Attacked by the Female Demon at the Beginning-Chapter 257 - The Fifth Chief

Chapter 257: The Fifth Chief

【Name: Jiang Hao】

【Age: 24】

【Cultivation: Mid-Stage Nascent Soul】

【Cultivation Techniques: Tianyin Hundred Revolutions, Primordial Heart Sutra】

【Divine Abilities: Nine Revolutions Death Replacement (Unique), Daily Appraisal, Clear Heart and Pure Mind, Hidden Spirit Manifestation, Divine Might, Withered Tree Meets Spring】

【Vital Energy: 36/100 (can be cultivated)】

【Cultivation: 34/100 (can be cultivated)】

【Divine Abilities: 0/3 (cannot be acquired)】

“Withered Tree Meets Spring?” (Spring here means revival.)

Upon seeing the divine ability, Jiang Hao was quite surprised.

“No wonder I felt like I couldn’t activate it; it turns out it’s not a conventional divine ability.”

This kind of divine ability targets the whole body and is passive.

Or perhaps it can only be activated after being injured.

With this speculation, he used Half-Moon to cut the skin on his palm.

Sure enough, Withered Tree Meets Spring automatically activated, and the wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However...

With his strength, even without activating a divine ability, such an injury could also recover very quickly. freewēbnoveℓ.com

“It seems I need to test the limits of this divine ability more.”

Overall, the healing ability wasn’t as exaggerated as he thought.

“In the long run, having this divine ability is a great thing, but for now, it seems somewhat superfluous.”

But it did make him a bit safer.

How much safer, depended on the limits of this divine ability.

After confirming the divine ability, he checked his cultivation and vital energy on the panel and found they were both over thirty.

By this time next year, he could advance to the late stage of Nascent Soul.

He just feared that if he had to go out on a mission in the meantime, he wouldn’t be able to get the bubbles from the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower.

Nowadays, most of the bubbles came from the Heavenly Fragrance Dao Flower.

“Nowadays, ordinary spiritual medicines rarely produce bubbles; I wonder what the situation is with mining.

Initially, I could get about twenty bubbles a day, but now getting two a day is considered very fast.”

Unfortunately, even though the mines were open, he had no reason to go there.

The downside of having merits was that he couldn’t be punished by being sent to the mines.

......

Another seven days passed.

Jiang Hao realized that there was only half a month left until the end of the planting mission.

He hadn’t had any harvest during this half month.

During this period, he returned the thousand spirit stones he owed to the Enforcement Peak, and they expressed regret that he had gotten into a lot of trouble recently and couldn’t take on missions for the time being.

Being too involved with traitors, it seemed the people from Enforcement Peak were even more concerned about it than he was.

Jiang Hao could only politely reply with “Thank you, Senior Sister, for your concern” and then leave.

Besides these events, he also tested the divine ability Withered Tree Meets Spring.

Injuries from magical treasures, spell injuries, physical injuries, poison damage, and a languishing Nascent Soul—all were within the healing range of Withered Tree Meets Spring.

It seemed that as long as the body was injured, Withered Tree Meets Spring would trigger, but the speed of recovery varied.

Some were very fast, while others took more time.

Indeed, it was much stronger than his own healing ability.

Not only that, but lately, he felt more and more vitality filling every corner of his body.

Even his meditation and cultivation had improved.

Withered Tree Meets Spring might be much more useful than he had anticipated.

......

December was approaching mid-month.

The planting mission was in its last three days.

By this time, most people’s spiritual medicines had matured.

Only Wan Xi’s Bailing Flowers were unable to mature because she watered them too little, as her plot was too close to Jiang Hao’s.

Since Jiang Hao had intervened last time, there had been no further quarrels among them.

On this day, everyone was chatting with a hint of joy in their words, seemingly happy that the mission was about to end.

At this moment, Jiang Hao arrived at the location of the Hundred Bones Forest.

Walking down the mountain path, he could see many spiritual medicines.

If he didn’t find anything in the next few days, he would have to return empty-handed.

After walking for a while, he saw a young girl with a basket going up the mountain.

She had her hair tied into twin braids and wore the common attire of a sect.

The moment Jiang Hao saw her, his pupils contracted.

