Chapter 51

Qin Feng was taken aback, but he saw the sincerity in Zhan Bai's eyes, which was not feigned. Recalling the Qin family's consistently good reputation in the cultivation world, he felt relieved.

"Senior Brother, you?"

It was Fang Xinyi standing beside him who still had doubts and reminded him in a voice of surprise.

Zhan Bai waved his hand, signaling his junior sister Fang Xinyi to calm down. Then he stepped forward, placed a hand on Qin Feng's shoulder, and patted it.

Qin Feng did not stop Zhan Bai, allowing his hand to rest on his shoulder, as he saw no malice in Zhan Bai's eyes.

As soon as Zhan Bai's hand touched Qin Feng, a warm current instantly entered Qin Feng's body through the point of contact.

Just as Qin Feng was about to resist, Zhan Bai's voice sounded in his ear.

"Don't resist, guide my power into your meridians to stabilize your realm, which is not yet stable."

Qin Feng was taken aback, then nodded.

With the intervention of this external force, the turbulent Gang Force in Qin Feng's body instantly became docile.

"You have just advanced, and your realm is not yet stable. You also forced yourself to travel such a long distance. If you don't stabilize the fluctuating Gang Force in your body in time, it will inevitably leave some hidden dangers for the future."

Zhan Bai revealed the situation in Qin Feng's body, acting with integrity.

Qin Feng felt a warmth in his heart.

After a moment, Zhan Bai withdrew his palm, and Qin Feng opened his eyes, clasped his fists, and said, "Thank you, Brother Zhan!"

"Haha, it's nothing, don't worry about it!" Saying this, Zhan Bai first glanced at the dilapidated temple above, then turned to Qin Feng and said earnestly, "Brother Qin Feng must be very curious about why we are here, right?"

Qin Feng nodded!

Curiosity is universal. In front of an expert like Zhan Bai, it's better to admit it openly rather than hide it.

Qin Feng's straightforwardness naturally earned Zhan Bai's approval. As the saying goes, like attracts like. He smiled and explained to Qin Feng, "This temple has an evil name, it's called Blood Fork! A month ago, it appeared very abruptly in the Yunmang Mountains, along with this small mountain." At this point, Zhan Bai seemed to fall into a brief reverie, and his expression was overshadowed by a shadow.

The first person to discover this dilapidated temple is already dead! In the following month, many people entered this temple one after another, and they all died. However, three days ago, someone walked out of the temple alive.

At this point, Qin Feng's expression changed, and Zhan Bai also gave him a meaningful look. But he suddenly changed the subject.

"But after he came out, he only said one sentence before he died."

That sentence was—

"There are treasures in the temple!"

"Treasures in the temple? Are you here to seek treasures?"

Qin Feng's gaze was deep. Although the mention of treasures was indeed tempting, he still keenly sensed something unusual from Zhan Bai's words.

Seeing Qin Feng's thoughtful expression, Zhan Bai nodded again, inwardly praising him.

"The matter is not that simple! Treasures naturally belong to those with the right karma. I have no particular ulterior motives. The main reason I am here is that I have agreed to meet a few like-minded friends here to uncover the secrets hidden in this Blood Fork Temple together."

At this point, Qin Feng's mind stirred, and he thought of the two corpses he had seen earlier, suddenly falling into deep thought.

Zhan Bai, however, did not notice Qin Feng's subtle reaction. After a pause, he extended an olive branch to Qin Feng, "I see that Brother Qin Feng is quite extraordinary in strength. Why don't you join me in entering this dilapidated temple and explore it together? Moreover, in our team, there is a friend who is also a Qin family disciple. Brother Qin Feng, you might even recognize him..."

"A Qin family disciple!!"

Qin Feng was startled! Thinking of the two corpses without skin, he suddenly had a bad feeling.

Although he was extremely shocked, Qin Feng made great efforts not to show it on his face.

Taking a deep breath, Qin Feng asked with a look of surprise, "Oh? Is it a Qin family disciple from Tianfeng City? Which cousin? Is he... in the temple... now?"

