MY MASTER DISCONNECTED YET AGAIN (BOOK 1)

Chapter 301 - 320

Chapter 301: I Have It

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

So she's following me all the way because she's hungry?

The child looked as if he found out the reason, and only now did he open the gate, the closing or opening of which didn't seem to make a difference. "Come inside!"

Shen Ying readily walked inside, and looked around this rather tidy, albeit dilapidated house. She then turned to look at the little kid who had already started working, and who had become a child of around ten years old within the duration that she beat the Godfiend, possibly due to the time difference in the Divine Realm.

"Please wait here for a moment." He turned back into a room and got two salted fish. "These was given by Mother Wang in the village, and they are all I have."

Shen Ying looked at the salted fish in his hands and said nothing.

"You don't know how to cook?" Seeing that she did not take them, the child had to ask.

"No." She shook her head firmly.

He looked at the salted fish with some embarrassment, then looked at the half-collapsed house on the side. After a long while he said, as if he has made some decision, "Wait for a moment."

As he said that, he walked inside. Only now did Shen Ying realize that that was originally a kitchen, and a kitchen table could be vaguely seen.

He stood on his toes to put the fish on the kitchen table, before he ran back to the yard and got a bucket of water. Then he moved over a shabby chair and started to clean the wok. As he did that, he said to Shen Ying, who did not show even the slightest intention of helping, "I've never cooked before. I don't know if I can do it."

As he said that, the speed of cleaning became faster, as if by the instinct of his body. And for the salted fish which he initially had no idea what to do with, more than a dozen methods of treatment had come to his mind in an instant. He said instinctively, "A pity that there is no rice."

"I have it!" Shen Ying said suddenly.

The child who was cleaning was shocked. He turned to look at Shen Ying, who suddenly approached him. Before he could react, Shen Ying dug and pulled from the bag at her size, and from the bag which was only the size of a purse, a sack larger than his body was pulled out. The sack was filled with white rice, each crystal clear and full, with faint white air on top.

"There you go," Shen Ying put the sack directly beside his feet.

The child jumped out of the shabby chair and looked at the especially pretty rice grains with curiosity. Somehow another idea came to his mind, and he said it out loud directly, "It would go well with the meat of red spirit beast, a pity that we don't..."

"I have it!" Before he finished the sentence, the person in front of him took out a piece of red and bright meat from that sack.

His eyes opened even wider. "Red spirit beast and ordinary chicken..."

"I have it!" she took out a piece of chicken.

"Eh? Then fairy sheep..."

"I have it!" It was taken out.

"Water beast..."

"I have it!" She kept digging.

"Fresh vanilla..."

"I have it!" She was still digging.

"Onion, ginger, and other ingredients..."

"I have them!" She kept digging.

"Oil, salt, sauce and vinegar..."

"I have them!" She was digging happily.

"Pots and pans..."

"I have them..."

Ten minutes later, the floor of the kitchen, along with a large part of the yard, was filled with all types of ingredients.

The child was shocked at the beginning, but became completely calm in the end. He turned, climbed back onto the shabby chair, and started to cook. As he did it, he felt ever more confused. He clearly had never cooked before, but once he got hold of the ingredients, his body instinctively knew what to do with them.

An hour later.

Dishes with amazing fragrances filled a whole table. Without a need for an invitation, Shen Ying was already sitting in front of the table, and started eating.

The child at the side had confusion written all over his face, as if he did not know what had happened at all. Yet as he looked at the person who was clearly enjoying the meal, he felt no strangeness in the heart, as if... this was the way it should be.

He turned and saw the remaining ingredients which piled up all over the floor, and only now pushed the person sitting beside him, "Should these be put back?"

Shen Ying paused in her eating, pulled down the storage bag on the side of her body and handed it over.

The child was stunned, took it subconsciously, and only now understood that she meant for him to collect the things. He slid down from the chair and started putting the ingredients over the floor into the storage bag one by one. As he did it, surprise rose in his heart: he had never seen such a magical bag. Despite so many things being put inside, it was not heavy at all, as if it could never be filled.

He couldn't help but looked all over it several times. After a long while, he walked back and handed it back to the older sister who suddenly appeared at his doorstep.

Yet she did not take it. As she ate, she vaguely raised her chin at him and said, "It's yours!" It belonged to the chef from the start, she just brought it over.

"Huh?" he was shocked, and his little eyes widened. "You... are giving it to me?"

"Yes."

He hesitated, and after thinking for a long while he put it back to Shen Ying's side. "I can't take it."

"Ah?" Shen Ying's hand paused, and she replied subconsciously, "Then how are you going to cook afterwards?"

"Do I still have to do it?" He was stunned.

"Are you not going to?" she asked.

"Oh." He took the bag back. His little shoulders dropped slightly. He seemed... to have been tied up by this strange older sister.

He squeezed the bag in his hand. He was a kid after all. His eyes shone with curiosity and excitement, as he looked at Shen Ying as if he wanted to ask something, but was unsure how to ask.

Shen Ying felt a bit awkward being stared at. She pointed to the bowls of dishes. "Eat first! We can talk afterwards."

He lowered his head, took a look and shook his head. "I don't actually have to eat."

"Hmm?" Shen Ying looked up.

As if afraid of her misunderstanding, he went on to explain hurriedly, "I... I mean, I never got hungry since young. I'm also not sure why?" After he finished, he seemed to have remembered something, and he added, "This is my secret, can you please don't tell others?" Although he was only ten, he still vaguely understood that not having to eat like him must be abnormal. He's never told this secret to anyone, but somehow he just blurted it out today, as if by instinct he knew that it was alright to tell her.

"Oh." Shen Ying replied, looking as if she just remembered something, as she continued eating.

Shen Ying ate fast, but there were just too many dishes on the table that after half an hour, she had not even finished half of them. She kept eating, and the child kept watching at the side and trying hard to contain the questions in his heart. Until she finally looked like she was finishing.

His little face lit up as he prepared to speak. But just at that moment, a somewhat childish male voice sounded out of the house. "Hey! Wild kid, are you here?" A small head squeezed into the side of the yard's gate. He looked around the yard, and a light which didn't belong to his age shone in his eyes.

Shen Ying's hand stopped.

... Oh.

Chapter 302: Free-Loading for a Meal is Forbidden

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The child frowned and looked a bit unhappy, as he jumped down from the chair and walked out through the door.

"Dog, why are you here?" Just like him, the child at the gate was an orphan who suddenly appeared in this village and lived in dilapidated houses at the periphery of the village. Both of them had lived here for five or six years, relying on occasional assistance from the kind villagers.

Yet despite their similar experiences, the two did not have much association, possibly due to incompatibility of character.

"I've told you to stop calling me Dog, my name is Jing Qi!" He frowned. He then remembered something and shook the sweet potato in his hand. "Mother Wang gave me a sweet potato, shall we share it?"

"I don't need it." The child shook his head.

Yet Jing Qi did not listen to his words and pressed the sweet potato into his hand. He had to take it.

"Eat it, eat it!" Jing Qi urged him, as he took a bite himself, and looked at him as he talked. "Our lives are connected. It is only normal that we help each other." He chuckled, with a generous look on his face. He then rolled his eyes, thought of something and said with a cold "Hmph, this village is full of unkind people. Despite all the talk about protection from immortal families, their yearly good harvests and rich life, they hardly take care of both of us. Where is the grace of immortal families in that? Aren't they just bullying us because of our young age?"

"..." The child was stunned. He took a look at the sweet potato in his hand and frowned subconsciously. He felt that there was something wrong with this talk, but couldn't say exactly what.

Yet Jing Qi was becoming angrier as he talked. As if anxious for recognition, he patted his shoulder. "Wild kid, don't you believe that one day I will be an extraordinary man, and then I will no longer need to rely on anyone. I will tread underfoot all these guys who have their noses in the air."

The child was stunned, yet after a while he nodded, only hoping for him to leave soon.

"I knew that you are the only one who can understand me!" His expression was happy, as he laughed like a grown-up, "For your good faith, your brother I will take care of you in the future! Would you like to go out for an adventure with me?"

"Out of the village?" The child shook his head immediately. "Everyone says that it is dangerous out there, we shouldn't go out of the village."

"And you actually believe in this?" Jing Qi rolled his eyes, snorted and said, "Soon, it will be the inside of the village that would be dangerous. If you... eh, what is that smell?" He sniffed suddenly, and his eyes brightened as if he remembered something. "Oh yeah, I heard Mother Wang say that she gave you two salted fish, you must not know how to cook them? Let me help you."

And without waiting for a response, he pushed the door open and walked straight in.

"Wait..." the child went chasing hurriedly.

Yet the other boy had already seen Shen Ying sitting inside, the unfinished feast in front of her.

He was completely stunned, apparently never expecting a sight like this. He looked straight at the table full of dishes and made some swallowing sounds.

The child chased over hurriedly, and his little face wrinkled in displeasure as he looked at the one who just burst in.

That child called Jing Qi struggled to control his longing look towards the food. He smiled at Shen Ying in a way that he thought to be polite, and said in an innocent voice, "Big sister... are you eating?" After that, his tummy made some grumbling sounds cooperatively.

Shen Ying's eyes narrowed, as she replied, "Yeah!" And then, as if she had not seen his longing look, she continued to consume the dishes, making much louder noises than before.

There wasn't much food on the table to begin with, and it was disappearing at an extremely fast speed right now, and only half a plate of sliced meat was left. Anxiety shone in Jing Qi's eyes, but he was too shy to ask for it. He gave it a thought, turned to the child at the side and said with a smile, "Wild kid, who is this pretty big sister? Your lost family?"

The child looked up at Shen Ying, and then at the person speaking, before realizing that he had never asked who she was, and for a moment he did not know how to answer.

Yet Jing Qi thought the silence was an agreement and smiled even wider. "I'm happy for you for finding family. But aren't you a bit lacking in generosity? I didn't know that you are eating so well, and have come to send you sweet potato, worrying that you'd starve!" He laughed and patted his shoulder. "We are brothers, and I will not be excessively courteous with you."

After that, without waiting for a response, he took a pair of chopsticks and went for the plate of sliced meat, as if he was finally unable to bear the hunger.

"Wait," the child grew anxious and looked at Shen Ying instinctively.

Shen Ying didn't move at first, yet as the chopsticks almost reached the dish, she suddenly moved to draw the bowl towards her. And then, she sucked all the food into her mouth right in front of him, not even leaving the gravy.

Only then did she put down the bowl, stroke her stomach and say, "I'm full!"

The child was speechless.

And so was Jing Qi.

In fact, his body was completely stiff, like he did not expect at all that she would be so shameless as to fight for food with a child. And she didn't even leave the gravy. His face turned white, disbelief written all over it.

But the child at the side actually remembered something. He ran back to the kitchen, took something and handed it over to him. "Dog, you can take this."

Unsurprisingly, those were the two salted fish. Jing Qi was stunned for a moment. An unprecedented sense of shame rose from the bottom of his heart, and with a rush of anger he slapped his hand away. "What do you mean by this? Are you treating me like a beggar?" Perhaps out of anger, his whole face was red, and his whole body trembled. "Wild kid, I did not think that you are just as selfish as those in the village. Did you think I care about your dishes?"

The child touched his own hand, which was growing red. He was not angry at first, yet he frowned now, and said in a serious manner, "All these belong to the big sister, and I can't give them to you on her behalf. But the salted fish belongs to me." After that, he gave over the fish once more.

"You..." The other child grew even angrier, as he looked at Shen Ying, as if he wanted to get angry at her but was somewhat fearful. He could only turn back again to stare at the child beside him, "So much for me thinking that you are different from others and wanting to help you! I did not expect that... Hmph, you will pay for your stupidity!" He seemed to have remembered something, blurted, turned around and went right out. Looking at him, you may have thought that he indeed had some great kindness going unappreciated.

And the child's face was full of confusion, as if he did not know what just happened at all: he wasn't wrong, the dishes were brought by the big sister and he only did the cooking. If Dog wanted to eat, of course he would have to ask the big sister for permission.

Just as he was thinking, a big hand fell on top of his head. The big sister who could magically produce a lot of ingredients suddenly reached out and smothered his hair, and her eyes looked straight into the depth of his eyes. He felt a warmth in the bottom of his heart, and a joy rose within him. Was the big sister comforting him? He subconsciously moved closer, hoping for the warmth to last longer.

Yet the big sister suddenly bowed down, smiled at him extremely beautifully, and the sweet voice sounded in his ears in the next instant. "Time to do the dishes!"

"..."

Chapter 303: Night Attack by Evil Demons

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When the child finally finished clearing up, the sky had already darkened. The village houses were starting to have their lights on. His house had no light, and they had to see by the faint moonlight. The child opened, yet he found the big sister leaning on the table, as if going to fall asleep.

He climbed onto a chair, pushed her hand, and asked curiously, "Big sister, it's already dark, aren't you going home?"

Shen Ying inclined her head lazily and gave him a look, before she nodded and said, "Yeah, I am."

"Then..."

"I'm waiting for my parent!"

The child was stunned, seeming unable to understand her words. Just as he was about to ask, a gust of wind entered through the door, and he subconsciously closed his eyes.

At the next instant, a calm voice suddenly sounded.

"I'm back, Shen Ying, have you settled your business?"

He looked up and realized that there was one more person in the room. He had black hair, dressed in white, and was surrounded by a faint layer of white air. In his hand was a jade flute. He didn't look like a Perfected One, and somehow he looked a bit familiar. He took a step back in caution.

And the big sister who was still leaning on the table suddenly inclined her head, "Father Niu, how did it take you so long?" He didn't even come in time for dinner.

"I lodged for a stay at the immortal sect on my way." Lonemoon sat straight down on the chair at the side and looked up at the cold-faced child. "We can't stay in this small mountain village forever, its Spirit Qi is too thin for cultivation. I've found a suitable sect. We will leave again tomorrow morning."

"Okay," Shen Ying replied.

"On the Godfiend's side, he hasn't found an answer yet." He frowned slightly. "We can't be sure yet what happened to the plane. The karma suddenly started to tilt and he couldn't adjust it in any manner. He was almost jumping in frustration. We could only find out that the direction of inclination is within these few lower realms."

"Oh."

"Karma is a most troublesome matter. And you can't even retrieve it forcefully. Only gradual consumption works."

"Oh."

"Stop saying 'oh'! At any rate, YOU are the Manager. Why can't you give it more concern?" Lonemoon rolled his eyes at her. "At least investigate who it is tilted towards?"

"I know who it is."

"What?!" He stood up suddenly. "You know it?!"

"Yeah, I saw him just now." She nodded, then added, "Two hours ago."

"Holy shit! The man is in the Three Azure Realms. Where is he?"

"Gone."

"..."

This must be a fake Manager. Lonemoon breathed in deeply to resist the urge to tear her apart. "Where did he go? Which direction?"

"East... West... Or is it South? Or North?"

"..." For heaven's sake, he couldn't expect her to know her directions.

"That means the man had stayed in this village." Lonemoon frowned and turned to look out of the door. "No wonder when we came to this village during the day it was all calm and peaceful, yet right now it is full of demonic aura. It seems that this evening won't be a peaceful one."

His voice fell, and there was a loud bang from the distance, as if something was broken. A white light seemed to flash across the sky. In the next instant, a series of roars was heard. It was a mixture of many types of sounds, and it sounded like tigers and foxes. The village which was originally quiet suddenly erupted into chaos, with incessant shouts, cries, and many exclamations of "Monster!". Apparently, something had appeared.

"Big sister..." The child standing at the side was frightened. He moved towards Shen Ying in fear.

"You can actually be scared too?" There was a glimpse of amazement in the eyes of Lonemoon. "That's a rare sight. What you are now is much cuter than the fake child in the Divine World last time."

The child was stunned. Although he did not understand his words, he looked like he was angered by his mocking tone. He took a deep breath, walked outside, and sat back onto the chair in all seriousness. His small hands clenched tightly, and he sat very straight.

"..." Such an unlovable child.

"Not going to help?" Shen Ying looked outside and gestured.

"There is a protective formation in this village. What was broken just now was just the outer layer." Lonemoon did not show a hint of moving. "Although the formation inside was not very strong, it shouldn't have a problem protecting several dozen villagers for a night, so long as they don't come out to seek their own death! Besides, there is an immortal sect right nearby. They will naturally realize that so many demons have broken through, and they should be sending someone latest by dawn."

Shen Ying took a look at him and said nothing.

