"Those who pass the Primary Basic Examination shall now proceed to the Secondary Basic Examination. Get into the 500 Slave Beast Formation, and awaits for your further instructions." Elder Hun gave the preparation order as all the disciples now rushing towards the middle of the Oval Ground for their second examination. If the formation is properly deciphered, one will notice the differences between each entrance to another.

A total of eight entrance could be seen, with a total of 64 different combinations. This formation is also known as the Eight Diagram Beast Harvesting Formation. Although the quality of this current formation only possesses roughly 10% from the overall might, this still enables the Beast trapped within the formation to be properly cultivated and groom before their parts or products could be harvested.

"Since everyone is within the formation, we shall begin with the examination now." Elder Yang appeared above all the disciples as he stands up above in the middle of the air within the formation. "A King Realm cultivator! The Elder Yang from the Silver Pill Hall is actually a King Realm Cultivator!" the disciples below all are shocked with the truth before them.

"Quiet." Elder Yang words silent all the disciples as he waves his hand and a lot of papers with a simple content are written within, slowly falls down towards the disciples below for them to collect. "Within this 1000 piece of papers, is the harvested ingredients belonged to this 500 Cultivation Beast. The moment this 1000 pieces of paper is taken by everyone, all the cages will be unlocked, and you will have three task."

"Your first task is to obtain five different type of Harvested Ingredients from the beast and defend it from other disciples in the time span of 5 hours. Since there is a total of 1000 pieces of paper, there will be only 200 disciples will pass this stage."

"Your second task is to make sure the harvested ingredient is above Fine Grade or higher. There will be only two portions of each type of ingredients within this 1000 Ingredients written within the paper, so your competition will be equally challenging. You may fight to obtain your remaining three Ingredients, or you may kill off the beast to deter others from obtaining the ingredients they wanted. But of course, we already have some precaution for it in case somebody decided to ruin our test."

"Your third task, hehe..." Elder Yang chuckle for a few times before he continued. "You will need to make sure the five Harvested ingredients you have in hand, is usable altogether for your Final Basic Examination. So, you may hunt as you like, but if in the final test and the ingredients do not harmonize with each other, you will be instantly deem failed in the competition." Elder Yang completed his explanations while the paper falling down almost fully collected by the 500 disciples.

Since the total slips of paper are 1000 in total, so roughly each single disciple will hold two different ingredients slips in their hand. A total of five required, which means the competition for this 1000 type of ingredients is hugely depending on the personal strength. But what Elder Yang did not explains is, other than fighting against each other to obtain a total of five different type of harvested ingredients, one still needs to make sure he or she has the capability to obtains the ingredient from the respected Cultivation Beast.

One of the easiest examples is one of the two ingredients Long Feng need to obtain from the beast, is the [Harmonizing Essence Blood] from a Second Earth Grade Cultivation Beast - Corpse Refining Tiger. This Cultivating Beast is known to be seriously dangerous and hard to tame. In addition, the [Harmonizing Essence Blood] that only could be obtained from this beast needed to be properly refined, and even before that, the Corpse Refining Tiger needs to refine a few corpse as its food source, before the Ingredient is mature to be harvested.

But one more issue remains. The Corpse Refining Tiger's Heart is known to be one of the best ingredients to refine a Pill called [Tiger Boosting Decoction]. This Pill allows its user to have the inner energy comparable to three Tigers and is one of the most well known Battle Concoction used by most Pill Masters. Since there is only a thousand of ingredient slips and five hundred Cultivation Beast, there must be another disciple is holding the remaining ingredient, [Corpse Refining Tiger's Heart] in his hand!

"Since everyone is ready with the ingredient slips in their hands, the formation will start now, I wish you all safe and sound. Remember to give up when the situation is dire. This Thousand Herbal Garden Opening happens once a year, so even if you missed this one, there will be another one coming next year. Leaving with a life is more important." Elder Yang speaks as he waves his hand, and the eight entrance immediately closed.

The moment the formation is activated, the five hundred cages arranged nicely within the eight diagram formation immediately move in and unimaginable speed. As if the Dice had been rolled, and according to the results, the arrangement move is a sequence. Due to the lack of approach towards the Eight Diagrams formation, added with Harvesting specific ingredients had never been one of the main topic focused by Long Feng, this part of the examination, would prove to be quite a challenge to Long Feng.

