Ch52 - The Hero and Heroine

After two months…

Jiang Xu gently rubbed the bracelet on his wrist while sitting on the chair, thinking,‘It’s been three months, and it’s already been thirty months in the dimension. So why hasn’t Mufeng been out yet? Could it be that the absorption of the Beast Fire isn’t going well?’

Staring at the bracelet, Jiang Xu was thinking wildly when Liu Mufeng suddenly appeared in front of him.

“Mufeng, you’re finally out!” Jiang Xu was ecstatic when he saw Liu Mufeng appear.

“Why? Are you worried about me?” Liu Mufeng smiled and looked at him, raising his eyebrows.

“Mufeng, you, you have advanced to the four-star Spiritual Mortal Realm?” Jiang Xu was surprised and delighted when he discovered Liu Mufeng’s strength.

“Yeah, the Beast Fire has been refined, and it has made me successfully advance to the Spiritual Mortal Realm.” Liu Mufeng smiled. He finally broke through his bottleneck and advanced to the Spiritual Mortal Realm.

“That’s great. You are really amazing!” Looking at Liu Mufeng, Jiang Xu smiled, gave a thumbs-up, and thought to himself, ‘Mufeng is exceptionally smart. He can learn everything in one go. In a very short time, the Fire Absorbing Technique was already learned by Mufeng.’

“When I was not at home, was everything okay?” Liu Mufeng asked with a smile.

Jiang Xu frowned. “It was not well. During this time, the City Lord’s Mansion people often come to do a survey. I suspect that they are looking for you. They must be looking for you.”

“Oh? The City Lord’s Mansion is alarmed. The next time we sell medicinal pills, we should go to a farther place.” It may have been the recent sales of medicinal pills that made the group suspicious.

“Yes, I think so too. We made a big show of hands before. After removing the spirit stones thrown into the lake and the spirit stones that bought the demon cores, we now have 120,000 spirit stones in our hands! These spirit stones are enough. We have been using it for a while, and in the short term, we will stop selling medicinal pills to not be targeted by others. Many big families have also come to Black Dragon City recently. I am afraid it is not a good thing.” Jiang Xu was from a big family, and he knew almost all the children from the big families. Previously, after the Third Master Wang came into their house, Jiang Xu went around the City and immediately realized that something was wrong.

“Alright, I won’t sell medicinal pills for the time being. So let’s just take it easy for a year.” After speaking, Liu Mufeng took out a glass jar and gave it to Jiang Xu.

“This, what is this? Beast Fire?” Jiang Xu exclaimed in shock as he looked at the flame in the shape of a little bear floating in the glass jar.

“Yes, this is the Beast Fire extracted from the flame bear’s demon core. I had refined it to suit your constitution. This is my gift to you.” After speaking, Liu Mufeng handed the Beast Fire to Jiang Xu.

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Hearing this, Jiang Xu smiled. “Okay, then I’ll take it.”

“Yes, take the Beast Fire and go to the dimension to absorb it. Absorbing the Beast Fire is no different from absorbing the beast cores of demon beasts to make one stronger. I plan to leave Black Dragon City for a while, first to avoid the limelight.” Looking at Jiang Xu, Liu Mufeng said his plan.

“Then, where are you going? Would it be too dangerous for you to be alone? Otherwise, I’d better not go into seclusion first.” After thinking about it, Jiang Xu didn’t really want to be in seclusion.

“No, you go into seclusion. The higher your strength, the safer I will be. They can’t find me for the time being. Therefore, you must retreat to refine the beast fire and improve your strength.”

Hearing this, Jiang Xu nodded. “You’re right. If I can advance to another star of the Spiritual Mortal Realm, we won’t have to be afraid of them when we go to small places to sell medicinal pills in the future.” There were no Spiritual King Realm cultivators in the second and third-tier towns. He didn’t need to be afraid. When he reaches the Spiritual Master and King Realm, that’s another matter.

“Okay, then you should go into seclusion and cultivate well. Let Xiaoyuan inform me when you are about to come out.” After speaking, Liu Mufeng took the bracelet that Jiang Xu handed him.

