Chapter 338 – The Enemy Is Right Beside Me

Before he truly began to harvest a large amount of information on Cultivators, Su Hao needed to clarify his operational strategy to ensure there were no mistakes.

First, you have to pick the soft persimmons to crush. If you accidentally teleport into an old monster’s cave dwelling, who knows what might happen.

“The Blood Qi reactions between cultivators of different levels are easy to distinguish. The stronger the cultivator, the more condensed their Blood Qi. The more novice the cultivator, the more scattered their Blood Qi, just like ordinary people! Therefore, for the upcoming actions, focus on those cultivators with scattered Blood Qi!”

The strength of one’s cultivation talent is directly related to the strength of the cultivator, but it does not mean that a weaker cultivator has poor talent!

Those accepted into Three Harmony Peak are generally not lacking in cultivation talent.

Su Hao’s first objective is not to obtain the top-tier cultivation talent, but to possess ‘sufficient talent’ and then infiltrate the Immortal Gate.

Once inside the Immortal Gate, with so many ‘geniuses’ around, what kind of talent couldn’t he get?

Secondly, prepare enough ‘Positioning Stones’ and then set up teleportation points in various locations. As long as there are enough Positioning Stones, his range of activity will be sufficiently large.

“With my current mental strength, I can have ten Positioning Stones active simultaneously! This means, excluding the three Positioning Stones placed outside Three Harmony Peak, I still have seven Positioning Stones that can be placed within Three Harmony Peak! That’s enough!”

Finally, the placement points for the Positioning Stones must be in locations where there are no cultivators within a three-kilometer radius.

“A cultivator’s perception range is about a little over a kilometer, but stronger cultivators might double that. To ensure that I am not discovered by cultivators immediately after teleporting into the Immortal Gate, thus exposing the teleportation point, I must place the Positioning Stones in areas where there are no cultivators within a three-kilometer radius.”

There aren’t many such locations, but they do exist! When Su Hao first entered the Immortal Gate, he had already found two such spots!

The runes engraved on Su Hao’s Adamantine Armor allowed Blood Qi to flow at any time, ready to be activated.

“Crack crack crack!”

Under his feet, the transforming Adamantine Armor quickly formed three giant Rune Array Plates: ‘Penetration’, ‘Sharpness’, and ‘Hardness’, which were then ‘solidified’.

Next, after each raid, Su Hao would return here to add a ‘super large’ rune effect to his Long Blade!

With preparations complete, Su Hao habitually reviewed everything. Finding no oversights, he immediately took action!

Su Hao connected to the Space Module, increasing the power of his Mental Tentacles!

“Teleportation!”

The next moment, the light around Su Hao blurred, and his figure disappeared, reappearing at the Immortal Gate entrance’s Positioning Stone.

As soon as Su Hao appeared, he immediately locked onto the predetermined location within a three-kilometer radius with no cultivators, and instantly flashed away.

“Hmm? It’s that armored person!” White-Robed Man Xiao Lin Yuan’s heart stirred. He turned to look at the entrance of the Immortal Gate’s mist, but found nothing.

Then he took out a token he was holding and checked it. This token was an alert token for the mist formation, and it showed no abnormalities.

“No one! In that instant, my thought power clearly perceived the armored person’s presence. He appeared suddenly and then disappeared suddenly!”

He suspected he might have perceived incorrectly: “Could it be because my mind was impacted today?”

But he was still unsure, so after thinking about it, he decided to report to Steward Liu, the Martial Aunt, again! If something happened after reporting, at least he wouldn’t be responsible…

With that thought, Xiao Lin Yuan immediately headed towards Liu Martial Aunt’s Mountain Peak.

Su Hao flashed into a vast valley. This valley was flat and covered with various exotic flowers and plants, with vibrant flowers everywhere. Small paths crisscrossed the flora like a grid, resembling a thousand acres of fertile land on a rich plain.

Su Hao marveled, “Could this be the Spirit Grass and Herb Garden of Three Harmony Peak? I’m rich! It’s all mine!”

Of course, that was a joke. Su Hao couldn’t possibly take it all, but if he needed to, he wouldn’t mind taking some for personal use.

