"What are you looking at? Get lost, all of you." Chu Feng glared at the crowd and barked coldly.
His shout sent a wave of freezing intent rippling outward, shaking heaven and earth. Even though the rock cave was incredibly sturdy, quite a few loose stones were shaken from the ceiling and clattered to the ground.
"Let's go!" At the sight of this, the onlookers turned pale with fright. They all realized that this was someone they absolutely should not provoke, and they scrambled to leave, not daring to linger for a single moment longer.
In an instant, only the disciples of the Qingmu Mountain, Huolin Hall, and Yushui Palace remained.
Whoosh—
Chu Feng waved his sleeve, and an invisible barrier descended over the area, sealing them all inside.
"Wh—who are you? What do you want?!"
"We're disciples of Huolin Hall and Yushui Palace. If you dare lay a finger on us, you won't get away with it!"
The disciples of Huolin Hall and Yushui Palace were beginning to panic. They were terrified that this half-emperor, third-rank powerhouse standing before them might do something to them. Helplessly, they could only force themselves to look composed and threaten him with their backgrounds—because that was the only thing they could do.
"Don't you recognize who I am?"
Chu Feng smiled faintly, and as he spoke, his appearance began to shift. In moments, his true face was revealed.
"Chu Feng—it's you?!!"
Upon seeing Chu Feng's face, not only the Yushui Palace and Huolin Hall disciples, but even Bai Yunxiao, Tao Xiangyu, and the other Qingmu Mountain disciples were shocked to their core.
They had considered many possibilities, but not a single one had led them to expect this situation.
And if even Tao Xiangyu and her group were this startled, then the Huolin Hall and Yushui Palace disciples completely lost their composure. Their faces turned white as paper, and they trembled uncontrollably. One of them, unable to hold it in, actually wet his pants in fear.
Top-ranked disciples of the Nine Powers, frightened to the point of soiling themselves—how utterly humiliating that was.
But they couldn't be blamed. Chu Feng's fearsome reputation among the Nine Powers was simply too great.
Back when Chu Feng was still only a Martial King, he had already swept through all the Nine Powers' disciples and even dared to kill his own senior brothers.
Now that he was wanted by the Nangong Imperial Clan and had reached the third-rank of half-emperor—what might he do?
They didn't even dare to think about it.
"Junior Brother Chu Feng, so you're still alive! What wonderful news!"
"The Nangong Imperial Clan—for reasons unknown—issued a continent-wide bounty to hunt you down not long ago, and they recently even announced that you were dead."
"I was devastated when I heard that, because you were the strongest among all our Nine Powers' disciples. Selflessly speaking, I always believed you were the hope of our Nine Powers."
"Now that I see you're safe and sound, Senior Brother's heart is absolutely at ease."
Suddenly, a disciple from Yushui Palace stepped forward with a broad smile. Sensing that things were going badly, he had a flash of quick wit and decided to try befriending Chu Feng this way.
Bang—
But the moment he got close, Chu Feng raised his leg and kicked the man flying. He slammed into the barrier wall like a pile of wet mud.
Every meridian in his body was shattered, every bone broken. Blood covered him from head to toe, and he was a mangled wreck—barely clinging to life, his aura so feeble it was almost imperceptible. His entire body had been practically beaten apart.
"When you bullied my fellow disciples of Qingmu Mountain, did you ever think of me?" Chu Feng said coldly. His icy gaze swept across the remaining Yushui Palace and Huolin Hall disciples.
"Junior Brother Chu Feng, this is a misunderstanding! We did all of that for your sake!"
"We knew that Bai Yunxiao and the others were ungrateful. When you were at Qingmu Mountain back then, they relied on Qin Lingyun's backing to bully you repeatedly!"