The Strongest Dandy in the City-Chapter 773 - 769 An accident occurred

Ye Chenfeng had never expected to discover such a hidden realm within the stone chamber.

His pitch-black eyes scanned the small room in front of him, where glowing stones were embedded in the walls, completely illuminating the room.

There was nothing particularly special about the surroundings of the small room, so Ye Chenfeng focused his attention on the small pool in front of him. The pool was filled with a dark black liquid, and through his very keen perception, Ye Chenfeng felt pulses of energy fluctuating within it.

"Ye Chenfeng, what is this place?" Xia Zining asked as she followed him into the room after Ye Chenfeng had accidentally opened the hidden door in the stone chamber.

Ye Chenfeng shook his head and said, "You’re asking me? Who should I ask? But this dark black liquid in the pool must be something valuable."

Hearing Ye Chenfeng’s confident response, Xia Zining began to survey the surroundings. She was first drawn to the wall behind the small pool, where, in addition to the large characters "Medicine Pool" written with grand flourishes, there seemed to be a dense array of tiny characters.

"Ye Chenfeng, there’s writing in very small characters on the wall behind the pool. Let’s go take a look," Xia Zining suggested as she walked toward the wall behind the pool.

Earlier, Ye Chenfeng had only glanced quickly around the room and hadn’t noticed the small writing on the wall, so he joined Xia Zining in front of it.

The small characters on the wall contained information and instructions related to the dark black liquid.

The dark liquid in this small pool was created from a mixture of over a hundred precious medicinal herbs and was intended to enhance one’s strength. The longer the liquid was stored, the more potent its medicinal properties became. According to the dating in the small writing on the wall, the pool was almost a century old.

After reading the small characters on the wall, Ye Chenfeng felt a surge of joy. He was currently troubled over how to improve his strength. He was nowhere near touching the fringes of Eighth Level True Energy Force, and he felt a very peculiar sensation within his body, as though reaching the peak of Level Ten Soul Force was already his limit.

But now, in front of Ye Chenfeng, there appeared a Hundred-Year Medicine Pool, with effects meant to enhance strength. Although his Soul Force and True Energy Force were different, he believed that the Medicine Pool would certainly be beneficial to his body.

As Ye Chenfeng started to undress, he said to Xia Zining beside him, "I am going to take a bath now. If you don’t mind, you can join me."

Xia Zining glared at Ye Chenfeng and scolded, "You pervert."

After her rebuke, Xia Zining left the small room. According to the writing on the wall, the Medicine Pool should not harm the human body, so Xia Zining did not try to stop Ye Chenfeng from entering the pool.

Ye Chenfeng stripped down to just his underwear. While removing his clothes with too much force, he aggravated the fractured bones in his chest, involuntarily sucking in a breath of cool air.

Once in the Medicine Pool, Ye Chenfeng immersed his entire body, leaving only his head exposed.

The dark black liquid in the pool was not very cold; on the contrary, it gave Ye Chenfeng a warm feeling. However, beyond this sensation of warmth, Ye Chenfeng didn’t detect anything special, and there was no change whatsoever to the Soul Force within his body.

This made Ye Chenfeng start questioning. He sensed the energy fluctuations in the dark liquid again and realized it was still emitting a continuous flow of energy. He couldn’t help but mutter to himself, "What’s going on? Seems I’ll need to circulate the Soul Force within my body and give it a try."

Ye Chenfeng hadn’t found it necessary to activate the Soul Force within his body, but once he did, it was as if an opening had been created on his skin. The energy fluctuations from the dark liquid surged into his body like a tumultuous wave, causing him to groan in his throat. A sweet taste filled his mouth, and a trickle of fresh blood spilled from his lips.

The inky black liquid’s energy continuously surged into Ye Chenfeng’s body without any intention of stopping, seemingly about to burst his body in an instant.

After the raging energy poured into his body, Ye Chenfeng felt no sensation of ascending to the King Level Soul Force; it was as if a thick wall had been erected inside him. No matter how the surging energy battered, it couldn’t breach this barrier.

Consequently, the energy from the inky black liquid accumulated more and more within Ye Chenfeng, pushing his body to its limits. His skin began to crack, his expression turned increasingly agonized. He wanted to immediately step out of the medicine pool, but it was as though there was a whirlpool beneath him, firmly holding him in place, rendering him unable to move even slightly.

In his previous life, Ye Chenfeng’s strength had only reached the peak of Eighth Level Soul Force. In that era, as far as Ye Chenfeng knew, the highest a Soul Force warrior could attain was Tenth Level Soul Force. As for King Level, Venerable Level, and even the more advanced levels of Soul Force, he learned of these only in this life from the King.

In fact, in his previous life, Soul Force had just been developed, and Ye Chenfeng belonged to the first generation of Soul Force warriors. The Soul Force at that time had many limitations, with Tenth Level Soul Force being the highest level of strength attainable by warriors of that era.

Clearly, the King hailed from a future far beyond Ye Chenfeng’s time, which is why the King knew far more, possessing a more refined Soul Force within him, allowing him to easily break through to the King Level Soul Force.

Of course, when Ye Chenfeng battled the King in the Capital City, it was only by harnessing the black gas within his Dantian that he temporarily ascended to King Level Soul Force.

Initially, Tenth Level Soul Force was already Ye Chenfeng’s ultimate limit, characteristic of the limitations of a first-generation Soul Force warrior. The energy now wildly pouring into Ye Chenfeng’s body also failed utterly to increase his strength, which served as the best proof of this.

Of course, all of this was unknown to Ye Chenfeng.

The energy within the inky black liquid didn’t stop due to Ye Chenfeng’s inability to withstand it; on the contrary, it flooded into him faster and faster, causing Ye Chenfeng’s body, submerged in the medicine pool, to swell slightly. If this continued, the only outcome facing Ye Chenfeng would be a violent death by body explosion.

The number of cracks in his skin increased, fresh blood mingled continually into the inky black liquid from the wounds. Ye Chenfeng clenched his teeth tightly, his complexion growing ever paler. Beads of sweat the size of soybeans appeared on his forehead and cheeks, and the expression on his face turned hideously fierce.

The color of the inky black liquid in the medicine pool grew lighter and lighter, likely due to the medicinal power seeping into Ye Chenfeng’s body. The thick wall in him that prevented his breakthrough, initially unyielding to the energy’s assault, began to wobble slightly as the energy from the liquid became increasingly frenetic. Yet, there was still no sign of the wall collapsing.

Fresh blood flowed more copiously from the corners of Ye Chenfeng’s mouth, the number of cracking wounds on his body also increased, some even exposing bone.

Ye Chenfeng’s consciousness in his mind grew increasingly blurry. He couldn’t help but reveal a wry smile internally, thinking resolutely, "I can’t die yet, I can’t die yet, I absolutely can’t die."

As time progressed, the energy pouring into Ye Chenfeng’s body grew weaker. Yet, just as the inky black liquid in the pool nearly lost all its color, one last wave of potent energy surged from it. This wave was the largest yet, turning the inky liquid in the pool to clear, bottom-visible water in an instant.

"Ah——"

With the entrance of this last wave of energy into Ye Chenfeng’s body, a painful scream erupted from his throat. He could no longer endure it. Accompanied by this heart-wrenching cry, his consciousness grew blurrier and blurrier... until he finally passed out completely.

However, in the second before Ye Chenfeng lost consciousness, the thick wall within him, upon the impact of the final wave of energy, began to show cracks. Yet, this formidable wall didn’t immediately collapse.

...(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)