"Panic? What would I be panicking about?"
"Chu Feng, shouldn't you be the one panicking?"
"Everyone knows you came here for the Life Crystal, to heal your Spirit."
"As for Bai Yunqing, he had no such need, yet he stole the Life Crystal. If you didn't instruct him to, who else could have?" Jie Zhou retorted.
The crowd from the Seven Realms Sacred Palace nodded repeatedly in agreement with his words.
"Do you have any proof?" Chu Feng asked.
"I don't, but we all know you put him up to it. Whether you admit it or not, that fact won't change."
"But Chu Feng, if you dare to admit it, then at least you're a man. I'll give you a chance," Jie Zhou said.
"What chance?" Chu Feng asked.
"As long as you admit that you instructed Bai Yunqing, I'll let you all go."
"But there's one condition — today, right here, you must fight me," Jie Zhou said.
"Why would I fight you? Are you trying to prove something?" Chu Feng asked.
"Of course. I already know that the reason you were able to obtain such power in the Hidden Land was because you stole Lord Frost Rain's pills that enhance barrier strength, and you also stole the scroll that Lord Frost Rain obtained from the Ancient Palace."
"That scroll contains secrets about the Ancient Palace. The fact that you could easily break the formation in the Hidden Land must have come from studying that scroll," Jie Zhou continued.
Everything he said was meant to undermine everything Chu Feng had accomplished.
"What? So Chu Feng was only able to break through the Hidden Land because he stole Lord Frost Rain's scroll?"
The people from the Seven Realms Sacred Palace looked surprised.
Chu Feng let out a contemptuous laugh. "Do you have any proof? Without proof, you're just spitting blood to frame someone."
"Young friend Chu Feng, I truly have no proof, so I never pursued the matter. But it is a fact that the scroll and the pills went missing right after I invited you to take a look that day."
It was Lord Frost Rain who spoke up now.
She intended to use her status to back up Jie Zhou's claims.
But she didn't just speak openly — she also sent a secret threat to Chu Feng.
"Chu Feng, cooperate. Otherwise, even if you survive today, Bai Yunqing will certainly die."
"Your refusal to cooperate now — do you want Bai Yunqing to die because of you?"
"Don't make me look down on you."
But Chu Feng acted as though he couldn't hear Lord Frost Rain's secret threat. Instead, he addressed her directly.
"Lord Frost Rain, ever since I arrived here, you've looked down on me. You even ordered people to make things difficult for me. Even during the trial, you made Bai Yunqing and me enter through the harder entrance."
"Would you really be kind enough to invite me to view some scroll? And even give me the opportunity to steal pills that enhance barrier combat power?"
"Don't you find it ridiculous to say something like that?"
"Besides, when exactly did you obtain that scroll from the Ancient Palace? Has anyone here ever heard about it before?"
"If such a scroll existed, why wouldn't you show it to the other members of the Seven Realms Sacred Palace? Why show it to an outsider like me instead?"
"Could it be... that you were afraid they'd gain an advantage?" Chu Feng asked with a cold smile.
Hearing this, the people from the Seven Realms Sacred Palace exchanged glances. They had indeed heard something about this matter.
When Chu Feng and Bai Yunqing first arrived, they had indeed been treated unfairly.
And they were now wondering — did Lord Frost Rain really have such a scroll? They had never heard of it before.
Lord Frost Rain's expression turned cold. She hadn't expected Chu Feng to not only refuse to cooperate but to actually interrogate her right here.
Wasn't this deliberately trying to humiliate her?
It seemed clear that Chu Feng had no intention of being Jie Zhou's stepping stone.
This filled Lord Frost Rain with towering rage. Killing intent surged within her — even if she couldn't kill Chu Feng openly, she could kill Bai Yunqing right now.
She wanted Chu Feng to pay the price for his behavior.
But who could have predicted that at that very moment, Chu Feng would turn his gaze back to Jie Zhou.
"What you just said — do you mean it?"
"As long as I admit it, you'll let my brother Bai Yunqing go?" Chu Feng asked.
"That's right. As long as you admit what you did, I'll give you that chance. But you must fight me right here."
"I want to prove that without stealing an advantage, you could never have broken through the Hidden Land."
"None of us from the Seven Realms Sacred Palace will ever lose to an outsider like you," Jie Zhou declared.
But to this, Chu Feng wore an expression of pure contempt before finally speaking.
"Drop the act. Have you forgotten that if you hadn't ignored my warning, insisting on dragging the Seven Realms Sacred Palace's honor into it and forcing your way in with your peers, they never would have ended up trapped inside that killing formation?"