“En.” Jiang Xu nodded and took the Beast Fire that Mufeng gave him.

Looking at his sweetheart, Liu Mufeng smiled and put the person directly into the bracelet dimension.

After Jiang Xu was settled, Liu Mufeng went to the yard to look at his dragon chrysanthemum. First, he waved a spell for all the dragon chrysanthemums to ripen. Then, after harvesting them, he put them in a jade box and into his storage ring. Then he locked the door and left directly.

As the saying goes, reading 10,000 books was not as good as traveling 10,000 miles, so it was also a good thing to go out for a walk and look around the city.

After a couple of days, Jiang Xu had successfully absorbed the Beast Fire, but he didn’t stay in the dimension and tried to advance. However, breaking through using the Beast Fire would take a lot of his spiritual strength. So they decided to go to the Black Dragon Mountain to gain some experience and for Liu Mufeng to stabilize his new realm. Liu Mufeng’s hunting skills were still not very good, but Jiang Xu was very patient in helping him. The secret realm was going to open in about four years, and he wanted to practice his hunting skills before that.

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Three years later, Black Dragon Mountain.

Sitting by the fire, Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu ate grilled fish. After three years of gaining experience in the mountain, Jiang Xu used the Beast Fire to advance. His strength had risen to nine stars in the Spiritual Mortal Realm. At eighteen years of age, he was only one step away from becoming a Spiritual Master Realm cultivator. A feat that few Young Masters in the Lingwu continent had managed to attain.

Liu Mufeng had also refined his Beast Fire, and his strength had also risen to the seven stars of the Spiritual Mortal Realm. However, his beast pet Xiaoyuan, after breaking the shackles of her bloodline, had continued to advance. After refining all the spiritual roots that they had kept before and being supplied with the spiritual energy in the dimension, not to mention eating the Golden Stone Fruit, she was already a nine-star in the Spiritual Mortal Realm. Her strength was on the same level as Jiang Xu for a demon beast. Her drones and swarm had also benefited a lot. They were now all in the Spiritual Mortal Realm. Except for the newly hatched eggs, all her subordinates had also broken through the shackles and are now on mid-stars to peak stars of Spiritual Realm.

“Mufeng, your hunting skills are getting better and better now, and you’re almost catching up to me. I may not need to protect you anymore.” Jiang Xu felt a little disappointed when he said this. In the past, when Mufeng would refine pills, he would always protect him as he was not strong enough. But now, Mufeng not only could refine top-grade second-level pills, but his hunting skills have also improved. Jiang Xu felt that he was becoming a little useless.

“What are you talking about? You are much more powerful than me.” It may look like seven stars and nine stars are only two small realms apart, but it’s not. When one’s strength advances, it gets more challenging to advance as the realm gets higher. If it was not for the dimension and other cultivation methods they used, they would still be at the lower level of the Spiritual Mortal Realm. Moreover, alchemists were incomparable to swordsmen. Jiang Xu’s sturdy fighting ability was not something he could catch up with. He could only be regarded as having the ability to protect himself from others now. But in Jiang Xu’s hands, it was estimated that he couldn’t even make it through fifty moves.

“It’s not much different.” Jiang Xu felt that there was not much difference between the two levels.

“How could it be? You are the most powerful sword cultivator.” With a smile, Liu Mufeng handed the grilled fish to Jiang Xu.

Hearing Liu Mufeng say this, Jiang Xu smiled. “Well, if we encounter a powerful demon beast in the future, the two of us can join forces to deal with it.”

“Okay!” Nodding, Liu Mufeng agreed.

“XiaoXu?”

Seeing Jiang Xu sitting outside the woods eating grilled fish, two cultivators, a man and a woman, came over.

Seeing the person coming, Liu Mufeng narrowed his eyes. Looking at the handsome man and the beautiful woman, one could immediately see they were not ordinary people. Not only their bearing was that of a noble, but their strength also was not low. Both of them were the strength of the nine stars of the Spiritual Mortal Realm.

“Brother Zhantian, Sister Meng!” Jiang Xu was stunned when he saw the people coming. He immediately stood up and faced the two of them.

