198: Jade-faced Rakshasa Shen Junxue

Qin Feng’s Divine Sense erupted, searching the surroundings repeatedly to find the whereabouts of the red-robed man, while Lu Xiuwen shook his head, looking dejected.

“Brother, let it go.”

“What’s wrong?”

“That person is the Rakshasa Sect’s Saint, Jade-Faced Rakshasa Shen Junxue, who has already reached the Nascent Soul Stage cultivation. Even if we find him, we can’t do anything to him, and… he will also participate in the Battle Heaven Divine Platform.”

“Nascent Soul Stage cultivation?” Qin Feng’s expression stiffened, and he couldn’t help but ask, “Then why didn’t he continue to attack?”

“Because he recognized my identity. Although the major Sects have tense relationships, no one dares to harm another’s core members, and that includes him, Jade-Faced Rakshasa!”

“…”

Qin Feng fell silent.

If that Jade-Faced Rakshasa hadn’t left, he would have been fully capable of using the Immortal Execution Style to keep him. A mere Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator was not impossible to kill.

However, the problem was that his concealment ability was very powerful; once he hid, there was no way to find him.

People from the Rakshasa Sect are indeed cut out to be assassins!

“Are you sure he left?” After a moment of hesitation, Qin Feng looked at Lu Xiuwen with a suspicious gaze.

In this situation, he could only rest assured if he was certain the other party had completely left. After all, no one wanted to experience something like that a second time!

“He’s gone, don’t worry. If he dares to attack again, I’ll call my old man.”

Lu Xiuwen confidently raised a ring-shaped jade pendant in his hand. This should be the life-saving measure his father, Lu Qingshan, gave him. Soul Transformation Stage Cultivators have already mastered the ability of large-scale teleportation.

Even though this place was far from Lingzhou, once the jade pendant was crushed, Lu Qingshan was highly likely to appear here instantly.

This was the confidence that allowed the Saints of the major Holy Lands to roam the Jianghu without fear.

“Alright.”

Qin Feng sighed, waved his hand at Lu Xiuwen, and after plundering the items from the two earlier individuals, he quietly walked down the mountain.

The spoils of war naturally belonged to him. Lu Xiuwen was the Giant Elephant Sect’s Saint, living a life of luxury, so Qin Feng assumed he wouldn’t want them…

However, after experiencing that recent incident, Qin Feng gained a fresh understanding of this Cultivation World.

That is, one must absolutely not easily kill important figures from major Sects or forces, otherwise, like Lu Xiuwen, one could very likely stir up enormous trouble.

After pondering for a moment, Qin Feng couldn’t help but sigh again.

“By this calculation, to kill those two guys from Qingmu Immortal Sect and Divine Sword Sect, I’ll have to wait at least some more time.”

In the dense forest.

As Qin Feng traveled, he was also pondering when he would have the confidence to directly confront the major Sects.

If he could reach the Soul Transformation Stage cultivation earlier, even facing the entire Divine Sword Sect, he would be able to handle them with ease and unilaterally beat them up.

That day shouldn’t be too far off!

Qin Feng mused inwardly, while his gaze continuously swept over the weeds in the dense forest, using his Golden Finger to observe the weeds he passed.

[Weed: Ordinary, without any use. Can be used by herbivorous animals to fill their stomachs, can be squeezed into unpleasant grass juice… Can be synthesized: Green Grass.]

[Swiftwind Grass: An ordinary medicinal herb, not of much use. After consumption, it can enhance blood flow and increase physical agility… ]

[Ordinary Profound Stone: A seemingly ordinary stone, but it has great use in this world. It can increase the success rate of Alchemy and Artifact Refining, but the method for using Profound Stones has long been lost… Can be synthesized: Elementary Profound Stone.]

Hmm?

Seeing the words suddenly pop up in his vision, Qin Feng suddenly stopped and turned around, staring intently at a stone at his feet, whose full appearance was obscured by dead leaves.

This stone looked similar to a pebble on a riverbank, but it was about the size of a palm, much larger than an ordinary pebble.

