Martial Arts Overlord

WHOOSH!

Qin Tai and Xu Huan suddenly changed direction, heading towards the deepest part of the camp. Luo Feng and Bing Ruolan followed closely behind. Upon reaching the deepest part of the Sky Wolf Camp, the figures of Qin Tai and Xu Huan flashed before a dark cave and then disappeared without a trace.

The two landed at the entrance of the cave. Bing Ruolan stared at the dimly lit entrance, her eyes slightly narrowed. Have they become sitting ducks by entering the cave?

Perhaps this cave has other exits... Luo Feng mused.

"Let’s quickly chase them then, lest they escape."

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

The two entered the cave. The space inside was somewhat narrow, with a crooked corridor extending into the darkness. Dimly lit oil lamps hung on the cave walls, and the air was somewhat stifling. Footsteps were heard in the distance, and they both immediately used their Light Martial Arts to catch up.

CRUNCH!

Suddenly, Luo Feng felt like he had stepped on something. A strange, light sound echoed in the cave, followed by a sharp whistling sound as countless arrows shot out from the darkness ahead, an overwhelming volley.

"It’s a trap, be careful!" Luo Feng shouted, his eyes fierce as a tiger’s as he watched the flying arrows. He exuded a courageous aura and took a step forward.

"Dragon Roaring Nine Heavens!"

BUZZ!

Eight Qi Dragons rose from beneath Luo Feng’s feet, baring their teeth and claws. They looked like living beings, shaking their heads and wagging their tails as they pounced towards the incoming arrows.

A gust of wind swept through the entire cave, causing all the arrows to lose their aim. Luo Feng and Bing Ruolan easily blocked the few arrows that still flew towards them.

"These are poisoned arrows! These bandits are truly ruthless." Luo Feng looked at the broken arrows on the ground, his brow furrowing. "Ruolan, be careful. There’s something strange about this cave."

"Mm," Bing Ruolan nodded. The two continued their pursuit.

The cave descended steeply. Along the way, they encountered a series of traps: water prisons, wall-mounted arrow launchers, spikes, and cages. It was perilous.

Fortunately, Luo Feng and Bing Ruolan’s Light Martial Arts cultivation was considerable, and they managed to avoid all of them, mostly unscathed.

After descending about thirty or forty meters, the space suddenly widened, revealing an underground prison. Rows of iron cells lined both sides, and a fetid stench assaulted their nostrils. Weak groans echoed in the darkness.

As they walked down the central passage, Bing Ruolan looked at the iron cells on either side, her Daimei arched slightly, a hint of pity in her eyes.

Many people were imprisoned here—men, women, old, and young. Some had their hands and feet amputated, left to die in their cells. When these prisoners saw Luo Feng and Bing Ruolan, their eyes filled with terror, and they trembled like mice seeing a cat.

Huh... Luo Feng’s brow arched slightly as he passed a particular cell.

Inside, a teenager was pinned to the wall, his limbs pierced by half-foot-long nails, suspending him in a spread-eagled position. The boy was only about sixteen or seventeen years old and wore filthy clothes. Despite this, Luo Feng recognized the attire as the uniform of the Floating Snow School’s inner courtyard. Judging from the teenager’s aura, he was a Martial Artist at the peak of the God Bravery Realm!

"He must have also taken this mission, then failed and been captured..." Bing Ruolan said softly, looking at the teenager on the wall.

The boy in the cell, perhaps hearing them, slowly raised his eyelids. When he saw Bing Ruolan’s Purple Sun School uniform, his eyes flickered. His lips moved, and a weak, hoarse voice rasped, "Be... careful... trap..."

Hearing the footsteps ahead growing more distant, Luo Feng knew they couldn’t delay. He said to the Floating Snow School student, "Wait here. We’ll come back to save you after we kill the One-eyed Wolf and the Flower Faced Civet." With that, he and Bing Ruolan resumed their pursuit.

The Floating Snow School student watched Luo Feng and Bing Ruolan’s receding figures, shaking his head slightly, a trace of regret in his eyes.

Luo Feng and Bing Ruolan chased to the end of the passage, where they found a stone chamber. "Huh, there’s no path here. Where did those two go?" one of them exclaimed. The chamber’s four walls were solid rock, offering no other exit. Qin Tai and Xu Huan were nowhere to be seen.

Luo Feng scanned the stone chamber. Its walls were covered with numerous sword and saber Slash Marks. Some were shallow, only two or three inches deep, while others plunged a foot into the stone. Clearly, the creators of these marks were experts.

His eyes glinted in the dim light for a moment. Luo Feng’s brow furrowed, and he shouted in a low voice, "Ruolan, let’s get out of here!"

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

At that exact moment, a whistling sound cut through the air at the doorway as countless arrows shot towards them. In such a narrow space, Luo Feng and Bing Ruolan couldn’t use their Qinggong to dodge; they could only use their weapons to block the arrows.

Just then, Qin Tai and Xu Huan, who had vanished earlier, suddenly reappeared at the entrance to the stone chamber. Xu Huan’s peach blossom eyes stared at Luo Feng and Bing Ruolan in the stone chamber. A sinister smile spread across his face as he reached out and pressed a stone beside the entrance into the wall.

RUMBLE...

The ground trembled, and with a loud grating sound, a heavy, black iron door descended rapidly from the rock wall above the chamber’s entrance.

"Hahaha... You two can just stay in this stone chamber forever, until you turn into skeletons!" Xu Huan stood at the entrance, looking at Luo Feng and Bing Ruolan with a gloating laugh.

"Despicable!" Luo Feng growled. His Tiger Soul Saber became a blur of light, shattering all nearby arrows as he lunged towards the stone door.

