Chapter 2361: Chapter 2340: A Pack of Demon Beasts?

After Lin Feng and Tangyuan left the auction house, they didn’t leave the city right away, but wandered around the market for a bit. They didn’t come across anything good, so they headed toward the city gate.

Before they reached the gate, they passed by a tavern. The rich, pervasive aroma drifting out instantly caught the attention of both Lin Feng and Tangyuan.

"Boss, that smells amazing! Let’s go in and try it, and we can bring some back for Miss Tao Tao too. I figure she can’t be eating anything good in that nunnery." Tangyuan stared with his beady little eyes, speaking in high excitement.

"Mm." Hearing Tangyuan say this, Lin Feng nodded, gave a brief reply, and walked into the tavern. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

"Honored guest, please come in. Will you be dining alone, or...?" The Shop Assistant saw Lin Feng come in and hurried forward to greet him.

"I’m alone. Got any decent private rooms?" Lin Feng glanced at the waiter and asked casually.

"In answer to the honored guest, there’s only one private room left. If you’d come a bit later, I’m afraid there wouldn’t be any. This way, please." The waiter’s eyes lit up at his words; he immediately judged that the person before him was definitely not short of money, and quickly led Lin Feng upstairs.

After Lin Feng followed the waiter into Earth Room No. 9, he gave it a quick once-over. Although it wasn’t very big, it was tidy and elegant, quite nice actually. He casually sat down at the table, looked at the waiter waiting by the side, and said, "That aroma just now was from what?"

"That’s Wine‑Roasted Jade‑Heart Dragon. It was brought in fresh this morning, only ten in total. The smell you caught earlier was from someone ordering two of them. It’s one of our house specialties. How about it, honored guest, shall I bring you one to start?" The waiter smiled as he explained to Lin Feng.

"Bring two to start. As for the other dishes, just choose for me. Serve one portion of every house specialty." Lin Feng nodded and spoke offhandedly. As he finished, he didn’t forget to add, "Oh right, and bring a whole jug of wine."

"Right away, honored guest, please wait a moment!" Hearing this, the waiter’s face all but blossomed with joy. He hurriedly agreed and then went out to get the dishes prepared.

Once the waiter left, Lin Feng stood up and walked to the window. Looking at the flow of people outside, he couldn’t help but recall the scenes from when he had just started Cultivation. Back then he was still a wastrel, spending his days on food, drink, and pleasure. It was his master who guided him onto the path of Cultivation, step by step leading him to where he was today. At that time he didn’t even know that all that talk of ascension in the fantasy novels he’d read was real, yet now he had become a genuine Ascender.

The affairs of the world are fickle; Creation toys with people!

Lin Feng sighed inwardly. In fact, he had never originally thought he would ascend to the Myriad Heavens Divine Realm; it was all kinds of circumstances that kept pushing him along to where he stood now. Whenever he thought of the road he would have to walk in the future, even he himself felt somewhat lost. He had no idea what he should do after he completed his Yuangang Transformation...

Tangyuan stood on Lin Feng’s shoulder, full of curiosity, not knowing what Lin Feng was looking at. But it could feel that Lin Feng seemed to be pondering something, so it didn’t interrupt. It merely blinked its two little eyes, watching Lin Feng, feeling that at this moment Lin Feng was exuding a different kind of aura that made it very curious about just what Lin Feng had gone through, to give off such a sense of vicissitudes.

Right at this time, Lin Feng suddenly saw a man on the street below, covered in wounds and looking extremely wretched, as if he had just gone through a life‑and‑death battle. What surprised Lin Feng even more was that he actually knew this person—it was Ye Lang of the Ye Family of Ning City!

"Come to Earth Room No. 9!"

Ye Lang, hurrying along the street, suddenly heard Lin Feng’s voice appear in his mind and was stunned for a moment. But he immediately dashed toward the tavern, heading straight for Earth Room No. 9. Although he wasn’t sure if it was really Lin Feng, he knew he’d rather mistake someone else than ignore Lin Feng’s voice transmission.

The Shop Assistant saw Ye Lang rush into the tavern in such a state and wanted to greet him. After all, which person in Ning City didn’t know this young master of the Ning clan? But when he saw Ye Lang impatiently wave him off, he could only stop where he was and let Ye Lang go upstairs, having no idea who Ye Lang was so anxiously looking for...

When Ye Lang pushed open the door to Earth Room No. 9 and saw the burly man inside, he immediately asked in puzzlement, "And you are?"

"You don’t even recognize my voice anymore?" Lin Feng looked at Ye Lang and smiled faintly, then pointed at the chair by the table, signaling for Ye Lang to sit down and talk.

Hearing this, Ye Lang froze for a moment, finding it hard to connect the burly man’s appearance with Lin Feng, but he had clearly heard that it was indeed Lin Feng’s voice. He immediately figured out the key point: Lin Feng was currently in disguise, and everyone in Ning King Valley was looking for him. With this disguise, he avoided a lot of trouble.

Having thought it through, Ye Lang was certain that the burly man in front of him was Lin Feng, and immediately greeted him, "Ye Lang pays his respects to Senior Lin."