He takes a glance at Nan Jing Jing, and later on Gou Yu, just to notice something. "Didn't Nan Jing Jing and Gou Yu always out to complete the task related to harvesting Cultivation Beast ingredients and also handling some Cultivation Beast before?" Long Feng remembered the moment when three of them are still new within the Bronze Pill Hall. "Seems like I am the one with a disadvantage over here. If that's the case, I will make sure that I use my strong point is Heads On Battle to obtain the Ingredient Slips I needed, instead of bothering about how to properly obtains the ingredient from the beast."

"Jing Jing have a good knowledge in Harvesting Ingredients, while Gou Yu have good knowledge in how to handle those beasts. The other remaining top seven disciples should have their own tricks on hand as well." Long Feng scans his surrounding as he considers his options. The moment the formation movements is finally over, the five hundred Cultivation Beast is released! The inscriptions on the ground immediately change the whole formation into a large grassland with small hills and rocks that allow the Cultivation Beast to be slightly affected by the surroundings.

"What a profound Inscription Usage. By adjusting the condition of this stage into an environment suitable for the Cultivation Beast, the Harvested Ingredients that one will be able to get from the beast will be in a better quality, although at the end, the skill of the person handling the Cultivation Beast needed to be properly trained as well." Long Feng felt slightly amused by the capability of the person who made all these arrangements.

As the examination starts, most of the disciples gathered into a group between five to ten and looks for their targets. The gathered teams quickly travel around and look for their respective City Branches, so they could increase their chances of success when fighting with other City Branches to obtain the additional Ingredient Slips. But with the number of Disciples participating in this part is only 500, added with the disadvantages in numbers compared to the overall Clear Jade City's Disciple, the Four Cities Branch Disciple is having some difficulties even in protecting themselves.

In the same time, Long Feng is pressured by two disciples that specifically aiming at disrupting him from completing his mission. "Hehe, Junior brother Long Feng, do not think bad about the two of us." the first between two of them, called Ren Fen, speaks. While another one named Gan Ting is nodding his head. The two of them belonged to the Clear Jade City Branch, so of course, they know that Long Feng once belonged to their faction. But this time, to ensure that more Disciples from the Clear Jade City Branch could obtain the seats, they don't mind to sacrifice a few to ensure that few main seat disciple is disrupted and failed to achieve what they aimed for.

"Then this two senior brother, please do not take offense on what Xiao Feng will do next." Long Feng withdraw two Pills on his left hand while holding his Qian Kun Sword firmly on his right. "Of course, there will be no offense during this examination, we are just taking care of our fellow juniors and seniors after all." Ren Fen replied. The two of them prepared to clash with Long Feng as well.

Immediately, the fight between this three person caught the attention from the nearby disciples that were competing with each other to obtain their opponents Ingredient Slips. "That three person is at their Late Human Adept Realm. Why is the First Seat guy tried to fight that two? Shouldn't he went quickly to his City's group?" some disciples from other branches is surprised with Long Feng's bravery in fighting against two similar cultivation strength disciple alone, without getting close to his own faction.

But what do the other knows about Long Feng's Prowess in the term of Martial Art?

Just in a blink of eyes, Long Feng immediately missing from where he stands. The next moment, Long Feng appears behind Gan Ting, the less cautious fella between the two, and ignite the Fire Lizard Pill on his body. The surge of Lava-like Flame quickly burns his back, leaving a burning wound that continues to bleed unless it's treated. Gan Ting howls painfully as he steps forward to escape from Long Feng's ruthless claws, but before he managed to even step away for three feet, Long Feng's Kick that fills with nothing personal but strong force, had him launched forward like a stone being tossed by a catapult towards the city wall.

Faced with such a strong offensive force, Gan Ting immediately faints from all the pain and also the destructive force on his body. Ren Fen, on another side, felt a slight shivers as he faces Long Feng face to face. Long Feng kept the remaining Fire Lizard Pill from his hand, and with a swift body movement, Long Feng stopped by his side to launch a punch towards Ren Fen's core area.