Zhan Bai smiled, "That Qin brother is a close friend of mine. He left half a day before me. If my guess is correct, he is likely already inside the Blood Fork Temple! As for who he is, you will know once we enter the temple."

Zhan Bai deliberately left Qin Feng in suspense, aiming to pique his desire to explore the temple.

However, Zhan Bai was clearly overthinking it.

Because once Qin Feng learned that Zhan Bai had agreed to meet someone in the Blood Fork Temple, he had already made up his mind to investigate this mysterious and unpredictable Blood Fork Temple.

The purpose, of course, was to find and kill the person who had murdered the Qin family disciple!

Although Qin Feng had never met the deceased Qin family disciple, he felt a sense of responsibility to avenge him, given that he had absorbed his blood and essence, and they shared the same lineage.

"Alright, Senior Brother Zhan, please lead the way. I will do my best to assist!"

"Really? Let's go into the temple!"

Zhan Bai was very pleased. Inviting a powerful expert to join his team naturally made him very happy. Therefore, he led the way, guiding Qin Feng up to the dilapidated temple.

The mountain was not high, and they reached the top in a few steps.

The temple was dilapidated, but the courtyard was not small, with weeds growing everywhere. The signboard at the entrance was tilted to one side. The signboard was large, shaped like a coffin lid, and the two characters "Blood Fork" were faintly visible. The characters were twisted and ugly, blood-red, and exuded a sinister and eerie feeling.

Zhan Bai and Fang Xinyi led the way into the Blood Fork Temple.

Qin Feng followed behind, but as soon as he took a step, his face suddenly changed, and he pulled back his foot, staring at the signboard above with a look of surprise, speechless for a long time.

"Brother Qin Feng, what's wrong?"

"This signboard is very sinister!" Qin Feng whispered.

Qin Feng's unusual behavior startled Zhan Bai and Fang Xinyi. They then looked at the wooden signboard, but no matter how they sensed it, they felt nothing unusual about it, except for the two characters that gave a creepy feeling.

It was just an ordinary wooden signboard, albeit a bit old.

Zhan Bai was puzzled why Qin Feng was fixated on the signboard. Fang Xinyi, on the other hand, wondered if Qin Feng was just being overly timid, scared by an old signboard.

"It's just a broken coffin board, what's so interesting about it? Let's go, we're almost at the agreed time." Fang Xinyi, who detested such old and decaying things, frowned and urged him.

Zhan Bai shook his head and smiled, then nodded and walked into the temple.

Fang Xinyi followed closely behind.

The departure of the two did not affect Qin Feng. The reason he paid so much attention to the signboard was that when he walked under it, his blood soul, the two-headed black python, suddenly awoke in his body, as if facing a great enemy.

This strange situation was unprecedented!

At first, Qin Feng thought there was something in the temple that the black python feared, but after repeated observations, he still focused on the wooden signboard.

His blood soul was a formidable existence. Even when faced with the black light from his strange illness, it fought to the death and mutated. To see it so wary of a broken signboard was unusual.

This thing was definitely not simple!

And it was very, very not simple!

It was certainly not just an ordinary wooden signboard!

Qin Feng stared at the wooden signboard, then gritted his teeth, jumped up, and grabbed it with his hand. The signboard was large, standing taller than him when upright.

Although it was a wooden signboard, this blood-red wood was the first time Qin Feng had seen it.

At this moment, Zhan Bai and Fang Xinyi had already walked far away and did not notice Qin Feng.

Qin Feng gritted his teeth, circulated the mystic energy in his body, and gathered it in his eyes. After a dizzying sensation, his eyes flickered with a faint grayish-purple light.

After advancing to the Human Gang Realm, Qin Feng's body had been altered again by his strange illness, entering the second stage of enhancement.

"Purple Heaven Eyes!"

The name was given by Qin Feng himself. It was a special eye technique that could see through some mysterious things at short distances.

This time, as Qin Feng expected, his eyes were enhanced, though only to a basic level. Even so, with these special eyes, he could barely discern something unusual.

On the wooden board, blood-red patterns like spider webs intertwined. On these patterns, points of black light flickered, eventually converging at the center of the board to form the head of a woman who had been beheaded and died a tragic death...