"Young friend, this is the final round of the test. If you can pass it, you will have the opportunity to receive the inheritance that I obtained during my lifetime."
Once those words were spoken, formations surged within the great hall. But rather than taking shape as a formation, the energy coalesced into a beam of light that shot straight toward Chu Feng.
There was clearly someone else in the hall besides Chu Feng — the old cat.
Yet the beam of light targeted only Chu Feng.
"Sigh…"
The old cat shook his head and sighed at the sight.
He knew that both he and Bai Yunqing had already been eliminated. Now only Chu Feng remained, the sole one who could continue to face the test.
After the beam of light entered Chu Feng's body, his consciousness was pulled into an illusory realm.
Within that illusory realm, Chu Feng's identity had been redefined.
He was now the young master of a city.
The young master's father had single-handedly led the entire city's population to lives of peace and prosperity.
In the hearts of the people, the young master's father was not merely a city lord — he was a hero.
And as for this young master, he too was kind-hearted, dispensing justice for the people and lending them aid. He was deeply beloved by all.
But on the day his father fell ill and passed away, everything changed.
The vice city lord, in league with outside demon beasts, sought to seize control of the city. They pinned the blame on the young master and all of his close retainers.
They accused the young master's deceased father of having colluded with demon beasts, and declared that the young master and his mother would be publicly executed.
On the day the young master, his mother, and their loyal retainers were to be put to death, the entire city's populace cursed them — even the young master's late father was not spared from their venom.
Even though his father had given so much for the people while alive…
Even though the young master himself had always treated the people with great kindness…
A single frame-up was enough to make the entire city forget every good deed father and son had ever done.
They hurled vicious words at them, wishing nothing more than for them to be executed immediately.
But what the people did not know was that the young master was, in truth, a prodigious martial cultivator of tremendous strength — the most powerful in the entire city.
He had simply honored his father's wishes and never revealed his cultivation.
Now, with catastrophe upon them, he could no longer afford to hide.
The moment he unveiled his cultivation, everyone save his mother was struck with shock.
None of them could have imagined that the young master, who always appeared so frail and gentle, possessed such formidable power.
Not even the vice city lord nor those demon beasts could stand against him.
With his cultivation now exposed, the rebellious vice city lord and his cohorts obviously had to die.
But the true test of this illusory realm was whether the people of the city should be killed as well.
After all, the citizens had been manipulated by the vice city lord and did not know the truth.
Chu Feng's decision, however, was to kill them all — except for the children too young to distinguish right from wrong.
Hummm—
Having made his choice, Chu Feng struck without hesitation, cutting a path of slaughter through the illusory realm.
When Chu Feng finally ceased his onslaught, the illusory realm began to dissolve, and his consciousness returned to his physical body in the great hall.
"You killed all of them — even the people?"
The formation that had taken on the appearance of Lord True Dragon regarded Chu Feng with a complicated expression.
Everything within the illusory realm had been false, including Chu Feng's identity. But the illusion had been so powerful that everything had felt entirely real.
He had witnessed firsthand the ruthlessness of Chu Feng's actions. Even as the citizens dropped to their knees and begged for mercy, Chu Feng had shown not a shred of pity. The longsword in his hand had severed their heads one by one.
Tens of millions of rebels, hundreds of millions of citizens — all had perished at Chu Feng's hands.
It was a true river of blood…
"I killed them. Everyone, that is — except for the children too young to tell right from wrong, and those who had stood alongside the young master on the execution platform."
Chu Feng replied.