a flash of white light sliced through the air towards Zhou Donghuang.

"Nobody will know it was me who killed you, though I am not worried about that at all," Zhou Donghuang said calmly as his right sleeve trembled and produced a fan that appeared in his hands. "I do not have to use this to kill you, but I just forged it last night and have not used it yet. Yours shall be its first blood!"

As he spoke, the fan in Zhou Donghuang's hands opened, its frame shimmering with a cold energy. Immediately, a faint white glow appeared above it.

Woosh!

With a swift motion, Zhou Donghuang opened the fan. He seemed to turn into a ghoul as he prepared to face the sword of light from Liu Xuanyu.

The fan flew out of his hands towards the flash of light, slicing through it like it was cutting through bean curd.

"Spirit weapon?!" When he had heard Zhou Donghuang's words, Liu Xuanyu had suspected that the fan in his hands was a spirit weapon. Now, seeing him use it to easily block his attack, his suspicion was confirmed. "Indeed, it is a spirit weapon!!"

At that moment, the greed in Liu Xuanyu's eyes seemed to turn even more intense. A spirit weapon! Even their sect had only one of those. Although Zhou Donghuang had easily blocked his attack, Liu Xuanyu thought of nothing but the spirit weapon. He had thought that Zhou Donghuang had used all his inner Yuan to destroy the attack. But his attack was a knife of inner Yuan from his body and did not require any additional input of energy. Such an attack could be taken down by an early Primal Core adept with the help of an inferior Primal Core spirit weapon using his full power.

"Before you die, let me thank you for gifting me this weapon!" Liu Xuanyu's greed flashed in his eyes. With a tremor of the white glow surrounding his body, he seemed to turn into a cannonball as he flew towards Zhou Donghuang at tremendous speed. His hands moved rapidly as they produced two sharp knives of inner Yuan. He planned to use all his might to murder the young man.

"Fool!" Though faced with the onslaught of Liu Xuanyu, Zhou Donghuang was aware of his intentions. He smirked as he spun the fan in his hands, its sharp white glow shining brightly.

Weng! Weng! Weng!

…

The fan spun in his hands like a fan blade that had left its machine, flying straight towards Liu Xuanyu while emitting a piercing sound.

"Spirit weapon!!" Seeing the fan spin towards him, Liu Xuanyu's eyes widened. The white glow transformed into two massive white hands that grabbed at the fan. Clearly, Liu Xuanyu was thinking of simply grabbing the fan. But in the next instant, as the fan drew closer, he sensed that the fan contained a massive and solid inner Yuan. His expression changed drastically.

"Impossible!!" In that instant, the energy that was radiating from the fan coming toward him was even more than his own inner Yuan.

It was not that the quality of the Yuan energy on the fan was more than his, but it was stacked together, as if it were the fusion of many early Primal Core adepts, exhibiting enough strength to destroy the energy released from his own inner Yuan.

Strength in numbers.

"No!!" With a worried cry, Liu Xuanyu tried his best to ward off the flying fan using his inner Yuan in his two hands. The spirit weapon was no longer a precious treasure but the scepter of death. The greed in his eyes was gone, replaced with fear.

Ching!!

A soft sound reverberated around the alley. Liu Xuanyu's guttural cry stopped. The fan spun like a machine and easily sliced through the inner Yuan at Liu Xuanyu's hands, killing him instantly!

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Chapter 172: Tuo Ku's Hypothesis

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Wham!

The spinning fan returned to Zhou Donghuang's outstretched hand, trailing fresh blood. It folded itself after it had finished its mission. The young man dressed in white looked exactly like an impeccably-featured student holding a fan.

From the time that Liu Xuanyu had materialized to his being killed by Zhou Donghuang was only a period of around ten breaths. In that time, no one had entered the alley.

Only after Zhou Donghuang had removed the space ring from Liu Xuanyu's finger and departed did anyone enter the alley to discover the corpses lying within.

The death of Liu Xuanyu, a middle Primal-Core-stage adept and the seventeenth elder of the Divine Light sect, naturally caused a huge ruckus. "Why would Seventeenth Elder die in this small alley?"

In the black market, Tuo Ku, the third elder of Divine Light sect, was furious. Just that morning, he had helped the Divine Light sect buy the formula for a Qi-gathering elixir that could heighten the senses twenty times. It had been a cause for celebration; he did not expect by the time Alchemist Xu had brought the formula back, their seventeenth elder Liu Xuanyu would have died in this way.

"Search! Thoroughly!" As the third elder of the Divine Light sect and the manager of the black market, Tuo Ku's order easily elicited the information he needed: some disciples of the black market informed him that Liu Xuanyu's trusty aide had already begun investigating the appearance of new faces in the black market.

"What's wrong?" Tuo Ku stared furiously at the old man who stood bowed in front of him with his head down and his body quivering. Tuo Ku's voice was unbelievably serious. "Don't tell me you don't know!"

"Third Elder …" answered the old man. Now that Liu Xuanyu had died, and being pressured by the third elder of the Divine Light sect, the old man did not dare hide, and hurriedly told Tuo Ku the full story of what had happened.

"Half a year ago, there was a middle-aged man who sold us the Qi-gathering elixir formula at the price of a thousand spirit stones. With the middle-aged man was a young man who the Yang family claims is an early Primal-Core-stage adept."

Hearing this, Tuo Ku easily linked that young man to the man in black who had just sold them another type of Qi-gathering elixir formula that very morning. That man in black had a very light voice and was also an early Primal-Core-stage adept.

"Go to the Yang family and call the old chief, Yang Qi, here."

Soon the old Yang chief, Yang Qi, was brought by the old man to the black market to meet Tuo Ku. "Yang Qi of the Yang family greets Third Elder!" Yang Qi greeted him respectfully with a bow.

"He should have told you about what happened. The young man who went to your family with a middle-aged man: are you sure he is an early Primal Core adept?" Tuo Ku asked directly as he glared at Yang Qi.

"Yes," nodded Yang Qi hurriedly. "He used his inner Yuan to float a piece of paper over to me. The inner Yuan that surrounded the piece of paper was as faint as fog and must have been that of an early Primal Core adept."

"You should know the consequences of lying to me." Tuo Ku's voice turned stone cold.

With a loud sound, Yang Qi dropped to his knees in fright. He said nervously, "Third Elder, why would I dare to lie to you? I swear to God that if I lie to you, I will die a terrible death!"

"One last chance," said Tuo Ku flatly. "If you dare to lie to me, from today on throughout the Shenguang empire and even the entire Ziyun planet, a Yang family will no longer exist!"

"Third Elder, I am really not lying to you." Hearing Tuo Ku threaten his family, Yang Qi could do nothing but smile bitterly, both speechless and indignant.

Seeing this, Tuo Ku then believed his words. "That middle-aged man was also an early Primal Core adept?"

"Yes," nodded Yang Qi. "When they came to our Yang family, the middle-aged man first killed my son. Who knows who shared the false story that the man was just a late Connate-stage adept, the news that caused me to lose my son and harm my family!" As he spoke, Yang Qi's voice was filled with hatred. Of course, he did not hate the Primal Core adept who had killed his son, because he knew that was useless. He hated the person who had spread the false information.

"What else was special about the two of them? For example, did they say where they were from?" Tuo Ku could not help but feel that someone who could produce those two Qi-gathering elixir formulas must have an impressive background or have been fortunate enough to have received this treasure.

Yang Qi paused to think before replying, "They did not have any special history. but the middle-aged man addressed the young man as 'Master' even though they were both of the early Primal Core stage. Also, when he addressed the young man, he did it extremely naturally, as if he genuinely respected him and took him as his master." Yang Qi shared all that he knew.

"The middle-aged man addressed the young man as 'Master'?" Tuo Ku's eyes narrowed. If that was the case, there was a higher likelihood that the young man had an impressive background. After all, without it, how would he make a man of equal skill willingly take him as his master? Surely, the young man had some strong power or a strong backing that was threatening the middle-aged man!

"You may take your leave."

After Yang Qi had left, Tuo Ku's eyes flashed with wisdom. "The man in black who sold us the Qi-gathering elixir formula this morning was definitely that same young man. Liu Xuanyu must have discovered this. So, after the young man left the black market, Liu Xuanyu tried to assassinate him to take what the young man had, including the hundred spirit stones that he had extorted from him previously. Although Liu Xuanyu was a middle Primal-Core-stage adept, the young man or the middle-aged servant, who are just in the early stage, could not have defeated him, even working together. This leaves just one possibility: there must be another Primal Core adept protecting the young man. When Liu Xuanyu attacked him, he killed Liu Xuanyu."

He continued, "Liu Xuanyu's body showed no sign of a struggle, so he must have died with a single blow. That means the murderer must be a late Primal-Core-stage adept just like me!"

Tuo Ku breathed in deeply as fear appeared in his eyes. "I cannot solve this matter myself. I shall pass the news to the sect and see what the Lord wishes to do."

…

Zhou Donghuang was not a late Primal-Core-stage adept. But he had killed Liu Xuanyu with a single blow. In fact, he had not employed any techniques nor used any of his past fighting experience, only his pure strength and the help of the spirit weapon to kill him!

The inner Yuan of a middle Primal-Core-stage adept was about twice as powerful as that of an early-stage adept. Although Zhou Donghuang was just in the early Primal Core stage, he had two Primal Cores inside his body, and because both were his, the inner Yuan within each could be perfectly fused to attack together. In such circumstances, his inner Yuan was twice as powerful as any ordinary early Primal Core adept.

Furthermore, he had just produced the superior Primal Core spirit weapon that allowed him to increase his power by sixty percent. With just the explosiveness of his inner Yuan, he could have easily destroyed the middle Primal-Core-stage adept, Liu Xuanyu.

Liu Xuanyu had been too arrogant and did not know how powerful his opponent could be, with the help of the superior spirit weapon, so he was killed with just one blow. If he had been more careful, perhaps he would have lasted longer. His incredible carelessness had caused him to be killed in an instant.

"With my wealth of fighting experience from my past life and employing the techniques to use inner Yuan, even without the spirit weapon, I would be able to easily kill Liu Xuanyu! The middle Primal Core adepts of Ziyun planet can only be considered rookies and cannot be compared to those of the star clans and supreme sects in the rest of the universe."

In the courtyard of Yuntai inn, Zhou Donghuang sat in front of a stone table as he opened the fan. He looked as if he was admiring the dense pattern on its surface, but he was thinking of something else.

Supreme sects and star clans were the most powerful forces in the universe. They produced lead disciples with a particular technique that not only increased their level of skill but also aided them in increasing their fighting experience and technique.

These lead disciples could easily kill a late Primal Core adept of Ziyun planet, even if they were just in the middle Primal Core stage. Even though the inner Yuan of the late Primal Core adept would be more than twice as powerful as that of the middle, the adept had to be able to fully utilize it.

This afternoon, the inner Yuan released by Liu Xuanyu had seemed solid but was filled with weakness. If Zhou Donghuang had wished to, he could have easily killed him even without the spirit weapon.

"If I had been able to produce the ultimate spirit weapon, with my current skill level I could defeat anyone in this Ziyun planet! But plans must give way to reality. Without the materials, I could only produce something like this," sighed Zhou Donghuang.

"The most important thing now is to produce the third Primal Core. Then, even with just a superior spirit weapon, I will be able to defeat anyone on Ziyun planet beneath Golden Core! As for now, when faced with Silver Core adepts like the manager of the black market, Tuo Ku, I may be able to hold them off for a while, but then my inner Yuan will no longer be able to compete."

Thinking of this, Zhou Donghuang stood up and returned to his room and began to practice again.

At the same time, the news of the death of Liu Xuanyu, the seventeenth elder of Divine Light sect, had already reached the Divine Light sect and caused a huge commotion.

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Chapter 173: The Primal Core Beast

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The Divine Light sect was one of the five major sects of Ziyun. Its members were stationed in the highest peak within the mountain ranges north of the Shenguang empire.

After the ancestral founders established the foundations of the Divine Light sect there, they named the mountain "Shenguang Peak."

"Our leader has commanded us to make a thorough investigation of the background of the young- and middle-aged men. This is a portrait of them. Take a copy and comb the entire place for their whereabouts, starting from the very center of the Shenguang empire!"

On an expansive stone platform halfway up Shenguang Peak, an old monk of average build, wearing a silver cassock, addressed eleven people in front of him.

The eleven people who stood before the old monk were either middle-aged monks wearing red robes or men in casual clothing. The Divine Light sect consisted of disciples of Buddha, as well as many who were laymen.

Each of the eleven people was standing on the back of a giant flying beast.

The first of them, wearing a black robe, tall and burly, was a middle-aged man with a scar on his face. Although the giant eagle at his feet was about the same size as the other giant eagles, its body was surrounded by a faint white mist, as if to make it clear to the others that it was a Primal Core beast!

The other flying beasts kept a certain distance from this giant eagle, each of their bodies stiff, as if they were afraid to move.

"As for the scope and range of this investigation, I will leave it to the ten elders to make your own arrangements."

The old monk faced the man in the black robes as he said this.

"Yes."

The black-robed man nodded.

"Let's go!"

…

After he greeted the old monk, the man in the black robes steered the giant eagle at his feet, whistled out and left Shenguang Peak in an instant.

With both wings spread out, the giant eagle that he rode had a wingspan of over 20 meters.

This body shape is the hallmark of the Connate stage level for the eagle species. However, this giant eagle was not a Connate stage beast, but a Primal Core beast. When most of these beasts are trained to reach the Connate stage, their shape will remain fixed.

They will remain unchanged, regardless of whether they are trained to reach the Primal Core, Dharma, or even the Primordial and Divine Transformation stages.

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!

…

As the man in black robes left, the other ten disciples and brethren of the Divine Light sect followed him on their own flying beasts. The flying beasts under their feet were just as huge.

A few of these eagle beasts also had a wingspan of 20 meters and were quite apparently Connate-stage beasts.

"You! Head to the northwest along the path to find out about the two people. If you find nothing in the northwest area of the Shenguang empire, you must continue in the same direction into the other empires to investigate."

"I will leave the West to you."

"You, go southwest."

…

Following the man in black robes, each of the Divine Light sect's ten elders gave their orders and one by one the figures on the flying beasts rode swiftly away. Finally, the black-robed man led his own Primal Core beast toward the southeast.

He chose to head southeast because the border to the next empire was so far away it required one to travel a great distance.

He thought it best to cover this route himself.

"I wonder who these two men are. Just as we became aware of them, they managed to stun the entire Divine Light sect. The leader himself needed to order a thorough investigation of their origins."

The man in the black robes raised his hands and two portraits appeared out of thin air. In one of them was a vivid and life-like picture of a refined middle-aged man.

The other portrait depicted a young man with handsome features and a sense of arrogance about him; he seemed unnaturally aloof.

The two people in these portraits were none other than Zhou Donghuang and his servant.

"Ever since I entered the 'Eagle Eye' this is the first time that the team has been activated to this extent," the man in black robes murmured to himself as he folded up the portraits.

Eagle Eye was the intelligence division of the Divine Light sect. It was under the control and responsibility of the fifth elder who was a Primal Core practitioner. The second person in charge of this division was the man in black robes – the tenth elder of the Divine Light sect.

This middle-aged man in black was also the practitioner in the Divine Light sect who was most likely to enter the advanced Primal Core stage next.

"Elder brother, this might turn out quite well for us: a time for us to head out and relax."

The youthful voice of a teenager came from the mouth of the giant eagle at the man's feet. This Primal Core beast had managed to refine the powers and control of his larynx and was now able to speak in human language.

"That is true."

The man in the black robes smiled, "However, I hope that this trip will be a rewarding one. I am curious about the origins of that young man."

"A Primal Core practitioner not 20 years of age. is that even possible? I personally feel this piece of news to be quite incredible," the giant eagle said, his tone full of suspicion.

"This news was passed back to the sect by the third elder. It should be genuine. I just don't know if the young man managed to get hold of some essence, or if he has a powerful teacher behind him," the man wondered aloud.

The giant eagle, a Primal Core beast, was able to travel at an incredible speed. However, because it needed to work with the black-robed man in their search for their target person, it took about half a month to reach the border of the southeast area of the Shenguang empire.

Swish!

After they went past the border of the Shenguang empire, the giant eagle continued forward in the southeast direction. For seven or eight days, they saw no sign of life.

"Elder brother, it's too remote here, isn't it? All I see are barren hills and treacherous waters!"

Looking down at the wilderness below, the giant eagle couldn't help but blurt this out to the man in black robes.

"Haha. This area is indeed desolate. However, it is said that past this desolate land, there are groups of people inhabiting the area and even a small sect," the middle-aged man said with a smile.

"A small sect? How small?" The giant eagle's curiosity was piqued.

"The strongest man within the sect is but a Connate stage practitioner," the man replied.

"Connate stage? The strongest one?"

The eagle's sharp eyes flashed with disdain. "That really is small."

"In all the major empires, there are but only a few Primal Core practitioners and even they are too embarrassed to establish their own sects. Now in such a small place, to start a sect where there is not one Primal Core practitioner, that is truly absurd!"

The giant eagle's contempt grew as he said this.

…

Three days later.

Two unwelcome guests, a man and an eagle, flew over a vast valley.

"If I were to guess, this should be the location of that small sect. I have seen records of this small sect in our Eagle Eye dossier; it seems like they call it the 'Valley of the Medicine Masters'?"

The middle-aged man in black robes stood on his eagle's back, its wings spreading over twenty meters. He surveyed the vast valley below them.

"There are even sentries at the height of the four corners of this valley."

The sharp eyes of the giant eagle flashed. It was not difficult for it to see the inconspicuous observation towers around the corners of the valley and that there were people on patrol, sending out signals.

"Let's head down." As the man in black robes spoke, the giant eagle swooped down towards the vicinity of a lookout post.

On that observation deck, an elder of the Valley looked at the man and the eagle as if they appeared out of thin air. On realizing the immense size of the giant eagle, his face immediately drained of color. "A Connate-level beast?!"

A giant eagle's wings spread more than twenty meters was the unmistakable characteristic of a Connate-level beast.

"A Connate-level beast?"

In response to the elder's exclamation, the giant eagle became a little upset. "Hey! old man, I'm not merely a small Connate-stage beast," he countered directly.

"Don't you dare speak of what you don't know, or I will tear you apart!" As it said this, the giant eagle flashed a deadly cold stare at the old man.

"Human language?"

The elder of the Valley was already pale with fright, and when he heard the giant eagle speak his pupils constricted in fear, his knees buckled, and he fell to the ground. "You… you are a Primal Core beast?!"

There had never been an appearance of a Primal Core practitioner or Primal Core beast in the Valley of the Medicine Masters before this.

However, this didn't prevent the people of the Valley of Medicine Masters from knowing that when a beast entered the Primal Core stage, it was able to hone its laryngeal muscles and practice speaking human language.

The ability to speak a human language was a sign of a Primal Core or even more advanced beast.

"At least you possess some form of learning."

The cold glare of the giant eagle dissipated at this.

Whoosh!

At the same moment, the man in black robes, a dazzling figure with a milky white halo around him, emerged from the sky and landed softly in front of the elder of the Valley.

"A Primal … Primal Core practitioner?!"

The elderly man, who was sitting on the ground paralyzed with fear, shrank away even further in shock. At this moment he felt as if his whole being had become numb.

First, a Primal Core beast.

And now, a Primal Core practitioner.

Was there anyone else in the history of the Valley of the Medicine Masters who has had this same encounter?

"I am the tenth elder from the Divine Light sect, Lin Hantian."

The middle-aged man in black robes, the tenth elder of the Divine Light sect and second-in-charge of the Eagle Eye intelligence team, held up two portraits in front of the elder clearly as he spoke. "Do you recognize these two people?"

"The Divine Light sect?" the Valley elder asked in suspicion; he had never heard of the Divine Light sect before.

However, as this other person was a Primal Core practitioner and, to top it off, a tenth elder from this sect named "Divine Light," it was not hard to imagine that this Divine Light sect was of a very different nature from his own Valley of the Medicine Masters.

Now, as the two portraits were held up before him and he was asked whether he recognized the two persons at all, he inadvertently glanced through them.

In just one look, his eyes unwittingly narrowed in recognition.

These two persons depicted in the drawings: he knew them.

One of them was their very own Head of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, Su Mo.

The other, whose youthful features had somehow faded, was still immediately recognizable. It was none other than the man that the Valley Head Su Mo had acknowledged as his master: Zhou Donghuang, a man from Yunyang country, of the 16 countries of the Eastern Valley, formerly known as the teenage Connate.

"My lord, I'm not sure. For what reason is it that you might be looking for these two people?"

The Valley elder asked cautiously because he did not know whether the other party was a friend or an enemy. If this man was an enemy and he was to reveal their Valley head's identity, that would surely undermine their safety!

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"I'm asking whether you know this man."

The Divine Light Sect's tenth elder, Lin Hantian grew somber, and the power of the essential core from the mid Primal Core adept swept out, his qi putting immense pressure on the body of the Valley elder, who was a mere elementary Connate stage adept. The elder's face turned white, and fresh blood spurted from his mouth.

This time, the Valley elder knew for sure that these visitors before him were malevolent in nature and hurriedly shook his head in denial, saying, "I don't know them! I don't know them!"

"I'll give you another chance to come clean… are you sure you don't know them?" Lin Hantian asked again, his lips parted in a wide smile, revealing rows of yellowed teeth.

"No, I don't."

The elder of the Valley continued shaking his head.

"I gave you a chance."

As Lin Hantian said this, the power of the essential core leaped from his hands, pressing against the head of the Valley elder. The devastating power of the essential core crushed him like a meat grinder in an instant, splattering flesh and blood everywhere.

"The truth in your eyes couldn't get past me."

Before this, Lin Hantian had seen the subtle look of surprise flash across the Valley elder's face and was almost certain that the man recognized the characters in the portrait. He only interrogated the elder again just to be doubly sure.

"It looks like the both of them were from this godforsaken land of barren hills and treacherous waters… it is no wonder that the third elder would pass on this information from the seventeenth elder, Liu Xuanyu. After thorough investigation, they were certain these two were not from the Shenguang Empire, but they also couldn't determine anything of their backgrounds even from the other four empires."

After finishing off the Valley elder, Lin Hantian settled again on the giant eagle's back in a flash. "So they've come from a place like this. It is not unusual then, for Liu Xuanyu to have uncovered so little of the origins of these people."

"This place is far too remote."

Riding on the giant eagle, Lin Hantian sped toward the Valley.

Their sudden appearance naturally shocked the other three elders of Valley of the Medicine Masters, who kept at their watch posts… However, when the three of them saw that the giant eagle at Lin Hantian's feet had a wingspan of more than 20 meters, their faces drained of all color.

"A Connate… Connate-level beast?"

"No… that giant eagle that you all see with the faint white glow wrapped around its body, that is clearly the mark of a Primal Core beast!"

"A Primal Core beast?"

As the three elders of the Valley confirmed that the giant eagle was truly a Primal Core beast, their faces changed again, and this time, they were consumed with mortal fear.

How could a Primal Core beast suddenly appear in their Valley?

And to top that off, one that was being steered by a strange middle-aged man.

But it did not take much for them to deduce this: The man riding this Primal Core beast was most likely also a Primal Core adept, and very possibly a much stronger one than the beast at his feet.

"Just now, I asked a man over there a question… he was not honest, and so I killed him."

Lin Hantian stood on the giant eagle's back and pointed to where he came from, as he watched the three flying beasts that the three Valley elders were riding grow increasingly restless and uncomfortable.

The three Valley elders looked to the direction of the watch post that Lin Hantian was pointing at, and the look on their faces changed dramatically.

They were just wondering to themselves, about why the sentry at that watchtower had not come with them. It was because he was killed by this man who was now in front of them!

"I only hope that you will not disappoint me."

As Lin Hantian declared this, he lifted his arm, and the two portraits held up by solid shafts of white light flew out.

The two portraits were held up before the three Valley elder's eyes.

With this one move from Lin Hantian, the three men came to a new realization: The man in black robes that was before them was not just a Primal Core adept, but a mid Primal Core adept at that!

The milky white essential core that this man was able to amass and condense into a solid state was the mark of a mid Primal Core adept

"Valley Head?"

One of the Valley elders, startled by the figure in one of the portraits, involuntarily called out in surprise.

As soon as he had let out the exclamation, his eyes immediately showed a sense of regret. The people before him obviously had ill intentions, and if they were in search of the Valley Head, it was definitely not for good.

"Valley Head?"

Lin Hantian's eyes brightened. "That man there, you say he is your Head of the Valley of the Medicine Masters?

"To think that even a small sect such as yourselves, in a desolate place like this, can produce an early Primal Core adept… He must be the first of his kind in the history of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, right?"

Lin Hantian's eyes narrowed in curiosity as he questioned.

"A Primal Core adept?"

The three elders of the Valley were completely stunned. This man claimed that their Valley Head was a Primal Core adept?"

"My lord, you… you must be mistaken? Our Valley Head is in fact not a Primal Core adept, but only a late Connate stage adept," one of the elders of the Valley explained.

"Yes. My lord, it must be someone who looks just like him, you are mistaken."

"Indeed! And this other person, we do not recognize him. Perhaps, you have made a mistake my lord… Our Valley Head is genuinely a Connate stage adept, and not even one who has reached his extreme level of cultivation, much less a Primal Core adept."

The other two Valley elders piped in as well.

They said this, even though they knew for sure, and without a doubt, that the person in the portrait was their very own Valley Head.

Other than using a doppelganger as an excuse, how would they explain the identity of the young man in the other portrait?

The young man with the handsome features and extraordinary aura about him was obviously the history-making Connate stage teenager, and also the head master of the Valley of the Medicine Masters.

Now, as they deemed the new visitors to be hostile, the three Valley elders tried their best to remedy the situation and make sure that they didn't find out who exactly this person in the portrait was.

