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Roar!
More than a dozen young snow lions surrounded Hao Ren.
Except for the two battles with Qin Shaoyang and the one with Su Han, Hao Ren had very little battle experience.
Although these young snow lions weren't as big as the adult snow lions, they were still half as tall as Hao Ren, and they looked ferocious.
The adult snow lions blocked the only way out and didn't attack Hao Ren immediately. It seemed like they wanted to use Hao Ren as a training tool for the young snow lions!
Hao Ren's heart raced at a rate of 180 beats per minute! With the five-colored sword energies circling around him, he raised the sensitivity of his five senses to the maximum and paid close attention to the movements of the young snow lions, ready to release sword energies at any moment!
At the top of the cave, the last 1,000-year seven-colored snow lotus was still hanging steadily!
If he couldn't get this last one, Zhao Kuo wouldn't be able to survive!
More than a dozen white snow lions closed in on Hao Ren step by step.
Hao Ren exerted force on his feet and leaped up abruptly, releasing a sword energy upward.
Swoosh! The sword energy hit the root of the third snow lotus and knocked it down!
Hao Ren reached out and grabbed the snow lotus. No matter what, he had to get the snow lotus first!
Almost at the same time, more than a dozen snow lions also jumped up! Their jumping height was no lower than Hao Ren's! In the blink of an eye, they jumped toward Hao Ren!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Whoosh! Hao Ren released sword energies from his ten fingers. After landing, he turned around and dashed toward the tunnel!
The adult snow lions stood side by side, forming a meat wall, and their tall bodies blocked the exit!
Hao Ren shot out several sword energies, but they didn't hurt them at all!
According to the dragon classification, each of these snow lions had the strength of Xun-level, which was below Kun-level! That was why the earth-elemental dragons couldn't take out a few mature 1,000-year snow lotuses even though they knew there were more!
Hao Ren's body crashed into their bodies, but it was useless. It was as if he had crashed into an elastic wall and bounced back immediately!
More than a dozen young snow lions jumped toward Hao Ren again!
Hao Ren released his sword energies again, but he had already lost his aim. Snow Lionet, who was at the front of the pack, pressed its foot on his chest!
Hua! Hao Ren fell to the ground with a splash behind him.
He struggled to get up, but the other dozen or so snow lion cubs had already pounced on him!
Although they were young Snow Lions, each Snow Lion weighed far more than an adult! Although each snow lion cub's potential hadn't been awakened, its physical strength and resistance were comparable to the dragon cultivators above Zhen-level!
Snowy Lionet, who had its paws on Hao Ren's chest, opened its mouth wide. Hao Ren closed his eyes, thinking that he was really going to die this time!
Slurp …
A greasy feeling spread on Hao Ren's cheek.
Hao Ren opened his eyes and found Snow Lion licking his face intimately!
The other Snow Lions squatted beside him and scratched his hands, feet, and belly!
"Huh?" Hao Ren was alarmed and confused. He pushed against the wet ground and sat up.
The Snow Lionet that was licking his cheek put its head on Hao Ren's chest and rubbed it intimately.
Hao Ren reached out his stiff hand tentatively and touched the back of its head as if he was petting a puppy. It seemed to enjoy it very much, and it closed its eyes obediently.
The adult snow lions near the exit growled a few times, turned around, and left.
Hao Ren stood up again, and the young Snow Lions followed him obediently and even rubbed against his pants intimately.
"Could it be that … it didn't want to attack me but wanted to play with me?" Hao Ren's brain suddenly short-circuited.
He walked out of the cave, and the adult Snow Lions were nowhere to be seen. The dozen or so young Snow Lions followed him closely.
He walked out of the cave and didn't encounter any danger. Hao Ren touched his chest to make sure that he wasn't hurt, but he still couldn't figure out why.
They walked to the exit of the cave, and a surge of vigorous nature essence rushed toward Hao Ren again. The young Snow Lions cowered and hid behind Hao Ren.
They shook their round heads and looked at Hao Ren with black and expectant eyes, hoping that Hao Ren would take them out.
Hao Ren knew what they wanted, but he couldn't take them all out. Therefore, he squatted down and picked out the prettiest one. It was the one that jumped on Hao Ren's chest before, and he grabbed its paw.
The Snow Lionet understood Hao Ren's intention. It jumped into Hao Ren's arms and turned into a mini Snow Lionet that was the size of two palms.
It was the instinct of a Spirit Beast to be able to change its size. Hao Ren held the Snow Lionet in his arms and seemed to see two huge adult Snow Lions looking at him from the depths of the cave.
"Your parents also want me to take you out." Hao Ren reached out and patted its little head before putting it in his arms. Then, he circulated a surge of nature essence and went through the entrance of the cave.
The sun was shining brightly outside; it was already the second day! Hao Ren walked in the winding cave, and he didn't know how long he had spent.
The two guards were still unconscious on the ground, and Hao Ren wasn't sure if they had woken up before Su Han knocked them out again. Su Han was sitting on a big rock nearby, cultivating with her eyes closed. When she sensed Hao Ren coming out, she opened her beautiful eyes and asked, "Did you get it?"
"Yeah." Hao Ren nodded. He didn't tell her how dangerous the process of picking the Snow Lotuses was. Since he had gotten it, there was no point in telling her.
Su Han looked at the little Snow Lionet in Hao Ren's arms and asked, "You caught a little Spirit Beast?"
