The Moment to Witness a Miracle

What kind of bizarre son did Ren Tianxing have? What on earth went through his head?!

Then the Smiling Old Man recalled Ren Jie's previous performance. Thinking about it, Ren Jie had never been normal to begin with, so he simply stopped talking and strode over to grab Ren Jie.

Ren Jie was no stranger to this. He let the Smiling Old Man seize him and leave his residence. Then Ren Jie once again sank into that half-asleep, half-awake state. When he regained consciousness and opened his eyes again, he found that they were already in a forest in the wilderness.

The moment he saw the forest, Ren Jie immediately thought of the Primeval Forest where Sixth Uncle was. But after taking a closer look, he saw that this was not Sixth Uncle's place. The forest there was recognizable at a glance. This was clearly a forest outside Jade Capital City.

Moreover, Ren Jie's divine sense instantly swept the surroundings. His divine sense could now probe an area fifty meters around him, and within those fifty meters alone, Ren Jie had already discovered the problem. Among the great trees here were many smaller trees that interfered with divine sense. This was...

An array formation!

And not one arranged by humans. This interference with divine sense was also particularly strange. It seemed to be...

Ren Jie immediately thought of something he had read about in the Library Pavilion: Bewitching Demon Monkeys. Bewitching Demon Monkeys were Level 3 early-stage demon beasts, roughly equivalent to humans between the seventh and eighth levels of the Body Refining Realm. They were only palm-sized and individually had little offensive power, but they lived in groups. They possessed an innate divine ability that could alter the surrounding environment where they lived, creating a distinctive bewitching array formation. They could also affect divine sense. Most importantly, the more Bewitching Demon Monkeys there were, the stronger the formation they could arrange and the greater its influence.

There had once been a legend that if the number of Bewitching Demon Monkeys exceeded a thousand, even Late Stage of Level 6 demon beasts, or several True Qi Realm Great Perfection cultivators knowledgeable in formations, would have only a dead end awaiting them if they entered.

"Get out of here before dawn, or I'll give you ten smacks on the ass as punishment. All right, get lost..." The Smiling Old Man set Ren Jie down, then raised his foot to kick him in the backside and send him in.

"Wait!" Ren Jie suddenly turned around and stopped the Smiling Old Man.

"Wait for what? I'm in charge here." The Smiling Old Man was taken aback. Then he remembered his relief from last time. When he had just seen Ren Jie staring blankly at the forest, he had been thinking, No way, this kid isn't so fucking heaven-defying that he can see through even this, is he?

Although these Bewitching Demon Monkeys were not very strong, they lived in groups and were difficult to find. Not to mention that he had spent great effort capturing them. He had even waited several days after confining them, allowing the Bewitching Demon Monkeys to transform this place into something perfectly suited for the kid's training.

"Nothing. Didn't you say just now that this was something that had been ruined during refining? I just wanted you to take a look. The moment to witness a miracle has arrived." Ren Jie suddenly recalled something a magician from his previous life liked to say and casually blurted it out.

"What moment to witness a miracle?" The Smiling Old Man was thoroughly confused by Ren Jie.

"I have a way to repair this and restore it into a High-Grade Spirit Artifact. I only need you to help out with one tiny little favor." Ren Jie pinched his right thumb and index finger together, indicating an exceedingly, exceedingly tiny favor.

"Your grandpa's egg! What nonsense are you spouting at me? Get in there, now! If you waste time and can't get out, this king won't indulge you..." The Smiling Old Man nearly laughed for real when he heard that. He had a way to repair a ruined High-Grade Spirit Artifact? That was even harder than refining a Top-Grade Spirit Artifact. Even a Top-Tier Spirit Artifact Refiner capable of refining Top-Grade Spirit Artifacts would find it difficult to repair something ruined during refinement. It was ten times harder than refining it anew.

So the Smiling Old Man once again prepared to throw Ren Jie inside, not intending to discuss this topic with him any further.

