Chapter 597 Give up struggling

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"What... thing is this" Duan Yao looked at Hao Ren with astonishment and caution.

"The Northern Dipper Sword Technique, the latter half," said Hao Ren.

"You..." Duan Yao glared angrily at Hao Ren. Did he really steal the first half of the Northern Dipper Sword Technique and now want to get his hands on the second part

She gritted her teeth. "Fine, you untie me and I'll find it for you."

Hao Ren lightly touched the ropes with his hand, and the wood-based spirit energy dissolved them.

He could see that Duan Yao was seriously injured as well. Moreover, he had just measured her spirit energy; she barely had any left in her meridians and couldn't use tricks anymore.

Duan Yao shook her slightly red hands and reached into the inner pocket of her clothes.

Zheng!

She suddenly pulled out a small knife and thrust it towards Hao Ren's neck!

Hao Ren was prepared. With his right hand, he lightly grasped her small knife. But Duan Yao promptly released the knife and pounced on Zhao Yanzi.

Zhao Yanzi, who was treating her injuries, saw Duan Yao suddenly charge at her and thrust out a fist.

Duan Yao's hands opened up Zhao Yanzi's fists, then rammed her head into Zhao Yanzi's chest and bit down hard on Zhao Yanzi's wrist!

In this punch, rub, and collision, it was evident that Duan Yao was more skilled in fist fighting.

"Ouch!" Zhao Yanzi cried out in pain. This Duan Yao was ruthless; she had bitten down hard on her wrist with her teeth.

She hated Zhao Yanzi to the bone, and this sudden attack was purely for vengeance. She might as well go all out since it didn't matter if she died now that she lacked spirit energy!

Zhao Yanzi couldn't retract her wrist; with her other arm, she made a fist and struck Duan Yao's head.

Duan Yao pressed down on Zhao Yanzi as the punch landed on her shoulder. They rolled onto the ground, screaming and fighting chaotically.

Hao Ren hadn't expected them to suddenly start fighting; he quickly reached out his hand and grabbed Duan Yao.

But Duan Yao was ferocious and turned around to punch Hao Ren in the face.

Her boxing skills had been imparted by some of the masters of Mount Tiangshan. However, Hao Ren practiced boxing as well; he quickly raised his right hand and caught her fist in his palm.

Hao Ren took another half step back and pulled hard. Duan Yao lost balance and crashed into Hao Ren's arms.

"Thief!" Duan Yao gritted her silver teeth and punched郝仁again.

Hao Ren grabbed her fist again, twisted slightly, and folded both her hands behind her back.

Duan Yao struggled fiercely but couldn't break free from Hao Ren's control.

"Where are your cultivation techniques" Hao Ren asked her.

"I don't have any!" Duan Yao shouted.

"Didn't you say that if I untie you, you would give me the cultivation techniques"

Spit!

Suddenly, Duan Yao raised her foot and stomped hard on Hao Ren's foot.

Hao Ren easily dodged and slid sideways by half a step. He held onto both her palms with one hand, making it impossible for Duan Yao to stand up, so she sat down next to the stone chair.

Blood was seeping from the wound on her abdomen, yet her eyes were still full of anger as they glared at Hao Ren. Her teeth were tightly clenched; there wasn't even a hint of pleading for mercy towards Hao Ren.

Indeed, cultivators above the Fifth Layer of Heaven were far more tenacious than those same-aged girls on land. Hao Ren took out an antidote pill, crushed it, and sprinkled it onto her clothes before glancing back at Zhao Yanzi.

The spot where Duan Yao had hit her head and the bite mark on her shoulder began to bleed again, while a deep tooth mark was left on her wrist.

With gritted teeth, Zhao Yanzi glared hatefully at Duan Yao. If she could move, she would have rushed over to fight with Duan Yao!

The little white beast sitting beside them bared its fangs and snarled at Duan Yao, ready to pounce.

It had no affection for Duan Yao either; in previous encounters, this girl's attacks were always heavy-handed. This time, the Golden Light Seal had inflicted internal injuries all over little white’s body.

If not for Hao Ren telling it not to act rashly, given its nature, it would have already pounced on her and bitten her several times.

"Purple, take another one," Hao Ren tossed a detoxification pill to Zhao Yanzi.

This time, Duan Yao clearly saw that Hao Ren threw out a Fourth Tier detoxification pill! Such Fourth Tier pills could almost cure all the poisons in heaven and earth; yet they were treating them as mere medicinal remedies!

Thinking about how Hao Ren crushed a Fourth Tier pill for her just now, Duan Yao felt somewhat shocked.

Even in their Heaven Mountain Sect, known for its expertise in alchemy, such wasteful use of pills was unheard of!

"Humph! Your pills must have been begged from Ancestor Medicine King!" Duan Yao thought for a moment and said.

In the Fifth Layer of Heaven, only the Medicine King Ancestor on Mysterious Mist Peak could refine Fourth Tier medicinal pills!

"What" Hao Ren looked at her.

This little girl was particularly stubborn, and Hao Ren was worried that she wouldn't speak up or would resort to desperate measures. Now that she had suddenly brought up the topic, it could be a突破口.

"I’ll tell you! The Medicine King Ancestor has an immense connection with our Tian Shan Sect! I’ve even met the Medicine King Ancestor once. If you guys are smart, let me go!" Duan Yao said while rolling her eyes.

She thought that these "urban" people wouldn’t be afraid of the Sixth Tier’s Tian Shan Sect but should fear the renowned Fifth Tier’s Medicine King Ancestor.

