Chapter 520: The Death of Ye Feng

After the events at the Danquan Sect, Ye Feng returned to Sent City. With Jiu Fang’s help, he reforged all those over 500,000 pills.
These pills were divided into more than 200 types, with over a dozen derived from the Qingquan Pill. Though their effects were slightly weaker, they were still pills for restoring the soul.
Jiu Fang truly lived up to its reputation as a “pseudo-precious treasure.” Although it could only craft Holy-grade items due to the Fire Essence at the moment, its functions were not greatly diminished. Its ability to analyze pill formulas remained intact. These over 200 pills not only gave Ye Feng 200+ formulas, including the Qingquan Pill formula he had long desired.
Jiu Fang also offered many of its own suggestions. As a cauldron, though it lacked human pharmacological knowledge, it clearly knew which herbs’ effects could blend well together and which would conflict—knowledge gained through its own experiments during the crafting process. Ye Feng adjusted the formulas slightly based on its advice, even modifying several auxiliary ingredients in the Qingquan Pill formula.
The over 500,000 reforged pills were all Holy-grade. Except for the first few batches, which were only 85% effective due to inexperience, later batches achieved over 95% effectiveness, with half reaching perfect efficacy—thanks to the Fire Essence’s help.
Among the 200+ pills, less than a dozen could be consumed by Ye Feng, given his peak level as a Progenitor God. Among them was the Qingquan Pill, which could be taken by anyone regardless of cultivation level. As the most valuable among these pills, Ye Feng waited until the end to craft it, ensuring their original effects remained 100% intact. There were only 137 of them.
According to Jin, each person could take this pill only once, so Ye Feng gave one to Long Tian and the others.
Holding the Qingquan Pill, Ye Feng entered the cultivation realm. His soul strength was not strong—only at the late stage of Progenitor God level—which was why he faced a bottleneck in practicing the Law Secret Patterns. Cultivating these patterns required high soul strength, and the Qingquan Pill could completely solve this problem for him.
Summoning his Earth-type clone, Ye Chen, to protect him, Ye Feng sat down and swallowed the Qingquan Pill.

The reason to have Ye Chen as the guardian was also because Long Tian and the others were undergoing trials within this space. The monsters they had created were everywhere in the entire Fourth Domain. To take the Clear Spring Pill safely, Ye Chen, who was skilled in defense, was the best choice as a guardian.

The Clear Spring Pill melted as soon as it entered the mouth, turning into waves of coolness that slowly climbed up through the meridians and entered the sea of consciousness. There, the coolness transformed into a transparent liquid that gradually took shape.

After half a moment, the entire effect of the pill had condensed into a pool of clear liquid.

Following the instructions he had heard from Jin before, Ye Feng slowly immersed his soul into it.

At first, he felt a sense of comfort all over his body, like being in a hot spring at just the right temperature, allowing his soul to relax fully.

However, after just a few minutes, the temperature of the “spring” seemed to rise, causing his soul to feel scorching. The heat seeped into his body, catching him off guard.

Just as he was about to pull his soul out, he suddenly remembered Jin’s words: the longer one endured, the better the effect on the soul. So, he chose to persevere.

As the water temperature continued to rise, burns began to appear on Ye Feng’s soul, causing him to frown. “Should I keep going? It’s only the fourth day.”

Not long after the burns appeared, Ye Feng noticed a strange energy slowly repairing the damage to his soul. He watched in surprise as this sudden energy carried a familiar sensation. After a while, he realized, “This is the power of the Immortal Bloodline. With this, I don’t have to worry at all.”

Another three days passed, and Ye Feng found the scorching sensation growing stronger day by day, along with increasing pain. Although the power of the bloodline continued to repair the damage, it was still slower than the rate of damage.

“Seven days… I must keep going!” Ye Feng gritted his teeth. “Someone has managed to last over twenty-one days, and surely they don’t have the power of the bloodline to repair their soul. I must surpass that person!”

The pain persisted, the scorching grew more intense each day, and the wounds on his soul grew larger. What had started as tiny pinpricks had now become cuts like from a knife, growing bigger and deeper with each passing day.

“Twenty-one days… Without the repair power of the bloodline, I probably couldn’t have lasted this long,” Ye Feng sighed. But the pain intensified again on the twenty-second day.

The first twenty-one days were just scratches, but now it had turned into biting. A wave of heat would strike, and it felt as though some soul-devouring monster was biting away a piece of his soul. Not only did the pain intensify, but Ye Feng began to wonder if he might die here if he continued. However, he soon calmed down, as the greater the damage, the stronger his bloodline’s healing ability became. Every time a piece was bitten away, his bloodline would repair it back.

Forty-two days passed, and Ye Feng felt physically and mentally exhausted. This pill was indeed not something ordinary people could take. The heat attacks grew stronger with each time, often costing him an arm or a leg, and sometimes even eroding his entire head. Yet, it was quickly repaired. “An ordinary person would probably not even know how many times their soul has died by now.”

On the forty-third day, Ye Feng became panicked. The heat no longer came in waves but was everywhere. In just an instant, it had eroded most of his body. Yet, his bloodline’s healing power seemed to intensify, accelerating recovery. The remaining half of his soul slowly grew back. After a whole day, it finally returned to its full state, allowing Ye Feng to finally relax. “I almost died…”

By the forty-fourth day, the erosion speed of the water in the pool had doubled. His once-complete soul shrank rapidly again. It wasn’t until only half of his soul remained that the erosion slowed down. When only one-third of his soul was left, the erosion stopped entirely, and his soul began to recover slowly.

In the remaining days, Ye Feng no longer worried about his soul perishing. He even had time to observe the changes in his sea of consciousness. Over these forty-plus days, his sea of consciousness had expanded by more than twice, meaning the strength of his soul was now more than three times greater than before. However, he also noticed that the water in the pool made of Clear Spring Pill was decreasing. “Is it almost over?”

On the forty-ninth day, Ye Feng found the water in the pool almost dried up. He knew this was the last day. If he survived, he would have completed the purification process with the Clear Spring Pill.

The moment the forty-ninth day arrived, the speed of heat erosion increased tenfold. In just two breaths, it had eroded more than nine-tenths of his soul.

“Damn it… the repair is not fast enough… Am I going to perish?” The moment this thought arose, Ye Feng’s consciousness vanished instantly. From a distance, it seemed as though Ye Feng’s soul had been completely destroyed, not even a trace remaining. Ye Chen, who was guarding outside, suddenly changed expression and turned into dust, disappearing… The other clones also vanished in an instant… Volume 5: The Dragon Soars in the Heavens. As a dragon, one is destined to soar above the heavens…