Chapter 62: The Waves Rise Again

  "Lin... brother, spare my life... we..." Seeing Lin Feng walking over with his sword, Qian Dele was in so much pain that he could barely speak, but the will to survive made him grit his teeth and beg for mercy. Lin Feng's face twitched, and before Qian Dele could finish speaking, he stabbed a sword through his heart, then casually pulled off his storage bag and headed towards Zhao You. Zhao You was already in agony, so when he saw Lin Feng approaching, he didn't feel afraid, but rather a sense of relief. Enduring the tension and nausea in his heart, Lin Feng ended Zhao You's life with one sword strike, pulled off the storage bag on his body, and turned to leave. This place was full of evil, it was better to leave early.

  The first time killing someone, saying that you're not nervous or scared is a lie. But the Cultivation World is like this, once you have an enemy, it's often either you die or I die, so Qian and Zhao are absolutely not to be let off. Lin Feng has a gentle temperament, values relationships and friendships, this can be seen from many things such as him being willing to give up the opportunity to enter Qingyang Gate rather than reveal the secret of the Zhongpin Dan, and his great help to Liu Kai who he only met once.

  But being gentle in nature does not mean weakness, on the contrary, when facing major decisions, he is very tenacious and decisive. Just like the problem of slow cultivation speed of the Five Spirits Root in the repair of the truth, if it were someone else, they would have given up in despair long ago, but he persisted; because of the problem of fire walking, even at the risk of being killed by Qian and Zhao, he decisively went out of the city, risking his life to make a desperate attempt, all of which show his firm character.

  Now that he had won, he wouldn't be foolish enough to let the two of them off. They had to die, otherwise they would bring him huge trouble, and the revenge of the Dragon Slaughter Association was not something a Qi Refining cultivator like him could resist. However, in his tense mood, Lin Feng didn't notice that in the distant dense forest, a pair of greedy eyes were staring at his departing back.

  This was the very Deng Bin who had a dispute with Lin Feng at the Qingyang Gate. Today, he ran into Lin Feng and his two friends purely by coincidence. Since entering the Qingyang Gate, he had been cultivating within the gate and after more than a month's time, he had reached the bottleneck of the seventh layer. For some unknown reason, several days of bitter cultivation still couldn't break through, so he thought to get some middle-grade Qi Gathering Pills to boost his cultivation.

  When it comes to medium-grade Dan, their family was originally a Dan-refining family, so when they came to Qingyang Gate, he still had two bottles of medium-grade Dan on him. However, under the intense competition at Qingyang Gate, in order to quickly improve his cultivation, the medium-grade Dan in his hands was soon used up. Fortunately, their family was still quite wealthy and had some spiritual stones on hand. Deng Bin wanted to buy a few more medium-grade Dans, and Qingyang Gate did have them for sale, but the medium-grade Dans sold here required contribution points. How could a newly-entered Qi-refining cultivator like him possibly have contribution points?

  So he wanted to come to Yuguang City to try his luck, but after searching for two days in Yuguang City, he didn't gain anything and had no choice but to return to Menpai to continue practicing. Who knew that halfway through, he heard the sound of fighting, with a mindset of watching the excitement and taking advantage of the situation, he followed the sound and arrived just in time to see Lin Feng's mighty display as he drew out his mid-grade artifact sword.

  At a glance, he recognized Lin Feng. At the Qingyang Gate selection ceremony, it was him first, and then his fat and sturdy junior brother, who humiliated himself one after another, and to some extent, because of his reason, he failed to enter the inner gate and became an outer gate disciple who was not valued. This feud cannot be forgotten! So Deng Bin had a deep impression of Lin Feng. Touching the low-grade artifact sword in his storage bag, Deng Bin considered when to make his move. Facing Lin Feng, who held a mid-grade artifact, he felt that he still had some chance, after all, he was a whole level higher than his opponent.

  But when he saw Lin Feng knock down Qian Dele, a seven-layer cultivator of the Refining Qi stage, in an instant, he hesitated. After a moment, until Lin Feng indifferently killed Qian Zhao and his companion, Deng Bin completely lost the courage to strike. It was not just because Lin Feng's super strong combat power and seemingly endless spiritual symbols made him lose confidence, but also because of his coldness that made him afraid. He even believed that as long as he didn't hit his opponent with one blow, he would invite endless pursuit and killing from the other side.

  Looking at the mid-grade artifact in Lin Feng's hand, thinking of the spiritual symbol he had just casually thrown out, Deng Bin's thoughts became active again: If I can upgrade to the 7th layer of Qi Refining and find a high-level expert of the 8th or 9th layer to help me, killing him should be easy, right?

  Thinking of this, Deng Bin turned around and headed towards the Qingyang Gate. He wasn't worried about losing Lin Feng's trail, as the city of Yao Guang was the only place for spiritual cultivation within a thousand miles, so if Lin Feng appeared here, he would definitely end up in Yao Guang City. On the other hand, finding help was more troublesome, as there were many cultivators at the 8th or 9th level of Qi Refining in Qingyang Gate, but it wasn't easy to find someone willing to lend a hand.

  Lin Feng did not notice Deng Bin's existence, and he was currently walking while searching through the two storage bags he had just obtained. The result made him very disappointed. Zhao You's storage bag had all sorts of useless things, except for a dozen or so low-grade spirit stones, everything else was trash that could be bought at a street stall, and they were not even worth a few spirit stones in total.

