Within a few breaths, Ye Feng and Yuan Ling arrived beside the altar.
"Bang!"
Ye Feng raised his leg and kicked the altar, instantly sliding it several meters to the side, revealing the annihilation array beneath.
"Huh?"
Crouching down and examining it carefully, Ye Feng was surprised.
He discovered that the carrier of the annihilation array was a pink crystal, a type of arcane crystal he had seen before in Mech City and even kept a small piece of.
"No wonder there was a pink glow earlier~"
Ye Feng recalled the scene when the Goblin High Priest attacked him and Yuan Ling with fire.
"Ye Feng!"
Seeing the goblins surging towards them like a tide, Yuan Ling called out to Ye Feng again, her tone a little anxious.
"Mhm!"
Ye Feng responded, his hand surged with white True Qi. He nodded to Yuan Ling, who was also channeling her True Qi, and they both struck the arcane crystal on the ground.
Upon contact with their True Qi, the runes etched on the arcane crystal emitted a dazzling light.
"Ye Feng, let's go, or we'll be caught in the annihilation array's effect!"
Yuan Ling stood up, moved the altar back to its original position, and quickly said to Ye Feng.
"Oh, okay!"
Ye Feng nodded, and he and Yuan Ling quickly moved to the side.
"Buzz!~"
A strange wave emanated upwards from the location of the annihilation array. The entire altar and a large area of ground were instantly swept by the array's wave.
"Huh? What's going on?"
Ye Feng frowned, as the altar seemed unchanged.
"Whoosh!~ Hiss!~"
At that moment, a gust of wind blew. The four-meter-tall, square array instantly turned into countless specks of dust, which dissipated along with the dust on the ground...
"What the..."
Ye Feng was taken aback. He had initially thought it was the same type of annihilation array that burned monsters to death, which Shen Potian in Mech City had activated...
"After the annihilation array was activated, the arcane crystal also turned to powder... Is it a one-time use?"
Looking at the arcane crystal, now cracked into countless small pieces with no pink glow, a thought flashed through Ye Feng's mind.
"Speaking of which, Yuan Ling, how do you know so much about this annihilation array? You even know its range of effect?"
Ye Feng turned around, looking at Yuan Ling with surprise.
"It was Master Flame Ranger. He taught me a lot, and the annihilation array was one of them!"
"But this annihilation array near the Goblin Kingdom's altar was something I discovered by chance last time. I was very surprised then!"
"After all, Master Flame Ranger said that annihilation arrays are extremely rare, complex in construction, and of mysterious origin. They are usually only found in ancient ruins. No one has ever heard of anyone creating one, not even the City of Arcane Arts, which has the most research in arcane energy, runes, and formations!"
Yuan Ling quickly explained to Ye Feng.
"I see~"
Ye Feng nodded and looked around. "So this was once an ancient ruin? I can't tell at all!"
"There were some structures here at the very beginning. They looked ancient, and not like modern reinforced concrete buildings!"
"But after the goblins reproduced in large numbers, they destroyed everything... Now only this pyramid remains!"
Yuan Ling sighed with emotion. When she was younger, she had explored the ruins here with Flame Ranger...
"Huh, what is that?"
As Ye Feng was surveying the surroundings, his eyes suddenly lit up. His attention was caught by a rhombic stone on the original altar's location.
The rhombic stone was entirely white, emitting a faint, pearly white glow that quickly faded. It bore strange patterns.
"What a strange thing... It wasn't turned into dust by the annihilation array..."
"And judging by the stone's structure, it shouldn't be a standalone piece?"
Ye Feng was surprised as he held the rhombic stone in his hand.
"Um, Yuan Ling, can you tell me what important matter Flame Ranger was going to deal with back then?"
After storing the rhombic stone in his spatial warehouse, Ye Feng glanced at the Goblin High Priest's corpse and then asked Yuan Ling.
"This... I'm not very clear about the specifics. I only know it seemed related to demons..."
Speaking of this, Yuan Ling's expression turned sad. "Judging by how the Goblin High Priest summoned a puppet just now, Flame Ranger might have fallen victim to the Goblin High Priest for some reason..."
"Hey, Yuan Ling, what are you doing?"
Suddenly, Ye Feng ran to Yuan Ling's side and took her hand, as she was about to re-wrap the black ribbon around her eyes.
"Yuan Ling, I thought you were blind before, which is why you wore the black ribbon, but you're not!"
"Your eyes are so beautiful, as if they hold a thousand stars. Why hide them?"
Ye Feng looked at Yuan Ling with confusion, feeling a sense of pity for such a treasure being hidden away.
"I..."
Being stared at by Ye Feng at such close range, Yuan Ling's face turned red. "My... my eyes are different from yours... Some people say they bring disaster and death..."
"I didn't believe it before, and Master Flame Ranger told me the same. He was the first one who encouraged me to take off the black ribbon... But many people... Last time, when Arrak and the others almost... even Master Flame Ranger..."
Yuan Ling's face was filled with self-blame and guilt, and she was about to re-wrap the black ribbon around her hands.
"What kind of charlatan is spouting nonsense!"
Ye Feng muttered, snatching the black ribbon from Yuan Ling's hand and throwing it far away.
"Hey!~"
Yuan Ling reached out to grab the black ribbon, but Ye Feng stopped her. At that moment, a gust of wind blew, and the black ribbon rapidly drifted into the distance, landing in a bonfire and burning to ashes...
The moment the black ribbon was consumed by the flames, Yuan Ling felt a sense of release from the depths of her heart. Perhaps Ye Feng had not only discarded the black ribbon that covered her eyes, but also the burden in her heart...
"Ding!"
"Detected host has advanced to Gold. Received special reward: Angel's Blade: Royal Decree!"
At this moment, the system's mechanical voice echoed in Ye Feng's mind.
Immediately after, the room in Ye Feng's mind, which contained his personal status panel and was inscribed with arcane runes, flashed. A silver longsword appeared there. The hilt of the silver longsword was adorned with a pair of silver wings.
"This... Angel's Blade?!"
Ye Feng was very surprised that the system had given him an Angel's Blade, and this one seemed extraordinary, bearing a name: "Royal Decree."
"Ye Feng, what's wrong?"
At this moment, Yuan Ling spoke to Ye Feng, waving her hand in front of his eyes with a worried expression.
Because since just now, Ye Feng had suddenly stopped, staring blankly ahead, lost in thought...
"Hey, you two, is this really the time for flirting?"
"Can you consider me, an old man? I'm about to be drowned by goblins..."
At this moment, He Shang's loud voice rang out, instantly pulling Ye Feng back to reality.
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