"Mm?"

As Lin Hantian considered the three Valley elders' words, his brows furrowed. Was this man in the portrait truly a lookalike, a doppelganger?

To confirm the matter, Lin Hantian personally stopped a disciple of the Valley of Medicine Masters to ask him if he knew the person in the portrait… And for extra assurance, he did not bring the three elders of the Valley to the ground with him.

The three Valley elders, still up in the air, had the still-trembling flying beasts at their feet, their eyes barely showing their subtle look of discomfort.

Now, their only hope was that their fellow disciple would not give them away.

Speaking of coincidence.

The man that Lin Hantian stopped to speak to was not just any person. He was in fact, the same disciple that the legendary Zhou Donghuang met soon after he arrived at the Valley of the Medicine Masters—Huang Mingfeng.

At that time, Huang Mingfeng had personally brought Zhou Donghuang to the practice grounds himself as if he were a familiar.

"Boy, do you recognize these two men in the portraits?"

Lin Hantian landed from the air and appeared before Huang Mingfeng. Naturally, this scared him as he stammered, "Flying… you can fly… You… You are a Primal Core adept?!"

"Tell me honestly, or I will have your head!"

Lin Hantian's tone was cold, and his voice gave one the feeling of falling into an icy cellar. This scared Huang Mingfeng to the point of paralysis, as his whole body stiffened in response.

At that moment, as Huang Mingfeng looked up at the two portraits held up by Lin Hantian, and saw that one of them was a picture of Su Mo, he involuntarily let out a small shriek.

"What is it? Do you recognize him?"

Lin Hantian's eyebrow twitched impatiently as he questioned the boy.

"He does look familiar… but, on closer look, it is not the same person."

Huang Mingfeng shook his head, at the same time silently cursing the man before him. "How dare you threaten me… And so what if you are a Primal Core adept? Even if I did recognize him as our Valley Head, why should I tell you anything? What would you do… bite me? Come! I dare you to bite me!"

And it was while he was harboring these thoughts that Huang Mingfeng saw the young man in the other portrait, he had to look away after a quick glance.

"Your Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters, what stage of practice is he in?" Lin Hantian asked coldly.

"Connate stage."

Lin Hantian's tone was so ice-cold that he frightened Huang Mingfeng on another level, and without any further thought, he had inadvertently responded to Lin Hantian's line of questioning.

He regretted it deeply as soon as he responded. Why did he not think of continuing the lie with this bastard?

"Connate stage?"

Lin Hantian frowned and considered the Valley disciple in front of him, who just a moment ago was paralyzed with fear and rooted to the ground as if his legs had been filled with lead. He asked again, "Your Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters, what stage of practice is he in?"

However, the Valley disciple did not seem to respond to Lin Hantian's question and instead seemed to ignore him completely.

It was only when Lin Hantian took a few steps forward, until he was right in front of him, did he hurriedly respond, "The late Connate stage! Late Connate stage! The Valley Head is a late Connate stage adept!

"My lord…. please… please don't kill me! Please don't kill me!"

This Primal Core adept could not only kill him, but could even destroy the entire Valley of the Medicine Masters, and with complete ease at that. So when this Valley disciple came face to face with the flying Lin Hantian right in front of him, he was truly scared out of his wits.

"Late Connate stage?"

Lin Hantian's face sank a little. Could it really be that this person was just a lookalike?

Nonetheless, this time, Lin Hantian was not going to give up on this.

As he distractedly rolled up the two portraits and put them away, he went back to find two other Valley elders, threatening them with their own lives, and interrogated them about the Head of the Valley of Medicine Master's current stage of cultivation.

At last, Lin Hantian was able to be completely certain about one fact:

The Head of the Valley of the Medicine Master, was indeed only just a late Connate stage adept.

At least he was at the late Connate stage a year ago.

"It looks like this person really is just a doppelganger."

At this time, Lin Hantian did not even have the intention of approaching the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters himself to confirm his identity but instead rode his giant eagle out of the Valley. Before long, he emerged from the sky above one of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley.

In Lin Hantian's opinion:

A Valley Head from the tiny sect of the Valley of Medicine Masters in a barren and desolate place… even the most talented and outstanding disciple from the Divine Light Sect could not, in the short time of one year, advance two levels from the Connate stage to enter into the Primal Core stage.

Because of this, he knew that this person was just someone who resembled the man.

"According to some records of Eagle Eye… there are sixteen small countries in close range of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, they are collectively referred to as the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley.

"This must be one of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley."

Lin Hantian glanced down and then addressed the giant eagle at his feet, "Although the two are unlikely to have come from such a small place… Since we are here, we might as well stop at each of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley to ask about it."

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Chapter 175: Zhou Donghuang's Self-Confidence

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The Capital of the Shenguang Empire.

Yuntai Inn.

"The third Primal Core has finally been successfully amassed… However, the Buddha's lifeblood, has now already been completely exhausted."

Zhou Donghuang sat on the bed inside his room. His eyes seemed to flash when he opened them, and at the same time, three misty white shapes of Primal Core energy seemed to form and float within the very core of his body.

Three Primal Cores.

Now, Zhou Donghuang was yet another step closer to entering the Primal Core stage required to achieve the Lord of the Four Supremes technique.

If he were just able to amass and concentrate the fourth core, he would then have formally entered the early Primal Core level of practice that would allow him to master the Lord of the Four Supremes and also have complete control of the power of the four cores.

And when that happened, with just the essential core alone, he would be able to easily crush his fellow adepts.

He would even be able to crush a mid Primal Core adept.

The core amassed by a mid Primal Core adept was usually twice as strong as that of the power that could be amassed by the everyday early Primal Core adept.

However, the power of the four cores that Zhou Donghuang could amass from the essential core within was, in fact, three whole times stronger compared to that of a regular early Primal Core adept!

So, of course, it went without saying that the three cores that Zhou Donghuang could currently amass, could quite easily crush all of his peers of the same level of practice.

Even if he had to depend on his essential core alone, he could very well be on par with that of a mid Primal Core adept.

Ziyun Era, the third month of the Year 1231.

A 20-year-old Zhou Donghuang could now readily amass the power of three cores and advance into another level of practice.

"With the strength I now possess, coupled with the superior spirit weapon… I can stop any Golden Essence adept of this age, in all of Ziyun!"

An overwhelming sense of self-confidence seemed to exude from Zhou Donghuang.

"Out of a thousand spirit stones, only a third of them have been consumed."

Zhou Donghuang's gaze quickly fell to the thousand spirit stones arranged in an energy-amassing formation and found that the stones were about a third dimmer than they were before.

Despite this, it meant that about two-thirds of spirit energy still resided in each of these spirit stones.

"If I were to continue practicing without the Buddha's lifeblood… I would have no way of amassing the fourth primal core, even if I did consume the thousand spirit stones entirely."

Shaking his head, Zhou Donghuang put away the thousand spirit stones that were on his bed and immediately got up and out of his room.

"Still, not bad… I've reached the late Connate stage."

After leaving the room, Zhou Donghuang went to the other corner of the yard and looked at the golden-crowned eagle, Big Gold, and found that Big Gold seemed to have grown a little bigger from two months ago.

"This is thanks to your spirit stones and the Connate core, young master."

With the help of the Connate core refined by Zhou Donghuang and the spirit stone that his master had given time ago, Big Gold's progress during this time improved tremendously, even surpassing Su Mo.

There was more to be said of Big Gold's training, whose beast training methods were taken from Zhou Donghuang himself. Although these training techniques were not, in Zhou Donghuang's recollection, the finest, compared to the Thousand-Star Sword Technique, Fiery Thunder Training Regimen or Manual of Unruffled Sage—the top three methods of human cultivation in the universe—they did not fare much worse.

"At present, even Little Gold has just entered the Connate stage… in fact, he might not have even reached that level yet."

Zhou Donghuang laughed as he shook his head, saying, "If Little Gold were to know about this, that you have already reached achieved the Connate stage… I'm afraid he would be driven mad with jealousy."

"Haha…!"

At Zhou Donghuang's words, Big Gold could almost imagine the look of defeat on Little Gold's face, and to a certain extent, he really hoped to see it. "Young master, two months ago, you said that you had plans to return. When then, will we return?"

"After a few more days, maybe."

There was a glint in Zhou Donghuang's eye. "These few days, I am hoping to gather another batch of herbs and spirit stones from the capital of Shenguang Empire… We have so many people with us, and everyone needs a spirit stone to practice."

As for the herbs, these were for Zhou Donghuang and needed to be used for the refinement of the core drugs.

Of course, the core drugs that Zhou Donghuang were able to refine up to this point were of no particular use to him; they were to be set aside for his family's use.

"It won't be long before we have to leave Ziyun.

"But before we leave… I want to do my best to help create the best environment for them to cultivate their powers."

This was what Zhou Donghuang had decided to do.

Of course, it was clear to Zhou Donghuang that if he were to return this time, it would not be his last time.

He would not leave until he has solved every issue in Ziyun and until he could push Ziyun to the point of invincibility.

"Master."

As Su Mo's voice traveled across to him, Zhou Donghuang seemed to suddenly return to his senses and looked towards Su Mo. "What stage are you at now? Are you close to attaining mid Primal Core?"

"Not by a mile."

Su Mo was a little embarrassed. "I feel that… after entering the Primal Core stage, that even with the spirit stone and the Buddha's lifeblood that you have bestowed upon me to help, the speed of my cultivation has still been very slow."

"That is a matter of talent and technique."

Zhou Donghuang shook his head as he raised his hands, and out of nowhere, a space ring, wrapped in a faint white mist, seemed to shoot out from one of his fingers and fly in front of Su Mo.

"This space ring once belonged to the Divine Light Sect's seventeenth elder, Liu Xuanyu… I have since re-cultivated it again, and the space it holds is now two square meters, up from just one square meter before.

"Now, I have stored a manual within this space ring… from today onward, you will practice this method.

"This manual consists of a mix of methods, it is a part Primal Core and part Dharma technique, you will be able to read a record of it here. Once you have memorized everything on it, it is best that you destroy it."

"As for the Primordial Soul practice methods, I will hand that to you after you have achieved these," Zhou Donghuang said.

"Liu Xuanyu, the Divine Light Sect's seventeenth elder?"

Su Mo narrowed his eyes. "Master, just a month and a half ago, while I was collecting medicine at the Yang's, I had heard the Liu Xuanyu had been killed by someone…. Was it you that killed him?"

"Mhm."

Zhou Donghuang nodded his head lightly. "I was at the black market the last time, and on the road home, he had intentionally gone in my way and threatened to kill me. It was then that I decided to kill him."

The corner of Su Mo's mouth twitched fiercely, and the shock overcame him.

His master had said before that he wasn't afraid of Liu Xuanyu.

And he believed it.

However, having that faith was simple enough, and knowing that Liu Xuanyu had actually died at the hands of his master was still a fact that shook him to the very core.

With a deep breath, and struggling to calm the terror in his heart, Su Mo retrieved the space ring that was still floating in the air before him. Within it, he unfolded two pieces of parchment that were filled with words.

Just as he did this, Su Mo's eyes seemed to brighten, and the color returned to his face. "Could there… be such a wondrous technique in this world?

"Heavens! The techniques that I used to cultivate in the past are complete and utter rubbish compared to these methods!"

Su Mo was now extremely excited.

He would never have known about this if he did not see it, and it only took one look to floor him completely.

After just casually browsing through the manual that his young master had just given him, he had discovered all sorts of wondrous things within it. He decided that all in all, he would leave every technique he had once practiced far behind him.

Even though he had not even started practicing these new methods, he knew for sure that they would be immensely helpful to him!

"Master, what methods are these?"

Su Mo excitedly asked Zhou Donghuang.

"The Thousand-Star Sword Technique," Zhou Donghuang answered plainly. "It is considered to be the universe's most superior technique… on top of that, it is a swordplay technique, purposefully designed to kill."

"The universe's best and unsurpassable technique?"

Su Mo was completely dumbfounded and met Zhou Donghuang's gaze once more, this time expressing in a completely different tone, "Master, I have a question… I… I'm not sure if it would be appropriate to ask."

"Ask."

Zhou Donghuang looked at Su Mo with a hint of suspicion in his eyes.

"You… Are you the reincarnation of some old mythical creature? Or perhaps, your current body might have been possessed by some magnificent adept with powers far beyond that of the Primordial Soul stage," Su Mo blurted out, expressing the perplexity he had been feeling all this time.

"It is true that adepts of the Primordial Soul stage and above can claim a body by possession, however, this is always done at a considerable price… 90 percent of the time, without the possibility of surpassing their abilities prior to the possession, they can only grow old in their new bodies and wait for death in their sleep, or continue to let their bodies live, without the hope of re-possessing another again."

Zhou Donghuang looked straight at Su Mo as he explained, "And what's more, after possessing another man's body, the essence of the Primordial Soul is maintained, and it would only take a bit of additional cultivation for one to reach the early Primordial Soul stage again.

"There would be absolutely no need to start the qi-gathering afresh and go through the whole process of achieving Connate, then Dharma stages," Zhou Donghuang said.

Zhou Donghuang's explanation undoubtedly opened a new world of understanding for Su Mo, as if he suddenly saw the light.

These things were totally beyond Su Mo's realm of experience before, and also something that he never would have been able to come close to seeing.

In actual fact, he seemed to cut it quite close with his deductions.

However, Zhou Donghuang was never some "old mythical creature" in his previous life.

In all the peoples of the universe, a thousand-year-old adept who has entered the Immortal stage could hardly be compared on the same page as that of some mythical creature.

Because an Immortal could live up to 10,000 years!

And in the face of a lifespan of 10,000 years, a person that was a thousand years old would be considered a teenager.

"If there is nothing else, come with me for a trip to the black market," Zhou Donghuang said to Su Mo.

"Master, you… Do you plan on selling the remedies at the black market?" Su Mo asked offhandedly.

"No."

Zhou Donghuang shook his head, and there was a glint in his eye as he said, "This time, we will openly seek the owner of the black market, the third elder of the Divine Light Sect."

"Openly, you said?"

Su Mo's eyes narrowed.

Every trip they had made to the black market before was in secret or in disguise.

And now, his master was suddenly saying that he wanted to openly see the third elder of the Divine Light Sect. It was tantamount to completely removing their cover and exposing themselves to the third elder of the Divine Light Sect.

"After I killed Liu Xuanyu over two months ago, he has pretty much known all along that I had everything to do with his death."

"The only reason why he has not made a move against me yet, is only because he is jealous of me," said Zhou Donghuang plainly.

"Unless he, or the Divine Light Sect, can be entirely sure and confirm that I pose no threat to him or the Sect… they would not dare to make a move on me that easily," Zhou Donghuang said with utmost confidence.

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Chapter 176: A Battle with Tuo Ku

The Black Market.

A spacious hall.

Wearing robes that were white as snow, stood a young man with handsome features and an extraordinary aura about him. An elegant middle-aged man stood right behind him, looking humble and subservient.

Right now, a string of footsteps could be heard from outside the door.

Soon after, three figures appeared as they stepped into the great hall.

The leader amongst them was an old monk in a silver cassock. He was the Divine Light Sect's third elder, and also in charge of the Black Market, named Tuo Ku.

As for the other men who followed behind him, one was a middle-aged man in plain clothes, and the other was another old monk in a red cassock.

For these two men to be appearing next to Tuo Ku in this place, it could be said that they held pretty high positions in the Black Market or the Divine Light Sect.

"Sir, are you a master now?"

As Tuo Ku entered, he recognized the young man, whom he had only ever seen in portraits before. He was sitting at the head of the great hall in a seat that was usually his, and his mood darkened ever so slightly. "That seat, is my seat. If you'd like to sit sir, please do take the seat to the right."

At this point, Tuo Ku still had not gleaned much about the youth before him.

However, to a certain extent, the other party was provoking him with his behavior. It would undoubtedly be somewhat disgraceful for him to do nothing in response.

After all, he had two other elders of the Divine Light Sect with him.

If he were not able to handle this matter and news of this were to get out, how would he be able to show his face the same way again?

"This seat is not bad, in fact it's quite comfortable, I won't be moving.

"I've actually come to see you today to speak about something… and I'll leave once I'm done. If you want to sit here, you can just wait until I'm gone, and then you can sit for however long you desire," said Zhou Donghuang plainly.

Tuo Ku's face immediately turned red with fury at Zhou Donghuang's words.

"Brat!"

The middle-aged man in plain clothes spoke up from behind Tuo Ku, who was speechless with anger, wisps of Silver Essence starting to emit from his body. "By allowing you to take the next seat, the third elder was offering you some respect. If I were him, I would not be so generous… you, best not hesitate to do what you're told before you're forced to do more than you bargained for!" he said coldly.

"I could do with respect, but I, Zhou Donghuang, have never been forced… to do anything I didn't want to before."

Zhou Donghuang smiled slightly, then narrowed his eyes. "How about you show me how it's done?"

"You!"

It was the first time that Zheng Yong had been scorned to such an extent, ever since he had reached the intermediate Primal Core stage and was promoted as the Divine Light Sect's fifteenth elder. At that moment, the rage that filled him rushed to his head, and bright white light seemed to burst from his body like bolts of lightning, as if he was ready to make a move to attack Zhou Donghuang.

However, right at that moment, Tuo Ku stopped him.

At the same time, the shards of Silver Essence shot out from his body, as he looked at Zhou Donghuang with a restrained sense of fear and asked, "Why are you looking for me?"

As he regarded the fearless youth in white before him, he could not help but think about Liu Xuanyu, their seventeenth elder, who had just died two months ago.

At that time, he had suspected that Liu Xuanyu was killed by the late Primal Core adept who was standing by the young man.

"I'm here to make an exchange with you."

Zhou Donghuang got right to the point.

"What sort of exchange?" Tuo Ku asked, brows furrowed.

"Make an exchange? Had this fellow, not always done business at the Black Market from the shadows? Why would he suddenly come out in the open with these demands? Could it possibly be that he knows that his identity has been exposed?" Tuo Ku thought to himself.

"I would like to sell a spirit weapon to the Divine Light Sect," Zhou Donghuang said plainly.

As soon as Zhou Donghuang made this declaration, Tuo Ku and the others were dumbfounded and momentarily seemed to have lost their senses.

A spirit weapon?

No one in the whole of Ziyun had such a weapon, outside of the Divine Light Sect and one other sect.

The value of a spirit weapon was immeasurable, and one could not put a price to it so easily.

If the Divine Light Sect were to willingly put up their own spirit weapon for sale, the other three sects without one would possibly offer half of their entire stash of spirit stones from their treasury just for the chance to own it.

The energy yield of any spirit stone in existence on this planet was very low.

Even so, after thousands of years of accumulated inheritance, each of the five great sects of Ziyun would have amassed over twenty thousand spirit stones in their treasuries!

"You… you have a spirit weapon?!"

Tuo Ku was filled with disbelief.

"50,000 spirit stones." Zhou Donghuang continued simply, "If the Divine Light Sect is not interested, I will approach the other sects.

"Of course, if I were to sell this to the others, I would not simply stop at 50,000 spirit stones. I'd start from 60,000 stones and up.

"On the account that I have been relatively satisfied with the past two dealings with the Divine Light Sect… This time, I'm offering the sect a preferential price to see if you might be interested."

As Zhou Donghuang finished, he raised his arms, and a delicate little mound appeared in his hands. Infused with his essential core, the mound appeared to be encased in fine and concentrated strands of light that formed a complex pattern around it.

In a strong force of qi, the little streams of light seemed to explode from the sheer power of his essential core and started to unravel.

Without a doubt, the three people, including Tuo Ku, knew for sure that the little mount in Zhou Donghuang's hands was indeed the genuine thing—a spirit weapon.

"It really is a spirit weapon!"

Zheng Yong shouted from behind Tuo Ku, his eyes filled with greed. The other old monk in the red cassock also stared at Zhou Donghuang, his eyes shining with wonder.

"Sir, by putting the spirit weapon on display like that… Are you not afraid that we would steal it?"

Tuo Ku's eyes also burned with desire.

"That would actually depend on whether you are even capable of doing that."

As Zhou Donghuang responded, he stood upright, his sharp glare sweeping across Tuo Ku and the others. "The three of you… come at me!"

In a flash, Zhou Donghuang leaped into the air. As he secreted the delicate ball of light away, he pulled out a fan that unfolded quickly to reveal a row of sharp blades aimed at the men in front of him.

"Perhaps the late Primal Core adept standing behind you might be a more worthy opponent…" Tuo Ku said bitterly.

Tuo Ku still insisted that the man behind the seventeenth elder, Liu Xuanyu's death, was another man who was with Zhou Donghuang, a Primal Core adept.

In addition, through the young man's own words, Tuo Ku was able to confirm that he knew his identity had been exposed. Otherwise, he would not have taken the initiative to mention the two transactions that had been made with the Divine Light Sect before.

"Such arrogance!"

Zheng Yong' face darkened as he leaped forward toward the youth. "You are but an early Primal Core adept! Even with the spirit weapon's power, I alone would be enough to defeat you!

"Today, I will help your elder to teach you a lesson and make you understand that no matter how good you think you are, there is always someone out there that is better!"

When he was done, Zheng Yong was already right in front of Zhou Donghuang.

Boom!

Zheng Yong thrust out a palm, and a vast amount of white light from his essential core condensed and shot out, aiming for Zhou Donghuang's shoulders like a menacing rainbow of bright white light.

However, in the face of the lightning-fast strike from Zheng Yong, Zhou Donghuang seemed unperturbed, and with a quick movement of his shoulder, he allowed himself to take a direct hit from his opponent, his hair billowing from the force of the attack.

"Too weak."

Zhou Donghuang calmly responded, and before Zheng Yong even had the time to even react, he had put his hand on Zheng Yong's shoulder with thunderous force, and ripped his arm out in a split instant.

Fresh blood poured out, a gory sight to behold!

"Urgh!"

Zheng Yong groaned as he tried to stifle the pain, and eventually his whole being slumped to the ground, leaning to the side of the room. As his eyes met Zhou Donghuang's again, they were filled with sheer panic, fear and incredulity.

He had never thought that the opponent would be able to fend off his attack.

And even less so, that in such a short amount of time, he would be able to take the strike and return an attack!

This experience in combat made him feel as if he were fighting with a battle-hardened monster who had stepped out from hell itself. It made him feel weak and powerless, and it canceled all thoughts of ever confronting him again.

Hisss…

As the old monk in the red cassock behind Tuo Ku considered the scene in front of him, he took a deep breath and looked again at the young man in white robes, who seemed a lot more imposing.

Zheng Yong's strength was not far from that of his own.

However, this was a truly devastating defeat.

Although everything just happened in the blink of an eye, he could see that the other party was not a fluke, and that he was truly the one in control.

What a trickster, having been able to turn the tide like that!

And if he were to take matters in his own hands, his fate would nonetheless be the same.

"How is it that an early Primal Core adept… can be capable of such moves?"

The old monk in red was truly terrified and involuntarily took a step back. If there was a choice, he would not willingly challenge the young man who had so easily torn off Zheng Yong's arm.

"It was you that killed Liu Xuanyu?" Tuo Ku asked instinctively, he did not know why, but he had a nagging suspicion in that instant.

Previously, because he knew that the young man was only an early Primal Core adept, and he had never completely linked Liu Xuanyu's death to him… But at that moment, he was clear that if the young man did not have mercy, Zheng Yong would already be dead.

"You thought it was someone else that did it?"

Zhou Donghuang simply laughed in response.

"I guess I underestimated you."

Tuo Ku's face became grave as he said bluntly, "We, the Divine Light Sect, want your spirit weapon… However, since you intend to spar with me, I will go along with it. And while we're at it, as Zheng Yong said before, you had better learn a lesson from your elders and let me teach you something about modesty! "

As Tuo Ku made this declaration, the Silver Essence expanded from his body and wrapped his entire being in stunning silver light.

Boom!!

As Tuo Ku's feet touched the ground, the floor of the entire room suddenly sank, and horrible cracks started to form and spread like spider webs across the room.

At that moment, every man who was in the Black Market seemed to feel a tremor beneath their feet.

"What's happening there?"

"Is it an earthquake?"

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Chapter 177: The Ambush of Flying Daggers

Inside the room.

Now, not only were there cracks on the ground, but even the walls and ceiling were shaken up with debris falling everywhere.

"As an early Primal Core adept, you might be able to beat a mid Primal Core adept, however no matter how strong your technique, the power of your moves, at any case, will be limited."

When Tuo Ku struck the ground, his eyes were unfeeling, and he looked completely indifferent as if he were not talking about something of little consequence. "The power of an advanced Primal Core adept would be ten times of yours!

"And in the face of ten times the power, even your clever skills and methods would be entirely futile!"

With the way Tuo Ku spoke, it was apparent that he thought that Zhou Donghuang had defeated Zheng Yong by a mere sleight of hand and cunning artifice.

"Is that so?"

Swiftly leaping from the ground and surging forward, Tuo Ku brandished blades of silver light in his hands as the silver light from his body rose sharply. Zhou Donghuang smiled indifferently, and then threw the folding fan in his hand.

Swish!

The fan spun at lightning speed in mid-air.

At the same time, like a shadow, Zhou Donghuang leapt upwards and landed on the still-spinning fan to come face-to-face with Tuo Ku. The brilliant white light that was emitting from the folding fan under his feet grew stronger and stronger.

"The spirit weapon?"

At this moment, not only Tuo Ku, but also the Black Market's two other Divine Light Sect elders Zheng Yong and the old monk in the red cassock, could all see that the fan at Zhou Donghuang's feet was also a spirit weapon.

Instantly, their eyes only revealed a look of incredulity and disbelief.