"This is too easy, a three-year-old child's trick. I can get out in less than a quarter of an hour, so let's first..." Ren Jie turned to glance at the forest behind him, which the Smiling Old Man had clearly painstakingly arranged, and spoke with utter disdain.

There could not possibly be Bewitching Demon Monkeys near Jade Capital City. This could only mean that the Smiling Old Man had captured them himself and then trapped them here. By making them feel threatened, they would temporarily build a place here to protect themselves, as well as their nest, and only then could a place like this take shape.

Anyone who had gone through such great trouble to accomplish all this would get angry if someone dismissed it as worthless, let alone someone with the Smiling Old Man's temper.

"What did you say?" Sure enough, the Smiling Old Man exploded the instant he heard Ren Jie's words. Still wearing that smiling face, he closed in on Ren Jie. "You dare say that what this king arranged is a three-year-old child's trick? You dare say that this king's arrangement is a three-year-old child's trick?"

"Uh..." Seeing that he had achieved the desired effect, Ren Jie shrugged helplessly. "How about we make a bet? If I can walk out from there within a quarter of an hour, then tonight, you have to do everything as I say and cooperate with me in repairing this High-Grade Spirit Artifact."

A quarter of an hour?

Though the Smiling Old Man wore a smiling mask, even through it one could feel the fury and rage of being looked down upon.

At first, he had only wanted to get three to five Bewitching Demon Monkeys. But then he recalled the scene of Ren Jie learning Battle Eight Directions Annihilation in a single night and felt that this kid was rather strange. No, he could watch over him. As long as he did not let him die, it would be fine. But he absolutely could not let this brat act so arrogantly in front of this king again. Whenever he recalled Ren Jie's comments about the name Battle Eight Directions Annihilation, as well as the scene of him mastering it overnight, the Smiling Old Man got angry. Later, he had simply used fifty Bewitching Demon Monkeys to transform the environment here.

He had made the bewitching formation here powerful enough that even ordinary intermediate formation masters would be unable to get out. Even if this kid understood formations, he would not be able to escape. This bewitching formation was now enough to leave intermediate formation masters at their wits' end and trap people at the third level of the True Qi Realm. Yet this brat actually claimed he could get out in a quarter of an hour. Who did he think he was?

And besides, even if he got out, repairing a High-Grade Spirit Artifact? What a joke. Although Ren Jie's performance that day had surprised and astonished him somewhat, he believed that he had now completely grasped and seen through this brat. He refused to believe Ren Jie could do anything.

"One look at that expression tells me you're someone who can't stand such provocation. If you don't say anything, I'll take it as your agreement. Then I'm going in." As Ren Jie spoke, he pointed at the forest behind him. The meaning was clear: Was he betting or not? He was going in.

"Don't think you can provoke this king with words. Get the hell in there..." The Smiling Old Man raised his foot to kick him, but before he had even finished speaking, Ren Jie had already dashed inside himself.

If not for the video in his Sea of Consciousness needing to absorb the spiritual energy from spirit jade worth nearly three million Jade Coins, while Ren Jie's body happened to be continuously circulating the Jade Emperor Art, allowing his body to absorb some of it in the process and gain an effect equivalent to roughly five days of normal cultivation, Ren Jie would not have dared to try this now. In truth, if three million Jade Coins only accelerated the cultivation of someone in the Body Refining Realm by five days, then if not for someone like Ren Jie, who used spiritual energy elsewhere and only gained bodily cultivation as a side benefit, even the royal family would go bankrupt before long using such a cultivation method.

It was precisely because of this that it was merely a cultivation method bordering on legend. Although his cultivation was still only at the fourth level of the Body Refining Realm, the changes brought by cultivating the Jade Emperor Art had made the qi strength within Ren Jie and the strength of his body comparable to the ninth level. Though most of the qi strength in his body was currently condensed into Qi Strength Rings to form an array, using qi to refine his body, Ren Jie still charged in with complete confidence.

