Chapter 580: Those Who Temporarily Left the Ark

After distributing the Ningxing Dan to Long Tian and the others, Ye Feng entered a state of seclusion to cultivate. While Ye Feng was meditating and deciphering the secret patterns, Long Tian finally completed the derivation of 3,000 of them. With guidance from the Heavenly Dao, he went to another location and recorded the remaining 7,000 secret patterns before returning to the Absolute Martial Ark to continue his cultivation.

About two million years passed within the Absolute Martial Ark. Ye Feng, deeply immersed in deciphering the laws, was awakened by a communicator. He stopped cultivating and picked up the device. The message was from Sherlock: “The Holy Land ranking tournament begins in three days…” Only then did Ye Feng remember he had almost forgotten about this. With the one-million-fold time acceleration within the Absolute Martial Ark, people’s sense of time indeed became somewhat blurred.

In those two million years, he had mastered 5,000 secret patterns. He wasn’t entirely satisfied with this progress, but according to the information provided by the Heavenly Dao, he realized his speed was actually unprecedented. Since each secret pattern grew more powerful and its comprehension became increasingly difficult, the speed of mastery also slowed down. In fact, he could be grateful for having the Absolute Martial Ark’s time acceleration—calculated by external time, only two years had passed. Such time-acceleration artifacts were extremely rare, available to very few people. Thus, compared to others, he had saved a tremendous amount of time.

With the total number of mastered secret patterns reaching 8,000, Ye Feng also sensed that several Tier 10 ultimate laws within his body were about to break through and transform into divine powers. The message from Sherlock provided him with an excuse to relax, enabling him to comprehend subsequent laws more efficiently.

After sending a message to Long Tian and the other seven, Ye Feng stepped out of the Absolute Martial Ark. His aura became even more elusive.

In fact, over the years, his various avatars had not been idle either. They had been focused on expanding their domains and transforming laws into divine powers. Only Ye Kong, the space-themed avatar, was collecting extremeattribute substances in the Holy Land to help Ye Feng master more laws. In reality, his speed was the fastest among all of Ye Feng’s avatars—it took him less than ten days to travel from one end of the Holy Land to the other. Since he didn’t need to master divine powers, he was the perfect candidate for this task.

Ye Kong naturally agreed gladly. Practicing all day long was a dull task, so being allowed to go out was exactly what he desired. Ye Feng had also said that he needed all kinds of extreme attribute materials and crystals, no matter whether by spending money or other means, he had to get them. Although Ye Feng didn’t need the extreme space attribute materials, others might, so he asked Ye Kong to find them all as well.

After receiving Ye Feng’s message, Long Tian and the others also exited their training states and came out of the Absolute Martial Ark.

Xiao Yu, Xiao Bei, and the rest, including Qing Lang and Tie Niu, had all reached the Star level. Although they were still in the middle stage, their strength had improved significantly.

The one who had improved the most was Shi Tou; they had reached the later stage of the Star level, exuding a fierce aura. The Ancient Demon Ape truly lived up to being one of the strongest beasts. Even the auras of Xiao Yu and Qing Wen, two wild beasts, seemed weaker in front of it. Perhaps this was also due to the difference in cultivation levels. Before, when they were still at the peak of the Starlight level, Ye Feng hadn’t noticed such a difference.

Long Tian’s transformation surprised Ye Feng even more. With the help of the Star Condensing Pill, he had managed to break through to the Nebula level. Although it was only the early stage, it was sufficient. At the Nebula level, with Long Tian’s talent, it wouldn’t be hard for him to master a domain.

“Brother Long, you’ve already mastered a domain, right?” Ye Feng couldn’t help but ask.

“Mm, once you reach the Nebula level, it’s easier to master a domain. So far, I’ve only practiced three domains, and I can only stack two at a time,” Long Tian nodded.

“I heard you also wrote down the subsequent secret patterns?” Ye Feng pressed on. “How many have you deduced so far?”

“Over five thousand in total. It took some time to break through to the Nebula level and master the domains,” Long Tian didn’t hide it. “Besides the secret patterns, I also obtained a peak Virtual Treasure called the Ten Thousand Formation Catalog.”

“The peak Virtual Treasure I got is also called the Ten Thousand Formation Catalog…” Ye Feng immediately realized that the things given to them by the Heavenly Dao were identical. He originally thought that Virtual Treasures couldn’t be exactly the same. But after comparing it with Long Tian’s, he found they were completely identical, with no differences.

“That’s good too. It avoids favoritism,” Long Tian smiled. “Giving my disciples exactly the same things, it depends on them to achieve what they can in the end.”

“This thing isn’t much in the hands of those who don’t master array techniques, but in our hands, it’s not so simple,” Ye Feng said with a smile. “Although it’s just a peak-level Void Treasure, we can still unleash its power as that of a supreme Void Treasure.”
“Just a peak-level Void Treasure?” Long Tian couldn’t help but roll his eyes at Ye Feng. “It seems you do have quite a few valuable items.”
“Uh…” Ye Feng didn’t expect his casual remark to hurt others so much.
“Even in the intermediate main plane, the number of supreme Void Treasures is less than three hundred. Those who possess them are definitely at the level of a regional overlord in the intermediate main plane. A peak-level Void Treasure alone is enough to attract most of the powerful beings there,” Long Tian explained. “You really are someone who doesn’t understand the hunger of the starving.”
“Okay, I was wrong…” Seeing Long Tian’s serious expression, Ye Feng had no choice but to admit his mistake to avoid further nagging.
“In the primary main plane, having even a pseudo-Void Treasure is already an extraordinary thing. We must keep the secret of our Void Treasures; no one in the main plane is allowed to know. If you lack strength, holding such a treasure will only bring disaster upon you,” Long Tian said seriously. “The situation in the main plane is much worse than you imagine. Survival of the fittest is the only rule. To survive, you need sufficient strength; to thrive, you need to be stronger than others. Don’t use any Void Treasures in the competition in three days. If possible, don’t even use spiritual treasures. If you must use them, only use primary-level spiritual treasures, so as not to arouse greed in those from the higher realms.”
“Mm, got it.” Hearing Long Tian speak so seriously, Ye Feng also frowned. He originally thought the main plane would be a great place, but now it seemed it was far from the ideal land he had imagined.