Looking at the stone at his feet, Qin Feng felt his heart pounding incessantly, more excited than finding a ten-thousand-year-old ginseng.

Because he had once read a common belief in many ancient books: apart from Alchemy methods and the Pill Furnace, there was no other exotic treasure in the world that could increase the success rate of Alchemy!

But now, this Profound Stone at his feet was truly an item that could increase the success rate of Alchemy!

“Brother, what are you staring at a broken stone for?”

Sensing the person behind him stop, Lu Xiuwen turned around, looking at Qin Feng and the broken stone at his feet with a puzzled expression.

“Do you recognize this stone?”

Qin Feng pointed at the Profound Stone at his feet.

“Isn’t this just a broken stone? What’s there to look at?”

Lu Xiuwen had originally thought that what his brother was pointing to was a good item, but after he dug it out of the ground and observed it repeatedly, he still felt that this stone was just an ordinary broken stone.

Apart from being used to smash someone’s roof, it didn’t seem to have much use.

“Since you don’t recognize it, then it really must be useless.”

Qin Feng silently took the stone in his hand and examined it. The familiar words appeared again, and the joy in his heart could not be hidden.

To prevent revealing anything, Qin Feng openly kept the stone under the pretext of recording today’s humiliation.

“Brother, don’t say it, but I think I have a slight impression of that stone just now!”

After only two steps, Lu Xiuwen suddenly stopped, looking thoughtful.

Qin Feng didn’t speak, just glanced at him.

“That kind of stone seems to be a type of material most favored by blacksmiths in the secular world of Dandong. When forging iron, adding it to the furnace can speed up the melting of iron blocks and increase the strength of iron artifacts. However, many people have tried it, and for Cultivators, it’s completely worthless because it’s useless!”

“…”

Of course it’s useless; you just don’t have the method for using Profound Stones.

Qin Feng remained expressionless, only secretly noting the words “secular world of Dandong” in his heart.

Once he figured out the method for using Profound Stones in the future, he would definitely go to the secular world of Dandong to collect a large quantity of Profound Stones, combined with his synthesis ability.

By then, he might even be able to try his hand at Immortal Pills!

However, the immediate goal was to rush to Lingzhou to participate in the Battle Heaven Divine Platform…

…

Lingzhou is flat, vast, and fertile, with a high density of Cultivators in its vicinity. Every day, tribulation clouds can be seen appearing in this place.

At this moment.

In the only mountain range in the central part of Lingzhou, a faint golden tribulation cloud appeared again.

This mountain range is called the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain Range, and at its end, there are some rough and simple buildings, where many figures with beast heads and human bodies move about.

At this moment, they were all staring enviously at the golden tribulation cloud in the Void Realm, while also communicating in beast language:

“Woo woo woo, is some fellow about to Breakthrough to the Fourth Stage?”

“Ah, I really want to be like it, undergo the Golden Cauldron Tribulation! Become a Fourth Stage Yao Beast and capture humans as beast slaves!”

“That monkey has only been here for less than two years and is already undergoing the Golden Cauldron Tribulation. It should be able to enter Beast King Mountain now, right?”

…

This place is the rarely known Beast King Immortal Market, similar in nature to the markets established by human Cultivators, except that most of the beings coming and going here are beasts and Yao with awakened sentience. Their forms are also like the illusion techniques of human Cultivators, merely for the purpose of concealing their true identities.

However, most of them can only transform into beast-headed, human-bodied forms; to transform into more forms requires higher strength!

Apart from the Beast King Immortal Market, in the nearby mountains, many Beast Kings and Yao Kings were all looking with envious eyes towards the location in the mountain range near the Immortal Market.

At the spot where their gazes converged, there was a small mound about ten feet high, on which sat a golden-furred but somewhat dirty monkey. In front of it lay a black iron rod, and it was cultivating, mimicking human Cultivators, preparing to face the Lightning Tribulation.

Besides this iron rod, it also sat on more than ten egg-sized turtle shells of various colors.