32 Exit

Chapter 32- Exit

Within the main hall, the chaotic aura still lingered, although Su Mu and Su Yan were already neatly dressed. Su Yan sat in front of an ice mirror that she had made out of her True Qi. Although she could see her ruddy cheeks in the reflection, she still remained calm. Meanwhile, Su Mu stood behind her, reorganizing her beautiful but disorderly hair for her. A peaceful aura of quietness shrouded the two as they continued.

Being re-transformed into a woman, Su Yan seemed even more beautiful than before. Her gaze was still cold, maybe colder than before, but the sight of Su Mu turns it tender and gentle. She watched him arrange and fix her hair and passed an ornamental hairpin to him, which he inserted into her hair. Seeing how proficient he was, Su Yan couldn't help but feel astonished. The hairstyle Su Yan usually kept had changed, now it revealed her bright, clean and well-proportioned neck.

"You look beautiful." Su Mu commented.

"Do you like it?" Su Yan asked, smiling.

"So much so that I'm already thinking about undressing you." Su Mu said with a smile, resting his hands on Su Yan's shoulders. Although the two of them have done the deed several times in the past month, none of them had a small appetite.

"We need to go back now." Su Yan commented, placing her hands on Su Mu's hands.

Suddenly, a question appeared inside Su Yan's head. Looking at Su Mu's reflection in the mirror, she asked. "What about the others who were trying to climb the staircase?"

"You finally remembered them?" Su Mu replied, giving a light chuckle. "Since all of them were pushed back after we climbed to the peak, I opened the staircase again to make sure they'll start climbing again. Now, the only ones who left the Heaven's Cave Inheritance are those who were either injured, or the ones who completely gave up. I could've just closed the exit, but that required more work than reopening the staircase." Su Mu explained, it was to make sure that they will not be the only ones exiting the small world in the end.

"You can do that?" Su Yan asked. At this point, nothing could surprise her.

"Well, that energy ball floating above is actually the Source of this small world, so making some light changes wasn't that difficult since I'm familiar with the Dragon Clan's Secret Techniques that were used to create this Small World. At first, I wanted to refine this world, but I can't do that with my current cultivation realm, and I can't reach the Saint Realm in this world, so I just did enough for it to not collapse after we leave. But I have a possible way to refine it." Su Mu explained with a smile, making Su Yan's heart skip a beat.

"Dragon Clan's Secret Techniques? Did you learn them from Lord Dragon Emperor?" Su Yan asked, calming herself. She knew about Su Mu's relationship with the previous Dragon Emperor and Phoenix Empress.

"Indeed, I still can't properly perform them until my bloodline reaches a certain level, the same goes for you." Su Mu replied, playing with Su Yan's cheeks, poking them occasionally.

"Why didn't you just raise your cultivation even more?" Su Yan asked, grabbing his hand and placing it back on her shoulder.

"My foundation right now is the strongest, and I wish to keep it that way, that's why I'm taking it slow. Even if I can tamper my foundation, later on, staying on a Major Realm for some time is better. The same goes for The Harem God's Cultivation Scripture, it's a Secret Art that focuses on one's foundation and Dao achievements, and in some rare cases, sharing bloodlines and Special Physiques, rather than cultivation speed, otherwise, it'll lose its main purpose." Su Mu explained.

"Main purpose?" Su Yan asked, curious.

'To avoid the Open Heaven Realm's 2 Rank restriction, even little things like this matter. From what I learned over countless years, one of the ways to avoid the restriction doesn't lie in the Open Heaven Realm itself, but in how we cultivate up to the Dao Seal Realm. That's unless you have the Heaven's Order Bloodline.' Su Mu thought, looking at Su Yan with a smile.

"I'll tell you about it later, it's too complicated for you right now. Anyway, should we leave now?" He replied, making Su Yan nod.

"After returning, what do you plan to do?" Su Yan asked.

"What will I do?"

"It's about our relationship. Will you publicise it?"

Su Mu thought about it for a few seconds before shrugging his shoulders. "It's up to you. I, for one, couldn't care less about what people of this world, or any world, for that matter, think of me. As far as I am concerned, a random ant has more value than them combined."

