Zhao Wu's Threat

After learning the specific rules of the Martial Arts Tournament, Zhou Feng could not help but sigh at how wild they were.

The cruel and straightforward rules directly eliminated most people.

Anyone who remained would undoubtedly possess genuine strength.

After all, they had to endure relay combat against numerous opponents before the final ten spots could be decided.

Before long, he spotted someone familiar.

It was Lin Xiaojiao, whom he had encountered while standing guard before.

"Why does she seem to have lost so much weight?"

Lin Xiaojiao was indeed much slimmer than when he had first met her.

Yet from afar, she still looked like a mountain of flesh.

At that moment, Zhou Feng also sensed Lin Xiaojiao's cultivation.

Ninth Level of Qi Condensation! She was also at the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation, only one step away from forging her Spirit Platform.

But the tide-like vitality radiating from her made him feel an inexplicable pressure.

Her vitality even made the surrounding air grow scorching hot. Though they were both at the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation—

Why did he feel that his strength was inferior by more than just a little?

So strong!

Lin Xiaojiao's opponent had no ability to fight back at all and was severely injured after only a few blows.

"As expected of Lin Xiaojiao! She's still as domineering as ever!"

"I heard Lin Xiaojiao's Peerless Gu is about to reach completion! Once she successfully breaks through to the Spirit Platform Realm, all that fat will disappear!"

"The Peerless Gu is about to mature? No way!"

"..."

As soon as Lin Xiaojiao left, quite a few people began discussing her.

This was also the best opportunity for Zhou Feng to gather information.

He had no friends or acquaintances whatsoever in this sect.

And Bitter Bamboo Peak was full of lunatics.

As a result, Zhou Feng normally had very little access to information.

In fact, if not for his sect token, the entire sect might not even have noticed him.

When it came to gathering intelligence, he had no channels at all.

With the Martial Arts Tournament underway, he naturally needed to collect as much information as possible.

"Peerless Gu? It should be a Gu insect similar to the Demon Devouring Gu!"

Since nearly every peak possessed its own special Gu insect, Lin Xiaojiao's Peerless Gu should be much like the Demon Devouring Gu inside him.

In truth, the Peerless Gu was Green Bamboo Peak's unique Gu insect.

It was a variant of the Bloodthirsty Gu, cultivated alongside the Peerless Battle Art.

During the early stages of cultivation, the Peerless Gu had an extreme need for vitality and essence.

This was even more severe than the Demon Devouring Gu. At every moment, the Peerless Gu absorbed its host's vitality and essence.

To feed the Peerless Gu, Green Bamboo Peak's solution was to use dual cultivation techniques to forcibly draw the essence and vitality from others.

Green Bamboo Peak might have a rather pleasant name.

But what its members did was no better than Bitter Bamboo Peak.

If Bitter Bamboo Peak was a group of man-eating demons, then Green Bamboo Peak was a group of ultimate perverts.

Men keeping female slaves and women keeping male servants were merely the most basic practices.

Most outrageous of all were their dual cultivation techniques, which were exceptionally cruel.

Once someone engaged in dual cultivation, the other party would become addicted, with almost no cure.

Whenever the craving struck, they would beg to engage in dual cultivation.

In the end, the other party would be sucked dry alive.

And the further the dual cultivation progressed, the more pain the drained person would suffer—yet the stronger their addiction would become.

Eventually, Green Bamboo Peak's people would not even need to force them. Even knowing they would be sucked dry alive, those female slaves and male servants would deliver themselves to the door.

Thus, no one in the Three Gu Sect dared associate with people from Green Bamboo Peak.

It was simply too dangerous.

The vitality and essence obtained through frenzied dual cultivation would be stored in the body.

They would wait for the Peerless Gu to slowly absorb them until it underwent a transformation.

That was why Lin Xiaojiao had always been so fat before, like a mountain of flesh.

If the Demon Devouring Gu's purpose was to allow Zhou Feng to cultivate Demonic Energy, then the Peerless Gu was meant to forge an unmatched physical body.

Within the Three Gu Sect, aside from Bitter Bamboo Peak, Green Bamboo Peak was the strongest at close combat.

One could even say that Green Bamboo Peak's people possessed peerless bodies. They barely used spiritual power in battle.

They relied entirely on their incomparably powerful physical bodies.

However, the Peerless Gu was exceedingly difficult to transform. No one from Green Bamboo Peak had successfully transformed one in a long time.

The Peerless Gu inside Lin Xiaojiao now had the greatest chance of success, so Green Bamboo Peak had poured a vast amount of resources into her.

That was also one reason why Lin Xiaojiao was so wealthy.

"Gu insects? They use Gu insects to fight?"

Later, Zhou Feng saw someone from the Five Poisons Gu lineage fighting.

A person wrapped from head to toe in black cloth directly controlled a Flying Giant Centipede.

This Flying Giant Centipede was not large, only about half the size of a fist, but it was incredibly fast.

Its movements were almost impossible to catch with the naked eye, while its entire body seemed forged from Fine Iron, giving it extremely high defenses.

The person fighting the centipede tried every possible method but could not harm it in the slightest.

In the end, he was bitten once and immediately succumbed to the poison, dying on the spot.

After the battle ended, the giant centipede returned to the black-clad person.

"Amazing! As expected of a Five Poisons Peak disciple. That Flying Centipede's venom is terrifying—one simple bite was enough to kill him!"

"Exactly! Hu Feng seems to have entered the Inner Sect less than a year ago. He's truly impressive!"

"Ninth Level of Qi Condensation in a single year? There must be someone backing him!"

"I heard the Five Poisons Peak steward is his uncle!"

"..."

After eavesdropping for a little while longer, Zhou Feng learned that the black-clad man was named Hu Feng and was a disciple of Five Poisons Peak.

From the conversation between these people, he also reached a conclusion.

Reaching the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation in a year was something extremely astonishing to him.

Yet in these people's words, it seemed entirely ordinary.

Most importantly, Zhou Feng discovered that the cultivation of the people around him was not low.

They had at least entered the Qi Condensation Realm, even if they had not reached the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation.

But this was still the Qi Condensation Realm!

"The one taking the stage now is Blood Young Master Zhao Wu, right?"

"Seems like it! I heard he's a genius too. He broke through to the Qi Condensation Realm in less than half a year!"

"That's right! But his backer isn't much good. If he had sufficient resources, he should be at the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation by now!"

"..."

Hearing that familiar name, Zhou Feng immediately perked up.

Speaking of which, he and Zhao Wu had been rivals for quite some time.

Back when he was still in the Gu Cultivation Den, they had already had a conflict.

But all this time, he had only heard information about Zhao Wu through various rumors.

He had never met the man in person, nor did he know Zhao Wu's precise cultivation.

Now, he could finally see him.

Third Level of Qi Condensation?

After sensing Zhao Wu's cultivation level, he found that it was only the Third Level of Qi Condensation.

Perhaps a few months ago, the Third Level of Qi Condensation had still been an unreachable goal for him.

But now, Zhou Feng's cultivation had already reached the Ninth Level of Qi Condensation.

Looking at it this way, Zhao Wu's threat seemed to be nothing much after all.

The threat of an Inner Sect disciple? He was an Inner Sect disciple now too!

He wondered what expression Zhao Wu would have after learning of his cultivation level.