Seeing Ling Han disappear in the forest afar, Ma Duo Bao couldn’t help but reveal a deep smile of satisfaction. “Interesting, interesting.” He picked up the Disguise Pill, smelled it, looked at it for a while, and involuntarily revealed a astounded expression. “This technique is quite experienced, is it truly something that a seventeen year old youngster can refine? Besides, Treasure Master sees that his soul is somewhat strange.”
He shrugged his shoulders and walked ahead, leaving the Spiritual Pedestal Tier old man gnashing his teeth in anger and to no avail. This restriction no doubt made people unable to enter the medicinal garden easily, but at the same time, it made the people inside the medicinal garden unable to leave easily.
Ling Han jumped onto a large tree, directly entering the Black Tower. He calmly and collectedly started to renew his disguise, changing into a new pair of clothes. In a short while, he turned into a pale-faced scholar.
If he were willing, he could also activate Origin Power to temporarily change his height, but firstly, it was uncomfortable, and secondly, to maintain it expended Origin Power, so he went without it. In any case, the “Tanned Brother” was also his disguise.
He didn’t immediately leave the Black Tower and planted the spirit grasses he had just thrown in. In order to save time earlier, he only put the spirit grasses inside.
It might not have been a lot of time he spent there, but he still dug up a few dozen spirit medicines, seven of which were even Fifth Tier spirit medicine, the price of which was quite shocking.
Unfortunately, there was no time to go to the core area of the medicinal garden, or else he would’ve earned more.
A few dozen spirit medicines could only make the Winter Moon Sect feel a bit distressed.
After taking care of the spirit medicine, Ling Han came out of the Black Tower. Now that he was done, he was better off getting some tokens, since he had to advance into top one hundred to qualify for the next round’s exam; otherwise, how would he get the Thunder Battle Armor?
On his way, he encountered quite a few surprise attacks from those who wanted to seize his tokens, but they were utterly beaten up by him, and he was raking in their tokens instead. At this day’s nightfall, Ling Han had over seven hundred tokens.
Ding, ding, ding, the sound of weapons clashing came over. With a flash of wit, Ling Han sped up his footsteps; he wouldn’t mind collecting some more tokens.
Very quickly, two hundred people team group battle appeared in front of him. Quite a few people already fell down on the side, blood spilling all over the ground. After a while, the flowers, grasses, and trees should grow to look more luxuriant.
Ling Han was astounded; this world was too small—one of the hundred-people teams was actually the Rain Country’s people.
Qi Yong Ye, Zhao Huan, and the others were shockingly within it, now battling fiercely, shouting continuously, waving their sabers, sword, spears, and all sorts of weapons, unleashing violent attacks towards their opponents.
Ling Han couldn’t help but sigh. For a spot to enter the Winter Moon Sect, they shed their blood and laid down their life; was it worth it? The key was that even if they were riddled with scars, they might not even be able to enter the Winter Moon Sect successfully.
For martial artists, being able to enter north region’s holy land of martial arts meant extremely bright prospects. They could change their entire lives, so why wouldn’t they fight desperately?
Ling Han shook his head and jumped in, staggering along as if he suffered from the affects of the battle, unable to escape in time. However, as he was flailing around, he could always trip and push away a few people; these people were by coincidence the Rain Country’s opponents.
Under this disturbance, the opponents were instantly crushed, and not long after, the remaining people threw off all their gear and fled helter-skelter.
Everyone was just a motley crowd, temporarily forming a team.
Qi Yong Ye and the others looked at Ling Han, feeling that this guy was too lucky, staggering into the battle, but instantly changing the battle’s outcome. Seeing that he was only in the first layer of the Gushing Spring Tier, it was apparent that those were not his intentions earlier—could every practitioner at the first layer of the Gushing Spring Tier be such an anomaly like Ling Han?
“This one, what are you called? It was all thanks to you earlier,” Zhao said with a smile; he was now the leader of the Rain Country’s martial artists.
“I’m called Hu Yan,” Ling Han said. Hu Yan, which obviously meant to talk nonsense.