"And the Godfiend had said that," Lonemoon continued, a serious expression on his face, "The fate of mortals are determined by their own destiny. It is better that we don't intervene easily."

"Oh," Shen Ying's eyes narrowed, and she suddenly said, "You are listening to him?"

"..."

Lonemoon's whole body stiffened, and as if he remembered something, he secretly swore, "F*ck!" He almost got into the trap of Godfiend again.

He stood up right away and said to the child opposite him, "Keep an eye on her!"

In the next instant, his body shape flashed and he rushed out straight away.

The child stunned, not understanding his meaning. Nevertheless, he turned to watch the person next to him closely.

In a short while, the horrible shouts outside died down much, and there were even a few cheers in between. Shen Ying continued to lean on the table like a dead person, and the expression of the child grew much more relieved.

Until a bang sounded in the right rear, as if something had collapsed. It was accompanied by a tiger's roar.

His face turned white, as he stood up suddenly, and exclaimed, "Mother Wang!" After that, he immediately turned and rushed out.

"Che-" Before Shen Ying could finish, the child had already disappeared. She could only sigh and say, "So troublesome!" Why don't all of them sleep in the middle of the night!

Only then did she stand up lazily, supported by the table.

The child did not run far, only to another house a few tens of meters away. Shen Ying finally found him after circling two laps. Yet he was already caught by a tiger demon.

That was a fifth-level tiger demon who hadn't even evolved into human shape completely. On top of the human body was a huge tiger's head. Its mouth was open, sporting a mouthful of sharp teeth. It had stepped a man underfoot – an old man by the look of it – and its two hands clasped one child each. One was Yi Qing, who was kicking and hitting hard, and the other was a little girl of five or six years old.

"Let go, let me go!" He struggled with all his strength, but his small thin arms posed no threat to the tiger demon at all.

"Hahahaha... Such fresh human meat is my favorite." The tiger demon's eyes shone, and he looked as if his saliva was almost dripping. "At first, I thought this old woman's meat would be too tough to taste good, and the small one was barely enough for a meal. I didn't expect another small one to come running to me. Now I can finally have a filling meal."

"Let go of Mother Wang and Niu Niu!" The child was using all the strength in his body, yet it had no results, and instead his face turned purple from the tiger demon's grasp.

"Since you are so eager, I will start with eating you." The tiger demon raised the kid straightaway, opened his huge, bloody mouth and looked as if he was going to bite.

"Hey!" Shen Ying, who had finally reached, suddenly sounded. "Isn't it not so good to bully kids?"

Chapter 304: Taken as Disciple Once Again

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The tiger demon was stunned as it turned its head rapidly, and its eyes actually suddenly brightened as if some delicacy was in front of it- its saliva dripped. "A woman! Hahaha, how lucky I am today that all the good food has come right to me. The meat of young women is my favorite."

After that, he immediately dropped the two children in his hands and walked towards Shen Ying. The boy coughed loudly, not yet able to breathe properly. He hurried to cry out loudly towards Shen Ying, "Big sister, run! It's a demon, run!"

Yet Shen Ying did not move, and the tiger demon was reaching right towards her.

The child grew anxious, rushed forward and hugged a leg of the tiger demon tightly.

The tiger demon's steps slowed. It looked at the person on its leg, and its brows tightened. "You are seeking your own death!" A flash of light appeared in his hands, which turned into sharp claws, reaching for the back of the boy."

"Hey..." Shen Ying suddenly stepped forward, "Doesn't the Demon Monarch care that all of you come out and eat people?"

The tiger demon stopped short, turned his head and grinned at her. "The Demon Monarch? Hahaha... Our Demon Monarch would only tell us to eat a few more mortals to increase our cultivation."

"Oh," Shen Ying stunned for a moment, "Isn't the Demon Monarch a rabbit?"

"What rabbit?" The tiger demon laughed. "Little girl, if you stay obedient and let me eat you, I will give you a quick death!" As he talked, he turned, and his hand reached towards her heart.

"Big sister!" The child cried out loud.

"Oh, I am relieved then." Shen Ying only murmured. Yet just before the sharp claws were going to penetrate her chest, she suddenly inclined her body to the side, her one hand reached out to the back of the tiger demon's head, and pressed forcefully.

At the next instant, there was a loud bang. The tiger demon, who was arrogant but a moment ago was pressed into the ground, sank and stopped drawing breath. The ground was also affected, and with a snapping sound, it showed a crack as wide as a person and extended into the village.

"..."

(⊙_⊙)

The child looked dumbfounded. He looked up blankly at Shen Ying, unsure how to react for a long while. "Big... sister?" That was... great!

"Do you want to learn it?" Shen Ying inclined her head.

He stunned for a moment, before his eyes brightened immensely, and his little head nodded hard. "Yes."

(?′?'?)

"Good." Shen Ying clapped her hands and stood up. "My name is Shen Ying. From now on, I am your Master."

The child was confused for a moment, but after that, his eyes were even brighter, and a sense of fulfillment he had never felt before filled his heart.

A while later...

He tightened his hand for support and stood up. He patted the dust over his body, knelt known in front of her in all seriousness, gave her three kowtows, before he clenched his fist and said, "Master!"

"Well, since you are my disciple now..." Shen Ying nodded with satisfaction, before she pointed to the tiger demon on the ground, who had already changed back to its original tiger shape. "Do you know how to cook tiger meat?"

The child was speechless.

And so was Lonemoon, who had just reached.

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It didn't take Lonemoon too long to take care of those demons. Although they came in large numbers, all of them were small demons of fifth or sixth level. Defeating them was a piece of cake for him. The sky had already started to brighten, and the immortal sects nearby would be sending someone over soon. He was too lazy to explain. Besides the shock, the villagers suffered no real harm, except for Mother Wang who lived in the periphery – the exact person who gave salted fish to Chef.

That was an old woman of more than 60 years old. She lived alone with her granddaughter of five or six years old. Probably due to the proximity, she sometimes helped Chef, who completely lost his memory. That was why he rushed out so anxiously just now.

The injury was not serious, though. Lonemoon cured her with a simple hand seal, gave her a Longevity Extending Pill, and left with Shen Ying and Chef. Before he left, he made another protective array formation in the village, apparently much more effective than the previous one. No demons would be able to enter and eat people after this, unless an immortal demon comes down.

"Why do you set the center of the array formation at Mother Wang's house?" Shen Ying couldn't help asking.

"And you actually dare ask about this!" Lonemoon turned and stared at her. "Why would I ever need to do that, if not for that huge crack you made over there!"

He was angry every time he thought of this. He was doing well dealing with the demons, before a crack suddenly appeared from behind him, dividing the whole village into two, and he almost fell inside. If not for this, why would they have to run away early in the morning?

"Oh." She didn't use a lot of strength, though.

"Stop saying 'oh'!" Lonemoon was out of temper. "Can't you please take care next time? Did you know that..."

Just when he was doing his scolding, the child who was standing at the side the whole time suddenly placed himself before him, his small arms spread in a protective way in front of Shen Ying. He looked Lonemoon and said, somewhat angrily, "I... I will not let you scold my Master, she did that trying to save me."

Lonemoon stopped short, looked and the little kid in front him, and instantly rolled his eyes. "Ho, how are you still a Master-flatterer after losing memory." Without paying him any heed, he looked up at Shen Ying, "You took him back as disciple?"

"Yup." Shen Ying nodded, smothered the hair of the little kid and said, "Come, call him Father Niu!"

"..."

"Go away!" Lonemoon gave her an angry look. He looked at the confused child and said, "It's good that we have him back now. Oh yeah, kid, what are you called now?"

The child shook his head. "I have no name." Since he remembered anything, he had been living in the broken house in that little village, without anyone around him to give him a name.

"That's just nice." Lonemoon felt relieved, indeed fearing that it would be awkward to use any new name of his. He nudged Shen Ying, "You are the Master. Tell him, what's his name?"

The child's eyes brightened immediately, as he looked towards Shen Ying. "Master, you are naming me?"

"Ah?" Shen Ying stunned, looked down at the person in front of her, before she sighed and said, "Oh, you will be called Che-"

"Yi Qing!" Before she was able to finish, Lonemoon intercepted her words forcefully, caught the child and said slowly and clearly, "Your Dao name is called Yi Qing, do you understand?"

What Chef! It is okay that you call him Chef in daily life, but you can't go that far as to change his name.

Shen Ying, "..." Didn't I just get used to it?

"Yi Qing..." The child said the name aloud happily, and somehow a sense of familiarity rose in the bottom of his heart. He turned to Shen Ying and said happily, "Thank you, Master."

Lonemoon, "..." What the hell! He was the one who said it.

"Father Niu, where are we in fact going?" Shen Ying looked at the clouds which had been passing by them for more than ten minutes. "I'm so hungry!"

Lonemoon grinned. Didn't you just finish dinner?

He looked back at her angrily, looked in front again, before replying, "We are going to the Upper Azure World, Honesty Sect."

"What?" Where the hell is that?

Chapter 305: Lodging at Honesty Sect

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"That's a middle-level immortal cultivator sect in the Upper Azure World," Lonemoon explained casually, "When I first got back, I already went to get their information. Most of Honesty Sect practices the cultivation of swords, and as he needs to start practicing as soon as possible, that's a good fit for Che- Yi Qing. So I've already went there and signed up with them with the names of both of us."

"Oh." Which was to say that, he went out and found them a free cafeteria. Father Niu was the caretaker indeed.

(⊙ o ⊙)

"Before Yi Qing has achieved a certain level in his practice, we will stay there." Lonemoon looked down at Chef. The demon attack at the village gave him a reminder, that it was indeed too dangerous for him right now as he had no ability to defend at all. He was not sure when his body would recover to the point fit to receive the assistant seal, but apparently, the higher his cultivation, the better it is for him. Thus, before he becomes a real assistant, he must have his cultivation improved as soon as possible. As he thought about this, the fan underneath his feet flew even faster, and he didn't stop until more than ten minutes later.

"We're here!" He pointed at a series of mountain tops in front of him, looking abundant of Spirit Qi. He made a hand seal for himself and the faint whiteness around his body disappeared, suppressing his cultivation directly to the level of Soul Formation. He turned to look at Shen Ying beside him, the corner of his mouth moved, and he said, "That won't be necessary for you." People won't see the difference even if she disguises herself as a Soul Formation.

"Huh?" Shen Ying was confused.

He had already brought them and flown inside.

——————

Lou Hong thought that he might have been very lucky recently. As the sect master of Honesty Sect, he had tried to every method to make Honesty Sect flourish over hundreds of years. However, as his sect had always focused on sword cultivation, which had always been more difficult than other cultivators, there were very few disciples who had considerable achievement. Even those whose cultivation reached the level of Nascent Soul numbered less than five.

Sword cultivation required simplicity of heart, and the sect had always been harmonious and largely free from internal conflicts. The disciples were rather hardworking in their cultivation too. However, as they were in the Upper Azure World, they paled in comparison to the other sects around them. Although it was possible to challenge someone at a higher level in sword cultivation, the larger numbers in other sects gave them superiority. Besides, all the other sects had Soul Formation cultivators.

Not considering the top sects, even the ordinary sects who are similar in strength to them generally have one or two Soul Formation cultivators. Only Honesty Sect... Its foundation was shallow in the first place, and besides the original Master who achieved Immortal Ascension, there were no more Soul Formation cultivators. Especially after an elder was defeated by a Soul Formation cultivator and died, things became even more difficult for their sect.

He could even imagine that Honesty Sect would drop from mid-tier sect to lower-tier sect after the next sect tournament. Every time he thought about this, he became immensely anxious, and even his cultivation seemed to be blocked by it, without any further improvement.

Yet perhaps due to the original Master's blessing, just as he was about to accept his fate, he was hit by a sudden fortune. A Soul Formation cultivator called Lonemoon suddenly came to the sect and asked to join Honesty Sect.

He thought that he was dreaming – that was the Soul Formation cultivator that his sect had tried and failed to get over hundreds of years, and so easily one came to his doorstep? Besides, he was a sword cultivator. For Soul Formation sword cultivators, they can be defeated by none at the same level, and have a chance even with those of a higher level. That meant that he wouldn't have any opponent throughout the Three Azure Realms. And a cultivator so strong actually hopes to join this sect which is almost falling into the lower-tier!

Lou Hong thought he must be dreaming, exactly! Yet as he asked about it again, the person didn't look like he regretted it at all. He even left his divine perception on his own accord, sealed it into the name card of the sect, and gave it to him.

It was only now that Lou Hong could confirm that he was not joking. He was immediately overjoyed, and in an excited mood, he asked carefully if he had any other requirement for the sect. His mind was full of determination to make him stay, at any cost.

Yet he only thought about it for a moment and said that he might bring a friend here to join together on the morrow.

That's it?

"May I know what is the cultivation of Supremacy's friend?" He asked subconsciously.

The man's face seemed to move slightly in convulsion, and after a long while he said, "You can take it as... Soul Formation!" With that said, he expressed that he was going to fetch the person first, and left Honesty Sect.

Soul Formation! Another Soul Formation cultivator!

Lou Hong couldn't believe his eyes. He couldn't imagine that within an instant, his sect, which was just becoming an insignificant lower-tier sect, was welcoming two Soul Formation cultivators, and they actually sent themselves to their doorsteps.

He was too excited to stay calm for meditation and gathered the Elders over the night to inform them of this pie that dropped from the sky. The whole sect reacted just like him – so excited that they wanted to go to the other sects and do a bit of bragging. Over night, they gathered all the disciples in front of the audience hall, and waited for them to return with bright eyes. They were to express, with their actual behavior, their welcome of the pies... uh no, the Soul Formation cultivators.

Yet they ended up waiting through the whole night, without the excitement in the heart dying down. It wasn't until the sun was well up in the sky, when they saw the coming of two pies... Uh, no, Soul Formation cultivators.

Therefore, when Lonemoon came with Shen Ying, they saw Lou Hong and thousands of disciples in front of the audience hall, with hungry looks in their eyes as all of them stared at them.

Even as one who had been in two planes, Lonemoon was shocked.

What was it with these guys?

o(╯□╰)o

"Lou Hong, along with Honesty Sect disciples, welcome the return of Supremacy." Lou Hong walked up, and with reverence, saluted him with cupped fists.

And the masses behind him saluted together. "Welcome Supremacy!"

How loud was the voice! How strong was the momentum!

And the three who had just touched the ground got completely confused.

Shen Ying couldn't help but poked Father Niu with her elbow. "All these are mass actors that you hired?"

"Bah!" Lonemoon rolled his eyes at her. "I only registered my name. I have no idea why this happened." This was a bit too warm of a welcome.

His face darkened slightly, and he had to walk up to steady the person in front. "Sect Master Lou, such courtesy is not necessary."

"It is, it is!" Lou Hong smiled even wider, and the side of his mouth almost reached his ears. He was genuinely happy: Who dares belittle Honesty Sect for not producing Soul Formation cultivators any more? They didn't need producing, they only needed to collect.

"It is lucky for our sect that Supremacy joins us. This is why we take this opportunity to let our disciples admire the elegance of Supremacy." As he said that, he went sideways and welcomed the three inside. "Please come with me!"

The three followed into the audience hall. Outside, the thousands of disciples had already dispersed, and they could only feel several curious looks to their side from time to time. Inside the audience hall, only Lou Hong and another Nascent Soul cultivator remained.

Lonemoon started with some routine mutual flattering with the sect master, and after a while, he looked at the two and said, "Oh yeah, we have just come and are not familiar with the sect. May I know if the Soul Formation cultivator of the sect is in now?" In any case, they had to stay here for a long time, and it was necessary to greet the head of the place.

Chapter 306: Making Wealth at Honesty Sect

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Lou Hong was stunned, a flash of surprise went across his face. Perhaps he doesn't know that they don't have Soul Formation cultivators? He felt nervous immediately, afraid that he would take back his word. He exchanged a glance with the Junior Brother beside him, before he started carefully, "About this... I am quite regretful to say that, before Supremacy came, our sect has not had a Soul Formation cultivator at the moment.

"..."

Lonemoon did not expect this sect to be so weak, yet in any case, it was a mid-tier sect, so he didn't care much.

"What about Nascent Soul cultivators?"

"There are... three?"

"Three?" So few? Is Upper Azure World so difficult to live in now?

"Yes. One of them is me, the other my Junior Brother Lou Rui."

"Oh. What about the other?" Didn't he say three?

"The other, he was unfortunately defeated by a Soul Formation cultivator one month ago, and passed away!"

Lonemoon, "..."

