TFHS: Chapter 108

Jiang Qian, who had just entered Sihong Academy not long ago, also witnessed their movements and was quite angry. “These noble families are too powerful. They regard Sihong Academy as nothing and act recklessly.”

This included himself because he belonged to the Jiang family, a wealthy family from another county.

However, everyone knew that he had an unhappy relationship with the Jiang family. Now he had left the Jiang family and joined Sihong Academy.

Dean Pei sighed. “They have restrained themselves for the sake of the academy and Elder Yu. They haven’t always behaved like this. A child like Wu Yingyan dared to attack the proud son of the Kunyuan Sect, but the Kunyuan Sect acquiesced that it was an accident and even covered up for Wu Yingyan.”

“It is annoying!” Jiang Qian was even angrier. At this time, he understood Dean Pei and Sihong Academy very well. “It isn’t easy for the dean and Sihong Academy to maintain your current position.”

If Sihong Academy wanted to survive in the cracks, it had to make some compromises with the powerful families.

As the head of an academy, Dean Pei sometimes couldn’t help himself. However, he and the academy tried their best to protect some middle and low-level disciples.

Dean Pei smiled and said, “Fortunately, Fellow Daoist Jiang and many others are working hard together with me.”

Feng Ming probably hadn’t expected that even without the identities of the Wen and Wu brothers and the temptation of 50 million yuan crystals, there would still be so many forces trying to search for his traces.

If he knew it, would he feel proud? He was indeed a man of great influence and his every move attracted attention.

The two of them collected spiritual plants and hunted wild beasts during the day.

They camped at night and Feng Ming would try his best to turn the spiritual plants they found during the day into pills. Bai Qiaomo would even practice or he would make formation disks from the materials he found.

After a few days, the two of them had accumulated a lot of pills and formation disks. If they were turned into yuan crystals, their net worth would increase a lot from the original basis.

Now, they might be wearing the best armor provided by Yu Xiao, but their outer clothes were very ordinary. People would think they were just two cultivators of ordinary origin who came out to gain experience and wouldn’t associate them with the children of noble families.

On this day, Feng Ming snatched a few good quality spiritual plants from a wild beast, put them in the storage ring and were about to go to the next location when he and Bai Qiaomo paused and looked at each other.

The two of them released the mysterious butterflies. At the same time, they found a cultivator in front of them. He was being chased in a panic by a group of wild beasts. In the scene transmitted from the mysterious butterflies, both of them noticed something was wrong.

Feng Ming said, “Let’s go over and see what is going on first.”

Judging from the picture, the cultivator would definitely not be able to escape the hunting range of these wild beasts if no one came to rescue him.

In fact, this was also a normal thing. Human cultivators hunted wild beasts, and wild beasts also regarded cultivators as prey.

In this mountain range where wild beasts thrived, countless wild beasts died in the hands of cultivators. However, many cultivators also died under the claws of wild beasts which became their food every day. Reality was so cruel.

What about peaceful coexistence? That was simply impossible. Wild beasts reproduced at an extremely fast rate. If a large number of cultivators didn’t enter the wilderness to hunt wild beasts, this continent would be occupied by wild beasts sooner or later.

Human cultivators had to compete with wild beasts for living space.

The flesh, blood, and cores of wild beasts were some of the most important cultivation resources for human cultivators. Therefore, despite knowing the danger, cultivators still entered the wilderness one after another to hunt down wild beasts.

Feng Ming had never been soft-hearted towards wild beasts. From the history books of Feihong Continent, it could be known that once the wild beasts multiplied too much, they would gather together to launch a large-scale attack on human settlements. This was the wild beast tide recorded in the books.

Once a town was captured by a tide of wild beasts, the consequences would be disastrous.

Therefore, except for the wild beasts kept in captivity by humans, wild beasts, and humans had always been on opposite sides.

“Okay.” If a cultivator was really in dire straits, Bai Qiaomo wasn’t a person to sit there and watch him die.

The distance the mysterious butterflies flew was a bit far, so the two of them quickly rushed over. Once they got closer, they realized something was wrong.

“The aura of these wild beasts is wrong. They are more violent than before.” Feng Ming could tell that something was wrong from the roars of these wild beasts.

Bai Qiaomo had much more experience than Feng Ming and had encountered many similar situations. As they hurried on, he said to Feng Ming, “The cultivator must’ve been tricked. Someone might’ve used beast-attracting powder on him. Beast-attracting powder can drive wild beasts crazy until they tear the target apart.”

Feng Ming sucked in a breath. At this moment, he really felt sympathy for the cultivator who was being chased by the wild beasts. Did he know about this?

As an alchemist, Feng Ming naturally knew about the existence of beast-attracting powder. His master had explained it to him and made the powder himself.

This medicinal powder was colorless and odorless to human cultivators, but it was very different for wild beasts. It would cause wild beasts to chase after it excitedly, so some cultivators who were tricked were often unaware of it.

The closer he got, the more Feng Ming could tell that the abnormal behavior of these wild beasts was really caused by the beast-attracting powder.

