Hao Ren and Yin spent the day and the evening talking about various things and then the young man went to look for the person who needed to know that something was about to happens so that he could come up with an alibi that it was not his fault.
The City Lord, Hua Teng received him, and then Hao Ren hinted his intentions, at first Hua Teng was shocked, he did not expect Hao Ren to have such a wild ambition. He said, "Young Master, it is dangerous for you to do such things. What if they caught you?"
Hao Ren smiled and said, "I do not take action when I am not confident about it, don't worry, just be ready."
Hue Teng wanted to say something when Hao Ren vanished from his spot. The city lord sighed and said, "What sort of person would go to contend against two big families with five Star Shattering elders in the ranks knowing the danger? Is he confident or really ignorant?"
Hao Ren waited for the sun to go down and the crowd in the city to go reduce. He stood in the void above his house, and Yin stood beside him. They were both hidden in the cover of clouds and spiritual barriers thus they did not have to worry about being seen or sensed. The young man nodded to Yin and said, "Go."
Yin nodded and vanished from her spot. She created a space pocket around her and entered the Xue Family estate. Hao Ren watched her with total focus using his Yin and Yang eyes. His vision had improved so much that he could see through the laws of space as well.
Yin moved around the estate slowly, and soon she located the vault of the Xue Family and found that the metal used to make the door was too hard for her to deal with. She quickly made her way out of the estate and came back to Hao Ren. The young man frowned and asked, "What happened?"
Yin replied, "The door of the vault is made with an element that is giving off strong Dao fluctuations, had I touched it, someone surely would notice me."
Hao Ren frowned and said, "Give me a second to think about it."
Yin nodded and stood beside him calmly, the young man closed his eyes and began to look at the things that he owned, and suddenly he asked, 'System, Hong is a chaos creature, right?'
Hao Ren smiled, and took out a box from his space ring. The pouch was actually a beast storage box. This bag was one of the system rewards for his task completion of winning the heart. The box had a life array inscribed within the spatial array to facilitate the storage of a living being. In this case, the Six Winged Blood Cicada.
Hao Ren sank his consciousness inside the pouch and summoned a small cicada outside. The insect was only as long as his finger, but it seemed very happy after being called outside, and circled around Hao Ren at a high speed.
Hao Ren stretched his hand and the cicada landed on his palm as it moved the wings slowly. The young man smiled and said, "Hong, I need you to go with Yin, and then eat a big door for me. Can you do that?"
Hong did not have a high intelligence yet to hold free communication, however, he could understand and sense emotions and intent projected by others, specially Hao Ren. Hong flew up from the palm and then circled around Yin before landing on her head.
Yin did not say anything and quickly used her ability to vanish from the spot and took five minutes to appear near the door of the vault. She let Hong fly out of the hidden space and the little thing sat down on the side of the door. Hong sensed the door with its legs and then everything changed.
Yin was shocked, because within a few moments, the little insect opened a fist sized hole in the door, and Yin could see that the metal was at least half a meter thick. She focused on Hong's mouth, and she saw that the metal was basically particalizing and being swallowed by Hong.
Yin waited for five minutes, and Hong blew a big fissure in the door. She took a deep breath and entered the vault in her snake form. She knew that Hong was not going to stop eating, and she began to perform her job.
She did not know how Hong was keeping all the Dao fluctuations under control, but he was doing a good job. She looked around and found that the vault was as big as a house and filled with stuff. She took a deep breath, and began to steal. Yin was cautious and instead of using her space rings, she began to swallow everything.
Well, don't underestimate the power of a Sky Swallowing Python. She wasn't biased, and took everything without holding back at all. The girl emptied out the entire vault and rushed to the door, when she found that the door was missing, and Hong was shining with golden light.
She quickly placed him between her palms and then vanished from the place. Just a few moment later, an old person appeared and yelled, "WHO DARES!!"
Hao Ren was standing in the void, and Yin appeared beside him. She said hurriedly, "Baba, keep Hong away."
Hao Ren nodded and stowed away the little bug in the beast pouch and covered Yin with his aura as they descended back to the house. The girl said, "Baba, I swallowed all the goods in my belly, just so that I don't trigger any detection arrays in there."
The young man nodded and then he sensed a big wave washing over the house. He tapped Yin in a few spots and her spiritual fluctuation reduced to a lower realm. He appeared on the ceiling of his house and asked, "Fellow Daoist, it is not nice to peek around in others houses at this hour."
Then he released his pressure and the pressure from the other guy was repelled. An old man appeared before Hao Ren, standing in the void just outside his household threshold. The young man asked, "What is going on here?"
The old man looked frail and his skin was very highly wrinkled, and he said, "I did not expect someone so young to climb up the realms so quickly."
Hao Ren replied calmly, and said, "You don't need to know this, just tell me why are you bothering my people and leave."
The old man frowned and said, "You hold no respect for the elders, do you?"
Hao Ren snorted and a strong wave of spiritual pressure erupted him and sent the old man reeling a few steps back. He said, "An old man, at the end of his lifespan, feels no need to introduce himself, so I don't think you deserve to be respected. Now off with your motive."
The old man clenched his fist and said, "I am Xue Yahong, the grand elder of the Xue Family. There have been a theft in my family and I am only searching for the thieve."
Hao Ren said, "Are you someone of authority? To come at my place and search."
The old man wanted to say something when the City Lord appeared beside them and asked, "Elder Xue, is this how a respected elder should conduct himself?"
The old man glared at Hua Teng and the latter said, "I just received the news and I am here to help you. How about I conduct a search? Would that be okay for you?"
Hao Ren turned to the side and asked, "City lord, are you going to embarrass me too?"
The man sighed and said, "Master Hao, we need to do something about maintaining the peace in the city. I assure you that if you are not guilty, you would not be inflicted by this."
The young man took a deep breath and sighed, "Fine, I will give you the liberty, just be done soon."
Xue Yahong snorted and said, "Check his space rings!"
Hao Ren appeared next to the old man and slapped him across the face directly and sent him reeling a couple of meters and yelled, "You dare to act like you own me! Believe it or not old man I will fucking remove your spine if you think that this is your family house. I live in this place only to shave a peaceful life. Understood."
Xue Yahong and Hue Teng were shocked, they could not even see how Hao Ren slapped the old man. Xue Yahong wanted to react, and then he found himself frozen. His soul seemed to be frozen.
Hao Ren then took of his space ring and tossed it to the city lord. The latter quickly searched through the contents and shook his head, he said, "It doesn't have anything that belongs to the Xue Family."
Xue Yahong turned to look at the City Lord and then he wanted to say something but the warmth that still lingered on his face made him snort and vanish from the place. Hua Teng gave the ring back to Hao Ren and bowed slightly before following Xue Yahong. Follow current novᴇls on Novᴇl_Fire(.)net
Hao Ren went back in the house and said, "Yin, come we are going back home to check the loot."
Yin chuckled and said, "The slap was strike one."