Chapter 545: Chapter 545

Lan Guye was amazed by the bountiful golden apples shining on the tree. His instinct for danger flared when he tried to reach out towards the tree and pull back. He one again made another calculation. After that, his face turned serious as he threw a flame talisman towards the tree and took a distance.

The sound of something exploding caught the attention of Sect Master Xing Kunlun, Xing Suiri and Xia Baiyu.

Xia Baiyu asked, "Eh? What is he doing? Attacking such a precious tree!"

"No. Something is wrong!" Xing Suiri said.

The moment the smoke faded, something seems to be burned and is surrounding the Golden Star Apple Tree.

Something in camouflage showed itself when that attack from Lan Guye had hit it. It’s a small star beast whose scale pattern is unexpectedly the background of the Golden Star Apple Tree making it blend accordingly to this small land. Fortunately, it’s only at Mid Yuanying Realm.

Lan Guye readied his weapon and shouted to the Sect Master and Senior Brothers. "I will defeat it! Please focus on your opponent."

The other three felt relaxed as they focused on their own opponents. Even though Lan Guye and the star beast in front of him was on the same realm he was still able to defeat it and finally took half of the fruits on the tree. He flew back on the edge of the cliff and informed the others.

He shouted, "I got it!"

Upon hearing it, Sect Master Xing Kunlun no longer held back and overpowered the star beast in front of him and even grabbed the ones Xia Baiyu and Xing Suiri holding back making the two star beast bumps each other. Moreover, Lan Guye also didn’t kill the one guarding the tree. Only restraining it as he flew away. He realizes that this star beast was unable to leave the river of star which meant the cliff itself.

Xia Baiyu and Xing Suiri fly back to the surface where Lan Guye is waiting and they wait for Sect Master Xing Kunlun to rejoin into their group.

Sect Master Xing Kunlun said to the star beasts, "We didn’t take everything and left half for you. I will place a formation to hide this place before we leave. Take it as payment for the fruits we had taken."

The two adult star beast nods lowered their heads in agreement to Sect Master Xing Kunlun’s words. Only then did Xing Kunlun return to the surface and keep his promise to place a formation on this cliff making it disappear in one’s naked eyes.

Seeing that the human expert had kept his promise the family of three star beasts were delighted. With them hidden , they can accumulate enough strength to increase their cultivation. Moreover, they can feel affinity from those humans.

The smallest star beast asked, "Father, is it alright to let them go?"

"Son, it’s alright. That one wields the power of star better than us. We are lucky enough he had no intention to kill us," said the female adult star beast.

The male adult star beast says, "With this barrier we can train in peace. Once we break free from the limits of this hall, it’s not bad to find them again."

"Yes. Those who wield the power of the star can easily leave this planet when they reach Huashen and can traverse space at Mahayama Realm."

Meanwhile above the cliff, Sect Master Xing Kunlun praised the three geniuses of his sect.

"You three did a good job! Let’s change locations. I can feel someone approaching," said Sect Master Xing Kunlun.

"Yes, Sect Master (Shizun)!" The three disciples said collectively and followed their sect master to leave the area.

Under the lead of Sect Master Xing Kunlun, he took the three disciples of his sect away from the cliff. They felt people coming over. To avoid the star beasts’ situation getting complicated they left immediately trying to confuse the enemies that they already got whatever treasure is there in this area. A few minutes after they left, a group of three men with one leading at Huashen Realm stopped at the same location at where the last group had stayed. Nᴇw ɴovel chaptᴇrs are published on novel⚑fire.net

However, due to the formation laid by Sect Master Xing Kunlun, the whole place had changed to a cliff with a river of stars, to a very deep cliff with unknown depths in the eyes of others. As long as one isn’t proficient with star formations it is impossible for them to break the one laid before their eyes.

"Holy shit! Master, this cliff looks so deep!"

"Keep your mouth shut or I’ll throw you down there!"

"Shixiong~ don’t be angry. Its bad for your health~"

"The traces stayed here, but there is nothing here," The senior in the group said as he looked around. Sadly, he couldn’t see through the formation in this.

