After Yang Feng finished cooking the meat, he gave half to Shen Qing Luo, who had been observing his every action with pink dusting on her cheeks.
"So what were you doing in the middle of nowhere? Also how did you get injured in the first place?", Yang Feng asked trying to break the Silence that permitted the cave.
Shen Qing Luo was a little surprised by the sudden question, but answered, "Hmm, I was just looking for something that I needed. As for who injured me ...", she was trembling in rage at this point, "it was that detestable, brainless Tyrannical Force King. The idiot has been trying to make me his concubine for a long time, with my constant refusal and humiliation of him, he started to hate me. So when I came out this time, he ambush me with his subordinates and planned to capture me, fortunately I escaped after injuring him."
Yang Feng listened and started to dislike the Tyrannical Force King as she told him that he had been constantly hitting on her, which quickly turned into hate and anger when she said that he tried to ambush and capture her. Now Yang Feng really wanted to go and pay that 'Tyrannical Force' King a 'visit' and show him what True Tyrannical Force looks like.
Observing the changes in his expressions, which he didn't bother hide, she felt something flutter inside her. '*Ugh* ... it's confirmed. *Hah* looks like previously when he left his spiritual aura in knowledge sea, it caused my physique to recognize him as my destined one....'
Her thoughts were cut short as she took a bite out of the meat. "Uummm ... What is this!? It tastes great.", the meat was the meat of a Second-Order Transendant Monster Beast and not an ordinary one, as Yang Feng suspected.
In any cultivation world, The stronger the monster is when it lives and the stronger it's bloodline, the more fragrant and tasty it's meat is when eaten. It also helps in increasing the cultivation of someone when eaten. This fact was also true in this reality, but the effects were not too great.
So when Shen Qing Luo ate the meat, she was assaulted by the different and impactful flavours in and on the meat. This was because Yang Feng had used a few different spices that he always kept in his inventory, to enhance the taste of the meat.
Although Yang Feng didn't remember any impactful memory from his last life, he still remembered a few things, one of which included his vauge memory of cooking. So after sometime of his return from his first training trip, he started learning about how to cook, which seems to come to him easily.
What he didn't know that he was a great cook in his last life and had plenty of experience, so when he started to cook in this life, those vauge memory somehow effected in him learning about cooking and along with how he knew basically each and every herb (ordinary herbs till Saint Grade, for now), it was easy for him to learn about ingredients and cooking.
Shen Qing Luo also sure that her drained up Qi was replenished by a very small amount. But that was an effect of just a single bite. According to her estimate by the time she finished the big piece of meat, her reserves would replenished by 5 - 10% more, though it won't raise her combat power till she resolves the backlash.
"What is this?", she asked Yang Feng with stars in her eyes, looking at him in wonder about what type of meat it was. Yang Feng smirked seeing her expression and bragged, "it's the meat of a very powerful Second-Order Transcendant Realm Monster with an unusual bloodline that I gained a few days back."
"Transcendent Realm?", she asked with narrowed eyes. 'So she doesn't know. Looks like Yang Bai didn't tell the Evil Kings anything of significance.', there was another reason he said 'Transcendant' realm instead of how people name the realm in this small world. He wanted to know how much information the Evil Kings know.
"It's the real name of 'Above Immortal Ascension Boundary Realm'.", Yang Feng stopped at this and wondered if he should continue but decided against it as he and Shen Qing Luo weren't really close yet. Although he liked her and was certain she would become one of his wives, he still didn't trust her, like come on, he met her just a few days ago, most of which he was unconscious or cultivating through.
Shen Qing Luo's eyes widened in understanding, 'wait, how does he know about this if even I haven't heard of this?', she didn't think that he was lying to her which she found a bit weird. She asked him with some uneasiness and awe, "you ... What's your current cultivation??"
Yang Feng just smiled and appeared next to her. He then leaned against her ear and said in a low tone, "that my dear, is for me to know and you ... to find out."
He then returned to his previous place and continued to eat, leaving behind a slightly flustered Shen Qing Luo who thought to herself, '*Ughh* why am I feeling so flustered ... and why is he teasing me like that. Nobody gets to do that, only I do it to others.'
As Yang Feng ate the meat, he too felt it's effects but they were more focused on his body as his Qi reserves were now full.
The rest of the meal was spent in silent eating for both. After they had eaten Shen Qing Luo wanted to leave towards her destination, Yang Feng then made an excuse and followed her, which she didn't object to one bit.
As they continued to walk in comfortable silence through the forest under Shen Qing Luo lead, Yang Feng suddenly felt a disturbance some distance ahead. Coincidentally, it was in the direction where they were moving.
'Hmmm, looks like someone's fighting there.', then a gleam passed through his eyes as he remembered something, 'could it those two.', thinking of this a predatory smile formed on his face.
