God Of Slaughter

by Stayrr

Cultivation type

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Chapter 33 Martial Spirit of Music

Di Yalan and Shi Yan went into the hollow tree again.

"What's happening?" Mu Yu Die, who was staying in the hollow tree in fear, got a little surprised, "I heard some explosions just now. Did some demon beasts pass by?"

Shi Yan sat down and began to feel the Profound Qi which had filled his meridians, without replying to Mu Yu Die.

Most of the Profound Qi, on those five warriors, had vanished into the air, and Shi Yan was able to absorb only a small part of it.

But since there was a Human-Level warrior among them, even if he just got a small part, it was a lot.

However, Shi Yan was still a little worried. He was cautious, for he didn't know when the negative emotions would break out.

Seeing Shi Yan keep silence, Di Yalan told Mu Yu Die what had just happened outside.

Hearing the story, Mu Yu Die's face turned serious and she seemed to be more worried. They were chased by so many bad guys, and now there were demon beasts in their way, she found their future was getting more and more hopeless.

The sun rose slowly and began to light up the sky. After one night's rest, the three started to discuss in the hollow tree.

Shi Yan didn't got too many chances to communicate with the girls when Luo Hao and his people were with them, so he didn't know much about them. But now those males, including Luo Hao, had been killed, so he guessed he should know more about them, or he would land himself in a passive position.

"Why is the Dark World chasing you?" Shi Yan asked in a steady voice while frowning, "You are from the Fire Empire?"

Mu Yu Die nodded and sighed, "It's all because of me..."

"What's the matter?" Shi Yan knew Mu Yu Die was a very special person. Now that she was to explain, he wanted the whole story.

"Sister Lan, you tell him." Mu Yu Die glanced at Di Yalan and sighed again.

"You don't know who Die is?" Di Yalan was surprised as she looked at Shi Yan with curious eyes, "Though you are from the Merchant Union, you must have heard of General Muku from the Fire Empire?!"

"Muku? The General of the Eagle Army of the Fire Empire? The Iron Eagle King?"

Shi Yan was so astonished that he nodded after a long thought, "So she is the granddaughter of The Iron Eagle King ? I got it."

Shi Yan went through the fragmental memories about the Iron Eagle King - King Muku, and . got the complete story after recalling it.

In the memories of the other Shi Yan, Muku was the General of the Eagle Army of the Fire Empire, who was a Nirvana-Level warrior and held the real power of the Fire Empire!

The Iron Eagle King was not only famous in the Fire Empire, but also well known in the Merchant Union and the God-blessed Empire.

Muku was a legendary military leader who was seen in every battle between the Fire Empire and the God-blessed Empire. He was famous for his cruelty on the battlefield, and uncountable people had perished in his hands!

Muku was merciless to his foes, and was also obstinate to his own people, thus offending many powerful people.

Three years ago, in a battle between the Fire Empire and the God-blessed Empire, Muku was killed by five Nirvana-Level warriors.

For Muku had offended a lot of people when he was alive, his family got into trouble as soon as he died. Just in a few days, many of his direct relatives were slaughtered, thus the big family sank at once.

"I have heard of the Iron Eagle King." After thinking for a while, Shi Yan nodded.

"Die is the Eagle King's granddaughter, the only survivor of her family. The Dark World is an organization of assassins in the Empire, and it was the one who slaughtered her family. Die could survive only because of her Martial Spirit. On that day, her zither killed a lot of people in an invisible way, for her Martial Spirit has something to do with music..."

"You mean, Miss Mu's Martial Spirit could kill with her zither?"

"Yes. Die's zither can not only prevent onefrom becoming mad, but also can shatter one's organs. The Dark World wants Die because their lord trains in a vicious Martial Skill and loses his mind now and then. He wants to calm himself with the help of Die's music."

"I got it." Shi Yan nodded.

"As the Dark World was involved in the slaughter of her family, Die would rather die than help them. How could she help their lord train his vicious Martial Skill!"

But the Dark World was too powerful in the Fire Empire, so she had to seek for shelter in foreign countries.

Knowing Mu Yu Die's identity and story, Shi Yan asked again, "Then why can't Miss Mu operate her Martial Spirit now?"

"Her Martial Spirit is quite special. Everytime she operates her Martial Spirit and kills people, several of her veins break like the zither strings. Before the veins reconnect, the Profound Qi can't move fluently. She would get injured heavily if she operated the Profound Qi, and it would take more time for the Martial Spirit to recover."

Di Yalan looked gloomy, "Two months ago, just as we were about to enter the Dark Forest at the border of the Fire Empire, the Dark World found us and we lost several people. Since Uncle Luo couldn't prevent them anymore, Die operated her Profound Qi. Though she killed a lot, her own veins broke too. And they have not recovered yet."

"So you need your veins to help operate the Profound Qi?" Shi Yan was quite confused, "Are you playing your zither, or playing your veins?"

"I can't explain either." Mu Yu Die replied lazily. She looked dim.

"Damage to the Martial Spirit..." Shi Yan deliberated over it for a moment, then he uttered, "Maybe I could help."

Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan's eyes lit at once, they stared at Shi Yan together!

"Well..." Shi Yan just popped up with that thought and he got embarrassed, "Well, sister Lan, your Martial Spirit had come to life? The medicine in my body may be helpful for her too. I think..."

"Don't you ever think about that!"

Mu Yu Die replied with anger and she stared at him, "Stop your dirty idea about me!"

She knew too well how Di Yalan regained her Martial Spirit...How would she sell her virginity for it?!

"I was joking. Don't take it seriously." Shi Yan looked indifferent, and he looked up at the entrance of the hollow tree, "It's about noon, and I don'thear demon beasts, let's resume our journey."

"Ok." Di Yalan giggled.

They got out from the tree hole and advanced in the forest, while Di Yalan still carried Mu Yu Die on her back.

After a whole night's hunting, the demon beasts all seemed to be resting. They didn't see a single high-level demon beast on the way. Yet, those human remains reminded them how nasty the demon beasts were last night.

At dusk.

The Profound Qi in Shi yan's body was purified, and thus the negative power filled Shi Yan's mind again. He got a strong urge to kill.

He knew Mu Yu Die's zither could comfort him and diminish the negative emotions, but it would attract those demon beasts and their chasers in the serenity of the forest.

Since he had the experience with Di Yalan, Shi Yan hesitated for a second, wandered his lustful eyes on Di Yalan's delicious body for a while as he developed a plan.

Night came.

In a secret valley, Mu Yu Die cuddled in the branches of a dense ancient tree. She was gazing at the bushes ten meters away with a blushed face, while grinding her teeth.

The bushes were shaking continuously, combined with waves of suppressed moans...

"Whores!" Biting her lips, Mu Yu Die cursed.

After a long yell, that bush calmed down.

Minutes later, Shi Yan and Di Yalan stood up from it and walked back with messy clothes.

Shi yan walked in steady steps and looked calm, as if nothing had happened.

While Di Yalan looked fresh in her skin and smiled with satisfied eyes, though she had some grass in her long hair.

"Miss Mu, why didn't you go to sleep?" As he got close, Shi Yan saw Mu Yu Die was watching him in despise, so he asked casually with a careless smile.

"Humph!" Mu Yu Die was angry as she cursed, "Shameless!"

"Oh?" Shi Yan returned her a smile, and said casually, "Maybe we can't even see the sun tomorrow, who would care about this? Do whatever you want."

"Yeah, we could be three dead bodies at this time of tomorrow. I don't care." Di Yalan walked up and showed just a slight of shame.

Hearing their excuse, Mu Yu Die was stunned. As she realized their situation, she didn't know what to say at all.

"Sister Lan, train by heart. Maybe you can improve a lot." Shi Yan smiled meaningfully.

"Ok, I understand." Di Yalan got his undertone and laughed, "You are really something, aren't you! Haha!"

Thus, Di Yalan climbed up the ancient tree and sat down on a strong branch. Under Mu Yu Die's confused eyes, she started to train wholeheartedly.

Shi Yan didn't climb up the tree. Instead, he sat down beside the tree cross-legged.

Due to the intercourse with Di Yalan, those negative emotions in his meridians were cleansed. And the miraculous power from the meridians gushed into his body and nourished his Martial Spirit.

Only a small part of it went into Di Yalan's body,but this benefited Di Yalan too.

Closing his eyes, Shi Yan could feel that power was changinghis blood and flesh. He operated his Profound Qi in the Big Circulation.

One hour later, Shi Yan found that that miraculous power had all gone into his body, thus he began to practise his Petrification Martial Spirit.

As he thought about it, his bare arms hardened, and gradually they turned into dark brown.

Dark brown?

Shi Yan opened his eyes abruptly, which were as bright as stars. He looked in wonder and carefully examined his arms.

Dark brown! It was exactly Dark brown!

Shi Yan was so excited that he wanted to laugh wildly. At that moment, he finally realized how that power benefited his Martial Spirit magically.

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Chapter 34 Mysterious Martial Spirit

He realized in surprise that the power could not only operate the Profound Qi, but also increase it by levels!

The Martial Spirit only increases with the advancement in martial levels. It will be enhanced only with the progresion to higher level.

This was to say, one would have a breakthrough in his Martial Spirit only when he enhanced from Elementary Level to Nascent Level, or from Nascent Level to Human Level, and so on.

The small progress from the First Sky of Nascent Level to the Second Sky wouldn't change the Martial Spirit a bit.

Only the progress across levels could develop the Martial Spirit!

However there were exceptions!

The Martial Spirit didn't increase with every advancement of a level. Sometimes, it only increased when the warrior progressed by two or three levels!

For example, the progress of Shi Yan's Petrification Martial Spirit consisted of four stages.

A descendant of Shi Family who herited Petrification Martial Spirit, would show grey skin about ten days after his birth, which meant the First Stage.

If this guy was diligent in training Martial Arts and reached the Human Level, the Petrification Martial Spirit would develop and his skin would turn dark brown, which was the Second Stage.

Once he got to the Earth Level, the skin would grow green with the advnacement in Martial Skill, which meant the Third Stage.

If he was genius enough to get to the Sky Level, the Martial Skill would reach the pinnacle and the skin would turn purple, which would be the Fourth Stage!

The Petrification Martial Spirit of the Shi Family strengthened only with every two levels and then changed one's skin color.

Everytime the Petrification Martial Spirit changed and progressed to a higher state, one's muscles' defensive power would increase by several times!

When the Petrification Martial Spiritl was at First Stage, one could easily defend against human fists and attacks infused with Profound Qi to a level.

When it reached the Second Stage and the skin turned dark brown, thedefensive power would increase by many times, and one could not only defend against the strong attacks from Profound Qi, but could also safegaurd attacks from average weapons.

The green skin of Stage Three had a much stronger defensive power! Weapons could hardly penetrate one's body, and at the same time, one'sbody would still unbelievably be agile and flexible!

As it reached Stage Four, the body would turn purple and wouldn't be injured by anything, not even by water, fire, or anymysterious tricks. The body would become emormously powerful and agile.

Initally, if the descendant of Shi Family was at Elementary or Nascent Level, his Petrification Martial Spirit would stay at Stage One. It wouldn't advance until he broke to Human Level. The stage of this Martial Spirit advanced only with the increase of one's level.

Other Martial Spirits on the Grace Mainland were all the same as Petrification: they increase along with the advancing of one's level. But some magical pills could change the rules, and help the Martial Spirit increase cross levels.

On the Grace Mainland, these magical pills existed only in legends. Warriors of The Fire Empire, the God-blessed Empire and the Merchant Union had merely heard of these. The real pills hadn't been beheld by anybody.

Even the three Medicine Kings of the Medicine Valley in the Fire Empire were only Soul-Level alchemists, far from the Divinity Level alchemists who wereable to refine suchmagical pills.

However, that power from his meridians seemed to have broken the rules!

That magical power could not only awaken the Martial Spirit, but also increase the Martial Spirit through stages!

His arms had turned dark brown after petrification, which would happen only to a warrior of Human Level from the Shi Family.

This was apparently the Second Stage of Petrification!

The magical power could awakenhis Martial Spirit, and can also increase it, what did this mean?

It meant that he might enter Stage Four of Petrification Martial Spirit even if he hadn't advanced to the Sky Level!

Being impervious to either weapon or water, the body would not turn stiff, but become more agile, being able to defend against all kinds of attacks.

At the thought of power of Stage Four of Petrification, Shi Yan was pleased that he had gained something precious.

This ability was obviously aMartial Spirit too, which not only helped him purify the Profound Qi in his meridians, but also mysteriously imposed negative emotions on his foes during fights.

This mysterious Martial Spirit was able to absorbProfound Qi from the dead, alter it into alive magical power in meridians, and awaken and increase other Martial Spirits...

Shi Yan's dark eyes were sparkling like stars.

Sitting there silently, he realized that if he trained hard with the help of this amazing Martial Spirit, he would be a terrible existence on the Grace Mainland!

The Dark Forest. In a bloody area, where there were dead bodies all around the ground, a troop of people who looked gloomy were examining something.

"They were from the Wolf Mercenary Union." Bernard walked among those dead bodies, looking worried, "The Captain of the Wolf Mercenary Union was a Disaster-Level warrior--the same as me. It looks like they were obliterated completely."

On hearing that, the Crescent Emissary and Mo Chaoge frowned at the same time.

After a moment's hesitation, the Crescent Emissary took out a silver horn and began to blow it.

Instead of any sound, an odd wave was sent out and propagated away.

Before long, two men, who wore silver gowns and masks, showed up secretly from the woods. Their masks were green and tush-like, which were different from the pale masks on the Crescent Emissary and his people.

"Emissary, have you found anything?" The Crescent Emissary asked coldly.

"Many warriors and mercenaries were attacked last night by demon beasts. Too many foot prints here. We can't tell which are our targets'." one Star Emissary answered respectfully.

The Dark World had two divisions--Dark Emissaries and Black Emissaries. The former were responsible for tracing and collecting information, and the latter killing. They were graded as the Star, the Moon and the Sun.

Though the Dark Emissaries and the Black Emissaries did completely different work, they were strictly graded. The star emissaries of Star Level were under Crescent Emissaries of Moon Level.

"Is it so hard to find the target?" the Crescent Emissary was good at kiling and fighting, but was bad at tracing. Hearing that, his eyes turned dim.

"Sir, it's a large area and there are too many warriors, demon beasts and mercenaries, so it's really hard to find the targets. During these days' searching, we were attacked by numerous mercenaries, and one of us was killed."

The Dark World had disrepute, so the bold warriors and mercenaries who came to this area might kill people from the Dark World if they were in a bad mood.

In the past couple of days, they had encountered these kinds of cases for some time. They were even challenged after the cooperated with warriors from Mo Family, though they didn't lose much.

"Can't find the targets, and unsettled demon beasts, too tough..."

After pondering on it, Mo Chaoge said, "We should stop this aimless search. What about waiting in the Silent Town? It is the only way toward the Merchant Union. They would definitely go to the Silent Town once they get out of the Dark Forest, thus we could wait for them there."

"Good idea." Bernard nodded and showed a murderous look, "whoerver goes to the Merchant Union would pass the Silent Town, so we just need to wait and meet them there."

"Well then, let cross this region as soon as possible. And wait for their appearance during our way to the Silent Town." The Crescent Emissary kept mute for a long time, and compromised to this suggestion, for he couldn't come up with a better one.

The three came to an agreement quickly and stopped searching for Shi Yan and his friends. The y began to prepare to cross the Dark Forest and ambush on its boarder and the way to the Silent Town.

For five days, they were moving in the Dark Forest carefully, hiding from demon beasts and warriors.

At night, they would stop moving and rest in covert region.

In this way, they avoided many high-level demon beasts, mercenaries and warriors with great luck.

And every night, Shi Yan would train ceaselessly to adapt the Second Stage of Petrification and let the shift go to every cell of his body.

Di Yalan had kept away from men for years. And since she had those amazing experiences with Shi Yan, she would always asked him for it. They let off their passions under trees, in bushes and beside brooks.

Mu Yu Die knew she was not able to stop them, so she just let it go, though sometimes she still couldn't help cursing and complaining about them being shameless.

This night, after a short training, Di Yalan jumped up and shouted mirthfully, "I, I just had a breakthrough!" Not long before that, she was having a crazy time with Shi Yan under a big tree...

In another ancient tree not far from Di Yalan, Mu Yu Die stuck her head out with surprise. Seeing Di Yalan in messy clothes, she shouted, "That, that is working?"

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Chapter 35 Blocking the Cave

Shi Yan slowly opened his eyes. He looked at Di Yalan, who was still in an absolute bliss, and said with a smile, "Congratulations! Sister Lan!"

After figuring out what the mysterious Martial Spirit was truly capable of, Shi Yan was just as excited as well. Although Di Yalan was just shagging him for a couple of days, she had already benefited enormously and reached the Human Level. This was almost a miracle, which proved that this mysterious Martial Spirit indeed had limitless power.

"Thank you so much!"

There was a warmth of gratitude shining through Di Yalan's gorgeous eyes.

She didn't need to be a genius to realize that what happened to her was due to Shi Yan. For the past few days, she really saw enormous improvements.

"Well, this might have something to do with the medicine within my body. Anyway, Sister Lan, you've also earned all this by yourself." Shi Yan replied with a cool face, "So, now that you have reached the Human Level, could you show us the power of your Martial Spirit - Blue Magic Flame? Could there be any difference with before?"

Di Yalan smiled like a blooming flower. She slowly raised her left hand, with a blue flame suddenly bursting on her palm.

The flame was the size of a watermelon, which gradually covered her entire hand .

The blue flame was like a living creature. It suddenly turned into dozens of fire snakes, moving around her beautiful arm.

Moreover, this magic blue flame could change into various shapes with Di Yalan's thoughts. It would suddenly turn into snakes, and then into birds, just like actual living creatures, which would almost fly away from her palm at any time.

"The moment I reached the Human Level, I could distinctly sense that my Blue Magic Flames had changed. My Martial Spirit is stronger than ever." Di Yalan couldn't hide her excitement, "Not only it has become bigger in size, from the size of a fist to the size of a man's head, but it also has achieved the capability of matter condensation, which means that it has already reached the second stage."

Her Martial Spirit was capable of matter condensation?

Shi Yan nodded. He instantly realized that Di Yalan's Martial Spirit - Blue Magic Flame was also quite something. He complimented, "Well, congratulations again!"

"This is all because of you!" Di Yalan said with a shine in her charming eyes. She couldn't hide her sexual desire in her smile.

"How… how is this even possible?"

Mu Yu Die, who was resting on the tree, was filled with doubt and suspicion. "It only took Sister Lan a couple of days to reach the Human Level. That's way too fast! How is this even possible? Sister Lan, I clearly remember that you only reached the Third Sky of a Nascent Warrior six months ago. "

"Yes, that's true." Di Yalan was on top of the world, and said proudly, "I did just enter the Third Sky of a Nascent Warrior six months ago. Even I didn't expect that I could reach the Human Level so soon. I thought it would at least take me another 3 to 5 years of hard practice before I could ever reach the Human Level. Hehe!"

Mu Yu Die had no idea how to answer her bragging, so she simply rolled her eyes.

How come… this guy's essence… does it really have that kind of magical power?

With her mind lingering on that thought, Mu Yu Die couldn't help but blush again. She forced herself to stop right there and almost called herself a slut.

Another five days had passed by.

The three of them continued to proceed in the Dark Forest with great caution.

In those five days, each night, they would always hear chaos from the Dark Forest, mixed with the roaring of demon beasts and the crying and screaming of human warriors, as well as mercenaries. This continuous noise and chaos would make even the bravest man be filled with horror.

Shi Yan instantly realized that there must be some human who had irritated the higher level demon beasts. That's why during those nights, he would find a peaceful and an absolutely safe area to rest, and never took any chance to go out at night.

During this period, he decided not to confront with any demon beasts, or to pick fights with any mercenaries, i.e., avoiding any trouble from both sides.

Because of this code of caution that they took, during those five days, although the three of them didn't cover a long distance, they didn't run into any trouble on their way either.

Apart from that, if Shi Yan got lucky, he would still find some dead warriors freshly killed by those demon beasts. As soon as those demon beasts left, Shi Yan would rush to those corpsesto collect their lingering Profound Qi.

But for the sake of safety, he would always wait for a while after those demon beasts had left, before showing up around those corpses.

Although he didn't harvest much Profound Qi from each corpse, with the stolen Profound Qi accumulating within his body, Shi Yan also managed to enhance his own Petrification Martial Spirit by a bit.

Until now, his body was already able to petrify entirely within seconds, just with a thought. All of his skin would change to dark brown, and his defense power was also slowly enhancing.

For the past few days, there was never a second when he ever forgot about the practice for controlling his own madness.

However, the last threshold was just too difficult for him to break through. Every time he tried to operate the negative energy within his meridians in his brain, he would suffer from a mind-splitting pain. And when he reversed his Profound Qi within his body, he would be under so much pain that he would faint instantly.

After a few days of practice, he still could not manage himself through the last stage of Rampage.

And after such a series of fainting, Shi Yan guessed that he was probably using the wrong approach. Therefore, he gave up on this tough approach and figured that he should try another way, after a few days' reflection.

It was night again.

The three of them were hiding in a dark cave within a valley. With the opening of the cave covered with bushes, they talked in a low voice.

They could hear troops of demon beasts passing by their cave on the outside. It seemed there were the roaring and howling of demon beasts everywhere. God knows how many demon beasts were out there on that night.

"It is a little unusual tonight. It seems that all the demon beasts in the dark forest have come out." Di Yalan said with a frown on her face, "This is too strange. Usually, even if the warriors and mercenaries are too out of line, those demon beasts would at most attack them for 2 or 3 days. There is no reason for all these demon beasts to come out. God knows what the hell is going on out there. "

"Behind such large scale attacks and movements of these demon beasts, there must be orders from a demon beast of a much higher level." Shi Yan said with a serious face, "The Silver Thunder Wolf is already a Level-7 demon beast, equaling our warrior of the Sky Level. It not only has Demon Crystals within its body, but also possesses the intelligence of the same level as humans. As even the Silver Thunder Wolf has showed up to lead, there must be a huge fight behind."

"Thank God we proceeded with great caution these days, not aiming to cover more distance, but making safety our first priority. Otherwise, we would have been in loads of trouble." Di Yalan nodded.

"Tata! Tata!"

There were some messy footsteps from the outside of the cave. They assumed that this was the movement of human warriors out there.

With such frequent movement of the demon beasts out there, those human warriors who were still moving around must be in some serious trouble, probably also being chased and hunted by those demon beasts right now.

"Maybe we should go out and take a look? Maybe we could offer some help?" Mu Yu Die asked the other two people dimly.

Shi Yan and Di Yalan both took a glimpse at Mu Yu Die, but didn't say anything.

"What? You wanna let them die just like that?" Mu Yu Die frowned. She was obviously quite upset.

"There are so many demon beasts out there. We can barely hide ourselves right now. If this cave also got compromised, I am afraid we wouldn't have much luck with those demon beasts. Apart from that, how can you be so sure that the warriors outside are not a disaster to us? What if they also lust for your beauty? God knows how much trouble that could bring us. I suggest you mind your own business." Shi Yan sniffed with no mercy at all.

Mu Yu Die was not that naïve. Of course she knew all about these. She only said this because she couldn't bear the idea that humans were killed by those cruel beasts.

But after being taught a lesson by Shi Yan like that, her pride was badly hurt. She puckered her lips and mumbled, "Cold blooded! You are not even a human! Hum, I guess you are just too scared of dying. I misjudged you before…"

"According to your suggestion, you are not only not scared to die, you are literally begging to be killed!"

Shi Yan sneered with a grin, "Miss Mu. You did save my life twice, but I have already repaid your favor. Just so you know, the only reason I am still here, is not because of you, but because of what your Uncle Luo has entrusted me with before he died."

Shi Yan paused a little and continued, "You are not my princess, so don't pull your drama on me, this annoys me a lot! If I really got pissed one day, I will just leave you here. Whatever you'd like to do is none of my business."

"You asshole!" Mu Yu Die felt so wronged that her eyes were starting to wet. She tried her best to control her tears and said with a crying voice, "You know nothing better than lecturing me!"

"OK, give it a break you two! At this time, we should be united. We are all heading towards the Merchant Union, so we'd better stick together and look after each other. Stop fighting over such trivial stuff." Di Yalan intermediated in their conversation.

"Oh crap!"

Shi Yan suddenly stood up, and his face looked like hell. "It seems those people have discovered this cave. They are heading towards this way."

"Shit! No way!" Di Yalan was also astonished. She quickly picked up her dagger and guarded the entrance of the cave together with Shi Yan, "What should we do now?"

"Ow!" "Woo!"

The roaring and howling of the demon beasts could be heard outside the cave. It seemed that there were more and more demon beasts coming toward their way.

"Block the entrance!"

Shi Yan suddenly changed the look on his face. He put his hands against the rock on the entrance of the cave and shouted, "Come here and pin these rocks. We cannot let anyone into this cave! As soon as other humans get into this cave, those demon beasts would figure out quickly that we're here. If those demon beasts stick around, then sooner or later they would discover us and that would be a complete disaster! I am not going down with those guys out there!"

After Shi Yan entered this cave, he not only had covered the entrance with bushes and leaves, but had also moved some big rocks to block the opening, just in case for this type of situation to happen. He didn't expect that these rocks would actually be put to use.

"OK!" Di Yalan was a little shocked, but she also quickly joined Shi Yan in pinning the big rocks, thus blocking the entrance of the cave.

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Chapter 36 Bang!

"Bang!""Bang!"

The sound of heavy strikes on the rocks came one after another.

Violent strikes were forced onto Shi Yan who was blocking the cave. He and Di Yalan were both shocked and felt numb in their arms.

"Hey friends inside the cave, take your hands off! Or I won't be this polite anymore!"

At the entrance of the cave, a cold voice yelled, "My Matial Spirit can perceive life signs within two hundred meters. I know there are three of you. We just want to get in and hide for a while. Please do us a favor!"

"It's OUR cave! Please go and find one of your own. Don't get us into trouble."

Shi Yan looked very serious as he pressed all his Profound Qi into his arms. In no time, his arms beganto contract and turn dry, while white fog flew around them.

"Move! Demon beasts will come in a few minutes and there must be several high-level ones! If you don't want to lose your lives, let us in!" A forthright voice cried fretfully.

"Get lost! Our cave is too small for you people!" Shi Yan was rather cold, showing not the slightest amount of friendliness.

Their cave was not big enough so it could only hold six people, and counting the rock at the entrance, it could only hold five people at most. According to their breaths, Shi Yan could tell there were six of them, which was too much for the small cave.

"Steve, come with me, let's break it!" One of them shouted coldly with impatience.

"Sure!"

"Bang! Bang!"

Two streams of explosive power struck the rock at the same time, andan enormous force blasted out from within the hard rock at once!

Withthe dull booms, the hard rock which was being supported by Shi Yan and Di Yalan was comminuted into dozens of pieces.

"Kaka! Kaka!"

The rock segments fell on the ground one by one and suddenly the light shined into the dim entrance.

Three people got the chance and slipped into the cave at once.

The leader of the group, who was around thirty years old and wore a silver warrior uniform, looked cold and arrogant. He glanced at Shi Yan and the two girls, then jeered, "A mere Human-Level warrior dares to block us. You are going beyond your depth, young man!"

"Big brother, kill them!" Another rude young man urged, "This cave is only capable of holding six people. Our people can't come in if they still stay here!"

"You three get out of the cave right now! Or I will kill you in no time!" The man in silver uniform demanded, "You are definitely no match for us! We have two Human-Level and four Nascent-Level warriors. You'd better not waste our time."

The three warriors who were standing at the opening of the cave looked at Shi Yan and Di Yalan coldly, seemingly prepared to take action at any time, as a dim light was gradually sent out from their bodies.

"Big brother, look at the girls, woah!" Another skinny short young man found Di Yalan and Mu Yu Die extraordinarily beautiful after he adapted to the dimness in the cave and couldn't help but shout out.

"Chuck, do you want the girls or our brothers outside the cave?"The leader grunted.

That skinny young man smiled with embarrassment, "Don't be pissed my brother, I'm just kidding. Of course I want my brothers! Women are everywhere, right? Ha, now that we got so much treasure from the Silver Thunder Wolf's cave, we can get women whenver we want! Haha!"

"Why are you still there?" The warrior taking the lead looked hideous suddenly as he was about to fight.

"Fight!" Di Yalan shouted as she lifted her shortsword, "There are all demon beasts out of the cave. We would still die even if we get out!"

"Hehe, please run away as far as you can and take the demon beasts with you, then we will be safe." That rude young man burst into laughter, "Or, do you think you can even be alive here?"

"Sister Lan, let's go out." After a deep breath, Shi Yan calmed down, then he dragged her, "Quick! We may escape if we run quickly."

"It's impossible..." Di Yalan was dragged away by Shi Yan before she could finish her sentence.

Mu Yu Die had lifted herself up long ago, thus she walked up after them.

As her slim figure passed by that skinny short man, that guy stretched out his hand toward her butt, "Gorgeous, forgive me. We can be closer if we meet again."

Mu Yu Die got frightened and rushed out of the cave as fast as she can. But unfortunately, that guy still touched her slim waist, which made her furious.

Outside the cave, the three men of Nascent Level had been impatient for a long time.

Seeing the three getting out of the cave, the three warriors outside wandered their eyes on Di Yalan and Mu Yu Die lustfully. Then they walked into the cave reluctantly and complimented, "Brother, there should be two beauties! Your Martial Spirit is so great that you could even sense the cave here from so far away! We wouldn't have managed in collecting so much treasure in the Silver Thunder Wolf's cave if it hadn't been your magical Martial Spirit!"

"Haha! We really harvested a lot this time! A Martial Skill of Spirit Level! We can get what we six want with this book when we go back to the God-blessed Empire ! Then we can own whichever women we are fond of!" The rude guy in the cave chuckled.

"Thanks to our big brother's Martial Spirit. It can identify the stream of life in the surroundings. That's too damn good!"

The six of them occupied Shi Yan and his friends' cave, and started to discuss softly in it.

"You three, go as far as you can! It's still early enough for you to leave now! Once the demon beasts came, you can in no way escape from them!" The leader demanded confidently, "If you are still going to stay at the entrance, please excuse my rudeness."

Under the bright moonlight, Shi Yan was wearing an icy and terrifying expression.

Terrible demon beasts howls were comingfrom all directions. They were just gathering towardthis way, for apparently they knew there were humans in this area.

Judging from the situation now, this area would be encircled by demon beasts soon.

If they left now, they would become those demon beasts' target; even if they guided the demon beasts to other areas, they would be kill by them eventually.

Shi Yan knew clearly that the leader didn't kill them because he wanted them to run away and distract those demon beasts, so that those six warriors could survive.

"Ding Yan! Why don't we just have a nasty fight with them! We could also be killed by the demon beasts if we get out of the cave! If we run away, we would die in vain! Why not drag those warriors in with us!"Di Yalan stared at Shi Yan in rage.

For his safty's sake, Shi Yan had told them his name was Ding Yan, though Di Yalan and Mu Yu Die rarely called him by his full name.

However, since Di Yalan was strongly against Shi Yan's decision, she shouted out his full name..

Mu Yu Die turned rather pale and she said in a miserable voice, "I would rather be killed by the Dark World than be eaten up by demon beasts. Sister Lan, let's finish ourselves now and attract those demon beasts here."

"Come here!" Shi Yan frowned as he caught Di Yalan and Mu Yu Die, separately with each of his hands, to the corner of the entrance, keeping them away from the middle of the opening.

"What?" Di Yalan flew into a rage, "You want to run away, don't you?"

"Run away? Am I such an easy-going person?" Shi Yan broadened his mouth and looked hideous. Abruptly, he took out an iron ball out of his chest and waved it at the girls.

Di Yalan and Mu Yu Die were stunned at first. Soon they realized and smirked, then took several steps away from the opening again.

Shi Yan nooded, and as soon as the girls found their positions, he suddenly rushed to the entrance.

As he reached the entrance, he swiftly threw the iron ball into the cave and left in an instant.

"Bang!"

There was a devastating explosion in the cave as sharp splinters flew in all directions inside, some of which flew out of the cave and cut the bushes outside into pieces.

Terrible cries came from the entrance of the cave.

"Old Steve!"

"Micky!"

"Brother Teddy! Brother Teddy!"

"Brother Bob! I... I am hurt!"

Painful cries, combined with a strong bloody smell, came out of the cave.

Shi Yan signalled Di Yalan and went into the cave again.

Shi Yan was looking at the chaos in the cave at the entrance, ashe sneered, "Hey everybody? Wasit fun?"

The three men on the ground had turned into honeycombs with wounds all over their bodies. That rude guy was among them, with his head cut through.

The leader, that skinny, short man and another fat guy were still alive.

The other three had protected them. Though they too were wounded, those splinters didn't hurt their vital places.

Their limbs were filled with bleeding wounds, and the leader seemed badly hurt, for his abdomen was bleeding hard.

The cave was so small, and once the Star Bomb exploded, they had nowhere to hide. If it weren't for those three dead warriors who stood in front of them, there would've been no chance for anyone to survive.

"I'm gonna strip your skin!" Their leader had his eyes split, and he was too angry.

"Such dense Profound Qi." Shi Yan took a deep breath and enjoyed a lot.

As he was talking, his muscles contracted slowly and his body got more and more dry.

A freezing, insane, amd murderous smell flew out of Shi Yan's body slowly, forming into a white thin fog, which spread all over him.

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Chapter 37 The Killing

Inside the cave, there were three dead bodies, three wounded warriors, and Shi Yan.

Shi Yan jumped into the cave. However, he did nothing but simply just stood there, feeling the blowing waves of Profound Qi coming from those three fresh bodies right towards him. The Profound Qi flew into the 720 meridians of his body. The waves were so strong that his meridians even felt a little pain.

Naturally, Shi Yan's body went mad again. All his muscles had shrunken so badly that he suddenly looked even thinner.

There was a wave of evil energy quickly spreading from the white smoke covering his whole body. With the coldest and cruelest spirits, this energy quickly fulfilled the entire cave.

Those evil spirits seemed to have some bewitching magic power.

Once those three wounded warriors breathed in some of this white smoke, their mind was instantly fulfilled with a crazy urge of slaughtering as well.

"You fucking son of a bitch! I'm gonna skin you alive!"

