The Devil's Tribulation

At the East City Inn, the waiter looked at the silver and said happily, "Thank you for the reward, sir. It is my duty to take care of the guests. You don't have to be polite." The waiter turned and went out. Pan Chengfeng stood there and looked at the waiter's back thoughtfully, not knowing what he was thinking. Shuang'er asked, "What are you looking at, young master?" Pan Chengfeng came back to his senses and smiled, "Nothing, Shuang'er, you can stay here peacefully. I'm out of town for business now. I should be back in one day at the fastest and three days at the slowest." Shuang'er nodded and said, "Young master, be careful." Pan Chengfeng walked to the door of the inn, looked back at the inn, and thought to himself, "The shopkeeper and the waiter don't seem to be ordinary people. Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. Let's go to the place the coachman said first."

After leaving the East City Gate, Pan Chengfeng moved all the way south. If Pan Chengfeng did not have the Light Body Technique, he could reach a terrifying 600 kilometers per hour when running at full speed. With the Light Body Technique, he could reach 800 kilometers! It is almost close to two-thirds of the speed of sound. The only drawback is that if he runs at full speed, Pan Chengfeng can only maintain this speed for one hour, and he will overdraw his physical strength. This is the result of Pan Chengfeng's training in the Red Mountains. In order to maintain his physical strength, Pan Chengfeng usually moves at a speed of 200 kilometers. According to Pan Chengfeng himself, if he only maintains this speed, he is a perpetual motion machine. Although it is bragging, it can be seen how confident Pan Chengfeng is in his physical strength now, which is all trained.

Half an hour later, Pan Chengfeng arrived in front of a forest. This was the place where the immortal got off the bus as the young man said. Pan Chengfeng said to himself, "There are three immortal families in Fancheng, the Zhong family, the Bai family, and the Han family. This person flying the sword should be a foundation-building cultivator. He is likely to be from one of the three families, but not the Bai family~" Pan Chengfeng is currently practicing the Bai family's skills. If he meets someone from the Bai family, he wonders if they will notice anything. Pan Chengfeng hesitated for a while and thought to himself, "No matter what, I have to fight once. I have been practicing Qi at the third level for more than a year, and I haven't made any progress. I must find him this time! Besides, even if I meet someone from the Bai family, as long as they are not those old monsters, they should not be able to tell." Pan Chengfeng comforted himself and went straight into the forest.

Pan Chengfeng used his spiritual sense to the full, identified the south, and walked all the way south. After walking for most of the day, he still hadn't gotten out of the woods. Just when he was wondering why the woods were so big, fog started to rise in the woods again. Relying on his spiritual sense, Pan Chengfeng advanced a distance, but still couldn't get out of the woods. He got tired easily after using his spiritual sense too much, so Pan Chengfeng could only find a place to spend the night. Pan Chengfeng was no stranger to camping outdoors, so he lit a fire and thought, "This forest is so big, why is there no wild animal? And there's fog for no reason." Pan Chengfeng originally wanted to hunt here, but unfortunately, he didn't find any traces of prey along the way, so he had to give up in the end.

The next day, the sun rose. After a night's rest, Pan Chengfeng's spiritual consciousness was almost restored, and he continued to walk south. Finally, before the sun set, he walked out of the woods. Wiping off the non-existent sweat, Pan Chengfeng said happily: "Finally, I got out. This forest must be at least 200 to 300 kilometers long." In the forest, although Pan Chengfeng did not run, his speed was not comparable to that of ordinary people. It took him a day and a night to get out. You can imagine how big this forest is. Just as he was about to continue walking, a loud shout suddenly came from the sky: "Who is it?! How dare you trespass into the Zhong family's Juxian Manor!"

Pan Chengfeng was surprised at first but then delighted, thinking to himself, "Are they from the Zhong family?" He hurriedly bowed and said, "I am a casual cultivator from Fancheng. I did not intend to enter your place. I hope you don't mind, fellow Daoist." The man in the sky flew down on his sword and came in front of Pan Chengfeng. He put away his flying sword and said, "No intention? You are only at the third level of Qi training. How could you possibly walk out of the Misty Forest without intention! I think you are a spy sent by the Bai or Han family!" Pan Chengfeng frowned slightly, "Fellow Daoist, it's better not to label people casually." The young man in his twenties in front of him, with an arrogant face, looked down at Pan Chengfeng, and said in a bad tone, "Fellow Daoist? You are not qualified to call me fellow Daoist. You should call me senior. I am at the third level of foundation building, which is a whole realm higher than you! The master is the one who has achieved success in the world of cultivation. Don't you understand?" Pan Chengfeng really didn't understand. Now he knows, but Pan Chengfeng really can't bring himself to call a young man in his twenties senior.

Seeing Pan Chengfeng didn't say anything, the young man was about to continue questioning him, but the sound of flying swords came from the sky again. The young man hurriedly bowed and said, "Brother Ma, I just caught a spy!" Brother Ma flew down on his sword and asked in confusion, "Spy?" Then he looked at Pan Chengfeng and thought to himself, "Third level of Qi training?" The young man quickly recounted how he found Pan Chengfeng. Brother Ma asked Pan Chengfeng, "You said you accidentally broke into the Misty Forest and walked out by yourself?" Pan Chengfeng was also puzzled, "Senior, I did walk out by myself, what's wrong with that?" The young man shouted, "It's very wrong! Even if a Jindan cultivator goes into this Misty Forest, he can't get out for ten days or half a month. You, who is at the third level of Qi training, didn't get trapped in it and actually walked out. You still dare to say you are not a spy?!"

