"A great gift?"
Hearing Tu Hu's words, Hua Xin and Lin Ba Sen both frowned slightly.
"Lin Ba Sen, I can make you the Lord of the Arcane City!"
There was a moment of silence, and Tu Hu spoke first, narrowing his eyes at Lin Ba Sen. "This is something you've always dreamed of!"
Then, he turned to Hua Xin. "Hua Xin, I can let you have the City Lord!"
"Hua Xin, I've known your little thoughts for a long time. You've been coveting the City Lord for more than a day, but you've never dared... nor had the ability..."
Seeing Hua Xin's eyes turn dangerous, Tu Hu spoke again.
As he spoke, he walked to the wine cabinet in the room, took out a bottle of whiskey, and drank it down in large gulps, as if it were plain water.
Hua Xin and Lin Ba Sen remained silent, their brows furrowed as they stared at Tu Hu.
"I know that my words alone, Tu Hu, will not be enough to convince you!"
Tu Hu wiped the whiskey from the corner of his mouth, grinned, and said, "But... what if it were like this!"
As his voice fell, a flash of light appeared in Tu Hu's hand, and an ancient yellow-gray spear instantly materialized. A powerful pressure erupted, it was the Spear of War...
...
Meanwhile,
In Tingfang Garden,
Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying were killing chickens and ducks, preparing to stew the wild ginseng brought by Jiang Sishan to nourish Ye Feng.
Looking at the two women busy at work, Ye Feng felt somewhat speechless.
He had been feeling lethargic for the past few days, easily drowsy, and lacking energy for anything, wanting only to sleep and rest. Therefore, the two women had concluded that Ye Feng's constitution was weak and needed proper nourishment...
"Nourishment..."
Speaking of this, Ye Feng couldn't help but think of the half of a strengthening fruit that Wu Ye Lan had given him in his spatial warehouse.
...
After a sumptuous dinner, Ye Feng lay lazily on the rattan chair on the balcony, resting.
It was past ten o'clock at night.
"Am I really a bit weak?"
Ye Feng looked at the twinkling stars in the sky, feeling perplexed.
Because after eating the stewed duck and chicken prepared by Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying, he genuinely felt more energetic.
"I cultivated through tribulation fire. Although my skin and flesh have regenerated, they were indeed burned through... My spirit is also very fatigued... It's truly like recovering from battle injuries..."
Ye Feng recalled for a moment, frowned slightly, then jumped directly from the balcony. Finding a secluded spot, he took out the half of a strengthening fruit given to him by Wu Ye Lan and ate it quickly.
"Ugh!"
After the half of a strengthening fruit entered his stomach, Ye Feng instantly felt a surge of warmth rapidly spreading through his body, reaching his limbs, making him feel very comfortable...
After a while, Ye Feng felt a wave of drowsiness wash over him, so he simply lay down on the ground and fell asleep...
...
The next morning,
"Big Brother? Wake up, what happened?"
Ye Feng was sleeping soundly when Xiao Xiao's voice faintly reached him.
"Oh, it's Xiao Xiao!"
Ye Feng opened his eyes, sat up, and stretched his waist, his joints popping.
"Buzz!"
Immediately, Ye Feng's gaze sharpened, and a wisp of golden light appeared in his hand, it was tribulation fire.
By cultivating with the tribulation fire from Shen Botian's tribulation, although Ye Feng's arcane energy had decreased, his tribulation fire had increased significantly, and his control over it had also strengthened. Ye Feng no longer needed to wrap the tribulation fire with a considerable amount of arcane energy to control it as before...
However, direct contact between the tribulation fire and his body still caused him immense pain and even burns...
"Hoo~! I really was injured... my body became weak~"
"It seems I need to be careful when cultivating in tribulation fire from now on!"
Ye Feng moved his body again, muttering to himself.
"Big Brother, are you okay?"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao's voice, filled with worry, sounded.
When she woke up this morning, she found that Ye Feng had not returned all night, and she and Qiao Ying had anxiously searched for him. They found him lying on the grass, unsure if he was asleep or unconscious...
"I'm fine!"
Ye Feng reached out and gently pinched Xiao Xiao's cheek. "Don't worry, my body has already recovered..."
...
Shortly after breakfast,
Jiang Sishan came running excitedly to tell Ye Feng that he had passed the third round of assessment, and the Arcane City had sent someone to notify him.
"Only ten people advanced to the final round?"
Although he had already speculated that the third round would not be as lenient as the first two, this result still surprised Ye Feng.
"Is Lin Dan Da here?"
As Ye Feng was chatting with Jiang Sishan in the pavilion by the lake, a male voice he recognized suddenly called out.
Ye Feng looked in the direction of the voice and saw the white-haired librarian he had seen at Dawn Academy before.
"Here!"
Ye Feng waved his hand at him.
"A teacher from Dawn Academy entrusted me to give you a letter!"
The white-haired librarian quickly walked up to Ye Feng and handed him an envelope.
"A teacher from Dawn Academy?"
Ye Feng was quite puzzled, and the image of the woman in the sky-blue long dress he had seen on the ninth floor of the Dawn Academy library surfaced in his mind.
"Is it really her?"
Ye Feng opened the envelope and found that the letter was indeed from the woman in the sky-blue long dress. She invited him to the ninth floor to discuss arcane runes...
"Is there anything else?"
Seeing that the white-haired librarian hadn't left and was looking at him with a strange gaze, Ye Feng couldn't help but feel puzzled.
"Uh, no..."
The white-haired librarian was slightly startled and quickly turned and left.
"Ye Feng, a teacher from Dawn Academy wrote to you? What's going on?"
"Which teacher from Dawn Academy do you know? And they could get Old Li to deliver the letter himself!"
After the white-haired librarian left, Jiang Sishan looked at Ye Feng with surprise.
"Old Li? The librarian just now?"
Ye Feng turned to Jiang Sishan.
"Mhm!"
Jiang Sishan nodded. "His name is Li Shu. He's an elder of the Arcane City. It's said his strength is on par with the Five Arcanists, but because he's always stayed in the library, very few people know about him. I only found out about such a person in the Arcane City from Bing."
"I see..."
Ye Feng looked at the letter in his hand, feeling hesitant. After all, the woman in the sky-blue long dress was not only powerful but also very mysterious...
"Um, Ye Feng, who was the teacher from Dawn Academy that Old Li mentioned?"
At this moment, Jiang Sishan spoke again, his voice full of curiosity...