Lan Tie Feng Hu San Geng Seeking Collection

  "It seems that Hei Gong Xie Hu will not leave for a while! I'll just rest here then!"

  In the ancient cave of Cold Spring, Li Ke changed into another set of white clothes from his backpack and carefully collected all ten pieces of Ling Stone taken out from the spring. After a moment of contemplation, he decided to wait for a while in the ancient cave of Cold Spring. The steel-grade metal beast, Black Steel Jiao Tiger, was too powerful, so he had to be careful. Unless his skills reached the level of transformation, and all his martial souls were refined into physical form, revealing their true energy, he would not be able to confront the Black Steel Jiao Tiger.

  After making up his mind, Li Ke had nothing to do and began to introspect his own Martial Soul Space.

  His power had broken through two levels in a row, and Li Ke knew that continuing to cultivate would no longer have much significance. Cultivating the martial soul emphasized gradual progress, and breaking through two levels at once was already terrifying enough; continuing further would only make the martial soul unstable.

  One cannot become fat by eating one mouthful; growth is still a gradual process.

  Looking inward at his own Martial Soul Space, the space was hazy and misty, with a faint aura surrounding it. In the center of the space, a red flying dagger floated in mid-air. The flying dagger was entirely crimson and had been divided into nine segments. Between each segment were nine different colored markings. As a whole, it looked incredibly mysterious. Five segments of the flying dagger had been refined to have a clear shape, with distinct outlines, while the remaining four segments were blurry and unclear.

  On the flying knife, a red flame entwined, beautiful and magnificent, invisible in the midst, revealing a strong and fierce aura.

  Seeing the red flames entwined around the Flying Dagger Soldier's soul, Li Ke's mouth revealed a satisfied smile. These red flames were none other than the Xuan Yang energy, one of the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Energies. The Xuan Yang energy transformed into flames and wrapped itself around the Flying Dagger Soldier's soul, making its power even more fierce and resilient. With this Xuan Yang energy's blessing, the Flying Dagger Soldier's soul became even more sharp and resilient, and compared to the Yellow Five-Grade Soldier's soul, it was probably not much different.

  "My Flying Dagger Soul has been imbued with the power of Xuan Yang, and coupled with the wondrous effects of the Nine-Colored Mark! From now on, who can stop me!"

  A sharp glint flashed in his eyes, and Li Ke's heart surged with a strong desire to rise to the top. Li Wu of the Blade Li family had already broken through to the Transformation Realm, although he didn't care about it, but it still brought him some pressure.

  One year later, he wants to make a strong comeback to the Blade Lee family and regain his former glory. To do so, he must defeat Li Wu and become the number one of the Blade Lee family!

  ……

  Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, several days have passed again.

  In the cold spring ancient cave, it was dark and there was no day or night. Li Ke had also forgotten how many days had passed. In these few days, the cold spring's fountain had not erupted again, seemingly because of the Xuan Yang energy being refined. With nothing to do, Li Ke solidified his current abilities while deepening his understanding of Shen Lai San Dao. He gradually grasped some of its essence. His understanding of the first move of Shen Lai San Dao, Tian Shen Xia Fan, had reached an unprecedented level. When he executed it, every knife broke through the air, flashing and disappearing instantly, extremely mysterious and unpredictable.

  "Time's almost up!"

  After making up his mind, he carefully walked back along the same path he had taken to get there.

  Soon, Li Ke saw a light radiating from the distance, and the entrance of the ancient mountain peak was more than twice as large as before. He knew that this was the work of the steel-grade metal beast, Black Steel Tiger. Holding his breath, the knife edge on his hand shone with a faint light, gripping the flying knife tightly, he stepped silently towards the entrance.

  At the entrance of the cave, it was a mess, with rocks scattered all over the place. Looking at the mountain wall, there were claw marks and traces of being smashed everywhere.

  Li Ke did not sense a strong aura, let out a long breath of turbid air, secretly rejoiced for a moment, poked his head out to confirm there were no other metal beasts around, determined the direction, and transformed into a white shadow that darted out in an instant.

  The mighty Steel-grade Metal Beast, Li Ke deeply understood the danger of the central location of the Cold Spring Mountains. He also remembered it in his heart, so at this time he left and ran wildly, jumping from one ancient tree to another, without even touching the ground with his feet. This wild run lasted for a whole hour.

