Within the Thunderburst Jade City Lord's Mansion.

A few Lang core family members are busy attending to the issues around the whole Thunderburst Jade City. Since the House of Miraculous Jade Auction is going to be held within the south of the city. Since this city had become the gathering location of all outside cultivators, many small fights and internal strive happened within everywhere in the city, because of the appearance of many powerhouses from all over the Brilliant Jade Kingdom.

A few well-known figure is already been spotted within the Thunderburst Jade City.

"Look! That's the Inner Disciple of the Beast Taming School, Young Master Du Run Yu! I heard that his cultivation is already at the Peak of Practitioner Tier!" one cultivator shared the information he had with the other groups of cultivator besides him. "Those from Late Silver Hall really have too many profound treasures to cultivates. A peak of Practitioner Tier cultivators at the age of 18, who can match with him among his peers?" one of the members of the groups replied back.

"Look there as well! That's the youngest Inner Disciple of Heavenly Ascension School, the 16 years old Ye Hao! I heard he already at the Late Heaven Practitioner Tier Stage now, only a slight push is needed to reach Peak Practitioner Tier!" another well-known cultivator from Late Silver Hall superpower appears within the limelight.

Following from behind as well is also a genius within the Brilliant Jade Kingdom. "That's Luo Qian! She actually participates in this auction as well! Did she come here purposely for the seventh Rank Category Pills? I thought that the Profound Herb School will have plenty of those treasured recipes within their School Library." one of the female cultivators from the Bronze Pill Hall of Thunderburst Jade City comments. Although the square before the House of Miraculous Treasure is huge and noisy, the female cultivator would not believe that Luo Qian actually heard what she says, and smiled. "this girl is too innocent and lack of knowledge about the pills she should actually refine. Within the Profound Herb School, only one Eighth Category, two Seventh Category, and three Sixth Category recipe is kept within the School. Of course, I would try to get myself a seventh Category Pills in my hand for research." she thinks in her mind, as she follows the earlier group to their respective accommodation.

After a while, a few different clans, sect, and Family also sent their representatives to attend the auction, but their popularity is nowhere as crazy as the three schools Inner Disciples. The participants appear one after another, and it keeps on going until the number stopped exactly at 995 honored guest. A total of five more honored guest is yet to appears, and the auction is known to be starting in two more days.

"I wonder why Xiao Feng is not here yet. Should I sent some soldiers to check his current location?" one of the organizers of the House of Miraculous Jade's grand auction is worried about a particular person's attendance. This person who stands before the House's entrance, is Lang Ya, one of the precious son of Lang Ren, Vice-General of General Nan's Ten battalions.

"Young Master, something is reported from the Five Cities Intersections Scouts." One soldier in his tight flexible attire appears before Lang Ya. "What happened?" Lang Ya asked. "Young Master, we believe that something happened to the Man Si House in this two days. A large number of Man Si House bandits, lead by ten Adept Tier Cultivators is gathering before the exits of Thunderburst jade City Entrance. In the same time, the scouting team managed to notice that the carriage, is carrying six cultivators and a Coach Driver, all of them from Clear Jade City." the soldier immediately reports the news from outside of the city.

"Brother Xiao Feng, what happened to you again? This is not good. His cultivation is only at around Middle Heaven Refinement Tier, and all of the Bandit's division leaders are in Adept Tier cultivation." Lang Ya considers his few options. After making a few hypothesis of the solution choices, he summoned his men. "First Squad Leader and Second Squad Leader, lead your 500 men team to force the Man Si House bandits to get away from our intersection entrance and protect the carriage and those friends from Clear Jade City. If there is a Pill Masters within named Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing, bring them directly to the City Lord's Mansion." Lang Ya instruct the two Squad Leader to take note of his concern and immediately make their move to protect the Carriage from Clear Jade City.

Meanwhile, in the Five Cities Intersection, a few carriage and caravans had been pull over or retreated, because of the amazing numbers of bandits is gathering altogether at one. Usually, the bandits come in a team of five to ten for a small robbery, while between 50 if they expecting a fight. If they are coming in around 200 to 500 men, it should be with motives to clean a village or small town clean from any valuables. But this time, 1000 men strong bandits actually gathered together.

