《Master of Jade Cauldron》 Book 1 Chapter 1 - Bronze Pill Hall. The Continent of Yan. Lies across the northeastern section across the vast sea that span across 100,000 miles in diameter, the continent boost a major resource that suitable for its resident to cultivate and achieve a higher standard of cultivation throughout their lives. In the middle of the continent, exist a river that almost split the continent into two, which known as the Continent Cleaving River. Only a total of three spots is still maintaining their position, holding this two piece together to continue to be known as the Continent of Yan. The first spot is a Mountain area, where the river failed to cleave through and forced to flows around the nine peak, known as the Nine Dragon Mountain Peak. The second is a jungle that contained seventh of a tenth part of the total population within the continent, which largely consists of what known as the "Cultivation Beast". The jungle is known to the other residents as the Dark Yan Forest. Lastly, is believed to be man-made, and yet mysteriously debatable. Carved with murals and ancient languages that none of the residents in the continent could understand, the two pillars that connected together, allowing the resident to travel across the north to south and back through the bridge built in between is known as the Immortal Ancients Path. Due to this Continent Cleaving River, the majority power between this continent is split into two forces. The north is much more prosperous, and contain more of the heritage left by their ancestors, so it had been known as the upper domain, while the south is known as the lower domain, barely receive any major attention and tutelage from the north, and remain outdated, in all terms. In the south, there exist a total of four different major forces that dominate the whole lower domain, and warring against each other to obtain the total control of the domain, to step across into the upper domain. In the west of the lower domain, twelve power exist. The Twelves country consist of one dynasty, three empires, and a total of eight kingdoms. The eight kingdoms warring among each other, to obtain the next position to becoming the fourth empire within the west lower domain. While on the same time, the three empires are battling against each other, to consume each other to obtain the right to fight against the dynasty while keeping the eight kingdoms from manage to combine into another competing power. The only one that manages to remain strong, unmovable by the threats is the dynasty, which believed to be established around 3,000 years ago. One of the reason is due to the dynasty applied the tax of half of all the production from the other three empires and eight kingdom to be presented as the tributes each year, to prevent the dynasty from destroying the balance of power on the west lower domain. Among the eight kingdoms, one of them is known as the Brilliance Jade Kingdom. Ten years ago, a mysterious child is born. It was also one that date itself, is believed to be the most auspicious date where the element of wood and fire is the strongest and most compatible with each other. But unfortunately, the child has grown up under a very disappointing situation. His father is a wood element cultivator but pass away five years ago because of an accident. Although the mistake does not come from his negligence, the employer decided to pay a small sum of compensation to the family instead of openly admitted that he tried to use some shorter path to force grow the precious cultivation plants to earn a quick profit from the sales. Losing his father at the age of five, the child grows up with his mother, who struggles to meet each day because of her weak cultivation. In this continent of Yan, cultivation is extremely important, along with the high elemental compatibility. The better one is compatible with the element he or she is focusing on, the faster they are able to obtain a breakthrough in their cultivation. Due to the mother is focusing on metal element since young, the lack of the metal element in the city outskirt cause her cultivation to remain stagnant on the same stage for more than five years. Added with the death of her husband, she no longer has the privilege to cultivate as she required to take care of her only child. But Long Feng doesn¡¯t blame his parents for failing to provide a better life for him. The couple gave him the name of Long (Dragon) Feng (Phoenix), due to the fact he was born under the auspicious date and also because he possessed an excellent compatibility towards wood and fire element, which the wood believed to be the symbol of a dragon and the fire to be the symbol of a phoenix. The surname Li is placed in front, as his family name. "Mother, I will make sure I am accepted into the Bronze Pill Hall and start learning the art of refining ingredient and pill formation so I could make our lives better." Long Feng held his mother''s rough hand before he falls asleep on the bed. Since five, Long Feng had been promising himself that he would try his best to improve his cultivation and give a better life to his mother when he reaches his age to participate into one of the academies. In this Clear Jade City, they are staying, a total of three academies is available for the child that reaches the age of 10 to enroll and cultivate.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. The Pill Hall, which is focusing on the cultivation of refining and pill formation. The Martial Hall, which is focusing on the cultivation of martial arts and art of warfare. And the Culture Hall, which is focusing on the gathering of resources and developments. Each Hall is differentiated by a rank, starting from Bronze, the lowest ranked, and up to Silver, Gold, Crystal and finally Jade. No matter what Hall the youngster starts their cultivation within, the power starts off equally, with slight differences depending on their nature element compatibility, as well on the hall''s practice. A pill hall student may be weaker in term of martial art compared to a martial hall student, and the martial hall student may be weaker in term of skill and battle capability compared to a culture hall student, while a pill hall student may be more durable and challenging against a culture hall students. The cultivation stage is divided into nine tier, starting from Refinement Tier, to Adept, Practitioner, Master, Elder, King, Emperor, Saint and lastly the Sovereign. It is heard as rumors that after one advance through the sovereign tier, each advancement stage next is as difficult as advancing a whole tier. While on each tier, starting from Refinement tier, is split into four categories. Human, which consist of the first three stage. It is split into early, middle, and late. Earth, consisting of the second three stage. Heaven, with the final three stage. And peak category, only reserved to those who are on the bottleneck of breaking through the next tier. The next day, the enrollment of the new selection of students finally starts. The Bronze Pill Hall is positioned in the northern section of the Clear Jade City. This location, is also believed to be the most prosperous based on the evaluation from a few high tier cultivators, based on the density of its element deep within the land itself, and also because the land is fertile enough to be used to cultivate and grow a few type of plants to be refined into refining resources benefitting the cultivators. "The auspicious time had arrived! Let us starts the evaluation and examination for new students enrollment!" An elder, dressed in a robe specialized for the Inner division of the Bronze Pill Hall shouted across the square. "Queue in a total of three lines, and each of you listens well." "You will be tested in three different subjects upon enrollment to determine your acceptance into the pill hall." "The first subject is the compatibility with your elements. As you all may have known, each element contributes differently towards the refining and pill formation. The control of your elemental mastery could affect the results of the refining process, thus the pill hall only select the best student that has a very good compatibility with the element they are born innately." "Your second test is to check your skill in identifying the cultivating resources and cultivate them accordingly. I believe I don¡¯t need to further explain how important is this test because this is the most basic requirement to become an apprentice of any pill hall across the Brilliant Jade Kingdom." "Last but not least, is your test on pill formation. To pass as an apprentice of the pill hall, one needs to possess the most basic capability of controlling their cultivation Qi, and mold them into any kind of shape to finely form the cultivating pill suitable for consumption." "You will need to pass all three exams to be accepted into the pill hall but that is not over!" the inner division elder raised his tone out of sudden. "the pill hall is divided into a total of four parts, and only by passing all this exam would you be accepted into the Outer Division of the pill hall." "Get ready now, and let the test began!" the elder finished his speech, and with a swing of his hand, he retreated to the seats provided to the chief examiner to pay attention to the participants. "Number 239, Lan Feng, Failed!" "Number 240, Wang Qiong, Failed!" "Number 241, Yu Hao, Failed!" The difficulties of the test quickly dampen the will of the group of 10 years old child, as the is only 8 children successfully pass the first test among the 241 children that went up to the stage. "Number 290, Mang Qi, excellent in fire elemental, and good in water elemental, Pass!" "Number 291, Mang Hu, excellent in fire elemental, and average in earth elemental Pass!" Out of sudden, the successful candidates for the first test increased into 10. meanwhile for Long Feng, holding the number 444 in his hand, started to sweat a little, because the number is literally inauspicious for anything. "How could I be that unlucky to hold this worst number one could get ?" Long Feng blame his unlucky life a little, but still, place some hope to pass his first exam. "Number 442, Tan Jing, excellent in earth elemental, excellent in water elemental, Pass!" "Number 443, Gou Yu, excellent in water elemental, weak in earth elemental, Pass!" (Mistake noticed by Simple Bob. corrected.) "Number 444, Long Feng, come up to the stage please!" Long Feng step quickly onto the stage, and place both hands on the side of a huge brass pot. Within the pot contained a very special type of soil and seed specialized to examine a cultivator''s ability in earlier stage to determine their path. The soil is called the black soil of five elements, where the nutrient is converted from receiving the external elemental qi injected by a cultivator. While for the seed, it is called as a five colored daffodil. Each color of the daffodil represents an element, red for fire, yellow for metal, brown for wood, blue for water, and grey for earth. The more compatible a cultivator with the element, the more brilliant the daffodil petals grow. Some cultivator with only one element prowess can only grow one colored five petal daffodil, while those with two usually manage to grow two colored daffodils, with the difference of 4:1 or 3:2 depending on which elemental is stronger between the two. Only the best cultivator that was nurtured well since young have the capability of growing five colored daffodils, but sometimes luck and the growth of the young seedlings is also one of the main reason the daffodil is different from each other. Their color range from Weak (Dark colored), Average (light colored), Good (clear colored) and Excellent (brilliant colored). Long Feng inject as much Qi as he could, afraid of not even able germinate the daffodil seed. A total of two minutes pass, where the examiner almost going to announce that Long Feng failed in his test. The seedling in the pot slowly germinate, and the stalk of stem quickly outgrown all previous participant''s daffodil in term of size. If the other participant''s daffodil stem is as thick as a pinkie finger, Long Feng''s daffodil stem is as rough as the thumb of his feet! As the peak point of the daffodil stem finally split open, a three colored daffodil blooms in front of all other participants within the square to see. A total of 2 Brilliantly colored brown petals, 2 brilliantly colored red petals, and one clear azure colored petal is produced in front of everyone. "Why one of his petal from the daffodil is azure colored ?" "Did he got a defective daffodil seed ?" "But he got excellent in both wood and fire element compatibility." The chattering started to hear from almost all part within the square, as the examiner returned to the side of the elder of the inner division to consult his opinion. "Young one, what is your name again ?" The elder asked. "Lo... Long Feng!" He quickly answered. "Follow me, I will personally escort you to the second test ground for your identifying examination." The elder finished his sentence, and turn around preparing to leave the square. With haste, Long Feng run towards the elder, afraid of any changes of mind in the elder if he dares to dally. "Number 444, Long Feng, excellent in wood elemental, excellent in fire elemental, excellent in sky elemental, Pass!" The examiner announced Long Feng''s result, and create a huge commotion to all those within the square. Book 1 Chapter 2 - Elder Tang Wen. "Xiao Feng, tell me more about your parents and yourself." the elder tried to get more information regarding Long Feng''s past and information before they reach the next square of examination. "Dear Elder, Xiao Feng is born in the year of Rat, the fourth month of the year on fourteen days. My father''s name is Li Da Mu (Li Big Wood) and my mother''s name is Bai Lan Hua (White orchid). My father passes away when I am five, and so I am growing up together with my mother in this five year." "Aren''t this the first-grade herb, Black Bitter Mint? I remember from the herb Scripture record, if it is placed in places with many wild weeds, the Black Bitter Mint could have their bitterness reduce, improving their taste after refining into the first-grade Cultivation Pellet." "That¡¯s correct. Could you also tell me about your elemental compatibility ?" the elder praise Long Feng''s good sight on spotting the mistakes and dig deeper into Long Feng''s special elemental constitution. "From my mother''s explanation, the day I am born is the day of wood and fire on their most compatible period. While for the clear azure colored petals, I am really unsure of what is happening on that." Long Feng answered blankly. "Elder, is that the tree of Bellflower? This tree is so huge, I guess the number of dried bellflower it releases every month is larger as well. I suppose the carer of this tree must put a large effort in taking care of this tree ?" "Why don¡¯t you try taking care one of them next time? This Tree of Bellflower could produce a total of 20 dried bellflowers monthly, but if the carer manages to handle it well, sometimes it could produce around 30 to 35." the elder replies. "Elder, I would never dare to imagine that the pill hall size is actually so huge! We had already walked for at least 30 minutes now, and we are yet to reach the next square." "This plant¡­" Long Feng stopped all of sudden. "What''s wrong, Xiao Feng ?" the elder is stunned with the quick turn of the attitude of this youngster. "I am sorry, honored elder. This plant is the reason why my father left me and my mother all alone five years ago." "Oh? If you are required to handle it, what would you do ?" the elder test Long Feng again. "I would shift the Fire Breathing Fruit into each single pot and allows them to grow independently. The soil used must be the rotten compost soil that rich in fire elemental, but impure with many wood elementals within." "Due to this plant grows upward until its fruit is mature, one must be very careful when trimming the dried bottom leaves, as there might be some leftover saps remain within its middle of the leaf." "The saps is hard to wash away and easily combustible, added with the danger of causing the Fire Breathing Fruit to react if the juices get close to the fruit itself." "My father mistakes is instead of using the rotten compost soil, his employer strongly demands that he use the fire lizard soil, where it only contain fire and water elemental within the soil. The Fire Breathing Fruit cannot be forced to grow quickly because the inconsistent growth will cause the fruit pores failed to cover tightly." "Good, very good. Instead of covering from challenging the plant, you instead came out with a conventional method to finely harvest the fruit, accordingly to your compatibility." the elder can''t help but praise Long Feng''s knowledge. "Elder, there is one more thing the Fire Breathing Fruit''s sap could do. If the saps are diluted with Mountain spring that is rich with metal elemental, the water could help quickly in growing the Bubble Fruit. By giving a moderate amount of challenge to the fruit, the skin of the fruit could be more durable, thus increasing the quality of the fruit when harvested." Long Feng continued. "What a good seedling. Xiao Feng, follow this old man to the third examination square." the elder praised him once again, before walking towards another exit.Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. "Elder, what about my second test ?" Long Feng quickly ask about his results. "You passed it with flying colors. The walkway we are going through all this while is the second test square. We purposely reposition a few herbs to allow the participant to notice the problem, and came out with some method to solve the problem and see how knowledgeable the student is." the elder explained. "But let me tell you first, the final test, might be the most challenging for you. Forming a pill is not an easy matter, let alone refining it. This test will examine your cultivation strength and also how skillful are you in controlling your Qi to shape and mold each pill." the elder explained the difficulties of the next and also final test. "If you really pass this test, try to consider becoming my apprentice. The other elders all called me as Elder Tang Wen. If you really came in as my apprentice, I will teach you all the cultivation technique I know, as I believe you could have a good future prospect, based on your attitude and your innate talent." "Here we are. The last test will be conducted altogether, so you could have your time to rest and practice a little before start." elder Tang Wen excuse himself, and return to the side of other elders to discuss something privately. About thirty minutes later, the potential participants quickly gathered between Long Feng, and a few of them even tried to befriend with him due to his special Sky Element compatibility. "Greetings, brother Feng. I am Gou Yu, from the southern Gou household. I am the youngest of the five children, but instead of following my older siblings into the martial hall, I chose to join the pill hall instead, as I believe my talent lies here." Gou Yu approached Long Feng and starts a conversation. "Greetings, brother Yu, I am Long Feng, just call me Xiao Feng. I am the only child in my family, I have no special background and staying with my only family member, my mother in the outskirt of the city." Long Feng replied both of them exchange a handshake. In a short moment, a total of 42 students gathered in the square, and along with the number, a total of 42 examiners is arranged within the square to attend each participant, while overseen by a total of 5 elders from the inner division. "Participants! To reach this final stage of your enrollment exam, you may be proud of yourself to make it this far. Even if you failed to pass this final test, you would still be offered a chance of joining the pill hall sub-division, and slowly learn the basic before you are tested for the qualification after six months." "On this stage, you will be assigned with one senior from the outer division, to form a pill." "The pill you will be assigned to form for this exam is the First Grade Cultivation Pellet, and your ingredient this time would be the Black Bitter Mint and Green Blood Lizard. You will be given 1 hour to produce as much Cultivation Pellet as you could, and your point will be accumulated into a total based on the number of the successfully formed pill." "Additional points will be given accordingly, depending on the edible pill and also the refining quality of the pill." "But on the same time, remember!" "Any wastage of the ingredient equals to one point is decreased to your total points, which means if you waste more than you formed, you will fail this exam without a doubt!" "If you are ready, tell your senior, they will help you to make sure you could try your best to form at least one pill." "Your exam starts now! You have 1 hour time to do as much as you could!" Immediately, all 42 participants quickly get close to the ingredient table to met with their respective senior and started to place their qi into the Pill Forming Furnace to extract the ingredient''s essence and form it into a round and edible pellet. It is a basic for a cultivator, especially one that specialized in producing cultivation resources, to have knowledge on how the essence on the resources should be extracted and refined before it is formed into a pill. The method is not strictly applied all the same to all kind of cultivating pills, but basically, there is a few step one will need to apply during the process, to successfully refine a single pill. Essence Extraction, or more likely to be known as the first step in the formation of a pill. Be it in boiling, brewing, diluting or gathering, one need to make sure this step is well conducted, to ensure the amount of required essence in the pill reach its minimal requirement. Essence Cooking, also known as the early process to form a pill. The essence obtained might came in a form of impure, weak or over concentrated condition, which required a good control of fire and cooking procedure, to ensure the essence is well processed before it is formed into a pill. Essence Mixing is more or less known as an additional step to the formation of a pill. Some essence may come in tougher condition, some may be poisonous, some may create some after effect after consumption, or some might destroy the meridian of a cultivator due to the amount of Qi compact within the pill is too enormous for one to consume. The essence mixing allows one to add or reduce the composition depending on the ingredient is used, to ensure the pill formed is good enough for normal consumption. Essence Forming is the late process of pill formation. By using the qi within the pill furnace, the essence is thoroughly processed into an edible source, while preserving all the goodness brought by the essence with the qi of the pill master, enclosing it in a strongly formed layer of essence remains. Lastly, is the Pill Refining, where skilful pill master will take one step ahead, and further refine the essence kept within the pill and strengthen its composition under a closed condition to allow the pill to mature and increase is term of quality, amount of cultivation qi it enclosed within, and also its degree of safety upon consumption. But this few skills, not only allows a pill master to create a pill that could help in cultivation, but it also allows a pill master to concoct their own combination of pill weaponry, which is an essential weapon the pill master depends on fighting equally with the martial masters, as well the culture masters. "Senior, junior''s name is Long Feng, my number is 444, I hope I won''t be a burden to senior during my examination." Long Feng quickly introduce himself as he gets close to his station, and greets the senior stand on the other side. "Great, shall we begin? Just call me senior Xuan Hao." the senior introduce himself, and start guiding Long Feng in the way he should start. Book 1 Chapter 3 - Sky Elemental Specialty. "Listen well, Junior Long Feng." senior Xuan Hao started to explain the basic step by step to Long Feng, but never tried to force the junior to follow each step he explained as the essence of pill formation is not same to each pill master. "Junior Long Feng, what I am telling you, only serves as a guidance. Each single pill master have their own special method in each step, and no pill master can concoct another pill master''s pill, so each pill master''s product is unique, and the better is your pills, the better your rate is." "First, the Black Bitter Mint is recently harvested from their shrubs, so the leaves condition is very suitable for direct Qi extraction, where you could get enough essence without too much work." "next is the Green Blood Lizard. The hall provides two lizards to each station, but let me tell you, try using only the blood from the female Green Blood Lizard because the Male one recently mates with another Green Blood Lizard, so its medical concentration within the blood is lesser than normal." "I understand the urge of producing a good quality First Grade Cultivation Pellet is a very attractive as it provides 3 points in total, but for the first timer, the chances of failure is around 70%, with only 20% the lowest grade pellet is formed. Never forget to mention, the produced pellet is too awful to consume, due to the strong bitterness from the Black Bitter Mint." "Even for myself, an outer division student, only possess a success rate of 3 pills from 10 tries. It is still depending on some luck as well concentration too." Xuan Hao explains his difficulties and experience from concocting the First Grade Cultivation Pellet, and hope that with his help, this junior will successfully enter the Hall as one of its students. "Senior Xuan Hao, thank you for sharing so many information before we started. Can I ask senior to help this junior in the part of stabilizing the qi during the forming ?" Long Feng express his gratitude to Xuan Hao for all the details he gave out because Long Feng knows that the success chances is depending on the condition as well the nature of how the ingredient is obtained. "Well, it is so coincidently that I am the one assigned to gather and distribute the Black Bitter Mint to each station, so I know about the herbs condition, but.." Xuan Hao explained the reason why he knew such information, but before he finished, Long Feng already move towards the side where the all the Black Bitter Mint is stack altogether. Perhaps in the term of stability of his qi, as well his cultivation is below average among the other participants, but for Long Feng, his seriousness in learning and remembering the composition of each ingredient is leap ahead from others due to his pitiful childhood. During the time Long Feng''s mother is out to work each single day, Long Feng spent his time helping the elderly from the neighborhood to grow their plants. Even the naturally grown Black Bitter Mint, contained a small amount of qi within, so upon daily consumption, the diner will still gain a little benefit from the herbs. Although this method of preparation is not applied towards the formation of a pill, Long Feng still decided to give it a try. First, he gathered a portion of about 10 leaves of the Black Bitter Mint and wash them thoroughly, before he had the leaves dried through the qi in his body after converted into a mildly warm fire elemental qi. By warm drying the leaves, it started to get slightly bloated, with the saps within the leaves sticking together in few spots. Next, instead of extracting the essence from the leaves, Long Feng pull off the hard stems within each leaf, and throw it into the male Green Blood Lizard''s cage, and waits for the lizard to start chewing the leaves, further leaving some stems aside. After determining that the lizard is full from eating the leaves, Long Feng pick the lizard, and release the blood within the lizard into a safe level, and apply some fire elemental qi to help the scar close up before releasing the lizard back to its cage. The plate of green blood is then poured into the pill furnace, to separate it into 5 portions. "Junior Long Feng, this method is.." Xuan Hao is bewildered by the step used by Long Feng, but he couldn¡¯t say it is wrong either because he had yet to tried this method to refine and form the pellet in this way. "Senior Xuan Hao, this method is used by the resident from outskirt to make the taste of the Green Blood Lizard after cooking is better. The lizard, after having it blood released before skinned and cooked, always retain a weird stinking aftertaste within their palette." "By adding the slighted warmed Black Bitter Mint into their diet before they are slaughtered for consumption, then lizard will not only taste better, the amount of qi increased after eating the meat also slightly higher than normal." "Senior Xuan Hao, can you please help me to maintain the shape of the pill when I am firing the furnace with my qi ?" Long Feng prepared himself to start converting a large amount of fire element qi to start cooking the essence. Without waiting for Xuan Hao''s reply, Long Feng started the cooking process, which would take roughly a total of 30 minutes in total to be fully formed into a completed pellet. In between of the cooking process, some minor disruption happens in between, especially in the process where they both combine their qi essence to form the layer of skin for the pellet. For Xuan Hao, this method of preparation is exactly different from what he had learned from his senior during his last year intake. Although this method is not much differ from his previous method, where initially the essence from both Green Blood Lizard and Black Bitter Mint will be mixed with each other, but through Long Feng''s method, the hassle of wasting time on Essence Mixing is taken away, hence giving them both more time to steadily form the five portion of pellets. Although it is divided into portions, the end results don''t always come out in one pellet per portion. Sometimes, depending on the volume or the concentration of the essence mixture, one could estimate around 1 to 3 pellets formed from each portion. You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. Of course, the volume of essence mixture in the form of Green Blood from the lizard is unknown to Xuan Hao, as this is the first time he goes with this method. As the time pass, almost each minute, one by one student failed in their exam. Some had exhausted all their available ingredients, and some failed to pass through the stage of either in mixing, cooking, or forming. Some successfully walk past the difficulties of forming the pill, but after inspection, the pill retains not more than 5% of Pure essence qi within. Although this still means the participant will be getting a point, the pellet he refined is literally rubbish that only poor cultivator will spend few ingredient to exchange. The pill creating art is divided into a total of 10 grade, starting from the first. Each grade represents a total of 10% of pure essence is preserved within the pill, so a second-grade cultivation pellet contain maximum 20% of pure essence qi, 30% for the third grade, and on forth. The type of medicinal ingredient used also affect the grade, which is why all the ingredient is assigned a grade to indicates the amount of essence qi they carry within and also the limit this ingredient can reach. In an example, a first-grade cultivation pellet contains a total of 1000 unit of pure essence within, while the Black Bitter Mint and Green Blood Lizard''s blood contain a total of 300 unit each. So in a result of a perfect refining, one could expect only a 5%-6% First Grade Cultivation Pellet to be produced, where it would be categorized as the middle-rank quality pill. But this only on the positive side of a pill refining. To aim for the higher rank pill, some pill master will resorts to the usage of more than 2 different ingredients, which in same time increasing its impurity, that will bring side effects to people who consume it during cultivating. This is also the reason why each pill made by the pill hall, contained the makers'' sign, and a stamp of ingredient used to be printed on the bottle to indicate the risk within. As the essence forming process still ongoing for Long Feng and Xuan Hao, two participants had already completed their challenge. "Number 290, Mang Qi, four Lower rank pill and one middle-rank pill is produced, six points." "Number 443, Gou Yu, three lower rank pill and two middle-rank pills is produced, seven points." "I remember last year, one disciple manage to form a total of four middle-rank pills and one upper-rank pill, and leave with a total of 11 points." Xuan Hao''s attention diverted a while, to look at which two participants manage to complete the task within 30 minutes. "Senior Xuan Hao, what is your score during your exam ?" Long Feng asked the question without hesitation and gave Xuan Hao a shock. "Heh... I''m nowhere good, I only manage to form a total of 4 lower rank pills, but wasted 3 portions of ingredients, so I got 1 points at the end." senior Xuan Hao honestly replies. "Senior, that is nothing to be embarrassed about. We are all aiming to be a pill master, only through failure we can learn on how to successfully refine the next pill." Long Feng replied back. For Xuan Hao, getting picked into helping in this exam is no coincidence. Some weaker student often participates in many events while being a member of the pill hall just to build further rapport with many sides, so their skills and knowledge could be honed. Through this new student exam, Xuan-Hao is aiming to get a new junior that excels and have good results, so he could be gaining some small benefits in between when the junior excel in the pill hall. This is also why Xuan Hao explained the condition of the herb, and give as much information as possible so Long Feng could try and pass this exam. Second, is due to the pay for those who participate in helping out on this exam. By the end of the day, the disciple that helps in the exam could get a total of 10 low-rank First Grade Cultivation Pellet, which could help in many matters such as purchasing ingredient, cultivate and to send home to their parents. Finally, after the cooking and forming are over, Long Feng opened the lid covering the pill furnace, and withdraw a total of 7 pills that came out in brilliant black and green color. Through a simple look, one could assume that these 7 pills are all sitting in the range of middle rank. "This... How beautiful. Even for those like me couldn¡¯t form such beautiful and fragrant pills." Xuan Hao speaks while holding the seven pills. "Elder, please come over to inspect this batch of pellets made by this disciple and the participants." Xuan Hao quickly calls the elder over for inspection. "Hahaha... Older brother Tang Wen, that counter is where the kid with Sky elemental at, am I right ?" one elder smirks and speaks to elder Tang Wen. "That is him, what surprise do you think he could bring ?" Elder Tang Wen replies, but show no interest in continue this conversation. The five elder reach the station, only to be surprised with the 7 pills that look similar, yet different from what they have seen before for so long. "This 7 pills, is beautifully refined. If it is not because of the limited quality of the ingredient, I dare say that this pill could even reach upper rank easily." said an elder, known as Tang Yao, this elder is also the younger brother of Elder Tang Wen. "The pill''s purity is very clean as well, this is only able If one purposely choose the richest leaves from the Black Bitter Mint to be extracted. A very good job indeed." the elder that speak with Elder Tang Wen, elder Tu Bo, speaks with much praise. "The fragrant... Its bitterness from the mint is gone, although its taste slightly dry, but at least it is not that bothering to take when cultivating. This is a very good improvement as well." the next elder name Zhi Ruo gave her praise. "I can see that there is no wastage at all, this child seems to be successful in his first try, what a talent, what a talent." the fourth elder, named Quan Rui, gave her piece of praise to Long Feng as well. "Explain to this few elder what you did in this forty minutes of time." elder Tang Wen ask a question instead of giving Long Feng a praise. "Dear elders, after listening to Senior brother Xuan Hao''s initial examination on the ingredients and the two lizards, added with this junior''s knowledge, Long Feng decided to approach through a different method." "Junior use the fire elemental qi to warm up a number of mint leaves, so the botched spot within this leaves indicates the juiciest spot when it is warm enough." "From senior brother Xuan Hao''s word, the Male Green Blood Lizard recently mate with another lizard, so this indicates its body should be facing the lack of qi within its body. Using this chance, junior feed the botched spot of the mint leaves to the lizard to eat, so it would quickly replenish the energy it recently used during mating." "next, junior extract a healthy amount of its blood and starts cooking the blood that results from mint essence and the lizard''s blood essence. Because I''ve seen the elderly cook the lizard while brushing the blood around its skinless body, this junior dare to say that the blood of the lizard should taste better, so junior use this method to cook and form the pill instead." "When cooking the mixture, junior have senior brother Xuan Hao to use his earth elemental Qi to maintain the form while junior use slow fire elemental qi to cook the mixture slowly until they form out to be good enough to be ranked as middle-rank cultivation pellets." Long Feng explained all his consideration, never forget to include Xuan Hao within few times to ensure he has his part of contribution as well. "Hahaha, now you all understand why I say this kid is extraordinary." elder Tang Wen laugh happily, because of Long Feng''s deep consideration in every detail. "Child, the Sky elemental strength is to help you obtain all type of ingredient within your strength into high purity level. But instead, you choose to follow the traditional way of speaking with your ingredients, and process it without needing the help from your sky elemental, this worth a praise." "I guess all the elders would have the same opinion as I do as well. Xuan Hao, announce the results, two points for each pellet he successfully refined, and additional points from each elder for an excellent performance." elder Tang Wen finish a word and walk toward the door before he exits the square. (Correction from mistake identified by Magpie, thanks!) "Number 444, Long Feng, seven middle-rank pills is produced, added with elders distinction points, 19 points!" The crowd within the square getting unrest with the amazing amount of points, and very quickly, Long Feng has escorted away from the square, into a residential area specialized for all the disciple of pill hall. Book 1 Chapter 4 - Outer Division Disciple. As Long Feng laid his back on the comfortable bed, his exhaustion quickly led him into the dreamland. Unbeknown to him, being led towards this room would significantly represent his successful enrollment into the pill hall, and from this moment onwards, he will be cultivating to become one of the more well-known pill masters within the Lower Domain of Yan Continent. In his sleep, Long Feng''s body is rejuvenated by the strong essence rich surrounding, greatly increasing the lack of essence qi within his body. Due to the difficult life, Long Feng and his mother are scratching by each single day, the pair of mother and child was forced to reside in the lowest essence density area, as the rent over this piece of land is cheaper than others. Through this natural absorption, Long Feng''s cultivation rise slightly, helping him to smoothly break through the gap between early human refinement tier to middle human refinement tier. Some impurities within his body seem slightly from his pores, making his body seems like he recently returns from a muddy bath. In the next hour, a total of 11 more participants is brought to the residence area as well, and all of them is led into a different room. Within the residence, each disciple room is strictly for their own usage only, so no sharing or visitors is allowed. The door to each room is locked with a special Qi recognizing stone, which will loosen in both sides if the room owner touched the stone when attempting to return to his own room. Within the room, a basic furniture is provided, with one special ingredient shelf for its owner to store precious ingredient within. One chest shape box is placed just beside the bed, with two pieces of Qi recognizing stone on both sides, is specially provided for the owner to store their successfully refined products or some of the further use concoction that could be refined into a higher grade resources. "Junior brothers, wake up!" "Junior brothers, two more hours will be the time you all need to attend the meeting with Pill Hall master, and also the elders before you all are assigned to the different department to assist in the daily task." "Make sure you are gathered together before I return to lead all of you to the Grand Hall." With an announcement of such loud voice, the whole building of people will be startled awake no matter how deep is their sleep. But except this time, only the new intake disciples would be still within the residence building as the other disciple already went out to complete their daily task, and also to attend the extensive classes regarding pill refining and formation. Not too long after the first announcement, the other senior brothers that completed their daily task returned to their room, for a short break before returning for their additional task. In the outer division, an estimation of between 30,000 disciples is believed to reside within this mountain peak, which holds a total of about 15 building of huge residence with 2000 rooms each. The group of 12, included Long Feng, quickly gathered together and followed the senior brother along the way, and being introduced to a different teacher in the different department as they pass by, and also on the open area of the Outer Division, and also the forbidden area that not all disciple can enter. After some brief introduction, the Outer Division area is divided into a total of 6 area, where the first, is the residential area for all the disciple. The second is the Educational Building, where all the administrative related issue and also the classes conducted by senior elder or teachers will be done within this building. The third area is called as the Jade Cultivating Land. This whole mountain and its surrounding location are specially reserved for the disciple to cultivate and handle their own ingredient and resources. Of course, other than the most basic size of a farm they are given, any further expansion will be on the disciple own cost. Hiring or cooperating with another disciple is allowed within this land as well, especially when the capacity of production is in incredible numbers. But one more reason is due to the certain special ingredient, would require a special capability to procure, which made things slightly difficult to obtain and mass produce within the Outer Division. The fourth area is the Tower of Knowledge. A total of 3 floors, where the only strength of cultivation determine the depth and height of your qualification to enter. It is believed that the more room access you could obtain each floor, the better skill you could view and read, which helps in self and refining improvements. Each floor stands for a stage, which means this Bronze Pill Hall contain scriptures and notes regarding refining and cultivation up to the tier 3 Practitioner Tier. Each disciple is only allowed to take two books each month from the tower and must be returned after one week. Failure to comply with this rules will results to banned from the tower for a period of time. The fifth area is the Thousand Training Formation Cave. Within this cave, a total of 4,321 room is available to fight for it and used for a maximum 1 month period of time to cultivate, be it in the field of pill refining, cultivating, or martial art training. This room and its center of the cave is the only location one could openly fight and challenge another, and open to life bets. Sometimes, some disciple would open their own booth in this particular area, to supply enough medication and also cultivation resources, especially for those who have wealth to spend but hated to slowly accumulate enough resources for their cultivation. Lastly, is the Elders residence, which is forbidden for any disciple to enter no matter under what condition. Not much information could be known within, but rumors somebody had seen an enormous amount of treasure is laid within the residence for the elder and teacher to cultivate, and it would last for them to cultivate until they reach above King tier. The group continues their journey, and very quickly, they reach the Inner Division main hall, where the elders and the Pill Hall Master is seated.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it. "Hall master and Elders, Disciple Liu Feng Ling had brought all 12 new junior disciples for you further guidance and explanations regarding the hall rules and also the important matters." "Good. You may return to your task now. The Administrative staff will come to reward you for the helpful assistance in guiding all these young juniors to us." Elder Tang Yao spoke, and as he finishes, Liu Feng Ling retreated back to his other duties, leaving the new juniors with the elders and Hall master. "Young one, I am Hall Master Yang Shao. I am glad this year, there are so many promising students to pass the examination. I know some of you may be born to a less fortunate family, or some of you are not cultivation wise comparable to the other halls." "But always remember, once you step into the Bronze Pill Hall, you are a Pill master. Be it in training, inexperienced, or failed before, you are still needed by all cultivators to refine, form and create cultivation resources for their improvement." "In the Outer Division, each disciple would be assigned to one daily duty. You may choose if you excel in a certain part, such as forming pills, handling and cultivating resources, business negotiation, or research in pill knowledge. Every first of the month each disciple would be given a basic pay of 20 Middle-Rank First Grade Cultivation Pellet and 5 Upper-Rank First Grade Cultivation Pellet." "I believe that the basic rules are already explained by Disciple Feng Ling, so I will go straight to the point." "in the next 6 month time, is the Thousand Herbal Garden opening time. All disciple that interested to enter the garden, will be required to pay a total of 3 third stage cultivation pellet as entrance fee." "Meanwhile, I hope you all would do your best to excel, and contribute to making the Bronze Pill Hall become better and better." "That¡¯s all for now, the others can dismiss." "Long Feng, Gou Yu, and Nan Jing Jing, stay here, we have something to tell you." the hall master had the others to return to their quarters while the three names are expected to await more order. "The three of you are the most well-performed participants, so of course it is expected that you would receive some special rewards." "You may now choose one elder to become your direct mentor, and remember, once a teacher, forever he will become your teacher, father, as well your whole support, make your decision without regretting as you would not be allowed to change anymore." the hall master finished his words, allowing the three of them to consider. "Gou Yu chose elder Zhi Ruo as my mentor." Gou Yu immediately make up his mind, choosing the female elder as his master. "Nan Jing Jing choose elder Qian Rui as my mentor." Nan Jing Jing chooses another female elder as her master as well, obviously as she is the only female to pass among the 12 participants. "Li Long Feng choose elder Tang Wen as my mentor." Long Feng choose elder Tang Wen, as he receives a good praise and attention by the elder. But as Long Feng finished his word, elder Tu Bo immediately interfere in between of them. "Xiao Feng, are you sure you want to choose elder Tang Wen? I myself possessed the elemental of lightning. If we combine the strength of your sky element and my lightning element, we could refine top class cultivation resources that could change your life and experience." "Why not you reconsider your option again? Since you just get to know us elders and the hall master." Elder Tu Bo speaks in his confidence, showing no discomfort when facing the hall master and elder Tang Wen. Meanwhile, elder Tang Wen does not show any expression, as if this is merely a mundane matter towards him, and will not able to affect him in any way. Long Feng does not reply nor show any intention on changing his choice, but as he stares on elder Tang Wen his sight becomes more and more firm on his choice. Elder Tang Wen finally nod in agreement. "Dear hall master and elders, once chosen, a teacher is equivalent of a father for life. I have decided, I will not let my teacher to be disappointed." "Good, that¡¯s the spirit. One always need to remember, even if luck is not on your side when you are walking along your path, but always remember that what pass when you are walking, is what mold you into today. Nothing happen in your life is worthless." the hall master speaks. "Follow your respective master to their private room, and grow as much as you could, to prepare for the Thousand Herbal Garden opening." the hall master finished his word, and conclude the meeting. Elder Tu Bo is furious for this embarrassing moment, so he is the first one to leave the hall after the hall master. Quietly, Long Feng follow behind elder Tang Wen, straight to one of the rooms in the inner division. The inner division is double the size of the outer division, yet the number of disciples within is only roughly 10,000, two third less than the outer division. "Xiao Feng, tell me one thing." Elder Tang Wen started to talk to Long Feng. "Yes, Master. Please ask." Long Feng replied without hesitation. "Why don¡¯t you go to Tu Bo just now, his Lightning Elemental have great capability to strengthen the refining, and he got great experience too in pill making." Elder Tang Wen continue. "Master, there is too many advantageous and attractive distractions throughout life, and elder Tu Bo is one of them. But to think it more clearly, why not I chose a master who knows my upbringing and attitude, nature and capability but goes to one that promises me plenty of advantages? One should always fight for improvement, not expecting for golden rainfall to drop on his doorstep." Long Feng explained. "Do you mean that you could learn more by my side ?" Elder Tang Wen laugh out loud while replying. "Yes Master, I believe I could learn even more from you compared to elder Tu Bo." "This place is called as the Peacekeeper of Virtue Hall. Within this place is my personal place where I spend all my time to cultivate and grow ingredients that are good enough to be harvested and refine into various medicine for cultivators." "Come here daily for your basic lesson, meanwhile, in this hall, you are free to harvest any ingredient for your practice, but half of the successful refinement will be required to be handed over, that¡¯s the rule within this Bronze Pill Hall." "Do you have anything to ask me ?" elder Tang Wen understand that he had given too much information to this new direct disciple of his. But what he have yet to mention is, there is no other disciple under elder Tang Wen, so Long Feng is the only disciple of his for now, perhaps even in future. "Master, can Xiao Feng start follow master around starting from now ?" Long Feng''s eye is slightly widened the moment he went into this hall. Although the design of this hall is simple, through a very detailed inspection, this planting formation is very well designed for the growth of the plants and herbs, allowing them to nurture each other through breathing in the air alone. "Xiao Feng.. Go report and get a basic task first." "And... Come back after that. Master will be here until evening, so if you are so interested in this plants, you can have this key but make sure you return to your residence before midnight, else you will disturb me because of your curfew." Elder Tang Wen throw a set of Qi Recognizing Stones to Long Feng as he finished his word, and start tending the plants. For Long Feng, this means approval for him to stay here if he wants, as long he finish his task. With haste, Long Feng run like he was chased by hell beast as he charged towards the Education Hall. Registering and choosing the task of refining medicine of First Grade Pills. As he left, he accidentally takes note on a piece of notice on the wall, with some information within that interest him a little. Medicinal Supplying Intern Requirement Skill: None (disciple with good knowledge and basis is preferred) Employment period: 3 Weekend starting from this week Payment: One Medicinal Scripture especially from Bronze Pill Hall Assistant Master, Liu Yi Long. "I can try for this position!" Long Feng quickly grab the piece of paper and return to the Virtue Hall to view Elder Tang Wen''s daily work, before he ordered to return to room as the evening came close. Within the room, Long Feng had difficulties to sleep due to his anxiety of the surprises his next day will come to him. "Learning with master really open my eyes. I would never imagine that by placing the Hundred Layered Moss together with the Blood Fruit will actually cause the soil to become rich with metal elemental, which will naturally refresh the soil condition of the Ironwood Shoots, that required to be harvest as they sprouts." "And also, to pollinate the Dragon Fang Flower, the master is willingly sacrificing the Fire Breathing Fruit''s main stem to the Fire Striped Bees to bring back to their nest, creating the flow of natural cooperation between the bee and the flower, so the human could benefits." "Ah! I need to make sure to remember this! Master purposely recite it loudly so I pay attention to listening." "For flower based medicinal ingredient and resources, it is best to allow it to grow naturally, only thing human can help would be providing essential essence qi to allow them to grow in the best way. Force feeding will only result in less matured and lack of growth ingredients, which will affect the quality during refinement." "I wonder will master tend the pots that were arranged in the eight directions apart from the center? Each pot of the plant seems to be special as there aren''t too many of them within the Virtue Hall." And soon enough, Long Feng fell asleep in the middle of reminding himself about what he had seen for the whole afternoon. Book 1 Chapter 5 - Marking Your Works. The next morning. As the bell rings for three times, all disciples are required to report in for their daily duties, as Long Feng quickly walks towards the Jade Cultivating Land, but his destination is not on the inside of the land. As he reached the entrance, Long Feng followed the seniors towards to a smaller walk path that leads them to another camp. "Juniors! Welcome to the 11th Group Early Refinement Camp." "Over here, we will be assigning few different task depending on your capability." "Since today is your first day, you are allowed to monitor first, and only try when you felt confident." "First we have the extraction section, where people with good qi molding and handling skills is positioned. Remember, all the extraction needed to be done as fine as possible, though I understand that only through experience you could confidently do it." "And on second, is the refinement section. We expect the disciple that positioned here to further process the extracted material, refine them into a successful medicinal pill that suitable for the Hall to sell in the whole City." "Thirdly, is the Special Station. If you are confident with your skills and production, you can refine the ingredient directly, without depending on the assistance from the other section." "You will be choosing the product you would like to work with and proceed with it until you reach your quota. 100 portions of extracted ingredient or 10 pills of minimum Low-Rank First Grade Medicine." "If you are from the special station site, you are required to hand over at least 3 Middle-Rank First Grade Medicine, no matter how many Low-Rank First Grade Medicine you made. Additional contribution point will be given if more than required quota is refined. Remember to put down your mark on the pill itself to indicates the pill refiner''s identity." "You all may starts if you ready, quickly go ahead and finish your task!" As the approval to start their task is given, the group of disciple quickly allocate themselves to their respective specialty section and quickly have their work processed. While for Long Feng, he shifted around the station to station, and remember as much as he could, so he can start helping immediately. "Junior brother, I remembered that you are doing quite well in the refining examination, why don¡¯t you try to refine some pills instead ?" said a senior disciple that positioned on the special station. "The ingredient we are preparing today is the Thunder Sparrow Egg and Dark Fluid from Ferocious Crow." "Although both of this ingredient is still in first grade, the difficulties in procuring is high, so only the senior is allowed to harvest the ingredient within the Jade Cultivation Land." "The pill we are making this time is a specially made to temper elemental cultivation of Water Element and Metal Element cultivators. This medicine is known as (First Grade Thunder Spirit Pill). If you are trying to purchase this in the shop, it might cost around 10 First Grade Cultivation Pellet at least, if the stock is abundant." "Since you already monitor some senior''s work, try to work it out yourself, and let us know if you need some help. Don¡¯t waste too much of the ingredient, is that clear for you ?" the senior disciple speaks with Long Feng nicely, persuading him to try. Taking up the challenge, Long Feng place himself within the station preparation area and started to process the ingredient accordingly to how the other seniors directed. Firstly, Long Feng inject some of the fire elemental qi into the egg to pre-heat the egg from within, as the yolk of the Thunder Sparrow Egg within needed to be thickened before the egg is cracked open to extract the yolk strong with the Lightning element. Then the step of cooking the Dark Fluid starts, where with a measurement of 3 cups of water from Bubble Fruit spring, the thickened egg white from the Thunder Sparrow Egg and the Dark Fluid is mixed together. by using the Qi to keep stirring the mixture until it turned into a lighter gray color, Long Feng then mix both fluids together, thus forming few new eggs from the mix of two different mixture. With the forming process is done, Long Feng patiently control his Qi, refining the few pills thoroughly so they are suitable for cultivators consumption. As the time pass, Long Feng''s started to feel tiring, due to the difficulties of concocting and refining the pills all by himself. After all, this young disciple is only started learning about refining and pill concoction two days ago. Although his cultivation level has increased by one small stage, Long Feng is still a Middle Human Refinement Tier cultivators. His capacity of Qi within his dantian only could manage to handle one to two batch of refining and concoction, before he would collapse to the ground with no more stamina left. But he insists on continuing. Long Feng Qi started to stagger as the flow of qi becoming up and down, causing the refining of the pill started to goes slightly slower. Perhaps it was a luck, his persistence finally paid off, moments later he successfully refined all the pills and the results came out at a beautifully three Middle-Rank First Grade Thunder Spirit Pill and two Lower-Rank First Grade Thunder Spirit Pill.If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. "This new kid success in his first try!" the senior that convinced Long Feng to try his hand on the refining is shocked with Long Feng''s talent. "Hmm¡­ A total of three Middle-Rank Pills¡­ your daily duties are over, you may go for your own activities now." another senior disciple, the one who makes the announcement a while ago release Long Feng from his duties as he had completed the required quota. "Senior brother, can I some questions please?" Long Feng quickly enquired something with the senior disciple before the senior return to other duties. "Speak as you want, do not worry, not all of us is like those in martial hall or culture hall. We help each other much more, and have a less internal struggle." the senior disciple reply Long Feng warmly, giving him a very good impression. "Senior brother, I wish to know, how many days would we be assigned to refine this Thunder Spirit pills?" Long Feng quickly asked his question. "The production is based on the amount required for the hall. This time our order is a total of 40,000 pills, as there is a huge order came from the Thunderburst Jade City." The senior disciple explained. "Since this pill is just started to be in production today, perhaps within 1 week the production will be completed. You had your marking stamped on the pill as well am I right? If your Thunder Spirit Pill obtain good reviews, more and more specific order will come to you, and by that time, you will be allowed to keep a third of the profits the hall is making." he continued. "Just remember about this. To refine pills, sometimes our cultivation is very important as well, because they would affect your quality of production, and also your perfection on the pill you refine. Like your case, the lower-rank Thunder Spirit Pill is practically some rubbish for the use in Thunderburst Jade City, but we will still keep it within the store to sell it at a retail price in other smaller city or town." "If you prefer to practice more on this Thunder Spirit Pill recipe, I will arrange you to attend this batch of production until its finished and delivered, would that be fine with you?" the senior disciple offered. "Yes senior brother, that would be great." Long Feng quickly cupped his palm together as thanks for the special arrangement. "Do not be so humble, junior brother, I should be happy for your interest in helping. Your skill in refining the pill is very good, I will be looking forward to even better quality pills the next time you helped." the senior disciple replied. "Senior brother, please excuse junior Feng, I will be returning to my quarters now." Long Feng politely bid farewell for his leave. Tired and exhausted from only refining a total of 4 pills, Long Feng retreated back to his room, but only after he got a shower from the basement of his residence building. Putting himself in a cultivating position, Long Feng absorb the abundant essence of elemental Qi surrounding him, and quickly rejuvenate himself, although the possibility of full rejuvenation is hardly possible, at least it could give him some stamina to hold until the day is over. Added with the benefits that will come from learning under the tutelage of Elder Tang Wen, Long Feng felt this hardship he will keep facing through, will be turned into benefits when the time arrived to harvest his efforts. After taking a two-hour rest, Long Feng finally managed to recover around 10% of his overall qi, and quickly travel towards the Virtue Hall to greet his master and start to follow behind him to see what he would need to do when he is following his master around. "Xiao Feng, go and tend the (Hundred Layered Moss) and bring me a total of 2 portion worth, next harvest all the available (Black Bitter Mint) and clean the soil plot that contains the (Clear Toad Fruit) before you return to the room." Elder Tang Wen give Long Feng a few task to be done for the day. "Yes master, this disciple will proceed to complete the task." Long Feng dare not to waste his time, as it is his first task given by his master. First, he quickly stood nearby the Hundred Layered Moss to tend the plant''s edges, and slowly gather the tended edges up to a total worth of two portions. Due to the moss will release some runaway essence qi when it is chopped or cut, the essence that running away is absorbed by Long Feng to further strengthen him, so he could last a little longer. Next, he proceeds to harvest the Black Bitter Mint. Up to his master''s skill and standard, the plot of soil containing the Mint leaves is in its highest quality, where the essence qi released by the matured and ready to harvest leaves creating a small layer of essence cloud on top of the mint shrubs, allowing them act as the curtain to keep itself fresh. Lastly, he finishes his final task by cleaning the soil containing the Clear Toad Fruit. The fruit is categorized as one of the hardest to plant fruit throughout the Pill Hall, and only a few specific elder or disciple have the seeds to grow the fruit. This fruit specialty is to act as a condensation ingredient, and widely use especially during the concoction of some special tempering, healing or cultivating resources. Like a toad in its respiration sequence, the Clear Toad Fruit expand and swell as it collects the qi from the air and soil, and when it filled up its capacity, the fruit stopped collecting and start condensing the qi, slowly turning the qi it''s collected into a form of wax, which is rich with condensed qi within. But the wax, if it not collected, will be turned into a food source for the roots, so the fruit could grow bigger and bigger. The fruit is usually grown in a small amount to a huge amount, depending on the wealth of a cultivator. Some cultivator preferred to only handle and taking care of younger, small size fruit due to the quick maturity of the plant, where the wax could be harvest quickly, but some would prefer a more matured and old plant because the strength of the condensed Qi wax is thicker and stronger. Although this plant is marvellously amazing in its produce, one weakness remains. This plant required a continuous amount of Essence Qi to produce its wax, so if the collection is disrupted, the wax will not be formed, thus wasting the time invested on managing the fruits. The fruit is also weak to parasite as well to competitions. Each fruit required to be planted one plot on its own, or around 50 meters from each other, to ensure the Essence Qi source does not disrupt during maturing and forming process. This also explains why Long Feng is assigned to clean the soil plot, and getting rid of any insect, parasite, and weeds in the process. "Master''s Virtue Hall only contain a total of 2 Clear Toad Fruit plants. Is it true that this plant is very difficult to cultivate and required a very steady flow of Essence Qi to maintain its production?" Long Feng question in his mind, but as this is his first time handling such plant, he have no much interest and attention placed on the plant, but just finishing his task and leave. Roughly after three hours, Long Feng finally completed his task before he returned to the room belonged to elder Tang Wen. Long Feng proceed to knock the door thrice to indicate this disciple is coming in, but before he did, a voice came out from behind the door, calling him to enter the room. Book 1 Chapter 6 - Qiu Ping & Tie Shou. "Master, I finished all the task you asked." Long Feng speaks as he entered the room and go over to the table where elder Tang Wen is reading a scroll. "Oh, did you had a good time absorbing the released essence when tending the moss?" Elder Tang Wen asked. "Yes, master. Did you purposely arrange today''s task so disciple could absorb and rejuvenate himself in the middle of his task?" Long Feng, who is quite well informed and knowledgeable from all the scroll and books he read. "Tell me what you can see from this arrangement?" Elder Tang Wen Is still motivated to "test" Long Feng to see how deep is his knowledge in the field of resources and refinement. "Dearest Master, first you intend to have me absorb the released essence as I tend the Hundred Layered Moss, so I have some unrefined essence within the body to be absorbed back into the Black Bitter Mint plants when I harvest the matured leaves." "Due to the curtain of Qi produced by the plant is very nourishing with clean Qi essence, it was absorbed by me, in the end, to further rejuvenate my body, preparing my body for the moment I clean the Clear Toad Fruit. To cultivate the fruit, the cultivator usually works out around the fruit, such as cleaning, cultivating, practicing martial arts, or even reading to allow their body essence to be absorbed and refined by the fruit, thus creating wax for harvesting." "Through this on and off task, it could be used as the slower but more refine version of cultivation due to the time allocated to refine, temper and absorbed is more difficult than depending on the Cultivating Pellets." Long Feng explain his own understanding on the way his master assign the task for him to complete. "My beloved disciple, your understanding in this matter is very accurate, except one part." Elder Tang Wen praise his disciple as he should, but also no giving him too many credits from guessing correctly. "Ah! Then can master tell this disciple where he overlooked?" Long Feng quickly ask for his master''s guidance on which part he accidentally overlooked. "The Black Bitter Mint essence curtain should be absorbed until none of them left on the plants. The reason is that when the matured leaves are harvested, the leftover leaves will need to be open to challenges and place under risk, to allow them to mature perfectly." "Like us humans, the plants and the animals have been ready for challenges that may come any moment from now. One that grows under a silver spoon will never understand the worthiness in each moment of their growth, and similarly, one that grown so much undernourishment but without any stress, could not be labeled as precious at all." "Do you understand?" Elder Tang Wen finished his explanation, and look at Long Feng. "This disciple understood master''s explanation and also master''s motives on giving disciple this task. I will learn and also put my mind in the correct path because only through the correct mindset one could improve and proceed on his path, undeterred by outside distraction and failed to cultivate correctly." Long Feng quickly thanked his master for giving him the guidance in cultivation and choosing its path. "Here, this is a pot of **Blood Cleansing Pitcher Plant**, put this plant in your room and drop your blood within each single day so it could refine your blood and provide you with clean and purely refined blood for your consumption once every single week." "Cultivate daily with the plant by your side so the plant could refine your blood along with the Qi escaped from your meditation, and create a pitcher of Pure Blood solely for your consumption. Do not look down on this pitcher, the more you use it to cultivate, the purer the Pure Blood it produced, and since its refined from your own blood, you won''t need to spend the effort to refine it as it would blend into your body smoothly." Elder Tang Wen hand over a pot of small plant, shaped like a pitcher Cup to Long Feng before the time to leave the Virtue Hall is over. As he returning from the Virtue Hall, Long Feng took a slightly longer trip, traveling from the Education Building to the Tower of Knowledge, and as he passes the tower, Long Feng direction is blocked by two disciples that just exit the tower with two books in each of their hand. The three of them did exchange a look before one of them initiate a conversation. "Hey you, new disciple, what is your name?" the bulkier one among the two spoke first, placing some intimidating behavior when he speaks. "Dear both senior, this junior''s name is Li Long Feng, just call me Xiao Feng for short." Long Feng introduced himself. "Long Feng? You''re that new kid that they say possessed the Sky Elemental Qi?" the one seems like the boss between the two asked. "Yes senior, that Long Feng is me. Senior if there is nothing else, I would like to return to my room as I had been ordered by my master to cultivate and improve my strength." Long Feng politely answer, and gave them a reason to stop asking anymore as he needs to return to his room. "Heh¡­ Tie Shou, looks like this junior still doesn¡¯t know who he is speaking with." the bulkier guy commented, and move towards Long Feng to stop him from continuing to leave the tower area. "Qiu Ping, let him leave, sooner or later, he will hear about my fame anyway, why bother about those moments of ignorance he had given me? He will come over and lick my shoes like a dog soon enough." Tie Shou haughtily commented about Long Feng''s action but decided to not take any actions. Although Long Feng is bothered by the attitude of this two senior, he knows based on his current standing, he has no right nor background at all, so he decided to not taking offense from both of their behavior. He turned over again and again, from left to right, and again until finally, Qiu Ping allows Long Feng to pass through under Tie Shou''s order.You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author. "Basic Anecdote of Master Liu, Hundred form of Medicine Cooking." Long Feng manage to take a glimpse into the book on Qiu Ping''s hand. As he returned to the room, Long Feng emotion is slightly stirred. Although he doesn¡¯t look for trouble with others, they will still try to come over and tried to cause some trouble. He was being polite and nice to the others, but this two senior does not only disturb him on his path, they even look down on him indirectly, assuming that Long Feng will soon be licking over his heels when Long Feng know his identity. For a child that struggles all the way until he managed to enter the Pill Hall, Long Feng is extremely disturbed by this two senior''s attitude and behavior toward him. Perhaps this isn''t the first time they did it to the other juniors, but this doesn¡¯t mean that they have the right to look down on their fellow outer disciple juniors. "I must quickly build myself a stable foundation, so I could stop relying on my current attitude to survive within this Pill Hall. Tomorrow will be Wednesday, and three more days I will be required to attend the Medicinal Supplying Intern job that I accepted. I should try my best to obtain some resources that would be helpful to my cultivation, so I will gain a quick leap in term of cultivation strength." Annoyed by the distraction did by the two seniors, Long Feng walked while reciting the motive he came into the Pill Hall, to calm his mind before he returns to cultivate. "I come here to become a renown pill master." "I come here so mother''s life would be better." "I come here for a better cultivation path, and to made my own success out from nothing." "I come here because I want it, I won''t give up to those small bullies, but I won''t stand aside hiding either!" "I will carve my path in this Hall, and make myself the best pill master among everyone, and make mother proud!" "Oh! And master as well." "Let''s get back to cultivate, I need to get stronger as soon as possible, or else the Intern job I accepted might not go well due to my lack of cultivation." On that night, the cultivation process goes smoothly, perhaps it was due to the calmness from what he have obtained from attending his master lesson, or perhaps due to the success of refining the four Thunder Spirit Pill all by himself, although he exhausted himself at the end, or perhaps it was due to the slight disturbance from the senior that managed to make him fired up to train diligently, so he could overcome them in term of achievements. Meanwhile, unnoticed by himself, the pitcher which had a few drops of blood from Long Feng, started glow dimly as if there is a brilliantly shining pearl hidden within its pitcher and tried to spread its like past the pitcher''s thick layer of skin. This phenomenon happens due to the special attributes within Long Feng''s blood, but currently, it is still unknown to anyone yet. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Junior brother Long Feng, that is a very good result today!" The senior brother that allows Long Feng to remain within the Thunder Spirit Pill production group praise him again and again, after seeing his today''s result. "Senior Brother Liu Ming, you really praise me too much, please do not be too humble in front of this junior!" Long Feng felt awkward as the senior brother is behaving too polite to him until some part of it would make other felt that Long Feng is the boss of the group instead of Liu Ming. "Junior brother, how can I not praise you, today is just your second day, and without any mistakes, you happen to produce a total of 4 Middle-Rank First Grade Thunder Spirit Pill today. Just like this, our task can be cleared earlier than our expected completion date." Liu Ming continued. "Senior brother, what is this completion date you mentioned about ?" Long Feng felt himself is hearing something new once again, so he quickly tried to question deeper for further understanding. "Junior brother, you don¡¯t know too much as this is still your first week within the Pill Hall. Once you are on your second year in the hall, you are allowed to select your own task to fulfill, such as this Thunder Spirit Pill mission." "There are many large amounts of demand for pills from few different city, in an example, the Thunderburst Jade City often post a request for first-grade Thunder related pills from the hall, while the Jade Spirit Town often request for the Body Strengthening Pills." "My current task is taken in a team of 10, which consist of me and another 4 senior of yours that you could see on the special station, and another 5 of your senior brother which is inside the Garden to prepare the ingredient for us now." Liu Ming explained. Due to the skill of his pill refining is higher in success rate that the others, he leads the team in the production team, while allowing those in the material collection team to act independently." "With your help in the production team, who can produce around 4 pills each day, we can expect around 100 pills to be covered by you alone, which leave us senior to bothered by the remaining 39,900 pills." Liu Ming explain the difference in number, but his explanations gave Long Feng a headache due to the number that was in explanation is not huge, it made Long Feng felt weird on why his 100 pills worth so much to his senior brother mission. "Senior brother, it is just 100 pills, how much help it could be compared to the total of 40,000 pills you need?" Long Feng asked straightforwardly. "Junior brother, you doesn¡¯t understand the importance of this part, so let me explain it to you." "When you are expecting to cultivate, would you prefer using 100 pills that made by 100 different pill masters, or would you prefer using 100 pills that were made by between 1 to 5 pill masters?" "Each pill contains a difference amount of impurity within, and each required a different approach to finely refine them, so they don''t affect by the after effect from refining the impurities during cultivating." "If you have 100 pills by 100 different masters, you will need to refine it 100 times, repeating procedures which guaranteed safe to use, but time-consuming to improving yourself." "So the others would prefer a master that could refine a healthy amount of pill each time, to ensure the quality differ from each pill is not too different, thus they can refine it more quickly." "This is also one of the reasons why we need you to plant your mark on the pill. It is to allow those who are used to your medicine, repeatedly purchase medicine from you again and again." Liu Ming explained, revealing another opportunity within the hall open to the pill master they nurtured to have a chance of success. "Senior brother, Xiao Feng will try his best to help you in this task." Long Feng felt grateful for the piece of information given by Liu Ming. In one person''s life, information sharing is always the most crucial trade between two sides or sometimes in a special condition, exceed two. Although this piece of information is obtainable if Long Feng asked his master, or even through the Education Building, perhaps, the way it was given is barely as depth as for how Liu Ming describe it. One piece of information, especially important to every member of the Pill Hall, is as important as the recipe and their own way of refining each single pill. "Junior brother, hold on for a moment." Liu Ming stopped Long Feng from leaving the camp. "Senior brother Liu?" Long Feng stopped on his track, and turn around looking at Liu Ming. "The requirement for this task is to provide three Middle-Rank pills, since you produced four, of course, you will have one additional point for exchange in the Education Building." Liu Ming withdraws a piece of gemstone in deep purple color and passed it to Long Feng''s hand. "this purple gemstone worth a total of 2 points in exchange department. Although it is not a big number, few points could give you a very good exchange rate, depending on what you are looking forward to changing." Liu Ming continued. "As a senior, what I could tell you is try to don¡¯t keep too many points because of the main thing for this point system, is for you to get one step further compared to others." he continued. "Thank you, senior brother. Xiao Feng will remember your words in mind." Long Feng cupped his hand together, and excuse himself from the camp. Repeating almost the same procedure, but instead of taking a nap, he chooses to cultivate by absorbing the available Essence Qi surrounding him, and drip some blood into the pitcher cup as he starts. Once again, the pitcher cup glows dimly, indicating the sky elemental is nourishing both the pitcher and the host. "Xiao Feng greets master, how is master today?" Long Feng greets his master as he entered the Virtue Hall. This time Elder Tang Wen is seen kneeling on the North-East part of the Virtue Hall, tending the pot with extremely delicate movement. "Xiao Feng, come and sit beside me. Master want you to see how the cultivating of this Rock Dragon Elderberry*** is done." Elder Tang Wen pat the floor near him, indicating where Long Feng should sit while looking at how he tend the plant. "Master, is this the plant known for providing the extract used to concoct the First Grade Blood Dragon Ointment, which allows the user to stop bleeding and injuries when hunting some cultivation beast ?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (**Carnivorous Plant, look for Nepenthes Albomarginata as a reference of how this plant looks.) (***Raspberry like fruit, look for Salmonberry / Rubus spectabilis as reference on how this fruit looks) Book 1 Chapter 7 - End of First Week. "Very good on recognizing this type of plant. But do you know the difficulties in cultivating this fruit?" Elder Tang Wen asked the next question as he knows his disciple is quite knowledgeable. "Disciple knows that this plant is especially sensitive to other fire elemental plants, so cultivating this plant required them to be planted at places with strong water elemental location." Long Feng explained. "You are not wrong, but not correct either. I will explain the differences to you later, for now, go repeat the task you did yesterday, and come into the room when you were done." Elder Tang Wen explained by a little, and after he passed on the task to Long Feng, he retreated back to his room, leaving Long Feng there alone. "Did I miss a few part in the explanations?" Long Feng questioned his own answers, but without any additional information, he could grab from barely looking on how his master attending the plant, his only choice is to wait for his master to explain which part he had missed in the explanation. After yesterday lesson from his master, this time Long Feng movement is, even more, smoother as he tends the Hundred Layered Moss. As he moves onward to the Black Bitter Mint, Long Feng take the privilege of absorbing all the available curtain of Essence Qi as he harvests the available leaves, and lastly move over to the Clear Toad Fruit and proceed with cleaning the soil. "Hey what is this thing doing here!" In the middle of cleaning and unearthing the soil where the Clear Toad Fruit is growing, Long Feng manage to unearth a very special worm within. "Oh no, you don''t!" Long Feng manage to grip the worm firmly in his hand, luckily there are remains of the stems for decomposing by his side, so he quickly grabs a stick and starts rolling on the jaw of the worm, and start rolling the silk spat from it. After about 20 minutes of paying attention in handling the silk from covering the worm, Long Feng finally manage to keep it remain as a worm for the meantime. He then quickly finishes cleaning the soil for the Clear Toad Fruit, and return to his master''s room, along with the worm and the silk ball he recently obtained from the worm. Long Feng entered the room, and head to the table where Elder Tang Wen is reading the same scroll once again. "Master, when the disciple is cleaning the soil containing the Clear Toad Fruit, I managed to unearth a worm I believe to be the Atlas Moth Worm breed." Long Feng show the worm that busy nibbling the Black Bitter Mint stem and a ball of silk on another hand. "Hmm... Looks like this worm really the Atlas Moth breed. What a good harvest today. A few days back there is a strong gust blowing across the area, so this worm should be trapped within the wind, and being lucky to able to enter this hall." Elder Tang Wen smile as he looked at the worm that still ignorantly nibbling on the stem, unaware of itself already being captured by a human. "Xiao Feng, you can keep this worm in your room. If you believe the master''s advice, try to feed it with any remains of ingredient you could obtain each day, but prevent it from successfully morphed into an Atlas Moth. Maybe within a few month, you will have a very good return on your investment." Elder Tang Wen allows Long Feng to kept the worm within his room and guided him on how to handle the worm, but at the same time, he gave a hint that the effort will come back with a very return as long he follow his master''s guidance. "Xiao Feng thanked master for being so generous. I will make sure to remember master''s guide on how to keep this worm until it grows older." Long Feng places the worm by the side and kept a number of Black Bitter Mint stems in his waist pouch so he could feed the worm when he returns to his room. Next, Elder Tang Wen pass a piece of paper with information about his own research on the Rock Dragon Elderberry that well known for its usefulness of being concocted and refined into the Blood Dragon Ointment. Within the piece of paper, other than a drawing of the Rock Dragon Elderberry on its maturity stage, there is a row of writing on the way to perfectly cultivate this plant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Understanding and method to obtain the best quality fruit from the Rock Dragon Elderberry Plant Guidance scroll by Master Tang Wen, Third Grade Pill Master (Elder of Ointments) Although the Rock Dragon Elderberry is sensitive with the fire elemental, one should not totally remove the fire Qi within its location of growth, instead, a stronger location that is believed to be richer in earth element should be chosen. Placing the plant in the direction of North-East, which naturally rich in Essence of the Mountain in Bagua Hexagram, will allow the plant to feel closer to nature, allowing it to grow healthily in a perfect condition. The plant shall be trimmed with only two Thorns still remain, and water supply should always be removed from any fire elemental Qi before watered on the soil. Only the first two batches of newly grown fruit shall be left to grow, and trimming should always be done from third batch onwards to ensure the fruit is growing healthily, without losing any of its purest energy distributed to grow more fruits. Harvesting should be done patiently, only fruits that would shiver in ruby color when the plant is watered is allowed to be harvested, and others should always be left alone until they reacted the same way. If the plant bleeds during harvest, collect the sap, as the sap is poisonous to the plant if it entered the soil. (The Sap could be formed into a pellet when cooked with elemental fire, and is a nutritious food for the Second Grade Cultivating beast, the Spineless Raven.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After reading the piece of paper, Long Feng finally understand two matters.This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. Firstly, is the proper method of cultivating the best Rock Dragon Elderberry used for concocting and refining the Blood Dragon Ointment and second, is his master''s actual position in the city. For the pill master that succeed in creating a name for themselves in the world of pills, one need to successfully pass the examination, depending on the specialty he/she choose. In an example, for Elder Tang Wen, he passed the examination by concocting a total of 10 different combinations of ingredient to refine three different Ointments of the different grade for the Elder Pill Hall to assess his qualification. Through obtaining a full honored remark from the Elder Pill Hall, Elder Tang Wen received the title Elder of Ointments for his utmost achievement in specializing in Medicinal Ointments concoction. "Master hope you could follow master''s heart and the path to achieve even greater heights. With master here to help you, what you need is just your own effort and the aim to reach higher." Elder Tang Wen speak softly, but from his tone, one could notice how much he care about how the nurturing of Long Feng is conducted. "Master... The disciple doesn''t worth such high hopes for you... This disciple came from somewhere with low birth and no position within the public, how could I carry such high hopes from my master?" Long Feng is happy with such hopes placed on him by his master, but at the same time, he understands that from his background and birth, he have no such right to be dreaming about succeeding the dream his master wished. "Trust yourself, you have mastered to carry the burden together with you. For now, return and cultivate, you will need to do the same thing over and over again until your first week is over, do you understand?" Elder Tang Wen lightly pat Long Feng shoulder and had him return to his room to cultivate. Being obedient to his master''s word, Long Feng return immediately to his room and repeat the same steps again. Dripping some blood into the pitcher, and start cultivating, but this night, one additional family members join within the room. The Atlas Moth Worm crawled immediately to the vines that were holding the pitcher cup from touching the soil, and soon the worm started to attached it tails on the vines, leaving itself swinging above the ground, seeing this thing was happening, Long Feng stacks the stem together, allowing the worm to continue nibbling as Long Feng back to cultivate his strength. "Brother Da Mu, sister Lan Hua, you both really manage to give birth to a very special child. Big brother Tang will make sure that he will be a success in his path, so brother Da Mu can smile happily on heaven, looking at both of them who still alive in this world." Elder Tang Wen reminiscing about his past. What is the relationship between Elder Tang Wen and the Li couple? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the next few days of being a disciple within the Hall, Long Feng daily life passed without any turmoil or troublesome events. Through his own effort, his production of the Thunder Spirit Pills increase from four Middle-Rank pills to five, and on the end of the week, he manages to get a record of six pills. Through this first week of continuous effort, Long Feng managed to obtain a total of 16 points for himself to make an exchange in the Exchange Department. But from refining the pills, the return of obtaining more experience in Essence Extraction, Essence Forming and Pill Refining is more valuable than any points he could get. Unintentionally, Long Feng slowly build up a good friendship with Liu Ming and the others within his team. Even few of the team members is considering allowing Long Feng to participate in their next task to ease the burden in pill refining part, as that part is more important compared to harvesting resources. Every single day, Long Feng never missed his daily lesson with Elder Tang Wen except on the last day of the week. Lessons such as the method of harvesting the ingredient in a proper order, and also how to tend the ingredient correctly, is always forced to enter Long Feng''s mind, so he keeps remembering them in mind about how important those mediocre steps is. In Elder Tang Wen''s mind, a perfectly capable pill master is one who could fully utilize his ability and skills in how to obtain, harvest and preserve the ingredients, and how good their understanding in the ingredient to fully utilize its utmost benefit to concoct and refine a pill that is perfectly suitable for a cultivator to consume. This is also a great task, as the Thousand Herbal Garden will be opened in the next half year. To be able to obtain the best result within the Thousand Herbal Garden, understanding the procedure and way to obtain the ingredient is most important, followed by the ability to capture special cultivation beast or its produce, and lastly, the ability to protect oneself when within the garden. Within Elder Tang Wen''s calculation, he will have a total of 2 months to drill most of the first and second-grade ingredient and plant knowledge into Long Feng''s head, before he would be training Long Feng in the area of fighting. For pill master, fighting is not an important part, but a minimal requirement of protecting himself is still a major importance for any pill master. On the same time, only by able to protect himself, can a pill master aim to obtain produce that is obtainable from living cultivating beast, where some of them are still rated as dangerous even to a first tier cultivators. Meanwhile, on this exact day, Long Feng went over to the Medicinal Supplying Intern job that he accepted earlier of the week. His target location is within the city of Clear Jade City, in a building known as the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. The Myriad Ingredient Pavilion is well known for its good quality medicinal ingredient and especially supplied for those from neighborhood city to purchase. Their client ranged from normal town resident to new independent pill masters, to some senior pill masters who are not affiliated with any Halls, or even to some other Halls disciple or elder that have great use in their own cultivation. As Long Feng entered the building, he quickly noticed the signboard indicating where the intern should go accordingly, so he followed the sign without any hesitations. On his way deeper into the building, he has been stopped twice, once is to check on his affiliated background, and another one is a daffodil examination, to decide which department he would be best to participate. "Alright! Interns within this room could you all please gather around me?" A senior around the 40s loudly spoke, to attract all the other interns within the room Long Feng just entered for a short moment. "In around 10 minutes later, the ingredient request will be delivered to this room, and behind us is a total of 100 cabinets of well arranged medicinal ingredient ready to be sold." "There would be four senior staffs from the pavilion to check your pouch of gathered ingredients before it would be delivered to the counter within the pavilion." "Your pay will be determined by your total number of completed slips, if you are new intern, I would strongly advise you to memorize the location and the looks of the ingredient in this remaining 8 minutes, as you won''t have a time for breath later when we get busy." the senior staff explained the condition, as well giving warning to them within the room so everyone would get ready for the incoming ingredient request. As he finished his word, the staff leave the room and nothing could be heard from him afterward, but exactly in 8 minutes, the ingredient request started to flows into the room. But what shocking to those within the room is, they don''t come in ten to hundreds of request. they come in a chest which expected to contain at least ten thousands request slips within! Book 1 Chapter 8 - A Perfect Fool. "Fellow brother, please be quick, I need to get two batches of the Blood Ginseng Roots for my order!" said one of the interns that gathered on one of the popular product cabinets. "Don''t block me please, my Spiritual Pearl Powder is very easy to be scattered away by a slight wind!" another female intern is troubled by the running crowd that rushing up and down to grab their respective ingredient. "Kid, your ingredient request is incomplete, make sure it is well gathered before you place it for our final examination." one of the senior staff push away the pouch containing four different ingredients back to the intern. "This is so hard! I want to give up! Senior please allow me to leave!" one more intern gave up on handling the ingredient request, and escape without looking back. Rushing to complete their order, the bunch of interns is all busy fighting with each other to grab their own ingredient first, while some of them even tried to choose some slightly easier request from the chest of request slips. But unfortunate to them, this chest considered as the easiest package of ingredient request slips, as they only consist of a total of four to five ingredients. "Senior, please have a check on this five pouches of ingredients. The slips of the request are placed within as well." one capable looking intern hand over a total of five pouches in one attempt. "Hmm..." the senior staff busy checking the quantity of the required amounts within the five different pouch of ingredients, and professionally fold the pouch opening, to seal it for delivery. "Good job! The portioning of each request is very well distributed. Keep up the good work!" the senior staff praised the intern for her good job. After looking clearly on that intern''s facial distinction, although she had a piece of cloth wrapped around her hair to allow more flexibility and reduce the disturbance from her long hair, Long Feng could still recognize this intern''s identity. "She is Nan Jing Jing, one of the top 3 students of our intake. This makes me wonder, where is Gou Yu? Did he not participate in this intern job?" Long Feng take his time to gather the ingredient into his pouch. "Senior, please check this five pouches of ingredients." Long Feng place his gathered works on top of the table, allowing the senior staff to have a look. The senior staff checked the ingredient within with the slip on its side, and soon he reacts differently. "The portioning is just correct. The slips you chose to work with is very well organized as well. Keep up the good work." the senior staff approved Long Feng''s work, and proceed to seal each pouch to be delivered. The works go on again and again, almost in a repeating order. But as the intern is only hired for a total four hours of work, they only successfully completed a total of 1400 piece of ingredient request. Between the 1400 slips, a total of 160 is completed by Nan Jing Jing, while Long Feng managed to complete a total of 150 slips. Among them, two of the intern is performing even better than both Nan Jing Jing and Long Feng. One of them is known as Tang Jiu, who completed a total of 210 slips of ingredient request. And another one is known as Liu Tsung, who completed a total of 280 slips of ingredient request. The remaining 600 slips is completed by the remaining interns within the room, which is roughly about 16 of them is left. Earlier before the work starts, the room is occupied with a total of 60 interns, but currently, only 20 of them remains. "Great work for all you have done today." "I will now distribute the total points of your results." "If you are interested in exchanging for a few ingredients, I advise you to quickly went over to the counter to seek for the list in their hand." "And for the four of you, the Pavilion wished to see each of you presents on next week duty, could we expect you to be helping the pavilion again?" the senior staffs spoke directly to each of them. While the others answer is not known to Long Feng, his own answer is yes. In return of obtaining a firm answer from Long Feng directly, the senior staff arranged that the room he will be allocated next time will be on a more personal station, specially made for the experienced intern to pack the ingredients more easily. And on the same time, Long Feng received a bonus 50 points for agreeing to appear for the next consecutive week, so he currently has a total of 200 points in his hand for exchange. "Older sister, can this younger brother take a look on the exchange list?" Long Feng request for the exchange list as he reaches the counter, which is expected to close in another 30 minutes time.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. "Sure, that won''t be a problem, just let this big sister know if you need anything else." the female staff replied, as she turns around, allowing Long Feng to noticed the nametag on her right chest written (Li Ying). "Big sister, can I have the same list as well?" Nan Jing Jing arrived at the side of Long Feng, requesting for the same list as well. "Good job in the room just now, at least us being two of the top three students in this year intake does not lose our face during the process." she speaks. "I am only trying my best and not making any mistakes during the gathering process. Fellow disciple Jing Jing, I am Long Feng, nice to meet you." Long Feng replied humbly, as he introduces himself to Nan Jing Jing. "I know who you are. The Sky elemental disciple am I right? We might happen to help each other in soon future, my master did mention about joint mentoring between two elder and two disciples." Nan Jing Jing replied with her husky voice. "So fellow disciple already knows about me, I''m sorry for being so ignorant in terms of communication between disciples." Long Feng knows that his attitude of being a loner within the Pill Hall caused him to have the lack of friends and labeled as eccentric within the outer division. "Do not worry about this issues, it just Jing Jing is more interested in knowing people that think slightly different from others." "Oh and by the way, Jing Jing is born with the Extreme Cold Constitution, so I''m Excellent in Water Element, Excellent in Earth Element and Excellent in Metal Element compatibility." Jing Jing continued. "Ah..." Long Feng mind goes blank. Nowhere to hide his embarrassment, Long Feng decided to keep quiet without giving any reply to Nan Jing Jing. In his mind, only two sentences are repeating in his mind. "What is that Extreme Cold Constitution?" "I should spend more time in researching such matter, now I am seriously looked like an idiot in front of my fellow disciple!" Long Feng brain almost short circuit as he repeats the two sentence in his mind. "Brother Xiao Feng!" Nan Jing Jing wakes him up from a trance. "Yes?" He awkwardly looked at Nan Jing Jing. "Big sister Li Ying says we have 15minutes to decide, else we have to wait until tomorrow to exchange our points." She explained what Li Ying says when he was in his trance period. "Oh! I will make it quick, I''m so sorry for being away from my mind for a moment." Long Feng quickly run through the list. First Grade Ingredients
Green Lizard Blood - 2 Points Blue River Horse Blood - 2 Points
Bullet Horned Beetle - 2 Points Atlas Moth Molted Skin - 2 Points
Black Bitter Mint - 2 Points Rainbow Berries - 2 Points
Hundred Layered Moss - 2 Points Ten Years old Ginseng Powder - 2 Points
Thunder Sparrow Egg - 2 Points Dark Fluid of Ferocious Crow - 2 Points
Blood Ginseng Root - 2 Points Spiritual Pearl Powder - 2 Points
Cultivating Materials
Clear Toad Fruit''s Wax - 20 Points Ferocious Crow Hatchling - 25 Points
Fire Breathing Fruit''s Juice - 20 Points Thunder Sparrow Hatchling - 25 Points
Dragon Fang Flower''s Petals - 20 Points Fire Stripe Bee''s Larvae - 25 Points
Ironwood Shoots - 5 Points Atlas Moth Worm - 25 Points
Blood Fruit - 5 Points Blood Cleansing Pitcher Plant Seed - N/A
Bubble Fruit Spring Water - 5 Points Rock Dragon Elderberry Seeds - N/A
Specials
Impure Azure Jade Rock 200 Points Impure Marble Jade Rock 200 Points Lower-Rank First-Grade Cultivating Pellet 200 Points
After going through the list, Long Feng mind started to tell him that choosing the Impure Azure Jade Rock is the best choice for him. Jades. This special gemstone is believed to be one of the god blessings towards the residence of the Continent of Yan. Came is many kinds of condition, type, and purity, each piece of Jade Rock have the capability of re-growing themselves into a much more pure gemstone as they are cultivated. Although their actual number of different types is unknown at the moment, a majority of the resident have seen, and also have the basic knowledge of three of them. Azure Jade Gemstone This type of Gemstone is brilliantly clear with the clear color of light green jade combined with a streak of sky blue color throughout the gemstone. Cultivator who cultivates with this gemstone by their side could felt a more cooling breeze as if they are cultivating in the middle of the air and also the gemstone have a slight capability of absorbing surrounding Essence Qi to be stored within the Gemstone. Marble Jade Gemstone This gemstone came in a middle tone green as if they got the color directly from newly grown stems of a plant. Deep within contained with streaks of gray tone from the marbling, making the gemstone looks like spirally created. Cultivator who cultivates with this gemstone could felt a tougher skin as they temper their body strength, and through wearing this gemstone on their body, the practitioner will felt more resistance to their surroundings, such as being active as they were on ground while at mountain peak, breath longer when submerging in water, more durable even though they are strike by lightning, and unmovable when blown by heavy gust. Clearness Jade Gemstone This gemstone is mysterious, quiet and difficult to fathom. Some Cultivator says that it could bring them luck when looking for an ingredient, while some say that they protect the life of a cultivator when he was trapped in a dire situation. Some even say that they bring success to a cultivator no matter which field of knowledge they wish to procure. This gemstone keeps an almost clearly see through tone, only disturbed by a few streaks of white cloudy tone around the edge of the gemstone. "I remember master have a Jadestone necklace on his neck as well. I wonder what type of Jadestone is that." "Big sister Li Ying, may I exchange 200 points for the Impure Azure Jade Rock?" Long Feng placed his order, thoroughly gave a shock to Li Ying and Nan Jing Jing. "Brother Xiao Feng, with our current cultivation, you might take forever to clean the gemstone before you have the chances to put it to use." Nan Jing Jing is the first person to explain the difficulties of refining and cultivate the jade to carry the expected effect when wearing it. "Little sister Jing Jing is correct. Little brother Long Feng, choosing this stone instead of other resources might give you some disadvantage until you could refine it." even Li Ying tried to give advice to Long Feng''s decision. "Big sister Li Ying, sister Jing Jing, please, believe me, there is a voice within me that says choosing the Jade Rock is a correct choice for me." Long Feng do not hesitate to answer them and reject their advice. "Since that''s the case, I guess I will remain quiet regarding this matter." Li Ying stopped giving any comments and walked over to the treasure room to retrieve the piece of Jade Rock for Long Feng. With the transaction for Long Feng is over, Li Ying moves to Nan Jing Jing, and make an exchange for her. Nan Jing Jing decided to exchange all her points for a Bubble Fruit Water, as she has a plan to create her own cultivating zone. With today''s internship job ended, they both leave the pavilion and return to the Bronze Pill Hall together. Not paying attention to his surrounding, Long Feng walked as his mind pondered on the Impure Azure Jade Rock because that rock is giving him a very special feeling. But to the other outer disciple, Long Feng''s action is practically unforgivable! How can such an ignorant brat have goddess Nan Jing Jing to follow him from behind while he himself is dreaming in his own wonderland as he walks! How many male disciples wished to have that opportunity to laid themselves on the floor to become her walking carpet, just to make sure her shoe doesn''t get dirtied by the leaves and remains of decomposing branches on the floor? While in Nan Jing Jing''s mind... "Is this guy dumb or what? I''ve been hinting him all the way until now and his attention is only on that piece of Jade Rock. He is lucky because my father did not give me any additional pocket money to spend, else I will decorate myself like a Jade Rock to make him look at me for eternity!" When did this ignorant fool manage to catch a grasp on Nan Jing Jing''s heart? Book 1 Chapter 9 - Disturbance from Advancement. The two finally bid farewell and return to their own room, and within, Long Feng move closer towards the pot containing the Blood Cleansing Pitcher Plant and also where the Atlas Moth Worm is hanging itself on the vines. "Fatty worm, time for your meal." Long Feng grab a few stems that he got from trimming the Black Bitter Mint plant a day ago and put it in the pot, so the worm can continue eating once again. Beside the pot, a small container is filled with a total of 4 balls of silk that weaved from the worm when it is preparing to enter the cocoon stage. Next, he tilted the pitcher cup to collect the refined Pure Blood within. Unexpectedly, the pill that so called as pure blood does not come in scarlet color. Instead, it was shining brightly with an azure glow throughout the pill, and a very mesmerizing fragrant could be smelled from the pill. Preparing himself to be seated in a meditating position, Long Feng swallow the Pill of Pure Blood, and drip some blood again into the pitcher, before he starts cultivating. Aided with the Pill of Pure Blood, a strong surge of Essence Qi explode within his body as if the essence is trying to escape from Long Feng''s body. His body started to swell like a balloon, and reduce to a normal state, and repeat once again, every five to ten minutes as he cultivates and trying his hardest to absorb all the Essence Qi within his body. In a flash of eyes, Long Feng''s cultivation surge from the Middle Human Refinement Tier to Late Human Refinement Tier. Unexpectedly, the surge of strength does not end there. The Pure Blood still has many Essence Qi sealed within, awaiting Long Feng to unleash its potential. "Truly up to what master says. The Pure Blood knows my body couldn''t handle the stress of totally absorbing it, so it dividing into two layers. The first outer layer is for me to absorb first so I could increase my cultivation rank, and the second layer is ready for me to absorb when my rank is increased." Long Feng appreciating the plant in his mind. "Since my cultivation had increased, I can now absorb a larger quantity of Essence Qi, so this won''t be a problem for me at all!" Long Feng confidence increase by a stage, and directly absorb the remaining Essence Qi within the Pure Blood into his body. "Great! This is the result I am expecting!" "Early Earth Refinement Tier!" Long Feng body started to secrete the impurities within his body, and through the process, his body become more toned and his height had increased by a few centimeters. His ability to absorb and sense the surrounding Essence Qi had become even more sensitive as he entered the realm of Earth Refinement tier. In the same time, his capacity of absorption of the essence in each breath is double what he could do last time. Not only that, as he entered the Earth Refinement Tier, the feeling he gets when he saw the piece of Impure Azure Jade Rock is even stronger as if the piece of Jade Rock contains something specially made for him. Long Feng placed a large amount of Essence Qi into the Jade Rock, trying to refine it as much he could before he was out, but the more he refine, the better feeling it was. "Why do I have a feeling of touching a tip of a Jade made Ruler, but it felt like it''s as long as a sword." Long Feng started to have a slight vision, but no matter what, he couldn''t precisely draw out the shape of this Ruler made with Jade. As he prepared to sleep for the night, a small piece of plain rock falls off from the Jade Rock, revealing a little green shine hidden deep within the crack. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday finally came, as the sun shine brightly on the east as it rises higher and higher. Without noticing the time is passing, the starting of the second week is here, as Long Feng is still trying to adapting to the life within the hall. The disciple is only allowed to return to their home for one night in every month, on the day after the Hall provision pay is distributed. As his duty required, Long Feng heads towards the Jade Cultivating Land camp side to continue his task of refining the Thunder Spirit Pills. Greeting Liu Ming and the other senior brothers, he returns to his usual station and started on the refining process. Although the other noticed the slight changes in Long Feng''s features and figures, they don''t notice about one unimportant matter. And that matter is... "Oh, my heavens!" Long Feng who usually cook the Dark Fluid mixture and the Thunder Sparrow Egg together at the same time, manage to create a small disaster early in the morning. The moment Long Feng inject his Essence Qi into the ingredients, the amount of essence qi is exceeding the normal capacity the ingredient can handle, thus causing the ingredient to explode.Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit. The matter is regarding the habit of a pill master in his/her daily duties. When one cultivator advance in their cultivation, they usually will require a little practice to adapt to their usual Essence Qi output. Some would say that''s the period of stabilizing their advancing foundation, so they would reducing the risk of outperform or down perform in a certain daily task. But for Long Feng that recently advanced two stage and entering a brand new rank, his foundation is to mess to be completely in control! Turning around and looking at his senior brothers, the bunch of dirtied disciple decided to laugh as hard as they could, as this had been held in their heart for a while now. The Dark Fluid is overcooked, causing the dark mixture to be splashed towards everyone within the special station section. While for that Thunder Sparrow Egg, the whole egg is overcooked, and as the results, everyone has a good deal of cooked egg pieces everywhere from their head to their clothes, which is edible as long you dare to place it into your mouth. Today, Long Feng just barely manage to fulfill his duty condition before he was excused to leave the camp. From the total of 4 batches of ingredient he utilized to refine into Thunder Spirit Pills, one portion of the ingredient is exploded into liquid that splashed into everyone within the section, one portion is thoroughly burnt, one portion managed to be extracted and refined into 6 pills, before 4 pills among the batch is burnt into crisp, and a final portion that managed to be extracted into 6 pill as well, where only 1 among them is in the middle rank, while the others are all lower rank. Without wasting time to dallying about this issue, Long Feng quickly went into the Virtue Hall, and give Elder Tang Wen a shock. "Ah... My beloved disciple." "Em... You are on the Early Earth Refinement Tier now, not bad." Elder Tang Wen did not forget to praise his disciple for the quick advancement in cultivation. "Master... Disciple really ruins your name this time..." "I lost control of the Essence Qi due to advancing two ranks in one try, and I just ruined 4 portion of cultivating ingredient just to refine 3 middle-rank pills and 5 lower rank pills." "Can master guide me in this matter ?" Long Feng kneel down and tell Elder Tang Wen regarding today''s misfortunate incident. "Ha Ha Ha, that''s nothing to be worried about. Everyone will have a time that they lost control of their Essence Qi manipulation due to advancement. If you don''t, I might have something else to be worried about that." Elder Tang Wen laugh that matter away, and slowly walked towards one direction from the center of the Virtue Hall. Obediently, Long Feng followed his master along with his way and started to explore locations that yet to be opened to him before. "This is the northernmost of the Virtue Hall, and also the deepest to the earth. Master purposely breed the Second Grade Cultivation Beast, the Southern Gentle Sloth to dig this place, a little at a time until this room is spacious as you could see now." "Master call this place, the Heaven and Earth Stabilizing Formation." "for this few day, you don''t need to tend the plants for master. Just stay inside this room to stabilize your Essence Qi output and absorption until you manage to light up that Spiritual Essence Candle on the wall." "Come out when you manage to light up one of them, but in total there are 10 candles within this room, so I will see how good is your potential when you came out." "Xiao Feng understood." Long Feng immediately sat in a meditating position as he started to projecting a stable mind in controlling his Essence Qi. "How deep is his potential? Even myself at Early Human Practitioner Tier will need around a full day to be able to utilize my Essence Qi to create a layer of air around me to increase my concentration, and he barely here for 10 minutes, yet he could do the same as I did previously." Elder Tang Wen is slightly shocked with Long Feng''s potential, as he speaks in his mind. Moments later, Elder Tang Wen withdraw from that room and returned to the ground floor of Virtue Hall, where he was visited by two special guests as he appeared. "Tang Wen, my friend." said one of the two guest. This person is one of the main figures of the Clear Jade City, the leader of Wen Ren Sect (Wen Ren = Gentleman), Mu Qiao Feng. "Senior Tang Wen, this young one is honored to meet you, the name is Han Feng Xian." The person stands behind Mu Qiao Feng introduce himself humble and polite and bearing the appearance of a 2 meters height young adult with two heavy swords sheathed behind him. "My friend, this Han Feng Xian is somebody I know when I visit the Xuan Wu Jade City. His family is one of the main members of the Xuan Wu Sword Clan." Mu Qiao Feng introduced his friend in detail and awaits Elder Tang Wen next word. "Please follow me to the Virtue Hall Sun Room for a sip of tea. We could have a nice conversation while enjoying this special tea I spent some time to cultivate." Elder Tang Wen humbly invite the two guest to follow him to a room especially use to treat the unexpected guest. As they reach and seated within the room, Elder Tang Wen with his swift and precise movement, gathered a mixture combination of few special and colorful tea leaves into a teapot made with Clay, and slowly allows his Essence Fire to slowly boil the water within the pot into perfection. "Ah... The fragrant of Princess of Maple Plant leaves, added with the Yang Golden Tree leaves and Silver Daffodil petals... How good is this special brew..." Mu Qiao Feng immediately senses three of the ingredient used in the pot of tea. "Uncle Mu, there is two more ingredient within, although the flavor is hidden within, Feng Xian could still notice it''s lingering taste in the air. "Senior Tang Wen, is the two more ingredient the Royal Blood Berry that already airs dried, and Blue Spirit Grass that''s grown especially for this tea?" Han Feng Xian tries guessing the remaining ingredients. "Yes you both are correct in your guess, but let me test you both a little more. Can you guess what''s used to be the fertilizing ingredient to growing the Blue Spirit Grass?" Elder Tang Wen added. "This pot of tea contain a total of five elements within, and is one of brother Tang Wen''s special brew, I guess it''s must be something that perfect for growing water elemental base Blue Spirit Grass... Is it water from the Continent Cleaving River?" Mu Qiao Feng immediately guesses a special ingredient that strongest in water elemental base. "Uncle Mu, this is not that simple. Blue Spirit Grass is well known to grow in 100 different ways, and a very deep attention is required, Feng Xian feels that it must be something slightly milder, would it be the Dew from Rainwater Gathering Tree in the Northern Forest from Clear Jade City ?" Han Feng Xian guessed a different ingredient. "Ha Ha Ha, Feng Xian is correct this time. Yes, it''s exactly as you said. The ingredient is the Dew of Rainwater Gathering Tree." Elder Tang Wen answered. "Feng Xian thanked senior Tang Wen first for preparing such precious tea to serve this junior." Han Feng Xian immediately clasps his hand together to say thanks to Elder Tang Wen. "I guess even the most secretive cultivator will have difficulties to hide from your special constitution, brother Tang Wen." Mu Qiao Feng shakes his head, admitting his defeat after trying to hide the main reason they came to visit Elder Tang Wen this time. "Did you forget what is my inborn constitution?" Elder Tang Wen question Mu Qiao Feng with a friendly tone. "Who can forget that? The elder of Ointments, with the inborn constitution of Ethereal Soul of Spirit and Essence (Jing Shen Hun Sheng Ti)" Mu Qiao Feng, answered the question. "Then shall we sit down and start, else the tea is going to be cold." Elder Tang Wen invite them to have a seat again. And with the slight exchange of words, the three senior started to have their conversation, with Long Feng still deep below the Heaven and Earth Stabilizing Formation. Book 1 Chapter 10 - Taking Up another Mission. The trio within the Virtue Hall Sun Room started to discuss regarding the matters happen between cities, exchanging as much information as they could. Mu Qiao Feng could be said as one of the most knowledgeable people within the Clear Jade City, because of his position as the Sect Leader of the Wen Ren Sect. Although his cultivation is currently on Early Earth Practitioner Tier, his attitude is humble and polite towards everyone, as its earn him the title of the pure gentleman of the Clear Jade City. He also is said to be the man with the biggest network of information due to his friendly nature, and information related to ten cities near Clear Jade City would never be able to be hidden from him. One of the neighboring city, Xuan Wu Jade City is well known for possessing the Pill Hall that has the potential of being Ranked as Silver Hall. As for Han Feng Xian, the Xuan Wu Sword Clan is actually one of the private clan that specialized in their martial prowess in handling two handed swords. The clan is yet to be ranked as a bronze rank, but they do possess a total of 10 Practitioner Tier cultivators within the clan. He is one of the ranked figures within the clan until one unfortunate incident strikes him about one month ago. His group had been ambushed by a pack of cultivating beast in their journey into the deeper forest nearby Xuan Wu Jade City, and although they managed to win the fight, eight out of 20 members of the group are killed, while the remaining is heavily injured. Especially Han Feng Xian, as he was put in the position to fight two Early Human Practitioner Tier beast, and it forced him to exhaust all available medicine and power-up pills to achieve a risky victory. Although its end with a victorious feat, the injuries have done to his internal body is nowhere lighter than on his external. Mass utilizing pills and ointments without thoroughly purifying the impurities cause his body to take a huge toll, as he faces the difficulties of absorbing Essence Qi surrounding him, as well refining the essence smoothly. If this issue remains for a longer time, this may cause internal injuries to the veins and dantian of a cultivator, and destroy their possibility of advancing in the future. Luckily, Han Feng Xian and Mu Qiao Feng have a slight family relationship, so under the advice from Mu Qiao Feng, Feng Xian finally agree to came to look for Elder Tang Wen''s assistance in removing the impurities and heal his injuries from the difficult battle. "Senior Tang Wen, junior Feng Xian thanked senior for your kindness in helping to remove this illness of mine. I had tried looking for a few similar cultivation Pill Master, but none of their medicine works, and yet this illness is recovered slightly just by drinking a pot of specially brewed tea!" Han Feng Xian stands up and thanked Elder Tang Wen once again on his kindness. "This is just natural, Brother Qiao Feng''s nephew is natural family for me as well, due to our long history of friendship. Of course, I will help if I could." Elder Tang Wen humbly accept the words. "Just stay within the Pill Hall for a short while, I have the confidence that your illness could be healed within one week, with the constant treatments." Elder Tang Wen continued. The three of them continue with their less important conversations until finally, Long Feng came out from the room with a smile on his face. "Disciple Long Feng greet master and two seniors." he politely came into the room and greets the senior within. "Ah, Xiao Feng. How is your meditation today ?" Elder Tang Wen inquire about Long Feng''s result within the room. "Dear master, Xiao Feng managed to lit a total of three Spiritual Essence Candle in the room. But due to the time is getting late, so Xiao Feng doesn''t dare to remain in the room any longer and disturb master''s rest time." he answered. "So, three candles... If in that case, return to your room, you can come over and complete the task tomorrow after you do your daily duties." Elder Tang Wen continued. "Xiao Feng understands, master please take care. Seniors, please excuse this junior." Long Feng politely greets the elder as he left, and return to his room. "Brother Tang Wen, is that Spiritual Essence Candle is what I am thinking?" Mu Qiao Feng asked. "Yes, that''s the same candle you are thinking about." Elder Tang Wen answered. "Heavens... Only at Refinement Tier, and yet he lit three candles... Are you sure you are grooming this kid, and not playing with a monster?" Mu Qiao Feng question with a stronger tone this time. "Believe me, he is the only seedling I have seen so far that have the best potential, and the most filial child amongst all." "And also one thing, he has excellent compatibility with Sky Element." Elder Tang Wen continued without letting Mu Qiao Feng reply his previous sentence. "WHAT! Sky Element with such talents? What kind of birth and blessing is for him to be blessed with this fate?" Mu Qiao Feng shocked as he hears more from Elder Tang Wen. "Uncle, Senior, can Feng Xian ask for more understanding on this kid you both is talking about?" Han Feng Xian is literally lost as if he was a discussion between a duck and a chicken. "This kid possesses the Constitution unknown to many people, and only those that really born on a certain date could possess it. We ourselves doesn''t know too much about it either, but we know it''s known as the Lingzi of Knowledge." Mu Qiao Feng explained slightly, but even himself doesn''t know any more than Elder Tang Wen does.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. ================================================================================================= Based on what the senior is saying, What is actually hidden within this Innate constitution, that only certain people knows and yet couldn''t explain it in any deeper understanding? Would the fact of being born on the fourteenth day of the month, the fourth month of the year, and on the year of a thousand four hundred and forty-four, and in the year of the rat, which is the first zodiac in the twelve sign? 14-4-1444 (day month year)/ 1-12 (1st of 12 zodiac sign) ================================================================================================= Repeating the same usual habit, Long Feng finish it slightly early today, and went for a rest. As he wakes on the next morning, he quickly heads to the camp and started with the Thunder Spirit Pill refining. Steadily, he refines the ingredient, as usual, paying more attention in his amount of Essence Qi released from each finger, both side and take his move step by step as graceful as he could. Under the view from other disciples within the camp, Long Feng continued with his slow yet graceful movement, as he slowly cooks the ingredient, mix the concoction, portion it and place within the Pill Furnace, and refine them as he molds the pill into one same shape. Some sky element Qi is released without Long Feng noticing, as it goes into the Thunder Spirit Pill, and as the pill ready, it started to release a very appetizing smell that attracts passerby to take a look. As the crowd is getting bigger and bigger, Long Feng who completed the pill refining finally place his mark on the pill, before he turned around to look for a container as the pill is still floating on the air under his essence control. But shocked with the crowd behind him as he turned, Long Feng''s essence control vanished in that moment, as the pill drop without any supports. But in that moment, Liu Ming appeared at another side, quickly grab the few pills before letting them falls to the ground and cracked from the impact. "I wonder how come I have that feeling that you will be shocked by this kind of situation." "Luckily this is our Junior Long Feng we are talking about. Based on his innocence mindset, I roughly could guess his reaction as he saw what''s happening." Liu Ming speaks. Exactly as what Liu Ming says, Long Feng is in a state of shock, and as usual, he has gone into his trance mode and started to have his soul float to somewhere far away... Until... "IDIOT!" a female voice came into his ear, waking him up from that aimless wandering through his soul. "Ah... Jing Jing... Why are you here?" Long Feng soul finally return to his body as he looking at Nan Jing Jing, but he seems to forget about the six High-Rank First Grade Thunder Spirit Pill he just successfully concocted. "I saw you are totally absorbed into the moment you are concocting the pills, so I stay around looking at your steps. But who know you could actually wander away as you completed your pill refining!" Nan Jing Jing scolded Long Feng without any mercy. From the sight of others, this two is exactly behaving like a couple! The top three students and two of them are actually in a relationship! As the other disciple started to have many different opinions, a savior finally appears. "Guys, can you gave us some space?" Gou Yu appear out of nowhere and get close to the two of them. "Gou Yu, it''s great you are here! Knock some sense into this guy head, how can he actually wandered off in the end of pill refining?" Nan Jing Jing knows why Gou Yu appeared in front of them. But unfortunately, This dense headed Long Feng still thinking why the two of them and the others is gathering around him! "Alright, let us walk and talk, others if you have time to stand here, why not help me finish my task? I''m feeling slightly lazy today." Gou Yu tried to look for somebody to do his part of daily duties, and immediately, everyone has gone missing from the spot, except Liu Ming, and the others from the camp. "Junior Long Feng, take this 15 points and take a walk with your fellow friends, I will help you complete the other works." Liu Ming being understanding, quickly pass the gemstones to Long Feng so he could walk away with the others. "I would really not dare to underestimate this junior. Concocting an Upper-Rank Thunder Spirit Pill in his second week, what a feat. I guess it''s time we can negotiate with the Mission Hall elder to adjust the rewards a little bit." Liu Ming''s mind started to felt the shock regarding Long Feng''s potential. "Brother Gou Yu, Jing Jing, what actually happen just now?" Long Feng finally know what question he should ask. "You are deeply absorbed into the process when you are refining the pill, so without you noticing, the crowd gathered around you to see your unconscious performance of refining six Upper-Rank Pills." Gou Yu explained. "And because the Thunder Spirit Pill you refine managed to carry a very appetizing smell, so it attracts me to come over as well to take a look." Nan Jing Jing continued. "Well, me too... Then as you turn around, I''m not sure what is the reason, perhaps the shock of being under stare from the crowd cause your mind to wander away." Gou Yu take over from Jing Jing. "Then you lost control of the medicine you just refine. Did you forget that the newly formed pill is easily destroyed and ruined if they fall and cracked its surface? Luckily Senior Liu Ming is there to grab it for you, else you really wasted all your efforts." he continued. "Then because of you being in such air head, I came up to the stage to scold you and had you wake up from wandering around in your soul." Jing Jing finish answering the question. "When did you advance? I remembered that you are just a Middle Human Refinement Tier two days ago," she asked. "I advance that night after we split up and return to our respective room." Long Feng answered. "So how is that piece of Jade Rock?" Nan Jing Jing questioned again. "It''s here, but nothing much had changed." Long Feng show the two of them the piece of Impure Azure Jade Rock. They have a look on the piece of Jade Rock, but nothing special is spotted on it, so after a short moment, their attention turn towards something else again. "We are at the Education Building now, want to go in for a check on any mission available?" Gou Yu came out with an idea. "Why not? Let us go in and have a look." Nan Jing Jing agrees with that idea as well. Long Feng keep quiet but followed the two of them along into the building. The three of them walk directly into the room with the board of request and slowly goes through all the slips of a request. Internal Flame Pill Requirement: 50 Middle-Rank Internal Flame Pill or higher grade from maximum two Pill master. Due Date: 2 Weeks upon accepting the mission. Payment: 250 Pieces of Spirit Bronze Coins Collecting Ten portions of Wax from Clear Toad Fruit Requirement: Ingredient in Fine/Perfect condition. Due Date: 1 Week upon accepting the mission. Payment: 2000 Pieces of Spirit Bronze Coins Caretaker for Human Refinement Tier Beast - Yellow King Hornet Requirement Skill: None (disciple with good cultivation and skills in caretaking should try.) Employment period: 10 days. Payment: Overall production from the Yellow King Hornet for 10 exact days. Exchanging Upper-Rank First-Grade Cultivation Pellet from one consistent Pill Master Requirement Skill: Upper-Rank Pill refining. Employment period: None Payment: Three Middle-Rank First-Grade pills for each Upper-Rank pills provided. Negotiation could be made if total exchange exceeds 25 pills. "I think this few request is more suitable for us in terms of difficulties and level." Gou Yu says to the others. "I will take this one." Nan Jing Jing grabbed the piece of slip containing the exchanging request. "I will try to complete this task then." Long Feng grabbed the Internal Flame Pill request, while Gou Yu selects the Caretaker request. The three of them soon exit the building and bid farewell to the others, and along with the slip on his hand, Long Feng heads to the Virtue Hall for his day lesson once again. Book 1 Chapter 11 - Defensive Wu Sword Art. "Disciple greet master and senior." Long Feng entered the Virtue Hall, immediately greet the two senior that busy having their own conversation. "Xiao Feng, do you have any intention to learn a thing or two about Sword Arts?" Han Feng Xian looked at Long Feng as he speaks. "Xiao Feng dare not to say no, but Xiao Feng talent is sword playing might be laughable to senior." Long Feng honestly answered. "Ha Ha Ha, how many genius could be out there. We all need much training and perseverance to obtain a certain stage of skills in life. Do not look down on your own ability, but do not over get over confident with yourself as well." Han Feng Xian replied. "Well, as thanks to senior Tang Wen for his medical expertise, I am thinking about teaching you one of the skills that the Xuan Wu Sword Clan use to protect ourselves." "Defensive Wu Sword Art (Wu Wei Jian Fa). That''s what the sword art is called. Since you are a pill master, I hope this sword art could help you when you are forced into a very tight situation." Han Feng Xian said. "Quickly thank Senior Han for his kindness..." Elder Tang Wen quickly remind Long Feng on his attitude. "Ah! Junior is grateful for Senior Han''s kindness. Junior will take good care and practice it to as close to perfection, never to disappoint senior when junior explore towards the outside world." Long Feng thanked Han Feng Xian immediately. In that instant, all focus is changed. Long Feng held a wooden sword in his hand instead of an ingredient and started to learn the basics of sword playing. Blocking, interfering, disturbing and parrying, he quickly learns and remembers the important point that needed to be kept in mind each time a sword technique is on display. "The Defensive Wu Sword Art originated from the Mystical Beast of Xuan Wu, one of the Four Sacred Beast believed to protect the Continent of Yan when it appeared in this world." "This Sword Art focus in expecting the unexpected, defend the undefended, and read the unreadable. So make sure you remember the essence of this art." The lesson continues, as the sword is swung from one side to another, and soon parrying practice began. The exchange of blows is going well, although, in every ten attempts to block an attack, about seven strikes still manage to hit Long Feng directly. "Let''s call it a day for now. I will be staying along with your master for nine more days, so within this period of time, I will do my best to help you to master the basic of this sword art." "As for the deeper understanding, it will totally depend on your comprehensive knowledge in discovering the depth of this sword art." Han Feng Xian ends his words here. "Junior thanked senior once again for such valuable lesson. Please excuse junior for now." Long Feng finally ends his sword practice, but before he leaves, he tried to help his master by quickly preparing the usual works he used to do each single day. "Dear master, Xiao Feng had prepared all the ingredient and clean the Clear Toad Fruit soil thoroughly." Long Feng brings all the harvested ingredients into his master''s room, before excusing himself as he returns to his room. After conducting his usual cultivating practice, Long Feng tried to sleep, but today, a package of a parcel containing a few ingredients came before his door, as he was asked to receive the parcel personally. "I am sorry for being so late in delivering these ingredients, but could brother Long Feng confirm that you received the ingredient by giving me a mark on this piece of a letter?" the delivery staff from the Education Building politely speaks to Long Feng. "Thank you, brother, to delivering the ingredient directly, please take care as you return to the building." Long Feng sign the letter and allows the staff to return to his duty. Carrying the parcel into the room, he places the parcel on top of the wooden table, and open the package. "Hmm... The mission giver is actually quite generous. He actually provides a total of 15 portions of ingredient for me to try to concoct and refine the Internal Flame Pill." Long Feng slowly remove the smaller packaging one by one and go through each ingredient within to ensure the quality of the ingredient is in the correct condition. Fifteen portions of Burning Lemongrass. The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. Fifteen portions of Flame Swallowtail feathers. Fifteen portions of Boiled Springs from Volcanic Lake. "Guess I should start to try concocting the pill when I still have the energy for it." Long Feng felt energetic compared to a week ago, due to the advancement of cultivation. Currently, even after refining the Thunder Spirit Pill and tending the plants for his master, Long Feng still retain a good amount of stamina and strength to continue the work. Without wasting any more time, he starts the pill making session by boiling the Spring water from the Volcanic Lake. As the water boil, the impurities cause the water to get cloudy, and a smell of ashes starting to come out from the container. Ignoring the fumes as this is the step as written in the recipe included within, he proceeds with the process of cooking the Burning Lemongrass, so he could extract all the essence from the stalk of grass. Long Feng followed the instruction, but the results that came out barely satisfying in his opinion, as the Burning Lemongrass is nowhere up to the standard he wanted from the extraction process. But Long Feng maintain positivity as he starts with the final ingredient, the Flame Swallowtail Feathers. The feathers are believed to contain threads of tempering rich fire element, so a detailed procedure to slowly diluting the feather within the boiled spring water, and removing the impure threads of the fire element, and leaving only the one that beautifully refined still attached on the feather. Following accordingly to the recipe, the number of threads needed to be 100 exactly in total, before it is added to the extract of Burning Lemongrass to be refined. Each pellet shall contain a total of 10 threads within each Internal Flame Pill, to be labeled as the Lower-Rank First-Grade Internal Flame Pill. A Middle-Rank will need 20, while Upper-Rank will need 30. The difficulties to prepare the threads is deeply dependable on the pill master''s compatibility with Fire Element, so luckily as Long Feng is on an excellent level, the threads of Fire Element could be done pretty easily. But to make sure he could refine at least 5 middle-rank pills each time, Long Feng decided to double the amounts of Fire Element Threads in his essence formation. Ending the work by boiling the extract altogether with the threads that swims within, the remaining spring water shall be placed at the base of the pill furnace while cooking the extract with extreme heat. Through allowing the cooked extract, which should be called as a concoction, to absorb the heat until its burn like a sun before releasing it into the Spring Water. As the Concoction entered the Spring Water, it will be divided into a random portion, all depending on the degree of fire it managed to absorb. Long Feng followed the instruction as accurate as he could, and in the end, his refining turns out as a result of one Middle-Rank, and another three Lower-Rank pills. There is a remaining piece of the pill by the side, which failed to form as Long Feng wished for. "Even following the recipe can only result in a total of four successful pills, and only one of them is in the middle grade. I must grab the essence of refining this pill before this weekend or else I will risk refining least fresh ingredients." Long Feng calms himself up and returns to get his supposed rest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile, in a city that located close to the border of Brilliant Jade Kingdom. Across the border, another kingdom exist. Although the information regarding the neighbor kingdom in detail, one thing the people of the Brilliant Jade Kingdom knows, is regarding the military strength of the kingdom. The neighing sound from packs of warhorses is often heard across the wall that covering the activities of the kingdom, and there is always practices is conducted within the walls. But today, what was heard is no longer remain the same. The neighing sound from the warhorses is replaced by screams of a massacre. The drum beat and the clanging sound between swords and weapons is replaced by an explosive bang. The city that hardly seen clearly due to the tall walls, is believed to be burning from top to bottom. The Skies is turned into red, due to the heavy fire that seems to be expanding to the whole city. A stench of blood can be smelled miles away from the city wall. Through this happening, the scouts that exploring along the city wall quickly rush back to the kingdom''s capital, the Emperor Jade Capital City to report to their current ruler about the happening on the border. "Minister of the Left, Generals of the Right, quickly come out with some explanations!" urge a man in his fifties, seated on a chair carved with dragons and pearls around its side. His dressing came in gold and green jade color, and on his head, a crown made of Raw Spirit Gold and a huge piece of Clearness Jade Gemstone could be seen embedded into the crown. This man is the current ruler of the Brilliant Jade Kingdom, Emperor Yue the 13th or more well known as King Yue Long. "Your Majesty, please calm down. Our scouts are still coming back with a more detail report." Said the Minister of Left. "Subordinate from Shadow Gate requesting permission to enter the great hall!" One man with an overall dark attire kneeling outside the stairs. "Approved!" the General of Right replied. "Your Majesty, my Lord, the Shadow Gate sent a replied from the border with only three words within." "Nine Tyrants Empire." the man from Shadow Gate speaks. "What? Had the Empire finally started to move their men across their border now?" The General of Right speaks in a shocked tone. "This is bad... If one of the empires decided to lay their sight upon our kingdom, it would be a calamity." Minister of Left speaks as well. The atmosphere within the Royal Grand Hall gone awfully quiet, although the hall is full of ministers and generals within. "What is the possibility of winning if the empire really decided to take an action?" The emperor questioned. "Your Majesty, based on the strength of our military might, we might fight, for one skirmish before we are totally annihilated." the General of Right answered with his head lowered. "Is that such a big differences in our military strength?" the emperor sighed... "Even after intensive recruitment of military and heavy investment in the cultivating resources to the military, we still barely able to fight a single skirmish against the empire..." the emperor speaks in a disappointment tone. "Subordinate from Shadow Gate requesting permission to enter the great hall!" another man with an overall dark attire kneeling outside the stairs. "Approved!" the General of Right repeated. "Your Majesty, newest report from the Shadow Gate." "Nine Tyrants Empire is backing up the Scarlet Sun Kingdom''s throne Prince revolts. Currently, the Capital City, Ten Sun Royal City is taken by the throne Prince, and it is believed that the King is killed during the insurgency." the man from Shadow Gate reported. "This is even worse than Nine Tyrant Empire is attacking. Prepare all the troops to be on alert throughout the border we shared with the Scarlet Sun Kingdom!" The General of Right quickly ordered. "Your Majesty, please excuse this Old General absence in this Royal Hall meeting. I will depart now to the border to defend our city from the enemies!" The General of Right immediately done his armor and weapon as he leaves the hall. "Your Majesty..." the Minister of Left tried to speak something, but his intuitions tell him to keep quiet for now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Disciple Long Feng, good morning!" some random disciple is greeting Long Feng as he walked to the Jade Cultivating Land. "Senior brother Liu Ming, good morning." Long Feng reached the camp and greeted Liu Ming who is arranging the ingredients on each table before the others arrive. "Junior brother Long Feng, it is good you are here now, I have something that needs to tell you." Book 1 Chapter 12 - Starting on the path as a Pill Master. "Junior brother Long Feng, under the special arrangement from the Education Building and also from the approval of your master, Elder Tang Wen himself, you are here allowed to choose one from this two offer while staying and studying in the Bronze Pill Hall." Liu Ming repeated the instruction he heard this morning. "First offer, is that you could choose to select the options of completing your daily task altogether in one time, but the amount of your preparation is higher depending on your assignments." " the Second offer is that you could choose to complete two mission without rewards, as the minimal contribution to the Hall." "This is available for you due to the good performance each time you came over to prepare the Thunder Spirit Pills. The Education Building had even considered putting you on the list if any specific mission came to you if it''s related to this pill." Liu Ming finishes delivering the message and awaits Long Feng decision. "Senior brother Liu Ming, could I choose the second offer then? I will complete two mission each week without rewards as the minimal contribution to the hall." Long Feng decided to take the second option. "Of course you could. If in that case, you can leave to the Education Building then, and choose one mission to be completed this week, because there is only four more day left for this week." Liu Ming accepted Long Feng''s selection, and guide him to his next step as follow up. "I will, thank you, senior brother, for the help, if you may need more assistance in concocting the Thunder Spirit Pill, please let me know, I will come to help no matter what." Long Feng replied as he excuses himself from the camp. He proceeds directly to the Education Building and enter the Mission Hall to report himself on his selection, and been given a list of mission that specifically chosen for the disciple to complete the no rewards task. "Hmm, there is quite a few selections that are very suitable for me." "Excuse me, big brother, may I ask a question?" Long Feng hesitates a little as there is a few mission that''s very suitable for him to choose. "Yes? Of course, you can." the staff replied as he turns around facing Long Feng. "Is there a restriction that we can only choose two mission from here under such condition as me?" Long Feng asked his question. "Of course not. You may complete as much question as you want, but after the first two no reward task, the other task that had been completed will be converted into points, and you will be allowed to exchange for certain ingredients and materials for cultivation." "Do remember about this matter as well. Once you manage to complete a total of 100 task, you will be allowed to exchange higher rarity ingredients, so make sure you take note of it." the staff answered Long Feng''s question and also inform him about the differences when completing a number of missions. "If in that case, I will take this two mission for now." Long Feng select two mission from the list and allows the staff to process the preparation of ingredients to be delivered to his room. Calming Spirit Dew Pellet (1st Grade) Requirement: 25 Lower-Rank Pellet or higher grade from Mission taker himself. Due Date: Delivery before the end of Sunday. Payment: None Mystic Suction Pellet (1st Grade) Requirement: 25 Lower-Rank Pellet or higher grade from Mission taker himself. Due Date: Delivery before the end of Sunday. Payment: None "With this two more pill mission, now I have a total of 3 different Pill refining task I need to complete, added with the Internship work on Sunday." Long Feng reminded himself on the task he currently has on hand now. But before this, Long Feng quickly make his trip to the Virtue Hall first, because, in the same time, he have a Sword Art to practice with Han Feng Xian for this remaining 8 days, before Senior Han leaves. Getting used to the normal life and duties he has to complete each single day, Long Feng started to like this kind of environment. In his mind, having a motive and a duty in life is challenging, and as his struggle is currently in the form of refining pills, cultivating and practicing martial arts to defend himself, he found out an aim in life.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. "Another two more weeks and I will be able to return to visit mother. I wonder how is my mother now... I hope Aunt Gu and Uncle Tang is always by her side when she needs." Long Feng think about his mother in mind. "Senior Han, Long Feng is ready for today''s sword practice." Long Feng politely invite Han Feng Xian to guide him in learning the Defensive Wu Sword Art. "Great, let us start the lesson for today." Han Feng Xian throws one of the wooden swords by his side to Long Feng and grabbed one for himself, and start sparring with Long Feng. In his surprise, Long Feng''s adoption of the situation and smoothness of performing the Sword art is even better than yesterday. In every ten of the strike he launched to attack Long Feng, five of it managed to be parried or missed from its target. On the same time, Long Feng even manage strike back twice. "This kid is really something." Han Feng Xian continues to spar, putting a little more effort into the practice. "Oh? Looking at the situation seems like my little disciple is improving at a scary speed." even Elder Tang Wen is a little surprise as he saw Han Feng Xian add a little effort in their practice. The two of them continue to practice their sword art technique, as the time pass, even Han Feng Xian obtain a slight enlightenment from this practice as his opinion regarding the sword art is slowly changed. "Although Xiao Feng''s sword is slightly messy in general opinion, his messiness is capable of creating a point to take an offense position, instead of only being in defensive." "The Defensive Wu Sword Art is created based on the holy beast of Xuan Wu, which focuses solely on defending, Although the sword art contain much of the essence of the Xuan Wu''s habit in defending itself, the art still lack the emotion of the beast within its art, so through this way, the art failed to perform itself as the strongest defensive holy beast ability." "By understanding the emotion and the tenacity of the beast when playing the sword, by understanding the anger as you failed to defend yourself, again and again, this will create an opening, and allow the Defensive Wu Sword to become Offensive!" Han Feng Xian''s mind becomes even clearer as he starting to understand deeper regarding the essence of the art he mastered. "I am too confident of myself and failed to notice that an art can still be improved even if it reach the peak of mastery. I would never imagine that this fact is shown to me by a young child that no older than 10 years old." Han Feng Xian felt embarrassed. If he received such enlightenment earlier, perhaps the previous battle would be even easier for him to achieve a victory. Looking at Han Feng Xian suddenly stopped sparring but goes into a deep concentration, Long Feng stopped from the practice, and quietly leave Han Feng Xian alone so he could go into his deep meditation. With this practice is now over, Long Feng proceed to complete his daily task, and deliver the ingredient to his master before he excuses himself back to his room. Within his room, Long Feng noticed that the ingredient for the two mission he selects this morning have been delivered. Soul Calming Grass, ten portions. Morning Dew from Spirit Bloom Flower, ten portions. This is what required to concoct the Calming Spirit Dew Pellet. Zebra Stripe King Leech''s Blood. The sap of Beast-eater Plant. This is the ingredient to concoct the Mystic Suction Pellet. The Calming Spirit Dew Pellet usage is to allow a cultivator to enter meditation mode much easier. This pellet usually high in demand especially for the cultivator from Martial Hall, and some of them from Culture Hall. This is due to the heavy practice and amount of fighting and killing in their usual activities would cause a destruction in mind, indirectly cause them to be harder to enter meditation mode, and absorb the Essence Qi in a normal condition. The Calming Spirit Dew Pellet as well could allow the cultivator to refine the absorbed Essence Qi easier and allow them to increase their cultivation speed, but this effect only last for 30 minutes each pill. The higher the rank of the Calming Spirit Dew Pellet, the longer they could last. While for the Mystic Suction Pellet, it is the most sought after pellet by all cultivator due to the effect of the pill included double absorption of Essence Qi and double the coverage of absorption radius. This allows the cultivator to have a double result when cultivating. The Mystic Suction Pellet also works very well with Tempering Pellets, such as Internal Flame Pill, Spiritual Water Pill, Thunder Spirit Pill, Metal Morphing Pill, and Earth Forming Pill. This makes the pill hall or the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion to always have special offers to those who intend to purchase either of the pills. Calm and confident, Long Feng prepare his table with the ingredients and preparing to heat up his furnace to get ready with the pill refining process. First, he places the ingredient for the Calming Spirit Dew Pellet on the table, which he just converted into a Pill making station, and gathered one portion of the ingredient to start with. Perhaps it was due to the requirement of the pill is on Lower-Rank pills, Long Feng concoction confidence is slightly better than what he is before. As long he could concoct the pill and make it edible, he could hand over the pills without worries. But if he managed to perform well, that would be a bonus for himself, as this will increase his overall experience, and contribute to being able to make much stronger pills in the future. Extracting the essence from the Soul Calming Grass! Thoroughly boil the Morning Dew, and remove the impurity within the water! Mix the grass extract into the cleaned Morning Dew and divide them equally. Due to ease Soul Calming Grass contained a different amount of extract within, so each single concoction will results into a different number of pills if successfully refined. For this first portion of the ingredient, Long Feng managed to nicely divide the concoction into a total of 7 equal parts, as he refines the concoction and forming them into each single pill. After a total of 30 minutes of refining session, he finally succeeds in forming all 7 of the pills, and as a result from the effort, he obtained a total of 6 Lower-Rank and one Middle-Rank Calming Spirit Dew Pellet (1st Grade). As tomorrow morning will be Thursday, that means Long Feng still have a total of 3 days to hand over the mission for Calming Spirit Dew Pellet and Mystic Suction Pellet. Deducting the half day to spend in the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion from morning on Sunday, Long Fend Decided to spend more effort to concoct and refine as much he could, and still make a visit to the Virtue Hall by afternoon as usual. On that night itself, Long Feng take his rest slightly late compared to normal, as he spends another two more hours to refine another 4 portions of the Calming Spirit Dew Pellet. As a result, he currently has a total of 23 Lower-Rank pills and a total of 6 Middle-Rank pills ready in hand. For the remaining five portion, he decided to keep them in hand for now and refine them for sale or personal use in the future. After all, the pill master in Bronze Pill Hall is not restricted from open their own pill business or sell the pills to another establishment for money as this is one of their source of income to further improve their skills. After repeating the usual habit such as feeding the Atlas Moth Worm, dripping a few drops of blood into the Pitcher Plant and meditate for an hour, Long Feng proceed to have a rest and wake up slightly late the next day. As he does not require to attend the camp and help to produce the Thunder Spirit Pills anymore, for now, he decided to concoct another few more portions of the Mystic Suction Pellet and try to hand over the mission if he successfully completed it. Book 1 Chapter 13 - Spare Pills? Lets use it. Arranging the Sap of Beast-eater Plant at one side and the Zebra Stripe King Leech''s Blood at another, Long Feng prepare himself to start producing the concoction of the Mystic Suction Pellet. Being treated as one of the most easier pills of all, apparently, this Mystic Suction Pellet is known to be one of the cheapest and lousiest pills around the market. Due to the requirement of perfection in this pill is low, even the Lower-Rank pill contained a 50% stronger absorption rate and range, so this pill is usually given out as free to attract more buyers for the elemental tempering pills. Only for those that have money problem would resort to only purchasing the Mystic Suction Pellet to absorb the elemental Qi naturally. First, Long Feng Mix both concoction together, and use his fire elemental qi to slowly cook the concoction. As the concoction started to get thicker, Long Feng prepare them in a separated portion, depending on how big is the amount of concoction after it gets thickened. Since this concoction is pretty straight forward to concoct and refine, it didn''t require too much time, and within ten minutes, Long Feng successfully refine a total of 8 pills in his first try. Although all 8 of the pill is at Lower-Rank, this doesn''t destroy his confidence in trying better in his next round. "Let''s try to make at least few among the remaining 9 portions of ingredient a few Middle Rank and Upper Rank." Long Feng motivate himself again and try better in the next refining process. His second tries came out again in a result of 7 Lower-Rank pills. 8 Lower-Rank again at his third tries, 6 Lower-Rank on his fourth, 7 on his fifth, 7 again on his sixth, seventh, eighth, 8 on his ninth, and 5 Lower-Rank on his final tries. "What is wrong with my concoction and procedures? I can''t believe that I can''t even successfully concoct a single Middle-Rank pill at all." his results came out with 70 Lower-Rank Mystic Suction Pellet, and he needs to deliver a total of 25 pills to the Mission Hall, so he will be able to keep a total of 45 pills for himself. Since refining all 10 portions of the Mystic Suction Pellets only took him a total of 1 hour and forty minutes, Long Feng continued with the refining of Calming Spirit Dew Pellet instead. And through this experience, Long Feng realized a fact that he must keep in mind during Pill Refining. "Seems like refining the ingredient into a pill is not as simple as you think." Long Feng realized the importance of choosing the right time and period to refine pills. But before he obtained more guidance from his master, Long Feng have no choice but to concede to the fact that his remaining 5 portion of Calming Spirit Dew Pellet results in a total of 32 Lower-Rank pills, and none of them successfully turned into a Middle Grade. Through using all the ingredients provided by the Mission Hall yesterday, Long Feng successfully concoct a total of 55 Lower-Rank and 6 Middle-Rank Calming Spirit Dew Pellets in hand, and a total of 70 Lower-Rank Mystic Suction Pellets. He did have the intention to try again on the Internal Flame Pill, but after a few consideration, Long Feng finally give up with his stubbornness and decided to heads toward the Mission Hall to complete his mission, and also to visit the Virtue Hall for his master''s guidance. "Oh! You completed the mission is such short period!" the staff is slightly shocked, in his first impression, he even thought that Long Feng maybe utilizing his own wealth to complete the mission instead. But after looking at each single pellet actually came with a mark of pill master, he could conclude that all this pill is absolutely refined by Long Feng himself, and none of them is purchased or taken from others. "Young Disciple, great job in completing the two mission. Since your requirement is only to complete one mission, we will convert the additional mission into points for you to exchange for materials." the staff pass a total of 25 points worth of gemstones to Long Feng to keep, and hinted him a little as well. "Came back in next Monday, we will have some good stocks in the inventory." the staff finish his words, and turn around to continue his works. "Thank you, Senior." Long Feng thanked the staff and heads to the Virtue Hall. Entering the Virtue Hall, Long Feng heads towards his master''s room to greet him before anything else and start completing his daily task before he returned to the room where his master is within. "Master, Xiao Feng completed his daily task." Long Feng reported. "Good boy, but seems like Senior Han won''t be available to guide you in the Defensive Wu Sword Art today, as his enlightenment is still not complete. Do you have anything you want to ask master today?" Elder Tang Wen place the scroll he''s reading aside and turned around looking at Long Feng. "Dear master, Xiao Feng actually have a little question in mind." Long Feng stands up and started to explain what happened between yesterday and today. Long Feng started with the fact during the day normally when he returned to his room, he started to have a concoction before he started with his daily meditation, and that on the first day when he is concocting the Internal Flame Pill, at night time, where his result is pretty bad, only a total of 3 Lower-Rank and 1 Middle-Rank is managed to be produced. Later on the next day, he tried on concocting the Calming Spirit Dew Pellet at night, where the results are pretty normal, with a total of 23 Lower-Rank and 6 Middle-Rank is successfully refined, but on the next morning, the results are pretty disappointing.If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Wondering where in the world he failed to notice, Long Feng have no other choices but to ask for his master''s guidance and advice, so he could concoct the medicinal pills for better results. As Elder Tang Wen hear the explanation from Long Feng, he already noticed the mistakes his disciple did. The main culprit, in this case, is due to the difference of Yin and Yang throughout the day and night. Most of the disciple that already within the hall for at least a year already understand the reason why, but since Long Feng is still a new disciple, so it is natural he doesn''t know about this fact at all. "Xiao Feng, the main culprit in this matter is the difference of Yin and Yang during the day and night." "Listen clearly, let master guide you through this part. We are all living in a world where the Yin, Yang and the elements are all different throughout the day and night, and every single day." "In basic understanding, Pills such as Internal Flame Pill, Metal Morphing Pill, Thunder Spirit Pill is usually refined at the day time, because the Yang energy during the day is slightly stronger than normal, so the success rate on concocting the Male Branch Pills is higher than normal." "While for those such as Spiritual Water Pill, Earth Forming Pill, and Wood Fragrant Pill is more likely to be successfully refined during the night, because of the high density of Yin Energy during that time. But one thing needs to be monitored, such as during some special day where extreme Yin or Extreme Yang is filling the whole day, causing difficulties and even direct failure due to the lack of one side of energy during refining." "Keep this YinYang Dial. Each student should possess one, although the price is slightly steep for some people to own it. Inject your Essence Qi within each time you intend to concoct some medicinal pills, so you will know what is the energy rate during the time you intend to concoct the pills." "This is also one of the reasons why some Mission that could be completed in a single day, could be extended into few days, or even weeks and month depending on the requirement. Make sure you don''t take the pill refining knowledge too lightly next time you refine a pill." "There is no unused ingredient, only useless pill masters. If you failed to understand the importance and usefulness of one ingredient depending on its age, time, harvest method, condition and specialty, then you are at the most a second rate pill masters, and won''t have the chances to step into the first rate pill masters that are well versatile with the ingredients no matter how difficult they could be." Elder Tang Wen finally finished his teaching and looked at how Long Feng is doing after listening to all his explanations. After being taught with such a deep lesson regarding concocting the medicinal pills, Long Feng''s opinion toward the profession had deepened into a new level. His appreciation and also the urge to understand more about the ingredients and the recipe had deepened, and his interest in concocting the ingredient in the correct time had even perked up his interest in trying it as soon as he could. With this mindset in him, Long Feng quickly went back to his room, and start cultivating with the help of the Mystic Suction Pellet that he have in hand. After eating the pellet, Long Feng instantly felt that his capability in absorbing the nearby Essence Qi increased, and allowing him to even feel some more minuscules Essence Qi that he couldn''t felt earlier before he consumed the pill. Unfortunately, that single pill only works for a total of 10 minutes, no matter what rank that pill could be, so Long Feng continue with his consumption, and finally finished all 45 pills in a total of 450 minutes, an equivalent of 7 hours and 30 minutes. In his mind, his cultivation is getting close to breaking through the early Earth Refinement Tier, but since he is out of any Mystic Suction Pill at the moment, he decided to stop and started to take a rest, before the sun rises from the east. In the same time, one more small pieces of plain rock fallen off from the Impure Azure Jade Rock. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile on somewhere not too far from the Clear Jade City, is where the Bronze Culture Hall is located. One of the most popular areas within this hall is the opened to public visits spots, the Culture Market. Within this market, all sorts of special ingredients, foods and preparation weapons or treasures could be obtained within, and due to this matter, many cultivators would come to the culture hall no matter which city they visit, to check on the treasures and special items placed on sale before they visit any other establishments. One of the culture hall specialty is Procurement. To the culture hall, nothing is more valuable than money. As long the item could be sold for a price, the culture hall will definitely have their own methods to obtain the products in demand. In an example, Medicine pills that specially concocted by the Bronze Pill Hall Assistant Master, Pill Master Liu Yi Long himself. The medicine that was sought after is often offered at a good price and always came in a set of few dozen to allow one cultivator to cultivate without worries. Other than that, the culture hall is also specialized in Metalworks. Many cultivators that specifically required weapons or equipment, tools or special item, usually send a request to be accepted and completed by the culture hall, before it will be delivered. Of course, the price tag is quite humongous, so only very wealthy cultivator could really afford their exorbitant products. But today, a very special guest appeared within the hall to order a specialized tool for his adventure. "Ha Ha Ha! Who would imagine that one of the commanders of the Brilliant Jade Kingdom Military Division will visit this lowly Bronze Culture Hall for its production?" The Culture Hall master happily laugh as he talks with the commander. "Xu Si Lang, stop joking around. Can you make what I just request from you?" the commander raise his voice slightly, but based on the way he chose his words, one could see there is some friendship among this two. "Of course, Commander Meng Yun. Let me make sure this custom equipment could be finely made, so you could equip them into your Shadow Gate Scouts, am I correct?" The Culture Hall Master Xu stopped his funny persona and changed into a different person as the discussion goes to a more serious part. "Make sure this is hidden from any of the Kingdom''s officials knowledge. The Shadow Gate operations should be never made into any records, and I want you to make sure no others could possess the same Pill Vest." Commander Meng Yun continued. "Place some faith on me, old friend. I will personally oversee this operation, and how about the rewards I''m asking?" The Hall Master Xu replied. "Hmph! You are quite the greedy fox aren''t you?" "I will personally make sure the three Ten-Times Refined Dragon Blood Pellet(3rd Grade) to be delivered to you, and protect you during your attempt to breakthrough into the Early Human Elder Tier." Commander Meng Yun continued. "Then that''s a deal between us. Come back in two weeks, I will make sure 50 sets of it is readied when you are here." Hall Master Xu continued, before both of them split and Commander Xu exit via a secluded back door. "Ha Ha Ha, when I finally entered the Early Human Elder Tier, that will be the time I lead the Culture Hall Experts to attempt the White Tiger Cave." Book 1 Chapter 14 - Poison Concoction. Early morning. Preparing all the equipment and ingredients he required, Long Feng get himself readied at the table he converts into a refining station so he could start refining the Internal Flame Pill. But before he started, he injects a small amount of Essence Qi within the YinYang Dial, and have a look on the indication, and as he expected, the Yang Energy within the atmosphere is very strong, due to the current day is still in its early morning. He processes the ingredient similar to the method he uses during his first attempt in refining the Internal Flame Pill and start creating the concoction. Without any delay, he goes straight to refining, as the earlier procedure is easily completed by him. As the end of the refinement is near, Long Feng pray in his heart, before he releases the concoction into the Spring Water, allowing them to separate into equal pieces. "Dear Heavens, please bless my luck on concocting this pill." The concoction is released into the Spring Water! The burning hot concoction goes into the water, and start evaporating the liquid, giving out a loud noise to be heard within the room. As the concoction keeps getting itself cool off from the water, very soon, a crack could be seen within the cooling off concoction, as it quickly separated into a total of 6 different pills this time. As the water completely evaporated, Long Feng tried to softly lift the still warm pill, and inspect the pill condition. He slowly rubbed his finger on the pill, to separate the layer of impure scums that produced during the cooling off of the concoction. "Success!" Long Feng grabbed the pill and raise his hand up above his head, to indicate his effort is finally succeeded. In this attempt, he successfully concocted a total of 6 pills, with all of them in Middle-Rank. But this does not create complete confidence in Long Feng''s mind. He understand the fact that all kind of changes and difference could happen in between each concoction, and as how his master teach him yesterday, this created a stronger mind of a pill master within Long Feng''s mind, and allow him to be as cautious, and as detail in each attempt of concocting a pill. So for the next round of his attempt in concocting the pill, Long Feng check at YinYang Dial once again. Although the time currently is still rich in Yang Energy, the Yin Energy surrounding the atmosphere is slightly denser currently, perhaps it was due to the rain is going to fall soon, maybe in another hour time. So Long Feng goes along with his preparation, and start concocting once again with the Internal Flame Pill. But in this second-time attempt, his results came in with a total of 4 Middle-Rank pills, and 1 Lower-Rank Pill. Understanding slightly on this changes of differences in the YinYang essence concentration would affect the results of his refining, he decided to stop for today and goes to the Mission Hall to check for any other mission that is suitable for him to accept. After all, the current time is not suitable for him to visit the Virtue Hall, as his master is busy handling his daily elder works as well. Within the Mission Hall, some senior and junior are gathered together in groups to take a look on the mission board, but none of them manage to select any of the mission, due to certain difficulties or other matters. When some of the juniors saw Long Feng is within the hall as well, some of them did think about approaching Long Feng due to his good skill and good results during the entrance exam but hesitates as they know Long Feng''s eccentric and anti-social attitude. Actually, none of the rumors is true, but unfortunately due to his selection of master actually gone to Elder Tang Wen, who is well known to be eccentric as well, due to his habit of not hiring any disciple from the Inner and Outer Division to help him in his Virtue Hall, the rumors managed to grow a root into the other disciple mind, and make them not sticking up with Long Feng. "The others are evading me, I wonder what happen. Did I happened to forget shower today?" Long Feng, clueless about the other''s attitude, have no intention to be bothered. He looks at the Mission Board, and after 20 minutes of scanning the slips, he ends up with two selections. Yellow Heart Poison Concoction Requirement: 10 Yellow Heart Poison Concoction (1st Grade) Due Date: 1 Weeks upon accepting the mission. Payment: 200 Pieces of Spirit Bronze Coins Golden Crippling Powder Requirement: 50 Golden Crippling Powder (1st Grade) Due Date: 1 Weeks upon accepting the mission. Payment: 1000 Pieces of Spirit Bronze Coins "Senior, can I have this two mission ingredient please ?" Long Feng handover the slips to the staff on the counter. "Young junior, are you sure you want to take this two mission? This is Poison concoctions, if you are not careful enough, you will end up poisoning yourself and disrupt your own cultivation for a short while." the staff gives his concern notes to Long Feng, in case he doesn''t understand why this mission is not taken by the others especially the senior disciples. "I understand, please do not worry senior, I will be very careful during my concoction period." Long Feng replied. The staff has nothing else to say, as it wasn''t his position to comment too much about the disciple''s decision. He registered Long Feng''s request, and Long Feng left after all the procedures is complete. Next, instead of walking directly to the Virtue Hall, Long Feng head towards to the Exchange Hall instead. With the 46 points he has in hand, he decided to check for what he could change before he heads to his next target, the Tower of Knowledge. "Senior, can I have a look on the exchange list?" Long Feng talked as he gets close to the counter with a staff attending it. Coincidently, this staff is the one that told Long Feng to came for exchange on Monday. "Here you go, why are you exchanging today? New products will come in on Monday anyway." the staff being nice, as he saw Long Feng just yesterday. "Dear senior, I am just interested in looking for some antidotes in case my concoction refining is not going too well." Long Feng politely answers.Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit. "Oh... That''s why. Here you go." the staff pass the list with all the item available to exchange with points, and leave Long Feng to slowly goes through it. "Seems like the point system within the Hall is slightly better than the one from Myriad Ingredient Pavilion." Long Feng says in mind, as he goes through the list. 1st Grade Cultivation Pellet Ingredient (10 Portions) for 10 Points
Cultivation Pellet Boost Stage Pellet Refinement Pellet Blood Refinement Pellet
1st Grade Tempering Pill Ingredient (5 Portions) for 10 Points
Metal Morphing Pill Wood Fragrant Pill Spiritual Water Pill Internal Flame Pill Earth Forming Pill
Thunder Spirit Pill Wind Storm Pill Poison Essence Pill
1st Grade Poison Concoction Ingredient (5 Portions) for 10 Points
Yellow Heart Poison Concoction Blood Clotting Concoction Yellow Leaf Pill Blood Flowing Pill
Golden Crippling Powder Destructing Qi Powder Wild Pill Qi Recovery Pill
1st Grade Meditation Ingredient (10 Portions) for 10 Points
Calming Spirit Dew Pellet Mystic Suction Pellet YinYang Cleansing Pellet
1st Grade Medication Ingredient (10 Portions) for 10 Points
Blood Dragon Ointment Mind Returning Elixir
