The Strongest Dandy in the City

The air seemed to grow heavy.

Ye Chenfeng couldn’t make out the features of the figure; he only felt extremely uneasy being stared at by its gaze.

"Hehehe—"

A spine-chilling laughter echoed through the air.

Suddenly, Ye Chenfeng felt a force concentrating on him. His body involuntarily flew towards the mountaintop; he couldn’t control his body, and the Spiritual Qi River within his meridians became blocked.

More terrifyingly, Ye Chenfeng felt his body continuously shrinking. What on earth was happening?

In just a few blinks, his body shrank to the size of an ordinary person’s thumb, and he was already close to the mountaintop. Yet even so near, he still couldn’t see the figure’s features clearly.

The force upon him directly dragged him into the Heaven and Earth Flame held by the figure, and he instantly felt burning pain all over.

Upon entering the Heaven and Earth Flame, Ye Chenfeng finally saw the figure’s face clearly. It wasn’t a human at all; its face was a skull, covered by a layer of black mist, which had kept Ye Chenfeng from seeing its features before.

The skeletal figure looked at the Heaven and Earth Flame in its palm, and at Ye Chenfeng within it, a sinister light flashing in its hollow eye sockets. Its palm moved again, treating Ye Chenfeng as a kind of celestial material to refine.

Under the skeletal figure’s control, the temperature of the Heaven and Earth Flame in its palm soared abruptly.

Ye Chenfeng felt his skin melting; he couldn’t summon any Spiritual Energy, not even the Green Flame within his Dantian.

However, the skeletal figure’s Heaven and Earth Flame was far more formidable than the Green Flame, incomparable.

The burning pain stimulated every pore in Ye Chenfeng’s body; with his naked eye, he saw his skin slowly turning charred, and if this went on, he would be burned to ashes. But he had no power to escape the skeletal figure’s control of the Heaven and Earth Flame.

Is this what they call a challenge?

The higher the grade of an Artifact Refiner, the more substantial the challenge they faced.

But wasn’t the content of this challenge too outrageous? Was it meant to burn him alive?

Ye Chenfeng forced himself to calm down. He swayed within the Heaven and Earth Flame as the skeletal figure continuously manipulated and turned the flame!

After calming down.

Ye Chenfeng finally noticed some clues. As the skeletal figure refined him like a material, he felt a powerful Profound Meaning of Artifact Refining within the Heaven and Earth Flame. By carefully experiencing it, he could enter a state of enlightenment.

Could it be that he needed to comprehend the skeletal figure’s refining techniques to pass this challenge?

Thinking of this.

Ye Chenfeng immediately began to ponder, though being burned by such a formidable Heaven and Earth Flame and facing the skeletal figure’s mysterious refining technique,

Ye Chenfeng felt not only his flesh was about to be cooked thoroughly but also that his bones were about to be shattered.

What kind of absurd challenge was this?

But given the situation, Ye Chenfeng could only endure the intense pain throughout his body, persistently comprehending the Profound Meaning of Artifact Refining within the Heaven and Earth Flame.

Ye Chenfeng’s talent for artifact refining was undisputed.

He soon entered a state of enlightenment, gradually understanding the skeletal figure’s refining technique.

But the pain throughout his body grew more intense, his body began twitching, and his consciousness in his mind became increasingly blurred.

His heart was full of doubts.

Li Muyan and Shi Wan’an mentioned the first stage lasted about a day; only by enduring through this stage could he gain benefits in the Valley of Divine Instruments. But he was already comprehending the skeletal figure’s refining technique, didn’t this count as a benefit?

Moreover, if this challenge continued, he would indeed be burned alive, which seemed quite unreasonable.

The intense pain twisted Ye Chenfeng’s body; as his consciousness in his mind was about to dissipate.

Suddenly.

The Star Sky Stone in his heart began to rotate, releasing a gentle power from within.

This power instantly spread throughout Ye Chenfeng’s body, causing the intense pain to vanish without a trace.

After the Star Sky Stone rotated, Ye Chenfeng suddenly had a realization: the place he was in was not real; he was merely in an illusion.

If this wasn’t an illusion, the Star Sky Stone wouldn’t have been able to remove the pain from his body, and though he had a realization in his heart, he was still in the skeletal figure’s Heaven and Earth Flame, feeling no pain at all.

This was entirely an initial concept he had.

Having seen one Artifact Refiner after another disappear when enveloped in light, Ye Chenfeng naturally believed they had been transported somewhere, and when it was his turn, it was just the same. He naturally believed everything here was real, naturally believed he was here bodily.

The one who arranged these illusions really put in great effort. Once someone was caught in an illusion, believing it was reality, everything would be uncontrollable, including that previous pain, which was utterly fictional. The one who arranged this illusion was overwhelmingly powerful, making everything seem so real.

After realizing this.

Ye Chenfeng relaxed completely. Although everything here was an illusion, the surrounding Profound Meaning of Artifact Refining was indeed real.

He wouldn’t miss this opportunity, with no pain on his body, comprehending the Profound Meaning of Artifact Refining would be even more smooth and straightforward.

Ye Chenfeng closed his eyes, engrossed in contemplation; the skeletal figure’s refining technique was a tier higher than his. Comprehending this technique would undoubtedly elevate his artifact refining skills.

As time slowly passed.

The speed of Ye Chenfeng’s comprehension was astonishing, described only as astonishing.

Only half a day had passed.

A smile appeared on the corner of Ye Chenfeng’s mouth; he opened his eyes, having fully comprehended the skeletal figure’s refining technique. His artifact refining skills had now risen another level.

After understanding the skeletal figure’s refining technique.

This illusion was not worth lingering in; Ye Chenfeng wanted to leave.

He closed his eyes again, keeping his mind clear, and shouted in his throat, "Break for me!"

Once his words fell.

He felt the surrounding energy fluctuations; when he opened his eyes, Ye Chenfeng found himself out of the illusion, back in the empty field where he had just entered the Valley of Divine Instruments.

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