Free Web NovelChapter 1576: Eleven Primordial Locks
Early the next morning, Ling Feng left the Tianbai Imperial Capital quietly without informing anyone.
Thinking back to last night's banquet, it had truly been a grand gathering. The Emperor of the empire, the Cangqiong Sect Leader, the Ascendant Eagle General, the Director of Tianwei Academy, the Grand Commandant's family, and many other important figures of the empire had all attended the magnificent banquet.
Of course, Leng Jianfeng, Su Qingxuan, Qin Wanwan, Liu Yunfei, Deng Yongshi, and others who were close to Ling Feng were also present.
Everyone understood that a golden-scaled dragon would never remain in a small pond. With Ling Feng's talent, he would never stay in the small Tianbai Empire forever.
This banquet was both a celebration to thank Ling Feng for saving the empire and a farewell banquet to send him off.
There was plenty of drinking at the banquet, which need not be described in detail. However, Jiang Xiaofan and Li Bufan had also decided to resign from their military posts and head out into the wider world to train.
To them, the Tianbai Empire was only a small pond. With their current strength, and with the empire gradually stabilizing, there was no reason for them to remain here any longer. It was time for them to leave this pond.
Although the Dongling Immortal Pool had not officially begun recruiting students yet, the Dongling Region was vast beyond imagination. With the Four Great Empires, the Eastern Sea, Nanjiang, the Western Wilderness, and the Northern Barbarians, their current strength was enough for them to travel and train across these lands. Such experience would greatly benefit their cultivation.
In the end, they still hoped to follow Ling Feng's footsteps and continue advancing toward the peak of the martial path.
In truth, a large part of their decision was because Ling Feng had stimulated them. When Ling Feng returned this time, he had become unbelievably powerful. If they continued to remain in the Tianbai Empire, they would not even be able to see his back in the future, let alone catch up to him.
Mo Feng felt reluctant to see Xiaofan and the others leave, but he did not try to stop them. Everyone had their own path to follow. As brothers, Jiang Xiaofan and Li Bufan had already helped him more than enough.
Ling Feng knew that going out to train meant facing countless dangers, but since the two of them were traveling together, they could at least look after each other. Moreover, the path of martial arts had always been a path that defied the heavens. If one did not dare to take risks, how could one fight against fate and keep climbing higher?
As for Yue Yunlan, although she had only just recovered from a serious illness, she still attended the banquet.
Ling Feng did not give her many promises, but he did make an agreement with her. On the day the Dongling Immortal Pool recruited disciples next year, he would wait for her there.
After all, with her current physique and the power contained within that piece of the Void Lotus Root, once she fully refined it, she would probably reach at least the late Human Emperor stage.
Then there was Yan Cangtian. Although he did not bring Yan Ning to the banquet, the proud look on his face showed that this old romantic had finally gotten his happy ending.
Ling Feng did not have much affection for the Empress Dowager, but as long as Yan Cangtian was happy, he did not mind.
There was also his Divine Ling Sect. Ever since he took over the sect from Duanmu Qingshan, he had basically been a hands off sect leader and rarely participated in building the sect. However, the wealth and manuals he brought back had allowed the Divine Ling Sect to flourish within the sect world of the Tianbai Empire.
Not only that, the new Emperor Mo Feng even issued a decree naming the Divine Ling Sect as a Divine Guardian Sect of the empire, standing alongside the Cangqiong Sect as the two great guardian sects.
Even Yue Zhonglian had no objections to this decision. After all, Ling Feng was the sect leader of the Divine Ling Sect, and with his contributions to the empire, he was fully qualified to stand on equal footing with him.
Even Ling Feng himself had not expected that the wish he once made, to make the former Wenxian Sect become a great sect like the Cangqiong Sect, would finally come true.
As for delivering this good news back to Duanmu Qingshan, that task naturally fell to Luo Jianying.
It was not that Ling Feng did not want to return to the Cangqiong Sect to see his master and Lin Xian'er. It was just that he did not know how to face Lin Xian'er.
When Lin Xian'er had been gravely injured by Lin Canglang and was on the verge of death, she had already confessed her feelings to him, yet he still did not know how to respond.
Moreover, Duanmu Qingshan was clearly eager to marry his daughter to him, so avoiding the situation for now seemed like the best choice.
Ling Feng shook his head firmly and buried all thoughts of last night's banquet deep in his heart. Whether it was to protect the friends he cared about or to avenge the destruction of his clan, he could only continue growing stronger without rest.
When he reached the northern outskirts of the Imperial Capital, an area with almost no people, he took out the token that led to the Misty Ghost Forest and opened the portal. In the next moment, he disappeared from the spot.
Perhaps after leaving this time, he would not have the chance to return for a very long time.
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Three days later, Ling Feng departed from the Misty Ghost Forest once again.
This time, the Tianbai Emperor's spiritual manifestation planted four more Qi Refining Primordial Locks into Ling Feng. Together with the original seven, he now had a total of eleven Qi Refining Primordial Locks.
Although he had already experienced this kind of pain several times before, every time a Qi Refining Primordial Lock was planted, the pain was still so intense that Ling Feng wished he could just die on the spot.
This time, four Primordial Locks were planted consecutively, and he almost did not survive the ordeal.
After the Primordial Locks were planted, Ling Feng remained unconscious for an entire day and night, then spent another day and night recovering. Only on the third day did he finally regain his strength.
According to the Tianbai Emperor's spiritual manifestation, there were a total of eighteen Qi Refining Primordial Locks, which meant Ling Feng still had plenty of suffering ahead of him.
However, although the process of planting the Primordial Locks was extremely painful, the rewards were also astonishing.
The eleven Qi Refining Primordial Locks compressed Ling Feng's aura once again. On the surface, his aura now appeared to be only at the early Spiritual Sea Realm. His speed and strength were heavily restricted. However, when all eleven locks were released at once, he could unleash more than one hundred times his normal combat power.
Once he fully adapted to the eleven Primordial Locks and his normal state returned to the Human Emperor level, then when all eleven locks were released, the explosive power would be truly terrifying.
This Qi Refining Primordial Lock secret art truly deserved its reputation as a technique created by a powerful expert from the Immortal Domain. The cultivation process was extremely painful, but it was indeed a heaven defying secret art.
Ling Feng traveled north, passing through the Tiansheng Empire. Moving at full speed, he finally returned to Iron Ice City after ten days.
During these ten days, Ling Feng gradually adapted to the new Primordial Locks, and his speed continued to increase. He had already recovered about sixty percent of his previous speed. Otherwise, the journey would have taken even longer.
According to Ling Feng's estimate, it would probably take about a month or even longer for him to fully recover to his previous level in his normal state. Since he was deliberately tempering his foundation, he did not open the Primordial Locks while traveling. These ten days were also a period of rapid improvement for him.
Finally, when he saw the snow covered city once again, Ling Feng knew that the Dongling Immortal Pool was not far away.
