Chapter 83

He let out a light laugh, Lin Feng decided to do it in one go, and also took care of refining the fire seed.

His mind and spirit sank into his body again.

Inside his body, following the meridians, he made a circuit, finally arriving outside the qi vortex at his lower abdomen.

At this moment, the qi vortex's volume, compared to before, was strangely much smaller.

However, although the volume had decreased, with careful observation one could still notice.

Now the qi contained within the vortex was, however, more substantial and condensed.

His mind and spirit clung to the vortex, then slowly drilled into it.

At the same time, Lin Feng's soul perception continuously echoed the purple flame he had previously summoned.

As Lin Feng's mind and spirit carefully scanned through the vortex.

After a while, a thin strand of purple energy finally faintly appeared.

As soon as the purple energy appeared, Lin Feng quickly controlled his mind and spirit, wrapping it up in a flash.

After grasping the purple flame, Lin Feng began to rapidly drive the qi vortex to spin at full speed.

He needed to, when the vortex, due to its full-speed rotation, created a hollow in the middle, store this purple flame inside.

The continuous high-speed rotation caused a tiny hollow to appear at the center of the vortex.

As the hollow area at the vortex's center became increasingly spacious.

When its area reached about the size of a fist, Lin Feng's mind and spirit slowly wrapped that strand of purple flame, passed through the surrounding qi blockade, and finally drilled into that small hollow.

As soon as the purple flame entered the hollow, Lin Feng felt the entire vortex shudder violently, prompting him to quickly drive his mind and spirit again to stabilize the vortex.

With the effort of his mind and spirit maintaining it, the vortex finally gradually stabilized.

Moreover, at the junction where the vortex meets the central hollow, Lin Feng could see that strands of fire-attributed qi were continuously flowing out from the vortex and then pouring into the purple flame within the hollow.

As more and more fire-attributed qi was poured into it, the purple flame suddenly emitted a faint low hum.

After a moment, under Lin Feng's mind and spirit's observation, it began to transform.

Only see the purple flame's color growing deeper, and when its color deepened to a certain point.

The purple flame shuddered violently, then starting from the inner flame, gradually transformed into a deep purple, rich fire.

"Done."

Seeing the fire seed appear, Lin Feng felt a surge of joy.

He extended his palm, rubbed his fingers lightly together, accompanied by a clear sound.

A thin strand of purple flame rose from Lin Feng's fingertips.

Seeing this nascent flame, he muttered to himself: "Looks like, in the future I'll need to properly nurture it with the companion purple crystal source for a while; its power now is only slightly stronger than the previous fifth-tier Beast Fire."

After resting a moment, Lin Feng took out the ring that stored the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's collection.

Previously, in the depths of the Magic Beast Mountain Range, there were too many high-level magic beasts, so he never dared to take it out to organize.

Now that he has time, naturally he should organize it.

Under his control, all the various precious items inside the ring poured out onto the ground.

"As expected of a sixth-tier magic beast's hoard!"

Gazing at the large amount of high-level magic cores and precious medicinal herbs emitting light before him, Lin Feng couldn't help but murmur.

"So many fifth-tier magic cores, truly the first time I've seen this many; I really don't know how long the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King spent gathering such a quantity—it must be for the little Purple Crystal Winged Lion's future advancement."

Looking at the dozen or so fifth-tier magic cores beside him, Lin Feng's mouth curled into a smile.

He packed them separately, then placed them back into the ring for safekeeping.

"This is... clear-flow flower!"

Lin Feng carefully picked from among the many medicinal herbs a seemingly unremarkable blue flower.

Though this small flower is unassuming, its core contains several sparkling, glazed-colored spheres, quite eye-catching.

If some women saw it, they would likely be unable to put it down...

Moreover, Lin Feng could sense that the beautiful glazed spheres contained an extremely rich energy.

However, most importantly, this herb is also one of the materials needed to refine the Soul-Fusing Pill.

Plus the Eight-Ling Magic Needle Fruit he and Xiao Yixian obtained in that valley last year.

Of the four main ingredients for the Soul-Fusing Pill, he has already gathered two.

With these, he'll wait for the next time Medusa appears.

As for his speed in gathering medicinal materials, there should be nothing to say.

After all, the ingredients for sixth-tier pills are inherently hard to find.

Moreover, these are ingredients for an obscure prescription...

After securing the Qingliu flower, Lin Feng proceeded to organize the other medicinal herbs.

Since they were all personally selected and collected by sixth-tier magic beasts, their quality is uniformly high.

This also made Lin Feng unable to stop smiling...

"These rings must have been left behind after the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King slew human experts."

After gathering the medicinal herbs, the ground still had some rings and other miscellaneous items left.

These must be the relics of human experts collected by the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King over its long life, plus various assorted items obtained in the Magic Beast Mountain Range.

Picking up a ring that looked quite good, Lin Feng examined it briefly and then said in surprise: "I didn't expect there to be a Four-star Alchemist's ring inside."

However, considering the Magic Beast Mountain Range has a large amount of valuable rare plants, it's not surprising for an alchemist to venture there.

After thoroughly examining the items inside, Lin Feng happily put the ring away.

