"It seems I can't afford to let my guard down."
Seeing that the monster girl was no weakling, Chu Feng promptly drew the Magma Emperor Sword and lunged back at her.
"You think you're the only one with a Half-Step Ancestral Armament?"
The monster girl refused to be outdone. She let out a thunderous shout.
Chu Feng had assumed she was about to pull a Half-Step Ancestral Armament from her Universe Bag.
However, what he hadn't anticipated was that while the monster girl indeed produced a Half-Step Ancestral Armament, it did not come from her Universe Bag — it erupted straight from her body.
They were two blood-red daggers that shot out from her palms. What made it even more bizarre was that when these weapons burst forth from her flesh, not a single drop of blood was left behind — as if her palms had simply been storage sheaths for the weapons all along.
But right now, what concerned Chu Feng the most was not the monster girl's eerie trick, but the overwhelming might and killing intent she displayed.
That might was tempestuous, that killing intent was monumental — both extraordinary in scope, leaving Chu Feng no room for even the slightest carelessness.
Clang clang clang clang clang—
Sparks danced through the sky like dragons and serpents, as Chu Feng's Magma Emperor Sword and the monster girl's blood-red twin daggers clashed ceaselessly across the heavens.
Every collision produced a deafening ring of steel on steel, sending showers of sparks blossoming like fireworks.
And their speed — in a single instant, they exchanged over a thousand blows.
Though the might was terrifying and utterly horrifying, the spectacle was no less than a dazzling, magnificent feast for the eyes.
With night already falling, the battle became all the more eye-catching.
"Incredible — that guy can actually fight the monster girl head-on?"
"I heard that even our Sect Master doesn't have the confidence to defeat that monster girl?"
By now, the men and women had gotten back on their feet. But the female disciples, gazing at Chu Feng battling the monster girl in the distance, found their eyes filled with complicated emotions.
"What are you staring at? Get moving! If the monster girl comes back, don't expect me to save you."
That Senior Brother Liao scrambled to his feet and barked furiously. Without waiting for anyone else, he was the first to turn and leave.
"Oh, playing the hero now. When the monster girl was about to kill us earlier, you certainly didn't lift a finger to help."
The female disciples' eyes, as they looked toward Senior Brother Liao, no longer held the admiration they once had. Instead, they were tinged with undisguised disgust.
"Come on, the monster girl is too strong. Who knows how much longer that guy can hold out? We need to hurry and fetch the Sect Master to help." The male disciple with the unsightly face urged them on.
Hearing this, the female disciples finally took to the air, fleeing in the direction they had come from.
And yet, even so, they couldn't help glancing back again and again, stealing lingering, meaningful looks at Chu Feng — their gazes carrying a faint, unmistakable reluctance to leave.
Boom boom boom boom boom—
The battle between Chu Feng and the monster girl grew ever more ferocious. Both had already employed every technique at their disposal, even resorting to Emperor Taboo martial skills.
Yet Chu Feng was stunned to discover that the monster girl was not only formidable in combat power, but her mastery of martial skills had reached absolute perfection.
Even Chu Feng, who possessed a transcendent understanding of martial skills, found that he couldn't suppress her in this area by even a fraction.
"Those people have gone to fetch reinforcements, I presume. I don't have much time to waste here with you."
"Now, I'm going to put an end to this tedious fight."
The moment the monster girl's voice fell, her eyes suddenly blazed with blinding radiance — and those two beams of light pierced straight through the void, hurtling directly at Chu Feng.
The move appeared simple, but its power was absolutely terrifying. It was an Emperor Taboo martial skill.
"Haaah!!!"
With no other option, Chu Feng clenched his right fist and threw it forward with everything he had, unleashing the Emperor Taboo martial skill — Emperor Taboo Sky Transformation.
Boom—
Two Emperor Taboo martial skills collided head-on. A colossal ripple of energy erupted outward, so devastating that the mountains and forests below were leveled flat, the void itself shattered to pieces, and Chu Feng was sent staggering backward again and again.
And when the energy ripple finally subsided, Chu Feng realized that it wasn't just him who had been blown back — the monster girl had been pushed back as well.
Neither of them, however, had sustained any injuries.
"Damn it. This isn't going to work."