"This two brothers, may this junior intercept for a second?" Long Feng walk slowly towards the two disciples that being very cautious against the beast. "What do you want?" one of the turned around and ask. As the Corpse Refining Tiger sees that the guard become lesser, it began to refine the corpse of a Cultivation Beast that just got "Harvested". Even its Refining procedures managed to made Long Feng felt impressed with it because the gigantic elephant beast is easily refined into a pile of bones as it over.
"This two senior, I'm in need of the two ingredients possess by this Corpse Refining Tiger, I hope in exchange for some other ingredients slips, this two brothers could give this Cultivation Beast to this junior." Long Feng maintain his politeness as he speaks. "That's... What do you think, brother Ming?" the younger between the two looked at the one called brother Ming as he considers his options. "I think this won't be a problem. We are actually getting held by this beast anyway." the one called Ming doesn't have any intention to reject Long Feng's offer either, as Long Feng gave four pieces of Ingredient Slips to both of them, keeping another four with him secretly.
"Alright, We will be going now. Young brother, be careful with this beast. Even the two of us having a hard time in controlling it." the one called Ming gave Long Feng a few word of advice as they walked away from the spot. Turning around and facing the beast, Long Feng swing his sword for a few times and charge towards the Corpse Refining Tiger without any changes in his expression. "To catch a beast unprepared, either you scare it off before chasing, or to make it less cautious before attacking. Since you already managed to obtain two corpses from the ground, your ingredients should be quite refined by now." Long Feng stops before he reaches the tiger's range of attack, and with a push on his both legs, Long Feng made an escape from the spot.
"Roar!" the Corpse Refining Tiger angrily gave Long Feng a chase because of such provoking actions. The Corpse Refining Tiger already prepared to charge on Long Feng as it gets close in the first place, but since the action is left undone, it's tightening muscle end up burning its energy away only to be wasted. Hence, it gave Long Feng a chase as if felt unsafe if it remains under Long Feng's provoking action for any longer.
But no matter how cautious is the Corpse Refining Tiger, a Cultivation Beast is still a beast after all, as it failed to notice Long Feng's Sealing Pill that was tossed towards the ground as its charge. A sphere appears almost instantly, as the tiger failed to stop, and it gave the sphere a strong impact through with its head. Feeling dizzy from such impact, the Corpse Refining Tiger howls loudly before it struggles by clawing the sphere relentlessly.
With the behavior like a cat with its tail stepped on, the claw attack furiously strikes the Sealing Sphere until the internal side of the sphere appears to be totally scratched, with no surface left alone. Since the Corpse Refining Tiger forte is not of its strength but on its speed, being lockdown within this sphere seriously gave it a trauma of being pushed into a stage without any chances to retaliate.
"This fella is actually quite a good Beast-Companion if it's tamed... Unfortunately, the essential ingredients required its heart, so the life of this one needed to be taken away as well..." Long Feng hesitates for a moment, but to pass the examination requirement, Long Feng has no choice but strengthen his resolution, as he walks toward the Corpse Refining Tiger.
As if the heavens felt Long Feng's regret, and as if the Corpse Refining Tiger felt his hesitations, it actually lied down on the ground, with both front paws facing upwards. As the Corpse Refining Tiger lied on the ground, a bulge could be noticed within its lower body, in a quite mysterious way. "This position is... Agreement to being a slave-contracted beast!" Long Feng remembered this exact position, shown by Hong Yue previously as well! He rushed over to the side of this beast and with a flick of a finger, destroying the sphere to reveals the tired and weak Corpse Refining Tiger.
"Hong Yue, help me in this matter." Long Feng sent a Mind-Link with Hong Yue to increase the possibility of communication. The moment Hong Yue appears within the eyes of Long Feng, the Corpse Refining Tiger became even more afraid, as its body shivers when it saw the visual of the Silver-Scales Wyvern Emperor within Long Feng's eyes.
