When Ye Fei woke up, he found himself lying by the side of a dilapidated street.
Ye Fei immediately got up and cautiously looked around. He didn't find any immediate danger, but he didn't dare to relax.
He could only continue walking forward, hoping to find some different clues.
Finally, after walking along the kilometer-long street, Ye Fei's eyes fell upon a magnificent palace.
However, due to the erosion of time, the palace was clearly somewhat dilapidated.
Ye Fei directly pushed open the palace gate with a whoosh and strode inside.
As soon as he entered the palace, a monstrous roar immediately sounded.
Roar, roar, roar.
Ye Fei immediately prepared for battle.
Then, from the side door of the palace, a strange-looking beast with two tails appeared.
This beast's cultivation was at the peak of the fourth level of Qi Condensation.
And it was tall and imposing. It wouldn't be easy for Ye Fei to defeat it.
"Beast, I don't want to harm you today. If you can leave quickly now, I'll spare you!"
Ye Fei said coldly.
The beast swung its two thick tails, and a hint of wariness flashed in its blood-red eyes. After considering for a moment, it still charged towards Ye Fei.
"A beast is truly a beast. I will kill you now!"
Seeing that his previous words had no effect, Ye Fei knew that if he wanted to pass through this palace, he had to kill this beast.
"Beast, take this sword!"
Ye Fei was not flustered at all. He directly drew his sword and flew to the beast's front.
The beast, seeing Ye Fei dare to attack it directly, immediately let out a low growl and then slapped the ground.
With a few thuds, the jade floor of the palace shattered.
"Xuan Tian Jue, Second Stance!"
Ye Fei circulated his cultivation technique, and his black longsword struck fiercely. He shot towards the beast with a whoosh.
The beast didn't take Ye Fei's attack seriously at all. Therefore, when Ye Fei's fierce strike reached the beast, it directly swung a palm, dispersing Ye Fei's sword energy.
The sword energy scattered in various directions throughout the palace.
Cracking sounds echoed in Ye Fei's ears.
Roar, roar, roar.
The beast originally thought that Ye Fei's attack would not cause it any harm, but the residual sword energy still cut several gashes on its front paw.
Blood immediately began to gush out uncontrollably.
"Beast, this is the price of your underestimation!"
"Take another sword!"
Ye Fei flew forward again, activating his Fei Yun Steps to the extreme, circling the beast rapidly several times.
As the beast began to feel dizzy, Ye Fei's eyes narrowed, and he launched another attack.
"Slash!"
Ye Fei shouted, pouring an endless stream of primal energy into his longsword.
Hum, hum, hum.
The longsword immediately let out buzzing sounds.
"Go!"
Then Ye Fei swiftly unleashed surging sword energy, attacking the beast with full momentum.
The beast roared and directly met the attack.
Ye Fei also flew forward again, clashing with the beast.
At this moment, Ye Fei felt a state of oneness between man and sword.
That profound feeling caused the bottleneck in his body to loosen again.
He had a premonition that if he successfully killed this beast, his cultivation would surely break through.
"I don't have time to play hide-and-seek with you, die!"
Ye Fei instantly disappeared from the beast's sight.
This was the first time the beast had seen a living person vanish like that, so it anxiously looked around, roaring continuously.
Crack.
Taking advantage of the beast's carelessness, Ye Fei directly struck its head.
Then, with a mighty force, Ye Fei split the beast's body in half.
After tidying things up, Ye Fei sat down on the spot, circulated his cultivation technique, and began to break through the bottleneck in his body.
In less than five minutes, Ye Fei had completely broken through the bottleneck, and his cultivation began to climb.
Peak of the third level of Qi Condensation, early fourth level of Qi Condensation.
After rising two levels consecutively, Ye Fei finally ended his cultivation state.
Feeling the surging power within him, Ye Fei couldn't help but let out a few light laughs.
Recalling his mission, Ye Fei immediately tidied himself up and walked towards the back of the palace.
Strangely, there was nothing behind the palace.
"What's going on?"
"Did I guess wrong?"
"Is this not the place leading to the true ancient ruins?"
Ye Fei murmured to himself.
However, he was unwilling to give up and continued to observe carefully.
Finally, after several rounds of detailed observation, he finally discovered a slight abnormality.
He then stopped directly at a patterned location on the wall, drew a complex pattern on it, and finally tapped the protruding part next to it three times.
Rumble.
Rumble.
Finally, with a series of booming sounds, the entire stone wall slid to the right.
Ye Fei then realized that this was a small teleportation array!
"So that's how it is, it seems my guess was correct!"
Ye Fei said and stepped onto the teleportation array.
Finally, an hour later, the teleportation array stopped.
The environment was completely different from before. Ye Fei was teleported to an extremely hot region.
The place was barren, with yellow sand filling the ground.
Ye Fei walked forward with one foot sinking deeper than the other in this desert-like terrain.
He estimated that only by crossing this endless desert would he reach his final destination.
Without delay, he had to leave this place before dark.
Not long after he started, he heard a very faint cry for help.
"Help, someone help me, I'm dying."
"I'm so thirsty."
Upon hearing this voice, Ye Fei immediately ran towards the direction from which the sound came.
After Ye Fei had searched a large portion of the desert, he finally discovered a woman on the verge of death behind a bush.
Judging by her attire, she was clearly wearing the robes of a Dan Sect disciple. It seemed this person was one of the missing Dan Sect disciples.
With this in mind, Ye Fei immediately stepped forward. First, he gave the delirious woman a drink of water, then he immediately scooped her up in a princess carry and tried his best to leave the place as quickly as possible.
As for the woman in Ye Fei's arms, she was completely unaware of all this, having already fainted.
Ye Fei had a difficult journey, but he finally managed to leave the desert at dusk.