"You actually dare to show up, Chu Feng?" Situ Kunye said to Chu Feng as well. Compared to the others, he was relatively calm.
"Why wouldn't I dare?" Chu Feng asked.
"Since you've come, don't expect to leave."
Situ Kunye waved his sleeve, and a tremendous surge of formation energy erupted from his body and shot into the sky.
Above, it pierced through the clouds. Below, it seeped into the earth. The formation had already locked down the entire domain.
"What a powerful formation array!!!"
"The Golden Dragon Divine Robe — the Master of the Situ Spirit Formation Gate possesses the Golden Dragon Divine Robe!!!"
The onlookers finally realized that Situ Kunye actually possessed such formidable strength.
This shifted their shock away from Chu Feng's appearance and toward Situ Kunye's power, filling them with awe.
That Situ Kunye had such strength exceeded everyone's expectations.
After all, before this, people had always believed that the strongest in the Situ Spirit Formation Gate was Situ Tingye.
But Situ Kunye's current strength far surpassed Situ Tingye's — by an overwhelming margin.
If he had such power, then wasn't Chu Feng as good as dead?
Wait — no. There was still no trace of fear on Chu Feng's face.
Why? Why wasn't he afraid?
Could it really be true, as the rumors said, that there was a powerful backer behind Chu Feng?
Just as the crowd was speculating, a cold laugh rang out. It was Situ Kunye. Chu Feng wasn't afraid, and neither was he.
"Chu Feng, you bring a pile of disguised bones and expect to make my Situ Spirit Formation Gate lose face? Do you take everyone for fools?"
Situ Kunye sneered. He didn't believe those bones were genuine for a second.
"Situ Kunye, you spent so long cultivating in your ancestors' burial grounds and you don't even recognize their remains — that's one thing. But you don't recognize their tombstones either? What an unfilial son you are," Chu Feng said with a mocking smile.
Only then did Situ Kunye actually examine the bones carefully. Because from the very start he hadn't believed Chu Feng, from the very start he had assumed Chu Feng was using some trick, he hadn't bothered to look closely.
But now that he did, his expression changed drastically. Those tombstones didn't look like forgeries at all. Chu Feng couldn't have replicated them so perfectly unless he had actually entered the ancestral grounds.
But if Chu Feng had entered the ancestral grounds, there would have been no need to forge anything at all. Instead, that meant…
The thought made it impossible for him to remain calm. He hastily shot a look toward Situ Tingye, who understood the message immediately and rushed off to the ancestral grounds.
Before long, he returned — but when he did, his face had turned green.
He didn't even need to speak. Situ Kunye understood everything.
The ancestral graves of the Situ Spirit Formation Gate had truly been dug up by Chu Feng.
"I'll bloody kill you!!!"
Situ Kunye flew into a towering rage. Originally he had wanted to torture Chu Feng slowly, but now he only wanted him dead.
He threw a punch, and a massive wave of martial energy hurtled toward Chu Feng, intending to crush him into a bloody pulp.
Boom—
However, the martial energy exploded, but Chu Feng remained completely unscathed.
A radiant glow shimmered around Chu Feng's body. In the next instant, the light expanded, forming a massive defensive barrier that enveloped him completely.
"A defensive formation?"
The members of the Situ Spirit Formation Gate reacted immediately — this was bad. Chu Feng actually had such a powerful protective formation, which explained his confidence.
But upon closer inspection, their dismay turned to utter shock and disbelief.
Because that was unmistakably the Situ Spirit Formation Gate's own defensive formation.
"How is this possible?" Situ Kunye's expression turned rigid, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He didn't want to believe it was true, but the protective formation was right there in plain sight, leaving him no choice.
Chu Feng ignored Situ Kunye and instead swept his gaze across the many members of the Situ Spirit Formation Gate behind him.
"I, Chu Feng, have warned you before. Those who wish to sever your ties with the Situ Spirit Formation Gate immediately may survive. Otherwise, you will perish alongside it."
"I, Chu Feng, am merciful by nature. Today I give you one last chance — anyone who wants to live, get out of my sight within one hour."
"Because after one hour, I, Chu Feng, will massacre your Situ Spirit Formation Gate," Chu Feng declared.
"Massacre the Situ Spirit Formation Gate? You?" Situ Kunye naturally refused to believe such arrogance. As he spoke, he unleashed his formation energy and launched another attack at Chu Feng.
But once again, the protective formation blocked his assault completely. Despite being a Golden Dragon Divine Robe, he could do nothing to Chu Feng.
"Save yourself the effort. With your level, could you possibly break through this protective formation?"
"This was left behind by your own ancestors," Chu Feng said with a cold smile.
"Can't break it?"
"Chu Feng, don't forget — this protective formation belongs to my Situ Spirit Formation Gate," Situ Kunye said, producing a command token. The token not only bore the character for "guard" but also emanated the same aura as the protective formation itself.
He then began forming hand seals, attempting to deactivate the protective formation surrounding Chu Feng.
But in the next moment, his expression froze once more.
He discovered that he actually couldn't deactivate it.
"Why did you stop? Were you just striking a pose?" Chu Feng asked.
"You!!!" Situ Kunye's expression looked as if he had just eaten something foul.
The onlookers were in complete disbelief, and they understood what had happened.
Chu Feng was using the Situ Spirit Formation Gate's own protective formation to defend himself, and Situ Kunye — the very Master of the Situ Spirit Formation Gate — was powerless to do anything about it.
And this was on the Situ Spirit Formation Gate's own territory, no less.
For the Situ Spirit Formation Gate, this was an unspeakable humiliation!!!
"Don't get cocky, Chu Feng."
Situ Kunye gritted his teeth, a flash of grim determination passing through his eyes. Then he formed an entirely different set of hand seals.
"Lord Gate Master!!!"
Upon seeing the hand seals Situ Kunye was forming, Situ Tingye hurriedly spoke up to stop him.
He knew what those seals represented. If this incantation was completed, the defensive formation's power would be pushed to its absolute maximum.
But such an intense release would also drain the formation's power completely in a very short time.
This was, after all, the Situ Spirit Formation Gate's protective formation — left behind by the ancestors to safeguard the gate. If it were truly depleted entirely, the loss would be devastating for the Situ Spirit Formation Gate.
"You want to force the formation to burn through its energy faster so I lose my protection? It seems you've truly run out of tricks," Chu Feng said with a smile.