"Oh?"
Seeing this, Ye Feng gently pushed the tungsten rod in his hand, and it shot towards Lai Yizhong's fist at high speed.
"Bang!~"
"Ah!~"
"Crack~Crack~"
Lai Yizhong let out a scream. His huge fist was caved in by the tungsten rod, making a series of cracking sounds of bones breaking.
"Go! Kill this brat!"
Lai Yizhong gritted his teeth and roared at Ye Feng. The group of subordinates, armed with various weapons, launched an attack on Ye Feng.
"Bang! Crack~"
"Ah!~"
"Dada da!~"
"Bang bang!~ Crack~Ah!~"
"Ah!~"
.........
The sounds of impact, bone fracturing, screams, gunshots, and metal clashing echoed continuously.
As Ye Feng's figure flickered, the chaotic scene soon returned to silence.
.........
"There are bound to be dead branches on a big tree, and idiots among a crowd!~"
Ye Feng walked towards the campsite where Xiao Xiao, Qiao Ying, Wu Ye Lin, and others were gathered. Lei Jian, who had just witnessed the scene, couldn't help but mutter.
After all, after Ye Feng took down Huang Heshan's group yesterday, anyone who wasn't an idiot could tell that Ye Feng was not to be trifled with. But just now, Lai Yizhong...
"There's no other way..."
Wu Ye Lin also felt a little speechless. "More and more explorers are heading to the giant ruins... Many of them saw so many people here from nearby and came to join the fun, or to pick up scraps..."
"They have no idea where we're actually going!~"
As she spoke, Wu Ye Lin glanced at Lai Yizhong and his men groaning on the ground in the distance.
"It's time to eat!"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao's cheerful voice rang out from not far away.
Before Xiao Xiao finished speaking, Wu Ye Lin and the others immediately got up and went to help serve the rice and dish out the food.
"Speaking of which, Lin, are we always walking uphill?"
At the dinner table, Ye Feng asked Wu Ye Lin while gnawing on a chicken leg.
"Mhm!"
Wu Ye Lin nodded, her gaze shifting to Lei Jian.
"That's the case for now, but based on what I've detected so far, after we cross a few more mountains, we'll need to go downhill!"
Lei Jian quickly replied to Ye Feng.
"Is that so~"
Ye Feng frowned slightly. "This area... Along the path we came from, we've found a lot of shale. Was this originally the ocean?"
"It should be!"
Qiao Ying chimed in. "And the time from ocean to land wouldn't be long at all. In some caves and streams, there are even large amounts of conches, seashells, and the like. The wind that occasionally blows also carries the unique salty smell of the sea!"
"In a world after the Great Cataclysm, the earth changing from mountains to seas and vice versa is perfectly normal~"
Old Liu Tou glanced around, his expression somewhat wistful.
.........
In the following days, Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, Qiao Ying, Wu Ye Lin, and their group, along with a large crowd of explorers, continued to advance towards the giant ruins.
As time went by, the road Ye Feng and his group were traveling became increasingly rugged, with many paths along steep cliffs. A slight carelessness could lead to a fall into an abyss, so their progress was not fast...
.........
One evening,
On a mountainside,
Ye Feng was holding a branch, his eyes closed, recalling the scene of a rural autumn in his mind, the scene of a cloth-robed old man holding a branch and drawing it across the sky.
With Qiao Ying's reminder from before, "Perceive its intent, do not cling to its form," Ye Feng did not rush to unleash the strike that killed the Blood Ancestor.
He also did not rush to imitate the actions of the cloth-robed old man, but instead carefully perceived the artistic conception of the cloth-robed old man drawing the branch across the sky...
Although the cloth-robed old man's movement was slow and seemed ordinary, the more Ye Feng watched, the more peculiar it felt, and each time he watched, it seemed slightly different...
As Ye Feng watched, he gradually became absorbed, even forgetting everything around him. His eyes were fixed only on the scene of the cloth-robed old man drawing across the sky with the branch...
Finally, Ye Feng's hand, holding the branch, unconsciously lifted. Without deliberately striking any pose, he simply drew it gently...
At this moment, Ye Feng did not know that as he made his move, the space the branch cut through actually rippled with faint waves...
At the same time, a strange tremor ran through Ye Feng's mind. He seemed to have grasped a very peculiar feeling...
This strange tremor was very peculiar, feeling omnipresent yet elusive...
For some reason, he instinctively felt that this strange tremor might be related to his promotion to Diamond... perhaps it was some of the special things Ling Xi had told him he needed to be promoted to Diamond...
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, Ye Feng's expression changed drastically. He opened his eyes sharply and looked nervously at the sky.
Because he had just sensed an extremely intense sense of crisis from above, as if his life was in danger the next second...
This intense crisis appeared and disappeared very abruptly!
"What the hell?"
Looking at the giant vortex-shaped cloud formation above, Ye Feng couldn't help but frown.
"Xiao Xiao, what's going on with the sky?"
Immediately, Ye Feng looked at Xiao Xiao, who was walking towards him, with a questioning gaze.
"I'm not too sure..."
Xiao Xiao looked at the thick clouds in the sky, also quite puzzled. "It was clear skies just now, with very few clouds even for the sunset..."
"But for some reason, suddenly there were so many dark clouds, and they formed a huge vortex... It's like a torrential rain is about to fall..."
As Xiao Xiao spoke, many explorers were also discussing the suddenly appearing vortex-shaped clouds with wonder.
"Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, what happened?"
At this moment, Qiao Ying's anxious voice rang out.
As she spoke, Qiao Ying was running quickly towards Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao, her expression anxious.
"I'm not too sure..."
Ye Feng spread his hands helplessly, looking at Qiao Ying with some confusion. "Qiao Ying, why are you so nervous? Did something happen?"
Qiao Ying didn't speak, but looked at the vortex-shaped clouds in the sky that were gradually dissipating...
At this moment, Wu Ye Lin, Old Liu Tou, and Lei Jian also ran over.
"Uncle Liu, why didn't you let us use our arcane energy just now?"
After the three arrived beside Ye Feng, Wu Ye Lin looked at Old Liu Tou, puzzled.
She and Lei Jian were practicing arcane energy, but Old Liu Tou, for some unknown reason, had roared and told them to stop, and insisted that they suppress their arcane energy and not emit any aura...
Wu Ye Lin and Lei Jian looked at Old Liu Tou with great confusion. In all the time they had known Old Liu Tou, this was the first time they had seen him show such a nervous expression!
Old Liu Tou did not respond, but looked at the cloud formation in the sky, which still showed a vortex shape, with a solemn expression. "That cloud formation just now... might be... might be a 'tribulation cloud'... I've only seen it when the old guild leader attempted to ascend to the Epic rank..."
"Tribulation cloud? What is that?"
Wu Ye Lin blinked slightly and voiced the question in Ye Feng and everyone else's minds.