Hearing Lu Yun's words, Ye Ling looked at Mo Qingfeng in surprise and asked, "Are you Ye Feng's master?"
"I, I..."
Mo Qingfeng never expected that this fire would reach him!
He had indeed taught Ye Feng for a period of time and could be considered Ye Feng's half-master. But now, even a fool could see that Ye Ling and Ye Feng had a grudge. If he admitted his relationship with Ye Feng...
Mo Qingfeng dared not imagine what Ye Ling would do to him.
Ye Ling stepped on Mo Qingfeng's chest, stared into his eyes, and said, "Looking at you like this, Lu Yun didn't speak incorrectly?"
Mo Qingfeng, unable to breathe under Ye Ling's foot, his old face flushed red, quickly said to Ye Ling, "It's a misunderstanding... this is all a misunderstanding! I am not Ye Feng's master!"
"Oh?"
Ye Ling raised an eyebrow, and the foot he had stepped down with pressed down with more force, causing Mo Qingfeng's chest to cave in and his ribs to nearly break!
"They're broken, they're broken! My lord, spare me!" Mo Qingfeng panicked and quickly begged Ye Ling for mercy.
Under Ye Ling's overwhelming power, Mo Qingfeng had lost the basic dignity of a loose immortal, and he kept begging Ye Ling for mercy.
He had cultivated diligently for hundreds of years and finally stepped into the realm of loose immortals. He had not ascended to the immortal realm and thought he could roam the human world freely.
He never expected that in front of Ye Ling, he would be as fragile as an infant.
This immense blow directly shattered his basic worldview!
Mo Qingfeng was on the verge of a mental breakdown; what dignity could he speak of at this point?
Seeing that Mo Qingfeng was about to suffocate, Ye Ling also smiled faintly and slightly loosened his grip, allowing Mo Qingfeng to barely breathe.
This tightening and loosening, however, made Mo Qingfeng feel Ye Ling's absolute dominance!
Lu Yun and the woman in black, seeing Mo Qingfeng's miserable state, also held their breath and averted their gaze, afraid of being noticed by Ye Ling.
After Mo Qingfeng caught his breath, he said to Ye Ling, "Reporting to my lord, although I taught Ye Feng cultivation, it was merely a coincidence. I have not seen Ye Feng since then, and I cannot truly be considered his master."
"Ye Feng's evil deeds have nothing to do with me!"
Although Mo Qingfeng said this, he didn't even know what grudges Ye Feng and Ye Ling had.
He was once a guest elder of the Heavenly Concealment Pavilion. By chance, he obtained an incredibly profound cultivation technique. Not daring to cultivate it rashly, he thought of finding a guinea pig to test it first. Thus, he found Ye Feng and taught him to cultivate that technique.
However, some things happened later. Before he could see Ye Feng cultivate that technique to great success, Ye Feng defected from his sect with the Heavenly Secret Diagram, and he was entangled with matters concerning his ancestors, so he withdrew from the Heavenly Concealment Pavilion.
Ye Feng's experiment as a guinea pig was thus put on hold.
Not long after, he heard that Ye Feng had joined the Red Dust Pavilion, and then he completely lost all news of Ye Feng.
As for that cultivation technique, he still did not dare to cultivate it.
After all, his ancestor had the precedent of the "Great Transformation Heavenly Derivation Heart Art." When facing cultivation techniques of unknown origin, he did not dare to cultivate them recklessly.
Hearing Mo Qingfeng's explanation, Ye Ling directly said, "Do you still have that cultivation technique with you?"
Mo Qingfeng quickly replied, "It's in my Qiankun Bag! It's called 'Heavenly Remnant Art'!"
"'Heavenly Remnant Art'?"
Hearing Mo Qingfeng's words, Ye Ling was slightly surprised and confirmed again.
Mo Qingfeng did not think of anything else and nodded, "It's called 'Heavenly Remnant Art.' I obtained it in a secret realm. The characters within are extremely profound, and I don't recognize a single one, yet I can miraculously understand the cultivation method of that technique. It's incredibly strange!"
"'Heavenly Remnant Art'..."
Ye Ling murmured the name in a low voice, his expression somewhat solemn.
The "Heavenly Remnant Art"... was the top-tier cultivation technique of the Myriad Demon Sect, an evil sect that was once extremely powerful on the Eastern Profound Continent sixty thousand years ago.