Shen Ying, "..."

Yi Xiao, "..."

Isn't this TWO instead!

No wonder they would be so eager as to let the whole sect stand in line to greet them! With only two Nascent Soul cultivators in the whole sect, how do they dare calling themselves a mid-tier sect! In the past, even the ordinary sects in Middle Azure World fared better than this!

"Never mind!" Lonemoon sighed. In any case, they were only staying in the lower realm temporarily for Chef's sake. "We are rather tired after traveling, and would have to bother the sect master to arrange a place for us to rest."

"Of course, of course." Seeing that they did not leave straight away, the sect master was relieved. He immediately led the party out of the audience hall and said, "May Supremacy and..." He looked at Shen Ying, who had already finished half a plate of fruits at the side, only now remembering that this must be the friend that Supremacy Lonemoon mentioned, and he actually forgot to ask about her the whole time.

"She's called Shen Ying," Lonemoon made an introduction casually, "the child beside her is her disciple, Yi Qing."

Lou Hong subconsciously looked at Shen Ying's cultivation, yet did not find a trace of fluctuation of spiritual power around her. His heart sank: being a Soul Formation Supremacy, she could hide even her spiritual power so well. He hurried and made a salute. "Supremacy Shen." Then he looked at Chef at the side, "Young friend Yi Qing."

After all this, he led the three out of the audience hall, and walked towards the back. After a few transportation arrays, they soon reached the top of an island. Within sight was a lot of pink- this was a cherry wood, where the flowers bloomed without seasonal changes. It looked beautiful, and some low-level spiritual herbs could be faintly seen at the side. There was a small building within the woods. It was very elegant.

"This?" Lonemoon was somewhat confused. The scenery was nice, but isn't the Spirit Qi a bit too thin here? By right, mortal plants do not easily grow on immortal mountains. This cherry wood was apparently not planted by people, but grew themselves due to the thinness of Spirit Qi. Speaking lightly, for one who practices at such a place, it would be fortunate to even complete Core Formation.

"This is the place with the richest Spirit Qi in our sect." Lou Hong introduced, his expression was actually excited, and a hint of envy showed in his eyes. "This is the place that our original Master practiced, and by rumor, the place where the spirit vein passes."

"Spirit vein?" He must be joking. "Are you sure that there is a spirit vein here?"

Lou Hong stiffened, and said somewhat embarrassedly, "After the Ancestral Master achieved his Immortal Ascension, the Spirit Qi was not comparable to before. But... as compared to the other peaks, it was indeed much richer."

"..." Lonemoon turned to look at the other spiritual peaks. He didn't notice it just now, but upon close inspection now, their Spirit Qi was indeed all thin. He immediately had the impulse to turn around and leave. Such level of Spirit Qi is definitely not enough for Yi Qing's practice.

Yet Shen Ying turned, poked Lou Hong and asked, "Sect master, do you provide meals?"

Lou Hong was stunned, thought that she was afraid that the disciple who had not yet gained Grain Liberation would be starved, and nodded immediately, "yes, yes, while our sect lacks in other things, we have many low-level disciples, so we have quite a few cafeterias!"

"Good, we are staying!" Shen Ying's eyes brightened.

"That's enough from you." The corner of Lonemoon's mouth moved. Can you not become unable to walk every time you hear about food? And for the sect master whose surname is Lou, what's the pride in having many low-level disciples who hadn't even achieved Grain Liberation?

( ̄_, ̄)

Lonemoon felt mentally tired. He took a deep breath before saying, "Forget it, stay if you want to. Sect master Lou, may I trouble you to bring me some higher-level Dharma artifacts? I'll borrow those and make a Soul Gathering Array. With time, it might be that the spirit vein underneath can be revived."

To revive the spirit vein! That would benefit the whole sect!

Lou Hong's eyes brightened immediately, as he took out his storage bag. "Okay, the Dharma treasures of our sect are all here. I'm not sure Dharma artifacts of what level do Supremacy require."

"The higher, the better."

Lou Hong thought about it, took a spiritual sword from the bag and handed it over, his face full of excitement. "This is the highest-level Dharma artifact of our sect, Dharma treasure of ours, Spirit Severing Sword! Supremacy may see if it can be of use to you."

Lonemoon looked at the sword he presented extremely carefully and grinned.You must be joking? The Dharma treasure of your sect is just a spiritual sword of the sixth level? One with a broken edge besides?

"Is there... nothing else?"

"Is that not enough?" Lou Hong thought about it, and produced from the bag the following: fifth level broken fan, fourth level broken zither, and third level broken bells... He handed them over with all sincerity.

Lonemoon's face had become as dark as the bottom of a wok. What a poor and destitute sect he had just entered!

And the man's expression was actually completely sincere. With a casual usage of Divine Perception, he knew that the broken things in his hands were actually the best items of the sect. Instantly, it was as if the whole sect smelled of poverty.

Lonemoon took a deep breath and suppressed the urge to break those items. "Never mind!" He turned, produced a hand seal and opened the little movable mystic realm in which he stored items. He directly took out from there a white band which kept twisting like some living thing.

In a moment, the Spirit Qi of the surroundings increased immensely, and became amazingly thick, as if it was changing into a physical being, and rushed into the body without any need for guidance. Lou Hong's spirit came alive immediately, and even his cultivation which had stagnated for a long time saw slight changes. He couldn't help but stared at the white thing in Lonemoon's hands, his eyes widened.

"This... Can't this be a spiritual vein!" He exclaimed.

"It's an immortal..." Lonemoon stopped his sentence halfway, sighed and said, "Never mind, you may just treat it as a spiritual vein!" He still had half of the immortal vein that Little Birdie gave him.

He took two steps forward, produced a hand seal and planted half of the immortal veins down. In an instant, there was something spreading across the whole peak. Spirit Qi which was so thin at the start had become saturated and immediately filled every corner of the sect.

The ground started to shake, too. With the protection of Spirit Qi, Honesty Sect which originally floated only a dozen meters in the air started to rise straight upwards, and in an instant it already floated above the clouds.

The more saturated the Spirit Qi in a spiritual mountain, the higher they floated. This is common knowledge in the Three Azure Realms, yet floating up into the sky directly was something nobody had ever seen.

Lou Hong was so surprised that the Dharma artifacts dropped from his hands. His mouth opened wide, and his face was full of disbelief.

"Come with me!" Lonemoon dragged Lou Hong, who was stunned in awe.

"Supremacy, where... are we going?" Lou Hong was still confused.

"To check the accounts!"

"Ah! Ah?"

"I just can't stand the look of your poverty."

Lou Hong, "..."

Shen Ying, "..."

Yi Qing: "..."

Father Niu remains the Father!

╮(╯_╰)╭

Chapter 307: Directing Qi into the Body

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The party stayed at Honesty Sect. Due to the immortal vein, Honesty Sect which was at first falling into the lower tier leaped to become the sect with the thickest spiritual qi in the Upper Azure World. Immortal qi was the thicker version of spiritual qi, and even a small broken part of the vein was a hundred times stronger than ordinary spiritual veins. The cherry blossoms over the mountain, being mortal plants, could not stand the thickness of spiritual qi, and died visibly. Spiritual plants instead flourished all around.

Perhaps a coincidence, the peak that they lived on was called Flute-less Peak, and for convenience's sake, Lonemoon just changed it to Invincible Peak. [flute-less is a homophone of Invincible in Chinese] Perhaps Lonemoon felt that his esteem as a leader was hurt by joining a poor sect by mistake, he didn't return for days after dragging Lou Hong off to check accounts the other day. The whole sect suddenly became busy, too. Lower-level disciples who rushed around could often be seen.

The most free of all was the master and disciple on top of Invincible Peak. Shen Ying started to live a good life of eating and sleeping and eating again, releasing herself completely. Until Father Niu finally remembered his reason for coming to the lower realm and returned.

"In these few days, I have been gathering information around this area," Lonemoon said with a dark expression, "The Azure World is different now from the past. It has become much thinner." No wonder that despite Spirit Qi was being depleted at Honesty Sect, it still had thousands of disciples. "Since we left last time, millions of years had already past. The Four Great Clans have also long ceased to exist." He sighed with a feeling of vicissitudes.

"Oh," answered Shen Ying, not having as much feelings as him. She had known it since she saw the long worm.

"I think the decrease of Spirit Qi should be due to Azure World becoming a world on its own." Lonemoon guessed. This used to be a secret immortal space, and one nurtured by the immortal veins, that's why it produced so many Soul Formation cultivators and itinerant cultivators. Yet since Azure World became one of the 3,000 realms, all the Spirit Qi relied on natural nurturing of heaven and earth, and it was only natural that it thinned down. You win some and you lose some! It seemed that for those from Azure World to achieve Immortal Ascension, it would become more than a hundred times more difficult afterwards.

"Oh." Shen Ying kept chewing on a piece of pastry.

"The half of the immortal veins that I planted just now are likely to start getting assimilated slowly, so it won't last long." Lonemoon said seriously. "That's why we have to let Chef cultiva- eh? How is he still a mortal!" Before he finished, his glance fell on Yi Qing who was holding a plate at the side. He burst out in anger instantly.

"Ah?" Shen Ying stopped short.

"What 'ah'!" Lonemoon grabbed the pastry, "Didn't I pass to you the jade slip of basic cultivation and let you teach him? What have you been doing all these days? Shouldn't you teach him to direct qi into the body at least! It has been almost half a month and he doesn't even have Qi Refinement."

"That's so troublesome..."

"What troublesome!" You are just lazy, that's all.

"Father Niu!" Shen Ying suddenly asked, with a serious look on her face, "Are you sure you want me to teach?"

"Dang..." He stopped halfway through the sentence, and the image of a row of metallic Barbies appeared in his head. His mouth twitched.

"I will teach!" He gnashed his teeth.

For heaven's sake, if Yi Qing really became a body cultivator, he would disband Invincible Sect after he goes back!

"Chef, sit down cross-legged!" He turned to look at Yi Qing.

Yi Qing was stunned and subconsciously looked towards Shen Ying. Only after seeing that she did not oppose, did he put down the pastry in his hand and turn to sit down at the side.

Very good, task reassignment completed!

~(≧▽≦)/~

"After you've felt the Spirit Qi, direct it in this way." Lonemoon pointed to the center of his forehead, and a hint of Spirit Qi flowed through his meridians for one round. Just as he was about to pull it back, a great amount of Spirit Qi suddenly rushed into Yi Qing's body, directly squeezing out the Spirit Qi that he had not had time to pull pack. And his cultivation went right up, from Qi Refinement first level, second level, all the way until Qi Refinement third level before it stopped.

"Holy shit!" Lonemoon was shocked. Qi Refinement had always been fast, but this was a bit too fast: the ordinary man takes if not one or two years, then at least one or two months to reach the third level. Yet he had been doing it for less than ten seconds. "What happened?" He looked up at the person beside him.

"He's Chef." said Shen Ying. She looked as if what happened was only natural.

"Of course I know that..." He stopped short and widened his eyes. "Are you not going to say that besides his body, even his cultivation remained the same?" Chef belonged to the divine race whose original cultivation level was the divine level. His body was special and could not bear too much cultivation. And he looked like a mortal previously because of the lack of Spirit Qi, which means that... once the he had the Spirit Qi, he could rise back to his original level without any practice at all.

"That's right!"

"..." Motherf*cker!

These hateful privileged people!

Yi Qing looked at his own little hands with a sense of curiosity and his eyes brightened. A kid after all, he turned to look at Shen Ying, and his face full of an expression of "I've learned it! Please praise me! Please reward me!"

Shen Ying stopped short, casually took a piece of pastry from the table and handed it over. "There you go!" That was the reward.

Yi Qing looked happy, stood up immediately and took that piece of pastry. So the master and the disciple started to... happily eat pastry together.

Lonemoon: "..." F*cking retards.

Just as he was going to talk, a person rushed over from the distance.

"Greetings, Supremacy." The person saluted towards Lonemoon.

"What's the matter?" Lonemoon recognized the young disciple of Lou Hong.

"Supremacy, the sect master would like to invite Supremacy to discuss urgent matters at the audience hall."

Lonemoon frowned. Since he finished checking the accounts, Lou Hong had tried hard to avoid seeing him yet he took the initiative to invite him this time.

"I get it, I will be right there." Lonemoon replied. He looked down at Yi Qing, his mouth twitched and he couldn't help adding, "Steady your cultivation first. Your sword dharma is self-invented so I can't teach you that. You would have to fathom it yourself slowly."

"Okay." Yi Qing's little head nodded, his little face remained a little cold.

Only now did Lonemoon follow the disciple towards the main peak.

Once their figures disappeared, Yi Qing instantly changed his cold look. He was a child after all, however calm his disposition, he couldn't suppress the excitement of practicing for the first time. He grabbed Shen Ying and started asking.

"Master, Master, was that practicing just now? I saw a lot of colorful lights around me."

"Master, Master, were those just Spirit Qi? Now have those lights in my body too.

"Master, Master, after I get all those Spirit Qi inside my body, will I become as powerful as Master?"

"Master, Master, what's the sword dharma that Supremacy told me to fathom just now? How do I fathom it?"

"Master, Master, is it.."

He was asking more and more rapidly, as if he didn't need to get an answer, but only needed to pour out all the questions in his heart.

Shen Ying, "..."

The Chef this time seemed... a little talkative!

Chapter 308: Registering Name Card

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Shen Ying looked at the person in front of her whose eyes shone in excitement and who kept asking questions. There were several times when Shen Ying wanted to answer him, but she couldn't interject, and her ears were full of his non-stop talking. After several dozens of questions, he finally seemed tired, as his voice slowed down and his eyelids drooped sleepily. He was a kid to begin with, and having cooked two meals since the morning and had just learned to direct qi into the body, it was only normal that he would be tired.

"Master, Master, what you both talk about I often... can't understand. Have I... forgotten something?"

"Master, Master, I can make many... many delicious food! So... you will always stay with me, right?"

"Master, Master, Yi Qing likes you... even more than... Mother Wang."

After he said that, he looked like he finally couldn't bear the sleepiness any more. His little body swayed and his face was going to touch the ground.

Shen Ying casually dragged him up again. Her eyes darkened slightly, and she sighed, before she turned and walked into the house.

Hmm, I hope he won't sleep too long. After all... there's still dinner!

Besides... who is this Mother Wang?

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Luckily, Chef only slept for two hours before he woke up.

Yi Qing sat up, rubbing his eyes, and he stopped short when he saw Shen Ying beside the bed. His little eyes brightened instantly, and somehow he felt a warmth in his heart.

Back in the little village, he had always been alone. So he envied the other kids in the village, who had parents beside them sending them to sleep. Even Niu Niu had Mother Wang. Yet he did not have anyone. Every day, he slept and woke by himself. Although he had long gotten used to it, he always felt an emptiness.

Yet now, he had it too- he had Master!

"Master," he turned to hug the person beside him, his small head buried inside her arms.

Shen Ying wasn't paying attention, and she almost fell off the bed. She hurried to put aside a foot to steady herself, yet it happened to kick the bamboo basket at the side, and immediately, a basket-full of fruit core was poured all over the ground.

Yi Qing, who was still in her arms, stunned for a moment, looked at the fruit cores, and then at Shen Ying. He suddenly understood something and his small brows tangled in disapproval.

Shen Ying subconsciously looked up at the sky, pretending that she had not seen anything.

"Master, didn't we say that these fruits are not yet ripe, and can't be eaten yet?"

"Uh... actually, Father Niu ate these!" Hmm, absolutely.

"Ma-ster!"

"Alright, I just casually ate a few because it was too boring sitting waiting for you to wake up."

"You've eaten them all."

"..." Chef had changed indeed, he's never blamed her before. He must have been taught badly by Father Niu!

"Master..." Yi Qing sighed, sat up straight in the manner of an adult. His expression was serious and he looked like he was going to say something.

Suddenly, a childish voice came from the door, and cautiously said, "Disciple Lou Tao begs to see Supremacy Shen and Uncle-Master Yi Qing."

Lou Tao? Who is that?

Shen Ying paused for a moment.

The person outside, hearing no response ventured to ask again, "Supremacy, Uncle-Master, are you in?"

"Yes!" Yi Qing answered, as he jumped down from the bed, smoothed the wrinkled sides of his clothes, and took a look at Shen Ying, before he said, "Come in."

Then came the sound of the door opening, and to their surprise, the person who entered was a child around the same age as Yi Qing. He had a round face and small eyes, curiosity written all over his face. His body shape was surprisingly... round.

