Chapter 65

"Where have you been, you guy? Why did it take you so long to come back?" Su Mei raised her head, pouting slightly, with a hint of complaint in her voice.

"Heh, I ran into a bit of trouble." Looking at Su Mei’s moist eyes, Chu Feng felt a warmth in his heart and couldn’t help but open his arms, embracing Su Mei’s soft waist and holding the little beauty tightly in his arms.

"Jerk." Feeling Chu Feng’s restless hands and seeing Bai Tong and the others behind her, Su Mei realized that her actions with Chu Feng were somewhat inappropriate and quickly broke free, her face already flushed like a red apple.

"Heh." Seeing Su Mei’s flushed face, Chu Feng licked his lips in satisfaction, the feel of her body truly excellent.

Afterward, Su Mei and the others didn’t ask Chu Feng much, and Chu Feng naturally wouldn’t be so foolish as to tell them that he had obtained the Air Control Technique and was pursued by the head of the Qianfeng Sect, taking a long detour to avoid capture, which took him three days to return to the Wild Ancient City.

However, when Chu Feng learned that the cemetery was engulfed in a raging fire, and the Qianfeng Sect suffered heavy losses, with even its head missing, he was greatly surprised.

This incident was indeed too bizarre. A ten-mile-wide sea of fire appeared in the desert, precisely where the cemetery was located. After the fire dissipated, the area remained extremely hot, even preventing Xuanwu Realm experts from entering, making it a forbidden zone. This was truly terrifying.

Some people said it was a trap set by the Air Control Elder, making all those who dared to enter his cemetery and disturb his peace pay with their lives.

But more people believed that even the Air Control Elder in life didn’t have such means, and it was impossible for him to set such a trap after death. There must be another reason, and some even thought it was a natural disaster.

Regardless of what others speculated, Chu Feng knew that if the head of the Qianfeng Sect really disappeared and was buried in the fire, the Qianfeng Sect, with its current losses, might fall to a third-rate sect, unable to compete with the Qinglong Sect.

On that day, Chu Feng and the others returned to the Qinglong Sect because the core disciple assessment was approaching. Bai Tong and Su Mei were originally determined to participate, but this time they knew that the Wing Alliance would likely have one more member: Chu Feng.

"Phew, six hundred spirit pearls, I wonder to what level I can break through."

Upon returning to the Qinglong Sect, Chu Feng couldn’t wait to open his Qiankun bag and take out the six hundred spirit pearls. Looking at the golden spirit pearls, he felt incredibly elated.

Six hundred spirit pearls made Chu Feng a true tycoon. The wealth was equivalent to the entire fortune of the Chu family, including all their assets.

"Ah Mu."

Chu Feng grabbed a large handful of spirit pearls and directly swallowed them. With the Divine Thunder in his body, he wasn’t worried about not being able to consume the spirit pearls; he was only worried that they wouldn’t be enough.

As expected, when a large handful of spirit pearls entered his body, they were almost instantly refined by the suction force of the Divine Thunder. A vast amount of spiritual energy rushed into his dantian, making him feel a slight bloating, but this feeling disappeared almost immediately as all the spiritual energy was consumed by the Divine Thunder.

A handful of spirit pearls contained about fifty. According to his estimate, breaking through to the Seventh Level of the Spirit Martial Realm should be more than enough, as he only used about four spirit pearls to break through from the Fifth Level to the Sixth Level. However, Chu Feng clearly underestimated the Divine Thunder’s appetite.

After the fifty spirit pearls entered his body, the spiritual energy in Chu Feng’s dantian increased several times, but there was no sense of breakthrough.

"I don’t believe I can’t satisfy you!" Chu Feng grabbed another handful of fifty spirit pearls and swallowed them. This time, his dantian finally experienced the long-awaited change.

The nine thunder beasts roared piercingly, though no sound waves reached the outside world, they continuously echoed in Chu Feng’s ears. This feeling grew stronger, as if the nine thunder beasts were becoming increasingly integrated with him, gradually merging into one.

He had broken through, finally to the Seventh Level of the Spirit Martial Realm. The change in the essence of the spiritual energy was undoubtedly a sign of the Seventh Level of the Spirit Martial Realm, but the cost was a hundred spirit pearls, which would be unimaginable for others.

Spirit pearls were top-grade spirit medicines. Many people only used them when they reached the peak of the Ninth Level of the Spirit Martial Realm to break through to the Essence Martial Realm with their powerful spiritual energy.

However, Chu Feng used a hundred spirit pearls just to break through from the Sixth Level to the Seventh Level of the Spirit Martial Realm. If this news spread, it would shock many people. Using a hundred spirit pearls to break through just one level was indeed too extravagant.

Of course, Chu Feng’s Seventh Level of the Spirit Martial Realm was not comparable to ordinary people’s. After cultivating the mystic technique, he was now fearless even against Ninth Level Spirit Martial Realm experts, and he didn’t even consider them a threat.

Unless his opponent also possessed extraordinary abilities, there was probably no one in the Spirit Martial Realm who could match Chu Feng. His opponents now existed only in the Essence Martial Realm, and this power was absolutely more terrifying.

"Ah, at this rate, who can afford to raise you?" Chu Feng looked at the five hundred spirit pearls in front of him, not continuing to refine them but putting them back in the Qiankun bag.

He knew that the Divine Thunder’s demands were becoming increasingly terrifying. Swallowing these five hundred spirit pearls would likely only fill it halfway, and it wouldn’t be enough to break through.

Since that was the case, there was no need to refine them. It would be better to save these spirit pearls for future needs, as he didn’t want to borrow money again when he needed it. As a man, this wasn’t a good thing.

"Knock, knock, knock, Brother Chu Feng... Are you there?" At this moment, Chu Yue’s voice suddenly came from outside the mansion.

Seeing this, Chu Feng quickly ran out and opened the mansion’s door, indeed finding Chu Yue standing there, with Chu Xue beside her.

"Brother Chu Feng, you’re finally back. Tell me, where have you been these days?" Seeing Chu Feng, Chu Yue was first surprised and then overjoyed.

"Nowhere, just did a few sect missions." Chu Feng smiled and evaded the question.

"Sect missions, just sect missions? I heard you went out with the top beauty of the inner sect, Su Mei." Chu Yue’s lips curled into a mischievous smile.

"Um..." Chu Yue’s words left Chu Feng speechless, unsure how to explain.

"Ha ha, okay, I won’t tease you anymore. Actually, we were just passing by here. Since you’re back, why don’t you come with us to see the excitement?"

"Excitement, what excitement?"

"Brother Chu Feng, have you heard of cultivation arrays?"