1st Grade Cultivator Weapon (Hand) for 50 Points 1st Grade Cultivator Weapon (Range) for 60 Points 1st Grade Cultivator Weapon (Long) for 75 Points "Senior, can I make an exchange for a mix of Yellow Leaf Pill and Wild Pill ingredients?" Long Feng tried to obtain a mix of both Antidote concoction ingredients. "Of course you could. Did you take both of the Poison Concoction requests from the Mission Hall?" the staff agreed to allow Long Feng exchange for mix ingredients and also tried to guess the reason why Long Feng need both ingredients suddenly today. "Yes senior, this junior just took the two Poison Concoction Mission today, so I need to prepare some in case I accidentally inflict it on myself during refining." Long Feng answer the staff question politely. "That''s good. At least you know to prepare the antidote before making the poison. Hear this from my experience before... Take the Antidote first, before you concoct the poison. If you are not poisoned during the refining, it means your Poison is not effective, and you need to make it stronger. "If you are poisoned, that means you are good in the poison, but make sure you take double dosage of the Antidote next time after your concoction is completed, and thoroughly remove the poison from your body before you rest." the staff share his experience with Long Feng, as he pass the ingredient to him and receive a total of 10 points worth of gem for the exchange. "I understand, thank you for sharing such information to this junior." Long Feng politely say thanks to the staff, before he excuses himself from the Exchange Hall. He went straight towards the Tower of Knowledge, and quickly reach the bottom of the tower within ten minutes. Outside of the tower, he noticed that an old man is sitting in the middle of a Pavilion just directly outside of the tower entrance. Knowing the etiquette of asking for permission before entering a building, and there is no reason why an old man is sitting outside of the tower without doing anything, he approached the old man. "Elder, can junior enter the tower to get some guidance?" Long Feng politely ask for permission from the guarding elder. "Em... What is the meaning of cultivating a plant?" The old man questioned without opening his eyes. "Dear Elder, it is to grow a being to complete yourself. The better you are in cultivating a plant, the better you are in cultivating yourself." Long Feng politely answered. "Em... What is the meaning of Cultivating yourself?" the old man continued. "Dear Elder, it is to improve oneself, and to reach higher heights." Long Feng answered again. "Em... You may enter. You can only visit the Halls up to the Hall of the Fortunate." the elder answered, and continue to meditate. "Thank you, Elder. Please excuse this junior." Long Feng politely bowed to the elder, and enter the Tower. Within the tower, the interior is basically very simple and every room is labeled with a special word. The outermost of the Room is called as Hall of Beginning. Long Feng quickly run through the books within the shelves and found out that most of the books, scrolls, and tomes are all related to basic knowledge such as Poisonous Plants, Medicinal Plants, Cultivating Plants, and Nutritious Plants. He entered the second room that is slightly bigger, and it is called as the Hall of Yearning. Within this room, books related to Pill Essence, understanding Concocting, Issues in Pill refining and Medicinal Practice. Some additional books such as Tomes of Hundred Medicine and Records of Specific Cultivation Planting is also available within. The third room is where the Hall of Fortunate is located. There is one more room within before he is allowed to enter the second floor, but at the moment, this is the deepest he could enter. Within this room, a total of 16 pieces of work is placed, and each time one student withdraw a book from the room, he must leave a total of 10 Points as the deposit, in case the book is damaged or missing some of its content. Although there is only 16 pieces of work is placed within this room, a total of 10 pieces of work had already been borrowed by the other seniors. This also indicates that cultivator with similar experience and cultivation like Long Feng is not little within the Outer Division. And that six remaining piece is; Poison Concoction Knowledge by Poison Master Gu Cao Xun. Medicinal and Healing Scroll by Elders of Bronze Pill Hall - Twinkling Jade City Tempering Pill Guidance by Pill Master Tie Shan Medicinal Concoction (1) by Elder of Ointments Master Tang Wen Medicinal Concoction (2) by Elder of Ointments Master Tang Wen Total Refining by Pill Master Ao Luo Looking at the six piece of work, Long Feng noticed two of them actually written by his master directly. Wondering that could he actually understand his master deeper, he has the urge to take both books to return for study, but after a little consideration, Long Feng selected the Total Refining Scroll by Pill Master Ao Luo and also the Poison Concoction Knowledge by Poison Master Gu Cao Xun instead. One of the reason is that he is soon to be refining the Poison Concoction soon, and also he wishes to understand deeper on the Total Refining knowledge. Taking the two books in hand, he proceeds to his last destination, the Virtue Hall before the day ends. Book 1 Chapter 15 - Poisoned! "Master, Xiao Feng greets master, how are you today?" Long Feng immediately look for his master as he entered the Virtue Hall. "Senior Han, how are you today?" Long Feng turned to another side, and greet Han Feng Xian who seated by the side of Elder Tang Wen. "Oh, Xiao Feng, today master have something new for you to do, I will bring you to have a look later. For now, go and have your sword practice with senior Han first." Elder Tang Wen speaks and looking at Long Feng''s happy face as he sees that kid smile because he can see something new today. "Senior Han, please." Long Feng invite Han Feng Xian to the practice room to start their sword art daily practicing. Perhaps it was due to the lack of practice for two days, Long Feng skills started to get a little rusty. But during their practice, Long Feng is still managed to keep himself on the feet, managed to defend himself much more compared to last time. In the same time, Han Feng Xian as well looked at Long Feng with a very happy expression. The moment their practices is over, Han Feng Xian started to tell Long Feng what''s on his mind. "Xiao Feng, I will be leaving the Hall tomorrow morning." Han Feng Xian starts the talking. "So early? Did your internal injuries healed totally?" Long Feng is slightly shocked, but he did know that Han Feng Xian will be only temporary residing within the Hall, as he is injured previously from the ambush by the cultivation beast. "Yes. I''m about 80% healed, and I need to return to the Xuan Wu Sword Clan because of some important matters." Han Feng Xian explained the reason why he needs to return earlier to the Xuan Wu Sword Clan. "I see, Senior Han, Xiao Feng wish you a safe journey and always be in health as you leave the hall and return to the Clan. If the fate is there to bring us together again, Xiao Feng will absolutely greet Senior and thanks to senior for your kind guidance on teaching this junior the Defensive Wu Sword Art." Long Feng politely kneel on the floor and thanked Han Feng Xian in his kindness on teaching him the Sword Art. "Ha Ha Ha, I actually have one more little treasure to give you. Take this as the gift for giving me an enlightenment in the sword art two days ago." Han Feng Xian put his hand into his waist pouch and grabbed a piece of stone within to give to Long Feng. "This is the refined piece of Clearness Jade Gemstone. Although it''s just a really small piece, this piece of treasure really bring me loads of luck I needed. I even believe it was due to this treasure, I''m able to meet with your master and you over here." Han Feng Xian passed the piece of Jadestone to Long Feng, and force him to hold it tightly. "Senior, Long Feng will make sure to keep this safely in his possession and won''t!" Long Feng speaks and suddenly, a shock came into his mind. Even Han Feng Xian is shocked, but from the way he senses from seeing Long Feng condition, it is not any major issue, as the condition of his shock is more to some enlightening shock, and not any cultivating mistakes. In his mind, Long Feng ventured into the world that seems very traditional, old and mysterious. The roof of each house is not in a triangle look, but it is more to a shape of a cone. Their roofing is made from Haystack that is tied up together with some sturdy but prickly rattan vines, and the wall of each house is made from a mixture of clay. In this places that looked like a middle of a village, Long Feng flew around like a spirit, looking at all the people doing their daily works. At one side of the village, an old man is seated on top of a huge piece of log, and in front of him, exist a cauldron that burns with a fire with green in color. On his left hand, a small table with few different ingredients is placed nicely, waiting to be refined within the cauldron. On his right, a beautifully carved Jade piece of Wine Vessel and Wine Flask is put together, with a silky smooth milky liquid is within waiting for that old man to taste them in his mouth. On his back, A piece of Long Ruler, shaped like a sword but with no sharp edge, is seen. That piece of a long ruler is made totally with Jade, and in the middle of the ruler''s body, a piece of Medallion, golden in color is seen flashing all the time. "Ha Ha Ha, I would never imagine, that through mixing this few ingredients within, will allow me to successfully create this Golden Jade Holy Pill."If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. "Reincarnation... I know you are there, so remember the ingredient, because soon you will see them in your life too." "Listen to me well. This Piece of a ruler is my first treasure, I called it the Shennong Sky Jade Measuring Ruler. This ruler allows its owner of each life to grow the medicinal plants into each stage as he wishes, and destroy all martial abilities without touching." "This Vessel and Flask is my beloved piece of treasure too, I spend a total of hundred thousand years on refining each of them, and by owning it in your life, it will surely make your life become more beautiful. The Shennong Moon Jade Flask will absorb the Dew from the Moonlight to create its Shennong Moon Dew. The dew is the world most refined holy wine, that''s demanded by the God for its effect of instantly increase one stage of cultivation upon consumption." "and the Shennong Sun Jade Vessel is a treasure that could make the liquids within to become antidotes that could destroy any poison in the world. The liquid too could enable the person consumed it to heal from heavy injuries and internal injuries, but remember, it''s not an immortal elixir, there is a limit of its ability." "I have more treasure to show you, but I guess that''s all you could know now... See you again..." "Oh! And one more thing. I am Shennong. You too." with this last word by that old man, Long Feng''s vision immediately turned into a whirlwind of visuals, and returned back to his own world. "Xiao Feng, are you feeling sick anywhere?" Han Feng Xian is holding Long Feng in his arm, as Elder Tang Wen is focusing in reading Long Feng''s pulse. "Master, Senior Han, I am alright. I''m sorry for making you both worries." Long Feng wakes up and stand by his master and Han Feng Xian side, and bow down to apologize. "Master was worried to death just now. What happened?" Elder Tang Wen asked, while his eye is staring at the piece of Clearness Jade Gemstone. "Xiao Feng''s mind is in a different world just now. I don''t know what makes it happened, but in the dream, Xiao Feng saw an old man who introduces me a treasure." Long Feng explained. "Do you know what is that treasure called?" Elder Tang Wen questioned. "Yes, master. That old man in the dream tells me to memorize the ingredient as they will come into my life in future. That pill is called as the Golden Jade Holy Pill." Long Feng explained. "Golden Jade Holy Pill? Did you just mention that name?" Elder Tang Wen is shocked. "Yes, master. What is that pill?" Long Feng answered, and questioned as well. "Xiao Feng, let senior explain it to you. The Golden Jade Holy Pill is a treasure that hunted by all cultivators within this Continent of Yan." "Although it is just in rumor, from what they say, the Golden Jade Holy Pill allows the one who eats it to assimilate into one more additional elements." "In the world, one that has a single element compatibility is normal, while those with two element compatibility is special but widely found within the continent." "Those that have three element compatibility is rare, and those like you, who have a Sky element within the three elements is even rarer. But from words, there is those that compatible with four elements, and five or six." "If you have seen somebody with more compatibility than you in your lifetime, it is for sure they are being treated as one of the treasures within their sect, and expected to lead the clan or sect in the future." "But imagine if you could have that pill, and everyone that could have compatibility with 5 different elements became normal?" it will make the world get into disaster, and even the whole continent will turn into a war zone." Han Feng Xian explained. "And one more thing." Elder Tang Wen continued. "The Ingredient of the Golden Jade Holy Pill is no longer exist in the world. So even if one wished to recreate the pill, they might face difficulties, and even life-threatening danger due to the mistake in concoction as results." The three of them finally speechless, and have nothing else to discuss due to the randomness of the topic. But the day ends with Han Feng Xian depart from the Bronze Pill Hall, escorted by Elder Tang Wen and Long Feng to the entrance of the hall, and also Long Feng returned to his room afterward. "Remember to come earlier to the hall tomorrow. Listen to master, do not do your poison concoction first." Long Feng remembered his master''s word before he entered his room. Within his room, Long Feng opened the parcels containing the poisonous ingredients he received earlier ago and checked their quality before that, but he resisted himself from continuing to concoct the poison concoction, as he remembered his master''s word. Placing all the ingredients aside, Long Feng withdraw the piece of Clearness Jade Gemstone from his pouch and inject a source of Essence Qi into the stone. The stone flashed slightly, and in the same time, Long Feng felt a sense of shape within the stone he is holding. "This gemstone gave out the sense of it being a Flask." Long Feng speaks in his mind. Next, he withdraws the piece of Impure Azure Jade Rock to inject his Essence Qi as well. After a short while, he felt the shape of a Ruler in his hand. "I guess that this Impure Azure Jade Rock contained a slight power of the Sky Jade Measuring Ruler as well." "Let''s use today time to cultivate instead, and see how things would go for tomorrow." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday. early in the morning, Long Feng wakes up from his rest and quickly went to the Virtue Hall to meet his master. Remembering his master''s word, Long Feng can''t help himself, but keep guessing the type of medicinal plant his master would allow him to tend this time. But in his mind, he does know that his master already knows that he will be concocting the poison concoction soon, so perhaps his master would allow him to learn more about the poison art, so he would not refine it in a wrong way and injured himself in the end. As he entered the hall, Long Feng is shocked with the poisonous fumes within the hall, and quickly create a Shield of Essence surrounding him, so he could enter the hall and check on the reason why there are poison fumes within the hall. But Long Feng cultivation is still too low to completely defend against the poison fumes, and very soon, he falls into the side-effect of the poison, which causing him to feeling strengthless to move around. His heart and cultivation started to go wrong, as his control of his Essence Qi started to get disrupted. "This is?" "Yellow Heart Poison and Golden Crippling Powder!" Long Feng speaks in his mind as he finally noticed the strength of that two poison. But knowing the poison doesn''t mean he has the way to remove the poison immediately! Book 1 Chapter 16 - Yellow Heart Poison and Yellow Leaf Pill. "Shit, this is bad!" Long Feng swear in his mind, but his body instantly moves into a meditating position, as he quickly adjusts his remaining Essence Qi to expel the poison from his body. But unfortunately, this is his first time to use his Essence Qi to expel the poison, so his smoothness in expelling the poison is less effective than what it supposedly be, as he quickly felt even his hand cannot be move anymore. His Essence Qi quickly goes haywire, and lost control, as his Essence Qi within the body quickly escape as if the outlet of the pipe had been opened fully. Within minutes, Long Feng totally lost all his Essence Qi within his body, as he started to vomit and felt dizzy from the side effect of the poison. Few more minutes later, Long Feng fainted. Later, as he opened his eyes, Elder Tang Wen is standing beside him, using his own Essence Qi to forcefully inject into Long Feng''s body, to ensure his body managed to use the Qi to expel the poison from his body. "Master, did I failed the test you gave me?" Long Feng weakly whispered the question. "Inexperience could be trained, but recklessness cannot be saved. Do you understand why I don''t allow you to concoct the poison concoction yesterday?" Elder Tang Wen sigh but did not answer Long Feng''s question. "Master, Xiao Feng understands. Can master guide Xiao Feng in this matter?" Long Feng finally understands why his master did such a difficult practice to him. It is due to his inexperienced regarding poison concoction, and he had been looking down on the seriousness of the poison and its side effect as well. "Sit in meditating position, and eat this two pill. Master will teach you an easy way to expel the poison, as well on how to defend against this poison in the future." Elder Tang Wen produce two pills to Long Feng, one of them is a Yellow Leaf Pill, while another one is a Wild Pill. Swallowing both pills, Long Feng move his Essence Qi within the body, starting from his Dantian, to his throat, and with an exhale, Long Feng released the remaining of the Yellow Heart Poison gases. Next, he moves the Essence Qi slowly from his chest to the four limbs, and thoroughly expel the remaining of the Golden Crippling Powder from his pores, through sweating. After a detail 1 hour of meditation and moving his Essence Qi from one part to another, Long Feng finally fully removed all the remaining of the poison within his body and started to practice the way to defend against the poison. Guided by Elder Tang Wen, Long Feng started to practice accordingly. To defend against the poisonous fumes such as the Yellow Heart Poison and the Golden Crippling Powder, instead of using the Essence Qi to create a shield around the cultivator, one should use it''s Qi to keep expelling the air from their body instead, to instantly remove the poison as they enter the cultivator''s body. Through this way, the expelling process of the poison will be more effective, and it will be harder for the poison to infect the body. "HAAH!" Long Feng finally wakes from the meditation, and under the guidance of Elder Tang Wen, he walks straight into the poison fumes within the hall, and look for the reason why there is such a huge amount of poisonous fumes within the hall. "Master! I caught the cultivation beast!" Long Feng screamed loudly, and run towards his master''s room with a beast within his arms. "Good, since you caught the beast already, put it back into the cage, and let the fumes slowly evaporate in the air after a while." Elder Tang Wen says. The Cultivation Beast that was caught by Long Feng is a Bronze Fumes Badger. This beast is cared by many cultivators for its fumes releasing benefits. Depending on what medicine the badger is eating, the fumes released by its body will be in a similar effect as well. To make sure this testable to be conducted carefully, Elder Tang Wen first allows the Bronze Fumes Badger to swallow a large amount of Yellow Heart Poison and Golden Crippling Powder to increase the poison intensity, while in the same time, monitoring the moment he need to appear to save his disciple from affected by the poison too much. "Xiao Feng, from today onwards, you will be tending this four different plants for your master." Elder Tang Wen point at a special area with four different plants residing there. Yellow Heart Flower, Poisonous Crippling Bells, Essence Doll Eyes Plant and lastly, the Miracle White Heart. The Yellow Heart Flower grows in a bed of flower. Only a few strongest and biggest flower could completely grow in each bed, killing off the others by releasing the pollens that will disrupt the other flowers from absorbing the essence the need to grow. So to maintain the growth of the flowers, Each fully grown Yellow Heart Flower need to be plucked and kept in a vase separately from each other to allows the pollen to still grown from the flower. Although the flower is usable without having its pollen, it is believed to be the best if the Yellow Heart Flower Ingredient came along with pollens within.Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings. Poisonous Crippling Bells grow on a tall stalk, and to grow this plant, plenty of random weeds and grasses shall be allowed to grow in the soil, so the Crippling Bells plant could absorb all the available nutrition surrounding it and grows bigger and bigger. A young Crippling Bells plant could produce around 10 Poison Bells each month, while some older one could produce around 20. The bigger the bells grown by the stalk, the more potent the poison is, so the Poisonous Crippling Bells Plant is very precious especially for the Poison Masters. Essence Doll Eyes Plant grows like a shrub, producing dainty white flowers throughout the plants. As the Doll Eyes Berry grows, the flower petal will slowly fell, until only the berries that looked like an Eye of a Doll appears. The berries shall be harvested as early as possible after the stem holding each single berry turned purple. A Poison Master would not allow the Essence Doll Eyes Plant to have any matured seeds grown from the berries, as this is believed to be destroying the concentration of essence within the plant. The Miracle White Heart is a Leafy plant, that only grown due to its effect of increasing the concentration of a poison upon mixture. Growing the White Heart Leaf is difficult, due to its slow period of growth. Each single Leaves needed to be grown from green leaves to white leaves, and each leaves needed to be as big as a palm size before it is harvested and needed to be immediately ground into dry powder to preserve its effectiveness. Being given the chances of attending this four different ingredients, Long Feng immediately picking up the differences and effective way to harvest and grow the plants, as well slowly adapting to handle its natural poisonous fumes released as he tends the plants. As the day helping in the Virtue Hall finally over, Long Feng returned to his room, and immediately prepared his concoction. Due to the Yellow Heart Poison is Yin Based concoction, refining this concoction at night is preferable, due to the strong Yin essence surrounding the night. "Yellow Heart Flower needed to be ground into a paste, and mixed with the juices from the Doll Eyes Berries to produce a yellow and white concoction." "Slow Fire Essence Qi is needed to cook the concoction until a light fumes are released." "Allows the concoction to slowly turn into a paste, and continue refining it under slow fire to allows it to became powder." "Gather the powder together, and refine the outer layer so it will solidify, and ready to be exploded when pressure is applied." The process of refining the Yellow Heart Poison ingredients is going smoothly, as Long Feng managed to refine a total of three pills in his first trial. The process of refining took him a total of 20 minutes for each refining, so he spends another three hours in total to fully refine the nine remaining portion of ingredients in his hand, and the results came out as a total of 20 pills at the end of the refining process. As the refining is complete, Long Feng concoct the antidote in the same time, which is the Yellow Leaf Pill. The ingredient for this pill is easy, and even refining the antidote is very simple. First, Long Feng gathered a portion of the Yellow Leaves, which is believed to be the Yellow Heart Flower that failed to bloom during their growing period. The leaves and the Black Bitter Mint is to be ground into powder and mixed to form a paste that is cooked with Fire Essence Qi slowly until the Paste become solidify. Each portion of the mix can only concoct one pill, so although the step to refine this antidote is easy, the hassle of refining it one pill at a time is deemed time wasting for certain pill master. Together in his hand, is a total of 10 Yellow Leaf Pill and a total of 20 Yellow Heart Poison Pill. "I will try to check the availability of the Yang Essence tomorrow morning, and let''s see will the condition suitable for concocting the Internal Flame Pill and also the Golden Crippling Powder." Long Feng calms himself down, and prepare to meditate a while before he falls asleep. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday morning. Packing up his stuff, Long Feng prepared to refine two portions of the ingredient for the Internal Flame Pill before he needs to proceed to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. As smooth as he could, his two refinement is success beautifully, allowing him to add a total of 9 Middle-Rank Internal Flame Pill (1st Grade) into his collection, making up into a total of 5 Low-Rank and 20 Middle-Rank Internal Flame Pill (1st Grade) within his pouch. After spending an hour of time for refining the ingredient, Long Feng quickly proceed to the Pavilion, and in between of his way, he coincidently bumps into Nan Jing Jing. "So, you agreed to continue helping the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion too?" Nan Jing Jing says. "Yeah. How have you been doing this whole week?" Long Feng answered, and in the same time, asking about how she is doing. "Oh, that''s new coming from someone as eccentric as you." Nan Jing Jing sarcastically comment. "My master recently gave me a Cultivation Beast to take care off." "It is a Venomous Golden Porcupine. But luckily this beast still a baby, so after understanding my body smell, it will constantly refine antidotes that are especially for me to eat, so I won''t be poisoned by its venom." Nan Jing Jing continued. "Oh that''s so good, I wonder when the master will make me take care of a Cultivation Beast too?" Long Feng wondered, but suddenly in his mind, he remembered something. "Haha, I guess my master had been giving me the task too, earlier ago." Long Feng reminded about the Atlas Worm within his room. "What? Did your master gave you a beast to handle as well?" Nan Jing Jing asked. "Well, my master actually had me take care of the Atlas Worm that I managed to found when I tending my master''s Clear Toad Fruit''s soil." Long Feng answered. "What? An Atlas Worm? How good is your master to gave you an Atlas Worm to take care off." Nan Jing Jing voice started to turn jealous. "Why would my master is better by giving me an Atlas Worm? Yours is a Venomous Golden Porcupine. Its Spikes that been released from its body daily is a treasured weapon for those who is versatile in flying weapon arts. Plus the Porcupine''s Venom could only be cured if one could have the antidotes its refine normally, so you practically have a good poison weapon in hand." Long Feng commented. "Your Atlas Worm Silk is good as well! The Silk ball you could collect daily could only get better and more versatile as time goes, and the fatter the worm get, the bigger the ball of silk it can produce! You could weave those silk altogether to create an impregnable body armor, or to make your own durable pill pouch and battle pouch." Nan Jing Jing commented back. The two of them continue debating and finally reached the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. Book 1 Chapter 17 - Charm of Light. "Good Morning Senior!" both of them entered the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion and greets the staff inside. "Oh! Little Jing and Little Feng is here early!" the senior that invite both of them to come on this week work is happy to see both of them is here. "Yes senior, we hope we could help as much as we could for today as well." Nan Jing Jing replied. "Of course! We can''t wait to have you both to help us." the staff happily replied, as he leads both Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing into a slightly more spacious room. "Do you both mind helping each other? If you don''t, we will arrange you both be a team in this room, and we will send in one of the boxes for you two to do the packing." the staff says as they entered the room. "I''m ok with partnering with Nan Jing Jing." Long Feng says. "Humph! As if you have the right to say no. Senior, we will cooperate in the packing, no worries." Nan Jing Jing gave a deadly stare to Long Feng and turned to answer the staff. "Great, the work will starts in ten minutes, be prepared." the staff replied, and excuse himself from the room. Exactly in ten minutes, the order chest started to enter the room. This time, the ingredient slips don''t come in a bulk, but instead, it came in a total of two to three order each time. But the list of the ingredient within is not as simple as they think. "This room is a special room designated for preparing the medicine for Martial Hall practitioners!" they both finally realized the type of room they are allocated within. "Jing Jing!" Long Feng stared at Nan Jing Jing as he looked at the list of ingredients. "I understand! Brother Feng, you gather the ingredients, I will process them as fast as I could." Nan Jing Jing replied as she looked at Long Feng''s facial expression. "Brother Feng, let''s start! I need the initial four ingredients to prepare the base for the Blood Replenishing Powder." Nan Jing Jing quickly passes a request to Long Feng. "Ready!" "One Ounce of Hundred Year Red Blood Ginseng!" "Ten Piece of Blood Cinnamon Tree Bark!" "Ten leaves from White Goddess Heart!" "One dried Fire Breathing Fruit!" "Here you go!" Long Feng quickly gathered all the ingredients, and have them arranged on the table for Nan Jing Jing to take care of the required process. First, she takes the dried Fire Breathing Fruit and the Red Blood Ginseng to be ground into powder, and distributed into 10 similar portions, to be placed on to of each of the White Goddess Heart Leaves. Next, she rolls each leaf into a tube shape and inserts them into the Blood Cinnamon Tree Bark that came in a shape of an empty pipe. Long Feng place another two different ingredients to the table next. White Blood from the 8-Diagram Turtle Beast. Healing Water from the River Squirt residing within the Volcanic Lake. Nan Jing Jing takes both ingredients, and mix them together before pouring them into the Blood Cinnamon Tree Bark, making the grounded powder that wrapped within the leaf to start boiling within the tree bark. Within a minute, the whole thing evaporated and turned into a very fine red colored powder, that is suitable to be applied or consumed by any practitioner to replenish their blood supply. Even for a professional staff, to perfectly performing such task into a perfection is a very difficult work, but this difficulty is easily completed by the partnership between Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing. The duo easily performs the process of creating the Blood Replenishing Powder, again and again, and completing the request slip one by one. Since most of the required ingredients are all Blood Replenishing Powder and some of them are requiring ingredient for a medical brewing, the two of them quickly completed around a total of 300 slips together, before the staff came in and tell them their day is over. "You two are really working very well together!" the staff praised both of them for being so cooperative with each other.Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. "You overpraised both of us, senior. Can we know how are we doing today?" Nan Jing Jing, who more concern about their results for the day, quickly ask for their performance. "It''s very good! Today both of you are the best performing helpers, nobody even manages to get their point close to you both." the staff praises them again. "So, we actually get?" Long Feng asked in more detail. "You both get 600 Points each, for completing a total of 300 Request Slips, and because the difficulty included prior refining, so you get 2 points for each slip completed." the staff says, and in his hand, he is holding a piece of bigger stone to indicates a 500 points in hand, and another two smaller stone, that indicates a total of 50 points each. "Would both of you come to help us again next week? As that is your third week consecutively, we will offer you a permanent contract at the end of the day when that time is up." the staff asks both of them to confirm their attendance. "Of course I will come and help, senior please count me in." Long Feng who in need of loads of employment, points and some money immediately agreed. "I will come too, can we get partnered together again?" Nan Jing Jing agreed as well but requesting for some arrangement for next time. "Of course! We hope you both could help again in this Martial Hall Specialty Room because you both are the best helper we managed to obtain so far." the staff agreed but tried to convince them to remain within this room. "Sure thing, I''m glad we could be a great help. Senior, since the day is not early now, Long Feng wish to excuse himself for today." Long Feng politely excuse themselves from continue speaking. "Yes, Jing Jing too felt the day is getting late now, we hope to exchange some item before the counter is close, and return to our hall to prepare for the next day lessons." Nan Jing Jing requested to be allowed to leave as well. "Sure Sure, make sure you get to exchange some good ingredients and items for yourself, I will see you both again next week." the staff agreed to allow them to go, and leave towards another direction. Both of them quickly run towards the cashier, and coincidently they met with sister Li Ying once again. "Beautiful Sister! We met again!" Nan Jing Jing being the first to greet Li Ying. "Hello sister, can we have the exchange list for today?" Long Feng being more polite and quickly asked for the list. "Sure thing, two little junior of mine." Li Ying immediately brings out two lists for both of them. Although the ingredient is roughly the same as last time, some items are already out of stock for them to choose. First Grade Ingredients
Green Lizard Blood - N/A Blue River Horse Blood - 2 Points
Bullet Horned Beetle - 2 Points Atlas Moth Molted Skin - 2 Points
Black Bitter Mint - N/A Rainbow Berries - 2 Points
Hundred Layered Moss - 2 Points Ten Years old Ginseng Powder - 2 Points
Thunder Sparrow Egg - N/A Dark Fluid of Ferocious Crow - N/A
Blood Ginseng Root - 2 Points Spiritual Pearl Powder - 2 Points
Cultivating Materials
Clear Toad Fruit''s Wax - N/A Ferocious Crow Hatchling - 25 Points
Fire Breathing Fruit''s Juice - N/A Thunder Sparrow Hatchling - 25 Points
Dragon Fang Flower''s Petals - 20 Points Fire Stripe Bee''s Larvae - 25 Points
Ironwood Shoots - 5 Points Atlas Moth Worm - N/A
Blood Fruit - 5 Points Blood Cleansing Pitcher Plant Seed - 25 Points
Bubble Fruit Spring Water - 5 Points Rock Dragon Elderberry Seeds - 25 Points
Specials
Lower-Rank First-Grade Cultivating Pellet 10 Points
"Sister Li Ying, I will be having two Fire Stripe Bee''s Larvae and two Rock Dragon Elderberry Seeds please!" "Please pack for me a total of 25 portions of Blue River Horse Blood and also 25 portions of Spiritual Pearl Powder as well." Nan Jing Jing quickly chooses a total worth of 200 points of items, while keeping 400 points for next time usage. And very quickly, Sister Li Ying packed all the item requested by Nan Jing Jing and turned her attention to Long Feng. "So, what are you looking forward to today?" Li Ying stared at this cute boy and awaits his request. "Sister Li Ying, I don''t have anything I need to exchange this time." Long Feng shyly says his reply, and cause Nan Jing Jing to start scolding him. "Idiot! Why don''t you change for something like the Hatchlings or the seeds? At least you can start planting and producing your own produce by then." "If your intention is to get another three more of that Jade Rock, I am going to knock you unconscious this time." Nan Jing Jing scolded Long Feng, and coincidently, she actually gets her guess correctly, Long Feng choose to exchange nothing because the Jade Rock is not available anymore. "Little brother, do you want to get something special? Sister will give you a special price, and only charge you for a total of 600 points." Li Ying offered. "Oh? What is that item, sister Li Ying?" Long Feng interest immediately grows. "I actually keep it because this item is already placed in the Pavilion for two years, but because this treasure kept within is unusable, as nobody could decipher the usage of the item kept within." she said, as she walked toward Long Feng with the small brass box. As she walks closer and closer to Long Feng, a feeling of obtaining that item in Li Ying''s hand suddenly grows, as he can''t wait to see that item in her hand. "This is Charm of Light." Li Ying opened that small brass box and revealed a round piece of green pebble within. "This piece of stone, cost 600 points?" Nan Jing Jing shocked with its value. "Of course, before we actually keep it here, we are selling it for 6,000 Points." Li Ying loudly reply. "Sister Li Ying, I will exchange for this item." Long Feng decided without even considering for more than a minute. "What?" Nan Jing Jing soul immediately flew out from her body because of the shock. "Are you sure, little brother?" even Li Ying couldn''t believe what she just heard. "Yes. I decided to exchange my points for this Charm of Light-treasure." Long Feng repeat his intention again. Without any other words, Long Feng received the small Brass Box from Li Ying, and passed the 600 points to Li Ying, as he ready to leave the pavilion. Following him behind is Nan Jing Jing, who holding two big pouches containing the ingredients within. After a few steps, Long Feng finally realized that Nan Jing Jing is holding two big bags on both of her hand, so he quickly offered to help. "Finally this stone head realized that he needed to help me with this stuff!" Nan Jing Jing pouted a little, but in her heart, she is slightly happy to see that Long Feng still pays attention to her. But in Long Feng''s minds... "I wonder why she insists on carrying this all by herself. She can actually call the delivery staff to deliver this two bag of ingredient to the hall. Maybe she in needs to quickly concoct this Ingredient." "If I''m not mistaken, this ingredient should be used to concoct the Spiritual Water Pill." Long Feng thinks this kind of thing in his mind instead. As they both entered the Bronze Pill Hall area, the same situation like last week started to happen again. Under the jealous stares from many male disciples, Long Feng walked along with Nan Jing Jing this time and started to hear many whispers around him as he walks with Nan Jing Jing back to the Residential Area. "This Long Feng! How dare he help disciple Jing Jing to carry only one of the bag!" "Yes! He should carry both!" "Kill Him! He is the mortal enemy of all mankind!" "I swear I will make him regret being alive tomorrow!" "How dare the other girls allowed Long Feng to act as he wishes!" The other male disciple all getting crazy from the jealousy and started to follow both of them back to the residential area. "Brother Long Feng, can you help me carry it to my room?" Nan Jing Jing speaks with a tone that sounds seductive and teasing. "Yes, of course, Your room is not too far from mine, plus I need to go up on the floor above anyway." Long Feng replied. "STUPID MAN! You should say you are happy to do it! How dare you take it as it''s conveniently on the way." Nan Jing Jing curse in her mind. The duo walked together directly to Nan Jing Jing''s room first, and as they reach, Nan Jing Jing hugged Long Feng for a minute, and let him go before she rushed into her room, forgetting her two bags of ingredients. Five minutes later, Nan Jing Jing opened the door, and grabbed her two bags of ingredients, without looking on Long Feng''s eyes, and quickly close the door. "Why she hug me for?" Long Feng pondered the question. As he slowly walked up one floor back to his room. Below the building, the males are all filled with the fire of jealousy, and without any miss, it will surely cause trouble on tomorrow morning. Book 1 Chapter 18 - Peng Yun. Returned to his room, Long Feng first thing in mind is to take a deeper look at the piece of treasure he recently obtained from the exchanges that cost all his points. The charm of Light. When he held the piece of treasure, a very soft voice came out within his mind, telling him to "drop some blood of yours to activate it. The moment this treasure unveil itself, that''s when you are qualified to obtain it''s power." feeling like he had been hypnotized, Long Feng does as the voice in his mind telling him, and start to drop a few drips of blood to the Charm of Light. Receiving the few drops of blood from Long Feng, the Charm of Light started to shine dimly, with some veins of green flashes around the stone until it stops. A few minutes later, the light is gone, and the Charm of Light turned back into a lifeless stone once again. "Maybe I need to continue feeding it with blood until the Charm of Light is finally active." Long Feng convinced himself in his mind before he returned to the Blood Cleansing Pitcher Plant. Since it is already Sunday, the moment of refining the Blood Pill is once again here. Because this is the second time he has to refine the pill, Long Feng naturally goes to his meditating position as usual, and swallow the Blood Pill to begin his Cultivating refining. The process of refining the Blood Pill is relatively easy and due to the previous attempt of breaking through by using the Mystic Suction Pills already pull him close to entering the Middle Earth Refinement Tier, Long Feng leap past that stage with ease, as he continued to refine the Essence Qi within the pill. The procedure goes along for an exactly one hour. "Finally!" after meditating and tempering his cultivation through using the Blood Pill, Long Feng still successfully leap two stage and ended up with his cultivation at Late Earth Refinement Tier. But this time, instead of rushing to concoct another pill, he instead spends more of his time to continue to cultivate, and strengthen his foundation before he went to the Virtue Hall next morning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Young Lady, the master is very worried about your well being, please come with us back home." a cultivator in his Peak Practitioner Tier kneel in front of this lady trying to persuade the lady for following him back to his master''s home. "My lady, even your uncle Huang already kneel in front of you, do you want Uncle Guang to kneel as well?" another cultivator in his Peak Practitioner Tier slowly bend his knees as he talked. "I''m decided not to return until that brat understand my heart!" the young lady stands up and loudly state her condition for returning home, and start getting angry. "Uncle Huang, Uncle Guang, you both take care of me since I''m a baby until now, you know how stubborn I am when it came to this matters." "Please do not force me to return home, both uncle. I must have him follow me home before I return." The lady insisted that she will remain in the Bronze Pill Hall until she managed to bring that man home with her. "If in that case, both of us will remain within this Hall to protect you. Young Lady must remember to send a letter home to your father, or else it won''t be only both of us here, even your scary Uncle Yuan and Uncle Ming will be here. You don''t want them to force you all home am I correct?" the Uncle Huang explained before he walked towards the door exit. "Uncle Guang, please help me talk to my father." the lady politely ask for this uncle Guang''s help. "Young Lady, I know that this boy did save you from being infected by the Five Elemental Internal Poison, but he did it without himself knowing it as well." "I understand your wish to be with this brat, but please remember your own status as well, young lady. His background will not allow you to be with him, even if you force your father to accept it." Uncle Guang says. "Uncle Guang, don''t keep calling him brat! His name is Li Long Feng!" the young lady loudly corrected her uncle''s word. "Alright. Xiao Feng, am I correct? Young Lady, he is still a normal disciple with no special background. Even if he managed to learn as much he could, and inherit his master''s (Elder of Ointments) title, he is still not qualified to be with you." elder Guang stopped calling Long Feng brat, but he still doesn''t agree that they should be together. "I will make sure he have the better achievement and make father accept him to be with me." the lady reveal herself. This Young Lady true identity is actually Nan Jing Jing, who is also the only daughter of one of the highest official in the Brilliance Jade Kingdom. The only daughter of the General of Right, Great General Nan Gong Yu. Moments later, Uncle Guang noticed that the young lady is already in her beautiful dream before he silently vanished from the room. Within Nan Jing Jing''s dream, she remembered the moments when she was still five years old, and accidentally swallowed a pill given by a traitorous subordinate of her father before she went out to play. She usually protected by a few subordinates of her father each time she went out, but this time, due to the arrangement by the subordinate, she actually went out on her own. Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. And as the poison pill effect started to take action, Nan Jing Jing started to falls down and suffer the consequences, as her internal vein started to rupture from the effect. She soon vomited, and her body internal Essence Qi started to flows out from her orifice, until Long Feng timely arrival to the playground. Coincidently, that day is on Long Feng''s birthday, and he was allowed to play for a while outside until his mother work is finished. As he seen Nan Jing Jing is crying on the floor, Long Feng walked over to her and hugged her in his arms, and patted Nan Jing Jing''s head, telling her to not crying, and that he is beside her to play with her. In the same time, Long Feng''s Sky Elemental constitution automatically flows into Nan Jing Jing''s body and slowly removing the poison from her body, due to the Elemental natural ability, which is to clean and purify all impurities in a person''s body. That is also the reason why after the two of them spend a few hours hugging each other, Long Feng is attacked by a high fever, due to the over using his sky elemental qi, thus weakening his body. Although that day''s happening is known to Great General Nan and his subordinate, he chooses to not making up to Long Feng''s family, and silently have this matter kept in secret from others knowledge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday morning. Long Feng happily wake up, as he prepares himself to went to the Virtue Hall to meet his master as well to let his master knows about his improvement in cultivation. In the same time, he can''t wait to enter the Heaven and Earth Stabilizing Formation room, to further cultivate and strengthen his foundation strength. But before he managed to move more than a meter away from the residential area, he is blocked by a ground of disciple, lead by one of the senior within the outer division. "Kid, you are really something yesterday. How dare you show off in this outer division?" the leader of the group loudly speaks to Long Feng, showing off himself to everyone around. "This senior, did junior did something wrong?" Long Feng politely reply, but in his mind, he wishes that nothing more happened as he can''t wait to go to the Virtue Hall. "Of course you did something wrong! How dare you actually show your relationship within the hall each weekend with disciple Nan Jing Jing. Are you treating us senior as an invisible wall around you?" the senior started to bring the issue out and had Long Feng explain his actions. "Dear seniors, me and disciple Nan Jing Jing have nothing like what senior says. We just came back together from working in the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion." Long Feng explained. "Bullshit! If you are not interested with Junior Nan Jing Jing, why would you both go to the Pavilion together and return together? You are really despicable, how dare you mock your senior with this kind of lowly actions!" the senior getting even furious from Long Feng''s reply. Up above the second floor, Nan Jing Jing happily looked at the commotion, as she smiles sneakily and thinks in her mind what will the situation became. "Dear seniors, I am really not interested in continuing this argument with you all, can you allow me to proceed to Virtue Hall please?" Long Feng started to get slightly irritated, but he still tries to maintain a polite tone. "You wish! Today this senior will teach you a lesson, so you won''t continue being so ignorant and high above your head as you walk around the Outer Division." the senior take a step forward and started to perform his battle stance. "This senior, junior really have no intention to fight with you." Long Feng still maintain his politeness, in a bid to have this senior stop his intention to fight. "Shut Up! My name is Peng Yun, remember it!" Peng Yun started to move closer and closer to Long Feng''s position and started to take his action. "Xiao Ling, take this wooden sword to Long Feng." Nan Jing Jing withdraws a piece of a beautifully carved wooden sword with a YinYang drawing on the blade, and pass it to a female disciple named Xiao Ling to give it to Long Feng. "My lady, do not worry, subordinate will quickly pass this to the future young master." Xiao Ling jokes a little before she quickly runs to the spot. Long Feng swiftly move his body to escape the fist attack by Peng Yun, and slowly look for the weak point of his opponent before he makes his move. Although Long Feng''s cultivation is same with Peng Yun, who is also at Late Earth Refinement Tier, because he recently entered the stage, Long Feng dare not to risk himself to face Peng Yun''s attack face to face. Meanwhile for Peng Yun, seeing how Long Feng keeps evading each single attack of his, started to grow proud and confident with his own strength, as he notice that Long Feng dare not to retaliate him no matter what weakness he purposely show to Long Feng wide open. With his confidence is at the peak level, Peng Yun turned around and launch his best technique, the Ten Consecutive Chain Fist from his family martial arts, and tried to bring Long Feng down on his knees. "Junior Long Feng, catch this!" Xiao Ling reached the battle location, and throw the piece of the wooden sword towards Long Feng''s direction. Long Feng consider nothing, as he runs towards the sword and catches it in his hand. Noticing the smoothness and lightness of the wooden sword, Long Feng immediately unleashed his Defensive Wu Sword Art! Defensive Wu Sword Art VS Ten Consecutive Chain Fist! A Xuan Wu Sword Clan Martial Art, best in defense. Against the Ten Consecutive Chain Fist from a normal Peng Family. The result of the clash is easily guessed. Long Feng Sword Art not only managed to defend against all 10 strikes from Peng Yun easily, his sword even managed to lightly stabbed and slashed a few strikes on Peng Yun, causing both of his arm, his shoulder, and his waist be shaking due to pain. "Is that the Xuan Wu''s Defensive Wu Sword? I thought that art is only used to total defense." Xiao Ling noticed the difference in the martial art performed by Long Feng as well. "Now I know why even if she need to fight against both Elder Guang and Huang also she insists on bringing him home." Xiao Ling finally understands why the young lady insisted on bringing Long Feng home no matter what. "Argh! How dare you actually use a weapon during the fight! Did we agreed on using a weapon?" Peng Yun screamed loudly, and without bothering about others, he actually dared to blame Long Feng is at fault for using a weapon. "Senior brother, this junior just defending himself, please do not bear any ill intention on this junior." Long Feng kept the sword at his back, as he asks for a forgiveness again. "You ignorant brat, take this!" Peng Yun struggled for a while, and throw a piece of pill directly on Long Feng. "Yellow Heart Poison!" a senior that is pretty good in poison concoction immediately recognize the poison type used by Peng Yun. "Ha Ha Ha! With this poison, I will see how you are going to defend yourself against my next punch!" Peng Yun shamelessly speaks loudly, as he gathered a large amount of Essence Qi on his fist, and charged toward Long Feng. Peng Yun fist is seen entering the smoke area where the pill exploded, but before he managed to touch any of Long Feng''s vital part, a sword silhouette appeared within the smoke, and parried Peng Yun''s fist, and appeared Long Feng within the smokes. "Senior, this method of yours is slightly over my limit." Long Feng get close to Peng Yun before he places two Yellow Heart Poison Pill into Peng Yun''s mouth. "Take this as your punishment, and please excuse me, I need to head to my master''s private hall." Long Feng politely excuse himself, as Peng Yun falls to the ground, facing the disruption of Essence Qi due to the side effect of the poison. "He actually managed to defeat Senior Peng Yun!" one disciple shouted. "Haha, I really don''t dare to imagine that he is actually resistant from the Yellow Heart Poison attack." Xiao Ling thinks in her mind. "This senior sister, Xiao Feng is very thankful for your assistance of borrowing me this piece of a fine sword." Long Feng walked towards Xiao Ling and return the piece of wooden sword to her. "Keep it, this sword is given by my house lady for your usage." Xiao Ling explained and shakes her head to not taking back the wooden sword. "Oh... May I know the lady''s name please, senior sister?" Long Feng politely ask for the name. "You know her well, guess it yourself." Xiao Ling vaguely answers the question, and leave without any words. "Who? I only know Nan Jing Jing in the whole school." Long Feng thinks for a while, and start walking towards the Virtue Hall. Book 1 Chapter 19 - Forest of West Jade. As he entered the Virtue Hall, Long Feng failed to found his master anywhere within the hall, so he has no choice, but to attend the plants he supposed to, and prepare all the ingredient ready for his master when he returns. As he completed all the works he supposed to do, Long Feng invite himself into the Heaven and Earth Stabilizing Formation and starts meditating in the room. One hour, two hour and soon when the fourth hour is over, Long Feng finally feel comfortable with his current cultivation stability and exit the room. But he still failed to see his master. Disappointed, Long Feng entered his master room, only to found a piece of paper on the table. ~~~~~~~~~~ Urgent Notification Attention to all elders, due to the rising threat from the cultivation beast within the Forest of West Jade. The Three halls of Clear Jade City had decided that the issue shall be attended, and each hall shall distribute their disciples to reduce the threat from the rising population of the cultivation beast within the forest. Elder Tang Wen. Elder Tang Yao. Elder Tu Bo. This three elder would be assigned to temporary assist the other hall''s disciple and elder in the field of medicine, pills and ingredient preparations. An announcement would be made to recruit participants in helping with eliminating the beast population in the Forest of West Jade tomorrow. ~~~~~~~~~~ "Seems like master had been sent to the leadership camp for the three Halls Alliance." Long Feng guess what happened since his master is not around the hall today. "Since that''s the case, I guess I will keep the ingredients on the shelves, and let master withdraw them to use later." Long Feng place the ingredient he recently harvests today into the shelves, and return to his room immediately. That night, Long Feng drips some blood on the Charm of Light once again, and see how the piece of treasure absorb his blood instantly. Later, Long Feng spend some time to meditate and also taking care of his Atlas Worm before he went to sleep. The next morning, Long Feng and the others are woken by the loud noise coming from the open area below the residential building. "Listen Carefully!" an elder stands up on a stone podium and speaks loudly. "Currently the cultivation beast within the Forest of West Jade is over populated, and due to this matter, many cultivation beasts started to try entering the city outskirt and attacking many of the resident''s livestock." "And because of this matter, many troops has fallen due to the ambush by the beast, and we are spending a large sum of money to recruit more soldiers and strengthen the city defense." "Now, the three halls finally decided to recruit the hall disciple to participate in eliminating the beast population, and rewards will be given to the disciple for each of their kills." "They are also will be allowed to keep the resources or product obtained from the beast, and under the agreement of the three Halls, we are allowed to visit the other halls to exchange for treasures, and also to request for things you may require." "Martial Hall would be offering Refinement Tier and Adept Tier martial arts for exchange, the Culture Hall will be giving a special price if any disciple brings them the required products and ingredients to create any weapons and tools. The Pill Hall will also concoct the pills for the disciples from all three halls as long they provide the ingredients required." "If you are interested in participating, come here to register and obtain a piece of Recording Tablet which will absorb the beast Qi that you killed, and allows you to keep a record on the total number of beasts you had killed." "You can start registering now!" the elder finally finishes his announcement, and start to awaits the disciple to come over for registration. Instantly, a large number of disciple rushed to register themselves, and immediately pack up and depart for the camp provided by the three Halls management. Without losing his chance, Long Feng went over to participate as well, and return to his room to prepare. "Long Feng." Nan Jing Jing appeared outside of his room. "Oh, sister Jing Jing. Are you going for the culling beast mission too?" Long Feng greets her and asks if she will go as well. "No, I didn''t. I know you participate in this mission. Just make sure you are careful during your mission." Nan Jing Jing replied. "I will, thank you. If you are not going for the mission, can I ask you for a little help?" Long Feng turned over with the Blood Cleansing Pitcher Plant and the Atlas Worm on the plant. "What do you need me to help with?" Nan Jing Jing looked at Long Feng and smile. "Can I entrust you to take care of this Pitcher Plant and Atlas Worm when I am not around?" Long Feng bring that pot of Pitcher plant with Atlas Worm to Nan Jing Jing. "Sure, I will make sure they are well until you come back." "Just... Make sure you come back, alright?" Nan Jing Jing looked at Long Feng with full affection. "I will." Long Feng look at her teary eyes and agreed without any thinking. With Nan Jing Jing leave the room with the pot of plant, Long Feng readied to depart, until he remembered that piece of Wooden Sword on the corner of his bed. "I totally forget about thanking her for giving me this Wooden Sword." Long Feng smiles in his heart. Immediately, he makes his way and followed the other disciples as they went to the Forest of West Jade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Alright, Kids! Listen carefully!" A very bulky elder stands on top of a stage, as he starts delivering a speech. "Within the Forest, you are allowed to hunt any cultivation beast within, but be very careful with your own life and capability as well." "Although there aren''t any higher than Adept Tier cultivation beast inside the forest, some older beast might possess strength close to Practitioner Tier within the forest."This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. "Usage of Poison, Martial arts, Hidden Weapon or any other tactics is allowed, but we hope no killing among each other when we are here. If you have any hidden intention or hatred between halls or groups, keep it for now, and release when the city is not in trouble." "Now is about the rewards." "For every 10 Beast Soul Qi you managed to record, you will be rewarded with 100 Spirit Bronze Coins." "If you killed a Refinement Tier Beast, they worth 1 Soul Qi, and if you managed to kill an Adept Tier beast, you will be rewarded with 2 Soul Qi." "If you are prepared and ready, go ahead and happy hunting." "I wish you all luck in your hunt! Try to come back alive and not dead because of hatred and greed!" the bulky elder finished his speech, and prepare to get down from the stage. With a scream from a few front most cultivators, the participating disciple all charges into the forest with their weapon ready, and only a few of them still remain standing at the entrance point. One of them is Long Feng. "I will enter the forest when the crowd is getting lesser. If I enter now, it would only result in a waste of energy, and also fight among each other just to obtain the soul of a cultivation beast." "The elder words is purposely to warn us not to fight among each other because the worst situation could happen is when the cultivators are fighting against each other just for a slight benefit." Long Feng waits until the crowd within the forest started to disappear from his sight before he makes a move. Holding a Wooden Sword on his hand, Long Feng proceed slow and careful, while the other cultivator behind him mock him for his poor quality of choice in weapons. "What a loser, bringing a wooden sword to slay the cultivation beast? Did he learn the martial art of cutting beast with wooden sticks?" some disciple from Martial Hall loudly mock Long Feng as he walks into the forest. "Little kid, if you need a sword, let this senior know. I am one of the weaponry masters in the Culture Hall, I can give you a steel sword if you really can''t afford it!" another disciple from Culture Hall speaks loudly, to make sure Long Feng could hear. But Long Feng choose to Ignore them. Remembering what Han Feng Xian tells him, he calmly entered the forest, and slowly follows some blood trails so he could meet some cultivation beast the further he entered. A Wooden Sword could still kill, while a sharp Blade could still save a life. How a weapon is used are controlled by the cultivator. Ignoring the others mocking words, Long Feng goes deeper into the forest, and his luck is pretty good for his first encounter, as he managed to met two Gigantic Silk Beetle walking around looking for foods. Long Feng prepare his stance, as he charges forward and makes a heavy slash towards a side of the beetle''s legs. A strong impact forced two among three of the first beetle''s right leg to be amputated, as it struggles to run away from Long Feng. He gives the beetle no chance, as he leaps upwards and landed on top of the Gigantic Silk Beetle, and stabbed directly into its head, killing the first Gigantic Silk Beetle without any difficulties. But the second one managed to obtain a few seconds to prepare, as it shoot all the silky liquid towards Long Feng, to stop him from moving around. Long Feng is shocked for a moment before he remembered the special traits of the Gigantic Silk Beetle. "The silk collected from the Gigantic Silk Beetle is mainly used to create a good quality Clothing and hard to cut ropes, so the way of collecting the silk is to roll them instead of cutting them." "I am pretty lucky in this part because my wooden sword is not made of steel, so the silk doesn''t stick on the sword surface!" Long Feng turn his sword, as he tried to roll up the drying silk sprayed by the second Gigantic Silk Beetle. Placing the ball of Silk in the pouch he prepared, Long Feng charged towards the beetle and managed to kill it quickly before the beetle managed to run. He cut open the abdomen of both of the beetle, to collect their sack containing the liquid silk, and extract it to make a few ball of silk before he kept all of it in his pouch. Long Feng walk deeper into the forest with full caution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Elder Tang Wen, Elder Tang Yao, please help!" two elder carrying two disciples on their arms, and quickly enter the camp to allow both elders to check on the disciple. "This is not good. If there is a sign of this beast poison, this could mean the forest is infested by this beast!" Elder Tang Yao comment, as he treating the disciple''s poisoned legs. "this is not all. This disciple here is injured by a plant. I''m worried the forest is not as simple as we thought." Elder Tang Wen commented as well. "What is the concern about this beast and plant? Both elder please explain." the two elder, one from Culture Hall and another from Martial Hall quickly ask for some explanations. "This beast is called as the Venom King Bullfrog. This beast possesses poisonous claws that hidden in its flesh, and also poisonous skins that would spread its venom by touching or touched by it. Although this Venom King Bullfrog is hunted by some poison cultivator to concoct poison pills, most of them are used to concoct for antidote purposes, because for safety reasons." "They can breed from one to two bullfrog into at least a thousand in a week. So if the forest is infested by this Venom King Bullfrog, I''m afraid we will need to quickly eliminate them as soon as possible, because the more the forest is infested with them, the more poisonous beast will start to gather in the forest, and force other cultivation beasts to come out into where human lived." Elder Tang Yao explained. "This plant is called as Seven Thorns Snakeroots. The pill master has to be very careful in handling this plant because of their poisonous thorns, and its dangerously out spitting saps. Only the withering snakeroots can be harvested to concoct into cultivating medicine and also as antidotes, but in this moment, handling this poison is very difficult, because the poison is very difficult to expel." "If there is more of this plant within the forest, we elders must enter the forest as well to look for its withering trees, or else those that are poisoned will have a difficult time to heal, at worst, they might be dead if the poison they inflicted is in deadly dosage." Elder Tang Wen is worried as he explained. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There is so many wild herbs within the forest. Luckily I bring along my furnace and also medicinal refining tools." Long Feng happily harvest the tools around him and doesn''t notice the danger closing to him. "I wonder why I didn''t meet with any Cultivation Beast after I get deeper into the forest. Did the earlier group really managed to kill off a lot of them?" "It should be impossible, Cultivation Beast is very territorial, so if there aren''t any in this area, that means there is some other stronger beast is controlling this area I am within for now." Long Feng smartly guessed the reason why there aren''t any beast within this small spot he recently stopped to gather the ingredients. "if in that case, why kind of beast that is purposely making its nest in places with many herbs but doesn''t eat it?" Long Feng quickly went through the list containing Beast that cultivates and live through eating and hunting other more docile Cultivation Beast, and instantly obtained an answer. "This is bad, I am within the Great Stone Dragon Lizard nest. If I stay here for long, the lizard will come to me without warning. I am still lucky because the lizard didn''t charge at me when I am busy harvesting its herbs." Long Feng quickly pack up the ingredient he cleaned and separated, and ready to leave from this location. The reason he is leaving is not that the cultivation strength of the beast is higher, but it was due to the difficulties of injuring the beast and the lack of resources to be collected from the beast, so this beast is usually left aside unless the harvest for the day is really poor. But before he manages to take the second step away, the lizard is already here to stop its prey from leaving! "It''s really around me, luckily I am well prepared to defend myself." Long Feng calmly swing his wooden sword to repel the lizard''s claw attack. The lizard continues its attack by swinging its heavy tail, and Long Feng make a leap towards the front and managed to get close to the lizard and make a stab towards the lizard''s belly area. But because of its hardened stone-like scales is protecting the side of its belly, Long Feng failed to stab into its flesh. And that stab cause the lizard to become furious! "This Human is trying to kill me first! I will eat him whole!" the lizards thinks, as it gets even furious and charges towards Long Feng without any hesitation. "I think I made this beast angry." Long Feng thinks in his mind, as he started to launch his Defensive Wu Sword Art. The two clashed, and with each claw strike the lizard tried to land on Long Feng, it is parried away by Long Feng without a miss. Long Feng pays full attention to defending himself, as he knows how deadly it is if he was hit by one of its attacks. "Weakness!" Long Feng long awaited time finally came, as he successfully makes the lizard jump up to attack him. Through this action, the Lizard revealed its weaker lower belly hidden touching the ground and allowed Long Feng to make his move. STAB! SLASH OPEN! Long Feng quickly launch two consecutive strikes at once and had the lizard''s belly wide opened. All the internal organ dropped to the floor, as Long Feng launch another strike to take its life away. A stab directly from its opened jaw, all the way to its brain! But Long Feng noticed something came out from its skull as he ends the Great Stone Dragon Lizard life. "What is this piece of pearl doing in its head?" Long Feng take a look on that beautiful shining piece of pearl but kept it as he can see no reaction from the piece of treasure. "Drain the Blood, Skin the leather, refine and prepare the spine bone and leg bone for future refining usage." Long Feng quickly prepare the dead lizard''s carcasses and proceed to enter deeper into the forest. Book 1 Chapter 20 - Upcoming Danger. "What a good gain. Meeting a nest full of the Gigantic Silk Beetle with most of its larvae still within the nest moving." Long Feng happily harvest the nest and the Cultivation Beast within. Although it seems very ruthless when Long Feng is harvesting the whole nest altogether with the larvae that recently born within, in the nature of life, the strong will always rule the weak. Looking at the Larvae that are good to be nicely prepare so the internal fluid could be used to made as some Essence Qi healing medicine, as well the Liquid Silk Sack that obtainable from the Adult Beetle, Long Feng happily keep all the produce in his pouch, as he being thankful for being sacrifice to make his life better. Long Feng continue his journey, and on the first night, a total of 10 portions of Silk from the Gigantic Silk Beetle, 4 portions of Silk Larvae Fluid, 5 portion of Wild Black Bitter Mint and 3 portions of 10-Years Old Wild Ginseng. He currently has a portion of Blood from the Great Stone Dragon Lizard, and also its Spine and Leg Bone, and its leather in his inventory awaiting for a decision to be made on them. Other than that, one more piece of unknown pearl is within the inventory as well, giving Long Feng a question on what can be made from using the pearl. On Wednesday morning, Long Feng proceed slowly with caution, as he gets deeper into the forest. Although his yesterday exploration is going very well, this doesn''t make Long Feng getting overconfidence with his own capability. Long Feng keeps one important mindset the moment he agreed to participate in this Cultivation Beast Slaying Mission. "Always pay 110% of caution as he proceeds deeper into the forest, and do not put himself in a pointless struggle." This is also the reason why Long Feng proceeds from one spot to another carefully and being thankful by manage to obtain some good resources for refining in future. The moment he walks deeper into the forest by almost a mile distance, Long Feng noticed the difference of Essence Qi within this area. "What happened with the Essence Qi around this area? It is extremely dark and impure, this is impossible unless the area is polluted by poisoned by very strong Dark Essence Qi." Long Feng tell himself, as he felt suffocated only by being within that area. He spends no time to continue standing there doing nothing. Since Long Feng innate elemental compatibility is with Wood Element, he immediately injects a large amount of Wood Elemental Qi into the trees near to his position to purify it and allows the tree to start releasing positive and pure Essence Qi once again. But after spending a total of one hour exactly to complete the initial task, Long Feng actually failed to purify even one single tree, and end up wasting a large amount of his Essence Qi in the effort. Feeling that he could no longer continue doing anything here, Long Feng quickly leave this spot, due to the difficulty to absorb nearby Essence Qi into his body. Only after he successfully leave the poisoned location, Long Feng managed to replenish his Essence Qi once again. But he noticed that the more he absorb the Essence Qi around him, the faster the poison infection spreads because the poisoned location slowly spread nearby between him. "This is not the solution methods. I must try to get close to the location where this Poison spread, and start to remove it. If I don''t do this, very quickly the forest will become a location for Extremely Ferocious Beast to nest." Long Feng tell himself. One of the main responsibility of being a Pill Master is to contribute towards the kingdom''s safety and help to manage the kingdom''s natural lands. Since the land belonged to the kingdom is cultivatable, each single Hall has a major responsibility to help maintain the landmark, to ensure long lasting cultivating resources continued to be supplied. Long Feng replenished his body''s Essence Qi, and make a haste to enter the poisoned area once again. Since the motive of this exploration is only to quickly look for the reason why this location is poisoned, Long Feng move from one spot to another, and make a quick scanning of the surrounding area to determine which location is more concentrated with the Impure Dark Essence Qi. On and off, Long Feng repeated the action again and again for half day and finally managed to obtain the source of the spreading of Impure Dark Essence Qi. "This is the Seven Thorn Snakeroot!" Long Feng finally obtained the main reason why this area is in such condition. If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. "To completely purify this spot of the forest, I must quickly refine an antidote to feed to the trees, so they could slowly remove the parasitic Seven Thorn Snakeroot from its trunk." Long Feng quickly consider his options. "Luckily I have a portion of the Blood from the Great Stone Dragon Lizard. If I make it carefully, perhaps I could manage to refine between 5 to 10 parts of antidote, to start feeding the trees." Long Feng decide with his option, as he currently has a restriction on ingredients to create an antidote for now. "One Portion of 10-Years Old Wild Ginseng, dried with Fire Elemental QI and grounded into powder, One Portion of Black Bitter Mint, crushed for its bitterness freshness, and one portion of the Silk Larvae Fluid, slowly boiled with Fire Elemental Qi as well!" "Cut open each single thorn to expose its spine, and collect a total of 7 different venoms in the same quantity, and mix them together with the blood of the lizard to form a Poisoned Blood Sample and refine by thoroughly mixing the sample together with the remaining three ingredients." Long Feng slowly prepare the ingredients and refine it accordingly to the Poison Concoction Knowledge workpiece by Poison Master Gu Cao Xun. Long Feng spend a great amount of effort to safely refine the blood sample, and with each poison type within the sample is successfully purified, the blood sample started to turn brighter by a shade. Starting from Dark Scarlet color, it started to turn into more into maroon color, and later like burgundy shade, one could see from a red vine, and soon it turned into a darkened ruby color, able to see through but still cloudy. Very soon, it turned again, into a solid red color, like how a ripe strawberry should be before it turned once again into a light orange background, vermilion color. Lastly, the final type of poison is successfully purified, allowing the blood to turn into a shiny, burning Lava red color. Seeing the concoction finally matured and purified into the best quality, he quickly separate the concoction into six equal parts, and thoroughly refine it until they formed and hardened into a form of a pill. "Success! A total of 6 pieces of Seven Snake Curing Pill is nicely concocted." Long Feng is very satisfied with his results. But from spending a total of 70 minutes in refining the Antidote for curing the Seven Snake Disease, and another 10 minutes to form them into edible pills, Long Feng had to quickly escape from this poisoned area, so he could escape from being landed into the same situation as the plants. Luckily, his stable cultivation is strong enough to protect him, as Long Feng barely escapes from the poisoned area. Holding the six Seven Snake Curing Pill, Long Feng quickly distribute them to the trees by smearing it into the roots of each single tree. By injecting some of the Wood Elemental Qi into each single tree, Long Feng enhanced their nutrient absorption ability and quickly helps the tree to remove the Seven Snake Disease so they could start releasing Clean Essence Qi once again. Through this effort, Long Feng finally successfully halt the spreading of the Seven Snake Disease Poison and regain a small foothold for him to stay for a while longer. "I will have to rest a short while now and continue to look for surrounding area to obtain more blood to create more antidotes. Long Feng tell himself as he meditates and absorbs the nearby Essence Qi to rejuvenates himself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Elder Tang! Please help this disciple!" a few injured disciples is struggling to get into the Medical Camp, and trying to obtain help from the elders within. "Elder, this disciple have a report to make! A few disciples from our hall has reported that a large area within the deeper forest is infected by the Seven Snake Disease, originated from the Seven Thorn Snakeroots. Currently, a few disciples that still within the deeper forest is struggling to concoct some antidote to tackle the situation, but due to a large amount of Cultivation Beast close to the outer forest is killed and wasted, we are in need of fresh beast blood to allow the concoction of the antidote." A Pill Hall disciple entered to report to Elder Tang Yao and Elder Tang Wen. "Elder Tu Bo, is there any report from your disciples as well?" Elder Tang Yao quickly inquire about Elder Tu Bo''s side of the report. "I have yet to receive any words from my disciple, I hope all of them are assisting other elders disciple as well." Elder Tu Bo replied, showing a face full of worries. One of the reasons Elder Tu Bo shows a deeper concern is due to most of the disciples under his wing is all specialized with procuring and hunting Cultivation Beast for their supply of produce. Since this forest is recently reported that it is heavily infested by the Venom King Bullfrog, Elder Tu Bo is the most affected by the news, as his disciples might not so well prepare to face this Beast and its poisonous venom. And within the forest... In the deeper forest area, about sixty miles to the west from Long Feng''s position. A great number of Venom King Bullfrog is happily leaping around this area, and below a few of the beast''s legs, is a total of 14 dead cultivators, all died due to the poison originated from the Venom King Bullfrogs. In between the dead cultivators, four of them is Elder Tu Bo''s disciples. While in the location 25 miles north from Long Feng''s position, A very dangerous Cultivation Beast is awake from its slumber. King Land Shark Ferocious Beast - Tempera Cultivation Strength - Early Human Adept Tier, Innate Born Darkness Earth Elemental Beast. Age - 4 Years Old Human Age / 40 years Old Beast Age (Children Stage) Treasure: Gemstone Fangs / Earth Obsidian Carapace / Adept Tier Beast Marrow / Adept Tier Soul Pearl / Adept Tier Beast Blood ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Long Feng finally awakes, as the moon is starting to reveal its shine. The time is midnight. It is also the most active period for the forest beast to start scavenging for foods and fights for survival. As he stands up to choose a direction to move, Long Feng noticed something had already stalked him the moment he starts moving. Three Gigantic Silk Beetle is ready to lunge itself towards Long Feng''s position to press him down, and also a total of 5 Silk Larvae is preparing to move in to enjoy their meal. Slightly far from them, a pair of Great Earth Dragon Lizard is paying attention to take advantages from what is going to happen in between. "So, now I am the one hunted this time? Bring it on! I will show you who will win in the end!" Long Feng held the Wooden Sword tight on his right hand and preparing to launch his Defensive Wu Sword Art as the Gigantic Silk Beetle charge into him. Book 1 Chapter 21 - Alliance, No More. "Defensive Wu Sword Art!" Long Feng swing his sword and keep a tight defensive formation to protect himself from the incoming attack. Bang! Bang! Two loud strikes are heard, as Long Feng''s Wooden Sword parried the two lunging attack from two of the three Gigantic Silk Beetle. But he can''t try to move yet, as he is unsure with the third beetle. Instead of lunging into where Long Feng is standing, It turned around and tried to spit the Silk Liquid towards Long Feng, to disrupt Long Feng''s sword dance formation and also to stop him from escaping. "As expected!" Long Feng twist his sword hard, to roll the Silk Liquid that was sprayed towards his direction, and have the silk turned into a ball on the tip of his wooden sword. "EAT THIS!" Long Feng take two steps behind, and make a quick turn to face one of the beetles, and smack the ball of silk on the sword tip, and had the beetle tightly pressed into the ground. Losing its foothold, the beetle tried to escape, but to no avail, as Long Feng flung away the ball, and let it falls on the ground between Long Feng and the remaining two beetle. Long Feng then stab as hard as he could and kill the first beetle of the night. Two of the five larvae tried to escape as they heard the scream of the beetle when it''s stabbed on the head by Long Feng, but Long Feng managed to catch up with two of the larvae, as he stepped as hard as he could to crushed their brains. One larva managed to escape. Two more remain in the vicinity hesitates to move and hesitates to attack. One Gigantic Silk Beetle ran off, leaving one more remain around Long Feng. Far away from the fight, the running beetle is killed and being separated into two parts, as the two Great Earth Dragon Lizard swallow it into their bellies. Long Feng take his step. One step closer to the Beetle, another to the larvae. The beetle hesitates to move, as Long Feng gets into 5 step distance from the beetle. He takes one more steps closer to the larvae, and since the larvae are yet to move anywhere, Long Feng waste no chance, and perform a slash towards the stunned larvae! The head of the larvae instantly chopped off, while Long Feng perform another hard stomp, destroying the remaining brain of the Silk Larvae. This time, the remaining Gigantic Silk Beetle decided to run. But as the beetle turned around, it was bitten by one of the lizards that managed to sneaks close to the beetle unnoticed. Another remaining lizard slowly crept towards Long Feng, thinking itself managed to camouflaged well. Long Feng then prepare himself to receive two attacks from both front and side. The lizard by his side jump and lunged towards Long Feng! The lizard by the front tried to bite Long Feng as it moves closer. How about Long Feng? He steps closer towards the lizard on the front, as he makes a stab straight towards the lizard''s jaw. Long Feng tactic is successful! The lizard by the front has its brain pierced through from its jaw, as a same mysterious pill pops out from the soft lizard''s skull. The lizard that has its lunge attack missed, hesitates for a moment and tried to escape. It''s not that simple. Long Feng grab a piece of rock and throw it hard towards where the lizard is expected to pass as it escapes. That piece of rock managed to hit the head of the lizard, and as it stunned for a moment, Long Feng stabbed the lizard from the angle between its eyes and had it brain destroyed into two parts. Similarly, a pearl pops from the skull. Long Feng hesitates not, as he quickly runs around the fighting zone, and harvest the produce dropped by the dead beast. Long Feng managed to obtain two more sets of the Lizard''s Spine and Leg Bone, Skinned Lizard''s Leather, Lizard''s Blood and also two more mysterious Pearl. He also obtained 4 portions of Silk Larvae Fluid and also 2 portions of Silk from the Gigantic Silk Beetle. "I guess after two more times of attempt of concocting the antidote to control the Seven Snake Disease Poison, I will need to return to the camp to make some additional equipment to protect myself." Long Feng reconsider his plan as he checked his inventory, and looked around him before he starts refining the antidote once again. This time, Long Feng take a lesson from his previous attempt on refining the antidote. Instead of directly refine the antidote on the spot, Long Feng collects two portions of the venom from the Seven Thorn Snakeroots and returned to the unaffected spot before he starts refining the antidote.The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. Long Feng then successfully refined a total of 11 Antidote Pills and successfully help 11 trees to remove the disease. Finally, Long Feng decided it is the time he returns to the camp for some preparations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Where are the Culture Hall elders?" the Martial Hall elder shouts loudly in the center of the Mission Camp. "Elder Tai Tan, please calm down!" one disciple cowardly cooldown the elder''s temper as he stands behind him. "How can I get calm now? Six of my disciple is dead, and four from the Pill Hall is dead as well. What is the Culture Hall''s elder doing now?" Elder Tai Tan angrily shouts as he mentioned the casualty recently reported by the scouting team. "Elder Tai Tan, please cooldown." three Elder appeared within the Culture Hall main camp. Between them, one of them is known as Elder Cao Ren. The other two elder is known as Elder Fang Mu and Elder Cai Mao. "Finally those from Culture Hall willing to appear in front of me now. Cao Ren, tell me what happened from your side!" Elder Tai Tan loudly shouted. "What are you trying to hear from us now? Are you intend to blame the Culture Hall disciple because we are slightly late from appearing in the public?" Elder Cao Ren angrily replied. "Humph! From my scout''s report, the 10 bodies from the mix of Pill Hall and Martial Hall disciples are all believed to be dead from the cause of poisoning and killed by the beast later. But only the 4 disciples from the Culture Hall is found dead slightly ten to fifteen steps away from the group. What are your explanations?" Elder Tai Tan throws the question. "What do you want me to answer? If the Martial Hall disciple managed to thoroughly defend the situation, will this incident happened in the first place?" Elder Cao Ren angrily replied one again. "Elder Tu Bo, four of your disciple is dead in this incident, what is your actions?" Elder Cao Ren stared at Elder Tu Bo and awaits his answer. "You two dare to loudly scream here while I am trying to take not taking any actions regarding this matter. Do you think that your disciple is perfectly correct in this part?" "The ten disciples from you both combined is actually taking advantages from my disciple, and expect my disciple to provide them with all type of pills under the pretending of protecting my disciples." "When the fight begin, what is your disciples is doing when my four disciples are under the attack and poisoned by the Venom King Bullfrog?" Elder Tu Bo angrily replied them, as he stared with anger towards that two elders. "That is Pill Hall Disciple''s duty to provide medication if required, I see nothing wrong with this!" Elder Tai Tan loudly replied without a sense of shame. "The Culture Hall disciple is not as despicable as what you are trying to imply. I believe that my four students are all well prepared for the danger when they travel altogether, sometimes this is just a matter of luck." the elder Cao Ren also replied without a raise in his tone. "A matter of luck you said??" Elder Tu Bo is started to get more offended as he sees how Elder Cao Ren react. "I guess this means that the nobody is willing to take the fault for this incident?" Elder Tai Tan came up in between and started to talk it out. "If this is the case, I guess we can only take care of our own disciple then. You two, handle your own fights, and do not come to bother us from Martial Hall unless you feel like begging for it." Elder Tai Tan finished his word and returned to their own Martial Camp to handle his own matters. "If that''s how the Martial Hall wanted, the Culture Hall with follow with the decision, disciples, return the other hall disciples material and ingredients, we have much to do to protect ourselves." Elder Cao Ren finished his word and return to his own camp as well. "Elder Tu Bo... Do we need to do the same thing as well?" a few disciple started to ask for his decision. "Return their ingredients, from now on we will only refine medicine and pills for our own Hall disciples, if others need it, ask them to buy it from us or return to the town to replenish themselves!" Elder Tu Bo decided, and pass on the order to all the other disciples. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As Long Feng finally returned to the camp, the atmosphere within the camp felt eerily quiet and dangerous. Disciples from the three halls only gathered in their own camp, and nobody actually making a conversation with each other. "What happened between the three camps? Why nobody is speaking with each other. I can''t even see a single disciple from the either hall to speak with each other." Long Feng started to notice the differences. "Get the hell away from us! Since you don''t know what happened between the halls, this senior will let you go, but I will confiscate this Feral Wolf Spine Bone as a lesson." A Culture Hall disciple, with a strength similar to Long Feng, is kicking a Pill Hall disciple for bothering him to smelt a weapon. "This senior, your attitude is too overbearing. The three hall should be cooperating with each other to solve the issue within the forest, and yet the disciple within the three halls is actually bullying each other, what could be achieved if we do not even understand the reason why we are here for this mission?" Long Feng defended the Pill Hall disciple, and throw a speech of justice towards the Culture Hall disciple. Some other nearby disciples from different hall laughed upon hearing what Long Feng just said. "Idiot. Now each hall is bothering only themselves, if he tried to barge in and cause some issue, maybe the elders will come out to give him a lesson." one disciple from the Martial Hall commented. "Or maybe they will kill him to give the other rebellious disciple a warning. I heard that Elder Cao Ren from the Culture Hall actually possess a martial art called as the Star Lightning Hammer Strike? I wish I could have a look at how it''s performed." another disciple from Pill Hall commented. "This Senior, please do not take offense." Long Feng give a prior warning before he pushed away the feet of the Culture Hall disciple. "Heh, seems like the weaklings from the Pill Hall is actually have a few small fangs Afterall." the senior disciple commented before he turned around and leave. But that''s after he noticed that Long Feng already grabbed the Spine Bone from the Feral Wolf Beast back to his fellow disciple. "Brother, can you tell me what happened?" Long Feng give a hand to help the Pill Hall brother to stand and tried to get some news regarding what happened recently. "Thank you, fellow brother. I am not too sure about it myself, but I heard from others conversation, the three halls actually break up from the alliance and will only bother to handle their own disciple in this mission." "This is due to the incident that happened yesterday noon, a total of 14 disciple is reported dead during the mission because the encountered the Venom King Bullfrog during their attempt to explore deeper into the forest." the pill hall disciple explained. Roughly obtained some information regarding what happened, Long Feng wait for nothing, but directly heads toward the Elder''s Camp for people from the Pill Hall, and quickly looked for his master. "Master, Xiao Feng greet master." Long Feng finally found his master in the main camp, and quickly report to him what he recently saw within the forest. Book 1 Chapter 22 - Soul Essence Pearls. Tempera Starts Hunting. "Dear master, Xiao Feng found out that the forest is infected with the Seven Snake Disease Poison. Disciple managed to create some antidote and help a total of 16 trees to fight the poison, and control a small part of land from continue releasing the Impure Dark Essence Qi, but Xiao Feng''s ability is limited, so I can only return to look for master''s guidance to teach me what I will need to do." Long Feng explained as he stands behind Elder Tang Wen. "Xiao Feng, it is good you are safe. Did you hear about what recently happened between the three Halls?" Elder Tang Wen asked. "Yes, master. Xiao Feng heard from a fellow disciple regarding what happened, so I guessed the materials Xiao Feng obtained from the mission could not be processed or refined now." Long Feng replied but showing a slightly disappointed expression. "Do not worry. Although the Halls is no longer cooperating with each other, Master does know one very experienced Culture Hall disciple. Come and follow master to meet this Culture Master." Elder Tang Wen asked Long Feng to follow him as he pays a visit to this Culture Master. "Xiao Feng thanked master for introducing this Culture Master to help Xiao Feng to obtain some help in refining the materials." Long Feng make a bow toward his master and quickly follow him from behind as his master take a walk outside of the camp. After walking for a total of half an hour, both of them finally end up outside a small hut, located not too close and not too far from where the three Halls is building their Camp. The Hut has no entrance in its front side, where some big piece of chopped wood is nicely stacked on one side, and a stump at least 100 meters is the diameter, is just beside the stack. A low 1-metre height fence is built all around the hut, and a track of footpath can be seen leading from the entrance between the fence, directly going to the back of the hut. As they walked together to the back of the hut, Elder Tang Wen start speaking. "Little friend, This uncle is here to see you." Elder Tang Wen nicely speaks, as he getting close to the back of the hut. "Uncle Tang, what brings you here today?" a young man, but seems like a dwarf instead of a man, is seen sitting at the back of the hut, with a nice firewood furnace beside him, and also an anvil behind where he sat. Long Feng take a clearer look on this so called a friend of his master. This dwarfed looking man is only at a 1.3-meter height, and weight around 50 kilograms. Yet his essence within the body can give a feeling of facing a monster as strong as his master cultivation as he tried to check the person''s strength. "Xiao Feng, let master introduce this Culture Master to you to befriend with. His name is Yang Jian." Elder Tang Wen introduced Yang Jian to Long Feng to befriend with. "This junior pay a respect upon meeting this senior. How are you? Junior is called Long Feng, and I am Elder Tang Wen''s disciple in the Pill Hall." Long Feng introduce himself and give him a positive impression, as Long Feng know how well mannered is his master when meeting important guest and friends. "Ha Ha Ha, young junior, do not be too humble in front of this small man. As what your master says, my name is Yang Jian, and I am a Culture Master. But I am not affiliated with the Culture Hall because of a certain clash in personal matters." "Tell me, Uncle Tang, what''s making you bring your disciple to me today? I thought the three Halls is running a mission to subjugate the population of Cultivation Beast at the moment?" Yang Jian smile as he acknowledges and accept Long Feng''s introduction, and tried to see what is Elder Tang Wen''s reason for purposely bring Long Feng to befriend with him. "As what I tell you before, I want you to support my this beloved disciple like how you support me last time when we just know each other." Elder Tang Wen explain the reasons and make Long Feng have a question in his mind. (Does this means that Master''s current equipment and some treasures actually came from this Culture Master''s creation?) "Of course I would. How long have we known each other until now? And this is the first time you bring me a guest, except Tang Yao of course." Yang Jian happily accepts Elder Tang Wen''s request. "So, let me see what you have in your bag that required me to help you do some refining." Yang Jian motivates Long Feng to take out the treasure he managed to obtain within the Forest of West Jade.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. "Senior, Xiao Feng managed to obtained a total of 3 sets of Great Stone Dragon Lizard Spine and Leg Bone, Skinned Leather and also three piece of white pearl." Long Feng revealed the item he recently obtained. "There is also a total of 12 Gigantic Silk Beetle''s Silk ball here from the insect beast." Long Feng take out the final kind of item he obtained. "Oh, did you mentioned three of the pearls from the Great Stone Dragon Lizard?" Yang Jian eyes opened wide as he heard and seen the three-piece of pearl on the working table. "Some cultivators use their whole life hunting for a single pearl, and received none, and yet you, a little child, actually managed to get three from three lizards you hunted. How good is your luck?" Yang Jian sighs for a short while before he continued to take a clearer look on each of the pearl. "The quality and capacity of each pearl are extremely clean, clearly this three lizard is quite a picky eater when they are still alive. I think I have a very great blueprint in my mind that can be made from this three pearls." Yang Jian continued, as he slowly moves his hand onto the spine bones and the lizard''s leather. "Seeing from the way this leather is skinned, you must be quite well trained in the art of swords. And yet the leather contain such clean cuts and also a layer of the essence to protect its freshness, you must have a very good Sky Elemental Compatibility." Yang Jian commented. "Yes senior. Xiao Feng has an excellent compatibility with Sky Element." Long Feng replied. "It is good, but let me tell you. The leather of any beast shall be nicely cooked with a very good and steady heat from the Fire Element Qi so they are well cared to be ready to use in the best quality. Although the Sky Element could preserve the freshness of the product, it is only good if the product is medicine related, food related. For those such as weapon or equipment, a well cured and processed product is preferable." Yang Jian explained. "This time, I will personally help you to prepare all this ingredient to make an item for you, but remember that next time, it would be on your own that you will need to prepare it before giving it to me, do you understand?" Yang Jian continued. "Of course senior! Xiao Feng will thank senior for being so kind this time." Long Feng had his hand cupped together and give Yang Jian a bow. "I will take this as the first time gift since Uncle Tang rarely introduced me to anyone before. And also, this is also as thanks for giving me the chances to make a treasure using such a good Soul Essence Pearls." "Go have a rest, or explore the forest for a while, come back at night, you will have some works to do tonight, to form a bond with your own personalize treasure." Yang Jian finished his word, and start working out the products to create an unknown treasure for Long Feng. "If in that case, I will excuse myself. Xiao Feng, return to the forest and try to handle the Seven Snake Disease within the forest as well. Master might get busy for this mission because of the higher rate of casualties reported." Elder Tang Wen speaks, and exit the hut as well. "Xiao Feng thanks, senior and master for your effort. I will make a visit to the forest to train and cultivate a little too, please excuse Xiao Feng for now." Long Feng too, excuse himself as he went into the outskirt Forest of West Jade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Run! Run!" a cultivator is escaping from the inner part of the forest, and even the sheath of his sword is already thrown away to distract the beast chasing behind. A very clear sight keep replaying within his mind, continuously giving him a frightening and fearful imagination, as he kept running from the beast. His hand is shaking, so even the sword within his wrist is almost falling to the ground. Accidentally, his feet is caught on thick vines that grow out from the soil and cause him to fall to the ground for a moment. He quickly pushes himself up, and continue running. But this halt for a few seconds reduced the distance between him and the beast. And because of this, the roar of the beast could be heard. "Pathetic Humans!" a voice speaks in his mind. "Shit! He managed to catch up!" the cultivator run even faster, not even trying to catching up with his mess up breathing. "You can''t run anymore! Die Now!" the voice speaks again in his mind, as a very loud boom could be heard from his back. (Darkness Mist!) A purplish mist starts to appear along the path the cultivator is running, and upon breathing in the mist, the cultivator started to feel difficulties in breathing. The second breath in, his lungs felt contracted, as his chest starting to give out an aching pain. On his third breath, he started to cough out blood from his throat and failed to channel any Essence Qi to protect himself from being poisoned by the Darkness Mist. "No, I can''t die here." this cultivator crawled on the ground, tried to move farther for one more step. If Long Feng saw this person, he will immediately recognize this cultivator. Tie Shou. The Pill Hall disciple that used to disturb Long Feng previously when he just obtained the Blood Cleansing Pitcher Plant from Elder Tang Wen. But before he managed to escape a little further, the Owner of the Darkness Mist skill finally arrived behind him. "Foolish human. It is impossible to escape from the might of my Darkness Mist Skill. Unless you have natural born Sky Element within your body!" Tempera, the King Land Shark Ferocious Beast ate him whole as he explained. Although the speech could be heard by Tie Shou before his brain is crushed by Tempera, the fear after hearing what Tempera says might give his brain another shock, before it''s completely swallowed by the beast. When looked back on where this clash begins, Although the corpses are no longer there because they are all swallowed totally by Tempera, a total of 9 blood spot could be seen along the path until the top of the inner mountain. Three students from Pill Hall, three from Martial Hall and three from Culture Hall. All dead in the encountered, included Qiu Ping, who is among one of the three Pill Hall Disciple. "Ten more humans in the range of Early Earth refinement stage, then I will be able to prepare enough Essence Qi to refine the Dark Essence." Tempera thinks in mind, as it continues looking for his next prey. Book 1 Chapter 23 - Tri-Elemental Heaven and Earth Sword (San Xing Qian Kun Jian) "I think I will make a few pills for Senior Yang Jian in return for making me a treasure." Long Feng explore outskirt of the forest and collect a few ingredients, especially Soul Calming Grass and the Morning Dew from the Spirit Bloom Flower. Collected a total of 6 Portion of the ingredients, Long Feng quickly concoct all the ingredients and obtain a total of 28 Lower-Rank Pill, and also a total 8 Middle-Rank Calming Spirit Dew Pellet. In the same time, Long Feng managed to obtain the ingredient enough to concoct two more times of the Yellow Leaf Pill, which results in a total of 10 more Yellow Leaf Pill in his inventory. As he returning to the Hut due to the nightfall is here, Long Feng saw a shining bright light from the window, before he entered the hut. "Senior Yang, is there anything happened here?" Long Feng entered the hut and went over to Yang Jian''s side. "Oh, you are home. Come and take this incomplete treasure. Meditate with this treasure for the night, and return it to me tomorrow morning. By then it should be completed." Yang Jian turned around and pass Long Feng an item. The incomplete treasure bears a shape similar to a Sword''s handle, with an unsharpened blade along its way until the point of the sword. On the Blade, a rough, unrefined pill shape holes are seen within its fuller and it came in a total of 7 holes. On the hilt, it felts empty within, indicating that the inner part of the Hilt would contain something when the pommel part is inserted within. On the sword guards, a beautiful engraving along with two small sets of a chain is seen attached on each of its ends. "I will." Long Feng accepted the piece of treasure from Yang Jian and moved to an empty room within the hut. As he sat in a meditation stance, Long Feng starts to cultivate and absorb the existing Essence Qi around the air and started to inject the Essence Qi into the treasure without hesitation. The piece of treasure started to glow as it received the essence, but on and off, its glow and dimmed continuously. In his first four hours, the glow is happening on and off continuously, and on its second four hours, the glow became longer, about a minutes before it dimmed off. Soon after the tenth hour, the treasure started to glow as long as it could, and would not be dimmed afterward. "Senior Yang, good morning!" Long Feng went into the workshop where Yang Jian is busy cooking up some breakfast. "Oh Xiao Feng, good morning." Yang Jian replied, but without turning around. Seems like he is very focusing in his cooking. "Senior Yang, the glow on this incomplete treasure is long lasting, I am worried that something might have happened on this treasure." Long Feng withdraw the treasure out from his pouch and let Yang Jian have a look. "Oh! This is a very good resonance." Yang Jian take a hold on the item to have a look, and within the treasure, he felt a strong resonance of Fire, Wood, and Sky Elemental within. "Xiao Feng, when I finish refining this weapon, you would be totally shocked by its power." Yang Jian said, as he stopped cooking and returned to the Anvil and start working out that incomplete treasure. Long Feng continue the work on what is left aside by Yang Jian, and finished preparing the breakfast while nicely arranging it on the dining table. Long Feng waited for another three hours, and finally, Yang Jian completed what he is working on. "Xiao Feng, this treasure is completed!" Yang Jian happily turned around with the piece of treasure on his both hand. "This is a sword specially crafted just for you to use." Yang Jian started to explain the piece of sword and its parts of specialty. "The sword''s blade part contained a total of 7 different holes for you to keep a total of 7 different Pills within, which is easily used and suitable for you to used. I would suggest placing poison concoctions on the blade, as poison fighting is one of the Pill Master''s specialty." "The two sets of chain on the sword guards can be used for both offense and defense. In the case of being attacked by a ranged and a large number of flying weapon. The chain is light and made by a very well tempered Spine bones of the Dragon Lizard, so they are durable enough, and light as the bonus effect." "The Hilt of the sword has a hidden compartment, specialized in placing healing medicine ointments or pills. I purposely designed the Pommel to nicely lock and easy to access, be it in the form of paste ointment or even in medicine pills." "The hilt is wrapped in the Leather from the Dragon Lizard, while the inner part of the whole treasure is wrapped with the Silk from Gigantic Silk Beetle." "The most special thing, of course, would be the three piece of Soul Essence Pearl. Each of the pearls is very well filled with your Sky Element, Fire Element and Wood Element within, so this weapon will release a resonance similar to yours, so using Elemental Qi with the sword is made possible." "Make sure you treasure this sword, I hope you like the name as well." "Tri-Elemental Heaven and Earth Sword (San Xing Qian Kun Jian)." Yang Jian pronounces the name of the sword for Long Feng to listen and remember. "Tri-Elemental Heaven and Earth Sword. What a glorious name." Long Feng praise Yang Jian for his effort. After listening to all the explanations, Long Feng finally realized the different usefulness Yang Jian purposely put into the sword. In the same time, Long Feng felt thankful for being given such special opportunity to use this weapon in his best effort.The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. "Senior, thank you for your enormous effort to specifically design this weapon for me. Xiao Feng will look after this treasure for a long time, and will try his best not to damage it." Long Feng gave Yang Jian a bow while holding the sword with both hands. The sword''s Sheath is specially designed with the remaining Silk from Gigantic Silk Beetle, and also the remaining Spine Bones from the Great Stone Dragon Lizard. There is one more additional miniature spike, or more like an ice Pick placed on the point of the sheath, which is prepared in case of emergency. Long Feng then present a total of 50 Calming Spirit Dew Pellet to Yang Jian to keep, and soon after they finished the food, Long Feng excuse himself to continue his mission. But it is after Yang Jian finishes requesting the next item for him to refine for Long Feng. "Make sure the next time before you pay me a visit, bring along this few item for me to make you the next treasure in my mind." "Ribcage of a very strong human shape Cultivation Beast. Strong Spiritual Power Blood from the Strong Cultivation Beast as well. This is for the body of the treasure. And for the parts of the treasure, I''m looking forward to some Products such as Leather, Scales, and even some Horn or Fangs from the Beast." "It would be the best of you could even obtain a few rare products, such as the Jewelled Eye, or even the Soul Core Stone of the beast. Although the Soul Essence Pearl still usable anyway." "One last thing is to obtain a special ingredient for this next treasure I am looking forward to making. It would be a well refined Jade Gemstone." Yang Jian makes his request, so Long Feng will follow his requirement to prepare such ingredients. And with that last request is accepted, Long Feng excuse himself as he makes his way into the deeper part of the Forest of West Jade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Xiao Ying, do you still remember where is the Box with Charm of Light has gone?" A senior Staff is asking Li Ying for the outdated, nobody interested treasure. "Sister Lian Ruo, that Charm of Light had been sold last Sunday, don''t you remember?" Li Ying immediately reminds Lian Ruo regarding the sales she had made last weekend. "Ah, I see. Well, I guess that''s fate." Liao Ruo sighs for a moment before she looks regretful. "What happened, Sister Lian Ruo?" Li Ying confused with Lian Ruo''s look, and asked for the reason why, "Well, I just remembered that the old man that traded this piece of stone did mention about something." Liao Ruo explained. "What''s that?" Li Ying loves the hidden secret behind those things she''s selling, so she can''t wait to know the word Liao Rou just remembered. "The Old man did mention that by exposing the stone to the surrounding strong with Dark Essence, it will activate the Charm Of Light''s ability." Lian Ruo explained. "Oh? Well, no wonder there is nobody interested in obtaining the stone." Li Ying replied. "I guess Xiao Ying know the reasons as well." Lian Ruo replied back. "Of course, sister Lian Rou. Where could one look for places with a high amount of Dark Essence except venturing into places that nested by Strong Ferocious Beast, which is stronger than usual Cultivation Beast?" Li Ying explained. "Yes. I wonder when would the buyer of the Charm of Light will throw away this unknown item." Lian Rou replied. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Holding the Qian Kun Sword(1) in his hand, Long Feng speed up as he entered deeper into the Forest of West Jade. In his early of the way, Long Feng stumble across two pairs of Gigantic Silk Beetle, where he easily dispose them this time with the help of the new treasure sword. The Qian Kun Sword is extremely sharp, where it easily dismembered the beetle into half without any additional effort. But at the same time, due to the sharpness of the sword, the Silk Sack of the Beetle is thoroughly destroyed as well, and because of the sharpness of the sword, the silk is unable to be rolled into a nice round ball of silk. Due to this matter, although Long Feng managed to kill a total of 4 Gigantic Silk Beetle, he obtains none of the silk due to its quality and usefulness is thoroughly destroyed by Long Feng. "I must be more careful in the way I kill the Beast, or I will end up with many kills, but nothing to be obtained." Long Feng tells himself to be more cautious in the way he disposes of the beast. The next moment, Long Feng managed to meet with a total of 5 Great Stone Dragon Lizard. "Great Haul!" Long Feng happily cheers in his mind, as he charges without any worries. First Slash, Long Feng directly cut through in between of the Lizard''s skull without any difficulties, as he turned around to head towards another lizard close to the first one. Second Strike! Long Feng''s Qian Kun Sword directly stabbed through the skull of the second Lizard, before it managed to take any evasive actions. The remaining three lizards quickly charge on Long Feng''s position, but it was parried by swinging his sword diagonally and had the lizards forced to evade the deadly strike. But this allows Long Feng to take his second step, as he charged into the middle of the direction the three lizards is expected to land, and make a slash and a stab, directly killing two lizards and leaving one just managed to run into nearby stone to hide before Long Feng take another step. "You won''t be able to run." Long Feng swing his sword as he walked closer and closer. But this time, the remaining lizard does not dare to take any actions anymore. Instead, the lizard stays still on the ground, with its jaw opened wide, and its claw tightly clawed on the ground. "This pose is..." Long Feng remembered a few descriptions from a book about the beast''s behavior before he entered the Bronze Pill Hall. "It is a submitting pose. This means that this lizard is willing to slave and agree to sign the treaty to be one of my Beast Slave." Long Feng remembered the posture. By dropping a drops of blood on the point of the sword, Long Feng allows the beast to swallow and refine a drops of his blood, and after refining the blood, the Great Stone Dragon Lizard turned itself over to show its belly part, allowing Long Feng to write a word (SLAVE / Å« ) on it. After the writing using the blood and Essence Qi is completed, a red string appeared between the two, attaching itself to indicates that this two have formed a bond of Master and Slave, allowing both of them could interact through minds. "Do you have a name?" Long Feng think in his mind. "No master, this ugly lizard doesn''t have a name." the newly formed Slave lizard replied. "Since your Rock Scales have some red hue in it, Let me call you as Hong Yue." Long Feng gave a name to the lizard. "Hong Yue like this name. Thank you, master." Hong Yue, after being slaved, managed to possess an even brighter mind and also started to learn more vocabulary. With haste, it quickly replied and show a gesture of thanks to Long Feng for blessing it with a name. "Then, Hong Yue, tell me what happened with the forest." Long Feng tries to obtain more information regarding what is happening in the forest. "Master, before Hong Yue answers, could master starts to collect the remains of Hong Yue''s siblings first?" It says. "Why would you need me to do this first?" Long Feng questioned. "Master, we Cultivation Beast have feelings too. Kill or be killed. Although they are my siblings, the law of nature is still applied. I just hope their corpse and their remains could be useful to master, and also it was because of the danger lurking within the forest." Hong Yue explained. "The Venom King Bullfrog loved the fragrant smells of fresh beast blood. If we continue talking instead of quickly handling the corpses, the Bullfrog will be here very soon." Hong Yue continued. With the warning, Long Feng quickly handled the four corpses of the lizard, and start moving along and listen to what Hong Yue have to share with him. (1) Tri-Element Heaven and Earth Sword Book 1 Chapter 24 - An Enslaved Beast, A pair of Ring, A forced Marriage. It was during a year ago. I heard it was a total of 8 cultivators, and each of them possessed a strength that is so hard to fathom, where even the previous Lord of the forest, a Silver Fur King Ape Beast, failed to even injure a single person. This 8 cultivator plant a few different type of Poison Disease Plant within the nest of the King Ape, and allows the plant to slowly grow across the Core forest. The core forest is divided into Outer Core and Inner Core. The Inner Core is infested by cultivation beast in between Heaven Refinement Tier to Human Adept Tier. They are strong and independent, rarely group up to more than a total of 3 beasts. The Outer Core is infested by those who are below Heaven Refinement Tier. Some strong one might be at their Heaven Refinement Tier, but rarely seen at the Outer Core forest. The beast here usually groups in a pack of between 5 to 10, except the Venom King Bullfrog which gathered in a group of around 20 to 50. When the lord of the forest is "Harvested" by the cultivators, the fight for the next Lord of the Forest is on, which is why a few older and younger powerhouse is battling within the forest for the position. There is two competitor within the Core Forest, but Hong Yue is too weak, so I don''t know about them. At Inner Forest, there is a total of three lords, but Hong Yue only know one of them. Lightning Rhino Ferocious Beast - Honduras Cultivation Strength - Early Human Adept Tier, Innate Born Lightning Elemental Beast. Age - 6 Years Old Human Age / 60 years Old Beast Age (Children Stage) Treasure: Unknown And at the Outer Forest, which is where we are located now, is also ruled by a total of three Ferocious Beast. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ King Land Shark Ferocious Beast - Tempera Cultivation Strength - Early Human Adept Tier, Innate Born Darkness Earth Elemental Beast. Age - 4 Years Old Human Age / 40 years Old Beast Age (Children Stage) Treasure: Gemstone Fangs / Earth Obsidian Carapace / Adept Tier Beast Marrow / Adept Tier Soul Pearl / Adept Tier Beast Blood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mother of Spider Ferocious Beast - Mache Cultivation Strength - Early Human Adept Tier, Innate Born Darkness Elemental Beast. Age - 9 Years Old Human Age / 90 years Old Beast Age (Older Children Stage) Treasure: Unknown ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Flame Lord Ape Cultivation Beast - Upoo Cultivation Strength - Early Human Adept Tier, Innate Born Fire Elemental Beast. Age - 11 Years Old Human Age / 110 years Old Beast Age (Young Adult Stage) Treasure: Unknown CAUTION! This cultivation Beast is well versed in beast martial arts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What? Master, you have no idea what is the differences between Ferocious Beast and Cultivation Beast? Let Hong Yue explain to you. Cultivation beast are mostly like me, we ate either only plants and fruits, only sometimes we ate some human meat due to we are attacked by them. But Ferocious Beast is different. They are strictly Meat eaters, especially cultivators like human or us fellow Cultivation Beast. They cultivate by absorbing the essence remained within the cultivator''s flesh they ate, and raise their cultivation from there. Master, do not worry since now Hong Yue is following you, Hong Yue will eat anything master gave to Hong Yue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ With the explanation by Hong Yue, Long Feng venture along the Outer Forest with more care. Not only his range of Essence Qi scanning is strengthened, his cautiousness also had increased by a level, where he is even more sensitive to the movement of Essence Qi surrounding him.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. The two of them explore quickly, added with Hong Yue''s capability in smelling for edible herbs and also dangerous herbs, Long Feng''s profit in this mission started to increase. Although killing the beast in this mission is important, but it doesn''t mean that Long Feng needed to follow it exactly, although it might cost him his life. One of the main points of having this mission to be conducted is due to the increasing amount of Cultivation Beast is invading the outskirt of the Clear Jade City. So the cultivators should be dispatched to reduce the beast populations. Perhaps the result of this mission is not too positive, but a kill is still a kill, it would drastically reduce the population of the beast within the forest for a long term. "I will enter deeper into the edge of the Outer Forest, and try to solve some of the Seven Snake Disease Poison as well." "This mission is last until next Saturday, which means one more day, I will have to return to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion to complete my task before I return to the forest to handle this situation again." "Hong Yue, let us go deeper into the forest." Long Feng says. Without answering, Hong Yue get closer to his master as they enter deeper into the forest. As they reached the location where it is invaded by the Seven Snake Disease, Long Feng quickly start his process of making some antidotes to fight the poison. His procedure is smooth, added with all the gathered ingredients he obtained along the way, Long Feng managed to refine a total of 55 pills to cure a total of 55 different trees at his surrounding. Long Feng''s total process took him almost 20 hours, and in between of the procedure, a few encounter with some beast also prolong the duration of completing his task. Finally, Long Feng managed to complete the task he assigns himself to workout and returning to the main camp. As he entered the Camp, a few disciple shown a hint of jealousy, due to Long Feng managed to obtain a Cultivation Beast as his slave. Although this is unknown by Long Feng, to thoroughly obtain the agreement of a Cultivation Beast to be enslaved, one needs to either groom it since infant stage, until its maturity to form a seal, or forced the wild Cultivation Beast to be agreed to surrender itself to become a slave. They might have no idea how Long Feng did it, but they know that this young child, is not somebody to be messed around with. "This senior, can junior exchange for some reward?" Long Feng approached the staff that in the duty of handling the rewards counter. "Yes of course, can you show me the piece of Participant Tablet?" The staff request for the tablet, as it will record the total number of Soul Qi obtained within. "What?" The staff is shocked as he looked at Long Feng''s record. "Is there any problem, senior?" Long Feng feel weird with the staff''s expression. "Oh! No! There is no problem at all!" the staff shock instantly gone as he saw the Great Stone Dragon Lizard by Long Feng''s side. "There is a total of 116 Souls within the table, so as your reward, we will deduct a total of 110 souls within and left you with 6 souls for next time exchange. Here is your 1100 Spirit Bronze Coins." the staff reported. The passerby immediately shocked with Long Feng''s record. "What? 110 points for exchange in just only 5 days within the mission?" "This is literally impossible, where had he been within the forest to obtain such large amount of Soul Qi?" "Did he rob the other dead cultivators Soul Qi from their tablet, and use it as his own?" "You idiot, that can''t happen, the Soul Qi will be gone when the cultivator is dead." "Then that''s mean this child kill at least more than a hundred beast in this five days?" "He is a monster." Those passerby starting to spreads the rumor about Long Feng, but for Long Feng himself, he felt that is nothing to be shocked about. "Perhaps, what I did within the forest really helps." Long Feng found out where the total amounts of Soul Qi actually came from. 71 trees, 15 lizards, 20 Beetle, 10 Larvae. This is the total of records in his this 5 days effort. "Seems like curing the tree will give me one Soul Qi as well. Next time I must assist more in helping those trees." Long Feng think in his mind as he leaves the camp, and return to the Bronze Pill Hall. In his way, Long Feng saw a nice gift shop that is still not closed for the day, so Long Feng went inside to have a look. "At least one more customer, please buy something this young master." the shopkeeper lamented, as he was devastated by the poor business for the whole day. "This shopkeeper, do you have anything good to give to some girl as a gift?" Long Feng asked. "Oh, this customer, you came to the right place." "Why not you consider buying this piece of Single Refined Treasure - Eternity Vision Bangle? Just inject your Qi into the bangle, and it will remember your essence feature, so each time your lover inject some Qi within, she will saw you in the bangle''s shine." The Shopkeeper introduced. "She isn''t my wife, so I guess this gift will make her angry." Long Feng thinks in his mind. "Anything else, shopkeeper?" Long Feng asked for something else. "This? It is a Single Refined Treasure as well, the Voice Transferring Ring." "This ring is very special, it is used by many strong cultivators to transfer important messages to each other." the shopkeeper introduced. "If I have this, I will be able to take with Nan Jing Jing and master all the time, so buying this should be good." "Shopkeeper, how much is the ring cost?" Long Feng asked. "Not expensive, its 600 Spirit Bronze Coins each ring, so for two, its 1200 Spirit Bronze Coins." the shopkeeper replied. "What? Then that''s too bad, I only have 1100 in my pouch." Long Feng felt sad as he lack of just 100 Spirit Bronze Coin to purchase the ring. "Well, since my business is not too good either, I will sell you for 1100 Spirit Bronze Coin this time!" the shopkeeper says. "Are you sure?" Long Feng is happy as he could finally buy the gift to gave Nan Jing Jing. "I''m sure, here, take it." the shopkeeper pack the two rings and exchange with Long Feng''s Spirits Bronze Coin. After making his purchase, Long Feng returned to the Hall, and intend to give Nan Jing Jing the ring on tomorrow when they are going to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion together. Meanwhile... "Are you sure that Long Feng just bought two Voice Transferring Ring?" Nan Jing Jing asked for confirmations. "Yes I am sure, My Lady." a scout reported what Long Feng just did in the shop. "That''s great! He will give me a ring, he will give me a ring." "When he actually gave me the ring and I will force him to say he loves me, and follow me home to the General''s Fortress and then, Dad will not be angry with me anymore!" Nan Jing Jing happily laughs in her heart, as she planned for tomorrow''s trick. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday morning. Long Feng left his room and waits for Nan Jing Jing at the Entrance of the Bronze Pill Hall. Nan Jing Jing finally appeared, and as she walked close to Long Feng, both of them greeted each other and starts walking to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. "ASK ME! ASK ME! WHY DO YOU WASTE YOUR TIME? QUICKLY ASK ME!" Nan Jing Jing hearts is beating as fast as it could. "How should I tell her?" Long Feng still wondering on the way he should give her the presents. "ASKKKK ME!!!!" Nan Jing Jing started to get impatient. "Maybe I just take the ring and show to her, and see does she like it or not." Long Feng finally decided. "Sister Nan Jing Jing..." Long Feng turned around and take out the box with two rings. "I DO!" "I DO!" "You wanna marry me right?" Nan Jing Jing quickly replied before Long Feng even asked the question. Looking at the situation, Elder Huang and Elder Guang jumped into the spot the two of them is standing, and quickly take the advantages of forcing Long Feng to marry their Young Lady without fail! "WHAT IS HAPPENING?" Long Feng is totally shocked. Book 1 Chapter 25 - Beloved Wife. Danger Passing Nearby. "Young One, did you just proposed to our Young Lady?" Elder Guang is the first to speak as they reached where the two is. "Elder... I" Long Feng tried to speak, but then Elder Huang intercepted. "Young One, our Young Lady is the precious pearl of our Master. If you are really wanted to married to our Young Lady, you must move into the General''s Fortress as soon as possible." Elder Huang speaks. "What! No, I can''t, I still have to..." Long Feng tried to finish his word this time but still intercepted. "Are you means that you are not going to marry our Young Lady? The penalty for making fun with our Young Lady''s heart will be crippled, Dantian destroyed, and family will be inflicted with the same punishment as well!" Elder Guang loudly says. "No! Do not do this to my mother!" Long Feng is shocked. "Then you have no choice, since you already bring out this ring for our Young Lady, then kneel down and propose to her immediately! Or else you will know what will happen to you!" Elder Guang immediately presses Long Feng to kneel down on one knee and had his hand held up high to Nan Jing Jing. "Both Elder, you are a little too overboard..." Nan Jing Jing tried to stop both elders from forcing Long Feng, but she in the same time enjoyed it. "Err... Sister Jing Jing... Will you marry me?" Long Feng just followed with the situation that forced by the elders on him. "Oh, Of course, I do!" Nan Jing Jing smiles widely and agreed to be his wife. "But it is only after we graduated from the Pill Hall!" Long Feng quickly added the request within. "What?" both Elder is shocked. Their Practitioner Tier strength burst out as well, as the result of anger. "Both elders, please calm down. Long Feng has nothing that has any value, I am even born poor, and only have a mother to take care until she old and happily pass away. I have only a master, but this is just the third week I am blessed with a teacher who would bring me up from where I am standing now." "If I went over with Sister Jing Jing to the General''s Fortress, where would I improve from there? My talents are in Medicinal and Pill refining. I want to at least be filial to my parents, and finish my studies as my master''s only disciple, before I went to Jing Jing''s side." Long Feng finished his words, and as his words heard by the elders, both of them praise him in their hearts to be touched by such a strong and filial words from just a 10 years old child. "Fine, we will wait until you graduate from the Hall, and then you will be required to return to the Fortress to met your father in law." both Elder says before they leave the place. "Let''s go, Future Husband." Nan Jing Jing happily puts on one of the rings and starts to walk towards where the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion is located. "Did I just get forced to married Nan Jing Jing? Does that means I have to call her Beloved Wife from now on?" Long Feng''s mind got even missed from all this thing that just happened. "Mother is going to kill me for this." Long Feng lamented, but he coincidently moves closer to Nan Jing Jing, as she turns around and tried to ask Long Feng to walk faster. The two of them reach the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion at last and being lead directly into the Martial Specialty Room to start to work out on all the orders. The two beginning to get closer to each other, as they mind getting more and more used to cooperating with each other''s tempo. Nan Jing Jing in comfortable with each portioning Long Feng had prepared for her, while Long Feng managed to adjust his speed in maintaining a steady flow to provide the ingredients one by one to Nan Jing Jing. The two of them getting closer, and with Long Feng''s dense head, he totally unnoticed on Nan Jing Jing''s a moment of shock when he accidentally touched the lady''s hand. "Although he is my soon to be husband, being touched on the hand by him still shocked me for a moment." Nan Jing Jing thinks in her mind, as Long Feng''s ingredient started to pile up. "Sister Jing Jing, do you need help in preparing the ingredient?" Long Feng stopped for a moment, as ask Nan Jing Jing in case she needs help. "I DARE YOU TO CALL THAT AGAIN?" Deadly stares came out from Nan Jing Jing''s eyes, giving Long Feng immediate chill as he saw the eyes.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. "Beloved Wife." Long Feng immediately change his way of calling. "Yes, Beloved Husband. Can you help me with this few ingredients?" Nan Jing Jing eyes immediately became like a puppy, can''t wait to get pampered by its master. "How quick is her temper changed. I must be careful, this must be what mother says all the time in case I get to know some other female disciple." "Woman''s temper change even faster than how a weather change." "I must be careful." Long Feng thinks in his mind as he quickly helps Nan Jing Jing with their concoctions. The two of them finished their duty after a total of 8 hours working in the room, and for this time, they managed to complete a total of 350 request slips, which means they obtain 700 points in return. Nan Jing Jing went to the counter and exchange for a few cultivation improving ingredients, while Long Feng requested for a total of 20 portions of Cultivation Beast''s Blood, and kept the remaining 500 points in his account. But today, the two of them failed to meet Li Ying. Perhaps Li Ying is on something, which is why the two of them failed to meet her. "Beloved Wife, I need to return to the mission now, so I will take another way from here." Long Feng inform Nan Jing Jing as they leave the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. "Are you sure you want me to walk back alone? I might get attacked by the disciple in they saw you are not with me." Nan Jing Jing replied. "If I am not with you, I think they won''t disturb you instead." Long Feng replied instantly, unaware of his stupid reply. To be honest, that is of course what came into Long Feng''s mind. After all, A Peak Refinement Tier cultivator like Nan Jing Jing hardly have a match except some top senior from Outer Division trying to compete with her. "WALK WITH ME!" the deadly stares appeared once again. "SURE!" Long Feng automatically walk towards the Bronze Pill Hall, with Nan Jing Jing following behind. "Beloved Husband, you are so sweet!" Nan Jing Jing happily followed behind. With Nan Jing Jing finally returned to her room, Long Feng quickly rushed back to the camp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Master!" Hong Yue quickly rushed to Long Feng''s side as it saw him walking towards Elder Tang Wen''s camp. "Did you cause any trouble to Master when I am not around?" Long Feng pat Hong Yue''s head as the pet came close to him. "No Master, Master''s master feed Hong Yue many foods, and it is all very nutritious for Lizard Kind Cultivation Beast." Hong Yue answered. "Then that''s good. Master will go into the forest again soon after I greet Old Master. You will come and follow me as well, will you?" Long Feng praise Hong Yue for a little, before he gets close to Elder Tang Wen. "Master, Xiao Feng will go into the forest of West Jade again." Long Feng greet his master as he informs him that he will enter the forest again. "Good, make sure you be very cautious as you enter deeper into the forest. Three more disciple is dead yesterday, reportedly killed by one of an Adept strength beast." "Master can smell a faint smell of some blood as well, did you prepared yourself this time before you enter the forest?" Elder Tang Wen checked on his disciple preparation before entering the forest. "Yes master, Xiao Feng is well prepared this time, I hope I can at least handle and assist around 100 trees this time." Long Feng answered his master''s question. "Then good luck, and be safe." Elder Tang Wen finished talking, and continue with his medical assistance to the injured disciple. Long Feng then entered the Forest. Along with his path, being together with Hong Yue along his way, Long Feng managed to harvest a good amount of Medicinal ingredients as he explores deeper into the forest. With Hong Yue''s sensitivity in smells, the Pet could give a very accurate location of nearby available ingredient to be harvested, and also cooperate as a portable radar, where Hong Yue could give Long Feng warning as some danger or crowd is closing in at a fast pace in between 300 meters. With a quick speed, Long Feng immediately reach the location where the Disease is spreading. Long Feng waste no time, and immediately process the available poison from the seven poison thorns. Although the blood supply this time is about enough, the poison thorns sometimes only possess a total of two portions at max, and since this is some newly infected trees, the supply of the poison within the thorns might be not enough for the concoction. Long Feng explore between four different spots, where the Parasite plant started to attach themselves to the tree. After spending about two hours, Long Feng finally managed to refine all 20 portions of the beast''s blood in his hand, but it totally took him 10 hours to complete the task. Long Feng hand now consist of a total of 110 antidotes to counter the Seven Snake Poison Disease. But as the time started to get late, Long Feng decided to take a rest for today. But Long Feng did not notice the danger is getting close to the two of them. The location Long Feng is at the moment, is the bottom of the forest from where Tempera''s nest is located. And at the same time, the time is already at night, the most active period for the Cultivation Beast to look for food and preys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Young Master, you are so amazing." a boot-licking servant is busy praising this young master for his skill in eliminating twelve Venom King Bullfrog by using his secret weapon. "No need to give me sugar coating words. Quickly wear your Jade Silversilk Glove and collect all the poison liquid that available in the frog''s skin. Try open their head and see is there any Venom Pearl or Soul Essence Pearl." the young master that used to all these sugar coating words immediately had the servant shut his mouth and quickly harvest the available materials dropped by the beast before he explores further. "Young Master, is the weapon just now specially made to use in this mission?" The servant asked. "Of course. Once father knows that there is a large amount of Venom King Bullfrog within the forest, he first prepare me three sets of the Jade Silversilk Glove that able to resist all kind of 1st Tier poison, and also a total of 25 Demonic Thunderclap Pearls." the young master happily shows the treasure in his hand, with a glove like weapon that enhances fire elemental power. Book 1 Chapter 26 - Sky Elemental, Activated. "I wonder what is Husband doing at the moment." Nan Jing Jing keeps staring on the Voice Transferring Ring. "Oh well, It''s for this kind of usage anyway, let''s try to use it for now." Nan Jing Jing ready and inject some of her Essence Qi into the ring. "Future Husband, how are you doing with the mission? Please be very careful along with your way." Nan Jing Jing leaves the message, and let it deliver to the receiver''s ring. "Why he does not yet reply me?" Nan Jing Jing stare at the ring after a few minutes, as she has nothing to do for the night. But even herself have no idea about what actually happened within the Forest of West Jade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Three years ago. Nine Tyrants Empire. Castle of the Ninth Tyrant, Illusion Demon Castle. Owned and belonged to the Ninth Tyrant, Emperor Duane from the Nine Tyrants Empire. But within, Emperor Duane no longer handling the Ninth State, the Illusionary Demon State. Reasons? It is because Emperor Duane that is known to many, is dead from Assassins sneak attack. The news regarding the emperor''s death is yet to be announced, due to the next heir had not been decided yet. Marvin Duane, the fourth son of the Emperor. This child is known as the prodigy of the Duane Royal Family. Firstly, he was known as the youngest within the whole Illusionary Demon State to ascend into Adept Tier in his 8th years old. Secondly, he was known to be the one that managed to kill a Practitioner Tier Beast when his strength is still in the Human Adept Tier. Thirdly, he was known to be the most ruthless among the family, with a record of accidentally killing his first three brothers during the fight to obtain the approval of being the heir of the throne belonged to their father in the family gathering. But because of this matter, the announcement had been delayed, and Marvin Duane ceremony to become the heir of the throne is slowly forgotten. But today, the Emperor is dead. And since the other younger siblings of the Duane Royal Family is not capable, or too young to fight for the throne, the other officials have no choice but to allow Marvin Duane to succeed his father''s position, and quickly inform the other 8 tyrants state. But for Marvin Duane, this is all expected. "All these people are too stupid to realized the fact behind all these matters." "First, it is the father. How stupid of him to postpone the fact I am the worthy successor to this throne? And he is also too weak to handle this state." "This Illusionary Demon State contained a good source of Dark Essence, and is the most suitable to plant the Fiery Demonic Flower." "Killing a Practitioner Tier Beast in my Practitioner Tier strength? How stupid. By using the refined Demon Fire Pill to blast the beast, even an Elder Tier Beast will be dead in its strike." "As long father is dead, and this state has belonged to my ruling, it will be very fast before I ascend into the Grand Emperor position among the Nine Tyrants." "This is all thanks to this Demon Fire Pill." "I need to make sure this weapon kept in secret, and only use it as drastic measures." And with this incident happened three years ago, the first result from the change of throne is what happened in the Scarlet Sun Kingdom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next day, Long Feng wakes up earlier than normal, because of the uninvited guest into their surrounding perimeters. Long Feng immediately prepare to fight, as he holds the Qian Kun Sword tightly. The attacker make their move first! Long Feng immediately pull up his sword and block the claw strike from the opponent.The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. After the failed attack, the attacker identity is revealed. It is a total of 6 Feral Flame Wolf. Flame Elemental attribute, the Feral Flame Wolf usually hunts in a pack, sniffing their target and start stalking them from far away. The wolf will only attack if they felt confident to win the opponent they are stalking. As the wolf stalks around their target, their number will keep growing bigger, until the confidence of killing the targets coming. But these wolves make a very big mistake! With Long Feng holding the Qian Kun Sword in hand, his battling power increased to at least a Heaven Refinement Tier cultivator! Fighting a cultivator with Heaven Refinement strength, how a group of Earth Refinement Tier Beast could hope to win? But when the Feral Flame Wolf makes a hit, they won''t stop, until all of them are killed. This is because they have the mindset of "If the opponent is weakened, this means others will be able to kill it soon" in each of them. "Defensive Wu Sword Art!" Long Feng continuously use the sword art he learned from Han Feng Xian. Very slowly, but one by one wolf is being killed continuously until none of them is left. Long Feng is exhausted from the fights, but if it is not because he is assisted by Hong Yue, Long Feng would likely suffer some injuries in this fight. Resting for a little while, Long Feng recover slightly and started to harvest the available products from the 6 killed Feral Flame Wolf. Six portions of Beast Bloods. Six skinned Flame Wolf Skins. Six Spine Bones from the Feral Flame Wolves. Six units of Flame Pills. With all the item kept in the pouch, Long Feng starts his mission to cure the Trees surrounding him from getting poisoned by the Seven Snake Poison Disease. Very quickly, Long Feng used up the 110 total Antidotes on the trees, and he continues with his explorations around the nearby area. But the worst encounter finally happened. Long Feng stepped into an open space within the outer forest, and the fateful meeting with Tempera has arrived. "Human?" Tempera says in his mind. "This is bad! Master, this is Tempera, the Lord of this outer forest!" Hong Yue quickly speaks with Long Feng through the mind, and charge into the front of Long Feng to protect him from any harm. "What? One of the lords of this outer forest?" Long Feng is shocked for a moment, but he instantly withdraws the Qian Kun Sword and ready for a fight. ----------------------------------------------------------- "Dark Earth Spike!" A part of the land targeted by Tempera started to become a green spiky field that could consume any life in its appearance. Long Feng immediately leaped into another location, and slowly move as he gets closer to Tempera. "Stupid human! Try this!" Tempera shouted angrily and cast another skill. [Dark Earth Pillar!] A ten inches wide pillar rise quickly into to the sky and releasing a great amount of Dark Essence Qi. Long Feng who are nearby got caught by the Dark Essence. POISONED! Long Feng contact with the Dark Essence immediately results in a direct Dark poisoning, where his left side of arm started to get numb and unable to properly hold the scabbard of his Qian Kun Sword. "This is not good. If this continues, either I will be totally poisoned, or killed and refined by this Ferocious Beast." Long Feng escape carefully, but with his left arm started to get worst, Long Feng movement also became less agile. "Human! It''s pointless to run!" Tempera chased Long Feng as he tried to escape farther from Tempera. Long Feng condition started to get even worst, as Hong Yue is staring at his master fighting for his life. A flashback regarding what happened ten minutes earlier keep appearing in its mind. As Tempera charge, Hong Yue stands up high and prepare its claw to met with Tempera''s attack. But with the differences of power, Hong Yue just get a strong head attack, before it got swiped to destroy two thick trees as he stopped. Just within a mere ten seconds, Tempera had an Earth Refinement Tier Great Stone Dragon Lizard kissed the ground. Long Feng struggles more, as the Dark Poisoning started to move towards his heart. "I need to come out with a solution, or I and Hong Yue will become the food for this Lord of the Forest." Long Feng continues with his struggle. "Take this!" Long Feng prepared as Tempera get close to him. [Defensive Wu Sword Art!] Long Feng defended both claw attack and also parried away the jaw attack, as he moves in deeper into Tempera''s position to create a chance of winning. "You will suffer from this!" Long Feng speaks in his mind, as he stabbed his blade into Tempera''s ribs. Three of the pills from the Blade''s 7 holes exploded within Tempera''s body, and inflict him with a triple dosage of the Yellow Heart Poison Pill. "Despicable human, try to poison me?" Tempera got angrier, as he explodes his internal Dark Essence Qi outwards, and had Long Feng, who still holds tightly on his Qian Kun Sword, got showered directly with all the Dark Essence Qi. "I will see how you defend yourself against this amount of Dark Essence Poisoning!" Tempera howls as he swipes away Long Feng and his sword, away from his body. Long Feng falls far from Tempera, like a falling arrow towards the ground. He started to get difficult to breathe, and his arteries started to pops out and seen clearly on his skin. a mix of blue and red veins appears throughout Long Feng''s body, especially on his hand, and also neck. Long Feng struggles. His difficulty in breathing in the fresh air causes him to get suffocated with the carbon dioxide within his body. his heart contracted, causing Long Feng to slowly vomiting blood from the side of his lips. "Master!" Hong Yue struggles to crawl nearer to Long Feng. As Long Feng started to lost hope, the Sky Elemental Qi within his body and the Soul Essence Pearl started to react with each other and created a layer of shield around Long Feng. Sky Elemental Special properties! Purifying Darkness and Impure Status from a target, and increase the lifespan of ingredients. with the aid of this Sky Elemental Qi, the Dark Essence within his body quickly expelled. Long Feng started to recover, and position himself in a meditating position, as he withdraws two Middle-Rank Calming Spirit Dew Pellet to consume. this is because Long Feng sustained not too much of external injuries, but the disruption of Essence Qi within the body. by consuming some Calming Spirit Dew Pellet, the states of recovering would be easier through meditating for a short period of time. And at the same time, what Long Feng doesn''t have in hand, is exactly the time. Tempera charged toward Long Feng, with its jaw opened wide. Just on this moment, two very special incidents happened. Tempera suddenly falls down to the ground, as the Yellow Heart Poison Pill is finally active in Tempera''s body. and also... The Charm of Light is giving a very brilliant shine after it gotten showered with a large amount of Dark Essence Qi when Long Feng gave Tempera a stab. "What is happening on the Charm of Light?" Long Feng says as the light started to shine brightly, covering their surrounding with blinding light. Book 1 Chapter 27 - Origin of the Continent of Yans History (1) Thousand Years ago. This is the period when the Charm Of Light is known to the others as the Forbidden Weapon of Destruction. This weapon''s name is Darkness Essence Devourer or the Cleaner of the Darkness. This weapon allows its sole user, who it will bind by blood, to totally devour all darkness within its surrounding, and purify them into Blank Essence. Blank Essence only appears when any elemental essence happened to be purified, or used until they are empty from any other elemental sources. Although the appearance of Blank Essence is not too well known to the population of the cultivators, it is still treated as a rarity, due to its possibility to change. But what is scary about this Darkness Essence Devourer, is not about the ability to devour darkness, or its ability to create Blank Essence. The scariest part of the Darkness Essence Devourer is its ability to create a personal Field, or more likely to be known as a Personalized Domain. The [Personal Domain] possess the ability to customize the area of coverage with a specific condition and works according to the user''s wish. And in that thousand years of history, it had only one solely owner, who is the previous Lord of the Lower Domain of Yan Continent. Although after his fall, the Lower Domain had divided into four major forces, the North, South, East, and West, where Long Feng is currently residing within. This Lord''s name is appointed by his faithful supporters, as the Lower Domain Lord, Emperor Xia (Xia=Lower, down/bottom in Chinese). He obtained the treasure when he was age 20, during the incident where he was thrown into a pit because of his lack of strength to complete his task. During the thousand years ago period, farming for cultivation ingredients, hunting cultivation beast, is yet to be flourish as of today. This period is also where young adults are sent out to the lair of the beast, to obtain some cultivating resources for the village. Emperor Xia, who was only twenty that time, is the weakest among the village, with rarely more than hundred of herbs collected since younger. Unable to meet the requirement set by his owner, he was banished into the pit, where the useless slave is thrown into to let them die from hunger. And on that fateful moment itself, Emperor Xia is thrown into the pit where the Charm of Light is located. Because of the contact between the Emperor Xia''s believed to be poisoned by Darkness Essence Poisoning body and the Charm, a purifying effect is released, and immediately remove the long lasting effect on his body instantly. Due to this surprising miracle, Emperor Xia is almost assassinated when his owner wished to possess the Charm of Light for himself. The owner''s men and Emperor Xia fight. But because they are still a fellow slave before, the men released Emperor Xia as he escaped. Ten years later, Emperor Xia''s first move is to liberate the Slave Camp, and rescue all the remaining slave, included the new and the unknown to him before. Five years after the rescue of the slaves, a new nation is established. Xia Long Guo (Xia''s Dragon Nation). The nation quickly grows, first from only a thousand slaves and farmers, into around 10 thousand of peoples in the first year. On its second year, the nation grows into around 50 thousand peoples, as Emperor Xia liberated another two of the Slave Camp surrounding them. On the third, fourth and fifth year, Emperor Xia''s conquest expands throughout the whole West of the Lower Domain and forced the East, North, and South to prepare for this upcoming threat. Due to Emperor Xia''s strength is believed to be a King Earth Tier cultivator, his conquest quickly spread to the North and South, and leaving East forced to surrender to his might. After successfully ruling the whole Lower Domain as Xia''s Dragon Nation, Emperor Xia''s started to dream about entering the land of Upper Domain. During that time, Emperor Xia does possess the strength to do so. With the Charm of Light that could devour all darkness, Emperor Xia''s army is literally immune to all destructive poison at that time. And with the strength of his domain, Emperor Xia could only make his troops stronger, and not any weaker each fight.A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. [Field of Fortune] That''s the name of Emperor Xia''s domain. Upon activation, Emperor Xia''s domain could transform the area of his coverage into a land full of Cultivating Ingredients. The ingredients grow according to his own strength, and through this ability, the Xia''s Dragon Troops elites, the Slaying Dragon Battalion totally has no match when they are fighting on the battlefield. But fortune always doesn''t follow a person for his entire life. Emperor Xia''s reign finally falls, in his third attempt to lead his army to enter the Upper Domain. His first two attempts, success pitifully with the almost entirely slain troops because of their lack of strength. On his last attempt, the Upper Domain decided to not continue playing with this so-called Emperor Xia. They send out a total of thousand men strong troops, all of them possessing the strength of a Peak King Tier cultivators. And so, due to the different of cultivating resources, martial arts, and treasures, none is left alive, except a single shocked, crippled man is returned to the Lower Domain to recite the story of how the Xia''s Dragon Nation strongest troops, are all killed. With this failure, the Lower Domain quickly return to their turmoil period, and divided back into a total of four different section, with plenty of small Kingdoms, Empires, and Dynasty within each section. While the Upper Domain''s ruler decided to remove the threat from Charm of Light, he seals the Charm personally, before breaking it up into two pieces, and scatter both to the edge of the Left and Right of the Lower Yan Continent. The Upper piece of the Charm, possess the power to create a domain, have a look like a Head of a Beast. And the Lower piece of the Charm, possess the power to purify the Darkness Essence into Blank Essence, have a look like a bead that fits into the jaw of the Head of a Beast. Thousand years after the Xia''s Dragon Nation''s fall, the Lower Part of the Charm finally activated by a penniless, fatherless, and straight forward looking kid, name Long Feng. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What is wrong with this Charm of Light?" Log Feng holds tightly on the Charm as it tries to float and get away from Long Feng. On the same time, Tempera is howling loudly as if it is screaming in pain. "What is wrong with this light! My body felt so painful now!" Tempera rolls his body on the ground to ease his pain. The Charm of Light continued to shine for about few more minutes and turning back into a piece of stone once again. But the darkness surrounding them appeared to have a drastic change. The once poisoned trees seem to be at it healthiest condition. The wild grasses, leaves, and branches that are seen decaying in the ground, seems to recently fall from the tree, and it is still moist with nutrients. Tempera whom rolling on the floor is stunned beside Long Feng because of the shining light. Long Feng''s body is totally healed from the Dark Essence Poisoning, and feeling stronger than ever. "It feels like my body is just going through an enlightenment. My body felt so light and pure with Elemental Essence now!" Long Feng happily channel the Elemental Essence in his body. And as he does that, Long Feng finally felt the appearance of the Blank Essence surrounding him. "What is with this stuff? They gave the feeling of Elemental Essence, but they are Blank empty within. They also have a physical body, compared to the Elemental Essence that you can only felt in the air." Long Feng grabbed a piece of the Blank Essence beads, and keep it in his pouch. "Human! What trick did you just use!" Tempera stands up once again, but this time, it is blinded from the side effect of the flashing light from the Charm. The beast tried to swing its claw around him, only to hit the air around him. Tempera continues, but no matter how much effort he places to hit his target, he still fails to hit any targets. "Despicable human! How dare you use such low tricks on me!" Tempera roar and charge in a straight line with its jaw opened wide. Long Feng stands up and looks at the direction Tempera is charging, and instead of chasing it, Long Feng prepares for his next move. "Human! I will Kill YOU!" Tempera moves a few steps to change his direction, and charge in a straight line once again. But this time, instead of charging straight and have nothing happened, Long Feng sneaks by his side and gave him a few stab and slashes to injure the beast further. Long Feng continues this for a few more times and managed to get Tempera to became totally weakened, almost to the state that it could be dead anytime now. "This is impossible... I am Tempera, a great descendant of a King Land Shark Ferocious Beast!" Tempera growls as it lied on the ground, getting weaker and weaker. [Dark Earth Pillar!] Tempera still tried to launch a final attack, with the intention to bring Long Feng along to death with it. But with the Charm of Light in hand, the pillars that appeared from the ground, only end with becoming Blank Essence, after being devoured and refined. Achieving a victory, Long Feng move over to harvest all the available product left by the ferocious beast. "Hong Yue, come and have a drink of this ferocious beast''s blood." Long Feng cupped some of the flowing blood from the opened wound of Tempera and gave it to Hong Yue. As the Lizard drank the blood, a surge of Earth Elemental based blood flows in its body, allowing the beast to have a quick regeneration. The next moment, Hong Yue stands up tall, allowing the overflow Essence within his body to be released from its pores. The stone pieces that attached on Hong Yue''s skin fall one by one, leaving only a few smaller pieces behind. On its spine, a row of spikes appears, and its upper limbs became more agile, while the lower limbs became more sturdy, allowing Hong Yue to stands. "Master!" Hong Yue stands, as of now, he could be treated as Half-Lizardman. "Hong Yue, did you go through slight evolution?" Long Feng questions. "Yes, master. Hong Yue maybe need one to two more beast blood, and Hong Yue would be able to enter another evolution stage." Hong Yue replied. "That''s great. Master can''t wait to see what is your next evolution." Long Feng replied. Long Feng collects whatever he could, and explore deeper into the forest. Since Tempera had been slain, perhaps some of the other beasts would start to get rampage as well. In Long Feng''s mind, he is more worried about one other matter. What could he do, if he really encountered with a pack of Venom King Bullfrog? And on the same time, Long Feng is wondering about what is all this about, especially on what happened on the Charm of Light. Long Feng can''t wait to receive a simple explanation on what just happened on the Charm of Light. Received: 4 pieces of Gemstone Fang / One set of Earth Obsidian Carapace / One Adept Tier Beast Marrow / One Adept Tier Soul Pearl / 90 pieces of Blank Essence Beads. Book 1 Chapter 28 - Return to the Bronze Pill Hall. "Hong Yue, let''s explore deeper into the forest!" Long Feng take his step as he talks. "Future Husband, how are you doing with the mission? Please be very careful along with your way." Nan Jing Jing''s voice appeared on the Voice Transferring Ring. "Oh, it''s Jing Jing''s message." Long Feng smiles as he heard the sweet and soothing voice from the ring. "Jing Jing, I am doing very well here. I just managed to hunt and kill an Adept Tier beast. Do not worry, I am not injured or anything." Long Feng quickly replied. Unknown to himself, Long Feng actually felt happy just by hearing Nan Jing Jing''s voice from the ring. It sort of giving him a reason to return from the forest, and not being recklessly head deeper and deeper without thoughts. Thinking about his recklessness, Long Feng finally decided to stop enter deeper into the forest. "Hong Yue, let us hunt and look for some ingredient here, and return to the camp." Long Feng looked at Hong Yue and talks to the pet through his mind. The both of them then slay a few beast within that few hour, before they return to the camp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Within the City, two youngsters are standing in an alleyway behind a manor, seems to be waiting for a person. "How long should we wait?" asked one of them. This man soon revealed himself from the shade, and known as Liu Tsung, the one Long Feng met before within the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. "He say within five minutes, let''s wait until the time is up." another person speaks as he reveals himself as well. Known as Tang Jiu, also one of the helpers Long Feng met before in the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. "Quiet! Don''t you both remember that we are not supposed to talk too much?" a voice could be heard. And from the appearance, this person is a male, but his voice is masked by the mouthpiece he is wearing. "Don''t you dare to lecture me, Liu Ming." Tang Jiu replied as he reveals the other''s identity. This person happened to be Liu Ming, the one who teach Long Feng on the refining technique and also handling the Thunder Spirit Pill with the others. "So, what is the order from the Clan?" Liu Tsung impatience started to get worst, as his tone is getting more and more irritated. "Silent, Brother! Your Impatience is the thing that always makes us need to change our plan again and again." Liu Ming scolded Liu Tsung, as he quickly shut up after being scolded. "The Clan request the three of us to place this poison into the water source of the city." Liu Ming takes out a bottle of liquid from his pouch and lets the other two to have a look. "Seems like the Clan finally can''t wait anymore. I wonder how much could we harvest this time, from this city?" Tang Jiu commented. "Young Master Tang, although your position between the three of us is slightly different, I hope you could follow my arrangement." Liu Ming speaks politely with Tang Jiu. "Sure, Sure. I am here to take a look at how you guys do your things anyway." Tang Jiu replied. Soon, the three of them disperse and return to their own pre-arranged lifestyle. Tang Jiu is placed in a cover, enjoying the life of a wealthy young master that recently moved into the city. Liu Ming had been sent into the Bronze Pill Hall one year ago and managed to get into the Outer Division. While for Liu Tsung, he is arranged to be a rogue cultivator, who keep on looking for trouble but hardly met a match. This way, the three of them slowly plans to obtain the main source of the City''s production. From their water source to the path, they used to deliver the edible and usable goods. The location where the main army of the city is kept and trained, the supports given by the three Halls towards the City Lord, and also the Lord'' capability and strength. The three of them belonged to a secretive but strong clan, named as Tang Clan. The current master of the Clan is actually one of their younger generation, named as Tang Shiwu (fifteen in Chinese). Tang Shiwu possess a very noble dream, as well very great wishes. One could say its pure greed, but some would say it a human nature. He created a special kind of weapon, and this weapon is known to need a human as the medium to breed the weapon. This is also why Tang Shiwu is targeting the Clear Jade City, because of the number of populations. Tang Shiwu planned to capture at least five cities before he tried to overtake the royal army. And with the help of the other fourteen trusted Tang''s family member, his aim, is soon to be realized, if nobody willing to go between his ways. "Master Tang Yi says that by exposing this bottle of Primordial Lust Bugs larvae into the water, the population will be infected quickly to become the host. And soon after the Infected people reach the maturity to allows the Bugs to hatch from the inner of their body, we will be collecting the matured bugs to be refined into high explosive and deadly weapon."You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story. "I guess that is why this weapon is called as the Primordial Beast Howl." Liu Ming poured the content of the bottle into the water along the waterfall not far from the city, and start the plan of Tang Shiwu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Master, Xiao Feng has returned." Long Feng greets his master first as he enters the camp. "Xiao Feng, good thing you are fine. How is the hunting mission goes?" Elder Tang Wen paid some attention to his beloved disciple. "Everything goes well for now. Xiao Feng just managed to kill an Adept Tier Beast." Long Feng explain what happened to his master, and allows him to have a look on the Adept Tier Soul Pearl dropped by the Adept Tier Beast. "It is good you are not injured. Xiao Feng, exchange the points and return to the Bronze Pill Hall. This mission is considered finish. By tomorrow morning, we will deliver the scouts into the forest to collect all the remaining disciples within." Elder Tang Wen explained, and return to handle his own important matters. "Master, Xiao Feng will return to the Hall immediately. Please come back earlier as well, Disciple will wait for you in the Virtue Hall while attending all the plants." Long Feng bowed to his master, and excuse himself from the camp. "Xiao Feng, Xiao Feng..." "Master wonder how long will we still have to spend as master and disciple." Elder Tang Wen sighed and stressed within himself. Long Feng has no other choices but to return, since his master had ordered. He then moves to the rewards counter and talked to the senior once again. "Senior, can this junior exchange his points?" Long Feng speaks to the man behind the counter. "Oh, It is you again, hand me the Participating Tablet then." the senior extend his hand and accept the piece of tablet. "Hmm... Not bad, only a few more days, and yet you again managed to obtain a total of 160 points. Here, take this 1600 Spirit Bronze Coin as your rewards." "Too bad the other two halls decided to follow their own way, if not, based on your results, you could try to obtain a few treasures from them." "Remember to quickly look for a better treasure pouch for yourself. This senior can see you have yet to consider about your body wearing equipment." the senior being nice, and explain a few preparations Long Feng should prepare for himself. "This senior, Long Feng is grateful for a few advice. Junior will properly consider senior''s words and quickly prepare himself with few important treasures." Long Feng replied. As he already gotten his money, Long Feng excuse himself and leave the Mission Camp and return to the hall as soon as he could. "This junior manage to obtain a good result in this mission. If my guesses are not wrong, he will be unable to control his anticipation to explore further. If he really did go out without preparing himself like I advised, he will not be able to live too long." the senior looked at the direction Long Feng left, and hope the youngster will listen to his words. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next morning, Long Feng wakes up from his rest and went over to Nan Jing Jing''s room. "Jing Jing, are you still inside the room?" Long Feng knocked the door twice. Nan Jing Jing opened the door after a while and smiles as she looked at Long Feng appearing outside of her room. "Beloved Husband, what brings you here to outside my room today?" Nan Jing Jing asked. "Jing Jing, can I get back the Blood Cleansing Pitcher Plant and the Atlas Worm?" Long Feng politely asked. "Of course, my husband." Nan Jing Jing walked into the room with the door opened, and Long Feng looked at how soft and gentle is Nan Jing Jing while she is walking over to the coffee table to take the Pot of Pitcher Plant with Atlas Worm. Long Feng continue looking at the inner part of his wife''s room. The window is opened, with two beautiful pieces of Silk Curtains. The table and on top of her bed also have a piece of beautiful red silk on top, while a set of Jade made Tea set is nicely arranged on the table. Long Feng looked at the side of her bed and found out that there is a pet basket. "Jing Jing, do you have a pet in your room?" Long Feng asked. "Oh, husband did you noticed?" Nan Jing Jing smiles as she replies. "Let me call her back." Nan Jing Jing took out a bell and ring it twice. Looking at the sky for a few minutes, a flying beast appeared in their sight. As the Beast landed on the balcony, it walks close to Nan Jing Jing and starts to rub its head on its owner''s leg. "Beloved Husband, this is your wife''s pet, her name is Xiao Cai." Nan Jing Jing held the pet in her arms. The pet is a flying Dragon Lord Beast, strong is Metal and Water type. "A young Metal Snow Dragon Lord." Long Feng is slightly shocked in his mind. In his expression and the books he read before, a Dragon Lord is only heard in legend, and rarely seen by anyone. Not even the Lord of the City possess a Dragon Beast as its Slave Pet. "Husband, what do you think about my young Whelps?" Nan Jing Jing asked. "It is amazing. I heard that Dragons is rare in the world we are living, and yet you have a Dragon pet within your room. I am slightly shocked, to be honest." Long Feng answered. "It is all thanks to my father." Nan Jing Jing replied. The two of them continue to catch up with some matters, regarding the mission Long Feng attended, the Bronze Pill Halls updated news, and also some other gossips regarding the city. And from Nan Jing Jing''s mouth, Long Feng get to know the news regarding an upcoming auction for precious treasures that will be held within the Thunderburst Jade City''s most well-known auction house, the Houses of Miraculous Jade. "So, from what you say, the House of Miraculous Jade is going to open their auction for this year at the end of next month?" Long Feng asked. "Yes, husband. Your wife is planning to bid for one of the treasures rumored to be available in the auction, so I will be attending it for sure!" Nan Jing Jing answers. "So, is there any requirement at the entrance?" Long Feng checked for the preparations. After all, he is still a poor lad that barely have money at all. "Of course there will be an entrance fee!" "But it''s not too expensive. Just 2000 Spirit Bronze Coins." Nan Jing Jing revealed the price of a single entrance ticket. As he heard the cost of a single ticket, Long Feng immediately understand the differences between him and a normal cultivator. "So the piece of treasure you says you wanted to bid... What is its opening bid amount?" Long Feng continued asking. "Oh, it''s just roughly 10 000 Spirit Bronze Coins. But I hope I can buy it within 30 000 Spirit Bronze Coins." Nan Jing Jing continued to spout out an enormous amount of money required. Long Feng getting more and more disappointed, as he heard about the cost of a single treasure within the Auction House. "Husband, why not you concoct some pills to sell? If you managed to make your name well known around the town, it would help in auctioning your own products within the auction as well." Nan Jing Jing let Long Feng knows about the opportunity, as he is a Pill Master at the first place. "Are you sure about this?" Long Feng still lack confidence in his own pill refining abilities. "Husband, don''t forget that you still have the Sky Elemental compatibility within you. This way, your refined pills will have a better purity compared to others. As long you can maintain your quality of the pills, I''m sure you could do it." Nan Jing Jing motivates him. Book 1 Chapter 29 - Refining Business (1) "Wife, are you sure that I could get fast money from selling those refined pills?" Long Feng still slightly worried with his own capability. "Beloved Husband, I''m sure you will succeed." Nan Jing Jing assures him once again. "Alright! If that''s the case, I will go to obtain some ingredients from the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. Wife, do you have any idea what type of pill I should refine to get the best results?" Long Feng finally agreed, but before that, he still needs to get an idea on what pill he should be focusing on refining. "Since the Auction will be held in the Thunderburst Jade City, I believe that refining a Middle or Upper-Rank Thunder Spirit Pill would be the best. If you are confident, of course, you can try on refining the Second Grade Thunder Spirit Pills." Nan Jing Jing suggest. "And also, you can consider about preparing a small amount of good quality medicine. The easiest to sell would be the Mystic Suction Pellet or the Calming Spirit Dew Pellet?" Nan Jing Jing suggests the second pill Long Feng should refine to sell. "Thunder Spirit Pill would be a good idea. I have some experience in refining this specific pill, so the chances of successful refinement are higher. For the second type of pill, let us use something not that easy for the other to obtain." Long Feng scratched his head to look for an idea. "How about Blood Refinement Pellet?" Nan Jing Jing came out with an idea again. "Oh, that''s right, the Blood Refinement Pellet. But this pill is the second toughest type of cultivating Medicine to refine, it won''t be easy for me to refine it successfully every time." Long Feng says. "Well, that is correct. But husband you have to remember, the market rarely has a large amount of Blood Refinement Pellet, so even if you only managed to concoct Low-Rank pills, it will still sell like hot buns." Nan Jing Jing explains. (I use bun instead of cake due to ancient ages is yet to have cake, LOL!) "If that''s the case, I will go to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion to purchase some ingredients first." Long Feng immediately leave the Pill Hall and make his way quickly to the Pavilion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Long Feng took an hour to complete all his purchase, and then return to the Bronze Pill Hall after the shopping spree ends. "I can''t believe that the 1600 Spirit Bronze Coins only managed to provide me a total of 20 sets of the Thunder Spirit Pill Ingredients and 6 sets of the Blood Refinement Pellet." Long Feng still heartache for the amount of money he spends. "Even the ingredient is quite expensive. I wonder how much could I sell my batch of pills when it is completed." Long Feng doing some calculation in his mind. The bigger a batch of the Pills refined by one same Pill Master, the higher their pricing would be. Long Feng managed to take a look on the Pills that was placed on the show table and noticed a few difference in its pricing. Low-Rank First Stage Cultivation Pellets rates start at 50 Spirit Bronze Coins each, and this rates will remain still if a Pill Masters provide them less than 100 Pills each time. The price is double if the First Stage Cultivation Pellets is in their Middle-Rank, and Tripled at Upper-Rank. For those masters that managed to provide them with more than 100 Pills each exchange, they provide a special rate, such as an additional 10 Spirit Bronze Coins each for below 1000 Pills exchanged, an additional 20 Spirit Bronze Coin each for below 5000 Pills exchanged. But for the Blood Refinement Pellet, their rates are slightly different. This is also due to the difficulties to refine the ingredient perfectly, so the return from refining this ingredient doesn''t always seem profitable. The Blood Refinement Pellet rates start at 100 Spirit Bronze Coins each with the price stay the same unless the Pill Master provide them with more than 100 Pills. As the pills in exchanges exceed 100 pills, the rates of the bonus could be discussed. And the rates are shown on top, is only for a Low-Rank First Stage Blood Refinement Pellet. If higher rank pills are provided, perhaps even better rates could be discussed as well.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. While for the Tempering Pills, their rates usually start at 75 Spirit Bronze Coins for each Pill exchanged. Similar to the Cultivation Pellets, its rate would be doubled, if Middle-Rank is provided, and tripled if Upper-Rank pill is presented. But tempering Pills is rarely on a huge demand, unless in their respective city. For Clear Jade City, the demand for Internal Flame Pill or Wood Fragrant Pill would be higher than Thunder Spirit Pills. But in Thunderburst Jade City, the demand of Thunder Spirit Pills and Earth Forming Pill would be higher. Long Feng returned to his room, as he prepared for his refining procedures. Since the sky is getting dark, it is also meant the amount of Yin Essence surrounding him would be greater than normal. "Thunder Spirit Pill requires a condition of strong in Yang Essence to be refined properly, and the Blood Refinement Pellet requires condition of strong in Yin Essence instead. I will be preparing the Blood Refinement Pellet first, and continue with the Thunder Spirit Pills in the morning." Long Feng get himself ready with the basic preparations, and a knock came to his door. "Is Long Feng within the room?" a voice could be heard from the other side of the door. "Yes Senior, what do you need me for?" Long Feng opened the door, and answer the senior''s calling. "Junior Long Feng, I came on behalf of the Mission Department to retrieve back the ingredient still in your hand for the Internal Flame Pill Mission." the senior explains his arrival to his door this time, and request for the remaining ingredients to be given back. "I am so sorry senior. Junior was recently in the Mission to the Forest of West Jade, and forgets about the Internal Flame Pills mission." Long Feng apologize for his lack of attention on completing his mission, as he returns the remaining ingredients to the senior. "Your Internal Flame Pills in hand as well. This is the penalty for failure to complete the mission." The senior requested for the completed pills as well. "Senior, must the completed pills to be collected as well?" Long Feng asked. "Yes. That is the rules according to this failure mission slip. You will obtain a copy as well, to indicates that I have received back the remaining item exactly in the slip." the senior take the Internal Flame Pill away, and pass a piece of paper to Long Feng. He leaves without even saying any other words and leaving Long Feng alone. "Just like this, I lost all the refined pills and ingredients due to failure to complete the mission." Long Feng regretted. "I must make sure I never forget any mission in between, so I would need to face this kind of penalty again!" Long Feng grit his teeth together, and make a promise to himself to not forget his remaining missions that are not completed. He then returns to continue with his refining process. Next, Long Feng calm himself a little by consuming a Calming Spirit Dew Pellet. With the Yin Essence in the atmosphere is still strong, Long Feng position himself as he prepares to start refining the ingredients. "First, prepare the three different Beast Blood in three separated pill furnace, and refine them until the impurity is gone from the blood." "Next step, refine the stalk of Blue Spirit Grass. Extract all the available Blue Essence from the stalk and mix it into a Furnace with the three different pure beast blood." "Refine all the ingredient together, and allow them to form naturally." Long Feng tries his best to inject as much Essence Qi into the refining process as possible, hoping that some of his Sky Elemental properties would mix within the pills. Although this method is not too effective, for the time being, this is the best method for Long Feng to make sure there is some remnant of the Sky Element managed to seeps within the Pills. Long Feng first try came out as a result of four successfully refined Low-Rank First Stage Blood Refinement Pellet. "I will need to work out on my skills in refining the pills and injecting sufficient amount of Essence Qi during the process. This would be better, as long as I practice and look for the tricks behind this all." Long Feng convinced himself that he would do better, and repeat the same process once again. Then, from only spending a merely 30 minutes in each refining attempt, Long Feng''s refining process extends into 40 minutes on his second time, 50 minutes on his third time, and reaching one hour on his forth. Finishing with his refining trials, Long Feng spends a total of 5 hours to refine all 6 portions of the Blood Refinement Pellets. And as the result of his effort, he managed to obtain a total number of, 25 Low-Rank First Stage Blood Refinement Pellets, and 2 Middle-Ranked pellets. "Maybe I should take a rest for now." Long Feng finally satisfied with his effort in trying his best to refine the 6 portion of the ingredient, and immediately rest, as he would need to continue with the Thunder Spirit Pills in the period where Yang Essence is most concentrated. Long Feng then straightly fall asleep, due to the total of 5 hours effort trying to refine the best quality pills he could be based on his current cultivation strength. After a total rest time for around 5 hours, Long Feng finally wakes up as the time clocked at exactly 12 o''clock afternoon. this is the time where the Yang Essence is in its most concentrated period. As Long Feng already used to the refining process of the Thunder Spirit Pill, he wastes no time and immediately starts with the process of refining the 20 portions of Thunder Spirit Pill ingredients. By spending only a total of 30 minutes for each portion of the ingredient, Long Feng stops after 5 hours as he completed the refining process for 10 portions of ingredients. And the results came out pretty good too, with a total of 40 Low-Rank First-Stage Thunder Spirit Pills, and another 40 Middle-Rank pills. With the two different pills in his hand, Long Feng heads to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion once again, attempting to sell what he has for now, and trying to obtain the same ingredients once again. Book 1 Chapter 30 - Qian Kun Formation Sutra. "Hey, young one! Seems impatient huh?" a staff in the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion greeted Long Feng because he just has seen the kid yesterday when Long Feng came to purchase some ingredients. "Senior, how are you today? Xiao Feng is here to trade for some ingredients again." Long Feng greet the staff back, as he stands across the counter. "Show me what you have then. Did you failed to refine the ingredients?" the staff put out his hand, and ready to accept a number of pills Long Feng had concocted. In his mind, this young, soon a month old disciple shouldn''t have any good results in his pill refining process. He himself used to be one of the top 100 disciples within one of the Bronze Pill Hall located from other cities before he moves to the Clear Jade City as he was recruited into the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion due to some good connections. Long Feng hesitates not, and withdraw the 40 Low-Ranked First-Grade Thunder Spirit Pills, all within a waist pouch, and placed on top of the senior staff''s palm. The senior felt the weight of the waist pouch. "It''s quite heavy." the senior staff weight the pouch in his hand. As he opened the pouch to reveals the pills within, the senior instantly gave a shocking face. "What? 40 Thunder Spirit Pills? And all of them are very pure, although it is yet to enter the Middle-Rank." the senior staff looked at the pouch containing the pills, and stare at Long Feng for a moment before he turned to the pills again. "This kid actually managed to refine such good Low-Rank quality pills with that mere 20 portions of ingredients. It seems like this kid''s refining skills is roughly at 80% success rate, and about 20% rates in managed to refine some higher grade pills." the senior staff trying to gauge Long Feng''s pill refining capability. But in fact, Long Feng''s skill actually stands in between of 90% to 100% success rate, due to the nature of his Sky Elemental ability. And if the senior staff actually knows that Long Feng still possessed a total of another 40 Middle-Ranked pills, he might turn depressed, with his lowly skills in pill refining. "Hmm! Not bad, Not bad. I see you could refine out a good amount of pills from the 20 portions of Thunder Spirit Pill ingredients you had yesterday. So, what would you like to get today?" the senior staff erase the shock he has from his face, and immediately offer Long Feng a price, and what he would like to get instead. 3,000 Spirit Bronze Coins. That''s what Long Feng could get from selling that 40 Low-Ranked Tempering Pills. "Senior, could this junior here exchange for the same amount of ingredients again? But this time junior would like it to be 10 sets of Blood Refinement Pellet Ingredients." Long Feng nicely speaks to the staff and awaits his replies. "That won''t be a problem at all. Give me few minutes, I will come back with the ingredients." the senior staff nicely reply to Long Feng''s request, and walked into the storeroom to pick up the required ingredients. Similar to what Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing used to do within the Ingredient distributing room, Long Feng''s order is solved by those who work within the room, and within few minutes, Long Feng''s order had been properly packed and organized, in a total of 30 different portioning. Receiving the ingredients and another 1,000 Spirit Bronze Coins in his hand, Long Feng excuse himself, as he left the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. But it is not before he speaks to the senior staff again. "Senior, Xiao Feng will see you again tomorrow." Long Feng words indicate that he will come again tomorrow, and the purpose would be because of the usual Sunday employment. "That''s great! I will be expecting to see you both tomorrow." the senior replied, and return to his position, and serve others whom still queuing at the counter for some purchase. Unnoticed by everyone within the Purchasing Pavilion, a pair of eyes staring straight towards Long Feng, and the eyes seems like managed to read all the secrets hidden behind Long Feng. "Hmm... Sky Elemental, and only barely a month within the Hall, he could actually increase his cultivation by a total of 4 stage." "And also from what Liu Ming says, this kid master is that old traitor Tang Wen. I guess I should send some people to take them both back to the Clan. Clan Master would be very happy to see them both." the person that talks alone reveal his own identity as he walked off from the building. This person identity is the Young Master of Tang Family in Clear Jade City, or as the Spy from the Tang Clan, Tang Jiu himself. But his existence is not noticed by anyone around, and remain as a normal wealthy young master from the Tang Family wherever he goes. About half an hour later, Long Feng finally returned to the Bronze Pill Hall. Firstly he makes a trip to the Virtue Hall, as he had promised to his master that he would be tending and taking care of Hall''s plants and make sure they are all tended with care. Long Feng entered the Hall, and from the surrounding area cleanliness to the growing weeds and sprouting worms and insect around the medicinal plants, Long Feng taking care of them all the best he could. But this simple works still took more than 8 hours of Long Feng''s time, as he finished, the time already clocking at 10 PM night.Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. "I guess I will skip today''s meeting with Jing Jing. I wonder how she is doing this few day." Long Feng pack his stuff and clear the rubbish before he exits the Virtue Hall and returns to his room. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Young Lady, you are almost there! Try your best and maintain the momentum!" Xiao Ling shouted, as he both arm is facing in front, channeling a strong amount of Elemental Essence to strengthen Nan Jing Jing''s cultivation. When the room is looked even clearly, two more silhouettes can be seen at another two spot, forming a triangle shape formation. Elder Huang and Elder Guang. This two elder, together with Xiao Ling is channeling their energy to their Young Lady as her cultivation practice. Nan Jing Jing is well trained in the Martial Art called Qian Kun Formation Sutra (Heaven and Earth Reformation Art). This martial art allows its practitioner to achieve indestructible Essence (Jing) at First Stage, and as the cultivator entered the second stage, the cultivator would have an indestructible Energy (Qi). By managed to achieve the final third stage of this martial art, the cultivator would have an indestructible Spirit (Shen). By fully mastering this primary stage of Qian Kun Formation Sutra, one could achieve a body of indestructible Essence, Energy, and Spirit, and would allow the cultivation, recovery, enlightenment comes easier compared to a normal cultivator. It is believed that the Brilliant Jade Kingdom''s Great Right General, Nan Gong Yu, had mastered this art in their most perfected way, and could fight without stop for one whole week without stop because of this amazing art. "Young Lady, remain persistence, only a little bit more effort, and you will be able to start adapting the art of indestructible Energy!" Xiao Ling''s Elemental Essence gone empty from the struggling. Without notifications, Xiao Ling immediately got reflected aside, slamming towards the wall as she spits out a mouthful of blood. "Xiao Ling!" Nan Jing Jing shouted, but unmovable from her current spot, she has no choice but only being able to show a shred of worries. "Young Lady, pay attention to your cultivation, or else, even your both uncle would be reflected away and end up with injuries." one of the two elders says. "I Know!" Nan Jing Jing has no other choice, but only to continue paying attention to her own cultivation. Suddenly, a few knock on the door could be heard by those within the room. "Who is it!" Elder Guang angrily opened the door using his high control ability on Essence Energy, and as the door opened, revealed Long Feng. "Beloved wife, are you currently busy cultivating? If you do, Xiao Feng will leave first, and allows you to continue cultivating." Long Feng embarrassedly says. "Blood Refinement Pellets!" Elder Huang''s sensitive nose smelled one of the medicines within Long Feng''s pouch. "Kid, Pass over your Blood Refinement Pellets quickly!" Elder Huang immediately urges Long Feng to take out the pills immediately, while Elder Guang continued. "Young Lady, quickly consume a few of the Blood Refinement Pellet, it would help you in refining your blood even quickly!" Elder Guang says. Long Feng hesitates not, and withdraw the 25 Blood Refinement Pellet, and feed it into Nan Jing Jing''s mouth. As the small little pills pass her throat, Nan Jing Jing''s internal blood starting to boil as if the heat from the flame within her body is too strong to bear. Next, the pores within her body started to release a stream of dark colored blood, and quickly cover the young girl''s body and clothing, indirectly stains her beautiful silk dress. Then, a stream of released Pure Element Essence started to get released from the body. "Young Lady, don''t allow the pure Element Essence to escape from your body, quickly absorb them back into your body and refine them!" Elder Huang continued, as he and Elder Guang increase their strength. "Understood!" Nan Jing Jing replied, and try to stabilize her cultivation. "Young one, come down and sit at the spot where Xiao Ling used to sit, and help us, the more stable a formation of Essence Energy, the better and easier Young Lady to advance her cultivation." Elder Huang speaks. "Understood!" Long Feng quickly went over to the remaining spot and starts channeling his Elemental Essence. Again, unnoticed by himself, or perhaps it was due to the frequent usage of his Elemental Essence within his body, a large amount of Sky Elemental Essence flows out as Long Feng channel his energy, and all of it is quickly absorbed by Nan Jing Jing, as if Nan Jing Jing''s body knows the nutritiousness value within the Sky Elemental Essence. "Huk!!" Long Feng face seems to be struggling out of sudden, and the flow of his Sky Elemental Essence seems to be sucked by Nan Jing Jing without mercy. "Husband!" Nan Jing Jing shocked. She started to loosen her control on continuing to cultivate. "Young Lady, you are almost there, don''t waste all the effort now! We will help him to stabilize himself!" Elder Guang and Elder Huang put one of their hand towards where Long Feng is seated and starts channeling some Elemental Essence to him so he could maintain this condition a little longer. Nan Jing Jing''s cultivation soars quickly, and immediately break through the border of Peak Refinement Tier cultivator, and entered the Early Human Stage of Adept Tier. But this is not all the surprises. Long Feng who was stuck in between Nan Jing Jing''s cultivating moment, managed to push his cultivation to soar as well. Although Nan Jing Jing had already stopped from continuing to absorb and refine the Elemental Essence from both elder, Long Feng replaced her position instead. By being dependent on the Sky Elemental capability within his body, Long Feng managed to refine the two elder''s Elemental Essence, and very quickly, his cultivation increase by a stage as well. "This kid is seriously unbelievable! I wouldn''t dare to imagine that he would advance as well during executing the formation." Elder Huang is shocked and surprised at the same time. "Yes, I wouldn''t dare to imagine that he could increase by a stage, and become an Early Heaven Refinement Tier cultivator now." Elder Guang is giving the same reaction as well. "Huh... this felt so good. I can''t believe that I could actually have a stage increment during assisting my wife in her cultivation." Long Feng flex his body a little and look at the two elder''s direction. "Kid, we will pay you back an equal amount of Coins worth for the Blood Refinement Pellets you just gave to our Young Lady." Elder Guang says. "Elder, please do not bother about this matter. The reason I am here anyway is that I am intending to give the Blood Refinement Pellets to Jing Jing as well." Long Feng explained the reason he is here, and hope the elders won''t keep talking about the Blood Refinement Pellets case. "Husband, you managed to refine so many Blood Refinement Pellets in that few portion of ingredients?" Nan Jing Jing speaks, but accidentally revealed a secret behind her words. "How do you know I only managed to purchase a few portion of ingredients yesterday?" Long Feng casually questioned her. "Oh, future young master. I am there in the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion." Xiao Ling immediately replied while keeping their young lady from being bombarded with more questions. "I see, I must be too into my mind, and doesn''t notice that sister Xiao Ling is there as well." Long Feng says, and as he looked at both elders, Long Feng intend to excuse himself and return to his room. "Both elders, Xiao Feng will return to his room now, please rest earlier, and rejuvenate yourself from the cultivation just now." Long Feng politely asked to be excused from the room. "Husband, thank you for today. I will come to see you tomorrow, is that convenient for you?" Nan Jing Jing looked at Long Feng as she talks. "Of course! Shall we take a walk together to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion in morning?" Long Feng replied. "Sure! I will see you tomorrow morning!" Nan Jing Jing cheerfully jumps for a few steps, as she falls on her bed. Long Feng then exits the room and return to his, and instead of refining the ten portions of the Blood Refinement Pellet''s ingredients, he takes a good rest, after cultivating for a moment to stabilized his cultivation from the Stage up. Book 1 Chapter 31 - 1st Grade Cultivator Treasure Pouch. The next morning, Long Feng was slightly overslept. Due to the heavy usage of Elemental Essence and also himself postpone his sleeping time to stabilize his cultivation, Long Feng actually fall asleep until Nan Jing Jing is knocking on his door. "Husband!" Nan Jing Jing shouts as she thinks that Long Feng might be still fall asleep. Staggering from one side to another, Long Feng walked towards the door, and opened it, allows Nan Jing Jing to enter the room. The first sight Nan Jing Jing managed to see within the room, is the Blood Cleansing Pitcher Plant with the Atlas Worm still hanging on the plant. Secondly, she found out the pile of Medicinal Ingredients within the item shelf. The next thing, Nan Jing Jing eye turned to the bed where Long Feng is sleeping and walks over to help him tidy up his bed. "Beloved Wife, just take a seat and wait me get myself ready. You don''t need to purposely help me to clean and tidy up my bed." Long Feng seems to be getting more and more used to Nan Jing Jing''s company. For him now, holding her hand while talking and stopping her from doing something is nothing to be shy about. "Husband, it is normally a wife tidy up the bed in the morning. This is nothing much, so do not feel shy or not comfortable or whatsoever." Nan Jing Jing stands directly in front of Long Feng as she speaks, and stare closely and directly in his eyes. "If you say so... I will go and take a quick shower, we will be on our way in another ten minutes. Have a drink when you are done." Long Feng is speechless when he hears what Nan Jing Jing says. He can only quickly be on his way to the shower room, prepare himself, and quickly return to the room five minutes later. But within that five minutes, Nan Jing Jing had made her inspection to see what kind of man is her husband. In overall, this husband of hers is pretty tidy and neat, with his clothing well arranged within the garment wardrobe. He has not too much decoration within his room, where it indicates the straightforward attitude of the owner. At the corner of the room, a small rattan made bed can be seen, just fitting in size for Hong Yue. Nan Jing Jing looks at the item Long Feng place within the item chest that usually student store their treasures and ingredients, and notice a few ingredients within. Few of them belonged to the Adept Tier Beast Long Feng recently killed, and also an Adept Tier Soul Pearl. By the corner of the chest, she spotted a number of Blank Essence Beads as well. "What is this beads?" Nan Jing Jing grabbed a few beads and hold it in her hand. The moment she closes the chest and turns around, Long Feng also just returned to his room. "Husband, what are this beads?" Nan Jing Jing shows what she holds in her palm and ask Long Feng about it since it''s belonged to him in the first place. "I am not so sure as well. All I know is when I killed the Adept Tier Beast, this bead falls around me, so I just collected all of them and store it until somebody who knows what is this share the information." Long Feng answered Nan Jing Jing''s question. "I will bring a few back to both elders to have a look, what do you think? We should be on our way to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion as well, let us quickly finish our work and return as soon as possible." Nan Jing Jing says before she walks out from the room. The two of them speed up and reach the Pavilion in around 25 minutes, and report themselves to the senior staff. Without additional explanations is needed, the couple went into the same room once again, and quickly prepare the ingredients written on the request slips in a bulk. Supporting each other, Long Feng and Jing Jing completes the request slips three at a time, and their speeds quickly match up to those professional staff that works within the pavilion for at least few years. The chest with the request slips soon turned empty from the couple''s preparing speed, and although the staff is shocked by their speed, they still managed to remain calm, and increase the number of request slips to bring over into the couple''s room. The time continuously clicks, and finally, their working day ended. The couple managed to complete a total of 600 request slips and managed to obtain a total of 1200 points each. "Husband, let us quickly go to exchange the points, and take a walk around the city." Nan Jing Jing happily proposes an idea to Long Feng as she holds his hand and walks over to the counter. "Sister Li Ying, you are here today!" Nan Jing Jing greets her. When Li Ying saw the couple holding hand together, a slight surge of envy appears within her heart. "How are you both today? Are you here for some point exchange?" Li Ying calms herself down, and check what the two of them wants. Li Ying provides the two of them with a list of the item available to exchange, and this time, the list of the item available is even better than what it used to be. "Sister Li Ying, why is this list of exchange is different from what it used to be?" Nan Jing Jing felt the differences and asked Li Ying for some explanations. "Of course it''s different. The two of you had already completed the trial stage at the previous three weekends. This list of exchange is for those who already accepted as experienced staff or helper of the Pavilion." Li Ying explained. Listening to Li Ying''s word, the two of them quickly take a clearer look at what is offered to all the qualified staffs of the pavilion. ============================================================================================= 1st Grade Cultivation Pellet Ingredient (10 Portions) for 100 Points
