A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1300 A Mass Gathering

The chances of that were slim though.

But if such a powerful martial artist happened to be loitering around in the rainforest, he or she would definitely have sensed the sudden and overwhelming eruption of power earlier.

If that martial artist proceeded to do what Ye Fan expected him or her to do, then they were going to find themselves in grave danger.

There was nothing Ye Fan could do now but worry though.

He walked up to the entrance of the cave and, with a sudden blow to the wall, sent rocks crumbling and blocking the entrance.

Then, he hurried back to Yu Yun and waited anxiously for her to wake up.

He knew that blocking the entrance of the cave was merely a temporary measure. A grandmaster in the vicinity would realize that something wasn't what it appeared.

What he had done would simply buy them a little time.

All he could do now was pray that Yu Yun awaken from her meditative trance as soon as possible.

"Please hurry up! We're going to be swamped by martial artists in a while. I can't guarantee that I'll be able to hold them off on my own." Ye Fan appeared nervous as he eyed Yu Yun, whose eyes were tightly shut as she sat in a deep meditative trance.

Ye Fan was quite sure that she was going to wake up from her trance soon.

She was clearly at the final stage of reaching the next tier in her cultivation.

Her entire body was aglow with the energies of the natural world and the latter was growing with increasing intensity and strength.

She was exuding waves of pure power.

Everything pointed to Yu Yun reaching the end of her meditative trance.

It was both a good and bad thing. Ye Fan also knew that the waves of pure natural energy that Yu Yun was emanating were also blinding beacons that were surely drawing powerful martial artists to their location.

If this went on, they were going to be surrounded by martial artists within a few days.

"I really hope she wakes up soon," muttered Ye Fan worriedly to himself as he stared at the young woman before him.

Meanwhile, Kong Ming and Lu Yan-Xi were slowly retracing their steps.

Lv Hua followed steadily behind them.

The trio were in a terrible mood.

They had entered the rainforest as proud and eager warriors. But now, they were akin to frost-stung berries, their heads dropping as they trudged slowly through the rainforest.

"Elder Kong, are we really going to return empty-handed?" After a long silence, Lu Yan-Xi finally asked as she looked at Kong Ming.

Kong Ming sighed exasperatedly. "What else can we do? Are we going to fight Ye Fan for a spirit energy fruit?"

"How are we going to answer for it if we go back empty-handed?"

Lu Yan-Xi wasn't ready to give up just yet.

This was a very important mission to her.

This had been her opportunity to gain the attention of the upper echelons of War God Castle. She had wanted to use this chance to have a grandmaster take her in as his or her disciple. But she hadn't managed to get her hands on a spirit energy fruit at all. In fact, she had almost gotten herself killed.

She would be too embarrassed to speak of what had happened when she returned.

She would become the laughingstock of the town.

That also explained why she was so reluctant to return empty-handed.

Kong Ming did not say a word. He simply sighed.

He wasn't happy with the outcome of their trip as well.

Of course, he wasn't.

But what could they do about it?

Unless there was another spirit energy fruit hidden elsewhere in the forest, there was nothing they could do to change anything.

Kong Ming's eyes lit up at that thought. "You're right, Yan-Xi. We could try searching other areas. There may be spirit energy fruits hidden elsewhere too. This is a huge rainforest, after all. We might find other treasures even if we fail to find any spirit energy fruits."

Lu Yan-Xi perked up and nodded when she heard that. "You're right, Elder Kong. We're not in a rush to get back anyway. Why not look elsewhere? We won't have to return empty-handed if we get lucky and come across a spirit energy fruit tree."

Just as the two came to a decision to remain in the rainforest and continue their search, waves of pure energy came rushing at them from the distance like a sudden tsunami.

Kong Ming and the others reeled back with shock.

"That...what's that? Could that be another spirit energy fruit tree?"

Kong Ming and Lu Yan-Xi exchanged a look before leaping with joy.

"Haha! Yan-Xi, this is fate! It's destiny! We must get our hands on whatever that is! We can't go away empty-handed. Let's go!"

Without further ado, Kong Ming and the rest sped towards the direction from which the waves of pure energy had come.

Naturally, they had not been the only three persons who had sensed those waves.

"What incredible power!"

"I can't believe it. The energy that I just felt was purer than the energy that that spirit energy fruit tree had given off!"

"This must be a bigger tree. The fruit that it bears is definitely bigger as well."

"Let's go!"

"We've got to hurry!"

"Is there another spirit energy fruit tree in this rainforest?"

"Who cares? Let's go take a look!"

"Brothers, let's go!"

New troubles always appeared just as one was done with the previous one.

Ye Fan had thrashed many a martial artist during his earlier fight in the rainforest. Yet, merely after a few days' peace, trouble began to stir in the Amazon rainforest again.

Many teams that had been ready to return home had changed their minds and headed for the place from where the waves of immense power had originated.

"Master, what should we do? Should we go take a look as well?"

Mike Jones and his men had reached the edge of the rainforest then.

For all intents and purposes, their mission had ended and they should be returning to their hotel and assembling with the other teams from Chu Sect.

Yet, something unexpected seemed to have happened in the rainforest. Mike Jones couldn't help but feel torn about what to do.

"That's weird. Based on the intel that was provided, there are only three spirit energy fruit trees in the rainforest. Tian-Qi plucked the fruits of two of those trees and Ye Fan split the fruits of the third tree with me. Where did the fourth tree come from? Was there something wrong with our intel?

Could this be something other than a spirit energy fruit tree?" Mike Jones thought solemnly to himself as he stared in the direction from which the wave of pure energy had come.

The upper echelons of Chu Sect had personally planned this mission.

He was only privy to details that were necessary to his execution of his assigned tasks.

But Mike Jones had had a niggling feeling right from the start. Chu Sect hadn't only been interested in getting spirit energy fruits. It wasn't that simple.

After all, while a spirit energy fruit might be an extremely rare and precious commodity, it wasn't worth the vast resources that Chu Sect had poured into obtaining the fruit.

There was something fishy going on here.

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