"Master, what's wrong? Are you alright?”Jing Feng asked with concern when he saw Reverend Ling Ku staring at him with wide eyes.
"Jing Feng, you! Where did you get these spirit beasts?" Daoist Ling Ku asked in shock.
"This…" When Jing Feng saw that Reverend Ling Ku was distressed, he summoned the hundred spiritual beasts in the Solitary Emptiness Realm without thinking. However, Tian Ji had warned Jing Feng not to tell anyone about the Solitary Emptiness Realm when his strength was insufficient. Thus, Jing Feng hesitated.
"What's wrong, Jing Feng? Is there something you can't say?”Reverend Ling Ku asked when he saw Jing Feng's hesitant expression.
" No, Master. These Spirit Beasts were found in a treasure that I accidentally obtained. However, this treasure…" Jing Feng hesitated as he spoke.
"Alright, Jing Feng. Master won't ask you anymore. Everyone has their own secrets. As long as you don't do anything to harm Tiandao Sect, the other masters won't interfere.”When Reverend Ling Ku heard Jing Feng stutter, he knew that he had something difficult to say. However, as his master, Reverend Ling Ku believed in Jing Feng's character and knew that he would not harm Tiandao Sect.
"Thank you, Master. I will never do anything to harm Tiandao Sect.”After saying that, Jing Feng gave a deep bow to Reverend Ling Ku.
"Jing Feng, you can go back now. Master still has some things to think about. Come to find Master in forty-five days and go to Kai Tian Hall with Master to find Senior Brother Ling Yun.”After saying that, Reverend Ling Ku fell into deep thought again.
Jing Feng did not return to the Spirit Mist Cave after leaving the Heaven's Spirit Cave. Instead, he silently walked towards the back of the mountain.
"Master, it's not that I don't want to tell you, but I don't even know my own secrets. I'm afraid that I'll bring you disaster. Please believe me. I won't do anything to make you sad.”
"I've been back for so long. I wonder how Hongyu is doing? He must be cultivating hard now. He really missed the days when he was with Hong Yu!”As he pondered, Jing Feng walked to the side of the cold pond at the back mountain of Yunwu Peak.
"Eh? Why am I here? I haven't seen Little Black for a long time. I missed him, so I came here.”Jing Feng muttered to himself.
"Xiao Hei, Xiao Hei." Jing Feng stood on the shore and shouted the name of the snake, sending sound waves into the cold pond.
"Roar! Roar!" The transformed snake at the bottom of the pool heard Jing Feng's shout and jumped out of the water.
"Xiao Hei!" Jing Feng happily rubbed the snake's head and said in a friendly manner.
"Roar!" Snake Transformation also happily rubbed his big head against Jing Feng.
"Xiao Hei, you seem to have changed. You seem to be bigger than before. The color of your body is also darker than before. Even your aura is stronger than before.”Jing Feng was very happy to see that his Snake Transformation Stage had increased.
Hearing Jing Feng praise it, it transformed into a snake and soared into the sky. It flapped its large wings and roared angrily in the air. "Magnetic!" The space around the transformed snake was compressed by the powerful aura of the transformed snake, and it distorted for a moment.
Jing Feng instantly summoned his Earth Spirit Shield and blocked the powerful aura that erupted from the transformed snake.
"So strong! Xiao Hei, you're so strong!" Jing Feng was stunned by the powerful aura of the snake.
"Sou!" Upon hearing Jing Feng's praise, the transformed snake happily spun around in the air and flew to Jing Feng's side.
"Xiao Hei, I haven't seen you in a few years.”Jing Feng patted the snake's head and said.
In fact, Jing Feng did not know that because of the Five-Colored Divine Stone he had brought back, the entire Cloud Dragon Mountain was no longer lacking in spiritual energy. The entire Cloud Dragon Mountain was filled with abundant spiritual energy mixed with five-colored Divine Spiritual Energy, causing the spiritual energy of the snake to increase rapidly. The snake had already reached the late Dujie stage and would soon undergo the Devil Tribulation and become a demonic beast.
"Xiao Hei, can you chat with me? I'm a little confused now." Seeing how powerful the snake was, Jing Feng suddenly thought of the heavenly secrets and himself…
"Roar! Roar!" Snake Transformation nodded his head and lay beside Jing Feng, listening attentively.
Forty-five days flew by. Jing Feng was chatting with the transformed snake by the cold pond while the transformed snake was obediently lying on the ground and listening.