Cultivation Pellet Boost Stage Pellet Refinement Pellet Blood Refinement Pellet
1st Grade Tempering Pill Ingredient (5 Portions) for 100 Points
Metal Morphing PillThe author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. Wood Fragrant Pill Spiritual Water Pill Internal Flame Pill Earth Forming Pill
Thunder Spirit Pill Wind Storm Pill Poison Essence Pill
1st Grade Poison Concoction Ingredient (5 Portions) for 100 Points
Yellow Heart Poison Concoction Blood Clotting Concoction Yellow Leaf Pill Blood Flowing Pill
Golden Crippling Powder Destructing Qi Powder Wild Pill Qi Recovery Pill
1st Grade Meditation Ingredient (10 Portions) for 100 Points
Calming Spirit Dew Pellet Mystic Suction Pellet YinYang Cleansing Pellet
1st Grade Medication Ingredient (10 Portions) for 100 Points
Blood Dragon Ointment Mind Returning Elixir
1st Grade Cultivator Treasure Pouch for 1000 Points 1st Grade Cultivator Essence Storage Ring for 2000 Points 2nd Grade White Stone Pill Cauldron for 2500 Points. ============================================================================================= Long Feng looked at the three first grade tools listed in the paper, and have some intention to obtain one of them. His attention first goes to the White Stone Pill Cauldron, but with the required points of 2500, Long Feng has no other choice, but to give up that treasure. "Sister Li Ying, will this list change all the time?" Long Feng asked. "Hehe, I heard about some words from some senior of the pavilion regarding your matter, Little Brother Xiao Feng. You must be paying attention to the White Stone Pill Cauldron, am I correct?" Li Ying smile as she replied. "Sister Li Ying is extremely sharp. Yes, Xiao Feng attention is totally staying on the Cauldron. Is there anything Sister Li Ying could do?" Long Feng politely asked for some help from Li Ying. "I wish your attention would be on me instead, but I guess now except the cauldron and young sister Jing Jing, there won''t be any of the attention left for me." "There is a way. I would keep this item for two weeks, but you will be needed to give 1000 points as a deposit, and if you canceled your mind, it won''t be refunded." Li Ying gave Long Feng a way to keep the cauldron. "Husband, if you really want it, I could share my point with..." Nan Jing Jing tried to help, but before she finished her words, Long Feng interrupted. "No, Jing Jing! Do not worried about this matter." Long Feng stopped Nan Jing Jing from finishing her sentence. "Sister Li Ying, if the fate does appear between me and the cauldron, It would still be there when I have enough points to exchange for it. I believe in chances that came and go in time. Although the attraction is great, it still doesn''t totally make me unable to live without it." Long Feng explained. Logically, the mindset of Long Feng within this matter is neither correct or wrong. "Chances came and go. An appearance of a certain thing would always have a reason, and behind the reason, there would always be a better option or bad decision." "You may miss this chances, but it forms a karma, and allows you to reap back the karma when the time has arrived. Perhaps, by missing this changes, it would mean a delay in a certain matter for a cultivator, but the karma reaped by giving the opportunity to another person, worth more in value compared to keeping the chances in hand." Long Feng remembered this word he read before when he was still young. "Sister Li Ying, I would exchange for this 1st Grade Cultivator Treasure Pouch instead." Long Feng pointed at the next treasure he has an eye on, and make his choice. "Sister Li Ying, I will exchange for the 1st Grade Cultivator Essence Storage Ring then." Nan Jing Jing makes up her choice as well. "Alright, you two. I guess my word sometimes just bring now consideration at all, am I right?" Li Ying pout her lips as she sees this two junior few years from her is not listening to her options, but still respect their choices. Minutes later, Li Ying came with the two treasure, and deduct the point as listed from both of them. Nan Jing Jing still possesses a total of 500 points, while Long Feng still holds a total of 700 Points in his hand. "Sister Li Ying, could you explain the usage of this 1st Grade Cultivator Treasure Pouch?" Long Feng trying to know the way this treasure pouch should be used. "Don''t you have any idea of what is this treasure actually be?" Li Ying looked at Long Feng''s blank face. "Erm... Nope." Long Feng replied. And this reply almost makes Li Ying fainted. "Alright! Listen well you silly kid." Li Ying starts to explain the usage of the treasure. -------------------- 1st Grade Cultivator Treasure Pouch Description: This item redefine the meaning of Spatial Storage. Although the capability of Space Incantation Strength is not too strong, the 1st Grade pouch still has the capability to store item with its storage size half of a badminton court. Item Accepted: Non-Living Material such as Pills, Weapons, Ingredients, Books, and Furniture. Item Rejected: Living material. This included Seeds, Eggs, Bloods and other life creation materials. Breakable: Yes -------------------- "Husband, did you have a motive for choosing the Treasure Pouch?" Nan Jing Jing couldn''t help and finally asked the question, as she felt Long Feng have some motive as he chooses the Pouch instead of Ingredients. "Yes, Beloved Wife. Soon we are going to be on a trip to Thunderburst Jade City, so through having a better storage pouch, we could travel safer and lighter in weight." Long Feng explain what he has in mind. "Oh, Husband! You are so lovely and caring!" Nan Jing Jing express herself as she hears Long Feng''s explanations. "Silly Husband... We are going to Thunderburst Jade City by Travelling Cultivation Beast, not by the leg!" Nan Jing Jing thinks in her mind, as she gets slightly angry. "But!" Nan Jing Jing soon has some weird imagination within her mind. "Alone with husband, walking along the way..." "Exploring the forest, crossing the river, climbing the mountain, and going through so much more..." "When sleeping, he will hug me, and I will hold him shyly as well..." "If the weather is too cold, we can warm ourselves..." "Hah! What am I thinking! We are still 10 years old kids!" Nan Jing Jing awakes from her dirty mind. "Beloved Wife, is there anything wrong? Your palm is gripping me so hard." Long Feng stares at Nan Jing Jing''s face directly. "AH! Get away!" Nan Jing Jing released her hand that was gripping Long Feng''s tightly, and push him away as she runs. "Wife, what''s wrong?" Long Feng chase behind closely. "Ah, I want to die!!" Nan Jing Jing runs, as the two of them unconsciously entered the Bronze Pill Hall''s vicinity. "Aren''t that the eccentric and snobbish Young Junior disciple?" "Did he did something to Young Missy Nan?" "How dare he make Young Miss cry, I will kill him!" Long Feng follow Nan Jing Jing as she runs without control, with other jealous male chasing Long Feng with Weapons and Poison Pills. Book 1 Chapter 32 - Atlas Worm / Pitcher Plant, Gone within a night? "Die you brat!" a disciple managed to catch up with Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing. Without any other words, this disciple, with a huge mace in his hand, aim at Long Feng''s waist and make a heavy swing. Long Feng instantly withdraw his Qian Kun Sword and parried the attack. Without giving any chances for that disciple to speak or take his next action, Long Feng turned his sword into a way that when the impact happened, the disciple would not receive any sword injuries. As he turned the sword, he makes an attack move as well and directly laid a head strike towards the disciple. The disciple rage as he failed to land an attack, and make another swing. Facing a direct strike from the long mace, Long Feng has no choice, but clash with that weapon along with his. "Crack!" the mace spike body appeared to have a crack upon the clash. "Again!" Long Feng gave no chances, and strike at the same spot once again. "Crash!!" the mace immediately crumbles into small little pieces of metal wreckage, and falls to the floor. "Senior, please do not feel offended." Long Feng gave no more chances to the disciple, as he takes two swings, and knock the senior unconscious. "Hong Yue!" Long Feng make a whistle and shouted the name of his pet beast loudly. Within seconds, Hong Yue immediately charge from the nearby bushes and guard around its master. Nan Jing Jing is shocked at the same time as well. She finally noticed that her naughtiness had caught problem to her husband, and now he have to bear the consequences. And in the same time, she couldn''t do anything, so she only could try to use another ring that was acting as a pendant around her neck, and make a call to request for Xiao Ling. Xiao Ling too came within a minute. But in front of her, a scene of a fight makes even her feel surprised. In that time span of 1 minute, three disciples had already decided to make a move towards Long Feng! Two of them is holding a similar length sword, while another is armed with an axe. The two sword disciples are competing with Long Feng, while the Axe user is chasing Hong Yue. Nan Jing Jing tried to help, but she''s stopped by Long Feng from making another move. "Young Lady, what happened here?" Xiao Ling can''t help but ask. "It''s my fault... If I don''t behave like this on the way back, husband wouldn''t be put into this situation." Nan Jing Jing felt sorry for her behavior, as the tear in her eyes starting to fall. "Young Lady, I will take an action now and stop them." Xiao Ling unsheathes her sword and walks closer to the fight. "Big Sister Xiao Ling, please do not interfere!" Long Feng then stepped into her path, and stop her from continuing to get close between the fight. In the same time, he gave Xiao Ling a look with a smirk on his lips. "I got it. Young Lady, let us return to our room." Xiao Ling stops from moving forward, and turn around to leave as she holds the hand of her young lady along. "Sister Xiao Ling, why are you not helping husband?" Nan Jing Jing couldn''t stop worrying her husband''s safety. "Young Lady, your husband is enjoying the fight, so let us don''t disturb him." Xiao Ling smiles as she let Nan Jing Jing knows about why she doesn''t go over to help Long Feng. "But he is surrounded by more than ten disciples there..." Nan Jing Jing still worries about her husband. "Young Lady, with his strength and that lizard, nothing will happen to him. Do not worry too much." Xiao Ling assured her once again, as the two entered the room. Back to Long Feng. While Hong Yue is still handling the Axe User, Long Feng had already overcome the threat from the two sword user, as he continues to fight with the next two sword users. "Master, Hong Yue is useless, I''m still stuck with this human!" Hong Yue speaks to Long Feng through its mind.Love this novel? Read it on Royal Road to ensure the author gets credit. "Do not rush for a victory, take a look clearly before you make a move. Hong Yue, your talents is higher than all your other same tribe, and in the same time, you possess the threat sensing ability. I''m sure you are not weaker than me in any way." Long Feng assured Hong Yue on his own strength, and leave him to continue fighting with the Axe user. Long Feng turn around from his position as he launches his Defensive Wu Sword Art. The two sword users furiously attack, but although they tried, they still failed to breakthrough against Long Feng''s tight defense. "Seniors, sorry if I offended you both!" Long Feng gave no chances, as his dancing along with his Defensive Wu Sword Art. The formed sword wave quickly slashed the two senior until their garment is sliced and holes appear everywhere. "Ahh! Run!" one of the sword user throw his sword to the ground, and escape without turning back. Another sword user falls down, fainted from the shock of being showered with the sword aura. "Is there anyone else that wished to give Xiao Feng some guidance?" Long Feng swing his sword in an infinity circle, as he finally places the sword behind his back and talked. The other senior disciples that yet to challenge this junior, all retreated, leaving only the Axe user and Hong Yue still within the spot. Hong Yue and the Axe user still continues to fight for about another fifteen minutes, before Hong Yue gave him a shock by spitting a Stone Dragon Breath. Although the strength of this skill is not too strong, it''s still able to inflict some minor injuries to make the axe user retreat from the fight. "Master! Hong Yue won!" Hong Yue happily jump around Long Feng to show how happy it is. "Good work. How about we make a trip back to master''s home tomorrow? On the same time, we will make some small exploration to the nearby forest to hunt for some beast?" Long Feng comes up with an idea for the two of them to enjoy. Hong Yue happily turned around Long Feng to indicates that it wants to go with the master. Long Feng accept the gesture, and soon the two of them return to Long Feng''s room, but not before Long Feng collects the 5 weapons that were left behind, and also the bits of the broken mace he firstly destroyed. "Why would he collect all the weapon that was left behind? He has a better weapon himself right?" "No, this action is, he even wanted to extort those who tried to attack him just now, even when they already lost!" "He is so evil! He should be some vile spawn from other cities!" Rumors heard everywhere, and even when Long Feng is walking, he could still hear the gossips regarding the fight just now and also how he collects all the abandoned weapons. In Long Feng''s mind... "I''m just a poor shit that needs those weapons to refine and repair my own. What is everyone is thinking?" Pointless to explain, Long Feng went straight to the shower, and rejuvenate himself before he returns to the room and prepares to start his refining works. This time, the 10 parts of the Blood Refinement Pellet''s ingredient managed to provide Long Feng a total of 36 Low-Rank pellets, and also 2 Middle-Rank pellets. Long Feng then take his rest, instead of cultivating, and in this same moment he falls asleep, the Blood Cleansing Pitcher Plant happened to have a different reaction upon receiving Long Feng''s drop of blood. The pitcher, move at a very slow speed towards the Atlas Worm and then swallow the worm whole into the pitcher. The pitcher then flashed for a few moments, and as the roots gave a final push of essence energy into the pitcher, it withered on the stalk, and let the pitcher falls to the soil''s surface. And soon, the pitcher soon withered and leaving only the Atlas Worm within glow on and off. Roughly about four hours later, the being within the pitcher stopped glowing. A very soft struggle could be seen within the withered pitcher, and soon, an insect crawling out. Because of a different kind of growing method, the Atlas Moth turned out to become an Atlas Bulb Giant Moth. Although the Atlas Bulb Giant Moth is a rare Cultivation Beast, its specialty is not the product one could obtain from it, but the essence within its body. The essence within, when eaten by any reptile beast, could increase their bloodline thicker and allows the reptile kind beast to have a better opportunity to cross evolve. And this is when, Hong Yue, wakes up to see a big fat beautiful Atlas Bulb Giant Moth on the floor. The tongue strikes! Atlas Bulb Giant Moth, devoured! Hong Yue... Burp and sleep? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elder Tang Wen finally returned to the Bronze Pill Hall. Since the time is already late at night, he went straight to the Virtue Hall and preparing to take a rest. As he entered the Hall, he was impressed by his good disciple that obediently taking care of the hall''s plants and herb, and also keeping the harvested ingredients nicely in his study room. But as he went to his own room, Elder Tang Wen is stopped by a shadow that stands against the moonlight''s covered area. "Lao Wen..." the shadow talks. "Lao Wu... Is that you?" Elder Tang Wen replies. "You still managed to recognize my fake voices. Not rusty at all after so many years, quite good." The person called Lao Wu replied back. "What makes you here today? Did Brother Fifteen called you here to bring me back?" Elder Tang Wen questions. "You know, Brother Fifteen currently has his eyes in this city. I would suggest you to either leave with your disciple or return back to the clan. Brother Nine did mention before that your disciple is quite the talent." Lao Wu replied. "Did he planned to use this city to become the next breeding farm for his vicious Primordial Lust Bugs?" Elder Tang Wen goes into a rage as he heard about Tang Shiwu have a motive on this city. "What could you do? Big Brother, I will only give you two pills that would make the Primordial Lust Bugs to leave you alone, and it is up to you to choose who to give that pill to." Lao Wu speaks, as he throws a small pouch contains two pills within. "Big Brother, I wish you will come back to the Tang Clan. Although Brother Fifteen had already expelled you from the clan, your skill in medicinal refining is still above all of us within the clan." "If you come back, we wouldn''t mistreat you two." Lao Wu or real name Tang Wu (Five) says before he left Elder Tang Wen within the Virtue Hall alone. "Can''t the Tang leave me and my disciple alone?" Elder Tang Wen hand shakes with anger. He is furious with what Tang Wu just let him know, and yet have no choice or method to stop the Tang Clan. Elder Tang Wen sits at the side of his bed, thinking about the glorious period of the Tang Clan. Book 1 Chapter 33 - My Mother, Lan Hua. About a hundred years ago, the Tang Clan is nothing but a small family belonged to the Nine Tyrant Empire. The family struggles for survival, fighting with fellow city dwellers to maintain as of the most stronger family among the city. Every five year, all male younger than 30 years old and older than 10 years old should be enlisted into the Nine Tyrants Empire''s Army, and would required to serve the military for a minimal 5 years before you would be released back to your family, and continue to breed, keeping the military population strong. The Tang Clan, or more likely to be a mere fifteen heads household, had 5 of their children and two adults was enlisted, leaving only three women, three female children, a child and a male at his age of 40. with all the capable male have been enlisted into the military, the family tried their hardest to survive. The oldest male is assigned to doing the trading with other house, leading the family while protecting the house from any outside threat. The three women, due to their husband failed to return after two years, it is assumed that their spouse dies from the war. With the cruel fate falling to them, the women have no other choices, but to continue their duty as a woman, a female, and continue to bear more child with the only man left in the house. While for the young girls within the family, they would be educated, taken cared of until they reach the marriage age, and to be exchanged for others in return of weapon, martial arts, and many different things. Ten years later, a person is leading a battalion of Calvary, under the flag of Nine Tyrants Empire Elite Calvary, is entering the city, just to look for his long lost families. This person is the one that leads the Tang Clan to their glory. His name is, Tang Long. Tang Long is among one of the 5 children that were sent to the battlefield, and only he managed to return home. As he reaches his previous house, the family head is dead, and the only women that were left are struggling to take care of their remaining children. From that moment, The Tang Family rose in strength, producing elites captains and commanders one after another, and almost all the competition is between the Tang Family and the other 3 strongest families. During that time, Tang Long is believed to be a cultivator of Late Heaven King Tier. Under his guidance, the Tang Family quickly overcome the threat from the other three families and executed them under the reason of treason. But after around thirty years, the family started to fall. Many Tang commanders and captains fall in the war between the three empires, and even some of them failed to achieve even above adept Tier cultivation. The fall of the Tang Family slowly cause disturbance to the Nine Tyrants Empire current king and was expelled from the Nine Tyrant Empire because of their failure again and again. The family then ended in the Brilliant Jade Kingdom and establishing their clan. At first, although a failed family from Nine Tyrant Empire had already moved from an empire to a Kingdom to reside within, their strength is still a remarkable thing within a kingdom. The Clan is established, and from there, they try to rise up once again. Until the gap of 80 years is over, Elder Tang Wen, as their Oldest Brother or well known as Tang Yi before he changes his name to Tang Wen, lead the current generation. But in elder Tang Wen''s 30th birthday, his position is taken by the new upcoming youngest brother among his generation. Tang Shiwu. Younger than Elder Tang Wen by 15 years, Elder Tang Wen could not believe his eyes when this young brother of his actually has the strength of a Peak Master Tier. Without a match, Elder Tang Wen defeated and was expelled from the Clan because of his outdated and reserving attitude when leading the Clan. By losing the clan head seat to Tang Shiwu, Elder Tang Wen leave the clan with all the knowledge he has and continues his path by being a pill master. Through hard work, effort, and patience, he finally obtained the title [Elder of Ointments], but this doesn''t heal his heartache of failure to continue leading the Tang Clan. With him leaving the seat to somebody more compatible, Tang Shiwu lead the Tang Clan with more than an Iron Fist Rule. First, he came out with the research and discovery of Primordial Lust Bug and the completed refining version, the Primordial Thunderclap. Second, he created the Fifteen Eldest Master, with him along as the leader. Except Tang Wen or Tang Yi, the other fourteen Tang Brothers are all within this together.This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it. Third, he expands the strength of the Clan, from 1000 men strong Clan into a 30 000 Men strong Clan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Long Feng wakes up about the same time today, but as today is exactly one full month he had been a disciple of the Bronze Pill Hall, Long Feng required to make his way over to the Education Building, and withdraw his lot of monthly cultivation supplies. Carrying all the item he recently obtained from the building, Long Feng quickly make his way back to his room and leave the Bronze Pill Hall together with Hong Yue. The two of them walked towards the outskirt of the city, where Long Feng''s house is located. As he the road he has been playing on it for a total of ten years, Long Feng felt a slight feeling of missing the past. Long Feng walked pass four more house and managed to see the house he stayed with his mother for the previous ten years. "Mother, I''m home!" Long Feng wait no more, as he ran as quick as he could to stand before the door. Long Feng voice could be heard from the house beside his, and before his mother came out, the neighbors already come out to have a look on this "Good boy" that had left the house for one whole month. "Xiao Feng, you are home!" One aunt that stays beside Long Feng''s house came out to greet this boy. "Aunt Guo, how are you doing?" Long Feng politely return the greeting of this old lady. "Xiao Feng? My son?" the door opened and a lady appeared before the door. "It''s really my young boy!" Xiao Feng''s mother is so happy to see her child, as she takes two more step, and hugged this child she missed for a whole month. "Mother, let us go in and talk. I need to introduce you to my Slave Pet as well." Long Feng push her mother from hugging him so tightly and had her to walk back into the house. "Look at how filial is that child, Lan Hua(Long Feng''s mother name) really have a good fortune this time." the neighbor can''t help but to feel a slight jealousy from looking at Long Feng. Within the house, Lan Hua seats as she looks at where her child had changed after going out to learn as a disciple. Although the difference is not too visible to notice, as a mother who had been taking care of this child for a total of ten years, it would be impossible for Long Feng to hide anything from her. "Naughty Kid, who is this girl that taking care of your cloth?" Lan Hua''s first word is related to Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing''s case. "What? Mother how come you know about this?" Long Feng has no idea that his mother would immediately notice the cases between him and Nan Jing Jing. "Mighty Lord!!! Save me!" Long Feng beg the god to save him. "Of course mother knows about it. Who do you think I am?" Long Feng''s mother bears the same attitude like Long Feng, and as she starts speaking... "First, your garments. Whenever you are taking care of your own clothes, you will always miss the part at underarm, and it would always be crumpled whenever you are wearing those clothes." "Second, you smell good, you do not notice, but mother knows you too well. The moment you changed your bathing soap, the mother already know what makes you notice that." "Third, your clothes are all well folded before you wear it... For ten years mother taking care of you, I never see you manage to fold the cloth nicely. This must be not your handiwork. If it''s not a girl, then who it is?" Long Feng mother explains nonstop and makes Long Feng give up on keeping it a secret. "Where is this lady?" Lan Hua stares at her child as she questions him. "Oh, mother! She misses her parents as well, of course, she went home to meet her parents." Long Feng quickly come out with an excuse. "Li Long Feng! Come out!" a loud voice could be heard from outside of the house. Long Feng soul immediately vanished and disappeared as he heard Nan Jing Jing''s voice outside of the house. "Must be her." Lan Hua smile as she looks at her blur and dumbfounded child. Long Feng mother went to the door, opened it as she greets Nan Jing Jing first. "Hello, are you looking for my child, Xiao Feng?" "Hello mother, I am Jing Jing, Long Feng already propose to me, you see?" Nan Jing Jing introduces herself as she called Lan Hua mother. She even shows her the ring on her hand and indicates that this is bought and given by her child. "Li Long Feng... where do you want your head to be twisted?" Lan Hua turned from happy to shock, from shock to anger, from anger to furious. Two women in the room, one man. From getting questioned to getting a pinch, hit, knock and scolded, Long Feng, suffer all he could for the whole day, until dinner. "Mother..." Long Feng pitifully called his mother. "What?" Lan Hua replied the young child, but still keeping that cool demeanor on her. "Mother, this is Hong Yue, my cultivation beast pet." Long Feng hold Hong Yue with both hands and allows his mother to have a look. "Xiao Yue, now you are one of the family, alright?" Lan Hua pets Hong Yue a little and noticed that the Lizard seems to be shedding its scales, as her hand have some remains of the scales stick on her palm. "Fat Lizard, did you get heavier?" Long Feng finally noticed Hong Yue''s weight seems to get heavier between 250gm to 300gm. As he releases Hong Yue and allows it to walk freely again, Long Feng noticed some scales sticking on his palm. "You fat lizard, are you going through a shedding?" Long Feng speaks in his mind together with Hong Yue. "Hong Yue thinks so. Hong Yue''s body is very warm and energetic, it feels this way after Hong Yue eaten the moth in the room." Hong Yue replied. As Long Feng heard this reply, he was in a shock. "What did you say? The moth?" Long Feng starts to get nervous. "Yes, master, It''s a big fat moth." Hong Yue replies without pause, and that reply gave Long Feng a heart attack. "No! This damn lizard actually ate the Atlas Moth. This is why the Worm is no longer at the Pitcher Plant!" "Wait, then where is the pitcher? Even the pitcher is missing." Long Feng remembered the pot containing the pitcher plant is slightly different from what it used to be, but pay no attention as he was supposed to return home. "Oh well, I guess that''s fate. Hong Yue, make sure you don''t waste the nutritious value of the moth." Long Feng felt that there is no reason to get angry on Hong Yue, so he put aside the matter and pay more attention to Hong Yue instead. "Mother, this is my monthly payment of 20 Middle-Rank Cultivation Pellets and 5 Upper-Rank Cultivation Pellets." Long Feng put the 25 Pellets into his mother''s palm, forcing her to accept it. "Silly boy, do you think the mother cannot handle herself after this monster get away to study?" Lan Hua happy with her child''s filialness, but choose to reply with some different words instead. That night, the three of them is blessed with a different surprised instead. Book 1 Chapter 34 - Hong Yue, Evolved. That cheerful night ends with a fine dinner cooked by Long Feng''s mother for the three of them.(Hong Yue as well). With the dinner finished and since Long Feng already passed the Cultivation Pellets to his mother, they decided to call it a night and return to their own bedroom. Lan Hua is happy with her child''s filialness, and without wasting the kind effort, she immediately refines the Cultivation Pellets and starts to temper her body that was neglected for long. Up to the quality of Middle-Rank and Upper Ranked Pellets, Lan Hua tempering attempt going smoothly, and without any resistance from her body, Lan Hua''s Elemental Essence within her body quickly burst out from her body, revealing an increase of a full stage of cultivation. But that is not all, with her cultivation stage increased, Lan Hua spends no time wasted, and swallowed three pills that were prepared years ago in her waist pouch. "Luckily Brother Tang had prepared this few pills for me up front a few years ago." Lan Hua revealed three different pills within the pouch. An Upper-Rank Second-Grade Stage Boost Stage Pellet. An Upper-Rank Second-Grade Refinement Pellet. An Upper-Rank Second-Grade YinYang Cleansing Pellet. Swallowing the three high-quality pellets into her body and tempering her body with it, Lan Hua''s cultivation quickly rises, from a mere Earth Refinement Tier into a Human Adept Tier, and her increase of strength does not stop here. Her cultivation continued to rise as she consumes and refine that three pellets and finally, he cultivation stopped at Peak Practitioner Tier. "Since Xiao Feng already met with Brother Tang and also becoming his direct disciple, I suppose I have no other worries. I have to start to recover my strength, and soon, that kid going to know what really happened with our family." Lan Hua speaks with herself in her mind, as she continues to refine her body to make her body able to handle the sudden increase in strength. Meanwhile, Long Feng cultivates himself by absorbing the surrounding Fire and Wood Elemental Essence and managed to push his cultivation close to Early Heaven Refinement Tier. But the biggest fortune could be seen on Hong Yue. The fat lizard hopped out from the opened window and takes a few rounds of a walk outside of the house. But in the middle of its walk, Hong Yue''s body suddenly felt like burning, as the lizard rolls on the ground, trying to sooth the burning heat came out from its body. As Hong Yue rolls on the ground, the scales fall at a greater speed, and soon, Hong Yue''s previous scales had all fallen from its skin. Continuously behind, a set of new reptilian scales starts to grow within Hong Yue''s body, resembling a type of scales only could be owned by a dragon. The scales grow at an outrageous speed, and within moments, the scales totally wrapped Hong Yue''s body. His old claws fall, replaced by a set of brand new claws, similar to how a mole''s claw is looked alike. Hong Yue''s head started to grow a horn, not straight like a unicorn, but it has a few indescribable features as if there is a line of ancient runes carved on it. Hong Yue''s body is the next to grow. From a height of a walking infant into as tall as Long Feng when standing, Hong Yue could be seen as a growing Lizard-man, with the lower limbs is finally grow into walking foot. Two wing look alike point appeared behind Hong Yue''s spine, almost indicating that there will be a pair of wings to grows out from, but perhaps it was due to the insufficient concentration of blood lineage, the pair of wings failed to grow. Hong Yue strength increases greatly along with his transformation, and from a mere Earth Refinement Stage Beast, It strength increased into a full Heaven Refinement Tier, and brings it into a strong contender, even when fighting against an Adept Tier Beast. Although this change is not a rarity among the beast, soon in future, Long Feng will get to know the name of the bloodline holds by Hong Yue''s transformation. Silver Scales Wyvern Emperor - Metal Elemental Ferocious Beast. Although Hong Yue strength is not even a mere 1% of the Silver Scales Wyvern Emperor, the less than 1% strength, could still allow Hong Yue to be quite a strong beast within Clear Jade City or Thunderburst Jade City. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. Secret Location. Main Base of the Shadow Gate''s Operation. Today, a competition to choose the next generation of the Top Ten strongest Shadow Warriors is held within the base, and currently, the end of the competition is near. The competition is held within the great Coliseum of Shadow Emperor. With the difficulties of gaining a firm spot to land and move, the competitors that failed in this match only could have one ending. Death. Every three years, there will be a selection, and this time is the tenth time of the competition is being held. Currently within the Coliseum, a total of 15 competitors is still standing within. One of the few favorites, Lin Dong. Another favorite, Niu Gu. On the spectators Tower, Commander Meng Yun is seen looking the fight with another two of his most loyal subordinates. "Commander seems like Lin Dong will grab the first seat among the top ten. Should I go down and recruit him into our team?" one of the subordinate beside Meng Yun speaks. "Yes. Go ahead and represent me to recruit him." Commander Meng Yun answered, but his sight is laid on one of the 15 participants that managed to gain his attention. "Yang Jian, what do you think about that kid with daggers within his cape?" Commander Meng Yun questioned his subordinate. "Yang Jian feels that this kid is preserving his strength, and only take his chances when he has seen fits. This kid is the child of the first generation''s first seat, Yao Ming. His name is called Yao An." Yang Jian replied. "First Generation''s first seat, I got no idea that his child will be within this competition as well." Commander Meng Yun replied. The match soon quickly become even more challenging, where the final 11 participants start to reveal their strongest move. As the 11th participant starts to get defeated and fallen into the darkness below the coliseum, the other handler of the Coliseum appeared around the Coliseum perimeters, and prepare to save the remaining ten participants if they are defeated. This is also the final challenge, to determine their seats within the top ten! With each of the participants starts to get serious, six among the ten got defeated within three to four minutes, and the seventh person falls at his seventh minutes. The final three participants, is Niu Gu, Lin Dong, and Yao An. Niu Gu is well versatile with the air walking style martial arts, where it allows him to remain on the air for a longer period of time compared to the other two. Lin Dong is known as the Strongest since young, possessing a total of four different body enhancement Martial Arts. Yao An is not well known within the junior generation, but since he is the only child of the previous First Seat, Yao Ming, it is assumed that he should be well trained with Shadow Art, the strongest martial art of Yao Ming himself. "Lin Dong, you will be the first to fall between the three of us!" Niu Gu charges towards Lin Dong, with his long spear. "Niu Gu, as usual, you always overestimate your own capability." Lin Dong turned around and prepare to receive the attack directly. "Triple Piercing Spear!" Niu Gu launches his attack, which has a three continuously hit towards Lin Dong. The moment the spear managed to be blocked on its first attack, Niu Gu will place a punch on the pommel of his spear as the second piercing attack, before he ends it with a strong kick on the spear again. But facing Lin Dong, this Triple Piercing Spear seems to lose its piercing strength. "Golden Body Martial Art, Bronze Bell Martial Art, Iron Vein Martial Art, Silver Muscle Martial Art!" Lin Dong stands firm as he blocks the Triple Piercing Spear. "Metal Elemental Holy Body!" Lin Dong shouted the name of his martial art, as he bounces Niu Gu away from him. Niu Gu received a bounce back of all the impact he has done on Lin Dong, and vomit a huge amount of blood as he falls to the darkness. But at the end, he was saved by one of the handlers of the Coliseum. Xiao An, it''s only you and me now, come!" Lin Dong stands firm again, as he pushes his Metal Elemental Holy Body into its maximum strength. "Big Brother Lin Dong, please get ready, Xiao An will have no strength in this move!" Yao An makes a few step, almost like a dance. "First Move of Shadow Dagger Art! Ring of Shadow Dagger!" a total of 10 dagger flies out from the cape, and forms a sphere of flying daggers as Yao An danced with two last dagger on his both hand. "Big Brother Lin Dong, receive this move!" Yao An stopped his dance, as he throws his two daggers towards Lin Dong, and leading the Ring of Shadow Dagger follows the path of trajectory. The Ring of Shadow Dagger contains a total of 144 different impacts, with each dagger hitting a total of 12 times. Failed to even resist at least half of the impacts, Lin Dong is thrown behind, vomiting blood from his mouth after facing a mere 10 Strikes from the Ring of Shadow Dagger. "Stop the fight! The results are out between the fight!" Commander Meng Yun jumps into the coliseum and destroys the Ring of Shadow Dagger without any effort at all. "Commander." Yao An bowed and greet Meng Yun. "Argh... Commander." Lin Dong who was injured and successfully received by the Coliseum staff pay his greeting as well. "You both are talented Shadow Gate scouts. I don''t want any of you died by our own people. If you wish to be dead, go to the opposing forces and take their leader''s head as your payment to request for a death!" Commander Meng Yun praises them for their strength, and at the same time, lectured them for their recklessness. "Subordinate understood!" both Lin Dong and Yao An replied. "Good! Now go back to prepare and receive your tag of identity, as from tomorrow, you both, and you all, will follow me to hunt for a special Ferocious Beast!" Commander Meng Yun speaks as he looked at the two of them, and turn around looking at the remaining 8 finalists. "May subordinate ask where is this location we are heading towards?" One of the finalists dares himself to ask for the place they will head toward. "Star Jade Mountain! North of the Capital city of Brilliant Jade Kingdom!" Commander Meng Yun answered the finalist''s question. "What? Are we going to the Star Jade Mountain? Commander, please tell this subordinate, are we hunting the rumored beast that was the main topic within the Capital?" the finalist asks his final question. "Yes! We are going to hunt the rumored Ferocious Beast, only known as [KWAI]." Commander Meng Yun answered. Hearing his answer, all the other finalist started to understand the difficulty of this task. And within their mind after hearing all the rumors, a visual of a Shining Silver Python with the length of around 20 feet and weigh around 10 ton. Book 1 Chapter 35 - First Oddities In Long Fengs Life. Tuesday morning. "Mother!" Long Feng wake up from his sleep and went over to his mother''s room. But no reply could be heard from the room. Long Feng knocked the door twice and opened the door to get in. Within the room, Long Feng could felt a scent belonged to his mother, but without the owner within. Long Feng take his time to clean up his mother''s room before he went out to get some fresh air. "Oh yeah, Hong Yue should be still sleeping." Long Feng walk back into his room to look for the Fat Lizard, but as he returned to his room, Long Feng found out that even Hong Yue is not within the room. "Where is both of them? Did mother bring Hong Yue out when she goes to work?" Long Feng thinks in his mind. He walked out to the outside and saw his mother is scratching a lizard-man''s stomach. "Mother, that lizard-man..." Long Feng wanted to speak, but the choice of words is missing from his mouth. "Hahaha, can you believe it? I am shocked as well when I saw him this morning." Lan Hua speaks as she saw how her son looks. "Hong Yue, what happened to you?" Long Feng can''t help but ask. "Master, Hong Yue got no idea as well... Yesterday night, all this transformation began, Hong Yue''s body starts to change and become taller, Hong Yue could even talk now." Hong Yue reply Long Feng in mind, and half way during exchanging words, Hong Yue suddenly speaks with its mouth. And what was even more shocking is that Hong Yue''s sexual preferences are decided during his evolution, and instead of [It], calling Hong Yue an [HE] would be more suitable. "So, do you know what bloodline you are following at the moment?" Long Feng asked. "Master, Hong Yue have no idea..." Hong Yue face falls to the same as Long Feng''s a moment ago. "We will know it soon, there must be somebody with good knowledge about a Cultivation Beast''s lineage." Long Feng calm Hong Yue as he walks to the side of Lan Hua. "Silly boy. Soon you will know that Hong Yue had leaped from the basic Great Stone Dragon Lizard lineage into a Silver Scales Wyvern Emperor Lineage." Lan Hua thinks in her mind as smile when looking at the two. "Mother, I want to go into the forest!" Long Feng inform his intention to his mother. "Reasons?" Lan Hua questions the intention. "Personal Growth. Your son cultivation has almost reached the stage of Early Heaven Refinement Tier." Long Feng explained. "Mother heard from uncle Shu and Uncle Wu a few days ago that there is a different smell happened to be released deep into the forest, perhaps there are some good quality herbs recently matured and yet to be eaten or harvested." Lan Hua tells her son about what she heard a few days ago. "If that''s the case, I will hurry into the forest! Hong Yue, follow me!" Long Feng grip his sword tightly and starts running into the forest direction. This forest that located near to the outskirt of Clear Jade City is known as the Cloudy Jade Forest. The beast within this forest is known to be quite weak, with only the strongest Cultivation Beast within at around a Peak Refinement Tier. Although the forest is not worth exploring by the strong cultivators, it still holds some attraction due to the fertile land that could grow many kinds of herbs and ingredients and cultivation beast that is good for new cultivators to grow. It is also the place for weak gatherer or workers to harvest the materials to be sold to make a simple living. But one more fact resides within this forest. This is where Long Feng''s father, Li Da Mu lost his life. Long Feng entered the forest, and immediately found out a good stash of Cultivation Pellet ingredients. Although this location is slightly deep from the location where the normal herb picker is working, after he scans the surrounding, Long Feng could be sure that this location is safe to pick the ingredients. "Uncle Shu! Everyone, there is a good bed of herbs here!" Long Feng shouted at the location where a few herb picker is working. "Xiao Feng?" Uncle Shu, who knows Long Feng since he is a small toddler, immediately recognize this kid. "Hahaha! I would never imagine that the young kid now is a Pill Master already." Uncle Shu leads the others and walked over to Long Feng''s position. "Uncle Shu, I scanned the surroundings, it should be safe for you all to harvest the herbs here before returning." Long Feng explains what he had done before he called them over. "Hahaha, good kid, good kid. If you say so, uncle will quickly finish this bed and return home. What are you doing here?" Uncle Shu is grateful for Long Feng''s help and tried to know what Long Feng is doing here. "Uncle Shu, I heard mother said about a smell you mentioned. Do you think it is a good quality herb?" Long Feng asked since Uncle Shu is one of the people who noticed the difference. "Oh, you mean that thing. If you walk deeper into this location. You would smell it as well." Uncle Shu pointed at a direction. "Uncle, any additional information that you noticed?" Long Feng tried to get deeper into the information Uncle Shu might know. "Hmm, this might help." Uncle Shu scratch his chin and think back the moment he was there.A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. "Alright, Listen." "The time I and Brother Wu noticed that smell, it is at night time. The smell is distinct, strong and numbing when you smell it for too long. During the moment the smell came out, we could hear a few roars from nearby cultivation beast, so before we get into danger, all of us escape and return to the outskirt." Uncle Shu explained. "Uncle Shu, thank you for the information, Xiao Feng will be very careful while looking for the treasure." Long Feng politely thanked Uncle Shu for the information and went in deeper into the forest. The deeper he enters the forest, the more the attraction appears along the way. Along with his path, ingredients for pills such as Cultivation Pellets, Calming Spirit Dew Pellet, Wood Fragrant Pill and Mind Returning Elixir is abundant and free for Long Feng to gather and use to refine his own batch of medicinal pills. But for the current Long Feng, such attraction pose no value to him. In his mind, only one type of treasure shall enter his eyes. Within his mind, a visual of the plant appears, after he hears the explanation from Uncle Shu. "The treasure Uncle Shu describes, must be this plant!" Long Feng happily enter deeper into the forest, hunting for the smell. Even Hong Yue is assisting Long Feng in his search. "Master, what is the treasure we are looking for anyway?" Hong Yue felt weird with his master''s action of ignoring all the herbs along with their way and keep exploring deeper into the forest. "Hahaha, Hong Yue, you might have no idea about this treasure, but it''s something rare and cannot be eaten twice in your life!" Long Feng face turned into grinning and smiling happily. "Alright, let me tell you what it is." "This treasure most probably is the rare Edible Plant [Treasured Crystal Jade Cabbage/ Ming Bao Yu Jing Bai Cai]!" Long Feng expose the true identity of the treasure. "It''s a cabbage?" Hong Yue sweats... "Hong Yue, you are too ignorant... In this continent, rare oddities such as this Treasured Crystal Jade Cabbage is hardly seen. It is treated as a luck that falls to your doorstep to the person who managed to even bite a small piece of its leaves." Long Feng tells Hong Yue about the preciousness of the treasure they are looking. "The Treasured Crystal Jade Cabbage can be only eaten once in a lifetime, and no matter what tier of cultivation you are, it is an immediate increase of a full stage without any obstacle." Long Feng explained the wonder of the cabbage. "But master, until now we can''t even spot a single smell related to the plant, how do we actually find it?" Hong Yue couldn''t hold the question in mind and ask. "Since Uncle Shu mentioned that he caught its scent at night, we will explore this forest, and pinpoint a few location that looks suspicious." Long Feng tells Hong Yue his trick to capture the plant. Not harvesting even a single ingredient, Long Feng and Hong Yue keep their exploration and make sure to notice any differences between each single piece of weed and grass patch. Their inspection finally ends, with only three spots is suspiciously strong in Wood Elemental Essence. Long Feng''s decision is considered wise with the availability of herbs within their surrounding. When it comes to a fight between Beast and Human, the human might only focus on the rare herbs they are looking, but for the Cultivation Beast, they are easily distracted by the appearance of other edible sources. By preparing himself, Long Feng waits until the sky turns dark, and with the moon appears on the blackened sky, a shining plant slowly un-burrow itself, and appears out openly to absorb some moonlight as its daily nutrients. "That''s it! The Treasured Crystal Jade Cabbage!" Long Feng charged directly towards the treasured green and prepare to pluck it. But before his wish is granted, a ranged attack came out from nowhere, and force Long Feng to defend against it. The attack is not strong enough to injured Long Feng from such distance, but still, it gave Long Feng''s arm a slight numbing feeling. "Hong Yue, there are others preying on our treasure." Long Feng calmly send the words to Hong Yue. And in the same time when Long Feng is attacked, Hong Yue already prepared himself in a battle stance. "Master! Your North-West direction!" Hong Yue immediately warn Long Feng as he rushed towards the direction. Long Feng put up his sword in a circle formation and defended against the same ranged attack once again. Yet in the same time, two different howls from behind could be heard. "Hong Yue, get the ranged attacker for me, I will handle the other two remaining Cultivation Beast." Long Feng turn around and prepares. While on the same time, Hong Yue already managed to spot the attacker. "Master, Understood! This beast in front of Hong Yue is actually a Pinecone Wood Ape!" Hong Yue reported. "Handle it! And be careful, the Pinecone Wood Ape could have a strength of a Heaven Refinement Tier if they are an adult one, and they don''t come out to hunt alone!" Long Feng reminded Hong Yue and make sure he wasn''t looking down on his opponent. "How about you two come out as well?" Long Feng points his sword and its scabbard on two different directions and speaks. On the direction where Long Feng''s scabbard is pointing, a four legged beast appears from the bush, and it is an Elder Horn Deer. With a cultivation of Heaven Refinement Tier, it is one of the most dangerous Cultivation Beasts within the forest. And next, on the direction where Long Feng''s sword is pointing, a walking Brown Earth Elemental Bear appears. This Cultivation Beast is already well known for its strength of a Peak Refinement Tier, and also its capability in fighting like a human does. Even some of the Herb Picker Long Feng knows since he was younger, is known to be dead under this beast''s claws. "Hahaha, I would never imagine that I will have the chances of facing the Cloudy Jade Forest''s top contenders in strength." Long Feng happily swing his sword as he prepared for the two beast''s attack. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I didn''t think that this Pinecone Wood Ape is this skillful." Hong Yue thinks. Due to his higher evolution, he currently has the capability to consider, examine and even have a slight feeling similar to human. The Pinecone Wood Ape throw another projectile towards where Hong Yue stands. Hong Yue evade the attack, and approach the ape slowly but with caution, as he worries there might be some companion hiding somewhere. Truly up to his cautiousness, two more Pinecone Wood Ape appears from above, and leap down to launch two simultaneously attack from left and right. "Puny attempts!" Hong Yue smirk as he charges toward the one attacking with projectiles, and with the target is missing from the spot, the two apes attack missed its target. Hong Yue gave no chances, and launch a claw strike towards the first ape, and heavily injured it before he stopped and change to a different direction. The first ape gave out a loud howl. Hong Yue being still a Cultivation Beast understands the meaning of the howl. It is loud, but the direction of the howl is towards the younger generation of Pinecone Wood Apes, indicating a simple and clear meaning of [We are dying! Young ones, Run!]. But the law of nature is naturally fierce and lack of compassion. The remaining two Pinecone Wood Apes take their stance and attack without worrying about their own safety, and for Hong Yue, this type of opponent is easier to be taken cared off. [Silver Poison Claw!] [Colloidal Silver!] Hong Yue make a Claw attack towards the second ape and directly destroy its head with the sharp and deadly claws, and without a pause, the Colloidal Silver skill allows Hong Yue to spread large amount of Silver mist, and upon a slight contact, a form of Metal Elemental Poisoning will react within the infected bodies. The last Pinecone Wood Ape is struggling as the Metal Elemental Poison is attacking its internal organ, rolling on the ground, the ape firstly vomits a few mouthful of blood, before soon, the blood turned into silver colored liquid. Its body soon turned bluish due to the metal poisoning is in effect. Within ten minutes of being in contact with the poison, the Pinecone Wood Ape soon turned into a pool of silver colored blood on the ground, with all the bones and organs including skin is melted. "I would never imagine that my poison is this potent." even Hong Yue is shocked with the potency of his poison. Book 1 Chapter 36 - Middle Heaven Refinement Tier. "Heh, Brown Earth Elemental Bear and Elder Horn Dear. What a good opponent for me this time." Long Feng happily announce his happiness loudly. "Roar!" the Brown Earth Elemental Bear charged toward Long Feng with a roar, and like a released arrow, the beast''s speed seems unstoppable. "Attacking first? Not bad!" Long Feng started his swinging preparation of the Defensive Wu Sword Art and awaits the clash with the Brown Earth Elemental Bear. But out of his expectation, instead of the bear, the Elder Horn Deer is the one met with Long Feng''s Defensive formation first. "Why would the Elder Horn Deer reach me first? It is still standing on its spot when the Brown Earth Elemental Bear is taking its action!" Long Feng do not have any difficulties in defending himself, but the worries of a sneak attack by the bear cause him to be more cautious than usual. "Where is the bear?" Long Feng take a few step back and tried to locate the Brown Earth Elemental Bear. Instantly he spots the bear that was charging directly towards the Treasured Crystal Jade Cabbage. "No, you don''t!" Long Feng withdraw one of the weapons he won from previously when fighting with the fellow disciple in the Pill Hall, and throw as strong as he could towards the bear. "Roar!!" the bear noticed the danger of the flying sword towards it and turned around to deflect the attack. But in the same time, instead of continuously attacking Long Feng, the Elder Horn Deer actually charge towards the Brown Earth Elemental Bear and give it a strong horn tackle. "ROARRR!!!" the Brown Earth Elemental Bear roared as loud as it could, as a show of anger. In the same moment, both of its claw instantly stabbed deep into the Elder Horn Deer. The deer leap a few times, showing a moment of pain from the 10 bleeding opened wounds on its neck and body. After a moment, the Elder Horn Deer falls to the ground, only to softly howls, perhaps that would ease its pain. Long Feng waste no time. "Defensive Wu Sword Art!" with the assistance of the Qian Kun Sword, Long Feng charge towards the bear in hope of slaying the beast. But a close to advancement cultivator still need more effort to perfectly fight against a Peak Refinement Tier beast. Although the bear is weakened, this doesn''t mean that it would be easy to be slain. All of sudden, Long Feng heard a crack voice in the middle of the fight. "Shit!" Long Feng finally noticed that his waist already received a claw attack from the Brown Earth Elemental Bear. Retreating for a few steps, Long Feng prepare some ointments to stop the bleeding. "I''m lucky that Senior Yang Jian''s creation could hold some ointments on the pommel." Long Feng finished applying the ointment on his wounds, and prepare to fight once again. [Colloidal Silver!] A drop of Silver substance flew past Long Feng''s side and managed to hit the bear on a spot it was injured by the Elder Horn Deer. "Roar!!" the Brown Earth Elemental Bear howls loudly because when the Silver Substance entered the blood vessel, the unbearable pain started to appears. "Master, Kill it quickly, its cultivation is at Peak Stage, my Poison won''t be able to disrupt it for too long!" Hong Yue speaks in Long Feng''s mind and quickly appeared from the bushes. Long Feng charge towards the bear and prepare to land a deadly attack, while on the same time, Hong Yue charge towards the Elder Horn Deer, hoping to end its suffering. "Roar!!!!" both Cultivation Beast wakes up to struggle from meeting their maker, but weakened, injured and have no other method to fight back, both beast finally died under Long Feng and Hong Yue''s hand. "Finally, success!" Long Feng and Hong Yue collect whatever they could from the beast''s corpses, and harvest the Treasured Crystal Jade Cabbage. Long Feng carefully remove the matured treasure from its main root, to make sure that the Treasured Crystal Jade Cabbage could grow once again after a period of time. As he kept the treasure into his pouch, Long Feng felt a sudden urge of disruption in his Elemental Essence and felt it is safer to calm his cultivation before he returns home. "Why would my Elemental Essence get disrupted at such a time?" Long Feng felt weird, but without wasting his time, Long Feng quickly meditates. Exactly one hour after Long Feng calm his body Elemental Essence, he actually has an increment of strength, and finally reached the stage of an Early Heaven Refinement Tier cultivator! "I would never imagine that I could actually encounter a breakthrough in the middle of the Cloudy Jade Forest." Long Feng felt that his body now have a few differences, such as in the term of Elemental Essence could be stored within the body, as well the Strength of his cleansed body.Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. "Hong Yue, let us return home, and in between of the way, let us harvest some ingredient back home." Long Feng decided to call it a day, and take his time to slowly harvest some ingredients before exiting the forest. As Long Feng reach his home, he immediately passes the Treasured Crystal Jade Cabbage to his mother. "Ah, what luck is on you to let you found this treasure?" Lan Hua is slightly shocked. Although the rarity of this Treasured Crystal Jade Cabbage is in a normal Grade Treasure, the chances of one could taste these delicacies, perhaps only 30% of the total populations of Lower Yan Continent. "Hehehe!" Long Feng smirk instead of answering his mother''s question. But Lan Hua did not force to know the truth as well, as she knows that since her child belongs to the Bronze Pill Hall, he must have some knowledge and skills in this matter. "Son, go and get the other uncle and aunts over to our house for a dinner, tell them there will be a [Stir Fried Crystal Jade Cabbage] tonight on the menu!" Lan Hua ordered Long Feng to go out and invite the other neighbors around them to come over for this delicacies, and without protesting, Long Feng immediately have the task done. That night itself, a total of almost 20 people from seven different households attended the small but satisfying dinner. Upon enjoying the meal, almost all of them receive an instant increase of cultivation strength, including Long Feng, where his cultivation increased into the Middle Heaven Refinement Tier. "Son, bring this remaining few leaves to your master as well the lady that taking care of you lately. This treasure shall be shared and not be kept only to ourselves." Lan Hua says as she passes the remaining few inner leaves to Long Feng. "Mother, why I can''t feel any improvement of cultivation from you?" Long Feng felt slightly weird and asked for a reason. "I''ve eaten the treasure before, that''s why it doesn''t work on me." Lan Hua answers. "Seriously? Mother actually ate the Treasured Crystal Jade Cabbage before?" Long Feng is slightly shocked because due to their difficult life after his father passed away, Long Feng couldn''t even enjoy a slightly better meal until he entered the Bronze Pill Hall. "Yes. You should be sleeping now. Don''t forget you need to be returning to the Hall tomorrow morning." Lan Hua comments as she pushes her child back to his room. "How about, the next time on your birthday, Mother will let you know a secret regarding our family?" Lan Hua happily introduces an offer for her beloved child. "You promise?" Long Feng asked. "Yes, Mother will tell you about it when you come back on your birthday." Lan Hua replies. Just like that, their day finally ends with both inside their respective room, resting until the next morning. The next day morning, Long Feng left the house after he bid farewell to his mother. Without wasting a single moment of his time, Long Feng quickly went back for his next pill refining. "I have a great rest two days ago, it is the time I need to come up with a good amount of pills to be sold in the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion." Long Feng returned to his room, taking the advantages of morning time where the Yang Essence Energy is on their strongest moment to Refine the Thunder Spirit Pill ingredients. Perhaps it was due to his Cultivation, or because of getting used with a similar product refining, Long Feng current attempts managed to yield him a total of 120 Pills. In term of Grading, he managed to break even, obtaining an equal amount of 60 Middle-Grade First-Stage Thunder Spirit Pills and 60 Lower-Grade First-Stage Thunder Spirit Pills. Finishing the refining process, Long Feng decided to quickly complete the monthly requirement, and proceed to the Education Department for his monthly mission. The moment he entered the hall, Long Feng noticed one slightly special mission. Special Mission - Tower of Knowledge Department Requirement: Writing Skills, Reading Skills, Great Knowledge is highly demanded Task: Completely rewrite and copy a total of 3 Piece of work. Rewards: None. For any additional demand, please speak to Great Elder Ao Luo from Tower of Knowledge. "I''ll take this!" Long Feng accepted the mission without any additional consideration, and quickly, he rushed to the Tower of Knowledge and met with the same elder once again. "Elder, Junior Xiao Feng wish to meet Great Elder Ao Luo from the Tower of Knowledge." Long Feng politely greet the elder before the entrance and pass his message. "What do you wish to talk with Great Elder Ao Luo directly?" the elder replied after listening to Long Feng''s words. "Esteem elder, this junior just accepted the mission from the Education Department, so junior came here to see what the Great Elder wish this junior to do." Long Feng replied. "That''s why you are here?" "Take this three piece of works, and copy it into a better quality one." "If you felt anywhere should be changed, go ahead and do it, but make sure it doesn''t sway from the original meaning." "You have one month exactly to finish this task, if you failed, you will be penalized with 3 months without basic pay, as well you will be required to complete a total of 6 task without any rewards." the elder looked at Long Feng for a moment, before he throws three partially unreadable pieces of works to Long Feng. After giving Long Feng some advice and way to proceed, the elder return to his meditation. "Junior understands. Please excuse this junior for now." Long Feng ask for his leave and return to his room. Outside of his room, a piece of a letter is slit within the edge, with a word "Beloved Husband" written on it. ---------- Dear husband, Jing Jing couldn''t meet you for this few days, please take care of yourself. Mother is sick, so I am staying home for this few days to make sure mother recovered and get well before I come back to the hall. Mother does ask about you, and she has high hopes for your improvement. Do not cheat on me, or look at other girls, or else, I will come back and "Chop" you. Do your best in refining the pills, and husband, Once again, thank you for being there that day in between of my training! I Love You. Your wife, Jing Jing. ---------- "I guess I will have a quiet day ahead for this week." Long Feng felt slight empty from knowing that Nan Jing Jing will not be within the hall for the week, but in his mind, a slight happiness could be felt, from reading that simple letter. "Since there is still time before night for my refining task on the Blood Refinement Pellet''s ingredients, Should I start reading the three piece of works first?" Long Feng rest on the chair and started to turn a few pages of the works he received from the elder. "What is this three works?" Long Feng read the titles outside after he found out the specialness of this three piece of works. Book 1 Chapter 37 - Comprehension of Pill Refining. ============================================== Comprehension of Pill Refining Author: Great Elder Ao Luo Introduction: Pill Refining is easy. By having a higher cultivation, better materials, and stable surroundings, one could easily refine at least a single pill from one portion of ingredients. But this doesn''t mean the person that succeeds, a Pill Master. This Comprehension of Pill Refining piece of works shall explain and guide you, the reader of this piece of work to achieve a better success, understanding, and the depth of Pill Refining. You may felt common, useless, and nothing interesting to read at first, but patience, understanding, and as the title says, [Comprehension], is important to fully unravel the depth of this piece of work, and opening a new vision in your Pill Refining. =============================================== Chapter 1 - The Yin and Yang. In this world we are living within, is divided into two different energy, which is Yin and Yang. The Yin and Yang could represent the specialty of a single difference, as well to describe a total opposite of another side of a coin, a gender, or even whether or fate. The main Yin and Yang Courses are divided into Four Different Path. The Appearance of Two Gender In Pill Refining, Genders does play a major role in the success rate. Yin based body could achieve more successful refining in Yin based Pills, and similar to the opposite gender. But the strength of Opposite Force shall be clearly monitored, as there are a few differences in a human''s body Innate Affiliation. First Known Innate Affiliation is the Yin Body, or Yang Body, where it usually follows the gender from the moment they are conceived within the mother''s womb. This type of body would allow one to master one side instead of the others unless specially trained with Yin or Yang technique. This type of Innate Affiliation person is extremely stable with their Yin or Yang condition. The Second Known Innate Affiliation is Special Constitution. This is also being labeled as blessed beings. The Special Constitution allows one to be either Purely born with Pure Yin or Pure Yang body, which cannot accept to be involved with the opposite differences. Through this cause, some cultivators with such Innate Affiliation is labeled as a prodigy, as they could excel in many special ways. The Third Known Innate Affiliation is what known to the public as Illness. Some unfortunate people are born with a certain specify illness, in an example, [Frozen Dragon Yin Constitution] or [Evaporating Drake Yang Body] will have difficulties in life such as failure of cultivating, or receiving an extreme backlash during cultivation. One Special Innate Affiliation is not too well known to the world of Continent of Yan, but currently, nobody ever met with one before is the Dual Constitution. This kind of people is rarest among the human, with the ability to master both Yin and Yang path. The Opposition of Light and Darkness Perhaps this fact is not trusted by most of the Pill Masters, but one should not ignore the possibility of the Differences in Yin and Yang, does appear in conjunction with the Light and Darkness. Like how the Initial Base of Energy is differentiated, the fact of Being good or evil, Day and night, will greatly disrupt the success rate on each attempt on pill refining. Some type of pill refining is not generally affected by this type of differences, for example, the [Cultivation Pellets]. This type of pellet is widely accepted as the Dual Constitution Pills, which could be assimilated and used by both sides. Some of the more likely known facts by most of the Pill Masters is pills such as [Tempering Pills] is mainly categorized as Light Pills, while those such as [Calming Spirit Dew Pellet] or [Mystic Suction Pellets] are known as Dark Pills for their strength in Yin Energy. The Differences of Fluid and Firmness When it comes to the Pill Refining Skills, even the most venerable master would be lost in this aspect. A pill doesn''t carry the means of being Firm, and yet an Elixir doesn''t carry the meaning of being Fluid. The element of Liquefied and Firmness always appears within every single life, but in the term of Pill Refining Technique, the differences would generate many special variants, more than all mind in the Continent of Yan could imagine. Take the [Blood Dragon Ointment] as the general example. The ointment is produced by mixing the special cultivated [Rock Dragon Elderberry Plant] with other medicinal herbs that are perfect for the blood loss and wound healing. One of it''s the best combination will be the [Blood Ginseng Root] and the [Ten-Years old Ginseng Powder] and lastly, the [Blood Fruit]. This combination, contain the mix of Juices from the Elderberry Plant and the Blood Fruit which could make the refined concoction become watery, thus a mixture of Ten-Years old Ginseng Powder and Blood Ginseng Root that contain a large amount of Root Starch, could help the mixture become an applicable Ointment balm. Since the creation of this [Blood Dragon Ointment] contain no other dangerous substances, even swallowing the ointment could help in recovering the blood loss and having internal injuries. This also means the [Blood Dragon Ointment] is more to the Fluid element. For the next example, let''s use the [Blood Refinement Pellet] as an example. Refined from the mixture of three different [Cultivation Beast Blood] and also [Blue Spirit Grass]. The three portion of blood, after refining, would still remain bloody with a hard to consume aftertaste, where it caused a huge commotion during the appearance of this pill.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. It is only after some practitioner goes through a huge experiment in mixing the concoction with a different type of medicinal herb could the [Blood Refinement Pellet] came out in a hardened Firm pill. This is all thanks to the special attribute of the [Blue Spirit Grass] that contain a large amount of Gel attribute liquid within, which is suitable to remove the bloody flavor and smell within the concoction. The Good and The Evil You may not believe, but the differences of Good and Evil could result in the differences of Pills created. Attitude and mind are often believed to be the main reason how successful a refining process goes, but the differences of Good and Evil could further affect the results. One of the best example to be used in this explanation would be the [Calming Spirit Dew Pellet] and the [Poison Concoction]. Good is often believed to be Yang, while the Evil belonged to Yin. But the reality is harsh, where the fact of Good and Evil does not actually act like how it is believed to be. If one would clearly look at the YinYang Symbol, you would notice the White within the Dark and the Dark within the White. This represents the reality of Evil exists within the Good, and Good exist within the Evil. This is why, the [Calming Spirit Dew Pellet], would be the best example to be used. The known benefits of consuming the Pill represent the Good, and while this pill success rate greatly increased during refining on Yin rich atmosphere, represents the Evil within the Yin. The similar example could be seen in the poison concoction as well, such as the [Yellow Heart Poison] or the [Destructing Qi Powder]. If one will notice, the [Destructing Qi Powder] carries the specialty of Firmness, while the [Yellow Heart Poison] carries the specialty of Fluid. Only through understanding the differences between the Yin and Yang this piece of work could be thoroughly understand and applied in future refining. =============================================== Chapter 2 - The Five Major Element Metal - Represents the meaning of Hardness in nature, Strength, and Quality. This element within Pill Refining would help greatly in the moment of Distribution, Refine, and Results. Wood - Brings the meaning of Sturdiness and Calmness. This element not only assists a Pill Refining in obtaining the best value within each ingredient, it would instantly increase its value, thus helping in the moment of Tempering, Forming, and Value. Water - Allows the essence to appears in the form of Stability and Temperament within. This element would only help when one is in their deepest thought, just to bring the knowledge and the understanding before the refining moment. Fire - Yields the meaning of Purity, and Clearness. The flame brings the Pill Refining into the deeper meaning, bearing the moments of Purifying, Clarity, and Strengths. Earth - Holds the meaning of Life, and Appearance. The Earth Element helps greatly in allowing the effect within a pill to appears, and carries it throughout its life until consumed. The Earth is the only element to carries the moment of [Humanity] within itself. =============================================== Chapter 3 - Heaven and Earth Concoction Pill Refining is said to be the blessing given by the Qian Kun, and the differences of this vary among all the concoctions. The most basic one is the well known Pill Masters (or Low-Grade Concoction Masters) due to their various ability in concocting different Pills for usage. Medicinal Refining [Life Master / Death Master] This is the most beginning of the Pill Refining masteries. Utilizing the specialty of each medicinal ingredient, refining results is always focusing on the factor of Life. But this doesn''t mean the result always appears positive. The Life Master is usually used to refer those who focus in Healing Concoction, while Death Master is usually used on those focusing in Deadly Concoction. Poison Refining [Beast Poison Master / Medicinal Poison Master / Dark Poison Master] When one heard about poison, it is all about evil, death, and genocide. But when it comes to the understanding of a Pill Refining Masteries, the Poison came in various of type and usage. This profession''s master is not all well known, but it is known to be three type, Beast Poison Master who excel in concocting Beast Threatening Concoction, Medicinal Poison Master, who excel in Human Health concoction, and lastly, the Dark Poison Master that is the horror of people because of the Human Threatening Concoctions. Tempering Refining [Elemental Tempering Master / Cultivation Tempering Master] Tempering is only of the most usual discussion among the cultivators, but what is the depth within the tempering refining? Within the whole Lower Yan Continent, less than 100 Tempering Masters could be seen, because each of them is the treasures among the treasures, and even the Brilliant Jade Kingdom, only possessed one Tempering Master. Only two different paths are known currently, which is the Elemental Tempering Master, who specialized in different Tempering Elemental Pills, and the Cultivation Tempering Master, who specialized in concocting special pills to temper the blood, body, and even cultivation of a cultivator. Cultivation Refining [Cultivation Master] Believe it or not, this cultivation path is one of the hardest paths compare to all. Cultivation is the life of everyone within the Continent of Yan, which is why there is an abundant amount of Pill Masters walk into this path. But with the rate of only 1% success among the crowd, the Cultivation Refining remain difficult to all the other masters. Rumors only sometimes heard among the people within the same path, and this path remains hazy with their concoctions. Qian Kun Refining [Legend Master] The Qian Kun Refining only appeared within the Continent of Yan twice. First is when the legendary Pill [Golden Jade Holy Pill] appeared in the world. The Second is a special treasure, two drops of the [Shennong Moon Dew]. Although the Qian Kun Refining only was known by people from Legends, with the treasure making the appearance of the human world, it should be true. =============================================== Final Chapter - Comprehension After reading through this piece of work, I hope you as the reader, to understand the truth within the Pill Refining. In this path, there is no Good nor Evil within. Everything is guided by the path. And this path is walked by you and yourself. There will be nobody to comment on the path you will be going onwards because they have no qualification to judge your choice. There will be no Gender preferences, which means no matter you are a Male or Female, it wouldn''t matters. What is the concern in this Pill Refining, is Yin and Yang. Understand what you are looking in the future, and understand your path, while you thread along the way. Your only results will only appear, when the refining you did before, managed to shows its results. So what if you are a Dark Poison Master that managed to prove yourself as a Mass-Genocide Murderer? So what if you are a Life Master that managed to heal all people throughout your life? You, as a Pill Refiner, only have one and only one path in your life, and that''s Concocting Pills. You are only a failure when you failed to concoct. So look up, and stare on the heaven. Make sure you understand why you are a Pill refiner. That''s all I could transfer to the next generation. I wish you success. Be like me, be ambitious and greedy, be humane but Bloody when needed. Be dependable, be knowledgeable, be invulnerable. I am Ao Luo, also whom used to know to the world of Lower Continent of Yan as the Top 10 Strongest Death Master. THE END =============================================== "This is really an amazing piece of work. I wonder who is this Great Elder Ao Luo anyway." Long Feng finish copying the first piece of work given by the elder before the Tower of Knowledge. Long Feng carefully repeat the reading of the book and make sure the words written within is without any mistakes. In addition, since Long Feng is copying the piece of work from a Rotten Paper Scroll into a Bamboo Scrolls, Long Feng decided to put the initials and carve a beautiful title once the inspection is finished. "The Yin and Yang, before reading this piece, the amount of understanding of mine perhaps not even a single percent from the overall knowledge." Long Feng recite the unique meanings within the piece, and as he finished his repeating understanding, Long Feng position himself to get ready for the Blood Refinement Pellet concoction. "I wonder what is the result this time?" Long Feng confidently starts. Book 1 Chapter 38 - The Nan Family with their Four Guardians. "Prepare the fire!" Long Feng graciously swing his hand left right and release the flame evenly to heat up the cauldron. "Element Wood energy! Rejuvenate and freshen up the Blue Spirit Grass!" next, Long Feng proceed with bathing the stack of Blue Spirit Grass with his Element Wood energy, and allows the ingredient to freshen up. "Although my Sky Element is not controllable yet, let''s try refining the ingredient this time!" Long Feng spirit is totally in the normal condition. "Step 1, Boil the blood until the impurity is gone from the blood." "Step 2, mix all the blood concoction and thoroughly heat them accordingly." "Step 3, extract the essence from the Blue Spirit Grass, and mix them both together to produce the final concoction." "Step 4, allows both to be mix evenly before further refine the concoction." "And then, Complete!" Long Feng follows the step one by one in order, and with the final step is completed, a good result came out immediately, giving Long Feng a happy grin on his face. "Great! That''s a 3 Lower-Rank Blood Refinement Pellets and 2 Middle-Rank Blood Refinement Pellets!" Long Feng happily holds the pills in his hand and happy with the results. "I have another 9 portion of the ingredients left, I will finish them before rest since my spirit is in its top condition at the moment!" Long Feng motivates himself once again and getting ready for the next batch of ingredients. "I will put in a strong mindset in this second round!" Long Feng throws two batches of ingredients, and refine them both in the same time before mixing both together. "From Great Elder Ao Luo''s advice, be greedy, be Ambitious! Two Portion of Blood Refinement Pellets, come out with great results!" Long Feng spirits continue to grows as the two portion of ingredients finally results in a total of 9 pills, 5 Lower-Rank and 4 Middle-Rank. Holding 7 more batches of ingredients in his hand, Long Feng make two more attempts, two batches at one time, and the results came in a total of 11 Low-Rank pills, and 8 Middle-Rank pills. Since his spirit is at its peak condition now, Long Feng decided to attempt with 3 batches at one time. "Let us make use of all 3 batches of ingredients!" Long Feng proceeds with the refining steps. And... "Failed." "What happened?" Long Feng heart came out aching for the losses of three batches of ingredients. "This can''t be true!!!" Long Feng went over to the wall to knock his head. At the end of the day, regrets are what following him to sleep, due to the loss of three batches of ingredients. "I will have to ask master what happened." Long Feng reminds himself before falling asleep. But because of all the busy works, Long Feng failed to notice the missing being within the room. Hong Yue had sneakily sneak out from the Bronze Pill Hall without notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Within the courtyard of a Gorgeous mansion. This mansion belonged to nobody else other than General Nan Gong Yu. The courtyard where the family is in currently, also used as the training ground for the elite troops under General Nan''s order. Under his command, General Nan holds the right of training troops without limit, and are allowed to recruit anyone with the potential to serve under his wing. Directly under his command, is a total of four Vice-General. Each single Vice-General belonged to one major family that is influential in their own city of birth. Not only being influential and strong, this four Vice-General is also being nicknamed as [Four Protectors Family of the Great Nan Family]. The first family is nicknamed [Shields of General] due to their specialty in Shield related martial arts. Every member of this family, no matter direct descendant or outer family, will receive the surname of Fang. And the strongest member of this family, Fang Tian, is one of the most trusted Vice-General under Nan Gong Yu''s command. Fang Tian always carries his duties with honor, and under his guidance, each single troops under his command will be taught and forced to master the martial art belonged to the Fang Family before they could be qualified to serve under the [Shields of General] Battalion. It is well known to the whole Army of General Nan, that Fang Tian''s cultivation is currently stagnant at the peak of Elder Tier, and waiting for the correct time to break through the border between Peak Elder Tier to Early Human Master Tier. Fang Tian holds the right to command ten battalions, each battalion holds a total of 10 000 troops with strength around Adept Tier. Controlling each battalion is a total of twenty Special Captain, with the strength between Human to Heaven Elder Tier.This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. The second family is known as the [Horses of General] because of their speed. They control the movement, news, and messages between the four Vice-General, but this doesn''t mean that the Family is nowhere powerful. Their Family is known as the strongest in direct opposition war because of their swift attack, and this Vice-General even happened to protect his lord by taking ten direct strikes from opposing cultivators during their younger time. This Vice-General named Lang Ren. Belonged to the Lang Family, he too holds the right of controlling ten battalions with twenty strong captains where all of their strength is comparable to Lang Ren''s cultivation. In the same time, The Lang Family is also the appointed City Lord for the Thunderburst Jade City. The Lang Family possessed a strong movement martial arts that allow them to be the fastest under General Nan Gong Yu, which is known as the [3000 Lighting Movements]. Unless each member of his battalion received his trust, this martial art will not be transferred and taught to the troops, which make every single troop within his command extremely loyal. The third family is believed to serve General Nan even before the Brilliant Jade Kingdom is formed. This family named Chen. They are also known as the [Supplies of General]. One well-known fact within everyone who is within the Kingdoms military strength is regarding the Strength within Public. Especially for Chen Yu, who is the leader of the Family. Chen Yu is well known to the people as a Charismatic, and Dependable Vice-General. Rumored is heard within the Kingdom, and says that Chen Yu is the one that giving up the General position just to remain under General Nan''s wing. Chen Yu possess a great Public strength that with a simple call, thousands of people within each city will fight just to obtain the right to enter his battalion of troops. In the term of strength, Chen Yu is believed to be a Late Earth Master Tier. Although the strength of troops under his wing is between Early Human Adept Tier to Late Human Adept Tier, their overall strength is quantity, could not be underestimated. Chen Yu alone holds a total of 35 Battalions and still increasing, giving him a total troops exceed the other three Vice-General combined. Lastly, is the Yang Family. Leading them is a man named Yang Duan He. The Yang family is known as the [Spears of General] because of each member under Vice-General Yang is excel in Spear Weapon martial arts. They are the primary vanguard, with the percentage of 10 success among 10 assaults. Yang Duan He possessed the strength of a Peak Elder Tier strength, but in reality, he is known to be able to fight Chen Yu toe to toe in strength. Similar to the others, Yang Duan He controls a total of 10 battalions, and rarely active in small skirmishes unless ordered by General Nan. And today is the once a month sparring between the four families with their General''s family. Within the Courtyard, Fang Tian is seen holding a sword in his hand, Lang Ren with a Spear length hammer, Chen Yu with a Bow, and Yang Duan He with a spear. While on the General Nan''s side, Nan Gong Yu is seen with his huge two handed sword, Nan Jing Jing with a dual Chakrams, her mother, Lady Mei with a set of projectile needles, and Nan Gong Huo, younger brother of Nan Gong Yu with a similar two handed sword. "General, Let Lang Ren challenge you today!" Lang Ren slams his hammer on the ground, and cause a light tremor to everyone within the courtyard. Borrowing the rebound strength from his strike, Lang Ren charged to the middle of the courtyard. "Let us see who has improved after this whole month!" Nan Gong Yu swing his sword hard on the ground and borrow the strength to charge to the middle of the courtyard as well. Clash! The broadsword and the hammer hit each other, and results in a loud voice to be heard within the whole mansion. The first fight soon ends with the victory of General Nan. The second fight is between Nan Jing Jing against Fang Tian. Giving up some advantages to Nan Jing Jing, Vice-General Fang Tian carefully attack at the location where Nan Jing Jing failed to focus on defending herself. In the same time, Fang Tian slowly guide Nan Jing Jing in her every step, just to make sure the young lady understands her flaws. The fight ends with a draw. Next, Nan Gong Huo charge into the battlefield, against Yang Duan He. The two of them fight as if the world could not contain this two tigers. The heavy broadsword and the spear clash for at least a thousand times, since both of the fighter, is the kind of facing attack directly, and against the principle of evading the attack. This fight lasts long for an hour before they decided to call it a draw. Lastly, Lady Mei and Chen Yu stands against each other. "Honey, please be extremely careful." Nan Gong Yu speak sweetly towards Lady Mei. "Hubby, do not worry, I will make sure this is just a simple match." Lady Mei replied, and turned to face Chen Yu. With a swing of her hand, the shoulder part of her clothing is revealed with a bedazzling jewel crusted shoulder armor with Glove. "Lady! You are just having a joke with me, am I correct?" Chen Yu appeared to seem afraid when Lady Mei did her action. Immediately wield his bow, Chen Yu repeatedly shot his arrows toward Lady Mei''s direction. But instead of saying Lady Mei is pushed back, it is correct to say Chen Yu is on the verge of defeat. Each single arrow fired by Chen Yu is quickly deflected by Lady Mei with a high-speed Needle. Each time the needle hits the arrow, the remaining force still managed to cause a crack on each tile on the ground. With every arrow fired, the distance of arrows deflected by Lady Mei become even closer and closer to Chen Yu, and not even fifteen minutes after the fight began, it''s ended. Lady Mei graciously returns to her husband side, with Chen Yu stopped firing his arrows. When everyone looks carefully on Chen Yu, the clothes on his shoulder already been shredded into pieces, while the needles that landed on the ground revealed a word [NAN] if looked from above. "Lady Mei''s martial arts still give Chen Yu a shock even after so long." Chen Yu admit his defeat. "Of course! My family''s [Gracious Needle Shower] martial arts almost couldn''t be beaten within the Brilliant Jade Kingdom." Lady Mei replies. With the sparring finally over, the families end their day with an amazing feast, and at the same time commenting about their weakness and chances they miss during the sparring. Only after the hour reaches midnight, the four Vice-General returned to their respective city. "Mother, your martial art is still unbeatable no matter how hard Uncle Chen Yu tried." Nan Jing Jing takes the chances to speak before she falls asleep. "Of course, but that is only in this Kingdom. If you have a chance, mother will bring you to the Heavenly Blossom Empire, and met with your grandfather so he could teach you some of the martial arts belong to our family." Lady Mei replied before she puts her daughter to sleep. Did Lady Mei just announce that she belonged to the Heavenly Blossom Empire? How strong is she, if she casually defeated a Late Earth Master Tier cultivator? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book 1 Chapter 39 - Fateful Meeting! Acknowledging Lang Yu as Big Brother. The next morning, Long Feng prepare himself to be presentable before he went to the Virtue Hall. As he entered the hall, Long Feng heads into Elder Tang Wen''s office to look for his honorable master. "Master, Good Morning." Long Feng politely greet his master. "Ah, Xiao Feng, come over here, the moment you enter the hall, Master could felt your cultivation had increased again." Elder Tang Wen is happy to see his disciple, plus with the recent increase in his cultivation, this makes him felt taking in this disciple is not a mistake. "Master, Xiao Feng recently refine some Middle-Rank Blood Refinement Pellets, I hope master would have some use with it." Long Feng took out a total of 10 Middle-Rank Pellets and present it to his master. "Hahaha, how old is your master now? Do You think I need this Middle-Rank pills? Keep it, I heard from Elder Qian Rui about Nan Jing Jing''s absent and also intended to make a visit to the Thunderburst Jade City. Are you looking forward to buying some special ingredients within the auction?" Elder Tang Wen immediately reveal what he knows. "Master really resourceful. Yes, Xiao Feng decided to make a visit to have a look on the item offered by the House of Miraculous Jade. But in the purchase, Xiao Feng might have a limit on what he could purchase." Long Feng open up and let his master know what within his mind, and as he talks, Long Feng lamented a little because he is not too wealthy to join the auction. "What do you worry? With your skills now, Refine more pills and make your name the main gossips within the city. Make sure you act haughty, and soon the request for pills will come in without fail." Elder Tang Wen speaks. "Master, how do you obtain a good amount of money anyway? All Xiao Feng could notice is that master''s collection of ingredients is humongous!" Xiao Feng expresses his awe on Elder Tang Wen''s stash. "Hahaha, did you forget what is your master''s title?" Elder Tang Wen remind Long Feng on his current title before Long Feng noticed the differences between him and his master. "You see, master received some orders from both the hall and also from other schools. Some request master to prepare a number of refined products, such as Blood Dragon Ointment, some request for Angel Pills, so this is where master earn his wealth." Elder Tang Wen explained. "Angel Pills? Master, what is that pill?" Long Feng is shocked to found out there are different pill concocted by his master. "You will learn it soon too, but to understand this, you need to enter the Adept Tier at least." "Once you entered the Adept Tier, the concept of refining pills will be greatly different from when you are in Refinement Tier. The product used within the concoction will be increased, and the difficulties will follow as well. And that remains similar until Peak Adept Tier." "The moment you entered the Practitioner Tier, there will be a whole different changed in pill refining, but master will only teach you by then." Elder Tang Wen roughly explain the differences in Pill Refining on every single tier, but with Long Feng''s knowledge now, it would be difficult to understand. "How many pills have you been selling to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion?" Elder Tang Wen continued. "Only 40 Lower-Rank Thunder Spirit Pills." Long Feng answered. "That is quite a good result for a beginner Pill Master. Try harder, Master believe in your capability. From today onwards, you don''t need to come over to the Virtue Hall but master will give you the challenge to complete." Elder Tang Wen starts to give Long Feng a mysterious challenge. "The chances are slim, but sometimes in coincidence, you will be able to refine one or two Upper-Rank pills. Your challenge is to present master with a total of 10 Upper-Rank Pills. Would you be able to do it?" Elder Tang Wen comes out with the challenge topic. "Master, Xiao Feng will try his best to succeed this challenge!" Long Feng confidently accept his master''s challenge. "Good, if you managed to complete the challenge, Master will teach you this martial art master learned for a long time, the [Medicinal Flicking Finger]." Elder Tang Wen speaks as he withdraws a bulb of seed in his pouch as the (bullet). Preparing the stance, Elder Tang Wen gather his Elemental Essence within the tip of his thumb and index finger, and proceed to launch the [Medicinal Flicking Finger] martial art. The launched seed shots in a unmeasurable speed, and as the seeds hit the wall, a circle of the crack appears within the wall, and one hole as wide as both are opened widely is seen. "Master, this martial art is so incredible!" Long Feng praise his master. "Hahaha, if you learn this martial art, nobody could match you in range fight, if you are prowess in using poison in the fight, you can even make sure the target is poisoned directly each time you launch your attack." Elder Tang Wen explain the benefits from using this martial art. In the same time, some old historical memories appeared within his mind. "Who would even dare to imagine that because of young age time, I failed to harvest those high-quality plants, which is why I learn how to flick and throw pebbles and stones until this martial art is created." Elder Tang Wen sneakily smiles as he reminded his younger experience. "Thank you, master! Xiao Feng will quickly head to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion to obtain more ingredients!" Long Feng excuse himself and quickly run off from the Virtue Hall. And within half an hour, he reached the Pavilion and prepare to enter the building for some exchange. Within the pavilion. "Oh! Young Master Long Feng, it is good you are here today!" the cashier is happy to see Long Feng in this coincident time. "Han Geng Dage, what happened?" Long Feng politely greet the person name Han Geng before he asks for what happened. Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. "Aiya, Young Master Long Feng, remember the Thunder Spirit Pill you sold last time? There is this cultivator come over to look for more, and since we only have 40 pills from you last time, we tell him the pills from this Pill Master is sold out. But he gets furious and threatened us to reveal your identity, which is why the cashier staff is having a headache dealing with him." the cashier Han Geng explained. "Han Geng Dage, bring me over to see him." Long Feng asked cashier Han Geng to lead the way to the cultivator. Moments later... "This cultivator Dage, could this young Pill Master help you?" Long Feng politely address the cultivator with burly appearance but as he turned around looking at Long Feng directly, his appearance comes out to be a good looking, refined young 16 years old youngster with two Steel Rod as the weapon on his back. "My name is Lang Ya, I came from Thunderburst Jade City. Last week I managed to purchase a few Thunder Spirit Pills that was concocted by a Pill Master named Long Feng. Are you that person?" Lang Ya possessed a proud and intimidating look when he talks, but within each word he speaks, a slice of appreciation could be felt. "This younger one is the Pill Master you are looking for... Little brother here named Li Long Feng." Long Feng introduced himself. "Oh, so you are the one I am looking, Alright! I will be straight forward, can we get a place to have a conversation?" Lang Ya''s word contains no polite gesture, but a straightforward hint of attitude could be felt. "Of course, Senior Lang Ya. Han Geng Dage, could we borrow a room?" Long Feng answered Lang Ya''s request and asked for a vacant room from Cashier Han Geng. "No Problem, no problem, please follow me." Cashier Han Geng politely lead the two to a room located at the end of the hallway, where all this room is used to conduct a more private transaction. "Young Master Long Feng, please be careful, this person is from the Lang Family, which is also the City Lord family of the Thunderburst Jade City." Cashier Han Geng whispers to Long Feng''s ears. "Han Geng Dage, be at ease, this person is straightforward, direct and honest in his choice of words, he won''t be suspicious in anyway." Long Feng assure Cashier Han Geng about Lang Ya''s attitude. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "This young Pill Master, Lang Ya will be honest and direct in this conversation." "I want to purchase all Thunder Spirit Pills that you will refine in future, and in return, I will provide the Ingredients required." Lang Ya proceed straight to his needs. "This senior, Long Feng afraid he will be unable to fulfill your requirement. You see, this junior is in the middle of earning a small sum of profit so he could participate in the House of Miraculous Jade coming end of this month, so I only have a total of fewer than three weeks to build up my wealth." Long Feng explained. "Hahaha, do not call me senior anymore! And you must be really an out of the kiln fresh pill master." Lang Ya comments as he laughs. "Listen well, young brother." "Whenever a Pill Master and the cultivator make a deal, the Pill Master always reserve the right of keeping the range between half to three-quarter of the successfully refined products. The cultivator should prepare ingredients as he required if he wished to obtain a good amount of pills refined by that Pill Master." Lang Ya explains. "Should I make the deal that you will keep three-quarter of the total success produce while giving me one-quarter?" Lang Ya offer is so hard to reject, where it causes Long Feng to felt attracted for a moment. "This Dage, Xiao Feng dare not to take three-quarter of the successful produce... Why not we make it half for each other?" Long Feng politely speaks out his mind. "Half for each other while I provide the ingredients? That sounds too good to me. How about like this?" Lang Ya felt that he is falling into a pool of gold, because of Long Feng''s honesty and generosity, but since he is not somebody who love to take advantage of others, Lang Ya came out with a better suggestion. "Call me Brother Lang Ya, and I will call you Xiao Feng instead. We will be brothers, and I remember that you mention about participating in the house of Miraculous Jade auction, right?" "Big brother will make you a VIP for the auction, so you can participate it anytime there is an auction!" Lang Ya offer is seriously too difficult to reject this time. Hearing what Lang Ya says, Long Feng smiles on his mind, but that as well is caught by Lang Ya''s sensitive mind. "Brother Xiao Feng, come out with me, I will get you 1000 Batch of product for now." Lang Ya hurried Long Feng to follow him to order the ingredients. "1000 Batch of ingredients!!" Long Feng mind start to get hazy from the huge number. "Lang ya Dage, that''s a little too much..." Long Feng tried to convince Lang Ya from purchasing too much. "What? 1000 units perhaps only result in a total of 4000 to 5000 pills, after you take half, I will only have around 2500 in hand, that won''t be enough for me to temper my Element Thunder into Blue Thunder Stage." Lang Ya explains why the amount is required. "Lang Ya Dage, my chances of success is around 7 to 8 pills each concoction, 50% of them are able to come out as Middle-Rank pills." Long Feng explains his refining success rate and quality rate. "What? Doesn''t that mean that you could refine at least 7000 to 8000 pills with around half of them in Middle-Rank? I must be hit by serious luck... Xiao Feng, you sure you don''t want to take three-quarter of the pills?" Lang Ya is shocked with Long Feng''s success rate, what more shocking is with Long Feng''s generosity. "Xiao Feng hope Lang Ya Dage could take a look at this younger brother..." Xiao Feng explains his reason to accept the half to each split profits. "Hahaha, do not worry! I, Lang Ya is well known in the Thunderburst Jade City as the Lightning of Justice. Do not worry!" Lang Ya happily announce his nickname, and at the end, Long Feng obtained a total of 1000 batches of ingredients within his 1st Grade Cultivator Treasure Pouch. In the same time, Long Feng spends the remaining 1000 Spirit Bronze Coins to purchase 10 more batches of Blood Refinement Pellet''s ingredients. "Lang Ya Dage, please accept this 100 Middle-Rank Thunder Spirit Pill as friendship token." Long Feng withdraws the 100 pills and passes it to Lang Ya. "Hahaha, luckily I cause a ruckus and make you meet me first, or else, this 100 pills will belong to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion." Lang Ya happily accept the gift. With the conversation is over, Long Feng return to the Bronze Pill Hall to start the refining process for the Thunder Spirit Pill since the Yang rich condition is still lingering around. Managed to keep up with the results, Long Feng managed to refine a total of 10 batches of ingredients in five attempts and came out with a result of 30 Lower-Rank and 50 Middle-Rank Thunder Spirit Pills. "I should take a rest for now, and wake up later to refine the remaining Blood Refinement Pellets later." Long Feng proceed to get a short rest so he could wake up later at night for the Blood Refinement Pellet''s refining. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While Long Feng is busy handling his own stuff, Hong Yue actually went out to venture back to the Forest of West Jade. Recently found out on his own specialty, Hong Yue decided to test his own cultivation and the extent of his total strength. The reason he ventures out alone without Long Feng''s notice is due to the master''s more reserved attitude, who looks for stability instead of a risky venture. Thus, only by entering the forest by himself will give him the best result and extent of experience on how to handle this new body. Up to the current time, Hong Yue already stay within the forest for two days and one night. Tonight will be the second night Hong Yue spends his night within the forest. Maybe it was due to the ability to consider, think and making decisions, Hong Yue actually venture into the forest along with a few Inventory Pouch. Although the capacity of the item he could carry is limited, but it is better than nothing. In the same time, Hong Yue noticed one specialty in his newly grown body. His ability had increased and changed, and currently, he could use up to two different skills in a fight. The first skill is the [Silver Scales Bullet] that allows Hong Yue to Shoot the scales from his body to the opponent, and thoroughly injuring them seriously before launching a final attack. The second ability is the corrosive and dangerous [Colloidal Silver]. Once came in contact with this poison, the opponent will receive an extreme pain throughout the body, within five to ten minutes upon contact with the corrosive silver, the opponent will die with a melting corpse. One more shocking truth is, by eating this melted corpses, Hong Yue could actually receive nutrients, and recover his strength. The changes do not only stopped at the appearance of two new skills. Hong Yue appetite currently had increased, and it appears to allows Hong Yue to eat any different beast to satisfy his hunger. Through this growing appetite, Hong Yue''s cultivation not only grows stronger, even his body became more buff and similar to a human body builder, with plenty of muscle and still growing. But because of his destructive ability, Hong Yue''s collection of hunting only consist of beast claws, beast''s soul pearl, and some other herbs Hong Yue seen before in his master''s room. "Hong Yue already out to the forest for two days now, should I talk to master so he won''t get too worried about my safety?" Hong Yue felt slightly wrong for leaving his master side without notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book 1 Chapter 40 - Xuan Wu Sword Sects Martial Arts. "Disciple Long Feng!" somebody is knocking on Long Feng''s door before the moon starts to give out its light. Annoyed from the furious knocking, Long Feng put on some clothing and proceed to open the door, only to see two senior from Outer Division standing together. "Dear seniors, what brings you both here to wake me up?" Long Feng, half sleepy half annoyed expression looking at the two seniors. "Junior, there is an issue! Quickly come with us!" the senior immediately pull Long Feng and force him to follow them along the way. "Senior, please explain what happened." Long Feng still confused by the sudden change of attitude from the seniors. "There is a large amount of Cultivation Beast went havoc within the Jade Cultivating Land, quickly come and help us contain the beasts." the senior explain the situation. "What''s wrong? How could the Cultivation Beast went aggressive out of sudden?" Long Feng felt weird with the sudden change of events. "Who knows? Now everyone is in a difficult situation. If the choices are difficult, the Hall might consider to dispose and execute all the Cultivation Beast. This will turn ugly for those practitioners like us." the senior explains. If one would look towards this matter on the side along with the seniors, this issue is too serious to allow the elders to decide how they should proceed with the Cultivation Beast. First of all, is because of the difficulties of growing and nurturing the Cultivation Beast once again. The second reason is that the upcoming pill production from the Pill Hall will be affected, and will affect the good name of the Bronze Pill Hall. Thirdly, is due to the number of Cultivation Beast needed to be killed. If the decision really came in with execution, the number of the beast that was ordered to be killed will require no less than five years to manage to recover them to the same condition. And lastly, it is because most of the disciple within the Hall is dependent on the Jade Cultivating Land to produce them their monthly living income. If this income is disrupted, the worst choice for the disciple is only to excuse themselves from the Hall and go along to another profession. "Senior, what is the best problem-solving method we are looking forward?" Long Feng quickly check with the senior about their way of handling the issue. "Currently half the number of the disciple is helping in concocting the [Peaceful Sleeping Powder]. Once the powder is completely concocted in a large amount, we will start spreading it on the whole Jade Cultivating Land and cause all the Cultivation Beast to fall asleep." the senior explain their way of handling this matter. "Senior, where should I help?" Long Feng has no issue on helping either side since his concoction skill and fighting skill both are top notch. "Junior, you should help us in the fighting part. Although the powder is nowhere easy to successfully refined, with the number of Pill Master we have, refining a large amount will still take a short time. Instead, we required plenty of strong cultivators that could fight with the Cultivation Beast on an equal stage. Both of us are Late Heaven Refinement Tier, while you are at the Middle Heaven Refinement Tier, our team is strong enough to face the group of Cultivation Beast that just runs havoc." the Senior explains the reason why they need Long Feng to help them. "If that''s the case, let us hurry to the Jade Cultivating Land." Long Feng replies the senior as he picks up the speed. The three of them quickly reach the place where a few strong Cultivating Beast is fighting with the other disciples. But their arrival is slightly late because, on the ground, at least 10 disciples already been beaten badly, without knowing they are already dead or alive. "Senior, you handle the others, let me handle this three beast!" Long Feng withdraw his sword and prepare to charge toward where the three strong Cultivation Beast stands. "Junior Long Feng, don''t be rash, that three beast is in their Heaven Refinement Tier!" the senior remind Long Feng again. "No worries, Senior please attend the others, I will handle this three!" Long Feng swing his sword as he charges ahead. Looking at the three Cultivating Beast, Long Feng keep creating the fighting scenario as they met eyes to eyes. The Iron Carapace Boar, the Thunder Sparrow, and the Fire Stripe Fighter Bee. The Iron Carapace Boar possessed strong reflective power, so attacking it on the weak lower body would be the most considerable option. Next is the Thunder Sparrow. The Sparrow currently is going aggressive, which means a normal attack would be useless against this beast. Long Feng could only consider using poison to control its temper. Lastly, is the Fire Stripe Fighter Bee. This Fire Stripe Bee is divided into a few different evolutions, and one of them is this strong offensive Power''s Fighter Type. Since he only seen this beast through the book, Long Feng could only consider using Element Fire as his last resort. "Seems like this is the only way to completely fight this three beast!" Long Feng decided to follow his initial strategy. First Long Feng launch his Defensive Wu Sword Art to fight defense with defense! The next thing happens, the Iron Carapace Boar got push back for a few steps, added with a strong kick from Long Feng, the Boar slumped on the ground with his lower body touching directly.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. Long Feng continued to lay a few heavy kick on the beast, rendering it injured and have no more intention to get aggressive with the other combatants. The next thing, Long Feng failed to notice the attack pattern from the Thunder Sparrow and got hit by a heavy Thunderbolt released by the beast. "What the Hell!" Long Feng felt cramp on his whole body, rendering his strength to hold the sword voided. The Qian Kun Sword falls to the ground and keeping up with the opportunity, the Fire Stripe Fighter Bee charge towards Long Feng to give him a heavy blow. Long Feng failed to defend against the strike, thus he vomits two mouthfuls of blood on the ground. "Shit!" Long Feng rolls on the ground to evade the Thunder Sparrow''s continuous attack. The situation is extremely dire because Long Feng currently is fighting without a weapon. "Hong Yue!" Long Feng shouts in his mind. Within five seconds, Hong Yue charged into the battlefield and manage to launch a body slam directly towards the Thunder Sparrow. Keeping up with the advantages, Long Feng quickly get close to the Thunder Sparrow and feed it a Yellow Heart Poison Pill, making it failed to resist. "Master, Hong Yue is late, please forgive me." Hong Yue immediately bow before Long Feng, but instead of replying this lizard, Long Feng kneeled and pulled Hong Yue up from his action. "You are my brothers, why are you giving me a bow? Go get the Fire Stripe Fighter Bee." Long Feng pointed at the bee as he talks. "Understood." Hong Yue answered, and with a simple action, Hong Yue''s instant appearance before the Fire Stripe Fighter Bee gave the beast a shock, and receive a direct claw strike at point blank distance. What was more shocking is, Hong Yue actually defeated the Fire Stripe Fighter Bee with a single attack. "Damn Lizard, where have you been this two days?" Long Feng use the Qian Kun sword to give Hong Yue a knock on his head. "Hong Yue went to the Forest of West Jade, and come back with some ingredients." Hong Yue lifted a few bags in his waist and gave it to Long Feng for inspection. "I will keep it for now, Quickly help the others to take care of this matter!" Long Feng and Hong Yue separated into two and charge towards a different direction. And with the help of the other elders, very soon, the current situation managed to be solved, and no execution is passed down as the order. After the situation had been controlled, Long Feng went back to his room once again and noticed that the sky had already passed its night and began to turn into morning sunrise. "And that''s how I lose a night of chances to refine some Blood Refinement Pellets." Long Feng feel slightly regret for fail to refine the pills. Returning to his room to continue getting another few hour of rest, Long Feng soon wake up again by a knock on his door. "There is so many trouble today!" Long Feng walked to the room angrily and opened the door. "Err, Master... What brings you here to my room?" Long Feng is a little shocked by his master''s visit to his room. "Xiao Feng, Master needs to travel to a neighbor city for some works, take this scroll and learn the martial art within. I will come back in around one month." Elder Tang Wen passed a Martial Art scroll to Long Feng before he tells him the reason of his visits. "Master, where are you going?" Long Feng felt slightly worried as his master never make a sudden trip outside of the City before. "Master will make a visit to Xuan Wu Jade City!" Elder Tang Wen revealed the places he is going to. "Aren''t that city is where Senior Han''s Xuan Wu Sword Sect is based?" Long Feng immediately remembered the places. "Yes, this time Master is going there to prepare and concoct some medicine pills for the Xuan Wu Sword Sect. The Sect just got attacked by a rival Sect, and currently, few of their elders is heavily injured." Elder Tang Wen explained. "Is Senior Han alright?" Long Feng gave a hint of worries. "Silly kid, Brother Han is the one came over to invite me to the Xuan Wu Sword Sect, but since he is in a rush, so he left the city first. Check the scroll I just give you." Elder Tang Wen explained why Han Feng Xian did not pay Long Feng a visit and had him open the scroll to have a look. ==================== Xiao Feng, the moment you opened this scroll, I''m sure you had already heard what happened to the Xuan Wu Sword Sect from your master. Yes. The Xuan Wu Sword Sect is severely destroyed, leaving seven of the ten elder dead. I managed to stay alive because in that critical moment, my eldest senior sacrifice his Essence Energy to protect me, and had me thrown to the running river below the Xuan Wu Sword Sect base. Within this scroll, is the lifetime effort of my attempt in perfecting the Xuan Wu Sword Art. From now onwards, you are not only the disciple of Senior Tang Wen, you are also one of the successors of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect. I might be meeting my maker soon if the fate really told me to go, but before that, I will make sure to walk a road for you to path later on, and take revenge for the Xuan Wu Sword Sect. The martial art I am going to teach you here is an improved version of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect''s Martial Art. Before you fully master them into an intermediate stage, do not show it except in critical situation. (After the words finished, many words float in the middle of the air with the help of Essence Energy, and as the word aligned into its correct position, a manual of few different martial arts appeared.) Offensive Xuan Sword Art Defensive Wu Sword Art Xuan Wu Divination Art Xuan Wu Heavenly Art (With the four manual of martial arts and its depth essence is remembered by Long Feng, the remaining word within the scrolls starts to appear.) Xiao Feng. As you can see this row of words, it means that you already managed to remember all the essence and importance of the martial arts and its manual. This last row of words is the deepest meaning of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect''s martial arts. Be proud of your appearance, Be proud with your glory, Once the Xuan Wu make its appearance, Once the world shakes in fury, Each Step of the Xuan represents Offense, Each growl of the Wu represents Defence, Understanding Xuan and Understanding Wu, Only to understand the Divination of Wu, Attain the Heavenly body before your arise, And make your appearance when the sun rise. The moments you understand this row of secrets will be the moment you achieve mastery in the four Xuan Wu Sword Sect''s Martial Art. Han Feng Xian. ==================== "Master! Does this means Senior Han will have not too long to live?" Long Feng start to get impatient. "Understand his word yourself. I will be on my way now. Do you remember our challenge?" Elder Tang Wen reminds Long Feng regarding the bet. "Xiao Feng remembers. Xiao Feng will make sure Master will see the pills when you return." Long Feng replied. "Good, I will be on my way now. If you have a problem in refining, go into my study room and read some of the books within, it would help you along your way when I am away." Elder Tang Wen speaks, and throw a key to Long Feng so he could have access to the study room. "Master, be careful!" Long Feng wished his master safe journey as he sees his master moving farther from the Bronze Pill Hall''s entrance. "I have to spend some time practicing the martial art from senior Han as well, it would be a really busy month this time." Long Feng returns to his room, and get ready for the next upcoming trial on the Thunder Spirit Pills. Book 1 Chapter 41 - Thousand Training Formation Cave! With the time spends on each Refining process around 30 minutes, Long Feng, with his double portion refining, managed to finish 10 attempts, using a total of 20 batches of ingredients. Perhaps it was due to his form today, after accepting the scroll from Han Feng Xian and his master is making a trip to the Xuan Wu Jade City, Long Feng''s mind in improvement is at its highest peak. This 5 hours of time spent on refining the Thunder Spirit Pills, results in a total of 70 Low-Rank and 100 Middle-Rank pills. With 30 part of ingredients is used in the 1000 batches, Long Feng managed to prepare a total of 160 Lower Pills and 150 Middle Pills for his next meeting with Lang Ya. With the time is between 6 to 8 before dawn, Long Feng decided to put aside his pill refining issues and started using his time to "Learn" his new inherited martial arts. And after a while of noticing, Long Feng actually never make his way to the Thousand Training Formation Cave before, except passing by for the first time when the senior... Err... Something... Long Feng actually forget the senior''s name after meeting him once. And also in such coincidence, the senior pass through the way along with Long Feng. "Junior brother Xiao Feng! Are you going to the Thousand Training Formation Cave to train?" Liu Feng Ling initiates a conversation with forgetful Long Feng. "Ah, Senior! Xiao Feng pays you a greeting, how are you lately?" Long Feng still can''t remember his name, so he could only call him senior instead. "Hahaha, I, Liu Feng Ling couldn''t believe that even such insignificant character within the Bronze Pill Hall still have received some respectful words from you. I am well, Junior, thank you for asking. Shall we go to the cave together?" the senior happily answer Long Feng''s greeting and in the same time, speaks his name out in a happy tone. As he finished his words, he pointed towards the path and ask Long Feng to walk with him to the Thousand Training Formation Cave. "Senior Liu, how to do one register to use the cave?" Long Feng has no choice but to ask, as this is the first time he came to this Thousand Training Formation Cave. "Oh, it''s easy. Each time we came here, there will be a Training Dummy placed in the middle before the cave entrance. No matter what qualification are you, taking a spot within the cave is depending on your [Luck]." Liu Feng Ling explains. "To take a test for your luck, you will have to give the Training Dummy a hit, and see what cave number is given to you. Only by taking the Cave Number token will you be allowed to enter the cave, and only the spot with the number on your token will be opened to your entry." Liu Feng Ling continued. "There will be no maximum time on how long you can use that spot for, as long you don''t leave your personal spot. So if someone who is in the middle of expecting an increase in stage or tier, they usually prepare a good amount of pills and also foods so they could stay in the cave until they succeed." Liu Feng Ling finished his explanations and as both of them reached the entrance of the cave, Liu Feng Ling makes his move first, and channel his strongest energy to give the Training Dummy a punch. "Clank!" a piece of token pops up from the floor''s opening. There is a number written within. [Second Floor - Human Room 22] "Alright, Junior Xiao Feng, let me explain to you the differences in the token." Liu Feng Ling starts his next lecture, looking at how to immerse is Long Feng even before Liu Feng Ling started gave him a good impression regarding this junior brother. "The Thousand Training Formation Cave is divided into a total of Four Floors, the first floor is for below Refinement Tier, the second for below Adept Tier, the third for Practitioner Tier, and the fourth is for Elder Tier. And for the room, they are divided into four different type as well. Human Room has the capability to enhance cultivation rate by 5%, while Earth Room has the capability to enhance 10%. The Heaven Room is good, but not the best, they enhance 15% of the cultivation, which is quite good. The best is Grand Room, where it could enhance your cultivation by 25%, as long you are capable of accepting it." Liu Feng Ling speaks all of the explanation in one breath, and yet to finish. "One more thing is the number of your room. A total of 100 Human Room, 100 Earth Room, 50 Heaven Room and 2 Grand Room is allocated on each floor, that means a total of 1008 room exists within the Thousand Training Formation Cave. The smaller the number, the better the cultivation rate. So if you managed to get a Human Room 100, well... Admit your luck is seriously bad today." Liu Feng Ling finally finished. "That''s all I know, if there is anything else, you will need to experience yourself. I will proceed first, I need to return to my master at night." Liu Feng Ling finishes his word and quickly enter the Cave. "I guess, my turn now?" Long Feng walk to the Training Dummy and gather some energy to launch a Defensive Wu Sword Art by using his hand. The next thing happens, is a Golden Token pops up from the floor. Because the differences of the coin given are either Bronze Token for Human Room, Silver Token for Earth Room, Gold Token for Heaven Room and Crystal Token for Grand Room. So when all the other disciple saw Long Feng holding a Golden Token, all of them is shocked with his luck for today. A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. "Did you see that? He managed to draw a Golden Token." a disciple softly whispers to another disciple within the open square. "Yeah, I heard that today the luckiest person only managed to get a Silver Token of number 80. I wonder what Heaven Room he got." another disciple whispers back as a reply. "Young Brother, can we know what number you got?" suddenly a disciple went over to Long Feng and check his token. Long Feng shows them the token and gave all of them a shock. "What! It''s the first Heaven Room on First Floor!" this shout gave everyone a shock and look dumbfounded as they stare at Long Feng. Ignoring their reaction, Long Feng entered the cave and felt a guidance from the token that leads him toward the room on the first floor. "I guess this is the room I''m assigned into." Long Feng insert the token into the piece of mechanism on the wall, and an Alchemic Concoction appears from the pores within the wall and covers the room from outside world. "This is the Training Cave?" Long Feng felt impressed by the Formation and arrangement the Bronze Pill Hall made for its outer division disciple. The moment the Alchemic Concoction Door is closed, the torches within the walls are lit, and shining across the room surrounding. Because a special type of Elemental Space inscription is placed to make this room larger than outside, it is almost like a Spatial Room made for training purposes. Similar to the Training Dummy outside, within the room, a total of 10 Training Dummy that was not supported by a plank is seen littered on the corner of the room, with a circle inscription on its forehead. Ignoring the Training Dummies on the corner, Long Feng walked to a spot where a comfortable piece of marble seats is placed in the middle of a hard to decipher inscriptions. Assuming that this spot is where Long Feng will later spend his time cultivating and absorbing the essence around him, Long Feng decided to leave it for now, and explore somewhere else. Although this room is as big as a Football field, Long Feng couldn''t help but wonder why will they provide such a huge room if half of it already big enough for one to practice their Martial art, Refining Medicine, Cultivate or waste their time here? Failed to figure the reason for the room being so huge, Long Feng starts his training by learning and practicing the Xuan Wu Sword Sect Martial Arts. Following the depth guidance within the scroll and his memory regarding the essence of each single martial art, Long Feng quickly achieve a slight mastery on how he should proceed with it. Just like its name, the Offensive Xuan Sword Art is an aggressive all attacking type martial art. This style contains a similarity with the Defensive Wu Sword Art, where as long the tempo of the sword is achieved, maintaining the offensive pressure all the way would be made possible. While the Offensive and Defensive art is applied during a fight, Long Feng starts to understand the reason of Xuan Wu Divination Art is uses for as well. Xuan Wu Divination Art is a mind strengthening martial art. By training this martial art into its peak mastery, one could depend on the Xuan Wu Divination to improve not only their regeneration rate, resistance to all kind of ill effect, it even prolongs life. This martial art is totally representing the Master of where this art originally came from, The Holy Beast of Xuan Wu(it''s a tortoise, yes!). Lastly, is the Xuan Wu Heavenly Art. This Body Movement Art can only be mastered when the first three art is mastered in their peak condition. Although the essence shared by Han Feng Xian is not too much, but from a slight practice with this move, Long Feng immediately notice some changes within his movement, and at least two in a hundred steps are replaced by more efficient action, allowing him to create a more dangerous Strike and more sturdy Defense. Satisfy with his current improvements, Long Feng proceeds to start his cultivation training. Before he starts, Long Feng decided to consume a one Lower-Rank Blood Refinement Pellet as he cultivates. The moment the Blood Refinement Pellet entered Long Feng''s body, a surge of pressure happened to appears within Long Feng''s blood veins and began to push the blood to circulate faster. Calming himself down as he continues to cultivate, Long Feng''s body feels like having thousands of worms crawling within his arteries and body. The longer he cultivates, the worst the feeling starts to appears within his body. The next moment, Long Feng start feeling that his leg that was injured when he was a child, happened to have some small changes. One of the reasons why Long Feng''s step is not as perfect as it should be is due to this small little wound that causes his movement to be slightly dull whenever in an emergency. But now, the blood of "worms" that crawls within Long Feng''s arteries, charge toward that old injury with the intention of relieving this would from bothering this body anymore. And soon after an hour, the feeling of a thousand worms crawling within the body finally gone, putting Long Feng at ease from that weird feeling. He continues to cultivate for another few hours before he noticed something. "This is weird. The YinYang Dial is showing the abundant energy of both Yin and Yang. Is that because of the room inscriptions?" Long Feng felt weird with such thing appearing within the room. After trying to remember everything taught by Elder Tang Wen, he finally remembered one of the topic Elder Tang Wen did explain to him before. "For a Pill Master, the easily changed atmosphere of Yin and Yang is the biggest challenge to disrupt the Pill Refining procedures. Thus, to find the solution, Human with good skills in Elemental Inscriptions or YinYang Inscriptions created the way of using a Scripture called Holy YinYang Circle to absorb and generate both YinYang Element to fully change the room condition." "And that is how some strong Pill Master will have his own Refining Equipment and other special treasures that could help him to perfect his Pill Refining. If a refining procedure is conducted in such condition, the disruption between Yin and Yang will be taken away from the problem, so the refining process will be totally depending on the Pill Master''s skill." Long Feng remembered the words spoken by Elder Tang Wen before. "Does this means, I can refine any pills within the room if I possessed the ingredients?" Long Feng mood began to clear and become delighted as he found out this sorts of benefits by utilizing the room. "I guess this is why this place is called as the Thousand Training Formation Cave. It must be purposely designed to assist the disciple in their cultivation and learning." Long Feng starts to understand how the Bronze Pill Hall nurtures their disciple, but one fact actually doesn''t pass through his mind. The fact that he was actually just within a Bronze Pill Hall, that is why there is only 1008 room available for the Outer Division Disciple usage. If he was to accepted into the Inner Division, there will be another 1008 rooms available, with the even stronger effect provided. If one managed to enter those like Silver Pill Hall and above, the benefits provided could outmatch the stipends provided by the Bronze Pill Hall by ten times. "I will start the test with this ten batches of Blood Refinement Pellet''s ingredient first!" Long Feng withdraw the ingredients from his Cultivator Pouch and starts refining. Up to his expectations, Long Feng couldn''t believe his eyes! In the period of merely one hour and forty minutes, Long Feng actually finished five refining attempts! The shocking part is not only the time, even the result is amazingly differ from when he was refining within his own room! Fifteen pills each attempt, two batches of ingredients each time, a total of 5 attempts managed to yield Long Feng a total of 75 pills, with 50 pills in its Lower-Rank and 25 pills on its Middle-Rank. "What good results! I wouldn''t dare to expect such results if I refine these ingredients outside." Long Feng thinks. "If this is what it could do when refining pills are done within this room, I should continue using this benefits, profit from this!" Long Feng decided to continue refining pills, Cultivate and rest within the 1st Heaven Room for Refinement Tier Disciple and began with his Thunder Spirit Pill''s refining. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book 1 Chapter 42 - Seven Sworn Brothers. Friday Afternoon. Today is slightly different from usual. First of all, the owner of the room that often lock himself within to refine pills and cultivate, seems to be away from his room. Even those passerby disciple is wondering where Long Feng had gone to. From some of their experience, Except Long Feng gone from the room almost one full week for the Beast Hunting Mission at Forest of West Jade. "Where could that junior be?" some disciple felt weird with Long Feng disappearing from his room. Back to the Thousand Training Formation Cave. After spending a whole night in the Heaven Room, Long Feng finally emerged from the room and exits the cave. Paying a few greetings to some senior around the open square area, Long Feng rush back to his room immediately and groom himself to look presentable. After all, Long Feng had been spending almost 20 hours in refining the pills and cultivation, since yesterday night. Although the effort is tiring, but within the room, other than cultivating himself when he is out of Elemental Essence, Long Feng managed to used up 60 portions of ingredients in his pouch, and came out with a results of 531 pills, with 200 among them at Lower- Rank and 330 in Middle-Rank, and one among them managed to reach an Upper-Rank. Finely dressed and looking presentable, Long Feng heads out to the Main Street of the Clear Jade City. As he entered a restaurant, a loud voice could be heard calling for him from the second-floor seating. Although the voice is slightly rough in his opinion, this doesn''t reflect badly on his personality. Instead, seated on the second floor in this restaurant represents his wealth and positions he held. Long Feng walked upstairs to the second floor, only to see Lang Ya together with a few brothers he know since young. Behind Lang Ya, two followers could be seen standing straight behind him, carrying a strict and careful look on their face. "Big Brother Lang Ya, Xiao Feng is here today so send you some tempering pills. How is your day so far?" Long Feng politely greets Lang Ya. At the same time, Long Feng gives a polite bow to the other brothers around the table, and receive back some smile expression from them. "Brother Xiao Feng, come and have a meal together first, we are all brothers here!" Lang Ya invited Long Feng to have a seat, and join them for a meal. Standing up on his own, Lang Ya starts to introduce the other five brothers that seated along with both of them. The oldest and big brother among six of them, Wang Ping. He is the only child of the Wang Family in Jade Ginseng City. Manipulating the production of the precious Jade Ginseng that only grows in the Jade Ginseng City, Wang Ping literally grows up with a Golden Spoon feed to him. But his attitude is neither high up or over zealous, instead, Wang Ping often leads the weaker practitioner to help them in their cultivation. Within the Jade Ginseng City, Wang Ping holds the title of [Ginseng Saint] for his effort. The second brother is also one of the children from Pang family in Jade Ginseng City. His name is Pang Tong, and a cultivator in his Peak Practitioner Tier strength. Pang Tong families own one of the biggest Ingredient Market in the whole Jade Ginseng City, and also the only trader that has the relationship to monopoly the exchange rates of the Jade Ginseng. Although Pang Tong is similar to Wang Ping who grows up with a Golden Spoon, his attitude is calm and serene, hardly anything could disturb his calmness except, his cousin sister. The third brother is Lang Ya, who''s his identity already known to Long Feng. The fourth and fifth brother is from the Thunderburst Jade City, where both of their parents is the elders of the Mystic Thunder School. The elder brother is Zhe Bie, while the younger brother is Zhe Lie. Lastly, is one of the local of Clear Jade City, as well the third among five children of the Bronze Martial Hall''s Hall Master, named Yong Yang. His cultivation is at earth Adept Tier, also the youngest of the six brothers. "Xiao Feng, since you are here, let us become brothers for life!" Lang Ya speaks out a suggestion. "Big Brother Lang Ya, this is a little too sudden..." Long Feng politely comments. "Nothing is too sudden with us six brothers, and since you are one that introduced by Third brother Lang Ya, then all of us have no objection!" unexpected by Long Feng, Wang Ping stands up to convince Long Feng to accept the offer. "Yes, If its Third brother Lang Ya suggest, we have no other objections." the fourth, fifth and sixth brother speaks altogether, agreeing with Lang Ya''s suggestions. "Little brother Long Feng, you must be wondering why all the brothers are agreeing with my suggestion. I possessed the innate birth of [Righteous Eye of Yang], which allows me to see the (goodness) and (Darkness) in every person. Your heart possesses the righteousness that almost blinds my eyes, so I won''t accept no as an answer!" Lang Ya explains. "If that the case, Xiao Feng will reject the suggestion no further. Xiao Feng''s full name is Li Long Feng, I''m born normally, and grow up together only with my widowed mother. 10 years old, and with a cultivation of Middle Heaven Refinement Tier. Greetings to Eldest brother, Second Brother, Third Brother, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth brother." Long Feng introduce himself again and politely address each of them. "Good! Very good, from this second onwards, we are no longer six brothers, but seven brothers! Come, everyone, Drink!!" Wang Ping, being the eldest, stands up and make a toast. After talking and sharing some of their personal matters to the others, Long Feng excuse himself after passing half of the Thunder Spirit Pills to Lang Ya. Added with his today attempts, Long Feng managed to provide Lang Ya with a total of 180 Lower-Rank Thunder Spirit Pills, and 240 Middle-Rank Thunder Spirit Pills. Looking at a number of pills Long Feng withdraw and pass to Lang Ya''s hand, the other brothers among the private room shows a face of shock. "How could this young ten years old child concoct close to 500 Middle-Rank pills within few days?" all the brothers thinks in their mind. "Seventh Brother, next time when Second Brother gave you some ingredients, please help me to refine them as well, just give me a quarter from the total will do." Pang Tong speaks. "Second Brother, Seventh Brother dare not to take three-quarter from the results, why not we just split it to half." Long Feng says. As Pang Tong listens to Long Feng''s reply, he immediately stands up and says "GOOD!".This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. Later, Long Feng proceeds by himself to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion to sell some of his pills. Although the pills could be directly exchanged to Lang Ya, from Lang Ya''s word, he prefers Long Feng to sell them instead, and change it for something he could use later. It is also because of the amount Long Feng could refine. With this number of pills that Long Feng brings over to the Pavilion to exchange, would surely create whispers all around, and contribute in creating a bridge for Long Feng in future. "Brother Han Geng, I''m here." Long Feng initiate a word with the Cashier. "Oh, Brother Xiao Feng, how are you? Are you here to sell and exchange for some pills and ingredients?" Cashier Han Geng already have experience in looking at his client''s needs, so by only looking at Long Feng''s face, he roughly knows what Long Feng needs. "Brother Han Geng, this is a total of 100 Lower-Rank and 100 Middle-Rank First-Grade Thunder Spirit Pills, please calculate the amount of Bronze Spirit Coins I could get and how many portions of Blood Refinement Pellet ingredients I could exchange." Long Feng withdraw 200 pills from his pouch with 100 pills from each rank. "Heavens! You actually managed to still keep so many after giving a quarter to that [LOUD] youngster!" Cashier Han Geng is shocked by looking at the pills Long Feng presents before him. But if he knows that Long Feng actually shared half of it and still holds this much in his hand, he would most probably inform the Pavilion Master, and recruit Long Feng into the Pavilion''s disciple. Long Feng waits for a short while when Han Geng took the pills into the cashier room, and as Han Geng came out, a slip of paper is within his hand. "Brother Xiao Feng, the senior of pavilion had already checked on your pill''s quality, and we are offering you a bonus the next time you come over to exchange it for coins or ingredients. Additionally, the Pavilion Elder gave you an offer, and I would say you are on good luck." Han Geng continues. "If you managed to refine any Upper-Ranked Tempering Pills, bring it directly to me, I will personally offer triple of what the pavilion pays." Cashier Han Geng repeats what the elder says. "Alright, the total of the 100 Lower-Rank pills is 7500 Spirit Bronze Coins, while the 100 Middle-Rank pills worth 15000 Spirit Bronze Coins, in total, you could either exchange it into 225 portions of Blood Refinement Pellet''s ingredients or take 22500 Spirit Bronze Coins home." Cashier Han Geng speaks out both choices for Long Feng to chose. "Brother Han Geng, I will exchange it into 225 portions of ingredients." Long Feng decides. As Cashier Han Geng looked at Long Feng''s serious expression, he kept the word "Do you need to reconsider?" back into his heart. Without any more words, Cashier Han Geng proceeds to collect Long Feng''s order and passed it to him after making Long Feng waits for twenty minutes. "Brother Han Geng, excuse Xiao Feng for today. I will see you perhaps on tomorrow, or if I''m busy, I will be around on Sunday for the Sunday Employment." Long Feng excuse himself from the Pavilion and politely bid farewell to Cashier Han Geng. "This kid, I hope his filialness would not hinder his improvement if he wished to enter the Adept Tier..." Cashier Han Geng sigh for a moment before he felt if required, he would try to help Long Feng when he getting closer to enter the Adept Stage. Along the way back to the Bronze Pill Hall, Long Feng take a short trip back to the restaurant he just ate along with his brothers to purchase some dry rations. "Owner, are you still open?" Long Feng enter the restaurant and speaks loudly as he saw nobody within the restaurant. Suddenly, a loud wooden crack sound could be heard from upstairs, and with a curious mind, Long Feng entered the restaurant''s hall and leap up to the second floor. The moment he landed on the wooden floor, Long Feng saw three people immobilized the restaurant owner by pressing him down in a kneeling position, while another bulky male is crouching in front of the restaurant owner. "What are you guys doing? Leave the restaurant owner at once!" Long Feng withdraw his sword immediately. The moment the three males, looks like the bulky male''s followers, withdraw their weapon and charge toward Long Feng, he already launched the Offensive Xuan Sword Art. The moment Long Feng''s sword charges past the three male followers, even Long Feng himself is shocked with his martial capability. "What happened? I actually launch an attack without even planning it beforehand!" Long Feng even felt dumbfounded with his changes! But the three male followers, yet to be defeated! They change the position of their body and prepare to face the next attack. From their eyes, a minuscules line of fear started to appear within their mind. Long Feng looked at the three male followers and decided to use them to try his current strength. "Defensive Wu Sword Art!" Long Feng swing his sword, creating a mini sword field within his capability. "What a brat, so young yet so strong!" the three followers fear became bigger and bigger, where their fear render them unable to move a step closer. "Xuan Wu Divination!" Long Feng shouted in his mind as he moves closer to the three followers, swift like an arrow, sturdy like a shield, deadly like a ferocious beast, and giving off a ten times pressure in gravity cause the followers to pee in their pants! Long Feng''s aura is shaped like a Ferocious Tortoise Beast, like the Holy Beast of Xuan Wu! Totally without a match, Long Feng easily knock the three unconscious with a single hit and points his sword directly on the bulky man''s throat. "Withdraw and I will not follow up with this case any longer!" Long Feng warns. The bulky man, only with the cultivation of Late Earth Refinement Tier, immediately kneeled down to ask for forgiveness, before he ran by himself and saving his pitiful dog life. "This cultivator youngster, thank you for your help." the owner holds Long Feng''s hand and couldn''t stop thanking him for the help. "Owner, please do not be too humble, Xiao Feng just came here to buy some dry rations, and coincidently heard some noise, that''s why I managed to spot this kind of problem." Long Feng politely push away the fact he just helps the restaurant owner. "Young master, did you say buying some rations? Give me a moment, let me go into the kitchen and prepare some for you." the restaurant owner dash into the kitchen without even listens to what Long Feng wished to order. "I hope he doesn''t serve me sour foods." Long Feng is slightly speechless as he couldn''t place his favorite food as an order. But after waiting for around twenty minutes, the restaurant owner came out with a ridiculous amount of foods. Being thankful to Long Feng made the owner even use his special Food related Treasure Pouch (Low cultivation requirement, daily usage pouch specially made for business man and others.) to place all the foods within. "Young master, within this pouch, there are foods enough for more than 10 people to eat for one whole month without worries." Long Feng stunned as he received the pouch from the restaurant owner. "Owner, this gift is too precious, I will give you a few pills as the exchange, please." Long Feng felt embarrassed if he takes the pouch and leaves, so he insists that the owner accept a few pills from him as an exchange. Without any further words, Long Feng place five Low-Rank Blood Refinement Pellets on the owner''s hand, and force him to accept the pills. "Young Master, if that how you wished, this old man will accept the pills then. I remember I saw your seat along with the other young master this afternoon, what is your relationship with the Six Jade brothers?" the owner finally remembered that he saw Long Feng a few hours ago. "Ah, I am their youngest brother, their Seventh brother to be honest." Long Feng politely answered. "That''s why today they are extremely happy, no wonder." the restaurant owner finally know the reason why Lang Yu and the others are extremely loud today. Without any more kind words to exchange between both of them, Long Feng excuse himself as he returns to the Bronze Pill Hall. Straight towards the Thousand Training Formation Cave, Long Feng hopes that he would have a good luck once more, and hit the Training Dummy when his turn is here. "Offensive Xuan Sword Art!" Long Feng take his palm as the sword and land a hit on the Training Dummy. "Plok!" a token appears from the slot. "Oh, my luck is still quite good." Long Feng holds the Golden Token once again, and the number on the Token is 2. With this continuous luck, Long Feng became the figure within the Thousand Training Formation Cave to be jealous about. But for Long Feng, this is nothing but a luck. Appreciate when you have and struggle with it when you don''t, that is how Long Feng passed his day 9 years back with his mother. Book 1 Chapter 43 - The Return of Nan Jing Jing. "Let''s start furiously refining the ingredients!" Long Feng went into the room within the Thousand Training Formation Cave and began his refining process without wasting any of his precious time. With the refining speed of two parts of an ingredient in each attempt, Long Feng refining process became slightly dull, because the step each time he refines, couldn''t be adjusted anymore, to prevent double losses in the ingredients. And from the moment of Friday evening, Long Feng''s Pill grinding starts, and it last until the morning of Sunday, where he would need to exit the Cave no matter what to attend his weekly Sunday employment. But from the 46 hours of pill grinding, Long Feng successfully refine as much as he could without any failure. A total of 120 attempts is conducted, 60 times on Thunder Spirit Pills and 60 times on the Blood Refinement Pellets. And as the rewards, long Feng managed to obtain a total of 420 Pills in its Lower-Rank, 600 Pills in its Middle-Rank, and 3 more pills in its Upper-Rank. While for the 120 portions of Ingredient is used for the Blood Refinement Pellet, Long Feng attempts this time managed to yield a slight increase in his refining, making a total of 555 pills successfully refined. Within that amount, 350 of them are Lower-Rank, 200 Middle-Rank, and 5 Upper-Rank pills. This makes Long Feng''s yield for each portion of ingredients about 4-5 Pills. Afraid of being late for his duty, Long Feng just freshen up himself as he went over to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. As he entered the Pavilion''s area, Long Feng saw Nan Jing Jing patiently waits by the side of the entrance, treating the piece of flat top stone as a seat, waiting for somebody. "Beloved wife." Long Feng called her from far. From hearing the calling, Nan Jing Jing face turned from restless to happy, from happy to excited. She stands up immediately, to look for her husband, and as she saw Long Feng in her sight, her leg runs toward her lover without controls, only wishing to get close her most beloved one. "Husbandddd!!!!" Nan Jing Jing runs and cried with happiness, as she and Long Feng locked into lovers embrace. The two of them is totally within their own world, ignoring the others passerby. Long Feng then remembered that they have to work! Instantly, worrying about late for work, Long Feng leads Nan Jing Jing with him into the Pavilion, and get ready to work in sync. The couple at first is shocked with their significant others cultivation, Long Feng recently had his cultivation increased by two stage again, and currently from the frequent usage of Essence Energy in Pill Refining and Cultivating back his loss essence, Long Feng is getting closer to breakthrough into the Late Heaven Refinement Tier. While Nan Jing Jing is closing to the Middle Human Adept Tier as well, after training along with her parents and the four Vice-General every single day. In the same time, because of the Qian Kun Formation Sutra, Nan Jing Jing''s body art began even smoother and swift, making all her action become like an angel with a hundred pair of hands. But what is most shocking, is the fact Long Feng''s martial improvement. Because of his Xuan Wu Divination and Xuan Wu Heavenly Art, Long Feng movement became comparable to Nan Jing Jing in her Early Human Adept Tier, only a few steps slower. And one more fact unknown to this two is that the Qian Kun Formation Sutra and the Xuan Wu Sword Sect Martial Art is comparable at the same level. The couple speed increase by at least twice and their combination of effort finally help them to complete a total of 1500 Request Slips. With the working hour is finished for both of them, they exit the room just to look at some of the senior staff giving them an impossible to hide, Shocking expression. "What monstrosity is this two kid? They actually managed to complete a total of 1500 slips, that is comparable with Senior Bai Wei and his Wife, Senior Feng Lan." the seniors share the information with each other. The two of them just politely greets and brush through the blockade of those senior staffs, and went over to look for Sister Li Ying. 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Li Ying finishes her words and walks away. "I think I will exchange for this 1st Grade Cultivator Preserving Box." Nan Jing Jing decides her choice. Hearing what his wife decided to exchange, Long Feng gave her a "Good Choice!" look, making Nan Jing Jing slightly blushed from staring at her husband. "Jing Jing, your choice of getting the Cultivation Preserving Box is very wise. If in any case, we managed to refine a good quality pill, this box will be very important as we could keep it inside and preserve its quality." Long Feng praise Nan Jing Jing for her choices. "Husband, that''s not my only concern in getting this treasure. My father recently hired a very experienced special Culture Hall practitioner, and his specialty is on refining Treasures. Look at my Twin Cold Steel Chakrams." Nan Jing Jing let Long Feng holds her weapon. The moment Long Feng inject some Essence Energy into the weapon, a "feeling" of a blade made of Essence Energy appears around the two Chakrams. "This weapon is very well refined. I wonder how good is Senior Yang Jian in this field." Long Feng remembered that he had not visit Yang Jian for a very long time. Receiving both of their exchange order, Nan Jing Jing has the intention to leave, but Long Feng asked her to wait for another twenty minutes. "Wife, I wanted to exchange some pills as well, and get some ingredients for my refining." Long Feng explains the reason. "Sister Li Ying, can Xiao Feng exchange some pills?" Long Feng returned to Li Ying''s counter. Li Ying looked at Long Feng and answered "Yes, of course. What you still need from me?". Long Feng finally managed to make Li Ying felt shocked for the day. He withdraws a total of 400 Lower-Rank Blood Refinement Pellet on the table and allows Li Ying to proceed with it. "I heard that you recently exchange a lot of ingredients to refine some Blood Refinement Pellets, but I would never imagine you are showing 400 pills out of sudden!" Li Ying stares at Long Feng as she speaks. In her mind, the concern of this boy will get mugged or rob will happen anytime because he is holding such a good amount of Blood Refinement Pellets within his pouch. Even Nan Jing Jing did explain to Long Feng before, that the stock for Blood Refinement Pellets is often insufficient to supply to the public''s consumptions. With Long Feng holding so many Blood Refinement Pellets at once, is just like asking for bandits and thieves to rob him clean. "Wait for me for a moment, after this deal is completed, you will get a long scolding from me." Li Ying stares at this innocent and yet to face the danger of the human''s greed kid. Soon, an elder came out from the office and invite Long Feng into a private room for a word. "Little friend, is all these Blood Refinement Pellets came from your refining efforts?" the elder speaks. Looking straight to the elder''s eyes, Long Feng answered "Yes". The elder continued. "I had made a simple check on all the pills within this pouch, Although it is a Lower-Ranked pill, the essence within is comparable to the normal Middle-Ranked ones. I would say all these pills is a very good quality. Do you think you can fulfill this elder''s request?" the elder finish his words with a hint of demand. "Elder please speak." Long Feng replied his questions. "Good, my request is like this..." the elder starts to explain what he actually "need" Long Feng to do. Due to the difficulty to amassed a more than a thousand pills of one same quality from the same Pill Master, the rates for selling the Blood Refinement Pellets rarely reach a profitable amount. And which is why this time, the elder hopes that Long Feng could do them a favor to prepare a total of 1000 Blood Refinement Pills for them in each transaction, so the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion could sell it directly for a good price. And in return, with a 1000 Pills transaction, normally it would be around 100,000 Spirit Bronze Coins plus around 50,000 Spirit Bronze Coins as the bonus for such large amount. But if they could cooperate in this matter, providing Long Feng profits of 200,000 each time wouldn''t be an issue, and even ingredients are provided for free as long he could provide 1000 Pills each time from one batch of ingredients. This means, with the rates of 4 pills each portion, Long Feng would be getting a total of 250 portions of ingredients. But as usual, the deal between the Pavilion with their respective Pill Masters would be 50% given to each, where Pill Masters provides the pills, and the Pavilion provides the ingredients. Which means, Long Feng would be receiving a total of 500 portions of ingredients in each batch, as long he manages to provide 1000 Lower-Rank Pills in each time. "Elder, Xiao Feng accept your requests. But..." Long Feng wanted to finish his words, but the elder intercepts. "Little friend, you must be worrying about the ingredients, is this elder guess correctly?" the elder continues. "This elder will accept this 400 Pills first, I will treat this as an above 500 Pills transaction to fortify our cooperation, is that acceptable for you?". "Of course, elder! This way, Xiao Feng would have around 40,000 Spirit Bronze Coins." Long Feng happily replies. But the Elder continues. "Little friend, did you forget the 50% additional bonus? That would be 60,000 Spirit Bronze Coins in total." "Men, come here." the elder loudly ask for some assistant. "Prepare 60,000 Spirit Bronze Coins and 500 portions of Blood Refinement Pellet''s ingredients. Bring it over to this friend so he could help the Pavilion to fulfill a request." the elder gave the assistant some orders to follow, and with haste, the assistant rush into the office to get all the thing prepared. This time, only ten minutes required for them to complete the request. The ingredients and Spirit Bronze Coins are given to Long Feng, and he left the pavilion with Nan Jing Jing since there is nothing more to do with the pavilion anymore. The two exchange some words and happy stuff, before both of them reached their own respective room. It''s a luck that this dumb child remembered. Long Feng quickly stopped Nan Jing Jing from closing the door and passed her a small package containing the remaining Treasured Crystal Jade Cabbage. Happily, accepts the gift, Nan Jing Jing dare herself to give Long Feng a kiss on his cheek and quickly closed the door. And with this sort of happening, both young child is standing together, only to be covered by a piece of the wooden door in the middle, embarrassed with what just happened. Long Feng thinks for a while and started to speaks. "Jing Jing, I''m not sure when you heard this, will you be angry or sad, but to be very honest with you, I felt I should tell you what''s in my mind." Long Feng continued. "At first, I am actually very confused with my feeling. The moment elder forces me to propose to you is even confusing. But the longer we communicate with each other, I actually felt that sometimes, a day without you is very moody." "Although I love Pill Refining, and it could make me forget things, but when sleeping and resting, your voice always appears within my head. I am not sure is this love or not, but it felt like you became as important as my mother." Long Feng continues as Nan Jing Jing started to cry on the other side of the wall. "My mother actually noticed that you tidied and clean my clothes before, and she asked me to bring you home to meet her sometimes. I actually think that we should meet her together and let her know how we are engaged to each other." Long Feng words became even weirder. Currently, Nan Jing Jing, standing behind the door is wondering should she laugh or should she cry. "Wife?" Long Feng wondering why there is no reaction from behind the door. but then, Nan Jing Jing replies. "Husband, Master Qian Rui called me to meet her tomorrow morning, so I should go to sleep now. We''ll talk about it if we met tomorrow, is that fine with you?" "Of course, then I will go to the Thousand Training Formation Cave, for now, I will come to find you when I finish my pill refining process." Long Feng reply her words, and as he turns around getting ready to leave, a soft whisper could be heard from the door. "We''ll need to buy your mother a gift, remember it when we go to Thunderburst Jade City." Long Feng heard her and says "I will." about ten minutes later, Long Feng is still not appeared before the Cave entrance. Long Feng actually went over to his master''s Study room to get some information regarding Pill Refining. Book 1 Chapter 44 - Selling Pills. Within the study room, Long Feng is busy looking for books and his master''s record regarding Pill Refining, Double Refining and Extended Experience in Extreme Pill Refining. He searched the study room for three full hours, and finally managed to found two scrolls with guidance and direct experience from his master. Long Feng bring the two scrolls along with him to the Thousand Training Formation Cave and make his attempt on obtaining a token once again. Sometimes, Karma is always around you when you need it. Long Feng once again managed to obtain the 1st Heaven Room once again and entered the Cave as usual. Within the cave, Long Feng planned his procedures and starts with refining a good amount of Blood Refinement Pellet first. Long Feng spends his first 5-hour refining a total of 30 portions of the ingredients and obtained a total of 80 Lower-Rank Pills and 60 Middle-Rank Pills. Next, Long Feng opened up the scroll contains his master''s personal experience in extreme pill refining. Within the scroll, guidance and the chances of failure are well written within, along with the step by step to make the trial a success. From reading the scroll, one would easily consider Elder Tang Wen to have the capability to easily refine plenty of Pills at once. But the fact of everything is only able to be understood by the person who was the closest to him, and that''s Long Feng himself. Looking at all the notes Elder Tang Wen writes within each single pages, it could easily indicate how much and how long he has been putting an effort in successfully trying to refine three, four and even five portions of ingredients at one time. Reading through the first scroll, Long Feng finally understands the differences between Single Concoction and Double Concoction. The differences one and two is not wide, so only by fully adopting in Essence Injection, and Stabilizing the Concoction, the refining procedure will go without any mistakes. In this part, Long Feng coincidently succeed, because of his attempt to unconsciously inject part of Element Sky into the pills. But when it came to the Triple and Quadruple Concoction, the difficulties increased by one total stage. Not only the Pill Master would require to efficiently control the Essence Injection into three to four different part, he should be able to control the procedures of extracting each single portion in different time, maintaining Element Fire in each of the portions of ingredients, and finally, the forceful mixture of the concoction together. Only a single differences between each portion of ingredients are needed to make this concoction a failure, thus the Pill Master required a huge amount of concentration to complete this task. But for the Quintuple Concoction attempt, only one sentence etched in the middle of the space written, "Failure. Elder Tier cultivation is unable to complete this stage." Looking at this sentence, Long Feng could only guess that even his master in his Elder Tier cultivation still failed to attempt this Quintuple Concoction. The second scroll is where all the tricks and method to increase the Refining results. It is divided into three parts, the Extracting Essence, the Refining Essence, and the Stabilizing Essence. The extracting part guides its reader to understand the method and way to increase the quantity of essence within the ingredients, the refining part increase and strengthen the essence so more pills could be formed in each attempt. Lastly, is the stabilizing part, which used to strengthen the overall effect of the medication strength, resulting a better quality pill could be produced. "Alright, rest time is over, let us continue with the refining task." Long Feng prepare himself again to start refining the pills. First the second time, Long Feng tries to concoct three portions of ingredients at once. Applying the methods he learned from his master''s scroll, Long Feng carefully follows the instructions, as well the spot where he should be paying more attentions. "I failed once again..." Long Feng looks at the ingredients that were totally burnt within the old cauldron and felt a little sad from the wastage. But it was also the moment Long Feng remembered something again. "didn''t I just exchange the 2nd Grade White Stone Pill Cauldron?" Long Feng immediately withdraw the Pill Cauldron from his pouch and make a second attempt with three more portions of the ingredients. The refining process starts, and with the help of the White Stone Pill Cauldron, Long Feng''s Element Fire usage become lesser toll towards his body. The Pill Cauldron distributes the heat evenly, giving Long Feng much easier time to control all three portions of ingredients. "Please goes well, Please, Please." Long Feng prays in his mind hoping this tries will be a successful one. Exactly twenty minutes later, Brilliant shines came out from the Pill Cauldron, and releasing a strong medicine smell. This is also the first time Long Feng managed to refine such fragrant pills throughout his pill refining experience. "How come these pills have such a fragrant medicinal smell?" Long Feng felt weird with such happening. Soon, he retrieves a total of 14 pills from the Cauldron, but their quality has barely reached the peak of Lower-Rank. "This is the first success on the Triple Concoction. Perhaps if I try a few more time, I could grasp the hidden tricks and method behind success." Long Feng convince himself that he could refine a better quality pills if he managed to understand the secret behind this triple concoctions. Long Feng tries again and again, in his first hour, two success and one fail. His second hour, two failure with one success. It goes on for the next hour until Long Feng finally stopped at his 10th hour. In a total of 30 attempts, Long Feng managed to control the losses until only 11/30 attempts end up in failure, the remaining 19 attempts managed to gave Long Feng a result of 270 Lower-Rank Pills and 15 Middle-Rank Pills. He took a rest, and cultivate a little further before he continued with another 20 hours once more. This time, it''s 5/60 attempts ends up with failure. In that 55 attempts, Long Feng managed to increase his quality this time and refined a total of 400 Lower-Rank Pills, and 385 Middle-Rank Pills, and this time, he managed to obtain two Upper-Rank Pills as well. "Master says that the challenge is to refine 10 Upper-Rank Pills, and now I already have 5Upper-Rank Blood Refinement Pellets and also 1 Upper-Rank Thunder Spirit Pill. If I can make sure that I will have 10 Upper-Rank pills for each pill, he would be very happy with my achievements!" Long Feng calculates his total of pills, and exclude the three Upper-Rank Thunder Spirit Pills because those pills are yet to be shared with Lang Ya. Since Long Feng had only been within the Cave for about 30 hours, the outside time should be around Tuesday before sunrise. Long Feng then decided to spend more time in his pill refining and stays within for four more days, only to come out on Saturday night. Within that four days, a total of 80 hours of the 96 hours is used on refining pills, while the remaining is used for practicing his martial arts and also his cultivation. Within this few days, Long Feng finally entered the stage of Late Heaven Refinement Tier, leaving only one stage to tackle before he becomes an adept Tier cultivator. "I would never imagine that all the ingredients had been finished. Lucky this still gave me a total of 870 Lower-Rank Pills, 700 Middle-Rank Pills and 20 Upper-Rank Pills for the Blood Refinement Pellets and a total of 1400 Lower-Rank, 1600 Middle-Rank and 47 Upper-Rank for the Thunder Spirit Pills." Long Feng calculate his production clearly before he returns to his room. But before that, Long Feng make a trip to the Virtue Hall, and see that his master is still not home, so Long Feng just entered the Hall to make up for some cleaning task, taking care some of his master''s plants, returning the two scrolls into the study room, and locked the door before returning home. Long Feng remembered about the refurbished piece of work as well and heads to the Tower of Knowledge first. Seeing the same elder, Long Feng politely greets the elder as he stands before him. "Elder, Xiao Feng greets elder." "Hmm, did you meet any disturbance on the refurbishing the works?" the elder asked, but then, Long Feng took out a Bamboo Scroll and hold it in both hands, delivering it to the elder. "Respected elder, Xiao Feng finished one of the pieces, I hope Elder could look within to notice any mistakes this disciple did." The elder took the scroll, with one swing of his hand. The scroll opened up widely with the help of his Essence energy, and in an instant, the elder already finishes going through the scroll. "Hmm... How is the remaining two piece going on?" the elder questioned. "Dear Elder, Xiao Feng is busy with other refining tasks as well on tomorrow morning, Xiao Feng needed to go to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion for his daily weekend duty, I''m afraid it would take another week or two to complete the task." Long Feng replied the elder. "If that how it is... Listen to this elder, stop refining from Monday, and complete the book called [Temperament Sutra]. And let this elder give you a hint of guidance in your cultivation, Your Elemental Energy is too weak, and this will become an obstacle as you get into the Adept Tier. Temper it and halt your cultivation." the elder gave Long Feng a few words before he totally gone silent.