“Ha! Back to the Demonic Sea again…” Wu Tianjun looked at the Demonic Sea, where black mist was rising, and smirked.
Two months ago, the Twelve Protectors underwent their tribulation. Wu Tianjun wanted to know what that “ominous sign” was, but he failed. The light was too fast; he still didn’t know how it formed. Even when Mo Lian underwent his tribulation, and the light appeared twice, Wu Tianjun still didn’t know what it was, which left him a little disappointed.
Each time he underwent a tribulation, Wu Tianjun went to a different location within the Primordial Wood Star Forest. He also acquired eight more Saint Ancestor realm demon beasts. Their cultivation was only at the third step of the Saint Ancestor realm at most. Including Jin Shu, there were only three such beings. According to them, there weren't many demon beasts within the Primordial Wood Star Forest. The fourth-tier Saint Ancestor realm, Fei Tianbang, already had the highest cultivation, but Wu Tianjun had yet to meet it.
After this tribulation, Wu Tianjun only had thirty-four Scarlet Heaven Pills left. This was after he had painstakingly refined Scarlet Pills for the first time, achieving twelve top-grade pills. He had used all eight Scarlet Heaven Herbs for alchemy, yielding a total of ninety pills. This efficiency was extreme; each time, it was twelve pills, incredibly terrifying! He had given those pills to Chi Danzi. Before he left, he had made all the necessary arrangements.
First, as they had discussed before, four Protectors would go out to establish the Pill and Artifact Pavilion. This would be their source of income. Not to mention the terrifying quantity of pills Wu Tianjun had refined over the years, all of them of excellent quality, Chi Danzi was also a Saint God-level alchemist. The Pill and Artifact Pavilion would not lack pills to sell. As for artifact refining, with Mo Lian, there was no need to worry. The Pill and Artifact Pavilion, once developed, would no longer require his management.
Next, the Eight Great Spirit Children would go out for tempering. Of course, they would go separately, each heading in a different direction. To everyone’s dismay, Mu Li and Chen Xiaoling decided to go out for tempering together. The two innocent maidens walked hand in hand. With their beauty like celestial maidens descended to the mortal realm and their ethereal aura, many would surely be drawn to them. Of course, that was a matter for later.
The Saint Ancestor realm demon beasts who submitted to Wu Tianjun, along with the remaining eight Saint Ancestor Protectors, stayed in the Primordial Wood Star Forest to expand their territory. With their lineup, controlling the Primordial Wood Star Forest was not difficult. After all, this place was considered the demon beasts’ territory. Under the name of demon beast rule, no one would object.
After making all arrangements, Wu Tianjun carried Xiao Yun and departed. As for the Space-Time World, he gave it to Mo Lian to carry with him to the Endless Starry Sky to establish the Pill and Artifact Pavilion, considering it a trump card in case of danger. Of course, he had made other arrangements, but only a few Protectors knew about them. The Eight Great Spirit Children were like little monkeys thrown out, tossed by the Protectors to different places across the Human Race territory to develop on their own. Of course, they had plenty of pills and Tribulation Lightning Fluid. Each of them had five thousand units of Tribulation Lightning Fluid and numerous healing pills, serving as their initial capital for development.
Wu Tianjun left without a trace. He only said he was going to the Demonic Sea to undergo tribulation, but he didn't say where he would go afterward. Even the Protectors couldn't find out. On his way to the Demonic Sea, he heard that the Heavenly Soul Palace was still searching for news of Wu Shishen and the White-Robed Saint Lord, hoping they would come to the Heavenly Soul Palace for a meeting. This was a message left by Wu Tianyuan. Wu Tianjun, not yet wishing to reveal himself, created a jade slip and sent it to a branch of the Heavenly Soul Palace, asking them to forward it to the main headquarters. Only those with Wu family blood could open it; forcing it open would cause it to explode. Inside, there was only one message: "I am Wu Tianjun."
After two months of using teleportation arrays, he had set foot on the shores of the Demonic Sea!
"Yiya! Yiya!" Xiao Yun, drowsily nestled in his arms, opened her eyes and curiously looked around, puzzled.
"Haha! The first time I saw you was in the Demonic Sea. You hadn't even hatched then..." Wu Tianjun said, stroking her head and laughing.
"Ya..." Xiao Yun looked at him with a bewildered expression, understanding some, not understanding others.
