Chapter 128: Beyond Description

At midnight, Chu Tianfeng quietly rose and crept toward the encampments of the Huangshan and Hengshan sects.

There were thirteen disciples in total between the two sects, including two on watch. Fortunately, both were only at the mid-stage of the Transformation Realm. One was an overt sentry, sitting on a rock and smoking leisurely; the other was a covert sentry, hiding behind a large boulder and keeping a periodic eye on the group sleeping on the hillside.

Chu Tianfeng first stealthily approached the covert sentry from behind and knocked him unconscious, then slipped over to the rock and took down the overt sentry as well.

On the hillside, eleven men lay scattered across plastic mats, sleeping as if dead. Among them were two of Chu Tianfeng’s old acquaintances: Lu Yunlai and Chen Weifeng. Back in Ruimei City, these two had nearly taken down Du Jingjing and the others.

Chu Tianfeng didn't bother with courtesies. He sealed everyone's acupuncture points, then delivered a palm strike to each of the two, shattering their dantian and crippling their cultivation.

"Which one is Mu Yaxing?" Chu Tianfeng transmitted his voice via divine sense to Xiyazi.

"In the middle," Xiyazi drifted out from the Soul-Nurturing Wood and pointed to a young man with a long face. "That’s him!"

Chu Tianfeng walked silently to the man's side and pulled back his quilt. The young man was quite handsome—or perhaps, rather pretty. With a delicate, oval face and refined features, he was likely better-looking than many women.

Without hesitation, Chu Tianfeng delivered a fierce kick to his crotch. A soft *thud* followed, and assuming certain things had been pulverized, he no longer had to worry about this man threatening Hua Wu.

"OK!" Chu Tianfeng smiled faintly and turned to leave.

"They’ve dug up a lot of spirit stones," Xiyazi’s voice echoed in his mind.

Chu Tianfeng scanned the area with his divine sense. Sure enough, by their pillows lay several large and small bundles, each containing two or three hundred spirit stones.

"Thanks!" Chu Tianfeng’s grin stretched wide. Taking advantage of the situation like this was too good to pass up. He gladly accepted all ten or so bundles, taking both the packaging and the spirit stones.

Afterward, he continued his trek and moments later found Wang Lianyao and his group. Unexpectedly, when Chu Tianfeng arrived, that fellow was just getting up to relieve himself. Watching him fumble with his trousers in a daze, Chu Tianfeng suddenly felt that killing him might not be the best option. After a moment of contemplation, he devised a plan.

He crept up behind Wang Lianyao and knocked him out with a gentle palm strike. The other two, sleeping soundly, were also subdued. After dragging them together, Chu Tianfeng sealed Wang Lianyao's meridians and stripped all three bare. The rest was simple: he arranged Wang Lianyao on top of another man, pulled out his phone, and snapped several photos. Finally, he looted them for all their spirit stones.

The next morning, two explosive pieces of news rocked the martial artists.

The first was the theft from the Huangshan and Hengshan sects. It was said that over a dozen disciples had been sleeping together, with two on guard duty, yet the thief had silently incapacitated the sentries, wounded Mu Yaxing (grandson of Huangshan Sect leader Mu Xiangdong), crippled Lu Yunlai and Chen Weifeng, and stolen all their spirit stones.

Given that the lowest cultivation level among those disciples was the early Transformation Realm, and that Lu and Chen were both late-stage Innate Realm experts, it was clear what level of power the culprit possessed. Every martial artist in the valley knew there were three major experts present: Wang Caizhang of the Wang family, Mo Wannian of the Celestial Master Sect, and Chu Tianfeng. Although everyone knew Chu Tianfeng was only at the late Transformation Realm, his movement techniques were notoriously bizarre; he had managed to escape the pursuit of three Yuan-Tian Realm experts—Wang Caizhang, Mo Wannian, and Master Wuyin—at the entrance to the secret realm. Thus, he was considered equal to the others, and he was the only one with a grudge against the Huangshan and Hengshan sects. Naturally, everyone pointed the finger at him.

The second incident basically plastered the name "Chu Tianfeng" onto the scene. It was a comedic affair: several Huashan disciples had stumbled upon three naked men, two of whom were entangled in an indescribable act. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Wang Lianyao and his companions, who had been incapacitated and posed by a malicious prankster. After the Huashan disciples helped them, they learned they’d been robbed and photographed.

Wang Lianyao immediately blamed Chu Tianfeng, and the Huashan disciples agreed. After all, not long ago, Chu Tianfeng (under the alias Liu Feng) had forced Wang Lianchang and Wang Zaitian into a heart-wrenching, forbidden uncle-nephew love affair. Although Wang Lianyao begged the Huashan disciples to keep it secret, those disciples had mouths longer than their lower