The moment the Fist almost made its contact with Ren Fen, a suddenly appeared palm pushed Ren Fen away, and from a palm to a fist immediately, in an impossible to put any force angle, met with Long Feng's destructive Fist. "Bammm!" the created impact from the clash push the two people away from the spot. Long Feng retreated two steps away, while the suddenly appeared man retreated three and a half step backward.

"Hahaha, Brother Long Feng is miraculously talented in Martial Arts as well, what a rarity. No wonder the first seat is yours in the first examination." the man identity is revealed as he cupped his both palm together to make a polite greeting. "You're Liu Tsung?" Long Feng cupped him both hands as well in reply, but instead of over polite replies, he just mentioned the opponent's name directly.

"Yes, Brother Long Feng. Since we both are fellow Clear Jade City's disciple before, how about we stop from disturbing each other? The two hundred seats will be filled soon if we do not make a move, so I hope Brother Long Feng will only take the Slips and leave the weaker disciples alone. Everyone has a different temperament and personality after all, and we, the stronger among them, should give them some face and lesson to learned." Liu Tsung way of speaking is more modest and lack of over protective demeanor, thus he managed to convince Long Feng to back off from continuing. In the same time, Liu Tsung grabbed two slips from Ren Fen's pocket and throw it over to Long Feng.

Without any words, Long Feng walked over to Gan Ting to grab his two Slips, and walk away from the spot they recently fought a while back. "Brother Liu Tsung..." Ren Fen shivers as he looked at the smiling Liu Tsung. "Ahh... I guess there is no choice." Liu Tsung sigh for a moment before he stares at Ren Fen. "Go to our group and tell everyone, to kill off the beast after they obtain their part of Harvested Ingredients!" a decisive decision is made immediately. Ren Fen heard his word and ran without bothering anything by his side as he charges straight towards where most of the Clear Jade City Branch disciples could be seen.

Meanwhile, Long Feng looks at the six slips on his hand. [Harmonizing Essence Blood], [Silver Mammoth Deer Horns], [Left Paw of Bronze Earth Bear], [Core of Flame Breath Lizard], [Golden Eye Sparrow's Gallbladder], and the [Essence Blood of Astral Violet Snake]. Long Feng checked on the ingredient he required from all six different beasts and realized that none of them could compliments with each other, so he decided to obtain more slips from the other disciples.

Long Feng explore the formation slowly, while along the way, he makes some exchange with other disciples that behave nicely, while totally destroying the disciple and take over their slips, in case they behave in a difficult way. Carrying this kind of attitude along with his path, Long Feng's list of ingredient in hand changed a few times, until he finally obtains another one he was looking, the [Corpse Refining Tiger's Heart].

Long Feng continues to explore the eight diagram as he looks for targets to exchange, to rob or certain beast he needs to start a fight to obtain the ingredients he needs, and coincidently, Long Feng met with Gou Yu within the Kun (Heaven) formation in the Eight Diagram circle. "Brother Long Feng." Gou Yu address him as he walks over to where Long Feng stands.

"Brother Gou Yu. It's been quite a long time I haven't seen you. How are you doing lately?" Long Feng greets him back as he could felt the cultivation strength of Gou Yu already in Early Earth Adept Realm. "Few month ago, I had been sent by my master to follow her four other disciples towards the Sky Shattering Peak located West from the Jade Ginseng City. We had been there for around three month, which is why I failed to participate in the Grand Auction in Thunderburst Jade City." Gou Yu explains his disappearance from the Bronze Pill Hall a few months back.

"Over there, I am lucky to stumble across a special treasure called [Rain Gatherer Grass], an excellent medicinal treasure that could push the cultivation of a Water Elemental Cultivator to his limit without any side effect. In the same time, this treasure even increases my capacity in storing and condensing the Water Element within my body into an entirely new stage." Gou Yu channels his Water Elemental Essence within his body and shape them into a water clothing that could nullify the impact from any external attack. Not only the nullification effect is shocking to Long Feng, but the fact that this Water Elemental Essence could be even used to form a similar texture like Silk clothing is what makes Long Feng felt totally impressed with it. This is because from the first day Long Feng knows him, Gou Yu had been the one that changes his clothing each single time they manage to meet each other.

