Light Cultivation
Eps. 40 — Shaded Places
Jian Chen left the Night Flower faction after making sure the masked group did not turn back again.
He could not be there for too long especially when the members of Yun Mei had slowly awakened. Jian Chen was also actually keeping his strength a secret so as not to be too conspicuous of others.
Yun Mei herself understood Jian Chen's feelings so she did not ask any further about the identity of the young man who helped her, moreover Jian Chen always switched the conversation when he asked about the name.
“If you need something in the future come to our faction, I will welcome you with pleasure.” Yun Mei then give Jian Chen a special name plate. “With this plate you can meet me and be considered an important guest of our faction.”
Jian Chen accepted the badge, nodding, thanking Yun Mei for the offer. Although Jian Chen himself was not sure whether to go to the Night Flower faction or even visit there.
After Jian Chen bade away, Yun Mei and the other 2 women observed the young man from afar before his shadow disappeared.
“Chairman Yun seems like he is not an ordinary person?” one of his subordinates whispered, asking Yun Mei quietly.
Yun Mei let out a long breath. “I also feel so, his fighting ability is very high not to mention I feel a great power scattered from within his body.”.
“What Chairman can see his cultivation level?” Asked the subordinate in astonishment, he had already tried several times to look at Jian Chen's strength yet he was unable to palpate the young man's cultivation level.
“No, that person's cultivation is indeed inexplicable even by the sight of my clan's techniques. I can only feel the aura of his unusual power.”
“Then what about the previous sword technique case, isn't it like the Niu Clan's sword technique?”
Yun Mei sighed again, she was also actually curious about the matter.
At once, in Qianshan Academy there was only one girl who came from the Niu clan, Niu Meily herself, and she was also the only woman who could use her clan's techniques in this academy.
‘Is it possible that the young man is indeed from the Niu clan?’ yun Mei's inner self was inwardly however the thought was immediately dismissed by her considering she knew the special rules of the clan.
In order to keep his sword techniques from being stolen by others, the Niu Clan restricted his interactions with the outside world. One result of his policy was that the Niu clan only contributed 1 Academy student per 5 years and that disciple was now Niu Meily.
If not for the development and experience of his son in the future, that Clan Leader Niu might not be willing to send his son to study at the academy.
“Now, I can't be sure if the technique did come from the Niu clan or not, which is definitely due to his sword technique, making us survive the blaze.”
His two subordinates nodded in agreement, had Jian Chen not swung his sword earlier perhaps the three of them would have been dead toasted.
“We keep this meeting a secret from the others and don't tell me anything about his sword technique regardless if he is from the Niu Clan or not. As a thank you we should keep quiet about meeting the young man earlier.”.
Naturally Yun Mei realized that Jian Chen did not want her to be known, if the young man wished so then Yun Mei and her 2 subordinates would keep this a secret.
“Quiet Chairman, compared to him who saved our lives keeping his secret is about easy.”
Yun Mei nodded in satisfaction, she then saw her members starting to wake up from the sleeping poison.
After this Yun Mei planned to end the hunt and then exit the competition arena, according to him if continued would be dangerous for its members considering the faction is now targeted by the Golden Dragon faction.
Partly with the gems he collected, they felt enough with the results of 5 days of this competition took place.
After meeting with the Night Flower faction, Jian Chen did not continue cultivating but instead hunted down the demon that was about to attack him.
It turned out that the closer he got to the hill in the middle of the Silent Forest then the more and more powerful the demon attacked him. The demons he encountered also had an age of about 30 years and above.
Jian Chen was moving not without direction but was heading where his faction was. Just now with the Night Flower faction, Jian Chen also did not forget to ask about the existence of his faction.
A few hours passed eradicating the demons while moving forward, Jian Chen had already sucked 50 gems into his s.p.a.ce Ring.
Actually without having to hunt anymore Jian Chen was confident of winning this competition. Jian Chen hunted back just wanting to enlarge the reward to be obtained for his faction later.
When the sun rose, he never met because the sky above looked dark and cloudy.
“Hm.. I think it's still night it's raining.” Jian Chen sped up his pace to find shelter before it rained.
A large hill-legged cave was discovered by Jian Chen by accident, Jian Chen decided to take shelter there.
Jian Chen's footsteps halted near the mouth of the cavern so large, as he looked inside he felt a dense darkness like the cave had no end.
The air around Jian Chen also got colder when he entered, so he started picking up tree branches near the cave to make a bonfire so that he remained warm.
Not long millions of drops of water slowly fell, the morning rain was very heavy because it was accompanied by strong winds, making the trees around it look more slanted.
“I think the rain will be very long.” Looking at the dark sky Jian Chen chose to delay the trip to his faction for a while.
He sat on one of the rocks near the campfire and took advantage of his time to cultivate. The originally extremely dark cave looked radiant as Jian Chen was cultivating.
During the day, the rain outside still has no signs of stopping, rather than subsiding even more heavily.
Jian Chen's eyes slowly opened and a wide smile was engraved from his face after cultivating a full 5 hours. Three of his 8 meridians had been fulfilled after absorbing light for this amount of time.
According to Jian Chen with just his 3 meridians alone he could match the strength of a Stage 6 or 7 Soul realm, not to mention the amount of his inner power had already increased by a lot which was around 140 circles.
The Silver Light God only needs 200 inner power circles as a condition, if it is estimated to stay another 6 months until he can reach the realm.
Jian Chen finished his cultivation, seeing the rain still fluttering which made him unable to go anywhere he thought of going down this cave especially when looking into the dark depths of the cave.
Actually Jian Chen was a little strange with the condition of the cave he stopped at because even though there was a bonfire near the cave it still felt cold.
Jian Chen picked up one of the twigs in the bonfire and took it as a torch, Jian Chen wanted to go into this cave further.
The power within Jian Chen had flowed all over his body so that the coldness of this cave was reduced, but when a few steps moved into the cave it turned out to be colder than expected.
Jian Chen gulped. “It looks like this cave is not an ordinary cave.” even though just a glance Jian Chen felt there was an odd aura in the cave.