Chapter 248 - 592-603

Chapter 592: Mission From Shang Han

'This little kid is definitely untameable, but it is unknown why would he go to the Xue Yuan State!'

Of course, regardless of the reason, Shang Han did not wish to voice out her doubts, and she was afraid that Qin Feng might feel that he was being watched.

"Governor Qin Feng, now, as the regent of the Northern Region, I officially assign you to a mission!" Shang Han gave her order with a serious expression.

"Yes!" Qin Feng was also alerted while he waited for the order from Shang Han.

"Governor Qin Feng, get to the Dusan Borders and Riwa Basin to take part in the clean up mission, details of the mission can be self-determined, and it should last for a month!"

Qin Feng reacted with a surprised expression; however, it was not because of the mission that was assigned from Shang Han, but it was the exact same location that he was planning to go!

Then, Shang Han awarded Qin Feng with some rewards and funds, it was about the same as the reward for a B-tier general; from Shang Han's point of view, Qin Feng's capability was much stronger than any B-tier general.

If Qin Feng were to be rewarded as a C-tier, it would definitely be an unfair treatment for him to take up the excessive number of tasks for an inadequate salary.

Shang Han was truly a generous superior!

"Affirmative, Regent!"

"Alright, you may now go to the nearest city, the waymark will be sent to you!" Shang Han ordered.

"I am now at Winter Fort!"

"Alright then, the item will arrive within thirty minutes!"

"Great!" Qin Feng nodded, he was then struck by an idea and asked, "Regent Shang, do we also have hidden powerful figures in the Northern Region? For example… S-tier!"

Shang Han was stunned and continued to ask, "Why would you ask about this? Are you looking for a mentor to upskill yourself?"

"It's just a random question!"

"We do have one, unfortunately, this powerful figure is not associated with dark abilities, fire abilities, and not an ancient warrior, but an ice ability user, S-tier!"

Qin Feng's doubt was answered.

As expected, Shang Han was aware of it.

"I see!"

"You, from your visit to the Xue Yuan State, could it be that you have already met with the powerful figure?" Shang Han was struck by surprise.

Qin Feng nodded and continued, "If you are referring to Master Hu San, then yes!"

Shang Han stared at Qin Feng, and she was beyond surprised.

"Frankly, I do not know his name, and I haven't even met him before, it was my late father that had told me about him, within the Northern Region, Beihua City is not the most dangerous place, but the Xue Yuan State, where there is presence of a horrifying ultra beast within the gigantic mountain ranges of the outer Xue Yuan State, fortunately, there is a guardian that has been living there."

"That person is then regarded as the Icy Lake Grandmaster! I thought that it was the recognition of his capability to instantly freeze a lake into solid ice, so it was actually because of his family name, Hu?"

Qin Feng was also shocked as he did not expect Hu San to be regarded with such a title, knowing that Shang Han's father was an elderly person, the Icy Lake Grandmaster was undoubtedly from the early Great Rift Age.

"Could it be that you have received pointers from him?"

At that moment, even Shang Han could not resist the urge to find out more.

"No, I did not, but I was actually saved by him, hence, I would like to find out more about my saviour, however, it was inappropriate for me to ask directly!"

"You lucky kid, you are really blessed with good luck!" Shang Han exclaimed and did not get to the bottom of it as the previous question had already crossed the line!

The both of them remained silent, after the mission assignment, Shang Han did not have anything else for Qin Feng, and the communication was then ended.

In less than half an hour, a D-tier aptitude user delivery person had arrived at Winter Fort via a spatial waymark from Beihua City.

Only mission assignment for B-tier or C-tier aptitude users would be executed in such a luxurious way!

After all, it would at least cost a hundred million.

After receiving the spatial waymark, Qin Feng left his only message behind for the mayor of Winter Fort, and he brought Bai Li along. The spatial waymark was opened and extended to another location that was unfamiliar to Bai Li, however, Qin Feng knew it well.

It was the place where Qin Feng's life as a mercenary unit and the king of mercenaries began!

Riwa Basin.

It was constantly guarded by three B-tier aptitude users throughout the entire year, and when necessary, tens of B-tier aptitude users would arrive within a day for a clean-up mission.

Meanwhile, as soon as Qin Feng's vision had recovered, he was already in an extremely spacious lobby, then, a ray of light appeared from the side while the shadow of a person walked out from the rift.

"Oh? Qin Feng!"

"General Xu!"

Qin Feng was able to identify the other person, surprisingly, it was General Xu Qing.

"Are you also being assigned with the clean-up mission?"

"Seems like General Xu Qing is assigned to the same mission!"

"If I knew Shang Han had sent you, I might not have come here, since you are able to handle the beast wave with ease, this should not be a problem for you!" Xu Qing patted Qin Feng's shoulder.

Qin Feng shook his head. "Insect waves are not the same as monster waves, here, nobody knows what would happen next, it is still a risky place, to have General Xu's assistance here is a much better assurance!"

"Haha, I agree, while the weather and temperature are still changing, let's hurry up with our clean-up, and the springtime insect wave next year will be slightly weakened!"

"That's right!"

Both of them laughed and walked out together.

Soon, they were greeted respectfully by the doorperson at the entrance. At the frontline, not many would pay attention to news from the battle net, furthermore, the Prodigy Tournament had always been viewed only by aptitude users that were below twenty years old. At such an age, most of the viewers were below D-tier.

There, any random soldier that walked by would probably be a C-tier.

"General Xu Qing, this way please, and the two of you?"

It was because Qin Feng and Bai Li were not wearing their aptitude user badges, the guard frowned and obviously did not know how to address the both of them.

"I'm sorry!" Qin Feng took out his aptitude user badge and wore it, Bai Li also followed suit.

"I am assigned by Regent Shang for a mission to clean-up insectoids around the area!"

"Regent Shang?" The C-tier was surprised and stared at Qin Feng in an unexpected loathsome look, obviously, the C-tier did not believe in Qin Feng's claims.

As an A-tier aptitude user herself, why would Regent Shang specially assign a C-tier aptitude user to come forward for a clean-up mission?

Perhaps it was just an exaggerated hoax, indeed, it was hilarious.

"Alright, you may have your own free time, General Xu Qing, this way please, a luxurious special guest room is ready at the third floor of the Human Alliance aptitude user lobby!"

Qin Feng was caught between laughter and tears, knowing that Shang Han had assigned him to enjoy the same treatment as a B-tier. His responsibility was to be stationed at the third floor of the aptitude user lobby, yet, he was just being told to fill in his own free time?

Xu Qing heard the person, and obviously, he was stunned, his expression became serious and was about to begin with his beratement.

However, Qin Feng immediately stopped Xu Qing and answered, "General Xu Qing, this is perfect, I am planning to have some free time for myself, if there are any urgent matters, my communicator is available!"

While the doorperson was still staring with a loathsome look, Qin Feng gave a hand gesture that symbolized the usage of the communicator. From the point of view of the doorperson, Qin Feng was bragging too much, and even worse, he was trying to falsify his relationship with General Xu Qing!

Chapter 593: Dusan Basin

"Ay, Qin Feng? Don't go!" Xu Qing yelled immediately, but Qin Feng waved his hand and led Bai Li to the hover tank and left with it.

Xu Qing was unable to stop Qin Feng from leaving, and it was impossible for him to grab onto Qin Feng and force him to stay!

Unfortunately, he was a powerful assistance, but he had left in such an unexpected way.

Meanwhile, the doorperson was also shocked and wondered if he had done something wrong.

"General Xu? If you need assistance from aptitude users, I can assign him to work under you!"

Xu Qing frowned, however, he still maintained his well-behaved upbringing. "What is your name? Which position are you holding?"

"Reporting to General, my name is Jiang Bo, and I am responsible for task assignment at the Dusan Basin battlefield!"

It was the managerial personnel that the Human Alliance had been cultivating since the beginning, however, his capability and judgements had left Xu Qing speechless.

"Seems like you would have to strengthen your operations training!"

With that, Xu Qing immediately walked away and did not want to elaborate more to Jiang Bo.

"Well… General, what do you mean?" Jiang Bo was afraid to walk away, he remained silent and followed closely behind Xu Qing until he had entered into the Human Alliance.

'Could it be that the little kid earlier was somebody significant?' With that in mind, Jiang Bo was caught with a shiver that went down his spine.

While Xu Qing was browsing through the battle scenes from the Human Alliance, Qin Feng was also focusing on something else. The battlefield was different from Longchuan, within the Longchuan mountain range, most of the powerful ultra beasts that roamed around were D-tier beast emperors, here, most of them were C-tier ultra beasts.

To be specific, they were all insectoids!

Qin Feng brought Bai Li to settle down at a hotel, they were then connected to the region net of the Human Alliance, soon, they were already browsing through the distribution map of the Dusan Basin.

It was densely filled with overlapping colours that were closely joined together.

All of them were representing insectoids!

The Dusan Basin was still in the midst of its winter season. Despite its geographical location, the lowest temperature of the season was not low enough, hence, the activity of the insectoids was only slowed down by a little.

If it was during the spring breeding season, the insectoid symbol would fill the entire screen with a huge coloured patch that left no gaps in between.

"Despite the large coverage of the Bloodline Insectoid this time, the location of the queen is also closer!"

"Emerald Praying Mantis, a bit risky!"

"Let's just avoid the Plow Worm region!"

Qin Feng was familiar with every attack from the ultra beasts, hence, he was also able to differentiate the capabilities of the insectoids and those that should be prioritized in elimination.

Soon, Qin Feng had a plan in mind.

However, plans would often be unable to cope with dynamic situations!

Qin Feng and Bai Li rested for a short moment and went into the aptitude user lobby.

It was filled with people from all sorts of backgrounds, and C-tier aptitude users were commonly seen.

A linked city wall similar to Longchuan was also established there. However, there were only three defending forts, and Qin Feng was at the Dusan Central City!

The other two cities were identified as left and right cities, and all three fortresses were aligned in a triangular shape.

