Chapter 77:

Chapter 77 – Deceive Me No One
A day’s time, obtaining three merit laws, and all of them were of the highest quality, it had been a long time since I had such a great harvest. As long as these three techniques were cultivated to perfection, Chen Fei’s strength would advance another layer.

Chen Fei’s first step was to first fuse the three merit laws together with each of the original ones.

“Feats found, is it costing 1,500 taels of silver to simplify the second level of the Tong Yuan Gong?”

“Discovered gongfu, does it cost one thousand taels of silver to simplify the Starry Night Sword?”

“Discovered a technique, does it cost 1,000 taels of silver to simplify the Soul Chasing Steps?”

The price of simplifying the Tong Yuan Gong has increased, the price of simplifying the Starry Night Sword and the Soul Chasing Steps is also not expensive, but both are within Chen Fei’s acceptance range.

“Simplify!”

“Tong Yuan Gong 2nd Simplification in progress…Simplification successful…Tong Yuan Gong 2nd → Tong Yuan Gong 1st!”

“Starry Night Sword simplification in progress…simplification successful…Starry Night Sword → Primordial Yuan Sword!”

“Soul Chasing Steps Simplification in progress…Simplification Successful…Soul Chasing Steps → Deng Yun Xing!”

Chen Fei took a deep breath, it was time for liver experience again. Let’s set a small goal first, within five days, cultivate the Soul Pursuing Steps to the Great Perfection.

Time passed day by day, Chen Fei refined pills in the morning, and in the afternoon, he started brushing the proficiency of Tong Yuan Gong and Soul Chasing Steps. Without leaving the front door, Chen Fei reverted to the ascetic’s cultivation method.

Even as night fell, Chen Fei still didn’t stop his cultivation.

When a martial artist reached a certain level, cultivation could sometimes replace sleep to a certain extent. Of course, it was definitely not as comfortable as sleep, but how could Chen Fei miss out on something like staying up all night, and such a meaningful one at that.

In the blink of an eye, the fifth day arrived, and Chen Fei followed Guo Linshan and the others into the mountains.

The team was large, but most of them were hired medicine pickers. When the time came to collect the medicinal herbs, it was still these medicine pickers who would complete the task, Chen Fei’s task was mainly to supervise, as well as after the medicinal herbs reached a certain amount, they were responsible for transporting them back.

“Danger doesn’t normally occur in the mountains, but things are always special, thus everyone cheer up. Speed up a bit, and you’ll be able to go back in half a month at the most.”

Arriving at the station on the mountain, Guo Linsan looked at his brothers and sisters underneath and shouted. This time, the mission was ranked to their team and belonged to a forced mission that could not be refused.

Such a mission would be rotated once a year in the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, and belonged to what every inner disciple was bound to accomplish. If they intentionally did not go to reach the task because of laziness or other reasons, the sect would have heavy penalties.

“Yes, Senior Brother Guo!” The crowd at the bottom shouted, and then began to spread out, following the previously arranged positions and supervising the progress of the pill pickers.

“Junior Brother, haven’t seen you for a long time.” Luo Jun suddenly walked over to Chen Fei and said with a smile.

Chen Fei turned his head to look, in fact, just now, Chen Fei saw Luo Jun, but he just didn’t think of going up to say hello, after all, he had just beaten up someone else.
Although the main purpose was to make Luo Jun not to make this kind of joke in the future, but more or less, Chen Fei still brought a bit of personal hatred in it.

“Recently, I’ve been busy cultivating, I didn’t go out much.” Chen Fei took a serious look at Luo Jun’s face, there were no scars, the recovery was good.

Luo Jun was stared at by Chen Fei looking at his face, thinking that Chen Fei knew about his sneak attack.

“Looks like Junior Brother also knows about this matter, that person don’t let me know who it is, otherwise I will definitely not let him go, this matter is not over!” Luo Jun said angrily.

Luo Jun had actually suspected Chen Fei, after all, he had just teased Chen Fei that day during the day and ended up getting beaten up at night, Chen Fei was highly suspected.

But the strength shown by that person made Luo Jun not have the power to resist at all.

Chen Fei was only at the beginning of the Calcined Bone Realm, and it was rumored that he was still from a remote place, so how could he have beaten him up like this.

