The pristine lotus flower grew out of the mud unsullied, and the mud was not any ordinary type of mud. If the mud were accidentally exposed or rubbed onto one’s skin, the toxin from the mud would seep into the human body, which would then affect the individual’s training in the future. 

  Hence, just because the pond was blooming with lotus flowers, that did not mean that the flower pond could be approached, otherwise even by just inhaling the slightest scent of the flower and mud, it could poison the human body. 

  Qin Feng smirked as he picked up the jade bead that was left on the altar. He looked exceptionally relaxed. 

  Bai Li stood on Qin Feng’s shoulder and said, “There is a special waymark on the bead and you’ve activated it. If you go for the other beads, it will spread!” 

  “Yeah.” 

  The Battlegod Tomb had its own rules. Since the ancient times, the chivalric code between the warriors had always been about keeping promises, not going back on one’s words or to never betray their righteousness. Naturally, Qin Feng knew that he definitely had to follow the rules of the Battlegod Tomb. 

  “One is enough!” 

  For Qin Feng, it was just a piece of cake! 

  Qin Feng channelled his internal energy into the jade bead. 

  “Go!” 

  With a flick of his hand, the jade bead infused with internal energy struck one of the pristine lotus flowers in the mud. 

  Boom! 

  The pristine lotus immediately exploded. It split into pieces and struck the other lotuses. 

  The jade bead did not stop there. It exerted its remaining energy and struck the second lotus. 

  Then, it was the third, fourth and fifth, almost forming a straight line. 

  The lotus pool was a hundred meters long. Therefore, it was harder to get the ones which were further behind. 

  However, Qin Feng’s jade bead had broken five pristine lotuses. The broken lotuses split into pieces and struck the other surrounding lotuses, then the tremendous internal force broke the lotuses and made them strike the other lotuses again. 

  The lotuses that were struck the second time also shattered and struck their surroundings, but this time the remaining force seemed to be less strong, only causing the lotus pieces to knock out countless lotus seeds from the other lotus flowers. 

  Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta! 

  The long-ripened lotuses flew up into the sky, exuding their enticing fragrance into the air. 

  Qin Feng unleashed his internal force again. 

  “Asteroid Assimilation. Absorb!” 

  The lotuses that were floating in the air were suddenly pulled into Qin Feng’s arms, almost forming into a large ball. 

  With just a single move, almost eight to nine-tenth of the lotuses had fallen into his bosom. 

  In the midst of the internal strength sweep, several lotus leaves were also caught up in the absorption. Qin Feng laid them on the ground and piled up the lotus seeds, the seeds were piled up on more than ten lotus leaves. 

  In the outside world, each of the seeds was worth a whopping fifty million, and a single seed could make one’s mouth water. Now, Qin Feng had more than a thousand of them. 

  Although this was a fifty billion harvest for an E-tier aptitude user, the other youths would have gone crazy if they were to see it. 

  Qin Feng sat down cross-legged. 

  “You should eat some too, we’ve got lots of them!” 

  Bai Li became more interested and jumped down from Qin Feng’s shoulders. She grabbed a handful of the seeds and shoved them all into her mouth. 

  It was crisp, sweet, and super tasty. 

  Qin Feng also picked up a handful and began to eat. He instantly felt a stream of cool air flowing into his body, as if it was cleansing his body. 

  In just a short while, Qin Feng began to sweat, and a layer of black oil seeped out of his skin. 

  The effect of the pristine lotus had come into play. 

  The pristine lotus was probably considered to have E-tier benefits similar to spirit herbs. Qin Feng now had the flesh of a beast king, so one seed would not do much for him. 

  With each seed, Qin Feng felt a surge of energy continuously cleansing his insides. 

  The oil stains were slowly accumulating. 

  Fortunately, not only was there a lotus altar in this garden, a small stream was also flowing by the garden. Qin Feng used his conscious energy to manipulate the water stream and flushed away the oil stains on his body. 

  After half an hour of constant eating and flushing, Qin Feng had consumed more than a hundred lotus seeds. 

  Qin Feng felt that his body and mind were now pure and immaculately clear. 

