Chapter 643 A Bunch of Tagalongs

Guan Hongfei didn’t think his performance was anything worth boasting about.

He had simply followed the steps Luo Tian laid out. Any other cultivator at the Half-step Celestial Pool Realm could have done the same.

Guan Hongfei was pondering something.

‘How did Teacher Luo know the Golden-Scaled Celestial Python Beast was injured?’

‘Could it be that Luo Tian took a stroll through the Ancient Secret Realm before it opened and scouted everything out?’

“We can rest for a while.”

Guan Hongfei and Deng Xiaoqian came to a halt.

Guan Hongfei had prepared a Spirit Pet Bag before the trial, which he could use to hold living creatures.

He took out the Spirit Pet Bag and placed the four cubs inside.

…

On the cliffside outside the realm.

The crowd of mentors was stunned by Guan Hongfei’s performance. It was absolutely breathtaking!

‘Why isn’t such an outstanding student one of mine?’

“How did I end up teaching such a good-for-nothing!”

The middle-aged mentor stomped his foot in anger at his own student.

His student, “the short-haired one,” had been right there. Given the situation, he should have been able to get a piece of the action.

But the outcome was too pathetic to watch. It was a complete embarrassment.

The middle-aged mentor shot a cold glare at Luo Tian, his heart burning with jealousy.

Luo Tian had done nothing, yet his students were performing exceptionally. And in the end, Luo Tian would still reap numerous rewards!

“His students are indeed outstanding.”

Peng Yuweng had to admit it.

But he still believed that no matter how outstanding the students were, or how good their luck was, it was all useless without a mentor’s guidance.

However, it wasn’t long before…

“Holy crap! Luo Tian’s student, Zi Qing, just obtained eight Golden Flame Jade Fruits!”

another mentor exclaimed, his voice laced with resentment and jealousy.

No one knew exactly what had happened, but the astounding haul of eight Golden Flame Jade Fruits made many of the mentors green with envy once more.

By evening on the second day,

another piece of news made the rounds.

Three of Luo Tian’s students had grievously wounded and driven off a Celestial Pool Realm Demon Beast, acquiring a Ghost Ice Spirit Grass and an ancient Profound Artifact!

Many of the mentors were dumbfounded.

‘What in the world is going on?’

They were all trying so hard, yet their students’ gains couldn’t compare to Luo Tian’s.

Many of the mentors wished they could march over and demand answers from Luo Tian, but the sight of him lounging leisurely in his chair only fueled their anger.

‘How could the students of such a lazy mentor find so many treasures?’

‘Why? How is that fair?’

“Master Luo, could my student perhaps follow yours?”

Tutor Hu Chao asked in a low voice.

“Certainly.”

Luo Tian agreed.

Tutor Hu Chao was overjoyed and immediately sent a message to his student.

The student had been on edge the whole time, with very little to show for his efforts. Then, suddenly, he received a message from his mentor.

He thought it was about a major crisis or a great treasure.

Instead, the message read: *Find Luo Tian’s students and follow them. Now.*

The student nearly lost his mind.

Still, he did as his mentor instructed.

As luck would have it, within two hours, he ran into Luo Xiaoting and joined her group.

At first, the student felt a little resentful.

But a few hours later…

“Sister Luo, you are peerlessly valiant, a perfect blend of wisdom and courage! I am in complete and utter awe…”

The student laid on the flattery thick and fast. After he was done with Luo Xiaoting, he started in on the other students.

By following Luo Xiaoting, his gains in just three hours rivaled his total from the past two days. ‘Tutor Hu Chao’s guidance really was brilliant!’

…

「On the third day in the Ancient Secret Realm.」

Everything continued as before.

Luo Tian’s students continued to cause a stir in the Ancient Secret Realm, reaping one enviable treasure after another.

The other mentors were still incredibly jealous, but their perspective had begun to shift.

They refused to believe that a few students could accomplish so much on their own.

Luo Tian had to be guiding them somehow.

But Luo Tian had only just returned and made no preparations. Ever since the Ancient Secret Realm opened, he had been the very picture of leisure, just lying back in his chair.

They simply couldn’t imagine how Luo Tian was managing to guide them.

「On the fourth day.」

The situation remained the same. Luo Tian’s students consistently delivered stunning performances and reaped rich rewards.

Some mentors could no longer maintain their composure.

They didn’t hesitate to use one of their three precious messaging opportunities to tell their own students: *Find a way to team up with Luo Tian’s students, or at least trail behind them!*

And so,

a strange scene began to unfold within the Ancient Secret Realm.

Each of Luo Tian’s students was followed by a group of several other students, sometimes even more than ten.

An uninformed observer might have mistaken them all for sycophantic lackeys.

“Hmph. Disgraceful!”

Seeing this, Peng Yuweng was furious.

Among the nearly fifty mentors present, the War Martial Institute had the largest contingent. Consequently, most of the students trailing Luo Tian’s group were also from the War Martial Institute.

Peng Yuweng had already made up his mind.

The next chance he got, he would make sure Luo Tian’s students suffered!

“Teacher Luo, a ton of students are following us. What should we do?”

“Teacher Luo, those students are so annoying. We can’t get them to leave.”

Luo Tian suddenly received complaints from several of his students at once.

“So many tagalongs?”

Luo Tian sat up.

Hearing this, many of the mentors gave awkward smiles, but they were too embarrassed to say anything.

“In that case, let’s open the ‘Treasure Land’ ahead of schedule…”

Luo Tian used one of his messaging opportunities to send a transmission to one of his students, telling them to pass the message on to the other five.

…

“Teacher said we’re to open the Treasure Land ahead of schedule!”

Deng Xiaoqian’s eyes shone with excited anticipation.

Previously, when Luo Tian was giving all his students their instructions, he had mentioned the “Treasure Land,” explaining that they were to open it only during the Late Stage of the trial.

All the students had strictly followed his command, but they had been intensely curious ever since!

Now, they would finally get to see the Treasure Land their teacher had told them about!

SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!

The six students changed course and raced straight toward a specific location.

The moment the six of them moved, the nearly one hundred students behind them followed suit!

“Quick, follow them!”

“Luo Tian’s students have insane luck! They must have found another treasure!”

The large-scale movement was too conspicuous to miss, instantly drawing the attention of the mentors.

‘What are Luo Tian’s students up to now?’

Zi Qing was the first to arrive at the so-called “Treasure Land.”

Not far behind her, a few shifty-eyed students were tailing her.

“It’s just an ordinary hillside. Is there really a treasure here?” Zi Qing muttered to herself.

Luo Tian had also said that once she arrived, she would know how to open it.

“Hmm? There seems to be an unusual Energy fluctuation below.”

Zi Qing’s Spiritual Power was far more acute than that of an ordinary person.

Then, a memory surfaced in her mind, showing her exactly what to do in this situation.

BOOM!

Zi Qing raised her palm, condensed a vast amount of True Essence, and struck the ground beneath her feet.

As a continuous stream of True Essence poured into the earth,

RUMBLE!

The ground began to tremble, and deep fissures split across its surface.

A moment later,

a thick, orange pillar of light shot into the heavens, causing the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to roar wildly.

The hillside beneath Zi Qing’s feet crumbled apart, and she leaped away to safety.

The few students tailing Zi Qing reacted a beat too slow and were sent flying several meters, cutting a pathetic figure!

“What’s happening? The ground is splitting apart!”

The students were all dumbstruck.

WHOOSH!

A vast, ancient pressure surged out from deep within the earth.

Immediately after, a massive, ancient estate, enveloped in a hazy, divine radiance, began to rise slowly from the ground!