At that moment, many people present were dumbfounded. Though they had long known that Chu Feng possessed formidable combat strength and commanded brutal martial arts, along with special means to enhance his power, they never expected that Sun Lei — the young prodigy known within the Alliance of Spirit World Masters as a fighting maniac — would be so utterly helpless before Chu Feng.
If the guests who had witnessed Chu Feng's battle against Wang Qiang had at least some mental preparation for this scene, then people like Zhou Long from Sealbound Ancient Village and Huang Feng from the Alliance of Spirit World Masters were completely and utterly stunned. They had absolutely not anticipated that Chu Feng's combat strength would be just as terrifying as his mastery of barrier techniques.
"This guy is actually that powerful?" Zhou Long said with a face full of horror. It was only now that he truly realized how frightening this youth named Chu Feng was.
When he turned his gaze toward Chu Feng once more, all the previous contempt and hostility had vanished, replaced by deep reverence and a lingering sense of fear.
He already regretted it — regretted provoking Chu Feng and making an enemy of him, because Chu Feng was by far the most powerful and most terrifying peer he had ever encountered.
As for Chu Feng, he paid no attention to anyone's expressions. After delivering those words to Sun Lei, he turned around and began walking toward Old Village Chief Ma.
"You bastard, I'll kill you!" Yet what no one expected was that as Chu Feng walked away, Sun Lei — who had been lying on the ground — suddenly shot to his feet. His eyes were bloodshot, and martial energy surged throughout his entire body.
With one hand forming a seal, he let out a furious roar, and his body erupted with scarlet flames. The crimson blaze churned and roared like razor-sharp blades, hurtling toward Chu Feng with terrifying speed.
"That's one of the Alliance of Spirit World Masters' most famous forbidden martial arts — the Earth-Sealing Flame Slash!" Seeing the blazing light-blade formed from the raging inferno, many powerful figures furrowed their brows.
Sun Lei had not only launched a sneak attack from behind, but had also unleashed the Earth-Sealing Flame Slash — a martial art of no small consequence. Though its preparation time was lengthy, once launched, its power was virtually unstoppable.
Sun Lei had been taking hits this whole time, presumably to buy time for the Earth-Sealing Flame Slash's charge-up. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to execute such a devastating strike so quickly.
In that moment, many broke into a cold sweat for Chu Feng. They weren't worried about whether he had the means to block the attack — their concern was the distance. At such close range, they feared Chu Feng wouldn't have time to react, and if he truly took a hit from a martial art of this caliber, he would most likely lose his life.
Even Old Village Chief Ma had already prepared himself to intervene should Chu Feng fail to defend against the strike. He would not stand by and watch Chu Feng be killed by Sun Lei.
BOOM!
But just as everyone was worrying for Chu Feng, he suddenly whirled around. Lightning wreathed his entire body, and in the span of a single heartbeat, he surged to the seventh level of Martial King. Simultaneously, he raised his palm high, and a sound more piercing than a thunderclap exploded in the sky above him.
After that thunderous detonation, a peculiar energy materialized out of thin air and blocked Sun Lei's Earth-Sealing Flame Slash head-on.
Rumble rumble rumble rumble!
As that strange energy appeared, both heaven and earth trembled. The five elements — wind, thunder, water, fire, and earth — manifested simultaneously above Chu Feng, merging together like rampaging beasts and spinning at breakneck speed.
The more violently they rotated, the more violently the world shook, as though the very fabric of reality might shatter and be destroyed at any moment.
"That's an Earth-Sealing martial art too! Chu Feng conjured an Earth-Sealing martial art in the blink of an eye, and its power is even greater than Sun Lei's Earth-Sealing Flame Slash!"
Seeing this, the crowd was stunned once more, for what Chu Feng had unleashed was a martial art of his own creation — the Earth-Sealing Five Elements Formation.
And once the Earth-Sealing Five Elements Formation appeared, it completely crushed Sun Lei's Earth-Sealing Flame Slash. The five elements of wind, thunder, water, fire, and earth not only dismantled the Flame Slash inch by inch but had already pressed down upon the sky above Sun Lei, continuously bearing that incomparable force down upon him.