Chapter 15: Encountering Danger

After putting away the scrolls, Lin Feng looked at the several piles of gold coins before him.

Then he said to Xiao Yixian, "We've basically finished looking at the things; the remaining gold coins, you take seven, I three. After putting them away, let's bury this senior properly."

"Okay." Xiao Yixian nodded, having no objection.

Afterwards, the two each put the gold coins from the three corners into their storage rings.

Then they dug a pit in a corner of the stone chamber and buried the white bones together with that broken bone.

After doing that, Lin Feng looked around the cave; there was nothing left, so he said to Xiao Yixian, "All right, now we head back... wait, someone's coming?!"

"What?"

Hearing this, Xiao Yixian was equally startled, then immediately shook her head and said, "Impossible; only we two know about this place!"

"I didn't hear wrong; the number of people coming is not small!"

Lin Feng's face looked a little grim, and his gaze unconsciously flicked to Xiao Yixian.

"You suspect I summoned them?"

Seeing Lin Feng's expression, Xiao Yixian's pretty face flushed with anger: "If I wanted to harm you, I could have had those mercenaries attack at the camp earlier; there's no need to wait until now!"

Hearing that, Lin Feng also thought it reasonable, but hearing the footsteps draw nearer, he hurriedly told Xiao Yixian, "Now take out the previous medicine powder and get ready; I'll signal you with my gaze later."

"All right." Xiao Yixian gritted her teeth, grabbed all the medicine powder in her two small hands, then hid her hands in her sleeves.

"Heh, I didn't expect to have such an encounter; indeed, heaven is blessing me!"

Just as Xiao Yixian finished her action, a familiar faint laugh sounded triumphantly within the stone chamber.

Afterward, more than a dozen figures slowly walked in from the dark passage outside the door.

"Mu Li!"

Hearing that voice, Xiao Yixian clenched her silver teeth.

At the black stone door, more than a dozen mercenaries split into three rows, blocking the stone door tightly.

A figure stepped out from behind, and in the moonlight cast by the moonlight stone, his face was revealed—none other than the vice-captain of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, Mu Li!

His gaze first swept over the stone box that Lin Feng and Xiao Yixian had opened, and a hint of greed flashed in Mu Li's eyes.

He had seen Xiao Yixian and Lin Feng leave for a long time during the day, and then they emerged from the woods somewhat disheveled, leading him to suspect the two had engaged in improper conduct in the small grove.

Lying in bed at night, the more he thought about it, the angrier he got, so he got up intending to assault Xiao Yixian in the dark, to achieve a "cooked rice from raw grain" outcome.

Who would have thought that upon going to Xiao Yixian's tent, he found it completely empty, not even a shadow.

At that moment, Ma Si, the mercenary he had sent to kill Lin Feng, came running to report, saying he had taken people to Lin Feng's tent and found it empty of anyone.

Mu Li thought that Lin Feng and Xiao Yixian had gone again to the small grove at night.

Thus, with the mindset that if he couldn't have them, he must destroy them, he gathered men to prepare to catch them in the act in the woods.

Who would have thought that, while they failed to catch them in the act in the woods, they instead found this rope on the nearby cliffside, and following the rope discovered the cave.

Seeing this situation, Mu Li immediately understood what had happened; he ordered his men to seal off the area and then hurriedly brought the mercenaries beside him to block the entrance.

He licked his lips, his gaze sweeping over the stone chamber, and Mu Li couldn't help but smile, saying, "Sorry to disturb you two."

"You've been following us?"

Lin Feng, upon seeing Mu Li and the mercenaries behind him, felt his heart ease at once.

Besides Mu Li, who is a six-star Fighter, the rest of the mercenaries are four- and five-star Fighters.

Although he couldn't kill them all, bringing Xiao Yixian and fleeing should be fine.

Mu Li shrugged, smiling, "It's not that; these things are too important for our Wolf Head Mercenary Group. Once we possess them, we can easily annex all forces of Green Mountain Town, and only then will we have the qualifications and strength to expand outward. My ambitions are not limited to this small town."

"Hand over the things, Xiao Yixian; you should know my feelings for you. As long as you follow me, once I take charge of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, I will certainly not mistreat you!"

His gaze filled with deep affection fixed on Xiao Yixian, Mu Li's voice gradually softened.

"Disgusting, get lost!" Xiao Yixian bluntly expressed her feelings without further words.

Seeing Mu Li still wanting to say something, Lin Feng gave Xiao Yixian a look, and she instantly understood.

She raised both hands, instantly sending all the medicine powder in them into the air, where it scattered.

The medicine powder scattered everywhere instantly filled the entire stone chamber.

"Follow me."

Having said that to Xiao Yixian, Lin Feng swiftly ran toward the cave entrance.

"Hold your breath, people by the door, do not move, block the door, Ma Si. Attack them."

Looking at the medicine powder permeating the stone chamber, the already dim cave became even harder to see through; Mu Li momentarily couldn't locate Lin Feng and Xiao Yixian's traces, his expression changed slightly, and he shouted urgently.

"Yellow Intermediate Rank Battle Technique, Crushing Stone Fist!"

"Yellow Intermediate Rank Battle Technique, Crushing Stone Fist!"

"......"

The few mercenaries at the front hadn't even had time to respond when they felt a fierce gust sweep past; a palm brimming with violent energy heavily struck their chests.

Instantly, several unprepared mercenaries let out a miserable cry, then heavily slammed into the stone wall of the cave, after which they slowly slid down, their fate unknown.

Hearing the cries of his subordinates, Mu Li's face darkened, and he hastily retreated a few steps backward, ending up just outside the stone door.

At the same time, he completely blocked the space of the stone door.

"Bang!"

A violent surge of energy suddenly shot forward from ahead; at the stone door, the few mercenaries in the second row, whose strength was at the five-star Fighter level, could not withstand Lin Feng's attack as an eight-star Fighter, letting out a muffled groan before being blown several steps back by this force.

Meanwhile, a few others nearby hadn't yet had time to plug the gap when two swift gusts, like loaches, slipped out.

When they came to their senses, it was already too late to intercept; they could only shout urgently at the rearmost Mu Li, "Vice-captain, they're charging at you!"

His pupils constricted slightly; Mu Li slowly spread his legs, blocking the narrow passage, his fists clenched, with a faint green battle energy gradually surging on them.

Under the influence of that green battle energy, his pair of fleshly fists began to gradually turn the color of wood.

"I'd like to see how you, a two-star Fighter, can repel me in a head-on collision!"

Seeing the two figures rushing over quickly, Mu Li let out a cold snort.

Get lost and go back!

With Mu Li's loud shout, the fists, resembling a pair made of wood, glowed with green light, bringing forth a fierce force, and viciously smashed toward Lin Feng.

Mysterious Tier low-rank battle technique: Wood Hardening!

Lin Feng's speed did not slacken in the slightest; his calm face showed no trace of fear. The surging battle qi within him, guided by the Mysterious Tier cultivation method, began to flow along the battle technique's meridians, running wildly.

Mysterious Tier low-rank battle technique, Crimson Fire Palm! (Chapter three had a mistake; what was obtained at Liu Xi's place was the Crimson Fire Palm, not the Flame Origin Palm—the Flame Origin Palm appears only in later chapters.)

After the battle qi passed through the specific meridians traced by the Crimson Fire Palm on his hand, the surging battle qi instantly turned Lin Feng's right palm crimson.

Bang!

One palm and one fist collided with a boom in the narrow mountain cave.