"I suppose I'm about to die?"
Li Xiang shook his head with a bitter smile. He didn't truly believe that Chu Feng had come for him.
Rather, he thought that he was on the verge of death and had begun hallucinating — that the voice he heard was nothing more than a phantom.
"Li Xiang, are you alright?" But at that very moment, not only did Chu Feng's voice ring out beside his ears, he also felt someone pulling him up to his feet.
Li Xiang looked up and saw that Chu Feng was right beside him, carrying him away. When Chu Feng finally stopped, Li Xiang found that he was already far from Yuwen Tingyi. Even more people had gathered around him — not only disciples of the Heavenly Sword Villa, but his companions from the Holy Pill Villa as well.
"Brother Chu Feng… is it really you?"
Li Xiang could hardly believe it. He had actually been saved?
And at this moment, he was no longer holding himself together the way he had been before. Tears spilled freely from his eyes.
Because he realized that he really might have been saved — that he, Li Xiang, did not have to die.
"Li Xiang, don't be afraid. You're safe now."
"You've been injured, though, so don't try to speak. Save your strength and let me heal you."
Chu Feng said to Li Xiang with a smile. Despite the calm expression on his face, his heart was actually quite troubled, because he had already begun setting up a healing formation to treat Li Xiang's injuries.
But he realized he had arrived a little too late. Li Xiang had lost a great deal of his cultivation base, and even though Chu Feng was trying his best to help him recover, the outcome was unlikely to be ideal.
"I've been searching the ends of the earth for you without finding a trace, and now you walk right into my hands. Chu Feng — I've been hunting for you, and you just deliver yourself to me."
"Heaven has eyes. Truly, Heaven has eyes!"
At that very moment, a burst of maniacal laughter erupted from nearby.
It was Yuwen Tingyi. Despite the fact that he was laughing, his expression was absolutely terrifying — his grin was twisted and hideous.
Yet Chu Feng paid him no mind. He didn't even spare him a single glance, completely ignoring his presence as he focused entirely on healing Li Xiang.
He understood all too well that Li Xiang's Dantian had been shattered and he had lost far too much of his cultivation. If he wanted to save him, now was the most critical moment.
"Chu Feng — are you oblivious to the dire situation you're in? Or do you think that because you have the Ancient Snake Clan backing you, I, Yuwen Tingyi, wouldn't dare lay a hand on you?"
At the sight of this, Yuwen Tingyi's sharp brows shot upward, and he spoke in a frigid voice.
"Shut up."
Who would have thought that not only would Chu Feng shout at him in anger, but he would do so in a commanding tone?
"Oh, how arrogant you are. If I don't teach you a lesson, you'll never learn what I, Yuwen Tingyi, am truly capable of."
"Fine — very well. I'll grant your wish. Right now, I'll make sure you end up exactly the same as that Li Xiang."
Yuwen Tingyi already hated Chu Feng to the bone. Seeing that Chu Feng had noticed him and yet treated him with such contempt only fanned his fury. Without another word, he raised his hand and launched an attack at Chu Feng.
Presumably, he had also noticed that Chu Feng's cultivation had grown stronger than before, so the moment he struck, he unleashed a killing move.
However, just as that killing move was about to reach Chu Feng, beams of brilliant light suddenly burst forth from within his body.
After the lights flew out, they actually took the shape of tall, imposing figures.
Most importantly, their auras were even more powerful than Chu Feng's — their cultivation was on par with Yuwen Tingyi's. They were all True Immortals.
And after they appeared, not only did they block Yuwen Tingyi's attack, they immediately launched a counter-offensive against him.
Furthermore, not only was their aura that of True Immortals, their true combat power was also at the True Immortal level.
Their attacks were extremely formidable, as though they were genuine cultivators.
Facing four True Immortals attacking in concert, Yuwen Tingyi was momentarily caught off guard.
As for the disciples of the Holy Pill Villa and the Heavenly Sword Villa, they were all struck dumb with astonishment.
Because the figures that had appeared were not only exuding an otherworldly, immortal-like bearing — their mastery of martial force was equally impressive. Most importantly, they all understood clearly that those were not real martial cultivators, but rather some kind of technique.
"What sort of technique is this? How can it possibly be this powerful?"
"It feels like a Secret Technique — but how can a Secret Technique be this strong?"
After all, everyone present was not only a martial arts expert but also a Spirit World Master. Their perception was incredibly sharp, and it didn't take long for someone to identify what Chu Feng had used as a Secret Technique.
And indeed, it was a Secret Technique — the Mysterious Martial Secret Technique.
Back when Chu Feng was still in the Lower Realm of Ancestral Martial, and his cultivation had yet to reach the True Immortal realm, his heaven-defying combat power had been so extraordinary that the heaven-defying power of the Secret Technique had essentially become redundant.
So even though the Secret Technique would raise their cultivation a rank above his, the copies' heaven-defying combat power was far inferior to Chu Feng's own, rendering them practically useless.
But now, after stepping into the True Immortal realm, everything was different.
Chu Feng's own heaven-defying combat power had vanished, and under these new circumstances, the special power of the Secret Technique could once again come into its own.