Very round, actually. This was a chubby boy. Even that blue and white disciple's clothes, which was supposedly sage-like, looked slightly amusing on him.

He first looked at Yi Qing and then looked at Shen Ying behind him. He made a salute slowly, perhaps because obesity had hindered his movement. "Greetings, Supremacy, young Uncle-Master."

"What's the matter?" asked Shen Ying.

"Supremacy, my father... I mean, the sect master," He seemed to have said it habitually, and changed it upon thinking. "The sect master ordered me to come and bring young Uncle-Master to the Hall of Disciples and make a disciple name card."

Yi Qing stunned for a moment, before remembering that Lonemoon mentioned something like this, so he nodded, "Okay!"

"Besides..." Lonemoon continued, looking at Shen Ying, "Supremacy Lonemoon also told me to invite Supremacy Shen over to the audience hall."

"Ah?" Shen Ying leaned at the head of the bed lazily. What was Father Niu asking for her for? "So troublesome..."

"Supremacy, young Uncle-Master, please follow me!" Lou Tao hurried to take a side-step, and made an inviting gesture.

"Master, let's go!" Seeing that Shen Ying didn't move at all, Yi Qing had to turn back and grab her hand.

Only now did Shen Ying stand up and follow the chubby boy towards the transportation array in front of the house.

Lou Tao wanted to bring Yi Qing to make a name card first, yet Yi Qing was unwilling. He had to send Shen Ying all the way to the front of the audience hall, see that she went in, before he turned and went towards the direction of Disciples' Hall.

Lou Tao looked confused. They had reached once they came out of the transportation array, why trouble himself unnecessarily? Yet as he thought about the words of his father the sect master, he seemed to understand something immediately.

"Young Uncle-Master, you are so good to your Master." No wonder he got to be the disciple of Supremacy.

Yi Qing's footsteps stopped momentarily, as he recalled in an instant, someone's history of getting lost five to six times a day at the peak of only a few hundred meters. He stayed silent.

Yet the chubby boy was somewhat excited. He was the son of the sect master. Among the younger disciples of the sect, he was the youngest, yet he had a high seniority ranking, with a number of Junior Brothers, Junior Sisters, and Disciple-Nephews. Therefore, everybody added a "young" in front when addressing him.

Lou Tao, who happened to be in the rebellious phase of youth, was naturally quite unhappy about it. Surprisingly, now he suddenly had an Uncle-Master, the disciple of Soul Formation Supremacies, whose seniority was even higher than him. He felt happy immediately, so even before the disciple had officially registered, he had started calling him "young Uncle-Master", with great enthusiasm.

As if he had prior knowledge of Yi Qing not talking much, when he brought him through several transportation arrays, he talked tirelessly about all kinds of affairs, from the good-looking new disciples who came from other sects to Elders taking a liking to which female cultivators, he said it all, and all the while gesticulating enthusiastically.

He was almost a moving Encyclopedia. Yi Qing listened the whole way through without stopping him, yet inside he was thinking, what to cook for Master tonight?

The one talking and the one absent-minded walked on rather harmoniously. Yet as they approached Disciples' Hall, noises could be heard coming from the front.

Lou Tao's footsteps stopped, as he saw that Disciples' Hall had been surrounded by kids around ten years old, some were in the same blue and white clothes just like him, but others were in green robes. The two sides stood separately and looked like they were arguing about something.

"Are these people from the Green Robes Sect?" Lou Tao was stunned. He wrinkled his brows at Yi Qing and explained casually, "I heard father say that their sect had been eliminated by demons. My father and Uncle-Master took great trouble to save some of their disciples. Why are they surrounding the area? Young Uncle-Master, shall we go and take a look?"

"Okay."

Chapter 309: Seeing Dog Again

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Yi Qing nodded, as he walked forward rapidly.

Before the two came near, a small body suddenly flew out from the crowd, and dropped in front of the two with a bang.

Lou Tao was stunned, and his eyes widened instantly. "Young Junior Brother!" They apparently knew each other. He hurried to help the boy up.

"It's young Uncle-Master Lou Tao!" Somebody cried, and the crowd started rushing towards them.

Lou Tao held the person who had already fainted, and his fat face swelled even more with anger. "Who was it who hurt young Junior Brother?"

"It was me!" Before the crowd could answer, a male voice sounded from the other side, and the crowd made way for a thin child dressed in green, who walked over with his eyes full of disdain. He snorted and said, "Because he had his nose in the air!"

"Who are you?" Lou Tao's little fat face squeezed.

"I am..."

Before the person answered, Yi Qing burst out, "Dog!"

He was actually that same parentless child back in the small village.

Only now did the youth in green see Yi Qing at the side. "Wild kid, you are actually still alive!" The child was shocked, and as if remembering something, he glanced at Lou Tao beside him, his eyes full of disdain. "I didn't imagine that you actually joined Honesty Sect, and... I'm called Jing Qi, and I'm a disciple of Green Robes Sect. You had better remember that."

"Oh," Yi Qing looked like he didn't care about it at all, as he added, "I'm called Yi Qing!"

Some anger somehow appeared on Jing Qi's expression.

Lou Tao fed the disciple in his arms an elixir, before he stared up at Jing QI and said, "Why did you hurt my younger Junior Brother?"

"He stopped us from entering Disciples' Hall first," Jing Qi said angrily, "His abilities were inferior, and we can't be blamed for that!"

"Nonsense!" Once he finished, another disciple at the side argued, "Apparently Senior Brother only stopped you here because your people had stole spirit herbs of our sect. You thieves!"

"Who stole your spirit herbs? Do not make slanderous charges!" Jing Qi said angrily.

"And you say you didn't," That disciple pointed to a little girl behind him, "those that she wears on her head are ours!"

Everyone turned to look at the little girl behind Jing Qi, and she was indeed wearing a garland on her head, and its colorful flowers had faint Spirit Qi on it.

"Those are the spirit herbs that sect master told us to plant, and young Senior Brother had led us to take care of them for more than a month. But once they came, they plucked all of them!"

Once this was said, everyone turned to look at that little girl. Everyone was of a young age, and anger came faster and directly. Even among the disciples of Green Robes Sect, many wore a darkened expression.

The girl was so scared that she stepped back and hid behind Jing Qi. Her eyes reddened immediately, as she grabbed the corner of his clothes, and said with an anxious, crying voice, "I... I didn't know. I only thought those flowers looked nice, Big Brother Jing Qi.."

Jing Qi immediately changed into a distressed expression. While he was a kid himself, he actually turned to hug the little girl who was even taller than him in his arms and started to comfort her. The scene looked indeed queer. "Little Junior Sister, don't cry, I will be hurt!" With that said, he turned and stared at the other children, "Isn't it just some worthless grass? And you actually bully people like this for its sake!"

After understanding the whole matter, Lou Tao was very angry: they stole the spirit herbs first, and then injured people, and they could actually speak as if they were on the right side. "Stealing spirit herbs of a sect is a serious offense. Since she stole it, she should be punished."

The little girl cried even more sadly.

"Are you deaf?" Jing Qi stared at him. "My little Junior Sister had said that she did not do it on purpose. She didn't even know that those are spirit herbs. It is said that no blame attaches to the unconscious wrongdoer. She can't be blamed for this matter. In any case, I can return them to you in the future."

"Regardless of whether she knew about it, the spirit herbs are with her right now," Lou Tao said seriously, "so she should be punished, and so should you, because you injured my Junior Brother just now."

"You..." Jing Qi grew even angrier, as if he was immensely wronged, and as if he suddenly thought of something, he turned to Yi Qing at the side, "Wild kid, do you think so too?"

"What?" Yi Qing stunned, a hint of confusion showed on his face. He was just thinking about the tenth dish to cook for Master tonight.

"My Junior Sister is still a child, are all of you really going to be so aggressive?"

He talked as if others were not children.

Yi Qing took a look at the frightened little girl behind him, just remembering what he was asking about. His little face darkened slightly, and after a long while he said, "Wrong is wrong."

"You..." Jing Qi's face was full of disbelief, as if he had been betrayed. "You are such an ungrateful person too! Did you know that Junior Sister is the daughter of sect master of Green Robes Sect!"

Yi Qing stunned, and his expression didn't change at all. "So?" Is that related to the matter on hand?

"Without the protection of Green Robes Sect, the people in our village would all be devoured by demons. I didn't imagine that once you've joined Honesty Sect, you are helping others to deal with the daughter of a benefactor," He said with a look of righteousness, "You are so cold-blooded."

Yi Qing frowned. The villagers were apparently saved by Master and Supremacy Lonemoon, what's that got to do with Green Robes Sect?

"Stop talking nonsense." Lou Tao couldn't listen to it any more. He looked at the disciples around him and said directly, "Catch these two thieves who stole the spiritual herbs and hurt people."

The disciples surrounded them immediately.

Jing Qi kept the little girl behind him, as he drew his sword and looked at the crowd fiercely. Yet the other disciples of Green Robes Sect who followed him at first looked at one another and hesitated.

"Hmph, you are only taking advantage of your numbers." Jing Qi sneered, and something flashed in his eyes. He looked at the children, still arrogantly, "I didn't imagine that Honesty Sect was actually just a crowd of shameless cowards who wants to bully those who they can't beat with large numbers."

"How dare you say we can't beat you," Lou Tao stared at him angrily.

"Didn't that Junior Brother of yours get defeated by me just now? And you are actually sword cultivators. So easily beaten."

"I will not permit you to speak ill of Honesty Sect!" Lou Tao was anxious, and pointed at him in anger, "My Junior Brother had joined the sect recently, and was only at the second level of Qi Refinement. You are at the third level, of course he can't defeat you. Fight with me if you dare!"

"Okay, we will fight!" A hint of joy flashed in Jing Qi's eyes. "If you lose, you've got to let us inside Disciple's Hall, and apologize to my little Junior Sister!"

"Okay!" Lou Tao nodded. "If you lose, you've got to apologize to my Junior Brother too."

"Alright!"

Yi Qing frowned. He felt as if the other party said it on purpose, and he was about to speak.

Yet Lou Tao had already taken out his spirit sword, not imagining he would lose at all. In any case, he was already at the fifth level of Qi Refinement, and it was not possible for him to be defeated by someone at the third level of Qi Refinement.

Seeing that the two had gotten ready, the disciples had retreated the side, and so did Yi Qing.

Chapter 310: Complete Destruction of Green Robes Sect

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Disciples of Qi Refinement had not learned any spells yet. Although they talked about a fight, it was simply a contest on sword dharma. Although Lou Tao had a round body shape, it didn't hinder his movement at all, evidently he had practiced hard on ordinary days.

What surprised everyone was that Jing Qi actually moved in a speed comparable to Lou Tao, and he not only blocked all Lou Tao's attacks, he could even counter-attack from time to time. Even Yi Qing couldn't help but feel surprised, too. Jing Qi had joined Green Robes Sect for a mere few months, and he didn't imagine that his sword dharma had already become so strong. It didn't look like third level of Qi Refinement at all.

Yet his cultivation was lower than Lou Tao after all. While he had some advantages at the start, Lou Tao's cultivation did not grow for no reason. After a while, Jing Qi's Spiritual Power was visibly insufficient, and he started to dwindle.

Seeing this, Lou Tao sped up his attack, and went on from the front, trying to finish up this fight soon. He even purposely inclined the sword for half an inch to prevent injury. The sword was falling towards the neck of the opponent.

Jing Qi's face suddenly darkened, as his hands turned, and in an instant, a red flame went straight towards Lou Tao, knocking him out.

At the next moment, Lou Tao fell a couple dozen feet away. Fortunately, he was wearing Dharma clothing, which absorbed the flames. Besides a little pain from hitting the ground, he didn't suffer injuries from the fire.

Yet Jing Qi's sword was already on his neck. He looked at him with sarcasm, and said coldly, "Fatty, you lost!"

Lou Tao was stunned, looking at the sword which fell not far away. He couldn't react for a moment.

Others around them actually started to gasp in surprise.

"It was the fire spell just now? He could use fire at only the third level of Qi Refinement!"

"That's awesome, that spell was for only the Foundation Establishment level."

"He actually defeated young Uncle-Master Lou Tao. Young Uncle-Master is at the fifth level!"

"Yeah, I didn't know that Green Robes Sect had such powerful people too."

"I heard that he has the celestial spirit root too!"

At once, there was excitement in the look that everyone gave Jing Qi, and even the hostility from just now became much weaker.

Jing Qi snorted, as if he did not see their shocked looks at all. He looked down with disdain and said, "Fatty, admit your defeat, apologize to my little Junior Sister!"

Lou Tao didn't actually feel angry or humiliated.

He stood up neatly and bowed to the little girl not far away. "Sorry! You can enter Disciples' Hall now." After a thought, he added, "But I will still tell the sect master about you plucking spirit herbs and injuring little Junior Brother."

"You..." Jing Qi was anxious, and his look towards Lou Tao became even more fierce. After a long while, he breathed in deeply, and had to endure it due to them being on the grounds of Honesty Sect after all. Yet he looked at the chubby boy in front of him, and couldn't help but mocked, "It seemed that your Honesty Sect isn't too great after all? One at the fifth level of Qi Refinement can't even beat me, the other at third level."

"You can use fire, so I can't beat you indeed!" He didn't imagine Lou Tao to admit it, with a serious look on his face. It was all straightforward for the kid of less than ten years old. Even the other disciples nodded in agreement, as if they couldn't get the irony in his words at all.

Jing Qi felt a blocked sensation in his heart, as if something was stuck there, unable to find an exit. He turned and saw Yi Qing who came with the chubby boy, and his eyes darkened immediately. He pointed to him directly and said,

"Hey, wild kid, since we came from the same village, in a certain way, we may as well have a fight."

For some reason, he couldn't get to like this person. Although both were orphans, somehow he got above him all the time, from back in the village, till now. While he was the one who always greeted the villagers with "uncle"s and "aunt"s, they preferred the boy who didn't really talk. Apparently he was the lucky one to join the immortal sect, he somehow joined the larger Honesty Sect, as if he was born to be in his way.

"Rest assured, I won't use fire," he said somewhat anxiously, as if he wanted to prove something. "We are both at the third level of Qi..."

"No!" Yi Qing rejected it immediately.

"Why?" he was stunned, before he snorted and challenged him, "are you unable to beat me, and are you afraid of being defeated by me?"

"Hmm, I can't beat you!" He hadn't learned sword dharma yet.

"..." Jing Qi was speechless, hadn't imagined that he would actually admit it. Immediately he felt like he punched onto cotton, both stuffy and awkward.

Yi Qing gave it a thought and added, "And am not free, too!" He still had to cook for Master later. He had finally come up with twenty dishes.

After that, without waiting for a response, he turned and walked into Disciples' Hall, and got the chubby boy to follow him as well.

Jing Qi was the only one left. His face was dark, and the hand beside his body clenched.

——————

Inside the audience hall.

Lou Hong the sect master sighed, looked at Lonemoon beside him and said, "I didn't imagine that the demons are so rampant now that they actually dared to gather and attack an immortal sect. Green Robes Sect was careless momentarily, and therefore suffered from their attack."

"Didn't they use the Protective Mountain Array?" Lonemoon frowned. "By right, every sect has its Protective Mountain Array, designed to both block attack from enemies and provide time for rescue. Green Robes Sect was not far from Honesty Sect. Even if the rescue did not come on time, it shouldn't have led to a total destruction?"

"Regarding this, I'm also not sure why their Protective Mountain Array was not activated." Lou Hong shook his head, "When I got the news, it was already too late. However, when I arrived, I found the demonic aura of a Demon Monarch of the tenth level. I'm afraid even if the array was activated, it wouldn't stop those demons."

"Tenth level?" The Demon Monarch had come himself? He suddenly remembered a certain rabbit. Since when had the demons become so courageous too? "What are so many demons doing attacking a small lower-tier sect?"

"I can't understand this too!" Lou Hong's face was also full of confusion. They didn't interact much with Green Robes Sect in ordinary days, but he knew that it was an even poorer sect. Beside the sect master, who was a Nascent Soul cultivator, there were few of even Golden Core disciples. "When Junior Brother and I received the news and rushed over, almost the whole sect had been massacred."

"Shen Ying, what do you think happened?" Lonemoon looked at Shen Ying.

"Ah?" Shen Ying looked up.

"The demons attacked Green Robes Sect," Lonemoon's mouth twitched. We are in a meeting, at any rate, can you please focus, or even just pretend to? "Green Robes Sect is located less than a hundred miles away from here. Towards the south..." He remembered her lack of a sense of direction and changed his way of talking, "It was the immortal sect near the village that Yi Qing stayed at previously."

