Orc Warriors

Chen Feng hadn't expected that a palm strike using half his strength wouldn't kill his opponent—or even injure him.

Seeing the Orc Warrior charge at him again, Chen Feng didn't dodge this time. He raised his right hand, reinforced with internal energy, and blocked the bone club swinging down at him.

The blow was powerful, and Chen Feng's right hand ached faintly. But that was all. Having tested the Orc Warrior's strength, Chen Feng stopped holding back and struck the warrior in the chest with all his might.

With a series of cracking sounds, the Orc Warrior's breastbone shattered, and splinters of bone pierced his internal organs.

Even so, the Orc Warrior struggled for a long time before he finally died. By then, Chen Feng had already killed the other Orcs.

Looking at the dead Orc Warrior, Chen Feng realized he needed to revise his plan. He had originally intended to charge into the forest and slaughter everything in sight, but killing a single Orc Warrior had taken a full-strength palm strike. Even with seventy years' worth of Northern Darkness True Qi to draw on, he wouldn't be able to keep that up for long.

Once his true qi ran out, he'd be in danger. It seemed better to use Lingbo Weibu's mobility to take out the ordinary Orcs first, then look for an opportunity to deal with the Orc Warriors.

Chen Feng didn't enter the forest. Instead, he walked along the coast, finding groups of Orcs fishing every so often. Along the way, he killed four Orc Warriors, and they all became Reincarnation Points.

By nightfall, Chen Feng had killed more than a hundred Orcs and five Orc Warriors, earning a total of 2,200 Reincarnation Points—enough for a B Grade Evaluation in a Simple Grade instance.

At night, the darkness became a natural cover for Chen Feng. In the small Orc camp nearby, bonfires burned here and there. Groups of Orcs slept soundly around them.

Several Orc Warriors patrolled the camp. After all, Woma Forest wasn't entirely safe at night, and predators lurking in the darkness were always on the lookout for prey.

Chen Feng quietly moved upwind, opened the bottle of Bei Su Qing Feng, and plugged his nose with the antidote. He continuously used his internal energy to fan the drug outward.

Suddenly, a huge spider appeared behind him. It climbed silently down from a tree and sprayed a stream of venom at Chen Feng, who was hiding beneath it.

Caught off guard by the enemy above him, Chen Feng was drenched in venom. But before it could seep through his pores and into his body, Northern Darkness True Qi stopped it cold. It couldn't harm him at all.

The Poisonous spider relied on the venom in its belly to catch prey. When it saw that its venom had no effect, it bared its sharp fangs and lunged at Chen Feng.

Thud! Chen Feng smashed the fragile spider to pieces with one palm. The sound was faint, but the Orc Warrior at the rear of the patrol heard it. Suspicious, he walked toward Chen Feng.

As the Orc Warrior drew closer, Chen Feng used Lingbo Weibu to appear swiftly at his side. He grabbed the wrist of the hand holding the bone club and clamped his other hand over the warrior's mouth to keep him from shouting.

To Chen Feng's surprise, as soon as his palm, brimming with Northern Darkness True Qi, touched the Orc Warrior's wrist and mouth, a sudden suction force appeared. Power streamed from the warrior's body into Chen Feng's.

The Orc Warrior felt the strength draining rapidly from his body and looked terrified. But by then, he couldn't muster even the slightest strength, let alone cry for help.

As time passed, the Orc Warrior's skin gradually grew lighter, changing from dark green to the gray of an ordinary Orc. When Chen Feng could no longer draw any power from him, he casually slapped the warrior to death.

Chen Feng saw that the system had awarded him only 10 Reincarnation Points, which meant the warrior had turned into an Orc.

What Chen Feng didn't know was that Orcs lived for only thirty years. After an Orc passed the age of thirty, he evolved into an Orc Warrior, and his skin turned dark green. Orc Warriors could live for fifty to two hundred years.

This transformation happened because, after years of fighting, Orcs came to sense the existence of a kind of power known as Mana on the Marfa Continent.

But Orcs had no way to cultivate it. Once Mana appeared in their bodies, it gradually changed their physical form over time.

The evolution from Orc Warrior to Orc Hero worked the same way. Years of fighting caused the Mana in an Orc Warrior's body to eventually cross a certain threshold. After living for more than two hundred years, his body began to grow larger, and he became an Orc Hero.

Every Orc who became an Orc Hero received a reward from the King of Half-beastmen: a fine suit of armor and a sharp axe. They were the elite fighters of the Orc army.

Deep in Woma Forest, in what would later be known as Bairimen Forest, there were even Orc Commanders who had lived for more than five hundred years. The invasion of Baqi City was led by four Orc Commanders.

The internal energy cultivated by humans was also, in essence, a form of energy. Chen Feng's Northern Darkness Divine Skill could absorb different kinds of energy and turn them to his use, while Orc Warriors had no idea how to control their energy. That was why Chen Feng could drain it from them so easily.

Though he didn't understand exactly what had happened, this was good news for Chen Feng. Lingbo Weibu paired with the Northern Darkness Divine Skill let him absorb energy while fighting, so he no longer had to worry about using up too much internal energy.

The camp was now in disarray. The Orc Warriors on patrol had evidently noticed that one of their number was missing and had gone on alert.

But it was already too late. The effects of Bei Su Qing Feng had taken hold, and the Orcs who had woken up were collapsing to the ground, weak all over.

The Orc Warriors, however, were physically stronger and could still stand. Even so, only two or three tenths of their strength remained.

Chen Feng darted into the middle of a group of Orcs and showed no mercy. Palm strikes flashed one after another, all landing on their heads. In an instant, he killed more than a dozen Orcs.

The weakened Orc Warriors became sacrifices to Chen Feng's internal energy. He dispatched them with ease.

By the time the sun rose, the camps of more than a dozen Orc groups were strewn with corpses. Chen Feng was exhausted after a whole night of fighting. He could replenish himself by absorbing the Mana inside the Orc Warriors, but a person's stamina still had its limits.

What's more, Chen Feng found a small bronze axe in one of the camps. He had no idea which unfortunate soul had supplied it to the Orcs. He knocked off all the tusks from the Orc Warriors, wrapped them in a bundle he'd found, and hid it in a pile of rocks by the shore.

There were simply too many Orc teeth, so he left them alone.