In such a fortification formation, the central city would be the most stressful one, if it were to be defeated, the rest would be left with the only option to escape.

Qin Feng walked toward the workstation and looked at the flickering missions; he had then randomly received several insectoid killing missions.

From the side, discussions from another small team were also heard.

"How was the harvest today?"

"Acceptable, just that the injuries were quite bad, we have an injured attacker!"

"Indeed, the gunners are weak!"

"However, it is necessary to have gunners at the Dusan Basin."

"A newly established corporation has some firearms that are not bad, get more of those!"

"Oh? What are they called?"

"They named themselves as Fengli, and they have quite a lot of advertisements around!"

"Ah, I have heard about them…"

Qin Feng overheard the conversation, he was surprised and felt that it was hilarious.

It seemed like his own brand had expanded quite a lot.

With that in mind, Qin Feng was suddenly struck by another concern.

He accessed his communicator and entered his message; he was about to get the Fengli Mercenary Troop to bring along the most powerful firearms and also armor made from repulsive crystals obtained from the secret territory to the Dusan Basin.

Both of the mythical weapons would definitely secure commendable results at Dusan.

However, as soon as Qin Feng finished typing in the message, he was suddenly alerted by the flickering red light from his communicator, and an important notification then appeared.

"An urgent mission, B7-tier aptitude user, published by Quong Po, recruiting one hundred C-tier aptitude users, mission reward: five thousand merits points, C-tier beast general core!"

The surrounding crowd was also alerted by the notification, simultaneously, the crowd exclaimed in shock.

The reward of five thousand merit points was definitely in abundance, according to the C-tier ultra beast kills by Qin Feng, it would be equivalent to reward obtained from five thousand kills, and it could be exchanged with numerous adequate rune equipment. Surprisingly, a C-tier beast general core was also offered.

If every C-tier present were to go after insectoids that were also C-tier, they could easily gain the upper hand. However, when faced against a beast general, it would require them to cooperate with each other while facing the risk of dying at any time, and the loot had to be distributed among the others.

Quong Po was definitely giving a lucrative offer.

A hundred of them were given out within seconds.

"It's him?" Qin Feng heard the name and he was surprised, however, Qin Feng was not sure whether it was the same person he had in mind.

It was at that moment, two people hurried down from the second floor of the aptitude user lobby, it was Quong Po, accompanied by another C7-tier aptitude user, it was Jiang Bo who had welcomed Xu Qing's arrival!

Quong Po's age was about forty years old, however, it was inaccurate to judge the age of an ancient warrior from his physical appearance. In actuality, he could be ten to twenty years older.

He had a slim and petite physique, he was about a hundred and seventy in height, when compared to the others that had well-built physique like bulls, he seemed to be the outstanding one.

Upon the appearance of the person, Qin Feng managed to instantly recognize his identity.

Thousand Flying Knives, Quong Po!

Qin Feng knew that the person was not at his actual height, it was actually affected by the practice of a special cultivation method.

Furthermore, Qin Feng was somehow related with Quong Po, the Magical Tesseract that Qin Feng had was owned by Quong Po before Qin Feng's rebirth.

Hence, it was indeed a coincidence.

Meanwhile, the appearance of Quong Po had drawn everyone's attention toward him, everyone was focusing on the B-tier aptitude user.

It was because the more the aptitude user practiced, the more time they had to spend, hence, every high tier aptitude user was idolized and revered by aptitude users from the lower tier.

It was like D-tier aptitude users that looked up to the C-tiers, and C-tier aptitude users who had immense respect toward the B-tiers.

Hero class would be driven by their dominance and arrogance, and with their overwhelming capabilities, they would often neglect the pace of advancement of the ordinary humans.

However, despite Qin Feng's capability that was on par with a B-tier, he was still wearing his C-tier aptitude user badge and remained being recognized as a C-tier, but he could not pay his respect toward that person.

"Everyone, I'll just be frank, I am going to head toward the thirteenth region to look for someone, if any of you think that you are capable enough, you may just accept the mission, and I will only wait for three minutes!"

The three-minute wait began as soon as Quong Po switched on his watch, however, with such a lucrative reward tied to the mission that only involved looking for someone else, there would definitely be someone that was willing to take the offer.

However, as soon as the location of the thirteenth region was mentioned, some hesitated.

"Thirteenth region? Isn't that the…"

Chapter 594: Entourage

The Dusan Basin was an insanely huge place. Due to a severe lack of landmarks in the area, the place was roughly divided into many different regions, with each region given a number. And right now, there was a huge den of poisonous monsters appearing in the thirteenth region!

The Blight Butterflies!

These butterflies were not powerful creatures. However, the pollen that their wings carried with them was highly poisonous to other creatures. To add more, these pollens were also potent hallucinogens.

"This place is quite dangerous!" Many frowned after hearing where the place was.

"Yea, I don't think I can handle this region too!"

"Just what kind of people are they recruiting for this task? No one can handle this place!"

As he watched everyone discussing the matter at hand, Quong Po's face turned grimmer by the second. He did not want to waste too much time here—in fact, waiting for three minutes was already reaching the limits of his patience.

Thus, he announced, "I will tag along. But know this! I don't want some wimps who only know to cower away in battle in this mission. I want proper men who can complete this mission with me! If you're coming, you better be an ability user. Why do you think I'm offering so much money for this, huh?"

After hearing what he had to say, everyone finally understood why the rewards for this mission were so great.

"Heh, General Quong! Don't you worry. I'm a wood-type ability user. Although I'm not too much of an outdoor fighter, I'm quite good at locating people."

A man stepped out from the crowd and volunteered.

"That's Yuan Xiaoguang! Hmm, this guy's good!"

"Hey, maybe we should try out this mission too! There's like 100 men here. So, there's bound to be someone who we could work well together!"

"Yeah, let's do it!"

As Yuan Xiaoguang joined in the party, the others started to tap on their communicator to join in the mission too.

Quong Po took a good look at Yuan Xiaoguang and said, "If we can find my daughter, I'll double your rewards."

Everyone was shocked after hearing this.

Quong Po's daughter was missing?

Qin Feng frowned as he saw many's interest was piqued in joining the party, seemingly not bothered by the dangers ahead.

The thirteenth region was a perilous place. Even Qin Feng himself did not want to step into that place for training. And Quong Po wanted to bring over one hundred C-tiers into that place? Who would be held responsible if anything went wrong?

Quong Po was too reckless!

Still, if he were to try to stop them, there was no way they would listen too! After all, Qin Feng was just one C-tier. There was very little one could do alone to change the course of action when the majority had made up their minds.

Thus, after giving it a thought, Qin Feng too decided to join in. Well, it would not hurt to do a good deed once in a while!

"Bai Li, you're coming too!"

"Okay!" Bai Li quickly registered to join the mission too. As she finished fiddling with her communicator, three minutes had passed. Even though not all one hundred men had joined in the party, there were more than half of them joining—about seventy eight men.

"Let's head out!" Quong Po did not wait any longer and led the party out of the lobby.

As they stepped into the plaza outside, the C-tiers summoned their transports one by one. In less than a minute, over seventy hover tanks appeared in the plaza. Then, they all tailed Quong Po's hovercraft out of the city.

In just 20 minutes, they had arrived at Dusan Basin. Due to its unique geography, this place was filled with flora and fauna. Of course, other than the wide varieties of plants and trees, there were a lot of venomous insectoids too. Some of these insectoids' hives even had poisonous cankers nearby too.

This place was indeed dangerous—even more dangerous than the swamps.

As the hover-tank parade flew through the huge grassland, something appeared to be spooked!

Whoosh!

A bright light beamed up from below and enveloped a hover tank.

Clank!!!

The hover tank's energy barrier was penetrated by the green light, cutting the tank in half!

Creak… Booom!!!

The hover tank exploded in an instant as it dropped on the ground!

The hover tank behind it stopped, blocking the others behind.

Qin Feng was behind that hover tank too; so, naturally he saw that green light too.

It was a C2-tier insectoid—Emerald Praying Mantis.

This thing was about two-meter huge. Despite its small size, the mantis was quite powerful.

Even though these creatures did not live as a colony, they tended to congregate in the same habitat. When one of them had appeared, there was bound to be several others showing up too!

Meanwhile, the aptitude user in that exploded tank was thrown out into the air. Due to being a C-tier, his internal energy had formed a barrier and shielded him from the explosion, ensuring his survival.

However, as he was thrown off, several Emerald Praying Mantises hopped out from the bushes too. When they hid in the bushes, due to their green-colored body it was quite difficult to spot them. However, as they leaped out, their bodies were sparkling with green shines under the sun.

"What?!" That aptitude user was shocked and went into a panic.

Even though he was a C3-tier aptitude user, death was most likely inevitable when he was surrounded by five of these mantises.

"Tiger Leap!"

The aptitude user yelled out loudly as his internal energy burst wildly. In the last moment, he did a flip mid-air and evaded a fatal blow.

However, all he was able to evade was the first two attacks. There was a third slash coming his way…

As an Emerald Praying Mantis waved its blade toward him, all that awaited him was for his energy barrier to break and then… like his tank, he would be cut in half.

Booom!!!

Suddenly, extreme heat burst toward both of them. In an instant, a fiery energy beam pierced through the Emerald Praying Mantis's head, burning everything above its neck.

Clank!

The scythe on the mantis's arm still landed on the aptitude user's body. Thankfully, due to its wavering momentum, the blade did not cut him open.

Pwooosh!! Boom! Boom! Boom! Booom!

Four fiery beams were shot rapidly, killing every single Emerald Praying Mantis that was trying to hunt down that aptitude user.

It was then, the others finally realized what just happened and started to fire their tank's weaponry or their powers at the mantises. Some ancient warriors even hopped down from their tanks to do a quick reconnaissance.

Thus, the Emerald Praying Mantises, especially the first one that cut down the tank, were blown to pieces.

"Phew! Thanks, mate! You totally saved my life back there!" The aptitude user approached Qin Feng to thank him.

