Chapter 1082: I Am Acting Out of Good Intentions

"Hmph, you little thing, this young lady kindly helped you, yet you turned around and deceived me, and even stole our storage rings?" Tang Xueru landed on the spot, looking at Xu Que with annoyance and shouting.

Seeing that she didn't pursue him, Xu Que stopped the urge to summon his Wind Fire Wheels and smiled: "Little sister, you've misunderstood. Big brother was also acting out of good intentions!"

"Good intentions? Hehe, you can still be so thick-skinned after stealing things. Fine, then tell me, how were you acting out of good intentions? If you can explain it, big sister might consider letting you go!" Tang Xueru sneered.

"Sigh!" Xu Que immediately shook his head and sighed, putting his hands behind his back, and said earnestly: "Don't always say 'steal'; I call it 'taking'. How can the affairs of a handsome male god be called stealing! If I hadn't taken your storage rings along the way just now, the Thief Sect people would definitely have struck at you, and then you would have truly lost everything. Isn't it quite good now? I helped you take out the storage rings, and now I'm returning them to you. How safe and secure is that!"

After speaking, Xu Que waved his hand, and several storage rings instantly turned into streams of light, flying toward Tang Xueru.

Tang Xueru caught the storage rings and said with a smile that wasn't a smile: "According to what you say, shouldn't we be thanking you?"

"No need, people like us are righteous and loyal. Don't talk about thanks for such a small favor. I have urgent matters to attend to, so I'll take my leave first!" Xu Que cupped his hands and turned around, ready to leave.

He felt that this Tang Xueru was strangely powerful. Clearly, she only had the cultivation of the early Human Immortal Stage, yet she gave him the feeling of facing an Earth Immortal Stage expert. If he were to truly fight her, the outcome would be hard to say!

"Hmm? Still want to leave? Little brother, do you think you can dismiss big sister with just a set of crooked logic?" Tang Xueru curled her lips, waved her slender hand, and a red light shot out from between her five fingers, emitting a powerful sealing force and aggressively sweeping toward Xu Que.

"Holy shit, little sister, I've already returned the storage rings to you, are you sure you still want to fight me?" Xu Que immediately raised his eyebrows, stepped on lightning with his feet, and dodged the red light at extreme speed!

"Eh?" Tang Xueru was instantly startled, feeling somewhat surprised: "I couldn't tell, your strength is actually quite good. With only the cultivation of the early Half-Immortal Stage, you were actually able to dodge my Red Dust Shackles?"

Logically speaking, even if he were at the early Half-Immortal Stage, she wouldn't be so surprised that he could dodge her Red Dust Shackles. The point was that Xu Que dodged it too easily, as if it took no effort at all.

In this situation, only those on the Heavenly Cauldron List could do it!

"Are you one of those mysterious people on the Heavenly Cauldron List who haven't announced their appearance or name?" Tang Xueru immediately tightened her expression and asked.

Previously, when Xu Que was able to steal her and the others' storage rings right in front of her, she had already been suspicious. Now, she was even more convinced that Xu Que's strength was not simple and that he was absolutely qualified to be on the Heavenly Cauldron List.

It was just that she basically knew and had met all the famous prodigies on the Heavenly Cauldron List. Only a small portion of them, who were unwilling to reveal their identities or names, were called the mysterious experts of the Heavenly Cauldron List, and no one had ever seen them. So now, she suspected that Xu Que was one of them.

"Heavenly Cauldron List? Never heard of it. I only know the Exploding Heaven Gang, and I'm ranked number one!" Xu Que said with a smile.

"Tsk, you really are a stingy person, unwilling to even say that. I really don't understand what you have to hide!" Tang Xueru shook her head and said, directly identifying Xu Que as a mysterious prodigy on the Heavenly Cauldron List.

"Little sister, you're really overthinking it! I won't waste time with you. I really have something to do, so I'll take my leave first. Bye-bye!" Seeing this, Xu Que was too lazy to explain. He waved his hand directly, stepped on lightning, turned around, and soared into the air, disappearing into the horizon!

Tang Xueru originally wanted to chase after him to settle the score, but after hesitating for a moment, she stopped, and a smile curled the corners of her lips: "Heh, a mysterious prodigy on the Heavenly Cauldron List. It seems recognizing this little brother wasn't a loss. Forget it, I'll let you off for now. Big sister still has to get busy with the Artifact Refining Conference. This time, I must make those guys from the Artifact Sect allocate a few Artifact Refining Masters to the Litian Academy!"

After speaking, Tang Xueru turned and left.

An hour later, Xu Que traversed all over Baihui City, taking detours back and forth, and finally hid in a small inn in the South City.

He carefully checked his whole body and finally breathed a sigh of relief, finding no markings.

Clearly, the reason Tang Xueru was able to find him was because there was her own divine soul imprint on the storage rings he had stolen before. Now that the storage rings had all been returned, it was impossible for her to find this place again.