In the future, we’ll all be cultivators. What’s yours is mine, why be strangers?

Su Hao quickly drove a Positioning stone into the ground: “Marking complete!”

Su Hao’s Radar Perception identified a large number of ‘rookie cultivators’ among the crowd, then randomly selected one lucky spectator and locked onto their position.

Su Hao raised his Long Blade, preparing for a lunge.

Flash!

In an instant, Su Hao appeared beside a cultivator who was sitting in meditation with his eyes closed, practicing diligently. His Long Blade lunged forward.

Pfft~

The disciple didn’t even have a shield. Immersed in his cultivation, lost in thought, he was startled by the sudden poke and trembled all over!

He even let out a strange groan: “Mmmph~”

Su Hao struck successfully and immediately teleported back outside the mountain range.

The cultivator only then opened his eyes, staring blankly ahead. After a moment, he came to his senses and noticed the abnormality on his shoulder. He turned to look and saw his arm, which now had a thumb-thick hole that was bleeding profusely.

A sharp pain followed. He instinctively reached to cover the wound and groaned, “It hurts!”

Then, he was utterly confused: “What happened??? How did I get this wound? Did I encounter an evil spirit?”

Su Hao recorded the information from the blood on the blade tip and muttered in surprise, “Did it work this easily?” After wiping the blood from the tip of his blade, he didn’t need to refresh the Rune effect. Getting ready again, he teleported to the Herb Garden, then used it as a springboard to lock onto another lucky spectator and teleport away!

This cultivator was engrossed in a book, reading intently and pulling at his thinning hair. His sparse hair combined with his studious appearance was strangely pitiable.

However, Su Hao wouldn’t go easy on him. As soon as he teleported over, the tip of his blade pressed firmly against the cultivator’s back, and with a gentle push forward.

Clink! A crisp sound, and the bald cultivator’s defensive shield automatically activated, blocking Su Hao’s blade tip.

Pop! The next moment, the thin energy shield was pierced, and the blade tip steadily sank into the bald man’s body.

Huh? The bald man’s hand twitched, and he yanked out a clump of hair. He instinctively rolled forward and, with a backhand swing, unleashed a barrage of Flying Needles, which shot backward.

Puff puff puff!

These Flying Needles turned the back wall into a sieve, and large chunks of gravel rained down from the wall!

Huh? Nobody? Impossible…

The bald Cultivator’s Perception sensed he was injured from behind. He swiped his hand behind him, feeling a sticky mess. He brought his hand forward and saw it was covered in blood.

As expected! Who… He slowly got up, warily surveying his Cave Dwelling!

Then he staged a game of hide-and-seek in the Cave Dwelling!

The enemy is right beside me!

Su Hao, outside the mountain range, chuckled, “Got the second piece of information, that was easy! Next, the third one!”

Su Hao quickly updated the Rune effects on his Long Blade and Teleported to the herb field again.

Using the herb field as a transit point, randomly select a lucky Cultivator.

Boop boop boop!

Sizzle sizzle sizzle!

Mmm-hmm!

Ugh!

Ahhh~

Ying ying ying!

…

For a moment, various strange sounds echoed from the Cave Dwellings of cultivators throughout the Immortal Gate. Is this the moral decline…

Su Hao poked more and more enthusiastically, and the faster he poked, the more excited he became. Just as Su Hao was getting a bit frenzied, he accidentally poked a cultivator with some strength!

The burly cultivator’s hair and beard bristled, a majestic aura Burst forth, and a massive amount of Spiritual Power raged outwards. The stone furniture in the Cave Dwelling shattered and flew everywhere, almost destroying his Cave Dwelling in an instant!

What scoundrel dares to intrude into my grandfather’s Cave Dwelling and commit such a sneak attack!

Such a sneak attack…

Attack…

…

A huge voice roared like thunder, echoing among the peaks, and the entire Immortal Gate was alerted!

One by one, they rushed out of their cave dwellings!

It was about to get lively.

Victim after victim came forward, pulling up their clothes, revealing their wounds, and tearfully recounting the events one by one.

This matter caught the attention of an elder, who, upon a quick count, discovered there were forty-four victims!!!

“Who is it?”

(End of chapter)