Translator: AstralGhost Editor: Kurisu
Although the people of Tianmu Planet were all accustomed to martial cultivation, Thousand Year Kings were not cabbages that could be found on the roadside. Not everyone had the capability to cultivate to the Thousand Year King realm.
Perhaps only one person out of 10 million people would become a Thousand Year King. Most people would just remain stuck at the Fourth Layer of the Hundred Year realm.
Bei Feng’s current cultivation was nothing special at all. But within the Third Layer of the Hundred Year realm, he could be considered a powerhouse.
In the system of this world, it was definitely faster to reach the Thousand Year King realm by following the martial cultivation path. This period of time right now was the primest timing for him to continue breaking through at high speeds. When his martial cultivation speed slowed down and stabilized, it wouldn’t be too late for him to seriously ruminate about the Yin-Yang legacy.
Bei Feng walked out of the cavern. After a quick breakfast, he brought the team with him to hunt the Demonic Beasts in the area and collect all kinds of precious materials.
Although the grade of the herbs and materials they gathered was not high, the quantity was great. Many a nickle made a dollar. After adding everything together, it was still a huge sum!
At this time, Bei Feng was facing a Hundred Year realm Third Layer late stage Demonic Beast. This was a bull-type Demonic Beast with a pair of sharp horns on its head. With the sharp pointy teeth protuding from its mouth, it was obvious that this bull fed on meat.
“Moo!”
Even among all the Hundred Year realm Third Layer Demonic Beasts, this bull was not a good opponent to offend. Its muscular body contained a gigantic amount of strength and it was easily angered. Once its temper was riled up, it would not stop charging until it was dead.
A loud roar-like moo rang out, filled with savagery, quite unlike the gentle mooing from normal bulls.
The bull stomped its powerful back hoofs, blasting out a huge pit about two, three meters deep in the ground. In the next instant, a dark glimmering pair of horns appeared right before Bei Feng’s face.
“Giant Bear Strike!”
Facing the wildly charging Demonic Beast, Bei Feng remained standing firmly. Bei Feng’s hair and robe fluttered wildly in the violent winds stirred up by the beast as he looked at it expressionlessly. With a swift movement, a hand seal was formed in his hand, and a heavy pressure instantly surged out from him.
A look of shock flashed across the bull’s eyes, but in an instant, that look was replaced with rage. How could a proud bull like it be fearful? In an instant, its eyes reddened, as if about to drip blood.
“Dang!”
The sharp bull’s horn smashed into Bei Feng’s tiny fists, and a sound like two pieces of metal meeting each other rang out. Bei Feng’s fist directly barrelled into the tip of the bull’s horn!
“Moo!”
The huge bull’s horn began to shatter inch by inch, and the entire creature was sent flying tens of meters away, smashing into the ground. The bull struggled intensely to get back onto its feet, but it could not accomplish that feat.
“He’d just broken through to the Hundred Year realm Third Layer yet he can defeat a Black Bull with a single punch… how can his battle power be this strong?”
Lu Bing’s eyes narrowed as confusion clouded his face. Lu Bing exchanged a glance with Lu Bu, and both of them nodded as if having decided on something.
The both of them had already decided to pretend as if they didn’t see anything.
Bei Feng’s combat prowess was very obviously extraordinary. It was one thing to be a late bloomer, but to possess such impressive battle power to defeat a Third Layer late stage Demonic Beast with a single punch when he’d just broken through to the Third Layer was completely unnatural.
With a single glance, it was obvious that Bei Feng’s martial technique was nothing common. With Lu Bu and the others’ experience, such a level of martial technique was definitely something that a tiny Lu Family could never afford.
As for Bei Feng, he shook his head lightly as he looked at his fist. This move of his was something that he’d already practiced until he could execute it in his sleep. But because this body had not formed a muscle memory with the martial techniques, it hadn’t displayed as much power as he would have liked it to. Originally, Bei Feng was preparing to split the head of this bull with a single punch. However, he only managed to heavily injure it.
