Seventh Brother's Happy Life

"Let's go, Hao Tian.

"Farewell, junior sister. Let's work together again if we get the chance."

Xiao Tian stepped forward and spoke, diverting their attention.

"Junior sister, until we meet again."

Shi Hao said goodbye without hesitation, unwilling to get tangled up with this troublesome little princess of the Fire Kingdom.

"Yes, senior brothers. Take care on the road."

Huo Ling'er thought for a moment and did not press them further. They had not entered the Hundred Broken Mountains Range to reminisce. Everyone had things to do, and growing stronger came first.

The other four proper senior brothers and sisters from the Heaven Mending Pavilion had no intention of approaching. They did not dare behave as casually around Huo Ling'er as Xiao Tian and Shi Hao did. She was the Fire Emperor's most beloved daughter, Huo Ling'er, the goddess of many people's dreams.

Just look at the twenty-odd talented young men from the Fire Kingdom beside her. Every one of them was a little genius, with identities that all too often made them descendants of kings and nobles. They were also Huo Ling'er's devoted protectors.

Xiao Tian's Seventh Brother's Clone buried those who had taken their own lives, then collected their treasured artifacts into his gourd to refine them. As for that fool from the Spiritual Silver Race, he had likewise been directly refined into divine essence.

His Seventh Brother's Clone possessed a gourd capable of refining all things. Its method of growth was the simplest and most direct: devouring and refining, practically like the Devouring Heaven Demonic Art.

The five survivors naturally became Xiao Tian's followers. Xiao Tian planned to find an opportunity to blend into the Deer-Chasing Academy's side and have them join the academy later. All five were geniuses themselves; one had even opened six heavenly grottoes. They were all around fifteen years old, geniuses who would only emerge from tribes with populations of over a hundred million.

All right, next, his three selves would develop together. His Da Wa body would follow Shi Hao and leech experience. Sticking with the child of the world meant countless opportunities, with no worries about food or drink.

His Sixth Calabash Brother body had the precious map supplied by the Deer-Chasing Academy, drawn from the old headmaster's memories of his explorations.

As for Xiao Tian's Seventh Brother's Clone, he was naturally free to wander wherever his feet took him.

His Seventh Brother's Clone had likewise opened eleven heavenly grottoes. Aside from freely wielding Da Wa's and Sixth Calabash Brother's innate divine abilities, he could also use the other Treasure Arts at will.

After traveling for three days!

Xiao Tian's Seventh Brother's Clone arrived outside an immense, spacious valley. From afar, he caught the rich fragrance of spirit medicines. He told the five followers he had rescued to wait some distance away, preferably digging a hole to hide in.

Then Xiao Tian directly used Sixth Calabash Brother's innate divine ability, moving through the void to sneak into the valley. A mountain stream at its rear sent clear spring water cascading down, forming a ten-meter-wide river and a lake covering forty-nine square kilometers in the valley's center. Wildflowers grew throughout the valley, their fragrance filling the air. Without his keen nose, he would have struggled to distinguish the scent of the spirit medicines hidden within.

There was two-thousand-year-old blood diamond dogwood. Each fruit was the size of a glass marble, so vividly red it seemed ready to drip, and overflowing with fragrance. At a glance, there were over a hundred.

There was also a large patch of honeysuckle, hundreds or even thousands of years old. A rough glance revealed over a hundred plants. It was simply unbelievable. How could this valley hold so many good things?

At the very center stood a three-thousand-year-old medicinal schisandra tree. It would take five people with their arms linked to encircle its trunk. It was lush and green, its bark like the hide of an ancient dragon. The schisandra fruits on its branches were as large as longans, fiery red, and shone with dazzling crimson radiance in the sunlight. They hung densely, numbering over a thousand.

This time, Xiao Tian was certain the valley was no ordinary place. With so many spirit medicines and no one coming to harvest them, there had to be something unusual about it.

Sure enough, he soon spotted stark white bones in the grass beneath his feet. The bones were crystalline and looked as though they belonged to a powerful primordial remnant.

The beast's bones were enormous. Based on his cooking experience, they had belonged to a giant beast at least a dozen meters long.

Bzzzz!

Just then, a fist-sized Golden Bee flew past where Xiao Tian stood. Apparently, his use of Sixth Calabash Brother's divine ability was not quite polished enough. He had leaked a trace of his aura and attracted the valley's owner.

Looking thoughtful, Xiao Tian gazed at the ground. A purple slit opened between his brows, seeing through illusion and piercing straight through the wildflowers and thick layers of soil to reveal a colossal underground hive over a thousand meters across, with as many as thirty tiers.

Xiao Tian roughly estimated that several thousand Golden Bees lived in this valley. Was that its secret?

It was terrifying. Even that Divine Monkey King probably would not want to provoke the Golden Bees here.

With one glance, he spotted Golden Bees at the Inscription Realm inside. Each was as large as a washbasin, and all were drones. Their entire bodies looked cast from gold, while the tiny stingers at their backs were ink-black and gleamed coldly, chilling anyone who saw them.

Most importantly, at the very center of the golden hive, a bee king as large as a millstone lay sleeping. The aura emanating from him was unmistakably at the Array Formation Realm.

Everything became clear. Everywhere he looked, above and below ground, lay the bones of all sorts of fierce beasts and demonic birds, as well as members of the Human Race. This was a demonic valley that devoured people without spitting out their bones: once you entered, you never came out. Fortunately, Xiao Tian had been moving through the void without disturbing its vegetation. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

But Xiao Tian could not bear to give up. He had just discovered several golden ginseng plants with at least two or three thousand years of medicinal potency.

Compared with those outside, the spirit medicines here seemed to have a harder time becoming saint medicines. Despite their age, they had not reached that grade.

