C11

In the Three Alliances, the Laughing Saber Sword, Purple Illusion Plume, and the others naturally wouldn't speak without a reason. For no reason at all, they threw away their identities and invited an ordinary inner disciple.

The people of the three Alliances had already learned that Hong Chen was living in Silver Feather Academy.

The Silver Feather Courtyard was a place where true disciples were guaranteed to live.

There weren't that many inner masters in the Qing-Yun Sect, only about a hundred. Therefore, true disciples were also very rare.

Such a future disciple was destined to become a true disciple. If they didn't rope him in, who would they recruit?

Furthermore, this was the Silver Feather Academy. Not only did it mean that Hong Chen would become a true disciple.

The Qing-Yun Sect had seven core disciples, three of which came from the Silver Feather Courtyard.

Compared to the Golden Scale Academy, the Copper Cauldron Academy, and the Iron Profound Academy, the chances of this Silver Feather Academy disciple becoming a core disciple were simply too high.

Originally, they had been afraid that after Hong Chen joined the Dragon Lake Alliance, the bottom ranked alliance that they had pushed aside and suppressed in the past would become famous and strong.

Today, seeing that Hong Jie, Xiao Gusha and the others had tried to push and humiliate Hong Chen, they were already overjoyed in their hearts. Naturally, they were the first to step out and invite Hong Chen to join their alliance.

As the saying goes, adding flowers to a flower is slightly insufficient, and providing coal in the midst of snow is the most brilliant move.

At this moment, the gazes of everyone were focused on Hong Chen.

The Cloud Tai Alliance and the Sword Alliance had both invited him at the same time. After all, this was an inner sect disciple, how many people could hope to invite such an event?

Hong Chen smiled and said, "Junior has remembered your good intentions. Currently, I do not have any plans to join the Alliance. If I were to join the Alliance in the future, I would definitely consider inviting you two today."

When Hong Chen said these words, the eyeballs in the entire crowd shattered.

That was an invitation from two major alliances, but he actually refused it. How could there be any logic in this?

The inner disciples who were fighting with all their might in hopes of one day joining the Three Alliances were enraged. How could the number one trash in the outer sect, Hong Chen, be treated like this? What right did he have to refuse their yearning?

"Hong Chen, don't be too arrogant. Senior Brother Zi Ling inviting you to join the Grand Cloud Alliance is because he thinks highly of you. How can you refuse?"

"Hong Chen, your title of the outer court's number one trash has yet to be removed. Senior brother Dao Jian has invited you. Yet, you actually dared to refuse his invitation. Have you gone stupid?"

"Shut up! Do not be disrespectful to junior brother Hong Chen!"

"Do not be impudent! Junior brother Hong Chen, since you are unwilling, we cannot force you!"

The Violet Illusion Plume, Laughing Saber, and Sword of Laughter scolded at the same time. For disciples of the Silver Feather Academy like Hong Chen, even if they could not recruit them into their own alliance, they could not afford to offend them.

When the scene inexplicably went silent, an inner court elder arrived.

"Before the Greencloud Blood Forest, you guys dare to make a ruckus here. Hurry up and prepare. In fifteen minutes, the Blood Forest will open."

The arrival of the elder silenced the disciples like a cicada in the winter, and no one dared to make a ruckus.

Over at Hong Chen's side, Xiao Xiao's large eyes were filled with mist. It was obvious that she was feeling guilty.

"Sister-in-law, you must not cry. If elder brother finds out, who knows how he'll beat me up."

Xiao Xiao shook her head. "This time, it's all my fault. I never thought that Gu Sha and the others would actually hate you so much. If it wasn't for me inviting you to participate in this trial, you wouldn't have been humiliated in public."

"Alright, sister-in-law. Didn't they fail? This is called slapping the face and getting slapped instead. It's just a clown, there's no need to bother about it."

After a while, the crimson barrier on the side of the plaza had opened up a passageway. It was the Cyan Cloud Blood Forest.

