The desciple surnamed Gu narrowed his eyes, "you want to use the kid to consume the Flame's energy? Brother Mian, are you sure?"
The desciple surnamed Mian nodded, "that guy is just a Lower Base Desciple so he shouldn't be too important, otherwise he wouldn't be alone here." Desciple Gu felt that was plausible and nodded.
Desciple Gu than asked, "...and, who's going to take the flame then.". Desciple Mian seemed to ponder, 'Of course it's going to me. But I need to be sure that the news of this doesn't get out till I am ready, Brother Gu.', although he thought like that, he spoke something else with a smile.
"I think it would help Brother Gu as he uses a Fire Attributed Technique, so it should naturally go to you.", Desciple Gu heard this and inwardly sneered, having the same thoughts as Desciple Mian. But he also uttered something else, "If Brother Mian insists then this Gu will reluctantly accept your gift."
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Wang Feng put a hold on his plan of absorbing the flame once he discovered the two desciples and observed how they reacted. He kept dodging the flame portraying that he could barely do so, which wasn't far off from the truth as he still hadn't recovered even half of his Qi nor had his wounds and burns healed completely, and observed their interaction.
Once he saw that the two seemed to talk to each other and didn't come out nor did they leave. He suddenly felt a slight chill and subconsciously complained, 'it's another thing that you won't help me, but you want to use me for your benefits and silence me?...'
He clearly understood what decision the two had reached. This caused Wang Feng's heart to turn cold as his gaze turned sharp and slightly chilling, 'fine if that is what you choose than don't expect to go back.'
Although he had knowledge of such encounters in his mind from his memories. This was the first time he had actually encountered this situation. Wang Feng had unconsciously hoped that things won't go this way. But things don't always go as one foresees.
He instantly started taking note of his surroundings and formed a plan in his mind. He moved away from the spot where the two desciples were hiding and lead the flame to the other side.
Once he was a sufficient distance away from them, he waited for the flame to attack him again. He didn't have to wait as just the next second, the flame attacked again.
The two desciples were seeing this with indifferent and greedy eyes. They saw that Wang Feng suddenly tried to move, but suddenly stopped and coughed out slight blood, the flame suddenly intercepted him midway before it lunged at him. What followed was a scream from Wang Feng before his body caught on fire and in seconds was reduced to nothing.
The two were surprised by the burning power of the flame, but instead of getting scared of it's powerful burning effect, they became more greedy for it. The two looked at each other and nodded.
The two then moved instantly using identical movements technique and stopped a few meters away, on either sides of the flame. Desciple Mian snorted and said, "that lowlife died so early, it didn't even seem to effect the Flame's power."
Desciple Gu remained quite and looked intently at the flame, "we need to subdue it now otherwise it's be difficult to do that with just the two of us." Desciple Mian suddenly laughed, "don't worry Brother Gu. I have something that can help us."
The two suddenly moved back a little, but still maintaining the encirclment as the flames tried to attack them. Desciple Gu internally narrowed his eyes and shouted while secretly raising his guard, "then why isn't Brother Gu using it!?"
Surnamed Mian said, "then I will trouble Brother Gu to occupy the flame for now.", He then reached into his robes and pulled out a box before extracting a small pearl that was releasing a powerful and cold aura.
Desciple Gu saw this pearl and his eyes widened but he was busy dodging the Flame's attacks and keeping it occupied. Desciple Mian suddenly grinned and his Qi surging into the Pearl.
Surnamed Gu narrowed his eyes at the action and felt alarm bells go off in his mind. He tried to pull back, but the flame suddenly surged towards him, stopping his retreat.
"Brother Gu, step back!", he shouted only after throwing the pearl that had absorbed a lot of his Qi. Desciple Gu's eyes widened as he tried to move back. But, he wasn't fast enough.
The pearl flew forward and feel a few meters away from the flames, just between Desciple Gu and the flame. Instantly, the pearl broke and an overwhelming burst of cold energy erupted. The energy covered more than a few tens of meters and spontaneously freezing the area around it.
The Flame was hit by the cold energy, which caused the heat it radiated to be constrained and also lose nearly half of it's strength. On the other hand, Desciple Gu was also hit by an intense surge of frost which freezed most of his body, including the circulation of his Qi and his meridians.
"Mian Dong!! What is the meaning of this!?", he shouted at Desciple Mian with anger and fear as he felt his body freeze at a frightening pace. Mian Dong suddenly laughed out loud, "HAHAHAHA, did you really think I will let you leave with the flame?"
He then slowly walked towards him as Desciple Gu tried to negotiate, but Mian Dong remain silent and after coming near him, he killed him by lounging his hand into his frozen chest. Desciple Gu slowly lost the light in his eyes as he died, his eyes reflecting his unwillingness and hatred.
Mian Dong looked down at Desciple Gu's corpse with cold eyes before he turned to the Beast Flame. The Beast Flame had lost it's Lion shape by now and was in its true form, a blob of Golden Flames.
"Hahaha, finally no one to disturb me now.", he then walked towards it, his greed increasing with each step he took. He felt the heat from the flame as he was ten meters away from it, his voice full of surprise, awe and excitement, "even after being suppressed by the Cold Energy of this level, it can still display this much strength."
