"Yiyi, we meet again. Did you miss me?" Kou Kang said to Xu Yiyi.
"Don't disgust me. Since when do you get to call me Yiyi?" Xu Yiyi said with undisguised revulsion.
Hearing those words, Kou Kang's expression darkened. Clearly, a man of his high status and extraordinary strength was unaccustomed to anyone speaking to him that way.
But the displeasure flickered across his face and vanished in an instant. He quickly put on a smile and said to Xu Yiyi:
"I almost forgot — in my current position, I shouldn't be calling you 'little sister.' I should be calling you 'wife.'"
"Kou Kang, don't be shameless. You haven't won this bet yet," Xu Yiyi retorted angrily.
"Haven't won? Just now, your Valley Master and your Master went in to concede defeat and apologize to my Master." Kou Kang said. "I came out here only out of respect for you. I was being considerate — I didn't want you to see how wretched they looked."
"You—!" Kou Kang's words sent a fresh surge of fury through Xu Yiyi. After all, his words clearly carried a certain amount of contempt for both the Valley Master of Luoxia Valley and Su Jingrui.
"Yiyi, why waste your breath on him? Let's go take care of our business." Chu Feng grabbed Xu Yiyi's hand, sidestepped Kou Kang, and walked toward the palace.
Seeing Chu Feng lay hands on his beloved's delicate hand, Kou Kang's rage surged to the boiling point.
After all, that hand — Xu Yiyi's hand — was something even he had never touched.
To him, it was as though the first of his beloved had been snatched away right in front of his eyes.
Especially now, when Kou Kang had already come to regard Xu Yiyi as his future wife.
That sense of grievance multiplied by dozens of times over. How could he not be furious?!
"You're courting death!" Kou Kang bellowed, and the oppressive aura of a sixth-grade Half-step Ancestor swept outward.
At the same time, a powerful fist carrying shrill howling air hurtled toward the side of Chu Feng's face.
In that instant, neither Xu Yiyi nor Song Biyu could clearly track Kou Kang's movement, yet both realized he had struck.
In an instant, the faces of both beautiful women changed drastically.
They both knew that Kou Kang was not merely a sixth-grade Half-step Ancestor — he possessed heaven-defying combat power that crossed two entire grades.
In other words, though Kou Kang's cultivation was at the sixth grade of Half-step Ancestor, with his two grades of heaven-defying combat power, his true fighting strength could rival that of an ordinary eighth-grade Half-step Ancestor.
Against such a powerful Kou Kang, both Xu Yiyi and Song Biyu were certain that Chu Feng stood no chance.
Szzzz—
Yet, just as Xu Yiyi was consumed with worry, a bolt of lightning armor suddenly erupted from within Chu Feng's body.
Once the lightning armor enveloped him, Chu Feng's cultivation instantly surged from the fourth-grade Half-step Ancestor to the peak of Half-step Ancestor. He then reached out and seized Kou Kang's fist in a single grab.
"..."
His fist caught, Kou Kang froze on the spot, his eyes flooding with disbelief.
Even Song Biyu was stunned.
Because the combat power Chu Feng displayed in that moment was heaven-defying across three grades.
So even though Chu Feng's cultivation was only at the peak of Half-step Ancestor, and Kou Kang was clearly a sixth-grade Half-step Ancestor, Chu Feng had still blocked his attack with ease.
After all, in terms of heaven-defying combat power, Chu Feng was one full grade above Kou Kang.
Snap—
And just then, Chu Feng swept his sleeve in a sudden, violent arc, flinging Kou Kang's fist aside.
The sheer force sent Kou Kang spinning half a turn before he finally managed to steady himself.
"Way to go, Chu Feng!" Seeing Chu Feng actually repel Kou Kang, Xu Yiyi was overjoyed.