"You're welcome. We're teammates now. You'd do the same for me too."

Qin Feng waved his hand at the aptitude user and leaped out from his hover tank to collect some Emerald Praying Mantises, throwing them into his pocket dimension.

It was then Quong Po too had gotten down from his hover tank too. After seeing the dead mantises, he took a careful look around. After seeing that no one had died from the encounter, Quong Po breathed in relief.

"We're now in the outer areas of Dusan. But we haven't reached the thirteenth region yet. Nonetheless, this place is still as dangerous as the other areas too. Come down from your vehicles. We're hiking from here. With our speed, we can reach our destination in no time!"

"Yes, sir! Come on, guys! Listen to General Quong!" Jiang Po called out to everyone loudly.

Thus, Quong Po's entourage got down from their hovercrafts. In an instant, over seventy C-tiers and D-tiers had grouped together.

It was like they said—the more people in a group, the more powerful and gutsy one would become.

After all, there were many C-tiers with them too. Not only that, there was also a B-tier leading them!

They feared nothing now!

Chapter 595: The Shinla Devils

Quong Po was rushing ahead quite anxiously—which was understandable since he was worried for his daughter.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Quong Po's throwing knives darted out, swift like shooting stars, as they were journeying onward. The man was quite strong and powerful. Each knife hit precisely on the Insectoids' heads. Even if they had not come out of their hiding, he was able to tell where they were by sensing their presence.

This was how a B-tier rolled.

After hiking for an hour, they finally reached the thirteenth region. The area had a huge ordinary-looking grassland, much like in other areas. There were also countless beautiful flowers blooming in the area too; however, there was weird vapor fuming above these flowers, radiating and glinting the colors of a rainbow.

As they saw the huge shrubs with the flowers about five hundred meters ahead of them, the party stopped their steps and put on their guard.

"I've come in a hurry so I haven't done much preparation for this rescue mission. If any of you have extra medicines and supplies, you can sell them to me. I'll delegate them to everyone." Quong Po said out loudly.

Jiang Po smiled. "General Quong, you are already going to pay us the rewards. So, we could not ask you to do more than that. Leave these trivial matters to us. It's just some herbs and medicines. We can handle them."

After saying this, Jiang Po took out a pill and swallowed it.

The others frowned as they looked at Jiang Po. What a bootlicker! Although they did not mind handling these things themselves, they did not like Jiang Po's brown-nosing attitude.

Of course, they were not going to ask for money anyway when they shared their supplies. However, Jiang Po's words made it sound like they were all greedy hyenas. As they rolled their eyes at Jiang Po, they waved their hands and said the general did not need to worry about them.

Many of them were C-tiers, meaning they all had great financial assets with them. Thus, it was quite natural for these guys to come prepared. Like Qin Feng, he always had some cleansing Lotus Seeds on him at all times. That was how they survived up until this point—always be prepared.

"Alright, I'll leave these to you all then. Let's go!" Quong Po nodded.

The party of seventy men clenched their antidote herbs firmly in their hands as they ventured into the thirteenth region. As they walked slowly into the place, Qin Feng suddenly frowned as he turned his head.

"Watch out!" Qin Feng took Bai Li's hand and walked into a shrub of flowers.

Meanwhile at the top of a hill about one thousand meters away, several guns were aiming at the party.

"Oh, look! About seventy prey for us! Nice!"

A curve of grin beamed up on the leader of these goons.

One of the snipers frowned. "The aptitude user behind the whole team seemed to have noticed us. Just now, I saw him glancing in our direction."

"That's impossible. Diran has already used his conscious energy to conceal us. No one can see us."

"Yeah, Diran was a prodigy back then. He's 28 years old this year and yet he's already reached C5-tier. His powers are not on the same level as the other ordinary aptitude users. He's at least a king-tier! These men would never see us coming!"

"Yeah, and that kid hasn't even matured yet. He might not even have pubic hair yet! Haha! This boy must be trying to woo that girl there!"

"How pathetic! He doesn't even know what danger lies ahead of him. Haha! Perhaps holding that girl's hand is all he could do before he dies!"

These men started to laugh out loudly as they mocked at the "kid".

Yet, they seemed to have missed one crucial point. This "kid" was young indeed; but how did he reach C-tier and join this party? If this boy was a prodigy too, then he could very well also be a king-tier himself.

Meanwhile, Qin Feng was thinking to himself as he tailed behind the party.

'Hmm, it seems that the rumor about Quong Po clashing with the Shinla Devils is true. Word had it that these villains cornered and murdered his daughter… Hmm, does Quong Po know what's going to happen? Heh, still… slaughtering members from a dark organization outside of the Human Alliance could yield a lot of goodies!'

A curve of smile beamed up on Qin Feng's face.

His real reason for joining the party was of course not just to rescue Quong Po's daughter—it was because he remembered something from his previous life.

Besides, his internal energy needed just a little push before he could ascend again.

Ascending by killing enemies was always much faster than any rigorous training.

Qin Feng needed to ascend fast. So, this was for the best.

"This place is too huge! Let's split up!" Quong Po said.

"Wait, General Kong! I found something!" Yuan Xiaoguang announced loudly. Then, in an instant, several vines grew from the grass, carrying a piece of cloth.

It appeared to be a dark crimson jacket, one that seemed to be made of good quality materials.

Quong Po's face turned grim after seeing it.

"That's my daughter's jacket!"

"Found her!"

"Yay! Wow, so easy, huh?"

The others did not expect things to go so smoothly. They were also relieved that they did not need to split up. After all, this place was quite dangerous.

"Yuan Xiaoguang, where did you find this? Show us!"

"Sure, follow me!"

The party then followed Yuan Xiaoguang into the deeper parts of the area. The mist grew thicker and thicker as they ventured deeper.

Suddenly, in the mist, there was a faint glint of light.

"Wow! Pretty!" Bai Li's eyes glimmered when she saw it.

A beautiful butterfly appeared before them. As it fluttered its pearly white wings around, it looked like it was dancing gracefully in the mist.

"Careful!"

Everyone's face turned grim.

It was a Blight Butterfly! The fabled silent killer in the thirteenth area.

Then, several more butterflies appeared and danced together with the first butterfly. These Blight Butterflies were as huge as a washing basin. Their movements were not fast as they fluttered around gracefully, like they were dancing in a ball.

Despite their frail appearance, these butterflies were C-tier insectoids—all thanks to their poisonous pollen.

After seeing more and more Blight Butterflies appearing and dancing together in the mist, all that everyone felt right now was terror.

Even Bai Li was frowning when she saw this.

Then, the mist around them started to get thicker by the second!

"We must act now. We can't wait it out or else we'll all be poisoned!"

Some men were already feeling light-headed and quickly gulped down their antidote herbs.

However, Qin Feng did not feel much effect from the Blight Butterflies' pollens—this was probably due to him having consumed cleansing Lotus Seeds before.

Yet, these butterflies… they were so annoying.

Thus, with a pinch of his conscious energy, Qin Feng summoned his Fire Dragon.

Bai Li anxiously said, "Hey, don't burn them all to crisp! I want to use some of these butterflies to make myself a pretty dress!"

Bai Li stared at Bai Li speechlessly.

'Sometimes, it's quite difficult to understand just what Bai Li's thinking.'

Still, Qin Feng called back his Fire Dragon. It was a good idea to not reveal his hand for now. As such, he summoned his pocket dimension and pulled out a saber.

It was not the Verdant Emperor Saber. It was just an ordinary rune saber.

Still, the saber had some silver glints on its blade—it was the runes of a beast king.

"Burning Sword Glare!"

Voooom!

As his internal energy rushed into the saber, the silver blade became sharper than before.

"Dragon Steps!"

In less than a second, Qin Feng had dashed into the middle of the Blight Butterflies' ball.

The Blight Butterflies seemed to have been spooked as they fiercely fluttered their wings.

"Whooosh!"

In an instant, wild winds started to blow!

Chapter 596: Splitting Up

Fierce wind blew as the Blight Butterflies slowly and forcefully fluttered their wings. These butterflies were using wind runes!

Thud Thud Thud Thud!

The wild wind crashed onto Qin Feng's energy barrier but they could not break it. Qin Feng's energy barrier was formed from his internal energy, after all. And his internal energy was quite powerful now.

In the blink of an eye, Qin Feng had reached the Blight Butterflies and his blade landed on a butterfly in one swing. This slash had one percent of his internal energy in it—thus, the Blight Butterfly was cut in half like butter.

This was easy for Qin Feng; but it was quite impossible for the others to do that.

After all, his one percent of internal energy was like one-tenth of the internal energy of any other C9-tier. Even though everyone in the party were of different tiers, they would usually opt to conserve their internal energy unless needed. To them, their internal energies were quite limited.

Qin Feng, however, had a lot of internal energy to spare.

Pffft! Pfft! Pffft!

Qin Feng slayed three more Blight Butterflies in the next second.

After witnessing him doing this with ease, the others were stunned. Since when were Blight Butterflies this weak?

Thus, an ancient warrior stepped forward and slashed his sword at the butterflies too. However, his energy barrier was crushed to pieces as the C-tier insectoids' wind blades landed on him.

Kreeesh!

One of the wind blades landed on his body, cutting his body open and sending him flying into the air! His blood started to drip out of his combat suit. In a few seconds, potent venom started to spread across his body.

White foams started to bubble from the ancient warrior's mouth as he lay on the ground motionlessly.

The Blight Butterflies' poisonous pollen was no joke!

"Be on your guard! Don't rush in recklessly!" Quong Po commanded.

Then, he started to inject his internal energies onto his throwing knives before hurling them out.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Several dozens of throwing knives darted out and slashed through the air, pinning a dozen of the annoying butterflies.

The others were delighted when they saw this. They had a B-tier with them; so, there was no need to worry too much.

After recovering their confidence, the aptitude users started to calm down.

Indeed, these Blight Butterflies were terrifying. However, they were no weaklings either. Thus, they worked together to attack the insectoids and kill them one by one.

