After the battle with the old man, Ye Feng carried Fu on his back and started looking for a suitable, secluded cave for them to recuperate from their injuries.
Ye Feng was walking and searching around the southwest forest for a whole hour until he finally found a secluded cave that he and Fu could use to recuperate from their injuries.
After entering the cave, Ye Feng gently laid Fu on the ground, then took two bottles of radiant saint pills from his space ring and started healing himself and Fu from their injuries.
Ye Feng and Fu spent two whole days healing themselves by using the radiant saint pills that Ye Feng received from his father; they consumed almost all radiant saint pill bottles in order to heal their injuries, but only one bottle of radiant saint pills remains in Ye Feng's possession.
After they finished healing their injuries, Ye Feng took out all the space rings he collected in the ruins, including the space ring that belonged to the old man.
When Ye Feng took out the space rings, Fu looked at him and said, "Brother Feng, what are you doing? Let's go and hunt. I am really hungry."
Ye Feng nodded his head at Fu and said, "Fine, but let us first check our loot from the ruins, as well as what that old bastard stored in his space ring, before we hunt for food."
When Fu heard this, he laughed excitedly and said, "Brother Feng, I didn't know you robbed that old bastard? You know you need to learn to be kind to the elderlies."
When Ye Feng heard this, his eyebrows twitched first. He then chuckled at what Fu said, telling him, "Stop talking nonsense, Fu, and let's not waste time; let's start checking all our loot from the ruins, but first I will check that old bastard space ring."
Fu nodded his head and took out all the space rings he had collected from the ruins. "CLINK, CLINK, CLINK, CLINK." He heard a loud clinking sound before he could release the contents of the space rings. He turned his head towards the sound source, and his eyes widened along with Ye Feng's.
They both saw a large number of gold coins, silver coins, and rank-3 monster cores.
They also saw 10 rank 4 monster cores, a lot of food, wine, water, two booklets, a book, a big sheet of paper, and an arm length of skin that was covered with white fur.
Fu threw his two fists in the air and yelled in happiness, "Brother Feng, we are rich now. Observe the abundance of money and the numerous monster cores we just got from killing that old bastard. The fastest way to wealth is to kill and rob other cultivators. Let's go and kill some more."
When Ye Feng heard what Fu had just said, he became speechless and said to him, "You really obsessed a lot about money, Fu."
When Fu heard what Ye Feng said, he rubbed the back of his head and blushed.
Ye Feng chuckled upon seeing Fu's reaction. Ye Feng then turned his gaze to the white fur-covered skin, sensing a powerful aura emanating from it.
Ye Feng grabbed the piece of skin and started examining it. He started sweating heavily because of the aura he was feeling coming out of it.
Even Fu, who was standing next to him, began sweating like Ye Feng as he sensed the strong aura emanating from the piece of skin.
After a few seconds, Fu was shocked and exclaimed, "What kind of monster beast could give this kind of aura? It feels so majestic."
Ye Feng nodded his head in agreement. He then began to wonder, "Why did that old man keep this monster beast skin with him?" What purpose does this monster beast skin have?"
After asking himself these questions, Ye Feng shocked his head and said to himself, "No point in thinking about this; all I can do right now is keep it safe and hope that one day I can get some answers."
After making up his mind, Ye Feng picked up the two booklets next. His eyes widened as he read the titles of the two booklets, which contained the martial skills that the old man had used against them: "fireball barrage" and "fire explosion."
At the same time, Fu picked up the large sheet of paper and started to unfold it. He smiled widely, then said to Ye Feng in a very excited tone, "Brother Feng, look at what I found."
Ye Feng looked at Fu with a questioning expression, and his eyes widened as he focused on the large sheet of paper that Fu was pointing at.
"Look, look, brother Feng. We will never get lost with this detailed map of the Tian Yuan continent." Fu continued excitedly.
When Ye Feng looked at the map, he smiled widely. The map displayed markings in five distinct areas. He then thought to himself, "Could it be the five remaining ruines are located in these areas?"
Ye Feng then handed Fu the two martial skills booklets and said to him, "This is excellent news, Fu. Keep the map with you. These two booklets contain the two martial skills that the old bastard used against us; you should master them as soon as possible."
Fu's eyes widened when he heard this. He quickly checked the two booklets and said to Ye Feng in a surprise and excited tone, "Brother Feng, you are right, these are the fire-based martial skills that the old bastard used on us."
"You need to master these martial skills more than I do, Fu." Your martial skill is very strong, but it has a strong backlash. If my guess is right, you used that martial skill in the pagoda last time too." Ye Feng told Fu seriously.
After hearing Ye Feng's question, Fu nodded his head in confirmation. Ye Feng then stated, "You should use that martial skill as your last resort, Fu; the backlash could weaken you during the battle, giving the enemy an advantage and potentially leading to your death." These two martial skills will help you fight enemies without having to rely solely on that martial skill."