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. Long Feng repeats the same word on his minds before he finally understands the elder''s intention. "Thank You elder for the advice! Xiao Feng will make sure to temper the elemental energy first!" Long Feng gave the elder a bow, and excuse himself back to the room. "This kid''s understanding and his talent are both Pills and Martial is very high, but his attitude is not too refined. I hope he would listen to my advice, and temper his Flame from Orange Flame Stage to Blue Flame Stage before he advances. And if he could temper his wood element too, he should make it from Tree Wood Stage into Oak Wood Stage, before he continues with his pill refining." the elder sigh for a moment, as he re-read the bamboo scroll once again. While for Long Feng, he was still deciphering what is the elder''s main intention to had him temper his Elemental Energy before he continued to refine the pills. "I should get some idea about it from Jing Jing when we went to the Pavilion tomorrow." Long Feng decided to share the words with Jing Jing because he felt that his wife is smarter in this kind of things. As he reached his doorstep, two different way of message delivery came before his door. The first one is a personal bodyguard of Lang Ya, and the second one is a letter from the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. Long Feng attend the bodyguard''s message first. "Greetings, Young Master Long Feng. Under the word of my Young Master Lang, there will be a meeting of brothers in the Lotus Pond Pavilion on coming Monday. Our young master wishes that you could come, to share a meal with the other brothers." the bodyguard delivers the message. "This brother, thank you for delivering the words, could you tell Third Brother Lang Ya that this youngest brother will be there on time." Long Feng replied the bodyguard as he returns to his master''s side. Long Feng then opened the Letter from Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. ========== Esteem Pill Master Li, Due to the unforeseen circumstances, we from the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion do understand the requirement of having more time to concoct and refine the medicine asked personally by the third Pavilion Elder, Master Yongheng Zhiya directly. Therefore, the Pavilion would agree to personally present a total of 3000 Points to both Master Li and Lady Nan to use whenever you like. We hope to hear some good news from Master Li, please do not hesitates to come to us for any request. We insist Master Li place a faith of ingredients to us from the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. ========== "A very short, but simple and straight to the point. I guess tomorrow I would go over to deliver the products and see what could be done for the day." Long Feng praise the letter for being short and direct, and in the same time, he felt he could use the day to refurbish the [Temperament Sutra] by Elder Ao Luo once again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next day, Long Feng walks with Nan Jing Ning to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion, with the intention only to deliver his promised pills, and also to see what he might consider exchanging for the free 3000 points. When Long Feng tells Nan Jing Jing about this matter, she jokingly speaks a sentence. "Seems like my husband is on the point of start supporting my meals." Of course, by hearing such word would easily bring happiness to the contributor, where Long Feng has a slight felt of managed to be more dependable in the eyes of his wife. The duo entered to Pavilion and requested for the Elder to meet him for a small talk. Hearing his name, Elder Yongheng Zhiya immediately appears from the upper floor above the cashier and requested the staffs to lead the two of them into his office. Within his office, two more people could be seen sitting and sipping some tea. "Xiao Feng greets elder and everyone within the room." Long Feng politely greets the others, and wait for Elder Yongheng Zhiya to invite him to have a seat. Nan Jing Jing as well repeated what Long Feng just did. "Little Fried, don''t stand there, come and take a seat with lady Nan." Elder Yongheng extends his formality, and invite the two of them for a seat. "Brother Lian Cheng, brother Shen Cheng, this youngster is the one I am praising for his capability in refining ingredients." Elder Yongheng introduces Long Feng to the two man within the room. "Brother Yongheng, I am here just to see the Blood Refinement Pellets you have in your stash, I heard that only VIP among VIP could have the opportunity of purchasing it, and in an amount of 1000 pills, no more, no less." the first man, called Lian Cheng speaks. "How about young master Li shows his pills since the refiner is here?" Shen Cheng, being a more sneaky adult, pass the question to Long Feng. "Yes, I would agree to see the pills directly bring out by the refiner as well." Lian Cheng added. Looking at Long Feng, elder Yongheng Zhiya gentle speaks to Long Feng. "Little friend, how is your pill refining going on? Anything needed from this Old Man?" Instead of asking for the pills, Elder Yongheng asked for Long Feng''s condition, in case he needs anything else. And on that time, Nan Jing Jing speaks. "Husband, Let me do the honor to reveal the pills." listening to his wife''s word, Long Feng pass the pouch to Nan Jing Jing, and she withdraws a total of 1000 Lower-Ranked Blood Refinement Pellets for the three to feast their eyes. As Lian Cheng and Shen Cheng saw all the pills and smell the fragrant and watery Blue Spirit Grass Extract within, they instantly come out with two words. "Good Pill!" The two guest speaks in the same moment, and this reaction made Elder Yongheng happily chuckle for few times, and starts with his ulterior motive to invite this two over. "Brother Lian, Brother Shen, do you still have the intention to ask for discounts anymore? Even without a discount, your Lian Sword Family would fight each other to purchase it by themselves." Elder Yongheng jokes. "Brother Yongheng, Open a price, I will buy this sack immediately." Lian Cheng opened his mouth and speaks, giving no chances for Shen Cheng to fight for the pills. And that moment, unnoticed by Long Feng, Shen Cheng and Lian Cheng, Elder Yongheng and Nan Jing Jing actually making some hand sign to communicate with each other. "Brother Lian Cheng, the initial price for a total of 1000 pills is 250,000 Spirit Bronze Coins, but since you are a regular, I would make it at 225,000 Spirit Bronze Coins." Elder Yongheng announces his price. "Taken! Sorry Brother Shen, Looks like I got it first." Lian Cheng put his hand together and show a gratitude hand sign. "Brother Lian, Congratulations on getting the 1000 Blood Refinement Pellets. Seems like the Lian Sword Family will be the next upcoming top family in the Xuan Wu Jade City!" Shen Cheng praises Lian Cheng for his hunger of obtaining the pills no matter what. "Hahaha, it is all because of the falls of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect. If the Sword Sect and the Mystery Water Sect doesn''t fall from the attack of the Beast Taming School, where would we, the Lian Sword Family and your Shen Fist Family have the chances to climb up the ladder of power." Lian Cheng reveals some information about the rise of his family. But this information gave Long Feng some shock. "Senior, did you say that Xuan Wu Sword Sect already fall?" Long Feng grip his fist tight and asked the questions. But instead of answering, Lian Cheng stare at Long Feng with a sharp eye and said. "Are you with the Xuan Wu Sword Sect?" But before he asked, Nan Jing Jing holds his hand tight and answers Lian Cheng''s question. "Senior, my husband''s master recently went over to the Xuan Wu Jade City for some medical expertise sharing. He was just worried about his master since he hadn''t heard from him for long." Nan Jing Jing replied Lian Cheng''s question. "Hmph! Make sure you ask the question correctly, you almost make me wants to report you to the new governor of the Xuan Wu Jade City, and had you all from the Xuan Wu Arts to be caught." Lian Cheng speaks, and without any polite words, he walked out from the room after grabbing the pill pouch and throws a bag of coins to elder Yongheng. After Lian Cheng leaves the room, the situation became silent for a short moment, before Shen Cheng opened his mouth. "Everyone, please forget about Lian Cheng. Even within the Xuan Wu Jade City, the Lian Sword Family always openly oppress the other weaker family and clans, doing all the works as long they earn some money. But we can''t say that their clan is weak either." Shen Cheng says as he continues. "This time, since the Lian Sword Family managed to obtain so many Blood Refinement Pellets, I guess sooner or later, they will get more and more daring, and tried to overlook the whole city." Shen Cheng finished his words as he prepares to leave. But then, Nan Jing Jing opened her mouth. "Senior Shen, please wait." "Husband, what do you think about Senior Shen?" Nan Jing Jing looks at Long Feng with her pair of clear eyes. Looking at Shen Cheng, and then to Elder Yongheng, and lastly to Nan Jing Jing, and then speaks. "I can see from senior Shen, that when Senior Lian mentions about the falls of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect and the Mystery Water Sect, senior Shen shows a very restless expression. Do senior have a special reason for this?" Long Feng question felt like a beggar received a bun on a snowy day, and cause Shen Cheng to cried out a few drops of manly tears. "My father and mother are the assistants for the Xuan Wu Sword Sect''s Sword Room Elder. My two sister belongs to the Mystery Water Sect. My closest family, all dead under the Beast Taming School. Now, except my other Shen family, I have no one else." Shen Cheng continues. "I would say, perhaps the whole Xuan Wu Jade City''s powerful family hates the Beast Taming School, but none of us have the capability to fight them, so we could only stay quiet, and stir less trouble so nobody else would get their family or sect destroyed. But this Lian Cheng, proudly speaks about this matter as if he was the only that help and lead the Beast Taming School to destroy the city''s proudest sect." Shen Cheng sighs regarding Lian Cheng''s matter and felt that this person and his sect should be destroyed instead, to side with the outside powerhouse. "Senior Shen, please take a look at this." Long Feng tap Nan Jing Jing''s shoulder, and she withdraw another pill pouch out from the Cultivator Treasure Pouch. As the pouch is opened to reveals all the Middle-Rank pills within, even elder Yongheng is shocked. "This! This is a full bag of Middle-Ranked Blood Refinement Pellets!" Shen Cheng shouted. "Senior Shen, I wonder would you like to exchange for this?" Long Feng said looking straight to Shen Cheng''s eyes. But Shen Cheng, although wished to obtain it, his families capability might be limited. A double amount of Bronze Spirit Coins are needed to purchase this, and even for his family, this amount is about 30% of his families total wealth. "Pill Master''s pills, this senior wished, but couldn''t afford all of them. Please forgive this one for possessing such a lack of wealth." Shen Cheng refuse to purchase it. But Long Feng insist that Shen Cheng purchase it. "Senior Shen, if you don''t purchase it, I will give this to you. All I want is to know, what happened to Xuan Wu Sword Sect, and what happened to a particular person named Han Feng Xian." Long Feng speaks. "You''re an acquaintance of Youngest Elder Han? And you''re in Clear Jade City... Are you Xiao Feng, the one Elder Han mentions all the time when he was in town?" Shen Cheng finally noticed who was this young man in front of him. Book 1 Chapter 45 - Mysterious Peak Treasure Store. "I would never imagine that I will see you today. Did you ask about Elder Han just now?" Shen Cheng replied Long Feng''s question. "Yes, senior, please enlighten this junior about his teacher''s whereabouts and his safety." Long Feng hand shakes for a moment before he speaks. "Elder Han should be passed away by now. I''m sorry to deliver this message to you. Three days before my arrival to the Clear Jade City, the Xuan Wu Sword Sect and the Mystery Water Sect had already been destroyed. Some bandits even went over there to pillage the remains, but hardly anything worth taking is left. Even the city lord had been forced to leave the city, and allows the other usurper to take his position." Shen Cheng continues. "Currently, the Xuan Wu Jade City is ruled by the Beast Taming School and the Governor the school appointed, and trying to make the whole city belonged to the school. We from other families could only protect ourselves, or chose to ally with the school to protect their family from being exterminated." Shen Cheng finished his words, as well the explanation regarding the city. "Senior, please take this pill, and in return, could you make sure I received the most updated news regarding my master, Elder Tang Wen and about the Xuan Wu Sword Sect?" Long Feng decided to offer the pills to Shen Cheng as the gratitude of updating him about the situation at Xuan Wu Jade City, but in that moment, three fists came over to his head to give him a knock. "Husband, what kind of people treats pills as the deals for the information you can buy with ten or twenty pills!" Nan Jing Jing scolded him. In the same time, after giving him a knock, Shen Cheng and Elder Yongheng looked at each other and set up a deal. "Brother Yongheng, can I, Shen Cheng, request to pay this by installment?" Shen Cheng speaks. Looking at him, Elder Yongheng agreed, the deal would be paid off at the end of the month, and for now, Long Feng''s coins would be covered by the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion first. "Then Shen Cheng would accept this good will from Brother Yongheng. Young Junior, listen to me. Although the Xuan Wu Sword Sect is no longer around, but aren''t you one of Elder Han''s student? Make him proud, and help preserve the Xuan Wu Sword Sect''s legacy. I will send people to pass the message to the Bronze Pill Hall if there is any updated news. Take this as my gratitude for keeping this Middle-Rank pills for me to view after Lian Cheng is away." Shen Cheng paid his thanks to Long Feng, and exit the room along with Elder Yongheng. "Husband, you are being too rash about this matter. Next time, be sure to consult either me or Elder Yongheng first." Nan Jing Jing looked at Long Feng as she speaks. Then, Long Feng replied her. "Wife, my teacher is dead, and my master is heading over to the City... How could I be not worried." "Husband, do not worry, even if you did, nothing could be done. What you need is to strengthen your cultivation, and make your way up to where your master cultivation is. If not, how will you face the Beast Taming School?" Nan Jing Jing opened up Long Feng''s clouded mind. "Beast Taming School! I will make sure to destroy you for the Xuan Wu Sword Sect!" Long Feng grit his teeth in anger, and tried to control it. But then, without notice, a small line of darkness enters Long Feng''s body from nowhere. "Clack!" the door opened, and Elder Yongheng returns from the outside. "Xiao Feng, Xiao Jing, what a splendid show today to feast my eyes. Xiao Jing, your choice of man is too wise, even me, who watch you grows up in the mansion would felt proud with you." Elder Yongheng speaks as he entered the room. "Thank you, uncle Yongheng. How is your health these days?" Nan Jing Jing accepts the praise and asks for Elder Yongheng''s health. "I am well. But it doesn''t seem too good for your young husband. Young friend, listen to this old man''s advice and don''t carry this burden in your heart. If not, you will be clouded with revenge, and failed to follow the path. If this happened, your cultivation will get stagnant and you will develop an inner demon within your heart." Elder Yongheng explained but only could hope that Long Feng will listen to him. "Xiao Feng, Xiao Jing, take this 3000 points to exchange for what you need in the exchange cashier, and Xiao Feng, since you already provide two thousand pills, it is, of course, the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion reimburse for your pills. I had already ordered the storage assistant to pack up a total of 1000 Portions of ingredients and separated it into two batches. If you refined enough pills again, please deliver it to the Pavilion." Elder Yongheng speaks with gratitude. After all, Long Feng sudden appearance had already helped him to earn a total of 225,000 Spirit Bronze Coins in merely a few hours. "And also, this is what you supposed to have." Elder Yongheng passed a total of 450,000 Spirit Bronze Coins to Long Feng''s hand. But as Long Feng is not in his best mood of interest now, he could only take it without any words. Instead, Nan Jing Jing speaks on behalf of him. "Uncle Yongheng, my husband is not in his best condition now, we will give you a proper apology the next time we come." The couple exits Elder Yongheng''s office and went over to the exchange counter again, but since Long Feng is not in the mood, nothing is exchanged. The couple leaves the pavilion afterward, but then Long Feng suddenly wake up in a trance. "Jing Jing, I want to exchange for some Internal Flame Ingredients, could you wait for me for a moment?" Long Feng suddenly speaks. "Of course, let us go into the pavilion again." Nan Jing Jing behaves like a proper wife, accompanying Long Feng back to the pavilion to exchange a total of 1000 portions of Internal Flame Pill''s ingredients. "Wife, I will be entering closed door cultivation, and strengthen my Elemental Fire properties." Long Feng inform Nan Jing Jing his intention, along with the way. "Husband, do you think I would be unhappy or anything? I would support you all the way when you are in close door cultivation, do not worry." Nan Jing Jing looked at Long Feng like how a proper wife should be. In her mind, she would expect her husband to do this anyway even before he mentioned. "Silly husband, from the moment you mentioned about Elder Tang Wen and your intention about getting the Tempering Pills, I could already expect you to go into a long period of close door training. Go ahead and leave the outside stuff for me to handle." Nan Jing Jing assured Long Feng that nothing will happen during that time. "Thank you, my wife!" Long Feng happily hugged Nan Jing Jing, gave her a slight electrical shock. "Ah! Husband actually hugged me again!" this sentence run through her mind in the timespan of five seconds. Releasing her from his hug, Long Feng led Nan Jing Jing into the Main Street, and accompany her as long he could. Long Feng considered the option he has. Either to attend the brothers meeting on Monday, and return to the Cave to start his close door cultivation, or to go into the closed door cultivation now, and have Nan Jing Jing helps to deliver the word about his situation, and pass half of the Thunder Spirit Pills to Lang Ya. But after a while of consideration, Long Feng decided to put brotherhood in the first place, and cultivation in second. He got this sudden change of mind after he remembered a sentence spoken by the Elder from the Tower of Knowledge. "Your Elemental Energy is too weak, and this will become an obstacle as you get into the Adept Tier. Temper it and halt your cultivation." Long Feng decided to follow the advice from the elder. "That elder speak this sentence with a serious expression, and with his cultivation, receiving a bit of advice from his is a blessing, I should follow his word and refurbish the [Temperament Sutra] first." The couple then visits most of the shops available along the Main Street. Pieces of jewelry, Clothing, weapons, food, and even Jadestone is widely sold within each shop, but none of them managed to attract Long Feng''s attention. Long Feng usually depends on his intuition when he makes any decision, but this time, none of the item sold within each shop they walk pass, managed to catch his attention. If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it. But this disappointment stops as they entered a shop along the alleyway. This shop is positioned far away from the main street. Unless one would wander around the few small snack stalls along this alleyway, it would be impossible to notice this shop with it''s broken appearance. "Husband, I can feel some special Essence Energy within this shop, should we go in and have a look?" Nan Jing Jing happily entered the shop, followed by Long Feng few step behind her. [Mysterious Peak Treasures] "What kind of shop is this? Shady appearance, not even a single customer is seen outside the shop. Withered pots of plants on the side, dust, and the web by the business board on top. But I wonder why would such strong Essence Energy is released from the inside?" Long Feng scanned around the shop and it''s broken appearance. Unable to see what''s the hidden motive behind this appearance, Long Feng walked into the shop, and see what the secret hid behind. "Rong... Rong... Rong..." a sound akin a skin made drum keep resonating within Long Feng''s ear as he passes the shady rotten wood entrance. As the sight along his surrounding had changed, a beautiful, well decorated with Golden Birch Wood interior appears before his eyes. "Heaven! This is even grander than the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion''s Grand Hall!" Long Feng could only use Myriad Ingredient Pavilion in comparison, and even more, it''s fall pale in the comparison results. "Young Master, welcome to the Mysterious Peak Treasures. How could we help you both today?" A well dressed Man appeared from the second floor and descends slowly to the ground floor. "Master Tier Cultivators!" Nan Jing Jing immediately alarmed with such strong cultivator''s appearance. Long Feng on the another side, still confused with how the man could slowly descend from the second floor to the ground so slowly. "This senior, are you the owner of this place? How could you descend so slowly as if you have a cloud on your feet?" Long Feng asked a question. In the same time, Nan Jing Jing''s cautiousness is replaced by a heavy laughing. "How could this husband be so dull, he doesn''t even notice that this person is a Master Tier Cultivator." Nan Jing Jing laughs even harder in her mind. "Young Master, this shop does belong to me, but I am only its temporary owner until the real owner come back with his new sought treasures." the man answers Long Feng''s question and continued. "So how could I help you both today?" he asked the same question once again. "We are just window-shopping, do you have any unique treasures that we could have a look?" Nan Jing Jing happily answers the man''s question and looking forward to his answer, in case he doesn''t mind leading the two to walk around the Shop. Then, Long Feng came out with another question again, before the man replies. "Senior, I remember from the entrance, this is only a single floor building, how could such a big shop stuff within?" Long Feng''s question... Seriously gave Nan Jing Jing and the man another laugh once again. "Hahaha, Young Master, you are really making this owner unable to control his emotions. Well, let me answer Lady''s question first. Yes, of course, I could bring you around and introduce you some treasure I believe would be great for your usage. And for you, Young Master, do you know about Element Space Inscriptions?" the man answered Nan Jing Jing''s question, but instead of answering Long Feng''s question, he pops one question to Long Feng first. "I did hear some about it, but not much. I have only been to the Thousand Training Formation Cave in our Bronze Pill Hall before." Long Feng answers. "Oh, In the term of Element Space Inscriptions, they are almost similar, but the only difference is, the Bronze Pill Hall''s Inscriptions is around their Refinement or Adept Tier Inscriptions, while for this shop, the tier should be around Sovereign Strength." the man replied, and blurted out a word [Sovereign] before the two of them. "Sovereign? Is that a cultivation tier?" Nan Jing Jing asked. But the man answered her question with a simple sentence. "You both are still too young, sooner or later, you would be heard it along with your cultivation. So shall we head over to view some treasures?" the man leads them both as he opened a door leading to a hallway. In the same time, he inquired about the couple''s name and decided to address them as Mrs. Li and Young Master Li. "Mrs. Li, this item should be suitable for you, it is a Special Metal called [Moon Shattering Ore]. This piece of metal possess a strong Element Metal and Element Earth, so it would be best to be refined into a weapon by using your own as a base mold." the man introduce the first item to Nan Jing Jing. "Wow, how amazing is this, how much would that cost, senior?" Nan Jing Jing immediately falls in love with it, but she felt she should see more treasure before she decided. "Not much, just One Million and Two Hundred Thousand Spirit Bronze Coins." the man answers. And that answer gave Nan Jing Jing a shock as she only carries a total of 1,300,000 Spirit Bronze Coins. "This item is extremely valuable, but I only have this much... Senior, I would like to view more of the treasure before deciding on one." Nan Jing Jing thinks for a moment before she asks to be lead to see other treasures. "Of course, that''s possible. Follow me please." the man smiles as he answered Nan Jing Jing''s words, and lead the couple to another treasure for Long Feng''s side. "Young Master Li, this treasure is suitable for your usage. It is a preserved [Grain Feathered Peacock''s Soul Essence Pearl], and the price for this item is just 450,000 Spirit Bronze Coins." once again, this person introduced an item for Long Feng, but the pricing is exactly the total wealth Long Feng possessing. But in Long Feng''s mind, he is deeply attracted with this ingredient. "This is one of the ingredients exactly needed to concoct the Golden Jade Holy Pill!" Long Feng is in deep thought because he couldn''t decide what he wanted. He currently possessed a [Marble Stone Essence Fruit], and 10 units of Upper-Rank Pills within his hand. A total of 5 rare ingredients and 5 different Upper-Rank Pill with ten pills of each kind is required for refining the [Golden Jade Holy Pill]. The [Marble Stone Essence Fruit] contain strong Element Earth within the fruit, while this [Grain Feathered Peacock''s Soul Essence Pearl] contains strong Element Wood within. Hardening his mind, Long Feng decided to view more treasures as well. "Senior, please lead us to view the next treasure." Long Feng decides. The next stop, is a special material once again, for Nan Jing Jing. "Mrs. Li, this is the [Gallbladder of Snow Lord] if you possess a dragon beast in Water and Metal Element, this could nourish it, and even increase in bloodline would be possible. The price of this treasure, Is the same as the previous one." the man announces the treasure specialty and also its price in one shot. "This! If this treasure is taken and refined by Xiao Cai, she will be able to improve her bloodline! By that time, Xiao Cai would be a full fledge Youngling. Her battle ability and memories would slowly come into her mind, giving her the natural battle ability she should possess." Nan Jing Jing once again felt pulled into making her purchase, but again, she resists the urge to say yes. "Senior, please proceed to the next one." Nan Jing Jing takes a very firm step and makes her choice. "Of course, of course." the man chuckles and leads the couple to the next treasure. This time, even before the explanation is started, Long Feng already had the urge to immediately purchase it. "Seems like Young Master Li eyes are quite good. This is the [Firesaint Mushroom] rich in Element Fire essence, using this in concoction for sure will bring superb fire strength within the Pill. This treasure is priced same as the previous one, only 450,000 Spirit Bronze Coins." the man introduced the treasure, and praise Long Feng for his sharp eyesight. "Senior, Xiao Feng still wish to see the next item, please lead us before we decide." Long Feng looked at the man with a straight, sharp clear eyes. "Of course, come with me, we can choose the previous one anyway if you would like to decide by then. The fifth item is the last one that is suitable for both of you to use, and it is also the last treasure I felt that it would be very suitable for both of you." the man speaks and brings them to the end of the hallway. "This is the [Spatial Link Twin Grass Ring]. This is one special treasure in our store that could be only sold to couples. If it wasn''t because I see you both loved each other so much, I wouldn''t introduce this ring to you husband and wife." the man opened the beautifully carved wooden box, and reveal two pieces of ring type accessories to the couple. "Let me explain this pair of ring''s specialty. It is carved with a high-level inscription during the refining process, allowing this pair of a ring to possess a special type of [Spatial Link] ability. In a more simple version, the spatial storage within this ring is accessible by both user of the rings, which means, you both could share the same spatial storage no matter how far you are separated. "And one more thing is because the main ingredients to refine this ring came from the Twin Linking Grass that will only grow when taken care by a couple, this allows the pair of users, of course, they need to be lovey-dovey to each other, to grow the ring. The current stage of this ring is at its Refinement Tier, so if you wished to do so, cultivate together along with the ring in hand, and it would refine itself to be stronger and stronger until death does you apart." the man explains the special ability of the ring. "It would only cost 1,650,000 Spirit Bronze Coins! Take it before you regret!" the man keeps pushing this treasure to the couple. Long Feng looked at Nan Jing Jing and felt that if he doesn''t take this treasure, he wouldn''t be satisfied with anything else. "Senior, we both fancy this pair of rings, could we have the honor of buying it?" Long Feng speaks to the senior. "Oh, a business! Of course of course! Let me withdraw this treasure with its box, and came to you in front of the store reception area, please give me a few minutes." the man happily takes the box from the wooden shelf, and walk into his office. "Husband, thank you." Nan Jing Jing looked at Long Feng with teary eyes. "Wife, why are you being like this for? Two third of the money is from your pocket, I should be the one to say thank you instead." Long Feng holds Nan Jing Jing''s hand as they turn to the table, where the man already standing on the other side. Long Feng withdraw the Spirit Bronze Coins along with Nan Jing Jing, and place on the table for the man to calculate. But instead, the man only withdraw the two ring on his hand and urge Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing to wear it on their finger. "If you both don''t mind, would you exchange your ring to this senior?" the man says. After the couple agreed with his request, they pass their pair of an old ring to the man, as he respectfully sent the couple out from the store. They later went back to the Bronze Pill Hall, happily walking together while holding hands. The box that used to keep the pair of rings is stored in their Twin Grass Ring, and after Long Feng safety sent Nan Jing Jing back to his room, Long Feng then returns to his room, and withdraw the copy of [Temperament Sutra] and starts to read it. Book 1 Chapter 46 - Temperament Sutra. ============================================== Temperament Sutra [Elemental Tempering] Chapter Creator: Great Elder Ao Luo / Great Elder Yin Kuei / Great Elder Miao Feng Introduction: Elemental Tempering. One of the most crucial Cultivation Stage that every cultivator would need to focus on before they ascend into a higher cultivation tier. The tempering within cultivation is to be treated as "An act to Create a Sturdy Foundation", and to be treated with utmost respect. In the world of Tempering Cultivation, three variant is established, headed and pass down from the previous master of Tempering Cultivation to the next generation, such as yourself. The Variant is differentiated by [Elemental Tempering], [Martial YinYang Tempering], and the [Properties Tempering]. Although all carry the same weight in Tempering Cultivation, yet it carries less than what one should understand unless one walk passes the meaning of all three Tempering Cultivation path. The tempering path is hard, full of difficulties in achieving a single advancement, and yet, once the foundation is built, you are qualified to be unmatched around all peers from the same Tier. =============================================== Chapter 1 - Understanding the Elements In the world of Elemental Tempering, the most basic five Element is divided into Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. The five major Element is also called as [Five Elemental (Wu Xing)]. Metal is Hard, Wood is Calm, Water is Fluid, Fire is Strength, and Earth is Nature. The Five Elemental works all around the world, and for a Pill Masters, nothing is more important than possessing what is the best to your usage. Other than the Major Five Elemental, there is an additional Table of [Minor Five Elemental]. The similarity is comparable to the Differences of Yin and Yang, or the Properties of Firm and Fluid. The Minor Five Elemental is The Wind, Ice, Lightning, Life, and Death. The Wind is free, the Ice is Firm, the Lightning is Destruction, the Life is Light, the Death is demise. In Elemental Tempering, mastering one among this Minor Five Elemental would allow you to create more rebellious creations. Lastly, is the Element of Gods, called as Qian Kun, or Better in the [Elemental Table as Kunlun]. The Kun represents the Yang deep within the Yin Circle, Bearing the Strength of Sky Element, while the Lun represents the Yin deep within the Yang Circle, Carrying the Evilness of Hell Element. Nothing much could be explained from this two element, as they are shrouded with only mysteries that even fellow Sky Elemental rich cultivator might not qualified to understands it. =============================================== Chapter 2 - Tempering Stage Element Affinities came from three different sources. The first is born with innate elemental affinity. Most people could only use one element in life, some two, some three, and the greater is among the fours and the fives. But this doesn''t mean the four or five would be stronger than the one because at the end, it all comes to the main part of Foundation, known as tempering. The second source came in the form of "Lucky Encounters". Throughout the few millennia, some fortuitous encounter had been recorded by not one, but many regarding such happening in one cultivator''s life. Some lucky to be within the [Pure Spring of Element Water Concentration], which if successful in absorbing it, would gain the affinity of Water Element. Some Element like Wood also recorded to grown from a medicinal plant, into a weird variant that upon the bond between the plant and the carer is created, allowing the master to possess the affinity of Element Wood. The most recorded encounters that met by plenty of cultivators, is the appearance of [Heart of Fire], rich in Fire Element, and easily procure from Fire Elemental Beast. Only once, and one time in the record, written with the appearance of [Heaven Clouded Peach]. This fruit provides a great affinity with the Element of Sky, one of the rarest among all in the world. Third, is what we called as Concocted Medicine with great Element Affinities. They could come in the form of Pills, Elixirs, Tonic, and anything we could believe in the form of a medicine. This came from the blessing of the Grain Emperor, Shennong. The earlier generations believe that the Emperor Shennong appears before them, by a dream, by physical, or by unspeakable force, to guide and teach us to concoct such medicine. Within this Continent of Yan, an unorthodox clan called [Turmoil Pill Clan] is believed to be able to concoct a medicine that could increase the chances of obtaining new Elemental Affinities by 1%, and is very widely sought after. This Pill is known as [Turmoil Elemental Dan] and only could be concocted by 10 people in the clan. But before this [Turmoil Elemental Dan] make its appearance, the whole Continent of Yan had plunged into an era of chaos before, because of the appearance of one holy pill known as [Golden Jade Holy Pill]. =============================================== Chapter 3 - the five stage of an element The element is divided into five stage, from their Initial Stage into its Perfection Stage. Each stage is open to master, without being dependent on the base of one cultivation. Achievement is obtained from understanding, knowledge, the stability of the person Foundation, and many more variable situations. From here, onwards, the stage differences are noted down for you, the reader, to understand the differences when forced to face in a battle. Bronze Metal Stage - Iron Metal Stage - Steel Metal Stage - Silver Metal Stage - Golden Metal Perfection Basic Wood Stage - Strong Oak Stage - Heavy Birch Stage - Refined Ivory Stage - Tall Blackwood Perfection Still Water Stage - Clear Water Stage - Flavourful Water Stage - Colourful Water Stage - Pure Water Perfection Orange Fire Stage - Red Fire Stage - Blue Fire Stage - Purple Fire Stage - Five Flavour Flame Perfection Soft Earth Stage - Hard Earth Stage - Rock Earth Stage - Sand Earth Stage - Rich Earth Perfection. The foundation of Elemental Tempering could be seen from the appearance of the Elemental Energy the cultivator releasing. So to understand how strong is your opponent, first look at their Tempering Stage. Continue on below, would be the Minor Five Elemental and its differences. Gust Wind Stage - Storm Wind Stage - Tornado Wind Stage - Cyclone Wind Stage - Typhoon Wind Perfection Freezing Ice Stage - Frozen Ice Stage - Lake of Ice Stage - Sea of Ice Stage - World of Ice Perfection Yellow Lightning Stage - Blue Lightning Stage - Red Lightning Stage - Chain Lightning Stage - Heaven Wrath Perfection Healing Life Stage - Protection Life Stage - Rejuvenation Life Stage - Tempering Life Stage - Minor Soul Perfection Force Death Stage - Act Death Stage - Half Death Stage - Full Death Stage - Death Awakening PerfectionUnlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon. And lastly, is the two different elements in the [Table of Kunlun]. This unknown element is hardly understood, except their first two stages. Brilliant Sky Stage - Clear Sky Stage - Unknown Deadly Hell Stage - Horror Hell Stage - Unknown =============================================== Final Chapter - Conclusions From understanding the three important chapter of this tempering art, I wish that you could apply this knowledge wherever you go and do not be over confident with your own Element Tempering Foundation. Always remember that "There Will be Always a Mountain Taller than the First Tall Mountain." even if you are one of the strongest among your peers, there will be always somebody who could overcome you in the term of Tempering Arts. I wish you best Luck in tempering. THE END =============================================== Finish reading and copying the whole book into a new one, Long Feng slowly rewind the essence behind this [Temperament Sutra] into his head, and tried to apply it into his cultivation. Instead of absorbing a large amount of all different type of Elemental Essence Energy around him, Long Feng force his body to only select the Element Fire and Wood to absorb. He felt his Element Fire is getting stronger, but neither little or too much. Only a speck of hotter temperature could be felt, and nothing else could be seen from this action. But from this mere attempt, Long Feng realized the differences between a built foundation and an unbuilt foundation. The differences, if could already be felt from a speck of hotter temperature by just focusing on absorbing the Element Fire Essence around him, imagine how strong would that be, if he actually tempers it to perfection. Looking at the outside sky, Long Feng already spend more than seven hours in reading and copying the [Temperament Sutra] into a new book. Feeling that he should be giving this book to the elder after he met with his six older brothers, Long Feng decided to take a nap before the sunrise to rest his tired mind. After a few hour of rest, Long Feng wake up to groom himself well, after all, he is going to meet his six older brothers today. Long Feng remembered the special ability of the [Spatial Link Twin Grass Ring], and inject a small amount of Essence into the ring to activate the communication ability. "Jing Jing, are you awake?" Long Feng asked. worrying that he will miss her reply, Long Feng waits for a few minutes before he prepares to walk away. but then, Nan Jing Jing''s voice could be heard from the ring. "Husband, I am together with my Master, is there anything you need to tell me?" Nan Jing Jing''s replies came with a slightly noisy voice from the background. "I just want to say that, I will be on my way to meet my other big brothers. Since you are busy, I will not disturb you for now. When I return later, I will directly go into the closed door training." Long Feng inform her about his intention after meeting his other brothers. "I see, if that''s the case, Husband, I will contact you if possible when you are within the case, good luck and cultivate well." Nan Jing Jing replied. With this assuring word from Nan Jing Jing, Long Feng''s heart could be put at ease, without worrying about how will she thinks when he went into closed door training without notifying her. Long Feng went straight into the Lotus Pond Pavilion and being led into a special mansion that is specially reserved for the group of seven. Although this is the first time Long Feng is within this Lotus Pond Pavilion, their popularity of being one of the preferable meeting places for the cultivators from all over the kingdom is unmatched. Although a few other Restaurant and Pavilions does carry the similar weight, when it is used to be compared with the Lotus Pond Pavilion, they could be only described as "Lack of Luster." Entering the Private Mansion for the brother of seven, Long Feng noticed that he was the last one again this time. his fourth and fifth brother is having an exchange of martial arts, while Wang Ping, Pang Tong, and Lang Ya is busy enjoying their delicious wine especially brought from the Capital. the sixth brother, Yong Yang, is busy reading a piece of scroll instead. "Big brother and others, how do you do for this few days? Xiao Feng is late again, please forgive this unpunctual youngest brother." Xiao Feng greets his brothers as he finished crossing the bridge leading to the middle of the Lotus Pond, where a beautiful hut is decorated with flowers, carvings, written scrolls and pot of plants. "Youngest Brother doesn''t need to be too polite with us. Come and have a cup of tea with us." Pang Tong looked at Long Feng as he invites him to his side for a cup of tea. "Yes. Yes. Skip the formalities with us brothers, if not, we would take it as disrespect." Zhe Bie and Zhe Lie comments as they stopped sparring after Long Feng arrived within their sights. "Your sixth brother is over there polishing his martial arts, so we could ignore him. When the food comes, he will automatically come over like a hungry wolf." Lang Ya points at where Yong Yang is sitting and explains what happen to him when the other brothers are busy talking to each other. "My six older brothers, Xiao Feng will enter a closed door cultivation after this meal tasting session is over." Long Feng wouldn''t want any of his older brothers to have difficulties to look for him, thus he tells them his intention earlier before the meal starts. "I see, it should be around time as well. Since nobody among us is from the Pill Making Field, what we could do is only to provide you with some rough idea about Martial YinYang Tempering, are you interested?" Wang Ping opens up an offer to Long Feng to choose, and he decided to accept it. "Brothers, please guide this youngest brother on the path he should walk along." Long Feng speaks, as he leaps out to the spot where Zhe Bie and Zhe Lie is sparring moments ago. "Hahaha, brother Long Feng is very impatient. Let me come up first. Zhe Lie goes up for the sparring first. as he leaps, a trail of electricity could be seen behind his path, as he quickly reaches before Long Feng. "Brother Long Feng, be careful!" Zhe Bie launches his proudest technique, the [Trail of Thunder Fist]. following from the announcement, a chain of about ten fists appears around Zhe Bie''s initial fist and added with the rumbling sound of lightning, the disturbance became irritable to Long Feng. "Excuse this brother''s guts!" Long Feng said a word of sorry in advance and prepares to launch his series of attack. Treating his palm as a sword, Long Feng launch his series of Defensive Wu Sword Art, as he blocks all ten punches from Zhe Bie. "Good!" Wang Ping and Pang Tong is the first to speaks in that instant, feeling proud of Long Feng''s capability in defending that series of punches. "Brother Zhe Bie, please defend yourself." Long Feng warns before he takes his move, and with a swing, the waves of Offensive Xuan Sword Art rush from his palm and immediately strikes across Zhe Bie''s arms, shoulders, and waist. Even Lang Ya hands shake for a moment, because of the eager to try handling his youngest brother''s attack. but in that instant after receiving the attack, Zhe Bie immediately come out strong in his move, as he charges his Element Thunder Energy, roll it into his Core, and prepare to launch a strong attack. "Xiao Feng, make sure you be careful with this attack!" Zhe Bie shouts. [Mystic Thunder Pillar!] the tower of lightning came down from the sky and acting like a lightning rod, Zhe Bie''s Yellow Lightning surge out from his body as the lightning fork strikes all around the stage. "Long Feng immediately use both palms to cast the same Defensive Wu Sword Art, as the method to deflect all the lightning strikes. but with a bare hand, nothing could defend against a direct lightning strike. Long Feng''s shoulder part to his wrist clothing had all been burnt into ashes as the attack ends. In the same time, his both hand felt numbness all around, preventing him from continuing his next attack. "Xiao Feng, use your Element Wood to wrap around your wrist, the slight effect of wood could remove the numbness from Element Thunder." Pang Tong is the first to guide Long Feng. "Hahaha, Brother Pang Tong already have great experience in fighting against Element Thunder because of our frequency of sparring." Lang Ya laugh as he looked at Pang Tong. "Understood!" Long Feng immediately wrap both of his wrists with his Element Wood energy and reduce the side effect from the lightning strikes. but then, Wang Ping already charge into the fight. "Xiao Bie, Xiao Feng, defend with your full strength." Wang Ping swings his hand above both Long Feng and Zhe Bie''s head, and wave and wave of energy came down to them. [Metal Elemental''s Aeon Wave Palm] unable to receive the attack, both Long Feng and Zhe Bie falls down to the ground, burdened by the strength of "Heavy" with the series of palm attack from Wang Ping. "Brother Wang Ping, Xiao Bie can''t handle it anymore!" Zhe Bie immediately asks for his freedom. Due to the naturality of Metal Element, Zhe Bie''s martial art almost act like the magnet, sucking away all the strength to call Element Thunder into his core. but then, Pang Tong join the fight, releasing a strong Element Wood strength. A feeling of greeneries surrounds the whole stage, and soon, without any notice at all, an all round circle of heavy fist attack could be felt around the whole area within the center of the pond. [Stillness Calmness Motionless Fist Art!] the punch gave everyone except Yong Yang a push backward, with all of them almost falls into the water within the pond, if there aren''t any divider placed around the hut. "Hahaha! Brother Pang''s Wood Elemental strength already reach the Circle Stage!" Lang Ya laughs as he failed to accept the strike. The seven brother continues to spar with each other until the waitress of the Lotus Pond Pavilion already standing all around the hallway before the bridge. it lasts long until one of the supervisors of the Lotus Pond Pavilion speaks. "Seven Gentlemen. I''m afraid if the dish is waiting any longer, it would be not as tasty as when it is piping hot." even from far away, this man could speak with a voice that strong where it could be heard from the middle of the pond, but not hurting the ten waitress with twenty dishes. "Hahaha! Supervisor Ji, your [Voice Transferring Art] is still as good as ever, come, ladies, please serve the dishes!" Wang Ping being the oldest politely greets the supervisor, and allows the waitress to deliver the dishes to the dining table positioned in the middle of the opened air hut. the brothers enjoy their meal, before Long Feng shock the others once again by passing a total of 910 Low-Rank Pills, 1100 Middle-Rank Pills, and 23 Upper-Rank Pills to Lang Ya''s hands. "Xiao Feng, Elder Brother have a request for you." Wang Ping stopped Long Feng from leaving and walks toward his younger brother. "Eldest brother, what could Xiao Feng do for you?" Long Feng turned around and face his big brother. "I have a total of 100 portions of ingredient for Refinement Pellet here, and to be honest, big brother wanted to impress a special lady, so I need some Upper-Rank pills to do it. I wonder could youngest brother try to help this big brother in this matter? you can take up all the other rank pills, and just give me the Upper-Rank one, even if it''s only one or two from that 100 Portions of ingredients." Wang Ping explains his situation for needing Long Feng and his Pill Refining skills. "Of course, Eldest brother can put this matter in my hand!" Long Feng accepted the ingredients, and as he left, he saw his fourth brother and fifth brother is teasing Wang Ping. "Oh, seems like Sister in Law have difficulties in Refining her cultivation." Zhe Bie being the naughtier among the two brothers, speaks. while Lang Ya, the more mature between them, just mentioned a question. "Did Miss Hui''er face difficulties in Refining her Physical Body?" but the question went unanswered. by the time Long Feng went back to the Bronze Pill Hall, the sky already turning dark. but before entering the Thousand Training Formation Cave, Long Feng decided to pay a visit to the Elder before the Tower of Knowledge. Book 1 Chapter 47 - Elemental Soul Crystal. "Godfather! The man that Long Feng met previously in the Mysterious Peak Treasure Store appears within a very ancient, stone hut made by some leftover of plants, and within, he is speaking with an old man that was sitting before a Clay made cooking Stove, and busy preparing the medicine he wished to appears from the Clay Pot on top of the burning charcoal. "Xiao Long, didn''t I tell you before to not speaking too loud whenever you come over to the [Green Emperor Residence]? Keep quiet, or else the others will be disturbed." the old man within the hut softly remind the called Xiao Long, regarding his hasty appearance and loud voice. As his view turned around to his back, Xiao Long looked at the surrounding and noticed that nothing had been awakened by his loud voice, as he returns to his godfather. "Godfather, I saw that Long Feng kid today," he speaks to the old man as if he know Long Feng from a very long time ago. "Oh, did he pass before you, or he actually accidentally stumbles into your shady little shop?" the old man speaks, but his attention still focused on the Clay Pot on top of the burning charcoal. "He actually stumbles into my shop, along with his so called wife. I tested both of their personality, and Godfather, you are blessed to have somebody like him. Although that lady potential is not too bad, if she continues without any guidance, her cultivation most probably will stay at the Peak Master Tier." Xiao Long says. "Godfather, do you need me to pay more attention to him? His improvement is barely there, and on his hand, there is only a total of two pieces of Jadestone with him, if he took this kind of time, he would need double the time to succeed you." Xiao Long continues. "Do not worry, did you forget about this sentence I teach you before? [Friendship First, Foundation Second, Personality Third, Gratitude Fourth, Cultivation Fifth]. Pay attention to what he would like to do next." the old man reminded Xiao Long again on his previous teaching. "Godson will remember Godfather''s word. Godfather, can Xiao Long asked one question?" Xiao Long asks for approval before he asks his questions. "Speak, why not." the old man replies. "Xiao Long couldn''t understand the reason why none of the Green Poison Dragon Emperor came here fully awakens?" he asked the question after taking a look at their surroundings. The location where both of them is located is in the middle of a green colored poisonous water. Around them, at least nine to ten hundreds of Green Poison Dragon Emperor is sleeping or walking away after a long sleep, and went to look for food. Due to their huge body, almost encompassing the whole Clear Jade City with its body alone, the moving speed from each of their action seems to be like delayed by minutes. "This is because the oldest Green Poison Dragon Emperor''s is growing up under my care, so of course, it is within their blood that this old man is their ancestor no matter how many generations is born. Other than that, it is because of this [Green Emperor Residence]. The hay roof is made by the strong and sturdy [Heavenly Yellow Hay] from the North, the walls of this residence are made from the fallen scales of [Heavenly Metal Blood Dragon Lord] that only could be seen in the south. Every furniture you could see is made by the [Saint Blood Clay] that only could be found from the west. The soil below where we stand came from the East, and its called as the [Mysterious Jade Soil]. Lastly, is the candle, charcoal, and other tools are made from the [Lava Wax of Sovereign Mountain] in the center of the world." the old man explains. "If you are amazed by this [Green Emperor Residence], wait until I bring you to the [Blue Sovereign Residence] it would even more surprising." the old man finish his words, as a pill floats from the Clay Pot containing the liquid previously. Slowly floating over to the old man''s palm, he holds the Pill with two fingers, and slowly inspect the quality of the pills. "Hmm, not too bad, not too bad. This is good enough to presents to the tenth rate gods." the old man kept the pills within a wooden box that when opened, a total of five tier of storage could be seen, with around 10 pills already refined and kept inside. "Godfather, you still not yet completed the [Supreme-Rank Prosperity Dan] for the next God and Goddess Gathering Festival?" Xiao Long looked at his godfather and the ten pills within. "Xiao Long, don''t be hasty, there are still five years before the next God and Goddess Gathering Festival, the [Supreme-Rank Prosperity Dan] will be completed by then since it is specially made for his majesty, the Jade Emperor, and her majesty, Jade Empress." the old man speaks. As he turned around and stretch his old body, the old man''s identity is revealed. He is the man that met Long Feng in mind previously, the Emperor of Five Grains, Emperor Shennong himself. "Xiao Long, why did I felt you have something you didn''t tell me?" Shennong looked at Xiao Long as he talks. "Godfather, I don''t want this kid to take too long, so I put some surprises into the box that used to keep the [Spatial Link Twin Grass Ring]." Xiao Long reveals his actions during that fateful day. "Hahaha, I wonder what would that kid do when he sees the surprises. Even trying to give you back is impossible, since your shady little shop always disappeared after you managed to sell something." Shennong chuckle for a few times, as he walked outside the hut. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Disciple Xiao Feng greets elder." Long Feng stops before the elder and greets him. The elder tilts his head up, and take a clear look on this child he just gave advice days ago. "Child, what brings you here today?" he opened his mouth and speaks. "Dear Elder, Xiao Feng managed to refurbish this [Temperament Sutra] and felt that the knowledge shared within really bring this disciple into his knees. The guidance in tempering is wide, and from this book alone, disciple managed to understand the most important part of cultivation for a Pill Master to thread along on his path." Long Feng honestly share his understanding regarding the book he just refurbishes. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. "Since you already understand what I mean, give me the [Temperament Sutra] and also the remaining book." the elder speaks as he lifts his hand, and showing his palm facing up to receive the remaining books from Long Feng. "Elder, did disciple did anything wrong? Please give disciple one more chance!" Long Feng is shocked from the elder''s word. "Hah... I will give you something else instead." the elder chuckles for a bit, and convince Long Feng to return the two remaining books. "Elder, here you go." Long Feng hesitates, but without any choice, he put the two book slowly on the elder''s hand. With a simple gesture, the two books vanished and the elder stands up straight, and make a few stretching action and also a few kick in the air. "Come with me." the elder speaks simple, but instantly when Long Feng hears his word, he quickly followed behind the elder. The two of them walked until the back of the Tower of Knowledge, and with a palm strike, the elder opened the secret entrance hidden between the stone walls. "Come in, and be quiet." the elder makes a reminder to Long Feng so he could follow accordingly. The two of them then pass through a passage lightly lit by some shining crystals, and arrived in a small room, about the size of Elder Tang Wen''s study room. "Elder... What is the reason you bring this disciple here?" Long Feng felt weird with what happening to him. Then, the elder pointed at one of the chairs in the middle of the room, while he went over to a shelf beside a wooden bed, and retrieve something from the shelf. Long Feng seats himself on the chair waiting for the elder to speaks, but in the same time, his eyes look across the room and scan its surrounding. "The material used to craft the furniture here is exquisite, and also the shelf where the elder is looking, is full of books, I wonder did he have many special knowledge books that I could read." Long Feng anticipates the upcoming happening that coming to him, unknown that this is going to be one of the most major changes in his life. "Come here, my child." the elder selects one of the books and turned around to get Long Feng over to his side. "Yes, elder." Long Feng immediately get to the elder''s side, and ready to accept the book the elder holds in his hand. "This is a diagram about how to refine an [Elemental Soul Crystal] for elemental tempering. Although this method of tempering your Elemental strength is not well practiced among Pill Masters, I believe with your capability, it would work well for you." the elder passes a book with some drawings and method of refining an [Elemental Soul Crystal]. "You will learn more if you read the book carefully and understands the recipe. Here, take this five crystal first, treat it as a gift from me." the elder wave his hand and five piece of red colored clear crystal falls into Long Feng''s hand. Even in its idle condition, the crystal still maintains some remnants of Element Fire Essence within, allowing Long Feng to felt impressed with the crystal''s power. "Elder, the disciple does not possess the qualification to accept this five crystals. Please allow Xiao Feng to do something for the elder." Long Feng kneels as he talks. But instead of accepting the crystal back, the elder push it closer to Long Feng''s head. "You already completed two pieces of my works that I already forget a long time ago. If it''s not because of your ability to clearly imitates the barely clear words within the books, I''m afraid this two pieces of work I have, would be wasted and lost when I am gone." the elder explains his intention to give Long Feng the five crystals. Even the book he just gave to Long Feng, is not ordinary book either. It is one of the most sought after book related to Refining the [Elemental Soul Crystal], and with a possibility of refining up to Forth-Grade Crystal, which is usable for Pill Masters in their Elder Tier. "Elder''s works? That means this elder, is the Great Elder Ao Luo?" Long Feng finally know the identity behind this mysterious elder. "Yes, I am the person you are looking for, but let us put aside this issue first, I will teach you the way to use the [Elemental Soul Crystal] efficiently, so listen well." the elder put the matter about his identity aside, and start teaching Long Feng the way to activate the crystals. Since this way of Elemental Tempering is not well known within the crowd among Pill Masters, even the method to use it is barely available in written or guidance. Only a few specific person knows the exact way to activates it, to fully unravel its highest potential during cultivation. First, is the positioning of the Crystals. Although the book in Long Feng''s hand does have the information regarding this, by giving out the lesson directly, helps Long Feng to understand deeper behind its meanings. The First formation, is a Pentagon formation. This formation would only work efficiently if the crystals used is within the Major Five Elemental. By placing five Crystals in each curve within the pentagon formation, tempering crystals would be required to activate the crystals. Ten Lower-Ranked Pills, for activation of one minute, Ten Middle-Ranked Pills for activation of two minutes, and Ten Upper-Ranked Pills for activation of three minutes for each crystal. This means, to activate the formation for one minute, a minimum 50 Pills of related Element would be required. The higher the Grade of the pills used in activation, the more the time double up. Second-Grade pills could last for two, four and six minutes, while Third-Grade pills could last for four, Eight and Twelve minutes. But if the pills used in the tempering process exceed the Grade of the cultivator''s strength, the difficulties to temper the element would be increased in double. Not only the cost of activation is enormous, the grade of the crystals does affect the results of the activation as well. A minimum requirement of a Second-Grade crystal is needed if Second-Grade Pills is used, same to the third, and fourth-Grade. Next, is the purity of the crystals. To refine the crystals, a proper ingredient is needed. An ore of [Crystalline Sand], Ten drops of [purest blood in one kind of Elemental Energy], Ten [Wax from Clear Toad Fruit], a minimal 1% purity of a Dragon kind beast''s [Essence Blood] is required. This means, to refine one single crystal, at least hundred or thousands of dragon bloodline beast will need to be hunted, bleeds, refined, and repeat the process again, until a minimal 1% purity [Essence Blood] is obtained. The Ten drops of [Single Elemental Pure Blood] is easily obtained if sources are good, but sometimes, a certain beast is difficult to even located, not to mention killing. The [Wax of Clear Toad Fruit] is easier to obtains, but the item tends to vary in many qualities, making the gathering harder to successfully collected. But out of all, the piece of ore of [Crystalline Sand] is the most difficult to handled item. The ore possesses the attribute of Earth and a vital piece of ingredient for refining a single crystal. The [Crystalline Sand] easily crumbles in the human touch, and difficult to collect when they scattered to the grounds. Due to its amazing neutral magnetic force that rejects human and beast, collecting this or only could be done with sufficient amount of Elemental Energy, to trap it within an element dome until refining is completed. Although the gathering of the ingredient and preparation is equally hard, the refining process is unexpectedly easy. With all the ingredients is fully prepared, a thorough mixture of everything with a large amount of Elemental Essence will determine their quality and type of Crystal is refined. If the cultivator is an Element Fire affinity cultivator, the crystal would be suitable to accept Element Fire Pills to activate the tempering process. But this is of course if the element of the [Single Elemental Pure Blood] is according to the Element Fire type. Failure is imminent if the cultivator failed to refine the crystal according to the element correctly. Holding all this information in his heads as he went over to the Thousand Training Formation Cave, Long Feng only managed to get a 5th Heaven Room token. But this doesn''t make him felt dejected. Luck comes and goes naturally, and nobody has the way of grabbing it to them. Long Feng entered the room without words, and within, he started with refining the Internal Flame Pill first, and cultivation later. Book 1 Chapter 48 - Refining Internal Flame Pills and Failure of Advancement. Taking his own sweet time in preparing the ingredients by portions and finely arranged them into spots that are easy for Long Feng to reach when needed, Long Feng inject his Element Fire onto the [White Stone Pill Cauldron] and starts preheating the cauldron into its correct temperature. Due to the special Inscriptions within the Heaven Room, Long Feng easily obtains all the Yang Essence Energy he needs without checking on the YinYang Dial. With the Pill Cauldron is ready to use, Long Feng throws three portions of ingredients into the cauldron, starting with the boiling of [Springs from Volcanic Lake]. Instead of using a container like last time, Long Feng easily adjust his flame temperature to suits the need of the boiling springs and starts with his next ingredients, three portions of the [Flame Swallowtail Feathers]. Removing the unwanted threads, Long Feng next step is to prepare the Burning Lemongrass by extracting its essence within. The extracted essence is mixed with a total of 180 threads, as Long Feng continues with his mixing process, making sure the concoction is nicely mixed before he released the concoction into the purified [Boiled Springs from Volcanic Lake]. This time, Long Feng''s result is considered good compared to his first few attempts a month back, when he was just a recent accepted disciple. Long Feng collects the pills from the evaporated [Springs of Volcanic Lake] and calculate the total from his first triple refining. "Hmm, quite good, 20 Lower-Rank and 7 Middle-Rank Pills." Long Feng calculates his total gain from one triple refining and felt satisfied with the results since it yields him a total of 9 pills each portion of ingredients. And with this first success as his momentum, Long Feng continues, again and again, until a full 30 hours is totally used in refining the Internal Flame Pills. 30 hours of refining, a total of 90 attempts by using 270 portions of ingredients. A total of 2430 Pills is successfully concocted. Within the total, Long Feng managed to increase his success rate in producing Middle-Rank pills and managed to cause it to maintain a 40% success rate, with 55% one Lower-Rank and 5% chances of it to become an Upper-Rank Pills. In total, he added a total of 1200 Lower-Rank, 1200 Middle-Rank, and 30 Upper-Rank Internal Flame Pills within his hand. But this amount of pills doesn''t entice Long Feng, and instead of stopping, he continues for the next 30 hours, taking up his total closed door cultivation into a time span of five full days at the moment. Even Nan Jing Jing is feeling restless, but from the resonance of her [Spatial Link Twin Grass Ring], Nan Jing Jing could felt Long Feng''s body strength increased and then reduced, it continues again and again, without any sign of stopping. Long Feng continues, for another five days, making his total training time increased into ten days exactly. With another 60 hours of time invested in the refining process, Long Feng now carries a total of 3620 Lower-Rank pills, 3607 Middle-Rank pills, and 90 Upper-Rank pills. His total usage of ingredients also increases into 811, leaving only 189 portions of ingredients left within his inventory. Struggles to totally finish using all his ingredients, Long Feng decided to refine another 21 hours, and came out with another total of 840 pills of both Lower and Middle Rank, while adding another 21 Upper-Rank Pills. Long Feng know this is the final 9 days before the monthly stipends are distributed once again, so he intends to finish his attempts and leave the cave! "I will prepare the formation now, and temper my cultivation for as much as I could." Long Feng starts arranging the [Elemental Soul Crystals] surrounding him, forming a pentagon shape formation. "I will try with a total of 50 Lower-Rank Internal Flame Pills first!" Long Feng use his essence energy to groups the Internal Flame Pill in one stack above his head, and with a flow of essence energy, the pill''s inner essence is absorbed into the five crystals. Instantly, with the essence from the pill is fully absorbed, a surge of at least five times strong Elemental Fire essence appears within the formation, causing Long Feng to taste the "Flavour" of this one-minute concentration of Element Fire Essence. "Argh!!" Long Feng is thoroughly burning within the formation. Gritting his teeth and struggles to absorb the Flame into his body to temper the Element of Fire within him, Long Feng put all his attention directly into his mind, and try to guide each single wisp of Elemental Fire to thread within his body with unimaginable speed. Long Feng first 15 seconds of elemental tempering comes with a painful struggle, and on his next 15 seconds, he tried hard to lead each single Elemental Fire Essence to thread within his body in a higher speed. On his third 15 seconds, the pores within his whole body are opened, indicating the readiness of accepting the surging amount of Element Fire Essence. And on his last 15 seconds, Long Feng finally able to assimilate the wisp within his body and transfer them from his whole body into his Elemental Essence Storage within his body, just beside the Core. But this one minute of struggle brings unimaginable suffering and challenge to Long Feng. "Luckily I only activate the crystals for one minute. If this goes more than a minute longer, perhaps the unprepared Long Feng will be burnt to crisp, because of underestimating the formation and its strength in summoning all the Elemental Fire Wisp. But this time, Long Feng is well prepared. Since he still has a total of 4410 Lower-Rank Internal Flame Pills, Long Feng decided to used 4400 pills to activates the formation for a total of 88 minutes. "This is really cultivating by using the money!" Long Feng felt the money in his pairs of hand is burning like those ceremonial incense paper. This 4000 Lower-Ranked Pills could yield at least 330,000 Spirit Bronze Coins. But here, he could only use it for not even one and a half hour of elemental tempering. "Ahh... Believe in Great Elder, belief in Great Elder." Long Feng convince himself that Great Elder Ao Luo wouldn''t guide him in a wrong path. Spending around ten minutes to prepare his whole body to accept the incoming Element Fire Wisp, Long Feng activates the crystals and inject 880 pills into each piece of crystals, and same as previously, the Element Fire Wisps appears within the Pentagon formation in an instant, and like an aggressive predator, the wisps charge into Long Feng''s prepared body to help him temper his Element of Fire!The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. "Stay calm, Stay calm!" Long Feng continues to absorb the wisps into his body as he rotates his elemental storage repeatedly until the Element Fire Wisps within started to condense into a deeper red colored flame. The circulations continued, forcing his Elemental Storage Core began to expand and deflates, on and off until the Element Fire Wisps started to flows slower. This situation happened because the time still remains within the crystal''s activation is almost at its limit. But with Long Feng''s current tempering progress is flowing smoothly, Long Feng decides that it would be a fool if he tried to save his cost by keeping his pills unused. "Come, another 4400 Middle-Rank Pills!" Long Feng withdraw 4400 more Middle-Rank pills and activates the crystal formation for another 2 hours and 56 minutes! His absorption continues, with the repeating process over and over again, Long Feng''s Fire Elemental Strength within his body rise in a ridiculous amount of growth, almost reaching the Red Fire Stage. Although Long Feng is yet to enter the Red Fire Tempering, his Element Fire strength is still at least two to three times stronger than a normal Fire Element Cultivator. Long Feng disappointments could be seen from his face when he finishes spending a total of 8800 pills and not still breaking through another stage. Feeling down and moody, Long Feng exits the Thousand Training Formation Cave and went directly to take a shower before anything else. Since it''s already close to three weeks without any shower and changes, even Long Feng himself notice his reek of smells from his sweat. Changing a totally new attire, Long Feng heads towards Nan Jing Jing''s room, and instead of knocking on the door, Long Feng send her a message through the ring and received an instant reply. "Husband, give me few minutes to groom myself, and then I will come out to meet you." Nan Jing Jing replies Long Feng''s calling. Minutes later, a young lady in a violet colored clothing appears from behind the door, and come out with a gentle as a breeze of winds movement. Nan Jing Jing''s attire today is specially chosen because today is the next upcoming meeting with the other brothers once again. This time, instead of Long Feng receiving an invitation, it is Nan Jing Jing who receives it, since Long Feng is in his closed door cultivation during that period of time. And because of Long Feng''s special status, his employment status had been changed into a Pill Contractor. His job is to provide the Myriad Ingredients Pavilion with sufficient amount of pills whenever he received the order, and since he was in Closed Door Cultivation for about 18 days, Long Feng will be required to prepare the pill so he could have a reason for his delay. With the couple reach the Lotus Pond Pavilion once again, the brothers are already gathered in the same center of the pond once again. But this time, after a total of almost three weeks closed door cultivation, Long Feng already managed to turn over into a new leaf. Although his Element Fire is yet to reach the Red Fire Stage, with the increase of two to three times compared to his Element Tempering three weeks ago, Long Feng''s cultivation could be said to leap over a big step. When Zhe Bie saw this youngest brother coming over from the connecting bridge, the same attack is launched once again. [Trail of Thunder Fist!] The lighting fist come charging without any notice! But Long Feng, who already quite understanding about his fourth brother''s attitude, already prepared before hand. With the first coming nearer to his chest, Long Feng''s Element Fire is released, causing a circle of heat covered the spot where the two brothers are competing for their martial arts. The only differences this time, is Zhe Bie is cornered when Long Feng applies his [Xuan Wu Heavenly Art] as he moves around looking for Zhe Bie''s weak point. "Brother in Laws, please forgive this wife of your brother to participates as well." Nan Jing Jing raises both of her hand, preparing to launch a heavy and formidable attack. [Qian Kun Big Shift!] Nan Jing Jing''s Early Human Adept Tier strength is cast out, but the bearing of the energy is comparable to an Early Earth Adept Tier cultivators. This attack contains quite an amount of Element Earth and Metal Essence within, thus the results of this attack managed to alter the gravity around the attacker. With her attack successfully launched, Long Feng and Zhe Bie already trapped within the zero gravity attacking range. "Little Sister in Law is strong as expected, please allow third brother Lang Ya to exchange a few pointers." Lang Ya rush to the spot of the fight and prepares to exchange a few strikes as well. Once again, the seven brothers, this time with their youngest sister in law, is brawling again in the middle of the pond. This time it even caused the waitress to chuckle as they saw how messy the situation of this eight person is entangled with. Soon after exchanging a few pointers with each other, Long Feng introduce Nan Jing Jing to the six older brothers. "I wouldn''t believe that our youngest brother is the earliest to get married!" Wang Ping is the first to says, after all, he is the oldest brother among the seven of them, and he has been pursuing a young miss from a family for a very long time. But for Long Feng, he only knows that person called Miss Hui''er. The gathering ends after the meal and desserts is served, for Long Feng, this is also the last time to meet with his five brothers as all of them will be returning to their respective city after being absent for so long. Especially Lang Ya, who came over to the Clear Jade City for the purpose of heavily purchasing good quality Thunder Spirit Pills. Meanwhile, for Yong Yang, he will return to the Bronze Martial Hall as their upcoming martial competition will come soon. "Eldest brother, I will deliver the Refining Pellets if I managed to refine any of the Upper-Rank Pills." Long Feng thanks his eldest brother for the guidance and also some pointers in the martial arts topic. "Do not worry about it, oh before I forget, here, take this box of gift, every brother has the same gift, so there is no unfair treatment to everyone." Wang Ping passes a box containing ten good quality [Jade Ginseng]. "Younger brother, this Ginseng is very helpful in cultivation, plus you are a Pill Master, so refining this extract into a pill would boost your cultivation further." Wang Ping explains the specialty of the Jade Ginseng and bids farewell to the brothers after all the kind words had been spoken and heard. Book 1 Chapter 49 - Preparing for a trip to Thunderburst Jade City. The couple makes another trip towards the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion, as Long Feng is in need of some ingredients. But with only 10,000 Spirit Bronze Coins in his pouch, Long Feng has no choice but to temporary borrow from Nan Jing Jing. Since Nan Jing Jing shares a same Spatial Storage with Long Feng, she allows Long Feng to withdraw any amount of coins required, as long it could help Long Feng in purchasing the materials he needed. But when Long Feng checked for the total amount of the ring, his jaw dropped. "Wife, what is with this amount of money? It is around 5 million Spirit Bronze Coins in here! And what are that 5 pieces of Silver Coins?" Long Feng immediately asked Nan Jing Jing for an answer. "Oh, that money is for our... Wait, husband, repeat your second question again?" Nan Jing Jing is stunned with Long Feng''s questions. "Errm... I asked about what is that five Silver Coins?" Long Feng speaks his question once again. "Husband! That''s the Spirit Silver Coins! It''s worth a total of 1 Million Spirit Bronze Coins each, I prepare it for backup, in case we met some treasures that really important." Nan Jing Jing explained the worth of the piece of Spirit Silver Coins within the Spatial Ring. "If in that case, can I temporary use the money to buy some ingredients?" Long Feng asked. As Nan Jing Jing sees how charming is her husband when requesting for her help, she quickly agreed, before falling into his chest to get a compensation hug. The couple waited for a short while within the Pavilion, and Long Feng ends with purchasing a total of 1000 portions of Internal Flame Pill''s ingredients once again. But this time, a few additional herbs are purchased at the same time. Long Feng remembered a special pill recipe that he stumbles across when he was searching for the scrolls related to the Pill Refining experiments. Long Feng did open the recipe for a fun reading, but only today he suddenly felt that this pill could obtain a good price if he put it into the House of Miraculous Jade. Since Long Feng still remembered the Ingredients listed within the recipe, Long Feng purchased a total of 100 portions of ingredients, and spent a total of 50,000 Spirit Bronze Coins on this 100 portions of ingredients, and also another 50,000 Spirit Bronze Coins on the Internal Flame Pill''s Ingredients. "Husband, what pills are you going to concoct? That pills actually need 10 type of herbs and cost 500 Spirit Bronze Coins to purchase its raw ingredients." Nan Jing Jing couldn''t help and tried to pry into this pill Long Feng wanted to refine. "Wife, I''m not so sure as well, but I remember stumbled across this pill''s Ingredients when I''m looking for related books regarding Pill Refining." Long Feng has no idea what is this pill could do, but from the 10 type of ingredients it required, Long Feng trust that this Pill most probably not widely seen in the market. "If that''s the case, you must let me read about it when you finished reading, I wanted to know about it too. Husband, I will take interest from you for borrowing my money, so... How about you give me 1 Pill each single day as your interest?" Nan Jing Jing getting cheeky and starts to get into a condition with Long Feng. But he agreed nevertheless because Long Feng knows that this is how Nan Jing Jing make herself happy. The couple returned to the Bonze Pill Hall later at evening, after enjoying a good walk around the town and outside of the nearby park. Heading directly into the Thousand Training Formation Cave after grabbing the scroll from the Study Room, Long Feng once again obtained a Heaven Room once again. He entered the cave to immediately starts his research on the recipe. ========== Ten-Ingredients Fierce Tiger Pill [Substitute Version from the Original Emperor Tiger Pill] Usage: Cultivation-3 / Healing-3 / Enhancement-4 Ingredients: Phosphor Flower Seven Needle Flower Volcanic Pinecone Spring Lake Pinecone Lightning Tiger Grass Red Blood Grass Blood Refining Fruit Exploding Yin Fruit Clear Toad Fruit''s Wax Fierce Dragon Tongue Plant''s Wax Refining Methods: Extract all the essence from the Ingredients, mixing the flower with flower, Pinecone, grass, fruits, and wax accordingly before all five different essences are cooked with low-temperature fire. With the five essences reach their boiling temperature, inject a large amount of elemental essence into each concoction, and keeping the same temperature until the purity of each concoction reaches its peak. In one attempt, mix all five concoctions altogether to create a final product, before the portioning attempt is conducted. Fire up the cauldron at the last moment, and refine the pill for the last time until the pill is formed. Results heavily depend on the purity and initial amount of the ingredient''s extract. Results: If normal Ingredients is used, the chances of successfully refining a Lower to Middle-Rank is higher, while Upper-Rank chances are lower. If good ingredients are used, the chances of refining Upper-Rank pills would increase by around 10%, higher quality ingredients would increase yields of higher rank pills by a significant amount. Recipe by: Regal Medicine Hall Refined and studied by: Tang Wen ========== As he completely studies and understands the recipe, Long Feng starts his practice. Without igniting the fire to the cauldron, Long Feng began with each single steps, using the ingredients accordingly. This is the first step, using the direct ingredients within the cauldron unlit of fire, to obtain the results and also the smoothness of each flow. The next moment, Long Feng replaced the raw ingredients with ten different drops of water, as replacement of each type of ingredients. He mixes the ten drops of water together in the arrangement of two together into one, and come out with five drops of water. Next, Long Feng imitates the action of cooking the essence by igniting the fire evenly below each drop of water. His controls of the fire are unstable, thus Long Feng repeats this procedure for four times, wasting a total of almost an hour. On his fifth tries, Long Feng finally managed to make sure all five drops of water is entering its boiling condition before he mixes all of them together into one single concoction. Long Feng then maintain his concentration into its limit, slowly portioning the concoction to form a few drops of concoctions. With the portioning is a success in his first try, Long Feng then starts igniting his Orange Fire Stage''s Element Essence to fire the Concoction until they evaporate. Treating the evaporating part as the successful forming attempts, Long Feng began his test by using one portion of ingredients first.This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it. "Wood Element! Freshen the ingredients!" "Fire Element, Fire the Cauldron!" the fire Element gathered in the middle of the cauldron, and as the heat within increased to its limit, a sharp ringing sound could be heard from all six directions around the cauldron. "Essence touch, Starts refining the ingredients within the cauldron!" Long Feng puts all the freshen up ingredients into the cauldron, and extract the essence all at a time. With the essence liquid is obtained, Long Feng starts his next step, mixing the flowers with flowers, Pinecones with Pinecones, the grass, the fruit, and the wax. With the ten extract combined into five, Long Feng starts adjusting his Fire Essence into its lowest temperature, and slowly cooks the five extracts. But practice and reality are always have its differences, as Long Feng first try results into three among five extracts evaporated from within the cauldron. "I can''t believe that the amount of essence extracted from each ingredient is different! If that''s the case, I will need to adjust the size of fire, and strength of fire to make sure that all the extracts are cooked at the same time!" Long Feng realized his mistakes, as he tried once again. This time, he reached the step of cooking the extract very quickly, but due to the difficulties to manage the size and shape of the fire, Long Feng failures increased from one to five, and on his tenth portion of ingredients, Long Feng finally succeeds getting past this stage. With each extract is cooked into perfection, Long Feng mix all of the extract into one single concoction, and start portioning them as he sees fits. With the portioning attempt is a success, Long Feng actually underestimate the ingredients and also overestimate his capability! Long Feng''s each practices results always came out to a total of around four to five drops of the concoction before he does his final firing, but in his first attempts, the portioning actually came out barely enough for one pill! Without any choices, Long Feng fires the concoction to form a pill, and as the Pill Forming step is a success, Long Feng first refining results in a Lower-Rank [Fierce Tiger Pill]. Since in his mind, this Pill is barely reaching his minimal demands, Long Feng have an urge to destroy the pill in his hand, until the mindset is disappeared from his head when Nan Jing Jing''s voice could be heard from the ring. "Husband, are you busy refining the pills? If you do, you can ignore me." but Long Feng replied her immediately. "Wife, I''ve done a few practices before I started the refining, but I wasted nine portions of ingredients, and this tenth portions managed to only yield a barely Lower-Rank pill." Long Feng disappointment could be heard and imagined when Nan Jing Jing heard his voice. While she was thinking about how to motivates her beloved husband, Long Feng remembered something. "Wife, the recipe is within the Spatial Storage, you can take it to have a look, this pill is called as [Fierce Tiger Pill] by the way." "What! Fierce Tiger Pill? If this recipe is indeed the [Fierce Tiger Pill] father mentioned before, then It is indeed worth the price for that ingredients! Husband, give me the successful pill, I will ask Elder Huang and Elder Guang to check it! Uncle Huang! Uncle Guang!" as Nan Jing Jing finished her words, a shout could be heard from the other side of the ring, where it seems like Nan Jing Jing already went to call for the elders. Obediently, Long Feng stored the Pill into the Spatial Storage, and continue with his next refining attempts. A few hours later, Long Feng had already finish refining a total of 20 more portions of ingredients, and within the twenty attempts, ten of them failed to pass the cooking stage, while two failed to form the pills on the final firing. The eight remaining pills only managed to remain in their Lower-Rank, with only one among them is in an acceptable condition. Long Feng''s confidence started to get lower, as he continuously failed for so many times, but then, Nan Jing Jing calling came in. "Husband!" Nan Jing Jing simple words caught his attention. Since he was on his rest, Long Feng replied her calls. "Wife, I''m here, anything important?" in that instant when Nan Jing Jing heard his replies, Elder Huang immediately came between them. "Little Brat! This Pill is exactly the [Fierce Tiger Pill] we''ve seen before ten years ago at least when our Great General Nan taken one to recover his injuries. But honestly, this Pill is nowhere as good as what we remembered." Elder Huang comments because this significant Pill did once save Nan Gong Yu''s life during one of the fiercest fights between them with the now destroyed Iron Ox Stronghold that used to be the operation base for the Iron Ox Bandits, once terrorizing the whole west state of Brilliant Jade Kingdom. "Kid, our lady did withdraw one portion of the ingredients for us to have a look. Do you want to know what we would like to comments?" Elder Guang gave Long Feng a small hint, but not so direct that it would hurt Long Feng''s confidence. "Elder please tell, Xiao Feng is all ears." Long Feng prepares to listen to Elder Guang''s opinion. After all, Elder Guang has been living for around 80 years at least, in the experience of meeting and understanding herbs and medicine, even Long Feng wouldn''t dare to underestimate Elder Guang''s knowledge. "Since that''s your replies, listen well." Elder Guang had Long Feng prepare his ears. "I''ve seen the ingredients, although my knowledge in the medicinal properties is not as good as you people from the Pill Hall, in my 75 years within this Wulin, the ingredients such as [Volcanic Pinecone] and [Spring Lake Pinecone] had already lost their specialties. This [Volcanic Pinecone Tree] used to be at least twenty meters in height and protected by the proud [Magma Fanged Wolf] packs. The beast ate the pine cones that''s falls from the tree after the seed successfully burst out from the ripe pinecone. Now, how is this ingredient is cultivated? The tree had been domesticated, and used human processed Volcanic Ash and fertilizer to enhance its growth. If you ask me to eat something medicine produced by using these products, I wouldn''t think twice and would rather throw them away instead." Elder Guang starts speaking about his point of view, and some experience he had in the past. Elder Guang continues with the [Spring Lake Pinecone], and next on the [Red Blood Grass] and the [Blood Refining Fruits] until he finally finished expressing his opinions. With this much of explanation regarding the ingredients Long Feng is using in his pill refining, Long Feng felt a slight disappointment. It is not about the recipe, his skills, or even his results or efforts. What disappointing to Long Feng, is his mindset about choosing and refining the best pill, from using the best ingredients! Without noticing this important matters, Long Feng actually skipped the part where he should be using only the best and most suitable ingredients from his personal research, and not through remembering the recipe alone. "I''ve disappointed my master''s effort in me. How could I actually be satisfied and becoming less demanding in refining the pills I wanted?" Long Feng felt like a cold bucket of water poured on his head, waking him up from the previously fake confidence created by his success in refining some pills. He calms himself for a moment and speaks. "Wife, I''m sorry for making you worried. This overconfidence air around me will be gone and remain no longer with me! From this moment onwards, I will strive to improve myself, and not be drowning myself in praises and satisfaction from my mere results!" Long Feng make a statement and promised Nan Jing Jing and himself that he wouldn''t take pill refining as an easy task ever again. The next issue is explained by Nan Jing Jing immediately after Long Feng finished his words. "Husband, the House of Miraculous Jade makes a statement to every neighboring city this morning, even our Clear Jade City received twenty-one copies. Within the statement, it''s said that due to the appearance of a special treasured medicinal pill within the auction, the House of Miraculous Jade decided that they will postpone the Auction by one more month, which is 32 days from now. Other than that, they did have an additional 10 spot for precious treasures to be brought in for them to help auction it out. Husband, since you are refining such an amazing pills, why not you try to obtain one of the spot to auction your pills? This would make your name sound across the Brilliant Jade Kingdom." "This is a good news! I will make use of this remaining 32 days efficiently, and come out with high-quality pills that will make the auctioneers and the buyer dropped their jaws from the shock!" Long Feng found his new confidence once again before his word come next. "Wife... Can your husband be so thick face to ask you to support me for a while longer?" when Nan Jing Jing heard about this, she felt wanted to burst into a laughter. Controlling herself from laughing, Nan Jing Jing voice becomes shaking as she tried to reply. "Husband, of course, you can, my future husband needs a capital, and this dear wife, of course, could provide it. Don''t forget the word of the wise elders, [Each successful Man in his life, always supported by a wiser woman behind him]." Nan Jing Jing said yes to his request, and reminds him about the sentence once talked by the elders to their children. "Since I would need to get new ingredients this time, wife, I will come out tomorrow, and the next day, after receiving the stipends, lets us head to my parent''s house and pay a visit to my mother!" Long Feng blurted his word out without any notice and gave Elder Huang and Elder Guang a shock. "Meeting his parents! Young Lady, had you two proceed into this much by now?" Elder Guang is the first one to questions. But instead of answering the elders, Nan Jing Jing just gave them a smile and said yes to Long Feng. With this concern is all solved, Long Feng stopped his Pill refining and start cultivating for another day, before he exits the Cave and prepares to go home after receiving the stipends. Book 1 Chapter 50 - Unfortunate. Losing both Mother in a same day. With the stipends collected, Long Feng felt slightly richer in hand. Although it is not difficult to refine Cultivation Pellets at his current level, since the specialty of this Pill is only in the most common rank, Long Feng felt it would be more time worthy if he uses the time to refine Tempering Pills or Other Special Pills. Last night when Long Feng exits the cave, he went over to the study room once again and managed to found two more special recipes within the book shelves, as if his master purposely leave the recipe there for Long Feng to read and managed himself. "Before master went for his trip, he did mention that I should take a look and study the books here, in case I met with any obstacles or in need of anything. I hope master is well over there in the Xuan Wu Jade City." Long Feng worries his master safety as he roughly heard about the situation in the Xuan Wu Jade City as well news related to the Taming Beast School. Actually, after the period when Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing is trading over the Blood Refinement Pellets to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion, Nan Jing Jing already noticed the "Blankness" of her beloved husband''s head, and drills all the important information into his head every single day they were together. Within the Brilliant Jade Kingdom, a few powerhouse managed to make their name sounds everywhere within the Brilliant Jade Kingdom. Firstly, is a total of three School, the Beast Taming School, the Heaven Ascension School, and the Profound Herb School is known well within the whole kingdom because of their respective strength in Beast Handling, Cultivation Burst, and Medicinal Refining. Although the Three Halls is well established throughout the whole kingdom, almost could be seen in each cities, but no matter how well they expand, almost all of them is within the Bronze Tier, and only two Silver Pill Hall, one Silver Martial Hall, and two Silver Culture Hall is available within the whole kingdom. Even all the respective hall combined into three gigantic force, they would still barely strong enough to match the three school''s strength that recently entered the Late Silver Hall Tier. If one would make a comparison. A Bronze Hall required a total of ten times stronger in term of Resources and Strength before they could enter the tier of Silver Hall. And in the Silver Hall, three Hall stages is applied. The Early Silver Hall, which possesses wealth and power at least worth of ten to twenty Bronze Halls. The Late Silver Hall, they possess the wealth and power at least above 50 Bronze Halls, and lastly, the Peak Silver Hall, which possesses the wealth and power of 100 Bronze Halls. But even this is barely enough for them to entered the Early Gold Hall Tier, for a gold hall requirement is to be strong enough be compared with at least 5 Peak Silver Hall. This is also unfortunate for the Brilliant Jade Kingdom because of their limited resources, land and also genius cultivators. The next after the three schools and three halls is the three sect and the three clans. The three sect is respectively known as Xuan Wu Sword Sect, Wen Ren Sect, and Jade Maiden Sect. The Xuan Wu Sword Sect is recently destroyed with its closest ally, the Mystery Water Sect, this means a new superpower will come up to the three sect position soon. While for the three clans, it is known to be the Tang Clan, the Turmoil Pill Clan, and the Yang Clan. The remaining Wen Ren Sect is known for their doctrine of [Helping Each Other in Need], where it made the sect member is accepted wherever they go. While for the Jade Maiden Sect, their mysterious location, places, and martial arts are all hidden from the public, but without any comparison, each single disciple from the Jade Maiden Sect possessed city destroying beauty, and could make men go crazy wherever they appear. Between the three clans, the Tang Clan is the one with the quickest growth, because of their current Clan Leader, Tang Shiwu. The Turmoil Pill Clan rarely appears in public, but sometimes some of their disciples, elders are well known within some part of cities, because of their crazy purchasing ability. Within the Statement received by Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing from the House of Miraculous Jade, there will be two Pills is placed in the auction, and came from the Turmoil Pill Clan. The Yang Clan is retired, and hardly participates in any of the disturbance within the kingdom, but this doesn''t mean that the clan is weaker by somehow. This Clan still mysterious from all public eyes, due to their insane amount of wealth, and naming the land they own, the Yang Clan State. The Yang Clan State possessed a numerous amount of wealth hidden within, and have the land wide enough to cramp five cities within. Other than this, the other remaining small power is nowhere needs to mentions, but Nan Jing Jing did advise Long Feng to not underestimate any of the smaller family or bands because there will be always a bigger clan behind the biggest one. With the stipends in hand, the couple went back to Long Feng''s home. The couple took about an hour to reach, because of some random rest and shopping around the town before they reach the outskirt. To presents her gratitude, Nan Jing Jing prepared a basket of fruits and precious ingredients, while Long Feng is holding a new set of clothing specially bought for his mother. As the couple reaches their destination, Long Feng is shocked with what happening in front of him. Two black robe assassins are attacking Long Feng''s mother, Lan Hua and one more is fighting in equal position with Hong Yue. "Stop your attack at once! How dare you bully my mother!" Long Feng withdraw his Qian Kun Sword and immediately charge towards the two assassins attacking his mother. "Xiao Feng, you are not their match! They are Early Earth Practitioner Tier cultivators!" Lan Hua panic as she saw her child charge in without any caution. Having no other choices, Lan Hua proceed to launch a deadly attack to their attackers. [Raining Petals of Blooming Orchid!] Surges of petal like sword essence appears all around the open place before the house entrance and trapped everyone within the circle. But to Long Feng, Nan Jing Jing and Hong Yue, these petals is nothing more than a pillow of orchid''s petals running through them. But for the assassins, these petals meant harm! They are thoroughly injured and wounds could be seen anywhere around them. One of the assassins wished to call for a retreat, but unfortunately, he wouldn''t have a chance to say so. The three assassins, two in the front and one on the back, while busy defending themselves from the petal-like sword essence, the one on the back actually sacrifice the other two just to disrupt the situation to allows him to escape. "Mu Lan Hua! Your position is already marked by the Shadow Gate! Even you managed to survive today, how about tomorrow? There will be more assassins coming for your head soon, just you see!" the lone assassin leaves a message as he escapes from the open area, and throws two pellets to the dead assassins. As the two pellets landed on the corpses, an explosion triggered, and a corrosive volatile substance flows out from the corpses instead of red blood. Within the time span of fifteen seconds, the two corpses had already corroded into an unrecognizable piece of rotten meat, even the clothing had been corroded into pieces. "Mother, what happened? And your cultivation? It is even higher than Jing Jing, is that your real strength? Hong Yue, why are you here instead of home? I was thinking that you might be outside training!" Long Feng couldn''t control himself as he saw too much happening at the same time, but on the same time, Nan Jing Jing came over to his side to do something even Lan Hua will do. "One Knock to the Head!" Nan Jing Jing smacks her punch on Long Feng''s head, calming him down. With Long Feng quiet down, all of them walked into the house without any words, in addition, the two elders appeared as well, entering without invitations. "Alright, sit down, I guess this time I suppose I needed to tell you the truth." Lan Hua invites everyone to take a seat, as she gets ready to start talking. "Son, remember that mother told you that I will explain everything to you when you come back?" Lan Hua questions and the obedient Long Feng nodded his head. "If I would have to start, It should be around twenty years ago, when your father and I are still active in the Wulin."Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road. "Twenty years ago, I and your father get to know each other by fate. He was the best assassin in the Shadow Gate, nicknamed Death Judge. Meanwhile, your mother and your aunt are traveling together, after we obtained the approval from our elder that we could go out to get some experience before we return to the Heavenly Blossom Empire. My real name is Mu Lan Hua, and your father''s real name is Li Tian Xin. After marrying him, I changed my name into Li Lan Hua to indicates that I''m married. Your aunt, her name is... Mu Mei Hua." Lan Hua starts until Nan Jing Jing interrupts. "What! My mother''s name is Mu Mei Hua!" Nan Jing Jing expresses her shocking expression after listening to Lan Hua''s story. "Yes, your mother, my sister, is the current wife of the great general Nan Gong Yu. You could ask for the confirmation from Elder Guang and Elder Huang to proof my story." Lan Hua replies Nan Jing Jing''s word. As Nan Jing Jing turned around to look at the two elders, both of them nod their head in the same sequence, indicating the story is exactly how she says. In between of the period me and my sister exploring around the Brilliant Jade Kingdom, we accidentally angered a high ranking official, and cause him to hire the Shadow Gate to assassinate me and my sister. But the person sent by the Shadow Gate that time, is your father, Li Tian Xin." "We fought for exactly two days two night and felt amazed by each other''s martial art technique. After resting, we fought for another five days five night continuously and felt in love with each other. Your father left the Shadow Gate, and I chose to remain within this kingdom for eternally. Meanwhile, your aunt had already meet Nan Gong Yu by that time, and falling in love with each other as well." "We traveled around the kingdom, and although under heavy pursue from the Shadow Gate, we are happy. Until then, I have you in my womb. That is the happiest time in our life. But a few years later after you were born, the Shadow Gate managed to found your father''s trails, and in their tricks and your father''s lack of cautiousness, he falls into the Shadow Gate''s most dangerous poison, [Spiritual Prison Powder]. Once in contact, one will have no other alternative way to absorb any elemental energy, thus your father falls into the hand of the Shadow Gate, and I bring you to hide, laying low until you grow up." "That is also a few years later, you actually healed Nan Jing Jing from her poison, and both elders managed to found me. After I met with my sister and I explained her about my situation, we agreed to not help or expose each other, so our life remains low profile. But I would never dare to imagine, today you actually bring my sister''s daughter here to tell me you are actually engaged?" Lan Hua finished her story and stares at both of them. "Aunt... I''m not sure that what I should call, but... I love Long Feng, please give us your blessing!" Nan Jing Jing speaks, giving Lan Hua a surprise. But she quickly calms herself down and replies Nan Jing Jing''s request with a question to Long Feng. "Son, what do you think about her?" She asked. "Mother, Xiao Feng dare not to say I am well experienced in love, neither in a relationship either. But... I can''t live without Jing Jing by my side either. If I would lose her in future because I never fought as I should, I will regret this for life, and even haunts by my Internal Demon during cultivation." Long Feng honestly replies. When the two elders heard what Long Feng just said, they appeared to have a very satisfying effect to both of them. After all, Nan Jing Jing practically grows under the supervision of this two elders, and almost more important than their own grandchild and the great grandchildren. This is how heavy is Nan Jing Jing''s effect to both elders. And on Lan Hua''s side, she is totally satisfied as well, because her only child had finally grown to stand up on his own feet. Possessing great Elemental Affinity towards Wood, Fire, and Sky since birth, well nurtured, filial and loyal towards parents, masters, and friends, Knowledgeable, hardworking, persistent in achieving what he wants in life, straightforward, honest and lastly, dependable and without a sense of despise towards unfortunate others! This is also the proof that her effort of struggling from the moment Long Feng is born, and grow up until now, is finally bearing its fruit of success! "Lady Lan, the amount of your effort finally bears its fruit, a very amazing one instead!" Elder Huang praises Lan Hua for her amazing teaching to Long Feng since young. "Elders, yours as well." returning the gestures, Lan Hua reminded the elders that their efforts are a success as well, where this two potentially good youngsters are finally attached to each other. But then, a voice could be heard from outside. "Envoy from the Royal Mu Clan has arrived! Mu Family bloodline appears at this instant!" the voice sounds all four directions within the room, almost forcing each piece of wooden planks to fall off from its main support. The elders lead the way to the outside, follows by the couple, and Lan Hua. As Lan Hua saw the person in the middle with his golden robe and red scarf, Lan Hua immediately kneeled on both knees and returns the greeting while pulling Long Feng to follows her. "Mu Lan Hua and her only child Mu Long Feng pay their respects to the Royal Mu Foreign Delegate." when she pays her greeting, even Long Feng''s surname is changed into one of the Mu''s. "Hmph! At least you are still sane enough to remember our rules." the delegate swings his palm once, and from a spatial opening, Lady Mei, or Mu Mei Hua, falls down from the portal. "Mother!" Nan Jing Jing is the first to be stunned with this happening. "Why is Lady Mei here, what happens to the General Mansion!" the two elders are not from Heavenly Blossom Empire, thus they have no idea on how strong is this delegate. The two elders make their move! Nan Jing Jing makes her step to lift her mother from the ground and felt a twinge of pain in her heart from her mother''s disheveled features. She takes a look up to where the delegate and the elders are going to start a fight, but what comes next, is worst than a nightmare. A time span from looking on her mother and lifting her head to look at the fight is what it takes for the delegate to defeat both elders. When Nan Jing Jing managed to complete her lifting head action, both elders already complete their falling to the floor and vomiting two mouthfuls of blood. "Insignificant! Even that general and his four helpers couldn''t touch the edges of my robe, and you two actually dare to dream about it? This will make a lesson to you both to understands the difference between your puny kingdom compared to our Heavenly Blossom Empire''s strength!" the delegate simply increase his cultivation strength, and an Early Human King Tier cultivation burst out from where he stands, and in the diameter of 1km, all houses are destroyed no matter they are built with stones, woods or even clays! "Mu Lan Hua, Mu Mei Hua, under the order of the Royal Mu Clan Head, Clan Master Mu Ling Sen, you both are to be dragged home to receive your tribulations!" the delegate explains the reason he is here. "Please, delegate, you may bring me, but let me leave a word to my child for last time." Lan Hua begged for a mercy from the delegate, while Lady Mei making the same request as well. "In the world, no parents wouldn''t love their child. I am a father as well, you may leave your final words, in ten breath time, I will forcefully drag you both away! Cherish your ten breath of time!" the delegate finished his words as he turns around to look at the skies. Lady Mei went over to her beloved daughter... "Jing Jing, do not come to find mother in Heavenly Blossom Empire unless you have the cultivation of a King Tier. Remember mother''s treasure box? Open it and give the pills inside to your father and four uncles, so their cultivation wouldn''t be affected. It would heal them from any old and new injuries as well. The book within is the cultivation method of your mother, take a look and learn as much as you could. You know mother love you, right?" "Five more breath!" the delegates reminds. On the same time... "my child, my beloved child... Mother will be away from you soon, you must not come to find me until you are in King Tier cultivation. Remember what mother teach you since young? Always remember that, and use it when you cultivate, it would help you to defeat your internal demon, and allows you to grow stronger as time pass. Do not worry, the Clan Master Mu is me and your aunt''s father. He won''t kill us or anything, so just keep growing stronger, and do not let the common world to sway you from your cultivation." "Times Up!" the delegate release his King Tier cultivation, and forcefully lifting both women as he walked away. In just a blink of eyes, the shadow of the three went missing from their sights. The two elders immediately hold Nan Jing Jing''s hand as they leave, since Long Feng should know the importance as well, he could only allow the three leave as well, while staring at his destroyed house. "This is the place me and mother are living for ten full years. But now, only in a mere second, it is destroyed until not even the rubbles could be seen." Long Feng is blaming himself for being so weak, but he knows, with the cultivation and the strength of one power called [Empire], it is normal that even the same generation or older would possess at least double the cultivation strength compares to those from a [Kingdom]. Long Feng remains on the spot until the next morning, only he decided to walk towards the inner part of the city. within his hand, a ring is tightly gripped between his palms and fingers. Book 1 Chapter 51 - Twelve-Ingredients Tiger Stripes Soul Pill. "Brother Han Geng, can I purchase a few specific Item, and they need to be of a certain quality." Long Feng went into the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion and proceeds to the counter to talk to Cashier Han Geng. But as he looked at Long Feng''s despair expression, he decided to do something else. "Brother Long Feng, come with me to a special room. Your status is different from previously, let us go into the private room and we could slowly discuss the item in need." Cashier Han Geng leads Long Feng into a Private Room, and at the same time, sent messages to Elder Yongheng Zhiya for his appearance. Noticing the difference in Han Geng''s action, Elder Yongheng immediately make his way without delay into the private room and prepares to initiate a word with Long Feng. "Young one, what brings you here today?" the elder nicely speaks with Long Feng after he noticed the different facial expression Long Feng is wearing. Then, Long Feng stands up as he faces the elder, and start talking. "Dear Elder, Xiao Feng is here for two issues." Long Feng speaks. "Go ahead and let this old man knows about it." Elder Yongheng always carries the confidence in Long Feng because of the attitude he brings always positive, dependable and convincing. But when he heard about Long Feng''s intention here is for two issues, even himself felt that this should be attended with care, without a single mistake! This is how important is Long Feng to the Elder Yongheng. "Elder, Xiao Feng first wish to ask for forgiveness on the delays again and again on the production of [Blood Refinement Pellet]. Xiao Feng would be participating in the upcoming Auction in the House of Miraculous Jade and is in the middle of refining a special pill to join into the auction. This is also where the second issues are related. Xiao Feng wishes to obtain a few specific ingredients, and they should be all in its best grades." Long Feng finish explaining his current "situation" to the Elder and hope that he could receive some support from the Elder. "Young one, you know... Throughout my time serving as an Elder of this Myriad Ingredient Pavilion, I''ve never seen anyone as talented and persistent like you. I like the way you speak, and also your dependability. Do not worry about the [Blood Refinement Pellet] for now and focus on your special pill first. After all, the future of every Pill Masters is to successfully refine the Pill they always dream of." Elder Yongheng assures Long Feng that the delay of [Blood Refinement Pellet] wouldn''t affect his trustworthiness towards the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. In the same time, Elder Yongheng announces his support on Long Feng''s special Pill refining matter and gave Cashier Han Geng an order that procuring the important ingredients should come first for Young Master Li. "Elder, Xiao Feng in need of hundreds of units of each of this ingredient I will read out." Long Feng get himself ready to select a few ingredients, and in the same time, Cashier Han Geng is getting ready for his brush and paper. "Ash Angelica at Fine Grade or higher, Cinnamon Tree Fruit at Fine Grade or higher, Magma Fruit from the Volcanic Oak Tree, Spirit Healing Grass, Fire Tongue Plant''s Wax, all at least in Fine Grade or higher." Long Feng reads out the ingredients he is looking for. "And in additional, I hope Elder Yongheng could be kind enough to approve this junior request to ask for 100 more units of this specific [Soul Enhancement Seed] that could only be approved to be purchased from an Elder Rank staff." Long Feng look at Elder Yongheng, and politely ask for the approval to purchase the specific ingredients. But as Cashier Han Geng calculates the total, it increases up to an amazing amount. "Young brother Xiao Feng, it is not this brother is exaggerating about the price, but even in the lowest rate, the [Ash Angelica] and [Spirit Healing Grass] cost 100 Spirit Bronze Coins each, [Cinnamon Tree Fruit] and [Wax of Fire Tongue Plant] at 150 Spirit Bronze Coins each, [Magma Fruit] at 200 Spirit Bronze Coins each, and the [Soul Enhancement Seed] at 500 Spirit Bronze Coins each, your total cost just to refine this pills will increased into 120,000 Spirit Bronze Coins. If added into your initial 50,000 Spirit Bronze Coins on the previous ingredients, your cost will be around 170,000 Spirit Bronze Coins or 1700 Spirit Bronze Coins for each portion of ingredients!" "Han Geng, a Pill Masters will have their own reason to need such a bizarre type of ingredients. Go and prepare it. Take this seal to the Storage Department and have them approves 100 [Soul Enhancement Seed] for sales to Young Master Li, and put him in the [No Limitation Purchasing List]. Get it ready within half an hour, and return to this room as it ready." without allowing Cashier Han Geng to comment anything more, Elder Yongheng instructs him to make his move and prepares all the ingredients. "Young one, are the pill you are going to refine is related to the [Regal Medicine Hall]?" Elder Yongheng immediately noticed the origin of the Pill as he heard about few certain ingredients. "Dear Elder, your skills in recognizing this pill''s origin is accurately correct. The Pill Xiao Feng wish to refine is a subversion of [Emperor Tiger Pill], but Xiao Feng is yet able to perfectly produce a good alternative from the previously used ingredients. This is also why Xiao Feng intends to purchase these few ingredients to make his second trials." Long Feng reveals the identity of the Pill he looks forward to further study and refine it perfectly, and once the Pill''s name is revealed to the Elder, even Elder Yongheng''s eyes shine brightly. "Hahaha, what an attitude of a youth! The alternative version of the [Emperor Tiger Pill]. If this success, you would be making the auction goes crazy even with few Lower-Rank version. Had you got any successful refining so far from the previous ingredients?" Elder Yongheng pry into deeper regarding this matter. Although this action might seem suspicious from the eyes of the public, Long Feng knows better why Elder Yongheng is so eager to see if there are any results from his previous attempts. "Since Elder Yongheng is interested, Xiao Feng hope this embarrassment wouldn''t make Elder lost faith to this junior." Long Feng withdraw the eight successful [Ten-Ingredient Fierce Tiger Pill] and place it in front of Elder Yongheng. With the Pill on the table, Elder Yongheng starts with the inspection of Smell, Color, Shape, and Purity. After inspecting all eight Pills, he finally understands the needs of changes in the ingredients. Next, he proceeds with the inspections on the Clarity, Essence, Elements, and Flavour. After this eight subject is completed, Elder Yongheng pops one of the pills into his mouth and circulates his energy to discover the inner properties and outer properties of the Pill. Perhaps in the eyes of an outsider, they would say that Elder Yongheng is shamelessly swallowing a special Pill, but in Long Feng''s eyes, Elder Yongheng is carefully inspecting and giving out pointers in his effort to inspecting Long Feng''s [Ten-Ingredient Fierce Tiger Pill]. With a Master Inspector in this level, Long Feng could only felt thankful and grateful, because only through such effort he could understand more regarding his missing part within the refining.Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. "I understand why you would like to change some of its ingredients. The previous ingredients used in refining this Pill is not as good as what it should be, so Alternative ingredients should be used as a trial, to see if the replacement ingredient could enhance the success rate and also its quality. It is a good point to change as well, due to the uncontrollable changes in nature." Elder Yongheng rates Long Feng''s Pill quite a high opinion, but the next word brings Long Feng to his attention. "Although the Pill is successfully refined, their quality, taste, color, and purity is neither in its best condition. This Pill just barely scraps away from the Failed stage, and entered the success stage, but the effect within, just barely 10% from its full effect. But to be able to refine this Pill with such ingredients, even I couldn''t help but praise you for it. I would say, even Ten capable Pill Masters with years of experience will still meet 80-90% fail rates." Elder Yongheng comments did have some negative opinions on Long Feng''s results, but in the same time, he added the final important part within to let Long Feng knows his effort is actually paying off, although not in a very successful way. Then, a knock on another side of the door could be heard, and as the door opened, Cashier Han Geng came in with a Small Spatial Ring that use to store all the ingredients within. "Young Master Xiao Feng, this is all the item you ordered, please check." Cashier Han Geng place the ring on Long Feng''s hand so he could examine the item inside. Then, Elder Yongheng added. "Young one, bring out all your previous ingredients used to refine the Pill, I will have the Pavilion to exchange the item without cost, and give you a better quality same ingredients to enhance your success rate. Han Geng, get ready to change the ingredients Young Master Li will pass to you." "Yes Elder, Han Geng understood." he took the ring with the remaining ingredients and went down to exchange for a better quality version, and return after five minutes. "Young Master Xiao Feng, the Office decided to replace the ingredients to our best ingredient on hand, so all of it is in the Fine Grade, do not worry. We also top up the ingredients into 100 units of each type, so Young Master wouldn''t need to purchase any additional materials because of some of them is used." Han Geng politely replies and explains the good will the Pavilion gave to Long Feng. "Brother Han Geng, although this is not perfectly a good refine, please take this two [Ten-Ingredient Fierce Tiger Pill] as a token of gratitude. Elder, would you mind of Xiao Feng presents you this five remaining Pills to repay you back for the goodwill?" Xiao Feng passed the five Pills on the table to Elder Yongheng, as he pays Cashier Han Geng a total of 120,000 Spirit Bronze Coins before he excuses himself and quickly returns to the Pill Hall. He sped up along his path, and never make any stop along his way until he reached the Thousand Training Formation Cave. Long Feng punch the Training Dummy, and received a Golden Token once again. [3rd Heaven Room] Long Feng entered the cave and starts with his research in using the new alternative ingredients to refine the Pill. Starting from [Ash Angelica] to [Spirit Healing Grass], [Cinnamon Tree Fruit], [Wax of Fire Tongue Plant], and [Magma Fruit], Long Feng recreate a new method of ingredient mixing and cooking. With the additional five new ingredients, Long Feng current concoction increased into fifteen ingredients. He spends the first ten portions of ingredients to research the correct combination, and the second ten portions of ingredients to research the number of required ingredients to perfectly refine the pills. Although the twenty portions of ingredients had already been wasted, Long Feng does not felt unhappy at all. Researching and looking for the correct amount of ingredients, correct combinations and the correct method to finally cook the Extracts into its purest condition, gave Long Feng an extremely satisfying release into his hunger to refine this Rare Medicinal Pill. With this kind of effort is put into the process, not only the improvement of Long Feng''s Mind, Soul, Attitude, and Essence Control, it even assisting in tempering one person''s inner mental condition, allowing the Pill Masters to improve his cultivation and skills in leap and bounds. Finally, Long Feng successfully come out with the best ingredients to obtain the most desirable concoctions. From Ten to Fifteen, from Fifteen to Twelve, from Twelve to Nine, and from Nine back to Twelve, Long Feng adjust the propositions of each ingredient, its combination until he finalizes it into this combination. The Cultivation Extracts, a combination of [Phosphor Flower], [Ash Angelica], [Lightning Tiger Grass] and [Magma Fruit]. The Healing Extracts, combined from [Spirit Healing Grass], [Red Blood Grass], [Cinnamon Tree Fruit], [Blood Refining Fruit]. Lastly, the Enhancement Extracts results out from the [Exploding Yin Fruit], [Fierce Dragon Tongue Plant''s Wax], [Clear Toad Fruit''s Wax], [Fire Tongue Plant''s Wax]. From the extracting the twelve essences from the ingredients, Long Feng must combine four extract essences with their own special properties, the Cultivation Rich Essences, the Healing Rich Essences, and the Enhancement Rich Essences. Only by finally refine all the mixed Extract Essences into their purest rate, then the combination into a concoction could proceed. But this research as well costs Long Feng a total of 10 portions of Ingredients to found out the correct way to proceeds. Of course, the wastage of the ingredients creates the results of the experiment until this point. Finally, complete the concoction with three special features, Long Feng has no hesitation and add in the [Soul Enhancement Seed] into the cauldron and inject the concoction into the seed itself. With the amount of concoction still have extra within the cauldron, Long Feng add in few more seeds, and finally completely inject all the concoction within the seed after putting in four seeds. Long Feng fire up his cauldron for the last time, and treat it as complete when the fired seeds finally reach their cracking stage. With the refining process is done, Long Feng withdraws all the seeds from the cauldron and felt something still missing from the pill refining process. "Perhaps I should try to just inject some of my Elemental Essence into the seed so the Pill would crack out from the seed''s hard shell." Long Feng jokingly come out with a childish idea and use whatever mix of Elemental Essence within his body to shower the five seeds within his palm. As the Elemental Essence Energy is absorbed into each seed, crack happens as the Liquid Concoction within formed into a Single Pill from each seed. As the hard cover starts to peel off, an outstanding fragrant came out from all five seeds! As the shell falls off from the hardening of the pills, a row of Tiger Stripes could be seen on the surface of the pill! With the shell totally shed off from the pill, a beautiful luster shine across the Pill, and looking at the Smell, Color, Shape, and Purity, Long Feng could easily deduce this pill rank to be an Upper-Rank Pill! This is the new Alternative Pill that personally refined by myself, In this case, I would call this the [Twelve-Ingredients Tiger Stripes Soul Pill]! Book 1 Chapter 52 - Rise from the Refinement, Entering Adept Tier! With the successful attempts in his 30th portion of ingredients, this gave Long Feng the baseline on how he should proceed with the Pill Refining Process. Long Feng patiently refine each portion of the ingredients and putting his best efforts to refine Upper-Ranked Pills. Although the Refining method had been developed, this doesn''t mean that Long Feng has an unlimited supply of Elemental Essence within his body. But to notice this slight changes, Long Feng has to sacrifice one portion of the ingredients. As the 40th portion of ingredients is badly refined, Long Feng finally notice the changes in his body. "Never do I consider the possibility of myself getting tired and not in the full concentration after refining for a continuously five hour in total." Long Feng regretted slightly for not paying attention to his own Elemental Essence Storage, but as the elders say [Once Bitten, Twice Shy], Long Feng put this in his mind as he moves the cauldron away from where he was seated, and ready to meditate and increase his cultivation instead. Since he has 20 Middle-Rank Cultivation Pellets and 5 Upper-Rank Cultivation Pellets from the stipends yesterday, Long Feng decided to consume it, to push his cultivation slight further. Without any hesitation, Long Feng pop in the Pills into his mouth, few at a time. Feeling a surge of warm feeling came into his Core, Long Feng began to circulate his cultivation, creating a small vortex that refines all the Essence Energy within his body to be absorbed and assimilated. Although the Cultivation Pellets in the Middle-Rank and Upper-Rank is nowhere uncommon, the amount of Pure Essence Energy it contains, could still be called as sufficiently rich. The twenty-five pills taken by Long Feng continuously releasing the Essence Energy trapped within, until it has totally vanished from the body. What more unbelievable is, Long Feng is only stepping away from reaching the Peak Refinement Stage, and this twenty-five Pills actually helps him to reach it! Long Feng''s Essence Energy within his Core exploded to all corners in the Heaven Room! The essence of his Refinement Tier cultivation rush out and covers the room with the attribute of [REFINE!]. Bathing in this kind of atmosphere, Long Feng decided to test the strength of his Twelve-Ingredients Tiger Stripes Soul Pill, as he withdraws it from his Spatial Ring and pops it into his mouth, Long Feng pay attention on the Pill as it went down his throat and start releasing the energy trapped within. "Poosh!" a surge of an explosion of Essence Energy could be felt out of sudden as if the air in a balloon is running out if the muzzle is not restricted! Shocked with the sudden incoming of such burst of energy, Long Feng quickly calm himself in the meditation position and circulates the Essence Energy running around his Core to absorb and assimilate. The burst of energy does not stop at a point but continue until the end of the fourth burst. Next, a warmth feeling encompass Long Feng and his whole body, and to the edge of seeing his previous wounds, his exhausted mind, his impurity within the body, his excess oil secretion from eating unhealthy, his unbalance lifestyle and his fatigue, all recovered and adjusted within seconds, making him felt fresher than ever before. Even his height had increased by around 2 to 3 Centimetres because this young boy is still in the age of growing up! But then, the final burst of surprise came before Long Feng has any slight idea. Long Feng could felt the Enhancement properties from the Pill entering his bones, blood, core, and Elemental Storage. Seeing this advantageous situation, Long Feng continues his cultivation and starts circulating his Refinement Tier energy to form an Adept Tier Essence Lake within his Core. Long Feng''s concentration continues, and as the Adept Tier Essence Lake slowly formed, Long Feng felt that in the time span of four hours, his cultivation actually increase by leaps and bounds! Just then, he finally felt that it is the moment he should break from this Refinement Tier Cocoon, Long Feng allows all the might of his formed Essence Lake explodes! The Refinement Attribute surrounding him is all absorbed into his Essence Lake, and one Adept Rank Essence Pearl is formed in the Essence Lake. This is the proof Long Feng cultivation had pass the Peak Refinement Tier and entering the stage of Early Human Adept Tier cultivation! "This is the strength of the Twelve-Ingredients Tiger Stripes Soul Pill! If this Pill managed to make it into the auction, they will be fought by many wealthy cultivators!" Long Feng smile and felt like laughing hard, because of such fortunate occurrences happened to him when cultivating and Refining Pills. With all this ordeal he went through, Long Feng already spent around ten hours from the moment he steps into the Heaven Room. But what Long Feng should do now, is not continue to refine the [Tiger Stripes Soul Pill] but instead stabilizing his cultivation. Long Feng''s mind had been slowly tempered since the moment his teacher, Han Feng Xian is believed to be dead on the hand of the Beast Taming School, and his Master departure to the Xuan Wu Jade City to help the remnants of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect. Added with what happened yesterday outside of his house, losing his mother to the delegate from Heavenly Blossom Empire. "Strength! Fame, Wealth, and Power! I will need this all before I could make my way to the Heavenly Blossom Empire. Mother, wait for Xiao Feng, give me three years, I will come before you to bring you with me when I have the cultivation strong enough to enter the whole empire by a single person!" Long Feng makes his promise to the Heavens and kowtowed to the Earth, sealing it within his heart and mind until he successfully saves his mother. Withdrawing the remaining three Low-Rank [Spirit Calming Dew Pellet] from his Spatial Ring, Long Feng consume it and starts to meditate and stabilize his foundation of Adept Tier. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In a blink of eyes, Long Feng had already in the Closed Door Cultivation for a total of ten days. During the time he is not communicating with Nan Jing Jing, Long Feng could still felt her companion through the ring. Meanwhile, in where Nan Jing Jing is at currently, some construction works could be seen within the General''s Mansion. There is a lot of camps for temporary accommodation, and the camps are well spread all along the training ground where everyone had trained here at least once before. Although the construction and repairing work proceeds efficiently, in the heart of those defeated ten days ago, an Inner Demon slowly appears within their hearts. Ten days ago, when Nan Jing Jing and the two Elders finally returned to the General''s Mansion, their blood on the face totally faded away as the look before them, could only be described as [Disaster]. Three-quarters of the General''s Mansion had been destroyed into tiny rubbles, maids and housekeepers are all either dead, injured, or Internally disrupted due to their low cultivation level. The troops stationed outside of the mansion face a heavy defeat in one single swipe, and it is the same to all the Vice-Generals and General. The delegate only needs the time span of fewer than ten minutes, to clear the whole General''s Mansion and their strongest cultivators. Especially Nan Gong Yu, Chen Yu and Lang Ren. This three is heavily injured, to the stage where if no miraculous Pills is given to them, their death is for sure within few more days. But luckily, Lady Mei does have some hidden stash kept somewhere. Looking at this situation, Nan Jing Jing immediately digs out the cosmetic box belonged to her mother, which is also the only thing is not damaged within the whole mansion. Within the box, a total of ten [Heaven Blossom Dew Pill] is kept within the box, and Nan Jing Jing used seven in total, leaving three remains within her hand. After taking the miraculous Pills, the four Vice-General, the two Elders, and Nan Gong Yu fully recovered, but only in physically and internally, not their mind. "I am Nan Gong Yu, and yet here I can''t even be compared to a mere delegate from the Heavenly Blossom Empire!" Nan Gong Yu is the first person to be most emotional. That is without a doubt, as he was the person who loses the most. His beloved wife, his mansion, and most importantly, his Confidence! In a slight second, Nan Gong Yu actually thinks about learning the scrolls he sealed within the underground of the mansion.This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. But before his starting to corrupted mind taking over, Nan Jing Jing appears before him and gave him a strong hug, stopping his father from doing anything reckless. "Father! Stop, don''t proceed anymore!" Nan Jing Jing cries as she knows what her father is thinking with his eyes full of killing intents. "Father, mother said we should get stronger and go to the Heavenly Blossom Empire to officially bring her away. You must not go into the underground, even mother said so. That scroll is not something we should open and learn. You must remember the moment mother spends all her energy just to seal its evilness from getting out from the scroll!" Nan Jing Jing blocks her father''s advancement as she hugs him directly. "I''m like this, how long should your mother waits until I reach the stage comparable to the delegate? He is only a mere delegate of the Empire! There will be even stronger cultivators within the empire, and I will have to wait here until I die in regrets?" Nan Gong Yu emotionally burst into despair, self-blaming, and jealousy. He then added his misfortune with a strong scream. "Argh!!!! Why does this happen to me! Why!!!!" Nan Gong Yu screamed until he vomited few mouthful of blood. The sorrow of this scream, made all of those participates in the fight earlier, to felt the same despair. But then, a ray of light shine from the skies. Everyone tried to look at the ray of light, but unfortunately, they possess not enough right to do so. Only Nan Gong Yu and Nan Jing Jing could stare directly at it, staring as a silhouette appears before the shining light. "Great General Nan, do you remember me?" the silhouette appears to be an old man with a white beard on his chin, age around 100 to 130 years old, and unfathomable cultivation strength. "You''re! Are you the old man I helped before when you failed to climb up to the Sky Peak Mountain?" Nan Gong Yu seems to recognize this old man after a clearer look. "Hahaha, seems like this young man that used to impress me, already married and even have such an old daughter already. This old man, really happy for you." the old man continues with his words. "You are filled with all sorts of negative energy, which is why I am here. I''m here to repay the kindness you''ve shown me ten years ago." the old man says. "Take this three scrolls, and learn as much as you could. Only by putting all your effort in this, you could save your wife from that ignorant delegate of Heavenly Blossom Empire." the old man places three scrolls before Nan Gong Yu. "This elder, what are you actually?" Nan Gong Yu couldn''t help but ask for the old man''s identity. He then looked at the three scrolls and its title. Heavenly Ascension Art Heavenly Retribution Art Heavenly Travelling Art "This!" Nan Gong Yu is shocked as he read the three titles on the three scrolls! He pulled Nan Jing Jing along to kneel on the floor and gave the old man three kowtows. "This ignorant man actually dare to question old master, please forgive him and his daughter for such atrocities!" a sense of fear appears within Nan Gong Yu''s heart. Because even without looking at the old man, only one person within the School could have the right to give out this three scrolls to whoever he likes. The Headmaster of the Heavenly Ascension School, Late-King Ye Lao. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After putting an effort in stabilizing his cultivation for a total of ten days, Long Feng finally opened his eyes to take a view around the room. "My cultivation not only stabilized even further than how it should be compared to during my Refinement Tier, it even becoming more rich and concentrated." Long Feng control a single wisp of his Essence Energy circulating within his body, and slowly move it in his own speed around his whole body, acting as if a commander doing its routine check up. Each opening contained a lot of wisps of Essence Energy that walked all around his body nonstop, and in each opening of every single vein, the wisps combined, born into a totally new entity, becoming even more concentrated, as it continues the journey. "Essence Lake. This is all depending on the Essence Lake I form with all my Refinement Tier cultivation strength. From my previous attempt, the whole stage of my refinement tier cultivation had been converted into one single Adept Rank Essence Pearl. If I followed this way of cultivation, I would need to form a total of nine more Adept Rank Essence Pearl to achieve the Peak Adept Tier cultivation, before I proceed to tackle the Practitioner Stage." Long Feng deduce the stage requirement he needs to reach the peak of Adept Tier, and pre-planned his path before anything else. "But that stage is still far from my reach, what I need is to make sure I could participate in the Auction, and in three more months, I should increase my strength to make sure I could participate in the Thousand Herbal Garden''s opening time. From now onwards, my target should be strengthening my cultivation and enter the Core Disciple rank in this Bronze Pill Hall. By that time, it would help me in getting a spot to participates in the selection matches." Long Feng refines his target and important issues he should focus on achieving, before anything else. With his foundation of Adept Tier cultivation had been stabilized, Long Feng decided to continue Refining the still available ingredients. Using 30 minutes for each portion of ingredients, Long Feng starts refining the ingredients one by one, until he was out of [Soul Enhancement Seed]. But after a total of 11 parts of ingredients is used, Long Feng is finally out of the seeds. This 11 parts with the previous 9 more successful attempts, managed to yield Long Feng a total of 97 Upper-Rank and 2 Unknown-Rank [Twelve-Ingredients Tiger Stripes Soul Pill]. This result is after deducting the first Upper-Rank Pill he has eaten before he breaks through the Adept Tier. Since he has some additional time, Long Feng decided to take a decent rest, and meditates for another few hours, before he wakes up once again to restart the production of the [Blood Refinement Pellet] once again. With his mind and soul further calm down and stable now, Long Feng confidence in preparing the Pills increased accordingly as well, where he dares to try a Quadruple Refining attempt in his first try. Although the effort is slightly more difficult than usual, the step and each moment of variable adjustments are easily noticed by Long Feng and in the term of Fire Control, Extraction, Purity, and Shaping, Long Feng aced all of the important factors as he quickly finish Firing his Cauldron, and come out with a results of 22 Pills. 6 of them is on the Lower-Rank, 14 of them in their Middle-Rank, and the remaining 2 in their Upper-Rank. But this kind of accomplishment is not what could satisfy Long Feng''s hunger in his Pill Refining. Instead of remaining steady with the refining steps, Long Feng dare himself to try and further refine the ingredients as much as he could. He chooses to remove the boundary between the old and new, inserting a newer method in refining the ingredients so he could come out with a better result. Long Feng spent first 10 attempts, using a total of 40 parts among the remaining 996 ingredients, to obtain the results of 220 Pills. Among them, 70 of them still remains as Lower-Rank, but only 120 among them is at Middle-Rank, while 30 of them managed to results in an Upper-Rank Pills. This is after Long Feng adjusted the way he combined the ingredients in harmony, similar to how the [Tiger Stripes Soul Pill] works. His next 10 attempts, using another 40 parts of the ingredient from the remaining 956 ingredients, managed to results in a smaller quantity because Long Feng further purify every single drop of blood until they entered the Brilliant Scarlet Purity before he mixes them into one Concoction and starts his final Firing. This time, each concoction only managed to come out with a result of 200 Pills only, but among them, 50 is in their Lower-Rank, 100 is in their Middle-Rank, and 50 more in Upper-Rank. Through this time, Long Feng managed to obtain the results he was aiming, but it wasn''t enough to satisfy him! Long Feng take makes 10 more attempts, using the previous two adjustments along with newer changes once again. Instead of mixing three different Cultivation Beast Bloods into the concoction to refine, Long Feng decided to adjust it to four, five and six respectively. But the result of this attempt is a failure, thus none of the ingredients is successfully refined into any pills. Using another 40 more ingredients again, Long Feng decided to throws in some other medicinal Ingredients into the concoction, trying one by one between the forty parts of ingredients. Out of the blue, a specific ingredient managed to create a harmonized resonance with one of the successful portions! "Seems like this is what it takes to fulfill the requirements to prepares the perfect concoctions." Long Feng withdraw another three more units of the ingredients to prepare a total of four different portions within the Cauldron for his Quadruple refining attempt. The after all procedures is as usual, according to what he has been adjusting in the few previous batch of productions. But this time, with the recipe, is changed for a tad bit, Long Feng managed to get an end results of 24 successful Pills, 12 Middle-Rank, and 12 Upper-Rank! "This is really wonderful, and here I am underestimating the ability of this [Seven Needle Flower]." Long Feng withdraw one of the flowers into his hand and scanned the special properties hidden within this small white flower with it''s seven juicy but bitter Needles. 430 hours Book 1 Chapter 53 - Eleven Day before Auction! Category 4 Pills! Without bothering about his remaining time, Long Feng knows that he should refine as much [Blood Refinement Pellet] as he could depending on his available resources. As he still holding a total of 56 Units of [Seven Needle Flower] in his hand, Long Feng hesitates not, and goes through with the refining of 13 total attempts. Long Feng makes no mistakes, giving only the best concentration in each and every step he makes in the Refining effort. As the results came out, Long Feng immediately feel 312 Pills richer. A total of 156 Middle-Rank and Upper-Rank Pills is produced, and a smile of satisfaction could be seen on Long Feng''s face. Long Feng decided that he should be getting out from the Cave to breathe in some fresh air, just to treat it as a form of relaxing his body and mind before continues with the Pill Refining and Cultivating. He takes his own leisure time, heading back for a shower, and later for a walk around the Bronze Pill Hall until he reached the Virtue Hall. Long Feng entered the Hall, only to see nobody within. Long Feng cleaned the Hall to its prime condition, and leave the hall soon afterward. He continues walking around until he makes a stop before the Tower of Knowledge. Long Feng remembered the incident where he was bullied by two senior when he just returned from the Virtue Hall, and grit his teeth for not getting used to those kinds of treatments. But currently, after barely two months within the Bronze Pill Hall, Long Feng had already made quite a name for himself, obtaining favors from Great Elder Ao Luo, Master Tang Wen, Myriad Ingredient Pavilion''s Elder Yongheng Zhiya, deceased Teacher Han Feng Xian, and many more special people in his life. Life passed in a blink of an eye, and now, barely 18 days are still left before the auction is starting. Long Feng wanted to put in his Pills into the auction, but without Nan Jing Jing by his side, he felt slightly lost in directions. "I wonder how is Jing Jing doing now..." Long Feng worries about his wife, but in the same time, hesitates to speaks or disturb her because of both of them, are in a difficult situation at the moment. But as he walked along the stone path leading to the Jade Cultivating Land, a silhouette appears in front of him, wondering about the same thing as Long Feng does. "Jing Jing?" Long Feng is the first to notice her. As he called her name out loud, Nan Jing Jing as well wakes from her soulless walking. "Husband?" she looks at Long Feng for a moment, rubbed her eyes once, look again, and finally the sense returns to her mind. "Husband! I miss you so much! Do you know, General''s Mansion is thoroughly destroyed, father and other uncles are injured, Mother is missing and so many things happened in between this two weeks." Nan Jing Jing breaks as she saw Long Feng. The same goes to Long Feng, even he falls few drops of tears as he remembered about his mother''s forced to leave positions. But as he thinks about it, again and again, Long Feng decides on one thing. "Jing Jing! Let us grow strong together, and then when we reached the stage of Cultivation required, we will personally bring our mother back to our side!" Long Feng announce his aim to Nan Jing Jing and hope she would support his decision. "Alright. Let us grow up stronger than ever, and go to that Heavenly Blossom Empire to bring back our mother!" Nan Jing Jing drops a few more tears as she stands up and make the same announcements, and hugged Long Feng tightly. "Husband, do not leave me no matter what. If there is a choice of [Live and Run Away] and [Die Together], please choose the latter one." Nan Jing Jing vowed that if they were to force to decides such endings, they will both choose the choices of the latter. The two of them continue to talk along with their walk, and as Long Feng shared his successful attempt in refining the Fierce Tiger Pill, Nan Jing Jing mood became even cheerful. "Husband! This is a very important issue! How much of the successful Pills you have in hand for now?" Nan Jing Jing immediately went into her [I Goddamn know everything!] mode and starts questioning her husband. "I have 97 Upper-Rank version in my hand, for now, we should be heading over to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion to purchase more ingredients, as I had almost half of the ingredients wasted in my experimenting attempts." Long Feng reveals the amount he has in hand, and that answer gave Nan Jing Jing a shock. But she quickly went back to normal, as she withdraws a bamboo tube with fireworks within. She injects some Essence Energy and activates the fireworks. "Fiiiii... Bam!" the fireworks fly up above the sky and exploded, showing a word of [Jade] upon the explosion. Almost instantly, two special collection officer from the House of Miraculous Jade appears before them and initiates a conversation. "My name is Du Zhe, this is my assistant, Du Ming. We saw the fireworks along our way, do you have any treasures you wish to put on the auction?" the young man appears before the couple and politely introduce themselves before the comes to the most important questions. "Master Du Zhe, this junior name Long Feng, I wish to participate in the auction with this few Pills of mine in hand." Long Feng withdraws a total of five Pills in his hand. As the Pill makes its appearance, the Collection Officer Du Zhe eyes shine for a moment as he started to talks. "Pill Master Long Feng, this Pill''s quality is not bad. A Sub-Version of [Emperor Tiger Pill] and a rank 4 Pills in its Class. What name did you put on the success of this Pill?" Du Zhe evaluates the worthiness of this Pill before he asked for its name, the moment he looked at Long Feng''s face directly, he gave Long Feng a smile. "I named it [Twelve-Ingredients Tiger Stripes Soul Pill]." Long Feng opened up and reveals its name to the Collection Officer. "Good. Even if it''s only using twelve ingredients, the quality is still managed to enter the rank 4 pills category. If I''m not mistaken, this pill could fetch the price of at least 50,000 Spirit Bronze Coins in a stack of 5 Pills each box. Of course, this is the opening auction price. The Luck of doubling and tripling its price is all depending on the participants on that day. Do you still have any more of this Pills, so Du Zhe could push its price further?" the Collection Officer Du Zhe honestly appraise its prices, and out of Long Feng''s expectation, the price for each Pill could have the possibility if it was sold at 50,000 Spirit Bronze Coins on the opening price. Long Feng then withdraw another 45 Pills from his Spatial Ring and passed it all to Du Zhe for inspections. In the same time, Long Feng inquire about the difference between the Ranking Class for the Pills within the auction. "I can see you are just an Adept Tier Cultivator for now, but sooner or later, you will be deeply related within this, so I guess It wouldn''t hurt to spend some time to explain it to you." Du Zhe starts giving out information related to the Pills Quality and Ranking Classes. In a much more simpler term, it is a category of preciousness a pill have to allows it to be graded in a certain way. Of course, this is only applied for the term of [Rare / Precious / Oddities / Human and Earth / Mysterious] type of Pills. Pills that was easily found in the market, such as Cultivation Pills, Tempering Pills, Basic Poison Pills, Mind and Body Pills, are considered as Common and Uncommon Category, unless if a Master-Rank Pill is produced. To make it easier to inspect the Pill category and place it in the class ranking it deserves, an appraiser would be required, and most of the appraiser possess the constitution of [YinYang Spirit Eyes] or [Major/Minor Elemental Born Body] to be qualified, although it is not fully restricted. The primary inspection would be similar with how Elder Yongheng conducts his appraising test on Long Feng''s failure pills, but from the direct appraisal from the Collection Officer, these difficulties could be increased by at least double to triple difficulties. But other than the primary inspection, a secondary inspection is conducted as well, which is to give the points to the medicinal pill in the term of Cultivating, Healing, Enhancing, Poisoning, Blessing. Each special Pills will always carry between two to three term within as they are appraised, it is a rare occasion if there are a four term Pills, and if the Pills could achieve all five terms, they usually won''t be sold in such small auction, but Kingdom Class auction.Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. Since Long Feng''s [Tiger Stripes Soul Pill] possess around 4-Cultivation Points, 4-Healing Points and 4-Enhancing, so Du Zhe easily deduce this pill to be a fourth Rank Category Pills. Of course, this doesn''t mean that the pills are weak, only the focus of this Pill is distributed evenly. With the Collection Officer finish his explanations, he added a few more words to the couple. "Dear Pill Master, I could see your name within the auction attendance list as well, so please keep this five tubes of Sky Jade Fireworks. As long there is a Collection Officer nearby, we will attend to you as soon as we saw the fireworks." Du Zhe received the 50 Pills from Long Feng, and provide him with a piece of a token. "This is the mark of the auction. With this token, when you are bidding in the auction, your price will be automatically deducted from the total of your item sales." "And one more thing. There will be a Sixth Rank Category Pills and a Seventh Rank Category Pills within the auction, do anticipate its appearance when you are in the auction! Please excuse us, and have a good day." Du Zhe finished his words as he swiftly disappeared from their sight without a hint of sound. "Husband!" Nan Jing Jing wakes Long Feng from his trance, and try to see what is happening with her husband. But with Long Feng looking blank all over again, Nan Jing Jing just couldn''t resist herself and gave him another knock on the head. "Wife, you should knock my head less, I''m getting more stupid because of those frequent knocking." Long Feng jokingly speaks. "As if it''s from me. You are already stupid from the first moment I saw you." Nan Jing Jing pouted her lips as she walks, but the direction she is heading is towards the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion. Long Feng followed behind without a word, but the explanations regarding the pills Ranking and Category keep repeating itself within his mind and making Long Feng tries his hardest to understands. The couple soon reaches the Pavilion, and Long Feng managed to purchase a large amount of [Soul Enhancement Seed] to supports the requirements of his needs in refining the [Tiger Stripes Soul Pill]. He purchases a good amount of [Seven Needle Flower] as well, and in total, spends around 650,000 Spirit Bronze Coins. Although this amount of money used is enormous at the moment, but Nan Jing Jing knows her husband ability the most. Only from the 50 Pills Long Feng just gave to the Collection Officer Du Zhe, already worth at least 500,000 Spirit Bronze Coins. And Long Feng still holds 47 of them in hand. The couple walked for a short while until they reach the Bronze Pill Hall. Without requiring to speak any other words, they return to their respective direction. Nan Jing Jing towards the Tower of Knowledge, and Long Feng towards the Thousand Training Formation Cave. Inside the once again obtained Heaven Room, but this time, Long Feng''s room had been upgraded from previous Refinement Tier into an Adept Tier Heaven Room. Within the room, even stronger Essence Energy and YinYang Essence could be felt within the room. Only by being here could assist in tempering one''s cultivation, even when Refining Pills. But Long Feng chose to refine the [Blood Refinement Pellet] instead for this period of time, to further his understanding on the Pills. Just like this, a total of 65 hours, had been all used in refining a total of 780 portions of ingredients. Add in a total of around 5 hours for resting and recuperating, Long Feng completely finish all his ingredients for Blood Refinement Pellets, obtaining the results of 4680 pills. Under the strong influential assistance from the surrounding YinYang Essence and Energy Essence, Long Feng''s Pill Refining results actually soared from 50% of Middle and Upper-Rank Pills, into more variable possibilities. Among the 4680 Pills he refined, 4400 of them are in Middle-Rank and Upper-Rank, and the remaining 280 Pills actually is in their Master-Rank Pills! Even the most inexperienced Pill Masters will know the fact that a Master-Pill contains no impurity within, so refining such pills do not create difficulties in cultivation after consumptions, this is also the reason why the Master-Rank Pills is rarely seen within the markets. Happily stored all the Pills in his Spatial Ring, Long Feng decided to continue with his refining, this time, with the remaining twelve ingredients. Confidence aside, Long Feng newly stabilized foundation does help him in maintaining the momentum, and it slowly felts like even without putting additional efforts, Long Feng could still refine most of them in the Upper-Ranked Pills as results. He did try to see where had changed during his refining procedures but failed to notice any differences. What happened to Long Feng is due to the frequency of his refining process. Even the most unskilled Pill Master, after refining the same medicinal Pills for more than hundred times, the way of refining, the steps, the flow, is already being set in motion and proceeds without any difficulties. But this is where the problem came in. After getting norm to one kind of refining process, the challenges of Maintaining the quality, Enhancing the quality, Further Amends the Recipe, will determine how well the Pill Masters will improve. If they failed in this, then it would be over to the Pill Master''s future, because of the lacking on the enlightenment of Pill Dao. This is also because [Too much of one thing is not good for another] mentality is lacking in the Pill Masters, so in order to achieve enlightenment in the Pill Dao, the Pill Masters might need to spend double the time to fully understands the meaning within Pill Dao. Although Long Feng still failed to obtain any enlightenment from the Pill Dao this time, his achievement is still not an embarrassment after the results of the 100 portions of the ingredients actually yield him a total of 452 Upper-Rank Pills and 48 Mystery-Rank Pills. With this 40 hours is used in refining the whole 100 portion batch of ingredients, Long Feng decided that he only have the Refining Pellet''s ingredients from his Eldest Brother Wang Ping and some remaining Thunder Spirit Pill''s ingredients. He has some urges to starts the Refining Pellets batch but hesitates as he won''t be meeting his Eldest Brother anytime soon, plus he will be at Thunderburst Jade City soon, Long Feng decides on refining the remaining ingredients for Thunder Spirit Pill. The refining for this type of pill is going smoothly as well, without any obstacle along his way. But without getting a new type of ingredients to further enhance the performance of the concoctions, Long Feng only managed to make sure the Pills he refined is divided nicely between each rank. 35 hours later, after sufficient rest, Long Feng completed the refining process for the 390 portions of ingredients, with a result of 3500 Pills, divided to 1000 Lower-Rank, 1200 Middle-Rank, and 1300 Upper-Rank. He still yet to obtained any master-rank for the Thunder Spirit Pills, but for now, it is good enough for Long Feng to split half of the results with Lang Ya later. When Long Feng checked with the time he already spent within the Cave, about 11 more days is still remaining before the auction starts. If he allocates some time for him to depart from Clear Jade City to the Thunderburst Jade City, around 3 to 4 days is required if his traveling speed is fast enough. With this concern in his mind, Long Feng tried to calculate his time arrangement efficiently. But again, Nan Jing Jing''s voice could be heard again from the ring. "Husband, we are going to depart in Seven days!" she said. "Five days? How do you know that I..." Long Feng felt weird and questions her about the time arrangement. Nan Jing Jing chuckle as she hears Long Feng''s words. "Silly husband, I know you are busy refining Pills and Cultivating, so I already prepared all the required provisions, transports, and other stuff important for our trip." Nan Jing Jing replied. "Oh...you''re amazing, my wife. I was still wondering how to get ready with all this." Long Feng failed to find any words to use. Exactly on this moment, Long Feng understands the meaning of [Each Successful Man always have a more Successful Wife Behind]. He started to felt grateful when a lady as smart as Nan Jing Jing is his wife, and not his enemies. "Wife, I am so stupid, so why would you fall in love with me so much? Sometimes I just felt not worth this at all." Long Feng says. After all, in the term of wealth, power, skills, mind, background, and looks, Long Feng is nowhere superior in any aspects. All he is better than others is he is more stubborn, hardworking, persistent, filial and dumb. Nan Jing Jing hears the question, take a long breath, and exhale it out, then... "You are a total idiot am I correct? How many cultivators in this Brilliant Jade Kingdom that possess Sky Elemental Affinity in excellent level? With a skill of reaching Adept Cultivation stage in barely three months, succeeding Xuan Wu Sword Sect''s legacy, fought against an Adept Beast in your refinement tier cultivation, having a mother that is also the sister of my mother, save my lives once and also Dumber than anyone else in this world?" Nan Jing Jing shot out the answer at once, and keep quiet. "I see you after few days, don''t disturb me, I am on the verge of breaking through into Late Human Adept Tier," she says, and get quiet. "Wife, there is some upper-rank pills within the Spatial Storage, make sure to remember using it when you need!" Long Feng quickly inform her but getting no answers in return. So he could only wait for a while, and begin with his remaining refining task with the Internal Flame Pill''s ingredients remains within his Spatial Storage. "Five Days later, which means, the trip over to the city will take around four days to reach. I should get ready for now, and prepare some of the ingredients that are important for me. Since I am in Adept Tier now, this basic Medicinal Pills will slowly fail to enhance my Pill Refining skills anymore." Long Feng noticed the differences when he was still refining the usual tempering pills or cultivation pills, his enlightenment does not come close anymore. Since he was an Adept Tier cultivator by now, He is already at the stage where he could refine and revise other''s recipe or creates an own recipe to refine specific pills and name them depending on their usage, rarity, and specialty. This also means that Long Feng will slowly enter the circles of Professional Pill Refining Masters, and starts to meet more different Pill Masters in different professions. Book 1 Chapter 54 - Reading the two scrolls, Preparation to leave Clear Jade City. "I''m tied in between of going out and refining the Internal Flame Pill''s ingredients I still have in hand." Long Feng is confused in making a decision between the two since both have a certain of importance. He wished to improve some of his Element Fire Foundation, and yet have not enough time to push it towards another level. He continues to be indecisive until Long Feng actually swing his both hand as he stands up and makes a few somersault. Long Feng then noticed two scrolls within his waist pouch that he forget to read after he took it out from the study room. "How forgetful am I to forget about this two scrolls at all." Long Feng withdraw both of the scrolls and start to scan the contents within. The first scroll is nothing much, only some explanations regarding Beast Blood Refinement with Medicinal Pills, to create specific elemental properties according to the Tier Requirements. The diagram within describe a very detailed contents regarding Beast Blood Assimilation and a few branched out path in properly using it. Long Feng pays not much attention at first, but after scanning the content for a while, he noticed a few interesting topics. The Diagram within contains a list of Human-Beast harmonized ingredients, such as the [Heaven and Earth Tree Sap], the [Tame Beast Grass] and the [Magical Spring Water of Human and Beast]. This three ingredient is the most widely known and uncommon ingredients that could be found in the market if detail ingredient hunting is conducted. One of the most attractive benefits from researching about the Beast Blood Refinement is to strengthen a cultivator''s Innate ability. This is also the unorthodox way of strengthening the body of a cultivator and make it more refined, durable and stable enough to assist in breaking through into higher Tier. The Diagram also contains two half-completed research on a certain specific beast, the Blood Trail Rat, and the Yin Icestone Wolf. A Blood Trail Rat''s rich Blood Refinement could carry a few specific special skills when assimilating with the cultivators that using the blood to refine his own bloodline. In the Blood Refining Stage, the cultivator managed to obtain the skill, [Blood Replenishment] upon complete assimilation with the Blood. This ability allows the user to replenish extreme blood loss, by furiously swallowing blood-related herbs and plants. In the Blood Adapting Stage, the cultivator will obtain the skill, [Blood Lust] as the assimilation is completed. This skills help in a dire situation, allowing the cultivator to have a near dead burst of energy, but without losing themselves in fury. In the Blood Practicing Stage, the skill [Resist Poison] will be obtained, allowing the cultivator be resistant towards any poison. Of course, this doesn''t mean too much unless the refined blood derived from Blood Trail Rat that grows up in the poisonous condition. In Blood Maturing Stage, the skill [Reproduction] could be learned. This is also the strongest skill one could have from the Blood Trail Rat. Reproduction allows the cultivator to regenerate missing limbs, lost flesh after some time. Upon reaching this stage, the cultivator would have been benefitted and prepare for the next refined blood assimilation. It is almost similar to the Yin Icestone Wolf, except the skill learned is different, and because the Yin Icestone Wolf blood contains a small amount of Bloodline related to a higher rank beast, its stage above Blood Maturing Stage is not yet been unraveled. It''s skill to be learned is respectively written at below the scroll before it ends. [Icestone Wall], [Icicle Breath], [Zero Degree Tolerance], [Enamel Controls]. Except the first four stage had been, the fifth stage after Maturing is believed to be Mastering Stage. The refined blood is being known in the Wulin as [Medicinal Beast Profound Blood]. ---------- Long Feng finished the first scrolls and decided to read the second scrolls. As he opened, a recipe appears from its contents. Long Feng read the contents as detail as he could, and try to understand the depth of this recipe. This is another one of the Medicinal Pill his master, Elder Tang Wen had been researching for years. The name of the recipe is [Fireblast Tempering Pill]. As he goes through the recipe, Long Feng started to wonder about his master''s depth in understanding Pill Refining. "I''m seriously wanted to know what is master''s Pill Dao at the moment. He actually has two self-creation recipe within the study room. I guess he must be purposely leaving this recipe here so I could read whenever I need something to improve myself." ========== Fireblast Tempering Pill (Rank 1 Pill) Usage: Cultivation-2 / Healing-1 / Enhancing-4 Ingredients: Fire Elemental Beast Blood (Grade 2 to Grade 4) Flaming Dragon Grass (Grade 2) Fiery Cinnabar (Grade 2) Flame Essence Mushroom (Grade 3) Harmonizing Nether Plant''s Extract (Grade 3) **Minimal requirement of Fine Grade ingredients is required.**Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. Refining Methods: Refine the Blood until impurity is removed. Ground the Fiery Cinnabar into powder form become mixing with Nether Extract to create a base concoction. Refine the Flaming Dragon Grass to obtains its essence extract, and together with Purified Beast Blood, Nether Extract and Cinnabar Powder Concoction, and Flaming Dragon Grass Extract are to be poured into the cored Flame Essence Mushroom. Fire the Cauldron with pure Fire Element until the Flame Essence Mushroom is burnt into ashes. Results: Depending on the quality and perfection of the refining steps, around two to four Pills could be refined from each single set of ingredients. Each Fireblast Tempering Pill contains a total of Fire Elemental Essence comparable to 50 Lower-Rank Second Grade Internal Flame Pills. Recipe by Tang Wen Refined and studied by Tang Wen ========== "If this is how master describes within the recipe, that means this Pill would worth refining!" Long Feng happily laugh in his heart, and that laugh managed to get Hong Yue''s attention. "Master!" Hong Yue called. Upon hearing the calling, Long Feng quickly inquiry the where about of Hong Yue currently. "Master, during the clash between the strong cultivator and everyone, Hong Yue got pushed far away, even now Hong Yue couldn''t found the correct way to come back." Hong Yue tone becomes softer as if he almost given up on trying. "Hong Yue, Master is at fault also. Because of all this matter, I actually neglected you so much. Do you know where you are now?" Long Feng said sorry to Hong Yue because of all the neglecting gesture he gave when he was in closed door cultivation. "Master, Its seems that the other Cultivation Beast around here calls this forest as [Tri-Lightning Forest]. There is a big bunch of Lightning Elemental Beast here, even Hong Yue has injured ten days ago because fighting with two Thunder Tempering Lions." Hong Yue answered Long Feng''s question. "What? How is your body then? If it is what you said, this forest must be within the Thunderburst Jade City, Master will be there in 10 days to participates in an auction, I will come over to get you, so protect yourself!" Long Feng gave Hong Yue instructions, having him wait within the forest and be safe until Long Feng is here. "Master, Hong Yue understood. Hong Yue need to escape first, three Lightning Flash Wolves just spot Hong Yue here!" Hong Yue finish his word, and no more voices are transferred via the mind link anymore. After listening to how dangerous the situation Hong Yue is placed, Long Feng regrets. His forgetful memories, his stupidity, keep bringing him more and more trouble. His anger makes him withdraws a few thing within his Spatial Storage and throws them all around the room. He has no other choice, as there aren''t any thing for him to release his anger. Minutes later, after he calmed himself down, Long Feng picks up all the item he just throws, including the piece of Impure Azure Jade Rock. Long Feng holds the piece of rock around the size of a children''s fist, and without any concern, he injects some Essence Energy into the rock. Since his cultivation had advanced by a whole tier from previous Human Refinement Tier, Long Feng''s Essence Energy managed to be accepted into the Azure Jade Rock smoothly. After calming himself for almost an hour, Long Feng noticed some changes started to happen on the piece of Azure Jade Rock. The rough surface around the rock finally falls, revealing a beautiful Bluish Jade Green Gemstone hidden within. Upon receiving the Essence Energy injected by Long Feng, the piece of Azure Jade Gemstone reveals even more mystical effect, the absorbed Essence Energy is kept with the core of the gemstone, and a bring Bluish Light is blinking nonstop within the gemstone. Unconsciously, the gemstone actually carries the same effect like the Clearness Jade Gemstone from Han Feng Xian, and Long Feng once again being brought into a special mind realm. Here, once again, Long Feng met Shennong face to face again. But this time, he actually has no idea what he needs to ask! After standing for at least a minute without words, Shennong turned around from his comfortable Vine made chairs and stared at Long Feng. "Confused on what you need to actually ask me?" Shennong chuckled and ask a question. "Dear Elder, Xiao Feng greets Elder." Long Feng could think of nothing, so he could only start himself by formal greetings. "Hahaha, I used to be like you. Totally intoxicated into the wonders of the world everywhere. The only thing different is, I''m not as forgetful like you do." Shennong comments, and at his end of words, a hint of sarcastic comment came out. "But, that won''t affect you in your growth. Do you understand the importance of the Jadestone within your world?" Shennong asked a question. "Please forgive junior. This junior is totally blank about the importance of those gemstone elder just mentioned." Long Feng could only say sorry for his inexperience. "Well, within the realm of yours, a total of three gigantic continents is formed. The continent you are staying, only taking 20% of the overall land. Within the Yan Continent, 3 type of gemstone is formed, because of the three special treasure of mine." "Elder means, the gemstone is formed by the treasure?" Long Feng looks on the piece of Azure Jade Gemstone in his hands. "Yes, the Azure Jade Gemstone is formed from my Shennong Sky Jade Measuring Ruler, while the Clearness Jade Gemstone is formed by the Shennong Moon Jade Flask, and lastly, the Marble Jade Gemstone, formed by the Shennong Sun Jade Vessel. You need to collect and refine 50,000 pieces of Clearness Jade Gemstone to form it into a Flask, and also 50,000 pieces of Marble Jade Gemstone to form it into a Wine Vessel. To form the Shennong Jade Measuring Ruler, you will need at least 100,000 pieces to make it perfectly fits in your hand." "Once you managed to collect all three of this, I will accept the fact you are strong enough to travel towards the Continent of Wang. The continent is the second among three, and you would have much to learn when you are there. Do not worry about your potential, be natural, and do whatever you like. Even becoming a god will take hundred of thousand years before you are qualified, why the need to rush?" Shennong finishes his words, and before Long Feng could ask for any questions, a suction came between the two of them and pulls Long Feng back to his origin realm. "I actually see that old man again! And this time, he ordered me to collect as much Jade Gemstone as possible!" Long Feng is shocked in his mind, but with his hand gripping the Azure Jade Gemstone so tightly, Long Feng knows that what just happened, is true. "Elder, Xiao Feng will make sure to completely formed the Vessel, Flask, and Ruler!" Long Feng looks at the sky as he speaks. But with so much to be concerned, Long Feng decided that he will stop himself from continuing to refine pills, and return to enjoy his life, and gain some enlightenment helpful for his life. Just like this, Long Feng spends his four days in the forest of West Jade to train his mind and sense, one day within the Jade Cultivating Land to assist some senior brothers in managing the tamed beast within the land, one more day used to visit Yang Jian. It''s been almost two months he didn''t see this senior, so when he saw Yang Jian, both are very happy to meet each other. Long Feng shared about what''s happening within the Clear Jade City, his intention to go to Thunderburst Jade City, saving Hong Yue because of certain matters happened in the home, Increasing his skills and martial arts, and few other matters included his engagement with Nan Jing Jing. Although all this news has been a shock to Yang Jian, without losing his composure, Yang Jian patiently listens to Long Feng''s story, especially on the (Mother have been forcefully taken back to where she came from) sentence. The two of them bid farewell later after Long Feng passed all the available material from killing the Adept Beast - King Land Shark - Tempera, and some other random materials, Long Feng returned to the Bronze Pill Hall and noticed that there is some written banner and notices placed throughout everywhere. But since he was not in the mood for this all, Long Feng just proceed with his way, returning to Bronze Pill Hall to prepare for his departure tomorrow. He returned to his long unused room, and after making some cleaning works, Long Feng falls on the bed and rest until the next morning. Book 1 Chapter 55 - Travelling to Thunderburst Jade City (Part 1) Within a horse carriage, a total of six people is seated comfortably. Nan Jing Jing and Long Feng at one corner, a male and female couple from Bronze Martial Hall, and two more male disciples from Gao Family near Clear Jade City. At first, when Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing couple entered the carriage, four of them tried to show an attitude of a higher class, looking down on the Li Couple. But when Long Feng introduced himself to be one of the Pill Masters from the Bronze Pill Hall, their attitude towards the couple become heart-warming, and even the word used became much more polite. The drawn strength of the Carriage came from the two horse in the front. This horse breed is known as the [Travelling Contract Beast Kind, the Thousand Li Charcoal Stead] each horse has the strength of running nonstop for 1000 Li(500km), with two of them, pulling a carriage without stopping in between the travel wouldn''t be an issue. Meanwhile, the Coach Driver is also an exceptional cultivator in his Human Adept Tier cultivation, and also act as the guide along their way to the Thunderburst Jade city. When the other four heard about Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing''s intention of participating in the auction, their eyes glitter even brighter, as if the Li couple transformed into two big statues made of gold. Under Nan Jing Jing''s secret instructions, Long Feng hesitates not to follow her words, showing some of the Pills he concocted along their way. Within their first day, after a nonstop traveling, the carriage exits the Forest of West Jade and stopped at the intersection between Clear Jade City, Xuan Wu Jade City, Thunderburst Jade City, Jade Ginseng City, and Cloudy Jade City. The carriage decided to make a stop at the side of the Intersection, and call it a night for now. The group agreed because, during night time, traveling would be more difficult due to the danger is hidden along their path. Sometimes, certain kind of Cultivation Beast loves to take an action on the travelers and small convoys, depending on their treasures hidden within. Due to most of the travelers and small convoys always transport or going around with item such as medicinal herbs, material for blacksmithing, and also some special items rarely found between cities. Especially Long Feng, if he does not possess a Spatial Storage Ring, perhaps the strong medicine fragrant flavor from his [Tiger Stripes Soul Pill] would attract the Cultivation Beast to go crazy, and create a stampede effect because of the Pills. One more concern between them is because of the Bandits. Between this five cities, three strong groups of bandits are known to operate within this area, with the cultivation between Refinement Tier to Practitioner Tier members. The most low-profile one is the [Feral Dog Vagabonds]. Believed to operates with around 500 members, they are known to be ferocious, but not ruthless and addicted to killing anyone they encounter. The next is [Iron Jade Stronghold]. Lead by about 2000 members, the stronghold members carry one important morale whenever they operate. [Only Rob the Rich, and leave the poor. If weapons are unsheathed, do not blame for blood shower]. Rumors about their leader, Yao Yan, is an exiled core disciple from Wen Ren Sect, and difficult to handle. Lastly, is the [Man Si House]. This housing member is ruthless, love to kill and rape, and also the most outrageous houses of bandits between this five cities. They have more than 5000 members, as well few martial art specialist, Pill Masters and Culture Smith is known to be forced to assist the house to get stronger. Just after sharing the news regarding the bandits, a few silhouette appears from the direction towards Jade Ginseng City. Once the group started to get closer, a group of 6 men could be seen, with Sword, Sabre, staff on their hand as they head toward the group. The Coach Driver, named Wu Lei, is secretly withdrawing his twin dagger in both hands as the group of six is getting closer. "Hey, old man! Do you happened to have some wine and meat for us travelers?" the front most person among the group speaks, as there aren''t any weapons on his hand. Long Feng suspect their words and paid more attention to their action, but before he managed to block the sneak attack, a bolt had already almost reached Wu Lei''s throat. "Pingggggg!" the bolt is deflected to another direction, while one of the two Chakrams belonged to Nan Jing Jing is hovering before Wu Lei''s eyes. He released the breath he was holding when he just anticipated his death, but now as his little precious lives are preserved, he finally able to relax his tense body a little. The moment the bolt is deflected, Long Feng, the two disciples from Gao Family and the Male from the Bronze Martial Hall already had their weapon ready to fight. "Humph! Merely a few small cultivators and dare to fight us from the [Man Si House]. Are you all bored with your lives now? Brothers! Kill the man, grab everything included their little underwear and bring the girl back to our nest! We will let boss enjoy this two piece of tender meat before our turn comes." the man that speaks first before gave some orders, as the other follows. Long Feng''s group quickly deduce that this person should be the leader among them, and began to plan in mind how to face him. One of the staff users came near to the Martial Hall couple, two sword users are facing the two from Gao Family, the one that speaks and secretly launched a bolt towards Coach Driver Wu Wei, is facing the driver directly. One more saber user is facing Long Feng, while another bare hand user is facing Nan Jing Jing. Both sides stare without a blink towards their opponent and prepare to start the fight anytime soon. "Aowuuuu!" a cries believed to be from a single wolf could be heard from afar, and being treated as the calling to starts the fight. The two from Gao Family and the two sword using bandits had their weapon clashed towards each other, creating the deafening sounds around the fighting area. The female from Martial Hall is focusing on preparing her martial stance, while the male is struggling to handle the staff bandit with his short mace because of the weapon difference. Nan Jing Jing dances instead of fighting, making the bare hand bandit having a hard time chasing her. Wu Wei and the sneak weapon bandit is turning around in a circle while clashing the weapon with each other. Wu Wei''s short twin dagger easily obtained some advantages on the sneak launching weapon bandit, but because of others safety, he doesn''t dare to evade the attack and have to choose to deflect it so nobody else would get attacked blindly because of some friendly fire. Meanwhile, for Long Feng, the starting of the fight, Long Feng chose to get close to the saber bandit without any precautions. He gets closer in a few blink of an eye and forced the saber bandit to swing his sword downwards, making a cleaving action. But with the help of the Xuan Wu Heavenly Art, Long Feng''s movement is fluid as a piece of the leaf floating on the air with the help of few breeze of wind. He moves as if he was dancing and floating on the air, and from the back of the saber bandit''s neck, Long Feng just make a stabbing attempt and immediately take his little life away from the body immediately. As he killed the saber bandit, a wisp of the soul comes out from the body and absorbed by the Clearness Jade Gemstone given by Han Feng Xian before. "Ya Pang!" the sneak weapon bandit cries his companion name as he saw Long Feng easily disposed of this saber bandit name Ya Pang. But before he could take any actions, Coach Driver Wu Wei get close to him and force him to a difficult situation because of a slight disturbance. Nan Jing Jing also easily dispose of the bare hand bandit, with a Chakrams is still attached on his chest even after dying from that single hit. Looking at this results, even Wu Wei is shocked with Long Feng''s and Nan Jing Jing''s martial performance.This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. Instead, the male from the martial hall is kept being pressured by the staff bandit and his mastery in staff wielding. The staff dance like a snake and in each full swing, it hits the male from the martial hall at least twice to thrice, rendering him heavily injured and bruised appears everywhere on his body. "Brat, be good and get away, I, Ku Lo, will not force myself to kill a weakling like you." the staff bandit Ku Lo says. "Ku Lo! Be Careful! The sneak weapon user shouted, but it was too late. The moment Ku Lo confidently threaten the male from martial hall to get lost before his eyes, Nan Jing Jing''s Chakrams already separated his palm from the wrist. Long Feng also move from behind, and gave him a slap on the back of his head, taking away his life within that single second. When Ku Lo is dead, the hint of soul, or more likely a wisp of a soul, floats on the air for a moment before absorbed into the Clearness Jade Gemstone. Among the six bandits, only three left. The Gao Family disciple managed to obtain some advantage in fighting the sword bandits and managed to force them to pull out because of the differences in Sword Dao understanding. The two sword bandits quickly escape, thinking about preserving their lives and request for some aid as they return to the Base. "Husband! Stop them from bringing more helpers!" Nan Jing Jing speaks with Long Feng through the Ring as she charged towards the sneak weapon bandit. "Understood." Long Feng quickly reacts as he heard Nan Jing Jing''s decision, and with a strong force, he fired the Qian Kun Sword towards the one that getting farther than the other, and a Yellow Heart Poison pill towards the slower sword bandit. "Puh!" the Qian Kun Sword stabbed accurately on the faster sword bandit''s heart, taking away his pitiful lives without a moment of hesitation, and on another side, the slower sword bandit is screaming from his suffering because coming in contact with the Yellow Heart Poison. Long Feng killing four bandit cultivators, Nan Jing Jing one, and the remaining is quickly captured by Wu Wei a few minutes later. "Speak! What brings you guys here? The Man Si House should be based close to Jade Ginseng City and not around here. What brings you guys down to this path?" Wu Wei seems to understand the Man Si House route and was wondering why they expand their territories by so much. "Humph! When did the Man Si house need to follow any territorial rules? If you dare to kill me, one of the ten men captain, you will be chased by the other ten men captains before you can escape from the Five Cities Intersection." the captain from Man Si House loudly announce his position within the house, hoping that they will release him and refrain from killing him, and to not attract any pursuers from the Man Si House. "Customers, what do you all think? If we release him, we will be chased by the bandits from Man Si House immediately. Maybe they will torture us, or extort us for a good amount of coins, but we might get out with our lives. But if we kill him and run away, then we are going to be the hunting targets for the three main Bandit Strongholds in the whole Five City Intersection path." Wu Wei couldn''t make a decision by himself as he has six of his clients within the carriage. Instead of deciding by himself, he put the responsibility away so he could get out from trouble. "Senior Wu Wei, we refuse to decide." the two from Gao Family unwilling to bear the responsibility. Following from behind, the couple from martial hall refused to decide as well, and it came to Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing''s choices. But without answering a word, Nan Jing Jing turned around from the situation and allows Long Feng to decides. "Senior Wu Wei, release him." Long Feng says. Without any intention to stop Long Feng''s decision, he releases the captain of ten men bandits, and the captain quickly runs away from the group. "You all will be dead the time I reach the Man Si House, be happy I''m giving you some more time to stay alive!" he ran as quick as he could until he turns his head to the direction he is running and stopped suddenly. A cut made by a flying Chakrams appears before his neck, as his head slowly slips away from the body cleanly, and rolls on the ground for a moment. Long Feng calmly reach to the remaining five corpses and look for any valuables while Nan Jing Jing is looking at the captain''s body. In the end, only a few cultivation pills, herbs could be found from the six corpses. "Husband, these six small thieves are quite a poor bunch, don''t you think so?" Nan Jing Jing ignore the other''s opinion towards her action, as she felt that this is the law of nature [Kill Before you''re Killed]. "This young master and young lady..." Wu Wei slightly loses his ability of speech, and his whole body is covered with a huge amount of fear. In his eyes currently, a mindset of (Do not object us, or we are going to easily dispose of you without any difficulties!) is running through his mind, making him almost peed in his pants. "Senior Wu Wei, do not think negative of us. Just think it in this way." Long Feng gave Wu Wei a hand to stand up, as he continues. "This captain of the bandit''s group already mentioned about we are going to be dead when he notified the whole Man Si House. Do you think that based on our strength, we could overpass them whom literally ruled over the whole Five Cities Intersection? Instead of waiting for death now, let us continue on our journey, and be alarmed with our surroundings." Long Feng speaks, as he waves his hand to the others to come up to the carriage and continues their journey. "The path to Thunderburst Jade City will take us 10 hours to reach there. Between the 1200 Li distance, we will pass by 3 inns. Each inn is managed by the cooperation of all Bronze Hall within the five cities, so if we could get there before any action is taken by the Man Si House, we will be able to request for help from your respective halls." Coach Driver Wu Wei speaking nervously, and without even waiting for everyone to sit down comfortably, he already lashes a whip towards the steed''s backside and had them to start pulling the carriage. Rush traveling through the night is the most suspicious activities. Sometimes this could give a situation where the bandits will consider the carriage to be filled with a dangerous cultivator, and that''s why they dare to travel during the night. Another suspicion would be the carriage is carrying important materials, and that''s the reason they are worthy to be attacked. Of course, the carriage they are within now easily slips into the second reason because the decoration, the type of Pulling Steeds is used, and also the nervous Coach Driver. Not even an hour after the carriage started to move, the group already encountered some bandits blocking along the way. Seeing the panic Coach Driver and a few human shadow within, this group of bandits from Iron Jade Stronghold felt that this "Golden nugget" had just fallen in front of them. A total of 11 Bandits appears from the bushes along the road and surrounds the carriage. "Brothers, we are in a rush because somebody within our carriage is infected with Yellow Poison Pill. Can we get away without any trouble, please? Your kindness will be appreciated when our friend is safe from the poison." Wu Wei politely explains the reason of their emergency, and hope the bandits could give them a way. "Hahaha, you think we are 5 years old kids here? Leave all your precious belonging here, or we are going to force our way into the carriage and drag all of you out." one of the bandits, seems to be their leader, speaks. But then, the carriage door opened, and Long Feng came down from the carriage holding a pouch with few hundred Blood Refinement Pellets within. "Brothers, a little of gifts to use the road, please accept this." Long Feng shove the opened pouch with 100 pills to the leader and ask politely to be given a passage pass. The leader took the pouch, and checked its content after he finishes calculating the number of Pills within, the leader''s greed came up into his head, and he actually ordered his subordinates to rob the remaining people within the carriage. "You force me to be ruthless." Long Feng shakes his head left and right, indicating a disappointment towards this person that called as human. A payment had already been paid up to ask for a safe journey, but they are still tried to rob us because of their blinding greed within their eyes. Long Feng hidden sword appears from his hand after he withdraws it from the Spatial Storage, and make a slash before the leader has the chances to evade. An Adept Tier cultivator is slaying a Human Refinement Tier cultivator. How hard could that be? Just like this, the leader''s pitiful life is faded from the ruthless sword strike. Without anyone participating in the fight, the carriage passengers are all calm as they heard the scream of pity and fear from outside of the carriage. Ten minutes later, Long Feng entered the carriage and Wu Wei continues with their journey. Long Feng killed all 11 bandits cultivator, and scavenge whatever is worthy for him to collect. Although there is a total of 11 wisps absorbed by Long Feng''s Clearness Jade Gemstone, nothing could be seen changing within the gemstone. The carriage continues, until three hours later, they managed to take a short rest within the safe zone protected by the force of all Bronze Hall. They purchase some of the dried rations before continues with their journey, and without any obstacles along their path, they managed to cross all three inns along the way, and only 50 Li remains before they could exit the Five Cities Intersection. The group relaxed as they finally going to get out from the Intersection, but the relax a little bit too early! At least a total of 1000 bandits cultivator from Man Si House is gathered before the exits of the Thunderburst Jade City, and these 1000 people are lead by 10 Adept Tier cultivators! Just with this 1000 bandits appearance before the exits of the Intersection, this gave Wu Wei a shock, as he tightens the reins of the steeds and stops them from continuing forwards! Book 1 Chapter 56 - Travelling to Thunderburst Jade City (Part 2) Within the Thunderburst Jade City Lord''s Mansion. A few Lang core family members are busy attending to the issues around the whole Thunderburst Jade City. Since the House of Miraculous Jade Auction is going to be held within the south of the city. Since this city had become the gathering location of all outside cultivators, many small fights and internal strive happened within everywhere in the city, because of the appearance of many powerhouses from all over the Brilliant Jade Kingdom. A few well-known figure is already been spotted within the Thunderburst Jade City. "Look! That''s the Inner Disciple of the Beast Taming School, Young Master Du Run Yu! I heard that his cultivation is already at the Peak of Practitioner Tier!" one cultivator shared the information he had with the other groups of cultivator besides him. "Those from Late Silver Hall really have too many profound treasures to cultivates. A peak of Practitioner Tier cultivators at the age of 18, who can match with him among his peers?" one of the members of the groups replied back. "Look there as well! That''s the youngest Inner Disciple of Heavenly Ascension School, the 16 years old Ye Hao! I heard he already at the Late Heaven Practitioner Tier Stage now, only a slight push is needed to reach Peak Practitioner Tier!" another well-known cultivator from Late Silver Hall superpower appears within the limelight. Following from behind as well is also a genius within the Brilliant Jade Kingdom. "That''s Luo Qian! She actually participates in this auction as well! Did she come here purposely for the seventh Rank Category Pills? I thought that the Profound Herb School will have plenty of those treasured recipes within their School Library." one of the female cultivators from the Bronze Pill Hall of Thunderburst Jade City comments. Although the square before the House of Miraculous Treasure is huge and noisy, the female cultivator would not believe that Luo Qian actually heard what she says, and smiled. "this girl is too innocent and lack of knowledge about the pills she should actually refine. Within the Profound Herb School, only one Eighth Category, two Seventh Category, and three Sixth Category recipe is kept within the School. Of course, I would try to get myself a seventh Category Pills in my hand for research." she thinks in her mind, as she follows the earlier group to their respective accommodation. After a while, a few different clans, sect, and Family also sent their representatives to attend the auction, but their popularity is nowhere as crazy as the three schools Inner Disciples. The participants appear one after another, and it keeps on going until the number stopped exactly at 995 honored guest. A total of five more honored guest is yet to appears, and the auction is known to be starting in two more days. "I wonder why Xiao Feng is not here yet. Should I sent some soldiers to check his current location?" one of the organizers of the House of Miraculous Jade''s grand auction is worried about a particular person''s attendance. This person who stands before the House''s entrance, is Lang Ya, one of the precious son of Lang Ren, Vice-General of General Nan''s Ten battalions. "Young Master, something is reported from the Five Cities Intersections Scouts." One soldier in his tight flexible attire appears before Lang Ya. "What happened?" Lang Ya asked. "Young Master, we believe that something happened to the Man Si House in this two days. A large number of Man Si House bandits, lead by ten Adept Tier Cultivators is gathering before the exits of Thunderburst jade City Entrance. In the same time, the scouting team managed to notice that the carriage, is carrying six cultivators and a Coach Driver, all of them from Clear Jade City." the soldier immediately reports the news from outside of the city. "Brother Xiao Feng, what happened to you again? This is not good. His cultivation is only at around Middle Heaven Refinement Tier, and all of the Bandit''s division leaders are in Adept Tier cultivation." Lang Ya considers his few options. After making a few hypothesis of the solution choices, he summoned his men. "First Squad Leader and Second Squad Leader, lead your 500 men team to force the Man Si House bandits to get away from our intersection entrance and protect the carriage and those friends from Clear Jade City. If there is a Pill Masters within named Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing, bring them directly to the City Lord''s Mansion." Lang Ya instruct the two Squad Leader to take note of his concern and immediately make their move to protect the Carriage from Clear Jade City. Meanwhile, in the Five Cities Intersection, a few carriage and caravans had been pull over or retreated, because of the amazing numbers of bandits is gathering altogether at one. Usually, the bandits come in a team of five to ten for a small robbery, while between 50 if they expecting a fight. If they are coming in around 200 to 500 men, it should be with motives to clean a village or small town clean from any valuables. But this time, 1000 men strong bandits actually gathered together. "I, Tai Pan, do not like to fight a single Ant by mobilizing a thousand elephants. Whoever killed my younger cousin, come out and face your fate, or else, all seven of you will be buried without a whole corpse here!" the one that seems to be their leader, loudly speaks as he walked closer to the carriage. After hearing the word he loudly speaks out, everyone within the carriage, except Nan Jing Jing and Long Feng, is shaking furiously, afraid they will be dead. They wished to ask Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing to get down and surrender themselves, so the four of them and the coach driver could be left alive, but they couldn''t speak the word out, because the one that protected them from death, is exactly the two person they wished to ask them to surrender! "Brother Li, Sister Nan, what do you think?" one of the Gao Family disciples asked for the Li couple''s intention. "We can leave this location anytime, but not you five. If I choose to get down from the carriage and run, what do you think will happens to you guys?" Nan Jing Jing asked. The others channels their rich imagination, and a hint of fear appears in their minds. "We... Most probably will get killed, Rob and my partner will get raped before death, before they started to turn around and continue chasing you two." the male from martial hall speaks out what came across his mind. "That''s why. We either fight until the Thunderburst jade City assistance is arrived, or we surrender and let them do whatever they want from us." Nan Jing Jing says to the other five within the carriage. "I... I''ll fight! I will protect you, my future wife!" the male from martial hall pick up his courage to speaks, and as his words came out from his mouth, the lady, from feeling despair starts to have a shine in her eyes. "I will fight too, I don''t want to be separated from you ever!" she picks up her courage as well to fight. "We... Will fight too!" the Gao Family pick up their courage as well and getting ready. Looking at the group of six is so motivated, Coach Driver Wu Wei also holding his twin daggers on both hands, and prepare to charge out. "Wait." Long Feng holds then from attacking first. He passes two Yellow Heart Poison Pills to each person included Nan Jing Jing, and went down from the carriage slowly. "Wow, what a big group of bandits surrounding this young cultivator." Long Feng speaks loudly as soon as he came down from the carriage. He walked closer to the Bandit Leader Tai Pan and cupped both hands to make a polite bow gestures. "Big Brother, we are forced to kill because the group from earlier wanted us dead before robbing us clean. If pushed into this situation, will you not fight before death as well?" Long Feng throws a question to Tai Pan. "Humph! Say what you want, but since you lot already kills my younger cousin and make his mother unhappy, we will make sure to bring your head back to the Man Si House to let his mother heart felt at ease!" Tai Pan, leaving no place to negotiate, insisted to kill Long Feng and bring his head back as tributes for the dead younger cousin. In reality, he was looking for some reason to bring back to their Man Si House and tried to use it to obtain the chances to get closer to his younger cousin''s mother and owned this woman when the chances are ripe. "If that''s the case, could you let my friend go? I am the one that kills five among six of them, my other friends are all little cowards that only know how to hide and run." Long Feng actually dare to speak out such words from his mouth. Meanwhile, within the carriage, Nan Jing Jing secretly smiles as Long Feng''s reply came into the ring. "Wife, are you sure this way, they will allow you guys to pass?" but then, Nan Jing Jing replied "No". Long Feng totally devastated by her answer. But behind the reason of such provocations, Long Feng does not understand the reason why Nan Jing Jing tried to provoke Tai Pan! Hunting a pack of the ferocious beast does not necessary to start from catching its babies, torturing the cubs, Killing the young, and leave the leader last. If one goes through this kind of ways, they are expected to fail from the start. And this kind of mindset is where the borderline between success and failure stands facing one another. Nan Jing Jing''s way is using the direct provocation to first disrupt the leader''s capability in handling the small matters, and his judgment in facing attacking enemies. Nan Jing Jing next move is to make sure that the provoked enemies will either decide to leave the other targets and aim at their main target altogether or decided to underestimate all the targets. If the bandit leader is falling into this move, either way, Nan Jing Jing''s strategy will definitely be a successful layout. Exactly up to Nan Jing Jing''s expectations. Tai Pan actually ate the provocation hard enough, and gave the order to allows the others to quickly get away from this area, and put all their attention on the one handed sword wielder, Long Feng. As the carriage starts to leave the area, Long Feng''s next instructions came from the ring. He followed and taunted the bandits. "Don''t waste the time, while they are leaving, choose ten of your men to come and face me. Or do you prefer 1000 to 1? I don''t mind, I''m soon to meet my maker anyway." Long Feng sweat in his heart as he speaks like this. He felt like crying inside. "How dare you! One of the Adept Tier cultivators beside Tai Pan speaks in anger after listening to Long Feng''s taunts. "Ten men! Go down and get his head to Leader Tai!" he shouted angrily, and ten man from the bandit''s group immediately charge downwards from the slope and met Long Feng face to face. With his sword in his hand, Long Feng began to channel his Orange Fire Stage tempering strength to his whole body, and increase his defensive by using the Xuan Wu Divination Art, with his body becoming strong, sturdy and bursting with strong Essence Energy, Long Feng charges! Rushing to his left side where three among ten bandits is running to him together!If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. "Three Strikes!" Long Feng attack with full confidence and that confidence has taken a note from the Adept Tier bandit that ordered the attack earlier. "This Brat is actually an Adept Tier Cultivator! Everyone, Charge!" he shouted, afraid that the initial 10 bandits wouldn''t be enough to fight against this Adept Tier cultivator. And the worries in his heart come true. Long Feng just needed two strikes, to separated the head from the first three bandits. Looking at the other bandits that coming down from the slopes as well, Long Feng hesitates not, and continue to charge to another direction, where two bandits and running towards him side by side. Again, one strong slash! Two heads fly from the body and fall to the ground. With the other five earliest bandits having their hesitation, Long Feng take a moment to circulate his breathing, and withdraw two Pills from his Spatial Ring and pop them into his mouth. "A Tiger Stripes Soul Pill to enhance my Elemental, Healing, and Essence Energy for four consecutive times when I''m fighting, and a Calming Spirit Dew Pellet to make sure my mind is not affected by the bloodlust. Seems like fighting as a Pill Master not only will need to spend loads on the Medicinal Pills, it''s a path of using money as cultivation strength to fight equally with others!" Long Feng smiled as he thinks about the irony of being a Pill Master Cultivator. Actually, no one among the Pill Masters path will easily pop a pill worth around 10,000 Spirit Bronze Coins into their mouth to aid themselves in a fight. Some experienced Pill Master will always prepare some Poison to counter the larger amount of opponents, some Cultivating and Healing Pills to aid them during the fight, some Tempering Pill to recover their Elemental Energy storage, and some random special pills to enhance their body strength. Most of them prepared the Pills by themselves, and hardly get into a random fight like what Long Feng is facing now. Only some exceptional Pill Masters, such as Death Masters and Dark Poison Masters usually have some strong group controlling Pills that could aid them from being attacked from all directions. Element Tempering Masters usually have a strong foundation on their Element Tempering, and wouldn''t easily be defeated even facing opponent stronger than them one or two stage ahead. While for some Cultivation Masters, their cultivation is high, to begin with, so even without sufficient martial arts, their overall cultivation already gave them an advantage before fighting. This is also one of the reasons, why Pill Masters could flourish easily, harder to kill, and also if successfully hunted down, the return from the effort is totally worth sacrificing few of their subordinates! And this is the situation Long Feng just landed himself into! "Come, bring all your life over and let me dispose of you all for good!" Long Feng already had a Calming Spirit Dew Pellet in his body a while ago, but still, after killing at least 200 of the bandits, the Bloodlust within his mind started to grow stronger, destroying the calmness border within Long Feng''s mind. "Husband! Do not fall into the abyss of Bloodlust!" Nan Jing Jing could felt Long Feng''s breath and Cultivation running in a mess, indicating a strong disruption within his mind. As the heads, limbs, and torso of the bandit are killed reach 300, Long Feng couldn''t continue to fight anymore, although he still has one more round of bursting effect from the Tiger Stripes Soul Pill. "Huh... Huh..." Long Feng''s breath becoming a mess as his lungs started to constrict, making him having difficulties to channel his Essence Energy. "Hahaha, that kid finally falls into the Abyss of Bloodlust." the Adept Bandit beside Tai Pan laughs as he saw Long Feng fall to one knee on the ground. But his word cause anger from Tai Pan, and without a word, the Wolf Toothed Mace smack his back, and had the Adept Bandit to fall down from the slopes. "Leader, why would you do that to Tai Tan?" another Adept Bandit talks as he sees Tai Pan smack the earlier Adept Bandit from his horse. "Happy for our 300 brothers death, what kind of Captain are you? No matter they are weak or not, they are still the brothers of the Man Si House, and you actually happy when their death is used to weakened this brat!" Tai Pan shows his qualification and consideration of a leader, as he looked at two slim as a bamboo male behind him. "Palou, Paluo, go and get his head back to me." Tai Pan gave an order to the two bamboo figure slender twins. "Understood!" the twins replied, and charge down the slope together with their [Ash Flame Hundred Li Battle Stead]. Although their horses'' name is slightly different compared to what Wu Wei is handling at the moment, but for cultivators who preferred to fight their battle on the horse, the choices of [Battle Contract Beast Kind, the Ash Flame Hundred Li Battle Stead] would be wiser, due to the aggressiveness of the horses. The twins Adept Tier bandits are using a similar weapon to each other, a whip. The last bursting effect from the Tiger Stripes Soul Pill came and gave Long Feng a moment of better condition to continues his fighting before he escapes from his current spot and pops in two more Calming Spirit Dew Pellet into his mouth. Long Feng channel his Essence Energy to assimilate the Pills, and make his head less heavy from the incredibly heavy bloodlust effect. But the twins attack is very well synchronized. One chasing, another cornering. One attacking, another disrupting. When one is chased by following attack from the opponent, another one help with a sneak attack from their long distance whip. An eerie bell with irritating sounds could be heard each time the whip is swing around their attacking range, causing a disruption in their opponent''s mind and soul. Even for Long Feng, who lack of fighting experience, is pushed into a dead end. "Husband! Struggle!" Nan Jing Jing voice came into his head. Long Feng immediately wakes from the needle pain headache as he plays his Defensive Wu Sword Art. A ball of swords appears without any gaps to enter is established by Long Feng to defend against the sound and the long range attack from that two whips. Long Feng felt helpless as he was cornered while his ball of swords is continuously rained by attacks from two steel tip whips. One of the twins, Paluo had his whip reached a piece of stone as big as a human head, and with all his strength, he tossed the stone towards Long Feng''s direction to cause his ball of sword useless. While at the same time, Palou charge deep into Long Feng''s range of attack, with a dagger appears at the end of his grip, as he leaps from his horse and tried to gave Long Feng a tight hug. "Despicable!" Long Feng shouts with dissatisfaction as he turned around to face Palou! Stopping the struggle of allowing the Bloodlust entering his mind, Long Feng decided to go according to the flow and swing his sword with much force! Palou makes a turn in midair as he falls to the ground with his hand still on the grip of his whip, and like a beast, he crawls with four limbs and getting close to Long Feng''s feet. But as he looks above on Long Feng before he tried to stab him with the dagger, he was shocked by what he saw on his target. A bloody red eye youngster about 15 years younger than him, is slamming the sword''s body toward him at the ground! Palou tried to escape by rolling his body sideways, but Long Feng''s force is not only on his sword, it is on the whole fist itself! His fist touched the ground where Palou head was positioned seconds ago, and being crushed by Long Feng with his bare fist. Long Feng then swing his fist, ignoring the sword on his hand as he behaves like how a tortoise in anger would do. Paluo panic and quickly charge towards where Long Feng and Palou is fighting, and have the tip of his whip charge at Long Feng like a snake heading for its bite. But Long Feng turned around, looking at the tip of the whip without any concern, and with one swing, a special technique had been formed from the heavy Bloodlust, the [Xuan Wu Divine Shell!] A visibly seen Shell of a Fortune Telling Tortoise appears around Long Feng, Fluid and Flexible to unimaginable perfection. The Shell formed from the Essence Energy, not only utilizing the Defensive Wu Sword Art into its perfection stage, the Essence Energy used making this [Xuan Wu Divine Shell] is even managed to make this Shell flexible and sturdy, Allowing a total defence without any gap for the similar cultivation Tier opponent to have no chances to break through. Paluo is shocked with the sudden changes in Long Feng''s martial art capability, and a hint of fears appeared within his mind immediately. Palou escaped from Long Feng''s side when Long Feng is staring straight to Paluo, but before he noticed his back is totally exposed, nothing else could be heard, except that his head already falling from the human height to kissing the ground second later. His eyes open wide, perhaps still wondering about how his head could be decapitated in a split moment. Paluo is scared into a state of unable to return. This youngster before him is totally behaving like a death god. He wished that he could run, but his both leg already giving up and waiting for its judgment. Tai Pan wished to take his action as well, but when he considered the way Palou is killed, he immediately retracts his intention, and remain idle on top of the slopes. Without any other choices, Paluo could only close his eyes and awaits his death. Long Feng''s sword ruthlessly swings towards his neck, but then, it stopped before the edges and the skin making a contact. "Scram..." a very weak whisper that only Paluo could hear, came out from Long Feng''s tightly closed lips. Paluo is not a dumb person, so of course, being given a second chance to run, he immediately escaped from the circle of Long Feng''s reach. But Paluo doesn''t return to where Tai Pan and the other Adept Tier cultivators are gathered but run away towards where one of the Inn is positioned. "Paluo, where are you going?" Tai Pan shouts loudly, but Paluo ran without looking back, even to the point of ignoring Tai Pan and his words. "What a coward! Send some men to kill him and bring his head back to me!" Tai Pan shouts towards the other bandits along the slopes, and three Adept Bandits appears before him, deflecting a flying weapon that seems like a short sword! "It''s that brat''s sword! He actually tosses his sword as a weapon to try and kill Leader Tai!" the Adept bandits is angered by this action, but none of them dare to ride down the slopes and go to claim Long Feng''s head. The hint of fear from slaying 300 Men, killing Palou, and daring to use the Qian Kun Sword as a weapon to try killing Tai Pan from far away, is not some mere Pill Masters would do. "This brat is one aggressive bastard. Fall back! Fall back immediately!!" Tai Pan hurried his fellow bandits to leave the place, as they believe there will be nothing to be obtained from this fight. Perhaps even their own little lives would be lost if they insist to fight until death completely. Meanwhile, Long Feng is struggling to control the Abyss of Bloodlust from continuing to ravage his whole body. "This is bad, If this bloodlust continues to reside within my body, sooner or later, even my closest companion would be killed by my own hand!" Long Feng struggle as he tried to contain all the wild energy surging from his body. And as the bandits had all retreated from the location, the two Squad dispatched by Lang Ya to the position had finally reached along with the carriage where the five passengers and Wu Wei is riding. Nan Jing Jing came out from the carriage and quickly rushed to Long Feng side, and put a YinYang Cleansing Pellet and Mind Returning Elixir into his throat, forcing him to assimilate the medicinal effect given by the two he just swallowed. Long Feng''s mind quickly returned to the condition he could control it once again and tried his best to stabilize himself. As he sits down and meditates, the two squad leader comes close to the couple and politely greets them. "Young Master Li and Lady Nan, we are the private squad of City Lord Young Master Lang Ya. Our master requests us to escort you both back to the City Lord''s Mansion and enjoy the banquet before the Auction start. We had already sent a messenger to our Young Master to report what happened here, I believe our Young Master could adjust according to the situation." the First Squad Leader speaks politely to Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing, as he waves his hand towards a direction where the City Lord''s Carriage already been prepared. "Please help us, husband and wife, to say thank you to Brother Lang Ya. Let us depart and return to the Thunderburst Jade City immediately." Nan Jing Jing politely replies the Squad Leader''s words as she holds Long Feng shoulder and supports him to walk slowly into the carriage. Just like this, both Carriages carry on their journey until after they entered the city, the carriage driven by Wu Wei heads toward another Direction, while the City Lord''s Carriage directly heads into the City Lord''s Mansion. "Youngest Brother!" Lang Ya happily appears before the carriage and had his subordinate walked closer to Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing, and pass him a few special unranked pills. "Third Brother, Xiao Feng first time coming into the city and actually appeared in such condition." Long Feng embarrassedly speaks to his third brother. "What are you being courteous with me for? There is a Master-Rank YinYang Cleansing Pellet and Master-Rank Mind Returning Elixir in this container, quickly take it and meditate yourself so you recover before the auction starts." Lang Ya gave Long Feng a knock on his head, and lead them both to their room. "Did you see how close is Young Master and this Pill Master Li?" one of his subordinate comments. "That is for sure. Did you forget Young Master''s born constitution, the [Righteous Eye of Yang]?" another subordinate reply. "But no matter how sharp Young Master''s eyes are, he wouldn''t believe unless he saw it with his own eyes." the squad leader comments. "You means the solo killing of 300 bandits, and one adept Tier bandit?" another squad leader comments. "Hmm... I hope this brotherhood between our Young Master and the Young Master Li will not create any issue in the future." he felt like a sigh, after knowing he cannot do anything on behalf of his young master. Book 1 Chapter 57 - Travelling to Thunderburst Jade City (Part 3) "Luo Qian, what did you done to the two Peak Adept Tier subordinate of mine!" one instructor that came along with Luo Qian from the Profound Herb School is angry with what happened a few days ago. A few days ago during their journey from the Profound Herb School towards Thunderburst Jade City, the group met a Strong Ferocious Beast in its Human Practitioner tier strength. Although the beast is quickly disposed of by the protectors within the school, two of them is injured when attacked, so Luo Qian being kind enough and gave them some Medicinal Pills to recover. At first, the Pills works miraculously, healing the body of the practitioner without any side effect from the fast healing properties. But after two days, the injuries became even worst, especially when it is activated by the moonlight. The moment the moonlight appears on the skies, the Medicinal Pill, known as Moonlight Dew Recovery Pill, becoming active and began to corrode the two subordinate of this Instructor through skin, rashes, internal organ decaying, and many more extreme suffering conditions. Since this Instructor is within the group and saw such thing happened to them, he couldn''t control his temper and went over to Luo Qian''s personal room to ask for the antidote. "Instructor Yao, I am not the one that caused all this. They must have it already before they take my medication, else how could it react in such vicious way?" Luo Qian feign her innocence, with a deep opened slit on her long skirt, showing the whole snow white leg to the instructor to have a look. Her dress is slightly bare, revealing most of her natural curve to the instructor to view. Stop your little seducing movements. Give me the antidotes now!" The instructor turned his eyes to another side without Luo Qian, and maintain his calm as he asks for the antidotes again. But then, Luo Qian appears before him, looking at the instructor with a pair of eyes that could melt even the hardest piece of ice. "Don''t you felt an urge to touch this milky smooth body of mine?" Luo Qian continues with her sexy gestures, turning and showing her hips, her long legs, her cleavages between the chest, and her little slender arms. The instructor maintains his cool, and felt he couldn''t hold it anymore, he turned around and talk. "I will make sure you will be penalized by the Inner Sect Great Elder, Luo Yang. You better stop doing this kind of sneaky move anymore!" the instructor finished his word, and leaves without any antidotes within his hand. "Devil spawns, what a devil spawn." this word keep running in his mind. Luo Qian patiently stares at the Instructor until he left the small garden before the room, and returned to her room and lock her door tightly. Withdrawing a piece of high-quality yellow paper within her spatial ring, she injects a slight Essence Energy into the paper so the soundless dome is created, covering the whole room. She then opened the wardrobe beside the bed, and five men appear within, naked, with their "Willies" is standing strong. All five men are crying and begging for forgiveness and hoping to be released with their pitiful lives, but Luo Qian has some different "Intention" for keeping them. "Oh, seems like this pill here is the full of evilness [Blood Yang Poison], I wonder what will happen when you ate it?" Luo Qian feeds the Pill into one of the men and untied him from the wardrobe. Then she closes the wardrobe with the four men remaining within and looked at the recently released man. "Young Lady, please let this pitiful man like me go, I won''t dare to have any intention on you anymore!" the man cries as he asks for his pitiful life to be left alone. Within his mind, the regrets of speaking nonsense during morning time about Luo Qian keeps running within his mind. "Did you remember what did you say this morning?" Luo Qian asked while swinging her body in a sexy way. The man felt aroused, and since he was stark naked at the first place, his "Willy" is standing straight while staring at Luo Qian as she continues to move around. "You said before, (this woman, if I have the chances to F**k her, I will make sure she moan so loudly on the bed until she couldn''t walk). I''m in front of you now, with my dresses almost... Oh, fall down. There is a bed behind me, why don''t you come and give me some manly strike?" Luo Qian moves until her dress falls and reveals her naked body, and seats on the bed with her finger pointing on the man, calling him to come over. The man couldn''t control himself as he felt like his whole body is burning with lust, he walks over to the bed, press Luo Qian down and attempt to "Pierce" her with his only weapon. But before his wish is succeeded. Luo Qian''s both palm is sucking all his Yang Energy that was converted from swallowing the [Yang Blood Poison]. His blood continues to become Heavily concentrated Yang Essence Energy until all the blood is dried from the body. He ends up like a dried corpse and thrown aside by Luo Qian on another corner of the room. Next, she walked over to the wardrobe and opened it once again, with her seductive but deadly eyes and said, "Who''s among you four wished to "Penetrates" me? You all will have the chances, Hahaha!