Hearing this, Liu Mufeng frowned secretly. So they were actually the novel’s hero and heroine. No wonder they have such looks and such strength. Liu Mufeng got up and walked over with Jiang Xu.

“XiaoXu, I haven’t seen you for several years. Did you come to cultivate by hunting with your friend?” Looking at Jiang Xu and Liu Mufeng, Xiao Zhantian frowned because both had hidden jade on them. He couldn’t see their strength clearly. The strength of the two could only be inferred from their aura. Both are Spiritual Mortal Realm cultivators, but he could not fathom their level.

“Yeah, this is my good friend Liu Mufeng! Mufeng, this is Brother Zhantian — Xiao Zhantian, the Third Young Master of the Xiao family in Jialan City. This is Sister Meng, the granddaughter of the City Lord Meng of Jialan City–- Meng Shishi.” Looking at Liu Mufeng, Jiang Xu immediately introduced him.

“Oh, it turned out to be the Third Young Master of the Xiao family and the Sixth Young Miss of the Meng family.” Bowing his head, Liu Mufeng saluted with a smile. His heart saying: ‘The hero and the heroine. Did he finally see his two nemeses? In the original book, Liu Mufeng, the little cannon fodder, died at sixteen. The heroine had already obtained the bracelet, the peerless manual of the pill technique, and the pill furnace when she was sixteen. But now, the plot has been changed by him. He is now eighteen years old, and it is the first time that he has met the male and female protagonists.’

However, the original book did not mention that the heroine went to Black Dragon Mountain with the hero at eighteen? Strange, what’s going on here? How could there be a plot that was not in the original novel?

“Fellow Daoist Liu doesn’t need to call me Third Young Master. You can just call me fellow Daoist.” Looking at Liu Mufeng, Xiao Zhantian showed a kind and polite smile.

“Yes, we are all like-minded people. It’s enough to call each other Daoist friends.” Nodding, the heroine said the same.

“The two fellow Daoists also came to gain experience?” Looking at the two of them, Liu Mufeng asked with a smile.

“Ah, we are just taking a walk everywhere.” Xiao Zhantian replied with a smile.

“Oh!”‘It’s strange to believe you.’Liu Mufeng didn’t think that the male protagonist and the female would come to Black Dragon Mountain for no reason. There must be something odd about this.

“XiaoXu, you are eating grilled fish. It’s so fragrant.” Staring at the fish in Jiang Xu’s hands, the heroine’s eyes lit up, and she could smell the fragrance from afar.

“Oh, yes.” Nodding, Jiang Xu replied awkwardly. He would consider sharing it with Brother Zhantian and Sister Meng if it was other food. However, this grilled fish was the fish in Mufeng’s dimension and could not be eaten by others. It would be troublesome if others knew about it.

“Sorry, Fellow Daoist Meng, there are only two of these grilled fish. We have already bitten half of them, it would be rude to give you something we already touched, so I won’t invite fellow Daoist Meng to eat it. However, if the two Fellow Daoists want to eat, I have demon beast meat here that we could grill. How about some for the two of you?” Looking at the two of them, Liu Mufeng asked with a smile.

“If that’s the case, I will trouble fellow Daoist Liu.” After thinking about it, the male protagonist readily agreed.

“Will it be too much trouble for Fellow Daoist Liu?” Looking at Liu Mufeng, the heroine said with a smile.

“No, since the two areXiaoXu’s friends, they are also my friends. It is a rare good thing to meet here by chance. It would be good for us to eat something and chat together.” There was a polite smile on his face. However, Liu Mufeng’s heart complained about the female protagonist’s white lotus style. He said in his heart, ‘This woman obviously wants to eat, but she also has a very embarrassed and reluctant attitude. Wouldn’t this be too contrived? Such a woman, it is estimated that the male protagonist can stand her. He can’t take it for a minute.’’

“If that’s the case, thank you, Fellow Daoist Liu.” She pursed her lips and smiled, and the heroine thanked him softly. The soft tone of her voice was enough to overwhelm all men.

“Daoist Meng, you’re welcome.” Liu Mufeng was not overwhelmed by her at all but only felt that all his goosebumps stood up. Sure enough, homosexuality is highly immune to big beauties!