Qi Yong Ye and the others actually didn’t notice the implicit meaning in those words. Although Ling Han acted thoughtlessly earlier, it nevertheless changed the battle’s outcome, making everyone feel extremely grateful. They didn’t ask where he was from, and treated him with great enthusiasm.
After Qi Yong Ye and the others looked at each other, Qi Yong Ye suddenly asked, “Brother Hu, do you know why we came into conflict with them?”
“Was it not because of tokens?” Ling Han answered with a question.
“Tokens are only one aspect, but more importantly, both parties found a stalk of Fourth Tier spirit medicine called Yellow Dragon Fruit,” Zhao Huan said solemnly.
Ling Han involuntarily revealed an astounded expression, and said, “Yellow Dragon Fruit is a superb spirit medicine that doesn’t need to be refined, directly taking it can strengthen physique and raise the body’s potential for martial artists below the Spiritual Ocean Tier. It’s a pretty good spirit medicine. No wonder, for this stalk of spirit medicine, you guys would fight over it with your lives.”
He nodded. Yellow Dragon Fruit couldn’t directly increase cultivation, but it could change someone’s physique from the essence; this was a true spirit medicine. However, Yellow Dragon Fruit was of the Fourth Tier, so it was useless for martial artists above the Spiritual Ocean Tier. The improvement on physique could be considered trifling.
Ling Han’s body received improvement from the roots of two godly medicine, and his physique had already reached a shocking level, far surpassing the Spiritual Ocean Tier’s limit; therefore, Yellow Dragon Fruits’ effects on him was pitifully little.
Seeing that Ling Han was only slightly astounded and didn’t reveal the look of greed, Qi Yong Ye and the others were astonished. When they found the Yellow Dragon Fruit, everyone’s eyes had gone red with desire.
“However, a beast guards the Yellow Dragon Fruit, and we didn’t have time to lay our hands on it before encountering the enemy and starting to fight,” Zhao Huan said.
Ling Han smiled faintly and said, “Are you guys inviting me to fight against that beast?”
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Chapter 325: Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf
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Zhao Huan shook his head repeatedly and said, “That’s a Spiritual Ocean Tier beast, so we have absolutely no chance of beating it. My thoughts are that we branch out five people and attack from different directions to lure this beast from its lair.
Once the beast has left, the remaining people will immediately dig up the Yellow Dragon Fruit by the roots, and that beast will definitely not chase too far out. After it returns from its chase, we’ll all escape unscathed.”
Quite a great plan.
Ling Han wasn’t so set on having the Yellow Dragon Fruit, but considering that Qi Yong Ye was an old friend, he was rather willing to lend a hand; moreover, he didn’t need the Yellow Dragon Fruit, but he could give it to Liu Yu Tong, Li Si Chang, Can Ye, and the others.
…Hu Niu had also eaten the root of a godly medicine, and although it was only one root, the transformation was very amazing; the Yellow Dragon Fruit couldn’t possibly have any effect anymore.
Besides, the Yellow Dragon Fruit was very practical in that it could be refined into a Restore Spirit Pill to compact the tiers of martial artists below the Spiritual Ocean Tier.
“Let’s first go check out the situation.” Ling Han didn’t immediately make a decision.
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They departed, and on the way, Ling Han said, “This Yellow Dragon Fruit is in Yu Long Mountains, so how come it hasn’t been taken by the Winter Moon Sect?
“Hehe, that place is too remote!” Everyone laughed.
That made sense; although the entire Yu Long Mountains were the Winter Moon Sect’s private property, the mountains were so large that the Winter Moon Sect could in reality only grasp a small area of them. The depths of the mountains were still primitive areas beasts ruled over, and it was said they were extremely terrifying existences in the Spiritual Infant Tier.
Thus, even the Winter Moon Sect would order its disciples not to trespass the Yu Long Mountains’ depths, but if one wanted to get rich, one had to go there as high-level spirit medicine could be found in those places. There was even rare gold that could be forged into a divine weapon.
Risk always accompanied opportunities.
