After living for a long time, the number of people you met and the number of things you experienced would surely accumulate. By then, you would have become a cunning old fox, let alone an ancient divine protector like Holy Pharaoh.

  Being able to have the position of divine protector meant that its story was long enough to be a saga.

  The Holy Pharaoh was proficient in black magic. At the instant it entered this stronghold, it discovered the few BOSSES here and immediately used a soul mark on them.

  Naturally, Huo Lanying and the others weren’t powerful enough and weren’t able to discover these soul marks. If it was the Corona Starlord himself, even if you beat the scarab to death, it wouldn’t dare to take such a risk.

  “Let’s go and have a drink!”

  It had been a very long time since Zheng Qingfang drank and chatted with Sun Mo. He wanted to use this opportunity to mingle with him. As their emotions grew high from drinking, Sun Mo might be so happy that he gave him another painting.

  Hehe, if that was a famous painting, he would have profited a lot.

  “Uncle Zheng, I can’t make it today!”

  Sun Mo rejected. (I still have to chase after that Huo Lanying, so how can I go drinking with you?) “Also I have to trouble you to take care of these victims.”

  Sun Mo saving them was already an act of extreme benevolence. If he still had to take his own money out to help these people settle down and get treated, what was the point of having the authorities?

  Zheng Qingfang wanted to tell him not to reject it so fast as he would arrange three of the prettiest and most famous courtesans in Jinling to accompany him. But after seeing An Xinhui, he hesitated and didn’t dare to say this.

  Speaking of appearance and figure, An Xinhui wasn’t bad at all. Even in the courtesan world, An Xinhui could be considered as someone with a level of peak beauty. Adding on her fame, even if every single courtesan in Jinling was bunched together, they wouldn’t be able to compare to her.

  “Don’t worry about that, I will remember the contribution the Central Province Academy provided and will also give you a portion of the rewards!”

  Zheng Qingfang guaranteed.

  For things like money, ever since Sun Mo became the logistics department head, the Central Province Academy had never lacked it. But to a peak-level famous school, fame was the most important thing to them.

  “I’ll have to trouble Uncle Zheng then.”

  Sun Mo nodded. He then glanced toward the crowd. “Helian!”

  After Helian Beifang was rescued, he prepared to leave, but after he walked a few steps, he heard Sun Mo’s voice.

  “He can’t possibly be calling me, right?”

  Helian Beifang glanced to the left and right.

  “Stop looking around, I’m calling out to you.”

  Sun Mo smiled. “Come over!”

  Helian Beifang immediately jogged over and bowed respectfully as he greeted, “Teacher!”

  “Don’t run around these few days and wait for me in the school. If you don’t know where I stay, get the gatekeeper to lead you there. After that, take a shower and eat a good meal to nourish your body. Don’t be afraid to spend money, you can get it from the lady named Dong He in my house.”

  Sun Mo explained.

  “T……teacher!”

  Helian Beifang was somewhat emotional. (Could Teacher Sun be accepting me as his personal student?)

  “Go rest first. For any other matters, we will talk again after you have rested up!”

  After Sun Mo spoke, he bid farewell to Zheng Qingfeng.

  Logically speaking, Sun Mo should bid farewell to Li Xiu first. However, he couldn’t be bothered to do so.

  “Arrogant and conceited!”

  Li Xiu’s lips twitched.

  “However, he does have the capabilities to be arrogant.”

  Zheng Qingfang disputed.

  Li Xiu fell silent. After a while, she got that general with the ‘八’ shaped mustache to come over. “Arrange a few helpers and follow after Sun Mo.”

  “Roger!”

  The general with the ‘八’ shaped mustache obeyed.

  “Since he can find this nest, this means that he should have some tracking method. Most probably, he should be confident in chasing after Huo Lanying, right?”

  Li Xiu conjectured.

  To great teachers, what was the most important?

  Fame!

  What were Sun Mo and An Xinhui supposed to do after they saved so many people?

  Naturally, they had to make this matter known and properly expressed sympathy while imprinting themselves in the minds of everyone, letting everyone know that they had done a good thing.

