Heaven Refining physique-Chapter 54: Bait

"If you have left anything in your cave abode, then go and collect it."

After saying that, she vanished.

Jiang Hao doesn’t have anything left in the cave abode, so he doesn’t need to do anything for now. He came to the cliff and looked towards the whole sect.

The competition was still going on. He sighed in his heart. Just a moment ago, he was complaining about how he didn’t want to participate and wanted to leave, and his wish got fulfilled in a completely different manner.

Since it has come to this, he had to talk with Huan Caiyi about what he thought before. Since this all happened because he wasn’t careful enough, he could at least not involve them in his problems.

He had means to survive alone, and he also had means to protect himself from any kind of dangerous situation. It was possible because of this ring.

In fact, he had feelings that he still didn’t understand the ring completely, even though he had already bound it to him. After all, he wasn’t the sole owner of this ring. If he wasn’t wrong, then this ring’s real master is that woman, whom he doesn’t even know how to meet again.

He waited for Huan Caiyi to meet him again. He sat near a tree and started comprehending his cultivation technique.

After 1 hour, Huan Caiyi came to him again. He opened his eyes and looked at her.

"Collecting everything was really tiring, so are you ready?"

"Elder, I wanted to talk to you about something."

"Hm... You even talk? That’s new, go on. And also, don’t call me elder, call me senior from this day onwards."

Jiang Hao sighed internally when he heard that. It’s true he loves to stay quiet, but it doesn’t mean he will not even talk when it’s necessary.

"Senior, I wanted to tell you that I have means to survive alone. Unless they use the specific weapons you mentioned before, they won’t be able to touch me even if I deliberately approached them.

So, senior, I can act as bait and go alone from here onwards. It will divert their attention to me, and I will let them chase me for some time before disappearing altogether.

This way they will always be afraid of me and will try everything to find me, and I am also quite confident in hiding under their noses.

After thinking it through, I think it will be the best scenario if I went alone."

Huan Caiyi looked at him deeply and asked.

"What’s your age?"

Jiang Hao got stunned for a second but still answered.

"I am 16 years old now."

"Really? And here I thought I was listening to an old man with 1000 years of experience.

You thought it through, you say?"

She approached close to him and smiled.

Jiang Hao felt a bad premonition, and as expected, she raised her hand which was already closed as a fist. He had already tasted one of her bumps, so he tried to dodge but wasn’t able to as it was just too fast.

Smackkk!

This was even stronger than before. He rubbed his head and looked towards her. Who knows if she was done yet or not. To his relief, she didn’t hit him again.

"So, I guess that thing you are relying on is the reason why you pulled this stupidity in the first place, right? I don’t know what you’re thinking, but even if you acted like bait, it won’t change anything.

And forget about you being a bait, we won’t even allow that. Do you think we are so miserable to have a 16-year-old kid act as bait for us? And what’s with this tone of yours, making us look like we are some strangers to you.

Looks like I haven’t shown enough love to you. Don’t worry, from the next training sessions I will definitely keep that in mind."

Jiang Hao smiled bitterly. He just wanted to suggest what he thought was best. He doesn’t really think of them as strangers or something. After living together for this long with them, he already felt quite close to them.

"Let’s say you acted like bait as you wanted. Do you know why I said it won’t change anything at all? I doubt you thought this through, as your 1000-year-old mind can only hold so much after all.

So listen carefully. Do you know why they didn’t attack us for all these years? It’s not only because they feared that we would enter the forbidden zone, it was also because Ming Yue was only one person.

And because of this, do you think the other sect, which is Ethereal Cloud Sanctuary, would allow Azure Sky Sect to get their hands on her easily?

Of course not. That’s why they balanced each other out by keeping watch on themselves. Unless they reached some resolution, they wouldn’t have attacked us.

And they would have reached some resolution eventually, as they wouldn’t want Ming Yue to grow up and become uncontrollable for them.

But everything changed when you arrived. Now they both have a chance to get one of you. So they must have already come to a decision on who will get you or Ming Yue.

So even if you acted as bait, only one of them would have fallen for it. The other one wouldn’t even care about it as they will focus on their own target."

Jiang Hao sighed and admitted internally that he really didn’t think of that.

"Forget whatever you said now, and don’t even mention it again in front of Ming Yue. She will definitely feel more hurtful knowing that you even thought this way.

I know you were trying to decrease the burden on us, but sometimes your decision might not give you the result you wanted, so always think through different perspectives before making a stupid decision like this in the future.

Now be ready to move if you don’t have anything else to do. We will leave once Meiying comes with Zhi Hui and Ming Yue."

Jiang Hao nodded and stood up. After a short time of waiting, Meiying came with Ming Yue and Zhi Hui. Huan Caiyi again put her hands on his shoulders, and they arrived on the back of Meiying.

Without stopping, they flew out of the sect. Their destination was the border city of the Zhu Kingdom where he met with Ming Yue for the first time.

There was pin-drop silence between them before Ming Yue finally broke it.

"Aunt, do you think they will follow us?"

"Of course they will. They already made enemies of us. If they are unsuccessful in getting you two, they will want to make sure that you guys die.

And the only way to ensure that is to make sure we live in the forbidden zone as long as possible. Entering the forbidden zone even with our strength is quite dangerous, so even if they don’t follow us inside, they will definitely block our exits from it."

"But Dark Forest is too big to be blocked completely by them."

"It is, but they will always patrol it with their spirit senses every day. So it will be quite difficult for us to leave without alerting them. Unless we have Transference Talismans, we won’t be able to leave for a long time."

"So, we will be living in the forbidden zone from now on?"

"Living? You think too lightly of these zones. Once we enter it, you will find out how humans used to survive in ancient times when there was no peace treaty in this world.

Nowadays, cultivators have become quite weak, as there isn’t any danger of being killed at any time. The ancient era was far more dangerous, but it was also the most glorious era in which the strongest human cultivators appeared.

It was also because of these cultivators that the peace treaty of today was possible. The upper world cultivators with whom these two sects are in contact with are those seniors."

Jiang Hao listened to everything calmly. He doesn’t know how his life will be in a forbidden zone, but it will definitely be better than living under restrictions.

He will be free to roam there, and that’s what he wanted. In fact, he can even easily make round trips with the help of his ring.

He always preferred living in the wild. It felt more home-like to him than any other place.

After some time, they came above the city.

"Wait here, I’ll be back."

After saying that, Huan Caiyi left.

Zhi Hui was still there, and she seemed to be quite focused on their surroundings.

...

Huan Caiyi directly arrived in front of Yu Hang and threw 20,000 spirit stones.

"I hope you liked our services, Fairy Huan. It was quite risky for us to get this news, as they had tried to hide it as much as possible."

"Stop flattering yourself. Everyone knows about your Sky Pavilion’s treasure. Others even assume that you guys have some connections in the upper world."

"Hehe... How can that be true, Fairy Huan? We were just lucky enough to find it."

"Whatever. Have you collected the Transference Talismans?"

"That was a really hard task. Even in the central region, it’s in huge demand, but since you asked, we were able to collect some."

He brought out 5 talismans.

"Two major ones and three minor ones. That’s all we were able to get our hands on."

"Say the price."

"Since it’s an on-demand request, it will be costly — total 80,000 spirit stones, 25,000 for each major one and 10,000 for each minor one. How many do you want then?"