The longer Long Feng travel deeper into the forest, the harder for him to locate the exit from this Totemic Zone under the supervision of the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves. He used the first day just to look around places such as below some huge trees, and also some opened caves near the rock mountain walls, but not even a single clue could be found related to Hong Yue's whereabout.

On his second day, Long Feng finally managed to spot some leftover carcasses from two younger Lightning Flash Wolves, quickly eaten and ignored afterward. Looking at the size of the jaw from the opened part, Long Feng could roughly expect that this might be Hong Yue's nearby hidden location. Finally having a clue in his hand, Long Feng quickly send some mind messages, but still yet to receive any replies. Long Feng gave up after a few tries and decided to continue searching for his Beast Companion.

But his luck finally went out, as he stumbled across an opened junction with a total of four totems in each corner. Sensing the danger that getting close to him, Long Feng wield his sword as he heads to one direction, but still, he was caught by the opponent that was charging towards his position immediate as he was spotted. With each time the leaves make a sound from contact with the beast's body, a Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf appears. The "Shruuu... Shruuu" sound came in a total of four times, and four baby Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves finally appears in all four directions, stares at Long Feng with a deadly gaze.

"This is seriously troublesome... Where could I go now?" Long Feng finally have to scratch his head to get a rough direction on which way he should fight to get out from this Totemic Controlled area. But before he could even make a roughly 10 meters from his initial position, three among the four Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves already making their action, and attacking towards Long Feng with an unimaginable speed!

"This four Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves is more experienced in battle!" Long Feng is shocked with their timely cooperation as he tried to maintain some of the Elemental Essence Energy within his body to form a light defensive layer around his body, but due to the stress of maintaining the layer of defence indirectly affecting his speed and reaction, Long Feng end up with more than ten attempts to attack, but missed every single of his sword strike.

But the worst thing only starting now.

Long Feng weakness point is finally exploited by one of the wolves, where it managed to gave Long Feng a strong bite when he paying his attention to repel the other three. With a simple bite is successfully get through Long Feng's layer of elemental defense, his body started to suffer from the side effect of the Hell Elemental Curse. The more he retaliate, the faster the curse bring out its effect. His body starts to felt the fatigue, as he continues to defend himself from the four wolves attack.

"Aooooo!" a different tone of howling could be heard from one of the wolves as it stopped attacking and monitoring the situation. Long Feng pays his attention to that single howling wolf, and before body response to his immediate action, Long Feng is bitten on his left upper arm and receives two claw attack from the remaining two. With this three more attack managed to get through his layer of Elemental Essence Defence, Long Feng's body fatigue increase by around three times stronger, causing him to even have difficulties to lift the sword.

Unable to carry on with the swinging sword action, Long Feng could only ignite all the Elemental Essence within his body, in the hope of forcing the four Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves to stop attacking due to some Sky Elemental Essence is spread around him as he burst his energy. But, the reality is always cruel than fantasy in every little thing. This step that used to be successfully performed on the first Demon Blood Nightmare Wolf, is not working on this current four.

Falling back around ten steps, shivering itself as the Sky Elemental Energy pass through, each single of one of the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves contained a strong wisdom compared to the simpleton cultivation beast scattered around the forest. They could spot the existence of the Sky Elemental, thus an evasive measure is taken for temporary, and awaits their target to came out and face their wrath. The Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves is linked with each other through their soul as long there is some totem erected within the forest.

Through this way, the wolves could communicate and ask for help in case of danger. Since all of the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves already since the death of one of the youngest baby wolves, the other wolves from the nearby location immediately received the order to hunt down this killer no matter what is given. Added with Long Feng's incomparable bad luck of entering this deadly four totems junction, his pursuer increased from normally one, into four on the spot.

