"I am a person who reached Rotating Core Realm! A Firm Foundation cultivator will never suppress me!" Zhen Zhong reassured himself in his heart as his defensive Qi artifacts showed up all over his body. All of these artifacts were enchanted with the normal 8 Trigrams Array, which was overlaid with his Greed Array.
The 8 Trigrams would soften the blow, and the Greed Array would take the remaining power and absorb it to strengthen itself. Zhen Zhong's heart regained its composure when he reminded himself of its properties. So what if Xuan Yu mastered Reflection of Soul? A Rotating Core cultivator and Firm Foundation cultivator were too far in power level.
"Hmph! You bett-" In the middle of the sentence, Zhen Zhong's head was immediately popped off by Xuan Yu, using Lord Harvest's invisible Qi blade. A smooth and clean cut was made between the head and the neck stump.
"Bad, bad, all bad mistakes. Underestimating your opponent always leads to death." Xuan Yu shook his head for a few more times, before the blood in Zhen Zhong's body explosively burst out and was absorbed by Lord Harvest.
"Whew. It was hard to maintain the Reflection of Soul stage even when I'm using this ancient bracelet." Xuan Yu was not thrilled that he needed to show his trump card to bear Zhen Zhong. However, he had acquired countless rewards from this.
The blood of a Rotating Core cultivator could boost the strength of Lord Harvest by quite a lot. Not only that, these artifacts looked very valuable, not to mention the most important part, the Greed Core in his palm.
There was also a Dragon Subduing Qi Technique, but he could not cultivate it, and the Thousand Arts Sect already had a copy of it, so he discarded it as worthless.
"With this as a base, I should be able to absorb it and craft my All Devouring Core!" Xuan Yu smiled menacingly as he thought about what he would do after he reached Rotating Core Realm.
"Wait a minute... someone's spying on me!" Xuan Yu could feel a pair of eyes on his back all of a sudden. Now that there were no other people to grab his attention, someone was directly using Qi behind his back to spy on him.
"Come out! Or else, I will simply cripple your cripple your cultivation right now!" Xuan Yu scoffed, and projected his voice towards where he felt the Qi come from.
"Sure. I have nothing to fear anyway." Tang Peng walked into view of Xuan Yu. There was no use for hiding, since the other person had already detected his presence. He had already activated his Grudge Yin Form.
"Since you dare to spy on me, then taste my Unholy Sword Rain." Xuan Yu revealed an arsenal of swords in his hand, before shattering them into sword shards and throw the shards into the sky.
The sword shards disappeared, but Tang Peng wasn't a fool. He knew that cultivators had a lot of weird techniques and skills, so he decisively dodged to another area when the sword shards disappeared.
"Ha ha. You shouldn't look down on my Unholy Sword Rain. I invented it myself based on Nothingness's principles." Xuan Yu commented on Tang Peng's actions from a distance.
"Just shut up already!" Tang Peng was getting annoyed by Xuan Yu's commentary, when he saw his shadow suddenly elongate. The sword shards started to fly out from his shadow, and in just one moment, he was covered in metal.
"Wahahaha! I love playing with small cultivators like this. That dumbass actually had the guts to spy on me." Xuan Yu gave out a sadistic chuckle, and moved closer to Tang Peng's location. He wanted to see the gore and absorb it for Lord Harvest.
As he got closer, a fist covered in rocks swung out and brutally crushed against Xuan Yu's head. It shattered Xuan Yu's skull, and a couple of his teeth flew out. The physical strength of immortals could not compare to the brute force of the elements after all.
Xuan Yu became disoriented from that blow. He started stumbling backwards, but he tripped and fell onto the ground. He was furious. That low levelled cultivator actually didn't get killed, but he even ambushed him instead.
"Invisible Arms: Qi Restraints." Tang Peng could feel hands from the ground up grabbing him, but to his surprise, the hands were actually made from Yin Qi!
"Woah, thanks!" Tang Peng suddenly went into his meditation state and starting absorbing the Yin Qi from the hands. Tang Peng also heard a ghost nearby, saying, "I can't possible lose to a Firm Foundation cultivator!"
"This must be the guy from earlier! Might as well absorb him too." The ghost was too unstable, so it broke down into a grudge once it entered Tang Peng's body.
"What are you thanking me for? I'm going to kill you! Potential Implosion Art!" A powerful suction came from Xuan Yu, which forcibly tried to pull Tang Peng's body together. However, Tang Peng did not feel anything, so he continued on with cultivating.
"How could you not feel anything? Unless, you have no potential at all? What kind of person are you? An awakened old devil?" Xuan Yu started shouting both in anger and fear. All the reliable combos he had were all countered by this weirdo.
"Crap... it seems like I have also underestimated my own opponent. This is not an opponent I can fight against. I must retreat!" Xuan Yu monologued to himself, before he simply just ran away.
Tang Peng blissfully continued to cultivate the Yin Qi. The Moutan Walker's soul flame was exhausted from using its power on Tang Peng, so Tang Peng managed to churn out more spiritual soil from the thick Yin Qi in the hands.
When Tang Peng opened his eyes, Xuan Yu was gone. His eyes filled with glee as he realised had successfully made a Firm Foundation cultivator to leave him alone. He really had to thank that cultivator was lending him the legacy.
If not for the purple robes which deflected the sword shards, and the rock skin that somehow appeared, he would have immediately been turned into literally minced meat. This Xuan Yu, would also have to pay for his actions in trying to kill him.
At least, that Xuan Yu cultivator also dropped some of his loot. There was a book which was dropped by that dead cultivator. On the yellow cover, "Dragon Subduing Technique" was stated as the title.
Tang Peng simply stored the book in his robes and started to search for the Yin Gathering Art around the Mountain Walker's area. Eventually, he found the book, lodged inside the Mountain Walker's belly. It had already melted quite a lot of meat around the belly, but since the Mountain Walker's corpse was a large being, it wasn't impacted much.
"Weird. How did it survive this sort of conditions?" Tang Peng wondered to himself about how the book managed to support itself under the Mountain Walker's weight.
"Eh. At least I got it back. Now, I just have to check out the other techniques inside it!" Tang Peng started to flip through the Yin Gathering Art book. He was extremely excited to learn a real combat skill inside the book.