Hearing his reply, Su Yan's mouth twitched as she remembered something. She was the only one, along with Hu Jiao'er and Hu Mei'er, that Su Mu valued in this world.

And if she were to publicise their relationship, Su Mu would be envied and it would also affect Su Yan's image heavily. Without even considering all the Elders, her apprentice brothers would nose around Su Yan to choose them, it wasn't difficult to guess that most of them would end up dying after looking for trouble with Su Mu, even though they know they can't do anything to him. Although she was a self-confident woman who could look after herself, she decided to not publicise their relationship yet, efficiently saving the lives of a lot of male disciples of the High Heaven Pavilion.

"Ah, right. Su Yan, you should mentally prepare yourself after leaving the Heaven's Cave Inheritance." Su Mu suddenly said.

"Hmm?" Su Yan looked at him full of doubts.

'How cute.' Looking at her confused expression, Su Mu smiled.

"Disciples from the three Sects came together and entered the Heaven's Cave Inheritance. Everyone worked together to kill eight Monster Beasts while the last one was killed by me, and the staircase trail was specifically prepared for people who cultivate Yin or Yang Qi. When it comes to the Cultivation Realm, Jiao'er's is the highest, but when it comes to Ice Cultivators, you are the best among the disciples of the three sects. Do you get it now?"

Su Yan gawked, she was only considering Su Mu and had not thought about herself. But now, listening to him, she was suddenly enlightened, "They will think that the inheritance of this place was either obtained by Hu Jiao'er, me, or you because they don't know it was related to dual cultivation. Even more so after looking at the increase in our cultivation bases."

"That's what most Elders are probably thinking right now, since the injured disciples have already left Heaven's Cave Inheritance, they must have told them about what happened here." Su Mu just shrugged, not caring about it.

Looking at his attitude, Su Yan gave a confident smile, "I will just say that I have not obtained the inheritance; even if I did obtain it, I wouldn't need to give them any explanation. As for hiding my cultivation base, you already gave me a technique that can hide it even from a Transcendent Realm cultivator, no?"

Su Mu leaned forward, his face just above Su Yan's head.

"I will give you better Secret Arts and Martial Techniques after we leave this place. And don't worry, if things get out of hand for you to handle, I'll make sure that no one troubles you. But I won't make it so that you don't need to face any problems. After all, you are my first wife." Su Mu said with a smile, making Su Yan blush a bit, but she still smiled back at him.

Su Mu had already explained what it meant to be his first wife, along with the family rules and other stuff to her in advance, so Su Yan knew how much Su Mu believed in her.

Su Yan closed her eyes, a silver blue light appeared around her body before disappearing. "Did it work?" Su Yan asked, opening her eyes.

"It did. Everyone will see your cultivation base as the 4th Stage of True Element Realm rather than the 9th Stage." Su Mu said.

"What about Hu Jiao'er and Hu Mei'er?" Su Yan asked.

"I will tell them about it personally, so don't worry about it. We should leave, there is nothing left for us here." Saying that, Su Mu straightened his back and extended his right hand towards Su Yan. The main hall was very spacious and aside from the huge energy ball that still hovered, there wasn't anything else.

After they obtained the inheritance, a light barrier appeared not too far away from them, and both of them instinctively knew that it was a portal.

Su Yan grabbed Su Mu's hand, smiling at him before they started walking towards the light barrier, entering it.

Their forms disappeared from the main hall simultaneously. Right then, a loud sound similar to glass breaking echoed around the entire Heaven's Cave Inheritance.  

Then, at the same time, cracks spread across the Inheritance site. The disciples who were still present felt their souls tremble from some stimulation but were unable to identify the cause of it.

An unknown energy wrapped around them and slowly took them up towards the sky, they were unable to resist the force.

At the mining area of the Blood Battle Group, after the opening of the Heaven's Cave Inheritance, the powerhouses of three sects guarded that place, waiting for their disciples to come out.

It had already been a month since it opened. During that period, many disciples had already left the Heaven's Cave Inheritance. They were people who were either injured or unable to persevere any further.

From there, the experts of the three sects also roughly guessed the situation inside. And just as Su Mu had previously stated, a few names had gathered the most attention.