  The murderous intent from before seemed to have gone away, and the trace of hostility that had once clouded his mind quietly faded away. 

  The state of his mind had ascended significantly. 

  “Holy, this pristine lotus is good!” 

  Qin Feng thought that the pristine lotus was a real treasure, no wonder the price of these was so high! 

  Just at this moment, footsteps echoed within the passage. Zhou Hao walked in, and he was dressed in crimson red. 

  With just a glance, Qin Feng immediately noticed Zhou Hao’s physical condition. He had finally achieved the physical body of a beast general. 

  Zhou Hao spotted Qin Feng as well, and his eyes were filled with excitement. 

  But soon, his eyes fell on the lotus seeds that were piled up on the ground. 

  Zhou Hao took a whiff of the floral fragrance in the air and took another look at the pristine lotus pond that was emitting a foul odor from a distance. 

  “This…… this can’t be the pristine lotus pond right? How did you get so much of these? You look like a street vendor displaying the goods on the ground!” Zhou Hao said. 

  Qin Feng was on the verge of tears from laughing at Zhou Hao’s description. 

  By taking a closer look at himself, his description was not too far off either. His top was missing, and his pants were tattered. In order to absorb the dragon blood, Qin Feng was barefooted. 

  Now, it seemed to have turned into a pair of modified tattered shorts, he felt that he looked rather pitiful. 

  The Battlegod Tomb forbade visitors from opening spatial rune equipment. Otherwise, the dragon blood would be quickly emptied out by five thousand people in just the blink of an eye. 

  Of course, Bai Li was still able to open up her spatial space, but it would look suspicious for her to take out his clothes. 

  “Good thing that I brought something along!” Zhou Hao unloaded the combat backpack strapped on his back. 

  Qin Feng was startled to see Zhou Hao’s backpack. 

  “Why did you bring so much stuff with you?” 

  “Haha, I kind of foresaw that something like this would happen!” 

  Zhou Hao opened up his combat backpack. Inside, there were lots of folded up big pockets with all kinds of compressed dried ultra beast meat, crystal boxes, as well as large and small jars. 

  The jars were originally empty, with the small jars stacked inside of the big jars. They were used to carry liquids during field combats, and Zhou Hao brought ten of them. They were now filled with blood. The number of packages had also increased from one to three, which were all now strapped on the back of the Golden Queen Ant. 

  Without a doubt, these were all dragon blood. 

  “Wow! You’re going to make big bucks from these!” Qin Feng had not even thought of this method, he was a little surprised and laughed. 

  “Of course, I came here well-prepared, otherwise who knows what I would encounter!” Zhou Hao laughed. 

  “That’s right, this harvest is good and enough for you to advance to E-tier! Before I came in, I was pursued by some people and I didn’t have the time to sort my stuff out!” Qin Feng nodded. 

  The main thing was that there was no need for him to tidy his things up since Bai Li was still able to open her spatial space. 

  As soon as Zhou Hao heard Qin Feng’s words, his expression became heavy. “Oh right, what’s the matter with you Qin Feng? Did you get into trouble with the Xue family? You said you were being pursued, was it by the Xue family?” 

  This was a hard topic for Qin Feng to clearly explain. Not only that, Qin Feng’s consciousness had sensed that someone was coming from the outside. 

  Qin Feng even gestured to Zhou Hao as he began speaking with a husky voice. “Friend, would you like to buy a bag of pristine lotus seeds?” 

  The young man coming from behind was Hou Fang, the genius of the Hou family! 

  After occupying the altar for half an hour, Zhou Hao finally left. The water from the stream did not seem to have reduced much. After all, the apparatus Zhou Hao had brought along was not able to fill up much of the water.

  Chapter 293: Qin Feng Gets Everything While Others Could Only Savor the Last Bits

  After Zhou Hao left, little did he know that the others had started to become more modest! 

  After all, not everyone could bear the pain of injecting dragon blood into the body. 

  The first person to test the waters was Hou Fang, who was the strongest, but he only lasted a minute before he rushed straight into the passage. 

  At this moment, he simply wanted to laugh when he heard Qin Feng’s words. 