After a few minutes, the butterflies were all slayed.

The unlucky ancient warrior too was saved after one of the aptitude users injected him with his antidote.

After the battle, everyone naturally noticed Qin Feng's capabilities. This boy was able to kill more than thirty Blight Butterflies alone, showing that he was quite formidable. Even Jiang Po, who looked down at him, was staring at Qin Feng with his mouth wide open.

'No wonder General Xu Qing was trying to recruit this young man. He's really good!'

As he was thinking to himself, Jiang Po started to feel a sting of jealousy. Qin Feng was strong and powerful; so, it was quite natural for Xu Qing to take notice of him. Yet, he had served all these generals earnestly all his life! And the general never praised him, ever. This made Jiang Po upset.

Of course, given the situation at hand, Jiang Po could not afford to entertain these thoughts. He quickly collected the loots and handed them to Quong Po before continuing to journey on.

Bai Li, on the other hand, was pouting. The Blight Butterflies were all collected by Jiang Po and now in Quong Po's hands! Noo!! Her butterfly-wing dress!!!

"Hey, chin up. When we complete our mission, we could ask him for the materials. Even if he doesn't give them up, we could still head back to the markets in Dusan Central City. Surely there's someone selling these butterflies' wings. And it's quite usual for a raiding team like this to split their loot after the mission. See? We did the same too back when I was leading the ultra beast hunts. Remember?"

Bai Li lightened up after hearing this. "Hmph! Of course I know that. What? You think I'm a child?"

"Well, you are actually still a child!" Qin Feng smiled.

"No… I'm all grown up now!" Bai Li muttered to herself.

As they were talking, Yuan Xiaoguang found another dark crimson cloth in the area. However, he had spooked another wave of Blight Butterflies when he picked it up.

The party then spent a dozen minutes battling the butterflies.

When they found the third dark crimson cloth, everyone frowned. They looked at one another, wanting to say something but dared not to.

Seeing that these people were not talking, Qin Feng did not want to waste time anymore. He knew someone was watching them in the dark. If they kept on searching like this, this would yield very little result other than getting more Blight Butterfly materials.

"General Quong, something's off. Even if your daughter had accidentally stepped into the thirteenth region, there's no way her clothes would be slashed to pieces like this. The Blight Butterflies don't have abilities to do that. Even if they could, there is no way they would leave the pieces of the jacket like this and not leave any trail of blood." Qin Feng made his deduction to Quong Po.

Yuan Xiaoguang seemed to agree, "He's right, General Kong. I haven't found traces of blood so far. I'm afraid this could be a trap!"

Quong Po frowned. "I've received Quong Ting's message that she's stuck in the thirteenth region. However, there was no clue as to where exactly she was. Even if these clothes were not cut off by the insectoids, these could be the traces that Quong Ting left behind when she fled from them!"

"If I remember correctly, the entire thirteenth region is covered by the communicator network. General Quong, can you still detect your daughter's signal?" Qin Feng suggested.

After hearing this, Quong Po's face turned grim. In fact, after receiving the message, he was not able to connect to her communicator at all.

"If that's the case, I'll head deeper into the thirteenth region and search for her. It's best that you bring the rest of the party out of the thirteenth region for now, Sir. They are all worn out."

It was true. Some of these men had started to show symptoms of hallucinating and not able to focus their conscious energy. It was clear that they were tired and starting to feel the effects of the thirteenth region's mist.

Quong Po hesitated as he looked at his men.

He had gathered this many people because he knew that the thirteenth region was quite huge. As such, with this many people, they could split up and search for his daughter. Yet, from the moment they found traces of his daughter until now, everyone was still sticking together. Despite that, they still faced a lot of trouble handling the Blight Butterflies.

It had been three hours since they first stepped into the thirteenth region and they yielded no results. Not only that, these men were exhausted.

Seeing Quong Po frowning, Yuan Xiaoguang suggested, "How about I go with him? I could aid him in his efforts too."

Qin Feng took a glance at Yuan Xiaoguang. This man was a wood type ability user. With him by his side, traversing in the woods would be much easier. Due to the flora and fauna in the area, Yuan Xiaoguang might actually do better than Qin Feng at the right moments.

Not only that, the fact that he could communicate with plant life meant that it would be easier for them to search for any clues of Quong Ting's whereabouts.

"Okay."

Despite seeing Qin Feng's prowess in combat, Quong Po seemed to trust Yuan Xiaoguang more —after all, it was him that found all those pieces of his daughter's jacket.

Besides, Qin Feng was a newcomer in Dusan Central City. Compared to him, Quong Po had heard about Yuan Xiaoguang more since he had already attained some name for himself in the Dusan community.

Meanwhile, a camera was recording everything in the shadows.

It was an extremely stealthy tactical camera. Not spending much of his conscious energy to scout his surroundings, Qin Feng had not noticed it yet. Although Yuan Xiaoguang could talk to trees, these plant life was no human either—so unless the trees knew about technology, they could not tell him about the camera.

Thus, every single move that the party made was sent out to its recipients.

Chapter 597: Insidious Trap

"Looks like someone's foiled our plans. The situation hadn't gone as expected, and there's quite a number of people!"

"So what, who cares if there are more people? They're all just lambs for slaughter!"

"The beast lure has been set, ready cannons!"

"At once!"

"Wait for them to trickle out a bit more, lest the Blight Butterflies don't get scattered so easily. We might have to wait for a few days before we can go in and collect the spoils!"

"Haha, yeah but they've got a B-tier. We're gonna be rich!"

"I've checked this Quong Po person out already, if he rushes out he's not going to be a problem for me!"

"Yeah, Diran you're basically a king-rank and more importantly, Quong Po's power just so happens to be conquered by yours!"

"A perfect plan!"

While these people waited for Quong Po to return, Qin Feng and his people naturally headed deeper.

"Dark Shroud!"

As his consciousness was mobilized, a patch of darkness suddenly appeared around them and covered up the three people. Their surroundings became hazy but the perception of the Blight Butterflies were greatly reduced.

"You're also an ability user!" Yuan Xiaoguang was slightly caught off guard!

Qin Feng's previous fearsome display was eye-catching, Yuan Xiaoguang would have never imagined that Qin Feng did not just use ancient martial arts. When the ability appeared and the Blight Butterflies were deterred, he knew that it was far stronger than the ones casted by other dark ability users.

Qin Feng said, "Always keep aces up your sleeve. Come on, we should hurry. Something's not right, I'm worried that Master Quong might be in trouble!"

Yuan Xiaoguang chuckled nervously, "If Master Quong is in danger, then I doubt we can do much!"

Qin Feng did not seem to care but he did not refute Yuan Xiaoguang's words either and continued to press onward.

After reaching C-tier, their speed would improve as well. Yuan Xiaoguang's consciousness was strong and he managed to keep up with Qin Feng, who was moving forward with Dragon Steps.

"There's one here!"

"Over here too!"

"It's already too deep here, my heart's starting to pound. I feel like something bad is about to happen!"

They moved quickly and in less than ten minutes, they found two pieces of a combat uniform. However, they found no traces of Quong Po's daughter.

By now even though they knew it was a trap, they had to see it through till the end!

"There's another one here!" Yuan Xiaoguang's consciousness detected another piece of the combat uniform. It was hanging from a bundle of thorny vines. Yuan Xiaoguang pulled in a vine from a distance with his consciousness to pluck the piece of cloth away.

"Wait!" Qin Feng's expression shifted as he tried to stop Yuan Xiaoguang.

It was too late, his consciousness moved too quickly and the controlled vine had already taken the cloth.

On the cloth, an invisible thread snapped as it was plucked off. Suddenly, something hidden ten meters away from them quickly burst.

Bang!

The power of this explosion was not that great, it was only about three meters in diameter but there was no trace of fire in this explosion. The only thing that indicated its blast zone was a dusting of white powder.

"What's that?"

Yuan Xiaoguang was shocked!

"Beast lure powder!"

Qin Feng immediately blurted out the name. This was a trick used by the Dark Coalition. He had encountered this before his rebirth, and this was the first time he was actually caught in one.

Yuan Xiaoguang's face was drained of color.

It was unclear how strong this powder was, but he knew that he had made a dire mistake and this was the kind of mistake that could lead to his death!

"Run, we need to run!" Yuan Xiaoguang said.

Qin Feng grabbed the other's shoulder and said in a hushed voice, "Calm down, I'm a dark ability user. What are you afraid of?"

Qin Feng used comforting words. It was not very effective.

The powder was carried through the wind and very quickly the entirety of the thirteenth region felt like it was being shaken up by people.

At this moment, from a valley thousands of meters away, in an area packed with all kinds of what looked like massive silkworm chrysalis, burst out a swarm of Blight Butterflies.

These butterflies were a sight to behold with their magnificent, fluorescent colors that seemed to make them glow.

However, their numbers were constantly increasing.

One thousand, two thousand…

Three thousand, five thousand…

They were starting to reach an unimaginable number.

"Run away!"

Qin Feng and his group of three began to make a break for it.

'That Shinla group is ruthless!'

If Quong Po and the others were here, even if Quong Po managed to escape, the others would not have made it out alive.

"Holy- that's a lot!"

Yuan Xiaoguang's face had turned pale by now, his consciousness stretched all the way to its limit.

By now, there was a strong wind blowing around them. Among that swarm of butterflies, a Blight Butterfly that was around five meters wide appeared.

"A Butterfly King, it's a king level insectoid beast!"

Yuan Xiaoguang was terrified beyond measure.

For a C-tier, C-tier ultra beasts were already hard to deal with, let alone a C-tier insectoid beast king.

One could kill a number of C-tiers in the matter of seconds, unless there was a B-tier present, it could not be defeated!

Whoosh!

Among the swarm, three more kings appeared.

The aura of the insectoid king was already very oppressive. Yuan Xiaoguang felt that it was hard to take another step forward, and not only that he could feel his consciousness rapidly declining.

