Chapter 376: Heard You Fell?

The crowd watched from a distance as the scene unfolded. Once Mo Jing returned to his normal form, Ye Feng seemed utterly powerless to resist.
“If he doesn’t die from this strike, he must be seriously injured!” guessed a true god-level warrior.
“Yes, with Mo Jing’s attack, anyone hit here would be in trouble,” said a dragon clan warrior. “Not to mention just a half-god human…”
Mo Jing didn’t seem intent on stopping there. Before the dust settled, he opened his mouth wide, and a blue liquid sprayed out, covering the area where Ye Feng had fallen.
Before the crowd could figure out what that blue liquid was, a bone-chilling coldness spread from Ye Feng’s fall direction. The dust in the air turned into white powder particles…
An ice-blue lake appeared before their eyes, surrounded by pure white snow that spread rapidly over time.
Fearing exposure to the ice and snow, everyone stepped back slightly.
“Quite ruthless—using even divine powers!” sneered the peak true god from the Demon Realm. “Dao Feng is just a minor in our realm. That’s too extreme! Freezing him with extreme ice properties will freeze his soul to death—leaving no chance for reincarnation.”
“He killed members of our Fiend Realm; he deserved this consequence.” Mo Jing slowly retracted his form, returning to human shape.
Beneath the ice-blue lake, Ye Feng had his eyes tightly closed.
“Cold… so cold…” The intense coldness knocked Ye Feng unconscious, leaving only these words echoing in his mind.
Inside his dantian, black crystals began to spin frantically, absorbing the coldness seeping into his body. White crystals slowly restored his frozen meridians. Purple crystals also stayed active, with purple lightning flashing across Ye Feng’s body, clearly helping to drive away the cold. At the same time, it numbed his nerves, dulling his sensitivity to pain.

It was unclear how much time had passed, but Ye Feng’s meridians were finally filled with milky white energy, and the black crystal in his dantian developed an additional sharp corner. That sharp corner gradually softened and extended toward another corner of the dantian. A strong chill was emitted by those protrusions, and in just a few breaths, ice-blue energy filled the entire dantian.

At this point, the white crystal began to operate automatically according to the patterns outlined in the martial arts scripture. After one full cycle, it returned to the dantian and enveloped the ice-blue energy. Wave after wave of white energy was released, repeatedly returning to the dantian to coat the ice-blue energy layer by layer, before slowly compressing it.

Strangely, the once domineering ice-blue energy offered no resistance at all and allowed itself to be compressed by the white energy.

As the compression slowed down, the black and purple crystals also joined in to assist with the compression. Two protrusions connected to the white halo surrounding the ice-blue energy.

After an unknown amount of time, with the help of the three crystals, the ice-blue energy finally condensed into a crystal the size of a needle tip.

The moment the ice-blue crystal took shape, the other three types of energy in Ye Feng’s body retracted back into the dantian and merged into their respective crystals. Ye Feng’s body was once again filled with the external ice-blue energy.

At this time, the crystal in the dantian, no larger than a needle hole, began to spin violently.

The external ice-blue energy began to flow regularly through Ye Feng’s meridians, following precisely the pattern described in the martial arts scripture. Eventually, all the ice-blue energy returned to the dantian, and the size of that crystal began to gradually increase—from the size of a needle hole to that of a soybean.

It was not until then that Ye Feng’s consciousness slowly awakened, as if freed from confusion.

“What exactly happened?” The first thing Ye Feng saw upon waking was that he was in a deep pit.

After recalling events, he remembered something: “That ink whale knocked me to the ground. This must be the pit caused by the impact… Then everything turned blue, and a freezing aura instantly froze my body…”

Ye Feng looked up around. It was a pit nearly 100 meters deep and about a kilometer in diameter, but he could no longer find any trace of the blue liquid.

“My arms…” Ye Feng realized that his previously broken arms had fully recovered. What surprised him even more was that he seemed to have become stronger.

