Yuan Yu, San Fu and Ba Ming were all early stage foundation establishment realm rogue cultivators. All three of the had done all kinds of things to get their hands on a foundation establishment pill. Stealing, killing and even becoming a servant of a sect cultivator was not a big deal for them if doing so could give them a foundation establishment pill.
After struggling for more than 60 years this way, they were finally able to get their get hands on a few foundation establishment pills and fortunately managed to make a successful breakthrough to this realm.
But after that, to their despair, they realised that advancing in the foundation establishment realm was even harder. With their increased strength, they were able to earn more spirit stones but the cost of the things that they needed had also increased with their advancement in realm. So their overall situation had not improved at all.
Then one day, San Fu heard that a group of foundation establishment cultivators had found powerful pills after robbing a rich second generation cultivator of a large family. That cultivator had bought pills worth more than 10 thousand spirit stones from the Immortal Treasure Pavilion and all of those pills became loot for his killers.
This immediately gave San Fu the idea to do something similar. His plan was to observe the Immortal Treasure Pavilion daily to find an easy prey who was definitely weaker than them. Then he and his friends just needed to wait for their prey to go outside the city and immediately San Fu and his friends would attack him.
This turned out to be a very successful strategy. San Fu, Yuan Yu and Ba Ming all had killed several cultivators following this method. It had been so profitable that in less than 3 years, San Fu had managed to reach the second level of Foundation Establishment Realm. It was a very fast advancement speed especially for a rogue cultivator.
After doing this many times, all three of them had became expert hunters. They had easily noticed when a newly advanced foundation establishment realm cultivator was trying to sneakily buy a large amount of cultivation pills. They immediately speculated that this man was probably from a somewhat powerful family and have a financially strong background.
Immediately that person became their prey. After stalking him for quite some time, all three of the men became more sure about their speculation. Then to their delight, after some time, their prey decided to leave the city. They were ready to stalk their prey for a day or two, so him leaving the city so quickly was a very good thing for them.
This was a golden opportunity and the three experienced men did not miss it. As soon as they were quite a bit away from the city, they immediately attacked their prey.
With three foundation establishment realm cultivators attacking together, most of their prey would not be able to resist for long and would be killed very swiftly. But that did not happen this time. As soon as all three of the men attacked the prey, a wall of blood sudden appeared to block the attack.
San Fu and Ba Ming had practiced fire elemental cultivation technique and Yuan Yu had practiced a wood elemental technique. So he was able to boost the strength of the fire elemental technique used by his two other friends.
But even that boosted attack was unable to break through the blood barrier. Seeing this, the survival instincts of all three of them kicked in and they tried to make an immediate escape. But as soon as they turned round, a suddenly dizziness hit their head and they suddenly forgot why they were here or why they were trying to run away.
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While flying toward a remote forest, Li Feng looked behind him with an impressed expression. Currently all three of the cultivators who were trying to rob him were following behind him like obedient servants. Seeing that he again was amazed by how effective Yue's Phantom World's mind control was now that it was getting a boost from her Stellar Source.
As two of the men were on the same cultivation level as Yue and one of them actually had a higher cultivation realm than her, he had not expected the mind control to work, especially on the very first try. But surprisingly enough, the souls of these people turned out to be very weak and Yue succeeded in her attempt of mind control on the first try.
Now Li Feng was taking them to a remote place to perform some experiments. First of all, he wanted to improve his combat insticts so after reaching a suitable spot, Li Feng was planning to fight all three of them together while holding his strength back.
Soon he managed to find a perfect location and the battle started. Yue had ordered the controlled men to do their best to kill Li Feng, so they were not holding back at all in the fight.
As for Li Feng, he only used one blood tentacle in this fight. He was using it to both attack and defend himself. But as he was fighting three people at once, doing so was not easy. But with the hardship, he was also improving rapidly with combat.
After fighting for about 3 hours, all three of the men suddenly fainted. After checking on them Li Feng noticed that they had run out of spiritual energy. As they were going all out, after three hours of continuous fighting, they had used up all their spiritual energies.
So Li Feng decided to stop the practice fight. This was a very valuable experience for him but his main objective was still unfulfilled. These three were also too weak for him to test his true power. So even now Li Feng was not sure about the limit of his strength.
But he had already spent quite a long amount of time outside the mine. If he did not return quickly, many complications might rise. So he decided to end his tests here.
For the time being, Li Feng decided to judge himself to at least be as strong as a late stage foundation establishment realm cultivator. As how his strength matched to a peak foundation establishment or a golden core, he was not sure. But for the time being, his chance of encountering a peak foundation establishment realm cultivator was very low, so he decided to not worry about it too much.
After making up his mind, Li Feng started to interrogate the three men. But unfortunately Li Feng was unable to learn anything important from them. The loot that they had was also very pitiful. So after the interrogation was over, Yue simply destroyed their souls and killed them. As for their bodies, Yue stored them in her Spatial Storage. When Li Feng asked her about why she was storing the bodies, she told Li Feng that her ancestral memories had several special techniques and one of the technique was a puppet making technique. So Yue wanted to practice this techniques on the corpses. Hearing this Li Feng nodded his head and told Yue that if she needed more corpses in the future, he would do his best to gather them for her.
Then after making sure that none of their traces were left in the area, Yue quickly took on her small fox form and went inside Li Feng's clothing. Then Li Feng used his True Blood Traversal to quickly go toward the mine.