"No, all these years I've been searching for that pack of demonic serpents, but I've never been able to find them. I don't even know what they're actually called," Li Xiang said.
"The Beast Clans in the Grand Realm are simply too numerous, and some of them are reclusive — they're truly hard to track down," Li Xiang's companion sighed in agreement.
"Even if I have to search every corner of the Grand Realm, I will find them."
Li Xiang spoke through gritted teeth. Chu Feng also noticed that as Li Xiang spoke, his fists had clenched involuntarily, and hatred and unwillingness surged in his eyes.
"Then do you remember what they looked like?" Chu Feng asked.
"I do. They had reverted to their true forms at the time — a swarm of demonic serpents covered entirely in black scales, with red fangs and red eyes. Though they varied in strength, they were all roughly the same size — uniformly... exactly seventy-four meters long," Li Xiang said.
"That's a fairly distinctive form. Rest assured, one day I will track them down and avenge your parents," Chu Feng said.
Chu Feng understood all too well the pain of having one's clansmen slaughtered, so he resolved that once he had the power, he would avenge Li Xiang.
"Brother Chu Feng, about a hundred of those demonic serpents appeared that day, but only thirty-one of them actually butchered my parents and devoured their flesh and blood. I don't want to kill the innocent. If you ever encounter them, killing just those thirty-one will be enough," Li Xiang said.
"Understood." Chu Feng nodded.
Boom— But at that very moment, a crushing wave of pressure suddenly descended from the sky.
The pressure was overwhelming and came without any warning. Chu Feng and the others had no time to prepare.
In an instant, every one of them lost the ability to remain airborne and plummeted rapidly from the sky.
A series of muffled thuds rang out as Chu Feng and the others were driven into the ground like dead dogs, pinned utterly motionless.
Not only Chu Feng — even the strongest expert present from the Sacred Pill Manor, Elder Ma Changchun, was similarly immobilized.
The pressure was too immense. The aura was far too terrifying. In the face of that aura, Chu Feng felt pitifully small.
"This is bad — it's a Martial Immortal. A Martial Immortal expert."
Chu Feng was panicking now. The gap in strength was simply too vast. He had absolutely no power to fight back.
With a mere thought, the opponent could reduce Chu Feng to ash and send him to his death right here.
"Wait, Chu Feng — there's still someone up in the sky," the Queen said.
Because Chu Feng had fallen flat on his back, his line of sight actually allowed him to see what was happening above.
It turned out that not everyone from the Sacred Pill Manor had been caught under that pressure.
One person was exempt — an elder of the Sacred Pill Manor.
This elder was quite thin, yet impeccably dressed. Of all the Sacred Pill Manor elders, he looked the most upright and dignified.
Chu Feng knew of him. His name was Shi Fufang — the quietest member of the Sacred Pill Manor's entourage, the one who had barely exchanged a word with Chu Feng.
Chu Feng had actually had a decent impression of him, if only because he hadn't resorted to flattery like the others.
But now, that elder's eyes were filled with sinister intent.
And he was gazing down at Chu Feng and the rest with a look of pure mockery.
Only now did Chu Feng realize that this elder called Shi Fufang was a far more dangerous character than he had ever imagined.
But the pressure clearly wasn't from him. Though his strength was considerable, it fell slightly short of Ma Changchun's. Naturally, he could never have pinned Ma Changchun to the ground with pressure alone.
If not him, then who was it? Who was coming after Chu Feng?
Hum— Just as Chu Feng was trying to figure it out, he and the others were suddenly yanked up from the ground, once again suspended in midair.
The only difference was that aside from being able to speak, they were completely unable to move — like puppets being manipulated by an unseen hand.
"It's you?"
Once upright, Chu Feng could see with his own eyes a group of people approaching.