"I'm Hong Yue, you?" Hong Yue borrows Long Feng's body as he speaks. "I'm Hu Mi. Please ask your master to give me a chance." unexpectedly, the Corpse Refining Tiger actually could communicate normally with Hong Yue. "Hu Mi, My master wished to know that why are you still wished to live? He has no choice but to take your life because of the Heart and the Blood within you. You should know yourself the best, that the only two most precious item within your body, will need your life taken away to be properly refined." Hong Yue speaks honestly, as he knows that even himself if being caught and refined for the Harvested Ingredients, will result in him being dead.
"Hu Mi knows, but Hu Mi don't wish to live for too long, only until Hu Mi gave birth." the Corpse Refining Tiger replied. "Master, the tiger is pregnant!" Hong Yue quickly sent the news to Long Feng. "What? Is she pregnant? How could this be possible?" Long Feng is shocked. And the next thing he does is to remove his weapon from the Corpse Refining Tiger's neck. Seeing such reaction from Long Feng, its stands up on four, and use its head to rub against Long Feng's chin and neck.
"Hu Mi, what do you intend after giving birth?" Hong Yue continues. "I will give myself to master for him to refine my body when he needs it. As long you could promise me that my lineage could be continued." Hu Mi answers. Hong Yue immediately believes her words, due to himself is also a Cultivation Beast, he understood the importance of dying for the next generation so they could continue their lineage. This tradition is already etched within their bloodline, and no matter what, it would not be forgotten.
"Master... What do you think?" Hong Yue is speechless as well, unable to continue to question the Corpse Refining Tiger. "Hong Yue, ask Hu Mi how long will she need to properly give birth." Long Feng asked. "Hu Mi, you heard my master. How long and by how could you give birth?" Hong Yue translates the words. "As long I could refine another ten corpses, I will have enough energy to give birth to at least two young Cubs." the Corpse Refining Tiger explains.
"If that's the case, we should hurry." Long Feng stands and continues to search around along with the Corpse Refining Tiger by his side. The two walks for almost for another hour, only to managed to found two corpses belonged to some Cultivation Beast. After the refining process is completed, Long Feng continues as he found a group of four Disciples. Two of them is heavily injured, while another two unable to holds their anger because everyone had their ingredient slips forcefully taken.
"These few brothers, what cause you to be so angry?" Long Feng approached the four and initiate a conversation. "We are all from the Xuan Wu Jade City, just now, a group of disciples from Cloudy Jade City came over and without any good words, all of them charge over to grab all our Ingredient Slips and also our harvested Ingredients. Now all of us is emptied, we are deemed to be fail for sure!" the one that still looked energetic regretfully speaks about what just happened.
"If that's the care, this four brother should leave this spot, because the longer you stay here, the more it became dangerous. Although a Cultivation Beast might be not a threat to you all if you met with another group of disciples and being hunted without even a single Slips on your body, what will they do to you four?" Long Feng gave them an example. As they heard the simple hypothesis Long Feng just speaks, their face appears to have a hint of fear, as they quickly stand up cautiously and thanked Long Feng for his wise advice. "Younger Brother, thank you for your advice, the four of us will quickly get out from this place. I guess this year is not our best one."
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Long Feng continued to walks around, and as he heard a few faint footsteps getting closer to him, and also the Corpse Refining Tiger's startled reaction, Long Feng immediately knows that there are some aggressive disciples that heading over to him with everything else excerpts good intention. "Hahaha! Finally, I found somebody with quite a good treasure along with his side!" the one that speaks from far away possess the appearance of a perverted look, bald head, and eagle sharp eyes, while one more man beside him have the resemblance of a woman, except his shoulder is much broader.
"Yu Peng, quickly help me and handle this guy. The way the Corpse Refining Tiger is following him, I'm sure he has the two ingredient slips within his hand!" this person with a bald head, named Wen Ping, urges his companion to quickly take his action as well to subjugate Long Feng and controls the ingredient he has. "This kid is quite unlucky to meet with both of us, the Peng Ping Team." Yu Peng shakes his head as he slowly withdraws a bow and wields it with both hands.
