Shock — shock that left every onlooker utterly, completely unable to believe their eyes.
The moment Chu Feng personally admitted that it was indeed the Ancestral Forbidden Thunder Cloud Movement, the spectating crowd turned to stone on the spot.
They were no longer merely surprised. They were slack-jawed, thoroughly dumbfounded by what was unfolding before them.
What was going on?
Chu Feng's Flame Dragon Great Sword had once belonged to an ancestor of the Kong Heavenly Clan.
And the Ancestral Forbidden Thunder Cloud Movement was also a signature technique of a Kong Heavenly Clan ancestor.
These two things — both lost to the Kong Heavenly Clan long ago — how had they both ended up in Chu Feng's hands today?
And who was Chu Feng? He was the Kong Heavenly Clan's sworn enemy!!!
This absurd, almost theatrical scene had truly left the crowd scratching their heads in utter bewilderment.
"Chu Feng, you despicable wretch! So it really was you who trespassed into our Kong Heavenly Clan's forbidden ground that day!!!"
Kong Dou Moyuan erupted in a furious roar, his enraged voice sharper than a clap of thunder.
His entire body had begun to tremble.
Anger — indescribable, boundless anger.
As a member of the Kong Heavenly Clan, he knew full well that the Flame Dragon Great Sword and the Ancestral Forbidden Thunder Cloud Movement had not truly been lost.
They had been hidden by their ancestor within the Sorrowful Calamity Mountain Range.
Now that Chu Feng had obtained both of these inheritances, it was obvious beyond any doubt that the one who had broken into the Sorrowful Calamity Mountain Range that day could only be Chu Feng.
"Despicable wretch? I'm not sure what you mean by that," Chu Feng replied with a look of genuine puzzlement in response to Kong Dou Moyuan's accusation.
"You don't know what I mean? Then let me ask you — do you dare tell me where you obtained the Flame Dragon Great Sword and the Ancestral Forbidden Thunder Cloud Movement you just used?!" Kong Dou Moyuan demanded furiously.
"Yes, where exactly did they come from?"
Every pair of eyes in the crowd turned toward Chu Feng. They all wanted to know the truth.
"Why wouldn't I dare say?" Chu Feng looked perfectly nonchalant.
"Then say it!" Kong Dou Moyuan urged, his rage barely contained.
He was only too eager for everyone to learn that Chu Feng had infiltrated his Kong Heavenly Clan's forbidden ground and stolen their clan's most treasured treasures.
"The Flame Dragon Great Sword and the Ancestral Forbidden Thunder Cloud Movement were passed down to me by a senior named Kong Yingyi," Chu Feng said, as casually as if he were commenting on the weather.
"!!!"
Though Chu Feng remained utterly indifferent, the crowd around them could no longer sit still.
They all knew very well that Kong Yingyi was none other than the ancestor of the Kong Heavenly Clan!!!
"You!!!"
Kong Dou Moyuan's face turned green with fury. Chu Feng had plainly stolen their clan's most treasured inheritances, yet the way he framed it, the entire narrative shifted completely.
It no longer sounded like theft. It sounded as though he had simply received what was rightfully his.
How could Kong Dou Moyuan accept that?
"That senior also told me that all of his descendants were incompetent. He had waited for countless years, and not a single one had managed to break through the grand formation he set up to obtain his inheritance."
"Since I was the one who broke through his formation, I was the one fated to receive his legacy. And so he passed his inheritance down to me," Chu Feng continued.
"Bullshit! Our Kong Heavenly Clan's ancestor would never hand down his inheritance to an outsider like you!" Kong Dou Moyuan's whole body shook with rage.
Not only had Chu Feng concocted a convenient excuse, but he had also managed to insult every member of the Kong Heavenly Clan in the process.
"Oh? So that senior was your Kong Heavenly Clan's ancestor? Then his so-called incompetent descendants would include you, wouldn't they?" Chu Feng said, his face a mask of feigned surprise.
"Despicable wretch — enough of your glib tongue! Today… I will reclaim everything that belongs to the Kong Heavenly Clan through strength alone."
As his words fell, the Ancestral Forbidden Black Wind Slash hovering above Kong Dou Moyuan's head hurtled toward Chu Feng.
The moment it launched, the Black Wind Slash expanded at a terrifying speed. In the blink of an eye, it had grown vast enough to blot out the sky and sun.
The aura it exuded was like the end of the world — devastating beyond measure.
"Hmph."
Facing such an assault, Chu Feng refused to back down. He gave a cold snort, and as bolts of lightning flickered within his eyes, the dark cloud of a thousand roiling thunders surging above his head came crashing downward, darkening the sky.
Its might was even greater than that of Kong Dou Moyuan's Ancestral Forbidden Black Wind Slash.