"That's right, I'm taking it from you. What are you going to do about it?" Chu Feng said with a look of complete nonchalance.
"You'll face retribution! My Heavenly Dao Palace will never let you go!" Zhao Yu threatened viciously.
"You think that if I hadn't done this, your Heavenly Dao Palace would spare me?"
"If my strength weren't greater than yours, I'd probably already be dead at your hands, wouldn't I?" Chu Feng countered with a smile.
Hearing this, Zhao Yu fell silent. After all, what Chu Feng said was the truth.
"Besides, your Heavenly Dao Palace already harbors such deep hostility toward me, Chu Feng. Even if you don't kill me, someone else will — right?"
"I don't know what I did to offend your Heavenly Dao Palace, but I can tell that you already see me as a threat." At this point, Chu Feng suddenly seized Elder Zhao Yu by the collar and lifted him off the ground. The smile vanished from his face, replaced by a cold glint in his eyes as he stared intently at the elder and said:
"So don't bother threatening me with words like that, because whether or not your Heavenly Dao Palace lets me go, I, Chu Feng, will never let your Heavenly Dao Palace go."
Bam—
With that, Chu Feng hurled Elder Zhao Yu to the ground.
The throw itself wasn't very painful, but at this moment, Elder Zhao Yu felt a chill spread through his entire body, and he began to tremble.
He could tell that Chu Feng's words had not been a joke. Chu Feng truly would not let the Heavenly Dao Palace off.
After that, Chu Feng left the spot, and continuing down the seventh path, he soon reached its end.
"Chu Feng, there's no more road. Let's go back."
"Let me go, and I'll pretend none of this ever happened. I promise I won't speak of today's events to anyone." At this point, Elder Zhao Yu no longer dared to threaten Chu Feng and began negotiating for peace instead.
"We're leaving already? There are still treasures here — don't you want to see them?" Chu Feng said with a smile.
"More treasures?" At this, Elder Zhao Yu's eyes lit up with excitement.
Don't let Elder Zhao Yu's reputation for generosity and charity fool you — anyone who truly knew him understood that he was an absolute miser when it came to real treasures. Not a single hair would he part with.
And when he heard the word "treasure," he practically forgot about his current predicament entirely.
Under Elder Zhao Yu's eager gaze, Chu Feng produced the map that the Compass Immortal had gifted him.
He placed the map at the end of the passage, and it immediately began to radiate brilliant light. Then a door appeared.
Passing through the door, they entered what lay beyond. The door soon closed behind them, returning to its previous state — but now Elder Zhao Yu stood there dumbstruck, his eyes fixed straight ahead, completely motionless.
Chu Feng, too, wore a look of pleasant surprise, a joyful curve returning to his lips.
The two of them now stood in an extraordinarily vast space. How vast? Vast enough to hold several hundred million people.
Not only was the place immense, but it was also filled with breathtaking beauty — lush green grass covered the ground, all of it emitting a soft emerald glow.
However, there was not a single flower, because every blade of grass existed to complement one thing: the Peach Tree of Immortality.
The Peach Tree of Immortality shimmered with light, remarkably similar to the tree Chu Feng had once seen in the ancient ruins beneath Greenwood Mountain. One glance was enough to know it was no ordinary tree.
But on this tree, the glow was a delicate pink. Upon closer inspection, the light did not emanate from the tree itself, but from the blossoms growing upon its branches.
They were peach blossoms, and alongside them hung fruit — each one the size of a palm. They were the legendary Peaches of Immortality.
"Peaches of Immortality — they're actually the legendary Peaches of Immortality!"
"Just one can add a hundred years to your lifespan, and here… there are forty-eight fully ripened Peaches of Immortality!"
"We've struck it rich! A single one is worth a fortune, and with this many — we're absolutely set for life!" Elder Zhao Yu shouted, beside himself with excitement, hardly displaying the composure one would expect of an elder.