"I, Tai Pan, do not like to fight a single Ant by mobilizing a thousand elephants. Whoever killed my younger cousin, come out and face your fate, or else, all seven of you will be buried without a whole corpse here!" the one that seems to be their leader, loudly speaks as he walked closer to the carriage. After hearing the word he loudly speaks out, everyone within the carriage, except Nan Jing Jing and Long Feng, is shaking furiously, afraid they will be dead.

They wished to ask Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing to get down and surrender themselves, so the four of them and the coach driver could be left alive, but they couldn't speak the word out, because the one that protected them from death, is exactly the two person they wished to ask them to surrender! "Brother Li, Sister Nan, what do you think?" one of the Gao Family disciples asked for the Li couple's intention.

"We can leave this location anytime, but not you five. If I choose to get down from the carriage and run, what do you think will happens to you guys?" Nan Jing Jing asked. The others channels their rich imagination, and a hint of fear appears in their minds. "We... Most probably will get killed, Rob and my partner will get raped before death, before they started to turn around and continue chasing you two." the male from martial hall speaks out what came across his mind.

"That's why. We either fight until the Thunderburst jade City assistance is arrived, or we surrender and let them do whatever they want from us." Nan Jing Jing says to the other five within the carriage. "I... I'll fight! I will protect you, my future wife!" the male from martial hall pick up his courage to speaks, and as his words came out from his mouth, the lady, from feeling despair starts to have a shine in her eyes. "I will fight too, I don't want to be separated from you ever!" she picks up her courage as well to fight.

"We... Will fight too!" the Gao Family pick up their courage as well and getting ready. Looking at the group of six is so motivated, Coach Driver Wu Wei also holding his twin daggers on both hands, and prepare to charge out. "Wait." Long Feng holds then from attacking first. He passes two Yellow Heart Poison Pills to each person included Nan Jing Jing, and went down from the carriage slowly.

"Wow, what a big group of bandits surrounding this young cultivator." Long Feng speaks loudly as soon as he came down from the carriage. He walked closer to the Bandit Leader Tai Pan and cupped both hands to make a polite bow gestures. "Big Brother, we are forced to kill because the group from earlier wanted us dead before robbing us clean. If pushed into this situation, will you not fight before death as well?" Long Feng throws a question to Tai Pan.

"Humph! Say what you want, but since you lot already kills my younger cousin and make his mother unhappy, we will make sure to bring your head back to the Man Si House to let his mother heart felt at ease!" Tai Pan, leaving no place to negotiate, insisted to kill Long Feng and bring his head back as tributes for the dead younger cousin. In reality, he was looking for some reason to bring back to their Man Si House and tried to use it to obtain the chances to get closer to his younger cousin's mother and owned this woman when the chances are ripe.

"If that's the case, could you let my friend go? I am the one that kills five among six of them, my other friends are all little cowards that only know how to hide and run." Long Feng actually dare to speak out such words from his mouth. Meanwhile, within the carriage, Nan Jing Jing secretly smiles as Long Feng's reply came into the ring. "Wife, are you sure this way, they will allow you guys to pass?" but then, Nan Jing Jing replied "No".

Long Feng totally devastated by her answer. But behind the reason of such provocations, Long Feng does not understand the reason why Nan Jing Jing tried to provoke Tai Pan! Hunting a pack of the ferocious beast does not necessary to start from catching its babies, torturing the cubs, Killing the young, and leave the leader last. If one goes through this kind of ways, they are expected to fail from the start. And this kind of mindset is where the borderline between success and failure stands facing one another.

Nan Jing Jing's way is using the direct provocation to first disrupt the leader's capability in handling the small matters, and his judgment in facing attacking enemies. Nan Jing Jing next move is to make sure that the provoked enemies will either decide to leave the other targets and aim at their main target altogether or decided to underestimate all the targets. If the bandit leader is falling into this move, either way, Nan Jing Jing's strategy will definitely be a successful layout.

Exactly up to Nan Jing Jing's expectations. Tai Pan actually ate the provocation hard enough, and gave the order to allows the others to quickly get away from this area, and put all their attention on the one handed sword wielder, Long Feng. As the carriage starts to leave the area, Long Feng's next instructions came from the ring. He followed and taunted the bandits. "Don't waste the time, while they are leaving, choose ten of your men to come and face me. Or do you prefer 1000 to 1? I don't mind, I'm soon to meet my maker anyway." Long Feng sweat in his heart as he speaks like this. He felt like crying inside.

