At this moment, Chu Feng also put away the Ancient War Sword and sat cross-legged in midair, closing his eyes.
Furthermore, Chu Feng swallowed ten pills into his abdomen, using the power of his barriers to envelop his entire body.
Chu Feng knew that Young Master Li Ming no longer had the strength to attack him.
But even in this brief respite, the strain from wielding the Ancient War Sword had taken an immense toll on him.
He had to use every means at his disposal to delay the backlash.
Yet despite this, Chu Feng's complexion quickly turned pale, and his aura became erratic and feeble.
"I never expected the backlash from the Ancient War Sword to be this severe."
Chu Feng couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
Fortunately, the exchange had been brief. Otherwise, the backlash he suffered would have been far worse.
He might have even ended up like Young Master Li Ming — stripped of all fighting strength.
And most importantly, he had only unleashed a fraction of the Ancient War Sword's power.
That much was evident from the fact that the sword had only manifested at a length of a hundred meters.
When the Ancient War Sword first appeared from the Ancient War Clan, it had been over a thousand meters long!
Whoosh—
Just as Chu Feng was focused on healing himself, Young Master Li Ming's body went limp, and she plummeted from midair. She no longer even had the strength to stabilize herself.
Seeing this, Chu Feng immediately opened his eyes and extended a finger forward. A stream of barrier energy shot out from his fingertip.
The barrier energy moved with incredible speed. Young Master Li Ming had fallen no more than ten meters before the energy was already beneath her, transforming into a golden cloud that caught her and held her aloft.
At the same time, using his pressure, Chu Feng sent the two Ancestral Weapons that Young Master Li Ming had dropped onto the cloud, landing beside her.
Chu Feng held no hostility toward Young Master Li Ming, so even though he had won this battle, he had no intention of making things difficult for her.
"What is this — an act of humiliation?"
However, Young Master Li Ming clearly did not appreciate the gesture. In her weak voice, she questioned Chu Feng.
In her eyes, what Chu Feng had done felt more like a deliberate insult.
"That girl really doesn't know what's good for her. Chu Feng, you have to teach her a lesson, or she'll never put any respect on your name," the Queen said indignantly.
"A lesson? How should I go about that? My dear Eggy, you've always had the cleverest ideas — why don't you suggest something?" Chu Feng asked with a sly grin.
"Well, she's completely helpless right now. Why don't you just take her, make her your woman? Maybe then she'll be obedient to you in the future," the Queen said with a mischievous smirk.
"That girl is quite the looker. I wouldn't exactly lose out if I did that," Chu Feng replied with a wicked grin, though he hesitated slightly. "But I don't have any deep grudge against her. Wouldn't that be going a bit too far?"
"A girl like her who refuses to see reason deserves exactly that kind of punishment. Otherwise, she'll never learn her place," the Queen said.
"Mm, as expected, my Eggy makes sense. In that case, let's do it your way."
At that moment, Chu Feng ignored the pain of the backlash coursing through his body, abandoned his healing, and slowly rose to his feet, a wicked smile forming on his lips.
Not only did the smirk grace his face, but even the way Chu Feng looked at Young Master Li Ming had changed.
"What are you going to do?" Seeing the wicked smile on Chu Feng's lips, Young Master Li Ming's expression shifted, and panic set in.
It wasn't that she was timid or easily frightened — it was because she could see in Chu Feng's gaze the one thing she feared most.
Chu Feng could beat her, could even kill her, and she wouldn't have blinked an eye.
But if Chu Feng did *that* to her, she absolutely could not accept it.
As for Chu Feng, of course he would never be so shameless as to take advantage of the situation to do something like that to Li Ming.
Besides, setting morality aside entirely, Young Master Li Ming simply wasn't Chu Feng's type.