Chapter 348: The Flying Stone
Inside and outside the Heaven-ranked Stone Garden, everyone looked over, their expressions leisurely.
The two men's faces turned from white to green, then to purple. This was truly infuriating. If not for the fact that they were at the Ji Family's stone workshop, they would have wanted to kill someone.
"Crack!"
Li Yishui forcefully smashed the palm-sized stone onto the ground, shattering it into pieces. No rare treasure appeared. He stood up with a livid face.
At that moment, he felt the world spinning and almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
Twelve thousand catties of Source had gone down the drain, yielding nothing when cut open. This was clearly a setup. "Tragic" was the only word for it—there was no second chance in life...
"You..." Li Yishui trembled all over with rage, pointing a finger at Ye Fan and the other, his hair bristling with fury.
"What 'you' and 'us'? You snatched our stone, and when you cut out nothing rare, you blame us?" Li Heishui laughed loudly.
Li Yishui and Yang Kun's vision went dark. They were so stunned with anger that they nearly fainted. This loss was too brutal. They had used every scheme to snatch someone else's rare stone, only to reap the consequences of their own actions. They couldn't blame anyone else.
Even so, the two were fuming, their hair almost catching fire, wanting to roar at the heavens.
"Those two old bastards are really pitiful. They fell for the trick, jumped into the trap themselves, and can't even vent their anger."
Everyone outside the stone garden was discussing, and many couldn't help but mock and laugh loudly.
"They brought this on themselves. Just now, they were so clever, snatching someone else's Source, and now they end up like this."
"That young man is really something. Digging such a big pit and waiting for people to jump in—who could have guessed?"
"It's all greed's fault!"
"This is a real skill, definitely an art form." Li Heishui made a double-edged remark, speaking without feeling the strain.
"Haha..." Many people burst into laughter.
Li Yishui and Yang Kun wanted to vomit blood. Being tricked so artistically and then mocked—no one could take it.
Ye Fan walked over to another sky-priced rare stone and patted it lightly, saying, "Actually, this one isn't bad either. I have a good feeling about it."
Everyone laughed again.
Li Yishui wanted to punch him. Such words made him feel humiliated. Yang Kun, meanwhile, flicked his sleeve and stormed out of the stone garden in anger.
"Have you chosen your stone material?" Tuoba Chang asked coldly.
Beside him, the head-sized Divine Source floated quietly, radiating divine light in all directions, extremely dazzling. Even the stone skin couldn't hide its brilliance.
"I've already chosen!" Ye Fan replied.
To everyone's surprise, he didn't touch the last Heaven-rank rare stone. Instead, he moved out a stone next to the Ascending to Immortality Flying Immortal Stone.
This stone was ordinary, about the size of a millstone, with nothing special about it. It was dark cyan all over, shaped like a stone pier.
The Heaven-ranked Stone Garden was full of precious stones. This stone was worth thirty thousand catties of Source. Although expensive, it was far from being the garden's treasure.
Earlier, when Ye Fan looked at the Ascending to Immortality Flying Immortal Stone, he had probed this stone with his Source Heaven Divine Sense and glimpsed something wonderful, shaking him inwardly.
He didn't know if this was a Stone King, but he figured it couldn't be too bad!
"Please, seniors, help me seal this space," Ye Fan said solemnly.
Everyone showed surprise. Could he really cut out a peerless treasure? After all, Tuoba Chang had cut out Divine Source, which was almost impossible to surpass.
"You really think you can cut out a rare treasure?" Wu Ziming sneered.
Just now, his senior elder Yang Kun had been tricked, and he watched with resentment but couldn't help.
"I want to see what you can cut out!" Li Chongtian also sneered.
The Illusory Extinction Sect's Supreme Elder, Li Yishui, said nothing, standing aside with a livid face. Twelve thousand catties of Source had gone down the drain, and he had also bet eighty thousand catties here.
