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Book 1 Chapter 68 - Further Uncovering the Tang Clan's Secret.

Book 1 Chapter 68 - Further Uncovering the Tang Clan's Secret.

"Impossible!" Yu Peng is shocked with what happens before his eyes. His most Deadly strikes, contained all the strong points from the effect of his Triple Impact Jade Bow never failed to kill any opponent before from the first day he possesses this weapon. Purchasing it from an old man in Jade Ginseng City, this bow is Yu Peng's first Spirit Weapon, as well the motivations for him to start mastering the art of using the bow as his chosen weapons.

But today, no matter how hard he tried, he still failed to kill this Pill Master before him. When all the dust from the deadly strikes dispersed, what appears before his eyes, is a Crystalline Body Form of Long Feng and also the Corpse Refining Tiger, with an unaccountable number of bullets all over the whole Crystalline Body. A slight movement could be noticed from the finger of the Crystallized Long Feng as the crystals covering his right palm is destroyed by internal pressure.

With the whole palm regain its freedom, a surge of Essence Energy, especially unique to Long Feng alone is used to create a sound from flicking his finger. Accompanied by the sound, the crystal enveloping Long Feng and the Corpse Refining Tiger shatters without resistance, and allowing Long Feng to make his first move since Yu Peng is already stunned with what happens before his eyes. Disbelief with such disappointment, Yu Peng lost his will to continue fighting, as Long Feng's hand grabbed the four Ingredient Slips from him before he pushes Yu Peng away.

The bow is loose from his grip as well, ending up being taken by Long Feng as his winning rewards. Long Feng checked the contents within the four slips, and chose one, dropping three back on the ground before he walked over to the fainted Wen Ping. Long Feng put his hand into his chest area, grabbed three Ingredient Slips to have a look before he returned all three to him and left the two without any words.

"Why are you not killing me?" Yu Peng couldn't hold it in his heart anymore as he loudly asked the questions. Long Feng turned around as he looked at Yu Peng and says, "At the end of the day, we are still counted as fellow disciples from the five Bronze Pill Hall Branches. We might need to walk on the dead bodies of our fellow disciples to succeed, but In my opinion, Brother Yu Peng, you are nowhere as ruthless as how you behave, or else, you wouldn't consider the possibility of miss fire when your sight is disrupted by the Frozen Yin Mist."

"I will only kill those who are carrying the intention to kill me, not those that challenge me in an equal ground. You are worth my respect, and of course, I await your challenge in the future." Long Feng finished his words as he felt that he shouldn't be his time any longer within this spot. "I will enter the top 100 disciples for sure, and by that time, you better be careful when we are within the Thousand Herbal Garden!" Yu Peng loudly announce his resolution, and in return, Long Feng quietly give him a reply as he walks further away. "I'm looking forward to it."

[Blood Crow's Crimson Heart]

Long Feng looked at this specific ingredients as he considered the option he had for the remaining two ingredients. After considering for a plenty of options, Long Feng still yet to be able to obtain a choice of refining a specific Pill, especially due to the current two ingredient he already roughly possessed with the remaining three unknown to himself, Long Feng could only sigh helplessly as he continues to scan his surrounding and what could possibly come before him.

"Roar!" a huge beast is seen ravaging a corpse belonged to a disciple. From the way it looks, it seems like this disciple overestimates his capability, and failed to even keep his life safe from falling into such condition. "That beast seems to be pretty strong as well, I wonder what kind of Cultivation Beast is that. Long Feng interest started to picking up as he could see that the closer he went to the beast, the more bloodied the ground along with his path. Within his mind, a temporary hypothesis came out, either the beast is too strong, or before they started, there is a bloodbath over here in order to gain control of this beast's ingredient.

Long Feng finally managed to get out from the rocky path blocking the vision before him, and as he exits from the coverage area, Long Feng's first sight instantly bring him into a total awe. "This is the Essence Fabricator Ant! This guy here is a totally rare ingredient!" Long Feng couldn't control his happiness within his heart. With the appearance of this Cultivation Beast before him, all his worries will be erased and filled with happiness instead. Within this whole Eight Diagram Beast Harvesting Formation, perhaps this beast is one of the rarest Cultivation Beast he could dream about meeting.

