11: Chapter 11 Nine Ridge City

Wang Duoyin and Gao Dasha slumped to the ground, their faces drained of color, their eyes filled only with terror.

They had seen Cultivators with Five Elements Spiritual Roots, but who had ever seen one who could master Spells of all Five Elements? Which Sect would ever want someone with mixed Spiritual Roots? It was hard enough for a Loose Cultivator to even get hold of a Spell, let alone master it!

Yet this guy in front of them played with Five Elements Spells as if it were easy, and he could even conjure ice, wind, and lightning at will!

Wang Duoyin's voice trembled violently.

"You... you monster! You can't be a Loose Cultivator! Who exactly are you?"

Ling Hao answered calmly, "Of course I am not a Loose Cultivator. I am the Sect Master of Moon Shadow Sect."

"Moonshadow Sect..."

"Never heard of..."

Gao Dasha blurted out subconsciously.

"Slap!"

Wang Duoyin jumped up as if his tail had been stepped on and slapped Gao Dasha hard across the face, forcefully knocking that sentence back into his throat.

Disaster comes from the mouth! Who cares if Moonshadow Sect is some no-name, grassroots School that no one has ever heard of. It was probably just a first-grade Sect self-proclaimed by someone at the Qi Refinement Stage.

But now that their lives were in his hands, only someone looking for death would mock him.

Wang Duoyin squeezed out a smile uglier than crying, "So you are the Sect Master of Moon Shadow Sect! A misunderstanding! A huge misunderstanding!"

"Sect Master, please be magnanimous and let us go, won't you?"

Ling Hao shook his head slowly, his eyes cold. The enmity was so deep, and they had already used lethal moves; let them go? Wait to be retaliated against?

"We... we will pay to buy our lives! We will give you all our money!"

"Dasha, hurry, take out all your things!"

Wang Duoyin and the other scrambled to throw the two large bundles from their bodies in front of Ling Hao.

Ling Hao glanced at them and refused point-blank.

"Not necessary."

The last trace of color faded from Wang Duoyin's face, and his eyes were filled only with madness:

"Then let's die together! Throw them!"

He and Gao Dasha simultaneously flung all the Talismans they had—over a dozen Fireball and Water Arrow Talismans exploded with a crackle, shooting chaotically toward Ling Hao.

Ling Hao waved his hand casually, and several defensive Talismans lit up a screen of light, blocking them easily. Immediately after, he actually pulled out another large stack of Talismans, a thick pile, and smiled as he showed them to the two men.

Wang Duoyin and Gao Dasha stared at those dozens of glowing Talismans, utterly stunned, despairing to the extreme.

Damn it, someone tell them how he had so many Talismans; even a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator would have to go bankrupt to buy so many.

Ling Hao didn't waste any more breath, and the Aura of the fourth level of the Qi Refinement Stage burst forth! "Fourth level of the Qi Refinement Stage?!"

Wang Duoyin gave a miserable laugh, "We don't lose unjustly..."

Ling Hao raised his hand, and a violent fireball crashed down! The two men's spiritual power had long been drained, and they could only watch helplessly as the scorching fire waves engulfed them.

"The Young Sect Master... will... take revenge!"

Wang Duoyin's resentful scream was swallowed by the sound of the explosion. As the smoke and dust cleared, only two charred lumps remained on the ground.

Ling Hao shook his hands, feeling a bit bored, "Too weak. Even at the first level of the Qi Refinement Stage, it would have been enough to deal with them."

Ling Hao recalled the time in Liuling Town; even if he had really come into conflict with these two back then, he could have directly blown them away.

Looking down at his own hands, Ling Hao sighed, "This Void Spirit Root is just so convenient for simulating Spiritual Qi."

"However, this counts as being completely at odds with the Green Leaf Sect now."

Ling Hao glanced at the forest in the distance; could someone have seen? It didn't matter. If he wanted to establish a Sect, conflict would come sooner or later.

He withdrew his gaze and landed it on the two bundles in front of the two charred figures. "Now it is time for the harvest; even mosquito legs are meat! Can't waste them!"

Ling Hao's eyes lit up, he reached out and grabbed through the air, and the bundles flew into his hands.