However, the volley of arrows had slowed him. Ultimately, he was a step too late. Just as he reached the side of the stone door, there was a thunderous crash as the massive black iron door slammed heavily to the ground.

The arrow shower had also stopped. Bing Ruolan moved to the stone door, her Daimei furrowed with worry. "It’s a trap, Luo Feng. What should we do now?"

"Hmph! I don’t believe this iron door can stop me. Ruolan, step back a little." Luo Feng had Bing Ruolan step back, then stood before the iron door, firmly gripping his Tiger Soul Saber.

BUZZ... BUZZ...

The Tiger Soul Saber’s blade trembled, and a ferocious, meter-long Saber Gang erupted from its cold edge.

"Break!" With a loud shout, Luo Feng leaped high, his Tiger Soul Saber slashing down towards the iron door with the ferocity of a tiger.

BANG!

A deafening crash echoed as the entire stone chamber shuddered. A gash, about half a meter long, appeared on the iron door.

What kind of material is this door made of? It’s so hard, Luo Feng thought, looking at the Slash Mark on the door, a grave expression in his eyes.

His Sky Slayer Saber Technique was at the fourth level, capable of shattering stone and cleaving metal. With his full strength, he should be able to cut through a meter-thick slab of iron! Yet, the mark on this door was less than half a meter deep, indicating it was no ordinary iron.

"Hahaha... Don’t waste your energy! This iron door was forged from Mysterious Essence Iron and is nearly three meters thick. Unless your cultivation reaches the eighth-level Hell Realm and you can project your Gang Qi externally, you have no chance of escaping!" Xu Huan’s shrill laughter drifted in from outside the stone chamber.

Xu Huan continued to taunt, "You should have seen that student from the Floating Snow School when you came in. He swaggered in, calling himself ’Chaotic Snow Blade’ Hu Yitian. His Bintie Saber killed more than thirty of our brothers. But eventually, he was tricked into this stone chamber and captured! Now, he’s just waiting for a miserable death..."

Bing Ruolan was taken aback. "He’s ’Chaotic Snow Blade’ Hu Yitian! A while ago, the Floating Snow School was searching for him everywhere. I never expected he’d be trapped here."

"You know him?" Luo Feng asked.

Bing Ruolan nodded. "Hu Yitian only rose to prominence last year as a new genius. He’s not widely known, but his strength is not to be underestimated!"

"He was originally unremarkable, but then he somehow acquired a top-tier Yellow Rank Mad Demon Saber Technique, and his power grew by leaps and bounds! At last year’s New Talent Convention, he ranked eleventh, just missing the top ten. His Saber Technique is extremely fierce. When he uses it, he fights like a madman, as if possessed, which is why he’s called the Chaotic Snow Blade! He once practiced his saber in the snow, stirring up a blizzard that stretched for a mile, earning him the name!"

He sounds a bit like me, Luo Feng thought, nodding with a smile as he listened to Bing Ruolan.

Bing Ruolan glanced at the iron door, her eyes dimming. She bit her lower lip, a look of self-reproach on her delicate face.

"Luo Feng, I’m sorry. If it weren’t for helping me complete this mission, we wouldn’t be trapped here."

"Class Monitor, what are you talking about?" Luo Feng looked at Bing Ruolan’s self-reproachful expression and chuckled, shrugging. He knocked lightly on the iron door and said with a faint smile, "You’ve seen my Saber Technique, haven’t you? A door like this is no different from paper to me. If I get serious, I can cut it open in a few slashes. I’m just a bit tired from all the fighting. Let’s rest for a while, and then I’ll get you out of here!"

With that, Luo Feng walked to the side, sat cross-legged against the wall, and cradled his Tiger Soul Saber. However, deep in his eyes, a trace of solemnity lingered. He spoke lightly, but the three-meter-thick door forged from Mysterious Essence Iron was a daunting obstacle. With his current strength, the chances of breaking out were slim.

If only my Sky Slayer Saber Technique had reached the fifth level, allowing me to project Gang Qi externally... Luo Feng mused, his gaze falling on the Tiger Soul Saber in his hand.

Outside the iron door, Xu Huan and Qin Tai stood nearby. The wound on Qin Tai’s right arm had been crudely bandaged, but the expression on his square face was even gloomier and more menacing than before.

"Second Brother, what’s happening?" Qin Tai asked in a cold voice.

Xu Huan pressed his ear to the wall, listened for a moment, then chuckled. "Big Brother, it’s quiet. It seems they know they can’t get out and have resigned themselves to their fate."

HISS... The wound on Qin Tai’s right shoulder throbbed, and he spoke through gritted teeth. "Damn it! To think that I, Qin Tai, who have roamed the rtiad for over a decade without a single failure, would fall at the hands of a mere brat today! Once I get my hands on him, I’ll make him suffer a fate worse than death to appease my hatred!"

"Hehe, Big Brother, making him wish he were dead isn’t hard at all..." Xu Huan chuckled, rubbing his chin with a lewd grin.

"Second Brother, do you have a plan?"

"Big Brother, have you forgotten why they call me the ’Flower Faced Civet’?" Xu Huan chuckled sinisterly, pulling a small bottle from his robes. "What if we introduce this into the chamber?"

"This is..." Qin Tai stared at the porcelain bottle in Xu Huan’s hand, momentarily puzzled.

"The Yin Yang Ecstasy Powder! Hehe, this is my own special concoction, an aphrodisiac. If inhaled, even a little, it induces an overwhelming desire for the opposite sex. If they don’t engage in intercourse within a quarter of an hour, they’ll die an extremely painful death!"

Xu Huan gazed at the iron door with a malicious grin. "There are two men in that stone chamber. Once this powder gets in... hehehe..."