The moment Lin Feng said this, the world chat channel fell silent.
For a long while, no one sent another message.
Looking at the outrageously arrogant words of the Evergreen Sect's Tiancan Tudou, Perfected Daoxuan fell silent again.
How was this Tiancan Tudou so good at showing off?
Why hadn't I thought of a line like that?
Damn it, when would my Daoxuan Sect have the strength to show off like that too?!
Perfected Daoxuan shed tears of envy.
Meanwhile, countless sect masters of sects large and small could not help silently cursing Lin Feng for being such a show-off when they saw his words.
Still, the top three sects promising not to compete with small and medium-sized sects like theirs for resources was excellent news for them.
Before an advanced hidden-vein spring stronghold in the Myriad Spirits Secret Realm, spiritual energy swirled in a dense haze, and gleaming white spirit herbs dotted the ground.
The two guardian spirit demons, one male and one female, were a pair of Mystic-Patterned Rock Bears.
The male bear had a burly physique covered in grayish-brown rock patterns and was at the Qi Refining Eighth Layer.
The female bear was slightly smaller, her sharp claws gleaming coldly, and was at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer. The mated pair responded to each other, their offense and defense working seamlessly together.
Dressed in fitted combat attire, Liu Yurou had already stabilized her cultivation at the Qi Refining Tenth Layer. Claw winds howled around her hands as she used the mid-grade Yellow-tier cultivation art, "Wind-Splitting Claw," which she had already cultivated to greater mastery. Sharp claw lights tore through the air, striking relentlessly at the female Mystic-Patterned Rock Bear.
The female bear swung her paws to block. The claw winds scored shallow bloody marks across her rock-hard hide, but she relied on her formidable body to keep Liu Yurou firmly engaged.
On the other side, Tie Dali's fists trembled, a faint tiger phantom rising around him as he unleashed the full power of the low-grade Yellow-tier "Tiger Roar Fist," which he had cultivated to consummate proficiency.
Tiger roars shook the surrounding wilderness, and wave upon wave of powerful fist force slammed into the male Mystic-Patterned Rock Bear's body.
The male bear roared repeatedly, slamming his heavy paws at Tie Dali. Tie Dali neither dodged nor evaded. Relying on his powerful body, he took the blow head-on, then followed its momentum with another Tiger Roar Mountain Collapse, his fist smashing heavily into the demon bear's chest.
The two did not fight independently. After several exchanges, they gradually grasped the two spirit demons' patterns of coordination.
Seizing an opening, Liu Yurou moved with spiritual footwork and forced the female bear back. With a sharp cry, she unleashed all the Wind-Splitting Claw force in her ten fingers. Dozens of sharp claw shadows wove into a net, sealing off every direction in which the female bear could dodge.
Alarmed, the female bear tried to call her mate over to help, but Tie Dali had the male bear firmly pinned down, leaving him no chance to break away.
Seeing this, Tie Dali let out a thunderous shout and poured all his spiritual power into his fists. The tiger phantom abruptly became more than half solid.
Abandoning defense, he threw a punch with all his strength-the killing move of Tiger Roar Fist, Fierce Tiger Shakes the Mountain!
The immense fist force crashed into the male Mystic-Patterned Rock Bear's head. His massive body shuddered violently, his rock-patterned shell cracked inch by inch, and his huge frame slammed heavily to the ground. After struggling a few times, he stopped moving.
With the male demon dead, the female bear's mind fell into turmoil, and her will to fight instantly collapsed.
Liu Yurou seized this fleeting opening and abruptly lunged forward.
Her greater-mastery Wind-Splitting Claw flashed with cold light, both claws piercing straight through the location of the female bear's demon core. Blood gushed out.
The female bear let out a piercing, mournful cry, and her massive body crashed to the ground, all breath gone.
The dust slowly settled, leaving the enormous corpses of the two spirit demons sprawled before the stronghold's entrance.
Liu Yurou panted softly, a few traces of demon beast blood staining her sleeves.