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile, Long Feng is busy assimilating the medicine after he returned to the room and cultivates. Nan Jing Jing is seated beside him, cultivating as well, but couldn''t pay attention because of a certain issue running through her mind at the moment. "I''m alone with husband in one room! Are we going to sleep together later?" she actually failed to notice Long Feng''s stupidity in this matter and kept having those naughty thoughts within her head. But after a while, Long Feng finally cough out few mouthful of dark colored blood, which is impure and infected with heavy Abyss of Bloodlust intent. The Blood slowly evaporates, as of they are not something that should be appearing within this world. "Husband, are you feeling better now?" Nan Jing Jing question in a very worried tone. "I''m fine, do not worry. Brother Lang Ya''s medicine is extremely pure and effective. I wonder should we went out to look for him?" Long Feng has the intention to meet his third brother because he still have a batch of Thunder Spirit Pills to be delivered to him, and also to say thanks for his brother''s precious medicine. Coincidently, a few knock on the door could be heard, and Lang Ya''s voice could be heard from another side of the door. "Youngest Brother! Are you better now? Come out and have a feast, all of us together!" Lang Ya invites Long Feng to join him and others for a meal. "Of course! Third brother, I will come out now." Long Feng replied, and hold Nan Jing Jing together to the door and meet his third brother. "Oh! Seems like my brother is taller now, and you seems to break through the Refinement Tier as well, Not bad, Not bad." Lang Ya scanned his brother and give him a praise for the quick improvement. The three of them walked over to the Dining Hall and met with the other guest within the huge dining table. The middle of the table is wide opened, with at least ten of the food server handling portions of meals one by one to each person within the thirty-three seats round table. At least hundred type of dishes is prepared, and most importantly, all of the dishes within this room used Cultivation Ingredients as their raw materials. Sun Spear Flying Chicken, Golden Horn Buffalo, Thunder Wool Lamb, Thunder Sparrow Eggs, Poison Crow Raw Meat, Rainbow Feather Ostrich, Silver Scales Dragon Eel, Profound Venom Centipede, Moonlight Howling Wolf, Regal Mammoth, Flying Spear Fish.A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. Thousand Leaves Cabbage, Hundred Roots Ginger, Yang Rich Garlic, Blood Carrots, Crystal Radish, Dark Fiend Lotus Pod, Green Yin Soybean Pods, Healing Oil Fruit, Venom Bee''s Honey, Rock Maple Tree''s Soft Bark, Roots of Melon Tree, Bitter YinYang Gourd, Quantum Heaven Chilli, Killing World Pepper. All profound ingredients are well prepared on the table with their special respective dish, and being served to each guest on the table. As Long Feng, Lang Ya and Nan Jing Jing appeared before the table with 30 guests already started to enjoy the Moon Shadow Jade Light Dew, a kind of wine that fermented, and refined with three different Wine Barrel that contains Marble Jade Gemstone, Clearness Jade Gemstone and Azure Jade Gemstone within. This wine is perfect for internal and external injuries, a few cups are enough for a heavy wound to recover, while a deadly wound might take longer and more to drink, and assisting in preserving that precious life. "Junior Li Long Feng, Nan Jing Jing, greets everyone here." the couple greets everyone within the hall, followed by Lang Ya behind them. Looking directly in the middle of the seats, Lang Ren, who is the Vice-General of Great General Nan Gong Yu immediately recognize his Master''s Young Lady. "Lady Nan, what are you doing here in this small city?" when Lang Ren greets like this, everyone couldn''t help but shocked with how Lang Ren, the most powerful figure within this city is politely speaking with Nan Jing Jing. "Uncle Lang, don''t call me like this when we are outside. Please call me Jing Jing like usual." Nan Jing Jing replies. Those attending the banquet also gave Long Feng back a greeting, as they all seated and starting to enjoy the meals. Stories such as skirmishes toward the west, attacks from the north, some medical stories about what had been found in certain places, and also some secret location that recently been revealed. A few among the guest on the table of 33 people come as honored guest, especially because of the auction. One of them is Tang San, the third brother of the Tang Clan, Turmoil Pill Clan''s Bowen Bugu, Yang Clan''s Yang Jie, Mu Qiu Feng from Wen Ren Sect that Long Feng met once before in the Virtue Hall, Jade Maiden Sect''s Li Yi and some other strong cultivators from throughout the whole Kingdom. Suddenly, a whisper is heard from the ring directly to Long Feng''s mind. "Husband presents everyone within the room five Upper-Rank Tiger Stripes Soul Pill now!" Nan Jing Jing quietly whispers to Long Feng. Under Nan Jing Jing''s instructions, Long Feng stands and starts to talk. "Seniors and Elders among this table. Junior Long Feng recently trying to make his name within this Kingdom and participates in the Auction by registering few of his hand-refined Pills within. To bring our relationship closer with everyone, Junior wished to presents everyone within this table with five of this Medicinal Pill as meeting gift." without a hint of hesitation, Long Feng withdraws a total of 155 pills from his Spatial Storage and distribute it to the 31 guest within the dining table, giving each of them a slight surprise. "This Pill is at least a fourth category Pills. And with such amount, this kid is really something!" Wang Ping''s father, Wang Kang, praise Long Feng for his generous gift to each person seated at this Dining Table. "I heard about you from Ping''er, so you''re the seventh brother he recently keeps hanging around his lips, am I correct?" Wang Kang continues to praise Long Feng happily. "Brother Wang Kang, not only your Ping''er is hanging Long Feng on his lips every day, even my own son Lang Ya is no different. Long Feng here and there every day, seems like now I know why, Hahaha!" Lang Ren butted into the topic and comment as well. "Little Disciple of my God-Brother Tang Wen, seems like your refining Pills Technique is comparable to your master by now." Mu Qiu Feng from Wen Ren Sect praised Long Feng as well. The praising doesn''t stop there, where the other elders also stand up to thanked Long Feng for his generous gift. Some of them even provide Long Feng a token to allows him to enter their Clan, Sect, and Family Mansion as a respectful guest. Just like this, under Nan Jing Jing''s guidance, she created a situation that''s beneficial to her husband to create a name for himself within the Kingdom. With the meal ends and everyone returns to their respective room, Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing fired a Sky Jade Fireworks to summon the Collection Officer from the House of Miraculous Jade. Coincidently, this time the person arriving before Long Feng is Du Zhe again. "Young Pill Master, how are you doing?" Du Zhe politely greets Long Feng. "Master Du Zhe, Xiao Feng have a few more Pills to be put within the Auction, would it be too late now?" Long Feng presents the Pills before Du Zhe and allows him to have an inspection. As Du Zhe use his scanning on each single Pills within the two pouch, he wasn''t really shocked with Long Feng''s 340 Upper-Rank Tiger Stripes Soul Pills, but he was shocked due to Long Feng''s 50 Master-Rank Tiger Stripes Soul Pills. "This is a Master-Rank Pills! 50 of it on top of that. My rough guess from the energy it released, it is almost closed up to a Sixth Category Pills. But too bad, the slight difference is still there, thus I, Du Zhe can only rate it a Peak Fifth Category Pills." "Young Pill Master, with all these Pills, is placed in Auction, I hereby increase the rank of your token from 500,000 Spirit Bronze Coins worth into a 5 Silver Coin and 500,000 Spirit Bronze Coins worth. I will see you tomorrow." Du Zhe accepted the Pills, and excuse himself to continue with his task. The couple then returned to their room, without noticing a few pairs of eyes is looking at the couple. "Did you think our youngest brother already "owned" her?" two sneaky shadows secretly shared their opinions. And then, a taller shadow appears between them and sneak along with the two, and walked over stealthily behind the couple. After the couple went into the room, the first two Shadow, Zhe Lie and Zhe Bie, and the third Shadow, Lang Ya, appears from the dark and tried to get closer to the couple''s room. But before their sneaky trick is successfully conducted, a pair of hand came and pinch the three of them as he pulled them away. "Sneaking at night without reasons, for sure something bad is within you three brat''s mind." The person lecturing all three when leaving is Lang Ya''s father, Lang Ren. Even the dumbest would know that the only daughter of General Nan is within his Mansion, so it''s a sure thing Lang Ren will be more cautious compared to others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next morning, fireworks in all kind of colors could be seen everywhere in the south of Thunderburst Jade City! A long row of shops and stalls is seen neatly opened along the way, foods, materials, treasures are bustling within the whole road until the entrance of the House of Miraculous Jade. The only opened and not busy path is covered with a precious 4 Li length Red Fireflame Bird''s feather carpet. The representative of many powerhouses within the whole Kingdom is slowly entering the House entrance few at the same time. Some of them chatted along their way as if the item along their left and right is nothing but trash. Some of them even loudly ridicule the owner of some Stall about their quality and instantly making them lose all their bustling business. After a 30 minutes door opening session, the main door finally closed, and around 50 Peak Elder Tier cultivators appeared from the House, and guards throughout the surrounding. Within the House of Miraculous Jade, three different seats are categorized. the Rarity Tier, the Precious Tier, and the Oddity Tier. those who are located on the Rarity Tier are usually the small family or clan from whole Kingdom, having some money but not too much to spends. even the three Strong Bandit Groups, the Feral Dog Vagabonds, the Iron Jade Stronghold, and the Man Si House, only qualified to seated on this Tier. The Precious Tier is dominated mostly by the people with treasures submitted into the Auction. only some random force is seated along with this group. Lastly is the Oddity Tier, where only people from the main three school, main three sect, main three clan and royal families are allowed to be seated here. "Ladies and Gentlemen, Royalties and Masters around the whole Kingdom, welcome to the House of Miraculous Jade''s Grand Auction! I am your host for today, Li Jing, and beside me is one of the most prominent beauty within the Kingdom, Young Lady Peng Hui''er, who is also the only Precious Daughter of the Minister of Left, Prime Minister Peng Yang." "Since everyone had been waiting for so long already, let us starts the auction with the first Item today, the Third Earth Grade Spirit Weapon, Black Meteor Rain Hammer! this weapon is comparable to a cultivator''s strength at his Practitioner Tier Cultivation, and in its Earth Grade. the opening price is at 300,000 Spirit Bronze Coins, each bid increased the price by 50,000 Bronze Coins, please get ready to bid!" Li Jing starts the auction, and prepare to receive the furious attack from all bidders! With the Black Meteor Rain Hammer entering the stage, all cultivators started to get mad in their bid-fighting. Book 1 Chapter 58 - Travelling to Thunderburst Jade City (Part 4) "Sold!" Li Jing shouts as the Black Meteor Rain Hammer is sold for a price of 600,000 Bronze Coins. "Congratulations to the Ba Family head, Master Ba Yu for obtaining this first auction item!" Lady Peng Hui''er announce the winner of the item as required, until Li Jing''s turn. "Everyone, do not blink your eyes, this is the second item for the Grand Auction, the [Pure Molten Jade Water]. This is one of a kind special ingredients rich in Water Element properties and is the essential ingredients to refine any water related Pills. It could also be used as the material for culture hall to be smelt into Molten Jade weapon or armor, depending on your needs! Starting price is 300,000 Bronze Coins, every bid increase the price by 50,000 Bronze Coins! Please start your bid now!" Li Jing announces the next treasure, and get ready for the bidding to starts. "500,000 Bronze Coins!" one Pill Master from Precious Tier seats starts bidding as well. When such treasure with incredible elemental properties is within the Auction, the fight for the ingredients became even wilder, and sometimes, some ingredients could achieve skyrocket price due to the difficulties to obtain it. Long Feng is looking wide at how aggressive the other bidder is, and felt that the bidding in the auction is even more ferocious than fighting in real life. It is also because words do not take a life, thus the battle between words always depends on whose Word-Tivation is higher. Based on experience, threatening, studies and natural birth skills, one could always improve their Dao of Mouth through competing with people daily, be it in buying a single onion to buying a million coins treasure. "1.3 Million Bronze Coins!" one Pill Master get up straight from his seat and push the price from 1 Million to 1.3 Million Bronze Coins. "Whoooo!" everyone from the Rarity Tier and Precious Tier is slightly shocked with this kind of money paid to purchase a single ingredient, the [Pure Molten Jade Water]. As Li Jing announced the item had gone to the successful buyer, Peng Hui''er continues to introduce the next item. This continuous sequence goes until the 43rd item and was sold for an amazing 1.1 Million Bronze Coins. "Congratulations to Master Feng Xiao from the Feng Family to successfully bid this [Third Earth Grade Spirit Weapon - Typhoon Twin Dagger]." As Li Jing ends his words, Peng Hui''er continued. "The long awaited treasure everyone anticipates is here. This is our first special treasure for the day, came from a potentially amazing young Pill Master. Due to the House of Miraculous Jade only possess a total of 440 Pills in hand only, we are selling this in the amount of 100 pills each time, and it will be available throughout the auction for a total of 5 times!" "Ladies and Gentlemen, Hui''er presents to you all, the miraculous Fourth Category Rank Pills, the [Tiger Stripes Soul Pill!]" the curtain covering the box with 100 beautifully polished Pills is shown to everyone within the Auction Hall, and giving everyone a hint of shock. The fragrance of the Pills is released with a simple rub and covering the whole Auction Hall with an addicting hint to force somebody to consume it. "This Pill has the potential of 4 Cultivating, 4 Enhancing, and 4 Healing Points. A total of 12 points distributed equally in three different fields of focus, this Pill allows four burst of energy upon consumptions, each time is stronger than the previous. This Pill is a Sub-Version from the original Ancient Recipe, the Emperor Tiger Pill, specially came from the Regal Medicine Hall." "Since everyone already on standby with their bidding token, shall we starts? The opening price for this 100 Pills will starts from 1 Million Spirit Bronze Coins, each bid increase the price by 100,000 Bronze Coins. Shall we start the bidding now?" Peng Hui''er soothing sound caused all the participants within the Auction hall to goes mad. "I bid 1.2 Million Bronze Coins!" one of the guests within he hall starts his bidding. "Two Million Bronze Coins!" "Three! Four, 4.5 Million Bronze Coins!" "Five Million!" one of the distinguished guest within the Oddities Hall, Ye Hao, calls for a 5 Million Spirit Bronze Coins. "Young Master Ye Hao from the Heavenly Ascension School calling for 5 Million Bronze Coins! Anyone wished to put a higher bidding?" Li Jing announces the current price. "Six Million!" Du Run Yu from the same Oddities Tier Seats place his bid as well. "Big Brother Du seems like the Beast Taming School is interested in this 100 Pills as well." Ye Hao says as he greets Du Run Yu. "Six Million Five Hundred Thousand Bronze Coins." Ye Hao increases his bid. "Big Brother Du, please allows this junior to purchase this 100 Pills." he continued. "Seven Million." Du Run Yu hates to lose, and increase the price into 7 Million Bronze Coins. Ye Hao shakes his head for a moment, and back off. "Congratulations for Young Master Du Run Yu for successfully bid for this 100 Fourth Category Pills for 7 Million Bronze Coins!" Peng Hui''er announce his successful bidding. The atmosphere soon became quieter and less bid-fighting is seen, because the treasure within is suitable for some, and not suitable for most. So the auction had been gone completely smooth all the way until the second batch of 100 Tiger Stripes Soul Pill. Once again, Du Run Yu spends a total of 6 Million on his bid and purchased the second batch of Pills once again. Without giving any chances for Ye Hao to retaliate. "humph! He really thinks that only his Beast Taming School have the most money in this kingdom." one of the instructors from Heavenly Ascension School comments.Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work! "Third Uncle Ye, please do not get angry with this small act of showing off. We are here exactly for one specific item, remember?" Ye Hao calmly speaks with the instructor named Third Uncle Ye. Except this third uncle behind him, a total of 6 more people is standing. "My seven uncles, please do not be taunted with such small act and ruin our main concern. Du Run Yu is merely acting in such way because they wanted to disrupt our financial strength and bid that Seventh Category Pills to themselves." Ye Hao continued. Even at one Tier seats below, Nan Jing Jing could hear his calm voice. Through this few words alone, Nan Jing Jing immediately felt that if this Ye Hao becoming an enemy of her husband, It will be easy for him to overturn the situation and destroy Long Feng without even showing himself. "This youngest disciple from Heaven Ascension School is not only calm about this kind of provocations. He could even lead the other few elder from his back to listen to his instructions. He will be one of the most threatening younger generation to my husband!" With the second batch of Pills is purchased by Du Run Yu once again, the auction continued. Some of the items managed to attract Long Feng''s eyes like the [Pure Molten Jade Water] before, but still, they are nothing too difficult to part with. But on the 61st treasure is bring out to auction, it immediately caught Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing''s attention! "Husband! This is the treasure I''m looking for!" even Nan Jing Jing couldn''t control her happiness of seeing this item here. "This 61st Treasure, even Hui''er felt like participating in the auction to obtain the privileges of wearing it. Although the level of this necklace is nowhere high and nowhere low, the usage of this item is remarkably amazing. Not only it could convert surrounding essence energy into Pure Metal Element Pearls, it could also protect the wearer from being disturbed by Metal Elemental disturbance." Peng Hui''er happily announce the specialty of this necklace on top of the podium. "Lady Hui''er, may I?" Li Jing asks for her opinion before he reveals the silk cloth covering the piece of Jewellery. "Master Li Jing, please have the honor." Peng Hui''er request Li Jing to take the honor of revealing the treasure. "Ladies and Gentlemen, the House of Miraculous Jade presents you with the First Human Grade Spirit Jewellery - Metallic Turbulence Necklace! The opening price for this treasure starts from 2 Million Bronze Coins, each bid increased the price by 200,000 Bronze Coins! And remember, this Spirit Jewellery is only wearable by a woman, so men within the hall, get ready... And let us start!" Li Jing announces the starting of the bidding for this treasure. "Three million, four million, five, six, seven." the bidding price kept increasing without any sign of stopping in between. From the earlier period of bidding until currently stands at Seven Million, random people from each tiered seats did participate for a moment, until they are out of the league to continue bidding. The price increase to eight million, and stops there for a moment, before Luo Qian from the Oddities Tier seats speaks. "Ten Million." her increase of price gave the people from below a shock. "What a crazy woman! She actually bid ten million on the necklace of First Earth Grade. Even in outside treasure store, you could sometimes found such treasure and doesn''t even needs to pay so much for it." some other guest verbally comments about her actions. This gave Luo Qian a hint of a smile on the corner of her lips, and a new target appears within her mind. "Eleven Million." Long Feng presents his token upwards to indicates his participation. This action garner shock from other people within the whole Precious Tier seats. "A rural village kid actually dare to bid eleven million! Does he actually have that money?" many people have comments about Long Feng''s participation in the auction and look at him with a different kind of view. Some felt that he is too daring to bid against somebody from a tier above, while some think that he was just showing off to the lady beside him. "Husband, it''s not a problem, if we can''t get it then let''s don''t bother about bidding it anymore." Nan Jing Jing afraid that this action would provoke those from the three Major Schools. "Twelve Million." Luo Qian outbid Long Feng once again. In her mind, she was thinking about how much money Long Feng could actually have in his pocket. The Profound Herb School actually provide 50 Million to Luo Qian in this auction, because of her huge amount of contribution towards the school, but now, she actually spends twelve million in purchasing this necklace, one could only say it as a huge waste. "Thirteen Million." Long Feng increase the price without bothering about what others think. His budget currently is 13 Million. Since he has 3 more batches of his pills yet to make their appearance, Long Feng felt confident that he could purchase the necklace. The presenter looked at Luo Qian, and to the other guest within the Auction Hall before she gave a knock on the hammer and announce Long Feng''s success. "Thirteen Million once, twice, Sold! Congratulations to Young Master Li from Bronze Pill Hall to obtained this [First Earth Grade Spirit Jewellery - Metallic Turbulence Necklace] for your beloved one." Peng Hui''er announce the results, and with immediate action, Li Jing quickly soothes the current situation by bringing out another treasure to be auctioned. But no matter how lively is the auction going on, Luo Qian''s eyesight couldn''t help but stares at Long Feng without a blink. She felt some jealousy from seeing how close Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing is together and anger from how Long Feng actually takes her as nothing much to be mentioned. Wherever she goes, a rain of compliments and praise always could be heard around her ears, and it was so soothing to her heart, but seeing how Long Feng ignore her beauty, she felt that that petite young Loli like Nan Jing Jing could actually threaten her beauty. "I will make sure to enjoy that kid''s Yang Essence when he grows a little more. Should I get senior Luo Gang to eat that loli instead?" Luo Qian thinks in her mind, and slowly turn her focus back to the auction. At the number 69th treasure, Long Feng''s Tiger Stripes Soul Pill appears once again, and this time, It was sold for a total of 6 million Bronze Coins one again. There aren''t any special ingredients that cause Long Feng to felt eager to purchase, so he does not bother to bid for any of the treasure anyway. At the number 79th treasure, 90 Tiger Stripes Soul Pill is presented, and still obtained the price of 5 Million. All the Upper-Rank Pills is purchased by Du Run Yu alone. A few times between the auction, Ye Hao almost felt like losing his patience, but luckily his mind and heart is well tempered, so he decided to ignore it. "purchase all you want if you insist, but do not blame me for the last item to be purchased by me!" Ye Hao speaks his mind. "Honored guest, It is the time we finally come into the final ten more precious treasure for this grand auction!" Li Jing says. "Without any delay, shall we have all ten final treasures to be brought up to the stage please!" Peng Hui''er continues to complete the sentence for Li Jing as the employees from the back of the stage prepare to move a total of 8 treasure box covered with a beautiful and high-grade Silk Cloth, and two more cages. "Ladies and Gentlemen! You are now in the Finale of our Grand Auction!" Book 1 Chapter 59 - Travelling to Thunderburst Jade City (Final). "Ladies and Gentlemen, please do not blink your eyes as we reveal the treasure covered by this [Clairvoyance Disrupting Silk]!" the two announcer proceeds to the first movable podium to reveals the treasure hidden within. "[First Human Grade Spirit Treasure - Thunder Tapping Disk]. This treasure allows its user to creates a Thunder Attraction Field of 10 Li (5km) with the user as the center. The Increase of Thunder Element is expected to be at least 50% higher, and easier to be absorbed and tempered. This spirit treasure is known to grow along with its User as long the upgrading material is provided for it to grow. The opening price for this treasure is 10 Million Spirit Bronze Coins!" "[First Human Grade Spirit Treasure - Hundred Steads Formation Flag]. This is a formation deployment flag type treasure that allows its user to create 1km Formation Circle that allows all Cultivator approved by the Flag user to be able to ride the Spirit Steads. The strength of the Steads depending on the material used as tributes to activates the flag. The opening price for this treasure starts from 12 Million Spirit Bronze Coins!" "[Second Heaven Grade Spirit Weapon - Qian Kun Soul Wheel]. Although this is only a Second-Grade weapon equivalent to an Adept Tier strength, the Heaven Tier perfections allow this weapon to use only 10% of the energy required to activate its hidden ability. This Qian Kun Soul Wheel allows the user to pierce through any Spirit Armor within all Second-Grade, rendering the user invincible throughout his peers. This weapon could grow along with the User as well, depending on the upgrading material. The opening price for this treasure is 15 Million Spirit Bronze Coins!" "[Third Human Grade Cultivation Beast - Sandstone Essence Ape]. Practitioner Realm Cultivation Beast in its infant condition. This Sandstone Essence Ape is known to be the Pill Master''s best friend and partner. Not only the Sandstone Essence Rock it produced could be used as Essence Storage Material, upon refining, the Sandstone Essence Rock could be refined into a better Rank, Type, and Quality suitable to be treated as Essence Recovery treasures. In the same time, the Sandstone Essence Ape is a well-known fighter in its Practitioner Realm, easily grasps whatever physical related martial arts by encountering it once. The opening price for this treasure is 20 Million Spirit Bronze Coins!" "[Fourth Human Grade Cultivation Beast - Emerald Blood Python]. Another newly born Cultivation Beast in its Elder Realm. Controlling this emerald blooded beast might be though and resources consuming, but the investment will come in future when the Emerald Blood Python starts to open its eyes! Being the only beast that producing the rare [Emerald Blood] that needed to concoct the [Emerald Jade Pill] and the [Emerald Martial Soul Tempering Scales], this beast is a must for Martial Masters and Pill Masters. The opening price is 25 Million Spirit Bronze Coins!" "[Half Step to Sixth Category Pill - Master-Rank Tiger Stripes Soul Pill]. The superior quality of this Pill is already known earlier when their Upper-Rank companion is shown on the stage. But this Half Step Sixth Category Pills, actually have 6 times burst of energy on consumption, and the ability to freely control the burst, allowing it to only come out at a specific time. Not only this, this Pill had one specialty effect within, which is rare for category ranked medicine pills, the [Beast Vigour]. By consuming this Pill during a fight, the [Beast Vigour] will automatically activate and allow the user to have a burst of Cultivation strength of 30% stronger. The opening price starts at 2.5 Million Spirit Bronze Coins!" "[Sixth Category Pill - Non-Ranked Astounding Soul Tempering Concoction]. This sixth category pill allows its user to obtain a temporary 10% reduced requirement to increase their Elemental Tempering Stage. This Concoction allows the user with the [Major Five Elemental] and [Minor Five Elemental] to enjoy its beneficial effect, except the [Element of Kunlun]. The opening price is at 15 Million Spirit Bronze Coins!" "[Seventh Category Pill - Wanderlust Elemental Ice Age Concoction]. This magical seventh Category concoction allows its user, to either have an increase of 30% in obtaining the efficiency in Ice Elemental within the [Minor Five Elements] or a direct increase in the form of a full stage for Ice Element Tempering Cultivators. True method to perfectly assimilate this concoction is not been reform yet. The opening price for this treasure is 25 Million Spirit Bronze Coins!" "[Heaven Yin Essence Pearl] and [Hell Yang Essence Pill]. This two pill is restricted to be sold at once. The only Sky and Hell elemental treasures within this Grand Auction, this treasures represent the early pinnacle of the [Element of Kunlun]. The Heaven Yin Essence Pearl came with Heavenly Sky Essence mixed with the Coldness of Hell Yin Essence, while the Hell Yang Essence Pearl is rich with Hell Essence but mixed with the burning Yang of Heaven Yang essence. But what is most difficult after obtaining this treasures in hand, is the success chances of refining the [YinYang Extending Pill]. With the success rate of only 10% overall, not all cultivator will have the chances to stumble across another one of this treasure all their life if the first one is wasted in failure. But the reward from successfully refine the [YinYang Extending Pill] is amazing, where upon consumption, this will extend the User life by 500 years, it will also allow the body to be able to refine their blood, further enhancing the body to preserve double of all the body could handle. Opening Price is at 10 Million Spirit Bronze Coins!" With all ten ingredients is announced and explained to all the guest within the Auction Hall, Li Jing starts from selecting a ball to indicates which treasure would come first into this final ten treasures. There is nine piece of paper within the bowl made of precious Sandstone Essence Rock, and when Li Jing get a hold of one of the paper, he pulled his hand up to release the piece of paper, as it grows into a name. [Half Step to Sixth Category Pill - Master-Rank Tiger Stripes Soul Pill] "It''s the Half Step to Sixth Category Pill first! With the opening price of 2.5 Million, please place your bid!" Peng Hui''er announce the starting of this Pill''s bidding, and as it starts, the bidding increase into 5 Million, 10 Million, 12 Million and getting slower as it reaches 21 Million. But even as it getting slower, the amount of money placed on the bid is no longer few hundred thousand Spirit Bronze Coins but is in a million each time the bidding price increased. Soon, the offer stayed still on 47 Million, and 48 Million. The final competitors are exactly Du Run Yu and Ye Hao. "Hahaha, Ye Hao, are you sure you want to compete with me in getting this Half Step Sixth Category Pills? Don''t you worry that you overuse your funds before the [Emerald Blood Python] and [Seventh Category Pill - Wanderlust Elemental Ice Age Concoction] and being forced to give up on possessing both of it?" Du Run Yu teased Ye Hao on his rashness. After long consideration, Ye Hao believes that this Master-Rank Tiger Stripes Soul Pill] will be exactly suitable for the Heavenly Ascension School Seven Inner Swords. Since Ye Hao is currently the most prized disciple for the Inner Sect, he has already been tasked with the mission of further improving his own Inner Seven Swords. Within the Hierarchy of the Heavenly Ascension School, each potentially strong Core, Inner, and Outer Disciple will be given the right to proceed with the option of nurturing their own Seven Swords. The seven swords are the designation of the potentially strong cultivators that was chosen to accompany their Lord wherever they go. Sometimes, even some failed to rise disciple or previous disciple with rights of handling their own Seven Swords, will be placed into this designation until a potentially strong disciple came across once again. When one failed to achieve the results the School demands, the whole group, will be demoted into the Seven Swords Palace, to awaits for their new lords. Therefore, instead of competing against each other in the later stage, the first task of each Heavenly Ascension School Disciple would focus would be strengthening their own Seven Swords. The Core Disciples Seven Swords is called as Core Seven Swords, while for the Inner Disciple, Inner Seven Swords and Outer Disciple, New Seven Swords. Each would need to obtain the percentage Seven over Seven Wins before they would be considered to enter the Yearly Ascension Exam. "50 Million Spirit Bronze Coins!" Ye Hou increased the price by 2 more million, and his action managed to force Du Run Yu to stop bidding. "Come on, somebody continues increasing their price. What is that slut, Luo Qian is doing?" Du Run Yu hopes that other would participate in this bidding as well, and force Ye Hao to pay more to obtain this 50 Master-Rank Pills. But as there aren''t any more people willing to get entangled in this particular treasure, Ye Hao finally wins the bidding, paying a total of 50 Million Spirit Bronze Coins for the 50 Master-Rank Pills. As he received the Pills in hand, Ye Hao immediately distributes 6 Pills to each of his seven uncles and kept 8 for himself. "Thank you, our Lord, for blessing seven of us with such an amazing gift." the leader of Ye Hao''s Seven Inner Swords kneeled and says. "First Uncle, please stands up. All of you represents my Inner Seven Swords. If the Inner Seven Swords is strong, it means I am stronger as well. And if we are not strong enough, how would we be able to keep our safety as the Auction is over?" Ye Hao words came with a strong hint, and being the closest of Ye Hao, the Inner Seven Swords immediately understands their Lord''s meaning. "What an amazing competition between two youngest and brightest Inner Disciple from two of the three main school within the kingdom. Hui''er with now select one piece of paper to decides the next treasure open for bidding." Peng Hui''er put her soft delicate hand into the Sandstone Essence Rock Bowl to select a piece of paper. As the paper is pulled out from the bowl, a word is revealed. [First Human Grade Spirit Treasure - Thunder Tapping Disk] Ladies and Gentlemen, shall we have the [Thunder Tapping Disk] to start getting everyone attention now? The opening price for this treasure starts at 10 Million. Please start your bet now!" Peng Hui''er announce the starting, as Lang Ya immediately put a price of 15 Million without anything to consider. Before he could smile happily as he turned around, he is fated to accept a heavy blow by his father. "What a dumb child, The next time you bid, make sure you know who needs the Disk first, and what is their price!" Lang Ren felt a headache as he sees how straightforward is his son when bidding in the auction.This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon. "Just like how Uncle Lang Ren should be, seems like his son also inherited all the straightforward traits of his father." Nan Jing Jing jokingly comments about Lang Ren and Lang Ya. The competition of the piece of [Thunder Tapping Disk] becomes even furious, where the bid slowly increased from 15 Million into 16, 17, and soon stagnant at 21 Million for a while before it continues, and finally stop at 26 Million Spirit Bronze Coins. Looking at the situation had become calmer, Lang Ren instructs his child to look at the few final bidders facial expression. As Lang Ya possess the [Righteous Eye of Yang], he easily found out the fact that this person is as rich as he should be, or just pretentiously tried to increase the price. "27 Million." Lang Ya outbid the others once again. And this time, nobody else had the intention to continue to outbid his price. Li Jing looked across the whole hall before he finalizes the decision, and knock the hammer with a word, "Sold!" Peng Hui''er continues with her regular sentence as well. "Congratulations to the Young Master Lang Ya from the City Lord''s Mansion to obtained the [Thunder Tapping Disk]. I believe that we would see a future Master Lang Ren''s equal in few years time soon." "Shall I proceed to select the next piece of paper?" Li Jing walked towards the Sandstone Essence Rock Bowl once again and put in his hand to select one piece of paper, and this time, as the word within the paper revealed, it immediately gave all the guest within the Auction Hall an anticipation to participate no matter what. [Sixth Category Pill - Non-Ranked Astounding Soul Tempering Concoction] "With the opening price of 15 Million Spirit Bronze Coins, all honored guest within this hall, you may start your bids!" Li Jing announces the starting of this piece of treasure, and an even furious bid could be seen. The price of this Sixth Category Pill quickly increase, from 16 Million to past 25 Million, and slow down at around 32 Million. As the price finally reach 36 Million, the competition quickly became the main stage between two lower profile association. "35 Million." a chubby male with his hand, finger, neck, and head filled with golden pieces of jewelry increase the bid once again. "Looks like the Third Quartermaster from Wealthy Fortune Pavilion is very interested in this treasure!" Peng Hui''er comments, as she announces the increase of price. But then, another male stands up to increase the bid. "40 Million!" his voice is harsher compared to the Third Quartermaster, but his build is more fit and strong looking, compared to the previous. "40 Million bid from the Second Treasurer of the Raining Gold Mountain Association! Is there anyone felt like increasing the bid once again?" Peng Hui''er asked. "42 Million!" the third quartermaster hates to lose, as he increases the price once again to outbid the Second Treasurer. Their little scuffle continues along the way, while Long Feng pays attention to Nan Jing Jing for some information. "The Wealthy Fortune Pavilion is similar to the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion, but in term of wealth, the Wealth Fortune Pavilion''s wealth exceeds the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion if not by 10 times, it would be around 8 to 9 times. Not only that, the Wealthy Fortune Pavilion is the sole trader for many specific kinds of Medicinal Pills, and they have branches everywhere." "The Raining Gold Mountain Association is in the same position like the Wealthy Fortune Pavilion, but in term of business, the Raining Gold Mountain Association is more towards rare and special ingredient materials, and all specifically chosen before they are available for sale. The association is located just beside the Yang Clan State, and shares a strong bond between the two of them." "Compared to what the three schools inner disciple is bringing, the Wealthy Fortune Pavilion and the Raining Golden Mountain Association is the superpower in term of wealth. If they felt like wanted to do so, they could purchase all top ten treasures within this Grand Auction without any injuries on their deep pocket." Nan Jing Jing explains the situation and the power hidden behind this two older men as they fight, and soon, the price hike already reached 55 Million. "60 Million!" the third quartermaster increased the price once again, but this time, the Raining Gold Mountain Association does not bother to continue bidding for the treasure. "Third Quartermaster San Lang San Bei, I, Jin Dan, hates to make somebody as important like you to struggle with anger because of a mere Sixth Grade Pill. Please enjoy the 60 Million Pill you just bought." the second treasurer, Jin Dan comments as falls onto his seat once again. "Argh! You actually trick me, Jin Dan, you make sure you be careful when going back to you shit mountain!" the Third Quartermaster San Lang San Bei is furious after knowing that he had been fooled by Second Treasurer Jin Dan until just now. Although the two super wealthy power does possess incredible wealth, this doesn''t mean that an overpriced treasure will be overlooked, when they are making a purchase. In the world of business, nobody willing to overpaid even if it''s for a once in a lifetime ingredients. After repeating the same word over and over again, Peng Hui''er heads to the bowl this time to select another piece of paper. Again, the content written within gave some people a shock, except the people from Beast Taming School. [Third Human Grade Cultivation Beast - Sandstone Essence Ape] "Starting price of 20 Million Spirit Bronze Coins, Ladies and Gentlemen, you may start bidding now!" Peng Hui''er announce the starting again, and immediately, the guest within the Hall went furious. A Sandstone Essence Ape is one of the most valuable beast companions for a Pill Masters, but not for Long Feng. In Long Feng''s mind, he already has Hong Yue by his side, and through their life experience together, Long Feng would prefer Hong Yue no matter how many time he would have to choose. In the same time, Long Feng still have no knowledge about Hong Yue''s current changes in his bloodline, which is an estimated Eight Heaven Grade Silver Scales Wyvern Emperor, an equivalent of Saint Realm Beast at his maturity. The Sandstone Essence Ape quickly sold for a price of 32 Million, purchased by Luo Qian from the Profound Herb School. It seems that the Profound Herb School is here this time especially for the Cultivation Beast, and not anything else. Following continuously behind is the rare and special Cultivation beast as well. [Fourth Human Grade Cultivation Beast - Emerald Blood Python] Since the competition is soon reaching their ending, most of the final few items are only purchasable by the strong and wealthy School and association. This Emerald Blood Python is the main attraction among the Profound Herb School, Heaven Ascension School, Wealthy Fortune Pavilion and Raining Golden Mountain Association. The motives of this four powerful figure are fighting for this Emerald Blood Python, is because of its [Emerald Blood] and [Emerald Martial Soul Tempering Scales]. For the Inner Seven Swords and Ye Hao, this Emerald Jade Python will be able to provide eight of them an unlimited amount of [Emerald Martial Soul Tempering Scales] where they could use to temper their Soul into and Emerald Martial Soul. Although there is many different special martial soul to be trained, the Emerald Martial Soul possess one specialty. The possibility of removing any poison without difficulties. While for the Profound Herb School, their main reason to obtained the Emerald Blood Python is due to the rarity of the ingredient [Emerald Blood] that could be used to refine the All Poison Resistant [Emerald Jade Pill]. This Pill is not only rare among the Pill Master and within the market, it is also one of the crucial ingredient for one to step into the path of [Beast Poison Master / Medicinal Poison Master / Dark Poison Master]. While for the Wealthy Fortune Pavilion and Raining Golden Mountain Association, their only objective is to possess this money making Snake, that allows them to monopoly the production of this treasured ingredients. Although their actions might create some dispute within the market for a while, in a world that has a need for currency as an exchange, whatever disputes will be easily handled, as long the currency of exchange could overcome their weight of disputes. The competition for this Emerald Blood Python became even fierce, as the price in the bid increased from 25 Million to 50 Million, and it is still increasing, until only the Wealthy Fortune Pavilion and Raining Golden Mountain Association remains in the bid-fighting. Their competition against each other goes for another thirty something minutes before the Raining Golden Mountain Association managed to secure it by offering a price of 80 Million. "Damn you! Jin Dan! I will make sure the Wealthy Fortune Pavilion won''t let this case goes unsettled!" the Third Quartermaster San Lang San Bei angrily speaks as he failed to obtain the Emerald Blood Python. The momentum of bidding did not stop there, as Li Jing next selection is the [First Human Grade Spirit Treasure - Hundred Steads Formation Flag] that was priced at 12 Million Spirit Bronze Coins. Without the participation from the Three schools and the two wealthy business association, the bidding for this flag ends quickly, with a price of 18 Million at the end of the bid. The next item is not something very attractive to the three schools either, but for Long Feng, this is something that could bolster his wife''s fighting capability by double! Peng Hui''er lift the paper from the bowl as the contents revealed to be the [Second Heaven Grade Spirit Weapon - Qian Kun Soul Wheel], priced at 15 Million. The bidding process goes along for a while until it was success outbid by Long Feng for a rate of 21 Million. The next item is the fateful [Heaven Yin Essence Pearl] and [Hell Yang Essence Pill]. With the price of 10 Million Spirit Bronze Coins, the auction progress swiftly in a very normal process, and managed to be purchased by Long Feng with a price of 20 Million. With all Nine item is already making their appearance, the final treasure, a Seventh Category Pill, finally appears on the Stage. [Seventh Category Pill - Wanderlust Elemental Ice Age Concoction] "The long awaited Treasure, Seventh Category Pill is finally here! Ladies and Gentlemen, please place your bet!" Peng Hui''er speaks, as she and Li Jing prepared with the rain of bidding offer! 30 Million, 40, 45, 50 Million. In an instant of 1 full minute, the price spikes up from mere 25 Million into 50 Million, and on its second minutes, the price already reaches 90 Million. Exactly three minutes later, the price finally went slower, and it is currently holding between 115 Million and 116 Million. The main competitors for this Seventh Category Pill, Profound Herb School, Beast Taming School, Heaven Ascension School, the Pavilion and the Mountain Association, would never imagine, that one of the Sect finally makes their appearance within this Grand Auction. "150 Million Spirit Bronze Coins." a beautiful yet cold lady stands up and raise her token. As the announcer and owner of the House of Miraculous Jade are taking a look on the token, they noticed that this lady does possess a number of spirit coins to bid this price! Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing looked upwards on this lady, and finally noticed the identity of this lady. "It''s the Jade Maiden Sect''s, Lady Li Yi!" Nan Jing Jing is shocked with this sudden appearance of Lady Li Yi in fighting for this Seventh Category Pill. "Hahaha! 150 Million! A good 150 Million. Seems like the Jade Maiden Sect must obtain this Seventh Category Pill no matter what." San Lang San Bei praises Li Yi for her outrageous confidence in pushing the price of the Pill into 150 Million. Although Jin Dan felt like giving a comment, because of a certain matter, he decided to not make any comments. "This bitch! How dare she actually fights with the Profound Herb School for this Seventh Category Pill!" Luo Qian is totally angered with that enormous price bid by Li Yi, but before she shouts loudly, the Instructor stopped her from making a fuss within the Hall. "Lady Li Yi, this Pill will be your for sure, congratulations." Ye Hao turned to face Lady Li Yi as he congratulates her for the total success. Meanwhile, Du Run Yu doesn''t have any reaction to give to Lady Li Yi. Only one thing running through his mind. "Since the Jade Maiden Sect decided to purchase this Pill no matter what, It must be for her!" Du Run Yu thinks in his mind. Soon, a silhouette appears within his mind, about this Most freezingly cold demeanor and Beauty Female from the Jade Maiden Sect. All Du Run Yu knows about this lady, is that she managed to defeat a combination of 6 Peak Elder Tier cultivators of his Beast Taming School, and along with their 6 respective Fourth Human Grade Cultivation Beast. "Congratulations to the Jade Maiden Sect Lady Li Yi to successfully bid for this Seventh Category Pill! With all the treasures is completely auctioned out today, we are happy to announce to everyone that this Grand Auction is over! Ladies and Gentlemen, please come back to us for the next auction!" Peng Hui''er and Li Jing politely close the Auction process as the fireworks, dances, and celebrations quickly follow up. But this is all nothing much to be a concern, because of the next challenge, is to exits the Thunderburst Jade City and returned to their respective base in full piece. This includes Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing as well. Book 1 Chapter 60 - Entering Tri-Lightning Forest. The next day, as Long Feng and the others preparing to leave, Lang Ren personally came forwards before the Li couple to gave them a little advice. Due to few cases happened years ago, Lang Ren and the other in Lang Family is working attentively to controls the number of bandit operations surrounding the Thunderburst Jade City. But after he had been convinced by Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing that they are not leaving the Thunderburst Jade City for a while, and planning to visit the Tri-Lightning Forest. During the period Long Feng and the others is within the carriage towards the Thunderburst Jade City, Long Feng tried to have a few connections with Hong Yue, but his calls is unanswered. Growing more and more worried, Long Feng decided that he and Nan Jing Jing will remain in the city for another few more weeks, until he finally managed to get in touch with Hong Yue. But as the auction ends, Long Feng receives a short message from Hong Yue. "Master..." that''s all he could hear, from that simple message. Getting extremely worried, Long Feng immediately prepares to leave to the Tri-Lightning Forest located North from Thunderburst Jade City. Since this way is not directly link with the bandit forces from the Five Cities Intersection, Long Feng could depart without worries. "Husband, are you sure you want to enter the forest Alone?" Nan Jing Jing is slightly worried with her husband''s decision as he wished to enter the forest alone. But without budging and giving up on his decision, Long Feng looked at Nan Jing Jing as he says, "My wife, Hong Yue had been missing since that day both of our mother is taken from us. If I don''t look for Hong Yue immediately, I''m worried something bad will happened to him." "Do not be too worried about me, did you forget that I am the successor of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect?" Long Feng convince Nan Jing Jing to not being too worry and be confident with his overall fighting strength. By promising her that he will return immediately as he found Hong Yue, Nan Jing Jing could be at ease, as this trip will only takes around a week before he come back with Hong Yue. "Husband, make sure you be very careful about this!" Nan Jing Jing still have some worries, but she too support Long Feng''s decision as he bid farewell to the others and enter the Tri-Lightning Forest alone. Not even 500 meters from the entrance of the forest, Long Feng already encountered with a pack of six Lightning Flash Wolves. As he prepared his weapon, three of the Lightning Flash Wolves already charge towards Long Feng with their jaw opened wide, while another three is taking the position of 10 o''clock direction, 2 o''clock direction and 6 o''clock direction. "This Lighting Flash Wolves is very experienced in group fight, but I am not some random meal either!" Long Feng forms his defensive sword ball as he utilized his Defensive Wu Sword Art, and slowly proceeds with deflecting the three biting attack. As the three biting attack is deflected, Long Feng change his facing direction towards the Lightning Flash Wolf on his 2 o''clock, as he prepares to utilize his Xuan Wu Heavenly Art to feign his escape. "Offensive Xuan Sword Art!" Long Feng changes his tempo from defensive sword formation into an offensive sword formation, with the sword point is stabbing out from the body of the Sword Ball like a deadly porcupine, Long Feng stabbed the Lightning Flash Wolf''s belly until it became a hornet nest. Calm and calculative, Long Feng swing his sword backwards as he use the hand to lift the Lightning Flash Wolf up at his eye level, while another hand is holding a glass made bottle to collect the running blood from the opened wounds. "Aowuuu!" the much more darker shade Lightning Flash Wolf howls as the remaining four wolves charge towards Long Feng from the direction of East, South, West and North. Instead of opening their jaw widely, the wolves actually tried to form a four direction claw attack, while the darker shade Lightning Flash Wolf is attacking from the top with is jaw opened wide. "Little puny tricks!" Long Feng leap upwards with his Xuan Wu Heavenly Art, and tried to stab the Lightning Flash Wolf above him, while the remaining four wolves is gathered around his spot as their attack is a failure, but before Long Feng could harm the wolf above him, a flash of Lightning attack could be seen from the wolf! "Bam!" Long Feng who was careless from underestimating his opponent finally got strike with a pretty harmful electrical shock. "Shit! I was careless!" Long Feng felt numb throughout his whole body from that Lightning Shock. Remembering last time as he was stunned by Zhe Bie''s Lightning martial art, Long Feng push his Wood Element Essence to surround his whole body, as he prepare to retaliate. Using the strong Wood Essence to disperse the remnants of Lightning Element around his body, Long Feng managed to gain that slight two seconds to defend himself and retaliate. Failure to notice the changes within Long Feng''s Elemental Storage, one more wolf died under Long Feng''s hand, as he slit its throat and collects the blood. The remaining three wolves with its leader getting more and more aggressive, due to its beast nature. They immediately getting more and more offensive, and starting to attack without any consideration. At the same time, even the Leader among the Lightning Flash Wolves is getting restless as it tried to channel its Thunder Elemental energy within its mouth and preparing to shot it out. "Do you think I will allows you to do that?" Long Feng charge towards the leader like a released arrow, and ignoring all the other wolves that was chasing him from all sides. As the Thunder Elemental Ball is successfully charged, the Lightning Flash Wolf leader point its nose towards Long Feng and had the thunder beam shot out directly towards Long Feng. "Fush!" It missed! The figure that believed to be Long Feng is actually an afterimage of Long Feng as he put in all his strength into the Xuan Wu Heavenly Art and Xuan Wu Divination Art, and take a strong step forward. The wolf leader failed to notice Long Feng''s position, and as it returned to it sense, the blood from it''s slitted throat starts to flow, as the lives within that body flew away for this deceased body. With the remaining three wolves without a leader, their attack form is nowhere up to its standard as before, and without any additional effort, Long Feng easily dispose them as he collect the bloods, Fangs, Skin and any usable materials from them. Most importantly, Long Feng managed to obtain five beautiful Soul Essence Pearl and also a Wolf Soul Essence Pearl. "I wonder what''s the difference between this Pearl compared to the other five similar pearls." Long Feng tried to see the differences between the two, but failed to spot any of its differences, so he left it aside as he continue with his journey. One could either say fortuitous or bad luck, when the odds of encountering the cultivation beast is extremely high. In his path to deeper forest, Long Feng almost met with one pack of six to seven Lightning Flash Wolves as he entered around 500 to 600 meters. He felt this kind of situation is slightly weird, but in the same time, due to his knowledge is not too focused on the Cultivation Beast and its nature, Long Feng decided to ignore the little hidden facts behind such encounters. But his ignorance, soon came to haunts him as he finally entered around 5 Kilometres deep into the forest. Not only once, but five times Long Feng passed the totem made by collections of Cultivation Beast''s heads. On the top of the totem, a single Head from a gigantic beast, believed to be either the Blood Swamp Crocodile or the Poison Swamp Crocodile''s skull, and on its body, a mix and match of at least 15 different cultivation beast skulls is seen arranged in a weird arrangements. "Wife, do you know what is the meaning of a totem shaped like a pyramid with a huge crocodile skull on top and fifteen different skulls on the bottom? I saw a total of 5 similar totem as I entered deeper into the forest. And also, my wife, your husband managed to obtain around 50 Portion of this Lightning Flash Wolves Pure Blood, I wonder could it formed into a basic [Medicinal Beast Profound Blood]." Long Feng asked his know everything wife as he can''t keep his curiosity about the totem, and at the same time, shares the good thing happened as he explore the forest for Hong Yue''s sign. "Husband!" Nan Jing Jing''s voice from the ring almost gave Long Feng a shock. But before he managed to reply Nan Jing Jing loud shouting, she continues to talk. "Husband, I talked to Uncle Lang Ren about this totem matter, and he ask you to immediately leave the area, walk away immediately and do not look back, if your path is still have totem available, be ready for a fight anytime and do not waste your time exploring, that area is inhibited by one of the King of Tri-Lightning Forest!" Nan Jing Jing had Long Feng quickly get on his feet and escape from this area. Long Feng, whom was still blank from all those explanations could only start moving to his right side, and follows his wife''s stern order.The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation. But not even a total of 1 Kilometre distance, a single lone wolf appears in front of Long Feng''s escape path, with the intention of stopping its prey from continue to escape from its territories. "Wife, I met a really gigantic wolf, black skin, red eyes, with two horn like goat on its head." Long Feng describe the outlook of the beast as he prepare to fight. But at the other side of the ring, Lang Ren and Lang Ya actually curse Long Feng''s incredibly bad luck. "Husband, retaliate as you escape, remember, Escape!!" Nan Jing Jing voice get even more worried as she had her husband immediately run away. "What happen?" Long Feng still failed to notice the danger before his path, as the Gigantic Lone Wolf does not release any bloodlust intent as it stopped Long Feng from his path. "Idiot husband, that is one of the King of Tri-Lightning Forest, the Second Heaven Grade Ferocious Beast - Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf! Quickly run!" Nan Jing Jing explains the danger before Long Feng''s eyes and is really speechless as she see how casual her husband could be when meeting such a dangerous beast in his first day of entering the forest. "Aooowu!" a deafening howl came out from the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf as it opened it''s mouth, and from that one single howl, Long Feng''s [Spatial Link Twin Grass Ring] became useless as it was disrupted by the slight disturbance from the barely noticeable Hell Essence from the [Elemental of Kunlun]. Long Feng tried to open his Spatial Storage again and again, but failed to do so, with only his Qian Kun Sword on hand. "Oh Shit, Now I know why Jing Jing is so impatient and keep asking me to run." Long Feng finally got what Nan Jing Jing want him to notice. "Hey! You damn wolf, come here!" Long Feng swing his sword twice before the wolf, as it take a big leap backwards, cautious with Long Feng''s action. But when Long Feng''s intention is successful, he immediately turn around 45 degrees from the wolf direction, and run with all his might! "I can''t fight if I cannot get my treasures hidden in the Spatial Storage!" Long Feng escapes without looking backwards. The hunted and the hunter kept their speed as they run across two more totem, and as he run farther and farther, Long Feng suddenly noticed the disappearance of the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf. Long Feng immediately swing his sword with Defensive Wu Sword Art, and almost on that instant, a hole is broken within the Sword Ball formation. Long Feng is slightly shocked with the destruction strength of the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf, to easily creates a hole from his top left to the top right. But he have no other choice, except escaping from its territories. Long Feng noticed that his ring started to have some voice within again, as he tried to listen on what message is still remains within. "Brr... Husband... Brr... Escape... The Demon Blood... Brr... Wolf... Possess... Hell... Brr... Run..." Long Feng barely understands the disrupted message, but hearing the word Possess and Hell within the message, Long Feng roughly understand the danger of this opponent, who might possess the capability to utilized Hell Element in its attack. Long Feng escape came to a halt, as he finally reached a location which is blocked by mountain of rocks and soil. Pushed to the edge of such situation, Long Feng decides to fight for his life, if his fate says so. He lifted up his Qian Kun Sword high up above his head, and prepares to face the incoming attack from the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf. And as the shadow of this ferocious beast appears within his sight, not even a single second past, the jaw of the beast already slammed on the body of the Qian Kun Sword and forcing Long Feng to fall back a few steps. Long Feng very quickly felt the stress and difficulties of defending himself from the ferocious beast attack, and struggles to barely protect himself. The Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf not only excel in term of strength, speed and ferocity, most importantly, the Hell Element within have the capability of curse, disrupting the mind, body and soul of the random passerby within his totem area. With such disturbance on his mind, Long Feng started to feel weaker as he fought, and at the current situation of facing this ferocious beast alone, the side effect from the Hell Element is even greater, as it started to disrupt Long Feng in holding his current action. "I am getting weaker, what happened? Did I get poisoned anywhere?" Long Feng mind still managed to think rationally, but his current condition, is being reduced to the point of wishing to resist but doesn''t have a slight strength to do so. Long Feng only choice is to ignite all his Elemental Essence in his body to overcome the fatigue that started to appears around his body. As the Sky Elemental within his body unconsciously released, the side effect of the Hell Elemental started to reduce by a bit. "Eh, what happened? My body control returned for a slight moment, but then the stress on my body came over once again. Let''s try to release the Elemental Essence again." Long Feng noticed the slight difference, but as he failed to notice the counter-effect from his Sky Elemental, Long Feng decided to keep doing the same attempts once again. He struggles to stand up straight as he ignites all his available Elemental Essence stored within his body, and force the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf to showered with the three elemental he have within his body. Long Feng believes that he could recover the Elemental Essence anytime as long he meditates, thus he reserve nothing behind as he tried his best to retaliate. And as expected by Long Feng, this trick actually works towards the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf, as it began to get slightly purified by the appearance of Sky Element within its outer skin. The purifying effect is strong enough to cause this Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf to howls in pain, as it body started to get dissolved by the purifying effect from the Sky Elemental. Taking advantages of such happening, Long Feng proceeds to fight the ferocious beast in an even ground now. He understands the danger of approaching this ferocious beast on its near death situation, but if Long Feng leave this "Boss" alone and run, in the future, this ferocious beast may turn stronger and more resistant towards his Sky Element, and possess the hunger to grow stronger. "To totally removes all the weed, one need to make sure to get the roots!" Long Feng hesitation gone as he prepare his Qian Kun Sword to fight with this ferocious beast! The two quickly clash with each other, and with the help of popping in a Tiger Stripes Soul Pill into his mouth, Long Feng able to have four instant recovery each 10 minutes of time past. With such disadvantage, the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf quickly get subdue and pushed into a corner. "I need to be fully prepared now, a beast that was pushed into a corner, will make sure that its death is not going to be an easy one to its killer." Long Feng understands the fact of what will happens if a beast is forced into a corner. He maintain his full caution towards the beast, as Long Feng slowly counter-attack each time the beast tried to force it way out from the deadly triangle. But with Long Feng is monitoring in such a tight security, the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf only could use its final attack to open a path to freedom. "Roar-Auwooo!" the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf rolled on the ground as it use it''s own claw to gave its body a few scratches. With the blood flowing from its body everywhere, the beast shakes its body and scattered its blood around to form a bloody circle. With the blood is well spill on the ground, the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf make a continuous howling, repeating it for a few moments as the ground started to have some bright light lit by its essence running across the blood stained circle, and forming an inscriptions. "What? A Ferocious Beast that actually know how to form an inscription circle? This is dangerous!" Long Feng noticed the danger came from the beast, and immediately retreated by at least fifteen steps away from that deadly spot. Just then, a furiously emitted stream of howling souls came out from the ground like a broken pipe, and covering the whole area between the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf and Long Feng. The howl maintain for a moment, and like a timer is set before the bomb is detonated, Long Feng noticed that with each time the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf howls, the stronger and more dangerous the howling souls around them becomes. As the howling started to get into its ending, Long Feng finally noticed the danger around him! "Shit, this is a final sacrificing skills! I need to protect myself!" Long Feng immediately pops a Tiger Stripes Soul Pill into his mouth and channel a strong Elemental Essence to protect his external body, and played the Defensive Wu Sword Art into his utmost limit. The howling finally came into its end, as each of the howling souls explodes like a fireworks, the explosion creates a chain reaction, and the explosion became even greater, with the whole 500 metres around the two explodes and a weak Hellfire appears from the remnants of the Howling Soul''s gaseous body. The Hellfire continues to burn the surroundings, and only by Luck, Long Feng is still remain in a piece. His clothing had all been burnt into ashes, due to the strong explosion forces in the first chain of explosions. It is lucky as Long Feng possess the might of Sky Elemental within his body, so he could resist the approaching Hellfire. But the ground around them are blessed by the luck, as the whole 500 metre circle around Long Feng and the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf is burnt into ashes, and nothing could be seen still remain alive and standing within this circle. "I am actually really lucky to be alive, because of the Sky Element I possess. If its not because of this element is the direct opposite of the wolf''s Hell Element, I would be either dead or heavily injured by now." Long Feng understands the blessing he received in secret, and in fact, being very thankful for receiving such a hidden help when he was pushed into a corner. And it is also because of the final explosion that triggers the Hellfire to start burning around the land and trees around him, only Long Feng noticed that this Ferocious Beast, is a cultivator with the rare Hell Element from the Element of Kunlun. It is just totally a luck, that the Sky Element within Long Feng''s body is more potent than the Hell Element within the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf. He walked over to the beast remains, and collects all the bone as he throw them into the White Stone Pill Cauldron. Long Feng starts to ignite all the Fire Element Essence as he could into the Cauldron to refine the remaining bones until they turned into ashes. The urgency of this matter is above all, because the bones of the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf, contains its pure Blood Essence hidden within its Spine and Leg bones. Only after an hour of firing on the cauldron, Long Feng able to see some veins hidden deep within the bones that contains all the rare pure Blood Essence within. The time quickly close to two hours, as the outer layer of the bone starts to disintegrate into ash, leaving only the rough and thick blood veins in the middle of the cauldron. Finally, the two drops of pure Blood Essence is successfully extracted by Long Feng, as he collects all the remaining ashes of the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf''s bones and proceed to leave the totem area. While from a distance of about 30 kilometres away, a pack of wolves is seen howling for the loss of its family members. If Long Feng actually knows that the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf he just struggles to kills is only a baby within the whole family, he will be escape with his tail between his leg if he encounter this nest with at least 200 Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves, lead by two even gigantic size wolves, comparable to an adult elephant. Book 1 Chapter 61 - House of Hundred Pills Yu Men. The longer Long Feng travel deeper into the forest, the harder for him to locate the exit from this Totemic Zone under the supervision of the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves. He used the first day just to look around places such as below some huge trees, and also some opened caves near the rock mountain walls, but not even a single clue could be found related to Hong Yue''s whereabout. On his second day, Long Feng finally managed to spot some leftover carcasses from two younger Lightning Flash Wolves, quickly eaten and ignored afterward. Looking at the size of the jaw from the opened part, Long Feng could roughly expect that this might be Hong Yue''s nearby hidden location. Finally having a clue in his hand, Long Feng quickly send some mind messages, but still yet to receive any replies. Long Feng gave up after a few tries and decided to continue searching for his Beast Companion. But his luck finally went out, as he stumbled across an opened junction with a total of four totems in each corner. Sensing the danger that getting close to him, Long Feng wield his sword as he heads to one direction, but still, he was caught by the opponent that was charging towards his position immediate as he was spotted. With each time the leaves make a sound from contact with the beast''s body, a Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf appears. The "Shruuu... Shruuu" sound came in a total of four times, and four baby Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves finally appears in all four directions, stares at Long Feng with a deadly gaze. "This is seriously troublesome... Where could I go now?" Long Feng finally have to scratch his head to get a rough direction on which way he should fight to get out from this Totemic Controlled area. But before he could even make a roughly 10 meters from his initial position, three among the four Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves already making their action, and attacking towards Long Feng with an unimaginable speed! "This four Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves is more experienced in battle!" Long Feng is shocked with their timely cooperation as he tried to maintain some of the Elemental Essence Energy within his body to form a light defensive layer around his body, but due to the stress of maintaining the layer of defence indirectly affecting his speed and reaction, Long Feng end up with more than ten attempts to attack, but missed every single of his sword strike. But the worst thing only starting now. Long Feng weakness point is finally exploited by one of the wolves, where it managed to gave Long Feng a strong bite when he paying his attention to repel the other three. With a simple bite is successfully get through Long Feng''s layer of elemental defense, his body started to suffer from the side effect of the Hell Elemental Curse. The more he retaliate, the faster the curse bring out its effect. His body starts to felt the fatigue, as he continues to defend himself from the four wolves attack. "Aooooo!" a different tone of howling could be heard from one of the wolves as it stopped attacking and monitoring the situation. Long Feng pays his attention to that single howling wolf, and before body response to his immediate action, Long Feng is bitten on his left upper arm and receives two claw attack from the remaining two. With this three more attack managed to get through his layer of Elemental Essence Defence, Long Feng''s body fatigue increase by around three times stronger, causing him to even have difficulties to lift the sword. Unable to carry on with the swinging sword action, Long Feng could only ignite all the Elemental Essence within his body, in the hope of forcing the four Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves to stop attacking due to some Sky Elemental Essence is spread around him as he burst his energy. But, the reality is always cruel than fantasy in every little thing. This step that used to be successfully performed on the first Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf, is not working on this current four. Falling back around ten steps, shivering itself as the Sky Elemental Energy pass through, each single of one of the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves contained a strong wisdom compared to the simpleton cultivation beast scattered around the forest. They could spot the existence of the Sky Elemental, thus an evasive measure is taken for temporary, and awaits their target to came out and face their wrath. The Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves is linked with each other through their soul as long there is some totem erected within the forest. Through this way, the wolves could communicate and ask for help in case of danger. Since all of the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves already since the death of one of the youngest baby wolves, the other wolves from the nearby location immediately received the order to hunt down this killer no matter what is given. Added with Long Feng''s incomparable bad luck of entering this deadly four totems junction, his pursuer increased from normally one, into four on the spot. Having no other choice but to escape from this situation, Long Feng garnered all his energy as he tried to escape from the current location. Without any further consideration, Long Feng immediately charge north, while throwing two pieces of the Yellow Heart Poison Pill as he escaped. Because of some poisonous gases is gathered before the defending wolf from the north direction, Long Feng managed to escape while his opponent is considering the option of chase or wait until the gases are gone. But because of the injuries as well the fatigue caused by coming in contact with the Hell Element, Long Feng escape quickly caught up by the four wolves, and once again, his path had been obstructed by the wolves, giving him no way out. Long Feng has no other choices as he is pushed to his limit, and could only struggle to protect himself from giving away his life to the four wolves.away his life to the pursuer. "Is this where I will die? Before helping mother obtaining her freedom from the Heavenly Blossom Empire, before obtaining any success in the field of Pill Refining?" Long Feng blame himself for being too absent mind towards all the danger before him, but sometimes, regret is not something a medication could cure. Long Feng continues to struggle, holding the Qian Kun Sword with both hands as he explodes all the Elemental Essence Energy within his body. "Hold right there, young man." before the explosion of Elemental Essence Energy, a voice could be heard from above where Long Feng is preparing for his last struggle. In a flash, an Old Man in his age between 100 years old, dressed in a long and clean white robe and paired with two Steel Rods on his back that looked like bamboo sticks. "This elder is?" Long Feng is surprised with the sudden appearance of this Old Man, and immediately notice the differences between himself and the Old Man. The Old Man throws a pill on the ground beside Long Feng, and as it explodes, a mist with strong Sky Elemental energy slowly covers where Long Feng is staying still. Long Feng have a feeling that this Old Man is sincerely intended to helps him, so without further instructions, Long Feng proceeds to absorb all the available Sky Elemental Essence around him to remove the destructive fatigue from the Hell Element. "Young Man, I''m sorry to look at you instead of helping a while ago. But, your way to fight is totally wrong. I can notice that you are a very good seed cultivated from the Bronze Pill Hall, but why are your method of fighting is so similar to those from Martial Hall and not like those from Pill Hall?" the Old Man couldn''t help but lecture Long Feng a little due to his pitiful performance. "This Elder, Xiao Feng have limited experience in fighting, and only within the Bronze Pill Hall for a total of three to four month. I''m afraid I don''t even dare to say I am a good seedling cultivated by the Bronze Pill Hall." Long Feng honestly reply the Old Man''s word, after all, he has nothing additional to hide since this Old Man could notice his background from the way he fights. "If that''s the case, look carefully at how I fight, and learn from it. I can see that you have the potential to excel in this path, but if you are not guided well, even you are a polished diamond, you won''t be shining as brilliant as expected." He comments as he withdraws a number of pills and charges towards the wolves to face their combined attack. The four wolves quickly adjust their formation, as two went over to the left and right, while the remaining two wolves are attacking the Old Man in a frontal assault. "This is the Tribulation Sky Powder, if you scatter them before you fight, you will gain some advantage even if you are within their territories." the Old Man throw a few pills at his four surroundings, and as the pills exploded, a mist full of Sky Elemental Energy starts to envelop the surrounding. Although the Sky Element concentration is not too dense, as the Sky Elemental Mist started to appears around the area they are fighting, the four wolves started to having some difficulties in breathing, and even their fur became scarred from the contact.The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. "When fighting, this Limb Prisoning Concoction could help in a plenty of opportunities. As it touched the body of your opponent and exploded, the concoction within will be hardened into a type of crystalline rock, depending on the density of Yin and Yang Essence on your surrounding. A more experienced Pill Master will be able to directly immobilized opponent''s whole body with one single pill." the Old Man explained the second pill he toss at his three sides, and as the Pill made its contact with the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves and the concoction is seen spreading across the body of the wolves, within an instant, three among the four wolves had their limbs totally covered with black colored crystals. Only one remaining wolf is still following with its attack. Instead of struggling to free itself from the hardened black colored crystals, the three immobilized wolves actually howls altogether and tried to create a situation where the wolf howling will create some disruptions on its opponent mind and soul. Although the strength with only one wolf howling is not too effective, with the number of wolves increased into three, the effectiveness of this skill is at least increased by about 10%. But looking at the Old Man while having one of his eye close because of the painful disruptions, Long Feng actually shocked with his actions. "This is the Yin Shield Pill. Once you explode them on the spot you are standing, a Yin Essence base weak shield will form around you to give you a weak but sturdy enough shield to defend against two to three attacks, especially to defend against this kind of opponent that using the Hell Element as their base element." the Old Man is not affected by the Wolves Howling attack at all, while still focusing his attention on the only yet to be confronted lone wolf. The Old Man then withdraw some of the Blood Dragon Ointment, Cultivation Pellets and Tempering Pills and throws them to Long Feng''s direction, before he continues with the next lesson. "This three different medicinal pills is what we all called, the big three. To recover our Elemental Essence, to recover our Energy Essence, and to recover our blood loss and injuries. If you are exploring a dangerous forest with your current cultivation realm, don''t you think that you are a little too confident with your own capability?" "The next Pill is the Element Dispersing Powder. Once it made contact with your opponent, it will force a portion of the Elemental Essence within your opponent body to disperse and vanished. Indirectly, this will disrupt your opponent smoothness in channeling their Elemental Energy when fighting." the Old Man toss another four Pills toward each wolf, and as the wolves made their contact with the pill, the red gases released from their body started to get lighter and lesser, indicating that the wolves started to lose a significant amount of the Hell Elemental Essence. "This is the Pain Corrosion Pellet. It comes in a number of small throwing projectiles shape that easy to use against any targets. Once it made contact with your opponent, it will cause a corroding effect on the external skin, and the burning sensation is hardly bearable unless your opponent is well versed in body strengthening arts. Of course, if your opponent is using treasures and items specifically to defend this Pain Corrosion Pellets, then this item will be rendered useless. So even using this as a battle weapon will depend on your own skill in utilizing it." the Old Man explained the next Pill in his hand, which easily scattered as he launches it strongly towards the four wolves. As the Old Man says, once the small little pellets managed to make contact with the wolves body, the small explosions cause the skin to start become reddish in color, and even some of the furs starting to fell from its skin. The one that wasn''t immobilized by the Limb Prisoning Concoction is leaping up and down, to reduce its pain, while the remaining three have no choice but to howl pitifully because of such painful weapon is used on them. "There is this Pill called as the Body Shield Concoction that will activate as you inject some Yin or Yang Essence into it. It will melt into a special kind of concoction that will thoroughly cover your whole body, and increase most of your body defensive ability to handle against few heavy blows from your opponent. But too bad, we can''t use it now because your opponent is no longer a threat." the Old Man turned around as he kept the final Pill back into his pouch, and with a flick of his finger, the black colored crystals trapping the three wolves is finally been released, and instead of continuing to attack, the four wolves escape without looking back. "Your Hell Element fatigue should be cured by now, but your body should be still very weak, I will bring you into a cave to rest for now, and recover quickly so you could be on your way once again." the Old Man easily lift Long Feng up into his both hand, as he carry Long Feng across around the woods two three kilometres far away from where they initially fought and entered a cave that lit with a Bonfire within. As the two of them entered, a mental sign starts to reconnect between Long Feng and Hong Yue, because the other "Thing" sitting beside the bonfire and recuperating, is exactly Hong Yue, with the appearance of having a few pieces of cloth is tightly strapped on his injured body. "Master!" Hong Yue happily runs to its master as he behaves back into a reptile attitude. In the same time, Long Feng smile as happy as he could, because he finally managed to met Hong Yue after being separated for so long. "So, this Little Silver Scales Lizard belongs to you?" the Old Man asked. "Yes, honored Elder. Thank you for saving the both of us within this forest." Long Feng politely cupped his both hand as he bowed towards the Old Man. With all the polite and proper words is exchanged, the three of them finally have the chances to have a good talk with each other. Since Hong Yue possess no Human Speech Intelligence, he could only speak with the Old Man through Long Feng. As the conversation goes deeper, the Old Man starts to reveal his own identity as well, after seeing the honest appearance of Long Feng and also the bond between him and Hong Yue. The Old Man introduced himself as Yu Men, a Medicine Disciple of a small Orthodox Clan called the [House of Hundred Pills]. This house is not too well known in the Brilliant Jade Kingdom''s basic populations, but some Pill Halls does have some exchange of information and knowledge with this Clan once a while. This Clan is led by a Headmaster with ten elders, along with a total of 10 Core Disciple and also 500 Medicine Disciples. They carry their conduct properly and behave well in a very disciplined manner. Outside of the Clan, they are used to known as one of the most Orthodox Pill House, compared to the [Turmoil Pill Clan] attitude which is overbearing and greedy. But one more shocking news is, this Old Man called Yu Men, had already been a Medicine Disciple for a total of 50 years, because of his low talent in related with the Dao of Pills. But no matter what, even as a mere Medicine Disciple, Yu Men still managed to enjoy the treatment only given to all the members of the House of Hundred Pills. The workload and task are very well organized and distributed accordingly to each member of the Clan, and nobody within the Clan will plot to fight against each other, due to some slight benefits. Although some friendly match always happened within the Clan, at the end of the match, it is solely for the exchange of experience in the Dao of Pills, and not because of some mere position within the clan or some temporary benefits. With the sharing of background is over, Yu Men pass two recipes to Long Feng for studying purposes, along with a piece of an oval shaped token with the engraving (Yu-Men/Rain Gate) on of it the side. "Young Xiao Feng, although this Old Man has a very limited talent in understanding the Dao of Pills, through my intuition, you will be able to succeed in future if you are given and know how to value the luck and chances. If the fate is still holding us together in future, let us met in the House of Hundred Pills, and by that time, I hope to see someone that is more successful and greater than how you are now." Yu Men have high expectations on Long Feng the longer he converse with this young man. Although his talent is low, after being exposed to so many amazing individuals within the field of Pill Refining, how could he be any less of sight towards people with amazing talents and good future prospects? Yu Men is merely investing in something that he felt worth investing, and this time, his choice of selection is Long Feng, a barely 11 years old young child. Before the three take a rest and call it a day, Yu Men also shared the reason for his visits toward this Tri-Lightning Forest. From the spreading rumors, a special ingredient called the Mirage Thunder Bamboo recently seen within this forest, and it was a special ingredient to refine a special Pill called as [Lightning Tribulation Pill]. This Pill allows the cultivator in Thunder Element to have a stronger resistance towards Lightning Strikes as they temper their Elemental Foundation, and is an important treasure for a cultivator that trying to breakthrough from the Second Blue Lightning Stage into the Third Red Lightning Stage. But after being within this forest for almost a full month, also he still yet to encounter it, so Yu Men decided to call it a fluke, and decided to return to the House of Hundred Pills until he saw Hong Yue four days ago. Due to all these small little delays, Yu Men managed to encounter this two strong bond Master-Beast companion and gave him a moment to relax his mind because of the disappointment from unable to find the location where the Mirage Thunder Bamboo. The next morning, as the ashes from the bonfire are being blown away from the strong winds that came into the cave, Long Feng and Hong Yue finally awakes from their good rest. Their body had recovered to at least 90% overall, but within the cave, Old Yu Men''s already couldn''t be seen anywhere, indicating that he already left the duo earlier when the two of them is fast asleep. "Hong Yue, let us go back to the Thunderburst Jade City. It is less than two months before the opening of the Thousand Herbal Garden, we should start training now, so we could have a chance to participate in this event." Long Feng slapped Hong Yue''s back as he speaks, letting him knows about Long Feng''s next target in his mind. Book 1 Chapter 62 - Preparation for the Thousand Herbal Garden! The duo searches around the area for some foods and water supplies, before they decided to leave the cave for good. Since the Old Man Yu Men had already left earlier before this, added with the initial intention is to bring Hong Yue returns to the Thunderburst Jade City is a half success, the two of them decided to slowly explore the forest as they head toward the outer area. After a full day of random walking and fighting with some Lightning Flash Wolves, Long Feng finally managed to obtained some important information from Hong Yue, who understands the Hierarchy of this forest after listening and obtaining the portion of memories from the Cultivation Beast he had eaten and killed. Within the world of Cultivation Beast, they too have the ability to understand, feel, and express themselves, thus if Long Feng and Hong Yue managed to met the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf now, perhaps their tricks will be all exposed by Hong Yue as they fought, and Long Feng could have a 50% chances winning if forced to face four of the wolves once again. A total of four different area is divided within this Tri-Lightning Forest. Each area is ruled and treated as a territory of each King, and in total, Four different Ferocious Beast Kings is controlling the whole Tri-Lightning Forest, managing their tyrannical power by totally controlling all the other Cultivation Beast within the area of their commands. One of the locations where Long Feng first stumbles upon is known as the Totemic Forest, the only area that wasn''t bombarded by Lightning Strikes at all time. This forest is controlled by the two Great Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf, a stronger and older variant of the normal Demon Blood Nightmare wolves. If one would treat the Demon Blood Nightmare wolves as an outer disciple of the family, then the Great Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf would be the Core Disciple rank within the family hierarchy. The next area other than the Totemic Forest is a widespread grassland with blasted rocks and resides by at least hundred thousand of herbs across this 500 Li wide grassland. It is named as the Lightning Strikes Arena, where only Cultivation Beast with strong lightning resistance could reside. This area is also under the jurisdiction from one of the Four Ferocious Beast Kings, the Thunder Raging Rhinoceros. Next, is the Largest mountain zone that was the core habitat of more than ten kinds of cultivation beast, and also one of the Ferocious Beast King''s tribe. This Mountain is spread all across the north, covering even the location around the Northwest and Northeast into its territories. With a total of 1200 Li wide, the Lightning Peak Mountain is controlled by the Devil Howling Ape Tribe, who is also one of the four kings among the Tri-Lightning Forest. Lastly, is a serene Lake within the middle of the Tri-Lightning Forest. Although the Lake only covered around 200 Li of lands within the whole forest, the Thundercloud Reflection Lake, is not a place where one could let down its guard. The only reason this area seems serene and calm is due to the final one among the four kings, the rumored to be strongest among all Four Ferocious Beast King, the Blood Armoured Giant Horse. It is said that the first three among the four kings is at their Peak Adept Realm Cultivation, while the last among the four kings is at his Human Practitioner Realm Cultivation. In a total, this Tri-Lightning Forest with a total of 2200 Li worth of Lands, is one of the most prosperous forests that could allow any cultivators from the human world to step in to challenge, but not a forest that would easily allow the challengers to leave as they want. With the cave location is already far away from the Totemic Forest, Long Feng and Hong Yue quickly escapes from their initial location and heads towards the forest exit. But escaping from the Totemic Forest Zone doesn''t indicate that one will immediately enter into a safer area. Only about an hour after the duo left the area of Totemic Forest, they had already reached another territory belonged to the Thunder Raging Rhinoceros, known as the Lightning Strikes Arena. Within this 500 Li Grassland, abundant medicinal herbs could be seen along each single steps made, but what is more challenging within this grassland, is the randomness of the Lightning strikes, that randomly hits the ground at least five times every step the duo takes. Even the most daring Pill Master might have an issue of bravado within this land that will easily rob them of their life if they couldn''t control their greed. Long Feng and Hong Yue ignores the visual attraction each plant gave along their way, to ensure a full safety along with their path. But the due luck could be considered quite good, especially when they barely managed to escape from the close call Lightning Strikes, at least ten times along their path. The duo carefully continues their journey, until they finally managed to found a side area that is well surrounded by small rocky mountains. By escaping into the small rocky mountains range, the duo could temporary hide from the rage of Lightning Strikes, while recuperating some of their loss of Essence Energy used during their evasion and the extremely wide range of Elemental Shield when crossing pass the Lightning Strikes Arena. In the same time, Long Feng finally understood the reason why even if it''s a fluke news regarding the Mirage Thunder Bamboo would cause Old Yu Men to travel over to this forest. Only by successfully refining the [Lightning Tribulation Pill] only one that cultivates in Thunder Element could calmly face this kind of Breaking through challenges. But as the two finally turned around to look at the path behind them, they are immediately pushed into another deep state of shock. The Rocky Mountain Path that is assumed to be safe from the Lightning Strikes, is actually a grazing spot for those Infant Stage Thunder Raging Rhinoceros!If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. If it only merely five or ten of the Infant Thunder Raging Rhinoceros, Long Feng and Hong Yue could still easily get across the obstacle, but this sight before them, is actually a school of at least 200 Infant Thunder Raging Rhinoceros scattered all around along the Rocky Mountain Path, with some is laying on the ground, some sleeping, some is playing with others, and some is paying attention is channeling the Thunder Elemental Strength within its body. Finally accepting that the escape path is no longer possible, the Duo decided to force their way across this Grazing Rocky Path, and help themselves to create a new path of life! Long Feng wield his sword tightly with as much Wood Element covering his body as he could and charge straight towards the obstacle. Even Hong Yue is forced to withdraw all its claws on both leg and hands, so he could fight in a wilder appearance. The battle between 100 aggressive infants of Thunder Raging Rhinoceros against a Human and Beast Partner! Thunder strikes everywhere as the battle follows, and with each step Long Feng and Hong Yue took, the harder is the challenges as the number of Thunder Raging Rhinoceros waking up from the commotion is increasing. The moment where almost all of the Infant Thunder Raging Rhinoceros is finally waking, Long Feng and Hong Yue finally successfully pass the tall rocky wall at the end of another side, and successfully escape from the combined attacks! "Master..." Hong Yue slow down as he tried to catch a breath. Looking at the tired Hong Yue, Long Feng too decided to catch a breath himself and prepares to the next upcoming challenges. "Master, I heard what few of the Thunder Raging Rhinoceros are speaking with each other just now." Hong Yue finally open up on the conversation between those Thunder Raging Rhinoceros. But as he exposed it to Long Feng, both of them have no choice but to laugh out hard enough, because the conversation is totally unbelievably childish! "Finally some human comes to let us train our Thunder Elemental Art." "Is this human somebody caught by mother and father for us to shock them up?" "Come play with us!" "Hong Yue, don''t let Jing Jing knows about this matter." Long Feng had Hong Yue to keep this as a secret. As he heard the instruction from Long Feng, Hong Yue immediately covered his mouth with both hands, and the two of them continues with the journey, until exactly seven days, Long Feng finally managed to get out from the Tri-Lightning Forest. Looking at the two, Nan Jing Jing worried expression starts to become lighter and happier, as she runs to the two and gives them a big hug. Long Feng return a hug to Nan Jing Jing and ask for forgiveness because of making her worries about both of them. But Nan Jing Jing pushed away from the matter, because no matter which side of her and Hong Yue happened to be in trouble, Long Feng will never hesitate to act alone. This is also the reason why she followed Long Feng without questions and gave him her full support. As the three of them returned to the city and received a two day of rest, Long Feng and Hong Yue''s injuries finally healed. But instead of planning to return to the Clear Jade City, Long Feng decides on one extremely important matter. From these few days of temporary residing within this Thunderburst Jade City, Long Feng noticed the difference in his personal improvement, the quality of population within the city, as well the distribution of the superpowers within the city. Just because of this few different matters that believed to be able to push him further in his path of cultivation, Long Feng politely request for Lang Ren''s assistance in proceeding with the relocation of students request. Since the Five Cities Bronze Pill Halls freely allows their students to be transferred from one Hall to another, added with Lang Ren''s special request, the procedures required to complete the transfer happened to goes smoothly, where before the end of the second week, Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing had already received the letter of acceptance directly from the Thunderburst Jade City''s Bronze Pill Hall. At the same time, due to the newly found fame from concocting the Tiger Stripes Soul Pill, Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing actually immediately had been enrolled into the Inner Disciple Branch without further requirements. And when on the first day of entering the Inner Division Hall within the Bronze Pill Hall in Thunderburst Jade City, Long Feng actually felt that the atmosphere within the Inner Disciple Hall is much more pressured, havoc, and aggressive! If it was to compare, the Clear Jade City is basically friendlier than normal compared to the competitive condition within Thunderburst Jade City! Barely one full day within the Pill Hall, Long Feng had already encountered at least five Pill Martial friendly exchanges, and also five Pill Refining Friendly exchanges between the inner disciple students. Although the amount of their bet is not too large to be compared with Long Feng''s wealth, the feeling of competing against similar peers among the Hall, gave Long Feng a reason to not behave himself properly. With the competition and friendly match between the disciples are heading to such a situation, Long Feng would be a fool if he doesn''t make a full use of it. In his mind, as long he could utilize such a pressure within this Bronze Pill Hall to temper himself as well to properly groom himself to prepares for the upcoming Thousand Herbal Garden Opening, there will be impossible for Long Feng to not obtained a spot within! From that day onwards, a total of 5 weeks exactly passed, where Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing finally prepares to travel back to the Clear Jade City, which is the location where the competition to select the top 100 disciples within the five Bronze Pill Halls will be conducted. Since the competition topics will remains secret until the day of competition starts, the lesser he would worry about what question will be coming out within this competition. In the same time, Long Feng wished to see what kind of inner Division among the five Bronze Pill Hall have in their hand, and how close is him towards being the top disciple among all of them! With his newly obtained strength of Early Earth Adept Realm, Long Feng can''t wait to reach the Clear Jade City earlier, and prepares himself well before the next day! "I heard that the Silver Pill Hall will be the judges for the competition this time! I wonder what rewards will be given if we managed to obtain the spot to enter the Thousand Herbal Garden!" Nan Jing Jing happily guesses the rewards as the carriage that carrying around 200 Inner Division Disciple from the Thunderburst Jade City is moving past the Five Cities Intersection. But never would they imagine, that the path toward Clear Jade City, is no longer as easy as how they previously journeyed through before. and the only reason is that this time, it is a properly arranged obstacle! Book 1 Chapter 63 - Obstacle Before Reaching Clear Jade City. Reality is as Ugly as Human Nature. Within the carriage, Long Feng''s mind turns back to about five weeks before the current time, where himself and Nan Jing Jing is accepted as the transfer student from Clear Jade City to the Thunderburst Jade City. Within the Bronze Pill Hall, Long Feng couldn''t have a single day that passed without any challenges from numerous fellow inner disciples. Most of the challenges came from the bottom populations within the Inner Division Branch, and since the challenges are initiated under the reason of Competition in Dao of Pills, competitions in the Understanding of Refining and Tempering, Long Feng have no reason to not accepting the challenges when it comes to his doorstep every single day. But the main purpose is, the other disciples are bearing the intention to obtain the Recipe of Tiger Stripes Soul Pill belonged to Long Feng! Since their purpose is already well known to Long Feng, he decided to strengthen his resolution as he changes his challenging requirement to ingredient and recipe betting. Although Long Feng couldn''t hold a record of total victory against all his opponent, so far, Long Feng managed to maintain his current records of 125 Wins and 5 Draws within the whole five weeks starting from the day he entered the Bronze Pill Hall. With such a record of winning streaks, Long Feng naturally managed to win over plenty of ingredients he was always felt lacking, and along with the huge amount of ingredients, Long Feng even able to obtains some additional recipes and treasures from those challenges. Currently, within the whole Bronze Pill Hall in Thunderburst Jade City, Long Feng''s position already firmly stands at the top ten most capable Inner Division Disciples. But no matter what, within this Thunderburst Jade City Branch, there is still a total of 9 exceptionally skillful individuals that yet to make their appearance before Long Feng and challenge him to a match. Thus, due to this reason, Long Feng position is just standing in the tenth place, as the last among the ten most exceptional Disciples. Among those treasures and recipes Long Feng obtains, he traded out some of them in exchanges for more varieties of ingredients he believes that it could be used efficiently as required. Since some of the most basic Battle Concoction and Medicinal Concoction already within his grasp, What Long Feng wished to have, would be those specialized recipes that could help him in various ways. And this is why, in his hand currently, only three special recipes he deems incomplete is still remained within his hands, along with two of the special recipe given by Old Man Yu Men before he left the two in the cave. As for the explanation of the recipes in hand being incomplete, is due to the fact Long Feng had yet to personally revise and refine the Pill accordingly and adjust the method of refining the Pills. First of all, the two Incomplete Recipes given by Old Yu Men is, Essence Boosting Concoction. A four Ingredients Battle Concoction that allows an immediate recovery of Essence Energy during consumptions, and could be used without any limitations. Sealing Pill. Another Four Ingredients Battle Concoction that will instantly stop the opponent from leaving the spot by trapping them within the Sealing Sphere. Unless the opponent is well versed in Body Strengthening Technique or possess amazingly deadly Weapon, breaking through the Sealing Sphere will be difficult. And the remaining three Incomplete Recipes he still kept from winning all the challenges, Needle Bomb Pill. A Three Ingredients Battle Concoction that will have the effect of the scattered shot, where the rain of needles will directly affect the opponent''s battle capability when hit. Fire Lizard Pill. A Four Ingredient Battle Concoction that will ignite and burn like boiling hot lava when sufficient amount of Yang Energy is injected into the Pill. The loser of this recipe owner is believed to be nicknamed as "Lizard Flames Peng Yu". Frozen Yin Mist. The final Four Ingredient Battle Concoction that won from the challenges Long Feng accepted during his period of being a transferred disciple within the Thunderburst Jade City Branch. This Battle Concoction easily explodes upon contact, and good to disrupt the Yang Essence around the user when needed. Immersing himself in the memories and all the experience he had gone through in this five weeks, Long Feng had himself well tempered in various perspective, with the intention of strengthening himself in Mind, Cultivation, Experience, as well in the way he accepts the condition and restrictions placed by other people with strength above him. Although within the five weeks of arduous training and facing challenges from other Inner Disciples, this doesn''t manage to disrupt in his preparation works of fitting himself with a good amount of Pill Master''s personal weapons. Not only he managed to obtained enough points to enter the Tower of Knowledge to view their quality recipes to prepare some special battle concoctions, in the same time, Long Feng managed to obtain more information related to his Sky Elemental specialties.Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator. One could only say that, within this short period of time, Long Feng actually force himself to devour all the existing information and knowledge that he could about this mortal world. Except for Nan Jing Jing and Hong Yue, perhaps nobody will know what is within his mind, and how much suffering and hellish trial had been placed on this fragile young ten years old body of a child. The carriage continues on its way across the Five Cities Intersection, passing through two among the three Inns under the three Bronze Hall jurisdiction. But instead of initiating some conversation with Nan Jing Jing and other disciples, Long Feng continues to immerse into his own deep thought, and spend most of his time to revise his current understanding in terms of Pill Usage, Pill Refining, and his own excel in various type of Martial Arts. Currently, because of the few dangerous encounters before in the Tri-Lightning Forest and the exchange before entering the Thunderburst Jade City, Long Feng childish mind is forced to enter a deep realization stage, as he pushes himself to conduct himself with a more stern behavior as he continues to grow. Even Nan Jing Jing and Hong Yue could felt some changes in Long Feng, especially when he was to communicate with others unrelated to him. Once, Long Feng actually make a two days trip towards the Tri-Lightning Forest again after he had fully prepared himself to face the attack from the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves Tribe. Although he had yet to meet the Great Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf, Long Feng end up with a victorious feat that quickly became the main topic to be discussed within the whole Thunderburst Jade City, and creating an even louder name wherever he went within the city. "The Pill Master Li from the Bronze Pill Hall single-handed slaughter around 50 Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves before he returned to the City with a body reeks of blood." The appearance of Long Feng that time gave a few guards before the city gate nightmares continuously for few days, and from that moment, Long Feng''s daily challenges had subsided as well, from usually five to six in each day and becoming only barely two to three in a day. Out of sudden, the path in front of the Carriage is being blocked, as the four Thousand Li Travelling Steads is being controlled from continuing its path. In front of the carriage, a total of at least 2000 strong bandits from the Man Si House is blocking their path without any reasons to be discussed, and with each cry, they are demanding that either the Carriage turn around and go back, fight to their death as they continue on their journey, or pay up a hefty price to use this path. "The trees along this path is planted by the Man Si House. The cleaned road for the carriage to goes through is managed by the Man Si House. The beast that attacks the travelers, is handled by the Man Si House. If anyone wants to go through, leave half of your traveling expenses here!" One of the strong fighters belonged to the Man Si House speaks. Besides this strong fighter, a total of another four Late Earth Adept Realm cultivators, including Tai Pan. This strong fighter is called as Niu Sha, wielding a heavy axe as his weapon. As if they had already received their order, the 2000 strong bandit group finally take their approach to charge towards the Carriage contains 200 Inner Division Disciples from the Thunderburst Jade City''s Bronze Pill Hall! Without giving up on their own hard earn wealth, all two hundred disciples couldn''t hold in any more of this disrespect, and charge out from the carriage as the fight started. Similarly, the other three Bronze Pill Hall from Jade Ginseng City, Cloudy Jade City, Xuan Wu Jade City is blocked by other Bandit Strongholds in between their path. As if the order had been given to each single Bandit Strongholds, each carriage with their own respective member actually starts to get involved in a fight, and the clash between weapons starts to be heard throughout the whole Five City Intersection! While everyone is fully enraged within their mind to fight for the path towards the Clear Jade City, Long Feng firmly stands on top of the carriage along with Nan Jing Jing and remembered a word from Lang Ren before their departure. "Do not underestimate the timid and friendly Clear Jade City will easily allow the other Inner Division Disciple from the Four cities to entered the City so easily. Once you finally managed to see the ugliness between the Righteous and the Evil, you will finally notice that behind each single superpower sect, there will be a part of the undisclosed truth that well hidden from everyone, in order to strengthen their positions." "Trust nobody, except yourself! This is the choice you must be made as a Cultivator that have the intention to exceed this empty shell confining you within! Because in order to protect the Thunderburst Jade City from any threat, even myself will cooperate with any superpower to protect my people and my own interest!" Lang Ren''s advice kept appears within his mind as Long Feng is looking at the fight between two sides. "Wife, are you interested to join the fight?" Long Feng is keen to obtain Nan Jing Jing''s decision before he decides. But as she looks directly into Long Feng''s eyes, she muttered the word, "No". With such answer from her, Long Feng decides that they will not take any action unless they are provoked. The two of them sit comfortably on top of the carriage as they look at how the Inner Disciples fought with the bandits using numerous type of weapons, Pills, and other treasures. Although the Bandits doesn''t have any extremely strong fighters within their ranks, with the odds of 1-10, the Inner Disciple slowly have their numbers thinned, from initial 200 participants into 180 left within 30 minutes of fighting. Nan Jing Jing has some urge to help, but after being held to the same spot by Long Feng, she understands one main reason for them to not participating unless provoked. "If one doesn''t possess the basic instinct to properly protect themselves, then nobody will be able to protect them from facing their own calamity when the time has arrived! This is the Ugliness of the reality to survive and live in this world!" Plus with Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing past experiences, this situation could be only described as "Already Been There, Already Seen That." With the number of Inner Disciple finally reach 140 of them left, with many is injured among them, Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing finally decided to make their move. "Husband, Let us take our action now." Nan Jing Jing stands as she charges towards one section with the less number of bandits. While Long Feng slowly takes his move and stands up as he cracks a few bones within his body, and speaks his mind. "Hong Yue, you''re allowed to take an action. Whatever treasure you hauled, will be totally for your own consumptions." Long Feng speaks in his mind, as the fights from another end are started to break out. As he receives the order from Long Feng to act, Hong Yue immediately make his move, appearing from the forest and with both claws, he killed two bandits instantly as his jaw is aiming for the next one close by. Looking at Nan Jing Jing fighting with the Qian Kun Soul Wheel in a beautiful and mesmerizing body movements, Long Feng decided to start moving as well, with around ten different Pills within his both hands. Book 1 Chapter 64 - Ten Most Capable Disciples within Five Bronze Pill Hall. The moment Long Feng entered the battlefield, four Pills is thrown towards the bandit''s side as he notices there is nobody from the Pill Hall is fighting around that part. With the four Pills is successfully ignited, a burst of Fiery concoction is being scattered everywhere, and about six of the Bandit had been seriously injured due to the exploding distance between them and the Pills is too close. Few of the Inner Disciples managed to get a caught on what happened from where the pitiful cries are heard and looking at that instant flashes, those disciples quickly escape from the battlefield and returned back to the spot where their carriage is positioned. Even one among the few disciples managed to recognize the source of the explosion used by Long Feng. "That''s the explosion from the Fire Lizard Pills! Is that Disciple Peng Yu, or Long Feng?" "What? Long Feng the transfer Disciple?" some of the disciples started to discuss Long Feng''s origin as they escape from the battlefield. "Kill him, quickly! This kid is extremely dangerous!" some of the bandits noticed the fighting strength came from Long Feng, as they tidied their ranks and charge over with caution. But no matter how sturdy is that defensive stance, it is still failed to compete with the direct assault from the might of the refined powers hidden within each single Pill! "Needle Bomb Pill!" Long Feng toss three Pills towards where the ten-men shield is formed to defend against his approach. The bandits quickly channel their strongest energy to defend against any random attacks, but when faced with the scattered needles that could pierce through a cultivators body when explodes, the ten-men shield quickly turned into a ten-men corpse. Even when he saw some treasures are scattered on the ground, Long Feng possess no greed to quickly collects it. The overall battle is still far from over, and if Long Feng decided to stop here, his action would generate a different kind of attention from the fellow disciples towards him, thus he decided to ignore this kind of mere attractions. Almost wherever he went, two to three Needle Bomb Pill is thrown. From three to four dead bodies into ten or more, Long Feng mopped the battlefield easily as the number of bandits quickly decrease, until only about 1200 of them remains. Although the Bandit Leader, Niu Sha could already call this battle a success from their success of killing around 50 Inner Disciples, due to some additional greed within his mind, he wished to obtain more loots! "Everyone, Follow me and let us go forward to kill those few strong disciples!" Niu Sha led the four Adept Realm cultivators to follow him down to participates in the fight! Even the most inexperienced bandits know that once the Bandit Leader is making their move, the flows in the battlefield will become even ferocious, due to each leader''s ruthlessness and also decisive action when fighting. Especially for Niu Sha, who depending on his long heavy axe that already chopped off a total of three disciples head as he rides through the battlefield. As if he knows who is the most threatening among the disciples, Niu Sha actually head straight towards Long Feng with his Long Axe held high up for a full strength swing anytime. Looking at such a target coming over to him, Long Feng felt appreciated. "I would never imagine that such a character will actually head directly towards my position in early of their battle." Long Feng happily comments. Although his voice is neither soft or loud, it could still be heard by the people 300 meters around him. With their eyes and jaw opened wide from hearing such a comment, Niu Sha''s Long Axe had already been swung, targeting Long Feng''s neck in its first greetings. "Sealing Pill." Long Feng toss a Yellow covered Pill as big as an eyeball towards the ground before Niu Sha, and almost instantly, a Sealing Sphere covered Niu Sha from continuing on his track. Even his strongest weapon, the Long Axe, had been immobilized from the restricted space within the Sealing Sphere. "Damn Kid! What is this weird looking energy shield? Let me, Niu Sha, destroy it with a punch!" Niu Sha is in rage because his path had been obstructed by a hell know where it came from energy shield. But to say that Niu Sha is not a capable fighter, would be too underestimating him, as when he landed a single punch towards the Sealing Sphere, a crack could be seen immediately. Although the Sealing Sphere is quite a good Battle Concoction to be used against a strong opponent, this doesn''t mean it could help in the part to attack the opponent directly. The Sealing Sphere defense against both side attack, thus even if Long Feng felt that he should continue to pressure Niu Sha, but at the same time, he is helplessly unable to do it because of the sphere is still in effect. While on Long Feng''s left and right section, Nan Jing Jing and Hong Yue is charging over without clearing all the bandits along their way. Although both of them could have the ability to do so, they choose to not cutting off all the weeds within the grounds, but only to cut off the excess growth instead. Because if they choose to totally decimate all the bandits'' operation within the Five Cities Intersection, it means that in future, any outbreak of Cultivation Beast attack will be required to be handled personally by the City Lords themselves. This is also the connection between Yin and Yang, as well the Moon and the Sun. One could not totally overtake another because if that happened, calamity will follow along when the time comes. With the fourth punches, Niu Sha finally able to regain his freedom, as he sucked a long breath as he shattered the Sealing Sphere''s defense. "Brat, you are the first one to actually cause me to spend so much time to kill!" Niu Sha charges with a Zigzag pattern as he gets closer to Long Feng, "Phantom Fist!" Niu Sha used his proudest one hit kill attack, as his fist is swung towards where Long Feng stands firm. The moment his fist getting closer to just barely a finger reach to his face, a layer of a defensive shield is activated, rendering the pressure within the punch becomes a useless waste of Essence Energy. "Niu Sha, am I correct? This is the Body Shield Concoction, a special Battle Concoction used by skillful Pill Master to defend themselves when faced with threatening enemies." "But unfortunately, your opponent is me today, give up, and I will let you leave. Call your people to retreat now before we totally destroy a portion of Man Si House today." as Long Feng starts until he finished his words, a mocking expression could be seen from Niu Sha as he underestimates Long Feng capability in face to face fights. But with the two Needle Bomb Pill explosion follows along when Long Feng finished his sentence, Niu Sha finally understands that he was already be "Set Up." With his beehive like knee couldn''t support his heavy body anymore before any words could be spoken, Niu Sha falls down to his knees, as if he was asking for a forgiveness from Long Feng. "Sorry for such disappointing fight, but I''m afraid I can''t continue to play with you anymore." Long Feng tighten his palm to form a shapeless sword as he performs a throat-slitting action. Just within a few minutes of clashing against each other, one Late Earth Adept Realm Cultivator is slain on the spot. Looking at this situation, even Tai Pan started to have a hint of fear within his mind, as he stopped halfway and decided to fights between those weaker disciples groups. One hour later, the Man Si House bandits finally retreated, after having almost 1000 of their men is killed during the exchange. But even with this amount of death, the effect towards Man Si House is only a minor threat instead. In between this exchange, the Bronze Pill Hall side lost a total of 80 Inner Disciples, where in this 80 person inventory pouch, would contains the materials enough to cultivates more than 800 new bloods for the Man Si House, and might enough to allows at least 8 strong members to be able to enter the Adept Realm Cultivation. But on the Man Si House side, although they had lost around 1000 members, this group is not even from the main forces of the Man Si House. Added with the lack of loots from the kills, this results in only fighting experience, and nothing else is benefitted.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. In the same time, the other three cities Inner Disciples also managed to break through such obstacles blocking their path. From the initially 200 Disciples strong team, is being reduced to at least a quarter of their members had lost their lives to the attacking bandits. Through this alone, one already could see that at the end of this top 100 best disciple among the 5 Bronze Pill Hall, at least half of it would be taken by the force in Clear Jade City, because their force is the only one remain unscathed from all this unfortunate incident. Within the Jade Ginseng City''s carriage. "This is totally unforgivable! We are all disciples from the Bronze Pill Hall as well, how could we bear the loss and justify our disadvantages from having 60 junior-senior participants in this Top 100 seat selection?" one beautiful man with facial features that even bring another female pale in comparison speaks. As the members of the Jade Ginseng City branch is looking straight at him, another fellow disciple opened his mouth. "Senior Chu, before leaving the Pill Hall, the majority of the Elders already keep reminding us to be cautious all along our way. Within this 140 brother and sisters, who never paid attention to those elders message? Those that failed to understand the importance of such advice, had already been taken down and looted by the enemies, and yet our own side not even managed to recover back anything from them at all." another Inner Disciple comments, as he believes that those that still remains within the carriage, is the cream of crops among the two hundred members before everything happened. "Senior Tie, with you and Senior Chu''s capability, the Jade Ginseng City Branch will obtain at least two seats within the top ten for sure!" a younger generation member comments as the others agreed with it after the word came out. The two most capable new generation of this year intake, Tie Peng and Chu Yi from Jade Ginseng City! While in the Cloudy Jade City''s carriage. This carriage is currently in a sorry state due to the huge losses from the previous attack. From the initial two hundred Disciples before the attack, currently, only ninety disciples remained within the carriage, all with a gloomy expression. Most of the disciples within are injured, and some of them are mugged empty from having any remaining treasures within their inventory pouch. "Senior Zhang Pu, Senior Chen Nan, please have some drink before we reach the Clear Jade City." a younger generation disciple prepared some drinks to this two senior as he kneeled behind them. "Hmm, good. You may rest now, wake us up later when we reach the city." the person called Chen Nan speaks as he dismisses the young junior, and continues to enjoy the companionship of two sexy figure ladies on his both side. Hundred Variants Zhang Pu and Poisonous Chen Nan of Cloudy Jade City, also two heavyweight participants that are expected to be taking two seats among the top ten! But hidden within this two men, is a sinister appearance that causes almost all within the carriage and those dead outside of the battlefield mugged empty. Lastly, from the Xuan Wu Jade City, the carriage is seated with the most living disciples. Among the 200 disciples from the Xuan Wu Jade City, only five among them is accidentally killed when the adept practitioner is personally taking the action on the battlefield. Although the battle between them only remain stagnant with few dead and some injured, the one who managed to control the pace is still remarkably strong in everyone opinions! First Class Shield, Huang Ying, and First Class Spear, Yue Ying! Two female disciples that believed to be the best of all five Bronze Pill Hall Branches. Their popularity soared the moment they managed to make their name through hunting the Xuan Lao Aging Lizard, also rumored to be the strongest beast within the Xuan Jade Forest west of Xuan Wu Jade City, with a cultivation strength of Third Heaven Grade Ferocious Beast. Added with Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing from the Thunderburst Jade City and also two mysterious participants within Clear Jade City, this ten powerful disciples, will be competing against each other to obtain the first among top ten seats! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Within the Clear Jade City. "Gou Yu, Liu Tsung, the two of you will be the best choice to represent the Clear Jade City in this top 100 seat competition. This time, the Silver Hall from our Kingdom''s Capital City will be acting as the judges for this competition, so make sure you could obtain the first and second position before the opening of the Thousand Herbal Garden." Elder Zhi Ruo speaks as she looked at the two best choices of talent the Clear Jade City had. "Remember, if you both could enter the top ten ranking, our Hall Master Yang Shao will personally give you both two copy of his personal concocted recipe, and a total of 100 Master-Rank Cultivation Pellets. If you could achieve the top five ranking, your rewards will be doubled. If either of you managed to obtain first or second seats, the Hall Master will personally request a tempered Heaven Grade Spirit Equipment for you. Are you both clear?" Elder Zhi Ruo continued. Gou Yu politely nod his head towards Elder Zhi Ruo but keeping quiet from speaking. After the disciple name Liu Tsung excuse himself to make some preparation for the competition tomorrow, Elder Zhi Ruo turned around and looked at her beloved disciple for one more time. "Xiao Yu, how is your preparation going on?" the moment she called Gou Yu''s much more familiar name, a hint of love belonged from a teacher to her student could be felt. "Dear Master, Xiao Yu doesn''t dare to forget master''s advice in preparing most of the pills and read more scrolls to obtain more information. Currently, Xiao Yu could confidently read out or refined at least forty kinds of Pills, as well dare to say his understanding is most of the basis is within the upper ranks." Gou Yu politely answered his master''s question. "Good, if you are well prepared, then master could be at ease as well. Come over here and take a seat, Master will explain the challenges you will encounter when you entered the Thousand Herbal Garden." Elder Zhi Ruo started to speak about the real challenges after the competition to select the best 100 candidates is over. "First of all, what you need to know, is the Entrance to the Thousand Herbal Garden is actually a specially summoned Spatial Realm, which is known as the Prosperity Realm. This Realm held the special attributes of [Heavenly Fertilization], a special condition that no matter what kind of resources that were brought into the realm, will be able to grow, planted and cultured within this realm." "But this doesn''t mean that the realm is totally safe and you can easily harvest whatever you could see there. Although the ingredients grow within the realm is similar to our own ingredients, but that''s all the similarity between our Realm and the Prosperity Realm. The beast within this realm is known as Prosperity Tribe, they possess no limitation of growth within their body, but the only difference is, their appearance is more like a Wooden Elves kind, with a body similar to a tree-man and plenty of roots and vines growing across their body." "other than the Prosperity Tribe, another one main threat within this Garden, is the Wooden Beast. Also holding none limitation over their growth, the Wooden Beast average strength is believed to be between Early Human Practitioner Realm to Late Human Practitioner Realm. You could easily spot them almost everywhere, and some of them who possess more intelligence compared to the others could become a threat no matter they are provoked or not." "So, remember to not being too greedy within the Garden, and try your best to collect as many ingredients as you could, before the time limit of seven days in our Realm is over." Elder Zhi Ruo continues with her words. But the last sentence seems to be quite difficult to understand, so Gou Yu immediately asked for clarifications. "Master, Gou Yu couldn''t understand the last sentence about seven days in our realm. Do you mean that the time within the Thousand Herbal Garden is different?" "Yes. Within the Prosperity Realm, they have a total of 7 suns and seven moons, which means, one day of our realm is equivalent to seven days within the Prosperity Realm. The Spatial Gate will be opened once again after seven days, and with the energy summoned by the entrance token, you will be forced to exits the realm with whatever you managed to harvest." Elder Zhi Ruo answers. In her eyes, memories about her own experience within the Prosperity Realm, keep appearing before her eyes, as this regrets had been the Inner Demon which affects her cultivation for so long. "Remember to run if you couldn''t handle those Wooden Beast and also the Prosperity Tribe. If you managed to encounter some miraculous blessing during this seven days, appreciate it with your life, and always remember to be cautious, but be kind as well, because sometimes, whatever being from the Prosperity Realm you encountered, might have an intelligence of their own." Elder Zhi Ruo ends her word as she leans back on the chair she sits and closed her eyes while calming down her heart. "Xiao Yu understands." Gou Yu speaks a simple sentence, and also sits down in a meditating position as he starts to cultivates and calm his heart before tomorrow competition starts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book 1 Chapter 65 - Five Primary Elders from Silver Pill Hall, Primary Basic Examination! "Look! That''s the four carriage from the neighbor four cities!" some higher cultivation strength populations within the Clear Jade City entrance easily spots the four carriage that slowly combined into a straight line, riding along side by side as they getting close to the City entrance. Outside of the Clear Jade City entrance, a large amount of soldier is positioned under the City Lord''s order, to ensure no bandits managed to sneak into the city during the Thousand Herbal Garden Opening Competition. And almost at the same time, the top two disciples from each carriage stands up beside the Coach Driver and greets everyone within their sights. The four carriage continues along their way and entered the Clear Jade City Branch''s Bronze Pill Hall. Within the Hall, the carriage proceeds straight towards the area behind Jade Cultivating Land and entered a Marble Stone built Arena with the ability to fit in at least 5000 spectators. Within the arena, three different section is well arranged in the middle of the Oval grounds. The first section is a table set with a similar Pill Cauldron and some random ingredients on the table. This section taken over a total of 50% of the overall space, with a total of 1000 sets of such setup arranged side by side along the Oval grounds. The second section is where a total of 500 different stage Cultivation Beast is caged and placed side by side to form a circle. Just from a look, any person could easily expect that this second test, will most probably test the capability of each disciple in the term of fighting capability, harvesting skills and also knowledge. The third stage only has 200 tables within, with a scroll on top that was sealed with a special inscription. "So, this is the test one need to participates, in order to obtain the qualification within top 100 seats and allows them to participate in the Thousand Herbal Garden opening." Long Feng scanned his surrounding and easily seen the prepared stage for each disciple to compete against each other. Just a few minutes later, a streak of 5 Silver flash charge towards the middle of the judging stage, and five strong cultivators appeared from the blinding lights. "All the participants for this Competition should proceeds to the first stage, the Primary Basic Examination! If there are not enough 1000 Participants, the test will not be started!" a very loud and sharp voice could be heard throughout the whole arena, and in that instant, all participants from the five cities hall quickly went in and obtained a spot. But with the total of 120 Disciples from Thunderburst Jade City, 140 from Jade Ginseng City, 90 from Cloudy Jade City, and lastly, 195 Disciples from the Xuan Wu Jade City, their total is only barely 545 disciples. And due to the lack of so many participants, the Clear Jade City decided to put in as many disciples they could to fit into the total of 1000 participants, so they sent out 455 disciples. Looking at this situation, Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing further understands the reason why Lang Ren will speak in such way before their departure. With almost half of the participants belonged to the Clear Jade City Branch, even if all of them failed to entered the top seats, they will still claim at least half of the remaining seats. This also means that by the end of the one week period of participants entered the Thousand Herbal Garden, the total benefits for the Clear Jade City Branch will be at least 10 times more than other four branches! "Seems like all the table is occupied, if that''s the case, the Primary Basic Examination will start now!" the previous man speaks once again after he noticed that the total participant finally reached 1000 in total. But after that few words, he steps back to allow another Silver Robe Cultivator to start his speech. "Everyone within the Hall, we are the five Primary Elders from the Capital City''s Silver Pill Hall branch. I am Elder Zhan (Grow), the one that speaks before is Elder Hun (Mix), and the three besides me is Elder Lian (Refine), Elder Yang (Concoct), and Elder Fen (Disassemble)." "This year, we will be the acting judges to select the best 100 disciples within the Inner Division, and this 100 person will be qualified to enter the Thousand Herbal Garden for a total of seven days!" Elder Zhan speaks. Next, Elder Lian walked up and continues. "For this competition, we from the Silver Hall had prepared a total of 50,000 sets of mixed ingredients for those who managed to enter the top 100 seats. For those who managed to obtain seats within the top ten, you will be rewarded with an additional recipe especially from the Silver Hall as further studies." "Finally, is the Top three rewards. The second runner-up will be rewarded with a [Turmoil Fruit], an essential ingredient to refine the Second Grade Adept Pill, the [Adept Charging Pill] which will increase the success rate of 30% when one is trying to breakthrough from Adept Realm and entering the Practitioner Realm." Elder Lian stopped as he finishes the runner-ups'' reward. "While for the first runner-up, we will be rewarding them with a Beast companion, the [Third Human Grade Cultivation Beast - Bronze Winged Lion]. This Beast Companion is especially obtained by one of the top three Venerable Elder, Honored Elder Bai in the Inter Kingdom Exchanges. The Bronze Winged Lion is a valuable Flying Beast Companion that could travel 1000 Li a day by flying." Elder Yang announced the first runner-up rewards before be step back to allow the last person, Elder Fen to start speaking. "For the Champion of this competition, we from Silver Hall, of course, will not be stingy on the treasures. Instead of giving only one reward, we will be giving three rewards to the Champion position, to encourage this disciple to excel himself further." the moment Elder Fen mentioned the word "Three Rewards", everyone immediately put their utmost attention on his next word, afraid of losing even a single word. "The first reward is a Ranked Category Recipe that once creates a disturbance when it appears within the Brilliant Jade Kingdom. Unfortunately, nobody else managed to decipher and make the research to obtains the replacement for those extinct ingredients." "The second reward is an Elemental Refining Treasure. The [First Earth Grade Spirit Treasure - Earth Gravity Refining Flask]. This fine Elemental Refining Treasure has three kind of refining ability, and due to the special ancient inscriptions within the flask, three different kind of refined treasure could be produced as long the amount of Earth Elemental is fulfilled. The first refined treasure is known as the Earthen Clay Stone. A non-edible Earth Element stone that beneficial for the cultivator to temper their Earth Element Foundation." "The second refined treasure is the Pure Earth Dew. This Dew contains the miraculous properties to recover a large amount of Earth Elemental Essence within the body, and at the same time, increase the capacity of the maximum amount of Elemental Essence the user could handle. If this treasure is used often as a body refining treasure, you will have double the capacity of Elemental Essence compared to your peers." "The third is called the Fake Earth Leaf. Although it is a fake piece of leaf refined from the flask, do not underestimate its special properties. This Fake Earth Leaf allows the cultivator that consume it to be able to convert all Elemental Essence around him into Earth Element Essence, and could increase the speed of tempering the foundation by 10% faster because of the converted Earth Elemental Essence is totally pure without any impurities within." "And lastly, the third reward. Can we have Elder Hun to announce it?" Elder Fen steps backward, allowing Elder Hun to stand up. "The third rewards is a special treasure only obtainable from their significant contributions toward the Pill Hall. Currently, within the whole Five Branches of Bronze Pill Hall, only two Direct Disciples, one under the Hall Master of Jade Ginseng City and one under the Hall Master of Xuan Wu Jade City, is entitled to holds." "This is the [Cracked Human Profound Treasure - Longevity Soil Ring!]." the moment this final treasure identity is revealed, all the cultivators with wide knowledge, included the elders and Hall Master from the five branches. This kind of reaction could only indicate one thing about the treasure that just announced by the Elder Hun. "Wife, what is that Longevity Soil Ring anyway? Everyone seems to be restless about it." Long Feng with his usual blank expressions came out immediately as he has no idea what is so good about this treasure. "Everyone, Quiet." the Elder Hun from Silver Hall sternly speaks, and instantly, the whole Arena within its spectators and participants turned eerily silent, as if there isn''t a single life is within this arena. "This treasure is yet to achieve its complete refining stage, thus there is a [Cracked] before its name. But in term of quality, this ring is comparable to a Second Human Grade Cultivating Treasure. Since not everyone knows about this ring, so I shall explain its special properties within." "The Longevity Soil Ring only could be used to store and cultivates ingredients. From the weakest medicinal plant, such as Black Bitter Mint to any out of the world herbs, all could be cultivated within, until the maturity reach the point desired by the owner. If you store a tree that will bloom fruits within, fruits will be available to harvest as it matures. If you store a plant within, medicinal herbs will be available to harvest once it matured." "The more Essence Energy you feed into the ring, the faster the growth of the plants that planted within. But one thing you need to know." Elder Hun finished explaining the specialty of this ring before he came into the final piece of information. "Since this is a [Cracked] quality ring, it means that only one tenth of the Essence Energy you feed towards the ring will be accepted, while the remaining ninth will be either wasted or used to slowly repair the inscriptions. So, in conclusion, this is a double edged sword, unless you only use it to plant Black Bitter Mints for life." Elder Hun finished his explanations as he steps backward. The next moment, Elder Zhan step out to prepares the starting of this competition. "In front of each participant, is a mixture of many kinds of ingredients, an examination Pill Cauldron, a test paper with four different question regarding the basic knowledge a Pill Master should know. Each Lower-Rank Pills refined from the ingredients will represent 1 points, Middle-Rank for 2 points, 3 for Upper-Rank and 4 for Master-Rank. There is no restriction on what grade of refined Pills you wish to create, but bear in mind, this is a competition of Quality and Quantity, not the Grades. The maximum Points one could earn here will be fifty points, no matter how much extra you could refine." Another fifty points will be allocated on identifying the flaws within the Pill Cauldrons. The number of flaws will not be disclosed, so if you managed to get all of them correctly, the fifty points will surely be with you. But remember one thing! Each mistake will deduct your points by five points as well, so if you are unsure on the flaws, do not leave your imprints there!" "Lastly, is the written test. Within the scrolls is a content of Four examination questions. One on Refining Knowledge, One on Pill Knowledge, One on Medicinal Knowledge, and lastly is a recipe with few empty slots within. You will need to write down the correct ingredients within the slots as your first answer, the suitable Substitute ingredients for other listed ingredients, as well the enhanced version of ingredients to enhance the overall effect. This part of the exam will allow you to obtain a maximum 100 points, with two points deduction for every wrong answer. "In total, this Primary Basic Examinations could fetch you a total of 200 Points if conducted perfectly. Additionally, the top five best participants that could refine the most Pills from the first part will be able to obtain 10 additional Points for first place, 8 for second place and so on. In the second part, whoever managed to fire up the Pill Cauldron the fastest, will be given 10 additional points, and so on until the fifth person is selected. While for the third part, in all four questions, the one with fewer mistakes in each question will be given 20 additional points, in total, 80 additional points could be earned from this."The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. "After all the test is completed, the 500 best disciples with satisfying results will proceed to the Secondary Basic Examinations." Elder Zhan finishes his explanations. "If everyone is ready now, you may proceed with the examination. Starts now!" The moment the word start is heard, a loud Gong sound is released from the strong impact, and the 1000 participants are preparing to complete their first part of the examinations. Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing is located side by side, but each of them is focusing in their own part of ingredients because everyone possesses a different total amount of each ingredient. This way, cheating will be made impossible because, through some rough estimation, each participant''s table could refine a certain amount of Pills no matter how much they tried. The only difference could be is how flexible and knowledgeable the Disciple in handling such stress. Long Feng paid his most attention to the ingredients in his table, and in that instant, he already came out with a total of three different type of Pills to refine. [Metal Morphing Pill], [Calming Spirit Dew Pellet], and [Mystic Suction Pellet]. But from the number of ingredients he has, even in his best condition, Long Feng could only refine about eighteen to twenty Pills altogether. Although the points he could obtain the results could help him to obtain fifty points, but Long Feng''s aim is higher. "I will obtain Full three hundred points in this Primary Basic Examinations!" Long Feng''s spirit is fired up to its utmost limit, as he immediately runs through the ingredients again to search for the best recipe he could use to ensure his winning chances. Almost about five minutes later, Long Feng finally obtained the answers he was looking for. "This ingredient is also suitable to refine the rarely seen [Mix Essence Recovery Pill]. The Bark from Ashes Tree, the Roots from Trident baby Bush and the final ingredient, the overripe Fruit of Dragon Fruit Tree, could be used as replacement ingredient to refine this Mix Essence Recovery Pill." Long Feng immediately have a rough idea on what kind of Pill he should be working at it. Some disciple does have the method to refine as many Pill as possible, but from a random combination of two to three different Pills, the result will be pale in comparison to Long Feng''s one kind of Pills because all the ingredients he have in hand could be used to totally refined one same kind of Pills. Another reason is that of the effectiveness in Double or Triple Concoction. For Long Feng, a Quadruple Concoction attempt could yields him a total of at least 6 to 7 Pills a portion, and most of their quality would be balanced among ranks, compares to those that refined in one batch at a time. But this doesn''t mean that Long Feng could easily pass through the second hurdle, identifying the flaws on the Pill Cauldron! But a hurdle is a dead obstacle and not a living one. Long Feng quickly understands the most important part he should be noticing is not about looking for all the flaws on the Pill Cauldron before refining, but the necessity of searching for the flaws along the way as he Firing the Furnace to its perfection. He remembered a piece of work he used to read in the Tower of Knowledge, regarding the disturbance it could cause if the Cauldron''s flaw is not noticed before the refining starts. In another part of his memories, Long Feng suddenly having a flashback to the moment he saw Elder Shennong is refining some Pills on his personal Cauldron. The fire on below and within is distributed into three strong wisps on the outside, and one weak wisp on the inside. The wisps of fire dance in different tunes, and as the refining process goes, the cauldron could be seen shining brilliantly throughout the time he and Elder Shennong speaks. Without delaying, Long Feng showcase his prowess in handling the Fire Element within his body. As the Flame is ignited before his eyes, a total of four wisps of fire slowly formed and floats slowly towards the Pill Cauldron. This action managed to pique the five Silver Hall Elder''s interest. "That kid seems to be trying something funny in the process of inspecting his cauldron." Elder Zhan is the first to show his interest in Long Feng. The four wisps take their positions as Long Feng started to Ignite them, Three Strong Fire on the bottom and one Weak fire within! As the cauldron slowly heat up, a few sign of flaw started to appears, and with each appearance, Long Feng slapped an imprint on the part before he proceeds with firing up his cauldron. The process goes smoothly until Long Feng finally felt there are no more flaws to be spotted within the cauldron before he decided to push his Flame to its limit. "Come out now, Red Fire Stage!" Unknown to everyone including Nan Jing Jing, Long Feng actually managed to ignite his Fire Elemental into the Red Fire Stage, totally overpowering all but one disciple within the stage! "That kid actually able to train his Foundation of Fire Element into the second stage at such a young age, what a good talent!" Elder Fen praise Long Feng''s capability in obtaining the Elemental Foundation of a Second Fire Stage. Being the fastest among everyone, Long Feng actually spends only twenty-two minutes to firing his cauldron into perfection! A loud and clear howl is released from the Pill Cauldron belonged to Long Feng''s table, and without any delays, Long Feng proceed with his Pill Refining process! After he distributes all the ingredient accordingly, Long Feng noticed that his amount of ingredients is exactly enough for three Quadruple Concoction, One with Bark of the Ash Trees, One with Trident Baby Bush''s Roots, and another with the Ripe fruit from Dragon Fruit Tree. The moment Long Feng throws all the ingredients into the cauldron, Elder Hun is the next one to be shocked with this performance. "Are he extremely confident? There are Flaws within the cauldron that will cause the process of refining affected slightly, added with the difficulties of Quadruple Concoction requirements, one needs to have more than hundred to thousand times of trial before he could perfectly manage the Fire, Temperature, procedures, and formations." Elder Hun, who was the best in Ingredient Concoction, also do not dare to confidently say that he could success ten over ten attempts in Quadruple Concoction. With his speed of refining becoming quicker, Nan Jing Jing by his side already started to be distant from her beloved current position. Long Feng''s refining process quickly ends as he entered the second attempt of Pill Refining, and soon, the third attempt, where all of them is done within 90 minutes. With all the refining attempts are completed, Long Feng reached his palm towards the part where the last Primary Basic Examination questions are written. As he looked at the first three questions, Long Feng could easily complete the answer sheet and pinpoint all the important parts that shouldn''t be missing within his answers. Due to the fact that Long Feng already completed the refurbishing task of Comprehension on Pill Refining and the Temperament Sutra, the first two question could be easily answered. Meanwhile, for the Medicinal Knowledge, a hit of poison knowledge is required, but the question still doesn''t manage to give any difficulties to Long Feng in his attempt to perfectly answering the question. But the moment he looked at the final question, Long Feng''s starts to felt the stress. "What an amazing Recipe, this must be one of the closed to Ranked Category Pill Recipe." Long Feng looked on the remaining ingredients and the effect it could bring, as he slowly strains all the brain juice within his head to look for the answers. From the question sheet he is holding, Long Feng decided to enter into his own world, and imagining the possibility of this Pill could bring if he really managed to perfect it. Soon, after using a total of one full hour in his imaginary realistic world, Long Feng could come out with a few ingredients and its Substitute ingredients. But because of his lack of confidence in making sure the accuracy of his answers, Long Feng repeat the imaginary refining procedures with all the available ingredients within his mind, before he finally completed it by spending a total of three hours within this part. As he looked at his surrounding, most of the student had already in the same part as he does, but except for a few totally capable and talented disciples, most of them are still stuck on the first questions, never forget to mention that if even Long Feng need three hours to complete this final question, how long would the other participants need? Long Feng writes down the answer on the question sheet, and run another final inspection on his answers before he raises his hand to indicates that he completed all the task within this Primary Basic Examination. ========== [YinYang Stabilizing] Concoction Usage: Cultivation-1 / Healing-5 / Enhancement-1 Ingredients: [Yin Essence Soul Seed] [Softening Yin Grass] - Sub / [Yin Essence Soul Grass] - Enhanced Lighting Cultivated Pine Sap [Thunder Essence Dew] - Sub / [Raging Thunder Rhinoceros Refined Horn] - Enhanced Yang Rich Essence Fruit [Yang Spirit Flower] - Sub / [Yang Essence Devourer Beetle''s Soul Pearl] - Enhanced [Balanced YinYang Grass] [Blue Yin Grass & Red Yang Roots] - Sub / [Hundred Years Black & White YinYang Grass] - Enhanced Clear Toad Fruit''s Wax [Clear Maple Giant Ant Egg] - Sub / [King Toad Fruit''s released Golden Sap] - Enhanced Recipe by: House of Hundred Pills Refined and studied by 4th Generation Headmaster - Yao Yan ========== With the recipe''s missing ingredient and the name is filled in, Long Feng raise his hand to indicates that he already completed all the task within this examination. Elder Fen waves his hand towards seats prepared to the participants, and not even a minute after Long Feng''s completion, two disciples stand up to hand over their answers as well. "Chu Yi, the Lucky Pill Refiner. From Jade Ginseng City!" "Huang Ying, First Class Shield. From Xuan Wu Jade City!" The two of them heads toward the seats beside Long Feng, and in a polite way, Huang Ying gave Long Feng a bow and initiates a handshake. "So, you are the one they called, Pill Master in the Sheep Clothing?" Huang Ying says. The moment Long Feng heard the nickname, he tilts his head and gave her a blank face. "Hahaha, I guess you are not going to answer me, I hope we will have a good match in this competition, and I will fight with all my might to obtains the first place!" Huang Ying continued as she sat down on the seats. "Zhang Pu, the Hundred Variants. From Cloudy Jade City!" "Yue Ying, First Class Spear. From Xuan Wu Jade City!" The next two come over towards the 500 seats, and from the looks, the first 10 seats are well made compared to the other seats behind them. The completing Disciples keep coming in, and the next two person is extremely familiar to Long Feng. "Gou Yu, the Formation Master. From Clear Jade City!" "Nan Jing Jing, Mesmerizing Circle. From Thunderburst Jade City!" Nan Jing Jing wished to seat beside Long Feng, but she understands that her current situation only allows her to be seated at the seventh position. And the next three finally appears along and join the first seven of them to be seated in the top ten position. Chen Nan, the Poison Hand. From Cloudy Jade City!" Tie Peng, the Metal Plate. From Jade Ginseng City!" Liu Tsung, the Shadow Concoctions. From Clear Jade City!" With the top 10 disciples is gathered, the remaining 490 disciples quickly came into the seats as quick as possible. As the examiner began to inspect the successful participants, the failure among them is being sent away from the Oval Ground as the examiner busy inspecting the answers within each table. After a total of thirty minutes, a large group of the 500 participants only managed to obtain an average total point of between 90 to 120, while a small portion among them managed to obtain a good 130 to 145 Points. When it came to the top ten participants, Elder Fen walks slightly closer to the ten and starts to announce the results. "The Ninth and Tenth positions go to Liu Tsung and Chen Nan, with 160 Points!" Elder Fen announced the seat position, as Chen Nan moved to Liu Tsung seats, while Tie Peng move up one seat above on the eighth, and Liu Tsung takes over Tie Peng''s previous seat. "Eighth Seat, 164 Points, Tie Peng. Seventh Seat, 168 Points, Yue Ying. Sixth Seat, 172 Points, Nan Jing Jing, Fifth Seat, 174 Points, Gou Yu, Fourth and Third Seat, 178 Points, Zhang Pu and Huang Ying." Elder Fen announces the few remaining results in one shot, only leaving Long Feng and Chu Yi''s position on hold. "Long Feng, answer me, How do you come out with the YinYang Stabilizing Concoction as the answer?" Elder Fen asked. As the question is asked, the others stare blankly towards him as they too wondering about how Long Feng came out with that name. "Dear Elder, Xiao Feng only roughly guess the name because of the ingredient used in the recipe is mainly to stabilized the disturbance of Yin and Yang Energy within the body." "Xiao Feng dared to write down this name because of the [Yin Essence Soul Seed], the [Yang Rich Essence Fruit], and the [Balanced YinYang Grass]. If Xiao Feng did offend Elder in any way, please give this junior a chances for fake bravado." Long Feng politely answer the Elder''s question. "Good. Very Good. Really as how Brother Zhan expected, a pretty good seedling." Ender Fen praises Long Feng for being quite talented before he turned around and announce the remaining results. "Second Seat, 184 Points, Chu Yi. First Seat, Full 200 Points, Long Feng." the moment everyone within the Arena heard the results, a loud scream could be heard, especially Lang Ya who has also seated along in the spectator seats, altogether with the other five more brothers. "Good Job, Seventh Brother!" the six of them is howling like a group of wolves with banners and flags with Long Feng''s name on top, and what is worst written within the Flags, is the word [Refiner of the Tiger Stripes Soul Pill]. Book 1 Chapter 66 - Secondary Basic Examination. Gou Yu, Elder Zhi Ruo, and Liu Tsungs Identity. "Those who pass the Primary Basic Examination shall now proceed to the Secondary Basic Examination. Get into the 500 Slave Beast Formation, and awaits for your further instructions." Elder Hun gave the preparation order as all the disciples now rushing towards the middle of the Oval Ground for their second examination. If the formation is properly deciphered, one will notice the differences between each entrance to another. A total of eight entrance could be seen, with a total of 64 different combinations. This formation is also known as the Eight Diagram Beast Harvesting Formation. Although the quality of this current formation only possesses roughly 10% from the overall might, this still enables the Beast trapped within the formation to be properly cultivated and groom before their parts or products could be harvested. "Since everyone is within the formation, we shall begin with the examination now." Elder Yang appeared above all the disciples as he stands up above in the middle of the air within the formation. "A King Realm cultivator! The Elder Yang from the Silver Pill Hall is actually a King Realm Cultivator!" the disciples below all are shocked with the truth before them. "Quiet." Elder Yang words silent all the disciples as he waves his hand and a lot of papers with a simple content are written within, slowly falls down towards the disciples below for them to collect. "Within this 1000 piece of papers, is the harvested ingredients belonged to this 500 Cultivation Beast. The moment this 1000 pieces of paper is taken by everyone, all the cages will be unlocked, and you will have three task." "Your first task is to obtain five different type of Harvested Ingredients from the beast and defend it from other disciples in the time span of 5 hours. Since there is a total of 1000 pieces of paper, there will be only 200 disciples will pass this stage." "Your second task is to make sure the harvested ingredient is above Fine Grade or higher. There will be only two portions of each type of ingredients within this 1000 Ingredients written within the paper, so your competition will be equally challenging. You may fight to obtain your remaining three Ingredients, or you may kill off the beast to deter others from obtaining the ingredients they wanted. But of course, we already have some precaution for it in case somebody decided to ruin our test." "Your third task, hehe..." Elder Yang chuckle for a few times before he continued. "You will need to make sure the five Harvested ingredients you have in hand, is usable altogether for your Final Basic Examination. So, you may hunt as you like, but if in the final test and the ingredients do not harmonize with each other, you will be instantly deem failed in the competition." Elder Yang completed his explanations while the paper falling down almost fully collected by the 500 disciples. Since the total slips of paper are 1000 in total, so roughly each single disciple will hold two different ingredients slips in their hand. A total of five required, which means the competition for this 1000 type of ingredients is hugely depending on the personal strength. But what Elder Yang did not explains is, other than fighting against each other to obtain a total of five different type of harvested ingredients, one still needs to make sure he or she has the capability to obtains the ingredient from the respected Cultivation Beast. One of the easiest examples is one of the two ingredients Long Feng need to obtain from the beast, is the [Harmonizing Essence Blood] from a Second Earth Grade Cultivation Beast - Corpse Refining Tiger. This Cultivating Beast is known to be seriously dangerous and hard to tame. In addition, the [Harmonizing Essence Blood] that only could be obtained from this beast needed to be properly refined, and even before that, the Corpse Refining Tiger needs to refine a few corpse as its food source, before the Ingredient is mature to be harvested. But one more issue remains. The Corpse Refining Tiger''s Heart is known to be one of the best ingredients to refine a Pill called [Tiger Boosting Decoction]. This Pill allows its user to have the inner energy comparable to three Tigers and is one of the most well known Battle Concoction used by most Pill Masters. Since there is only a thousand of ingredient slips and five hundred Cultivation Beast, there must be another disciple is holding the remaining ingredient, [Corpse Refining Tiger''s Heart] in his hand! "Since everyone is ready with the ingredient slips in their hands, the formation will start now, I wish you all safe and sound. Remember to give up when the situation is dire. This Thousand Herbal Garden Opening happens once a year, so even if you missed this one, there will be another one coming next year. Leaving with a life is more important." Elder Yang speaks as he waves his hand, and the eight entrance immediately closed. The moment the formation is activated, the five hundred cages arranged nicely within the eight diagram formation immediately move in and unimaginable speed. As if the Dice had been rolled, and according to the results, the arrangement move is a sequence. Due to the lack of approach towards the Eight Diagrams formation, added with Harvesting specific ingredients had never been one of the main topic focused by Long Feng, this part of the examination, would prove to be quite a challenge to Long Feng. He takes a glance at Nan Jing Jing, and later on Gou Yu, just to notice something. "Didn''t Nan Jing Jing and Gou Yu always out to complete the task related to harvesting Cultivation Beast ingredients and also handling some Cultivation Beast before?" Long Feng remembered the moment when three of them are still new within the Bronze Pill Hall. "Seems like I am the one with a disadvantage over here. If that''s the case, I will make sure that I use my strong point is Heads On Battle to obtain the Ingredient Slips I needed, instead of bothering about how to properly obtains the ingredient from the beast." "Jing Jing have a good knowledge in Harvesting Ingredients, while Gou Yu have good knowledge in how to handle those beasts. The other remaining top seven disciples should have their own tricks on hand as well." Long Feng scans his surrounding as he considers his options. The moment the formation movements is finally over, the five hundred Cultivation Beast is released! The inscriptions on the ground immediately change the whole formation into a large grassland with small hills and rocks that allow the Cultivation Beast to be slightly affected by the surroundings. "What a profound Inscription Usage. By adjusting the condition of this stage into an environment suitable for the Cultivation Beast, the Harvested Ingredients that one will be able to get from the beast will be in a better quality, although at the end, the skill of the person handling the Cultivation Beast needed to be properly trained as well." Long Feng felt slightly amused by the capability of the person who made all these arrangements. As the examination starts, most of the disciples gathered into a group between five to ten and looks for their targets. The gathered teams quickly travel around and look for their respective City Branches, so they could increase their chances of success when fighting with other City Branches to obtain the additional Ingredient Slips. But with the number of Disciples participating in this part is only 500, added with the disadvantages in numbers compared to the overall Clear Jade City''s Disciple, the Four Cities Branch Disciple is having some difficulties even in protecting themselves. In the same time, Long Feng is pressured by two disciples that specifically aiming at disrupting him from completing his mission. "Hehe, Junior brother Long Feng, do not think bad about the two of us." the first between two of them, called Ren Fen, speaks. While another one named Gan Ting is nodding his head. The two of them belonged to the Clear Jade City Branch, so of course, they know that Long Feng once belonged to their faction. But this time, to ensure that more Disciples from the Clear Jade City Branch could obtain the seats, they don''t mind to sacrifice a few to ensure that few main seat disciple is disrupted and failed to achieve what they aimed for. "Then this two senior brother, please do not take offense on what Xiao Feng will do next." Long Feng withdraw two Pills on his left hand while holding his Qian Kun Sword firmly on his right. "Of course, there will be no offense during this examination, we are just taking care of our fellow juniors and seniors after all." Ren Fen replied. The two of them prepared to clash with Long Feng as well.