The Six Immortals

Bi Fan knew that Wang Zhong was holding back something significant, but instead of asking, he started walking towards the Cycads.

Cycad cores are considered excellent refining material for weapons, and hence are quite valuable, and since they had found some, it was very important for them to find a way to take some with them.

The moment Lone Leaf and Blue Dragon arrived next to Cycads, a few beasts of the Devil’s Race sprang out from the forest to confront them.

These few beasts were reasonably strong; two of them were inside the ‘enormous strength’ layer, while the other five were ‘spiritual intelligence’ layer beasts; it was evident that this place was worthy of being considered in the top-ten most dangerous places, since, even the beasts that were at the edge of the forest, were as strong as the ones that they were confronted with.

“Man, it seems like this place is going to very interesting!” Blue Dragon chirped out of excitement, as he rushed over to the beasts, with his scimitar in his hand.

His scimitar stormed downwards, and beheaded one of the ‘Spiritual intelligence’ layered beasts in a single strike.

Blue Dragon was a fairly sturdy youngster, and was accustomed to using his scimitar like a heavy-assault weapon.

Lone Leaf’s strength had improved a lot, and the might of his ‘Six Yang Horseshoe’ Attack, had increased manifold.

His sword had barely hit the beasts, and they started falling to the ground.

“You are getting more and more powerful Brother!” Bi Fan arrived on the scene.

Blue Dragon and Lone Leaf, both, expressed their desires at the same time, individually: “Brother Bi Fan, stay out of this, these beasts belong to us.”

Bi Fan touched his non-existent beard, as he decided to silently stand while they killed the beasts.

A total of seven Devil’s Race beasts weren’t going to prove out to be much of a competition for Lone Leaf and Blue Dragon, and they finished them off quite quickly.

They quickly collected the corpses of their kills, and prepared to hew down the Cycads.

Wang Zhong also came over. He silently stood there, with a sly grin on his face, as he watched them prepare.

Blue Dragon was first to strike, and his scimitar chopped at the Cycad that stood in front of him.

“Bang!” The collision gave rise to a very crisp sound, but Blue Dragon was able to skim off only a very small bark from the Cycad.

“These things are extremely hard; they really are worthy of being used for making weapons. But I don’t care if they are made of iron, I want them.” Blue Dragon said in a loud voice.

Lone Leaf smiled: “Brother Dragon, if you really want them so badly, then I can help you in getting some…”

“Hegemon Overlord!”

In order to cut down the Cycad, Blue Dragon actually resorted to using his best attack.

“Boom!” this time, sparks flew; but once again, his attack was only able to give the Cycad a shave.

The scimitar bounced off the tree’s trunk and hit Blue Dragon’s chin, which had already started, faintly, aching.

“These trees are so hard! How do we cut them?” Blue Dragon seemed very disheartened: “Brother Wang, that’s not fair… you deliberately didn’t tell us, just so you could watch us suffer. It’s obvious that you’ve also failed in procuring these Cycad cores in the past, and you just wanted to make fun of us as we failed. It’s not my fault, okay…”

Bi Fan laughed: “If chopping these things down was that easy, then Brother Wang would have taken them all by now. I have feeling that we won’t be able to get any.”

“Brother Wang, how can we cut down these Cycads?” Lone Leaf asked for some sincere advice.

Wang Zhong said: “There are two ways, which can allow you to cut down the Cycads with ease. First, you need to be inside the ‘Emerging from the Womb’ layer; in which case, you can mobilize your inner aura and easily cut down these Cycads. The other way, requires you have a top-grade weapon, and the Cycads are yours….”

“Damn it! Damn it!….. Brother Wang, that’s not fair. You tried to fool us, you should have told us about this earlier!” Blue Dragon was extremely disheartened.

The requirements weren’t much, but none of them were capable of fulfilling them at the moment.

So, Bi Fan said: “It seems that we can’t fulfil either of those conditions, so let’s just enter the forest quickly, and find some Panacea, and kill some Devil’s Race creatures.”

The four of them stepped into the Devil’s Secret Forest, shoulder to shoulder, and their adventure began.

The Devil’s Secret Forest, was studded with several other tall and towering trees, apart from the Cycads, which were blocking of the sun altogether.

The Devil’s Forest’s air was filled with a very negative energy, while the environment was extremely damp and moist, which made it very suitable for poisonous creature to survive and breed in the environment.

