The moment Long Feng entered the battlefield, four Pills is thrown towards the bandit's side as he notices there is nobody from the Pill Hall is fighting around that part. With the four Pills is successfully ignited, a burst of Fiery concoction is being scattered everywhere, and about six of the Bandit had been seriously injured due to the exploding distance between them and the Pills is too close.

Few of the Inner Disciples managed to get a caught on what happened from where the pitiful cries are heard and looking at that instant flashes, those disciples quickly escape from the battlefield and returned back to the spot where their carriage is positioned. Even one among the few disciples managed to recognize the source of the explosion used by Long Feng. "That's the explosion from the Fire Lizard Pills! Is that Disciple Peng Yu, or Long Feng?"

"What? Long Feng the transfer Disciple?" some of the disciples started to discuss Long Feng's origin as they escape from the battlefield. "Kill him, quickly! This kid is extremely dangerous!" some of the bandits noticed the fighting strength came from Long Feng, as they tidied their ranks and charge over with caution. But no matter how sturdy is that defensive stance, it is still failed to compete with the direct assault from the might of the refined powers hidden within each single Pill!

"Needle Bomb Pill!" Long Feng toss three Pills towards where the ten-men shield is formed to defend against his approach. The bandits quickly channel their strongest energy to defend against any random attacks, but when faced with the scattered needles that could pierce through a cultivators body when explodes, the ten-men shield quickly turned into a ten-men corpse.

Even when he saw some treasures are scattered on the ground, Long Feng possess no greed to quickly collects it. The overall battle is still far from over, and if Long Feng decided to stop here, his action would generate a different kind of attention from the fellow disciples towards him, thus he decided to ignore this kind of mere attractions.

Almost wherever he went, two to three Needle Bomb Pill is thrown. From three to four dead bodies into ten or more, Long Feng mopped the battlefield easily as the number of bandits quickly decrease, until only about 1200 of them remains. Although the Bandit Leader, Niu Sha could already call this battle a success from their success of killing around 50 Inner Disciples, due to some additional greed within his mind, he wished to obtain more loots!

"Everyone, Follow me and let us go forward to kill those few strong disciples!" Niu Sha led the four Adept Realm cultivators to follow him down to participates in the fight! Even the most inexperienced bandits know that once the Bandit Leader is making their move, the flows in the battlefield will become even ferocious, due to each leader's ruthlessness and also decisive action when fighting.

Especially for Niu Sha, who depending on his long heavy axe that already chopped off a total of three disciples head as he rides through the battlefield. As if he knows who is the most threatening among the disciples, Niu Sha actually head straight towards Long Feng with his Long Axe held high up for a full strength swing anytime. Looking at such a target coming over to him, Long Feng felt appreciated.

"I would never imagine that such a character will actually head directly towards my position in early of their battle." Long Feng happily comments. Although his voice is neither soft or loud, it could still be heard by the people 300 meters around him. With their eyes and jaw opened wide from hearing such a comment, Niu Sha's Long Axe had already been swung, targeting Long Feng's neck in its first greetings.

"Sealing Pill." Long Feng toss a Yellow covered Pill as big as an eyeball towards the ground before Niu Sha, and almost instantly, a Sealing Sphere covered Niu Sha from continuing on his track. Even his strongest weapon, the Long Axe, had been immobilized from the restricted space within the Sealing Sphere. "Damn Kid! What is this weird looking energy shield? Let me, Niu Sha, destroy it with a punch!" Niu Sha is in rage because his path had been obstructed by a hell know where it came from energy shield.

But to say that Niu Sha is not a capable fighter, would be too underestimating him, as when he landed a single punch towards the Sealing Sphere, a crack could be seen immediately. Although the Sealing Sphere is quite a good Battle Concoction to be used against a strong opponent, this doesn't mean it could help in the part to attack the opponent directly. The Sealing Sphere defense against both side attack, thus even if Long Feng felt that he should continue to pressure Niu Sha, but at the same time, he is helplessly unable to do it because of the sphere is still in effect.

While on Long Feng's left and right section, Nan Jing Jing and Hong Yue is charging over without clearing all the bandits along their way. Although both of them could have the ability to do so, they choose to not cutting off all the weeds within the grounds, but only to cut off the excess growth instead. Because if they choose to totally decimate all the bandits' operation within the Five Cities Intersection, it means that in future, any outbreak of Cultivation Beast attack will be required to be handled personally by the City Lords themselves.

This is also the connection between Yin and Yang, as well the Moon and the Sun. One could not totally overtake another because if that happened, calamity will follow along when the time comes. With the fourth punches, Niu Sha finally able to regain his freedom, as he sucked a long breath as he shattered the Sealing Sphere's defense. "Brat, you are the first one to actually cause me to spend so much time to kill!" Niu Sha charges with a Zigzag pattern as he gets closer to Long Feng,

"Phantom Fist!" Niu Sha used his proudest one hit kill attack, as his fist is swung towards where Long Feng stands firm. The moment his fist getting closer to just barely a finger reach to his face, a layer of a defensive shield is activated, rendering the pressure within the punch becomes a useless waste of Essence Energy. "Niu Sha, am I correct? This is the Body Shield Concoction, a special Battle Concoction used by skillful Pill Master to defend themselves when faced with threatening enemies."