"Shush!" although the distance is quite far between Long Feng and the two, the arrow launched by Yu Peng, is filled with strong energy. The moment Long Feng noticed a flying arrow heading towards him, he chooses to evade it instead of forcefully blocking as a move of caution. But no matter how cautious he was, Long Feng couldn't imagine that the arrow that reached by his side, actually formed by a number of black beaded pellets. "Hahaha, this kid is dead for sure! Explodes, my Metallic Blitz Bullets!" the moment Yu Peng shouts, the arrowhead formed with those Metallic Blitz Bullet immediately scattered as the exploding strength hidden within is ignited.
"Tik Tik Tik Tik!" Long Feng remain unscathed, along with the Corpse Refining Tiger by his side. Since the usage of the Sealing Pill could be used in such way, Long Feng could temporary count himself to possess a good shield as protection. But the attacker doesn't think in such way, as Wen Ping charge over to Long Feng's spot and throw a strong punch directly towards the Sealing Sphere. "What is so strong about this shield anyway? I will destroy it with three, no, two Punch!"
"Bamm!" the first hit managed to cause the whole Sealing Sphere to appears to have cracks all over. And the moment he tried to launch his second punches, Long Feng prepared his Qian Kun Sword along with two Fire Lizard Pills within his hand. "Master! Hu Mi will help you for a little!" Hong Yue appeared all of sudden within Long Feng's mind and gave Long Feng a notice. "Mountain Peak Flattener!" the second punch from Wen Ping came and directly destroys the Sealing Sphere.
But the Corpse Refining Tiger is not a weak opponent either, as the Death Element energy launched from her mouth like a ray of a laser beam. "A Force Death Stage foundation!" Long Feng noticed the deadly energy from the ray of a laser beam as it made a contact with Wen Ping. "Corpse Sacrificial Death Beam!" the Corpse Refining Tiger howls as the beam continues to push Wen Ping away.
Looking at how deadly is the beam attack, even Long Feng felt a relief for being able to subdue this tiger when it still lacks corpses death essence. Seeing how ruthless is this two disciples, Long Feng has no other choice but to fight properly, with the intention to protect himself. Since now he needs to protect the Corpse Refining Tiger as well, Long Feng decides that he will have to become more aggressive, and not too defensive.
"I guess there is no choice." Long Feng withdraw a total of five Fire Lizard Pills into his hand, with two more Frozen Yin Mist Pill attached on his Qian Kun Sword. With a jerk of strength from his both leg, Long Feng charge towards Yu Peng like an arrow just being released, and his left hand slowly release the Fire Lizard Pill from behind. "Brat! You are not going anywhere! Wen Ping knows that people like Long Feng could be dangerous, and chase him from behind to make sure he never managed to get close to Yu Peng who act as the support among the two.
But before he could get close to Long Feng, two explosions happened before him and after him, totally blocking him from both sides. He screams in anger because being blocked in between without a way to continue to move, since the Fire Lizard Pill is the representative of Fire Elemental, his Wood and Metal Elemental will be greatly affected if he charges blindly into the fire geyser. "Yu Peng, careful with this fella!" Wen Ping shouts, but the only thing he could hear is some blowing winds.
While Yu Peng in the end of another side, actually shouts loudly as well, but unfortunately, both couldn't manage to hear anything their partner says. Because instead of continuing to charge closer to Yu Peng, Long Feng actually ignite the two Frozen Yin Mist to disrupt Yu Peng's sight and also his efficiency in continues to fire his Metallic Blitz Bullet. "I know that you will need a significant amount of Yang Energy to ignite this two stage attack. With the Frozen Yin Mist in between us, your arrow will lose its Yang Energy control when it flew past the mist, and even if it reached me, the explosion will hardly happen, unless you coat it with even more Yang Energy! But if you seriously did it, you will be out of Energy sooner than I do!" Long Feng considers his option, because of his initial motive, is to trapped both before he aims for his actual target, Wen Ping!
