Soon, under the escort of two Diamond First-Rank elders, Bing entered a rather imposing ancient building, which was the City Lord’s mansion.
It was broad daylight, and the person guarding the entrance of the City Lord’s mansion was a Gold Seventh-Rank middle-aged man. Coupled with several powerful auras within the mansion, Ye Feng did not enter directly. Instead, he lurked nearby, observing…
…
Deep into the night,
Ye Feng changed into a set of night-clothes, his figure flashed, and he headed straight for the City Lord’s mansion.
“Whoosh!”
After a faint sound of air being broken, the Gold Seventh-Rank middle-aged man at the entrance of the City Lord’s mansion had no time to react before his body went limp and he slumped against the wall.
The middle-aged man’s eyes were the only part of his body that could still move, as Ye Feng had injected him with the Arcane Venom he had obtained from that fellow Mei You.
Ye Feng ignored the middle-aged man, whose face was filled with terror and rage. He taped the man’s eyes shut, posed him, covered his face with a hat, and then quickly ran into the inner courtyard of the City Lord’s mansion without making a sound…
“Hoo!”
“Who!”
“Ugh…”
Ye Feng moved with extreme speed, controlling many people along the way in the same manner, including even two Diamond First-Rank experts.
…
Thus, Ye Feng quickly searched for Bing’s trace within the City Lord’s mansion… He avoided those he could, and for those he couldn’t, he used the Arcane Venom to incapacitate them…
…
After Ye Feng had searched nearly the entire City Lord’s mansion, a woman in a sky-blue long dress walked to the entrance of the City Lord’s mansion. It was Yue Yan.
Yue Yan looked at the middle-aged man by the door, who was leaning against the doorframe with his arms crossed and a hat covering his face, and raised an eyebrow.
“Whoosh!”
The next second, Yue Yan removed the hat from the middle-aged man’s face and tore off the black tape.
Upon seeing Yue Yan, the middle-aged man’s eyeballs darted rapidly, appearing exceptionally anxious, but he couldn’t speak…
Seeing this, Yue Yan frowned slightly. Arcane energy emerged from her hand as she probed the middle-aged man’s condition.
In just an instant, surprise appeared in Yue Yan’s eyes, as she discovered that the man had been poisoned with Arcane Venom…
Immediately, Yue Yan’s hand flashed, and a syringe was plunged into the middle-aged man’s carotid artery, pushing the medicine inside.
After a while, the middle-aged man’s fingers twitched slightly.
“Ci… Hold on… City Lord, it’s Arcane Venom… It’s Mei You… Mei You is back…”
Because his arcane energy was sealed and his body was paralyzed, the middle-aged man’s tongue was somewhat tied as he spoke, unable to articulate clearly.
“It’s alright, you continue to guard here!”
Yue Yan curved her willow-like eyebrows, signaling him not to panic, then turned and slowly walked into the City Lord’s mansion.
The middle-aged man then sat cross-legged, mobilized his arcane energy, and began to regulate his breathing.
After all, this Arcane Venom was no trifling matter. Although Yue Yan had injected him with an antidote, he wouldn’t be able to recover his strength immediately…
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On the other side,
“This is truly troublesome… Bing’s whereabouts are nowhere to be found in any of the rooms… Could it be a basement or something?”
After Ye Feng searched all the rooms on the ground floor of the City Lord’s mansion, his mood grew heavy. If it were a basement, it would be manageable. But if Bing had left through some underground passage or teleportation array, it would be troublesome…
“Hmm?”
As Ye Feng was contemplating how to find the basement, he noticed that in a living room he had already searched, there were signs of an arcane array.
Without hesitation, Ye Feng quickly went to that living room and examined it carefully.
“There is indeed an arcane array… and it’s a teleportation array…”
After some investigation, Ye Feng understood.
“Although the other rooms in the City Lord’s mansion are cleaned and not dusty, the door bolts of this living room and its door seem to be more worn. Also, there’s a faint smell of food in the air… There are traces of plates and the like on the living room table, suggesting someone regularly brings things here…”
After sweeping his gaze around, Ye Feng’s eyes sharpened, and he leaped into the teleportation array.
“Buzz!”
Ye Feng felt a flash of light before his eyes, and then he arrived in a rather spacious and bright place. It appeared to be a huge cave, with solid stone surrounding it, and arcane runes carved on the walls…
“Eh?”
Ye Feng’s brow furrowed after a brief glance.
Because he noticed a rectangular altar not far ahead, covered in strange red runes, exactly like the so-called God Conferment Platform he had seen at the Divine Stone experiment base.
According to Qiao Ying, the Dark Holy Cult’s Divine Stone irradiation experiments involved binding captured Divine Stone experiment subjects to a God Conferment Platform covered in strange runes, and subjecting them to irradiation from the Divine Stone above the platform…
“This place… created by the City Lord of the City of Arcane Arts… Is the City Lord of the City of Arcane Arts, Yue Yan, a member of the Dark Holy Cult?”
“The person named Yan in the Survivor Channel said they wanted to capture me for research… Is it for this Divine Stone experiment?”
Without realizing it, Ye Feng’s brow furrowed tightly.
“Sister Yan, you’re here!”
At this moment, a pleasant female voice sounded, and then a beautiful young girl in a white long dress walked out. It was Bing, whom Ye Feng had been searching for all night.
“Bing!”
Ye Feng immediately called out to her.
“Hmm?”
Bing looked over, but she didn’t respond. Instead, she looked at Ye Feng with wary and surprised eyes.
“Bing, it’s me!”
As he spoke, Ye Feng tore off the voice changer attached below his throat, revealing his original voice. At the same time, his hand flashed, and he brushed it across his face, restoring his original appearance.
“Ye Feng!”
Seeing this, Bing’s face lit up with joy, and she quickly ran towards Ye Feng.
When she reached Ye Feng, Bing felt a little embarrassed. She had originally wanted to hug him, but her feminine reserve made her very shy…
Ye Feng also scratched his head awkwardly… He had a lot of things he wanted to say to Bing, but now that they had met, he didn’t know how to begin…
“Bing!”
“Ye Feng!”
Ye Feng and Bing spoke at the same time.
“You first!”
“You first!”
Another instance of speaking in unison made both Ye Feng and Bing blush.
“That… Bing, are you alright?”
Ye Feng scratched his head, looking at Bing with concern.
“Yes, I’m doing very well~!”
Bing smiled slightly and nodded, “You… you’ve lost so much weight… From the City of Despair to here, it must have been very tough…”
“Uh, it’s okay… I… now is not the time to chat, come, I’ll take you away from here!”
Ye Feng intended to talk about his journey, but he changed his tone.
Saying so, Ye Feng walked towards the entrance of the teleportation array, but Bing did not follow.
“What’s wrong?”
Sensing that something was amiss, Ye Feng stopped and turned to look at Bing with a confused gaze.
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