Chapter Fifty-One: Road Encounter Danger

  The next morning

  Lan Zhongmen's mountain gate was outside, Jin Jiu, Wei Shou and Zhao Binglan came out together to see him off.

  "Two young brothers, if I need to refine any more treasures after passing the Blue Central Gate, I hope you won't refuse when I come looking for you at your doorstep." Jin Jiu said with a smile.

  "Master Jin, you're too kind. We brothers wouldn't refuse such a good opportunity. However, as disciples of the Instrument Sect, we must follow some rules. If Master Jin wants us to refine treasures, he can specify our names when posting tasks at Tianji Hall, and their people will notify me and my brother." After resting for a night, Sun Hao's spirit had fully recovered, and with the additional contribution points gained this time, his mental state was exceptionally good.

  Kong Fang stood by with a calm smile, without any intention of interrupting. However, in his heart, he was calculating the gains from this time. This time, he over-fulfilled his task, and with Jin Jiu's deliberate pull, he got more than 800 contribution points. If he did a few more tasks like this, he would have enough contribution to exchange for the First Heaven Treasure, Five Elements Splitting Mirror.

  Of course, Kong Fang also knew that such a good task would not always be available. Normally, the tasks they did could get 200-300 contribution points, which was already very good.

  "I know the rules of the arena, I will never let the two young brothers be in trouble." Jin Jiulang laughed loudly.

  Sun Hao's expression suddenly became somewhat hesitant and embarrassed, but in the end he still spoke up and added a sentence, "If Senior Jin only needs to refine one or two treasures, then it would be better to follow the normal rules and publish the task."

  If a sect's task is monopolized by one or several people, others will have no chance to take this sect's task, which is a very hateful thing. You can eat meat, but you must leave some soup for others to drink.

  Jin Jiu, who had grown more astute with age, immediately understood Sun Hao's meaning. His face showed no displeasure, and instead he smiled and joked: "How could I possibly bother the two of you young brothers with trivial tasks? With your level of skill in crafting equipment, doing those small tasks would be a complete waste of your time. Even if you were willing to help me out as a favor, I wouldn't dare ask you to do it."

  "Thank you, Senior Jin, for your understanding. We'll take our leave now." Sun Hao nodded and took out a silver Cloud Soaring Boat from his storage ring, infused it with his magic power, and the boat quickly enlarged and floated above the ground.

  "Take care, Brother Sun, Brother Kong." Wei Shou bid farewell with a smile.

  "Take care." Sun Hao and Kong Fang responded in unison before jumping into the Flying Cloud Boat together.

  The airship soared into the sky quickly and was soon far away.

  Looking at the direction where the boat was going, Jin Jiu said with some emotion and envy: "I really didn't expect Huoyun Hall to have two such geniuses in refining equipment."

  "What did Master Shi hear?" Wei Shou asked strangely.

  Jin Jiu nodded slightly, "Yesterday I sent someone to investigate the news of the two at Qizong, but the final message that was passed back was quite unexpected."

  "Even Master Shi Bo would be surprised, what news is it?" Zhao Binglan was also curious at this moment.

  Jin Jiu's eyes were still fixed on the tiny Xingyun Chuan, and he exclaimed: "That Sun Hao entered Huoyun Hall more than two years ago, but he has surpassed his senior brothers who entered earlier. He successfully refined a lower-grade Post-Heaven Spirit Treasure in just two short years, his talent is indeed formidable. As for Kong Fang..."

  Jin Jiu didn't know what he was thinking of, but the look of astonishment in his eyes grew even stronger.

  "Come on, Master Shi Bo, say something." Zhao Binglan urged in a soft voice.

  "Kong Fang entered Huoyun Hall half a year ago, but yesterday, he actually refined a low-grade Post-Heaven Spirit Treasure." Jin Jiu stopped here and turned his head to look at Wei Shou and Zhao Bingxue, both of whom had expressions full of surprise, just as he had expected.

  "Sun Hao spent two years to refine the lower-grade Post-Heaven Spirit Treasure, and his innate talent was already extremely powerful. But Kong Fang actually only took half a year to achieve this step... then he..." Wei Shou suddenly found it hard to continue speaking."

