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It has been two days since Fu and Ye Feng rescued Ye Long and his team. Ever since that day, Ye Feng has been quiet. Both he and Fu kept searching for the Zhang brothers team in order for Ye Feng to pay them back for almost killing his brother.
In these two days, whenever the two encounter monster beasts, they quickly kill all of them and dig out their monster cores from their corpses. They then continue their search for the Zhang brothers team.
Ye Feng was very furious because no matter where they searched for the Zhang brothers team, they couldn't find them anywhere in the forest. He was about to lose his mind from his anger. Fu noticed Ye Feng's mind state and how he was getting impatient.
He sighed at that, and he grabbed a bottle of water from his space belt, tossed it to Ye Feng, and said, "Relax; I am sure we will find them soon." Ye Feng caught the water bottle and yelled at Fu, "How can you say that? Ha, we don't even know if they are still in the forest." Fu sighed again at what he just heard from Ye Feng and said to him, "Calm down, brother Feng; you are a very smart person. Haven't you asked yourself why they targeted your brother and his friends in the first place? I am sure your brother doesn't have any grievances with the Zhang brothers; then why will they almost kill him and his friends? for what purpose?"
Ye Feng's eyes widened when he heard Fu's questions. He then calmed himself down and started thinking carefully about the questions that Fu just asked him. Fu noticed that Ye Feng was calm now, and he was thinking about what he just said. He nodded in satisfaction and said to Ye Feng, "In my opinion, the reason why they hurt your brother is because they want to provoke you; after all, you are the one who defeated them in front of everyone in the academy and won those pills from them; they want to pay you back for humiliating them in front of everyone in the academy."
Ye Feng's eyes widened in realisation, and Fu then said seriously to Ye Feng, "I warned you about Zhang Bo. Remember what I told you about the rumours I heard about him that he was like a snake? It seems these rumours were true."
Ye Feng calmed down and thought about what Fu just said. After a second, his eyes widened in understanding, and he said, "I am their main target in this forest." Fu smirked and nodded. "Exactly. I suggest we sit here and wait for them to come to us or go to the spot where we found your first brother and wait for them there." Ye Feng then stood up after drinking the water bottle Fu gave him and said, "We will go to the spot where we found my first brother." Fu stood up too, and then both of them started walking to the spot where they found Ye Long and his team.
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Zhang Bo looked at his team with a smile on his face and said to them, "Alright, it is time I get my revenge on Ye Feng. You will all be handsomely rewarded for all the help you will be giving me so I can get my revenge on him. I already gave you half of the reward I promised after we took care of his brother Ye Long; the rest of the reward I will be giving you after we dealt with Ye Feng."
The three team members smiled at Zhang Bo and nodded to him. All three of them are quite muscular and look very strong. All of them had short black hair. and sharp eye brows. They weren't handsome; they look very ordinary, but the air around them was very intimidating.
Zhang Wei looked at Zhang Bo and asked, "Third brother, how will we find Ye Feng? Today is the last day of the competition, and the forest is quite big; it is nearly impossible to find one person in this forest."
Zhang Bo looked coldly at Zhang Wei and asked, "Do you have a brain inside your skull, or is your head just for decoration?" The rest of the team chuckled at Zhang Bo's question, and Zhang Wei gritted his teeth in anger and hatred. He thought to himself, "This is all Ye Feng's fault if I hadn't lost to him and lost my pure cleansing pills. Zhang Bo will never keep humiliating me constantly, and this is my last chance from my father. If we weren't able to kill Ye Feng in the forest, I would be punished harshly by father. I don't want to know what kind of punishment I will receive if I fail." Zhang Wei trembled in fear at the thought of failing and receiving his punishment from his father.
"We left Ye Long and his team in a half-dead state in the forest. I am sure Ye Feng is either looking for us now or waiting for us in the same spot we left Ye Long and his team. Let's go to the spot we left Ye Long first. I have a feeling that Ye Feng is waiting for us there." Zhang Bo told his team, and the rest of his team nodded to him. They started walking towards the spot where they left Ye Long and his team.
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Ye Feng and Fu arrived at the same spot when they found Ye Long and his team in a half dead state, and they sat on the ground waiting patiently for the Zhang brothers team.
After three hours, the Zhang brothers team arrived in front of Ye Feng and Fu. Ye Feng and Fu stood up when they noticed the Zhang brothers team arrival. Zhang Bo sneered at Ye Feng and said, "Ye Feng, how is Ye Long doing? I hope he didn't die, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA." Zhang Wei and their three team members started laughing loudly along with Zhang Bo.
Ye Feng summoned his Blood Dragon Fang, and then he used his free steps martial skill. Zhang Bo's eyes widened, then he screamed in pain, "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH." Fu couldn't believe what he was seeing and thought, "Brother Feng actually dares to slice off Zhang Bo's leg." Then he smirked widely, "Things are getting interesting.".