After Fu heard what Ye Feng told him, he thought about it carefully, then he smiled at Ye Feng and said, "Thank you, brother Feng, I will try to master these martial skills as soon as possible."
Ye Feng nodded his head with a smile on his face, then grabbed the book he found in the old man's space and began to check it.
Ye Feng was taken aback by the book's detailed analysis of some complex formations, but then he recalled the old man's statement that he had spent many years studying the killing formations surrounding the Azure Dragon sect ruins.
Ye Feng smiled as he put the book away, along with the monster cores and the monster beast skin. He turned his head and saw Fu reading the two martial skills booklets that he just gave him. He then said to him, "Fu, you can master the martial skills later; for now, help me check the loot we got from the ruins."
Fu nodded his head, and they then started emptying all the space rings that they had collected in the ruins.
Both of them were taken aback when they emptied the space rings, as the monster cores created a small mountain. Ye Feng noticed that the monster cores had different ranks, from rank 1 to rank 7.
Ye Feng also saw a variety of pills, some of which he was familiar with from his extensive time in the academy library, but the sight of two bottles of a light purple pill truly shocked him.
He then muttered to himself loudly, "I can't believe it is really the legendary opening pills."
Fu turned to Ye Feng and asked in confusion, "Brother Feng, what are the opening pills?"
Ye Feng first took a deep breath to calm his beating heart, then began explaining to Fu, "I read about the opening pills in the ancient text that is in the academy library." Compared to ancient times, the opening pills are now considered legendary, with only a few records about them remaining in the ancient text. However, the ancient text does not provide instructions on how to manufacture these pills."
Fu was shocked, and Ye Feng continued, "The opening pills had the effect of temporarily exposing the mysteries of the world whenever you swallow the pill."
Fu was stunned to hear this; he couldn't believe what Ye Feng had just said, and he questioned, "Are you serious?" This effect is so magical; it can't be real."
Ye Feng gave Fu a serious look and said, "I am serious, Fu." When Fu heard these words from Ye Feng, he nodded his head and looked at the pills with desire.
Ye Feng then continued, "The opening pills had three ranks according to the ancient text that I read; the first rank of the opening pills exposed the mysteries of the world for a couple of minutes."
"Rank two of the opening pills exposed the mysteries of the world to you for a couple of hours, and lastly, rank three opening pills exposed the mysteries of the world for a whole day."
After Fu heard Ye Feng's explanation, his eyes were blazing with desire. Ye Feng then addressed Fu seriously, saying, "Fu, there are only two bottles." To be honest, I'm not sure what rank these pills belong to. The ancient text didn't specify how to differentiate the ranks of the opening pills, so it's entirely up to how lucky we are. However, we must keep these pills a secret and refrain from disclosing them to anyone in the future. If other cultivators learn about our possession of the opening pills, they will hunt us down. We almost died when we fought against that old man. Imagine the consequences if heaven, saint masters, saint rules, and saint kings pursue us. We will undoubtedly perish."
When Fu heard this, he started sweating in fear. He then nodded his head in understanding.
After Ye Feng saw Fu nodding his head, he picked up the two opening pill bottles and handed one to Fu, while the other bottle was stored in his space ring. Then Ye Feng turned to Fu and said, "Fu, let's store the monster beast cores according to their ranks in separate space rings."
When Fu heard this, he nodded his head, and they started storing the monster cores in space rings.
Fu noticed that some of the monster cores had more than half of their energies missing and some had no energy left, so he said to Ye Feng, "Brother Feng, there is more than half energy missing in these monster cores." Monster cores, ranging in rank from one to three, have no energy left. It will be a waste if we store these monster cores in our space rings."
Ye Feng nodded his head to Fu in agreement and said, "Just store rank four and above monster cores; the rest of the monster cores we are going to get rid of before we leave the cave."
Fu nodded, and then they continued storing all the monster cores of rank four and above in the space ring.
After they finished storing the monster cores in the space rings, Ye Feng noticed all kinds of pill bottles lying on the ground, along with many scrolls and books. He and Fu then stored all the pill bottles, including soul-nourishing pills, saint-concentrating pills, and radiant pills, in empty space rings. These pills, which were of a higher rank than the ones he had previously used, shocked him, as he had never thought he would encounter these high-ranking pills. He had learned about the existence of these high-ranking pills from the ancient text in the academy library.
However, there were many pills he didn't know anything about, and he sighed in his heart, "The cultivation world is really big; no matter how much I learn, there will always be new things for me to learn and discover."
After storing all the pill bottles in separate space rings, Fu and Ye Feng gazed at the scrolls and books in front of them. Ye Feng suggested to Fu, "Fu, let's check these scrolls and books before we store them; we might find something useful."
Fu nodded, and they started checking all the books, scrolls, and booklets in front of them.
Ye Feng was astonished at what he found; he discovered many different types of cultivation methods, such as poison cultivation methods, puppet cultivation methods, soul cultivation methods, body refinement cultivation methods, elemental cultivation methods, and many more.