"I wouldn't dare to imagine that the Silver Hall actually invest so much in this examination. But before this, I need to obtain the Ingredient Slips related to this beast before I could start harvesting it." Long Feng immediately search around the corpses lying throughout the ground, while the Corpse Refining Tiger busy refining all the corpses she could to ensure the giving birth process proceed smoothly. With the amount of remaining corpses numbers around 15, Long Feng finally able to obtain one of the Slips related to the Essence Fabricator Ant.

"[Fabricator Organ], a Harvested Ingredient that would be required to kill this beast before he could harvest it. The ingredient needs to be totally free from any leftover internal fluid from the Essence Fabricator Ant, because as the organ is harvested from the body, it will slowly constrict into a lump of dried dates, because of the lack of nutrients. Since Long Feng only has one of the Ingredients within his hand, he needed to obtain one more, or else this plan of his will not go according to his arrangement.

"Help me!" a loud voice could be heard from where the fighting continues. From the moment Long Feng starts to enter this area, the voice from the fight already started to go softer, almost an indication of the fight is going to end soon. But what Long Feng couldn't imagine that even with so many cultivators are fighting against this single ant, they are actually in a disadvantaged position.

"This brother, please save me, I will give you all the remaining Ingredient Slips I have in hand." the rugged man with almost a whole piece of flesh was bitten off from his shoulder is crying as he runs over to Long Feng. "Stand right there. Tell me what happened before this bloodbath happened." Long Feng pointed his sword over to this man who is roughly ten steps away from him, as he asked a question.

"This brother, please. I will tell you everything you want but I don't want to die. I am happened to be lucky that one of the huge rock falls toward the Essence Fabricator Ant's back leg, else I will be dead as well with the others." he cried even heavier as he thinks about what happened from where he came. "This is the Ingredient Slips related to the Essence Fabricator Ant, you may have it, just save my life please." the disciple withdraw a piece of paper from his robe as he shows to Long Feng.

"Leave it there, and get lost from this place. If I saw you again, I will make sure to kill you." Long Feng keep his sword away as he turned around, calling that disciple to leave the piece of Ingredient Slip and get lost. "This brother, don't you want to make sure the ingredients before I leave it on the ground?" he could help but asked after noticing Long Feng's eccentric behaviour.

"As I said, leave it and go, or else, I will kill you before the Ant comes." Long Feng stares at the disciple with a killing intent, causing him to felt shivers as he saw how heavy is Long Feng's ruthlessness Killing Intent. "How do you know about it?" he stopped crying as he asked. The piece of Ingredient Slip returns to his robe pocket as he withdraws his weapon from his waist belt.

"As a person who was chased by the Essence Fabricator Ant, your shoes are slightly too clean from any blood and dirt. If I'm not wrong, the Essence Fabricator Ant should be still occupied with your buddy deeper from here, while you behave like a person in need of help and kill them off when chances came. From the number of the body over here, I think you at least killed twenty of them in total, while the others may be dead from the attack of Cultivation Beast." Long Feng answers his question. And then, he added a little more.

"That piece of paper has some deadly poison smeared on it, and will quickly react as it made contact with people who wish to covet it, am I correct? You are quite the ruthless one instead. Which branch are you from?" Long Feng despise such character, who actually intended to kill off the other disciples from continue to participate in this competition.

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"Heh, even if you know, It won't be so easy to dispose of the five of us anyway. Listen carefully, we are from the Clear Jade City branch, and all of us is lead and taught by Elder Tang Wen himself." the disciple in front of Long Feng says. As he heard this word, Long Feng's hearts run so fast, but he managed to keep himself unaffected by the words. He realized that there are some hidden motives behind all this, and decided to probe deeper into this matter.

"So, where is this Elder Tang Wen now? Maybe I will go and meet him when the competition is over." Long Feng confidently speaks as he slowly withdraws his sword and walked over towards the disciple step by step. "Hahaha, Elder Tang Wen is one of the Fifteen Eldest Master, and the oldest among all of them. Of course, he will be in the Tang Clan to preparing the weapon and medicine for the juniors to grow stronger." this disciple discloses such matter as he already considers Long Feng as a dead person.

"Sigh... I guess that's where I could find master later." Long Feng take a long breath, as he gets close to three steps before the disciple. "If you know what is good for you, leave all your thing included that Corpse Refining Tiger, maybe this brother will give you a quick dea....zzz" the disciple continue his words for a moment, before without any notice, his head was separated from the body as it falls to the floor before he finished his words.