The leader of them shouted loudly, with a creepy green poppy flower suddenly appearing on his palm. That poppy flower was made purely by his Profound Qi and looked just as alive, growing and expanding with astonishing speed on his palm.

Only within seconds, that green poppy flower had become the size of a cattail leaf, with a freezing light shining in the middle of the bud and a green light diffusing around it.

At his sway of hand, that giant poppy flower instantly flew right towards at Shi Yan.

That poppy flower was like an open bloody mouth. It was trying to bite Shi Yan right on his head, seemingly trying to swallow his entire head into its bud.

"He!"

A roaring sound came out of Shi Yan. He had quickly concentrated the streams of negative energy that he absorbed from those dead warriors, and let that energy out from all the meridians covering his whole body, which soon formed into three ghost shadows in front of his body.

Those ghost shadows were floating in front of his body in the scariest way, with their eyes filled with utmost endless resentment to this world.

"Steve! Micky! Teddy!"

The thin warrior was instantly filled with horror. He stared, dumbstruck, at those floating ghost shadows Shi Yan had in front of his body, and couldn't help screaming.

Those three ghost shadows looked exactly like those three warriors right before they died!

The leader was also pretty astonished. He couldn't help but take a step back. However, that creepy poppy flower didn't stop its move and continued to try biting on Shi Yan's head.

"Break!"

Shi Yan waved his fist and sent out a web of white smoke which was tangled and concentrated with all kinds of negative energy. Those streams of negative energy combined together into a silver snake and suddenly shot into the center of that poppy flower.

"Boom!"

That poppy flower exploded into pieces, with its freezing light suddenly splashing everywhere like a creepy firework; beautiful but strange.

"Look out!"

The leader shouted out. He quickly moved forward and covered the other two guys with both of his hands. There were also spots of weird lights shining inside his palms. He waved his hands and surprisingly captured all the freezing light coming towards him all into his chest.

Shi Yan had the cruelest look on his face. He started to operate his mind power and petrify his whole body. In this dark cave, his entire body became brown and as tough as the steel.

Dozens of freezing dots of light shot towards him again with buzzing sounds. However, they were all blocked by his petrified body. Only a small proportion of the freezing energy filtered into his body through all his petrified muscles.

The freezing energy was rushing and bumping inside his body. However, its power was mostly blocked by his petrified muscles.

Only after a few seconds, Shi Yan's body had already returned to normal, and wasn't influenced by the freezing energy any more.

"Shi Yan!"

Di Yalan rushed into the cave. Seeing Shi Yan confronting those three warriors all by himself, she couldn't help but scream and ask him with worry, "Are you OK?"

"Use your Blue Magic Flame to cover for me. Hold back the leader. I will kill the other two Nascent Warriors first."

Shi Yan gave his order with a cruel face. He then started operating his mind. Those three ghost shadows floating in front of him suddenly started rushing towards those three warriors like starving wolves towards its prey.

The tiny stone cave could barely hold all these people. Once an attack was launched, there was no room to escape. The opponent could only defend themselves with everything they had.

Seeing those three ghost shadows coming towards their way, the three warriors in the cave all seemed pretty terrified.

People are naturally intimidated by the unknown.

Especially because, one minute ago, those three ghost shadows were still their dearest brothers!

The three of them tried to escape, but only to find their way already blocked by the stones. There was nowhere for them to go.

"Don't be scared!"

The leader shouted. The freezing light he just withdrew into his chest was transformed and turned into an icy, silver light shield, sheltering the three of them.

Shi Yan sniffed secretly on the inside, and continued to operate his mind power.

The three ghost shadows stopped in front of the three warriors. With the silver light shield in between, those ghost shadows waved their fists and started to make terrifying postures such as biting and gobbling, showing all their utmost resentment in their eyes towards those warriors.

All kinds of negative energy had gathered into the eyes of those ghost shadows, and through eye contact, flew right into the mind of those three warriors.

Almost instantly, as they were impacted by the negative energy, the three warriors felt like they were thrown into the lowest level of the hell. Countless terrifying and screaming ghosts were coming towards their way, dragging them towards the endless hell. There was no way for them to get out.

The faces of the three warriors became stiff, and their eyes became lifeless, all with the most terrified look on their face.

"Sister Lan! Break their ice light shield!" Shi Yan shouted.

Di Yalan trembled a little. She didn't give much thought, but quickly threw out her Blue Magic Flame which she already gotten ready on her palm. The flame turned into an agile phoenix and shot itself into that silver light shield.

"Chi-chi!"

The silver light shield was instantly melted under the heat of the Blue Magic Flame. The shield formed by the leader's Profound Qi was obviously too weak in front of the attack of Di Yalan's Blue Magic Flame Martial Spirit , and suddenly cracked a fist sized hole.

The three ghost shadows took advantage of this crack and quickly sneaked in like a light smoke. The ghosts separated and sneaked into the body of the three warriors respectively.

Shi Yan suddenly rushed forward towards them.

He had all his Profound Qi flowing into his arms like crazy. When he was moving his arms, there was even a deep bursting sound in the air, like a mountain was falling apart.

The white mist entangling his iron fist had already concentrated and turned into a layer of pale liquid matter covering his arms, making his bony arm look even more terrifying, like the sharp claw of an evil ghost.

"Poo!"

Shi Yan's arm was like a sharp sword, and pierced right through the chest of that thin guy who once mouthed about Mu Yu Die. He used his fist to punch that guy so hard that he fell onto the wall of that cave with a deep sound.

"You're seeking death, you fucking bastard!"

The Human Level leader warrior suddenly woke up in the middle of his nightmare. Seeing another one of his brothers miserably die in front of his eyes, he couldn't help but shout with anger. He generated a huge silver light ball on his palm and pushed it hard towards Shi Yan's chest.

There was an overwhelming gravity falling towards Shi Yan, which, combining with the freezing cold ice power, exploded, all of a sudden, on Shi Yan's chest.

"Deng! Deng! Deng!"

Shi Yan had to step back some distance before he could stabilize his body.

He just took the full blow of tough a warrior at the Human Level right on his chest. However, Shi Yan's chest only hurt a little after taking the hit. He checked his body for a second only to see his body completely intact.

That icy blow only froze his chest a little but didn't manage to hurt him.

So this is the second stage of the Petrification Martial Spirit! How awesome is that!

Shi Yan was actually wildly laughing on the inside. He kept operating his own Profound Qi, guiding it rapidly through his own veins and vessels in his chest. His Profound Qi was like a warm stream of energy, quickly recovering his chest from the freezing light attack by blowing within his veins and vessels.

Di Yalan, with a dagger in hand, rushed to the front, fighting with the leader. Her phoenix made of the Blue Magic Flames was her strongest power, fighting against the leader together with her. The Blue Flame Phoenix could not only counter all the freezing power that the warrior threw out, but could also control some of his creepy attacks.

"Are you guys all right?"

Mu Yu Die entered the cave with both hands covering her nose. When she stepped inside, she almost puked instantly due to the strong bloody smell.

"Pile up the bodies!"

Shi Yan ordered with a frown. He didn't wait for Mu Yu Die to respond before he quickly rushed towards the other Nascent Warrior who was still drowning in his nightmares, just like a haunting ghost.

"No! Little Joe!"

The leader suddenly changed the look on his face. He instantly screamed out anxiously.

Even in his wildest dreams, he could not imagine that this guy in front of him, who was merely a Nascent Warrior, could take on his full blow, and not only survive, but also fight back again!

But he himself was a Warrior of the Human Level who had already reached the Second Sky!

"Brother Trump!"

Hearing his name being called, that unconscious warrior suddenly woke up and couldn't help but scream.

But this was also the last sound that he would ever make in this world.

The next moment, he stopped screaming as his back bumped hard onto the stone wall and blood came out through all his meridians.

Shi Yan's body was as forceful as a mountain because of the scary explosion power that he got from going mad. . He simply just bumped this guy to death onto the stone wall , and all of his bones broke into pieces.

"No! Little Joe!"

The leader couldn't help but howl. Seeing all his brothers die in such a horrible way one after another right in front of his eyes, he started to regret entering this cave for the first time.

He regretted that he ever provoked Shi Yan, this mad slaughterer; regretted even setting foot into The Dark Forest.

"Miss Mu, quick, pile up these bodies!"

Shi Yan took a harsh look on Mu Yu Die who had already completely lost her mind, and said with a cold voice, "If you don't want to die, then move quickly!"

Mu Yu Die couldn't help but tremble. Under those cold-blooded eyes of Shi Yan, she had to kneel down to deal with all these nasty bloody bodies and move these ugly broken body parts to a corner of the stone cave, piling them up one by one.

"Shi Yan, come help me!"

Di Yalan screamed, "This guy's Profound Qi is too strong. I cannot handle him for much longer!"

The demon beasts started to gather outside the stone cave, with waves of roaring and howling coming towards them. It seemed that before long, this valley would be covered with demon beasts. Of course Di Yalan understood the value of time. They must finish this fight and kill the leader as soon as possible.

"I'll be right there!"

Shi Yan rushed forward and stood right in front of Di Yalan facing the leader.

"Boom!"

The silver freezing light appeared again on the palm of the leadery, with another strike shooting right at Shi Yan's chest.

"Hey hey!"

Shi Yan put on a scary grin on his face. With the help of his Petrification Martial Spirit which had already reached the second stage, he took this hit just fine. Now thisleader was forced into a corner of the stone cave. There was no way for him to escape.

The phoenix made by the Blue Magic Flame took the chance and also flew over. It soon landed on the shoulder of the leader.

The flames surrounded and spread rapidly on the guy's shoulders just like a tendril of vines. Soon there was the smell of burning flesh on his shoulders. The flames became stronger and stronger, and then spread from his shoulders to his abdomen then to his waist, until burning his little brother under the belt.

"Ah!"

The lead guy started to scream with great pain. He started to hit Shi Yan like crazy, desperate to break Shi Yan's defense and get out of this cave.

"You tried so hard to get in, but now you wanna leave? Hey, hey, too late for that!"

Shi Yan put on his Dark Light Shield and used his Petrification Martial Spirit to block all his crazy attacks with a mocking grin on his face. Despite his terribly thin body, Shi Yan was standing there like a steady stone. No matter how hard the attacks were, he just stood there without moving an inch.

Di Yalan found an opportunity to get in. With her dagger in hand, she pierced one leg of the leader almost within a second.

"Please don't kill me! I've got the treasures we stole from the cave of the Silver Thunder Wolf. Please just let me go. I will give them all to you! Please!" The leader screamed and begged with his twisted face.

"I will take the treasures, and your life as well!"

Shi Yan put on a scary grin. Countless streams of white smoke suddenly wrapped tightly around this guy's body. And with this man's most terrified screams, Shi Yan pierced his throat with one finger.

The leader soon lost the light in his eyes. His body also started to become soft and fell onto the ground slowly.

Shi Yan didn't take another look on that man's body. He quickly turned around and looked at Mu Yu Die with a scary face. He cursed in a cold voice, "So useless! Still haven't finished with these bodies?"

Mu Yu Die was already pretty upset. She was trying very hard at dealing with these bodies. For a girl who hated nasty stuff like this, it was not an easy task to pile up all these bodies. Don't even expect her to be extra efficient, which was almost impossible.

Shi Yan didn't waste a lot words on her. He simply sniffed and piled up all the bodies himself with a frown on his face and blood all over his hands. He said with a cold voice, "The demon beasts are coming towards this valley together. Whether we can survive this still depends on God's will."

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Chapter 38 Spirit Level Martial Skills

Inside the cave, the bodies were piled up with all of their Profound Qi wiped clean.

Under the influence of Shi Yan's mysterious Martial Spirit, the bodies were not only drained of all their Profound Qi, but even the blood inside the corpses had solidified within a very short time.

With all their blood solidified, the bloody smell that once filled the entire cave was not as strong as before.

However, Shi Yan was still not satisfied with this.

After thinking it over, he quickly took out a packet of medicinal powder from his backpack and sprayed it all around the cave without hesitation.

This medicinal powder was called "Cleansing Powder", which had an extraordinary absorbing power, capable of capturing all the little impurities floating in the air, including toxins, smell and poisonous smoke.

After using one packet of "Cleansing Powder", the remaining bloody smell in the cave was instantly wiped clean like magic.

After capturing the bloody smell floating in the air, the "Cleansing Powder" had become dozens of little red particles which looked just like drops of blood, micronized into little atoms falling onto the ground.

"I need to find something to hide the cave entrance."

Although that bloody smell in the cave was now under control, Shi Yan was still a little bit worried. He started to cover the cave entrance with the nearby bushes and twigs.

Although the battle between the two groups was for the cave, both knew of the importance of the nearby foliage. As such, none of the nearby vegetation was moved or destroyed when approaching the cave.

However, with the eruption of the "Star Bomb", the bushes at the cave entrance were damaged and cut into pieces. Fortunately, the bushes near the cave entrance were still intact.

Now what Shi Yan needed to do was to move the bushes on each side to the middle of the cave entrance to perfectly cover the entire opening.

Shi Yan was breathing smoothly and paying great attention to his movements. He was acting with great caution and moving the bushes and leaves towards the entrance of the cave slowly, inch by inch, for fear that the demon beasts outside would discover something strange in this place.

With the roaring of the demon beasts getting more and more frequent, they sensed that God knows how many demon beasts had gathered in the valley outside the cave.

Shi Yan had a serious look on his face and was acting extremely nervous. Sweat was secretly coming out of his forehead. Even his back started to become wet with sweat.

When he finally dragged the last large bush into the cave entrance, even his arms were slightly trembling, as if he had made huge efforts to finish this job.

"Are you OK?" Di Yalan asked with care.

"It's nothing, I'm just a little tired."

Shi Yan shook his head. His face had turned extraordinarily pale. He stopped to think for a moment and then said, "You two be careful later. If we are ever found by those demon beasts, you must make every effort to guard the cave entrance!"

Di Yalan nodded and added with care, "Yeah, I get it. But what on earth has happened to you? I just saw you kicking the ass of that Warrior of the Human Level with my own eyes, but how come you've become so weak right now?"

"It's exactly because I made such great efforts to fight with him, that I've become so weak right now." Shi Yan sat down with his legs crossed and refused to give any more explanation.

At this critical time, surprisingly, he closed his eyes to rest!

This was actually the side effect of "Rampage" kicking off inside his body.

Every time he performed "Rampage", his body would suffer great pressure.

The Rampage Martial Skill required the excitation of all kinds of negative energy within one's meridians. The power of "Rampage" served as a double-edged sword, giving you power far beyond your own Level for a very short amount time, but on the other hand, also making you more exhausted afterwards.

After all, those negative energies were way too evil and creepy.

When these negative energies spilt over from his meridians, they were hurting his body as well. Every time when he finished "Rampage", he would be wrapped in waves of exhaustion, weakening his body very quickly.

Sitting right there in the cave, Shi Yan felt that both his arms and legs were weak and powerless. The meridians all over his body were also hurting like hell.

The Profound Qi he absorbed from those six fresh corpses had also rushed into his meridians, filling his body with wave after wave of strong power. While his meridians were processing and purifying this Profound Qi with high speed, the negative energies would take advantage of this to sneak out and slowly rot his mind and sanity.

At this moment, he couldn't do anything that required effort. His meridians were still busy processing and purifying all this new Profound Qi. If he couldn't relax his body, he wouldn't be able to achieve a quality recovery at all.

Therefore, he made a sensible decision to leave everything else alone. He just sat still, keeping a peaceful mind for the recovery.

Seeing him sitting and resting with both eyes closed, the other two women, Di Yalan and Mu Yu Die, also looked pretty serious. They concentrated on observing the movements outside the cave.

The demon beasts were still moving inside the valley. There were even some demon beasts around their cave and they seemed to be searching for something.

Both Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan were guarding the entrance of the cave very nervously. They didn't dare to take any chance to relax.

Di Yalan was holding her dagger firmly in her hand, looking outside warily through the gaps between the bushes covering the cave entrance, fearing that some demon beast would suddenly jump in.

They were both aware that demon beasts had an extremely sensitive sense of smell. They were worried that those beasts might find them through the bloody smell in the air. They knew that once their cave was discovered by any of those demon beasts, they had to guard this cave no matter what the price was.

"Deng! Deng!"

A three-headed hound was coming towards them with its three giant heads shaking in the air. It seemed to have found something. Its six eyes on its three heads were scanning around as if it had discovered something unusual.

Oh, crap!

Di Yalan suddenly changed the look on her face, grabbing her dagger even more firmly in her hand. With sweat pouring out of her palm, she focused on the three-headed hound with all of her attention and didn't dare to move her eyes away for a second.

Di Yalan was already extremely tense and was ready to start a fight at any time.

The three-headed hound was a Level Three demon beast, equaling a human Warrior of the Human Level, which was pretty tough to deal with.

Moreover, this demon beast possessed an extraordinarily sharp sense of smell. The bloody smell inside the cave might be able to fool other demon beasts, but it could not necessarily hide from this three-headed hound.

Due to her anxiety, Di Yalan's entire body became stiff and tense. Her hand which held the dagger was also shaking slightly, which meant that her Profound Qi was moving very fast through her veins and vessels.

"Aw!"

Right at that moment, a howl from the Silver Thunder Wolf came from the distance which alerted the whole valley and outmatched all the roaring and shouting of the other demon beasts.

"I am Gan Xiao from the Medicine Valley. I came to the Dark Forest simply to collect medicine for myself. I have never stepped into your cave! Silver Thunder Wolf, I know you are good, but I am not afraid of you. If you continue to harass and kill my people, I will not let you go easy!" A low dark voice came from the distance.

"Aw!"

The Silver Thunder Wolf started howling again in the distance.

Hearing this howling sound, the three-headed hound, which was about to approach the cave where the three of them were hiding, suddenly stopped right there.

It paused a little and quickly turned around, and started running towards the howling of the Silver Thunder Wolf in high speed.

Upon the howling of the Silver Thunder Wolf, the demon beasts gathered in the valley were also starting to take off, leaving the valley for the Silver Thunder Wolf.

The Silver Thunder Wolf and Gan Xiao seemed about to have a huge fight.

Di Yalan suddenly relaxed. She felt so weak that she sat right down on the ground with her body covered with sweat.

If only that three-headed hound had moved a little further forward, maybe even a couple of meters, then their cave would have definitely be compromised. And once that three-headed hound had discovered the cave, the other demon beasts in the valley would most definitely have followed it over here as well.

If that really happened, there was no way that the three of them could have ever escaped those demon beasts!

"Sister Lan, are you OK?" Mu Yu Die was wiping the sweat off her forehead with a handkerchief stained with blood. She also sat down on the ground with the stone wall behind her.

"It's OK." Di Yalan smiled softly, but still sighed. "We were very lucky back then. If the Silver Thunder Wolf didn't have its eyes on Gan Xiao from the Medicine Valley and didn't suddenly call for all the demon beasts to gather around it, I am afraid that we wouldn't have been able to make it through this."

"Yeah, I was also pretty scared just now." Mu Yu Die's pretty face also looked quite pale. She added in a low voice, "I was even prepared to commit suicide back then."

"Don't ever have that thought unless we have no other options."

Shi Yan sniffed. He suddenly opened his eyes, and ordered with a frown, "If you have no better things to do, how about searching through the bags and pockets of those six warriors? Just to see what kind of treasure they had stolen from the cave of that Silver Thunder Wolf."

Hearing him saying this, Di Yalan's eyes suddenly lit up. She agreed with excitement, "That's right! The Silver Thunder Wolf is a Level Seven demon beast, a top level creature within the Dark Forest! It is said that the Silver Thunder Wolf is a highly intelligent creature, and that it has killed dozens of high level warriors in the Dark Forest. It must have collected many treasures from those dead warriors and stored them inside its cave. The treasures those warriors have stolen must be extraordinary!"

"I heard that there is a practice method for a Spirit Level Martial Skill…" Shi Yan said with a cool voice.

"He!" Di Yalan replied with her face filled with joy and her beautiful eyes lit up with excitement, "Spirit Level Martial Skills are very rare. Even for the royal families from our Fire Empire, there are only five kinds of Spirit Level Martial Skills. Any practice method for a Spirit Level Martial Skill would be worth millions, and countless big families would even be willing to kill for it."

"Then you should really search through them very carefully." Shi Yan nodded and closed his eyes again, seemingly having something on his mind.

Of course he knew how precious so-called Spirit Level Martial Skills were.

Across the Fire Empire, the God-blessed Empire, and the Merchant Union, there were around 100 warriors who had reached the Earth Level and the Nirvana Level for a warrior. However, among all these 100 warriors, those with Spirit Level Martial Skills only counted for a quarter of those warriors!

And among that quarter, some were even studying and practicing the same kind of Spirit Level Martial Skills.

According to the rumor, across the entire the Fire Empire, the God-blessed Empire, and the Merchant Union, there were only 18 kinds of Spirit Level Martial Skills that were already known to the humankind.

And each and every kind of those Spirit Level Martial Skills were all possessed by various powerful families or warriors that ruled their own little kingdoms.

Such as the Shi Family.

The Shi Family had possessed various kinds of Martial Skills, such as for the Mortal Level and the Sacred Level. However, it only had one kind of Martial Skill of the Spirit Level, which the Master of the Family, Shi Jian, believed to be the most precious family treasure. Even the his own descendants had no idea where he had kept that Spirit Level Martial Skill.

"It seems we are in huge luck!"

Di Yalan's eyes were filled with joy. She dug out the backpack of the warrior leader with excitement and didn't waste any time opening it.

A strong wave of silver light started to shine out from his backpack. The stone cave that was once buried in darkness was suddenly lit up and became as bright as the outside!

"Wow!"

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Chapter 39 Three types of Flames

Three shining crystals appeared from the bag and brightly lit the cave.

One of them was rhombus shaped and the other two were oval shaped. They all looked crystal clear and were diffusing waves.

Obviously there was an extraordinary energy hidden within them.

"Demon Crystals!"

Di Yalan screamed with joy.

"Ahhh!"

Mu Yu Die shouted after her and said joyfully, "Seems we are so lucky that we've been bestowed with Demon Crystals! Hehe, if we can get out of the Dark Forest alive we could spend the rest of our lives in luxury with these three Demon Crystals."

Di Yalan squatted and began to examine the three Demon Crystals carefully. After a long time, she observed, "They must be from Level Six demon beasts, but I can hardly tell what Demon Beasts they are from."

"Sister Lan, I have heard that demon beasts can directly absorb the energy in Demon Crystals. The Silver Thunder Wolf owned these Demon Crystals. Why didn't it didn't take the energy inside of them to strengthen itself? "

"It is said that the Silver Thunder Wolf gave birth to a pup and the best way for it to grow up is to absorb the energy in Demon Crystals. If it is true, then I guess the three Demon Crystals from these Level Six demon beasts were prepared by the Silver Thunder Wolf for its pup."

"Could be."

"The energy in Demon Crystals is the best material for alchemists and blacksmiths. They can easily tell what demon beast the Demon Crystal is from in just one look. Hmm, three Demon Crystals. We can have one each, right?"

"I didn't help so I can't take one."

Mu Yu Die shook her head, and she took a glimpse at Shi Yan who was training with his eyes closed. "I think you two should share them. If it hadn't been for me, you wouldn't have got into trouble..."

"Let's discuss this after he wakes up." Di Yalan frowned, and continued to dig in the bag.

"Ah!"

With another exclamation, Di Yalan took out a transparent jade bottle from the bag which was on the ground. She suddenly lost her train of thought as she stared at the red liquid inside.

The liquid in the jade bottle was like a flame. As Di Yalan shook it gently, the flame also danced to the rhythm.

Di Yalan seemed to recall something as she stared at the liquid in the jade bottle.

After a long time, Di Yalan's thin body trembled and she screamed, " Earth Core Flame Essence!"

"Congratulations Sister Lan!"

Mu Yu Die was stunned at first, then she realized something and yelled happily, "Sister Lan, it will benefit you the most! Haha! You really harvested a lot from this journey. You have not only awoken your Martial Spirit, but you've also gotten this Earth Core Flame Essence."

Di Yalan was so delighted that she couldn't help but keep nodding her head excitedly as she shook the jade bottle in her hand. She babbled incoherently, "I, I've never expected that I would be so lucky! Ha! It's Earth Core Flame Essence!"

Just then, Shi Yan finished three Big Circulations after training silently for a long time. He opened his eyes and asked, "This Earth Core Flame Essence, what does it have to do with you?"

"What? How come you don't know about Earth Core Flame Essence?" Di Yalan exclaimed in surprise, "It is common sense! Hell! Are you a warrior or not?"

Shi Yan was quite indifferent. "I'm all ears."

"Do you know there are three types of flames? As in Sky, Earth and Human?"

"Not really."

"What? You don't even know about that?"

"Nope."

Di Yalan shook her head bitterly for she totally had no idea about Shi Yan.

After a short pause, she explained leisurely, "The three types of flames refer to Human Flames, Earth Flames and Sky Flames. Human Flames, like my Blue Magic Flame, are the magical flames in human warriors, which is a vital factor for alchemists and blacksmiths to train with. Every high-level alchemist or blacksmith owns a Human Flame, because only it can raise their skill to the highest."

Shi Yan nodded without a reply, and didn't move his eyes away from Di Yalan.

After a short hesitation, Di Yalan added, "Earth Flames and Sky Flames exist between the earth and sky, such as the Earth Core Flame in the center of the earth and the Volcano Core Flame from the bottom of a volcano, and are formed naturally. The difference between Earth Flames and Sky Flames, is that the latter has a consciousness."

"What does that mean?" Shi Yan was intrigued.

"Natural flames without a consciousness are called Earth Flames, which are regarded as a treasure like precious stones. As for a Sky Flame, it can think, just like humankind. It is immortal and has magical power, which is the most special life entity in this world. Some Sky Flames were formed at the beginning of the Grace Mainland."

Though Shi Yan still looked indifferent, this stirred a storm in his mind.

He was a foreigner to this world and all the knowledge he obtained from his own world was totally different from that of this world.

Before, he had never thought that these flames could even think and have wisdom.

Hearing that, Shi Yan got to know the magical charm of this world more profoundly.

In this world, he met many mysterious things which he had never even dreamt of, such as Martial Spirits, demon beasts, and so forth...

"So this Earth Core Flame Essence is an Earth Flame?" After thinking for a long while, Shi Yan finally asked.

"This is the leftover liquid after an Earth Core Flame turned into a Sky Flame. It's neither Earth Flame nor Sky Flame, but something in between." "

"An Earth Flame can turn into a Sky Flame?" Shi Yan was shocked again.

"Of course, millions of years is a long time. Over time, Earth Flames have the chance to gain consciousnesses and turn into a Sky Flame, but the possibility is very small. Not all Earth Flames have the chance for evolution."

Di Yalan was amused, "But this is the liquid left behind before the Earth Core Flame turned into a Sky Flame. This liquid is very precious for people owning Human Flames."

"How precious?"

"It can enhance the Human Flame and improve one's Martial Spirit!" Di Yalan was so joyful that she was almost about to dance. "A Human Flame is from one's body and can't be hotter than the flames in nature. Only top level warriors can make their Human Flames as hot as those in the natural world after strengthening them several times"

"Got it." Shi Yan nodded, "So this liquid can enhance your Blue Magic Flame and give it the temperature of an Earth Flame?"

"That's it!" Di Yalan nodded vigorously and stared at him with her shining eyes. After a hesitation, she said in shame, "Uhh..."

"Well, don't worry. It's yours."

"I..." Di Yalan was delighted. She felt that she gained some extra advantage and wanted to say something.

Shi Yan replied peacefully, "Earth Core Flame Essence is of no use for me and I don't even possess a Martial Spirit. What do I need it for? Just take it with you."

"But you can trade for any valuable medicine you want from the three Medicine Kings in Medicine Valley with this liquid."

"Well, you keep it then." Shi Yan frowned and said casually, "There was a book on the Martial Skills of Spirit Level?"

Hearing Shi Yan's reminder, Di Yalan began to search in the bag again hurriedly.

"This is it." Di Yalan took out a dark yellow ancient book. She glanced at it and said, "I can't read these ancient characters. We need to find some specialist to translate it for us."

"Let me have a look." Shi Yan asked for the book naturally as he stretched out his hand.

The previous owner of Shi Yan's body was a big fan of ancient things. Though he knew nothing about martial arts, he was much better than most so-called scholars in this world when it came to ancient languages and historic sites.

Shi Yan took a glimpse at the ancient letters on the book cover as soon as he got the reddish ancient book and mumbled the word naturally, "Gravitational Field..."

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Chapter 40 Sharing the Treasure

"You know these ancient letters?" Di Yalan couldn't help but shout in surprise.

"Yeah, just a little."

Shi Yan nodded, but he didn't take a closer look at the contents of the book. He just held the book in his arms casually and said with a cool voice, "You take the bottle of Earth Core Flame Essence, and I will take this practice book for Spirit Level Martial Skills."

Di Yalan nodded to show her agreement. The bottle of Earth Core Flame Essence was indeed extremely precious for her. She was already on top of the world with that little bottle of liquid in her hand.

"But what about these three Demon Crystals?"

After a while, Di Yalan asked again. And this time, while she was talking, she gave a quick glimpse toMu Yu Die on her side, with a pretty complicated message in her eyes.

Shi Yan had already got his book of Spirit Level Martial Skill, which was obviously worth millions. However, until now, only Mu Yu Die hadn't got anything.

Those three Demon Crystals were apparently not as valuable as the Earth Core Flame Essence or the Skill book. Therefore, Di Yalan intended to give those Demon Crystals to Mu Yu Die. However, she was worried that Shi Yan might be against this decision. That's why she said this to gauge Shi Yan's reaction.

"Then give them to Miss Mu. I'm OK with that."

Of course Shi Yan knew what Di Yalan was up to. He said calmly, "We cannot leave Miss Mu with nothing. We have both got what we want. How about giving those three Demon Crystals to Miss Mu?"

"Sure, I'm also fine with this." Di Yalan smiled with satisfaction. She was quite glad to see Shi Yan being so understanding and considerate.

Mu Yu Die looked a little surprised at Shi Yan's words. She stared at Shi Yan for a moment, and then shook her head and replied with an awkward smile, "I didn't do anything helpful and have been depending on your protection all this time. I cannot take these three Demon Crystals."

"Die…" Di Yalan wanted to say something but hesitated.

"No, I cannot take them." Mu Yu Die looked pretty determined. She shook her head firmly, and started to tease herself, "I have become a burden for you. You almost lost your lives protecting me. How can I take these three Demon Crystals? Sister Lan, Ding Yan, I know you are being very kind to me, but I would feel ashamed to take these Demon Crystals."

"Then just take one of them." Shi Yan said after some hesitation, "Anyway, you must take one of these Demon Crystals. We cannot take such advantage of you."

"Yes, at least take one of them." Di Yalan also insisted.

Seeing the two of them both insisting on this, Mu Yu Die found it very hard to deny their kindness any more. She nodded after some hesitation and said, "Well, thanks a lot for your generosity!"

Shi Yan stopped talking and closed his eyes again, going back to operate the Profound Qi inside his body for recovery.

When he cleared his mind and concentrated on the inside, he could clearly feel the changes going on in his body.

He didn't know why, but somehow, just by sitting there, he could feel the pain and soreness in his muscles were quickly disappearing.

Shi Yan cleared his mind and focused himself completely on the changes his body was going through.

Suddenly, there was a flash of lightning in his mind. His spirit suddenly lit up and it seemed he had realized something.

This is the Immortal Martial Spirit!

Inside his body, his flesh, muscles, bones, veins, organs and entrails were all undergoing subtle changes.

The Immortal Martial Spirit had been secretly repairing his body in a way that he could never understand. His weakness due to breaking out of "Rampage" was also gradually returning to normal.

Shi Yan was extremely surprised. He realized that the Immortal Martial Spirit could not only recover his wounds, but also offset most of the side effects that he had been suffering from "Rampage"!

Without the help of the Immortal Martial Spirit, he was almost certain that he would be unable to confront any opponents for the next three days after using "Rampage".

However, thanks to the Immortal Martial Spirit, this was no longer the case.

With the help of the Immortal Martial Spirit, the soreness and fatigue in his body was slowly disappearing.

Judging from the condition of his body right now, it would at most, take one more day for him to recover half of his power. There would be no problem for him to engage in another fight with the enemy then.

However, just at that moment when he was gloating in secret, a sudden strong wave of evil and crazy killing intent flared up from the bottom of his heart.

This explosion of his negative energy was as fierce as a tsunami and was more destructive than ever!

Streams of energy mixed with desperation, fear and resentment were rushing out from the meridians all over his body. They had transformed into waves of spiritual power, roaring through his mind, corrupting his thoughts with an overwhelming force, and altering his morals and personality!

This time, he had absorbed the Profound Qi from all four Nascent Warriors as well as the two Warriors of the Human Level. When the six of them breathed their last breath, Shi Yan was right there with them in this stone cave.

Therefore, he had captured all the Profound Qi coming from the six warriors without missing a drop, which was way thicker and stronger than all the Profound Qi that he had absorbed before.

Therefore, the backlash this time was also fiercer than ever.

Although Shi Yan was still sitting there, his breath started to get heavier and heavier, and his body started to tremble slightly. His body was wrapped in a thick web of killing intent, making him appear even more evil to the others.

After a few minutes, he guessed that he couldn't resist this force any more. He suddenly opened his eyes and stared at Di Yalan with desire burning in his eyes. He said in a very low voice, "I'm having that weird thing happen to my body again!"

Di Yalan was stunned for one moment, and then quickly blushed all of a sudden. She said to Mu Yu Die in a low voice, "Die, you… you turn around, and don't look."

Mu Yu Die's face also quickly went red. She bit her lips a little, turned to the entrance of the cave with her back towards those two people, and said, "You two be quiet. Please don't draw the attention of those demon beasts here. I… I'll be staying here at the entrance."

"Em." Di Yalan answered with a very low voice and then quickly threw herself into Shi Yan's arms.

Shortly after, inside the cave, a slapping rhythm could be heard.

After a long time, with a deep moaning and trembling of the body, Shi Yan released his climax inside Di Yalan's body.

From the meridians all over his body, there suddenly sprung streams of magical power.

This strange power was wandering around inside his body randomly, with only a small part of it shooting into Di Yalan's body together with his essence. Most of this strange power was still rushing and bumping around inside his veins and vessels, filling his entire body.

Shi Yan suddenly opened his eyes.

He pulled up his pants and left Di Yalan, who was still enjoying her moment of bliss, lying on the ground. He quickly went towards Mu Yu Die and said, "Miss Mu, quick, come here!"

