Chapter 71

In the vast expanse of the sky, the moonlight was faint.A streak of light came from the distance, tracing an arc in the sky before finally descending into the dense forest below.

The forest was silent without even the sound of insects.

Sitting paralyzed on the ground and leaning against a strange and bizarre tree, Lin Feng was gasping for breath.

The moment he escaped from Lingshan Town, just one glance from that purple-robed elder made him feel as if a large hand had grabbed his neck.

Not only did he experience a strong sense of suffocation, but his breath was also chaotic, and his qi and blood were stagnant.

“Thump, thump.”

Thinking back to the situation just now, Lin Feng’s heartbeat was still intense.

He considered himself to have experienced many dangers, but he had never felt so powerless.

In front of that purple-robed elder, he was like a weak ant, struggling in vain but still unable to escape the fate of being crushed.

Fortunately, the purple-robed elder eventually withdrew his gaze, and Lin Feng was able to escape with his life.

“Did that purple-robed old man come after us?” Lin Feng quickly asked.

“…I don’t know,” Old Man Tianji replied weakly.

“Why don’t you know?”

“First, I infused you with my soul power, and then I controlled your body to teleport a hundred li away. The combination of both has nearly exhausted my soul power, insufficient to detect the presence of a Divine Passage Realm cultivator.”

“What?”

Lin Feng was so startled that he jumped up, his heart suddenly suspended again: “That’s too dangerous, we need to run further away!”

With that, he prepared to sprint away.

But he had barely taken a step.

“What are you panicking for?”

Old Man Tianji shouted: “You’re still alive, which means that purple-robed elder didn’t come after us! Otherwise, with his strength, we would have been dead before even leaving Lingshan Town!”

“Aren’t you panicking? If you’re not panicking, why did you run so fast just now? You were the one controlling this body! My legs are still shaking!” Lin Feng retorted.

Old Man Tianji was speechless.

He couldn’t deny that he had been quite frightened by the situation just now.

Although he knew that the Son of Destiny was favored by the heavens and wouldn’t easily meet his demise, no one would be foolish enough to entrust their life entirely to fate.

Moreover, the situation just now was outrageous.

Outrageously so! Not to mention Jiang Chen’s own cultivation level and bizarre techniques, who would have thought that the stepping stones would start with a trump card, bringing out a figure from the Central Domain’s ceiling?

It was completely unreasonable!

What puzzled Old Man Tianji even more was that he thought they were doomed this time, yet Jiang Chen let Lin Feng go again.

Should he say that Jiang Chen was as foolish and arrogant as the villains Lin Feng had encountered before? But the man didn’t play by the rules and instantly pushed Lin Feng to the brink of death.

Should he say he was different? Yet he let the tiger return to the mountain.

It was incomprehensible, truly incomprehensible.

At this moment, even Old Man Tianji, who prided himself on calculating the world and making unilateral decisions could not see anything clearly as if there was a fog before his eyes.

“Haha! I didn’t die, I really am the Son of Destiny!” Lin Feng sat down again and laughed loudly.

His laughter was a bit stiff and noticeably trembling.

“…you will die sooner or later if you keep relying on this,” Old Man Tianji immediately threw cold water on him.

“Fortune’s favor is limited. Although you are the Son of Destiny, that favor diminishes a little bit every time you rely on fortune to save your life! You will no longer be the Son of Destiny when it runs out but a stepping stone for others!”

Hearing this, Lin Feng became unusually serious: “Although I’ve heard this so much that my ears have calluses, don’t worry, I won’t be foolish enough to rely entirely on fate.”

“Mm.”

Old Man Tianji nodded in satisfaction, then ask Lin Feng about his next plan.

“Of course, I’m going to Jiuyan Sect!” Lin Feng replied instantly.

“What?!”

Old Man Tianji was shocked, “Have you caught that girl’s madness? There’s something wrong with Jiuyan Sect! Not only is there a girl who likes to bury people alive, but there’s also an Eldest Senior Brother who doesn’t play by the rules!”

“Tsk, you just don’t understand, do you?”

