Ch47 - Flame Palace

One year later…..

After a year of joining the hunting and killing team, Jiang Xu’s strength had been stabilized at the five-star Spiritual Master Realm. Xiaoyuan’s strength had also skyrocketed, reaching five stars in the Spiritual Mortal Realm. With the supply of great resources, Xiaoyuan’s group of subordinates has also raised a strength level. Xiaoyuan’s six princes had already advanced to the Spiritual Mortal Realm. However, Liu Mufeng’s strength was still nine stars in the Spiritual Realm. 

During this year, Liu Mufeng took the time to read all the books in several large and small bookstores in Black Dragon City. He read books during the day and entered the bracelet dimension to cultivate and refine pills at night. Even though many medicinal pills had been refined, he had not advanced. He remained at nine stars in the Spiritual Realm, making Liu Mufeng very depressed. He felt that he was experiencing what the novel had mentioned, a ‘bottleneck’ in which a cultivator would be at the peak of a realm but had difficulty advancing to the next level due to various reasons.

Seeing Jiang Xu sitting sullenly on a chair, Liu Mufeng walked over with a smile, made a pot of spiritual tea, poured a cup for the other party, and then poured one for himself. “What’s wrong, Xiao Xu? Why are you looking listless?”

“Hey, I quit the current hunting group!” Having said that, Jiang Xu sighed, lowered his head and took a sip of spiritual tea.

“You quit again!” Liu Mufeng smiled wryly. 

Within this year, Jiang Xu had joined and quit three hunting groups. He stayed in the first hunting group for three months, and as a result, he was pestered by the daughter of the leader of the hunting group for three months. Annoyed, Jiang Xu directly quit. He returned home and retreated in the bracelet dimension for a month. After that, he joined the second hunting group. As a result, the head of the second hunting group relied on his higher strength and actually molested Jiang Xu. He was beaten by Jiang Xu, and he withdrew from the second hunting group. Later, Jiang Xu had worn a mask and joined the current hunting group. Do the math, Jiang Xu had only been in this hunting group for four months now. Why did he quit again?

“Yeah, the head of the regiment is a bastard. He agreed that whatever we hunted would be distributed according to work when I had initially joined. But this bastard, seeing that I hunted a sable, actually insisted on taking my sable to make a scarf for his woman. Why? Ah? That’s not what he hunted. So I beat him up and quit the group.” Jiang Xu snorted coldly.

“Okay. It’s also better for you to take a break for a while. This year, your strength has been stable, and you don’t need to kill demon beasts anymore.” Liu Mufeng agreed. After all, killing demon beasts was very dangerous. It always made Liu Mufeng worried, so for him, it was naturally best if Jiang Xu did not go. However, the fact that Jiang Xu had changed three hunting groups in a year also confirmed what the author said, Jiang Xu was not very suitable for group work.

“You don’t want me to go back to the hunting group?” Looking at Liu Mufeng, Jiang Xu asked uncertainly.

“Yeah, going to the jungle and killing demon beasts is too dangerous!” Nodding, Liu Mufeng frowned.

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“It’s okay. It’s just a little dangerous. I want to become stronger. I want to protect you. If I’m not strong enough, how can I protect you?” Jiang Xu smiled when he said this. He felt that Liu Mufeng was fine in everything, but his strength was too weak and needed his own protection.

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“Xiao Xu, I have something to discuss with you.” Liu Mufeng said with a smile, looking at his sweetheart. 

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“En, selling medicinal pills is one thing, and there is a more important thing!” Speaking of this, Liu Mufeng’s face became a little more solemn.

“What’s the matter?” Seeing the other party’s expression, Jiang Xu immediately became serious.

“I want to go to Tianxia Mountain, and I want you to accompany me!” Looking at Jiang Xu, Liu Mufeng told his story. 

“Go to Tianxia Mountain? Why do you want to go to Tianxia Mountain? Are you going to gain experience?” Jiang Xu was very curious about this.

“It’s not about gaining experience. I saw some introductions about the Flame Palace in some ancient books. It said that the former site of the Flame Palace is on the Tianxia Mountain, so I want to go there and have a look.” Liu Mufeng was very impressed when he had read about the Flame Palace and became very interested.

“Flame Palace? What is that place?” Jiang Xu was very curious about this.

“The Flame Palace was a Sect. It arose 30,000 years ago. At its peak, it was as famous as the Lingwu Sect. It was called the most powerful sect in the Lingwu Continent. However, this Sect was destroyed 8,000 years ago. Many cultivators in the Sect died. Some cultivators escaped and left this continent.” Speaking of this, Liu Mufeng sighed softly. 

“Oh, it turned out to be a ruined sect! But why are you looking for this ruined sect?”

“There used to be a famous Fire Master in the Flame Palace. This Fire Master could absorb the flame from the demon beast core and could refine the Beast Fire. You also know that I am an Alchemist. So this Beast Fire is an essential asset for me. It can help me improve the success rate of refining pills, and it can also help me improve my strength!” In the past year, Liu Mufeng had read a lot of introductions about the Flame Palace, so he wanted to give it a try.

