The hammer within Tang Ming's grip shine beautifully with a bright white colour, as the inscriptions within started to activate. He was preparing to take a move as long he managed to see the opportunity, and currently, the opportunity finally arrives. Long Feng turn to Hu Rong in the middle of the fight instead of chasing Lin Fang and Liu Qi, with the impression of taking out one of their fighters before he was caught in between. But this opportunity is taken by Tang Ming instead, as the flying hammer came from afar and smash into Long Feng's chest before he could prepare to defend against it.
"That's it! Taste my Flying Star Astral Clap!" Tang Ming speaks as the hammer that smashed into Long Feng's chest slowly floating back to its owner's hand. In the same time, Tang Ming walked over to the spot slowly as he retrieves his hammer. "What do you think about this Second Grade Earth Spirit Weapon - Metal Element Flying Star Hammer? The inscriptions within enable me to convert my Essence Energy into Flying force, further enhancing its destructive power with the amount of time I charge." Tang Ming stands just beside Long Feng as he finished his words.
"Unfortunately, you will be dead before you could feel regret." Tang Ming held his hammer high up before he proceeds to swing it downward, with the intention of smashing Long Feng's head into bloody pulp. The instant before Long Feng's head and the hammer connected, a flying weapon came over to defend against Tang Ming's strike, and the weapon pressure is so strong, that even with the hammer acting as a shield from allowing the Flying Wheel to connect its strike on Tang Ming, he is still injured and forced to retreat for ten steps.
When Long Feng looked even clearly on the Flying Wheel, Long Feng noticed that this saviour of his is none other than Nan Jing Jing. "How dare you fight my husband four on one! I will let you have a look on hell before you four is dead without a complete body!" Nan Jing Jing calls her Qian Kun Soul Wheel back to her palm, as she stopped by Long Feng's side. "Husband, are you alright? Can you still fight?" Nan Jing Jing whispers beside his ear. "I'm alright. That Hammer is quite a good weapon, I never expect that this guy actually dare to launch a sneak attack on me after showing such a firm demeanour the first moment I see him." Long Feng criticize Tang Ming's personality without giving any face to him, and with Nan Jing Jing's help, he stands up after he pops in a Tiger Stripes Soul Pill.
"Wife, you and that Tang guy both using Flying Spirit Weapon as you fight, can you handle him while I handle the remaining three?" Long Feng pointed at Tang Ming, as he asks Nan Jing Jing to handle him personally. "Of course." Nan Jing Jing confidently agrees with this arrangement as she walks slowly towards Tang Ming. While for the two Cultivation Beast, they finally agree to stop fighting, as Long Feng's performance already obtains their approval that leaving their descendant on him would assure their lineage will remain in this world longer.
"You stupid Ant, only after you see how valiant is my master in fighting against that few guy you're willing to agree on handling your offspring to his hand." the Corpse Refining Tiger smack her paw on the Ant's head as she speaks. The Essence Fabricator Ant shakes its head a little before it starts to speaks. "My descendant is harder to raise, which is why I hesitate. Do you think that my little babies are easy to take care like your damn cubs?" the Essence Fabricator Ant replies. "Your child better don't learn your way of speaking, else they are gonna be dead before they even grow up." the two stopped fighting as they continue to look at the five Cultivators.
Without giving any space for Tang Ming to move freely, Nan Jing Jing controls the battlefield perfectly through her stable and tight formation control in this fight. As Long Feng stares at Nan Jing Jing's battle capability, even in his mind, he felt impressed with her mastery in this Qian Kun Formation Sutra, which he heard from Nan Jing Jing that this martial art she learned, belonged to a master strategist that utilized his whole life experience to create. It is also the most suitable art for those involved in the military to obtain 100% chances of victory, no matter what kind of opponent before them.
Hu Rong changed another spear since he failed to free his spear from the crystalline rock attached on the ground, while Lin Fang and Liu Qi gathered together to prepare for their next strike. Long Feng laughed as he looked at the three about ten steps away from him. "I guess fighting three with one sword is truly a little unreasonable, so I should change my weapon instead." Long Feng jokingly says as he keeps his Qian Kun Sword and with a swift movement, a bow appears in his hand as he already pulled the string and injected a part of his Essence Energy.
The injected energy quickly formed an arrow out from his grasp, as Long Feng aimed at Liu Qi. "Your mouth is the most irritating one, so I will take care of you first!" Long Feng comments as he releases the string, and shot the arrow over towards Liu Qi. The arrow quickly reaches the perimeters of Liu Qi's defensive range, as he swings his sabre to deflect the arrow.
