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Chapter 16

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It was quiet.

Wen Qiao was meditating in their tent. The rich spiritual vitality present in the Lin Tai Valley slowly flowed over her body. The vital essence of wood entered her vessels together with the spiritual energy nourishing her organs.

The Lin Tai Valley was rich in spiritual energy and had various types of spiritual plants. Thus, the pure spiritual vitality could nourish her without expediting the growth of spiritual plants.

Of course, Wen Qiao would absorb the spiritual energy slowly so as not to attract attention.

Since the vital essence of wood was similar to spiritual energy, a cultivator without any special abilities was unable to tell the difference. As long as Wen Qiao didn’t expedite the growth of spiritual plants as she had done before, no one would notice that she was drawing on the essence of wood of the forest.

But since now they were outside, Wen Qiao decided to be cautious while drawing on the essence of wood.

At sunrise, Wen Qiao slowly opened her eyes.

Although she stayed up all night, she was in a good spirit.

As for cultivators, it was possible to meditate instead of sleep. Even if they didn’t sleep for a few days, there wouldn’t be any problem. It was a pleasure for cultivators to absorb spiritual vitality.

Perhaps the bowl of Six Yang Seven Flavours Soup had worked, and the effects of bathing in the vital essence of wood as she felt warm all over. Usually, she was tired and weak, but now she was full of energy that she felt she was able to climb mountains without resting for the whole day.

Wen Qiao was in a good mood. When she saw Ning Yu Zhou, who was sitting near looking at her, she greeted him with a smile.

“It’s still early now. Since you’d meditated for the whole night, do you need to have some rest?” Ning Yu Zhou asked her.

“It’s okay. I’m fine.”

Ning Yu Zhou observed her condition and found that she was in a good spirit, so he didn’t continue his words.

Instead, Wen Qiao took a glance at him and asked, “Didn’t you sleep last night?”

“Rested for a while.” Ning Yu Zhou replied with a smile and admitted that he had been looking at her meditating for the whole night.

Wen Qiao frowned and said, “You’re a mortal. You should take care of yourself and rest more so that you won’t get sick.”

Ning Yu Zhou never thought that he would be punished by his little wife. He stopped himself from laughing while he saw her serious look. He immediately promised her earnestly, “I won’t do this again.”

Wen Qiao’s expression looked better. She decided to pay more attention to him and remind him to rest.

As a mortal with a short lifespan, he should rest so as to avoid premature ageing.

Ning Yu Zhou was a quick-witted person. He immediately knew the reason for the change in her attitude, but he was happy with her changes. He thought happily, ‘How naive this girl is, what should I do if she gets cheated on in the future?’

Luckily, he married her early.

Then the couple washed up, ate breakfast, and set out from the camp.

Yesterday they had a calm night. Maybe it was because they were still outside the Lin Tai Valley and the demon-beasts they had met were low ranked, so they didn’t encounter any danger.

Today, they continued to collect spiritual plants and hunted demon-beasts at a relaxed pace.

The hidden bodyguards wouldn’t hunt indiscriminately. They usually hunt demon-beasts that attacked them, mostly they would hunt demon-beasts that met the requirements of the Six Yang Seven Flavours Soup.

After a day of hunting, they chose another place to camp out while it was late. Ning Yu Zhou once again used the earthenware stove to make soup.

“You should focus on the treatment of your fire poison. Then, we will focus on resolving your frail vessels.” While Ning Yu Zhou was making soup, he continued saying, “The fire poison inside your body has unknown toxicity and attacks your organs. If you want to fully recover, you need to consume high-ranked elixirs. But currently, the Tanglin Kingdom can’t provide high-ranked elixirs, so we could only treat your vessels slowly……”

Wen Qiao stared at him surprisingly while listening to his words.

She had already known her husband was versatile, but she had no idea that he knew that much about the incurable poison as if he could cure her when the ingredients were enough. Even the pharmacists in the Tanglin Kingdom couldn’t be as confident as him.

After the Six Yang Seven Flavours Soup was made, Ning Yu Zhou immediately served her the soup to prevent it from being cold.

Actually, it was still delicious even if it was cold, but it was barely palatable. It was just that Ning Yu Zhou’s seeking perfect personality couldn’t tolerate it. Wen Qiao married him for over half a month, she knew that her husband would seek perfection on some occasions.

The gentler a person was, the more persistent in some occasions?

Wen Qiao ate the soup obediently.

When she almost finished her soup, they heard a rumbling sound came from afar. Ning Yu Zhou took a look and held the bowl when the table was shaking.

The night had deceased, their surroundings were dark.

The hidden bodyguards had gone to have a look. After a while, the hidden bodyguards were back and reported, “His Royal Highness, there is a third-term armoured beast in front.”

A third-term demon-beasts corresponded to a cultivator ranked in the Yuan Yu Realm. It had a strong body but lacked in wisdom and skills. It might be more powerful than a cultivator who had the same rank but was inferior in intelligence. The armoured beast’s armoured scales made it strong in defence. Usually, a cultivator with the cultivation rank of Yuan Ming Realm wouldn’t gain any benefits from it.

The vibration lasted for a while before it stopped.