This man had only just pulled out a spirit weapon, and it was already enough to shock then, who would have thought that he would be able to pull out yet another weapon. And from the looks of it, the power that this one had was no weaker than the first spirit weapon.

"If you can take my next attack, I will give you one spirit weapon at no charge."

These calm words came just as Tuo Ku's silver blade had been condensed and formed completely, ready to go against the white-cloaked youth who had stepped on the folding fan.

Suddenly, his heart faltered a little, and his pupils narrowed sharply.

He felt the confidence coming from this young man.

At the next moment, he did not dare to act rashly, and with mind and body at full alert, he stared at the youth before him and the weapon at his feet like he was about to face a great enemy.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The sound of the howls of many swords rang out, but they came from the folding fan at the feet of Zhou Donghuang, and each stick that made up its structure seemed to turn into a sharp sword loaded with essential core as they whizzed out.

In an instant, all eight blades from the fan flew out, and the fan vanished from beneath Zhou Donghuang's feet.

Under the gaze of everyone in the room, the eight fan blades that flew out were suspended, forming a circle above Tuo Ku's head, every blade seemingly connected by an inexplicable force.

This was really a type of sword spell.

"Is this a… spell?"

Tuo Ku was the third elder of the Divine Light Sect after all, and there were such techniques and spells practiced within the sect, and so he was able to recognize at a glance the very type of spell that Zhou Donghuang was currently demonstrating.

"It seems you are not so ignorant after all," Zhou Donghuang replied without enthusiasm. "This technique is called the 'Ambush of Flying Daggers,' and using it, I can attack from all directions and leave no form of escape."

The moment he said this, Zhou Donghuang leaped upwards, and in the blink of an eye was suddenly above the array of swords over Tuo Ku's head, stepping over them as he regarded Tuo Ku from above.

Crash!

Crash! Boom!

Without any signs or warning, just as Tuo Ku was fully absorbed in the moment, the eight fan blades in the air flashed in unison and fell as one, and seemed to rain from the sky towards Tuo Ku.

"Humph!"

Tuo Ku bitterly snorted, as the silver light from his body rose further, setting off across his whole body as if he was bathed in a silvery light. "In the face of absolute power, any of these fancy, elaborate moves would be but entirely futile!"

Buzz! Buzz!

At the same time, four-foot blades of swords condensed and formed from the essential core emanating from Tuo Ku's two hands. They seemed extremely sharp and menacing.

"Now that, I would love to see for myself!"

Zhou Donghuang laughed coldly.

For a Golden Essence adept to say this in front of him would have been acceptable.

But for a Silver Essence adept to doubt the force of power that he had just displayed with his sword technique?

That was just laughable!

"You'll see it in a moment."

Tuo sneered, and the Silver Essence from his body rose sharply once more. The two silver swords in his hands seemed to dance, and like a bulldozer seemed to easily deflect the rain of swords directed against him.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

The eight fan blades were all deflected in an instant but immediately came back together in full force.

"It is futile."

The harder Tuo Ku fought, the more fearless he became, and he warred against the eight fan blades so fiercely, it was hard to tell who had the upper hand.

"Third elder, watch your feet!"

Zheng Yong's hasty warning came across, and Tuo Ku's face changed completely.

He had only just realized that the youth's folding fan had not just ten blades, but in fact, ten in its structure.

The ones that came from eight sides, he was able to shield himself from completely.

But, only just barely so.

If the ambush were to come from ten sides, what else could he use as a defense?

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

The ten swords silently but swiftly encircled beneath Tuo Ku and came whistling out toward him, one by one. Tired of dealing with the rain of swords against him, Tuo Ku had, in a blink of an eye and without warning, become a vulnerable target.

"Third Elder, watch out!"

The old monk in the red cassock, had for a brief moment, taken a step forward to help Tuo Ku.

Swish!

At that moment, one of the fan blades suddenly spun around in mid-air, and headed straight toward him.

"Humph! I, Tuo Ji, am after all a mid Primal Core adept. Did you think I wouldn't be able to stop a single fan blade out of the eight from you, an early Primal Core adept?"

Tuo Ji snorted, and milky white essential core started to ebb from both his hands, transfiguring into two giant hands. The two giant hands reached for the oncoming fan blade, hoping to grab onto it and stop it in its tracks.

Hiss!

However, a soft hissing noise was followed by the sound of Tuo Ji moaning, and he saw that fresh blood gushed from both his hands. At the same time, there were bloodstains on his neck.

Tuo Ji bitterly took two steps back. He knew that if his opponent had been less merciful, he would already have been silenced with the quick of a blade.

Now, even if he had still dared to make another move, Zhou Donghuang would not necessarily let him off so easily the next time, but he didn't have the cheek to come forth again.

Swish!

A single fan blade returned to its ambush formation with the other blades, and as they whistled about Tuo Ku, it seemed he was desperate and unable to cope with it all.

At that moment, no matter how strong his essential core was, it was completely unable to come against that force.

He could change tactics entirely and aim directly for the youth clothed in white to kill him off and break the sword spell. However, he was afraid that before he could even formulate the new attack, the swift and deadly fan blades would already be sticking into him like a pig.

Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!

As the fan blades flashed past him, they left cuts on Tuo Ku across both his hands, legs, neck and forehead.

What was initially a brilliantly clean silver cassock, was instantly stained with blood and ripped to shreds, leaving Tuo Ku a sorry figure.

This time, Tuo Ku could only retreat from battle with a bitter smile on his face, as he looked at the young man still the in the air like a god in the sky. "I'm defeated, I'm not a worthy opponent."

After seeing his moves first hand, Tuo Ku was clear about something.

Unless a Golden Essence adept from the Divine Light Sect could come forth to face-off with this man, no other man in the sect could come close to fighting him.

And under Tuo Ku and everyone else's gaze, the eight fan blades returned to the young man and once again formed into a folding fan that he grabbed hold of.

As the youth, in his snow-white robes, landed on his feet holding the folding fan and returned to his seat once more, the three elders of the Divine Light Sect, led by Tuo Ku, did not dare underestimate the young man again.

"Young master… I am the third elder of the Divine Light Sect, Tuo Ku. May I ask for your respected name?"

Tuo Ku bowed in deference as he asked this.

"Zhou Donghuang."

Zhou Donghuang made a sweeping glance across to Tuo Ku. "50,000 spirit stones. You had better prepare them quickly… I will leave for a few days, and then return to find you."

As he said this, Zhou Donghuang stood up from his seat and prepared to leave.

"And also…"

Before leaving, Zhou Donghuang recalled something and said to Tuo Ku, "The last time I approached the Black Market searching for a few rare materials. There's still a portion of that which hasn't yet been found. If you find them and the Divine Light Sect has some, you can use them to claim back some of your spirit stones."

Finishing his statement, Zhou Donghuang turned to leave the utterly destroyed room with Su Mo.

And when the both of them had left the room, Tuo Ku took a long sigh of relief as if a weight had been lifted off of him.

"Third Elder."

Zheng Yong was solemn as he asked, "You said… what kind of man is he? Not only does he have so many spirit weapons, but with the force of his early Primal Core techniques… and to possess that level of power, it truly is beyond anyone's imagination!"

"Early Primal Core?"

Tuo Ku shook his head. "He is not quite so simply an early Primal Core adept. The way he fought with me, that pure violent force of his essential core, far exceeds any mid Primal Core adept's ability even with the support of the spirit weapon. There must be another secret about him.

"Even though his essential core was truly that of an early Primal Core adept's, but the vast amount he is able to generate is nothing any normal early adept can do. In fact, it is way more than what an early Primal Core adept can do!"

After that battle, Tuo Ku was riddled with questions.

"After this, you will help me manage the affairs of the Black Market, and I will head back to our Sect alone," Tuo Ku said.

…

In the following few days, Zhou Donghuang brought Su Mo on a tour around the capital of the Shenguang Empire and bought a bunch of herbs and supplies.

A few days later, a giant black eagle with the wingspan of over 20 meters took Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo on his back from the Yuntai Inn and soared into the sky, leaving the Shenguang capital at a great speed as they headed into the Southeast.

"In the blink of an eye… another year has passed."

As they left the southeastern land of the Shenguang Empire and entered into the deserted mountains, Zhou Donghuang looked at the direction of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley. He fell into a daze, his eyes filled with a sense of nostalgia.

He remembered everything clearly.

A year ago, the day that he had left Qingshan town, was the 8th of January, Year 1230 of the Ziyun Era.

And now, it was already March 12, Year 1232 of the Ziyun Era.

"With the speed at which Big Gold can travel now, it will take less than a month for us to reach Qingshan town," Zhou Donghuang thought.

Of course, there was no time to rest for Zhou Donghuang on the road back, and he assumed the Qi-gathering position on Big Gold's back with Su Mo riding behind him.

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Chapter 178: Return to the Valley of Medicine Masters

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The Sixteen Countries of the East Valley.

The country of Yunyang.

"Are you certain that you recognize him?"

In the Western Chu Ridge, within the Yang family mansion, a middle-aged man wearing a black robe sat at the head of the table in the living room asked in a somber tone as he looked at another middle-aged man who was standing at attention.

In the hand of the black-robed middle-aged man was a portrait, and drawn on it, was a young man.

"My lord, while he has just lost his child-like features and looks a lot more mature… Even if he were turned to ashes, I would definitely recognize him!"

The lower-ranked, middle-aged man confirmed without a doubt in his mind. "His name is 'Zhou Donghuang,' and he is from one of the inferior counties in Yunfeng in the Western Chu Ridge. This is no longer a secret in the Chu royal city.

"My lord, if you do not believe me, you may check this against other sources."

The middle-aged man was not just anyone, but Yang Yunji, the head of the Yangs, a grand family.

This day, a huge figure suddenly descended from the sky and landed right at the Yang family mansion. Yang Yunji was stunned and hurriedly asked a group of Yang elders to see what was happening.

The shock of what he saw at a glance almost killed him!

A giant eagle with both wings spreading over 20 meters landed in the spacious front yard of their Yang family mansion… As the Yang family head, and having lived to such a grand old age, Yang Yunji did indeed have knowledge of such beasts.

A giant eagle with a wingspan of over 20 meters, even if it was considered a Connate stage demon, it was certainly not an ordinary Connate stage demon!

Based on what he knew, the wingspan of an ordinary flying Connate-level demon had a wingspan of just over 10 meters.

But this giant eagle had a wingspan of over 20 meters!

And what shocked him the most was that there was a middle-aged man in black robes on the back of this eagle. As the man leaped into the air, rays of white light seemed to be coiled around him, as he floated, looking back at Yang.

"A Primal Core adept!"

Even the strongest of the Connate adepts could not tread the air like this man. The folk tales spoke of only one type of adept that could defy gravity like that to float in the air and travel the universe, and it was a Primal Core adept.

And so, at that moment, he guessed that this man was a Primal Core adept.

Even though he knew nothing of why this man was here or what he intended to do, Yang Yunji spared no time in greeting this person personally and invited him into the living room of the Yang mansion.

He did this because, on one hand, he was worried that he might inadvertently offend the other party, and on the other hand, he feared that this Primal Core adept had orders of some sort that had gotten to some other person first.

A Primal Core adept needed only speak the word, and he could quite easily have the Yang family at his mercy, and they would not dare make any complaint.

To be on the safe side, he decided to dismiss everyone else who was there.

The only thing was, Yang Yunji would never have thought that the Primal Core adept before him, had, in fact, come for Zhou Donghuang!

"In that case, follow me!"

The man in black robes was none other than the Divine Light Sect's tenth elder, Lin Hantian. After scouring the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley for a period of time, he had inevitably arrived at the Western Chu Ridge of the country of Yunyang.

Then as he set foot in the Chu royal city, in the heart of the Western Chu Ridge, it was incidentally in the middle of the Yang family mansion where he would meet Yang Yunji, the head of the Yang Family.

"I am yours to command, my lord!" Yang Yunji replied in deference.

And in the instant, as Yang Yunji responded, Lin Hantian seemed to fly in front of Yang Yunji in a flash, grabbed Yang Yunji's wrist with one hand, and leaped out of the living room.

After Lin Hantian flew out of the living room with Yang Yunji, he continued to soar into the air until they were overlooking the Chu royal city at his feet, and all the buildings in the city were clearly visible.

"Who else knows that young man? I will take you to each doorstep to verify this," Lin Hantian said plainly.

"My lord, the mansion located in the very center of the Chu royal city is the Chu royal household. The royal family there controls the Western Chu Ridge… I am but an insignificant family head and cannot afford to buy you that information."

Yang Yunji summed up the courage to open his eyes and pointed out the place where Chu royal household was located and said to Lin Hantian, "If the Chu Royal Family cannot prove that what I said is true, my lord, you can kill me at once!"

"If I do find that you are lying, you would certainly be dead."

When Lin Hantian spoke again, his body flickered, and Yang Yunji flew over the Chu Palace with a blink of an eye. Then he dropped Yang Yunji on top of a building in the Chu Palace. "You will wait for me here."

As Lin Hantian said this, his body seemed to flicker, and in the blink of an eye, he and Yang Yunji were flying over the Chu Palace. He then dropped Yang Yunji off on the top of the roof of a building in the Chu Palace and said, "You will wait for me here."

"Yes, my lord," Yang Yunji responded faithfully.

Lin Hantian flew into the air in an instant, disappeared into some buildings nearby and seemed to vanish before Yang Yunji's eyes.

At this time, just as Yang Yunji found some time to breathe, he was all at once frightened. "Who is this Primal Core adept, exactly? He has definitely not come with good intentions!

"Has that Zhou Donghuang provoked him somehow?" Thinking of this, Yang Yunji couldn't help but sneer. "Even the most powerful Primal Core adept, he would dare provoke… that Zhou Donghuang is really tired of living!"

Before long, Lin Hantian returned again.

"My lord, what of it?" Yang Yunji asked.

"I reckon you should know the inferior prefecture where the town of Yunfeng is located at?" Lin Hantian asked plainly.

"Yes I do, I do know."

Yang Yunji nodded his head like a little chicken pecking at rice grains. "If my lord wants to go there, I will personally show you the way!"

"Mm." Lin Hantian nodded. "If you follow me on this trip, you will be justly rewarded after this whole affair."

"You have my gratitude, my lord!"

Yang Yunji's eyes were bright, and he hurriedly bowed to thank him. A reward granted by a Primal Core adept would definitely be something remarkably big, especially for a qi-gathering adept like him.

As he thought of this, the excitement would keep him awake for days.

…

Swish!!

Starting from the southeast border of the Shenguang Empire, it only took a little more than half a month, and Big Gold had transported his master, Zhou Donghuang, and Su Mo back to the vast Valley of Medicine Masters.

March 20, Year 1232 of the Ziyun Era. Master and servant, Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo, returned to the Valley of the Medicine Masters.

"Valley Head!"

As the golden-crowned eagle, Big Gold, flew into the Valley, a Valley elder standing guard at the lookout post drew his flying beast closer and had recognized Su Mo from afar.

Of course, the qi-gathering flying beast at his feet would not dare approach Big Gold.

The Big Gold before was in fact still marginally more approachable for the other qi-gathering flying beasts, but now, as he had entered the Connate stage, the same flying beasts would only keep their distance from him.

"Are we here?"

At this point, Su Mo also seemed to have been shocked awake by the sudden voice.

"Valley Head, I will notify the elders."

The Valley elder who was on duty at the lookout post greeted Su Mo quickly and then left with his flying beast.

However, before long, he returned again.

This time, there was an extra person on the back of his flying beast, the head elder of the Valley of Medicine Masters, Yu Meiqin.

"Valley Head, you have finally returned," Yu Meiqin said bitterly as he looked at Su Mo.

"Why? What is the matter… Has something happened in the Valley during my absence?"

Su Mo frowned slightly, his figure flashed, and he leaped into the air. Under the shocked eyes of Yu Meiqin and the Valley elder beside him, he walked on air, step by step, until he was in front of them.

"Valley Head, you… You have really entered the Primal Core stage?"

The Valley elder stared in surprise.

He still remembered that some time ago, the Primal Core adept who came to the Valley of the Medicine Masters on the back of his Primal Core beast had declared that the Valley Head was a Primal Core Adept.

At that time, he was still wondering, when had their Valley Head become a Primal Core adept?

Today, he finally realized that at the time, the Primal Core adept was not making wild presumptions at all.

Their Valley Head had, in the span of a year, entered the Primal Core stage and had become a flying, gravity-defying Primal Core adept!

"Primal Core adept?!"

Yu Meiqin's pupils contracted sharply in panic at this moment, a lost look on her face, and she seemed to be lost in thought for a long time.

"Their Valley now had a Primal Core adept too?"

The long-awaited appearance of a Primal Core adept could finally be written in the history of the Valley of the Medicine Masters after all this time?

"From what you're saying, I guess you already know that I have entered the Primal Core stage?"

Su Mo frowned as he looked at the Valley elder.

"Valley Head…"

Under Su Mo's interrogation, the Valley elder hurriedly described the incident that had happened in full detail without skipping a beat and spoke of how they had fooled the Primal Core adept who had visited them.

"To think that he was fooled by all of you?"

On hearing that his own people had managed to dupe a Primal Core adept, Su Mo was rendered speechless, but at the same time, he was relieved.

That person was definitely not a friendly force.

If they had confirmed that he was indeed the Valley Head of Medicine Masters, who knew what would have happened to all of his people.

Just then, Su Mo had guessed that it was the Divine Light Sect that had come looking for them in the Valley with him and his master Zhou Donghuang's portraits and had intended to tell Zhou Donghuang as much.

Yu Meiqin, however, was a step ahead of him and spoke first. "Valley Head, there is one more thing.

"Not long after you had left, there were two men who said that they had come from Yunyang, one of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley… They had direct orders to come looking for you in the Valley.

"After that, upon knowing that you had long left the Valley, they sought to tell me their purpose.

"They said… they wanted to tell the Valley Head that in the Western Chu Ridge in Yunyang, there was a young man named Zhou Donghuang who had gotten hold of the essence left behind by a Primal Core adept and asked that you, the Valley Head, go forward to steal it away."

As he came to this point, Yu Meiqin locked eyes with the man clothed in white standing on the giant eagle's back, behind Su Mo. She distinctly remembered that this man was their Valley Head's master, named Zhou Donghuang.

"Oh? Someone had come to find me to report this news?"

Su Mo's eyes narrowed as his cold eyes flashed. "It looks like they are my master's enemies. And where are they now?" Su Mo asked.

"I had also guessed that they were Young Master Donghuang's foes… and so I have ordered for them to be locked up and wait on you and Master Donghuang's return for further orders," Yu Meiqin said.

"Let me have a word with my master and then you can take us there… I would like to see what kind of man would dare harm our master!"

As Su Mo said these words, an icy glare flashed across his eyes.

Feeling Su Mo's respect for the young man in white on the eagle's back in the distance, Yu Meiqin trembled as she thought, "It seems that our Valley Head achieving the Primal Core stage in just one year has everything to do with this Zhou Donghuang!"

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Chapter 179: His Name Is Zhou Donghuang?

Within the Valley of the Medicine Masters were special prison cells.

When the elders and disciples of the Valley would make mistakes, they would all be detained in a cell to reflect on their actions behind locked doors and only be released after a certain period of time.

And now, within one of those very cells were two imprisoned men, who were not in fact from the Valley.

"Shi Yu, it is quickly coming to a year… When did you say that the Head of the Valley of the Medicine Masters was returning?"

Lu Yuanshan, the head of the Lu household, one of the elite grand families of the Chu royal city in the Western Chu Ridge of Yunyang, and who was rich as could be just a year ago, now sat like a common beggar in the corner of his cell, his hair completely disheveled.

After almost a year of eating, drinking and even dealing with one's waste in the same cell, all without a shower, even the most glamorous person would become the drabbest type of person he once hated.

On the other side of the cell, there was also a man looking equally disheveled. This was a young man who had traveled many miles from the Chu royal city to the Valley of the Medicine Masters with Lu Yuanshan, the young master of another elite family of Chu royal city, Shi Yu.

Over a year ago, Shi Yu had come knocking on Lu Yuanshan's door, and they had ridden together on a borrowed flying beast to reach the Valley.

Their original intention was to find the Head of the Valley to make a report and say that someone in the country of Yunyang now possessed the essence left behind by a Primal Core adept.

Shi Yu had thought to let the Valley Head take the matter into his own hands and kill the young man that he so hated.

Lu Yuanshan was hoping that once the Head of the Valley had come in possession of the same Primal Core essence that the young man had on him, he would grant the Lu family some token of appreciation.

However, what they didn't think to consider was that when they arrived at the Valley of the Medicine Masters, the head elder of the Valley would say that their master had in fact been far gone from the Valley.

And when they spoke of their intentions to the Valley elder, in order to enlist her help in getting the message quickly across to the Valley head, they did not think that she would immediately order for them to be locked up in a cell.

And to be locked up for almost a year at that.

When they had been locked up, the Valley's head elder said that they would be released when the Valley Head returned.

"I don't know."

Shi Yu sighed.

"Had I known what would happen, I would never have left with you," Lu Yuanshan said in regret.

"Whatever you say now is of no use. We had better just patiently wait until the return of that Valley Head… When he returns, we will be free."

Shi Yu's eyes seemed to sparkle at the thought. "And if he does successfully take the Primal Core adept's leftover essence from that Zhou Donghuang, we will have our dues paid to us!

"Now, my greatest wish is just to be able to leave this hellish place and get back to Yunyang, back to the Lu household… I no longer care about what the Valley Head would or wouldn't like to give us in return for the favor," Lu Yuanshan said.

As Lu Yuanshan said this, their cell door opened in an instant, and a voice could be heard saying, "Both of you, our Valley Head has returned… now, I will take you to wash up and for a change of clothes before we meet with our master."

"The Head of the Valley has finally returned?"

It was then that Lu Yuanshan and Shi Yu both stood erect at the same time and dashed out of their cells like rockets.

Their day had finally arrived.

After the two had been cleaned up by the Valley's disciple and changed into a fresh set of new robes, they seemed invigorated and no longer looked like drab beggars.

"Shi Yu… what would you say would be our prize if that Valley Head were to come into possession of that Primal Core adept's essence? A first-grade martial art technique? Do you think it would be that?"

As they were led by the disciples of the Valley on the road to the main residence of Yaowang Valley, Lu Yuanshan couldn't help but ask Shi Yu.

"Master Lu, didn't you say that you didn't care about what the Valley Head was to give us, just as long as you could leave that hellish place? Have you had a change of heart now?" Shi Yu asked mockingly.

"That was then, and this is now… If the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters were to generously reward me, who would I be to refuse?"

Lu Yuanshan smiled, embarrassed.

At the same time, Lu Yuanshan could not help but frown. "However, there is one thing that I cannot get over… even if the Valley were to detain us so that we could personally deliver this news to the Valley Head, surely it was not necessary for them to lock us up in that kind of cell?"

"It feels like they are not treating us like guests and more like criminals!"

As he vented about this, Lu Yuanshan's anger welled up within him.

"Perhaps they were worried that we were lying to them and feared that we would run away before their Valley Head's return, that is why they imprisoned us," Shi Yu conjectured. "Otherwise, why would they not just kill us immediately, instead of keeping us locked up?

"If they truly had the motive to harm us and did make a move to kill us, we would have no power whatsoever to fight back anyway."

Lu Yuanshan nodded in agreement at Shi Yu's conclusion.

"Then, while we are here, I must congratulate you in advance for being able to avenge your father's death, my nephew."

Lu Yuanshan laughed at Shi Yu as he said, "Once that Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters gets hold of the essence of the Primal Core adept from Zhou Donghuang's hands, he would definitely not be able to let Zhou Donghuang live on!"

"Many thanks, Master Lu."

Shi Yu gave a slight smile, but could not hide the excitement in his eyes.

…

The Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters, Su Mo, lived in a secluded corner of the Valley.

Here, there was only one elegant yard.

In addition to the yard, which was planted with various flowers and plants of all sorts of colors and shapes, the area outside the yard was also lush and green with shady trees aplenty.

Now, in the only room in the courtyard, Su Mo was talking to a young man sitting on a couch and explaining in detail the things that had happened recently in the Valley.

"The two men were from the Chu royal city? Looking for you to report on some news, saying that I was in possession of the Primal Core adept's essence?"

Zhou Donghuang's lips were curled slightly in mockery, and his eyes were cold. "Now that is persistent… it looks like there are people who just won't give up."

Within the Chu royal city were plenty of people who resented and hated him, and he could never guess who these people could have been.

"Do you know who they are?" Su Mo asked.

"No, I don't."

Zhou Donghuang shook his head, and then the mocking smile on the corner of his lips grew wider. "But, aren't you going to let someone bring them over? When they come, I should be able to recognize who they are."

"You mentioned just now… that there were two things? What was the other piece of news?" Zhou Donghuang asked.

"The other thing was… not too long ago, a Primal Core adept had come to the Valley riding on a Primal Core demon," Su Mo said gravely. "He killed one of the elders of our Valley.

"He came here for one purpose, to find someone… in his hands, were two portraits clearly depicting you and I, Master.

"At first, I had thought that one of the Valley elders had exposed me. However, because this man had mentioned that I was a Primal Core adept, some of the elders had used their wit to claim that he had the wrong person.

"And that person finally left our Valleys elders and disciples alone in a hurry, only because he concluded that the people on the portraits were just lookalikes of you and I and in fact, not the same people.

"Nonetheless, he could not believe that a Connate stage adept could reach the Primal Core stage in such a short period of one year."

Su Mo said all this in one quick breath.

"A Primal Core adept? A Primal Core beast? Had both our portraits in his hands?"

As Su Mo finished his story, Zhou Donghuang's brows furrowed, and his eyes flashed coldly. "It looks like he knew that you were from the Valley and had come to look into our backgrounds.