"How dare you! One of the Adept Tier cultivators beside Tai Pan speaks in anger after listening to Long Feng's taunts. "Ten men! Go down and get his head to Leader Tai!" he shouted angrily, and ten man from the bandit's group immediately charge downwards from the slope and met Long Feng face to face. With his sword in his hand, Long Feng began to channel his Orange Fire Stage tempering strength to his whole body, and increase his defensive by using the Xuan Wu Divination Art, with his body becoming strong, sturdy and bursting with strong Essence Energy, Long Feng charges! Rushing to his left side where three among ten bandits is running to him together!

"Three Strikes!" Long Feng attack with full confidence and that confidence has taken a note from the Adept Tier bandit that ordered the attack earlier. "This Brat is actually an Adept Tier Cultivator! Everyone, Charge!" he shouted, afraid that the initial 10 bandits wouldn't be enough to fight against this Adept Tier cultivator. And the worries in his heart come true. Long Feng just needed two strikes, to separated the head from the first three bandits. Looking at the other bandits that coming down from the slopes as well, Long Feng hesitates not, and continue to charge to another direction, where two bandits and running towards him side by side.

Again, one strong slash! Two heads fly from the body and fall to the ground. With the other five earliest bandits having their hesitation, Long Feng take a moment to circulate his breathing, and withdraw two Pills from his Spatial Ring and pop them into his mouth. "A Tiger Stripes Soul Pill to enhance my Elemental, Healing, and Essence Energy for four consecutive times when I'm fighting, and a Calming Spirit Dew Pellet to make sure my mind is not affected by the bloodlust. Seems like fighting as a Pill Master not only will need to spend loads on the Medicinal Pills, it's a path of using money as cultivation strength to fight equally with others!" Long Feng smiled as he thinks about the irony of being a Pill Master Cultivator.

Actually, no one among the Pill Masters path will easily pop a pill worth around 10,000 Spirit Bronze Coins into their mouth to aid themselves in a fight. Some experienced Pill Master will always prepare some Poison to counter the larger amount of opponents, some Cultivating and Healing Pills to aid them during the fight, some Tempering Pill to recover their Elemental Energy storage, and some random special pills to enhance their body strength. Most of them prepared the Pills by themselves, and hardly get into a random fight like what Long Feng is facing now.

Only some exceptional Pill Masters, such as Death Masters and Dark Poison Masters usually have some strong group controlling Pills that could aid them from being attacked from all directions. Element Tempering Masters usually have a strong foundation on their Element Tempering, and wouldn't easily be defeated even facing opponent stronger than them one or two stage ahead. While for some Cultivation Masters, their cultivation is high, to begin with, so even without sufficient martial arts, their overall cultivation already gave them an advantage before fighting.

This is also one of the reasons, why Pill Masters could flourish easily, harder to kill, and also if successfully hunted down, the return from the effort is totally worth sacrificing few of their subordinates! And this is the situation Long Feng just landed himself into! "Come, bring all your life over and let me dispose of you all for good!" Long Feng already had a Calming Spirit Dew Pellet in his body a while ago, but still, after killing at least 200 of the bandits, the Bloodlust within his mind started to grow stronger, destroying the calmness border within Long Feng's mind.

"Husband! Do not fall into the abyss of Bloodlust!" Nan Jing Jing could felt Long Feng's breath and Cultivation running in a mess, indicating a strong disruption within his mind. As the heads, limbs, and torso of the bandit are killed reach 300, Long Feng couldn't continue to fight anymore, although he still has one more round of bursting effect from the Tiger Stripes Soul Pill. "Huh... Huh..." Long Feng's breath becoming a mess as his lungs started to constrict, making him having difficulties to channel his Essence Energy.

"Hahaha, that kid finally falls into the Abyss of Bloodlust." the Adept Bandit beside Tai Pan laughs as he saw Long Feng fall to one knee on the ground. But his word cause anger from Tai Pan, and without a word, the Wolf Toothed Mace smack his back, and had the Adept Bandit to fall down from the slopes. "Leader, why would you do that to Tai Tan?" another Adept Bandit talks as he sees Tai Pan smack the earlier Adept Bandit from his horse.

"Happy for our 300 brothers death, what kind of Captain are you? No matter they are weak or not, they are still the brothers of the Man Si House, and you actually happy when their death is used to weakened this brat!" Tai Pan shows his qualification and consideration of a leader, as he looked at two slim as a bamboo male behind him. "Palou, Paluo, go and get his head back to me." Tai Pan gave an order to the two bamboo figure slender twins.

