"Big brother, please don't do this. Little sister was only acting out of impulse."
Seeing this, Tang Hu and Tang Yong hurried over to mediate. Regardless of anything else, they couldn't just stand by and watch Tang Long beat Tang Ying to death.
The scene unfolding among the four Tang siblings was also observed by quite a few members of the Cao family, and they were thoroughly enjoying the show. In their eyes, this was absolutely a rare spectacle.
However, while the four Tang siblings were still at each other's throats, Elder Yuan Zhen was slowly walking toward that Magma Emperor Sword.
"This Half-Completed Ancestral Weapon is no ordinary item. With it, I should be able to trace the origins of this Chu Feng."
Whoosh—
Suddenly, Elder Yuan Zhen reached out and grabbed, seizing Chu Feng's Magma Emperor Sword in his hand.
He spoke nicely about using this Half-Completed Ancestral Weapon to investigate Chu Feng's background, but in truth, he simply wanted to claim it for himself.
"This—" But the moment his hand closed around the Magma Emperor Sword, Elder Yuan Zhen's expression changed drastically. His palm then clenched with tremendous force, and with a loud boom, the Magma Emperor Sword was crushed to pieces.
"How can this be?!" Many onlookers stared in confusion.
After all, that was a Half-Completed Ancestral Weapon. No matter how powerful Elder Yuan Zhen might be, with his level of strength, he shouldn't have been able to destroy a Half-Completed Ancestral Weapon so effortlessly.
"Oh no, we've been fooled." At this moment, it was the heads of the Tang and Cao families who reacted first.
The instant the Magma Emperor Sword was crushed, they realized that the Half-Completed Ancestral Weapon had been a fake.
And the two of them, having fought Chu Feng earlier, knew full well that the Half-Completed Ancestral Weapon in his hands had been the real deal.
Given what had just happened, there could only be one explanation—the Magma Emperor Sword had been forged by Chu Feng, and the real one had been taken with him.
In other words, Chu Feng was not dead. He had seized the opportunity to escape.
Only, no one had noticed how Chu Feng had gotten away.
"What are you standing around for?! Go after him! If Chu Feng isn't dead, all of you will pay dearly in the future!" Elder Yuan Zhen roared in fury. And the moment his words fell, he had already vanished.
He had left through the breach in the Tang family's protective formation—and the reason for leaving was naturally to go after Chu Feng.
"Damn it." Upon seeing this, the heads of both the Tang and Cao families shot into the air and gave chase.
Now, only the members of the Tang and Cao families remained, their faces blank with confusion and shock.
Although Elder Yuan Zhen had not said it outright, they had a vague sense that Chu Feng might not be dead after all—that he had escaped.
Just the thought that they had tried to kill someone of the Heavenly Clan but failed, allowing that person to get away, sent a chill through everyone. Some of the more cowardly among them were already trembling with fear.
Even though they were all martial cultivators who should have possessed strong willpower and the capacity to endure more than ordinary people—
Just the thought that one day, someone of the Heavenly Clan might arrive here in full force was enough to fill them with dread, because what they would face then would be nothing short of annihilation.
"Chu Feng isn't dead?" Yet, while most people were paralyzed with terror, Tang Ying's expression turned to joy.
She understood that if Chu Feng managed to leave alive, the Tang family's situation would become extremely perilous, and the lives of her family would be threatened.
But in this very moment, all she wanted was for Chu Feng to escape alive. She did not want Chu Feng to die.
As for Chu Feng—of course he wasn't dead.