A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 1299 An Unexpected Turn of Events

Yu Yun knew and had worried about those risks. If anything were to go wrong as she absorbed the energy within the ice spirit fruit internally, she might just explode and die instantly. There were ways to neutralize that risk though.

The Book of Celestial Cloud had detailed nine ways to do so.

One of them was to utilize the yang energies within a Yang Dragon God Body to neutralize the inherent cold that the ice spirit fruit emanated.

It was a happy coincidence that Ye Fan had the Yang Dragon God Body.

He could make use of his Yang Dragon God Body to suppress the hostile energies inside the ice spirit fruit.

"You silly girl, you should thank the stars for having met me. Without me, you couldn't have mastered the Dragon God Body or the Cloud and Mist Sword Technique so quickly. Without me, you wouldn't have had such an opportunity for cultivation either," said Ye Fan with a smug smile as he suppressed the hostile energies inside the ice spirit fruit.

He was convinced that Yu Yun must have been blessed by the gods to have become his acquaintance.

One hardly knew what Yu Yun would think or feel if she knew these thoughts.

For the next seven days, Ye Fan continued to release the energies of his Dragon God Body to help Yu Yun.

After the seventh day, he couldn't take it any longer.

He was utterly spent. This was more exhausting than a fight to the death.

He collapsed, rolled off the platform and lay on the stone floor. His chest rose and fell heavily as he panted.

"I'm done. I can't do this anymore. She's going to drain me dry if I keep this up," moaned Ye Fan weakly.

His clothes were soaked in sweat. His forehead was wet with cold beads of perspiration as well.

He was utterly exhausted.

If Li Er were here and could see Ye Fan now, he would have been misled into thinking that Ye Fan had just spent a really long and exhausting night with a beautiful woman.

Only the gods and Ye Fan would know that he had been conducting a transfusion of energies for seven days and seven nights.

He had only managed that because he was trained in the Invoke the Celestial Cloud. Anyone else would have only lasted two days.

It was recorded in the Book of Celestial Cloud that Ye Fan only needed to use the power of his Dragon God Body to help Yu Yun tide over the next three to five days.

But as a precautionary measure, he had tried to last as long as he could.

The longer he tried to suppress the destructive energies of the ice spirit fruit, the less dangerous they would be to Yu Yun.

"The rest is up to you now, Yu Yun!"

Ye Fan was still very much weakened and had not yet recovered fully despite the long bout of rest that he had just taken.

He lay prone on the ground, his head turned to one side as he studied Yu Yun.

Her eyes were tightly shut, her long lashes fluttering faintly in the slight breeze.

Hints of pain lined her devastatingly beautiful face.

Ye Fan knew the pain that she must be going through right now.

That was cultivation for you. It was never meant to be easy or smooth.

If one wanted power, then one had to pay in hardship and pain.

Only fingers that had been cut by the strings of an instrument could master the tune the world danced to.

Only those who had gone through hell and lived could master the power to shape the very heavens.

The path of cultivation was one that had to be journeyed alone.

No one could shoulder the hardships of its solitary traveler.

Time passed steadily.

After a long break, Ye Fan gradually regained his strength.

Unlike Yu Yun, he had not been injured.

The only injury that he had incurred had been the slap that Yu Yun had given him when they had first met.

That explained why he could so quickly return to his animated and lively self after a short rest.

Having regained his strength, Ye Fan did not proceed to intervene in Yu Yun's training a second time.

After numerous days in her training trance, Ye Fan had a feeling that Yu Yun was nearly done absorbing the energies residing within the ice spirit fruit.

What was left could no longer pose any harm to her safety.

All he had to do now was to sit quietly by her side and keep watch over her.

The days passed slowly.

Yu Yun remained deep in her trance and didn't seem like she was going to wake up anytime soon. Ye Fan worried about the look of growing pain on her face. Her forehead was growing damp and cold with

sweat.

"That's weird. Why isn't she waking up? She should be awake by now. Have I underestimated the power of that ice spirit fruit?" Ye Fan frowned.

Regardless of Ye Fan's doubts or worries, there was nothing he could do but wait.

Ye Fan dared not interrupt her during such a critical moment in her attempted breakthrough.

Perhaps, the only thing that he could do for Yu Yun was to help her dab the droplets of sweat trickling into her eyes.

His eyes accidentally glanced down while he was doing that.

They slid down Yu Yun's snowy neck and continued downward.

Ye Fan thought he could see a glimpse of lacy black straps.

His lips curled upward at that sight.

"Heh! You didn't want me to ask, did you?

You allowed yourself to wear it but not my asking about it?"

Ye Fan recalled the look of fury on Yu Yun's face then. The more he thought about it, the more endearing he found the young

woman.

Finally, he couldn't take it anymore. His face split into a wide grin as he burst out into laughter.

After his bout of laughter, Ye Fan resumed guard duty next to Yu Yun.

They weren't family. In fact, they might even bear some grudge against the other.

Regardless, Yu Yun had ended up in her current predicament because of what Ye Fan had done.

He couldn't simply walk away from her and leave her to die.

Besides, Yu Yun had been willing to give up the ice spirit fruit that she had acquired painstakingly to him.

It was a gesture of generosity and kindness that Ye Fan couldn't not repay.

That was why he had to remain by Yu Yun's side and keep watch over her until she awoke.

Time continued to pass steadily.

Complete silence descended upon the cave.

It was so quiet that one could hear the air stir.

Yet it was a quiet that did not last.

After a long period of stillness, a sudden brilliance erupted from Yu Yun.

It was followed swiftly by a freezing aura that was intermingled with a rich and pure power as it oozed from the young woman's body.

The wave of power flooded the cave like a sudden storm.

The absence of exits in the cave meant only one thing. Immense, pure power gushed through the cave's narrow tunnel and rushed towards what had been its former entrance.

BOOM!

A loud explosion reverberated through the cave.

The roof and ground of the cave shook violently.

Ye Fan headed down the tunnel. The entrance that he had sealed earlier had been blown wide open by Yu Yun's sudden release of power.

"Oh no!" The sight filled Ye Fan's eyes with alarm.

The energies that had erupted from Yu Yun had been incredibly powerful.

They would surge outward and flood the lands after escaping the cave.

Multitudes of martial artists were roaming the rainforest right now.

Some of them might have left the vicinity but there would be others who hadn't given up and had continued hunting for treasures in the area.

Ye Fan was certain that they would have picked up on the sudden surge of power and would be able to trace it back to the

cave.

When that happened, martial artists from everywhere would gather outside the cave.

He wasn't worried about martial artists at Lv Hua and Reilo's sort of level.

What worried Ye Fan was the possibility of another supreme grandmaster as powerful as Yu Yun in the midst of this rainforest. Rating the Translation Will Gain Two Pearls.