An Ancient God's Ruins? Turns Out It Was Just a Patch of Leeks You Planted on a Whim Back Then?!

After wandering around the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom and getting a feel for the local customs, Nan Feng took Bibi Dong along for a second spatial jump.

This place was already not far from Heaven Dou City, and naturally not far from Sunset Forest either.

Nan Feng could clearly sense the spatial mark he had left at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well decades ago, so he could directly perform a targeted spatial traversal.

Still, traveling with someone was inevitably more troublesome.

For this kind of long-distance spatial traversal, jumping solo and jumping with a passenger were completely different matters.

The spatial laws of Douluo Continent were strict. Traveling with someone caused the consumption of spatial power to multiply geometrically, while the difficulty of spatial positioning also increased dramatically.

On top of that, Nan Feng had spent the past few decades in the Capital of Slaughter, a place where space was completely chaotic. His perception of space in a normal plane had inevitably grown rusty.

Thus, that jump sent the two of them straight into the air above Sunset Forest's dense poisonous miasma.

"Ah—!"

The sudden sensation of weightlessness made Bibi Dong flail about in the air without a shred of dignity. After finally steadying herself, she glared at Nan Feng in fury.

"Could you be a little more reliable?! How did we end up in the sky?!"

Nan Feng stood steadily in midair as though stepping on solid ground, spreading his hands helplessly.

"I told you, my spatial perception's gotten a little rusty. I haven't sensed Douluo Continent's normal spatial coordinates for decades. It's already pretty good that I managed to bring you straight into Sunset Forest!"

Bibi Dong's eye twitched violently, lingering fear rising in her heart. "This time, we appeared in midair. Next time, don't tell me you'll teleport us underground or into a mountain? Wouldn't that bury us alive?"

"What are you even thinking?" Nan Feng rolled his eyes and explained. "Spatial laws have restrictions too. The spatial coordinates I sense and lock onto have to be empty! They must be physical spaces where I can exist stably and accommodate living beings!"

"Forget underground or inside solid rock—even in the deep sea filled with water, I can't directly perform a spatial jump because of the density and pressure. Unless I first create an absolute-vacuum energy barrier in that area of the sea."

After explaining, Nan Feng closed his eyes again and precisely sensed the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well's exact location.

"Found it. Hold tight!"

Silver-gray spatial radiance lit up once more, firmly enveloping them both.

The next instant, the two of them finally landed steadily on the ground.

"Hiss—!"

The moment she landed, Bibi Dong could not help sucking in a sharp breath.

She instantly felt an incomparably violent pair of mutually incompatible, extreme icy and fiery auras surging in madly from every direction like a tsunami, drilling frantically into her pores.

Her body immediately felt intense discomfort, and even the circulation of Soul Power within her became slightly sluggish.

Seeing this, Nan Feng immediately reached out and patted the back of her hand, forcibly helping her sort out and stabilize the turbulent Soul Power.

Only then did Bibi Dong let out a long breath, her complexion returning to normal. She raised her head and began examining the strange environment around them.

This was an enormous natural valley. Thick, dense poisonous mist filled the sky above. It was the common natural poison barrier of Sunset Forest, but the toxicity here was clearly far more terrifying.

"No wonder outsiders never discovered it all these years." Bibi Dong came to a sudden realization.

The plants in the valley grew with extraordinary lushness. Everywhere she looked were rare and unusual grasses that could not even be seen in the outside world.

But what shocked and intrigued Bibi Dong the most was the enormous spring at the center of the valley.

The spring was sharply divided into two halves. One was crimson red and as scorching as magma, while the other was an extreme ice-blue that radiated astonishing cold.

The heaven-and-earth energy here was so dense it was outrageous, yet it was all extreme icy and fiery energy!

In an environment like this, ordinary people would not even be able to cultivate. If they stayed too long, they probably would not even know how they died!

Bibi Dong looked around, then turned to Nan Feng with a complicated expression. "You... stayed in this awful place for decades back then?"

"Yep." Nan Feng nodded. "You're a Spirit Douluo after all, and your physical body is strong. This extreme environment is tolerable for you."

"Do you want to look around first, or directly borrow the spiritual energy here and begin closed-door cultivation?"

