Chapter 880: Chapter 880

After Linghu Hongyan entered seclusion, Fang Bai, accompanied by Linghu Qianjiao and Linghu Baimei, met Ye Xing once again.

Linghu Hongyan’s heart had been untied, and she also declared she would no longer target Ye Xing. Thus, Ye Xing regained his freedom, but he was still under the surveillance of several "Wrathful Beauties" members and temporarily could not leave the Polar Ice Palace.

"Mr. Fang, I really owe you one this time!"

After meeting Ye Xing, Fang Bai had a conversation with him. When Ye Xing found out that Fang Bai had come specifically to rescue him, he was immensely grateful.

Fang Bai said with a smile, "Uncle Ye, you’re too kind! Wumei and I are friends, and her affairs are mine as well!"

Ye Xing had long known that his daughter and Fang Bai had a good relationship, but he didn’t know exactly how deep it went. Through this incident, he could see that his daughter held an important place in Fang Bai’s heart; otherwise, why would Fang Bai take such a great risk to travel thousands of miles to the Antarctica Continent to rescue him?

"Back in the day, Linghu Hongyan and I truly did have mutual affection, but some of the conditions she later proposed were unacceptable to me, so I tactfully rejected her. Angered, she left and there was no word from her for a year. I thought our relationship had ended, so I married Sun Lin. Little did I know Linghu Hongyan would harbor hatred borne of love and secretly target me..."

After talking with Fang Bai for a while, Ye Xing finally understood the reason for his abduction and couldn’t help feeling sorrow mixed with relief, realizing that the Ye Family had faced many adversities over the years, likely the covert doing of the "Wrathful Beauties".

Fortunately, Fang Bai had persuaded Linghu Hongyan, dissolving her resentment. Otherwise, not only would his life be in danger, but the Ye Family would also have faced an even greater crisis.

Now that Linghu Hongyan had declared that she had no further ties with him and would no longer target the Ye Family, Ye Xing felt as though a weight had been lifted off his chest, and he relaxed significantly.

Ye Xing didn’t want to stay in the Polar Ice Palace for another moment, but Fang Bai insisted on waiting for Linghu Hongyan to finish her seclusion and bid her farewell before leaving. Ye Xing had no choice but to stay and accompany Fang Bai for the time being.

In the following days, with time on his hands, Fang Bai wandered around near the Polar Ice Palace, appreciating the polar scenery.

One day, as he reached a mountainous area north of the Polar Ice Palace, he suddenly sensed a fluctuation of Essence Energy. His Divine Sense immediately spread out, probing towards the direction from which the Essence Energy was emanating.

"Huh? How did the Fat Taoist get here?"

Soon, a fat Taoist Priest dressed in a Taoist robe appeared within the reach of Fang Bai’s Divine Sense—who else could it be but Wu De?

At the moment, Wu De was standing on an indented ice surface, his palms chopping continuously like knives, attempting to excavate something from beneath the ice.

Concealing his qi, Fang Bai darted over and stood silently behind him, then lightly tapped on his shoulder.

Wu De jumped in fright, letting out a strange cry as he swung a palm back while leaping forward. After moving a few yards away, he abruptly turned around, readying himself as if facing a formidable enemy.

"Brother... Brother Fang?"

Upon clearly seeing Fang Bai standing opposite him, Wu De initially froze, then exclaimed in surprise, "It’s you?"

"Why wouldn’t it be me?"

Fang Bai said with a grin.

Wu De scratched his head and said, "Weren’t you headed to Argentina?"

Fang Bai replied, "Yeah, I first went to Argentina and then came here."

Wu De grinned and said, "You’ve come to the right place! This Antarctica Continent is full of treasures!"

"It seems you’ve made a new discovery!"

Fang Bai said, his gaze landing on the patch of ice that Wu De had excavated several feet deep, immediately sensing strands of Essence Energy fluctuations surging up from beneath the ice surface. His Divine Sense began to extend toward the depths below the ice.

If one did not use Divine Sense to explore, it would be hard to imagine that beneath the ice surface, there lay an ice fissure about a hundred yards long, approximately one yard wide, and unfathomably deep.

Fang Bai’s Divine Sense could probe scenery a kilometer below, yet it was unable to reach the bottom of the ice fissure, indicating that the depth of the fissure exceeded a kilometer.

What surprised Fang Bai even more was that embedded in the ice walls on both sides of the fissure were innumerable Essence Stones, including all five types: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

The Essence Energy fluctuations that Fang Bai sensed were emanating from these Essence Stones.

However, the deeper the fissure, the fewer the types of Essence Stones on the ice walls on both sides. When it reached a kilometer deep, only water and fire Essence Stones remained, but these two types of Essence Stones released even purer and more concentrated Essence Energy.

"The deeper the fissure, the purer and more abundant the Essence Energy. It seems there must be some treasure down there!"

With that thought, Fang Bai’s interest grew immensely.

"You should have sensed the Essence Energy fluctuations by now, right? There must be Essence Stones beneath this ice surface!"

Wu De, pointing to the patch of ice he had dug several feet into, said, "But the ice here is very thick, and the snow and ice are extremely hard. I have expended quite a bit of Essence Energy to excavate just these few feet..."

His eyes patterning around, he turned to Fang Bai and said, "Brother Fang, how about we join forces to extract the Essence Stones and then split them evenly?"

Fang Bai nodded and replied, "All right!"

Fang Bai was indeed interested in the Essence Stones within the fissure, but he was even more interested in the potential treasures at the bottom of the fissure.

In fact, even without Wu De, Fang Bai would have eventually discovered the ice fissure below the surface and monopolized the Essence Stones. However, having encountered Wu De, and since the two of them seemed to have fate on their side, it was better to proceed with cooperation.

Seeing that Fang Bai agreed to cooperate, Wu De was elated. He plonked down on the ice surface and said, "I’ve been busy for half a day, and I’m exhausted! Brother Fang, I’ll take a moment to recuperate. Over to you!"

As he spoke, he sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began to recuperate.

Fang Bai smiled and declined to bother with Wu De any longer. He walked over to the patch of ice that Wu De had dug several feet into, channeled his Water Element Qi, and with a sudden clap of his palms, he struck the hard ice surface.

His palms hit the ice, and after a muffled sound, the Water Element Qi penetrated several feet into the ice layer below, directly shattering the ice within several yards around him, reaching several feet deep, into chunks.

Next, Fang Bai repeatedly grabbed the chunks of ice shattered by his Essence Energy, tossing them far away.

After clearing away the shattered ice chunks, Fang Bai made another move, continuing to break up the ice layer.

After repeating this process over a dozen times, suddenly there was a loud bang, and Fang Bai felt the ground give way beneath him, revealing an ice fissure several yards wide and bottomless. An ample surge of Essence Energy immediately gushed upwards.

The boom startled Wu De, who had been recuperating. Sensing the sudden intense Essence Energy in the world around him, his brows lifted. He could no longer bother with recuperation, leaping up and dashing over to the side of the fissure Fang Bai had uncovered.

"My goodness, beneath this layer of ice, there’s actually another world!"

Standing next to Fang Bai, Wu De leaned over and gazed down into the unfathomable fissure beneath their feet, amazed.