With Ye Chu’s talent, sneaking into the Holy Land as a disciple was no trouble at all. Although an elder at the Xuanhua realm guarded the entrance, Ye Chu still easily slipped in.
Once inside the Holy Land, someone arranged their accommodations. Ye Chu followed their arrangements, but the Rain Mist disciples in charge of them were at most at the King realm. Ye Chu did not take them seriously at all, but on the surface, he remained respectful.
Since Ye Chu had entered, he needed to plan carefully to make the Rain Mist Holy Land suffer for it.
There were not many new disciples, only two or thirty. These twenty or thirty who had just entered were assigned to an inconspicuous position within the Rain Mist Holy Land.
Ye Chu was in no hurry. He ate and lived with these disciples every day. Occasionally, when he met the senior disciples of the Rain Mist Holy Land, he would subtly extract information from them without leaving a trace.
The senior disciples did not think much of Ye Chu asking questions here and there. After all, every disciple who had just arrived at the Holy Land was curious about the place, which they could understand.
After gathering a lot of small pieces of information from these disciples during the day, Ye Chu would wear a mask at night to explore the terrain of the Rain Mist Holy Land. Ye Chu’s strength was extraordinary, and he possessed the Instant Wind Technique. He came and went like the wind, completely undetected by ordinary disciples.
After staying in the Rain Mist Holy Land for a week, Ye Chu had figured out many places. However, he still knew nothing about the core area of the Rain Mist Holy Land.
Just as Ye Chu was worried about this, an elder from the Rain Mist Holy Land came down to select some disciples to go and gather medicinal herbs for him.
Ye Chu and a few others were selected and taken to the highest peak of the Rain Mist Holy Land, which was also the core area of the Holy Land.
The core area of the Rain Mist Holy Land had extremely thick spiritual energy, which excited the disciples who were allowed to come up. Cultivating here for one day was equivalent to cultivating for several days down below. Most importantly, they could come into contact with the upper-level disciples or even figures at the elder level. If they were valued by them because of this, they could absolutely soar to success.
But this was just a dream for them. They were chosen purely to do hard labour. The Emperor-level elder who brought them up took them to an herbal room and had them pick out and classify the various medicinal herbs inside.
Several more days passed like this. They were busy classifying herbs every day. The few people who came up were complaining endlessly, but only Ye Chu had a smile on his face.
During these few days, he had figured out the situation. This peak was actually the Pill Peak of the Rain Mist Holy Land, a place specifically for refining pills. And the pills currently being refined on the Pill Peak were Beauty Retaining Pills.
Hearing it was this kind of pill, Ye Chu could not help but click his tongue in shock. As the name suggested, the Beauty Retaining Pill was a pill that kept one’s appearance from aging. But to keep one’s appearance young, the most obvious effect was that vitality was not damaged. The Beauty Retaining Pill had such a divine effect, able to massively supplement vitality. Even a figure who had reached the end of their life span could live for more years if they took it.
This kind of thing was priceless and extremely precious. Ye Chu naturally did not need these things at the moment, but for women and figures nearing the end of their life span, this was indeed a supreme treasure.
Ye Chu thought to himself that this thing could be used as bride price for Tan Miaotong. Beauty Retaining Pills refined with demon spirit herbs were something that not every Holy Land could afford to bring out.
“I had not thought of how to mess with you Rain Mist Holy Land yet, but I did not expect to find out you were refining Beauty Retaining Pills. But this thing is too precious, and the Rain Mist Holy Land must value it highly. I will need to plan carefully if I want to get my hands on it.”
Ye Chu took a deep breath and continued sorting herbs in the herbal room. However, every night, Ye Chu would explore around to figure out the situation on the Pill Peak.
A few more days passed, and Ye Chu finally figured out the situation on the Pill Peak. He also found the location of the pill refining area on the Pill Peak.
Ye Chu did not rush to make a move. He knew there was a powerful elder guarding the Pill Peak. Ye Chu had only heard people discussing this elder and did not know how strong he was, which made Ye Chu dare not act rashly.
Besides, as the core area of the Rain Mist Holy Land, it was definitely equipped with defensive measures. Ye Chu was not stupid enough to just rush in and rob it directly.
“I need to think of a way to steal the Beauty Retaining Pills!” Ye Chu muttered a few times. “But it is hard to steal them. The pill room always has people in it. And every single one of them is at the Emperor level or above. It is impossible to take them down silently.”
“It seems I still have to wait for an opportunity. I do not know if the Rain Mist Prince has returned here yet. If he has, and there is really no other way, I will just go beat him up,” Ye Chu muttered.
Just as Ye Chu could not find an opportunity to make a move, news came that the Rain Mist Prince had returned to the Holy Land, and Elder Yu Shi’s arm had been chopped off, with the Prince being heavily injured. People from the Pill Peak needed to rush healing holy medicine over immediately.
This news alarmed many people on the Pill Peak. Numerous pill masters quickly headed to the Prince Peak. They rushed down with the holy medicine, and the powerful expert who was guarding the Pill Peak also left.
This made Ye Chu overjoyed. “Heaven is truly helping me!”
Seeing these people leave, Ye Chu could not help but feel excited. He secretly probed the Pill Peak and found that only three Emperors remained guarding the pill room.
Ye Chu estimated that it would be no problem at all to take down three Emperors with his strength. But doing it silently was still somewhat difficult.
However, this was a rare opportunity. If he missed it, there would really be no chance.
“Three Emperors. It is not impossible to deal with them casually, as long as it is handled properly. And to deal with them silently, with my strength, I need to get within ten metres of them,” Ye Chu calculated. The three of them needed to be within ten metres of him for him to resolve the situation quickly.
Thinking of this, Ye Chu took a deep breath, said nothing more, and stepped towards the pill room. Along the way, Ye Chu avoided the other disciples on the Pill Peak. Just as he was about to reach the pill room, Ye Chu grabbed one of the core disciples, forced him to reveal his name, stripped him of his clothes, casually killed him, changed into his clothes, and walked to the outside of the pill room.
Outside the pill room, Ye Chu bowed and knocked on the door.
Ye Chu knocked for fifteen minutes, but no one inside appeared. However, Ye Chu was not anxious. He knocked even faster, continuously knocking on the door of the pill room, knocking more and more urgently.
Finally, the door of the pill room opened. One of the Emperor pill masters glared at Ye Chu. “Whose disciple are you? Do you not know that you cannot disturb the pill refining process? Hmph, daring to break the rules of the Pill Peak, wait until your ancestor returns, he will definitely punish you.”
Ye Chu showed a look of terror and said in a panicked voice, “Please forgive me, Elder. I was ordered by the Grand Elder to come to the pill room to fetch something. Please make an exception!”
“What thing? Hmph, the pill room is a restricted area. The rules state that no one below the rank of Elder can enter,” the Emperor pill master said angrily.
“Elder, it must be fetched. The Grand Elder and the others need to save the Prince, and they absolutely need that thing!” Ye Chu said urgently. “The Grand Elder ordered that if I do not fetch it, the Prince’s life is in imminent danger. He told me to fetch it quickly and bring it to him!”
Second update, that is all for today. I owe one more update. If I do not pass away this month, I will look for a chance to make it up. I have broken my promises many times, but this time I must complete it. Everyone, give me confidence!