The first volume debuts Chapter 33: Sadness in the Heart
The Green Poisonous Five-Colored Fish is not very powerful in the early stage of the Spiritual Foundation Realm, but the venom all over its body is quite dangerous. As long as you can defend against its venom, it is not too difficult to hunt it.
Shortly after the two left, a breath several times stronger than the green poisonous colorful fish woke up in the water. It swallowed the body of the green poisonous colorful fish in one gulp, swam rapidly in the water at the speed of lightning, and finally jumped high out of the lake. It turned out to be a huge fish several times larger than the green poisonous colorful fish.
There were no sharp thorns on the fish's back. After jumping out of the water, the thorns suddenly emerged from the fish's back like lightning, and it was obvious that it could retract freely. The scales on the big fish were not colorful, but extremely deep purple, but they exuded an aura that was countless times more dangerous than the colorful scales.
This is a green poisonous five-colored fish that has entered the late stage of the spiritual foundation realm. Fortunately, it was in seclusion and sleep before, so it did not appear when Shen Luoyan was hunting the green poisonous five-colored fish in the early stage of the spiritual foundation realm. When it appeared at this time, it found that the culprit had left. After letting out two dull roars from its belly, it sank to the bottom of the water again.
Li Xuanfeng and Shen Luoyan, who had already gone far away , had no idea that there was an even more ferocious big fish appearing under the water.
Not every hunt for spirit beasts was so successful, because it was impossible for every encounter to be a spirit beast in the early stage of the spirit foundation realm. During the period, the two encountered a thunder tiger, which was only a juvenile thunder tiger, but its strength had already reached the middle stage of the spirit foundation realm.
The thunder tiger was surrounded by the power of thunder and lightning. Li Xuanfeng threw more than ten explosive pills but failed to hurt it at all. Moreover, this tiger was as fast as lightning. The speed of the two was completely suppressed. It could even spit out lightning from its mouth. Li Xuanfeng and Shen Luoyan were both electrocuted so much that their hair stood up and their bodies were smoking. They had no choice but to activate the teleportation talisman to teleport back to the cave level.
Fortunately, because they suffered a loss at the hands of the golden-scaled snake last time, the two of them specifically worked on improving their resistance to lightning. Now their defense against lightning is pretty good, and their injuries are not serious. The two people who were teleported back to the cave level looked at each other's ugly appearance with hair standing up and smoke coming out of their bodies. They couldn't help but smile bitterly at each other, and sat down cross-legged to heal their wounds and recover.
After recovering, the two decided to return to the central platform to prepare some consumables. During this period, they had been hunting spiritual beasts at the spiritual foundation level for a lot of losses. The two had been in the second trial level for more than half a month, hunting three spiritual beasts, and picking a few herbs on the way.
Li Xuanfeng first bought a large amount of medicinal materials in the trading pavilion before returning to his room. He refined dozens of Lingji Pills, and about 30% of them were of high quality, while the rest were all of medium quality. After returning to the trading pavilion to sell the Lingji Pills, he spent most of his spiritual stones to buy several formations of the Lingji realm.
When pills, formations, and herbs were used in the Spiritual Foundation Realm, their value far exceeded that of items in the Fusion Spirit Realm. For the first time, Li Xuanfeng felt that his spiritual stones were not enough. He spent most of them in an instant to refine dozens of Spiritual Foundation Pills. This was after refining a lot of high-quality Spiritual Foundation Pills, which were worth more than mid-quality Spiritual Foundation Pills.
After returning to the room, Li Xuanfeng swallowed a Spirit Gathering Pill to practice . At this time, the Spirit Gathering Pill no longer had as obvious effect on Li Xuanfeng as before. It could only barely allow his spiritual power to return to the perfection of the Spirit Fusion Realm. After being compressed again, it reached the late stage of Spirit Fusion which was condensed eight times.
Firstly, the efficacy of the Spirit Gathering Pill was much reduced for Li Xuanfeng, who had strong spiritual power. Secondly, as his cultivation level improved, it became increasingly difficult to compress and condense spiritual power, and the spiritual power required also doubled.
At this time, Li Xuanfeng's spiritual power, both in terms of the degree of refinement and the total amount of spiritual power, had surpassed the ordinary early stage of spiritual foundation. He had entered the state of fasting and no longer needed to use food to replenish energy.
This day is Li Xuanfeng’s birthday.
At this time, Li Xuanfeng had been in Xuanling Sect for more than half a year. He was completely different from the person he was in the village at that time. His strength had changed tremendously, and so had his state of mind.
