Chapter 206: The Great Luo’s Pursuit Reveals an Immortal’s Trace

“Damn it! What kind of bastard rule is this?” Xing cursed with dissatisfaction. “The senior who created this supreme art, did he get his head squeezed in a door?”

“You should just focus on cultivating the Dragon Demon Golden Body…” Qin Haoxuan said, patting his shoulder again. “When we get back to the Taichu Sect, I will try to ask my Master. If he agrees to accept you as a disciple and imparts an orthodox Daoist art to you, then I will teach you the Dao Heart Seed Demon Art…”

“Our Master, what are his hobbies?” Xing’s two eyes lit up as he sidled up to Qin Haoxuan, looking like a complete sycophant. “Tell me, tell me… I wonder if our Master likes beautiful women? If he does, on the way back, I’ll knock a few out and bring them to him…”

“Get lost…” Qin Haoxuan turned and walked away.

“Don’t be like that… Senior Brother? Senior Brother Qin? Don’t walk so fast… We all just want to show our filial piety to our Master, don’t you think?”

Xing followed behind him, continuing his shamelessness. Finally, realizing he couldn’t get anything more out of him, he turned and went to study the Dragon Demon Golden Body. After all, although he had learned many top-tier secret arts, there was still a bit of a gap compared to the chapters of the Dao Heart Seed Demon Art.

After Xing entered a meditative state, his body rapidly swelled, soon transforming into his demonic form, a faint white mist rising from his body. Qin Haoxuan had seen him cultivate the art many times before. Whenever he did, he would uncontrollably transform into a demon. The Dao Heart Seed Demon Art was truly profound and difficult to understand. It seemed he would have to find a way to return to the sect soon, partly so Xing could become his master’s disciple, and partly so he himself could delve deeper into the essence of the art.

Xing closed his eyes, and a full day passed in meditation. Qin Haoxuan was not idle either. While fiddling with the infusion array for detonating the Talisman Beast, he was also taking stock… Since “Entering the Mortal World,” adding in the spirit stones he had obtained from killing Hao Xiu and Perfected Man Hulu, and subtracting what he had consumed, he still had over five thousand low-grade spirit stones left. For a Tenth-Leaf disciple of an orthodox sect like the Taichu Sect, this was a considerable sum. But for him, it was far from enough.

Late at night, Xing finally opened his eyes and let out a long breath.

“How was your cultivation?” Qin Haoxuan asked with a smile. “Show me!” He was very curious about this legendary protective art.

Xing did not hesitate. His body shook, and an ancient, deep aura emanated from him. The space around his body slightly distorted, and one could even see the airflow become sluggish. But after struggling for a while, the sluggish air still did not form into armor. The first level of the Dragon Demon Golden Body was to materialize the air into a transparent suit of armor. It was clear that he had not even mastered the first level.

He transformed back into his human form, shook his head with a bitter face, and sighed. “I still haven’t mastered the first level.”

But Qin Haoxuan, who was usually the butt of his jokes about being a genius, wasn’t about to let this opportunity slide. “Didn’t you say you were a genius demon? How is it that after so long, you haven’t even succeeded in cultivating the first level?”

Xing rolled his eyes, tilted his head back, and said proudly, “If I let you learn it, you probably wouldn’t even get past the front door in your entire life! If I weren’t injured, I would have learned it in an instant. But even though I haven’t mastered the first level, my defensive ability has greatly increased.”

Qin Haoxuan had seen his defensive power for himself. If not for him blocking that strike from Master Chi Lian, he would have surely been captured.

“Now, even if I face Master Chi Lian, I won’t be as pathetic as last time!” Although he hadn’t mastered the first level, Xing was as confident as ever in his “cultivation talent.”

Qin Haoxuan was already accustomed to his boasting and didn’t want to argue about talent with this king of bull. He changed the subject. “I still have over five thousand spirit stones left. With no way to replenish them, the more I use, the less I’ll have.”

