The next morning.
Ye Feng woke up from the spirit stone bed and muttered to himself, "From now on, I definitely need to prepare some comfortable mattresses in the System Space. Otherwise, this spirit stone bed, while comfortable, is just too uncomfortably hard."
Name: Ye Feng
Age: 18
Realm: Peak of the Ninth Level Qi Movement Realm
Physique: Mortal Body
Martial Skills: Human Rank High Grade Martial Skill · Fire Dragon Fist, Earth Rank High Grade Martial Skill · Nine Brilliance Thunder Lotus, Earth Rank High Grade Martial Skill · Water Dragon's Chant, Earth Rank High Grade Martial Skill · Wind Sweeping Wild Sands
Intent Realm: Realm of Death Sword Heart Divine
Abilities: None
Items: Sudden Enlightenment Pill * 120, Nine Leaf Soul Return Grass * 95, Gold Silkworm Star Brilliance Stone * 15, Purple Thunder Violent Lion Essence Blood * 280, Sword Heart Advancement Fragment * 4, Heavenly Profound Secret Art Sudden Enlightenment Pill * 95 Prodigal Points: 141,010
Today's Prodigal Items: Sixth Grade Ninth Rank Heavenly Thunder Talisman * 10,000
"Right, I still have ninety-five Heavenly Profound Secret Art Sudden Enlightenment Pills left. But the ten thousand I gave Ye Lingxue should be enough for her for a short while."
"Sixth Grade Ninth Rank Heavenly Thunder Talismans... isn't this equivalent to the full-power strike of a ninth-level Violet Palace Realm cultivator?"
"Prodigal Points have reached over 140,000! It's time to raise my strength again."
Thinking this, Ye Feng directly said to the System, "Consume nine thousand Prodigal Points, break through my strength to the Peak of the ninth level Spirit Fusing Realm!"
Boom!
As Ye Feng's words fell, the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi instantly began to fluctuate violently. Ye Feng's body seemed to transform into a terrifying black hole, frantically sucking in and devouring the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
Ten seconds later, Ye Feng's aura smoothly broke through from Peak Ninth Level Qi Movement Realm to the first level of Spirit Fusing Realm.
Thirty seconds later, second level Spirit Fusing Realm!
One minute and ten seconds, third level Spirit Fusing Realm!
...
After an unknown amount of time, Ye Feng sensed his cultivation smoothly breaking through to the Peak of the ninth level Spirit Fusing Realm. He once again spoke to the System, "Consume ninety thousand Prodigal Points, break through my strength to the Peak of the ninth level Foundation Establishment Realm!"
A radius of one hundred meters!
A radius of one thousand meters!
As Ye Feng continued to break through, the affected range also began to expand wildly!
Under Internal Vision!
Ye Feng discovered that his vast, oceanic Spirit Sea was also trembling violently at this moment. Turbulent waves surged, the Spirit Sea surging to the heavens! An endless stream of Spiritual Power began converging frantically. A nine-petaled lotus platform condensed from pure Spiritual Qi was gradually taking shape.
As the lotus platform fully formed, the Spiritual Qi within the oceanic Spirit Sea, as well as the external Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, continued to pour into it ceaselessly. The formed lotus platform grew larger at a speed visible to the naked eye!
After an unknown amount of time, when the last drop of Spiritual Qi in the oceanic Spirit Sea merged into the giant lotus platform, and the external Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi no longer appeared, the nine-petaled lotus platform instantly bloomed (Original term: 绽放 - zhàn fàng)! And an aura of breakthrough also erupted violently from within Ye Feng's body!
Lotus blooms, Foundation established!
Next came a crazy breakthrough, like splitting bamboo!
Second Level Foundation Establishment Realm!
Third Level Foundation Establishment Realm!
...
Phew!
When his cultivation finally stabilized at the Peak of the ninth level Foundation Establishment Realm, Ye Feng also let out a long breath. This feeling of consecutively breaking through two major realms... one word: Awesome!
