Chapter Thirty-Five: Unafraid of Challenges

  "Hehe, I was originally also cultivating there, but because of emotional entanglements! During the time I was injured, thanks to Xiaoyun's care, we developed feelings for each other over time, so I didn't go back in. Right, Shidi, if you show off your cultivation, you should be able to... no, you will definitely be able to enter the secret land for cultivation." Fengchen said with a confident expression.

  "Never mind, I'll just wait until the Sect's Grand Competition and thank my senior sister then." Lu Yu Feng's current priority was not the insufficiency of his spiritual energy, but rather the inadequacy of his physical strength. Therefore, the density or otherwise of his spiritual energy did not have much attraction for him.

  "Junior brother, are you really not going to participate?" Feng Chen looked at Lu Yu Feng with a serious face.

  "Indeed!" Lu Yufeng put down his wine cup and said calmly.

  "Really?"

  "I knew it!"

  "Haha... I don't know why my junior brother wants to hide his true abilities, but he must have his reasons for doing so. Come on, let's drink! Let's drink!" Fengchen raised his cup again and downed it in one gulp.

  "There's no such thing as humility, it's just that the true yuan is a bit thicker!" Lu Yufeng also laughed.

  "Alright, younger brother, we've had enough to drink for today. It's time to head back. We'll continue drinking tomorrow." Feng Chen stood up and said to Lu Yu Feng.

  "Sorry, senior brother. Junior brother will be heading back to Fengyun Cliff tomorrow. Let's have a good drink together when there's another chance." Lu YuFeng had already replenished his supplies and was planning to return to Fengyun Cliff to continue training his physical body.

  "Well, let's part ways for now. But don't forget about the sect's grand competition, you must come at that time! Even if you're not participating, you can still take a look at the strength of the younger generation in our sect and make some comparisons for yourself." Feng Chen said as he turned around and left. His speed was also very fast, disappearing from sight after just a few flashes, leaving Lu Yu Feng alone in deep thought.

  "Alas... Younger brother, why didn't you participate?" Feng Chen sat in the room, unable to figure out why Lu Yu Feng would hide his skills.

  "But since we're brothers, it's all good. Who doesn't have a few small secrets? As long as we're brothers, why bother with so many details."

  "Feng Ge, what's on your mind?" Xiaoyun walked in from outside the door and saw Fengchen sitting there lost in thought, so she asked.

  "Today I met with Brother Yu Feng, and tactfully advised him to participate in the sect's competition, but no matter what, he politely declined, refusing to participate. Alas... As soon as Wind Dust mentioned Lu Yu Feng, he was speechless. What a great opportunity to prove himself, yet he didn't grasp it."

  "Feng Shidi? Is that the waste who has been cultivating for over a decade? You want to advise him to participate in the sect's grand competition? Forget it, even if he did break through to the Huayuan realm, it's not like it's a big deal or anything. That kind of trash, even if he did break through, how powerful could he possibly become? Do you think he's Qing Shan?" Xiaoyun said with disdain.

  "Alas... you've all been deceived by him. A year ago, I had a contest with him, and the result was a draw." Feng Chen said with a serious face.

  "What? Won't you? You've cultivated for over thirty years! Are you kidding me?" Xiaoyun's face was filled with shock and disbelief.

  "I can hardly believe it myself! Never mind, his abilities will be seen later on. There's no need for us to worry about these things." Feng Chen said calmly.

  "My junior brother, from now on is not a mediocre person." In the contact with Feng Chen and Lu Yifeng, I felt the deepest. Lu Yifeng understands endurance, knows when to advance and retreat. During the period of tempering, facing ridicule and mockery, he was not affected at all. Now that he has gained strength, he knows how to hide his abilities, such behavior, how many people can achieve?

  "That Wind Brother has made his move..." Xiaoyun said, hesitating to continue.

  "It's not a matter of life and death, why must I use that?" Feng Chen said calmly.

  "Even if I use it, can I really win?" Feng Chen asked himself in his heart.

  "Feng Shidi dares to break through the Youlin, he must not have felt threatened, but in the Youlin, there are dangers everywhere. The only explanation for not feeling threatened is that his strength has reached a certain level, and he doesn't fear the demons of the Youlin at all. At least, he's not afraid of the demons on the periphery of the Youlin. Can such a person be simple? I have a way to save my life, does he not have one?"

  "It doesn't matter, as long as he's my brother!" Feng Chen shook his head again.

  ....

  Lu Yu Feng carried a large package of supplies, slowly making his way to the waterfall beside the Wind Cloud Cliff. This was within the sect's surroundings, where there were many people and prying eyes, so Lu Yu Feng didn't dare to openly use his storage ring. The principle that "a poor man is not guilty, but one who possesses jade is" - Lu Yu Feng understood this well. As for the current Cloud Sun Sect, if Lu Yu Feng wasn't mistaken, probably only the sect master had a storage ring on their person.