At this moment Ye Lang’s attitude was exceedingly humble. Lin Feng was someone who had slain the two Ancestors of the Shang Family; not to mention that he himself had to be extremely respectful, even the Qianye Ancestor back home would be incomparably respectful upon seeing Lin Feng. There is no first or last in learning; the one who has attained is the teacher. Lin Feng’s strength was right there for all to see, so naturally he should receive their respect!

"What exactly happened?" Lin Feng saw that Ye Lang’s injuries were quite serious, and there wasn’t a single Guard by his side, so he casually asked. He wanted to know what Ye Lang had run into.

"Senior, it’s a bit shameful to speak of." Hearing Lin Feng ask, Ye Lang replied with an embarrassed look, "A few days ago I was ordered by the family to deliver a batch of supplies to the villages below, but who would have thought we’d be attacked halfway by a group of Demon Beasts. The Guards from the family saw that we were absolutely no match, so they did their utmost to hold those Demon Beasts back and let me return alone..."

"A group of Demon Beasts?" Hearing Ye Lang’s words, Lin Feng directly questioned him. He found it odd. Under normal circumstances, Demon Beasts acted alone—how did he suddenly run into a group of Demon Beasts? That seemed a bit off.

"Yes, a group of Demon Beasts, and we’d never seen this group before. We don’t even know where they came from. There were about twenty of them, and each one had the strength of a Great Demon. I had six Guards with me, but facing those Demon Beasts, we truly were powerless..." Seeing Lin Feng’s puzzlement, Ye Lang answered. In fact, he himself felt it was very strange. In the past, such a thing had never happened, so why did it happen precisely when he was leading a team out to deliver supplies?

"Mm." After listening, Lin Feng nodded, knowing that what Ye Lang said was the truth. With that kind of disparity in strength, Ye Lang getting into trouble was perfectly normal. He furrowed his brows slightly and began to think. His intuition told him this matter was definitely not that simple. Under normal circumstances, Demon Beasts would not cross realms, because each Demon Beast had its own territory. Yet now they had run into Demon Beasts they’d never seen before—there was definitely a problem here.

"Here’s what you do: when you get back, bring a message—have all the outer villages withdrawn to Ning City for a while. I suspect there may be someone manipulating things from behind the scenes. After you’ve found out what’s going on and pacified the situation, then send people out again. That way there won’t be needless casualties." Lin Feng looked at Ye Lang and gave his suggestion.

"Yes, Senior Lin!" Ye Lang responded immediately, inwardly agreeing with Lin Feng’s analysis. The current situation really was abnormal, and he also wanted to ferret out the culprit behind it all.

"Go back, then. Tell your family’s Ancestor that I’ll go see him when I have time." Seeing that he’d gotten the information he wanted, Lin Feng signaled that Ye Lang could leave.

"Then, Senior Lin, this junior will take his leave." Ye Lang rose at once and, after taking his leave, was about to go. But before he could, the Shop Assistant knocked and entered, bringing in the dishes and wine from the kitchen. Seeing this, Ye Lang, without even thinking, said to the waiter, "Put this table’s bill on the Ye Family tab. I’ll send someone over to settle it later."

After throwing down those words, Ye Lang hurriedly left, leaving the waiter standing there in a daze. You had to know that this Young Master of the Ye Family had never treated anyone before; anyone who associated with him would fight over who got to pay the bill. Yet this burly man before him actually got Ye Lang to speak up like that on his own. What did that mean—how could he not understand! This was definitely an honored guest of the Ye Family!

Thinking of this, the waiter immediately stepped forward and said to Lin Feng, "Honored guest, please enjoy. This is our signature dish, ’Spring River Night’. This dish also has a bit of history behind it..."

The waiter gave an extremely detailed introduction of the dishes he’d brought up, telling Lin Feng about their flavors and features, treating him exactly like some super distinguished guest, incomparably polite, even mulling over in his heart whether he should find a way to switch Lin Feng to a larger private room...

But Lin Feng didn’t think that much. Once the waiter had finished serving all the wine and dishes, he waved his hand, indicating that the waiter could leave. Seeing this, the waiter couldn’t say anything more, and immediately turned around and left so as not to disturb Lin Feng’s meal.

As soon as the waiter shut the door, Tangyuan immediately revealed himself and said to Lin Feng, "He finally left, I was dying of hunger!"

Once he finished speaking, Tangyuan rushed straight over to a wine-roasted Jade Heart Dragon, his two little paws grabbing the Jade Heart Dragon—bigger than he was—and gnawing away, not caring in the least about getting greasy. While gnawing, he couldn’t help but exclaim, "Delicious, delicious, so delicious!"

Seeing Tangyuan’s utterly adorable look while eating, a smile surfaced on Lin Feng’s face as well. Only then did he carefully take a good look at this so-called wine-roasted Jade Heart Dragon. From its appearance, this Jade Heart Dragon should be some kind of aquatic Demon Beast similar to a fish. Its flesh was as crystal-clear as jade, and it had four little claws, which looked quite strange, but its fragrance was incredibly rich. After tasting a bite, even Lin Feng’s eyes lit up.

Casually pouring himself a cup of wine, Lin Feng slowly savored this rare delicacy. In terms of taste, it far surpassed the Jade Ball Fish he’d previously caught in that deep forest pool. Only now did he understand why the waiter had said their luck was good today—that ten of them had just been brought in. A delicacy this exquisite was definitely something rare.