Chapter 266: The Vanished Village

In just the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the entire village turned into ashes. When the flames died down, all that remained on the ruined ground were the pained groans of two people. Everyone else had been reduced to dust by those flames—there wasn’t even a trace of bones, let alone a Yuan Ying.

Ye Feng scanned the surroundings, picking up a few storage rings that hadn’t been destroyed by the flames along the way. His gaze finally settled on the two still alive.

He hadn’t expected the woman under the tribe leader to be a powerful late-stage Lingxian as well. The two of them lay in bed in that intimate position, their skin completely charred.

“Although their cultivation level is only late-stage Lingxian, their physical strength exceeds that of Lingxian cultivators. My flames can’t kill them,” Xiao Yu said frankly.

“It doesn’t matter!” Ye Feng walked over to them. The two glared at him with hatred in their eyes.

Reaching them, Ye Feng took the two storage rings from their hands, then turned to Su Mo and the others and said, “Let’s go!”

Not long after Ye Feng and the others left, faint glows appeared in the woods surrounding the village—reflects from the eyes of various magical beasts in the darkness. There were hundreds of them.

Soon after, shrill screams of a man and a woman came from inside the village…

After leaving the village, Ye Meng also parted ways with Ye Feng and the others. It was glad it hadn’t fought to the death with Ye Feng; otherwise, it would have been the one to die. Everything it saw in that village was utterly unbelievable, far beyond imagination. It still didn’t understand how Ye Feng had done it.

“Uncle Meng, how did you end up here? Could Fat and the others be here too?” Ye Feng couldn’t help asking.

“No. I was a bit worried about you. With your strength, I wasn’t concerned, but Su Mo is from our Alchemy Sect. So I told Fat and the others and followed you in, not through the same entrance,” Meng Shan explained after Ye Feng asked.

“After coming in, I didn’t see you either. By the time I saw Su Mo, she had already been captured. I saw that those people weren’t very powerful; the strongest was only at the Lingxian level, so I stepped in to save her. But although the leader was also at the Lingxian level, his strength was far beyond that rank. He defeated me in just a few moves, and then they took me back to their lair as well.”
“There were several people in that village who were clearly stronger than you. What method did you use to keep them from moving?” Su Mo finally asked her question.
“I just used some small tricks!” Ye Feng had no intention of revealing this secret to Su Mo.
Seeing that Ye Feng refused to talk, Su Mo remained dissatisfied. “Then how did you know we were captured and which room we were in?”
“That Night Fiend wanted to attack us, but we trapped it instead.” Ye Feng turned to smile at Su Mo. “I asked it if it had seen you, and it happened to have seen you get captured. It also knew where those people’s lair was. So I had it lead the way to chase after them. As a result, I found that Uncle Meng was there too.”
“But that room where we were held had a forbidden curse. How did you break it?” Su Mo kept pressing, as too many things had happened that night for her to understand. Normally, as someone reincarnated from the heavens, she should know more than people like Ye Feng, but now it was the opposite. There were many things Ye Feng knew that she had no idea about, and even many things she had never heard of before. Yet Ye Feng also knew some things that few people in the human world knew. This made Su Mo suspect that Ye Feng might also be reincarnated from another realm.
“Xiao Yu burned the restriction!” Ye Feng’s answer this time was extremely brief.
Hearing this reply, Su Mo couldn’t help but look at Ye Feng’s two pet beasts. With her experience, she still couldn’t tell what breed they were. Not to mention Bernard with its black and white fur—although it looked bear-like, she had never seen such a fur color before. And Xiao Yu, with its white feathers, definitely didn’t seem like an ordinary magical beast. She knew quite a few similar magical beasts, but none as fierce as Xiao Yu.
“What breed are these two magical beasts?” Su Mo finally couldn’t hold back and asked. She thought this question shouldn’t be considered private, so it didn’t matter to say it.

