Chapter 30: Ling Kong Instant Strike

  "This fellow Taoist... can't we just make peace? Let's just forget about what happened earlier..."

  Yang Fan's face was filled with shock and fear, his body continuously retreating backwards, without any intention of fighting.

  In reality, he was as calm as still water, and had already determined that the other party would not let things go easily, and would likely kill him to silence him.

  "Haha, let's pretend we didn't see it? That means you've seen everything that just happened?"

  The young man's face was even more murderous, and a hint of playfulness flashed in his eyes as he stumbled forward slightly.

  As a cultivator of the Great Circle of Refining Qi, if he were to kill an early-stage cultivator in ordinary times, it would be as easy as blowing away dust.

  However, he is now seriously injured and has suffered a great loss of magical power. Although he still holds the parts of the Mountain-Calming Treasure, he no longer has the strength to control such a powerful artifact.

  At this moment, he saw his opponent defeated without a fight, with a face full of fear and panic, and his heart was greatly delighted.

  Step by step, he approached with an overbearing momentum, leaving the opposing Refining Stage youth breathless.

  "You're unlucky enough to have seen our business today, so you must die!"

  The young man's eyes gleamed with a fierce light, and his hands conjured up a virtual shadow. In the flash of spiritual light, he shot out two or three fireballs in one breath.

  Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!

  Flames shot forth swiftly, the wailing sound arrived first, and a hot wave was suppressed in the air.

  As a cultivator in the Refining Qi stage, this young man's Fireball Technique was several times more powerful than that of "Eighth Uncle" and his ilk. Moreover, he could release three fireballs at once.

  At the level of Great Perfection of Qi Refining, a cultivator's accumulation and condensation of spiritual energy within their body has reached a bottleneck, far surpassing that of ordinary Qi Refining.

  If it were an ordinary Qi-refining cultivator in the early stages, facing such an attack would likely be injured in an instant.

  However, the opponent this young man encountered was Yang Fan.

  He is not an ordinary Qi-refining cultivator, but also possesses a heart that can endure extreme hardships.

  At this critical moment, Yang Fan's body flashed and he flipped over in mid-air, dodging the three shells that were attacking him in a triangular formation.

  "This..."

  The young man was stunned by Yang Fan's combat awareness and reaction ability, which far exceeded his expectations.

  However, when he saw Yang Fan suddenly rise into the air, a hint of mockery involuntarily appeared on his face.

  It is common knowledge that cultivators in the Qi Refining stage do not have the ability to fly, and even briefly staying suspended in mid-air is extremely difficult.

  Yang Fan in the void will have his agility, dodge range and movement ability greatly restricted.

  In this way, he will inevitably face a great crisis.

  However, the young man made another mistake...

  Yang Fan's aerial somersault reached its peak, and in the instant his body was about to descend, a strange change suddenly occurred.

  Whoosh!

  A blue-green rainbow escaped from Yang Fan's hands.

  At this moment, the dark night was pierced by this dazzling light.

  Whoosh! Hmph!

  A gleaming flying sword pierced through the young man's throat.

  One sword to kill!

  The young man's eyes widened in doubt, his face filled with skepticism. He blinked slightly, and his gaze fell on the cyan flying sword that pierced his throat.

  "Green Edge Sword, Lower Grade Spirit Tool, let you die with clarity."

  Yang Fan's face was cold and smiling, and he had already landed steadily.

  "This...this can't be..."

  The young man's face was shocked, and with a burst of magic power and blood support, he barely spat out a few words.

  A Qi-refining beginner cultivator, how could he possibly control a spiritual artifact?

  Lingqi is an existence that transcends the law of artifacts. At least, one needs to have cultivated to the level of condensing their spirit before they can control it.

  And even if your cultivation reaches the Condensing Spirit stage, you may not necessarily have a spiritual sword.

  Take the old man who just died, for example. He was a cultivator in the initial stage of concentration, and yet he used an extreme-grade artifact.

  Faqi and Lingqi are both divided into four grades: lower grade, middle grade, upper grade, and extreme grade.

  Plop!

  The young man died suddenly and his body fell to the ground, with a look of shock and doubt still on his face.

  Before his death, he couldn't understand how a small Qi-refining beginner could control the Lingzhu to attack the enemy.

  Yang Fan let out a light breath, and with a flash of spiritual energy on his hand, the low-grade spiritual artifact Qingfeng Sword returned to his grasp.

  Looking at this flying sword, he suddenly remembered his own master, Liu Wuheng.

  Qingfeng Sword was given by Liu Changlao to Yang Fan on the day he entered the Concentration Period.

