"Big Brother, how are you?!"
"Ye Feng, are you alright?"
At this moment, after confirming Sikla's death, Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying flew over, looking at Ye Feng with anxious faces.
Ye Feng was truly miserable at this moment, with wounds all over his body, some from spatial blades, some from his own true energy, some inflicted by Ilyas, and some formed by tribulation fire piercing through from within...
Ye Feng was bleeding all over... constantly dripping...
"Found it!"
Before Ye Feng could answer, a deep male voice, tinged with surprise and wild joy, rang out.
"Buzz!"
"Boom!"
In the next second, a large area where Ye Feng and the others were located flashed with black light, and a bizarre formation abruptly appeared from the ground. A powerful pressure, filled with darkness, instantly descended upon Ye Feng and the others.
"This... this pressure... it's from the same origin as the Three-Headed Hellhound? Are there other Three-Headed Hellhounds here?"
Qiao Ying's expression was extremely serious as he surveyed their surroundings, his gaze finally settling on the direction of the Explorer's Guild city gate. The space there distorted, and a figure cloaked in black appeared above the city wall.
"It's that guy Meiyou!"
The figure in the black robe was not far from Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, and Qiao Ying. Therefore, Xiao Xiao clearly saw the figure's face and exclaimed in surprise.
"Xiao Xiao... that might be a Demon Awakened one I was tracking before..."
Qiao Ying's voice lowered.
Under the gaze of Ye Feng and the other two, the Demon Awakened one, who looked almost identical to Meiyou, with his withered, ancient hands covered in strange runes, formed a seal and slapped the ground beneath him. A bizarre formation instantly materialized.
"Boom! Crack crack crack!~"
In the next second, the sign at the gate of the Explorer's Guild city, bearing the words "Explorer's Guild," exploded. A black box flew rapidly towards the Demon Awakened one and finally hovered above the formation in front of him.
"Snap!"
The Demon Awakened one quickly extended his withered, ancient hands and opened the black box. Upon seeing its contents, his face broke into a wild smile. "It's indeed the Dark Divine Book!"
Immediately, the Demon Awakened one looked towards the direction of Wu Ye Lan, who was still being burned by the tribulation fire. "Wu Ye Long Yue went to great lengths to lure me to an ancient ruin... I never expected the Dark Divine Book to have been in the Explorer's Guild all along, never taken by him... and placed so brazenly in the most conspicuous position of the Explorer's Guild..."
"Wu Ye Long Yue is quite capable... to have used a special formation to isolate the aura of the Dark Divine Book. No wonder Lu Yi couldn't find any news for so many years, and even my summoning formation failed..."
As he spoke, the Demon Awakened one looked at Ye Feng. "If it weren't for your fight damaging the formation that isolated the Dark Divine Book... I might not have been able to find it after all..."
A flash of light appeared on the Demon Awakened one's hand as he put the Dark Divine Book into the black skull ring he wore. He narrowed his eyes, took a step towards Ye Feng's location, killing intent surging in his eyes.
Seeing this, Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying immediately stepped forward, their expressions guarded as they looked at the Demon Awakened one, their Angel Blades surging with angelic power.
The Demon Awakened one stared at Ye Feng for a long time, his expression showing some hesitation. He glanced at the skull ring containing the Dark Divine Book, then finally formed a complex seal with his withered hands. A black vortex instantly appeared beside him.
"Angels, huh... Kid, I hope you're still alive when we meet again. I'll personally skin you alive!"
The Demon Awakened one glanced at Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying, then looked at Ye Feng, uttering coldly before stepping into the black vortex and disappearing with it.
"Big Brother, I... what do we do next..."
"Buzz!"
Before Xiao Xiao could finish speaking, the tribulation fire that had been burning Wu Ye Lan in the distance instantly vanished, and the tribulation clouds in the sky dissipated. Wu Ye Lan, his body blackened, fell straight down.
"Qiao Ying, do you think that Demon Awakened one will try to double back?"
Ye Feng looked at Qiao Ying with a serious expression, his breathing slightly unsteady.
"Yes!"
Qiao Ying nodded. "Sikla left quite a few strange monsters that ran off. Xiao Xiao and I didn't chase them, but dealing with them shouldn't be a problem!"
"That's good!"
Upon hearing Qiao Ying's words, Ye Feng, who had maintained a rather dashing posture, ready to fight at any moment, could no longer hold on. His eyes rolled back, his body went limp, and he fell straight down.
"Ah! Big Brother!"
Ye Feng's sudden change made Xiao Xiao exclaim and she quickly chased after him.
"Xiao Xiao, take care of Ye Feng!"
Saying this, Qiao Ying flapped his angelic wings and flew rapidly towards Wu Ye Lan, catching him just as he was about to crash onto a pile of sharp gravel.
A short while later, Xiao Xiao also supported Ye Feng as they landed on the ground.
Qiao Ying confirmed Wu Ye Lan was still alive and then quickly rushed to Ye Feng's location.
"Big Brother has bled so much, he's so badly injured and has fainted!"
When Qiao Ying arrived beside Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao was taking out a large pile of alcohol and cotton balls, quickly cleaning Ye Feng's wounds. Qiao Ying squatted down and immediately helped her.
...
Meanwhile,
In the main city of the Explorer's Guild, near a ruined building,
A woman with a collapsed, flat nose, nostrils almost directly against her face, and extremely obese, walked alongside another woman whose face was covered in countless freckles and who was similarly obese. They were Zhu Rongrong and Lu Saomei.
Zhu Rongrong and Lu Saomei, holding arcane energy rifles, ran rapidly towards the location where the Wu Ye Explorer's Guild building had once stood.
"Sister Mei, are you sure that brat called Ye Feng is in the Wu Ye Explorer's Guild building?"
After using her arcane energy rifle to headshot a passing civilian who was fleeing, Zhu Rongrong asked Lu Saomei.
"That's right, I've had people keeping tabs on that stinking brat's whereabouts. Someone saw him heading towards the Wu Ye Explorer's Guild building!"
"Perfect, if we go there, we can personally get our revenge!"
Lu Saomei fired a shot into the distance with her arcane energy rifle, gnashing her teeth.
"Good!"
"Let's go!"
Not far away, a burly middle-aged man in a pink t-shirt struggled out of the ruins. It was Scorpion, who happened to overhear Lu Saomei and Zhu Rongrong's conversation.
"Are those two women planning to deal with Mr. Ye?"
Scorpion, with his fractured and deformed left arm, frowned. Ignoring his injuries, he chased after Zhu Rongrong and Lu Saomei.
"Ah! Bang!"
"Yaa! Ah! Woo woo~!"
In a short while, Zhu Rongrong and Lu Saomei fell to the ground, frothing at the mouth and writhing, their lives extinguished within a few breaths.
"Hmph, two foolish women who don't know their place! I was just wondering how to repay Mr. Ye!"
Scorpion coldly glanced at the corpses of Zhu Rongrong and Lu Saomei on the ground, then, dragging his injured leg, he limped away.
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