"But unfortunately, your opponent is me today, give up, and I will let you leave. Call your people to retreat now before we totally destroy a portion of Man Si House today." as Long Feng starts until he finished his words, a mocking expression could be seen from Niu Sha as he underestimates Long Feng capability in face to face fights. But with the two Needle Bomb Pill explosion follows along when Long Feng finished his sentence, Niu Sha finally understands that he was already be "Set Up."

With his beehive like knee couldn't support his heavy body anymore before any words could be spoken, Niu Sha falls down to his knees, as if he was asking for a forgiveness from Long Feng. "Sorry for such disappointing fight, but I'm afraid I can't continue to play with you anymore." Long Feng tighten his palm to form a shapeless sword as he performs a throat-slitting action. Just within a few minutes of clashing against each other, one Late Earth Adept Realm Cultivator is slain on the spot.

Looking at this situation, even Tai Pan started to have a hint of fear within his mind, as he stopped halfway and decided to fights between those weaker disciples groups. One hour later, the Man Si House bandits finally retreated, after having almost 1000 of their men is killed during the exchange. But even with this amount of death, the effect towards Man Si House is only a minor threat instead.

In between this exchange, the Bronze Pill Hall side lost a total of 80 Inner Disciples, where in this 80 person inventory pouch, would contains the materials enough to cultivates more than 800 new bloods for the Man Si House, and might enough to allows at least 8 strong members to be able to enter the Adept Realm Cultivation. But on the Man Si House side, although they had lost around 1000 members, this group is not even from the main forces of the Man Si House. Added with the lack of loots from the kills, this results in only fighting experience, and nothing else is benefitted.

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In the same time, the other three cities Inner Disciples also managed to break through such obstacles blocking their path. From the initially 200 Disciples strong team, is being reduced to at least a quarter of their members had lost their lives to the attacking bandits. Through this alone, one already could see that at the end of this top 100 best disciple among the 5 Bronze Pill Hall, at least half of it would be taken by the force in Clear Jade City, because their force is the only one remain unscathed from all this unfortunate incident.

Within the Jade Ginseng City's carriage.

"This is totally unforgivable! We are all disciples from the Bronze Pill Hall as well, how could we bear the loss and justify our disadvantages from having 60 junior-senior participants in this Top 100 seat selection?" one beautiful man with facial features that even bring another female pale in comparison speaks. As the members of the Jade Ginseng City branch is looking straight at him, another fellow disciple opened his mouth.

"Senior Chu, before leaving the Pill Hall, the majority of the Elders already keep reminding us to be cautious all along our way. Within this 140 brother and sisters, who never paid attention to those elders message? Those that failed to understand the importance of such advice, had already been taken down and looted by the enemies, and yet our own side not even managed to recover back anything from them at all." another Inner Disciple comments, as he believes that those that still remains within the carriage, is the cream of crops among the two hundred members before everything happened.

"Senior Tie, with you and Senior Chu's capability, the Jade Ginseng City Branch will obtain at least two seats within the top ten for sure!" a younger generation member comments as the others agreed with it after the word came out. The two most capable new generation of this year intake, Tie Peng and Chu Yi from Jade Ginseng City!

While in the Cloudy Jade City's carriage.

This carriage is currently in a sorry state due to the huge losses from the previous attack. From the initial two hundred Disciples before the attack, currently, only ninety disciples remained within the carriage, all with a gloomy expression. Most of the disciples within are injured, and some of them are mugged empty from having any remaining treasures within their inventory pouch.

"Senior Zhang Pu, Senior Chen Nan, please have some drink before we reach the Clear Jade City." a younger generation disciple prepared some drinks to this two senior as he kneeled behind them. "Hmm, good. You may rest now, wake us up later when we reach the city." the person called Chen Nan speaks as he dismisses the young junior, and continues to enjoy the companionship of two sexy figure ladies on his both side.

Hundred Variants Zhang Pu and Poisonous Chen Nan of Cloudy Jade City, also two heavyweight participants that are expected to be taking two seats among the top ten! But hidden within this two men, is a sinister appearance that causes almost all within the carriage and those dead outside of the battlefield mugged empty.

Lastly, from the Xuan Wu Jade City, the carriage is seated with the most living disciples. Among the 200 disciples from the Xuan Wu Jade City, only five among them is accidentally killed when the adept practitioner is personally taking the action on the battlefield. Although the battle between them only remain stagnant with few dead and some injured, the one who managed to control the pace is still remarkably strong in everyone opinions!