Even now, being suppressed by the burst of frigid cold that could have frozen a True Element Realm Cultivator on direct impact, the flame radiated a heat that was enough to burn an Initial Element Realm Cultivator's skin just by being near it. "Unfortunately for you...this isn't enough to hold me.", Mian Dong smirked as the aura of a 6th Stage Qi Transformation Realm exploded from him.
When he reached in front of the flame, on the frozen ground near it, and was preparing to 'swollow' the flame, something happened. A shadowy figure suddenly appeared behind him and before he could react completely, the figure attacked him.
*Aaaghhhhhhhh* Mian Dong screamed loudly as he felt the figure attack him, which caused him to lose his entire left arms, before he used the momentum of the attack to separate from the attacker.
He turned back and his eyes widened in shock upon seeing who had attacked him. "H..How!? You ... Didn't you die!?", Mian Dong was so shocked that he even forgot about his bleeding shoulder for a moment.
Wang Feng looked at Mian Dong in front of him, his eyes extremely cold.
Earlier, he had distanced himself from the two desciples hiding place and allowed the flame to attack him. But at the last moment, he had used his movement technique to leave behind a solid Phantom in his place.
This allowed him to create the illusion of himself being burned to Ashes. But in reality, his phantom had just dissolved while he himself went and hid himself among the trees and controlled his aura to the limit possible.
He then watched as the two dealt with the flame and how this Mian Dong had betrayed his companion and killed him, though he was taken aback by that pearl and it's power. After seeing that Mian Dong wasn't paying attention and was too absorbed in his greed for the flame, he struck.
Wang Feng used his movement technique and appeared behind him before he struck with his katana, which cut through his arm like a hot knife on butter.
Wang Feng spoke emotionlessly while looking at Mian Dong, "A Lowlife like you can't even tell that it was a trap. How. Utterly. Useless."
Mian Dong's face turned ugly and red upon hearing what Wang Feng called him. Why? Because he himself had called Wang Feng that before and now Wang Feng was using that word back at him.
Mian Dong erupted with the his aura again and shouted, "B*stard!! I will kill you!", saying so he darted towards Wang Feng, who continued to look at him neutrally. "You could only attack me before because of your cheap trick, let's see how you handle this!", Mian Dong roared.
He circulating his Qi into his hand, which glowed redish purple and he prepared to struck. With his speed, he closed the distance of a few meters between himself and Wang Feng in a second and stuck out.
The palm struck Wang Feng and pierced his body, making Mian Dong smirk.... Or that was what it looked like because the next second a voice reached Mian Dong's ears from behind him.
"Cheap trick, huh? Then you should be able to dodge this right, Lowlife?", Mian Dong froze as the Phantom of Wang Feng in front of him dissolved into smoke. Simultaneously, he felt an excruciating pain and screamed.
A dull thud sounded as another arm dropped to the ground. Wang Feng looked down at the now armless Mian Dong who was screaming out while kneeling on the ground. A gush of blood streaming out of his armless shoulders.
'Why? Why don't I feel anything? No Remorse, excitement or satisfaction whatsoever? Is it because he wanted to kill me?', he thought while seeing his opponent kneel with his back to him, unable to feel anything at the moment.
Wang Feng looked at him for a second before he raised his sword again and hesitated briefly. But he narrowed his eyes and without speaking anything he struck down, cutting off Mian Dong's head.
He looked as the head separated from the body and fell away, how the body lost it strength and fell to the ground and how the blood sprew and gushed from the body.
He sighed, his adrenaline cooling down as it happened. A sudden twist struck his innards that made have an urge to vomit, which he did. He vomited out everything he had eaten but still heaved for breath. He looked at him hands that were now trembling and gulped. He quickly sidestepped a bit and sat down before he started meditating for a bit to cool himself down.
This was the first time he had killed a human. It was too different from killing a monster beast as unlike the beasts, the one he killed now was one of his own kind. Although he knew that he would have to do so, knowing and doing are two entirely different things.
He meditated for a few minutes before he finally calmed down. He opened his eyes and looked at the corpse of the desciple he had killed, "This is the law of jungle. The better survives while the others become their stairway to the peak.....", he muttered to himself randomly as he sighed and stood up.
His focus went back on the flame which had started to regain some of it's lost strength now, even the layer of ice under it had started to lessen. He looked back at and took the corpses of the two desciples into his inventory, hoping to find anything valuable from it later on.
He walked in front of it and sat down a meter away from it, experiencing the intense heat waves. He looked at it for a moment before he closed his eyes and started circulating his cultivation technique, Primordial Origin Art.
Primordial Origin Art is a technique that can absorb all types of energies before changing them to the users energy. So Wang Feng wanted to see if he could absorb the flame like that.
As soon as he started to circulate the technique, the surrounding Qi started flowing towards him and after a few minutes, the flame also started getting drawn towards him.
He braised himself, guessing what might happen next. As he had expected, the flame reached him and collided with him, covering his body with itself. "*Ughhhh*", he grunted loudly while grinding his teeth.
The flame covered his skin and started burning it before reaching his muscles and burning them as well. From those burns, he felt a certain energy entering his body and coursing throughout his body before entering his Dantain.