Capítulo 1225: Chapter 1104: Role Reversal
Despite the shock in his heart, Qingxuan didn’t show it on his face, rely looking at Ye Fan with a complicated expression.
At this mont, intuition and reason told him that Ye Fan was by no ans the naive village boy everyone perceived him to be!
“Huh~”
As Ye Fan returned to Tong Qianchen and the other two, the disciples from the small sects behind Qingxuan all breathed a sigh of relief.
To them, the ordeal was finally over, and Ye Fan hadn’t paid attention to them or considered them worth his ti.
Although this feeling was unpleasant, compared to losing their lives, they would rather lose face!
At this mont, they completely forgot how arrogant they had been before Ye Fan arrived!
Now, one could say this was retribution!
“You, you, you, step forward!”
Ye Fan choosing not to engage with those disciples from small sects or clans didn’t an Shen Tu would hold back. He had long been suppressing his anger, eager to find soone to vent on. How could he let them go?
He reached out and pointed at a few disciples from small sects who had sneered at Zhang Taiyi and Tong Qianchen earlier.
Thud!
Seeing Shen Tu pointing over, the previously relieved disciples from small sects felt a jolt in their hearts, their hearts instantly hanging again.
Now, it was absolutely impossible for them to rely on Qingxuan for help— with Ye Fan around, Qingxuan was like a clay bodhisattva crossing the river, unable to protect himself!
Realizing this, they suppressed their inner unease and stepped out of the crowd.
“Each of you slap yourselves ten tis, make sure it leaves a mark and makes a sound! Of course, you can also choose to refuse!”
Shen Tu’s hawk-like gaze swept over their faces, directly instructing them to slap themselves to vent for Tong Qianchen and Zhang Taiyi.
He wanted to make those disciples from the small sects understand that every word they said ca at a price, and only pain and humiliation would teach them a lesson!
Besides, disciples of the Xuanwu Sect were not ones to be ridiculed by these small sect disciples!
“Uh…”
They looked at each other, unable to muster the courage to slap themselves in public. Every genius had their dignity, and they absolutely did not want to lose face in front of everyone.
If they really did as told, how could they ever hold their heads high in the future?
“I refuse to do it!”
Just as Shen Tu said that anyone unwilling could state so, a genius from a small clan imdiately stood up and made his position clear.
“Very well!”
Shen Tu sneered, and without another word, kicked and shattered the man’s Dantian, abolishing his entire cultivation, turning him into a cripple with no chance of ever becoming a cultivator again.
“Hiss!”
Seeing Shen Tu’s ruthless tactic, the remaining individuals gasped in terror.
The individual who stepped out had a cultivation on par with theirs, yet didn’t have ti to react before his cultivation was abolished. This showed Shen Tu’s true strength was far beyond what he displayed in the arena.
Witnessing all this, the remaining disciples from the small sects no longer harbored any illusion of luck, and began slapping themselves one after another.
“Slap!”
“Slap!”
“Slap!”
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The sound of slapping was continuous, Qingxuan’s face turning iron blue with anger, but seeing Ye Fan watching him intently, he had to swallow his anger.
At this mont, it wasn’t that he was unwilling to stick up for the disciples from the small sects; on the contrary, if he did, it would be a great opportunity to win people’s hearts.
But the premise was that he had the strength and the capital!
Without strength and capital, he could only keep his mouth shut and his hands and feet in check, otherwise, even he would be implicated!
Zhang Taiyi was secretly grateful to Ye Fan, knowing that if Ye Fan hadn’t arrived in ti, not only would they not reclaim the treasure dicine, but he and Tong Qianchen would have to leave in utter humiliation.
Because of Ye Fan’s appearance, the situation completely reversed, making him feel particularly proud and elated!
Compared to Zhang Taiyi, Tong Qianchen was even more moved.
She instinctively thought that Ye Fan’s decisive actions were mainly to stand up for her.
“I didn’t misjudge him, Brother Ye is indeed soone I can entrust my life to.”
Tong Qianchen’s eyes reddened slightly, thinking to herself, and unknowingly, a hint of blush crept onto her pretty face..
The ten slaps were quickly dealt, and their faces swelled as if they had ballooned, and even for those with strong cultivation, self-inflicted slaps were undeniably unpleasant.
The physical pain was secondary, but the humiliation was hard for them to let go, yet no matter how humiliating, they had to endure it, for their previous loose tongues had brought this retribution upon them.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
With the situation resolved, Ye Fan did not linger and led Tong Qianchen and the others toward a towering mountain peak in the distance.
The opening ti of the Tianyuan Secret Realm is limited to just thirty days, leaving no room for wasting any ti.
This mountain peak is enormous; although it seems far away, it appears as if it is right in front of him. More importantly, it seems to be the highest peak in the entire secret realm.
Other places also have mountains and rivers, strange stones, and flowing streams, but no mountain is as massive as the one in front of them. It can be said to be the king of all mountains, comparable to the majestic Taishan on Earth.
Ye Fan speculated that while other places in the secret realm might hold unexpected opportunities, any treasures would surely be found on this mountain peak.