"You might don't know who I am, but you shouldn't ruin my master's name. This is what you get for mentioning such thing in front of Elder Tang Wen's only disciple, Long Feng." he finished his word, as the head belongs to the disciple appears in its both eyes opened wide condition. Soon, the blood sprayed from the neck wound, as it baths Long Feng into bloodied red colour. Long Feng searched his body for anything suspicious, just to notice that the piece of Ingredient Slips is actually an item of something else, while within his body, except some medicinal herbs and ingredients, only one token is quite suspicious to Long Feng, with a word "Tang Clan" etched within.

"Does this means, this Tang Clan issue already started to infiltrate the Pill Hall's progression? There must be some connection with Master's disappearance. I need to slowly get into this matter, I wonder will master safe from being involved in all these conspiracy matters. But for now, I need to quickly go over there to get that Essence Fabricator Ant before they do, and complete this secondary examination!" Long Feng consider much more this time compared to himself a long time ago. But since he could only get more information regarding this matter as he probes deeper, Long Feng worries not but to quickly push himself to complete this Secondary Basic Examination.

Long Feng pass another rocky area just to meet with four more guys trying to subdue the weakened Essence Fabricator Ant. From some distance away, Long Feng already could sense that among the four, two of them is in their Late Human Adept Realm, while another two is at the Middle Human Adept Realm, compared to the Essence Fabricator Ant that as strong as a Middle Earth Adept Realm. With such an opponent, unless the Four's cooperation is extremely good, achieving a victory will still be difficult.

"Brother Tang Ming, why don't you call that Han Xian comes back from his acting?" another one among the four comments. "Stupid Hu Rong, shut your mouth and pay attention in your fight if Han Xian steps away from his position and start to allows other disciples to come over, that means that this Ingredient will be taken by somebody else. The [Fabricated Essence Tablet] produced by this thing is extremely precious, even if we failed to pass the exam, we have to bring this back to the Tang Clan." another guy, name Liu Qi speaks.

"I will call that Han Xian back since this Essence Fabricator Ant almost has done refining the Tablet anyway." the person called Tang Ming withdraw a token in his waist belt and starts to inject some essence energy into the token. The moment he does what he did, Tang Ming actually had a shock in his eyes and quickly turn around towards where Long Feng is standing. "Something happened, quickly get this issue over with it!" Tang Ming gave out the order as he stays on guard on where Long Feng is located.

Long Feng slowly steps out from the shadow between the rocks as he holds the sword, on one hand, Han Xian's head on another. "I heard something about you all are disciples under Elder Tang Wen, I wonder where is him now?" Long Feng speaks as he gets closer to the four of them. Seeing the current condition is just right for it to escape, the Essence Fabricator Ant quickly stands on its six limbs as it tried to run away opposite from where Long Feng is standing.

"Roar!" the Corpse Refining Tiger that managed to refined almost twenty corpses in total, finally regain its full strength at Middle Earth Adept Realm, decided to stop the Essence Fabricator Ant from getting away. "Shit tiger, get lost from grandfather's way!" the Ant come out with its special kind of frequency to speaks with the tiger. "You ain't getting anywhere. My master intends to refine you and obtained both Harvested Ingredients from you. You should either choose to continue your offspring by giving it to master before he refines you, or choose to leave nothing but regrets." the tiger continues, carrying the words of Long Feng being the most important master of her along on her mouth as she speaks.

"Hahaha, what a funny word, a proud Corpse Refining Tiger actually willingly be enslaved by a mere human, I wonder if your ancestor, those YinYang Refining Heaven Tiger and Tigress will felt disgraced by your today's action!" the Ant reply in a harsh way. "Humph! If you end up as a dead Ant with all the precious ingredients within you is taken away, your ancestor will end up vomiting blood from seeing how idiot are you, little Essence Fabricator Ant that yet to get sufficient bloodline to evolve into the Essence Assimilator Ant!" the tiger replied back in a similar harsh tone.

The situation quickly becomes two side battle, one is between Long Feng with the four from Tang Family, while another is between the two Cultivation Beast. "This brother, you are quite a thing to kill our brother Han Xian and even more, dare to bring his head to meet the four of us. Even if you're a Late Human Adept Realm Cultivator, the four of us not necessarily lose to you when we fight four against one." Tang Ming is the one to start talking, bearing some of the prideful attitudes as he speaks.