Blood Battle Group's Hu Jiao'er and Hu Mei'er, High Heaven Pavilion's Su Yan and Su Mu, and the Storm House's Fang Ziji.

Not to mention that insane old man's female apprentice, High Heaven Pavilion's Xia Ning Chang might have obtained the inheritance.

Be it Hu Jiao'er's sudden rise in cultivation, or the incident of Su Mu killing a Monster Beast on his own, the elders of the three sects couldn't help but wonder just what kinds of opportunities were present inside the Heaven's Cave Inheritance. There were also a lot of people eyeing the 'Martial Skill' that Su Mu used to kill the beast.

The news of Su Mu killing Xie Hongchen was also something that caused a lot of conflicts within the High Heaven Pavilion. Some elders were questioning about what happened while the disciples continued to ridicule Xie Hongchen.

"Brother Su, to think that you were able to cultivate such a grandson while keeping his talents hidden from the public eye, this old man can't help but admire you." He Bei Shui, the third elder of the High Heaven Pavilion said, looking at Su Xuan Wu, who had an awkward expression on his face.

'I didn't do anything.' Su Xuan Wu internally sighed. He never knew Su Mu was hiding such wonderful talents, but how was he supposed to explain this to the others, who were giving him weird looks?

"Brother Shui, who do you think inherited the main legacy?" Another elder from the High Heaven Pavilion asked.

The experts of the three sects were irritated because they found that the inheritance had finally appeared, but didn't know in whose hand it fell.

They couldn't be sure about anything, after all, so many things that they hadn't expected happened inside the Heaven's Cave Inheritance. As far as they knew, Hu Jiao'er had the highest cultivation base inside the Heaven's Cave Inheritance, while Su Yan was an Ice Cultivator, and Su Mu, who was an anomaly among the disciples, so they couldn't be sure about who gained the most inside. For all they knew, someone totally unknown could've gained the most.

But they also knew that inheriting the legacy was based on luck, so they couldn't judge based on the disciple's cultivation and talents alone.

While the experts of three sects waited anxiously, a light barrier suddenly appeared on the site. It was akin to ripples appearing on the surface when a pebble drops into a tranquil lake.

In the next instance, the light barrier suddenly collapsed, leaving behind a big hole in the mineral lode.

"Is someone there?" Hu Man asked nervously. The Heaven's Cave Inheritance vanished but the disciples of the three sects hadn't appeared. Both his daughters were inside. What happened to them?

Hu Man was not alone in being worried; other experts felt the same. Elite Disciples of their sects entered the Heaven's Cave Inheritance, and they still have not shown up.

As they watched the scene unfold, they heard someone call miserably not from far away. A Storm House's elder's complexion changed, and he hurried to move forward.

When the Elder returned from the site, he was followed by a group of wounded disciples of Storm House. Under the inquiry of the Storm House experts, the disciples narrated the occurrences in the Heaven's Cave Inheritance.

After a few moments, the Blood Battle Group and High Heaven Pavilion experts also found their respective disciples in the surroundings. The experts breathed a sigh of relief.

They discovered that the disciples that came out were dispersed to each corner of Black Wind Forest. Although they were puzzled by this strange scene, they knew it must have been done to protect the inheritor of the cave master's inheritance.

The experts of the three sects were bustling about in the Black Wind Forest, searching for their respective disciples. They were more sincere and cautious when compared to their past. As for the reason, they had no idea about who could grow to what heights in the future.

Their attitudes changed because they didn't know which person among these disciples now possessed a limitless future, and therefore could grow to stand high and look down on the masses.  

It took about half a day's time to gather everyone. After that, many of them returned to their sects and had reported to their founders or Elders. This also made Su Yan more optimistic about her and Su Mu's situation.

At this moment, Su Mu and Su Yan were standing on Black Wind Mountain. After they stepped into the light gate, they were transferred there. Su Yan was not quite familiar with the place, but Su Mu had run around the Black Wind Mountain many times, so he knew a lot about the place. After walking for a while, they were able to find the correct path.

After about half an hour, the two of them were back at their place inside the Black Wind Trade Area.

"Brother Su." Just as they were about to enter their house, a young girl's voice came from behind, making the two stop in their tracks as they turned around.

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A/N-

This marks the end of the Inheritance arc.