Following this, Lu Bu and the others only grew more and more amazed. Bei Feng’s strength and control were growing with amazing speed, and even peak Third Layer Demonic Beasts could not exchange more than a hundred blows with Bei Feng!
‘So much time has passed. It should be possible to start fishing again.’
Bei Feng smiled lightly and gestured for everyone to follow him back.
Lu Bu and the rest saw the smile on Bei Feng’s face, and although they didn’t know what he was being so happy about, they guessed that he should have had some harvest this time. Everyone began to clear up the battlefield and returned to the gorge.
“All of you, stand guard for me outside. Without my permission, nobody is allowed to enter.”
“Understood!”
With a single sentence from Bei Feng, Lu Bu and the rest nodded and retracted their auras as they blended into the surroundings, completely disappearing from view.
Bei Feng made his way to the lake. Then, stretching out his hand, he slapped down towards the small waterfall!
“Boom!”
Huge pieces of rocks were shattered; the stream atop directly changed course, flowing towards another stream that led to the gorge.
With a single thought from Bei Feng, countless tiny golden lights appeared before him, and a fishing rod appeared in his hands.
Without any hesitation, Bei Feng swung the fishing rod and cast the line towards the lake. Before the hook even touched the water, a black vortex appeared under it.
Large amounts of water poured into the black vortex, then turned into water vapor as soon as they touched the darkness.
***
Inside the Myriad Worlds, in the depths of a mine. This was an industrial property of the Heaven Domination Sect. The entire one million li area was the territory of the sect, and experts were as common as clouds here.
This sect was one that loved to battle, and they had all kinds of conflicts with all the other sects nearby. But unfortunately for the rest, the sect was very strong. The other sects also did not have absolute confidence to start an all-out war against them.
The disciples of the Heaven Domination Sect would always go into the territories of the other five big sects and harrass the large family clans under them.
The powerful Heaven Domination Sect had all kinds of businesses and industries under it. There were special spirit herb gardens, large-scale spirit stone mines, frigid iron mines, and so on. These places naturally required large numbers of workers to operate!
And where would these workers come from? They naturally came from among the disciples of the other sects whom they defeated and captured, as well as their own sect disciples who’d been sent to do hard labor for breaking the rules.
The Heaven Domination Sect had several mines, one out of which was a stellar energy mine. There was a special kind of ore here called the Star Illumination Stone. Its value was not large, but it came in huge quantities, which made it a pretty good produce.
This mine had already been open for over a hundred years, and hundreds of thousands of coolies as well as thousands of punished diciples toiled here.
Every single coolie had been branded with the Heaven Domination Sect’s Thousand Chances Lure. The moment the seal was released, the afflicted person would suffer a sensation of life worse than death. As long as the mark was not removed, even if they escaped, there was only death awaiting them.
Since the hundred years that it’d been opened, an uncountable number of people had died in the mine. Although there were many cultivators who’d been captured and had their cultivation crippled, there were many normal people who sold themselves to the mines willingly.
These ordinary humans would be given a set of the most basic cultivation technique of the Heaven Domination Sect. They only needed to work in the mines for 10 years, and would obtain a chance to leap through the dragon’s gate and convert into an honorary outer sect disciple.
After a hundred years, countless tunnels had been dug into this huge mine, and the intricate passages interwove and branched out seemingly endlessly, yet were connected to each other. If one was slightly careless, they would become lost inside.
At this time, in the deepest part of the mine, illuminated only by the faint light of the Moon Fang Stones, a group of over 100 ragged, unkempt men were holding a shovel each, hacking fiercely at the stones.
The shovels they held were not ordinary shovels. It wasn’t clear how deep the men were, and the stones were incomparably tough here. However, the shovels were able to cleave through the stones with ease.
The rough Star Illumination Stones’ ore was completely black in color, and only a tiny bit of light shone from its surface. The ore still needed to be refined before it would become Star Illumination Stones.