But without personally facing the Triple Impact Jade Bow, how would Liu Qi understand the secret hidden within this weapon? Added with Long Feng's personalized weapon, the Needle Bomb Pill is attached on the arrowhead, the moment Liu Qi sword managed to make its contact with the arrow, the Three Needle Bomb Pill explodes from a blank range, as it pierces through Liu Qi's whole body and cause his upper body to his head to looked like a beehive.
"Big Brother Liu Qi! Damn kid, I will make sure to kill you!" Hu Rong couldn't stand against all this anymore, as he brandished his spear continuously towards Long Feng and force him to retreat backwards as Lin Fang prepares to move forward to fight him in a fist fight. Although they lost one companion, this doesn't affect their cooperation between each other, and the skills of this two actually compliment each other. With the close range fighting technique possessed by Lin Fang, he managed to keep pushing Long Feng from getting closer to Hu Rong, while forced to keep being in a defensive position as he needed to defend against Hu Rong's spear each time Lin Fang tried to push Long Feng into the worst situation.
Long Feng withdraws a single Pill once again and instead of tossing it to his target, Long Feng actually slap that Pill to dust over Lin Fang's body as he swings his sword over to deflect Hu Rong's spear once again. "pointless attack!" Lin Fang felt no pain or whatsoever when he received Long Feng's slap, and with both hand together, Lin Fang use a part of his Elemental Water and Elemental Wind Essence to give Long Feng a heavy blow.
"Water Turbulence Strong Fist!"
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The fist formed of two palm interlinked together smashed over to Long Feng's back, as Hu Rong happily looked at Long Feng and stop attacking with his spear anymore. Then the next thing happens totally shocked his eyes. "No! Brother Lin Fang!" Hu Rong finally noticed the differences of facial expression as he laughs and sees Lin Fang didn't share out his piece of happy smile.
The moment the Water Turbulence Strong Fist came, Long Feng doesn't even need to bother to defend against this attack as it was deemed to fail from the start. The only thing Long Feng needed to do is to give Lin Fang a deadly strike, and this is where Long Feng's Qian Kun Sword comes in. This is also the reason why Long Feng fight with his bare hand after he managed to defeat and kill Liu Qi and kept the bow. From initial impression, Long Feng actually kept his bow because the fact of both of them actually managed to get close to him and force him to withdraw his bow, but in Long Feng's mind, his intention is to kept them misunderstood the fact he had the Qian Kun Sword still within his hand, before he slaps the Element Dispersing Powder on Lin Fang's face and cause him to lost control on the Elemental Essence when he tried to give Long Feng a deadly blow.
Hu Rong immediately stab his spear over to Long Feng's waist as he notices the opening, but still, it was successfully evaded by Long Feng with a twist of his body. Long Feng turned around and swing his sword as hard as he could, to create a forceful impact on Hu Rong's spear, causing his hand to turn numb from the force. As his intention is successfully conducted in a beautiful way, Long Feng swing his sword along the handle and force Hu Rong to release his spear to protect his both hand from getting chopped off.
"I've noticed the differences of skills I had during the last time when I'm filled with the Abyss of Bloodlust, but as for now, I've mastered about a third of this skill's strength, so it is good enough to have you killed." Long Feng whispers as he put in some attention in performing his next sword strike. "Offensive Xuan Sword Art - Xuan Wu Sword Flash!"
In a blink of an eye, the head of Hu Rong is separated from its body, with a clean cut between the neck. Only from this look, even the two Cultivation Beast felt the ferocity of this human child, which compared to their similar more aggressive kinds. Even the Essence Fabricator Ant felt a slight afraid on what happened so far. In another side of the fight between Nan Jing Jing and Tang Ming, the two fought on an even ground, Although Tang Ming's strength is only at Middle Human Adept Realm. Seeing how the three lost their lives under Long Feng's hand, Tang Ming decided to not pursue this matter further as he throws the Ingredient Slips with the Essence Fabricator Ant's Harvested Ingredient within, and escape using his special tricks.
Finally, the fight is over, as Long Feng managed to obtain three pouches with estimated about 10,000 Upper-Rank Second Grade Cultivation Pellet. "Hmm, this three is quite rich as an Adept Realm Cultivator." Long Feng happily keeps the spoils of war as he grabbed the two spear and also the sabre belonged to Liu Qi. He then allows the Corpse Refining Tiger to refine the corpses as he walked over to the Essence Fabricator Ant. With the help of Hong Yue, the communication between the two is made, with the same condition like Hu Mi.