"What a pity! Such an earth-shattering breakthrough of mine, yet there isn't a single witness... eh..."
"Holy Crap!"
"What the hell is this situation? Took a nap and gained two corpses?"
At this moment, Ye Feng finally discovered the corpses of Elder Pang and Zhang Hang near the cave entrance, cut in half at the waist.
"Damn! My earth-shattering breakthrough was actually completed under the witness of two corpses! Can things get any more messed up!"
If he had discovered these two inexplicably appearing corpses earlier, Ye Feng wouldn't have minded leaving this place before breaking through.
Ignoring the two corpses, Ye Feng collected all the Supreme-grade Spirit Stones used to build the spirit stone bed on the ground into the System Space, then directly left the cave.
As for those two corpses, he didn't need to think to know they must have tried to kill him while he was sleeping, only to be dealt with directly by the golden-armored burly man from the Divine Magnate Guard. Other than this, Ye Feng couldn't think of a second possibility.
And only the Divine Magnate Guard would be considerate enough, while he was sleeping, to kill the opponents without disturbing him.
"Is that... a Caravan?"
After leaving the cave, Ye Feng suddenly noticed a caravan of about a hundred people ahead. Especially seeing several horse-drawn carriages among the group, Ye Feng felt he absolutely had to join the caravan.
"Halt!"
The caravan leader, seeing a youth blocking the path ahead, even though sensing the other party only had the cultivation of Peak Ninth Level Foundation Establishment Realm, still released his Divine Sense with a grave expression to scan the surroundings.
"Who are you?"
"Why are you blocking our path?"
Finding nothing after scanning, Meng Tangyu's gaze returned to Ye Feng as he asked directly.
"Sir, I wish to join the caravan, and I..."
Before Ye Feng could finish, Meng Tangyu interrupted directly, "Do you think I would let someone of unknown background randomly join the caravan?"
"Continue the journey!"
Finished speaking, Meng Tangyu, with a wave of his hand, led the caravan continuing forward.
"A caravan... why didn't I think of that before!"
"Looks like after reaching the next town, I need to find a way to temporarily form a caravan. Then get a carriage, hire a large group of cultivators to clear the way... that's way better than traveling miserably on my own!"
Watching the gradually departing caravan, Ye Feng didn't react much. After all, this was a Xuanhuan world. Why should they let him join the caravan? What if he was a spy sent by some bandit group?
"Hm?"
"What's this situation?"
After walking for a while, Ye Feng saw that the caravan that had rejected him earlier was actually waiting for him up ahead. This left him somewhat puzzled.
"Is there something you need?"
Walking up to the caravan, Ye Feng looked at Meng Tangyu walking directly towards him and asked curiously, wondering what the other party wanted.
"My Young Master said he can give you a chance. As long as you can defeat him, you can follow our caravan."
Meng Tangyu looked at Ye Feng and stated the purpose directly.
"Alright!"
Ye Feng's interest was piqued upon hearing this. Moreover, since the other party proposed such a requirement, his strength should likely be similar to his own. Within the same realm, he, Ye Feng, was invincible, fearing no challenge from anyone!
Soon, the hundred-plus people in the caravan formed a large circle, leaving a very spacious battleground.
"Ye Feng, Peak Ninth Level Foundation Establishment Realm."
Looking at the yellow-haired youth walking out from the opposite side, Ye Feng somehow felt the other didn't look like a caravan's young master.
"Huang Xiaofei, Peak Ninth Level Divine Repository Realm!"
"Buddy, don't say I, Huang Xiaofei, am bullying you. I can give you three moves. And you're allowed to use any external force – pills, talismans, formations, etc. As long as you have them on you, feel free to use them."
Hearing the other party's words, Ye Feng was greatly shocked. He already considered himself a very shameless person. Who knew he would encounter such a formidable opponent today!
Freaking a whole major realm higher than this daddy, and still acting cool here? Then don't blame this daddy for not being polite!