Two of the hidden bodyguards took back the carcass of an armoured beast. They skillfully dismembered the armoured beast, separated the flesh, skin and bones and kept them into their storage bags.

A demon-beast was beneficial to a cultivator. For example, the scales from the third-term armoured beast could be used to make armour. Its blood could be used as the ink of making seals. The cultivators could increase their spiritual vitality by consuming its flesh. Furthermore, the armoured beast could get a good price outside.

After the head of the hidden bodyguards, Qian Shou had checked around, he concluded and said, “It should be the disciples in front who drew the attention of the beasts when they were doing experiential training and fled away.”

The demon-beasts had their territory and rarely left. Unless natural disasters occurred or they have driven away. It seemed like this should be the second situation.

Ning Yu Zhou slightly nodded to show that he had noticed the situation.

However, they started to encounter more and more demon-beasts the next day. Such as first-term, second-term, third-term, fourth-term and even the fifth-term demon beast.

A fifth-term demon-beast corresponded with a cultivator with the rank of Yuan Wu Realm, which was comparable to the Third Prince, Ning Zhe Zhou. It was dangerous for the cultivators who had entered the Lin Tai Valley, and they might lose their lives if they weren’t careful.

A fifth-term demon-beast rushed out from the bushes.

“His Royal Highness, Madame, please be careful!”

Qian Shou was guarding Ning Yu Zhou and Wen Qiao. He commanded, “All the hidden guards gather up!”

The hidden bodyguards formed into a twenty men formation to stop a demon-beast that ran towards them. Next, they formed into a trapping array and killing array in order to kill the demon-beast trapped in the arrays.

The hidden bodyguards were ranked above the Yuan Ming Realm. Two of them were above the Yuan Wu Realm. Only Qian Shou had an unknown rank of cultivation.

There were 50 members in the hidden bodyguards and most of them were ranked the Yuan Ming Realm. When they fought, the arrays they used were systematic and well-coordinated. Their arrays were powerful and made them able to defeat the fifth-term demon-beast easily.

Wen Qiao was shocked when she saw the process of the hidden bodyguards killing the fifth-term demon beast.

The hidden bodyguards were extraordinary indeed. No wonder Emperor Cheng Hao wasn’t worried about sending them to protect Ning Yu Zhou.

From start to the end, Ning Yu Zhou stood there calmly.

Wen Qiao looked thoughtful after she stared at the hidden bodyguards and Ning Yu Zhou.

After Qian Shou finished checking the dead fifth-term demon-beast, he reported, “Master, there is a whiff of spiritual medicine in the demon-beast.”

Although the scent was bland, Qian Shou still found something different in the demon beast’s blood.

Ning Yu Zhou slightly narrowed his eyes. “You think that it has been driven out here?”

Qian Shou nodded his head and said seriously, “Subordinates think that all the demon-beasts that have appeared in the past few days may have been artificially driven out. Now we are not sure who did it and their purpose for doing it; it was for all the cultivators who’d taken part in the Lin Tai Valley Hunt or just us.”

Ning Yu Zhou smiled and said gently, “We will find out as we keep moving.”

Qian Shou answered him, but he didn’t persuade him to leave the valley because of the sudden danger. He carried out the order earnestly and let the hidden bodyguards collect the fifth-term demon-beast and moved on.

Wen Qiao walked beside Ning Yu Zhou. She was looking at her husband while she was alerted to the surroundings.

Ever since they entered the Lin Tai Valley, she would have the Six Yang Seven Flavours Soup every night; At night, she would secretly take in the essence of wood around her. It made her spirit became better and showed a sign of a breakthrough in her cultivation.

When another demon-beast attacked them, Wen Qiao immediately brought her husband to hide in a safe place.

Ning Yu Zhou looked at her happily, letting his little girl protect him.

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It took them five days to cross the mountain and reached the mountain’s back.

On the back of the mountain was a vast plain. Since its end was hidden in a white mist, they couldn’t look at the situation and the dangers there.

While they walked into the plain, they found a dead body abandoned among the thick bushes.

The hidden bodyguards found out the body was a disciple of a small family. He was killed by someone with a sharp technique in one shot which caused his skull to be smashed.

However, the killer might be powerful enough to kill him with a sharp technique.

Wen Qiao’s facial expression didn’t look good. It was her first time seeing someone’s death. Even though she knew that the road of cultivation was dangerous and they might lose their lives anytime, this was her first time starting to be aware of the dangers of the world of cultivation.

Ning Yu Zhou took a glance and said, “Check his storage bag.”

Soon, the hidden bodyguards found the storage bag on the dead body.

The stamp of the storage bag would automatically disappear when its owner was dead. The hidden bodyguards opened the storage bag easily and took out everything in the bag.

The disciple seemed poor, he didn’t have many kinds of stuff. There were only a few low-ranked Yellow Amulets, a bottle of yellow Energy Condensation Elixir, a few Yuan Beads, and two metal swords.

Ning Yu Zhou looked at them thoughtfully. Then, he ordered the hidden bodyguards to dispose of it and move on.

Wen Qiao took a glance at him. She felt that her husband had found out something.