"Is this the power of space?!"
Ye Feng extended his left index finger and gently poked above the Water Ripple Sword. The space immediately rippled, as if it were a calm lake surface into which Ye Feng had tossed a small pebble...
"Bang~ Crackle!"
"Crack crack crack~"
Suddenly, the ground split open, and a large amount of stone and earth-attribute arcane energy surged forth, transforming into something like a swamp that grabbed Ye Feng and Wu Ye Lin's feet. It was an earth-attribute Golden Grade Six Divine Stone experimental subject.
"Whoosh!"
"Screech!"
Ye Feng's eyes narrowed. Gripping the Water Ripple Sword, he spun around and slashed swiftly. The earth-attribute Divine Stone experimental subject had just emerged from the ground when a splash of blood erupted from its left shoulder to its lower right abdomen, having been struck by the Water Ripple Sword's slash.
The spatial barrier it had condensed in front of it had already been dispelled by the Water Ripple Sword...
"Ye Feng, you... you..."
Wu Ye Lin was incredibly surprised. She opened her mouth, momentarily speechless.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
"Zing zing zing!"
At this moment, another Divine Stone experimental subject from above them shot down a barrage of metal blades and arrows. Ye Feng and Wu Ye Lin dodged quickly, their bodies flashing.
As they dodged and weaved, Ye Feng and Wu Ye Lin found themselves inside a collapsed building.
"Bang!"
As soon as they entered, a metal-attribute Divine Stone experimental subject smashed through the wall and rushed in. Before it could react, a white light flashed, its spatial barrier beside it instantly collapsed, and half of its arm was severed.
"Whoosh!"
"Screech!"
The next second, the metal-attribute Divine Stone experimental subject was decapitated, meeting its end.
"Ye... Ye Feng, you... you..."
Wu Ye Lin's eyes widened in even greater surprise, because Ye Feng had just killed the Divine Stone experimental subject not with the Water Ripple Sword, but with the Tang dao she had seen before...
At this moment, the Tang dao was also emitting spatial energy fluctuations, identical to the Water Ripple Sword...
"Boom! Bang!"
At this moment, another explosion sounded, and another Divine Stone experimental subject charged in. It was the bald man named Zheng Guo.
Ye Feng, with the Tang dao in his right hand and the Water Ripple Sword in his left, stepped forward and unleashed a flurry of attacks. Before the charging Zheng Guo could react, he was decapitated and fell silent.
"The spatial power of these two... is indeed the same..."
Ye Feng looked at the Tang dao in his right hand, then at the Water Ripple Sword in his left, a look of surprise on his face.
"Ye Feng, you... how did you do it? Are you also from the Wu Ye family?"
Wu Ye Lin snapped out of her shock and asked Ye Feng with a look of bewilderment.
"What? Wu Ye family?"
Ye Feng looked at Wu Ye Lin with confusion.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble!"
Before Wu Ye Lin could answer, a series of impacts and explosions erupted. The collapsed building immediately fell apart. Ye Feng returned the Water Ripple Sword to Wu Ye Lin, retracted the Tang dao, and replaced it with a tungsten rod. He and Wu Ye Lin rushed out.
"Clang!"
As soon as they burst out of the collapsing building, they directly encountered a Divine Stone experimental subject with a sharp beak and buck teeth. Wu Ye Lin immediately held the Water Ripple Sword and began to fight it.
"What the... is it not working?"
Ye Feng looked at the tungsten rod in his hand with confusion, as he found he couldn't sense or ignite spatial energy as he had just moments before.
"Ah! Crackle!"
"Boom! Clang!"
"Whoosh~ Boom!"
After a barrage of intense fighting, the remaining three Divine Stone experimental subjects were all dead, killed by Ye Feng, Wu Ye Lin, or Qiao Ying and Xiao Xiao.
"You... you guys..."
Seeing Ye Feng look at him, Huang Renxin felt a chill run down his spine.
He also sensed that something was amiss. Zeng Jing hadn't returned yet... He wouldn't believe any excuses about Zeng Jing being lost...
"This kid is full of strangeness... Zeng Jing's spatial power is far stronger than those Divine Stone experimental subjects... but..."
"And Chen Du's three Divine Stone experimental subjects earlier... they were all killed under conditions of obstructed vision and chaotic scenes... were they really killed by Wu Ye Lin?"
"If... if it was that kid who killed the Divine Stone experimental subjects... then Zeng Jing might also be..."
Huang Renxin stared at Ye Feng with extreme caution.
Although Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying being angels surprised and daunted him, for some reason, Ye Feng, whose arcane energy fluctuation was only Golden Grade Seven, instilled a sense of fear in him... a primal fear...
"You guys take care of Lin. I'll deal with him!"
With that, Ye Feng, wielding a tungsten rod surging with true energy, charged at Huang Renxin.
Xiao Xiao and Qiao Ying frowned slightly and did not pursue.
Meanwhile, Wu Ye Lin's face was pale, cold sweat dripping down her face, and her arcane energy fluctuation intensity was rapidly decreasing...
...
On the other side,
Ye Feng and Huang Renxin were engaged in a fierce battle. However, Huang Renxin was cautious, remaining in a defensive posture, never initiating an attack.
He blocked all of Ye Feng's attacks with his Mirror Demon Rune Halberd. Every time Ye Feng attacked, the Mirror Demon Rune Halberd's mirror would flash, emitting a true energy attack with the same quality and quantity as Ye Feng's...
This made it seem as if Ye Feng was constantly fighting another version of himself. Furthermore, Huang Renxin's Gu Rune long saber was also quite troublesome...
However, Ye Feng was not in a hurry. In fact, he rather enjoyed Huang Renxin's tactics, because he noticed that whenever the Mirror Demon Rune Halberd unleashed attacks identical to his own, it emitted a peculiar fluctuation, a fluctuation he had experienced when he walked on void at the foot of Mech City.
All this time, Ye Feng had wanted to re-experience that feeling but had no opportunity. He never expected to encounter it again with Wu Ye Lin's Water Ripple Sword and Huang Renxin...
"Crack!"
"Ugh! Ah!"
At this moment, a lightning-like sound rang out, followed by a muffled groan of suppressed pain. It was Wu Ye Lin, whose right shoulder had been sliced by Xikela's claws, bleeding profusely.
"Boom! Bang!"
Taking advantage of the moment Ye Feng looked towards Wu Ye Lin, Huang Renxin suddenly launched an attack at Ye Feng. A massive flaming long saber instantly slashed towards Ye Feng. Huang Renxin did not continue his attack but abruptly changed direction, rapidly running towards Xikela's location.
"Lord Xikela... Ah... Pfft! Crackle crackle~"
As soon as Huang Renxin shouted, it turned into a scream. He had been struck in the chest by Ye Feng's tungsten rod. Huang Renxin spat out a large mouthful of blood, his chest caving in, and countless ribs presumably broken.
"Whoosh!"
"Screech!"
Ye Feng's Mithril long saber surged with true energy. A white light flashed, and Huang Renxin died on the spot.
Immediately, Ye Feng turned his gaze towards Xikela. The latter was also looking over, but showed no sadness or anger at Huang Renxin's death.
"Heh heh heh~"
"What a bunch of trash... The Divine Stone irradiation experiment wasn't even fully successful... In the end, it's still up to me..."
Xikela shook his head. The space beneath his feet rippled, and the next moment, he appeared before Ye Feng, his claws reaching for Ye Feng's chest.
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