"You can believe it or not, but the truth is that Qing Xuantian is an utter scoundrel — a hypocrite who feigns benevolence in public while doing unspeakable evil behind the scenes."
"My world is separated from this one by a barrier. I had absolutely no way to come here. Do you know how I managed? It was Qing Xuantian who helped me."
"You're all going to ask why Qing Xuantian would help me reach this world. The reason is quite simple — the Heaven-Carved Divine Body that he desires is sealed within my world, and I can deliver it to him."
"I handed over that sealed body constitution to Qing Xuantian, and in return, he helped me enter the Martial Sacred Continent and let me become its ruler. That was the deal between Qing Xuantian and me."
"But I never imagined that Qing Xuantian would be so despicable as to break his word. After obtaining my body constitution, he turned against me instead. Truly the lowest of the low!"
"And yet you still regard him as a hero. Pah! He is the real hypocrite!" the Magma Emperor roared in fury.
At this moment, Chu Feng noticed that the Four Great Sacred Beasts had all fallen silent upon hearing these words.
Their beastly faces had grown increasingly grim, their eyes tinged with confusion and sorrow. Even their massive bodies were trembling — they truly believed the Magma Emperor's words.
"Nonsense! Senior Qing Xuantian will not tolerate your slander!"
Suddenly, Chu Feng's fists slammed down, and he proceeded to unleash a relentless barrage upon the Magma Emperor's body.
"Brat, so you heard what you wanted to hear, and now you're trying to destroy me?"
"As I thought — you and that Qing Xuantian are cut from the same cloth. You humans are the most despicable creatures in existence."
"Enslaving you was an act of mercy. You deserve to be wiped out — every last one of you."
"Hey, Four Symbols Divine Bodies, what are you spacing out for? Help me! Help me destroy this brat! Haven't you been used by Qing Xuantian enough already? Do you really want to be used by this boy too?" the Magma Emperor continued to howl.
But the Four Great Sacred Beasts did not respond. They stood as though struck by a devastating blow, lost in silence.
"Fools — absolute fools, every one of you. Then die! Since you're this stupid, just wait for your deaths."
"You won't live long. You were Heaven-Carved Divine Bodies — not true life forms, but merely a part of Qing Xuantian. Once he abandons you, how could you possibly survive?"
"You think you've become Sacred Beasts? What a joke! You're worse than demon beasts, worse than Fierce Beasts, worse than the lowliest animals that crawl upon the earth."
"You don't have much time left. If you won't cooperate with me, if I don't tell you the method to extend your lifespans, you'll be dead soon." When the Four Great Sacred Beasts continued to ignore him, the Magma Emperor began to mock and humiliate them.
"Shut your mouth!" Chu Feng's fists grew ever more ferocious, hammering into the Magma Emperor's flame-forged physical form and tearing it apart.
At last, the Magma Emperor's colossal figure completely dissipated, retreating back into the half-finished Ancestral Weapon.
Chu Feng reached out and seized the half-finished Ancestral Weapon.
BOOM—
The moment his hand closed around it, the sky and earth shuddered, and a thunderous explosion tore through the air.
BOOM BOOM BOOM—
In the next instant, Chu Feng raised the enormous sword high overhead. A pillar of flame shot skyward, piercing through the clouds and soaring straight toward the boundless heavens.
Before long, the clouds had been incinerated to ash. Even the vast, seemingly infinite sky had been set ablaze with a searing red glow that stretched as far as the eye could see.
"This is..." The Four Great Sacred Beasts, still caught in their grief, were drawn by the spectacle unfolding before them. The words slipped out before they could stop themselves: "Forced Acknowledgment."
Indeed, what Chu Feng was doing right now was a Forced Acknowledgment. When a weapon refused to acknowledge its master, a martial cultivator with sufficient power could use their own strength to compel the weapon into submission.
This was an invisible battle — one that no bystander could witness. But in truth, within the half-finished Ancestral Weapon, Chu Feng was using his power to ruthlessly beat the Magma Emperor into submission, forcing him to yield whether he liked it or not.
BOOM BOOM BOOM—
Suddenly, a series of deafening explosions rumbled across the sky. Looking up, they saw that the towering pillar of flame above was rushing back downward at terrifying speed.