The sky cleared, and the pale golden dawn appeared in the eastern sky.

On the outskirts of the Cloud Ridge Mountains, two figures shuttled through the clouds dyed gold by the morning sun, causing a strong wind that shredded the drifting clouds.

Luo Feng and Yan Feihua managed to escape the siege of Demon Beasts and continued flying towards Linglong Hall.

"Junior Brother, your prowess really makes Senior Sister see you in a new light."

Seeing Luo Feng still full of spirit after the fierce battle, Yan Feihua couldn’t help but say.

After more than an hour of fighting, normally, a Martial Artist at the peak of the Spiritual Rotation Realm’s seventh level couldn’t sustain their Yuan Qi for such a long battle, yet Luo Feng still seemed full of energy.

Luo Feng smiled faintly, "I’m also reaching my limit. If we hadn’t broken through earlier, I would have had to ask Senior Sister to carry me back to the Golden Palace."

"Ha ha, you wish."

Yan Feihua chuckled, not bothering to discern if Luo Feng was serious, and said:

"We are not far from the Golden Palace now, let’s speed up."

"All right!"

After half a cup of tea time, the mountains seemed to split, revealing a vast lake in Luo Feng’s view.

Wisps of cloud smoke lingered above the lake, gathering without dispersing, colors shifting continuously, strange and mysterious—this was the renowned mystical Yaoguang Lake.

Following Yan Feihua through the ever-changing clouds for a while, Luo Feng’s vision suddenly brightened as they exited the range blocked by clouds. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Below was a huge island, with mountains stretching endlessly, streams winding through eighteen turns, and wisps of mist drifting between peaks, faintly revealing exquisite towers below, giving it an otherworldly feel.

Even though it wasn’t his first time seeing Linglong Hall, Luo Feng was momentarily awed by the sight.

If a mortal were to come here and be told this was an Immortal’s abode, there would be no doubt.

Swish! Swish!

As they approached the mountain gate, a few Linglong Hall disciples immediately came to greet them.

"Ah, Senior Sister, Senior Brother Luo Feng! You’ve returned!"

"Hello, Senior Sister!"

"Hello, Senior Brother Luo Feng!"

Seeing Luo Feng and Yan Feihua, the three Linglong Hall disciples immediately smiled, their lively eyes full of respect, and it seemed like it was their first time calling someone Senior Brother, making them shy when they noticed Luo Feng.

Luo Feng nodded with a smile, "Hello, Junior Sisters."

The group moved towards the mountain gate, Yan Feihua said, "Have the Elders all returned?"

"Yes, the Elders all returned to the Golden Palace a few days ago."

A tall female disciple answered, then glanced at Luo Feng and Yan Feihua with a slight smile, asking:

"Senior Sister, Senior Brother, why are you returning to the Golden Palace so late? It seems you’ve just been through a battle."

Yan Feihua glanced at Luo Feng, smiling, "Ask your Senior Brother Luo Feng about that."

The three female disciples simultaneously looked at Luo Feng, curious.

Luo Feng awkwardly touched his nose, saying:

"Last night, Senior Sister and I met in the Cloud Ridge Mountains on a whim and decided to spar a bit, which startled the Demon Beasts of the Cloud Ridge Mountains..."

"Ha ha, Senior Brother Luo Feng is truly formidable, it’s been a long time since anyone dared challenge Senior Sister in the Golden Palace."

"Indeed. It’s a pity we couldn’t see it ourselves."

The three female disciples chattered away, already concluding that Luo Feng challenged Yan Feihua, leaving Luo Feng unable to explain.

Not long after, the group of five arrived at the mountain gate.

"Senior Sister, Elder Shui Linglong wants you to go to East Spirit Peak after you return," a female disciple said.

"Well, I’ll first go to the Purple Star Hall, then head over," Yan Feihua nodded.

"Senior Sister, I’ll go with you."

Luo Feng followed.

Having lived in the Golden Palace for a month, Luo Feng had visited every palace in Linglong Hall, knowing that Purple Star Hall was the place where Golden Palace disciples received tasks and rewards; this time, they would hand in the materials from the hunting competition here.

"Oh no!"

As Luo Feng and Yan Feihua walked away, a petite female disciple suddenly clapped her hands, jumping with excitement.