Mu Yu Die was completely shocked by his actions, and couldn't help moving back. Her pretty face instantly went pale. She cried out with horror, "No! Don't come close!"

"The magical power inside my body has just spilled out a little!" Shi Yan was moving towards Mu Yu Die with a heavy panting, and said impatiently, "I am trying my best to control it right now. Let me try and see if I can share some of it with you in order to help you recover your broken veins and muscles inside your body!"

"No way!" Mu Yu Die started screaming, "No, no, no, I'm not ready yet! I don't want to do that with you! Don't come close!"

"I didn't mean that!" Shi Yan roared with a low voice.

He could feel the magical power split into dozens of streams, roaming around inside his body across his muscles, veins, flesh and blood, nurturing his Martial Spirits and Profound Qi in his abdomen respectively.

With this speed, before long, this magical power would be dispersed all over his body and absorbed entirely.

Shi Yan was concentrating more than ever right now. He forcibly blocked a small part of this strange power inside his arm. He was hanging onto this magical power very tightly and planned to inject this part of the power into Mu Yu Die's body through the spillover of his Profound Qi.

Seeing Mu Yu Die continuously backing away, Shi Yan got extremely impatient. He suddenly took a step forward and grabbed Mu Yu Die tightly into his arms.

With the soft and nicely curved body of Mu Yu Die suddenly taken into his arms, a refreshing and sweet fragrance instantly kissed his face tenderly, making his spirit excited all of a sudden.

"Let go of me!" Mu Yu Die didn't buy Shi Yan's theory at all. She was hitting Shi Yan's chest intensely with her little fists, and struggling with all her might.

However, with all of her veins and muscles broken, she couldn't manage to use her Profound Qi smoothly.

With all her power being void, she was no different from a weak fragile little girl, and couldn't break out of Shi Yan's arms even a little.

"Stop struggling! Just be quiet!" Shi Yan locked up his arms even tighter and forced her delicious and delicate body tightly against his own, leaving her no room to struggle.

At that moment, Shi Yan made the magical power inside his arms quickly rush towards his wrists, all the way through his palms, and into the veins and muscles on Mu Yu Die's back.

"Now, try your best to move this power to your broken veins and muscles! Quick!" With Mu Yu Die locked up in his arms, Shi Yan quickly whispered into her delicate ears.

Mu Yu Die's ears twitched a lot, and her sweet body couldn't help trembling. She was silently cursing Shi Yan as a bastard in her heart.

However, she clearly felt two strange waves of power flowing into her body through Shi Yan's palms and circling inside the veins and muscles in her back.

Under Shi Yan's harsh order, Mu Yu Die finally became quiet and stopped her struggling. She started to make her best efforts to feel the magical power inside her body, take control of it, and use it for the recovery of her broken veins and muscles.

Holding Mu Yu Die tightly in his arms, feeling the delicious curves of her body, smelling the sweet fragrance from her body, Shi Yan was suddenly distracted and starting to entertain some dirty thoughts in his mind. He couldn't help the excitement coming from his lower body.

"Ah!"

Mu Yu Die screamed with embarrassment. She said in a hurry with a blushed face, "Let go of me now! You... acting like this… I … I cannot calm myself down."

"Well, I will let you go for now." Shi Yan knew that this was not the right time for him to take advantage of her. He nodded and slightly kissed Mu Yu Die's cheek, "I will take this as a reward for offering you this magical power as a gift."

After these words, Shi Yan released Mu Yu Die from his arms and took a few steps back. He then sat down against the stone wall and slowly closed his eyes.

Mu Yu Die's entire face was completely red. She was both embarrassed and annoyed at the same time. She glared at Shi Yan with anger and cursed, "You dirty bastard!"

After this, with her beautiful bosoms heaving up and down, Mu Yu Die took a few deep breaths before finally calming down.

She understood that given this critical situation, she couldn't afford to waste any time on blaming Shi Yan. She also quickly sat down and tried to use the magical power that she got from Shi Yan to restore the broken veins and muscles inside her body.

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Chapter 41 The Third Sky of Nascent Level

It was silent outside the valley.

The demon beasts had left a long time ago.

It was already daytime, as the sunlight filtered into the cave through thick bushes like fire.

The three were training cross-legged on the ground with steady breaths.

Not knowing how much time had passed, Shi Yan woke up from the serenity. He stood up, stretched his neck and tried to move his body.

The Third Sky of Nascent Level!

With a deep breath, Shi Yan felt refreshed and his fatigue disappeared at once, while his senses became much more accurate.

With the help of the magical power, Shi Yan's training speed advanced as fast as a shooting arrow, and he increased to the Third Sky of Nascent Level at once!

Standing at the entrance of the cave, he was dimly able to perceive the spiritual scent between the sky and the earth.

He couldn't smell the spiritual scent in the air before. But now, it was all so clear to him that he could sense it easily.

To perceive the spiritual scent in the air was something only Third Sky of Nascent Level warriors could manage. Once he perceived the spiritual scent, he could train his martial skills faster with its help.

As soon as he willed it, his body turned as hard as iron immediately, while his skin turned dark brown and was covered with a vague black light which was similar to the state when he operated his Black Light Shield.

"Er?"

Shi Yan was a little surprised. After a careful examination, he was certain that he wasn't even utilizing his Black Light Shield with Profound Qi.

This was to say, the dark light covering the skin was merely the reaction to reaching the second stage of Petrification Martial Spirit.

He smiled after further examination, knowing that the magical change to his skin must have something to do with his Martial Spirit.

It was rather bright in the cave now. Shi Yan's black eyes blinked and began to wander to Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan's bodies.

Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan were still sitting on the ground cross-legged with tightly closed eyes. There was a vague light moving around their bodies, as their Profound Qi operated in their bodies along specific paths.

He had injected part of the magical power into Mu Yu Die's body, because he wanted to know if this magical power could be passed on to others without sexual intercourse.

And also, he wanted more help. He was not sure how many foes he would meet during the upcoming journey. It would affect their travel if Mu Yu Die still needed protection.

As Di Yalan had said, Mu Yu Die was also a warrior before her tendons broke. If Mu Yu Die recovered, it would be very beneficial for their journey ahead.

Because of those thoughts, he gave that small part of the magical power to her.

Holding his breath, Shi Yan focused his attention on Mu Yu Die. Suddenly, he felt a strong Profound Qi circulating in her body.

A little surprised, he couldn't help but take several glances at her. After a further thought, he got even more confused...

To his amazement, Mu Yu Die's Profound Qi was more refined than Di Yalan's, which meant… Mu Yu Die was a higher level than Di Yalan!

Shi Yan was really shocked. He knew Mu Yu Die was a warrior too, but he thought she was no more than Nascent Level.

After all, Mu Yu Die was much younger than Di Yalan, thus there was no way she could be a higher-leveled warrior than Di Yalan.

But it turned out to be quite the opposite. Shi Yan finally realized that Mu Yu Die was already a Human-Level warrior at such young age. It was an entire level higher than Di Yalan!

As he was standing there stunned, he acutely felt that Mu Yu Die's Profound Qi was calming down gradually.

He knew that Mu Yu Die was about to wake up...

As expected, before long, Mu Yu Die's eyelashes shook and she opened her eyes slowly.

Two clean and bright eyes suddenly observed the cave, and Mu Yu Die's delicate little face lit up. She looked like an extremely beautiful and attractive angel in the wood.

Shi Yan was dumbstruck as he gazed at such a beautiful creature. He couldn't even think straight.

"Done staring?" Mu Yu Die looked indifferent as she stood up slowly. After stretching herself, she chuckled, "From now on, I'm not your burden anymore."

Streams of thin white light flew out from her arms as she was stretching her body. The light soon disappeared in the air...

As Mu Yu Die moved her fingers slowly in the air, the light showed up again little by little, and began to shuttle between her smooth fingers.

"I haven't played my zither for so long. Need a practice now." Mu Yu Die smiled. That smile was like a clean brook in a valley, serene, empty and intoxicating.

"You are much prettier than before." Gazing at her for a long while, Shi Yan uttered.

With her veins connected and the Profound Qi of the top of Human Level flowing in the body, her skin became extremely translucent, while her face turned rosy and her eyes brightened. Mu Yu Die looked so confident that nothing in the world could terrify her.

With her strength regained, Mu Yu Die seemed to have turned into another person that she was much more attractive than before.

At this moment, in Shi Yan eyes, Mu Yu Die was literally far prettier than Di Yalan and Mo Yanyu. Both her level and temperament transcended those two girls.

"Thanks." Mu Yu Die smiled casually, "How long has it been?"

"Two days, I guess." Shi Yan hesitated, "I'm not sure either. I just feel that we have stayed in the cave for more than one day. You recovered?"

"Yes." Mu Yu Die nodded confidently, "Let's leave this cave and set off after Sister Lan wake up."

"Ok." Shi Yan replied casually, and felt a little bitter.

Before, though Mu Yu Die was too naive and too kind, she was quite adorable, just like a lovely little sister.

Though Mu Yu Die became more attractive after regaining her energy, her cuteness disappeared, and on the contrary, she made Shi Yan feel some holiness from her, which made Shi Yan a little disappointed.

Disappointed, Shi Yan didn't bother to say anything. Instead, he walked out of the cave and began to wander in the valley.

Taking out the book "Gravitational Field" on Spirit Level Martial Skills out of his bag, he turned the pages randomly. Without reading it carefully, he put the book into the bag scrupulously, he was now sure that there were letters in the book.

Spirit Level Martial Skills could only be trained by warriors of at least Earth Level. But he was just a Nascent Level warrior now, which was a long way from Earth Level. Without advancing, to train with the Spirit Level Martial at a low warrior level would only disturb one's mind.

Because of that reason, Shi Yan put the book away after he was assured it was authentic.

A half day later, Di Yalan and Mu Yu Die walked out of the cave together. They were clean, dressed and high spirited, ready to set off.

"Kid, thank you. I've stabilised my level now." Di Yalan said loudly after she got out.

It was rather dangerous a short time after one reached a new level. The warrior needed strengthen his Profound Qi as soon as possible, or he would be hurt in fights and training while his level was still unstable.

The essence from Shi Yan took effect again in Mu Yu Die's body, which stabilised her level, and enabled her to fight without any fear of backlash.

"Well then, let's set off." Not intending to boast, Shi Yan smiled naturally, and guided them out of the valley.

Seven days later.

The three of them finally stepped out of the enormous Dark Forest.

Looking at the huge ancient trees behind them, they all felt themselves lucky survivors of a disaster.

In those seven days, they never got into any danger.

The warriors and mercenaries in the Dark Forest had either died or were wounded, not daring to stay in that dangerous area. The demon beasts led by the Silver Thunder Wolf had also calmed down and didn't show up again.

Since the demon beasts and mercenaries were quiet, their journey became magically smooth. Without meeting any obstacles, they went through the most dangerous area and stepped out of the Dark Forest.

They need to pass Silent Town if they were going to the Merchant Union, and they must cross the wide Stone Woods to get to the Silent Woods.

The stones in the Stone Woods were all grotesque in shape, which were either as big as a mountain, or as small as a human. In addition, there were also many stone caves, which were natural shelters.

There were always brutal warriors lurking in the Stone Woods, killing and trading.

Those walking out of the Dark Forest were trade caravans, or warriors and mercenaries who were seeking adventure.

Merchants from foreign countries must have goods with them, while those adventurous warriors and mercenaries, who could get out of the Dark Forest alive, must have medicines and materials from demon beasts.

These people all had something valuable with them...

Therefore, there were people hiding in the Stone Woods for years, who would show up if they found their prey was weak and harvest their goods after a nasty slaughter.

Thus, sometimes the Stone Woods were more dangerous than the Dark Forest. A single man who stepped into it, unless he was a Disaster Level warrior, would always get into trouble.

"The Stone woods is very dangerous. Maybe the people from the Dark World are lurking there..." Di Yalan thought for a while and reminded Mu Yu Die.

"Someone will come to our aid in the Stone Woods, no worries."Mu Yu Die smiled and looked back at Shi Yan, "You are going into the Stone Woods?"

"Yup. I'm from the Merchant Union, of course I will go back there. " Shi Yan replied.

"Good. Then let's go there together. You will be safe with us in the Stone Woods." Mu Yu Die looked confident, and before Shi Yan replied, she added, "let's go into the Stone Woods. Don't worry, we are safe now."

"Ok." Shi Yan replied. Though he didn't relax. Once they stepped into the Stone Woods, he was always on alert.

From the memories of the other Shi Yan, he knew it was chaos in the Stone Woods. All the powerful parties were involved in it, including the big families from the Merchant Union.

He didn't know what Mu Yu Die had that made her so confident. But he knew they would be killed in an instant if they weren't cautious.

Shi Yan kept calm as he looked around in the woods. Every five steps, he would turn back and examine carefully.

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Chapter 42 Departure

In the Stone Woods. Beside a giant rock.

Mo Chaoge, Bernard, and the Crescent Emissary were standing indifferently, seeming to wait for some news.

Before long, a Star Emissary appeared on the stone path far away, who was heading in their direction hurriedly.

That Star Emissary came near and bowed to the Crescent Emissary, "Sir, still no trace of them."

The Crescent Emissary nodded, and waved his hand, "Keep watching those passes! Be on alert!"

"Yes Sir!"

The Star Emissary who was in charge of collecting information stepped back silently and disappeared into the piles of stones.

One hour later.

Big Johnson, who had lost his arm, showed up from another stone path. He walked up to Mo Chaoge and gave a salute, "No news of them."

"Well." Mo Chaoge nodded, "Keep watching. I just don't believe that they won't come out."

"Third master, is it possible that they were already killed by the demon beasts in the Dark Forest?" Johnson asked after a hesitation, "It is said that the demon beasts in that area went crazy after we left. Many warriors died because of them. They disappeared for so long, maybe they were killed by those demon beasts."

"Could be."

Surprisingly, Mo Chaoge didn't oppose, but nodded and said, "But if they were not killed by demon beasts and slipped through to the Merchant Union, we can do nothing anymore. You know what I mean?"

"Got it! I will go and watch right now!" Johnson was enlightened and left immediately.

Frowning, Mo Chaoge said to the Crescent Emissary next to him, "Let's wait for another month, if they still don't show up, I guess they must have been killed in there. What do you think?"

"Well, I agree with you." The Crescent Emissary agreed. He thought for a moment and said, "I got the information that the Medicine King Gan Xiao and the Silver Thunder Wolf are still fighting in the Dark Forest. But since there are too many demon beasts, Gan Xiao seemed to begin to withdraw. The demon beasts in the Dark Forest have now all gathered around the Silver Thunder Wolf, chasing the Medicine King Gan Xiao and his escorts. That battle area is relatively safe now."

"You mean they may still be alive?" Mo Chaoge asked.

"Very likely." The Crescent Emissary said, "Many warriors were killed in that region, and those not being killed had been scared out of the forest a long time ago. Therefore they can easily get out of the forest alive if they are not unlucky."

"They'd better be alive!" Bernard from the Tush Mercenary Union was filled with hatred as he said coldly, "They will regret being in this world."

A cold light flashed in the Crescent Emissary's eyes, as he said indifferently, "I will take Mu Yu Die away."

"Then that skinny boy is mine. He stole something from my Mo Family, so I need to get it first. Then you can do whatever you want to him." Mo Chaoge took a glimpse at Bernard, and said in despise.

Bernard kept silent, pondering on something that no one knew.

Shi Yan was walking on the jagged stones cautiously, not daring to relax his vigilance.

Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan were discussing something ahead of him. He couldn't hear them clearly.

"Ding Yan." Mu Yu Die paused abruptly and turned around to look at him.

"Yeah?" Shi Yan was surprised and relaxed his vigilance a little, "What's the matter?"

"You are from the Merchant Union?" Mu Yu Die hesitated and then asked casually.

"Yup."

"You trained all by yourself?"

"Yup."

"You helped me a lot all along the way, so I want to introduce you to someone. If he thinks highly of you, it will be very beneficial for your training. What do you think?" Mu Yu Die was serious, as her beautiful eyes shone and gazed at him.

Shi Yan was shocked at first, and after a long while, he shook his head and replied indifferently, "Miss Mu, thank you for your kindness, but I don't like to be restrained."

He understood, Mu Yu Die wanted to introduce him to an influential person or to a certain power.

In this world there were many single warriors who were at a very high level and could do whatever they wanted without any help.

But most warriors would choose to attach themselves to a certain power or a big family.

Those powers and families possessed lots of resources, immense Martial Skills and training materials, and most importantly, reputed warrior trainers, which could speed up one's training process and step into a higher level.

However, those influential powers and families hardly admitted unknown warriors. It was very hard for a warrior to enter a big power without anyone's introduction.

Apparently Mu Yu Die knew someone influential and she wanted to thank Shi Yan in that way.

"It is very hard to train all by yourself." Mu Yu Die was a little shocked, as she couldn't understand Shi Yan. "One could gain rapid advancement only when he joins a strong power, and could get help at difficult times. A single warrior tends to be attacked in foreign areas. You understand that?"

"Yes, to train alone has many disadvantages. Die is very considerate. You still have the chance to reject after meeting that person." Di Yalan persuaded too.

"Nope. I'll mind my own business, and I don't want to be anyone's domestic servant." Shi Yan shook his head firmly.

"Then whatever." Mu Yu Die frowned and felt that Shi Yan was being ungrateful, though she didn't insist.

Di Yalan sighed, with a little bit of bitterness.

She would go with Mu Yu Die, and since Shi Yan rejected Mu Yu Die's invitation, they would depart forever, for there was little chance they would meet again.

In the past few days, Shi Yan had already walked into her heart. She was filled with sorrow at the thought of their departure.

"Ding Yan, I must go with Die. You..."

After a long thought, Di Yalan couldn't help but plead, as she looked at Shi Yan with regret.

"You can go with me." Shi Yan was stunned, then added, "If you are willing to."

"I..."

Di Yalan looked gloomy as she murmured, "The power behind Die can not only protect Die, but also help me increase my ability. Furthermore, Die has promised me that I will get exorbitant training materials, as well as a weapon of the Soul Level, and will even have the opportunity to train with Spirit Level Martial Skills. I..."

"Then fine!"

Shi Yan replied decidedly, "You have your own pursuits, so do I. And I can't give you what you want… Let's depart as soon as we get to Silent Town."

Obviously Di Yalan chose Mu Yu Die because she thought the power at Mu's back was more beneficial for her. And Mu Yu Die really gave her a high price, so she found it hard to refuse.

"Ding Yan..." Di Yalan was heartbroken, "I'm sorry."

"You don't need to apologize." Shi Yan shook his head and replied indifferently, "We did everything at our own will. We don't owe each other."

"You!" Di Yalan was a little angry as she stared at Shi Yan with discontent. Her chest trembled, but then she uttered with a bitter sigh, "However you think about it, I have my own plans. You are too young to understand that..."

Shi Yan curled his lips and looked at them coldly, not saying a word.

"You just don't appreciate it." Mu Yu Die grunted.

"If there isn't a common ground, a single word is a waste of breath." Shi Yan shook his head and walked onto another crossroad without taking a look at the two girls. His back to them, he said coldly, "Goodbye forever."

"Ding Yan!" Di Yalan shouted, "Didn't you say we wouldn't depart till we get to Silent Town?"

"Miss Mu is at the Third Sky of Human Level, and there will be skillful warriors supporting you in the Woods. You don't need to worry anymore. I won't take advantage of that." Shi Yan's sound faded away gradually, and so did his figure.

"This arrogant guy will get into trouble someday." Mu Yu Die shook her head, "One has to learn to yield sometimes in this world. Or it will be hard to survive, especially for us warriors."

Di Yalan was so disappointed, "I'm so worried about him. Why not just go with us? Why did he refuse?"

"Never mind. Stop worrying. We all will be in the Merchant Union, and will get the chance to meet again." Mu Yu Die comforted her, "Sister Lan, though we are women, we have a mission to make our family prosper and avenge Uncle Luo and our friends. We have to depend on a big power and complete our mission."

After a short pause, some mixed emotions crossed her eyes. Mu Yu Die recalled the days when they were travelling with Shi Yan and that mind-blowing kiss with him in that cave...

But eventually, she shook her head firmly, seeming to get rid of Shi Yan's shadow in her mind. "And him, just let him be a beautiful memory in our lives."

She seemed to say that to herself.

"He is not that bad… almost Human Level… and he is so young..." Di Yalan mumbled.

"It will take at least ten years for him to advance to Disaster or Earth Level, and even longer to get to Nirvana and Sky. We don't have that much time. Furthermore, he is on his own, without any strong support..."

"Well, fine. I hope we made the right choice."

"I've never made a mistake!"

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Chapter 43 Beiming Family

In the Stone Woods.

Mo Yanyu was leaning her plump behind against an oval rock under the hot sun. Frowning slightly, she seemed to be deep in thought.

A Mo Family escort with a plain and pimply face was standing next to her and was also deep in thought while narrowing his eyes.

The sound of inconsistent heavy steps gradually came from afar.

Mo Yanyu opened her eyes and fluttered her eyelashes. She glanced at Johnson, who was rapidly running towards her, and coldly reproached, "Why are you in such a hurry?"

"We've spotted them!" Johnson answered with a twisted face, "Two girls! According to the Star Emissary, that's who we want!"

Mo Yanyu's adorable eyes suddenly lit up while her expression calmed down, "Is the boy with them too?"

"Seems not..." after a short pause, Johnson said calmly, "We will know where the boy is once we catch the girls."

"Had Third Uncle got this message?"

"One of our Star Emissaries had been sent for him."

"In which direction?" Mo Yanyu stood her beautiful body upright and stretched her limbs slowly, "Are they further away from us or Third Uncle?"

"Further away from us. If everything goes well the Third Master and his people should arrive here soon." Johnson replied.

"Well then, let's not worry about it right now." Mo Yanyu frowned, as she talked to the pimply Mo Family escort next to her, "Uncle Li, do we need to go up there and meet them?"

"No hurry, our target hasn't shown up yet." Li Han smiled and shook his head, "Third Master and the people from the Dark World are all there, so it will be fine. This pass is very crucial as well. We'd better stay on high alert. Our goal is that boy. All our previous efforts will go to waste if that boy slips away."

"That makes sense." Mo Yanyu nodded, without saying anything else.

"Wooowoowoo! Woowoowoo!"

While stopping beside a snake-shaped rock, Mu Yu Die took out a silver horn and began to blow it.

The sound of the horn rippled away like waves to far away places.

Figures hiding in every corner of the Stone Woods came out one after another after they heard the horn, quickly rushing in the direction of Mu Yu Die.

"Sister Lan, don't worry, some people will come to our rescue." Mu Yu Die smiled lightly, "We are really safe here. No need to worry about the Dark World."

"Hopefully..." Di Yalan barely smiled. She couldn't settle down as she was worried about Shi Yan. She sighed, "I hope he is fine..."

Shortly after, shadows appeared one after the other from far away. The man in the lead turned out to be the Crescent Emissary from the Dark World, and beside him were Mo Chaoge and Bernard, as well as several other Mo Family warriors and Star Emissaries.

"Miss Mu, nice to meet you again." The Crescent Emissary's vicious eyes were wandering over Mu Yu Die's body like a cunning snake. His voice was like ice, "You nearly managed a perfect escape! But too bad. Unfortunately for you, you didn't quite make it to the Merchant Union. You will instead be taken away by me."

"Really?" Mu Yu Die smiled calmly, showing no fear.

The Crescent Emissary frowned and was confused. Mu Yu Die was too calm at this time. This was too abnormal.

"Where is that young guy who was hanging around with you?"

Mo Chaoge came over, glanced at the girls, and said coldly, "Tell me where the boy is! Or I will kill her first!"

Mo Chaoge pointed at Di Yalan.

"She is mine!" Bernard angrily stared at Mo Chaoge, then flashed over to Di Yalan like lightning and stretched his hand towards her.

"Triing!"

Noise from a zither rang out suddenly. The sound was like a sharp weapon, lightly cutting into one's nerves.

Bernard quivered and his face suddenly twisted in pain. He stepped back quickly and stared at Mu Yu Die in astonishment.

Holding her zither, Mu Yu Die had already sat down. She looked at Bernard with a cold expression on her face, "You wanna try again?"

Bernard's brain felt like it was being stabbed by a steel needle and he felt like his head was splitting. Hearing that, his face became even more distorted, but he didn't dare step up again.

"That's impossible!"

The Crescent Emissary's face twisted and showed panic for the first time, "It has only been a few weeks, your Music Martial Spirit shouldn't have recovered so soon!"

After a pause, he seemed to remember something and sneered, "I know, you forced yourself to operate your broken veins! You are seeking death!"

"Oh?" Mu Yu Die replied indifferently, "Maybe you can give it a try? I know you have reached the Disaster Level. But if you could remember, you should know that I killed a Crescent Emissary at the same level as you with my Music Martial Spirit before we entered the Dark Forest."

This not only made the Crescent Emissary hesitate, but also made both Bernard and Mo Chaoge also panick. They stared at her with an unbelievable look in their eyes.

"Emissary? This… is it true?" Mo Chaoge felt his mouth go dry and he took several steps back. He made a gesture to tell the Mo Family warriors not to take action.

"She could do that if she is in a good condition… but now, I don't buy it." The Crescent Emissary grunted.

"Haha, Emissary, it's up to you." Mo Chaoge retracted further, and stood amongst the Mo Family warriors, showing that they were not going to take the initiative.

"Whoever comes up first, dies first." Mu Yu Die said coldly, and then turned her head away, not bothering to say anything more.

Di Yalan was standing beside her on alert with a stoney face.

Suddenly all was silent.

Though suspicious, the Crescent Emissary didn't take action blindly.

At the same time Bernard and Mo Chaoge quieted down after they heard that Mu Yu Die was capable of killing a Disaster Level Warrior. They made eye-contact with the Crescent Emissary to urge him to test Mu Yu Die.

At that moment, shadows appeared from all directions from the surrounding rocks.

A tall man suddenly stood beside Mu Yu Die and said softly, "Miss Mu, how are you?"

Everyone in the area, including the Crescent Emissary, Mo Chaoge and Bernard, who were all Disaster Level warriors, couldn't figure out how he appeared.

That man just appeared next to Mu Yu Die like a ghost.

"Martial Spirit of Teleportation! Beiming Family!"

Mo Chaoge screamed in shock.

"Look who we have here... the Mo Family!" The handsome young man beside Mu Yu Die looked around in arroganceand said coldly, "Huh? You wanna fight with my Beiming Family?"

"We dare not."

Mo Chaoge took a deep breath and calmed down. He said to the young man politely, "It's the Third Young Master, no wonder Miss Mu was so confident. Third Young Master, I didn't know that Miss Mu was protected by the Beiming Family. If I knew that earlier, I wouldn't have bothered coming here. Please forgive me, Third Young Master..."

Beiming Ce waved his hand and said impatiently, "If it's none of the Mo Family's business, just leave with your people. Don't get involved. I'm gonna clean up the Dark World."

As he was talking, warriors wearing Beiming uniforms arrived one by one.

Two old men, one thin and the other fat, stood next to him silently and fixed their cold eyes on Mo Chaoge and the Crescent Emissary separately.

"Well then, I will take my leave." Mo Chaoge smiled respectfully and left at once.

The Mo Family warriors turned quiet after they saw Beiming Ce, and left immediately with Mo Chaoge.

As for Bernard, he stepped back and was about to run away into the Stone Woods.

Mu Yu Die touched her zither softly and said, "Third Young Master, please kill that guy."

"Triing!"

The sound of the zither rang out.

Benard's body quivered heavily and he almost fell down. He jumpedbehind a rock immediately and ran as fast as hell.

"Old Yin, please." Beiming Ce ordered softly.

The thin old man behind him suddenly rushed out like a ghost and, after a moment, disappeared.

Three seconds later, Bernard's miserable horrifying scream came from within the Stone Woods.

Five minutes later the thin old man, Old Yin, flew back like a ghost and stood still beside Beiming Ce, all without saying a word.

Note from the TL: Hey guys, thank you for reading this excellent novel! And yeah, I know, though it's perfect, there's something funny...such as the author sometime has bad memory that he forgets to make Di Yalan and Mu Yu Die call Shi Yan "Ding Yan", and the Pinyin "Die" is like the English word "die"...haha, anyway, it IS an intriguing novel, isn't it?

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Chapter 44 Silent Town

"Thank you, Third Young Master."

Mu Yu Die stood up and put her zither away slowly. Seeing confusion in the Crescent Emissary's eyes, she said, "You never thought you would encounter misfortune after such a long chase, did you?"

"Beiming Ce! This is a matter between the Dark World and the Mu Family. Your Beiming Family better not get involved!" The Crescent Emissary didn't look at Mu Yu Die, but instead stared at Beiming Ce. "As long as you allow me to take Miss Mu away, the Lord of the Dark World will reward your Beiming Family with anything you want."

"No need." Beiming Ce shook his head and said calmly, "Since you're already here, there is no reason for you to return."

The two old men behind him quickly flew out again.

These two old men flew towards the emissaries like hideous devils. After a few seconds, all the emissaries from the Dark World, including the Crescent Emissary, had their chests sliced open and died instantly.

Once all the emissaries were killed, the two frightening old men silently flew back to Beiming Ce's side like two ghostly shadows.

Standing beside Mu Yu Die, Di Yalan was astonished when she saw the miserable deaths of the emissaries.

She knew that the Beiming Family was very influential within the Merchant Union, but she never thought they were this powerful!

The Beiming Family didn't care about retaliation from the Dark World. Therefore, they ruthlessly killed the emissaries.

"Sister Lan, do you still think we made the wrong decision?" Mu Yu Die smiled.

Di Yalan had a complicated expression on her face. She lightly sighed, "No, it's just that..."

"Stop worrying. For our future's sake, it's best to forget about him as soon as possible." Mu Yu Die persuaded her softly.

"Ok." Di Yalan nodded helplessly.

"Shall we go now?" Beiming Ce's black eyes wandered over Di Yalan and Mu Yu Die for a while as he asked politely.

"Sure."

In another region of the Stone Woods.

As Shi Yan stepped around a corner, he suddenly drew back while on alert.

"Shoo!"

A sharp arrow landed in front of him. At the same time, a Blue Smoke Bomb of the Mo Family shot up into the sky.

"Hum! It's you again! Reckless!" Shi Yan grunted with a stony face.

Mo Yanyu appeared from within a stone cave with arrows in her hand. She looked at Shi Yan and said coldly , "You've finally shown up!"

Johnson, with his broken arm, and Li Han also appeared from behind her and blocked Shi Yan from both sides,while watching him cautiously.

"You are seeking death!"

Shi Yan shouted and suddenly shot towards Mo Yanyu like a sharp sword.

While shooting forward, his body was covered with white smoke and the smell of death. He looked like a terrifying devil!

"Miss! Watch out!" Li Han cried out in fear and flew towards Mo Yanyu like lightning.

Li Han was at the Second Sky of Human Level, thus he could see Shi Yan's amazing explosiveness! How could Mo Yanyu bear such violent force!

"Cheechee!"

Shi Yan slammed his foot down and cut a long gouge in the ground. Suddenly, his body changed direction and rushed towards Johnson, moving faster than before.

"Bang!"

Before Johnson could even think, he saw a white shadow rushing towards him and an overwhelming power slammed into his body.

"Kakaka!"

All of Johnson's bones broke instantly and blood poured from his mouth and eyes. He fell to the ground and moaned miserably.

"You are Johnson, right? You certainly enjoyed it when you whipped me hard a few days ago!" Standing beside Johnson, Shi Yan kicked on Johnson's chest again and again. He smirked, "Are you enjoying this now? Huh?"

Shi Yan continued to kick Johnson until a broken bone in his chest was forced into his heart and he finally ceased to breathe.

"Brutal!" Li Han was shocked. Though he wanted to go and kill Shi Yan, he worried about Mo Yanyu, so he could only hesitate and shout, unable to stop him.

Mo Yanyu was horrified. She was dumbstruck after she saw how brutally Johnson was killed.

Johnson's Profound Qi was then quickly absorbed into Shi Yan's meridians in a few seconds.

Shi Yan turned around and fixed his bright eyes on Mo Yanyu; then he smiled coldly, "Pretty, we will meet again. And believe me, you will regret what you have done to me."

As he finished his sentence, he slipped around a nearby stone and disappeared into the Stone Woods.

"Old Li, why didn't you kill him!" Mo Yanyu said angrily after Shi Yan disappeared.

"That guy is at least at the Second Sky of Nascent Level. Also, he used such brutal martial arts that could kill in a single move. He moved so fast that I could hardly follow him. If I had moved, he would have come and attacked you, so I was afraid..." Li Han said apologetically.

"Second Sky of Nascent Level!"

Mo Yanyu held her breath as fear could be seen in her eyes. She mumbled, "It's impossible! There was only a little Profound Qi in his body two months ago! He was merely at the First Sky of Elementary Level!"

"What?" Li Han's whole body shook as he looked at her unbelievably. After a long time, he continued, "If that's true, Miss, in my humble opinion, you have caused a huge problem for the Mo Family."

Shi Yan moved quickly through the Stone Woods, not spending one more second than necessary in any area.

He knew that Li Han was a Human Level warrior, and since the Blue Smoke Bomb of the Mo Family was already in the sky, more people would gather there shortly. He had to escape as soon as possible to avoid any further trouble.

Because of his cautiousness, he managed to escape from that dangerous region before Mo Chaoge and his people arrived.

There didn't seem to be many warriors hiding in the Stone Woods. He didn't see anyone while he was fleeing, which confused him a little. He guessed this abnormality had something to do with those influential people Mu Yu Die mentioned.

At nightfall.

Shi Yan finally got out of the Stone Woods and was walking towards Silent Town, which was only a very short distance away.

He slowed down a little and began to sort through the memories of the previous owner of his body to recall everything he could about the Shi Family.

He needed the identity of the former master of this body.

As one of the five biggest families in the Merchant Union, the Shi Family was rich in all types of resources such as Martial Skills, a Gravity Field training room, rare Chinese medicines and skillful warrior trainers...

He needed to use these advantages to strengthen himself.

He had decided when he was at the blood pool that he would go to the Shi Family, and that's why he refused Mu Yu Die's offer.

The identity of his body was too special that it would cause a lot of trouble if he attached himself to another power.

In addition, a new power wouldn't give him access to the best resources.

But it would be totally different if he went to the Shi Family...