A group of old men gathered around. Although they admired Ye Fan's Source Art, they didn't think he could cut out something more precious than Divine Source.
Still, they worked together to raise a light curtain, sealing off this place.
The stone garden's guardian, the silver-haired old man with crystalline skin, also came over to prevent any accidents.
Li Heishui secretly reminded him, "Didn't you say there was a Stone King? Don't let it interfere with your judgment again."
"Don't worry. This time, I've confirmed with Source Heaven Secret Art. There must be a world-shaking treasure inside this stone," Ye Fan replied confidently.
Still, he had a slight uncertainty, feeling that this might be a substitute, not the real Stone King.
"Tuoba Chang cut out Divine Source, and I've chosen this stone. If both are substitutes for the Stone King, then that's terrifying. I wonder what the Stone King itself contains," Ye Fan muttered to himself.
He began to cut the stone carefully, holding the Dragon-Pattern Blackgold Holy Spirit Sword between two fingers, constantly shaving off the stone skin.
In the distance, everyone grew tense because they noticed his posture was strange, as if he was ready to retreat at any moment.
The Great Xia Prince was nearby, saying, "Brother Gu's Source Art is astonishing. Could he really cut out another peerless treasure?"
Yao Yuekong, dressed in purple with purple light flashing in his eyes, exuding the aura of a demon god, said, "Maybe there really will be a surprise."
An Miaoyi smiled faintly without saying anything, her beautiful eyes scanning between Ye Fan and Tuoba Chang.
As for the group of old men, their expressions were serious. Divine light flickered at their fingertips, and they all seemed ready to act.
After all, Ye Fan had cut out a Primordial Divine Medicine and a Sacred Spirit Sword before, so they took his words seriously.
Ye Fan moved his sword like the wind. The millstone-sized cyan stone quickly shrank as the stone skin fell off.
Finally, when the stone material was only a bit larger than half a human head, Wu Ziming and Li Chongtian couldn't help sneering.
How could such a large stone compare to the head-sized Divine Source?
Even the Illusory Extinction Sect's Supreme Elder, Li Yishui, gradually relaxed, a cold smile appearing at the corner of his mouth. He was no longer as gloomy as before.
Many people shook their heads, thinking Ye Fan would surely lose. Even Li Heishui grew a bit nervous.
"Clang!"
When Ye Fan cut off another piece of stone skin with the small black sword, a blazing divine light suddenly shot out, making it impossible to open one's eyes.
Everyone was shocked. Many opened their eyes wide to look closely.
Ye Fan swung the small sword repeatedly. Stone skin fell, and a stone ball the size of half a human head was cut out. Through the stone skin, dozens of beams of divine light shot into the sky.
The place was illuminated brilliantly. The ancient trees were bathed in divine light, turning a crystalline green, and the flowers became sacred, shimmering with radiance.
"Divine Source!"
Many exclaimed, never expecting a second piece of Divine Source to appear.
"Half a human head in size, conservatively estimated to be worth at least twenty-five thousand catties of Source!" an old man appraised in shock.
"Heavens! Another piece of Divine Source has been cut out. Unbelievable!"
"Incredible! Cutting out two pieces of Divine Source in one day—even in the past, it hasn't happened many times."
"Priceless! Why are such rare divine objects appearing one after another?"
Everyone was discussing. Even the White-Robed Little Nun couldn't help squeezing forward, curiously blinking her big eyes to watch.
"My eyes can't take it. This divine light is too intense. I can't look directly at it." Someone's eyes turned red, forced to turn their head away.
"Haha..." After the initial shock, Wu Ziming couldn't help laughing loudly. "Even if it's Divine Source, so what? It's only half the size of Brother Tuoba's piece."
"That's right. You've lost. This Divine Source will be ours." Li Chongtian also laughed recklessly, extremely excited.
"Hehe..." Li Yishui let out a breath of foul air, emitting a cold laugh.
