Chapter 534: Light Sword (I)

Chapter 534: Light Sword (I)

The Silver Moon Guards barracks.

Three days passed swiftly. When Li Hao said he would be in seclusion for three days, he really meant three days. He stopped his motions when time was up and halted cultivating. As for the insatiable Hao Lianchuan and others, he didn’t bother looking at them.

The young man had consumed a large sum of energy over the past three days—more than thirty thousand cubes. He absorbed half of the sum and the dog consumed at least five thousand of the other half. The rest went to Hao Lianchuan and the supernaturals. It was only because Panther wasn’t much interested in the five elements lately that the supernaturals were able to absorb so much.

He’d consumed approximately one hundred pieces of mysterious power stones. That no longer meant much to Li Hao. After killing two Novas, the stones in their rings alone were more than eight hundred pieces. Pirates were rich, alright!

His cache of stones was increasing instead of decreasing. Added to that seizures from other sources, that meant he had almost three thousand stones in hand. That was more than when he left the ruins.

“Don’t stop, Li Hao!” Hao Lianchuan called out urgently with desire. “My supernatural lock hasn’t appeared yet and my strength hasn’t increased...”

“Is that so?” Li Hao flicked him a glance.

“Yeah! Almost there...”

“Really?”

“Of course!” Hao Lianchuan almost thumped his chest in promise.

“Late Solar is good enough,” Li Hao said wearily. “Would you have ascended if your lock hadn’t appeared? Director Hao, try a better lie next time.”

Hao Lianchuan blinked and stared wordlessly at the young man. A tragic expression crept over his face. The kid’s eyes are too keen! I thought no one noticed!

Li Hao couldn’t be bothered with him. He looked at the others, finding himself to almost envy supernaturals. Wang Ming was peak Sunflare and might ascend at any time. Hu Hao and Yun Yao were both Sunflares. While they were initial Sunflare, this rate of improvement was astonishing!

As for Li Meng... she was unfortunately still dawdling in Darkmoon. At least she was a Plenilune now and would be a Sunflare if she took another step forward.

The latter three hadn’t absorbed too much energy as Hao Lianchuan had consumed half of the ten thousand cubes, Wang Ming half of the remainder, leaving the other half to the trio. And yet, they still easily set foot into Sunflare.

In comparison, it was so hard for martial masters to set foot into Dominator from Sunderer. Li Hao had sent the Demon Hunters quite a sum of elemental energy, but if juxtaposed with the supernaturals, he should’ve seen half of his martial masters reach Dominator. And yet, not a single one was yet!

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Li Hao looked at Li Meng, thinking that the girl would be depressed. It turned out he was thinking too much. She wasn’t down at all and bounced around happily. It didn’t seem like an act as she really was very happy.

While everyone had improved, she’d improved the least. However, Li Meng was very excited. “I’m almost a Sunflare, I’m so impressive!”

“......” The group stared strangely at her. We... are all Sunflare? What are you so impressive about?

“Mmhmm, there were quite a few.” Liu Long grinned. “The vacation day that you ordered might have straightened out their thoughts. Who knew that it’d be a good thing?”

There hadn’t been a single half step Dominator in the troop of forty-nine, now there were suddenly sixteen. If they counted the mediating Hong Hao, that would make seventeen. It was more than one third of the Demon Hunters! This was a high ratio.

Li Hao quickly processed his surprise. Whether it was the Sword Sect or Inspectorate, they’d sent martial masters with good foundations. They all had strong potential for martial dao—it would’ve been difficult for them to continue down their path in this impoverished place otherwise. After the rise of the supernatural, those unsuited for the martial path quickly crossed over.

“That’s good!” Li Hao checked the skies—they were dark. It was the night of the 8th and it would be the 9th soon. Based on their speed, Hou Xiaochen and the others should almost be at Skystar City since they’d left on the 4th.

The young man was in no hurry since Hong Hao was still busy, he chatted with those standing around. Hong Qing and Hong Hao had returned in the afternoon two days ago and hadn’t had a chance to make their report. Hong Qing walked over to them.

“Leader, my dad says to not send people to him in the future...”

“Why not?” Was Hong Yitang so small-minded? It was just a few people and they were in such a pitiable state! Why can’t you save them?

“My dad says that this is just setting a precedent and will form the beginning of a habit. He says that you don’t know how hard it is to deal with the aftermath of a situation. If you send him one hundred people today, you might send an entire city next time. So next time... if you still want to do this... he’ll take them after you have custody of them for a month.”

Li Hao scratched his head awkwardly. I got it! Old Hong thinks I have no idea how hard it is to take care of people rescued from these situations. He wants me to have a taste, but I’m not an idiot! I know! Don’t think I don’t know, it’s because I know that I don’t want to do it. Hello, I’m seriously not an idiot.

“Ahem!” Li Hao changed the topic. “Let’s talk about the ruins!”

The crowd perked up.

“The ruins are within Silver Moon borders and not too far from White Moon City. Previous ranking officer Golden Spear explored them a few times and returned halfway...” Li Hao recounted in a somewhat solemn tone. “There are great dangers within. The ranking officer may have been fine, but that doesn’t mean we will be.

“The ruins don’t look too big from the outside. The senior guesses that it might’ve been the personal city of a clan in the ancient civilization, or one from a small sect. There may be other possibilities as well, but that is the most of it.

“The difficulty lies in the fact that ambushes happen on the street leading to the main door. Since I’ve been to Battle Heaven, my guess is that it may be a tree spirit! It’s tough to say if it’s one from the ancient civilization or one born later.”

“From those times?” Hong Qing asked curiously. “It should be dead after so many years.”

“It might, it could also be a shoot from the old tree. I haven’t been, so I’m not sure. But from some clues left by Senior Golden Spear, I think this might be the case!

“If that is...” Li Hao's eyes darted around. “Then we might have significant treasure to loot. A place like that may not have as many valuables as Battle Heaven, but with a tree spirit present, we might be able to obtain the legendary Water of Life...”

He only had one drop of that that he’d kept in reserve. Hou Xiaochen had wanted to trade for it, but Li Hao rejected him. It was an item that would create an enormous debt of gratitude as it was more effective than sword energy. It could regrow severed limbs!

Sword energy could not accomplish that—Li Hao vaguely knew what its core essence was now. It was a type of pure mental strength! Whether it was mysterious power, mysterious power stones, or origin weapon souls, they were devoured by the sword, purified, refined, and giving rise to sword energy.

Therefore, sword energy was a strength for cultivation. Water of Life, on the other hand, was a truly unique energy.