Five days later, Bai Ming's hidden cave.
"Huff, Huff, Huff" Bai Ming was breathing heavily, as he staggeringly took a few steps.
"Break" He said as he made a hand sign.
The formation surrounding the blood pit broke apart.
"Hehe, Second layer of the rotten blood art." Bai Ming smiled as he touched the newly formed red cresent on his abdomen.
Bai Ming quickly dressed up, before he took out the treasure sword from his storage pouch. He pressed the low grade treasure sword against his left arm. But the sword couldn't cut through, he continued to increase his strength, but the result was the same, It couldn't even leave a scratch.
Next, he covered the sword with his 6th layer aura and slashed it at his arm.
Clang!
The sound of metal colliding rung out, Bai Ming saw that there was tiny cut on his arm. He was very pleased with this result.
"My body in itself is a low grade weapon, and now that i have already mastered all those mid grade techniques, I have enough strength to fight against a wolf king equally, I could probably kill it even without using my formation path methods." Bai Ming sheathed his sword as he assessed his strength.
These past days Bai Ming spent training mid grade sword techniques and movement technique, he had reached mastery in them and now that he also reached the 2nd layer of rotten blood arts his strength surged again, reaching new heights.
"My cultivation base is still a little unstable, I should go and fight some wolves, going to the village now will be a bit troublesome, I will have to improve my reputation, But it's a small thing."
Bai Ming's entire team had died except for him, this was a problem. Now when Bai Ming would return to the village he would definitely be questioned, And one more thing to be noted is that, it wasn't an ordinary team, it was one of the three strongest teams in the village. But it wasn't too troubling for Bai Ming, after all during beast tides it was common for people to die, Bai Ming would just have to make some reasonable lie. But now that Bai Ming had to stabilize his cultivation base, he was going to fight. He may as well use this chance to improve his reputation by helping his clansman in the battlefield, this would definitely help him when he returns to the village.
It was not that Bai Ming had attachment towards the village, but he needed the 3rd layer of the primeval star mantra to breakthrough the core formation realm.
Bai Ming did a few stretches, before he glanced at the children. All of the children here had reached the 5th layer of bone forging realm, their cultivation progress wasn't anything crazy, but if one considers the fact they didn't even use a single spirit stone to cultivate, their speed was pretty impressive. Bai Ming's original plan was to raise their cultivation and use them as materials, but now his interest towards these children was almost non existent. But he still decided on keeping them alive for the time being, they might have a use in the future. Their life and death was completely dependent on Bai Ming's mood.
Bai Ming exited the cave, he had already put up a few restriction and a 2nd grade illusion formation here, Preventing the children from escaping and even outsiders wouldn't be able to make out anything. Unless a core formation realm expert interferes in it.
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Six Hell wolves leaped in the air with blurred silhouettes. They continued to leap and attacked Bai Ming aggressively.
If it was like before, Bai Ming would dogge without a doubt. But now, he stood on the spot with a cold expression, still like a sculpture.
The hell wolves slammed, scratched and bit Bai Ming's body, but a crisp 'ding ding' sound could be heard, as if they were not attacking a person, but a sturdy jade pillar.
"When I was only a 1st layer body cultivator, just a 2nd tier low grade hell Wolf could injure my raw body, but now even a high grade beast cannot put a scratch on me, And I have still yet use spiritual essence." Bai Ming pondered, while the hell wolves attacked him.
Bai Ming noticed that one of the Hell Wolf's targeted his little brother, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart. But he gritted his teeth and resolved himself to take it head on.
The hell wolf opened its mouth, revealing it's diamond like teeths as it ferociously bit at Bai Ming's manhood.
Ding!
Bai Ming let out a breath of relief seeing his demonic ward was safe and sound, it could have been disastrous. But all's well that ends well.
Bai Ming's spiritual energy bust out, as he swung his right fist from above directly at the Wolf's head. The moment the fierce fist landed, the entire wolf head burst open. Its Blood, eyeballs, brain matter splashed on Bai Ming's body.
