Hummm—
The plump one among the three waved his arm, and the hidden barrier transformed from invisible to visible.
However, once the golden, shimmering hidden barrier was revealed, it began to dissipate as though it were burning, quickly vanishing entirely.
It was the plump man who had dispelled this hidden formation.
"What's your name?" The plump man raised an eyebrow and asked Chu Feng in a displeased tone.
"What does my name have to do with you?" Chu Feng replied coldly.
"You're right. Your name has nothing to do with me." The plump man smiled faintly, then said to Chu Feng, "Remember, my name is Li Xiang."
"Why should I remember your name?" Chu Feng asked.
"Heh." The man called Li Xiang let out another light laugh, then said to Chu Feng, "Because I will be the one to end your life — to put a stop to your whole existence."
With those words, Li Xiang suddenly raised his hand and launched a palm strike at Chu Feng.
However, after his palm shot forth, not a shred of martial force was released. It didn't even stir a wisp of wind.
Chu Feng was somewhat puzzled, unsure what Li Xiang was trying to do. It looked like an attack, yet not the slightest bit of power had been unleashed.
"Hahaha…" At that moment, Li Xiang burst into hearty laughter. He laughed while pointing at Chu Feng, turning to his two companions beside him. "Look at that terrified look on his face! I barely gave him a scare, and he actually thought I was going to kill him. Look at how frightened he is!"
"Haha, we saw it! He's scared witless — like a mouse. And he wants to play the hero saving the beauty?"
The two men standing beside Li Xiang joined in the laughter.
Seeing the three of them carry on like this, Chu Feng was rendered speechless. He hadn't even blinked. How could he possibly be afraid?
Realizing this, Chu Feng understood that while these three possessed a cultivation talent one might call remarkable, their intelligence was quite possibly the worst he had ever seen.
Perhaps because they were so foolish, Chu Feng no longer cared to bother with them. He descended directly to the ground and helped the small girl with the serpent tail to her feet.
"Kid who doesn't know the height of the heavens or the depth of the earth — I advise you not to meddle in other people's business," Li Xiang threatened Chu Feng.
But Chu Feng paid him no attention. Instead, he asked the serpent-tailed little girl, "Why were they hitting you?"
"Oh? You little brat, your grandpa Li Xiang is talking to you and you're pretending you can't hear? Do you not put us in your eyes at all?"
"Looks like I need to teach you a lesson — otherwise you'll never learn what your Grandpa Li Xiang is capable of."
As Li Xiang spoke, he released the aura of a first-grade True Immortal. The oppressive force swept outward like a hurricane, surging toward Chu Feng.
He intended to use his pressure to blow Chu Feng away and demonstrate his dominance.
However, when the pressure reached Chu Feng and swept past him, all that was seen was Chu Feng's robe fluttering and his hair whipping about, while the dust around him was sent soaring into the sky.
But Chu Feng's feet hadn't moved an inch, let alone sustained any injury.
"You…?!" Li Xiang's jaw dropped, and he immediately looked to the two men beside him.
But those two men wore expressions identical to Li Xiang's — mouths agape, eyes wide, their gazes filled with disbelief.
Clearly, none of them could understand why Chu Feng remained completely unscathed after Li Xiang's display of power.
Whoosh—
At that moment, Chu Feng's will shifted, and his own oppressive force swept outward. In the blink of an eye it reached the three of them. Caught off guard, all three were blown into a tumbling mess, rolling across the ground.
Chu Feng held back, so the three were merely rolled several dozen meters before coming to a stop, suffering no injuries.
They scrambled to their feet quickly. When Li Xiang looked at Chu Feng, his expression changed dramatically.
"Damn it — you… you're actually a second-grade True Immortal?"
Sensing Chu Feng's cultivation, the three of them were visibly shaken.
They had never imagined that Chu Feng's strength would surpass their own. After all, the three of them were already considered geniuses in the eyes of the world.
But what they didn't know was that Chu Feng was not a second-grade True Immortal — he was a third-grade True Immortal.
Chu Feng had deliberately concealed his cultivation because he knew that word of what he had done at the Immortal Armament Villa would spread quickly.
And the news that had gotten out from the villa stated that Chu Feng's cultivation was at the second-grade True Immortal level.
Chu Feng had hidden one grade of his cultivation on purpose, as a precaution — a hidden card to be played in a moment of crisis.
Though he had concealed only a single grade, that single grade was more than enough to catch his opponents off guard.