Chapter 117 (1/2)

Chapter 117: Hunting Demonic Beasts

“What?” Daoist Huo Long got rooted to the ground in shock, asking: “Is senior sister protecting him too?”

Upon hearing this, Celestial Mei Hua rolled her eyes and could not help shouting: “You idiot! Can’t you differentiate the good and bad? We have been sect mates for a few centuries, and I have never met that Fatty before. Is there any need for me to protect him?”

“Then what is senior sister trying to do?” Daoist Huo Long was now completely clueless, asked.

“Heavenly secrets cannot be revealed!” Celestial Mei Hua instead shook her head saying. She then solemnly spoke: “The peaceful days in Mystical Sky Yard are about to come to an end. Within the next ten years, a huge calamity would befall upon us! Your senior sister doesn’t want to be drawn into the mess. Thus, from today onwards, I am going into closed-door cultivation. Even if Shui Jing walks out of Mount Little Blossom, I would not allow her re-entry. I will trouble you to look after her future days in the inner courts. If she commits any offense, please do not hold a grudge against her on my account!”

“Senior sister, you…?” Hearing those words, Daoist Huo Long’s was clearly perturbed by this and wanted to continue this line of questioning.

However, Celestial Mei Hua lifted up her teacup, and lightly sipped at the tea instead.

This was obviously ‘serving tea to send a guest out!” Daoist Huo Long immediately realised that she did not want to reveal more about it. Helpless, he could only bid her farewell and take his leave. [1]

Watching his silhouette disappear over the horizon, Celestial Mei Hua could not help but let out a sigh, muttering to herself: “I hope this parting is not eternal!”

As she finished her musings, with a violent wave of her hand, she decisively restructured the many layers of restrictions on Mount Little Blossom. From then on, unless Celestial Mei Hua took the initiative to open up those restrictions, no others would be able to freely enter.

Time pa.s.sed in a flash and a month pa.s.sed in just a blink of an eye. In this time, Little Fatty was painstakingly creating his wind copper outer layer on his large copper bell. Because the wind copper was a high-grade material and he had less of it, it was more difficult to stick it on the large copper bell. As such, with the effort of a month, Little Fatty could only come up with a 50 feet tall, 3 to 4 feet thick copper layer.

The strength of this outer sh.e.l.l was definitely weaker as compared to the black iron sh.e.l.l. But, because of the higher quality of the wind copper and Little Fatty’s improved workmans.h.i.+p, the wind copper outer sh.e.l.l had about a fifth of the original defense of the black iron bell. Any normal foundational cultivator would not even be able to destroy it.

A full month of hard work made Little Fatty feel inevitably bored. When he used up all his wind copper, Little Fatty could not help but to exit from close door cultivation. He could not wait to find a place with beautiful scenery to enjoy his barbecued eyeless fish and spiritual mushroom to reward himself.

But before he had time to do anything else, a purple light flashed past and Hong Ying appeared in front of him with her Wing Piercing Tiger and said excitedly, “Fatty bro, you are finally out. Quickly follow me, they are about to leave!” As she said that, she pulled Little Fatty along with her before even waiting for a reply.

Helpless, Little Fatty could only take out his own Wing Piercing Tiger to fly on his own.

When they were flying, Little Fatty couldn’t help but ask in doubt, “Junior sister, where are we going?”

“We’re going to hunt for demonic beasts!” Hong Ying exclaimed with a face full of excitement, “I definitely have to get some big returns this time!”

“Hunt demonic beasts?” It was something that Little Fatty would have never guessed. Only after Hong Ying explained everything to him did he understand what was going on.

As the hunt for the Mystical Spiritual Fruit drew closer, the cultivators of the upper echelons were afraid that the combat experience of their inner court elites was insufficient and would suffer in the hands of the other cultivators. Thus, they thought of an idea which was to allow them to hunt for demonic beasts in the nearby areas of the Mystical Sky Yard.

It must be understood that the inner court elites are people who were heavily protected and would not take up missions like the outer court disciples. All of their resources required for cultivation would be directly issued from the sect. Thus, the combat experiences of the inner court disciples were extremely little. Apart from sparing with their fellow sect mates, they almost never came across any bloodshed.

However, this hunt for the Mystical Spiritual Fruit involves the disciples from many different sects, including those from the devil’s path. They were sc.u.ms who would kill without even batting an eyelid. In comparison, the inner court disciples of the Mystical Sky Yard were like flowers in the greenhouse. If they were to face them in such a condition, they would definitely lose out greatly. Thus, there was such an exercise for them to hunt for demonic beasts. In actual fact, this was just for them to experience actual combat and be familiar with the atmosphere of death.

Of course, the sect would not throw these disciples to a place within the Vast Mountains where dangers lurked everywhere. They purposefully picked out a relatively safe place where the strongest demonic beast they would face would be around 4th grade which the inner court elites would be able to take care of. Apart from that, there were foundational stage inner court disciples to be their nannies in the case of any mishaps.

Before they finished their conversation, Little Fatty and Hong Ying arrived at the gathering point.

The Wing Piercing Tiger was indeed too eye catching. As the both of them appeared side by side, everyone’s eyes were immediately drawn to them. Despite them being inner court elites, they could not conceal their eyes of envy.

Little Fatty knew that he was considered an outsider and did not want to attract any trouble. Thus, he kept his Wing Piercing Tiger and hid in a corner the moment he landed.

As for Hong Ying, she entered the pavilion and was immediately surrounded by a bunch of people as though she was a superstar. Although she didn’t like these bootlickers, but since they were all from the same sect, she could not be too cold towards them and could only helplessly entertain them.

Little Fatty was naturally incapable of helping. He only hid in a corner and silently watched everything happening in the pavilion.

There was a total of 10 disciples partic.i.p.ating in the hunt for the Mystical Spiritual Fruit. All but Shui Jing were present today. They very naturally split into two different groups. First was the group of inner court elites who surrounded Hong Ying and those two shameless fools, Little White Dragon and Peerless Sword Deity. As for the other group, it was Little Fatty alone. It was obvious that he was completely ostracised after he defeated Mu Zi Rong and s.n.a.t.c.hed her spot.

Little Fatty was completely indifferent towards this and was completely focused on the leaders of this exercise, the two foundational stage cultivators. They were both dressed in green and carried a flying sword on their backs. Looking at them, they didn’t seem to be old and were well-known figures within the inner courts. They probably even had a magical artifact with them. Obviously, with the both of them present, this would definitely be a safe trip as long as no unforeseen circ.u.mstances occur.

Suddenly the two foundational cultivators felt the time change and stood up saying to the crowd, “My fellow juniors, it isn’t early anymore and everyone is here. Shall we leave?”