"The Cyan Cloud Blood Forest has already been opened. All disciples can enter it. Remember, within the forest, there are opportunities and dangers, especially the dark blood spirit. Normal disciples cannot defeat it. If they meet it, they must work together, or die."

After warning for a while, the passage was completely opened, and many inner court disciples entered in a line.

After entering the blood forest, the hundreds of disciples scattered and disappeared into the blood forest in an instant.

Hong Chen was a little slow, and his eyes widened. Damn, the Qing-Yun Sect had let a bunch of wolves into the blood forest.

"Eldest Sister-in-Law, why didn't you act together with the Dragon Lake Alliance?"

Hong Chen turned around and looked at Xiao Xiao helplessly.

Xiao Xiao had already adjusted her state of mind. Smiling, she said, "What's so good about moving together with them? Seventh Brother, this time, you've gone too far. I'll move together with you. I'm at the eighth level of the Martial Spirit Realm. I won't cause you any trouble."

"That's good. I'll go with Eldest Sister. When Eldest Brother comes in the future, he won't blame me for not taking good care of Eldest Sister."

"What? Boy, you treat me well because of your elder brother? Don't tell me that I'm not engaged to your elder brother, and you're not going to care about me?"

"Eldest sister-in-law, what are you saying? Eldest sister-in-law, you are so beautiful, I can't even get close to you if I wanted to."

"Hmph. It's good that you know. If you don't listen, I'll definitely tell your elder brother later."

Hong Chen's expression changed. In the Shoulder King Manor, Hong Jue was one of the closest people to him.

When he was young, although he was looked after by his grandfather and the five elders, the one that accompanied him the most was still Hong Jue.

Later on, Hong Jue entered Tianjing Academy, and he entered the Qing-Yun Sect.

After all these years, the amount of resources from the Prince's Mansion had been greatly reduced. However, the resources from his elder brother were endless.

Otherwise, Hong Chen wouldn't have been able to store enough energy in his body to directly advance from the Sixth Heavenly Layer to the peak of the Sixth Heavenly Layer.

"That's right, sister-in-law. Has my elder brother received any news recently? He should be advancing to the inner courtyard since he is currently in the Skyset Academy, right?"

Their inner court disciples will at least have the cultivation of a Martial King. Your brother has already been in closed-door training for three months now, and in his letter, he said that after he becomes an inner court disciple, he will come to the Qing-Yun Sect to see us. "

"That's great! Big Brother is only twenty-one this year and he's already able to become a Martial King. As expected of a genius with a mutated bloodline."

When Hong Jue was mentioned, Xiao Xiao's face subconsciously blushed. These two people were publicly recognized as a couple in the Dragon Lake Empire.

"The Academy is the number one sect in the Nine Prefectures. Their background is indeed stronger than our Qing-Yun Sect's. Your elder brother was just lucky. When we were training outside, they were taken back by the teachers from the school."

"Let's not talk about this. Big Bro is about to become a Martial King. We have to work hard too. This time, when the Greencloud Blood Forest opens, we have to raise our cultivation base."

The two of them urged the light to move deeper into the forest.

In the Green Cloud Blood Forest, the trees were blood-red, the grass were blood-red, and even the stones were blood-red.

In some places, there was a dark, dark red that looked extremely horrifying.

However, those plants and flowers that had yet to grow into blood spirits had no value in catching them.

Only those blood spirits that could break free and move freely were of value.

The two of them flew for half the time it took to drink a cup of tea before they encountered the first Blood Spirit, a thirty meter tall, slanted locust tree.

This locust tree was not of a low rank. It was a second rank blood spirit, and the blood energy it contained within it was enormous.

When the two passed by, the locust tree was still pretending. It was rooted deeply in the ground and didn't move at all.

However, who was Hong Chen? He was the Thunder Martial God. With a single glance, he was able to tell that this locust tree contained a boundless amount of blood energy.

