"Ruoshui?"
Ye Feng looked at Yue Yan with some bewilderment, "What is that?"
"It's the result of my cultivation... It's so magical..."
Yue Yan seemed a little dazed. As she spoke, she quickly ran to a spot, took out a tent, and quickly crawled inside, re-zipping the entrance.
"Did she grasp something crucial..."
Ye Feng frowned slightly, understanding dawning on him. He didn't disturb Yue Yan.
...
The next day,
In the morning,
As Yue Yan was still in the tent, seemingly digesting what she had comprehended yesterday, Ye Feng and his group did not press on. Instead, they rested and explored the surroundings...
...
"Speaking of which, Fei Xue, I heard Yue Yan mention before that you said not all gods wanted to exterminate humans... but things are complicated. What's the situation?"
Walking on the road, Ye Feng looked at Yue Fei Xue with confusion.
"This... you yourself... judge... Our understanding and perception... may not be the same as yours..."
Yue Fei Xue frowned slightly and replied ambiguously.
"Alright~"
Seeing this, Ye Feng scratched his head and didn't press further.
...
At noon,
Yue Yan was still in the tent and hadn't come out for meals.
"Ye Feng, what are you looking at?"
Qiao Ying saw Ye Feng sitting on a patch of grass, staring intently at a black stone tablet, and couldn't help but call out.
"Oh... this stone tablet, the patterns on it... seem to be part of a map..."
Saying that, Ye Feng pointed to the ancient inscription he had obtained earlier in the City of Strengtheners.
"A map?"
Qiao Ying walked to Ye Feng's side with great curiosity, squatted down, and examined it. "Indeed... these patterns look like rivers... and these protrusions look like mountains..."
"Mm!"
Ye Feng nodded. "These patterns are different from the arcane runes on the ancient stone tablet... They seem to have been carved later... and the material is different... unlike the ancient stone tablet..."
"I tried to explore it with my true energy... the patterns of these mountains and rivers responded... there was even the sun rising... and the flow of the river..."
As Ye Feng spoke, he covered the patterns on the ancient stone tablet with his true energy. The ancient stone tablet immediately revealed an incomplete three-dimensional landscape of mountains and rivers...
"Big brother..."
At this moment, Xiao Xiao ran out of the small wooden cabin, with Yue Fei Xue following behind her.
"Big brother, you've entered the Heaven Ranking, you're twelfth!"
Xiao Xiao ran to Ye Feng's side and said excitedly under the gaze of Ye Feng and Qiao Ying.
"The... Heaven Ranking?"
Ye Feng was somewhat taken aback. He couldn't help but touch his wristband and open the light screen. As expected, next to the original position of the Earth Ranking, he found another ranking, the Heaven Ranking.
"This ranking only has thirteen... it wasn't there before... why did it suddenly appear on this list..."
Ye Feng examined the Heaven Ranking, feeling puzzled.
"Ye Feng, could it be the ancient stone tablet in your hand... Didn't Fei Xue say before that all those on the Heaven Ranking possess special items... and those items can form a map?"
Qiao Ying looked at the black stone tablet in Ye Feng's hand and said.
"In this period of time... if there's anything I've obtained that's related to a map... it seems to be only this..."
Ye Feng frowned slightly, feeling that Qiao Ying's analysis was very reasonable.
Unconsciously, Ye Feng's gaze fell on Yue Fei Xue.
"This... is indeed very likely..."
Yue Fei Xue's beautiful eyebrows curved as she looked towards the tent where Yue Yan was not far away. "Let's ask Yue Yan when she comes out to see what's going on. She's also one of the thirteen seats on the Heaven Ranking..."
...
In the evening,
Yue Yan finally emerged from the tent. She was by a wooden table, eating heartily without any lady-like demeanor, clearly starving.
Meanwhile, Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, Qiao Ying, and Yue Fei Xue were observing a piece of ancient sandalwood that Yue Yan had just taken out from not far away. It also had patterns of mountains and rivers...
"Although it's also a map... it doesn't connect with the map on the ancient stone tablet I have... missing other parts..."
Ye Feng muttered as he compared the ancient stone tablet with the map revealed on the ancient sandalwood.
"There are thirteen on the Heaven Ranking... according to Fei Xue, this map has thirteen pieces in total. It's normal for it not to match when we only have two..."
At this moment, Yue Yan, holding a roasted chicken drumstick, walked over. With a flash of light in her hand, she handed Ye Feng another pink crystal, which was an arcane crystal.
"This..."
Ye Feng took the arcane crystal and was surprised to see the familiar patterns on it. "Yue Yan, you have two special items from the Heaven Ranking?"
"Mm!"
Yue Yan nodded. "I discovered the patterns on the Heaven Ranking special items quite early... I've been specifically collecting such things over the years..."
"However, due to some concerns... I haven't activated the patterns on them..."
As she spoke, Yue Yan's hand flickered, and item after item appeared before Ye Feng and the others.
"One... two... three... Yue Yan, there are thirteen people on the Heaven Ranking... and there should be thirteen corresponding special items... You've collected eight of them by yourself?"
Ye Feng counted and looked at Yue Yan with great surprise.
"I worked very hard to collect them... two of them were bought at the Auction House of the Adventurer's Guild..."
"Speaking of which, I remembered something. Wu Ye Lan of the Adventurer's Guild should have at least one special item from the Heaven Ranking..."
"Although I was very cautious and commissioned someone to attend the auction before, Wu Ye Lan probably sensed something and didn't put the Heaven Ranking special items up for auction..."
"He even hired someone to try and buy back the Heaven Ranking special items I had previously auctioned..."
Yue Yan quickly explained to Ye Feng.
"Wu Ye Lan..."
Ye Feng frowned slightly. "I'll find time to ask him about it... Let's try to piece together the maps of these nine Heaven Ranking special items first..."
"Okay!~"
Xiao Xiao responded. With a flash of light in her hand, a drawing board, pens, and paper all appeared.
"Ye Feng, wait a moment!"
At this moment, Yue Yan suddenly stopped Ye Feng, who was about to manifest his true energy.
"What's wrong?"
Ye Feng looked at Yue Yan with bewilderment.
"Ye Feng, the reason I didn't activate the other seven Heaven Ranking special items before was because I had concerns. I suspect... as long as one Heaven Ranking special item is activated, the corresponding position among the thirteen seats on the Heaven Ranking will display that person's name!"
"If all nine of these items are activated by the same person on the patterns... then in the thirteen seats of the Heaven Ranking, perhaps nine of them will display that person's name!"
Yue Yan's expression was quite serious.
"Is that so... But this... doesn't seem to be a problem, right?"
Ye Feng frowned slightly.
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