Chapter 100: Hong Ying

Three days had passed in a flash. Yang Tian had been recovering his cultivation during these days, but he dared not use any high-grade healing pills for fear of attracting attention.

Yang Tian had stayed in the Ancestral Dragon Ring for nearly nine days, recovering half of his physical wounds, thanks to a massive amount of healing pills.

In three days, Yang Tian gradually learned a bit about the environment. The Hong family was in a large city on the edge of the Myriad Mountains—the Demon-Suppressing City! It was several times larger than Martial Dao City.

The Myriad Mountains were a gathering place for demon beasts. The outer perimeter of the Myriad Mountains stretched for tens of millions of miles! The low-level ferocious beasts in the outer region were endless, and beast tides often occurred here. Demon-Suppressing City was also the most concentrated place for mercenaries.

The Hong family was a small clan in Demon-Suppressing City. This team was a herb-gathering team heading into the Myriad Mountains to pick a type of spiritual herb used to refine Bone-Washing Flowers, a main ingredient for refining second-grade high-level healing pills.

What puzzled Yang Tian was that both young ladies of the Hong family were in this herb-gathering team. The eldest young lady, Hong Xue, Yang Tian had not seen, but according to Hong Ying, she was very strong, the strongest in the herb-gathering team.

At night, the sky was full of twinkling stars. The team had set up camp, bonfires were burning around, and the aroma of roasted meat wafted over.

"Woo..." Xiao Bai's body stirred, looking greedy. He poked his head out, staring eagerly at the nearly cooked game.

"Little guy, stay inside and don't move around." Yang Tian opened his eyes, looked at Xiao Bai's drooling face, scolded with a smile, and stuffed Xiao Bai into his robe.

"Creak." The door suddenly opened, and Hong Ying's delicate figure appeared before Yang Tian. She smiled, having grown closer to Yang Tian over the past few days: "Brother Yang Tian, time to eat."

"Mm." Nodding, Yang Tian carefully got off the carriage and walked side by side with Hong Ying toward a group of men gathered together. He was somewhat helpless about this form of address.

"Yang Tian, come over and eat some roasted meat." A rough-faced big man stood up when he saw Yang Tian get off the carriage, his voice booming out roughly.

The others also shifted their gazes to Yang Tian. Many had strange expressions on their faces. To be so severely injured and yet able to walk after just two days—he was no simple fellow.

"Hmph, freeloading here every day, thinking you're some big shot." Suddenly, a somewhat handsome young man glanced at Yang Tian's perpetually gentle face, then at Hong Ying, a hint of coldness flashing in his eyes as he sneered.

At the sarcastic remark, a few people beside Wang Mo also chuckled, looking as if they were enjoying the show.

"Wang Mo, is the roasted meat not enough to shut your mouth? If you don't want to eat, get out and patrol." Hearing this, the rough big man glared at him. Wang Mo seemed somewhat afraid of him and gave an awkward smile, but his gaze at Yang Tian remained cold.

"Brother Yang, don't mind him. Come, have some roasted meat." The rough big man turned his head, showing a simple and honest smile, then tossed a piece of roasted meat over, laughing.

"Thanks, Brother Iron Tower." Taking the roasted meat, Yang Tian scratched his head and smiled. Iron Tower was the captain of these guards, having reached the Seventh Layer of Martial Artist, while the rest were generally around the Fifth Layer.

"Yang Tian, any plans for the future?" Iron Tower found a place to sit down, staring at the young man before him, speaking slowly.

"Heh, not yet decided. I'll think about it after my injuries heal." Hearing this, Yang Tian touched his nose and smiled.

"You sure are lucky to be alive with such severe injuries." Tearing off a piece of roasted meat, Iron Tower laughed heartily.

"I owe it all to Hong Ying; otherwise, I would have been eaten by a ferocious beast." Glancing at Hong Ying, who had entered the carriage, Yang Tian said with a faint smile, feeling very grateful to her.

When he was found by the small river, it was thanks to Hong Ying that he was rescued; otherwise, Yang Tian didn't know where he would be now.

"Kid, is 'Hong Ying' for you to call?" Hearing Yang Tian's words, Wang Mo suddenly turned his head, his gloomy gaze sweeping over Yang Tian as he sneered: "You're just a cripple. What right do you have to address the Second Miss directly? Don't think that just because the Second Miss is nice to you, you can have any improper thoughts."

