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Exiting-
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As the group left out, they were greeted by the Vice-Principal and a few members of the Snow Wind Family. Each of them staring intensley and wanting to ask several questions.
Shen Yue left Ye hong to deal with them. He wanted to go home and take a nap.
The focus was on refining all the energy; now, this needed to be done before distributing some of the water out to the Demon Beasts currently in the family.
Hopefully, the horses would be decent.
"The test of the Heavenly Sacred Border... did you all pass?" The Vice Principal asked. His eyes were only catching the sword hilt for a brief moment but not thinking much of it at the time. Seeing the nodding faces, he was happy enough. "It is a great day for the Institute and your Families."
As the Vice-Principal heard the aftermath of what happened from Ye Hong, he and the others felt as if they would have a heart attack. No one had changed the Heavenly Sacred Border such as this! Let alone what to do in the future, they needed to know how to tell the City Lord what happened.
"Well... we have to go now. See ya!" Huyan Lanruo was carrying Zhu Xiangjun, who fainted; it would be some time until he woke up. 'I need to rush back then report back home!' She was all smiles while moving.
Xiao Ninger watched them leave but remained behind. She waited with Ye Hong to discuss some matters with him before the case ended.
Shen Yue spent two days on changing the sword just a little more. It felt undistinguishable from himself somehow—almost a piece of his soul living inside of it. The Flaming Snake turned into a more substantial "sheath" overnight. It was entering a gestation type period in a way.
"How the hell are you going to fight with me if you are hibernating?" He cleaned up putting on some new clothes, and walked out. Zhu Xiangjun was talking with Dian Rei. The tiny embers of infatuation surrounded the two. 'Well, that is nice. Everyone deserves a little of that.'
The two were able to hit it off really well, so no reason to bother them right now. Dian Mu instructed some workers to bring more material inside for smithing, not too far to the side. He would stay behind with his cousin after talking things over.
Moving to the stable, Shen Yue looked over the stock of horses. They were ok but needed a lot of work.
"Well... this will have to do for now." Moving to the first horse, he fed it a pill, Soul Nurturing Pill. Then he infused his spirit energy inside, manipulating a Dantian inside it. Astral Sense wrapped around as he cultivated the Beast Manual to the limit. 'If not for what I picked up in Star Martial God Technique, this would have been harder to achieve. The pain in the Smelting Area has gone a long way still.'
*Whiny!* The horse made a few noises at first. First of comfort, then slight panic. The effects of the Soul Nututing Pill allowed it to develop intelligence fast. The knowledge from the Beast Manual helping it circulate the spirit energy along with the help of Shen Yue's guidance.
*Fwoosh!* Flames appeared around the two. The stable hand fell on his butt from the changes with the horse. His jaw was threatening to come unhinged if he didn't close it. The muscles of the horse compressed and tightened repeatedly.
The mane of the horse turning into flames, illuminating the area. Focusing a little as a rune pattern formed where a person would usually sit. Tiny strands of spirit energy flowed into the horse, helping its cultivation.
'There we go, that's it.' Shen Yue thought to the horse. Its large head nudged against him a little. 'Better than letting you all get wiped during the demon beast riot or from some idiot trying to steal you.'
Once the first was done, Shen Yue checked it over then went to the next horse. The next few hours only caused a slight drain on his Spirit Energy reserves. Considering he was still refining what was taken from the Heavenly Sacred Border there was no real loss.
The preparation to depart was finally finished while he worked. Stepping out of the gate the Safe Haven protection was activated in full force. A large dome appeared over the West Gate area owned by Shen Yue's Dark Moon Family.
For several directions, it was visible and unable to be penetrated by outside sources easily. Spirit energy around five feet of the dome, was sucked in, constantly increasing the strength of the protection.
The different Rune patterns in the compound were alight in a blue-white glow. If the damage was taken by them, Shen Yue would be aware of it.
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The Gate-
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As they moved to the destination, a small stop was needed apparently. Ye Ziyun was standing in front with a few members of her family. In her hands, a chest was clutched.
"Here are the items you requested." She passed the box over. Opening and checking the goods over, all was well in her eyes. "Are they satisfactory?"
"Yes." Shen Yue stored the chest away while also pulling out a glass prison. Rune Inscriptions were circling all around it. "The payment as agreed. Good luck with this thing." The Shadow Devil was not something he wanted or could use for his troops at this time. Exchanging them for Demon Spirits with God Level Growth Rate was better. 'When we take the first break, I will pass them to the others to merge with. Well, after giving them Demon Spirits a bit of a boost, of course.'
Huyan Lanrou came running over slightly late. But she had a guest with her: Chen Linjian and several over his guards. Blinking a little, Shen Yue was aware they were ot the ones from before at the ruins. These members were dressed like the ones from the adaptation in the Anime.
No, distinguish features from the one next to them besides.. gender. Even that was hard to tell with out a really close look. Hell, they even smell the same and the same eye color. Each at the 1st Gold Rank. A pretty penny must have been spent on them.