Had it been a few days earlier, or even the day he first met the Smiling Old Man, Ren Jie would not have dared to be so confident. At that time, the formations he could see through were limited at most to the level of an intermediate formation master. But now, he was confident he could see through even the formations of advanced formation masters. He had seen through the bewitching formation arranged by these fifty Bewitching Demon Monkeys at a single glance.

Within his divine sense, even the Bewitching Demon Monkeys hidden there were clearly visible.

Whoosh! There was no cry, no sound at all. The instant Ren Jie entered, a branch beside him swayed lightly, and a Black Shadow silently reached from behind toward the back of his head.

Bang! Ren Jie swung his fist and spun around with a fierce punch. Like batting away a fast-approaching ball, he sent a Bewitching Demon Monkey flying. These Bewitching Demon Monkeys loved trapping prey and digging out their brains to eat. They looked tiny and adorable, but once you thought about how they wanted to dig open your head and eat it, you would not feel even the slightest affection for them.

Ren Jie's strike was fast and accurate. That Bewitching Demon Monkey was killed on the spot.

"Chitter, chitter..." A chorus of cries suddenly rang out. Clearly, the death of the probing Bewitching Demon Monkey had alerted the others, and they rapidly began shifting. The formation around them was changing, and waves of peculiar divine sense could be felt influencing and interfering with his own.

Even the divine sense of an ordinary fifth-level True Qi Realm cultivator would be disrupted here, causing them to lose their bearings. But Ren Jie's realm had improved again by now, so this had no effect on him at all. He swiftly rushed deeper in.

Originally, when the Smiling Old Man saw Ren Jie kill that probing Bewitching Demon Monkey and then watched the Bewitching Demon Monkeys shift, a teasing smile appeared in his eyes as he waited to see the kid suffer. Bewitching Demon Monkeys were among the cleverest low-level demon beasts, and the larger their group, the smarter they became. What came next would be the true...

How was that possible?

The smile in the Smiling Old Man's eyes vanished in only a few seconds. He stared wide-eyed ahead. At his realm, these formations were as though they did not exist, and he could see every movement within at a glance.

That was precisely why he was shocked. Ren Jie was actually ambushing those Bewitching Demon Monkeys. How could he possibly be more familiar with this bewitching formation than the Bewitching Demon Monkeys themselves?

What had he done? The Bewitching Demon Monkeys' bewitching formation had been altered. How was that possible? Could he be a formation master too? Impossible. Even an advanced formation master could not casually alter a formation and make the Bewitching Demon Monkeys fall into chaos.

His grandpa's egg! The Smiling Old Man fiercely grabbed at his hair, feeling that he had miscalculated again. If he had known, he would have brought several hundred Bewitching Demon Monkeys here. But how could this kid possibly be so skilled in formations?

Bang... After killing the final Bewitching Demon Monkey, Ren Jie walked out with a smile. It had taken him less than five minutes in total.

Three-year-old child, three-year-old child... Ren Jie's words kept echoing in the Smiling Old Man's mind. Looking at that smiling face of Ren Jie's, he truly wanted to personally beat him up.

"Game time is over. The moment to witness a miracle has arrived..." Seeing the Smiling Old Man's shocked, almost frantic appearance, Ren Jie felt a little smug and secretly wanted to laugh. But what he looked forward to more was repairing the Profound Yin Sword. He would soon be taking on a disciple, after all. His disciple had directly presented him with such an Apprentice Ceremony gift and would continue preparing spirit jade for him. As the master, he could not offer nothing in return. Besides, the bigger tomorrow's spectacle was, the more satisfying it would be. So after Ren Jie learned how to repair the Profound Yin Sword, he had already decided to restore it as soon as possible and reward it to his disciple, Chang Lao Si.

Thus, the moment he came out, Ren Jie took out the jade box sealing the Profound Yin Sword.

The support of my brothers and sisters is Sheng Ji's greatest motivation for writing.

The new book's word count is growing. Throw all the votes in your hands my way! Clicks, rewards, every kind of support, bring them all!

Let us work hard together!!