The eight-hundred-year-old black fiend lotus Shi Hao had eaten at the Heaven Mending Pavilion had actually been a Quasi-Saint Medicine.

Could those two ignorant old men, Xiong Fei and Zhuo Yun, have been bragging?

Still, the essence of heaven and earth contained within these plants made them precisely the precious medicines Xiao Tian needed.

Xiao Tian left the valley and found his five burdens. Having rescued them once, he suddenly realized he did not quite know what to do with them.

After some thought, Xiao Tian simply took out his gourd and drew all five inside. Naturally, this was not to refine them, but merely to find them a safe place for the time being.

Then Xiao Tian returned to the valley. This time, he shrank to the size of a flea and entered a spirit fruit. Like a fruit worm, he began secretly eating it and refining its medicinal power.

Eating was all he needed to do!

He had great confidence in his own abilities.

Soon, a day passed, and Xiao Tian had eaten over a hundred schisandra fruits. This ancient medicinal tree grew directly above the center of the underground hive.

Even the Golden Bees would never imagine that someone could shrink to the size of a fruit worm and use a divine ability to enter the fruits, stealing their medicine this way.

Another night passed, and this time Xiao Tian secretly ate a full two hundred fruits.

He was a little stuffed. This time, he truly felt he was about to break through.

"Bzzzz-"

Just then, a Golden Bee soldier at the Spirit Transformation Realm stared wide-eyed in disbelief at Xiao Tian, the tiny person-or perhaps tiny bug-sitting on a schisandra fruit and rubbing his stomach.

Before the Golden Bee soldier could attack, Xiao Tian struck first. A purple Treasure Gourd appeared between his brows and directly swallowed the bee, drawing him into its refining area.

The Treasure Gourd could be divided into two areas. One served as storage and could even hold living things. This first-tier space measured two hundred meters in diameter.

The second-tier space was larger, measuring a full four hundred meters in diameter. Everything that entered would be refined into divine essence by the yin and yang powers contained within the gourd, supplying Xiao Tian's Seventh Brother's Clone for cultivation.

Naturally, as Xiao Tian grew stronger, the gourd would become more powerful and its spaces would expand.

Once he had done all this, Xiao Tian immediately slipped into the void and swiftly left the valley. Just wait-everything here would be his. He had his eye on the royal jelly too. It was essential for roasting meat.

He even thought highly of this entire colony of Golden Bees. If he could subdue them and keep them with him, he could eat honey whenever he wanted.

Just after Xiao Tian left, hundreds of Golden Bees emerged from the valley with a buzz, surrounding every direction as they searched for the medicine thief and bee catcher who had emitted those rune fluctuations.

Unfortunately, after searching all around, they could only buzz furiously, unable to find the culprit.

Xiao Tian left Bee King Valley, traveled several thousand li, and found a mountain peak. He drew the Spirit Transformation Realm Green-Scaled Eagle that occupied it into his gourd, then entered the mountain and carved out a stone dwelling within it, with three rooms and a living room. Life needed a sense of ceremony.

The earth and stone went straight into his gourd to be refined.

Once everything was done, Xiao Tian arranged seven fist-sized luminous pearls and entered seclusion.

He wanted to see whether he could open a twelfth heavenly grotto, because after merging with the third Calabash Brothers innate talent origin panel, he felt that the limit he had previously reached in the Blood Moving Realm had been surpassed again.

After all, he came with a great dao fragment of his own. The panel talents and innate Dao markings within his body allowed him to grow naturally. He felt that his former Blood Moving Realm achievement of 119,999 jin had already been surpassed. He estimated that if he returned to the Blood Moving Realm now, a single shake of his arm would possess at least 129,999 jin of strength.

Thus, he felt he might be able to open another heavenly grotto in the Cave Heaven Realm.

Now that he had secretly eaten so many spirit medicines, and also had a variant savage beast and a variant spirit insect at the Spirit Transformation Realm to refine, he could give it a try.

Two days passed in succession. In the place where Xiao Tian was secluded, his temples throbbed incessantly.

The temples were the depressions in front of the ears, on either side of the forehead, above the extended lines of the outer corners of the eyes.

In fact, the left was the sun acupoint, while the right was the moon acupoint.

After struggling several times without opening one, Xiao Tian frowned. If only he could merge with another Calabash Brothers Innate Talent Panel and open heavenly grottoes at both the sun and moon acupoints.

Good things came through many trials. He was in no hurry yet.

He felt that perhaps the best way to break through such an ultimate limit was to unite his three bodies. That might make success easier.

After all, were it not for his own special nature, his current situation might well have attracted the corrosion of eerie, ominous forces and left him trapped in the Dark Cage.

In that case, he would keep stealing medicine and slowly grind away at it.

After several days in seclusion, Shi Hao emerged in a huff. It still was not enough. He had failed to open his eighth heavenly grotto, and his nourishment could not keep up. His eyes were green with hunger now.

As it happened, Huo Ling'er and her companions had also been nearby these past few days, refining precious medicine to raise her cultivation. Huo Ling'er had already opened her eighth heavenly grotto and was attempting to open her ninth.

The result was that Shi Hao failed, and Huo Ling'er also failed to open nine heavenly grottoes. Her accumulated foundation was still a little lacking, and more importantly, so was her innate talent. Surpassing eight heavenly grottoes was simply too difficult.

Still, Huo Ling'er had gained a great deal. This made her feel rather embarrassed, as though she had taken advantage of her junior brother from the Heaven Mending Pavilion. The primordial remnant fierce bird they had hunted, the Purple Cloud Marten, had only opened seven heavenly grottoes.

(End of chapter)