"Understood!" the twins replied, and charge down the slope together with their [Ash Flame Hundred Li Battle Stead]. Although their horses' name is slightly different compared to what Wu Wei is handling at the moment, but for cultivators who preferred to fight their battle on the horse, the choices of [Battle Contract Beast Kind, the Ash Flame Hundred Li Battle Stead] would be wiser, due to the aggressiveness of the horses. The twins Adept Tier bandits are using a similar weapon to each other, a whip.

The last bursting effect from the Tiger Stripes Soul Pill came and gave Long Feng a moment of better condition to continues his fighting before he escapes from his current spot and pops in two more Calming Spirit Dew Pellet into his mouth. Long Feng channel his Essence Energy to assimilate the Pills, and make his head less heavy from the incredibly heavy bloodlust effect.

But the twins attack is very well synchronized. One chasing, another cornering. One attacking, another disrupting. When one is chased by following attack from the opponent, another one help with a sneak attack from their long distance whip. An eerie bell with irritating sounds could be heard each time the whip is swing around their attacking range, causing a disruption in their opponent's mind and soul. Even for Long Feng, who lack of fighting experience, is pushed into a dead end.

"Husband! Struggle!" Nan Jing Jing voice came into his head. Long Feng immediately wakes from the needle pain headache as he plays his Defensive Wu Sword Art. A ball of swords appears without any gaps to enter is established by Long Feng to defend against the sound and the long range attack from that two whips. Long Feng felt helpless as he was cornered while his ball of swords is continuously rained by attacks from two steel tip whips.

One of the twins, Paluo had his whip reached a piece of stone as big as a human head, and with all his strength, he tossed the stone towards Long Feng's direction to cause his ball of sword useless. While at the same time, Palou charge deep into Long Feng's range of attack, with a dagger appears at the end of his grip, as he leaps from his horse and tried to gave Long Feng a tight hug.

"Despicable!" Long Feng shouts with dissatisfaction as he turned around to face Palou! Stopping the struggle of allowing the Bloodlust entering his mind, Long Feng decided to go according to the flow and swing his sword with much force! Palou makes a turn in midair as he falls to the ground with his hand still on the grip of his whip, and like a beast, he crawls with four limbs and getting close to Long Feng's feet. But as he looks above on Long Feng before he tried to stab him with the dagger, he was shocked by what he saw on his target.

A bloody red eye youngster about 15 years younger than him, is slamming the sword's body toward him at the ground! Palou tried to escape by rolling his body sideways, but Long Feng's force is not only on his sword, it is on the whole fist itself! His fist touched the ground where Palou head was positioned seconds ago, and being crushed by Long Feng with his bare fist.

Long Feng then swing his fist, ignoring the sword on his hand as he behaves like how a tortoise in anger would do. Paluo panic and quickly charge towards where Long Feng and Palou is fighting, and have the tip of his whip charge at Long Feng like a snake heading for its bite. But Long Feng turned around, looking at the tip of the whip without any concern, and with one swing, a special technique had been formed from the heavy Bloodlust, the [Xuan Wu Divine Shell!]

A visibly seen Shell of a Fortune Telling Tortoise appears around Long Feng, Fluid and Flexible to unimaginable perfection. The Shell formed from the Essence Energy, not only utilizing the Defensive Wu Sword Art into its perfection stage, the Essence Energy used making this [Xuan Wu Divine Shell] is even managed to make this Shell flexible and sturdy, Allowing a total defence without any gap for the similar cultivation Tier opponent to have no chances to break through.

Paluo is shocked with the sudden changes in Long Feng's martial art capability, and a hint of fears appeared within his mind immediately. Palou escaped from Long Feng's side when Long Feng is staring straight to Paluo, but before he noticed his back is totally exposed, nothing else could be heard, except that his head already falling from the human height to kissing the ground second later. His eyes open wide, perhaps still wondering about how his head could be decapitated in a split moment.

Paluo is scared into a state of unable to return. This youngster before him is totally behaving like a death god. He wished that he could run, but his both leg already giving up and waiting for its judgment. Tai Pan wished to take his action as well, but when he considered the way Palou is killed, he immediately retracts his intention, and remain idle on top of the slopes.