The previous master of his body was the young master of the Shi Family. As long as he showed talent, the Shi Family would cultivate him at any cost.

It would be a total waste if he didn't take advantage of their special resources.

Once he reached Silent Town, he walked directly into a shop which was collecting all sort of stones without a second thought and shouted naturally, "Anyone here?"

An attendant came up with a wide smile, and flattered, "Young Master Yan, you've finally returned! The Master sent Minister Han to pick you up long ago since you disappeared in the Dark Forest. Young Master Yan, Minister Han is in the backyard, for he has waited for you for many days. But now, it is a little inconvenient for him to meet. Could you wait for a moment…?"

The attendant looked towards the backyard with ambiguous eyes.

"Never mind. I know what he is doing." Shi Yan walked directly into the backyard of the shop.

Several Shi Family warriors were gambling in the backyard. At the sight of Shi Yan, they panicked and put the dices away embarrassingly, then greeted loudly, "Young Master Yan!"

"Please go on." Shi Yan waved his hands and strode past them to the back room.

These warriors were quite surprised since Shi Yan left without scolding them.

"What? He didn't reproach us this time. Too strange!"

"Yes. He used to scold us every time he saw us gambling. Do some actual work! Stop goofing around! How strange that he didn't say anything this time!"

"Young Master Yan looked totally different. It seems... that he has developed some manliness. Don't you think so?"

"Well, yeah, you have a point."

Shi Yan opened the door as he reached the back room and walked in directly, "Uncle Han, when did you arrive here?"

Han Zhong was quite shocked. After dressing himself in a hurry, he smiled in embarrassment, "... Young Master Yan, when did you come in?"

"I've been here for quite a while." Shi Yan smiled, sipped his tea, and waved his hand, "It's ok. If you are not satisfied enough you can keep going. Besides, I have the chance to learn something from you."

"Kekeke!" Han Zhong coughed strongly for a while, "Satisfied, satisfied. Well, Xiao Feng Xian, you should go back to your business."

"Ok, I will take my leave." That young woman dressed herself in bed and then stepped down with a red face. As she walked to the doorway, she suddenly turned back and glared at Shi Yan，"Everybody said Young Master Yan from the Shi Family is a righteous man, I guess they are all blind! I've never seen such a 'righteous' man before! Humph!"

She giggled and leered at Shi Yan, before moving her hot body out of the room.

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Chapter 45 The Change

As soon as Xiao Feng Xian left, Han Zhong became more relaxed right away.

After briefly dressing himself, Han Zhong sat down at the table in front of Shi Yan, made a cup of tea and sipped it, "Young Master Yan, where are your escorts?"

"All dead." Shi Yan looked calm as he explained casually, "The demon beasts in the Dark Forest went insane when hunting the warriors. In order to protect me, they all sacrificed themselves."

Han Zhong was rather shocked as he looked at Shi Yan in confusion, "I was more or less aware of the situation. It's so lucky of you to have escaped from it."

He had heard the news long ago that the Silver Thunder Wolf had gone on a rampage, so he planned to go back to Shi Family in half a month since he assumed that he wouldn't be able to find Shi Yan alive. He couldn't believe that Shi Yan walked out of the Dark Forest unscathced.

It was so intense in the Dark Forest that even experienced warriors had been killed. But Shi Yan, who was a nerd, had somehow managed to survive. This completely surprised Han Zhong.

Han Zhong didn't really like the former master of Shi Yan's body.

That guy didn't train in martial arts and was very old-fashioned; he loved to look into things that no one else in the Shi Family liked. Han Zhong couldn't understand that.

Now, if it weren't for Shi Jian's order and the fact that he happened to be in Silent Town, he wouldn't have been here waiting for Shi Yan.

"Yes, you certainly did have good luck."

Shi Yan nodded as he smiled naturally, then he asked indifferently, "Uncle Han, when are we returning home?"

"It's up to you, Young Master Yan. Actually I'm desperate to leave, for I have something to report to the family head. I would have returned days ago if it weren't for you." Han Zhong paused and answered boldly.

While he was talking, Han Zhong couldn't help but begin to examine Shi Yan. He didn't notice it at first, but after a careful examination, he realized something was different about him...

Shi Yan was much skinnier than before, and his round face had become angular and more masculine.

Sitting there naturally, Shi Yan's kept his back upright and his body was like a sharp sword which made him seem quite hard-edged.

That wasn't the only change in his appearance.

The former Shi Yan only lit up when he was researching historic relics. He was often listless on an average day.

But now, the guy before Han Zhong had deep bright eyes and seemed to be deep in thought all the time, sending out the impression that he knew everything.

"Uncle Han, may I ask you something?" Under Han Zhong's gaze, Shi Yan continued easily, "It is surprisingly quiet in the Stone Woods these days, do you know what's happening?"

"Well, the Beiming Family sent people there. It is said that they were meeting someone in the Stone Woods, therefore the warriors who were wandering in the Stone Woods all left upon hearing that."

"The Beiming Family! Who was in the lead?" Shi Yan realized something.

"Beiming Ce."

Han Zhong began to curse after he answered Shi Yan, "That guy is said to have reached Disaster Level half a year ago. Damn! He is only twenty seven years old! And he has twin Martial Spirits! Madness! I'm already forty five and still at The Second Sky of Disaster Level! It's unfair!"

Twenty five years old, First Sky of Disaster Level, twin Martial Spirits...

Shi Yan stiffened as he suddenly realized that Beiming Ce was the person Mu Yu Die had planned to introduce him to.

That man has a rare talent and reached that level at such a young age. In addition, he came from the number one family in the Merchant Union - the Beiming Family. No wonder Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan chose him.

Silently, Shi Yan smirked to himself and an icy glint could be seen in his eyes: twenty five years old, Disaster Level, twin Martial Spirits, that's very unbelievable?

Not exactly!

He was someone who had reached The Third Sky of Nascent Level from the First Sky of Elementary Level in mere two months!

Despite the Petrification and Immortal Martial Spirits, he also possessed another vicious and mysterious Martial Spirit. In comparison, he had much more potential than Beiming Ce!

"Time! I only need some time to surpass Beiming Ce!" Shi Yan thought to himself.

"Young Master Yan, you, you've got Profound Qi in your body?"

Han Zhong's eyes lit up and he gazed at Shi Yan seriously, "I can feel that there is Profound Qi flowing in your body, and it is incredibly dense! Young Master Yan, what on earth happened to you?"

Shi Yan took a deep breath, trying to suppress his indignation, "Yes, I've got Profound Qi, so I'm a warrior now."

"Which Level?" Han Zhong couldn't wait.

"Nascent Level."

"What!"

The Merchant Union. Tianyun City. The Shi Family. The training field.

The training field of Shi Family extended tens of miles and was covered with ancient trees and odd rocks...

There were also water pools, sand fields, earth fields and wooden rooms within the training field...

With complicated refuges and barriers everywhere，the members of Shi Family were able to conduct live combat exercises.

And they could also learn to adjust and fight in all sorts of topographies.

At the time being, in the center of the training field, stood a huge, diamond shaped testing jade. The third generation of Shi Family were in a queue, walking towards the jade. They put their hand on the testing jade and sent out Profound Qi to test their level.

"Shi Tianluo, twenty-one, the Second Sky of Nascent Level!"

"Shi Tianxiao, twenty-five, the First Sky of Nascent Level!"

"Shi Tianling, twenty-seven, the Third Sky of Elementary Level!"

"Shi Tianke, twenty, the Second Sky of Nascent Level!"

"Shi Tianyun, nineteen, the Third Sky of Nascent Level!"

Han Feng, who was standing beside the testing jade with his eyes narrowed, yelled out after every young member finished his test.

Everytime Han Feng announced the result, the members of the first and second generations changed their expression accordingly; either happy or disappointed.

"Second Brother, your Tianyun is really something! He managed to advance to a higher stage!" Shi Kuo was a little angry as he grunted, "Tianke has been too lazy recently! I have to do something!"

"Third Brother, Tianke trains really hard. I saw him training in the Gravitational Room at midnight. Don't pressure him too much, or it could go the opposite way." Shi Gang comforted him.

"Tianyun, work harder. Advance to Human Level as soon as possible." Shi Tie's sound was like a great bell as he said proudly.

Shi Tie was Shi Jian's brother, and Shi Gang and Shi Kuo were his sons. Shi Tianyun was Shi Gang's son and thus Shi Tie's grandson. Shi Tie was delighted as he saw that Shi Tianyun had advanced.

The position of family head was decided by one's Martial level. Many years ago Shi Tie lost to his brother, so he was rather unhappy and hoped that his grandson, Shi Tianyun, could transcend Shi Jian's grandson, Shi Tianxiao.

The Petrification Martial Spirit was very special and only went to the first two children of a couple.

The third child would rarely have the chance to inherit it.

That's why every small family of Shi would generally only have two children.

Even the head of the Shi Family, Shi Jian, only had two children: Shi Yang and Shi Qing.

Shi Yang had a daughter - Shi Tianling, and a son - Shi Tianxiao.

Shi Qing and Yang Hai only had one son and that was Shi Yan.

Thus, Shi Tianling, Shi Tianxiao and Shi Yan were Shi Jian's grandchildren, while Shi Tianyun, Shi Tianluo and Shi Tianke were Shi Tie's grandchildren.

The members of Shi Family all got along well with each other. They stuck together and worked hard to increase the influence of their family.

But no matter how close they were, they still competed with each other. Such as Shi Tie, he always wanted to surpass Shi Jian through his grandson.

As his sons, Shi Gang and Shi Kuo, were not comparable to Shi Jian's son, Shi Yang, he had given up passing his dream onto them.

Luckily, his grandsons, Shi Tianyun and Shi Tianke, were more talented than Shi Tianxiao. He was rather proud every time they did the test, although it was without any bad intentions.

Yang Hai was standing next to Shi Yang, as he was explaining the state of their quarry to the latter. Hearing Shi Tie's yell, Shi Yang got serious, "Well, second uncle is about to show off again." After a pause, he glanced at Shi Tianxiao who was standing beside him and scolded, "You little bastard! You only cause me to lose face!"

"Er...I'm not that bad..." Shi Tianxiao drew his head back and looked miserable.

Yang Hai's face became bitter as he sighed, "You should be satisfied. Think about my Shi Yan. At least Tianxiao is a warrior. But that bastard fools around all day and hasn't come back yet. Who knows how much trouble he will bring back this time."

"Ha, that's true." Shi Yang laughed.

The descendants of Shi Family were all gathered together on the training field and were discussing lively.

Just then, an eagle appeared in the sky and settled down on Shi Jian's shoulder.

Shi Jian picked up a little gray bag from the eagle's claw and took out a letter. Opening the letter casually, he began to read and he frowned.

They were all his relatives, so he didn't intend to hide anything.

"Huh?"

After merely one glance, Shi Jian couldn't help but cry out with an amazed look on his face.

The people on the field were surprised and became quiet. They looked at Shi Jian and wondered why he was acting so weird.

"Big Brother, what's up?" Shi Tie frowned and asked loudly, "Is the Mo Family making a fuss again? Damn! They won't quiet down if we don't give them a good kick!"

"Nope." Shi Jian put down the letter excitedly as he said in surprise, "Han Zhong found Shi Yan!"

"How is that bastard?" Upon hearing that, Yang Hai finally settled down. He asked with an annoyed face, seemingly planning on giving Shi Yan a lesson when he returned.

"That kid, is a warrior now..." Shi Jian looked shocked as his mouth trembled. He was trying to hide his excitement.

"What?" Shi Tie couldn't help but cry out, "He is seventeen! Why did he begin to train at such an old age!"

After thinking, he sighed lightly as he really felt sorry for Shi Yan, "It's too late, starting at seventeen. I guess he won't achieve anything in his life. What was that little bastard doing before now! If he had been training since he was born, he could have reached the Second or Third Sky of Nascent Level, even if he doesn't possesses the Martial Spirit of Shi Family."

"That kid, is now at the Third Sky of Nascent Level!" Shi Jian answered firmly with sharp eyes.

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Chapter 46 - A Glance

Half a month later, in Tianyun City.

Shi Yan and Han Zhong, as well as a troop of warriors from the Shi Family, were entering the city at a leisurely pace. A ground dragon was carrying the goods they had purchased from Silent Town.

Shi Yan and Han Zhong were at the head of the troop and had talked all the way.

"Old Han, it's getting late. Let's continue for home tomorrow. We should rest somewhere in the city today, okay?" Shi Yan said leisurely.

"Well, where does Brother Yan want to stay?" Han Zhong smiled with an ambiguous look on his face, "Tianyun City is the biggest city in the Merchant Union, with a large population of several millions. The recreation centers in this city are much better quality than those in the small cities we passed."

"Well Old Han, since you are familiar with this area, you lead the way. "

"I'm afraid my remaining crystal coins are not enough. Hmm, we will spend cost a lot at some places."

"Old Han, you want to take advantage of me again? Last time in the Scent Pavilion you pretended to be drunk and made me pay for everything. Now you want to do that again?"

"Hehe...I was truly drunk that time. You are treating me unjustly!"

"I don't care. You have to pay this time! Or I will tell Uncle Han Feng everything you did on the way."

"No! Brother Yan, it's my treat! My treat, okay?" Han Zhong faked a miserable face and sighed, "You know my brother's temper too well! If he knows what I did, he will kick me to death. Oh My! I'm so miserable! I work so hard for the family and earn so little money that I can barely even afford my recreation time..."

"Deal! It's your treat tonight." Shi Yan looked back and shouted to the warriors behind him, "Fellows, you all heard that right?"

"Yes, we heard it!"

All seven warriors of Shi Family yelled excitedly at the same time.

"Let's go!"

Shi Yan mingled well with Han Zhong and those warriors in that half a month.

Shi Yan was not pretentious at all as he ate and interacted happily with the warriors. And he was very open when it came to women, for he never chickened out in brothels, sometimes being even more audacious and horny than Han Zhong once he met a lovely girl.

The two of them went to a lot of brothels together along the way. They paid in turns and never let the warriors use any money.

In a very short time, Shi Yan won the trust of Han Zhong and his escorts.

Han Zhong thought they shared the same interests and complimented Shi Yan on the fact that he had grown up. As his level increased, Shi Yan had become a totally different person.

Shi Yan concealed most of what had happened to him in the Dark Forest. He told Han Zhong that he found a certain type of red fruit in the ancient cave he was studying. After eating three such fruits, he got Profound Qi and awoke the Petrification Martial Spirit of Shi Family.

He didn't mention a word about the blood pool, the Immortal Martial Spirit or the mysterious Martial Spirit, nor the story between him and Mo Yanyu and Mu Yu Die.

Though Han Zhong was very surprised by Shi Yan's magical story, he didn't keep asking, but thought that Shi Yan was incredibly lucky to find that fruit which made him stronger.

And during these days, Shi Yan learnt all he could about the Shi Family through Han Zhong.

The former master of his body had left him many memories, though it was mostly about the historic relics and ancient language that he had studied.

But Shi Yan couldn't recall many memories about the Shi Family. Luckily Han Zhong was not on guard against him. During their together time in brothels, Han Zhong had already told him all he wanted to know.

After hanging out together several times, Han Zhong began to like this young master; so he told Shi Yan not only about the business and power distribution of Shi Family , but also common sense about martial training, which Shi Yan wasn't aware of before.

For example, when a warrior reached Nirvana Level, the Conception Sea would form in their mind, which could connect and combine the Martial Spirit magically with their Profound Qi to activate a secret skill and release an amazing power.

Also, he told Shi Yan a lot about the features and weakness of all sorts of Martial Spirits; about the most powerful Martial Spirit in the Merchant Union, the Fire Empire and the God-blessed Empire, and tjheir weaknesses and disadvantages.

Although Han Zhong was very lustful, he was quite diligent in training Martial Arts.

Han Zhong possessed a lot information about warriors, therefore, through him, Shi Yan gained a thorough and comprehensive understanding about warriors, as well as the differences among the Levels below Disaster Level.

Han Zhong was a Disaster Level warrior, so he couldn't tell Shi Yan much about the levels above it, but he told Shi Yan everything he knew about the lower levels.

This information was exactly what Shi Yan needed most right now.

The Dream Pavilion.

Shi Yan and Han Zhong, along with four Shi family warriors, were drinking and having fun in a large room on the third floor.

In the center of the simple and unsophisticated room, on some soft carpet, stood a one-meter high square table, which was loaded with delicate food and drinks.

Shi Yan and Han Zhong were sitting on the carpet with hot young girls in their arms, yelling and playing dice happily.

"Old Han, drink!" Shi Yan yelled.

Han Zhong was downcast as he had lost numerous times. He drank up the wine in his cup at once and rubbed the girl's in his arms breasts. Then he raised the dice and grunted, "This hand's got some luck, this time I will definitely win!"

"Aww, if that is luck, both of my hands have it!" Shi Yan's grin widened and he put both of his hands underneath the girl's coat, "Qiu Xiang, you really got big things here, say, I will always be bigger than him!"

Qiu Xiang had delicate white skin and plump breasts. Her watery eyes were filled with shyness, "Young Master Yan, you are so bad! Why do you tease me all the time?"

"You can tease me too." Shi Yan smiled, drank his strong drink, and urged, "Old Han, what are you waiting for? Cast the dice!"

"Yin Kui and Jiu Shan are nearby. Too much Yin Qi is coming forth. I can feel it clearly." Han Zhong frowned, released the girl in his arms, and quietly walked to the window.

He opened the window and looked out of it with the help of the light of a big red lantern, "Sure enough, there is Beiming Ce. Yin Kui and Jiu Shan never leave his side. Wherever Yin Kui and Jiu Shan are, you will find Beiming Ce."

As Han Zhong mentioned Beiming Ce, Shi Yan suddenly remembered Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan.

After a little hesitation, he too walked to the window and opened it a little wider, coldly gazing at the troop on the street.

This troop consisted of around thirty people. Beiming Ce was riding on his snow white Ling Xiao Horse at the head of the troop. Smiling lightly, he was talking to someone in the sedan on a ground dragon beside him.

As the curtain on the sedan fluttered in the wind, Mu Yu Die's fairy-like face could be seen.

Di Yalan was riding a war horse with black armor on it, her hot body moving up and down with the pace of the war horse. She looked in low-spirits and a slight, sorrowful frown could be seen between her eyebrows.

She barely smiled when Beiming Ce talked to her, not showing too much interest.

The two old men, who were sending out heavy Yin Qi, were both riding black-armored war horses behind Beiming Ce silently.

Shi Yan opened the window a little more. When he looked at the troop who were still dozens of meters away, the two old men seemed to notice as they looked in his direction immediately.

Shi Yan felt two streams of cold Yin Qi gush out of their eyes from so far away, making him shudder with fear.

The two old men seemed to know Han Zhong, as when they came near the window and saw him, their cold air decreased.

Under the two men's gaze, Han Zhong became a totally different person. Instead of behaving in a noisy, flamboyant and boisterous manner, he looked rigid, as he gave a salute to them, holding his fists in front of his chest.

The two old men nodded and didn't look at Han Zhong anymore. They turned back and narrowed their eyes, focusing again towards Beiming Ce's back.

The troop from the Beiming Family didn't stop, but continued their leisurely steps along the street.

There were several warriors who were out seeking fun on the narrow street. They stepped to the side of the road in respect when they saw the Beiming troop.

A small path was thus suddenly formed in the middle of the crowded street for the Beiming troops to move by smoothly.

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Chapter 47 - Tianyun City

In that simple room, Shi Yan looked lost. He stood stunned at the window for quite a while before closing the window.

Going back to his seat, he was in rather low-spirits. He merely focused on drinking and didn't put his hands on the girls anymore.

"Young Master Yan, was that the Beiming Family troop?" Karl, a Shi Family warrior, asked him casually.

"Yes." Shi Yan answered bluntly and kept drinking.

Standing by the window, Shi Zhong looked at Shi Yan, frowning with an odd look in his eyes. After some hesitation, he asked, "Brother Yan, the woman on the war horse, you… do you know her?"

Shi Yan nodded and finished the wine in his cup, "Yes, we walked out of the Dark Forest together. As you heard, the demon beasts were everywhere. It was better to be accompanied than be alone."

Han Zhong was an experienced man. Seeing Shi Yan's apathetic response, he blinked his eyes and assumed that something must have happened between Shi Yan and Di Yalan.

Moving near Shi Yan, Han Zhong waved his hand to the girl next to him, "Leave us alone. We need to talk."

The foxy girls stood up smiling and quickly left the room.

When there were only the warriors left in the room, Han Zhong said, "Brother Yan, I don't know who that woman is. But it seems that Beiming Ce is quite into her. If she accepts Beiming Ce as well, you should forget her."

"Han Zhong is right. There are so many women in the world. It's unwise to offend Beiming Ce for a woman. The Beiming Family is the number one family in the Merchant Union, and they are too influential. Beiming Ce is Beiming Shang's beloved son. It's unwise to offend him." Karl reminded Shi Yan earnestly.

Karl, who was at the Second Sky of Nascent Level, was the leader of the warriors. He tried to comfort Shi Yan as the latter had left a very good impression.

"Old Han, who were those two old men?" Shi Yan didn't reply to Karl's statement, but looked to Han Zhong.

"Yin Kui and Jiu Shan have the same teacher, and they are at the First Sky of Nirvana Level now, but no one knows where they came from. They used to serve the family head of Beiming Family, Beiming Shang. After Beiming Ce was born, and considering how he possesses twin Martial Spirits and agile movements, Beiming Shang assigned them to protect Beiming Ce."

The First Sky of Nirvana Level! Shi Yan was astounded.

Shi Jian, the family head of the Shi Family, was only at the Third Sky of Nirvana Level.

There were millions of residents in the Merchant Union, among which were numerous warriors who trained Martial Arts. But only a small part of them, barely more than ten people, could step into the Nirvana Level.

The two Nirvana-Level warriors stayed by Beiming Ce's side without doing anything else. The world was his oyster.

"In the Merchant Union, the Beiming Family is much more powerful than the other two biggest families combined. There are many skillful warriors among the Ministers, and talented descents pop up now and then. Plus, Beiming Shang himself is at the Sky Level. It is really unwise to offend the Beiming Family."

Seeing that Shi Yan wasn't responding, Han Zhong hastily explained in case Shi Yan acted abruptly.

"Ok, got it." After being silent for a while, Shi Yan nodded. His expression turned back to normal as he smiled to Han Zhong, "Don't worry about me, Old Han. I know what to do and when to endure."

"That's good for you." Han Zhong said feeling relieved, "Let the girls in again?"

"No. Not interested. Let's drink."

"Great! Let's drink! Come on!"

The Merchant Union was a very special country which was co-governed by the big families, warriors, mercenaries, merchants and all sorts of NGOs.

There were no formal army, no officers, and no governmental structure.

Instead, there were many big families, hundreds of mercenary unions, tens of thousands of merchants, vagrants and civilians who hated wars...

The Merchant Union never got involved in the wars between the Fire Empire and the God-blessed Empire, therefore it was a peaceful country.

However, once it was invaded, all the forces in the Merchant Union would unite to fight against the enemy.

Over the history of the Merchant Union, the Fire Empire and the God-blessed Empire had both attempted to invade it for its wealth, but they were smashed every time by the united army of the big families and mercenary unions in the Merchant Union.

On average days, there were no governors in the Merchant Union, but once it was in danger, its people would fight together to drive back their mutual enemy.

Those big families, hundreds of mercenary unions and wealthy merchants could form an extremely powerful force which could defeat the God-blessed Empire and the Fire Empire easily.

It's lucky that the forces in the Merchant Union only came together when the country was in danger, or it could swallow any other country at any time!

The Merchant Union was in a crucial position. The Dark Forest was to its south, the Dead Swamp to its north, continuous Cloud Mountain to its west and the enormous Endless Sea to its east.

No matter if it was the Dead Swamp, the Cloud Mountain, or the islands in the Endless Sea, there hid all kinds of abundant resources, such as minerals and magical medicines. As a big trading nation, the Merchant Union took advantage of its geographical location.

However, despite the exuberant resources in the Dead Swamp, the Cloud Mountain and the Endless Sea, there was also incredible danger.

Demon beasts, poisonous fog, miasma, hideous tribes, and disasters...

That's why one needed to be very capable to travel in these areas. Luckily, the Merchant Union never lacked skillful mercenary unions and warriors.

There were seventeen cities in the Merchant Union, and the Tianyun City was the biggest among them.

Tianyun City was located in the center of the Merchant Union, with eight small cities around it. It covered a large area which almost equaled the eight small cities combined, as did its population.

Therefore, Tianyun City was like the capital city of the Merchant Union, which was the main territory of those biggest families.

The Shi Family was amongst them. Though they had properties and gardens in every main city, the Shi Family was rooted in Tianyun City.

The Shi Family was located in the northern part of Tianyun City. It covered one hundred miles and had thousands of buildings in it. Artificial lakes, rockeries, gardens and brooks were everywhere. The Shi Family descendants lived in the serene back garden, where there was an artificial lake in the middle, with beautiful pavilions surrounding it. Behind the pavilions were the training fields, gravitational rooms, and suffering palaces...

There were not many direct Shi descendants, but its branches and ministers could easily reach one hundred. Considering those servants and escorts, there were almost one thousand people in Shi Family.

Early every morning, the Shi Family members, ministers and warriors would train hard in within the training grounds.

On that day, just as the rooster crowed and the sky began to turn bright, many warriors had already gotten up and started to train.

Shi Jian walked out of the Rock Room and shouted below into Yang Hai's pavilion. Then they walked toward the gate together.

During their walk to the gate, the warriors bowed to them. Shi Jian nodded indifferently without slowing his steps.

A short time after they reached the gate, Han Feng appeared behind them. He began to observe the corridor out the gate as he stood next to Shi Jian silently.

"According to Han Zhong's message, they should have arrived home last night. Since they didn't, they must arrive today." Shi Jian frowned and mumbled, "I waited till dawn to see if that boy has really reached the Third Sky of Nascent Level. But that bastard didn't come home..."

"Maybe they were held up by something on the road." Though Yang Hai was cursing in his mind that Shi Yan was too impolite, he still explained for him.

"Dammit. Is it possible that Han Zhong sent the wrong message?"

Shi Jian looked back to Han Feng in confusion, "I have met someone whose Martial Spirit awoke as a teenager, so I'm not skeptical about that. However, that kid has never trained in martial arts before turning seventeen, but now he is suddenly at the Third Sky of Nascent level, that is just unbelievable! I have been pondering upon it for several nights but I still can't figure it out. What do you think?"

Han Feng pouted, narrowed his eyes and said, "Though Han Zhong is not a serious man most of the time, he is quite cautious on major things, so I don't think he would dare to lie about this. I can't explain it either, but I think it might be true."

"Well, I can only hope so. That bastard has let me down these past seventeen years, I hope this time he will be different."

Many warriors came out after them in curiosity after they had breakfast, as they heard that the family head was waiting at the gate. They gathered together and were discussing boisterously.

No one knew who was coming. The most likely people were those of the Beiming Family or Zuo Family, or Shi Jian wouldn't be there.

Yet, after a long long time, no one showed up. The warriors turned impatient and began to curse amongst themselves at the arrogant person who had made Shi Jian wait for so long.

As the sun rose higher and higher, they still saw nothing. Shi Jian was becoming worried as well, as he said to Yang Hai next to him, "It's been so long. What happened?"

Yang Hai shook his head with a bitter smile implying he didn't know either, while he sighed secretly to himself.

Though Shi Jian mentioned Shi Yan now and then, he never really cared for him.

He remembered Shi Yan only after Yang Hai's reminder that Shi Yan had disappeared in the Dark Forest.

Upon hearing Shi Yan had reached the Third Sky of Nascent Level, Shi Jian asked about him every day, and even came out early and waited for him...

Shi Jian's attitude switched too much, which made Yang Hai a little uncomfortable.

Hours later, it was approaching noon as the sun was directly above them in the sky., a fat ground dragon slowly appeared from the corridor.

Two persons were leisurely leading while chatting happily. They were Shi Yan and Han Zhong.

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Chapter 48 - The Test

At the gate of Shi Family.

Shi Jian, Han Feng and Yang Hai all saw Shi Yan in front of the ground dragon at the same time.

Yang Hai took a quick glance at Shi Yan and frowned, thinking to himself that the boy must have suffered a lot, as he had become much skinnier.

However, Shi Jian and Han Feng's eyes brightened soon after they saw Shi Yan. They were totally surprised.

Yang Hai didn't train martial arts, so he didn't know that one getting skinnier didn't necessarily imply weakness.

Sometimes there was much more explosiveness hidden in a skinny body, than in a robust one.

However, Shi Jian and Han Feng were both experts, therefore they realized just from a glance that Shi Yan had become much stronger, and was even stronger than those third generation descents who had trained hard for more than ten years.

They looked at each other and were amazed.

They couldn't understand what had happened to Shi Yan in the past half a year that could have changed his bone structure.

A few minutes later, the troop, including Shi Yan and Han Zhong, arrived at the gate.

"Hi Big Grandpa, Uncle Han, Father." Shi Yan walked up to the gate with steady steps and greeted them.

Han Zhong came over as well, greeting Shi Jian and Han Feng, and nodded at Yang Hai, then he stood silently beside Shi Yan.

Shi Jian and Han Feng's bright eyes moved over Shi Yan's body.

After a long time, Shi Jian's eyes trembled. He took a deep breath, and said to Shi Yan, "Follow me." Then Shi Jian turned and headed to the back yard light-footedly.

Everyone who knew Shi Jian understood that he was in high spirits.

"Kid, put on a good show!" Han Zhong made a face at Shi Yan, implying that he was going to see better days.

Shi Yan gracefully acknowledged him and nodded softly. He turned to Yan Hai, "Father, are you especially waiting for me?"

Though Yang Hai had a rigid face, a light smile appeared around the corners of his mouth, "No one is waiting for you specifically. I just wanted to see what happened to your body and whether you really reached the Nascent Level or not."

"Han Zhong, come over here. I have a question for you." Han Feng threw a look at Han Zhong and left in the opposite direction to Shi Yan.

Han Zhong hung his head, with a worried look on his face, and followed after his brother reluctantly.

"Well, go. Don't keep your Big Grandpa waiting for too long." Yang Hai mumbled as he pulled Shi Yan's jacket and asked in a low voice, "What the hell happened to you?"

"Big Grandpa will also ask about it later. So, I guess I will explain then." Shi Yan smiled, not showing much respect for his father.

Yang Hai was a little surprised. He gazed at Shi Yan and asked in confusion, "Kid you are different now. You never beat around the bush, and always answered my questions straightforwardly. But now... you do not seem to be afraid of me. Kid, seems like you've grown up and don't take my concerns into account anymore."

"You are my father, why would I be afraid of you?" Shi Yan was astounded as he asked, "What is there to be afraid of?"

"This isn't like you. You never talked to me like this." Yang Hai frowned. After a careful examination, he shook his head and said to himself, "Little bastard! You became really audacious after becoming a warrior!"

"I'm gonna go. I can't keep Big Grandpa waiting for too long." Shi Yan smiled.

Those Shi Family warriors who had crowded the gate all got confused and started another boisterous discussion.

"Was the family head waiting for Young Master Yan? Is it true?"

"I don't know. I'm confused too. The family head has never appeared with Young Master Yan before, nor was he interested in his matters. What happened now?"

"Who knows? Has Young Master Yan created trouble again? Not likely, because master Yang Hai was the one who always cleaned up his mess. Although Young Master Yan makes trouble in the Merchant Union now and then, it was not to the extent that the family head had to solve it."

"Maybe Young Master Yan got into huge trouble this time. Who knows."

"Stop your idle talk. You'd better be respectful to Young Master Yan from now on. He is not the book nerd you knew any more. Don't blame me once you offend him and kick up a breeze." Karl was making arrangements for the ground dragon and couldn't help but yell when he saw that people were still gossiping.

"Karl, what's up? You came back with Young Master Yan, do you know the details?" asked a warrior who was familiar with Karl.

"You will know it in no time." Karl smiled proudly, "Young Master Yan will definitely surprise you guys!"

"What is it?"

"What on earth happened?"

Their curiosity was even stronger as they circled Karl and couldn't stop asking.

"Not now. But I guess that you will know soon enough." Without giving them an exact answer, Karl squeezed his way out of the crowd and left with the troop of warriors.

In the backyard of Shi Family.

At the center of the huge training field, the diamond-shaped test jade was glinting in the sunshine as if it was a small sun.

Shi Jian was standing beside the testing jade. As Shi Yan and Yang Hai came over, he patted the jade and suddenly, a ball of light flew into the jade from his hand.

The dazzling testing jade dimmed at once and returned to its original color.

"Inject your Profound Qi into the testing jade." Shi Jian announced with firm eyes.

Shi Yan confidently walked up to the testing jade, stretched out his hand, and pressed on the jade. He operated his Profound Qi and injected it into the testing jade.

Complex patterns showed up on the silver testing jade and a vague orange light shone from it. Gradually the light got brighter and the color deeper.

"Ok now." Shi Jian's mouth trembled as he focused his eyes on Shi Yan, "I heard that the Martial Spirit of Shi Family also awakened in your body, did it?"

"Yes."

"Show me."

"OK."

Shi Yan stretched out the other hand and rolled up his sleeve.

As he operated the Martial Spirit according to his will, his arm gradually petrified and became dark brown.

"Dark brown!"

Shi Jian and Yang Hai cried out at the same time with great amazement on their faces, while gazing at Shi Yan's brown arm in astonishment.

"Is it because of the light?" Yang Hai blinked his eyes and rubbed them, then looked directly into the sun, and mumbled, "Am I dazzled?"

Upon hearing that, Shi Jian also got confused . He grabbed Shi Yan's arm and demanded, "Come up here! Go into the shadow of that rock so the color can be seen clearly ."

Shi Yan didn't attempt to refuse and peacefully walked after him to the back side of the rock.

"It is dark brown!"

Shi Jian shouted loudly and his breathing got heavier. His bright eyes stared at Shi Yan as he asked in a dignified tone, "Little bastard, what the hell has happened to you? Why? Why is your Martial Spirit dark brown? Is it at the second stage of Petrification?"

"Absolutely. It is at the second stage. Though I'm a mere Nascent Level warrior, my Martial Spirit reached the second stage!"

"Give us a reasonable explanation! We Shi Family, from the far ancestors to my generation, had never come across this situation! Our Martial Spirit never reaches the second stage before we reach Human Level. You are the first one! What happened? What on earth happened to you?!" Shi Jian was almost mad.

