Chapter 542: 11 Ye Xingchen

Chapter 542: Chapter 11 Ye Xingchen

After taking Jin Yulong’s storage ring, Lin Feng quickly left.

At night, Lin Feng battled fierce beasts during the day and gazed at the Star Observation Map at night, absorbing the energy from the Heavenly Star Soul Jade, hoping his soul power would breakthrough to the level of a practitioner in the Creation Realm.

Of course, Lin Feng knew this was no easy feat. While a breakthrough in a small realm might not be overly difficult, a breakthrough in a Great Realm was as hard as scaling the heavens. It required not only a vast amount of energy supply, which was hard to imagine, but also the right opportunity to grasp the profound mysteries of the soul of a cultivator at the level of the Creation Realm.

Lin Feng had been in the Thunder Blade Secret Realm for ten days, but he had yet to find Tian Zhongdao, Shee Weizhu, Yu Fan, and the others. The Thunder Blade Secret Realm was too vast, making encounters far from easy.

That afternoon, Lin Feng heard rumors of an Ancient Cultivation Cave Mansion appearing within a mountain range, and many cultivators were rushing towards it.

“Ancient Cultivation Cave Mansion!”

Lin Feng was slightly surprised, knowing that the cave mansions in the Thunder Blade Secret Realm were not simple places.

Nowadays, only cultivators below the Yin Yang Realm were allowed to enter the Thunder Blade Secret Realm.

According to the Fire Kirin, it was due to the “Order Law” restrictions that it was so.

However, it had always been widely believed in the Desert Domain that during the early stages of the Thunder Blade Secret Realm’s formation, the Order Laws within were yet to settle.

The Order Laws were wildly violent, leading to danger lurking at every corner in the Thunder Blade Secret Realm.

During that era, many top forces entered into the Secret Realm to comprehend the “Dao” within it.

Just like the “Sky Splitting” Lin Feng had comprehended before.

And of course, that terrifying axe light.

Back then, it wasn’t a place where anyone other than the top forces could come. The disordered Order Laws could annihilate any cultivator who dared to enter the Thunder Blade Secret Realm without caution.

Later, as the Order Laws stabilized, many of the top forces who had entered the Thunder Blade Secret Realm were trapped inside, unable to leave, and so many of them established cave mansions.

Over the endless years, when the Thunder Blade Secret Realm reopened, those who were trapped inside had long perished.

…

This was the origin of the Thunder Blade Secret Realm’s Ancient Cultivation Cave Mansions.

Those Ancient Cultivators must have been earth-shatteringly powerful individuals.

Even now, aren’t each of them capable of reigning over All Heavens and looking disdainfully upon the Eight Desolate?

Therefore, hearing about an Ancient Cultivation Cave Mansion, many people hurried over, for if one could obtain the inheritance inside a cave mansion, it would be an immense opportunity.

Lin Feng too arrived at the mountain range, but what he didn’t expect was to encounter “Sun Yaya” there.

Though Sun Yaya had a pure and innocent appearance, she was actually cunning and mean-spirited; thus, Lin Feng had no good feelings toward Sun Yaya, even harboring some disgust.

Sun Yaya evidently saw Lin Feng but didn’t show any intention of greeting him, while Lin Feng simply ignored her, pretending not to see her.

There were six or seven disciples by Sun Yaya’s side, each with considerable strength. These disciples must all be from the Star Cloud Pavilion, and Sun Yaya was quite close to one of the leading disciples, appearing as if he might be a man she had just met or started a relationship with not long ago.

“Senior Brother, that guy is Lin Feng,” a disciple from the Star Cloud Pavilion pointed towards Lin Feng.

The leading disciple looked over, a cold smile appearing on his lips, “This guy sure has a big life, being able to live until now after killing Elder Xingxuan’s precious nephew.”