"However… even though he had left in a hurry, he would not necessarily have continued his search in the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley.

"If he had gone to the country of Yunyang's Chu royal city… my identity would have been exposed."

As he said this, Zhou Donghuang suddenly opened his eyes, and a light seemed to burn within them as if he finally understood everything!

"I must make a trip back."

Even though Zhou Donghuang was not in the least bit worried that the Divine Light Sect would uncover his background or what they would do his family, he was still set on returning home.

Whatever the case, as long as he saw that his family was safe, he would then have peace.

Of course, so long as that Primal Core adept from the Divine Light Sect was not a fool, it would not be possible that he would take it out on his family before confirming his background.

"Master, the two men should be here soon… Let's wait for them, and then I will accompany you on your return," Su Mo suggested.

"After resolving the matter with the two men, I will return on my own. You should remain in the Valley and help me to prepare a quiet place to stay… When I come back here, there should be quite a few people coming back with me," Zhou Donghuang said to Su Mo.

When he first left the country of Yunyang, he did not insist on bringing his mother, Lin Lan, and others to the Valley of the Medicine Masters, because he had limited abilities at that time. He was also worried that Su Mo, would plot something untoward behind his back and violate his trust.

Now that he had sufficient powers, and Su Mo had his utmost trust, it was time to bring the rest of his family with him.

As for what his mother, Lin Lan, had said earlier that she preferred to live in Qingshan Town—he was sure that it was nothing more than an excuse not to drag him down.

Man seeks his way up just as flowing water always seeks its way down. One should constantly strive to make progress.

If the conditions were right, how many would refuse to take a step up from his current status?

"Yes, Master."

On the young man's order, Su Mo was obliging.

At that moment, a bright voice came from outside the door. "Valley Head, the people you want to see are here."

"Master, allow me to take a look first."

Su Mo and headed outside and closed the door behind him.

"Valley Head!"

As Su Mo emerged into the yard, both Shi Yu and also Lu Yuanshan were quick to bow and show their respect; they dared not even breathe too loudly.

"I heard you were looking for me?" Su Mo asked as his gaze swept across the two men.

"Valley Head, our lord."

Shi Yu took a step forward and respectfully said, "We have traveled far and wide from the Western Chu Ridge of Yunyang to the Valley of the Medicine Masters to tell you that within the Ridge, there is someone who is in possession of the essence left behind by a Primal Core adept."

"Is that man Zhou Donghuang? A person from the inferior prefecture of Yunfeng?" Su Mo asked in return.

"It looks like the Head Elder has already told you about this, my lord."

Shi Yu laughed.

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Chapter 180: The Interrogation

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"My lord, if you would only make an attack, the Primal Core essence that Zhou Donghuang now holds, will be yours."

Lu Yuanshan also smiled at Su Mo as he said, "That Zhou Donghuang, is just a brat from a tiny village way out of town, and he could enter the Connate level at 20 years of age with the essence left behind by the Primal Core adept… If you, my lord, were to take hold of this same essence, you could hope to enter the Primal Core stage and fulfill your greatest potential!

In the history of the Valley of Medicine Masters, there had never been a Primal Core adept, and Lu Yuan Shan knew of this.

"Indeed."

Shi Yu smiled and echoed. "My lord, that village boy, Zhou Donghuang is not worthy of having that essence from the Primal Core adept!

"Only you, the best amongst them, the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters and lord of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley, should be worthy of owning the essence left behind by the Primal Core adept."

After he said this, Shi Yu continued to pour praise and fawn over Su Mo, but this instead made Su Mo nervous and break out in a cold sweat.

How dare he mention that his master was not worthy and that he was?

At once, Su Mo's face was grave, and he was about to blow up when—

Creeeaaaaak

The room door behind Su Mo opened, and a figure cloaked in snow-white robes slowly sauntered out, saying, "And I was just thinking, who is it that thinks so lowly of me.

"So it is you, Shi Yu."

Zhou Donghuang looked at Shi Yu, a look of calm in his eyes, his face completely cool and unfettered.

"Zhou… Zhou Donghuang?!"

It was only when Shi Yu stared hard at the young man in white that he recognized that this person was indeed Zhou Donghuang. It had been a while since they last saw each other, but the child-like features had gone away and were completely replaced by those of a maturing youth.

"Zhou Donghuang?"

At Shi Yu's gasp of surprise, Lu Yuanshan was at first completely shocked, but this quickly turned into a look of complete fear as he thought, "This Zhou Donghuang, how is it that he is here? Furthermore, why was he stepping out of the Head of the Valley of Medicine Master's personal abode?"

At this moment, Lu Yuanshan felt a bad premonition.

Though Lu Yuanshan had never seen Zhou Donghuang before, it did not affect his impression of Zhou Donghuang's character. He knew that he was dressed in snow-white clothes all year round, had handsome features, and had an extraordinary aura about him.

The young man dressed in white that was before him ticked off on all these criteria.

Coupled with Shi Yu's exclamation of surprise, he was more than certain that the young man in white was the very same Zhou Donghuang who came into possession of the Primal Core essence from the Western Chu Ridge in Yunyang!

"Zhou Donghuang, why are you here?"

Now, Shi Yu was also starting to understand that something was in fact amiss, and all the color in his face was starting to drain.

Judging from their current stance, this Zhou Donghuang did not seem to be held captive by any means by the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters Su Mo.

"Master, how do you intend to deal with these two men?"

And while Shi Yu and Lu Yuanshan were frightened to their core, their faces having turned white with the look of fear in their eyes, Su Mo bowed to ask Zhou Donghuang this question.

As Su Mo's words got across to Shi Yu and Lu Yuanshan, their faces instantly changed once more, and all that was left in their eyes was a look of complete hopelessness.

Mas… Master?!

The Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters and lord of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley, whom they so revered, was now calling Zhou Donghuang his master?

At this instant, the both of them believed that they were in a dream.

Shi Yu immediately pinched his face, and Lu Yuanshan pinched himself in the thigh, and as they felt the pain, reality hit them and they understood that they were not at all dreaming.

Everything unfolding before their eyes was indeed real!

"I… impossible! This cannot be possible!"

Shi Yu was confused and panicked, his eyes filled with despair. As he took a step back, he kept shaking his head like he had been stricken with madness.

He could not, for a moment, accept the truth before him.

Plop!!

As Shi Yu seemed to be losing his sanity, at the same time, Lu Yuanshan had knelt down on the ground and was repeatedly kowtowing before Zhou Donghuang. "Young Master Donghuang, I am the Lu Yuanshan, head of the Lu family from the Chu royal city. We have no quarrel with each other, and I had no intention of hurting you! I swear I had no intention of hurting you!"

"With your reputation, you must not be bothered at all about little old me, you can't be that bothered… am I right?"

Lu Yuanshan was absolutely scared out of his own wits. This young man, reputed to be the Chu royal city's Connate-level teenager, was in fact now the master of the Head of the Valley of Medicine Master, the same man whose rule covered the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley?

If he had not seen this with his own eyes, he would never believe that this was real, even if his own life was at stake.

Now, upon hearing Lu Yuanshan's cries for mercy before Zhou Donghuang, Shi Yu seemed to suddenly come to his senses from his moment of insanity, and with a plop, he went down on his knees before Zhou Donghuang.

On top of that, Shi Yu seemed to kowtow with a lot more force than Lu Yuanshan. "Young Master Donghuang, I was wrong! I was wrong!

"With your esteemed position, I must be worth less than an ant in your eyes. My lord would not bother with such a small iniquity and take it as if I had just let off some hot air!

"I, Shi Yu, swear that I would never again try to go against Young Master Donghuang! I swear! I swear!"

In the face of death, all Shi Yu had on his mind was a determination to preserve his life.

Swoosh!

After casting a sweeping glance at the two men, Zhou Donghuang's figure seemed to flash, and he leaped into the air, only leaving a simple command as he flew into the distance. "I'll leave you to deal with this on your own."

"Yes, Master," Su Mo responded obediently.

When Zhou Donghuang leaped into the air, both Shi Yu and Lu Yuanshan were shocked and dumbfounded. "A Primal… Primal Core adept?!"

The ability to tread the air like this, as legend had it, was the mark of a Primal Core adept.

It was at this moment that they realized that Connate-level teenager they once knew was already miles ahead of the Connate stage and had entered the Primal Core stage, becoming a legendary Primal Core adept!

"It is no wonder that even the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters would acknowledge him as 'master.'"

The two men instinctively thought of the same thing at the same time.

"Since you had dared think of sabotaging my master, you are only looking for death!"

Su Mo leapt into the air, regarded Shi Yu and Lu Yuanshan with a look of nonchalance, then raised his hands and pressed them down in one quick move.

Instantly, a shard of pale while light formed into a palm print and fell from the sky.

Crash!

Following the loud noise, Shi Yu and Lu Yuanshan did not even have a chance to react, and just like that, they had been crushed into a pool of blood by the giant palm print.

The very same spot where they had knelt was now a pit in the shape of a palm print filled with blood, an unsightly scene to behold.

Crash!

Crash, crash!!

…

At the wave of a hand, the faint white light wrapped around all the dirt and mud that had been strewn about by the impact and filled the palm-shaped pit once again.

In the blink of an eye, everything was restored to normal, and the peace of the place returned as if nothing had ever happened there.

At the same time, Su Mo seemed to sense something and quickly lifted his head to the sky.

Swoosh!!

In the distance was a giant, golden-crowned, black eagle flying from the Valley of the Medicine Master in the direction of Yunyang, one of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley.

And standing erect on the giant eagle's back, was a young man clothed in snow-white robes, looking like the vision of a deity.

…

The country of Yunyang.

The Western Chu Ridge, Yunfeng prefecture.

"Tell me, that son of yours, Zhou Donghuang, what miracle was it that he had taken hold of that has helped him become the legend he is today?"

In Qingshan town, in a large compound behind the Yunxuan Inn was a middle-aged man floating above a messy front yard, addressing a sole woman standing there.

This woman, a lady of great beauty, was Lin Lan.

"Who are you?"

Lin Lan looked grimly at the middle-aged man in black robes, her eyes full of fear.

To be able to be airborne was, as the legends had it, a mark of a Primal Core adept.

Of this, she knew for certain.

And today, this Primal Core adept had appeared out of nowhere on a giant eagle, trespassing into their home, wreaking major destruction upon their buildings and structures, even hurting everyone that was in it at that time.

If the Primal Core adept had not intended to show her mercy, she would not even be standing there.

Now, aside from Lin Lan who was still standing, the others, such as Yun Lu, Yang Zixi, Fu, Leng Hanfeng, Granny Lian and the rest, were bleeding from the corners of their mouths or sitting or lying on the ground with no strength left within them to stand up.

The golden-crowned eagle Little Gold was lying in the distance, barely breathing.

At this moment, Yun Lu and the others were looking at this man in black robes with eyes equally full of fear and trepidation.

The man before them had caused so much damage to their group with just the slightest wave of a hand.

If not for the protection of the golden-crowned eagle Little Gold, who had only recently entered the Connate stage and was able to fend off a large portion of the black-robed man's attack, they would have most certainly have died horribly!

"The ability to float on air… he is a Primal Core adept," Yun Lu muttered under his breath bitterly.

Clap!

Under the gaze of the crowd, the man in black robes lifted his arms, and in a flash of white light, he caused Lin Lan's head to swing. At the same time, he left a painful, red palm print on her face.

"Now, it is I who should be asking the questions, and not you," the black-robed man took a cold glance at Lin Lan as he said harshly.

"My lord."

Now, standing behind the black-robed man and on top of the giant eagle's back was another middle-aged man, who smiled as he said, "If you were to threaten her, to kill everyone if she did not co-operate… then, surely she would not dare to oppose you."

"Yang Yunji!"

Yang Zixi lifted her heard toward the man standing on the giant eagle's back, her eyes cold as she spat, "I should have let Brother Zhou kill you in revenge for my third uncle when I had the chance!"

"Yang Zixi, when you chose to follow that unfortunate man Zhou Donghuang, it was destined that you would too end up with the same misfortune… Perhaps, today is the day that you will die."

Yang Yunji glanced at Yang Zixi with a disdainful smile, and his smile was so wide that he looked like a villain.

"Sounds like a good idea."

The man in black robes laughed unfeelingly as he raised his hands into the air.

Suddenly, a giant hand formed and appeared by Yun Lu's side, grabbed Yun Lu in one swift move, and threw her up meters into the air.

"Little Lu!"

Lin Lan's face changed drastically, and Yang Zixi, Fu, Leng Hanfeng and others also reacted as one by one, their eyes started to fill with anger.

However, even if they were angry, they couldn't do anything and had to helplessly watch Yun Lu be taken up into the sky.

If this man were to let go, and she were to fall from such a height, Yun Lu would surely die!

As she was taken up into the air, Yun Lu's eyes were full of panic, but her expression was extraordinarily stubborn as she yelled at Lin Lan, "Mother, don't worry about him! Little Lu is not afraid!"

"Not afraid, are you?"

The middle-aged man in the black robe smiled and immediately took hold of the giant hand holding Yun Lu, and slowly opened it.

"No!"

At this, Lin Lan changed her mind as she begged, "I'll tell you! I'll tell you!"

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Chapter 181: A Hair's Breadth from Death

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"Go on then."

The middle-aged man in black robes was Lin Hantian, the Divine Light Sect's tenth elder. He had brought Yang Yunji, the head of the Yang family from the Chu royal city, down to Yunfeng prefecture and into Qingshan town to further investigate the whereabouts of the younger of the two men he was trying to find.

And so it seemed that this young man was really some village rascal, as Yang Yunji had so described.

On top of that, according to what he had inquired from around Qingshan town, it was not hard to find out that this boy was a martial invalid at 16 years old.

In the short span of four years, this martial invalid seemed to have come across some strange miracle, but since then, it seemed to have helped him soar into the Primal Core stage; he was a Primal Core adept now!

He took all of four brief years to go from an absolute rookie to becoming a Primal Core adept.

This level of success was, needless to say, unheard of and unprecedented in all of the planet of Ziyun, but it was also unprecedented in all of the histories of the great planets which had a rich history and resources in the practice.

"Which mighty adept would descend upon this deserted little village in all of Ziyun to find such a successor?" Lin Hantian asked himself, as he considered that the chances of this happening were so small that it was nigh impossible.

If he were a mighty adept in search of a successor and had on the chance landed in Ziyun, he would surely have headed straight for the five great sects and picked one of the prodigies amongst their disciples and absolutely not look for a martial invalid in a godforsaken place such as this!

All this while, Lin Hantian had thought, "There's a huge possibility that this young man named 'Zhou Donghuang,' had in fact received the essence from some mighty adept who had come to Ziyun."

However, for a martial invalid to achieve so much in just a matter of four short years, to enter into the Primal Core stage and become a Primal Core adept, what manner of essence would that mighty adept have left behind?

Dharma? Primordial Soul?

Or perhaps…

Divine Transformation?

At the very least, Lin Hantian thought, even if it were to be an inheritance from a Dharma adept, it would not be possible for a complete martial invalid to become the formidable adept he was in just four years.

There had been the appearance of a Dharma adept before in their own Divine Light Sect, and so he knew some of the Dharma-level techniques.

And so, there could only be one other conclusion: That Zhou Donghuang had attained the essence from a mighty adept of the Primordial Soul stage or more!

Even he would be envious of the level of power that could come from that essence.

"First it was a core formula that would multiply the strength of Qi by 10, and this was surpassed by another formula that would amplify the Qi by 20 times… Our Divine Light Sect's Alchemist Yu, the top core-forging master in all of Ziyun had said before, that even if he had come from the Primordial Soul adept's own home planet, he would never have come up with such an advanced qi-gathering core formula.

"It is apparent that this core formula is something that has been left behind by a mighty adept… and that mighty adept would have been an adept beyond the Primordial Soul level and one that would have come from a great planet with an abundance of resources!"

The more Lin Hantian thought about this, the more scorching his look became as he considered Lin Lan.

Now, Lin Lan had to tell him everything.

As long as he could confirm all of his suspicions, he could use the whole group here as hostages to threaten Zhou Donghuang, force him to hand over the essence and have it all for himself to consume.

But of course, after the fact, the Divine Light Sect should not be able to make heads or tails of any of this.

With just the right amount of time, and with the help of the essence of that mighty Primordial Soul adept, he would surely be able to enter into the Dharma stage and become the top adept in all of Ziyun!

"My son told me that everything he has and was now was given to him by his sweetheart… His sweetheart is a Primal Core adept," Lin Lan said gravely under Lin Hantian's gaze.

"Sweetheart? Primal Core adept?"

Lin Hantian frowned, what did that all mean?

Did Lin Lan mean that… that Zhou Donghuang was in fact living off a woman and everything he had today, he owed to a Primal Core adept who was his lover?

"Brother Zhou's sweetheart?"

At Lin Lan's word, Yang Zixi momentarily lost her sense of panic at being held in mid-air, and looked suspiciously at Lin Lan, her face growing pale, "And… a Primal Core adept at that?"

Even though this was the first time that Yang Zixi had heard Lin Lan say these things, she believed it to be a credible story.

To top it off, she knew for sure that Yun Lu was very important to Lin Lan, and that she wouldn't put her life at risk at that moment to lie so blatantly before this Primal Core adept.

Because of this, she felt a sting in her heart.

Brother Zhou had a sweetheart now?

And furthermore, one who was a Primal Core adept?

"Humph!"

At this point, Yang Yunji called out coldly from his place on the back of the giant eagle. "Completely absurd! Would a Primal Core adept even take interest in your martial invalid of a son?

"Besides, even if such a respected adept were to be attracted to your son, the complete invalid, he'd be thrown aside after a bit of fun… How could anyone possibly allow him that level of transformation!

"I would never have thought that, even at this juncture, you would dare spread lies about this, Lin Lan." Yang Yunji laughed coldly.

Yang Yunji's words seemed to have struck home with Lin Hantian, because everything he said, did seem to make complete sense.

Especially since he himself was a Primal Core adept.

In the eyes of a Primal Core adept, even a Connate-level adept, or any Qi-Gathering adept, much less an ordinary person, would be as insignificant as an ant.

And if he, Lin Hantian, were indeed ever to become attracted to a young woman who was a martial invalid, he was sure that it would be just for a short, fun fling, before he would leave her for good.

It would be impossible for him to spend that much time and energy building up the other's skills.

That would not only be bothersome but also completely unnecessary.

And if he were to be truly moved?

Would a Primal Core adept, rich in experience, be so easily tempted by a person like that? And what more, by a martial invalid no less?

The possibility of this happening was indeed slim, if not entirely impossible.

"How dare you lie to me?"

Lin Hantian looked into Lin Lan's eyes again. His gaze was extremely cold, and his face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost. The ice in his voice revealed his anger.

"I am not lying to you!" Lin Lan frantically shook her head as she said, "All of this came from the mouth of my own son."

Even then, Lin Hantian could not believe a word Lin Lan said. "Since you remain stubborn, I will just have to make an example of this little girl!

"I do hope that you can protect the others after she dies."

As Lin Hantian coldly declared this, the giant hand which had seized Yun Lu in the sky quickly dissipated, leaving her without any form of support, and she started to fall from the sky, dozens of meters from the ground.

As Yun Lu started falling, the look of panic in her eyes flickered out, and this was replaced with a smile on her delicate, little face.

"Mother! May I come back in another life as your real daughter, and be Big Brother's actual little sister!" she shouted as she was falling.

Just as Yun Lu finished her sentence, as she was speeding downwards, until she was only 10 meters from the ground.

"Little Lu!"

Lin Lan had subconsciously made a move to catch hold of Yun Lu, however, Lin Hantian had mercilessly flung her aside with the swipe of a hand, and she could only hopelessly watch Yun Lu's fateful fall to her death.

In the face of death, Yun Lu managed to maintain a brilliant smile on her face as she looked on at Lin Lan.

This, however, caused Lin Lan even more distress. "Little Lu… No! No!"

"Who goes there?!"

As Lin Lan, Yang Zixi and the others despaired, Lin Hantian suddenly shouted out in a grave voice.

At the same time, they all saw a giant black figure swoop down from the sky, and managed to grab hold of Yun Lu a split second and a hair's breadth away from her death.

At this, Lin Lan and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

"The man who has come to kill you," a bored voice rang out in response to Lin Hantian.

At the same time, the huge shadow that rescued Yun Lu landed in the front yard of the run-down residence, right beside Lin Lan.

At this, the crowd could see that the man who spoke was a young man in white robes.

The youth in white held Yun Lu's waist in his arms, and at his feet was a huge, black golden-crowned eagle, its wings apart and spreading over twenty meters.

In comparison, the size of this black eagle was no smaller than the giant eagle that Yang Yunji was riding on.

"Big Brother! It really is you Big Brother!"

The girl in the arms of the young man dressed in white opened her eyes in panic, then her eyes suddenly brightened, and her pink, dainty little face was full of excitement.

"Donghuang!"

"Brother Zhou!"

"Young Master!"

Lin Lan, Yang Zixi, Fu, Leng Hanfeng and the others had all collectively seen the face of the young man in white and recognized him immediately even though his features were more mature now.

Whoosh!

Under the shocked stare of this group of people, Zhou Donghuang emerged from the air holding Yun Lu in the air, as he slowly flew towards Lin Lan and placed Yun Lu beside her.

"Mother, Little Lu, let me deal with this matter first."

Zhou Donghuang patted Yun Lu on the head and smiled slightly as he said this to Lin Lan, his eyes full of warmth.

"Donghuang, be careful."

Lin Lan was shocked that her own adopted son had become a Primal Core adept. At the same time, she could not help but remind him as such, afraid of what he was intending to do.

After all, both of them were Primal Core adepts, and no one could say who was the stronger or weaker one.

"Brother Zhou, he's… he's a Primal Core adept too?"

"Young Master, he has become a Primal Core adept?"

Yang Zixi, Fu, Leng Hanfeng and the others were completely flabbergasted as they regarded Zhou Donghuang in shock.

They had never thought in a million years that, in just over a year, the young man in front of them have crossed past the Connate stage and become a Primal Core adept.

"You may rest easy, Mother."

Zhou Donghuang slightly nodded at Lin Lan and then turned and leaped up into sky to face Lin Hantian in mid-air.

"You're from the Divine Light Sect?"

"That's right!" Lin Hantian raised his head proudly. "I am the tenth elder of the Divine Light Sect, Lin Hantian.

"Zhou Donghuang, to think that you have returned… This is good, and saves me the trip back to Shenguang Empire to figure out how to flush you out."

Lin Hantian returned Zhou Donghuang's gaze, his eyes full of insatiable greed.

"This Zhou Donghuang… How is it that he is now a Primal Core adept too?" Lin Hantian thought.

This time, Yang Yunji finally came back to his senses from the shock and looked into Zhou Donghuang's eyes again his face full of incredulity and disbelief.

If his memory served him right, this Zhou Donghuang, didn't he just turn 20 this year?

A 20-year-old Primal Core adept?

In fact, amongst all who were present, the only person who was not at all shocked to find that Zhou Donghuang had become a Primal Core adept, was Lin Hantian, for he already knew about all Zhou Donghuang had achieved.

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Chapter 182: Isn't it Great to Be Alive?

If he had come to Qingshan town before fully understanding all the details about Zhou Donghuang, Lin Hantian would have been quite threatened by Zhou Donghuang.

However, now that he had come to Qingshan town, fully cognizant of Zhou Donghuang's background, he could only think that this Zhou Donghuang was a very lucky man.

He could only become the man he was today, because of the essence left behind by a mighty adept who was a Primordial Soul adept, or more.

As for the murder of the Divine Light Sect's 17th elder, Liu Xuanyu, at the Black Market, he thought it was nothing but a coincidence and had nothing to do with Zhou Donghuang.

Liu Xuanyu was a mid Primal Core adept after all, and even if that was not much compared to what he was now, it would not have been possible for Zhou Donghuang and the early Primal Core stage adept who was with him to have killed him quite so easily.

"Isn't it good to be alive?"

Under the gaze of the crowd, Zhou Donghuang cast a lazy glance at Lin Hantian, shaking his head and sighing.

Everyone who was watching him, including Lin Hantian, were invariably stunned by Zhou Donghuang's words.

In that instant, Lin Hantian seemed to return to his senses once more. His eyes filled with cold, murderous intent, and he called out, "Zhou Donghuang, you little brat, barely weaned from your mother's breast, you have absolutely no say over what becomes of me, Lin Hantian, my life or death!"

"Is that so?"

The fan in Zhou Donghuang's hand trembled a little, and in the blink of an eye, it shot out like a flash of lightning.

Before Lin Hantian had time to keep up his defenses, the 18 bones that made up the structure of the folding fan spread out like 18 lethal sword blades, suspended above Lin Hantian's head.

"A spirit weapon?!"

Perceiving the energy that was being transmitted through the fan bones, Lin Hantian's face froze for a minute, then his eyes became more and more radiant, and their inherent greed became more intense.

"Zhou Donghuang, I never would have thought that you would possess a spirit weapon… I, Lin Hantian, will claim this weapon as my own!"

As soon as Lin Hantian's voice fell, he rose into the air like a gust of wind. While his hands were raised, a vast amount of white inner Yuan emanated from his body like a torrent and seemed to transfigure into a giant beast, its large jaws wide open and ready to swallow whole the eighteen blades that surrounded him in mid-air.

"This Zhou Donghuang is but an early Primal Core adept, to think he would be so presumptuous as to dare challenge a mid Primal Core adept… He is just courting his own death!"

Now, as Yang Yunji seemed to have sobered up from the shock of realizing that Zhou Donghuang had entered the Primal Core stage, his face was full of mocking pleasure as he surveyed the fight between Zhou Donghuang and Lin Hantian.

