Chapter 432: Why So?
Elder Shen was desperate. What could he do? What was he supposed to do?
The Twelve Spirit Gate Sword was severed, and his newly forged, tougher Twelve Heaven Gate Thorns were also cut!
With two consecutive damages to his artifacts, he completely lost confidence in them.
“Use spells!”
Elder Shen immediately changed his strategy, manipulating his spell in his hand, layer upon layer of shields tightly enveloping him. After feeling a hint of safety, Elder Shen finally launched an attack on Su Hao.
He manipulated the spell, fingers raised, a gust of wind surged in an instant, one after another azure arcs appearing in front of him, more and more, irregularly rotating, gradually forming a small storm.
Elder Shen shouted, “Sword Dance!”
Pointing forward with his raised fingers, the sword tornado rushed towards Su Hao at an extremely fast speed.
As for whether it would destroy the surrounding spirit grass, Elder Shen no longer cared so much; he wanted to drive this armored person away as soon as possible.
Su Hao glanced at the small sword tornado, placing a layer of ‘positive space module’ as a barrier in front of him, then behind Elder Shen, he arranged a ‘negative space module’.
Almost in the blink of an eye, before the sword tornado reached Su Hao, to Elder Shen’s incredulous gaze, his spell ‘Sword Dance’ disappeared into thin air.
“What?”
Before he could react, feeling something abnormal behind him, he subconsciously turned around, suddenly frightened!
His ‘Sword Dance’ had somehow appeared behind him, engulfing his entire person before he could react. A large number of azure sharp sword blades cut back and forth on his shield, emitting a piercing whine!
“Boom! Boom!”
Under the mighty spell’s cuts, his shield was broken through three layers, only stopping at the fourth layer.
The ‘Sword Dance’ slowly dissipated, revealing Elder Shen’s pale face. He still had various powerful spells, but now he couldn’t use any of them!
How should he fight this? Charge in for close combat? Why hasn’t the Sect Master’s senior come yet?
Elder Shen looked at the long knife glowing with a blue light in Su Hao’s hand, not believing he could withstand a single blow from the Crystal Armored Man.
Now, the diligent figure of the Crystal Armored Man harvesting…
Elder Shen stared for a moment, then sighed deeply, “Well, at least some can still be left! These years of nurturing spirit grass… let’s just forget about nurturing so many!”
“Swoosh! Swoosh!”
As Ling Xuan, the Sect Master, did not come, other Nascent Soul cultivators within the sect were alerted by Elder Shen’s actions and rushed over.
Five Nascent Soul cultivators stopped at Elder Shen’s sides. Some asked what was going on, some saw Su Hao harvesting spirit grass, yelled ‘Crystal Armored Man,’ and then launched attacks with their artifacts. The scene became extremely lively for a moment.
However, Su Hao was focused on his own affairs, ignoring them all. When artifacts flew over, he cut them all with a single slash; when spells came, he sent them back with spatial barriers.
One Nascent Soul cultivator couldn’t stand Su Hao’s indifferent attitude, so he used a large-scale attack spell. For a moment, black smoke pervaded the valley, obscuring everyone’s vision. Within the black smoke, invisible qi appeared and disappeared, churning the smoke continuously.
Elder Shen was stunned at first, then seeing the black smoke quickly eroding the shield protecting the medicinal field, about to spread to the spirit grass and spirit flowers, he exclaimed in horror, “Stop, stop quickly, Elder Eight! You can’t ruin these precious spirit medicines like this!”
Elder Shen saw Elder Eight’s calm expression, waved his hand, and the black smoke surged faster, invisible qi ravaging around Su Hao, and many spirit grass and flowers were broken and thrown into the air. Elder Shen immediately shouted, “Elder Eight, your share of elixirs for the next five years is gone!”
Elder Eight’s spell was frozen in his hand, and the black smoke dissipated quickly.
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Compared to Elder Shen’s helplessness, Sect Master Ling Xuan was even more conflicted!
When Su Hao appeared in the Medicine Valley, he had sensed Su Hao’s spiritual power with his divine sense, but he didn’t have the idea of directly rushing out to trouble Su Hao.
Because he vaguely guessed Su Hao’s abilities, he didn’t dare to go. He was afraid that once he left this place, the Crystal Armored Man would immediately appear in the warehouse and empty the remaining spirit stones!
Spirit stones were the lifeline of the big immortals. If they lost the spirit stones, the protective mist array of the mountain would lose its effect completely, and their Sanhe Peaks would become like naked young girls, open to observation and coming and going.