"Thank you, Little Black. Thank you for accompanying me to relieve my boredom. Forty-five days are up. I have to go back to my master and go to Kai Tian Hall with him. I'll come and see you when I'm free. I'm leaving, Blackie.”After he finished speaking, Jing Feng waved his hand at the snake and rushed back to the Heaven Spirit Cave.
"Master, your disciple is here." Jing Feng shouted from the entrance of the Heavenly Spirit Cave.
Hearing Jing Feng's shout, Reverend Ling Ku and Ning Shizi slowly walked out of the Heaven's Spirit Cave.
"Jingfeng, when we go to Kai Tian Hall later, if Senior Brother Ling Yun asks me how these spiritual beasts came about, how should I answer?" Daoist Master Ling Ku sighed.”
"Master, just say that these spirit beasts were given to you by a wandering expert when you came down the mountain. In any case, even the mysterious person in the five-colored pagoda exists in our Earth Realm.”Jing Feng said cunningly.
"You want me to lie to Senior Brother Ling Yun? That won't do. We cultivators focus on our state of mind.”Daoist Ling Ku shook his head.
"In that case, let's just say that the mysterious person left it behind by accident when I left the mountain last time. I didn't tell my senior brothers that I secretly brought it back. I don't think Senior Uncle Ling Yun will suspect anything.”Jing Feng decided to bear the responsibility himself.
" This…" Before Reverend Ling Ku could continue, Jing Feng urged him to hurry to Kai Tian Hall.
"Master, these are the spirit beasts. The ones I found are all ordinary spirit beasts. You can just put them in the storage ring.”With a thought, Jing Feng released those Spirit Beasts and canceled the Spirit Contract with them as he urged them.
Even though Reverend Ling Ku had already told Ning Shizi about Jing Feng giving him over a hundred spirit beasts in the cave, Ning Shizi was still shocked to see so many spirit beasts. Ning Shizi deeply felt that this little junior brother of his was not simple.
"Alright then!" Reverend Ling Ku sighed and put all the spirit beasts into the storage ring. Then, he and Jing Fengning and Shi Zi flew to the Kai Tian Hall in the Heavenly Dragon Peak.
The five Perfected Ones of the Ling generation, as well as their disciples, were gathered in the Heaven-Opening Hall of the Heavenly Dragon Peak. However, Hong Yu, whom Jing Fengchao had missed all night, did not come. She was currently in seclusion, preparing to break through the early-stage Great Dao realm and advance to the mid-stage Great Dao realm in one go. When Jing Feng saw that Hong Yu did not come, he felt empty in his heart.
Perfected Ling Yun sat on the wooden chair in the middle and said,"I gathered everyone here today because I'll be transcending my Heavenly Tribulation in a month. Before I do so, I want to decide on a candidate to take over my position as Sect Master. Some time ago, I discussed with my junior brothers and sisters and decided on two candidates-Junior Brother Ling Ku and Junior Brother Ling Zhu. In order to be fair, I gave them a question. Currently, our Cloud Dragon Mountain is full of spiritual energy, which is very suitable for spirit beasts to live in. In order to replenish the spirit beasts in our Cloud Dragon Mountain, whoever catches more spirit beasts in these eight months will take over my position as the sect master. I wonder how many spirit beasts my two junior brothers have caught in these eight months!”
Perfected Ling Zhu smiled slightly and looked at Perfected Ling Ku with confidence."Senior Brother Ling Yun, I caught a total of 15 spirit beasts.”
With a thought from Perfected Lingzhu, the storage ring on her hand lit up, and fifteen spirit beasts of various sizes appeared in the Kai Tian Hall.
Perfected Ling Yun was also deeply shocked when he saw that Perfected Ling Zhu had caught these 15 spirit beasts in just eight months. He was worried about Perfected Ling Ku, who was competing with him.
However, the expressions of Perfected Ling Yu and Perfected Ling Feng, who saw this scene, were different. Perfected Ling Yu frowned, while Perfected Ling Feng smiled.
Suppressing his deep shock, Perfected Ling Yun asked,"Junior Brother Ling Ku, how many spirit beasts have you caught in the past eight months?”
Perfected Ling Ku was also shocked by the fact that Perfected Ling Zhu had captured fifteen spirit beasts in just eight months. However, when he recalled what Perfected Ling Yu had said, he took a deep breath and said with determination,"Senior Brother Ling Yun, I have a total of 20 spirit beasts.”Reverend Ling Ku was afraid that saying that he had more than a hundred spirit beasts would drive everyone crazy, so he only said that he had twenty.
