Chapter 12 - Ceremony

Ye Feng continued hopping randomly in the forest but suddenly stopped and looked in a direction, his Mental Power made him notice an immense group of Furbun, he went in their direction but didn't go too close, he followed them with enough speed so that they won't leave the range of his Mental Power while pondering.

'Should I go meet up with them? They should also be coming for the ceremony?' after pondering, he decided against going to meet up with them, if they really went for the ceremony, he'd meet up with them anyway, also, he wasn't sure if he knew who they were and if he didn't, it might cause some troubles and he already had enough things to deal with.

Ye Feng continued following from afar, he noticed at some point that the person leading the group stopped and looked in his direction for a brief moment before continuing on his road, Ye Feng wasn't really surprised, the person that lead so many people in the inner area should be strong enough, it wouldn't surprise him if the person was at the level of that elder Furbun he met a few months earlier.

On the road, he would often be ambushed by beasts, yet, the moment they appeared, they would be crushed, Ye Feng knew that they were still alive, so he pondered on whether or not he should end their lives, he judged that he'd get around 500 Energy points per beasts. Ye Feng decided against it, the furbun protecting him should have a reason for not killing those beasts and he'd rather not make that furbun angry.

Ye Feng continued on the road until he saw a sort of immense translucent blue dome, Ye Feng guessed that this should be the barrier preventing humans from entering, Ye Feng quickly hopped until he passed through the barrier, he was surprised when the air was even denser, the density of the energy here is amazing! Ye Feng thought, sadly, he couldn't benefit from that since Mental Power cultivation didn't use energy in the air.

Ye Feng continued to hop until he noticed a temple afar, he entered it and saw an immense statue of a completely Red Furbun right in front of the entrance, Ye Feng raised his head and looked at it and then looked at the plate right under the statue,

"Statue of Hong Xue,

Legendary Furbun whose fur became red due to the blood of his enemies"

Ye Feng looked at the statue, surprised, its cute appearance wouldn't make one think of it as a Legendary character, he also focused on the 'enemy', he pondered and guessed that the enemy here should be 'Humans'.

Ye Feng went around the statue and entered an immense room there was one podium and right behind it a golden statue of a Furbun, in front of the podium were many rows of seats, Ye Feng noticed that many Furbuns had already arrived, judging from their size, they were as old as he was, the only exceptions were a few Furbuns who already had grey fur and gave off the same feeling as the Elder Ye Feng previously met.

Ye Feng took a seat in a corner and started cultivating, the room took days to get completely filled, at this point, an odd-looking Furbun who was way bigger than the average Furbun jumped on the podium and spoke,

"Everyone, you should know that you were gathered here for the grand ceremony, this ceremony represents your coming of age, as you might've learned, us Furbuns come to life with inherent Mental Power, but only a few of us can cultivate, without being to cultivate, one will never be able to raise the strength of their Mental Power. Luckily, us Furbuns of the Hong Star Forest have a way to grant Furbuns that couldn't cultivate, the ability to cultivate, unfortunately, we can only allow a few to have this opportunity, this is why the Grand Ceremony has been made, tomorrow, you will all partake in 3 trials that will show if you're worthy of receiving this opportunity."

Ye Feng stared at the podium, he knew he had to obtain this opportunity or else the chances of him finishing the Request he received will be extremely low, he would also be unable to become strong enough to fight for others opportunities which would be able to make him luckier and he'll also be unable to do the Requests which will in turn cause his future to be even more miserable.

Ye Feng looked at the crowd who had burst into an uproar, he started looking for people from his Village, he might even be able to find his siblings, since he was in a corner, it was quite hard to see in this immense pile of Furbun, he used his Mental Power and started searching for chubby Furbuns, he found a few so he had to put in more criteria.

In the end, Ye Feng found a group of Furbuns that met all of his criteria and headed toward them, while he was navigating in this wave of Furbun, he excitedly hopped toward them and heard a few of them yelling,

"YE FENG!"

Ye Feng didn't recognize their voices but when he saw them, he was overjoyed since he recognized them, they were his siblings, after all, he hopped toward them but suddenly stopped when he heard the voice of an obviously older Furbun,

"Ye Feng, why is your Mental Power stronger and how was your Mark removed?"

Ye Feng turned and said,

"Well, I removed the mark the way you told me to. As for my Mental Power..." He hopped near the Elder and explained everything, "I fell in a cave with no ways to return, since I couldn't do anything, I went deeper into the cave and found a Mental Power cultivation method that every Furbuns could cultivate, I also received a voice in my mind telling me to lead the Beast's uprising..."

He then took out a few pieces of bark from the pouch and handed it to the Elder, he was ready to do this since he knew he couldn't finish the Request alone and needed more help,

"Here, that's the cultivation method"

The Elder looked at him with obvious surprise, he looked at the pieces of barks with words engraved into it, after having looked at every one of them, he laughed out loud, attracting the attention of many other Furbuns, he didn't care about their gazes and directly hopped toward the podium.

He hopped unto it and spoke with the bigger than average Furbun before handing him the pieces of bark, they both were unable to contain their excitement, the Elder directly dragged Ye Feng to him through Mental Power and introduced him,

"Here, this is the one who found this Cultivation Method"

The bigger than average Furbun looked at Ye Feng and inspected him,

"Ye Feng, right? I congratulate you for this finding and thank you for being willing to share this Cultivation Method with all of us, I'll be sure to spread it to every tribe of Furbun around the world without forgetting to mention your contribution to this. As a reward for this contribution, I'll grant you a Low-Heaven Spirit Root which will grant you the ability to cultivate whilst also granting you one of the fastest cultivation speed in the world but this would require you to pass the trial as the most promising Furbun, if you aren't the most promising Furbun, then you'll be granted a Low-Earth Spirit Root which is also a high-level Spirit Root but is worse than the Low-Heaven Spirit Root. If you aren't ranked high enough to be able to obtain a Spirit Root, then you'll receive a regular one, you'll also get a Heaven-Tier Cultivation Method which will increase even more the speed of your cultivation."

Ye Feng wasn't surprised that he couldn't directly receive the rewards and still had to pass through the trials since it should be extremely hard to obtain good Spirit Root, just the ability to get a Spirit Root directly without having to pass the trial was good enough for him but the additional Heaven-Tier Cultivation Method was god-sent.

Ye Feng steeled his mind, prepared to go through thick and thin to get the Heaven Spirit Root, and thus obtain a higher chance of finishing the Request and increase his Luck.