Chapter 40: Nightmare (1/2)
Chapter 40: Nightmare
Upon opening his eyes, Su Chen saw that it was already light out.
A night of beautiful dreams!
Within the Dreamrealm, Su Chen was unable find the answers that he was looking for. Too few people were taking the path that he was, and he could only rely on himself to answer his own questions.
After coming out empty-handed, Su Chen cultivated for a bit within the Dreamrealm. He also crammed for the studies that he had neglected, particularly the Origin Energy Bullets and Whitetower Teleportation. He had learned these two Origin Skills quite a long time ago, but he had never familiarized himself with them because of the lack of time.
If he had a higher mastery of the Whitetower Teleportation earlier, perhaps clearing the sixth room wouldn’t have been as much of a hassle.
Of course, Su Chen wouldn’t look back on things that had already happened. Every lesson he had learned was extremely valuable.
An entire night of cultivation had allowed Su Chen’s Ancient Arcana Techniques to improve by leaps and bounds. The Dreamrealm was truly a good place for cultivating not only his Ancient Arcana Techniques, but also his calculations and the various experiments he wanted to perform. It had basically doubled the amount of time he could use.
From this day onwards, Su Chen would attend classes and cultivate his contemporary Origin Skills during the day. At night, he would enter the Dreamrealm to practice Ancient Arcana Techniques.
Another half of a month went by. The five chief stewards had finally pooled together enough money.
The delivery of 250,000 Origin Stones greatly improved Su Chen’s mood.
He could now buy large quantities of ingredients again.
However, there was always a hidden sense of unwillingness that came with giving up experimental subjects.
Whatever. In any case, he had pretty much done everything he could to their bodies, and if he lost them, that was that. Shi Kaihuang was worried that Su Chen would sink into a vicious cycle of experimenting on humans; thus, Su Chen decided to live quietly for a period of time to demonstrate to Shi Kaihuang that he wasn’t obsessed.
Only by thinking in such a way was Su Chen able to resign himself to part with his beloved experimental subjects.
The exchange was set to be in a small forest in the Falling Eagle Mountain – since Su Chen had captured them from the outside, the exchange naturally couldn’t take place within the tower.
The five chief stewards were late to the exchange. By the time they arrived at the agreed-upon location, they found Bai Ou and the others sitting dumbly on a large stone.
They originally thought that when Bai Ou and the others saw them, they would react with excitement and even curse them out for waiting so long to save them. Unexpectedly, the five Young Masters didn’t even seem to react upon seeing their chief stewards.
Their gazes were confused and lackluster. There was no anticipation or excitement that their chief stewards were there. They tilted their heads upwards before turning to gaze elsewhere.
“Young Master!”
The five chief stewards charged forwards as they yelled, each grabbing hold of their own clan’s Young Master.
“Young Master, what’s happened to you?” the Yu Clan’s Chief Steward hugged Yu Zhen as he yelled.
Yu Zhen glanced at him expressionlessly before continuing to sit there in a daze.
The other four were in a similar condition.
Chief Steward Yu howled in rage, “Su Chen, get out here! What did you do to our clans’ Young Masters?”
“Don’t get so excited. They were just knocked around a little bit, so they are behaving apathetically. Give it a few days and they should be back to normal.” Su Chen appeared in front of them as he spoke with a gentle smile, holding a small pendant in his hand.
The chief stewards turned their furious gazes on Su Chen. Chief Steward Bai said in a low voice, “Su Chen, we will be the ones to determine what you’ve done to our clans’ Young Masters. One day or another, those torments will land upon your own head!”
“Is this how you begin your negotiations?” Su Chen replied carelessly. “Indeed, the slave bears the same temperament as the master.”
“So what? Su Chen, are you going to try to take them back with you right in front of our faces?” Chief Steward Zhang harrumphed.
In truth, as chief stewards of Bloodline Nobility Clans, they all had quite high cultivation bases. Each one of them was a Qi Drawing Realm cultivator who had awakened their bloodline. Su Chen was alone facing ten of them. Even if their Young Masters were unable to make a move, the chief stewards were confident that they could defeat Su Chen in a five-on-one battle. The reason why they had arrived late was because they had scouted out the surroundings beforehand to prevent Su Chen from trying anything funny. Only after determining that there was no additional setup did they appear.