"Chu Feng, how does it feel? Can you withstand it?" the Queen asked Chu Feng, clearly worried.
"I'm fine. I can handle it," Chu Feng said.
He wasn't lying. While the dark aura that had entered his body did bring a considerable amount of pain, it was still within Chu Feng's tolerance.
Compared to that pain, there was actually a peculiar sensation — one that was hard to put into words.
Finally, the dark aura emanating from the high platform ceased, and Chu Feng opened his eyes.
Everyone could feel that the invisible barrier sealing the platform had vanished. One by one, they descended and hurriedly left the high platform, fearing that something else might go wrong.
Even the people from the Totem Dragon Clan were no exception, though a handful remained on the platform — including Long Chengyu and Long Muxi, among others.
What's more, Long Shanshan and the others, who had originally been below the platform, flew up and landed beside Chu Feng.
All of them were people who cared about Chu Feng.
"Chu Feng, are you alright?"
Every one of them was looking at Chu Feng with concern.
"I'm fine," Chu Feng said.
"For real? You better not be lying to me," Long Chengyu said, not quite believing it. He grabbed Chu Feng's wrist and began inspecting his condition.
After a brief examination, he was stunned to discover that while Chu Feng's state was a bit unsettled, he was far from weak. Chu Feng… really did seem to be fine.
"Convinced now?" Chu Feng asked with a smile.
"Damn it, Chu Feng, are you some kind of monster?"
"That little bit of dark aura, and I could barely withstand it."
"But that much dark aura entered your body, and you're completely fine?!"
"Brother, can you not be this ridiculous? Stuff like this makes me question whether I even deserve to be called a genius."
Long Chengyu stared at Chu Feng with his mouth hanging open. The exaggerated shock on his face was, in fact, the highest form of praise.
"I'm simply more skilled in the art of barriers. I saw through the fact that it was a refinement beforehand, so I underwent the process more completely, which is why my tolerance was greater," Chu Feng said.
"Oh, come on, you can't really say it like that. That woman from the Totem Phoenix Clan — her barrier skills aren't bad either, and from what I saw, she didn't do as well as I did just now."
The moment Long Chengyu said this, the expressions of everyone from the Totem Phoenix Clan turned sour. Even a fool could tell he was referring to Feng Jiuyue.
Yet, there was nothing they could do about Long Chengyu's attitude.
If they wanted to argue the point, they had no leg to stand on — Feng Jiuyue's performance truly had been inferior to Long Chengyu's, let alone comparable to Chu Feng's.
As for force, well, they had already tried that, and the result had been Long Chengyu crushing them flat.
As the saying went, the victor was king and the vanquished was bandit. The reason Long Chengyu dared to be so brazen was precisely because he was the one who had won.
"Chu Feng, then did you receive any kind of benefit?" Long Shanshan asked.
The moment she said this, every person present pricked up their ears — they all wanted to know what sort of benefit Chu Feng had gained.
Feng Jiuyue in particular fixed her eyes intently on Chu Feng, an unusual glow emanating from her gaze. It was a special method of observation.
She was extremely eager to know exactly what kind of benefit Chu Feng had obtained.
After all, the Demon Crane was known to be very friendly toward Spirit World Masters. Under normal circumstances, any Spirit World Master who entered it would gain something.
And this time had been completely different from the norm. By all reasoning, the benefit Chu Feng was about to receive should have been absolutely staggering.
"If I say I didn't get anything at all, would you believe me?" Chu Feng asked with a wry smile.
"You're kidding, right?" Everyone's first reaction was, of course, disbelief.
"But I'm not lying to you. I really didn't get anything at all."
"If there had been a benefit, why would I have given it up just now?" Chu Feng said.
After Chu Feng put it that way, the crowd actually found it somewhat more believable.
His judgment in the past had been proven correct time and again, demonstrating that his powers of observation were far beyond ordinary.
And he had indeed given up the opportunity at first — it was only to help Long Chengyu and the others that he had returned to the high platform.