27 Refining Spiritual Net

After liberating the treasures off the two cultivators, Qin Feng did not dare to stay around.

After all, the rest of the Huang family cultivators might return at any moment, Moreover, the cultivator that Qin Yang baited away was not too far from there either as he was only a thousand feet away. It was only with the cover of trees that he failed to notice the scene over here.

However, the commotion caused by those two that Qin Feng knocked out earlier had already alerted the other party. If not for Qin Yang keeping him occupied, he would have long returned. Qin Feng had to get out of there as soon as possible.

His movements were swift as he activated his Agility Spell. With just a light tap of his feet, he managed to leap a few hundred feet away, traveling at extreme speed in the opposite direction.

As he had expected, just a dozen of breaths after he escaped, the cultivator that was lured away by Qin Yang had returned.

When he realized two of his clansmen were lying on the floor, he thought they were murdered, causing him to go into an enraged panic. He could not help let out a cry and released a spell that went several hundred feet into the air.

With a bang, his spell exploded like fireworks, attracting the attention of those cultivators that were chasing after the Heaven Swallowing Toad.

"Not good. Old Six and the others are in trouble!"

The group could not care less for the Heaven Swallowing Toad they almost killed at that moment. They quickly turned around and charged at full speed to where their clansmen were located.

Qin Feng took a big detour and headed to the rendezvous point he planned with Qin Yang.

At that moment, the spiritual energy in his body was surging. He activated his cultivation method as he ran to convert the spiritual energy into his own.

This time, he had absorbed 13 demonic monkey carcasses. Although most of the demonic monkeys were weak, there were a few of them that were at the late-stage Qi Refinement Stage.

With that, the spiritual energy he gained this time was ten times from the Ghost Pagoda Tree from before.

Although he needed a lot more spiritual energy to break through from the second to third level of Qi Refinement Stage, the number of carcasses refined by the Demon Refinement Kettle was a lot more this time as well. The spiritual energy resulting from the refinement was extremely pure as well.

For that reason, under the effects of the unending spiritual energy spilling out from the Demon Refinement Kettle, he vaguely felt as though he was about to break through the third level of the Qi Refinement Stage.

From his sense, he had only consumed half the spiritual energy refined by the kettle. That meant that if he absorbed and refined all those spiritual energy, he would even make some progress in the third level of Qi Refinement Stage.

However, that was not a good time for him to break through or it would be difficult for him to report back.

His original mission was to hunt the Blue Wolves. If he suddenly advanced to the third level of Qi Refinement Stage after this trip, it would definitely attract too much attention and bring him unwanted questions. 

That was why he quickly stopped the refinement process and communicated with the kettle to temporarily store those spiritual energy for future use.

Nevertheless, he was in a great mood. If not for a treasure like the Demon Refinement Kettle, he would need at least a year or two to accumulate the spiritual energy needed to reach the third level of Qi Refinement Stage. Instead, he only needed to refine a few demonic monkeys to break through his cultivation. That feeling was truly great.

He executed another Agility Spell and ran toward the rendezvous point at full speed while he examined the magical tools in his hand.

The two storage bags had the divine sense marking from the Huang family cultivators which he had no way of opening it at the moment so he left it for another time.

However, he was elated by the few magical tools he had in his hands.

One of them was a high-grade magical flying sword, a mid-grade warhammer, and lastly, the spiritual net that was previously used to entrap several demon monkeys.

Qin Feng was especially interested in the spiritual net.

After studying it carefully, he realized that it was a mid-grade magical tool—Spirit Binding Net. It should be weaved from the silk of some sort of spiritual silkworm. Despite it being just as big as his palm with faint spiritual aura, it was extraordinarily tough. Upon activation, it could cover an area over dozens of feet. Regardless of human or demons, those bound by it would have their spiritual energy restrained unless one could break free from it.

Qin Feng's hands itched as he tried to look for something to test its effects.

However, that Spirit Binding Net was refined by the Huang family cultivators. Unless he could erase the spiritual marking placed by the Huang family cultivators, it would be very difficult to use.

After giving it some thought, Qin Feng suddenly utilized the spiritual energy within the Demonic Refinement Kettle, using it against the spiritual marking on the Spirit Binding Net.

That Huang family cultivator had just only entered the late-stage Qi Refinement Stage. The spiritual marking he left on the magical tool would not be too strong. Very soon, it was washed clean by the violent gush of spiritual energy coming from the Demon Refinement Kettle.

Qin Feng quickly placed his own spiritual marking into it and refined the magical tool as his own.

The categorization of magical tools was very simple. Every nine levels of restriction was considered one grade. From level-1 to level-9 would be considered as a low-grade magical tool. Level-9 to level-18 was considered mid-grade. Following that order, those above level-36 would be considered as spiritual tools.

The Spirit Binding Net was only a mid-grade magical tool with level-18 restrictions. Qin Feng quickly refined it with his spiritual energy. Although he would need to spend more effort refining it in order to use it with ease, at least it was usable at the moment.

After successfully refining it, he happily played with the Spirit Binding Net. Apart from the Demon Refinement Kettle, that was the first magical tool that he obtained.

After taking a few looks, he was sure that this item was not refined by the Huang family themselves.

Although the Huang family's refining skills were passed down through the generations, it was specialized in sword making. At most they would create some other metallic magical tools. Meanwhile, binding type magical tools were not their specialty.

After several minutes, Qin Yang saw Qin Feng running toward him and let out a long sigh of relief.

"How did it go? You didn't let the Huang family identify you, right?" Qin Yang asked worriedly.

"Relax," Qin Feng comforted him and took out those two storage bags, Clarity Jade, the three magical tools, and laughed. "It's a decent haul. However, we can't really show these things publicly or the Huang family will find out. I'll have my dad get rid of them at some market and change them into spirit stones or other cultivation resources. When that time comes, I'll split it with you Brother Yang."

"Sure thing, hahaha. That'll teach Huang Yulang to hunt our Blue Wolf demons. That surely helped vent our resentment."

Qin Yang was overjoyed upon seeing those magical tools. He did not expect Qin Feng to have gotten his hands on so much good stuff.

If all those items were traded into spirit stones, his share would be quite a significant amount.

Moreover, he was stuck at the sixth level of Qi Refinement Stage and sorely needed resources to break through. When he gets his share, he will surely be able to break through to the seventh level in one go.

"Little Feng, you're about to join the sect and you'll need spirit stones more than I do. I don't need much from this run. Just have Seventh Uncle give some elixirs to help me break through the sixth level of Qi Refinement Stage instead."

Qin Yang was all smiles, but not greedy.

The value of those items was surely much higher than a few mere elixirs, but he was willing to let Qin Feng take the bigger share of spirit stones. That way, when Qin Feng managed to make a name for himself in the Beastmaster Sect, he would be able to better take care of the family and he would benefit from that.

That was how most of the smaller families behaved. A number of smaller families would pool all their resources for the family member that had a chance to enter the sects. Once the family member was successful, then the rewards they reap would far outweigh the resources they poured in.

Qin Feng thought about it for a moment, then made a dashing smile. "Sure, I'll take advantage of this then."

He did not add any words of gratitude in there as they were all one big family, There was no need to be too reserved.

"Let's go back then. They'll be worried if we go back late," Qin Yang urged after looking up at the sky.

"Sure."

Both of them got up and started heading off.

However, just as they went past a hill, they were stunned.

They once again ran into the Heaven Swallowing Toad.