“Did they speak?” Wu Feng asked as he looked at Guard Wang. The Evil cultivators they had caught last night were being interrogated, with some special method.

Lu Shimming too looked at Guard Wang in anticipation. He had just returned from Monastery when he was immediately summoned here.

“They are not directly linked to the incident, but it seems some Evil Cultivator organization is behind it. A few days back, most of the Evil Cultivators had been called to participate on the orders of someone high up in the organization.” Guard Wang informed before further continuing, “It seems their purpose was to collect as much blood as they could.”

“Blood?” Wu Feng frowned. “Are they planning to perform some kind of Ritual?”

“But isn’t the amount too much?” Lu Shimming asked in confusion. What kind of ritual would require so much blood?

“That's the worrying part..” Wu Feng muttered under his breath, his expression heavy.

In the end, they decided to scour the city for the possible hideout of the Evil organization, while at the same time informing the higher up regarding the situation.

…

“Are you sure we're gonna find anything like this?” Lu Shimming looked at Guard Wang, as the two of them went all around the city, a bit aimlessly if he had to say.

“If they have gathered so much blood, there should be a bloody and resentful aura near the place where it is. We just need to get to it. That's why we are going all around..” Guard Wang explained. Unlike his previous attitude, he seemed to have toned down a lot.

‘If they dare to store in the middle of the city, I doubt they haven’t thought about it already.’ Lu Shimming shook his head, he was doubtful of the strategy.

Well, these became his daily routine over the next couple of days. He trained, roamed around in search, and trained again.

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On the fourth day..

Lu Shimming sat in his room, meditating, a vortex churning the spiritual Qi in his spirit sea, and the next instant, he felt a pang in his dantian as the Spiritual Qi once again came shooting down.

4th Layer Of Qi Refinement!

“That was easier than I thought..” He smiled, clenching his fist, and feeling the power in it.

“Whoosh!”

With a quick step, Lu Shimming disappeared from the spot and appeared in the courtyard to test his strength.

Eight Trigram Divination, Third Palm, Recurrence!

He shot forward a palm, there was no exaggeration behind it. It was just a simple palm. But, the moment it struck the boulder ahead, three consecutive noises of striking rang out before it exploded into dozens of pieces.

“That was good, but I still don’t have perfect control of the Corrupt nature of my Spiritual Qi..” Lu Shimming shook his head. He had mastered both Ten Thousand Steps and Eight Trigram Divination to the peak of early stage now. But, his control of Spiritual Qi and his Body Refinement was still lacking behind.

“I might be lacking, but I feel I can take that guy on now..” Lu Shimming muttered to himself thinking about the Evil Cultivator he fought. That guy might have been at the Sixth stage, but he was confident in holding his ground.

Whether he could win or not, that would still be a question.

“But, what was up with Wu Feng..” Lu Shimming frowned thinking about it. From what he had heard, the guy should at max be around 6th or 7th layer himself. But, when he pulled his sword out..

Lu Shimming could feel a chill rise up his spine just thinking about the incident.

Honestly, it reminded him about Foundation Establishment Cultivator. He had only felt such a feeling of danger from them.

‘How can he be so powerful in this backwater of a place? Even in the sect, there weren’t any like him..’

Everyone in the Wu Estate believed Wu Feng was wasting away his potential. His elder sister who had apparently gone out to Martial City had already reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage, causing a sensation. And, they only had a difference of a year between them.

But, no matter what one said to him, it fell on deaf ears. He would always be swinging a sword, and neglect his Qi Cultivation.

‘Only if they saw that scene..’ Lu Shimming shook his head. There was no use thinking about him.

“That's quite a scene you caused..” A voice suddenly rang in Lu Shimming’s ear, and he turned around with a frown on his face.

“I guess the Young Master was never taught to knock on the door..” He stared at the guy, definitely not happy. After all, he had been freely drawing blood from the goat and reading his Evil Book here until yesterday.

“Look at you, are you hiding something?” Wu Feng smiled, feeling he had hit the bullseye.

A vein immediately popped up on Lu Shimming’s forehead as he forced a smile on his face, “As if..ever heard of privacy and personal space?”

“Did you breakthrough or something?” Wu Feng just ignored his questions, and inspected the pieces of stones from the shattered boulder, “Even if you broke through, isn’t this too ridiculous?”

He looked at Lu Shimming with a frown.

“I don’t want to hear that from you..” Lu Shimming looked at him before staring at the sword on his waist.

“Lets spar..” Wu Feng took out his sword and stabbed it in the ground, “Of course, I won’t be using it..”

“Well, I don’t really mind..” Lu Shimming took his position, he was really curious about this guy. He might as well find out what was wrong with him.

‘Yeah, let's use this opportunity to figure out just what this guy is..’ Wu Feng had the same thought in mind as he took his stance as well.