Chapter 166 - The Yang Family (2/2)
“Master, we’ve been spotted!”
Su Mo gave Zhou Donghuang a grave look and said, “Those two men were not normal hoodlums. One belonged to the Yang family. Half a year ago, when we came to the capital here in Shenguang, that person I fought and struck down was the Yang family’s eighth elder.
“I don’t know how the Yang family found out our whereabouts, but it turns out they have been watching us since then.
“However, the strongest in the Yang family is only a Connate-stage adept, nothing to worry about at all.”
Having said that, Su Mo paused, and then continued with fear in his eyes, “But the other person was a senior member belonging to the black market, a member of the Divine Light sect, one of the seventeenth elder Liu Xuanyu’s men. Over half a year ago, he wanted to capture me in exchange for a thousand spirit stones and space rings.
“I never expected that he would actually manage to find me.”
Su Mo continued gravely, “Even if you and I, being early Primal Core adepts, worked together, we would still be no match for him.
“I just questioned that man sent by Liu Xuanyu. Liu Xuanyu did not dare enter the Yuntai Inn to face me since Yuntai is an establishment under the control of the sixth elder of the Divine Light sect. Liu Xuanyu is the acting seventeenth elder of the Divine Light sect. He belongs to a different camp than the boss of the Yuntai Inn, so he wouldn’t want to start any trouble.
“Master, do you think we had better return to the inn and hide for some time? We can wait until you achieve the mid-rank level of Primal Core, and then we can stop hiding.”
Being that the adept in question was a mid Primal Core adept, it was natural that Su Mo was frightened.
“That won’t be necessary.”
In contrast to Su Mo’s fearfulness, Zhou Donghuang was calm and at ease, “If that measly mid Primal Core adept wants to commit suicide, I have no problem helping him go down that road!”
As his words faded, a voracious gleam flashed across Zhou Donghuang’s eyes.
As Zhou Donghuang’s words reached Su Mo’s ears, he once again felt a quiver in his body. While he felt Zhou Donghuang’s words were incredible, his face recovered its original color at once, and he was no longer fearful of that seventeenth elder, Liu Xuanyu.
Of course, his heart was like a raging and stormy ocean.
How could his master be unafraid of even a mid-ranking Primal Core master within the short space of six months?
In truth, in terms of Primal Core mastery, that sword his master wielded possessed no great, intimidating power at all.
In other words, this meant that his master must have some card up his sleeve.
“Master, um… do you intend to buy medicine?”
As they walked down the street, Su Mo realized that his master went straight ahead, neglecting every herbal medicine shop, until he finally entered one particular apothecary. His master wanted to buy medicine, but did he want to buy them to use as plain medicine or core drugs to refine spiritual energy?!
Primal Core adepts could use inner Yuan to cultivate Samadhi fire to refine their spiritual cores.
If an ordinary person had just reached the Primal Core Stage, he would not imagine that his opponent would have the ability to refine core drugs. After all, refining core drugs required skill, extensive study, and accumulation of qi.
Still, only half a year ago, his master could successfully create qi-gathering elixirs, so even if he could directly refine spiritual core drugs while in the Primal Core stage, Su Mo would not think it extraordinary in the least.
“Are you going to a core-forging master who sells the furnace you’ll need to use?”
After buying a large batch of medicinal materials, Zhou Donghuang spoke to the shopkeeper of the medicine shop and got straight to the point.
“Sir, within the capital, there are no medicinal shops selling furnaces. If you want core furnaces, try looking in weaponry shops. For the most part, public weapons shops carry core furnaces for sale,” the shopkeeper of the medicinal shop said.
“Understood.” Zhou Donghuang nodded.
As Su Mo gave a pile of gold notes to the shopkeeper, his chest quaked violently, and it took a long time for it to return to normal.
Although he had guessed it beforehand, actually hearing the young master say he wanted a core furnace struck fear in him. Could his master really refine core drugs upon entering the Primal Core stage?
“It seems that my master could very well be the reincarnation of some extraordinary freak of nature,” Su Mo then secretly thought. “Or perhaps… a strong, Primordial Soul has taken possession of him? Those martial adepts who have reached the Divine Essence stage are said to be able to shed their mortal bodies and take over those of other people. Afterward, the bodies of those who are supplanted are reborn with a new capacity and rank.”
Although Su Mo had killed the Yang family’s man who had been following them, their whereabouts had still been pinpointed by them.
The two left the herbal medicine shop but had not gotten far when they were stopped by a group of passers-by.
The man in front was an old man wearing a blue robe. There were also several other people standing behind him, all glaring menacingly at Zhou Donghuang and Su Mo.
“You two! I am the fourth elder of the Yang family, Yang Zhui. The head of our family requests that you come for a meeting at the Yang residence.” The old man in the blue robe stared at both of them with a grave expression as he spoke.
“You…” At that moment, Su Mo broke into scathing laughter, ready to cut down the man in front of him and resolve the situation. Zhou Donghuang cut in, interrupting his words, “Since they are showing such great kindness in inviting us, let’s go with them.”