  However, they didn’t do so.

  This couple actually left hurriedly.

  There was definitely something bizarre that caused them to do so! ……

  Dark clouds covered the sky, the night was as dark as ink.

  Sun Mo rode upon Chasing Cloud and galloped madly toward the outskirts. An Xinhui’s battle horse was more ordinary and slower. Hence, a huge distance was soon created between them.

  Sun Mo could only wait.

  “Why are you in such a hurry?”

  After An Xinhui asked the question, her eyes flashed as she guessed the answer. “Are you able to track Huo Lanying?”

  “Yup!”

  Sun Mo’s voice was filled with certainty.

  “But it would be dangerous if you do this!”

  An Xinhui already understood that Sun Mo wanted to get all the battle spoils for himself. However, they weren’t clear of the enemy’s combat strength, and they even had a saint-tier secret treasure.

  “Why don’t you tell me the location? I will go after them myself!”

  An Xinhui didn’t want Sun Mo to risk himself.

  “Please, don’t treat me like a salted fish.”

  Sun Mo rolled his eyes. However, this feeling of being protected by a beautiful maiden was truly not bad.

  “We can go and take a look. If the enemy is too powerful, we will retreat!”

  Sun Mo suggested. And after he saw An Xinhui’s steed, he whistled forcefully as he mentally summoned Little Silver.

  “The speed of my horse actually isn’t slow.”

  An Xinhui felt helpless. Sun Mo’s horse was a chasing cloud divine steed, and only a few other species of horses in the entire Nine Provinces might match up to it.

  “Let’s not ride on horses. The sky is already dark and we might screw things up.”

  Chasing Cloud could save Sun Mo quite a bit of effort, but An Xinhui’s horse wasn’t able to do so. If it continued running at such speeds, it might cripple its own legs.

  “What should we ride then?”

  After An Xinhui asked, she saw Sun Mo lifting his head and staring at the sky. She was unable to restrain a smile as she teased, “You can’t possibly be thinking of riding a cloud and soaring through the skies, right?”

  Riding on a cloud and soaring through the skies was something only immortals could do.

  “Yes, we will ride on a cloud!”

  Sun Mo didn’t understand An Xinhui’s ‘tease’. Right now, he felt like he was flagging a cab like how he did so in his past world. The feeling of impatience returned once again.

  He subconsciously touched his pants and wanted to use his mobile phone to check the time. However, he discovered that there were no such things as mobile phones in this world.

  “It’s good as well. I don’t need to keep lowering my head to look at an electronic device.”

  Sun Mo sighed.

  Holy Pharaoh waited quietly at the side, feeling that Sun Mo was so idiotic. (There’s such a beautiful girl beside you, but you don’t know how to say sweet things to her to improve your relationship.)

  (You deserved to be single all your life!)

  Roughly five minutes later, a silver-colored cloud swooshed and appeared in their vision. It swooshed again and stopped before Sun Mo.

  An Xinhui was extremely shocked. Her dainty hands directly covered her mouth or she might inadvertently cry out.

  “T……this……”

  Sun Mo leaped onto the cloud. “Stop mumbling, quickly come up!”

  “Oh!”

  An Xinhui was a little stunned. She was in a fluster as she climbed up the cloud. After that, she subconsciously hugged Sun Mo’s waist but soon released her grip. She involuntarily glanced downward and stretched out her hands to feel the cloud.

  (So soft! It feels like cotton!)

  “Have you sat tight? We are moving out immediately if your seating is secure.”

  Sun Mo urged.

  “Mn!”

  Just after An Xinhui spoke, she felt a woosh and the cloud flew out.

  The gentle night wind blew past their faces, causing their hair to flutter wildly.

  “Is this an e……eight-gate cloud?”

  An Xinhui tried to endure the impulse but failed to do so as she asked the question.

  “Mn!”

  Sun Mo’s voice was very light.

  “The one ranked #10 on the mysterious darkness species ranking?”

  “Mn!”

