In the evening, outside the Qing Xin Ya Ju, Ye Feng was leisurely resting on a rattan chair.
"Bing... Why does Shuang have to live in the zombie-infested area..."
Ye Feng looked at Shuang, who was happily playing with Xiao Xiao not far away, feeling puzzled.
Although Bing and Shuang were twins, their upbringing had been vastly different. Bing studied at Dawn Academy from a young age, while Shuang could only live in the abandoned district east of the City of Arcane Arts, where zombies roamed...
Perhaps for this reason, Shuang and Xiao Xiao got along very well, sticking together wherever they went these past few days... After all, Xiao Xiao and Shuang had similar backgrounds and didn't know much about the outside world...
"It's all because of the Dark Holy Cult!"
Speaking of which, Bing looked unhappy. "Although Sister Yan gave us a Talisman of Concealment, it can't be used all the time..."
"To evade the pursuit of the Dark Holy Cult, Shuang has to live in areas where zombies appear... because zombies can interfere with the tracking of the Dark Nether Lamp..."
"Sister Yan and I experimented with Shuang before. The Dark Nether Lamp started to go haywire after entering a zombie-infested area..."
Bing quickly explained to Ye Feng.
"I see..."
Ye Feng finally understood.
"Big Brother!"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao, holding Shuang's hand, ran over.
"What's wrong?"
Ye Feng looked at Xiao Xiao with some confusion. kan shu wu.net
"Big Brother, do you have any way to stop Sister Shuang from running back into the zombie horde every once in a while?"
"Every night now, she has to go into the zombie horde alone! It's so pitiful!"
Xiao Xiao looked at Ye Feng with hopeful eyes.
"Uh... I..."
Ye Feng felt a bit awkward.
He really didn't know how to solve it... The only possibility he could think of was the Talisman of Concealment, but that was carved with divine patterns, and he didn't understand divine patterns...
Besides, he believed that over the past decade, Yue Yan must have thought of many ways, but they were probably all...
"Xiao Xiao, I'm already content that I can come out now!"
Shuang tugged at Xiao Xiao's sleeve, glanced at Ye Feng, her face blushing slightly.
"Alright~"
Xiao Xiao turned to Shuang, "Sister Shuang, don't be discouraged. Big Brother is very capable, he'll definitely think of a way in the future!"
"Mhm..."
Ye Feng: "..."
...
After dinner,
On the balcony of Qing Xin Ya Ju,
"I've tried almost every method I could think of... none worked... I still don't know what the Dark Holy Cult's Dark Nether Lamp is tracking on Shuang..."
Yue Yan spread her hands helplessly.
It turned out that after seeing Shuang finish dinner and go to the zombie-infested area east of the City of Arcane Arts with Xiao Xiao, Ye Feng felt a little uneasy. He went to discuss Shuang's situation with Yue Yan, and their thoughts were the same as Ye Feng's conjecture in the evening...
"Hoo!"
Ye Feng took a deep breath, feeling quite dejected.
"By the way, Ye Feng, now that your body has recovered, are you interested in helping me with something?"
At this moment, Yue Yan spoke again.
"Help? What kind of help?"
Ye Feng looked at Yue Yan with some confusion.
"Do you remember what I told you about the Dawn Academy library? There's a treasure on the ninth floor, and I hope you can help me open the door to get it!"
Yue Yan said quickly.
"Oh, sure~"
"There's no time like the present, let's go tonight! Might as well take a walk!"
Ye Feng nodded.
"Okay..."
...
Soon, Ye Feng and Yue Yan headed towards the Dawn Academy library.
...
"Speaking of which, what's the deal with the Earth Ranking on the Survivor Rankings? I remember you were second on the Earth Ranking, right?!"
Walking on the quiet and dark road, Ye Feng chatted with Yue Yan.
"I don't know much about that thing,"
Yue Yan frowned slightly. "The Earth Ranking seems to require obtaining something... it's not based on strength..."
"I was second on the Earth Ranking a long time ago. Out of curiosity, I looked for the first person on the Earth Ranking back then, and found that guy was only at Golden First Rank, and was a scoundrel who plundered and killed everywhere. I killed him with one move!"
"To enter the Earth Ranking, it's not necessarily about strength, it seems you need to find something... like this!"
As she spoke, Yue Yan's hand flashed, and a black stone appeared in her hand.
"Whoa..."
Seeing the black stone in Yue Yan's hand, Ye Feng couldn't help but be taken aback, because he also had a similar stone. He had found it in the temple of the ancient sand dune battlefield, and it was with a jar of Nu Er Hong wine at the time...
"I think I have one of these stones too~"
Saying that, Ye Feng's hand flashed, and a black stone almost identical to Yue Yan's appeared in his hand.
"This... it really seems to be the same..."
Yue Yan blinked, quite surprised.
"I have this kind of stone too, why didn't I get on the Earth Ranking?"
Ye Feng asked Yue Yan as they walked, feeling quite puzzled.
"You just need to inject arcane energy into the black stone to activate it, but I advise you not to!"
Yue Yan looked at the black stone in Ye Feng's hand and replied.
"Why?"
Ye Feng looked at Yue Yan with a questioning gaze.
"This black stone... let's call it an Earth Ranking Stone for now... it's completely useless... except for giving you a ranking on the Earth Ranking..."
"And I've noticed that the Dark Holy Cult specifically dispatches people to deal with those on the Earth Ranking... seemingly for the Earth Ranking Stone..."
"It seems that as long as one awakens arcane energy and obtains this Earth Ranking Stone, injecting arcane energy, they can appear on the Earth Ranking..."
"Of course, it's possible this Earth Ranking Stone has some function that I haven't discovered yet..."
Yue Yan explained quickly.
"Uh... okay~"
After hearing Yue Yan's explanation, Ye Feng decisively gave up the idea of activating the Earth Ranking Stone. He didn't want to cause a lot of unnecessary trouble for now.
...
Not long after,
Ye Feng and Qiao Ying arrived at the Dawn Academy library. It had clearly been attacked, with large holes in many places, but the overall structure was intact.
"Let's go!"
...
Ye Feng and Yue Yan quickly ascended to the ninth floor of Dawn Academy. With Ye Feng's operations, the divine pattern formation on the balcony opened...
"This... a wine jar?"
Seeing what was behind the divine pattern formation, Yue Yan was slightly taken aback.
"This jar of wine... it seems to be Nu Er Hong... also called Qing Si Lie..."
Ye Feng took out the wine jar and saw the two lines of text carved on it: "Qing Si is still sharper than the qing feng, and the strong wine should be Nu Er Hong," and muttered to himself.
"It really is..."
Yue Yan took the wine jar, her face full of surprise. "After all this effort, the treasure kept here is actually Nu Er Hong, gifted by the Martial God to the Feather Tribe... It is said that this wine was personally brewed by the Martial God..."
"This wine seems quite good, how about we..."
Ye Feng, having tasted this wine before, couldn't help but feel a bit tempted.
"Okay..."
"Wait, quite good? Ye Feng, you've tasted it before?"