First Class Shield, Huang Ying, and First Class Spear, Yue Ying! Two female disciples that believed to be the best of all five Bronze Pill Hall Branches. Their popularity soared the moment they managed to make their name through hunting the Xuan Lao Aging Lizard, also rumored to be the strongest beast within the Xuan Jade Forest west of Xuan Wu Jade City, with a cultivation strength of Third Heaven Grade Ferocious Beast.

Added with Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing from the Thunderburst Jade City and also two mysterious participants within Clear Jade City, this ten powerful disciples, will be competing against each other to obtain the first among top ten seats!

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Within the Clear Jade City.

"Gou Yu, Liu Tsung, the two of you will be the best choice to represent the Clear Jade City in this top 100 seat competition. This time, the Silver Hall from our Kingdom's Capital City will be acting as the judges for this competition, so make sure you could obtain the first and second position before the opening of the Thousand Herbal Garden." Elder Zhi Ruo speaks as she looked at the two best choices of talent the Clear Jade City had.

"Remember, if you both could enter the top ten ranking, our Hall Master Yang Shao will personally give you both two copy of his personal concocted recipe, and a total of 100 Master-Rank Cultivation Pellets. If you could achieve the top five ranking, your rewards will be doubled. If either of you managed to obtain first or second seats, the Hall Master will personally request a tempered Heaven Grade Spirit Equipment for you. Are you both clear?" Elder Zhi Ruo continued.

Gou Yu politely nod his head towards Elder Zhi Ruo but keeping quiet from speaking. After the disciple name Liu Tsung excuse himself to make some preparation for the competition tomorrow, Elder Zhi Ruo turned around and looked at her beloved disciple for one more time. "Xiao Yu, how is your preparation going on?" the moment she called Gou Yu's much more familiar name, a hint of love belonged from a teacher to her student could be felt.

"Dear Master, Xiao Yu doesn't dare to forget master's advice in preparing most of the pills and read more scrolls to obtain more information. Currently, Xiao Yu could confidently read out or refined at least forty kinds of Pills, as well dare to say his understanding is most of the basis is within the upper ranks." Gou Yu politely answered his master's question.

"Good, if you are well prepared, then master could be at ease as well. Come over here and take a seat, Master will explain the challenges you will encounter when you entered the Thousand Herbal Garden." Elder Zhi Ruo started to speak about the real challenges after the competition to select the best 100 candidates is over.

"First of all, what you need to know, is the Entrance to the Thousand Herbal Garden is actually a specially summoned Spatial Realm, which is known as the Prosperity Realm. This Realm held the special attributes of [Heavenly Fertilization], a special condition that no matter what kind of resources that were brought into the realm, will be able to grow, planted and cultured within this realm."

"But this doesn't mean that the realm is totally safe and you can easily harvest whatever you could see there. Although the ingredients grow within the realm is similar to our own ingredients, but that's all the similarity between our Realm and the Prosperity Realm. The beast within this realm is known as Prosperity Tribe, they possess no limitation of growth within their body, but the only difference is, their appearance is more like a Wooden Elves kind, with a body similar to a tree-man and plenty of roots and vines growing across their body."

"other than the Prosperity Tribe, another one main threat within this Garden, is the Wooden Beast. Also holding none limitation over their growth, the Wooden Beast average strength is believed to be between Early Human Practitioner Realm to Late Human Practitioner Realm. You could easily spot them almost everywhere, and some of them who possess more intelligence compared to the others could become a threat no matter they are provoked or not."

"So, remember to not being too greedy within the Garden, and try your best to collect as many ingredients as you could, before the time limit of seven days in our Realm is over." Elder Zhi Ruo continues with her words. But the last sentence seems to be quite difficult to understand, so Gou Yu immediately asked for clarifications. "Master, Gou Yu couldn't understand the last sentence about seven days in our realm. Do you mean that the time within the Thousand Herbal Garden is different?"

"Yes. Within the Prosperity Realm, they have a total of 7 suns and seven moons, which means, one day of our realm is equivalent to seven days within the Prosperity Realm. The Spatial Gate will be opened once again after seven days, and with the energy summoned by the entrance token, you will be forced to exits the realm with whatever you managed to harvest." Elder Zhi Ruo answers. In her eyes, memories about her own experience within the Prosperity Realm, keep appearing before her eyes, as this regrets had been the Inner Demon which affects her cultivation for so long.

"Remember to run if you couldn't handle those Wooden Beast and also the Prosperity Tribe. If you managed to encounter some miraculous blessing during this seven days, appreciate it with your life, and always remember to be cautious, but be kind as well, because sometimes, whatever being from the Prosperity Realm you encountered, might have an intelligence of their own." Elder Zhi Ruo ends her word as she leans back on the chair she sits and closed her eyes while calming down her heart.

"Xiao Yu understands." Gou Yu speaks a simple sentence, and also sits down in a meditating position as he starts to cultivates and calm his heart before tomorrow competition starts.

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