In the ancient forest!

"Cheng Zhangyu, as the saying goes, do not forget to dig a well when eating water. Back then, if not for my father secretly warning Yu Hongzhi and helping you block more than three attacks from the Yu Family, your Cheng Family would have been annihilated. You, Cheng Zhangyu, would now be like me, and become one of the three Young Masters of Pingyang City. "

Just as Yu Haoran was hiding behind a large tree with a diameter of more than a meter, he heard Qin Hua's mocking voice.

"Ha ha!"

In the face of Qin Hua's mockery, Cheng Zhangyu chuckled a few times, and countered with a similar tone of voice.

"Qin Hua, don't make things difficult for yourself, the reason your father stepped in to stop Yu Hongzhi wasn't because he wanted to save our Cheng Clan and Wu Family. Your father was just afraid that Yu Hongzhi would unite Pingyang City and then rely on the resources in the city to break through the Wu Zong realm, affecting your Qin family's rule over the Pingyang City."

As he spoke till here, Cheng Zhangyu said with a smile that was not a smile: "Moreover, Yu Hongzhi did not attack my Cheng Clan not because he is afraid of your City Lord Palace but because he fears the Great Qin Empire behind you, so do not be proud of your achievements in front of me."

"Good, very good!" In the face of Cheng Zhangyu's mocking, Qin Hua's expression became abnormally gloomy, and his heart burned with fury.

However, he could only temporarily suppress the rage in his heart.

Although his strength had far surpa.s.sed Cheng Zhangyu's, and he had the confidence to kill Cheng Zhangyu and the others even at the very end, his goal this time was the spirit medicine that could raise his cultivation and increase his potential.

If he could obtain that elixir, not only would he be able to open the last meridian and become a peak Grade 9 Martial Disciple in the shortest amount of time possible, his potential and strength would also be enhanced. He would also be able to perform exceptionally in the sect selection compet.i.tion and eventually attract the attention of the top sects.

If he could become a member of a top-notch sect, not only would it benefit his own growth, it would also increase his own standing in the empire, thus increasing his lineage's status.

Qin Hua was very pleased with the conflict between him and Cheng Zhangyu.

Although he didn't have a good impression of the Yu Family, he still had a stronger bad feeling towards the City Lord's Mansion and the Cheng Family. He wished that both sides could fight to the death right now.

However, what happened next destroyed his good thoughts.

"Cheng Zhangyu, I still have things I need to take care of. I don't want to waste time with you, but if you are unwilling, then in the sect's selection one month from now, you and I will have the chance to see the real deal." Qin Hua asked impatiently.

Qin Hua had done his best to understand the details of that spirit medicine. He knew that before that spirit medicine matured, there wouldn't be anything strange about it, but at that moment of maturation, not only would it crazily devour the spirit energy of the heaven and earth, it would also emit an enticing fragrance.

This fragrance not only had a strong attraction towards human warriors, it was also a fatal attraction for the beasts in the dense primal forest. He was worried that the moment the spirit medicine matured, it would attract Cheng Zhangyu's attention and even more worried that when the spirit medicine matured, it would be devoured by the beasts surrounding the spirit medicine.

Therefore, he was in a hurry to take that stalk of spirit medicine, and did not want to delay time because of Cheng Zhangyu.

"Sure!" Cheng Zhangyu himself also had to deal with the urgent matters at hand, so he readily agreed to Qin Hua's invitation.

Soon after, the two groups of people began to pull apart the distance bit by bit, and then continued to enter the dense forest in different directions.

Yu Haoran, who was walking out from behind the big tree, could not help but frown.

Initially, he had thought that Cheng Zhangyu's goal in entering the Primal Plains was the same as Qin Hua's, to obtain the spirit medicine that could raise his cultivation and potential.

But from the direction that the two groups of people went into the dense forest, it seemed like their goal was different, as he recalled Cheng Zhangyu's outstanding performance during the sect selection in his previous life.

Could it be that deep in the ancient forest, there was another rare treasure that was not inferior to that stalk of spirit medicine?

However, this thought did not bother Yu Haoran for long. After choosing the route Qin Hua would take, he immediately grabbed it and followed.

After all, he did not know what Cheng Zhangyu's goal was. What he desperately needed now was medicine to make up for his lack of vitality.

With regards to the detection ability of spirit medicines, strange beasts far surpa.s.sed human warriors. Even though that spirit medicine had not fully matured yet, there were already quite a few vigilant strange beasts. They relied on their own senses to constantly approach the spirit medicines.

Therefore, for the rest of the journey, Yu Haoran began to encounter all sorts of strange beasts.

Fortunately, the beasts' target was that spirit medicine. As long as they didn't provoke it, there wouldn't be too many conflicts.

What was even more fortunate was that with the guidance of these strange beasts, he no longer had to carefully follow Qin Hua and Qin De. This allowed his speed to increase by a lot.

When he was less than a kilometer away from the true core of the primeval forest, an alluring fragrance a.s.saulted his nose.

Smelling the fragrance, Yu Haoran immediately felt his mind shake.

At the same time, the originally peaceful beasts began to rage. They accelerated towards the source of the fragrance, attacking their companions at the same time.

Although most of the beasts were only at the tenth stage, there were too many of them. He still had to face Qin Hua and Qin De next, so Yu Haoran consciously slowed down to avoid fighting with the beasts that had gone berserk.

At the same time, he began to search all over for more precious corpses of strange beasts. He would take away their valuable parts so that when he returned to the Pingyang City, he could exchange for a portion of normal medicinal ingredients to continue raising his cultivation.

After that, he slowly walked forward to avoid fighting with strange beasts. At the same time, he was collecting parts from precious beast corpses.

However, just as he was about to retrieve the heart essence blood from the body of the fourth beast, he suddenly realized that the beast that was in the middle of a ma.s.sacre had stopped its attack.

After quickly scanning his surroundings, he hid under the corpse of a gigantic beast in a flash. Through the hair on the corpse of the beast, Yu Haoran carefully observed the scene in front of him.

"It really is it!"

A hundred meters in front of him, there was a sapling that was about thirty centimeters tall, completely red, with three sprouts extending from the top. Yu Haoran's face revealed a pleasantly surprised expression.

However, with the cultivation base of a hundred years in his previous life, it caused him to swiftly calm down and then search for his next opponent to s.n.a.t.c.h the spirit medicine from: Qin Hua!

After careful observation, he finally found them at the top of a large tree twenty meters away from the elixir.

Seeing that they did not take action, although they were enemies, Yu Haoran could not help but nod his head and praise them.

It seemed that, like him, he was planning to reap the rewards.

Since the opponent did not take the initiative to attack, it was even more impossible for Yu Haoran to make a move in advance. Furthermore, the four strange beasts surrounding the spirit medicine made him not dare to act rashly.

Although those four beasts were just ordinary beasts, judging from their dangerous aura, they had clearly surpa.s.sed the Tenth Order and had reached the Ninth Order. In other words, they were equivalent to warriors among human warriors.