Chapter 149 - Chapter 149: Chapter 149: I Want to Enter the Ancestral Land

Chapter 149: Chapter 149: I Want to Enter the Ancestral Land

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Dragon Valley, at the doorway of Ao Yan’s small courtyard, Ao Cheng stood alone.

He no longer exuded the aura of a spoiled young master. Instead, he gave off a chilling air.

Ao Cheng’s face was firm. He gave Ao Yan’s courtyard a long, deep glance then furrowed his brows and left.

Soon, Ao Cheng arrived in the Dragon Palace. At this time, Ao Wan was busy to distraction. Since the last massive battle with the Gu Clan in Dragon Valley, he had a lot on his plate.

Moreover, because of GuBei, Ao Wan’s position as the Clan Head was somewhat unstable.

“Have you gone to see your sister?” Once Ao Wan noticed Ao Cheng’s arrival, he continued with his work.

Ao Cheng nodded: “She is still in seclusion and training, refusing to see me.”

“Give her some time…”

At this point, Ao Wan sighed and stopped what he was doing: “Those damned elders, only thinking of their own interests while claiming to be acting for Dragon Valley’s wellbeing. A bunch of bastards forcing my daughter into this state – they should all go to hell!”

By the end, Ao Wan’s expression had become filled with rage.

He was furious. Even with Dragon Valley in its current state, those jerks didn’t know how to unify. Instead, they planned to ally with the Gu Clan, nearly driving him to madness.

Across him, Ao Cheng looked indifferent, a far cry from his spoiled young master persona.

“Father, I want to enter our ancestral lands.” Ao Cheng suddenly spoke. Ao Wan, who was frowning deeply, abruptly raised his head: “What do you intend to do there?”

“What to do?”

Ao Cheng sneered: “Of course, it’s to become stronger, to reclaim the face we lost. I, Ao Cheng, might have been a useless individual with no ambition, but no one can humiliate me like that!” “And definitely not my sister! ”

“You…”

Ao Wan watched Ao Cheng, remaining silent for a long time before finally nodding: “You’ve grown up, my son. Are you sure you want to go to our ancestral lands? Once you enter, there’s a strong chance you might never leave.”

“No matter, even if I can’t leave, even if it takes hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years, I will break the seal.”

Ao Cheng’s eyes were filled with determination, but there was another thing he didn’t say aloud.

He was going to find Jiang Xiaobai.

Ao Cheng was never one to not stand by his words. Initially, he promised to protect Jiang Xiaobai but failed to do so. Now, the whereabouts of Jiang Xiaobai were unknown, and he was determined to find him.

To see him alive or his body in death.

Not just because he failed to keep his promise, but more importantly, Jiang Xiaobai was the only person Ao Cheng had ever recognized.

A moment later, Ao Wan sighed, waved his hand, and the floor of the Dragon Palace sunk in, revealing a dark cave in front of Ao Cheng with steps leading downwards.

Standing in front of the cave, Ao Cheng squinted his eyes. Then, with a cold snort, he strode in.

“Jiang Xiaobai, you better stay alive, and wait for this young master to bring you back to Dragon Valley!”

In a dense forest within the central region of the Eastern Territory, Jiang Xiaobai squinted his eyes, observing his surroundings. According to his analysis of the information found in the “Meandering Veins Record”, there was definitely a spirit stone mine nearby.

This was the fourth area he inspected, and it was the most likely spot.

Thinking of this, he took out the “Meandering Veins Record”. The book immediately floated in the air and flipped a few pages, and then Jiang Xiaobai felt a realtime map appear in his mind.

In an instant, he saw a red dot located underground – indeed a spirit stone mine.

A smile appeared on Jiang Xiaobai’s face. Just as he was about to use his earth-traveling ability to dive underground, he suddenly felt a sharp sensation all over his body, as if needles were poking him.

In a split second, Jiang Xiaobai followed his instinct, activated his spiritual shield, and turned around to rush to the side.

Crack!

A giant hammer made of black crumbled energy fiercely smashed onto the ground, forming a large pit. Huge cracks spread out around it.

Turning around and seeing what happened, Jiang Xiaobai spat out blood in anger. It was those three idiots again!

Before he could recover, black bandages appeared like a tide in the air, forming into a giant hammer and smashing towards Jiang Xiaobai’s head.

In a blink of an eye, Jiang Xiaobai scoffed. The Abyssal Rainbow sword appeared in his hand, and with a few flashes of sword light, the bandage hammer disintegrated into floating fluff.

“Big brother, this kid got stronger!”

“So what are we waiting for? Let’s get out of here. We can’t beat him head-on.”

“Big brother is brilliant!”

Jiang Xiaobai could vaguely hear the idiotic dialogue from the edge of the battlefield, and his face darkened. He couldn’t believe that those three morons could actually follow him all the way to this place.

This place was at least hundreds of thousands of miles away from Tianyuan City. Did those three have dog noses?

“Enough is enough!” Jiang Xiaobai exclaimed grumpily.

At this moment, he was quite depressed. These guys were like relentless maggots, impossible to shake off.

That would have been fine if they were willing to fight him face to face. Jiang Xiaobai wasn’t afraid before, and he certainly wasn’t afraid now, especially since his post-celestial spiritual-treasure sword had recovered some of its power.

The problem was, the opponents never faced him head on. They always ambushed him, while Jiang Xiaobai was unable to find any trace of the three morons.

This enraged him. The most deadly and annoying enemies were those who hid in the shadows.

The opponents’ attacks were quite powerful, so if they managed to catch him off-guard, Jiang Xiaobai could potentially end up dead.

With a fierce glare towards the direction where the sound had come from, there was nothing Jiang Xiaobai could do but make his getaway.

He flew swiftly through the sky for quite a while before doing a dive and using his earth-traveling ability to head towards the place where he had detected a spirit stone mine.

There really was a spirit stone mine underground, but it wasn’t big. Its total worth was some two to three hundred million top-grade spirit stones, which Jiang Xiaobai didn’t hesitate to collect.

However, he did not feed it to his post-celestial spiritual-treasure sword right away. Not only because he knew this amount of spirit stones was not enough, but he was also saving them to feed to the Seven Treasures Pagoda.

Plus, he needed the spirit stones to increase his own power!

So, considering all this, damn, two to three hundred million spirit stones just weren’t enough!

Once he successfully breaks through to the Transcendence stage, the Seven Treasures Pagoda will become his greatest weapon. The amount of spirit stones needed then won’t be small.

He had to plan ahead.

Then Jiang Xiaobai started madly searching for spirit stone mines. He searched like this for three whole days and only ended up with one mine, the total content of which was barely seventy to eighty million top-grade spirit stones.

Despite this, he was still content. After all, if spirit stone mines were so easy to find, wouldn’t everyone be rich?

Emerging from the earth, Jiang Xiaobai planned to find a place to rest for a while. But he hadn’t gone far before he suddenly heard the sound of fighting up ahead..