"Mm!"
Liu Laotou nodded, "Don't worry, I've already dealt with it!"
As he spoke, Liu Laotou pointed to the two fox corpses on the ground not far away.
"Ye Feng, are you okay?!"
Immediately after, Liu Laotou looked at Ye Feng with some surprise. He found that Ye Feng, apart from being slightly dazed at the beginning, was calm and composed, showing no signs of hallucination.
"Uh, my head felt a little dizzy just now~"
Ye Feng told the truth.
Hearing this, Liu Laotou's mouth twitched.
He knew that he had only managed to break free from the hallucination by the intense pain from his leg wound. Ye Feng, who had also suffered the mental attack from the four-eyed ice fox, was only slightly dizzy...
Could his mental strength be so powerful?
Ye Feng naturally knew what Liu Laotou was surprised about, and he couldn't help but look at the Tang Dao in his hand again.
A long time ago, Ye Feng discovered that just holding this Tang Dao, without doing anything else, would quickly tire his mind... Later, Ye Feng gradually adapted...
However, holding it for a long time would still make his mind tired...
Ye Feng mused that it was probably because of this Tang Dao that his mental strength had grown unconsciously!
As for Xiao Xiao, her attention had been on Ye Feng's wound. She was very worried. It was only after the two four-eyed ice foxes were dead that she reacted...
Because Ye Feng and his group were traveling on the road, surrounded by white fog, they could only see the general direction and could not travel fast. Moreover, the sudden incidents with the snow ghost and the four-eyed ice fox had delayed them considerably, and night was falling quickly.
In addition, Ye Feng, Lin, and Liu Laotou had all sustained injuries to varying degrees, so they found a place to rest after walking for a short while!
...
The next day,
"Damn it, what the hell is this white fog?"
"The range is too large, I can't tell which way is which!"
Walking in the white fog for a long time, with limited visibility and a sense of oppression on their direction, people's state of mind is easily affected.
As expected, Lei Jian was starting to get irritable.
"Yeah, we've been walking for so long, always in this white fog, and we've encountered so many waves of monster attacks..."
"Are we lost?"
Lin also seemed a little restless.
The white fog was not too much of a problem for her, as she had always followed Ye Feng and Liu Laotou.
But various troublesome monsters would occasionally pop out of the white fog, making her feel annoyed and frustrated...
"We won't get lost, believe in Big Brother!"
Xiao Xiao, however, didn't seem to mind. As long as she was with Ye Feng...
"It should have been about half a day's journey. Due to the fog, we might have a sensory illusion. Let's keep going!"
At this moment, Ye Feng's voice rang out.
"Let's keep going!"
Liu Laotou was very supportive of Ye Feng.
After all, this was the only clue he had to the Ice City. Even if they turned back, which direction would they go?
...
At noon,
Ye Feng and his group were eating their meal, the atmosphere somewhat somber, with no one speaking.
Because they had quickened their pace and walked for the entire morning, not to mention the journey yesterday afternoon, they had definitely covered more than 30 kilometers, yet they were still surrounded by vast white fog. The fog ahead even seemed to be getting thicker.
"Ye Feng, do you know how the energy of fire-attribute arcane origin stones is activated?"
Sensing the increasingly oppressive atmosphere, Lin broke the silence, bringing up a topic that interested Ye Feng.
Because through observation, Lin had noticed that although Ye Feng was powerful, he didn't know much about arcane energy and arcane origin stones.
"Activated? How is it done?"
Ye Feng had had this question before, but at the time his mind was occupied with the snow ghost and that Dr. C, so he hadn't had a chance to ask.
Now that Lin brought it up, Ye Feng became very interested.
"Induce it with innate arcane energy!"
Lin nodded, "Every cultivator who awakens innate arcane energy absorbs arcane energy into their bodies, refines it, and transforms external arcane energy into their own innate arcane energy."
"The more innate arcane energy one possesses, and the purer it is, the more arcane energy one can control, and the stronger the power!"
"The arcane energy contained within arcane origin stones is usually very stable and dissipates slowly."
"But once induced by innate arcane energy, it will be released in large quantities, just like yesterday!"
Lin explained rapidly to Ye Feng.
"Oh, I see~"
Ye Feng suddenly understood.
"Xiao Xiao, what are you doing?"
Suddenly, Ye Feng's attention shifted, and he looked at Xiao Xiao with some confusion.
Because he noticed that Xiao Xiao had her hand extended into a white fog as thick as a white wall, constantly feeling around for something.
"Big Brother, I dropped a spoon in this direction just now, but I can't find it~"
"There seems to be a pit behind this white fog, it's empty, and I can hear a 'whooshing' sound!"
Xiao Xiao said as she felt around.
"Can't find it?"
Ye Feng walked over suspiciously, intending to check the situation.
"Damn it!"
As Ye Feng reached Xiao Xiao's side and was about to step forward, he missed his footing and stumbled, falling into the white fog.
"Big Brother... Ah!..."
Seeing Ye Feng disappear into the white fog, Xiao Xiao anxiously stepped forward, but she also missed her footing and fell into the white fog...
"What's going on?"
"Ah~... Uh..."
Lin and the others' faces changed. They got up to check, but in the end, they all fell into the dense white fog.
...
On the other side of the dense white fog,
"B-Big Brother, what... what's going on?"
Held in Ye Feng's arms, falling freely together, Xiao Xiao looked at her surroundings, completely bewildered.
Behind the white fog, which was so thick it blocked all vision like a white wall, there was a super large, deep pit. They had just been eating on the edge of a cliff.
And the edge of this super large deep pit was filled with incredibly dense white fog, looking like water vapor rising from the ground that had suddenly cooled and condensed.
At the bottom of the super deep pit, there were vast expanses of modern buildings, comparable to the modern metropolises Ye Feng had lived in before...
"Arcane·Water Bubble!"
Suddenly, a female voice that Ye Feng found somewhat familiar rang out.
It was Lin, who had fallen right after Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao. She formed a hand seal and pushed it towards them.
Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, Liu Laotou, and Lei Jian were instantly enveloped in a hollow water bubble, and their descent speed significantly slowed.
Not long after,
Ye Feng and the others all crashed to the ground, but thanks to the protection of the arcane energy-infused water bubble, they were all unharmed.
"This... this is the Ice City?"
Lin looked at the modern city, its exterior frozen by thick ice and snow, and murmured.
"As we walked, we kept climbing, it felt like climbing a mountain, and this terrain... the steam rising from the cracks in the ground... it feels like we're in a volcano..."
"Wait, a volcano?"
As Ye Feng muttered, a flash of inspiration struck him.
Chen Jindong's mention of a volcano wasn't about the ground, but a description of the Ice City's terrain?!
"Big Brother, there's a sign over there!"
Suddenly, Xiao Xiao's voice rang out.