Hao Ren thought, "I didn't catch it; it followed me out." However, he didn't want to explain and just nodded.
Su Han glanced at the Snow Lionet again and said, "It's a Bin-level Spirit Beast. How many Snow Lotuses did you get? "
"Three. There are only three in the cave. I didn't see any mature ones, so I didn't pick them," Hao Ren said.
"Then I have no choice but to ask the Earth-Elemental Dragon for the last one." Su Han tossed out her longsword and stood on it.
Hao Ren followed her. He knew that Su Han stayed here to prevent Qin Shaoyang from coming and taking advantage of the situation, and he was a bit grateful.
The sword energies dashed toward the main peak of the Sky Mountain. Su Han threw out two air currents and woke up the two guards at the cave entrance.
In the high sky, the little snow lion, who had never been to the outside world, looked around curiously. Nestled in Hao Ren's arms, it looked like a harmless little animal.
However, only Hao Ren who had seen its true form knew how powerful it was. If it was summoned, even cultivators below Zhen-level might not be able to defeat it.
"If your meson space is big enough, you can put it in your space. However, you can't put any spiritual herbs or elixirs in it, in case it eats them all," Su Han reminded Hao Ren kindly.
"Ok!" Hao Ren didn't want to attract too much attention, so he tossed the little Snow Lionet into his necklace. Then, he took out the five 1,000-year Snow Lotuses and transferred them to Su Han.
After putting the five Snow Lotuses into her storage ring, Su Han thought for a moment and asked, "Is there only one Spirit Beast in the cave?"
"No. There are many big and small ones, but they didn't attack me," Hao Ren said.
"Then, you must be lucky. Your cultivation strength is low, and the Dragon Core in your body doesn't have a strong aura. Besides, you are cultivating the Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll, so the Spirit Beasts guarding the herbs in the cave thought you were a cultivator of the Sky Mountain Sect. That's why they didn't attack you," Su Han turned around and said to Hao Ren.
These spirit beasts are truly pitiful. Their masters have already moved away hundreds of years ago, yet they are still bitterly guarding the spirit herbs in the cave, waiting for their masters. It is no wonder that they are so intimate with me, a so-called human cultivator. Hao Ren thought.
Since no one fed them and they couldn't leave the cave, they could only feed on Snow Lotuses. That was why they ate all the mature Snow Lotuses. The three 1,000-year Snow Lotuses at the end of the cave were kept because they didn't want to eat them.
Su Han's White Jade Sword flew toward the main peak and reached the top of the mountain in a moment.
The White Jade Sword landed steadily. The elders saw Su Han's sword energy from afar and hurried out to greet her.
"Elders, the Snow Lotuses in the cave are limited. We have no choice but to ask for your remaining 1,000-year Snow Lotus," Su Han said to them as tactfully as possible.
The elders looked at each other and thought that Su Han and Hao Ren were just being polite because they couldn't get into the depths of the cave. They had expected that Su Han would come and ask for the Snow Lotus, so they took out the golden wooden box and handed it to Su Han.
Su Han opened the box and confirmed that it was a 1,000-year Seven-Colored Snow Lotus. She didn't want to mistreat them, so she took out six dark-red elixir pills from her storage ring and said, "Here are six Nine Transformation Soul Pills, which are very useful for breaking through bottlenecks. I won't take them for free. Take them as an exchange!"
The First Elder of the Northwest Earth-Elemental Dragon Tribe stepped forward respectfully and took the six elixir pills from Su Han. After careful consideration, they felt that it was a good deal to exchange six elixir pills for one Snow Lotus.
"I have something urgent to do, so I won't bother you any longer!" Su Han threw out her White Jade Sword and stood on it with Hao Ren.
"Goodbye, Ms. Su!" The elders of the Earth-Elemental Dragon Tribe bowed slightly.
After getting the six 1,000-year Seven-Colored Snow Lotus, Su Han didn't have time to mess with Qin Shaoyang anymore. She hurried back to East Ocean City with Hao Ren.
On their way back, Su Han suddenly asked Hao Ren, "Since you went deep into the cave, did you see a type of dark-red flower?"
"Dark-Red flower?" Hao Ren remembered that in the big cave at the end of the cave, there seemed to be a few inconspicuous little red flowers attached to the stone wall along with the 1,000-year Seven-Colored Snow Lotus.
"Little red flowers that look like half a fingernail?" Hao Ren asked.
"It seems like there are some …" Hearing Hao Ren's answer, Su Han murmured to herself, "These are ingredients for the Agerasia Elixir. I'll come back again if I have the chance …"
"Su Han, is there a kind of Seven-Colored Snow Lotus that takes 10,000 years to take root, 10,000 years to bloom, and 10,000 years to mature?" Hao Ren suddenly asked her.
"The natural Seven-Colored Snow Lotus withered after 1,000 years. I've never heard of the one you mentioned. However, the Sky Mountain Sect used to be experts in growing Seven-Colored Snow Lotus. Maybe the one you mentioned needs a special method to grow, "Su Han said casually.
Hao Ren couldn't ask further, so he suppressed his curiosity. The things that the Lu sisters knew were all top-tier ingredients, and they were not on the same level as what Su Han and the others had seen.
Rumble, rumble …
Hao Ren suddenly felt that the Snow Lion in the hidden space of the necklace was rolling on the ground.
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