Chapter 766: Chapter 766: The Incredibly Precious Treasure Map, Exchange of the Origin
“What is this?”
Ye Feng was curious about this yellowed scroll, slowly spreading it out on the table.
The scroll was a map.
It was drawn with the skill of a soul artist; at first glance, Ye Feng couldn’t understand it at all and really wanted to throw it away.
“Sect Leader, this is my treasure map,”
Mad Drunkard began to explain.
“Over the years when I had nothing to do, I traveled everywhere in Shenzhou Continent, entering many secret realms.”
“There are quite a lot of treasures in there.”
“However, since my cultivation level is high, I don’t need these items. After leaving the secret realms, I recorded the methods to decode them and their exact locations. Then, I sealed the secret realms again using the same technique.”
Hearing this, Ye Feng’s eyes lit up and he asked, “How many secret realms are there in total?”
“Too many to count,” Mad Drunkard said after downing a hundred kilograms of medicinal liquor and belching before continuing, “I started recording from when I was six thousand years old until now, so there should be quite a few.”
Mad Drunkard was nine thousand years old this year.
Ye Feng knew this.
This meant that the scroll contained secret realms that Mad Drunkard had accumulated over three thousand years. Even if some of the realms had disappeared, there must still be many left.
Swish!
Ye Feng suddenly flicked the scroll and it unfurled rapidly, turning into a super-long scroll one meter wide and seemingly endless in length.
In Ye Feng’s view, the other end of the scroll slid down from the peak and kept extending towards the foot of the mountain, as if it never had an end.
“How long is this scroll?”
Ye Feng couldn’t help but ask.
“A few thousand zhang? Or tens of thousands? I forgot,” Mad Drunkard said, his face red as he shook his head, clearly unable to remember.
At these words, Ye Feng’s expression became excited.
Even if the scroll was only a few thousand zhang long, the number of secret realms recorded would be in the tens of thousands. If it were tens of thousands, that would be even more terrifying.
He lowered his head and started with the first picture of the scroll.
The picture was eighty centimeters wide and two meters long, depicting a valley with numerous strange symbols and some chicken-scratch-like text records.
Luckily, with the three Heart of Wisdom pieces that Ye Feng possessed, his exceptional comprehension allowed him to quickly decipher the content and compile the first treasure map.
Then, he continued with his deductions.
Mad Drunkard sat beside him with a jar of liquor, silently watching, occasionally burping or answering Ye Feng’s questions.
Three days passed like this.
Ye Feng compiled more than six hundred treasure maps, drawn on rice paper one meter in length and half a meter in width, piling into a thick stack.
“Sect Leader, my energy can’t increase anymore!”
Hu Feifei’s voice suddenly rang out.
Ye Feng was startled, lifting his head only to see Hu Feifei with the Hunyuan Staff over her shoulder, standing at the table, her nine pink tails swinging continuously, with one of the tails having brushed against the inkstone and getting stained with quite a bit of black ink.
“Pfft,” Ye Feng couldn’t help laughing, pointing at her tail.
“Aww, yuck!”
Hu Feifei quickly stepped aside, shaking her tail, flinging off the ink, and her tail became bright and clean again, without a speck of dirt.
[Hu Feifei’s Upgrade Energy: 99.999%]
Ye Feng observed Hu Feifei’s condition, feeling a bit surprised.
“Why is your energy stuck at the last step?”
“I don’t know either!”
Hu Feifei shook her head repeatedly.
During this time, she had been racking up points at the Crimson Moon Gate, and her energy had surged wildly.
Three days ago, her energy reached 99.999%, infinitely close to full energy.
However, no matter how hard she tried to farm after that, she was unable to get any new upgrade energy.
It was like hitting a bottleneck!
“System, what’s going on?”
“Ding! As Hu Feifei’s level increases, the Crimson Moon Gate can no longer provide upgrade energy. You must absorb higher-grade energy or use the power of the Sacred Body to refresh.”
“Refresh?”
“By using the power of the Sacred Body to purge Hu Feifei’s energy, it will reach 100%, and she will be promoted to a Four-Turn Quasi-Saint. At that point, she could also accumulate about 60% of energy through the Crimson Moon Gate.”
“So that’s how it is!”
Ye Feng suddenly realized.
Although he didn’t understand why this was happening, he had remnants of two Sacred Bodies from which he could extract some energy, which should be enough for Hu Feifei’s upgrade.
“Hrrrmm…”
Just then, a snoring sound arose.
