Familiar Faces Meet

With his initial experience of converting spiritual power, Zhou Feng found the subsequent conversions much easier.

Eventually, he no longer needed to rely on the Blood Cicada Jade Pendant at all.

He could directly draw spiritual energy from heaven and earth.

Later on, even the thin spiritual energy around him could no longer keep up with the speed at which he absorbed it.

"Is this the Qi Induction Realm?"

Zhou Feng gathered spiritual power in his hand and casually threw a punch.

In an instant, the stone beside him shattered into powder.

With spiritual power added to it, the force was simply terrifying.

Before this, if he had wanted to smash a stone completely to pieces using only his physical body,

there was no way he could have done it as easily as he just had.

The difference between having spiritual power and not having it was practically the leap from zero to one.

No wonder Outer Sect disciples were not worth cultivating.

A single Inner Sect disciple could easily take on dozens of Outer Sect disciples alone. The gap created by spiritual power was simply too great.

Now, Zhou Feng only needed to return to the Hall of Transmitted Skills in the Outer Sect and report to its elder that he had successfully drawn in Qi.

Then he could enter the Inner Sect directly and automatically become an Inner Sect disciple.

At that thought, he immediately put everything back into his Storage Bag.

After surviving in the wilderness for so long, he was practically growing mold!

Outer Sect!

Courtyard No. 7, where Zhou Feng had once lived, was now completely empty.

No! Rather, the few people who had been there were all dead.

"An Outer Sect disciple offended someone from the Inner Sect! Someone came down from the Inner Sect to get revenge!"

"What? Someone from the Inner Sect came down?"

"What happened?"

"..."

Upon hearing that someone had come down from the Inner Sect, quite a few numb and hardened Outer Sect disciples rushed over to watch the commotion.

After all, it was a rare sight for someone from the Inner Sect to come down here.

And it was even rarer that someone from the Outer Sect had offended an Inner Sect disciple.

Naturally, they could not miss such an unusual event.

The Outer Sect was incredibly dull and boring, after all. There were usually no forms of entertainment.

Only when new disciples entered the sect was there any amusement to be found.

Now that an Outer Sect disciple had clashed with someone from the Inner Sect, such a rare scene naturally drew many spectators.

Many of those who arrived at Courtyard No. 7 saw the following sight.

A skinny man, thin as a bamboo pole, stood in the center of the courtyard, while numerous corpses lay scattered around him.

The corpses were still very fresh, enough to show that these people had only just died.

"Has he started killing?"

"Normal! He came down from the Inner Sect! It would be strange if he didn't kill a few people!"

"That's true!"

"..."

Faced with such a horrifying scene, not a single one of the surrounding spectators was afraid.

That was because those who came to watch were mostly old hands who had seen scenes like this many times before.

Those who had only recently entered the sect had not come to watch.

That was because they still held onto a sliver of hope, hoping that they could successfully draw in Qi and enter the Inner Sect.

But for these old hands, they had long since given up hope.

For them, living one more day was enough.

After all, not everyone possessed an unyielding spirit.

In the Outer Sect's hopeless and cruel environment, there were naturally those who cultivated diligently, as well as those who simply gave up and waited to die.

"What's going on? Why are there so many people?"

At that moment, Zhou Feng arrived outside the courtyard and discovered that so many people had gathered there.

This really was a spectacle!

He had never seen so many people gathered together on an ordinary day.

Other than that time when Blood Pills were distributed.

Normally, everyone kept silent and went about their work quietly.

Scenes where everyone gathered together like this were rare.

Then, Zhou Feng saw someone standing in the courtyard.

"Hm? There's movement?"

Xiong Dan had been at a loss over what to do, but suddenly discovered that the Scent Gu had reacted.

It turned out that after Zhao Wu had received no news from Zhao Jun for so long,

he immediately sent someone down to investigate.

After all, Zhao Jun had not only carried quite a few resources, but also a Storage Bag.

The other things could be set aside for now, but the Storage Bag had to be recovered.

And by sheer coincidence, the person Zhao Wu sent down was Xiong Dan, who had previously clashed with Zhou Feng.

After successfully drawing in Qi, the once-arrogant Xiong Dan had immediately left the Outer Sect and entered the Inner Sect.

He had also promptly become a disciple under an elder.

Originally, Xiong Dan had imagined that he would enjoy boundless glory.

But on his second day in the Inner Sect, he received a brutal beating.

Back in the Outer Sect, Xiong Dan had thought becoming an elder's disciple was something worth celebrating.

But that was not actually the case, because every Inner Sect disciple had to become a disciple under an elder.

After joining that elder's faction, Xiong Dan had not even met the elder himself.

Afterward, he fell into terrifying competition.

The competition within the Inner Sect was countless times more brutal than in the Outer Sect.

Xiong Dan had reached the ninth level of Body Tempering and successfully drawn in Qi at the age of twenty-five.

Within the Inner Sect, that could only be described as bottom-tier.

In terms of combat power, he was also completely unable to compare with those geniuses.

As a result, Xiong Dan could barely secure any resources. In the end, he had been forced to sell himself into Zhao Wu's service just to barely obtain enough resources to maintain his cultivation.

Back then, Xiong Dan had been a burly, muscular man.

Yet now, he had become a skinny bamboo pole. The reason was that he could no longer afford to raise his Bloodthirsty Gu.

So when Xiong Dan received the task of coming down the mountain to investigate Zhao Jun's disappearance, he was extremely pleased.

As long as he completed the task successfully, he would receive quite a few resources.

At the same time, he could also loot some resources from the Outer Sect.

That was the direct reason the people of Courtyard No. 7 had died: Xiong Dan wanted to plunder cultivation resources.

Even if it was only a few Blood Pills, Xiong Dan did not want to let them go.

After reaching the Qi Induction Realm, the Bloodthirsty Gu's demands had become enormous. It needed not only vital energy, but spiritual power as well.

Xiong Dan had already been getting impatient when the Scent Gu suddenly showed no reaction at all.

The Scent Gu was a type of Gu insect Zhao Wu had given Xiong Dan.

It could distinguish and record scents. As long as it came within ten meters of a recorded scent, it would react.

Before Zhao Wu handed the Storage Bag to Zhao Jun, he had used the Scent Gu to record the Storage Bag's scent.

Xiong Dan's main task in coming to the Outer Sect was to use the Scent Gu to locate the Storage Bag.

His secondary task was to find the person who had harmed Zhao Jun.

Following the Scent Gu's guidance, Xiong Dan looked directly toward Zhou Feng.

"It's him!? It really is this brat!"

Although Zhou Feng was now disheveled and dressed in tattered clothes, Xiong Dan recognized him immediately.

This was the first thorn in his side he had ever encountered, someone who had defied him the moment he entered the sect.

If Xiong Dan had not been busy drawing in Qi at the time, and if the location had permitted it, he would have twisted Zhou Feng's head right off.

"So you killed that trash Zhao Jun? Hand over the Storage Bag!"

A vicious gleam appeared on Xiong Dan's face. His mouth stretched into a grin as he looked at Zhou Feng as though he had him completely under control.

This time was different from before. Xiong Dan had already broken through to the Qi Induction Realm.

Against Zhou Feng, who was still in the Body Tempering Realm, he naturally had him in the palm of his hand!

And this brat really had some nerve. He had actually dared to touch Young Master Zhao Wu's man and was even carrying the Storage Bag on him.

He wondered whether anything inside the Storage Bag was missing.

What Zhou Feng did not know was that Xiong Dan had already set his sights on the items inside the Storage Bag.