  “A pristine lotus seed in exchange for my entire wallet? That’s ridiculous, you must be scamming people with fake goods!” 

  While he was having that thought, his vision cleared up and he realized it was Qin Feng who was sitting on the ground acting like a beggar, only his mask was still intact. 

  As well as the large pile of pristine lotus seeds in front of him. 

  “Gulp!” Hou Fang swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty. 

  Zhou Hao also sensed Hou Fang’s surprise and tried his best to contain his laughter. 

  Zhou Hao had seen a pristine lotus seed before, and it was just a single piece placed in a beautiful crystal box. It was auctioned for 30 million, and the final bid was 63 million! 

  There were so many of them here. Even as the direct descendant of one of the four strongest families in the North Sea, Hou Fang felt that even he could not get enough of that particular sight! 

  Hou Fang really wanted to go up and ask if Qin Feng would still sell him the lotus seeds. 

  Now, he really regretted not doing anything to Zhou Hao before this, otherwise he would have been the first one to arrive! 

  From Zhou Hao’s side, he saw the major change in Hou Fang’s expressions. He found the breakdown of his reaction amusing and funny. “Mister, no, no, it would be impolite of me to just take it. Just take as much as you want!” said Zhou Hao in a flattering tone. 

  This was what an F-tier aptitude user should think of when it came to an E-tier user. 

  Qin Feng also felt that Zhou Hao was quite a quick thinker. He had really thought of giving Zhou Hao some of the lotus seeds, but now it was impossible. 

  Qin Feng continued in a hoarse voice, “Yeah, follow me later, and I’ll bring you along the way!” 

  “Thank you, thank you!” 

  Zhou Hao took out some pouches and handed them to Qin Feng. He gave him three plastic zipper pouches and Qin Feng filled up the pouches with the lotus seeds. Nine hundred lotus seeds might seem a lot when spread out on the ground, but once they were in the bags, three pouches were just right. 

  Zhou Hao also gave Qin Feng a small pouch which acted as a simple combat backpack, which fitted right in his hands. 

  The two of them had put on a show for half a day, which could be regarded as ganging up with a different identity. 

  “You go and have a look at that stone tablet, and take the jade beads to purify the lotus!” Qin Feng said. 

  “Alright!” Zhou Hao eagerly got up and went over to the side of the pristine lotus altar. 

  Initially, Hou Fang was eyeing for Qin Feng’s pristine lotus seeds, but now he realized that this seemed like a chance that everyone could have. He was instantly filled with joy. 

  “So, this is how he got the pristine lotus seeds!” Hou Fang’s eyes lit up. 

  Zhou Hao and Hou Fang walked to the edge of the flower bed at the same time and scanned through the words written on the stone tablet. 

  With just a quick glance, Hou Fang grabbed a jade bead and examined it, then he observed the pristine lotus flower bed again. This time, his brows were furrowed and he was frantic. 

  He discovered that the lotuses nearest to him were now all seedless, and there were parts of the plants where the petals were either removed or damaged! 

  When he thought about it, he knew that only one person would dare to do all this! 

  Hou Fang was let down! 

  ‘The Hou Family sent me out here this time, it would be embarrassing if I go back empty-handed!’ 

  ‘This Bloodhunter is too vicious!’ 

  Hou Fang was about to explode with anger. 

  At this moment, Qin Feng was guiding Zhou Hao. 

  “Channel your inner strength into the jade bead, then strike on the lotus to shake out the lotus seeds. Although your inner strength is a little bit weak, it is still enough to strike one lotus and let it bounce on other lotuses, then you will get your lotus seeds. The problem now is how’re you going to collect the lotus seeds.” 

  Not everyone owned the Asteroid Assimilation skill. 

  It was possible to use inner force to grab items in the air telekinetically, but if the user was not prepared in advance and rushed through the process, he would lose the timing and the lotus seeds would fall into the mud, making it useless. 

  Zhou Hao observed the entire process. When compared to Hou Fang, Zhou Hao clearly had the upper hand. 

  Conscious energy. 

  After consuming the consciousness fruit and having a bond with the Golden Queen Ant, Zhou Hao’s conscious energy had continued to increase, and now his conscious power had reached F-tier. 

