The next day,
"Holy crap, what the hell?"
Ye Feng, just out of bed, was observing his spatial warehouse, which had grown considerably larger, when he suddenly cried out.
He discovered another white skeleton on the ground inside the spatial warehouse.
"This..."
After a careful look, Ye Feng's brows furrowed, his expression solemn.
The bones appearing in the spatial warehouse were, like the skeleton he had found not long ago, those of an angel...
"What the hell is going on... why are there angel remains in my spatial warehouse again..."
Ye Feng was filled with confusion.
After some thought, a gleam flashed in his hand as he retrieved the angel's remains. It was rather unnerving to have such things stored in his spatial warehouse...
...
After breakfast,
Qiao Ying quietly cremated the angel's skeleton by herself... Throughout the entire process, Qiao Ying did not ask where the angel's remains came from...
Ye Feng felt a pang of frustration... and it was difficult for him to explain to Qiao Ying.
...
At noon,
"Jigu lu~ Gu lu!"
"Oh oh!~ Gu lu!~"
Xiao Xiao was feeding some leftover scraps of meat to the recon rainbow chickens, who were eating happily, chirping joyfully, and flapping their wings from time to time...
"You two are truly remarkable..."
Yue Fei Xue looked at Ye Feng, then at Xiao Xiao, "It's one thing for you to possess the God-Slayer... but that little girl... she's actually Diamond Rank Seven. This is quite outrageous..."
"Indeed!"
"Xiao Xiao has never encountered a bottleneck in her cultivation journey..."
Ye Feng nodded in agreement.
...
Following this, Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, Qiao Ying, Yue Yan, and Yue Fei Xue, five in total, traveled rapidly in an armored off-road RV.
During the journey, Ye Feng discovered several more angel remains in his spatial warehouse.
However, apart from the first two or three, he did not retrieve them to give to Qiao Ying. Instead, he stored them in a rather large spatial rift array.
After all, it seemed quite absurd for Ye Feng to keep producing angel remains for Qiao Ying to burn...
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One evening,
"Sister Qiao Ying, what are you thinking about? You seem so lost in thought?"
Xiao Xiao, seeing Qiao Ying sitting alone on a hillside, staring blankly ahead, approached and asked.
"Uh... it's nothing..."
Qiao Ying was startled for a moment, then came back to her senses. "I was wondering... whether to call Ling Xi and Sister Leng over..."
As she spoke, Qiao Ying turned to look at Ye Feng, who was cultivating in the distance, her expression conflicted.
Because her strength had recovered so quickly... she felt as though she had returned to the City of Angels... She wanted Ling Xi and Leng Yue to come over, but she was also worried...
"Call Sister Ling Xi and Sister Leng Yue over?"
Xiao Xiao looked at Qiao Ying with curiosity.
"Mm..."
Qiao Ying nodded. "It's just that Ling Xi and Sister Leng... the place they left from is very far away... and our special communication can only be used once, usually in extremely urgent situations..."
"Never mind, let's stick to the plan!"
Qiao Ying sighed softly. "Someone has to find the remaining six Hope Stones..."
"Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, Qiao Ying, dinner is ready..."
At this moment, Yue Yan and Yue Fei Xue, wearing aprons, called out to the three of them.
"Okay!~"
...
After dinner,
The five of them, Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, Qiao Ying, Yue Yan, and Yue Fei Xue, strolled leisurely under the starry sky.
"Yue Yan, Fei Xue, you don't have to follow me all the way!"
Under the moonlight, Ye Feng glanced at the arcane pointer on his left wrist and said softly.
After leaving the ruins of Star City, Yue Yan had not returned to the City of Arcane Arts, nor had Yue Fei Xue left to attend to her own affairs. Instead, they had been following Ye Feng in the direction indicated by the arcane pointer.
Although the two women hadn't said anything, Ye Feng could sense that they both had their own plans.
"Let's go a bit further. In a few days, I should be able to face the厄水劫 (E Shui Jie - Water Tribulation). After I overcome it, Yue Yan and I will return to the City of Arcane Arts!"
Yue Fei Xue finished speaking, and Yue Yan nodded, clearly, they had discussed this beforehand.
"Mm, alright!~"
...
In the following days, Ye Feng continued to travel in the direction indicated by the arcane pointer, occasionally taking out the Fire Seed Record to study it.
Just as he had guessed earlier, the divine patterns in the Fire Seed Record were indeed incomplete. When he dripped the shimmering E Shui onto the bamboo slips of the Fire Seed Record, new divine patterns appeared.
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One evening,
"Big brother, it looks like there's a town ahead, but it's abandoned..."
Xiao Xiao, holding a telescope, gazed at a point far in front and spoke.
"It seems to be a large human survivor base... We'll check it out tomorrow."
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The next day,
After Ye Feng and the other four finished breakfast, they set off at a rapid pace.
By nine in the morning, the group had arrived at the location Xiao Xiao had discovered the previous evening.
"City of Strengthened Ones?"
Upon seeing the plaque on the massive city wall, Ye Feng frowned slightly.
"This place seems to have just been unearthed from the ground... Judging by the extent of the destruction to the surrounding terrain... it was likely caused by a sudden geological disaster..."
Xiao Xiao scanned the chaotic ground, which was uneven with rises and depressions, and analyzed.
"I didn't expect to see this place again..."
Yue Yan chimed in, her tone quite surprised.
"Again?"
Ye Feng turned to look at Yue Yan. "Yue Yan, have you been here before?"
"This place was originally Star City's research base, specifically for researching the strength serum!"
Yue Fei Xue added, "When the Great Cataclysm occurred, this place was suddenly attacked... and lost contact with Star City..."
"This place used to have the most strength serum... countless adventurers flocked here for it..."
As she spoke, Yue Fei Xue's face was filled with remembrance.
"Let's go, let's go in and see!"
With that, Yue Yan strode forward.
...
"By the way, what exactly is this strength serum? Is it really a discovery from researching zombies?"
Walking on the road, Ye Feng looked at Yue Yan and Yue Fei Xue with a questioning gaze.
"No!"
Yue Yan shook her head slightly. "The world believes the strength serum is extracted from zombies, but it's not. It's from the strengthening fruit. The strengthening fruit is the source of all strength serums..."
"The strength serum... was also created by humans to deal with the gods..."
"Careful!"
As Yue Yan spoke, her expression suddenly changed. She pointed to a puddle in a hollow. "Someone has been here. Their tracks are just very well concealed..."
"Whoosh!~ Whoosh! Whoosh!~"
As Yue Yan finished speaking, a dense series of whistling sounds erupted, and a string of semi-transparent small objects shot towards them.
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