Having no other choice but to escape from this situation, Long Feng garnered all his energy as he tried to escape from the current location. Without any further consideration, Long Feng immediately charge north, while throwing two pieces of the Yellow Heart Poison Pill as he escaped. Because of some poisonous gases is gathered before the defending wolf from the north direction, Long Feng managed to escape while his opponent is considering the option of chase or wait until the gases are gone.

But because of the injuries as well the fatigue caused by coming in contact with the Hell Element, Long Feng escape quickly caught up by the four wolves, and once again, his path had been obstructed by the wolves, giving him no way out. Long Feng has no other choices as he is pushed to his limit, and could only struggle to protect himself from giving away his life to the four wolves.away his life to the pursuer.

"Is this where I will die? Before helping mother obtaining her freedom from the Heavenly Blossom Empire, before obtaining any success in the field of Pill Refining?" Long Feng blame himself for being too absent mind towards all the danger before him, but sometimes, regret is not something a medication could cure. Long Feng continues to struggle, holding the Qian Kun Sword with both hands as he explodes all the Elemental Essence Energy within his body.

"Hold right there, young man." before the explosion of Elemental Essence Energy, a voice could be heard from above where Long Feng is preparing for his last struggle. In a flash, an Old Man in his age between 100 years old, dressed in a long and clean white robe and paired with two Steel Rods on his back that looked like bamboo sticks. "This elder is?" Long Feng is surprised with the sudden appearance of this Old Man, and immediately notice the differences between himself and the Old Man.

The Old Man throws a pill on the ground beside Long Feng, and as it explodes, a mist with strong Sky Elemental energy slowly covers where Long Feng is staying still. Long Feng have a feeling that this Old Man is sincerely intended to helps him, so without further instructions, Long Feng proceeds to absorb all the available Sky Elemental Essence around him to remove the destructive fatigue from the Hell Element.

"Young Man, I'm sorry to look at you instead of helping a while ago. But, your way to fight is totally wrong. I can notice that you are a very good seed cultivated from the Bronze Pill Hall, but why are your method of fighting is so similar to those from Martial Hall and not like those from Pill Hall?" the Old Man couldn't help but lecture Long Feng a little due to his pitiful performance.

"This Elder, Xiao Feng have limited experience in fighting, and only within the Bronze Pill Hall for a total of three to four month. I'm afraid I don't even dare to say I am a good seedling cultivated by the Bronze Pill Hall." Long Feng honestly reply the Old Man's word, after all, he has nothing additional to hide since this Old Man could notice his background from the way he fights.

"If that's the case, look carefully at how I fight, and learn from it. I can see that you have the potential to excel in this path, but if you are not guided well, even you are a polished diamond, you won't be shining as brilliant as expected." He comments as he withdraws a number of pills and charges towards the wolves to face their combined attack. The four wolves quickly adjust their formation, as two went over to the left and right, while the remaining two wolves are attacking the Old Man in a frontal assault.

"This is the Tribulation Sky Powder, if you scatter them before you fight, you will gain some advantage even if you are within their territories." the Old Man throw a few pills at his four surroundings, and as the pills exploded, a mist full of Sky Elemental Energy starts to envelop the surrounding. Although the Sky Element concentration is not too dense, as the Sky Elemental Mist started to appears around the area they are fighting, the four wolves started to having some difficulties in breathing, and even their fur became scarred from the contact.

"When fighting, this Limb Prisoning Concoction could help in a plenty of opportunities. As it touched the body of your opponent and exploded, the concoction within will be hardened into a type of crystalline rock, depending on the density of Yin and Yang Essence on your surrounding. A more experienced Pill Master will be able to directly immobilized opponent's whole body with one single pill." the Old Man explained the second pill he toss at his three sides, and as the Pill made its contact with the Demon Blood Nightmare Wolves and the concoction is seen spreading across the body of the wolves, within an instant, three among the four wolves had their limbs totally covered with black colored crystals. Only one remaining wolf is still following with its attack.

