Chapter 46: Earthquake in a Certain Place Delights People

  "Get out!" A loud shout came from the mansion. Along with the sound, a silver-white light column appeared in front of Wang Guang. The light column burst and split into thousands of white lights, with a golden pearl the size of a bowl mouth suspended in the center of the white light, floating up and down.

  Golden beads shook, and suddenly King Guang's head came crashing over. The Taoist didn't dare to linger; he stretched out his hand, and the red copper sand whizzed out. The two beads collided, and all that was heard was a loud crash, the golden bead rolled back, and the copper bead scattered in all directions.

  "Monster! You dare to insult me, you won't die a good death." Wang Guang opened his mouth and spat out a stream of cyan smoke. The smoke swept up the scattered copper pearls, which were assisted by Wang Guang's magical powers and reassembled together, but the seal that was embedded inside when they were first refined took effect.

  A three to five zhang-sized copper millstone slowly pressed down from the air towards the position where the golden bead was rolling, and a fierce thunder and fire flew out of the mansion, hitting the millstone only made it tremble, but did not break.

  Just as the millstone was about to fall into the mansion, a large golden hand rose from below and grabbed the millstone, throwing it fiercely towards Wang Guang.

  "You demonic path, why are you attacking us without reason? Are you relying on your status as a shrine maiden to act recklessly? We are all shrine maidens too, and today you come here causing trouble and destruction. A few of us will definitely have to make things clear with you." Voices came out from the mansion.

  The millstone flew upside down, and with just a flick of dust, it shrunk to the size of a dragon eye and fell into his hand.

  "Hah! Unprovoked attack on me? Are you few people out of your minds?! Just now, I was strolling around the Crown Prince's mansion, and a spell came from your direction to attack me. You think I wouldn't come over to ask for an explanation and vent my anger? How could that be possible?" Wang Guang sneered coldly, no longer fearing how many Qi-refining cultivators were below him. He knew that behind him, an unknown number of Qi-refining cultivators who served the Crown Prince had gathered, and if needed, they would certainly come to his aid.

  "What's more, I am a guardian of the imperial court, protecting the royal bloodline. You rebels have infiltrated the guardians to harm the crown prince, which is an unforgivable sin. Today, I represent the millions of people and come to execute you rebels." With a loud shout, he shook his head, and three to five streams of green smoke shot out from his mouth, falling into the copper sand. The copper sand suddenly surged, spinning in mid-air for a circle before fiercely smashing down.

  "It's utterly absurd." The voice came out again. A golden bead rose from the mansion, and for a moment, the golden beads and copper sand collided with each other. However, none of the other cultivators intervened, while Wang Guang and that person's fight also tried to restrain themselves.

  After dozens of rounds of fighting, a practitioner flew to Wang Guang's side and whispered: "Wang Dao friend, the Crown Prince has something to say. Today's matter is settled, it cannot be mentioned again. Another day will have the opportunity to avenge these people."

  "You mean to let me off the hook today? Fine! It just so happens that my magical powers have been severely depleted, and continuing to fight would only put me at a disadvantage. Leaving like this doesn't lose face either." Wang Guang was indeed thinking clearly, knowing that his family's attempt to kill someone to vent their anger had failed. Therefore, he readily agreed.

  Having said this, Wang Guang turned around and left without saying a harsh word.

  Wang Guang returned to the Grand Prince's mansion but did not enter, instead finding an inn nearby to stay. On one hand, he didn't want too much interaction with the prince, on the other hand, he wanted to find more time to meditate and practice his internal energy, in order to break through the fourth level of the Law as soon as possible.

  In the following days, the Crown Prince was assassinated and a capable general died. These two events caused the entire Imperial City to be in an uproar, with hundreds of people losing their heads and dozens of attendants leaving the Heavenly Wing Dynasty's Imperial Palace. Many officials in the court were promoted or demoted. The originally very peaceful Imperial City suddenly had undercurrents surging, with small-scale conflicts breaking out among various family forces every day. However, since no Qi Practitioners were disturbed, nobody paid attention to it.

  It was on this day that Wang Guang was sitting in meditation to cultivate his energy, and after feeling that the third layer of the law had already been unable to increase his own law power by half a point, he began to think about breaking through the third layer of the law and cultivating the fourth layer of the law.

  The fourth layer of the law required the meridians and acupoints to be walked through, which was one or two times more than the third layer. Relying on his extremely pure magical powers, he slowly opened up these meridians and acupoints, spending nearly a hundred days before thoroughly entering the fourth layer of the law.

  The fourth layer of the law, although it is still impossible to cultivate the next self-contained Taoist technique, can store seven or eight times more Fa Li than the third layer. Moreover, the Fa Li cultivated is much purer than that of the third layer. However, what makes Wang Guang most satisfied is not these, but after the fourth layer of the law, each absorption of purple energy has increased by more than tenfold.

  In the past, he could absorb dozens of strands of Purple Energy at a time, but now he can absorb one strand. This single strand of Purple Energy contains 108 strands of Purple Energy, which means that his cultivation efficiency is even higher than when he was in the sect.