"Oh." Shen Ying looked as if she only just started to understand.

"Demons never act collectively." Lonemoon frowned. "That village first, and then Green Robes Sect, saw so many demons appearing together, and all around the same area. There must have been some other reason."

Shen Ying's eyes narrowed, and only after a long while did she say, "Must be that alarm..."

As I expected... Lonemoon's heart felt tight.

Chapter 311: New Disciples Join the Sect

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

"You think it's related to that person, too?" Lonemoon's eyes brightened. The demons apparently had a purpose. Besides, when they were in that little village, the only one who seemed abnormal was the one that Shen Ying saw, the one that the Godfiend said karma was tilted towards. The karma of this world moves irregularly, and seldom concentrates on one person, yet the total remains constant. This meant that once the karma on one person increases, others have less.

The person that Shen Ying mentioned karma was tilted towards had already left, and in the same night the demons attacked the village. Right afterwards, Green Robes Sect just next to it got destroyed. The vicinity made it hard for one to not make connections between them.

"What does Supremacy mean? Have you known the reason behind it?" Lou Hong was confused, listening to them.

"It's nothing." Lonemoon looked at him and said, "The demons probably attacked Green Robes Sect because they were after someone or something."

Lou Hong nodded. Indeed, a small sect like Green Robes Sect couldn't mean much to a tenth level-Demon Monarch. Unless they were looking for something.

"Oh yeah, my Junior Brother and I have also found a few new disciples of Green Robes Sect in a secret chamber."

"Disciples?" Lonemoon's look grew cold, "So..."

Lou Hong somehow shivered slightly, "So... We brought them back."

"You are going to let them join the sect?" Lonemoon sneered, and his face expressed: "You are already so poor that you can't even provide for yourselves, how dare you still take in new disciples!"

"Uh..." Cold sweat suddenly emerged on Lou Hong's face. "Am- among them, some have quite good talents."

"Hmph!"

Lou Hong didn't dare to speak. Poverty reduces one's self-esteem.

Since Supremacy Lonemoon came to Honesty Sect, within a short span of months, the whole sect had changed. The Spirit Qi had become much thicker. Moreover, the ways of managing the sect that he taught them was actually useful, and the sect became much more well-to-do financially.

Especially since they had obtained spirit stones, every time he met people from top-tier sects, he didn't feel afraid anymore. In the past, it was an immense reward to give a disciple a single piece of Dharma clothing, yet now almost everyone had it.

The Dharma treasures which they kept with extreme care and didn't dare using under normal circumstances, could be thrown aside casually after every usage after they obtained the spirit stones. These were things that he had never imagined over his hundreds of years of practicing. Yet all of them came true now.

It was all thanks to Supremacy Lonemoon. If he had not opposed fervently, and had that sense of disdain towards them, he had wanted to even throw... uh no, pass the position of sect master to him. With him here, they could expect to become a top-tier sect in the near future!

The only trouble was that Supremacy Lonemoon had a slightly bad temper. Though his expression didn't change much, every time his face darkened, Lou Hong felt as if cold wind was piercing through his bones, and his legs couldn't help but started shaking... Perhaps this was the majesty of upper level cultivators, he thought.

Perhaps in this whole world, only that friend of Supremacy could remain calm and casual in front of him!

By the way... What was that Supremacy's name?

He subconsciously looked towards the side, at the woman who had already leisurely finished a plate of fruit. Shen... Shen... Shen Yi? Shen Yang? Aunt? [the word for "aunt" is "shen shen" in Chinese]

(╯_╰)

Okay, this was not important.

"Supremacy, those are all half-grown children, and they have nowhere to go." Lou Hong continued, laughing, "Besides, it is almost time that our sect takes in new disciples. The Elders of the sect are all waiting outside. Perhaps Supremacy can take a look together before deciding?"

Lonemoon frowned and then nodded.

Lou Hong made a few commands, and soon, some Dao Lords of the sect who had achieved Core Formation, and the second Nascent Soul cultivator Lou Rui, came inside. Perhaps because they had been caught by Lonemoon regarding financial matters recently, after greeting they looked towards the door and waited for the disciples to come inside, as if afraid that Lonemoon would start chatting with them.

Lou Hong had ordered to bring the disciples from Disciples' Hall. Within a quarter of an hour, they could see a group of children, around ten years of age, approaching from the distance. There were a few dozens in total, some in green robes, others in blue and white disciples' clothing.

After they entered, they lined up in the audience hall and saluted together, before they started looking at the people inside the hall with curiosity and excitement.

This was the exact same group of children who had a conflict at Disciples' Hall just now.

Jing Qi was taller than his peers, so he stood in the back. He felt a little nervous. Only after coming to Honesty Sect did he realize Green Robes Sect, which used to be like a fairyland in his eyes, was only a lower-tier immortal sect.

After Green Robes Sect was destroyed, and they had been brought here by the sect master of Honesty Sect, he guessed that he meant to keep them here. Besides, with his quality, he probably wouldn't have a problem entering any sect. He had no dislike towards Honesty Sect at first. Yet after what happened with Yi Qing and the fatty, he was hesitant.

A wise man does not stay in a dangerous environment. He only knew afterwards that the fatty was the son of the sect master. He had already offended him and didn't regret it, yet if he stayed on, inevitably he would seek revenge. Unless... He couldn't help but look towards the front. He heard that two Soul Formation Supremacies had just joined Honesty Sect a couple months ago. If he could become a disciple of theirs, he wouldn't need to worry any more.

He wouldn't help but glanced at the two at the top, but he suddenly looked into a pair of narrowed eyes. He was shocked and was stunned immediately.

The person at the top actually inclined her head slightly. "Wow," It was indeed her.

"What is it?" Lonemoon turned to look at Shen Ying, who suddenly spoke. Subconsciously, he followed her gaze.

Jing Qi buried his head immediately, and inside his head, thoughts emerging like huge waves. That woman... was apparently the one who ate at wild kid's house that day. She... She was actually a Soul Formation Supremacy!

His mind was suddenly a mess, and before he got his thoughts straight, Yi Qing who came together with him suddenly walked out of the crowd to the front, and in the surprising looks of him and others he approached that woman, and called very naturally, "Master."

Jing Qi drew back his stare, and resentment was almost overflowing in his eyes. That was his master! What a wild kid... no, Yi Qing! No wonder he deliberately angered him and made him leave that day. So he had always known that it was a Soul Formation Supremacy inside the house, and just didn't want him to get Supremacy's favor too. What a scheming heart!

"Hmm," Shen Ying nodded, remembering he was still a child, handed over a fruit, "There!"

Yi Qing stopped short, looked at the fruit in her hand, took it, and his little brows wrinkled subconsciously. He eventually replied, "... Thank you, Master." They already said that the fruit was not ripe yet.

Chapter 312: The Intrusion

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

"You have gotten your disciple name card?" Lonemoon whose sight had already dropped on Chef asked casually.

"Yup." Yi Qing nodded and turned to stand beside Shen Ying obediently. He must return soon to cook for Master, he thought. He couldn't let Master eat such unripened fruit any more.

Lou Hong looked at Lonemoon in the upper seat and suggested with a smile, "Supremacy, among the disciples we brought back this time, there were indeed some of good quality. One of them was actually a celestial spirit root of fire element, apparently well suited to sword cultivation, it seems?" He started his recommendation right away, implicitly urging Lonemoon to take on a disciple too.

"Aren't we a sword cultivation sect?" Lonemoon wasn't moved. He took up the teacup. "The sword cultivator cultivates the Heart of the Sword. It has little relation to the Spirit Root. Besides, the differences in Spirit Root was merely due to the different amount of Spirit Qi absorbed. We do not lack Spirit Qi here!"

"Yes, yes!" Lou Hong's mouth twitched. You are rich, so whatever you say is true! But he thought about it, and still added, "This disciple is good at understanding matters and smart too. According to these surviving young disciples of Green Robes Sect, he was the one who told everybody to hide in that secret chamber, therefore allowing them to escape the massacre."

"Oh?" Lonemoon raised his brows slightly.

Seeing his interest, Lou Hong continued, "Supremacy has no disciple at the moment. Since even Shen... Shen... Supremacy Shen has a disciple now, Supremacy may as well take one too. It will also allow you to pass on your knowledge."

Lonemoon's mouth twitched. How could he lack disciples? There were still more than two hundred disciples in the Invincible Heavenly Palace of Celestial World. Didn't he teach them all? If not for Shen Ying's crazy idolized method, how could they not achieve proper cultivation? How could they?

Even for Yi Qing who was supposedly the disciple of Shen Ying, wasn't he the one who ended up doing the teaching? Hmph!

Seeing that he did not reply after a long time, Lou Hong thought that he silently agreed, and hurried to scan the group of children in front of him, before waving at Jing Qi, who had met him once previously.

"Come, child. Come to the front for Supremacy to see!"

The children were amazed, and all of them looked back in curiosity.

Jing Qi felt a joy in his heart, and the hands on his side tightened. Okay! There were two Supremacies in Honesty Sect, and should he become a disciple of the other, he wouldn't be in a lower position than Yi Qing.

He suppressed the excitement, side-stepped and walked forward through the crowd.

Only now did Lonemoon look up.

And then...

Pew!

He was so shocked by the scene he saw that he spit out the tea, and stood up from his chair instantly.

"Holy shit!"

What the hell is this? The "wow" sound that Shen Ying made just now immediately came to his mind. He turned to the person beside him and stared at her angrily, "You had known it all along!"

"Not really," Shen Ying inclined her head. "Only since two minutes ago."

"F*ck! Would it hurt you to give me a little reminder?"

"Nope."

"I beg your pardon?!" He said slowly.

"I just reminded you." Only that you were looking at Chef and didn't notice it.

"..." Motherf*cker!

Lonemoon had an impulse of tearing her apart.

"Su-Supremacy?" Lou Hong's face was full of confusion. How did they suddenly start fighting? Was he supposed to try and make peace? "What... What is the matter? Is there something wrong with this child?"

Lonemoon's mouth twitched , as he looked at Jing Qi down there once more, before sitting back into the chair. "... No."

Nothing would appear wrong in the eyes of others. It was just a boy of around ten years old. Only that in his eyes, this child whose height didn't even reach his waist was shrouded by a vague shadow. The two body shapes were stacked, as if the boy was wearing a transparent human-shaped costume.

What's more, the shadow was a fat man, almost shaped like a ball. He could even clearly see the layers of his belly hanging low, just blocking a certain unspeakable body part.

That's right. It was a naked fat man, whose fat face wore the exact same expression as the child within his body. More importantly, within the flesh of that shadow, there were certain familiar aura. That was exactly the karma which according to the Godfiend, had suddenly tilted and disappeared.

But all these paled in the more important realization that suddenly came to his mind the moment that he saw him: intruder!

Holy shit shit shit shit shit shit shit!

He felt an irresistible urge to curse.

——————

Apparently, the person in front of them was the product of the last plane alarm. This was an intruder who transmigrated from another plane. As a newbie, Lonemoon was in fact unsure how to deal with the so-called plane emergency. Besides, the shadow didn't seem to recognize the both of them. This was different from any of those plane intrusions that Shen Ying casually mentioned. He turned to look at Shen Ying, and seeing that she didn't show the intent to deal with the matter immediately, he had to bear with it first.

"What does Supremacy think of this child?" Lou Hong was ready to continue with his praise.

Lou Tao suddenly rushed inside, an anxious look written all over his face. "Dad, dad, it's no good!"

"Tao!" Lou Hong scolded him, "What are you doing, panicking like this?"

"Dad..." Lou Tao remembered his purpose and said in a hurry, "It's no good. Little Junior Brother suddenly started to cough blood. Uncle-Master at Hall of Medicine said he needed Qi Preserving Pills to recover."

"Ji Shu?" Lou Hong frowned. "Talk slower and tell me, how did he get hurt? And how did it hurt the meridians?" Qi Preserving Pills was actually necessary.

Lou Tao was stunned, and turned to point at Jing Qi. "He was hurting fighting with him. I thought at first that he only fainted. I didn't expect it to be so serious." With that said, he explained all that happened in front of Disciples' Hall just now.

Jing Qi's expression turned cold, and a chilling look appeared in his eyes. This fatty was indeed despicable. He must have deliberately chosen this moment to complain about me.

"Nonsense!" Lou Hong's face darkened, as he stared at him. "Regardless of the reason, disciples are not supposed to fight each other. Whatever that happens, there are the Uncle-Masters to deal with it." He turned to look at Jing Qi. "It's the same for you. Although you are not a disciple of our sect, you are not supposed to casually hurt people."

He had scolded both sides, and treated it as mere playing between children. Yet in his heart some appreciation towards Jing Qi arose. After all, being able to defeat someone at fifth level of Qi Refinement while himself was only at third level was sufficient proof that he had extraordinary quality indeed.

Yet apparently, he himself did not think so. Jing Qi's face turned even darker, and a gloominess spread all over him. Like father, like son. One had come to complain after agreeing to drop the case, and the other was partial.

He subconsciously looked towards the sage-like Supremacy, and started expecting that he would be different from the others, and that he would be able to see the truth and give him justice.

Yet the man remained silent for a long while, like he was thinking about something. Lou Hong had already taken out a bottle of Qi Preserving Pills and handed it over to Lou Tao.

Chapter 313: Idiot Intruder

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

"Go and let your Junior Brother take this. Ask him to go and receive his punishment himself after his injuries had healed!" With that said, he looked at Jing Qi and added, "The same for you. Go and receive punishment later!"

"Thanks, dad!" Lou Tao was happy, and probably thinking about his Junior Brother, he rushed out without looking at Jing Qi at the side.

Yet Jing Qi's hands tightened, and the grievances in his heart grew even stronger. Both of them had received punishment but not Lou Tao. He was biased indeed.

"Supremacy." After dealing with this little accident, Lou Hong looked at Lonemoon and couldn't help but still want to make him accept the disciple. "Look at this child..."

After what happened just now, Jing Qi felt both nervous and expectant. The Soul Formation Supremacy ought to be different, perhaps.

Yet in the next instant he heard him say...

"I'm not accepting disciples!"

Jing Qi's heart felt cold, and the expecting expression disappeared immediately. A rush of angered came to him. Hmph, what Soul Formation Supremacy, he was just the same as all these people. And he actually held extra hopes for him.

"This..." Lou Hong was stunned for a moment. "Would Supremacy like to consider it a bit more? In any case, the celestial spirit root is rare."

"There'll be no need. I didn't have the intention to accept disciples today, anyway. Besides, sword cultivation does not place emphasis on the spirit root. However extraordinary the spirit root, in my eyes it is the same as the Five Spirit Roots." Lonemoon continued, "Sword cultivation places a greater emphasis on character. If the character is good, any spiritual root would do. Moreover, one disciple, Yi Qing, is enough for my peak. The rest will just be trouble." And they would also have to take care of his meals. Besides, no one could surpass Yi Qing in quality.

Seeing this, Lou Hong felt that he shouldn't continue persuading, and said, "Oh, okay then..."

"Don't you look down on me!" Before he finished, Jing Qi down there looked as if he couldn't hold back his words any more. His face was full of anger, like he was humiliated. He stared up at them. "If you don't like me, say it directly. What character! You don't need to do implicit mocking. Didn't you refuse to accept me because you are biased towards that little fatty?"

After this was said, not only Lonemoon, but the whole audience was shocked by this boy who suddenly burst out in anger. What is he talking about?

"Don't you think that I can't see it!" He continued to wear an expression as if he had found out the truth. He pointed at the crowd and continued to talk nonsense. "You people of Honesty Sect are all birds of a feather. You don't recognize the truth but only protect your own people. Yes, our Green Robes Sect was decimated, but we still have our pride, and we are not to be casually humiliated. Don't you look down on us!"

"Presumptuous!" Lou Hong had finally understood. He actually bred resentment just because of a rejection?

If this was the case now, one can't imagine what he would be after he completed cultivation! In an instant, his impression of Jing Qi fell to the bottom. At first, he was thinking that if Supremacy didn't want him, with such a good spirit root, it would be nice for himself or Junior Brother to take him on as well. But now, it seemed that Supremacy was right: Character was the most critical, and spirit root less so.

"What, you are angry because I told the truth? Old man!" Jing Qi's expression was fearless. He even glanced at Shen Ying and Lonemoon at the top and snorted, "Hmph! You are Supremacies, so what? I do not care about it! Even without you, I will be somewhere above all of you some day!"

