Dashing Student-Chapter 1138: Unending Strife

Outside the Secret Realm, the dozen or so cultivators who had obtained the Immortal Brew looked quite disheveled.

Their injuries were varied, some burned, some struck by lightning, others wounded by Sword Qi, harassed by resentful souls... It seemed that cultivators with different attributes had attacked them.

"How did you get those injuries?" someone asked curiously.

As soon as the question was asked, a flame of anger ignited in the hearts of those cultivators, and they spoke through gritted teeth, looking like they were about to explode.

"It’s that Sun Jiancheng from the Sun Family! A waste, his appearance was just a disguise, in fact, he’s a Demon cultivated by the Sun Family, destined to become a serious threat to us!"

The gatekeeping cultivators were stunned. Such complex injuries, all left by Sun Jiancheng? How is that possible?!

How could a Golden Core cultivator wield so many attributes here?

Yet the dozen cultivators were adamant, insisting the injuries were left by Sun Jiancheng alone, causing others to believe it.

So they turned one by one to look at the cultivators of the Sun Family, their eyes filled with hatred, suspicion, and even greed.

"If the Sun Family doesn’t give us an explanation, then we’ll consider them our mortal enemy!"

The Sun Family Elders’ hearts were in chaos.

The events within the Secret Realm were strange and too peculiar, full of flaws, making it clear someone was intentionally shifting blame onto the Sun Family.

However, he knew one thing, and that was their Sun Family was doomed. This time they had offended almost all the forces within the Secret Realm, and even if Sun Jiancheng’s actions were fake, they would not miss the opportunity to tear flesh from the Sun Family.

"I must hurry back to report to the family, Sun Jiancheng is a Demon Cultivator, and he’s gone mad, wanting to drag the Sun Family down!"

The elder turned to leave, but was quickly surrounded by many cultivators, how could they swallow this grievance after so many of their number were killed in the Secret Realm?

So they took action, leaving the Sun Family cultivators half-dead before stopping.

Not far away, Chen Nan, who had left the Secret Realm earlier, watched this scene quietly, a slight smile curling at his lips, his plan of framing and diverting disaster was a success.

The Sun Family, even if not annihilated, would suffer severe losses.

At the same time, he secretly felt fortunate that he hadn’t lost his head and fought those dozen cultivators desperately, because after leaving the Secret Realm, their cultivation quickly recovered.

The highest among them already at the half-step Nascent Soul Stage, the rest were all strong cultivators at the Eighth and Ninth Layers of the Golden Core Realm, the techniques they could use were beyond the reach of low-level Golden Core cultivators.

Thus, Chen Nan’s decision to flee in time was correct.

"Haha..."

The sound of a little monkey echoed in his ears, and Chen Nan turned to see the little monkey squatting on his shoulder, holding onto his clothes tightly, looking somewhat scared of the outside world.

"Ah, what was I thinking at the time, bringing this little creature out..."

While in the Secret Realm, he had drunk quite a bit of Immortal Brew, and in his drunkenness made the impulsive decision, though he couldn’t bring himself to abandon the little monkey.

"Forget it, you’ll stay with me from now on."

Patted the little monkey on the head, Chen Nan turned and left, casually found a city, rented a cultivator’s room for seclusion, and then entered.

The room for seclusion had an isolation array and also a Spirit Gathering Array, allowing the room to be filled with more of nature’s spiritual energy, besides that it was empty, allowing one to focus on cultivation.

After drinking the Immortal Brew once, he had some understanding of its effects, first of which was a temporary boost in strength, similar to the effects of the Blood Burst Pill.

But the Immortal Brew had no side effects, whereas the Blood Burst Pill would leave one weak, even damaging one’s meridians, and would only be taken as a last resort.

Furthermore, the strength boost from the Immortal Brew was better, almost doubling one’s strength, otherwise, Chen Nan couldn’t have defeated the dozen cultivators with one strike.

Additionally, after the effects of the Immortal Brew wore off, it would leave pure spiritual power within one’s body, which could be absorbed by the cultivator, and even improve one’s physique and meridians.

The reason Chen Nan was eager to find a room for seclusion was to assimilate the benefits left by the Immortal Brew.

...

A month passed in a flash, and Chen Nan finally emerged from seclusion. At this moment, his cultivation had reached the peak of the Second Layer of the Golden Core Stage, and it wouldn’t be long before he could step into the Third Layer.

Stretching, he heard a cracking sound from his body, like beans popping.

"It’s time to leave, Little Stone." Chen Nan patted the little monkey on his shoulder, and it smiled in response.

During this month, the little monkey and Chen Nan stayed together in the seclusion room, quickly tightening the bond between man and beast, Chen Nan even felt that the little monkey was very attached to him.

After thinking for a long time, he came to an understanding; perhaps the little monkey had just come into the world, hadn’t seen anyone else, its first sight being Chen Nan.

Therefore, it had a deep attachment to Chen Nan, as if treating him as its mother.

Thinking back now, Chen Nan realized something odd about the little monkey; it was obviously in the territory of the Thunder Patterned Red Ape, yet there was a little monkey covered in golden fur.

Moreover, upon first seeing the little monkey, he noticed fragments of rock shell resembling an eggshell on the stone; perhaps the little monkey did burst out from a stone.

If he had thought carefully at the time, he might have guessed this point, but back then, all his attention was drawn to the Immortal Brew, paying no attention to the little monkey.

Thus, he named it "Shi Zhongsheng," which was quite fitting.

Chen Nan was still suspicious about one thing, which was the valuable treasure born from the Penglai Secret Realm.

Before, not only Chen Nan but those treasure-seeking cultivators too thought the treasure this time was the Immortal Brew, but now Chen Nan believed the real treasure was indeed Shi Zhongsheng.

Because the great phenomenon occurring was around the time the little monkey emerged from the stone, and perhaps those Thunder Patterned Red Apes weren’t blocking human cultivators for the sake of Immortal Brew at all.

They were actually protecting the newborn Shi Zhongsheng!

Another point proving Chen Nan’s suspicion was that despite the powerful effects of the Immortal Brew, it wasn’t to the extent of being heaven-defying, such a phenomenon couldn’t appear solely because of the Immortal Brew.

It could only be because of the little monkey that came along with the Immortal Brew. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"What kind of monkey are you? I don’t see anything special about you." Chen Nan picked up Shi Zhongsheng, his expression strange, then placed it back on his shoulder.

"Forget it, these thoughts are useless, one day you’ll return to the wild."

After saying this, Chen Nan left the room for seclusion, the month’s time cost him a hundred thousand low-grade Spirit Stones, making his heart ache dearly.

The first thing he did upon coming out was to gather news in the city, soon learning the latest about the Sun Family, just as he had predicted.

The Sun Family was terribly unlucky!