Chapter 142: Floating Feathers

Just as Ye Feng was about to lead everyone north at full speed, Kongxu stopped him.
“Ye Feng, 40,000 kilometers is roughly the distance around the Earth. If we run, it would take an unknown amount of time. Let’s use flight magic!” Elder Kongxu looked into the boundless distance ahead, shook his head at Ye Feng, then lifted off the ground and floated in the air.
Ye Feng stared at Kongxu in shock. Seeing this, the others also nodded in agreement and lifted off the ground, floating in the air as well.
Ye Feng felt too embarrassed to ask how they did it. He stood there, torn, wondering how he could fly like them.
At that moment, a warm aura rose from his dantian. Worried that his nascent embryo might still be unstable since he had just entered that stage, he immediately sent his mental energy into his dantian.
When his mental energy reached the dantian, he found nothing abnormal. The fist-sized white nascent embryo inside stretched out a tiny hand toward his mental energy and touched it.
The moment they made contact, a golden light flashed from the embryo’s brain. Ye Feng recognized it as similar to the light described in the “Wudian” book. After a brief sense of dizziness, he was surprised to find that a set of movement techniques called “Floating Feathers” had been implanted in his mind. There seemed to be an incomplete set of boxing techniques as well, but Ye Feng didn’t have time to examine them now.
He tried to use the “Floating Feathers” techniques according to the mental energy pathways in his mind. His entire body immediately floated as if it had no weight. With just a light tap of his feet on the ground, he soared forward before landing after a short while.
“Master Ye, this is your first time using flight magic, right?” Wudao couldn’t help but laugh upon seeing this.
“I’m just… not very familiar with it yet…” Ye Feng said shyly.
“It’s okay. We can start slowly,” Wudao said with a smile. “I’ll stay by your side. Let the others fly ahead. With your talent, you’ll get used to it in about half an hour. It took me almost an hour to fully master flight magic.”
The others didn’t object. After all, Ye Feng had only just reached the nascent embryo stage a few days ago, so it was normal for him not to know flight magic.

“The faster we fly, the quicker our spiritual energy is consumed. Actually, we don’t use this flying technique very often, because on Earth, there are cameras everywhere in cities, and being captured would only bring endless trouble. Besides, it’s such a long distance—40,000 kilometers, at a speed of 600 kilometers per hour, it will take us 67 hours to reach our destination. Including breaks and time to replenish our spiritual energy with spirit crystals, it will take about four to five days to leave this desert. There’s no need to rush,” Kongxu said to Ye Feng.

“Thank you all for taking care of me. I’ll get familiar with this as soon as possible, and then we can all move forward at full speed!” Ye Feng said with a shy smile to everyone.

“Let’s go!” Kongxu nodded at Ye Feng and then led everyone flying northward.

Wudao also rose up behind the group, occasionally looking back to check on Ye Feng’s condition. Pei Hong, on the other hand, slowed down significantly and stayed close to Ye Feng.

As Ye Feng activated the energy flow patterns of that movement technique within his body, he also distracted himself to figure out why he kept falling from the air. After a few more flights similar to long-distance jumps, Ye Feng finally identified the problem.

The principle behind this technique was actually quite simple: the energy flow patterns allowed spiritual energy to emanate from the pores of the body, coming into contact with the air, enabling him to control the flow of air like a bird.

The reason he kept falling before was that he hadn’t managed to control the flow of air properly.

After another three or four adjustments, Ye Feng finally found his rhythm and successfully completed the flying technique, with the whole process taking only about ten minutes. He then caught up with the group, floating like a feather carried by the wind, with a graceful and effortless posture.

“So fast?” Although only Wudao spoke these words, it was obvious that the others were also surprised.

“I just needed some time to get used to it!” Ye Feng smiled indifferently and shouted to everyone, “Let’s move forward at full speed!”

Seeing Ye Feng take the lead, the others naturally didn’t want to fall behind and followed him.

“Ye Feng, when everyone’s spiritual energy is reduced by half, we must stop and rest, replenish our energy before continuing,” Elder Kongxu transmitted to Ye Feng. “This place is too dangerous. We can’t wait until our energy is completely depleted before stopping to recharge. Leaving some energy behind will be enough to handle any emergencies that may arise.”

“Mm.” Although Ye Feng nodded in agreement, his spiritual energy hardly expended at all here. On the contrary, his spiritual energy continued to grow rapidly, as absorbing the energy around him posed no obstacles or negative effects for him. Seeing Ye Feng’s relaxed expression, Kong Xu shook his head in helplessness. It was clear that he wouldn’t reach a point where half of his spiritual energy was used up in a short time. The only explanation Kong Xu could think of was that Ye Feng had an excellent movement technique that allowed him to save a lot of spiritual energy while flying. He didn’t believe Ye Feng could absorb energy in such a harsh environment to replenish himself. Pei Hong, who was closest to Ye Feng, had already become accustomed to it. Since moving into Ye Feng’s apartment on the first day, he had discovered even more of Ye Feng’s secrets rather than fewer. Before one mystery could be solved, another arose. In short, the longer he spent with Ye Feng, the more he realized that Ye Feng was truly a man like a mystery. At first, he would be shocked by things he couldn’t understand, but now he had become somewhat numb. He felt that nothing strange could happen to Ye Feng. While others were amazed that Ye Feng had mastered flight in just ten minutes, Pei Hong thought that even if it had taken only ten seconds, he wouldn’t have been surprised at all. “What’s that red patch ahead?” suddenly came a man’s voice from the crowd. Ye Feng and the others also focused their thoughts and looked ahead. That red patch, resembling clouds, was at the same height as them and was drifting toward them at an extremely fast speed.