He was getting even more nonsensical. Lou Hong was so angry that he blew up his mustache. He felt embarrassed. He was the one who most appreciated this boy previously, and what he was doing was simply slapping his face in front of everyone.

"You are so young yet talk so carelessly." But considering that he was still a child, he couldn't give him too harsh a punishment. He immediately called in two disciples, "Take him to the locked chamber in the back of the mountain and let him reflect on his faults in silence."

"Yes!" The two disciples immediately came forward to drag him.

Yet Jing Qi pushed them away and even pulled out his sword. "Do you want to kill me to silence my talking?"

"..."

Lou Hong's mouth twitched. How on earth did such dark thoughts come to such a young child? He sighed, and not wanting to speak further to him, he directly produced a hand seal to fix him in position, before waving for the disciples to bring him down. Right now, not to mention taking him as disciple, he needed to reconsider even whether or not to accept him into the sect. Because his mind didn't seem to work well!

Jing Qi was merely at Qi Refinement level, and naturally couldn't resist Nascent Soul cultivators. Seeing that he was going to be dragged away, he could only stare hard at everyone in the room, and shouted out a famous saying word by word, "Fortune was in the east bank thirty years ago, but turns to west when thirty years has passed. Don't you bully the young."

Lonemoon, "..."

Everyone: "..."

Immediately the whole audience looked at the person walking out with the type of sympathy you give an idiot.

Lonemoon's mouth twitched. This must be an idiot? What's up with this strange line?

Besides, he didn't say anything much just now at all, but simply didn't want to accept a disciple, yet he looked as if the whole world owed him. Did he transmigrate from the plane of idiots?

Lou Hong's expression was full of regret. He looked at Lonemoon meekly and hurried to change the subject, "The matter of disciples can be discussed later. Let's look into the matter of Green Robes Sect first!" He coughed and looked at the rest of Green Robes Sect disciples in the hall.

"Is there any among you who knows why those demons attacked Green Robes Sect?"

Those children looked at one another, and a hint of fear and hesitation showed in their eyes.

Lou Hong immediately comforted them, with a smile on his face, "Don't be afraid. Since you've come to Honesty Sect, you are the disciples of our sect from now on. Whatever that happens, we will protect all of you. Just tell me what you've heard and seen before coming here."

Only now did the expression of those few kids become milder. They looked at the person in front and started talking.

"We saw a lot of man-eating monsters. They ate a lot of Senior Brother..."

"And Senior Sisters. They said Senior Sisters' meat tasted better."

"They lost a lot of blood, that's when the sect master told us to hide, otherwise we would be eaten too."

"And sect master told us not to make a sound... if they can't find Green Feathers... Green Feathers Orchid?" Feathers

"Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid! Those monsters are looking for that?" Lou Hong gasped, as his widened eyes saw the group of children nodding. He hurriedly turned to Lonemoon and said, "Supremacy, it seems that these demons were going after Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid." He said very seriously, "The Orchid is not only a great healing herb, it also has the effect of cleansing the soul and the meridians. I heard that eating it can improve the chances of the neonate formation pill by 30%."

"But this Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid has always been rare, and it takes a million years for one to grow." Lou Hong's expression was emotional, "Green Robes Sect actually had such a treasure."

Lonemoon frowned. The Demon Monarch was already at the tenth level, and neonate formation pills are of no use to him at all. What did want this thing for? And he wanted it so much as to destroy a whole sect... Unless... it was his in the first place.

Chapter 314: The Truth About Intrusion

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He somehow felt that this might have something to do with that idiot... uh no, intruder.

But he didn't imagine that the Three Azure Realms had become so poor right now? Even the Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid could be a treasure worth fighting for. He remembered that in the radishes that Rabbit used to send Shen Ying every day, more than half were those orchids. One or two of those still grew in the back side of the mountain of Invincible Sect every now and then.

He thought about the matter of the intruder. After he understood the purpose of the demons, he wasn't too interested in what was happening next. He told Lou Hong goodbye and went back to Invincible Peak with Shen Ying and Yi Qing.

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"How do you intend to deal with that crazy boy?" After returning to the peak, Lonemoon asked straight away. "You gonna open a plane gate and chase him back?"

"I can't chase him back." Shen Ying spread her hands.

"What do you mean?" I didn't know that there's someone you can't chase in this world. His expression was suspicious.

Shen Ying picked up a fruit, habitually, and was just going to eat it, before it was suddenly grabbed by Yi Qing, who put a piece of pastry into her hand at once. She was stunned for an instant before stuffing it directly into her mouth.

"He is mixed."

Lonemoon stopped short, suddenly remembering the fat shadow that shrouded the boy. "You mean, those karma on him?" Those karma belonged to this world. If they threw the person back to his original plane now, there would be an impact indeed.

"Nah!" Shen Ying inclined her head. "Karma is just some data. It can simply be added from the amount dropped!" That wouldn't make a difference.

"..." Lonemoon's mouth twitched. He felt that she insulted all the concepts of karma in novels.

"The point is the person that he mixed with."

"Person?" Lonemoon suddenly widened his eyes in shock. "You mean, the body that he is in now?"

Indeed in their eyes Jing Qi was a fat man who intruded into this world, yet to others, he was merely a ten-year-old kid. Apparently, the fat man was the real body of the intruder. This meant that it was the soul that transmigrated!

"Are you going to say that the poor soul that he possessed was still inside his body?"

"Yes." Shen Ying nodded.

"Holy shit!" Lonemoon cursed. In that case, they couldn't simply send him back indeed, because that way they would be sending two, and it would become their intrusion into another plane.

"But it doesn't make sense!" He suddenly remembered something, "By right, one body can only accommodate one soul. If his soul possessed the body, the original soul should be squeezed out."

"The system was incompatible. He was stuck." Shen Ying said.

"You mean that the original soul was trapped inside the body of the intruder like those karma?" Lonemoon suddenly thought about the karma inside that kid's body. "How could this be?" Could this intruder's spirit be stronger than all the others?

"Hmm..." Shen Ying bowed down her head and thought for a while, before replying, "maybe he was... wider."

Wider?

Lonemoon's mouth twitched as he thought about the thick layers of flesh on that shadow. "You mean because he was too fat originally, the original soul and those karma were trapped and unable to come out?"

"That's right!"

"What right!" Since when had being fat become a superpower? "Then what are we gonna do now? Are we going to leave him to stay here?" With all his karma, he might indeed become a master. "What happens to the original soul? He can't be left trapped, right?" This was his first plane mission, yet this start was so difficult.

"We wait for his consumption."

"Consumption! You mean, we let those karma be consumed first?" Lonemoon thought about it carefully. Indeed, the intruder could trap the original soul more or less due to those karma. As he had too much karma, he naturally suppressed others, and of course the original soul was unable to resist him.

The two had already mixed, so they couldn't casually separate them. As he belonged to a different plane, the soul system was different, and trouble could easily be caused from such a separation. But should those karma disappear, the original soul would naturally resist, and then the mixing of the two would become problematic, making it easier for intervention.

"But..." He realized one more problem. "Karma does not get consumed easily. He had amazing karma in the first place, and nobody else could consume his karma. Unless he had someone with a similar level of karma, or an opponent recognized by himself, rousing his heart for fighting, then it would work. We can't make another genius for him!"

"We have one already!" Shen Ying suddenly turned to look towards the direction of the kitchen.

"Chef!"

Lonemoon looked at the small figure who was cooking with a simple seriousness.

This was indeed... a wise choice!

"Chef, come, let's discuss revenge!"

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If you want to consume one's karma, you've got to beat him when he was most self-satisfied, making him unable to satiate his desires. As such, he would want more and keep consuming his own karma. This opponent must be someone who inspired his urge to fight, and Chef was doubtless the best choice. Firstly, they came from the same village, so they appeared to have the same starting point.

Secondly, Chef was born a member of the dragon clan. He was meant to become a god. Even if the other party had extraordinary amounts of karma, Chef lacked only Spirit Qi, and he could improve his cultivation even if he simply closed his eyes. In terms of speed, nobody could surpass him.

Thirdly, it was about the impact of the karma. Theoretically, when Jing Qi became lucky, someone else had to be unlucky due to the influence of the karma. Yet Chef was a plane assistant. Although due to the conditions of his body he couldn't accept the assistant seal, there was that marking inside his body. With that marking, all worldly rules couldn't limit him, including the rules of karma, which meant that they needn't worry about him being negatively affected by the intruder's karma.

Lastly, for some unknown reason, Jing Qi indeed seemed to have a hostility towards Chef. He felt it earlier when they were in the audience hall. Chef already possessed complete hatred from the other party without doing anything himself.

Lonemoon was just contemplating whether to let Chef do a secluded cultivation, or a Foundation Establishment first, when something happened at Honesty Sect again.

The Protective Mountain Array was activated instantly, and the whole sect trembled as if someone was attacking it.

In the next moment, waves of demonic roars came from the distance, and demonic aura suddenly increased outside the mountain gates. Waves of black aura came right at the sect.

"Supremacy!" A disciple arrived hurriedly, horror written all over his face. "Many demons suddenly arrived outside the mountain gate. They surrounded the gate. Sect master told me to bring Supremacy over."

They had come indeed...

Chapter 315: Demons' Attack of the Mountain

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"I see." Lonemoon nodded. They had come fast indeed. He turned to tell Shen Ying, "Don't go running around!" After that his body shape flashed and he disappeared right where he was.

At that moment, the area outside the mountain gate had been filled with all kinds of demons from many different clans. Moreover, most were big demons at the seventh and eighth levels. There were even a few at the ninth.

If not for the Protective Mountain Array, they may have already rushed onto the mountain.

Lou Hong tried hard to maintain the Protective Mountain Array, while he looked at the demons. Although he knew that demons were of a cruel and revengeful nature, he didn't expect them to chase a couple kids till here.

"Old man, if you know the situation, open up the array, and we might spare a few disciples of yours. Otherwise..." A jackal demon walked out and showed his bloody teeth to the crowd, "When we enter, we will eat all of you to the bones."

"How dare you demons!" Lou Hong snorted coldly, "You aren't supposed to eat people in the first place. You had even destroyed Green Robes Sect, and now you still dare to come to our Honesty Sect. Aren't you afraid of being filled by bad karma and ruining your thousands of years of cultivation?"

"Psst!" The jackal demon looked utterly disdainful. "Stop talking about these things to me. Only your human race believes in karma. We are demons to begin with, if we don't eat humans, are we supposed to eat porridge and rice?"

With that said, the demons started laughing, as they looked at the crowd like they were all dishes.

"Besides, you were the ones who robbed our spirit herbs first, and we only came for justice." The jackal demon continued. "Eating a couple humans was already us being merciful to you. If you still refuse to give up the Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid that you stole, we will eat all the mortals around this area too!"

"Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid?" Lou Hong was stunned, "We had never seen it. Don't you make wild blames."

"You human race is the best at lying. Dare to do, yet you dare not admit doing." The jackal demon snorted. "Do you dare say that you were not the ones who saved those little whelps? We turned Green Robes Sect all over but couldn't find that Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid, so you must have taken it."

"We did save those children, and that was because we couldn't bear to see them die under the fangs of demons." Lou Hong replied with a deep voice, "But we had never seen a Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid, believe it or not."

"And you still dare to continue denying, I will see how long you can manage that!" The jackal demon seemed too lazy to continue talking with him. He waved, and the demons beside him went forward and attacked the Protective Mountain Array.

In a second, they heard a few loud bangs, and the whole sect shook. Yet the array formation remained intact, and a few weaker demons actually flew out under the impact.

"Move away!" Suddenly, a wolf's roar came from the crowd of demons, making all the demons stunned, as they made a way. Soon a man came forward. As compared to the rest of the demons who more or less still remained in animal shape, he was in a complete human shape. He wore a long black robe, and an immense amount of demonic aura came from his body, far surpassing the level of the others.

Lou Hong's heart sank. This was... the tenth-level Demon Monarch!

"A group of useless things! Can't even break an array." The Demon Monarch glanced at the crowd of demons, and all the demons around him shivered. Only then did he fixed his blood-red eyes on the cultivators opposite him. A red light flashed in his hands. He smiled darkly, as he said, "Since you don't intend to return the treasure, after we finished eating everyone, we can look for it ourselves. It's the same."

With that said, his body shape flashed, as he leaped up dozens of feet, and his palm attacked the Protective Mountain Array. With a flash of lightning, the array which remained resistant to attack just now suddenly shook a few times, and with a clanging sound, it broke like glass, and disappeared into the air.

Lou Hong who was maintaining the array felt a rush of blood around his heart. He couldn't stand stably any more and directly stepped back a few steps.

The Demon Monarch actually widened his eyes towards Lou Hong and said, "I will start by eating you!" With that said, he made a loud roar and leaped up right towards Lou Hong.

As its sharp claws were almost going to pierce through the man, a rush of sword qi suddenly came down from the sky, and it hit the Demon Monarch in the air. A white body shape appeared at the same instant, and the flute in his hand knocked the Demon Monarch down immediately.

With a bang, the Demon Monarch was crushed onto the ground before he could make a sound. The demonic aura around him had mostly disappeared, and he returned to his original shape in an instant.

Lonemoon stepped on the gigantic wolf on the ground with one foot, and wrinkled in a disbelieving manner, before he asked, "This is the Demon Monarch?" This generation of little animals was quite weak. Much worse than Rabbit used to be.

Perhaps because the disdain on his face was too obvious, everyone at the scene, both humans and demons, fell silent with a confused look on their faces. They felt that before anything started, it had already ended.

"So- Soul Formation!" Some demon screamed.

Immediately, the whole group of demons turned back and started deserting, without any trace of intention to save their Demon Monarch. They had absolutely no love for their own kind!

"Don't you disbelieve in karma? I will show you what it means!" Lonemoon snorted. It was a rare occasion of showing off, and he should continue with it.

His hands moved, and a Dharma spell was immediately formed, and a rain of swords appeared in the sky, which fell directly onto the deserting demons below.

They had not even run for many steps before they were caught by the spirit swords and changed into a flash of blood. Instantly, the whole Honesty Sect echoed with the cry of all kinds of demons. Not the threatening cries they made just now, but the painful cries of dying.

In less than ten minutes, all were silent. Demons of the seventh and eighth levels died in huge numbers. There were a few small demons left who had not been blooded, but most of them were only at the fourth or fifth level.

The disciples of Honesty Sect who had readied themselves to fight to death were speechless.

What did they come here for?

(⊙_⊙)

Lonemoon made a passing-away seal, sending these demons who were all bloody and apparently had eaten many people to oblivion. Only then did he turn around.

"Where are you running to?"

The wolf Demon Monarch who had just crawled two steps of distance stiffened instantly, as the hair all over his body stood up. He leaned on the ground shivering, as he replied, "Supremacy, please spare my life! I didn't know that there was a Soul Formation Supremacy here!" Didn't they say that the highest cultivation level here was Nascent Soul? Rumors were not reliable after all!

"Oh, you meant that if there were none, you would dare to come and eat humans?" Lonemoon's eyes chilled.

The wolf monarch's eyes shrunk, as he shivered even more severely. "No... no, no. Supremacy, I had no other way. The Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid that I had spent thousands of years caring for was stolen by them. Only due to anger did I... I..."

"Who said they stole your Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid?" Who wants your carrot! A green carrot besides!

"It's, it's true!" The wolf monarch's ears drooped in grievance. "I knew that boy, he was the one who stole it." With that said, he took out a Shadow Preserving Stone out of nowhere, and a vague shape came out of it. That was a ten-year-old kid, thin and tall, with a green carrot overflowing with Spirit Qi in his arms.

Chapter 316: The Culprit

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"This is... that Jing Qi!" Lou Hong recognized the person.

"He was the one who stole it." The wolf monarch continued. "We couldn't find him at Green Robes Sect, and we only knew afterwards that this kid was saved by Honesty Sect. That's why we..." Had they known that there was a Soul Formation cultivator, and a sword cultivator besides, he would absolutely never have come.

Lonemoon frowned. He had actually more or less guessed that this matter may be related to that intruder, but he didn't imagine that it was actually him. No wonder so many demons appeared first at that village, and then at Green Robes Sect, and now at Honesty Sect. Jing Qi was the one they were after.

Yet even though Jing Qi knew that he was the one who attracted those demons, why had he never mentioned it? And he didn't look guilty at all during the whole discussion, but remained in an utterly justified manner. This wouldn't seem right if it was any other child, and he was no ordinary child.

