"Are you sure, Si Shan?"
Ye Feng looked at Jiang Si Shan with a very serious expression.
"That's the intelligence I received earlier. A mysterious white-robed woman with her face veiled and unfathomable strength."
"Based on the portrait I received before, it's the same woman we saw in the ancient battlefield!"
Jiang Si Shan recalled for a moment and nodded solemnly.
"Ye Feng, I also received news... the person who put out a bounty on you is indeed her!"
Xue Yuli chimed in, and with a flash of light in her hand, a sketch appeared.
Ye Feng glanced at it immediately, and his expression changed slightly. Although the drawing was a bit blurry and the background seemed to be at night, the profile was clearly Yue Fei Xue.
"Actually, it might not be her. After all, she was wearing a veil at the time!" Jiang Si Shan spoke again.
"Whether it's her or not is no longer important!"
As Xue Yuli finished speaking, a ripple of water appeared on the hand holding the sketch. The sketch instantly became drenched, and the content drawn became a mess, making it impossible to tell what was depicted.
"Last night, I received news that the bounty targeting you has been canceled. The other party even compensated us with some arcane origin stones."
In the bewildered gazes of Ye Feng and Jiang Si Shan, Xue Yuli spoke to Ye Feng.
"That's good! That's good!"
Upon hearing this, Ye Feng hadn't even expressed anything, but Jiang Si Shan was the first to breathe a sigh of relief.
To be honest, even without their connection through Bing, Jiang Si Shan still cared quite a bit about Ye Feng and didn't want him to get entangled with an incredibly powerful super expert like Yue Fei Xue.
Ye Feng, however, frowned deeply, feeling very confused. Was Yue Fei Xue the one who put a bounty on him?
It didn't make sense. With her strength, if she really wanted to kill him, she could have done it with a single slap. Why would she bother with a bounty? And the subsequent inexplicable cancellation of the bounty was also strange?
"Everyone, please be quiet!"
At this moment, Guo Hai, with his bandaged hands, walked onto a high platform.
"Everyone, please be quiet. Next, I will introduce the great hero of our Dune, Ye Feng!"
As Guo Hai's voice fell, a spotlight, seemingly from nowhere, shone down on Ye Feng. Combined with the dim evening light, even people far away could clearly see him.
"This young explorer, his name is Ye Feng. He killed the swarms of ferocious zombies near the Ten Thousand Man Pit... He battled the Bald Gang... It was he who led Xue Yuli, the leader of our Ocean Paradise, through the terrifying super sandstorm zone..."
"It was he who saved our entire Dune, turning our lifeless sand dune into a vibrant oasis..."
"The notorious leader of the Blood Skull, the Skull Society, the cursed Su Shu, and his Bald Gang, were all defeated by him..."
Guo Hai spoke passionately into the microphone, some of his words making Ye Feng blush.
"Yuli, what are you doing?"
Ye Feng awkwardly greeted the onlookers with their eyes shining, while secretly asking Xue Yuli.
"What am I doing?"
Xue Yuli smiled faintly. "I'm just stating the facts!"
"The pile of zombies in the Dune were killed by you, weren't they? Many of the Bald Gang's war vehicles were blown up by you? The Blood Skull fell by your hand?"
Xue Yuli quietly recounted what had happened before.
"I..."
Ye Feng was speechless for a moment.
"Explorer brother, tell us how you bravely killed the zombies! Those zombies are so terrifying, they can even flip cars!"
"Brother Ye Feng, tell us how you turned that boundless desert into an oasis!"
"That's right, that's right! It's so magical. Just two days ago it was a vast desert, and today it's an oasis with many fruit trees..."
"Brother Ye Feng, please try this unknown fruit. It was just picked this morning. We've eaten it, and it's not poisonous, and it's very sweet!"
...
As soon as Guo Hai finished speaking, many children crowded around Ye Feng, bombarding him with questions.
These children were mostly sallow and malnourished, but their eyes twinkled with hope, and a sense of anticipation and longing for the future...
"Uh, it's like this..."
Facing the clear eyes of these children, Ye Feng couldn't bear to refuse. He scratched his head and started chatting with them.
...
It wasn't until late at night that the children gathered around Ye Feng gradually dispersed. However, it wasn't their own volition; it was their parents who feared disturbing Ye Feng's rest and took them away.
"Phew~!"
Ye Feng let out a sigh of relief and massaged his slightly sore cheeks.
The children had been offering him various food and drinks while listening to his experiences, and his mouth had barely stopped moving...
...
The next day,
In the early morning,
After breakfast, Ye Feng, Xue Yuli, and Jiang Si Shan lay rather lazily on a hillside near Ocean Paradise, enjoying the gentle sunlight and cool breeze.
Meanwhile, Xiao Xiao was playing with some children, recounting their past adventures with Ye Feng, punctuated by exclamations and sighs of amazement...
"I never thought that the sky-obscuring, boundless super sandstorm that blocked the path of countless explorers... was man-made, seemingly through some magic array!"
Xue Yuli looked in one direction with great emotion.
That was the direction where the super sandstorm zone used to be. The sky there used to be yellow, but now it was a clear blue...
"It's not just that super sandstorm zone. The entire area of the ancient battlefield where we were before was likely within a giant arcane formation!"
"In that place, our arcane energy would be siphoned away... and our perception would be suppressed..."
"And those phantom soldiers, their combat power greatly diminished once they left the range of the Six-Pointed Star Blood Sacrifice Array, and they wouldn't even pursue for a long distance..."
"These are likely all related to the colossal arcane formation beneath the ancient battlefield!"
Jiang Si Shan chimed in, his tone filled with awe.
"Not only that, I think the entire desert turning into an oasis... the riverbed with arcane-inscribed water-attribute arcane origin stones... the regeneration wood... these are all likely related to arcane formations!"
Xue Yuli nodded and added.
"Indeed!"
"Such a world-shattering arcane formation, I wonder which arcane rune master of the past created it!"
"Perhaps the legendary realm of arcane rune masters truly exists!"
"To wield a brush and paint the heavens, to wield a pen and repel ten thousand enemies!"
As he uttered the last sentence, Jiang Si Shan's eyes were filled with admiration and longing.
"Are arcane rune masters that powerful?"
Hearing their discussion, Ye Feng felt quite envious.
"By the way, Yuli, Si Shan, do you know if Yue Fei Xue, Zhao Gongzi, and Su Jianying, oh, that is, the Blood Skull guy, were using arcane energy in their battles?"
After some thought, Ye Feng asked the question that had been on his mind for a long time, as both of them were quite knowledgeable about arcane energy.
Upon hearing Ye Feng's words, neither Jiang Si Shan nor Xue Yuli answered. Instead, they looked at Ye Feng with rather strange expressions.
"What's wrong?"
Ye Feng scratched his head, puzzled.
...