"Aiya... we'll talk about it when you grow up." Wu Tianjun chuckled, then ran towards the harbor to board a ship. Traveling by ship was much more relaxing. A few more days before undergoing tribulation wouldn't matter. Of course, he was wearing a mask, a first-step Saint Ancestor artifact! Few would be so rich as to commission such a mask. Wu Tianjun's mask could freely change his appearance. It was still a twenty-year-old face, but it looked much more ordinary. Thrown into a crowd, probably few people would notice.
Xiao Yun's eyes widened when she saw this. A face could be changed too?
"Ah! Brother, you want to go out to the Demonic Sea..." Suddenly, a young man blocked Wu Tianjun's path and spoke. The young man looked twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, only at the early stage of the Heavenly Core Realm. Of course, given his age, he was already a genius. He had noticed that Wu Tianjun also appeared to be in the Heavenly Core Realm.
"Huh! May I ask what advice you have?" Wu Tianjun asked, puzzled.
"Haha! I am Li Chongwen, a disciple of the Martial God Academy. This time, we've formed a team to go to the Demonic Sea for some trials. If brother wants to go to the Demonic Sea, why not come with us?" Li Chongwen said with a laugh. This person indeed had the qualities of a negotiator; his natural smile and words truly moved Wu Tianjun. As for the Martial God Academy, he cast it to the back of his mind, not paying it any attention.
"Oh... I heard that going out to the Demonic Sea often involves sneak attacks from demonic beasts, so you need powerful cultivators to guard you, right?" Wu Tianjun said vaguely.
"Brother doesn't need to worry about this. We have a Divine Realm senior brother leading the team. Furthermore, we are going to an island in the Demonic Sea for experience. Initially, we will travel with the merchant ship of the Xuanming Merchant Association, so you don't need to worry..." Li Chongwen said with a smile when he heard this.
"Divine Realm senior brother..." Wu Tianjun was a little surprised. The Martial God Academy truly lived up to its reputation; even Divine Realm cultivators were still students. It seemed quite a few geniuses gathered there. "Haha! In that case, it would be disrespectful not to accept! I, Tian Si, thank Brother Li!" He was ranked fourth, so being called Tian Si was not wrong.
"Haha! Brother Tian is too polite. We are all human cultivators; if we can, we should help each other," Li Chongwen said with a hearty laugh. It seemed he was also an easygoing person; this was Wu Tianjun's assessment.
"Then let's go to the ship! It will probably depart in two hours." Li Chongwen said.
"Oh! Thank you, Brother Li, for leading the way!"
"This time, only twenty of us are going out for training. The lowest cultivation level is Earth Core Realm. Since the number of people is a bit small, Senior Brother Yuan told us to invite a few more people. After all, the more people there are, the safer the trial will be!" Li Chongwen said as they walked. "Before you, we already invited eight people. We plan to leave once we have ten!"
"Earth Core Realm and above..." Yu Tianjun repeated, a little surprised.
"Haha! This is our Dean's rule. Those who haven't reached the Earth Core Realm are not allowed to go out for training. Going out would only damage the reputation of our Martial God Academy..." Li Chongwen's tone changed to one of respect when he mentioned the Dean. He held the Dean's words as precious as gold and jade.
"Hmph! That Martial God is indeed not simple..." Yu Tianjun said with a smirk.
"Of course! The Dean has peak Saint Ancestor cultivation. There are very few strong cultivators in the starry sky who can rival him..." Li Chongwen's eyes lit up as he spoke. "Ah! We've arrived at our ship..." He suddenly said, startled. "Haha! Brother Tianci, please don't mock me. I'm a worshipper of Lord Martial God, you see..." He laughed awkwardly.
"Haha! I understand..." Yu Tianjun said with a smile.
The ship was quite large, over four zhang wide and more than ten zhang long. It probably had two decks. Three people stood at the bow, all with Divine Realm cultivation. It seemed that the Divine Realm Senior Brother Li Chongwen mentioned was the one with the highest cultivation among these three, at the late-stage first level of Divine Realm! As for the other two, they were both at the early-stage first level of Divine Realm, which was not simple.
"Junior Brother Li! With one more person you brought back, it's enough..." A voice came from the ship. A peak first-level Divine Realm cultivator glanced at Yu Tianjun, then smiled and said to Li Chongwen.
"Ah! Senior Brother Wan! Are there enough people already?" Li Chongwen said, surprised. Just now, they were still short two people.
"Mm! With this brother you brought back, it's enough! We'll set off later with the Xuanming Merchant Association's merchant ship to Ghost Fang Island." Senior Brother Wan said with a smile. "This brother is..." He turned to ask Yu Tianjun. A man carrying a somewhat peculiar pet beast was a bit strange. Such behavior was more like a woman's.
