"Chu Feng, you — you — you… what level of cultivation is that? Are you also a Half God?"
Lord Bai spoke again, and his voice was actually trembling. He had been genuinely terrified.
Because his cultivation was far too weak to gauge Chu Feng's, all he could sense was that Chu Feng's cultivation was extraordinarily powerful.
So he had simply assumed that Chu Feng must also be a Half God.
"Lord Bai, don't worry about that. Just lead the way."
"Since you've already called me your master, how could I stand by and do nothing about what's going on here?" Chu Feng said.
"Very well. This old man will lead the way — right away."
"Even if Lord Yuwei punishes me, I'll accept it."
Lord Bai gritted his teeth and made his decision.
Whoosh—
The very next moment, all he felt was the scenery around him blur and shift. By the time he came to his senses, they had already left the golden river and were hurtling at tremendous speed in the direction Lord Yuwei and the others had gone.
"Good heavens, how does this brat have such cultivation?"
"So this is the grandson of that supreme genius?"
"The Chu Heavenly Clan has become this powerful now?"
"Then in the entire Ancestral Martial Star Field, I'm afraid no one would dare disrespect the Chu Heavenly Clan anymore?" Lord Bai asked Chu Feng.
Chu Feng smiled faintly. "The Chu Heavenly Clan has already earned the respect of the entire Heavenly River."
Hearing this, Lord Bai was even more startled.
The respect of the entire Heavenly River?
What kind of standing would that be?
It was something he wouldn't even dare imagine.
But looking at Chu Feng's smile and feeling his cultivation, Lord Bai had to admit that Chu Feng didn't seem to be joking.
In that moment, an upward curve appeared at the corners of Lord Bai's lips.
He had been anxious before, unsure whether bringing Chu Feng along was the right thing to do.
But now, he felt more and more certain that bringing Chu Feng with him was the absolutely correct decision.
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Within this world, there flowed a black river, thick with silt and sediment, so that when the current surged, its roaring was piercing to the ears.
But compared to that deafening roar, the black miasma the river released far more unsettling to behold.
The dark aura billowed skyward, cleaving this stretch of heaven and earth in two.
It was a dividing line.
On this side of the river, lush trees provided shade and the air was filled with birdsong and the fragrance of flowers — this was the land where Lord Yuwei and the others lived.
On the other side, the ground was not only black earth but utterly barren. One glance across that desolate expanse revealed not just bleakness but a suffocating sense of oppression.
That was where the guards lived.
At this moment, Lord Yuwei stood on this side of the river, and behind her were tens of millions of people.
These were the elites of the city — the weaker cultivators had not come.
Yet many among them wore expressions of unease, their nerves visibly frayed.
Because directly across from them stood an equally vast army, also numbering in the tens of millions.
Only that army looked utterly demonic.
Though they wore armor, they were in truth skeletons — devoid of flesh and blood.
They were clad in pitch-black plate and radiated dark miasma, appearing as though they had marched straight out of hell.
And every one of them had once been a living martial cultivator.
They had chosen to become guards, sacrificing their souls, and that was why they had become what they now were.
But those who became guards gained tremendous benefits here, and their cultivation had improved dramatically compared to when they first entered.
Among them, the one who stood at the very front had been here for over thirty thousand years. Every martial cultivator who had entered at the same time as him had long since died of old age.
Yet he was not only alive — his cultivation had reached the second rank of Half God.
It was worth noting that when he had first entered this place, he had been nothing more than a Martial Ancestor. With his talent, he never would have broken through to Half God in his entire lifetime, let alone reached the second rank.