  Arriving at the waterfall, Lu Yufeng tidied up and then took a leap, jumping into the pond below the waterfall. He then jumped under the torrent and indulged in the rushing water's impact. After a while, he carried a huge log and withstood the torrent's impact, slowly doing squats one by one.

  "Alas, this water flow can no longer have a significant impact on my physical body's tempering." Lu Yufeng jumped again and escaped to the empty space beside the waterfall, sat down with his legs crossed, and once again entered the true yuan's refinement of his meridians.

  Luyu Feng's refinement of the meridians had reached nearly four layers, and he was already at the edge of the middle stage of Huayuan. He had taken a step into the middle stage of Huayuan, and in the sect, he could be considered a small expert.

  Lu Yu Feng stood up, his eyes snapped open, and he pulled out the long knife beside him. With a single slash, this slash, Lu Yu Feng did not use any true yuan, but relied solely on his physical strength to swing it out. The blade's trajectory emitted a piercing wind sound, which was purely an eruption of physical power.

  "Alas, it's still not possible." A few months ago, when Lu Yufeng was practicing his sword, he had exhausted his true energy. Unintentionally, relying solely on his physical strength, he emitted a faint sword aura. This sword aura was extremely fierce. In the fantasy realm, Lu Yufeng had also seen cultivators who could swing out sword auras with just their physical strength, but those were demonic cultivators. The demonic tribe was born with strong physical strength and had a special way of cultivating their bodies, so relying solely on physical strength to swing out sword auras wasn't unusual.

  This also resulted in the demonic tribe having strong physical strength but scarce true yuan, while the human tribe had strong true yuan but weak physical bodies. However, Lu Yu Feng was not a member of the demonic tribe, and yet he could emit sword aura with just his physical strength alone, which indeed surprised Lu Yu Feng. But that was only once, and afterwards, no matter how hard he tried to comprehend it, he couldn't reach that state again.

  "Let's try the Overlord Slash, it's my only current combat skill and a pretty powerful one." Lu Yu Feng circulated his internal energy, his true yuan surging, and with a single slash, he sent out the move. A blade of light over a zhang long shot towards the pool of water under the waterfall.

  "Hum..." The blade hummed as it struck the water, emitting a series of thunderous sounds. The water in the pool was split in two, only to merge back together in an instant. Lu Yu Feng's Wind Dominating Blade had increased its power by several folds.

  "Why not try the second form of Ba Dao Jian? With my current physical strength, I should be able to withstand the destruction caused by the second form's reversal. Even if I couldn't withstand it, I shouldn't suffer serious injury." Lu Yufeng thought and immediately unleashed a Reversal Slash, with a blade length of nearly one zhang. Lu Yufeng's power was such that even if he used the second form of Ba Dao Jian, it wouldn't be stronger than Force Splitting the Sky. The Reversal Slash emphasized the enemy's continuous attacks, although Force Splitting the Sky could also unleash many blades in a row, but it consumed a huge amount of true yuan. In terms of conserving true yuan, it was far inferior to the Reversal Slash. Therefore, when facing an enemy with strong defenses, the Reversal Slash was the best choice."

  "Hum..." With a single slash, the water in the pond was churned up, creating waves of water flowers. Just as the water was about to close in again, Lu Yu Feng made another slash, enlarging the opening of the pond even further. He didn't stop there and continued with another slash. He felt that although "Reversal of Heaven and Earth" had a similar power to "Force Slash", it required an enormous amount of physical strength from him. After all, "Reversal of Heaven and Earth" was very economical with true energy, but the damage to his body was immense. At this moment, Lu Yu Feng's internal true energy was surging violently, but his body had already begun to show signs of cracks. He completely ignored his physical injuries and continued with three consecutive slashes, each slash landing on the opening in the pond, creating a massive gash that now revealed the muddy bottom of the pond.

  Lu Yu Feng had already consecutively chopped out six knives. Originally, Lu Yu Feng's strength could only chop the clear sky five times at most, and after six chops, his true yuan would be exhausted. However, he still felt that there was true yuan to chop out, so Lu Yu Feng did not stop. After chopping out three more knives, he leaped into the air above the water pool, suspended himself above the water pool, and chopped downwards at the muddy sediment below.

  "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Three consecutive sounds burst out from under the water pool, and Lu Yu Feng this time really felt powerless. Not only was his true yuan exhausted, unable to float in mid-air, but even his physical body spurted out blood before falling straight into the water pool.

  Lu Yu Feng slowly crawled up onto the empty land by the edge of the pond, then his eyes turned black and he fainted.

  "Not bad, Ninth Knife!" These were the last words spoken by Lu Yufeng before he passed out.