The longer the time that passed, the more wild beasts that would be attracted. Even now, there were dozens of wild beasts chasing behind the cultivator.

Feng Ming quickly took out a few spiritual plants from his storage ring, mashed them to extract the mixed juice and without time to process them further, he handed them to Bai Qiaomo. “Sprinkle the juice in the direction of the wild beasts and it can minimize the power of the beast-attracting powder.”

The mixed juice smelled very pungent, but this was the effect that was needed to cover up the smell of the powder.

Seeing that the wild beasts running in front were about to catch up with the fleeing cultivator and throw him to the ground, the cultivator who was desperately fleeing felt desperate. He thought he was going to lose his life here when a figure flashed out and sprayed something at the wild beasts behind him. Then the person waved his sword. With one strike, the head and body of the wild beast in front were separated.

Since the momentum was too strong, the head flew far away after being separated from the body. The cultivator in front closed his eyes and screamed, thinking that a wild beast was jumping on him to bite him.

At this time, Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo ordered the mysterious butterflies to fly above the wild beasts, flap their wings, and sprinkle butterfly powder on them.

Thanks to the pungent juice causing trouble and the mysterious butterfly powder having a confusing effect, many wild beasts in the back actually ignored the chasing target ahead of them after inhaling the butterfly powder. Instead, they launched attacks at their own kind, biting each other.

In the blink of an eye, the scene was in chaos.

The mysterious butterflies were also a bit tired. They fell on Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo’s heads one after another, turning into hairpins.

The black crystal turtle was the most comfortable. He lay on Feng Ming’s shoulder, holding onto Feng Ming’s clothes tightly and looking curiously at the wild beasts fighting each other.

He accidentally smelled a pungent smell, sneezed a bit, and quickly retracted his head.

The screaming cultivator couldn’t feel any pain and finally realized that something was wrong. He opened his eyes and turned his head to look back. He saw that the wild beasts chasing him were trapped in chaos. Those who weren’t trapped were killed one by one by a cultivator holding a sharp sword.

He was saved! The cultivator’s legs weakened, and he sat on the ground, gasping for air. His eyes showed the joy and fear of surviving the disaster, and his face was pale.

Feng Ming didn’t participate in the battle. If there weren’t too many wild beasts, they wouldn’t have used these small methods. Bai Qiaomo could solve them all by himself.

Feng Ming walked towards the cultivator. Even though the beast-attracting powder was said to be colorless and odorless, it could still be recognized by an alchemist.

Feng Ming’s nose twitched. It was truly the beast-attracting powder. He found traces of the beast-attracting powder on the corner of the cultivator’s clothes and asked directly, “Who plotted against you and put the beast-attracting powder on you, causing you to be chased by so many wild beasts? If we hadn’t discovered it early on, you would’ve been dead.”

The cultivator was confused. “Beast-attracting powder?”

Feng Ming tapped the corner of his clothes. “Yes, the stain here is caused by the beast-attracting powder. You had better change your clothes, so as to not continue to be stained with the smell of the powder and fall into the siege of wild beasts.”

The cultivator trembled. He quickly took off his coat and changed into clean clothes.”

Feng Ming conveniently threw a first-grade fireball talisman over. Once it was activated, the fire burned the clothes and beast-attracting powder.

At this time, the cultivator finally realized that he had been saved. It was the two cultivators who suddenly appeared who saved his life. He quickly stood up and thanked Feng Ming.

His legs were still trembling when he got up. It wasn’t due to fear, but the aftereffect of exerting too much force.

“Thank you, two seniors, for saving my life. I, Cheng Miao, have no way to repay you. Please tell me the names of my two benefactors, and I will repay you in the future.”

As they were speaking, Bai Qiaomo had already eliminated all the beasts caught in the melee. He only dug out the cores from their bodies and no other materials were collected.

He turned around and said, “Let’s leave immediately. The smell of blood here is too strong. It will attract other wild beasts and cultivators.”

“Yes, let’s go. Cheng Miao, can you still walk? Take this pill, and you will be able to hold on for a while.”

“Okay.”

Cheng Miao didn’t care about anything else and swallowed the pill. A surge of strength emerged in his body, and he quickly followed his two benefactors.

Cheng Miao didn’t doubt at all that there would be a problem with the pill he took. If they really had ulterior motives towards him, how could they save his life?

If it wasn’t for the two benefactors who rescued him, he would’ve become the prey of these wild beasts right now. There would be no future to talk about.

After leaving far enough, Feng Ming stopped walking. He could see that Cheng Miao’s body had reached its limit, so he camped on the spot to rest.

Cheng Miao took out water and food from his storage ring to replenish the energy consumed. He almost didn’t have enough strength to speak.

Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo also took out food to eat. Feng Ming mentioned Cheng Miao’s name and the beast-attracting powder that was found on his clothes.

Bai Qiaomo nodded and didn’t express any opinion. Since the rescued Cheng Miao also had a mole between his eyebrows, Bai Qiaomo consciously kept a certain distance from him.

This was even though he had been with Feng Ming for a long time and knew that Feng Ming didn’t know enough about the ger gender to distinguish himself from men.