Woom!

Qin Feng ran to his side and immediately used his internal force to envelop Yuan Xiaoguang. This made it easier for Yuan Xiaoguang to recollect himself.

By now, the three Butterfly Kings had already noticed Qin Feng and the others, and they immediately began to flap their wings.

A whirlwind was conjured out of thin air and within this swirling tornado, the powder that the butterflies carried were being mixed in. The tornado was full of toxins!

Yuan Xiaoguang's consciousness 'saw' this and he immediately shouted, "Not good!"

"Verdant Giant Wood!"

Yuan Xiaoguang's consciousness surged and behind them, a towering tree suddenly rose out of the ground!

A C-tier ability user, although he was fleeing in a hurry, his true power was definitely not weak.

As the tree reached more than twenty meters in the blink of an eye, it collided with the tornado.

Boom!

The tree was completely shattered but this ability prevented the tornado from getting closer.

It also attracted more Blight Butterflies.

The speed of the fleeing three was not as fast as the butterflies.

Or perhaps, Yuan Xiaoguang was not as fast as the butterflies and Qin Feng had not allowed Bai Li to whisk them away with teleportation yet!

Qin Feng did not intend on continuing to run.

By now, the butterflies were going to overwhelm them, looming over their heads like an unyielding tsunami about to crash into the beach and wash the people still on it away.

"Looks like you're going to have to wait longer for that skirt you wanted from Master Quong!" Qin Feng sighed.

Bai Li locked onto the three beast kings and said, "No worries, beast kings are better. Leave those three to me!"

"Okay!"

As soon as Qin Feng was done talking, he stomped his foot on the ground and his consciousness abruptly burst forth.

"World Aflame!"

A huge roaring flame suddenly burst out around him.

Everything within a hundred meters turned into a world on fire. The ground was covered with magma that erupted upward, and soaring over these pillars were flaming dragons and fiery birds!

The world had been set aflame!

Chapter 598: The Butterfly Emperor

The screeching whirlwind rushed over and was instantly consumed by the fire. The wind only blew to make the fires stronger, causing the World Aflame to unleash an even greater power.

A red cloud appeared in the sky before large gouts of flame began to rain down from it, showering the Blight Butterflies with fire and even burning away the mist that lingered in the air. Everything was burned away by this intense heat.

There were no more toxins in the air.

The beautiful Blight Butterflies fell into the magma below and were burnt to a crisp.

There seemed to be dozens to hundreds of them getting killed off each second!

Being killed off at this rate meant that no matter how many butterflies there were, none of them would have been able to resist this level of annihilation.

Qin Feng felt a continuous flow of energy seeping into his body, strengthening his physical form and consciousness.

Although the Blight Butterflies were not physically strong, they definitely contained a lot of energy.

Yuan Xiaoguang, who was standing nearby, was completely dumbfounded by this. The only area that was not affected by the Fire Wall was the patch of ground they were standing on!

He watched magma flow around him, the flaming clouds above densely packed together as fireballs rained down from the sky. Yuan Xiaoguang's attention eventually landed on Qin Feng.

As an ability user, he naturally knew how strong one had to be in order to be releasing such a powerful ability.

"This ability, World Aflame, is just like World of Trees. Until now, I've never understood the runes for World of Trees, not only that, it takes too much consciousness to control. How many seconds can he manage?"

One minute later, Yuan Xiaoguang thought he was almost done.

Five minutes later, he was looking at Qin Feng in a different light.

Ten minutes later, he was absolutely shocked.

Qin Feng's power had completely exceeded Yuan Xiaoguang's expectations.

Among the flames, besides the Blight Butterflies, there was only Bai Li!

She was shrouded with spatial runes, moving freely and unpredictably. In the next moment, she appeared next to a Butterfly King.

Whap!

The Spatial Whip struck, ripping open spatial cracks that had formed into a large black mouth that swallowed the Butterfly King's abdomen.

Crack!

The wound caused by the spatial rift tearing away the Butterfly King's abdomen began to flow with a yellow-greenish liquid.

"I didn't expect you to be so pretty on the outside, yet so disgusting on the inside!" Bai Li said, unleashing her spatial ability as she continued to tear away at the Butterfly King.

The two other kings came to attack, but she escaped once more.

She instantly reappeared behind the injured Butterfly King, lifting both her hands to manifest a pair of beast-like claws with each grabbing onto the Butterfly King's wings!

"Die!"

Riiip!

The Butterfly King was split in half, its body torn asunder.

Even its previously hidden crystal core had fallen out.

Bai Li used two spatial blades to slice off the Butterfly King's wings and sent its remains tumbling into the lava below. The wings were then stuffed into her own space.

Her ferocious battle was seen by Yuan Xiaoguang, and for a moment he could not believe what he was seeing.

A beast king that could level a small city had been killed, just like that!

It was not surprising. Bai Li was a beast emperor. Whether in terms of rank or species, there was no way that these kings could match her.

Using the same method, Bai Li quickly dispatched the other two Butterfly Kings and stuffed the materials they dropped into her space.

Once the three kings were dead, Qin Feng summoned up Magma Pillars to take down the butterflies that were fighting the fire dragons and fire birds. Half of the swarm had already been burned away.

The butterflies outside were still rushing in like moths to a flame that continued to burn no matter how many of them there were. An unyielding tide.

All of a sudden, a larger butterfly came into view.

Its wings were ten meters long and was decorated with a beautiful pattern that webbed over its wings. They were pink with blue highlights, and were far more extravagant compared to the other butterflies.

As it flew, it led countless butterflies toward Bai Li.

"Beast emperor!!!"

Yuan Xiaoguang originally thought that they had a chance of winning but right then, after seeing such a creature his legs became jelly.

The pressure of the beast emperor weighed down on him. Even the flames around it seemed to recede.

This was a C5-tier beast emperor.

Only a little bit weaker than Bai Li, but still powerful in its own right.

It was because of this female butterfly that the thirteenth region was so terrifying.

Whoosh!

The wings of the Blight Butterfly Emperor swept up a blue-colored whirlwind, kicking up the surrounding fog once again. Except this was not fog, it was butterfly scales.

"Ah!" Yuan Xiaoguang's eyes suddenly turned red as he looked to Qin Feng.

"Run, quick! The Butterfly Emperor is here!"

Countless images flashed before Yuan Xiaoguang's eyes. The moment the Butterfly Emperor appeared, Bai Li clashed with it at the cost of her life. In the end, Qin Feng managed to kill it but sustained massive injuries to his body.

Just as they escaped danger, a group of black-cladded individuals appeared out of nowhere and immediately killed the weakened Qin Feng, stealing the Butterfly Emperor's crystal core in the process.

"You! You actually killed him!"

"You're not gonna get away!"

Yuan Xiaoguang roared and charged toward the people in black.

In reality, the person Yuan Xiaoguang was attacking was actually Qin Feng.

Qin Feng knew that Yuan Xiaoguang had been poisoned and easily sidestepped his attack. His internal force burst forth and tapped the side of Yuan Xiaoguang's neck.

The man immediately crashed onto the ground and was out cold.

Qin Feng dragged Yuan Xiaoguang back to where he originally stood with his consciousness and enveloped themselves in his internal force. The surrounding flames continued to burn, clashing with the flurry of butterfly scales that came down on them like a blizzard.

His line of sight was filled with flickers of white trying to overpower red, energies clashing with one another.

He finally locked onto the Butterfly Emperor's position.

"Bai Li, trap it!"

Qin Feng called out.

She naturally understood what he meant.

"Spatial Lock!"

In an instant, the Butterfly Emperor was completely sealed in a space!

Qin Feng raised his hand and the energy of the Sacred Armor immediately burst out!

Bzzt!

A ray of light streaked through the flame, piercing through the coat of white as it approached the Butterfly Emperor!

Bai Li immediately released her lock.

Boom!

A burst of light shone through!

The flurry around them seemed to stop, everything around them seemed frozen, even the powerful Butterfly Emperor in the air.

It turned out, the powerful Butterfly Emperor was split in half!

The Butterfly Emperor had been slain!

A terrifying energy flowed out and at this moment, Qin Feng felt a familiar aura emerge.

His physical form had reached a limit and he had just ranked up!

C5-tier physical strength!

His consciousness had also skyrocketed, the surrounding flames flared up with renewed intensity and burned away all the scales around them!

The Butterfly Emperor's aura had disappeared and when the Blight Butterflies realized that something had gone wrong, they all fluttered their wings and scattered as fast as they could.

Chapter 599: Quong Po's Weakness

Even if these Butterflies wanted to escape, Qin Feng would not have let them.

"Dissipate!"

Qin Feng called back the World Aflame, extinguishing the fire around him and leaving his surroundings a charred wasteland.

"Bai Li, grab him!"

He directed a finger toward Yuan Xiaoguang and Bai Li wrapped her consciousness around the ability user to carry him aloft. It was then Qin Feng unleashed his next move.

"Decaying Rain!"

As his consciousness began to shift, dark clouds gathered in the sky and rained down a storm of black inky liquid that drenched the bodies of the fleeing butterflies.

Massive holes began to appear in their wings as they were eroded away.

He pulled out the Verdant Emperor Saber and charged at the flightless Blight Butterflies, immediately slashing through the ones within reach.

For a thousand meters, the ground was littered with the bodies of those butterflies and not far away was the home base of these creatures.

Their nest!

An insectoid's nest was the largest threat one could find in the Dusan Basin. Destroying one would yield a reward that was worth between 5 trillion to 10 trillion!

This amount of money was the equivalent of the material received from slaying a B-tier beast emperor.

However, a C-tier beast emperor would require the joint effort of four to five B-tiers in order to defeat it. After the money was split, it did not seem like much. As for a C-tier, any kind of beast emperor was terrifying to deal with.

As such, while Bai Li might make killing a beast emperor seem easy, anyone that tried to take on one alone or with just one of their friends would end up very dead.

Qin Feng turned on his communicator's video recording function and pulled out a few heavy artillery from his spatial rune equipment.

