Qin Feng gave Chu Xingyao a deep look, a bitter smile playing on his lips. "If I had a way, I would have thought of it long ago!"
His voice conveyed a sense of powerlessness.
Chu Xingyao stared wide-eyed at Qin Feng in disbelief. "No way? You really intend to pin all your hopes on that good-for-nothing guy?"
Qin Feng helplessly spread his hands and shrugged. "To be honest, I really can't think of any other feasible solutions right now."
A hint of confusion flickered in his eyes.
"Heh, are you planning to just sit here and wait to die?"
Chu Xingyao stared at Qin Feng with disdain, her face revealing undisguised contempt. "I truly didn't expect that Qin Feng, renowned throughout the Heavenly Realm and so awe-inspiring, would be so pessimistic! It seems the outside world has overestimated you."
Qin Feng didn't take Chu Xingyao's sarcastic remarks to heart.
He merely pursed his lips slightly, then sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes, and pretended to sleep.
He knew that anxiety and impatience were useless, and since he was already in a predicament, he might as well face it calmly.
Of course, Qin Feng would never truly choose to sit idly by and wait for his death; he planned to wait until Ning Wuji appeared before making any decisions.
Seeing this, Chu Xingyao let out a long sigh of disappointment.
Then, she resolutely jumped off the back of the iron-eating beast and walked away slowly but firmly into the distance.
Clearly, she no longer had any expectations for Qin Feng, and she dared not have too many expectations for Ning Wuji either.
It's better to rely on yourself than on others; only you can truly depend on yourself.
...
About three hours had passed, and Ning Wuji was still nowhere to be found. Qin Feng's patience was gradually wearing thin.
Finally, he could no longer hold back. He opened his eyes, slowly stood up, and stared at the spot where Ning Wuji had just disappeared. His brows were furrowed, and he murmured to himself, "It's unlikely that Ning Wuji disappeared without a reason."
Immediately, Qin Feng directed the Iron-Eating Beast to head towards the place where Ning Wuji had disappeared.
Upon reaching their destination, Qin Feng jumped off the back of the Iron-Eating Beast and landed steadily on the ground.
Chu Xingyao had passed by this place before without anything unusual happening. This made Qin Feng suspicious. Could it be that Ning Wuji hadn't disappeared without a trace, but had been victimized by someone?
Qin Feng dared not be careless and carefully examined the surroundings several times with full concentration.
Just as he was losing patience, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a bright light not far to his left.
He paused for a moment, then quickly turned to look at the other side, his eyes sharp as swords, radiating cold light.
However, nothing suspicious was seen.
"Could it be an illusion?" Qin Feng frowned slightly, his eyes fixed on the spot where the light had just flashed, as sharp as a hawk's.
Time passed second by second, and finally the light reappeared, like a fleeting shooting star.
This time, Qin Feng clearly saw a flash of light from a fist-sized black stone. His face immediately lit up with ecstatic joy, and without the slightest hesitation, he strode forward.
He walked up to the black stone, stopped, and stared at it intently, examining it as if it were a priceless treasure.
However, after examining it for a long time, he still couldn't find anything special about the black stone; it seemed to be just an ordinary stone.
Qin Feng frowned, lost in thought. After a moment, he bent down and carefully picked up the black stone.
The moment his hand touched the black stone, the soft texture stunned him instantly, as if he were touching a piece of soft silk.
This stone feels like tofu to the touch?
Qin Feng stared intently at the black stone, as if gazing into an unfathomable mystery. He decided to test the hardness of this mysterious stone.
However, the moment he grasped the black stone, with a slight exertion, the stone shattered as easily as thin, brittle porcelain, and broke into fine powder!
This scene left Qin Feng speechless, frozen in place as if struck by lightning. Although the black stone felt similar to tofu, he never expected it to be so fragile, like a dreamlike bubble that would shatter at the slightest touch.
However, something even stranger was yet to come. Suddenly, the powder in his palm floated up like a ghost, turning into countless tiny points of light that flickered faintly like fireflies on a summer night.
"Holy crap!"
Qin Feng was so frightened by the sudden sight that he instinctively took several steps back.
He stared in astonishment at the starlight scattered around him, as if he were in a strange and mysterious dream.
At this critical moment, a sudden change occurred. The dense starlight, as if under a spell, instantly transformed into countless blue lightning bolts, surging towards Qin Feng like a torrential downpour.
All of this happened so suddenly that Qin Feng had no time to react and could only watch helplessly as he was struck by the blue lightning one after another.
Fortunately, the Purple Star Immortal Robe that Qin Feng was wearing acted like an indestructible shield, protecting him tightly.
Even after being struck by the blue lightning, he was not injured in the slightest, nor did he feel anything unusual.
It was as if the dense blue lightning was just an illusion, unable to shake Qin Feng in the slightest.
Qin Feng looked astonished and muttered to himself, "What's going on?"
"Are these just illusions?"
"Or perhaps the Purple Star Immortal Robe is too powerful, while these strange things are too weak?"
In the blink of an eye, all the blue lightning bolts had struck Qin Feng, but he remained unharmed.
"Could this really just be an illusion?"
Qin Feng frowned, his expression shifting between anger and uncertainty. Even if the blue lightning was weak, it shouldn't be completely unaffected by him, right?
It should at least cause some commotion.
Just as Qin Feng was racking his brains but still couldn't figure it out, and was about to give up, something terrifying suddenly happened!
In an instant, Qin Feng's appearance aged rapidly without warning.
His once smooth and delicate skin became rough and unsightly like cracked tree bark in the blink of an eye. In an instant, he became so thin that only a layer of skin covered his bones. His face was full of wrinkles and looked old and frail, like a dying person who was about to die.
Although Qin Feng could not witness the dramatic change in his appearance, he could clearly feel that the functions of various organs in his body were rapidly declining.
He frowned, staring at his hands with disbelief. When he saw that his once strong and powerful hands were now like rotten firewood, he was stunned.
"What exactly is going on?"
"What exactly were those eerie blue lightning bolts?"
These questions kept swirling in Qin Feng's mind, and his heart was filled with fear and confusion.
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