He didn't hurry nor did he care much even if the ones fighting were Qiu Yi Meng and Xiao Man, 'let them suffer.', although he thought so, he still wouldn't let her die as his little brother still needs a handler in the inheritance war, right?
As they continued to walk Shan Qing Luo also noticed the disturbance, but after some thought she just shrugged and continued walking. She wasn't walking into danger with a thought, she did so because she believed in Yang Feng, believed in his true strength and believed that he wouldn't let anything happen to her no matter how foreign but welcoming this thought felt for her.
As they drew near the place where the fight was taking place, Yang Feng's expressions suddenly changed into doubt, uncertainty and then turned strange.
Observing him, Shan Qing Luo asked, "what happened?", Yang Feng didn't answer her but held her waist and stated, "hold on tight.", and he flew towards the battle taking place with much greater speed.
Shan Qing Luo wanted to say something about his sudden actions but stayed quite noticing his expression.
In just a minute, they reached an open area without any trees. In the center of that area more than a dozen people were attacking three individuals, with the three counterattacking the group of more than a dozen.
Shan Qing Luo observed the two groups and upon seeing the larger group she told Yang Feng, "those are Force King's people."
Then she looked at the group of three and said in surprise, "weren't those two the ones who were chasing you earlier? But who's the boy with them, he wasn't with them earlier, right?", the group of three she was talking about consisted of Qiu Yi Meng and Xiao Man along with a youth that Yang Feng knew all two well, his adoptive brother Yang Kai.
Yang Feng sighed, he was seriously having a headache right now. With Yang Kai here something was bound to happen, 'well the least would be fighting that spider mother who isn't much of a challenge. But the question is ... how in the heavens, is he here? Wasn't he ... wait, Su Yan told me that he didn't ever come back from the nether mountain. Was he somehow stranded here? Considering his luck, that might be possible.'
"Yes, they're the ones. The boy with them is my brother *sigh* this is troublesome.", He told her as he landed near the two groups, who only now noticed the two.
"Who are you, get ou ... My Queen!! Sorry, this subordinate didn't recognize you at first.", said the one who looked to be the leader of the group that was attacking Yang Kai and the other. At first he was about to threaten them but upon seeing who it was that had landed, he quickly bowed and apologized, sweating bullets.
On the side, Yang Feng observed the two groups and saw the people in the group from the Evil Lands were all atleast Mid stage True Element Realm, with one being Second Stage Immortal Ascension Realm.
On the other hand, Qiu Yi Meng was at the Peak of True Element Realm, Luo Xiao Man was in Mid stage True Element Realm and finally, Yang Kai was at the Seventh stage True Element Realm.
As Yang Feng was observing the two groups, the two groups were also observing him with varying expressions. The group from the Evil Lands upon noticing him and the way he was holding Shan Qing Luo's waist were filled with envy and fear. They knew whoever it was that could be near the Beguiling Demon Queen, let alone one who could hold her this intimately would be someone extraordinary.
The leader of the group was the one who could tell the different the most. When he tried to find out Yang Feng's cultivation, he wasn't able to tell accurately, which only happens if the person's cultivation was hidden by an artifact or the person's strength was alot greater than ones own.
The most pressing and fearful reason was that his master and the Demon Queen didn't have a good relation and from what he knew his master even ambushed the Queen not long ago.
On the other side, Yang Feng's group had mixed expression upon seeing the two. Qiu Yi Meng and Luo Xiao Man had fearful faces as they saw the two. While Yang Kai was at first stunned by Shan Qing Luo's charm but was able to pull himself together after a few seconds.
When he shifted his sight to Yang Feng, his eyes widened more so when he noticed her holding the seductive women by her waist. The surprise quickly died down and got replaced by joy upon seeing his brother and knew that the matter was as good as resolved now.
The two groups had been fighting for more than twenty minutes and it was honestly quite taxing for Yang Kai to keep up with the constant attacks.
"What is going on here?", Shan Qing Luo asked the sweating leader of the group in a cold voice. Hearing her cold voice, the man's body trembled as he answered, "we were just cleaning up these invaders who infiltrated the holy land."
When he said this, his body relaxed as he thought that Shan Qing Luo would definitely help them deal with these three invaders, even if she didn't have a good relation with their boss.
Shan Qing Luo on the other hand raised an eyebrow and looked towards Yang Feng as if asking him what he wanted to do. But the next second she saw Yang Feng glance downwards and ask her.
"Hmm ... You came her to find the spider mother, right? Also did you come here to kill her or for something else?", hearing his words, Shan Qing Luo was surprised while the others were a bit clueless.
"I didn't come here to kill her. I just need something from her. But how do you know that and why did you suddenly ask that.", Shan Qing Luo said while shaking her head.
Yang Feng continued to look towards the ground and said, "Well, because ...", before he could say anything the ground beneath them broke and everyone fell down.