Song Yiling understood at once.
Her own background was extraordinary. If they were compared, it was even deeper than the backgrounds of Xu Jun and the other two. However, Song Yiling also knew that Xu Jun and the others had gone to take the disciple assessment.
They were young and had not yet joined a sect. By rights, they should have swept through the disciple assessment and claimed first place.
Yet first place had changed hands.
And it had gone to someone with no notable background?
But whether he had a background or not was unimportant.
What mattered was Lin Feng's talent!
Three-Layer Sword Intent!
Even before coming to the Sword Tempering Pool, his Sword Intent had already surpassed hers. The reward he received from this trip to the Sword Tempering Pool had to be at least two layers of Sword Intent, right?
Five-Layer Sword Intent! Among the tens of thousands of Inner Disciples, only one in a thousand possessed it. Moreover, most of them were either at the Peak Sea of Reincarnation Realm or had already entered the Palace of Destiny Realm. At the same realm, they were likely far inferior to Lin Feng.
Song Yiling thought, calculated this way, Lin Feng's combat strength was also quite formidable. Below the Seventh Stage of the Sea of Reincarnation Realm, perhaps no one could be his opponent.
She had to find an opportunity to get in touch with him.
After leaving the Sword Tempering Pool, Lin Feng headed toward the loft where he lived.
After activating the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, he could feel the surging vigor of his blood and qi.
But such vigor required a vast amount of origin power to replenish it.
The Sword Tempering Pool had merely activated his Desolate Ancient Sacred Body. Cultivating the Holy Body was not something that could be accomplished simply by taking the first step. A Holy Body that had just begun cultivation did not even possess the slightest phenomenon.
At the very least, it had to be cultivated to the minor success stage.
However, bringing the Holy Body to minor success was by no means easy. Who knew how many mountain-like resources would be needed to pile it up? Still, Lin Feng was rather confident. With Heaven-Defying Comprehension empowering him, it was not a problem at all.
Besides, there were still many more tags he could plunder later on. Lin Feng was not worried about any of this.
There was still some distance left before he reached the loft where he lived.
Yet when he approached the area, he discovered quite a few disciples gathered there.
There were no small number of them.
"Hmm?"
Lin Feng frowned slightly.
One did not visit the temple without a cause.
What were these fellows doing at his residence?
"Where did this brat go? Could he be hiding?"
"Hmph, he probably knows the rules. If someone challenges him, he has to accept. If he loses, he has to get out of the cultivation cave dwelling. He's probably unwilling!"
"Heh, a Blood-Shifting Realm cultivator dares occupy a place like this? Is he worthy?"
Quite a few Inner Disciples spoke up.
From afar, Lin Feng understood.
So this bunch had come to seize his cave dwelling?
Fine. He had just fused with the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, and with Seventh-Layer Sword Intent added on top, he had been worrying over finding someone to test himself on.
He had not expected people to come knocking at his door.
Lin Feng stepped behind these Inner Disciples and spoke indifferently. "You want to challenge me?"
His calm voice seemed to explode amid the crowd. In an instant, countless gazes shifted onto Lin Feng!
"It's him!"
"That Blood-Shifting Realm disciple?"
Many ill-intentioned gazes fell upon Lin Feng. Yet Lin Feng remained utterly calm, as though unaffected in the slightest. He looked at them as if they were ants.
At once, an Inner Disciple leaped out. He was a gaunt-faced man who released his origin power, his aura fluctuating at around the Fifth Stage of the Sea of Reincarnation Realm.
He grinned savagely. "You finally came back. I've waited for you for a long time. With your strength, you aren't qualified to stay in this place! A sensible person should have moved out long ago. Who would have thought you'd still shamelessly keep living here?"
Before Lin Feng could speak, another Inner Disciple rushed to say, "This cave dwelling should be given to me!"
As he spoke, he released the aura of the Sixth Stage of the Sea of Reincarnation Realm.
He was rather strong as well.
The Inner Disciples all fought over it, as though Lin Feng were transparent air and this cultivation cave dwelling had already become ownerless.
Watching these disciples, Lin Feng remained expressionless, while a powerful momentum surged from his body.
In terms of realm alone, he was already at the Fourth Stage of the Sea of Reincarnation Realm.
And on top of that, he had Seventh-Layer Sword Intent.
Without exaggeration, how many people within the Sea of Reincarnation Realm could be his match?
Meanwhile, the arguing Inner Disciples had already turned red-faced, as though they were about to start fighting among themselves.
But the arrival of a powerful momentum made their breathing halt.
What a terrifying aura.
It was as though it came from the bloodline suppression of a superior being!
Such suppression of aura meant that the other party was very powerful, far surpassing them.
Following the source of that momentum, everyone's gazes finally locked onto Lin Feng again.
Quite a few Inner Disciples were uncertain and alarmed. How could such pressure appear on him? It made no sense!
Before they could say anything, Lin Feng made the first move.
The longsword in his hand flashed with azure light!
He did not use any sword technique, only Sword Intent.
He wanted to see just how powerful pure Sword Intent could be!
Sssht! Sssht!
In an instant, countless terrifying sword lights enveloped all the Inner Disciples.
"Brat, you've got a lot of nerve. You're surrounding all of us by yourself?"
"Your heart is higher than the heavens, but your eyes are lower than your hands! Once I knock him down with one punch, he'll behave!"
"Forget it. Stop talking and just fight!"
Many Inner Disciples sneered, scorning Lin Feng for not knowing life from death. He actually wanted to fight all of them alone. He was simply insane.
Yet they soon could not laugh anymore.
Sword Intent surged.
A sword light suddenly shot toward an Inner Disciple!
This Inner Disciple was at the Fifth Stage of the Sea of Reincarnation Realm. He held an axe in his hand, its aura sharp and cold. Seeing the sword light rush over, he sneered and swung his axe down.
Crack!
The axe shattered in an instant. The disciple's expression froze, as though he had never expected his weapon to break so directly. His weapon was, after all, a fifth-grade weapon—not particularly weak.
It had been split apart by a single sword light. What kind of power was that?
Only then did the disciple's expression finally change.
Because such power was absolutely not something an Eighth Stage of the Blood-Shifting Realm disciple could unleash!
Boom!!
A sword light swallowed that disciple. Everyone saw him lying on the ground in a miserable state, his body covered in bloody marks.
Lin Feng had held back considerably. He could have killed him outright, but he had not done so.
The others came to their senses. Their shock was already beyond words. Wasn't this man at the Eighth Stage of the Blood-Shifting Realm?
What was with that terrifying sword light?
Could the weapon in his hand be some high-grade divine weapon?!
Or perhaps...
They had underestimated his strength!
Sssht! Sssht!
The next instant, sword lights swept toward all the Inner Disciples.
At that moment, the group of Inner Disciples all swallowed involuntarily. Some even revealed a trace of fear in their eyes.
What terrifying Sword Qi!
There was even a trace of Weapon True Intent within it!
Many Inner Disciples roared wildly, their cultivation bases erupting in full. They spared no means whatsoever. They did not want to be instantly killed by one of Lin Feng's swords. That would be too humiliating, a lifelong disgrace!
However, the sword lights contained Seventh-Layer Sword Intent. Looking across the Sea of Reincarnation Realm disciples of the Limitless Sacred Land, perhaps only a few could withstand them.
This group of Inner Disciples before him naturally could not either!
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