The leading disciple, named Xia Zihang, was a practitioner in the Eighth Layer Heaven of the Martial King Realm, an Inner Sect Disciple of the Star Cloud Pavilion. Although the disciples from the Great Forces’ Outer Disciples and Inner Sect Disciples were not in the same place for the entry, due to the random transmission, some Inner Sect Disciples were sent far, and even being transmitted to the areas where Outer Disciples were active was not uncommon.

“Although Lin Feng comes from a humble background, his strength is still very formidable. However, now that he has provoked Elder Xingxuan, he only has a path to death,” Sun Yaya said.

“Why doesn’t Senior Brother go and kill him? That would also curry a huge favor with Elder Xingxuan,” a disciple from Star Cloud Pavilion suggested.

In Xia Zihang’s eyes, hesitation flickered; one moment his killing intent was chilling, the next it was restrained. He said, “This guy has had some fate with Great Ability Zong Yun, so it’s not convenient for me to take action. Consider it his good luck.”

Thinking of Great Ability Zong Yun, the rest of the Star Cloud Pavilion disciples couldn’t help but show expressions of reverence like they were facing a god.

“The prohibitions in the depths of the mountain range have been activated; it must be that an Ancient Cultivation Cave Mansion is about to appear.”

…

Someone shouted loudly, and instantly, over a thousand cultivators surged towards the deep parts of the mountain range.

Lin Feng moved swiftly through the crowd but when he arrived at the outskirts of the small valley deep in the mountain range, he frowned slightly upon seeing that this not-so-large valley was crowded with over a thousand cultivators.

“Eh, this is…” Lin Feng’s brow suddenly twitched violently.

He saw a Formation.

And it was a Formation that had just been set up, a Dark Stage Formation.

“What terrifying Formation techniques. There’s a Killing Array set up here; something’s not right, this valley is definitely not right,” Lin Feng frowned.

“There’s a Killing Array here, the situation doesn’t seem right. I think it’s not advisable to stay here long,” he said solemnly.

“What would a Martial General Realm garbage cultivator know?”

“A Killing Array? That’s laughable. Without any cultivators from the Yin Yang Realm present in the Thunder Blade Secret Realm, who would dare attack over a thousand cultivators?”

“Kid, what’s your purpose in spreading panic and inciting unrest here?”

…

Many cultivators looked coldly towards Lin Feng, their eyes filled with a grim light.

Left with no choice as his well-intentioned warning turned into a target on his back, Lin Feng felt that someone wanted to assassinate him.

Lin Feng didn’t hesitate any longer and quickly flew towards the outside of the valley.

He saw hundreds of sword-wielding cultivators hidden among the surrounding mountains.

These cultivators were led by three individuals.

The person in the middle was very handsome, and his aura was unfathomable. This person was called Ye Xingchen, an extremely powerful figure ranked among the top ten in Divine Sword Manor’s Inner Academy. It was said that he could have attempted to break through to the Yin Yang Realm long ago, but to continue honing his cultivation in the Thunder Blade Secret Realm, he suppressed his realm for several years without breaking through.

The woman with an impressive figure beside Ye Xingchen was called Xue Zimei, and it was she who had set up those Spirit Arrays. Xue Zimei’s Spirit Array talent was extremely astonishing, and she was lauded as a once-in-a-millennium Spirit Array genius by Divine Sword Manor.

The third person was a boy who looked to be only eleven or twelve years old, displaying an indolent expression, seemingly indifferent to everything happening around him; yet, many disciples showed considerable respect to this boy.

Xue Zimei watched Lin Feng leave with cold eyes and said, “Although this kid’s cultivation isn’t very impressive, he saw through my Spirit Array. He’s really not simple.”

Ye Xingchen spoke indifferently, “It seems he’s a quite powerful Spirit Array Master. His strength is lacking a bit. I wonder which force he belongs to. Luu Xiao, take two junior brothers with you and go kill that kid. I think he must have a good number of treasures on him.”

“Yes, Senior Brother,” a disciple accepted the command, leading two other disciples in quick pursuit of Lin Feng.

A grim curve formed on Ye Xingchen’s mouth, “Nearly ruined my big plan, truly deserves to die.”