Pan Chengfeng was slightly angry, thinking, "This guy keeps trying to label himself a spy. What's going on? I haven't offended him before?" Senior Brother Ma also frowned and said, "Junior Brother Ye, stop calling me a spy. Wait until we find out more before making a decision." Pan Chengfeng burst into tears when he heard what Senior Brother Ma said, thinking, "Finally, someone who is reasonable has come." Unexpectedly, Senior Brother Ma continued, "Put him in the dungeon first, and I'll report to the elders before making a decision." Pan Chengfeng cursed in his heart, "What the hell are you! I really want to kill you, but now that we are living under someone else's roof, don't act rashly."

Senior Brother Ma said to Pan Chengfeng, "My dear little brother, please bear with me for a while. This is a special period. We will let you go when we figure things out." After that, he moved as fast as lightning and sealed Pan Chengfeng's cultivation. Pan Chengfeng felt that the true energy in his body seemed to be dragged by a lead block and could not be circulated at all. He was shocked: "Can it seal cultivation?" The young man looked at Pan Chengfeng's deflated face and said with a smile, "Don't waste your energy. Unless someone with the same cultivation level can help you remove it, you won't be able to move your true energy for ten or eight years." As he said that, he pulled Pan Chengfeng onto the flying sword and said, "Senior Brother Ma, I will lock this kid up first, and I will leave this place to you." Senior Brother Ma nodded and said, "Go and come back quickly. We are short of manpower now." The young man laughed and said, "Come back soon!"

It was the first time for Pan Chengfeng to ride on a flying sword, but he didn't expect to be a prisoner. He felt the speed of the flying sword and thought to himself, "The speed of a flying sword is much slower than my running speed, and I have to pay attention to the danger below all the time. It's really better to run on the ground." Seeing that Pan Chengfeng's eyes were always staring down, Junior Brother Ye reminded him, "Don't waste your energy. Even if I let you unlock the seal, you can't run out of Juxian Manor with your third level of Qi training." Pan Chengfeng was too lazy to pay attention to this young man. He looked like a rookie who had never been out of society. He thought to himself, "Just wait for the whipping of society. Let's see if you still look so proud!"

Observing along the way, Pan Chengfeng found that there was actually a large town below, where many mortals lived, and it was quite lively coming and going. So he tried to ask: "Young senior, why are there so many mortals in the Zhong family?" The young man was furious: "Senior is senior, why do you have to add "young"?" Pan Chengfeng said helplessly: "Senior, calm down, it was a slip of the tongue." In order to find out some news about the cultivation world, Pan Chengfeng was shameless. The young man said with a smug look on his face: "Whether it is a noble family or a sect, it is inevitable to come into contact with mortals, and many descendants of cultivators cannot practice, so naturally they have to arrange a place for them to live. Our Zhongjia Town is the most prosperous in Fancheng." "You really take the opportunity to show off." Pan Chengfeng laughed secretly, and continued to ask: "Senior, you have already reached the third level of foundation building at such a young age. It seems that you are also a genius that the Zhong family focuses on cultivating?"

Junior Brother Ye, full name Ye Sheng. He is the son of the third master of the Zhong family, his wife's brother-in-law and his cousin. It's a bit confusing, but in the Zhong family, he is already considered to be relatively close. Therefore, Ye Sheng has a good status among the children of the Zhong family, and naturally enjoys more "care". Ye Sheng is also very hardworking. He established his foundation at the age of 19 and reached the third level of foundation at the age of 23. He is considered to be at the forefront among all the children of the Zhong family. Last year, in the five-year competition of the Zhong family, Ye Sheng entered the top and was praised by the third master of the Zhong family as "not bad". Since then, he has been very proud of himself and feels that he is the pride of this generation of Zhong family children. Pan Chengfeng knows the mentality of this kind of person, so he plans to get some information from him.

Sure enough, when Ye Sheng heard Pan Chengfeng praising him as a genius, his mouth opened wide and he couldn't close it. He smiled and said, "You have good taste, kid! I got a good ranking in last year's competition, and the clan gave me a lot of rewards. Have you seen a mid-grade crystal bead?" Pan Chengfeng was shocked, "Crystal beads are divided into different grades?" But he said flatteringly, "I'm a casual cultivator, how could I have seen that kind of treasure? I don't even know what it looks like." Ye Sheng proudly took out a peanut-sized, crystal clear object from his arms, and said with a smug look on his face, "Then let me open your eyes. I got ten in last year's competition, but it's a pity that I didn't make it into the top ten, otherwise I would have a storage magic weapon." Pan Chengfeng felt the spiritual energy of the mid-grade crystal bead, his eyes lit up and said, "Such pure spiritual energy, is this a mid-grade crystal bead?" Ye Sheng chuckled and said, "Yes, it is, dozens of times purer than the lower grade!" After that, he carefully put the crystal bead back in his arms.

Pan Chengfeng was envious, very greedy. He felt that with just one medium-grade crystal bead, he could reach the fourth level of Qi training! But now he didn't dare to rob it. Seeing Ye Sheng taking back the crystal bead, Pan Chengfeng asked again: "I heard that there are cultivators doing business in Fancheng, but I don't know if I can get medium-grade crystal beads there?" Ye Sheng said disdainfully: "Impossible, there are no cultivators doing business in Fancheng. Even if there are, they are small cultivators like you, how can they have medium-grade crystal beads. Qingxu Town, 500 miles northwest of the city, is where cultivators trade. Qingxu Town is also the largest cultivator trading market under the jurisdiction of Qingxu Sect. I have been there several times, there is everything there! And there is an auction every year, it is very lively!" Pan Chengfeng was ecstatic: "Finally found it! It turned out that it is not in the city. I said that cultivators trading is opened on mortal streets, where there is no business! It made me waste several days in the city!" Pan Chengfeng was just a hindsight, or he had no direction at all, so he could only try his luck.