  An Xinhui fell silent. Never in her wildest dreams would she have imagined that Sun Mo would actually have such a good thing. This was a mysterious species of darkness that one couldn’t even purchase even if they had all the money in the world.

  Although the eight-gate cloud was ranked 10th, as long as one had it, this meant that one could find countless treasures. There was no longer a need for them to worry about cultivation resources.

  Actually, let alone for the one ranked #10, if an ordinary human could obtain any species in the mysterious darkness species list, they would immediately become wealthy.

  “No wonder!”

  An Xinhui was suddenly enlightened. All her puzzlement was resolved. “The spirit stones you used for building the Darkness Illusion Dojo and paying out the teacher’s salary all sourced from it?”

  “Yes, it helped me find a spirit mine.” Sun Mo didn’t conceal the fact. “Also, its name is Little Silver.”

  An Xinhui fell silent.

  Sun Mo was a little surprised as An Xinhui actually didn’t contribute any favorable impression points. Could it be that she wasn’t impressed by him? Besides, given his current hearing ability, he could completely hear the sounds of her heartbeat.

  Right now, An Xinhui’s heartbeat was extremely calm, showing no signs of agitation.

  “Truly a major character who can keep her composure well!”

  Sun Mo was impressed.

  At the very least, when he had seen Little Silver in the Spiritwind Canyon, he had impatiently wanted to obtain it.

  “Sun Mo!”

  An Xinhui suddenly spoke.

  “Why do you call my name so formally?”

  Sun Mo smiled.

  “You are so outstanding to the point where it makes me feel afraid!”

  An Xinhui mumbled.

  She wanted to stretch her hands out to hug Sun Mo. This was purely because she felt a sense of gratification and being emotionally touched after seeing the young boy who had loved to follow behind her growing up. However, she didn’t dare to do so because she was afraid Sun Mo might find her someone with a utilitarian heart.

  Actually, An Xinhui also felt a sense of loss in her heart.

  Back then, she had been the one protecting him, and she liked the role of a big sister. But now, Sun Mo was the one who was carrying this heavy responsibility.

  (Should I give the position of headmaster to him?)

  An Xinhui started to hesitate.

  On the contrary, Sun Mo wasn’t thinking so much. He simply felt the joy of zooming around. Since this was high-up in the air, he could fly as fast as Little Silver could.

  “Maserati, Lamborghini, Ferrari……all of you are little brothers!”

  Sun Mo wanted to point a middle finger in his heart to vent his resentment.

  Back then, Sun Mo had had to work hard simply to feed himself. As for luxurious cars? He could even dream about it and drool while looking at their pictures online.

  Let alone the entry-level BMW 3 series, 5 series……he didn’t even dare to think about those extremely cheap cars. He had to depend on public transports when he went to work. Yes, after the price of renting a bicycle increased, he also stopped riding them.

  “Ah!”

  Sun Mo suddenly inhaled and roared out loud, “I’m the king of the world!”

  “Master, by shouting like this, you are throwing all our faces.” Holy Pharaoh wanted to close its eyes, this was truly embarrassing.

  “What do you know?”

  Sun Mo’s lips twitched. “You don’t even know this renowned sentence. How can you be worthy enough to follow me?”

  “.……”

  Holy Pharaoh suddenly discovered that the shamelessness of his master was already on par with him.

  Sun Mo turned his head and realized that An Xinhui didn’t mock him. She was smiling instead.

  When she saw Sun Mo glancing over, she stroked her raven-black long hair and lifted her head slightly as her smile grew even more beautiful.

  That was the gentleness from the depths of her heart.

  She understood Sun Mo’s current emotions.

  Who didn’t wish to become the king of the world?

  (My Little Momo, you can do it!)

  Chapter 714: The Heavenly Sword Can Run Rampant Through the World!

  “Where’s Sun Mo? Why did he vanish?”

  The general with the ‘八’ shaped mustache was shocked. They were all tracking experts but had actually lost their target? Wasn’t this a little too ridiculous?

  “I think I saw them flying away while riding a cloud,” said a young man, but he didn’t dare to be sure

  His vision was great, but dark clouds were covering the sky tonight. It was extremely dark. The distance he could see was truly too short, and they had been following Sun Mo based on the horse tracks on the road.