Lou Hong's face darkened too. He turned and commanded, "Go to the back mountain and bring the one named Jing Qi."

"Yes!" A disciple turned and flew off immediately.

The wolf monarch's eyes brightened with hope.

But Lonemoon didn't intend to let him go so easily. "Even though you have a reason, just because you killed off the whole Green Robes Sect and ate so many people, I cannot let you go!"

The wolf withered down again and shook even more severely. A Dharma spell was just going to be formed.

"Supremacy, wait!" Lou Hong seemed to have thought of something, and he said, "This wolf monarch had sinned greatly, and our Honesty Sect just happened to lack a mountain-protecting beast. How about we make it stay at the mountain gate for life, as redemption for his sins?"

The wolf monarch nodded violently, "I'm willing! I'm willing! Supremacy, please spare my life. I like protecting gates best, I like it very much. Woof woof!

Lonemoon, "..."

Lou Hong, "..."

Why are you woofing, did you think of yourself as a dog?

"Since the sect master says so, so be it." Lonemoon made a hand seal, and his finger pointed towards the center of the wolf's brows, directly dragging out a piece of his Divine Perception and heart blood. He turned to look at Lou Hong. "Give me your hand!"

Lou Hong reached out a hand subconsciously. Lonemoon directly turned his hands towards the hand. Instantly, a blood-colored wolf head symbol appeared on Lou Hong's wrist.

"This is... a blood contract?!"

"Hmm!" Lonemoon nodded. "Should he disobey, or still dare to eat humans in the future, you can directly activate this seal to kill him. Demons, unlike demon beasts, cannot be contracted, so this is the safest method."

The wolf monarch's head bowed down even lower, as he hurried to promise, "I don't dare, don't dare!" With that said, he immediately clawed onto the stone platform at the mountain gate and sat down with his back claws on the ground. The huge tail behind him shook in a eager manner, as if he had completely forgotten that he was originally a Demon Monarch.

Lonemoon, "..."

Lou Hong, "..."

Everyone: "..."

Hmm, he was fairly... sensible.

"Only those few small demons are left. They have no blood in their body, they probably have never hurt humans. Deal with them as you wish!" Lonemoon said. He suddenly thought of something, "Oh yeah! Those dead bodies, after taking the demon cores out of them, clean them up and send them to Invincible Peak to Shen Ying. Although they are a bit chopped up, they should still be edible!"

"Eat... eat?" Did they hear it wrong?

"Hmm." Lonemoon glanced at the small demons left and the wolf monarch, as he said word by word, "Don't they like to eat humans? I will let them know the fear of those on top of the food chain."

The people, "..."

The demons, "..."

And the demons trembled together.

So... So horrible... They are actually going to eat the demon corpses!

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Before everyone had been able to react, the disciple who left just now suddenly ran back, an anxious look on his face, "Sect master, it's no good! That disciple called Jing Qi had disappeared."

"What?" Lou Hong's face darkened. "Wasn't he locked up? How can he disappear? Have you checked the disciples' entrance and exit record?"

"I have. Nobody had seen him leave. I only realized he was not there when I went to the locked room."

"This child..." A flash of anxiety crossed Lou Hong's face. Couldn't something have happened to him? He suddenly remembered something.

Everybody turned to look at the dog monarch... uh no, the wolf monarch!

The wolf monarch's hair all stood up. "No no no... It wasn't me!" Don't wrong a good wolf! "We didn't even get to enter the mountain gate, how could we get him? Besides, I didn't even find the Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid..."

"Supremacy, in your opinion..." Lou Hong looked towards Lonemoon awkwardly.

Lonemoon frowned. Maybe that stupid kid just ran away by himself.

"Let's return to the sect first."

Lou Hong nodded. Only then did everyone fly back to the main peak, bringing the captured small demons. Lou Hong walked in the front and just as he was about to enter the audience hall when a coercive force of a Soul Formation cultivator suddenly emerged from inside, and without paying attention he directly stepped back.

The suppression actually intensified, and it swept over the crowd recklessly with a murderous aura.

Lonemoon's expression turned cold. Did they think that he was dead? In an instant, he used the suppression unique to sword cultivators to counter-attack. The suppression rushed into the hall mercilessly and hit the cultivator sitting in a high position.

Sounds of tumultuous movement of tables and chairs immediately came from the hall, as if the person had lost his balance. Only then did Lonemoon lead the crowd inside. They looked at the middle-aged cultivator who came uninvited and sat in a high-ranking position.

"Honesty Sect actually produced a Soul Formation cultivator! I underestimated you." The cultivator on top stood up and looked towards Lonemoon with vigilance.

"You are... Supremacy Wu Xiang of Divine Heaven Sect." Lou Hong was shocked as he immediately recognized the person. Divine Heaven Sect was the top sect of Upper Azure World, with millions of disciples, and Honesty Sect could by no means compare with them. They also had more than a dozen Soul Formation Supremacies in their sect, and this Supremacy Wu Xiang was among the best of them. Rumors had it that he was already halfway immortal.

"It seems that this old man is still recognized!" The man smiled, but his look remained rather proud.

Lou Hong frowned. "May I know what business Supremacy has here at Honesty Sect?" And he even started fighting indiscriminately. If not for Supremacy Lonemoon, he himself may even be hurt.

"I came for nothing else but this old man's new disciple." Wu Xiang looked at him, and probably due to Lonemoon's presence, he said with a serious tone, "I have recently received a new disciple called Jing Qi, who had been troubling you here recently. I have already brought him away just now, before I realized that I have not given you a notice, that's why I came back."

"Jing Qi..." Lou Hong's face darkened. No wonder he suddenly disappeared. He was brought away by him. He would never expect a little kid like that to actually know Supremacy Wu Xiang.

"That's right. He will be my only personal disciple from now onwards." His look was cold, and with a hint of blame in his voice he continued, "This is the disciple I have had over so many years of cultivation, and inevitably I am rather protective of him. Besides coming to notice your sect, there's also another matter that I'd like to ask Honesty Sect!"

Chapter 317: Plucking Feathers off the Goose that Passes By

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Lou Hong's heart sank with a foreboding feeling. "May I know what is the matter?"

"My disciple had always been straightforward in character, while he is a bit too lively, he had a pure kindness. May I ask sect master, what mistake did he make, that you are putting him into that dark and secluded chamber, and going to put him to death!" His voice deepened, and the suppression on his body began to sweep towards Lou Hong.

Lou Hong's face whitened, and the suppression was almost reaching.

Lonemoon suddenly stepped forward and pulled the man behind him, while at the same time used his own suppression which was also of Soul Formation level but more chilling to press it back. Wu Xiang was stunned. He stepped back once more and almost fell on the chair behind him. Instantly, his face was full of shock.

He at first thought that he was only pressed back by this person because he was caught unawares, but now he realized that this person's ability was not second to him. He cultivation looked only like that of a mid-stage Soul Formation cultivator, but why was the suppression so strong? Can this be the sword cultivator's ability?

"Supremacy is speaking rather amusingly!" Lonemoon gave him a commercial-style smile. "That child called Jing Qi was a surviving disciple of Green Robes Sect. He was punished for his wrongs of injuring his peers and disrespecting his superior, that's why he was punished with confinement. Besides, the confinement was less than a day in total, where does the talk of putting him to death come from?"

"You are suggesting that my disciple lied?"

"I don't know whether he lied or not," Lonemoon continued, "But if the sect master really wanted him dead, why bother saving him out of Green Robes Sect? We are not that free!"

"This..." His expression changed, but he continued to argue, "Even if he made mistakes, you wouldn't need to punish him so harshly? Besides, he is my disciple, and it's not for you to punish him?"

"This talking is funny indeed." Lonemoon gave him a mocking smile without hesitation. "May I ask Supremacy, what is a soft punishment then? Only one day of confinement, and it's harsh for a cultivator? Then let me ask, how does the respected sect of yours... Divine Heaven Sect, is it? How do they punish their disciples? Allow us to learn from you."

He was speechless, because confinement wasn't any harsh punishment indeed.

"Besides, we couldn't know the future, and we had no way to know that he would become your disciple, right?" Lonemoon continued. "If Supremacy indeed care for your disciple so much, I would advise you to write on his forehead the words "Wu Xiang's Disciple", so that it is easier for others to recognize!"

"You!" Recognizing the irony in his words, Wu Xiang was angry, but couldn't find words to rebuke. He had to forcefully suppress the anger inside him. He bit his teeth and snorted, "Okay, we will let go of this matter then. This Supremacy will not ask further about it. From now on, Jing Qi has nothing more to do with your Honesty Sect!"

With that said, he stared at him shortly, and turned to leave.

"Wait!" Lonemoon said suddenly, "Supremacy's matter had been settled, but we haven't yet discussed our matter?"

Wu Xiang's footsteps stopped. He turned. "What else do you want?"

Lonemoon's smile was soft as spring snow. "I think Supremacy's words are right too. One's disciple should be disciplined by one himself. I believe that Supremacy is a just man, right?"

He frowned and looked at him in confusion.

"Quite unfortunately, our sect had recently taken in a little animal... Oh, a mountain-protecting beast. And this mountain-protecting beast had lost a Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid that it had spent thousands of years caring for. It was mistakenly taken away by your precious disciple. Since the master is here, I'm sure you can answer for him. May you please return this item to us now." With that said, he stretched out his hand directly.

Wu Xiang's eyes suddenly widened, as he blurted out, "The Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid was yours?"

"So Supremacy has seen it!" Lonemoon smiled even deeper.

The man stiffened, and a flash of anger came across his face, but he bit his teeth, and said anyway, "A couple days ago, I suffered a small injury. My disciple had already used that Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid to treat my injuries.

"Oh..." Lonemoon's face was full of understanding, and he dragged the word ironically.

The man's face darkened even further. "I do not have this item on me right now. After I return to Divine Heaven Sect and retrieve a new one, I will return it to you!" He added, "I've always honored my words. I will definitely return it."

"Of course we believe the words of Supremacy." Lonemoon nodded. "This way, we will not ask further about this matter. Lets... ask about other matters first, shall we?"

"What... other matters do you have?" Wu Xiang looked like he would like to kill him, but due to him being in the wrong, he couldn't lose his temper.

"Though the Green Feathers Spiritual Orchid belonged to our mountain-protecting beast, he was a Demon Monarch before this. Due to the spiritual herb being stolen, he had attacked Green Robes Sect in his anger and killed off more than one hundred cultivators, with only around a dozen kids left. Does Supremacy think... that I should ask about this on behalf of this?"

"Demons are cruel by nature. What's that to do with me?" His face was full of anger.

Lonemoon continued, "The dozen children left just now was originally practicing well in Green Robes Sect, and probably hopeful to achieve great Dao. Yet just because of a spirit herb they suffered great tragedies, and this spirit herb just happens to be taken by you. To put it not so nicely, the lives of the whole Green Robes Sect paid for the life of Supremacy." With the whole Green Robes Sect disappearing just like this, saying that demons are cruel in nature would be far from enough.

His face whitened. "What do you want to do?"

"I'm not doing anything." Lonemoon spread his hands. "Just that these children are at Honesty Sect right now, and for them to practice and seek Dao in the future, they inevitably need some spirit stones, Dharma artifacts, etc."

Wu Xiang said, gnashing his teeth, "I will give!" With that said, he directly untied the storage bag around his waist, took out a bag of spirit stones and handed them over.

Lonemoon weighted the bag in his hand, "there are more than a dozen children!"

His mouth twitched and produced more than a dozen more bags.

"Hmm. We still lack some Dharma artifacts."

"..." He continued digging.

"Some elixirs should also be prepared."

"..." He continued digging.

"They would also need some protective Dharma clothings. Children grow fast, after all."

"..." He dug rapidly.

"Oh yeah, and arrays and talismans too!"

"There you go!" Wu Xiang directly handed over the whole storage bag. "This would be enough, yes?"

"Of course, of course." Lonemoon took it, smiling.

"Hmph!" Only now did Wu Xiang turn to leave. Just as he reached the doorsteps, Lonemoon added,

"Oh yeah, if the children are in need of anything in the future, I will send the bill to Divine Heaven Sect!"

Wu Xiang's foot tilted, and he almost fell over. Immediately, he flew away on his sword in a flash.

Only now did Lonemoon look at the storage bag in his hand. Hmph, what was he doing trying to be proud in front of him? If he didn't make him suffer great losses, his surname was not Niu!

"Take it!" He handed the storage bag to Lou Hong casually. "Remember to send him a bill every month." With that said, he clapped his hands, turned and flew back to Invincible Peak.

Lou Hong, "..."

Everyone: "..."

They all stood speechless

They didn't get a Soul Formation Supremacy, but a God of Wealth!

Chapter 318: Practicing in Sword Array

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"Master, I want to learn sword techniques." Chef who just finished cooking suddenly started talking.

"Ah?" The chopsticks in Shen Ying's hands stopped. How did Chef suddenly have such a dangerous thought.

"Lou Tao and others are also at Qi Refinement, but they have all started learning sword techniques." His little face was stiff and serious.

Who is Lou Tao?

"I'm the disciple of Master. I don't want to lose to them. Master, can you teach me sword techniques?"

Shen Ying thought for a moment. The disciple is hardworking and it's a good thing, she should encourage it. So she nodded, "Okay." Isn't it just sword dharma, she had experience with that.

Chef's eyes brightened, as he jumped down from the chair immediately.

"As the saying goes, all martial arts in the world..."

"Shut up!" Before she finished, Lonemoon beside her suddenly stuffed a piece of meat into her mouth. "You don't know it, don't teach it any way you like!"

"In the past I..." Shen Ying opened her mouth to explain.

"The past is past!" Lonemoon stared at her. Chef lacked wisdom, not cultivation. With her talks of epiphany, wouldn't she be a negative influence? Each of them made life harder for him.

He rubbed the center of his brows, and turned to look at Yi Qing, who wasn't much taller than the chair, and felt a bit awkward for a moment. Chef's sword dharma was self-invented, and it complemented his sword dharma. Not only could Shen Ying not teach him, he himself could not. If they taught him regardless, it might be counterproductive. "Che- Yi Qing, the Sword Dao depends on one's own understanding, sword techniques... would have to be figured out by yourself. We can't really teach you."

His small brows wrinkled. Being a child after all, he made no effort to hide the disappointment in his eyes, and only after a long while did he look up and say, "Then what do I have to do to understand it?"

"Through battle, of course..." He stopped short, as if he had suddenly thought of something. "How yeah, maybe I will set several sword arrays. If you can break out of them, you might be able to gain some understanding."

"Okay," Yi Qing nodded hard. Excitement shone in his eyes.

"I will set an easy one first and increase the difficulty level gradually after you have succeeded." He took out a spirit sword, handed it over to him and explained, "However, you do not have any foundation in sword techniques, and your cultivation is only Qi Refinement. It is rather dangerous for you to enter the sword array rashly, and there may even be the danger of suffering serious injuries. Are you sure?"

Yi Qing turned to look at Shen Ying, and his eyes were full of determination, "Yes! I'm not afraid."

"Then from tomorrow onwards, you will go to the practice field at the main peak. I will set up a sword array there. You enter the array at six in the morning, and the array will only be pacified at 9pm."

"Okay." He nodded. After a while he thought of something, and asked with some anxiety, "Then can I come out for a while at noon?"

"For what?" Lonemoon glanced at him. Giving up so easily? This is not like Chef.

"Noon is the time that Master has lunch, I..."

"I get it!" Lonemoon's mouth twitched. Even with his memories gone, he had not forgotten about his job. "I will fetch you out of the array at that time."

He felt relieved, cupped his fists and said respectfully, "Thank you, Supremacy."

Lonemoon stiffened. A hint of awkwardness went across his face. Having gotten used to Chef's looks of contempt or disregard and discrimination, he felt rather strange being thanked so seriously.

"Master, master!" Yi Qing turned his head, and looked straight towards Shen Ying with a star-like brightness in his eyes. He said excitedly, "I will work hard to understand sword techniques and become better than anyone. I'll also be able to protect Master in the future."

Shen Ying paused.

A while later...

"I know."

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Lonemoon seemed to have indeed started devil training with Chef. Every day, before the sun was up, Chef disappeared, leaving behind only a table full of dishes. At noon and in the evening he would return, before disappearing again. His small body which previously only had SpiritQi started to show some Sword Qi as well. It seemed that Lonemoon's method worked indeed.

The figure which used to follow her around every day calling "Master" suddenly disappeared, and Shen Ying was actually a bit unused to it.

