"It seems I, Gu, underestimated you, kid. But my full-powered strike may not necessarily lose to yours!!!" Upon seeing Chu Feng's technique, Mr. Gu realized the situation was bad.
But he didn't retreat. Instead, the hand seals on his palms shifted once more, and the barrier serpent dancing through the sky let out a sharp shriek before opening its terrifying maw filled with fangs and lunging toward Chu Feng.
He knew his barrier serpent wouldn't stand a chance against Chu Feng's terrifying giant hand, so he never planned to clash head-on. Instead, he was going to go all in, using the barrier serpent's speed to strike at Chu Feng directly.
"Naive." However, Chu Feng simply chuckled at Mr. Gu's move. His arm shimmered with radiance and trembled slightly, and the terrifying giant hand in the sky suddenly exploded with a boom, then vanished without a trace.
"What happened? Could it be that the formation Wuqing set up was too powerful for him to control, and it shattered?" Seeing the giant hand crumble and disappear, everyone assumed Chu Feng had lost control and the great formation had broken. After all, the barrier quality contained in that terrifying hand was immense — it was not something an ordinary person could wield.
"Looks like experience always wins out. Wuqing is about to lose." And as the terrifying giant hand disappeared, Mr. Gu's barrier serpent was already less than a thousand meters from Chu Feng — it would collide with him in an instant and swallow him whole.
Whoosh.
But just as everyone thought Chu Feng was doomed, he smiled coldly. Then his palm trembled slightly, and the sky ahead warped and shifted. By the time the crowd registered what was happening, the terrifying giant hand had reappeared out of thin air right in front of Chu Feng, blocking the barrier serpent's path.
It turned out the terrifying giant hand had never disappeared, nor had it shattered. Everything before had been nothing more than a decoy — Chu Feng could control this terrifying hand however he pleased.
"Hurrrgh!" Mr. Gu was no simple character. Seeing the giant hand reappear, he didn't panic. Instead, his expression turned dark, and with a shift of his will, he redirected the barrier serpent, attempting to dodge around the giant hand and strike Chu Feng from another angle.
Boom!
But Chu Feng wouldn't give him the chance. His right hand clenched into a fist, and the terrifying giant hand seized with it, crushing down with overwhelming pressure and catching the barrier serpent in its grip — its speed far surpassing that of the serpent.
With a crack, the barrier serpent that Mr. Gu had poured everything into creating was crushed to dust in the giant hand's grip.
"How is this possible? No, impossible — I actually lost to this brat? I—"
Pffft~~~~~ Watching his painstaking work crumble before his eyes, Mr. Gu roared skyward in unwillingness. But before he could finish speaking, his mouth opened wide, and a huge mouthful of blood sprayed out.
Moreover, not only was his face pale and drenched in sweat, but the skin on his entire body seemed to have shriveled. In an instant, he had aged several dozen years, looking like a man on the verge of dying of old age. This went to show just how much energy he had expended to create that barrier serpent.
But looking at Chu Feng — his complexion was still rosy, and he had neutralized the terrifying giant hand with effortless ease, seemingly unaffected at all. That last move clearly hadn't even been his strongest technique.
"How is this possible? This… this… this Wuqing is actually that powerful?!"
"Where did the Li Family find such a Spirit World Master? Truly a young talent!" At that moment, every person present wore a look of shock, completely won over by Chu Feng's strength.
Especially those who had looked down on Chu Feng before, secretly hoping to see him humiliated — their faces were now flush with embarrassment. They had truly misjudged him. Chu Feng was no mediocre talent; he was a remarkable genius.
"Haha, friend Wuqing, I had no idea you were a purple-robed Spirit World Master, and one who handles barrier techniques with such mastery. That barrier technique just now truly opened our eyes!" The Li Family patriarch burst into excited laughter — even more cheerful than before. This was clearly his genuine delight. Upon walking up to Chu Feng, he heaped praise upon him without any reservation.
As for the Ma Family patriarch, Ma Yukun, his mouth twitched repeatedly. Especially upon seeing that the purple-robed Spirit World Master he had paid a steep price to invite had now become utterly useless, his fury rose and killing intent surged.
But he had no choice but to suppress his anger and murderous intent, putting on a show of pleasant surprise as he walked toward the Li Family patriarch and Chu Feng.
"Old brother, so this is the friend Wuqing you told me about? Truly remarkable." The Ma Family patriarch glanced at the Li Family patriarch first, then handed a stone box to Chu Feng. "Friend Wuqing, the task of opening this place now falls upon your shoulders. Do not let us down."
"Wuqing, the Li and Ma Families have waited five hundred years for this day. Everything depends on you." At the same time, the Li Family patriarch also handed his stone box to Chu Feng.
"Rest assured. Wuqing will not disappoint." Chu Feng smiled faintly and accepted both stone boxes.
The moment the boxes touched his hands, Chu Feng sensed that they were protected by a special formation — and a powerful one at that. By all conventional methods he knew, there was no way to open these stone boxes.
But this didn't stump Chu Feng. Being sharp-eyed as he was, he spotted the method of opening the boxes at first glance, and there was only one way — not through the power of a Spirit World Master, but by combining the two stone boxes together.
Sure enough, the moment Chu Feng brought the two stone boxes together, two pops sounded, and both boxes opened. But contrary to expectations, inside there were no ordinary barrier keys. Instead, there were two glowing, luminous bodies of light.
Swoosh! Swoosh!
The two light bodies shot upward at tremendous speed, then dove back down, incredibly fast. By the time the crowd reacted, the two lights were already spinning rapidly around the group, as if searching for something.
"Quick, grab them!!!"
At that moment, both the Li and Ma Families were beside themselves with excitement. Some even believed the two light bodies were treasures, lunging out to try and grab them. Even the Li Family patriarch and Ma Family patriarch struck out simultaneously.
But the two lights were far too fast. Even two Martial Lord-level powerhouses couldn't catch them, which only deepened the crowd's panic.
Swoosh! Swoosh!
But just as everyone expressed their helplessness, the two light bodies transformed into two straight beams of light and shot into Chu Feng's brain.
Uwah!
In that instant, Chu Feng felt a piercing pain in his head. A searing current of energy spread outward from his brain, then immediately flooded his entire body. When he withstood that searing flow and opened his eyes once more, even he couldn't help but have his pupils contract sharply as his calm expression changed dramatically.