"It seems I can't afford to let my guard down."
Seeing that the demoness's strength was no joke, Chu Feng promptly summoned the Magma Emperor Sword and charged back at her.
"You think you're the only one with a Half-Complete Ancestral Weapon?"
The demoness refused to be outdone, letting out a roar.
Chu Feng had assumed she was about to pull a Half-Complete Ancestral Weapon from her Universe Bag.
But what he hadn't expected was that the demoness indeed produced a Half-Complete Ancestral Weapon — only it didn't come from a Universe Bag. It burst straight out of her body.
Two blood-red daggers erupted from the demoness's palms, and what was most eerie was that the weapons tore their way through flesh without spilling a single drop of blood, as though the demoness's palms had simply been storage sheaths for weapons all along.
Yet at that moment, what concerned Chu Feng most wasn't the demoness's bizarre trick, but the overwhelming aura and killing intent she projected.
The aura was ferocious. The killing intent was immense. Both were extraordinary, and Chu Feng dared not show the slightest carelessness.
Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang—
Sparks danced across the sky like coiling dragons and serpents. Chu Feng's Magma Emperor Sword and the demoness's twin blood-red daggers clashed ceaselessly above the heavens.
Every collision produced a thunderous ring of clashing steel and sent up bursts of fireworks-like sparks.
And the speed at which the two fought — in the span of a single heartbeat, they exchanged blows over a thousand times.
Though the battle was ferocious and terrifying to behold, it was also a dazzling spectacle.
With night already falling, the fight became all the more captivating.
"That guy is incredible — he can actually fight the demoness head-on?"
"I heard that even our Sect Master doesn't have the confidence to defeat her!"
At that moment, the men and women had picked themselves up off the ground. But the female disciples, watching Chu Feng's fierce battle with the demoness from afar, found their gazes growing complicated.
"What are you staring at? Move it! When the demoness comes back, don't expect me to help you."
Brother Liao hauled himself to his feet and barked out an angry shout. Without waiting for anyone else, he was the first to turn and flee.
"Now you're acting tough. When the demoness was about to kill us earlier, you didn't exactly step up."
The female disciples looked at Brother Liao, and the admiration they had once felt for him was gone — replaced by a hint of contempt.
"Let's go. The demoness is too strong, and who knows how long that guy can hold out. We should hurry and bring the Sect Master here to help," urged the male disciple with the ugly face.
Only then did the female disciples take to the air and flee the way they had come.
But even as they did, they couldn't help casting long, meaningful glances back at Chu Feng — reluctance faintly flickering in their eyes.
Booom, booom, booom, booom, booom—
The battle between Chu Feng and the demoness grew ever more ferocious. Both had exhausted most of their techniques, and even forbidden martial arts were being brought to bear.
But Chu Feng was shocked to discover that not only was the demoness astonishingly powerful in combat, her mastery of martial arts was equally refined to perfection.
Even Chu Feng, whose comprehension of martial arts was extraordinary, found himself unable to suppress the demoness in that regard in the slightest.
"Those people are probably off to fetch reinforcements. I don't have much time to waste here with you."
"Now, I'll end this pointless fight."
As the demoness's voice fell, her eyes suddenly blazed with blinding light, and those two beams of light pierced through the very void, shooting straight at Chu Feng.
The technique appeared simple enough, but its power was terrifying — it was an Emperor Forbidden Martial Art.
"Hah!!!"
With no other option, Chu Feng clenched his right fist and threw it forward with all his might, unleashing an Emperor Forbidden Martial Art of his own — the Emperor Forbidden Sky Transformation.
Boom—
Two Emperor Forbidden Martial Arts collided head-on, instantly unleashing massive ripples of energy. The shockwave was so violent that the mountains and trees below were leveled to the ground, the void itself was shattered into fragments, and even Chu Feng was forced back several steps.
When the energy ripples finally subsided, Chu Feng realized that he hadn't been the only one pushed back — the demoness had been knocked back as well.
However, just like Chu Feng, the demoness was uninjured.
"Damn it — this isn't going to work."