"Senior Brother Zhang, even though we address each other as senior and junior brothers, in my heart, I regard you as an older brother."
"We've been through life and death together. Don't you know what kind of person I, Chu Feng, am?"
Chu Feng asked Zhang Tianyi.
"I do. But I only know the you from the past."
"People change. As you climbed higher and higher, leaving us far behind, to be honest, I gradually felt that I didn't understand you so well anymore."
"I sensed that distance in you, and along with it, a sense of unfamiliarity," Zhang Tianyi said.
"No matter what you say, I am going to destroy this Divine Mountain. I cannot stand by and watch you put yourselves in danger," Chu Feng said.
"Fine. Since you insist on destroying the Divine Mountain, I'll give you two choices," Zhang Tianyi said.
"Which two? Go ahead," Chu Feng asked.
"The first choice — if you want to destroy the Divine Mountain, you may."
"But you will have to step over my corpse first. Unless you kill me, I won't let you damage this Divine Mountain in the slightest," Zhang Tianyi said to Chu Feng.
"You know I could never kill you." A bitter smile tugged at the corner of Chu Feng's lips.
"Because you know you can't kill me. Forget killing me — right now, you can't even wound me."
As Zhang Tianyi spoke those words, he was not only brimming with confidence but also radiating an air of superiority, as though he had already concluded that Chu Feng was no match for him.
Hearing this, the bitter smile on Chu Feng's lips deepened.
He knew that Zhang Tianyi was being irrational — consumed by greed, influenced by the Divine Mountain. Yet this was still his brother, the one who had weathered hardships by his side. Hearing him say such things still brought Chu Feng a measure of pain.
"This guy is far too arrogant, isn't he? With cultivation at only the ninth rank of Half Ancestor, he thinks he's invincible under heaven?"
"Someone of his caliber — forget heading to the Upper Realm of the Great Thousand, even if he went to the Hundred Refinements Mortal World, there'd be plenty of people who could put him in his place."
"Chu Feng, teach him a good lesson. Wake him up and show him just how weak and insignificant he truly is."
Unlike Chu Feng's sorrow, the Queen was seething with fury, itching for Chu Feng to give him a thorough beating right then and there, to make him realize exactly how vast the gap between him and Chu Feng truly was.
"Waking him up isn't possible. And I won't lay a hand on him over something like this," Chu Feng said.
"Then what? Are you just going to swallow the insults and slander without doing anything?"
"If you don't defend yourself, then doesn't everything he said become the truth?" the Queen asked.
"Don't worry, Egg. I have my own way of handling this," Chu Feng said.
Then, Chu Feng turned back to Zhang Tianyi and asked: "So tell me — what's the second choice?"
"The second choice." At this, a hint of conflict flickered across Zhang Tianyi's face. In the end, he gritted his teeth and spoke, though his tone was no longer as forceful as before. On the contrary, there was a trace of guilt in his words.
"Junior Brother Chu Feng, I hope you'll return to the Hundred Refinements Mortal World. This place no longer belongs to you. As for what happens here, I'd ask that you don't interfere."
"Setting aside whether this Divine Mountain truly is what you claim — even if it were, it's our own choice. Whether we live or die, it has nothing to do with you," Zhang Tianyi said to Chu Feng.
"Father, do you think so too?" Chu Feng turned to his adoptive father.
"Feng'er, of course that is not what your father thinks. No matter how far you've gone, in my eyes, you belong here. This is your true home."