To everyone’s surprise, Ye Feng shook his head. “I don’t know! Is that important? As long as they can help instead of causing trouble, that’s enough.”
Su Mo still wouldn’t give up and turned to Bernard, asking, “Xiao Bei, can you tell your sister what kind of magical beast you are?”
“Guess!” Bernard turned with a mischievous smile, staring at Su Mo’s chest.
“Uh…”
“Xiao Yu, you’re the best—surely you’re not being sneaky like your sister, are you?” Su Mo turned to Xiao Yu.
“I don’t have a sister!” Xiao Yu turned away, saying coolly.
This answer made Ye Feng and Meng Shan laugh as well.
“Hmph!” Su Mo snorted at Ye Feng, clearly annoyed.
“Let’s figure out a way to leave this forest first!” Meng Shan spoke up to break the deadlock. “I found some descriptions of this place on a rock. We can only leave by finding the exit, and there’s a magical beast at the exit with power on par with that of a celestial immortal. If we can’t come up with a foolproof plan, we won’t be able to leave this area alive.”
“I saw that too!” Su Mo nodded, somewhat resentfully. “While I was looking at that rock, those guys noticed me, and before I could react, I was captured.”
“Hmm, the ruler of this forest is named Nasario, a giant black dragon! Its strength is the greatest at the six exits! It’s said to have power close to that of a god!” Ye Feng clearly had already gathered all this information.
“Then let’s go to another forest. That way, we can avoid that strongest guy and join forces with others, increasing our chances of success!” Su Mo suggested.
“The six forests were originally just one forest, separated by barriers set up by six guardians. It’s impossible for us to reach the other forests. Moreover, at each exit, only ten people can go out at most. The other teams are short by at most two people, but we’re three—there’s no way we’ll be accepted. The only two teams that are short are us and Di Er and Tie Man. Those two have been trying to kill me for days; they definitely won’t accept us!” Ye Feng shook his head. “The only way is to sneak away, avoiding Nasario’s surveillance. If it detects us, we have no chance of survival. As that Nightmare said, a being of that level could kill us all with just a sneeze—it’s an absolutely dangerous creature.”

“A cultivation level of Absolute Immortal is already among the highest in the Heavenly Realm. Moreover, magical beasts at the same level are far stronger than ordinary cultivators. Additionally, the Black Dragon race is originally a top-tier divine beast and ranks among the strongest among them. Even a Black Dragon at the early stage of Absolute Immortal is certainly no weaker than most advanced Absolute Immortals in the Heavenly Realm. We’re in real trouble this time,” Su Mo said, her face filled with helplessness.

“That’s why we need to find a way to leave secretly!” Ye Feng emphasized again.

“There’s no chance! You’ve never been in the Heavenly Realm, so you have no idea just how powerful those at the Absolute Immortal level really are! With our strength, we’ll only end up killed—there’s no chance of survival,” Su Mo said pessimistically, shaking her head. “They can easily destroy a planet with just a wave of their hand, and their immortal senses can cover an entire small star system in an instant. In this forest, no matter what we say or do, they can hear and see everything! Any scheme we try will be useless—only bring about the opposite result.”

“He’s observing us now, treating us as toys. Once he gets tired of us, he’ll kill us without hesitation!” Su Mo’s tone was almost desperate.

“Su Mo, if you don’t even believe you can survive, then I really have nothing to say. No matter how difficult the situation, there’s always a glimmer of hope—that’s the rule of the universe. Nothing is absolute!” Ye Feng was speechless at Su Mo’s attitude. “I don’t care what you think. I know I’ll survive, and I’ll live well! I’ll also make Uncle Meng, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Bei survive as long as they don’t give up hope.”

“Trust me, we can leave alive!” Ye Feng stared into Su Mo’s eyes. “We won’t be trapped here forever, nor will we be killed!”

Su Mo stared at Ye Feng for a while. Seeing his determined expression, she took a few deep breaths before nodding at him.

“I’ve never thought about confronting him head-on—that would be suicide,” Ye Feng said with a smile. “Actually, I’ve already thought of another way, though it’s a bit risky.”

“What is it?” Su Mo asked immediately.

“I can’t tell, because that big guy might hear us!” Ye Feng shook his head. “Let’s go to its nest first. I’ll tell you what to do then!”

“Why go to its nest? Don’t you know where the exit is?” Su Mo pressed further.

“Because the exit is right inside its nest!” Ye Feng explained helplessly. “The situation now is that it sleeps in the nest every day and never leaves, so we have no way of sneaking in. To get out, we must pass through its nest!”