"Jing Jing, had you completed your part of ingredients?" Long Feng pays some attention to Nan Jing Jing as he knows that she would have her own way to solve such matters. His asking is just to indicates that he is paying some attention towards her as well. "I end up with four Ingredients too, only one left, but I will need you to help me with it." Nan Jing Jing looked at her husband. "Of course, what ingredient are you looking for?" Long Feng tried to check the type of ingredient Nan Jing Jing is looking.
"Blood Crow's Life Essence." Nan Jing Jing whispers the ingredient name to Long Feng, as he secretly smiles after Nan Jing Jing finished her words. "What is so funny, husband?" Nan Jing Jing couldn't help but to immediately notice her husband cheekiness after hearing what she says. Since he wishes to remain quiet and secretly laugh, Nan Jing Jing would give him no face at all, as a finger immediately twist his ear into an unbendable position. "Argh! Wife I'm sorry, please let go, I will tell you, I will!!" Long Feng painful expression immediately came out as Nan Jing Jing attack his ears.
"My wife, I actually intend to obtain the Blood Crow's Crimson Heart as my ingredients as well, even the piece of Ingredient Slip is with me currently." Long Feng explained the reason he laughs previously. After Nan Jing Jing accepted his explanations, the two starts to move along their way, and after asking for a few direction in exchange to help some disciples obtain the Harvested Ingredients they need, Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing finally completed their Secondary Basic Examination, as they exit the Eight Diagram Beast Harvesting Formation, Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing noticed that they aren't the first few to complete their examination, but placed on the position between 130 and 131 respectively. It is lucky this round of examination will be depending on the final examination and its result will be reflected from the Ingredients Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing managed to bring out from the formation.
And also, it seems like they aren't the only one to come out along with the beast together with them. Among the 129 disciples before them, 11 of them came out with two Cultivation Beast, while 31 of the came out with one Cultivation Beast. But this won't count as a winning point because at the end of the day, harvesting the Ingredient before or after they exit the formation, will not affect the quality of the ingredient in the first place. The most important thing regarding harvesting their special ingredients is how they refine it. This is also why Nan Jing Jing confidently came out with no Cultivation Beast with her, only ingredients in their Fine Grade.
After waiting for a total of 5 hours exactly, the formation is closed, with all the disciples within is being sent out directly from the arena. "I think even the Pill Hall doesn't wish to allow the public and other spectators to noticed that there will be some death within the Secondary Examination." Nan Jing Jing comments, but Long Feng did not stop her from speaking such comment. After all, everyone knows that in any competition, losing a life is a norm in their lives. But by secretly protecting the number of casualties involved within, the Pill Hall could carry themselves in a more presentable way while escaped from being judged to be causing too many lives is lost.
"The top 200 participating disciples had been finalized, immediately proceeds toward the Final Basic Examination!" Elder Yang gave out the order to all the participants to quickly heads toward the third section within the Oval Ground. The moments all the participants are already standby on their respective Pill Concocting Table and prepare for the next question.
Elder Hun hovers in the sky above the 200 remaining participants, as he started to speak. "This third examination is up to your own luck. From all the ingredients you received within the second stage, you will be required to refine a Pill with the five ingredients you've obtained. Of course, using your own ingredients that you have in your own pouch is allowed, and after all, this is a matter of luck. If you are not well prepared, even you have a mountain of ingredients, you will still be failed if your five main ingredients do not harmonized with each other."
"It's a fail if you failed to include all five ingredients within your Pill, It's a fail of you can't successfully refine the Pill and It's a fail of you unable to refine an edible Pill with Significant boost!" this is your three major part needed to be paid attention to! If you understand, you may start now!" Elder Hun gave the order to starts immediately, as he makes himself sits on the air as if there is an invisible chair in the air.
"Corpse Refining Tiger, Essence Fabricator Ant, I will need you both, right now." Long Feng stare at the two Cultivation Beast as he asked for their lives. The moment the two beasts heard this request, they understand that their time had already arrived. The next thing happens, is where the Essence Fabricator Ant used all its remaining energy to refine its eggs, while the Corpse Refining Tiger is starting to give birth to its baby cubs.
"Brother Zhan, this kid actually managed to obtain the Cultivation Beast's approval to put their descendant's future on him. Do you think that he would have the potential to obtain the approval from our Hall's Holy treasure as well?" Elder Fen whispers to Elder Zhan as he saw such incident happened only on Long Feng's position. "We might consider this options, but let us see first. He is nothing but a sprout at the moment." Elder Zhan look carefully at Long Feng as he comments.