  “Do you have a hole in your brain? If you say they rode a bird and flew away, I can still believe that. But riding a cloud? Clouds are floaty ethereal substances. Even a cat would fall when standing on them.”

  The general with the ‘八’ shaped mustache impatiently urged, “Enough. Stop talking nonsense and quickly find him!”

  They dispersed. Even if they had to dig three feet into the ground, they had to find An Xinhui and Sun Mo. ……

  Liu Village was a tiny village that was about 50 li away from Jinling. It had its back to mountains and forest, and the villagers depended on mining for a living. It was said that the Buddha statue in the Hall of Great Strength of the Xiangguo Temple was carved from the stones of Mountain Liu.

  Even during the night, the sounds of chipping against stones and rocks could be heard from very far away, breaking the silence of the night.

  In a certain house, Huo Lanying was monitoring for ten whole minutes and heaved a sigh of relief after affirming that no one was chasing them. He then sat down.

  “Li Xiu truly ought to die. After my injury recovers, I will head to the Prince Consort Manor to strangle her to death on the bed!”

  Huo Lanying ruthlessly vowed.

  Based on external appearance, he was very handsome, but there was a hint of balefulness in his features. Besides, due to him leading a team of people that were doing human experiments, he had an extremely cold-blooded aura.

  “You can’t kill Li Xiu!”

  A middle-aged man shook his head. He was also a star general under the Corona Starlord. However, he didn’t know anything about medical arts, and his main responsibility was combat.

  “I don’t care. In any case, my future is finished. That Li Xiu has to pay the price.”

  Huo Lanying’s eyes were completely red.

  After the personal students of the Corona Starlord finished their apprenticeship, they would individually take control of a team and be responsible for a research topic. Whoever did well and had the greatest achievement would be able to gain the Corona Starlord’s utmost support. In fact, they might even have a chance to become a Starlord themselves.

  In any case, Huo Lanying was quite brainy. He had used the longevity potion to tempt Li Zixing with eternal life. After that, he had wanted to borrow Li Zixing’s power in Jinling to make a good living for himself.

  Resources, gold, medicinal ingredients, human talents, and the hardest-to-acquire medicine-humans……he lacked nothing. This also caused Huo Lanying’s experiment progress to go very fast.

  But now, everything was destroyed.

  “Cough cough!’

  Because Huo Lanying was too angry, he coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood. Although he possessed a saint-tier secret treasure and managed to escape successfully from Li Xiu, he was still injured.

  After all, Li Xiu’s subordinates were all extremely powerful.

  “You take a break first, I’m going to inspect the information!”

  Huo Lanying’s mind was in chaos now and couldn’t sleep. The research data was the crystallization of all his research during these ten years. If it was missing or destroyed, he would surely feel heartache so bad that he wanted to die.

  “Right!”

  The middle-aged man was fatigued too. His entire body was coerced in blood. Hence, he wanted to head to the courtyard and use the water from the well to shower quickly. But just when he stepped out, his ears pricked up.

  “Who the hell are you? You even dare to follow your star general grandpa? Quickly scram out and receive your death!”

  The middle-aged man roared.

  Swish~

  Huo Lanying also brandished his sword as he rushed out.

  “We hid so carefully, yet we were still discovered?”

  Sun Mo was speechless. He felt that he was already very cautious and he didn’t even dare to breathe loudly.

  “They don’t depend on hearing to find people. Rather, they are using some sort of perception.”

  An Xinhui also no longer hid herself. She pushed the wooden door open and entered.

  “It’s you?”

  Huo Lanying frowned. As the headmaster of the Central Province Academy, as well as a beautiful female great teacher ranked #5 on the Beauty Rankings, everyone in Jinling knew of her.

  “Teacher An!”

  The middle-aged man greeted.

  “Don’t address me as that. You are not worthy!”

  An Xinhui berated.

  “Mn?”

  The middle-aged man started. After that, he smiled. “Haha, sure. I hope that you can still be so tough when you fall to my fist.”

