Chapter 116: Becoming Famous Overnight

The following morning, the temporary residence of the Azura Heaven Sect was already bustling with activity.

Disciples moved through the courtyard carrying their belongings, while several elders were making the final preparations for their departure. The competition was over, and there was no reason for them to remain at the temporary residence any longer.

The door to one of the rooms finally opened and Long Feng stepped outside.

He was dressed neatly in his usual robes, his long hair tied back, and his expression calm as he casually closed the door behind him.

"Still nothing..."

He clenched his hand as if feeling his strength and sighed slightly. His expression became slightly disappointed.

Last night, while doing so called ’training’ with Bai Liying and Shen Yao, he had secretly circulated the Forbidden Yang Sovereign Scripture, expecting some increase in his cultivation.

Unfortunately, the result had been far less impressive than he expected.

The technique had indeed reacted, but the increase in his cultivation was almost negligible.

’It seems the effect of the Forbidden Yang Sovereign Scripture isn’t that simple.’

From what he had experienced, the technique seemed to become significantly more effective when the other party possessed a sufficiently high cultivation realm or some kind of special physique.

Bai Liying and Shen Yao’s cultivation was simply not high enough to provide the kind of boost he had expected.

’At this rate, I’d probably have to repeat such training hundreds of times before getting a significant increase.’

Thinking about that number, Long Feng’s expression became even more complicated and shook his head.

’Forget it.’

There were more important things to deal with.

Long Feng continued walking toward the courtyard. As soon as he arrived outside, he saw a large group of Azura Heaven Sect disciples already gathered near the main entrance.

Several disciples were carrying their belongings toward the waiting flying ship.

Long Feng’s eyes swept across the crowd before he noticed two familiar figures. Zhu Yuan and Lu Qiang were standing together, talking.

The moment they noticed Long Feng approaching, both of them turned toward him.

"Brother Long Feng, why do you look so... radiant this morning?"

Suddenly Lu Qiang lean closer and grinned strangely. He folded his arms across his chest and asked.

"Did you received some kind of great opportunity last night."

But Long Feng’s expression remained calm and replied, "Perhaps I’m simply in a good mood after winning the competition."

"Really?" Lu Qiang looked at him suspiciously. "Your face is practically glowing."

"That’s probably the glow of victory."

"Glow of victory?"

Both of them burst out into laughing. Zhu Yuan also shook his head with a grin.

"Fine, fine. The great champion must have some special glow after defeating Han Tianyu."

Long Feng didn’t bother explaining. There was no way he could tell them about his last night madness.

He simply gave them a faint smile.

"You two seem to have a lot of free time this morning."

The two immediately stopped laughing. Zhu Yuan coughed. "Not at all. We’re extremely busy."

Long Feng shook his head and continued forward. Before long, the elders also arrived. Elder Wei stood at the front of the group and looked over the gathered disciples.

"Everyone is here? Good. Now board to the ship one by one. We will return to the sect immediately."

The disciples responded and began entering the flying ship one after another.

Long Feng followed behind the others. However, just before entering, his gaze unconsciously shifted toward the opposite side.

Another flying ship was waiting there. The Vermilion Flame Sect had also finished preparing for departure.

Their disciples were gathering around the ship, carrying their belongings and preparing to leave the temporary residence.

Long Feng’s gaze moved through the crowd and found him.

The moment Han Tianyu looked in his direction, their eyes met. For a moment, neither of them spoke.

Unlike the previous night, there was no anger visible in Han Tianyu’s eyes. His expression was calm. He walked a few steps forward before stopping at a reasonable distance.

"Long Feng, we had a great battle yesterday. I’ll be looking forward to out next meeting."

Long Feng smiled lightly. "I’ll be looking forward to meeting you again even more."

The two stared at each other for a moment.

There was no hostility in their words, but neither of them had any intention of remaining satisfied with the current result.

"Hmph."

Han Tianyu turned away walked toward the Vermilion Flame Sect’s flying ship.

However, he failed to notice those unnatural expressions upon Shen Yao’s face who stood on his side. A faint flush appeared across her cheeks as she realized those words not for Han Tianyu but for her.

Her mind couldn’t help but recall the events of the previous night and her cheeks became even warmer.