Next, Punches and kicks kicked up a sandstorm. His strikes were simple, yet brutal and effective with an imposing aura. All of the Wolf's were killed one by one, without mercy.
after a dozen breaths the entire scene was filled with mangled wolf corpses and blood everywhere. Bai Ming quickly collected all the cores and vanished, he wasn't done yet.
After 10 minutes of wandering he came across a battle, there were 4 Ye clansman fighting against nearly 15 hell wolves, Bai Ming used his divine sense to scan them, he concluded that two of them were 6th layer just like him, as for the remaining members he couldn't see through their cultivation. But, he could make out that they were in a serious disadvantage.
The moment Bai Ming used his divine sense, the two cultivators with higher cultivation simultaneously noticed Bai Ming who was bathed in blood from head to toe, but they noticed that he was only an 6th layer elemental realm expert, they were slightly disappointed. But they still wanted to ask him for help.
But Bai Ming was a step quicker, he unsheathed his sword and directly entered the battlefield, in less than half a minute he slaughtered every single hell wolf effortlessly.
The group of cultivators looked on with immense shock, they even forgot to breath.
Bai Ming looked at them calmly, "I have just saved your life, I think these beast cores belong to me."
The group of cultivators finally came to their senses, their leader quickly took a step forward and gave a deep bow, "Brother, you have saved our lives. I shall never forget your kindness, as for the these beast cores they rightfully belong to you, but to express our gratitude let us offer you all the cores we have collected so far, Please accept it."
Bai Ming gave a slight smile, but he quickly waved his hand "No need, I will only take what belongs to me. But if you want to express your gratitude you can help me collect these cores."
Bai Ming was tactful with his words, these people have gone through life and death battles to get some cores, and now even though they willingly wanted to gift him, but that would sure make them feel bit of a loss, Bai Ming quickly rejected them but he also gave them a way out by helping him collect the loot. This would make his image in their hearts bigger and brighter. Next, whenever someone would bring Bai Ming's name up, these people would most likely say good things about him, words about his good deeds will quickly spread.
After collecting the loot Bai Ming was just about to leave, when the leader of the group asked his name. Hearing Bai Ming's name, the group of cultivators made weird faces but they quickly composed themselves, putting aside those worthless thoughts.
Bai Ming didn't stay there any longer. As he moved like the air, unhindered. Looking for more damsels in distress.
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At the same time,
"Break!!" Li jun spoke in deep voice, following his words the huge purple barrier in front of them broke apart.
Beside him Li wei was covered in an ice armor, both of her hands held long icicles, she stood in a defensive position, as she watched the barrier break apart slowly.
The very instant the barrier broke, the icicle in Li wei's hands started to melt slowly.
It was so hot that she could feel it even through she was covered in an ice armor. A blazing cave such as this had to contain an extreme yang treasure!
Li jun squinted his eyes as he gazed deeper inside the cave, his eyes instantly lit up. His entire body trembled for a moment before calming down.
Deep within the cave, one could see a purple flame burning peacefully on the surface of a basin sized skull, the skull was half purple, half green. There were many veins on it connected to the ground below, These veins were throbbing every now and then. But that's not all, right behind them lay an sculpture of an old man in intricate robes. he seemed in his sixties, his eyes were closed and both of his palms were placed against each other.
"Teacher, we have found it! Finally, we have found the bone heart flame!! Now we can finally save moth- Aunty Su." Li wei was ecstatic, as she looked at the Purple flame.
"Yes, atlast we can. Sigh" Li jun closed his eyes, opening them after a long time.
He stood up and walked towards the bone heart flame, But after a dozen steps he stopped frowning as he looked at the surroundings.
Li wei who was following closely behind him spoke "Is it another restriction?"
Li jun nodded his head slightly, he thought silently "Another restriction, this feels more like a test now...Breaking this restriction will take me another two weeks and then the process of refining this bone heart flame is also filled with dangers. Even though there are plenty of traps behind, but these local cultivation forces might be able to get here by then, And then it will be very very difficult for me to take this bone heart flame, after all these flame is connected to the earth vein, once I refine this flame the entire mountain will collapse.Sigh...But no matter the price I will refine these flame."