Seeing that Lin Hantian coveted and wanted to forcibly take hold of his spirit weapon, Zhou Donghuang's eyes were as calm as ever, but the corner of his lips involuntarily raised with the slightest sign of disdain.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

…

Under the gaze of everyone, the eighteen fan blades, like sharp daggers, moved in unison, turning into a rain of swords and whistled in the direction towards Yang Yunji.

As the swords started to rain down upon him, closing in on him, Lin Hantian could feel the terrible energy contained within the deathly blades.

Even though this was but the inner Yuan of an early Primal Core adept, the amount of power that it seemed to contain, was way beyond that which his own inner yuan could ever produce on its own.

"This is not possible!"

Between these flashes of lightning, Lin Hantian's first thought was, "Impossible! There must be a cover-up here! How could an early Primal Core adept ever compete with me, Lin Hantian?"

However, as the rain of swords fell upon him and collided with the giant beast formed of his own essence, he felt the pressure of his energy being crushed.

Even at this moment, he just felt as if he was about to suffocate.

The smell of his own death closing in on him was also eminent.

"No!"

"No!"

"I don't want to die! I don't want to die!"

On the brink of death, Lin Hantian's pupils rounded with intensity, trying to urge every bit of inner Yuan from his body to fights as best as he could to stop the rain of blades that seemed to cover the sky around him.

Crash!

Crash! Bang! Bang!

…

However, as the terror of swords rained from the sky, and even with Lin Hantian doing his utmost best, he was still unable to resist the attack, and his face became red with anxiety. Blood started to flow from his eyes from the strain.

"No!"

"No!"

Before Lin Hantian's inner voice could scream out any further, the white rays of light around his body started to rise in an instant, and earth-shaking changes started to take place.

And they became…

Silver in color!

"Hahahaha… Hahahaha…"

Lin Hantian, who was still desperate at the close call with death a moment ago, laughed wildly for a moment.

At the same time, the milky white rays of inner Yuan that once resisted the rain of swords was replaced by silver Yuan in an instant, and it blocked any further attacks from the blades in one fell swoop.

"What a breakthrough."

The scene before him surprised Zhou Donghuang, but at the same time, he realized that although Lin Hantian was only a mid Primal Core adept, he would have been infinitely close to reaching the next level.

This time, under the oppressive force he was raining upon him, and on the brink of death, Lin Hantian took advantage of this opportunity to make a breakthrough, and entered into the late Primal Core stage, to become a Silver Essence adept.

"This is… a late Primal Core adept?"

Just now, Yang Yunji had thought that Lin Hantian was finished, and his eyes started to show an increasing amount of despair. If Lin Hantian was done, he would definitely not end well.

After all, Lin Hantian had brought him to Qingshan town himself.

But now, seeing that Lin Hantian's inner Yuan had turned to silver, he realized that Lin Hantian had entered the late Primal Core stage and became an even stronger Primal Core adept!

Based on the lowly state of the Yang family, Yang Yunji naturally could not even begin to understand the affairs of a Primal Core adept through his familial ties.

The fact that he could understand so much about a Primal Core adept right now was all due to the conversations he had had with Lin Hantian while they were making their way to Qingshan town. While Lin Hantian was making investigations into Zhou Donghuang's background, he had become exposed to a new universe of knowledge about the adepts.

Because of this, he had known from before that Zhou Donghuang was an early Primal Core adept and Lin Hantian was a mid Primal Core adept. Even now, he could see for himself that Lin Hantian had entered into the late Primal Core stage!

"Congratulations, Big Brother!"

At this time, the giant eagle at Yang Yunji's feet also expressed his congratulations to Lin Hantian. The color of despair in his sharp eyes that had been there just moments back disappeared and was replaced with a burst of excitement.

Despite this, Lin Lan and others were not quite clear about the distinction between both of the Primal Core adepts.

Just now, Lin Hantian was almost killed by Zhou Donghuang, and they all had been flushed with excitement.

Now that Lin Hantian was able to make a breakthrough and block Zhou Donghuang's offensive, the excitement on their faces disappeared and was replaced by silent, severe looks.

"Zhou Donghuang!"

Lin Hantian, whose entire body was now wrapped in a silver glow, looked at Zhou Donghuang as he smiled darkly.

"It is all thanks to you that I was able to break through the next stage of the Primal Core to become a late Primal Core adept.

"So what, then?"

Zhou Donghuang was a picture of calm, and he was completely unfettered as he said, "Even so, it would only have delayed your death by just a little longer."

Hearing the words of Zhou Donghuang, Lin Hantian first froze, but then laughed more and more fervently. "Zhou Donghuang, I have to say that the strength you exhibit is indeed rare but bizarre.

"For an early Primal Core adept, with the help of a spirit weapon, demonstrating a level of attack that is comparable to a late Primal Core adept…! However, can't you see it at this point?

"Your attacks can't stop me now.

"Even with this spirit weapon that you have now drawn… If I were to guess, this would be your most powerful means of attack at this point, am I right?

"Be thankful that I don't have sufficient inner Yuan left. Otherwise, if we were to continue, I would wipe out all of your inner Yuan! And then, I could easily kill you."

As he said this, Lin Hantian's voice seemed to contain the slightest bit of pity.

"But, even so, my remaining inner Yuan can still stop your strongest means of attack… even if I want to escape, I could do so quite easily!"

Lin Hantian's eyes brimmed with self-confidence. "Today is the day that I have escaped death and made a full comeback, and it is also the same day that you and those around you will die.

"Unless you leave Ziyun with them… but then, do you have that ability? With your current strength and even with the servants next to you, how many people can you take with you out of Ziyun?"

As he finished, Lin Hantian's face was one of mocking disdain.

"Now, I shall take my leave… I shall wait for my inner Yuan to be fully restored and then come back to you!"

As Lin Hantian said this, he prepared to leave.

While he was saying all these, he was completely confident that he would be able to make his leave successfully.

"Who said that this was my strongest means of attack?"

Just as Lin Hantian was about to leave, Zhou Donghuang said, "Out of the 18 fan blades… You were just able to stop only eight of them."

"Eight fan blades?"

Considering the rain of swords that he was fighting, Lin Hantian's face was unbelieving. "Do you think… that just by saying this, you can scare me?"

"Aren't you just an ignorant frog in the well!"

When Zhou Donghuang shook his head, in the space just at Lin Hantian's feet, ten flashes of light shot out suddenly, and along with that were clearly the ten fan blades that he spoke of.

When the 18 fan blades had shot out of the folding fan, ten of them silently lurked beneath him, while the other eight formed the rain of attack on Lin Hantian.

In this Ambush of Flying Daggers technique, eight would rain down in attack, while ten lay in wait.

And since this was an ambush, how could they be easily discovered?

"This is no good!"

With all his strength, Lin Hantian had barely been able to defend against the attack of the eight fan blades. How would he be able to spare enough power to resist the offensive attack of ten?

Plop! Plop! Plop!

…

In a blink of an eye, Lin Hantian's whole body was penetrated by the ten fan blades, and as they went straight through him, the blood that filled the air was a sight to behold.

Of the ten wounds, none had hit the man's vital points.

To say that Zhou Donghuang had not done this intentionally would have been unbelievable.

Whoosh!

While Lin Hantian was still gritting his teeth, trying to resist the rain of swords that was coming from all sides, Zhou Donghuang flashed forward, appeared in front of him like a phantom, and then aimed for his essence point with the palm of his hand.

"No—!"

As Lin Hantian guessed what Zhou Donghuang was going to do, his face changed rapidly, and his eyes were stricken with fear.

Boom!

With just a swipe of his hand, Zhou Donghuang had penetrated his inner Yuan and purged Lin Hantian of his powers from his essence point. He had completely destroyed Lin Hantian's inner Yuan, rendering him useless as an adept.

After he had rendered Lin Hantian completely handicapped, Zhou Donghuang raised his hand, and the 18 blades from his fan turned back into a folding fan and returned to his hand.

At the same time, Lin Hantian, who had lost all means of attack and was seriously injured, fell from the air, seven or eight meters to the ground.

Boom!!

Lin Hantian slammed heavily on the ground and coughed out a few mouthfuls of blood. When he looked again at the young man, clothed in white and still in mid-air, his eyes were full of both despair and hatred.

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Chapter 183: The Heartbroken Yang Zixi

After destroying Lin Hantian, Zhou Donghuang did not pay any attention to him. He turned his gaze to the distance, where a giant eagle circled the skies with a man standing on top of it. "If I am not wrong… you are Yang Yunji, chief of the Yang family?" Zhou Donghuang glanced at the man.

Since seeing Lin Hantian being crippled by Zhou Donghuang, falling to the ground after being severely injured and close to death, Yang Yunji's expression had changed to one of despair. As Zhou Donghuang turned to him and acknowledged him, Yang Yunji was frightened.

Yang Yunji did not respond but rather squeezed his legs together as he called to the eagle beneath him. "Escape! Escape!! Now!! Do you want to die?!"

Just as Yang Yunji called out to the giant eagle, the eagle also seemed to come to its senses. Its eyes seemed to flash with disgust as the white glow of inner Yuan on its back trembled, flinging Yang Yunji off its back.

Boom!!

Yang Yunji fell to the ground from a height of more than ten meters. With a crushing sound, he landed with his legs broken, groaning in pain.

Whoosh!!

The huge eagle seemed to transform into a bolt of lightning as it streaked towards the distance.

However, although it was very fast, Zhou Donghuang was even quicker. In a flash, he had appeared in front of the giant eagle.

"S… Sir… I… I don't think… I did anything to you?" The giant eagle looked at Zhou Donghuang with fear, its massive body trembling in fright. The man before him could even cripple an established Silver Essence adept like Lin Hantian; he could easily kill this early Primal Core stage demon.

"You're trying to say that… you had nothing to do with the destruction of all those buildings?" Zhou Donghuang glanced at the courtyard, where more than half of the structures had been destroyed. He looked at the giant eagle again.

"Sir, I shall be your slave for ten years to make up for this!" begged the giant eagle, its voice quivering.

"No need," replied Zhou Donghuang, shaking his head.

Just as the eagle's eyes lit up, Zhou Donghuang spoke again, "I am more interested in your inner core, your beak and those sharp claws."

With that, Zhou Donghuang struck. In the instant that the eagle's eyes revealed its despair, Zhou Donghuang had already removed the inner core from within its body, and killed it with a blow, dragging its corpse to the sky above the courtyard.

Boom!!

He let the corpse of the giant eagle drop to the ground below. Zhou Donghuang floated in the air as he looked down upon Lin Hantian, his lips curling into a smirk.

"Tenth elder of the Divine Light Sect?"

"Zhou Donghuang, you will die a terrible death!" Lin Hantian screamed. He then killed himself.

"At least he has some backbone." Zhou Donghuang raised his eyebrows, his gaze landing on Yang Yunji, who had fallen and broken both his legs. "Yang Yunji, you didn't want to stay in the Chu royal city as the Yang family chief and chose to come all the way to Qingshan town… just to see me fail?"

"Young… Young Master Zhou." Yang Yunji lay sprawled on the ground, kowtowing to Zhou Donghuang with fright. "You are such a high and mighty Primal Core adept, I am just like an ant compared to you… May you be magnanimous and forgive me this once. I swear, if you spare my life, I will never appear in front of you again. Please! Please!" Yang Yunji begged.

"Brother Zhou!" Before Zhou Donghuang could respond, Yang Zixi, who had already recovered from some of her injuries, barely stood up as she asked Zhou Donghuang, "Can you leave this Yang Yunji to me to settle?"

Zhou Donghuang looked deeply at Yang Zixi, before finally nodding. "Yes."

"Zixi!" Hearing Zhou Donghuang agree to Yang Zixi's request, Yang Yunji's eyes lit up with hope that he had been saved.

He would never have imagined what happened next.

Yang Zixi pulled out the sword at Freezing Wind's waist and placed it right at Yang Yunji's throat. With just a quiver of the sword, she could easily kill him.

"Zi… Zixi! I… I… I am your uncle! Don't forget that I raised you up! You cannot be ungrateful!" Yang Yunji was flustered. He never expected his niece to treat him like this.

"At this point, you still have the cheek to say something like this?" Yang Zixi's eyes turned icy cold. "Ever since I knew that you killed Third Uncle, I have not taken you as my uncle… trying to use the fact that you raised me against me now? Back then, my parents saved your life… that should be more than enough to make up for you raising me."

"Zixi!" Seeing Yang Zixi so resolute, Yang Yunji's face turned chalk-white. "I am your uncle, your uncle…. you cannot… you… no!!"

With a twitch of her hand, Yang Zixi sliced his throat, ending him instantly.

"Brother Zhou." After returning the sword to Freezing Wind, Yang Zixi turned to Zhou Donghuang, her face filled with regret. "Sorry, I'm sorry…. I did not think that Yang Yunji would bring a Primal Core adept here to cause trouble for Auntie Lan. I'm sorry. I'm really so sorry." Yang Zixi could not stop apologizing, tears flowing out of her eyes.

"This is not your fault." Zhou Donghuang glided down and landed in front of Yang Zixi. He reached out and stroke her head, comforting her gently. "That Primal Core adept was here for me. Even if Yang Yunji did not bring him here, he would have found someone else to bring him here. The result would be the same. You do not need to blame yourself," said Zhou Donghuang with a smile.

"Brother Zhou!" With an outburst of courage, Yang Zixi reached out with her hands and hugged Zhou Donghuang tightly, crying into his shoulder.

The sudden act made Zhou Donghuang's body stiffen. It took a second before he relaxed, patting Yang Zixi's back softly. "Zixi, I am not trying to comfort you. This really has nothing to do with you." Zhou Donghuang smiled in resignation.

He did not know that Yang Zixi was like this not just because Yang Yunji had brought a Primal Core adept here to cause trouble, but more so because of what Lin Lan had said previously. Knowing that the Brother Zhou whom she loved already had someone else he fancied, Yang Zixi could not help but feel that her heart had been shattered.

In the past, Zhou Donghuang had said that he treated her like a younger sister, but she still believed that there was a chance. But now, knowing that Zhou Donghuang fancied someone else, her hopes were dashed.

Yang Zixi cried for half a day and eventually was so tired that she fell asleep right there. Zhou Donghuang turned to the lady who was attending to Yang Zixi and quietly instructed her, "Aunt Mei, please bring Zixi back to her room to rest."

"Brother!" Not long after Yang Zixi had been brought away, Yun Lu rushed into Zhou Donghuang's arms as if she had been in line for her turn. "Brother, Brother… Xiao Lu missed you so much."

"Silly girl." Zhou Donghuang stroked her head gently. "Isn't Brother back now? Don't worry… this time, I am here to bring all of you away with me," said Zhou Donghuang.

"Really?" Yun Lu looked up at him expectantly, her eyes sparkling.

"Of course," replied Zhou Donghuang, nodding his head.

"Donghuang," said Lin Lan, who had been standing at the side. "Actually, we are living pretty well here in Qingshan town." At the same time, she glared at Yun Lu discreetly.

Yun Lu blushed as she hurriedly added, "Brother, Xiao Lu is just kidding… actually, Xiao Lu also likes it here in Qingshan town, really."

"Mother," said Zhou Donghuang with a smile. "I have already asked Su Mo to arrange a residence for us in the Valley of Medicine Masters. It should be all ready by now. For now, you can stay temporarily at the Valley of Medicine Masters. Of course… you cannot stay for too long there. Because, next, there is somewhere better for all of you to live." Zhou Donghuang paused, then added, "Mother, in the future, you do not need to worry that you are being a burden. When all of you are close by, I can be less worried. Otherwise, just like today, if I had been just a little later, who knows what would have happened!" His expression turned serious.

Lin Lan was then reminded of what had just happened, and broke out in cold sweat. "Yes… we will all follow you.

"The reconstruction of this place, we can leave it to someone else… you all prepare for us to leave tomorrow." Zhou Donghuang took out a bottle of pills and handed the pills out to everyone there. "This is the healing elixir that I made after reaching the Primal Core stage, and it is much more effective than those that I gave to you previously."

With the healing elixir, everyone's injuries healed quickly. After all, they were only minor injuries. Aunt Mei had already recovered enough to be able to bring Yang Zixi away to rest, even without taking the healing elixir.

"Young Master?" Little Gold woke up not much longer after taking the healing elixir that Zhou Donghuang fed him. It looked at Zhou Donghuang with disbelief.

"I… I'm not dreaming, right?" said Little Gold to itself.

"You're not." Just then, Big Gold, which had been circling in the sky above, flew down in front of Little Gold. "Little Gold, you have made good progress… you've already achieved the Connate stage."

"You… you are Big Gold?!" Little Gold's eyes narrowed as it looked at the twenty-meter wingspan of Big Gold. It swallowed nervously. "You… you are already in the ultimate Connate stage?"

"Haha… you improved by a bit, but my progress was even more," replied Big Gold gleefully.

"But this is nothing… Young Master is already in the Primal Core stage," added Big Gold.

"Primal Core?" Little Gold looked at Zhou Donghuang with disbelief. It remembered what had happened before it had been severely injured and scanned its surroundings only to realize that the Primal Core adept and demon were both dead.

"This…" Little Gold was stunned. It was well aware of how powerful that Primal Core adept was. With just a flick of his hand, without any effort, he had simply blown it away and knocked it unconscious.

Yet now, the man was dead.

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Chapter 184: Arrival at the Lu Family Household

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

"Young Master, back then, didn't you tell me that once Big Gold achieves the Connate stage, then you will let it take my place? You only came back after so long," said Little Gold as he looked at Zhou Donghuang indignantly. "Now, Big Gold is already in the ultimate Connate stage, but I've only just reached the Connate stage… "

"Enough," interrupted Zhou Donghuang. He turned to the corpse of the Primal Core demon and said, "You can have the corpse of the Primal core demon here… but you must leave its beak and claws to me. Besides this, you can also have the inner core of this demon." Zhou Donghuang opened his hands to reveal a white orb the size of a child's fist, and white mist appeared mysteriously around it. This was none other than the inner core of the early Primal Core demon that the tenth elder of the Divine Light sect, Lin Hantian, had ridden here.

The inner core of the demon was similar in effect to that of a human, but it could be perfectly maintained for a period of time after the death of the demon, only dissipating after that. This made it similar to the Buddhist essence of monks. However, as compared to the Buddhist essence, the inner core of the demon was more straightforward as it could be easily swallowed by another demon, which could digest it to increase its own level of power.

"Inner core?!" When he heard Zhou Donghuang's words, Little Gold stared at the white orb in his hands, saliva dripping from its mouth. The inner core was an immensely precious treasure to any demon which had not achieved the Primal Core stage.

"Young Master, if I swallow this… can I use the inner Yuan within it to jump straight to the Primal Core stage and become a Primal Core demon?" Big Gold asked curiously, its eyes also transfixed on the white orb.

"Of course," replied Zhou Donghuang.

Big Gold turned to Little Gold, smiling as it said, "Little Gold, why don't we make a deal?"

"No chance! Don't even think about it!" Little Gold knew exactly what Big Gold was thinking about and turned him down straight away. "If I have this inner core, I'll be able to chase up to you in a short time. But if you take it, and become a Primal Core demon… how can I chase you? You think I'm a fool?" retorted Little Gold.

"Little Gold, you really are a fool! If I use this inner core to attain the Primal Core stage and become a Primal Core demon, I can bring you with me to hunt other Primal Core demons. Then, we will have no lack of inner cores," said Big Gold.

Little Gold looked swayed by Big Gold's words.

Before Little Gold could make a decision, Zhou Donghuang had already shot the inner core into its mouth with a flick of his finger. "Don't be greedy… just focus on yourself first."

"Yes, Young Master," laughed Little Gold awkwardly.

Seeing this, Big Gold did not say anything. All that it had was given to it by its Young Master, and it naturally followed anything that he said.

…

Early the next morning, the two golden-crowned eagles lifted to the skies of the backyard of Yunxuan restaurant, flying towards the Yunfeng prefecture capital.

"Wait here for me… I will ask Lu Qinghu if he wishes to leave with me," Zhou Donghuang said to the group of people on the backs of the two golden-crowned eagles, then he leaped off the back of Big Gold and headed towards the Yunfeng prefecture capital.

From above, looking down upon Yunfeng prefecture capital, Zhou Donghuang could easily spot one of the large courtyards, which was the residence of the Lu family household. Arriving above the courtyard, Zhou Donghuang realized that a group of people had gathered in front of the household, and tables were set up everywhere, filled with all types of food and drinks as if it was a buffet for everyone.

"A gathering?" The sight made Zhou Donghuang think of the Wei family party that he had attended with Yang Zixi and Ren Jiapei at the Chu royal city. However, the difference was that that one was hosted by the Wei family. However, this party was hosted by the first young master of the Lu family, Lu Yuan.

"Brother Lu Yuan, everyone knows that the Lu family is now the ruler of Yunfeng prefecture, far above the Zhao Governor's household. You are being too humble." In the courtyard, a well-dressed young man was complimenting Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan appeared more mature compared to back in the day. Faced with the compliment, he was calm and composed. "These things ought not to be said so lightly… the Zhao family is the true ruler of Yunfeng prefecture."

"Brother Lu Yuan, you are too humble," said another young man with a shake of his head. "Now, in the Yunfeng prefecture capital, everyone knows of how Elder Qinghu helped protect your second uncle and the current Lu family chief, Lu Bao. The person who came to create trouble was a level-nine adept from a tycoon family of a superior prefecture, but he was simply defeated by a single blow from your father. Your father is at least a Petty Consummate adept now, right?" asked the young man.

"I have never asked my father about this, so I am not too sure," replied Lu Yuan. However, his eyes could hardly conceal his pride.

At the moment, in a corner of the courtyard of the Lu family household, two young ladies were looking at Lu Yuan intently.

"Li Rui, for people like us from the side family of a preeminent family, if we can lay our hands on the Young Master Lu, even if we are just his concubines, that would be an achievement for us," said one of the ladies to the other. "Now, the Lu family's status in the Yunfeng prefecture capital is unparalleled… two months ago, for the birthday of Elder Qinghu, the governor of Yunfeng prefecture even personally brought gifts here. If we are able to get close to the Young Master Lu, with the connection to Elder Qinghu, even the Zhao family would treat us differently."

The other girl was none other than a side disciple of the preeminent Li family of Yunfeng prefecture, Li Rui. Since the death of the Li family chief, the Li family had another level-four adept and so was still a preeminent family, but they were much less well-off compared to the past. On the other hand, the Lu family had achieved new highs.

"Hong Qian, you said… the reason for the Lu family's present glory is the work of Zhou Donghuang a few years ago?" Li Rui asked, her eyes filled with disbelief.

"Apparently… otherwise, how could the Lu family suddenly become so powerful? In the past, the Lu family never showed any potential, until Lu Qinghu got to know Young Master Donghuang. Then, the Lu family simply rose in prominence!" Hong Qian's gaze turned intense as she spoke. "Apparently Young Master Donghuang achieved the Connate stage a year ago. He is the only "Teenage Connate" in the whole Yunyang country, and even in the history of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley. What a pity… someone like that, we can only watch from afar. All we can aspire for is someone like Young Master Lu Yuan… unfortunately, even Young Master Lu Yuan would not be able to be secured easily," sighed Hong Qian.

Hong Qian's words had caused Li Rui's face to darken. Zhou Donghuang. The youngster whom she had looked down upon back in the day, had not only entered the connate stage, but had even brought the Lu family to such heights?

Did she regret it? Of course. "If I had not treated him that way in the past, even if I did not end up marrying him, he certainly would not leave my mother and me out… I missed such a huge chance." Li Rui was filled with regret.

Suddenly, a loud sound came from the skies. It was not load, but it was enough to cover all the noise and chatter in the courtyard. It sounded familiar to Li Rui.

"Lu Yuan." In the skies above the Lu family household, a handsome young man in white was floating and staring directly at the first young master of the Lu family, Lu Yuan.

When everyone looked up and saw the young man in white floating in mid-air like a god, everyone's eyes narrowed.

"Fly… flying?"

"He… he can fly?"

"I heard only Primal Core adepts can fly! He is a Primal Core adept?!"

"Primal Core adepts only appeared in legends, why would one appear in a place like Yunfeng prefecture?"

…

Everyone was shocked.

Hearing someone call his name, Lu Yuan examined the man floating in mid-air seriously… although it had been a long time, but the man's features were exactly the same, and Lu Yuan recognized him immediately.

"Young… Young Master Donghuang?" Lu Yuan asked in a stutter. "You… you have achieved the Primal Core stage?" Only such adepts could float in the air.

"Yes," nodded Zhou Donghuang. He went straight to the point. "I am here to find your father."

"I will call him over right away!" Lu Yuan did not hesitate as he hurried towards the house like a crazed rabbit, leaving every group around him.

Even after he had left, there was not a sound in the whole courtyard. It was long after before someone recovered from the shock and stared in amazement at the young man floating in the air, whispering, "He… he is that Zhou Donghuang? The teenage connate who shocked the whole Yunyang country a year ago?"

"Lu Yuan would never have recognized the wrong person."

"My goodness! A year ago, we heard that he was not even twenty years old, but had achieved the Connate stage. Now, in a year's time, he has already reached the Primal Core stage?"

"He must be just twenty years old? A Primal Core adept at the age of twenty?"

…

In the courtyard of the Lu family household, every person there was in shock.

"Zhou… Zhou Donghuang… " Li Rui stood in the corner, looking at the young man in the air. Her gaze was immensely complicated as her expression changed drastically.

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Chapter 185: Someone from the Xuanyin Sect

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"Zhou Donghuang!" Finally, Li Rui mustered her courage and called out to Zhou Donghuang. "I am Li Rui, you… still remember me? My mother is the chairperson of the commerce association of Ningping town, Li Yun. She is good friends with your mother, Lin Lan." To Li Rui, with the power that Zhou Donghuang had now, as long as he supported her in even the smallest way possible, she would benefit greatly.

