Chapter 3: Born Trash

  At the bottom of the quiet cliff, several people wearing Taoist robes seemed to be searching for something. Qin Hao was sweating profusely. These people dared to kill him, and if they found him, he would definitely not survive. He wasn't stupid enough to run up and say, "Hey, buddies, this has nothing to do with me. Actually, I'm a time-traveler. You have a grudge against him, but you don't have one against me."

  Before he could finish speaking, someone slapped him and they all flew away, saying they were ordinary people, clearly looking down on themselves.

  "Fifth brother, I always feel that something is off. The person fell down and was smashed to a pulp, with blood splattering everywhere... but here it's spotless, and there are even footprints of someone walking by..." The Taoist priest didn't continue speaking after that.

  "Hmm!" The leading Taoist looked around: "It seems that Father was right to bring us here, this fool is a divine pulse, not so easy to die, no wonder I killed him and didn't feel any physical changes."

  "Divine Pulse!" Qin Hao, hiding behind the stone, was overjoyed: "It turns out that this guy is a Divine Pulse. But what is this Divine Pulse? Is it the pulse of God?"

  "So that's how it is, heaven has indeed been kind to me, then I must not die. But why do I feel like this divine pulse is even weaker than my previous body?" Qin Hao felt that something was off, but he had already made up his mind, and with a connection to the divine, it couldn't be too bad, like being an immortal or something.

  Qin Hao quietly walked to one side and carefully hid behind a huge rock in the distance. According to reason, when he was exploring here earlier, he found a small gap that could just fit him in, and it would be difficult for others to notice.

  "Fifth Master Brother, this guy won't hide anymore, and then sneak attack..." one of the Taoists said.

  "Hide?" Fifth Brother's face turned cold and stern: "A mortal, even if he hides, it would be too easy to crush him to death. Even if he is a 'Divine Pulse', are you still afraid of him? Moreover, he is also an idiot."

  "Hmm, brother Shifu is right." The few people laughed and then started searching.

  But they searched the entire valley and couldn't find Qin Hao's whereabouts, apparently he was hiding in a place that was hard to detect, he was a tomb raider, and also an expert in dragon-seeking techniques, so his sense of direction and geography was much more sensitive than ordinary people, now it just came in handy.

  "Where did this fool hide? Won't he be rescued by someone?" Several Taoists gathered together again.

  "No, the back mountain of our sect won't have anyone coming, and no one in the sect has heard that this fool returned. Moreover, looking at the marks on the ground here, I'm sure he's still here." Fifth Brother's face was full of malice, as if he wouldn't rest until he caught Qin Hao. He looked around, seemingly searching for something: "You, go take a look over there, you go over there."

  Suddenly he saw Qin Hao's hiding place and said: "Yang Shidi, go behind that giant rock to take a look, something is not right there."

  "It can't be this unlucky, right?" Qin Hao picked up a stone from the gap and prepared to go all out. Looking at their appearance, it was clear that none of them took him seriously, and there was a huge difference between a true cultivator and an ordinary person.

  "Fifth Brother, behind that rock is a cliff, how can there be anyone? This fool doesn't understand cultivation, how can he possibly hide inside the rock?" Yang Shidi said.

  "It is, it is." Qin Hao let out a sigh of relief in his heart.

  But Fifth Master actually didn't think so: "What's the point of talking nonsense, just go if you have to."

  "Oh." Yang Shidi walked over absent-mindedly, and Qin Hao's eyes lit up again: "This guy has a pair of dog-like nostrils. Ah, if Fatty was here, it would be great, I'd send him to his death and take the blame myself."

  Qin Hao missed the days when he and Baozi used to fight, but now it was a matter of life and death. He knew that this calamity might cost him his life, which was predetermined by fate. Thinking of this, he didn't even dare to take a deep breath, wondering how he could be so unlucky as to encounter such a jinxed person, not to mention having so many enemies.

  Listening to the footsteps getting closer and closer, Qin Hao held his breath, thinking to himself "don't come over, don't come over", but reality is always different from what one expects. The figure soon appeared outside the stone crevice, clearly it was Yang Shidi who had arrived. He carefully flipped through the outer layer of vines, and as soon as he opened them, he would definitely see him, and when that happened, he would be done for, absolutely dead without a whole corpse.

  "No, there's not even a single feather here." Yang Shidi was apparently an inattentive person, he casually flipped through it and didn't delve deeper before leaving. Qin Hao finally let out a sigh of relief, thinking to himself that his luck wasn't bad after all.

  "Are you sure?" Suddenly, that annoying voice of Fifth Brother Wu sounded again.

  "Of course it's certain." Yang Shidi said firmly.

  Just then, the others returned: "Fifth Brother, we've searched everywhere and found nothing except some traces. However, we did find some bloodstains by a distant pond. Could he be hiding in the water?"

  "Let's go to the pond." The Fifth Master strode away, and the others followed. As the sound of footsteps grew fainter, Qin Hao let out a long sigh. Just now, he had almost been suffocated. Encountering this group of perverts was even more frightening than tomb raiding. That saying was indeed true: living people are forever more terrifying than dead ones.

  "Humming..." Just then, a sound came from afar, Qin Hao was startled and held his breath. Suddenly, a talisman flew down from the stone above, shining with a flowing light, with unknown characters etched onto it, seemingly mysterious and obscure. The talisman was clearly heading straight for him.

  "Found him, this fool is hiding behind that rock." The familiar voice came again, it was indeed the Fifth Senior Brother's.

  " Fifth Brother, you won't mess up the tracking charm, will you? I've searched behind and it's all rocks. Unless this idiot has cultivated before, otherwise there's not a single fart." Yang Shidi said with a guilty conscience, earlier he hadn't carefully searched at all.