The two beside her were startled, one said irritably:

"Lin Junior Sister, what’s wrong, jumping like this."

Lin Junior Sister looked troubled, "Senior Brother Luo Feng and the others went to the Purple Star Hall, surely to hand in materials from the hunting competition. I forgot to ask about their scores, and I have to guard the gate today, can’t go see. How could I be so foolish..."

Hearing this, the other two suddenly remembered.

Earlier, they were too excited about Luo Feng and Yan Feihua sparring to remember.

"Now our Linglong Hall’s best score belongs to Senior Sister Qingyu, who killed over a thousand Demon Sect disciples and two hundred and thirty-two Asuras. Next is Senior Sister Xia Yunjing. I wonder how Senior Sister and Senior Brother Luo Feng scored."

"Senior Sister’s score is undoubtedly the best, but as for Senior Brother Luo Feng, I heard he killed a Great Asura in Misty Swamp."

"Great Asura!"

The other two were startled, one exclaimed:

"A Great Asura can rival a True Yuan Realm Martial Artist; even Senior Sister might not be a match, although Senior Brother Luo Feng is impressive, but... this... seems impossible."

"I just heard it."

The female disciple who spoke shook her head, "Whether it’s true or not, we’ll know soon enough."

"Why am I assigned to guard the gate today, I really want to go to Purple Star Hall. I’m curious about Senior Sister’s score, and Senior Brother Luo Feng..."

The petite Lin Junior Sister, hearing the conversation, looked anxiously towards the Golden Palace, pacing nervously.

The other two exchanged glances, a seductive female disciple with a small mole near her mouth smiled, saying:

"Lin Junior Sister, the two of us can guard the gate, you can go to Purple Star Hall."

"But, I’m going alone..."

Junior Sister Lin hesitated a bit.

"We also want to know the result. Just go and come back to tell us." another person said.

"Thank you, Senior Sisters. I’ll come back as soon as I know the result."

Junior Sister Lin looked delighted, and with those words, her figure disappeared from the spot.

Seeing Junior Sister Lin’s distant figure, the seductive female disciple slightly parted her red lips and chanted:

"I hope Senior Sister and Senior Brother Luo Feng achieve good results. Otherwise, in this hunting competition, our Linglong Hall might end at the bottom again."

On the main thoroughfare of Linglong Hall.

Luo Feng and Yan Feihua walked side by side.

Yan Feihua suddenly asked, "Junior Brother, how did you fare in this hunting competition?"

Luo Feng pondered for a moment. Recently, first the Blood Poison Demonic General attacked Dayang City, and then there was the Business Alliance Conference, making him almost forget about the hunting competition. He hadn’t even tallied his gains from this period.

In his storage ring now, besides the head of the half-step Great Asura, there’s also the head of Young Master Xi, the son of the Blood Poison Demonic General.

Besides this, he had also slain quite a few Asuras and ordinary Demon Sect disciples.

In Dayang City, he killed more than a handful of Blood Corpses, and as for ordinary Blood Corpses, they were countless, but he didn’t collect the materials, so they couldn’t be counted as results.

Seeing Luo Feng silent, Yan Feihua guessed something, smiled, and said, "Results don’t really matter, a Martial Artist’s strength is the foundation. With your strength, no one dares to underestimate you."

Hearing Yan Feihua’s comforting tone, Luo Feng was speechless. The other probably thought he had poor results and was embarrassed to speak.

In this case, Luo Feng found it difficult to say more, so he just nodded:

"Thank you for your guidance, Senior Sister."

While they talked, they arrived in front of a gigantic palace.

The palace was entirely crafted from Star & Cloud Stone, with green-black walls occasionally flashing with golden light, resembling a vast starry sky, incredibly magnificent. The air faintly carried a hint of fragrance.

Inside the magnificent and grand hall, at this moment, were gathered over a hundred Linglong Hall disciples, occasionally disciples coming in and out. Seeing Luo Feng and Yan Feihua appear, they almost simultaneously stopped.

"Senior Sister is back, and also Senior Brother Luo Feng."

"It seems the two are here to submit materials for the hunting competition. I wonder how Senior Sister and Senior Brother Luo Feng fared."

