However, the array's restraints were far too powerful. Even though he had gritted his teeth and exhausted every trick at his disposal, his forward progress was still comparable to a snail's pace.
Until he saw Chu Feng walking back toward them, and behind Chu Feng trailed hundreds of barrier chains.
Each and every one of those barrier chains was dragging a member of the Dragon Breath Clan behind it.
Only then did he finally breathe a sigh of relief.
It was as he had suspected—they had failed, and every one of them had sustained serious injuries.
But thankfully, none of them were in mortal danger.
The only problem was that Chu Feng was struggling immensely. After all, every single member of the Dragon Breath Clan still had binding arrays on their bodies.
This made dragging them out an incredibly exhausting task for Chu Feng.
"Chu Feng, let me handle it."
Once Chu Feng drew near, Long Moxiao spoke up.
"My lord, though your cultivation far surpasses mine, your ability to exert force within this space is severely limited."
"The seniors' injuries will only worsen the longer they remain inside this barrier space. They must be extracted as quickly as possible. Please, let this junior handle it."
The moment Chu Feng said this, Long Moxiao had nothing more to say.
Chu Feng was right. Though it was exhausting him, the amount of power he could actually project was still far greater than what Long Moxiao could manage.
By now, more and more people were entering the barrier space, and they too had realized the gravity of the situation.
But many of them couldn't adapt and were unable to venture deep inside. They could only wait at the edges of the barrier space.
When they watched Chu Feng dragging those injured people out—his face deathly pale, straining with every ounce of strength, yet refusing to give up—there was not a single person among them who was not deeply moved.
By the time Chu Feng dragged them all out of the barrier space and collapsed onto the ground, completely spent, it was only thanks to him. Anyone else would never have been able to pull all those people to safety.
"Chu Feng, I… I wronged you."
Watching Chu Feng, utterly exhausted and slumped in Zi Ling's arms, the gravely injured Long Muchuan finally lowered his head in shame.
As a Spirit World Master, he naturally knew that it was the array Chu Feng had provided that had protected them.
Without it, their injuries would have been far worse than they already were.
But it wasn't just the array that had saved them—Chu Feng himself had saved their lives.
If he hadn't dragged them out of there quickly, their injuries would only have continued to deteriorating, and they would have died inside.
Chu Feng had truly saved them all from death.
Faced with Long Muchuan and the others, their faces etched with remorse, Chu Feng did not hold it against them. He simply smiled and said, "It was nothing."
It was precisely this magnanimous attitude of Chu Feng's that caused every member of the Dragon Breath Clan to regard him with newfound respect.
Before this, many of them had only half-believed the rumors about Chu Feng.
Now, however, they were absolutely convinced.
This was no ordinary young junior.
He was a young junior who shattered everything they thought they knew.
On the surface, it seemed that Chu Feng had only saved a few hundred people—Long Muchuan and the rest.
But they all understood that if it weren't for Chu Feng's persuasion, every last one of them would have stepped into that teleportation array.
The consequences of that would have been something no single Chu Feng could have reversed.
So in truth, Chu Feng had saved the entire Dragon Breath Clan.
Although Chu Feng was weakened, it was merely from expending too much energy. In just half a day, he had already recovered.
As for Long Muchuan and the others, their lives were not in danger, though their injuries were far from trivial and would not heal in a short time. They would need to recuperate gradually.
Once he had fully recovered, Chu Feng shared the method he had deciphered with Long Mucheng and the others.
It was a cultivation method similar to controlled breathing techniques. In truth, it was quite simple, but the specific rhythm was rather peculiar.
One had to follow that exact rhythm for it to work.