The pressure, though unseen and unfelt, bore down on Ye Feng's shoulders as if it were substantial, making his knees buckle, compelling him to kneel!
"Hmph!"
With a grunt, Ye Feng thrust the Angel's Blade into the ground, bracing himself and preventing himself from falling.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~!"
At this moment, a gust of wind sounded.
From the black vortex in the center of the Hexagram Blood Sacrifice Array, a dark, swirling mass of black mist gradually revealed a stone tablet.
"What is that thing?"
Ye Feng's expression was incredibly serious.
The black mist-shrouded stone tablet was inscribed with runes Ye Feng didn't recognize. Just looking at it made him dizzy, as if he were about to faint.
"Bang!~"
In the next second, ripples emanated from the black stone tablet, accompanied by a dull thud.
Ye Feng and the others felt as if their chests had been struck by a sledgehammer, spitting out a mist of blood.
Following this, the Hexagram Blood Sacrifice Array erupted with a wave of red energy, blasting him, Xiao Xiao, Xue Yu Li, and others far away.
"Bang bang bang~!"
"Grrr~ Kaka~ Hiss~"
After a series of collisions and scrapes, Ye Feng and the others were thrown into a spacious area, disoriented.
"It hurts! It hurts so much!"
Ye Feng's internal organs throbbed with excruciating pain, so intense that he couldn't even cry out.
His head also felt heavy and dizzy, on the verge of blacking out...
"This attack... this pain..."
Lying on the ground, blood seeping from his lips, Ye Feng's mind drifted to the dog-headed brute he had fought with Ling Xi.
"Am I going to die?... Yang... Yang Shen Zhi?"
At this moment, Ye Feng thought of the Yang Shen Zhi he had obtained in Shuang Yu Town.
This item was said to be a legendary immortal herb. Though consuming it could lead to instant death from overwhelming medicinal power, he had no other options now...
"Hey, you're not planning to just die, are you?"
Just as Ye Feng was about to retrieve the Yang Shen Zhi from his spatial storage and risk consuming it, a somewhat cold female voice cut through the air.
"Huh? This voice..."
Ye Feng was quite surprised, as the voice held a familiar quality.
While he was in doubt and contemplation, a faint, elegant fragrance wafted into his nostrils.
Immediately after, a woman in a white palace dress, adorned with a jade hairpin and her black hair neatly coiled at the back of her head, appeared before Ye Feng's eyes.
Her face was delicate and graceful, her skin fair with a rosy hue. Beneath her willow-leaf eyebrows lay an exquisite nose, and her lips were perfectly red, exuding a charm unique to Eastern women—a veritable classical beauty stepping out of a Chinese landscape painting!
This was the mysterious woman Ye Feng had encountered in the Ice City, the one who had saved his life.
Although he had seen her before, the light had been dim then. Seeing her breathtaking beauty again, Ye Feng couldn't help but stare.
While Ye Feng was still dazed, the mysterious woman in white produced a pill, which she directly placed into Ye Feng's mouth. She then gently patted his chest, and Ye Feng swallowed it instantly.
"What did you give me, ah..."
Ye Feng had barely spoken when he let out a yelp, as the woman kicked him flying.
As Ye Feng soared through the air, he paid no mind to why the mysterious woman was here or what she had given him. His eyes were blazing, the agonizing pain in his internal organs rapidly dissipating. His arcane energy seemed drawn to something, churning uncontrollably within him, leaving him feeling an inexhaustible surge of strength...
"Bang!~"
Ye Feng landed heavily on the ground. Beside him lay Xiao Xiao, who appeared to be unconscious. A large, green-furred hyena was lunging towards her with its jaws wide open.
"Scram!"
Ye Feng roared, slamming his palms onto the ground, leaving an imprint. In the next instant, he sprang to his feet, his right fist, glowing with white arcane energy, smashing towards the green-furred hyena.
"Thump~! Grrr~! Splat~!"
After a dull thud, the green-furred hyena was sent flying sideways, its head exploding into a gory mess that splattered through the air.
"What the... did I use too much force?"
Seeing this, Ye Feng couldn't help but be surprised.
"Xiao Xiao, are you alright?"
Ye Feng ignored the green-furred hyena, its neck all but gone, and knelt down to check on Xiao Xiao.
"I... I'm fine... just a little dizzy!"
Xiao Xiao opened her hazy eyes, wiping a smear of blood from her lips. Clearly, she had also vomited blood.
Seeing Xiao Xiao's pale face and weak demeanor, Ye Feng felt a pang of heartache.
"Roar~! Bark!~"
Suddenly, a wolf's howl and a dog-like bark echoed.
Ye Feng turned his head to see Xue Lang and Xue Bei from the Skull Society. Both had transformed, one into a large bei, and the other into a blood-red wolf.
Xue Bei leaped onto Xue Lang's back. Then, their bodies convulsed, contorted, and they merged together, forming a two-headed monster.
"A wolf and a bei in cahoots..."
Seeing this, a thought flashed through Ye Feng's mind. He had tracked these two before and knew they were brothers who coordinated well, but he hadn't expected them to fuse...
"Roar~! Bark bark~!~"
The merged Xue Lang and Xue Bei bared their fangs and claws, roaring as they charged towards Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao.
"Hmph!"
Feeling the surging power within his body, Ye Feng's eyes narrowed. He clenched his right fist, arcane energy instantly gathering.
In the next moment, Ye Feng pushed off the ground, his body shooting forward, directly confronting the enormous and menacing Xue Lang and Xue Bei.
"Bang~! Roar~! Argh..."
Ye Feng's fist, imbued with arcane energy, landed squarely on the head of the fused Xue Lang and Xue Bei, causing its skull to deform and its eyeballs to burst out.
Xue Lang and Xue Bei let out simultaneous screams and were sent flying backward, crashing heavily against a stone wall before falling to the ground, lifeless.
The mysterious woman in white, observing from a distance, showed a look of surprise. However, her attention quickly shifted to the Hexagram Blood Sacrifice Array, from which black mist continued to pour...
After a series of brutal, flesh-to-flesh collisions, Ye Feng found himself surrounded by the corpses of various fierce monsters, former members of the Skull Society.
He then helped Xiao Xiao up, retrieved an exoskeleton armor for her, and gave her an AK-47 for self-defense.
Simultaneously, Ye Feng grabbed a Gatling gun and opened fire on the Skull Society members who had consumed the enhancement serum...
"Bang bang bang!~........."
After the piercing roar of the Gatling gun, the area around Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao regained a semblance of peace.
The hordes of monsters, former Skull Society members, all lay sprawled on the ground...
"Oh~!"
Just as Ye Feng began to breathe a sigh of relief, a crow's caw sounded.
Following this, an immense sense of danger washed over him, and Ye Feng leaped aside with all his might.
"Boom~ Rumble!~"
In the next instant, a ball of fire erupted, and a massive explosion resounded...