"Let’s go." Elder Wei raised his hand.

The formation beneath the Azura Heaven Sect’s flying ship suddenly activated.

A powerful spiritual-energy fluctuation spread through the air as the enormous ship slowly rose from the ground.

After boarding the flying ship, Long Feng initially sat together with Zhu Yuan and Li Qiang.

The three of them found seats near the rear section of the deck.

At first, Long Feng was sitting and talking comfortably, but after some time, he couldn’t sat anymore and stood up.

"I’m going to cultivate."

"Why now?" Li Qiang immediately gave him a strange look.

"Yes." Long Feng nodded.

Without waiting for another question, he walked toward the inner rooms of the flying ship.

As soon as he entered the room and closed the door behind him, his expression finally changed.

"Damn it! Did those bastards never seen a guy?"

He couldn’t but curse loudly.

People were looking at him, not just one or two.

Almost everywhere he looked, there were disciples secretly glancing in his direction, even some of the elders occasionally glanced toward him.

Some looked at him with curiosity, while others looked at him with obvious respect and awe. After all, the battle against Han Tianyu had already made Long Feng’s name famous among the inner disciples, so this is not surprising.

But they were looking too intensely, as if he was some kind of alien.

’It’s impossible to cultivate comfortably with so many eyes watching me.’

He sat down and sighed.

If there weren’t so many people staring at him, he could have stayed outside and enjoyed the journey.

’Well... I could have brought Bai Liying here and enjoy... ahmm, I mean training.’

He nodded seriously to himself before shook his head.

’Forget it.’

After some thoughts, Long Feng reached out and took out a large number of storage rings.

These were the storage rings he had collected from the disciples who had died during the underground exploration.

He had already gone through some of them before, but he hadn’t properly sorted everything.

He casually picked up one of the rings and released its contents.

The moment the pile of Flame Spirit Stones appeared, Long Feng’s eyes immediately lit up.

"So many..."

He couldn’t help smiling.

These were all Flame Spirit Stones he had collected during the underground expedition.

The amount was enormous!

There were more than two hundred and twenty-three thousand of them.

Long Feng had already handed twenty-three thousand Flame Spirit Stones over to Elder Wei and the others as his contribution from the expedition.

That meant he still had roughly two hundred thousand Flame Spirit Stones remaining.

Repeating the numbers, Long Feng’s smile became wider.

’Two hundred thousand.’

’At least I won’t have to worry about cultivation resources for a long time.’

He had originally expected that his harvest from Blazing Flame Mountain would be substantial, but seeing the actual number still made him happy.

He quickly stored the Flame Spirit Stones away. After that, he began sorting through the remaining storage rings.

Weapons, techniques, pills, herbs and various cultivation resources, there were quite a lot of things. However, Long Feng’s expression gradually became dissatisfied.

Most of the weapons and techniques were only at the Spirit Rank or Profound Rank, not a single Earth Rank technique or weapon could be found.

"Too many useless things."

He casually picked up a weapon and examined it before tossing it aside.

Most of these items had belonged to disciples from both the Azura Heaven Sect and Vermilion Flame Sect.

They weren’t completely worthless, but they were not particularly useful to Long Feng either. More importantly, he couldn’t simply sell all of them.

If he took out dozens techniques and weapons belonging to disciples from both sects and suddenly tried to sell them publicly, it would inevitably attract attention.

The sects might overlook some disciples dying during dangerous wilderness training. But if their techniques and cultivation resources suddenly appeared on the market, that would be a completely different matter.

’I should sort them properly first.’ Long Feng shook his head.

Some things could be sold later through safer methods, others could simply be kept for future use.

He continued sorting, specially the content of Ye Wuxie’s storage ring.

’Now this should have something good.’

After all, Ye Wuxie was a protagonist and a reincarnated expert who had once stood at an extremely high level.

Long Feng opened the storage ring with anticipation. But after looking through it for a while, his expression gradually became strange.

"That’s it?"

There were some herbs and so on. But most of them were collected from Blazing Flame Mountain. Apart from those, there was nothing particularly shocking.

Long Feng’s expectations immediately dropped.

’As expected.’

’Protagonists are mostly poor.’

He shook his head and sorted through the herbs and treasures one by one, leaving behind only a leaf in his hand.