The moment the two stepped into the hall, all the sightlines inside focused on them.

Inside the hall, a long table made of green jade, ten meters long and three meters wide, was set up, behind it sat several Linglong Hall elders.

Some Linglong Hall disciples were taking out their hunting materials, placing them on the green jade table for the elders to tally and record.

At this moment, there was just an open spot, so the two went over.

"Senior Sister, please go ahead," Luo Feng said.

Yan Feihua didn’t stand on ceremony, nodded, went to the table, and greeted the elder opposite, saying: "Hello, Elder Yue."

"Yan Feihua, I heard you gained quite a bit in this hunting competition. Quickly take out your hunting materials and let me see."

Behind the table was a middle-aged woman with a calm demeanor, who warmly greeted Yan Feihua.

Yan Feihua smiled slightly and waved her hand.

Suddenly, twenty or thirty hunting materials appeared on the table, including Demon Sect disciple heads and Asura stings.

"Elder Yue, these are the materials I obtained in this hunting competition," Yan Feihua said.

Elder Yue frowned slightly, somewhat surprised that there were only so few hunting materials.

Yet when her gaze fell on these materials, she couldn’t look away.

"Oh, this is the head of Blood Demon General ranked one hundred and eight, ’Yuan Stinger Demon General’ ranked one hundred and two, and the head of ’Ghost Bone Demon General’ ranked eighty-nine! Yan Feihua, you killed two Demon Generals!" Elder Yue exclaimed in surprise.

"Killed two Demon Generals, and one of them is the Ghost Bone Demon General!"

Hearing this, several elders in the hall were visibly shocked, their gaze turned over.

Those Linglong Hall disciples were even more surprised, slightly parting their red lips.

Among the one hundred and eight Blood Demon Generals, the strength varies vastly due to different rankings.

Demon Generals ranked around one hundred, like Blood Saber Demon General ranked one hundred and one, all have strength below the True Yuan Realm.

Whereas Demon Generals ranked around ninety have strength close to the True Yuan Realm and may have even broken through to it.

With Yan Feihua’s strength, being able to slay Demon Generals around the hundredth rank wouldn’t surprise the elders much.

What surprised the elders was Yan Feihua being able to slay the eighty-ninth-ranked ’Ghost Bone Demon General.’

Though the Ghost Bone Demon General’s cultivation hasn’t broken through to the True Yuan Realm, the cultivation technique practiced by the person is quite strange, able to shrink bones and condense Yuan.

Rumor has it this person can shrink their body to fist size, in battle the body grows and shrinks unpredictably, making it hard to defend against, even causing the death of a True Yuan Realm elder from Yuangang Hall.

With Yan Feihua’s cultivation, being able to slay Ghost Bone Demon General genuinely surprised several elders.

Facing everyone’s shocked gaze, Yan Feihua calmly nodded.

"Excellent! Just these two Demon General heads qualify you for top ten in the Six Southern Domains hunting competition!"

Elder Yue was very pleased, her complexion becoming rosier.

This hunting competition, besides clearing Demon Sect strongholds, all the major Golden Palaces had thoughts of competition. She naturally didn’t wish for Linglong Hall disciples to fare too poorly.

Calming her mind, Elder Yue started counting other materials, casually picked up an Asura sting.

"This is an Asura sting with mid Spiritual Rotation Realm eighth stage cultivation, not bad!"

"This Demon Sect disciple’s cultivation is already close to spiritual rotation realm eighth stage..."

...

Upon hearing Elder Yue tallying the hunting materials, Luo Feng nodded slightly, it seemed Yan Feihua only collected materials from enemies with Spiritual Rotation Realm seventh stage and above, no wonder the count was so low.

Besides that, Luo Feng realized another point: slaying Asuras and Demon Sect disciples with cultivation surpassing Spiritual Rotation Realm fifth stage, hunting results and specific cultivation are related:

Thirty-five Spiritual Rotation Realm sixth stage Asuras are equivalent to slaying one Spiritual Rotation Realm seventh stage Asura, and so on.

One Spiritual Rotation Realm eighth stage Asura with Demon General level strength is equivalent to slaying over a thousand Spiritual Rotation Realm sixth stage Asuras!