Fang Han had long guessed that the child-like voice belonged to "Star Cloud Baby". That day, he had saved his life underground, and with the help of his "Sun, Moon, and Five Stars Bracelet", Fang Han had cultivated to the Divine Ability Secret Realm. Unexpectedly, he received his full support today. This boy was the son of the supreme head-teacher of the Qunxing Sect, so the wealth he possessed was naturally inconceivable.
However, Fang Han felt somewhat puzzled in his heart. Why did Star Cloud Baby recognize him?
He was using the "Sea Mirage Qigong" to change his appearance. Could it be that he received guidance from a superior expert to approach him?
"Big Brother Fang Leng, long time no see. Since we've bought the 'Great Brahma Light Ship', how about we go somewhere else to chat?" Star Cloud Baby blinked his eyes.
"Since the young master of the Qunxing Sect is willing to pay the bill for fellow Daoist Fang Leng, that is naturally secure." Venerable Gu Meng took the crystal card, checked the amount, knew it was perfectly accurate, and nodded. "Fellow Daoist Fang Leng, about you inviting this old man to protect your dharma…"
"That condition naturally counts. In a few days, I will come to the Tiandao Pavilion and invite Senior Gu Meng once at the price of one hundred thousand Nascent Soul Pills. How about it?" One hundred thousand Nascent Soul Pills equaled ten million standard pills. Calculated at double the price, it would be even more, a shockingly massive sum.
"Are these words true?" A look of joy appeared on Venerable Gu Meng's face. "To tell you the truth, this old man is cultivating a profound art that requires a massive amount of origin energy every day to temper magic power. Baiyang Pills are simply not enough, and Nascent Soul Pills must be purchased from the Taiyi Sect. If fellow Daoist truly possesses endless Nascent Soul Pills, then this old man would not hesitate to exchange magical treasures for them."
"I will definitely visit you concerning this matter in a few days." Fang Han stood up and spoke to the two great fairies of Linglong Blessed Land, Piaoyun and Lianyun, "In a few days, I will also pay a visit and invite Fairy Lianyun to lend a hand. To tell you the truth, recently I have been hunted by a mysterious expert and need someone to escort and protect me. As for the price of inviting the Fairy to act, how about also a massive amount of Nascent Soul Pills?"
"That is natural. I will be at the Linglong Pagoda waiting for fellow Daoist's esteemed arrival anytime." Fairy Lianyun thought for a moment; it was indeed tempting and could not be refused.
"Alright, then I will take my leave first."
Fang Han got up and left. Together with "Star Cloud Baby", he walked out of the "Tiandao Pavilion", flew up into the sky with a swish, entered the clouds, and then used the "Sea Mirage Qigong" to conceal his physical form.
"Big Brother Fang Han, your divine abilities are truly too formidable! I can't believe that after a mere year, you've cultivated to the Heaven and Human Realm. Meanwhile, I just mastered my Gang Qi to great completion and am stuck on the path of comprehending Yin and Yang." Viewing Fang Han displaying his divine abilities, Star Cloud Baby couldn't help but clap his little hands.
"Star Cloud Baby, how did you know it was me? And how do you have such a massive sum of money? Spending nearly three hundred million pills at once, I'm afraid if your father and mother find out, they won't spare you and will punish you heavily!" Looking at Star Cloud Baby, Fang Han voiced a series of questions in his heart.
Star Cloud Baby spent thirty million pills buying the "Nine Heavens Breathing Earth Crystal" and two hundred and sixty-one million buying the "Great Brahma Light Ship" for him. Added together, it was nearly three hundred million pills! For colossal entities like the Ten Sects of the Immortal Dao, this was an extraordinary massive sum. For Star Cloud Baby to spend it just like that was indeed shocking. As the young master of a sect, doing this would inevitably result in severe punishment! Otherwise, how could the sect submit?
