Chapter 15: The Dark and Mysterious Swamp

  No one knew how Lin Feng had survived, but they all knew or heard indirectly that Lin Feng was taken to the Spiritual Medicine Valley by Yu Bo two and a half months ago, and since then, no one had seen Lin Feng again.

  But at this moment, the guy just stood in front of everyone silently, making everyone's head spin for a while, thinking they were dreaming in broad daylight!

  After a long while, Yu Bo's eyes still didn't dare to blink, staring blankly at Lin Feng and saying: "You... are you human or ghost?"

  Lin Feng walked over and said, "Yu Shixiong, what are you talking about? Of course I'm a human! The task in the Spiritual Medicine Mountain Valley is already completed by me, not a single spiritual medicine is missing from the back mountain. Do you want to go check?"

  "No need! You can come out is good, you can come out is good!"

  "Then, what should I do now? For two and a half months, I've been stuck in the Spiritual Medicine Valley. The chores in the medicine garden have delayed me quite a bit, I don't know if I can make up for it."

  Yu Bo's eyes finally recovered their blinking, and they blinked continuously for over a dozen times. Only then did he nod his head and say: "Ah, indeed, it has delayed things quite a bit! However, the work nowadays all have a certain level of technical difficulty, you simply can't do it! How about this, why don't you go to the mountain slope across from us to turn over the earth?"

  Lin Feng didn't say much more, shouldering his iron shovel and heading towards the mountain slope opposite, leaving behind Yu Bo and a group of disciples who stood there with wide eyes, taking a long time to recover.

  When Lin Feng started digging, those people were still watching his back and discussing it. Yu Bo was even more dazed and fell into deep thought. It wasn't until then that he discovered that in two and a half months, Lin Feng had actually risen three levels, and was now a 9th layer cultivator of the Revolving Core stage! Such an astonishing promotion speed made Yu Bo rack his brains but still couldn't figure out the reason.

  Unconsciously, the red sun sets again, and when dusk falls, an ordinary day is about to end. The disciples of various levels in the Qingdanmen pharmacy return home one after another, and today's duty has been completed.

  Yu Bo put down the herbal medicine tools, looked up and glanced at Lin Feng who was not far away, tilling the land. This was his countless times of stealing glances, now it seemed to have formed a habit. The surrounding disciples left one after another, and gradually only Yu Bo was left alone.

  Lin Feng put down his iron shovel and wiped the sweat from his forehead, preparing to return to his own cave. At this time, Yu Bo walked up to him.

  Lin Feng turned around, just in time to meet Yu Bo's gaze as he approached. Yu Bo didn't stop walking, but a rare smile appeared on his face, although it looked quite unnatural.

  Yu Bo stopped three steps away from Lin Feng and then said to him, "Lin Shi Di, it's been a few days since we last met. How have you been doing in the Spiritual Medicine Mountain Valley?"

  Lin Feng had already guessed his intention, but calmly said: "Thanks for your concern, brother. At least I'm still alive."

  Yu Bo didn't seem embarrassed and continued to ask, "Lin Shidi misunderstood, what I meant was that during your two months in Lingyao Mountain Valley, shouldn't you have had some encounters?"

  Lin Feng replied with a puzzled expression: "Elder brother is really good at joking, what opportunity could I possibly have?"

  Yu Bo was unforgiving: "Without opportunity, how could it be possible to rise three ranks in a row? Don't try to deceive me, Lin Shidi!"

  Lin Feng sneered inwardly, but his expression remained unchanged: "Brother, you're even more absurd! Even if my talent was exceptional, it's impossible to advance three levels in just two and a half months! Moreover, my talent isn't that great, otherwise I wouldn't be just a miscellaneous disciple."

  Yu Bo's face sank slightly: "Lin, don't try to quibble or deceive me! Two and a half months ago you were only at the sixth level of the Xuanzhao period, but now you've advanced to the ninth level. All these fellow disciples have seen it, do you think we're all blind?"

  "Oh, perhaps Senior Brother has misunderstood! Actually, two and a half months ago I was already at the ninth layer of Xuanzhao period, and it's been several years since I last broke through. It's just that my main cultivation method is quite special - whenever I'm not diligent in my practice, it automatically drops back down, but after a period of intense cultivation, I can quickly make up for lost time."

  Yu Bo stared at Lin Feng incredulously, Lin Feng gazed back at him nonchalantly. The two men locked eyes for a good dozen breaths before Yu Bo asked suspiciously: "So, you're saying that during the past two and a half months in Lingyao Mountain Valley, you've been diligently cultivating? And your strength has recovered to its original ninth layer realm?"

  Lin Feng replied crisply: "Exactly!"

  Yu Bo's eyelid twitched, and his face suddenly turned pale. He lost the patience he had before: "Lin Shidi, don't you know that during the day, you need to return to the medicine garden for labor? You're going to be severely punished for truancy!"

  Lin Feng sneered coldly without showing any weakness: "How will you heavily punish me? Will I continue to guard the spiritual medicine in the Spiritual Medicine Valley?"

  Yu Bo's eyes widened: "Hmph, you think it's that easy! If you don't tell me the detailed experiences of these two months, I will definitely report your unexcused absence to the Executive Hall! At that time, the punishment you face won't just be hard labor, but also excruciating physical torture!"

  Lin Feng's eyes narrowed: "Suit yourself, I'll accompany you to the end!"

  After finishing speaking, Lin Feng turned around and left, soon disappearing into the night. Yu Bo looked at Lin Feng's gradually disappearing figure, his teeth clenched with a "click", and a sinister plan slowly emerged in his mind.

  The next day, all the medicine gardens of Qingdanmen entered a state of closure. In the future, the spiritual medicines in the medicine gardens will grow automatically. Since most of the spiritual medicines have just undergone large-scale harvesting and collection, they need to grow undisturbed for some time.

  As a miscellaneous disciple like Lin Feng, he was dispatched to other locations to do some preparatory work for the upcoming Luandan Grand Ceremony, such as clearing the venue and setting up trading areas.

  There is also a group of disciples who were sent to the distant Yin Ze Swamp, hundreds of miles away from Qing Dan Gate, to search for various wild spiritual herbs. Because some wild spiritual herbs cannot be transplanted, but are essential materials for refining certain spiritual elixirs, they can only be picked in the wild.

  The Yinyue Marsh is vast, and Lin Feng had heard of it when he was at the Taiyi Sect. Indeed, all sorts of rare and precious spiritual herbs grow there, some of which are unique to that place, so many cultivators enter it every year.

  However, the Yin Swamp is also very dangerous. First of all, there is a strong yin energy inside it that can greatly corrode the spiritual power in the body of the cultivator, so it is called the Yin Swamp. If you stay inside for too long, you will often have concerns about your life.

  Apart from the yin energy, there are also numerous kinds of ferocious beasts inside. Some cultivators have even seen ghostly objects. Under the cover of thick fog and yin energy, the existence of these ferocious beasts and ghostly objects is undoubtedly the most terrifying danger.

  Every day, a large number of monks enter it, and every day, a large number of monks fall in it. However, the spiritual medicine inside the Yinsheng Swamp continues to attract monks from all over to come one after another.