Only then did he extend his mental energy into his dantian and discover the additional ice-blue crystal inside. Though small, the cold energy it contained was truly terrifying.
“Could it be that I absorbed that cold energy and compressed it into this crystal?” Ye Feng had no idea what had happened during his unconsciousness.
After pondering for a long time with no results, Ye Feng decided to give up. “What rank of divine beast is that Ink Whale? A mid-tier divine beast certainly can’t be that powerful. That ice-blue liquid must be a substance with extreme attributes. Even high-tier divine beasts dare not touch such things lightly. Yet he was able to refine it and turn it into his own technique…”
Ye Feng slowly flew out of the deep pit and looked around, but there wasn’t a single person in sight.
“Weren’t they fighting? Where are those guys?” Ye Feng found it strange.
He searched the area thoroughly but saw no one before returning to Dark Night City to retrieve his high-tier magic crystals.
The moment he stepped into Dark Night City, many of its powerful warriors scanned him with their mental energy.
Ye Feng ignored them and headed straight to the auction hall.
“Is this guy Blade?” A semi-divine warrior muttered in confusion. “But didn’t Blade perish in the battle half a year ago?”
“Blade is already dead, right? I saw it with my own eyes. Who is this person then?” A divine-tier warrior expressed surprise.
“Hello, my name is Blade. I’m here to collect the high-tier magic crystals left from the last auction,” Ye Feng said to the sweet-smiling girl at the counter.
“The last auction? But we haven’t held any auctions here in over half a year. Have you gotten it wrong?” The girl stared at Ye Feng in astonishment, yet the more she looked at his face, the more familiar it seemed to her.
“You… you’re Blade?” The girl seemed to suddenly remember something.
“That’s right,” Ye Feng nodded.
“Weren’t you killed half a year ago?” The girl blurted out, but immediately realized her mistake. She quickly covered her mouth, afraid to make any further sound, and stared at Ye Feng with a cautious expression.
“Killed half a year ago?” Ye Feng frowned slightly. “Was the auction also held half a year ago?”
“Yes!” Seeing that Ye Feng didn’t seem angry, the girl relaxed a bit.

“Let me meet your appraiser!” Ye Feng thought the old appraiser might be able to provide him with more useful information.
“Sure, please wait a moment while I go inform him!” The young girl hurriedly left the counter.
After some time, an old man who seemed familiar to Ye Feng pulled back the curtain of the door.
“Blade Edge?!” The old man was filled with disbelief. “You’re really still alive!”
“Of course.” Ye Feng didn’t know how to respond to that greeting either. “Let’s talk in a safer place.”
“Come with me!” The old man pulled Ye Feng into his appraisal room.
“What have you been doing these past six months? Everyone thought you were dead…” As soon as he entered, before Ye Feng could sit down, the old man asked.
“I was frozen by Mo Jing’s ice-based attack and only managed to break free today.” That was the best explanation Ye Feng could give. “I thought only a short time had passed; I never expected half a year to have gone by.”
“I see. The rumors I heard said you were killed in your battle with Mo Jing, and the details weren’t clear. But according to those who were there, you were dead.” The old appraiser shook his head with a smile. “I’ve heard of his extreme ice-based attacks too; I never thought he would actually use them on you.”
“It was luck that I survived. Mo Jing’s attack was truly devastating—my body was frozen in an instant. If it weren’t for some opportunities I had earlier, I would have died right away!” Ye Feng nodded helplessly.
“Who ended up with that divine crystal?” Ye Feng wanted to know how things had turned out in the end.
“It was taken back to the Immortal Realm.” The old appraiser couldn’t help but laugh at that.
“What’s so funny? Why are you laughing?” Ye Feng pressed him.
“I’m laughing because actually, after the Immortal Realm acquired that item, they were already prepared. After making the payment, they pretended to be a group going to collect the crystal behind the scenes, but in reality, they secretly asked us to send it to the Immortal Realm. Those half-divine warriors, even those who had attained divine status, were all just decoys to buy time. No one expected this trick at all.” The old appraiser laughed even harder. “I originally thought, given your cleverness, you would definitely not get involved in this incident. But then I heard news that you were dead.”

