Cultivation Online novel Chapter 689

Chapter 689: Hunting Grounds(3)

“Fine, if you can help me, my body will be yours.” Tian Yang said to Elder Sun.

Elder Sun nodded, “It’s a promise. Come here at the same time a week from now.”

“Okay.”

Tian Yang left the hunting grounds and returned to his living quarters to spend the next week absorbing the monster cores that he’d acquired from the magical beasts within the hunting grounds.

Even though he killed at least a dozen magical beasts every week for the last year, he would only get a single monster core for every 10 magical beasts he killed, and that’s if he was lucky, so it was not as if he has a lot of monster cores to support his cultivation base.

Furthermore, cultivating with monster cores isn’t very healthy for cultivators due to how much impurities monster cores contain.

However, unlike Yuan, Tian Yang did not have the ability to swallow monster cores and instantly absorb all of its spiritual energies, so it would take him at least a week to finish absorbing a monster core.

A week later, Tian Yang left his living quarters and made his way towards the hunting grounds.

After arriving at the area that Elder Sun oversees, he waited for her to show up.

About ten minutes later, Tian Yang felt a presence suddenly appear behind him.

He turned around to see Elder Sun standing there, but she had a solemn expression on her face.

“It’s been a long time since I saw you with such a serious face.” Tian Yang said when he saw her face that was basked in moonlight, making her look more beautiful than usual, especially her eyes that glistened like a clear lake.

“I have asked around about your girlfriend, Meng Lili.” Elder Sun said.

“Oh? Let’s hear it. Has she become an inner court disciple by now? Maybe she was even accepted by a powerful master within the sect. Given her talents, I doubt she will be anything other than extraordinary—.”

Before Tian Yang could even finish his sentence, Elder Sun interrupted him, “She’s dead.”

“W-What?” Tian Yang’s eyes widened with shock.

“What did you just say? That she’s dead? How is that possible?”

Elder Sun sighed, “This Meng Lili was accepted as an outer court disciple about five years ago after spending 6 months in the Bamboo Garden, am I correct? Or did I investigate the wrong person?”

“No… It sounds about right…” Tian Yang recalled very clearly that Meng Lili had become the first person to leave the Bamboo Garden, becoming an outer court disciple in just half a year.

“B-But that doesn’t make sense… How can someone so talented die? How did she even die? When did she die?”

“She died shortly after becoming an outer court disciple. As for her cause of death… she was most likely murdered by someone according to the evidences. Another disciple had found her body in the outer court, and she was already deceased by then.”

“Shortly after she became an outer court disciple? Is that why nobody seemed to know her? I thought it was weird that someone talented like Meng Lili would be a nobody…”

“You have my condolences…” Elder Sun sighed.

“Does the sect know who killed her? Did they investigate her death?” Tian Yang asked after a moment of silence.

“No, the sect did not investigate the incident. She was only an outer court disciple, and it’s common for disciples to die in the sect due to our competitive nature.”