Supreme Warrior in the City

Chapter 770: Chapter 769: Shadow Phantom Devours Spiritual Energy

Hu Yong finally washed his hands of this place—the very place where he had been ridiculed and discriminated against for many years.

He didn’t take anything with him, only leaving with his wife and children.

Shen Jing’an arranged for them a house in the city, a villa owned by the Shen Family in Wanhu City, with an excellent environment and location. Usually, it was used by Shen Jing’an for vacations, but now it was given to Hu Yong to live in.

From then on, Hu Yong completely bid farewell to the old district.

Meanwhile, people continued to talk about the incident.

Principal Zhou’s kindergarten was found to have numerous issues. Not only was it shut down, but Principal Zhou himself was sentenced to over a decade in prison. All his assets were used to pay compensation and fines, leading to his utter ruin.

As for Hu Yong’s cousins, they became the biggest joke in the area. Moreover, people detested their actions and stopped patronizing their laundry shop. Eventually, the business could no longer sustain itself, and they had no choice but to close the shop and work for others to make a living.

Their fate, very much like that of Zhang Aiqin, ended up being quite similar.

All these events occurred after Su Yang had left Wanhu City.

Since Su Yang and Hu Yong were once comrades-in-arms, and Hu Yong had treated him well, Su Yang left these fortunes to Hu Yong.

Su Yang’s main focus now still lay with the Divine Physicians Alliance; that was the priority he had to attend to recently.

After leaving Wanhu City, Su Yang returned to the Medical Saint Sect. The Medical Saint Sect no longer existed, and the place was now thoroughly occupied by Su Yang, turning into the headquarter of the Divine Physicians Alliance.

Having avenged Elder Jeang, Su Yang had settled a matter close to his heart. Returning to the Medical Saint Sect, most of the other sect members had also arrived, each bringing medicinal materials and treasures from their sects, seeking to exchange them for Su Yang’s secret techniques.

As previously promised, Su Yang exchanged some secret techniques for these medicinal materials and treasures.

The Destiny’s Tome contained too many secret techniques, and even the lower-end ones that Su Yang casually took out were enough to astonish these sects as something celestial.

In fact, even if these sects had not broken their lineages, their own inherited techniques combined were still far inferior to the secret techniques recorded in the Destiny’s Tome.

Moreover, Su Yang had only opened the third page of the Destiny’s Tome so far.

With each page of the Destiny’s Tome turned, the recorded knowledge became deeper and more profound. Su Yang did not know how many pages were left in the Destiny’s Tome, but he was certain that there were still many secret techniques to be discovered—these were Su Yang’s real reliance!

After being busy for three days, the members of the sects finally left, brimming with joy.

They were elated not only because they had exchanged for the secret techniques they needed from Su Yang. Another reason was that they had heard about Su Yang’s battle at Lake Heart Island.

The Qi Family of Wanhu was overwhelmingly dominant in the Southern Six Provinces, and even these sects had been suppressed by them. Each year, these sects had to offer a large number of spiritual medicines to the Qi Family of Wanhu without receiving any compensation in return, leaving them indignant yet unable to speak out.

This time, Su Yang’s defeat of the Qi Family of Wanhu first proved his formidable strength, giving them a powerful backer by following Su Yang. Secondly, they no longer needed to suffer under the Qi Family’s oppression, which was, to them, the most joyous news!

As night fell and Su Yang, seated cross-legged within the Spirit Gathering Array, felt the spiritual energy around him grow dim, he slowly opened his eyes.

The spiritual energy of Accumulated Cloud Mountain was abundant, and the effects of the Spirit Gathering Array were even better; Su Yang had already been cultivating here for five days.

However, during these five days, Su Yang did not make much progress.

In fact, with Su Yang’s current strength, he was fully capable of entering the Spirit Tranquility Realm, which is to say, the realm people refer to as the Earthly Immortal Realm.

But Su Yang could not rush into it so hastily. The words of Ye Jiansheng had a huge impact on him, and he, too, wanted to achieve Great Perfection in every realm. Moreover, the six Earth Immortals of the Qi Family were waiting for him. If he just entered like this, wouldn’t that be courting death?

Therefore, the only method for Su Yang now was to accumulate strength, to amass enough power. Then, with a deep foundation and a swift strike, he could enter the Earthly Immortal Realm, and only then would he have a chance at survival.

However, accumulating such strength was not an easy task. After all, there is a limit to the amount of power each realm can bear. If Su Yang continued to gather strength without advancing in realm, his body would one day reach its limits; and by then, without waiting for him to promote, his body would probably have shattered.

In these five days, Su Yang initially absorbed spiritual energy with great caution. But after the first day, he couldn’t bear it any longer. He faintly felt signs of stepping into the Earthly Immortal Realm.

This startled Su Yang and he quickly stopped cultivating. However, he was well aware that his current situation was vastly different not just from the Great Perfection of Ye Jiansheng, but even from Qi Zhishan.

Why could those two withstand such powerful forces, yet he could not?

Su Yang was very puzzled by this question. He tried many methods, but none worked. Eventually, he tried transferring the absorbed spiritual energy into the Shadow Phantom of Devouring the Heavens and was astonished to find that the Shadow Phantom could actually withstand this spiritual energy.

This discovery both surprised and delighted Su Yang. The Shadow Phantom, which he had cultivated, could utilize everything it absorbed. With the spiritual energy absorbed by the Shadow Phantom, it was still his. At last, he found a way to store spiritual energy.

What was surprising, of course, was: what exactly was this Shadow Phantom? Devouring the Heavens could actually cultivate such a phantom? And furthermore, the phantom could open its eyes—those eyes that seemed to disdain everything in the world. It looked as if it had its own independent thoughts. What was going on here?

Destiny’s Tome had no records of this, and Su Yang, unable to figure it out, did not pursue the matter further. Perhaps there would be records in the later parts of Destiny’s Tome!

In five days, Su Yang had almost entirely absorbed the spiritual energy near Accumulated Cloud Mountain and transferred it into the Shadow Phantom.

And the Shadow Phantom showed no change. The phantom seemed like a bottomless pit; no matter how much spiritual energy Su Yang absorbed, it could withstand it all.

With a wave of his hand, the four Divine Beast Jades returned to Su Yang’s possession.

Su Yang stored the four pieces of jade in his bracelet, stepped out of the inner chamber, and looked up at the distant moon. He couldn’t help but think of his missing father.

Su Yang always wondered about his origins and whether they were somehow related to his father’s disappearance.

Suddenly, Su Yang’s pocket stirred, and Little Turtle crawled out. The little guy looked at Su Yang, then unexpectedly flew up into the sky and headed towards the distant void.

”What are you doing?” Su Yang was astonished and hurried after it, hoping to intercept the little creature.

However, the little guy was quite fast, and Su Yang couldn’t catch up at all for the moment.

As he approached the opposite mountain, a faint cry for help from a woman reached Su Yang’s ears.