850: Chapter 850 Evil God? Penguin? Spirit Stone?

Mo Yuan heard this and panicked...

Because the frost on his body had already spread to his elbows, and his entire arm was so stiff he could barely lift it.

"Ye Chen! What should we do? I can't stop this thing!"

Mo Yuan couldn't help but shout, "If this keeps up, I'm really going to freeze into shards!"

Ye Chen didn't even turn his head: "Wait!"

"Wait?"

"I'm about to be frozen solid, what are you asking me to wait for?!"

Mo Yuan completely lost it, "Wait to die???"

"Idiot, wait for the real master to come out."

Ye Chen narrowed his eyes.

In the storm ahead, a blurred shadow appeared.

The shadow looked like a mass of grayish-white mist crumpled by the wind and snow, moving toward the base of the tower.

"You mean that Evil God?"

Mo Yuan's face turned pale, "No... what's the use of waiting for it to come? Won't I still freeze to death?"

As soon as he finished speaking, his knees went soft, and he knelt into the snow.

He looked down and saw that his knees were covered in a thick layer of frost, and his joints creaked when he tried to move them.

"Useless."

Ye Chen glanced at Mo Yuan, then pulled two Talismans from his robes and casually threw one each to Mo Yuan and Saintess An Miaoyi.

The Talismans flew over and stuck to their shoulders.

The next second.

A layer of light lit up on the surface of the Talismans, like flames dancing on the paper.

That bone-piercing chill was suddenly shut out.

And the frost that had already condensed on their skin began to melt and flake off at a visible rate.

Mo Yuan was stunned, then moved his arm, discovering that the sluggish feeling in his meridians had completely vanished.

He let out a long breath, just about to say something.

But before he could open his mouth, his gaze was drawn to the silhouette in front.

Amidst the swirling snow, the grayish-white shadow walked closer, turning from blurred to clear, and from massive to... getting smaller?

That's right. It was shrinking.

And when Ye Chen and the others saw it clearly, they were dumbfounded.

They saw two small, black-bean-like eyes appear in the storm.

Then a bright yellow beak, followed by a round head, a plump body, and a pair of short wings hanging at its sides.

Finally, a penguin less than half a meter tall waddled out of the wind and snow.

Penguin: "Quack."

Ye Chen: "..." Saintess An Miaoyi: "..." Mo Yuan: "..."

Wait... the so-called demon, could it really be just this... penguin?

If someone punched it, it would probably die, right?

How could this be... a demon?

Three people, six eyes, stared at that penguin, their foreheads full of question marks.

They didn't understand! They really couldn't understand!

At this moment, the wind and snow stopped the instant the penguin appeared.

After a long while, Mo Yuan spoke in a hoarse, stunned voice.

"...That's it???"

"This is the... Evil God that killed everyone in the entire city?"

He pointed at the penguin standing in the snow, staring blankly at them, his finger trembling, not knowing if it was from anger or confusion.

The penguin "quacked" again, as if responding to his question.

Ye Chen was silent for several seconds before bending down to look the penguin in the eye.

The penguin also tilted its head, examining him.

"You..." Ye Chen carefully chose his words and spoke in the ancient language, "Are you the Evil God they speak of?"

The penguin shook its head, then nodded.

Ye Chen straightened up and looked back toward the tower gate.

That Blue-skinned people was clinging to the doorframe, revealing a pair of terrified eyes as it watched the situation.

When the Blue-skinned people saw that the penguin was standing in front of Ye Chen, it completely collapsed.

That's right! This is the Evil God! That terrifying, extreme Evil God! It's here! It's going to kill everyone!

Ye Chen was speechless and looked back at the penguin.

But... looking left and right, up and down... this penguin really was no different from any penguin seen in the Antarctic.

The only difference was... its eyes were silver-white. Other than that, Ye Chen couldn't feel any power fluctuations within its body.

Strange! Too strange!

Mo Yuan finally recovered, pointing at the penguin in shock.

"You're not joking, right?"

"That Blue-skinned people said it could destroy the world?"

"This little thing? I could flick it away with one finger!"

Before he finished speaking, the penguin suddenly looked up at him.

Just one look. Without warning, a patch of ice crystals exploded beneath Mo Yuan's feet, and sharp ice spikes shot out from the ground, nearly piercing the soles of his boots.

Mo Yuan jumped back in fright, his face turning pale: "What the f*ck?!"

The penguin withdrew its gaze and looked back at Ye Chen.

Ye Chen couldn't help but speak again. "What exactly do you want?"