Fu summoned his saint weapon and charged at the three members of the Zhang brothers team. He thought to himself, "I know brother Feng wants to deal with the Zhang brothers personally. I will deal with those three. I hope they give me a good challenge.". When the three saw Fu charging at them by himself, they sneered at him, and they summoned their own saint weapon. The tallest of the group was wielding a huge green blade as long as himself. The shortest of the group his saint weapon was a purple big hammer, and the last person saint weapon was a silver sabre. They all charged at Fu at the same time and started swinging their saint weapons at Fu.
Fu smirked when he saw this, and he too swung his saint weapon at them. "CLANK," the eyes of the three members of the Zhang brothers team widened because they were forced backward from the sheer force behind Fu swing. Fu charged at the shortest person in the group and swung the blunt side of his saint weapon at his face. The shortest person in the group wasn't ready to block because he was still surprised by Fu's innate strength and received the full force of Fu's strike. "CRACK," a sound of bone cracking, resonated in the area, and the person was sent flying. He slammed his back at the tree truck hard, and he spit out blood arrow from his mouth. His nose was broken, and he was bleeding heavily from it.
When the other two saw what happened to their friend, they became furious. They were blinded by the rage they were feeling right now, and they charged at Fu with their saint weapon in intent to kill him. They started swinging their saint weapon at Fu, and Fu countered their strikes with his own strikes: "CLANK, CLANK, CLANK, CLANK, CLANK, CLANK." Fu swings were quite heavy and strong; they couldn't maintain their grasp on their saint weapons, and finally, their saint weapons slipped from their grasp. Fu smirked when their saint weapon slipped from their grasp. He took advantage of the opportunity in front of him, rushed at them, and then swung the blunt side of his saint weapon on their faces "CRACK, CRACK." The sound of the bone cracking resonated in the area again, and they were sent flying; their backs hit the trunk of the tree, and they spit out blood arrows from their mouth.
Zhang Bo fell to the ground after Ye Feng sliced off his left leg. Zhang Bo's sliced-off leg fell motionless next to him, and he started bleeding profusely from his injury. Zhang Bo was crying in pain, anger, hatred and fear towards Ye Feng. Losing his left leg will affect his future cultivation tremendously. If any cultivator loses one of their limbs, it is considered fate worse than death because it will be extremely hard for them to advance their cultivation from now on, especially Zhang Bo because Ye Feng became his heart demon. Even by any sort of luck, he was able to convince a rank-seven Radiant Saint Master to treat his missing limb. He will not be able to advance his cultivation smoothly because of Ye Feng existence.
"You will pay for this. I will make sure everyone you care about is dead. Mark my word, your father, your mother, your siblings, your friends, and your lovers will die; just wait and see." Zhang Bo was yelling at Ye Feng like a mad man. Ye Feng narrowed his black eyes in anger after hearing what Zhang Bo just said and started walking slowly towards Zhang Bo while holding the Blood Dragon Fang tightly.
When Zhang Bo saw Ye Feng walking slowly towards him, he started to freak out. He tried to stand up to start running away from Ye Feng, but he failed every time he tried to stand up. It was very difficult for him to stand up using only one leg.
Zhang Wei was frozen in his spot. He was consumed by fear and wanted to run away, but he didn't possess the courage to move from his spot.
When Ye Feng was in front of Zhang Bo, he looked coldly at him, then swung his Blood Dragon Fang upward and sliced off his right arm from his shoulder. Zhang Bo screamed in pain, "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH." Zhang Bo's arm fell motionless next to him after Ye Feng sliced it off. Then Ye Feng kicked Zhang Bo square in the face and sent him flying. Zhang Bo hit the tree trunk hard and lost conciseness.
After dealing with Zhang Bo, Ye Feng turned his head and locked eyes at Zhang Wei, who was trembling in fear after seeing how viciously Ye Feng dealt with his brother. Ye Feng started walking towards Zhang Wei, and Zhang Wei started taking a couple of steps backwards when he saw Ye Feng walking calmly towards him. When Zhang Wei saw Ye Feng's cold black eyes, he started begging Ye Feng and knelt on the ground. He then said in a trembling voice while raising both of his arms, " w w we s sorry f f for h hurting g y y your b brother r r p please f f forgive u us". Ye Feng didn't reply to him; he just raised his Blood Dragon Fang and swung it downward. Zhang Wei screamed in pain. Ye Feng sliced off his right arm of his shoulder "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH.".
Fu just watched calmly at the scene in front of him after knocking out the three he was fighting. Zhang Wei's right arm. fell to the ground motionless, and Zhang Wei started cursing and threatening Ye Feng. "You bastard, how dare you? I am the fourth young master of the Zhang clan. I will not stand for this. I will make you pay. You will beg me for mercy, and you will crawl to my feet." Ye Feng narrowed his eyes, and then he swung his Blood Dragon Fang again. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH". Zhang Wei screamed in pain because Ye Feng had cut Zhang Wei's right eye.