Without any other choices, Paluo could only close his eyes and awaits his death. Long Feng's sword ruthlessly swings towards his neck, but then, it stopped before the edges and the skin making a contact. "Scram..." a very weak whisper that only Paluo could hear, came out from Long Feng's tightly closed lips. Paluo is not a dumb person, so of course, being given a second chance to run, he immediately escaped from the circle of Long Feng's reach.

But Paluo doesn't return to where Tai Pan and the other Adept Tier cultivators are gathered but run away towards where one of the Inn is positioned. "Paluo, where are you going?" Tai Pan shouts loudly, but Paluo ran without looking back, even to the point of ignoring Tai Pan and his words. "What a coward! Send some men to kill him and bring his head back to me!" Tai Pan shouts towards the other bandits along the slopes, and three Adept Bandits appears before him, deflecting a flying weapon that seems like a short sword!

"It's that brat's sword! He actually tosses his sword as a weapon to try and kill Leader Tai!" the Adept bandits is angered by this action, but none of them dare to ride down the slopes and go to claim Long Feng's head. The hint of fear from slaying 300 Men, killing Palou, and daring to use the Qian Kun Sword as a weapon to try killing Tai Pan from far away, is not some mere Pill Masters would do.

"This brat is one aggressive bastard. Fall back! Fall back immediately!!" Tai Pan hurried his fellow bandits to leave the place, as they believe there will be nothing to be obtained from this fight. Perhaps even their own little lives would be lost if they insist to fight until death completely. Meanwhile, Long Feng is struggling to control the Abyss of Bloodlust from continuing to ravage his whole body.

"This is bad, If this bloodlust continues to reside within my body, sooner or later, even my closest companion would be killed by my own hand!" Long Feng struggle as he tried to contain all the wild energy surging from his body. And as the bandits had all retreated from the location, the two Squad dispatched by Lang Ya to the position had finally reached along with the carriage where the five passengers and Wu Wei is riding. Nan Jing Jing came out from the carriage and quickly rushed to Long Feng side, and put a YinYang Cleansing Pellet and Mind Returning Elixir into his throat, forcing him to assimilate the medicinal effect given by the two he just swallowed.

Long Feng's mind quickly returned to the condition he could control it once again and tried his best to stabilize himself. As he sits down and meditates, the two squad leader comes close to the couple and politely greets them. "Young Master Li and Lady Nan, we are the private squad of City Lord Young Master Lang Ya. Our master requests us to escort you both back to the City Lord's Mansion and enjoy the banquet before the Auction start. We had already sent a messenger to our Young Master to report what happened here, I believe our Young Master could adjust according to the situation." the First Squad Leader speaks politely to Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing, as he waves his hand towards a direction where the City Lord's Carriage already been prepared.

"Please help us, husband and wife, to say thank you to Brother Lang Ya. Let us depart and return to the Thunderburst Jade City immediately." Nan Jing Jing politely replies the Squad Leader's words as she holds Long Feng shoulder and supports him to walk slowly into the carriage. Just like this, both Carriages carry on their journey until after they entered the city, the carriage driven by Wu Wei heads toward another Direction, while the City Lord's Carriage directly heads into the City Lord's Mansion.

"Youngest Brother!" Lang Ya happily appears before the carriage and had his subordinate walked closer to Long Feng and Nan Jing Jing, and pass him a few special unranked pills. "Third Brother, Xiao Feng first time coming into the city and actually appeared in such condition." Long Feng embarrassedly speaks to his third brother. "What are you being courteous with me for? There is a Master-Rank YinYang Cleansing Pellet and Master-Rank Mind Returning Elixir in this container, quickly take it and meditate yourself so you recover before the auction starts." Lang Ya gave Long Feng a knock on his head, and lead them both to their room.

"Did you see how close is Young Master and this Pill Master Li?" one of his subordinate comments. "That is for sure. Did you forget Young Master's born constitution, the [Righteous Eye of Yang]?" another subordinate reply. "But no matter how sharp Young Master's eyes are, he wouldn't believe unless he saw it with his own eyes." the squad leader comments. "You means the solo killing of 300 bandits, and one adept Tier bandit?" another squad leader comments. "Hmm... I hope this brotherhood between our Young Master and the Young Master Li will not create any issue in the future." he felt like a sigh, after knowing he cannot do anything on behalf of his young master.