  An hour later, Li Ke arrived at the dangerous area of the Hanshui Mountains.

  Although this place is called the danger zone, it poses no threat to Li Ke. Previously, he and Zhong Qing swept through the edge areas of the danger zone and the central zone, hunting down a total of 100 iron-level high-grade metal beasts, reaping a rich harvest. Now his backpack still contains a large number of internal organs and iron bones from those iron-level high-grade metal beasts.

  "Huh? It seems like there's someone in front!"

  Li Ke hid behind an ancient tree, gazing intently at something in the distance.

  Right in front, four people in a row, all wearing golden clothes with black circular embroidery on their chest, which is the uniform of the disciples of Jinguangmen, one of the four major sects in Hanshou region, just like the white clothes and golden knives of Shuangdao Sect.

  These four people, all young in age, looked around, seemingly searching for something.

  "Alas! Brother Chen, how long will it take to find him at this rate? And Old Man Qiu is also to blame, how could he let the young master get lost and even lose himself!"

  "Little brother, stop complaining! We're just searching in the danger zone, but Golden Brother has gone to the central area all by himself! It's extremely perilous there, even our sect master doesn't dare to enter easily!"

  "Brother Jin is too awesome!"

  "That's natural, Master Jin is the core disciple of our Golden Light Sect, at a young age, his cultivation has reached the seventh level of the Refining Soldier Realm, and his soldier soul is even a yellow fifth-grade soldier soul, the sect master said that Master Jin has boundless prospects!"

  "Hehe, not bad! With Master Jin, in four months' time, at the Hanshui Four Great Sects' trial, our Jinguang Sect will definitely overpower the other sects and take first place!"

  "Brother Jin is only twenty-three years old, and his skills are already so terrifying!"

  "Haha! This time, we must let Master Jin defeat the Golden Phoenix Knife of the Double Blade Sect and proudly show off our skills. From now on, those kitchen knives from the Double Blade Sect will avoid us disciples of the Golden Light Gate!"

  "Ah! Last year's trial of the four major sects in Hansheng, our Golden Light Sect was ultimately defeated by Lu Jinfeng, the core disciple of the Double Blade Sect. This time, I must make him lose all face!"

  "Lu Jin Feng? The one who claims to be a core disciple among the top ten of the Double Blade Sect?"

  After Gu Mu left, Li Ke tilted his head and thought of many stories about Lu Jin Feng, the core disciple of Double Blade Sect.

  Lu Jin Feng, not yet twenty-five years old, core disciple of the Double Blade Sect, yellow fifth-grade soldier soul Golden Phoenix Knife, sevenfold power of the Refining Soldier Realm, practicing the Xuan-level lower-grade martial art - Phoenix Dance Nine Heavens Knife Technique, ranked tenth among the core disciples of the Double Blade Sect.

  Lu Jinfeng was a fierce and powerful person, but had the appearance of a weak and delicate woman. She often went out to practice her skills and rarely stayed at the Double Blade Sect. Last year, during the trial by combat in the Hanshui region among the four major sects at the Hanshui Mountains, Lu Jinfeng made a stunning debut, overpowering all the younger generation and becoming the ultimate champion, obtaining a low-grade, exquisite, and peerless sword - the Red Phoenix Sword.

  The trial competition of the four major sects in the Han State, held once a year. All disciples under the age of 25 from the four major sects can participate. The rewards for the trial competition are rich, and the final winner will not only receive the generous prizes prepared by the four major sects but also receive a significant reward from their own sect.

  "Let's count down the time, after the sect's grand competition is the Blood Baptism Trial!"

  The trials of the four major sects are extremely bloody, with life and death at stake. This is also a means for the four major sects to eliminate their disciples. Moreover, most of the disciples who participate in these bloody trials are inner door disciples and core disciples, representing the future hope of their respective sects.

  A disciple who has never experienced killing, how can he become a sect's hope?

  "Hoo-hoo!"

  Just as Li Ke was lost in thought, a metallic beast with an entirely dark blue body suddenly rushed out from the dense forest in the distance.

  This metal beast was extremely fast and in just a few breaths, it arrived before Li Ke. "Blue Iron Wind Fox!" Li Ke exclaimed, immediately unfolding his body and flashing out.

  "Who is it?"