Qingxuan also felt that if there were treasures, they must be on this magnificent mountain. Hence, he followed the path toward the mountain, not far behind Ye Fan’s group of four.
After the previous situation, the disciples from the small sects following Qingxuan dared not make any rash moves and rely followed silently without uttering a word.
Hmm?
Shortly after starting the climb, Ye Fan discovered a patch of spiritual dicine, totaling hundreds of plants, so of which had already withered.
Spiritual dicine can evolve into treasure dicine, but it requires a fortuitous opportunity. Many spiritual dicines have ages, and they mature upon reaching their ti limit.
This is the optimal ti for harvesting. If left unpicked for too long, these spiritual dicines will wither due to exhausted life force, and the accumulated Heaven and Earth Essence will dissipate into the air.
Those spiritual dicines capable of evolving often have a tumor-like thing at the roots—it’s where the spiritual dicine accumulates essence, akin to the nourishnt stored in tubers like radishes.
Such spiritual dicine, after years of accumulation, has the potential to undergo a Heavenly Tribulation. If it withstands the tribulation, it officially upgrades to treasure dicine; if not, like human cultivators, it returns to dust.
Therefore, spiritual dicines are common, but treasure dicines are hard to find for precisely this reason.
Treasure dicines also have the potential to upgrade, but this possibility is even smaller and more challenging than upgrading spiritual dicine to treasure dicine.
After upgrading, treasure dicines beco divine dicine, possessing miraculous effects of reviving the dead and restoring flesh to bones. However, very few have obtained divine dicine.
Apart from the Great Emperor finding so, others have no hope of obtaining divine dicine.
Divine dicines have intelligence, and those aged divine dicines are further spiritually communicative, even possessing transformation abilities with strong attack power that only the Great Emperor can easily subdue, while others cannot harness a single divine dicine so easily.
This patch of spiritual dicine is only two hundred years old, with so three hundred-year-old ones among them, and they are not precious. Ye Fan doesn’t even want them.
Because the Heaven and Earth Essence contained within these spiritual dicines has very little effect on him.
However, Shen Tu felt that even the smallest mosquito is at, and they shouldn’t leave anything behind. He pointed to Qingxuan and the others following behind and said, “Even if it’s useless, don’t leave it for them. Just let them eat dust while following us, and don’t leave them a single hair.”
As his words fell, Shen Tu went ahead and collected the spiritual dicine without a second thought.
After Shen Tu’s sweep, not a single leaf remained of the hundreds of plants of spiritual dicine, and he even plucked so weed-like plants resembling spiritual dicines, causing Ye Fan and the three others to shake their heads and smile bitterly.
After collecting the spiritual dicine, Ye Fan and the others continued onward up the mountain.
Monts later, Qingxuan and others reached the area Shen Tu had just swept clean, looking at the ravaged and unrecognizable patch of grass while sniffing the lingering scent of spiritual dicine in the air. Qingxuan’s face turned grim.
“They didn’t even leave us a single leaf.”
One of the small sect disciples stubbornly searched the area but returned empty-handed, muttering softly as he looked at the backs of Ye Fan and the others.
“Brother Qingxuan, this won’t work. Following behind them, we won’t even get to sip the soup. They clearly aren’t leaving anything for us. What do we do now?”
A disciple from a small sect consulted Qingxuan for advice; his sect was very small, and while a large sect might not care about spiritual dicine, a spiritual dicine is extrely precious to a small sect.
“What should we do? How should I know what to do?”
Qingxuan muttered to himself silently, finding himself absolutely helpless.
“Let’s catch up to them and get ahead of them; otherwise, following behind them, we truly won’t get anything.”
Ultimately, Qingxuan decided to catch up and surpass Ye Fan and the others. Otherwise, there was no hope of obtaining any treasures.
Ye Fan’s group of four moved at a rather slow pace, and as they walked, they kept watch for any spiritual dicines, treasure dicines, or other treasures to collect.
However, most of the ti, they found nothing. After all, treasures are quite rare. If they were abundant, they wouldn’t be precious and wouldn’t be called treasures.
In most cases, places with treasures are invariably guarded by powerful Xuan Beasts. But under Ye Fan’s formidable attack power, all those Xuan Beasts were slain.
The blood and Beast Cores of those Xuan Beasts containing Essence Qi were all collected by Ye Fan.
Thus, each ti they encountered treasures, whether discovered by Qingxuan or Ye Fan, ultimately without exception, they all ended up in the hands of Ye Fan’s group of four. Qingxuan and his followers could only watch, powerless to do anything.
Role reversal!
It was only at this mont that they understood the feeling of discovering sothing only to have soone else snatch it first!
At this mont, they felt as if they had swapped roles with Tong Qianchen and Zhang Taiyi, feeling incredibly suffocated.
Qingxuan was so depressed he almost spat blood; he never imagined that one day he would be outdone by others, yet he had no way to react, watching helplessly as treasure after treasure fell into Ye Fan’s group’s hands.
“Kid, hurry to the front; there’s the scent of Dark Immortal Gold ahead!”
Just as Qingxuan and the others were feeling frustrated, Elder Xuan suddenly spoke, his emotions exceedingly agitated, urging Ye Fan eagerly to proceed forward.
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