"Chu Feng." Long Xiaoxiao looked at Chu Feng with worry.
Chu Feng said nothing. He merely offered a faint smile when he glanced at Long Xiaoxiao — a smile brimming with absolute confidence.
Seeing that smile on Chu Feng's face, Long Xiaoxiao couldn't help but smile as well. In his expression, she read the certainty of victory.
She then stepped back, willingly giving Chu Feng and Liang Feng space to fight.
The others followed her example.
In moments, only Chu Feng and Liang Feng remained in that stretch of ground.
"Do you have any last words?" Chu Feng looked at Liang Feng.
"Last words? Shouldn't I be the one saying that to you?" Liang Feng scowled, thinking to himself that this trash sure had a lot of fancy words — why couldn't he think of something like that?
"If you don't, then prepare to die," Chu Feng said.
"You damn trash, how dare you be so arrogant? Do you really think I'm like those worthless losers from the Holy Light Heavenly River?"
"I'll show you what a true gap between our levels looks like. Even if I, Liang Feng, aren't at the very top among the juniors of the Totem Heavenly River, dealing with you is like stepping on an ant. I don't even need to lift a finger — my pressure alone will crush you into a meat patty."
Liang Feng had been provoked by Chu Feng, but he still retained his reason. As a precaution, he activated the Thunder Armor mid-sentence, boosting his cultivation from Fourth-rank Martial Venerable to Fifth-rank Martial Venerable.
Only after powering up did he release his pressure and slam it toward Chu Feng.
The pressure was formidable, obliterating everything in its vicinity. Yet Chu Feng, standing at the very center of it, remained completely unharmed.
This scene surprised everyone.
Boom—
But in the very next instant, a thunderous blast erupted from where Liang Feng stood, sending billowing clouds of dust into the air.
Looking closely, everyone gasped in shock. Liang Feng was already sprawled on the ground, and Chu Feng's foot was planted squarely on his chest, having punched clean through it.
"That aura — he's an Eighth-rank Martial Venerable!!!"
At that moment, most of the crowd was struck dumb.
Long Xiaoxiao was no exception.
She had already suspected that Chu Feng could defeat Liang Feng, but she never imagined he had grown this powerful.
How had he improved so quickly?
Even Mo Yuhan lifted her head to glance at Chu Feng, though she looked away after just one moment and went back to eating.
"Brother Chu Feng, that's enough, that's enough."
Cheng Tianchan's trembling voice rang out.
He hadn't expected Chu Feng to be this formidable. If he didn't intervene, Liang Feng was done for.
"Brother Chu Feng, this was merely a spar — please don't actually take his life. Otherwise, Liang Feng's master won't let you off."
"His master is a Second-rank Half-God," Zhao Yunmo added, deliberately invoking Liang Feng's master to make Chu Feng back down.
"A Second-rank Half-God?" Chu Feng turned to Zhao Yunmo.
But before Zhao Yunmo could answer, someone cut in.
"My master, Daoist Wangxi, is a Second-rank Half-God on the verge of stepping into the Third-rank." It was Liang Feng's junior sister, Zhao Jing.
"Oh." Chu Feng nodded.
Hearing this, Liang Feng — despite having a hole punched through his chest — actually laughed.
He figured Chu Feng was scared.
But in the very next moment, Chu Feng jerked his foot upward. A sharp crack rang out as he snapped Liang Feng's neck clean.
"We agreed on a life-and-death battle, so a life-and-death battle it is. A real man keeps his word."
Only after saying this over Liang Feng's corpse did Chu Feng withdraw his foot.
The entire hall went blank. No one had imagined Chu Feng would actually kill Liang Feng.
How could this guy from the Holy Light Heavenly River be so brazen?
"You — you — you dare kill someone!"
After a stunned silence, an angry shout erupted from a man in the crowd.
"What, you disagree?"
"Whoever has a problem with it can step forward and avenge him. I, Chu Feng, will be waiting right here." Chu Feng fixed his gaze on the man who had shouted.
The man immediately lowered his head.
He had looked down on Chu Feng solely because of his Holy Light Heavenly River origins, but the fact that Chu Feng had killed Liang Feng was undeniable.
He… did not want to become the next Liang Feng.
It wasn't just him. Everyone else who had been ready to stand up for Liang Feng clamped their mouths shut in a hurry.
For a time, the vast hall fell into an eerie silence.
"Brother Chu Feng, don't you think you've gone too far?" At that moment, Cheng Tianchan stepped forward.
"Brother Cheng, I know you were close with Liang Feng. He came after me because you egged him on, didn't he?" Chu Feng asked.
"What — what are you talking about?" Cheng Tianchan's expression shifted slightly. He naturally wouldn't admit to it — if he did, he'd share the blame for Liang Feng's death.
"It doesn't matter whether you admit it or not."