Suddenly, the stone ball moved. It shot into the sky, trying to escape.
"Bang!"
It hit the light curtain. If the place hadn't been sealed off, it would have fled.
"What's going on? This stone ball can fly?"
"Heavens! What is inside the Divine Source that makes it rise on its own?"
"A flying stone? How is that possible?!"
Everyone was stunned. This defied common sense and was unbelievable.
Divine Source could float in the air without sinking, but it could never fly away. This was definitely a world-shaking treasure. There was probably another rare treasure inside.
"Bang!" "Bang!"...
The light curtain was sturdy. The stone ball crashed around, trying to escape, but couldn't.
In the Heaven-ranked Stone Garden, a group of old men acted, not attacking but using gentle divine light to suppress it, trapping it, and then sealing it.
Because there was a world-shaking treasure inside the Divine Source, they feared damaging it and didn't dare use too much force.
The stone skin couldn't hide the light of the Divine Source inside. Many beams of divine radiance shot out from the cracks, extremely brilliant. It was pulled down.
A group of old men looked at it with fiery eyes, fixing it in the air, all a bit excited.
"Young friend, you're truly remarkable. You've cut out another peerless treasure. Sell it to us."
"We're willing to buy it at a sky-high price!"
Those who spoke were representatives of various major powers, all wanting to purchase this stone.
"This rare treasure is more valuable than that head-sized Divine Source," said the guardian of the Ji Family Stone Garden.
"That's right. It's more precious than that Divine Source," someone nodded in agreement.
Wu Ziming and Li Chongtian felt as if struck by lightning. Their faces turned pale on the spot. They had been overjoyed and excited just moments ago, but now the situation had reversed in the blink of an eye, leaving them nearly in despair.
Li Yishui was covered in black lines, his veins bulging. This result dealt him a heavy blow. His body swayed, and he nearly fell to the ground.
He and Yang Kun had already jumped into one pit, and now they had to hand over another eighty thousand catties of Source. It felt like a dull blow.
"Brother Gu Feng, sell this treasure to us. Great Xia will give you a satisfactory sky-high price!" The Great Xia Prince transmitted his voice.
"Little Brother Gu Feng, Miaoyi is willing to buy this treasure. Whatever conditions you have, I'll try my best to meet them." An Miaoyi also transmitted her voice with a sweet smile.
"Two brothers..." Jiang Yifei also spoke.
...
In an instant, Ye Fan was flooded with various divine thoughts. Many people secretly transmitted messages to him, offering temptations, promises, and all kinds of benefits.
"Everyone, let's peel off the stone skin and see what's inside the Divine Source," Ye Fan replied. He didn't want to sell it blindly.
"That's right! Peel off the stone skin and see what's inside the Divine Source!" Outside the Heaven-ranked Stone Garden, everyone else shouted loudly.
These people couldn't enter the stone garden. Their status certainly couldn't compare to the representatives of major powers and the many old men, but they were the majority, and their shouts shook the heavens.
At that moment, news spread quickly. Something more precious than Divine Source had been cut out, causing the entire Divine City to be stirred up again.
In the Heaven-ranked Stone Garden, the group of old men didn't stop them. They also wanted to see what was inside.
"Please, seniors, take action," Ye Fan said, not stepping forward.
In the end, the guardian of the Ji Family Stone Garden came over. Divine light flickered at his fingertips as he carefully peeled off the stone skin. In an instant, brilliant radiance burst forth, like a sun appearing in this place.
Those with weaker cultivation couldn't open their eyes and couldn't watch. Only powerful figures could observe. This was Divine Source, dazzling and brilliant.
"What is that? There's a living creature inside the Divine Source!"
"There really is a living thing!"
"Is it a golden snake? No, it seems to have horns on its head. Could it be a dragon?!"
"It's too dazzling. I can't see clearly. It shouldn't be a dragon."
...
Everyone was shocked, in an uproar. There was actually a living creature inside the Divine Source.