"What? Impossible!" Adept Linzhu acted out of character and shouted loudly.
"Junior Brother Lingzhu, calm down. We'll know at a glance. Junior Brother Ling Ku, let out the spirit beast you captured for everyone to see.”Perfected Ling Yun frowned when he saw Perfected Ling Zhu's abnormal shouting.
With a thought, Reverend Ling Ku released twenty of the hundred spirit beasts in his storage ring. For a moment, all the spirit beasts in the Kai Tian Hall cried out in unison.
Seeing that Perfected Ling Ku had actually caught 20 spirit beasts, Perfected Ling Yu's nervous heart relaxed. On the other hand, Perfected Ling Feng, who was at the side, stared dumbfoundedly at the 20 spirit beasts that Perfected Ling Ku had released.
Perfected Ling Yun himself didn't know why his nervous heart relaxed when he saw Perfected Ling Ku release 20 spiritual beasts.
"Impossible, you can't possibly catch twenty spirit beasts in just eight months. Where do you think you caught these spirit beasts?”Adept Linzhu looked at the twenty spirit beasts in disbelief and asked.
Actually, the 15 spirit beasts that Reverend Lingzhu had brought with him were not caught by himself, but by someone else. In order to obtain the position of the sect master, Reverend Lingzhu had gone through painstaking efforts and paid a great price in exchange for these 15 spirit beasts. He had thought that victory was in his grasp, but he had not expected that Reverend Lingku was a level higher and actually caught 20 of them. He could not accept the reality in front of him for a moment.
"Junior Brother Ling Zhu, we cultivators focus on our cultivation. Have you, who has always been steady, really lost yourself in the face of the sect master's position? You're right. I can't catch 20 spirit beasts in just eight months, and I don't think you can catch 15 spirit beasts in just eight months. These twenty spirit beasts were given to me by my disciple Jing Feng. Junior Brother Ling Zhu, where did you get these fifteen spirit beasts?”Seeing the usually steady Reverend Lingzhu lose his composure like this, Reverend Lingku also felt that Reverend Lingzhu had changed a lot.
"Jing Feng? Senior Brother Ling Ku, are you saying that these spirit beasts were given to you by Jing Feng? Humph! He's only so powerful, yet he was able to capture twenty Spirit Beasts in a short eight months. I think this Jing Feng is a spy sent by the Devil Dao.”When Reverend Linzhu heard that these spirit beasts were actually captured by Jing Feng, the pressure in his heart increased sharply. He regretted agreeing to Reverend Lingku's suggestion to use the Nine Revolutions Immortal Spirit Pill to save Jing Feng. Now, Reverend Linzhu saw Jing Feng standing behind Reverend Lingku and revealed a trace of ruthlessness.
When Perfected Ling Yun and the rest of the Tiandao Sect disciples heard that these 20 Spiritual Beasts were actually captured by Jing Feng, they were deeply shocked. "Jing Feng, can you tell Uncle Master where you got these spirit beasts?" asked Perfected Ling Yun.”
"Replying to Sect Master Martial Uncle, these twenty spirit beasts were left behind by that mysterious person unintentionally when we entered the Five Colored Pagoda last time.”Jing Feng said what he had made up at the beginning.
" You mean the spirit beast left behind by the expert who broke the joint attack of the righteous and evil experts with a simple slash and left behind the five-colored divine stone? This…" Perfected Ling Yun felt that this matter was not simple.
After listening to Jing Feng's explanation, Reverend Lingzhu, who had not believed him earlier, also fell into a state of shock. He had even left behind such a precious five-colored divine stone, so it was reasonable for him to leave behind twenty spirit beasts.
Perfected Ling Yun sorted out his emotions and said,"Alright, let's not pursue the origins of the spirit beasts anymore. Since Junior Brother Ling Ku has caught more spirit beasts than Junior Brother Ling Zhu, I've decided that the next Sect Master will be Junior Brother Ling Ku. He will officially take over my position as Sect Master after I've transcended my Heavenly Tribulation.”
Hearing Perfected Ling Yun announce that the next sect master candidate was not him but the usually taciturn Perfected Ling Ku, Perfected Ling Zhu clenched his fists and revealed a trace of ruthlessness.
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