Chapter 468: Whack-A-Mole (1)
Su Yu was unaware of what was happening outside the grotto.
After stepping through the grotto, his vision blurred before he arrived at a new place.
Not far away, Xia Chan was looking at him with a frown. The two had been transmitted to the same area. After all, they had entered at the same time. Su Yu flashed her a simple and honest smile.
The willpower in the grotto was dense, but the density level wasnt too high. Since not everyone had entered, the grotto was not fully activated yet. The willpower he was seeing was merely what the grotto had accumulated passively.
Ignoring Xia Chan, Su Yu started looking around. The place was quite big. At the very least, it was big enough that he couldn't see the end of the grotto with his naked eyes.
Apart from Xia Chan, he saw nobody in their immediate surroundings. He wondered how big the grotto was. The Source Qi Secret Grotto was quite big. Even after entering so many times, he had only stayed around the Great Strength and Infinite Strength zones.
After looking around for a short while, Su Yu started walking away.
Xia Chan frowned and hollered at him, "You followed me because you were afraid of Zhou Pingsheng. Why are you leaving now?"
"I'll take a look around. I don't want to disturb your cultivation, fellow student."
Su Yu replied with his trademark honest expression before running off. This was merely a smokescreen. He wasn't going to cultivate with her. Instead, he would look for his own spot.
Suddenly, he turned his head and hollered, "Student Xia, you won't betray my whereabouts, right? Brother Huyou is my brother! We're basically family!" Read latest chapters at nov(e)lbin.com Only
Xia Chan snorted. She didn't even deign to give him a response.
Su Yu smiled and vanished into the distance.
...
When he was far enough away that Xia Chan couldn't see him anymore, he switched directions and continued running. He did the same several times while cautiously avoiding anyone he saw. He was also paying close attention to his Perception Jade, constantly on guard over any spying attempt on him.
He took out a voice transmission talisman and said, "Brother Zhang, can you do me a favor?"
"What favor?"
"Where are you? I hope to hide behind you while I cultivate. I'll pay you for your service with mutual aid points. What do you think about 500 points? That's enough for you to purchase the locations of five apertures from the club."
"..."
Zhang Hao replied without any hesitation, "Sure."
Su Yu exhaled in relief. The members of his Mutual Aid Club were still quite reliable.
Zhang Hao was a genius of the talisman faction. Not even Zhou Pingsheng would dare to needlessly investigate him as that would create unwanted misunderstandings.
As for people like Xia Huyou, forget it. That was probably the first person Zhou Pingsheng would look for while searching for him.
Maybe Zhou Pingsheng was already lying in wait there.
Zhang Hao was the better choice as those people were unaware of his relationship with Zhang Hao.
...
About five minutes later, he met Zhang Hao.
There were no obstructions in the grotto. Even the ground had some sort of cloud-like texture, making it impossible for someone to dig themselves an underground hiding place.
But there were also several small hills in the grotto. Using these hills as the landmarks, the two were able to link up with each other.
Hu Wensheng was still thinking when Zhang Hao yelled, "Teaching Assistant Hu, I found this place first. This is a place where willpower naturally converges. Are you going to snatch this place from me?"
Hu Wensheng said nothing and turned around with a frown.
It was improper for a teaching assistant to take from a student. Zhang Hao was also the student of an elder and the grandson of a ninth-stage Cloudbreach. This was not someone he wanted to provoke.
After Hu Wensheng left, Zhang Hao exhaled in relief.
Inwardly, he was alarmed. Just what was up with Su Yu? How had Su Yu sensed Hu Wensheng? Was it a character or something else?
He couldn't be bothered to think too much about it and returned to his cultivation. The willpower density around them had reached a terrifyingly high level. In the blink of an eye, the aperture he had spent several days opening was fully opened.
Boom!
Similar to what Su Yu had experienced, he heard a loud rumble in his head before getting an out-of-body experience.
That only lasted for a split second before his senses returned to normal. He was overjoyed. This was really working! The aperture was real!
Prior to this, he was still slightly worried that he had been given false information. But now, he no longer doubted the information Su Yu gave him.
The two continued absorbing the dense willpower around them even as more willpower continued converging around them.
...
At the same time.
One after another, the people in the grotto settled down and started cultivating. Floating in the air, Zhou Pingsheng was scanning his surroundings.
Shortly after, he landed on the ground.
Not far ahead of him, Xia Huyou was busy cultivating. When Xia Huyou saw Zhou Pingsheng, he frowned and said, "Don't provoke me! I'm from the Xia Family! If you mess with my cultivation, the Xia Family will fuck you up!"
Zhou Pingsheng said nothing and looked around. Su Yu was nowhere to be seen. He frowned slightly before flying away. Right after he left, Xia Huyou mumbled to himself. This was such a waste of time on the single character faction's part.
But Su Yu was probably in trouble. The grotto wasn't small, but it wasn't exactly big. If Zhou Pingsheng continued his search, it would only be a matter of time before Su Yu was found. And the moment he was found, he could forget about cultivating.
Zhou Pingsheng was a seventh-stage Cloudbreach. Even someone like him would be able to improve slightly while cultivating in the grotto. But he had clearly given up on cultivating just to ruin Su Yu's cultivation.
...
Shortly later, Zhou Pingsheng arrived somewhere else.
A few people were there.
Wu Jia was one of them. Less than five meters from her was Wan Mingze. When she saw Zhou Pingsheng, she snorted before shutting her eyes to focus on her cultivation.
Her junior brother had told her to ignore these people. If this fellow dared to disturb her cultivation, she would walk up to Wan Mingze and sit down right beside him.
She had just started to open her first aperture anyway. She still didn't need that much willpower yet. Even with some disturbance from cultivating so near someone else, it wouldn't affect her too badly.
When Wan Mingze opened his eyes and saw Zhou Pingsheng, he frowned slightly. But the frown was quickly replaced by a smile as he said, "Teacher Zhou, since you're in the grotto, you should treasure this opportunity and absorb more willpower. You should strive to reach the Mountainsea Realm as soon as possible..."
Zhou Pingsheng had a sharp look in his eyes as he said, "There is no need for you to worry about me, Student Wan."
He then flew away.
As for Wu Jia, he might dislike her as well, but she wasn't important. If it wasn't for the sake of dealing with Chen Yong, he wouldn't have bothered to pay her any attention.
Su Yu was the person he truly hated. And that kid was too terrifyingly talented. If Su Yu was allowed to absorb more willpower, he would turn into an even bigger trouble.