"Li Rui… knows this Zhou Donghuang?" Hong Qian's eyes widened in disbelief. Hong Qian was the side disciple of the preeminent Hong family of Yunfeng prefecture capital. She would never have thought that her friend could possibly be acquainted with the Connate-level teenager of Yunyang country, who was now a Primal Core adept. Instantly, her eyes sparkled. If Li Rui was able to make connections with this man, she would also be able to take advantage of it!

"Li Rui?" Just as the people around her were looking at her with envy, Zhou Donghuang, who was floating in the air, opened his eyes slowly and glanced at her. "I remember you, you're the daughter of Aunty Yun."

"Correct, correct!" Seeing Zhou Donghuang remember her, Li Rui answered excitedly. The gaze of the other people boiled with jealousy.

"Is Aunt Yun doing well?" Li Rui nodded her head like a chicken pecking at rice. In that moment, she was blushing out of sheer excitement. "Brother Donghuang, you rarely come back to Yunfeng prefecture… why don't you stay for a few more days so that I can properly take care of you?"

"Brother Donghuang?" Hearing how Li Rui addressed him, Zhou Donghuang looked at her with a complex expression, a smirk playing on his lips. "Miss Li, I am not worthy of you calling me that… I, Zhou Donghuang, in your eyes, am just a martial invalid who is not worthy of you."

With that, the expression of everyone there changed as they looked at Li Rui as if she was an idiot. This Li Rui had looked down upon Zhou Donghuang? She had thought that he was a marital invalid? A twenty-year-old Primal Core adept, a martial invalid? Was Li Rui blind?

"Brother Donghuang." Although she could hear the sarcasm in his voice, Li Rui still plastered a smile on her face. "I was too young then and did not understand anything… these things, someone as magnanimous as you, please do not take it to heart."

"You are really able to bend yourself anyway you like." Zhou Donghuang smiled faintly, and closed his eyes, ignoring Li Rui. Beside her, Hong Qian's hopes were dashed as well.

Hong Qian could tell that Zhou Donghuang had no intention of paying any attention to Li Rui. After repeated attempts to talk to Zhou Donghuang, Li Rui's face slowly darkened as she realized that Zhou Donghuang was simply ignoring her. Finally, sensing the disdain from the crowd around her, she could only feel extremely embarrassed as she fled sneakily.

"Lu Qinghu greets Young Master!" Not long after Li Rui had left, a tall slender figure appeared in the courtyard like a phantom. He bowed respectfully to the young man in mid-air, his eyes filled with both respect and shock.

In such a short time, that young man had already reached the Primal Core stage and had become a Primal Core adept? Just now, hearing the words of his son Lu Yuan, he had not dared to believe it. It wasn't until now, upon seeing the young man float in midair, did he fully believe that it was true.

"It's been a while." Long before Lu Qinghu arrived, Zhou Donghuang had already opened his eyes. He smiled in return to Lu Qinghu's greeting. "This time, I am back to bring my mother with me to leave Yunyang country… I am here today to ask if you wish to leave with us?"

"As long as we do not burden you, I, Lu Qinghu, will go anywhere with Young Master," answered Lu Qinghu without a second of hesitation.

"In that case, come with me." With a stroke of his hand, the white glow of his inner Yuan wrapped around Lu Qinghu and lifted him up to the skies, right in front of the entire crowd. He brought him away from the Lu family household, disappearing before everyone's eyes.

"The old chief of the Lu family really struck gold… as long as he follows Zhou Donghuang, a Primal Core adept, in the future, even the Yunyang imperial court will no longer dare to offend the Lu family."

"The Lu family is really lucky."

"It is truly their fortune to have Lu Qinghu in the family!"

The disciples of the preeminent and lesser families in the courtyard all shook their heads and sighed, their eyes filled with envy.

…

When Zhou Donghuang and the rest arrived at the Valley of Medicine Masters, the Valley Head Su Mo came out personally to receive them, leading them to a residence which he had prior arranged for them.

"This small valley… did you especially carve it out?" Zhou Donghuang remembered that the Valley of Medicine Masters was in a vast valley that did not have this small valley covered with lush grass. With the power that he had, Su Mo could easily create a small valley like this with just a simple flick of his hand. However, as easy as it was to create the valley, the newly created valley would have looked unsightly. Yet the valley before them was filled with greenery, with birds singing and flowers blooming… in such a short time, to transform the valley into something like this clearly required a large amount of effort.

"Master, this small valley is my gift to Madam and Miss… I wonder if they are satisfied with it." Su Mo looked at Lin Lan beside Zhou Donghuang and Yun Lu in his arms as he bowed and smiled.

"Valley Head is really thoughtful," said Lin Lan in surprise. After all, the middle-aged man before her was the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters, and the true leader of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley.

"Madam, you can just call me Su Mo." Lin Lan's words frightened Su Mo that he hurriedly dropped to his knees, his body trembling. He looked up carefully at Zhou Donghuang, as if afraid Zhou Donghuang would be unhappy with his performance. To Su Mo, his Master Zhou Donghuang was like a deity far above him, one that could not be offended. And Lin Lan was the mother of his Master.

"Valley… Su Mo, what are you doing? Get up, get up." Su Mo's action shocked Lin Lan. She would never have thought that the ruler of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley and the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters would be so frightened by how she had addressed him that he would drop to his knees.

In that moment, another voice called out from the distance. "Su Mo, you are really getting worse as you age… how can you kneel in front of a woman!"

Long before they heard the voice, Zhou Donghuang had already noticed the appearance of someone new. Besides the elder of the Valley of Medicine Masters and his flying beast who had welcomed them just now, there was another flying beast on the platform. On it, there were two men standing.

The one who had spoken was the middle-aged man standing slightly behind the other. The man was dressed in a mandarin gown, his eyebrows fearsome. As he looked at Su Mo, his tone was filled with sarcasm, his eyes filled with disdain.

"Tan Che?" As Su Mo stood up, his eyes landed on the man who had spoken as he said calmly, "What I do has nothing to do with you! Why aren't you at the Guiyuan Sect, but instead came here to poke your nose in my business?"

Tan Che was the leader of the Guiyuan Sect. The Guiyuan Sect ruled over the Fourteen Countries of Southern Jiang, which was neighboring the Valley of Medicine Masters. Due to their great distance from the Shenguang Empire, they had not been under its influence.

"An ultimate Connate stage demon?" Just then, the old man in gray standing in front of Tan Che spoke up. His originally dull eyes lit up as his gaze landed on Big Gold, which was standing not far away from Zhou Donghuang. Greed was visible in his eyes as he asked, "Who would've thought that we would have this surprise waiting for us here."

"Congratulations, Lord Chi Ping," Tan Che congratulated the old man. He looked at the massive golden-crowned eagle as he puzzled, wasn't there only one early Connate demon in the Valley of Medicine Masters? Where did this penultimate Connate demon appear from?

"Hm?" Su Mo's eyes landed on the old man in gray, his eyes turning into a slight frown. "This is?"

"Su Mo, this is Lord Chi Ping from the Xuanyin Sect," said Tan Che with a bright smile. "Lord Chi Ping had left Xuanyin Sect for the Valley of Medicine Masters… but he wrongly came to our Guiyuan Sect and was unsure of the directions here, so I brought him here personally. Su Mo, who would've thought that you were so bold that… you even dare to offend someone from the Xuanyin Sect." Tan Che looked gleeful.

"Someone from the Xuanyin Sect?" As he looked at the old man once again, Su Mo's expression darkened. "Sir, you are looking for me?"

Of course, although he was asking this, Su Mo had already guessed that this man had come here to find him most likely because of Chen Dandan, who had been accepted into the Xuanyin Sect.

"On Miss Dandan's request, I have come here to destroy your entire valley, as well as someone named Zhou Donghuang." Chi Ping was an early Primal Core adept from the Xuanyin Sect. He enjoyed bootlicking and tried his best to get closer to the two ultimate Primal Core elders in the Xuanyin Sect but never got his chance. He wanted to get closer to the lesser disciples of the two elders, but even they did not pay him any attention. Until recently, he had gotten to know Chen Dandan, a new female disciple under the wing of the elder Zhong Ya. She had instructed him to destroy the whole Valley of Medicine Masters and one person. To him, this was an opportunity to perform a favor for her, so he had come right away.

He could easily destroy a small sect whose strongest member was just a late Connate adept. As for the man named Zhou Donghuang with a spear sphere, he similarly thought nothing of him.

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Chapter 186: Su Mo Strikes

Whoosh!

As the words left his mouth, Chi Ping flew off the flying beast, as he soared above Su Mo and the rest. "I have nothing against all of you, but since Miss Dandan wants you dead… I can only send you on your way. But before that, you had better tell me where Zhou Donghuang is… as long as you cooperate, I will allow you an easy death. Otherwise, I will slowly torture you until you die!" Towards the end, Chi Ping's eyes revealed his sadistic intent.

Chi Ping floated in the air, his cloak rising behind him despite the still air. He was like an old deity, giving one a sense of uneasy oppression. Before Chi Ping had made a move, Lin Lan and the rest were already afraid of him. Now, with his inner Yuan surrounding him, this confirmed to Lin Lan and the rest that he was an early Primal Core adept!

Along the way from Yunyang country, Zhou Donghuang had explained about Primal Core adepts to Lin Lan and the rest. He had mentioned how to differentiate the inner Yuan of the different tiers of Primal Core adepts. Hence, Lin Lan and the rest could easily tell that Chi Ping was in the early Primal Core stage.

"Hmph!" Just as Chi Ping spoke, Lu Qinghu could not resist but snort with disdain, saying condescendingly, "A mere early Primal Core adept threatening to kill my young master… did you eat something to make you so daring that you're unafraid of death?"

"Zhou Donghuang is your young master?" Hearing Lu Qinghu, Chi Ping's eyes flashed as he shouted, "Speak! Where is Zhou Donghuang!"

Chen Dandan had told him that Zhou Donghuang was just a teenager. Among those present, there were no teenagers, so Chi Ping had not recognized Zhou Donghuang.

"Chen Dandan sent you to kill me, but you don't recognize me?" Zhou Donghuang rose to the skies, level with Chi Ping. His face was calm, his gaze silent.

With that, Chi Ping's expression changed entirely. This young man in white, who looked no more than twenty years old, was an early Primal Core adept just like him?

"Primal Core?" Tan Che, the chief of the Guiyuan Sect, was also surprised. He had never expected a Primal Core adept to exist in the Valley of Medicine Masters.

"You are Zhou Donghuang?" Chi Ping finally responded, thinking of what the young man in white had just said previously. His expression was one of utter disbelief, his heart filled with shock. "Didn't Miss Dandan say that he was just in the early Connate stage? How did he become a Primal Core adept?" Chi Ping was stunned, absolutely stunned.

"Master." Then, as Chi Ping and Tan Che watched on, Su Mo, the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters, also rose to the skies behind Zhou Donghuang. He said respectfully, "Leave this man to me."

"Mhm," responded Zhou Donghuang calmly.

Su Mo had not yet attained the mid Primal Core stage, but his inner Yuan was so strong that it far exceeded any ordinary early Primal Core adept. Furthermore, he had been practicing the premier Thousand-Star Sword Technique. His inner Yuan was powerful enough to defeat any other early Primal Core adept. In the whole Ziyun planet, there was no other adept beneath the middle Primal Core stage who could match him.

"How is this possible?!" Tan Che, the chief of the Guiyuan Sect, had already been shocked by the Primal Core that Zhou Donghuang had displayed. Now, seeing Su Mo take to the skies, displaying his Primal Core, Tan Che was in utter denial. Were his eyes playing tricks on him? Could he be dreaming?

He understood Su Mo. Two years ago, he had even come to the Valley of Medicine Masters to challenge Su Mo. At that time, they had both been late Connate stage adepts. That round had ended in a draw after both of them were not able to defeat the other even after a prolonged battle, because their levels were too similar.

"It is real…" In a moment, after making sure that his eyes had not been playing tricks on him, nor was he in a dream, Tan Che was stunned. A late connate adept could become a Primal Core adept in just two short years? How did Su Mo achieve this?

"This Su Mo is also a Primal Core adept?" Chi Ping's expression turned dark once again. Before he had left, Miss Dandan had clearly told him that Su Mo of the Valley of Medicine Masters was only a late Connate adept… but now, Su Mo had displayed that he was already in the Primal Core stage.

Whoosh!

Just as Chi Ping was stunned, Su Mo had already made his move. In a flash, he rushed towards Chi Ping.

…

The sounds of swords slashing through the air rung around. As Su Mo moved, his inner Yuan crystallized into ten bolts of light. In addition to one lightning bolt that supported him from beneath and made him accelerate even faster, the other lightning bolts floated around his body, shooting towards Chi Ping alongside him.

Seeing this, Chi Ping did not take any chances. He drew his hands apart and pushed out, and his inner Yuan transformed into a palm.

"Inner Yuan is too diffuse," Seeing this, Su Mo remarked condescendingly. "Is this all that a Primal Core adept from Xuanyin Sect can do?"

"You…" Just as Chi Ping expression changed after hearing Su Mo's words, Su Mo had already reached the huge palm. With a quick motion of his hands, the lightning bolts flew out and destroyed the palm.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

…

At the same time, Su Mo arrived right in front of Chi Ping. Now, Chi Ping's face was pale. He realized that his defense could not protect against his opponent at all. His opponent was clearly far stronger and more highly skilled than he was. They were not on the same level.

"Run!!" With the last bit of inner Yuan left in him, Chi Ping tried to escape.

"Too late," said Su Mo flatly. With a quick motion, the lightning bolts around him fused into one, containing him within as one huge bolt of light. He sped towards Chi Ping even faster than before.

He easily chased up to Chi Ping. As Chi Ping realized his danger, his eyes widened as he cried, "Su Mo, I am a disciple of the Xuanyin Sect. If you dare kill me, the sect will not let you off, nor your Valley!"

His words landed on deaf ears. As the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters, Su Mo was well aware that if he allowed him to leave today, he himself, his young master, and even the whole Valley would be put in even greater danger… once he killed Chi Ping, the Xuanyin Sect would take a while to respond, and by the time the Xuanyin Sect responded, his young master may even have progressed to a stage where they need not fear the sect.

Instantly, the bolt of lightning killed Chi Ping with a single stroke, as his face revealed his resignation.

After all, Chi Ping was just an early Primal Core adept from the Xuanyin Sect. He did not even have a space ring. On his death, all he left behind was a stack of notes from the Xuanyin Empire under the Xuanyin Sect.

Witnessing Su Mo murder Chi Ping, Tan Che, the leader of the Guiyuan Sect, could not help but draw in a quick breath after he recovered from his shock. When he looked at Su Mo again, his eyes were fearful. He mustered his courage and put his hands together to congratulate Su Mo, "Head Su, congratulations on achieving the Primal Core stage!"

In the depths of Tan Che's eyes, it was clear that he was jealous. In fact, he was already plotting that once he left the Valley, he would inform the Xuanyin Sect that Su Mo of the Valley of Medicine Masters had killed their disciple Chi Ping of the Xuanyin Sect.

"Hmph!" As the inner Yuan from the bolts of lightning entered his body, Su Mo glanced at Tan Che. He opened his mouth, and a bolt of white light came out, shimmering and blazing. Before Tan Che could react, the light had already killed him even before he could beg for mercy, his look of sheer fright plastered on his face.

"Master, this Guiyuan Sect Head, Tan Che was filled with jealousy, if he left like this, he would have definitely caused trouble for us." After killing the flying beast beneath Tan Che, Su Mo then returned to Zhou Donghuang and explained. With almost twenty years of experience dealing with Tan Che, he was well aware of his character, so he had no intention to let Tan Che leave after he had killed Chi Ping.

"Mm." Zhou Donghuang nodded calmly. From the start of the battle, he had just observed quietly.

"Madam, Miss." At the same time, Su Mo turned to Lin Lan and Yun Lu. He said respectfully, "A year ago, I was just a late Connate adept… the only reason I could reach the Primal Core stage within a year was entirely because of Master's help. I am saying this to tell you that… in the future, just take this Valley as your home without any worry. No matter what the issue is, as long as you look for me, I will do everything I can to help you!" declared Su Mo.

Hearing this, Lin Lan and the rest were all shocked. This Valley Head was just a late Connate adept a year ago but had reached the Primal Core stage in just a short year… and could even kill the other Primal Core adept from the Xuanyin Sect so easily. In that instant, all eyes turned to Zhou Donghuang.

"Just now, was that… the Thousand-Star Sword Technique?" Yun Lu had also practiced the same thing. When Su Mo had used it just now, Yun Lu had felt a sense of familiarity.

Now, hearing what Su Mo had said, she could easily guess that her brother had imparted the same technique to him.

"In the future, will I also be as strong?" Yun Lu's large eyes were expectant.

At the same time, the eyes of Freezing wind, Lin Han and Lin Feng also lit up. They had all trained in the same technique.

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Chapter 187: Golden Essence Elder of Divine Light Sect

On his return from the Divine Light Empire to the Valley of Medicine Masters, before he returned to the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley, Zhou Donghuang had made another trip to the black market to order a portion of spirit stones. Then, the manager of the black market, the third elder of the Divine Light Sect, Tuo Ku, was not present as he had returned to the sect.

The other elders managing the black market were well aware of Zhou Donghuang's formidable strength and were afraid that he would not sell the spirit weapon to the Divine Light Sect. As a result, they had not only displayed all the spirit stones in the warehouse to Zhou Donghuang, but had even given up their own spirit stones to him. Because of that, when Zhou Donghuang returned, besides the one thousand spirit stones of which he had already used half, he had gained another one thousand perfect spirit stones.

Out of the one thousand spirit stones, Zhou Donghuang kept a portion for himself and gave the rest to Su Mo, Lin Lan, Yun Lu, Yang Zixi and the rest, so that they could use it to further enhance their speed of practice. After all, they had run out of the Buddhist essence to aid them.

"Mother, I need to make another trip to the Divine Light Empire… after I get what I need, I will come back to the Valley of Medicine Masters." After bidding farewell to Lin Lan, Zhou Donghuang made his way on the golden-crowned eagle, Big Gold, to leave the Valley of Medicine Masters towards the Divine Light Empire…

This time, his goal was to sell his inferior spirit weapon in his hands to the Divine Light Sect. After he had collected the fifty thousand spirit stones from the sect, he planned to return to the Valley of Medicine Masters for a period of time to continue improving himself.

Now, by utilizing the superior Primal Core spirit weapon, there was no one under the Golden Essence that was his match. However, if he was pitted against a Golden Essence adept, he would find it challenging to match him.

Of course, on his way on the back of the golden-crowned eagle, Big Gold, Zhou Donghuang did not idle the time away but spent his time practicing with all his focus.

It was only when they were nearing the Divine Light Empire and reached the sky above the black market did he stop his practice.

"Big Gold, just wait for me here." After calling out to Big Gold, Zhou Donghuang leaped off and entered the black market.

This time, in the black market, Zhou Donghuang saw not only Tuo Ku, the third elder of the Divine Light Sect, but also an old man whom even Tuo Ku was respectful in front of.

"Young Master Donghuang, this is my senior, Ci Xuan," introduced Tuo Ku.

The old monk was in a golden robe, his bald head dotted with twelve circles. He was originally meditating with his eyes closed, but upon hearing Tuo Ku, his eyes opened suddenly. Although he looked kind and gentle, one could sense the oppressive aura that radiated from him.

"Indeed a Golden Essence adept." Seeing Tuo Ku treat the old monk so respectfully, Zhou Donghuang had already guessed that the man could be the Golden Essence adept from the Divine Light Sect. Now, sensing the aura that was radiating from the man, Zhou Donghuang confirmed it.

"Mm." Zhou Donghuang nodded calmly in response to Tuo Ku's introduction, as if completely unaware of Ci Xuan's intense gaze on him as if he was trying to see through him. Zhou Donghuang looked unfazed, his expression unchanged.

Zhou Donghuang's behavior seemed even more mysterious to the eyes of the old Golden Essence Elder of the Divine Light Sect.

"Sir, please do not think that our sect is over-reacting." Ci Xuan's wrinkled face squeezed out an ugly smile. "After all, trades concerning a few thousand spirit stones must be treated with caution."

"Mm." Zhou Donghuang nodded once again. With a wave of his hand, the exquisite hill that Tuo Ku had seen previously now appeared again. His inner Yuan brought it before Ci Xuan, allowing him to reach out to feel it.

"Indeed a spirit weapon." After testing the exquisite hill, Ci Xuan's eyes which were previously dark now shone with a bright light. His old face seemed shaken.

Although he was the Golden Essence Elder of the Divine Light Sect, in the whole sect, there was just one spirit weapon in the hands of his senior, another Golden Essence adept… if this spirit weapon landed in the sect, it would definitely be his to own. In the whole sect, only he was worthy of owning the second spirit weapon.

"The spirit stones?" reminded Zhou Donghuang, seeing Ci Xuan's attention fully drawn by the spirit weapon.

Ci Xuan then reluctantly let go of the spirit weapon in his hands and handed a space ring floating in the air to Zhou Donghuang.

"Sir, this contains fifty thousand spirit stones of the Divine Light Sect. As for the thousand spirit stones that you had ordered previously, consider it as a gift from us… also, this space ring that is worth ten thousand spirit stones, please take it as a gift from us." An ordinary space ring could not contain fifty thousand spirit stones.

Hence, the space ring that Ci Xuan was now offering was a superior space ring that was extremely valuable. The material used to forge such a ring was far superior than that used for an ordinary space ring. Of course, in the eyes of Zhou Donghuang, using such high-quality rock to produce a space ring of such quality was blasphemous. If he took the space ring and forged it again, he could definitely produce a space ring of higher quality.

"I, Zhou Donghuang, do not like to owe favors." Zhou Donghuang kept the space ring, then retrieved a pen and paper from his own space ring. On the paper, he wrote down a list of materials, then wrapped the paper in his inner Yuan and sent it to Ci Yuan. "As long as you prepare the materials here… the next time that I come to the black market, I can help to forge another spirit weapon for the sect."Read latest chapters at NovelFull

Boom!!

Zhou Donghuang's words resounded like a clap of lightning in the ears of Ci Xuan and Tuo Ku, leaving them stunned. They took a moment to recover.

"Sir… you mean to say that you can forge weapons?" Ci Xuan recovered first and breathed in deeply. When he looked at Zhou Donghuang, his eyes were filled with shock.

This young man who looked barely twenty years of age had the ability to forge spirit weapons? In the whole Ziyun planet, not a single person could produce a spirit weapon. Even the only two spirit weapons on the planet were from sources outside of the planet, and not produced by a native adept. And now, this man was claiming that he could produce spirit weapons.

Tuo Ku looked at Zhou Donghuang as if he had seen a ghost.

"Mm." Zhou Donghuang nodded calmly. "Search for these materials carefully… the next time that I am here, if you can produce all of these, I can produce a spirit weapon for you. If you cannot produce them by the next time that I arrive, then forget it." With that, Zhou Donghuang turned and left without another word.

It was only after his figure had disappeared in the distance that the two of them recovered from their shock. They looked at each other in utter disbelief.

"Tuo Ku… do you think… he really can produce a spirit weapon?" asked Ci Xuan.

"Senior," laughed Tuo Ku bitterly. "I think you must have an answer of your own?" Of course, regardless of that… I don't think he is lying. He must be able to produce a spirit weapon himself, otherwise he would not dare to make such a claim."

Although he had not interacted much with the young man, Tuo Ku was well aware that he was no ordinary man. Furthermore, seeing the formula for the qi-gathering elixir that the man had produced previously, he could tell that he was extremely capable. Of course, it would be no surprise if he could forge weapons.

"I shall return to the sect immediately and inform our leader of this, so that he can make the order to procure these materials as soon as possible." Just as Tuo Ku had thought, Ci Xuan had an answer of his own.

This time, Ci Xuan had left the sect to follow Tuo Ku to the black market to not only ensure that the trade went smoothly, but also to test the young man who had produced the spirit weapon.

Although it was their first encounter, the young man had still been calm and composed, which made him realize that the young man was definitely not any ordinary person. This man was one that the Divine Light Sect ought not to offend if possible.

But what surprised him was that he had underestimated the young man. He had the ability to produce spirit weapons. He believed him, but even if he did not, as long as there was a chance for the Divine Light Sect to obtain their third spirit weapon, he had to seize the chance, and not let it slip away.

…

"Big Gold, back to the Valley of Medicine Masters!" After getting the fifty thousand spirit stones, Zhou Donghuang did not linger any longer in the Divine Light Empire, and he ordered the Big Gold to return straight away.

After returning to the Valley, he would shut himself away for a long period of time. The fifty thousand spirit stones were enough to lay out a massive formation for him to gather spirit energy. Its effect would be far stronger than those created by a thousand spirit stones.

"After this round… it'll be about time for me to leave Ziyun planet." To Zhou Donghuang, Ziyun planet was like Earth in his previous life—too small. It could only serve as his starting point, but was too small for him… he could only showcase himself entirely in the vast universe beyond.

May 25, 1231 of the Ziyun Era, Zhou Donghuang returned to the Valley of Medicine Masters and set up a huge formation to gather spirit energy within the small, beautifully adorned valley for him and those around him to practice.

"What strong energy!"

"My goodness! What is this? Young Master, you are really like a god!"

"Practicing here… before long, I will be able to reach the Connate stage and become a Connate adept!"

…

After laying out the energy-gathering formation, the environment in the Valley was transformed. Fu, Freezing Wind and the rest all felt it, and even the oldest, Lu Qinghu, seemed to turn into a child, screaming with glee.