This was his first time killing someone and looting, and Ling Hao really wanted to know how much he would gain this time.

"About a hundred taels of silver! Over fifty taels of gold! And... over twenty Low-Grade Spirit Stones!"

His face instantly blossomed into a smile, and Ling Hao's mouth stretched almost to his ears. "I'm rich, I'm rich! It really is true that killing and looting leads to a golden belt, hahaha!"

"A hundred taels of silver plus over fifty taels of gold! In my previous world, I would have been a millionaire and could just lie back and relax!"

After putting the things away, Ling Hao calmed down slightly, "It's a pity that in this world, Spirit Stones are the only hard currency..."

However, twenty or so Low-Grade Spirit Stones were not bad for someone at the first level of the Qi Refinement Stage.

...

Jiuling City, the largest and most prosperous city within a radius of five hundred miles!

The streets were bustling with heavy traffic and weaving crowds, with shops and restaurants lined up on both sides, making it countless times livelier than Liuling Town.

"With so many people, I should be able to find a good seedling, right?"

Ling Hao gazed at the sea of people before him, pondering in his heart.

He arrived at the huge square in the city. Around the square stood many impressive pavilions, with the names of various Sects written on the hanging plaques.

Things like the Two Suns Gate, Three Yin Cave, Four Rivers Sect, Five Faces Pavilion, Sixty-Six Manor, Jikun Sect, Eight Hands Building...

Besides their mountain gates, this was also one of the places where Sects near Jiuling City recruited Disciples.

In Ling Hao's words, this was a large-scale recruitment market!

Revisiting an old place, Ling Hao felt some emotion. When he first had his Transmigration, he had also come here wanting to find a Sect to get by in. Unfortunately, he was born with Five Elements mixed Spiritual Roots, trash among trash, and no Sect wanted him.

To enter a Sect, one had to test their Spiritual Root. To test a Spiritual Root, one had to use a testing stone. On the square, only the entrances of those Sects that looked relatively impressive and had flashy facades had testing stones placed out.

To put it bluntly, whether or not there was a testing stone at the entrance basically showed whether the Sect was reliable and had strength.

In front of the most impressive and conspicuous pavilion, a huge gilded plaque hung, with three large, sweeping, dragon-and-phoenix-like characters inscribed upon it—Green Leaf Sect!

At this moment, there was a long line in front of the Green Leaf Sect. The middle-aged man serving as the deacon in charge of recruitment looked arrogant and shouted loudly:

"Metal, Wood, Water, Yellow-grade Spiritual Root, next!"

In front of the testing stone, a woman in a yellow dress asked the deacon with a face full of unwillingness:

"Sir! I also have a Yellow-grade Spiritual Root! He also has a Yellow-grade Spiritual Root, so why can he enter, but I cannot?"

The deacon couldn't even be bothered to lift his eyelids and waved his hand impatiently:

"If you can't, you can't, get out of the way!"

The woman in the yellow dress became anxious, "On what grounds? My Spiritual Root count is even one less than his! Doesn't that just show that I am better than him?"

The deacon finally lifted his eyes, glanced at her with contempt, and sneered:

"Because you are a woman! Do you not understand the rules?"

After speaking, he flicked his sleeve impatiently, and a strong gust of wind pushed the woman, causing her to stagger backward, nearly falling down.

Laughter and discussions broke out in the crowd watching from the side:

"Tsk, another one who doesn't understand the situation."

"The erosion qi that you female Cultivators absorb when you Cultivate is twice that of male Cultivators! This consumes even more for the Sect's mountain-protecting formation to filter!"

"Unless you are a precious gem like someone with a Xuan-grade Spiritual Root, otherwise, once the Sect has collected enough women with Yellow-grade Spiritual Roots, they won't want any more!"

"That's right, even if they were to be Utility Disciples, they would be considered a burden."

"Besides, Green Leaf Sect is the strongest second-grade Sect within a radius of five hundred miles! They have a Foundation Establishment Old Ancestor presiding over them! I heard they also have a close relationship with the third-grade Huoyan Sect!"

"Exactly! Their rules are set there; a female Cultivator with a Yellow-grade Spiritual Root wants to get in? It's going to be difficult!"

"It would be strange if they accepted you; just look at your own worth."