"Well, the thing is..." Shi Yan repeated what he had told Han Zhong for a second time.

After he finished his story, Shi Jian kept his position and stared at him with a weird expression.

"Big Grandpa, what do you mean by that look? I explained it."

"You mean three magical red fruits awoke your Martial Spirit? And made your Martial Spirit so odd? And gave you Profound Qi and helped to advance to the Third Sky of Nascent Level?" Shi Jian's face got more and more twisted as he yelled, "Just because of three fruits?"

"Yes, that's it."

"Where is this fruit? I will send people to see if we can plant more of it."

"Don't bother, there were only three. I searched for a very long time but never saw it again."

"Little bastard! You are not fooling me, are you?" Shi Jian showed obvious suspicion.

"Of course I'm fooling you."

Shi Yan thought to himself but looked serious as he reassured, "I really have no idea. Anyway, I ate the fruits, and that's it. Nothing else. Even I don't know the reason why my Martial Spirit is different from others'."

He insisted without any reluctance.

Shi Jian kept asking a few more times and tried to test him, but the only response he got was "I don't know either."

Finally Shi Jian gave up. After another thought, he said, "Since your Martial Spirit turned dark brown, hmm, well, has the feature of the Martial Spirit changed? I mean, Did it merely change its color but still kept the intensity of the first stage?"

"If my sense is accurate, it is the second stage."

"I will try." Shi Jian hurried to press his hand on Shi Yan's chest, "Kid, cover your body with petrification! Don't worry, I will increase my power little by little so it won't hurt you."

"Ok."

Gradually, a ball of dark light appeared in Shi Jian's palm and the energy in it grew stronger and stronger, striking on his chest.

Suddenly, Shi Jian withdrew all the dark light like a sponge by the other hand.

Shi Jian was so excited that he couldn't help but nod and say joyfully, "Amazing! It really is the second stage! Bastard, I don't know how you managed this, but from this day on, you can't be lazy! Whether you like it or not, I will push you to be a warrior!"

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Chapter 49 - The Sky Gate and the God Area

In the Gravity Room.

Beside a huge mace at the center of the room, Shi Yan was striking it heavily as his body operated Petrification and sweated all over.

That mace was seven meters tall and three meters wide, which was deep rooted at the center of the stone ground in the Gravity Room. The sharp tips on it were like short rods shining with a dark light.

Shi Yan's body had already turned dark brown and he was breathing heavily. Moving around the mace, he kept slamming into it with his shoulders, arms, waist and thighs in turns.

Endless blunt thunderous sounds came out from the Gravity Room.

To trigger the potential of the Petrification Martial Spirit of the Shi Family, one must train themselves in a ruthless way. Only by slamming against hard objects, could the power of Petrification be used to the fullest.

And only by ruthlessly tormenting one's body, could his Petrification Martial Spirit adapt to any kind of attacks from his opponents.

There were seven dark Gravity pillars erected in the Gravity Room, which increased the gravity in the room to seven times normal gravity.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

With his upper body naked, Shi Yan wore a serious face, while he was training his body to the limit in order to activate the potential of his Petrification Martial Spirit.

Everytime he slammed into the mace with his body, it would send out a thin layer of brown light.

The light flashed for a short moment. It would explode the moment Shi Yan's body touched the mace, and would disappear soon after the touch.

After about five thousand repetitions with different parts of his body, Shi Yan collapsed, unable to use his energy anymore. With his limbs spread out, he laid down in the center of the room letting his sweat flow like a stream over his skin which wet the green stone ground.

It had been half a month.

In the past half a month, Shi Yan ate and slept in the Gravity Room. He never left the room even to go to the restroom.

That was Shi Jian's plan.

As soon as Shi Jian found out that Shi Yan's Martial Spirit had reached the second stage, he made Shi Yan stop his other training and focus on refining his body.

Shi Jian meant to trigger the entire potential of Shi Yan's second stage Petrification Martial Spirit at the fastest speed, and to strengthen his body structure to the extent that it could bear the attacks from a Human Level warrior.

During the past half month, Shi Jian, Han Feng, Yang Hai, and other elders came to watch him now and then.

Shi Jian, for example, would come to see him every three days. He would examine the changes on Shi Yan's body carefully and give him some advice on the training intensity for the next stage.

Lying on the ground with fatigue, Shi Yan began to adjust his breathing slowly. After feeling more strength in his arms and legs, he managed to sit up and began to operate his Profound Qi.

Though he was exhausted, his Profound Qi circulated even faster than before. During this process Shi Yan closed his eyes, and tried to calm his heart clear his mind.

Everytime he went to this state, he found that his blood, flesh, cells and bones were all nourishing his body in a way he couldn't understand.

His broken body would soon recover from his extreme fatigue and gain strength.

This was the self-recovery of the Immortal Martial Spirit!

Shi Yan knew it well.

Not knowing how much time had passed, he woke up gradually with his eyes as bright as the stars. After meditating, the fatigue in his body disappeared and his Profound Qi became active. There seemed to be a strong explosiveness in it which was about to break out.

At this moment, the stone door of the Gravity Room opened a little.

Han Zhong walked in with a big smile and seven bamboo baskets in his hands.

He put down the bamboo baskets and took out the delicate dishes one by one, "Today's dishes: bird's nest, sea cucumber, turtle, bear's palm, glossy ganoderma. Brother Yan, you are too gluttonous! One meal for you is even more than five meals of what the other young masters of Shi Family eat. If you were in a small family, everything would be eaten by you."

Han Zhong laughed as he put down the plates and secretly took out a jar of wine, "This jar of wine called 'Flame' is part of my collection. Drink it up quickly and I will dispose of it."

Shi Yan didn't try to refuse as he walked over to Han Zhong quickly and began to swallow the food. After wolfing down the rich dishes which only wealthy families could afford, he took up the jar of 'Flame', raised his head, and drank.

Wiping his mouth and putting the empty jar down, he chuckled, "Old Han, you should bring me two jars of it next time. One jar is not enough!"

"Brother Yan, the wine 'Flame' is from the Spring Pavilion, costing five hundred purple crystal coins!" Han Zhong squeezed out a bitter smile, "I saved this one last time I went there. I will bring you 'Knife' tomorrow, which only costs one hundred blue crystal coins. I can even bring you four jars of it!"

"They are only crystal coins!" Shi Yan didn't care at all, "Bring me 'Flame', I will give you the crystal coins next time!"

"Then it's ok with me." Han Zhong smirked, "Brother Yan, the family head kept it confidential about you being a warrior. Most warriors and escorts in the family don't know about it. Do you know why?"

"Why?" Shi Yan asked lazily.

"The Martial Competition that occurs every five years is going to happen in three months. You know, in the last competition, we were surpassed by the Mo and Ling Families, so the family head roared for days after that. This time..."

"He wants me to attend the Martial Competition?" Shi Yan responded in surprise before Han Zhong finished his speech.

The Martial Competition was a big event co-held by the five biggest families in the Merchant Union which every warrior could attend.

The competitions happened according to five levels: Elementary Level, Nascent Level, Human Level, Disaster Level and Earth Level. Warriors of every level could compete for the first three places of their respective levels.

The five big families would offer a lot of training materials as rewards; such as medicine pills, treasures, Martial skills and so forth for the winners.

The five big families co-held the Martial Competition for two reasons. On one hand, they needed to pick expert warriors to strengthen their power. On the other hand, the competition would be motivation for warriors in this country to train hard to enhance the power of the country.

Those individual warriors who weren't attached to any big family longed for the medicine pills, treasures and Martial Skills. Some of them were also looking for an opportunity to attach themselves to a big family.

Therefore, every Martial Competition would attract thousands of warriors and would be very energetic.

Apart from those individual warriors, the five big families would send out their descendants to compete in the competition.

That way, they were able to show their strength and attract outstanding warriors to choose them.

Therefore, the Martial Competition was not only an opportunity for the big families to attract warriors, but also a stage for them to secretly fight.

Thus, both the warriors and mercenaries in this country and the five big families attached great importance to the Martial Competition.

Sometimes, the ownership of controversial properties among the five families will be decided through the competition.

For example, in the last competition, the Shi Family and the Mo Family staked the ownership of three mines.

Unfortunately, in the battles among the third descendants, except Shi Tianyun, the other Shi Family descendants,Shi Tianluo and Shi Tianke, were beaten by the Mo Family descendants. So in the end, the Mo Family won two mines and the Shi Family only won one.

"You may not know, but we fought a lot with the Mo Family over disputes on some properties recently. So the same thing may happen again in the Martial Competition this year. They may stake the ownership of some properties."

"Which means, I'm going to have a chance to perform?"

"Sure! The family head must be hopeful that you will win for our family. That's why he is so strict with you and comes to watch you every three days. You don't know how busy he is recently, but he still makes time to check on you, which shows how much he cares about you."

"Ok, I got it."

In the Rock Room.

Sitting upright on a huge rock, Shi Yan's bright eyes had a serious look in them, seeming to be in deep thought.

"On the auction in the Misty Pavilion, there was a fragment picture of The Sky Gate..." Han Feng was reporting the latest news to Shi Jian who was standing next to him.

The Sky Gate was a magical portal leading to the God Area, a mysterious space. The God Area may exist in the Grace Mailand, or may not. It was an independent space.

No one knew how the God Area was formed, or its structure, or where would it appear.

Only through the Sky Gate, could one one enter the God Area.

There were various versions of the legends about the God Area.

It was said that there were all sorts of mysterious things in different God Areas. Martial Skills of Spirit Level and even God Level, bizarre drugs, rare treasures...

"Four months ago, the Medicine King Mu Xun's disciple Karu stole a fragment picture from his teacher. Maybe the two fragments come from the same picture. And are they two separate fragments or just the same one? Maybe the one in the Misty Pavilion is the one Karu had stolen." Shi Jian had a quick thought when he recalled the news from four months ago.

Han Feng shook his head, "That Karu had disappeared a long time ago. But the fragment in the Misty Pavilion was provided by a woman. Seeing it is a serious matter, the Misty Pavilion didn't sell it directly but kept it in the name of 'authenticating'."

"That broken picture is still at the Misty Pavilion?" Shi Jian asked firmly.

"Yep." Han Feng nodded, "The Beiming Family, the Mo Family, the Ling Family and the Zuo Family had all contacted the Misty Pavilion to purchase that fragment after they got the news. But the Misty Pavilion won't put it up for auction before they authenticate it, so the four families merely showed their strong interest without taking any secret actions."

"It is only a mere fragment. If it was a complete picture, the Beiming Family would have stolen it." Shi Jian sneered.

"Do we need to take action?"

"Keep an eye on it but don't get involved for the time being. Remember to exchange information with the Zuo Family. We can't act bluntly before the second fragment appears."

"Ok."

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Chapter 50 A Cut

In the Gravity Room.

Shi Yan was leaning against a gravity pillar while feeling pain all over his body.

His naked body was so strong that the lines of his muscles could be clearly seen. They looked like they were moulded from metal and looked full of explosiveness.

While being provided with abundant food, Shi Yan spent another month intensely training his body. During this time he had not only gotten stronger, but he had also become taller.

Abruptly, the door was pushed open.

Shi Jian, Han Feng and Yang Hai showed up at the door.

Shi Jian's torch-like eyes glanced at Shi Yan from afar before nodding, "It seems you haven't been idle."

"Of course." Shi Yan answered whilst exhausted, and didn't change his position, "I guess I have refined my body enough. I need to choose a Martial Skill to train with."

"Well, you are not the one to decide that." Shi Jian swaggered up to him and said with a rigid face, "Give me one of your hands."

Shi Yan stretched out his left hand in response and focused. Immediately, his left arm petrified into a dark brown colour.

Under scrutiny, wisps of shining dark light could be seen on the surface of his arm, forming what looked like a thin transparent layer covering his arms.

"Wow!"

Shi Jian exclaimed with excitement and observed happily, "Ha! You really are something! There turns out to be dark light! You trained really hard! So great! Great!"

Yang Hai was delighted as he walked up as well, "Step-father, is this state equivalent to the Human Level? Years ago when Qing reached the Third Sky of Human Level, her skin also sent out dark light after Petrification. Is this the same thing?"

"Yes." Shi Jian nodded calmly with a little muscular spasm in the corner of his mouth, "The kid is really promising! He improved so much in a mere half a month. This is amazing!"

Although Shi Jian didn't want to make Shi Yan overly prideful, he couldn't help but praise him with a surprised face, "Kid, how on earth did you manage that?"

"I trained how you told me to. I kept at it, and this is the result." Shi Yan shrugged indifferently.

"How long do you train for each day?" Even Han Feng, who was rarely talkative, couldn't help but ask.

"About fifteen hours."

"Fifteen hours?!"

Han Feng and Shi Jian cried out at the same time. They looked at each other and found astonishment in each other's eyes.

"It's impossible! You bastard! You must be fooling us!" Shi Jian yelled and said firmly, "Your body needs at least eighteen hours to be fully recovered before the next intensive slam training. And you need time for meals. It's more than enough for you to train for five hours a day! Where did fifteen hours come from?"

Han Feng was skeptical as well, as he shook his head softly.

"Little bastard, tell us the truth. Don't be naughty in front of your big grandpa." Yang Hai grunted and reproached.

"Who says I need eighteen hours to recover?" Shi Yan said light-heartedly, "I just need four hours."

"That's impossible!"

Shi Jian and Han Feng yelled in surprise at the same time.

"Your body won't recover so soon after such intensive training! I have managed the Shi Family for so many years and have never seen anyone who could recover in such short time! Shi Yang was the most talented kid I've seen and even he needed about fifteen hours to recover when he did slam training at the Human Level!" Shi Jian shook his head and grunted, "You mean to say that you recover four times faster than him? Do you even think that is possible?"

"Nothing is impossible." Shi Yan smiled and stood up immediately. He walked to the corner of the room and took out a dagger from the bag on the ground. "Big Grandpa, something has confused me for a long time. Now that my father is here, I want to ask for your permission to do a test."

"What test?" Shi Jian frowned.

"Uncle Han, I want to cut your arm."

"Bastard!" Shi Jian shouted, "Kid, what are you talking about!"

"Just a slight cut." Shi Yan kept calm, "And for an accurate comparison, I will also cut my father's and my own arms as well."

"Family head, Maybe Young Master Yan had some plan. Why not have a try."

"What the hell do you want to do?" Shi Jian was confused.

"You will know." Shi Yan walked to Han Feng in an easy manner, "Uncle Han, please don't operate your Profound Qi, even if it bleeds, ok?"

"Got it."

"So I will do it now?"

"Ok."

Shi Yan walked up and made a cut on Han Feng's left arm. Crimson blood gushed out at once.

"Father, it's your turn." Shi Yan walked toward Yang Hai.

"Little bastard! What are you going to do? Your father is not a warrior! Be gentle!"

"Ok. I know it." Shi Yan stepped up and made a cut as fast as lightning on Yang Hai's arm.

Seeing his bleeding arm, Yan Hai screamed and yelled, "Little bastard! You are so cruel! I wasn't ready!"

Under Han Feng and Shi Jian's gaze, Shi Yan then casually cut on his own arm and watched as it started to bleed.

"Bastard, what do you want to show us? What do you mean by this? I can't see anything!" Yang Hai clamored.

"Wait, wait for a moment." Shi Yan was quite serious now and his expression became more rigid.

Han Feng and Shi Jian were full of suspicion as they couldn't figure out what was going on and moved their eyes over to Shi Yan.

Shi Yan smiled but didn't give them an explanation. He covered his bleeding arm with his jacket, not letting them see it.

Ten minutes later.

"What?"

Han Feng noticed something strange first as he gazed at Yang Hai's arm in astonishment, "Family head, look!"

Shi Jian was focusing on Shi Yan, and upon hearing Han Feng, turned to Yang Hai.

He also noticed the strange thing, "Hai, why did the blood on your arm freeze and turn into a blood cocoon?"

"Ahh!" Yang Hai cried out as soon as he noticed the cocoon, "I don't know!"

"But my arm is still bleeding..." Han Feng stretched out his arm and showed it to Yang Hai.

"What's up?" Yang Hai asked in surprise, "You trained with Martial Skills for so many years and your body quality is higher than mine. You should have stopped bleeding earlier than me! What happened!"

"Look at my arm."

Shi Yan smiled and unbuttoned his jacket to show them his arm, and wiped the frozen blood away.

The cut on his arm turned to be as thin as a needle and the flesh on the both sides seemed to be moving toward each other and recovering quickly.

Shi Jian and Han Feng were aghast and quivered.

"Bastard, wha..what on earth is going on?" Shi Jian asked after a long astonishment.

"This is a type of Martial Spirit! My father possesses it as well. But he doesn't train in Martial Arts and hasn't been severely hurt before, so he never noticed it." Shi Yan spilled out this secret calmly.

Shi Jian kept silent with his eyes shining brightly and hands clenching. After a long while he burst into wild laughter, "Haha! Martial Spirit! Self-recovery Martial Spirit!"

"I call it the Immortal Martial Spirit." Shi Yan explained, "I assume that this Martial Spirit could recover lost limbs and heal internal organs at its highest stage. Which means, one would be immortal."

Han Feng and Shi Jian were stunned, but after some careful thought, they both realized the power of this Martial Spirit. They couldn't suppress their excitement anymore as their breathing became faster.

"Bastard, so you possess twin Martial Spirits now?" Yang Hai wasn't able to contain his joy either as he realized this and couldn't help but cry out.

"Of course it's twin Martial Spirits! Absolutely!" Shi Jian laughed wildly. He patted Yang Hai's back so hard that the latter fell to the ground. "Hai, I can't believe you possess a Martial Spirit as well! Haha! I've never thought of that! I should have cut your body when you were still a kid! Haha!"

"Now do all of you believe I can recover in four hours?" Shi Yan smiled.

"Definitely! Completely! Haha!" Shi Jian couldn't be happier. Ignoring Yang Hai who was still sitting on the ground, he declared, "Kid, come with me! Let's go to the Martial Spirit Palace! All the secret Martial Skills are kept there. You can choose any you want!"

"Great."

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Chapter 51 The Martial Spirit Palace

There were five floors in the Martial Spirit Palace of the Shi Family.

Every floor was named after the cultivation levels and each floor held the Martial Skill books corresponding to that cultivation level.

On the first and the second floor were Martial Skills of the Mortal Level. Generally, Elementary Level warriors would choose from the Martial Skills on the first floor, while Nascent Level warriors would choose the books on the second floor.

On the third and fourth floor were the Martial Skills of the Profound Level. Human Level warriors would go to the third floor and Disaster Level warriors to the fourth floor.

The fifth floor of the Martial Spirit Palace held the sole Spirit Level Martial Skill of the Shi Family.

But this floor was exclusively for the family head, Shi Jian, who occasionally went up there.

The Spirit Level Martial Skill was so special that even the Ministers of the Shi Family didn't have a chance to look at it. Only the Shi descendants who reached the Earth Level would have the chance to train with it.

However, among the Shi descendants, Shi Yang had reached the highest level, but was only at the Third Sky of the Disaster Level. He was still one step away from the Earth Level.

Shi Jian led Shi Yan directly to the Martial Spirit Palace.

In front of the Martial Spirit Palace, an old woman with wrinkles all over her face bowed as she saw Shi Jian, "Family head."

This old woman was named Yun Luo, an old Minister of the Shi Family. Like Han Feng, she was also a Nirvana Level warrior of the First Sky. It was said that she was even older than Shi Jian. She was already a Minister when Shi Jian was a little boy.

She had stayed in the Shi Family for decades and was trusted by Shi Jian, so she was assigned to guard the Martial Spirit Palace.

"I will help Shi Yan choose his Martial skills." Shi Jian strode to the door, turned and ordered Han Feng and Yang Hai, "You two wait here for a moment."

Han Feng and Yang Hai nodded together.

Yun Luo stepped away for Shi Jian and Shi Yan to enter the palace. And as soon as they entered it, she stood at the door and nodded at Han Feng with a weird expression.

During the past few days, Shi Yan was closely protected by Shi Jian and stayed in the Gravity Room day and night.

Not to mention Yun Luo, even the relatives of Shi Family didn't know much about Shi Yan's latest achievements.

And now Shi Jian had taken him to the Martial Spirit Palace to choose Martial skills in person, which means Shi Yan was officially a warrior!

Yun Luo knew about Shi Yan. She knew that this young master didn't possess a Martial Spirit and was not into Martial Arts as a kid. Now he was seventeen and turned out to be a warrior. This was too abnormal!

Thus, Yun Luo was confused.

As she couldn't figure it out, Yun Luo looked to Han Feng in suspicion, but Han Feng shook his head, implying that he couldn't explain.

Yun Luo was even more confused, but didn't ask anymore. She stood at the door and began to think.

If it was a normal day, she would have closed the iron door and followed the visitor into the Martial Spirit Palace, in case they went into an unsuitable floor.

But this time Shi Jian took Shi Yan there in person, so she didn't need to be too cautious.

"There are eighteen Mortal Level Martial Skills on the first and the second floor, eight Profound Level Martial Skills on the third floor, and four Profound Level Martial Skills on the fourth floor. Now that you are at the Third Sky of Nascent Level, you can go up to the second floor directly."

Shi Jian briefly explained to Shi Yan and took him directly to the second floor.

On the walls of every floor of the Martial Spirit Palace, there were several stone grooves. In each of these grooves, there was a book on Martial Skills.

The grooves were covered with green crystals, at the center of which was a small key hole. A piece of paper beside the keyhole briefly introduced the Martial Skill located in each groove.

After walking around the second floor, Shi Yan found that at least ten Martial Skills of the eighteen Martial Skills were ordinary and were trained by many Mercenaries and warriors, such as Kinmo's 'Star Fist'.

The other eight Martial Skills were rarely seen outside, but their power and training process seemed quite simple to Shi Yan.

Deep down, Shi Yan was someone who loved a challenge, who loved the process in solving a problem.

Therefore, after walking around on the second floor, Shi Yan shook his head, "Big Grandpa, the Martial Skills on this floor are too boring. Let's go upstairs."

If it was one year ago, Shi Yan couldn't have talked to Shi Jian like this.

But Shi Yan had demonstrated his Immortal Martial Spirit, which gave him the right to do what he wanted.

To him, only the mysterious Martial Spirit was important to him, so he wouldn't say a word about it to anyone.

But the Immortal Martial Spirit was far from a secret, and only by showing it to others could he gain more privileges in Shi Family and receive more training from Shi Jian.

As he possessed twin Martial Spirits, Shi Jian would tolerate anything.

As expected, Shi Jian didn't show any disagreement. He was a little hesitant as he grunted, "You are a mere Nascent Level warrior. It's not a good thing to train in Profound Level Martial Skills."

"Am I an average person? You see, though I've just reached Nascent Level, my Petrification has already reached the Second Stage. Beside, I possess the ability to quickly recover which others don't have. The average person may be not suitable to train in Profound Level Martial Skills as my level, but maybe I am."

Hearing upon this, Shi Jian was surprised and he nodded, "Well, you have a point. Let's go upstairs."

One after another, mysterious Martial Skill were laid in the grooves. If Shi Yan showed any interest in a Martial Skill, Shi Jian would patiently explain its features and training process to him.

"Great, the Martial Skills on the third floor are much more interesting!" Shi Jian kept nodding his head, and he quickly noted all the Profound Level Martial Skills on the third floor in his heart. After a while, he said, "Let's go to the fourth floor now."

"Ok, I will give you a detailed explanation of the four Martial Skills on the fourth floor. You are different from those common people, so I can explain them in advance."

Shi Jian then took Shi Yan to the fourth floor.

As they got to the fourth floor, Shi Jian walked to a groove directly. "This is 'Star Net', which can turn one's Profound Qi into light and weave it into a star net. This star net can directly restrain the enemy's Profound Qi so he can't use it at all."

"That's amazing!"

"Well. It's currently beyond your ability. This Martial Skill requires very dense Profound Qi and complete control of your Profound Qi. You are too far away from it!"

Shi Jian was very strict. He sneered and walked to another groove, "This is 'Desert Prints', which can produce thousands of hand prints from all directions and block the enemy's movement, pushing them to fight you directly. We of the Shi Family have a special Martial Spirit, and used in conjunction with 'Desert Prints', we can release our ability to the fullest. This 'Desert Prints' is the perfect match for our Petrification Martial Spirit!"

"This is great too."

"Well, it's also beyond your ability. You can't train with it before you reach Disaster Level, for the same reasons as before. How can you block people from all directions if you can't even release a hand print?"

"What's the next one?"

"It's 'Dark Moon Shadow'. When trained to the highest state, your body would turn into an untouchable shadow. It's not easy either. It requires a high level and the help of the energy of Disaster Level. So just forget about it."

"This is the last groove."

Shi Jian exclaimed as he seemed to find something. His eyes brightened and then he paused, "This Martial Skill trains one's fingers. Once you complete it, your fingers will be as sharp as knives and can pierce the enemy's body easily. It's very easy to defeat an enemy and completely shatter him after training in this Martial Skill. Combined with our Petrification Martial Spirit, it has an extremely strong power."

"I'm intrigued about this one!" Shi Yan was surprised, "Any special requirements?"

"There are. But it seems you are very suitable for it." Shi Jian said after hesitation, "To train with the Finger Gun, one needs to reach the second stage of Petrification and have the dark light first. Thus he won't break his fingers while training. Hmm, you can train with it."

"Then I choose this one." Shi Yan said decisively.

Shi Jian gazed at Shi Yan with a weird look and sank in deep thought.

"What's wrong? Anything else?" Shi Yan felt a little anxious.

"Kid, you really want to train with this Finger Gun?" Shi Jian took a deep breath and looked abnormal.

"What's the problem?"

"You can train with it at a very fast speed and your Immortal Martial Spirit would be used to its fullest." Shi Yan paused then continued speaking, "But it's a hideous process to train the Finger Gun! It's much harder than slamming your body into the mace! It's complete torture! You really want to try it? Not those Elementary Martial Skills?"

"Yes!"

"Ok, then I will tell to the process to train the Finger Gun. Your fingers will become very sharp after you finish the training process. But it's torture to get there..."

A day later, in the Gravity Room.

Out of seven gravity pillars, six were covered by the skins of a fifth-level demon beast, the Silver Snake. The skin could negate the gravity, so the gravity was currently two times normal.

Beside the only pillar not covered by the snake skin, Shi Yan was positioned upside down, supported by the index finger of his left hand.

This thin index finger was supporting his whole body weight, which was twice as heavy due to the increased gravity.

His index finger was trembling slightly and seemed about to break at anytime.

Shi Yan's face was as red as a lobster. The muscles on his left arm were quivering and the veins were shaking like small snakes which were trying to force their way out of his skin.

Extreme pain came from his fingertip to his heart!

It felt like numerous needles were stabbing into his finger. The pain stroked his nerves like waves and he was about to break down.

Endure it!

Shi Yan gritted his teeth and blood was about to gush out of his face. As he was positioned upside down, his blood had flowed down into his head which was intolerable.

Five minutes.

Shi Yan was about to break down after only five minutes.

The pain from his finger almost made him give up. It would have broken if it wasn't petrified.

Carry on!

Six minutes! Seven minutes!

When it came to the eighth minute, Shi Yan was at the edge of breaking down, and his consciousness began to dim...

Just then!

All sorts of negative emotions exploded in the meridians of his head all at once.

All the negative emotions gushed into his mind crazily!

'Rampage' had been triggered.

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Chapter 52 The Mysterious Area

"Bang!"

Shi Yan couldn't hold himself up anymore and he fell to the ground while breathing heavily.

Wisps of invisible but odd negative energy secretly poured out of his meridians and into his mind like silk.

The negative energy intertwined in his mind and seemed to have combined with his nerves.

A piercing pain suddenly invaded his mind .

The pain was like a electric current which struck out from his mind and flew across his whole body, activating all of his meridians.

It lasted for only three seconds!

A dense negative energy dispersed from all of his meridians.

The negative energy expelled from his meridians didn't stop, but kept moving through his veins, flesh, blood, bones, cells, and entrails.

There seemed to be electric currents flowing through his body. While his head was still hurting severely, his limbs began to contract.

Thin white smoke poured out from every single one of his pores...

A layer of pale smoke rapidly wrapped around him. Combined with the smoke was a murderous, bloody smell which encouraged people to kill!

As all the negative energy escaped from his meridians, his body contracted by one third!

Standing there with his skinny body, Shi Yan was surrounded with the desire for blood, which also filled his body.

Suddenly, the pain in his mind disappeared all at once.

Opening his eyes, Shi Yan found his nerves had become more acute and he could even think and calculate faster.

His mind could maintain a very calm state!

The wisps of negative energy in his head seemed to combine with his nerves and had made his body extremely sensitive!

Standing there, he could even feel the changes the negative energy had made in his flesh and blood and how much power it had brought him.

Now he had become an unfeeling machine without any human emotions. The only thing left in his mind were methods to kill. How to kill quickly and efficiently.

He was a most hideous creature right now!

All other thoughts other than murder were disposed of. The only thing he could think of was how to kill his enemies.

No kindness. No concerns. Nothing but killing.

"Hoohoo!"

Shi Yan was breathing heavily like a murderous monster in the bloody Gravity Room. There wasn't any mercy left in his eyes and it seemed that he could kill at any time.

"Stop!"

A sound echoed in his mind. With the strength of will, Shi Yan withdrew the white smoke into his meridians.

Sitting down cross-legged, he closed his eyes and composed himself. He cleansed the thought of murder from his mind and let the odd negative energy slowly gush back into the meridians in his head.

After a very long time.

Shi Yan began to breath evenly, although he was still extremely fatigued. Then he slowly opened his eyes.

The clarity in his eyes had returned and there was no trace of any coldness or bloody desire.

The First Sky of 'Rampage'!

At that moment Shi Yan realized the real state of the First Sky of 'Rampage'.

Apart from the change to his body, the change to his mind was more horrifying!

He believed that in that mindset, he would be the coldest killing machine and would be able to trigger all of his potential.

In that state, he had no emotions, only the need to kill! All he could think about was how to kill faster and more efficiently. Too cold blooded!

Horrifying!

Shi Yan couldn't help but shout in his mind after he recovered and remembered that weird state.

And at that moment, he realized that maybe the direction of his training was wrong.

The training of 'Rampage' should start from the head and the whole process would be led by the head. Once 'Rampage' started in his head, his whole body would change with it.

But he had begun to train from his hands and feet and then his whole body. When he finally trained with his head, he would body would change and then the recoil would strike the meridians in his head.

Apparently he was training in an incorrect way, thus he fainted during several trainings.

Now the last step of 'Rampage' was finally complete...

Exhausted, Shi Yan didn't have any energy to train his 'Finger Gun'. He had to sit where he was and drive out the side effects of 'Rampage' using the Immortal Martial Spirit.

After a full circulation, his Profound Qi had as recovered by a lot and so he tried to strike the blood ring.

Recently, he was often trying to strike the blood ring and break another shield to see if there were other secrets.

But every strike ended in failure. Although he was at the Third Sky of Nascent Level, he couldn't break another layer in the ring.

His sharp Profound Qi was always blocked when touching that shield.

The Profound Qi bounced back in waves. Shi Yan stood up and went to the corner of the Gravity Room and took out the Spirit Level Martial Skill book 'Gravitational Field' out of his bag.

Sitting in the corner, Shi Yan was frowning as he was turning the pages one by one.

He was very grateful to the previous master of his body now. He could read the ancient book all because of that boy's knowledge.

And apart from that boy, no one else in the Shi Family could read the ancient language.

Luckily that boy passed the ancient language to him. Or he would have had to find a special person who could read the ancient language and translate it for him.

This was a book was a Spirit Level Martial Skill.

He didn't say a word about this book even to Shi Jian or Yang Hai. It would be much too troublesome if his translator spread it.

He slowly read out those ancient characters secretly in his mind.

The book was not thick at all as it only had twenty seven pages. He quickly finished reading all the content.

Closing the book, Shi Yan looked weird as he mumbled, "This book on the Spirit Level Martial Skill is too much fun. One needs to possess different types of power to train with it."

Though this Martial Skill wasn't strict about one's cultivation level, it had strict requirements on one's power.

Though it was a type of Spirit Level Martial Skill, Elementary Level and Nascent Level warriors could also train with it.

There was only one requirement for training it; one had to possess at least two types of power.

Only when the two powers clashed against each other would a Field be created. The space in the Field would twist and thus, create attraction.

Once the Field was created, it would drag everyone but its creator into it.

Under its power, anyone who was dragged into the Field would automatically spin and their blood and flesh would be squeezed. Their Profound Qi would be suppressed and they wouldn't be able to operate their Martial Skills.

According to the author of the book 'Gravitational Field', the more types of power the trainer possessed, the more powerful the Field would be.

If the trainer had three or four types of power, the Field he created could directly kill Disaster Level warriors!

Once there were five types of power in the Field, even an Earth Level warrior would definitely die!

Holding the book and thinking for a while, Shi Yan chuckled softly as his eyes turned bright.

Common warriors had only one type of Profound Qi in their body. Only those who possess special Martial Spirits could have another type of power, such as Di Yalan's Blue Magic Flame.

Apparently most warriors couldn't train with this magical Spirit Level Martial Skill, because very it was rare for people to possess two or three types of powers in their body.

Luckily Shi Yan was among the minority. The negative energy from his meridians was very different from Profound Qi.

He could train with it directly.

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Chapter 53 Visitors from the Zuo Family

ED Note: The notation for Martial Skills has been changed from single quotes '' to square brackets [ ]. The previous chapters will be updated to reflect this.

In the Gravity Room.

Shi Yan leaned against the Gravity Pillar, standing upside down while balanced on the middle finger of his left hand, all of his veins popping out.

A quarter of an hour later, he switched to his ring finger. Every fifteen minutes, he would shift to the next finger and repeat the process all over again.

After one complete cycle, Shi Yan sat on the green stone ground covered in sweat. He stretched out his left hand and released some of the negative energy from the meridians in his arm.

Wisps of white smoke sprawled over his arm and stealthily flew in front of him according to his will.

Profound Qi was being operated in his fingers, then it quivered and was injected into the white smoke which was floating in front of Shi Yan.

The Profound Qi then wriggled like a snake in the white smoke...

The white smoke and the Profound Qi slowly combined, forming into one after some small swirls, in which, a magical attraction suddenly erupted.

As the attraction occurred, that space seemed to collapse and contract at once.

The nearby air was sucked in and the surrounding space seemed to decrease sharply, feeling rather heavy.