Ye Feng then kicked Zhang Wei square in the face and sent him flying, just like he did with Zhang Bo. Zhang Wei hit the tree trunk hard and spat blood arrows from his mouth; he then fell unconscious.
After Ye Feng dealt with the two brothers, Fu started collecting the Zhang brothers and their teammates space belts. He then removed the flare formations from the space belts and tossed them to the ground.
After dealing with the Zhang brothers and taking revenge for Ye Long, Ye Feng felt himself lighter in heart, like a huge weight was lifted from his heart. He also felt like he could breakthrough to the fourth layer of the Saint Master realm at any time. He turned his head to Fu and said with a smile on his face, "Let's leave." Fu nodded and followed Ye Feng to leave this spot of the forest.
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Ye Feng and Fu were in an empty spot in the forest. Fu emptied the space belts they robbed from the Zhang brothers team. When Fu and Ye Feng saw the content of the space belts, they were speechless. The content of the space belts was like a small mountain. In front of them. There were a lot of different kinds of pills, food, water, wine, and monster cores. Fu then yelled in indignation, "What the hell? How could these bastards get more monster cores than us?" Ye Feng was also surprised, then he realised how the Zhang brothers obtained all these monster cores and said to Fu, "They probably stole the monster cores from other students." When Fu heard what Ye Feng said, he scowled. "Those bastards play dirty; I hate their type." Ye Feng chuckled but nodded to him.
Fu and Ye Feng started separating the items in front of them. Ye Feng's eyes widened in shock when his eyes landed on a pill bottle. He picked up the pill bottle and started examining the pills in front of him more closely. After confirming the type of pills inside the pill bottle, he said in a disbelieving tone, "I can't believe it; it is the Soul Nourishment pills." Fu looked confused and asked Ye Feng, "What are Soul Nourishment pills?" Ye Feng took a deep breath to calm his beating heart and said to Fu, "The Soul Nourishment pills are pills that can strengthen the soul of those who consume the pill and also help the soul grow by leaps and bounds. I read in the library that in order for a cultivator to breakthrough to the Heaven Saint Master, the cultivators need to cultivate the soul to a certain extent first before trying to breakthrough into the Heaven Saint Master realm.".
Fu widens his eyes in shock at what he just heard from Ye Feng. He counted how many bottles of Soul Nourishment pills they had, and after counting the bottles, he saw Ye Feng's eyes full of desire. He sighed and gave five bottles of Soul Nourishment pills to Ye Feng.
Ye Feng was surprised and shocked his head. "Thanks, Fu, but no, we made a deal. I can't take these pills from you. I always keep my word." Fu narrowed his eyes and yelled, "Shut up, Feng. You are my brother. True, we made a deal, but I would not have been able to breakthrough to the Saint Master realm if you hadn't given me the Saint Concentrating pills. Now it is my turn to help you. If you feel it is against your principle, consider it a loan then." Ye Feng felt warm in his heart when he heard this and nodded with a smile on his face. "Fine, this will be a loan, and I will pay you back later." Fu smirked and nodded.
Ye Feng then stored the five bottles of the Soul Nourishment pills in a separate space belt, and then he stored the rest of the monster cores inside the space belt he used since entering the Dragon Forest. Fu stores all the pill bottles in his own space belt, then gets rid of all the space belts he stole from the Zhang brothers team. After that, they decided to search for monster beasts for the remaining time they had in the forest.
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In a luxurious dwelling in the Azure Dragon Academy. Rou was setting behind a red curtain in the lotus position; the bottom half of her face was covered by thin red fabric, and she was wearing a red dress. The dress is elegant and luxurious; she looks like a fairy with the dress. She was cultivating diligently. Suddenly, she heard a knock on her door. She opened her eyes. and said with her soft and sweet voice, "Enter.".
A slim, muscular man with long silver hair wearing the academy staff uniform entered the dwelling and kneeled before Rou. "Princess, I brought the information you requested about the fifth young master of the Ye clan, Ye Feng, and about the headmaster's personal disciple, Fu." Rou smiled softly behind the curtain and said, "Good job, Senior Zhao.". Senior Zhao handed two scrolls to Rou. Rou extended her elegant, slender hand from behind the curtain and took the two scrolls from Senior Zhao. Rou saw Senior Zhao was still kneeling in front of her, and she raised her eyebrow. She then asked, "Is there something else you need to inform me, Senior Zhao?" Senior Zhao nodded. "Yes, my princess, you see, Ye Feng sliced off Zhang Bo's left leg and right arm in the Dragon Forest, then he sliced off Zhang Wei's right arm and cut his right eye. with his saint weapon.".