The 100-plus men did not speak at all, and their eyes were vacant. Their faces were expressionless, and everyone seemed like preprogrammed robots as they repeated the same actions over and over.
Li Tieniu only had a single thought in his heart, and that was to enter the Heaven Domination Sect. He’d already been digging in this mine for eight years, and his cultivation was among the top 3,000 in the mine. In another two years, he would participate in the entrance test, and if he succeeded, he would be able to bring fame and glory to his ancestors. Just as Li Tieniu was thinking about this matter and digging emotionlessly, the shovel was suddenly stopped in the ground as if it’d hit against something hard.
“Hm? I’ve found something? Is it Star Cloud Metal or Metal Essence?
Li Tieniu was not too surprised. It was commonly known that this huge Star Illumination Stone mine had small amounts of accompanying metals and minerals. The only materials that could stop the shovel like this were those two types of metal.
Li Tieniu could feel his excitement rising. These two ores were extremely precious, and were not something that the Star lllumination Stones could compare with.
The rewards for handing in these two types of ores were also extremely generous. One could directly be raised to the ranks of an honorary outer court disciple of the sect, and they didn’t need to fight tooth and nail with the others for a spot.
After looking around carefully and making sure that nobody had noticed his actions, Li Tieniu heaved a sigh of relief. The last thing he wanted was for others to snatch the precious ores from him.
Carefully putting the ores back, he quickly turned around and left.
“Brother Tieniu, you’ve already completed your quota today?”
Li Tieniu smiled good naturedly and said, “Yes, but there’s still two more years; two years later, this old iron bull 1 will also be able to join the Dragon’s Gate contest.”
It was obvious that Li Tieniu’s relations with others were pretty good. Along the way, many people stopped and called out to him in greeting.
His mood greatly improved. Li Tieniu bought a slightly more sumptious meal than usual and brought it back to his living quarters. Although the living conditions were poor, and each living quarter was stuffed with 16 people, Li Tieniu was pretty satisfied with his life. At the very least, he was much better off than those sinners.
Night quickly descended, and the sounds of snoring filled the air. Normally, Li Tieniu was also one of the people fast asleep and snoring happily at this time, but today, his eyes were wide open as he looked around. Assured that everyone was deep in their slumber, he picked up his shovel lightly and tiptoed out of the camp.
After spending eight years in this mine, although Li Tieniu dared not say that he knew the mine like the back of his hand, it still wasn’t a problem to go in and out of it. After walking along the twisting paths for a long time, Li Tieniu finally stepped into a dark tunnel.
This was the exact spot where he’d been digging at in the day. There were too many eyes at the time; the moment he dug out the precious ores, his actions would definitely draw a huge commotion.
The quarry manager did not give two hoots about who dug out the ores. His only concern was who turned the ores in. Although Li Tieniu looked simple and honest, he was not stupid. He was 100 percent certain that if he pulled out the ores in the day, he would definitely be killed on the spot!
Relying on the faint light given off by the Moon Fang Stone, Li Tieniu carefully proceeded forward. At the same time, he kept glancing backwards cautiously.
“I just need to dig out the precious ores and present them to the quarry manager, and I’ll become an honorary outer court disciple!”
Grabbing onto this belief, Li Tieniu picked up his shovel and searched for the mark he’d made during the day.
“Found it!”
Li Tieniu ran forward and carefully stuck his shovel into the ground.
“Ka-cha!”
A large piece of stone as thick as a palm was dislodged, revealing a silver ore the size of a face basin!
“Eh? This isn’t the Star Cloud Metal or the Metal Essence!”
Li Tieniu was somewhat disappointed. The appearance and properties of those two kinds of metals were what everyone who entered the mine was required to memorize when they first came in. Although the chance was small, these metals were bound to appear a few times in large-scale Star Illumination Stone mines like this every year.
Seeing the silvery white ore, Li Tieniu instantly recognized that this was not one of the two precious metals. In that moment, his heart was filled with disappointment.