His eyes shining brightly, Shi Yan focused on the small Field and tried to feel the magical power, injecting more Profound Qi into it.

Strangely, the Field didn't get any stronger. On the contrary, the magical power in it became weaker.

"Eh?"

Shi Yan was stunned and confused.

After pondering for a long time, he seemed to figure out the trick. He stopped injecting Profound Qi and pushed some of the negative white smoke surrounding his arm into the Field.

The Field which was previously getting weaker, suddenly began to strengthen as soon as the white smoke was added.

Gazing at the Field for ten seconds, Shi Yan was thinking on the details. Eventually he withdrew the two types of power out of the Field.

The Field disappeared at once.

Through this training, he drew the conclusion that in order to strengthen the Field, the two types of power should be balanced. Only by doing this could the Field remain powerful.

If one of the powers surpassed the other one, it wouldn't strengthen the Field, but break the balance and decrease its power.

There needed to be an accurate balance between the two powers, or the power of the Field could not be released to the fullest extent.

During these days, Shi Yan devoted himself to his two Martial Skills: [Finger Gun] and [Gravitational Field]. Apart from having three meals a day, he spent almost all of his time on his training.

After a month's torment, Shi Yan had made significant progress in the [Finger Gun].

Now he could stand on each of his fingers for fifteen minutes.

His ten fingers became harder and harder, and would even make the sound of metal when struck after Petrification.

Every time he finished training the [Finger Gun, he would delve into the Spirit Level Martial Skill book [Gravitational Field].

He didn't exhaust his negative energy in his meridians every time he trained. Instead, he just released a little part of it from his arms and combined it with his Profound Qi to explore the effects of [Gravitational Field].

Though the Field he formed was small, it had the the same mechanism as the big ones.

After endless repeated use, he gained a deeper understanding about [Gravitational Field, and knew more about it after a period of time.

The deeper he probed the [Gravitational Field] skill, the more profound he found this Spirit Level Martial Skill to be. There were many more truths hidden in it.

While training in this Spirit Level Martial Skill, Shi Yan was also in the process of trying to understand the truth of this universe.

Sitting there upright covered in perspiration, Shi Yan sank deep into thought.

"Creaakkk"

The door of the Gravity Room opened, as Han Zhong walked in and yelled, "Brother Yan, the family head has asked for you to come to the living room."

"Living room?" Shi Yan glanced at him and frowned, "Didn't he forbid me from leaving the Gravity Room? Are there important visitors?"

"Zuo Xu came with that little girl Zuo Shi." Han Zhong explained while standing at the door, "Zuo Xu just brought Zuo Shi back from her teacher, Chi Xiao, in the Cloud Mountain. So they came to visit us on the way and discuss the Martial Competition with the family head."

The Zuo Family was one of the five big families in the Merchant Union, and was quite close to the Shi Family.

The Zuo Family possessed the Shadow Martial Spirit. During fights, there would be clones beside them. Many skilled Zuo family warriors could even create seven or eight clones during a fight. These clones could move and make different actions in order to confuse the enemy.

As the Zuo Family members possessed the Shadow Martial Spirit, they would be in a beneficial position from the very beginning

The opponents would mistakenly attack the clones, so the Zuo warriors could kill them easily.

The Shadow Martial Spirit was not only beneficial for fights, but also made a big difference when one needed to escape.

Once the Zuo warriors were threatened, they would create several clones of themselves and run in different directions. If they had only one enemy, that person could only choose one direction to chase them in.

After he caught up, he would find out that it was just a clone, and their real body had already ran off somewhere else.

If the real body was chased, they could create more clones and make the enemy guess again.

One would break down if he came across a Zuo Family warrior and had to find the real body to chase.

"Ok, got it." Shi Yan nodded and casually picked up a green warrior uniform from the ground and put it on. He strode out of the Gravity Room, "Let's go."

"Err...Brother Yan, aren't you going to take a shower first?" Han Zhong covered his nose with one hand and waved with the other, "You stink like sweat!"

"Nope. I will be back soon anyway."

"You don't want to leave a good impression on Zuo Shi?" Han Zhong looked weird, "Zuo Shi is well known for her talent in the Merchant Union. Tian Xiao, Tian Luo, and some other young masters are all around her these days. Aren't you going to try and impress her?"

"Zuo Shi?" Shi Yan was stunned when a bright flash crossed his mind. Unexpectedly, he felt a slight sorrow in his heart, and he shook his head, "Well, there is something between this girl and me..."

"Exactly!"

Han Zhong smirked, "You were born on the same day! What a coincidence! So your grandpa and Zuo Xu nearly got you two engaged. But on the third day after her birth, she turned out to possess the Shadow Martial Spirit, while you didn't. Hmm, then no one brought your engagement up, when the two sides both chose to be silent about it..."

Han Zhong paused and sighed, "It's natural. Zuo Shi inherited a Martial Spirit, but you didn't show yours at the beginning, which, to the Shi Family and the Zuo Family, meant that you wouldn't be successful. The Zuo Family wouldn't marry a real warrior like Zuo Shi to some commoner. And the Shi Family can't take advantage of it. So that is it."

Memories hidden deep within Shi Yan's mind were awoken by Han Zhong's speech. Standing there stunned, Shi Yan slowly sorted out these memory fragments and mumbled after a long time, "That guy was really sentimental..."

"Zuo Shi is incredibly talented and intelligent, but it is also said that she is rather lazy, and not into Martial Arts. Her accomplishment was the result of her family pushing her. Even so, she trains much faster than average warriors. Seventeen and the Second Sky of the Human Level! Another miracle in the Merchant Union."

Han Zhong shook his head, and sighed, "That bastard Beiming Ce has also reached the Second Sky of Human Level at seventeen, but he kept training so hard. While Zuo Shi kept sleeping and fooling around… I guess Zuo Shi is more talented than Beiming Ce."

Shi Yan didn't reply but frowned.

He could feel that slight sorrow in his heart which was triggered by Zuo Shi...

As he focused on the memory, Shi Yan realized that the previous master of his body was deeply in love with Zuo Shi, while she never felt anything for him.

Zuo Shi was very lazy. She didn't like hard training, but was into art, nature, tea ceremony, astrology and so on...

Her hobbies varied. Though she didn't train hard, she could easily break the levels, and managed to reach the Second Sky of Human Level with the help of her incredible talent.

Apart from her incredible talent, she also had an extraordinarily delicate face.

The previous master of this body fell for Zuo Shi at the first sight. But he wasn't good with words, and knew he was at a disadvantage, so he never expressed his admiration for her.

Typical unrequited love.

"Well..." after his mind wandered for a while, Shi Yan smiled, "So… that girl is a genius?"

"Absolutely!"

Han Zhong nodded and affirmed, "Otherwise, Chi Xiao in the Cloud Mountain wouldn't have insisted on teaching Zuo Shi and taken her to the Cloud Mountain after seeing her for the first time three years ago. Chi Xiao is an expert of the Sky Level, which is very rare in the Merchant Union, Fire Empire and the God-blessed Empire. It is said that even Beiming Shang has been beaten by him."

"Okay." Shi Yan looked indifferent, "Shall we go now?"

"Errr… you are not moved by what I said? You are not going to clean yourself and suit up?" Han Zhong smiled bitterly.

"Now that this girl is so popular and she is protected by Chi Xiao and Zuo Xu, I don't think I will have a chance with her. So why waste my time."

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Chapter 54 - Zuo Shi

In front of the living room, there was a mid-sized garden which contained all sorts of rare plants. There were flowers that bloomed during every season, sending out intoxicating fragrances.

Shi Yan walked to the front of the garden and saw Zuo Shi at once, who was crowded by several boys.

Among the fresh flowers, Zuo Shi was standing in a beautiful position. Her long, straight legs looked sexy.

In the sunlight, her porcelain-like skin was shining elegantly. On her small, delicate face, her two big eyes were as clear as crystals.

Although Shi Yan knew Zuo Shi was pretty, he was still amazed after seeing her in person.

Zuo Shi was as beautiful as Mu Yu Die, and she was even taller, with longer and more delicious legs.

These youths crowded around Zuo Shi like stars that circled the moon. Zuo Shi was holding a watering can and was leisurely watering the flowers, though there was a sign some helplessness in her eyes.

It seemed that she didn't like to be treated like she was special.

Shi Yan took a glance at her from afar and turned away. He entered the garden and directly headed towards the living room behind the garden.

"Shi Yan!"

A young man's loud shout came, and many youths around Zuo Shi turned their eyes to Shi Yan.

"Yes Brother?" Shi Yan paused, turned and asked.

"Where have you been these days? I heard you came back months ago, but why didn't I see you?" Shi Tianxiao yelled and waved at Shi Yan, "Come, Shi Yan, Little Shi has a piece of turtle shell with her and there are some odd characters on it. Aren't you an expert on these things? Come and help us check."

Zuo Shi, who was among these youths, was interested after hearing that. Her lake-like eyes crossed over the ten meters and settled upon Shi Yan.

"I'm busy now. Big Grandpa is asking for me. Talk to you later."

Shi Yan looked indifferent and refused at once, then walked towards the living room without any hesitation.

"Hmm."

Shi Tianxiao felt weird and was stunned. He smiled and explained embarrassingly, "Shi Yan is bad tempered, wordless and not into Martial Arts at all. All these years he has been running around all over the place. Even I don't know what he was doing. Don't worry, I will get him to read it for you."

There was suspicion in Zuo Shi's eyes. She gazed at Shi Yan's disappearing back and asked, "He is not interested in Martial Arts? Then why is his cultivation level even higher than yours?"

"Wha… what?"

Shi Tianxiao was shocked as he hurried to ask, "Little Shi, are you serious? I have never seen him train Martial Arts for one second in the last seventeen years! Cultivation?"

Zuo Shi's pretty face showed some surprise too. She asked earnestly after some thought, "He has reached the Third Sky of the Nascent Level, how couldn't he have trained in Martial Arts? That old man taught me his [Magical Eyes, through which I can tell anyone's cultivation. His cultivation is not higher than mine, so my estimation must be correct."

"The Third Sky of Nascent Level!"

Shi Tianluo, who was standing beside them, shook his head and shouted, "No way! It's impossible! For the past seventeen years, Shi Yan literally hasn't trained Martial Arts for even one second! How could he reach the Third Sky of the Nascent Level in one night? Don't be ridiculous!"

Seeing them unconvinced, Zuo Shi shook her head slightly without further explanation, and went to the other side with the watering can.

"Big Grandpa, what can I do for you?"

Shi Yan walked into the living room, bowed to Shi Jian, Han Feng, and Zuo Xu one by one, and asked Shi Jian.

Shi Jian nodded, stepped up, grabbed Shi Yan's arm and dragged him to the front of Zuo Xu, "Brother Zuo, look at him carefully, and check how on earth he has his Martial Spirit. Your Zuo Family has collected so many classic books on Martial Spirits, you must know more about it than me. I can't figure it out. I believe you can."

Zuo Xu was around sixty years old with white hair along the two sides of his forehead. He didn't look arrogant or proud at all, but was extremely learned and refined.

He didn't look like a family head from a big family, but rather a teacher at the school.

Shi Jian and Zuo Xu had been close friends for many years, and the Shi Family and the Zuo Family were solid allies. Therefore, Shi Yan's latest news might be still a secret to most Shi Family members, but it wouldn't be a secret to Zuo Xu.

Zuo Xu frowned slightly as he stretched out one of his skinny dry hands and put it on Shi Yan's wrist, "Petrify your body first."

Shi Yan did as Zuo Xu asked.

Suddenly, thousands of wisps of energy seemed to come out from his wrist like silk.

The wisps felt alive as it nimbly floated to every corner of Shi Yan's body, but didn't cause him any pain, despite some itchiness.

The wisps passed through his veins, probed his bones, entered his entrails, and moved over every corner of his body, and finally it went back and disappeared at his wrist.

Zuo Xu released his hand and frowned deeply. After a long silence, he said, "Nothing strange."

Shi Jian was so joyful that he said in haste, "You mean, this boy has a normal Martial Spirit? And it will also improve in the future?"

"Should be." Zuo Xu was in deep thought while his face showed a weird expression, "Brother, is there another Martial Spirit in his body?"

"How do you know?"

Shi Jian was too happy to contain himself, and he couldn't help but laugh, "Brother Zuo! You are really something! Yes, there is another Martial Spirit in his body which can provide self-recovery! Haha! I intended to tell you later, but you detected it so soon!"

A light flashed Zuo Xu's eyes as his mouth trembled. After a long while, he nodded heavily and greeted happily, "Congratulations Brother!"

"Haha, you too, you too." Shi Jian was delighted as he laughed, "Your little girl is so talented that she has already reached the Second Sky of the Human level. Even that old Chi Xiao insisted on teaching her. I bet her accomplishments will be much greater than that boy in the Beiming Family."

Zuo Xu shook his head with a bitter smile, and sighed with fondness, "That girl is really talented, but she is too lazy! She won't train until I force her to. Her cultivation would be much higher if she was as diligent as Beiming Ce."

Zuo Xu looked a little proud as he mentioned Zuo Shi's talent.

"Your girl advances really fast. But Shi Yan advanced to the Third Sky of the Nascent Level in a very short time too! He never trained in the past seventeen years. To mention this speed, I have never seen anyone who advances faster than him." Shi Jian replied with a smile, raising his head.

Another light crossed Zuo Xu's eyes. He looked at Shi Jian, and nodded with a smile, "Twin Martial Spirits are really amazing. The Shi Family will definitely win the Martial Competition this time."

"Sure!"

Shi Jian wasn't modest at all, as he said loudly, "I kept this guy in the Gravity Room for so long so that he could teach a lesson to the Mo Family."

"Brother, since Shi Yan possesses twin Martial Spirits, it's understandable that his Petrification could directly advanced to the second stage."

Zuo Xu thought for a while, and said, "As far as I know, there is a small possibility that the two Martial Spirits in one body could change after coming into contact with each other. And that variation is harmful in most cases. The two Martial Spirits may influence each other in a negative way and decrease their power. But there is a small chance that some twin Martial Spirits could nourish each other. Shi Yan is lucky, apparently his twin Martial Spirits are compatible, therefore his Petrification could directly advanced to the second stage when he is still at the Nascent Level."

"Yeah, this guy is really blessed! Or he wouldn't have given me such a surprise at the age of seventeen!" Shi Jian nodded with a broad smile.

Then the two old men started to talk about other trivial things, seeming to forget that Shi Yan was still beside them.

"Hmm, may I go back to the Gravity Room if there is nothing else I can do?" Being ignored, Shi Yan suggested helplessly.

"Well, go! Hurry up! Don't be lazy!" Shi Jian urged seriously.

"Oh, by the way, you are an expert on ancient characters right?" Zuo Xue remembered something and added, "Little Shi got a piece of turtle shell which has some ancient characters on it. She wants to know what it says, please help her read it when you pass by her."

"Okay."

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Chapter 55 - The Weirdo

In the garden in front of the living room.

Some Shi family boys were fawning over Zuo Shi passionately with modest smiles. Every time Zuo Shi asked about something, they would answer quickly in order to create a good impression of themselves.

Some of them were from the branches of the Shi family and some, such as Shi Tianxiao and Shi Tianluo, were from the direct line.

Walking slowly among the fresh flowers, Zuo Shi looked a little absent-minded, though her steps didn't falter. She shook the watering can in her hand, bored and detached, like a spirit among the flowers.

Shi Yan walked out of the living room, thought for a while, and directly went into the flower garden towards Zuo Shi. He then stretched out his hand and said, "Please show me the turtle shell."

"You stupid guy. Now you come to make up to Little Shi! Where have you been just now?" Shi Tianxiao grunted in discontent.

"Big Grandpa wanted to have a word with me." Shi Yan explained casually, "I promised Grandpa Zuo to help Zuo Shi read the shell. We have different intentions."

"Intentions? What's the difference?" Shi Tianxiao was a little embarrassed. Suddenly he covered his nose with his hand and cried, "Shi Yan, what is that smell coming from you?!"

A sour smell was wafting out from him.

The crowd didn't notice it in the beginning as they were busy fawning over Zuo Shi. As they heard Shi Tianxiao's cry, they finally noticed and quickly covered their noses, complaining that Shi Yan was too shameful.

Unexpectedly, the only girl there didn't even take a step back, but stood there carrying the watering can, seemingly not caring about the smell at all.

Zuo Shi stared at Shi Yan in surprise, while confusion overtook her mind.

Every man, including Shi Tianxiao and Shi Tianluo, would suit up and put some perfume on before they saw Zuo Shi, using flower essence to ensure they didn't leave a bad impression on her.

But this boy was too different! His warrior gown was wrinkled and dusty; apparently he had been wearing it for a very long time. There was the strong smell coming from him indicating that he had just finished training his martial arts.

This guy obviously doesn't take me seriously!

Zuo Shi was stunned and soon drew this conclusion, which triggered her interest in Shi Yan.

Seeing the crowd turned off but Zuo Shi still standing there, Shi Yan was a little happy, as he asked softly, "Where is the turtle shell?"

"It's at the living room, I will get it right away." Zuo Shi replied in a very melodious voice. She then moved her beautiful legs and thin body and disappeared in an instant.

The girl moved as fast as lightning. Even Shi Yan could only see her shadow pass by, unable to follow her movement.

The crowd, including Shi Tianxiao, were astounded.

They realized that not only was Zuo Shi pretty, but also a warrior one realm higher than them.

By the time Zuo Shi had returned, the crowd were still drowning in amazement as only six seconds had passed.

Zuo Shi appeared in front of Shi Yan with a basin-sized turtle shell in her hand and handed it to him, "Here you are."

Shi Yan nodded and took the shell, only to find his body dragged down by a massive weight and he almost fell to the ground by the heavy turtle shell.

He operated his Profound Qi and was barely able to stabilize his body. He exclaimed, "So heavy!"

He looked to Zuo Shi in discontent and assumed she was deliberately trying to make a fool out of him!

However, he found that Zuo Shi's eyes were crystal clear and devoid of any malicious intentions.

"Yes, I don't know what this shell is made out of. It's about four hundred kilograms." Zuo Shi didn't notice that Shi Yan had secretly cursed her, instead she fingered the short hair beside her ears and added, "I was surprised when I first got it."

"Four hundred kilograms!" Shi Tianxiao rubbed his temples and felt his head go numb.

Zuo Shi held the turtle shell with one hand and could still move that fast! This made him realize the distance between him and Zuo Shi and he was a little disappointed.

Shi Yan was holding the turtle shell firmly after he recovered, which also improved his understanding of Shi Yan, and he now believed what Zuo Shi had previously said.

"Shi Yan, you, you bastard..."

Though Shi Tianxiao was not a gifted boy, he was clever enough. He realized that Shi Jian had kept this a secret, so he stopped himself before he announced Shi Yan's latest shocking news.

Shi Yan remained indifferent. Without replying to Shi Tianxiao, he examined the turtle shell carefully and nodded to Zuo Shi, "This is one of the oldest languages, so I need to read it with the help of some books. Follow me to my room."

At once, Shi Yan headed to his own house with the turtle shell in his hand.

"Okay." Zuo Shi nodded and stepped up leisurely.

"Big brother, um, are we following them?" Shi Tianluo showed a strange face, and asked quietly after the two had moved far away.

"Hmm, good idea." Shi Tianxiao couldn't suppress his curiosity. Seeing no one was walking out of the living room, he also followed to Shi Yan's house.

Shi Yan lived in a three storey stone house.

The first floor held various trivial stuff, the second floor was for resting, and the third floor was filled with huge book shelves where Shi Yan kept all sorts of ancient books.

After leading Zuo Shi to the house, Shi Yan saw that the crowd had also followed them. He shouted at them from the door, "I need quiet. Don't come into my house."

Then he closed the door and said to Zuo Shi, "Let's go upstairs."

Zuo Shi nodded obediently and followed him to the second floor.

"Well, you go up and rest on the third floor for a while. I need to take a shower and change my clothes. I will catch up with you shortly." He handed the turtle shell back to Zuo Shi and pointed at the stairs leading to the third floor, "This way."

"Why shower now?" Zuo Shi rolled her eyes at him, and grunted with her delicate nose.

"I want to feel comfortable, it's not out of consideration for you. Don't think too much of yourself little girl."

"You think too much!"

"Don't waste my time. Go to the third floor! I'm taking off my clothes."

Not bothering to care, Shi Yan took off his warriors gown and threw it onto the hanger. He was only in his underwear and almost naked. He glanced at Zuo Shi indifferently, "Why are you still here?"

After a long period of intense training, Shi Yan had become much stronger. Every muscle looked shiny and hard, as if moulded by iron, emitting a strong sense of masculinity.

As Zuo Shi saw him take off his clothes without any shame, she panicked. She cursed, "Bastard!" and quickly took the turtle shell up to the third floor with her face blushing.

This guy… had some figure. Zuo Shi thought to herself as she was walking upstairs.

The third floor covered two hundred square metres.

Apart from the book shelves, there were many bizarre jars, bottles, pots and wine glasses on the expanded third floor.

Zuo Shi took out an ancient book randomly, flipped it open and realized she couldn't read it.

Zuo Shi shook her head and thought to herself, "What a weirdo!"

Zuo Shi had various hobbies as well.

She studied plants, tea ceremony, astrology, medicine and weapons, each for a short time. But she was too lazy so she couldn't focus on one thing for too long. She would switch to a new thing shortly after.

These ancient books on the third floor were mostly about ancient history and ancient.

Zuo Shi was not interested in them at all, so she found them all boring and difficult to understand. Now she was sure Shi Yan was officially a weirdo.

Why are you interested in ancient life? What does it have to do with you? What can you do with it?

Zuo Shi curled her lips, and thought that Shi Yan was more ignorant and incompetent than her.

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Chapter 56 - Basalt Scriptures and the Dragon Turtle Armor

Zuo Shi strolled around on the third floor, feeling very bored, so she went and stood next to the turtle shell on the ground, waiting for Shi Yan to get back.

After half an hour, Shi Yan slowly walked up the stairs. Wearing a light green long garment, he looked fairly handsome.

But Zuo Shi only glanced over him once, then retracted her gaze, and continued staring at the turtle shell. She spoke, "If you're done then let us take a look at it quickly, I've been waiting for so long."

Zuo Shi had seen too many attractive men, and the men of the Zuo family were all good-looking. So Zuo Shi was nearly immune to all the different types of handsome men.

"Girl, you're used to making people wait for you, aren't you? If you don't try waiting for someone else, how would you know how hard it is?"

Shi Yan sneered, he didn't rush to approach her, but first he went around the bookshelves, and using the memories deeply rooted in his head, took out a heavy ancient book that was covered with dust, then moved to Zuo Shi's side.

Zuo Shi stared in a daze, as she had unexpectedly blanked out due to Shi Yan's words. She nodded lightly, and spoke in agreement, "You're right, it has always been others waiting for me. I've never waited for anyone. So this is how it feels to wait for someone... Why is it that those people waited so long for me, yet they never made a fuss, and still talked to me with a face full of smiles?"

"That's because they're low!" Shi Yan commented bluntly.

"Ha!"

Zuo Shi chuckled, her bright eyes scanning Shi Yan, and she spoke while smiling, "You're so wicked. So how are they low?"

"I think you shouldn't be named Zuo Shi, you should instead be called Zuo Xin Xin."

"Why?"

"From where I come from, they name children based on what they lack. Like how the name Zhao Xin (鑫 meaning gold) means lacking wealth and Wang Miao (淼 meaning flood/water) means lacking water, so you should be called Zuo Xin Xin (心 meaning wits)..."

"You lack wits! Asshole!"

"So you're not stupid?" Shi Yan said indifferently, "If you weren't so slow-witted, how could you not know what they were thinking? They wanted to flatter you so of course they wouldn't show any discontent. All men, before they obtain a wonderful thing, act incredibly low. After they obtain it, they become even lower!"

"Are you talking about yourself?"

Zuo Shi's eyes brightened, and she smilingly as she looked at him.

"Cough cough, I said normal men are like that, but I'm an exception."

Shi Yan shamelessly stated, then crouched down, moving closer to the piece of turtle shell on the ground. With one hand, he quickly flipped through the pages of the thick ancient book. Whenever he flipped to a certain page, he would pause, his finger pointing to a specific ancient character.

On the back of the basin-sized turtle shell, aside from the complex old moire pattern, was actually eight lip-sized ancient characters. Those eight ancient characters didn't seem to look like they were forcefully carved on, instead they looked like they were naturally formed by the moire patterns on the turtle shell; it was extraordinarily magical.

The eight ancient characters were arranged in two lines and each character was about the same size, and gave off a cold feeling when touched.

Shi Yan felt the surface of each character with his left hand, his right hand constantly flipping through the ancient book in his hand. Sometimes he wrinkled his eyebrows in thought, other times, his eyes would brighten and a smile would appear at the corner of his lips, as if he came to an understanding. He engrossed himself in deciphering the ancient characters on the turtle shell.

As focused as he was, it seemed as if he didn't noticed there was a beautiful young girl nearby.

Zuo Shi's dainty figure knelt down, her delicate face pointed towards him, constantly paying attention to the changes in expression on Shi Yan's face.

It was to say, when Shi Yan was deeply concentrating on something, he displayed the unique charms of a man.

Zuo Shi somewhat admired this kind of concentrated dedication, and she nodded silently in her mind, thinking, "Although he has a big attitude, and rants a lot, when working on things, he's pretty serious about it."

"Rustle! Rustle!"

In the silent room, there was only the sound of Shi Yan rapidly flipping through his book. Zuo Shi had quietly kneeled down next to him, not interrupting.

After a long while, Shi Yan suddenly shut the book in his hand and with a serious face he said, "Done."

"What do these eight characters mean?" Zuo Shi's eyes brightened, and she asked delightedly.

"Dragon Turtle Armor! Basalt Scriptures!" Shi Yan shouted with a deep voice.

"Hey!"

Zuo Shi whispered, pointing at the turtle shell, and spoke in surprise, "The turtle shell is glowing because of your voice!"

Shi Yan was surprised, and hurriedly looked down. The meticulous moire pattern on the turtle shell was indeed releasing a faint green glow.

It was as if the eight ancient characters were brought to life, slowly shifting on the turtle shell, reforming altogether.

Staring, both Zuo Shi and Shi Yan were stunned.

The eight ancient characters, after shifting for a while, formed a hand-shaped indent.

On the turtle shell, there was a light green glow that was swirling, and strange continuous pulses escaped from the turtle shell. The air in the room seemed to be attracted to the turtle shell, as it quickly flowed into the shell, making it hard for Shi Yan and Zuo Shi to breathe.

"Zuo Shi, I'll stay right here, you go into the living room right now and call both of our grandpas over! Now!" Shi Yan was dazed for a moment, then shouted.

"Okay!"

Zuo Shi was also stunned by the change to the turtle shell, so she didn't dare to hesitate. Her tall figure shook for a second and she disappeared from Shi Yan's view.

Shi Yan's expression was serious, his eyes steadily fixed upon the turtle shell.

After staring at the turtle shell for a while, Shi Yan's heart skipped a beat, suddenly realizing the strange conditions of the turtle shell was as if it wanted someone to put their hand in.

As soon as the thought surfaced in his mind, Shi Yan could not resist, and wanted to place his hand onto the turtle shell.

Yet, right after his hand reached out, he realized what he was doing.

"No, this turtle shell belongs to Zuo Shi, I shouldn't be the one to do it."

Thinking this, Shi Yan stopped, took a deep breath, and he made himself take a few steps away from the turtle shell, waiting patiently.

After a short moment, Zuo Shi, Zuo Xu, and Shi Jian rushed to the room, and the three surrounded the turtle shell, watching the continuously shifting turtle shell.

"So this is what happened…" Shi Yan explained the situation briefly, and then said, "The hand print that's shown on the turtle shell should be the key to opening it. Just place your hand onto it and you should be able find out the secret of the turtle shell. Since it was Little Shi who brought it, I'm not going to mess with it."

"Could it be dangerous?" Zuo Xu's wondered aloud. At this moment, he was a little unsure of what to do.

"I don't know." Shi Yan shook his head, and he hesitated for a second, then stated his thoughts, "The reason why I called you guys over was because I don't know whether it's dangerous or not. Since you're all here, even if the turtle shell turns out to be dangerous, you'll be able to stop it."

"So you're saying that we can give it a try?" Zuo Xu's eyes brightened. 'Dragon Turtle Armor' and 'Basalt Scriptures' were obviously connected to secret treasures and martial skills, so no wonder they grabbed Zuo Xu's interest.

"Of course we can give it a try." Shi Yan smirked, and said lightly, "Grandpa Zuo, if you're worried about Xiao Shi, I can do it for her, how's that?"

"I'll do it."

Zuo Shi heard what Shi Yan said, and without asking for Zuo Xu's opinion, held out her glistening hand and pressed it into the deep indent on the turtle shell.

"Boom!"

A low, exploding sound came from the inside of the turtle shell.

Five thin needles shot out and embedded themselves into Zuo Shi's five fingers that were placed into the indent.

Bright red blood immediately dripped out of Zuo Shi's fingers. Like rubies, the blood rolled around in the indent as if it was solid, and was finally absorbed by the turtle shell.

Bright green light suddenly burst out from the turtle shell, and the blazing green light was blinding to everyone's eyes.

Strange ancient symbols formed by the green light suddenly flew out, went along Zuo Shi's arm, and it flew straight into her head.

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Chapter 57 - In My Hands!

(TL's note: "fragment picture" from previous chapters is now corrected to "fragment map.")

In the stone tower.

Zuo Xu, and Shi Jian looked serious, their eyes glistened in the light, as they stared intensely at Zuo Shi, who was pressing one hand on the turtle shell.

As the head of the Zuo family, Zuo Xu actually felt excited, his fingers kept clenching together, and the corner of his lips occasionally twitched.

Zuo Shi was the future hope for the Zuo family. Whether The Zuo family could rise to power in the future, and whether they could hold their status in the business league, was directly connected to how strong Zuo Shi became!

If Zuo Shi were to become strong, the Zuo family would keep their powerful influence. If she was weak, the Zuo family might decline.

There were countless families whose rise and falls were tied to an important figure. A family had to have a powerful central figure in order to keep their remarkable position.

The reason why Beiming Shang put Yin Kui and Jiu Shan close to Beiming Ce's side, was to prevent any mishaps that may happen to Beiming Ce before he became powerful. Their main objective was the future prosperity of the family.

Shi Yan looked indifferent, and at this moment, he was secretly observing Zuo Xu's reaction.

Through the slight change in Zuo Xu's expression, he realized that Zuo Xu really did see Zuo Shi as the most important treasure of the Zuo family. He also realized just how much importance a future strong figure holds to these elders!

A strange green symbol flew out of the turtle shell, and disappeared into Zuo Shi's body.

Zuo Shi's eyes were now closed, and there was a thin layer of green light covering her delicate face.

Tiny little spots of light jumped across Zuo Shi's face, like lively fireflies, passing their thoughts to Zuo Shi.

Zuo Xu's expression changed, and nearly exclaimed out loud. He instinctively wanted to step forward and protect Zuo Shi, afraid that she might be in danger.

"Stop!"

Shi Yan stepped forward suddenly and held back Zuo Xu, and spoke lightly, "It's okay, Grandpa Zuo, you shouldn't be too tense."

Zuo Xu stared for a second, then looked at Shi Yan in surprise, "Are you sure it's okay?"

"Yes, nothing will happen to her!" Shi Yan nodded with certainty, "The little strange lights in the turtle shell should be a type of memory communication. If I guessed correctly, it could be the way to cultivate the Basalt Scriptures, so you don't need to worry, this is just a memory transfer."

When Shi Yan obtained [Rampage] from the Blood Vein Ring, the scenery was quite similar.

At that time, there was also many memory lights flowing out of the Blood Vein Ring, drilling into his mind, forming the memory imprint in his head.

After having that experience, and looking at Zuo Shi now, his heart settled down.

"Brat, don't speak nonsense, this is very serious!" Shi Jian shouted with a straight face.

Shi Jian was also unsure, he was scared that Shi Yan's careless plans might cause harm to Zuo Shi. If that happens, the Shi family and the Zuo family could turn against each other!

Ever since the Zuo family was connected to Chi Xiao because of Zuo Shi, they secretly began to have what it takes to compete with the Beiming family. To the Shi family, having such a strong ally could only be to their benefit, no matter if it's against the Beiming family, or the Mo family.

Shi Jian doesn't want to become enemies with the Zuo family.

"It's okay, Little Shi will definitely be fine, you can relax." Shi Yan said, and comforted Zuo Xu, "Congratulations Grandpa Zuo, this time Zuo Shi will surely gain a great benefit, you can get ready to giggle."

"You brat." After hearing his words, Zuo Xu actually loosened up, and he laughed, "If it really turns out to be like what you said, I'll owe you a big favor little brat."

"Grandpa, you really do owe him a big favor."

Zuo Shi suddenly opened her eyes, and smiled, joyfully she said, "Those strange lights are the cultivation info of the [Basalt Scriptures]. Now in my mind, I've obtained the complete cultivation method of the [Basalt Scriptures]."

"What level of Martial Skill?" Zuo Xu impatiently asked, he was so excited he could jump.

Shaking her head, Zuo Shi said, "I don't know. All I got was the cultivation method of the [Basalt Scriptures, and it didn't say which level of Martial Skill it is."

"The writing's on the turtle shell are very ancient! This should be a Martial Skill cultivated by prehistoric warriors. At that same time, their skills were not as meticulously ranked as ours are." Shi Yan smiled, and casually explained, "But the Martial Skills of that time are much more mysterious than the ones we have now. This time Xiao Shi really got lucky."

"Haha!"

Zuo Xu laughed, delightfully patted Shi Yan's shoulder, and said, "You little brat, I can't help but like you! The Shi family has such a clever boy as you. Why worry about rising to power in the future?"

Shi Jian's eyes brightened, he glanced over at Zuo Shi. Thinking of something, his face brightened up into a smile.

"Crack crack crack!"

Once Zuo Shi removed her hand from the turtle shell, it cracked open, separating into pieces of turtle armor.

These turtle armor pieces turned very thin, and shone with a strange green light. One of the pieces showed the shape of a dragon head, and another piece had the shape of a dragon tail. They looked like a pair of shoulder armor, and were very strange.

In the middle of the armor, there were three walnut-sized medicinal pills, shining with green light. These pills had a silly Dragon Turtle shape, with a dragon's head and turtle's body, as if it was alive.