Lin Feng said with a confident smile, “The Jiang family’s influence is too great, I’d be easier for Jiang Chen to target if I go anywhere else! Only by becoming a disciple of the Jiuyan Sect will I be facing not the Jiang family but Jiang Chen alone!”

Old Man Tianji fell silent, feeling there was some logic to it.

Originally, he was not such a cautious person, but things had become increasingly strange since coming to this Central Domain.

According to common sense, the Son of Destiny would indeed encounter crises, but it shouldn’t be nearly dying twice in a row! And the people who appeared were all unbeatable!

With this, plus the constantly changing sliver of fate, he had to be cautious.

“Then let’s hurry on, but I still say the same thing, the most poisonous is a woman’s heart! Don’t always think about that beautiful master and Senior Sister, Qingning is your lesson from the past!” Old Man Tianji cautioned.

“Qingning was just an accident. Didn’t you say she went mad?”

Lin Feng was still unconcerned while grinning: “It’s just a mad beauty, still within my control! If I can cure her madness, maybe I can…”

Saying this, he chuckled with a “heheh.”

“Hmph, you’ll eventually die at the hands of a woman!” Old Man Tianji snorted.

Not wanting to argue with an old man, Lin Feng rested for a while longer, then decided to take advantage of the night to travel.

At this moment, he was somewhat impatient, eager to meet his unseen master and Senior Sister.

He also decided that once he became a disciple, he would definitely find his beautiful master to complain about Jiang Chen and regain some ground! With this thought, he quickened his pace.

But as he walked, sounds like the friction of metal objects appeared.

The noise wandered through the silent forest, coming and going.

“Sigh!”

Just when it finally settled down, a sigh filled with melancholy sounded.

The eerie scene made Lin Feng’s heart jump.

He wanted to detour and leave, but then he wondered if it might be an opportunity, so he picked up the black back with its broken tip and tiptoed towards the source of the sound.

Soon, a clearing came into view.

Under the moonlight, a wild man with his upper body bare and his hair as messy as a bird’s nest was standing with his back to him.

The wild man looked up at the moon, his back trembling slightly.

Suddenly, he cried out!

“Wuu~ Eldest Senior Brother, you died so tragically!”

Hearing this, Lin Feng’s scalp tingled!

In the middle of the night, there was a wild man mourning in this godforsaken place? So scary?!

“It was just a dream…” the wild man spoke again.

Was he having a nightmare?

Lin Feng breathed a sigh of relief, cursing Jiang Chen internally for making him so jumpy.

“Who knows if it wasn’t.” The wild man spoke again.

Lin Feng was puzzled! So was it or wasn’t it?!

“I thought you were alive, but then you died again. I thought you were dead, but then you lived again…” The wild man raised his head, still rambling on.

Are you telling ghost stories?! Lin Feng cursed inwardly.

Who tells ghost stories to the moon in the middle of the night while hiding in the forest sharpening a knife?

He immediately decided! The man in front of him was not only a wild man but also a madman!

Lin Feng didn’t want to deal with another madman because the last madman buried him alive, and moreover, this was a male madman!

He turned to leave quietly while holding his breath.

“Lin Feng, where are you? I’ve been waiting for you for a long time…” The wild man behind him spoke again.

These words exploded in Lin Feng’s mind!

Shocked, he instinctively activated his vital energy in defense, then suddenly turned around!

And in that instant, his presence was noticed by the wild man!

The latter stood up abruptly and turned around just as suddenly.

Their eyes met.

Lin Feng finally made out the appearance of the wild man.

He had a refined face but was unkempt.

He was dressed in Confucian robes and wielded two gleaming machetes.

His expression was a mix of a smile and a frown as if he were both laughing and crying.

The wild man also got a clear look at Lin Feng’s face.

In an instant, a towering killing intent emerged from him, and under its influence, his eyes filled with blood, his body trembled, and his vital energy turned extremely violent.

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“Lin Feng, my dear Junior Brother, come to your Second Senior Brother,” the wild man said with a ferocious smile, gesturing with one hand after freeing it.

“Gulp!”

Seeing this, Lin Feng swallowed hard, a single word flashing in his mind…

Danger!

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