This was obviously not the depths of the Yu Long Mountains, but there were still places the Winter Moon Sect’s disciples overlooked.
It certainly was so. As Qi Yong Ye and the rest leapt through the path—which was completely not something normal people could walk through, being extremely rugged—they arrived at a precipice, only to see a strange beast lying there and snoring loudly in its sleep.
This beast was a meter long, shaped like a dog, and its entire body was scarlet. However, there was a horn on its head and a circle of eyes on its face, forming a half circle—counting, there were exactly nine eyes.
Beside it grew a stalk of plant that was half a man’s height, bearing rings of dense fruits, each no larger than a peanut—the amount was certainly something to be surprised about.
Ling Han’s gaze swept by, but he gasped in surprise.
This was a Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf!
It wasn’t a normal beast, but a king amongst beasts! This nine-eyed beast was unquestionably in the Spiritual Ocean Tier, but as a king, its battle prowess couldn’t be rivaled by normal Spiritual Ocean Tier beasts.
Ling Han immediately knew why this nine-eyed beast hadn’t eaten the Yellow Dragon Fruits—it just advanced into the fifth layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier. Presumably, this beast was waiting until it was at the peak of the ninth layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier—it would eat the Yellow Dragon Fruit then, rising into Spiritual Pedestal Tier at one go.
A chance like improving one’s physique was certainly better the later one’s tier was, just like Black Tower’s power boost. For beasts, it was so as well. If it absorbed the medicinal power before it broke through, matched with the drastic change inside its body, then it would definitely have an effect that was greater than one plus one equals two.
Beasts were quite intelligent to begin with, and had inborn abilities inherited by blood; although they didn’t know how to refine pills, they surpassed humans in using spirit medicine because they always ate it raw.
“I’m afraid you guys will be disappointed.” Ling Han shook his head, pointed at the Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf, and said, “This is a Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf. It has cultivation in the fifth layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier, and is a king amongst beasts.”
With that said, everyone was stunned.
A king; for humans, forming three flashes of qi would a be minor achievement, six flashes would be a major achievement, and above seven flashes would make one be counted as a king. In other words, this beast was equivalent to a warrior in the fifth layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier that had formed seven flashes of qi!
What could they even do?
There couldn’t possibly lure it away, as it could kill offhandedly with an attack from extremely far away.
Phew, fortunately they immediately encountered another team; otherwise, if they acted rashly, the team would already be annihilated.
“So what do we do, just give up?” someone said, unwilling to resign.
That was a Yellow Dragon Fruit, which could improve one’s physique after it was taken, changing people from their essence.
Ling Han laughed and said, “There’s a change in plans. Leave the the mission of luring away the Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf up to me, you guys only need to harvest the medicine.” His gaze was burning. A beast with a king’s bloodline… with such great tonic-like meat to replenish his qi and blood, he should be able to cultivate the Gushing Spring Tier to perfection and charge into the Spritual Ocean Tier.
“No!” Qi Yong Ye and the others immediately shook their heads, but some people nodded unceasingly. Since Ling Han was willing to play the hero, why not go ahead with it? Anyways, they didn’t have any friendly relations with Ling Han.
“That’s the plan!” Ling Han said. It wasn’t that he wanted to be the hero, but to fight a king like the Nine-Eye Beast Wolf, he had to unleash his trump card, so he obviously had to act alone.
Without waiting to see whether people agree or not, Ling Han already charged out, holding a long sword in his hand. Under the surge of Origin Power, shua , he used his longsword as a concealed weapon, throwing it towards the Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf.
Zi!
Before the longsword reached, the beast wolf already stood up; a flash of lightning shot out from one of its eyes, shattering the longsword. It growled deeply at Ling Han, but didn’t rise up to chase.
Obviously, its intelligence wasn’t low, and it didn’t fall for the trap.
Ling Han smiled faintly. Another sword appeared in his hand—he threw it once again at the Nine-Eye Beast Wolf. The space inside the Black Tower was nearly infinite anyways, and the metal swords weren’t valuable; he prepared at least several thousand.