“However, that sect has been destroyed for thousands of years. It is estimated that if there was Beast Fire, others would have taken it away. I’m afraid we won’t get anything if we go now!” Frowning, Jiang Xu felt that even if they went now, they may not be able to get the Beast Fire.

“The chances of getting the Beast Fire are not high, but what I want is not the Beast fire, but the peerless manual of refining the Beast Fire. According to the ancient records, after the Flame Palace was destroyed, the peerless manual of refining the Beast Fire disappeared. Some people say that the manual was taken away by those who escaped. Some people say that it was stolen. Some people say that it was hidden in the Flame Palace and no one can find it. I think the possibility of the last one is relatively large. Therefore, the peerless manual should still be in the Flame Palace.” 

According to the original novel, there was a small cannon fodder who accidentally stumbled on the ruins and inadvertently got the peerless manual of refining the Beast Fire from the Flame Palace. Later, this person met the heroine in the secret realm and fell in love with her. So, to win her heart, he also helped the heroine absorb the Beast Fire and gave the peerless manual to the heroine. However, the heroine only liked the hero, so why would she like a small cannon fodder? So, later this little cannon fodder was killed by the male protagonist. And the heroine didn’t stop him.

There was not much mention of that little cannon fodder in the original novel. Therefore, Liu Mufeng didn’t know when the other party got the peerless manual of refining the Beast Fire. He only knew that the secret realm would be opened in four years. This little cannon fodder had already learned to control spiritual fire when the secret realm opened. Therefore, he wanted to go to the Flame Palace as soon as possible to see if he could get the peerless manual first.

Seeing Liu Mufeng’s expression of wanting to go, Jiang Xu nodded. “Okay, if you want to go, let’s go. We are just in time to sell the medicinal pills in our hands in the small towns along the way.” In fact, Jiang Xu felt that the chance of finding the peerless manual would not be too great. The sect had been destroyed for thousands of years. There must have been many people who already went to find this peerless manual. Maybe they had even dug out the whole place deeply to search for it. However, seeing Mufeng’s eager face, Jiang Xu did not refuse. Anyway, he didn’t have anything to do right now. If they would not go, Mufeng would never give up.

“Okay, then let’s rest for two days and leave in two days.” 

“En, I want to go to the dimension to cultivate. Two days is enough for me to cultivate for 20 days!” Jiang Xu smiled when he said this.

“I’ll let Xiaoyuan and the others out in a while. Let’s go to the dimension together.”

“Okay!” Nodding, Jiang Xu agreed, thinking, ‘If Mufeng and I went to the dimension, I would have fish to eat!’

………………………… 

Tianxia Mountain was not too close to Black Dragon City. There were three mid-tier cities and five small towns along the way. Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu divided the medicinal pills that had been refined this year into eight parts and sold a batch of medicinal pills in each place. They sold all the pills in hand, except for the top-grade pills that Mufeng always kept for themselves to consume in case of emergencies.

It took two months for Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu to finally arrive at Tianxia Mountain.

“Mufeng, there are dense trees and luxuriant branches here. There should be demon beasts lurking around. You hide behind me!” Looking at the dense forest in front of him, Jiang Xu looked alert.

“Alright, but don’t take action if you encounter a demon beast in the Spiritual Realm. Let me try it! I am also a nine-star in the Spiritual Realm! I could try to kill some six stars in the Spiritual Realm.” Liu Mufeng said as he looked eagerly at Jiang Xu. ‘Xiaoxu’s strength could really not be hidden; he is indeed the number one villain!’ 

Hearing this, Jiang Xu thought for a while. “Yeah, you’re fifteen years old, and you haven’t killed a demon beast yet! That’s not good. If you go to some secret realm in the future, or if I’m not by your side, I can’t always be there to protect you! ”

“Yeah, I can’t always let you protect me!” Speaking of this, Liu Mufeng smiled. ‘I’m so weak, I’m afraid it’s hard to impress Xiaoxu and hold the beauty back!’

“Okay, then you go ahead, I will help you watch for demon beasts, and if they are too powerful, I will help you!” After thinking about it, Jiang Xu asked Liu Mufeng to step forward.

“En!” Taking out his magic knife, Liu Mufeng walked in front, followed by Jiang Xu. 

While they were trodding through the dense habitation for a while, a gray demon beast rabbit as big as a piglet suddenly came out of the grass. Because Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu both wore hidden jade, the rabbit did not notice the strength of the two. It charged towards Liu Mufeng fiercely.

Looking at the rabbit rushing towards him, Liu Mufeng immediately swung the magic knife in his hand and chopped it towards the rabbit’s head.

Agilely dodging Liu Mufeng’s attack, the rabbit bit Liu Mufeng’s wrist.

“Ahh…” Wrinkling his brows, Liu Mufeng’s left hand directly emitted green radiance, which turned into sharp vines and pierced into the rabbit’s body. 

The gray rabbit let go with a scream, and its body fell to the ground.