  Chen Dele's storage bag only had twenty or so spirit stones and a small piece of xuan iron, the only valuable thing that Lin Feng found acceptable was a first-grade lower-quality earth-attribute defense talisman, it was unknown why he didn't use it just now, probably because there wasn't enough time to use it, which ended up benefiting Lin Feng. Due to the Panlong Ring's effect, Lin Feng could retrieve items using his divine sense, as long as he thought about it, the item would appear in his hand, much faster than Chen Dele rummaging through his storage bag by hand.

  Through this fight, Lin Feng also fully recognized the power of Fu Lu, except for being too expensive, it had almost no drawbacks, and was essential for self-defense and killing people on the road. He made up his mind to prepare as much as possible in the future. He took away what was useful, and threw away the rest along with the storage bag. Although the storage bag was useful, it was easy to be recognized, so he didn't leave it behind.

  After handling it, Lin Feng changed his clothes and quickly left the battlefield. More than an hour later, when he appeared in a dense forest, people already looked relaxed and comfortable, walking while using Bao Yu to find spiritual materials, just like when he first entered the Xi Lian Mountains. Since discussing the top-grade Dan with Zhu Yan, he felt that the spiritual medicine transplanted into the Panlong Ring was different. Now that there is an opportunity to collect more, of course, he will not let it go.

  Baoyu's detection range increased by another dozen or so zhang, although it was unclear why it didn't grow exponentially like Lingqi, but as long as it grew, it meant there was still room for development. This made Linfeng very happy after a slight disappointment, after all, to have such an against-the-odds thing, he already had the greatest fortune in owning it.

  All the way, all the way to collect. Yes, it's collecting, if others are searching, then Lin Feng is collecting, just like collecting mature spiritual medicine in his own spiritual field, the only difference is that each collection requires a longer distance to walk. However, the Qi Ling Mountains have plenty of spiritual energy, and the density of spiritual medicine has increased greatly, with almost 50 meters of distance having spiritual medicine, and under the situation where Bao Yu can cover an area of over 200 meters in diameter, there are too many spiritual medicines to collect.

  After all, this trip into the mountains was to visit the mysterious cave dweller, and collecting herbs was just a secondary goal. In the end, Lin Feng had no choice but to be selective in his collection. For first-grade spiritual herbs, he only collected those that could be used to refine Qi-gathering pills, and abandoned all others that were slightly farther away. As for second-grade spiritual herbs, they were too far away, so he also gave up on many of them. If other cultivators knew that a mere fifth-layer Qi-refining cultivator like Lin Feng was willing to abandon spiritual herbs that were right in front of him just because he didn't want to walk a few more steps, who knows if they would be furious and curse Lin Feng as a prodigal son. And yet, despite this, the amount of herbs he collected in one day still far exceeded what an average cultivator could collect in half a month.

  He walked and stopped along the way, but the direction hadn't changed. Lin Feng still remembered the place where he had met the mysterious senior in the cave two days ago. When he saw the small hill again, his heart was still nervous, but after thinking about it, Lin Feng steeled himself and walked forward resolutely.

  He walked all the way to the front of the mountain, but there was still no movement in the cave. Lin Feng had no choice but to bow and pay his respects before saying loudly: "Junior Lin Feng pays his respects to senior!" There was no one in the mountains, if someone saw Lin Feng's actions at this time, they would definitely think he was talking to a ghost.

  It's almost the same, although Lin Feng didn't know if the other party was human or ghost, but judging from their previous conversation, it's likely that the other party is a ghost. After waiting for half a day without any movement, Lin Feng was about to shout again when he heard the mysterious voice in his mind: "Didn't I tell you to wait until you reach the Foundation Building stage before coming? Now you're only at the fifth layer of Qi Refining and you can't wait, with such little patience, it's likely that you'll never be able to build a foundation, alas!"

  Lin Feng was not surprised that the other party saw through his cultivation, but hearing the disappointment and helplessness between his words, he suddenly felt a warmth in his heart. From this point on, he had already seen that the other party did not have any malicious intentions towards him, but instead was full of hope and concern. He hastily explained: "Junior is actually because I encountered great difficulties in my cultivation, and there is no one around to ask for advice, so I had no choice but to come disturb Senior's quiet meditation, please forgive me."

  "Don't you have a master?" A voice sounded from the cave, seemingly somewhat excited.

  "The younger generation, due to their mixed spiritual roots, although they entered a cultivation family, did not have a master to apprentice under." Bringing up this issue was undoubtedly a sore spot for Lin Feng. If he had a master, would he have come alone to this distant city of You Guang to struggle? Although Yang Zhe, his uncle-master, was not bad to him, there was still a difference in their relationship - it wasn't as close as having a true master. Moreover, Yang Zhe had the entire Yang family to take care of and didn't have time to look after Lin Feng."

  "Haha……, yes, yes, you are a Five Elements Miscellaneous Spirit Root. Except for being slightly better than ordinary humans who can't cultivate, you're the worst. Haha, I used to think so too back then, but it wasn't until later that I realized we were all wrong! The spiritual roots under the heavens don't have good or bad distinctions, some are just recognized as such. Even if one doesn't have a spiritual root, what's the harm? As long as they find a method, can't ordinary humans also give birth to a spiritual root?"

  Lin Feng was still a bit afraid, thinking that his words had touched the other's sore spot, causing him to go crazy. But after hearing the sentence "Ordinary people can't also give birth to spiritual roots", he forgot everything and said: "Senior, is there really a way for ordinary people to also give birth to spiritual roots?"