Chapter 13 - First Trial

Ye Feng was about to hop out of the podium but was stopped by the bigger Furbun who said,

"I just remembered, tomorrow, you don't have to partake in the first trial, your trial will be different, we'll meet right in front of the temple. Also, I should introduce myself, I'm Yi Pang, You may call me Elder Yi."

After he had finished speaking, Ye Feng jumped off the podium and went to meet with his siblings and spoke to them about what happened while he was gone and how their mastery of Mental Power was going, Ye Feng was surprised when he received knowledge of their advancement, they had already learned how to shape their Mental Power in all sorts of Weapons thus they could cut, pierce, smash...

Ye Feng was even more surprised when he learned that none of his siblings had a Mental Power superior or equal to 1 Star Warrior, the one who had the highest Mental Power was at Advanced Quasi-Warrior, it was one of Ye Feng's sister, Xiao Lin, she should be at the bottleneck since the range of his Mental Power reached 7 meters.

They spoke until it was night, when the moon rose in the sky, the elders of each tribe led their respective tribes to an underground stairway that led to a rather large area, there were only a few houses in this area but they were immense, Ye Feng estimated one of those houses to be 4 times the size of his family's home.

The elder led them to one of these houses and attributed rooms to everyone, the numbers of rooms were staggering, there should be a few dozens of young Furbuns in every tribe, yet, the house wasn't even filled, there were still a lot of empty rooms, after entering his own room, Ye Feng cultivated quietly on the bed before sleeping, he felt that tomorrow's trials would be rather hard and he'd need his full energy if he wanted to be the first.

After a sound night of sleep, he woke up and headed outside, he waited at the gate of the temple, watching the rows of Furbuns entering the temple, some would glance at him, wondering why he wasn't entering, while most wouldn't even spare a glance since they were already so stressed about the trials, wondering whether or not they could obtain the opportunity to cultivate.

After everyone had entered the temple, Elder Yi came out of it and hinted at Ye Feng to follow him before hopping West, Ye Feng followed him and they continued hopping until they were met by 3 poorly made cages that didn't allow one to see what was inside, even through his Mental Power, Ye Feng couldn't see what was inside, yet, he knew that there had to be beast due to the sounds coming from those cages.

" I've estimated your Mental Power to be at 8 Star Warrior, for this trial, you will have to make these beings either run away or be completely unable to continue fighting, one being is at 7 Star Warrior, one is at 8 Star Warrior and one is at 9 Star Warrior. You're not allowed to kill them but you can severely injure them, this trial will test your mastery over your Mental Power"

After a few seconds, Elder Yi used his Mental Power and opened one cage, releasing an extremely mad bull, it howled the moment the cage was opened before crazily rushing at Ye Feng, who remained calm, crazed beast like this would probably be the easiest kind of enemies, he hopped to the side right before the bull hit him and pondered on how to make that bull unable to continue fighting without killing before realizing the obvious.

'Obviously, if it can't move, it can't fight!' He now had his target and gazed at the legs of the bull who turned around and rushed at him again, this time, Ye Feng hopped to the side again to dodge, yet, the bull also tried turning and was about to hit him, yet, right before it could even touch Ye Feng's fur, it fell to the ground.

One would notice a pool of blood right under the bull, it came from its legs who were crushed by Ye Feng's Mental Power, the bull was indignant as it looked at Ye Feng who obviously was the cause of its pain, it continued to glare at Ye Feng as it was picked up and put back into its cage by Elder Yi.

Another cage opened, Ye Feng was more than ready but was stunned to see that what was inside was a Human, it was a middle-aged man that was around 1m80 tall, he didn't say anything as if he were mute, he only looked at Ye Feng before taking out a sword from its sheath.

It didn't directly rush at Ye Feng but made small hops at random direction from time to time, thus preventing Ye Feng from being able to gather his Mental Power and use it to crush him, Ye Feng knew he could shape his Mental Power to attack without using it to crush directly but the expenditure of Mental Power would be higher, Ye Feng noticed that the man was slowly getting closer to him, he backed down but the moment he moved, the man directly rushed at him, Ye Feng noticed that even while rushing at him, the man continued going from sides to sides thus preventing Ye Feng from gathering his Mental Power on one spot before the man reached it, this is what he did to crush the bull's legs.

Ye Feng stopped and the man stopped running, it seemed that the man must've been able to pinpoint Ye Feng's level of mastery of Mental Power, gathering Mental Power in one point was hard to do and he needed to be extremely focusing in doing that, thus, while moving, he was unable to do that, Ye Feng stopped gathering Mental Power and looked at the man's movement before coming to a conclusion, 'He has habits, I can take advantage of that', he looked as the man hopped 10 times, and came to a conclusion that the man would have a higher chance of hopping to the right, every time he hopped, he'd also hop the exact same distance.

A few hops later, the man looked at his leg, his face was pale, he looked at the sword in his hand and threw it at Ye Feng with all of his strength but before he could do that, his arm was crushed too, he was unable to continue fighting, Ye Feng looked at the man lying on the ground and heaved a sigh of relief, if the man were to just run at him, Ye Feng would've been forced to shape his Mental Power and thus increase his consumption of energy, as of now, he still had 3/4th of his energy and was ready to take on the 9 Star Warrior.

The cage opened, Ye Feng was stunned... It was a turtle? It was rather small and looked exactly like a turtle from Ye Feng's past life, he tried probing it with Mental Power but the moment his Mental Power neared the turtle, it immediately hid in its shell, Ye Feng looked at it and tried to probe inside the shell with his Mental Power but was stunned when his Mental Power couldn't enter it, when he removed his Mental Power, the turtle came out of its shell and spat at Ye Feng, its spit was extremely fast, Ye Feng was unable to react and had no choice but to be hit by it, luckily his dense fur protected him but he noticed that this spit also had a corrosive effect, his fur was being corroded.

Ye Feng tried crushing the shell of the turtle but it was too resilient, it didn't even have a mark, Ye Feng shaped his Mental Power in numerous weapons and tried attacking the shell but it had no effect... Finally, when Ye Feng considered using the spear in his pouch, he came to a realization, he shaped his Mental Power in 2 things, 1 Nail and 1 Hammer, he put the Nail on the shell and directly hammered it, it made an obvious hole on the shell, Ye Feng gritted his teeth, the consumption of Mental Power was obvious, he nearly ran out but he steeled his mind and was about to strike it again, but before that, he was stopped by Elder Yi.