Chapter 99

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Five years later.

"That... is he really still alive?"

By the side of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, the now-grown Zhu Zhuqing, Zhu Zhuyun, and Hu Liena sat around the shore, staring blankly at the lake surface as they did every day.

Nan Feng had started his seclusion five years ago. The first two years were fine; he would wake up for about a month every five months, which counted as relaxing and resting, looking around Tiandou City and then checking on Wuhun City.

But since that winter three years ago, after Nan Feng sank into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he never came back up.

"I suppose so," Hu Liena was also a bit uncertain.

"But Teacher said he is still alive."

"Could it be that he doesn't want to come up anymore?" Zhu Zhuqing hugged her legs, squatting on the ground with her chin resting on her knees.

"That's a possibility," Hu Liena said.

"Three years ago, before he went down, I felt his emotions were a bit off."

Nan Feng's spirit had always been very unstable. He wanted to change this world, to change it according to his ideas, but he also knew that change wasn't such a simple thing, so he tried from various angles.

But the more he tried, the angrier and more desperate he became.

He knew deeply that his ideals were impossible to realize.

Many times, Nan Feng would have the thought of ending it all, of destroying everything.

It was just that every time he had such extreme thoughts, the power within his body would suppress these impulses.

Keeping him on the edge of reason and collapse.

Nan Feng had always been in pain; this was not only what her teacher told her, but also what she herself had seen.

Those seemingly crazy operations were actually the backlash brought about by being forcibly balanced when Nan Feng's anger was on the verge of erupting. He himself admitted that many times he didn't know what he was doing.

So every time Nan Feng became crazy, her teacher couldn't laugh, and she couldn't laugh either.

Because they knew Nan Feng wasn't acting crazy; he just couldn't find any other way to vent his anger.

He wasn't happy at all.

Because he heard crying, and he heard laughter, and against the backdrop of the crying, those laughs seemed particularly piercing. He couldn't be happy, and he couldn't laugh.

"This..."

Just as Hu Liena and the three were about to leave, the calm surface of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well suddenly became restless. At the intersection of the Ice Spring and the Fire Spring, a vortex slowly formed.

Hearing the commotion, Dugu Yan ran over. "Is he coming out?"

"Run!" Hu Liena suddenly came to her senses.

"The spring water is about to erupt!"

Zhu Zhuqing was stunned. "Aren't we immune to this spring water? Run..."

Boom!!

A black shadow shot out from the bottom of the spring, kicking up a large amount of spring water. Hu Liena and the three couldn't dodge in time and were drenched by the water from the Fire Spring.

The stark-naked Nan Feng hovered in the air, cold red light flashing in his eyes, with a pair of energy-like wings flickering alternately between blue and red light behind his back.

"Are you... taking a bath?"

Nan Feng looked suspiciously at Hu Liena and the three, who were also stark-naked and standing not far from the spring water.

"……"

"Ah!!!"

The corner of Hu Liena's eye twitched wildly. She hurriedly took out several sets of clothes from her soul tool to cover Zhu Zhuyun and the other.

They had taken medicine and weren't afraid of this spring water, but their clothes couldn't withstand it! The water from this Fire Spring was more terrifying than a raging fire! It would corrode their clothes in seconds!...

"What kind of look is that?" Nan Feng asked suspiciously.

"It seems like you were the ones molesting me just now, right?"

Zhu Zhuqing buried her head in her legs with a red face, and Zhu Zhuyun didn't dare to look Nan Feng in the eye either.

"I suspect you did it on purpose," Hu Liena said.

"Jumping out of the water, it's impossible to kick up such a big splash!"

"Right!" Dugu Yan agreed.

"It's not like we haven't dived in here before. Suddenly rushing out from the water wouldn't cause the scene you just made!" "The splash just now was clearly caused by you on purpose!"

"The goal! Was to get rid of their clothes!"

"That's right," Nan Feng nodded and admitted it quite readily.

The corner of Hu Liena's eye twitched. "I say, can you not be so shamelessly righteous?"

Although she didn't hate this kind of thing, the feeling of three people together just now was too strange!

"When a lie is exposed, bravely admitting it can barely preserve a little face, but if you deny it at all costs, it looks ugly," Nan Feng said.

"It's not like you don't know what kind of person I am."

Nan Feng looked at Zhu Zhuqing. "Nice figure, keep it up!"

"How nice?"

A cold, ghostly voice suddenly appeared, and Nan Feng's expression stiffened immediately.

"Uh... compared to you, it's still slightly inferior!"

Bang!...

The sky was getting late, at the small wooden house not far from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Nan Feng, who had just come out of seclusion, was beaten up by Bibi Dong, who had also just come out of seclusion. He became much more honest, at least he didn't continue to tease Zhu Zhuqing.

"Three years with no movement, I thought you died down there."

Everyone was gathered around the campfire. Bibi Dong was flipping the barbecue, Hu Liena was sprinkling seasoning, and Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing were responsible for skewering.

Nan Feng was still the master leaning to the side watching the show.

"Almost didn't make it," Nan Feng said.

"But fortunately, I won by a narrow margin."

Bibi Dong was stunned. She reached out and placed her hand on Nan Feng's shoulder, her expression stiffening immediately.

"Level 80!?"

"Did you take drugs?"

Three years ago, when they last met, Nan Feng was only level 65.

Soaking at the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for three years, he jumped 15 levels directly?!

"What drugs would I take? There's nothing but water and dirt at the bottom of the spring," Nan Feng complained.

"You..." Bibi Dong couldn't believe it.

"Did you really absorb the dragon souls down there?"

"Pretty much," Nan Feng nodded.

"Buddy spent over a year conducting a profound and comprehensive ideological transformation on the remnant souls of those two Dragon Kings, and successfully persuaded them."

"However, the energy of the dragon souls was too vast, and the two of them didn't have much time left. Once it started, it couldn't be stopped, so I've stayed there ever since I went down three years ago."

Bibi Dong looked strange. "You succeeded?"

"Barely considered half a success," Nan Feng said.

"I've successfully absorbed the energy of the two of them, but the absorption wasn't complete. Moreover, the true power of the dragon souls can only be truly unlocked after I complete what I promised them."

"Oh~" Bibi Dong nodded.

"In other words, your 'empty-handed white wolf' tactic didn't work?"

The corner of Nan Feng's eye twitched. "What do you mean 'empty-handed white wolf'?"

"Aren't those big, deceptive words of yours just 'empty-handed white wolf'?" Bibi Dong complained.

"You made others believe something that even you yourself don't believe."

"It's fortunate that these two dragons still had some brains and weren't fooled out of their family fortune by your few words."

If Nan Feng had really obtained the dragon souls so easily, she would have been worried instead.

She wasn't afraid of clear pricing, she was afraid of "free."

(End of chapter)