Just as Tuoba Cheng'an and the elders of the Heavenly Gates Sect were so furious they were about to cough up blood—
Chu Feng had, of course, already left the Red Clothing Holy Land. And accompanying him was another group.
The Sacred Cave Saints.
"Say, Brother Shura, did you really use dog poop in that formation?"
"Haha, if that's true, the people from the Heavenly Gates Sect must be absolutely fuming."
"Those folks think so highly of themselves, looking down on everyone from on high. Especially here in the Heavenly Star Domain, they practically act like untouchable gods."
"Exactly. Even if the dog poop didn't hit them, that smell alone must have been enough to disgust them."
Upon learning that Chu Feng had left behind a formation to ambush the elders of the Heavenly Gates Sect, the Sacred Cave Saints were all gloating with delight.
"But Brother Shura, doing something like this means you're drawing a line in the sand against the Heavenly Gates Sect for good."
Suddenly, the eleventh of the Sacred Cave Saints spoke up.
Although he was the youngest among the Sacred Cave Saints in terms of rank, he was still far older than Chu Feng in age. Even he addressed Chu Feng as "Brother."
Of course, the reason the Sacred Cave Saints had undergone such a dramatic change in attitude toward Chu Feng was because they were now allies.
"It was already an irreconcilable enmity from the very start," Chu Feng said.
Chu Feng didn't elaborate further. But only he knew that before he had ever set foot in the Heavenly Star Domain, the Heavenly Gates Sect had already become his enemy.
They had been unjust first. They had no right to blame Chu Feng for showing no mercy.
"Brother Shura, you really didn't have to lay your cards on the table like that."
"As long as you never revealed where you came from, they'd always assume someone powerful was backing you. They would have at least some degree of hesitation toward you."
"Now that you've come out and said it outright, they can deal with you without any reservations," the eleventh of the Sacred Cave Saints said.
"It wouldn't have mattered. The fact that the Heavenly Gates Sect dared to send assassins after our Brother Shura proves they cannot tolerate him running wild in the Heavenly Star Domain."
"This first assassination attempt failed, but it showed them that there's no powerful expert guarding Brother Shura's back."
"Naturally, there'll be a second attempt, even a third—until they finally succeed in killing him…" the leader of the Sacred Cave Saints said.
"If that's the case, then coming out and confronting them directly doesn't really matter," the rest of the Sacred Cave Saints chimed in.
"Going head-to-head with the Heavenly Gates Sect isn't the problem."
"But Brother Shura, you were, after all, invited as a guest of the Red Clothing Holy Land."
"And from what I can tell, you have some sort of relationship with that little girl from the Red Clothing Holy Land. Otherwise, you wouldn't have helped them against us."
"Aren't you worried that with how you've treated the Heavenly Gates Sect, they'll go after the Red Clothing Holy Land for payback?" the leader of the Sacred Cave Saints asked.
"They won't."
The reason Chu Feng said this was because he already knew the truth about Elder Song Yichen.
He had learned it from Yin Zhuanghong.
Although the one who had impersonated Elder Song Yichen was the Heavenly Gates Sect's Supreme Elder Cheng Hui, all of the clothing Cheng Hui had worn, his token, and even every single item inside his Universe Bag had belonged to Elder Song Yichen.
For Cheng Hui to have obtained so many of Elder Song Yichen's belongings—
It most likely meant that Elder Song Yichen had met with some terrible fate.
In truth, when Elder Song Yichen had first gone missing, the people of the Red Clothing Holy Land had already suspected that her disappearance might be connected to the Heavenly Gates Sect.
Because before she vanished, Elder Song Yichen had gone off to handle a certain matter.
That matter was extremely dangerous, and it concerned the interests of both the Heavenly Gates Sect and the Red Clothing Holy Land.