When Ye Ling first transmigrated to the Eastern Profound Continent, the Myriad Demon Sect was at its peak, with numerous disciples. Even countless sacred clans dared not confront them directly.
At one point, Ye Ling had a falling out with the Myriad Demon Sect due to certain matters and was hunted by them. Therefore, he had a deep understanding of the "Heavenly Remnant Art."
When things reach an extreme, they reverse. The Myriad Demon Sect, at its peak, continuously encroached upon various sects, finally provoking widespread anger.
Several major sacred clans took the lead, leading over a thousand sects and a million cultivators to attack Myriad Demon Mountain, ultimately destroying the Myriad Demon Sect. The sect leader, Heavenly Remnant Demon Venerable, died, and the sole copy of the Myriad Demon Sect's foundational technique, the "Heavenly Remnant Art," also disappeared. What the various sects obtained were merely incomplete versions of the "Heavenly Remnant Art" cultivated by the disciples of the Myriad Demon Sect.
After that battle, the Myriad Demon Sect declined, and within a few short years, all remaining remnants were eradicated by the righteous sects. The Myriad Demon Sect became history.
Ye Ling had also participated in the battle against the Myriad Demon Sect as a rogue cultivator, so he had a very deep impression of this event.
Ye Ling opened Mo Qingfeng's Qiankun Bag and found the "Heavenly Remnant Art" inside. Seeing the Eastern Profound Continent script on the cover of the manual, his gaze became even more solemn.
"I thought this 'Heavenly Remnant Art' was secretly hidden by some ancient ancestor of a sacred land, but I didn't expect this demonic technique to have also spread to Earth... and someone even added a special spell so that even if one couldn't understand the text, they could still comprehend the content..."
"What is the purpose of the person behind these actions? What is the relationship between the Eastern Profound Continent and Earth?"
Ye Ling briefly flipped through the "Heavenly Remnant Art" and confirmed that this was indeed the technique that had once made the Eastern Profound Continent tremble. His eyes grew more solemn.
"According to legend, those who cultivate this technique will have their spiritual energy transformed into the incredibly overbearing Heavenly Remnant Power. Every attack results in a thousand injuries to the enemy while damaging oneself by eight hundred... But I fought with Ye Feng before and did not feel any trace of him cultivating the 'Heavenly Remnant Art'."
"With Ye Feng's cultivation, if he had practiced this technique, he could not have hidden it from my eyes!"
Thinking of this, Ye Ling stopped wasting time with Mo Qingfeng. Demonic energy surged out, enveloping his head, searching his memories to confirm whether Ye Feng had indeed cultivated the "Heavenly Remnant Art" and how Mo Qingfeng had obtained this technique.
Lu Yun and the woman in black, seeing Ye Ling begin to search Mo Qingfeng's soul without a word, both turned pale with fright.
They were both extremely uneasy and their minds raced, searching for a way to escape.
If they continued to stay here, their lives would be lost sooner or later!
Ye Ling paid no attention to the subtle movements of Lu Yun and the woman in black, as all his attention was focused on Mo Qingfeng's memories.
According to Mo Qingfeng's memories, the white-robed swordsman in Dragon God Mountain was his ancestor, named Mo Jian. The "Great Transformation Heavenly Derivation Heart Art" he cultivated, as well as the "Heavenly Remnant Art" he found, were both obtained from a place called the "Heavenly Heart Secret Realm."
The entrance to that secret realm was erratic and appeared at unpredictable times. To enter the Heavenly Heart Secret Realm depended entirely on fate.
In addition to the origin of the "Great Transformation Heavenly Derivation Heart Art" and the "Heavenly Remnant Art," Mo Qingfeng's memories confirmed that Ye Feng had indeed cultivated the "Heavenly Remnant Art" and had initially mastered the Heavenly Remnant Power...
After reading Mo Qingfeng's memories, Ye Ling understood that he was not lying. He withdrew his demonic energy and muttered to himself, "The 'Heavenly Remnant Art' is a top-tier technique even on the Eastern Profound Continent, capable of allowing one to directly cultivate to the Emperor Realm. Such a technique has an indelible impact on a person. That Ye Feng... could he have had his cultivation crippled once?"
Rumble!
Just as Ye Ling was thinking about Ye Feng, a loud noise echoed from the sky, followed by a large area of spatial distortion. A massive warship flew out from it, hovering above the ice plains of the Sand Kingdom!
Ye Ling looked up and saw a large number of cultivators wearing mechs flying out of the warship!