"Who goes there?"
Suddenly someone spoke, and every member of the Bloodscale Demon Clan cast their wary gazes in that direction.
After all, they instinctively assumed that Li Yue'er's helper had arrived.
"Where is he?"
But when the Bloodscale Demon Clan members directed their gazes over, every one of them froze, their eyes clouding with confusion.
They looked toward where Chu Feng was, but couldn't see any sign of him at all.
In that moment, they all wondered whether they had misheard.
They couldn't help but look around, only to find that everyone wore the same bewildered expression.
For a moment, their confusion only deepened.
After all, even if one person misheard, it was impossible for everyone to have done so.
Hum—
However, at that very moment, Chu Feng willingly dispersed the power of the Immortal-Avoiding Concealment Array, revealing his true form.
The Bloodscale Demon Clan members froze once more, clearly not expecting Chu Feng to reveal himself of his own accord.
Nor had they imagined that the one bold enough to show his face at an occasion like this would be a mere youth.
While everyone stood there stunned, Chu Feng leapt forward, vaulting over the crowd blocking his path and landing right in the center of the plaza, before Li Yue'er.
Clang—
At the same time, the blood-red longsword materialized in Chu Feng's hand.
Chu Feng wasn't sure whether Zi Xunyi would help them, and at a time like this, if she didn't, his only means of protecting himself lay in the power of the Evil God Sword.
After all, he was facing two First-rank True Immortals and one Second-rank True Immortal.
And the Evil God Sword seemed to sense that Chu Feng needed its power now, trembling ceaselessly.
It was not fear, but excitement — excitement that its power could finally be unleashed again, that it could once more reign supreme over the world and make all of creation witness its terror once more.
However, powerful as the Evil God Sword was, only Chu Feng could feel its power surging before it was actually released.
So in that moment, not a single member of the Bloodscale Demon Clan realized that the incomplete Emperor Weapon in Chu Feng's hand would prove their greatest threat.
Instead, they stared at Chu Feng with baffled expressions, as though watching a clown.
They couldn't understand why this brat before them had so aggressively brandished an incomplete Emperor Weapon.
By all accounts, a Ninth-rank Martial Ancestor at his age was already terrifying — a genuine genius. Could he really be so destitute that he didn't even have an Ancestor Weapon?
Even without an Ancestor Weapon, he should at least have had a half-complete Ancestor Weapon, or an Emperor Weapon at the very least.
Yet here he was, pulling out an incomplete Emperor Weapon and putting on such an arrogant display — they simply couldn't wrap their heads around it.
In that moment, quite a few of them wondered whether this kid had gone crazy.
"Chu Feng, it seems you've been underestimated again. Look at those fools' eyes — they all think you're a lunatic."
"It's too bad. I was actually hoping you'd activate the Evil God Sword and show them what kind of weapon an incomplete Emperor Weapon truly is."
Her Majesty said with a grin, finding the whole lot of them to be hopelessly ignorant.
Of course, she was only joking. Having witnessed the Evil God Sword's true power firsthand, Her Majesty naturally had no wish for Chu Feng to actually use it.
As for Chu Feng, he did not strike immediately, nor did he pay any attention to the crowd. Instead, he directed his gaze toward the elevated platform, looked at Zi Xunyi, and asked:
"Do you know Ying Mingchao?"
The moment those words left Chu Feng's lips, every member of the Bloodscale Demon Clan looked utterly bewildered, unable to make sense of what he had said.
But on the faces of the Bloodscale Demon Clan Chief and Zi Xunyi, their expressions changed dramatically, an intensely complicated look surging in both their eyes.
The Bloodscale Demon Clan Chief, in particular, directed that complicated gaze toward Zi Xunyi.
"There's something there. Looks like they know each other."