A Brush with Danger

After putting away the scrolls, Lin Feng looked at the piles of Gold Coins before him.

Then he said to Xiao Yi Xian, "We've gone through most of the items. As for the remaining Gold Coins, you take seventy percent and I'll take thirty. Once we've collected them, we'll let this senior rest in peace."

"Alright." Xiao Yi Xian nodded, having no objections.

Afterward, the two of them separately stored the Gold Coins from the three corners into their Storage Rings.

They then dug a pit in one corner of the stone chamber and buried the bones along with that broken bone.

After finishing everything, Lin Feng looked around the cave and saw that there was nothing left. He turned to Xiao Yi Xian and said, "Alright, now let's head back. Wait, someone's coming?!"

"What?"

Hearing this, Xiao Yi Xian was equally startled. She immediately shook her head. "Impossible. Only the two of us know about this place!"

"I couldn't have heard wrong. There are quite a few people coming!"

Lin Feng's expression darkened as his gaze instinctively flicked toward Xiao Yi Xian.

"You suspect I called them here?"

Seeing Lin Feng's expression, Xiao Yi Xian's pretty face immediately flushed with anger. "If I wanted to harm you, I could've had those mercenaries attack you back at camp. There'd be no need to wait until now!"

Hearing that, Lin Feng also felt she had a point. But as the footsteps drew closer and closer, he hurriedly said, "Take out the medicine powder from earlier and get ready. Watch my signal."

"Fine." Xiao Yi Xian gritted her teeth, scooped all the medicine powder into her small hands, and hid them inside her sleeves.

"Hehe, I never expected to encounter such a lucky opportunity. Sure enough, Heaven favors me!"

Just as Xiao Yi Xian finished, a familiar, faintly amused voice rang out smugly in the stone chamber.

Then, more than a dozen figures slowly emerged from the dark passage beyond the entrance.

"Mu Li!"

Hearing that voice, Xiao Yi Xian immediately clenched her silver teeth.

At the pitch-black stone entrance, more than a dozen mercenaries stood in three rows, completely blocking the doorway.

A figure stepped out from behind them. Under the light of the Moonlight Stone, his face was revealed—it was Mu Li, the Young Group Leader of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group!

Mu Li's gaze first swept over the stone box that Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian had already opened, and a flash of greed passed through his eyes.

During the day, he had seen Xiao Yi Xian and Lin Feng leave for so long, then emerge from the woods with their clothes somewhat disheveled. He suspected that the two had done something improper in the little grove.

Lying in bed that night, the more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He had gotten up intending to sneak into Xiao Yi Xian's tent under cover of darkness and take her by force, turning raw rice into cooked rice.

Who would have thought that when he reached Xiao Yi Xian's tent, he found not even a ghost inside?

At that moment, Ma Si, the mercenary he had sent to kill Lin Feng, also came to report that when he led men to Lin Feng's tent, he found it completely empty.

Mu Li assumed Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian had gone sneaking into the little grove again that night.

With the mindset that if he could not have her, then he had to destroy her, he brought his men to catch them in the act in the woods.

Who would have thought that not only did he fail to catch anyone in the act, he instead found this rope beside a nearby cliff and followed it to discover the cave.

Seeing this, how could Mu Li not understand what had happened? He immediately ordered his men to seal off the area, then hurried down with the mercenaries beside him to block the entrance.

Licking his lips, Mu Li swept his gaze across the stone chamber and smiled. "My apologies for disturbing you two."

"You followed us?"

When Lin Feng saw Mu Li and the mercenaries behind him, he immediately relaxed.

Aside from Mu Li, a Six-star Dou Zhe, the other mercenaries were only Four- or Five-star Dou Zhes.

Although he could not kill them all, escaping with Xiao Yi Xian should not be a problem.

Mu Li shrugged and said with a smile, "Not exactly. These things are far too important to our Wolf Head Mercenary Group. With them, we can easily swallow up every faction in Qingshan Town. Only then will we have the qualifications and strength to expand outward. My ambitions aren't limited to this tiny town."

"Hand the things over, Xiao Yi Xian. You should know how I feel about you. As long as you follow me, once I take control of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, I definitely won't treat you poorly!"

Looking at Xiao Yi Xian with affection in his eyes, Mu Li's voice gradually softened.

"Disgusting. Get lost!" Xiao Yi Xian did not waste words and directly made her stance clear.

Seeing that Mu Li still wanted to say something, Lin Feng gave Xiao Yi Xian a look. She instantly understood.

With a flick of both hands, she threw all the medicine powder in her palms into the air, where it scattered in every direction.

The scattered powder immediately filled the entire stone chamber.

"Follow me."

After saying that to Xiao Yi Xian, Lin Feng darted toward the cave entrance.

"Hold your breath! Those by the entrance, don't move! Block the doorway! Ma Si, attack them!"

Seeing the medicine powder fill the stone chamber, making the already dim cave even harder to see through, Mu Li could not find Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian for the moment. His expression changed slightly as he shouted urgently.

"Yellow Tier Mid-grade Dou Skill, Stone Crushing Fist!"

"Yellow Tier Mid-grade Dou Skill, Stone Crushing Fist!"

"..."

Before the mercenaries in front could answer, they only felt a fierce gust of wind sweep past them. Then, palms containing ferocious force slammed heavily into their chests.

Several unprepared mercenaries immediately cried out miserably before being hurled hard against the cave walls. They slowly slid down afterward, their fate unknown.

Hearing his subordinates' screams, Mu Li's face sank. He hurriedly retreated several steps, landing right outside the stone entrance.

At the same time, he completely blocked the passage through the entrance.

Bang!

A powerful force suddenly shot out from ahead. At the entrance, the mercenaries in the second row, whose strength was only at the level of Five-star Dou Zhes, could not possibly withstand an attack from Lin Feng, an Eight-Star Dou Practitioner. With muffled grunts, they were blasted several steps aside by the force.

Before those beside them could fill the gap, two swift figures slipped through like loaches.

By the time they came to their senses, it was already too late to stop them. They could only shout urgently to Mu Li in the last row, "Young Group Leader, they're charging at you!"

Mu Li's pupils contracted. He slowly spread his feet apart and blocked the narrow passage. His fists clenched tightly as pale green Dou Qi gradually surged over them.

Under the green Dou Qi's influence, his flesh-and-blood fists gradually turned the color of wood.

"Let's see how a Two-star Dou Zhe like you can force me back in a head-on clash!"

Watching the two figures rush toward him, Mu Li sneered.

"Get back!"

With Mu Li's shout, his pair of wood-like fists glowed with green light and carried a fierce force as they smashed furiously toward Lin Feng.

Mysterious Tier Low-grade Dou Skill: Wood Hardening!

Lin Feng did not slow down in the slightest. Not a trace of fear could be seen on his calm face. The rapidly flowing Dou Qi within him, guided by a Mysterious Tier Cultivation Method, began to circulate violently along the pathways of the Dou Skill.

Mysterious Tier Low-grade Dou Skill, Crimson Fire Palm! (Chapter Three contained an error. The skill obtained from Liu Xi was Crimson Fire Palm, not Fire Origin Palm. Fire Origin Palm will only appear in later chapters.)

After the Dou Qi passed through the specific Meridians formed in his hand by the Crimson Fire Palm, the surging energy instantly turned Lin Feng's right palm crimson.

Bang!

Palm and fist collided thunderously within the narrow cave.

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