  With a sweep of his conscious energy, Zhou Hao was the first to know the positions of the lotus seeds before Hou Fang. He shot out the jade bead that was in his hand. 

  “Whoosh!” 

  The jade bead struck a pristine lotus that was still intact thirty meters away, then it bounced twenty meters backward and struck one of the lotuses within twenty five meters of the pond. 

  Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta! 

  Five lotus flowers were hit with just a single strike. 

  However, there were very few lotus seeds in these pristine lotuses. There were only five lotus seeds in one pristine lotus flower. At the very beginning, Zhou Hao’s internal strength was able to shake five seeds out of the first lotus, but up till the last one, only one seed popped out. 

  The lotus seeds did not pop out upward in a straight line. Instead, some were shot out for more than forty meters away, and even the strongest of internal forces were not able to do that. 

  “Collect the seeds!” 

  Zhou Hao used his internal strength to suck in the lotus seeds. Some of the lotus seeds were heading toward him, but there were around five or six seeds that were shot out too far away and were impossible to reach with his internal strength. 

  “What a pity!” Hou Fang said with a pained expression. Although it was not him that was doing it, the lost seeds were still very valuable, and altogether that was more than 300 million lost. 

  Just at this moment, the edge of Zhou Hao’s lips lifted into a smile. He then unleashed his internal strength. 

  Those lotus seeds that were far away were drawn back toward him. 

  Hou Fang was flabbergasted, only then did he remember that Zhou Hao could bond with ultra beasts, so his conscious energy was not weak at all. 

  ‘What kind of demons are they?’ Hou Fang felt a sense of helplessness. 

  “Good!” Qin Feng nodded and praised Zhou Hao. 

  Zhou Hao let out a hearty, proud laugh. 

  “Thank you, kind sir, for your guidance!” 

  Zhou Hao was still infatuated with acting on his part. 

  Zhou Hao walked back to Qin Feng’s side and sat down cross-legged. He grabbed a small handful of pristine lotus seeds and began eating. 

  However, Zhou Hao did not consume the lotus seeds like how Qin Feng did. He carefully swallowed one seed and let the energy sweep through his body, then he continued with another. 

  Qin Feng continued to strengthen his newly-elevated state of mind. He felt neither joy nor sadness within him. 

  Hou Fang was still hesitating, but in just a minute, another person came out of the cave. It was the talented young man who had passed through the Dragon Head Falls. 

  The young man did not take the time to take in the spectacular view as something else caught his attention. His pupils enlarged as he saw the pile of lotus seeds in front of Zhou Hao. If it were not for the Golden Queen Ant that was guarding Zhou Hao from the back, he would have rushed forward and stolen them. 

  Soon, the man noticed Hou Fang and the pristine lotus altar. 

  When Hou Fang saw that someone was coming, he knew that the longer he idled, the worse it would be for him. Finally, he set aside his worries and threw out the jade bead with a swish. 

  Crack! 

  The jade bead struck one lotus and bounced into another direction. It hit the second lotus, followed by a third, and then it fell into the mud. 

  Moreover, among the three lotus flowers, only the second flower had lotus seeds falling from it, and the flower was thirty meters away from Hou Fang. 

  It was fortunate that the second lotus was struck when the bead bounced toward his direction, which caused the seeds to fly out toward Hou Fang’s direction. The seeds flew over ten meters, which was close enough for Hou Fang to use his internal force to retrieve them. 

  “Come here!” 

  His inner strength exploded and he was able to retrieve the seeds telekinetically. 

  Five lotus seeds went straight into his palms. 

  Although he was not as strong as Qin Feng and did not hit as many lotuses as Zhou Hao did, Hou Fang was still satisfied with the outcome. 

  The talented young man who had just arrived was also stunned by the scene. 

  To him, this rule seemed a bit too much, and it was really difficult to grasp the right timing. 

  Unbeknownst to him, this was not actually difficult at all, it was just that someone here had made the situation more difficult for him. 

  Qin Feng had gotten the biggest piece of meat, other than Zhou Hao and Hou Fang, others could only savor the fragrance of the soup, let alone having a taste of the soup.