This was extremely fatal to a big immortal sect!
In other words, between spirit stones and spirit medicines, he could only choose spirit stones.
But really, it was hard to accept! He had lived for more than nine hundred years, and he had never felt so frustrated before! To make such a choice of either/or in his own headquarters!
“This Crystal Armored Man, only a Golden Core cultivator in divine sense perception, where did he come from! I’ve never heard of such a character in the cultivation world, freely using ‘shrinking into inches.’ If the other party wants to leave, even if it’s an Unity Realm cultivator, there’s nothing we can do to stop him… Perhaps, setting up a trap to lure him out, and before he reacts, kill him instantly!”
Ling Xuan sat cross-legged on the ground, his thoughts racing, his divine sense firmly locking onto the Golden Core cultivator far away in the Medicine Valley, pondering how to kill this extremely arrogant Crystal Armored Man.
Although his body was sitting cross-legged, there was not a single thought of getting up.
“First, protect the spirit stones! As for the Crystal Armored Man? Anything he swallows, he’ll have to double back!”
On the other side, Su Hao, seeing that the Unity Realm cultivator hadn’t made a move, felt relieved and focused on his own affairs.
As for the several Nascent Soul cultivators hovering in the distant sky, Su Hao couldn’t be bothered. If they dared to use artifacts against him, he would cut them all with a single slash. If they dared to use spells against him, he would send the spells back. If they used large-scale attack spells, he would protect himself with spatial barriers to ensure his safety.
And his movements never stopped.
Before long, all the precious spirit grass in the entire medicinal field had been dug up by Su Hao, each variety of grass being sent into his storage space.
He didn’t need much; just a small piece of each kind of herb. If the spirit grass was already scarce, Su Hao would even control the quantity and leave some behind. This was like leaving behind seeds; if he couldn’t cultivate them himself, he could come back here and transplant a few.
However, with Su Hao’s mastery of cellular cultivation technology, there was almost no risk of not being able to cultivate them; it was just a precaution.
After moving the last piece of grass from the medicinal field into his storage space, the entire field’s vibrant colors dimmed, turning into a dull gray.
“It’s time to go!”
Thinking of this, Su Hao immediately teleported sixty thousand meters away from the Elemental Constellation Sanhe Peaks.
“The purpose of this trip to Sanhe Peaks has been achieved, and the harvest is even greater than expected, with a bunch of spirit stones! Should I go back directly now?”
Thinking of this, Su Hao hesitated slightly. After teleporting back to his storage space, he took stock of all the elixirs he had collected earlier.
He thought to himself, “Although the elixirs harvested this time are much more than in the Gao Yan Divine Cave, they’re only enough for me to use for three months. To reach the peak of Golden Core, I’m still far away. Since I’m already out, wouldn’t it be better to borrow enough quantity in one go?”
Without further hesitation, Su Hao teleported back to the teleportation stone outside the Elemental Constellation Sanhe Peaks, scanning the entire peak with his radar. He found that the group of Nascent Soul cultivators were all gathered in the warehouse, apparently discussing something with the combined realm cultivator.
Su Hao was about to leave, but he stopped in his tracks. “Such a big immortal sect must have many books. Why not collect them all at once? Although I don’t have time to read them now, there will be plenty of time in the future. You can never have too much information and books!”
“Little Light, mark the suspected locations of the book depository.”
“Little Light received.”
In the blink of an eye, many large and small red circles appeared in Su Hao’s perception. When Su Hao sensed that no one was around, he directly teleported into the largest red circle.
As soon as Su Hao appeared, his eyes lit up. “This is indeed the library! Let’s collect the books first!”
Meanwhile, thousands of meters away, Ling Xuan immediately sensed Su Hao’s spiritual power fluctuation. His scholarly demeanor collapsed instantly, his eyes bloodshot, gnashing his teeth as he cursed, “Shameless scoundrel, despicable thief, you’ve gone too far! I won’t tolerate you. I’ll tear you apart into ten thousand pieces…”
The six Nascent Soul cultivators looked at each other, watching their Sect Master cursing furiously, not knowing what had happened.
Elder Shen, on the other hand, felt a sense of balance in his heart. “It seems that the Sect Master has sensed that Crystal Armored Man messing around. Huh! Now it’s not just me suffering…
For some reason, the long-held pent-up frustration had eased. This mindset was really not good; they were all fellow brothers in the same sect, so why be like this…”