Instead of struggling to free itself from the hardened black colored crystals, the three immobilized wolves actually howls altogether and tried to create a situation where the wolf howling will create some disruptions on its opponent mind and soul. Although the strength with only one wolf howling is not too effective, with the number of wolves increased into three, the effectiveness of this skill is at least increased by about 10%. But looking at the Old Man while having one of his eye close because of the painful disruptions, Long Feng actually shocked with his actions.

"This is the Yin Shield Pill. Once you explode them on the spot you are standing, a Yin Essence base weak shield will form around you to give you a weak but sturdy enough shield to defend against two to three attacks, especially to defend against this kind of opponent that using the Hell Element as their base element." the Old Man is not affected by the Wolves Howling attack at all, while still focusing his attention on the only yet to be confronted lone wolf.

The Old Man then withdraw some of the Blood Dragon Ointment, Cultivation Pellets and Tempering Pills and throws them to Long Feng's direction, before he continues with the next lesson. "This three different medicinal pills is what we all called, the big three. To recover our Elemental Essence, to recover our Energy Essence, and to recover our blood loss and injuries. If you are exploring a dangerous forest with your current cultivation realm, don't you think that you are a little too confident with your own capability?"

"The next Pill is the Element Dispersing Powder. Once it made contact with your opponent, it will force a portion of the Elemental Essence within your opponent body to disperse and vanished. Indirectly, this will disrupt your opponent smoothness in channeling their Elemental Energy when fighting." the Old Man toss another four Pills toward each wolf, and as the wolves made their contact with the pill, the red gases released from their body started to get lighter and lesser, indicating that the wolves started to lose a significant amount of the Hell Elemental Essence.

"This is the Pain Corrosion Pellet. It comes in a number of small throwing projectiles shape that easy to use against any targets. Once it made contact with your opponent, it will cause a corroding effect on the external skin, and the burning sensation is hardly bearable unless your opponent is well versed in body strengthening arts. Of course, if your opponent is using treasures and items specifically to defend this Pain Corrosion Pellets, then this item will be rendered useless. So even using this as a battle weapon will depend on your own skill in utilizing it." the Old Man explained the next Pill in his hand, which easily scattered as he launches it strongly towards the four wolves.

As the Old Man says, once the small little pellets managed to make contact with the wolves body, the small explosions cause the skin to start become reddish in color, and even some of the furs starting to fell from its skin. The one that wasn't immobilized by the Limb Prisoning Concoction is leaping up and down, to reduce its pain, while the remaining three have no choice but to howl pitifully because of such painful weapon is used on them.

"There is this Pill called as the Body Shield Concoction that will activate as you inject some Yin or Yang Essence into it. It will melt into a special kind of concoction that will thoroughly cover your whole body, and increase most of your body defensive ability to handle against few heavy blows from your opponent. But too bad, we can't use it now because your opponent is no longer a threat." the Old Man turned around as he kept the final Pill back into his pouch, and with a flick of his finger, the black colored crystals trapping the three wolves is finally been released, and instead of continuing to attack, the four wolves escape without looking back.

"Your Hell Element fatigue should be cured by now, but your body should be still very weak, I will bring you into a cave to rest for now, and recover quickly so you could be on your way once again." the Old Man easily lift Long Feng up into his both hand, as he carry Long Feng across around the woods two three kilometres far away from where they initially fought and entered a cave that lit with a Bonfire within.

As the two of them entered, a mental sign starts to reconnect between Long Feng and Hong Yue, because the other "Thing" sitting beside the bonfire and recuperating, is exactly Hong Yue, with the appearance of having a few pieces of cloth is tightly strapped on his injured body. "Master!" Hong Yue happily runs to its master as he behaves back into a reptile attitude. In the same time, Long Feng smile as happy as he could, because he finally managed to met Hong Yue after being separated for so long.