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Immediately, the fight between this three person caught the attention from the nearby disciples that were competing with each other to obtain their opponents Ingredient Slips. "That three person is at their Late Human Adept Realm. Why is the First Seat guy tried to fight that two? Shouldn''t he went quickly to his City''s group?" some disciples from other branches is surprised with Long Feng''s bravery in fighting against two similar cultivation strength disciple alone, without getting close to his own faction. But what do the other knows about Long Feng''s Prowess in the term of Martial Art? Just in a blink of eyes, Long Feng immediately missing from where he stands. The next moment, Long Feng appears behind Gan Ting, the less cautious fella between the two, and ignite the Fire Lizard Pill on his body. The surge of Lava-like Flame quickly burns his back, leaving a burning wound that continues to bleed unless it''s treated. Gan Ting howls painfully as he steps forward to escape from Long Feng''s ruthless claws, but before he managed to even step away for three feet, Long Feng''s Kick that fills with nothing personal but strong force, had him launched forward like a stone being tossed by a catapult towards the city wall. Faced with such a strong offensive force, Gan Ting immediately faints from all the pain and also the destructive force on his body. Ren Fen, on another side, felt a slight shivers as he faces Long Feng face to face. Long Feng kept the remaining Fire Lizard Pill from his hand, and with a swift body movement, Long Feng stopped by his side to launch a punch towards Ren Fen''s core area. The moment the Fist almost made its contact with Ren Fen, a suddenly appeared palm pushed Ren Fen away, and from a palm to a fist immediately, in an impossible to put any force angle, met with Long Feng''s destructive Fist. "Bammm!" the created impact from the clash push the two people away from the spot. Long Feng retreated two steps away, while the suddenly appeared man retreated three and a half step backward. "Hahaha, Brother Long Feng is miraculously talented in Martial Arts as well, what a rarity. No wonder the first seat is yours in the first examination." the man identity is revealed as he cupped his both palm together to make a polite greeting. "You''re Liu Tsung?" Long Feng cupped him both hands as well in reply, but instead of over polite replies, he just mentioned the opponent''s name directly. "Yes, Brother Long Feng. Since we both are fellow Clear Jade City''s disciple before, how about we stop from disturbing each other? The two hundred seats will be filled soon if we do not make a move, so I hope Brother Long Feng will only take the Slips and leave the weaker disciples alone. Everyone has a different temperament and personality after all, and we, the stronger among them, should give them some face and lesson to learned." Liu Tsung way of speaking is more modest and lack of over protective demeanor, thus he managed to convince Long Feng to back off from continuing. In the same time, Liu Tsung grabbed two slips from Ren Fen''s pocket and throw it over to Long Feng. Without any words, Long Feng walked over to Gan Ting to grab his two Slips, and walk away from the spot they recently fought a while back. "Brother Liu Tsung..." Ren Fen shivers as he looked at the smiling Liu Tsung. "Ahh... I guess there is no choice." Liu Tsung sigh for a moment before he stares at Ren Fen. "Go to our group and tell everyone, to kill off the beast after they obtain their part of Harvested Ingredients!" a decisive decision is made immediately. Ren Fen heard his word and ran without bothering anything by his side as he charges straight towards where most of the Clear Jade City Branch disciples could be seen. Meanwhile, Long Feng looks at the six slips on his hand. [Harmonizing Essence Blood], [Silver Mammoth Deer Horns], [Left Paw of Bronze Earth Bear], [Core of Flame Breath Lizard], [Golden Eye Sparrow''s Gallbladder], and the [Essence Blood of Astral Violet Snake]. Long Feng checked on the ingredient he required from all six different beasts and realized that none of them could compliments with each other, so he decided to obtain more slips from the other disciples. Long Feng explore the formation slowly, while along the way, he makes some exchange with other disciples that behave nicely, while totally destroying the disciple and take over their slips, in case they behave in a difficult way. Carrying this kind of attitude along with his path, Long Feng''s list of ingredient in hand changed a few times, until he finally obtains another one he was looking, the [Corpse Refining Tiger''s Heart]. Long Feng continues to explore the eight diagram as he looks for targets to exchange, to rob or certain beast he needs to start a fight to obtain the ingredients he needs, and coincidently, Long Feng met with Gou Yu within the Kun (Heaven) formation in the Eight Diagram circle. "Brother Long Feng." Gou Yu address him as he walks over to where Long Feng stands. "Brother Gou Yu. It''s been quite a long time I haven''t seen you. How are you doing lately?" Long Feng greets him back as he could felt the cultivation strength of Gou Yu already in Early Earth Adept Realm. "Few month ago, I had been sent by my master to follow her four other disciples towards the Sky Shattering Peak located West from the Jade Ginseng City. We had been there for around three month, which is why I failed to participate in the Grand Auction in Thunderburst Jade City." Gou Yu explains his disappearance from the Bronze Pill Hall a few months back. "Over there, I am lucky to stumble across a special treasure called [Rain Gatherer Grass], an excellent medicinal treasure that could push the cultivation of a Water Elemental Cultivator to his limit without any side effect. In the same time, this treasure even increases my capacity in storing and condensing the Water Element within my body into an entirely new stage." Gou Yu channels his Water Elemental Essence within his body and shape them into a water clothing that could nullify the impact from any external attack. Not only the nullification effect is shocking to Long Feng, but the fact that this Water Elemental Essence could be even used to form a similar texture like Silk clothing is what makes Long Feng felt totally impressed with it. This is because from the first day Long Feng knows him, Gou Yu had been the one that changes his clothing each single time they manage to meet each other. "Hahaha, Brother Gou Yu don''t need to change your cloth anymore, since the texture of this Water Elemental Cloth is comparable to a real Silk. Even the shape and color could be adjusted to your liking, this encounters really benefits you too much." Long Feng praise as he sarcastically comments about Gou Yu''s habit of changing clothes. But since the two of them know each other since the first day they entered the Bronze Pill Hall, this kind of talking hardly affect the friendship between this two. "Brother Long Feng, I need to tell you a very important matter." Gou Yu facial expressions turned into a serious one. "Recently, there is some new regarding your master, but I''m not sure how accurate is that news." Gou Yu had Long Feng sits with him in a corner, and monitor a specific Cultivation Beast hidden within the grassland. "Brother Gou Yu, please speak. I need to get some updates regarding this matter as well." Long Feng can''t wait to get Gou Yu to start speaking. "Recently, two weeks ago, there are a few incidents regarding few death cultivators within the city. Although everyone had some suspicion towards one specific Clan, nobody dares to voice it out, so the City Lord can only handle this matter in secret. But no matter what, the main suspect in this matter is those from the Tang Clan. Since your master is also one of the members from Tang Clan, so what I and my master is current suspect about, is either Elder Tang Wen is related to this matter, or Elder Tang Wen is either taken back by the people of the Tang Clan or killed." "The larvae we found out within the dead cultivators is known as something called Primordial Lust Bug. This Bug contains a special body that when feeding with strong Life Force, the Bug will grow bigger and until some Beads is formed within their body. Each Bug possesses a strong life force, and without any pain or suffering, the Bug could attach themselves within a cultivator body to keep absorb his or her life force until they gone empty. This is also the reason why we suspect the Tang Clan in the first place." "You too, have to be very careful with this weapon. From what my master says, the Bead is called as Primordial Beast Howl, a Spatial Disturbance Weapon for one-time usage. It came in Four different form, Explosive Form that could disrupt the whole area of its effect. Even a Martial Cultivator of Practitioner Realm will not remain unscathed from one Bead." "Spatial Disruption Form, a circle of Spatial turbulences that will create a howling destruction that could mess all elemental and YinYang essence within the distance of 10 Li. Only those with the Primordial Beast Howl in their hand will felt unaffected by this Spatial Turbulences, so even the Tang Clan will behave nicely towards their Clan Head." "Infestation Form, when this form is activated, the Primordial Beast Howl will turn the whole bead into living larvae, that could continue to infect all the other life form to expands their population. And lastly, the Final Combination Form. This final form is not really well known, but my master did explain it to me because... Can you keep it as a secret?" Gou Yu tells all the information he knew but stopped in between as he suddenly asked a question. "Brother Gou Yu, of course, I can." Long Feng assure him. "Alright, My master, Elder Zhi Ruo, is actually the current Head of Tang Clan''s Tang Shiwu... Mother..." Gou Yu reveals the secret hidden behind for so long. "This is also why she knows about what happened last time in Tang Clan, as well your master''s identity. The moment she runs away from the clan, it is all because Elder Tang Wen is around, she is accepted into the Bronze Pill Hall as an experienced Elder." "The Primordial Beast Howl is actually something she was presented as a gift the moment she married to the late Clan Head. But only God knows how Tang Shiwu, her child, know the ferocity and the strength of this bug. Anyway, I need to move now, be careful with Liu Tsung as well, he too, is a secret delegate from the Tang Clan, along with Liu Ming." Gou Yu charge towards the beast they had been paying attention for quite long, "I will be careful with these people." Long Feng speaks as he moves to another direction as well. "Seems like even the good senior like Liu Ming who teaches me how to concoct the Thunder Spirit Pill is not how he actually looks." Long Feng felt that the scariest thing in this life is the hideous Human Nature and not the threat of a Cultivation Beast. But as he wanders within his mind, Long Feng luck actually ends with a happy result. Before him, two cultivator is busy defending themselves from being attacked by the Corpse Refining Tiger! Long Feng happily wield his Qian Kun Sword on hand and immediately charge towards the fighting spot to join this fight! Book 1 Chapter 67 - First Serious Fight after Long Feng Tempered his Mind, Soul, and Foundations. "This two brothers, may this junior intercept for a second?" Long Feng walk slowly towards the two disciples that being very cautious against the beast. "What do you want?" one of the turned around and ask. As the Corpse Refining Tiger sees that the guard become lesser, it began to refine the corpse of a Cultivation Beast that just got "Harvested". Even its Refining procedures managed to made Long Feng felt impressed with it because the gigantic elephant beast is easily refined into a pile of bones as it over. "This two senior, I''m in need of the two ingredients possess by this Corpse Refining Tiger, I hope in exchange for some other ingredients slips, this two brothers could give this Cultivation Beast to this junior." Long Feng maintain his politeness as he speaks. "That''s... What do you think, brother Ming?" the younger between the two looked at the one called brother Ming as he considers his options. "I think this won''t be a problem. We are actually getting held by this beast anyway." the one called Ming doesn''t have any intention to reject Long Feng''s offer either, as Long Feng gave four pieces of Ingredient Slips to both of them, keeping another four with him secretly. "Alright, We will be going now. Young brother, be careful with this beast. Even the two of us having a hard time in controlling it." the one called Ming gave Long Feng a few word of advice as they walked away from the spot. Turning around and facing the beast, Long Feng swing his sword for a few times and charge towards the Corpse Refining Tiger without any changes in his expression. "To catch a beast unprepared, either you scare it off before chasing, or to make it less cautious before attacking. Since you already managed to obtain two corpses from the ground, your ingredients should be quite refined by now." Long Feng stops before he reaches the tiger''s range of attack, and with a push on his both legs, Long Feng made an escape from the spot. "Roar!" the Corpse Refining Tiger angrily gave Long Feng a chase because of such provoking actions. The Corpse Refining Tiger already prepared to charge on Long Feng as it gets close in the first place, but since the action is left undone, it''s tightening muscle end up burning its energy away only to be wasted. Hence, it gave Long Feng a chase as if felt unsafe if it remains under Long Feng''s provoking action for any longer. But no matter how cautious is the Corpse Refining Tiger, a Cultivation Beast is still a beast after all, as it failed to notice Long Feng''s Sealing Pill that was tossed towards the ground as its charge. A sphere appears almost instantly, as the tiger failed to stop, and it gave the sphere a strong impact through with its head. Feeling dizzy from such impact, the Corpse Refining Tiger howls loudly before it struggles by clawing the sphere relentlessly. With the behavior like a cat with its tail stepped on, the claw attack furiously strikes the Sealing Sphere until the internal side of the sphere appears to be totally scratched, with no surface left alone. Since the Corpse Refining Tiger forte is not of its strength but on its speed, being lockdown within this sphere seriously gave it a trauma of being pushed into a stage without any chances to retaliate. "This fella is actually quite a good Beast-Companion if it''s tamed... Unfortunately, the essential ingredients required its heart, so the life of this one needed to be taken away as well..." Long Feng hesitates for a moment, but to pass the examination requirement, Long Feng has no choice but strengthen his resolution, as he walks toward the Corpse Refining Tiger. As if the heavens felt Long Feng''s regret, and as if the Corpse Refining Tiger felt his hesitations, it actually lied down on the ground, with both front paws facing upwards. As the Corpse Refining Tiger lied on the ground, a bulge could be noticed within its lower body, in a quite mysterious way. "This position is... Agreement to being a slave-contracted beast!" Long Feng remembered this exact position, shown by Hong Yue previously as well! He rushed over to the side of this beast and with a flick of a finger, destroying the sphere to reveals the tired and weak Corpse Refining Tiger. "Hong Yue, help me in this matter." Long Feng sent a Mind-Link with Hong Yue to increase the possibility of communication. The moment Hong Yue appears within the eyes of Long Feng, the Corpse Refining Tiger became even more afraid, as its body shivers when it saw the visual of the Silver-Scales Wyvern Emperor within Long Feng''s eyes. "I''m Hong Yue, you?" Hong Yue borrows Long Feng''s body as he speaks. "I''m Hu Mi. Please ask your master to give me a chance." unexpectedly, the Corpse Refining Tiger actually could communicate normally with Hong Yue. "Hu Mi, My master wished to know that why are you still wished to live? He has no choice but to take your life because of the Heart and the Blood within you. You should know yourself the best, that the only two most precious item within your body, will need your life taken away to be properly refined." Hong Yue speaks honestly, as he knows that even himself if being caught and refined for the Harvested Ingredients, will result in him being dead. "Hu Mi knows, but Hu Mi don''t wish to live for too long, only until Hu Mi gave birth." the Corpse Refining Tiger replied. "Master, the tiger is pregnant!" Hong Yue quickly sent the news to Long Feng. "What? Is she pregnant? How could this be possible?" Long Feng is shocked. And the next thing he does is to remove his weapon from the Corpse Refining Tiger''s neck. Seeing such reaction from Long Feng, its stands up on four, and use its head to rub against Long Feng''s chin and neck. "Hu Mi, what do you intend after giving birth?" Hong Yue continues. "I will give myself to master for him to refine my body when he needs it. As long you could promise me that my lineage could be continued." Hu Mi answers. Hong Yue immediately believes her words, due to himself is also a Cultivation Beast, he understood the importance of dying for the next generation so they could continue their lineage. This tradition is already etched within their bloodline, and no matter what, it would not be forgotten. "Master... What do you think?" Hong Yue is speechless as well, unable to continue to question the Corpse Refining Tiger. "Hong Yue, ask Hu Mi how long will she need to properly give birth." Long Feng asked. "Hu Mi, you heard my master. How long and by how could you give birth?" Hong Yue translates the words. "As long I could refine another ten corpses, I will have enough energy to give birth to at least two young Cubs." the Corpse Refining Tiger explains. "If that''s the case, we should hurry." Long Feng stands and continues to search around along with the Corpse Refining Tiger by his side. The two walks for almost for another hour, only to managed to found two corpses belonged to some Cultivation Beast. After the refining process is completed, Long Feng continues as he found a group of four Disciples. Two of them is heavily injured, while another two unable to holds their anger because everyone had their ingredient slips forcefully taken. "These few brothers, what cause you to be so angry?" Long Feng approached the four and initiate a conversation. "We are all from the Xuan Wu Jade City, just now, a group of disciples from Cloudy Jade City came over and without any good words, all of them charge over to grab all our Ingredient Slips and also our harvested Ingredients. Now all of us is emptied, we are deemed to be fail for sure!" the one that still looked energetic regretfully speaks about what just happened. "If that''s the care, this four brother should leave this spot, because the longer you stay here, the more it became dangerous. Although a Cultivation Beast might be not a threat to you all if you met with another group of disciples and being hunted without even a single Slips on your body, what will they do to you four?" Long Feng gave them an example. As they heard the simple hypothesis Long Feng just speaks, their face appears to have a hint of fear, as they quickly stand up cautiously and thanked Long Feng for his wise advice. "Younger Brother, thank you for your advice, the four of us will quickly get out from this place. I guess this year is not our best one."Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. Long Feng continued to walks around, and as he heard a few faint footsteps getting closer to him, and also the Corpse Refining Tiger''s startled reaction, Long Feng immediately knows that there are some aggressive disciples that heading over to him with everything else excerpts good intention. "Hahaha! Finally, I found somebody with quite a good treasure along with his side!" the one that speaks from far away possess the appearance of a perverted look, bald head, and eagle sharp eyes, while one more man beside him have the resemblance of a woman, except his shoulder is much broader. "Yu Peng, quickly help me and handle this guy. The way the Corpse Refining Tiger is following him, I''m sure he has the two ingredient slips within his hand!" this person with a bald head, named Wen Ping, urges his companion to quickly take his action as well to subjugate Long Feng and controls the ingredient he has. "This kid is quite unlucky to meet with both of us, the Peng Ping Team." Yu Peng shakes his head as he slowly withdraws a bow and wields it with both hands. "Shush!" although the distance is quite far between Long Feng and the two, the arrow launched by Yu Peng, is filled with strong energy. The moment Long Feng noticed a flying arrow heading towards him, he chooses to evade it instead of forcefully blocking as a move of caution. But no matter how cautious he was, Long Feng couldn''t imagine that the arrow that reached by his side, actually formed by a number of black beaded pellets. "Hahaha, this kid is dead for sure! Explodes, my Metallic Blitz Bullets!" the moment Yu Peng shouts, the arrowhead formed with those Metallic Blitz Bullet immediately scattered as the exploding strength hidden within is ignited. "Tik Tik Tik Tik!" Long Feng remain unscathed, along with the Corpse Refining Tiger by his side. Since the usage of the Sealing Pill could be used in such way, Long Feng could temporary count himself to possess a good shield as protection. But the attacker doesn''t think in such way, as Wen Ping charge over to Long Feng''s spot and throw a strong punch directly towards the Sealing Sphere. "What is so strong about this shield anyway? I will destroy it with three, no, two Punch!" "Bamm!" the first hit managed to cause the whole Sealing Sphere to appears to have cracks all over. And the moment he tried to launch his second punches, Long Feng prepared his Qian Kun Sword along with two Fire Lizard Pills within his hand. "Master! Hu Mi will help you for a little!" Hong Yue appeared all of sudden within Long Feng''s mind and gave Long Feng a notice. "Mountain Peak Flattener!" the second punch from Wen Ping came and directly destroys the Sealing Sphere. But the Corpse Refining Tiger is not a weak opponent either, as the Death Element energy launched from her mouth like a ray of a laser beam. "A Force Death Stage foundation!" Long Feng noticed the deadly energy from the ray of a laser beam as it made a contact with Wen Ping. "Corpse Sacrificial Death Beam!" the Corpse Refining Tiger howls as the beam continues to push Wen Ping away. Looking at how deadly is the beam attack, even Long Feng felt a relief for being able to subdue this tiger when it still lacks corpses death essence. Seeing how ruthless is this two disciples, Long Feng has no other choice but to fight properly, with the intention to protect himself. Since now he needs to protect the Corpse Refining Tiger as well, Long Feng decides that he will have to become more aggressive, and not too defensive. "I guess there is no choice." Long Feng withdraw a total of five Fire Lizard Pills into his hand, with two more Frozen Yin Mist Pill attached on his Qian Kun Sword. With a jerk of strength from his both leg, Long Feng charge towards Yu Peng like an arrow just being released, and his left hand slowly release the Fire Lizard Pill from behind. "Brat! You are not going anywhere! Wen Ping knows that people like Long Feng could be dangerous, and chase him from behind to make sure he never managed to get close to Yu Peng who act as the support among the two. But before he could get close to Long Feng, two explosions happened before him and after him, totally blocking him from both sides. He screams in anger because being blocked in between without a way to continue to move, since the Fire Lizard Pill is the representative of Fire Elemental, his Wood and Metal Elemental will be greatly affected if he charges blindly into the fire geyser. "Yu Peng, careful with this fella!" Wen Ping shouts, but the only thing he could hear is some blowing winds. While Yu Peng in the end of another side, actually shouts loudly as well, but unfortunately, both couldn''t manage to hear anything their partner says. Because instead of continuing to charge closer to Yu Peng, Long Feng actually ignite the two Frozen Yin Mist to disrupt Yu Peng''s sight and also his efficiency in continues to fire his Metallic Blitz Bullet. "I know that you will need a significant amount of Yang Energy to ignite this two stage attack. With the Frozen Yin Mist in between us, your arrow will lose its Yang Energy control when it flew past the mist, and even if it reached me, the explosion will hardly happen, unless you coat it with even more Yang Energy! But if you seriously did it, you will be out of Energy sooner than I do!" Long Feng considers his option, because of his initial motive, is to trapped both before he aims for his actual target, Wen Ping! "Poosh!"Wen Ping protects himself with the Wood and Metal Element as he escapes from the Fire Geyser caused by the Fire Lizard Pill, his body is burning red, but since he has Metal Element within his body, Injuries is hardly seen except some burns on some parts of his body. "Damn brat, he actually uses such a deadly Pill in fights." Wen Ping shakes his head few times to calm himself down before he continues to move, but that few shakes, is what it takes to have Long Feng appears before him and use the piece of Clearness Jade Gemstone as a plate to smack Wen Ping''s face. Two front teeth fall from his mouth as Wen Ping ugly expression is seen. "Grass Mud Horse!"* Wen Ping curse as he randomly swings his fist around, in case Long Feng continues to attack him. What the hell is that hard stone, is that a weapon?" Wen Ping calms himself as he stopped swinging his fist. As he looks in front of him, only a cloud of mist is blocking his view towards Yu Peng, and with a heart full of worries, he makes his first steps over to Yu Peng''s direction. "Where are you going?" Long Feng''s Clearness Jade Gemstone comes to strike him once again, this time on top of his head. With his temple being knocked hard, Wen Ping immediately seeing stars within his sight, almost fainting from all this ruthless and unimaginable blows. He lifts up his hand in a shape of a palm, and tried to ask for a time out, but before the words could come out from his lips, Long Feng already gave him a third smack on his face once again, and had this disciple lying on the ground with a flat face, unconscious. That same moment, Yu Peng appears from within the Frozen Yin Mist. From this view, one easily sees that he was afraid to randomly fire his arrows toward enemies he couldn''t see, this he decided to protect himself with his Yang Energy and charge through the mist. But as he gets out from the blinding mist, his first sight, is not a delightful one, because Wen Ping is lying on the ground, unknown to him he is dead or still alive. "Wen Ping! Damn brat, I will kill you even if the Hall kicks me out later!" he pulled his bow as hard as he could, and release the strong arrow towards where Long Feng stands. "Sealing Pill!" Long Feng use the same trick once again, and defense against the arrow once again. This time, no explosions could be seen after the arrow is stuck on the Sealing Sphere, but instead, a hint of Lightning Element could be felt. "Bzzzt!" the sphere cracks and disintegrates without any notice, and fallen together with the arrow. "What is the shield is used for if a simple Lightning Shock could destroy it?" Yu Peng happily announce the might of his arrows as he strings another arrow on his bow. "You better prepare to have either of your limbs gone with this shot! Kill him, my Second Human Grade Spirit Weapon - Triple Impact Jade Bow!" The moment Yu Peng shouts, a third kind of arrow charge towards Long Feng with a deafening screech along its path, as Long Feng swing his sword to prepare the Defensive Wu Sword Art - Sword Ball Form. But unexpectedly, the arrow is even more different than the previous two, as it destroyed Long Feng''s Sword Ball Form in the initial impact and released a surge of Lightning Field to trap Long Feng within the circle. "Hahaha! Do you think it is this easy to resist the [Thunder Trapping Ground] created from my Triple Impact Jade Bow? You are now trapped, let your daddy teach you a lesson to not mess with those from Jade Ginseng City!" Yu Peng rushed towards where Long Feng is hold up and continuously fires his first type arrow, the Metallic Blitz Bullet arrow around Long Feng. "Hmm... Seems like this guy is quite a bother. But nevertheless, I solved the problem from the energetic guy that lying over there." Long Feng grab three Pills within his hand as he prepared to crush it. "Die!" Yu Peng loudly shouts as he gave out his position to the others. But what happened next, is totally out of his imagination. The moment he shouts and retract his [Thunder Trapping Ground, all the Metallic Blitz Bullet explodes, creating a scattershot field full of bullet strikes. This is his most confident and deadly skills utilizing the might of Pill Master and his Second Human Grade Spirit Weapon. But not everything within this world usually goes along with a wish, as Yu Peng muttered the word "Impossible!" with a shocking expression. Book 1 Chapter 68 - Further Uncovering the Tang Clans Secret. "Impossible!" Yu Peng is shocked with what happens before his eyes. His most Deadly strikes, contained all the strong points from the effect of his Triple Impact Jade Bow never failed to kill any opponent before from the first day he possesses this weapon. Purchasing it from an old man in Jade Ginseng City, this bow is Yu Peng''s first Spirit Weapon, as well the motivations for him to start mastering the art of using the bow as his chosen weapons. But today, no matter how hard he tried, he still failed to kill this Pill Master before him. When all the dust from the deadly strikes dispersed, what appears before his eyes, is a Crystalline Body Form of Long Feng and also the Corpse Refining Tiger, with an unaccountable number of bullets all over the whole Crystalline Body. A slight movement could be noticed from the finger of the Crystallized Long Feng as the crystals covering his right palm is destroyed by internal pressure. With the whole palm regain its freedom, a surge of Essence Energy, especially unique to Long Feng alone is used to create a sound from flicking his finger. Accompanied by the sound, the crystal enveloping Long Feng and the Corpse Refining Tiger shatters without resistance, and allowing Long Feng to make his first move since Yu Peng is already stunned with what happens before his eyes. Disbelief with such disappointment, Yu Peng lost his will to continue fighting, as Long Feng''s hand grabbed the four Ingredient Slips from him before he pushes Yu Peng away. The bow is loose from his grip as well, ending up being taken by Long Feng as his winning rewards. Long Feng checked the contents within the four slips, and chose one, dropping three back on the ground before he walked over to the fainted Wen Ping. Long Feng put his hand into his chest area, grabbed three Ingredient Slips to have a look before he returned all three to him and left the two without any words. "Why are you not killing me?" Yu Peng couldn''t hold it in his heart anymore as he loudly asked the questions. Long Feng turned around as he looked at Yu Peng and says, "At the end of the day, we are still counted as fellow disciples from the five Bronze Pill Hall Branches. We might need to walk on the dead bodies of our fellow disciples to succeed, but In my opinion, Brother Yu Peng, you are nowhere as ruthless as how you behave, or else, you wouldn''t consider the possibility of miss fire when your sight is disrupted by the Frozen Yin Mist." "I will only kill those who are carrying the intention to kill me, not those that challenge me in an equal ground. You are worth my respect, and of course, I await your challenge in the future." Long Feng finished his words as he felt that he shouldn''t be his time any longer within this spot. "I will enter the top 100 disciples for sure, and by that time, you better be careful when we are within the Thousand Herbal Garden!" Yu Peng loudly announce his resolution, and in return, Long Feng quietly give him a reply as he walks further away. "I''m looking forward to it." [Blood Crow''s Crimson Heart] Long Feng looked at this specific ingredients as he considered the option he had for the remaining two ingredients. After considering for a plenty of options, Long Feng still yet to be able to obtain a choice of refining a specific Pill, especially due to the current two ingredient he already roughly possessed with the remaining three unknown to himself, Long Feng could only sigh helplessly as he continues to scan his surrounding and what could possibly come before him. "Roar!" a huge beast is seen ravaging a corpse belonged to a disciple. From the way it looks, it seems like this disciple overestimates his capability, and failed to even keep his life safe from falling into such condition. "That beast seems to be pretty strong as well, I wonder what kind of Cultivation Beast is that. Long Feng interest started to picking up as he could see that the closer he went to the beast, the more bloodied the ground along with his path. Within his mind, a temporary hypothesis came out, either the beast is too strong, or before they started, there is a bloodbath over here in order to gain control of this beast''s ingredient. Long Feng finally managed to get out from the rocky path blocking the vision before him, and as he exits from the coverage area, Long Feng''s first sight instantly bring him into a total awe. "This is the Essence Fabricator Ant! This guy here is a totally rare ingredient!" Long Feng couldn''t control his happiness within his heart. With the appearance of this Cultivation Beast before him, all his worries will be erased and filled with happiness instead. Within this whole Eight Diagram Beast Harvesting Formation, perhaps this beast is one of the rarest Cultivation Beast he could dream about meeting. "I wouldn''t dare to imagine that the Silver Hall actually invest so much in this examination. But before this, I need to obtain the Ingredient Slips related to this beast before I could start harvesting it." Long Feng immediately search around the corpses lying throughout the ground, while the Corpse Refining Tiger busy refining all the corpses she could to ensure the giving birth process proceed smoothly. With the amount of remaining corpses numbers around 15, Long Feng finally able to obtain one of the Slips related to the Essence Fabricator Ant. "[Fabricator Organ], a Harvested Ingredient that would be required to kill this beast before he could harvest it. The ingredient needs to be totally free from any leftover internal fluid from the Essence Fabricator Ant, because as the organ is harvested from the body, it will slowly constrict into a lump of dried dates, because of the lack of nutrients. Since Long Feng only has one of the Ingredients within his hand, he needed to obtain one more, or else this plan of his will not go according to his arrangement. "Help me!" a loud voice could be heard from where the fighting continues. From the moment Long Feng starts to enter this area, the voice from the fight already started to go softer, almost an indication of the fight is going to end soon. But what Long Feng couldn''t imagine that even with so many cultivators are fighting against this single ant, they are actually in a disadvantaged position. "This brother, please save me, I will give you all the remaining Ingredient Slips I have in hand." the rugged man with almost a whole piece of flesh was bitten off from his shoulder is crying as he runs over to Long Feng. "Stand right there. Tell me what happened before this bloodbath happened." Long Feng pointed his sword over to this man who is roughly ten steps away from him, as he asked a question. "This brother, please. I will tell you everything you want but I don''t want to die. I am happened to be lucky that one of the huge rock falls toward the Essence Fabricator Ant''s back leg, else I will be dead as well with the others." he cried even heavier as he thinks about what happened from where he came. "This is the Ingredient Slips related to the Essence Fabricator Ant, you may have it, just save my life please." the disciple withdraw a piece of paper from his robe as he shows to Long Feng. "Leave it there, and get lost from this place. If I saw you again, I will make sure to kill you." Long Feng keep his sword away as he turned around, calling that disciple to leave the piece of Ingredient Slip and get lost. "This brother, don''t you want to make sure the ingredients before I leave it on the ground?" he could help but asked after noticing Long Feng''s eccentric behaviour. "As I said, leave it and go, or else, I will kill you before the Ant comes." Long Feng stares at the disciple with a killing intent, causing him to felt shivers as he saw how heavy is Long Feng''s ruthlessness Killing Intent. "How do you know about it?" he stopped crying as he asked. The piece of Ingredient Slip returns to his robe pocket as he withdraws his weapon from his waist belt. "As a person who was chased by the Essence Fabricator Ant, your shoes are slightly too clean from any blood and dirt. If I''m not wrong, the Essence Fabricator Ant should be still occupied with your buddy deeper from here, while you behave like a person in need of help and kill them off when chances came. From the number of the body over here, I think you at least killed twenty of them in total, while the others may be dead from the attack of Cultivation Beast." Long Feng answers his question. And then, he added a little more. "That piece of paper has some deadly poison smeared on it, and will quickly react as it made contact with people who wish to covet it, am I correct? You are quite the ruthless one instead. Which branch are you from?" Long Feng despise such character, who actually intended to kill off the other disciples from continue to participate in this competition.Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. "Heh, even if you know, It won''t be so easy to dispose of the five of us anyway. Listen carefully, we are from the Clear Jade City branch, and all of us is lead and taught by Elder Tang Wen himself." the disciple in front of Long Feng says. As he heard this word, Long Feng''s hearts run so fast, but he managed to keep himself unaffected by the words. He realized that there are some hidden motives behind all this, and decided to probe deeper into this matter. "So, where is this Elder Tang Wen now? Maybe I will go and meet him when the competition is over." Long Feng confidently speaks as he slowly withdraws his sword and walked over towards the disciple step by step. "Hahaha, Elder Tang Wen is one of the Fifteen Eldest Master, and the oldest among all of them. Of course, he will be in the Tang Clan to preparing the weapon and medicine for the juniors to grow stronger." this disciple discloses such matter as he already considers Long Feng as a dead person. "Sigh... I guess that''s where I could find master later." Long Feng take a long breath, as he gets close to three steps before the disciple. "If you know what is good for you, leave all your thing included that Corpse Refining Tiger, maybe this brother will give you a quick dea....zzz" the disciple continue his words for a moment, before without any notice, his head was separated from the body as it falls to the floor before he finished his words. "You might don''t know who I am, but you shouldn''t ruin my master''s name. This is what you get for mentioning such thing in front of Elder Tang Wen''s only disciple, Long Feng." he finished his word, as the head belongs to the disciple appears in its both eyes opened wide condition. Soon, the blood sprayed from the neck wound, as it baths Long Feng into bloodied red colour. Long Feng searched his body for anything suspicious, just to notice that the piece of Ingredient Slips is actually an item of something else, while within his body, except some medicinal herbs and ingredients, only one token is quite suspicious to Long Feng, with a word "Tang Clan" etched within. "Does this means, this Tang Clan issue already started to infiltrate the Pill Hall''s progression? There must be some connection with Master''s disappearance. I need to slowly get into this matter, I wonder will master safe from being involved in all these conspiracy matters. But for now, I need to quickly go over there to get that Essence Fabricator Ant before they do, and complete this secondary examination!" Long Feng consider much more this time compared to himself a long time ago. But since he could only get more information regarding this matter as he probes deeper, Long Feng worries not but to quickly push himself to complete this Secondary Basic Examination. Long Feng pass another rocky area just to meet with four more guys trying to subdue the weakened Essence Fabricator Ant. From some distance away, Long Feng already could sense that among the four, two of them is in their Late Human Adept Realm, while another two is at the Middle Human Adept Realm, compared to the Essence Fabricator Ant that as strong as a Middle Earth Adept Realm. With such an opponent, unless the Four''s cooperation is extremely good, achieving a victory will still be difficult. "Brother Tang Ming, why don''t you call that Han Xian comes back from his acting?" another one among the four comments. "Stupid Hu Rong, shut your mouth and pay attention in your fight if Han Xian steps away from his position and start to allows other disciples to come over, that means that this Ingredient will be taken by somebody else. The [Fabricated Essence Tablet] produced by this thing is extremely precious, even if we failed to pass the exam, we have to bring this back to the Tang Clan." another guy, name Liu Qi speaks. "I will call that Han Xian back since this Essence Fabricator Ant almost has done refining the Tablet anyway." the person called Tang Ming withdraw a token in his waist belt and starts to inject some essence energy into the token. The moment he does what he did, Tang Ming actually had a shock in his eyes and quickly turn around towards where Long Feng is standing. "Something happened, quickly get this issue over with it!" Tang Ming gave out the order as he stays on guard on where Long Feng is located. Long Feng slowly steps out from the shadow between the rocks as he holds the sword, on one hand, Han Xian''s head on another. "I heard something about you all are disciples under Elder Tang Wen, I wonder where is him now?" Long Feng speaks as he gets closer to the four of them. Seeing the current condition is just right for it to escape, the Essence Fabricator Ant quickly stands on its six limbs as it tried to run away opposite from where Long Feng is standing. "Roar!" the Corpse Refining Tiger that managed to refined almost twenty corpses in total, finally regain its full strength at Middle Earth Adept Realm, decided to stop the Essence Fabricator Ant from getting away. "Shit tiger, get lost from grandfather''s way!" the Ant come out with its special kind of frequency to speaks with the tiger. "You ain''t getting anywhere. My master intends to refine you and obtained both Harvested Ingredients from you. You should either choose to continue your offspring by giving it to master before he refines you, or choose to leave nothing but regrets." the tiger continues, carrying the words of Long Feng being the most important master of her along on her mouth as she speaks. "Hahaha, what a funny word, a proud Corpse Refining Tiger actually willingly be enslaved by a mere human, I wonder if your ancestor, those YinYang Refining Heaven Tiger and Tigress will felt disgraced by your today''s action!" the Ant reply in a harsh way. "Humph! If you end up as a dead Ant with all the precious ingredients within you is taken away, your ancestor will end up vomiting blood from seeing how idiot are you, little Essence Fabricator Ant that yet to get sufficient bloodline to evolve into the Essence Assimilator Ant!" the tiger replied back in a similar harsh tone. The situation quickly becomes two side battle, one is between Long Feng with the four from Tang Family, while another is between the two Cultivation Beast. "This brother, you are quite a thing to kill our brother Han Xian and even more, dare to bring his head to meet the four of us. Even if you''re a Late Human Adept Realm Cultivator, the four of us not necessarily lose to you when we fight four against one." Tang Ming is the one to start talking, bearing some of the prideful attitudes as he speaks. "Yes, Although Han Xian is weaker than us, no matter what, he is still one of the family members of the four protectors of the Tang Clan. Even dead, we will fight to avenge our dead brothers'' life!" Liu Qi speaks. The moment Long Feng look clearly on him, he notices some resemblance between him with Liu Tsung and Liu Ming. Couldn''t help with the curiosity, he asked. "What is your relationship with Liu Tsung and Liu Ming?" "Hahaha, you already met with my both Older Cousin Brother? I wonder why they still allow you to be still alive when they could have the capability to kill you even before you notice. Anyway, the three of us should be enough to kill this guy, Brother Tang Ming, you should rest and regain some Essence Energy first, the Essence Fabricator Ant might be weak, but it still poses a threat until we managed to kill it and harvest the Fabricated Essence Tablet." Liu Qi speaks as Hu Rong and another one of them called Lin Fang walked over to face Long Feng. "Let me guess, Han, Hu, Liu, and Lin family, that''s the four protectors of the Tang Clan?" Long Feng questioned. "Which means, if I continue to probe among this few families, most probably I will manage to obtain the intel regarding my master''s current situation." Long Feng finished his words as he walked towards the three. Confident with their strength, the three protectors of the Tang Clan Members brandished their weapons as they charge towards Long Feng without any exchange of words. "Since you chose to remain silent, I will need to try harder to crack open your tightly closed shell!" Long Feng toss a Limb Prisoning Concoction towards the Hu Rong, the one with a spear before he launches the Offensive Xuan Sword Art towards the other two. Their first clash starts with Liu Qi and Lin Fang is hold up on defending themselves from the aggressive sword strike, while Hu Rong is ending up being burdened with the hardening Crystalline that forms on the head of his spear. "Roar!" Hu Rong screams as he swings his spear like a mace because of the crystalline, and forced Long Feng to bend down to evade this sudden attack. With his sword dance is disrupted, Liu Qi and Lin Fang immediately catch up and rain their attacks toward Long Feng, forcing him to defend against such frequent attack and exhaust his stamina. "Get Lost!" Long Feng toss three Fire Lizard Pill towards the three and forced them to back off from cornering him, but this trick only works as a disruption for a mere three seconds. The three toss their respective Battle Concoction called [Frozen Mantis Pellet] that works miraculously effective to cancel the Fire Lizard Pill''s burning properties, and allows them to continue their attacks. "Deadly Yuan Strike!" "Massive Undulation Yang Fist!" "Human Killer Spear!" Three grand technique immediately appears before Long Feng, with the full intent to take his life. But giving up without a fight is not Long Feng style, as he tosses two Sealing Pill far away from his distance as the Sealing Sphere appears without covering Long Feng within. "Heh! Three against one, and yet unable to notice something different around you?" Long Feng escaped as he throws the third Sealing Pill towards the three of them. "What trick is this kid playing?" Hu Rong, being the most short tempered one muttered the few words as his attack is disrupted by the final Sealing Pill tossed by Long Feng. "There is nothing at all, we had been tricked by this guy!" Lin Fang scan around them and notice no differences at the spot they are currently, and with two people getting angrier from being fooled, they forcefully destroy all three sphere before continues to chase after Long Feng. But that moment, out of sudden, Long Feng actually attacked then again with the Offensive Xuan Sword Art, forcing them to have a short moment of panic from that sudden change. "Kid, you think you can continue to fool us around like this?" Hu Rong angrily sweeps his spear and tried to overcome Long Feng''s vicious attack with the advantages of longer reach, but notice one thing again! "Damn kid! He actually seals my spear again with that ridiculous strong concoction!" Hu Rong angrily shouts as his initial plan is totally thwarted by Long Feng. Looking from behind, Tang Ming grabbed his hammer tight, preparing to attack them when the opening appears. Long Feng sword art push the other two to retreat without a match, while Hu Rong fails to move even a single step further because he is still struggling to free his spear from the ground. As Long Feng charge over to Hu Rong when he finally noticed the opportunity, Long Feng failed to notice that the much more experience Tang Ming is already stalking the two, intend to become the Oriole between the Cicada''s fight! Book 1 Chapter 69 - Getting Ready for Final Basic Examination. The hammer within Tang Ming''s grip shine beautifully with a bright white colour, as the inscriptions within started to activate. He was preparing to take a move as long he managed to see the opportunity, and currently, the opportunity finally arrives. Long Feng turn to Hu Rong in the middle of the fight instead of chasing Lin Fang and Liu Qi, with the impression of taking out one of their fighters before he was caught in between. But this opportunity is taken by Tang Ming instead, as the flying hammer came from afar and smash into Long Feng''s chest before he could prepare to defend against it. "That''s it! Taste my Flying Star Astral Clap!" Tang Ming speaks as the hammer that smashed into Long Feng''s chest slowly floating back to its owner''s hand. In the same time, Tang Ming walked over to the spot slowly as he retrieves his hammer. "What do you think about this Second Grade Earth Spirit Weapon - Metal Element Flying Star Hammer? The inscriptions within enable me to convert my Essence Energy into Flying force, further enhancing its destructive power with the amount of time I charge." Tang Ming stands just beside Long Feng as he finished his words. "Unfortunately, you will be dead before you could feel regret." Tang Ming held his hammer high up before he proceeds to swing it downward, with the intention of smashing Long Feng''s head into bloody pulp. The instant before Long Feng''s head and the hammer connected, a flying weapon came over to defend against Tang Ming''s strike, and the weapon pressure is so strong, that even with the hammer acting as a shield from allowing the Flying Wheel to connect its strike on Tang Ming, he is still injured and forced to retreat for ten steps. When Long Feng looked even clearly on the Flying Wheel, Long Feng noticed that this saviour of his is none other than Nan Jing Jing. "How dare you fight my husband four on one! I will let you have a look on hell before you four is dead without a complete body!" Nan Jing Jing calls her Qian Kun Soul Wheel back to her palm, as she stopped by Long Feng''s side. "Husband, are you alright? Can you still fight?" Nan Jing Jing whispers beside his ear. "I''m alright. That Hammer is quite a good weapon, I never expect that this guy actually dare to launch a sneak attack on me after showing such a firm demeanour the first moment I see him." Long Feng criticize Tang Ming''s personality without giving any face to him, and with Nan Jing Jing''s help, he stands up after he pops in a Tiger Stripes Soul Pill. "Wife, you and that Tang guy both using Flying Spirit Weapon as you fight, can you handle him while I handle the remaining three?" Long Feng pointed at Tang Ming, as he asks Nan Jing Jing to handle him personally. "Of course." Nan Jing Jing confidently agrees with this arrangement as she walks slowly towards Tang Ming. While for the two Cultivation Beast, they finally agree to stop fighting, as Long Feng''s performance already obtains their approval that leaving their descendant on him would assure their lineage will remain in this world longer. "You stupid Ant, only after you see how valiant is my master in fighting against that few guy you''re willing to agree on handling your offspring to his hand." the Corpse Refining Tiger smack her paw on the Ant''s head as she speaks. The Essence Fabricator Ant shakes its head a little before it starts to speaks. "My descendant is harder to raise, which is why I hesitate. Do you think that my little babies are easy to take care like your damn cubs?" the Essence Fabricator Ant replies. "Your child better don''t learn your way of speaking, else they are gonna be dead before they even grow up." the two stopped fighting as they continue to look at the five Cultivators. Without giving any space for Tang Ming to move freely, Nan Jing Jing controls the battlefield perfectly through her stable and tight formation control in this fight. As Long Feng stares at Nan Jing Jing''s battle capability, even in his mind, he felt impressed with her mastery in this Qian Kun Formation Sutra, which he heard from Nan Jing Jing that this martial art she learned, belonged to a master strategist that utilized his whole life experience to create. It is also the most suitable art for those involved in the military to obtain 100% chances of victory, no matter what kind of opponent before them. Hu Rong changed another spear since he failed to free his spear from the crystalline rock attached on the ground, while Lin Fang and Liu Qi gathered together to prepare for their next strike. Long Feng laughed as he looked at the three about ten steps away from him. "I guess fighting three with one sword is truly a little unreasonable, so I should change my weapon instead." Long Feng jokingly says as he keeps his Qian Kun Sword and with a swift movement, a bow appears in his hand as he already pulled the string and injected a part of his Essence Energy. The injected energy quickly formed an arrow out from his grasp, as Long Feng aimed at Liu Qi. "Your mouth is the most irritating one, so I will take care of you first!" Long Feng comments as he releases the string, and shot the arrow over towards Liu Qi. The arrow quickly reaches the perimeters of Liu Qi''s defensive range, as he swings his sabre to deflect the arrow. But without personally facing the Triple Impact Jade Bow, how would Liu Qi understand the secret hidden within this weapon? Added with Long Feng''s personalized weapon, the Needle Bomb Pill is attached on the arrowhead, the moment Liu Qi sword managed to make its contact with the arrow, the Three Needle Bomb Pill explodes from a blank range, as it pierces through Liu Qi''s whole body and cause his upper body to his head to looked like a beehive. "Big Brother Liu Qi! Damn kid, I will make sure to kill you!" Hu Rong couldn''t stand against all this anymore, as he brandished his spear continuously towards Long Feng and force him to retreat backwards as Lin Fang prepares to move forward to fight him in a fist fight. Although they lost one companion, this doesn''t affect their cooperation between each other, and the skills of this two actually compliment each other. With the close range fighting technique possessed by Lin Fang, he managed to keep pushing Long Feng from getting closer to Hu Rong, while forced to keep being in a defensive position as he needed to defend against Hu Rong''s spear each time Lin Fang tried to push Long Feng into the worst situation. Long Feng withdraws a single Pill once again and instead of tossing it to his target, Long Feng actually slap that Pill to dust over Lin Fang''s body as he swings his sword over to deflect Hu Rong''s spear once again. "pointless attack!" Lin Fang felt no pain or whatsoever when he received Long Feng''s slap, and with both hand together, Lin Fang use a part of his Elemental Water and Elemental Wind Essence to give Long Feng a heavy blow. "Water Turbulence Strong Fist!"This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it The fist formed of two palm interlinked together smashed over to Long Feng''s back, as Hu Rong happily looked at Long Feng and stop attacking with his spear anymore. Then the next thing happens totally shocked his eyes. "No! Brother Lin Fang!" Hu Rong finally noticed the differences of facial expression as he laughs and sees Lin Fang didn''t share out his piece of happy smile. The moment the Water Turbulence Strong Fist came, Long Feng doesn''t even need to bother to defend against this attack as it was deemed to fail from the start. The only thing Long Feng needed to do is to give Lin Fang a deadly strike, and this is where Long Feng''s Qian Kun Sword comes in. This is also the reason why Long Feng fight with his bare hand after he managed to defeat and kill Liu Qi and kept the bow. From initial impression, Long Feng actually kept his bow because the fact of both of them actually managed to get close to him and force him to withdraw his bow, but in Long Feng''s mind, his intention is to kept them misunderstood the fact he had the Qian Kun Sword still within his hand, before he slaps the Element Dispersing Powder on Lin Fang''s face and cause him to lost control on the Elemental Essence when he tried to give Long Feng a deadly blow. Hu Rong immediately stab his spear over to Long Feng''s waist as he notices the opening, but still, it was successfully evaded by Long Feng with a twist of his body. Long Feng turned around and swing his sword as hard as he could, to create a forceful impact on Hu Rong''s spear, causing his hand to turn numb from the force. As his intention is successfully conducted in a beautiful way, Long Feng swing his sword along the handle and force Hu Rong to release his spear to protect his both hand from getting chopped off. "I''ve noticed the differences of skills I had during the last time when I''m filled with the Abyss of Bloodlust, but as for now, I''ve mastered about a third of this skill''s strength, so it is good enough to have you killed." Long Feng whispers as he put in some attention in performing his next sword strike. "Offensive Xuan Sword Art - Xuan Wu Sword Flash!" In a blink of an eye, the head of Hu Rong is separated from its body, with a clean cut between the neck. Only from this look, even the two Cultivation Beast felt the ferocity of this human child, which compared to their similar more aggressive kinds. Even the Essence Fabricator Ant felt a slight afraid on what happened so far. In another side of the fight between Nan Jing Jing and Tang Ming, the two fought on an even ground, Although Tang Ming''s strength is only at Middle Human Adept Realm. Seeing how the three lost their lives under Long Feng''s hand, Tang Ming decided to not pursue this matter further as he throws the Ingredient Slips with the Essence Fabricator Ant''s Harvested Ingredient within, and escape using his special tricks. Finally, the fight is over, as Long Feng managed to obtain three pouches with estimated about 10,000 Upper-Rank Second Grade Cultivation Pellet. "Hmm, this three is quite rich as an Adept Realm Cultivator." Long Feng happily keeps the spoils of war as he grabbed the two spear and also the sabre belonged to Liu Qi. He then allows the Corpse Refining Tiger to refine the corpses as he walked over to the Essence Fabricator Ant. With the help of Hong Yue, the communication between the two is made, with the same condition like Hu Mi. "Jing Jing, had you completed your part of ingredients?" Long Feng pays some attention to Nan Jing Jing as he knows that she would have her own way to solve such matters. His asking is just to indicates that he is paying some attention towards her as well. "I end up with four Ingredients too, only one left, but I will need you to help me with it." Nan Jing Jing looked at her husband. "Of course, what ingredient are you looking for?" Long Feng tried to check the type of ingredient Nan Jing Jing is looking. "Blood Crow''s Life Essence." Nan Jing Jing whispers the ingredient name to Long Feng, as he secretly smiles after Nan Jing Jing finished her words. "What is so funny, husband?" Nan Jing Jing couldn''t help but to immediately notice her husband cheekiness after hearing what she says. Since he wishes to remain quiet and secretly laugh, Nan Jing Jing would give him no face at all, as a finger immediately twist his ear into an unbendable position. "Argh! Wife I''m sorry, please let go, I will tell you, I will!!" Long Feng painful expression immediately came out as Nan Jing Jing attack his ears. "My wife, I actually intend to obtain the Blood Crow''s Crimson Heart as my ingredients as well, even the piece of Ingredient Slip is with me currently." Long Feng explained the reason he laughs previously. After Nan Jing Jing accepted his explanations, the two starts to move along their way, and after asking for a few direction in exchange to help some disciples obtain the Harvested Ingredients they need, Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing finally completed their Secondary Basic Examination, as they exit the Eight Diagram Beast Harvesting Formation, Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing noticed that they aren''t the first few to complete their examination, but placed on the position between 130 and 131 respectively. It is lucky this round of examination will be depending on the final examination and its result will be reflected from the Ingredients Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing managed to bring out from the formation. And also, it seems like they aren''t the only one to come out along with the beast together with them. Among the 129 disciples before them, 11 of them came out with two Cultivation Beast, while 31 of the came out with one Cultivation Beast. But this won''t count as a winning point because at the end of the day, harvesting the Ingredient before or after they exit the formation, will not affect the quality of the ingredient in the first place. The most important thing regarding harvesting their special ingredients is how they refine it. This is also why Nan Jing Jing confidently came out with no Cultivation Beast with her, only ingredients in their Fine Grade. After waiting for a total of 5 hours exactly, the formation is closed, with all the disciples within is being sent out directly from the arena. "I think even the Pill Hall doesn''t wish to allow the public and other spectators to noticed that there will be some death within the Secondary Examination." Nan Jing Jing comments, but Long Feng did not stop her from speaking such comment. After all, everyone knows that in any competition, losing a life is a norm in their lives. But by secretly protecting the number of casualties involved within, the Pill Hall could carry themselves in a more presentable way while escaped from being judged to be causing too many lives is lost. "The top 200 participating disciples had been finalized, immediately proceeds toward the Final Basic Examination!" Elder Yang gave out the order to all the participants to quickly heads toward the third section within the Oval Ground. The moments all the participants are already standby on their respective Pill Concocting Table and prepare for the next question. Elder Hun hovers in the sky above the 200 remaining participants, as he started to speak. "This third examination is up to your own luck. From all the ingredients you received within the second stage, you will be required to refine a Pill with the five ingredients you''ve obtained. Of course, using your own ingredients that you have in your own pouch is allowed, and after all, this is a matter of luck. If you are not well prepared, even you have a mountain of ingredients, you will still be failed if your five main ingredients do not harmonized with each other." "It''s a fail if you failed to include all five ingredients within your Pill, It''s a fail of you can''t successfully refine the Pill and It''s a fail of you unable to refine an edible Pill with Significant boost!" this is your three major part needed to be paid attention to! If you understand, you may start now!" Elder Hun gave the order to starts immediately, as he makes himself sits on the air as if there is an invisible chair in the air. "Corpse Refining Tiger, Essence Fabricator Ant, I will need you both, right now." Long Feng stare at the two Cultivation Beast as he asked for their lives. The moment the two beasts heard this request, they understand that their time had already arrived. The next thing happens, is where the Essence Fabricator Ant used all its remaining energy to refine its eggs, while the Corpse Refining Tiger is starting to give birth to its baby cubs. "Brother Zhan, this kid actually managed to obtain the Cultivation Beast''s approval to put their descendant''s future on him. Do you think that he would have the potential to obtain the approval from our Hall''s Holy treasure as well?" Elder Fen whispers to Elder Zhan as he saw such incident happened only on Long Feng''s position. "We might consider this options, but let us see first. He is nothing but a sprout at the moment." Elder Zhan look carefully at Long Feng as he comments. Book 1 Chapter 70 - White Stone Pill Cauldrons Special Background. The moment the Corpse Refining Tiger started to channel all its energy into its womb to strengthen its baby cub, a howl of pain could be heard from the stage. The birth giving process is nowhere easy, but towards a Corpse Refining Tiger that managed to obtain enough Death Essence from all those corpses before it came into this situation, this is nothing but an easy piece of a cake. Meanwhile for the Essence Fabricator Ant, to fully utilize all its might to refine each single egg it could lay, an enormous amount of energy is required, so the moment it started, all the surrounding essence energy is absorbed into its body like a black hole, without knowing its limitations. Only after an hour of heavy labour, the two beasts managed to complete what they were doing at the moment. The Corpse Refining Tiger managed to give birth to a pair of Corpse Refining Cubs, a male and a female, while the Essence Fabricator Ant managed to lay a total of 44 fertilized Eggs that will hatch soon after given a short time to mature. But since Long Feng is not in a hurry to start refining his Pill, he allows the two parent figure to give their final attention towards their child until he needs them. Long Feng checked his Spatial Inventory, as he runs through all the ingredients within his ring. "This is not good enough to refine a Pill with the quality of strength I hope, I wonder what else do I have within this Spatial Inventory." Long Feng continue to search and check his inventory until he finally noticed something. "This is the Marble Stone Essence Fruit, the one that I bought from the Myriad Ingredient Pavilion previously. Its quality is quite good, but only with a single Fruit, I can''t dream about refining a superb category rank Pill." Long Feng felt dejected as he feels a little unhappy with the number of specialized Ingredients within his Spatial Ring, but that moment, he stumbles across something. "Why is this box that used to keep the Spatial Link Twin Grass Ring have such a strong medicinal power within? Did I misplace something inside?" Long Feng withdraw the box to take a look at its contents. The moment he opened the box, a brilliant shine of light with strong medicinal rich fragrance is released towards the whole Arena, allowing everyone within the Arena to feeling drunk within a medicinal cloud. "This smell so good, I wonder what ingredient is that even by smelling it could make my body felt stronger and healthier." A cultivator in his Peak Adept Realm comments as he was here on behalf of his clan to check on the new potential within the Pill Hall. "This is the Firesaint Mushroom from the Mysterious Peak Treasure Store! This one also from there, the Grain Feathered Peacock''s Soul Essence Pearl! With this two, added with my Marble Stone Essence Fruit and the Heaven Yin Essence Pearl and Hell Yang Essence Pearl, this all is enough for me to try and concoct the Golden Jade Holy Pill!" Long Feng is shocked. He would never dare to imagine that without noticing the ingredients within his Spatial Inventory is actually enough for him to concoct the Mysterious Golden Jade Holy Pill. If he knows it earlier back, perhaps he would already try, and perhaps he might be failed in his trial. But this time, even the God of Luck is smiling on his side, because of other than this five specialized Ingredients, Long Feng actually possess the [Harmonizing Essence Blood], a special ingredient for him to properly mix all five special ingredients in his hand into a perfectly rich concoction. Added with the [Corpse Refining Tiger''s Heart] and the [Blood Crow''s Crimson Heart], Long Feng could create the life and soul within this Pill, allowing the perfection of this concoction to evolve even further, something that exceptionally unexpected from any Pill Masters. And this was not all. Long Feng final two ingredients, the [Fabricator Organ] added with the [Essence Fabricator Tablet] will allow the gathering process of his Elemental Essence Absorption, YinYang Essence Absorption became even fearsome, where by allowing this final two ingredients, Long Feng not only could create a surrounding rich with YinYang Energy and Elemental Energy to nurture his Pill, he could even further matured his Pill, before the Refining process is completed. "I''ve decided! I will concoct this Golden Jade Holy Pill in front of this 5000 spectators, and build a name for myself!" Long Feng set his mind straight on his current target, and without any delays, he withdraws his five ingredients in hand to be ready to refine along with the five ingredients he just obtained from the second part of the examination. "Roar!" Hu Mi roared loudly to shows the might and worthiness of a Harmonizing Ingredient producer, as she starts to sacrifice herself to properly refine the [Harmonizing Essence Blood] and the [Corpse Refining Tiger''s Heart] for Long Feng to start using it after she passed away peacefully. The same thing happened at the Essence Fabricator Ant, where the essence energy around them is all absorbed into its abdomen, and making the Fabricator Organ better refined. The moment this process happened, both Cultivation Beast''s body started to shrink at a speedy rate, almost an indication of the life force had been forcefully used in refining the two ingredients within their body. About twenty minutes later, two drops of Essence Blood, a Dried Organ of a giant insect, a heart belonged to a Cultivation Beast that just refined all its life force within, and lastly, a tablet with weird kind of undulation of energy running rampant within. Long Feng walked towards Corpse Refining Tiger''s dead and dried body, as he moves her towards its pair of baby cubs. "From now onwards, the two of you will be named as Zhen Xi (Appreciating) and Gan Xi (Thankful). I will fulfil my promise to your mother that I will raise you both well, and let you be able to inherit her will, and keeps on growing until you are old enough to stands on your both feet." Long Feng pets the two baby cub''s head as he speaks. As if their mother earlier caressing had already told them that their master from this moment will be Long Feng, the two cubs actually refined their mother''s corpse and opened their eyes as they went to Long Feng''s side. "Hahaha, Barely a day old, and yet could actually start to refine a dead body... This two Cultivation Beast will have the potential to grow stronger than their mother in future." Elder Zhan is the first to praise the talent possessed by the two young baby cubs. The next moment, Long Feng went over to the cluster of unhatched eggs. Long Feng sits on its side, feeding some Essence Energy within his body into the 44 eggs on the ground as he patiently awaits their hatching moments.If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. "This kid doesn''t seem to have any worries in being unable to refine his Pill. Is this attitude is being fuelled by his confidence or skills?" Elder Hun is the first to comment about Long Feng''s current stability of his mind. As he was impressed by how calm the child is within the stage. Then, a shocking thing happened within the stage as the egg started to show a slight reaction. But within the reaction, a hint of carnage could be seen. "This is totally the same as how our world is. Only the strongest few within could survive their world of 44 yet to hatched brothers. The larvae within wriggles as it moves from one egg to another. The stronger one refined those nutrients within with speed, while that weaker one is targeted immediately as their siblings beside had already completely refined all the nutrients within their eggs. The travelled larvae will quickly fight for the remaining nutrients within the next egg before they savagely kill and eat their siblings remains until nothing left. In the timespan of only ten minutes after the first reaction happens, the 44 larvae within the cluster of eggs, only four remain on the Top, Bottom, Left and Right. The four hatched from their eggshell, as the body of the larvae quickly entered a cocoon stage that allows them to mature into an adult ants. Another ten minutes later, four Essence Fabricator Ants appears from the cocoons and swiftly went over to Long Feng''s side, as if showing its approval and obedience toward the latter. Just like this, Long Feng''s hand had suddenly obtained a total of Six Cultivation Beast younglings. With the appearance of all this shock, what''s remaining within Long Feng''s mind, is no doubt going to bring more shock towards the spectators and also to the other participants including Gou Yu and Nan Jing Jing. Even Huang Ying and Yue Ying from the Xuan Wu Jade City, couldn''t help but bear a hint of jealousy towards Long Feng''s lucky encounter. Without any delay in his step by step procedures, Long Feng began to properly nourish each single Ingredients within his inventory, by feeding some Element Wood energy towards the [Marble Stone Essence Fruit] and the [Firesaint Mushroom], while at the same time, injecting some Yin Energy into the [Hell Yang Essence Pearl] and some Yang Energy into the [Heaven Yin Essence Pearl]. He also allows the six young Cultivation Beast to get comfortable with their respective parents'' life-refined ingredients, as he chose to refine the [Blood Crow''s Crimson Heart] and the [Grain Feathered Peacock Soul Essence Pearl] by thoroughly heating them softly with a mild but comfortable fire. Showing off his capability in controlling six ingredient in so many different way of nourishing the ingredients prior to their extraction stage, had given Long Feng an additional credit from each elders from the Silver Pill Hall, especially Elder Zhan and Elder Fen, as the two Elder''s specialty is in growing and cultivating resources, and also in disassembling and hypothesizing the hidden ingredients used in each special Pills. With the nourishing stage is completed, Long Feng delay no more as he entered his Cauldron Heating Stage. Since there is no restriction in using a personal cauldron, Long Feng withdraws his Second Human Grade Spirit Tool - White Stone Pill Cauldron and placed it on top of the table. When the cauldron appears to the spectators'' eyes, a wave of medicinal trails slowly released through the air, creating a slight explosion of a medicinal fragrance once again to the nose of all spectators within the Arena. "This kid actually owned such an undervalued treasure within his hand." Elder Lian couldn''t help but praise the kid once again for possessing such a special Spirit Tool Cauldron in his hand. "Brother Lian, is this the cauldron you used to love using when younger to refine any Medicinal Herbs you obtained from the Realm of Vast Prefecture of Herbs?" Elder Hun asked. "It is the same material built, but mine had already been destroyed when I''m trying to refine a Sixth Category Pill called [Fate Pill/Ming Yuan Dan], a Pill that has the power to increase the strength of your power in controlling your Fate. That was my biggest regret ever, although I actually possess the better Fourth Human Grade Spirit Tool - Fireweaving Clear Cauldron." Elder Lian explains as he sighs for a moment for remembering his previous terrible luck. "This kid, if he appreciates thing cauldron as if it is the same as his life, the Cauldron might have the luck to met its significant other, the Black Stone Pill Cauldron, to be refined together through Elemental Essence to form the best Third Heaven Grade Spirit Tool - the YinYang Qilin Soul Cauldron." Elder Lian speaks, as he looked towards Long Feng once again. "Brother Lian, what is so special about that kid''s cauldron anyway?" Elder Fen, being the youngest among the five asked as his disassembling profession doesn''t require him to utilize the cauldron too much. "The White Stone is taken and refined from the Mountain of Holy Qilin Peak. The moment all the Medicinal Herbs made contact with the stone, a hint of fragrance will be released from within the stone to categorize the quality of the medicinal herbs. The more medicinal herbs are refined before with the cauldron, the stronger the fragrance, and if it is used in refining Pills, the quality of the Pill and its flavour is remarkably delicious." Elder Lian explains, but unfortunately, the owner of this White Stone Pill Cauldron, couldn''t shift any of his attention towards the elder as his Pill Refining process had just got more serious! "It''s the special Cauldron Firing Technique again!" a few spectators who already caught the moment of Long Feng''s first Primary Basic Examination''s performance, immediately notices his action once again in the step of firing up his cauldron into its peak condition. With the same performance once again, Long Feng ignite three Strong Flame Wisps on the bottom, one Soft Flame Wisp within the cauldron, and began to starts firing up his cauldron. The cauldron heat up in a perfect and evenly sequence, as the howls from perfectly firing up the cauldron sounds alongside with a few other disciples as well! Yue Ying, Huang Ying, Chu Yi, Gou Yu, Nan Jing Jing, Zhang Pu, Tie Peng, Chen Nan, and Liu Tsung from the Top 10 seats, also managed to heat their cauldron at the same time! If this goes along the way, the chances of all ten seats on the top will be able to finish refining their Pill at the same time! But. Long Feng felt something is amiss within his cauldron but he couldn''t understand why he would have this feeling out of sudden. "Is there a flaw within my White Stone Pill Cauldron?" Long Feng did not stop firing his cauldron as he inspects it, but at the end, he still failed to notice why would his heart felt something is amiss within this step he had just completed. He checked his inventory as he tried to calm himself down, only to notice that the Clearness Jade Gemstone within his Spatial Inventory is flashing with a brilliant light. Touch. Long Feng entered into the Imaginary Realm once again, but this time, instead of stopping at one location, the surroundings by his side is actually behaving like a screen projector with at least hundreds of scene is loading again and again. Stunned with such happening, Long Feng tried his best to understand and remember each single screen of information as he paid attention, not too long after, he noticed one screen that was showing the correct way to properly harness the hidden properties within the Cauldron used in Pill Refining. The screen behaves as if that it was waiting for Long Feng''s attention, with the word [Cauldron Harnessing Art] is written on top as the blurry background repeating its content. This pique Long Feng interest, as he was having some suspicion on his cauldron before he entered this Imaginary Realm. Book 1 Chapter 71 - Cauldron Harnessing Art! Cauldron. When this word appears, one could easily form a shape of a round cooking pot with or without a handle. The Cauldron is usually used in cooking various kind of material, and also in a certain different method, in an example, a Sealing Weapon, or as a Ritual Ornaments. There is an unlimited number of users to be involved with a Cauldron, but in the Continent of Yan, the Cauldron is a significant Item that could differentiate a Pill Master from the other two respective masters. The Cauldron used within Pill Refining is slightly smaller than other cauldron used by Martial Cultivators and also Culture Cultivators. This is because the requirement of preheating procedure, and also the number of the available channel to prepare the cauldron, is more profound compared to the other two significant Masters Profession. Another reason is also due to the size of the Cauldron had been compacted into at least one-third of its size compared to a normal Martial Cultivator''s Weapon Cauldron, the concentration of Essence is even more sensitive and fragile, thus the word, Instability is always being used to describe the quality of the Pill Masters whenever they are seen with their cauldron. But in this [Cauldron Harnessing Art], Long Feng couldn''t believe his luck to be given the chances to understand the depth of this profound knowledge playing before him. This art that was shown to him like a video slide quickly turned from one part to another the moment it noticed Long Feng''s thorough understanding on each slide. Movements and visualized part are shown as well as if it is teaching Long Feng on how to properly utilize this art without creating any wasted movement. The primary stage came into Long Feng''s mind as the first part. A three stage is divided in each, namely the Three Flame Heating Stage, the Six Flame Converging Stage, and the Nine Flame Synchronizing Stage. Each stage could be used independently depending on the requirements, but quality wise, the higher the amount of Flames, the better the quality of the materials would be required. The Primary Stage is an essential border before one could enter the Secondary Stage, where even more profound information is kept within, but for now, only the Primary Stage part could be revealed to Long Feng to slowly understands and practice it. Luckily, within the Imaginary Realm, the existence of time is no longer available within, thus it allows Long Feng to repeatedly utilize this Cauldron Harnessing Art without any exhaustion on his body. Although there will be plenty of information to be processed into his mind, overall, the benefits overshadowed the losses. Unknowingly, the Imaginary Realm finally closed as it deems Long Feng no longer required its service, as it retracts and returns his mind back to the world he came from. The moment he awakes from his dazed condition, Long Feng looked at his surrounding, the others are still busy refining their parts of ingredients to concoct a specific Pill they desire. "Since that weird realm already given me such a big gift into my mind, it would be a waste and disrespect towards the ingredients I will be using in this Refining. Look at me, I will make you proud to allow me inheriting such a profound arts!" Long Feng delay no more as he forcefully releases all the flame within his White Stone Pill Cauldron before he repeats the move once again. This action once again thoroughly gave the five Primary Elders another round of shock. "Why would he remove all the Flame that building up within his cauldron? From his expression, it is more or less seems like he was enjoying the situation instead of rushing to get on his track and starts refining." Elder Yang comments. "Seems like this kid is not as simple as we think. Brothers, shall we prepare for the next worst situation?" Elder Yang quickly reminds his other fellow brothers about some preparations. "We should start preparing by now, I have a hunch that before this event is over, those that couldn''t hold their hands will rush over to done their deed before they went off. If in between of the battle of this scoundrels happened to made its contact with our 100 seats, they will end up profiting from all this while we are taken advantage of." Elder Lian comments, as he releases a golden piece of Charm from his hand. The piece of golden charm quickly vanishes in the sky, as if the words had been delivered to where it is aiming towards. Back to Long Feng, although his action on removing all the gathered flame within the cauldron gave some shock towards the other participants, none of them actually pay too much attention towards him because of some previous experience. Within the two hundred participants, half of them will be deemed to be drop out from this final examination, thus if they could disturb the concentration of the disciple from other branches, they could increase the number of chances their own branch''s disciple chosen into the top 100 disciples. "Since most of my Medicinal Ingredients and Harvested Ingredients is in their Fine Quality, I shall use the Six Flame Converging Stage instead!" this time, Instead of preparing a total of four wisps of flame to be placed at the interior and exterior of the Pill Cauldron, he push himself one step further, and creates a total of seven wisps of flame at once. One Interior, Six Exterior, a Hexagon formation is assembled around the White Stone Pill Cauldron, awaiting a further order from its owner. Long Feng stabilized each of the Flame Wisps accordingly to their requirement, while slowly channel his Red Fire Stage Foundation to strengthen each wisp, as a strengthening process before the start of the Pill Refining process. "Three Strong Flame, Three Soft Flame, arrange into a hexagon star formation!" "Apply pressure, Firing up the Cauldron!" "One Soft Flame, enter the cauldron and prepare to gather all the Flame within the cauldron and prepare to evenly distribute all the heat." "The flame is ready, White Stone Pill Cauldron, prepare to howl!" "Brrrraaamm!" the White Stone Pill Cauldron turn from white coloured cauldron into a red coloured cauldron, and immediately, a lightning deafening howl could be heard from the inside of the cauldron, a proof of indication that the Cauldron Firing process had reached its perfection! The view around Long Feng and his Pill Cauldron began to turn into a mystically mysterious view, with flame dancing around the Refiner and the Cauldron.Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. Long Feng hesitates not, as his heart is filled with confidence that came from this perfectly fired cauldron that emitting brilliant red coloured lights as it shined. Long Feng then place all ten ingredients into the cauldron in the same time, while in between each single ingredients, Long Feng added some of the random medicinal ingredients along to soothe and balance the destructive heat each time a new ingredient entered the cauldron. This intention of Long Feng, is also due to the secrecy of his recipe, as the refined results might come out as one of the Ranked Category Pill. This is also the reason why there is a total of more than fifty Collection Officer around Du Zhe''s rank is specially arranged within this Arena as spectators, because the moment this Pill is refined, it will immediately be ranked according to its speciality! From the moment Long Feng starts his process in Nourishing the six ingredients, currently, all eight ingredients are hovering within the cauldron in an unbelievable speed, as if the mixer is slowly churning the essence juice within each ingredient until nothing remains within its ethereal body. Added with the [Fabricator Organ] and the [Essence Fabricator Tablet] on the bottom of the Cauldron acting as the core of the churning whirlpool, the gathered essence juice of all eight ingredients is being mixed together, absorbed, and released back into the whirlpool once again to be nourished before a repeating sequence happened again. The results? From a plain rainbow coloured essence mixture, the [Fabricator Organ] actually repeated the step for a total of eight times, indicating the number of ingredient essence within is already mixed evenly. The next step, Long Feng start to adjust his six Flame Wisps to hover around the White Stone Pill Cauldron with its own orbit. The moment this step is conducted, the Cauldron automatically floats in the air around Long Feng, as the Flame Wisps treats the Cauldron as the sun, orbiting around it in six different circles. Such a performance repeatedly gave surprises again and again towards all the spectators, until their jaw unable to close from seeing such a marvellous performance. As if the eight drops of essence mixture have their own soul, Long Feng could sense that each drop of the essence harmonized with each other perfectly, as if there is a set of quintuplets is dancing within the cauldron in the same sequence and with each movement it takes, a small drops of Essence mixture combined, slowly forming four bigger and stronger Drops of Essence Mixture with a mysterious essence energy permeated from within. The process soon ends as the cooking of this four drops of mysterious Essence Mixture is completed, and all that left is the final Firing Stage. Without delaying it any further, Long Feng ignite all the Fire Element he could, as he fires the Cauldron with all his might. The rainbow coloured wave of essence is condensed within the inner top of the Pill Cauldron as the Firing process is continued and finally ends as the time clocked at exactly one hour from the moment he starts. "This kid... Really... Tsk..." Elder Fen felt impressed with Long Feng''s performance. He started with nothing too much with concern, only bothered to handle his newborn Cultivation Beast. And yet, he is again the first one to complete the whole process of refining a Pill. "I can only describe this kid as monstrous. I hope that the assistance will come over from the capital soon after they received our message, or else, this talent will quickly be taken away if we couldn''t control the damage." Elder Fen continued. "Brother Zhan, what do you think?" Elder Fen turned to his brother for some advice. "I could only use one word to describe him as well." Elder Zhan could only describe Long Feng''s talent as "Monstrous" within his mind, while almost forgetting about the important part regarding this matter. Currently, within each of this four elders mind, only the hint of admiration and brainstorming appears within, as they all have the wish to obtain this child as their disciple. Long Feng''s Pill Refining finally completed! The moment he stopped and start to release all the gathered flames within the cauldron, the wave of condensed rainbow Essence is released together as well, the final stage soon covered with a beautiful Rainbow Aurora created from the condensed energy trapped within the Pill Cauldron, and within each high ranked cultivators, every single of them understand the reason for such appearance came out after the Pill is completely refined. "This Pill is a Master-Rank Pill for sure!" all of them bears the same comments within their mind, as they started to consider the option on how to obtain this child on their good side. "This kid really one that you can''t leave him for a moment." a young man stands up for the Spectator''s Area. This man is somebody Long Feng know before because he is Collection Officer Du Zhe from the House of Miraculous Jade. The moment the six brothers is happily cheers for their youngest brother''s success in refining the Pill, they increase their range of awareness as well, because of one certain warning was given by Lang Ya''s father, Lang Ren about what will be happened if Long Feng actually managed to grab the spotlight within this competition. "Zhe Bie, Zhe Lie, scan your surroundings, and make sure nobody actually tried to take any advantages when it came to our little brother!" Wang Ping immediately warns the two, as he maintains his happy expression and clapping his palm together and applause. "Pang Tong and Lang Ya, quickly identify people that starting to channel their essence energy to react in the next moment." Wang Ping continues, as he sees the two already started to scan around to see those people around them. Even the five Primary Elders, had already slowly increased their energy to prepare for a sudden attack from peoples around them. The moment Long Feng completes, the other nine seeded participants quickly finish their refining as well, but within the nine of them, only three managed to create the same Rainbow Essence Aurora as well, but nothing much to be compared with what Long Feng did earlier back then. The three of them is Huang Ying, from Xuan Wu Jade City, Zhang Pu from Cloudy Jade City, and lastly, Chu Yi, from Jade Ginseng City. Almost thirty minutes later, all participants within this final examination, had completed or failed their exam. Within the two hundred, Long Feng was the first to complete, followed by the Huang Ying, Zhang Pu and Chu Yi. The next to come is Nan Jing Jing, Gou Yu, Chen Nan, Liu Tsung, Yue Ying and Tie Peng. The remaining 190 participants, 100 of them finished their Pill Refining next, followed with fifty at the end. The remaining forty willingly gave up in their refining exam because of their understanding of their own weakness, as well the instability in the ingredient they obtained. "Alright, the examination is over! Everyone, leave your table as it is, and we will come to conduct our inspection on each of your cauldron." Elder Hun speaks, as he ordered all the participants to leave their respective refining table. The five elders quickly scanned around those that came out successful in the final moments, but after a quick inspection, most of them failed their test and is disqualified with distinction on their capability to entered the top 100 participant''s final examination. The number of passed participants started to be named from the bottom, but even if you are the first one from this bottom positioning, nobody will give you even a slight moment of disrespect, because no matter what position you are standing, you are one of the top 100 best disciples of the Five Pill Hall Branch! This single title could allow each single participants that successfully entered this 100 top seats to expect unlimited respect, trust and even offers that will came to them no matter where they go. As the numbering quickly entered to the eleventh to the twentieth position, more and more nervous atmosphere is created, because the moment of the top ten position, will be announced next! But what everyone is within this Arena doesn''t know, is that outside of the Clear Jade City, a total of five respectfully strong Silver Force already appeared with their own personal agenda! Book 1 Chapter 72 - Golden Jade Holy Pill. East of the Clear Jade City. This part of the city is covered with a huge lake. Although the scenery is beautiful, today, an unknown aura cause most of the visitor to turn away from entering this location. A total of three men could be seen walking along the way, floating above the lake water as they slowly walk toward the Clear Jade City. The leader among the three, possess a scholar look-a-like feature, handsome and gentle, yet properly educated to understands the rules within the mortal world. The white robe he''s wearing contains a lining of silver along on his shoulder, and collar, indicating a certain position holds within his background. The two person by his side, also possess a similar cultivation strength, but in term of manners, this two person is more cheerful and playful, but from their facial features, one could easily deduce them to be a pair of twins. Their white robe contains a hint of red lining within its shoulder and collar, which clearly indicates their status within their faction, but through an initial expression, this three person is seen bearing no ill-intent as they walk closer towards the city. As the winds blow across the three of them, a piece of Stone Tablet appeared from the man with Silver Lining on his robe, along on his waist belt. The Token is entirely made with a special kind of unknown material, with the design almost similar to Yu Men from the House of Thousand Pills. But if taken into a comparison, Yu Men''s Token would be seen as lack of lustre to be compared with this person''s Tablet, as his tablet itself, it seems to be one of the Spirit Tool with special power within. While on the west, a group of four cultivators is threading across the Forest of West Jade by stepping from one tree to another. The four of them dressed in a black robe with red lining across their collar and end of their wrist part. At the waist belt of each of them, a piece of Wooden made Token could be seen, with a word "BA" is written on it. (BA means Tyrant in Chinese). Each of them possesses an overbearing kind of attitude as they walk, and on their back, a giant sword is seen hanging with some blood stain still sticking on the handle and the sword''s holder. Along with their path, no matter how strong is the Cultivation Beast appears within their sight, will be killed without any mercy, indicating their overbearing attitude is even applied to the beast and nature itself, as this group of four is travelling in speed to enter the Clear Jade City. Even within the Arena, three spectators could be seen covering their over-bearing robe by layering it with a plain robe. Another group of Cultivators appears from the north, after the mountain path area. This group is more relaxed than the first two, where they are actually travelling on the back of a Fourth Heaven Grade Cultivation Beast - the Four Wing Storm Falcon. Each of them above standing on this Cultivation Beast is dressed in a totally red coloured uniform, with a huge word "BEAST" behind them. Possessing such a high-grade cultivation beast, one could easily guess, that this faction, is the well-known people from the Beast Taming School! A total of ten people is travelling within this group, with their destination most probably the Arena within Clear Jade City''s Bronze Pill Hall. But within this group, one especially significant cultivator is standing directly on the top of the Four Wing Storm Falcon''s head. Dressed in similar uniform like the other nine person does, but his robe contains a slightly longer indent of the black line across his chest, indicating that this person perhaps possesses a higher status compared with the other nine of them. On the south, two factions could be seen travelling together, as they make their trip in a hurry. One group is dressed is similarly Black and White robe, with a word YinYang on their chest, while another is one possess a Yang Token in each member''s waist belt. This two group of people is known to be extremely friendly with one another, because of the relationship is built by their ancestors at least close to thousand years ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- " the Tenth Spot, Tie Peng, with a total of three Master-Rank Second Category YinYang Recovering Pill. A very good work!" Elder Yang announces the tenth seat as he walked over to the next table. "Ninth Spot, Liu Tsung, with two Master-Rank Second Category Heart Replenishing Pill. This Pill is extremely hard to make even with sufficient amount of ingredients. Totally a delightful day it is to allow me to have the luck to see this Pill once again." Elder Yang ends his evaluation, as all the attention turned towards the other four elders. "Eighth Spot, Nan Jing Jing, with a total of three Master-Rank Second Category Metal Fluid Concoction. You must be putting a lot of effort to be successfully refined such a smooth and viscous Concoction." Elder Fen is the next to give out his evaluation. As a master of Pill Dissembling, Elder Feng is totally impressed with Nan Jing Jing''s skill in maintaining the viscous appearance of such concoction, because the more viscous is the Metal Fluid Concoction, the higher is quality. Currently, this viscosity can only allow it to step into the Second Category, but if a better quality Ingredient and Sub-Ingredient is used, perhaps even Third Category would be possible, based on her current results. Seventh Spot, Yue Ying, with a total of three Master-Rank Second Category Spear Storm Pill. This examination must be really profitable for you, as the ingredient to concoct this Pill is totally within the offer of the Eight Diagram Beast Harvesting Formation, am I correct? To be able to concoct it into such a grade, I believe if you would use it in a battle, even a Late Human Practitioner Realm Cultivator will have a hard time to defend against your weapon. Good Job!" Elder Fen finished his word as he returned to a corner, allowing Elder Hun to appear next. "Chen Nan and Gou Yu, you both are tie in the 5th position, after all, five of us finally decided due to the similarity of the Pills you both refined. Chen Nan, your five Master-Rank Second Category Blood Yin Freezing Poison is potent enough to be used in battle. Added with your expertise in this Poison Master Field, it became even more astonishing, because the way you concoct this Pill is very special instead." Elder Hun continues to praise him. "Compared to those masters that usually refine the Blood Devil Rat in a while, your process of only nourish and refine their fattest Liver part is most admirable. Since you even understand the fact that from the Eight Diagram Beast Gathering Formation is to increase the potency of all ingredients, we only have one word to say, Well Done!" Elder Hun couldn''t help but to continue to praise Chen Nan on his capability in refining such a specialized Blood Yin Freezing Poison. "As for you, Gou Yu, your rows of Formation Pills is extremely profound. Although their quality is quite well made, without sufficient knowledge, one might find it hard to control properly. But nevertheless, the way this formation Pill is made is extremely careful and well planned. Is this one of Elder Zhi Ruo''s ranked recipe?" Elder Hun asked. "Yes, the recipe belonged to my master Zhi Ruo. This is one of her proudest work that yet to is announced to the world, its name is [Five Death Formation Pill]." Gou Yu explains the background of this certain Pills he was creating, as well on its recipe. Unbelievable to the five elders, even themselves are not too clear on the method of this Pill could be used. But from the Five Types of Pills, separated into two sets, this [Five Death Formation Pill] is believed to be carrying the effect of an area of control upon activation. With his part is finally ends, Elder Lian steps up and started to talk. "Zhang Pu, how did you find that single string of Veins hidden deep within the Muscle Rich Yang Ape?" Elder Lian questioned because the Pill refined by Zhang Pu managed to obtain an amazing point from the five elders, especially from Elder Lian himself. "Dear Elder, Zhang Pu have a martial art called as the Vein Cutter Hundred Strikes, an art that allows the mastery of Vein Cutting and Vein destroying towards the opponent when clashes are unavoidable. The moment that Muscle Rich Yang Ape is furiously attacking as it determines me to be the weaker one, is the best moment to harvest that richest String Vein within its body." Zhang Pu explained. "I see, that''s how you managed to obtain this rare and special Yang Vein String from that Ape. Even somebody in their practitioner realm might have difficulties to find this single Yang Vein String. Fourth Seat, Zhang Pu, with the results of two Master-Rank Third Category Pill, the Muscle Mass Enhancement Concoction!" Elder Lian announces his results, as the fourth place of the top ten best disciples. "Next, is the Third Seat, Huang Ying!" Elder Lian called Huang Ying''s name, but the moment this name is called, the people from Xuan Wu Jade City is slightly disappointed, as they were wishing hard for her to be placed in the Champion Seat. "With results of three Master-Rank Third Category Pill, the Invulnerable Enhancement Pill!" even Elder Lian himself felt nervous as he announces the type of Pill is refined by this extremely skilful disciple among the thousand they tested from the start. "I know most people might have no idea about what this Invulnerable Enhancement Pill is about, but roughly, what I could say is, if you met an Adept Realm cultivator that possess one of this Pill before fighting them with your Elder stage strength, listen to my advice, and escape without looking back." Elder Lian jokingly explained the speciality of this Pill.Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. "This recipe actually belonged to one of the Great Elder in the Xuan Wu Jade City, I hate to say but if I''m the one fighting against him when he had taken this Pill, my winning chances might drop from 80% to barely 30% immediately. The Pill is known to be providing the user with an enhancement of One full Realm increment of strength and cultivation for the timespan of 30 minutes. During the activation time, the user''s body capability will increase as well, adding the rejuvenating capability as the fight goes along on its way." Elder Lian finished his explanation as he returned to his spot. Finally, after waiting for everyone to breath for a few minutes, Elder Zhan walked out from his spot, and begin to starts talking. "Chu Yi and Long Feng, come over here." Elder Zhan had the two finalists to came before him, as he stares at both of them clearly as if his mind is penetrating their soul and trying to spot a single darkness within them. "If I could only choose two Champions, you both will be qualified more than enough to take this position. But unfortunately, there could only be one winner at the end, and the one who will be taking this second seat unfortunately within this examination is Chu Yi." Elder Zhan hesitates for a moment before he announces the one that is a little weaker between the two. "Chu Yi, do not felt dejected by this results. Sometimes, luck still plays a big part in a person''s life. Be strong and confident with yourself, because your talent and everything else, do not lose to Long Feng at all." Elder Zhan placed his hand on Chu Yi''s shoulder as he calms the young kid before he fell into despair. He knows this result would be the most heartbreaking compared to the other seats, because of the difficulty to struggle until you managed to come so far. This is also the reason why Elder Zhan calmly announce the results, because if he doesn''t handle this issue well, he might contribute in making the Pill Hall lost one of its strongest talents within the Pill Hall, as well creating an Inner Demon within Chu Yi, where it will slowly corrode this youngster mind and ruin his future. "Your Master-Rank Fourth Category Pill, the Seven River Purity Pill is extremely well made. Such a treasured Pill that will help a cultivator to advance from the Human Stage into a Heaven Stage upon consumption, is hardly heard. What''s more, this Pill could also help in removing the impurities within the cultivator''s body and aiding him or her to cultivate more effectively, is even harder to be heard before." "This must be the reason why no matter what, the Seven Coloured River Snake is willingly following you even after its core is harvested to aid you in refining this Pill." Elder Zhan looked at the sleeping rainbow coloured snake on the table, tired and weak because of having its most important core taken out to be refined. The described snake is one of the only two Cultivation Beast within the whole Eight Diagram Beast Harvesting Formation that will not die even after their two special ingredients is taken away from them. Although they will not die if their parts are taken out as refining ingredients, to obtain this precious ingredient, a person needs to have something more valuable than anything a person could possess, which is "Trust" itself. Same to how it obtains the name, the Seven Coloured River Snake required to gave Chu Yi a total of Seven test, to see if this human is worthy of its precious body part to be taken away, and Chu Yi managed to score within this part with a totally full point. "Long Feng, without anymore empty praises and flattery words, you are the chosen champion for this year Thousand Herbal Garden Opening Examination. Congratulations." Elder Zhan turned towards Long Feng as he announces him to be the champion. The moment this word came out from his mouth, the five Silver Faction finally appears outside of the Arena, taking over the whole Arena and covering them with Essence Energy Seal that could quietly block all messages to be delivered out from this Arena. Although what happened outside of the Arena is not noticed by those within, but without fail, the Silver Pill Hall had already begun to position their most valuable fighting force, just for the sake of preserving as much talent as they could while this Arena is still under their control. Without fail, almost a hundred capable fighting force came out from behind the stage, with the strength of between Elder Realm to Peak Master Realm is standing on guard in all direction. "The Pill concocted by Long Feng is so far the second highest grade throughout all the tournaments that had been held so far. This Four Pills belonged to the Highest Peak of Master-Rank, a titled Sage Sixth Category Profound Pill that believed to be the Golden Jade Holy Pill!" Elder Zhan announces the name of Pills that was refined by Long Feng personally, and as the name came out from his lips, everyone within the Arena had gone into a Pill frenzy. "Golden Jade Holy Pill, it''s actually that mysterious God made Pill! If I could actually get one from that cauldron, my 18 generation life will go along wealthy and smooth until it ends!" one cultivator immediately shows his greed, as his strength of an Early Human Elder Realm is released. But the moment he activated his strength, even more, people started to have a hint of greed within their eyes. A Pill that would allow the cultivator to open his door to one additional elemental essence, how profound and rare is this Pill? With the status of a Sage Title on the Pill, it means that within that four Pills, one would have a 20% of the chances to obtain that additional element no matter what. Barely five minutes pass after the announcement, the whole Arena full of spectators, had turned them into greedy and ruthless wolves. Even those from House of Miraculous Jade couldn''t help but have a hint of wanted to own that Pill for their faction. "Everyone within this Arena, I hope you all could control yourselves and give some face to our Silver Pill Hall!" Elder Zhan loudly warns all those that were present within the Arena, along with the burst of energy released by the hundred cultivators specially arranged to this Arena by the five Primary Elders. But this situation doesn''t go too well before some additional uninvited guest appears from above the Opened Roof. "Brother Zhan, you are still as domineering as ever!" the person stood on top of the Four Wing Storm Falcon slowly descends towards the centre of the Arena speaks. "Another King Realm cultivator! He is from the Beast Taming School!" many spectators immediately recognize the dress code that specially used by the people belonged to the Beast Taming School. "Feng Hao! You actually dare to step into our Pill Hall''s land!" Elder Zhan looked at this King Realm cultivator named Feng Hao and at the same time, withdraws his weapon to get ready to fight him. But in the same moment he finishes his words, four more extremely amazing figure descends at the same way Feng Hao does within that split second. "Elder Zhan and other four Primary Elders, good day." the male believed to belong to the House of Hundred Pills is descending along with Feng Hao as he pays his greeting to the elders. "Ninth Core Disciple, Xie Yu Yan from the House of Hundred Pills! What an eye opener for this old man!" Elder Zhan immediately recognizes this person before his eyes. "Elder Zhan, good day to you all as well, brother Feng, Brother Xie, how are you both?" another one person appears beside the three, with one more person behind him keeping quiet. "What an honour to see both Yang Younger Generation''s Yang Bu Hui and the YinYang Formation Sect''s Core Disciple Qin Yang Yi appears within this small Arena." Elder Zhan facial expression becomes gloomy, as the number of King Realm cultivators within his eyes already grown into four, compared with the five of them. "I think I''m the last one to arrive. Greetings everyone." the final man that came from the Forest of West Jade finally appeared. "What the hell is happened today! Even the Tyrant Family is here today, and not anyone from them but the Youngest Master, Ba Guo Yue!" Elder Zhan totally speechless with all this happening. With a total of five Primary Elders in the King Realm against the five King Realm cultivators, this fight might end up as stalemate without any positive results. Additionally, the five Silver forces actually came here with their companion and not alone. If any of their companions possess strength comparable to a Peak Master Realm cultivation, they will be a trouble for the Silver Pill Hall even if a hundred protectors join into this battle. And with this five faction of power entered the Arena, Elder Zhan had already noticed the difference in essence undulation and could guess that the whole Arena had been covered by a strange formation that will stop any information from within to spread towards the outside world. "Say, what is your intention here!" Elder Zhan angrily shouts at the five uninvited guest. But as the four chuckle, while looking at each other, Xie Yu Yan politely reply Elder Zhan''s question. "Dear Brother Zhan, Yu Yan is here just to have a word with little brother Long Feng, I will leave afterwards." Xie Yu Yan''s word is simple and straight to the point. Before Elder Zhan even replied his word, the former already walked over to Long Feng''s direction, bearing a friendly and warm smile. "Well, well. I guess there will be only four of us here that wish to get that instead. Listen here, brother Zhan, we want a Golden Jade Holy Pill for each of us here!" Feng Hao announces his motive to came over here especially on today. "Ridiculous and prosperous! Do you think that the Silver Pill Hall''s sub branch is a place you can easily come and go after showing your intention to want our things?" Elder Zhan replied angrily. "Brother Zhan, among the five of you, only brother Zhan have the capability to handle me in my Middle Heaven King Realm strength. Your four brothers are only at their Early Earth King Tier, do you think they could handle Yang Bu Hui, Qin Yang Yi and Ba Guo Yue''s Early Heaven King Realm strength? " Feng Hao choose his words carefully as he blurts it out towards Elder Zhan. Even a blind person could felt the hint of disrespect within his words. "You!" Elder Zhan anger already reaches its top, but he too understands the difference between their strength compared to the four of them. But then, within the sky, three loud bang could be heard, as the vibration from the impact thoroughly pass through everyone within the Arena until it reached the centre of the Oval Ground. "Feng Hao, Yang Bu Hui, Qin Yang Yi and Ba Guo Yue. You four actually dare to come and disturb our special day?" one person speaks, as another two shadow follow up behind this figure. The three of them stands at the roof haughtily as they looked at those below. "Hahaha, I wouldn''t guess that even the Silver Pill Hall protector, Honoured Elder Bai will personally show himself today!" a laugh could be heard from the spectator''s seats, and following behind, an old man with a long beard and a pair of white long eyebrows appears from the seats. The moment he tears off the piece of skin covering his face, a surge of an unbelievable amount of Essence energy came out from his body as his identity is revealed. "Heavenly Ascension School''s Honoured Elder, Late King Ye Yuan!" Book 1 Chapter 73 - Finally Crowned Champion. "Ye Yuan, what made you come here? Is it because of the attraction from the Pill as well?" Honoured Elder Bai asked as he descends close to where Long Feng and Xie Yu Yan is facing each other. "Haha, Old Bai, I''m here just for spectating the creation of this Pill and nothing else. But don''t you think that the earlier generation should be the one handling all the fights instead of the two old man like us?" Late-King Ye Yuan replies. "This senior is..." Long Feng has no idea about who is this person that speaks in such friendly manners, but he too noticed the similarity between the token Yu Men gave him and the Tablet that is hanging on Xie Yu Yan''s waist belt. "Little Brother Long Feng, I''ve heard about you from Old Yu Men when he returned to the house and based on the way he speaks about you, it made me extremely interested in meeting you." "I''m Xie Yu Yan, the ninth disciple of the House of Hundred Pills. Nice to meet you, younger brother Long Feng." Xie Yu Yan politely introduces himself to Long Feng, with a friendly tone. The moment Long Feng met this person, a hint of impress happened to appears within his mind as he speaks. Just as how Old Yu Men tells him, each member of the House of Hundred Pills bring themselves in a very disciplined way, and they rarely being tempted by any greed appears before them. "Big brother Xie, nice to meet you." Long Feng politely reply his greeting as well, as the two stared at each other without any additional words. The next moment, as if there is nothing happened in the Oval Ground, the two started to share the method of his Pill Processing, while Xie Yu Yan gave him some comments in between of his every step, because certain mistakes or wastage of movement will cause the quality of the Pill became weaker or stronger. "Humph! If you are not taking another step, the least this Old Bai could do is to invite you for a cup of tea together. After all, this is the land belonged to the Bronze Pill Hall, I am still counted as a part of this Pill Hall, Long''Er, Feng''Er, prepare the table!" Elder Bai speaks a few words as he had the two disciples behind him to prepare the table and tea for two. "Yes, master!" the two immediately take their action. In an instant, plenty of Spirit Tool appears from the two disciple''s Spatial Ring as those items such as chairs and table, Jadestone made Tea set with fragrant tea leaves is all set within the table. The lady disciple called Feng''Er charge towards the north like an arrow and came back in a minute later, with two bamboo stick that was filled with dew. "Master, Honoured Elder Ye Yuan, please enjoy your tea!" Long''Er invites both elders to be seated, as he excuses himself and Feng''Er towards the centre of the Oval Ground. "You two are free to take any action you want." Honoured Elder Bai speaks as he lifts up the cup of tea, and politely invite Ye Yuan for a drink. The situation of this happened to turn less worst at the moment, because in total, there are seven King Realm Cultivators at Long Feng''s side, while another four at opposing side. Although Xie Yu Yan''s intention is currently unclear to everyone here but based on the words speaks by Old Man Yu Men previously, Long Feng could trust this Older Brother completely without any suspicion. "Brother Zhan seems like today is not a good day for me to forcefully obtains this Pill." Feng Hao turned around and looked at Long Feng, who was guarded by the two disciples from Honoured Elder Bai, and also with Xie Yu Yan by his side. "Kid, why not you give me one of that Pill in return of this Feng Hao''s favour?" Feng Hao thickens his face as he asks for the Pill from Long Feng. But Long Feng''s mind stays firm as he stares at Feng Hao before he starts to speak. "I will not share this four Pill with anyone except my closest four family members! And on the same time, I will announce this first hand, I will never contribute or help the Beast Taming School in any way." Long Feng speaks in a heavy tone, causing everyone to notice the hatred hidden depth within his each word. "Do you remember the Xuan Wu Sword Sect?" Long Feng continued. This single sentence causes everyone to be alert, including the two honourable elders. "What''s wrong with that destroyed Sect?" Feng Hao asked as he tried to show his domineering side. "My Teacher is Han Feng Xian, and elder within the Sect. Not only you destroyed the whole Sect because they were a thorn is your school''s eye, you actually massacre the whole Sect members and leave nobody alive, while causing the remaining disciple forced to give up on their status and martial art they learned, because of your domineering status!" "Let me tell you now, I, Li Long Feng, will make sure that the Beast Taming School to pay this hatred ten-fold, and no matter how long it will take, I will make sure to suppress the might of the Beast Taming School as long I''m alive!" Long Feng announce his grudge towards the Beast Taming School as he stares at Feng Hao with his red eyes. "Hahaha, suppress our Beast Taming School? You are still too far from that capability! Unless you could have strength equals to Honoured Elder Bai or Honoured Elder Yu Yuan, or else, continue to dream while the Beast Taming School continues to expand our horizon across this four other cities!" Feng Hao speaks his school intention loudly, as a seed is flicked into his mouth and cause him to choke for a moment. "Hao''Er, you talked too much." a voice came over from far away.This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. "Old Feng, why not you come to join us as well? Don''t be a freak like how others say!" Honoured Elder Bai invites this mysterious guest to come over for a cup of tea as well, but the reply he receives is far more unexpected. "I''m petting my beloved dragon, you and your tea can go to hell." this reply is heard by almost everyone in the Arena, and only one word could come into their mind. "Eccentric." "Hahaha, younger brother Long Feng, you can ignore this eccentric old man. He is the one that known as the Human Beast Late-King, Honoured Elder Feng Po. Unless you have something related to Cultivation Beast, or else, It would be harder to see him than to meet my master." Xie Yu Yan describes this person to Long Feng. After looking at the current situation, Nan Jing Jing too felt that she should be getting to Long Feng''s side, in case anything happens between. "We will leave." Feng Hao looked at Long Feng''s direction once again, before decided to leave the Arena. "two Honoured Elders, This young one with his subordinates had offended both elders in this matter, hopefully, Elders do not mind this immature kid''s word." Feng Hao politely excuses himself from the two elders as he ascends towards the sky once again. Followed by Yang Bu Hui, Qin Yang Yi and Ba Guo Yue, all of the uninvited guests finally leave the Arena quietly. "Xiao Zhan." Honoured Elder Bai called Elder Zhan''s name. "Yes, Elder Bai." Elder Zhan immediately replied. One can see how much respect is given by this Primary Elders towards this Honoured Elder Bai. "Continue with the prize giving and the opening of the Prosperity Realm Gate. Me and Old Yu Yuan will guard this place until we felt like leaving, so you all may continue with your thing." Elder Bai finished his words as he looked at Long Feng. "Little one, if the string of fate still remains strong between us, we will meet again after you come out from the Prosperity Realm. Just remember a word from this old man. When you are within the realm, do not do anything until you managed to eat a fruit that comes with a look like a human brain. That fruit is called as the [Wood Elves Treasure], once you ate it, you will know why." Honoured Elder Bai quietly whispers in a way that only Long Feng could hear, as he finished his words, Long Feng looked straight to Elder Bai''s eyes and politely bow towards the elder. Beginning with the top 100 students, each of them received a complimentary Spatial Ring to be used in their future, with a total of 50,000 sets of various ingredients is kept within for any usage. The next thing coming is a total of 10 different scrolls with Recipes within as its content. The quality of the Recipe depends totally on Luck, so nobody would have a word about this matter when it came to selection. The moment the ten scrolls floats in the air and flew in between of the ten finalists, one scroll came into their hand, allowing the next step of branding the scroll to allows it for the personal usage alone. Long Feng opened the seal as the branding is completed, and within the title, he could only see four words, as he read it and kept it within his Spatial Ring. [Dominance Assembly Yang Pill] Long Feng tried to understand the recipe within his hand but was disturbed next, because the next prize already had been completely rewarded to the two of them. Huang Ying is seen holding the [Turmoil Fruit] in her hand as her face turned pink due to happiness, while Chu Yi is petting the [Third Human Grade Cultivation Beast - Bronze Winged Lion] that was sitting by his side. Elder Zhan already standing next to Long Feng and awaits that kid to come back to his mind. "Elder Zhan, this youngster is daydreaming again, please forgive him." Long Feng apologize for him current action, as Elder Zhan only give him a smile in reply. "This is your first gift, a Ranked Category Recipe that was found by the elders when exploring a tomb. And this is your second gift, the [First Earth Grade Spirit Treasure - Earth Gravity Refining Flask]. Its usage you supposed to knows from our earlier explanation. And lastly, your third reward is this [Cracked Human Profound Treasure - Longevity Soil Ring]. Make sure you understand and treasure this Profound Treasure like your life." Elder Zhan passed all the rewards to Long Feng as he continues to speaks. "Kid, if you willing to listen to this elder''s empty words, then take note on what I will tell you next. I can see that your way of fighting and talent is far better than anyone else within this Arena, but I still want to advise you to focus more on your Battle Concoction arrangements. From the way you fight with the beast and later with the few brats, I can see that your overwhelming Martial Arts won''t go anyway further when you are within the Prosperity Realm." "This is why you will need to focus more on this Battle Concoction arrangements. With the help of this Longevity Soil Ring, you will be able to continuously increase your personal stash of valuable herbs. While on the method to properly cultivate those herbs, you will need to obtain those tricks yourself. And also, one last word from me, remember to harvest as much as you could in the Prosperity Realm, because half of the herb you will obtain there, is categorized as Spirit Herbs, something more precious than those Precious Herbs you could find in normal stores." Elder Zhan finally finishes his words, as those following ceremonies slowly came into the stage. But for those participants, this all no longer bear any attraction to them, because now is exactly the time they will be needed to consolidate their strength before the day to open the Prosperity Realm is coming in few days! Within the Prosperity Realm, contains many attractions because of their [Heavenly Fertilization] attributes, so harvesting a bountiful amount of herbs will be the main objective as they were inside the realm. The chances of meeting the {Prosperity Tribesmen] is rarely happened, but from the advice of those elders, it would be the best to not be too hostile towards them, because they are one of the major population within the Realm. Next, is those categorized as [Wooden Beast]. Bearing the similar appearance like a beast with Wood and leaves around them, the beast should be handled with care due to their aggressiveness when somebody entered their territory. Within the Prosperity Realm, the disciple is advice to vary with the difference in weather and natural occurrence as well, because in a realm lived by any kind of mortal, will not be able to escape from the heaven and earth''s tribulation and natural disaster. With all 100 top disciples is fully informed with this kind of information, they are allowed to return to their respective room arranged especially by the Silver Pill Hall until the day of opening the realm entrance begins. While in these few days of waiting, Long Feng''s day started to become even livelier, due to his newly found popularity! Book 1 Chapter 74 - First Seed for the Longevity Soil Ring. Within this three day in the morning, the door towards Long Feng''s personal room is blocked with a swarm of peoples from morning till night, due to the eagerness of everyone to meet personally with this Champion Disciple that managed to refined the legendary [Golden Jade Holy Pill]. But in response to all their wishful demand, Long Feng actually turned down all the visitors by stating that he will require some rest and closed door cultivation to recover from the mental stress due to the examination. In the Field of Pill Refining, almost a majority of people understands the heavy stress towards the body and mind of a Pill Master, especially when they were to concoct something special like a Ranked Category Pills. Added with the heavy stress in obtaining the Ingredients, Refining and Concocting before further finalizing the Firing Process, all the stress that was gathered from refining a single Pill could even force a Pill Master to rest for at least six months before he could recover to his optimal condition. But in reality, except Nan Jing Jing and Gou Yu, who else would even think that Long Feng actually not disturbed by such a stress at all! The reason he uses this reason to deter all the visitors is that he wishes to have a more stable and quiet life, not bothered by those from lower ranked cultivators to request for ridiculous demand while possessing not much wealth to afford it. Within the room, Long Feng withdraw two scrolls and place them before him, while he considers the option of choosing which recipe to start his studies. After hesitating for a short moment, Long Feng finally decided to choose the one on the left, also the one he received from being the top 10 disciples in the examination. The scroll exterior is filled with some kind of ancient letterings, while within the scroll, the content is written in a specific way. ========== Dominance Assembly Yang Pill Usage: Cultivation-7 / Healing-1 / Enhancement-1 / Poisoning-1 / Blessing-1 Ingredients: Third Human Grade Devil Horned Lion''s Essence Blood (Grade 3 Minimum) Third Human Grade Demon Serpent''s Essence Blood (Grade 3 Minimum) Third Human Grade Volcanic Ape''s Essence Blood (Grade 3 Minimum) Third Human Grade Venom Bee Queen''s Essence Blood (Grade 3 Minimum) Dominance Blue Grass (Grade 3) Dominance Green Grass (Grade 3) Dominance Red Grass (Grade 3) Dominance Yellow Grass (Grade 3) Fierce Yuan Yang Fruit (Grade 3 to 4) Brilliant Yuan Yang Fruit (Grade 3 to 4) Refining Methods: Upon nourishment on all ingredients, the extracted Blue Grass shall be mixed with Devil Horned Lion''s Essence Blood, along with Green Grass with Serpent''s Essence Blood, Red Grass with Ape''s Essence Blood, and lastly Yellow Grass with Bee Queen''s Essence Blood. Upon all four different mixture is completely refined without any impurities, they shall be injected into Fierce Yuan Yang Fruit to allow for slow flame maturing. Upon maturity, the burnt and emptied Fierce Yuan Yang Fruit will disintegrate into ashes, leaving only the matured concoction to remained with the Cauldron. Brilliant Yuan Yang Fruit shall be added by then, similar to the previous fruit''s procedure. The results from the final Firing will not affect the final results. The better the Brilliant Yuan Yang Fruit is used, the bigger the yield and the better its quality. Results: An average amount between 2 to 4 Pills is expected to be obtained from each single Refining Process. Refined product holds a slight healing effect due to the Brilliant Yuan Yang Fruit, a slight enhancement effect due to the Fierce Yuan Yang Fruit, a slight poison will disturb the cultivation because of the Serpent and Bee Queen''s Essence Blood natural venom, and slight Blessing because of the Lion and Ape''s Essence Blood that is believed to be holding some divinity luck within them. The final four grass is a natural ingredient that will cause an extreme increase in Cultivation speed. Recipe by: Saint Yang Hall Refined and studied by: None ========== "Worthy of being a recipe that handed out by the Silver Pill Hall! This Recipe is specially created for those that possess the strength to cultivate through Practitioner Realm, even its ingredient is extremely special, with the four main essence blood that could only be obtained from a Third Grade Cultivation Beast, with the rare Dominance four coloured Grass that only can be found in the deeper forest by luck. But the final two ingredients, that will need some time to look for it, since this two Fruit is hardly found within the Brilliant Jade Kingdom." Long Feng felt impressed with the content of the recipe, as he prepared to read the next one. But after a moment of hesitation, he decided to put this ranked category Pill Recipe away, and reserve it for next time. Long Feng withdraw his previous Recipe from his Spatial Inventory, as he just obtained a few kind of ingredients that should be complete enough for him to start refining this Pill. The moment he takes this recipe out again, a hint of worries came into his mind once again.If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. "Master, Xiao Feng is useless, I have yet to even obtained some news regarding your well-being." Long Feng''s tears start to fall from the corner of his eyes, as he had a hint of disappointment on himself, because of his weak cultivation. As the only disciple for Elder Tang Wen, currently, since he was no longer the representative for the Clear Jade City''s Bronze Pill Hall, the Virtue Hall that once belonged to Elder Tang Wen had been demolished as well, when Long Feng received all belonging gathered from the Virtue Hall sent to him into the Thunderburst Jade City. [Fireblast Tempering Pill] Long Feng looked at this Pill''s recipe as he starts to withdraw some ingredients out from the stash of 50,000 sets of mixed ingredients. Due to this is still an incomplete recipe, Long Feng withdraw a Grade 2 Fire Elemental Beast Blood, a Grade 2 Flaming Dragon Grass, a Grade 2 Fiery Cinnabar, a Grade 3 Flame Essence Mushroom, and a Grade 3 Harmonizing Nether Plant''s Extract from the ring as he started to nourish all the ingredients. "Although this is an estimated First Category Pill from Master, the quality of this Pill is still yet to be pushed to its highest limit. I should try it according to master''s initial recipe before making any changes." Long Feng does not dare to underestimate his master''s estimation and skill in refining the Pill as written in this Recipe, but from his experience, each single Pill Master have their own specialty and skills in refining, so one does not require to follow all the steps accordingly, if experience to refine the Pill is sufficient. He immediately starts to fire the cauldron to perfection, by using the [Cauldron Harnessing Art] he recently obtained from the Imaginary Realm. By starting it from the Three Flame Heating Stage, Long Feng take his time to slowly nourish the ingredients until the Cauldron finally obtained its Peak condition suitable for Pill Refining. The moment the Cauldron Howls, the sound is transferred towards the outside, and cause a slight ruckus because everyone at the entrance knows that this means Long Feng is started to Refine Pills again! Throwing in the Fire Elemental Beast Blood into the cauldron and start to refine away all its impurity, Long Feng took control on the Fiery Cinnabar as he uses his Essence Energy to slowly ground the Cinnabar into smooth powder form. Setting the powder away, Long Feng starts to Extract the Harmonizing Nether Plant''s Extract and managed to obtain a mouthful of extracts before the powdered Fiery Cinnabar is added into the extracts to form a Viscous Base concoction. Next, Long Feng extracted the Essence from the Flaming Dragon Grass, obtaining its red essence liquid as he mixes it together with the Purified Fire Elemental Beast Blood and the Base Concoction. The viscous Base concoction colour shifted from a hint of scarlet, into a deeper blood coloured concoction as it thickened. The mouthful of base concoction, after mixed with the essence from Flaming Dragon Grass and the Purified Blood, finally evaporated as it starting to become even thicker, but in the end of this Concoction Cooking Process, the thick viscous concoction finally became watery once again, after all the useless concoction liquid is evaporated from the mouthful of mixed concoction. For his final procedure, Long Feng prepared the Flame Essence Mushroom that had been nourish by him with Element Wood until now to be placed in the middle of the Pill Cauldron, as the finalized concoction finally injected into the mushroom to form the body of the Pill! Without any hesitation for his next step, Long Feng ignite his Fire Element into its Red Fire Stage and start to Fire the Cauldron until the Flame Essence Mushroom is burned to ashes. Out of his expectations, after the mushroom is injected by the finalized Mixed Concoction, the flame resistance of the mushroom actually gone into an even unbelievable state, allowing it to resist Long Feng''s Red Fire Stage for thirty minutes before it started to get burnt slowly. After another thirty minutes, Long Feng finally completely burnt the Flame Essence Mushroom into ashes, as the fragrance of the completed Pill started to came out from the cauldron. A brilliant red coloured lustre could be seen from the Pill Cauldron, as Long Feng opened the lid to collect the completed Pills. A total of four Middle-Rank Fireblast Tempering Pill is successfully refined, but none of the Pill has the quality to become a Category Ranked Pills. Long Feng felt a slight disappointment on his results, but since he knows that this is his first attempt, Long Feng relax slightly, before he exits the Mansion he was staying within for temporary and went over to get those visitors outside of his house for three days. "Ahem. Everyone, I beg your pardon." Long Feng opened his door as he starts to talks and obtained everyone attention. "For this three days, because of such disturbance from outside of the house, I''m actually failed to obtain the rest I am expecting. I tried to calm my mind by refining some Pills, but in the end, I could only manage to refined four Middle-Rank Fireblast Tempering Pill that is average for fire elemental cultivators." "If there is anyone who wishes to trade this Pill for some ingredients related to my needs, please remain, I will only make a deal with four people. Those that are not interested or within my request, please leave, before I am forced to have the staff from Bronze Pill Hall to take some action." Long Feng warns them on the consequences, and in that instant, almost all of them left the Mansion''s Entrance Gate, leaving only four people standing exactly before him. "Seems like the fate brings us five together today. Xiao Feng will be honest to everyone here, I am in need of some good quality materials, especially seed for plants that are good in fire and wood element properties." Long Feng state his needs. The four remaining visitors pondered for a while before one of them speaks. "Young Master Li, this humble one does possess a sprouting believed to be from the [Burning Cinnabar Tree]. I''ve obtained this sprouts during the time I ventured into the Volcanic Mountain Range and managed to get this in exchange for my life. I wonder would this be good enough to exchange for a Fireblast Tempering Pill from Young Master Li?" "Of course, this friend. You are being too kind to be willing to exchange such a good sprout for a mere Middle-Rank Fireblast Tempering Pill. Thank you first." Long Feng understands that no matter how good is this Fireblast Tempering Pill, it is still a middle-rank Pills. The amount of a Second-Grade Internal Flame Pill it could replace is roughly around 100 Pills at most. As he passed the Pill in exchange for the [Burning Cinnabar Tree] sprout, the other started to dig within their small Spatial Pouch as well. Waiting for them to take out their treasure, Long Feng inspect the sprout before he places it into his Longevity Soil Ring to allows it to slowly mature. Although the speed of the maturing might be slower than he could expect, in future time, Long Feng might be able to obtain some treasures that will be good enough to repair the cracked status within the ring, thus he has no worries about its performance for now. The sprout is also a quite valuable ingredient because, from a Matured Burning Cinnabar Tree, Long Feng could have a frequent harvest on three special material, the [Fiery Cinnabar], [Flame Essence Cinnabar Log]. And lastly, the [Flame Cinnabar Core Seed], where its quality could reach Grade 2 in its younger state, and maybe into grade 3 when it is fully matured. The next three failed to dig out any of the seed Long Feng is expecting, but they did exchange it for a few fire Element related herbs, so Long Feng goes along with the flow, as he finishes the transaction and returned to his mansion once again. Long Feng inject some essence into the Longevity Soil Ring once again and managed to temporary enters the Realm within. He slowly scanned the area, only to notice a vast but unused land that not nourished at all due to the cracked condition applied on the ring. At a far end of the unused land, a single sprout is seen planted within the soil, waiting to grow bigger. "Little Cinnabar Tree, do not worry, I will find a way to make sure you will be nourish and grow up." Long Feng talked to the seed as if it is sentient to listen to him. But for Long Feng, this is nothing much to be embarrassed about, as he will be entering the Prosperity Realm later where the resident of the realm is almost all belonged to the natural tree life. Even the Wooden Beast is believed to be spawned from trees within the realm. He went out from the realm soon after and started to look into the next treasure he obtained from the examination, the First Earth Grade Spirit Treasure - Earth Gravity Refining Flask. Since Elder Zhan did mention about the treasure could refine three different treasures, Long Feng prepared himself by refining a few Cultivation Pellets beforehand as he gets ready to have fun with his next treasure. Book 1 Chapter 75 - Money-Sucking Earth Gravity Refining Flask (Book 1 Ends) The moment the Earth Gravity Refining Flask is taken out from Long Feng''s Spatial Ring, he starts to slowly place the Cultivation Pellets close to the Flask''s beaker, a sudden absorption started to appears from within the flask, as the ten Cultivation Pellets within Long Feng''s hand vanished instantly. The Flask weight felt slightly heavier, but not to the rate that something could be poured out from within. Long Feng hesitates not, as he continues to withdraw another ten Pellets once more, and repeating the same action all over again. One more time, the Flask absorbed all the pellets, leaving nothing remains in his palm. "Damn Flask! You actually ate twenty Cultivation Pellets and vomit nothing out from your damn body!" Long Feng is slightly pissed with the Earth Gravity Refining Flask''s appetite, but since he already put in twenty of the Cultivation Pellets and he still has around 49,995 sets of ingredients within his ring, why not he continues? "I will see how greedy are you! Damn Flask!" Long Feng refine the Cultivation Pellet at one side while feeding the Flask as soon the pellets is refined. Forty sets of ingredients are used, a total of 400 Upper-Rank First Grade Cultivation Pellets is "Eaten" by the Flask. The next forty sets are totally consumed as well. One more time of forty sets. This continues until the fifth time, where Long Feng had already used a total of 200 sets of ingredients to feed the Flask, a total cost of 2020 Upper-Rank Cultivation Pellets! A Low-Rank Cultivation Pellets worth 50 Spirit Bronze Coins when sold to the shop, while Upper-Rank ones could fetch the price of 200 Spirit Bronze Coins when sold, the total of this Flask had already greedily consumed had already cost Long Feng a hefty price of 400,400 Spirit Bronze Coins. "I guess it is pointless to fight the amount of greed I have against the Earth Gravity Refining Flask." Long Feng sighed as he finally giving up on trying to take advantage on the Flask. Since he already trying halfway, why not complete it all and see what is so special about this product it would come out. Just like this, Long Feng spend a final total of 500 Sets of Ingredients, Leaving himself a total of 49,500 sets of ingredients is left within the Spatial Ring. After the Flask is being fed with a total of 5,000 Pills, it finally gives a reaction Long Feng awaits for so long, and a piece of Bead as big as an eyeball slowly rolls out from the body of the flask. "Is this the Earthen Clay Stone?" Long Feng pick the piece of a bead to have a slight inspection. Out of his expectation, this piece of single Bead actually contains the Earth Elemental Essence comparable to a thousand Earth Forming Pill. "Should I refine a Golden Jade Holy Pill to see if I could obtain the affinities towards one more kind of Element?" Long Feng remembered the fact he is holding a total of four Golden Jade Holy Pill in his hand. Since this matter is more important, Long Feng secretly head towards the Mansion Nan Jing Jing resides, as Long Feng invite her along to refine that Pill together. "Husband, do you have a choice for the remaining two Pills?" Nan Jing Jing asked. "I actually have no candidates to give this two remaining Pills to, but I felt like I should keep one for my Master, while another one as a backup. Do you have anyone you wished to gift this Pill to?" Long Feng answers her question as he asked one as well. "Well, I felt that I want to give one of the Pill to my father. From the moment mother had been taken away and the whole General''s Mansion had been demolished into rubbles, the father actually hates himself for being too weak. Although at the end of the day, an elder called as Yu-Hao came to open my father''s mind, I understand my father personality too well." "If father could have a hint of success in obtaining new affinities with another element, perhaps this will push his capability into even higher, forming a stronger inner cultivation base that allows him to learn the Heavenly Ascension School Arts even faster, so we could expect to save our mother earlier." Nan Jing Jing explains her current situation to Long Feng as an answer to his question. "If that''s the case, here, Jing Jing, two Pill for you and two Pill for me. You are free to give it to anyone you want." Long Feng decides this way of splitting the share would be the best for both of them. "Husband..." Nan Jing Jing felt like the tears in her eyes is going to fall from the corner, as she looks at how straightforward her husband could be. "What are you thinking? The Spatial Link Twin Grass Ring on our finger is already a confirmation regarding our relationship. Although we aren''t old enough to start thinking about too far, no matter what, we will be always together in this, and won''t be separated. Your worries are mine, while mine is the same for you." Listening to such a deep words coming out from Long Feng, Nan Jing Jing felt a slight relief as her mind started to say, "My husband finally able to consider things in much more clearer matter." the duo soon came out from the mansion, and walked together towards where Long Feng''s mansion is located, before the remaining eight finalist came out as well to meet each other for the first time, face to face. "Oh, looks like all the top ten participants are here. That''s great, I will speak this stuff out first. Everyone listen well, we from the Cloudy Jade City will make sure that we will be the biggest winner this time within the Thousand Herbal Garden." Zhang Pu and Chen Nan standing side by side, as Zhang Pu started to speak against the other eight. From their facial expression, it seems that he has some tricks behind him that causing him to have such a confidence.Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. "Zhang Pu, Chen Nan, you guys from the Cloudy Jade City had nothing much to be compared to us from the Xuan Wu Jade City, I will make sure that the death of fifteen of our Xuan Wu Jade City branch''s disciples will be claimed from you two." Yue Ying and Huang Ying opened their mouth and start speaking. From their tone, it seems like the Cloudy Jade City branch had suppressed the Xuan Wu Jade City''s disciples too much, even causing few of them to death before they were plundered until not a string of fabric remains. "Bring it on, we from Cloudy Jade City never hesitate when it came to women, especially you, Hahaha!" Zhang Pu stares at Huang Ying''s voluptuous chest that causes no man heads unturned as she walks pass, even when Nan Jing Jing heard about such comments couldn''t help but to take a look at Huang Ying''s beautifully proportion body that causes almost all men to drools about it. "You perverted freak!" Yue Ying stands in front of Huang Ying and wields her weapon, as Chen Nan speaks along. Lady Yue Ying, although you got nothing much to be compared with Huang Ying, from your fiery attitude, I have a hint of wanted to ravage you and tame you into a little docile kitten as well, how about this? If you do not mind to behave as I wanted, I will make sure to not popping your cherry before you are married to me as one of my concubines." Chen Nan''s word causes all the female within this ten person to feel disgusted. "Husband!" Nan Jing Jing looked at Long Feng as she turned around. Before her eyes, Long Feng is standing straight with his sword on one side as he walked slowly towards the two from Cloudy Jade City, but then, a figure appears before the ten. "Hold your steps. Each respective City''s participant will require going to your own gathering point because the opening to the garden will soon be starting. You are not allowed to solve any of your problem within this twenty mansion area, so keep your weapons and start moving!" an elder appears and started to pass on the messages before he left. "Hahaha, I guess we could only settle thing within the Thousand Herbal Garden, I wonder how would you fare, this year''s champion!" Chen Nan and Zhang Pu turned around and leaves, followed by those from Clear Jade City, Jade Ginseng City and lastly Xuan Wu Jade City along with Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing from Thunderburst Jade City. The remaining 90 participants follow the ten behind, as they went over towards their respective gathering point. The Gate for Thunderburst Jade City''s disciple to enter is actually required the group to walk pass the Tower of Knowledge, as Long Feng move towards the Great Elder Ao Luo as he greets the elder before he left. In the same time, Long Feng passed the piece of Earthen Clay Stone Bead to the elder as his gratitude for being taught by the elder for a short period of time, as well for the gratitude of being gifted with five Elemental Soul Crystal. "Humph seems like this kid is growing up quite well." Great Elder Ao Luo is impressed with Long Feng''s recent feat, as well in his recently obtained fame within the five Cities Bronze Pill Hall Branches. The group continues with their journey until they finally reach a mountain cave, with an entrance about three meters wide and seven meters in height. "Why would the Cave entrance required to be such a massive size? Is there anything unexpected happened before?" Long Feng questioned himself as he saw the size of the entrance. "Alright, all disciple from the Thunderburst Jade City. You may discuss your plan upon entry, as well your arrangement in order. But remember, as you entered the Thousand Herbal Garden, you will be transported to a random location. So as your first task is to be safe and try to not come into arguments with other branch disciples. You all should already know, that half of your harvest within the Thousand Herbal Garden should be allocated towards your respective Pill Hall, with the exception from the top ten finalists." "You will all keep one of this Inscription Charm in your possession. If you even came into dangerous situation, tear the charm so you would be transported out from the realm instantly. Remember, there will not only be Sentient Beings within the Prosperity Tribe, there will be Wooden Beast within the realm as you explore, so make sure you will enter in a piece and came out in the same way." "That is all I want to say, Be safe and good luck, after you get your arrangement done, you will be started to enter the opening gate one by one, and after seven days in our realm, you will be forcefully sent out from the realm. Remember it well!" the elder finished his explanation as he throws an odd shape key towards the entrance, a few circle of magical inscriptions started to form the odd shape key as the centre, and soon, after the inscription circle is completed, a spiralling gate is opened, allowing only one person to enter the gate at one time. "Brother Long Feng, Sister Jing Jing, please go first, and help make the Thunderburst jade City obtain the first place in the total treasure gathered as well, please!" a total of 19 disciples stands behind Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing, indicating that this time, a total of twenty-one disciples managed to enter the top 100 position, which means that there will be a higher chances of this branch will obtain quite a good results as the Realm opening periods end. "Alright, I will go first, Jing Jing, be very careful on your way, and if we managed to communicate within the realm, let us quickly gather together with other disciples, alright?" Long Feng looked at Nan Jing Jing before he walked towards the entrance. The moment he steps into the Spiral Entrance, Long Feng felt that he had been transported into a colourful passage, and as he opened his eyes next, a vast scenery filled with trees and plantations is revealed in front of him, giving him a totally overwhelmed impression. "Is this the rumoured Prosperity Realm? This is totally unbelievable!" Long Feng couldn''t believe his eyes on what he was seeing at the moment, because no matter how hard he tried to look around, all he could see is forest and forest, with some moving things in between the trees and others. The whole area is surrounded with greeneries, and without wasting his precious time, Long Feng began to take his first step of journey with this Prosperity Realm. End of Book 1 Book 2 Chapter 76 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Sun 1 Prosperity Realm. In compare with the Realm where Long Feng came from, this realm only contains a single Continent, called as Continent of Mu. The Continent of Mu held a total land comparable to the Brilliant Jade Kingdom, with roughly around Five Million Square Mile. The continent shaped almost like a [?/Wood], with a total of six different edges of the continent strikes deeper into the vast sea. As for how it got the name, is because this continent is covered by about 85% in dense vegetation, while another 15% in Peak Mountain and some smaller sized Lake within the middle of the continent. The location Long Feng is currently transported into is at the corner between South Eastern Edge and Southern Edge. This part of the continent is also known as the Foundation Woods. Within this part called Foundation Woods, the vegetation surrounding this part are much more gentle compared to the other part, due to its kinder nature towards any other sentient beings. But in exchange of such calmness, the Wooden Beast is much more ferocious and deadly in comparison, due to the lack of obstacles in between during any clashes. Long Feng start his journey by walking towards where the sun is moving, as the possibility of obtaining a further direction will come soon afterwards. One of his most important concern, for now, is to obtain the mean to calculate his current time, as well his direction before anything else. He carried the advice from Honoured Elder Bai seriously as well, and because of this matter, Long Feng preferred to went on his search for this Brain Looking Fruit called [Wood Elves Treasure] before anything else. Along with his journey, the attraction around his way is a plenty, where treasured herb in their Fine Grade is commonly seen as he walks past the shrubs and bushes along his way. Long Feng tried to conduct his searching from the wider opened path before he enters deeper into the forest, in case of any unexpected incident would occur during his thorough searching. Not too long after, Long Feng stopped before a massive looking tree with almost its roots is totally above the ground. The way this Massive Tree grows is almost like a representative of this gentle looking forest. Its body to trunks and roots is smooth all the way, without a hint of any rotten leaves or skins along the way, and it leaves covered the whole area greatly from being shined by the raging sunlight above Long Feng''s head. "This Giant Tree is bearing and extremely overwhelming presence, but within that presence, a hint of kindness and protection could be felt." Long Feng hesitates to walk deeper into its shade, not because of a suspicion of danger, but due to his appreciation towards life. Long Feng kneeled on one knee on the ground as he looked at those young growing sprouts that were being covered and protected by the Giant Tree. "This Giant Tree is not only using its body to defend against the deadly sunlight towards the soil, it even behaves as a guardian towards those younglings on the ground, and tried to gave them a future to look forwards. Long Feng is impressed." Long Feng cupped his palm together, as he moves few steps backwards and turned around for another direction. "Fush!" a piece of tree bark is shot straight two steps before Long Feng, and neatly stands on the ground and awaits Long Feng to pick it up. "This Giant Tree, if this piece of blessing is in exchange for this little one''s appreciation, this little one will not hesitate to accept it, Thank you!" Long Feng bowed at the tree once again, as he picks up the piece of tree bark, and inject a slight Essence Energy into the piece of bark. Within the bark, a vision of how he should continue to travel from that direction until he could notice an opened grassland that is well blessed with plenty of Spirit Herbs. Long Feng looked at the Giant Tree once again, and finally understands why would Honoured Elder Bai advise Long Feng to not doing anything before he found the [Wood Elves Treasure]. Long Feng follows the guide map within his mind as he travels, and about a kilometre before he reached the grassland, Long Feng managed to notice a very special Spirit Plant that used to indicates the time in the Continent of Yan. "This is the Yang Yue Bloom! But this bloom is much more special compared to those found in Continent of Yan!" Long Feng is looking straight on a Plant with a total of 14 stalks of fruits. Each time a Sunrise, a Yang Fruit will rise from the leaves and starts to absorb enough nutrients to grow into a fine Ingredient used to refine some medicinal Pills. In the same way, when the moon rises, a Yue Fruit will rise instead. In the Continent of Yan, only two stalks of fruit are usually seen. In the total time of 15 days under sunlight and 15 nights under moonlight, only the two fruits will be matured before they both will be combined with each other to form a [Yang Yue Fruit]. This final fruit is known to be profound ingredients to refine the [Yang Yue Recovery Pill], a well-known medicine to balance and recover the losses of Yin or Yang Energy. Since this Yang Yue Plant contains a total of 14 stalks of fruit, this indicates the total Sun and Moon Lapsing time within this realm in a single day. If the sun and moon took 12 hours of shift each time they rise and fall, a single day in this prosperity realm would equal to 168 hours or a total of seven days and seven nights. With such a long timespan between each single day, Long Feng will need to maintain his stamina greatly without over exhaust himself. "Luckily I found this plant earlier before I spend all of my time hunting for treasures and beast. If I failed to notice this fact, perhaps when I am energetic, I would be the Lord, but when I''m finally tired and the day is still bright, I will end up become the food for those plants and Wooden Beast before I could even regret." Long Feng gave himself a praise to not being too rash on his actions, and have no needs to end up with any disadvantages before he finally found out the condition within this realm.A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. He finally continues to walk as he getting close to the opened grassland. The moment he exits the forest, three Wooden Beast finally makes their appearance before Long Feng, as they finally able to felt a hint of life source unfamiliar to them. "Wooo..." one of the Wooden Beast make a soft howl against the other two. The two retreats after it heard the howl, and for Long Feng, this is totally different from what he was expecting. "Did the soft howls means something like [I will handle him myself, you both go away?]" Long Feng thinks as he withdraws his sword to prepare to fight with that Wooden Beast. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A female figure could be seen escaping from a few pursuer as she tried her best to run away from this situation. "I would never think that the tree that looked like full of fruits is actually a hive for those Wooden Beast." Nan Jing Jing regretting her decision to try and harvest the fruit due to her curiosity. She had actually stumble across the Wooden Beat Hive known as the Scarlet Wood Fruit Insect, a school of insects that always imitates a tree full of fruits as big as hanging watermelons to attract some bad lucked passerby before they attack. Nan Jing Jing did try to resist their advancing before she started to escape, but no matter how hard she found while using the specialty of her Qian Kun Soul Wheel, the opponent remain uninjured no matter how much Essence Energy she put inside the Soul Wheel to attack, which is believed to be able to cut its opponent into half almost every single time. "What is those Insects is made off, even my Qian Kun Soul Wheel actually got reflected back instead of chopping them into two. Their defensive strength is pretty high, If I couldn''t get a way to escape this condition, I will end up with being forced to tear that piece of charm." Nan Jing Jing doesn''t wish to give up as she continues to escape as far as she could. "Wooowo!" a soft flute voice could be heard as those insects finally decided to retreat. Nan Jing Jing is shocked with the sudden changes, as she turned around to looks at how disorganized is those Insect is retreating. "Please tell me I am not escaping from the Wolves Den and entered the Tiger''s cave!" she turned around and look ahead, only to saw a total of two figures with woods and vines on their body, as they stand tall with a weapon strapped on their back. In that instant, Nan Jing Jing could only have a single word in her mind as she considers her next option. "Prosperity Tribe!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Red Fire Stage Foundation, Fire Element wrapped Fire Lizard Pill!" Long Feng turned around and flick a Pill covered with the red Flame towards the Wooden Beast with the features of a huge hound with plenty of vines, leaves and rotten fruits attached on its body. The body of this beast released a foul smell, something that totally turning Long Feng off from continuing to fight the beast. As the Fire Lizard Pill made its contact with the Wooden Beast, known as the Rotten Wood Hound Beast. This Rotten Hound carried a lethal poison that could cause their opponent to hallucinated, but towards Long Feng who fight through the help of Fire Lizard Pill and Fire Element, the bane of its kind, the Rotten Hound ends up having no choice but to obediently retreated from the fight soon after the Fire Lizard Pill burns almost all the rotten substance on its body. But the moment the Rotten Hound turned around and tried to run away, a spear made from some Bamboo kind of woods pierce the head of the hound directly, leaving that Wooden Beast lied on the floor without any remaining lives. The moment its head is pierced, a piece of brown coloured crystal bead fall off from its head, as it was picked up by a figure standing twice the height compared to Long Feng. "Is this the Prosperity Tribe people those elder mentioned? They are humongous! And the strength of this guy actually reaches Peak of Adept Realm Cultivation!" Long Feng couldn''t believe his eyes as he was looking at the figure twice his height, with strong body appearance which made him looked like a War God that recently descend from the heaven. "Woo, Wowowo, Wood!" the figure from the Prosperity Tribe tried to communicate with Long Feng but unfortunately, Long Feng has no method to continue to speaks with him. He could only shake his head as the figure tried to patiently speak to him. The next moment, since Long Feng did not make any action of continuing to speaks, the Figure move his hand on Long Feng''s body as it grabbed the piece of tree bark is taken from his body. "Hey you, what is the meaning of this?" Long Feng is slightly angered with the impolite attitude of that figure. But he controlled his temper as he sees the figure is staring blindly at the piece of tree bark. "Wo, Wowo, Wuuuo!" the figure pointed in a direction as if it was guiding Long Feng to go over to that part. It implants a single string of memories as well before it returns the piece of tree bark to Long Feng and leaves away after retrieving its Spear and ate the piece of Brown Crystal Bead. "Seems like this thing wants me to head towards that direction. I wonder could it be that the [Wood Elves Treasure] is located." Long Feng actually guessed correctly, but unknown to himself, he continues to head towards where they fruit is growing. While at the same time, as the figure from Prosperity Tribe finally gathered together, they started to communicate with each other. [Tulumu, what do you think about that kid?] another figure started the conversation. [Tuluwo, I think this human is quite good, from the piece of stone I''ve taken, he pay no attention to obtaining it, he might be one of those kind souls that come over to help us.] the one that meets with Long Feng, called Tulumu says. [Woo! Do not think that all humans are this good. Last time when the human came into our home and make us thinks that they are helpful, didn''t you see what happened? Ten of our tribesmen is taken forcefully from home and now even their lives are unknown to us.] Tuluwo says angrily as it swipes its hand full of tough roots on Tulumu''s face. [What did you do with that piece of Papyrus the Saint Tree gave to him?] Tuluwo questioned while looking at Tulumu angrily. [I injected a hint of where the Treasure Fruit is located, I was wondering that is he was looking for that fruit.] Tulumu answered, but the moment this answer is heard by Tuluwo, his anger immediately explodes. Without hesitation, he expands the roots on his hand and started to lift Tulumu up on his neck, and started to torture it. [Wowowo!] Tulumu howls softly as if that kind of root is slowly seeping its lives away as Tulumu''s body started to wither in an incredible speed. [Stupid descendant! If that fruit is taken by those vicious humans, they will know our language and could easily plan to take all of us as he like! Don''t you know that the fruit is for the awakening ceremonies for those Adult Tribesmen!] Tuluwo toss away Tulumu''s body aside, as he angrily walks away. [Useless descendant that inherit nothing from the Tree of Memories.] [Mother Gaia, is Tulumu really wrong?] Tulumu touched its forehead on a tree as he speaks with the mother earth. [No, my child. Each and every human is different, it is the same to you all. You are my child, but you all possess your own mind, thinking, and beliefs. Mother will not blame you for anything happens. As long as my child could understand the lives you are in now, Mother will be satisfied.] a voice could be heard within Tulumu''s head, as he stands up and quickly runs over to where he just pointed for Long Feng to follows. Book 2 Chapter 77 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Sun 2. "I feel that the Tribesman actually inject something within this tree bark." Long Feng felt slightly suspicious on the Figure''s recent action when he read the tree bark''s content, before Long Feng sense a hint of conscience is placed into the tree bark. Unknown to himself, this tree bark is actually something from a Saint Tree, which is counted as a valuable treasure that only could be given by those accepted by the Saint Tree as Kindred Souls. This treasure allows the owner to record and transfer any visual messages into the so-called Saint Papyrus, a Visual Message recording treasure. Long Feng inject some essence energy into the tree bark once again, and immediately noticed the additional information that just been recorded by the Prosperity Tribe figure a while back. Long Feng move his attention on that visual records, and finally found out the exact location of where is this [Wood Elves Treasure] is actually located. "It is actually just close to my location about five hundred metres!" Long Feng tense expression became lighter as his target finally is located. Without wasting anytime, he quickly proceeds towards that spot in haste, worrying that the [Wood Elves Treasure] might be taken away by someone else. Just within five minutes, Long Feng finally appears before a kind of large trunk tree with at least ten to twenty thick vines dropped from its heavily leafy top. "This tree gave me a sense of danger, it must be either a protector or the fruit producer." Long Feng carefully get closer to the tree while taking caution on his surrounding. The next moment, one of the thick vines finally unable to control its rage any longer, as it charges over towards Long Feng''s direction like a whip with thorns. "As expected!" Long Feng defend himself with the Defensive Wu Sword Art. A net of Thorny Vines against a Ball of Steel made with swords. The thick vine slowly being cut off bit by bit, but granted with its high regeneration speed, the thick vine continues to tighten as Long Feng''s Sword Ball quickly shrink from two meters length into barely one meter. Feeling that he will no longer hold any advantages, Long Feng wrapped his Red Fire Stage Foundation on his Qian Kun Sword as he stabbed towards the vine''s thick body. "Arr!!" the vine quickly get engulf into flames like a bottle of alcohol made its contact with the blazing fire. The thick vine quickly burns until it turned into ashes, as the remaining twenty or so thorny vines started to make its move. Surrounded by the thick vines net all over again, Long Feng began to get more offensive compared to a while ago. "Try this new move of mine!" Long Feng position himself as he slowly chants the scriptures within the depth of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect Martial Arts. Be proud of your appearance, Be proud with your glory, Once the Xuan Wu make its appearance, Once the world shakes in fury, Each Step of the Xuan represents Offense, Each growl of the Wu represents Defence, Understanding Xuan and Understanding Wu, Only to understand the Divination of Wu, Attain the Heavenly body before your arise, And make your appearance when the sun rise. "Proud of my appearance, Proud on my newly founded glory, the moment Xuan Wu made it appearance, the whole world will shake in my fury. Each Xuan represents Offense, and each Wu represents Defence!" Long Feng repeatedly chants the content without fail, and the more he chants, the more his each single movement appears to have the remnants of the Mighty Xuan Wu Tortoise! "Roar!" Long Feng screams loudly as his sword began to turn into a shape of the claw as it strikes towards the ground! The single limb, formed from Essence Energy began to quickly spread along to his another hand, allowing the idle hand without any weapon to possess 1/100,000 of the overall strength of the Mighty Xuan Wu. Just like this, Long Feng''s both hand has begun to act like a twin claws that allows him to easily tear off the net formed by those vines. Even if they are viciously covered with thorns all along the body, but under the Essence Energy formed a pair of claws, nothing else has the qualification to object its immense presence. [Limbs of Xuan Wu] Finally, the tree full of vines had been totally defeated by Long Feng''s might, as the remaining vines slowly fall to the ground like a broken octopus tentacles. The moment the last vine falls, the leafy top of the tree slowly unveil the treasure well hidden within, and without any objection, the [Wood Elves Treasure] finally appeared before Long Feng''s eyes. Long Feng slowly walks toward the spot where the Brain Shaped fruit is hanging down from the tree, and put some pressure on his hand as he plucks it. The moment he harvests the only fruit on the tree, all the remaining leaves started to fall, as the stalk of a branch that holding the fruit starts to wither. The withering continues as it goes to the trunk, and soon on the body, and immediately into its roots, until the whole tree withered and blown away as dust scattered among the air.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. "This sudden changes happened too quick. Did I actually do something I shouldn''t have?" Long Feng slightly worried about his action may cause some uncertainty within this realm. But as a figure quickly appears before him, Long Feng worries had all dissipated. The figure turned around after it gave a bow towards where the tree is rooted previously and turned around as it looked at Long Feng. Facing him directly, the figure revealed to be Tulumu, as it showing Long Feng the action of "Eat the fruit" continuously. Long Feng stared at the piece of fruit for a moment, as he hesitates, but since Tulumu doesn''t seem to have any suspicious presence around him, Long Feng felt that he should trust this tribesman for a moment. He had a bite on that piece of fruit, and because of its flavour is totally mesmerizing, Long Feng finished the fruit unconsciously. Just the moment he finished that seedless fruit, a surge of well-kept memories started to flows into Long Feng''s mind without any hint of stopping midway. ---------- This is the realm I wasted almost my whole life to create. The first Millennia used to create the sea that flourished with essence, and the second Millennia are used to properly create the continent. The moment the Continent is created, I named it as the Continent of Mu, according to my name. In the third Millennia, I spend almost all of my effort in creating the life within, whom I called the Prosperity Tribe, in hope that they could live happily and prosper throughout the realm is still alive. Unfortunately, I am still yet to achieve the attainment of exceeding Immortality, so, I still carry the resentment of life within my heart. Due to this resentment, the Wooden Beast is born as well, along with the Prosperity Tribe. In order to allow the Prosperity Tribe, my bloodline to continue to prosper, I spent the final fourth Millennia of my life to create a rule that each of them will carry forever, which is immortality of life. Although I am yet to achieve the stage of Exceeding Immortality, through this kind of Rules, I could allow them to prosper accordingly. But in return, they will be reborn again and again, shackled by this rules. But at the same time, it is unfortunate, because by shackling my own bloodline with such rules against the will of the Heaven, the Wooden Beast too obtained the similarity of rules in their own way. My Shackle is called as the [Fruit of Life Mantra], which allows each of my dead descendant to be reborn into a totally new body, as long the memories is thoroughly combined into one. Their memories from before will remain in the new body, and no matter how much in the life they have to walk through, they will be immortal forever. The only downfall from this matter is that the amount of sentient descendant I could create is limited, so as long this realm managed to obtained more and more memories into this realm, the number of Sentient Descendant of mine will increase as well. But at the same time, the Wooden Beast obtained the shackle called as [Curse of Fruit Mantra]. This mantra is strong and in the same time, deadly. But no matter what kind of deadliness it could carry within the Mantra, there is one positive benefit my Bloodline could be obtained from this. As the Yin couldn''t survive without Yang, it is the same for the side of Yang. As the Wooden Beast is subdued and eliminated, a kind of Brown Crystal Bead could be obtained from them, which could further strengthen my descendant''s cultivation. Unfortunately again, that''s all the benefit my bloodline could get, in exchange for the extremely flourishing growth of the Wooden Beast kinds. Perhaps, this is the result of my action in trying to preserve my bloodline as long as I could. But at the same time, this Realm I created, will extremely benefit for those from my origin as well. In the return of their life they gave into this realm, I gave them the benefits in the term of Spirit Herbs. As long the vegetation is able to grow in any soil, it will have no problem to grow within this realm. This Continent of Mu contain seven different section, and within each edge of the continent, a part of my life bound spirit treasure is being sealed within, to those who are fated to inherit it. The moment you obtains this [Wood Elves Treasure] formed from my blood, it is the form of indication that you are one of the fated one to inherit my life. I hope with this inheritance, you could help my descendant to prosper, and protect them from any ill will that may corrupt them. I am Mu Dou, also known as the Heavenly Chariot God. ---------- With all the memories of inheritance finally entered and accepted by Long Feng''s mind, he finally awoke from his long slumber. Although it is only about ten hours had passed, but the Second Sun had already come out about 10 hours ago, which means Long Feng had already fallen unconscious for around 10 hours or more. Beside him, the Figure from Prosperity Tribe passed a cone of water from a firm cone shape leaf, as he looked at Long Feng patiently. [Are you awake now? Can you speak?] Tulumu speaks in his own native tongue. [I can actually understand your words] Long Feng replied in the similar native tongue as well. Even more shocking, it felt like a language he was speaking throughout his life because the fluency of his speech actually felt so natural that he does it without any prior consideration. Looking at his reply, Tulumu finally gave out a smile, because he finally managed to communicate with Long Feng at last. [I''m Tulumu, a young born descendant age two thousand years.] Tulumu introduced himself as he looked at this new inheritor. [I''m Long Feng, I guess we finally could communicate. Could you tell me where is this place we are at now?] Long Feng introduce himself as he tried to get a rough location he is within currently. But as he had the feeling of knowing his current location, a kind of echolocation happened within his mind, as a geology map of his surrounding with beings along his path appears immediately. [Friend Feng, from your face, I think you just obtained the special traits of our peoples too. Don''t you feel amazed with this?] Tulumu smiles as he speaks. Soon he continued. [Friend Feng, Tulumu actually have a request that maybe friend Feng could help. This Tulumu actually has memories regarding a very special kind of food that was made from the previous visitor long time ago, but because we have no such knowledge, we couldn''t make it. Do you think that you could do us a favour to try creating it?] [Can friend Tulumu shows me the food?] Long Feng felt a slight hesitation, but since Tulumu had already asked in a very polite way, he felt that it would be very impolite to reject such a request. But the moment Tulumu reveals three kinds of Pills within his chest, Long Feng''s sight turned from worries into happiness. It is actually the Wood Fragrant Pill that used to Temper the Wood Element Foundation, the Wild Pill, which is the antidote for the Golden Crippling Powder, and lastly, the Calming Spirit Dew Pellet, a medicinal Pill that could help in reducing cultivation stress and backlash when cultivating. [Friend Tulumu, I have no problem to create this three "Foods" you mentioned, about, but in my world, we called it as Medicinal Pills.] Long Feng smiles as he answered Tulumu. Listening to his reply, Tulumu''s reaction immediately changed as he started to wriggle around with all the roots within his back started to pop up in happiness. Without any delay, Long Feng withdraws his White Stone Pill Cauldron as he began to refine some of the Pills Tulumu asked. Within one hour, Long Feng had already completed a total of four sets of each kind of ingredients, with a total of 49,488 sets of ingredients still remained in his Spatial Ring. [Friend Tulumu, please take this as a gift for now.] Long Feng passed a total of 120 mixtures of different grade Wood Fragrant Pill, Wild Pill and Calming Spirit Dew Pellet to Tulumu. As it received the 120 Pills in hand, Tulumu, who have no restrictions in their personality, immediately swallowed all the Pill in one shot, as its body started to refine all the Pills as it went through it''s weird looking, wooden body. Unknown that it is either the might of the Pill or the quick absorption rate of the Prosperity Tribesmen, Tulumu''s strength instantly increased from Peak of Adept Realm into Middle Human Practitioner Realm within a blink of eyes, as if it had been charged with steroids. even its body became even more scarlet in colour, and those mixtures of grasses and leaves on his back actually turned into even more light lustre grasses. [Friend Feng, you had really helped me in this matter. This way, our tribe will have some way out when the Wooden Beast storm come in another four more suns!] Tulumu''s word immediately gave Long Feng a slight shock, because this serene looking Continent might not be as peaceful as he seen. Book 2 Chapter 78 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Sun 3 (Upper Part) [Friend Tulumu, what do you means by there will be a Wooden Beast Storm coming in four more suns?] Long Feng couldn''t help but asked, although the inheritance does contain a large amount of information and history regarding this Continent''s creation and also some of its legacies, but this doesn''t mean that Long Feng is well informed and guided in the path of how the Prosperity Tribesmen live their life. After all, no matter how detail is the [Wood Elves Treasure] memories are kept within the fruit, it is still a projected, made after kind of inheritance record that was expected to be given to those that qualified to obtain those memories. [Friend Feng, the Wooden Beast Storm comes every seventh Sun and every Seventh Moons each day. That is their most flourishing day where each single Nests, Hives, Burrows, Dens, Lairs and Roost will have a seven times breeding capacity, which is why we called it the Wooden Beast Storm. Each time when this seventh Suns and Moons came, our losses is extremely humongous. In the previous few times, their number of the population began to increase about double of what they have now, so sooner or later, we will be exterminated by this Wooden Beast.] Tulumu shares the information with Long Feng since he is still new in this situation. But no matter what, this is a very serious matter, as this Wooden Beast Storm may cause trouble towards the other 100 disciples scattered across this continent as well. "Since the total number of days they will be on this Continent is seven days, this means they will be meeting this kind of attack a total of 14 times. If they were caught unprepared, perhaps there will be around half of the disciples will meet their end, while another portion of them will be forced to tear their charm to escape from this realm. If in this case, what I will need to do is to make sure Jing Jing, Gou Yu, and those disciples I managed to run across is informed with such issue, so they could prepare themselves." Long Feng considered some safety precaution as he circling the cave again and again. Just on that moment, a few black dots happened to appears within his Geology Map and is seen moving fast into their current location. [Friend Feng! There is a few Wooden Beast managed to caught our presence, we need to decide fast, either fight or escape! Their speed is very quick, they must be the Shadow Wood Leopard Beast!] Tulumu formed his spear from those roots on his body, as he holds it in his hand and prepares to exits the cave. Long Feng too, quickly followed behind. [Friend Tulumu, let us escape slightly far from this cave before be begun to fight, is there any other we needed to be concern about?] Long Feng came out with a temporary solution as he tried to see if he missed anything within the Geology Map. [There is another visitor at our Down Left direction, about five hundred trees away. From the presence this person gave, he seems to be killing a lot of Wooden Beast along his way here.] Tulumu shared what he managed to scans from his own Geology Map. [If that''s the case, we will escape to the opposite direction!] Long Feng take the initiative of his first step, as he quickly escapes from the spot together with Tulumu following behind him. Just after a few minutes, four Shadow Wood Leopard Beast appears at the same spot as it sniffs the smells that lingering around the area, and soon after a howl, three Wooden Beast charge towards Long Feng''s direction, while another is charging over towards the lone disciple. The Shadow Wood Leopard Beast is known as the ninth fastest among the ten fastest Wooden Beast. With the speed of almost four trees a step, the three Shadow Wood Leopard Beast quickly caught up with Long Feng duo, as it begun to strike. [Friend Feng, be careful with their tail, it may seem not dangerous, but there is some hidden poison within the tail!] Tulumu explains the way to fight the Wooden Beast as it lures away two of the leopard because his strength is slightly stronger. Long Feng understands his own advantageous when he fights in this Realm, because of the previous experience as he fought with the Rotten Hound Wood Beast and the Elves Vines Protector Tree before. Since this Realm''s opponent all seems to be afraid of fire, Long Feng''s Red Fire Stage Foundation managed to create a strong advantage as he found within this realm! With the Red Fire Stage Foundation strength is totally covering the Qian Kun Sword, Long Feng fought directly with the remaining Shadow Wood Leopard Beast. But even in an advantaged situation, doesn''t mean that Long Feng''s victory could be easily achieved. The fight quickly starts as the two began to fight with each other. Evenly match, Long Feng could overtake the advantageous position from the leopard for a moment, but in term of strength and speed, the leopard managed to reduce its disadvantages, causing Long Feng to felt slightly pressured with such opponent. Since Long Feng''s weapon is only a single Sword, which is not too suitable for a close range raw strength kind of fight, he finally decided to kept his Qian Kun Sword aside, before Long Feng came out with the Triple Impact Jade Bow. "You must think that I am already out of a weapon, you shitty cat!" Long Feng draws the string of his bows as he places in some of the Essence Energy within to activate its third effect, the Sealing condition. Aiming directly at his target, the arrow is launched. And as expected, the first arrow is a miss, since Long Feng has no training at all on how to properly use a bow as his initial weapon. But one thing Long Feng is strong at is his persistence in achieving his objective. Since one arrow is hardly able to hit the target, how about three? Long Feng inject his Essence Energy into the bow to create three arrows as he shot the arrow continuously. Finally one of the arrow hits its target, causing a sealing ground to appears on the ground without notice.Stolen novel; please report. The obstructed Shadow Wood Leopard Beast howls in anger, but no longer have any choice to retaliate, as the [Limbs of Xuan Wu] already appears before it and smash the whole cat into a pile of rotten compost. All it remains is a piece of Brown Crystal Bead that emitting a good source of energy within. The bead is collected by Long Feng as he walked over to where Tulumu is fighting, and like a notice of danger, Long Feng''s Geology Map happened to have about three to four slower Wooden Beast is coming near to their current spot. [Friend Feng, escape. that slower one is most probably either the Rotten Hound Wood Beast or the Ferocious Wood Ape Beast, although their speed is slower, but if their number is kept on increasing, we will be exhausted quickly before we can escape from their territories.] Tulumu advise Long Feng to escape without him because even if Tulumu is dead, he will be still reborn from the protection of the Saint Tree. The only difference is will his memories will be totally in one piece, or will it be scattered into few different new entity. [Friend Tulumu, you won''t be staying here, follow me and escape!] Long Feng quickly charge over towards where Tulumu is fighting as his pair of claws quickly change the tide of the battle. Under Long Feng''s assistance, Tulumu easily disposes the two Shadow Wood Leopard Beast as they quickly retreated from the fighting zone. The two quickly move and exits the danger area after running for another thousand Trees Distance. Tulumu slowly leads the way, as the two quickly managed to enter a safe area that is also known as the Prosperity Habitat. Within this habitat, a friendly ecosystem could be seen within the Prosperity Tribesmen with nature, as their quarters is totally created within those giant trees, but not as special as the Saint Tree Long Feng met during his first Day First Sun period. Within the habitat, Long Feng could spot a few heavily injured disciples lying on the ground under the care of the Prosperity Tribesmen, while another few dead body could be seen. Among the four bodies, one of them belonged to the Thunderburst Jade City branch disciple, while none of them from the same city could be seen from the heavily injured side. Long Feng followed Tulumu along his way until they entered a room located on the second floor. But as the two entered the room, Long Feng finally noticed that this is not Tulumu''s room but it belonged to someone else. [Tulumu! Why did you bring this visitor here?] the one within the room, Tuluwo, angrily questions. But as Long Feng sees how hot-tempered is this person in the room, he immediately remembered his elder brother Lang Ya. "He is the same as brother Lang Ya, straight but within his presence, only totally goodness could be felt." [I am Long Feng, this Friend, please do not be unhappy with Tulumu''s current kindness.] Long Feng cupped his palm together as he speaks. [Oh! This visitor had already received the blessing from our ancestor! What did our ancestor say?] Tuluwo immediately changed his way of looking at Long Feng as he starts to speak. [The ancestor wished that people like us could help as much as we could to protect this Continent of Mu and tried to allows the Prosperity Tribesmen to live peacefully here.] Long Feng roughly explains those important part he received from the ancestor''s inheritance. [Did our ancestor speaks about how we could overturn this current Wooden Beast Storm situation? And you, Tulumu, quickly prepare with the others and depart to the Southern Habitat in Tip Woods, the habitat recently got attacked by a group of Wooden Beast, even elder Tuluqi is dead from their attack.] without forgetting about those important matters, Tuluwo quickly had Tulumu to repositioned into the Southern Habitat of Tips Woods while trying to obtain more information that might be given by their ancestor to fight against this situation.