Tie Dali's chest heaved violently, his fists still aching and swollen from exertion. That all-out fight had consumed the better part of his spiritual power.
In midair, Lin Feng stood with his hands behind his back, his Half-Step Foundation Establishment cultivation concealed. He had watched the entire battle, and a trace of approval flickered in his eyes.
The two had advanced rapidly in cultivation, and this life-and-death struggle had now filled in much of their lacking combat experience. They were no longer sheltered disciples who relied solely on overwhelming others with cultivation.
As the two guardian spirit demons fell, the faint demonic-power barrier shrouding the stronghold slowly dissipated. Behind it, the hidden-vein spring steadily gushed with rich spiritual energy.
Seeing both Tie Dali and Liu Yurou victorious, the outer disciples could not help cheering, their eyes filled with admiration and longing.
Lin Feng, the sect master, did not remain idle either. Once the demonic-power barrier shrouding the stronghold dissipated, he flashed inside, found its core, and bound it to himself.
The Evergreen Sect had officially occupied its first advanced hidden-vein spring stronghold.
Lin Feng also received feedback: this advanced stronghold could generate 100 points per hour for the Evergreen Sect, amounting to 2,400 points a day, enough to exchange for quite a few precious items.
Killing the two guardian spirit demons at the far end of Late Qi Refining had also earned the Evergreen Sect an additional 450 points.
Fortunately, this [Myriad Spirits Secret Realm] did not display the points each sect earned. Otherwise, seeing the Evergreen Sect suddenly gain 450 points would probably have shocked the other sects once again.
After the Evergreen Sect occupied this advanced hidden-vein spring stronghold, a spiritual-power barrier appeared once more, surrounding the entire stronghold.
After assigning a wolf demon at the Qi Refining First Layer to guard the stronghold, Lin Feng led everyone else onward toward their next advanced stronghold target.
Several hours after the [Myriad Spirits Secret Realm] opened.
In the world chat channel of Sect World 999.
[White Elm Sect Master: Brothers, has anyone noticed something? I've already come across two intermediate strongholds and one advanced stronghold today, and the guardian spirit demons at both advanced strongholds were actually azure wolves!]
[Wind Mist Sect Master: What a coincidence! I also came across an advanced stronghold today, and its guardian beast was an azure wolf too. When I passed by, that azure wolf kept staring at me from inside the spiritual-energy barrier. Even through the barrier, I could feel its Late Qi Refining might!]
For a time, quite a few sects also spoke up to confirm that the guardian demon beasts at the advanced strongholds they had encountered were azure wolves as well.
This left some people wondering whether a pack of powerful wolf demons in this [Myriad Spirits Secret Realm] had occupied all the advanced strongholds.
The other spirit demons could not compete with these wolf demons and could only settle for intermediate and beginner strongholds.
As the one responsible, Lin Feng naturally would not explain to these people that those azure wolves were actually all the Evergreen Sect's tamed beasts.
Lin Feng looked over the strongholds the Evergreen Sect had occupied and the points it had accumulated on the first day of the [Myriad Spirits Secret Realm] opening.
Today, the Evergreen Sect had occupied six advanced strongholds in total, including two [Advanced Hidden-Vein Spring Strongholds]. The demon beasts guarding advanced hidden-vein spring strongholds tended to be stronger, with practically all of them at the far end of Late Qi Refining.
The Evergreen Sect had occupied four [Advanced Natural Spirit-Gathering Strongholds] in total. The demon beasts guarding these had generally only just entered Late Qi Refining, most at the Qi Refining Seventh Layer, with a few at the Qi Refining Eighth Layer.
The Evergreen Sect had occupied eleven intermediate strongholds in total today.
The main reason was that these intermediate and advanced strongholds were distributed far too randomly. Even though Lin Feng had sent numerous disciples out to search separately, they had found very few.
Meanwhile, the total number of points the Evergreen Sect had earned in the [Myriad Spirits Secret Realm] today had already reached 3,200. If there had been a points leaderboard, Lin Feng believed he would already have been far ahead of every sect in Sect World 999!