Before their eyes was a picturesque valley blooming with vibrant flowers, bursting with life, more resplendent than a warm spring day.
In stark contrast to the outside environment, this valley was suffused with a massive amount of spiritual energy, so dense it had condensed into fog, drifting like colorful ribbons.
At the far end of the valley stood a stone cliff hundreds of meters high.
Vines crept across the cliff face, surrounding a pitch-black cave opening.
Ye Yunfei sensed the area with his Soul Power, then strode confidently towards the cave entrance.
Hu Miao followed closely behind.
It was a downward-sloping tunnel, winding and twisting.
Moreover, the tunnel was heavily rigged with numerous formations — offensive, defensive, illusionary…
Ye Yunfei dismantled each of these formations one by one.
“Master, your mastery over formations is truly profound!”
Hu Miao walked beside Ye Yunfei, watching him casually disable one sophisticated formation after another, and couldn’t help but marvel.
Ye Yunfei offered a slight smile.
As a former Heavenly Emperor, Ye Yunfei had even studied fragmented divine formations from ancient relics. How could these paltry arrays before him pose any difficulty?
A short while later.
They finally reached the end of the tunnel.
A vast underground hall!
The hall was simply immense.
Nearly a thousand square meters wide and over a hundred meters high. Standing inside it, a person felt as minuscule as an ant.
In the very center of the hall were two pools.
One pool held water as black as ink, emitting tendrils of black smoke that coiled upwards, twisting into the shapes of ferocious, monstrous demons, resembling a chaotic dance of fiends.
The other pool was filled with milky-white spring water, bubbling and gurgling continuously. Spiritual mist drifted above its surface, upon which pristine lotus blossoms bloomed.
Even more astonishing was that within the black pool, sat the perfectly preserved corpse of a tall Ancient Demon Race being, lifelike and radiating dense demonic energy.
Around the white pool, numerous precious herbs bloomed.
Among them were Fourth-Grade, even Fifth-Grade precious herbs!
Surrounding the black pool knelt over a hundred corpses of Ancient Demon Race beings, all prostrated face-down on the ground.
As for the white pool, a monk sat cross-legged within it, his face gaunt.
“So that’s it.
I finally understand why, after so many ages, the demonic aura, baleful energy, resentful spirits, and soul fragments in this ancient battlefield have persisted without dissipating.
It’s all because of this Inverted Yin-Yang Grand Formation!
Otherwise, this so-called ancient battlefield would have long since lost all its energy and become ordinary land.”
Ye Yunfei surveyed the scene and couldn’t help but sneer.
“Master, there are so many Ancient Demons here!
And that one in the pool must be an expert among the Ancient Demon Race. We should be careful.”
Hu Miao warned.
“That monk is the main player here.”
Ye Yunfei’s gaze, however, was fixed on the monk within the white pool.
“I never expected to find an Earth Spirit Vein here.
Excellent.”
Ye Yunfei observed the milky-white pool, and an expression of delight spread across his face.
An Earth Spirit Vein was the condensed essence of the earth’s spiritual energies, containing enormous power.
For martial artists, an Earth Spirit Vein was an exceedingly rare and precious cultivation treasure.
“I doubt there are many Earth Spirit Veins in the entire Tianxuan Continent. Who would have thought there’s one here.
Since I’ve encountered it, I won’t let it slip by.”
Ye Yunfei declared.
“Master, you’re saying that pool is the legendary Earth Spirit Vein?!”
Hu Miao widened her eyes in disbelief.
“That pool is the outlet of the Earth Spirit Vein. The true Earth Spirit Vein is buried beneath it.”
Ye Yunfei explained.
“However, I need to deal with this fellow first.”
Ye Yunfei’s eyes turned to the monk seated in the white pool.
The monk wore monastic robes, sat with eyes lowered, his skin ruddy and glossy, as if deep in meditation.
“Alright, first, let me break this Inverted Yin-Yang Grand Formation!”
Ye Yunfei shouted and dashed to the side of the black pool. He threw a punch at the Ancient Demon seated within it.
Boom…
Ye Yunfei’s arm thickened and expanded violently, resembling a golden Jiao Dragon. His fist was like a small mountain, striking so hard that the black pool water surged backwards.
Bang! Bang!
Ye Yunfei’s fist landed several consecutive blows on the Ancient Demon corpse.
Immediately, cracks appeared on the surface of the Ancient Demon’s body.
The Ancient Demon corpse offered no resistance whatsoever.
Ye Yunfei knew that the demonic consciousness within this corpse had long since dissipated, leaving behind only an empty shell.
“Kid, stop!”
Suddenly, a furious roar emanated from the head of the monk in the white pool.
Then,
a white, ethereal figure emerged from the monk’s head and floated before them.
It was the monk’s Soul Body.
A fragmented Soul Body.
“Heh, so you finally decided to show yourself.”
Ye Yunfei turned and sneered at the monk.
“Kid, do you know of the Inverted Yin-Yang Grand Formation?”
The monk asked in surprise.
“Of course I do.
I guess you must have participated in that ancient war, suffered grievous injuries, and were on the verge of death.
You unintentionally discovered this Earth Spirit Vein here.
So, you set up this Inverted Yin-Yang Grand Formation to nurture your physical body and Soul Body, hoping to revive one day.
Isn’t that right.”
Ye Yunfei stated coldly.
“Correct.
I truly never imagined that the Tianxuan Continent would harbor such a monstrous young man, capable of seeing through my Inverted Yin-Yang Grand Formation.”
The monk looked at Ye Yunfei with a complicated gaze, unable to hold back a sigh of admiration.
“It’s laughable, this Ancient Demon expert who you lured here to suppress the Yin Eye for you, ending up with his consciousness destroyed and soul scattered.
Otherwise, with his power, even if he had perished back then, there would have been a chance for him to be revived by now.”
Ye Yunfei pointed at the Ancient Demon seated in the black pool.
“You even understand this!
Just who are you?!”
The monk’s pupils constricted sharply.
“Who I am is something you are not qualified to know.”
Ye Yunfei scoffed.
“Young man, how dare you be so arrogant before me. Aren’t you afraid I’ll kill you?”
The monk narrowed his eyes, his tone frosty.
“Hahaha…
You can’t kill me.
You are human. For humans, revival is far more difficult than it is for Ancient Demons.
I know you were originally an expert at the tenth level of the Grotto-Heaven Realm, but your physical body has not yet regained its vitality.
Therefore, you cannot kill me.
Otherwise, I would have turned and fled long ago.”
Ye Yunfei laughed.
“Hmph!
A mere ant of the Yuan Foundation Realm, merely trained his physical body a bit stronger.
I can kill you with Soul Power alone.”
The monk snorted coldly.
“Using Soul Power, you stand even less of a chance of killing me.”
Ye Yunfei shook his head gently.