"Yes, Although Han Xian is weaker than us, no matter what, he is still one of the family members of the four protectors of the Tang Clan. Even dead, we will fight to avenge our dead brothers' life!" Liu Qi speaks. The moment Long Feng look clearly on him, he notices some resemblance between him with Liu Tsung and Liu Ming. Couldn't help with the curiosity, he asked. "What is your relationship with Liu Tsung and Liu Ming?"

"Hahaha, you already met with my both Older Cousin Brother? I wonder why they still allow you to be still alive when they could have the capability to kill you even before you notice. Anyway, the three of us should be enough to kill this guy, Brother Tang Ming, you should rest and regain some Essence Energy first, the Essence Fabricator Ant might be weak, but it still poses a threat until we managed to kill it and harvest the Fabricated Essence Tablet." Liu Qi speaks as Hu Rong and another one of them called Lin Fang walked over to face Long Feng.

"Let me guess, Han, Hu, Liu, and Lin family, that's the four protectors of the Tang Clan?" Long Feng questioned. "Which means, if I continue to probe among this few families, most probably I will manage to obtain the intel regarding my master's current situation." Long Feng finished his words as he walked towards the three. Confident with their strength, the three protectors of the Tang Clan Members brandished their weapons as they charge towards Long Feng without any exchange of words.

"Since you chose to remain silent, I will need to try harder to crack open your tightly closed shell!" Long Feng toss a Limb Prisoning Concoction towards the Hu Rong, the one with a spear before he launches the Offensive Xuan Sword Art towards the other two. Their first clash starts with Liu Qi and Lin Fang is hold up on defending themselves from the aggressive sword strike, while Hu Rong is ending up being burdened with the hardening Crystalline that forms on the head of his spear.

"Roar!" Hu Rong screams as he swings his spear like a mace because of the crystalline, and forced Long Feng to bend down to evade this sudden attack. With his sword dance is disrupted, Liu Qi and Lin Fang immediately catch up and rain their attacks toward Long Feng, forcing him to defend against such frequent attack and exhaust his stamina.

"Get Lost!" Long Feng toss three Fire Lizard Pill towards the three and forced them to back off from cornering him, but this trick only works as a disruption for a mere three seconds. The three toss their respective Battle Concoction called [Frozen Mantis Pellet] that works miraculously effective to cancel the Fire Lizard Pill's burning properties, and allows them to continue their attacks.

"Deadly Yuan Strike!"

"Massive Undulation Yang Fist!"

"Human Killer Spear!"

Three grand technique immediately appears before Long Feng, with the full intent to take his life. But giving up without a fight is not Long Feng style, as he tosses two Sealing Pill far away from his distance as the Sealing Sphere appears without covering Long Feng within. "Heh! Three against one, and yet unable to notice something different around you?" Long Feng escaped as he throws the third Sealing Pill towards the three of them. "What trick is this kid playing?" Hu Rong, being the most short tempered one muttered the few words as his attack is disrupted by the final Sealing Pill tossed by Long Feng.

"There is nothing at all, we had been tricked by this guy!" Lin Fang scan around them and notice no differences at the spot they are currently, and with two people getting angrier from being fooled, they forcefully destroy all three sphere before continues to chase after Long Feng. But that moment, out of sudden, Long Feng actually attacked then again with the Offensive Xuan Sword Art, forcing them to have a short moment of panic from that sudden change.

"Kid, you think you can continue to fool us around like this?" Hu Rong angrily sweeps his spear and tried to overcome Long Feng's vicious attack with the advantages of longer reach, but notice one thing again! "Damn kid! He actually seals my spear again with that ridiculous strong concoction!" Hu Rong angrily shouts as his initial plan is totally thwarted by Long Feng. Looking from behind, Tang Ming grabbed his hammer tight, preparing to attack them when the opening appears.

Long Feng sword art push the other two to retreat without a match, while Hu Rong fails to move even a single step further because he is still struggling to free his spear from the ground. As Long Feng charge over to Hu Rong when he finally noticed the opportunity, Long Feng failed to notice that the much more experience Tang Ming is already stalking the two, intend to become the Oriole between the Cicada's fight!