"Hahaha, Brother Gou Yu don't need to change your cloth anymore, since the texture of this Water Elemental Cloth is comparable to a real Silk. Even the shape and color could be adjusted to your liking, this encounters really benefits you too much." Long Feng praise as he sarcastically comments about Gou Yu's habit of changing clothes. But since the two of them know each other since the first day they entered the Bronze Pill Hall, this kind of talking hardly affect the friendship between this two.

"Brother Long Feng, I need to tell you a very important matter." Gou Yu facial expressions turned into a serious one. "Recently, there is some new regarding your master, but I'm not sure how accurate is that news." Gou Yu had Long Feng sits with him in a corner, and monitor a specific Cultivation Beast hidden within the grassland. "Brother Gou Yu, please speak. I need to get some updates regarding this matter as well." Long Feng can't wait to get Gou Yu to start speaking.

"Recently, two weeks ago, there are a few incidents regarding few death cultivators within the city. Although everyone had some suspicion towards one specific Clan, nobody dares to voice it out, so the City Lord can only handle this matter in secret. But no matter what, the main suspect in this matter is those from the Tang Clan. Since your master is also one of the members from Tang Clan, so what I and my master is current suspect about, is either Elder Tang Wen is related to this matter, or Elder Tang Wen is either taken back by the people of the Tang Clan or killed."

"The larvae we found out within the dead cultivators is known as something called Primordial Lust Bug. This Bug contains a special body that when feeding with strong Life Force, the Bug will grow bigger and until some Beads is formed within their body. Each Bug possesses a strong life force, and without any pain or suffering, the Bug could attach themselves within a cultivator body to keep absorb his or her life force until they gone empty. This is also the reason why we suspect the Tang Clan in the first place."

"You too, have to be very careful with this weapon. From what my master says, the Bead is called as Primordial Beast Howl, a Spatial Disturbance Weapon for one-time usage. It came in Four different form, Explosive Form that could disrupt the whole area of its effect. Even a Martial Cultivator of Practitioner Realm will not remain unscathed from one Bead."

"Spatial Disruption Form, a circle of Spatial turbulences that will create a howling destruction that could mess all elemental and YinYang essence within the distance of 10 Li. Only those with the Primordial Beast Howl in their hand will felt unaffected by this Spatial Turbulences, so even the Tang Clan will behave nicely towards their Clan Head."

"Infestation Form, when this form is activated, the Primordial Beast Howl will turn the whole bead into living larvae, that could continue to infect all the other life form to expands their population. And lastly, the Final Combination Form. This final form is not really well known, but my master did explain it to me because... Can you keep it as a secret?" Gou Yu tells all the information he knew but stopped in between as he suddenly asked a question.

"Brother Gou Yu, of course, I can." Long Feng assure him. "Alright, My master, Elder Zhi Ruo, is actually the current Head of Tang Clan's Tang Shiwu... Mother..." Gou Yu reveals the secret hidden behind for so long. "This is also why she knows about what happened last time in Tang Clan, as well your master's identity. The moment she runs away from the clan, it is all because Elder Tang Wen is around, she is accepted into the Bronze Pill Hall as an experienced Elder."

"The Primordial Beast Howl is actually something she was presented as a gift the moment she married to the late Clan Head. But only God knows how Tang Shiwu, her child, know the ferocity and the strength of this bug. Anyway, I need to move now, be careful with Liu Tsung as well, he too, is a secret delegate from the Tang Clan, along with Liu Ming." Gou Yu charge towards the beast they had been paying attention for quite long,

"I will be careful with these people." Long Feng speaks as he moves to another direction as well. "Seems like even the good senior like Liu Ming who teaches me how to concoct the Thunder Spirit Pill is not how he actually looks." Long Feng felt that the scariest thing in this life is the hideous Human Nature and not the threat of a Cultivation Beast.

But as he wanders within his mind, Long Feng luck actually ends with a happy result. Before him, two cultivator is busy defending themselves from being attacked by the Corpse Refining Tiger! Long Feng happily wield his Qian Kun Sword on hand and immediately charge towards the fighting spot to join this fight!