NOVPUBThe young couple came out of the cavern when the sun came up. Han Lingshi had a blush on her face and she asked, "What would you do now?"
Hao Ren held her in his arms as he caressed her cheek with his gaze, "I will go to the five cities after dealing with the things at hands."
The lady nodded and after a few minutes, Hao Ren said, "Well, it is about time. I would be going now. I have to clear the floors."
Inside the cave, apart from telling each other how much they missed each other, Hao Ren also told her all that he knew about the Labyrinth and the Nagas he met there. Han Lingshi was supportive, and she said, "After you come back, I will go out and you would manage the entire nation. I want to travel with my girls."
Hao Ren chuckled and said, "Alright."
Then she walked him to the teleportation array where Hao Ren gave her a kiss and left the place quickly.
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He appeared inside his room in the Dragon Hall, and found Akura waiting for him outside the room. He came out and asked, "What's up?"
Akura was confused by the greeting and Hao Ren asked, "What are you doing here?"
Akura replied, "I am just waiting for you to come out, Lord."
Hao Ren nodded, he didn't mind being called Lord, His majesty and what not, because the people in the Crescent Moon Empire all called him like this. Thanks to his wife, his dream of laying low had been shattered. The young man took a deep breath and said, "You don't have to wait on me all the time as I don't need help most of the time. I will just call you when I have something up, till then you can continue your own things, you need to get stronger as well right."
Akura nodded and Hao Ren took out a pill bottle from his space ring, and tossed it to her, and said, "Here, this pill will solve the problem you have on your face. You should feel much more confident after that."
The young lady was shocked when she saw the pill bottle. She was hesitating and the young man before her said, "Just because you make a recovery doesn't mean you would forget what you have been through. Don't worry, your face would not be the thing that holds you back, be it now, or be it in the future, it is always the demon in your heart."
That said he stuffed the pill bottle in her hand as he walked out of the place. He had to clear ten more floors and it wouldn't be easy if he kept on holding back. At the same time he had to elevate his cultivation. The places where he had fought these bosses, they had a higher concentration of spiritual energy so if he wanted to, then he could use those places and cultivate quicker. That was the plan and thinking about that he rushed to the Labyrinth, and went inside, started from thirty-first floor, killed the beasts in the five floors. Met the Nagas, and told them, "I would be killing all the hidden beasts, so during this time don't attract human attention."
The Naga's agreed to him, the young man moved back to the first floor, operated the Titan Sutra, and began to progress his cultivation. The area was secluded, and after the disappearance of the boss, it didn't move around like before. Hao Ren cast a barrier around the place, and then he began cultivating at full speed.
His circulation was so strong that it created a small vortex over his head and his body turned into a black hole that absorbed all the energy that was in the surroundings. Hao Ren didn't care about the humans finding him. Even if they managed to get to the sixtieth floor it was something they did by relying on the old experts that were in the peak of Dao realm.
Hao Ren didn't need any help, if he were to use his sword then it would not be a problem to get to the last floor, but he didn't wish to face a dragon and the former sword saint without any preparation. It may sound as if he was too cautious but that was the truth.
The young man spent a day on the first floor, and the energy began to thin out. He sighed as he opened his eyes and moved downstairs one more time. This time he spent one day and an hour. The difference between the thickness was not too much and he understood that it was not gonna save him any time like this so he moved directly to the fifth floor. Then on the fourth day, he came to the tenth floor.
Hao Ren was using the logic of how the strength of the bosses that he faced varied. This logic worked but he just thought it would have been nice to use his brain earlier.
**Now you understand the problem you have? At the age of forty, you cannot even use your brain before doing anything.**
Hao Ren didn't retort, he was simply too occupied and in a hurry to finish things here and go back home. This place didn't allow him to use spiritual energy, so all he could do was to absorb the dragon energy that was radiating through the surroundings. The coagulation of the energy in his dantian had caused his Dantian to mutate. In there, Hao Ren now had an ethereal dragon hovering in the void. He sighed and he went deeper in the Labyrinth to gain energy and strength.
After fifteen days, he finished dealing with the boss of the thirty-fifth floor, and decided to take some time off to go and check out the things outside. He found nothing new going on in the city and so the conquest was kicked off once again.
After a total of three months, Hao Ren came out of the Labyrinth and the people were shocked to see him. His body was covered with red blood, and it wasn't his. The young man was holding onto his sword. It meant that he just killed some beast in there.
Hao Ren cleaned himself up and then looked at the tribulation in the sky. He asked, 'System, one lottery ticket out of ninety-eight, use it and tell me what I won.'
**Lottery selection complete, tribulation talisman, you can bypass the tribulation as long as he wants to push you a bit too much, use this talisman and it would bypass the tribulation completely.**
Hao Ren was surprised and said, 'Thank you.'
Then he flew above the Labyrinth and charged up his aura. As his aura climbed the people in the city began to sense it. They all could see the changes that were happening around Hao Ren. The young man was surrounded by the dragon energy, their own energies began to resonate with the phenomena and the people were shocked. They didn't understand what Hao Ren was doing.
The four great families appeared and one of them asked, "How does he have such pure dragon energy?"
Everyone cast a gaze at Hao Ren, and then they looked at Old Dog, who shook his head and said, "If you can achieve the same level inside the labyrinth that he has, you would get the same things as him."
The people were surprised, they didn't expect that the dog would reveal this secret to him. However, he didn't mind that, he was a person of his own devices now. The number of people increased and then suddenly someone noticed a batch of dark clouds heading over, and this man yelled, "Tribulation clouds, run, hurry."
The people ran away, and the leader here wasn't weak but let us dig up a tunnel, how?
Hao Ren smiled and stood up on the roof, as he watched the clouds approach him. The young man stood up and then he slowly made his walk to the city wall. The tribulation clouds gathered above his head and yet he was still smiling. The bolts of lightning fell on his body, absorbing everything it could, and then he took out a talisman that he burned, and then he saw a giant made up of spiritual energy, charging at the clouds and facing off with the heavenly tribulation. The young man just watched as the situation was hijacked, and he directly promoted to the peak of Dao Being Realm.
As he did that, he decided to clean the five floors and took out his sword again as he entered the labyrinth once again.
The entire city was shocked to see what kind of method he used to counter the tribulation. Suddenly, someone asked, "Shall we ask him if he knows how to make that talisman?" n𝚘𝚟𝚙u𝚋.co𝚖
Yes, they were naive, and Hao Ren had no idea about the headache that was about to come to him, forcing him back to the seclusion in crescent moon.