The fourth-tier formulas inside the ring are exactly what he urgently needs.

Next, he took out the scroll that the Four-star Alchemist had carefully stored deep within the ring, looking at the small characters on it: "Fifth-tier formula, Windwalking Pill."

Hehe, now not only do I not lack prescriptions for the fourth-tier realm, but even if I later want to advance to a Five-star Alchemist, I can have prescriptions to study.

Looking at the scroll in his hand, Lin Feng gave a light smile and immediately stored it into his storage ring.

Huh, what is this thing?

Lin Feng looked at the last object on the ground, picked it up, and fiddled with it somewhat puzzled.

This thing, I would say it's a scroll.

But unlike a normal scroll, this thing is not made from magic beast hide.

The material actually resembles copper, and on it are artificially carved various mysterious and complex patterns.

After fiddling with it for a moment, Lin Feng guessed that this thing was originally a copper plate the size of two palms.

Afterwards, it was forcibly rolled into the shape of a scroll by a powerful force.

Looking at the copper scroll, Lin Feng tried to bend it a few times and found that his strength could not actually unfold it.

This situation caused Lin Feng's curiosity to rise another level.

He is a Dou Shi, with considerable strength—how could he possibly fail to bend an ordinary thin copper plate?

Unless... this thing is not an ordinary copper plate!

It seems this thing is not ordinary.

After saying that, Lin Feng thought about where this thing came from and secretly mused: "Since the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King would store this thing, he must have studied it too; even the tremendous strength of a sixth-rank magic beast cannot move it, so the person who crafted this thing must have at least the strength of a High-Stage Dou Zong."

Thinking this through, Lin Feng carefully stored the copper-plate scroll.

Although he can't open it now, once his strength grows stronger, he might eventually learn what's inside.

Then he took out the magic beast corpses he had collected in the Magic Beast Mountain Range after Yun Yun slew them.

He dug out their magic cores one by one, and also extracted all those that contained Beast Fire within.

After finishing those tasks, Lin Feng began to rest.

On the yellow earth highway, a force of about a hundred people marched mightily toward the massive fortress Benz at the horizon, raising a sky‑shouting clamor along the way.

Looking at their uniform attire, they appear to belong to the same mercenary corps; a mercenary corps of about a hundred people can be considered medium‑sized in the Jia Ma Empire.

Because the Suppress Ghost Pass is near the border, the chaotic atmosphere here is favored by some mercenary groups.

They dislike taking the safe route of hunting magic beasts, and would rather become the legendary war mercenaries.

That is, in war, they assist one side to earn huge rewards.

Although such rewards are considerable, the danger is also extremely high.

After all, in that battlefield meat grinder, a force of several hundred could be wiped out by a single mistake, and that would not be surprising.

Outside the fortress, heading east and passing through some small countries and tribes along the way, one can enter the special region renowned throughout the continent: Heijiaoyu!

There, due to the special terrain, it has almost become the most chaotic region of the Northwest Continent.

Countless fugitive powerhouses from various nations, having fallen into this place, have constructed the most savage rules.

All kinds of people continually pour in, making it effectively a miniature mirror of the continent.

In Heijiaoyu, there are no legal constraints; only one rule exists: the law of the jungle!

In other words, that is survival of the fittest!

"No wonder it's a fortress guarding the border pass—the scale of Suppress Ghost Pass is truly astonishing, far beyond any city inside the empire that could be compared to it..."

After a morning's journey, Lin Feng gazed at the towering city wall before him, which resembled a small hill, and clicked his tongue in wonder.

Standing behind the line leaving the pass, when the distance to the wall was only about a hundred meters, Lin Feng narrowed his eyes and glanced at the space above the wall.

There, faintly, there seemed to be specks of intangible energy fluctuations.

That fluctuation is somewhat similar to the radar of Blue Star, able to detect aerial targets via reflection.

As long as you fly over from above and are detected by this energy fluctuation, you will immediately suffer an attack from the special metal ballistae equipped on the troops atop the wall.

Even some Dou Wang would find it very troublesome when faced with a barrage of these ballistae.

After a moment, once the border personnel verified everything was correct, Lin Feng smoothly exited the gate of the Jia Ma Empire.

Then he found a secluded spot and deployed the Purple Cloud Wings to fly eastward.

Boom!

A originally tranquil dense forest suddenly emitted a thunder‑like explosion, startling the surrounding animals into scattering in all directions.

Lin Feng, not far from the blast, was directly blown away several dozen meters.

Afterwards he bounced on the ground a few times before stabilizing his posture.

Pah pah~

After stopping his body, Lin Feng felt many bits of plant debris in his mouth, hastily spat them out, then shook his dizzy head.

Although when the blast came he raised a shield made from the black xuan rock of the ancient wall, he was still dazed by the scorching heat wave shooting out.

"The power of these two third‑rank Beast Fire explosions is such that even a Great Dou Shi would suffer considerable injury if he couldn't escape in time; if fourth‑rank were used, even some low‑rank Dou Ling hit would not fare well."

After setting down the deformed black xuan rock shield, Lin Feng's arms continuously transmitted pain from that tremendous force, yet his face was filled with excitement.

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