On this day, Chu Feng finally parted ways with his group of friends, with only Zhao Hong and Wang Qiang following him.
Chu Feng was not about to leave the Hundred Refinements Mortal World. Rather, before his departure, there was one place he absolutely had to visit.
This was the Zhou Heavenly Clan—one of the most powerful forces that had once existed within the Hundred Refinements Mortal World.
But now, the Zhou Heavenly Clan's palaces had been destroyed, its mountains and rivers leveled and drained, reduced to nothing but rubble.
Across this vast stretch of land, its former glory was long gone. All that remained was devastation strewn everywhere.
Yet above the void, nine enormous characters were projected for all to see.
—Those who provoke Chu Feng shall all meet this fate.
Those nine characters blazed with brilliant radiance, each one hanging in the sky like a blazing sun, visible within a hundred-mile radius.
They were like a divine decree, proclaiming the annihilation of the Zhou Heavenly Clan and declaring what awaited anyone who dared offend Chu Feng.
"Whoa… whoa, that is so domineering! Next time someone messes with you guys, I… I'll do the same thing!" Wang Qiang gazed up at the nine characters in the void, grinning from ear to ear.
For the people of the Zhou Heavenly Clan, those nine characters were an absolute nightmare.
But for Wang Qiang, they were more like a pleasant surprise.
At the very least, he greatly admired the methods of whoever had left those nine characters behind.
Wang Qiang then turned to Chu Feng and said, "I say, bro… brother, you really don't know who helped you, do you?"
Chu Feng shook his head. In truth, upon seeing those nine characters, his mind had been racing with speculation.
He wanted to know exactly who had been secretly aiding him. That was his purpose in coming here.
"Chu Feng, if you want to find a clue, I think you should try using your Heavenly Eyes," the Queen said.
"Egg, you think there might be a clue hidden in those characters?" Chu Feng asked.
"If there's no clue hidden in the characters, then there truly won't be any clues at all. That would only mean the person who did all this doesn't want you to know who they are," the Queen replied.
"Mm." Chu Feng nodded noncommittally, then his gaze shifted and his eyes changed dramatically.
His stare became razor-sharp, as if it could pierce through everything, see through all things.
Under the Heavenly Eyes, everything looked different. Everything became clear.
"That is?"
Suddenly Chu Feng's eyes locked onto something, and he immediately shot into the air, soaring to the heights between the two enormous characters for "Chu" and "Feng."
To the naked eye, there was nothing unusual about these two characters. But when observed with the Heavenly Eyes, Chu Feng discovered that within the massive "Chu" and "Feng" characters, a bracelet was hidden in each one.
He recognized those bracelets—they were the ones Su Rou and Su Mei wore.
Boom—
Boom—
Chu Feng threw out two simultaneous punches, shattering both characters to pieces. Yet the two bracelets remained completely unscathed.
Chu Feng caught a bracelet in each palm, and even his heart trembled.
He knew these bracelets had been hidden inside the characters for some time, yet he could still sense the aura of Su Rou and Su Mei.
He could even pick up the faint scent of Su Rou and Su Mei from each bracelet.
He was now absolutely certain—these were the bracelets of Su Rou and Su Mei.
"Xiao Rou, Xiao Mei, was this your doing?"
"No—it's Moon Immortal. Her? She came to the Hundred Refinements Mortal World too?"
Chu Feng was deeply moved. After all, his coming to the Hundred Refinements Mortal World was not only to destroy the Soul Infant Sect and prove himself. There was something far more important.
One goal was to find Su Rou and Su Mei and wrest them back from Moon Immortal.
The other was to find the mysteriously vanished Ya Fei, Murong Wan, and Yan Ruyu.
Yet for all the time he had spent in the Hundred Refinements Mortal World, though he had been searching all along, he had never found a trace of them.
Chu Feng had assumed they had never come to the Hundred Refinements Mortal World at all. But now, to find Su Rou and Su Mei's bracelets here—that proved the two of them had at least passed through this place.
"Chu Feng, look—there's a marking on the bracelets," the Queen said suddenly.
Because Chu Feng had been swept up in the tangled emotions of discovering Su Rou and Su Mei's presence, he hadn't examined the bracelets closely.
At the Queen's words, Chu Feng finally noticed that each bracelet bore a distinct marking.
When the two markings were placed together, they formed a single symbol—a symbol visible only to a Spirit World Master.
Chu Feng hastily brought the two bracelets together, for he knew perfectly well that these markings had not been there before.
Which meant someone had deliberately left them behind.