He thought back to the time in Taoyuan Village, when his parents and fellow villagers lived and worked in peace and contentment, and Li Xuanfeng and a few friends played carefree every day. A smile just appeared on the corner of his mouth, but was once again covered up by the deep loneliness in his eyes.
Every year on his birthday, his mother would prepare a large table of delicious food, invite the neighbors to eat together, and cook a bowl of longevity noodles for Li Xuanfeng, reminding him not to bite the noodles off when eating.
At that time, Li Xuanfeng didn't like eating noodles. He didn't want to disappoint his mother, so he ate all the longevity noodles every year. Now he missed the taste of the longevity noodles made by his mother. It's a pity that he will never have the chance to eat that bowl of longevity noodles again.
Li Xuanfeng did not tell anyone else about his birthday this time, and no one knew his birthday. Thinking back to when he was in the village, he often forgot his birthday, but his parents would always remember it.
Li Xuanfeng stood quietly on the edge of the platform of the first peak, next to the second peak. Li Xuanfeng silently looked into the distance between the first peak and the second peak. He remembered that this was the place where Shen Hua brought him to the Xuanling Sect. His hometown Taoyuan Village was in the distance in this direction.
For Li Xuanfeng, birthdays seem to have lost their meaning now that his parents are gone. Since he saw his parents being killed by the Corpse Demon Cult in front of him, Li Xuanfeng has lost all his previous happiness. He shows a normal smile in front of everyone because he doesn't want to affect others because of his unhappiness.
Perhaps in this peaceful Xuanling Sect, no one could truly understand his feelings, which was the loneliness of being alone.
After a long time, Li Xuanfeng turned around and walked back. He did not use his spiritual power, nor did he run. He just walked slowly towards the central platform. On this day, Li Xuanfeng did not want to use his spiritual power, because he always hoped that he could still be the carefree boy without spiritual power.
Time passes quickly, but the sadness in my heart does not decrease with the passage of time. It is a permanent pain in my heart.
From his understanding of Xuanling Sect, Li Xuanfeng knew that the sect's three-yearly sect competition would be held in a month, which would be divided into three competitions, namely the Rongling Realm, the Lingji Realm, and the Lingdan Realm. The competition would select the best disciples in each realm, with considerable rewards or the qualification to enter the secret realm of cultivation. These were all what the disciples were looking forward to.
The sect competition was open to all, and Li Xuanfeng had received a message from his master Shen Hua, asking him to participate in the sect competition. Although such a competition was a bit unfair to the disciples at the early stages of their realm, there was no absolute fairness in the cultivation world, and it was already a good fairness to have separate competitions for each realm.
Disciples who had been in the sect for a long time already knew the time of the competition, and the new disciples also sensed something unusual in the recent atmosphere. After asking around, they also learned about the sect competition and began intensive preparations.
Li Xuanfeng did not prepare nervously because the competition was approaching. He continued to practice as usual, refine pills and occasionally enter the trial layer to hunt spirit beasts. The probability of refining the spirit base pill has reached 50% of the top grade, and Li Xuanfeng's goal is to perfect the spirit base pill to prepare for his breakthrough to the spirit base realm. As for hunting spirit beasts, Li Xuanfeng has already entered the second trial layer alone.
Although it was not as easy to hunt spirit beasts as with his senior sister Shen Luoyan, hunting alone greatly improved his combat awareness and combat power.
With the Spiritual Foundation Realm formation he bought at the Trading Pavilion , Li Xuanfeng was able to successfully hunt down any Spiritual Foundation Early Stage Spiritual Beast that was not extremely powerful in about an incense stick of time. As for Spiritual Beasts with extremely powerful combat power, Li Xuanfeng would be in a tough fight, but with his strong combat awareness and combat power that surpassed that of ordinary Spiritual Foundation Realms, he could also hunt down the beast after a relatively long period of hard fighting.
The wounds on Li Xuanfeng's body healed and then healed again, and he didn't know how many times he had been injured. This was a fight between life and death, the simplest and crudest way to improve strength, but also the most dangerous way. As for the spirit beasts in the middle stage of the spiritual foundation realm, they were injured and vomited blood in two attempts. Li Xuanfeng had to avoid them as much as possible, and planned to deal with them after breaking through the spiritual foundation realm.
During this month, Li Xuanfeng was forced to use the teleportation talisman twice, which meant he was on the brink of death twice. The harvest was not bad, he hunted three spirit beasts in the early stage of the spirit foundation realm, including wood and water spirit beasts. When Li Xuanfeng was about to sell them, the Five Elements Venerable mysteriously asked him to keep them, saying that they would be of great use soon, so Li Xuanfeng chose to store them in his storage bag.
