"Wow, Chili, you're finally telling the truth — you don't just admire Chu Feng, you actually like him!"
"Exactly! Who would've thought our Senior Sister Chili would actually fall for someone. That's a rare sight."
Just then, Little Radish and Big Radish suddenly jumped out from their respective rooms, grinning at Chili with lecherous expressions plastered across their faces.
"You... you were pretending to sleep!" Only now did Chili realize what had happened, her cheeks flushing bright red.
"Hehe, we actually only woke up a short while ago. But once we saw how well you two were getting along, we couldn't bear to interrupt. We wanted to give you two a chance to smooth things over — we were only trying to help, so don't you dare accuse us of anything!" Big Radish said shamelessly.
"How dare you gang up on me! I'll teach you two stinking radishes a lesson!" Chili gritted her teeth, raising her little fists in a threatening posture.
"Help!" Big Radish grabbed Little Radish and quickly darted out of the room.
"Get back here!" Chili chased right after them.
After the three of them left, bickering and laughing, Chu Feng also rose to his feet and gave himself a good stretch. He had been cooped up inside the barrier room for a full two days — some sunshine would do him good.
But when he stepped outside, he found the area absolutely packed with people. The number gathered on this patch of land alone was staggering — there were hundreds of thousands right here, and this was merely the tip of the iceberg for the fortress.
By his estimation, the total number of people gathered within the fortress was at least in the tens of millions.
With that many people, the number of experts among them naturally multiplied as well. Half-emperor level powerhouses would surely number in the tens of thousands.
At a minimum, there were already nearly a thousand half-emperor level experts present. Most were elderly, approaching a hundred years of age, but they still had every right to enter — after all, within the Martial Sacred Continent, anyone under a hundred was still considered a junior.
However, Chu Feng noticed that Chili, Big Radish, and Little Radish — who had been chasing each other out in play — were now all standing at the entrance.
Chili in particular had a murderous glint in her eyes, her teeth clenched, and her little fists were balled up so tight inside her sleeves that they creaked. Her icy gaze was locked onto someone in the crowd.
Seeing Chili like this, Big Radish and Little Radish wore expressions of worry.
Following Chili's gaze, Chu Feng spotted two disciples of the Heavenly Dao Palace and one disciple of the Human Mansion, their cultivation ranging from the sixth to the eighth level of Martial King.
Not only did the three know each other — they were in the middle of a conversation. And the person they were talking about was none other than Chu Feng.
"Brother Sima, how can you be so sure that Chu Feng won't come? Has your Heavenly Dao Palace received some kind of information?"
"To be honest, I was actually looking forward to Chu Feng showing up here and facing off against all the top prodigies — after all, he's the one who defeated Ximen Feixue," the Human Mansion disciple asked curiously.
"Brother Song, don't get your hopes up. From what I know, that Chu Feng is nothing more than a petty thief with no real skills."
"He defeated Ximen Feixue? In my opinion, that's nothing but a rumor — definitely not the truth. Even if Ximen Feixue did lose, someone must have been helping him behind the scenes. There's no way Chu Feng could stand against Ximen Feixue on his own."
"And now that the successor of the Bow Emperor has invited him, it's common knowledge that the four great Imperial Clans will be coming here to capture him. In a situation like that, even if you gave Chu Feng a hundred times his courage, he still wouldn't dare show up."
"Besides, only juniors are allowed in here. Without anyone backing him up behind the scenes, if Chu Feng did come, he'd only be there to get humiliated. Why would he ever bother?"
"So, in my opinion, it's actually fine for Chu Feng to do his shady business in the shadows."
"But when it comes to anything out in the open, he wouldn't dare get involved — because he has no real ability. So I guarantee you, that Chu Feng definitely won't dare come." One of the Heavenly Dao Palace disciples thumped his chest as he made this proclamation, and his words dripped with nothing but contempt for Chu Feng.