But Zhou Donghuang had already walked into the wooden cabin that Su Mo had personally built for him and had begun to practice in silence, unconcerned by all that was happening outside the window.

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Chapter 188: The Nineteenth Elder of the Xuanyin Sect

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The Xuanyin Sect, was one of the five great clans on the planet Ziyun. It was just as famous as the Divine Light Sect.

However, the Xuanyin Sect was currently in turmoil.

"Today is my elder brother's birthday… we two brothers have agreed that no matter what happens, everyone must return beforehand and celebrate our birthday together with us.

"In these last two hundred years, we have not missed even a year."

February 21, Year 1232 of the Ziyun Era, late at night, an old man wearing a black robe, who was emaciated with aged features walked out of the courtyard. "If elder brother doesn't return this time, that'll mean that something definitely went wrong!"

This old man was called "Chi An," the nineteenth elder of the Xuanyin Sect.

It was the same in the Xuanyin Sect as it was in the Divine Light Sect—only mid Primal Core adepts could become clan elders.

"Shortly before the new year… did Elder Brother notice that Zhong Ya acquired a female disciple named Chen Dandan?"

Having spent an entire evening until daybreak investigating, Chi An finally found a crucial clue from when his elder brother, Chi Ping, last left the Xuanyin Sect. The clue pointed toward the newly acquired female disciple of Zhong Ya, one of the two chief elders of the Xuanyin Sect."

"Miss Dandan."

Chi An immediately opened the door and searched for Chen Dandan. "Before leaving the Xuanyin Sect, my elder brother Chi Ping met with you… that time when he was set to depart, do you happen to know where it is that he went?"

"You mean Chi Ping?"

Chen Dandan knitted her brows. "Now that you mention it, a year ago when I saw him that time, I never did see him again after that… Nineteenth Elder, are you sure that after he met with me and left, that it was his last time leaving the sect? No one saw him return to the sect after that?"

"I investigated all night; I can confirm that he never returned to the sect after that time."

Chi An's voice sounded somewhat husky because of the gloomy tone in his voice. "Yesterday was our birthday, and for the last two hundred years, we have celebrated our birthdays together. That is the promise between us two brothers… Since the day we made that promise, this year is the first time he has failed to keep it.

"If he has broken our promise, there can only be two possibilities… either he has gotten stranded somewhere and has no way to get back or he has been killed!"

After saying this, Chi An's face became increasingly sullen.

"I've come here looking for you, Miss Dandan, to ask you precisely… that time when he was set to depart, do you happen to know where it is that he went?" Chi An asked.

"That I do know." Chen Dandan nodded her head. "When we were talking that time, we spoke of my birthplace, the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley. Afterwards, I mentioned my personal enemy from over there… and he said, he could go to the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley and help me settle the score with my foe."

"So what you are saying, Miss Dandan… is that he went to your home country and has not been heard from since."

Chi An's eyes flashed.

He knew his elder brother, Chi Ping, better than anyone. Naturally, the only reason Chi Ping would go off on his own to the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley, was because he wanted to curry favor with the woman standing before him and get closer to the chief elder of the Xuanyin Sect, Zhong Ya.

From the start and ever since then, that elder brother of his had always been involved with unorthodox practices and shortcuts. Otherwise, there was no way his brother's martial skills could be so inferior to his own.

They were twins, and their innate martial talents did not differ much.

However, he was already a mid Primal Core adept, while his brother Chi Ping, was still only an early Primal Core adept.

"Yes." Chen Dandan nodded. "But in the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley, it's impossible that there is anyone who can match him… the strongest person in the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley is that Head of Valley of the Medicine Masters, Su Mo, but even he is only a late Connate stage adept."

"As for my personal enemy, Zhou Donghuang, he is also only a Connate stage adept. Although he does rely on the use of a sword sphere, a sword sphere poses no threat whatsoever to a Primal Core adept," Chen Dandan said.

"Miss Dandan, please tell me the location of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley," Chi An begged.

Although his brother most likely had gone out in order to help the woman before him, even if he had encountered some mishap, he could not blame the woman before him at all because it had been his elder brother who had taken the initiative to undertake the task and help her.

However, taking a step back and looking at it, even if it had not been a voluntary action on his brother's part, but rather, it had been the woman who had forced his elder brother to go, he still would not dare accuse the woman before him.

The woman before him was a disciple under the Xuanyin Sect's Golden Essence elder adepts, so her position within the Xuanyin Sect was high. There was no need to mention him, a mere mid Primal Core elder, when even those elders who were late Primal Core adepts were extremely courteous when they saw her.

"Very well."

Chen Dandan nodded, and afterwards told Chi An, in a few words, the location to the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley.

After Chi An had left, Chen Dandan's eyebrows raised as she thought, "I still don't know whether it was on the way to the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley that something happened to Chi Ping, or if it was on his way back to the Xuanyin Sect that something happened… if it is the former, then he definitely did not make it in time to kill Zhou Donghuang or to snuff out the Valley Head.

"However, if it was the latter, then he should have already killed Zhou Donghuang and the Valley Head… if that's the case, then he can still be considered to have died a worthy death."

Che Dandan did not care the slightest about Chi Ping's life.

What she was worried about was whether Zhou Donghuang and the Valley Head had been killed by Chi Ping or not.

…

Divine Light Sect.

In more than an entire year's time, the people sent out by the head of the Divine Light Sect's intelligence gathering, Eagle Eye, had all returned one after another, all except for Eagle Eye's second in command, the Divine Light Sect's tenth elder, Lin Hantian.

"Why hasn't the tenth elder returned?"

The highest member in Eagle Eye, the Divine Light Sect's fifth elder Tuo Bei, immediately felt that something was awry, "Due to his master of the Primal Core supreme demon speed, in ordinary circumstances, the one heading the search should return before the others… he is absolutely not supposed to come back after everyone else!"

"Is it possible that something happened to him?"

As soon as the thought occurred to him, Tuo Bei's face suddenly grew sullen.

Lin Hantian, while only the Divine Light Sect's tenth elder, had been the only person with the greatest potential, having become one of the top three in his generation.

Lin Hantian was also the most promising of his generation to achieve the ultimate Primal Core stage and was one of the few Golden Essence adepts.

This man was extremely important to the Divine Light Sect and calling him the future pillar of the sect was not an exaggeration.

But now, he suspected that something had gone awry.

Without any hesitation, Tuo Bei immediately went to find the head of the Divine Light Sect and express his ideas on the matter.

However, after the head of the Divine Light Sect heard Tuo Bei's conjectures, he immediately gave orders and sent Tuo Bei and the other two late Primal Core adept elders from the sect to go and search for Lin Hantian.

"If he's alive, I need to see him here. If he's dead, I need to see his corpse!"

These were the requirements of the head of the Divine Light Sect.

When Tuo Bei and the two with him left the Divine Sect, it just so happened that they ran into an old monk wearing a gold-colored kasaya. They fell over themselves to bow respectfully to the man in front of them in greeting.

"Uncle!"

"Uncle!"

This old monk in the golden kasaya was none other than the elder Golden Essence adept of the Divine Light Sect, Ci Xuan.

"You three are leaving in such a rush, where are you going?" Ci Xuan asked curiously.

"Uncle." Tuo Bei forced a smile, "Here's the situation…"

As he spoke, Tuo Bei revealed his conclusions. "So, I think that some misfortune has very likely already befallen the tenth elder."

"Does Old Man Lin already know about this?" Ci Xuan asked with a frown.

Although Lin Hantian was only the tenth elder of the Divine Light Sect, due to his great potential, his importance was greater than several two-hundred-year-old late Connate stage adepts combined… the latter perhaps had a hair of a chance to enter the ultimate Primal Core stage, but definitely could not break into the Dharma stage.

Furthermore, Lin Hantian, though not yet one-hundred years old, had already become a mid Primal Core adept. In the future, he would most likely be able to enter into the ultimate Primal Core stage, and he even had hopes of breaking into the Dharma stage!

Moreover, Lin Hantian belonged to the "princelings" of the Divine Light Sect.

Lin Hantian's paternal grandfather had been one of the three elder Golden Essence adepts of and was the only one of the great Golden Essence elders who was a disciple of a layman.

There were three chief elders of the Golden Essence stage within the Divine Light Sect. Ci Xuan and his other fellow disciple's title was the "Protector of the Buddha Dharma." Ci Xuan was the right protector of the Dharma, and his fellow disciple was the left protector of the Buddha Dharma… and Lin Hantian's grandfather held the title of "Most Exalted Elder."

The chief Golden Essence elders of the Divine Light Sect was the strongest of Ci Xuan's fellow disciples, then after that was him, and the least strong was Lin Hantian's grandfather.

"Brother, I must still ask you to keep this matter secret. At the moment, I don't want to tell the Most Exalted Elder… The head of the clan thought it inappropriate to have the Most Exalted Elder know about this matter, otherwise it would certainly influence his frame of mind," Tuo Bei said with a bitter laugh.

"I understand how serious this is." Ci Xuan nodded his head. "However, let's just not have anyone say anything, we also won't be able to hide it much longer… okay, you guys head out."

After Tuo Bei and the others had left, Ci Xuan sighed. "Now, I only hope that that Zhou Donghuang will rush to the Black Market to help us in the Divine Light Sect acquire and master the third spirit weapon… we'll wait until that spirit weapon is in the hands of Old Lin, so even if something really has happened to Lin Hantian, then it will make him feel somewhat better."

If the Divine Light Sect obtained the third spirit weapon, it would definitely make the Divine Light Sect's power second only to the other Golden Essence elders.

Ci Xuan, as a Golden Essence elder of the Divine Light Sect, was currently returning from the capital of the Shenguang Empire. On behalf of the Divine Light Sect, he had personally gone to collect all of the materials according to the requirements of that youth, Zhou Donghuang. He had taken them to the Black Market and given them to the third elder, Tuo Ku.

…

"This is the Valley of the Medicine Masters?"

The Xuanyin's Sect's nineteenth elder, "Chi An" had spent nearly two months' time before finally locating the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley's location. Moreover, while in a small country of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley, he had inquired about the location of the Valley of the Medicine Masters and immediately thereafter, he came to the Valley of the Medicine Masters.

"I am the nineteenth elder of the Xuanyin Sect, Chi An. Where is the Head of Valley of the Medicine Masters, Su Mo?

Chi An's voice was of a simple and honest tone, and in the next instant, it went down from the top of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, causing those within the Valley of the Medicine Masters to raise their heads and instinctively look up toward the sky… a voice really was coming down from over there.

"The nineteenth elder of the Xuanyin Sect?"

At that moment, Su Mo was practicing his craft within the Valley. When he heard the voice, he immediately opened both eyes and frowned slightly. "Chi An?"

"He has the same last name as that Xuanyin disciple I killed….it seems he has come on account of Chi Ping."

Considering the other man's actions and his name, it was not difficult for Su Mo to figure this out at all.

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Chapter 189: Won't Go Back

"The nineteenth elder of the Xuanyin Sect?

Although Su Mo had no idea what the significance of the title was, he could still be certain that the other man was unlikely to be a late Primal Core adept.

After all, the one who had previously been killed by his master, who belonged to the Divine Light Sect, Liu Xuanyu, had also been a mid Primal Core adept. Although the Xuanyin Sect was as equally famous as the Divine Light Sect, in truth, they were still inferior to the Divine Light Sect.

The seventeen elders of the Divine Light Sect were all only mid Primal Core adepts. Of the Xuanyin Sect's nineteen elders, the majority were also just mid Primal Core adepts.

"A mid Primal Core adept?"

Su Mo's eyes narrowed slightly, and a pallid gleam flashed across his eyes. Immediately, he skipped a step and flew toward where the voice was coming from at full speed.

In the blink of an eye, Su Mo arrived at of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, hovering over the Valley and stood face to face with the old man in black waiting there.

"So it was a mid Primal Core adept after all."

Before he approached the old man, Su Mo could tell just by looking at the milky white inner Yuan twisting around him, that the man was only able to condense the essence of a mid Primal Core adept.

"What?"

However, as he approached the old man, he could clearly make out see the old man's features, and Su Mo couldn't help but stare blankly.

If it were not for him being a hundred percent certain that the Xuanyin Sect's member, Chi Ping, had died by his hand, he would have really thought that the Chi Ping from that day still lived and had returned to settle the score after breaking into the mid Primal Core stage.

This was because, on first look, the old man in front of his eyes was identical to the Xuanyin Sect's Chi Ping, who he had killed with his own hands.

Of course, looking at the other man in detail a moment, Su Mo could make out some small differences between him and Chi Ping.

For example, the other man was much more composed than Chi Ping.

"Who are you?"

As Su Mo had leapt and approached, the Xuanyin Sect's nineteenth elder, Chi An, could tell from the white inner Yuan wrapping around him, that the other man was also a mid Primal Core adept like himself. It shocked him to his core that in such a small, remote place, there existed a Primal Core adept, and at the same time, a fearfully regretful look emerged in his eyes.

"Haven't you come in search of me? You even know my name, and now you're asking who I am?

Su Mo raised an eyebrow and looked derisively at Chi An.

Before Su Mo had hardly finished speaking, Chi An's eyes widened, and he said automatically, "You… you are the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters, Su Mo?!"

"That's my name, I wouldn't hide it come what may," Su Mo said with the same indifferently cool tone as before.

After getting Su Mo's confirmation, Chi An could not control his urge to secretly curse that female disciple of the Xuanyin Sect's chief Zhong Ya. Hadn't she said that this Valley Head was only a late Connate stage adept?

How could this man be mistaken for a Connate stage adept; it was clear he was a Primal Core adept!

Furthermore, this was a mid Primal Core adept matching his own abilities.

"Valley Head Su."

Seeing that the man opposite him was also a mid Primal Core adept, Chi An's tone became much more genial. "I am the nineteenth elder of the Xuanyin Sect, Chi An, I have an elder twin brother named 'Chi Ping…' One year ago, he must have come to your Valley of the Medicine Masters, did you happen to see him?"

As Chi An saw it, his elder twin brother, Chi Ping, being a lover of unorthodox methods, would never have dared to provoke this man after seeing that the Head of the Valley of Medicine Masters was a mid Primal Core adept.

"So that's why you and that Chi Ping look alike; turns out you're twins." Su Mo suddenly realized what was going on. "However, that older twin brother of yours was still vastly inferior to you… he was only a Connate-level Primal Core adept."

"You have seen my brother, Valley Head Su?"

Chi An's eyes brightened.

At that moment, Chi An was just about to ask if Su Mo knew anything about his brother's whereabouts, but Su Mo had already begun to speak first. "I've seen him. Hm, actually I've not only seen him, I actually killed him myself."

Whoosh!

Su Mo said it as lightly and casually as the wind, as if the person he had killed had not been a Primal Core adept, but rather a peasant or a stray dog.

After Su Mo finished speaking, Chi An's facial expression immediately underwent a drastic transformation. In the space of a split second, his eyes burst with the icy cold, murderous intent of battle. Still, for a short moment he had some restraint. "Sir, what reason did you have to kill my brother? He was a member of the Xuanyin Sect, even if he had done some wrong, it is up to the Xuanyin Sect to punish him. Outsiders have no right to kill him!"

"I didn't just kill him… today, since you've delivered yourself up right to my doorstep, you also will not go back."

A murderous intent flashed in Su Mo's eyes, and his two hands instantly curled slightly.

The most conspicuous thing was the mittens he wore on both hands. All the fingers were all inlaid with sharp claws.

Upon closer inspection, one could see that they were the same as eagle claws.

Looking even closer, it was not difficult to see that on each eagle claw were countless, fine lines carved in. Like the pattern on top of the gloves, these were clearly defined, carved lines and appeared to be extremely particular.

"I will send you off to meet up with him right away."

Su Mo grinned, a dazzling smile that would have been enough to drive tens of thousands of women crazy.

Even in his dreams, Chi An wouldn't have expected this Valley Head to be this powerful. It was more than just being unable to reason things out with him, but as soon as he started to speak, he said he wanted to kill him, to end him to meet his elder twin brother.

Momentarily dazed, Chi An returned to his senses, and his eyes surged with flames of fury. Just like the fires that set a prairie ablaze, the situation had become hopeless and could not be controlled!

"Su Mo, you talk big!"

An angry look grew on Chi An's face, and he shouted frigidly, "However, if you mean to kill me, you had better have the capacity to do it!"

As Chi An saw it, this Valley Head was just an unorthodox, mid Primal Core adept, so his actual power must definitely be inferior to his own as an adept coming from the Xuanyin Sect… even if Su Mo's strength really was greater than his, as a mid Primal Core adept himself, Chi An was still completely sure he could escape unscathed.

He just had to make it back to the Xuanyin Sect, and then he could almost assuredly find others to help him return here and obliterate Su Mo, to obliterate the Valley of the Medicine Masters!

"If you can withstand one of my attacks, I'll let you go," Su Mo said coolly with a laugh, and his body glowed, his inner Yuan surging forth.

He formed a gigantic sword and brought it towards Chi An, sword screaming as he went, quick as a bolt of thunder.

"Ha!"

Chi An had been ready, and as Su Mo swung his sword to kill him, he started to move to get out of the way of Su Mo's strike. "You talk big!"

"Sorry… just now I was just warming up, I am now ready to start fighting."

Su Mo did not seem at all surprised that Chi An had been able to avoid his quick move. As he spoke, both arms bent slightly, and each of his gloved hands gradually became fists.

Except for the thumbs, the eight fingers of his hands fanned out and turned into a strong bow.

"You can be the first person to die in my home by the spirit weapon refined by and given to me by my master. In this way, you will have led something of a worthy life, Chi An."

After he spoke, Su Mo's two arms suddenly became straight, and both hands curved in creating a strong bow from his fingers. In an instant, he released it.

"A spirit weapon!"

As he heard Su Mo's words, Chi An's pupils instinctively dilated, his expression astonished.

Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh!

…

However, in the space of a second, the whistling sound of the sword passed by his ears, and it brought Chi An back to his senses.

He finally realized that eight swords had flown from above Su Mo's two hands, and together with each sword was a single sharp claw. In total there were eight claws like small, finely wrought swords. After the swords, they instantly appeared right before his eyes.

"Huh!"

He wanted to escape again then, however there was no time. Hurriedly, Chi An's face grew grave, and he waited to accumulate his inner Yuan. All of it erupted out, flowing into two swift moves, and he created an inner Yuan sword, and brought it down menacingly on the eight swords coming his way.

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In an instant, while Chi An brandished a sword in each hand, there were more than ten hundred swords flying out, and no sooner had one fallen did another take its place. Trying to withstand the attacks from Su Mo's eight swords was like taking on several people at once.

Furthermore, the eight swords were extraordinarily swift and fierce. It was clear this was not a power that came from a single level of difference.

"How is this possible?!"

If Chi An had not had any idea about the eight swords before, he could now see right before his eyes how easy it was for the swords to destroy all of his attacks. He was also finally and clearly aware that there was more than one level of difference between them.

The eight swords were truly terrifying, completely exceeding his imagination.

"Escape!"

Realizing his offense was completely thwarted by his opponent, Chi An did not have enough time to think about how a mid Primal Core adept could possibly put forth this kind of terrifying attack. He only had one thought then: how to escape from this place so as to avoid dying here.

The only thing was, could Chi An escape this time even if he wanted to?

"I've said it already… since you've come, there's no way you can go back."

Like electricity, Su Mo moved his body swiftly. In an instant, he stood where near Chi An had been before, and raising both hands, he made the eight claws among the eight swords come back to the fingertips of his gloves.

In the next moment, Su Mo made another move.

Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh!

…

This time, the swords the eight sharp claws turned into came together halfway and created a foot-long sword. Exceeding normal speed, they overtook Chi An, and while Chi An turned his body to try to block the attack with his hands, it pierced through Chi An's brow.

The entire thing happened in the blink of an eye.

Chi An, the nineteenth elder of the Xuanyin Sect had been decimated!

"Hah!"

After Su Mo made the eight claws return to his gloves again, he simply removed the space ring from Chi An's finger. Soon afterwards, there was a whistling sound, and a vast amount of inner Yuan caused Chi An's corpse to turn into a bloody mist that filled the air. As it fell back down, it looked as though it had begun to rain blood.

"This mid-quality spirit weapon that Master gave to me really was useful after all."

Su Mo looked at the gloves on his hands, and he broke into a dazzling smile.

These spirit weapon gloves were actually what Zhou Donghuang made from the sharp claws of the eagle, a kind of Primal Core demon, which accompanied the Divine Light Sect's tenth elder, Lin Hantian. It had been his companion when Zhou Donghuang had killed him. Zhou Donghuang had combined it with several other ingredients to refine this. It was a mid-quality spirit weapon and it could increase inner Yuan threefold.

In the next moment, Su Mo looked toward the area he had made off-limits in the Valley of the Medicine Masters. It was like a haven of peace, a Land of Peach Blossoms within the small mountain valley, and he said to himself, "I also don't know… how long master will shut himself off from the world this time."

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Chapter 190: Two Years Later

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June 12, Year 1232 of the Ziyun Era.

After conducting a thorough investigation of the disappearance of the Divine Light Sect's tenth elder, Lin Hantian, for the past two years, the fifth elder of the Divine Light Sect, Tuo Bei, along with the other two late Primal Core adepts, finally returned to the Divine Light Sect.

"My lord."

After Tuo Bei and the other two with him returned to the Divine Light Sect, they immediately went to find the head of the Divine Light Sect, Lord Tuo Jin.

Tuo Jin was a middle-aged monk wearing a white kasaya. His complexion was clear as jade, as clear as the ornamental jade on a cap. His eyes were bright as stars. When one looked at him, he appeared extremely benevolent, and he gave one a feeling much like that of being caressed by a spring breeze.

However, after his eyes focused on Tuo Bei and the two with him, there was a great severity in his gaze.

"How did the investigation go?"

Tuo Jin's voice was quiet and stable as if he lacked any feeling whatsoever.

"My Lord"

Tuo Bei answered profusely, "In the course of the last six months, we finally confirmed… that the last place the tenth elder Lin Hantian was seen was a remote area located outside the Shenguang Empire called the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley.

"He was last seen in a small village in Yunyang country called 'Qingshan town,'" Tuo Bei said.

"Why would he have gone to such an out of the way place?" Tuo Jin asked further.

Tuo Bei gave a wry smile. "Master, weren't you the one who ordered us of the Eagle Eye Intelligence Corps to investigate those two strange, suspicious people who showed up at the Black Market before?

"The youth?"

Tuo Jin's eyes lit up. "You mean to say… the one who originally came here twice and sold the qi-gathering core formula to us of the Divine Light Sect and also sold us a spirit weapon, that youth called Zhou Donghuang, showed up in that remote Sixteen Countries of the East Valley?"

Originally, when Zhou Donghuang fought Tuo Ku at the Black Market, and after he had outdone Tuo Ku, he himself had reported back Zhou Donghuang's full name.

Furthermore, he reported the matter back to the Divine Light Sect in full detail.

Tuo Jin, the head of the Divine Light Sect and the head of the Eagle Eye, Tuo Bei, had already known Zhou Donghuang's name long before this.

"Correct." Tuo Bei nodded. "I specifically confirmed that… that Zhou Donghuang is definitely from the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley. What's more, he only originates from a small village in the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley. Five years ago, he was nothing more than a locally born villager generally recognized as useless in the martial way."

After he spoke, Tuo Bei unconsciously glanced at Tuo Jin and saw, just as he had expected, that Tuo Jin's expression was incredulous.

At first, when he had just learned all of this information, he also felt it was unbelievable.

After all, before going to the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley, he already knew that Zhou Donghuang's the true power was that of an outstanding late Primal Core adept. In fact, it had appeared he could even create a spirit weapon…

This kind of person, one who could be considered as defying the natural order and limits of the Ziyun planet had really come from such a small, remote place?

Any person, regardless of who it was, would never dare to believe it.

"My lord."

At that moment the other Divine Light Sect elders at Tuo Bei's side also spoke and reported, "We have also uncovered the identity of Zhou Donghuang's middle-aged companion… he is the Valley Head of the small sect, the Valley of the Medicine Masters, located in the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley. He is called Su Mo. Two years ago, he was still but a late Connate stage adept.

"He could be considered as an immensely powerful force in the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley… however, he is actually satisfied with deferring to Zhou Donghuang, a man of lowly origin, considering him his master."

This time, Tuo Bei and the others had discovered a great deal while in the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley.

"Two years ago, he was only a late Connate stage adept?"

Tuo Jin's eyes widened; even in the history of the Divine Light Sect, there had never been anyone who had jumped from a late Connate stage adept to an early Primal Core adept in the extremely short space of a year.

If he remembered correctly, according to the information brought back from the Black Market, a year ago, Zhou Donghuang's middle-aged companion had already been a Primal Core adept.

"It seems… that Zhou Donghuang possesses more than a few secrets."

As the head of the Divine Light Sect, this was the first instance in which Tuo Jin was unable to see through a person like this. That youth Zhou Donghuang was just as mysterious as any of the elders who were Golden Essence adepts of any of the four clans or sects. It was unfathomable, beyond comprehension.

"My lord."

The Divine Light Sect elder who had not spoken the entire time finally spoke and reported, "Based on our findings… not long after the tenth elder went to Qingshan town, Zhou Donghuang went back to Qingshan town and brought his mother along with some other people to the Valley of the Medicine Masters.

"We suspect… that the tenth elder was very likely killed by him."

After the Divine Light elder spoke, the entire courtyard suddenly became still.

Finally, It was Tuo Jin, the head of the Divine Light Sect, who finally broke the silence and spoke, "It is enough that you all know of this situation, we can't let it get out. I will go right now to find my teacher and report these matters to see whether or not we should, in light of the circumstances, report these things to Lord Taishang."