  "Fart, this talisman was drawn by my father, it matches the heaven and earth within tens of miles, as long as there is human blood, it can sense where the person is. If he's not behind it, the talisman will just spin in place and absolutely won't lead us here." Fifth Brother stared at Yang Shidi, who became even more nervous, his face pale, which made Fifth Brother even more certain.

  But just then, another person said: "Yang Shidi has been to see, the back is all stone, how can he hide? This guy won't be fooling us, actually he's been practicing all along, otherwise how could he hide in the stone?"

  "Right, right, I've heard that the Divine Pulse is really scary, it's all legend, what if this guy has actually cultivated it? Wouldn't we all be no match for him?" The others also became fearful, clearly showing great respect for the Divine Pulse.

  "How is that possible? That fool is a waste, the Divine Pulse will absolutely not be cultivated. Don't you know that? It's been this way for thousands of years." Fifth Brother said firmly, but in his heart he didn't dare guarantee it, after all, one can't be afraid of ten thousand, just afraid of one in ten thousand.

  At this moment, Qin Hao, who was hiding in the crack of the stone, happened to hear the prestige of Shenmo. Although he felt that his weak body didn't seem like Shenmo at all, they said so, and he thought there must be something strange about it. At least it wouldn't be too bad, especially with their tone, which made it seem like once Shenmo was cultivated, it would be incredibly powerful. He felt more comfortable in his heart, this being the best news he had heard since crossing over, almost making him want to crawl out and show off his prowess. But then Fifth Senior Brother suddenly poured a basin of cold water on him.

  He finally understood that this Fifth Brother was destined to be his nemesis, and in the fate there is a kind of person who is born to be your enemy, with him you will not have me, one of them must die. So Qin Hao made up his mind, once he survived this disaster, he would definitely get rid of this guy.

  "Can't cultivate for a thousand years? What's going on?" Qin Hao's heart was filled with anxiety and uncertainty, thinking to himself that he couldn't be so unlucky.

  Ke Na Wu's senior brother was clearly impatient, gesturing to the other two to come over. The two of them walked over nervously and arrived at the outer thorny area. Qin Hao was forced into a corner, his hand gripping the stone tightly as he slowly moved towards the gap. When one of the hands pulled open the outer thorny vines, Qin Hao had already raised the stone, and when the first face looked in, Qin Hao used all his strength to smash it down.

  "Ahh..." A blood-curdling scream like a slaughtered pig, followed by a wave of terror: "He's inside, he's inside......"

  Looking at the bloodstains on the stone, Qin Hao knew he had been exposed. Hiding here was like waiting to be caught in a pot. His heart racing, his body radiating an aura of majesty, he picked up the stone and charged out: "Halt, you wicked person, come and take my life!"

  Not to mention, he learned the tone of drama, coupled with their fear of the gods, and that bloody guy who was smashed, really scared these people.

  Qin Hao was puzzled, this guy was hit by a stone and didn't fall down, but instead was still jumping around, he really suspected what kind of divine pulse this so-called divine pulse was.

  "He, he......" The crowd was terrified, especially that guy who had been hit and was now dizzy.

  But Fifth Brother was the first to notice something was off. If Qin Hao had really cultivated his spiritual vein, then with that one smash, this younger brother's head would definitely not be able to withstand it. Finally, he understood that Qin Hao was just pretending: "He hasn't cultivated, if he had cultivated, you, a cultivator who has just opened up your spiritual storehouse, would have had your head directly smashed to pieces, your spirit scattered, how could you possibly still be alive?"

  The Fifth Master said that, and the few people finally understood. The power of the divine pulse only exists in legend, and the cultivation of the divine pulse is absolutely the most terrifying thing in this world. But even a cultivator who has just opened up his spiritual storehouse can't be killed, what kind of divine pulse is this? What kind of cultivator is this?

  As soon as Qin Hao heard this, his heart sank. A cornered rabbit would still bite people, let alone a flesh-and-blood person from the 21st century like him.

  "Use the Fire Summoning Charm, burn him to death." The Fifth Master's heart turned ruthless, and a charm suddenly appeared in his hand. The others did the same, their mouths seeming to chant something as a strange power suddenly attached itself to the charms. Then, they simultaneously threw them into the air, where the charms hovered motionless.

  Qin Hao could clearly feel that these symbols had some kind of strange power, a natural feeling that they had merged into the universe and triggered a force within it. Although this fusion was not perfect, in the next moment, a powerful flame suddenly burst out from the symbol towards him, coming from all directions. The strong heat wave rushed forward, making people feel as if they were in front of a furnace.

  "It's all over..." Seeing flames everywhere, Qin Hao was completely stunned. Although he knew these people were unusual, he still couldn't have imagined that they could conjure up flames out of thin air.

  "Hurry up, as if by law, the spiritual water of the earth, extinguished." But at this moment, a pleasant voice came, so pleasant and familiar, it was a female voice, but Qin Hao also felt a hint of majesty.

  As soon as this pleasant sound appeared, he only felt that a faint water curtain suddenly rose around him, protecting himself, cool and refreshing, and the flames could not get close.

  "Li Chen, are you looking for death? You dare to kill my disciple?" The pleasant female voice suddenly became severe, making Qin Hao feel a sense of majesty, yet it was so familiar and intimate.

  The sound fell, the water curtain dissipated, and the flames also disappeared without a trace. Qin Hao only saw a familiar figure standing in mid-air, which he could only describe with one word: beautiful. Beautiful to the point of being indescribable, yet it also made him feel somewhat estranged...

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