"This time I came out, my father told me to travel. He said that the 'Future constellation Great Magic' I cultivated has reached a bottleneck. However, the money you mentioned is a troublesome matter. This time I came out, my father asked me to withdraw three hundred million pills and take them back to the sect's pill room to store. He said there should be some changes in heaven and earth recently, and instructed the sect disciples to step up their cultivation. Because I saw Big Brother urgently wanting to buy treasures, I spent it. But Big Brother, you have immense divine abilities; since you dared to borrow, you can certainly pay it back!" Star Cloud Baby touched his head with his chubby hand.
"Future Constellation Great Magic? This is a supreme divine ability. To think it was cultivated to the third realm of Divine Ability, the Gang Qi Realm, by you so quickly! I don't know how much effort the head-teacher of the Qunxing Sect put into you. Especially this bracelet, it actually turned into a Dao Artifact? Truly… If I swallowed it down, I'm afraid…"
"Yan" muttered inside the Yellow Spring Diagram.
Understanding the implication, Fang Han asked, "Star Cloud Baby, this Sun, Moon, and Five Stars Bracelet of yours has actually been refined into a Dao Artifact. No wonder the people of the Tiandao Pavilion were so polite to you."
"This bracelet?" Star Cloud Baby shook the bracelet on his wrist, and patches of starlight rippled. "After I went back that time, I comprehended the Divine Ability Secret Realm. Then my father took the bracelet back, and together with several supreme elders of our sect, inside the space-time of the Tomb of Stars where one year is turned into a hundred and eighty years, they used their lifeblood immortal qi to absorb the immortal realm's Pure Yang to condense it for three sixty-year cycles before causing it to transform into a Dao Artifact. It is an item for me to use for self-defense against enemies and to protect my life in the future."
"Mm, it is sinister outside now. With this Dao Artifact for self-defense, you are much safer. However, you lent all three hundred million pills to me. Of course, I must solve this matter for you. When the time comes, I will accompany you back to the Qunxing Sect and repay with Nascent Soul Pills. Presumably, not only will the sect elders not blame you, but they will also cheer and jump for joy."
Fang Han knew that Star Cloud Baby had embezzled three hundred million pills for him. If the deficit was not filled, the consequences would be extremely bad.
"Yes, my father and several major elders of the sect instructing me this time was also to use these three hundred million pills to purchase Nascent Soul Pills. To test my ability, so as to arrange the position of sect leader in the future. My father might retire to become a supreme elder after a few hundred years to cultivate supreme great magic, having no energy to manage sect affairs. And within our Qunxing Sect, many senior brothers are glaring covetously at the position of sect leader." Star Cloud Baby pouted and said, "Although I am not interested in being the sect leader, I don't like those few tyrannical and domineering senior brothers."
"Rest assured! With me here, the position of sect leader of the Qunxing Sect won't escape you!" A thought suddenly stirred in Fang Han's mind; he naturally knew the fierce struggles within a sect.
Although Star Cloud Baby's father was the head-teacher of the Qunxing Sect, the entire Qunxing Sect was not his alone. Who the future sect leader would be was still uncertain.
Take the Yuhua Sect for example. If Feng Baiyu had a son, and Feng Baiyu retired to cultivate the Dao of Immortality in the near future, the one to become sect leader would be Hua Tiandu, not his son.
The rule of the various immortal dao sects was that the position of sect leader was chosen from among the true legacy disciples. It was not chosen from among the elders. After Feng Baiyu retired, the Heaven Punishment Elder would not inherit the position of sect leader. This was to prevent elders from fighting for power, forming cliques, and throwing the sect into chaos. It also served to make the true legacy disciples strive upward.
Right now, Fang Han could also become an elder and enter the "Yuhua Heavenly Palace". Looked at that way, the treatment might be better than being a true legacy disciple, but he would forever lose the qualification to become the sect leader.
To make an analogy, the true legacy disciples were like a group of royal descendants, while the elders were the civil and military ministers, imperial veterans, and marshals of soldiers and horses.