His smile vanished, and he spoke of the problem that had been troubling him all day, staring at Xing with a serious expression.

Xing wrinkled his nose. “I don’t have a way either. If I did, that would be great! By the way, didn’t you ask that mortal general to help you look for spirit stone mines?”

Qin Haoxuan’s eyes lit up. He immediately had a guard summon General Su.

“The stones I asked you to find before, have you found any?”

“Reporting to the High Immortal, this humble general has already sent out scouts to search everywhere, but there are no such ore deposits within a radius of several hundred li… so as of now, we have found nothing,” Su Wu said very carefully, afraid that this result would anger him.

Although Qin Haoxuan was disappointed, he would not take his anger out on him for not being able to find them. After all, spirit stones were extremely precious even to cultivators. If mortals could find them easily, they wouldn’t have become the currency of the cultivation world.

Seeing that Su Wu still wanted to say something, he cut him off. “Alright, that’s all. You may leave.”

The words that had been at the tip of Su Wu’s tongue had to be swallowed back down. Although he was unhappy, he still bowed respectfully and left.

Ever since Qin Haoxuan had escaped, the smile had not returned to Master Chi Lian’s gloomy face. He had burned his own lifespan to cast the Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts, only for the boy to escape in the chaos. Then, with his Spirit Tree Realm speed, he still couldn’t catch him. He had even cast the Great Luo Tracking Art, which he had thought was foolproof, only to lose the trail. How could he not be furious?

However, he knew that anger would not help him find Qin Haoxuan. He took several deep breaths, forced himself to calm down, and began to think about where he could be hiding.

There are only a few possibilities for the tracking art to fail, he reasoned silently. First, his own strength is greater than mine. Second, he is hiding in a place with extremely heavy baleful qi, which is masking the art. Third, he is hiding in a special area, like a place with a strong natural geomagnetic field. The first possibility is obviously impossible. Even his master, Xuanji, is only at the Twenty-Ninth-Leaf.

His eyes slowly narrowed, and a sharp killing intent gleamed within them. “You little bastard, Qin Haoxuan. No matter how you hide, you will die! You will die!”

These past few days, Master Chi Lian had familiarized himself with the terrain within a thousand-li radius. He was shocked to discover that there were more than a dozen places with heavy baleful qi or strong geomagnetic fields. If Qin Haoxuan were hiding in one of them, for him to search for him alone would be like finding a needle in a haystack.

With great decisiveness, he took out several paper cranes, wrote on them, and sent them flying. “Since it’s difficult for me to find him alone, I’ll just find some disciples to help. I don’t believe you can hide for a lifetime!”

In a secluded courtyard in the Ancient Cloud Hall of the Taichu Sect, a middle-aged man who was meditating suddenly opened his eyes. He took the paper crane that had landed on his shoulder, opened it, and frowned. Soon, several other people came to his courtyard.

“Senior Brother Xi,” one of them said, “Master has summoned us to leave the mountain and meet him at all costs. But the sect’s rules are strict. To leave, we must report to the Hall Master, explain the reason, and obtain a token.”

A short, stout, black-faced middle-aged man said, “Yes, and Master has summoned us in such a hurry, but he won’t let us say it was him. We have to come up with our own reason that the Hall Master will accept. This is too difficult.”

The man who had been called Senior Brother Xi, a man with a square face, frowned and thought for a moment. “Let’s not be anxious. We’ll split up and gather information. I’ll go to the Hall of Worldly Affairs and see if there are any recent opportunities for outside training. For old disciples like us who have been in the sect for decades, the chances of getting such an opportunity are greater. If that doesn’t work, then we’ll have to pay a heavy price to bribe the Hall Master and get a token from him.”

It was not easy for a disciple of the Taichu Sect to leave the mountain. Unless one was assigned a mission by the sect, the Hall Master would not easily grant permission. They had to find another way.

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