The penguin opened its beak and "quacked" again. However, this time Ye Chen understood.

"I'm hungry."

Ye Chen: "???"

He was silent for a long while, looked back at the Blue-skinned people collapsed in the doorframe, looked back, and repeated: "You're really... hungry?"

The penguin nodded and continued to "quack."

The expression on Ye Chen's face became indescribable.

"So, you scared everyone in this entire city like that because you were hungry?"

The penguin frowned in a human-like way.

"I didn't scare them, and I didn't eat them. It's them who stopped me from eating."

Ye Chen was stunned. What? There's a hidden story???

Before he could think too much, Mo Yuan, watching Ye Chen and the penguin communicate, asked anxiously: "What did it say? Translate it!"

Ye Chen glanced at Mo Yuan. "It said it's hungry."

Mo Yuan: "..." Saintess An Miaoyi: "..."

Mo Yuan's eyes widened, his mouth opening and closing, opening and closing again, and only after a long time did he manage to squeeze out a sentence: "Are you kidding me?!"

Ye Chen rolled his eyes: "Do I look like I'm joking?"

Mo Yuan was furious and just about to explode... but Ye Chen ignored him and turned his gaze back to the penguin.

"You say you're hungry, so what do you want to eat?"

The penguin didn't hesitate: "Spirit Stones."

Ye Chen was dumbfounded.

"Wait..."

"You mean that group of Blue-skinned People are guarding... Spirit Stones???"

The penguin nodded, its voice full of grievance: "They wouldn't let me eat, so I fought back."

Ye Chen's mind was in chaos.

Spirit Stones. According to the [ Houtu Inheritance ], those legendary stones containing pure heaven and earth spiritual energy were everywhere in the ancient era.

But in this current age where spiritual energy is so thin that even the old monsters of the cultivation world are almost starving to death... just bringing out a slightly decent quality Spirit Stone would be enough to make the families of the Kunlun Ruins fight tooth and nail.

He had already been incredibly lucky to dig up the Scarlet Flame Vermilion Fruit and Ice Dew Fruit before. But compared to Spirit Stones... those spiritual fruits were nothing!

Because. Spirit Stones were the hardest currency in the cultivation world, living energy that could be directly used for cultivation, formation setting, artifact refining, pill concocting, and even as the core fuel to drive ancient mechanisms...

Of course. He wasn't lacking Spirit Stones, because the [ shanhai bottle ] could convert side effects into spiritual energy. But... who would complain about having too much "money"?

Ye Chen's mind spun rapidly, and then he slowly turned his head, looking toward the tower gate with burning eyes.

The penguin's eyes also stared straight ahead.

The Blue-skinned people was still collapsed in the doorframe, but when it met the gazes of both Ye Chen and the penguin, it shuddered violently.

It had an ominous premonition. This feeling was even more terrifying than the look in the Evil God's eyes when it first appeared outside the city and turned the whole place upside down...

Especially... the way Ye Chen grinned at it was even more frightening than the Evil God.

Ye Chen strode over. The Blue-skinned people instinctively wanted to shrink back into the tower, but its legs were as soft as noodles, and it couldn't stand up at all.

Ye Chen squatted in front of it, his gaze calm: "Tell me, what is the thing you are guarding?"

The Blue-skinned people gritted its teeth and didn't say a word. Ye Chen wasn't in a rush, just looking down at it. The Blue-skinned people remained stubborn.

But when the penguin waddled over and "quacked" again... the Blue-skinned people broke: "It... it's the holy stone."

"holy stone?" Ye Chen raised an eyebrow.

The Blue-skinned people glanced at the penguin with a face full of fear. "It's the thing it wants to eat, left behind by those cultivators from the ancient era. Our ancestors have guarded this place for generations just to prevent the holy stone..."

Ye Chen interrupted it, his smile becoming even more interesting.

"Not letting it eat?"

"You're guarding a pile of Spirit Stones, you can't use them yourselves, and you won't let others eat them?"

"How selfish!"

The Blue-skinned people said anxiously.

"That is a holy relic! It is the legacy of our ancestors! How can we let the Evil God..."

"Evil God?" Ye Chen looked back at the penguin less than half a meter tall behind him, then turned back, "You call that little thing an Evil God?"

The Blue-skinned people said righteously: "It is the Evil God!"

Ye Chen sighed. He felt he couldn't communicate with the other party. It was like a stubborn old man and a young person not being on the same wavelength.

So. Don't waste his breath. Anyway, he was only interested in the Spirit Stones.

Thinking of this. He smiled slightly: "Alright, take me to see the holy stone you mentioned."