Chapter 36 (Part B) – Common Enemy

(Mustang: Hi guys, this is the second regular release of this week. Can’t wait for Christmas now ???? )

As he overheard their conversation, Bi Fan was sure that these people were ‘rising sun’ students.

“Come on, there are signs of a fight over there, and also there seems to be a lot of blood.”

The three youngsters quickly made their way to the boulder where the final fight had taken place. As they looked at the bloodstained scene, the look on their faces changed very drastically.

“It seems that Gu Yu and his company ran into some serious trouble here. It appears that they were all killed by bears and then, were eaten.”

“Look, based on this path of blood trail, it seems that the bears dragged the remains of their bodies in that direction. The blood hasn’t dried out yet, which means that the bears would not have gone too far, should we follow them?”

“No let’s not, even a party as strong as Gu Yu’s couldn’t stand up to these bears, then we too might suffer the same fate.”

“No, ah what? Their weapons are gone as well, and even their money, all of it! How could that be?”

The three teenagers looked around for a bit but didn’t find anything valuable, and their faces were now frowning.

The bears would not have any use for weapons, so they obviously wouldn’t take them. It was apparent to them that a human had arrived at the scene before them and had taken away all of their possessions, including their weapons and money.

“Let’s look around, whoever picked up their possessions, could not have gone too far. Gu Yu’s sword was a top grade weapon, we cannot let that fall into the hands of any other school.”

These three youngsters were extremely smart, even with all the blood around, they could still spot the footprints of the thief and realized that he had gotten away.

As soon as he realized that they would try to pursue him, Bi Fan quickly left the scene.

These three would have to soon go back, and it was important that they reported back to their superior in time, for they would tell the ‘rising sun’ school that Gu Yu and his friends were killed by bears.

Bi Fan at this point didn’t want to take the initiative to complicate matters even further. However, if someone tried to attack him, he would fight back, and his counter attack would be fatal.

But these three teenagers had a very important role, so he didn’t want to provoke any trouble with them, because he needed them to go back and explain that Gu Yu and his friends, fell prey to a group of wild animals.

The three teenagers looked around for a long time, but they couldn’t find anything substantial, so they had no choice but to leave.

They had no interest in avenging Gu Yu and his friends, all they wanted was their weapons and their money.

Bi Fan found a quiet place to sit, so he could take a look at the loot. Actually, he didn’t really care about the weapons or the money, his main interest was in the Yin Yang pouch.

This Yin Yang pouch should have belonged to Gu Yu as only good students had enough resources to buy them. Bi Fan opened the pouch, and he found a lump containing almost three hundred spars in it, along with some other items. Apart from that, there were three low grade weapons and two books.

Bi Fan was only interested in the books, so he took them out to take a look at them. One of the books was about the secret techniques of cultivation of inner energy at the ‘rising sun’ school and the other one spoke of the ‘rising sun’ double-edged sword fighting methods.

Both of these books spoke of techniques that were usually imparted to medium level students, which meant that they would impossible to procure using any other methods. The ‘rising sun’ double-edged sword fighting technique was almost at par with ‘Fufeng double-edged sword’ technique.

Bi Fan didn’t want to practice the methods taught in these two books, but wanted learn them anyway, as they would increase his knowledge and improve his skills.

The problem with using these two techniques was obvious. If the ‘rising sun’ school ever found out that he knows their secret methods, then he would be in a lot of trouble.

However, if he managed to mix their style up a bit and merge it into ‘Fufeng double-edged sword’ technique, then nobody would be able to make out the connection. Bi Fan put everything away, and got up, feeling pleased with himself.

Bi Fan knew that ‘rising sun’ students were looking for him, searching his trail, lured by the reward that was offered for his death, but he wasn’t worried about it.

With the increase in his strength, his confidence in his ability had also seen a massive rise.

Moreover, most of the people who had entered the devil’s territory in his search were obviously not very strong. This was rather obvious to him, as no serious martial artist would come looking for him in the devil’s territory for only a thousand spar, which was the bounty on his head.

Feeling no pressure from the ‘rising sun’ students on his trail, he continued to venture deeper into the devil’s territory in the hope of finding a suitable demon to train on.

Now-a-days, even ‘brave’ layer demons weren’t capable of putting much pressure on him, so he needed to find a ‘spiritual intelligence’ layer demon for his training and to refine his strength and skills.

In this part of the devil’s territory, only a very few demon were as strong as the ‘spiritual intelligence’ layer, and in most encounters, the people who met with them, ran away for the fear of death.

Bi Fan had been looking for one of those for a while now, but he still hadn’t found a demon as strong as the ‘spiritual intelligence’ layer yet. He was confident that he could even try and take on five or six of them at once, without much effort. So obviously, the ‘brave’ layer demons posed no threat to him whatsoever.

Bi Fan was getting stronger with every passing day, making rapid progress in his strength and skill alike, which meant, that his martial art was improving greatly.

At this moment, Bi Fan had been inside the devil’s territory for almost two weeks now, and his strength had almost doubled up since his entry.

His physical strength had gone up to four Yun Shi, owing to the first method that he had learnt from that battered jade book.

His body’s inner energy was soaring even higher, and had reached almost six Yun Shi, which meant that, a total of ten Yun Shi, put him at the peak of ‘Spiritual intelligence’ layer.

A while ago, when Bi Fan was at the peak of the ‘inner breath’ layer, he was already good enough to go shoulder to shoulder with his peers, and was commended for his excellence; imagine what it would be like now.

He had been feeling the effects of his practice from the methods mentioned in the jade book, but unfortunately for him, the book was incomplete.

“’Spiritual intelligence’ demon, please show yourself quickly, I can’t wait anymore!” Bi Fan’s heart yearned in prayer.

His strength was on the verge of breaking through to the next layer, so he needed to practice harder. He needed to make this breakthrough, so he could practice the ‘immortal finger’ to its maximum potential.

Bi Fan preferred fighting his way through to the next layer in comparison to using Dan pellets to make the breakthrough, as it helped build a stronger foundation for the next layer.

As he was thinking of all these things, he heard the humbling roar of a beast at a distance.

He didn’t know what kind of a beast had made that sound, but he knew that this kind of a roar would have scared him a while ago, which meant that the beast was obviously a very strong one.

Bi Fan, extremely excited, rushed towards the direction of the sound.

“Finally, I have found a beast strong enough!”