Chapter 30 (Part A) – A Robbery On The Way

The devil’s territory was a vast region without any boundaries, with several cities along its flanks. Jiu You city was just one of those cities.

The closest entrance point of the Devil’s territory was about two thousand miles away from Ting Feng valley, but with the help of divine essence seals, this distance could be covered in two days’ time.

However, without the use of divine essence seals, this distance would take about sixty seven days or so to cover on foot.

Bi Fan had decided to spend the night in Ting Feng valley and planned to leave in the morning. He spent the night studying about the various types of animals and creatures that he could encounter inside the Devil’s territory.

There were said to be a lot of beast, and demonly creatures inside the devil’s territory. Some even had the ability to poison people, and then there were goblins, which often attacked people, and some unhappy spirits that Bi Fan would have to deal with, but this would require him to maintain his composure at all times.

That evening Bi Fan also spent some time looking at the Jade book.

The book spoke about various methods to refine and increase body strength, and was very detailed in nature. A lot of methods had striking similarities with those of ‘blood devil’ methods, and some seemed even better to refine strength.

The jade book only had ten pages in it, the first one was missing, but the next six seemed fully intact. The first page must have been the index to the rest of the book. The pages two, three and four talked about methods of practicing martial arts, whereas the next two spoke about the various methods in which someone could refine their body.

Bi Fan didn’t practice the teachings of the book, mainly because he had no time.

He read the book carefully a couple of times, and then spent some time trying to figure out the differences between these methods and those of ‘blood devil’ and estimated that these new methods could bear pretty good results as well.

Bi Fan decided the he would practice the teachings and techniques in the jade book once he had the time for it.

Early next morning, Bi Fan exited the Ting Feng valley and set out in the direction of the Devil’s territory entrance.

People entered at exited the Devil’s territory almost every day, and a lot of these people visited the Ting Feng valley before entering the Devil’s territory in order to make their preparations.

In fact, it is thought that Ting Feng valley’s origination was due to this reason it self. The people, who set the place up, took it into account that its proximity to the Devil’s territory would attribute to its prosperity.

There were a lot of other young men walking on the same path, and were probably travelling to the entrance themselves.

Most people didn’t know each other, and seemed a little cautious of striking up a conversation with the others.

“You, the boy in front.”

Bi Fan looked behind him, to see that there were three guys walking behind him, who were trying to catch up to him, and shouting all the while, not in a polite manner though.

Bi Fan turned around and looked, but there was no one else in the immediate vicinity, so he asked in an undertone: “Are you calling me?”

“Yes you boy. Don’t peep around.” The voice called out again, and Bi Fan was finally able to identify the source clearly.

Bi Fan turned to face in that direction and said angrily, “You’re looking for me?”

Even Bi Fan’s anger was quite tender due to his usually calm headed personality.

“Yes Boy, don’t play dumb. We saw you yesterday at Ting Feng valley. You bought a lot of Sunset Jade purifier Dan pellets, hand them over to us. And you also have quite a lot of magical instruments in your possession, surrender them to us or we will kill you.” A white clothed boy who seemed to be heading this trio stated.

Bi Fan himself had been eyeing other people in the Ting Feng valley, so he wasn’t were surprised that these people wanted to rob him.

This wasn’t overly unusual in the Tian Yu world, when it came to accumulating valuables, many disciples of the Buddhist ways resorted to robbery, same as the devil’s disciples.

Bi Fan was sure that the three young men standing in front of him were followers of the Buddhist ways as they didn’t stink of evil auras.

“So, you want to rob me huh? Well, that depends on whether you the ability or not.” Bi Fan said in a cold voice.

His light ray sword in firmly in his hand, Bi Fan stood facing his three opponents with an air of confidence about him.

The young man dressed in white, awe fully stared at the sword in Bi Fan’s hand, and his facial expression exposed a shade of greed: “Nice sword, looks like a top grade magical weapon, I guess that one is mine!”

“Yours? Well, you must have death wish.” Bi Fan stood there proud, brimming of self-confidence.

After the encounters of the previous few days, Bi Fan’s strength had seen a significant rise, which was a key factor in contributing to this new found confidence of his.

He had even managed to overcome opponents, who were in the brave layer, so he wasn’t even remotely afraid of these guys. The strongest of the three was the one at the back, and even he was only in the ‘inner organs’ layer, whereas the other two hadn’t even reached the ‘inner organs’ layer yet.

“Boy, if you have any sense then surrender the Sunset jade purifiers as well as the weapons you possess, and you might be able to avoid your death. Our friend, Jiang Sheng, is the student of the ‘rising sun’ school, and he’s someone you cannot afford to offend.” A tall youngster standing behind the one in white warned.

Bi Fan could make out that these youngsters where somewhat afraid of going through with their plans as they were trying to use the names of their backers to threaten him.

Unfortunately for them, they had run into Bi Fan, who wasn’t moved by their, rather persuasive robbery tactic, even if they were trying to threaten him with the name of ‘rising sun’.

Bi Fan had no idea who this Jiang Sheng was, as he had never heard of his name before. Moreover, Bi Fan was already pissed with this Jiang Sheng for attempting to rob him.

“’Rising sun’ disciples are really good, very difficult to deal with. I must add, also quite fearless in the face of danger. Resorting to robbery? Probably comes from the excellent teaching that they receive.” Bi Fan laughed heartily as he mocked them.

The complexion of the youngster in white changed: “Watch your mouth!”

Bi Fan’s mockery seemed to have made the white clothed youngster realize that if the knowledge of this robbery incident ever found its way back to the ‘rising sun’ school, then they could get into trouble.

As long as one has strength to loot, the person could get away with it, and keep the plunder. But to fight under the banner of ‘rising sun’ school, that would bring disgrace to the name of the school, consequences of which could be very severe for the accused.

This was an unwritten rule in all the schools.

The youngster at the back, stood tall and proud, and hadn’t made any move yet.

He must be the one they call Jiang Sheng, and he had started making his way to front of the pack, slowly.