"Elder Liu Chengkun, please don't worry about me, you need to leave now!" Chu Feng shouted. He didn't want to drag Liu Chengkun into this.
However, Liu Chengkun merely smiled faintly at Chu Feng's words. "Young friend Chu Feng, a true man should never give up so easily."
"Though I, Liu Chengkun, am no longer young, I am still a man. The Red Butterfly Association and the Luyang Pavilion have long shared deep enmity. As for me personally, I bear an immense grudge against this Red Lizard."
"So this is no longer just your affair. No matter what happens, I will not let Red Lizard go today. Even if we both end up gravely injured, I will kill him."
The moment those words left his lips, Elder Liu Chengkun let out a thunderous shout. With that cry, the half-finished ancestral weapon blazed with brilliant light, and Elder Liu Chengkun's aura grew even more formidable.
Naturally, the Imperial Forbidden Great Tsunami that Elder Liu Chengkun had unleashed surged with even greater fury. Layer after layer of colossal waves shattered the very void and began swallowing Red Lizard once more, making it impossible for him to advance even a single step forward through the sky.
Resolve and killing intent.
Elder Liu Chengkun had already pushed his strength to its absolute limit — yet he was able to push it even further, entirely through sheer willpower and his burning desire to kill Red Lizard.
"Hmph." Red Lizard let out a mocking snort. He had apparently seen through this, and sneered, "A spent arrow at the end of its flight. Let's see how much longer you can hold on."
"This is bad. I can't let this continue." At that moment, Chu Feng was growing extremely anxious.
Though Elder Liu Chengkun had claimed that he bore his own grudge against Red Lizard and that dying here had nothing to do with Chu Feng, if the elder truly perished today, Chu Feng would be consumed by guilt.
"I have no choice but to try." Suddenly, a flash of resolve appeared in Chu Feng's eyes, and he reached his palm toward his Universe Bag.
He was preparing to use a power he still could not control — the Evil God Sword!!!
The Evil God Sword, though it appeared to be merely an Imperial Weapon on the surface, was far from an ordinary Imperial Weapon. Otherwise, his father would not have gone out of his way to warn him about it.
The power the Evil God Sword possessed was truly terrifying, and at the same time, it was power that Chu Feng could not master. In fact, it was entirely possible that the sword would kill him instead.
But it was precisely this uncontrollable power that represented Chu Feng's only hope. After all, the gap between his cultivation and Red Lizard's was simply too vast. Beating Red Lizard with his own strength alone was virtually impossible.
"Don't rush, Chu Feng." However, just at that moment, a gentle, soothing voice suddenly rang out in his ear.
The instant that voice reached him, Chu Feng's body trembled and his heart clenched tight. In that moment, it felt as though he had been struck by lightning.
Yet the sensation was not pain — it was exhilaration. Pure, overwhelming exhilaration, as if the greatest fortune in the world had just befallen him.
Because that voice was so achingly familiar. It was Egg's voice. It was his Queen's voice.
Upon hearing Egg's voice, Chu Feng immediately projected his consciousness into the World Spirit Space, desperate to see for himself what had happened.
And the moment he arrived inside the World Spirit Space, he could no longer contain his emotions. Wild joy spread across his face.
Egg — his Queen — had awakened.
In a flowing black dress, her breathtaking beauty undiminished, she gazed at Chu Feng with a playful smile.
"My Queen, you've finally woken up."
"Is it really you? I'm not dreaming, am I?" Chu Feng was absolutely overjoyed. He had never expected Egg to awaken at a time like this.
"Hey, hey, hey — where do you think you're touching? Taking advantage of this Queen on purpose, are you?" Egg's little mouth pouted to the side as she looked at Chu Feng with an expression of disdain.
Because Chu Feng was being far from gentlemanly at the moment. Not only had he pulled the ravishingly beautiful young woman into his embrace, but his hands were also busy caressing her, and he even had the audacity to pinch Egg's exquisitely flawless cheeks.
Yet despite all of this, Egg merely scolded him — she never actually tried to push him away.
"Haha, Egg, it really is you. Do you have any idea how much I've missed you these past days?" Chu Feng said.
"Oh, spare me the sentimentality. This Queen wasn't truly asleep, you know. All those things you've been muttering to yourself —"