Chapter 30: The Way of Middle-earth (Seeking Collection and Recommendation)

  When Yu Feng returned to the small manor, he had already seen the two envoys from the Dark Church. Both were wearing gray robes, with wrinkles on their faces and stiff expressions that were different from ordinary people. They looked almost like dead men because one of them studied dark magic and the other was infatuated with necromancy. Yu Feng only casually used his divine sense to take a look and discovered that the two had an unusually strong aura of death around them.

  The dead air on their bodies was several hundred times stronger than that of the corpse, no wonder they were so eager to come and talk to him about the hidden symbol. Although they also used some concealment techniques to hide their breath, they could only deceive people with low cultivation, how could they escape Yu Feng's divine sense in the middle of the transformation?

  "Honorable Eastern guest, welcome to our Western land. I am Mason, the Dark Sorcerer, and this is Yaro, the Necromancer." The two saw the Blood Count follow a young Oriental boy into the room. Although the boy looked very young, judging from the Count's respectful expression, they guessed that he was the Eastern powerhouse mentioned in the Council. Both stood up to greet Yu Feng, and one of them, an older man who was slightly taller, spoke.

  "Hello! I am Qingxuan, and I suppose you have already learned my name from the Carol family. My main purpose for coming to the West this time is to target the Holy Court of Light, and I suppose you, the Dark Council, are also aware of what I've been doing these past few days. You and the Holy Church are sworn enemies, so our cooperation is inevitable. That's why I don't mind making your power even stronger. Take the Hidden Emblem, for example - as long as you use it when launching a surprise attack on the Holy Church, no matter how powerful they are, they won't be able to send reinforcements in time, right?" Yu Feng saw that they had arrived within two or three days, and supposed that the Dark Church was also under pressure, so he didn't want to waste any more time and directly discussed the main topic with the two envoys.

  "Yes, Qingxuan Daoren, our Dark Assembly indeed needs the kind of concealment talisman you can refine. However, the Carol family said that you can refine an even better concealment talisman, one that would make it impossible for even the Red-robed High Priest of the Radiant Church to discover our identities. The only problem is that the required materials are too numerous and difficult to find. Therefore, the Assembly has sent us to discuss this matter with you, sir." said Wraithmaster Yaluo.

  "Not bad, if you want to refine a better symbol, then you need more and better materials. If it's just the essence of the thousand-year-old peach wood, it can also be refined, but that thousand-year-old peach wood is too hard to find. In this world, there are only a few at most. If you want to replace it, you can only use a large number of jade stones and a large amount of yin souls to make up for it.

  You see, I need to refine all these jade stones into this jade essence, so that I can use it as the foundation stone for the array to refine the hidden escape symbol. However, refining the jade essence is too difficult, even tens of thousands of jade stones cannot be refined into so much jade essence, and it's easy to fail in refinement. Once failed, those jade stones are useless.

  The yin souls are the same, I need to use them to stimulate the array and provide a constant flow of energy to refine the hidden escape symbol, so the consumption is huge."

  Yu Feng took out two refined jade essences and gave one to each of them, starting to exaggerate the difficulty of refining the hidden escape symbol.

  Everything he did was just to get them to take out more materials, anyway, this hidden symbol is of great use to them, and the Dark Church won't lose anything. Except for some dark numbers that are a bit larger, they don't need anything else, and putting it in their hands is also a waste, at most it's just a collection.

  Nan Mei and Ya Luo, after receiving the jade stone essence from Yu Feng's mouth, immediately felt a significant change in their faces, and sensed that the spiritual energy inside was dozens of times stronger than usual. If they could cultivate next to the jade stone, their progress would be at least twice as fast as before. As cultivators, they were more sensitive to changes in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth than ordinary people, and they quickly discovered the greatest benefit of the jade stone essence as soon as they received it.

  They didn't know that this wasn't an ordinary Jade Essence, Yu Feng had casually set up a small Spirit Gathering Array inside it, intentionally luring the two of them. Yu Feng had long discovered that Western cultivators could only passively absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, but couldn't actively utilize Spiritual Energy, let alone use arrays. The so-called magic arrays in their eyes were just the most superficial use of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy.

  Moreover, this is generally kept secret and not spread to outsiders, only those who are in high positions will know a little. This jade stone essence that has been added to the Lingyun formation method is nothing in Yu Feng's heart, but in the eyes of Mason and Aro, it is a treasure that is hard to find in the world, even more difficult than the hidden symbol, so their stiff facial muscles also reveal a smile that is uglier than a dead person. In their hearts, they are all thinking about how to get more of this jade stone essence.

  "I wonder if Qing Xuan can pass on the method of refining the Jade Stone's essence to us? We can promise that the Dark Council will be able to do anything." Mason thought for a moment and said to Yu Feng, as long as they could obtain the method of refining the Jade Stone's essence, the power of their Dark Council would greatly increase, and they might even be able to confront the Light Church head-on, which is why he raised such an untimely question.

  "I'm really sorry, this is a secret art of my sect. If I dare to pass it on outside, I will immediately be expelled from the mountain gate by the law enforcement elders, lose my magical powers and suffer the torture of being devoured by vengeful spirits for a thousand years." Yu Feng's expression turned serious, and he immediately refused him, adding another layer of strict rules to his sect.

  "Oh, Qingxuan, I was too presumptuous to make such an unreasonable request. I also know that the method of refining the jade stone's essence is impossible to pass on to outsiders, no matter who it is. But I didn't expect your cultivation to be so high, and there's even a law enforcement elder above you. It seems that the power of your Eastern legendary Dao Gate is indeed beyond our imagination!" Mason didn't show any disappointment when he heard Yufeng refuse, as if he had already known it was impossible before asking. However, from Yufeng's tone, he could tell that his position within the Dao Gate wasn't very high.

  "There are many cultivators in the Central Plains, but all the cultivation sects have hidden themselves from the world, so they are not known to ordinary people. Occasionally, only low-level disciples like us will enter the world to cultivate. The Radiant Church used many improper means to spread their teachings to the East, and only young and vigorous disciples like me would come to the West to cause trouble for the church. If our sect were to send out an elder, they could easily force the Radiant Church to retreat from the Central Plains. However, those people do not care about worldly affairs and have been quietly cultivating on the mountain. As long as the Radiant Church does not stir up great chaos in the Central Plains, they will not take action lightly. It is only us younger generation cultivators who have not yet reached a high level of cultivation and cannot see through the worldly dust that would rashly take action."

  Yu Feng's next words caused another stormy wave in the hearts of the two dark messengers.