Ye Feng looked in the direction of the noise and saw Mad Drunkard hugging a wine jar, lying on the ground and sleeping like a dead pig, his mouth wide open, snoring like thunder.
“Who is this?” Princess Hu Feifei asked, pointing at the Mad Drunkard lying on the ground with the Hunyuan Staff.
“Mad Drunkard, the new Supreme Elder,” Ye Feng replied. He left the treasure map and scroll where they were and led Princess Hu Feifei into the Sect Leader’s Great Hall, shutting the doors tightly behind them.
The next moment.
Ye Feng ripped through the void, bringing Princess Hu Feifei to the Spirit Consolidating Realm and sealing off the aura of this realm.
After that, Ye Feng took out a broken body that had only an upper torso; its head had already vanished, it was the half of the Sacred Body of Saint Emperor Lingwei.
A terrifying aura swept across the area.
The entire Spirit Consolidating Realm was heavily suppressed, all beings lying on the ground as if facing Doomsday.
“Wait for me.”
Ye Feng took out the Destiny Treasure Bead, using the Power of Destiny to extract a wisp of aura from the half of the Sacred Body that seemed to condense the whole world.
It appeared as a nine-colored vortex, at first glance, more like a vast starry sky.
This was a Power Origin of the Sacred Body!
“Princess, give it a try,” Ye Feng said.
“Okay!” Princess Hu Feifei took a deep breath, swallowed the strand of Sacred Body Power Origin, and began to assimilate it.
[Hu Feifei’s Upgrade Energy: 200%]
Just a few minutes later, not only had Princess Hu Feifei’s energy filled up, but it had also doubled.
“As expected of the power of a Sacred Body, it’s strong!” Ye Feng exclaimed.
As her energy reserves filled, Princess Hu Feifei closed her eyes and fell into a slumber, quietly lying next to Ye Feng, her beautiful face bearing a hint of charm, very tempting.
However, the steel-hearted straight man Ye Feng remained unmoved.
“It’s also time for me to try absorbing the power of the Sacred Body. If I succeed, I might very well achieve Physical Body Saint Path entry today,” Ye Feng murmured to himself.
He sat cross-legged on the ground, again using the Destiny Treasure Bead to extract the Origin from within the Sacred Body, attempting to merge it into his own body.
However, to Ye Feng’s dismay, no matter how he tried to absorb it, he could not integrate the power from the Sacred Bodies of Saint Emperor Lingwei and Mist Saint into his own.
“It seems that if I want to follow the Physical Body Saint Path, I can only rely on absorbing the Power Origin… But these two Sacred Bodies follow the path of law-based sanctification, so they don’t contain any Power Origin. Only those who walk the Physical Body Saint Path have it,” Ye Feng muttered.
“Sss, that’s right!”
Ye Feng suddenly remembered something, hurriedly packed up the broken Sacred Body, and took Princess Hu Feifei back to the Misty Sect.
After placing her in the Thunder Palace, Ye Feng went down to the depths beneath the Hardwood Plains, looking at this massive skull.
“You carry my essence!”
As Ye Feng arrived, the skull slowly vibrated, its eyes burning with blue flames, gazing intently at Ye Feng.
“I’ve found your right arm, left by an Ancient Holy God predecessor. It’s in the distant True Dragon Realm, sealed within a stone coffin,” Ye Feng did not hide the truth.
Thump!
The skull shook violently, clearly excited.
“My right arm… you’ve really found it?” the Ancient Holy God asked with a trembling voice.
A fearsome power enveloped Ye Feng, completely sealing off the surrounding area, so much so that even those in the Saint Entry Realm couldn’t penetrate this power zone.
This was to protect Ye Feng as well as to isolate any external forces’ probes.
“Yes, I stumbled upon it by chance. Predecessor, I’ll bring your right arm here in exchange for a strand of your Power Origin, how about that?” Ye Feng stated his intention.
He needed the Power Origin!
It was essential for the Physical Body Saint Path!
Under the heavens, besides seeking it from the only known Ancient Holy God who had walked the Physical Body Saint Path, he had no other way to obtain it.
The Ancient Holy God was silent for a long time.
“Agreed!”
Eventually, it consented to the trade.
Swoosh!
A strand of pale gold aura drifted out from the skull of the Ancient Holy God, landing in front of Ye Feng, imbued with a heavy, terrifying presence like that of the milky way, the very Power Origin.
Seeing this, Ye Feng was thrilled.
With this, he was finally on the brink of achieving the Physical Body Saint Path.
He had waited a very long time for this day!