The next day,
It wasn't until the sun was high in the sky that Ye Feng lazily dragged himself out of bed. He was usually an early riser.
"Ugh~ha~"
"Eating the strengthening fruit allowed me to advance to gold, but it seems to have placed a very heavy burden on my body!"
Feeling the persistent soreness, numbness, and swelling all over his body, Ye Feng yawned and frowned slightly.
He knew that he used to only experience such soreness after high-intensity training, and it would usually recover after a night's sleep. But now...
After breakfast and lunch, Ye Feng strolled around Blackwater Town.
The entire town was filled with a joyful atmosphere. Decorations were everywhere, and people were chatting happily, planning for the future. After all, the goblins that used to terr over them were gone...
When they saw Ye Feng, they would come forward to greet him warmly and invite him to sit with them...
After strolling for a while, Ye Feng casually inquired about Xiao Xiao and Yuan Ling. He learned that they had gone out together to play, but he didn't know the specifics of where they went.
Feeling a bit bored, he decided to study his Tang knife. After his advancement to gold, during his battle with the Goblin High Priest, the Tang knife seemed to have established a peculiar connection with him...
"Whoosh! Clang!"
Ye Feng found a secluded spot and threw the Tang knife towards a distant pile of rocks. He closed his eyes, sensed the knife's location, and just like that night a few days ago, extended his right hand and grabbed at the empty air.
"Huh? What's going on?"
He tried several times to grab the air, but the Tang knife didn't fly into his hand as it had that night. Puzzled, he opened his eyes and looked at the knife's location.
"The location sensing is correct... but it seems I can't control the Tang knife to fly over... something seems to be missing..."
After trying for a while, Ye Feng came to a conclusion that left him slightly dejected.
However, Ye Feng didn't dwell on it too much. After all, he couldn't even sense the Tang knife's location remotely before.
"Let's practice that set of movements that appeared out of nowhere!"
Ye Feng's attention quickly shifted to the peculiar set of movements that had inexplicably flooded his mind when he advanced to gold.
Honestly, he was very curious about these movements. One of them was quite similar to how that mysterious old man in plain clothes had slashed across the sky with a branch...
The similarity wasn't in the exact posture, but in a certain kind of divine essence!
"Hoo!~"
Ye Feng took a deep breath, closed his eyes, recalled the sequence of the peculiar movements, and began to move his body...
...
"Plop~"
Within a few minutes, Ye Feng collapsed onto the ground, panting heavily, sweat pouring down his face.
"What the heck is this set of movements..."
Ye Feng was bewildered.
He hadn't felt much from the strengthening fruit's medicinal effects before. But as he started practicing, he realized that although the movements looked simple and didn't involve much exertion, they mobilized many muscles. Even the arcane energy within his body began to circulate faster, and he absorbed it more quickly and in greater quantities...
Even though he had only practiced for a few minutes, it felt more exhausting to Ye Feng than carrying several hundred pounds of boulders for a whole day...
"Hoo!~"
"Even if my body hasn't recovered, this seems too ridiculous..."
Ye Feng muttered, grabbing a stone to help himself up.
"Puff! Hoo!~"
"Whoa!"
Ye Feng exclaimed in surprise.
Because the stone he grabbed was crushed into powder by a wave emanating from his hand when he pressed down with force. Caught off guard, he fell back to the ground.
"Let's rest for a bit~"
Lying on the ground, exhausted, Ye Feng simply reclined on the grass to rest. In the shade of the large tree, he leisurely watched the sun slowly set in the west.
...
"Ye Feng, what are you doing here? We've been looking for you for ages. Come with us to watch the sunset, it's beautiful!"
Just as Ye Feng was about to fall asleep, Xiao Lü's lively voice came from not too far away.
"Hmm?"
Ye Feng sat up and looked towards the source of the sound. He saw a short-haired girl with a rather delicate face and a beautiful girl with purple eyes walking quickly towards him. It was Xiao Lü and Yuan Ling.
"Sunset? We can see it from here, can't we?"
Meeting Xiao Lü's slightly anxious gaze, Ye Feng uttered a rather unromantic sentence.
"It's different! The most beautiful sunset scenery in Blackwater Town isn't here. The sunset there is different from ordinary sunsets!"
"Let's hurry, Xiao Xiao is already painting there!"
Yuan Ling nodded gently and pointed in a direction.
"Oh, okay~"
Ye Feng got up and walked alongside the two girls.
...
More than ten minutes later,
Ye Feng, Yuan Ling, and Xiao Lü arrived in front of a three-story wooden house on a hillside. A windmill stood on the topmost floor, its wooden blades gently turning.
"Ye Feng, are you really okay?"
Xiao Lü and Yuan Ling turned their heads, looking at Ye Feng with concern.
Because as Ye Feng walked, his gait was very strange and uncoordinated, and he almost fell several times, like a three-year-old child learning to walk. He would occasionally grimace as if in pain...
"I'm fine. I just exercised my body, and now I'm sore all over. It's normal..."
"Didn't you say we were going to watch the sunset? Let's hurry!"
Ye Feng waved his hand, signaling the two girls not to worry.
"Alright then!~"
Yuan Ling and Xiao Lü nodded, turned, and walked into the wooden house.
Soon, they started climbing the stairs. Yuan Ling and Xiao Lü led the way, while Ye Feng followed behind.
Suddenly, Ye Feng's face flushed, and he looked embarrassed.
Because Xiao Lü was wearing tight jeans, and whether it was due to her development or the jeans being too small, they were very form-fitting. Yuan Ling wore a modified nun's habit, which was also quite tight. Both girls' slender figures were accentuated.
As the two girls walked ahead, their movements swayed, and with Ye Feng below them on the stairs, it created a peculiar scene...
Yuan Ling and Xiao Lü's peripheral vision met, and they both seemed to notice Ye Feng's gaze. They instinctively tightened their legs, and their fair faces blushed in unison...
Seeing this, Ye Feng's face turned even redder. He turned his head away, looking elsewhere, and quickly followed the two girls up the stairs.
"Bang!~ Bang!~"
"Ah! Ouch!~"
Suddenly, two faint collision sounds rang out, followed by Yuan Ling and Xiao Lü's startled cries.
It turned out that Yuan Ling and Xiao Ling had reached the top floor and stopped. Ye Feng, not looking ahead, continued to walk forward and bumped directly into Yuan Ling from behind.
Moreover, due to inertia and his severely fatigued state, Ye Feng fell. In a moment of panic, he instinctively reached out to the side and felt something soft and smooth...
"Sister Yuan Ling, Sister Xiao Lü, are you alright?"
Just then, Xiao Xiao, who had been painting, ran over and asked with concern.
"N-no... no problem... no problem... we're going to watch the sunset..."
Yuan Ling waved her hands repeatedly and quickly ran forward, her face as red as a burning fire.
Because at the moment Ye Feng collided with her, she vaguely felt something that was quite warm, even scorching hot...
"Me too, me too!"
Xiao Lü's cheeks were also flushed, and she ran away as if escaping, because the part Ye Feng's hand had grabbed was hers...
"Big Brother, what's wrong with Sister Yuan Ling and Sister Xiao Lü?"
Xiao Xiao looked at Ye Feng with some confusion.
...