(They are located in the South-Eastern Habitat of Foundation Woods at the moment) [Understood! I will join the others immediately and proceeds towards the Southern Habitat.] Tulumu quickly agreed and started to leave the room without any further words. Meanwhile, Long Feng shared some of the information he obtained from accepting the inheritance while receiving some of the guidance and information regarding their current standing within the Continent of Mu. After he obtains such valuable information, Long Feng couldn''t help but offer himself to provide some Pill Refining service, as he already noticed the strong effect after it was refined by Tulumu previously. The moment Tuluwo saw how Long Feng combined the medicinal herbs altogether to form a batch of pills, his eyes started to shine brightly, full of hope as he could see that this turnover could mean a lot to their weakening tribesmen. So far, Long Feng couldn''t promise them that he could continue to refine many Pills for them due to the time restriction, but the persistent Tuluwo finally able to convince Long Feng to help them until the first Seventh Suns and First Seventh moons Wooden Beast Storm is over. In exchange for such a great help, the tribesmen will help Long Feng in the matter of gathering Spirit Herbs or any herbs that could be found in their habitat. Through this exchange, Long Feng could benefit as much as he could, but he too understands the importance of exploring this Continent of Mu all by himself, because only by this way he could see a great improvement in his own ability. The negotiation continues, until Tuluwo finally agreed that as long he could expect some help in the term of Pills, he will not bothered about Long Feng''s activities within the Continent. He could even arrange a few strong experienced Tribesmen to accompany Long Feng in his explorations. With such an agreement in place, Long Feng has begun to start refining the Medicinal Pills for Tuluwo to distribute it to the others to increase their strength and aiding them to obtain a victory in the upcoming Wooden Beast Storm. With the numbers of tribesmen starting to consume the Pills and obtained the immediate effect of increment in cultivation strength, most of them started to overcome the nearby threats in the period of few hours, as his third Sun almost come to an end. But two hours before the fourth suns period appears, a pack of Wooden Beast attacked the South-Eastern Habitat without any notice at all, and within the pack, one of the most dangerous threat is coming along with the aim to stop the Prosperity Tribesmen to continue to retaliate against them. Just in this time span of few hours, such a huge differences happened almost too quickly. [Friend Feng, quickly escape from here and heads to another habitat to continue your works, this habitat might meet its end today.] Tuluwo speaks in a simple way. But this is not enough for Long Feng to escape without fighting, so he asked deeper into the situation. [Friend Feng, the one that leading the attack this time, is one of the most dangerous beasts in the South-Eastern side Foundation Woods, the Gigantic Wood Tiger Beast, it is one of the ten strongest beasts in Foundation Woods!] Tuluwo finished his words, as a giant head of a tiger appears from above their house. Unexpectedly, this Gigantic Wood Tiger Beast is actually as tall as a three meters height beast with a length of around five meters. Book 2 Chapter 79 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Sun 3 (Lower Part) "Wooooooo!" the Gigantic Wood Tiger Beast howls as it getting close to the Habitat''s defensive perimeter. The next moment, from the belly of the Tiger beast, the unaccountable number of hand look-alike limbs spread out like tentacles, as it brings down the defensive wall that separated the habitat from the woods. With the wall is brought down, those smaller Wooden Beast, such as the Scarlet Wood Fruit Insect, the Scarlet Wood Praying Insect, and the Scarlet Wood Beetle Insect. This three type of insect is their frontline vanguards, with each of the insect possessing typical speciality on their birth. Although their strength is in between Human Adept Realm to Earth Adept Realm, their innate speciality managed to help them become more dangerous, even if they are counted not as deadly as their other kinds. The Fruit Insect possess a strong [Scarlet Carapace] that could dissipates the Essence Energy within each attack, the Praying Insect with its strong [Torment Scythe] that could slice through anything protected with Essence Energy, and lastly, the Beetle Insect with its [Unstoppable Fortress] that could ram through anything with Essence Energy. Facing such situation, even Long Feng is forced to fight alone if he wished to escape, never forget to mention that the main threat, the Gigantic Wood Tiger Beast is still standing before them, with an unknown special trait within that yet to be explored. Without requiring any notice to start the battle, both side instantly charges towards their opponent like it is a prearranged battle. Long Feng required only five seconds, as he uses all his Essence Energy to summon his [Limbs of Xuan Wu] to aid him in his fight! From the words of Tuluwo, Long Feng assign himself to handle all the Praying Insect while the others face the slightly weaker counterparts, the Fruit Insect and the Beetle Insect. Since the Praying Insect possesses no special defensive speciality, Long Feng''s pair of claws easily smashed them into a pile of compost as he charges forward. In the same time, to aid him in his battle, Long Feng reveals one of his trump cards! The two young Corpse Refining Tiger''s Cub, Zhen Xi and Gan Xi and their respective four Essence Fabricator Ants siblings! The moment this six young Cultivation Beast is released into the wild, they are more or less being slightly too active in their fights! Zhen Xi and Gan Xi is quite cooperative with each other, added with the amazing rate of growth, their current body size is already comparable with a ten years old children. One offensive, another defensive, both of the cubs could handle a single Scarlet Wood Praying Insect at a time, allowing Long Feng to focus on his initial targets. Meanwhile, in a similar situation, the four smaller Essence Fabricator Young Ants are no pushover as well. With their combination of tactical advantage added with their numbers, the bullets came from their Abdomen, slowly exhaust their targets before the gluttonous jaw buried into their targets and being swallowed into pieces. (Ants ate compost, it''s literally a cycle of life) With such a strong helpers by his side, Long Feng''s team quickly dispose of a large amount of Scarlet Wood Praying Insect as he fought closer to the side of the Gigantic Wood Tiger Beast. The Tiger Beast quickly noticed the reduction of numbers in its rank, as it howls softly once again, calling for more Praying Insect to come over to its aid. "I have to quickly handle this Tiger Beast before it kept summoning more and more Wooden Beast over to this battlefield." Long Feng quickly found out the role of this Tiger Beast within this battlefield. "Fire Lizard Pill, Go!" Long Feng wrapped a stack of Fire Lizard Pills with his Red Fire Stage Elemental Essence as he fires them under the assistance of the Triple Impact Jade Bow''s first striking form. The scattered shot effect quickly turned the surrounding area into a fire area, causing the Tiger Beast to move frantically in order to protect itself from making contact with the dangerous fire. Seeing the Tiger Beast is temporarily disturbed, Long Feng aim his bow towards the other two kinds of Wooden Beast the other tribesmen is facing in a tough battle and gave a range assistance. "Tik, Tik, Tik!" the arrow hits its target without fail as those Wooden Beast''s attention is aim towards the target before them, not the sneak attacker Long Feng. But because the arrow is made from converting the Essence Energy into a materialized shape, the arrow failed to do any formidable damage. But in exchange, this creates the opportunity for the tribesmen to pierce their weak point, and dispose of those opponents disturbed by Long Feng. [Friends of the tribe, thank you for helping us!] a few tribesmen quickly bow in thanks before they continue to charge forward, but in a similar way, they are not approaching the area where the Fire Lizard Pill is still burning, because of the similar disadvantage they shared with the Wooden Beast. Barely an hour, the fight finally almost come into conclusion as the attacking Wooden Beast pack is almost completely disposed of. In the same time, through refining the Brown Crystal Bead dropped from those Wooden Beast, the strength of those tribesmen quickly catch up with the opposing force, allowing them to be able to fight against two to three opponent in each single approach.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! "Woooooooooooooo..." a very long and soft howl could be heard from the Tiger Beast, as it slowly changes its form from four limbs walker into a two limbs walker. Its body proportion quickly changed and turned in a shape like a standing bear, only stronger and more massive in term of size. "WOWO!" this time, a strong howl came out instantly as the pair of upper Hinds quickly slam on the ground and distinguished all the burning flames around the Tiger Beast! "WOWOWOW!" the tiger beast strikes! In an instant, one tribesman failed to notice the sudden changes in the flow of the battlefield as it got caught within the enormous jaw of the Tiger Beast. Just in a simple biting action, the tribesman is refined into the Tiger Beast'' belly and converted into its own strength. That instant, this Tiger Beast immediately release the strength equivalent to a Peak Adept Realm cultivator! Long Feng couldn''t help but felt a slight worry toward this kind of opponent. [Tuluwo, call your men to get away from the Tiger Beast''s attacking range! They will help to strengthen the Tiger Beast if they failed to run!] Long Feng had Tuluwo to quickly order his men to disperse and allows Long Feng to fight against the Tiger Beast. The moment he tried to get close to that figure three times taller than himself, Long Feng felt slightly intimidated. "Damn Wooden Beast, how dare you make me look at you in such way!" Long Feng twisted his Qian Kun Sword to form a spiralling action and pierce through the Tiger Beast''s elbow parts. But with its advantages of entirely formed from plants and vines, the Tiger Beast felt no pain at all, as it turned around in an unimaginable position and gave Long Feng a strike with its left. "Bam!" Long Feng is pressed down to the ground, feeling painful on both of his knees from such a heavy impact. [Limbs of Xuan Wu!] Long Feng tossed his sword upwards as he furiously strikes his pair of claws towards the Tiger Beast''s body, and like how a cat tear its target apart, Long Feng attack quickly cause the chest part of the Tiger Beast began to flow a kind of greenish liquid. The Qian Kun Sword that was tossed earlier stabbed directly on the nape of the Tiger Beast. Under this sudden disturbance, the Tiger Beast suddenly failed to move its body as before, as if its action is slightly disrupted by this insignificant attack. Seeing the movement of the Tiger Beast become slower out of sudden, Long Feng''s claw quickly destroyed the head of the Tiger Beast, and within his claw, a bigger size Brown Crystal Bead is held firmly in his hand. [Friends! I successfully defeated the Tiger Be...] Long Feng happily tells the others he had defeated the Tiger Beast, but before he finished his words, "Bam!" a right claw strikes in a point blank position, directly injuring Long Feng immediately from being unprepared. "What the Hell! I had destroyed if damn head and taken the Bead away!" Long Feng cursed the Tiger Beast''s tenacity in surviving, as it still could move without problem, in exchange for his over confidence, Long Feng is injured, with blood could be seen flowing out from his nose, mouth and ears. "Double Sealing Pill!" Long Feng knows that he will have difficulties in defending the next upcoming attack, and quickly activate two Sealing Pill consecutively to defend himself. And in a single strike, the double layer of Sealing Sphere is immediately broken, revealing the injured Long Feng within the sphere. "Damn Beast, you want to have a piece of this man?" Long Feng bloody eyes quickly became furious as it fuelled with anger because of his lack of cautious, and in that moment, Long Feng channel all his Essence Energy into his both leg as he uses the Xuan Wu Divination Art in its strongest mode. "Xuan Wu Divination Art, Carapace of Xuan Wu!" Long Feng push his body to its limit as the Carapace of Xuan Wu appears like a layer of Tortoise Shell surrounding his body. Additionally, his body overall performance rate increased into five times stronger. By popping in three Tiger Stripes Soul Pill into his mouth, Long Feng quickly have three burst of recovery effect, as he channels all the miraculous healing properties to recover his injuries. The next three burst, Long Feng used it to recover a large part of his used Essence Energy, and on its third three burst, he used it to strengthen his body as he swings his pair of claws like an angered beast. "You F**king Tiger Beast lets see who is the tiger and who is the little lamb here!" Long Feng furiously attack the Tiger Beast that still moving without its head. "Swoosh! Swoosh!" two strikes could be heard along with the extremely loud wind flows, and that gigantic Tiger Beast lose its body from that two attack. But is Long Feng satisfied with such feat? The answer is, of course, no, because as he throws the two bigger Brown Crystal Beads on the ground, Long Feng slammed his claw directly from the top to the ground, and continue for another three to four strikes, until that lower part of the body, finally lost its will to continue to move. All that remains, is another two more Bigger Beads on the ground where the Tiger Beast met its end. Long Feng allows the final three burst of healing properties to come into his body, as he recovers most of his strength in case of any changes within the battlefield. But after waiting for about ten minutes, the quietness of the woods finally allows the tribesmen and Long Feng to relax, as there is no longer any Wooden Beast is coming towards to join the fight. "Huh..." Long Feng exhausted himself quite extreme this time, as he almost falls into an unconscious state as he relaxed from the fighting stance. Supported by two of the Prosperity Tribesmen, Long Feng could hear some cheers from them calling his name. [Friend Feng, Friend Feng, Friend Feng!] as he falls unconscious. Noticing their Master had finally relaxed, the Corpse Refining Tiger Cubs finally started to run around having fun, while the four Essence Fabricator Young Ants starts to eat those compost scattered around the battlefield. some of the tribesmen start to clean the area as well, and some began to move over to the destroyed wall as they start to recreate another wall all over again. just like this, the Third Sun is finally over as the fourth Sun finally came in. while in the same time, unknown to all the other five habitats currently, is the Northern Habitat that was under siege from the Wooden Beast as well, is totally destroyed without a single form of life could be seen within. Book 2 Chapter 80 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Sun 4. [WooWooWoo!] a few Prosperity Tribesmen is seemed to cheer as they stand up and holding some of the Pills in their hand. The Pill Refiner that was seated before the tribesmen are Nan Jing Jing, who was brought back to the habitat after they met each other within the West region of the Continent of Mu known as the Grain Woods. Within the Grain Woods, a large amount of Spirit Herbs could be found, where it literally the best place for Nan Jing Jing to focus on gathering as much as she could, but in the same time, this location is filled with its own kind of danger as well. As the word Grain is within the name, it indicates the ridiculous number of Wooden Beast resides within the woods. A large number of Wooden Beast attacks this Habitat every Sun and Moon pass, costing the habitat to lose at least four to five tribesmen each single time. This happened for a while until a few tribesmen found Nan Jing Jing in the Grain Woods when she escaping from the pursuit of those Scarlet Wood Fruit Insect. The moment Nan Jing Jing found out that the people from the Prosperity Tribe could actually benefit from refining the Pills directly within them, she did not hesitate to refine more Pills for them in exchange for Spiritual Herbs. Although this exchange came from mutual benefits, in the current situation, the Tribesmen did not think too much as those Spiritual Herbs brings no benefits for them except being consumed as food or awaits the next Descendant to be born from those plants. Just through this mutual exchange, Nan Jing Jing managed to pocket herself a total of about 500 kinds of Spiritual Herbs that is good enough to refine Medicinal Pills of Second Earth and Heaven Grade for her consumptions, some if it even qualified enough to be refined into Third Human Grade Pills, something that quite important when one managed to enters the Practitioner Realm Cultivation. During the period of Third Sun is shining brightly above them, Nan Jing Jing''s contribution actually managed to overturn their results in fighting, as this is the first time they managed to totally defeats all the Wooden Beast without losing a single tribesman. Happy with such results, the Tribesmen quickly send their representative to the remaining five habitats to share the good news, and could slowly give assistance to the others when they could manage their Habitat''s strength. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When the Fourth Sun already appeared for its sixth hour, Long Feng finally wake up from his slumber. Luckily since he was already accepted into the Habitat''s community, Long Feng could rest as much as he wants before he continues his exploration. As he walked out from the room, Long Feng noticed that some of the disciples that previously injured the time he came, already started to have an exchange with the other tribesmen. Most of them depend on their Pill Refining skills to obtain some Spiritual Herb in exchange, but some of them are not too experienced, so their results are roughly failed to be on par with Long Feng''s Pill. During the six hours, he was unconscious, the Wall separating the Habitat with the woods had already been built once again, only this time, it is slightly taller and stronger than the previous one he had seen. There are some spikes could be seen protruding out from the ground, indicates that their building ability started to see a growth as well. While a few new tribesmen could be seen appearing in the Habitat''s community, Long Feng began to understands their cycle of life. The tribesmen shared a central memory, thus almost all of them could have, receive, and also creates more memories to allow the Central Memories to grow stronger. Be it died because of any matter, the dead aren''t really dead, because the moment their memories had escaped from the body, they will returns into the central one again, and a new descendant will be formed from any part of this Continent of Mu. Most of the time, they will be a rebirth in the time between two to three days, and they do not go through any child or adulthood. So it is extremely easy to notice that there will be a few new tribesmen every single day. But this balances is fragile, because of the appearance of the [Curse of Fruit Mantra]. The opposing force cause disruption in their central memories, and for each memory (tribesmen) is killed and refined by the Wooden Beast, the more the [Curse of Fruit Mantra] could reproduce. This is also why, the balance is important because the moment the [Curse of Fruit Mantra] managed to get a stronghold in their current situation, it will mean the end of this Prosperity Realm. During his unconscious period of time, Long Feng actually managed to open up a deeper part of the memories from the Inheritance, regarding the usefulness of the Brown Crystal Beads towards human Cultivators, and also the information about a certain Life Bound Spirit Treasure that was located in the North, known only as Mother Gaia. And since he has nothing much to be bothered anyway, Long Feng decided to understand deeper into the information regarding this two matters, as he slowly prepares to leave. "The Brown Crystal Bead is the concentrated life force of this [Curse of Fruit Mantra]. Strengthen with so many resentments and also emotions within, the mantra was able to convert all this to form a treasure called as the [Spirit Recollection Seed]. This seed hardly comes by even within the human world, due to its precondition of growth is difficult to come across." "The [Spirit Recollection Seed] grows by feeding on life, death, emotion and resentments. This is also the reason why the [Curse of Fruit Mantra] could form this treasure within this realm. This seed is coveted by many cultivators because of its [Profound Healing Attributes]. You might know that in this world, many kinds of treasures is well hidden by our ancestors before they met their ends. Some of them deliberately destroy or ruin their treasure before it was disposed of, in order to not allowing any threats towards their descendants. But by having this [Spirit Recollection Seed] within your hand, it could help you to repair the treasure into its optimized condition, allowing a full 100% utilization on the spot without any additional requirements." "Next is regarding my Life Bound Spirit Treasure. Mother Gaia, is my one and only sentient treasure among my seven Life Bound Sovereign Treasure. Based on your current capability, you might not even possess a slight qualification to obtain it, but with my inheritance within your body, perhaps Mother Gaia will allow a part of her to be given to you if you''re lucky enough to obtain it." "Mother Gaia represents Initial of Life, in her form as a Crystal Square Vassal. She could bring forth Sun and Moon, Life and Death, Elements as she wishes, and recreates anything within her power. This Life Bound Sovereign Treasure of mine had been protecting me for my life, until now she had been replacing my position to protecting my descendants, or our descendants. Please treat her well, if she actually decides to follow you." Long Feng bid farewell to the Tribesmen and Tuluwo as he departs into the Northern direction. And under the assistance of the Geology Map, Long Feng could easily pinpoint his path without getting lost in between, but along his path over to the northern woods, also known as the Wombs Woods, is known as the most dangerous area between all six kinds of wood.This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. He travelled for almost on full sun period, to finally managed to enter the Central Mountain Region. Along with his path, Long Feng encountered a few random Wooden Beast, but none of them managed to give him any threats as he easily disposes of all of the beasts before he continued. But this time, Long Feng is confused with the way he could cross over this landscape without any issue. Before him is a mountain path leading towards the northern woods, but is extremely infested by almost ten Lairs scattered along his path towards the upper north. From what Long Feng knows, this Lair belongs to the extremely dangerous kind of Wooden Beast, known as Ferocious Wood Snake Beast. These snakes possess the length of around six to eight metres in length, with a head as big as the Tiger Beast Long Feng met previously. Within each lair, almost ten to twenty Snake Beast could be seen slithering around, and the lairs are arranged into a total of five layers. While at the same time, there are some activities could be seen from the top of the mountain, which is most probably belonged to the Scarlet Wood Wasp Insect, a kind of Wooden Beast with a deadly needle on its abdomen, and could be shot and holds a strong kind of toxin within each single needle. The next of the Wasp Insect is usually managed and occupied by at least two to three thousands of Wasp Insect, making the attempt to destroy their nest become futile. Long Feng tried to take a step closer to see the clearer situation, and as he moves under the cover of the shrubs and bushes, five corpses fall down above him, startled him slightly. "What the hell!" Long Feng felt no life force within the corpses, thus he retreated to have a look on it. The five corpses belonged to those from the top 100 disciples. All five of them belonged to the Clear Jade City, and since they had been dead for more than 30 hours, their corpses had already started to have maggots growing within. Since they were killed by the Wooden Beast, their belonging is left untouched, therefore, Long Feng politely gave them a burying ritual as he loots whatever he could get in hand. Just like this, Long Feng''s total Ingredients within his ring increase to a total of 295,500 sets of ingredients. Other than those ingredients, Long Feng managed to obtains some Spirit Weapon on their Second Human Grade, and also some other Pills and recipes. "One of this guy actually possess this recipe in his hand!" Long Feng read through the contents as he was slightly surprised with it. ========== Vermilion Lord Pill Usage: Enhancement-4 / Poisoning-3 Ingredients: Second Human Grade Volatile Fruit (Grade 2 Minimum) Second Human Grade Fiery Lizard Blood Essence (Grade 2 Minimum) Second Human Grade Venomous Violet Snake Venom (Grade 2 Minimum) Sulphur Wick Grass (Grade 2 Minimum) Clear Toad Fruit''s Wax (Grade 2 to 4) Refining Methods: Through mixing all the first three ingredients before began to cooking away the impurities would result into a special concoction that would immediately melt the Sulphur Wick Grass and form a high viscosity concoction that could be finally mixed with the Clear Toad Fruit''s Wax to form them into Pill shape. Final firing should be done using Yin Flame instead of Yang Flame Energy to remove the possibility of an explosion during Pill Refining process. The explosion effect is depending on the number and quality of the Sulphur Wick Grass is used. Results: An average four to five pill each concoction depending on the thickness and concentration of each ingredient. The better the grade of ingredients could increase the yield and the speed of the viscosity of the concoction is formed before the wax is added to the concoction to allows the forming process. This Pill refining is easy but to maintain its quality is more difficult, further research may be needed to increase its destructive power. Recipe by: Vermilion Lord''s Pavilion Refined and studied by None ========== Looking at the recipe, Long Feng immediately have the eagerness to try and refine some of the pills, unnoticed on his surrounding that he had already been stalked by one of the Ferocious Wood Snake Beast. Long Feng quickly move away from his current position as he hurries to find a place that suitable for him to temporary make a stop and starts to refine those ingredients he already has a long time ago. He soon managed to spot small mound that was already left empty, perhaps it was created when somebody or some of the Wooden Beast is taking a shelter. But this is the first point where Long Feng start to get less cautious on his surrounding. Why would a Wooden Beast take shelter if the whole forest is literally their kind of living environment? Comfortably, Long Feng withdraws all the tools and ingredients required to refine the Vermilion Lord Pill before him, as he continues with the procedures such as preparing the Pill Cauldron with the Three Flame Heating Stage, and nourish the ingredients prior before the mixing procedure starts. As soon as the Pill Cauldron is completely prepared, a howl could be heard, and in the same time, it startled the Ferocious Wood Snake Beast for a moment. But that short second is what required Long Feng to pay attention towards. "There is something stalking me!" he immediately noticed something was wrong. But since his refining process is going to begin, Long Feng has no choice but to continue his mixing process. He quickly prepares the Volatile Fruit, Fiery Lizard Blood Essence and the Violet Snake Venom within the cauldron to start the mixing process, as the cooking begun as soon as the mixing procedure is completed. The moment its impurity is successfully separated from the pure concoction, Long Feng began to add the Sulphur Wick Grass into the concoction, as he controls the fire carefully to make sure this concoction could form the required viscosity before the wax could be added. About ten minutes of cooking the concoction, Long Feng finally managed to obtain the viscosity he requires, as he mixes the Clear Toad Fruit''s Wax into the concoction for a final mix. As the concoction finally is mixed evenly, Long Feng began to separate it into equivalent portions, as he ignites his Yin Essence to form a Yin Flame to fire the Pill in a cold way. The time starts to tick, as the Ferocious Wood Snake Beast finally became impatient and looking for a good position to attack Long Feng who seats in the middle of that little mound. In the same time, Long Feng calmly calculate the percentage of his Pill''s completion, because if the enemy started to get impatient too much, he will be attacked before the Pill could perform its might when completed. 96% 97% 98% 99% "Swish!" the Wooden Beast finally get tired of waiting as it charges like a launched arrow towards Long Feng''s head. The moment Long Feng saw how quick his opponent is charging over, he could only patiently awaits for his Pills to be completed. Exactly a half second before the Snake Beast''s Fang get close to Long Feng, a burst of fragrance could be smelled from the Pill Cauldron, but it was literally ignored because the moment to slowly appreciates this Pill completion is no longer around. Long Feng kept the Pill Cauldron into his Spatial Ring and leave the six Vermilion Lord Pill on the outside as he covers himself with the Body Shield Concoction, and ignites all six Pills within that small little mound! "Boom! Boom! Boom Boom Boom Boom!" a total of six explosions could be heard in that surrounding area, as that mound and the tree roots and soil had been blown away. What remains on the spot, is only a piece of Brown Crystal Bead and a human in a half kneeling position, with both hand raised and protecting his head from any further injuries, with all his clothing and belongings had been blown to his surroundings. The moment Long Feng lowered his both arms, two mouthfuls of blood is spat to the ground, indicating that even himself couldn''t escape from being caught in the explosions. But in his mind, a happy reaction instead covered all his previous regrets. "No matter it is regretful or not, through trying the strength of this Pill myself, I finally found the unique part of this kind of weapons!" Long Feng''s mind started to have a few simulation running through, as in how to perfecting this Battle Concoction and bring it even further. If somebody would see him and his current situation, perhaps they will think that Long Feng might have gone crazy from the blast, but for Long Feng himself, this is exactly what he would need if he wished to further perfect this Battle Concoction! He finally stands up after taking in a few breath and a Tiger Stripes Soul Pill and quickly returns to the Habitat. Book 2 Chapter 81 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Sun 5. The moment Long Feng appears within the Habitat with such a messy and bloody appearance, it causes a shock throughout the whole community, as the tribesmen first worries is the possibility of newer kind of Wooden Beast is making its appearance. Throughout the years, the Wooden Beast had already gone from barely two or three kinds into twenty-seven kinds currently, where each newer kind is even difficult to handle compared to the previous generation. But after Long Feng calm the tribesmen down and admit that it is his own fault to reduce his cautiousness along his way towards the north and that he obtained some important information regarding his own cultivation, finally the tribesmen willing to put this worries aside. The next concern is regarding a large amount of Wooden Beast is already spotted by Long Feng along the path towards the Northern Womb Woods. Since the only path to enter the northern had already been blocked, this means that the possibility of losing contact with the northern Habitat is likely going to happen. If they don''t quickly resolve this matter, sooner or later, the Habitat will be thoroughly destroyed, and to reclaim that piece of land will be even more difficult as there will be no obstruction for the Wooden Beast to increase their numbers. But what Tuluwo doesn''t know is the Northern Habitat had been totally destroyed two suns ago, during the period they are under the same attack as well from the Gigantic Wood Tiger Beast group. Additionally, the fifth sun had already started to rise from the east, which means there will be only one more period of the sun remains before the Wooden Beast Storm will come. With himself already recuperate into his optimized condition, this time, Long Feng no longer continues to make a trip outside of the habitat, but instead using his advantages in his current status within the habitat, Long Feng easily convert most of the Spirit Herb he required, and some that he might in the future, in exchange for those Medicinal Pills the tribesmen needed. With his capability maintains in the Quadruple Concoctions, Long Feng could refine four times faster compared to the other disciples, and luckily for them, the demand for all the Medicinal Pill is almost without a limit they could reach, thus an additional Pill they refined is an additional profit the disciples could obtain. Some of them even considered about creating a small Pill Refining community that could assist each other in the field of refining, research as well exchanges with each other on the Spirit Herbs they could get on hand. As the time started to get close to half of the Fifth Sun, two messengers from Western Habitat, the Grain Woods and the South-Western Habitat, the Ashes Woods. Under the words of the messenger, a female is providing the Grain Woods Habitat with a good amount of Pills continues, as they finally managed to defend the attack from the Wooden Beast without casualties for the first time. And at the same time, the Ashes Woods is resided by thirteen humans currently, and among them, two female and one male is extremely helpful in providing them with a good amount of Pills that could increase their strength to fight against those Wooden Beast. Some of their Pills could even use to fight against the Wooden Beast, and thoroughly overpowered their opponent at the first round of exchanges. Through this few messenger''s words, Long Feng could easily deduce that the possibility of around five including himself within this habitat, already started to mingle with the tribesmen to obtain the most benefits they could while remaining vigilant and protected as they exchange for those spirit herbs. Although their possibility of surviving in the woods wouldn''t be too much a problem, having a location to rest properly, defeats all the other possible benefits instead. With the abundant amount of Spirit Herbs is easily obtained within this Continent of Mu, Long Feng did not feel that he was taking advantages on the land as well on the tribesmen. Because of the inheritance, he obtained not too long ago, Long Feng knows that the Prosperity Realm is made for this certain reason, as this Realm''s Continent of Mu is almost like a bigger, wider version of his Longevity Soil Ring in hand. Therefore, Long Feng quickly starts his research on the Vermilion Lord Pill Recipe, with the intention of perfecting it. First, he takes the opportunity to exchange the normal Human Grade Fiery Lizard Blood into two different ingredients, which is the Human Grade Burning Ape''s Blood Essence and also the Human Grade Blast Insect''s Blood Essence. The Sulphur Wick Grass remains within the recipe but also was exchanged into its stronger counterpart, into a Spirit Herb known as the Methane Essence Leaves. Utilizing the ingredient fully as he could spare, Long Feng perfected the method to refine the Vermilion Lord Pill and managed to increase its overall damage and usability, by putting the refining procedures of this type of Pill totally depends on the Colder Yin Flame. With his high capability in understanding the essence of each step, he used in refining the Pills, Long Feng achievements in this matter is higher than an average person who might need to obtain such enlightenment after a hundred or two trials. Although the perfected Vermilion Lord Pill is yet to obtain the qualification to be a Ranked Category Pills but depending on its destruction properties, Long Feng could evaluate it on par with some of those First categories Ranked Pills. With a large amount of this weapon, Long Feng could easily call himself the overlord of this Continent of Mu very soon. But of course, this kind of tyrannical mind does not appear to his mind anyway, because he is too far from carrying such mindset. For Long Feng current situation, quickly heads toward the Northern Edge is the most important issue for him as he would need to prioritize the importance of seizing the ownership of the Life Bound Spirit Treasure, the Mother Gaia. But with the situation at the moment, would deem unwise for him to carry on his intention, as the numbers of Wooden Beast that start to appear before the Habitat Walls is starting to increase slowly. This even causes Long Feng to have no choice but to join along in the fight. With the assistance of the [Limbs of Xuan Wu], Long Feng''s battling strength could only keep increasing the more he participates in all this battle. In this single Sun alone, Long Feng''s participation had gone up into from initially Five Big Brown Crystal Beads and about twenty Small Brown Crystal Beads, quickly turned into a huge amount, totalling into fifteen Big Brown Crystal Beads and 150 Small Brown Crystal Beads. Equipped with the knowledge from the Inheritance, Long Feng hesitates nothing as he proceeds to refine the Crystal Beads, to form something that would shock the other disciples within the Continent if they actually found out the identity of this treasure.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. Of course, to ensure that nothing could affect his progress, Long Feng secretly refine the beads whenever he managed to obtain a safer spot within the forest. But this time is an exception because unintentionally, Long Feng actually stumbled into a hidden nest belonged to another special kind of Wooden Beast. This is hardly noticed even by the cautious Long Feng, because of its location is actually positioned deep within the small mountain deep inside the forest. It is because Long Feng was preparing to refine all the Brown Crystal Beads that caused this Wooden Beast to noticed the sudden appearance of a large amount of Wooden Beast Beads within its nest''s territories. Since the fight is already could not be evaded, Long Feng hesitates not, but to prepare himself to fight against this so called, Ten Strongest Wooden Beast of the Foundation Woods! The [Gigantic Wood Vulture Beast]! The moment this Vulture Beast appears from it''s deep within the Mountain''s nest, several young Vulture Beast that was just recently born and yet to grows happened to be tossed away from where it supposed to be. But since the Wooden Beast are literally a living being that was formed from deep within those corrupted forest, the young Vulture Beast will have nothing to be worried about, because it is expected that they will not "Die" from such things. But the Vulture Beast is another matter, as it spread its wing widely, almost an estimated 100 feet in its total wingspan creates gales on both sides of its wing as it flies upwards to the sky. Howling loudly, the Vulture Beast make a sharp turn as it aims its sharp beak towards where Long Feng is located. "Woosh!" a piercing sound could be heard, and immediately, the Vulture Beast strikes like a beam of light, as it creates a huge crater upon the impact. Luckily, Long Feng managed to anticipate such attack as he already planned his escape. With the activation of his [Xuan Wu Heavenly Art] Long Feng could increase his overall speed of movement and allows it to be comparable with a cultivator in their Practitioner Realm. And in the same time, with his speed in comprehension, Long Feng advancement has developed the martial art even further, allowing it to become closer to what Han Feng Xian had previously reached in a short period of time. "FUAH!" an even stronger burst of wind bomb explodes all around Long Feng''s position, causing him lose his firm standing on the ground. "This Vulture Beast actually possess such a strong Wind capability! What will happen if I could actually decipher such a strong Wind Elemental as my fourth Element?" Long Feng is both amazed and shocked with this kind of ability shown from the Vulture Beast. But awed or not, he still needs to survive. Without bothering about exchanging their skills further, Long Feng prepared his [Limbs of Xuan Wu] as he moves around to escapes from the Wind Bomb and also to defend himself if required. His path soon gets halted in between, as the Wind Bomb had already successfully being deployed into a circle formation, with the Vulture Beast directly on top of Long Feng. "Heh, trying to keep me within here so you could defeat me with your little pitiful tricks?" Long Feng confidently speaks in his whispers, as he opened his both claws wide, and under the assistance of the wind around each single Wind Bomb created by the Vulture Beast, a number of Pills are started to be collected and orbiting around the bomb as he expected. "Your Control is still too weak!" Long Feng shouts loudly like an announcement as he detonates a total of ten Vermilion Lord Pill that was orbiting around each Wind Bomb, and as the chain explosion happened, a different kind of Wind turbulence appears within the circle, causing the Vulture Beast to lost it balance as it fall straight from the sky onto the ground hard. Without giving the Vulture Beast a chance to recover itself from that impact, Long Feng''s pair of claws already came towards its neck to land a decisive strike. Just like that, the neck of the Vulture Beast is snapped by Long Feng, as it already failed to have any capability to continue to raise its head. With the falls of its head part, Long Feng behaves like a beast as his claws strike ruthlessly on the Vulture Beast''s body. [Once Bitten, Twice Shy!] this is what lingering within Long Feng''s mind as he had already been brought into a deadly situation when he was fighting with the Tiger Beast. With this kind of precaution within his mind this time, even if it isn''t required, Long Feng will still thoroughly destroys the Vulture''s body before he decided to call it as over. Just like this, Long Feng easily destroys the eighth seats of the Top 10 Strongest Beast within the Foundation Woods, as he continues to refine the huge number of Brown Crystal Beads to see what would it form by the end of the day. Of course, this only happened after Long Feng thoroughly kills all the remaining baby Vulture Beast that was scattered into few random area. Long Feng did explore the Nest of the Vulture Beast as well, only to obtain another small amount of Brown Crystal Beads instead, and as expected, it was without any treasures since Wooden Beast have no needs for those weapons or treasures that was so important to other human Cultivators. And so, Long Feng waste no more time as he started to refine all the Small Brown Crystal Beads first, until each single drops of brown essence hidden deep within is being extracted out to form a Brown Essence piece in the form of a Teardrop. He prepared the remaining twenty Big Brown Essence Beads, where the additional five just came from defeating the Gigantic Wood Vulture Beast, to repeat the same action again using his Pill Cauldron. Very quickly, the twenty Big beads are formed into another Brown Essence Teardrop. He tried to pry into the inheritance to see what is the differences between this Teardrops compared to the big and small Brown Crystal Beads. But since his capability is still far from being able to access the information freely, Long Feng''s attempt end up without any positive results. But since he already within this Continent of Mu, why not he personally explore around to harvest as much Spirit Herbs as he could, become the coming Seventh Sun will be here in another fourteen to fifteen hours? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile, nearby a location within the Ashes Woods, two female cultivators is seemed to be exploring around the seaside after then went out from the forest, as they were looking for certain things. "Sister, what did the inheritance actually tells you?" Yue Ying speaks. "Do not disturb me for now, you are too loud if there is dangerous Wooden Beast as the People of Prosperity tribe says, then we are going to be in a seriously bad situation." Huang Ying, the older between the two seems to be having the luck of obtaining a similar inheritance as she managed to obtain one of the [Wood Elves Treasure] as well during her exploration within the Ashes Woods. But at the same time, one more male seems to be taking notice on the two as he was hidden from their sight, and behaving like a stalker. "Hehehe, one cold and one hot, both of them should be quite a good meal to satisfy my lust." the sneaky man revealed to be Zhang Pu, the one from the Cloudy Jade City who was seen disturbing the two sisters before they depart into the Prosperity Realm. By right, when the three of them finally met within the Ashes Wood Habitat, Huang Ying and Yue Ying have the intention to kill him, but seeing the current situation of the Prosperity Tribesmen, their heart become less ruthless, because one more tribesman they could save means a better benefits they could expect, especially for Huang Ying who finally obtained the Inheritance of Mu Dou, the creator of this Prosperity Realm as well the one called as Heavenly Chariot God. Book 2 Chapter 82 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Sun 6. "Listen here, Xiao Ying. The inheritance that I managed to get, shows the location of this so called treasure in this Ashes Woods. We should travel light and quick, because in eleven hours later, the Wooden Beast Storm will arrive. Since this is going to be their first time to meet with this kind of situation, the Ying sisters dare not to dally around by doing anything unproductive, hence, they take the risk to purposely went out from the habitat to make a quick route of exploration for their next tries. But unknown to both of them, Zhang Pu is actually stalking the two of them along with his dirty imagination, as he follows the sisters out until now. Within his hand, two larvae egg is seen squirming to hatch and based on its colour, a yellowish with some hint of green instantly could determine the lethal-ness of this two Larvae egg. He remains quiet and sneaks along his way to get closer to the two sisters, while the sisters are still looking for a correct way to proceeds. ---------- While in the Grain Wood''s West Habitat, Nan Jing Jing too became impatient and decided to start exploring around the perimeters to see what she could assist with the defensive battle that will come after eleven hours. Since this is her first time forced to face such a situation, Nan Jing Jing has no confidence she will pass through this obstacle easily, but not without a fight either, because, within her heart, she knows that Long Feng is still within this Thousand Herbal Garden. Whenever she came across any of the Prosperity Tribesmen, she will receive some gift in return for her generosity for providing them with a plenty of Pills without any further request. Although it might seem as she practically created her status through business purposes, but as long within the mind of the Tribesmen have nothing to complain about, Nan Jing Jing''s position within this West Habitat, is undoubtedly strong. And on this moment, she actually encountered with somebody she actually knows from the first day within the Bronze Pill Hall. "Gou Yu!" Nan Jing Jing quickly rushed towards the blood covered body that already lied on the ground without any hint of life. She quickly forms a shield around him with the Sealing Pill she obtained from Long Feng, and without any hesitation, she withdraws a Tiger Stripes Soul Pill and places it within Gou Yu''s mouth. With a push of her Essence Energy, she forces the Pill to get into his stomach and force his body to start receiving the Burst of Healing as soon as possible. "Urgh!!" Gou Yu starts to have some life reaction coming from his dying body. "Puuh!" a mouthful of blood is poured out from his mouth without controls, shocking Nan Jing Jing immediately, but she maintains her calmness within a split second and continues to tend Gou Yu''s injuries. She checked his body and his pulse to sense his location of injuries and managed to notice plenty of ruptures within his bones and even a few arteries had been damaged, causing the flow of Essence Energy became unstable and lost in between. With such injuries, no wonder Gou Yu failed to recover himself, because the leakage from his total absorption rate is about 95% leaked away, with only 5% managed to be absorbed. Under such situation, even if its Long Feng, will meet his ends unless he managed to meet with somebody like Nan Jing Jing or others from the Top 10 Finalists. Finally, Gou Yu returned to his conscious state, as he struggles to warn Nan Jing Jing. "Be.... Careful! The Tang Clan is making their move!" Gou Yu finish his sentence as he falls unconscious once again, but this time, his condition is much better compared to previous. Nan Jing Jing quickly brings him back to the Western Habitat and borrows a room to allow Gou Yu to recuperate from his injuries, but within her mind, worries had started to build, as even she herself knows the danger of the Tang Clan''s motive towards the Brilliant Jade Kingdom. ---------- "The Yang Yue Bloom is actually this beautiful already when five of its Yang Fruit is fully matured, while another one of the Yang Fruit is slowly rising from the bottom of the stalk." Long Feng calmly appreciating the Yang Yue Bloom as he slowly explores the surrounding area, before he managed to found this Yang Yue Bloom, Long Feng already managed to harvest a plenty of Spirit Herbs, included some of them that suitable for him to refine them into the Vermilion Lord Pills. But then, Long Feng stumbled across a Tree with full of Cocoons growing from the Body of the Tree. "This tree looks like the Saint Tree, but why is there so many cocoons attached to its body?" Long Feng felt weird with what he was seeing, and to try it out, he plucked out a smaller size bush along with the roots, as Long Feng toss the bush towards the tree like a projectile. The moment the cocoons noticed the danger coming over from far away, a number of Wooden Beast quickly appears from the underground, as the Wooden Beast quickly destroys the bush before it managed to land a hit on the bunch of cocoons grows from the tree. "Hahaha, my luck is not too bad at all!" Long Feng is delighted with his luck, because of the group of Wooden Beast including those within the cocoon, is a type called as the Scarlet Wood Cicada Insect. "This type of Wooden Beast is one of a kind that could be caught and harvested for its valuable silk!" Long Feng happily thinks about the benefits he could get from each single Cicada Beast, as he equips his [Limb of Xuan Wu] and directly proceeds to take "Advantage" of those beasts! The moment he appeared about 200 metres from the tree, a large number of Cicada Beast quickly appears from the ground and attacked Long Feng in a very synchronized order. Although the formation they could create to block Long Feng is quite profound, but for Long Feng''s currently Cultivation, handling the weak Early Human Adept Realm''s Cicada Beast will be easier than handling a group of Refinement Realm Cultivators! Using one side of his Limbs as the Stabilizer and another limb as the Collecting Drill, Long Feng first use his Left Claws to Immobilized a few Cicada Beast within his claw before he shoved his finger from another hand into the abdomen of the Cicada Beast. With the Finger turning the head of a drill, the Silk quickly harvested from the Cicada Beast, until its abdomen became flattened and empty. Since the Cicada Beast already been sucked dry from its remaining Silk, Long Feng easily destroyed it and throws away the remains as he kept the piece of Brown Crystal Bead into his Spatial Ring.If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. Without any additional threat came from the Tree itself, Long Feng easily dispose a total of 100 Cicada Beast and also obtained 100 portions of the Cicada Beast Silk that useful to craft special armour that useful for the Tribesmen to defend against the sharp and strong attacks from plenty kinds of Wooden Beast. But with only a 100 portions, Long Feng knows that not even an exact ten piece of armour could be produced, thus, he spends more time exploring around the area to hunt for more Cicada Beast. As if the luck keep itself by Long Feng''s side, not only one or two, but a total of five Fake Saint Tree with Cicada Beast''s Nest had been located by Long Feng, and without any hesitation at all, Long Feng destroyed all the nest as he harvest all the available Cicada Beast Silk he could. In between of the trip, more Spirit Herb falls into Long Feng''s hand, as the hour started to tick closer to the Wooden Beast Storm rushing time. From the period of destroying the few Cicada Beast Nest plus harvesting some ingredients, Long Feng had already spent almost nine hours of his remaining thirteen hours from the moment he left the South-Eastern Habitat, and since there is only another four hour is left before the Storm came, Long Feng decided to slowly walk back to the habitat, only to notice a group of disciples is hideously making their move towards another direction, without noticing Long Feng from nearby. "What''s wrong with this group of disciples? They are exploring this Foundation Woods with such a number of peoples, are they the remaining group that yet to join the Habitat?" Long Feng felt weird. With suspicion in his mind, he slowly followed the group of disciples using the Geology Map and follows them at a safe distance. The closer he gets to the group of disciples, the weirder he felt, because the group of disciples managed to not even encountering a single Wooden Beast, while Long Feng already blocked by at least five times along his route. "This is weird! What they possess that could allow them to proceeds without any disturbance from the disciples!" Long Feng starts to felt slightly weird, as he quickly throws away all his cautiousness and directly charges towards the group of disciples from a distance about 100 trees. The moment he reaches the spot, the sight totally cause Long Feng to fall into disgust! "Curses! This group of Wooden Beast really cause me to felt disgust with their actions!" Long Feng finally understands why the group of Disciples could actually proceed without any disturbance from the Wooden Beast! This group of fifteen disciples is actually dead! Their body hasn''t started to decay yet, thus a special kind of Wooden Beast starts to infect the body, and turn the body into a controllable puppet that the Wooden Beast could start to grow using that body. The corpse bears the appearance of a greenish feature due to the blood had all been consumed and replaced with a kind of greenish liquid that works as the blood as well the controlling substance that flows within the body. The larvae managed to grow within the body, and slowly taking the appearance of the human puppet, as it matures, the Larvae will take on its host appearance, and finally hatch out from this host as a totally new being. This Wooden Beast is known as the Gigantic Wood Host Parasite Beast! This beast is the ninth strongest beast within the Foundation Woods, but the reason of this seat, is not because it is weaker than the others, but it was due to the lack of host for it to infect and grow, instead. With a total of Fifteen Host by its side, this fifteen soon to hatch larvae could at least compete with the fifth or fourth seat among the ten strongest beasts within the Foundation Woods! If Long Feng does not take the action to purge and destroys this fifteen cocoons, it will be disastrous if the Wooden Beast Storm arrived! Without any hesitation in his mind, Long Feng immediately prepare himself with the [Limbs of Xuan Wu] alongside with the [Carapace of Xuan Wu] as a precaution of this fifteen Host Parasite Beast! From initial evaluation, almost each of the host possesses the strength comparable to an Early Earth Adept Realm cultivation. The ridiculous thing is, each single host still possess its previous capability in using certain martial arts, which added its ferocity as well the danger in subduing fifteen hosts by Long Feng alone. But without any choice to chose from, Long Feng could only take the first move, as he charged towards the strongest among the fifteen host. "[Limbs of Xuan Wu!] tear his body apart and kill the cursed Beast within!" Long Feng swipe his hand and creates a half moon strike, tried to smash the head into pulp and leave the Host Parasite Beast dead in a single strike! But unexpectedly, the Host actually could retaliate in a very careful manner, as the martial art is known to Long Feng as well. "This is the [Triple Aeon Fist] that was normally practised by those Core Disciples after they managed to exchange at least 5000 Points to enter the Tower of Knowledge!" Long Feng immediately recognized that martial art as he himself tried to learn this martial art before, but after a few consideration, he decided to put that intention away due to his mastery on the Xuan Wu Sword Sect Martial Art is not completely mastered. Long Feng''s current mastery on the Xuan Wu Sword Sect Martial Art was not too low, but it was not too high either. A mastery of a Martial Art is split into four different stage. The Initial Stage, where once could be treated as a new practitioner of the certain martial art, mastering it from between 0 to 25% completion. The Xiao Cheng Stage (Small Achievement Stage), where the completion of mastering a martial art is above 25% and reaching 50% of mastering the martial art. The Da Cheng Stage (Large Achievement Stage) where one already deciphered a total of 50% to 75% mastery, and lastly, the Wan Cheng Stage (Perfect Achievement Stage) where one already totally mastered the martial art in a 100% rate, and could even come out with a newer or further refined version of a same martial art. While for Long Feng, his mastery over the Offensive Xuan Sword Art and Defensive Wu Sword Art already reached the Xiao Cheng Stage, mastering it about 40% from overall, while his Xuan Wu Heavenly Art, and Xuan Wu Divination Art still remains in its Initial Stage, mastering about 20% from the overall. While he was still impressed with the [Triple Aeon Fist] used by the strongest host, Long Feng is charged from five different directions as the remaining hosts do not wish to give any chances to Long Feng to make it out from its currently deadly advantage. "Trying to quickly bring me down? In your dreams!" Long Feng smiles as he whispers about what the Host Parasite Beast intends to do with him. But since Long Feng is more or less a champion of this year''s Thousand Herbal Garden''s Selection, how could the Host Parasite Beast understands the opponent is trying to kill now? Without giving any space to rearrange its formation, Long Feng already trapped each host within a Sealing Sphere, awaiting his further decision on how to take action on the fifteen Host. Book 2 Chapter 83 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 - Sun 7 (Upper Part) "I will start from you first! Senior Leng Tian, sorry for destroying your body completely!" Long Feng raise his Claws as he charges over to one of the hosts, revealed to belong to a person called Leng Tian, someone that previously lost to Long Feng during the time when Long Feng just got transferred into the Thunderburst Jade City Pill Hall. Although he has no enmity with this particular senior since he knows this person, all he could is only to release his body from endless torture, allowing his soul to ascend to the heaven for an afterlife if there is one. Alongside with two Vermilion Lord Pills, Long Feng Claws pierced through the sphere as the body of senior Leng Tian struggles like a cornered wild beast, even resorted into biting Long Feng''s Essence Energy formed Claws. But without any sense of pain within the Claws itself, Long Feng hesitates not and ignite the two Vermilion Lord Pills, and a huge explosion happened within until the blast directly destroyed the Sealing Sphere into tiny bits. "Wooh! Wood, Wood!" the other Host Parasite Beast started to get nervous, because of seeing a live explosion that decimated their fellow companion in a split second. They start to panic and furiously attack the sphere directly by using their brute force, but for a Host Parasite Beast that yet to hatch doesn''t possess the strong brute force compares to their other fellow Wooden Beast! Long Feng felt a slight hint of pity towards the Wooden Beast, but no matter what, this kind of situation allows him to not to give pity to any opponent, as he repeating the same action again towards the remaining fourteen Sealing Sphere. One by one, the Host Parasite Beast within explodes without any remains to be seen, but as Long Feng completes with the thirteenth Host Parasite Beast, the remaining two finally managed to break out from the sphere, and quickly tried to escapes. "Want to run?" Long Feng gave chase immediately, with the Carapace of Xuan Wu increase of speed, Long Feng catch up with the two beasts in no time, but what happened next gave him another small shock. The two host starts to combine with each other as if the skin and flesh was one, to begin with. The combination of that outrageous figure slowly crawls on the ground to look for a shade as it escapes from Long Feng''s sight. "It is pointless to try and hide from me!" Long Feng screams as he throws three Vermilion Lord Pills in a straight line. "Boom! Boom! Boom!" three consecutive explosion immediately creates a straight line of opened view bare from any leaves and branches. With the outrageous figure crawls on the ground as it tried to completes its combination. Long Feng throws another Sealing Pill down towards the figure, but unexpectedly, the combination actually completes in such a short period of time, because it already escapes from the Sealing Pill range before it activated. "It actually possesses such a speed!" Long Feng increase his caution as he sees the Sealing Pill failed to contain the Wooden Beast. He descends from the air and prepares his [Limb of Xuan Wu] to face any unexpected sneak attack. The moment his feet touch the ground, a huge jaw quickly came from his back, and force Long Feng to bend down to escape that sudden attack. Consecutively, a palm attack came from the back of the jaw, where it was defended by Long Feng instantly when he noticed the attack. He tried to give the figure a kick, but it missed, as the figure had already retreated and stops about 50 feet away from Long Feng. "Not only the body strength had increased, even its martial prowess is quite amazing. I wonder could this one become quite a challenge to me?" Long Feng retracts his Claws and wields his sword once again. The only difference, this time, his posture is much more firm and taller compared to his previous stance. As if he receive some enlightenment, Long Feng''s current posture actually starts to bring some of the overbearing pressure comparable to Han Feng Xian. As if Han Feng Xian already entered into his soul and controlling his body, Long Feng move his body as how Han Feng Xian does when they were in training a long time ago, before Han Feng Xian is dead. This source of regrets causes Long Feng to obtain further enlightenment, as he takes each of his movement perfectly sync with how he remembered when he was sparring with Han Feng Xian. "[Xuan Wu''s Might!]" Long Feng leap up above the Host Parasite Beast, as he swings his sword down towards the beast. In that instant, the [Xuan Wu''s Might] gave out a heavy pressure as if there was a mountain came down from the heaven, as it flattened the Wooden Beast without any space to struggles. "Again! Even a weak student like me could bring senior Han into a deeper enlightenment when we are sparring! You are much stronger, come and give me more challenge!" Long Feng speaks aggressively as he prepared for his next move.If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. His sword point straight on that Wooden Beast, as he channels all his Essence Energy on the tip of his sword. "This is called [Xuan Wu''s Howl], come and let me see how it would fare when it strikes the target!" like an arrow, that jaw-like essence formed ruthlessly charge towards the beast in a flash of an eye, and pierce its body before a reaction follows. As the body seems like getting bounced by the flows of air, the remaining vacuum swords continue to slice the body apart, until nothing is left on that initial spot. "This two skills will be what I use to obtains the victory when the Wooden Beast Storm strikes!" Long Feng confidently whispers to himself, as he searches around the vicinity for any leftover treasures. Added with all this dead disciples pouch and Pills, Long Feng managed to obtain quite a good haul, but as the time only have one-hour remains before the storm came, Long Feng quickly make his way back to the habitat. Similarly, all the remaining five habitat is busy strengthening their defensive forces as well the defensive perimeters around their habitat, while some weaker one is busy refining the Pills to have a quick burst of increment in their overall strength. Even the disciples already stopped from continues to refine Pills, as they were seen walking around the habitat with weapons on their hand. Altogether, a total of 100 disciples first entered the Thousand Herbal Garden, but up to this moment, a total of 35 Disciples had already met their end because of negligence and lack of caution. The remaining 65 stronger individuals are scattered around the five cities, with a total of thirteen Disciples in the Ashes Woods, eleven in the Grain Woods, increase from five to eleven in the Foundation Woods, while another 30 is split evenly in the South''s Missing Woods and the East''s Grass Forest. Up to date, there are no interactions from this two different habitat, due to unknown reasons. but since there is nothing Long Feng could do, he decided to ignore the fact that two of the five remaining habitats is out of contact, while another two more remain in frequent updates in the news regarding anything happened within their area. in the same time, the three habitats, Grain Woods, Ashes Woods and Foundation Woods decided to put the Northern Womb Woods Habitat as a loss due to the only path to the north had already been obstructed by a large amount of Wooden Beast. unfortunately, no other solution could be obtained at the moment, due to the current situation is nowhere better as the Wooden Beast Storm is expected to come soon. It is known that Nan Jing Jing and Gou Yu is located in the West alone, while Zhang Pu, Huang Ying and Yue Ying are located in the South-West. Long Feng is in the South-East, which means the final four people, Chen Nan, Liu Tsung, Tie Peng and Chu Yi should be located in either one of the two remaining Woods. The moment Long Feng finally arrived within the habitat, he saw Tuluwo already starting to give some instructions to the newcomers about what they need to be prepared before the storm came. Long Feng get close to Tuluwo and initiates a conversation. [Fried Feng, I can''t thank you enough to assist our tribe to defend against this Wooden Beast Storm.] Tuluwo speaks. [Friend Tuluwo, can you explains to me what we will need to take note in this coming storm?] Long Feng replies, as he has neither knowledge or information regarding the Wooden Beast Storm. [Friend Feng, I will start explaining the situation to you so you could get ready. The moment the Seventh Sun came out, the skies will turn into scarlet colour. The atmosphere will felt like normal, but for the Wooden Beast, this is the most active period for them. Their strength will increase by around half stronger, while their capacity of breeding will be tripled as well. The Wooden Beast''s Lairs and Nest, or whatever we know, will nonstop produce more and more Wooden Beast that only required one hour to get into their maturity before they came over to subdue us.] [We have to be additionally careful, because of the moment this Scarlet Sunrise, a specific kind of Wooden Beast will appear from the skies. We called them the Crimson Sky Eagle Beast. While at the same time, when the Scarlet Moon rise, a specific kind of Wooden Beast will appear from the ground as well, known as the Crimson Hell Worm Beast. This two beast is extremely strong and dangerous. They came in a large number, and they will keep growing stronger as they remain in the world.] [This storm will remain for a total of 12 hours until the first moon rises to the sky. By then, we are on ourselves to protect everyone.] Tuluwo explains the situation to Long Feng as quickly as he could, and the next moment, the sun on the sky started to change in color, and soon enough, instead of a Yellowish Burning Bright Sun, a Crimson Coloured Sun slowly overtook the previous sixth sun position, and in that instant, screams and howls from the forest could be heard everywhere. "The Wooden Beast Storm is here! Everyone, in your position and protect yourself!" Long Feng speaks to the group of nine disciples as he readied his [Limbs of Xuan Wu] and prepared to fight. Just barely ten minutes later, a group of at least two hundreds of Rotten Wood Hound Beast and a hundred of Shadow Wood Leopard Beast immediately leap through the defensive walls, and entered the habitat without any notice! [Ready to fight!] Tuluwo screams as the tribesmen start charging towards those uninvited guest within the habitat. Similarly, Long Feng too gave instructions to all the disciples to fight if they wish, and protect themselves, as he charges into the battlefield without hesitation. Book 2 Chapter 84 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Sun 7 (Middle Part) "Boom!" a Vermilion Lord Pill explodes at the centre of a group of five Shadow Wood Leopard Beast. That single explosion gave the other tribesmen and fellow disciples a shock, but none of them dares to have a word about it. After all, the Prosperity Tribesmen are all only affiliated with the Wood Element and have no affinities towards any other elements at all. Same with the Wooden Beast as well. The empty spot quickly filled with other Shadow Wood Leopard Beast, and in additional, a new kind of unseen beast called as the Shadow Wood Vulture Beast starts to appears within the battlefield as well. The Vulture attack from a height unreachable by any mean of the weapon within the tribesmen, thus the disciple is sent forward to taking care of it. Meanwhile, like a tyrant, Long Feng easily swipes his pair of Claws left and right continuously as he moves, and each time his claws make it full swing, at least two to three Wooden Beast will have their life ends under its strikes. But no matter how strong is their resistance, the quantity of the Wooden Beast that had entered the habitat does not get lesser, but instead, it had increased to an unaccountable figure. From the initial three hundred Wooden Beast entered the habitat, now it had increased into at least a thousand Wooden Beast had already entered the habitat. And in that same moment, a loud noise of "Boom! Boom! Boom!" appeared from the outer wall, and with the walls falling down a layer at a time like a stack of dominoes, the wall soon been tear apart, allowing the vanguards of the storm, the Rotten Wood Ox Beast to entered the battlefield. Armed with those deadly horns on their head, a number of tribesmen and disciples failed to evade and immediately died under those ramming horn attacks. Long Feng was furious on how the tides of the battle suddenly turned from their side to the Wooden Beast''s side. Without hesitation, he throws numbers of Vermilion Lord Pills towards those locations most densely gathered with Wooden Beast, as he ignites all the Pill to generates a chain of an explosion. The explosion quickly spread around the whole habitat, and very quickly, all the outer side Wooden Beast is totally obliterated by Long Feng, while those that yet to dead is left with broken limbs, and destroyed lower body that renders them useless in the battle. But not even a minute had passed, and the outside of the habitat starts to have some activities once again. Since the sky had been dyed red by the Crimson Sun, one of the disciple throws a few Pill towards the sky to allows the explosion to brighten the area around them. But what came from the sight they saw next, could only be described as terror. At least two to three thousand Wooden Beast of various kinds is storming towards this location, which is only separated by the compost that previously killed in Long Feng''s Battle Concoction. "What is this! I want to return!" a disciple in fear quickly tear off the piece of charm in his hand and hopes that he would be immediately transferred back to the Continent of Yan, but the reality is slightly harsh, to be compared to dreamy wishes. Due to the Crimson Sun is currently above their sky, all kinds of transportation tools or charms will be rendered useless, which means if the disciple is going to be dead here under this Wooden Beast Storm, that would be counted as bad luck and bad choices instead. "No!!" the disciple broke down and cried because the faith of preserving his life starts to floats away as he seen those Wooden Beast coming closer and closer. Among the remaining six disciples, two of them are female, and slowly, they are getting close to Long Feng for a gamble to try and see could Long Feng protect them from such a demise. "Senior Long Feng, please protect us two, in return, we are willing to be your horse or even warm your bed at night, please! We don''t want to die!" the first female disciple speaks, while another behind her is slowly unbuttoning her blouse. "Senior Long Feng, if you want, you can have a taste first, please agree to protect us two, we don''t have the confidence to protect ourselves. Only that miraculous Battle Concoction Pill in your hand could do the trick." The four remaining male disciples have nothing to offers, as they are not even any top seeded disciples in the first place. But within their mind, they as well hoping for Long Feng to give them some protection, in return, they are willing to be his horse or do his bidding as Long Feng sees fit. Then, Long Feng replied them with a simple sentence. "fellow brother and sisters, we should try our best to protect each other. No matter how strong I am, the amount of Battle Concoction I have is limited." Long Feng then turned to the female disciple that already halfway undressing her blouse, and withdraw a cape to cover her upper body. "this sister, I am not that interested in such kind of things. Please get dress and prepare for the upcoming fight. We will need all the help we could." He finished his words as he turned around and prepared the [Limb''s of Xuan Wu] once again. "Let us break through this dead end and return to the Continent of Yan in one piece!" Long Feng waves him both claws widely as he charged towards the crowds of Wooden Beast. The fight becomes even ferocious. Thousands of Wooden Beast in variety kind charged towards the Habitat as if there is a special treasure hidden deep within the centre of the Habitat. The situation within each habitat become more critical as they already started to force the disciples to unleashed their final killing moves. One of the females that speaks with Long Feng previously, is forced to swallow a dangerous [Thunder Eagle Beast Essence Pill] to increase her overall strength, to face this deadly situation using all her brute strength! What an amazing Pill it was, to be able to force the female disciple to forms widespread wings with the length of around two meters wide on each side, as she flaps her wing and flew high up in the sky. She makes a turn before she descends towards where the Wooden Beast is gathered, and like a shot of lightning, her raw speed sliced all the Wooden Beast within her path into thin shreds. "Senior sister, good job!" the one that just tried to undress herself praise the female disciple for her amazing turnover, while at the same time, her motivation is boosted and she too, fights harder as she could. Slowly but sure, the tide of the fight is starting to change, as the swarms of Wooden Beast slowly getting thinner. "We are getting victorious! We are winning! Everyone fight as hard as you could!" one of the male disciple shouts because he starts to notice the decrease in numbers of the Wooden Beast stacked among each other as they charged ferociously. "Woo! Wooddd!" a tribesman tried to warn the disciples about something, but unfortunately, they have received no inheritance, so their language barrier between each other is still disallowing them to communicates freely. But within Long Feng''s ear, this is not a simple warning! [Danger! Danger incoming!], this is what spoken by the tribesman as it looked at the group of disciples. "Seniors and Juniors! Be careful, the tribesmen tried to give us a warning!" Long Feng shouts towards the disciples immediately, but it''s already too late. Three huge bird descends from the sky like a flash of lightning, and with its sharp and ruthless beaks, three male disciples head is immediately bitten off and swallowed by the birds without a notice. As the corpses fall to the ground lifelessly, blood surge from the neck and squirts everywhere, as the three birds returned to the sky once again, and screams could be heard from the two female disciples. "Argh!! Argh!!" the two female disciples screamed like no tomorrow, attracting the attention from the Wooden Beast around them. Seeing this kind of situation, Long Feng has no choice but to move backwards ten steps back to the three remaining disciples, as he tried to protect them from harm. "We are going to die!" the remaining male disciple already lost all his concentration, even if he tried to fight now, a mere Rotten Wood Hound Beast would easily tear him apart.A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. Seeing this kind of situation, even Long Feng begins to felt a slight hopelessness within his mind. Until this moment, Long Feng''s mind suddenly entered into the Inheritance Space without any notice. Before him, the Ancestor, Mu Dou appears once again and starts to speak with him once again. "Young one, how do you fare after obtaining my inheritance?" Ancestor Mu Dou speaks. "Dear Ancestor, this Young one is still fighting until a moment ago, trying to protect your bloodline from being destroyed by those Wooden Beast. Many of my companions had already died from the attack, and we are yet to meet with the main group of Crimson Sky Eagle Beast is yet to make their appearance. We only saw three of them a moment ago, and as they left, three of my companion had died." Long Feng honestly replied the ancestor''s words. "Ah, the Crimson Sky Eagle Beast... What a memorable name." the ancestor simply speaks a few words as he gone quiet out of sudden. "Ancestor, is there a problem?" Long Feng asked. "Hmm, since you already had my inheritance, this might helps to you as well. During the past, I actually had a chance to refine a fruit known as the [Heavenly Azure Peach Fruit] to have the chances to obtains the affiliation with the Sky Element, but I failed to obtain it. Then, as the opportunity had failed, I forcefully reject the remaining Sky Element within my body, and along with my blood, I force the Sky Element to forge together with the blood of mine as it is expelled from my body." "Since I am a cultivator that refined a plenty of [Medicinal Beast Profound Blood], the Sky Element managed to obtain a form of the Crimson Eagle Beast Essence Blood. I would never imagine that within this life effort of mine to creates this Prosperity Realm, the Crimson Eagle Beast could actually appear within here." the ancestor explained what happened within his lifetime, as it could be beneficial to Long Feng in any way. Long Feng continues with his questions. "Ancestor, what about this [Crimson Hell Worm Beast]?" as he saw the ancestor finished sharing the information regarding the Eagle Beast. "Ahh, even the Crimson Hell Worm Beast is here... Seems like this is all fate. Young One, do you think that, with the Sky Elemental within the Eagle Beast, it supposed to be Hell Elemental within this Worm Beast?" the ancestor questions. "Young One doesn''t dare to simply guess." Long Feng answered. "Hahaha, Good. The Crimson Hell Worm Beast is actually a kind of beast with extremely strong Wood Elemental within its body. It supposed to be out of the [Curse of Fruit Mantra] controls because this Worm Beast is extremely strong and special. Their special capability lies in their appetite." "The Crimson Hell Worm Beast is known as the devourer of the ancients. Wherever they go, the places they visit will end up into a barren land of waste. Treasures or not, anything below the King Realm would be digested by them very quickly. They are partially dangerous, but not too aggressive in compared to the Sky Eagle Beast." the ancestor finished his explanations as he looked at Long Feng patiently. "If that''s the case, can this young one asked the reason for the ancestor to be summoned into this realm?" Long Feng asked politely as he knows that without the ancestor''s approval, it would be difficult for him to entered this space with his current level of cultivation. "Oh, that''s right. I almost forget the reason I called you into this space. Just wanted to tell you something interesting. Do you notice that the Wooden Beast''s action is all too organized and orientated? It looks like it was orchestrated by something behind, don''t you think so?" "If you search deeper, I''m sure you would obtain the answers that lie behind all this and bring peace to my continent when the time comes. And also, one more thing. Why don''t you use your fire more? Here, take this seed and grows it well, it will become an inexhaustible resource for you when it grows up." Ancestor Mu Dou gives some hints and information, but not too clear in details. Even the seed is unknown to Long Feng. But what Long Feng could deduce that this Ancestor, doesn''t bear any ill intent towards him, so he has no opinion regarding accepting the goodwill from the ancestor. Long Feng take the seed into his hand, and with a blink, he returned to the Continent of Mu once again. From the vision in the Geology Map, Long Feng is located directly in the middle of everything, swarmed left and right with Wooden Beast in many kinds, but what''s weird about this is that no matter how close they are to Long Feng, they almost treated Long Feng as if he was a mere grass on the ground, something that does not create any attention to all the Living Beings around him. "Is this how it would felt if you managed to obtained the state of [One with Nature]?" Long Feng is impressed with such kind of happening before him, as he could clearly see how the Wooden Beast actually ignores him as they walk past. Even some happened to brush their body against Long Feng as they move, but the attention is all directed towards the remaining crowds of few more disciples together with the tribesmen. "I have to help them!" Long Feng swings his hand up above as he feels that he should make a move by now, or else, the Habitat might be suffering from recuperating in the future. After all, there is another Wooden Beast Storm in the next seventh moon. Just with a simple action, the Vermilion Lord Pills is scattered all around far from where Long Feng stands. With a flick of a finger, a chain of explosions appears, as it continues to take the lives of the Wooden Beast within its explosion range. The Wooden Beast became scattered and disorganized as the explosions managed to take out plenty of their ranks, and since this explosion is too sudden, the backup failed to come to replace the losses. With the number of Wooden Beast reduced significantly, the tribesmen quickly gain some momentum and overpowered the remaining beast around them. When Long Feng finally able to see clearly on the remaining groups of Prosperity Tribesmen, only roughly 300 of them still remain standing, with only the two female disciples still remain alive under their care. [Quickly form the walls, those that are not injured, quickly gathers all the Brown Crystal Beads for everyone to refine and regain their strength!] Tuluwo gave instructions to the other tribesmen as he turned around and looked at Long Feng. [Friend Feng, you helped us once again, many thanks.] Tuluwo could only express his gratitude with words for now. [Friend Tuluwo, what will come next?] Long Feng replies. But instead of answering Long Feng''s question directly, Tuluwo raise his head and looked at the sky. [Since the Wooden Beast Swarm had already stopped, the next thing will happen is most probably the appearance of the Crimson Sky Eagle Beast. The Eagle Beast will come in large flocks, numbering around 1000 to 2000 of them at a time.] Tuluwo shared this information, and additionally, he withdraws a kind of tools from the remains of the Wooden Beast. [Friend Feng, you may have some use on this thing. I managed to spot it when one of the bigger Hound Beast come over with this thing stuck its neck.] Tuluwo gave Long Feng the tools that seem to be a kind of weapon. Long Feng swipes away all the vines and also roots that were covering the tool, and at the same time, slowly reveals the deployed form of the tools as he cleans it further, finally, as all the distracting roots and vines had been cleaned and removed, Long Feng read the few words engraved on the handle. [Second Earth Grade Spirit Tool - Sky Sealing Formation Net] The moment Long Feng read the name, he finally noticed the speciality of this weapon that could help them in facing the upcoming flock of Crimson Sky Eagle Beast. [Friend Tuluwo, we have a way to defend against the upcoming flocks! We will win against this Storm for sure!] Long Feng happily speaks as he faced Tuluwo, giving him a happy smile. While for Tuluwo, he could only nod as he sees how happy is Long Feng when he revealed the true identity of that tool he picked up and gave to Long Feng. "This is why the treasure is shaped like a cube with a handle on both sides, and also three different sets of an inscription on the bottom of the cube." Long Feng take some time to slowly research the usage of this Spirit Tool, and next, he injects some Essence Energy into the cube to activates the first line of inscriptions. The moment the inscriptions flashed in red colour, Long Feng pointed the cube on the sky to see what will be happened next when this Spirit Tool is activated. "Piu!" a laser is shot upwards to the sky, and a gigantic Net appears from above as it seals the sky from being invaded by any beings from above. In the same time, this means that the net will stop anything from passing it from below as well. Then, a screeching sound could be heard from far, where moments later, a huge flock of Crimson Sky Eagle Beast appears from the upper side of the Sky Sealing Formation Net. The flocks of Eagle Beast tried to get pass the Net, but unfortunately, it was blocked and the spread of this net is quite far apart, causing the Eagle Beasts to have no choice but to use their brute force to destroy the net. Aids with this suddenly bought time, the tribesmen quickly gathered all the Brown Crystal Beads and refine it as quickly as possible, while the two female disciples quickly regain their composure as they prepare to fight as well. [Friend Feng, there is something I, Tuluwo, would like to offer to you for all this help.] Tuluwo suddenly approached Long Feng and speaks. [Friend Tuluwo, please do not be too humble on this matter, survival comes first.] Long Feng replied, having no interest in what Tuluwo tried to mentions. But then, the next word comes out from Tuluwo''s mouth managed to make Long Feng immediately have all his attention directed on. The Crimson Sky Eagle Beast will drop a special Azure Crystal Beads when they are killed. Because the element within is not compatible to the tribesmen to refine, so it usually wasted or buried within the ground to nourish the saint tree. But as Long Feng heard this Azure Crystal Beads, his eye opened wide as he knows what does this means. The Azure Crystal Beads is what he would need to increase his affinity and also tempering foundation with the Sky Elemental! Book 2 Chapter 85 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Sun 7 (Lower Part) [Friend Tuluwo, is what you just said is true?] Long Feng couldn''t believe what he just heard. But looking at Tuluwo, he kept nodding his head, indicating that the word he says is totally true. The moment Long Feng finally confirmed that this kind of Beads would be dropped by the Crimson Sky Eagle Beast, his interest in totally slaying all this beast without leaving a single one escape alive comes out. [Friend Tuluwo, after this, could you please make sure some tribesmen could make a trip over to the other part of the Continent as well to collect this beads for me? In return, I will provide a good amount of Pills to your tribesmen without any further request.] Long Feng asked for Tuluwo''s agreement in handling this matter, as he is actually extremely interested in obtaining all these Azure Crystal Beads he could into his hand. Long Feng''s attention than paid onto the Sky Sealing Formation Net. He looks at the first rows of inscriptions and noticed that the bright red lights that were activated on the Spirit Tool are almost dimmed as if it was an indication to notified Long Feng in its remaining time. Long Feng tried to inject more Essence Energy into the Spirit Tool, but without response, the light remains dim, and by the looks of it, it might only hold for another 30 seconds to a minute, before the Sky Sealing Net vanished. [Everyone prepares for battle!] Long Feng speaks to all the tribesmen that still remain standing and available to fight within the Habitat, as he leaps upwards and tosses a large amount of Vermilion Lord Pills upwards, scattered to a wide area. The moment the Sky Sealing Net vanished from the sky, the whole Flocks of Crimson Sky Eagle Beast quickly charge downwards toward where all the remaining tribesmen and disciples are standing, like it finally founds its prey. "Finally!" Long Feng accurately timed the explosion, and with a flick of a finger, the chain of explosions quickly destroy numbers of the charging Eagle Beast, almost taking down around a hundred of them in an instant. The after effect of the explosions managed to give a slight concussion to the Eagle Beast within the skies as well, as the very front flocks of Eagle Beast failed to endure and falls to the ground without any mercy from the gravity. "Bam! Bam! Bam!" continuously loud ground slamming sound could be heard throughout the whole habitat, where next, the tribesmen quickly stabbed their spear into the skull of the Eagle Beast to separate the Bead from their body, thoroughly killing it before it could react. But no matter how smooth is this matter goes, some casualties still happens, as the number of landed Eagle Beasts starts to increase in numbers. Some less focused tribesmen quickly became the food for these Eagle Beast, as the flocks of Eagle Beast quickly over whelmed them. Long Feng''s hand started to get tired slightly as well, with the number of Vermilion Lord Pill within his Spatial Ring getting lesser and lesser. The remaining 800 or more Crimson Sky Eagle Beast is quickly gathered within the habitat, as Long Feng struggles to fight against three to four at a time. Although the overall strength of the Eagle Beast is not able to threaten Long Feng completely, in the term of numbers, the Eagle Beast could easily overwhelm all of them and force them to an end without any efforts. Since the time to force him to use the sword is finally here, Long Feng hesitates not and exchanges his weapon from the Claws to the Qian Kun Sword, as he started to play his Sword Art to slain all the Wooden Beast before him. The fight continues for almost an hour until the tribesmen and Long Feng finally managed to kill the last Crimson Sky Eagle Beast. Everyone was exhausted, but they do understand one thing. The Crimson Sky Eagle Beast usually comes more than one flocks, so there must be another one to two flocks remain behind. And before they even needed to look around, screeching sounds already came in, as the second flocks of Crimson Sky Eagle Beast had already made their moves. Long Feng inject a portion of Essence Energy into the Spirit Tool once again, and this time, the deployment of the Sky Sealing Net is being done in a more appropriate way. The Laser beamed through to the middle of the flocks, as it expands and separated the flocks into two parts. Around 500 in each, the bottom part charge downwards as it finally notices the intention of the tribesmen trying to seal the two from gathered into one large flock. While at the same time, the one before the Sky Sealing Net is struggling to destroy the net and obtains their freedom to start attacking the tribesmen. With only 500 within this lower group, Long Feng and the tribesmen could take this fight easily! The female disciple remains vigilant and protected by few tribesmen as she keeps refining some Pills to allows the injured Prosperity Tribesman to recover and join the fight while allowing some other Tribesmen to slowly increase their strength as her Pills is ready to be consumed. For Long Feng, the moment he withdraws his sword, it had already been set that each time his sword make a move, a few dead beast will be lying on the ground. Gritting his teeth together as he strikes, Long Feng struggles to maintain his performance and depends on the Tiger Stripes Soul Pill to regain some of his internal Energy while he was fighting against the group of Eagle Beast. Finally, the lower group of the beast is completely slain, while the Sky Sealing Net still carrying half of its durability. Long Feng knows that this valuable time does not come too long, so he quickly sits in a meditating posture, as he meditates and tries to recover some of his strength and rest his mind before the next fight is going to starts. From the clouds, some figures starting to appears, almost like an indication that the third flocks of Crimson Sky Eagle Beast will make their move pretty soon.Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon. "Heh, not even giving us the time to take a rest? You Wooden Beast are slightly too cruel in this part huh?" Long Feng couldn''t help but admires the complexity of the Wooden Beast in carrying on this attacking matters. While in the same time, the words from Ancestor Mu Dou kept appearing within his mind. "What does the Ancestor means by the word Search deeper and I will obtain the answers to bring peace to this land?" Almost twenty minutes later, the Sky Sealing Net is finally broken, as the large group of Crimson Sky Eagle Beast starts to charge downwards. Added with the new flocks of Eagle Beast, the current flocks before Long Feng is a 1500 strong forces to be carefully handled. He knows that the time is too short for him to regenerates another net, but without any other choices in his hands, Long Feng quickly activates the Sky Sealing Net once again, as he shot it into the air and block half of the Eagle Beasts forces from managed to join the fight. "Two more hours left, then the First Moon will appear from the sky!" Long Feng knows that the Wooden Beast Storm will soon be over. Without any hesitations, the speed of completely defeats all the present he withdraws the remaining few more Essence Boosting Concoction within his Spatial Ring, and finished all of them in a gulp. With a recovery of around 25% of his overall Essence Energy, Long Feng reserve nothing but to charge over towards the most densely gathered spot with the Eagle Beasts, and starts to slain each of them who dares to come near to him. "Kill! Kill!" Long Feng almost looked like a deadly War God, even without being covered in crimson red blood on his body. The killing continues, as the number of tribesmen quickly reduced into around two hundreds of them still remain standing, the Crimson Sky Eagle Beast within the Sky Sealing Net had been completely slain as well. Long Feng looked at his thinning forces, as he felt slightly regrets for not having an even stronger strength to protect them. Although they would be reborn once again and doesn''t really took too long to mature, but from what Long Feng could see, even then, with almost an immortal life, is trying their best to protect themselves from being killed by the Wooden Beast each Seven Suns and Seven Moons rises. This kind of tenacity and the struggles they had to go through had already totally obtained a hint of respect from Long Feng. Since the fight is nowhere close to the end, Long Feng quickly sits down and start to meditates once again, as the next incoming flocks will be in another ten or twenty minutes, because the Sky Sealing Net is already getting weaker and weaker as the time pass. Exactly twenty minutes later, the Sky Sealing Net is finally broken, as the flocks of Eagle Beast charge into the habitat without delays. "Vermilion Lord Pills!" Long Feng throws all his remaining Pills upwards and ignites the chain explosions. Alike the first time used on the Eagle Beasts, almost hundreds of the Eagle Beasts failed to survive past that blast, while the remaining frontal flock is dazed by the explosion and falls to the ground in an extreme manner. The tribesmen quickly take the advantage to kills the fallen Eagle Beasts, while Long Feng utilized the Triple Impact Jade Bow to attack the remaining flying one too falls from the skies, creating more chances of fighting for the tribesmen. Finally, all the beast is completely slain, as there are thirty minutes remains before the Wooden Beast Storm is officially over. [We Won! We actually managed to survive past this storm for the first time after so many years!] those tribesmen that live the longest among the others happily cheers as they are victorious. For them, this is a significant change because the more winning streak the tribesmen managed to obtain, would results in a more balance in power between the two forces, and indirectly helping them to handle the upcoming Wooden Storm Beast easier. But since it had been quick long time had already passed without any chances of victory, this has indirectly caused the Prosperity Tribesmen to struggles to maintain the balance of power, which is why their strength is getting weaker, while the Wooden Beast side is getting stronger each time after the Wooden Beast Storm. Since the victory is already assured for this time, for the Foundation Wood''s Habitat, the remaining tribesmen quickly travel towards the remaining four Habitat, to check on their situation as well providing helps. This is because their strength could be said as in their peak at the moment, after experiencing such a Chaotic fight against the Wooden Beast. Even if this group of tribesmen might be the weakest among everyone within the Foundation Woods, but if they were to participate in the other Habitat''s fight, they might be a part of the strongest force there, in exchange for experience. The moment most of the tribesmen had already left, newer groups of young Prosperity Tribesmen already had born and growing up, as they already started to collects all the scattered Azure Crystal Beads and Brown Crystal Beads scattered on the ground. The numbers of young tribesmen quickly increased, from the previous ten young adults into almost hundred of them in an instant. Almost all of them retains most of their memories before death, and although the number of spawned tribesmen is not necessarily belonged to the Foundation Woods habitat before, but since they are connected in a Central Memory, the memories within them is currently already matured and updated, allows them to instantly understands what situation is on the continent at the moment. This also includes the deal between the tribesmen and Long Feng, which is why all the gathered Azure Crystal Beads is all presented to Long Feng. As the thirty minutes finally passed, the Crimson Sun finally retreated from the skies, as it was replaced by a beautiful bluish hue Moon. Some of the trees and grasses already started to grows again, and very quickly, the land that was in a chaotic battle twelve hours ago quickly recovered into its previous glory, where all the evidence of battle quickly recovered and loss in the time of prosperous growth. Even some of the Spirit Herbs scattered numerously around everywhere begins to turn into something else, due to the changes of atmosphere. Some of the beasts had gone into hibernation as well, and a much more different kind of Wooden Beast starts to appear within the corrupted forest. The flora and fauna begin to change, like the Yang Yue Bloom that started to grow its Yue Fruits, even the grasses, leaves and trees begin to change according to the atmosphere. "This is totally a wondrous and mysterious Continent. Even the changes of Sun and Moon would create such huge changes in this continent. Long Feng finish appreciating the changes happened before his eyes, as he finally close and begin to recuperate, and in that moment, Long Feng pop in the Golden Jade Holy Pill into his mouth, and tries to see what would be happened along the way. Book 2 Chapter 86 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Moon 1 "Ahh..." Long Feng moaned slightly as the Golden Jade Holy Pill within his dantian starts to give him a feeling like he was under the embrace of his beloved mother. The feeling is so satisfying, and in that instant, Long Feng not only felt safe within that embrace, the feeling of being surrounded by a bed made of elements within the air slowly made their contact with Long Feng as they float around, and like a child making contact with each other, those purely clean feeling is so tangible and felt so miraculously wonderful. Like playing a roulette game, the Element of Metal, Water, Earth first appoint themselves to approach Long Feng to see which one among them have the highest mutual feeling towards each other, where the Earth Element first have its feeler touched with Long Feng''s forehead, and soon, the tangible feeling from the earth element vanished from the air. Just like this, it''s already almost like a hint that Long Feng''s affinity with Earth Element is not around. The Water and Metal came up next, but the same reaction came out like when it was with the Earth Element, the two elements vanished from the air, leaving Long Feng alone on the ground without anymore Elemental Essence could be felt. Long Feng felt slightly disappointed that he has no affinities at all with the three elements, but he trusts his intuition, that no matter what, one element will make it together with him the moments he wakes up. Long Feng focus deeper into his meditation, and slowly but surely, a few different Elements starting to show before him in a circle, and within that circle, five different kinds of Tangible forces could be felt. The force bears a resemblance of a slime, but with a different colour on each of them. There is a Clear Green coloured slime, a Black Coloured slime, a Golden Yellow Coloured Slime, a Purple Coloured Lightning Slime, and lastly, another Clear Blue Sky Coloured Slime. The Purple coloured slime is the first to approach Long Feng, and with a touch, a hint of lightning quickly appears between the two, but at the same time, the lightning bolt vanished within that second as well. "I guess, this means that I have no affinity for now with the Thunder Element as well." Long Feng smile in his heart as he awaits the next to come over to him. Next in line, the Black Slime and the Golden Yellow Slime came together to Long Feng''s side and tried to make a contact with Long Feng, but similarly, the connection between them is broken as well. The Clear Sky coloured Slime tried next, but still to no avail, its failed once again. Then, worrying that the possibility of Long Feng will obtain not even a single affinity with the elements might be happening! Then, the Green coloured Slime starts to make a move and slowly floats over to Long Feng''s side. Unexpectedly, the Green Coloured Slime actually managed to make a contact with Long Feng without any effort at all. It made him felt slightly shocked. Then, the slime actually starts to talk. "Hehehe! Seems like no matter how hard the others try, this chance still belongs to me!" the Green Slime actually speaks like it was expected that he will be the chosen one this time. "Little Slime, what do you mean?" Long Feng asked. "Hahaha! All of us take the turn to see who will be the first to try to get a link with you, and although I got the last straw, still, the links still belongs to me!" the Green Slime proudly explains the situation to Long Feng. "Listen well, I am the Core Affinity of Wind, one of the Element with the Five Minor Elemental. By obtaining the affinities with me, you will be able to feel and creates a foundation of Wind in the future. The Wind indicates Freedom, Recklessness, Stubbornness, Tempers, Wisdom, and Destruction. By having me within you in your foundation, you will be able to slowly harness all the capability I hold in my hand." "Always remember, the Wind will not be stopped by anything, no matter what happens!" the Green Slime proudly announce his greatest traits, and by the side, the Metal and Earth Element appears and start to speaks. "As if you could escape from us when we are having a friendly match." the moment Green Slime heard that he instantly quiet down and whispers beside Long Feng''s mouth. "That two is always bullying me because their traits are to builds anything and forms everything." But similarly, the Water Slime and Clear Sky Blue Slime appears and comments as well. "You two seems to be too confident lately huh? Wanna try?" a hint of warning could be heard, while the Black and Golden Yellow Slime couldn''t be bothered and went aside to get lazy on the ground. "This sight is seriously unimaginable even for me..." Long Feng actually felt speechless. "Alright, we should be back to our way, We will be together as one from now, please take good care of me!" the Green Slime disappeared within Long Feng''s body, as his mind returns to his body instantly. The moment he opened his eyes, a surge of Wind Elemental around him quickly got absorbed into his Elemental Storage and being condensed into a slightly thicker density. Long Feng swipes his hand and felt that in that simple swing, not only the wind flow does not obstruct him so much anymore, the swiftness of his simple swing even became deadlier, as the leaf along his path of that swing actually had the leaf chopped into two pieces. "The Wind Elemental is actually this deadly!" Long Feng knows that from this moment onwards, he will be treading in the path of a four elemental affinities cultivators. This would also mean that not only he will be one of the most sought after disciples for most of the schools and sects, he might even face some danger from the opposing force that he doesn''t have a good relationship with, because to protect the force from being destroyed by a bright future talents, they will have to try all kind of tricks to quickly destroys it before he could grow.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! [Friend Feng, we receive some news from the other habitats during your recuperating period.] Tuluwo came into the room and begins to speak with Long Feng. [Oh, so what''s happening in the other four Habitats? Did they managed to fend off the Wooden Beast Storm as well?] Long Feng was anticipating for this news as he was quite worried about the safety of Nan Jing Jing as well Hong Yue, as it wasn''t sure what is the reason Hong Yue has transferred away from Long Feng''s side. [Friend Feng, the Grain Woods, Missing Woods and Grass Forest is safely passed through the storm. The only thing is, the Ashes Woods suffered quite a heavy damage. All the tribesmen failed to defend against the Storm, and it was devastating. Everyone is dead, and the human cultivators that come along with you scattered and escapes for their lives.] Tuluwo explains all the current situation and updates to Long Feng as he sees fit. After Tuluwo finishes explaining that other smaller news regarding here and there, he proceeds to pack all the Azure Crystal Beads together and pass it over to Long Feng. [Friend Feng, altogether, we managed to obtained a total of 10,000 Azure Crystal Beads after it is mixed along with the other four more Habitat''s haul.] [Thank you, Friend Tuluwo. Take this in return and please give it to those who need it.] Long Feng passed another pouch to Tuluwo, within the pouch contained a total of around 50,000 Pills that would be useful for the people from the Tribe to refine and increase their strength. Long Feng then make a trip over to see how well is the six Cultivation Beast under him fares, and looking at how healthy they are, Long Feng decided to not disrupting their growing up ritual, as he slowly walks towards the north. "There is another five more Moons remaining after three more hours passed. If I save my time and quickly went into my journey, I should be able to reach the Centre Mountain Path within this few hours." Long Feng calculates his time perfectly, as he starts to follow the time setting that he just came out with. Since some of the initial battle concoction had already been prepared, Long Feng has nothing else to hesitates and leave the Habitat without any words with others. "Luckily I managed to restock my supplies of Vermilion Lord Pills before this journey. Since there will be more different Spirit Herbs available in this period of time, I have to keep up my speed and quickly make my way towards the Womb Woods and finds Mother Gaia." Long Feng sets his targets as he makes his way towards the north. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [How many had success in this storm?] A standing figure appears from a darkened cave and speaks in the Prosperity Tribe Language. [Five attacks had been conducted. One success, and Four Failure. The humans this time is pretty strong, especially the one with inheritance in the Foundation Woods.] another shorter figure appears in one of the caves and starts to report the progress to the former. [Hmm... Seems like the inheritor this time is not only one person, but three instead. I wonder if Mother Gaia already becoming restless from being pushed into a corner by us.] the earlier standing figure speaks again in reply, and as he looked at the top of the dark cave, lit only by a piece of glowing Bead within. [If the situation starts to become worst, then it will be the time we would be required to make our appearance.] another even taller standing figure, almost double the size of the first standing figure starts to speaks, as he appears from one more bigger sized cave. [How about Tuluwo? Are we still need to put an effort in corrupting him?] the shorter figure speaks, as it withdraws a piece of pearl and put it on its hand, and the image of Tuluwo is walking around the Foundation Wood''s Habitat appears. [Ignore that kid. He is yet to face the maturity stage like us. It will take too long if we want to waits for his corruption to get matured. We will need to pick up the speed a little. Since my part in the Womb Woods is already completed, I will have more time to slowly grow and culture those special Wooden Beast, by that time, a new king will surely appear!] the gigantic Figure speaks out a method of solution to the two to hear. [What do you think?] the Shorter Figure asked the earlier first standing figure. [The female within your Grain Woods is quite capable as well, make sure you take note on that female and do not allow her to successfully leads the Habitat.] the standing figure comments, as he pointed at the shorter figure. [I will make sure the Missing Woods and Ashes Woods is well taken cared of.] the standing figure says. Then, two thinner figure appears from the remaining cave, and both of them starts to speak in the same tune. [I will] "Handle" [The Foundation Woods] "and the Grass" [Forest]. The two figure finished their words and left as quickly as possible. [If that''s all for now, we will start taking action for the upcoming Wooden Beast Storm, quickly go and start your preparations!] the gigantic figure speaks as he left the cave as well. Following from behind, the remaining two vanished from the spot and leaving the Cave empty without any voice once again. [It seems like I will need to take some further action to disrupt the flow in the Grain Woods! Our plan had been running for quite a long time by now, if I could handle it like how eldest brother does, it would be a quick stepping stone into fulfilling our plan!] [It is the time that the peoples and visitors to sees the real five kings within the Continent of Mu!] the shorter figure appears to be much more human-like compared to the other Prosperity Tribesmen, with muscles and blood veins spread along their body, and a facial feature that comparable to a normal human. The only difference is within his body, a strong Life-force could be felt, as if not only a brain, Heart and other working organs has appeared within its body, even blood flow is circulating within, as if he was a man totally made from Wood''s purest essence. Similarly, the other remaining four of them to possess the same body, only different in sizes, shape and also a part of their strength. The first Gigantic Figure possesses an unaccountable amount of strength, with physical advantage as its best forte, while the much more normal standing figure possesses the Martial advantage. The twins possess an amazing ability in their advantages, and many more secrets seem to be hidden depth within them, only by separating them apart one could have a full view on this so call hidden secrets. Lastly, the Shorter Figure, where his forte is in his speed. This Shorter Figure is known as Tulumi, a previous protector and tribesmen belonged to the Grain Woods before everything mysteriously happened, and start to cause more and more Wooden Beast to gone corrupted. Meanwhile, at the same time, Long Feng had successfully entered the Northern Womb Woods, where in a short instant, he totally destroyed all the Ferocious Wood Snake Beast and also the nearby Scarlet Wood Wasp Insect, without leaving a single one of them to remain alive. Book 2 Chapter 87 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Moon 2 (Upper Part) The moment Long Feng entered the surrounding of Womb Woods, a hint of corruption quickly felt from all over his body. Looking at the surrounding ground and vegetation, not even a single edible and usable herbs remain. Within the whole ground area, countless numbers of Hive Looking plants and also few different kinds of Wooden Beast''s burrows could be seen around the area. "This corruption is totally overboard! I shall destroy their roots around this area, and allows the other few section to slowly start purifying the land around here." Long Feng decides on what he should do. And since the Corruption and the Fertile lands is almost the counterforce of Yin and Yang, Long Feng could easily determine that if he managed to weaken the source of Corruptions within this land, the purifying process will slowly begin naturally, and perhaps before the end of the seventh Moon, the land is already fully purified, allowing some of the tribesmen to slowly born once again in this land of Womb Woods. [Xuan Wu Sword Flash + Wind Element''s Foundation] Long Feng perform his martial arts as he tried to destroy the whole Hive before him, and with the aid of the Wind Element Foundation, Long Feng able to create a blade of the wind that would scatter and slice through the obstacles without difficulties. Since the Hive is not specially created to join in a fight, Long Feng only need one normal slash, and the hive is destroyed into small little rolls of woods. But because this kind of wood is corrupted, before Long Feng could decide to harvest this material or not, it was already started to slowly evaporate. Long Feng continues to destroy all he could as he explores deeper into the forest. Under the guidance of the density of the corruptions, Long Feng could easily identify the source of the It''s and head towards it to see if he could try to get rid of the source. In just a short period of time, Long Feng easily increased the number of Brown Crystal Beads within his hand from less than a thousand into about nine thousand and still increasing. In the same time, he actually felt slightly shocked, because just in the period of few Suns, and the Womb Woods Corruption could actually be turned into such a degree of damage. "Just how potent and dangerous is this [Curse of Fruit Mantra] actually? Not only it could totally corrupt the whole forest when it was fallen into the hands of the Wooden Beast, they could actually turned most of the vegetation into a totally different kind, that is suitable and could be used by the Wooden Beast to breed." Long Feng finally arrived at the "Core" of the corruptions, and before him, a sight of unforgettable images is shown to him without any reservation. Before Long Feng is an open space with at least ten different kinds of Insect is seen wrapped around the Tribesmen head, and as the Insect breath in some air and essence into its body, a kind of corrupted source is created within and been transferred into the Tribesmen through its mouth. The body of the tribesmen is completely wrapped with vines and thick arteries like roots, that slowly allows all the corrupted source that entered its body to be spread into the ground and thoroughly corrupting the land without remorse. "This is totally over the limit of one person could handle!" Long Feng is totally pissed with such a kind of treatment he saw towards the tribesmen. He withdraws his sword, and without any hesitations, the [Xuan Wu''s Might] is performed, and the blows of slicing wind came on strong towards the centre of where the ten different insect and the tribesmen hosts are deeply rooted. [Wraww!] one of the insect howls as it was injured by Long Feng''s strike, but unexpectedly, it actually doesn''t die from such a strong attack! It was even in a undefended condition! Long Feng knows that no matter what, he will have to take action and get rid of all this. This means the usage of Vermilion Lord Pills will be justified! With the howl from the injured Insect, a small group of Wooden Beast quickly came into where Long Feng and the Rooted Hosts, and starts to get aggressive, as it Long Feng had invaded their sacred territories. Long Feng toss the Vermilion Lord Pill without any hesitation, as he ignites it in a sequence that will kill off the Wooden Beast in a line of explosions, controlled and beautifully arranged like a performance of fireworks. "Bam Bam Bam!" the explosions totally separate Long Feng and the Rooted Hosts from its surrounding as a crater had already formed. The vines and arteries like roots had already been blasted into smithereens, and some of the hosts had fallen to the ground, lifeless but still wriggling around because of the insect is struggling to detach itself from being held up from moving because of the weight of the dead host. "Do you think that you could run after doing such thing towards the people of Prosperity Tribe!" Long Feng "Drills" his sword into the insect''s flesh, and thoroughly killing that strong defensive strength but weak Insect. The others start to struggles and try to escape as well, but without any mercy within his eyes, Long Feng repeats the same action, and drills his sword into each single Insect, killing them in that instant. The moment all this is over, a continuous howl could be heard far from where he was located. The tone seems likely to be similar to what he heard earlier from the Insect when it was injured, but this time, instead of giving out a sense of pain, it seems more like it was summoning for protectors to protect them from being annihilated. "These kinds of howl means that there will be more within this forest! If I don''t get rid all of them, then where is the face for me to meet the Ancestor Mu Dao when I could have the chances to do so?" Long Feng put on the [Carapace of Xuan Wu] on himself as he charges towards where the sounds came from, and like a launched arrow, he strike downs all the Wooden Beast he managed to sees within his sight. The way Long Feng is looked from the sight of the Wooden Beast is as if the god of death is visiting them, and whatever appears before him will be torn apart like being chopped by a vine slicer.If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. [Stop what you are doing!] a figure went down from above the trees as it delivers a lethal punch towards Long Feng. "What the hell? This is a Late Earth Adept Realm strength!" Long Feng is shocked with the strength delivered from the deadly blows, as he was pushed backwards for around four trees distance. [Who are you and why are you stopping me from destroying these parasites?] Long Feng communicates with the figure as it speaks in the native Prosperity Language previously as it delivers a blow. [I am Tulujin, how dare you try to destroy all this (Corrupted Formation Heart) that we spend such a long effort to get it done!] the figure name Tulujin speaks. This Prosperity Tribe member bears the resemblance similar to Tulumi, with an exceptionally strong life force is spreads from its body. [You are a member of Prosperity Tribe yet you don''t possess the appearance like them. You are much more... Humanized.] Long Feng couldn''t believe his eyes that this member of Prosperity Tribe actually evolved and being so different from the usual tribesmen. [We are the purer breed, not like that lousy reborn trash! You destroyed two of my formation that I spend around two Suns to create, Pay with your life!] the figure named Tulujin does not wish to continue to communicates as it starts to get even aggressive. [If that what you''re looking forward, then I, Long Feng, will accompany you to enjoy it!] Long Feng who started to lost his temper, begins to lose even more into his anger as he had seen how important is this formation he destroyed, to this evolved tribesman. Since it is a fight it was looking for, Long Feng will not hesitate to cripple this figure before he starts to ask for the details. [Limbs of Xuan Wu!] Long Feng creates his pairs of claws along with the [Carapace of Xuan Wu] he had it activated earlier, and like a raging beast, he strikes directly without even bothered to check his opponent''s fighting preparations. But in advantage, this trick managed to do some good for Long Feng, as his lack of Hesitation decision managed to caught Tulujin off-guard, and accept a direct fist towards its face instantly. [Hateful!] Tulujin howls loudly, and like an anger Warcry, all the nearby Wooden Beast immediately escapes from 1 kilometre from their distance in afraid of losing their dear lives. Tulujin starts to deliver a chain of fist towards Long Feng, and like a strategist in war, Long Feng deviates his plan and tactics, and with each fist delivered by Tulujin, a Sealing Sphere appears before the fist, and force its momentum to be destroyed before the next could be executed. In the eyes of opportunity, Long Feng even managed to catch the off-guard Tulujin, as he gave a few slashes each time Tulujin is wide open with weaknesses. [Rah!! Hateful Human!] Tulujin ignites all his Wood Element Energy outwards and explodes it like a few burst of waves, but how would he knows that Long Feng possess the Element Wind within his disposal? Fighting Waves with Winds, Long Feng easily hover across the few waves of Wood Element burst, before a Sealing Pill with few Vermilion Lord Pills is activated together with Tulujin is sealed within. [Human!!!!] Tulujin could only shout, as the Pills explodes within the Sealing Sphere. As the dust and smokes disappeared, a wounded figure of Tulujin with some green coloured substance flowing out from throughout its body slowly appears. [You force me! You are the one to force me to do it!] Tulujin stabbed his hand into its chest as he pulled out the heart deep within its chest. He pumped the heart for a few times before it starts to crack with gaps and wounds, and weirdly, Tulujin who supposedly possess the heart does not have a hint of pain from his current action at all. Then next thing happens, is that the corrupted essence from their surrounding started to gather slowly towards where the two is standing still, the heart begins to leak a green coloured substance, and as it flows into the hand of Tulujin, the corrupted essence starts to being sucked into the heart, and turns into a violet coloured heart. The heart quickly absorbs all the corrupted essence surrounding them, and with the void of Corrupted essence, the woods quickly vanished, becoming a barren land without any vegetation at all. Just in that instant, the whole 10 Kilometres wide area become barren and dry from any nutrients and life, except the two of them. Long Feng looked at the appearance of Tulujin, whom already transformed as if he just went through a metamorphosis. The humanoid body that once injured became even bulkier and stronger, with a double body mass compared to previously when he is fighting with Long Feng. Each joint of Tulujin is glowing with a violet coloured crystal, and on its forehead, a pair of horns that seems like a goat begins to appeared from its skull and started to glow in violet coloured hue as well. [Human, Die!] Tulujin charge towards Long Feng with a speed double compared to before. That instant, Tulujin appears before Long Feng and gave him a punch directly on the chest, and force Long Feng to be thrown backwards for almost 500 trees before he finally stops. "Argh!" Long Feng vomits two mouthfuls of blood, as he is deeply injured from that one single punch. "I have to be more careful, this guy not only has almost tripled increment in his strength, his speed is even deadlier!" Long Feng quickly scattered three Sealing Pills by his side, and in that instant, a punch came through that three sphere, and still managed to reach Long Feng. Once again, Long Feng was thrown back a hundred more trees distance, and this time, he forcefully swallowed the mouthful of blood as he slammed his claws on the ground and prepares to fight seriously as well. "You want a fight? You damn freak?" Long Feng anger had reached its peak, as the Red Fire Stage Foundation quickly appears around him, and thoroughly wrapping up the pair of Claws, causing it to be as if the Claw is made with Fire. "Its been too long that I haven''t had such a fun fight, you are going to be a good practice target for me to exceed my mastery in the Xuan Wu Sword Sect Martial Arts! Since you are so durable, I wonder could you handle this strike when I got serious!" Long Feng activates all his Xuan Wu Sword Sect Arts without a sign of stopping, and like a deformed essence figure, the shape of his Essence Energy keep changing again and again. Sometimes, It became like a standing tortoise, while sometimes, it becomes a deformed tortoise with huge claws and a small pair of short legs. The essence even formed into a shape of a long neck tortoise for a moment, before it deformed again as it started to shift into a smaller, denser figure. Soon, it seems like the essence energy finally obtains a figure it wished to possess before a green jade coloured hue started to appears before Long Feng''s Essence Energy. [The name Tulijin, am I correct? I will let you have the first taste of my ultimate technique that combined all four mastery of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect Martial Arts. This is the first stage, (Xuan Wu''s Stampede!) Long Feng''s waves of Essence Energy explodes, as the Fire, Wood, Wind and Sky element starts to pour out without any hint of stopping in between. The area around them is thoroughly covered by Long Feng''s mist of Element Essence, as he moves swiftly like a tortoise in the water. At this moment, Long Feng had totally become a weapon of his own. Book 2 Chapter 88 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Moon 2 (Lower Part) "Bam! Bambam!" three explosions could be heard from that 10 kilometres barren grounds. As the clouds of smokes slowly rise into the air, two shadows could be seen fighting against each other, exchanging blows through their body parts. "Poof!" Long Feng''s fist came into contact with Tulujin''s face and created a huge edge on the skull of this corrupted tribesman. [Human, you are quite... Umph!] Tulujin tried to speaks, but without any intention to allow him to finish speaking, Long Feng delivers another blow to his face, thoroughly flattened the frontal skull as Tulujin falls backwards. Long Feng didn''t stop at there but continues to deliver blows by blows towards the opponent like it is yet to meet its maker. With the aid of Wind Element''s turbulence resistant and Fire Element''s fiery ignition, added with his own brute strength, Long Feng''s Vermilion Lord Pill became like a blast of pressurized missile, as each single pill is tossed and strikes downwards, a ground shaking explosions could be felt, even when one is not standing above ground. [Raging Wood Spears!] Tulujin controlled the Wood Element around him, added with the corrupted Essence, he delivers a rain of spears attack towards Long Feng without any space to be evaded. But in that similar time, Long Feng Fist slammed directly on the ground, creating an earthquake that causes all the ground to become uneven, and as the flow of wind starts to change, the rain of spears quickly scattered and blocked before it even reached Long Feng. With a hop, Long Feng instantly appears behind Tulujin, and gave him a strike on the nape, causing the latter to slam on the ground face first before Long Feng continues with another punch slammed towards the ground. "Kabam!" Long Feng actually brings out the Vermilion Lord Pill within this strike, as the fist slammed on the ground, a huge explosion could be felt, as the figure that was buried deep within the rubbles starts to bleed without control. [Rargh!] Tulujin leaps upward along with all the rubbles, as Long Feng, who was already waited too long for him to come upwards, gave a downward strike once again, as Tulujin was launching towards another direction with his head carving up the soils on the ground. Tulujin has no sense of pain, but currently, the sense of fear quickly creates the sense of pain within its body, as it starts to get weaker and tired, almost unable to continue fighting anymore. Tulujin wakes up and prepares to face the next upcoming strike from the front, only to meet with nothing but thin air before his eyes. [Where is!!] Tulujin tried to think, but unfortunately, a claw came from upwards, and its head had been totally destroyed into a pile of compost where it will slowly vanish. Afraid of being back-stabbed once again like last time, Long Feng land a few more blows and thoroughly destroy tulujin''s body. He bend down and collects the few piece of beads on the ground, only to notice that other than the four Large Brown Bead located in its four limbs, there is actually three Brown Essence Teardrops within this tribesman. "Will the tribesmen became like them too, if they over refine the Brown Crystal Beads?" Long Feng has some suspect, but still, he felt that he standing too shallow in this waters, and instead, he should continue to hunt for the treasure first, no matter what. He continues to proceed down to the north, and very soon, Long Feng could have a view towards the blue sea that vastly covered the whole area as he exits from the woods. Unexpectedly, there are no winds at all around the edge of this Northern side of the Continent of Mu, and as he tried to look around, not even a single shred of corruption could be seen as he exits the forest. "This area must be covered and protected by the grace of Mother Gaia if that''s the case, I should quickly find out where it is kept, so I could see if I am qualified to inherit her with the grace of Ancestor Mu Dao." Long Feng starts to look around the edge of the northern side, and in the same time, he did not forget to assist in removing the corruption as long it is within his reach. Through working hard in this matter, Long Feng quickly managed to recover a large part of the edge area, and his effort finally bears its fruit as the young tribesmen already started to slowly bloom and grows from the grace of the new Saint Tree, that fully grown after being released from the corruptions for around six hours. [Inherited one, thank you for helping us to handle the corruptions within the forest.] the current oldest Tribesman quickly thanked Long Feng for handling the corruption on their behalf. Since if it''s depending on their own power, who knows how long would it be before they managed to slowly take back some of the lands to cultivate another Saint Tree to start giving birth to new tribesmen. [This friend, could you tell me what happened recently, that cause the Womb Woods to fall into the Wooden Beast within any news delivered towards the other Habitats? Do you know the location of the previous habitat, so we could take it back to use?] Long Feng quickly checks with the previous event, regarding what happened few suns back. Then, the Tribesman starts to talk. It happened quite close to the moment when Long Feng and the other disciples started to being sent into this Realm. A few disciples actually being sent to the Womb Woods, and very quickly get into quite a good Pill Exchange relationship with the tribesmen along their way. Although the habitat is constantly under siege by a plenty of Wooden Beast, as their strength is rising continuously due to the help from the Pills refined by the disciples, their strength grows very quickly.If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. But about the third or fourth sun later, everything had changed. Like it was properly organized, the pack of Wooden Beast attacks the habitat is a succession wave, and it continues for a whole Fourth Sun period. By the end of the Fourth Sun, the Habitat is unfortunately fallen and all the tribesmen that weren''t dead are captured for god know what''s the reason. The human who failed to leave should be dead by now, and that alive one is most probably either escaped or possess some special tricks to run away. And as the updates stopped here, Long Feng roughly have an idea of what happened within this part of the continent. Based on what the tribesman had shared, it seems that the main culprit behind this attack is somebody who is along the side of this person like Tulujin, and perhaps even a stronger one. This person might have the capability to control and order the Wooden Beast, and in the same time, strong and strategic. Facing such an opponent, Long Feng quickly to come out with a countermeasure, as this kind of opponent is the most dangerous among all. At the moment, Long Feng''s attention not only needed to be put on looking for Mother Gaia, he even needed to make sure that the numbers of Tribesmen could continue to grow and quickly return to their habitats, to make sure that the Womb Woods will be able to control the population of the Wooden Beast once again. Facing with such a difficult situation, Long Feng need some time to fully considers his option. As he is all alone by himself at the moment, so only one choice could be made, and it will over lapse the others if he chose one at the end. Long Feng could take no responsibility in this matter if he wished to do so, but since he already accepts the inheritance from the Ancestor Mu Dou, it would be offensive towards the Ancestor if Long Feng actually chose to not support and protect the people from Prosperity Tribe. But what caused him to slightly hesitates, is because of his meeting with Tulujin. This evolved Tribesman not only possess such a large amount of Brown Crystal Beads within its body, it even stronger, deadlier to be compared to the other Wooden Beast. Possessing the ability to converse using Prosperity Tribe native language, Tulujin actually even knows about creating the [Corrupted Formation Heart] that is used to infect the woods with corrupt essence. He considers the weight between the two choices, and finally, Long Feng decided to assist the tribesmen in obtaining and strengthening their habitat in the first place. Although the urge of him to quickly obtains the Mother Gaia is important, but as long he could assist in making the Womb Woods safe from the corruption, locating the exact location of Mother Gaia might be easier, because from what Ancestor Mu Dao says, the Mother Gaia is the only Life Bound Spirit Treasure that has a sentient minds. In the same time, Long Feng inquiry about the person called Tulujin as well from the tribesmen. After checking for that being''s identity for quite a while, Long Feng finally obtains the information regarding this exact tribesman. It is been said that Tulujin, Tulupeng and Tulukong, is the previous three strongest and oldest tribesmen protecting the Womb Woods from the attacks of Wooden Beast. The youngest among the three of them are Tulukong, a gigantic tribesman with a wolf-tooth wooden mace as his favourite weapon. Tulupeng and Tulujin are slightly younger, but their strength is quite even when it came to competing with each other. But around ten Sun and Moon Wooden Beast Storm ago, the three of them finally went missing from the Womb Woods, where it was believed that the three had met their demise after exploring deeper into the woods. Although they are expected to be reborn once again from the Saint Tree, seems like its been quite long that none of the three of them had been revived, so the tribesmen believed that it must be reborn without any memories, thus they are not been found until date. Since he already had new targets, Long Feng decided that he will escorts a few tribesmen personally to exits the Womb Woods heading towards the other Habitats to inform them that the northern Womb Woods Habitat had been recovered, and looking for refuge here will be made possible for any trips. Long Feng also informed the currently growing population of the tribesmen that if they are willing to assist Long Feng in obtaining the Spirit Herbs to refine more Pills for their usage. Additionally, since Long Feng knows that he will be having more harvest in the future as long he could help the Prosperity Tribe prosper, he decided to directly use the Spirit Herbs within his inventory. In the same time, Long Feng having a flashback once again, regarding the informative collection of books he read so far to date, where it compiled different sections of the ranking, usage, speciality and also the differences of each stage of the herbs. Within the Continent of Yan, the time flows go in a very average way, where it could aid in the formation of Essence Energy, but in exchange, the growth of medicinal plants is not extremely fertile. This caused the people start to consider the option of creating and scripting further improvement tools, to aid in the growth of the medicinal plants. But in comparison with the fertility in the Prosperity Realm, a simple Black Bitter Mint within this Realm could grow at least 1 years old each hour pass, and even further as it was allowed to grows. For all the herbs, their differences came in their age, and their total essence energy consumed during their growth. Since the Continent of Mu is extremely fertile with strong essence energy presence, Spirit Herbs are commonly seen. A medicinal Herb is used to label a harvest that yet to reach its complete adulthood stage. In an example, a Black Bitter Mint could be harvest at their two weeks time, in their Normal Quality. If the herb is harvested in a full month time, it would be treated as a Fine Quality instead. Of course, if the herb is left alone for about half a year, where it allows the plant to nicely reach their adolescent stage, the harvested herb will be treated as an Excellent Quality, and with a full one-year maturity, the final results of this Peak Quality herbs. Of course, when the herb reaches its Peak Quality, a different kind of appraisal stage will follow up next. This is also the moment they will be labelled as Spirit Herb. A Spirit Herb is usually named on those herbs that managed to grow exceeds their Peak Condition or a full maturity stage. But sometimes, It depends on the kind of herbs as well. Nobody would want to grow a Spirit Herb stage Black Bitter Mint just to refine some Refinement to Practitioner Realm Cultivation Pellets. Of course, after Spirit Herb, there would be a rank known as the Profound Herbs, and above that is known as Saint Herbs and Sage Herbs. The sage herbs are only known in rumours and used by the gods themselves. This is, of course, still depends on the kind of herbs itself. Perhaps a Bitter Black Mint would reach its Profound Rank if it managed to survive and grows more than hundred years, but some kind of herbs might take millennia to reach a simple profound stage. "Since I have such an abundant amount of Spirit Herbs, I will refine as much Wood Fragrant Pill as I could to increase their cultivation!" Long Feng sets his mind on a track he believed to be correct, as he starts to do his preparation in order to increase the strength of the tribesmen, and quickly take back the Womb Woods Habitat before their messengers'' returns from the other Habitats. Book 2 Chapter 89 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Moon 3 [Everyone, I wish to have words with you before we make our move to reclaim the habitat back!] Long Feng speaks loudly, obtaining the attention of all the tribesmen around the Saint Tree area. He then proceeds to have a few words with the older tribesmen that were born slightly earlier than the others and starts to share something that he recently saw, but yet to confirm its truth with his own eyes. [Friends, I wish that you will cooperate with me to collect all the Brown Crystal Beads instead of refining them yourselves. I had seen something that I have yet to confirm its truth, but I am afraid that if the tribesmen refine too much of the Brown Crystal Beads, they will be thoroughly corrupted by the source from (Curse of Fruit Mantra), and directly changing them in their body.] Long Feng patiently shared the information within him, and slowly but sure, he managed to convince them to stop refining the beads but instead chose to refine the Pills he will concoct soon for their usage. In exchange, he wished that the tribesmen could cooperate in this matter and quickly gather more Spirit Herbs for him to have enough source of ingredients to refine those Pills. Of course, the tribesmen quickly agreed, and since the area around them is partially purified and partially corrupted, the gathering process had successfully been conducted quickly, where within an hour, Long Feng starts to have a pile of Spirit Herbs gathered beside him. He withdraws the White Stone Pill Cauldron and starts to refine the Spirit Herbs, as his productions of Wood Fragrant Pill started to come out in a continuous batch. Up to its quality, Long Feng''s each refining attempts came out in a total of around 160 Pills of Upper-Rank and Master-Rank Second Grade Pills, and it is quickly refined by the tribesmen as it came out from the cauldron. Long Feng stops as the time finally clocked at the 5th hour of the third moon, and looking at the strength of the tribesmen currently, Long Feng decides that it is time for them to make a move, and after he and the tribesmen agreed on a plan, they quickly begin. The group is split into four different teams, twenty tribesmen each team, as their duties are to attack and destroys the source of corruption in the deeper woods away from the Saint Tree they are currently located. The three teams will charge from the centre of this edge point, one towards the west, another on the east, and one more on the south-east. For Long Feng''s team, there is a total of 40 members, where they will be separated into two teams later. Their initial target would be repossessing the Habitat first, and as they succeed, the detachment of a team of twenty will begins their next target and heads towards the south to remove the source of corruption. The operation begins, as the four separated teams quickly head into the woods and start to handles the Wooden Beast within their path. Long Feng take the initiative to lead the team along with his way, and with the Geology Map within his mind, the capability of leading the group along their way become even more dependable, as the Wooden Beast that appears within each of their Geology Map mind quickly spotted and solved within minutes after encounters. In the same time, Long Feng''s stash of Brown Crystal Beads quickly increases as well, reaching almost eleven thousand by now, and still not added with the Beads from the other three separated teams. Before long, the team led by Long Feng finally reach the defensive perimeters of the ruined Habitat, and from its outside view, this habitat is thoroughly infested with a large amount of Wooden Beast within. Long Feng communicates with the Tribesmen under him, and checks for its weaknesses and parts that he could use his advantages. After successfully receiving most of the important knowledge regarding the habitat and its build-up, Long Feng noticed that the habitat is specifically chosen on this particular spot because of its density of Ancestral Essence is thicker to be compared with the Saint Tree. Since the tribesmen are reborn under the blessing of their Ancestral Essence, residing at a location with strong Ancestral Essence would thoroughly help them to grows. But since the Wooden Beast too shared a similar ancestral inheritance from the same Ancestor, the benefits could be reaped to helps them as well. This is why the Wooden Beast starts to get more aggressive and stronger because no one would be so willing to hand out their source of energy to the others, especially they aren''t even in the same tribe. But in Long Feng mind, these explanations become even ironic. "Born from the same Ancestor yet called as a different tribe. How ridiculous this actually sounds?" but, nothing needed to be brought to the conversation any further, as Long Feng already decided that no matter what, repossessing the Habitat is the first concern for now, and nothing should come up in between before he managed to complete this task. [Attack!!] Long Feng gave the order and lead the attack. With two slashes of the [Xuan Wu''s Might + Wind Element Foundation], Long Feng delivers two rain of sword aura swipes through his left and right, and thoroughly sliced through all the defensive perimeters created from the thick vines and deadly shrubs. Following behind, the forty tribesmen quickly follow up behind and join the fight, as the spears and blade within their hand quickly strike through the frontline of the Wooden Beast. But with the defensive perimeters forms from a large amount of Scarlet Wood Fruit Insect and Beetle Insect. Since the group of Wooden Beast is smaller in size and also could pack in a larger numbers, the defensive perimeters became even harder to penetrate and causing Long Feng and its groups to face some difficulties at the start.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. "Red Fire Foundation!" Long Feng shift his sword away in exchange for the [Limbs of Xuan Wu] and with the ignition of Fire Element Foundation within, the Red Burning pair of claws quickly tears through the defensive barrier creates by the Wooden Beast as the team slowly proceeds deeper into the habitat. As soon as a flute blowing sound is heard, the Insect Beast quickly scattered and following behind, a few Rotten Wood Ox Beast quickly charge in towards all of them with the horn facing its front. "Sealing Pill!" Long Feng immediately toss a respectively same amount of the Sealing Pills to each Ox Beast and sealed them from continues to charge towards. [Friends! Kill all the Ox Beast first!] Long Feng gave out the orders as he charges towards one of them. [Woahhh!!] the tribesmen morale is extremely high at the moment seeing how valiant is Long Feng while leading them in the fight, as they too, charge without any worries and head straight towards the sealed Ox Beast. The fight begins to intensify, as the forty tribesmen quickly reduced into 35 and soon remains to be only 29 of them left. Long Feng knows that if the situation is forced, he would remain within the habitat and bombed this place into smithereens while allowing the remaining tribesmen to leave unscathed. But this option is his final choice because the explosion from the Vermilion Lord Pill might disrupt the flow of the Ancestral Essence. Due to this matter, Long Feng hesitates from using this Pill for now and forced to face the full force of the Wooden Beast because they are currently nourished from possessing the Ancestral Essence domain, which allows their spawn rate to increase by at least three to five times greater. The fight continues for a short while before Long Feng felt that the urge to withdraws the Vermilion Lord Pills within his inventory becoming even greater. "I have actually become dependent on the Pills more than I was used to before. If I failed to subdue this kind of urges, at the end of the day, I might lose myself into using this Pills, and halted all my other improvements in strengthening myself!" Long Feng noticed his dependency towards the Pill and tried his best to subdue this urge to be too dependent on it. "The Ancestor said before, the livings within this Continent are all depending on the Wood Elements to nourish them. I have Fire Element, which is the bane of their elements, but how do I do to fully control this destructive force?" Long Feng run his mind to its limit, as he looks for a solution on how to properly use his Red Flame Stage foundation to fight. And as he continues to look for the solution, Long Feng suddenly obtains the enlightenment he was waiting for so long. "The Cauldron Harnessing Art! Six Flame Converging Flames Technique!" Long Feng finally found his answers, as the six wisps start to form from his both palm and being charged with an extremely potent Fire Element Force. The six flame quickly become a Fireball on their own, and with Long Feng controlling them in the middle, it seems like there is a total of Six fireballs orbiting around Long Feng as he acts as the centre of the Fireball. "This is quite tiring, to be honest, but I hope its destructive force is a strength to be reckoned." Long Feng charged towards the crowds of Wooden Beast, and like he was circled with a deadly ring of flame, Long Feng''s charge met no obstruction, as the Wooden Beast along his path and also his both side about fifty metres are all burnt into ashes, with nothing remains but some Brown Crystal Beads. "This destruction power is a little too extreme, don''t you think so?" Long Feng is slightly speechless with his own capability. But before he has any second thought, Long Feng already charged with few different swarms, with the intention to destroy this threat first before anything else. But with Long Feng in such a battle mode, what could actually approach him and tried to stop him from running amok? Like a ball of Flame, Long Feng move swiftly, as it burns the Wooden Beast that dares or so, unfortunately, made contact with Long Feng''s Ball of Flame. The six Converging Flame circled around Long Feng while providing him with a strong guard, where not even a single projectiles could be entered its defensive field to cause any damage on him. Long Feng understood that in such situation, is the best moment to capture the Ancestral Essence Domain, and with a push on his both legs, he launched himself like a released arrow and quickly entered the with''s entrance. Not only Long Feng destroyed all the corruption that started to infest the domain, he even managed to thoroughly burn all the remaining vines and arteries, causing the corrupted plant to howls in pain as it retreated back to where it spreads from. With the area is thoroughly purified, Long Feng quickly creates a path for the tribesmen to enter the domain and activates its formation to allows the purification process to begins. Like a blast of Golden Coloured Waves, the spread purification power starts to cause all the corruption to quickly turned into ashes as it retreated away from the blessing of the sunlight. Soon enough, the Habitat had been finally reclaimed by Long Feng and the other tribesmen, as twenty of them quickly detached from the Habitat and launch another attack towards the south of the Womb Woods, with the intention to create a safe path towards the Central Mountain Path. The Saint Tree within the Habitat quickly grows into adulthood as new life starts to be born once again. in that instant, the Habitat quickly turns into their former glory, with all the corruption started to fade away from the Habitat as it turned back into a light brown coloured home that almost similar to how it looked like the Foundation Wood''s Habitat. Some of the vegetation similar to those Long Feng seen from the Foundation Woods too started to grow quickly, and within that one hour after he managed to repossess the Habitat, it is already started to grow with many kinds of Spirit Herbs and other vegetation, as the younger tribesmen almost hatched from the fruits of the Saint Tree. Long Feng continues to walk around the Habitat and starts to distributes the Pills he refined to the tribesmen in exchange for the Spirit Herbs, and moments later, when he finally returned back to the Saint Tree, a line of light is shot from the tree towards the piece of the [Saint Tree''s Papyrus]. Book 2 Chapter 90 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Moon 4. The Saint Tree launched a beam of light towards the piece of [Saint Tree''s Papyrus] within my inventory, and attach a memory into it for my reading. After obtaining this benefits, I bowed towards the Saint Tree as gratitude, before I went to the side to take a look at the contents. I took the Papyrus out and noticed that now, there are a few lines of the inscription is seen on that piece of Papyrus, almost like an indication of the number of its content. Long Feng put in his essence and enters the memories stored within. The moment he entered, his ethereal body appears within as the line of sight quickly shift and walks along a path that grows with two different kinds of trees. Among that five hundred tree path, the one quickly met with another Saint Tree with a big hole hidden within its roots. The memories continue as it walks down into the hole, and like a series of tunnels, it connected like a maze to almost to everywhere under the ground. And soon, the tunnel starts to get wider and the memories become quite delighted as it starts to run into the end of the tunnel that was shining bright with beautiful green lights. That instant the memories entered the tunnel, its happiness turns into a horror, as the green shining like is instead, a source of corruption. There is a nice sword, beautifully carved with a special kind of woods stabbed in the middle of the altar, and the beautiful Green Jade etched on its guard, brilliantly shine with green light like a life. The next thing, the memories become hazy, and vanished into a blank screen, as Long Feng is being sent back to his body once again. "What is that sword? That piece of Jade on its guard, giving such a heavy concentration of corruption although its shine brightly like a holy piece of jewel." Long Feng couldn''t understand what is going on with the memories, but he understands one thing. "This is not Mother Gaia! It must be some other treasures that are inherited by Ancestor Mu Dao in of the edge of this Continent. If luck does bring us together, I will try to obtain it, but if it doesn''t, I will not feel loss either." Long Feng make up his mind as he checked the condition of the other tribesmen and their progress. Long Feng felt delighted as he sees how much improvement it had been, only after few hours as the fourth Moon came in. As promised, Long Feng begin to refine more Pills for their consumption, while gathers all the available Brown Crystal Bead from the tribesmen. Although the tribesmen couldn''t notice the changes for now, perhaps soon, they might begin to sees that through refining the Pill in their body and even harmonized effect in their growth is significantly stronger and better. But since none of them actually noticed the changes, perhaps, It would need a few more days to allow them to realize it. And at the same time, Long Feng hypothesis is that because of the extremely dangerous substance is hidden within the Brown Crystal Beads, this might be the main reason why this fight remains for so long without a result. And also, this hypothesis is strengthened because of his previous meeting with the deadly Tulujin. Carrying the act of (Sacrificing what you have to save many), Long Feng quickly exhaust all the Spirit Herbs within his inventory just to refine a good amount of Pills for all the tribesmen to slowly refine and cultivates their strength. In barely the end of the fourth moon, almost all of them are as strong as the Foundation Woods fighters during the previous Wooden Beast Storm. Long Feng tried to check and understands more about the Moon''s Storm, but roughly, from the explanations of the tribesmen, it is almost the same, except for the Moon''s Storm, the Crimson Hell Worm Beast will crawl out from the ground outside of their habitat and attack them with its long tentacle-like jaws. Since that''s how it is, Long Feng soon decide that it should be alright for now for him to explore around the Habitat. Although it exhausts a large part of his Spirit Herb resources to refine the Pills for the tribesmen, Long Feng still managed to obtain small parts of the precious herb he needs, so he doesn''t feel losing out at all. Long Feng explores around the woods that was already been purified completely. Although the deeper he went into the woods, some corruption still remains, but Long Feng could easily dispose it and continue with his exploration. Along with his way, some special Spirit Herbs is collected, but nothing too special that would cause him to be too excited. It is about five hours before the Fourth Moon ends, and out of sudden, Long Feng noticed a slight differences in the woods he was walking. "This section of wood is slightly different from what it was supposed to be. Did I accidentally entered another woods without notice?" Long Feng continues to walk deeper as he started to notice that the vegetation around here are quite small and seems like shrubs.The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation. Some of it looks like Wheat Plants or spread widely like a paddy field, but Long Feng still doesn''t notice that he actually accidentally entered the Grain Woods without knowing. But since there is some corruption had already spread around as well, Long Feng decides to move around as he collects the herbs, and also to destroy the nest and lairs of the Wooden Beast along his way. He explores around the Grain Woods to quickly as he tries to clear out all the Wooden Beast nests before the next Wooden Beast Storm incoming, and two hours later, he finally sat down by the side of a tree, to have a good rest. "Shushh..." a movement suddenly appears from behind the bushes, as Long Feng stands up and withdraws his sword to get ready to fight. His Geology Map does not have any reaction on this exact target, which made him felt anxious. The next thing, a golden circle appeared from the bushes and starts to attack Long Feng. "The Qian Kun Soul Wheel! Why would Wife attack me? This must be somebody else!" Long Feng is shocked as he was attacked by Jing Jing''s personal weapon. He immediately tosses a Vermilion Lord Pill towards the bushes and ignites it, as an explosion quickly destroys all the bushes around where the attack came from. "Who are you!" Long Feng get furious as he chases the target when the Qian Kun Soul Wheel is returning to its owner. He finally found the target, only to notice that the target is actually Nan Jing Jing. "Wife?" he went over to the figure and stop beside her. "Husband?" she was shocked when she saw Long Feng as well. Just like this, the two get together as they started to share their experience within this Continent for so long. The earlier when she was chased by the Scarlet Wood Fruit Insect, saved by the tribesmen, refining Pills for them, exchange a large amount of Spirit Herbs, and the Wooden Beast Storm. Although she managed to get passed all these challenges, since the Moon Phase is currently up at the moment, She decided to make a trip outside to see what is available at this time. But just like this, she actually lost in the woods and added with being attacked by a small swarm of Wooden Beast, she escaped and quickly reach this place. But then, she noticed a strong Wooden Beast reaction close to her, so she ends up choosing to attack first before seeing what is her targets. But then, she pouts her lips and starts to pinch Long Feng''s face. "How dare you actually use a bomb and tries to kill me?" she gets angry as she remembered that she had to escape with all her effort because that Vermilion Lord Pill is actually quite deadly. "Argh! Wife, I''m sorry!" Long Feng couldn''t say anything but immediately say sorry because of all these funny mistakes. The couple fought for a little while more, before the two of them decided to travel together. "You! Don''t you dare to have any other special stuff appears in your mind." Nan Jing Jing looked at Long Feng and warns him. The two of the walks further into the woods and soon, Long Feng noticed something weird along their way. "Wife, I think I have some similar feeling to this arrangement of trees." Long Feng stopped Nan Jing Jing from continues to walk, as he starts to scan their surroundings. Just minutes later, he finally realized that he actually went into the place shared by the Saint Tree''s memories within the Papyrus! "Wife, there might be a weapon over here, that I have my memories, but it might be very dangerous. Do you want to explore this together?" Long Feng explains the situation to her and tried to see what his wife would do. Unconsciously, Long Feng already quite used to getting Nan Jing Jing''s opinion in most of the thing, because of her smart intuition and also reliability. "Of course we are going. I heard that the inheritance treasure within here is quite good, and it is only a few. If we could really obtain it, why not?" Nan Jing Jing replied. Long Feng felt weird as he could sense that Nan Jing Jing does not possess any inheritance from the [Wood Elves Treasure]. "Wife, did you managed to speak with the tribesmen?" Long Feng continue as he asked. "No, but I managed to slowly study their language. Can you speak their language?" Nan Jing Jing explained, as in the same time, asked if Long Feng managed to get an inheritance. "Yes I managed to have the chance to get the Inheritance, I could speak their language fluently." Long Feng answered. The next thing, Nan Jing Jing tried to speaks with Long Feng with that Prosperity Tribe Native Tongue, and out of Long Feng''s expectation, Her fluency is extremely amazing! "This is what you mean by slowly learned? It is almost as fluent as myself! What would happen if you are given more time to learn their language!" Long Feng is slightly speechless. The couple continues to walk into the formation, and quickly reach the 500 trees arrangement, as they slowly proceed, Long Feng pay attention on his Geology Map, but noticed nothing out of ordinary. He starts to felt slightly weird, but without any cautious from Jing Jing, Long Feng could only treat it as himself being too cautious. "Husband, do not lower your guard! There might be something weird about this woods here!" Nan Jing Jing holds Long Feng''s hand as he starts to lower his weapon. "Huh?" Long Feng felt weird, but out of sudden, the Geology Map begins to have more dots within, and from the colour of the dots, it belonged to the Wooden Beast! This is a huge swarm of Wooden Beast appearing out of nowhere! "Husband! Be careful, this group of the beast is known as the Ferocious Wood Mouse Beast and Ferocious Wood Viper Beast! They are the biggest threats within this Grain Woods that continuously giving problems to the habitat!" as Nan Jing Jing explains, at the same time, another Metamorphosis figure is seen flying in the sky with its Insect wings. "Husband, what is that?" Nan Jing Jing felt weird with the appearance of a human figure shaped tribesman. "Wife, that''s our biggest threat, the Metamorphosis Tribesmen! They might be the reason why the Wooden Beast Storm continuously came over to disrupt the peace in the Continent!" Long Feng explains as he draws his claws to prepare for an attack. "Wife, this might be a very ferocious fight, I will help in handling some of the Wooden Beast, and after that, I will strike directly at the Tribesman! Please be careful and hold tight on this Pills!" Long Feng quickly deliver his words to Jing Jing who was by his side and passed around fifty Vermilion Lord Pills into her hand that already activated with some essence energy. This is an inevitable battle that will not get away unless one of the sides falls! Book 2 Chapter 91 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Moon 5. [Xuan Wu''s Stampede Stage!] Long Feng push his strength to its limit the moment he gets ready to fight. Looking downwards, the Metamorphosis Tribesman begins to withdraw a weapon from his back. As soon as the weapon is revealed, Long Feng immediately noticed the similarity. "This is the sword that is seen within the memory. The memory must have belonged to this tribesman before something happened to him!" The Tribesman didn''t speak, as it charges over to Long Feng, who seems like the greatest threat. The moment the Sword and Long Feng''s claw met with each other, Long Feng immediately felt pressured by the weapon''s might. "What a deadly weapon. It is made by wood entirely, but in the term of hardness and sharpness, it still exceeds what my claw could handle." Long Feng looked at his claw as the energy formed claw had a part being cut off in that single exchange. Meanwhile, Nan Jing Jing''s battle begins as well, with the opening starts by the Vermilion Lord Pills. She tossed it towards the middle of the crowd in an extremely accurate and deadly spot, and just in her first battle, Nan Jing Jing managed to utilized this Pills more efficient than Long Feng did. "Wife is seriously talented. No matter what, she always at a step above me. I am quite lucky, huh?" Long Feng mind wandered for a moment, and on that instant, the Tribesman quickly take the chance to strike. [Die! Human!] the tribesman strikes with that sword, and cause Long Feng to evade the deadly slash, the two continue for a few exchange, and seeing his claw begin to disintegrate, Long Feng withdraws his sword and charge towards the tribesman. [Finalli! Yiu Will Bi Di!] the tribesman happily charge towards Long Feng the moment he withdraws his sword, and with a heavy swing, it forces Long Feng to shift his stance into a defending one. But Long Feng''s sword Art had reached quite a profound stage, what will be difficult for him as he only needed to shift into a defensive mode? Long Feng formed the Defensive Sword Ball to deflect that hit, and this is where all started to become mistakes. The moment the Wooden Sword made its contact with Long Feng''s Qian Kun Sword, a reaction happened. Long Feng is forcefully pushed back on that contact, and without any notice, the Qian Kun Sword is totally swallowed into Void by the Wooden Sword, as the tribesman continue to swing the sword towards Long Feng. Long Feng rolls on the ground to escape that deadly strike, as he withdraws another weapon to repel the attack, since there is no time to think, Long Feng just took the Triple Impact Jade Bow and utilized its length to push away the tribesman as it continues to get close, but with another swing and contact, even the Triple Impact Jade Bow vanishes in the void! "F**ker!" Long Feng is totally furious as he had lost his two precious weapons and forced to fight with his bare hand. With a full burst of essence energy within, Long Feng not only created the pair of claws once again, he even pushes his limit and forces the [Six Flame Converging Flame Stage] technique as he charges like an arrow towards the tribesman. [Human! Let mi, Tulumi, Kill Yiu!] it is actually Tulumi, who seemed like a short tribesman previously. But this time, his appearance is totally different from what it supposed. Tulumi tried to decapitate Long Feng''s head in one strike, as the sword is swing at the head level. Long Feng''s six orbiting Fireball quickly get in contact with the Wooden Sword. The moment the two sides get in contact, the Wooden Sword release a howl, as the Green Jade on the Sword Guard starts to-shivered at a ridiculous speed. Soon, the Wooden Sword started to turn into a darker shade, as it starts to lose its previous "tyrannical traits". Unable to notice the reason of why the Wooden Sword is weakened, Tulumi throws the sword aside as he laid a strong punch towards Long Feng. Being a hot-headed youngster, Long Feng bring his fist to meet with Tulumi''s, and a strong clashing force is expelled towards their surrounding and force all the Viper Beast and Mouse Beast to be blown away. What Long Feng never expects is that Tulumi is actually quite strong as well, with his brute strength. But no matter what, this opponent must meet his end today! Long Feng force the six orbiting fireballs to cover the two of them in a hexagonal shape circle, and with the burning begins, Long Feng trapped Tulumi within to have a deadly match with him. Tulumi took this as a challenge, as he too, expels his outer skin, revealing his shorter body as he slowly forms another bigger and much gigantic body. This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it. The moment Long Feng looks at this new body of his opponent, he felt a slight regret. Where the hell is the fairness if the opponent became as huge and tall like a three and a half meters tall bear shape fighter? But this is not a fair world he was living within, as Tulumi swing his deadly punch and directly hit Long Feng hard. One strike! That''s all it took to have Long Feng thrown away from his hexagon Arena, and with a huge leap, Tulumi actually appears again beside Long Feng as he cast another strike. This time, Long Feng managed to grab the essence between that split second, as he evaded the strike and rolled to another side. He stands up and wipes away that trail of blood from the side of his lips, as he pushes his energy to its utmost limit. "Wife, I will fight like our life is going to end anyway!" Long Feng screamed and let Nan Jing Jing hears it. In reply, Nan Jing Jing actually shouted as well. "If you die, I will die together with you after I take that life along to be buried with us!" as he listened to her words, Long Feng spirits immediately rise into its highest limit. As he charges straight to Tulumi. [Human, Cry Cry Cry, what do yiu do!] Tulumi is annoyed with those screams, and looking at how aggressive is Long Feng, he ruthlessly launches another punch towards Long Feng. At another side, Long Feng strikes his blow without hesitation, as he too, strikes with his pair of claws that are forcefully enlarged by forcing in more Essence Energy. He pops a few Tiger Stripes Soul Pill into his mouth, and with a jerk on his elbow, Long Feng gave out a claw strike to face that strong punch. The moment the two strikes landed directly on each other''s fist, a loud exploding sound could be heard almost in the whole vicinity, and deafening as well. Tulumi is shocked as this human actually could be a match for him in brute strength. "Are you shock? This is going to be even more shocking!" Long Feng releases all his Elemental Essence out from his body, creating a scenery of four elements drawing into a river together. Even Nan Jing Jing is shocked as she saw Long Feng with four elements. "It''s actually a light green colour, Husband actually form affinities with the Wind Elements." But being surprised does reduce her guard, as she tosses a Vermilion Lord Pill backwards and causes another huge bunch of Wooden Beast to be blasted into a pile of burnt compost. Back to Long Feng, that four elemental rivers slowly formed into a spiral as it getting dense between the two of them, and with a flash, Long Feng, who possess the Energy, directly land a punch towards the spiral as he made it pointed towards Tulumi. [Dis is nit I Gid Gid Thing!] Tulumi whispers as he defended himself with both arms, but Long Feng''s strike is just too deadly! The spiralling energy actually drills its way into Tulumi''s defence and crippled his defence, and force the real body of Tulumi to be detached from his skin. The Spiral remains before Tulumi''s real body, and as Long Feng raise another hand up above his head, he punched as hard as he could, and force that Element Spiral to drill into Tulumi''s body and blows it into ashes. The ashes of Tulumi is blown away by the winds, and as Tulumi is gone from this place, the corruption quickly reverts to normal, and the Wooden Beast too, slowly died one after another. In just a few minutes, the walkway that was arranged with trees at both sides, become so lush with greens, with Brown Crystals Beads scattered around the ground. Nan Jing Jing collects all of it, as she slowly walks toward Long Feng. But the moment she stands by his side, she realized that this stupid but dependable man that belonged to her had actually fallen into his sleep because overusing his energy. She moves him and lay him down on a tree, and seats beside him as she too, get a rest. The only things that remain between them, is that sword with the Jade on it, as it slowly turns back into its original colour. The deadly aura from that sword too starts to revert back to normal, but unfortunately, the previous two absorbed weapon is no longer retrievable ever again. Because if Long Feng knows the identity of this sword, he will then understood that he had just get the luck to obtain one of the treasures many cultivators would dream to possess. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile, at the East of the Continent of Mu known as the Grass Forest, is widely spanned grassland with no trees at all. This location barely possesses any special traits in its scenery or the landmarks, but within this part of the land, its preciousness is incomparable, as a few special kind of Spirit Herb grows here without any limitations. But within this part of the land, its danger lurks under the ground as well, because, it was widely infested with a special and hard to located Wooden Beast, known as the Scarlet Wood Antlion Beast. It was vastly infested until that even the tribesmen with Geology Map walks out, would have a percentage of 70% of falling into its trap. Luckily, within the Habitat that is located quite near to the central Mountain area, this place could still be defended. This location is also the only place that will not be attacked by the Wooden Beast Storm during the Sun Phase. And only the Crimson Hell Worm Beast which will come from the side facing the Central Mountain. "Brother Zhang Pu." Chen Nan speaks as the two of them finally joined together. Behind him, a few tribesmen are seen carrying few bags for him and walks with the two as the getting deeper into the grassland. Within the bags, stacks of alluring Brown Crystal Beads is tied on a vine as it was used to attract the Antlion Beast to came out from their burrows before they will be killed. "It is unfortunate as Chu Yi managed to use the charm to get out from this realm before we managed to get the advantage on him." Zhang Pu says as he seems to regret his lack of skills when trying to subdue Chu Yi. "Brother Zhang Pu, but we managed to injured Gou Yu before the storm came, that should be a good result as well. I wonder if he dead or is he already out from this realm." Chen Nan added. "Well, no matter what, we need to make sure that we get most of the treasures and Spirit Herbs before we left this realm if not, all effort will be wasted." Zhang Pu speaks, as he throws a handful of flying tools towards the Antlion Beast that made its appearance. In just a moment, that Antlion Beast became a pile of minced roots and vines and falls on the ground before the bead is collected and used as another lure to get the Antlion Beast again. Book 2 Chapter 92 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Moon 6 (Upper Part) After being unconscious for a while, Long Feng finally wakes up and looked around. His first concern is about Nan Jing Jing and her safety, in case he collapses before the fight is over. He looked around, and since nothing belonged to another human cultivator, and started to get worried. He forced himself to stand up, and soon, a soothing voice came over to him from behind. "Husband? Don''t move yet, you are still weak. I''ve tried feeding you the Tiger Stripes Soul Pill, but it seems like the activation burst doesn''t come as strong as expected anymore, its seem like, your strength had increased drastically." Nan Jing Jing honestly tells him, as this is nothing to be secretive about. Although she was not sure with what happened with Long Feng during the first 132 hours they are not being together, but from what she knows, Long Feng already fought for a few Life and Death battle. Added with all this battling experience, it is no wonder that Long Feng''s internal Cultivation became stronger as it starts to become a mess as well. Without a proper foundation to firmly supports his strength, Long Feng will slowly feel a setback soon in the future, as it would hamper his effort in trying to get stronger. Of course, this is all manageable, especially for a Pill Master as all the required ingredients and medicinal concoction to recover one''s condition is all within their heads. "Husband, you should recover yourself slowly, since you have Wood Element within your body, try using it to slowly assimilate the Wood Element around you and have it to nourish your body. The nourishment will help in recovering your blood, and soothes down your raging cultivation so it won''t be too difficult to handle in the future." "You are being too rash, you almost make me become a widow... Hehehe." Nan Jing Jing didn''t forget to take the chance to jokes around. But this could only bring the two of them closer, as she patiently looks at this man, who was used to be slightly weaker than her, and yet, now she was still in her Early Earth Adept Realm, while Long Feng already break up two stage, and hanging around in between of a Late Earth Adept Realm and soon to reach its peak. Since the fifth Moon had already over, the Sixth Moon started to appears in the sky as it slowly shines brightly at Long Feng. This moment, a change started to appears from the Clearness Jade Gemstone that used to belong to Han Feng Xian before it was given to Long Feng as a gift. The jade started to shine brightly, and its light is clear and soothing as if the Gemstone is absorbing the moonlight essence into its body. The first time this Clearness Jade Gemstone have some reaction is when he was fighting with the Bandits from the Man Si House, as the soul of the dead is getting absorbed into the body. The next thing, the Clearness Jade Gemstone starts to absorb those souls from the Cultivation Beast he hunted as well, until he finally finished his training, and went back to Clear Jade City to participates in the competition. But before he reached the city, their path is blocked by people from Man Si House again, where Long Feng ferociously kills a large amount of the bandits without any mercy. The next thing, the Examination begins. During the second examination, Long Feng killed a few strong cultivators as well as strong Cultivation Beast, as the Clearness Jade Gemstone continued to absorb those souls that were vanishing from the dead body. The moment they came in, the Clearness Jade Gemstone have no more reaction at all, until the Moon Phase started. And now, the Clearness Jade Gemstone actually giving out a reaction, as the moonlight that managed to be absorbed into the Gemstone, started to permeate out from the Gemstone as it begins to coagulate into a ball of liquid. The liquid quickly hardened, and formed into a Moon Coloured Jade-like Pill, as it suddenly flew towards Long Feng''s brows. He caught it! Of course! Long Feng slowly inspect the wondrous product that was naturally produced without his attention and felt that the Clearness jade Gemstone is quite special to have such a capability. What he doesn''t know that his total contribution on this matter is actually nothing much, perhaps only barely 10% of the total. It was used to belonged to Han Feng Xian before, so this piece of Clearness Jade Gemstone, perhaps already absorbed soul and moonlight for more than half of Han Feng Xian''s life as they travelled together everywhere, Killing many cultivators, enjoying bathing under Moonlight. "Don''t tell me, this is actually the rumoured Shennong Moon Dew." Long Feng looked at the Pill in his hand. He pondered for a while, and since he remembered the effect of this Dew Pill, Long Feng decided to give it to Nan Jing Jing. Of course, she rejected. Since this is a blessing that came out from the piece of Gemstone itself, Long Feng should not become so fussy and calculative and should take that Pill for himself. Additionally, he was their strongest fighting force at the moment, if Nan Jing Jing could assist in pushing Long Feng strength to rise to another level, what kind of opponent should they fear for the next few Wooden Beast Storm? Just like this, Nan Jing Jing finally managed to persuade this man to take the Pill for himself, as Long Feng swallows the Pill under her Deadly Glaring Eyes. The moment the Shennong Moonlight Dew entered his body, Long Feng felt amazed. His Wood Elemental Nourishment properties is enhanced by that Shennong Moon Dew by just floating through the element energy, and in that instant, Long Feng''s Wood Element suddenly burst with power, and that power soon formed into a foundation, with the little Sprouts within his Elemental Essence Storage, quickly grows into a Young Oak Tree. The tree still possesses not too much energy at the moment, but for now, its initial strength is comparable to Long Feng at his peak strength of Wood Element.Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation. The Shennong Moon Dew continues to floats within Long Feng''s body, thoroughly nourish his body and increase his capability in recovering from all his previous injuries. With the body is almost renew into an absolutely fine body, the Shennong Moon Dew continue with its journey, and ends up within Long Feng''s Spatial Link Twin Grass Ring''s inventory. Within, the Shennong Moon Dew seemingly looking for a friend. It floats around until it finally found the ordinary looking stone within the Inventory. Like a long lost friend, the Shennong Moon Dew slowly circles around the Charm of Light, until the Charm turned into shining golden threads, as it floats towards the Longevity Soil Ring and started to join together into one single entity. Since Long Feng have no especially attachment with the Charm of Light, he felt no heartache at all, but as soon as he felt that the Longevity Soil Ring no longer seems to be so void of Essence Energy within, he knows that the Ring, is repaired slightly as the Charm of Light bond along with it. The Shennong Moon Dew looks for its next target as it slowly swam within the Spatial Inventory. It swam through the Qian Kun Soul Wheel and Metallic Turbulence Necklace belonged to Nan Jing Jing before it continues to swim pass the White Stone Pill Cauldron, the Earth Gravity Refining Flask, and soon, the Sky Sealing Net and a worthless 1st Grade Cultivators Pouch. And like its finally chosen its target, unexpectedly, the Shennong Moon Dew actually chose the Cultivators Pouch and the Sky Sealing Net, as it both being combined into one as well. The two items combined into one, as it still carries the same special effect as the previous. The only difference is, instead of requiring to be charged and launched every single time, it is now becoming a Mass Firing Spirit Tool instead. Not only its ranked increased into a Second Heaven Grade Spirit Tool, its overall power had increased drastically as well. Lastly, the Shennong Moon Dew finally went towards Long Feng''s Dantian, as it starts to envelop his Dantian and all the Essence-Energy within, condensing it even further until it was strong enough to break out from this current shackles. The moment the condensing process reaches its final stage, Long Feng Dantian finally shed its outer layer of a crystallized image and becoming even brighter and stronger in the term of Light. Just like this, simple and easy, Long Feng actually stands equally with the cultivators if Early Heaven Adept Realm! With the assistance of the Shennong Moon Dew, Long Feng''s foundation in Wood Element had risen into the Strong Oak Stage, his Sky Sealing Net became a Heaven Rank Spirit Tool, his cultivation increased into the Early Heaven Stage, and most importantly, his Cracked status Longevity Soil Ring had become damaged instead, no longer came with a Cracked or Destroyed Treasure title within. This would mean that by now, Long Feng could be had at least a fifteen percent grow capability for the seeds within the ring, which will be slowly used to the nourishment provided within the ring. But Long Feng still felt there is a small lingering energy from the Shennong Moon Dew. "Perhaps it was not yet fully assimilated into my body." Long Feng thought that he is still weak, that''s why the Shennong Moon Dew is not completely absorbed into his body. Then, the two walks near to the cave, only then Nan Jing Jing actually take out the sword at the side of her skirt. The moment Long Feng saw that sword, he immediately grabbed it away from Nan Jing Jing as he was worried that this sword might have a curse within. "Wife, don''t touch this sword! From the memory I''ve obtained, it is because of this sword that the Tribesman is corrupted!" Long Feng hand grabbed the handle of the Sword, and just like this, a shine of memories entered his mind. "Husband!" Long Feng heard Nan Jing Jing''s voice, but it was useless because Long Feng had already been brought into the Imaginary Realm once again. This time, the realm is slightly different. Instead of a void like last time, this Imaginary Realm is like an armoury full of weapons and Tools that could be used in a fight. The swords, Spears, Axe, Sabers, Bows, Mace and Staff, are all arranged beautifully as it floats around the thin air, forming a word [Zhan/Conquer]. In the middle of this Imaginary Realm, a small land enough for a human stands and give respect to the altar appears before his eyes, as the Wooden Sword is proudly standing on the grip that was prepared for it to stand on that podium. And as the Wooden Sword attached on it nicely, a sound started to speaks within the realm, giving Long Feng a shock. "You Lied! You Lied to me!" "You promised me before, you will not let me falls into slumber anymore!" "Mu Dou! You had imprisoned me because of your fear!" "Mu Dou, release me!" Long Feng could felt a strong resentment that came from the Wooden Sword. He braves himself and get close to the sword and starts to speaks to the sword. "I am the one that defeated your previous owner," he said. The moment the sword heard his words, it starts to become dim, but in an instant, a green flash of light starts to be released from the podium in a form of nine different waves. The wave pushed Long Feng fall backward for nine different times, and the moment he finally able to obtains his foothold once again, the Sword begins to speak again. "My owner? That single tribesman that not even possess at least 5% of Mu Dou''s blood? Don''t joke with me, he is not even entitled to wipe clean my edge! If it''s not because I want to find Mu Dou, do you think he would have the chance to become so strong?" "What a disgrace, even after obtaining a part of my strength, that puny little kid still couldn''t properly wield me up perfectly. Not even a single shred of talent inherited from Mu Dou, no wonder his descendants begin to weakened and hunted until they had have to hide in the dark. If that''s the case, it seems like there will no longer be any chances for me anymore to be released from this prison." "Sword, what is your name anyway. Why don''t you consider me as your user? I had obtained the inheritance from Ancestor Mu Dou as well." Long Feng speaks as he went back to the podium where the sword stands. As he gets closer, the Sword Aura is getting stronger, until he felt that the blood within him, is boiling and yet churned at the same time. "You? Hahaha! Dream on, if you have the intention to subdue me. I am a sword that was made with the Weapon Devourer Tree wood. I possess a slight sentience from being nourished by absorbing weapons of my opponents and the Green Moon Gem. Do you want to know my name? Try to subdue my havoc aura first!" the sword allows a path for Long Feng to get closer to the side of the podium, as it allows Long Feng to try and hold the sword''s handle. [To be Continued] Book 2 Chapter 93 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Moon 6 (Lower Part) [Continued] The moment Long Feng holds the Sword on his hand, the weapons that were filling this Imaginary Realm immediately activated, s it turned around pointing at Long Feng flew over at a high speed. The Sword continues to release its rampant energy, causing Long Feng to feel discomfort all over its body, and as soon as a blink of eyes had passed, Long Feng already spit a mouthful of blood, without a control over his body. "Stupid descendant, Unless you possess the might of Shennong, then you might refine my bloodlust, but do you think that... NO!!! NOO!!!!! How could you possess the purifying Shennong Moon Dew! Argh! Its the Jaded Lingzhi of Knowledge, you actually have the inborn constitution of the Shennong''s Path!" the sword suddenly shivered as it starts to lose all its brilliance when the hint of green Shennong Moon Dew entered the sword and starts to force all its bloodlust to vanished from the sword. The sword struggles and the Imaginary Realm started to crumbles into a shattered void. The next thing happens, the sword begins to be formed into a piece of wooden log, with the Green Moon Gem had been refined into a crystal clear white moonlight gem. As the Wood Element around his started to slowly being absorbed into the gem, it started to glow is light green once again. The wood stopped crying, and it finally means that it had been purified. All its left is only the purest Weapon Devourer Tree Wood Log. Long Feng walked to the piece of Long and start touching it. The log started to give out a very compatible reaction, especially due to Long Feng is a Sword user as well a Wood Element affinity cultivator. The Strong Oak Stage Foundation helps to mediate the relationship between the two, and finally, the piece of log start to formed into a sword, Long Feng Qian Kun Sword used to be just fine, but Long Feng''s Sword Art begins to get more deadly, and he would be required to have a better and suitable sword that he could use. Just like this, the log finally formed into a 6 Feet Long Sword with beautiful Sword Guard that edging towards the Sword Handle. The Sword Body is well carved with a hint of ancient scriptures and meanwhile, its Pommel appeared to be in a shape of Lingzhi, a miraculous herb sought after by many Pill Masters. With the Moonlight Gem slowly floats and embedded into the Sword Guard, a calming but dangerous aura is released, as the tyrannical strength is hidden within still fiercely appears, only this time, it was more stable and detailed. It was like comparing a bunch of tyrannical Beast at their savages nature, with a Tyrannical Emperor who controls all and decides others lives. The Wooden Sword soon had all it ancient inscriptions vanished, and end up becoming only four words on its body. [Weapon Devourer Void Log] Long Feng slowly puts the weapon on the podium, as it suddenly vanished into his dantian. In that instant, the Imaginary Realm is shattered like a dome of glasses, and he soon returned to his body. Long Feng wakes up with Nan Jing Jing seemingly worried beside him, as he talks. "Wife, I am alright. What happened when I fainted?" Long Feng asked. "Husband, you almost scared me to death. The moment you touched the sword, you immediately fainted with the sword becoming like a bunch of vines and wrapped your hand tightly. I was so worried, but when I tried to forcefully take out the vines, it started to reject me, and pushed me away from your side." "I was looking at it as it starting on changing its form. From an ugly stack of vines, it becomes like a well-refined piece of branch, and then it shattered into a bunch of leaves, and finally, it formed into a Long six feet sword. It was so long and so sharp, although it is made from wood. Then, it suddenly vanished, as your forehead, now having a similar tattoo on it." Nan Jing Jing finished, as Long Feng touched his forehead the moment Jing Jing mentioned about that tattoo. "Did it went into my body and assimilate with me?" Long Feng tried to force his Essence Energy to creates the sword but failed. He next tried on using his Strong Oak Stage to recreates it or using his mind, but all his attempt failed miserably. It was just when he begins to felt some disappointment, Long Feng sits on the ground, leaning on the roots of the Saint Tree as he points at leaves that were slowly falling to the ground. "PISH!" a line of sword aura flews out from his finger, and immediately sliced the single leaf into two pieces. "Eh!" Long Feng suddenly felt the hint. It is not by feeling or urge, nor through using Essence Energy or Elemental Energy. He tried it once more time. Long Feng pointed on the tree as he thinks about, [Split it into two!]. As his mind starts to have that thought, the sword aura starts to forms before his finger, and Long Feng tried to control that feeling, that mind, that controls, and finally, he found out one more thing that could actually make this weapon in him, felt so rigid, so real, and so tyrannical. It is the Feeling of Overpowering anything before the Owner! Long Feng strengthen his resolve in recreating the weapon, as the air he breathed, the essence he releases, the intent he gave out, starts to form the Weapon Devourer Void Log. The Sword appears at his hand as if Long Feng is the creator of this realm that could utilize the nature and everything to creates a treasure.This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. [Devourer Intent - Leave No Remains!] [Devourer Intent - Swallows Everything!] [Devourer Intent - Tyrannical Composition!] [Devourer Intent - Total Desolation!] It was like a surge of memories and mind suddenly explodes within Long Feng''s memory, as this four Devourer Intent abilities entered his mind and cause him to have an explosion of mind. Luckily, Long Feng possess extraordinary mind, aids with the Jaded Lingzhi of Knowledge, this amount of information, although packed and stressful to refines, are easily absorbed into his mind without difficulties. "I am the only one who still remains within this world. Long ago, this world is ruled by Plants. Desolation Lotus, YinYang Pitcher Eater, Neptune Sky Devourer, Seawater Emperor Flower, Mountain Volcanic Lord Tree, Heavenly Mother Vines, and I, the Metal Devourer Mahogany, is the seven supreme ruler of the world." "When we are fighting with the humanity, they are all the loser of war, unable to fight with any of us. The plants triumph for two to three millennia, and ruled over the human to become the fertilizer to helps us to grow." "But when the despicable Sages and Sovereigns come to our world and overpowered us, we are left with no choice, but to fight until the last drop of essence within us is burned. But who will even imagine, that those despicable Sages and Sovereigns, actually refined us, and turn the seven of us into seven Supreme Logs." "The life as a weapon made from a log is not too bad. We have blessed to the humanity once again, in a different realm and over here, the resources are abundant, and up to my advantages, the humanity here actually use the metal source as their weapon in their fight! How delicious! What a benefit it actually brings me, as I become even deadlier, stronger and better!" "This all happened until I finally found and noticed by that Mu Dao, who was only at his Refinement Sage. Do you know that he was only one of the lowest among the elites? But nevermind, a man who could actually know my worth, is worthy of wielding me in the battlefield. We fought, as I am being called as the Weapon Devourer Void Log." "We fought until this Mu Dao is tired of all this war, and finally decided to create this realm. I am not satisfied. I still wished to devour more weapons, I want to eat until I am satisfied! You, if you want me to subdue and be loyal under your wings, you must promise me that you will feed me for all eternity, until you are either dead, or I am destroyed in the future by those who are even stronger than both of us." the Weapon Devourer Void Log speaks in Long Feng''s mind. "I will, but in exchange, you will be listening to me as much as I would feed you." Long Feng creates the term. "Sure, as long I am fed, I don''t mind about it at all. My wish is easy. Feed me as long as you use me, and in return, you may possess all I have." Weapon Devourer Void Log speaks. "All you have?" Long Feng questioned. As he looked at the current condition, it doesn''t seem like this Log actually still possessing any treasure. "Hahaha, you are a Wood Element Affinity Cultivator, my arts are all Wood Element based, even if you are just in an adept realm, I would dare to say that nobody in a stage above you could be your match, as long you remember this. My art is known as sacrificial arts." the Weapon Devourer Void Log says. The moment Long Feng heard his words, he instantly remembered the four blows of memories within his mind. "Is it the for Devourer Intent arts?" Long Feng asked. "Yes, that four arts are my greatest treasure. The Leave No Remains is an attacking art, the Swallows Everything is a recovering art, the Tyrannical Composition is a body tempering art, and lastly, the Total Desolation is an almost Domain level art, where it could create a fake domain that could either over nourish or malnourish your opponents. This series of arts is best used to control and counter an opponent with extreme Body Tempering Arts and render them totally useless before you." Next, Long Feng creates a bond between him and the Weapon Devourer Void Log, as he drips a drop of his refined essence blood to the Log. The moment the two bond together as one, the Weapon Devourer Void Log that was at Long Feng''s hand, turned red, and became even bloodier, as it finally retains its mahogany appearance. This also indicates that the two finally bonds as one, and will share the fate together, and flourish together. "Wife, I''m sorry to make you worried." Long Feng walked over to Nan Jing Jing with the sword on his hand. The two talked for a while before Long Feng entered the opening below the Saint Tree''s root, and as he finally in its main cavern, Long Feng destroys all the remaining corruption source and allows this location to start its life once again. He then walked together with Nan Jing Jing, and with the assistance of the Geology Map, Long Feng easily obtained the correct path to returns to the Grain Woods Habitat. With Tulumi is gone from the group, the strength of the corruption and the Wooden Beast started to reduce and weakened, as the attack that came from the Mouse Beast and Viper Beast and Ox Beast started to reduced as well. With the two returns to the Habitat, their spirit begins to get higher, as Long Feng starts to communicate with the people of the Prosperity Tribe. The two sides started to exchange some of the details and information, as Long Feng believed that this time since the North and South East is quite fortified as they are successfully going through the Wooden Storm Beast, Long Feng felt that they will have the capability to defend themselves for now. If that''s the case, defending the West and perhaps the South West would be the best idea for now. Since Long Feng had already get rid of Tulumi that handing the west, it supposedly becoming easier to handle now, as Nan Jing Jing offered to remain in this location for the upcoming Wooden Beast Storm, while Long Feng will heads towards the South West''s Ashes Woods. Within the agreement is agreed between them, Long Feng quickly make his way to the South West Ashes Woods, along with a tribesman as his guide. Meanwhile, in this Continent of Mu, currently, three more different Metamorphosis Tribesmen is controlling the remaining three location, believed to be Tulupeng, Tulukong, and another one called Tuluwen. Meanwhile, among the seven inheritance treasure, two had been revealed. Mother Gaia, and the Weapon Devourer Void Log. The remaining five is still unknown, while the inherited human, only left Long Feng and Huang Ying, and Chu Yi is most probably believed to retreat from this Thousand Herbal Garden Event. Huang Ying and Yue Ying is most probably within Ashes Woods, Nan Jing Jing and injured Gou Yu still remain in Grain Woods, Zhang Pu and Chen Nan at the Grass Forest, and lastly, Tie Peng and Liu Tsung, is most probably resides in the South Missing Woods instead. If this is how it is distributed, Long Feng decides that going to the Ashes Woods would be the best idea for now. And that is how, Huang Ying and Yue Ying managed to obtain one more helper as they tried to uncover the next hidden treasure of the Ancestor Mu Dou, only known as the Fake Heaven Chariot Horse. Book 2 Chapter 94 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Moon 7 (Upper Part) [Friend Feng, we are almost getting into the Ashes Woods Habitat.] the tribesman speaks, as he was getting even faster. It is not weird because the Seventh Moon is arriving in another twenty minutes. We finally get into the Habitat, after the wooden gate that was closed tightly is opened to purposely welcome both of us into the Habitat. "Fellow disciple Long Feng, how are you doing?" Huang Ying came over and greets Long Feng as she knows that he will be one of the strongest fighting force later. "I am well. Is everything alright over here?" Long Feng politely returns the greeting before he starts his questions. But seeing how well is the Habitat is defended, Long Feng have no doubt that this Habitat had been refined, again and again, to make it sturdy to face the incoming threat from the Wooden Beast Storm. "Everything is well taken care of. We heard from the other messenger and stopped all the other tribesmen from continuing to refining the Brown Crystal Beads as they found. Currently, most of the tribesmen are ready to fight, leaving only a few younger one is hidden deep under the protection of Saint Tree." Huang Ying reports everything to Long Feng as if he is the true leader of the Habitat, but this is nothing to mind about at this moment. Because few moons back, Long Feng had already started to communicate with the tribesmen and had them frequently deliver messages and news to each other, so every Habitat could be updated with the most current news. His feat in defending the Foundation Woods Habitat, Recovering the Wombs Woods Habitat and also assisting the Grains Woods Habitat had already all known to everyone, so his current position is actually quite well respected among the tribesmen. "Yiinng.... Yiiinggg.." an eerie buzzing sound starts to hear around the habitat, with the guards close to the wall quickly take a look on the outside. Although nothing could be found, the eerie sound still managed to slowly create worries deep within everyone''s heart. The Moon quickly turned into crimson coloured, as the howling starts to hear from deeper into the woods. Very soon, a more visible movement could be felt immediately from all corners around the Habitat, as the ground started to vibrate and some tribesmen started to felt fear from that constant movements. "This shouldn''t be, we already tried our best to get rid of most of the nest in the previous six moon time!" Yue Ying is the first to become shocked because based on the current vibration and howling sounds, it seems like the crowd that will attack this Habitat, is not small. [Friend Huang, Friend Yue, Friend Feng, the one coming over to us, is not normal Wooden Beast, but a special kind! It is the Gigantic Wood Tiger Beast and Gigantic Wood Elephant Beast!] the tribesman quickly reports what they saw, and a hint of worry could be seen on their face. "I''ve faced the Gigantic Wood Tiger Beast before, what is it about the Elephant Beast?" Long Feng checked with Huang Ying regarding this new kind. "The Elephant Beast is the overlord of this Ashes Woods. Their attacks are strong, and they have three trunks instead of one. Pretty deadly I would say. Their battle power is quite strong, and pretty much they behave like a siege ram around the battlefield, so each time one or two of them appears, at least ten tribesmen will end up dead." Huang Ying explains what she knows, as it seems that she had face this opponent before.Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. "Alright, I will handle the Gigantic Wood Beast, and could you take care of the defensive perimeters of the Habitat?" Long Feng looked at Huang Ying as she stares at Long Feng with an eye full of worry. "Be careful," she said. Long Feng took her word with a smile, and withdraws the Weapon Devourer Void Log in his hand, and leap outwards to the woods. Devourer Intent - Swallows Everything! Long Feng immediately launched his newly obtained skills as he charges over to the direction tagged with most Wooden Beast in his Geology Map, and with a slash, all the trees and Wooden Beast immediately got swallowed by the Devourer Intent skill as they are processed into a ball of Black Sphere. The more Long Feng swing around the place he is standing in middle, the wider the area is being "Cleaned" by his devourer intent. Long Feng did not stop there, as he moves closer towards another group of Gigantic Beast and repeatedly doing the same thing. Just in a short while, Long Feng absorb all the surrounding area and make them become a Barren Land before he stopped and started to refine everything absorbed by the Black Sphere. The moment he starts to refine all the available essence within the Black Sphere, Long Feng tried to expel all the vegetation within, in which he succeeded in doing so. Scattered vegetation quickly released back to the soil, and being put back to where its belong before Long Feng patiently refine all the Wooden Beast within to form three Brown Essence Teardrops. This Devourer Intent - Swallows Everything and the Tyrannical Composition is truly up to their standard as the remains among Seven Supreme Ruler of another world. The skill is not only ridiculously strong, the effort required to properly use it is not too extreme either. This is almost a blessing to Long Feng because from this moment onwards, forcefully pushing his cultivation and body to an upper limit would no longer be a dream. "Boom!" Suddenly, many Gigantic Worms appeared from below the ground. Each of them is at huge as the previous Gigantic Wood Elephant Beast, with a rounded jaw with extremely sharp teeth. "Is this the rumoured Crimson Hell Worm Beast?" Long Feng looked at his next opponent, with some hint of adoration. But he knows that his opponent is going to be quite difficult because they possess one element that used to cause him to almost died within the Tri-Lightning Forest, the Hell Element! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sister, did you see the weapon on his hand?" Huang Ying suddenly asked a question in between of their fights against the Wooden Beast. "The one that Long Feng is holding? I thought it was just a Wooden Sword?" Yue Ying replied, but her replies soon faced the fierce staring look from Huang Ying. "You have no idea because you didn''t receive the inheritance, but from the Inheritance''s memory, I believe that weapon should be the one known as the "Weapon Devourer Wood." it is a extremely dangerous weapon that one required to have a very strong mind and ruthless composition to handle that weapon." Huang Ying shared. "If that''s the case, do you think he will come to fight against sister for the one you''re looking for?" Yue Ying looked at Huang Ying as they continue to fend against the Wooden Beast. The moment she uttered her words, Huang Ying eye shows a hint of worry, as she calms herself down and answers Yue Ying''s word. "When this Wooden Beast Storm is over, I will talk to him personally to see if he too have the intention to obtained that [Fake Chariot Heaven Horse Breed]. If he does have the intention, we will see how we could get an agreement on this matter." Huang Ying answered her questions. But Yue Ying comes with another one. "Do you think that he will compromise?" "I hope he does. His current fame among the tribesmen already had all this bad reputation covered away, so he should be not as ridiculously ruthless as all of us thinks." Huang Ying says, as their attention turned towards the Wooden Beast again. Book 2 Chapter 95 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Moon 7 (Middle Part) The moment those Crimson Hell Worm Beast crawled out from the ground, they immediately found their respective targets. But what is surprising to Long Feng is, not only he is being one of their targets, even the tree that is well grown around the surrounding (although it was uprooted by Long Feng a while ago) had become their target. A tentacle-like tongue is used to grab the target before it was pulled into its wide jaw. And like a meat grinder, the tree got shredded and immediately swallowed into its belly as the Worm Beast continue to move around looking for new targets. It was almost like hell because, in that short moment, his surrounding had turned into a barren land, with extremely deadly Hell Element energy is seeping through the ground as the worms move. Long Feng evades most of their attack as he moves farther away from the spot. Looking at a stack of Pills within his pouch, Long Feng hesitates for a moment, before he considered that it is essential for him to use it. "Alright, I guess that in the future few Crimson Sun period, It would be easier for me to obtain those Azure Crystal Beads in future." The moment he decides, Long Feng withdraws a few of the Pills which is a similar imitation of the Tribulation Sky Powder that used by the Old Man Yu Men. "Hopefully this Pill that I obtained from the Recipe on of the disciple drop would be useful in this moment!" Long Feng tossed the Pill on the ground and allows them to envelop a large 25 Miles distance filled with Sky Elemental powder. Like a snail get in contact with salt, the Worms begins to struggles as the Sky Elemental powder getting thicker. Taking up this moment as an advantage, Long Feng charge into the thick Sky Elemental surrounding and slay the Crimson Hell Worm Beast one by one. Although the opponent is weakened, Long Feng is surprised with their defensive ability. Even with the Weapon Devourer Void Log, Long Feng not only unable to Devour them into the Black Sphere, even chopping them into two is quite a difficult task. But since Long Feng already possesses a strength at the Early Stage at Heaven Adept Realm, forcefully completing the task is still achievable in his hand. Without putting in too long of his time, Long Feng finally managed to completely kill all of the Worm Beast within his sight, as he quickly gathers all the Scarlet Crystal Beads in his hand and quickly returns to the habitat. But what remains within his sight, gave him the next shock. Unable to fend against the marching force of the Crimson Hell Worm Beast, the Habitat defensive perimeter had been broken, and the tribesmen are struggling under the attack and the side effect of the Hell Elemental. Even Yue Ying and Huang Ying have difficulties to fight properly. "I need to quickly help them now!" Long Feng know the urgency of providing helps now because the side effect of Hell Elemental does not wear off easily, it would slowly weaken the opponent as they alive, until they are worst than dead. With a swing of his hand, the Cloudy Sky Powder quickly explodes and covered the whole area around the habitat with a dense Sky Elemental Cloud. Like their previous companions, the Worm Beast struggles and keep struggling to keep up with their previous performance, as they were already being trapped in this kind of battlefield. But without giving his help to the people within the Habitat, they will still be burdened by the effort needed to completely kill off all the Worm Beast. With no other choice on his hand, Long Feng went inside the habitat and helps them to quickly kill all the Worm Beast before the next batch comes over, unnoticed that all their action is being overlooked by one of the Metamorphosis Tribesman. [Kruk....Kruk....] the Metamorphosis Tribesman swing his hand like he was drawing something on the air, before he cut his wrist, allowing the green blood to flows towards the ground. The blood that flows downwards did not actually touch the ground, but almost like they have attracted something and flows according to the wind, bringing all of them to form into a circle of enchantment. The next moment, he continues to speak another few words. [Forbidden Arts - Empowerment!] the tribesman shouts in their native tongue, and the blood quickly seeps into the ground, forcing all the nearby Wooden Beast to come and gather at this exact location.Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. The middle of the enchantment circle appears to have a crystal orb floating in the middle, while each single Wooden Beast that completely entered the circle of enchantment, will be absorbed into the crystal orb without any rejection. The liquid within the crystal orb slowly increased with more tributes is delivered, and soon, as the liquid had its fill, it begins to burrow into the ground, with the enchantment circle vanished. The ground shook for a moment and stops, and later, the tremors become even greater, as the tree growing among that spot slowly being devoured into the ground one by one, until the large area of trees is all eaten by the ground. The spot where the crystal orb burrowed in, happened to have a crack at the land started dried and become flaky. The next moment, a figure crawls out from the ground, and slowly revealed itself. Its body is well covered with vines and tree barks. Some leaves are stacked along its body, seems like an arrangement of a reptile scales. The tail is revealed next, in the form like an alligator. Four limbs are seen as the Wooden Beast stand up on all four, and as it shakes to remove the soil and dirt on its body, the real figure of this beast is similar to one of the beasts the disciples might see before. A Crocodile Cultivation Beast in a human world, and yet over here, it formed into an even massive size, at least fifteen meters in length, and weight around 10,000kg. This gigantic Wooden Beast not only seems different from the others, and in fact, it seems... Metamorphosis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We finally managed to destroys all the Worm Beast!" Yue Ying happily cheers as the Worm Beast is totally killed, and the next swarm is yet to arrive. It seems that they will have some time to rest for now until the next swarm reach the habitat. But in another side, Long Feng and Huang Ying both are getting into a serious discussion. "Disciple Long Feng, are you here for a specific reason except helping out on defence against the Wooden Beast Storm?" Huang Ying speaks her question honestly, as she knows, at this moment, any lies and deceit will end up with herself being at the disadvantage. Her intention on getting her hand on the [Fake Heaven Chariot Horse Breed] will also be coveted by Long Feng if he actually has the intention to possess it. "Disciple Huang Ying, I am actually here with the intention of looking for a treasure left by this Continent of Mu Creator. His name is Mu Dou." Long Feng, who was always being quite straight and honest did not hide this fact from Huang Ying. "Disciple Long Feng, I actually had the inheritance as well. So I could share with you about this information. My part of inheritance actually tells me that there is a special Horse Breed is kept at this point of the woods, but its current location is still unknown." "on the first Moon, I had already started to search for its location, but unfortunately, I''m still unable to find anything. The name of this treasure is known as the [Fake Heaven Chariot Horse Breed], if I''m not wrong, it most probably not the horse itself, but either the infant, unborn, or pure blood essence of the beast." Huang Ying shared her part of memory without any hesitation just to hope that Long Feng could understand her intention. "Disciple Huang Ying, if we found the treasure, do not worry. I won''t fight with you for it. But from my experience, this treasure might be sentient in a part, and they will choose their own owner to inherit them, so I am not so confident that both of us are qualified." Long Feng too, honestly shared his experience regarding inheriting the Weapon Devourer Void Log and its difficult ordeal in subduing it. Just at the same moment, a sudden tremor could be felt, and a loud beast cry could be heard. The next second, a beam came through from the outside and totally destroying one-third of the habitat without anyone managed to make a move. "Xiao Yue!!" Huang Ying immediately cried her sister''s name, because the area where the beam just strikes through, is where Yue Ying believed to be. "Sister! I''m alright!" Yue Ying appeared to be managed to escape from the deadly beam that just strikes pass, due to her own trump card, a special barrier that will bounce the user from the dangerous spot when attacked suddenly. "I am lucky to have the Rebound Light Seal from Grand Elder, but..." Yue Ying looked at the seal in her hand that looked like a phoenix chasing an orb, slowing getting rusty and soon, it turned into ashes and dispersed by the wind. "At least you able to preserve your life, quickly hide, the opponent is not as easy as we think." Huang Ying had her sister left the battlefield and be on the run because she has no confidence that they could easily win this opponent. Long Feng too, looked at the destruction caused by that single attack and started to feel a slight hint of fear in his heart. "It won''t be a repeatable ability. This beast most probably will need more than an hour to two to recharge such kind of attacking ability, or else, why not the second strike comes?" Long Feng quickly calm his mind and make clear of the situation. He quickly analyses the situation he is in, and also the possibility of what kind of opponent that will come out along with this threat, and quickly came out with an answer. "Disciple Yue Ying! Stay close to us." Long Feng shouts before he turned into the Native tongue. [Tribe Friend, all of us shall get closer to each other, because there will be a deadly attack coming from another side!] the tribesmen that heard his call immediately move closer towards the spot where Long Feng, Yue Ying and Huang Ying stands, and the moment everyone is within his circle, Long Feng immediately summon his Weapon Devourer Void Log, and prepare for the next attack. "ROARRRR!!" the loud cry came once more, as the ground started to shake as if there is a stampede coming to where they are. Just that moment, the opening part where the beam just passes through is swarmed by a large amount of Crimson Hell Worm Beast. While above the Worm Beast, a huge beast appeared before them, in its metamorphosis form. "What in the hell is that thing?" the Ying sisters shouts in shock, while Long Feng stare at the beast and realized that, this Crimson Moon period, is not as easy as he thought. Book 2 Chapter 96 - Prosperity Realm - Day 1 Moon 7 Lower Part) "Sky Sealing Net!" Long Feng withdraws the Sky Sealing Formation Net Cube and launched a few beam towards the Gigantic Wooden Beast, and controls the Sky Sealing Net as it spreads out and trying to seal the beast from continue to move. But the effort is futile as the Wooden Beast only required to take a step before the whole Net formation crumbles and fall. Long Feng then ignites his Red Fire Stage as he projected the Six Flame Converging Stage of the Cauldron Harnessing Art, as he charges upwards. With the Xuan Wu Stampede Body is activated, Long Feng attack the beast like a wild beast, and as he flew in a spiralling way, he inflicts a few serious damage towards the beast back arm. Long Feng then borrows the momentum he got from controlling his Wind Element perfectly, and make a leap in the air to stand on top of the Wooden Beast''s body. But before he could take another step to injured the Wooden Beast, a group of human-shaped Wooden Beast Soldier appeared on its body, as if like a broodling that was given birth by this walking hive. The Wooden Beast Soldier not only appears at the top but almost its whole body. As soon as the Soldier is detached from the Metamorphosis Wooden Beast''s body, it falls like a ripe Durian King Fruit and slammed on the ground while causing huge craters at where it falls. The ground shakes for at least close to a thousand times before it stopped. The moment all the tremor is gone, numerous human figure started to walk over to the side where the tribesmen and the Ying sisters are located. The Gigantic Wooden Beast stopped, showing the same symptom as the Gigantic Tiger Beast does at the first time Long Feng met. Taking this situation to his advantage, Long Feng withdraws the Weapon Devourer Void Log, and start attacking all the Wooden Beast Soldier above the Gigantic Wooden Beast. [Xuan Wu Sword Flash!] The Weapon Devourer Void Log beamed across a line of Wooden Beast Soldier, as Long Feng appears at another side. Without stopping, Long Feng utilize all his strength to quickly defeats all the Wooden Beast Soldier that gathers on top of the Gigantic Wooden Beast. With the Soldier is making their move on him as well, this unintentionally gave Long Feng more chances to reserve his strength, as he does not require to take too long to move from one spot to another. "The last one!" Long Feng decapitate the head of the Wooden Beast Soldier and with the Weapon Devourer Void Log is lifted high up above his head, Long Feng wrapped the tip of the sword with a blade Essence made from concentrated Wind Element, as he stabbed into the Gigantic Wooden Beast''s body. [WOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!] the Gigantic Wooden Beast howls loudly, causing all the Wooden Beast Soldier to lost their calmness, and starting to get even more aggressive. Already half defeated, the Ying sisters barely managed to protect themselves while helping the tribesmen to kept their lives. While back to Long Feng, he managed to crawl into the body of the Gigantic Wooden Beast, and quickly explore its body. He followed the green flashing lights that kept flowing from one direction to another, but instead of following it to where it might ends, Long Feng instead looked for the places where the green flashing lights repeatedly come. He initially reaches a place believed to be the heart of the Wooden Beast. This location is quite wide opened, with a small podium is seen in the middle of the room where a crystal orb is seen floating in the air above the podium. Looking at the baleful aura given out by the crystal orb, Long Feng knows that the core of this Gigantic Wooden Beast is all came from this orb! He lifted his sword above his head, as he releases a heavy swing along with the Wind Element to destroy the crystal orb. But unexpectedly, there are actually two guards guarding this piece of crystal orb! "So, there is guard dogs around huh? Bring it on! If you want to stop me, you need more effort than that!" Long Feng change his standing into a battle stance, awaiting both his opponent to come over as he takes his time to properly look at his opponent. From the first sight, Long Feng could felt that these two Metamorphosis Tribesmen are not as perfect as how Tulujin and Tulumi would be, but in terms of strength, this two are quite similar compared to the former two.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. But one thing different between Tulujin, Tulumi and this two tribesmen, is that this two contain fewer features like the previous two. In terms of mind, skills and perhaps completion of their metamorphosis, there might be some condition yet to be fulfilled. The next moment, the two incomplete tribesmen finally couldn''t wait and made their first move. Long Feng was well prepared to face the attack his opponent might give out, but unexpectedly, this is something that even himself would not dare to imagine it would happen. The first tribesman bends his body down slightly, and without a notice, a surge of vomit came out from his mouth, as a trail of juice quickly came out to attack Long Feng. But after he looked carefully at the path of the juices, Long Feng noticed the tricks hidden behind this strike! There is a plenty of Wooden Beast hidden within that vomit! Long Feng decides to use two layers of Sealing Sphere around him, as he prepares for some unexpected attack. Just that instant the first sealing sphere is activated, a punch had already come in and destroyed the second forming sphere. With only a sealing sphere remains, it quickly broke down as the attack contains some hidden Wooden Beast within. When it finally settled, they grow quickly and appeared to be infesting the whole open area within this Gigantic Wooden Beast. Long Feng knows that he would have no choice to keep resisting himself from using the Vermilion Lord Pill, and since this swarm of Locust appearance Wooden Beast is already started to make the area crowded, Long Feng has no other choice at all. He then tossed a large amount of Vermilion Lord Pill around, and seal himself in a five-layer Sealing Sphere. Then in a split second, the second tribesman already destroyed three sealing spheres. As it lifted its arm to launch another strike, Long Feng knows that he could not wait anymore. A surge of Fire Elemental Essence is released, as the Vermilion Lord Pill, all exploded within the belly of the Gigantic Beast. [AOWUUUU!] the beast cries in pain as its belly part is exploded into charred bits. The flame started to burn from its belly and slowly spreads along to its other part, while its internal organ is disintegrating into ashes as it burns. Long Feng slowly descends to the ground with the assistance of the Wind Element within him, while the two tribesmen grow a pair of wings on their back as they slowly descend along with the same speed. The moment Long Feng and the two firmly stands on the ground, under the sight of the other tribesmen and the Ying sisters, the three begins to fight, and with a single person, Long Feng face the two tribesmen''s punches with his pair of the fist! The Weapon Devourer Void Log is placed on his back as if the log is sentient enough to grow some suction cups that stick tight to Long Feng''s garment. By using the Devourer Intent - Swallow Everything to absorb all the energy he could on the ground and Devourer Intent - Leave no Remains to face the two fists, Long Feng managed to overcome his opponent''s deadly strength, as he withdraws his weapon next the moment his opponent is pushed backwards. With a heavy slash, a Sword Aura is launched directly and gave the first tribesman a deep cut from his right shoulder towards its left thigh. It could be only described as lucky because if his body is not strong enough, he might be easily cut into two pieces easily with one single strike. The second tribesman immediately shocked and tried to resist the tyrannical composition released by just looking at Long Feng. But without any results, the second tribesman could only try its hardest to defend, as Long Feng''s [Xuan Wu''s Might] attack already strikes from above the tribesman''s head, and immediately have the body cut into two pieces. The difficult opponent is reduced to only one remain! With the death of the metamorphosis tribesman, the Ying sisters and the remaining tribesmen of Ashes Woods happily cheered as their fighting spirit increased drastically. This moment, the tribesmen of the Ashes Woods quickly retaliates and becomes a threat to the remaining Wooden Beast Soldier, as the Crimson Moon slowly disappears, and the next moment, the Second Day First Sun finally appears! And under the heavy sunlight, the remaining Wooden Beast of the night starting to suffer from the changes of atmosphere, and slowly collapse, leaving only its crystal beads. The remaining injured Metamorphosis tribesman had escaped as well, with the Gigantic Wooden Beast, disintegrating into ashes. And just like this, the Wooden Beast Storm is finally over. Book 2 Chapter 97 - Prosperity Realm - Day 2 Sun 1 & 2. With all the Moon Phase Wooden Beast are disappeared from sight, the peacefulness came back to the Ashes Wood Habitat once again, leaving the tribesmen that still alive to feel relieved as they managed to protect the Habitat once again. The only thing that worrying is that the attack of each Wooden Beast Storm is getting stronger, will they be able to defend against such threat in this upcoming Wooden Beast Storm? But for now, nothing needed to be bothered, as the tribesmen happily enjoyed their celebration for manage to survive one more storm. They cheers, sing and dance with the newly found bonfire that releasing strong clouds of black smoke as it rises up to the skies, and soon if one would see this continent from a bird''s eye view, the other five habitat soon follows and lit a bonfire along to celebrates their victory. The celebration quickly ends as their recovery works soon begin. Long Feng and the Ying sisters did not hesitate to refine more Pills to allow the tribesmen to quickly recover their fighting strength, and at the same time, few men team had been dispatched into the woods to remove the threat for the upcoming Wooden Beast Storm. Long Feng and the Ying sisters spent almost the whole First Sun period to refine Pills for the tribesmen, and the moment the Second Sun period is up, they stopped, as they have something else more important to be done. With the assistance of two inheritance''s sense, the three of them travelled outside of the habitat, following the edges of the continent as they quickly reach a pointed edge that is slightly protruding out from the other lands. "This side might worth a look." Huang Ying comments. The trio soon went over and search around the area, but except some few excellent rare herbs, only disappointment follows. They felt something strange is going on here, but no matter what, though the Geology Map and searching, they still found nothing. It was until the Weapon Devourer Void Log suddenly gave a hint to Long Feng that its friend is around here. Long Feng withdraws the sword as he sits on the edge of this protruding land. He injects his Essence energy into the sword and was quickly bring into the Imaginary Realm. Over here, it is the same Realm he saw when he was trying to subdue the Weapon Devourer Void Log, but only this time, this realm is totally attached to Long Feng in a very gentle way. "Log, where are you?" Long Feng called the log as it was nowhere to be seen. It supposed to be nicely placed on the podium, but this time, it was not around. Then, in a flash, a sword suddenly appears from behind Long Feng, pointed at him with the wish of taking this person''s life, as the sword strikes across the air.Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. But this was all expected by Long Feng, as he turned around to escape the strike, as he uses his hand to grab the handle. "Argh! You miserable bastard! You should use the Tyrannical Composition to Defend against me, not evade and catch me! You are so not tyrannical!" the Weapon Devourer Void Log suddenly speaks in dissatisfaction. "What made you being so caring out of sudden?" Long Feng asked. "Humph! You got no idea about what you just did." the Log speaks in a very cheerful tone. "Hey you damn Log, spit the bones out and tell me what you mean, alright?" Long Feng getting pissed with the Log''s attitude that changed in a split second. "Those things that you absorb earlier, that''s the Hell Element from the [Table of Kunlun], am I correct? That thing is so delicious... I am drooling and hungry for it. Can you get more for me? In exchange, I will allow you to drip one more drop of your essence blood on me, and in return, you will be able to control me even better. Don''t forget, what I am..." the Weapon Devourer Void Log speaks. "So, what are you doing now? Giving me reaction over here out of sudden." Long Feng asked. "Oh yeah! I almost forget about that. That damn horse is here. I''m sure of it!" the Weapon Devourer Void Log suddenly remembered what he initially calling Long Feng''s for. After a few turn in a circle, the podium begins to display a part of memories, where the Ancestor Mu Dou is fighting against a large crowd of a special beast with few weapons in his hand. But these memories are more focused towards one specific treasure. The Battle Stead that was ride by Ancestor Mo Dou himself. The horse is a winged, four-legged horse that possesses specific differences compared to those stead Long Feng seen before. Even the Thousand Li Charcoal Stead is nothing to be compared to this Stead. The strong leg it possessed, could even step across the air as it wished. The cries of the stead could cause fear to all another beast around it while summoning all steads around it to do its bidding. Its blood is available to be refined and blessed to any other steads to receive a portion of its bloodline, and its glory is even overwhelming. Within the eyes of all the horses, This Stead is almost standing as high as a God, except one. The [Pure Chariot Heaven Horse King]. Which is their ultimate evolution. The moment the memories displays is over, the Log speaks. "This is my friend, the damn white horse. You know, his duty is only to carry the chariot for that Old Man Mu Dou." Long Feng listened to the Log''s word as he suddenly thinks of a question to irritates the Weapon Devourer Void Log. "Hey, then what are your duty when you are with Ancestor Mu Dou?" "I devour all the weapons of his enemies, giving him chances to fight on equal ground!" the Log proudly speaks of his excellent traits. "Oh, so instead of working like that Fake Chariot Heaven Stead, you actually eat?" Long Feng sarcastically comments. The moment the Weapon Devourer Void Log heard what Long Feng says, It gets angry. "I''m not gonna help you anymore!" the Log flew away from Long Feng''s sight and stopped speaking. Long Feng then slowly whispers a word. "You don''t want to eat the Hell Element anymore?" then he sits on the side of the podium until the Imaginary Realm forcefully reject Long Feng from it. That in that instant, Long Feng opened his eyes and sees that he already went back to the Continent of Mu. Before his eyes, a spiralling portal is opened, allowing anything to pass through it and get into its core. "I think the path to the [Fake Chariot Heaven Stead] is opened." Long Feng speaks to the Ying Sisters, as he pointed on the Spiralling Portal. Book 2 Chapter 98 - Prosperity Realm - Day 2 Sun 2 & 3. The moment Long Feng and the Ying sisters entered the spiralling portal, their vision on the surrounding quickly changed into a cave appearance. And the next second, the Spiralling portal vanished from their sight. "I guess this portal is only the entrance. We will need to find another portal if we wish to get out from here." Long Feng says as he looked at the Ying sisters. Huang Ying and Long Feng soon tried to use their Geology Map in this place, but receive no reaction in return. "This place is weird. It has a very tangible feeling of a cave, but in the same time, it could not be read by the Geology Map skill." Huang Ying makes her analyse as she found out that she could read nothing over here. This cave supposed to be dark because there is no hint of lighting could be seen between the cracks, yet it was so brightly illuminated, that one will not felt he was within a cave. The trio soon started to walk and explore the cave, which is almost as huge as the habitat they used to stay within before it was damaged by the Gigantic Wooden Beast. The cave channels to many different parts of the tunnel, and with each step the trio walk, they leave a mark to indicates which tunnel they had explored before. The soon realized that there were circling within the tunnel, and on top of that, it is not a single circle if the tunnel but at least five to ten circles. If they continued to circle this tunnel without a solution, they will soon be exhausted in both mind and body before they are dead. Up to now, not even a single corpse, item, chipped rocks could be felt within their way. The tunnels are opened wide along their way, and no matter how fast or slow they go, the tunnel still looked the same. "This is not good, if we continue like this, we will be exhausted before we reach our target!" Long Feng turned around and looked at the Ying sisters, he called out to them, but the two figure did not reply his words. Soon, they walk pass through Long Feng without noticing Long Feng is by their side, and with a swing of his hand, Long Feng attempts to grab a hold of Yue Ying''s shoulder. But his swing of a palm only touched the air, as the figure starts to vanish from his sight, as it turns into a dangerous atmosphere. "Damn! Now I know what happened. We are all trapped within a formation! This is the test that will see are we qualified to obtain the [Fake Chariot Heaven Stead]!" Long Feng quickly calm down his mind as he was forced to face the attacking prowess that came from the Formation Defensive Mechanism. His surrounding of the cave quickly turns into a circle of flame, with a piece of stone on his feet while all the surrounding of him turned into Lava. A tongue of fire is released from everywhere, and as they get closer to Long Feng, the duration of each Tongue of Fire become even hotter, and deadlier. Long Feng withdraws the White Stone Pill Cauldron in his hand, as he utilized his Cauldron Harnessing Art to absorb and refine the Fire Element released by the formation. Instead of being forced into a difficult situation, the formation actually has its strength absorbed by Long Feng to temper his own Red Fire Stage Foundation instead. The tongue of fire that had been absorbed into the cauldron quickly turned into a Fire Pill that burns as it floats on the air, and without any hesitation, Long Feng swallowed the Pill to allows the fire element that no longer destructive to entered his Element Storage and temper his Fire Element Foundation. Without bothering the remaining empty threats that come from the Formation Defensive Mechanism, Long Feng take his advantageous situation to quickly refine and temper his Fire Element Foundation, until the defensive mechanism went overheat. But the formation did not stop there. The second defensive mechanism quickly went active, and the next moment, another Elemental started to appears within the formation. The water around the formation circle soon raises at waist level, as Long Feng is started to panic from being put into this situation. "This is not good, the formation seems to try to drown me within with the strength of Water Elemental!" Long Feng worries getting deeper as the water started to raise up to his shoulder level, he soon submerged into the water formation, while floating within the water sphere.The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings. "What can I do to face this stage?" Long Feng was worried, as the table of the Five Major Elemental quickly runs in his mind. Soon, the Generating and the Overcoming meanings that he used to read from the Temperament Sutra came into his mind. "Wood feeds Fire, Fire creates Earth (Ashes), Earth bears Metal, Metal collects Water, Water nourishes Wood!" "Woods part Earth, Earth dams Water, Water extinguishes Fire, Fire melts Metal, Metal chops the Wood!" "Since the Fire Defensive Mechanism had been used to nourished my Fire Elemental Foundation, I will use this Water Defensive Mechanism to nourish my Wood Elemental Foundation!" Long Feng immediately generates a Seed that was formed from his Wood Element to be exposed with the strong resistance of the Water Elemental. The Wood Elemental Seed soon was drowned in the water, as the circle of protection created by Long Feng soon invaded by the water element. With both Seed and Long Feng had been drowned by the water as the pressure started to grow, Long Feng used his utmost capability to protect himself and also the weak little seed. Soon, the seeds begin to germinate. Two small little pieces of leaves started to grows as it absorbs all the nourishment comes from the water, as it quickly getting greener and lusher. Leaves started to grows one at a time, and soon, it becomes a small little sapling, with almost fifty or more leaves growing and it doesn''t stop there. The sapling soon grows taller and thicker, while the leaves continue to become even wider, almost comparable to how a big a Jackfruit could grow. The leaves starting to grow into a similar size in wide and length, and as the colour of each single leaves gets even, it could be seen that at least thousand pieces of leaves are scattered along the sapling, as it begins to grow into a full-fledged young Oak Tree. Soon, the roots of the tree that had been absorbing the water without stopping, starts to have a drastic change. Every single root begins to become thicker, at least the size of a human body, as it grows without any restraint. Just in that short moment, from being protected by Long Feng, in exchange, the Oak Tree begins to protect its owner from any visible harm. A layer of protection appears around Long Feng as he was unconsciously absorbed into the side of the tree as the Water Defensive Mechanism still unable to accept its defeat. More water had been released within the formation, but the moment it appears, it automatically flows into the root of the Oak Tree, and become a nourishment for the tree. Minutes later, the water sphere finally admitting its defeat, as the protective layer of the bubble burst, leaving only the Oak Tree and its owner standing in the middle of the formation. But when Long Feng thinks that it is over, the Formation actually yet to give up! Another Defensive mechanism actually activates, and this time, this is no simple formation! The surrounding of Long Feng soon changed from a void into a battlefield, with at least hundred thousand of warhorses is stepping across the battlefield! The ground shakes in fear from all the might of each gallop these warhorses made, and on top of each single horse, a being with the appearance of a hooded soldier fully equipped with heavy battle armour, holding a sword at its left and a trident on its right, with one more battle-axe on its back. The overbearing aura released by each single horsemen could easily press Long Feng to pitifully crawls on the ground without a hint of capability to resist. Long Feng has no choice but to push his capability to his limits, as he used this move to defend himself against this kind of trials! "Devourer Intent - Total Desolation!" Long Feng''s Fake Domain quickly released around him as the land void of any vegetation, became even desolated with not even a single hint of energy within. "HUR!!!" one of the horseman charge over to where Long Feng stands with the right hand held high! The trident is pointing at Long Feng, with the intention to skewers the man who causes the land to become even more desolate. "Bring it on! I will see how strong you are to totally rule over this land!" Long Feng withdraws the Weapon Devourer Void Log and attempts to clash with the horseman''s trident. Like a tool that been starved with more than a month, the Weapon Devourer Void Log was aimed at the trident with the intent to devour! But the moment the two weapons clashed, Long Feng is actually pushed back like a loosen arrow, with the Log speaking his mind. "WHY! WHY CAN''T I EAT THAT DAMN TRIDENT!" Book 2 Chapter 99 - Prosperity Realm - Day 2 Sun 3. From that first contact, Long Feng was shocked with what had just happened. With the Log is shouting in his mind nonstop, Long Feng start to feel irritated before he shouts "Shut The Fu*ked up!" He quickly gets himself back in the right position as the horseman continues to attack. With the trident lifted up above his head, once again, the trident is stabbed over towards where Long Feng is. But this time, Long Feng is well prepared. The Over-Nourishment effect is being focused on the Horseman as it stabs the spear, and seeing how buffed the opponent is out of sudden, Long Feng felt a slight urge to hit his opponent as hard as he could. "since he was so buffed if I don''t land a heavy strike on him, how could I not feel sorry for myself?" Long Feng whispers to himself as he not only land a strike using the Log, he even a portion of Essence Energy shifted on his right hand, and with a fully formed armoured Claw of Xuan Wu, Long Feng gave a direct punch, forcing the horseman to falls from the horse. The moment the horseman fell down to the ground, Long Feng prepares himself to face him directly from an even ground. But out of his expectation, before the horseman could stand up from the floor, two strikes from the warhorse''s hoof destroyed the horseman''s head and chest. The horseman immediately falls dead on the spot, and next, the warhorse slowly walk over to Long Feng as it gave him a smell before the horse ran off and vanished from thin air. Then, followed behind, one by one the horsemen started to get closer to Long Feng, with a few weapon of their choice. Some carry the axe high up, while some with twin sword and some even with a bow nocked with a few arrows. But one by one, Long Feng face their oppression with his full might as he defeated the horsemen one after another. The horsemen did not stop after he defeated all of them, but instead, Long Feng started to get swarmed by four to five horsemen in each attempt! The situation started to get more and more ridiculous as if the Horsemen started to get pissed with Long Feng''s sounding victory against all of them. They are nothing like parts of memories! They are once the most fearsome troops within the land they came, and they were the deadliest among all! They are the mighty Xiongnu Horse Tribe! Soon, a leader among the horseman appears from within the swarm. The leader had his both hand lift up above his head, and one by one, the horsemen with their horse is absorbed into a strand of a soul as they merge with the leader. Very soon, there is no longer any horsemen is seen around the land, except the leader of the horsemen. "I am Kannou, one of the ten remaining leaders of the Great Xiongnu Horse Tribe! Come, the successor of the man called Mu Dou, I challenge you!" the three-metre tall horseman with his horse get close to Long Feng as he lifted his battle-axe upward pointing at Long Feng. "I am Long Feng, the successor of Ancestor Mu Dou, under his inheritance, I am here accepting your challenge, and will fight with all I have!" Long Feng point his Weapon Devourer Void Log towards Kannou and prepare to face him in a man to man battle. Without any further words, Long Feng and Kannou started the fight. One side with a horse at least four meters tall, lifting up the gigantic Kannou even taller and harder to reach compared to the other horsemen. But for Long Feng, this is not a problem at all, because, with the Wind Element within his disposal, Long Feng could easily thread and walk on the air, although he is limited to only having a temporary access each time he leaps up from the ground. With a Giant Battle-Axe at least tripled Long Feng''s body size, Kannou swing the axe with all his might each time Long Feng leapt up from the ground. But as his attack is not getting any faster, the effort is getting nowhere, while Long Feng patiently fights without allowing any of the eagerness to fill his empty mind. "Malnourishment!" Long Feng force the Domain might towards Kannou, as the target begins to lose his overbearing strength on that instant. Trying to grab the chances, Long Feng charged towards his opponent with one intention, decapitate his head and win this fight! Like a nocked arrow is launched with all might, Long Feng charged over towards Kannou with a speed hard to catch by any random eyes, but in front of the warhorse ride by Kannou, this is nothing but a mild distraction!Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. The horse lifted up it''s both back hoofs and with a kick, a wave of force immediately pushed Long Feng backwards without any rejection force. "What the hell is that force? I am pushed back without any resistance!" Long Feng was shocked, but the moment he stands idle on the ground, Kannou already has taken his advantage as he swings that heavy Battle-Axe over to where Long Feng stands, and force him backwards for a second time. "Damn! If I keep being pushed back like this, how am I going to win this fight?" Long Feng was slightly forced into irritation as his strongest weapon, the Weapon Devourer Void Log is not working efficiently against this opponent that it''s weapon is not absorbable. With the body size of Kannou at least three times bigger than himself, and with that horsemanship, Long Feng will be forced into a very disadvantaged situation soon. The fight continues as Long Feng situation soon become even worst. The combination of man and horse is extremely versatile, where each time Long Feng managed to fight against Kannou''s brute strength, he will still be forced to pushed backwards from the unable to defend pressure give by the warhorse''s each kick. Each time he almost managed to reach the former, he will be attacked by the warhorse, rendering his previous attempt all become pointless. It soon got even worst, as Long Feng''s fatigue soon came into his body, and force his battle strength to reduce by a quarter. Long Feng pops in a few Tiger Stripes Soul Pill to recover his body strength, but unknown what is the reason, there is no effect at all. Being pushed into this situation, Long Feng starting to felt a feeling of despair, as he begins to lose against his opponent, in this fight. "How can I fight against this opponent? Come on, Long Feng, you will have a way!" Long Feng starts to talk to himself as to think of a way on how to resist against this situation, and fought for a victory. He hates to lose, everyone does. But if he were to lose without even having a chance to equally injured his opponent in the battle, it means he is losing a fight, and losing in everything. "Mother!" Long Feng thought of his mother out of sudden, in the edge of defeat. "I can''t lose here! I made a promise, I promise mother that I will go to the Heavenly Blossom Empire to bring mother back from the Royal Mu Clan Head! I will bring mother... Wait!" Long Feng was thinking about his regret and his promise to his only family still remain in this world until he suddenly realized something. "Mother''s surname, the Royal Clan Name, and Ancestor Name is related!" is that because I have some blood relationship with ancestor Mu Dou, and that is why I felt a hint of closeness when I see Ancestor Mu Dou?" Long Feng starts to have a various kind of thinking appears to his mind, as he begins to felt even more suspicious with all this. "I must be related with this all! I will not lose! Not in this way, not here, not before I bring back mother from the Royal Mu Clan. Be it I am related to the Mu or not, I am Li Long Feng, I will create my own legacy!" Long Feng newfound strength in his mind quickly gave him a new strength, and his mind is clearer than ever. With a swing of his arm that was attached with the Essence-Energy formed Claw, he swipe away all the surrounding dust with a swing, and with the Wind Element is conjured and gathered at the tip of his fist, Long Feng punch a blow of air directly, and land a critical hit towards the Kannou and the horse. "HURRRR!!! HURRR!!" the horse screamed as it vomits a few mouthful of blood. Even Kannou could not help but wipe away the trail of blood that forcefully flows out from the side of his mouth. "This human started to possess the bearing similar to that Mu Dou," he whispers to himself as he pulls the reins on the horse as they charge towards Long Feng with his Battle-Axe lifted high upwards. "This land is empty. This is not what Ancestor Mu Dou wished. It should be filled with life, not desolation." Long Feng converts all the Wood Elemental energy within his body and shifted them to be given to the ground, and forcefully nourish all the remains that were once growing vast across the land. He then slowly planted the seeds of the Strong Oak Tree Foundation around him and allows them to further brings the ground around him into a lush, green forest. Like a snail that will be turned around and leave when it gets close to any salt, Kannou and the horse slowly retreat as the small patch of green, started to slowly spread across the land, and quickly formed into a green piece of land. The grass soon grows upwards towards Kannou and the horse, and the two then stayed still on the spot as they stopped moving. They soon become a figure totally covered with green grasses, as it continues to spread, until the scenery of his eyes, shattered and become nothing but a Void realm once again. Before him, three drops of golden blood essence is floating in front with the eagerness to follow this person. Long Feng looked around, and then, a golden flash of light swirl across this realm, and later stopped by another side of the three Golden Blood Essence, and make an eye contact with Long Feng. The golden flash of light soon reveals the real body hidden behind the light, as a white golden horse appears. I bear a feeling full of warmth, comfort and also grace, that cause Long Feng to feeling as he had just returned to his mother''s womb one again. And then, the golden horse speaks. Book 2 Chapter 100 - Prosperity Realm - Day 2 Sun 4. "My tribe is no longer exist in this world. When Master Mu Dou obtained me from the hand of the Xiongnu, we are already almost extinct, with bare ten of our tribe still remains within the world. Our tribe have a very special kind of inheritance method, where no matter if the offspring are born directly from us or not, they are all unqualified to be called as the [Chariot Heaven Stead[]." "Only one kind of Stead could inherit us and our bloodline, and that''s the horse that was strong enough to possess a very special domain that only Horse Type Cultivation Beast could possess, the [Thousand Stead Bloodline Formation]. If a stead possesses strength but not the Domain, they will be unable to inherit our inheritance as well, and this is why our tribe, extinct." "This three drops of blood, are my remaining Golden Essence Blood after I gave a drop to the lady that came in together with you. I hope, with the blood, it would either helps your stead to obtain the qualification to come into the rank of Heavenly Beast, or it would be used to increase the inheritance strength of your own beast. If you felt like it, you could assist my tribe to flourish once again and make our successor could gallop within the world once again. "Apart from this, I wish to give you this item as well." the golden horse speaks as a bracer appears from the space, and slowly floats to the space between Long Feng and itself. "This Bracer is a treasure that was refined from my bones, blood, flesh and Essence. It contains all of my efforts the moment I reach the last moment of my life." the bracer went into Long Feng''s wrist and attached to him like it belonged to him all along. "This is the Wood Elder Bracer. The more the Wood Lord Brace absorb your blood, the more It is compatible with you, as if it was another part of your body, and limbs. The blood is collected will be transformed into drops of Elder Blood, that will boost your strength by 20% when you activate it. The more effort you put into the Wood Elder Bracer, the more Elder Blood it could transform from your blood." "Next, is that this bracer has a special activation ability. If you temper your Wood Foundation with this Bracer, it will increase your effort by 20%. That means your tempering attempt will be a fifth faster compared to other people. I hope that this would be a help for you in future." the golden horse finished its word, as the Void Realm begins to shattered, revealing only him and the Ying sisters still seated on the pointed edge of the Continent. "So, did you obtained any inheritance from the treasure?" Long Feng looked at Huang Ying and asked. She then withdraws a drop of blood from her spatial ring and allows Long Feng to have a look. Yue Ying too eager to shows the treasure she had and quickly withdraws a pair of shoes that look so good on her. It seems that even Yue Ying was able to obtain a treasure, this means that the golden horse is quite generous. Since the treasure that was stored in the Ashes Wood had already been explored and obtained by Long Feng and the Ying sisters. With already two of the treasure is obtained while five remains, Long Feng and the Ying sister believed that they too, will need to go to other parts of the continent to find more treasures. The trio separates from here, as Long Feng returned to the Grains Wood to check on how Nan Jing Jing is doing along with the injured Gou Yu. Unbelievable to him, from the moment they entered the spiral and being transferred into the formation, two suns actually passed, and it is almost the end of fourth Sun by now. The time passes too quick out of sudden, but Long Feng couldn''t give any comment, as he knows that the profound formation is most likely been placed there by the ancestor to deter the people from disturbing the peaceful rest o the golden horse. Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there. The moment Long Feng reached where the Grains Wood habitat is located, he felt a hint of impress from looking at how majestic their habitat had become. Their walls, houses and also the Saint Tree had grown miraculously that it was the biggest Saint Tree he ever encountered. The habitat seems like a small settlement, with at least ten thousand tribesmen could be seen within. While at a small hut beside the Saint Tree, Nan Jing Jing slowly walks out from the hut and looked at the sky. She soon noticed that Long Feng is coming down slowly from where her sight is set. "Husband." she gave out a beautiful smile as she saw her beloved husband. The Nan Jing Jing now seems very different from how she was when they all entered the Prosperity Realm. Her strength had just increased as well, just going pass through the Middle Earth Adept Realm. The couple soon accompanies each other and walked around the habitat, looking at how happy each tribesman looks within this so-called small settlement. They shared the experience that just happened on the previous Wooden Beast Storm, and unexpectedly, the Grains Wood encounter none of the metamorphosis tribesmen and easily turn over the table to defeat all the Crimson Hell Worm Beast. They too obtained quite a good haul in their herb harvest and allowing Nan Jing Jing to properly administered the Pills depending on its usefulness. She as well found out that although there is about a thousand variety of plants is available on this continent, only a few certain one is extremely beneficial to the Tribesmen, so she had the tribesmen to not only procure this few types of ingredients without fail, she even teach them on how to cultivate and grow them, to increase the production. So far, this small settlement not only full of spaces that could be turned into houses to allow more tribesmen to be born out, there is also plenty of lands that were ploughed and ready to be planted with many kinds of ingredient''s seed. The two continues to walk around the habitat, like a governor making their rounds, and without any notice, a beam of light came from the Saint Tree, and went into Long Feng''s mind almost instantly! Long Feng''s body almost like it was warped into a Void Space, and vanished from Nan Jing Jing''s touch in that instant. Long Feng could only see his view around him turned into a different location, as he soon felt that he landed on a firm, sturdy rock. "You''re the one who received the acceptance from that two treasure?" a woman sound reverberates within the Void Space, as it tried to question Long Feng. "Who is this?" Long Feng asked instead of answering the question. And in return of his ignorance, the Void Space quickly turned into a space with meteorites striking towards Long Feng. "Weapon Devourer Void Log!" Long Feng withdraws the Log in his hand and started to use the Devourer Intent - Leave no Remains on the incoming meteorites. The moment the Log came out, it started to shivers in Long Feng''s hand. "Damn Log, what the hell are you doing?" Long Feng felt difficult to control the Log in his hand as it shivering too hard for him to control it perfectly. "That''s mother you idiot! When she got angry she will smack you until you ask for forgiveness!" the Weapon Devourer Void Log immediately become as timid as a Mimose Plant, and shrink until it becomes a piece of dried wood. Facing the incoming meteorite, Long Feng tried to defend it through using the bracer, but at the same time, the bracer too, shrink like a dried piece of tree bark in his hand. "The hell! This two treasure is afraid with this so-called mother!" Long Feng has no choice but to depend on his brute strength to face the incoming meteorite. With the [Limb of Xuan Wu] is pushed to its limit, Long Feng clawed at the frontmost two meteorites and crushed them to bits before he swings his pair of claws to fend off the remaining meteorites. "Hahaha, You are quite brave to fight against me, do you really think that I don''t dare to do anything to Master Mu Dou''s Inheritor? You are dreaming, even Master Mu Dou listens to me when I am in fury! Don''t you know that I control the whole Continent of Mu?" the voice known as mother howls in fury as she sees Long Feng''s retaliation, and with a louder scream, even more meteorites came towards Long Feng. "Meteorites that was all rocks without a single flame? I will let you see what is meteorites!" Long Feng is thoroughly pissed as well. Brought into a Void Space without words, this mother actually dare to question him and barrage him with meteorites. If he just stays still and listens like an obedient puppy, what kind of future would he hold when he went out? No matter what, Long Feng is still a cultivator with Legacy of the Xuan Wu Sword Sect, the Ancestor Mu Dou, and child of Mu Lan Hua, a member of the Royal Mu Clan in Heavenly Blossom Empire! Pushing his strength to its limit, Long Feng withdraws the White Stone Pill Cauldron and ignites all the Fire Elemental within his body as he transfers them into the cauldron. "Six Flame Converging Stage!" Long Feng''s flame burn to its highest degree as the cauldron cover is opened and the tower of flame is released from the Cauldron. A stubborn one against a possessive one. One is a human, another is a Sentient Treasure. One live for just less than two decades, while the other lived for more than a millennium. One possesses four elements, while the other is a master of one sole element. A fight between two is expected to starts! Book 2 Chapter 101 - Prosperity Realm - Day 2 Sun 5 (Upper Part) "Ignorant Inheritor, how dare you actually fought with me, the sentient treasure of Ancestor Mu Dou?" the woman sound getting higher in a pitch and the meteorites around Long Feng begins to fly in a sequence. "You will suffer the wrath of making me angry!" as the voice finished the sentence, the meteorites begin to charge towards Long Feng''s position, with the aim to trap him within the stone prison and keep him here forever until he asks for forgiveness. But for Long Feng, this is a challenge. How dare a mere sentient treasure dare to question him on what he was done? He has his own path to goes, and along the way, only everything will be subdued by him, not himself subdue to others. If this is the obstacle he would have to pass before he obtained this treasure known as [Mother Gaia], he will face it without hesitation. The Cauldron released the Tower of flame as it was moved around. With the immeasurable heat is carried along its way as it burst through the Void Space, those meteorites, are burnt into ashes until not even a speck of dust is left in the space. Since the word "Wood feeds Fire" is not without a reason, the flame easily causes the whole space to lit in fire, as it was densely covered with Wood Element. Unexpectedly, the fire that was burning the whole Void Space suddenly was distinguished by an unknown force. The Wood Element within the space actually getting more concentrated than it was before, and soon, a hint of green could even be seen within the space. The green hue soon covered the whole area around Long Feng and stopped moving. Long Feng knows that this calmness is the preparation before a storm came, so he hesitates not to activates his [Xuan Wu''s Stampede Stage] to further strengthening his body capability to face against whatever comes next. Then, a whistle sound could be heard, before a Huge Square Vessel appears from far away. The Square Vessel carrying a colour similar to a Copper, but when it came closer, a hint of golden colour could be seen. The closer it looks, the more its colour begins to change, and as it stopped about a hundred metres away from Long Feng. The colour on the Square Vessel soon stopped changing, as it became white and smooth like a porcelain pottery colour. Its white body of a square Food Vessel, with four feet that was supported with four beautiful female figure on each corner, carries a resemblance of a Chinaware, but in term of value, this China does carries a more preciousness atmosphere within, if it was to compare with the others pottery. "Is that Mother Gaia?" Long Feng was quite shocked with the appearance of this treasure out of sudden. The moment he felt like asking for the reason, the square vessel already make its moves. From the void space within its square interior, a wooden beast is released, as it quickly grows into a maturity phase. The Square Vessel soon vanished in thin air, alongside with the green hue that was covering around Long Feng. And as he looked at the Wooden Beast, it slowly grows taller and stronger, and just in a few minutes, it had finally reached its maturity stage. The Wooden Beast stands up tall before Long Feng as if to show the latter the strength it was so proud of. The Wooden Beast bears a resemblance of a bull, but with a tall and gigantic human body. Its head still carries the feature of a bull, especially on the pair of horns protruding from the top of its skull. A tail that was made from vines is seen from the back, but his tail, instead of having some leaves at the tip, it actually came with a sting similar to a scorpion. Heartbeat could be felt from its right chest, and with a grip of its hand, a hammer slowly created from the vines within its body gathered into a point. It possesses a strong left, along with a hoof that was similar to a beast. Its height is almost as same as Kannou, but the oppression forces it released, are at least one time stronger than the latter.If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. Unexpectedly, it could actually speak in Long Feng''s human language. "Human makes the mother angry. Minorous, Kill..." it possesses only a small hint of intelligence, so its vocabulary is pretty simple. But the meaning of what it wanted to do, is well presented. With a lift of its hand, the long hammer is lifted up and heavily smashed on the ground with a "Bam" causing the Void Space to trembles for a moment. But its attack does not stop there, swinging the long hammer with the length of the almost Minorous whole body, the hammer slammed on the ground without any hint of stopping in between. Long Feng was counted as lucky to had the [Xuan Wu''s Stampede Stage] activated at this moment because, without the assistance of the Weapon Devourer Void Log and the Wood Elder Bracer, Long Feng had no choice but to resist this opponent by his bare hand. Paired with the claws he formed using the Essence-Energy, Long Feng charge over to the opponent, using the Xuan Wu Sword Art that was projected through the usage of a pair of claws. Taking his opponent seriously, the Minorous does not loosen up his awareness seeing that Long Feng charges towards him with his bare fist and a pair of Essence Projected Claws. Devourer Intent - Leave no Remains! Long Feng''s first charge with much devouring intention, as if the being before his fist is just a mere food that was supposed to be digested into his pile of energy. The fist charge straight to the opponent, as it was received with another equally strong fist. The two clashed with each other in a seriously extreme manner, and as they were already within an arm''s length distance from each other, rain of fist swarms towards their opponent, with only the intention to kill. Long Feng soon felt slight disadvantages because of the opponent tyrannical strength, and with the oppressing aura within, Long Feng started to feel a difference because of a very important issue. "His opponent is not burning in a fire after the furious clashes with him!" Long Feng had a very strong suspicion towards Minorous''s existence, but the moment he saw how the Wooden Beast bears the resemblance similar to the others, he couldn''t help but question why this Wooden Beast, is resistant to fire Element! With the Cauldron directly in front of him, Long Feng produce the Six Flame Converging Stage as he fires a beam of Flame towards Minorous, but like it was nothing, Minorous actually deflected the Beam of Flame, and allows it to burn the ground, causing the spot where the two stands, is burning hot in deadly fire. "How could a Wooden Beast resistance to fire?" Long Feng couldn''t help but question himself. This is the first time he''d seen a Wooden Beast that was totally ignorant in front of his Red Fire Stage Foundation. With a flash, Minorous appears beside Long Feng, as it landed a heavy punch towards the latter head, causing the latter to be thrown far away from where they initially made contact. Long Feng spits two mouthfuls of blood, indicating he was quite seriously injured by this single attack. The question of why this opponent is resistant to Fire Element still within his mind, as Long Feng struggles to get the answer. Minutes later, he noticed something weird. Minorous hammer was actually swinging in a high-speed moment ago when they fought, and just now, when they were exchanging the fist, he noticed the great speed that was possessed by Minorous. And just now, Minorous actually move like he just teleported, as he landed that heavy strike on Long Feng''s head. Long Feng starting to feel that he actually knew what had just happened. He looked at the opponent in a very detailing way, as he quickly noticed a few differences in the opponent body. Within the core of his opponent, a still growing sapling of a plant is in a cage in the middle of its chest, and thunderous energy could be felt released from that! "That is a Thunder Calling Tree! This Wooden Beast could actually utilize the strength of the plant to allows itself to be able to use different elements in a fight!" Long Feng was shocked, but the next moment, Minorous actually shifted the Thunder Calling Tree with another kind of seed within the cage. "Shit, this is the Metal Acorn Tree! Tell me he is not trying to change his element into Metal!" Long Feng immediately prepare all his strength to defend against the opponent''s attack, and the moment Minorous fist came towards Long Feng, it was gigantified into an unexpected way, where the fist that comes to Long Feng, is actually a two meters width and length fist. He has pushed away once again, without any way to block this opponent attack. Book 2 Chapter 102 - Prosperity Realm - Day 2 Sun 5 (Lower Part) "If this continues, I will be pushed into a corner without any way to defend myself at all!" Long Feng is wrecking his brain to find a solution for this problem, but no matter how, he failed to obtain a solution to this problem before him. This opponent is not only capable of turning the special elemental trait within the plant into his own strength, in the same time, his opponent is stronger than anything he ever faces before! "Would depending on Pill Concoction Battle will reap more benefit?" Long Feng begins to change his way of fighting and became totally depending on the Battle Concoction to do his bidding. "Element Dispersing Powder!" Long Feng immediately spreads a number element disturbance concoction around him so he could cause a disturbance on the enemy battle capability. Minorous get annoyed with such small petty tricks, as he tried to create a gust to blow away all the disturbance powder. But Long Feng did not stop there. Instead of allowing the powder clouds to be blown away, he utilized his own Wind Elemental to create a soft gust, to redirect the powder back to where the two of them stands. As his action started to create an annoyance towards Minorous, the beast soon gets impatient and begin to make its move. "Human, Despicable!" Minorous take a few large steps as it charges over to where Long Feng stands. "Sealing Pill." Long Feng toss a few Sealing Pill to disturb the movement of the beast. Although the created Sealing Sphere does not manage to stop the beast from charging towards where Long Feng stands, from the slight disturbance it causes, the momentum Minorous build, slowly get dissipated from those small actions. Even if Minorous managed to get close to Long Feng, the initial destructive strength at least reduced to more than half, as there is no longer any momentum is built along the way. But Long Feng did not stop there. The moment two of the Sealing Sphere is shattered from those raw strengths, the Vermilion Lord Pill that was hidden within the sphere explodes. With its both leg got blasted into burnt vines, its movement becomes sluggish for a moment, as the cage on its chest started to shifted into another kind of plants. "Oh god please tell me that is not going to be anything like what I''m thinking..." Long Feng prayed for not being treated with such a bad luck, as he takes a good look at the plants next appearing on the Minorous chest. "Oh, Shit!" Long Feng curse as he finally noticed that the plant appears in its chest. It was a [Brittle Green Wood], a special ingredient that is well sought after for its special healing properties hidden within the trunks. With this young growing, the whole plant is within its chest, the healing properties are going to be at least 5 to 10 times stronger compared to a single piece of processed wood! Long Feng fear begin to get thicker, as he sees the burnt part on Minorous''s leg started to heal and become even thicker. "Limb Prisoning Concoction!" Long Feng abuse the concoction in his hand and throws as much he could lock his opponent from taking another step. Looking at his opponent condition, Long Feng push his Red Fire Stage foundation to its limit once again and shoot the beam of fire after it had been refined in the White Stone Pill Cauldron towards Minorous once again. But the beast totally defended against the burning flame once again. Or not. "Eh! His both horn is burnt and slowly spreading down to his skull." Long Feng noticed the small ember that stills lit on both of Minorous''s horn. He charged his Flame again, and fire another few consecutive beam towards the beast. Minorous was angered from being trapped by Long Feng, and as it finally managed to destroy the restrictions, it charges towards Long Feng with the aim to thoroughly destroy the target! A heavy punch is delivered!You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version. Too bad, it was a pointless effort. The ember that was lit by Long Feng as he fires a few more Flame Beam, managed to cause some internal destructive effect towards the Minorous body. The beast started to get slightly weaker as its body started to slowly burn like a piece of charcoal. The heat created within its body started to create a side effect where those vines and roots that form the beast body begin to loosen, and in effect of that, Minorous couldn''t even walk properly, never to mention about trying to give Long Feng a light punch. Minorous stopped moving. Instead, it tried to look for a suitable plant that would help to remove the ember that slowly burns its body. "Second Seal, Soul Sealing Net!" Long Feng pointed the Sky Sealing Formation Net towards Minorous and a needle is fired towards the chest. As the needle pierces into the cage between Minorous''s chest, a net in a very weird diagram appears within, forcing all the plant to be unable to perform within the cage. "NO!!" the beast howls in agony, as its body begin to burn faster. Without the protection of the plants within its chest, Minorous is nothing but a normal Wooden Beast with a slightly bigger body. The liquid started to flow out from its eyes, making the beast seems like crying for help, and it slowly crawls back to where it came from. The sight that seems so pitiful to everyone is played before Long Feng''s eyes as he takes no action. "This is respect. This is nothing but the path of a life when they walk through. No matter you are alive, dead, or struggling to continues, you will not pity your enemies, or allow your enemies to pity you. This is a path that if you wish to thread past, you will have to bear in mind!" Long Feng looked at the beast that looks so pitiful at the moment, and as he pointed the Cauldron towards the beast and prepare to fire the final shot. But everything changed within that moment. The Void Space vanished, leaving Long Feng mind returned to where he was standing before, holding Nan Jing Jing''s hand as they walk. It felts like nothing had happened at all, it is all his imagination. "What just happened? It felt so real, that I was fighting with the Wooden Beast Minorous!" Long Feng mind felt like a blank for a moment because of what just happened, but Nan Jing Jing came with a word as he sees his "blur" husband. "Husband, see the Saint Tree, a figure actually appears at its trunk, as if it is trying to come out from the tree." Nan Jing Jing pointed at the changes just happened on the Saint Tree, as the figure actually appears to be Minorous, the opponent he just fought to death a while ago within his mind! Since what happened within his mind is indescribable, Long Feng chose to not be bothered with it and decided to continues with his journey. It seems like the fifth sun is almost over as well, with the sixth sun is coming up. He should be making their way over to the Missing Woods, a location where none of the disciples is heard to be located there. Since Huang Ying and Yue Ying had decided to make their trip over to the Foundation Woods, Long Feng felt that it would be the best for him to proceed to the Missing Woods, and see what treasure is actually hidden over here. Taking his own sweet time to travel and harvesting precious ingredients, Long Feng, Nan Jing Jing, and Gou Yu actually took the whole Sixth Sun period to reach Missing Woods. Along with their way, Long Feng manage to found his luck once again, as he not only managed to harvest quite a good haul of Ingredients, he even managed to obtained a new seed that could be mature within the Longevity Soil Ring. He did not forget the possibility of repairing his treasure, but there might be a while more to go before he could refine the [Spirit Recollection Seed] from the Brown Crystal Beads. The trio soon reached the location where Missing Woods Settlement is built, but they have no idea at all, that the Missing Woods Settlement, had totally turned into a settlement reside by all Metamorphosis Tribesmen! Book 2 Chapter 103 - Prosperity Realm - Day 2 Sun 7 (Upper Part) "Husband! We have to retreat now!" Nan Jing Jing is seen shouting at Long Feng as the latter is still bothered to fight against the huge group of Wooden Beast Soldier. Their surrounding is currently seriously infested by the corruption that even Long Feng has no capability to handle at the moment. While at the same time, rough numbers of around two to three hundred Wooden Beast soldier is charging towards the trio''s position, as the trio is trying to take their chances to retreat. But due to their current situation is exactly on the period of Seventh Sun, where the Wooden Beast Storm is currently on its most active at this time, the trio failed to retreat successfully, the path they were intended to use, is filled with even more danger compared to when they planned this escape route. It feels like they actually walked into their enemies trap as they proceed. "Jing Jing, Gou Yu, make sure you protect yourself. Do not face the Wooden Beast soldier directly as their body strength is way above your overall physical strength. Utilize your Elemental Essence more, and do not hesitate to refine some Tempering Pill if you are forced to do so!" Long Feng knows that sooner or later, his shield that formed by the Xuan Wu Sword Art will soon be broken, and the attacking Wooden Beast Soldier will soon enter their perimeters. Not even a minute after Long Feng finished his words, the shield begins to crack in all direction, as the trio tossed a ridiculously large amount of Vermilion Lord Pill out to their surrounding. The ignition happened as the trio begins to activate the Sealing Sphere surrounding the three of them, and as the explosion happened, the chain destructive damage had turned the 50 metres ground around them into burnt soil that was filled with desolated feeling. But minutes after the Sealing Sphere is shattered, the trio sight is greeted with another large group of Wooden Beast Soldier. Not only that, there is at least thousands of Wooden Beast that were beginning to enters their metamorphosis period as well. Green Veins started to appears within their body as they begin to transform into something less beast, and more demonic. Horns begin to grows on each of the Wooden Beast, and not only that, the Wooden Beast soldier reacted differently. As if they received their rewards of forcing the opponents to a corner, their god is blessing them with evolution abilities, where they begin to become bigger, stronger, and taller. Soon, the Wooden Beast soldier started to entangled with each other, one absorbing ten, ten absorbing hundred, and soon, almost with a hundred of them is forced to combined and assimilated with each other, as they form a total of three different beings. But for this three beings, one similarity remains. Their strength. Each of them possesses the strength of at least a middle Heaven Adept Realm cultivators, and be it in size, figure and threat, they are at the top among the top. The three started to slowly get close to where the trio stands, as they chose one opponent each for themselves. "I am Minorous. The one facing Long Feng speaks. Long Feng was slightly shocked as he heard the sentence the beat spokes. Later, the one facing Gou Yu speaks as well. "I am Minorous." Gou Yu expression changed slightly. Without needed to guess, the one facing Nan Jing Jing too introduced itself as Minorous. "hahaha," the trio laughed for a while as they looked at each other. "I guess they all share the same brain and mind controlled by the centralized memory." Nan Jing Jing comments, as she took out her Qian Kun Soul Wheel and aimed it at her opponent. "Let us see who managed to defeat their opponent first, and the slowest one lost this bet! When we get back, let us get a good meal together and the loser will pay for that!" Gou Yu held his spear up and prepare to fight as well. "Jing Jing, Gou Yu, be careful with the cage on their chest, it will shift according to what element traits they use. You will need to be extremely cautious, especially if they use the Opposing Element against you." Long Feng speaks and made the other two to look at him for a moment. But before the two could ask a question, the three Minorous had already made their move, and force the trio to be separated from each other. Meanwhile, at the same time, those Wooden Beast started to be attached to each other, as they started to metamorphosis as well. Long Feng jump up above to escape from his opponent attack and noticed that from his view from the air, the surrounding forest around them actually was entirely corrupted, without any part is left uncorrupted.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. "Minorous, do you think that I am really unable to fight against you?" Long Feng raise his hand up until his face level, and as the Spatial Link Twin Grass Ring started to shine, two different kinds of Pills started to appears in the air awaiting Long Feng to grab on them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Three hours ago. Long Feng, Nan Jing Jing, and Gou Yu are happily walk into the Missing Woods area as they spotted that there is no corruption at all. They peacefully entered the deeper of the woods, and depending on Long Feng''s Geology Map, the group of three easily went into the forest until they finally reach the location believed to be a settlement. As the Map quickly shows a good amount of Tribesmen within the settlement, the trio happily walks over to its entrance with much anticipation. They guess the tribesmen current condition, as they might just suffer some slight damage from the previous Wooden Beast Storm. The finally reached the entrance of the settlement, but weirdly, there is no invitation to enters the settlement at all. Gou Yu first knock the gate, to get some of the tribesmen attention, but it is not working. Nan Jing Jing shouted next and tries to get the tribesmen attention. Using the Metal Element of hers, Nan Jing Jing form a huge bell and rang it for a few times, but still, no movement could be seen within the Geology Map. The trio waited for a while more, as the time for Wooden Beast Storm finally came, the trio has no choice but to climb on the wall and head into the settlement for further protections. But the moment they entered into the settlement, another shocking sight appears before them immediately. At least a thousand, if not about eight to nine hundred of cocoons could be seen maturing all around the settlement. Each of the cocoon releasing a blinding green light, that would cause one person to feel eerie the moment they look at the cocoons. On that exact moment, the Crimson Sun finally appears, and howling could be heard from within the woods. "This is impossible! We checked the woods and there isn''t any corruption at all!" Nan Jing Jing is shocked with the incident. The trio has no choice but to be very cautious with their surrounding, as the Wooden Beast started to be heard from outside of the settlement wall. It was like an invitation, as the Wooden Beast slowly climbs into the settlement without any disturbance at all. Very quickly, the settlement is full with Wooden Beast, but none of them is aggressive at the moment. Long Feng and his group take cautious on all the Wooden Beast scattered all around the settlement, but no matter how cautious is the three of them, the one that makes its first move is unexpected, the cocoons. One of the cocoons begins to get active, as a hand came out from within and grabbed a Scarlet Wood Praying Insect''s neck. The insect begins to struggle for a while, but it quickly gets absorbed by the hand and caught into the cocoon without any resistance. The cocoon soon hatched, and the metamorphosis Tribesman was born from the cocoon. Its overall figure is comparable to Tulujin whom Long Feng saw before. The figure did not stop there. It continues to grab hold of other Wooden Beast and like there is a suction mouth at both of its hand, each single Wooden Beast that was captured by the figure instantly vanished into its hand without any remains left. The next moment, more cocoons started to hatch, as all the Wooden Beast begin to panic and run. The situation turns chaos in that moment, as the predator started to get active and hunt the Wooden Beast like a bunch of escaping ducklings. Then, the Metamorphosis Tribesmen begin to turn their attention towards the trio. [HUMAN!!] the tribesmen begin to scream the same word altogether, causing a fearful warcry to be heard within the whole settlement, as the trio begin to escape from the settlement Their escape went well, as they were supported by the Wind Elemental the moment they leap across the settlement wall, but as they step on the outer ground, the next sight before them, begin to turn into the worst nightmare. The trees and vegetation that seen before, became corrupted as it turned into an extremely different plant and begins to have fruits growing from all over the plants. No matter it was the same kind of a different one, each of them bears a same kind of fruit, that once it was ripe enough, it will give birth to the Wooden Beast soldier. Why the trio knows it, because the moment those fruit before them is started to mature, those from behind already begin to ripe and born from the fruits. They were like little infants, but the moment they could stand, they had already grown into adults, and ready to fight anytime. The trio quickly escapes without any words needed, and run towards another location that is not too infested by the newborn Wooden Beast soldier. But they have no choice, and fight because just a few minutes after their escape, the trio had already been stopped in their track and forced to fight with their opponent, and from far away, a whispers could be heard only by the owner of the sound, speaks as if she has an extreme hatred on the trio. "This Inheritor Long Feng, I will make sure you will be killed! It is you who force me to get into this stage!" the owner of the voice appeared to be a hollow female figure, with half of her legs was deep within a White Porcelain Square Food Vessel. This figure is yet to be revealed to Long Feng, but in the future, she will be introduced to Long Feng and the other disciples, as the only sentient treasure among the seven life bound Sovereign Treasure belonged to Ancestor Mu Dou, the one that is known as "Mother Gaia!" Book 2 Chapter 104 - Prosperity Realm - Day 2 Sun 7 (Middle Part) Long Feng looked at Monirous as it charged over to where he was. A punch is directed towards Long Feng as the latter form his [Limbs of Xuan Wu] to block the attack. He was pushed back for a few steps, but this strike is far from over. Minorous continues with the next strike, as it continues to land perfectly on Long Feng''s energy formed claw, causing a few crack to be seen on the claw itself. Long Feng pops a Pill that was clipped between his fingers, as the concoction that was flowing out from the Pill quickly wrapped around Long Feng''s body. In that instant, Long Feng figure turned into a person that seems to be made from gold as his body release a brilliant golden light. "Let me see how strong is this newly perfected [Body Shield Concoction]." Long Feng says as he withdraws the Weapon Devourer Void Log, and aim his weapon towards the opponent. This time, without even depending on his Essence Claw, Long Feng use his raw strength and his physical body to defend against the opponent. The clash ends up with a shock, as the other four is totally shocked with the sight where Long Feng had blocked the Minorous attack with bare hand! Without giving his opponent a moment to plan his next move, Long Feng gave a swift and firm blow, immediately causing the opponent to coughed out a few mouthful of green liquid. A kick comes next, as Minorous was kicked and sent back for about five metres before it totally stopped. The chest part had totally curved inwards, causing none of the Spirit Herbs to have a space to be placed within the cage to be utilized. Without even giving the opponent a chance, Long Feng strikes for a few more time, leaving the opponent on the ground, with an expression of helplessness. Minorous still wished to fight, as it tries to absorb the nutrients around it to rejuvenate, but is Long Feng this not careful after being involved in so many fights before? He turned around, looked at the opponent before he decided it is time to dispose of this target. A Pill that possesses a similarity of the Pain Corrosion Pellet is taken from the Spatial Link Twin Grass Ring and throws on the beast like it was nothing but a Pill. But the moment the Pill is activated, the beast immediately went into green corrosive flame. The fire doesn''t only appear in green coloured, it even released many deadly corrosive fumes that doesn''t flow upwards to the sky, but as it was produced, the smokes actually falls back to the grown because of some slight gravity, and contributes in melting this target into a piece of unknown origin. "Minorous." "Minorous." The two other Minorous actually have a hint of feeling towards their dead companion, as two of them actually stopped from fighting and looked at the pile of unknown origin. It was so badly melted and corroded, that not even a magical abilities could return that piece of thing into what it is before. But the two Minorous actually spends around ten minutes to just stare at that piece of thing. Soon, the two Minorous changed the direction they faced and turned around to look at the three of us. Nan Jing Jing and Gou Yu received one the new [Body Shield Concoction] and [Corrosive Pill] before they went into battle again with another Minorous. While for myself, I volunteer myself to handle one of them. And this time, Long Feng doesn''t use the same Battle Concoction anymore when he fought with his opponent. In exchange, he chose to utilize a different method of fighting instead. The moment the Minorous begin to channel an extremely strong Metal Energy within its body, Long Feng force a few Internal Flame Pill into the beast''s mouth and explodes them within the beast body. The extremely strong surge of Fire Element suddenly appeared within the beast''s internal body, forcing it to fail to execute any other action except struggle for a while. "Fire Melts Metal!" It immediately changes the Spirit Herb within the cage into something with the fire elemental, but as the Minorous success in its attempt, Long Feng was not there idling anymore! He charges towards his opponent, and with the claw form by Essence Energy, Long Feng brutally stuck his claw into the Minorous chest, and pull the cage out from its body. It was so extreme that even Nan Jing Jing and Gou Yu was shocked with this man''s brutality. The separated cage is thrown far away, as Long Feng used both of the claws to land a number of consecutive fist strike until Minorous is fallen down, stopped moving from its spot. Looking at his opponent had already been done by him, Long Feng turns around and stare at the remaining Minorous. It felt a hint of fear for a second, but with a hesitation, come weaknesses. Nan Jing Jing and Gou Yu ignite both Corrosive Pills on the Minorous, and it melts immediately, accompanied with its sad howl until it was melted into a piece of god know what it is. But this doesn''t mean their fight is over, as the Wooden Beast on metamorphosis and also the metamorphosis tribesmen, is yet to make their move. There is 6 more hours before the end of this Wooden Beast Storm! From a distance, a part of the tribesmen is started to move to a different location, leaving few more of them left within the settlement and there is three of them move over to where Long Feng and group is located.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. What had Mother Gaia actually did to this land? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Within the Continent of Yan, where Long Feng and the others originated from. Two figure could be seen walking in a rush into a great hall. At their left and right, a very well arranged line of soldiers could be seen along their path, as they quickly entered the grandest area within the hall with haste. "Grandfather, Father, First to Fifth Uncles, Ye Li, greets all of you!" the one that stands at the utmost front greets all the elder within the Great Hall. "Grand Master, School Headmaster, First to Fifth Elder, young disciple Chu Yi greets all of the elders present within the hall." The two of them appeared to be Chu Yi, the one that entered the Thousand Herbal Garden with the other disciples. Another one of them is unknown to Long Feng and others, but one odd thing could be felt within this atmosphere. Why would the person who was known as Chu Yi, introduce himself as Ye Li, while the disciple behind named himself Chu Yi? What is this identity confusing moment between this two person? Then, Ye Li, or known as Chu Yi by Long Feng and the others, talked. "Grandfather, Father. Xiao Li initially managed to enter the Prosperity Realm to start and harvest a good amount of Spirit Herbs to be presented to the School, but who knows, those despicable Tang Clan people, actually backstabbed me from behind! They force me to destroy my charm and left the realm earlier than I should!" Ye Li explained his situation to the elders, and as they listen, he exaggerates it slightly so the elder would take an action towards the Tang Clan after listening to him. "The Tang Clan is so strong that they could force you to retreat?" the person Ye Li called as the father speaks. "Yes, father. The two people from Tang Clan possess the Primordial Beast Howl in their hand. Xiao Li just managed to escape barely from that explosion." Ye Li replied. "Hmm, weird. I fought with Tang Shiwu before, and that Primordial Beast Howl, not only could disrupt the space, it could even cause your Spatial Realm to be inactive for a short moment. How could you run, if they actually ignite the weapon?" the person called as the father speaks. "Err, this matter... Xiao Li got lucky, father." Ye Li begins to stutter from his father''s word, and quickly reply in a very simple manner. Although his action already betrayed him on his own words, the two utmost elder does not bother to carry on with their question. "Xiao Li, no matter what, I will make sure the Tang will not enjoy this part of wealth. What had you gain from the Prosperity Realm?" the grandfather speaks, as he looks at Ye Li with a pair of eyes like a loving grandfather. "Thank you, Grandfather." Ye Li cupped his hand together and speaks to the grandfather, and immediately, he withdraws a number of Spirit Herbs to be placed in front of those elders. His haul from this two Wooden Beast Storm is not too shabby at all, because before the elders, especially the fifth elder that was handling the duty of the Pill Section, was caught in his attention as he saw all the herbs on the ground. Six hundred Five Petal Flame Rose Herbs, the most effective ingredient to produce adept to practitioner realm tempering pills. Five hundred Golden Lightning fruit, also the best ingredient to produce adept to practitioner realm tempering pills. Three hundred Sun and Moon Clear Dew, best ingredient for refining those soul enhancements and healing medicine. One hundred of the Elder Healing Gourd, an upgraded version ingredient for the practitioner realm Blood Dragon Ointment known as the Elder Dragon Ointment. Twenty Yang Yue Bloom Fruit, that is used to refine the Yang Yue Recovery Pill, a very important pill that required by the elder realm cultivator to recover their lost Yin and Yang energy. And finally, Ye Li withdraws three special herbs from his spatial ring and throws them to the hand of the Grand Master, the School Headmaster and the First Elder. Within their hand, three different kinds of the herb are seen. "This, this is actually a Profound Herb! Xiao Li, you are doing very well!" the first elder is the first to speaks as he sees the Profound Herb in his hand. The Profound Herb on the first elder hand is actually the [Rampant Silver Grass] an extremely important ingredient to refine a recipe of Heavenly Ascension School known as the "Heaven Blessing Pill", a Pill that would allow the cultivator of Practitioner Realm to enter the Elder Realm without obstruction at all. "Hahaha, this will easily allow us to produce another few more Elder Realm cultivators! Good job, Xiao Li, Good job!" The first elder happily praises Ye Li for his good contribution and was preparing to reward him. Ye Li''s father speaks next. Although his expression is not as exaggerate as First Elder, his emotion is stirred as well, as he was holding the Profound Herb he had been looking for quite a long time. The herb is known as the [Hundred Petal Soul Lotus], a herb essential for refining a Pill called "Hundred Soul Refining Pill", an essential treasure for his father to temper his foundation on the King Realm Stage. But what is most surprising, is that Ye Li''s gift to the Grandmaster. The Grandmaster that haven''t been smiling for more than ten years finally gave out a smile. The other elders and school headmaster immediately went in front of him as all of them included the guards along the walkway is kneeling as respect for the Grandmaster''s smile. "Xiao Li..." the Grandmaster speaks. "Yes, Grandfather." Ye Li answered without any disrespect. "You had done a great job. Come to my quarters after you have a few day rest. I will teach you one of the secret art of the Heavenly Ascension School as the reward to obtain this Profound Herb for me. Everyone else, stand up, this Old Man had not been happy for such a long time!" the Grandmaster finished speaking as he vanished from his spot. The other heavyweight within the hall turned to Ye Li and asked. "What did you gave to Grandmaster?" School Headmaster turned to Ye Li and asked. "Dear father, the Profound Herb I gave to Grandfather is the [Five Elemental Treasured Lingzhi]." Ye Li speaks. "What? Its the treasure father had been looking for so long?" School Headmaster is shocked. "Xiao Li, you are definitely worth getting the reward. Father will see you at your grandfather''s quarter in the next few day. You better be ready." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book 2 Chapter 105 - Prosperity Realm Day 2 Sun 7 (Lower Part) "Mother''s enemies!" the three transformed tribesmen charged over to Long Feng trio with the preparation to kills their opponent. "Gou Yu, Jing Jing, be careful with them!" Long Feng warns his companion as he charges towards the strongest among the three. While in his mind he speaks with the log on his hand. "damn wood, you are actually useless in this situation!" to make sure that the Weapon Devourer Void Log understands his disappointment, Long Feng shake and turn the sword as he charges towards his opponent. Devourer Intent - Leave No Remains! Long Feng gave a direct punch towards the tribesmen in the middle, and with that punch, he forces his opponent to follow him to where he wanted to stop and fought a good match. While Nan Jing Jing and Gou Yu had already prepared to give their opponent a shock the moment their secret weapon is unleashed. In her hand, Nan Jing Jing holds her Qian Kun Soul Wheel tightly as she injects an extremely thick amount of element energy into her weapon. Gou Yu as well, are forced to use the preparation his master had him prepared previously. Since Elder Zhi Ruo too entered the Realm before. The two fought extremely, giving out the cultivation strength that wouldn''t lose to Long Feng. "It seems like Jing Jing and Gou Yu is being serious as well." Long Feng chuckles for a few time as he looks at his opponent. "Damn Log, you still don''t want to talk?" Long Feng shakes the Weapon Devourer Void Log for a few more times. "Aw! What do you want?" the log finally replied. "Tell. What is wrong with you? You are totally useless against my enemies!" Long Feng blamed the log for not possessing any special traits for him to fight with the Prosperity Tribesmen. "You have to understand! I belonged to that damn Mu Dou, this continent is made by Mu Dou''s sweat, life and blood. The tribesmen are his descendant. The other treasure belonged to him as well." "How do you expect me to be effective against my previous owner?" the log speaks. When Long Feng heard about the log''s explanation, he understood the difficulties as well, an after giving the log a disappointed face, Long Feng kept it back to his Spatial Inventory, and took out his White Stone Pill Cauldron. With the Six Flame Converging Stage, Long Feng aimed at the tribesman and immediately, gave out a beam strike towards its target! "Bam!" the woods behind the tribesman immediately burns into flames, as Long Feng controlled his cauldron and slammed it towards his opponent. Forced to withstands the heat, the tribesman falls down to the ground again as Long Feng lifted his claws high up with a tightly gripped fist. "Fushh!" Long Feng charged toward the ground with a heavy slam and gave the area around him a satisfying tremor. The land was shocked with this person''s ferocity. But for Long Feng, this will not stop here! His pair of Xuan Wu''s Limb had become more deadly, as he charged towards his opponent to fight for a life and death battle. Under the assistance of the Fire Element Foundation, Long Feng battle capability is at least one fifth stronger than his opponent, and with the aid of the Pills in his hand, Long Feng could put himself in peak strength no matter how long he would need to fight. The fight had not prolonged too much, as the tribesman was quickly settled by Long Feng. With the assistant of the Sky Sealing Formation Net, Long Feng managed to subdue this opponent, and trapped him by using the second stage ability, the Soul Sealing Net. Carrying this opponent in one hand, Long Feng quickly rush over to where Nan Jing Jing and Gou Yu is still located. Minutes later as he arrives, Long Feng was shocked with the defeated two tribesmen under the two''s feet. "You two finish quite quickly." Long Feng praised the strength of the two of them. The time quickly passes, as the second Wooden Beast Storm is over. This time, it felt like nothing similar, yet nothing too different. The forest''s corruption had vanished from where they were a moment ago, but the settlement is no longer as lively as the trio had expected.Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author. Only remains of the settlement could be seen. The tribesmen within are no longer remains within this place, and even the Saint Tree, had withered and from how it''s looked, only a single blow of wind is required to bring falls this tree. The trio has no other choices but to left this location and looks for the hidden treasure kept within this place. With the assistance of the inheritance, Long Feng could look for a spot that was extremely concentrated with the treasure trails left by the ancestor. The trio travels until they reached the southern peak of the continent, and was put into a question the moment they reached. The peak had nothing special. Some random vegetation with a beautiful grassland spanned until the edge. A stone could be seen here, with some words that already been covered by the grass. Long Feng make a few gesture to remove the grasses, only to see a few words written here. "Fate Stone." "If you''re not fated to receive my blessing," "You''re not worth it." "Leave it alone." Long Feng looked at the words and tried to decipher it. He put his mind into the Log, and forcefully entered the Void Space within. "Why are you in here again!" the log is shocked with the persistent disturbance given by Long Feng. In the same time, it was quite disappointed with Long Feng''s recent performance but have no choice to agree and continue to help. "Tell me about Ancestor Mu Dou''s seven Life Bound Spirit Treasure." Long Feng get to the point. "you want to know about his treasure? For what do you need it for? Ah! I know it! You wanna covet all his treasure, am I correct?" the Weapon Devourer Void Log suddenly noticed the greed within Long Feng, as he continues to speaks. "Hahaha, seven life-bound Spirit Treasure." "A Sword that devours all other weapons." "A Chariot that thread across the sky." "A Flag that could control the plants." "A Seal that could contain the forest, lake and mountains." "A Book that could keep the wood elements within." "A Pearl that could resist all poison within the world." "A Food Vessel that nurtures everything you wished." "That''s the seven treasure of that old geezer." the Log finished its word but Long Feng could felt the difference within the words. "So, you are the first treasure he had his hand on?" Long Feng ask a pretty sarcastic question. The Log did not immediately answer, but from the silence, Long Feng could roughly guess the numbers. Then, the Log finally speaks a word. "Last." "Why are you being so gloomy for? You''re the first when you are with me. That''s what you have to remember now. He is... History. He would only act as the guiding light that leads me towards ascension, you, in another topic, are going to walk through this with me." Long Feng get a grip on the Log''s handle and speaks. The way he speaks actually managed to get the heart of the piece of log, although there aren''t any fragments of it anymore. "Do you know which treasure is around here?" Long Feng asked. The log considers a while and turned its position facing Long Feng. "This treasure should be the damn tortoise. You have to make sure he doesn''t bully me when you got him with you. Since you... Only have me in your hand that could be used at the moment, I will get that fella to come out. Let me control your hand." the log speaks, and soon, they return to their physical body. Acting like he doesn''t know about it, Long Feng kept the fact he had spoken to the Weapon Devourer Void Log. He allows it to take a control on his right arms, and like drawing a circle of inscriptions, the log actually draws a circle of incantation with the words Fate in its four parts. Then with a word Mu in the middle, the circle is directed into the stone, and with slight tremors, a sound of some howling beast could be heard. "Alright, I got the damn tortoise awake. Listens, to get his help, you need to understand fate. He is a damn mystical hermit that will only mention stuff about fate. I couldn''t help you with this because he is a total idiot!" the log finished its word and return to slumber, as Long Feng is looking at the direction where the beast howling sound came from. "Broooooouuuu..." the tortoise beast soon appeared before the trio and gave them a shock. "Rururururur! Who wake me up forcefully when the stone says fate will depend if they will receive my blessing!" the tortoise grumbles in dissatisfaction as it looked that the trio. "You three are the one that wakes me up? Or it''s that damn Log over there? I told you to do not bother me when I''m sleeping!" the tortoise got angry and stands up on two feet. But what shock the trio is, the Tortoise, actually only possess a size of Long Feng''s Earth Gravity Refining Flask! That''s means this tortoise, is not even the size of a single melon fruit! "Are you the one that wakes me up?" the tortoise pointed at the trio, but since its size is just too small, no one knows who it is actually pointing. Book 2 Chapter 106 - Prosperity Realm - Day 2 Moon Phase (Upper Part) "You damn piece of log, I told you to not disturb me in sleep all the time, and you are still behaving like this even after the geezer is dead!" the tortoise notices the one waking him from his beautiful slumber. Pointing at the Weapon Devourer Void Log, the tortoise charge like a bullet, and clashed with the log in a split second. Long Feng is shocked with what had just happened without any explanations. But he received a word from the log. "Save me! This damn tortoise bullies me all the time!" Seeing how the tortoise actually taking its advantages to strikes at the log, Long Feng suddenly takes control, as it slapped the tortoise away. "Oh! Geezer''s inheritor?" the tortoise speaks. It looked at Long Feng and gaze him from top to bottom and back to the top again. "What had you awoken me for? Since it is not fate but disturbance, I will not bother to listen to you, so, do not bother to speak to me." the tortoise asked a question but reject from listens to it. It turned around and walked for a few steps before the tortoise turned around again. "Since meeting with each other is a fate, I guess I can listen to your explanations." the tortoise changed its mind almost in that few seconds. "I am here to see if I could obtain your approval." Long Feng speaks out his mind, as the turtle suddenly jump over to his shoulder. "You want my approval? It is going to take a while. I always see the starts for fate. It is a fate that the time is nighttime now, so I can read the stars to see how is the fate between the two of us together." "Hmm, it seems like there are no stars this night, then that''s fate too. That means there is no fate stringing the two of us together. If there is no fate between us, I guess I will not approve you then. This is your fate, hahaha." the tortoise finishes his words and left Long Feng''s shoulder and stands on the stone. "Its fate that I will have to change the words in this stone." the tortoise shave the stone with its sharp nails and engrave some words again. "The fate determine you will not receive a blessing." "Leave." After it finished the words, it walked back to the hole it came out from. "Do you wished to stay here forever and fight with your fate?" a voice came behind the tortoise. "What did you say? Who says that I will fight against my fate? Since the fate is not showing the path, it is a fate as well, I am not against it!" the tortoise immediately replied as it turned around and stares at the trio. "Alright. I guess that the fate didn''t actually bring my husband and the Weapon Devourer Void Log together. So if the fate is not there, we will not be having the [Golden Blood from the Heavenly Chariot] as well. Since the fate is not standing with us, I guess it is actually cursed that awoken you from your slumber instead. If the fate didn''t bring us before you, so what means fate? I should listen to you, tortoise, since you are so loyal to the fate you mentioned." Nan Jing Jing speaks. She knows that this kind of opponent is the most difficult to handle, especially when Long Feng is required to face it. "Missy, you are quite good with your words too. What is your name?" the tortoise speaks. "Well, the fate just made you failed to get my name, shouldn''t you introduce yourself first?" Nan Jing Jing replied back with a little dissatisfaction like a princess failed to get what she likes. "Alright, I will introduce myself first. I am [Wooden Xuan Wu Sealing the Heaven Seal!]." the tortoise introduce himself to Nan Jing Jing. "Oh, such a glorious name, I wonder if that true. If you are actually boosting, that''s means this is my fate too... I am too unqualified to speak out my name, sorry, Wooden Xuan Wu Sealing the Heaven Seal." Nan Jing Jing says sorry to the tortoise as she stopped herself from speaking out her name. This way, she made the tortoise feel that he over boast his own name, and after a little hesitation, he finally speaks again. "Alright, I am the [Wood Xuan Wu Stamping Seal], satisfied? Tell me your name now!" the tortoise unhappily introduces himself in a more proper way, as Nan Jing Jing to introduce herself. "So, Wood Xuan Wu, what is wrong with your pathetic form?" Nan Jing Jing did not forget to continue to comments on the tortoise''s incompetence, and regarding its ridiculous appearance. "This is because of fate! I tell you, it is because of fate!" the tortoise got so emotional as the talks gone to his pathetic appearance. "I am a spirited treasure in the form of a seal. I used to have a nicely carved body, there is a beautiful and smooth base stone that was specially engraved just for my figure to stands, with a jade pearl before my jaw. Now, it is all because of those despicable Wooden Beast! They actually take a bite on me and scattered me into three-piece!" "If I''m in my perfect body, my appearance will be hundred times better than the log and the damn horse there. Aih, where had my base and my beautiful jade pearl had gone." the tortoise lamented a while, as Long Feng withdraws the Sky Sealing Formation Net. "My base! That is my base!" the tortoise saw that piece of the cube within Long Feng''s hand, and immediately shouts. "Come back!" the tortoise called the piece of base to return to him, as the cube flew over to where the tortoise stands. Like a piece of a toy is attached to each other, the two combined into one, and formed a much more brilliant light covering the place where they all stand. The moment when the light vanished, the trio was already wrapped in sealing net. "Hahaha, I had my ability back!" the tortoise is laughing for its fortune to be able to found back one of its parts. Its appearance is much grander now if compared to the tiny tortoise a while back. "Husband!" Nan Jing Jing softly whispers to Long Feng and tries to get his attention. Long Feng turned and face her to see what she wanted to talk about.This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. "Is all the treasure of the ancestor is sentient? This tortoise seems like one. You see, it could move, act, speaks and even seal all of us here if it''s not sentient, then what?" Nan Jing Jing gave out her hypothesis regarding this matter. Long Feng has no choice but to ask the log for a word, and the log quickly replied. "The damn tortoise is not sentient, he is like me, refined from a special being. His strength mostly came from formation so..." Long Feng quickly understands the situation. "Devourer Intent - Total Desolation!" Long Feng cause the soil, ground all become dried and desolated as he forces his devourer intent into the ground. Very quickly, the inscription circle on the ground had been broken because of the cracking ground. "No!" the tortoise figure vanished from thin air, and only a piece of incomplete seal could be seen on the ground. Long Feng grabbed the seal in his hand as he injects his consciousness inside. But the results are more than what he wanted. The three of them is absorbed into the world belonged to the [Wood Xuan Wu Stamping Seal]. Except for Long Feng, the other two was shocked as they opened their eyes. The realm within the seal is a vast universe where the trio is floating in the air, as the circles of inscriptions are floating all around them. There are butterflies formed from inscriptions circle, fluttering around the trio like they were not even there. Snakes that formed with inscriptions is getting touchy with the bear''s inscriptions as the trio looks, and birds, fish, a human figure that was formed with inscriptions are seen all around this realm. The trio shock is soon broken with a single word. They turned around and look at the tortoise standing on its two legs. "What is this? You are forcing your fate on me!" the Wood Xuan Wu speaks as it sat down on the inscription formed ground. "Don''t you dare to think that I will acknowledge you by just returning the base to me! Eh, wait why had this base changed? It felt different but yet similar. What had you done to my base?" the Wood Xuan Wu finally noticed the difference of the base compared to how it was used to be. Because of the special traits of the Shennong Moon Dew, it was enhanced with the capability to store the sealing inscriptions within the base. With this base is returned to the Wood Xuan Wu, it''s capability had improved even more, into a form that could allow any inscriptions to be stored within to be used without any additional requirements. "This felt so amazing, did you actually got the fate to receive such a blessing?" the tortoise is even more shocked. If this kind of blessing come for two more times, I will be able to get sentient! That time, I will be able to venture around the world freely as I wish! I will be able to find the other Xuan Wu''s!" the tortoise is even happier as it thinks about the future he could expect. "There is even one more fate that brings you together." Nan Jing Jing speaks. Even Gou Yu speaks from behind, as he took out a piece of tortoiseshell within his hand. Gou Yu reminded himself, how thoughtful of his master to actually had him prepared a complete tortoiseshell. He has a slight suspicion at first about his master''s arrangement, but now, he actually appreciates it. "Oh! The tortoise shell, did the young lady actually send you to get this item to me? What a fate, here I am thinking that she might have forgotten, but she actually remembers it! She remembers it!" the tortoise happily mentioned what had happened a long time ago. Gou Yu immediately replied. "Wood Xuan Wu, my master is exactly the young Zhi Ruo you mentioned. She had me purposely prepare this shell in order to fulfil your request to her before." Gou Yu speaks as he throws the piece of tortoiseshell to the side of Wood Xuan Wu. The Wood Xuan Wu turned for a few circles, and starts to chant some incantation without any sound could be heard. Then, a few formation circle started to appears from the front, back and top of the tortoiseshell. Like a scanner that runs through an item, the formation circle ran pass the tortoise shell for a few times, before it vanished into thin air. The Wood Xuan Wu continues. A repeated incantation is seen chanted from the Wood Xuan Wu''s jaws, as the tortoiseshell started to shakes. Then, like a new beast is reborn, an ethereal body of a tortoise that seems to be alive started to squirm within the shell, and soon, after its four limbs had come out from the opening gap, the tortoise begins to walked over to where Gou Yu stands. This is what I promised the lady." Wood Xuan Wu speaks as the ethereal tortoise stands by the side of Gou Yu. Its body started to glow, and it is unbelievable that at first, the tortoiseshell is actually as big as a male''s chest, but after it had been inhibited by this ethereal tortoise, the actual shell actually grows to about an adult''s size. "The [Soul Wisp of Longevity] is a rare treasure that should be used with care. Since the lady had passed this request to you, it just means that you are the chosen person she would like this treasure to follows. The treasure might felt weak for now because it had yet to activates. The moment you had a drop of your cultivation essence blood is given to this treasure, It will only be usable, and inheritable by the people from your clan." "The [Soul Wisp of Longevity] could greatly enhance its master''s cultivation capability, improvement, life, and also health into twenty percent each time it received a drop of Cultivation Essence Blood. If the fate allows you to have 100 years of lifespan, this treasure will let you live for 120 years old, and if you had three drops of blood within, you will be able to increase your lifespan to 160 years old. But you have to remember one most important thing." "The wisp is not to be disappointed. For the reason why it would be, only the inheritor of this treasure will have the capability to understands it. Or else, the family will be cursed instead." the Wood Xuan Wu speaks with much importance and seriousness. With the words is finished between Wood Xuan Wu and Gou Yu, it turned to Nan Jing Jing and questioned her. "What do you mean by there is one more fate that brings me and you people together?" it asked. Nan Jing Jing looked at the Wood Xuan Wu as she begins to replies its words. "Even Gou Yu had a gift. I have nothing to give you except words. Even if I already was spoken, you might not reward me with anything. Why should I tell you?" Nan Jing Jing uses her tricks again to try and cover a single treasure from the Wood Xuan Wu. "What a sharp tongue lady. Fine, take this. Now tell me what you mean." the Wood Xuan Wu throws a single piece of a flute to Nan Jing Jing''s hand, and allows her to take it. "What a beautiful shell moulded flute. But I don''t know what is its usage. What if this actually an ornament and nothing special within?" Nan Jing Jing continues with her words, and cause Wood Xuan Wu to falls at its back without words to say. "Argh! Girl! You are too much!!! I hate it when I cannot fight you with words!" Book 2 Chapter 107 - Prosperity Realm - Day 2 Moon Phase (Lower Part) "That flute is a treasure called as [Sea Humming Flute], by using this as your main weapon, it will create wave of sound attack against your opponent. The better their body tempering art, the stronger is their five sense, the worst the damage will cause. I had already seen your body. Qian Kun Formation Sutra... Quite a good martial skill to be honest. You should look for the chances to obtains the Metal Qilin''s inheritance, her inheritance will allow your Qian Kun Formation Sutra to become Qian Kun Initial Movement, a martial arts that will bend all things to your will." "Now! Tell me what is that one more fate things. I am too eager to know that it made myself become uncontrollable." the Wood Xuan Wu actually begs. This is its weakness. The weaknesses of want to know what it doesn''t and end up giving out more than it should. This is also how the Ancestor Mu Dou used to have him convinced and end up following him until his death. "My husband has the martial inheritance of Xuan Wu. He will be meeting the Sword Xuan Wu for his inheritance when the time comes." Nan Jing Jing pointed at Long Feng and speaks. She blinks her eyes twice to Long Feng, and he immediately shows the Xuan Wu Sword Sect Martial Arts to let the Wood Xuan Wu have a look. "Hahaha! It is actually our older generation Xuan Wu''s. Do you know? There is a total of four generations of Xuan Wu. The Sword, Hammer, Staff, Bow, Qi Xuan Wu is the first generation, while the Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth Xuan Wu is the second generation. The third generation of Xuan Wu consist of Thunder, Ice, Lightning, Life and Death, and the last generation is the Heart, Mind, Soul, Love and Hate, Xuan Wu." "You actually have my older generation Xuan Wu''s blessing. I will follow you! I want to see what will happen when I meet with the others!" the Wood Xuan Wu surrendered itself to Long Feng and turned into a stamping seal with a tortoise above the base piece. "Kid listens well to me, there is one more part of me, which is the pearl that it should be on my jaw. It is the catalyst source of all my formation ability. Without the pearl, you could only utilize at most 10% of my strength." "For now, you should get to know my ability. Ready?" the Wood Xuan Wu speaks for a moment, and inject a portion of memories into Long Feng''s mind. "Ba Gua 64 shifting Grand Formation & Ba Gua 64 shifting Lesser Formation." "Within hidden the four grand catalysts. The Grand Yin and Grand Yang Force and Lesser Yin Lesser Yang Force." "Within each force, consist of four phenomena, which will be used to form one of your Ba Gua''s formation base." "With the Ba Gua 64 Formation, you will be able to call lightning, cripple your enemies, lays pressure towards them without any limit. Only the heaven with knowledge of Ba Gua will be able to resist you." The Wood Xuan Wu finished its word and tone down, as the scenery becomes quite. But what came out before their sight, is something difficult even to themselves to understands. The vision before them had turned from the moon phase into the sun phase. If their calculation is not wrong, it is already the 3rd day within the prosperity realm. But what shocks them is that the forest is no longer as green as it should be. All the vegetation had withered. The trees had dried up and the green forest is no more. Wooden Beast of size about the Gigantic Wood Vulture Beast could be seen flying from afar, and their numbers are not small. If this group of flying Wooden Beast will reach the trio, it will be most probably the worst ending ever.Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more. This moment, the Wood Xuan Wu starts to speaks. "You guys have to leave this continent. Your strength is too weak to fight against this group of Wooden Beast." Long Feng and the two was shocked. But in the same time, they have no choice but to agree, because no matter what, only from seeing the Wooden Beast far away had already given them a pressure similar to near death. If they were forced to fight against such a number, they most probably not going to be able to go on for more than half a day. "Use me, quickly." the Wood Xuan Wu had Long Feng to quickly utilize his strength. The essence-energy is injected into the stamping seal, and with the Wood Xuan Wu having the possession of Long Feng''s body, the pair of hands, actually, along with the Xuan Wu''s Limbs, a total of eight-tier inscription circles is drawn and placed together to form a gigantic Magic Circle. "Lower Heaven Section - Force Diagram." "Lower Earth Section - Field Diagram." "Lower Thunder Section - Sprouting Diagram." "Lower Water Section - Confining Diagram." "Lower Mountain Section - Bound Diagram." Lower Wind Section - Ground Diagram." Lower Flame Section - Radiance Diagram." Lower Lake Section - Treading Diagram." "By completing this eight different diagram within the Inscription circle, I hereby demand the essence energy and element energy to reply my heed. Follow me!" the Wood Xuan Wu controls Long Feng''s body and had the two to follow him. The trio quickly jumps towards the inscription circle as it floats and brings the trio away from the Continent of Mu. "We will be leaving this continent for a while. Unless we are stronger, It will be just a dream to tries to return to this continent." Wood Xuan Wu says as it returns the body to Long Feng. The trio was slightly shocked with the floating Inscription Circle beneath their feet, but have no choice of words to speaks out what they were so shocked about. The circle continues to float away from the continent until they could see no dried lands at all. They were stranded over here for about three suns before Long Feng decided to ask the Wood Xuan Wu a question. "Do we have a way to get stronger?" the Wood Xuan Wu replied. "For you, there is a possibility. But for the two of them, not really." "Tell me why." Long Feng continues. "Well, first of all, you are Geezer''s inheritor. You could use me without worrying about any backlash or discomfort, but the two of them, are different. Your wife has a Qian Kun Wheel that will not work at all against the Wooden Beast, while your another friend''s cultivation is too weak to be compared. Unless he will have an enlightenment in tempering his foundation, or else, he will be the first to fall against the improved Wooden Beast." "In the same time, you guys had done something you shouldn''t. You guys actually managed to make Mother Gaia angry. From now onwards, there will be no place within the continent suitable for you humans to live anymore. The Prosperity Realm will be useless for the others to come in because the whole continent had already produced the spirit herbs." "If you want to leave now, you should, because when Mother is extremely angry, even the charm within your hand, will have no use at all." the Wood Xuan Wu finish his words and stopped speaking. "We will try. Tell us the method." Long Feng speaks, with Nan Jing Jing and Gou Yu''s eyes are burning with flames. "Alright. I have one more special request. Give me all your herbs." the Wood Xuan Wu speaks as he turned into an ethereal form and begin to sit in front of them. The trio took out all their herbs, from normal rank to spirit herbs, and placed it before the Wood Xuan Wu. With a simple gesture, the Wood Xuan Wu sucked in all the herbs into its ethereal body and begins to refine all of it. "So, when my body is refining the herbs, shall I teach each of you something?" the Wood Xuan Wu turned into three smaller size body as it stands to face each of the trios. "So, inheritor. I will let you practice a skill that would upgrade your Xuan Wu Sword Sect Art. In the same time, I will teach you some of the Ba Gua 64 Grand and Lesser Formation so you could fight even better." "For you, I will teach you the way to properly use the Qian Kun Formation Sutra. It is a miniaturized version of the Ba Gua 64 Lesser Formation, but your current capability only could use about 15% of its might. I will guide you properly, and with the Sea Humming Flute, you will be able to create sound waves that could attack the internal part of all your enemies." "I will teach you a soul art as well. Its called as the Soul Calming Chant. Practice this more, it will increase your strength in the soul and you will need it in the future." the Wood Xuan Wu finished its word as the ethereal body begins to form into a different kind of space. Just like this, Nan Jing Jing is taken to another Void Space. Book 2 Chapter 108 - Prosperity Realm - Day 3 - 4 - 5 Time Skip (Nan Jing Jing) "Wrong! Your step to create the battle formation is wrong! Remember, the Lower Heaven Lesser Accumulating Steps is for you to use its position to increase your essence energy!" the Wood Xuan Wu strikes as heavy as itforces Jing Jing to pick up the lesson from the suffering way. "Again!" Nan Jing Jing stands up once more and prepares to take her step once again. She forms a Lower Wind Lesser Exceeding Step and movingasa beam of light, she charged over to the side of the Wood Xuan Wu to land a strike, but her wish is too demanding. Her strike not only didn''t break through against the defensive shield of the Xuan Wu, it even breaks her bones on the fist. "Aargh!" Nan Jing Jing can''t help but scream in pain for the injuries. "What could you do if you''re dead? Remember, it now!" Wood Xuan Wu gave no chances for her to rest and screams, but in exchange, he forces her into a more despair, as he attacked by turning his sound into a materialized form of few Wooden Beast. The Wooden Beast attacked Nan Jing Jing the moment it arrived at an arm''s length, but this time, she kept up with the pressure. "Lower Earth Lesser Obstruction Step!" she forms a defensive field that not only obstructs the Wooden Beast before touching her but she continueswith a "Lower Water Lesser Confining Step!" Nan Jing Jing forces a confining formation to lock the three Wooden Beasts within her reach, as she disperses her earlier defensive diagram and strikes her opponents with a slash to their heads. "Returning Step, Following Step, Bounding Step. Attack the little missy there." the Wood Xuan Wu relaxed in the as he placed three diagram steps around Nan Jing Jing. Just a simple gesture, the three Wooden Beast returned to their earlier state, continues with their attack and strikes her with three punch before the Wooden Beast joint and formed into one Wooden Beast. The lone Wooden Beast figure possesses a familiar figure of the Minorous, but only stronger and less corrupt. "come! You damn beast!" Nan Jing Jing took her flute out as she plans to attacks. "Lower Wind Lesser Exceeding Step!" the diagram that formed pushed her attack to grow three times greater as the six sound wave strikes charged over to the Minorous without sympathy. Wood Xuan Wu swing his arm twice, and a long mace appeared from the Minorous''s spine. It took the long mace and strikes on the ground for three times, destroying five of the six sound waves. "Lower Heaven Force Step, Lower Thunder Shake Step. Strikes the opponent!" Nan Jing Jing forces herself to manage two formation step at once, and from three times stronger six wave strikes, it became nine times stronger nine wave strikes. The attack is strong that it crushes the long mace hold by Minorous in the first wave, and the Wooden Beast exploded into bits in the second wave. The third to ninth wave strikes without mercy, but what happens gave Nan Jing Jing another shock. "Lower Water Lesser Dispersing Step." the Wood Xuan Wu take a step and destroyed the remaining seven wave in one simple action, but not over yet. Another flick of its claws, this time, three Minorous appearedin the Void Space, armed with a Bow, a Spear and a Staff. "Aargh! I hate you, damn tortoise!" Nan Jing Jing withdraws her Qian Kun Soul Wheel again and prepares to fight, as she knows unless she stopped the Wood Xuan Wu, her test will not end. An unknown hour later, the Wood Xuan Wu stopped and gave her a rest. "What? Finished?" Nan Jing Jing asked. The flame within her eyes is yet to diminish. Her spirit is higher than ever, but her weakness in cultivation force her to unable to do up to her standard. "You should practice the [Soul Calming Chant] and temper your soul when you rejuvenate your stamina." the Wood Xuan Wu vanished from the void space and allows the space to turn in a much slower time-length. "With this Upper & Lower Heaven Diagram Formation, you will achieve a great length in your tempering even if your potential is low. I''m looking forward to your accumulation when I come back after a full day. I hope you will surprise me by that time." the Wood Xuan Wu left the space as he appearedon the outside and maintains the formation so Nan Jing Jing could have her utmost benefits within that Void Space.This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. A Complete Upper and Lower Heaven Diagram.
Upper Heaven Diagram Force Diagram (Qian) Obstruction Diagram (Kun) Innocence Diagram (Zhen) Arguing Diagram (Kan) Retiring Diagram (Gen) Coupling Diagram (Xun) Concording Diagram (Li) Treading Diagram (Dui)
Lower Heaven Diagram Force Diagram (Qian) Pervading Diagram (Kun) Invigorating Diagram (Zhen) Attending Diagram (Kan) Accumulating Diagram (Gen) Harvest Diagram (Xun) Possessing Diagram (Li) Displacement Diagram (Dui)
A force Diagram is used on both upper and lower formation as its main catalyst, while the Upper Heaven consist of [Obstruction] it carries the meaning of "Selfish person" within its diagram, which is overcome by the [Pervading] Diagram''s "Peace and Greatness". The [Innocence] "unexpected pestilence" is aiding to the [Invigorating] Diagram''s "Greater Maturity". The [Arguing] Diagram''s "Conflict" is soothed by the [Attending] Diagram''s "Moistened", the [Retiring] Diagram''s "Retreating & Yield" helps to assist the [Accumulating] Diagram''s "Greatness in Potential Energy", the [Coupling] Diagram''s "Meeting" allows the [Harvest] Diagram''s "Small harvest or Opportunity to be met. The [Concording] Diagram''s "Fellowship" allows the [Possession] Diagram to grow in great measure. Lastly, the [Treading] Diagram''s "Continuing" is aid by the [Displacement] Diagram''s "Resoluteness." With all the diagram is in balance with each and another, the further potential could be brought out, allowing one to be able to cultivate within for their best results. The formation also allows the building of Nature, Maturity, Hatred, Attitude, Potential, Opportunity, Measurement, and the Determination of the cultivator, as he/she cultivates within such a formation. The whole third day is used by Nan Jing Jing to completely understands the weakness of her knowledge in her Qian Kun Formation Sutra she possess and cultivate since young. The whole fourth day is spent by Nan Jing Jing to totally immerse herself in digging her own potential, limitation, mind and also her maturity and hatred. She finally understands her own heart, after spending a whole day of seven suns and moons, to build a proper mind for herself. By spending the fifth day''s sun phase, Nan Jing Jing finally managed to make a conclusion on tempering her cultivation, as the Wood Xuan Wu finally decided to call her training to an ending. Without a word this time, the two begins to fight against each other. No physical contact required. Everything came with a formation, ends with a formation. The two understands the initial rules and begins their match. Deliverance Diagram. Wood Xuan Wu did not hesitate as he strengthens his summoning capability and called a total of fifteen Minorous into the field. In the same time, Nan Jing Jing to taking her own steps, calling forth the Field Diagram to adjust the whole area around her into a state of serendipity. Three among the fifteen is stepped into the field without their notice, before they vanished without a trace silently, with a single Dispersing Diagram. Nan Jing Jing continued with her strike, directing a Confining Diagram formation towards the Wood Xuan Wu, but with a flick of its claws, the Open Diagram unlocked the confining at ease as it turned over to Nan Jing Jing to strikes a combination attack of Stripping and Obstruction Diagram. The combination of two diagrams gave a strong pressure to the former, as she added the Accumulating Diagram into her field Diagram to strengthen it even further. The Confining Diagram is used next, but aiming herself instead of others. "Good! What a bravado you performed, but are you sure it is working?" the Wood Xuan Wu flick its claws once again, as the Confining diagram scattered into pieces. The combination of two diagrams still moving towards Nan Jing Jing without any constriction from the diagram she drawn for defensive purposes. "Hehehe, Wood Xuan Wu, you have to regret taking this fight so easy!" Nan Jing Jing chuckle for a few times as she prepared to draws two diagrams at the same time. But what was more surprising is that the two diagram is the same diagram. "What! Its a Returning Diagram with Earth and Thunder activation!" the Wood Xuan Wu is shocked as he sees the former with the thunder elemental ability as well. Unexpectedly, Nan Jing Jing attempt in assimilating the Golden Jade Holy Pill within her had is actually a success! Except for the Water, Metal and Earth Elemental, she actually possesses an additional Thunder Elemental within her foundation. "Four Element affinity, this missy just push her position from unable to catch up to that Long Feng, into a similar potential like he does!" Just like this, the attack had been successfully deflected away, before Nan Jing Jing strikes a double Gnawing Bite Diagrams to destroy the Wood Xuan Wu''s defensive sphere. "I win!" she cheered for her victory against Wood Xuan Wu, as the two returned to where they were in the first place. Following behind the former is Wood Xuan Wu, who secretly removing the diagram he formed before his defensive sphere is destroyed. "Hehehe, it is important to let the younger to knows where their limit is, but her potential is quite good, to force me to use the first stage of the Nine Hall Destructive Diagram." the Wood Xuan Wu praised Nan Jing Jing in his heart, as he was already shocked with the former potential. Book 2 Chapter 109 - Prosperity Realm - Day 3 - 4 - 5 Time Skip(Gou Yu)
"So, what do you want to achieve within this realm with me?" the Wood Xuan Wu speaks above Gou Yu''s head. "I want to get stronger!" he answered the question with a short sentence. "No matter what is the price?" Wood Xuan Wu asked once more. "No matter as long I will get stronger!" he answered again. "So..." "I want you to pay me with fifty drops of your Water and Earth Pure Essence." the Wood Xuan Wu speaks out his prices to help him. "What is that Water and Earth Pure Essence?" Gou Yu face filled with an empty expression. "This treasure comes from the Xuan Wu''s across the globe." "What I will teach you, will be the secret art belonged to myself, created after revising it from a failure after another." [Elemental Growth Classic] "Isn''t the name amazing?" the Wood Xuan Wu announce the name of the Art he created. "Yes..." Gou Yu is speechless, but he can''t help but agree with the tortoise. "Then be ready, the starting is a hard part..." "Then the harder part..." "Then even harder..." The two later spend one full day to exchange and learn the Elemental Growth Classic and on the second day, Gou Yu executes whatever he learned. Compared to Nan Jing Jing, his training is less challenging, but reality sometimes hurt. This Elemental Growth Classic is suitable for Gou Yu to temper his foundation using a method suitable for Saint Beast. Although the profoundness of this art is higher, for first-stage foundation cultivator alike Gou Yu, this training deviates from hell. The two elements, Water and Earth within his body forced to mix to form a new kind known as Water and Earth. It sounds as if two name fits together, but in term of strength, they aren''t. The power and strength of this new source are five times stronger, and one time more sensitive than ever. But the state of this new form source is fragile, it cause Gou Yu to use these to temper his foundation, so he can form a better one. This repeating procedure goes one after another, and from each try, it builds up Gou Yu''s foundation in both Water and Earth. "I see that this kid understands the speciality of his constitution." the Wood Xuan Wu looked at the cultivator before him and smiled. If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. In elemental foundation, although the elements are important, the understanding is even deeper. Compared to Long Feng''s Fire and Wood elemental, which compliments with each other during a fight, and the Sky elemental, that harmonize everything. Or compared to Nan Jing Jing''s Water, Earth, Metal and Lightning Elemental that increase her potential, Gou Yu is nowhere capable to stands beside them. But what he has, is the supporting effect of his Water and Earth elemental! This trick can only do if used by a cultivator possessing only Water and Earth Elemental within his foundation. By using the strength of Earth''s creation and Water''s nourishment, Gou Yu able to create an unlimited nourishment from his body straight to temper himself by removing the needs to absorb the water and earth essence within the air. This way, his progress can only describe as using one word, cheating. Without bothering about the first preparation such as refining and purifying the elemental essence before entering his body, the progress is so much quicker than how a normal person should be. Added with the speed he tempers his body while repeating the same procedures once again, he turned into a converter of Water and Earth Elemental Essence. If the Thousand Training Formation Cave''s Grand Room gave a result of 25% increase in cultivation, then Gou Yu''s Elemental Growth Classic is comparable to stacking ten Grand Room in his own body. One more day passed. Gou Yu current strength is at peak of the first stage in his Water Elemental foundation while his earth elemental foundation is stabilizing into excellent affinity. At the moon phase before the end of day 5, Gou Yu stops from continuing. He takes a look at his changes in overall. Gou Yu wave his hands in a spontaneous way, creating a wall of water mirage. He channels the of the Water Elemental next on his fingers, creating ten droplets of water gather at his fingertip. "Clear Water Stage! Heavy Droplet Strike!" Gou Yu aims at a direction as he swings both hands to launch the ten droplets. While at the direction he was attacking a metal board appeared out of nowhere as it faces the attack from Gou Yu. "Pring!" "Pring!" Each time a droplet hit the metal board, it creates an ear-deafening sound. Next, four swords formed from thin air and strike towards Gou Yu''s direction. "Water Phantom!" The four sword strikes at the Gou Yu who did not move from the spot. But instead of piercing through, the four swords stuck on the body which wobbles like a bubble. "Wood Xuan Wu, you are full of opening!" Gou Yu shouts as he swings a kick towards where the tortoise stands. "Dream too much!" the tortoise vanished from the spot and appeared at another second later. "Am I still dreaming too much?" Gou Yu wave his hand for a moment while Wood Xuan Wu saw he is standing within the Clear Water Prison created by Gou Yu. "A prison made with Water Foundation?" "Don''t forget that I am Wood Xuan Wu! Your elemental will bring no effect on me!" the tortoise swims within the prison as it tried to suck in all the surrounding water. "I invite you to try." Gou Yu still confident with his Clear Water Prison. Few second later, Wood Xuan Wu understands what spot he got himself. Water that doesn''t behave like a liquid. The solid earth that doesn''t appear solid at all. The Wood Xuan Wu realized that he nurtured a dangerous being that can use the Water and Earth Element into such profound stage. A minute later, Gou Yu released the Wood Xuan Wu from his Clear Water Prison as they continue. "Skinning Diagram, Confining Diagram!" "Stripping Diagram, Swallowing Diagram!" "Leading Diagram, Following Diagram!" "Six Diagram overpowered Soldier, defeat the enemy before you!" the Wood Xuan Wu prepares the final test for Gou Yu. "Master... Thank you." Gou Yu put his hand together to give the Wood Xuan Wu a bow before he prepares to fight against the six golden soldier. Half an hour later, Gou Yu appeared to where they located before he went into the Void Space. It looks like Gou Yu has benefitted the most from his training, because his Water Foundation is at its peak of Clear Water Stage, while his Earth Foundation is at its Peak of Hard Earth Stage. He sits on top of the floating formation next and prepares his both hand to creates a masterpiece. The gathered Water and Earth Elemental surrounding him intensifies, as he creates, absorb, and release them. This action soon creates a thick cloud of essence surrounding him as he gathered them to form a translucent water droplet. The droplet solidifies and appeared to be a mix of two different colour, an Azure blue with a hint of marbling from the brown. Gou Yu use his hand to catch that piece of Water and Earth Pure Essence. Questions with the success of his creation, Gou Yu tried to assimilate it on the spot and got shocked with the results. Then, the Wood Xuan Wu appeared by his side. "This is one treasure many sought. It has many kinds of name, but the one often mentions by the cultivators is as the Dual Element Pure Essence." "If people see your ability to create such a treasure, you will become their golden goose on spot." "Because no matter how, as long you create this treasure, your foundation will strengthen along, making you undefeatable among your peers." "Now, my golden goose, you promise me 50 drops of this Dual Element Pure Essence." Wood Xuan Wu smiles as he looked at Gou Yu. Now, only Long Feng left. "Wood Xuan Wu, why am I not learning these skills too? I hold four elements, you know?" Nan Jing Jing surprised with Gou Yu''s special trick he had just learnt, and she too wants to practice that too. "Unfortunately, this skill can only use by him, because of his elements compliments against each other. Although you got Water, Earth, Lightning and Metal elements in hand, but if you tried to create the same thing like him, your effort will only end with something neither two, nor neither four elements in a complete piece." "Plus one more reason. You hold too many elements with you." "Where can you source your Essence energy?" Wood Xuan Wu''s word actually contains some fact and reason within. Book 2 Chapter 110 - Prosperity Realm - Day 3 - 4 - 5 Time Skip (Long Feng) "First, I will teach you in the basic of Diagram Formation." the Wood Xuan Wu within Long Feng''s Void Realm spoke. Wood Xuan Wu then creates a projecting slide and educates Long Feng on the 64 differences in the diagram and their combinations. In such a profound knowledge, Long Feng''s ability in understanding each diagram''s speciality soon stagnant at the basics. But with the help of the Lingzhi of Knowledge Innate Constitution, Long Feng''s understanding catch up to the speed once again. The Eight Diagram formation soon make its way into Long Feng''s head, and like fireworks explode within his brain, the wondrous of formation technique attach themselves to his mind. "Bagua is limitless," "Limitless form delimited," "Delimited equivalent to Taiji," "Taiji forms Yin Yang," "Yin Yang give birth to four phenomena," "Lesser Yin, Greater Yin," "Lesser Yang, Greater Yang," "Four phenomena act as Eight Diagrams." "Eight Diagrams in eight form for 64 Hexagrams." The essence of the Bagua made its way into Long Feng''s mind to creates a map within his mind. [Primordial Map - Limitless Path!] This creation of Primordial Map within his mind creates the second rise of Innate Constitution, allowing Long Feng to get four times potential in his cultivation. His mind that suppressed by his growth allows this mortal to reach the potential that can only describe as [Monstrous]. Without requiring the further guidance from the Wood Xuan Wu, Long Feng formed three specific formations only he could use. [Lesser Heaven Formation Breaking Seal.] [Lesser Earth Formation Creating Seal.] [Lesser Wood Confining Seal.] With the diagram inscription now tattooed in his mind, Long Feng will waste no time to use this three seal as he wishes. "Wood Xuan Wu! Create three enemies for me to test my ability!" Long Feng asked. The demand granted in seconds. Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. Before him, three shadows of Mother Gaia in her corrupted form created and attack in three different sequences. One channels the Wood Element into the thin air to creates an army of Minorous. The second Mother Gaia attacks by creating two Food Vessel in both hands and attack at a distance. And for the third Mother Gaia, she turned into a huge tree to creates land, vegetation, and precious herbs grow on the soil without restrictions. "A charmer, a creator, and aggressor." Long Feng whispers. "Lesser Wood Confining Seal!" without wasting time, Long Feng waves his hand and creates a wide incantation circle that disrupt all Wood Elemental within its coverage. The three Mother Gaia''s ability decreased by a third from one simple action. He moved closer to the one with two food vessel in both hand and swings the Weapon Devourer Void Log without mercy. But it was useless. Although weakened, the Mother Gaia is still a capable fighter with a sentient mind. Added with Wood Xuan Wu''s intention to creates a hopeless challenge to Long Feng, it removed the restriction on its strength, so the three Mother Gaia possesses unlimited growing power. The army of Minorous formed. In a second, ten Minorous attacked with the second Mother Gaia''s support. "Lesser Heaven Formation Breaking Seal!" the second seal released in a wave of a hand once again. This time, this seal destroys all intention the attacker holds, and the three Mother Gaia returns to their first look. Although the three Mother Gaia created figures that Wood Xuan Wu used to test Long Feng''s ability, they still own a hint of a sentient mind. "Impossible!" the three Mother Gaia howls in anguish, but their cries receive no pity because with the next attack splits the three into two parts. The Weapon Devourer Void Log glows in a purplish hue, with an incantation orbits the blade like a sheath with strong energy. "Lesser Earth Formation Creating Seal." Long Feng looked at the incantation circle he absorbed back into his body. "Incredible." Wood Xuan Wu give him a praise for being able to defeat three Mother Gaia in such a short period. "You''ve got the essence of the Bagua 64 Lesser and Greater Formation, now is the time I will polish your Xuan Wu Arts." "There will be a huge disparity when you inherit my part of Xuan Wu''s legacy, are you ready?" Wood Xuan Wu warns before starting. "I''m ready." Long Feng answered. ********** "I am Wood Xuan Wu, so it''s natural that my Eight Trigram path is following the Xun Nature (wind)." "My Xuan Wu inheritance holds three special genes." "Gentleness of Penetration." "Flexibility of Wind." "Nature of Wood." Wood Xuan Wu explained the legacy coming from him. His body turned green, and soon yellow, showing the flow of four seasons within his meridians. "Xuan Wu assisted the Nuwa to repairs the skies!" "Xuan Wu is the longevity!" "Xuan Wu is the nature of all inheritance!" "Xuan Wu is the pinnacle of guarding spirits!" Long Feng''s mind vibrates with this four sentences while his body undergoes drastic changes. His now well-built body grows even further. Those muscles turn brown as if made from bronze. His veins layered with million fibre threads to increase the durability. The Elemental Storage transformed into a sea with a palace floating above the water level and the Essence-Energy forms a layer of cloud hovering above the skies within his Dantian. Next, his five sense received their changes. The eyes turned yellow from the surge of new energy, his sense of smell, savour, hear and taste heightened into twice compared to earlier. His concentration of Element Essence become so thick, it forms a colourful mist whenever he gathers a small quantity of the essence in his hand. Six hours later after he received the legacy, Long Feng stands up to enjoy this heightened sense in person. "Sniff!" he inhales a deep breath, and release once he can taste a hint of seawater, elemental essence, and two different entities. "Huh..." he exhaled. The impurities within his earlier breath released as if he cleans his internal body with a breath of air. Long Feng stares at the void space, and discern every combination from thousand threads of incantation that used to form this realm, and with a wave of his hand, Long Feng repairs the broken threads to strengthen the realm''s stability. His hearing focused on the void space. it turns out he can even hear his own heartbeat, the sound made from his clothes contacting each other, and the flows of the wind within this realm. He waved his hand and the Essence-Energy within formed into a gauntlet made from bronze metal. "Essence made Xuan Wu Gauntlets." Long Feng formed two mechanical gauntlets. Without even requiring to ask, Wood Xuan Wu forms a gigantic Minorous that now came with three cages within its body. "Devouring Four Sides!" Long Feng''s gauntlets turned into two pairs as he launched them like flying punches towards the three cages Minorous. "Bam!" the Minorous stunned. The moment the four gauntlets retracted, it falls straight down to its knees. "Crazy Dancing Havoc Sword!" the four gauntlets turned into hundred chains of swords and slashed at the Minorous. "ROAR!" it howls in pain but trying to launch a deadly strike for its life. The joint strength of Fireheart Grass, Wind Spirit Tree, and Blessing Fruit in the three cages creates three elements attack that strikes towards Long Feng like a flying phoenix! Without a mercy towards the chained swords Long Feng controls, it melts through all the obstacles as it gets near to the target with the intention to destroys it! "Shen Sheng Jia!" (Longevity Armour!) Long Feng receive the attack with a calm mindset as his Essence Energy formed a full set external armour with the significant features of a Tortoise. Shoulder plates with four claws on each side. Tortoiseshell patterns from the chest and back. A Xuan Wu tortoise carved on the chest plate, and also a figure at top of the helm. The attack deflected with ease. "Death Glare!" the pair of eyes within the helm shines and without a notice, a beam of light is shot and burns the Minorous into ashes. "You had overcome all the obstruction in your path. Do you know what is your next target now?" Wood Xuan Wu pleased with Long Feng''s performance. "Advance into Practitioner Realm!" he replied. Book 2 Chapter 111 - Prosperity Realm - Long Feng Entering Practitioner Realm! "Always remember, to enter the Practitioner Realm, one must convert his Essence Storage into Essence Sea." "Your Essence sea quality will decide the quality of your foundation." "Water Elemental Cultivator will have their forte in this matter, as the conversion method possessed by them." "Fire Cultivator will be the hardest due to the clash between Fire and Water disparity." "But with the help of your new Innate Constitution, your Essence sea formed as a natural occurrence, so your effort now is to stabilize the sea with your foundation." With Wood Xuan Wu''s guidance, Long Feng''s effort in stabilizing his Essence Sea progressing in a positive way. The sea allows vegetation to grow on its base, signifies the approval for Wood Element to be a part of the sea. Undersea Volcanic activities appeared, but yet to burst with Fire Element energy. Wind Elements creates a flow of current underwater, forming a whirlpool with deadly wind blades in the centre. The Sky Element creates an azure-coloured cloud and floats in the air, controlling the weather as it goes. Four-part blend in the Essence Sea activates the Floating Palace to form a Palace with four complexes. Two smaller and two bigger complexes. In the middle of the Floating Palace, a Xuan Wu tortoise created in a climbing fashion, representing the current emotion of the owner. [Sky Hall] [Wind Hall] The two smaller complex have miniature nameplate hang on its ceiling. [Fire Hall] [Wood Hall] And for the two larger complex, words engraved on the wall by the side of main entrance. "The differences of shape in the hall is my foundation." Long Feng grasp the sign of imbalance within his cultivation. "Although my Essence sea creation is a success, the disparity in each foundation creates a negative impact towards another, rendering them didn''t exist in harmony." "I must struggle to improve the remaining two foundations, only this way I can create the Essence sea perfect to contain my four elemental affinities!" Then, three pills appear within his Dantian. The Wood Xuan Wu attempts to refine the herb into a miraculous treasure completed. This three identified as Founding Essence Pill. A miraculous foundation pill created by the Sign of Longevity, Xuan Wu. One Founding Essence Pill possesses the burst of essence energy comparable to five Third-Grade Spatial Rank Tempering Pills. With this three Pills consumed into Long Feng''s body. The power within explodes. As if the Essence Sea is turning upside down, Long Feng''s Essence Sea absorbs the burst of essence like a wormhole. The Whirlpool created by the wind Element sucks all the essence that flows from the opening hole in the sky, and the vegetation from the Wood Essence sucks all its nutrients. The nutrients cause the vegetation to bloom, spreading the whole seabed into green vegetation with plenty of nutrients. But no matter how wide the vegetation spreads, a mound formed in between with dim sparks and red veins trying to burst out from its core. "Boom!" Burning magma within the mound explodes, allowing the liquid magma to pour towards the seabed. Magma evaporates the water it came into contact and creates natural gases that burst like a bubble on the water surface. The vegetation near the magma burnt into ashes, turning into new fertilizer that dissolves within the sea to allows the other vegetation to get more nutrients. Natural gases that now within the air condensed into more clouds. The condensing manner creates rain, providing a new source of water to the sea once again. With the new supplies of water is coming down, the whirlpool becomes even destructive. Like this, an ecosystem within the Essence Sea forms! Next, the smaller Sky Hall and Wind Hall complex destroyed by the falling clouds and destructive winds, as it shattered under the impact. Pain arises within Long Feng''s body, but he held it within him. With destruction came anew, stronger building foundation builds and formed into two larger complexes. Four Large Hall! The Xuan Wu in the middle became bipedal as it stands tall with four coloured mist surrounding him. Early Human Practitioner Realm! Long Feng''s strength increased by twofold, with the cost of energy for all his earlier abilities reduced by a quarter. With the inheritance reaching its further perfection, Ancestor Mu Dou came in once again. "Inheritor, your strength reaches the restriction need for this part of the inheritance." the voice arises within his mind. "I can see you owned three among my seven treasures." "But what comes next is challenging." "The sword, stead, and seal are the most docile amongst my seven treasures." "To gets the approval from the remaining three, a proof of inheritance required." "The flag will only recognize power." "The book will only recognize knowledge." "And the pearl will only recognize wealth." "Only then, under the approval of the six treasures, you may face the leader among them, Mother Gaia." "If you''re my inheritor, proof to the flag the power you hold. And depending on the sword." "for the book, depending on the seal. And last, depending on the stead to gets the pearl." "I wish you luck, Inheritor." the voice from Ancestor Mu Dou vanished as it finished the message. A second later, the whole Void Space crumbles. Long Feng opened his eyes, and the scenery of bluish sea is all around his vision. "I''m back to the Prosperity Realm," he whispers. Long Feng take a glance at his surroundings and spot the other two sitting side by side, trying to advance their cultivation as they wait for him. Little do they know, Long Feng has returned with his newfound strength. An hour later, the two opened their eyes. Nan Jing Jing entered the Middle Heaven Adept Realm and Gou Yu at his Early Heaven Adept Realm. This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience. But the strength of these three is impossible to compare with other similar stage cultivators. Because if they did, then it will make the other cultivators less significant, to the point they should suicide from the differences in strength. Because in a fact understandable by the cultivators within the Continent of Yan, how can a Pill Hall cultivators control such amazing fighting strength? "We should return to the Continent of Mu." Long Feng looked at Wood Xuan Wu and speaks. "Continent of Mu, here we go again!" Nan Jing Jing shouts as the Formation Circle move towards the land once again. ********** Although it''s only been three full days after Long Feng trio left the land, in actual, 21 days have passed in a normal calculation. This 21 day creates drastic changes, causing the Continent of Mu no longer looks the same. Under the influences from Mother Gaia, the land adjusted itself, and from a continent with the shape of Wood, it reforms into a continent with four layers of land combines into a rough circle shape. With the loss of three treasures controlling the West, South-west and South, the continent lost three of its seven supporting power. The four layer of land now possesses their own shape and speciality. Since the continent starting point now begins with a land with tall flag shape trees and spear-like vines stabbed on the ground. "This must be the land under his control." the Log spoke. "Yes. It must be his handiwork." even Wood Xuan Wu added into the first sentence. "Who is this you''re talking about?" Gou Yu questioned. "The Wood Deceiver Flag. This treasure is the weakest among the seven of us, but his power lies not on the strength, but in mind." the Log explained. "His name deceiver did not fail to prove itself, look over there." Wood Xuan Wu snap their conversation with a warning. Even before their formation circle landed, it alerts the Wooden Beast. At least 10 Minorous in any shape and size detected all around their landing zone. Only one similarity among all of them. They carry a flag with the word (Mu) on their back! "Even after so long, this fella insist to carry his style." Wood Xuan Wu chuckled at those appearances. "Get ready to fight!" Long Feng warns the two as Wood Xuan Wu returned to the Xuan Wu Stamp Seal and the Weapon Devourer Log covered with the Lesser Earth Formation Creation Seal. The trio use their new strength and begin their first battle after away for so long! Since they have only two more days remaining within the Prosperity Realm, in this 14 days of time, they must get as much treasure as they could before they forced to exit. ********** "Roar! Minorous!" the Wooden Beast strikes like a professional boxer. The punches it delivers came with a deadly energy where the ground created craters from the impact. But Nan Jing Jing evades each attack like a swimming eel. Slippery, agile, and sneaky. "Fwuooo!" a soft tone whistled from the flute on her lips. And without a hint of being attacked, the Minorous internal flesh burst out, revealing its weaker internal flesh. Her attack does not stop there. With the aid of Long Feng''s Lesser Earth Seal, her Qian Kun Soul Wheel become deadlier, where separating her opponent into few pieces are nothing but a wave of a hand. Gou Yu face his opponent with the Water and Earth ability. While for Long Feng, one against twelve isn''t an issue, when he only required three slashes from his sword to defeat all of them. But the battle is yet to over as the trees and vegetation around them form into a newer form of Wooden Beast. "I am still wondering about what is the speciality of the flag is his minions." Long Feng asked. But instead of forming another Minorous, the trees entangled with each other to form a Prosperity Tribesman figure. The figure possesses similar body height like Long Feng, with a spear as its weapon of choice. Three flags appeared behind and flutter as it turned from a wood hard form into a soft like cotton texture. "I am QIU." the figure speaks. "Long Feng." he introduced himself as respect. "QIU is three flags bearer. You win QIU, you will meet master." the figure name QIU finished the sentence and prepares to fight. The spear stabs straight towards Long Feng without a warning! This sudden attack creates an ominous feeling for Long Feng as he can sense something weird within this fight. "A Prosperity Tribesman figure that even know how to sneak attack?" "It will be worse if it knows how to deceive us. Shit!" "Jing Jing!" Long Feng comprehend the danger hidden behind that ominous impression. At another side of the battle, Nan Jing Jing cleared all the opponents she had before she noticed a tribesman fainted by the side of a tree. She inspects the tribesman''s presence before she approached the target and calm when she senses no corruption on his body. "Hey, wake up!" Nan Jing Jing wakes the tribesman and checks his condition. "Aargh!" the tribesman wake up and look at Nan Jing Jing with a pair of blank eyes. "What happened? I remember I am helping the guest to collect herbs before something happened." the tribesman can only remember until the moment he falls unconscious. "Big changes happened on this land, there no longer any habitat remains in this land. You must try to locate other tribesmen too." Nan Jing Jing explains the situation and turns around to inspect her surroundings. "I understand." the tribesman answered with a sly expression staring at Nan Jing Jing the moment she turned her head. Then, a spear like QIU appeared from the ground as he moves his hand, and prepared to have an attack on her back!. "Jing Jing!" Long Feng''s voice appeared from the Spatial Link Twin Grass Ring. "What happened, my husband?" she answered without seeing the danger coming. "The Deceiver have the ability to recreates the tribesmen, be careful with those people!" Long Feng''s warning came in that instant, causing Nan Jing Jing to ignites the seal Long Feng gave to her. "BAM!" an explosion as big as a giant meteorite craters explodes.