  “You are merely a loser, yet you still dare to brag?”

  Sun Mo ridiculed.

  “You are the one who discovered my stronghold?”

  Huo Lanying’s brows were tightly furrowed. He was extremely enraged.

  Li Xiu was someone who preferred to do things solo. So if it wasn’t Sun Mo and An Xinhui divulging the secret, she would definitely not permit them to join the operation.

  “Speak lesser, let’s fight!”

  Sun Mo pulled out his blade. “Sister Xinhui, you go deal with that injured one!’

  Sun Mo wanted to finish that middle-aged man off.

  “No!”

  This time around, An Xinhui’s rejection was very clean. It was impossible for Sun Mo to defeat a star general. In fact, Sun Mo might not even be able to defeat that injured young man.

  “Kill!”

  Yet, Huo Lanying shouted and seized the initiative.

  This was his second stronghold and was a very concealed one. Since Sun Mo and An Xinhuo could find their way here, this meant that he no longer had any safe dwellings.

  Hence, he could either leave Jinling or kill the two of them. If not, the authorities would definitely be able to find him soon.

  One couldn’t help but say that Huo Lanying’s thoughts were extremely comprehensive.

  “Careful!”

  An Xinhui pulled her sword and wanted to block Huo Lanying, but that middle-aged man was like a cannonball, appearing behind An Xinhui despite moving slower. He directly aimed a punch at her back.

  An Xinhui reacted by placing her sword behind her to block the attack.

  Bang!

  The fist collided with the sword. An Xinhui borrowed the momentum of the middle-aged man’s punch and launched another attack.

  As he saw this, Sun Mo roared.

  “Silly girl, trust me for once!”

  His voice was filled with heartache and helplessness, also a hint of indescribable emotion that hinted at him being moved. Honestly speaking, Sun Mo had never been shown concern in such a way by anyone before.

  “No!”

  An Xinhui shook her head. (Even if I get scolded by you after this, I can’t let you take the risk.)

  “Then how? Will you fight both of them alone?”

  Sun Mo executed the Wind King Divine Step and arrived before Huo Lanying as he attacked. “I’m a man. Where do you place my pride?”

  An Xinhui started. This was especially so when she looked at Sun Mo’s eyes that were as radiant as the stars. She suddenly understood something.

  This was a man who would rather fall in battle than hiding behind a woman.

  “An Xinhui, I have my own determination. Don’t make me hate you!”

  Sun Mo’s tone was strict. “Besides, I will definitely not lose this fight!”

  “Damn, stop making a public display of affection before this daddy. This daddy is going to ravage her before your eyes later!”

  Huo Lanying cursed loudly. He pulled his sword and slashed out over ten sword shadows that flowed with brilliant lights and vibrant colors.

  “Alright, you be careful then!”

  Seeing that things weren’t working out the way she wanted them to, An Xinhui gave up and started to fight the middle-aged man.

  This person was after all a star general from Dark Dawn. She had to give it her all.

  At this moment, two separate battles started.

  Bzz!

  A layer of golden light appeared on Sun Mo’s body.

  Invulnerable Golden Body!

  At the same time, the Grand Universe Formless Divine Art was activated. The world before Sun Mo’s eyes began to slow down.

  Even so, Huo Lanying’s sword attacks were still shockingly fast.

  Ding! Ding! Ding!

  The sword clashed against the wooden blade, causing sparks to fly around.

  “You are pretty capable!”

  Huo Lanying was surprised. “Oh right, you are currently in the Great Teachers Hero Rankings, right? What rank are you?”

  “I forgot it, I think I’m currently ranked #6?”

  Sun Mo feigned calmness. In any case, he couldn’t lose out in terms of external appearance.

  “Is that so?”

  Huo Lanying’s lips curled as he laughed confidently. “Back in my time, I was number one.”

  (Although I already fought a few times and am heavily injured today, there’s no problem for me to teach a junior like you a lesson.)

  “Allow a senior like me to give you a few pointers!”

  After Huo Lanying spoke, he suddenly unleashed an ultimate attack.