Rou couldn't believe her ears; her eyes widened in shock. She took a deep breath to regain her bearings and asked, "Why did he do that?" Senior Zhao answered her question truthfully: "His third brother Ye Long and his team were attacked by the Zhang brothers team, then they left Ye Long and his team in a near-death state.".
Rou nodded in understanding, and she started thinking for a couple of minutes. Then Rou made up her mind and said, "Announce to all royal family followers in the academy to protect Ye Feng from the retaliation of the Zhang clan followers." Senior Zhao's eyes widened in shock, and he asked, "Are you sure, princess? Our relationship with the Zhang clan is really stiff right now, and it may even get worse in the future if we follow this order. There is a chance our men will be at risk of being discovered by the Zhang clan. if we help him. We went through a lot of hard work to station them in the academy as undercover in order to expose those spies from Persian and Andreas. Also If words go back to the Zhang clan that our men protected the fifth young master of the Ye clan, our relationship with them will suffer even more." Senior Zhao took a deep breath and continued, "Don't forget the state of our kingdom; now a days, princess, we already have some skirmishes with the Persian Kingdom and Andreas Kingdom. We don't need internal problems right now inside our kingdom."
The princess nodded. "You are right, but what you don't know is that the Zhang clan had some dealings with the Andreas Kingdom and Persian Kingdom royal families." Senior Zhao stood up, enraged at what he just heard. He clenched his fist in anger and said, "How dare those traitors?".
The princes continued, "Even if we protect Ye Feng now from the Zhang clan followers in the academy, they will not dare to make their move against us because they fear the combined forces of the royal family and the other clans who are loyal to us."
She paused for a second and continued, "The Ye clan is a proud clan. When they hear what the royal family did to protect their fifth young master, they will side with us against the Zhang clan if they dare retaliate against us. I am sure the headmaster already knows that we implanted people in the academy. He is a good friend with the Ye clan head, and he will tell the Ye clan head that we protected Ye Feng. The Ye clan head will be grateful to us, and they will side with us against the Zhang clan if they retaliate against us as a way to repay our kindness for protecting Ye Feng." Senior Zhao's eyes widened in astonishment. "Incredible. She thought about this situation from every angle thoroughly. She also came up with the best solution and a way to win over the Ye clan to our side. No wonder she is favoured by the royal court so much."
Rou then sighed in disappointment, "It is a shame we can't rope Ye Feng personally to the royal family. He has an incredible talent for cultivation; his cultivation speed is remarkable, but we may be able to rope his friend Fu." Zhao was surprised and asked, "Princess, why do we not offer an arrange marriage between Ye Feng and one of the royal family members? That way, we can rope Ye Feng into the royal family.".
Rou blushes when she heard this. She remembers when Ye Feng touched her waist and looked into her eyes in the forest. Quickly, Rou buried this memory deep in her mind and regained her composure. She then said to Senior Zhao, "True, we can, but now is not the time to do that since we need to deal with the Zhang clan and the skirmishes we have on our kingdom borders." Senior Zhao nodded in agreement with Rou.
"For now, let's build a friendly relationship between us and Ye Feng. Our friendship with him will benefit us in the future thanks for his talent in cultivation. Also contact the Royal Court to start building friendly relationships with the Ye clan; we will need them when the time comes for us to deal with the Zhang clan." Rou said it seriously.
Senior Zhao was impressed by Rou and said solemnly, "I will inform our men to help Ye Feng when the time comes, princess, but I am worried about the Zhang clan.".
Rou nodded. "We can't do anything to them right now because we need their alchemy skills to strengthen our army. All we can do right now is implant spies into their ranks." Senior Zhao was shocked, and she smiled at his shock face and said, "Don't worry, my father had this under control. I just hope Ye Feng doesn't do anything that complicates things in the future."
Senior Zhao was confused and asked, "What do you mean, princess?" The princess answered, "We can't help him in the open because that will show everybody that we are favouring him and the Ye clan more than the other clans. We can only support him from behind the curtain by using the undercover men in the academy. The more we help Ye Feng, the more possibilities there are that our men will get exposed, and this will warn the spies in the academy that we are into them."
Rou paused for a moment and continued, "Also, it will take some time for the Zhang clan to notice that we are the ones who are protecting Ye Feng."
Senior Zhao nodded solemnly. "Don't worry, princess, we will try our hardest to not expose our identity while protecting the fifth young master of the Ye clan." The princess gave a charming smile and nodded. "Thank you; Senior Zhao, you may leave.".
Senior Zhao cupped his fist and left.
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The academy staff announced the hunting competition was over and requested all the remaining students to meet at the entrance of the forest.
All the students started walking to the forest entrance to leave the Dragon Forest.
When all remaining students arrived at the forest entrance and the academy staff made sure no one left behind all the students exited the forest.