The treatment of true legacy disciples was not as good as that of elders, nor did they live in luxury like the elders. For some dangerous missions, the true legacy disciples were considered first to execute them, because the sect needed to temper them to make them highly useful. Some true legacy disciples who had no ambitions and solely wished to cultivate in peace could also abandon their position and become elders.
Therefore, there were only over a hundred true legacy disciples in the Yuhua Sect now, whereas the number of elders far exceeded this.
If in the future, Star Cloud Baby could not become the sect leader and someone else became the sect leader, his status would be nowhere near as glorious as it was now. Nor would it be possible for him to have the qualification to embezzle three hundred million pills at once. Even this time, if he returned empty-handed having embezzled three hundred million pills, he would be attacked by many people, and the head-teacher of the Qunxing Sect could not shield him.
But if he brought back a massive amount of Nascent Soul Pills this time, people would have to look at him in a new light. Many elders would admire him, laying a solid foundation for him to become the sect leader in the future.
Regarding these matters, Fang Han's mind was as clear as a mirror.
"Star Cloud Baby possesses a Dao Artifact in his hand, and I also have a Dao Artifact. If the two of us join hands, plus that Venerable Gu Meng and Fairy Lianyun setting up an ambush beforehand, I'm afraid we can instantly kill the three mysterious Golden Core experts! Eliminating the hidden danger."
"Not bad, not bad. Very not bad. Promising, very promising." Right at this moment, the white cloud where Fang Han was hiding was suddenly torn apart by a sword light. A white-clothed youth proudly walked in from the split in the white cloud, looking around at Fang Han and Star Cloud Baby: "I already knew our Yuhua Sect produced another peerless genius! Obtaining the legacy of the Demonic Sect's Great Emperor of the Yellow Spring, possessing the Yellow Spring Diagram. Furthermore capable of refining Nascent Soul Pills, distributing them everywhere in the sect to buy people's hearts and scheme for the grand position of sect leader. Now even wanting to infiltrate the Qunxing Sect, truly formidable. Hua Tiandu has the treacherousness of mountains and rivers in his heart, and the depth of a deep city in his chest, yet he cannot compare to your cunning. Good! Good! Very good!"
Fang Han was startled!
In the numerous white clouds in the sky, he had found a place to talk, first using the "Sea Mirage Qigong" to create an illusion, then using the water qi of the Black Emperor Water Sovereign Fist to seal it. Within it, some divine abilities of the "Ice and Snow Boundary" were also hidden, and even more formidably, the transforming illusions of reality and falsehood of the "Linglong Great Da Luo Heaven".
With such a deployment, if a Heaven and Human Realm expert accidentally entered this white cloud, they would be trapped inside and unable to get out. Even Golden Core experts would have to use brute force to break it.
But that white-clothed youth broke open a gap and walked in with a simple strike of his sword, looking much like pushing open the door to his own house, doing it with ease. It was truly formidable to the extreme.
Even more formidable was that the other party came completely clean beforehand, and Fang Han actually didn't sense anything at all.
This white-clothed youth was naturally none other than Meng Shaobai!
"Fang Han, I originally planned to go find you during the sect's Mountain and River Ranking Tournament, but I didn't expect to see you at this Treasure Selling Conference and be played by you for a bit. However, today I must test exactly how your divine abilities are! To see what level of formidable power this Demonic Dao legacy and immortal-demonic dual cultivation you've obtained has reached. Reveal your Dao Artifact! That demonic sabre Blood Heavenly Firmament? Also the Yellow Spring Diagram. If you don't reveal these two Dao Artifacts, you won't be my match."
Meng Shaobai spoke quietly, then looked at Star Cloud Baby, "You actually spent two hundred and sixty million pills and disrupted my plan to buy the Great Brahma Light Ship. I must teach you a lesson as well. Lest you rely on your father's power and commit outrages everywhere. Come at me together!"