  Sword Flash!

  Swish~ Swish~ Swish~

  Huo Lanying brandished his longsword. For every single sword strike he pieced forth, the sword’s edge would suddenly flash explosively before vanishing into the night.

  However, a stream of sword qi would blast toward Sun Mo.

  Truthfully speaking, it wasn’t that the sword’s edge vanished. Rather, it flashed too brilliantly that one’s naked eyes had no way to see it. It was just like when one was standing in a brightly lit room. When the lights were suddenly turned off, their eyes had to adapt for a while before they could see the things in their surroundings with the aid of moonlight.

  There were simply too many streams of sword qi.

  It was basically impossible for Sun Mo to block everything completely.

  Ding! Ding! Ding!

  The sword qi blasted into Sun Mo’s body, causing many sparks to appear.

  “Yo, you are so tough!”

  Huo Lanying was surprised. “Is this a saint-tier cultivation art?”

  “Why don’t you take a guess?”

  Sun Mo appeared calm but actually it was very strenuous for him to block these attacks. Was this the deathly sense of pressure exuded by a formidable enemy?

  Ever since he came to this world, the most dangerous battle Sun Mo had experienced was undoubtedly that battle when he fought against Daoist White Bird in the temple.

  The other fights were nothing in comparison.

  However, the pressure emitted by Huo Lanying was over ten times greater compared to the Daoist White Bird.

  “Haha, is a saint-tier art really that impressive?”

  Huo Lanying’s lips curled. “Let me tell you this. What I’m cultivating is the Heavenly Sword Art, a peerless-grade saint-tier cultivation art. Among the myriad of sword arts and sword techniques, my cultivation art can be ranked within the top ten.”

  “Why are you bragging? It isn’t even in the top three?”

  Sun Mo ridiculed.

  (This daddy’s Grand Universe Formless Divine Art is the ultimate divine art of the number one famous school in the Nine Provinces – the Skyraise Academy. Out of all the cultivation arts, this undoubtedly ranks within the top ten.)

  (But was I arrogant?)

  (Also, after this battle ends, your Heavenly Sword Art would also be learned by me.)

  Honestly speaking, under such fierce attacks by his opponent, Sun Mo didn’t dare to use Immemorial Vairocana. He could only use the Grand Universe Formless Divine Art, Dharma Skyshock Fist, and Prairie Blazing Fire Spear Technique. Also, for the vast majority of the time, he focused fully on defense.

  Huo Lanying was truly powerful!

  Sun Mo wanted to activate Divine Sight to observe Huo Lanying, but he was unable to activate it.

  “Damn, I can’t use cheats?”

  Sun Mo’s lips twitched.

  “Huo Lanying, you are putting in so much effort merely to deal with a #6 ranker on the Great Teacher Hero Rankings. Have your skills declined through these years?”

  The middle-aged man mocked.

  “Sun Mo, be careful! The Heavenly Sword Art is one of those sword arts that rank at the extreme peak.”

  An Xinhui had a heavy look on her face.

  Usually speaking, for cultivation arts with impressive names, they were either roadside goods used to swindle people, or they were so powerful that they were off the charts.

  The Heavenly Sword Can Run Rampant Through the World!

  This saying was referring to this cultivation art.

  “In that case, is there a Dragon-Slaying Saber Art?”

  Everyone didn’t understand Sun Mo’s pun. Moreover, they didn’t plan to want to understand it.

  “I no longer wish to waste words with you.”

  Huo Lanying looked at Sun Mo’s body and his lips curled. “Do you think that I won’t be able to do anything to you just because you are training in some golden bell protection-type of cultivation arts?”

  “How naive. My Heavenly Sword Art is the best at killing my opponent’s ‘heart’!”

  At the instant he spoke, Huo Lanying unleashed another ultimate attack.

  Sword Dragon Ridding the Armor!

  Roar!

  The angry roar of an ancient gigantic beast suddenly echoed out loud in the entire area.

  [1] The Heavenly Sword and Dragon-Slaying Saber are two godlike weapons in Jinyong Novels.