"So, this Little Silver Scales Lizard belongs to you?" the Old Man asked. "Yes, honored Elder. Thank you for saving the both of us within this forest." Long Feng politely cupped his both hand as he bowed towards the Old Man. With all the polite and proper words is exchanged, the three of them finally have the chances to have a good talk with each other. Since Hong Yue possess no Human Speech Intelligence, he could only speak with the Old Man through Long Feng. As the conversation goes deeper, the Old Man starts to reveal his own identity as well, after seeing the honest appearance of Long Feng and also the bond between him and Hong Yue.

The Old Man introduced himself as Yu Men, a Medicine Disciple of a small Orthodox Clan called the [House of Hundred Pills]. This house is not too well known in the Brilliant Jade Kingdom's basic populations, but some Pill Halls does have some exchange of information and knowledge with this Clan once a while. This Clan is led by a Headmaster with ten elders, along with a total of 10 Core Disciple and also 500 Medicine Disciples.

They carry their conduct properly and behave well in a very disciplined manner. Outside of the Clan, they are used to known as one of the most Orthodox Pill House, compared to the [Turmoil Pill Clan] attitude which is overbearing and greedy. But one more shocking news is, this Old Man called Yu Men, had already been a Medicine Disciple for a total of 50 years, because of his low talent in related with the Dao of Pills. But no matter what, even as a mere Medicine Disciple, Yu Men still managed to enjoy the treatment only given to all the members of the House of Hundred Pills.

The workload and task are very well organized and distributed accordingly to each member of the Clan, and nobody within the Clan will plot to fight against each other, due to some slight benefits. Although some friendly match always happened within the Clan, at the end of the match, it is solely for the exchange of experience in the Dao of Pills, and not because of some mere position within the clan or some temporary benefits.

With the sharing of background is over, Yu Men pass two recipes to Long Feng for studying purposes, along with a piece of an oval shaped token with the engraving (Yu-Men/Rain Gate) on of it the side. "Young Xiao Feng, although this Old Man has a very limited talent in understanding the Dao of Pills, through my intuition, you will be able to succeed in future if you are given and know how to value the luck and chances. If the fate is still holding us together in future, let us met in the House of Hundred Pills, and by that time, I hope to see someone that is more successful and greater than how you are now." Yu Men have high expectations on Long Feng the longer he converse with this young man. Although his talent is low, after being exposed to so many amazing individuals within the field of Pill Refining, how could he be any less of sight towards people with amazing talents and good future prospects? Yu Men is merely investing in something that he felt worth investing, and this time, his choice of selection is Long Feng, a barely 11 years old young child.

Before the three take a rest and call it a day, Yu Men also shared the reason for his visits toward this Tri-Lightning Forest. From the spreading rumors, a special ingredient called the Mirage Thunder Bamboo recently seen within this forest, and it was a special ingredient to refine a special Pill called as [Lightning Tribulation Pill]. This Pill allows the cultivator in Thunder Element to have a stronger resistance towards Lightning Strikes as they temper their Elemental Foundation, and is an important treasure for a cultivator that trying to breakthrough from the Second Blue Lightning Stage into the Third Red Lightning Stage.

But after being within this forest for almost a full month, also he still yet to encounter it, so Yu Men decided to call it a fluke, and decided to return to the House of Hundred Pills until he saw Hong Yue four days ago. Due to all these small little delays, Yu Men managed to encounter this two strong bond Master-Beast companion and gave him a moment to relax his mind because of the disappointment from unable to find the location where the Mirage Thunder Bamboo.

The next morning, as the ashes from the bonfire are being blown away from the strong winds that came into the cave, Long Feng and Hong Yue finally awakes from their good rest. Their body had recovered to at least 90% overall, but within the cave, Old Yu Men's already couldn't be seen anywhere, indicating that he already left the duo earlier when the two of them is fast asleep. "Hong Yue, let us go back to the Thunderburst Jade City. It is less than two months before the opening of the Thousand Herbal Garden, we should start training now, so we could have a chance to participate in this event." Long Feng slapped Hong Yue's back as he speaks, letting him knows about Long Feng's next target in his mind.