"Poosh!"Wen Ping protects himself with the Wood and Metal Element as he escapes from the Fire Geyser caused by the Fire Lizard Pill, his body is burning red, but since he has Metal Element within his body, Injuries is hardly seen except some burns on some parts of his body. "Damn brat, he actually uses such a deadly Pill in fights." Wen Ping shakes his head few times to calm himself down before he continues to move, but that few shakes, is what it takes to have Long Feng appears before him and use the piece of Clearness Jade Gemstone as a plate to smack Wen Ping's face.
Two front teeth fall from his mouth as Wen Ping ugly expression is seen. "Grass Mud Horse!"* Wen Ping curse as he randomly swings his fist around, in case Long Feng continues to attack him. What the hell is that hard stone, is that a weapon?" Wen Ping calms himself as he stopped swinging his fist. As he looks in front of him, only a cloud of mist is blocking his view towards Yu Peng, and with a heart full of worries, he makes his first steps over to Yu Peng's direction.
"Where are you going?" Long Feng's Clearness Jade Gemstone comes to strike him once again, this time on top of his head. With his temple being knocked hard, Wen Ping immediately seeing stars within his sight, almost fainting from all this ruthless and unimaginable blows. He lifts up his hand in a shape of a palm, and tried to ask for a time out, but before the words could come out from his lips, Long Feng already gave him a third smack on his face once again, and had this disciple lying on the ground with a flat face, unconscious.
That same moment, Yu Peng appears from within the Frozen Yin Mist. From this view, one easily sees that he was afraid to randomly fire his arrows toward enemies he couldn't see, this he decided to protect himself with his Yang Energy and charge through the mist. But as he gets out from the blinding mist, his first sight, is not a delightful one, because Wen Ping is lying on the ground, unknown to him he is dead or still alive.
"Wen Ping! Damn brat, I will kill you even if the Hall kicks me out later!" he pulled his bow as hard as he could, and release the strong arrow towards where Long Feng stands. "Sealing Pill!" Long Feng use the same trick once again, and defense against the arrow once again. This time, no explosions could be seen after the arrow is stuck on the Sealing Sphere, but instead, a hint of Lightning Element could be felt.
"Bzzzt!" the sphere cracks and disintegrates without any notice, and fallen together with the arrow. "What is the shield is used for if a simple Lightning Shock could destroy it?" Yu Peng happily announce the might of his arrows as he strings another arrow on his bow. "You better prepare to have either of your limbs gone with this shot! Kill him, my Second Human Grade Spirit Weapon - Triple Impact Jade Bow!"
The moment Yu Peng shouts, a third kind of arrow charge towards Long Feng with a deafening screech along its path, as Long Feng swing his sword to prepare the Defensive Wu Sword Art - Sword Ball Form. But unexpectedly, the arrow is even more different than the previous two, as it destroyed Long Feng's Sword Ball Form in the initial impact and released a surge of Lightning Field to trap Long Feng within the circle.
"Hahaha! Do you think it is this easy to resist the [Thunder Trapping Ground] created from my Triple Impact Jade Bow? You are now trapped, let your daddy teach you a lesson to not mess with those from Jade Ginseng City!" Yu Peng rushed towards where Long Feng is hold up and continuously fires his first type arrow, the Metallic Blitz Bullet arrow around Long Feng.
"Hmm... Seems like this guy is quite a bother. But nevertheless, I solved the problem from the energetic guy that lying over there." Long Feng grab three Pills within his hand as he prepared to crush it. "Die!" Yu Peng loudly shouts as he gave out his position to the others. But what happened next, is totally out of his imagination. The moment he shouts and retract his [Thunder Trapping Ground, all the Metallic Blitz Bullet explodes, creating a scattershot field full of bullet strikes. This is his most confident and deadly skills utilizing the might of Pill Master and his Second Human Grade Spirit Weapon.
But not everything within this world usually goes along with a wish, as Yu Peng muttered the word "Impossible!" with a shocking expression.