Chapter 575 575: Naughty Ren Is Making Trouble Again.
Chapter 575 575: Naughty Ren Is Making Trouble Again.
Hao Ren sat on the boulder with his eyes locked at the horizon, he watched the mushroom cloud as if he was looking at the visage of his wife. The system said, 'Dude, I am getting goosebumps, you look like a pervert right now.'
The young man didn't say anything and just closed his eyes as he began to think about the suggestion that the system made. He asked, "Shall I use the merits that I have earned to increase my cultivation level? If I just went in with my physical skills, then won't I need to keep up with the true essence consumption anyhow?'"
The system replied, "Yes, you should find a way to manage your own energy reserves, after all, you would still need the true essence to back up the physical stress with something to heal it. The toll of the slaughter intent is too much on both mind and body, so you better have some mental anchors ready to hold you down."
Hao Ren nodded and said, "Makes sense, I will keep things in mind."
That said, he stood up from the boulder and made his way back to the camp. After a few hours when he reached he found that the people were all busy with something. As he landed on the ground, the people shivered, and Jana came out to look at him before he sighed and said, "Thank heavens you have come back."
The young man smiled and asked, "Why are you so worried? I didn't go out to commit a suicide mission."
Jana shook his head and replied, "Your merit points suddenly climbed a lot and the people from the city tried to come and make some trouble here, thankfully everyone is strong enough to handle the pressure or we might have been embroiled in a full scale confrontation."
Hao Ren shook his head and waved his hand before he sat down on the wooden log that was placed in the center of the camp and he sat down there, at this monet, all his Ye Generals and children gathered around him, and Ye Si Asked, "Big brother, what did you do?"
Hao Ren chuckled and after a pause he said, "Nothing, just disposed of an unstable lot of alchemical waste at the door of a demon city where I had reeled in a few Demon Generals, the package detonated and crumbled the city walls, and also killed a few demon generals. Before that I roasted several demon soldiers to ashes."
Ye Si held her forehead and said, "God bless us all with your indifference. Are you planning to run them into extinction?"
Hao Ren shrugged and said, "Who knows, but it would happen eventually if we keep fighting with them. Also they cannot co-exist with us."
Ye Jian nodded and asked, "Young Master, what are you intending to do later on? I am sensing that your spiritual energy is rather slow."
Hao Ren nodded and replied, "I will be going to try and take the physical path from now on. The third saint halo is rather difficult to condense and the dao law that I have picked up is rather tricky."
The people narrowed their gazes when they looked at Hao Ren, the young man took a deep breath and was about to say something when the Yin walked over and held his face before she asked in all seriousness, "Baba, what are you thinking about this time?"
Hao Ren showed a smile that was worse than a crying face. The young man said, "Well, promise that you will not tell your mother?"
Yin raised her brow and the rest of the people took a half a step away from him. Yin let go of his face and said, "You are on your own. I will not say anything unless I am asked, and also, please send me back."
Ye Si said, "I support Yin. We don't want any part of this. You will do something crazy again and Sister-in-law would worry and when she gets worried, even Yama might not be able to breath around her, let alone us."
Hao Ren sighed and he raised his head to look at the sky with a dramatic expression and asked, "What sin have I committed to have my family abandon me? Oh heavens, why are you so cruel? Why do you trick people in your games."
Yin shook her head and said, "Aunt Si, send me back, Baba is being attacked by his illness again."
The people chuckled and Hao Ren grabbed Yin and began to tickle her as he said, "You little lassie, aren't you rebelling against baba a bit too much?"
Yin laughed, she was a Heaven Devouring Snake, but she could still feel tickled when Hao Ren attacked her with his fingers. After a round of banter, Hao Ren turned to look at Ye Jian and said, "Punk you stop with that look. I have decided on my path, you cannot sway me."
Ye Jian sighed and asked, "What is it that you wish to comprehend?"
Hao Ren rolled his eyes and said, "This place has nothing at all, but destruction."
The people didn't realize at first and then they all were shocked upon realizing that Hao Ren was talking about, Jana asked with a stammer, "Are you planning to comprehend the laws of destruction?"
Hao Ren shrugged and said, "It is slaughter or destruction. I cannot comprehend anything else if I want to gain power and get stronger."
Jana shook his head and replied, "Do you know that you already have two saint halos? Most of the people in the world, even the experts at the Heavenly Commander realm have no halos, they have never even dreamed of hitting the saint realm."
Hao Ren shook his head and said, "It is not about this world, or the people. It is about what I aspire to be. Why should you care about the strength I have if you are stronger than me or not, you should care about if you are stronger than yourself. Are you better than what you were yesterday. That is the question that is should be pondered by everyone."
The moment he said that, Jana fell silent, he began to ponder on what his own intention was when he started to walk the path of Dao. Indeed, ever since he had come here, he had never bothered with the levels of his friends. He has only done things that he was capable off, and slowly but he had always climbed steadily. This calm and contention was the reason he climbed the realm of a Heavenly commander and kept in under the wraps all this while. Just when he was thinking about things, his aura changed and it went through subtle changes. Hao Ren noticed this but he didn't say anything to bother the man.
After a few minutes of silence, Ye Si said, "You have always treated on the path that you decided upon so treat ahead and we will be here to support you but if we found any sense that you are losing yourself in the path itself, we will act. You might be stronger than us, but if we have to, we will call for the cavalry. So you better think twice before you agree."
Hao Ren nodded with a faint smile and said, "Had it not been for you guys, how could have things worked all this while? I will be counting on your timely interventions if needed. Until then I suggest that we first send the children back home. They have been exposed to this situation a bit too much and I can sense that their spiritual energies are getting thicker by the day."
The people nodded and then Hao Ren personally sent Jiro, Hiro and Yin back to the crescent moon palace, he knew that the first thing his little Yin would do was to dash into the royal study and tattle to Han Lingshi about his decision but that was all, he had absolute trust in Han Lingshi, she would not act on her impulses and support him silently.
After a few minutes, when the kids have been dropped back Hao Ren came back with a big smile and he said, "Boys and girls I have come to ask you something. I have an idea."
The people looked at him and Hao Ren asked, "What do you think, if we all go ahead and kite different demon cities and then force them to rally at the same point and then, hehe, kill them?"
His words were laced with a tint of mischief, but to the disciples it appeared as if Hao Ren was going crazy, and they feared his madness, but Ye Peng clicked his tongue and said, "This is similar to how the battle of the Yan River was done. No?"
Ye Ling nodded and said, "Damn it, those days of kiting those dumb families were rather painful, but in the end it was worth it, we managed to settle them in the valley once and for all."
The rest of the people nodded and Hao Ren said, "Since that is the case, it is settled, I am heading out to the west to find a demon city, you guys pick the city and the direction that you want, As for Senior Jana, you are also free if you wish to lure the demons. What do you say?"
Jana nodded and said, "Fine then, I will also help."
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