Hearing this, Yang Tian's eyes suddenly turned cold. He clenched his fist slightly, casting a sharp glance at Wang Mo, two blazing red flashes flickering and disappearing.

Wang Mo's body couldn't help but tremble. For some reason, a chill suddenly rose in his heart, and even Iron Tower felt a trace of coldness in his heart.

Looking at Yang Tian's cold expression, Wang Mo's mind froze, and a fear rose in his heart. But this fear quickly dissipated, replaced by endless shame and annoyance. However, just as he was about to voice his angry words, he was silenced by Iron Tower's glare.

The atmosphere fell silent. Seeing the situation was off, a few people immediately jumped out, and bursts of laughter erupted. Yang Tian gradually became familiar with these people.

As for Wang Mo, Yang Tian had never paid him any attention. He could vaguely sense that Wang Mo had a desire to possess Hong Ying, but Hong Ying had never paid him much attention, so now he had taken a dislike to Yang Tian.

"Tonight, all of you on night watch, stay alert. We'll reach the place the day after tomorrow. Don't screw things up for me." After finishing the roasted meat, Iron Tower shouted out. During the days Yang Tian had stayed in the carriage, there were frequent attacks by ferocious beasts, but they were all low-level.

"Kid, be careful tonight. Don't get carried off by wolves, or no one will collect your corpse." As Wang Mo passed by Yang Tian, his gloomy gaze glanced at Yang Tian, and he sneered coldly before walking elsewhere.

"Idiot..." Watching Wang Mo's retreating figure, Yang Tian clenched his hand slightly, sneered, and directly entered the carriage.

Inside the Ancestral Dragon Ring, Yang Tian looked at a large patch of spiritual herbs absorbing the surrounding energy. A smile curled on his face. The spiritual herbs obtained from Martial Dao Mountain could be cultivated in the Ancestral Dragon Ring, though they grew slowly, but still several times faster than outside.

Yang Tian sat cross-legged on the ground, thought for a moment, and put a Star Condensation Pill into his mouth. As soon as the pill's medicinal power dissolved, hundreds of beams of starlight appeared in Yang Tian's body.

When the starlight merged into his flesh, the broken skin healed at an extremely fast rate under the starlight, and Yang Tian could clearly sense the energy in his body increasing.

"It really works." A look of joy appeared on his face. Yang Tian directly swallowed a handful of Star Condensation Pills. Countless beams of starlight surged within his body, frantically drilling into his flesh, with most of the starlight flowing into the river of blood and qi.

"I wonder if I'll have the luck to condense a phenomenon." Sensing that his flesh and blood and qi were rapidly recovering, he would be able to recover fully soon, and the strength of his flesh and blood and qi would also skyrocket.

After being tempered by starlight, his entire body emitted a starlight luster, exceptionally brilliant inside. On the river of blood and qi, dots of starlight continuously poured in, and within the blood and qi, thunder arcs and starlight danced.

Star Condensation Pills: ancient great powers plucked stars, transformed the power of stars, combined it with ancient qi, and refined Star Condensation Pills. If one had enough fortune, they could condense 'Starlight Illuminating the Azure Sky,' a rare phenomenon that almost no one in the present age had condensed.

'Starlight Illuminating the Azure Sky' could draw upon the power of stars, benefiting both blood and qi and the physical body. Starlight tempered the flesh, and blood and qi evolved into phenomena.

Another two days passed in a flash. Yang Tian opened his eyes, his mind moving slightly. A trace of starlight appeared on the surface of his body, but it was very faint, almost invisible to the naked eye.

"If I could condense the phenomenon of 'Starlight Illuminating the Azure Sky,' I wouldn't need to seek pills to temper my body in the future. The stars in the void would be an endless source of energy." Yang Tian sighed, but how could the Star Chart be so easily manifested?

Yang Tian was silent for a few breaths, as if remembering something. He reached out and grabbed two jade slips, placing the one obtained from the Star Sect before him. After thinking for a moment, he directly poured his soul power into it.

"Why is it rebounding? Is my soul power insufficient?" Scratching his head, Yang Tian observed for a while, then mobilized the starlight within his body and channeled it into the jade slip.

As more and more starlight gathered, a faint ripple suddenly appeared on the jade slip, but it quickly dissipated, and the jade slip returned to normal.

"This jade slip should be related to the starlight in my body. It's very likely that I need to condense the phenomenon of 'Starlight Illuminating the Azure Sky' to open it." Yang Tian sighed, deeply exhaled a breath of air, and without much hope, took out the other jade slip beside him.