Normally, Luo Jun had a cheap mouth and had actually offended quite a few people, thus he quickly shifted his suspicions to other people. “Senior brother has a point.” Chen Fei nodded in agreement.

Luo Jun chatted with Chen Fei for a few moments, and the two of them each went to their own positions to supervise the medicine pickers.

The daylight hours were about to pass, and because there were people supervising and the wages were paid quite well, the amount of medicinal herbs collected was quite impressive.

In this mountain range, I don’t know if it was because the soil was more fertile or for some other reason, the growth rate of the medicinal herbs was extremely fast. Even though the population around Immortal Cloud City was increasing day by day, it didn’t affect the output of the pills at all.

In the evening, the medicinal herbs were bundled onto a carriage and began to be transported towards the bottom of the mountain. Everyone’s expressions were relatively relaxed, following this trend, it was estimated that the task could be completed in ten days, and then there would be no need to eat and sleep in the wind like this.

Chen Fei was walking around in his area, not all to supervise the medicine pickers, but to cultivate the Soul Chasing Steps. Although Chen Fei had stayed up all night, or even said that he had been practicing day and night, in the end, the time was still a bit short.

The Soul Chasing Steps was still a few hundred proficiency short of being able to cultivate it to the level of the Great Perfection.

However, even if it was not yet full, Chen Fei’s speed nowadays had already had a very significant increase compared to before. If he cultivated to the grand completion, it was estimated that there would still be room for a leap.

And with a few hundred proficiency, Chen Fei worked hard and estimated that he would be able to complete it today.

As for the second level of Tong Yuan Gong, the proficiency level was over half, which was not far off from the ten days Chen Fei had initially predicted. The Starry Night Sword, because it was often practiced in conjunction with the Soul Chasing Steps, was also progressing at a pleasing rate today, approaching the Grand Completion.

Chen Fei was circling around the mission area, his body flickering from time to time, when suddenly a loud clamor suddenly came from the distance. Chen Fei turned his head to look and realized that it was the sect’s compound on the mountain.

Chen Fei’s figure flickered, but in a moment’s time, he returned to the compound, and saw that there was a person lying on the ground covered in blood at the moment, Chen Fei fixed his eyes on him and realized that it was Shi Dahe who had transported the herbs earlier.

“What’s going on here?”

Chen Fei turned his head to look at Luo Jun. When Chen Fei came, Luo Jun was already here.

“Someone sneak attacked our caravan carrying medicinal herbs, Senior Brother Shi fought to the death to break out and came back to tell us the news. Senior Brother Guo brought some of his brothers and sisters and has already rushed to the rescue.” Luo Jun whispered.

Chen Fei looked up, sure enough, the few senior brothers whose cultivation was at the Marrow Training Realm were not there, and those present were all at the Calcined Bone Realm like Chen Fei.

After Shi Dahe on the ground had taken some pills, his injuries had stabilized a bit at the moment and he fell into a deep sleep.

Half an hour had passed, the crowd was still anxiously waiting for Guo Linsan and the others to come back, the news here had already passed through the carrier pigeon, and was transmitted back within the sect, the sect would probably arrange for experts to come.

The caravan was displaying the markings of the Yuan Chen Sword Sect, but that was it, there were still people who dared to attack, clearly not placing the Yuan Chen Sword Sect in their eyes. Or rather, didn’t place them disciples in their eyes.

“Spare… spare your life!”

A voice begging for mercy suddenly rang out, and everyone couldn’t help but turn their heads to look, a medicine picker was grabbed by the neck by a martial artist and ran towards this side, but in a moment, he arrived at the compound and dropped the medicine picker onto the ground ruthlessly.

“Changhong Sect?”

The crowd saw the graphic pattern on the visitor’s body, as well as the iconic lance, and instantly guessed the identity of the other party.

“What are you doing injuring my herb picker!” Luo Jun looked at the herb picker on the ground and felt that it looked familiar, then he looked again, wasn’t it the herb picker in his own area.

“Trespassing my sect’s mission area, I killed him all right, I still want to ask you guys, are you bullying my Changhong Sect no one!”

Kuang Dingbo let out a furious shout, the long spear fell into his hand, his aura instantly overshadowing the entire field.

(End of chapter)