Relatively speaking, the air inside the Devil’s Forest had a much higher composition of negative energy than the rest of the Abyss, so it was no surprise that the powerful beasts preferred to live here instead.

The negative energy was strong, and the positive Aura…even weaker.

Bi Fan and his companions were at a fair amount of discomfort inside the Forest, and were beginning to realize that this isn’t the kind of place where humans could dwell for long.

Occasionally, a small bunch of the Devil’s Race would pop out from within the woods, and Blue Dragon and Lone Leaf would quickly sort them out, while keeping count of their kills. Meanwhile, Bi Fan and Wang Zhong were just asked to silently watch the show.

“Look! Up ahead! There a purple vine and I think that’s a top level herb too!” Bi Fan’s sharp eyes recognized a top-grade Panacea.

This Panacea was considered a top level herb, and was most suitable for refining ‘Spiritual intelligence’ Dan pellets; the Dan pellets which were synthesized from this herb, were considered one of the best variations of the Dan to enter into the ‘Enormous strength’ layer.

Wang Zhong, Blue Dragon, and Lone Leaf, all three, looked the purple-colored vine which was snaking around a large tree, as they stood there motionless; and speechless.

This purple vine had been growing for a long time, undisturbed, and was flourishing with several branches. If they were somehow able to pluck the entire vine, and take it back with them, they would be able to extract a massive amount of refining material from it, the value of which, was next to unimaginable.

Although this purple vine wasn’t as precious as the Ogre flower, it could be used in a very versatile range of potions, which is why it would be in a very high demand in the open market.

Wang Zhong said: “This purple vine is guarded by apes. There’s about eighteen of them in number, and two of them are inside the ‘transformation’ layer. We have found ourselves a bounty, but these guardians will do just about anything under the heavens to stop us from taking the vine.”

He spoke in a very righteously devoted manner, almost as if he hoped to inspire reverence, but ended up sounding hilariously ridiculous.

Even though Bi Fan, Blue Dragon, and Lone Leaf didn’t laugh at it, they agreed with his thought.

Apes are gifted with an exceptionally strong natural defense, and are quite strong physically as well, so naturally, dealing with them wasn’t a very easy task.

Lone Leaf was first to offer a hand: “You can leave one of the ‘transformation’ layer Ape to me, but others are yours.”

Lone Leaf was anxious to increase his strength, so even Blue Dragon didn’t scramble with him over this one.

Bi Fan wasn’t really worried about things much, but Blue Dragon spoke up: “In order to sort them out as quickly as possible, we will still have to find a way to deal with the other ‘transformation’ layer Ape. Brother Wang, would you like to take it?”

“Okay.”

Lone Leaf and Wang Zhong were first to attack, and the lead the two ‘Transformation’ layer Apes away from the rest of the platoon.

Blue Dragon, and Bi Fan, with their weapon in hand, the scimitar, and the sword, charged at the remaining group of Apes.

“That’s one!” Blue Dragon spoke a bit too early, as his scimitar wasn’t even able to make the Ape bleed.

“Holy shit! They are really strong!”

Bi Fan laughed as he said: “I’ll give it a shot!”

His purple-feathered sword pierced the Ape that stood in front of him, but was only able to go about three inches into its skin, before getting stuck.

“Okay, these things are really strong. This isn’t going to be as easy as we thought.”

Bi Fan was a little surprised.

“Brother Dragon, maybe you should use a different weapon against these Apes.”

Blue Dragon shook his head: “No, I’m very accustomed to using my scimitar. I’ll probably start using a different weapon later, but at the moment, it will difficult to adjust.”

“Yeah, you have always used that scimitar, but you’re planning on buying a new weapon later?” Bi Fan asked.

“Naturally, I’m a rich man now.” Blue Dragon laughed.

Even though the Apes were quite strong, Bi Fan and Blue Dragon weren’t really under much pressure, and were able to cope up with them quite easily. Their continuous giggling and chatter, was pissing the Apes off, who continued to roar and roar, as they wildly charged at the two of them.

“Let’s get this over with!” Bi Fan said in a loud voice.

Bi Fan cast out the ‘Rainy-fly attack’, which was one of his best moves, and slashed at the four of Apes that surrounded him, and covered them in blood, by wounding them in several places.

Then, Bi Fan used his sword’s tip to pierce into an Ape’s wound, and stabbed it to death, drawing first blood.

These Apes were awfully strong, defensively; and even Bi Fan had to struggle to kill just one of them.