Chapter 339 – Hear Me Out

“The forty-fourth one, counting the three cultivators recorded earlier, and the middle-aged cultivator in Molai Village, I now have forty-eight data samples of cultivation talent, hehehe!”

Su Hao was extremely happy. Although he had formulated a relatively thorough plan, he hadn’t expected it to go so smoothly in practice.

It wasn’t that the cultivators were too weak; it was just that Su Hao’s spatial abilities were too overpowered. Moreover, Su Hao specifically targeted the easy ones. When low-level cultivators encountered Su Hao, they had no time to react before being stabbed. By the time they realized they had been attacked, Su Hao had already obtained the blood information he wanted and teleported away!

“It seems this information gathering operation will be successful. One hundred sets of genetic information should be enough! I still need fifty-two more!”

Thinking this, Su Hao smiled, “This is simple. I originally planned to finish this in ten days, but now it looks like I can get it done today!”

Su Hao intended to press on and finish collecting the data as soon as possible, then find a place to study it diligently before participating in the Ascension Assembly.

He activated the oversized Rune Array Plate, imbued his Long Blade with rune effects again, and vanished in a flash.

What Su Hao didn’t know was that the hot-tempered, burly cultivator he had just stabbed had already exposed his ‘gathering enterprise’ within the Immortal Gate with his unique voice!

The cultivators of Three Harmony Peak were alarmed by the burly man and flew into the air from their respective cave dwellings, exchanging information.

“I heard a mysterious armored person broke into Three Harmony Peak and is stabbing people with a knife!”

“Armored person? Where? Why didn’t I see him?”

“I didn’t see him either, but I’m a victim. Look, there’s a hole in my butt! It’s definitely real!”

I’m even worse off, I was stabbed in the side and now I’m completely weak! I won’t recover without a Moon or two!

No way, is that Armor person that twisted?

Did they catch that Armor person?

Not yet, I heard that Armor person appears and disappears like smoke, very slippery, can’t find any trace of them!

Hiss—No way? So many elders within the Immortal Gate…

Keep your voice down, I also heard that an elder was stabbed in the side and got a cut!

Hiss—How terrifying! How twisted!

……

Cultivator Cao, who was eavesdropping among the many fellow disciples, immediately felt guilty upon hearing ‘Armor person’. The scene of being stabbed in the back automatically appeared in his mind. Although the wound had almost healed, it started to ache faintly at the back of his head as he heard everyone’s discussions.

He suspected that the Armor person his fellow disciples were discussing was the ‘senior’ he had encountered, who was equally elusive, liked to stab people with a knife, and was equally unfathomable!

Judging by the time of the incident, could it be that the Armor person senior followed me in? I’ve caused trouble now… Should I inform the elders?

After thinking about it, Cultivator Cao decided to keep the matter of encountering that crystal Armor person today to himself…

If he informed the elders, who knows if they would end up blaming him for everything?

It’s fine, if the sky falls, Sect Leader and the elders can handle it!

While everyone was discussing, Su Hao teleported to the Herb Garden again.

As soon as he appeared, Su Hao noticed something was wrong. In his radar perception, most cultivators had left Yuan’s location and were flying into the air, gathering towards the largest mountain peak in the center.

Su Hao was full of questions: ‘What’s going on? Is there a gathering for a special occasion! Or are they coming for me, and they got alerted by me and want to get me?’

Regardless of the reason, the problem facing Su Hao was whether to continue collecting blood information.

Su Hao thought about it and decided it was safer not to act rashly. Stabbing people with a knife in broad daylight was too scandalous, so he would wait until this commotion died down before continuing to collect information!

Just as Su Hao was about to leave, his radar perception detected that there were still isolated cultivators within a mountain peak, and two of them!

He had now collected forty-eight pieces of information, and thinking about rounding it up, Su Hao couldn’t help but think: ‘One more score, then I’ll stop!’

Su Hao immediately locked onto the positions of the two cultivators and flashed over.

As soon as he appeared, Su Hao instinctively stabbed forward with his long blade. What Su Hao didn’t expect was that in front of him were a man and a woman, naked and intertwined!

The sound of a long blade entering flesh echoed twice. Su Hao’s hands steadily and accurately inserted into both of them, acquiring their blood.

The stinging pain on their bodies woke the two of them up. It was then that the couple discovered a tall crystal Armor person standing next to them!

“Ugh-” The curly-haired man’s eyes widened, and his body instantly went limp.

“Ah-” The messy-haired woman let out a sharp scream out of instinct, her mind going blank as she found a strange armored person beside her.

“This is bad!” the man thought grimly.

The cave dwelling was completely unable to block the woman’s high-pitched scream, which soon spread, causing the many cultivators gathered at the main peak to instinctively look in its direction.

“Damn it, that’s my dao companion Meng Hui’s voice! She must have been attacked by an armored person. All disciples, follow me to the rescue.” A middle-aged man with a white beard immediately flew rapidly in that direction.

The cultivators beside him responded in unison, “Elder Ling, you’re too kind. We will obey your orders.”

They then followed closely behind the white-bearded man, Elder Ling, and soon surrounded the cave dwelling. Several cultivators confident in their own strength followed Elder Ling closely into the cave dwelling.

A moment later, Elder Ling’s furious roar echoed from within the cave dwelling: “Meng Hui, who is this? How did you two end up here?”

The messy-haired woman, Meng Hui, said aggrievedly, “Yong Ge, listen to my explanation…”

……

After Su Hao acquired those two pieces of genetic information, he immediately teleported away from Immortal Gate and went outside the mountain range.

Therefore, Su Hao was completely unaware that he had stumbled upon a secret tryst and exposed the private affair of a loving couple in front of nearly everyone in Immortal Gate.

Even if he knew, Su Hao wouldn’t have cared. What he truly cared about were his experimental samples.

“Fifty pieces of genetic information, what a great harvest! I’ll stop here for today and check out Immortal Gate again tomorrow! If they’re all scattered, I’ll continue collecting. If they’re still gathered, I’ll wait a bit longer!”

For Su Hao, obtaining a hundred samples would allow for a more accurate comparison of specific genetic differences, but fifty wasn’t impossible, just that the margin of error would be slightly larger!

If it was too dangerous inside Immortal Gate at this moment, Su Hao wouldn’t risk it again. These samples were barely enough.

After Su Hao finished, he dusted off his hands and left. Meanwhile, Three Harmony Peak in Yuan Su was buzzing with activity!

From then on, Elder Ling felt he could no longer hold his head up in front of others. After hastily announcing he was going into seclusion, he hid back in his cave dwelling and rarely appeared before his fellow disciples.

Following the incident with Meng Hui and Harmony Yong Ge, all the cultivators confirmed one thing: armored people could indeed appear and disappear without a trace to launch sneak attacks.

As for why this armored person liked to poke a hole in others, they had no idea. They all speculated that it was the armored person’s peculiar fetish!

“What should we do?”

“Let’s gather together and wait for him to appear, then take him down together. This sneak who hides his head and shows his tail likely has no other skills besides his uncanny movement. With so many of us senior brothers and junior brothers, we’ll surely capture him with ease.”

“Don’t forget, armored people can break through ‘Personal Light’!”

“How long will we have to wait? Will that armored person even show up again?”

“Of course, we’ll wait until he shows up!”

……

And Su Hao, in a homemade luxurious room, stretched and fell into a deep sleep on the bed: “I’m tired today, I’ll sleep well first! Multiple teleports have taken a toll on my body!”

Wishing friends a Happy New Year and good luck in the Year of the Tiger!

(End of Chapter)