Yuan Xiaoguang had been knocked out earlier, as such Qin Feng was able to freely use the Sacred Armor's power. It would be best if nobody found out about the powerful trump cards that he carried on his person.

That was why he could not use the Sacred Armor if he wanted to film himself shooting the insectoids.

"This is my chance to advertise for the Fengli Organization!" The cannon Qin Feng pulled out was like a tank's cannon. The diameter of the gun spanned about one or two meters. It was big enough to squeeze a person or two into it.

He loaded a two-meter long missile into it and aimed at the insectoid nest.

With a squeeze of the trigger, the missile screeched its way toward its target.

His consciousness accelerated the missile just before it collided with the nest.

The nest traveled one hundred meters deep into the ground and spread out into a wide area.

"Explode!"

Qin Feng used his consciousness to detonate the missile.

BOOM!

An explosion rang out in the distance, like a clap of muffled thunder as the ground in front of him began to collapse inward.

Rumble rumble!

As the ground collapsed, the insectoid nest was completely destroyed.

"Ability, absorb!"

His consciousness moved and spread into the insectoid nest below, consuming the auras of the dying beasts deep underground.

His physical body began to enhance, moving one-third closer to becoming C6 tier while his consciousness had almost become C6-tier.

'Gunners will definitely become a powerful class in the future!'

Qin Feng looked at what he had done and thought to himself, especially after he had acquired so much technology.

Now that those A-tier families had begun to research ways to become more powerful, so why would he not do the same? Many extremely powerful firearms and weapons had already been produced by him.

"The problem is that the battlefield is hard to sweep through. Loot might be destroyed as well!"

Special materials that contained runes were not easily destroyed, but since the insectoids had all been crushed underground and Qin Feng did not have any extra manpower to assist him, he could not retrieve them.

"Bai Li, scan for beast general crystal cores and retrieve them!"

"Understood!" She mobilized her consciousness over the insectoid nest while Qin Feng cleaned up the Blight Butterflies who managed to escape the destruction of their nest.

At this moment, there was a distant explosion which surprised him.

He scanned the location of the insectoid nest but could not find the blast zone of the new explosion.

Rumble!

When he heard another sound, he immediately realized what just happened.

"Not good!"

He turned his head in the direction and saw a thick column of smoke rising in the horizon. Obviously a battle had occurred there.

A battle covered by artillery bombardment.

"The Shinla Devils!"

Qin Feng knew it had to be them!

"Bai Li, let's go!" Qin Feng said with urgency.

Bai Li waved her hand and caused more than sixty beast general crystal cores to appear in front of her. These were the ones that she managed to find and there were still more that were too late for her to seek out.

Soon, Qin Feng and Bai Li, as well Yuan Xiaoguang in his still unconscious state, instantly appeared a thousand kilometers away.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

They had managed to cross a distance of a thousand kilometers with great speed.

Within half a minute, they managed to reach the scene where the battle was taking place.

However, this was not a battle between the Shinla Devils and Quong Po's group. It was Quong Po's group against a swarm of Blight Butterflies.

Besides that, Qin Feng picked up a familiar scent.

Beast lure powder!

The Shinla Devils had a very simple way of doing things. They used special bullets and long-range guns to attack. These long distance ammunition would be easily deflected by powerful consciousness barriers, as such those were not used. It was due to distance being the issue, meaning that the consciousness that guided them would be weaker and make them easier to deflect.

As such, they used bullets that could not be blocked the normal way. When it was hit by an opposing force, they would instantly explode and scatter thick smoke, covering the area with beast luring powder.

The insectoids lurking around would naturally be attracted by the powder. Even if Qin Feng had destroyed their nest, the Blight Butterflies were too numerous to completely destroy. So now, there were hundreds of people facing off against two hundred more Blight Butterflies.

While this would not be dangerous for this group, it was at this moment that the Shinla Devils revealed their fangs.

With artillery bombing the area, Quong Po and the others did not have any breathing room.

"We can't keep going on like this!"

"Where's that gunner?"

"If we don't have any covering fire we'll get surrounded by these butterflies!"

"Those bastards!"

The group's people cried out.

Quong Po assessed the situation and gritted his teeth, "You keep fighting, I'll kill those causing this!"

Before everyone else could react, Quong Po had already cut a path and rushed over to those responsible for the bombardment.

He needed to get rid of these gunners quickly!

Of course, Quong Po was not without his selfishness.

The opposition having planned this so meticulously, meant that they were the ones that kidnapped his daughter. Naturally, he wanted to rescue his daughter!

As he rushed out of the ring of butterflies, he was intercepted by someone else.

This person was the leader of the Shinla Devils, Diran!

"Bastard, where's my daughter?" Quong Po roared.

"Oh? Your daughter? Killed her!"

"Then you'll die too!" Quong Po yelled, sending out flying knives bursting with internal force with his hands.

Once these knives left his side, the internal force that controlled them were met with a force that overtook them, causing the knives to move as if they had a mind of their own and drained them

of their internal force!

Clang clang clang!

The knives collided with one another and fell onto the grassy ground, disappearing upon impact.

Quong Po might be strong, but his weakness was too obvious!

Chapter 600: Superior Technology

Those kinds of knives were low level items that were used to assassinate weaker enemies, or take down opponents when they were weak.

Once someone had reached the C-tier, whether it was a gunner or an ability user, their consciousness was a powerful deterrent against remotely controlled objects.

"Hah, what's this? Toys?" Diran let out a mocking laugh.

Quong Po was so angry that he could feel the blood in his body boil as it rushed to his head. He knew that this was a plot to get to him.

"If you think you can use your little tricks to take me down, then wouldn't that mean that you're underestimating me?" Quong Po sneered.

After that, he did not put away his throwing knives and held them in his hands as if they were daggers.

Diran's expression became serious. Although Quong Po was famously known for his throwing knives, and concealable weapons had too many limitations, it did not mean he had no other skills.

As an ancient martial artist, no matter which martial style Quong Po was famous for, his internal force was unfathomably powerful.

Whoosh!

Quong Po's figure disappeared at an extremely fast speed before moving close to Diran.

"Not good!"

Diran reacted quickly, runes bursting from all around him and surrounding himself with a thick earthen wall!

Diran was an earth ability user.

Quong Po's knives were wrapped with internal force, striking the wall with enough power to make it sound like explosives were going off outside of it. Very quickly, he had managed to dig a massive hole through the wall.

"I'm going to kill you!"

Quong Po swung his weapons toward Diran's neck.

In the blink of an eye, Diran's body began to change and the parts of his neck that were struck instantly turned into yellowish sand.

Quong Po did not look surprised, as if he had expected this and turned his head to look elsewhere.

Earth ability users had the power to generate sand. If they had enough time to prepare, they could make a body double of themselves.

What they were best known for was their ability to move the earth.

They could hide underground and burst out at any time to fatally wound their enemies.

Quong Po was on full alert. At this moment, a row of missiles shrieked over his head.

His lips twisted into a snarl. He had no time to care about Diran, there were other enemies he had to deal with. However, Diran would not let Quong Po go so easily.

"Hehe, I may not be able to defeat you but I can hold you back. When the time comes, when your subordinates and all the reinforcements they call are all dead, how would you be able explain all that to Huaxia's Human Alliance? If you let me kill you, then maybe we can get some value out of this?"

"Go to Hell!" Quong Po spat angrily.

He was helpless in his current situation, he could not get rid of Diran at all. This man was not just a C-tier, he was a C-tier prodigy!

This was someone who could defy all the odds.

Of course, Diran did not have enough power to take down Quong Po. All he needed to do was stall him. Once everyone that Quong Po was with had been killed, Quong Po would be a sitting duck.

Meanwhile, there was someone else who had been quietly approaching the battle.

It was Qin Feng!

He was hiding in the shadows, watching the battle between Quong Po and Diran. He knew that Quong Po had been ensnared by his opponent!

The situation did not seem too serious. Even if Quong Po had been tangled up, he was not in any immediate danger of dying.

Even if Qin Feng was not here, the Shinla Devils would still fail in their attempts, and so long as Quong Po's alive, his daughter would still be rescued. As for how many aptitude users of the Huaxia Human Alliance had died during this battle, that was completely unknown.

That was the guilt that Quong Po carried. After all, it was him who caused this crisis.

And now, the real threat was in the sky above them.

Swish swish!

At least a dozen missiles were flying through the air and the gunners currently being bombarded were unable to turn their immediate attention to what was coming toward them!

"Huh, that's pretty advanced tech they've got. I wonder how that compares to the current Fengli artillery!"

Qin Feng pulled out a hand cannon from his space.

The hand cannon was about one point five meters long and fifty centimeters in diameter. The back of the cannon was equipped with a device that charged it with energy!

Not only that, the cannon looked like something out of a dream. It was made out of a translucent material which revealed its internal workings and other bits of tech that comprised its insides. However, if one were to look closely, they would see that nothing seemed to make sense. It would have been difficult to reverse engineer this kind of weapon!

Qin Feng mounted the cannon onto his shoulder.

Clank!

He twisted the muzzle, causing it to change shape and split off into smaller cannon barrels. Up to six of them.

Hum!

Qin Feng held down the charge button and within a second, the muzzle began to fill up with a blue light.

"Go!"

He pressed the button again and six bolts of blue light shot into the sky.

It looked like a bunch of energy beams that shifted into a column of light. Without any other energy to propel it forward, it managed to chase after the missiles in the sky!

Energy in the form of light was extremely unstable. It was difficult to change its trajectory if it was not kept inside some kind of shell or casing. As such, a light beam that could be manipulated by the consciousness without extra help was a groundbreaking discovery.

The beam of light quickly streaked through the sky.

"What was that?"

In a distance, the gunners were taken aback by the sight of these six beams of light flying through the sky. It was something they had never seen before.

When they extended their consciousness to touch the beams of light, they were quickly pushed away by the violent force of the consciousness that controlled the beams.