"Greetings, Brother Wan, I am Tianci!" Yu Tianjun said. Since he wasn't a student of the Martial God Academy, he naturally didn't call Senior Brother Wan "Senior Brother."
"Huh..." Senior Brother Wan frowned slightly. This person didn't understand the rules. Many people still called them "Senior Brother" when they met people from the Martial God Academy going out for training.
"Alright! Since you're here, get on the ship. The Xuanming Merchant Association has already started to set sail..." The leading young man said indifferently. He didn't pay much attention to a Heaven Core Realm cultivator, only adding him to make up the numbers. As for the small white dog Yu Tianjun was holding, it was just a bit peculiar. There were many mutated demonic beasts, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
"Oh..." Yu Tianjun was a little surprised as he stepped onto the ship. He sensed a somewhat familiar soul fluctuation. A busybody! He smirked.
"What's wrong, Brother Tian?" Li Chongwen asked curiously when he saw Yu Tianjun suddenly stop.
"Ah! Nothing, I just thought I saw an acquaintance..." Yu Tianjun smiled. He had a good impression of Li Chongwen.
"Haha! What a coincidence, let's get on the ship..."
"He doesn't know me..." Yu Tianjun smirked.
"Uh..." Li Chongwen didn't understand. What did Yu Tianjun mean by that? An acquaintance who didn't know him? Never mind! He continued to board the ship without paying it any more attention.
When Wu Tianjun boarded the ship, he saw more than twenty young men and women chatting. To be precise, there were twenty-five people: ten women and fifteen men, making up everyone on board.
Perhaps due to their cultivation, no one here was unattractive. The women all possessed a strange, ethereal beauty. Of course, some stood out. Two were exceptionally beautiful. One was the talkative Wu Qingqing, whom Wu Tianjun would have killed on the spot years ago had Wu Zixuan not pleaded for her. She was also at the late-stage Earth Core Realm, seemingly twenty-four years old, a true genius. As for the other woman, Wu Tianjun didn't know who she was, but she also had late-stage Earth Core Realm cultivation.
There were also several other notable geniuses, likely well-known within the Martial God Academy. Reaching the Earth Core Realm before thirty was no simple feat. Of course, this wasn't comparing them to monsters like Wu Tianri; they were on two different levels. Geniuses also had their tiers! To the level of prodigies like Wu Tianri, these people could only look up. And when compared to Wu Tianjun and Wu Tianyuan, no contemporary genius was even qualified to be mentioned in the same breath.
"Wow! So adorable!" Suddenly, a graceful girl exclaimed upon seeing the Little Cloud in Wu Tianjun's arms. It truly was very appealing to women who appreciated beauty. This girl was only at the Earth Core Realm, likely on her first outing for experience.
"Huh! So cute..." Another person also spoke. This person, like the girl, only had Earth Core Realm cultivation.
"Haha! If you all want it, I'll find a way to get this brother to sell it!" That Senior Brother Wan laughed, then turned to Wu Tianjun. "Brother Tianci, could we perhaps negotiate a bit? Give me that pet; I'll offer a thousand high-grade spirit stones to buy it..."
"Ah! I'm sorry, Little Cloud was entrusted to my care by an old friend; it cannot be sold..." Wu Tianjun said with a faint smile. Yun Qing was indeed an old friend.
"Then ten thousand high-grade spirit stones..." Senior Brother Wan said, frowning. This fellow had repeatedly shown him no respect. This time, he was trying to curry favor with those young women. Although they were his junior sisters from the Martial God Academy, they all came from illustrious families, and his own family couldn't compare. His main goal for this trial was one of these young women.
"I already said, this was left by an old friend. Don't talk about ten thousand; even a hundred million wouldn't buy it..." Wu Tianjun said, frowning. A mere Spirit Realm brat dared to act so insolently in front of him.
"You..." Senior Brother Wan felt as if he had been slapped in the face and was about to erupt when a voice stopped him.
"If he doesn't want to, then so be it! Senior Brother Wan, we in the Martial God Academy cannot use our power to oppress others." The one who spoke was Wu Qingqing. It was unknown if these people knew her identity. She was the Xuan Maiden of the current Martial God Academy Head; surely no one here could compare to her.
"Ha... If Junior Sister Qingqing has spoken, then so be it. Tianci, if you won't show respect, then get off the ship. My ship cannot accommodate a great deity like you..." Although he no longer erupted, he still ordered him off the ship.
Author: Di Qing
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