Chapter 171: The Terrifying Forest

The Terrifying Forest is a lush area located in the southern part of Planet Fester, stretching for thousands of kilometers. It is a paradise for magical beasts, with few humans ever setting foot there.
It is also the only forbidden zone on Planet Fester—no one who enters ever comes out alive. Hundreds of years ago, seven powerful cultivators at the Tribulation stage formed a team to explore this region, but they vanished without a trace. Since then, it has become a nightmare for everyone on Planet Fester.
Even young children, when crying, would stop immediately if their parents said, “If you cry any more, we’ll throw you into the Terrifying Forest to feed the Wolf Beasts.”
No one in the entire cultivation world knows what lies within the Terrifying Forest. Everyone who attempts to explore it never returns alive. This is not a rumor but a terrifying reality.
Over time, everyone began calling this forest the Terrifying Forest, and its original name was forgotten. People only knew it as a place covered in dense vegetation.
After what seemed like an eternity, Ye Feng finally woke up from his coma. He lifted his heavy eyelids to see a small wooden cabin. He was lying on a bamboo bed.
A faint fragrance came from somewhere, prompting Ye Feng to take a deep breath, trying to retain it.
He found that his broken right arm had mostly healed, but his right glove was almost completely shattered. He tried to sit up but felt weak.
“What’s going on?” Ye Feng frowned and focused his mental energy on his dantian. There, he discovered several terrifying cracks. The connection between his yuanling and his body had been severed, and his meridians were in disarray. Without repairing his dantian and meridians, he would likely have to rely solely on his physical energy.
“That damned woman,” Ye Feng thought. Such injuries were probably caused by that woman’s true energy rushing around inside his body after entering it. Normally, the true energy of a Tribulation stage would be beyond his body’s capacity to withstand. Given enough time, it could destroy his dantian and yuanling. But now, that Tribulation stage true energy had disappeared.

Only then did Ye Feng realize that he must have been saved by someone. Both the wooden cabin he was in and the disappearance of the internal energy indicated that he had been rescued. After finally getting used to the feeling of weakness, he got up from the bed and lifted the curtain to see two bears, one black and one white, sitting on the ground, holding a fluffy chick in their paws. Ye Feng rubbed his eyes and reached into his pocket, realizing that what the bears were holding was a small creature. At that moment, the two bears turned to look at Ye Feng. Though their gaze wasn’t threatening, it still made him shiver. Ye Feng thought to himself that perhaps he had indeed been saved by the bears. Just as he was about to speak, a woman’s voice came from outside the door. “You’re awake!” He turned to look and saw a girl who seemed to be about sixteen years old, wearing a green floral dress, holding a pair of shoes and walking in barefoot. Ye Feng then understood, “Was it you who saved me?” “It wasn’t me. It was my lady and those two!” The girl pointed at the bears. “Your lady?” Ye Feng looked at her in surprise. “She’s preparing a healing pill for you. It’s better if you don’t go and disturb her. If you want to thank anyone, thank those two first!” The girl’s tone was clearly cold. “They don’t like humans. If they hadn’t seen that little guy, they wouldn’t have brought you back.” Ye Feng turned to look at the two bears playing with the small creature, which seemed to enjoy being held in their paws. “Oh, my name is Ye Feng. What’s your name?” Ye Feng removed his mask and smiled at her. “I’m Lüluo.” The girl glanced at him and then left without hesitation. Although Ye Feng still didn’t fully understand what had happened, he knew he couldn’t rush things. After all, he was on someone else’s territory, and he could wait until he got to know them better before asking questions. Besides, the injury to his dantian wasn’t something that could be healed in just a day or two. Seeing Ye Feng sitting alone at the door, the small creature flapped its wings and flew over to him, landing on his right arm.

“Hey, little one, your eyes have finally opened!” Ye Feng fiddled with the fluff on the little creature’s body and noticed that the originally fine fluff was starting to take on the appearance of feathers. “Feathers are also growing—seems it’s really growing up.”
“We found you in the forest. It’s the one that carried you here. Your injuries are severe. Although it wasn’t hurt, it’s also exhausted from using its strength and won’t be able to fight for a while.” A deep, resonant voice reached Ye Feng’s ears.
Ye Feng looked up and found that it was the black bear speaking.
“You can talk?” Ye Feng asked in surprise.
“What’s so strange about that?” This time, it was a female voice. Ye Feng turned to look at the white bear.
“Although most magical beasts don’t go through the transformation ordeal and can’t take human form, learning human language isn’t that difficult, right?” The white bear said as if it were obvious.
“Thank you for saving me. Otherwise, I would have already become food for some magical beast!” Ye Feng said self-mockingly.
“That’s true. If we hadn’t brought you back, you would have been torn to pieces by those wolves by now,” the black bear laughed loudly. “I’mBear, and this is my wife,Bearie. I just heard you say your name is Ye Feng. What about this little guy?”
“It… it was born just a few days ago. I haven’t had time to give it a name. I’ve been calling it ‘little thing’,” Ye Feng said, scratching his head awkwardly. “But since I’ve had some free time these days, I’ll think of a better name for it!”
“‘Little thing’ is a bit ugly. If you’re going to give it a name, pick something nice. Our names were all chosen by our wives—beautiful and easy to remember.Bear,Bearie—sounds like a family! Haha…” The black bear seemed very happy.
“By the way, what place is this exactly?” Ye Feng finally asked the question that had been bothering him for a long time.