Zi , another lightning formed from its eye, shattering the flying sword.
Ling Han didn’t care, and just kept throwing. Xiu, xiu, xiu , flying swords shot at the beast altogether.
“Ang!” The great king of beasts was at last finally enraged, diving towards Ling Han.
“Dumb dog, come catch me!” Ling Han broke into a run, and carried out Shadow Wind Movement Technique. He was like a gust of wind, sweeping towards the distance.
Although the Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf had high intelligence, it was a beast after all; its natural disposition was violent, as it unhesitantly carried out its chase.
One man and one wolf immediately disappeared into the distance.
“Quick, quickly harvest the Yellow Dragon Fruit!” everyone hurriedly said.
Zhao Huan watched Ling Han’s silhouette from behind that had already disappeared, and said, “Don’t you guys feel that this person seems like someone.”
“What, you think so too?” Qian Wu Yong immediately said.
“Yes!” Qi Yong Ye, Bai Li Teng Yun and the others nodded successively.
“It’s not time to talk about this, the Yellow Dragon Fruit’s already in hand, let’s retreat!”
They hurriedly turned around, retreating to where they promised to meet Ling Han.
“No need to wait, being targeted by the Nine-Eyed Beast Wolf, he’s definitely dead.”
“That’s right, hurry up and divide the Yellow Dragon Fruit!”
Some people immediately began to shout out.
“You guys have no shame. He risked his life to lure away the nine-eyed beast, and you guys say this. Do you guys still have any humanity?
In that moment, everyone was somewhat silent.
“Hehe, well said, have you guys any shame?” A party of seven suddenly appeared.
Chapter 326
Chapter 326: Fighting a King of Beasts Head-On
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“Who are you?!” Zhao Huan immediately asked in a raised voice.
“Who are we?” Those seven people laughed aloud, and raised to reveal their hands. “Are you guys blind, can’t even recognize the sect you’re joining?”
“You’re Winter Moon Sect’s disciples!” Everyone came to a sudden realization.
“Didn’t they say that you guys could only enter the test on the third day, how come you guys are here now?” Qian Wu Yon
g asked.
“You guys care about too many things!” one of Winter Moon Sect’s disciple said. “Hmph, that Yellow Dragon Fruit belongs to this sect, and we’re responsible for guarding it. You guys immediately hand it over, and we won’t fuss over it.”
“Bullsh!t!” Baili Teng Yun, young and aggressive, immediately lost it. “That was clearly a beast guarding it, so what does it have to do with you guys? I know, you guys definitely saw it coincidentally, and pretended to wait for us to retrieve the spirit medicine, jumping out to get it.”
Pa, pa, pa, that Winter Moon Sect disciple began to applaud, and laughed. “Haha, exactly as you said, but so what if you guys know? I, Zhan Ming, am at the first layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier, and you guys added together won’t even rival me.”
On the side, another disciple suggested, “Senior Brother Zhan, the Yellow Dragon Fruit is of great importance, so we should kill them in case the information gets leaked.”
Zhan Yuan pondered, and said, “Might as well, or else it wouldn’t be good after all if people knew we attended the test today.”
“Kill, kill all of them!”
Zhao Huan immediately drew his sword and said, “Wu Yong, Zi Yan, Feng Yue, you guys fight this Spiritual Ocean Tier guy with me; the rest of them are all at the Gushing Spring Tier, we still have some hope.”
“Okay!” Everyone drew their weapons; the Yellow Dragon Fruit was too important, and none of them wanted to give it up.
Zhan Yuan sneered, and said, “A bunch of good-for-nothings that know not of their own limitations!”
The battle immediately began, and fresh blood was splattered violently again.
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Ling Han leapt swiftly. Behind him, that beast was also getting closer and closer.
The beast didn’t know of any movement techniques, but some agility-type beasts were naturally shockingly fast, comparable to martial artists of the same tier using a top grade movement technique of the same; it was as if a sort of art flowed through their blood, and they absolutely didn’t need to activate it as it came out naturally along with their instincts.
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