Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 184: Lightning Strike

Jiang Hao nodded and waited for her to do so.

Huan Caiyi spoke to each one of them separately, and after doing so she looked at Jiang Hao.

"Something is wrong here."

Jiang Hao was surprised and asked,

"Were they discovered?"

"Hm... no. They are telling me that everything is fine, and when I asked if anybody has ever seen them taking spirit stones to this location, they said yes. Some rodents have seen them. Now this is where the problem exists. If they are seen by some of the other beasts, and since those beasts saw them going in different directions and yet still didn’t ask them why, then it is suspicious in my eyes."

Jiang Hao understood what she was implying.

"Senior, I will go first and see if there is any danger or not."

Those rodents might not even know, but there might be someone keeping eyes on them.

There is a high chance that one of the territory lords already knows about their special location, so going by himself is far better.

Huan Caiyi sighed. She knew that he had the ring, but she still felt reluctant to send him this way. Who knows what kind of danger is there?

But she also knew that the treasure which belongs to the upper realm isn’t simple. It can easily offset any restriction.

In the end, she agreed.

"Fine, but teleport away the moment you sense any kind of danger."

"Alright."

Jiang Hao agreed. He would have done it nonetheless.

He teleported and came inside the open space they had carved out for storing the spirit stones.

His eyes went to the mountain of spirit stones, along with a single rodent which was putting the spirit stone it had brought just a moment ago.

The rodent stopped and looked at the intruder warily before sighing in relief when it saw that it was Jiang Hao.

After it emptied its mouth of spirit stones, it squeaked.

Jiang Hao nodded and looked around. Everything looked fine. He didn’t feel any kind of danger, even with his instincts.

But is everything really okay? His instincts wouldn’t warn him if someone didn’t target him, and since spirit beasts don’t use cheap tactics like arrays or traps, it was given that he wouldn’t feel danger.

He decided to take all the spirit stones with himself.

He didn’t know why, even though there was no danger, he was reluctant to let Senior Huan come here.

Maybe her worry had put him on edge too. Well, it really didn’t matter if Senior Huan came here. All that mattered was the spirit stones.

Well, collecting them with his ability would be quite time-consuming, so he decided to ask Senior Yin Ni for help.

"Seni—" he had just said that much when all the spirit stones vanished.

"Thank you, Senior."

"No need for that. I will just take some for myself as payment."

Jiang Hao was speechless. Well, at least this time she told him about it, unlike all the other times when she just took it.

As he was about to leave, his eyes fell on the rodent.

The rodent seemed to be looking at him with eager eyes.

Jiang Hao wasn’t able to figure out the real reason. There was only one thought that was coming to his mind. Senior Huan had promised them to release after a certain period of time. Maybe it was hoping to become free this time.

Jiang Hao nodded to the rodent and said,

"Hm, good work. Senior Huan seems a little busy. That’s the reason she has talked to you guys without visiting. But don’t worry, she will definitely come and free you guys later."

He wanted to add the word "hopefully" at the end of his sentence, but thought otherwise. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

He didn’t want to break their spirits. Although there is no doubt that Senior Huan will release them, that definitely isn’t happening as long as this spirit mine has even a single spirit stone left.

After saying that, he disappeared.

The rodent blinked for a few seconds before squeaking loudly, but it wouldn’t change its fate.

After a while, it went back to mining. It was an order in the end and couldn’t be avoided.

Jiang Hao appeared back at the place Huan Caiyi was standing.

When Jiang Hao appeared, she didn’t react. It seemed like she was seeing something.

When he looked at what she was seeing, he saw an insect. He was surprised a little. Insects are nothing but small beasts too.

They also become stronger and their sizes increase too, becoming full-fledged spirit beasts.

The reason Jiang Hao was surprised was because he definitely hadn’t seen any insects before. They definitely exist even in the Forbidden Zone, but they wouldn’t come out in the open like this.

Just as Jiang Hao thought that, he saw Huan Caiyi coming to him in the blink of an eye, and her desperate voice entered his ears.

But he wasn’t able to hear it clearly, as he felt intense danger—like he would be obliterated in a moment.

Well, that was what was going to happen. Forget about teleporting—his thought process wasn’t fast enough to even think about it before a pillar of lightning hit the place they were standing.

The lightning strike was so intense that it destroyed the whole mountain. Even the nearby mountains got cracked just from the shockwave from it.

A late-stage Grade 7 beast was standing in the air above the destroyed mountain. It was a big Thunder Eagle. Lightning was flashing around its body and they weren’t weak. Every single one of those lightnings was enough to kill any Grade 6 beast, even though they were just mere flares around it.

It was none other than the territory lord of the territory which existed in the valley.

It had finally found the rats who had invaded its territory and looted it while killing its favorite concubines.

It was waiting for them for a long time. After seeing how they had made some beast mine for themselves, it was sure they would appear. To make them feel like everything was alright, it had asked insects to keep an eye on everywhere. And since these insects can communicate with each other, it was able to instantly get the information of them being here when one of the insects saw Huan Caiyi.

And everything happened in milliseconds. The strength of a late-stage Grade 7 beast isn’t something that can be taken lightly.

The territory lord looked at the hole which had been created by his lightning strike. It thought that nothing would be left of the two puny humans who hadn’t even stepped into the path of Dao, but its eyes squinted when it saw a round silver barrier at the bottom of the hole.

Jiang Hao was a little shocked, but it was just that—a little.

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