Under Qin Feng's control, these beams of light instantly hit the missiles.

Boom boom boom boom!

The missiles were shot down!

The gunner that tried to push back Qin Feng's consciousness swore out loud, unable to accept what just happened, "Where the hell did that come from? I don't believe one guy can stop so many of us!"

Qin Feng was late to take action, the Human Alliance members were trying to survive the heavy bombardment and had no way of retaliating. Now that he had made his move, that would have confused the Shinla Devils in the midst of chaos.

Just as the gunner had finished speaking, a terrible thundercloud appeared from the area that was previously their blast zone.

Kroom! Crack!

Suddenly, a terrifying storm formed in the sky and swept away all incoming artillery and zapped those that it could not brush away.

Dozens of shells were getting intercepted.

The Huaxia Human Alliance members were naturally attracted by this deafening noise but when they looked up, they only saw clouds of smoke.

"What happened?"

"Is someone helping us? Who?"

With their consciousness, they quickly identified Qin Feng to be the one who was helping them.

The guy actually came back!

At this moment, Jiang Po of the Huaxia Human Alliance looked at Qin Feng with astonishment.

Even though they were surprised, that did not mean that the Shinla Devils would just stop.

"Again!"

"Kill them all!"

"You still want to resist? I'll blast you to pieces!"

Another round of missiles soared into the sky, but this time their angles were slightly adjusted to fly straight toward Qin Feng.

"Tch. These guys…"

Qin Feng did not use the energy cannon this time. Instead, he used his consciousness like it was a large net and locked onto the three incoming missiles.

"Reverse!"

In an instant, the consciousness originally guiding the shells was stopped!

Chapter 601: Saving Life

The missile changed direction in mid-air and turned back to its launch site.

"Sh*t!"

"Take cover!"

"It's too late now. Brace yourself!"

The members of Shinla were caught off guard by the abrupt change.

Some had fled, while others used missiles to stop the ones sent back by Qin Feng. A series of explosions rocked the hill they were stationed at.

Pew!

Through the black smoke, missiles that were not hit fell rapidly toward them. It was too late to try to stop it now.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The hill was heavily blasted.

Two members of the Shinla group were badly injured. The others managed to sustain the attack thanks to their runic equipment.

Qin Feng did not follow up on his attack because he knew that the enemy still had a trump card in their hands—Quong Po's daughter.

"Bai Li, wake Yuan Xiaoguang up. Then go and check on the hostage. If possible, get her out of their hands." Qin Feng ordered.

Bai Li transferred her energy to Yuan Xiaoguang through his neck. After the latter regained consciousness, Bai Li stuffed a cleansing Lotus Seed into his mouth.

Yuan Xiaoguang swallowed the seed reflexively and poison in his body was immediately cleared.

"Ah!!!" His head was in a lot of pain. When he saw Bai Li, Yuan Xiaoguang was terrified because he clearly remembered that she was already dead.

But he soon snapped back from his hallucination. He quickly grasped the current situation and got right back into the battle without asking any questions.

Qin Feng was busy dealing with the Blight Butterfly as well.

Click!

Qin Feng pressed on the switch once again and changed the muzzle form. The internal mechanism twirled and transformed the barrel into one with multiple same-size muzzles like a beehive.

He then pressed on the trigger.

Ratatat!

His energy cannon turned into multiple thin lasers being shot out from the firearm. Before a Blight Butterfly could respond, the band of blue lights had already blasted multiple holes through its body.

Qin Feng burst into speed and strafed the area with his weapon. The Blight Butterflies could not withstand the shots and fell one after another.

It was no doubt a weapon built for a massacre.

Few tens of Blight Butterflies were exterminated by Qin Feng in a heartbeat. His timely help greatly relieved the pressure on the entire team.

The other gunners were baffled as they had never seen such a cannon before.

They were now imagining owning one themselves. That way, they could kill multiple beasts effortlessly too.

"Fire! Kill them quick!" Qin Feng's urgent call brought them back into reality.

After exterminating almost half of the Blight Butterflies, Qin Feng left the rest to his comrades and sprinted up the hill.

The spot where the Shinla Devils were at earlier had fallen into total chaos. Among the disconcerted troop, Quong Ting, who had her suit torn apart, was visibly trembling in fear.

Schwaff!

Bai Li suddenly appeared right beside her. Immediately, spatial runes emerged and surrounded the two of them. They then vanished together in the blink of an eye.

The gunner who was guarding Quong Ting was stunned.

"… The bait has been taken! Get her back!"

"F*ck! Who was guarding her earlier? How could you lose sight of her?"

"Stop complaining and start looking!"

"She is there!"

"How could they run so fast?"

Bai Li did not get too far. She only teleported about five hundred meters away. Bai Li helped Quong Ting to untie the rope and wrapped her in clothes taken out from her dimension.

Quong Ting was obviously traumatized. She might be a D-tier aptitude user but could barely stay on her feet now.

"Time to go!" Bai Li grabbed Quong Ting's shoulder and dragged her toward Qin Feng.

Qin Feng saw them and sprinted to them at the same time.

Shinla had discovered the escapees and chased after them too.

Inevitably, they finally came to a head-on encounter.

Ratatat!

Qin Feng aimed his cannon at his opponents and bombarded them with rapid lasers.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

The laser hit on the internal force shield of the front-most ancient warrior and was deflected at first. But the "beehives" cannon could fire a few tens of energy bullets every second.

The internal force shield withheld the barrage for another two seconds and was done for. The blue lasers pierced through it effortlessly and landed on the ancient warrior's body.

"Eh?!" The ancient warriors sensed the danger and intended to retreat.

'It's too late for you to run now!' Qin Feng raised his right hand and elicited his internal force.

Asteroid Assimilation—Pull!

The ancient warrior had turned to run but was being hauled back uncontrollably. He was pulled to Qin Feng and his internal force gushed out as if the floodgate guarding his dantian was opened by force.

"My internal force! No!!!"

It had been sucked clear by Qin Feng.

"C2-tier?" Qin Feng was clearly unsatisfied. A C2 ancient warrior had only two energy pools.

It was like pouring a drop in the bucket.

Push!

Qin Feng exerted his force and pushed the ancient warrior away. The force was too great and directly shattered the poor man's stomach.

Poof!

The guy shrieked in pain and fell onto the grassland.

No one paid attention to him. Everyone else was busy lunging at Qin Feng.

Two ability users struck first.

Wood Tangle!

Two thick vines sprouted up from the ground trying to wrap around Qin Feng.

Iron Axe!

The other ability user was a metal-type. A giant and heavy-looking ax had appeared right on top of Qin Feng.

He would be badly injured if the ax were to land right on him while the vines rendered him immobile.

"Pfft! Child's play!"

Qin Feng sneered and triggered his ability. Fire combusted to life around him and instantly burned the vines down to dust.

As for the ax, it would never catch Qin Feng no matter how fast it came crashing down.

Blitz!

Blasters of other gunners fired simultaneously at where Qin Feng was at.

Qin Feng evaded dexterously and brought up his internal force shield.

Ratatat!

The blaster in his hand fired back rapidly.

Those from Shinla were in great despair.

"Who is this guy? Is he a gunner, or an aptitude user?"

"He even has internal force shield! Is he also an ancient warrior?"

"Monster!"

They did not have the slightest idea who they were up against. Such a battle was just a piece of cake to Qin Feng.

This was nothing compared to the fierce competition between the prodigies, as well as his near-death experience in The Perished Land.

'It's time to end this."

"Asteroid Assimilation!"

All the ancient warriors within sight had their energy extracted by Qin Feng.

Instantly, more than twenty ancient warriors were handicapped by Qin Feng's secret ability and unable to muster any resistance.

Qin Feng paced forward as the lifeless bodies of the Shinla group members dropped behind him.

He was no less than a Grim Reaper.

Chapter 602: The Internal Force of a B-tier

"Run, quickly!" The remaining members shouted in panic.

It was easy to kill them but Qin Feng decided to spare their lives.

"Bai Li, can you keep watch for me?" Qin Feng yelled.

"Don't worry. I will keep you safe!" Bai Li immediately deserted Quong Ting and went to Qin Feng's side.

"Thanks!" Qin Feng replied and sat down on the ground. He felt safe with Bai Li guarding him.

With his eyes closed, Qin Feng looked into himself and examined his dantian. Ample energy pools could be seen expanding steadily but there was a spot that appeared to be in dissonance. Those came from the energy Qin Feng had just absorbed from the ancient warriors of the Shinla Devils.

"Ability, absorb."

The internal force began to orbit and strengthen his meridian. Reconcentrated internal strength flowed through his consciousness realm and was then recycled back into his dantian, forming one pool after another.

In the blink of an eye, ten more pools had appeared in there.

Qin Feng had managed to amass a total of 997 pools of internal force now. The force was still being pumped into the dantian and yet another two pools had materialized. His dantian was bloated with force.

'Merge!'

Qin Feng activated Asteroid Assimilation, which formed a whirlpool at the center of his dantian.

The energy ponds were pulled in by it and merged with each other.

Ten ponds would be enough to form a lake-size force reservoir. Qin Feng's internal strength evolved in no time.

The primary lake formed effortlessly, which meant that Qin Feng had officially stepped into the B-tier realm.

After the first lake had formed, the remaining ponds merged quickly too. But Qin Feng's internal strength was simply too vast. It would take some time to convert all of them.

At the moment, most of the Blight Butterflies had been taken down by the aptitude users. They were all now heading Quong Po's way.

A grimace appeared on Diran's face. His comrades had already told him about the current development through consciousness transmission.

This mission was a total failure. They had suffered a great loss.

"Damn it!" Diran was livid. Ever since he became a top-tier prodigy and spent the past ten years climbing through the ranks, Diran had never experienced such a fiasco. This greatly irked him.

"I have underestimated you!" Diran said sarcastically. He evaded Quong Po's attack and sank rapidly.

He was trying to flee by blending into the ground.

"Mr. Quong, you wouldn't be so lucky next time. We will meet again."