"Greetings." Chen Linjian gave a respectful salute. A worn look was somewhat in his eyes. "I hope you do not mind me joining in?"
A look to Huyan Lanruo, and it was easy to tell she had maneuvered him as needed to get closer with the Dark Moon Family. But it most likely came at a cost.
"Of course."
"Good, and thank you for the chance." Chen Linjian moved to speak with Shen Xiu. "I hope arrangements can be made quickly." He said Lanruo.
"Yup." Lanruo gave him a thumbs up. "So.. boss man..." She fidgeted her thumbs once Chen Linjian was far enough away. ".. he just needs an Alchemist to make something to cure the disease spreading in his family. The Alchemy Association is trying their best, but.."
"Hmmm. What are the symptoms? I never got the chance to really check into that matter." Grateful that he did not go into that hidden chamber, Shen Yue was not looking forward to some rampant plague spreading. As he listened, a frown formed. "Well, shit.. they have Smallpox. What a pain."
"Smallpox? So you know how to cure it then?" Lanruo asked, excitied. She frowned, seeing him shake no. "Then what will we do?"
"It is not curable, but treatment is available. You just need to help build an immunity to fight against it, and that helps. The first symptoms of Smallpox include a high fever, which can be treatment by Cold Forming elixirs to bring it down. The next issue is fatigue, which most Cultivators will easily deal with thanks to spirit energy reserves. The problem is if regular people are showing the signs." As he talks, he wrote a few methods down to help treatment along. "A headache will vary person due to poor medical care in how to treat. The last is backache that will need a lot of rest. Unfortunately, if they are people who have intense jobs then... they might not listen to relax and keep working. If the red rash has appeared.. then they are in for a tough time."
They were receiving the methods, Lanruo shouted to one of her family's guards that came with them. She ordered for him to take this and spread it to the families affected and make sure they knew where the treatment method came from.
"Haa, I can understand why you want to focus more on Alchemy Medicine and not Pill Formulas." Shen Xiu said. "Are we all ok?"
"Hmm, yes. I took care of most of the problems that would arise already. But that also why we have a mandatory medical screening since everyone goes all over and whatnot." Shen Yue was thinking most should be ok as long as the disease does not latch on to some type of common food source and infect at a rapid rate or mutate. "When we return, I will look further into it."
The traveling was pretty fast with how they traveled. A chance for Shen Yue to see the movement patterns of the 15 officers at work in a live exercise. Shen Xiu, Zhu Xiangjun, Dian Rei, Huyan Lanruo, and her people, Chen Lianjian, and his people covered the rear when moving.
Ye Hong moved up to Shen Yue and inquired further about the Universal Spatial Array.
"Are you sure there is something to obtain from this place?"
"The place overall, yes as well as the place it will lead us to. It is full of danger like said." Shen Yue glanced at him a little. "Are you growing scared already?"
"Not at all!" Ye Hong denied. "It is just no one has reported anything special according to the family's archives." That was a bit of a flag since Ye Ziyun said Nie Li had been helping in that area. Either they didn't report anything or Ye Hong was lying. But that didn't seem like the case. "Why are you so quiet?"
"Just thinking." Shen Yue would not discard the information given by Shango, but something else had to be at play. "Just be ready for changes." The city was pretty massive, the same as Orchid City but not as rundown as it was. "Good as time as any."
As they spread out to set up for a break, Shen Yue passed out a few pills to get them ready for later. Diving into the memories of the place was easy enough, thanks to the additional stimulation available from before.
Inside the place was rich spiritual energy begging for the taking. He would only take half since he didn't want to interfere with the teleportation array. Placing a concealment Rune around himself, the others didn't know what was going on besides that he was cultivating.
Zhu Xiangjun felt a strange sensation but thought nothing of it majorly.
Shen Xiu looked at him curiously.
*Wooosh!* Up above, the spiritual energy moved like a funnel towards him. Blue-white flames circled around as the Flame Vortex Core spun internally. Opening his mouth wide, Shen Yue was inhaling the energy at an alarming rate.
*Crck!* The Flaming Snake scales cracked a little but it did not wake from its slumber. A bit of the spirit energy went into the Thunder God Meteorite Sword as well as his Internal Space. The various herbs grew in maturity the same as before and stopped abruptly the same as before.
"He looks odd." Shen Xu mumbled. Lanruo peeked over and thought he was just tired or something. The Concealment Rune hid his movements a good bit, but that did not mean he was hidden from sight completely. "The same feeling I get when opening the door to his room." Well by people he was connected to anyway.
"Eh, you get funny feelings when looking in his room?" Lanruo cocked her head to the side oddly. A mischievous look coming over. "What have you been up to? Such a sneaky aunt you are." She started chuckling a little.
"He is the sneaky one!" Shen Xiu snapped. Everyone turned to look at her. Realizing she let it slip, she covered her mouth quickly. "Just get back to training and be ready for what happens next!"
Seeing her angry everyone went back to training. The Scarlet Flaming Fox on her shoulder had a worried look. Not about what w coming but the relationship between its masters. A look at the useless Flaming Snake that was still sleeping just made the fox upset.