Pretending not to notice anything amiss, Hong Chen gave Xiao Xiao a meaningful glance, then quietly approached the locust tree.

The locust tree was also lurking and preparing to ambush them.

Who would have thought that just as he extended the root system from the ground, the attacks of the two would burst out at the same time.

This was especially true for Hong Chen. He instantly brandished the Flaming Metallic Sword. Nine swords condensed from fire true essence entered the ground and completely cut off the roots of the locust tree.

At the same time, Xiao Xiao activated her water elemental energy and sent the gigantic locust tree up into the sky.

Hong Chen's Raging Flames Vajra Sword followed closely behind. It turned into a sword net and shattered the entire locust tree.

Raging flames roasted them, and their blood essence condensed. In the end, the two of them obtained eighteen drops of blood essence.

"Eighteen drops of blood essence! This guy is equivalent to a Martial Spirit World's Ninth Heaven!" Xiao Xiao sighed in admiration.

Just now, she had been travelling with Hong Chen. She definitely did not expect that this locust tree could actually condense eighteen drops of blood essence. The arrival of such bliss was too sudden.

"Sister-in-law, there are eighteen drops of blood essence in total. Let's split them into half, don't decline. The opening of the Qing-Yun Realm is only half a month's time, and it's a good opportunity to raise our cultivation."

Xiao Xiao quickly discovered that following Hong Chen was the correct decision.

This was the third time she had entered the Qing-Yun Realm.

The first two times, she had followed the Dragon Lake Alliance in moving together and gathered everyone's strength. In a day's time, she couldn't find many blood spirits. When she encountered strong ones, she still couldn't kill them.

But today, the situation was very different.

It was as if Hong Chen had been given a third eye. Not a single blood spirit was able to escape his eyes.

Especially those standing stance, waiting for the Yin people, flower, grass, and tree type blood spirits, they almost always found an accurate target. Moreover, if they met the two of them, there was only death waiting for them.

Hong Chen had even found a Thousand Day Flower in the cave. It was a rarely seen spirit medicine that turned into a blood spirit, and it was even a rank 3 one at that.

In order to capture the Thousand Day Flower, Hong Chen had spent a great deal of effort to activate the Crimson Dragon's Shadow. His body turned into afterimages and he repeatedly forced it.

The two of them divided the blood essences into twelve drops and hid them carefully.

As night fell, the two of them found a secluded place at the bottom of the huge rock and rested for a while.

Apart from the rank 3 Thousand Day Flower, the two of them had gained more than 120 drops of blood each.

As Xiao Xiao looked at the large and small bottles, she felt as if she were dreaming.

Hong Chen was the nemesis of the Blood Spirit, especially those plants.

"Eldest sister-in-law, don't just stand there. This blood essence is enough for you to increase your cultivation to the Nine Layered Heavens."

Xiao Xiao nodded in excitement. "Enough! Absolutely enough! There's also this grade three blood essence. This is definitely a rare treasure."

"Good. Then tonight, elder sister-in-law, you will absorb the blood essence. I will protect you."

As night fell, all the martial practitioners inside the Blood Spirit at the peak of the Qing-Yun Realm began to hibernate.

On the contrary, those beast blood spirits began to move. It was evident from their roars and curses that the blood forest was not at peace.

Hong Chen's group was at peace. There were very few Blood Spirits in the places he was looking for.

He was fine now, but outside, the three inner masters of the Qing-Yun Sect, who were in charge of the great formation, were completely worried out of their wits.

An old man with white hair, with three bloody lines on his forehead, was sternly berating them.

"Speak, what happened? How could so many blood spirits have been lost in the blood forest on the first day? Who was it? Did you put a Successor Disciple into the inner court disciples' area?"

The old man was furious. It had only been a day since he left, but there were already more than 20 missing in the outer regions of the forest. The rank 2 blood spirits, especially the rank 3 one, were also gone.