Chapter 519: Ye Yan’s Masterpiece
After spending several hours refining the Fiery Essence of the strange fire, Ye Feng assigned the task of comprehending the laws to his fire-type clone, Ye Yan. He then went over to the three powerful warriors who had previously turned to ashes and picked up the black chess piece from the debris. Whatever those three had obtained in this main hall had been reduced to dust along with their storage rings; the only thing left was this peculiar stone.
After examining it closely in his hands and still failing to discern anything special about it, Ye Feng put it into his own storage ring. He then released Long Tian and the others from the Flowing Crown Hall.
“The Fiery Essence has been tamed?” Long Tian and the others saw that Ye Feng was unharmed, and the formidable Fiery Essence had disappeared as well. They had thought that taming it would require some effort, but it had only taken a few dozen breaths—this was because the time flow in the Flowing Crown Hall was the same as outside when no cultivation was needed.
“Mm, let’s look around again for any good items in this main hall!” In Ye Feng’s view, his gains from this trip were already sufficient—over five hundred thousand pills, the Flowing Silk Ancient Lotus, and even the Fiery Essence as a bonus. He was also about to comprehend several more fire-type laws. If they could find something more, that would be great; if not, Ye Feng wouldn’t feel deprived.
Jin and the others began searching everywhere, fearing they might have missed something. Clearly, they weren’t willing to leave the Danquan Sect without extracting everything possible.
Bai Yiyi stood still, closing her eyes as she used her powerful mental energy to scan the area, searching for anything that might catch her interest.
Long Tian glanced oddly at the spot where the Fiery Essence had taken shape before. Seeing that he wasn’t moving, Ye Feng also looked in that direction. It was a spirit-concentrating array—more precisely, a large, modified version of one. It was likely placed there to gather flames. Above it must have been the location of the Danquan Sect’s founding cauldron.
“That area below must be hollow; otherwise, even the Fiery Essence wouldn’t be able to emerge directly from the soil,” Long Tian said, startling everyone.
“After years of heating, although the underground fire has passed through, there should be many fire crystals down there—only unknown is their grade,” Ye Feng quickly realized.
“I thought the same. But the geothermal fire here is comparable to that of the Sacred rank, and none of us can go down to get it,” Long Tian shook his head helplessly. “Originally, that Fire Spirit should have been able to do it, but since your Fire Spirit was initially tamed by the Cauldron, it probably can’t leave the Cauldron for a while…”
Thinking of the Fire Spirit, Ye Feng also thought of his fire-type clone, Ye Yan, who also had the ability to transform into flame. He immediately summoned him. “Ye Yan! I’m giving you the Sky Ring. Go and collect all the fire crystals down there.”
Everyone was surprised to see the young man who looked almost identical to Ye Feng, with only flames flashing in his eyes.
“Hehe, it seems we’ve had quite good luck lately!” Ye Yan said excitedly. “This is a great task. The flames down there are one rank higher than my current level, perfect for me to devour. I’ll collect all the fire crystals for you first. You can leave now. I’ll stay down there for a while, swallow up all the flames, and then see if I can consume the two Post-Natural Fire Veins down there…”
“Do as you wish, just don’t get killed!” Ye Feng knew his clone was as unrestrained as he was, acting on impulse, so he didn’t stop him. Besides, this was beneficial for his own cultivation.
“Don’t worry. We can all transform into elements. Compared to that, it’s you who’s more likely to get killed…” Ye Yan said carelessly. “We’ve reached a bottleneck at the first stage of mastering the laws. Breaking through to the second stage isn’t a problem for us. You too need to find time to meditate and deepen your understanding of the law patterns…”
Before his words faded, Ye Yan had already transformed into a pale white flame and disappeared underground from where the Fire Spirit had appeared.
“Your clone is so stubborn…” Long Tian couldn’t help but laugh, and the others also snickered secretly.
“That’s normal. Ye Yan and Ye Lei are straightforward people who say what they think. Besides, he’s not wrong. It’s my insufficient mastery of the law patterns that’s slowing their progress,” Ye Feng said with a wry smile. “But isn’t coming to these secret realms and ruins to search for treasures also a way to improve my strength indirectly?”
After about two cups of tea, everyone felt a vibration beneath their feet. Just as they were surprised, Ye Yan, now in elemental form, rushed up and threw the ring to Ye Feng. “An earthquake is coming! Hurry up and leave!”
“Why is there an earthquake here?” Jin asked, puzzled.
“I hollowed out the area below…” Ye Yan winked at Ye Feng.
“Damn!” Ye Feng and Long Tian both cursed at the same time.
“Let’s go!” Ye Feng led everyone out of the grand hall at full speed, with the ground behind them continuously collapsing.
They rushed along the path swiftly, and the restrictions on both sides of the path also collapsed due to the entire floating island’s destruction.
Ye Feng and the others finally saw what lay beyond the restrictions on either side of the path—nothing but scorched land burned by flames. He then realized that in order to channel those two fire veins here, everything on the island except for the grand hall and this path had been completely burned away by fire.
It wasn’t until they left the floating island that they escaped the effects of the collapse. From afar, they watched as the island continued to crumble, from the main hall to the side halls and then to the front hall. The entire Danquan Sect was destroyed in an instant.
Ye Feng sent his mental energy into the Sky Ring. There were fire crystal stones, covering three-quarters of the island’s size, piled up inside the ring like a mountain—there must have been tens of millions of them. At least one-third of them were Holy Fire Crystal Stones.
“Lord, actually, almost the entire island was turned into fire crystal stones. At first, I only collected the Holy Fire Crystal Stones. Later, I found that many Divine Fire Crystal Stones were only slightly less valuable than the Holy ones, so I collected more of those as well. But then I discovered there were also many top-grade Divine Fire Crystal Stones, so I took them all—after all, you can sell them for money. I didn’t expect that almost the entire island was made up of top-grade Divine Fire Crystal Stones…” Ye Yan explained anxiously as he saw Ye Feng looking at him angrily.
“Never mind. It’s just an ruins site; it’s fine if it’s destroyed!” Ye Feng waved his hand helplessly. “We took advantage of the Danquan Sect, but destroyed their sect’s ruins—morally, that’s not right. Anyway, in the future, we can find some pill formulas and give them to the people of Danquan Sect when we meet them.”
“Then I’ll go and absorb those fire veins below,” Ye Yan said with a grin after seeing that Ye Feng didn’t say anything more, then rushed toward the volcanic crater below.
“Let’s go!” Ye Feng led everyone away from there quickly.