  It so happened that on this day Wang Guang had nothing to do and was releasing his own red copper sand in the inn as he used to.

  This red copper sand is divided into two three-foot-sized grinding discs suspended in mid-air, one above and one below, one rotating clockwise and the other counterclockwise, with only about three feet between them.

  A refined copper ingot was thrown into the center of these two grinding discs by him, the grinding disc rotated, but it crushed the copper ingot and thoroughly absorbed it. Every time he absorbed a piece of copper ingot, Wang Guang felt that the power of this red copper sand increased a little bit, and at the same time, it became heavier by a little bit.

  In these nearly hundred days, Wang Guang has been constantly using the refined copper ingots sent by the eldest prince to enhance the power of his family's treasure, and its power is much greater than before.

  After the last copper ingot in front of him was completely absorbed by the red copper sand, the original 1,001 copper balls had increased to more than 2,000. It seemed that every time he absorbed a thousand jin of copper ingots, the copper sand would increase by one grain. In just over a hundred days, Wang Guang didn't know how many copper ingots he had absorbed in order to increase the power of his family's treasure.

  Every night, countless horse-drawn carriages transport copper ingots to this inn, and the entire inn has become Wang Guang's temporary palace. Just in the imperial city alone, more than a thousand people are busy transporting copper ingots for Wang Guang.

  "Take back all the copper ingots! I won't be needing them for these days." He weighed the copper sand in his hand, and with a swift movement, he swallowed it into his mouth, hiding it under his tongue.

  A thread of magical power flowed through the meridians and merged into the copper sand, nourishing the might of this treasure a little at a time.

  With a casual remark, the sturdy man who had carried the copper ingots into the room nodded repeatedly in response and turned to carry the copper ingots away again. Before long, the horse-drawn carriages that had been scattered outside the inn all turned around and slowly headed out of the city.

  "Hmph! The other day, you used your Taoist skills to attack me. Today, my treasure's power has grown stronger. It seems I need to find some trouble for you." With that thought, Wang Guang only transmitted a message to one of the Qi-refining guards protecting the Crown Prince, stating he needed to go out for a bit, before using his Hundred Miles Flash Movement technique to wrap himself in a flash of light and fly towards the city's outskirts.

  After obtaining a large number of gems from the Crown Prince, this Hundred Miles Flowing Light was refined by him three to five times again. Now that this treasure is deployed, although it can't be said to reach thousands of miles in the blink of an eye, it can still achieve a speed of over 500 miles per hour. It's just a pity that there aren't even better gems, otherwise this treasure would be even faster.

  Bao Guang rolled up his sleeves and then Wang Guang also became anxious, directly spitting out red copper sand.

  The copper sand turned into a scattered sand on the treasure light, wandering and rolling around. This way, although it made his flight speed slower, he could react at the fastest speed to resist when others suddenly attacked him. Moreover, Wang Guang had also tried privately before, a second-order one-breath thunderbolt bombarding the flowing copper sand, but the copper sand didn't even vibrate and was resisted.

  But Wang Guang had left the Imperial City, and according to his plan, he flew directly north towards a mountain valley. The mountain valley was only three to five thousand miles away from the Imperial City, and based on information provided by other deities, one of the Qi-refining cultivators who had fought with him in the mansion was hiding there, manipulating the laws of nature and swallowing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

  Those who offer sacrifices are very cunning, seeing that the situation is not good, they run away quickly and never give others a chance to surround them. Therefore, some of the offerings of the eldest prince sometimes go there to take a stroll when nothing happens, someone will fight for a while, no one will come back. Wang Guang also went there once or twice, once went past without anyone, another time went past and was chased back to the imperial city by a group of people who offered sacrifices. Today, going there is to try their luck again.

  Within three hours of flying, Wang Guang felt that the situation around him was not quite right. In his previous two flights here, although he hadn't encountered other offerings passing by, he could see people bustling about in the towns below, lively and noisy.

  He had just passed through three or five small towns in a row, but didn't see anyone coming out.

  Just as he was puzzled, a burst of resentment suddenly emerged from the front. This resentment is invisible to ordinary people, all of which are condensed after the death of innocent people who were killed.

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable! Could it be that someone has been killing the living beings below to gather resentment, and then collecting it to refine a treasure?" Seeing the sudden appearance of the resentment, Wang Guang couldn't help but wildly speculate.

  Although this resentment was also a precious thing for him, he didn't want to fight for it, lest he provoke unnecessary trouble.

  He never thought he wouldn't go looking for trouble, but trouble came looking for him instead.

  Originally, Wang Guang had turned around in mid-air, wanting to get away from the resentful aura and avoid suspicion. However, he didn't expect that the aura would follow him as he moved. When he walked left, the aura also went left. This situation made Wang Guang somewhat enlightened in his heart.

  "Venerable Infinite Heaven! Which fellow daoist has stopped me? Could it be that you have something to discuss with me?" Bao Guang spread out, over a dozen precious stones fell at his feet forming a one-zhang square light screen. Standing on the light screen, he held a feather duster in one hand and bowed his head in greeting, while using the other hand to conjure up dark thunder, preparing to attack.