This continued for a couple months. Chef traveled between the practice field and the kitchen every day. The Sword Qi on his body thickened, and even his character matured. He became ever more like the Chef in the past.

Until one day, he said, "Master, I broke out of the sword array today." His little body had grown taller. He gave Shen Ying a big smile.

She was stunned for a moment, looked him up up and down, before nodding, "Hmm."

"Master, I suddenly understood three sword techniques."

"Hmm."

"Master, I realized that sword array was really hard to break out indeed."

"Hmm."

"Master, I will understand more in the future."

"Hmm."

"Master, I've returned late today, are you hungry?"

"... No."

"That's... that's... good!" With that said, he seemed finally unable to bear it, swayed a few times, and fell straight down.

Seeing that he was dropping to the ground, Shen Ying grabbed him and held him up in her arms directly. Perhaps because of the sword in his hand, he was much heavier than usual.

Shen Ying sighed, turned into the house and put him on the bed. Within an instant, the bed sheet turned red. Blood stains were all over Yi Qing. His Dharma clothing was torn in many places, and lots of sword marks could be vaguely seen.

She subconsciously turned to look at the person who followed behind.

"Why are you looking at me? I didn't hurt him!" Lonemoon stared at her, "And he didn't let me treat him before coming back. I was still wondering why was he learning in such a haste that he broke out of my array within less than eight months. It was as if he couldn't wait to improve himself. I don't know what he's trying so hard for?" Apparently even if he didn't learn anything, once the time comes and his memory is restored, his cultivation would all come back.

Shen Ying frowned and looked at the bloody little person on the bed. Her directly pointed a finger in the air, and a light screen appeared on top of Chef. Her fingertips pointed and adjusted the data on there. Instantly, the injuries on Chef all disappeared. Not only the blood stains were gone, even the tears on the Dharma clothing returned to its original state, as if it had never been torn.

The pathetic child on the bed from a moment ago turned back to the clean, jade-like child.

"Holy shit! You used the manager authority to directly adjust his data." Lonemoon's eyes opened wide. "Your treatment is a bit too high level, eh?"

Shen Ying turned and looked at him. "Can't I use it?"

Lonemoon's mouth twitched. "You can, of course you can. Besides, he's your man. How's that my business!" Hmph! He had actually chased after him back all the way, worrying. Lonemoon put back the treatment elixirs in his hand and turned to leave. "I'm returning now. You keep an eye on him and let him rest a bit longer today. He'll be entering a new array tomorrow."

Shit! He still had to return to make an array in the night. He didn't know what he owed to this pair of master and disciple.

"Oh." Shen Ying nodded. Suddenly she seemed to have remembered something. "Father Niu."

"What?"

"I'm so hungry. I haven't eaten dinner yet. Do you have food?"

"Go away!" Lonemoon stared at her. "There's limited feed today!"

With that said, he waved and left a few plates of pastries on the table, before turning out of the house.

"..."

Sigh, Father Niu just had to be tsundere all the time.

Chapter 319: Gossips in the Sect

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Lonemoon set up ten arrays at the practice field at once. They were of different difficulty levels, from easy to hard, including all levels from Qi Refinement to Nascent Soul. It could be said that it was the best place for practicing sword techniques and understanding sword intent.

At first he only set it up for Chef. His sword dharma was self-invented, and he had told Lonemoon before that his sword dharma was figured out gradually through many fights. Chef could remember neither his past nor his sword dharma, but the instinct in his body was still there. Thus, making him remember his sword dharma by fighting inside sword arrays was effective.

And it was proved in practice. After spending more than half a year to break out of the first array, it was as if a switch for sword dharma was switched on, he started to figure out many sword techniques. Seeing that they were exactly the same as the ones he used before, Lonemoon was relieved.

But Lou Tao approached him, and asked if other disciples could be allowed to practice inside, too. Most of Honesty Sect practiced sword cultivation, and to figure out a sword array would be very beneficial to their cultivation indeed. Lonemoon naturally wouldn't refuse, and disciples flocked over.

For a while, the sword arrays at the practice field became a compulsory part of cultivation in the sect. Chef, unlike others, was born with an Innate Sword Embodiment, so he had to raise the prerequisite for entering the first array to the seventh level of Qi Refinement.

Five years later...

Unknowingly, the little boy had started growing very fast. Although he he still had the youthful look, he had reached the same height of Lonemoon. While he had not yet remembered his past, he was becoming ever more like the quiet, serious personality that he once was.

Only Shen Ying felt that he seemed to go a little awry, especially the talkativeness as a child which had not lessened at all.

"Master, there will be snow today. You'll need to wear more even with the protection of Dharma clothings."

"Master, don't sleep on the table. I've made a lounge chair. If you really don't want to go back inside, go and sit there."

"Master, it's better if you don't drink tea at night, it's not good for the sleep. What about some Fengyu juice?"

"Master, it is already so late, you can leave the pastry for tomorrow morning. Otherwise you won't be able to sleep again."

"Master, you've eaten this kind of meat for three days in a row. Isn't it better to change it?"

He mentioned all matters big and small, that Shen Ying felt like she had a Mother Niu now. But after he kept talking... she got used to it!

╮(╯▽╰)╭

Yet somehow his cultivation didn't increase significantly in the recent years. He had only perfected Foundation Establishment. It was totally not on the same level as his extremely rapid improvement in the past.

"He probably suppressed his own cultivation, that's why he never formed a core this whole time." Lonemoon explained casually. "But this is just as well. Everything before Core Formation was the foundation. It would be better if he proceeds to Core Formation after he's understood sword intent.

"Oh." She didn't understand it.

"Let's go, the sect master seemed to have looked for us." Lonemoon pointed at the main peak.

"Ah?" Shen Ying was stunned. "Me?"

"Yes! You've stayed here for years, it's time for you to go out for a walk." Lonemoon couldn't stand her idleness and directly dragged her to her feet. "Not only you, Chef too. Since we are going to the main peak, let's go down to the practice field to look for Chef."

"That's so troublesome..."

"What troublesome! Let's go!" Lonemoon dragged her past the transportation array and they arrived at the practice field.

From far away, they noticed many disciples coming out of the arrays, with excitement, disappointment or doubt on their faces. Some also gathered discussing something.

Lonemoon didn't pay it much attention at first. In any case, this had become the most frequented place among disciples since the sword arrays were opened. He purposefully restrained his aura to allow them to discuss with peace of mind and got a wave of silent praise for it.

"These sword arrays set up by Supremacy are too powerful. I have been trying for a month but couldn't enter even the first array."

"Exactly! They are arrays built by a Soul Formation Supremacy indeed. I heard that even Senior Brother Lou Tao could only reach the fifth one."

"Wow, Senior Brother Lou Tao is a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and he can only reach the fifth level. I don't know when would anyone be able to break through all ten."

"That's needless to ask, of course it would be young Uncle-Master Yi Qing. He's already reached the eighth level."

"What? My god, isn't that the level where only Golden Core masters can enter?"

"What's this to him? I heard that when he was at Qi Refinement, he had already broken through the first level. He was only ten then!"

"Young Uncle-Master is so good, he's worthy of being Supremacy Lonemoon's disciple indeed."

"Young Uncle-Master is not the disciple of Supremacy Lonemoon! He's the disciple of the other Soul Formation Supremacy in the sect."

"Eh? There's a second Soul Formation Supremacy in the sect." The disciple was shocked.

"Of course. I heard that she joined the sect together with Supremacy Lonemoon. I think the surname is Shen..." The disciple suddenly remembered something. He lowered his voice and said, "But she never goes out of Invincible Peak. I have joined the sect for so many years but have never seen her."

Lonemoon gave a disdainful look to the person eating fruit beside him. Not only did she not have a sense of existence, she was also lazy!

"Young Uncle-Master is so powerful, isn't his master more powerful then?"

Hmm, with this Lonemoon would have to agree. He didn't intend to continue listening and was about to walk past them.

"You don't know that." The disciple suddenly shook his head, and said, in a gossipy way, "Even the sect master had never seen her fight, and nobody knew what her cultivation was like. But young uncle-master had been around her since young. He didn't start practicing until he was ten. The relation of the two was extremely close, and only two of them lived in the small building on Invincible Peak."

"Oh!" Something came to the other disciples' mind, and their faces were filled with surprise, "You mean young uncle-master is actually a... human cauldron?"

Shen Ying, "..."

Pui...

Lonemoon's expression twisted. He set up an isolating array instantly and burst into laughter, pressing his stomach. "Hahahaha... You can continue to live in isolation! In gossips you are almost becoming a pervert who keeps a boy human cauldron! Hahahaha... This is too funny for me."

"If that's so, young uncle-master is too pitiful." The disciple was indignant. "That Supremacy Shen has gone too far."

"But who can resist Soul Formation Supremacies? Young uncle-master is practicing so hard, it might be due to his grievances too."

""That's not what I heard." A disciple suddenly argued, and everyone looked towards him. "Nobody has seen that Supremacy Shen, who knows what's her true level? But the ability of Supremacy Lonemoon was seen by everyone. I heard that these ten sword arrays were made by him for young uncle-master too. Who can surpass Supremacy Lonemoon in being nice to him?"

"So in my opinion... That Supremacy Shen was just an excuse. The person who is truly interested in young uncle-master should be Supremacy Lonemoon!"

"Oh..." Everyone looked enlightened.

Stiffened Lonemoon, "..."

Shen Ying, "..."

After a while, she silently turned towards the person beside her, "Oh~~~~~" So you are as such, Father Niu!

"What 'oh'!"

"I didn't say anything!"

"Take back that look!" He said word by word. "I am straight."

"Er..."

"If not to take care of you two troublesome things, I would have gotten a girlfriend long ago!"

"Oh~~"

"Shut up!"

"..."

Chapter 320: Hong Yu Mystic Realm

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Lonemoon didn't expect to be attacked in a random gossip that he listened to. For a moment, a cold aura came out all over his body, which went directly towards that group of disciples.

The disciples were shocked, seeing the two who came over, they all started shivering severely, and their expression was completely nervous. They managed a salute, "Greetings, Supremacy."

"Since you have time to talk nonsense here, you must be very confident in breaking the arrays!"

Everyone: "..."

Lonemoon waved a hand, and a wind spell blew the disciples back into the arrays. The second one besides.

For a moment, the array was filled with cries of pain.

Until they had reached the audience hall, Lonemoon's expression remained intense, as he had an urge to increase the difficulty of all the sect's arrays. And he would see if they would still have time for making up nonsense then.

"Supremacy... Lonemoon?" Lou Hong was all confused by Lonemoon's stare. He thought about the matters in the sect. They had not suffered any financial losses? Income from spirit herbs and Dharma artifacts etc. had doubled, and there were no new disciples to increase the burden. Why is the expression of Supremacy so horrible?

"Why did you call us here?" Lonemoon sat upon a chair directly, and his icy glance fell on Lou Hong.

Lou Hong subconsciously shivered once. So... so horrible! He couldn't help but looked towards Shen Ying to seek help. Unfortunately, she was focusing on eating fruits, and didn't receive his signal at all. He couldn't help but sent a voice transmission, "Supremacy... Shen. What's the matter with Supremacy Lonemoon?"

Shen Ying spread her hands and looked uncaring. "Men, there are always a few uncomfortable days each month!"

Lou Hong, "..." Doesn't this sound a bit wrong?

Yi Qing, "..." Master's words are so deep, I can't understand them at all.

Lonemoon, "..." Hey, I can hear you!

"Hurry up and tell us, what is the matter?" Lonemoon's mouth twitched and he asked again.

Lou Hong coughed, gave Yi Qing behind Shen Ying a brief look, before starting, "It's like this, it's almost time for Hong Yu Mystic Realm to be opened, and I would like to use this opportunity to send disciples of the sect to go and gain some experience. They might be able to get a chance of ascension."

"Hong Yu Mystic Realm?" Lonemoon was stunned. How has he never heard of this mystic realm?

"Hong Yu Mystic Realm is a small mystic realm opened up by a cultivator thousands of years ago before he went for Heavenly Ascension. It is only opened once every hundred years." Lou Hong explained. "It's open for two months each time. Though there aren't anything great inside, there are many demon beasts. It is most suitable for the cultivation of cultivators below the level Golden Core.

"So you want to let Foundation Establishment disciples participate?" Lonemoon asked.

"Yes." He nodded. "Though the disciples often practice in the sword arrays, opportunities to fight with demon beasts are rare. Besides, most of them had never left Honesty Sect. It would be good to take this opportunity to let them go out to gain experience."

"Hmm." Lonemoon nodded. It's good to let them get some practice together too.

"Among disciples of Foundation Establishment level, Junior Brother Yi Qing's cultivation is the highest. And with his steady personality, the disciples look up to him too." Lou Hong looked at Yi Qing and said. Achieving complete Foundation Establishment within five years, that makes him a first in the whole Azure World. "Therefore, I was hoping he would bring the disciples into the mystic realm himself. In any case, he was taken care of and trained by Supremacy Lonemoon yourself, and he'd be much better than those bald little boys at least."

Lonemoon's face darkened. "Take out that 'taken care of' part!" I can beat you, you know?

Lou Hong, "..." Eh? Did he say anything wrong?

"I've told you, for the matters of the sect, you can make the decisions yourself. "Lonemoon gave him a stare. "Besides, he's not my disciple, why are you asking me? Just ask her!" With that said, he pointed to the person beside him.

Only then did Lou Hong look towards Shen Ying. "Then what does Supremacy... Shen think?"

Shen Ying stopped short. She turned to look at Chef behind her. "Wanna go?"

The cold expression of Yi Qing warmed, and the look he gave her focused. "If it is indeed helpful to practicing, I would like to try."

"Oh, go then."

"Yes, Master."

"Prepare the meals before you go."

A hint of a smile showed in Yi Qing's eyes. "Yes, Master. No problem!"

Lou Hong, "..." Why did he find the way they teach disciples a bit weird?

"That's settled then." A glimmer of joy appeared in Lou Hong's eyes. With Yi Qing there, there would be extra protection for the disciples. "Then they will leave three days later, after I've gathered the disciples." With that said, he thought of something, took out a storage bag and handed it over to Yi Qing. "I've prepared the spirit stones, too."

"Spirit stones?" Lonemoon suddenly started paying attention. "What spirit stones?"

"The spirit stones for entering the mystic realm." Lou Hong explained, a natural look on his face. "This mystic realm is near Divine Heavens Sect, and it has always been managed by them. For disciples of other sects to enter, they would have to pay with some spirit stones."

"How many is that?"

"Ten top-tier spirit stones, or 300 mid-tier ones per person."

"So expensive!" Lonemoon was shocked.

"And fortunately Supremacy is here. Otherwise, in the past, our sect is really unable to provide this number of spirit stones."

Lonemoon frowned. So mystic realms can actually bring so much money?

"Lou Hong, are you close with the sect master of Divine Heavens Sect?"

"Ah?" Lou Hong was stunned, unsure why he was suddenly asking about this. "We do have some interactions in recent years." Mainly because the sect had become richer.

"That's good then!" Lonemoon stood up, and a confident and proud light shone in his eyes. "Come, come, let me discuss something with you..."

Shen Ying, "..."

Yi Qing: "..."

They suddenly had a presentiment that they would be having night snacks in the future.

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Nobody knew what Lonemoon and Lou Hong discussed on that day, but the former disappeared on the same day. Three days later, coming with the group leaving for Divine Heavens Sect, was not only Lonemoon but also Shen Ying, whom he forcefully dragged along.

It took everyone two days flying on Dharma artifacts to arrive at this top-tier sect: Divine Heavens Sect. As compared to Honesty Sect, which was a mid-tier sect, Divine Heavens Sect which was called "the first sect" was much larger. However, their Spirit Qi was not so thick as Honesty Sect with its half of the immortal vein.

Therefore, as compared to other sects which came and looked around in surprise and admiration, their calm disciples looked outstanding. Such thin Spirit Qi was not even as good as the Qi from the kitchen of their own sect. A sense of pride unrelated to money sprung from the disciples' heart.

When they reached the square in front of the mystic realm's entrance, it was already filled with disciples from many sects. Before the guest-receiving disciple made an announcement of their arrival, a Soul Formation cultivator flew over towards them.

"Is this Fellow Daoist Lonemoon from Honesty Sect?"

"Sect master Dong!" Lonemoon smiled and made a salute to the person coming. He was indeed the sect master of Divine Heavens Sect, Dong Wu.