“Where would I want to get involved?” Ye Feng was speechless. “From the start, it was the people from the Fiend Realm who targeted me; I killed two gods of true divinity. As the leader of the Fiend Realm, Mo Jing surely wanted to kill me to avenge them, and that’s how the fight started. But the Immortal Realm’s tactic of hiding the truth behind a facade is truly clever. If not for this, the Divine Crystal would likely have ended up in the Fiend Realm.”
“Sigh, you shouldn’t have provoked Mo Jing from the beginning. If I had known things would turn out like this, I would have warned you earlier,” said the old appraiser, shaking his head. “Mo Jing was originally a mid-tier divine beast. Later, after accidentally eating a Dragon-Transforming Fruit, he became a mutated divine beast. Now, his cultivation has reached the peak of true divinity, and he could break through to the level of a Heavenly God at any time. His strength is even enough to rival a mid-stage Heavenly God.”
“That blue liquid that froze you was from an extremely icy pool he discovered in the deep sea. It took him billions of years to forcefully refine that water using his mutated divine beast body. Every time he used that technique against you, he lost most of his energy. Only by fully restoring his original strength could he retrieve that pool of water. Even if he wasn’t injured, it would take a year to regain his original strength by fully absorbing the energy from a mid-tier Divine Crystal.”
“You mean he still has to retrieve that pool of water?” Ye Feng’s expression became somewhat strange. If that was the case, Mo Jing really lost everything this time.
“Of course he has to retrieve it. Even after billions of years, he hasn’t fully refined that extremely icy substance. He can only trigger it briefly, but that pool of blue liquid is a whole entity, so it all flows out every time he tries. He can only retrieve it once his strength is fully restored to avoid backlash,” said the old appraiser with a smile. “But he’s not afraid of someone else stealing it either, because in the entire Heavenly Realm, aside from him who can get close to it, anyone else who even touches it slightly will have their soul frozen.”
“I see. The title of the ruler of the Fiend Realm truly lives up to its name!” Ye Feng couldn’t help but exclaim, though he secretly chuckled inwardly. Mo Jing wanted to kill him but failed, and instead, Ye Feng had refined something that Mo Jing hadn’t been able to refine in billions of years.
“By the way, you’re here to retrieve those Magic Crystals, right?” The old appraiser then remembered Ye Feng’s main purpose for coming.
“That’s right,” Ye Feng nodded with a smile. “I’m really sorry for having you keep them for me for so long.”

“There’s no need to feel embarrassed—just don’t ask me for interest!” the old appraiser laughed heartily. “By the way, about that matter I mentioned last time… our boss wants to meet you…”
“Tomorrow,” Ye Feng agreed readily. “I need to sort out everything that’s happened over these six months. I’ll rest well tonight and come back to see you early tomorrow morning.”
“Alright, then it’s settled!” The old appraiser was slightly surprised that Ye Feng agreed so quickly, but he quickly recovered and nodded with a smile.
“Would it be convenient to tell me what kind of strength your boss has?” Just as Ye Feng stood up to leave, he suddenly turned around and asked. “I have a feeling that even the strongest people from all walks of life are wary of him.”
The old appraiser smiled without saying anything.
“Could he be stronger than the Ink Whale?” Ye Feng guessed.
“That Extreme Auction in the Demon Realm is just one of the auctions under his name. Not many people know about this, but the strongest ones from all realms are aware of it. With your current strength, it’s fine to tell you.” Finally unable to withstand Ye Feng’s persistent questions, the old man revealed it. “As for his strength, I really don’t know. I’ve never seen him fight. All I know is that he’s met with the strongest people from all realms… After that, there were few disturbances from them at the auctions…”
“Thank you!” With this information, Ye Feng left, filled with joy…