A refreshing medicinal aroma spread from the three pills. The scent was very strong. Just by breathing in a little bit, everyone suddenly felt alert.

"These three are the Dragon Turtle Pill, especially made to go with the cultivation of the [Basalt Scriptures]. This set of armor is the Dragon Turtle Armor, supposedly it has very strong defense abilities." Zuo Shi reached to pick up the three Dragon Turtle Pills and pocketed all of them, and said, "When cultivating the [Basalt Scriptures, I will need the Dragon Turtle Pills. Three of these are just enough to help me cultivate this skill."

Zuo Xu's expression brightened even more, and he clapped and laughed in excitement.

It was Shi Jian who actually felt slightly low spirited. He saw Zuo Shi taking all of the Dragon Turtle Pills, pressing his lips into a line, he finally couldn't help but murmur, "Shi Yan helped too…"

"He can have the Dragon Turtle Armor." Zuo Shi lightly kicked the set of armor on the ground, adorably she furrowed her brows, and chuckled, "I don't want to wear this heavy-ass Turtle Shell! Take it as you please."

Shi Jian jolted, and impatiently stared at Shi Yan, urging him to take the Dragon Turtle Armor.

"Is it okay to do that? Everything is a full set." Zuo Xu clenched his teeth, looking reluctant. Although he liked Shi Yan, he still didn't want to give away the Dragon Turtle Armor.

Shi Yan stood still and shook his head, "I don't want it, the Shi family's Martial Spirit specializes in defense, I don't need to suffer with this heavy set of Turtle Armor."

"You!" Shi Jian was upset, he stomped and shouted, "Ungrateful!"

"You don't want it, but can't you give it to someone else? Stupid!" Shi Jian cursed in his mind.

"Boy! I like you!" Zuo Xu laughed, and wiggled his eyebrows at Shi Jian, "It's not that I'm unwilling to give it up, but Shi Yan himself rejected the offer. Now you can't blame me for this." He said, and immediately picked up the pieces of turtle shell, his smile becoming even wider.

"Grandpa, if you were to wear this Dragon Turtle Armor I bet you would look like a big old turtle, do you want to try it on?" Zuo Shi chuckled.

"Yes, the girl is right, Brother Zuo, why not try it on?" Shi Jian said with great pleasure, and secretly felt delighted.

"Disrespectful! You brat, what kind of nonsense are you talking about?" Zuo Xu's face turned dark, he glared at Zuo Shi, "If you keep bullshitting like that, next time I'm not going to pick you up from Cloud Mountain, and you can die from boredom at Chi Xiao's place!"

"I won't do it again." Zuo Shi stuck out her tongue, and chickened out.

"Cough cough, Brother, alright then, we should get going." Zuo Xu smilingly looked at Shi Jian, and said, "Don't worry, people from our family are going to keep watch by the Dark Forest. If there's any news on Karu, I'll send people to tell you. Same thing with you guys, communicate with us once something comes up."

"Of course, sigh, I can't believe a figure as little as Master Karu can steal the treasure map of Mu Xun. Now Misty Pavilion has another piece, whoever is able to get both pieces of the map would be able to open the 'Gate of Heaven' with no difficulty, it's really unfortunate…" Shi Jian's expression was full of lament.

"Master Karu?"

Shi Yan furrowed his brows and whispered, he thought for a second, then asked, "That Karu guy, was he a Level 5 Mortality alchemist?"

"Hmm, you know about Master Karu?" Zuo Xu was curious.

"Is he important?" Shi Yan didn't answer the question, and asked in response.

"He's not important. However, the treasure map indicating the 'Gate of Heaven' that's on him, is extremely important!" Zuo Xu said.

"I killed him a long time ago, and that treasure map, hmm, just happens to be in my hands."

"What?!"

Zuo Xu, Shi Jian, and Zuo Shi all opened their eyes wide, simultaneously they exclaimed out loud.

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Chapter 58 - The Plot

In the Gravity Room.

From the bag at the corner, Shi Yan took out a yellowish broken picture and handed it to Shi Jian, "Here, this is it."

Shi Jian, Zuo Xu and Zuo Shi all looked at him with faces full of suspicion.

Shi Jian took that broken picture, and started to scan it carefully, when his eyes gradually lighten up, "Good, this picture doesn't look fake. It is quite old, as some of the patterns on it have already blurred."

"Let me have a look!" Zuo Xu was a little hasty, as he quickly took the broken picture. After touching it, he cried, "It can't be fake! We have the same paper in the Zuo family which is made of the soft skin from the belly of a demon beast from remote ages. It's fire, water and wear proof; basically indestructible."

"Tell me in detail about what happened between you and Karu. And how many people know about this?" Shi Jian looked rigid as he took a deep breath, but he couldn't hide the happiness in his eyes.

"You, weirdo, are really strange." Zuo Shi's beautiful eyes were also focused on Shi Yan. She was becoming more interested in him.

"Well, this is the thing..."

Shi Yan noticed the seriousness of it after seeing Shi Jian and Zuo Xu's reaction, therefore, he quickly explained how he got that picture and how he escaped from the ancient cave.

"So the Mo family knows about it too?"

Zuo Xu's face changed. After a pause, he sneered, "No wonder the people from the Mo family are still lingering in Silent Town. They must be searching for you."

"The Mo family!"

Shi Jian grunted and said angrily, "Thank goodness Shi Yan is fine. If he was hurt by them, I would destroy Mo Tuo even by sacrificing myself! The Mo family has done too many evil things! They are going to look down upon the Shi family if we don't teach them a lesson soon."

"Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan were taken away by Beiming Ce, and they don't know who you are?" Deliberating for a while, Zuo Xu asked again.

"No matter if it is Mu Yu Die, Di Yalan, or the people from the Mo family, no one knows who I am. I told the two girls that my name was Ding Yan."

"Good boy! Cautious enough! Or it would be very tough!" Zuo Xu complimented.

"Now that we got this half of the picture, we should get the other half!" Shi Jian said firmly to Zuo Xu, "Brother Zuo, we can take the risk. Once we got the other half of the picture from the Misty Pavilion, we two families can open the Sky Gate and enter the God Area to search for treasures!"

Narrowing his eyes, which were blinking brightly, Zuo Xu sank deep into thought. He then said, "There are many experts in the Misty Pavilion. We have to make a good plan if we want to grab the picture from them."

He added after a pause, "I will write a letter right away to Chi Xiao and let an eagle take it to Cloud Mountain. Chi Xiao is at the Sky Realm. We will be safer if he is here with us. After all, that old man Beiming Shang is eager for the picture too, and was already planning on getting it."

"Great! We have larger chance of winning if Chi Xiao attends too!" Shi Jian was joyful.

Chi Xiao was Zuo Shi's teacher, and close to the Zuo family. As a Sky Realm Warrior, he could help a lot once he came to Tianyun City and allied with the two families.

Zuo Xue didn't fear that Chi Xiao would keep the secret of the Sky Gate to himself. Though there were many treasures in the God Area, this was also accompanied with incredible dangers. The journey would be much more secure if a Sky Realm Warrior was with them.

The most important thing was; Chi Xiao was an individual!

However greedy he was, he couldn't possess everything in the God Area. On the contrary, a big family like the Beiming Family would take all the advantages.

"Kid, you'd better not attend this year's Martial Competition." Zuo Xu said after some deliberation, "If the Mo family recognizes your face, they would know that we already have half of the picture. Once the other half in the Misty Pavilion is stolen, they will know it was us. Then our two families would be assaulted by everybody."

"Well, this..." Shi Jian hesitated, but at last he nodded helplessly, "Hmm, for the Sky Gate's sake, we have to do this."

"Not exactly; He can attend the Martial Competition once he changes his appearance. No one from the Mo family has seen him before. Just change his face. Who would know that he was the boy who killed Karu." Zuo Shi suggested with a big smile, blinking her eyes.

"Hey! Good idea!" Shi Jian's eye's blinked. After examining Shi Yan for a while, he said, "His appearance has changed a lot in the past few months, and the people from the Mo family won't identify him if we put a little makeup to him."

"And you better take action during the Martial Competition. Han Zhong said the Misty Pavilion will also send some people to the competition. During the Competition, if you send some experts with Chi Xiao to the Misty Pavilion to steal the picture, you may not be suspected."

Shi Yan thought for a while, and also uttered his opinion.

"We can take action in the middle of the Martial Competition..."

Zuo Xu mumbled something and then replied loudly, "Sounds great! Let's do it during the Martial Competition! We will also be present then, and no one will know it was us who robbed the Misty Pavilion! Hmm. Once Chi Xiao helps us, we will have an eighty percent possibility of getting the other half of that picture."

"Will Chi Xiao help us?" Shi Jian was not sure.

"Don't worry. He definitely will. That old guy is very interested in the Sky Gate, thus he will come right away from Cloud Mountain as soon as he gets the news." Zuo Shi didn't worry at all, "I know him too well. He is more curious than anyone about unknown things."

"Then it's fixed!"

Shi Jian was assured, he then took the picture back from Zuo Xu, and put it into his own pocket happily, "Brother Zuo, it's time for you to go back and make preparations. I'll be waiting for Chi Xiao to get the other half and come to complete mine. Hahahahaha!"

"Great!" Zuo Xu nodded with satisfaction. He pulled Zuo Shi, "Let's go, we should plan on it."

"Let me keep the picture. You should do nothing but training! I will find someone tomorrow to come and change your appearance. You should beat the Mo descendants hard!" Shi Jian yelled.

"Okay."

In the Mo family.

Mo Tuo was strolling around the Thunder Palace with a rigid face. Beside him stood Mo Chaoge and Mo Yanyu.

Mo Yanyu's pretty face was full of bitterness, so was Mo Chaoge, as he lowered his head.

"Why can't we find him? Are you so useless? You can't even find a boy who has no background! We have so many people in every city! Do they only know how to waste our resources?" Mo Tuo berated loudly. He pointed at Mo Chaoge and Mo Yanyu and yelled furiously, "You two! You have made so much trouble over such a small task! You are more like two rice buckets!"

[TL note: a 'rice bucket' is a chinese slang term for a useless person]

"Father, I've sent people to search, and our people in Silent Town never took a single day off. But the Merchant Union is too vast. Who knows where that boy has gone? I did my best!"

"Useless! All useless!"

Mo Tuo cursed loudly for about ten minutes, before finally tiring, and he sighed helplessly, "Seems I have to pay a visit to the Beiming family in person."

"Father, will we not receive anything if Beiming Shang knows about it?"

"Do you have any better ideas?" Mo Tuo looked so gloomy that he could swallow a monster, "Do you think I want to? If you hadn't let that guy escape, I wouldn't need to visit Beiming Shang! Only Mu Yu Die knows who that young boy who killed Karu is! Only her! And only she may know where that boy is now. Do you think I would need to do this if you weren't so useless? Crap!"

"Father, sorry, I was wrong." Mo Chaoge pleaded miserably. Then he turned and stared at Mo Yanyu hard, "If you can't win the Martial Competition, your father can't help you either!"

Mo Yanyu nodded hastily with her face full of fear.

In the Beiming family.

At the centre of an artificial lake, there was a medium sized island covered with bamboo houses.

In the garden of one of the bamboo houses, Mu Yu Die was sitting, feeling soft breeze on her skin and focusing her nimble fingers on the zither.

The melodious zither melody rippled out slowly, attracting the birds on the clear lake, which gathered in the garden and forgot to leave.

Di Yalan was in the training field of another garden. With a long sword in her hand which was splashing fire, she was training with a certain Martial Skill. Her hot figure was sending out intoxicating charisma in the sunlight.

At the bank of the lake, every passing warrior would stop and stare, gazing at the island with eager eyes and a captured face.

"Sister Lan, how is this Fire Cloud Sword?" After a piece of music, Mu Yu Die approached Di Yalan with a big smile, "The Beiming family is known for its expertise in making weapons. Even in our Fire Empire, no one is better at it than the Beiming family."

"The Fire Cloud Sword is a Mystery Level weapon, which can really help me release all of my strength when accompanied with the Fire Cloud Formula. More specifically, it can bear the fire from my Blue Magic Flame. It's really good." Di Yalan nodded. Apparently she was very satisfied with her new weapon.

"So, are you still regretting coming with me?"

"Alas..."

Di Yalan shook her head and an image appeared in her mind again. She barely smiled, "It's useless to say these things now. I'm afraid I won't see him again in this life. For revenge, for our family's prosperity, I have to do this. It's just… just can't..."

"Can't let it go?"

"Yeah."

"Sometimes, I miss him too..."

Mu Yu Die let out a rare sigh as well, "I feel that I owe him. But what could we do? We are only two girls who have lost their family and are saddled with a heavy mission. We have to be realistic and choose a powerful party. Or we will spend our whole life as a commoner and live a boring life."

"He is not common at all! Sometimes I feel he is more horrifying than Beiming Ce! He won't be any worse off than others if he has the opportunity."

"Unluckily God didn't give him an opportunity. If he wants to succeed, he needs to advance step by step since he doesn't have a big family supporting him. We can't wait for too long."

"I know. That's why I'm here with you, and not with him."

"Miss Mu, the family head has invited you and Miss Di Yalan to the Ice Pavilion. It is an important talk!" At the centre of lake, a warrior was standing on a boat and shouting at the island.

"Okay." Mu Yu Die replied, as she frowned in puzzlement, "Why does he ask for us? We never made an appearance since we arrived at the Beiming family. This unexpected invitation is very strange..."

"He is going to talk about your marriage with Beiming Ce?" Di Yalan assumed.

"I won't marry Beiming Ce if they don't help me get my revenge!" Mu Yu Die humphed coldly, "I came to the Beiming family for their ability to help in my revenge. I feel nothing for Beiming Ce at all. Even if I fall in love with him in the future, I will leave sooner or later. Humph!"

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Chapter 59 - The Situation Surges

Beiming family, Ice Pavilion

The Ice Pavilion was made of Snow Ice Stones which were naturally gelid stones, even on a hot summer day, it would still be radiating freezing cold energy.

The Ice Pavilion was made up of nine levels, each as tall as ten zhang. Overflowing with freezing air, it looked like a frigid ice mountain.

[TL note: one zhang 丈 is approximately ten feet]

This was where Beiming Shang usually trained at.

The Beiming family's Polar Ice Flame Martial Spirit, was cold in nature. Cultivating in an Ice Pavilion made of Snow Ice Stones was incredibly beneficial to the Beiming family's Polar Ice Flame Martial Spirit.

Usually, unless tempering himself with a secret treasure, Beiming Shang would never leave the Ice Pavilion.

Everyone who wished to meet the Beiming family head had to endure the cold energy of the Ice Pavilion in order to see him.

Beiming Shang would never take into account the feelings of others, he would only make others accommodate him.

As you go up levels in the Ice Pavilion, the cold energy gets worse, even when the ordinary sons of the Beiming family come to visit, they would only wait at the third or fourth level. If they kept going up, it would be too much for their body to handle.

Level six of the Ice Pavilion.

In the middle of the erect ice pillars, sat the hulking Beiming Shang, his body was shrouded by lingering cold energy. On the ice pillars of the sixth level, strange ice flames were burning bright, making the freezing energy even more chilling to the bones.

Mo Tuo furrowed his eyebrows, and stood across from Beiming Shang. Next to him was the handsome Beiming Ce.

Yin Kui and Jiu San were like two ghastly shadows, sitting behind two ice pillars. They lowered their heads, as if already asleep.

Lead by one of the warriors in the Ice Pavilion, Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan entered the sixth level of the Ice Pavilion.

The cold energy of this level had twice the strength of the fifth level!

The two girls took one step into the sixth level, and their delicate bodies shook, as if stepping into an ice pit, while their limbs began to slowly stiffen.

"You're here." Beiming Ce stepped forward, and shot a meaningful glance at Mu Yu Die, "This is my grandpa, and this… is the head of the Mo family,"

Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan's faces simultaneously changed, the two of them looked at Mo Tuo, as their expressions became stiff as stone.

The death of Luo Hao and Hu Long was described very clearly. Aside from the intervention of Bernard and the Crescent Emissaries of the Dark World, there were also strikes of lightning from the sky.

Afterwards the two girls had seen Mo Chaoge, they knew that Mo Chaoge definitely had something to do with Luo Hao's death.

Unfortunately the Mo family held a great amount of power in the Merchant Union, and they also had connections with the Beiming family. When Beiming Ce simply shouted at Mo Chaoge to go away, he clearly didn't want to get into a difficult situation with the Mo family, and he had no intention of speaking out for the girls.

Now they suddenly encountered the head of the Mo family with the Beiming family, Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan felt displeased. However, in front of Beiming Shang, there was nothing they could really do, so they only sulked in secrecy.

"Nice to see you Grandpa Shang." Together Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan bowed to Beiming Shang, purposely ignoring Mo Tuo.

Mo Tuo looked as usual, with a slight smile on his lips, as if he didn't mind the disregard at all.

"I heard the two of you were in the Dark Forest, you stayed with some boy for a while? I want to discuss certain things about this boy, would you happen to know his background?" Beiming Shang lightly nodded, his long thin eyes expressionless, and asked straight to the point.

Mu Yu Die's heart shuddered, she hesitated, then said, "Only an insignificant little warrior, how did Grandpa Shang come to know about such a person?"

"He has something I want." Beiming Shang furrowed his eyebrows, and said: "Do you know where he comes from?"

Shaking her head, Mu Yu Die responded, "I don't know, we met him along the road. We only travelled together because we were afraid of the beasts killing people. As for this person's background, I have no idea. All I know is that his name is Ding Yan, I think he's some ordinary warrior from the merchant union."

"Ding Yan…" Beiming Shang nodded, then paused for a moment and said, "Do you know which city he is from, or which region he goes around?"

"I don't know." Mu Yu Die shook her head again.

Beiming Shang suddenly became silent, after a moment, he spoke faintly, "Okay, there's nothing else. In some time, the Martial Competition is going to be held. You two and Ce should go and watch. If you stay here all the time, I think you all will get bored. Your grandpa and I had some friendship back in the day, and now that he's gone, of course I will take care of you. Don't worry, the people of the Dark World can't touch you here in the Merchant Union."

"Thank you, Grandpa Shang." Mu Yu Die's eyes moistened, her voice sobbing lightly, "Whenever I think of what happened to our family, I want to burn those people alive! Hundreds of people in the Mu family, all slaughtered in one night, Grandpa Shang, you have to help me!"

"You can't rush such things, we'll talk about it later." Beiming Shang nodded, waving his hand as he said, "You can go rest, this level is too cold, with your capability it will be too hard to bear."

"Yes." Without further ado, Mu Yu Die bowed and lightly pulled on Di Yalan's clothes. The two exited together.

"Could that girl have hidden the truth?" After the girls left, Mo Tuo spoke with furrowed brows: "With only a name, it would be very difficult to search."

"Ce, what do you think?" Beiming Shang looked at Beiming Ce.

"Doesn't look like she's lying, I can keep asking her some other time. Since the other fragment is still at Misty Pavilion, we don't need to rush" Beiming Ce responded.

Beiming Shang nodded, and said, "Okay, you keep an eye on those two girls, remember don't get manipulated, I don't want you to become someone else's weapon. Do you understand?"

"I know, Grandpa." Beiming Ce smiled.

"Brother Mo, you don't need to be so anxious, I'll notify the Shi and Zuo families, and let them both look for Ding Yan. Don't worry, I'll use my name to search for him, you won't get involved." Beiming Shang said unyieldingly, "Together with the five great families of the Merchant Union, I do not believe that we can't find a mere commoner! Humph. Remember, send someone to bring that brat's portrait. As long as he still lives, there's no way he can hide."

"Okay, then I will leave now." Mo Tuo nodded, and left without any further ado.

"Ce, keep an eye on Zuo Shi from the Zuo family. Now that she has connections with Chi Xiao, if you can take Zuo Shi as your wife, it will be much less troublesome for us." After Mo Tuo left, Beiming Shang glanced over at Beiming Ce, and said, "That girl's natural gifts are quite extraordinary, and she's also Zuo Xu's little sweetheart, quite a capricious one. If you can rein her in, that old man Zuo Xu won't be able to do a thing, they'll be bound to the Beiming family."

"No need to worry, one at a time." Beiming Ce said with confidence.

Nodding, Beiming Ce continued, "That Mu Yu Die girl is also quite talented, but although her Musical Martial Spirit is strong, it's not of much assistance to the Polar Ice Flame Martial Spirit of our Beiming family. However, that Di Yalan has the Blue Martial Flame Martial Spirit, it could be complementary to our family's Martial Spirit, so you have to keep a close watch on that girl, and if you can, bond with her. She might be able to give birth to an outstanding offspring of our Beiming family."

"Don't worry Grandpa, the things I have my eye on can never escape from me."

"Alright, since they entered into our Beiming family, they can't even think about leaving."

The Zuo family.

Zuo Xu was in his room, leisurely drinking tea. Behind him, a dark shadow suddenly knelt down and reported, "Beiming Shang sent a messenger, he requested us to find a boy named 'Ding Yan', saying that he stole something from the Beiming family, and they will give us five Mystery Level weapons for the boy."

"Five Mystery Level weapons." Zuo Xu took a sip of tea, and smiled, "Beiming Shang is as stingy as usual, using five Mystery Level weapons he wants to get the other half of the map to the 'Gate of Heaven', he's sure playing it well."

"Master, what should we do?"

"Search for him, of course. Let our people spread the word in some cities, but don't put too much effort into it, just finding some random dude named 'Ding Yan' will do, just so that guy doesn't get suspicious."

"Understood."

The Shi family.

Shi Jian received the same message, he held the envelope and sneered: "So Mo Tuo has found Beiming Shang. Hmph! Luckily that little brat Shi Yan told me the truth, or else I'd be in the dark about this too. Beiming Shang oh Beiming Shang, you would never believe that Ding Yan is Shi Yan. Asking me to search him out, hehe, then I'll sure help him look!"

"How?" Han Feng said faintly.

"Find a few people connected to the Mo family, make them mute, just say that they're all called Ding Yan and send them to the Beiming family."

"Yes."

The Beiming, Zuo, Mo, Shi, and Ling families, as the Merchant Union's five great families, started to both openly and secretly search for a guy named 'Ding Yan' in the nearby cities.

In a short time, the name 'Ding Yan' quickly became widespread.

Many of those named 'Ding Yan' were doomed, all taken by the five families. And many who were not named 'Ding Yan' but were related to the Mo family, also encountered unexpected calamities, they were beaten and crippled, forcibly muted, and escorted to the Beiming family.

Since the Martial Competition was about to start, the warriors in the Merchant Union had been grinding their fists, and those warriors from far away, were traveling thousands of miles to come to the Martial Competition.

What was funny was that a lot of these warriors who came, because their name was 'Ding Yan', were immediately taken by the five families.

After one night, 'Ding Yan' became the street villain, and everyone wanted to beat him up.

And the person who started all of this, Shi Yan, had been staying in the Shi family's heavy weight room, jabbing his hand into a metal sand bag tens of thousands of times a day.

"Puchi!"

Shi Yan jabbed his five fingers straight in, arm deep, into the centre of the metal sand bag. He pulled out his arm, and those five fingers actually glinted with strange chilly light, as if they were blades made of steel, which was very frightening.

"Hmm, the Martial Competition is about to start, and the storm from the Misty Pavilion is coming. My [Finger Gun, is finally having some success."

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Chapter 60 - The Endless Sea

At the Misty Pavilion.

The Misty Pavilion was a mysterious power which primarily held auctions, selling all sorts of rare training materials for warriors. It had opened its only shop in Tianyun City in the Merchant Union.

It was rumoured that the Misty Pavilion was supported by warriors from the Endless Sea. The Endless Sea, a vast ocean, was located to the east of the Merchant Union.

There were thousands of islands in the Endless Sea, which were scattered like stars. Some large islands were even vaster than the Fire Empire and the God-blessed Empire combined.

Warriors from the Endless Sea rarely came to the Grace Mainland, for they looked for higher things. There were numerous experts there, and they all had a powerful family or power behind them.

It was said that there were even expert warriors who were above the Spirit Realm.

On that day, at the entrance of the Misty Pavilion, stood the manager. Ku Luo was a warrior of the First Sky of the Nirvana Realm, and had been in charge of the Misty Pavilion for many years.

For many people, Ku Luo was the master of the Misty Pavilion.

But today, Ku Luo was standing with several important members of the Misty Pavilion, seeming to wait for someone important.

Time passed.

It was dusk. Though Ku Luo had waited for a whole day, he didn't show any impatience on his face.

"Father, how long do we have to wait? Who are we waiting for?" Ku Luo's only son Ku Ban grunted in discontent, "This guy is too pretentious! He is making us wait for so long!"

"Kid, you were born in the Merchant Union, so you have no idea how big the world is! Don't think that the Beiming Family is the biggest family oin the mainland. Compared to the prominent families in the Endless Sea, the Beiming Family is nothing!"

Ku Luo stared at his son and said coldly, "I am from the Endless Sea. And it was the Xia Family who sent me here to take charge of the Misty Pavilion. The person we are waiting for is Xia Xinyan of the Xia Family. She is my master. If it weren't for the fragmented map of the Sky Gate, she wouldn't even spend her precious time visiting us from thousands of miles away."

"Father, aren't we at the center of the Grace Mainland?" Ku Ban was stunned. After a long while, he asked in surprise.

"Here? The center of the Grace Mainland?" Ku Luo sneered as he shook his head, "The Fire Empire, the God-blessed Empire, and the Merchant Union are on the outskirts of the Grace Mainland. How would they be at the center of it? Remember! The Grace Mainland is far more vast than what you imagined. Well, the so-called experts here, are merely considered low level warriors outside this country!"

"What?" Ku Ban couldn't believe what he heard.

As the sun faded gradually, the moon climbed up the dark sky. Under the bright moonlight, Ku Ban was still waiting patiently.

At midnight, three shadows appeared from the long street.

Under the red lanterns on the road side, the three shadows looked like hideous ghosts, swaying spookily.

"Here they are! Listen, don't utter a single word!" Ku Luo announced in a low voice.

The person in the lead was a slim woman wrapped up by a black gown and a broad bamboo hat, so her face could not be seen.

Beside that woman were two giant men who were about two meters tall, and looked exactly the same; they were twins.

The two huge tower-like men had dark skin and a masculine aura, but they moved really fast, giving the impression that they weighed nothing.

"Miss, you have finally arrived." Ku Luo bowed and said respectfully, "Ku Luo has been waiting for you for a long time."

"Let's get inside first."

A melodious voice came from under the bamboo hat. That woman didn't waste one more word, as her slim body passed Ku Luo, and directly headed inside the Misty Pavilion. It looked like she could be the master wherever she was!

"Yes, Miss." Ku Luo nodded with a smile, then he followed her at her pace, feeling relieved.

In the inner garden of the Misty Pavilion, in a quiet room.

The women in the black gown sat down on the seat at the center of the room, which was prepared for the Master. After the two huge men found their positions to stand behind her, she waved her hands, "Ku Luo stays here. Everyone else is dismissed."

"Leave us alone." Ku Luo announced to those men loudly, and specially stared at his son, Ku Ban.

Ku Luo was the manager of the Misty Pavilion, so after his announcement, they quickly left the room.

Ku Luo entered and gave a salute to the woman, then quickly took out an account book from his chest pocket, handing it to the woman with two hands, "This is the accounts for the past ten-some years. Miss, please check."

"Well, put it away. I haven't come for the accounts."

Then she leisurely waved her hand and took off the bamboo hat. An extremely beautiful face appeared. She frowned with her pretty eyebrows, and said softly, "Show me the fragmented map."

"Yes." Ku Luo immediately took out the fragmented map of the Sky Gate from underneath his clothes and handed it to her respectfully.

Xia Xinyan picked the map with her jade like fingers, glanced at it once, and nodded softly, "Good, from its old look it seems to be authentic."

"Miss, there are also three Nutrition Pills and one Blood Magical Crystal, which were sent by the Immortal Yang Family through Empty Strategy. They said it's for you."

Ku Luo took out those things mentioned before and handed them respectfully to Xia Xinyan, "Miss, it's enough for you to handle the situation here with the three Nutrition Pills. You will be heavily hurt every time you operate the Incarnation Martial Spirit; but with these, you will be fine."

"Well, the Yang Family is literally generous, and pretentious!" Xia grunted, "The Misty Pavilion doesn't belong to the Xia Family exclusively. The Yang Family is also a heavy stockholder. They don't even send a man here but three Nutrition Pills? Haha. They trust me so much."

As she spoke, Xia Xinyan put away the three red longan-sized Nutrition Pills. Stroking the Blood Magical Crystal, she asked, "And what about this Blood Magical Crystal?"

"The Yang Family has requested you to look for a person. The family head of the Yang Family, Yang Qingdi, said his grandson Yang Hai is still alive in this place, as he perceived through the [Blood Search] skill. So he has asked you to find him. The three Nutrition Pills are payment." Ku Luo lowered his head as he answered in a low voice, not daring to look at her.

"What?" Xia Xinyan exclaimed in indignation, and she said coldly, "Hehe, I wondered why they were they so generous! They want me to do this difficult thing for them for three Nutrition Pills? Too bossy!"

Ku Luo kept his head lowered, not daring to say anything.

"Miss, fifty years ago, Yang Qingdi and his experts entered the Fourth Demon Area, where his son, Yang Xiao, died in a battle. Moreover, Yang Xiao's wife gave birth to an infant there. After Yang Qingdi killed a Demon King in the Fourth Demon Area, the other three Demon Kings allied to chase him out, and his daughter-in-law died soon after. Yang Qingdi assumed he was about to die, so he broke the space with [Blood Escape] skill and threw that infant out of the Fourth Demon Area."

One of the huge men explained with his rusty voice.

"And then?" Xia Xinyan frowned slightly, and asked nonchalantly.

That huge man paused, thought for a while, and continued, "After he threw out that infant, Yang Qingdi stayed in the 'Fourth Demon Area' for another twenty years, encircled by the other three Demon Kings. But luckily he escaped and came out of the Fourth Demon Area alive, though he was badly hurt. Recently, Yang Qingdi finished his secret training and came out as a Spirit Realm Warrior. He had saved one drop of blood from the infant when he threw him out of the Fourth Demon Area, so he perceived through [Blood Search] skill that his grandson is in the Merchant Union. That's why he sent the three Nutrition Pills as the payment. He cares about the Yang descendent."

"The three Demon Kings in the Fourth Demon Area seemed to have a big plan recently, so I guess Yang Qingdi has been too busy to search for the infant in person." The other huge man added.

"Yes, they sent a message that one of the three Shura Kings, Xiao Hanyi, had already set off from the Immortal Island with fifty Shura escorts. They will arrive in at most one month, and hope that you could find the infant before they arrive." Ku Luo said slowly with deference.

"Shura King, Xiao Hanyi! Fifty Shura escorts!" Xia Xinyan sneered, "Seems like Yang Qingdi really cares about that infant!"

"The Yang Family is so domineering in the Endless Sea, thus they offended a lot of people. For the past few years, they were busy fighting with the Fourth Demon Area and lost a lot of descendents who possess the Immortal Martial Spirit. That infant is Yang Qingdi's direct grandson left by Yang Xiao, sure enough, he takes it to heart." One of the huge men responded.

"Ku Luo, from now on, I will take charge of the Misty Pavilion, and you will go look for his grandson discreetly. The Shura King, Xiao Hanyi is coming. I can't take the three Nutrition Pills if we can't find Yang Hai before he arrives. You understand?" Xia Xinyan looked at Ku Luo indifferently.

"Yes, I got it." Ku Luo nodded.

"I will keep the Blood Magical Crystal. After you find all those men called Yang Hai, bring them to the Misty Pavilion and then with Yang Qingdi's Blood Magical Crystal, we will know who is the Yang Hai we want." Xia Xinyan said with an indifferent face as she stroked the Blood Magical Crystal.

"Okay, I will go right away." Ku Luo bowed and left, while sighing to himself bitterly, "The five big families are looking for Ding Yan, and I have to go look for Yang Hai. It's so boisterous in the Merchant Union."

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Chapter 61 - Leaders of the Third Generation

The Merchant Union was becoming quite lively.

The five families were still trying to find a guy named 'Ding Yan', when the Misty Pavilion also stepped in, searching everywhere for someone named 'Yang Hai'. But the Misty Pavilion was not as outrageous in their search, they adopted the bribing method. As long as you can prove that your name is Yang Hai, you can come to the Misty Pavilion to receive a thousand purple crystal coins.

Since the Martial Competition was about to be held, there was an endless stream of people in the Merchant Union. Although the actions of the five families and the Misty Pavilion confused many, most people still came for the Martial Competition.

Quickly, the restaurants and inns of Tianyun City were packed.

The warriors and mercenaries that come from the Dark Forest, Dead Swamp and Cloud Mountain were all hardened fighters. Even in Tianyun City they were restless, often causing conflicts, and killing each other.

Be it day or night, there were more than enough fighting warriors in Tianyun City. Every morning, the cleaning staff would often find new corpses in the ditches.

Three more days remained until the Martial Competition.

Early in the morning, Zuo Xu was resting with his eyes closed, when he heard Zuo Shi speaking outside, "Huh, old man you came?"

"How many times did I tell you, don't call me old man in front of others!" From outside came Chi Xiao's frustrated voice.

"You are just a little old man, it's an old habit, I can't change it." Zuo Shi wasn't afraid of him, as she laughed outside the doors.

Zuo Xu was suddenly excited as he suddenly stood up and rushed out to greet the guest. "You're finally here!" he thought.

The Shi family

In the heavy weights room stood a wrinkled old crone. She held a paintbrush, and was putting a few heavy marks on Shi Yan's brows.

Shi Yan stood in silence, carefully watching the old crone's actions.

After a long while, the crone took back her hand. She stared closely at Shi Yan for a while, and then nodded in satisfaction, "During my visit every day, I have been changing his appearance slightly each time. Even those who are close to him wouldn't notice such slow changes. His appearance now is much different from how it was a month ago, and nobody would be able to recognize him."

Shi Yan's skin was a lot darker now, his brows thick, and his figure looked quite a bit sturdier.

From how he had looked before, he now looked less fierce and more rugged. Whether it be appearance or temperament, there was a significant change.

Especially after coming back from the Dark Forest, he had grown taller and became more robust. Plus he got fixed up by the disguise artist. Compared with the time when he was in the Dark Forest, he truly looked like another person.