  "But that's not the most surprising thing, what's even more surprising is that Kong Fang doesn't have a fire attribute talent at all, he has... an earth attribute talent!" Jin Jiu's voice was filled with thick astonishment.

  Jinjiu's boundary was the Ascension Realm, and he couldn't compare to the Equipment Refining Elder of the Transformation Realm. As a result, from start to finish, no one had discovered that Kong Fang possessed an Earth Attribute Heavenly Gift.

  "Earthly Heavenly Endowment?" Wei Shou and Zhao Binglan both looked at Jin Jiu with some incredulity.

  ……

  The cloud boat flew quickly in the sky, and Sun Hao and Kong Fang, who were sitting in the cloud boat, both had smiles on their faces, delighted with the harvest of seven or eight hundred contributions.

  Kong Fang patted the Yun Cloud Chariot with his hand and said somewhat excitedly, "This Yun Cloud Chariot is too convenient whether it's for going out on a mission or traveling. If we had to travel from the ground all the way to Blue Central Gate, who knows how many days it would take just to get there."

  Sun Hao shook his head and smiled, "The Cloud Chariot is indeed very convenient, but the contribution points required to exchange for it are too many, a full thousand contribution points. Unless it's for exchanging Soul Refining Techniques or powerful Dao techniques, generally no one would accumulate so many contribution points, they all use as much as they have to immediately improve their abilities in all aspects."

  Kong Fang was deeply moved by this, but he was different from others. He no longer needed to exchange Soul Refining Methods and Dao Methods. He didn't need to cultivate any techniques, formations, or treasures either. Kong Fang's current goal was to obtain the Primordial Treasure Five Elements Splitting Mirror, but it required accumulating 10,000 contribution points to exchange for the Five Elements Splitting Mirror. Later on, he would definitely have to leave the sect to complete tasks, and at that time, the Cloud Traveling Boat would be very important to Kong Fang.

  The airship sailed across the sky and flew quickly in the direction of where the artifact was located.

  Before long, the Xingyunzhou had already flown over thousands of miles, but at this moment, Kong Fang and Sun Hao were both suddenly shocked. Behind them, a white Xingyunzhou had suddenly appeared, and this Xingyunzhou was directly approaching their direction.

  "Isn't it just in line with our direction of advancement?" Sun Hao said with a hint of luck in his heart.

  Sun Hao had also often left the temple to perform tasks before, but he had never encountered any danger, so he was not sufficiently vigilant about danger.

  Kong Fang narrowed his eyes to size up the approaching Yunyun Chuan, and when he sensed the strong fluctuations of law power within it, Kong Fang's face suddenly changed, and he said in a row: "The other party is using law power to urge Yunyun Chuan, this can't be just passing by."

  Sun Hao also became anxious. Unless it was an emergency or a chase, no one would normally use their magical powers to propel the Cloud Chariot. The other party was clearly coming for them.

  Sun Hao hastily poured his spiritual power into the Flying Cloud Chariot, and its speed suddenly soared. However, the pursuers behind him were obviously much stronger than Sun Hao, so the distance between the two Flying Cloud Chariots continued to shrink at an alarming rate.

  "No way, if we keep going like this, they'll definitely catch up to us. Once a battle breaks out in the sky, it's very disadvantageous for us. Master brother, let's go down." Kong Fang said quickly.

  "Alright." Sun Hao responded with a single word, and the direction of Xingyun's advance changed abruptly, rapidly rushing towards the ground below.

  Below Kong Fang and Sun Hao was a continuous mountain range, where the trees were lush and verdant, blocking out the sky and sun, making it an easy place to hide.

  "Hmph, think you can run? It's not that easy." Behind him, there were over a dozen people on the Cloud Chariot. The leader was a large man wearing a cyan-black armor suit. One of his hands was channeling magic into the Cloud Chariot, while the other hand grasped a gigantic knife that was at least two meters long and half a meter wide, resembling a shield.

  "They're being watched by us, and even if they grow wings, it'll be hard for them to fly."

  "This is our territory, we are far more familiar with it than they are. To think of hiding from our pursuit in this mountain forest is simply a dream."

  The faces of the dozen or so people behind Da Han all revealed a ferocious smile.