"To think of it, this Earth Continent is truly worthy of being the Earth Continent, with experts standing like a forest. A Tang Xueru at the early Human Immortal Stage is already so powerful. If I don't quickly improve my strength, I'm afraid I won't be able to roam freely for many days!" Xu Que shook his head and muttered to himself, then took out several small array disks from his system package.

Whoosh!

With a wave of his hand, several array disks were laid out throughout the room, isolating the aura and establishing a sturdy defensive array.

Although this kind of defensive array was difficult to withstand the attacks of experts, it wouldn't be vulnerable to a single blow. As long as someone attacked the formation, he would be able to detect it immediately, and that was enough!

"Mid-stage Half-Immortal Realm, heh, let's break through first!"

Xu Que smiled slightly, took out over a hundred upper-grade spirit crystals, arranged them into a small Spirit Gathering Array on the ground, then sat cross-legged and formed seals with his hands outside his Dantian Mansion!

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and quickly entered a state of cultivation!

Although his breakthrough this time was a matter of course and could be done in a single thought, he still needed massive spiritual energy when breaking through realms. To avoid causing too much of a stir, he could only reduce his plundering of the heaven and earth spiritual energy and switch to using the spiritual energy in the spirit crystals!

This was clearly an extremely extravagant act that normal people wouldn't waste like this, but Xu Que didn't care about this squandering at all. Not to mention that he had stolen tens of thousands of upper-grade spirit crystals, even if he had only stolen a few hundred, he would still waste them!

After all, in his eyes, things like spirit crystals that symbolized wealth could be obtained by stealing or robbing, so they weren't valuable at all!

Other cultivators were wary of various forces, but he was different. He either didn't offend people, or he offended them to death. He was never a coward!

"Boom!"

When Xu Que operated the Ancient Five Elements Art, the immortal yuan in his body instantly flowed rapidly, his pores expanded, and he madly absorbed the external spiritual energy.

The upper-grade spirit crystals placed in front of Xu Que instantly moved according to the array patterns, pouring out massive spiritual energy, which rushed toward Xu Que, pouring into his pores like a tidal flood, and then merging into his major meridians.

This terrifying absorption speed was horrifying and was related to his Heavenly Spirit Root physique and the Ancient Five Elements Art.

The path he walked, including his Dao Essence, was destined to be different from others from the very beginning!

"Boom boom boom!"

At this moment, muffled sounds came from Xu Que's body, as if divine thunder was roaring, and the aura all over his body was constantly climbing!

This situation continued.

One hour!

Two hours!

One day!

Two days!

Three days!

It wasn't until six days had passed that Xu Que suddenly opened his eyes. Those ink-black eyes appeared even more profound and bright in the pitch-black night, vast and boundless!

"Mid-stage Half-Immortal Realm, done!"

Xu Que curled his lips slightly and stood up from the ground.

Only then did he discover that more than half of the hundreds of upper-grade spirit crystals in front of him had been destroyed, and the other small half had become nearly transparent, even showing cracks, with almost no spiritual energy left.

"Damn, fortunately, I was well-prepared, otherwise the spiritual energy really wouldn't have been enough!" Xu Que secretly thought, waving his hand to wipe away all the spirit crystal ashes.

Afterward, with a thought, he took out the broken sword that couldn't be shorter and the sharp sword he had stolen from the Thief Sect leader from his system package.

"Sword Spirit, come out quickly, I'm changing your sword!" Xu Que shouted at the broken sword that was almost just a hilt.

"Whoosh!"

The broken sword instantly trembled, and the sword spirit's figure, like black mist, immediately darted out from it.

It sized up the complete sharp sword in Xu Que's hand, a trace of disdain and contempt flashing in its red-glowing eyes, and shook its head: "Another half-grade immortal artifact, this sword is no different from trash!"

"Then do you want it or not? These days, good immortal artifacts aren't easy to get. Just for this sword, I almost risked my life to get it back. Don't be ungrateful!" Xu Que glared.

Upon hearing this, the sword spirit nodded: "Fine, your cultivation is still very low after all. This Seat doesn't want to make things difficult for you! However, there are countless experts in this place. You had better get a sword that is at least a lower-grade or even mid-grade immortal artifact for me as soon as possible, otherwise, it will be very difficult for you to deal with Earth Immortal Stage experts!"

After speaking, the sword spirit's figure flickered, turned into a ball of black smoke, and darted into the sharp sword!

Only then did Xu Que put away the sharp sword and incidentally recycled the broken sword to the system, exchanging it for 100,000 points of Artifact Refining Essence!

It was mainly because the broken sword was too severely damaged; otherwise, based on the quality of the broken sword, it would have been worth far more than 100,000 points of Artifact Refining Essence.

"It seems I really have to get a lower-grade immortal artifact sword, otherwise, it will be a bit tricky if I encounter that Thief Sect leader!" Xu Que recalled the sword spirit's words, pondered for a moment, then directly removed the formation in the room and pushed the door out.

He decided to go out and stroll around again, and incidentally extort... pfft, no, incidentally find a few people to borrow some immortal artifacts back!

【The first update is delivered, I'm going to continue writing!】 ===== CHAPTER 1083 =====