"Master, this place doesn’t seems to have anything~"

"Maybe they’ve rested here for a while before leaving again. It’s not like those star readers excels in combat except for their Supreme Elder!"

"I found a trace! Let’s go!"

The three men hurried left to check the fake traces Sect Master Xing Kunlun had made and left the scene. Only when they’ve disappeared that the star beasts watching at the depths of the star river close their eyes.

Somewhere near the south, Sect Master Xing Kunlun only stopped when he felt that they had lost those chasing after their trails. He intentionally fakes their trails to the opposite route and erase their tracks. He actually had a bad feeling coming from that group after them. After they stopped, the three disciples were almost out of breath while their sect master was looking at the direction they came from.

Xing Suiri said, "Master, is there someone chasing us? Do you know who they are?"

"They give off a strong scent of blood and might be Demonic Cultivators or Ghost Cultivators. They might be targeting everyone of those who had traded an artifact with the Moon Goddess," said Sect Master Xing Kunlun. "And in our group all four of us had such artifacts."

Upon hearing this explanation all three disciples had turned serious. Demonic Cultivators are evil practitioners that use the opposite way of cultivation. They kill, use blood, and most of them are ruthless. Since they don’t follow the usual common laws of the cultivation world, most of them are criminals hated by the righteous faction.

If the righteous cultivators cultivate to gain affinity with nature and heavens, they go against it and not only harm others but even themselves to get stronger. They fuel their motivations with negative emotions like hatred, anger, greed, lust, etc. Moreover, they love to fight against the righteous faction while the latter treats them as lunatics or madmen.

Sect Master Xing Kunlun said, "Don’t worry. I have sent them with fake trails."

"Sect Master, these are the Golden Star Apples I took from the tree. There were a dozen ripe ones and I took half of them. Please receive it." Lan Guye said.

Sect Master Xing Kunlun accepted the fruits but gave one of each to the four disciples and kept three. The disciples were surprised to get this level of treasure.

"You’ve all worked your part and the fruit will help you find your own domains once you’ve breakthrough to Huashen Realm," Sect Master Xing Kunlun said.

"Thank you, Sect Master (Shizun)!"

"Alright. Keep it hidden. We should get going. According to my divination there should be something good towards the south. Let’s get going we only have three days after all," The Sect Master of the Starfield Sect said.

The three disciples responded collectively, "Yes!" Then they left the place they are in while looking for more treasures.

The first day had finally got an early nightfall. Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue found a nice place to rest and even made a bonfire. After hunting all day until the afternoon, they finally got whatever Xue Renxue had imagined to be perfect ingredients to make his barbeque. They even looked for a pig type monster in the forest and found a rainbow colored wild boar. This is a rare kind of pig spirit beast that is said to receive the blessing of the Food God and every part of it is a rare delicacy whose taste can change by how it was cooked.

Tan Bingyu helped with preparation of ingredients. She had helped her mistress with such tasks multiple times. Though her cooking cannot be said to be delicious, it is at least edible. Right now, Tan Bingyu watches as her dao companion marinates the rainbow wild boar meat they had just butchered. She was also helping with making the makeshift grilling area and pierced a few mushrooms they got from the wild.

"This amount should do. Will adding a bit of this make that taste? Hm~, there are also some ice shiitake mushrooms to make cold soup for noodles."

Tan Bingyu kept listening to her dao companion, Xue Renxue’s mumbling and imagining the things he was making had made her tummy roar in hunger.

Xue Renxue heard it and turned to look at his lover. "Bing’er, are you hungry?" He pulled a well marinated pork belly which was his first attempt but considered a failure and passed it to his dao companion.

He said, "This can be grilled. You can go ahead and cook it. It’s already marinated."

Then he started mumbling again as he looked at the pork he is currently marinating.

"A bit more of this. A pinch of this and that... Hm? Something is still missing~"

Ignoring her dao companion, Tan Bingyu started grilling the pork belly on the flat metal pan she made a few hours ago. The sounds of sizzling and scent of cooked pork lingers in the area.