"Chu Feng, are you threatening us?" Chu Haoyan asked coldly.
At the same time, Chu Huanyu, Chu Ruoshi, Chu Zhiyuan, and a small handful of others who had yet to produce their flags all wore expressions of displeasure to varying degrees.
"I'm simply trying to help you obtain the treasure here and gain an opportunity to cultivate."
"However, this is mandatory. Because even if you don't want the treasure here, even if you don't want the opportunity to cultivate, I, Chu Feng, still do."
"So if you say I'm threatening you, I won't deny it."
"Because you must hand over your flags to me," Chu Feng said.
"Brother Chu Feng, don't you think you're going a bit too far?" Just then, Chu Ruoshi suddenly stepped forward.
"Too far? If it weren't for me, would any of you have had the chance to obtain flags?"
"If it weren't for me, could any of you have broken through that Yin-Yang Formation diagram?"
"Now, I help you break the formation and obtain the flags. You're about to receive the treasure and gain an opportunity to cultivate, yet you question me at every turn. Who's the one going too far?"
"Enough. Finding the treasure will take some time, and I, Chu Feng, can't be bothered to waste words with you. Hand over your flags quickly, or… I'll have to take them myself."
As Chu Feng said this, his thoughts shifted, and a Spirit Gate opened before him.
Once the Spirit Gate swung open, a figure stepped out from within. It was none other than the Queen.
"You'd best cooperate nicely, because this Queen is not as easygoing as Chu Feng," the Queen said with a smile.
Her smile was radiant, but at that moment, every junior of the Chu Heavenly Clan present could sense the lethal killing intent hidden behind her breathtakingly beautiful grin.
"Chu Feng, do you really think you're invincible among juniors? How dare you be this arrogant?" At that point, Chu Ruoshi finally revealed her sharp, venomous face.
BOOM— But the moment Chu Ruoshi finished speaking, a massive surge of dark energy erupted from the Queen's body.
The instant that dark energy appeared, it engulfed the entire area, covering nearly everything within sight. The dark energy also radiated a bone-piercing killing intent, far more terrifying than the blue flame swamp gas.
When the dark energy manifested, many people broke out in cold sweats from fear. Those who had hidden their flags immediately pulled them out and presented them before Chu Feng, speaking nothing but pleasantries, terrified that Chu Feng would make things difficult for them.
It wasn't that they were cowardly. If they were truly that timid, they wouldn't have hidden their flags in the first place.
The reason they capitulated now was because the aura the Queen was radiating posed a genuine, lethal threat. They were not Chu Ruoshi, Chu Huanyu, or Chu Haoyan — they did not have such powerful backgrounds.
With their strength inferior to Chu Feng's and trapped inside this sealed Yin-Yang Gate, they truly dared not defy someone as powerful as Chu Feng.
And so, the only ones who had yet to hand over their flags were Chu Ruoshi, Chu Haoyan, Chu Huanyu, and Chu Zhiyuan.
"Do you really need to force this Queen's hand?" The Queen directed her cold, piercing gaze toward Chu Ruoshi and the others.
SWISH— Just then, a flash of red light swept past, and a fiery crimson whip appeared in Chu Ruoshi's hand. The moment the whip manifested, it erupted with flames that coiled around its length, unleashing waves of heat as though it could burn everything to ash.
It was a half-step Immortal Armament, extraordinarily powerful — a top-tier treasure among its kind.