Ye Feng, who had never heard of many of these cultivation methods, was shocked. His eyes widened when he saw a black scroll written on it: "the five proud ways of the axe cultivation method."
Ye Feng's eyes shone, and he said to Fu, "Hey Fu, look quickly; I found something interesting for you."
Fu was confused, but Ye Feng didn't explain anything to him; he simply threw the black scroll at Fu, who easily grabbed it.
When Fu started reading the scroll, his eyes widened in shock, and he said in astonishment, "I can't believe it. How can a cultivation method like this exist?"
After a few moments, he frowned and said to Ye Feng, "Brother Feng, this is only the first volume of the cultivation method. Where are the other four volumes?"
Ye Feng shrugged and said to Fu, "We might find another volume of this cultivation method around these scrolls, but even if we couldn't find them here, there is a chance we could find them in one of the other five ruins.""
When Fu heard what Ye Feng had just said, his eyes lit up, and he thought to himself, "He is right; we found this volume of the cultivation method in one of the Azure Dragon sect ruins. I might find the other volumes in one of the remaining Azure Dragon sect ruins that we didn't explore, or I could discover the remaining volumes between these scrolls."
Fu then began searching the scrolls for the other volumes of "The Five Proud Ways of the Axe Cultivation Method," but he was unsuccessful in finding them.
Fu frowned, then asked Ye Feng, "Brother Feng, when are we going to check the other ruins? I really want to find the other volumes of this cultivation method."
Ye Feng sighed and said, "I hate to break it to you, Fu, but right now we are weak; we almost died fighting against the old man; he also told us that all Azure Dragon ruins are surrounded by killing formations; neither I nor you know how to break these formations; we are not ready yet to explore the remaining ruins."
When Fu heard what Ye Feng said, he sighed in disappointment. When Ye Feng saw Fu's disappointed expression, he chuckled, and when Fu heard Ye Feng chuckling, he frowned and said to Ye Feng, "Brother Feng, why are you chuckling?"
Ye Feng smiled at him and said, "Calm down, Fu. First, let me show you a few things, and after you see them, you will understand."
After saying this to Fu, he took out two books from one of the space rings he was carrying and tossed them to Fu.
Fu grabbed the books with a confused expression on his face as he looked at Ye Feng, and Ye Feng just smiled at him and said, "Check these books, Fu, and you will understand why I chuckled."
Fu began to examine one of the books, but due to his unfamiliarity with the language, he was unable to understand any of the written words. With a confused expression, he asked Ye Feng, "I can't understand a word from this book. What kind of language is this?"
Ye Feng smiled and answered, "This book is written in the ancient language. Although I am not well-versed in the language, I have acquired some knowledge from one of my clan's elders. This book explains the fundamental techniques of ancient formations."
Fu glanced at the second book. He was shocked when he opened the book. "Brother Feng, this is?"
Ye Feng smiled again and said, "The other book is the old man's notes on the killing formations surrounding the other five ruins." Although it will take us a considerable amount of time to break the formations, we currently possess the necessary tools to do so one day. Additionally, I recall that we had gathered several books about formation art in the ruins prior to our battle with the old man."
When he heard this, Fu smiled widely and said to Ya Feng, "You mean we can learn how to break the killing formations from those books?"
Ye Feng smiled and nodded. "Yes, but there is no guarantee that we will succeed. Don't forget that old man told us he spent many years trying to break the formations and failed every time he tried."
When he heard this, Fu nodded his head seriously, but Ye Feng smiled at him and said to Fu, "Cheer up, Fu; we have a better chance of breaking those killing formations than the old man."
Fu's smiled when he heard this, and he asked Ye Feng, "Is that true brother Feng?"
Ye Feng smiled and nodded. "Yes, we have a better chance of breaking those formations than the old man ever did. My claims are based on three simple factors: firstly, we have the old man's notes about the killing formations surrounding the ruins; secondly, we have books on the art of formations and their cultivation methods from ancient times; and finally, we have my knowledge of reading ancient languages."
Fu smiled in happiness when he heard this, but Ye Feng said to him, "Right now, we should focus on getting stronger. Fu, we shouldn't worry about the ruins; since ancient times, many cultivators had failed to break those formations. There is a slim chance that someone will be able to break those formations, as evidenced by the old man we met, who stated that the killing formations remain unbroken."
Upon hearing this, Fu nodded his head, tossed back the two books to Ye Feng, and then both of them proceeded to store the books and the scrolls in the space rings.
After they finished storing the books and scrolls in the space rings, they began eating the food they found in the old man's space ring.
After they finished eating, Ye Feng stood up and said to Fu, "Fu, I will go hunt monster beasts to stabilize my cultivation. I think it is time for you to master the old man's martial skills."
Fu smiled, nodded, and said to Ye Feng, "Don't worry, brother Feng, I will strive to master the martial skills as soon as possible."
Ye Feng smiled and nodded to Fu, then exited the cave.