"I told you — as long as you live, you will remain the greatest threat to our Dark Hall. But let me make this clear: even though you are the greatest threat, you are no match for the Dark Hall. You want to know who the Dark Hall's Master is? I'd advise you to never find out, because the day you learn the truth will be the day you die! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!"
With those words, the Yin Yang Immortal erupted into a fit of manic laughter, his cackling utterly bizarre.
Pfft—
But in that very instant, Chu Feng drove his sword clean through the Yin Yang Immortal's Dantian.
"You!!!" Struck by Chu Feng's sudden thrust, the Yin Yang Immortal's laughter cut short. His face filled with shock as he stared at Chu Feng — he had never expected Chu Feng to strike without warning.
"I know you were planning to kill yourself, but your life and death are not yours to decide. Even your death will be by my hand." As Chu Feng spoke, the Evil God Sword in his grip shuddered violently, and a torrent of overwhelming oppressive force surged into the Yin Yang Immortal's body, annihilating everything within it down to the last shred.
Though the Yin Yang Immortal's corpse appeared perfectly intact on the surface, he was irrevocably dead.
"Eggy, how does the essence of a sixth rank Martial Emperor taste?" Chu Feng asked.
In truth, the reason Chu Feng insisted on killing the Yin Yang Immortal personally was for Eggy's sake. Whenever Chu Feng slew someone, he would have Eggy absorb that person's origin essence in the moment of their death.
However, when it came to those who self-detonated — like the members of the Dark Hall whom Chu Feng hadn't killed himself, but who had been destroyed by the force of their own explosions — there had been no opportunity for Eggy to absorb their essence.
Had the Yin Yang Immortal self-detonated, Chu Feng likewise would have been unable to let Eggy absorb his origin.
But this was a sixth rank Martial Emperor — how could he be wasted like that? Chu Feng had to kill him with his own hands, to help Eggy absorb his origin essence.
"The origin of a sixth rank Martial Emperor is pretty decent, I suppose," Eggy said, pursing her small lips. "But unfortunately, this queen's cultivation hasn't really improved much."
"It still hasn't improved?" Hearing this, Chu Feng was genuinely startled. Since Eggy had awakened, he had already slain quite a few powerful experts — Martial Emperors among them — with his own hands.
And every single one of those he had killed, whether their bodies had been obliterated beyond recognition or left intact, had their origin essence fully absorbed and refined by Eggy.
Yet even after Eggy had refined the origin of so many Martial Emperors, her cultivation remained unchanged.
Previously, Chu Feng had assumed that Eggy simply needed a vast quantity of essence — because, like himself, the power she required far exceeded what ordinary people needed.
But Chu Feng had believed that the Yin Yang Immortal, a sixth rank Martial Emperor, would surely help advance Eggy's cultivation. After all, she had already refined the essence of so many experts. Even without a breakthrough, the groundwork would have been laid, and adding the Yin Yang Immortal's origin on top of that should have been enough.
But now — still nothing. This meant it wasn't a question of whether the essence was sufficient. Something else was at play.
"It seems it's no use," Eggy said, her tone tinged with resignation. "That seal your mother placed on me is far too powerful. I suspect it's restricting my growth. I get the feeling that the reason I need so much essence isn't just because of my own nature — it's mostly because of the sealing formation. The formation itself has been devouring a great deal of the origin essence."
"How is that possible?" Chu Feng was deeply shocked. He had never imagined that the seal could be consuming Eggy's absorbed essence.
"Your mother probably didn't trust me, so she deliberately used this sealing formation to limit my growth," Eggy said with a sweet smile, her expression utterly carefree. "But it doesn't matter anymore. You've been growing incredibly fast lately — even if my cultivation improves, I wouldn't be much help to you anymore."
"You don't need this queen's protection anymore. From now on, you'll be the one protecting me." Eggy's smile was as sweet as honey, the kind that could melt a person's heart with a single glance.
But Chu Feng felt a pang of bitterness in his chest. His mother had sealed Eggy to protect him, he knew that — yet he still felt deeply guilty toward her.
"Eggy, don't worry. I'll break that seal for you sooner or later. I've already started preparing, and I will succeed."