  "Hmph, apart from the Yang family's descendants, how would outsiders know that this spiritual artifact has long been connected to my heart and soul? Even though I'm only a Qi Refining stage cultivator now, as long as I expend a great deal of magical power, I can still wield this sword."

  Yang Fan's face was cold and smiling, just now one sword killed the enemy, but consumed a small half of his internal power.

  Of course, his success also has something to do with his previous perfect combination of feigning weakness and swift counterattack.

  If that young man did not underestimate the enemy, and was cautious and careful, even if Yang Fan could win, it would be difficult to defeat him so easily with one sword, and he would likely have to pay a considerable price.

  Yang Fan's gaze swept across the two corpses on the ground, freezing on their storage bags and magical tools.

  These are spoils of war!

  Without hesitation, Yang Fan opened the two storage bags and lightly touched the spoils of war inside.

  Six or seven pieces of equipment, one or two hundred spirit stones, and other spiritual elixirs and materials.

  Among them, that green tile caught Yang Fan's attention.

  Picking up this green brick, Yang Fan felt a thick and oppressive aura, on the surface of the brick, some mysterious symbols were arranged.

  After a closer look, Yang Fan found out that this treasure was actually a mid-grade spiritual artifact!

  Medium-grade Spirit Equipment!

  This is one of the reasons why young people dare to lay hands on their teachers.

  However, with the young man's cultivation of the Great Circle of Qi Refining, using a secret technique and paying a huge price, he could only barely activate this treasure once, and it was only used for self-defense, unable to be used against an enemy.

  Wow!

  Yang Fan suppressed the excitement in his heart, and with a thought, he stored the dark green jade brick into the "Xianhong Space".

  Such a precious treasure, Yang Fan is currently unable to control it, putting it in the warehouse of Xianhong Space seems safer.

  If placed in a storage bag, it will be sensed by a powerful cultivator with strong spiritual awareness and will surely bring about a disaster of killing lives.

  Moreover, Yang Fan learned from the conversation between the two men that this green brick was actually one of the components of the "Golden Red Gate" mountain treasure.

  In this way, Yang Fan will not easily use this thing again.

  After cleaning up all the spoils of war, Yang Fan felt a great sense of relief. Although he had taken some risks this time, his gains were quite substantial and brought him no small profit.

  Yang Fan found a secluded corner and took out a jade bottle from his storage bag, inside which was a purple medicinal pill that was about the size of a small thumb, giving off a refreshing scent.

  "This is indeed a medium-grade 'Spirit-Infusing Pill'!"

  Yang Fan's face lit up with joy, and he hastily put it away.

  "This 'Yun Shen Dan', combined with the few mid-grade 'Yun Ling Dan' that Master gave me and are still unused in my storage bag, will give an ordinary cultivator a great chance of breaking through to the Condensing Spirit stage after reaching the late stages of Qi Refining."

  Yang Fan secretly calculated in his heart.

  "The effect of 'Yun Ling Dan' is to refine the purity of spiritual energy, increase the intensity of a cultivator's spiritual energy, and has a significant impact on cultivators who have not yet entered the Great Circle of Refining Qi."

  Spirit Concentrate Pill + Spirit Essence Pill

  This is an excellent combination for breaking through the concentrated mind period.

  However, for Yang Fan who was still in the early stages of Qi Refining, the Condensation Stage was still a distance away. He could only consider this matter after entering the later stages of Qi Refining.

  Moreover, he had a strange feeling in his heart that with the special nature of his reverse heavenly achievement method, taking the spiritual elixir and spending a long time in closed-door cultivation was not as good as becoming an apothecary to treat injuries and illnesses for several powerful cultivators.

  The latter seems to be even faster in comparison.

  Yang Fan cultivated in the wilderness for another hour, and his magical powers had already recovered to a state of perfect prosperity.

  Wow!

  He stood up and saw that the night was slowly dispersing, with a thin layer of mist in the air, cool and refreshing.

  "It's almost dawn, I'd better set off early and hurry on my way. Now that I have some more capital, I should be able to buy a lot of medicinal herbs at the 'Xiū Yù Gé'."

  Having said that, he walked in the direction of the government office road.

  When Yang Fan encountered the two corpses on the road, he was moved in his heart and did not immediately burn them. Instead, he walked to the front of the corpses.

  Enduring the stench of death, Yang Fan opened his palm and applied the "Rain Dew Technique" to the wound on the corpse.

  He wanted to see if the Rain of Revival had any effect on corpses.

  (Update again, hehe, can't have fewer votes)