Tuo Jin's master was one of the three Divine Light Sect's Golden Essence elders, the Right Shield of the Dharma, Ci Xuan.

The Lord Taishang he spoke of was another Golden Essence elder, the grandfather of Lin Hantian, who they of the Divine Light Sect were almost positive was dead.

"That young Lin Hantian… is it possible he may have died at Zhou Donghuang's hand?"

At that time that Tuo Jin relayed the news to his master, the Right Shield of the Dharma, Ci Xuan, furrowed his eyebrows. "Although I only met that Zhou Donghuang once… still, based on young Tuo Ku's description of him, Zhou Donghuang doesn't seem like the kind to kill indiscriminately."

"Master."

Tuo Jin laughed bitterly. "I believe that. But, we have no choice but to consider the other option… perhaps it was the tenth elder who stirred up trouble and drove him to murder.

"This could definitely be possible." Ci Xuan nodded.

"Master, there'll be no keeping this under wraps… I still think we had better tell Lord Taishang about this matter," Tuo Jin said.

"You need not worry about this matter… I will call my fellow disciples; afterwards we will go together and speak to Master Lin," Ci Xuan's eyes flashed as he spoke gravely.

…

Time Passed.

Within the Valley of the Medicine Masters, it had been peaceful all the while.

"I've finally broken through!"

At the periphery of the Valley in the Land of Peach Blossoms, the old woman who sat cross-legged on atop an outshoot of rock suddenly opened her eyes, and the cloudiness in her eyes disappeared and was replaced with a resplendent spark.

The young woman was the head elder of the Valley of Medicine Masters, Yu Meiqin.

Sitting on this mountain gathering qi and producing a weapon after two years was not simply a matter of the Head of the Valley of the Medicine Masters Su Mo's coming there to practice, it was only with the special permission of the two chief dharma shields and that of the Valley of the Medicine Masters' chief elders that he could practice in the periphery of the Valley of the Medicine Masters.

More than a year ago, Yu Meiqin easily entered into the late Connate stage.

But today, she had easily entered into the ultimate Connate stage, she had become an ultimate Connate stage adept!

The two chief Shields of the Dharma of the Valley of the Medicine Masters, in terms of martial skill, were stronger than Yu Meiqin. They had already entered the ultimate Connate stage and had broken into the Ultimate Primal Core stage."

"Head Elder!"

Yu Mei had hardly opened her eyes when a pleasant sound entered her ears at that very moment and made her thoroughly excited.

In the next moment, the figure of a young girl about eight or nine years old swept past with a ten-meter, blue-green ray of light. She looked to Yu Meiqin's side, and both eyes gleamed as she said, "You've finally entered the ultimate Connate stage… come! Let's learn from one another!"

"Miss Yun Lu."

Seeing the young girl, Yu Meiqin's features took on a simultaneously doting and aged appearance, full of wry humor. "Don't you come trying to mess with an old woman like me… I am not your adversary. If you want to find someone to learn a thing or two from, you had better go find the two Shields of the Dharma. After all, they were first successful at becoming ultimate Connate stage adepts.

After she spoke, Yu Meiqin immediately looked toward the nearby, atop another outcropping of rock, where two old people, one fat and one thin, currently sat training with their eyes closed.

The two old people were the Valley of the Medicine Masters' two chief Shields of the Dharma, Wang Tao and Yu Wei.

"They are not my opponents; fighting with them would be boring." Yun Lu pouted and shook her head. "Right now, I only want to fight with you."

Yu Meiqin pursed her lips.

Three months ago, the girl before her had just entered the ultimate Connate stage and had trampled on the Valley of the Medicine Masters' elders in every situation. This was clear in her memory.

She definitely wanted to follow in their footsteps.

Just then, as Yu Meiqin racked her brains to come up with any way to fool the girl before her into leaving, a figure of a person walking out of a log cabin in the valley, toward where they were now, caught her attention. Her eyes brightened.

She knew she was saved.

"Young Master Donghuang, you've returned from the mountain?"

Yu Meiqin suddenly lifted herself up and respectfully greeted the person approaching.

She had not seen the youth in two years. He came now with a measured gait, steady and serious, and it looked like his feet were planted firmly on the ground… However, looking closely, one would notice that he was skipping steps, but it still looked like he stepped on the ground. However, in reality he had not yet touched the grass at all.

"Hehe, Head Elder, you don't want to trick me."

Yun Lu had not turned her head, she was looking at Yu Meiqin and said with a laugh, "You of course want me to trick me into turning my head and when I turn around, you will flee, right? Chief Elder, the Shield of the Dharma, Wang Tao, fooled me with this method. I've already been fooled once, so there's no chance of fooling me twice."

"Can Little Lu be fooled again?"

After nodding at Yu Meiqin, Zhou Donghuang made a doting face and looked toward the girl's back and asked indifferently with a laugh.

"Ah?"

When she heard the voice coming from behind her, it made Yun Lu's entire body waver, and in the next second, Yun Lu's face became frenzied with delight. She abandoned Yu Meiqin and hurriedly flew over to the youth in the snow white robe and embraced him. "Brother, you've returned?"

"Yeah."

Zhou Donghuang hugged Yun Lu with one arm and ruffled her head with the other. Smiling slightly, he said, "Little Lu, Big brother is ready to go to the Shenguang Empire's capital, maybe I will even go to the Divine Light Sect… Would you like to come along?

"Yes! Yes!"

Yun Lu's two eyes shined brightly. She nodded her head eagerly, as if deeply worried that Zhou Donghuang might go back on his word.

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Chapter 191: Spirit Weapon Upgrade

With Yun Lu in tow, Zhou Donghuang rode the golden-crowned eagle, Little Gold, from the Valley of the Medicine Masters toward the capital of the Shenguang Empire.

Originally, he had planned to bring Big Gold along; after all, Big Gold had been to the Shenguang Empire many times and knew the road inside and out. But Little Gold kept persisting and insisted that he wanted to go, and he kept saying that the Young Master was playing favorites. Despite Little Gold never having left the remote hinterland of the Sixteen Countries of the East Valley, Zhou Donghuang allowed it.

Moreover, Little Gold's martial ability and speed had surpassed Big Gold's.

"Young Master, I heard Big Gold say… the Shenguang capital is bigger than ten cities in the Valley of the Medicine Masters?"

"Big brother, do the people of the Shenguang Empire look like we do in Sixteen Countries of the East Valley?

After they had left the Valley of the Medicine Masters, Little Gold and Yun Lu, much like young, curious children, asked question after question without end.

At first, Zhou Donghuang would give a few sentences of explanation, however by the end, he simply said nothing at all.

Now, Little Gold was already equal to Big Gold; he, too, could easily condense inner Yuan energy. He had become a great Primal Core beast. He was already able to use human speech and did not need to speak to Zhou Donghuang through demon speech like he had in the past.

Realizing that her older brother was no longer acknowledging her, Yun Lu pouted indignantly with her small mouth. However, after being angry for a little while, she once again started speaking with Little Gold, and from time to time, she would let out a laugh that sounded like a silver bell.

Zhou Donghuang turned and shut his eyes and practiced his skills on Little Gold's back. It was as if he had turned a deaf ear to the entire world.

"We're here."

In less than half a month, two people and an eagle appeared in the capital of the Shenguang Empire. After Zhou Donghuang spoke, both Yun Lu and Little Gold looked at the nearby city that crawled into view just like a giant creature.

This was the first time that either of them had seen such a large city in their lives.

"Big brother, I don't want to go with you to that Black Market… May I walk around the capital of the Shenguang Empire by myself?"

As they got nearer to the Shenguang capital, Yun Lun looked at Zhou Donghuang with anticipation, her gaze mischievous.

"Fine." Zhou Donghuang nodded his head, and as he answered, his face became serious. "However you must promise big brother that you won't leave the Shenguang Empire's capital… and as soon as you encounter any danger, break the jade plate I gave you, and big brother will be there right away."

For this trip from the Valley of the Medicine Masters, Zhou Donghuang had specifically made several matching sets of mother-daughter jade tablets. Spells were engraved on the jade tablets, and as soon as a jade tablet was broken, the mother jade tablet would respond. It could locate the daughter tablet's position wherever it had been broken.

However, due to the materials used, the mother-daughter jade tablets Zhou Donghuang had made could only be used within the reach of the Shenguang Empire's capital. They would not be able to signal from any further than that.

Still, this would suffice.

"Got it, Big Brother."

After getting permission, Yun Lu's eyes lit up, and she cleverly stuck out her tongue.

Once he had guided Little Gold into the Shenguang Empire capital and they hovered over the Black Market, Zhou Donghuang carried Yun Lu as he drove the carriage and quickly let her down in front of the entrance to the Black Market. As soon as she was on her feet, Yun Lu called out, and then quickly ran off.

Seeing this, Zhou Donghuang shook his head with a laugh, but he was able to understand her.

No matter how you looked at it, Yun Lu was still just a child. Furthermore, she was a child who had been stifled in the Valley of the Medicine Masters.

"Master Donghuang, you've finally come."

The leader of the Black Market, the Divine Light Sect's third elder, Tuo Ku could not help but feel somewhat relieved after seeing Zhou Donghuang again.

However, at the same time, he faintly noticed one thing… this time, the youth's fighting spirit and confidence had grown fiercer. His whole body seemed like an unsheathed, sharp sword. Simply standing before him, Tuo Ku could sense an indescribable force.

"Two years ago, when he was but twenty years old, he was strong enough to defeat me… after two years, his strength has no doubt increased greatly. It's just that I cannot tell by how much… how powerful has he become?"

Tuo Ku trembled inwardly.

At this point, Zhou Donghuang's background and details in relation to the Valley of the Medicine Masters were no longer a secret.

"Yes." Zhou Donghuang nodded slightly and right after this, he casually mentioned, "The materials I requested, have they all been collected?"

"They have long since been ready." As Tuo Ku quickly nodded his head, he put a ring into Zhou Donghuang's hand. "Master Donghuang, all of your desired materials are within this."

"Prepare a quiet room for me. "

After Zhou Donghuang spoke, Tuo Ku hurriedly gave his very own room to Zhou Donghuang and left to wait outside. There was a somewhat expectant look in his eyes… Could this youth really forge a spirit weapon all by himself?

Inside the room, after Tuo Ku had left, Zhou Donghuang retrieved his own spirit weapon, his folding fan.

Afterwards, he took out the pile of materials that Tuo Ku had given him, and from among them he took out a precious ingredient and began working on the weapon… However, he did not begin by working on the spirit weapon he had promised to make for the Divine Light Sect. Instead, he began to work on his own superior spirit weapon, the folding fan, to forge it anew.

To begin, he used the most precious material of those collected by the Divine Light Sect to improve the quality of his own spirit weapon's makeup.

With these materials, his spirit weapon could rise in rank from a superior spirit weapon to an ultimate spirit weapon. Increasing the effects, it could transform from level six to more than four times its current level!

Only after spending two hours' time improving the grade of his spirit weapon did Zhou Donghuang finally use the remaining materials to aid the Divine Light Sect in the forging of their spirit weapon. He spent much less time to create a sword. The sword's blade was like jade, glittering and translucent. It emitted a swift and fierce energy into the air.

Looking closely, there were countless fine lines placed complexly all over the top of the sword. Zhou Donghuang had carved them on the blade. They were spells, scattered all over. So long as a Primal Core adept put his inner Yuan into it, then it would be activated.

Thus, this was a principle of increasing the power of one's inner Yuan.

"It's complete."

Tuo Ku originally thought that he would have to wait several days and nights, so he never expected that within four hours' time, the youth would push open the door and give the bright and transparent, three-foot-long sword to Tuo Ku.

He gave it a try, confirming that it was really a genuine spirit weapon fitting the price paid.

For this reason, Tuo Ku couldn't help but be struck dumb for a moment. "He… really forged this on his own?"

Tuo Ku had never expected that this spirit weapon would already be made now, nor that the youth would create it himself. This youth was purposefully being mysterious.

However, thinking it over again, there really was no need for all of that!

"I am ready to go to the Divine Light Sect," Zhou Dong said with an unnecessarily doubtful tone as Tuo Ku looked over at him, struck dumb with astonishment.

Tuo Ko immediately answered, "Master Donghuang, if you want to go to our Divine Light Sect, we of the sect will welcome you of course… the head of the clan has wanted to meet the peerless, unsurpassed genius of Ziyun for a long time.

"However… before that, I would like to ask you something."

At this point, Tuo Ku very cautiously looked at Zhou Donghuang and made as if to speak but paused.

"Speak."

Right after Zhou Donghuang spoke again, Tuo Ku breathed deeply. He asked, slightly upset, "The tenth elder of our Divine Light Sect, Lin Hantian, originally went to your home country… but it was then that he vanished without a trace.

"However, we don't know… have you seen him?"

Just as Zhou Donghuang was about to answer Tuo Ku's disturbing question, he felt a shock go through his him, which unfortunately shot out of the stone corresponding to the one Yun Lu possessed. Moreover, after the tremor, the stone in his bosom cracked open.

"What?"

Hearing the sound, Tuo Ku jumped back with a start.

Then, in that instant, Tuo Ku realized that the face of the youth before him had frozen, as if he had been covered over by a layer of ice.

This was the first time he had ever seen the youth's facial expression this anxious. Each time he had seen the youth in the past, no matter what, the youth was always the picture of composure like an unmoving rock.

Not even when he had been in the presence of the Divine Light Sect's elder Golden Essence adepts had the youth's expression wavered in the slightest.

However, now, he could clearly sense a chilliness coming from the youth. It made the whole room feel just as if its temperature had dropped several degrees.

"Huh!"

In the next moment, the sound of a slight wind was heard, and Tuo Ku barely noticed a white flash as the youth in white disappeared completely and without a trace. Tuo Ku's eyes widened suddenly. "So fast!"

This level of speed was already so quick that he could not even react to it.

"Two years ago… he did not have this kind of speed!"

Although the youth of two years ago was very strong, Tuo Ku could still be certain that his opponent from two years absolutely did not possess this level of speed.

…

The Yuntai Inn.

This was the inn where Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo had lived for a long time.

In the present day, in the large courtyard of the Yuntai Inn, a middle-aged man wearing a long ash-gray robe sat at a stone table, staring at a girl about eight or nine standing before him.

"Girl, since you don't have a master, join us.

"Due to your natural talents, if you become our disciple… I can guarantee that you will in fifteen… no, thirteen years become a Primal Core adept!" the middle-aged man explained patiently and systematically.

He never expected in a million years that upon leaving the Divine Light Sect and coming to the Shenguang Empire this time that he would encounter this young child while going for a stroll.

She did not look ten yet, however, she was already a late Connate adept. Furthermore, it was obvious that this girl lacked experience, otherwise, she would not have been walking the streets of the Shenguang capital, curiously looking at everything she saw.

A young student this good presented boundless possibilities.

If he could marry the girl to his son, then that would ensure good fortune for his grandchildren afterwards.

He had also considered whether or not this girl had powerful connections.

Since she was not a disciple of any of the four great clans on the planet Ziyun, she could be a high disciple. However, she had told him very clearly that she did not have a master. She did not know what it meant to have a master to teach her.

"Little sister, it would be easy for my father to take you on as a disciple. You would be very lucky to train under him."

A boy of about twelve or thirteen stood next to the middle-aged man. He wore a haughty expression, arrogant with the pride of privileged birth.

"Who are you calling little sister, huh?"

Yun Lu put both her hands on her waist. "You snotty-nosed brat. How old are you that you dare call me little sister? You should call me older sister! I, Yun Lu, am already fourteen years old this year!"

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Chapter 192: Has He Gone Crazy?

"You? You're fourteen years old?"

The young boy looked Yun Lu up and down. He could not believe that this girl, who looked at most eight or nine, was actually fourteen already. And what's more, she wanted him to call her older sister?

Did she take him for an idiot?

"Girl, I am the twelfth elder of the Divine Light Sect, Chen Yan. My father is the sixth elder of the Divine Light Sect, Tuo Kong. If you join us, then you're joining the Divine Light sect, and so you can become a part of the Divine Light Sect. You will enjoy the highest level of training that the Divine Light Sect has to offer," the middle-aged man said to Yun Lu with a laugh.

Chen Yan was the twelfth elder of the Divine Light Sect, a mid Primal Core adept.

His father was the sixth elder of the Divine Light Sect, a late Connate stage adept. He was currently stationed in the Yuntai Inn, which was a business owned by his father.

When he was outside today, he saw the girl before him on the road. Upset, she had been fighting to protect herself and displayed her abilities that reached the ultimate Connate stage, which immediately struck him dumb.

How could a girl who did not look even ten years old yet be an ultimate Connate stage adept?

Was she joking?

This utterly defied everything he had known up to this point.

Even that mysterious evildoer, Zhou Donghuang, whom he had heard about a year ago, could not have been this skilled at such an age.

At that time, since Chen Yan had first seen Yun Lu, he had tried to worm his way into being friends with her. Subconsciously, he thought that Yun Lu had to be the child of one of the other four great sects in Ziyun, she definitely had to have some other important person backing her… but as he questioned her to find out, she said that she had no teacher and furthermore did not even know what it meant to have a master.

In that short time, he grew flustered trying to figure it out and just captured the girl and forced her to come back to the Yuntai Inn to see if she would join their sect or not.

Afterwards, if his son could take this girl as his wife, then his descendants could raise the status of the Divine Light Sect… If this girl who was not yet ten could be a Connate stage adept, would it be possible for her to break into the Dharma stage in the future?"

"The Divine Light Sect?"

When the middle-aged man had captured and taken her to the Yuntai Inn, Yun Lu panicked. Bewildered and unsure of what to do, she immediately broke the jade tablet her brother had given to her in fear. Afterwards, she relaxed completely because she knew that her brother would not let anything happen to her.

Now, as she heard Chen Yan's words, her eyebrows knit. "My older brother told me that he was going to the Divine Light Sect while on this trip to the Shenguang Empire. Are you a member of the Divine Light Sect?"

After she asked this, Yun Lu's gaze brightened up.

"Big brother?"

Hearing Yun Lu speak, Chen Yan was stunned, as he finally realized that he had been too impulsive before. Hearing that the girl did not have a master, nor knew what having a master meant, he had not asked the girl if she had any relatives with her; he had just taken her back here.

It had been as if Chen Yan had lost all reason in that moment.

It was because, in his eyes, Yun Lu was like the greatest, most precious treasure in existence. In that time, he did not want the precious treasure Yun Lu was to be discovered by anyone else.

Thus, he seized her and brought her back here as soon as he could.

Just then, while Chen Yan was stunned, Yun Lu had already lifted her head and was looking at the space beside Chen Yan and his son. She looked excitedly toward the youth high in the air there and called out, "Big brother! Big brother! Here I am!"

Whoosh!

In that instant, Chen Yan's expression twisted, and his body broke into a cold sweat.

Was there someone behind him?

Had he actually not realized?

Chen Yan panicked and hurriedly rose from his seat. It was only when he turned around that he noticed the youth wearing a snow-white robe, stepping down from the air with a leap. All around his body milky-white of inner Yuan enveloped him. Clearly, this man was also a mid Primal Core adept like him.

The most important thing was that the face of the man in the white robe was handsome and his demeanor dignified; he seemed extremely young, at most twenty years old.

"I thought that something had happened to you, kid."

Zhou Donghuang stepped down and looked at Yun Lu, rubbing her small head affectionately.

Just now, when Yun Lu had broken the tablet, he had thought that some danger had befallen her.

It was only when he got here that he finally realized that his little sister was in no danger at all.

There were simply some people interested in his sister's talent, who wished for her to train under them.

"Hee hee… Big Brother, I was scared out of my wits just now too, I thought this old guy wanted to do something bad to me."

Yun Lu giggled, sticking out her tongue playfully.

Hearing Yun Lu speak, the corners of Chen Yan's mouth twitched involuntarily… this silly girl had been thinking all that. That he would harm her? That he, Chen Yan, was a pedophile!

"As long as you're fine, that's all that matters." Zhou Donghuang laughed warmly. "Big Brother is all done with what he had to do here… so now, I can take you to stroll around the Divine Light Sect."

"Okay! Okay!"

Yun Lu nodded excitedly and looked toward Chen Yan and his son and called out to them, "Hey! Uncle, Little Brother, aren't you two Divine Light Sect members? Do you want to go with us to the Divine Light Sect?"

Yun Lu knew that Zhou Donghuang had not been to the Divine Light Sect before, therefore her asking Chen Yan was also so that he could show them the way.

Zhou Donghuang did not stop her.

He had initially planned to have the man in charge of the Black Market, the Divine Light Sects third elder, Tuo Ku, show him the way. If there was someone else who could show the way, then he would not need to go and find Tuo Ku again.

"No problem," Chen Yan agreed, looking at the pair of siblings with great curiosity. The older brother seemed at most twenty years old but was already a mid Primal Core adept while the younger sister, who looked no more than ten years old, was already an ultimate Connate stage adept.

Who were they, really?

"Son, will you stay here at the Yuntai Inn or will you go back to the Divine Light Sect with Dad?" Chen Yan asked the boy beside him.

"Dad, I will go back with you."

The boy was Chen Yan's only son, Chen Yong. The entire time, his eyes had not left Yun Lu for a second. Bashful, the boys' tender cheeks blushed from time to time.

Realizing this, Zhou Donghuang felt somewhat at a loss for words.

Had this little kid taken a liking to his sister?

"Young man, what is your name?" After the gold-crowned eagle, Little Gold, carried the four people to the Shenguang Empire capital, Chen Yan could not help his curiosity.

"Zhou Donghuang."

"Zhou… Zhou Donghuang?!" Chen Yan could not could help but be struck dumb. After a moment, he came back to his senses and laughed wryly as he shook his head.

"I should have known… A man within the Ziyun planet this young and with this level of expertise, who else could it have been, but you?

"You know me?" Zhou Donghuang asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Brother Donghuang," Chen Yan said with a sigh. "At the present moment, aside from a few Divine Light Sect disciples from whom the information has been withheld, basically everyone there knows who you are… once information of you, especially your fight with the third elder, and your victory over him the first time you came, got back to us, it shocked and shook everyone who heard it."

Chen Yan sighed lamentably, the astonishment in his eyes still remaining.

"Brother Donghuang."

Suddenly, Chen Yan seemed as though he had remembered something, and his expression became grave. "In the past, my father, the fifth elder, and the eight elder went to your home country. They were investigating the place the tenth elder Lin Hantian had last been seen, which was there… now, many people suspect it. Did Lin Hantian die at your hand?

"He died by my hand," Zhou Donghuang said blamelessly, with utter calm.

"You… You killed the tenth elder?"

Chen Yong's eyes widened, and he looked at Zhou Donghuang just as if he had seen a ghost. Although he was only twelve years old, even he knew the position of the tenth elder Lin Hantian within the Valley of the Medicine Masters, and he knew even more about Lin Hantian's grandfather, that he was one of the Divine Light Sect's Golden Essence elders.

However, the small boy was still only a child after all.

Although he was shocked, there was a deep look of admiration on his face.

What was an idol?

This was just what an idol was!

Not only had he had killed Lin Hantian, he moreover admitted to it so indifferently, showing his complete disrespect for that particular elder of the Divine Light Sect.

"Ss!——"

After being struck dumb by Zhou Donghuang's answer, Chen Yan gasped, his eyes flickering with bewilderment. He couldn't help but laugh bitterly as he said, "Brother Zhou Donghuang, you've really caused quite the mess!

"You should know… Lin Hantian was not just the tenth elder of our Divine Light Sect. His grandfather, Lin Jue, is one of the three great Golden Essence elders. I fear Master Lin Jue will not take this lying down."

Chen Yan honestly thought that there would be some dread in the young man before him after he said this.

He never expected the youth's unaffected answer of "yes."

"Lin Hantian has died. Aside from Lin Jue not letting it go… is there anyone else who won't take it lying down?"

After Zhou Donghuang asked this, his gaze deepened, and a murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

Before he could leave the Ziyun planet, he needed to make sure all those who would threaten his family were eradicated!

Whoever emerged and posed a threat would die!

"Master Lin Jue will of course react most vehemently… other than that, there are also Lin Jue's various disciples."

Chen Yan did not know why Zhou Donghuang had suddenly asked this, however, he answered him.

"Understood."

Zhou Donghuang nodded.

"Brother Donghuang, why have you come to our Divine Light Sect this time? Is it to have a conversation or is it to take a stroll around?" Chen Yan asked.

"I originally came just to see the head of the Divine Light Sect… however, there are now some other matters I must attend to," Zhou Donghuang said simply.

As they approached the Divine Light Sect, Chen Yan realized what the main matters the young man before him had to do were.

"Do me a favor and look after Little Lu for a moment."

Just as they reached the Divine Light Sect's door, Zhou Donghuang bid farewell to Chen Yan with a holler and directly flew off. In an instant, he stood in the air over the Shenguang Peak.

Before Chen Yan, the twelfth elder of the Divine Light Sect could even react, Zhou Donghuang, who was already building inner Yuan, called down toward the Divine Light Sect, his voice blaring.

"I killed Lin Hantian… all those who want to avenge him, come on out."

As soon as Chen Yan heard Zhou Donghuang's words, he immediately went numb. It felt as if a frigid chill had rushed up from his toes and gone directly to his head, shaking him to his very core.

"Oh god!"

Was this fellow Zhou Donghuang crazy?

This was Chen Yan's first time seeing this kind of fearless, unruly person, especially from a youth appearing no more than twenty years old.

Was he aware that he was provoking the entire Divine Light Sect in doing this?

If Zhou Donghuang had gone and admitted his murder of Lin Hantian in private, he may have gained some powerful person to support him, and so Lin Jue would not dare be rash in his actions.

However, now, with this one sentence, Zhou Donghuang had forced not just Lin Jue but the entire Divine Light Sect against him, down a road of no return!

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