After casually slaying a first-stage Half God, Chu Feng cast his gaze around.
"Just now—who else insulted the Ancestral Martial Galaxy?"
The moment Chu Feng spoke, several figures dropped to their knees before him, their pleas for mercy echoing through the air.
"Lord, spare us! Lord, please spare our lives!"
Every last one of them had shed their earlier air of superiority. All that remained were cowards desperate to survive.
"Kneeling… on the ground… begging… for mercy?"
"Ladies and gentlemen, have you lost your minds? I'm from the Ancestral Martial Galaxy."
"A person like me—you all looked down on him so contemptuously, didn't you?"
"So why kneel before me?"
"Where is your dignity?" Chu Feng asked.
"My lord, we were wrong! We were too blind to see what was right in front of us—we know our mistake, we truly know our mistake!"
Some of them were so terrified they had broken into tears. A few even started slapping themselves, willing to abandon every shred of dignity if it meant Chu Feng wouldn't kill them.
"Get out of my sight."
Chu Feng said.
The instant the words left his mouth, those figures rocketed into the air and vanished from the realm in the blink of an eye.
Chu Feng didn't bother making things harder for them. In truth, had they not tried to kill Shengguang Xuanye, he wouldn't have bothered with them at all.
In his eyes, they were far too weak—not even worth his attention.
As for that middle-aged man, he deserved to die.
He had been about to kill Shengguang Xuanye, and Shengguang Xuanye certainly deserved death too. But why did Chu Feng say the middle-aged man deserved to die? Because Chu Feng liked to think.
What if someone else from the Ancestral Martial Galaxy had stood up today instead of Shengguang Xuanye? What if it had been one of Chu Feng's friends?
What would the outcome have been?
It would have been exactly the same. The middle-aged man wouldn't have spared them either—he would have killed them all.
In a world of survival of the fittest where the strong ruled supreme, unless the most powerful experts imposed restraint, many people simply did not value human life. You might move a single dog kept by a powerful figure, and he would exterminate your entire clan.
It was disturbingly common.
And Chu Feng's principle was simple: when he encountered someone like that, he would show no mercy.
If you don't value other people's lives, then I won't value yours.
"Chu Feng… Young friend Chu Feng, you… you've already reached the Half God realm?"
At that moment, Shengguang Xuanye spoke, his voice thick with disbelief.
He had long known that Chu Feng was extraordinary—otherwise he wouldn't have targeted him so aggressively back then. But he never imagined that in such a short span of time, Chu Feng had made such a tremendous leap.
"Young friend? You think you're in a position to call me that?" Chu Feng looked at Shengguang Xuanye coldly.
"I…" Shengguang Xuanye was about to explain.
Hummmm—
Without warning, the scenery around them shifted. In the next instant, Shengguang Xuanye found himself transported far from where he had been standing.
He arrived in an open, barren expanse.
There were only two other people here besides himself.
One was Chu Feng. The other he recognized—it was the little princess of the Dragon Clan, Long Xiaoxiao.
"Xiaoxiao, you…"
Shengguang Xuanye's expression grew even more complicated.
Though his cultivation was weak, he could still tell that it wasn't Chu Feng who had brought him here—it was Long Xiaoxiao. And Long Xiaoxiao had made no effort to conceal her cultivation. The aura emanating from her body was every bit as powerful as Chu Feng's.
Chu Feng's advancement into the Half God realm had already been a shock. But Long Xiaoxiao was an even greater surprise.
After all, in his eyes, her talent had been far inferior to Chu Feng's.
"Chu Feng, could you hand Shengguang Xuanye over to me?" Long Xiaoxiao asked.
"Mm." Chu Feng nodded his assent.
Compared to himself, Chu Feng felt that Long Xiaoxiao was more entitled to deal with Shengguang Xuanye.
Upon hearing those words, a faint smile still managed to surface on Shengguang Xuanye's blood-streaked face.
"I truly was narrow-minded. I nearly destroyed two such outstanding prospects."
"Looking back now, I truly deserve to die."
"Xiaoxiao, Chu Feng—for my death to come at your hands… it is fitting."
"I… brought this upon myself."
As he spoke, Shengguang Xuanye closed his eyes, fully prepared to meet his end.
"Shengguang Xuanye, at least you recognize how narrow-minded you were."
"But neither Chu Feng nor I are the kind of people who hold grudges."
"The Sacred Valley has helped us considerably. For the sake of the Sacred Valley, I will not take your life—I respect the Sacred Valley's judgment."