Stolen Pills

Hao Ren stood calmly on the arena, he was panting heavily as he had just gone through a tough fight. The sect disciples looked at him with fear and also deep veneration, in this world, strength matters most. Only the strong are respected, this was the reason although Elder Wu oppressed a lot of people in the sect, there was nothing they could do about it.

Elder Yun looked at Hao Ren in panic and his body could be seen shuddering from fright. 'Elder Wu is dead, doesn't that mean that I will be next?. No, the sect leader won't allow it. But... the sect leader seems to be somewhat afraid of offending Hao Ren. Just how strong is his father for the sect leader to not dare to want to offend him even though he hasn't appeared for so long, why the hell did Elder Wu offend someone even the sect leader is scared of?' Elder Yun was basically scared silly currently.

Whenever he looks at Hao Ren, he felt like he was looking at death in the face, Yun Lu was in even worse condition as his legs had already given up on him due to fear. Yun Lu was currently sweating buckets and was shivering like a scared duck. All his backers were already gone. Yun Lu was someone who never had guts, he was only able to speak boldly due to Wu Chen's backing. But now, it was a totally different story as even Wu Chen's father is also dead. Although his father was also an elder in the sect, his status wasn't that high and since he wasn't talented he was only respected by the lower ranked disciples just because of his father being an elder. But in the presence of the top disciples he didn't have much of a say.

"He truly is his fathers son" Yuan Hai said with a conflicted look on his face. He just lost the sects top disciple and also the strongest elder of his sect but he knew there was nothing he could do about it. If it were someone else, he would not have allowed the fight but he knew how strong Hao Ren's father was.

Even after breaking through to the Core Realm, when he compared his current strength to the strength Hao Yi displayed the day he saved him, he knew it wasn't even close to a quarter of it. And when Hao Yi attacked that day, he did it so leisurely as if he was smacking a fly off. Yuan Hai knew that the strength Hao Yi showed wasn't even half his full strength.

After Yuan Hai was saved by Hao Yi, he invited him over to his sect to appropriately thank him. He lately got to find out while drinking tea with Hao Yi in his courtyard that Hao Yi was a local hunter in a small town close to his sect. He almost spat out the tea in his mouth when he heard this, 'if you are a hunter in this little place then what I my?' Yuan Hai almost had a mental breakdown because of this.

He asked about his cultivation level but Hao Yi told him it wasn't important and refused to answer. After the meeting, he wanted to go into seclusion as he got something good from his travel and that was what almost got him killed while he wanted to collect it. He was even more shocked when Hao Yi didn't even spare the natural treasure a glance after helping him. Till now, when he still thinks of what Hao Yi told him about being a local hunter, he always felt like spitting out blood as it was too depressing.

Although he knew there was a story behind it, he knew he didn't have the qualifications to meddle in it. He was shocked when Hao Yi brought Hao Ren over as he never expected it, only after Hao Yi told him he was going on a expenditure and didn't know when he would return that he knew it must be something serious.

Hao Yi told him Hao Ren hasn't started practicing cultivation for a while now as he started late. Usually kids start cultivating at the age of 10 but Hao Ren started when he was 14, that was 4 years late. Yet, he has already surpassed his age group by a large margin. He can already go toe to toe with people of the older generations in the Chailing region, the Chailing region was quite big but in the Divine Vestige continent, it was just a little speck.

Hao Ren finally calmed down and gazed around the stands, his gaze paused a little at Elder Yun and Yun Lu just for a second before he shifted his gaze from them. That little stared almost made Elder Yun pass out due to fear, Yun Lu on the other hand, had already wet his pants and was shivering so much that it could clearly seen from a distance away.

After Hao Ren looked at everyone, he gaze ended at Yuan Hai and he made a bow before leaving the arena and heading to his own courtyard.

The disciples held their breaths during the time Hao Ren was looking around with his calm face. They finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing him leaving, especially those who had made sarcastic remarks towards him during the few times they have seen him. No one was more relieved than the father and son duo, Elder Yun almost shed tears when he saw that Hao Ren didn't show any signs of attacking them.

Although they have offended Hao Ren, Hao Ren is not a psychopath who kills every single person just because they have offended him. So long as the mastermind behind everything is already dealt with, the minions doesn't really matter. Hao Ren learned from his father that when dealing with things, you should deal with it justly and also not to leave loose ends. If Elder Wu had other children, Hao Ren would have definitely also tried to take them out of the picture as it might be him leaving an enemy for himself, as revenge is one of the greatest motivations to many martial artist for them to break their limits.

When Hao Ren got to his courtyard, he looked around and furrowed his brows when he noticed he couldn't find Xiao anywhere, "That's strange, I remember telling him not the leave the courtyard and wait for my return. Although I have been gone for a while, it isn't up to 4 hours yet. Well, he is smart so he will definitely be able to return, hopefully he doesn't get into any trouble or cause any either" Hao Ren said carelessly and went inside to take a rest.

Hao Ren was exhausted from the battle and immediately fell asleep he moment he got in.

The entire sect was in a state of unrest as both Elder Wu and Wu Chen was dead. Initially some of the elders wanted to pay a visit Hao Ren but were stopped by Yuan Hai. Xu Que was shocked by the sudden change of attitude by the elders and was even more shocked on noticing that Elder Yun was the one who brought up the idea of seeing Hao Ren.

Elder Li knew Elder Yun was looking for ways to seek forgiveness from Hao Ren for previously offending him.

Yuan Hai knew that Hao Ren was exhausted from the battle as his exhaustion was visible for all, that was why he stopped them from disturbing his rest.

Discussions were going on in different parts of the sect. Meanwhile in a secluded place in the sect, a little shadow could be seen moving very quickly. The shadow was the missing Xiao who Hao Ren was looking for at the courtyard, he looked excited and had something in his mouth. Xiao sneaked back into the courtyard when he noticed it was okay and immediately went into hiding.

The next day, the sect disciples who hadn't completely recovered from the shock of the previous day were stunned again by the news that heard, the elder who concocted pills for the sect said some rare pills had been stolen from the place the pills where kept. He also said the disciples in charge of guarding the place said they saw a little grey wolf sneaking into the place. Although the elder didn't believe their stories, he knew that those disciples couldn't break the array he laid out in the place also.

The sect immediately got busy searching for the mysterious wolf that stole from them