Chapter 173 – Taisi (1/2)

Note: Regular Chapter 2/7

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Chapter 173 - Taisi

The Magi Palace had strict rules, therefore, the bell wouldn’t have ringed for no reason, and every single ring of the bell had its special meaning.

This time, the bell ringed nine times in a row, which meant that the administrators of the Magi Palace were calling all the apprentices under Senior-level of the Magi Palace, to gather in a particular place. During the past big half of a year, Ji Hao had been through quite a few times of these kind of things, and he had learned that these kinds of gatherings were either for distributing welfares to apprentices, or the Magi Palace needed to select some apprentices to go out and carry out certain tasks.

For welfares, Ji Hao didn’t care that much, after all, he was allowed to use all of the resources possessed by the Magi Palace.

As for tasks, Ji Hao was currently working on how to control the variation of temperatures and conditions of the quenching liquid with magic formations, with Mi Qingkong and Kuafu Yan, in order to improve the quality of magic tools at the moment of quenching. This was an extremely complicated and tedious study, requiring lots of research and experiments. This study had already been put on records by the elders of the Magi Palace, so Ji Hao didn’t need to worry about being selected to carry out a task.

However, since the bell had ringed, due to the strict rules of the Magi Palace, whatever Ji Hao had been doing at the moment, he had to get to the gathering spot at his highest speed, as long as he still was an apprentice of the Magi Palace. The elders of the Magi Palace were willing to break rules on some important and special affairs, but in terms of these basic rules and disciplines, even high-level members like Si Wen Ming were not allowed any exception.

With the pair of glowing fiery wings shaking intensely behind his body, Ji Hao fleetingly darted in the Magi Palace along the Gui Road with large pieces of afterimages behind him.

After having taken large amounts of supportive magical medicines daily for a big half year, all 129600 meridians inside Ji Hao’s body were now glowing with bright fiery lights. Each of these meridians were shining like fire essence crystals; his internal power, which was now greater than his fellow Junior Magi by three-hundred times, supported him to fly at an amazingly high speed. On the Gui road, where Ji Hao had flown past, other apprentices who had also been rushing towards the gathering spot, were all shocked by his speed.

Followed by shreds of afterimages, Ji Hao swept across the Gui Road like a stream of raging fire.

On a branch path, two elders of the Magi Palace, who were wearing black clothes, and whose hands were hidden in the sleeves of their clothes and pupils were shining with cold light, were staring at Ji Hao with cold and bland faces. Another elderly man in cyan gown stood aside, continuously rubbing his own hands together; from his huge and seemingly powerful hands, blue veins popped out one after another, letting out muffled popping sounds.

“This kid is pretty good huh, during the past half year, those old men have been seeing him as a treasure.” One of the elderly men with black clothes said in a low voice while his eyes narrowed, “This is intolerable, we can’t allow this.”

The elderly man in cyan gown murmured with half closed eyes, “Old Hook Snake, old Henggong fish, this kid is valued by Si Wen Ming. I am not stupid enough to go against Si Wen Ming, just for helping you.”

The other elderly man in black clothes grinned, then responded slowly, “Old Bird, this kid is one of the Southern Wasteland Clans, the Gold Crow Clan clansman. You have been dealing with your own business outside of the Magi Palace for the last few days, so I assume that you haven’t yet heard about this.”

The elderly man in cyan gown raised his eyebrows and slowly straightened his body. Bone creaking sounds came from out his body, along with which, his body became tall and straight, with wide shoulders and thin waist, looking especially sturdy and powerful; more astonishingly, his arms were abnormally long, all his fingertips were reaching till under his knees.

“Hm, a little kid from the Gold Crow Clan. How many years has it been since the last time they had a clansman been selected to join the Magi Palace?” sneered and said the elderly man in a cyan gown, while a beam of arrow-shadow-like light flashed across his pupils.

An elderly man in black clothes then said blandly, “This Ji Hao is quite amazing. Within only a half year, he has gained the favours of all those old men. Whether it is because of his good luck, or he actually has such great talent, at least, the old mediciner, the old blacksmith and a few other, have indeed solved quite a few bottleneck problems after they began tutoring this kid.”

“Bottleneck problems? What kind of bottleneck problems?” the elderly man in cyan gown raised his eyebrows again in surprise.

“Such as, the old blacksmith suddenly completed a peak-Divine-Level precious magic treasure,” answered the elderly man in black clothes. The elderly man in cyan gown frowned when he heard this.