Bibi Dong was full of curiosity about the strange environment everywhere around her. "I'll take a look first."

"Then go ahead and wander around, but don't touch anything here carelessly. Especially those oddly shaped plants—they're extremely dangerous," Nan Feng kindly reminded her.

Bibi Dong carefully took a few steps through the valley. With one casual glance, she suddenly discovered that the ground was densely covered with all sorts of rare, high-grade medicinal herbs!

Even more terrifyingly, judging by the standards of a Spirit Hall Saintess, nearly all of these herbs were over ten thousand years old!

What the hell!

These things growing all over the ground were not grass at all. They were priceless treasures that would drive the entire Douluo Continent Soul Master world mad with competition!

Bibi Dong could not help turning around and staring hard at Nan Feng. "These... were all planted by you?"

Though these flowers and grasses grew lushly, their growth patterns and arrangement were not the chaotic, random spread of nature.

This neat order, even faintly resembling a certain energy circulation formation, was obviously the result of deliberate human planning.

"Yeah." Nan Feng nodded. "When I was cultivating in seclusion here back then, I had nothing better to do, so I casually dug up some high-quality medicinal herb seeds and planted them here."

"I just didn't expect that after a few decades away, these little things would have grown so big. The Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well's plant-growth acceleration of hundreds or thousands of times is really ridiculous."

Bibi Dong looked strange, as though she suspected she had misheard him. "Th-thousands of times?!"

"Yep." Nan Feng nodded. "The extreme heaven-and-earth energy here has a terrifying ripening effect on plant growth. Ordinary flowers and grasses that have just been planted can basically grow to maturity in less than a day. That's an acceleration close to a thousand times!"

"Once their age surpasses the thousand-year level, though, the energy they need grows increasingly enormous, so this acceleration gradually weakens. It's only around a hundred times faster."

"Once they reach the ten-thousand-year level, the energy the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well can provide also reaches a certain balanced limit, so the acceleration is only about ten times normal growth."

Bibi Dong's eye twitched violently as she listened.

Tenfold and hundredfold growth acceleration?!

"So that means..." Bibi Dong sharply inhaled. "If this place were enclosed and used specifically to cultivate precious thousand-year spiritual herbs, wouldn't they be inexhaustible?"

"It's not quite as exaggerated as you think."

Nan Feng shook his head. "Though this place's growth rate is terrifying, its extreme icy and fiery ecosystem also places absurdly harsh demands on a plant's foundation and potential. Ordinary spiritual herbs are torn apart by the icy and fiery energies the instant they are planted. They simply cannot survive."

Nan Feng walked over to a plant emitting a strange glow and pointed at it.

"Only plants that already possess exceptionally high quality and bloodline potential can barely survive here. And the acceleration effect varies entirely from herb to herb."

"Some plants are exceptionally gifted. Not only can they withstand the icy and fiery impact, they also absorb energy especially quickly. Like this Blood Lingzhi—it has successfully evolved to an age of over ten thousand years."

Nan Feng then pointed at several plants beside it that were clearly withering.

"But plants like these have very ordinary potential and foundations. Even with the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well ripening them, they have only barely reached a little over a thousand years, and they already seem close to their limit."

Afterward, Nan Feng kicked several completely withered, charred remnants at his feet.

"And these, look—they're dead beyond saving. Clearly, during their rapid growth, they could not withstand the terrifying forced infusion of icy and fiery energy. Their origins were literally burst apart, and they withered."

"Of course, they're not completely dead."

Nan Feng pointed at several fresh green shoots that had just emerged around those charred remnants.

"Though the parent plant could not withstand the energy and died suddenly, its dead remains will still instinctively sprout new shoots under the stimulation of the icy and fiery environment."

"However, most of these newly sprouted hundred-year little things will not live long either. In truth, the vast majority of plants here cannot survive past a thousand years in this extreme environment. Once they reach their own limits, the energy will burst them apart and kill them."

"And since they grew around the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, they have long adapted to this extreme icy and fiery energy circulation. Once you uproot them and take them away, they will quickly wither and die. They simply cannot survive in the normal environment outside."

"Of course, if you only treat this place as a high-grade spiritual herb plantation, then it is certainly extremely suitable."