Heaven Refining physique
Chapter 167: Embedded

Chapter 167: Embedded

"Junior brother, see? I have created the perfect stage for you to fight alone. You must be excited, right? Praise me."

Ming Yue said while looking at Jiang Hao with an innocent face.

Jiang Hao looked at her speechlessly. Now he was really thinking that not teleporting earlier was a mistake, he should have left before.

And wasn’t she going to secure the gift she was giving Yi Lin herself? What was the point of saying she was giving it if it was his responsibility to claim it?

Just as he was thinking this he heard voice of blazing valley disciple again.

"You bitch—"

Before the disciple could finish his words, Jiang Hao appeared in front of him, his hand already covering the face of the Blazing Valley disciple.

Usually, there were a lot of voices around, but right now, there was only pin-drop silence.

"You are too loud. No one here is deaf that they cannot hear you. Since you love the ground so much, I shall fulfill your wish."

Jiang Hao’s grip was like a heavenly prison; the disciple wasn’t even able to tremble his head, much less move, despite applying his full strength.

After speaking, Jiang Hao applied immense strength and brought the disciple’s face to the ground from the side. He moved so fast that the bones in the disciple’s neck shattered into fragments before he even hit the ground.

Thuddddddddddddd!

A small depression appeared on the ground, with the disciple’s face fully embedded into it.

At the Soul Sea Realm, due to the strengthening of the soul, dying from simple flesh injuries was not possible. So even with his neck broken and serious wounds to his face and head, the disciple was still alive, albeit his condition was far from impeccable.

Not to mention, the pain in his head was enough to make him pass out.

Jiang Hao straightened up and looked towards the mound, moving slowly toward it.

No one reacted to this. They were all staring at the disciple from Blazing Valley, whose head was completely buried in the ground while his body remained outside.

This disciple was the strongest among the Blazing Valley disciples and undoubtedly one of the strongest among all present, but looking at his current state, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

Didn’t he look like he had been planted into the ground like a spirit herb?

And how in the heavens could someone whose cultivation realm only showed the early stage of the Soul Sea Realm be this powerful? Since this guy was able to attack the disciple, it was clear that he wasn’t stronger than him in terms of realm.

Forget that, everyone had their eyes on him the entire time, so how did they miss him moving? Was it teleportation?

There were no short-distance teleportation talismans in this world... right? Or was there?

All these thoughts predominated in the minds of the cultivators at that moment. Even when they saw Jiang Hao move to the mound, none of them showed displeasure or said a single word.

Jiang Hao reached the mound and sat down beside the Serene Night Herb. It was evening, so he wouldn’t have to wait much longer to claim this spirit herb. He closed his eyes and began cultivating. Although the way he was sitting appeared relaxed, others were unable to tell that he was cultivating.

Jiang Hao was totally unaware that the disciples surrounding the mound were discussing their next step of action through spirit sense. For this, they had grouped together, as speaking via spirit sense in a group could be heard by anyone within the range of the spirit senses they were using.

They felt indignant about the fact that the Serene Night Herb would be taken by a single cultivator while all of them just stood and watched.

Some of them had been waiting here since morning. They did not wish to leave without at least trying.

After a while, they all decided on a single proper plan, and two of them came forward. One disciple was from the Mountain Sword Sect, while the other was from the Thousand Petal Order.

Jiang Hao knew that the two had come forward, but he did not care.

"Fellow friend, we have decided to hold a simple competition to decide who shall be the owner of the Serene Night Herb, and we hope that you will abide by this decision,"

the disciple from the Mountain Sword Sect spoke.

Seeing that Jiang Hao wasn’t replying or reacting in anger, they all assumed that he had agreed to their condition.

The disciple from the Mountain Sword Sect sighed inwardly and continued.

"The rules of the competition will be simple. Three cultivators shall be chosen from each group and will battle according to the time of arrival here.

Since your group arrived last, you must attend the first battle. The group that wins will move on to the next round and face another group, unless they are defeated.

I hope you understand, this arrangement is to give a small advantage to those who arrived first. But given your strength, you wouldn’t be worried about such a thing, right?

So, could you please call your group so that the battles may begin? Night is about to fall, and we do not have much time.

Also, these shall be friendly battles, no killing is allowed."

Jiang Hao was quite amused listening to this disciple from the Mountain Sword Sect babble as if he was giving a decree that Jiang Hao had agreed to.

Oh well, they would understand soon enough anyway.

The disciple waited for Jiang Hao to move, but Jiang Hao did not even flinch.

The face of the disciple, who had explained everything politely, was turning red with shame and anger with every passing breath.

They all understood now that Jiang Hao was avoiding them, and he had never accepted to battle under their conditions.

Finally, the disciple could no longer hold back and said,

"Fellow friend, if you do not reply within ten breaths of time, we shall be forced to attack you together. If that happens, it shall be your fault, not ours."

Finally, Jiang Hao opened his eyes, looked toward the disciple, and said,

"Whoever comes within twenty meters of this mound shall die."

After saying that, he closed his eyes again and waited for night to fall.

Ming Yue watched everything with a smile, while Yi Lin did not know what she should think right now.

Ming Yue and Jiang Hao had surprised her far more than once. They were far stronger than her, there was no doubt about that. She herself was one of the top cultivators in her sect.

She was ranked second in her entire sect in her cultivation level, and she had no doubt that she could surpass the number one rank in combat strength if she cultivated to the utmost peak of her realm.

But compared to Jiang Hao and Ming Yue, she was nothing. They were in a completely different category, it was as if they weren’t Soul Sea Realm cultivators, but a Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.

She also remembered that they were being hunted by the top three sects of the Central Region, but even then, they revealed their names like it wasn’t a big deal.

Come to think of it, the cultivators of those top three sects had stopped at Level 8. Didn’t Ming Yue and Jiang Hao come from there too? Since they are here, does that mean they passed them unnoticed? It could be possible, as all the cultivators from those sects were heading toward the central safe zone of that level.

But why did it feel like Jiang Hao and Ming Yue didn’t care about the threat from those three sects at all? Well, given their strength, they had every right not to take Soul Sea Realm cultivators seriously, but revealing their location so blatantly would make them prone to ambushes through formations.

Did they really trust her that much? That couldn’t be it. Although she would never reveal their location...

She looked toward Jiang Hao, who was still lying there with his eyes closed while provoking three hundred cultivators like it was nothing.

She sighed inwardly. Who knows, maybe three hundred cultivators really were nothing in his eyes.

The cultivators surrounding the mound gritted their teeth. Jiang Hao was openly challenging them all, as if they were mere ants, and he didn’t even bother to consider when or how they would attack.

Attacking together from a distance was not possible. He was sitting too close to the Serene Night Herb. If it got damaged in the process, then everything would be for naught.

But he would be mistaken if he thought they wouldn’t attack him because of this reason. The only problem was, who would go first?

They had all seen what had happened to the Blazing Valley disciple. Forget them, even within the Blazing Valley group, none wanted to take the initiative.

That disciple was still out cold. The way he looked now served as a deterrent in itself.

What they didn’t know was that Jiang Hao was simply waiting for the spirit herb to bloom. He could have killed the Blazing Valley disciple from the start but had left him alive for the time being for this very reason.

He really wasn’t interested in fighting them. What if some of them had an attack talisman that actually hit him? The real problem was, it was his last set of robes. He didn’t want to end up naked right now.

As for the Blazing Valley disciples, just because they laughed at him in the beginning, they were already dead in his eyes. No doubt others laughed too, but it was different with the Blazing Valley disciples.

Forget mocking, they should have stayed as far away from him as possible, much less laughed at him.

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