The Medicine King Ancestor had a snow lion, and if one were to say there was some connection between Tian Shan Sect and him, it could勉強hold up. Duan Yao claimed she had met the Medicine King Ancestor once, referring to her trip to Mysterious Peak for medicinal pills; on this basis, she slightly exaggerated to scare Hao Ren and the others.

Because when she mentioned the Medicine King Ancestor, Hao Ren’s eyelid twitched. This indicated that they still feared the Medicine King Ancestor.

Hao Ren looked at her and suddenly found Duan Yao’s傻cute as well. She didn’t know this place was Mysterious Peak when captured here but tried to fabricate a connection with the "Medicine King Ancestor" to intimidate Hao Ren and the others…

"Do you know where you are" Hao Ren asked her.

"This is Evil Valley!" Duan Yao couldn’t see the whole valley’s layout, only sensing it was a closed-off one, thus blurting out.

Hao Ren smiled; he thought this fierce girl wasn’t too intelligent.

Actually, Duan Yao had come to Mysterious Peak following a map last time and hadn’t paid attention to her surroundings as she chased after Zhao Yanzi. Thus, she was completely unaware that she was within Mysterious Peak.

Swoosh!

Seeing Hao Ren relax his guard, Duan Yao suddenly pulled out a small dagger from her clothes and stabbed toward Hao Ren horizontally.

Hao Ren released a beam of sword light with his fingertips that clattered against the dagger, breaking it into two pieces.

Damn, how many weapons does this little brat hide

Hao Ren looked at her green silk shirt, secretly astonished.

Seeing Hao Ren examining her clothes, Duan Yao cautiously held onto herself with both hands and patted her clothes to say, "None left!"

No sooner had she spoken than two small knives stabbed toward Hao Ren!

Ping ping!

Hao Ren knocked the two small knives away with his hands and looked at her helplessly.

"This time… really… none left." Duan Yao stared at Hao Ren innocently.

Hao Ren sighed slightly, releasing a beam of golden sword qi that circled around her body; ding-ding-ding... three more small knives were sucked out.

Duan Yao pursed her lips and put on a "dead pig不怕開水" expression.

These daggers were all hidden in her body when she came to the fifth layer of heaven this time as self-defense. From the last fight with Zhao Yanzǐ, where she suffered heavy losses, she finally realized that it was necessary to hide more weapons on her person. But...

Hao Ren took hold of three small knives spinning back and looked at her, "Do I need to search your body myself"

Duan Yao's face turned red, "If you dare to touch me, I'll die right in front of you!"

The palm of Hao Ren slightly clenched, turning those three small steel knives into a lump of metal instantly. Then, the Sword and Shadow Art started again; all these high-grade materials were digested into elemental spirit energy, leaving only some scraps that fell to the ground.

Duan Yao looked at Hao Ren in shock and felt even more convinced that he wasn't a Core Formation cultivator because even those with Golden Spiritual Roots among Core Formation cultivators couldn't instantly crush such high-quality steel knives. Moreover, transforming materials directly into spirit energy was out of the question!

Actually, converting these materials into Hao Ren's body would produce only ordinary metallic elemental spirit energy, which might not be as good as natural aura from heaven and earth. Still, scaring her with this display wasn't bad.

"Hmm..." Xie Yujia slightly turned over and rubbed her head before slowly sitting up.

Seeing that Duan Yao had been untied and obediently seated in the chair in front of Hao Ren, she was somewhat surprised.

However, upon seeing Hao Ren, she remembered his calligraphy when copying "Thousand Character Classic." She turned around to draw a vermilion cinnabar brush pen from beside her bed and took out a talisman paper, quickly drawing a talisman.

The vermilion cinnabar brush pen and talisman paper were originally taken by Zhao Yanzǐ from the storage bags of cultivators in the fifth layer of heaven. Xie Yujia kept them here mainly to copy some alchemical materials. However, seeing Hao Ren writing "Thousand Character Classic" in regular script and clerical script yesterday, she suddenly thought that talismans were also a form of attack.

"Hao Ren, this is a Sealing Spirit Talisman. Strike her back with it to prevent her from escaping," Xie Yujia raised the talisman and said to Hao Ren.

The Old Lady had given her "Talisman Art: All Laws Return to Talismans" which contained detailed knowledge on various talismans, which she memorized in secret during cultivation. Now, drawing them with Golden Seal Double Talismans came naturally to her.

Heaven Mountain Sect studied a wide range of miscellaneous subjects quite thoroughly; as the daughter of the sect leader, Duan Yao had some basic knowledge about talismans.

Talismans were auxiliary forms of attack for low-level cultivators and would often be taken on expeditions. However, such "Sealing Spirit Talismans" belonged to a higher level than basic fire or water talismans and required specialized talent as a talisman artist to make them.

But this female cultivator had simply drawn one!

How could she know that the best at playing with talismans was her teacher, "Scattered Person of Clear Wind," whose Talisman Art: All Laws Return to Talismans could transform all heavenly and earthly skills into talismans.

Xie Yujia's current realm wasn't high enough for her to create talismans without special talisman paper. But once she reached the same level as Clear Wind Scattered Person, she could draw talismans in empty space and directly shoot them into a cultivator's body! Even other Soul Formation Realm cultivators would be at risk of falling victim to Clear Wind Scattered Person.

Therefore, among Soul Formation Realm cultivators, there was an adage: "It is better to meet the King of Hell than to offend Clear Wind."

Hmm... hmm...

The Golden Light Shield in Hao Ren's芥子空間was restless again.with the third layer of Condensation Technique. Compared to before, where only water attribute enhancement could break through the Kan level, now all five elements were balanced and could collectively...