Shi Jian stared at Shi Yan for a moment, then nodded and said, "Good, there should be no problem."

Shi Yan observed himself in the mirror, and was also quite satisfied: "Alright, hmm, isn't the Martial Competition starting?"

"Three more days, so you don't need to train hard these three days, just relax a little bit." Shi Jian finally let go, but suddenly he thought of something, and then rebuked with a straight face, "Relaxing does not mean fooling around! Don't think for a moment that I don't know what you and Han Zhong did together! Hmph, if you waste your energy on women, I'll skin you alive!"

"Stop nagging." Shi Yan looked annoyed and said, "I'll go take a shower, then go drink a little with Han Zhong. Is that okay with you?"

"Okay."

Spring Pavilion

This was a very well-known restaurant in Tianyun city. Here not only was the food delicious, but they had the famous 'Flame' wine that was popular throughout the Merchant Union.

Aside from that, the Spring Pavilion was also close to the Moon Lake. Sitting in the open third floor of the Spring Pavilion, eating delicacies, drinking fine wine, and enjoying the beautiful view, was a great pleasure in life.

If you could hold a beauty in your arms at the same time, then that would be called perfection.

However, not just anyone can get to the third floor of the Spring Pavilion. Even if you were rich enough, without status, you'd only be allowed up to the second floor.

The third floor of the Spring Pavilion was usually reserved for guests from the five families. Only those from the five families could head straight to third floor when they came in, normal merchants would not have such an honor.

Han Zhong led Shi Yan to the Spring Pavilion. After they arrived, a cute receptionist immediately came over smiling, "Mister Han, please step upstairs."

Han Zhong squinted as his eyes circled the girl, and complimented: "Xiao Feng, your thing got a lot bigger!" Then he stopped, and lasciviously stared at the girl's breasts.

"You're the worst, Mister Han, always staring at that place." The girl smiled shyly, having a style of her own. She pointed up and said: "There are other guests up there, they are the young masters and mistresses of the Mo and Ling families. Mister Han, you should be prepared."

"No worries." Han Zhong smiled, and stopped teasing the girl. He grabbed Shi Yan and brought him straight up the third floor.

"Hey!" A tall lad wearing a navy warrior outfit sat at a good seat on the third floor, and squinted at Han Zhong, and sneered, "Here I was thinking who could it be, and it's the Shi family's dog."

That seat faces right towards the Moon Lake. There sat four people, two men and two women, all looking quite attractive.

One of the group looked aloof and arrogant, and that was Mo Yanyu, but she wasn't looking this way, her motionless eyes was only staring into the sun-blazed Moon Lake, and looked like she was in a daze.

"Oh, so these are the worms of the Mo family, how fucking unlucky." Han Zhong shook his head, stopped paying attention to them, and dragged Shi Yan to find a good spot. He yelled, "Mr. Long! Bring four jugs of 'Flame', and a nice course of dishes, hurry up."

"Coming right up!" A hearty voice answered from the second floor.

At this time, Mo Yanyu, who was staring at the Moon Lake looked like she finally woke up. She turned her head around and glanced at Han Zhong and Shi Yan. She threw a look of disdain, then turned her head back and continued staring at the lake water. Nobody knew what she was thinking.

Across from Mo Yanyu sat a handsome young man.

The young man had an amiable smile. While talking to one young master of the Mo family, he was also secretly paying attention to Mo Yanyu, as if trying to grab her attention with his words. However he was unsuccessful.

"Shao Feng, Xiao Yu was recently punished by my father, she's been in a bad mood lately, don't mind her." Mo Zhan toasted him, and then said, "Don't care about him, let us drink more. The Martial Competition is about to start, so these few days we can slack off a bit, treat yourself well."

"Brother Zhan, when have you mistreated yourself?" Ling Yue Yue shrewdly looked at Mo Zhan, with a cunning smile on her face "I heard that Brother Zhan is great at going to those 'Pleasure Quarters'! When would you enrich me a little on your experience?"

"Cough cough cough!" Mo Zhan choked on his wine, and said awkwardly, "Yue Yue, trust me, I'm innocent! I'm not familiar with those places! That was the only time I went was because I was tricked, Yue Yue, you have to trust me!"

"Teehee, who knows if you're lying or not." Ling Yue Yue was still smiling, but her eyes showed some other expression, "A while ago, I was praised by my sisters. They said my fiancé already has dozens of mistresses before marrying me; they said I would have so many maids to serve me in the future. Oh, just thinking of it makes me happy."

"Cough cough cough!"

Mo Zhan's expression was a little stiff, his face darkened and said, "Who is talking bad about me behind my back? If I find out who it is, I will skin him alive!"

"Alright, Yue Yue!" Ling Shao Feng glared at his sister, "Brother Zhan is a man, sometimes treating people with courtesy is inevitable. I trust Brother Zhan's conduct!"

"Of course you'd trust him." Ling Yue Yue lightly snorted, and murmured quietly, "Everyone knows that you guys always go there together, of course you would trust him."

Upon hearing this, Mo Yanyu glanced over at Ling Shao Feng, and her brows slightly furrowed, as if she was irritated. However she didn't say much, and again turned her head towards Moon Lake, her expression growing colder.

"I'll deal with you when we get home!"

Ling Shao Feng glared at Ling Yue Yue, as he anxiously changed the topic, and said to Mo Zhan, "Brother Zhan, that Shi Tianyun is also in the Third Sky of the Nascent Realm, he's even better than Shi Tianke, and I heard he has been training very hard lately. At the last Martial Competition, he didn't show up, but this time he'll definitely be there. Even though you won against Shi Tianke that time, you shouldn't let down your guard this time around."

"Don't worry, those guys from the third generation of the Shi family can't be placed in my eyes!" Mo Zhan smiled with arrogance, coldly glancing over to where Han Zhong was, and said, "Just watch, this year's Martial Competition, I'll cripple whoever comes in my way!"

"Yeah, sure enough, Brother Zhan has the heroic spirit!" Ling Shao Feng laughed. He held up his cup and said, "Come on, Brother Zhan, cheers!"

"Those four over there, are Ling Shao Feng, Ling Yue Yue, Mo Zhan and Mo Yanyu. They are all the leaders of the third generations of the Mo and Ling families, and they might become your opponents in the Martial Competition. Among them, Ling Shao Feng and Mo Yanyu are engaged, and that Mo Zhan and Ling Yue Yue are also engaged. Mo Zhan and Ling Shao Feng are both at the Third Sky of the Nascent Realm. Mo Yanyu is slightly worse, but still has a cultivation of the Second Sky of the Nascent Realm."

Han Zhong lowered his voice, and explained the situation to Shi Yan. He paused and then said, "But, the one you should least underestimate is that Ling Yue Yue! We got the news a while ago that this girl broke through to the Human Realm half a year ago, and now she's the strongest one in the third generation of the Ling family. This year's Martial Competition, the Ling family might arrange to have Ling Yue Yue fight against Zuo Shi. Apparently, to make Ling Yue Yue win, the Ling family have spent a hell lot on her, not only buying the most expensive medicines, but they also gave her a few secret treasures to defend herself. Zuo Shi might be in a lot of trouble this time."

"Not necessarily." Shi Yan smiled, casually glancing at Ling Yue Yue, and spoke in a low voice, "Zuo Shi is much more fierce than she is, just watch, she's going to lose really badly."

Zuo Shi had now obtained the Dragon Turtle Pills and the [Basalt Scriptures, plus the 'Dragon Turtle Armor', which Han Zhong did not know about.

With all these things to rely on, Zuo Shi had a nine out of ten chance of winning, and besides, Zuo Shi's realm was a little higher than Ling Yue Yue's.

"That kid, what are you talking about?"

At this moment, Ling Yue Yue suddenly stood up and sneered, "Are you saying that I'm not as good as Zuo Shi? You think I didn't hear that? I'm telling you, my hearing is clear as ever! Talking about people behind their backs, people from the Shi family, are you all this dirty?"

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Chapter 62 - Unrecognized

"Well, Zuo Shi is superior to you. You will definitely lose in the Martial Competition. You are doomed." Shi Yan glanced at Ling Yue Yue indifferently, without getting angry.

"I'm doomed?" Ling Yue Yue was furious as she sneered, "Who do you think you are? Are you a prophet?"

Shi Yan shook his head and didn't talk to her again, showing no care for her.

With a rigid face, Mo Zhan stood up from the table and strode toward Shi Yan. As he approached him, he yelled with his head high, "Kid, who are you? I haven't seen you, you are from the Shi Family too? You want to be ruined before the Martial Competition?"

Shi Yan turned serious as he lowered his voice and asked Han Zhong, "Can I kill him?"

Han Zhong was totally frightened as he quivered suddenly, and asked in haste, "Brother Yan, what are you trying to do?"

Though he had been with Shi Yan for a long time, they had just sought out 'entertainment' together. He only knew that Shi Yan recent got Profound Qi and reached the Third Sky of the Nascent Realm.

Yet he hadn't seen him fight with others, so he had absolutely no idea how Shi Yan would react to the provocation.

The fact that Shi Yan wanted to kill for such a trivial dispute totally frightened Han Zhong.

He had never thought that this young master, who was the best at 'entertaining', would be so brutal in front of his enemies!

Shi Yan glanced at the man, suggesting that he was going to take action.

"Nooo!" Han Zhong hurried to stop him with a face full of terror. He thought to himself, "Though you are at the Nascent Realm, your opponent is an expert too! If you fight bluntly, I can't help you either. But if you get hurt and can't attend the Martial Competition, the family head will kill me."

"No?"

"Definitely no!" Seeing Shi Yan not persuaded, Han Zhong quickly explained, "They are the hopes of the Mo Family and the Ling Family. If they were killed, the two families will sacrifice everything to get revenge! It will be tough as hell then. So cool down."

"Then, can I cripple him?"

Han Zhong froze, rolled his eyes and smiled bitterly, "Brother Yan, please! If you really want to, then you can vent your frustrations in the Martial Competition. Who knows, you might also win back a mine for the Shi Family. But for now, please don't be impulsive."

"Fine."

Shi Yan didn't talk anymore, instead he stared at Mo Zhan in front of him, and shouted loudly, "What do you want?"

"Kid, who are you?" After he approached, Mo Zhan didn't fight, instead he gazed at Shi Yan coldly, "You made my fiancé unhappy! Don't blame me for my rudeness if you don't tell me who you are!"

Seeing Mo Zhan there, Ling Yue Yue sat down at the table, looking in this direction with cold eyes and felt surprised.

Her hearing was superior to others, hence even though Shi Yan and Han Zhong lowered their voices, she was still able to hear the words "kill" and "cripple".

Who on earth is that arrogant guy?

Ling Yue Yue was bewildered. Since she didn't know who Shi Yan was, she decided to be cautious. As the Martial Competition was around the corner, she guessed that he was some expert invited by the Shi Family, so she couldn't do anything now.

"Young masters, please don't fight in my Spring Pavilion. I beg you, ok?"

Just then, the stout Manager Long of the Spring Pavilion bowed, as he came up to the third floor. Behind him, several pretty young girls were holding the dishes and wine ordered by Han Zhong.

"You will know who I am in the Martial Competition." Shi Yan didn't bother to respond to him, but waved at those shy girls and said, "Come here! Display my dishes. I want to have a good meal!"

The girls were frightened. They didn't dare walk up but pleadingly stared at Manager Long.

After Manager Long made an eye contact to them, the girls hurried to serve the dishes on the table and dashed away immediately like frightened birds.

Shi Yan looked indifferent as he opened a jar of wine by himself, filled his wine cup, and drank it up at once. He began to eat, not paying any attention to Mo Zhan who was still standing beside him.

"Young Master Mo, it's not the first time you've been to the Spring Pavilion. I am always good to you. Please, don't make a fuss, okay?" Manager Long bowed as he persuaded Mo Zhan with a miserable face.

"Well, Manager Long. For you, I won't fight today." Mo Zhan grunted and sneered at Shi Yan, who was eating happily, "Kid, be prepared in the Competition!"

"Okay, I can't wait." Without raising his head, Shi Yan kept drinking, and filled another cup for Han Zhong, "Come on, Old Han, let's drink."

Mo Zhan stared at Shi Yan angrily and then left for his own table.

Mo Yanyu was paying attention in this direction for quite some time. Her bright eyes wandered over Shi Yan curiously. After Mo Zhan came back, she withdrew her gaze and looked to the Green Moon Lake, forgetting the episode entirely.

"Deng! Deng! Deng!"

Just then, heavy footsteps sounded from the stairs, which was followed by Beiming Ce's voice, "Xiao Die, Yalan, the courses in the Spring Pavilion are famous in Tianyun City. You two should have a good taste this time. Well, the Flame Wine is strong, but it's really different. You can't afford to miss it!"

Then Beiming Ce showed up, closely followed by Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan.

"Well, it seems I must have a try at the Flame Wine. Hehe, I can just drink a little." Mu Yu Die was in a white dress, which made her look extraordinarily fresh. She came up slowly to the third floor.

Di Yalan was behind her, looking a little gloomy, seemingly lost in her worries.

Shi Yan, who was drinking, showed a panicked expression on his face as he heard that voice, but quickly went back to normal. Without taking a look at them, he kept drinking with Han Zhong with his head lowered.

Han Zhong was astonished as he saw Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan, for he was a little worried Shi Yan would make trouble again.

"Oh, customers here?" Beiming Ce glanced over the two tables, and continued indifferently, "And all acquaintances."

The four people including Ling Shao Feng and Mo Zhan became perturbed, as they saw Beiming Ce. They barely smiled and nodded to Beiming Ce as a greeting.

Ling Shao Feng and Mo Zhan also glanced over Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan secretly after they nodded at Beiming Ce, and showed a surprised face at the same time.

Han Zhong stood up, and nodded at Beiming Ce as well with a smile, "You are not occupied today, Young Master Ce? Hehe, I heard that you rarely stepped out of your home recently?"

"Well, two beauties came and brightened my home, I found it hard to leave." Beiming Ce smiled slightly, took a look at Shi Yan who was still drinking, and turned to Mu Yu Die, "Let's take a seat first."

"Yes."

"Young Master Ce, this way please!" Manager Long dashed up suddenly with a fat face full of smiles, as he chose a seat for Beiming Ce and shouted downstairs, "Old Guo, Young Master Ce is here today! Prepare the best dishes and wine! Be careful!"

"Haha! Needless to say!" Loud laughing sounds came from downstairs.

Smiles went up from Beiming Ce's mouth, as apparently, he was satisfied with Manager Long's attitude. He said softly, "Well, good enough Manager Long. Mind your own business now, I can take care of myself."

"Great! Well I will cook one or two dishes for you personally. But I haven't cooked for a long time, so please forgive me if it doesn't taste good." Manager Long laughed.

"I'm too lucky." Beiming Ce laughed as well, "I'm so flattered to have dishes made by you! No matter how it tastes, I will eat it up gratefully."

"I'm too flattered. So I will go downstairs now?" Manager Long bowed and asked.

"Sure."

Manager Long then bowed to leave.

"I've finished." Mo Yanyu stood up suddenly.

Ling Shao Feng and Mo Zhan looked at each other and stood up as well, so did Ling Yue Yue. The three followed Mo Yanyu and went toward the stairs.

Before he left, Mo Zhan greeted Beiming Ce, "Brother Ce, take your time. I'm afraid we have to leave first."

"Yeah, take care." Beiming Ce turned to him casually and continued to chat with Mu Yu Die.

Immediately, the four people from the Mo Family and the Ling Family disappeared from the third floor.

While drinking, Shi Yan was also listening to Beiming Ce and Mu Yu Die chatting, and got a little annoyed. So he yelled at Han Zhong, "Old Han, I'm done. You?"

"Long ago." Han Zhong knew he was unhappy, so he stood up immediately, and said to Beiming Ce, "Young Master Ce, we got to go."

"Okay." Beiming Ce responded indifferently without raising his head, and continued to talk with Mu Yu Die.

"Let's leave." Han Zhong pulled Shi Yan, then they walked toward the stairs.

Before he went down stairs, Shi Yan paused at the corner, glanced over at Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan coldly, and then disappeared.

Beiming Ce didn't feel that glance as he sat with his back to Shi Yan. Neither did Mu Yu Die, for she was talking with Beiming Ce.

Only Di Yalan raised her head randomly, and happened to see Shi Yan's glance. Out of it, she saw some familiar coldness, and scorn.

Di Yalan was surprised and dumbstruck.

After a very long time, she shook her head softly and sighed to herself: Why am I so stupid? How could that guy be him? Except the eyes, they resemble by nothing! They were two different people! What am I thinking about? What's wrong with me?

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Chapter 63 - The Martial Competition

Tianyun City, the God Stone Square.

A small hill-sized, diamond-shaped meteorite stood tall in the God Stone Square. More than half of the meteorite was sunk deep into the ground, and the part that was visible was hundreds of meters tall, making it look very magnificent.

Legends say that this was a piece of the meteorite that fell from the sky thousands of years ago. It crashed right here, where at the time there was no Tianyun City, but merely a piece of wasteland.

It was said that after the meteorite fell from the sky, in the beginning, every night under the glistening moonlight, the meteorite would emit a bright silver light. Later on, this silver light started to dim day by day, and in the last ten years, the meteorite has never shone, appearing just like a normal rock.

The people of the Merchant Union treated this meteorite as a God Stone, and established Tianyun City around it. (天陨 means sky meteor).

It has been many years since then, and now Tianyun City has become a big city and the center of the Merchant Union.

However, even though the meteorite stopped shining in silver brilliance, for the warriors of the Merchant Union, it was a blessing from God, and thus the meteorite was zealously treated as a God Stone.

The God Stone Square was also built from that meteorite.

In the Merchant Union, many couples would come to the God Stone Square and make their vows, with the God Stone as a holy witness to their love.

Every Martial Competition in the Merchant Union, was held in the God Stone Square.

On this day in the God Stone Square, there was an endless stream of crowds. Outside the Square there were countless vendors, many of whom were warriors selling mostly items that were associated with cultivation.

In the God Stone Square

In front of that enormous meteorite were sixteen battle arenas. Each one was about a hundred square meters and was made out of solid green iron. Even warriors in the Human Realm wouldn't be able to break it using all their strength.

Around these sixteen battle arenas stood five tall stone towers.

One of the towers was fifty meters tall, while the other four were forty meters tall. These five towers were equally spaced a hundred meters apart in distance, and on those towers stood the people from the five families, who were able to view all sixteen arenas below.

On one of the stone towers, Shi Yan stood next to Shi Jian, condescendingly looking down upon all the participants around the God Stone Square who came to compete in the Martial Competition.

This stone tower belonged to the Shi family, which was forty meters tall. The other four were for the Beiming, Ling, Zuo and Mo families.

The stone towers belonging to the Ling, Zuo, and Mo families were also forty meters tall, just like that of the Shi family. However, the Beiming family was an exception. Their tower was fifty meters high, a whole lot taller than the other four families' towers.

Just from the height of the stone towers, it could be seen that the Beiming family held an absolutely strong position in the Merchant Union!

This was the first day of the Martial Competition.

The direct descendents of the Shi family; Shi Jian, Shi Tie, and Shi Dang, were all on the stone tower by this time.

The Han Brothers, Han Feng and Han Zhong, were also in the stone tower, plus a few other strangers that Shi Yan didn't know. Through Han Zhong's introductions, Shi Yan learned that those were the loyal subordinates of the Shi family. They usually worked in the city, but were called here because of the Martial Competition.

However, Yang Hai was not in the stone tower, and that was because Yang Hai did not practice Martial Arts. When the Martial Art masters of the other cities were called here, Yang Hai had to go and take charge in case any problems come up while the Martial Competition was being held.

Every year's Martial Competition was separated into five categories: Elementary, Nascent, Human, Disaster, and Earth. However, in the category of Earth Realm there would usually only be one figurehead.

Usually, even the warriors who were unaffiliated to any power, when they managed to reach the Earth Realm, they would have certainly gained their own cultivation opportunities. It was unlikely for them to covet the prizes given by the five families.

An Earth Realm warrior, whether in the Merchant Union, the Fire Empire, or the God-blessed Empire, would be considered a master.

Such warriors wouldn't need to compete in the Martial Competition to obtain a nice cultivation environment. They can just go to any powerful force to become a dedicated warrior.

Even if an Earth Realm warrior didn't join any power, the major forces would still reach out their arm, hoping to recruit the warrior.

Because of this, even though the Martial Competition set a competing category for Earth Realm warriors, but the warriors that actually came to participate, were nearly nonexistent.

Even the warriors who reached the Disaster Realm would rarely come to the Martial Competition. Every year, there would only be a few warriors that would show up.

The ones who really came for the Martial Competition were mostly at the Elementary, Nascent, or Human Realms.

These three kinds of warriors with lower capabilities were the majority, as they often couldn't find their own cultivation opportunities. Therefore they would have to participate in the Martial Competition in the hope to win some precious cultivation materials, or to obtain a nice position in one of the five families.

The Martial Competition usually lasted for five days.

The first four days were generally for the warriors who came for the prizes. These people would be watched by the five families. Throughout the four days of fighting, the families would choose their favorite warriors and reach out to them.

The last day, however, would be the highlight of the Martial Competition.

On this day, the five families would send their best dedicated warriors and descendents to go compete with the masters of the other families. The five families would test each other's power on the last day of the Martial Competition.

This day, was also the day when the five families would show their strength to others!

And on this day, the fighting was often accompanied with the enormous conflicts of interests and profits, and earth-shaking gambles would often happen.

Mines, commercial streets, treasures, and even bizarre Martial Skills could become the stakes of the five families!

Just one Martial Competition, could lead to one family gaining the most extravagant riches, and could also reduce a family's savings to nothing. The last day of the competition would become a topic that people would talk about for years to come.

This day, the masters from the different families would expose their true capabilities, showing rare Martial Spirits. Also in the intense fighting, different secret treasures might also show up.

Most warriors who came from the outside were also here for the last day of the Martial Competition.

From the fights on last day of the Martial Competition, they could find out the difference between them and the warriors of the five families. Through watching the fierce battles, they could understand their own inadequacies, and find the ways to improve their standards and capabilities.

And they might even be able to raise their own strength through the battles from the Martial Competition.

This was why the Martial Competition attracted so many people!

Shi Yan stood on the stone tower serenely, condescendingly looking down upon the arenas and the many warriors who came to participate.

Two hundred meters away on the tower of the Beiming family, two beautiful figures followed Beiming Ce up the high tower.

On the high tower, Mu Yu Die and Di Yalan stood side-by-side with Beiming Ce. Together they were looking over all of the arenas.

Mu Yu Die wore a white dress, her hair flying in the wind. On the tall tower, her beautiful posture made her look like a fairy on the mainland.

Di Yalan was still in that crimson armor, her hot body was visible underneath the coverage of that armor made her figure look very seductive. Only her eyes looked troubled.

From two hundred meters away, Shi Yan slightly raised his head and shot a glance at the two girls, secretly smiling in disdain.

"Kid, these four days you better carefully watch. You lack experience, so you need to watch how the others fight; don't just mess around." As Shi Jian caught him staring at the two girls on the Beiming family's tower, he snorted as he became displeased, "Women are everywhere, and with what you have, what woman can't you get in the future. Don't get distracted before you become strong!"

"Yes, I know what I'm doing." Shi Yan nodded.

"Brother, Kro from the Misty Pavilion has come to see you." Shi Tie, who stood near the staircase entrance of the stone tower, suddenly shouted.

"Kro?" Surprise flashed across Shi Jian's face. He blanked out for a second, but then nodded: "Invite him up."

"Grandpa, how's the situation at the Misty Pavilion?" Shi Yan lowered his voice, and secretly asked.

Shi Jian slightly nodded and said, "You shouldn't care much about this, don't mention it next time, understand?"

"Okay." Looking at his expression, Shi Yan knew that Zuo Xu and him must have sorted out all the details. But as Han Feng and all the dedicated warriors were on the tower, Shi Yan was confused as to whether the Shi family sent anyone to help Chi Xiao at the Misty Pavilion or not.

Kro came up with a smile as he calmly walked next to Shi Jian, and said, "Head of the Shi family, I have come to request help from you. I'm wondering where your son Yang Hai is right now, I want to invite him to the Misty Pavilion. Is that alright?"

"Yang Hai?" Shi Jian's expression darkened as he snorted, but said in confusion, "The Misty Pavilion has been trying to find people named Yang Hai everywhere, what are you trying to do?"

"A friend of mine has come from the Endless Sea. Her older relative lost an infant a very long time ago. The infant is called Yang Hai, and so they requested me to look around for him. Thus I ask for your help, Master Shi."

Shi Jian's heart skipped a beat and his eyes flashed with a strange unknown expression. After quite a while he finally shook his head and responded, "Yang Hai is not in Tianyun city right now, because I called many people back for the Martial Competition, Yang Hai is has been taking charge in another city, this… we'll talk about this some other time."

"Sure, as long as you'd remember, Master Shi." Kro didn't urge deliberately, and smiled, "When he comes back, please allow him to come to the Misty Pavilion, Master Shi, haha, don't worry, I won't let him run all this way for nothing."

"Okay." Shi Jian indifferently nodded.

"Then I will take my leave." Kro didn't stay for long, and after the issues were negotiated, he left straightaway.

Melodious and soothing music came from the tower of the Beiming family.

The heart-warming sound of nature immediately rang throughout every corner of God Stone Square. Mu Yu Die sat crossed-legged on the stone tower of the Beiming family, absorbed in playing the zither.

Many warriors who came to the Martial Competition, were attracted by this ethereal music, and their expression was full of fascination as they looked up at the Beiming family's stone tower.

Next to Mu Yu Die was Beiming Ce, his expression full of pride, and the corner of his lips showed a trace disdain for all living things. He stood there and accepted the admiring and envious gazes from the many warriors.

Mu Yu Die's music was like a mountain stream, flowing into the hearts of the warriors, as if cleansing their souls.

Just with one song, the warriors were mesmerized, their faces stunned.

Then at this moment.

Beiming Shang suddenly flew from the tall tower, his magnificent figure magically floated on the sky above the God Stone Square, like a God looking down on all human beings. He shouted, "The Martial Competition, officially starts!"

"Walking in mid-air! Sky Realm warrior!"

Many warriors screamed out one by one, their expression in awe, shocked by the capabilities shown by Beiming Shang.

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Chapter 64 - The Medicine King, Mu Xun

In the Martial Competition field.

Dozens of warriors of various Realms were competing vigorously in different areas. Streams of bizarre light exploded on the field one after another, as if magical snakes were shuttling above the competition field.

The participants were performing all sorts of rare Martial Skills, and some even startled those people from the five big families.

In the high building of the Shi family.

Standing next to Shi Jian, Shi Yan's eyes were glistening, as he cast his eyes upon those fighting warriors one by one.

As the head of the family, Shi Jian was standing beside him and explaining for him.

As long as Shi Yan showed some interest in one competition area, Shi Jian would soon elaborate on the strength of the two parties, their Martial Skill levels, their competing strategies, and also teaching him the best way to win the fight.

In the stone building, Shi Tie was also illustrating the situation on the competition field, explaining the various Martial Skills, their advantages and disadvantages, the opponent's weaknesses, and how to beat them.

As the leaders of the Shi family, Shi Jian and Shi Tie rarely talked on a normal day, but today they almost never stopped talking.

Shi Yang and Shi Tianxiao were also standing in a corner, while Shi Yang was pointing the warriors in the competition field to Shi Tianxiao, the latter nodding and asking accordingly.

Some ministers who came back from other cities, and those experts from their family branches, were all observing the stone building quietly. As they saw Shi Jian explaining to Shi Yan whole-heartedly, they were very confused.

"Old Feng, who is that kid? Why does family head treat him so specially?" Standing beside Han Feng, Ku Long observed them for a long while, and finally couldn't help but ask him about Shi Yan.

Ku Long was one of the ministers of the Shi family who was at the First Sky of the Nirvana Realm. Since he was garrisoned in another city, he didn't know much about the latest news on Shi Yan. Seeing Shi Jian lay so much stress on Shi Yan, he was quite confused.

"That is Young Master Yan." Han Feng looked indifferent, as he glanced at Ku Long and said, "The one who used to be always absent from home and busy studying those historic relics. Yeah, Yang Hai and Miss Qing's son."

"That's impossible!"

Ku Long was totally shocked, as he asked in surprise, "That Young Master never trained in Martial Arts, did he? As far as I know, he was more attracted to those odd things and never set his eyes upon Martial Arts. Why would the family head pay attention to him?"

"Young Master Yan is no longer the person he used to be."

Han Feng narrowed his eyes, and said casually, "You'd better try your best if Young Master Yan asks you to do something. It would in your best interests." Though Han Feng knew a lot, he talked little. He wouldn't have said anything if Ku Long wasn't his good friend.

Ku Long knew Han Feng's personality. He was surprised at Han Feng's speech, and after a long silence, he nodded softly.

He was still confused, but realizing that Shi Yan was favored by the family head, he decided to try and get close to Shi Yan.

Apart from Ku Long, many other ministers and Shi branch families were also secretly discussing about Shi Yan, as they were all confused why the family head paid so much attention to that unknown boy.

Soon Shi Yan was known to all. This boy, who hadn't been treated specially for seventeen years, was now at the center of the Shi family.

"Grandpa, did Xiao Yan become a warrior for real? And has he reached the Third Sky of the Nascent Realm?" Seeing Shi Jian favor Shi Yan so much, Shi Tianke, who was standing next to Shi Tie, finally asked.

Shi Tie took a glimpse at them, and nodded, "It is great, Shi Yan is amazing. He has reached the Third Sky of the Nascent Realm now. He may participate in the martial Competition this year."

Shi Tie had been focusing on his three grandsons recently, so he didn't pay much attention to Shi Yan. He merely knew that Shi Yan had gained the family Martial Spirit and reached the Third Sky of the Nascent Realm.

However, he didn't know that Shi Yan had also gained the Immortal Martial Spirit, so he still considered that Shi Jian was putting way too much energy into him.

But he didn't place any further thought into it. After all, Shi Yan was his brother's direct grandson, and Shi Tianxiao was useless. Now that Shi Yan reached the Third Sky of the Nascent Realm, he thought it was reasonable for Shi Jian to be over excited. He was not aware that Shi Yan possessed twin Martial Spirits, and that his Petrification Martial Spirit had advanced to the second stage.

"Tianyun, you should fight against Mo Zhan this year. Last time Tianke lost to him, so your fight will be crucial this time! Or they would assume that we don't have any talented descendents among the third generation!" Shi Tie said to Shi Tianyun who was standing beside him.

"Yes, I will beat Mo Zhan for sure." Shi Tianyun said with certainty.

Shi Tianyun was only nineteen years old, but he had reached the Third Sky of the Nascent Realm. He was just like a newborn calf who wasn't afraid of a tiger.

Before Shi Yan was noticed, he was the pride of the Shi family, and Shi Jian would guide him in person now and then. But ever since Shi Yan came back, Shi Jian seldom visited him.

Shi Yan spent seventeen years discovering ancient languages, and seldom stayed at home. He didn't train in Martial Arts, so there was no conflict between him and other people, thus Shi Tianyun never cared about him.

However, Shi Yan stood out now, and Shi Jian's attitude had shifted too much, which made Shi Tianyun a little uncomfortable.

Yet, the Shi family had the formidable outside opponents, such as the Mo family and the Ling family, so the Shi family members, including Shi Jian and Shi Tie, stuck together and got along well. The second generation also allied to defend against the Mo family. Shi Tianyun and Shi Tianxiao often played around.

Thus, although Shi Tianyun was a little uncomfortable, he didn't show a strong reaction. But he had made up his mind to have a perfect performance in the competition, and secure his position as the hope of the Shi family.

"Eh?" Shi Jian suddenly cried, as he was talking to Shi Yan, and his eyes brightened and quickly looked over to someone. Something had suddenly occurred beside the competition field.

"Who came?" Shi Yan frowned, walked up and looked in the direction of Shi Jian.

A troop of seven people were walking in slowly from outside the God Stone Square. The man in lead looked around fifty, with a hawk nose, gloomy face, delicate cap, and a silver gown, on the left shoulder of which was embroided five types of herbs.

"Level-5 Soul Alchemist!" Shi Yan identified him only by a quick glimpse.

Just like Martial Skills, alchemists were divided into five levels: Mortality, Mystery, Soul, Royalty, and Divinity.

Karu, who was killed by Shi Yan in the Dark Forest, was a mere Mortality Level alchemist, but was treasured by the Mo family. Now that a Soul level alchemist had appeared, he must be an influential one!

"This is Karu's teacher, the Medicine King, Mu Xun." Shi Jian glanced over Shi Yan, "He is not only an alchemist of the Soul level, he is also a warrior of the Second Sky of the Nirvana Realm, and the Medicine Valley is a special institution too. Though it doesn't get involved in fights between various parties, it is closely connected to them."

The fact that Karu was killed by Shi Yan was known to only a few people. And now that Shi Yan had faked his appearance, fewer people knew his real identity. Shi Jian didn't worry that Mu Xun would recognize Shi Yan, so he sneered and gloated, "Well, I guess Mu Xun came to look for his stolen fragmented map, and Karu entered the Dark Forest with people from the Mo family. Mu Xun will definitely ask Mo Tuo about that. Haha! This should be an interesting show!"

"The Medicine King, Mu Xun!"

The warriors in the competition field soon recognized this foreign visitor, as they cried out in surprise, and cleared the way for him.

Many other warriors squeezed their way forward and shouted crazily, "Medicine King, I collected lots of herbs, please refine me a pill! Please!"

As soon as the flock heard that, the competition field boiled with excitement. More and more people shouted, asking for Mu Xun's help.

People's attention were drawn to Mu Xun at once, and no one set their eyes on the competition field anymore.

On the buildings of the Beiming family, the Zuo family, the Ling family, and the Mo family, many couldn't sit still anymore. Lots of experts rushed down the buildings with their master's' permission and ran to Mu Xun to invite him to watch the competition in their building.

Without Shi Jian's permission, Shi Tie also rushed down.

Suddenly, the Medicine King Mu Xun was crowded by the core members from the five big families, whose faces were full of smiles, hoping Mu Xun would go with them.

"Mu Xun will go to the Mo family. Hehe. But nothing good will happen." Shi Jian gloated.

Just as expected.

Ignoring Mo Chaoge, who was coming up to invite him, Mu Xun soon walked toward the Mo family building silently, with a rigid face.

Mo Chaoge didn't dare be angry, and followed him smiling and bowing.

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