Though he might not get another chance after today, Diran still wanted to provoke Quong Po one last time.

Quong Po was indeed enraged. Diran was only a D5-tier aptitude user yet Quong Po was always a step slower in their battle.

Diran's final insult only added salt to his wound.

However, seeing that others had begun to gather behind him, Quong Po could only keep quiet to preserve his pride. He watched on helplessly as Diran disappeared into the ground.

"Master Quong, are you alright?"

Everyone was looking at him. Though he was in a bad spot, Quong Po was barely hurt. He waved his hand and said, "I'm fine. Any casualties on our side?"

A water-type ability user stepped forward and said solemnly, "We lost three aptitude users. Some of us are hurt but we are good otherwise."

Quong Po, though a little upset, was relieved that the loss was rather minimal.

"It's my fault for being careless. For the deceased, I will take care of their funerals and widows. Others will get their respective reward as promised too."

"Master Quong, we knew the risk when we accepted the mission. Don't be too hard on yourself. You should go and look for Miss Quong. She is in safe hands now!" Jiang Po stepped forward and said courteously as if he was the one who had saved Quong Ting.

"Alright!"

Quong Po paced toward Qin Feng's direction anxiously. Quong Ting had regained herself by now. She was looking curiously at Bai Li, then at Qin Feng who was meditating inside the bushes.

"Ting!"

"Dad!" Quong Ting's eyes reddened and she dashed right into her father's arm.

Quong Po took a closer look at her. Quong Ting seemed fine except she was now covered in a large coat that clearly did not belong to her. He did not say anything and looked at her daughter sympathetically.

Quong Po then turned to the other two persons nearby.

Bai Li was currently checking the spatial equipment left behind by the dead Shinla members. There were perhaps some valuables left inside.

She immediately sensed Quong Po's sight.

"I owe you two a big thanks!" Quong Po gazed at Bai Li and was puzzled to find that she was only a C-tier. After all, he had witnessed first-hand how prominent this young lady was on the battlefield.

But then he thought about Diran and figured perhaps this beautiful lady was just another youngster with otherworldly talent.

"You are welcome. We are just doing our part. This is a mission, after all," Bai Li answered calmly.

"Good. You will get the pay you deserve for saving my daughter." He obviously intended to reward them more than he had previously promised. However, Bai Li did not really care about it and nodded inattentively.

Quong Po then turned to Qin Feng.

"This young man…" Quong Po could sense the fluctuating energy inside Qin Feng and he was stunned. The young man who was only a C-tier ability user not long ago had now owned the aura equivalent to a B-tier! How was that possible?

Nonetheless, the fluctuation appeared only for a brief instant and disappeared quickly. Quong Po was puzzled and wondered whether he had sensed it wrongly.

Obviously, it was Qin Feng's dark ability that had automatically concealed his true aura.

"My hubby is breaking through into the next stage. You all can leave first. We can get out of here by ourselves later." Bai Li said as she kept thinking about the Blight Butterfly cores inside their nest.

She was never wasteful no matter how tiny the power source was. There was still A-tier to achieve after B-tier. If they could not find a better power core then, these butterfly cores would do just fine.

"Dad, we should wait for them since they are my savior," Quong Ting pleaded. She was very grateful to the two who had freed her from the villains' hands.

"Yes, Master Quong. We should leave together like how we had come together."

"That's right. It's rude to leave them behind after all that they had done for us."

Many echoed the decision to stay and wait. On a closer look, most who had spoken up were gunners.

They were all enthralled by the blaster used by Qin Feng to attack the Shinla Devils. They wished to ask Qin Feng where to get it when Qin Feng had woken up.

Gunners usually designed their own weapons even after they had reached C-tier. Though the chance of Qin Feng selling his blaster was slim, they still wanted to give it a shot.

After all, Qin Feng was concurrently a decent ability user as well as an ancient warrior. He should give other gunners a chance.

While everyone waited anxiously, Qin Feng remained unmoved and finally opened his eyes half an hour later.

The ponds inside his dantian had been replaced by a denser lake. The size of the lake was ninety times larger than that of a normal B-tier ability user.

This lake gave Qin Feng the modal to gain newer heights.

Chapter 603

: Quong Po's Astonishment

"Sorry for the wait!" Qin Feng had retained part of his consciousness to observe the outside world during his meditation as a precaution. Thus, he was aware of their conversations.

People around him quickly said, "It's not that long. Glad to see that you are finally done."

"Congrats on your promotion!"

"You are exceptional for your age!"

Everyone was trying to befriend Qin Feng. Qin Feng responded to each of them politely and handled it better than Bai Li's monotone response.

Unlike the others, Quong Po remained perplexed. For a moment, he sensed that Qin Feng had entered B-tier. However, he now appeared as a C5-tier—only one sub tier higher than he was previously.

This was naturally due to Qin Feng's dark-type ability, which could mask his true strength.

For a C-tier ability user, it took at least one year to up one sub-tier. Some even spent ten years taking the next step. This greatly depended on talent, opportunity, and resources.

Gunners on the spot did not plan to let Qin Feng go easily. After the formal greetings, they went straight to the point and inquired about his weapon.

"If you all are really interested, you may contact my organization and place your order. I am not in charge of this personally but I do have a channel to have them delivered to me immediately."

The channel Qin Feng had mentioned was obviously the Battlegod Tomb. This showed how important it was to have a privately owned secret dimension.

Xue Xingfu could stock up the goods there directly from Fengli while Qin Feng could easily retrieve it wherever he was at.

"Mr. Qin already owns an organization?"

"You are the president of that Fengli Organization?"

"Fengli is well-reputed and has gained a lot of fame recently."

"Well, some of the blasters we offer may not be as powerful as the one in my hand," Qin Feng explained.

"Hahaha! Understandable!"

"Do you take custom-orders? I am willing to sign a confidentiality agreement and a peace treaty with your organization."

"That's right. We are also willing to pay a premium price for limited stocks. We will never turn on Fengli after getting the weapon. You have my word!"

The blaster in Qin Feng's hand was one of the most powerful ones Fengli had produced. These were reserved only for Fengli's members. The ones on sale were all inferior products.

This, of course, was to protect the organization. What if someone bought the powerful weapon and used it against them?

More so, Qin Feng had ordered for the weapon to be downgraded substantially. A better version would then be released sequentially, later on, a common practice used by businessmen.

After all, they were the only ones dominating the technology now.

Qin Feng had no intention to release his best weapons into the market. Regardless, the ones sold by Fengli would still be a lot better than those in their hands.

"Guys, we are still not completely out of danger. I will head out first and do the scouting. Let's talk some other time." He indirectly rejected their request.

That was a perfect excuse. They still had a long way to travel back to the city. This was not the time to talk about business.

They moved speedily as there were multiple injured combatants in the troop. Despite this, it still took them several hours and an insectoid swarm clearing before they reached Dusan Central City.

The aptitude users' attention had now switched from Qin Feng onto Quong Po. The latter worked on his communicator to complete the mission and confirmed the rewards.

Everyone was satisfied with their rewards and left one after another. Only Yuan Xiaoguang, Qin Feng, and Bai Li were held back by Quong Po.

"I owe you three the biggest this time. Here's a small gesture of gratitude from me."

Quong Po took out two types of herbs and passed them to Qin Feng and Yuan Xiaoguang.

The one given to Yuan Xiaoguang was a special plant that could enhance wood-type runes, while the ones handed to Qin Feng and Bai Li were two fruits that helped strengthen the physique. These items were equivalent to a C-tier beast king material.

"You want to eat this?" Qin Feng offered the fruit to Bai Li. Qin Feng did not need it since he could use his absorption ability directly on the beast to boost himself. Other than the cleansing Lotus Seed, most herbs had no use to Qin Feng.

Bai Li sniffed it and shook her head in disinterest.

Qin Feng thus put the two fruits into his spatial equipment. He then spoke freely seeing that people around them had disbanded, "Master Quong, I believe your power was being suppressed by consciousness when you fought the guy from the Dark Coalition earlier. I might have a thing to help you overcome that in my possession."

Quong Po, who was about to leave, was stunned. "What would that be?"

Qin Feng took out the Magical Tesseract and briefly explained its function. He then emphasized, "I am not going to elaborate how powerful an item would become after being processed by this tesseract. But rest assured, the item made by it would only match the consciousness of a single individual. On one hand, this is not good for business since I am unable to mass-produce weapons through it. On the other hand, it helps me greatly by prohibiting my enemy to gain control over my weapon."

For instance, as powerful as the Verdant Emperor Saber was in Qin Feng's hand, it was no different from a scrap iron if other people held it.

Quong Po was intrigued. "Is it as miraculous as you claim it to be?"

Quong Po's flying knife could easily be controlled by other ability users. Even some gunners could counter him easily.

If he had this Magical Tesseract, did it mean that he could unleash his internal strength as he wished? This would overcome his only shortcoming.

"Give it a try and you will know."

Qin Feng handed the tesseract to Quong Po and said, "So happen you have your flying knives with you now. Just place the knife and some materials in it, then it will start forging."

"That simple?"

Qin Feng nodded. Quong Po calmed his excitement and took out a knife. He added another material and the Magical Tesseract whirred into action to modify the knife.

When the flying knife re-emerged, it had lost its previous silver radiance and turned into a charred knife.

Quong Ting could not help but comment, "What has your tesseract done to my dad's knife? This is made from beast king material but the radiance has disappeared."

The knife was indeed made of beast king parts. However, it was from a C-tier beast king and did not really cost that much.

Quong Po had spent his entire life working on the flying knife technique. But recently he felt ancient art like such would soon be eliminated by the fast-progressing technology. He could do nothing about it.

He no longer felt the same after today.

"Don't simply chime in if you know nothing about it," Quong Po rebuked Quong Ting for her lack of manners. He rarely disciplined her in public, not even after today's incident. But the tesseract was extremely important to him. Neither he nor his daughter could afford to offend Qin Feng at this point.