Although the girl’s displayed cultivation level was mid-stage Foundation Establishment, there was an indescribable power in her every move.

Her strength exceeded that of Nascent Soul.

“Why is this Senior Brother staring at me?” the girl asked with a curious expression.

With the help of the Tianjue Gu poison, Jiang Hao’s expression remained unchanged, and his tone was calm, though with a hint of apology.

“I’m just surprised to see someone here for the first time. I didn’t mean to offend you, Junior Sister.”

“Is Senior Brother curious about the spiritual medicines here?” the girl asked with a smile.

“I work in the Spiritual Medicine Garden, so I want to familiarize myself with more spiritual medicines,” Jiang Hao replied softly.

“I see, but the spiritual medicines here can only be looked at, not touched. Most of them are favored by our Master. Unfortunately, we in the Hundred Bones Forest don’t know much about spiritual medicines. The most knowledgeable among the younger generation is Senior Brother Bai Ye, but he insists on staying in his residence and refuses to come out. So it’s up to a half-expert like me to take care of them,” the girl said with a shrug and a helpless expression.

“I understand,” Jiang Hao nodded.

“I heard that Senior Brother Bai Ye has challenged Senior Brother Man Long. If he succeeds, he’ll become one of the chief disciple.”

“I’ve heard about it too, but I feel that Senior Brother Bai Ye will fail. He’s not good at fighting, and the chief disciple position requires absolute strength. If it were based on talent in a certain area, he would definitely succeed,” the girl pointed to a nearby spiritual medicine and said.

“I’m going to check on the spiritual medicines. Do you want to come with me, Senior Brother?”

“Sure,” Jiang Hao nodded.

As the girl moved ahead, Jiang Hao finally found an opportunity to activate his divine ability.

Appraisal.

【Ye Yaqing: The fifth-ranked chief disciple of the Tianyin Sect, a true disciple of the Hundred Bones Forest, in the late stage of Spirit Refining cultivation, finds Bai Ye’s recklessness quite troublesome. She has a fondness for cultivating spiritual medicines, with a talent far surpassing ordinary people. Faced with the choice between becoming a powerful pill refiner and possessing absolute strength, she chose the latter, and despite appearing ordinary, she has always been in a position others look up to.】

Jiang Hao was inwardly astonished to learn that she was the fifth-ranked chief disciple.

Man Long was ranked tenth, with a complete Nascent Soul, while this Senior Sister Ye was in the late stage of Spirit Refining.

The gap in strength was enormous.

How powerful must the first-ranked be?

He had always heard about the strength of the chief disciples but had never seen it with his own eyes.

Now, seeing the fifth-ranked, he realized just how vast the difference was between them.

However, he believed he could catch up, given time; the future held promise.

Still, he was curious whether this Senior Sister knew about Bai Ye’s talents, given her own aptitude for spiritual medicines.

“Why does Junior Sister think Senior Brother Bai Ye will fail? I feel he could succeed,” Jiang Hao said.

“Why do you think so?” Ye Yaqing crouched down to look at a white flower as if pondering.

“Because I’ve heard it’s not easy to become a chief disciple, and Senior Brother Bai Ye’s strength is not yet sufficient.”

Not yet sufficient?

If someone in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment had said this, he wouldn’t have believed it, but coming from someone in the late stage of Spirit Refining, it was more credible.

However, he wouldn’t give up on finding a way to deal with Bai Ye; only by taking action himself could he feel secure.

“Are there many people who want to see Senior Brother Bai Ye now?” Jiang Hao asked.

He wanted to try to meet the other party or obtain something that belonged to him.

“Yes,” Ye Yaqing looked up and smiled:

“Many people want to see Senior Brother Bai Ye’s strength and then place their bets. Whenever someone issues a challenge in the sect, this kind of thing happens. Recently, some people even specifically buy some of Senior Brother Bai Ye’s pills. They’re just waiting for Senior Brother Bai Ye to become a chief disciple, then sell them at a high price, especially since the pills refined by a chief disciple fetch a higher price. By the way, I have a bottle of pills refined by Senior Brother Bai Ye here, the market price is thirty-five spirit stones, I’ll sell it to you for forty. If Senior Brother Bai Ye really gets promoted, you could sell it for fifty. Absolutely genuine.”

Jiang Hao: “...”

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