Chapter 167: It really is... that Protector of the Horses

Across the endless expanse of the earth, the field of vision was filled entirely with a boundless ocean. At this moment, the raging waves had subsided considerably, no longer possessing the towering height of tens of feet that they had just a moment ago.

Upon the vast ocean, corpses and the wreckage of houses floated, bearing a striking resemblance to a living hell.

Ye Feng continuously channeled spiritual energy to the divine dragon, speeding toward the direction of the East Sea like a streak of golden light.

He knew that perhaps his actions could not change anything, but by doing this, Ye Feng simply wanted to find out whether the situation was as he had conjectured.

Wuu...

Sure enough, when he arrived at the location where the Ancient City of Loulan once stood, that familiar and terrifying chilling wind whistled through the air.

Return my life...

Return my life...

In the void, one white specter after another manifested, and their ghost-like wails and wolf-like howls made Ye Feng's scalp tingle.

Roar...

At a certain moment, from within the endless East Sea, a resounding dragon roar echoed. Ye Feng looked up and saw a golden giant dragon, hundreds of feet long, soaring straight up into the sky from the distant sea.

Immediately following this, Ye Feng felt as though a boundless tempest had swept through the surrounding heaven and earth. All the surrounding spiritual energy surged, transforming in the blink of an eye into milky-white rivers of stars across the void, rushing toward the divine dragon.

This was a shocking spectacle. The divine dragon soared into the air, and within a radius of thousands of miles, all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth converged like a pilgrimage into visible forms, pouring from all directions completely into the dragon's body.

As they drew closer, the color of the seawater had turned into a dark red resembling fresh blood. Deep within the ocean, the Dragon Island slowly emerged from the surface of the water.

At this time, on a desolate and eerie blood-red beach, there were two more living beings—to be exact, a human and a monkey. The closer Ye Feng got to Dragon Island, the more that oppressive might diminished, until it finally vanished without a trace.

In the void, the hundreds-of-feet-long divine dragon was still drinking in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth like a whale swallowing water, completely unaware of Ye Feng's arrival.

Drawing his broken blade, Ye Feng swiftly cleared away the skeletons crawling out from the mud and sand. To him, these clumsy skeletons with glaring flaws were like children, lacking any challenge whatsoever.

Of course, if anyone else were to utter such words, they would be laughed at until their teeth fell out. Aside from their vulnerable spines, these skeletons were as hard as iron throughout their entire bodies, and even with Ye Feng's current strength, striking with all his might would only leave a shallow mark upon them.

Skeleton after skeleton crawled out. At first, there were only a few hundred, but in less than half an hour, the blood-red coastline was densely packed with slow-moving skeletons.

Ye Feng felt neither fatigue nor any particular purpose; he simply killed them quietly. He did not know how many he could kill, nor did he know whether eliminating a few skeletons would actually make any difference to the people of the Martial Soul Continent.

He only knew that, as a man of the Ye family, he must pay the price for his actions. Right now, he lacked the spiritual power to reseal these skeletons and wronged souls. Therefore, he could only do his utmost to annihilate as many as possible until he fell.

The little monkey quietly squatted on Ye Feng's shoulder. Having already attained a high level of intelligence, it surely understood the thoughts churning within Ye Feng's heart.

At this moment, the little monkey, which had always been innocent and seemingly indifferent to everything, fell into confusion for the very first time.

Ever since it could remember, there had been a naggy fellow who chattered day in and day out into its ear about how great it was and how formidable its strength was. Yet the monkey had never believed those words, always countering with the phrase, "If you're really so awesome, why were you sealed here?" Of course, their conversations took place in the monkey's unique language.

"Perhaps I should let that nagging fellow give it a try! But what if it really can't do it? What then? Will it end up getting him killed? Actually, aside from being a chatterbox, that fellow isn't half bad." The monkey scratched its head in a clumsy manner, feeling deeply lost.

Wisdom sometimes comes through innate talent, but at other times, it requires someone to guide the way. The words of the old monkey had made this little monkey understand that, in truth, a monkey could be just like a human.

Ever since it began following Ye Feng, the monkey had felt happy; at times, it even felt that it was a human being, clearly sensing the goodwill directed toward it by the people around it.

More often than not, it needed to experience and observe the expressions of everyone around it to understand certain matters, but none of that mattered. The important thing was that it was very happy.

Squeak... Squeak...

Finally, the monkey made up its mind. With one claw, it viciously yanked a handful of Ye Feng's hair, while its other claw groped frantically behind its head. At last, that extraordinary single hair was forcefully plucked out.

By this time, Ye Feng had grown numb from killing. He did not know how many skeletons had been reduced to fragments of bone beneath his broken blade, yet ahead of him, an even denser horde of skeletons was still closing in on him step by step.

Whoosh...

Without any warning, a violent gale rose from flat ground, and the wind only grew fiercer. In the end, piles of skeletons were swept right up into the void by the fierce wind.

Rumble...

The void suddenly exploded with a roar, and the entire surface of the sea bubbled continuously, as if the water were being boiled, sending up rising streams of bubbles.

"Halt... Kid, what do you want with me?" Amidst the drifting bone dust, a thin-faced monkey with sunken cheeks and a thunder-god mouth appeared before Ye Feng.

The moment the monkey appeared, those rivers of spiritual energy in the void instantly froze, and even that shadow of the divine dragon, which possessed an overpowering aura, trembled in the void in sheer shock at that very instant. It seemed to harbor a deep, ingrained terror toward this suddenly manifested creature.

Squeak... Squeak...

The monkey pointed at the divine dragon high above in the void, and then pointed at itself, wearing an expression as aggrieved as one could possibly imagine.

Roar...

Seeing the monkey's expression, the divine dragon in the void let out a startled cry. In the blink of an eye, the dragon's massive form rapidly shrank, ultimately transforming into a human figure wreathed in dense black baleful Qi, which dropped downward with a swift whoosh.

"Monkey... I only just emerged into the world. Even though I made a bit of a commotion, I absolutely had no intention of harming you, so stop talking nonsense... Ow..."

Before he could finish speaking, the newly appeared monkey viciously brought its hand down in a resounding slap right across his head, while endlessly chattering: "Who are you calling a monkey? Who's a monkey?"

"Old Sun knows your dragon clan has grievances, but no matter how aggrieved your damn self is, you cannot harm Old Sun's descendants... Try calling me a monkey one more time! Go ahead, call me—call me!" The monkey cursed continuously while vigorously raining slaps down upon him.

Ever since the monkey's arrival, Ye Feng, the protagonist of these events, had remained trapped in a state of profound shock. When the monkey uttered those two words, "Old Sun," which were too familiar for him to ignore, Ye Feng's jaw dropped so wide that his eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets.

"It really is... that Bi Mawen..."