"Humph!"
At this moment, Apollo gritted his teeth and spat out a mouthful of blood mist. The blood mist surged with strange runes, transforming into a colossal skull that instantly engulfed Ye Feng.
"Swoosh~ Whoosh!"
Ye Feng's Tang dao, Jie Huo, flashed rapidly, and the skull of strange runes dissipated in an instant.
Meanwhile, Apollo had already torn through space and ascended to a high altitude far from Ye Feng.
Ye Feng's eyes narrowed. He took a step forward and instantly appeared before Apollo. The faint red flames of Jie Huo on his Tang dao slashed out rapidly.
Apollo merged into the void. His body, not yet completely vanished, was immediately sliced open...
"Swoosh!~"
"Sizzle~!"
"Ah!~"
Apollo screamed as his body was split in two by the Tang dao and fell downwards...
"Hmm?"
Ye Feng frowned slightly.
Because he found that Apollo's body, cut in half and falling, was slowly dissipating... Finally, it transformed into a golden apple... though the golden apple was cut open...
"Hum!"
As Ye Feng was bewildered, the void in the distance distorted. It was Apollo, with a look of terror and hatred.
"What's going on?"
Ye Feng was very surprised because his previous strike had hit Apollo squarely...
"That golden apple?"
Ye Feng turned his gaze to the golden apple that had already landed on the ground, almost burned to ashes by Jie Huo.
"This..."
Ye Feng gripped his Tang dao and was about to pursue Apollo in the distance when he found himself unable to move, as if pinned down by some force from the sky.
"This feeling... is it Heavenly Tribulation?"
Ye Feng's expression changed. He looked up at the sky and immediately saw that the originally clear sky had suddenly darkened. Thick clouds gathered furiously, forming a massive vortex, the tribulation clouds.
"You little brat, you wait for me. When the final judgment day arrives, I will personally skin you alive!"
Apollo had also clearly sensed something. He roared at Ye Feng, tore through space, and his figure disappeared.
"Big brother..."
"Ye Feng!"
"Ye Feng!"
Xiao Xiao, Qiao Ying, and Yue Yan rushed towards Ye Feng with anxious expressions, but Ye Feng stopped them, "Don't come over!"
Ye Feng's expression was extremely solemn because he sensed that this Heavenly Tribulation was different from the ones he had encountered before, giving him a sense of fatal danger.
"Yue Yan, take Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying away!"
Under the gaze of the three women, Ye Feng shouted at Yue Yan.
"Ye Feng... what you are encountering this time is likely the second tribulation of the cultivator's three tribulations, the Tribulation of E' Shui!"
"Although I've only heard about it, the trial of the Tribulation of E' Shui involves E' Shui which is extremely yin and extremely cold, capable of corroding everything instantly. Don't resist it head-on. Use Jie Huo. Jie Huo is the most yang and most rigid element of time, it should be helpful!"
"Be careful yourself!"
Yue Yan spoke rapidly to Ye Feng, then pulled Xiao Xiao and ran into the distance. Qiao Ying frowned slightly and also left.
Because the sky had already turned pitch-black, the massive vortex-like tribulation clouds appeared above Ye Feng like a super typhoon...
"This... the Tribulation of E' Shui from the cultivator's three tribulations..."
Ye Feng swallowed, because the tribulation clouds exuded a chilling aura that made his heart pound. This was the first time he had encountered something that even Jie Huo couldn't handle...
It was an instinctual feeling... as if in the next second, he would turn to ashes...
"Whoosh~!"
Under Ye Feng's gaze, the center of the vortex-like clouds churned, and then something grayish-white began to drift down...
Within a few breaths, the sky above Ye Feng was enveloped by a grayish-white substance that looked like thick fog... Behind the gray fog were more mists, but they were whiter... Further back were mists that resembled water droplets...
Ye Feng looked closely and found that the mist and water appearing overhead, from bottom to top, could be vaguely divided into six layers. The lowest layer was grayish-white mist, which became whiter and denser as it ascended, finally turning into crystal-clear water droplets...
"Ugh!~ Ah!"
Suddenly, Ye Feng cried out in pain. The first scattered gray mist had already touched his skin.
In just an instant, Ye Feng shivered, as if he had been abruptly pulled from a warm embrace and thrown into an ice cellar...
...
In the distance,
"It... it really is E' Shui..."
Seeing the mist and water droplets descending from the center of the tribulation clouds, Yue Yan swallowed, her face filled with shock.
"Is big brother okay?"
Xiao Xiao looked at Yue Yan with a questioning gaze, her expression full of worry.
"I don't know much about E' Shui... but since Ye Feng has mastered Jie Huo, he should be able to handle it without major issues..."
Yue Yan frowned slightly and said.
...
On the other side,
High in the sky,
After Ye Feng's skin came into contact with the E' Shui from the gray mist, his body was instantly penetrated. Intense pain surged from all over his body.
"Whoosh!~"
Almost instinctively, Jie Huo erupted from all over Ye Feng's body, resisting the E' Shui that was invading him...
"What... what kind of ghost is this E' Shui..."
Ye Feng, feeling the pain in his body lessen, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. The grayish-white mist that had touched him had almost instantly penetrated his skin, muscles... all the way to the bone marrow... without any obstruction...
"Ugh!~ Ah!"
At this moment, Ye Feng cried out in pain again. The whiter and denser white mist behind the grayish-white mist had fallen onto Ye Feng.
The E' Shui in the form of dense white mist landed on Ye Feng, extinguishing more than half of the Jie Huo on his body...
"Damn it!~"
Ye Feng panicked and quickly mobilized more Jie Huo from his body to resist the E' Shui.
Because in that instant, the places where his Jie Huo had been extinguished by E' Shui had already been corroded deep within...
"What exactly is this E' Shui... it can extinguish Jie Huo... Huh..."
Suddenly, Ye Feng's attention was drawn to the Tang dao in his hand. He noticed that the reddish-brown rust on the Tang dao, scorched by Jie Huo, showed signs of dissolving and peeling off after coming into contact with E' Shui...
Ye Feng was not worried because E' Shui only dissolved the rust on the Tang dao, making it loose and fall off; it did not dissolve the Tang dao itself...
"This Tang dao is truly extraordinary... Ah!~"
Ye Feng muttered and cried out in pain again because even denser white mist fell upon him.
"This E' Shui..."
Ye Feng frowned slightly and did not mobilize more Jie Huo to deal with the E' Shui. He even slightly reduced the Jie Huo, allowing the E' Shui in its white mist form to fall upon himself...
"Ugh!~"
The intense pain made Ye Feng groan. The yin and cold power emanating from E' Shui made him shiver uncontrollably, his teeth chattering...
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