"Senior, isn't this… isn't this a trial?"
"If… if… if…"
"If I can't defeat you, do I really have to die?"
Chu Feng spoke again, his voice trembling, the words tumbling out in a mess. Gone was all his earlier composure.
"No need for more words."
"The price of failing this trial is death."
"The weak do not deserve any of what lies here."
There was thick mockery laced in the black monster's tone.
But Chu Feng's expression suddenly turned resolute. His hand seals shifted, and behind him appeared a pair of enormous golden eyes.
"You little brat…"
In that instant, the black monster's face froze.
For the moment those golden eyes manifested, a tremendous oppressive might crashed down from the heavens. The black monster felt his combat power plummet once more.
That was Chu Feng's technique.
Third-stage Divine Restriction — Divine Might Void Realm.
Though it could only exist for a fleeting instant, its suppressive power surpassed even Immortal Dao Suppression.
With both Divine Restrictions layered on top of each other, the black monster's combat power plummeted yet again.
And while deploying the Divine Might Void Realm, Chu Feng's divine weapon spear had already thrust straight toward the black monster's face.
"Kid, you're plenty cunning."
"But it's useless."
Though the black monster was genuinely startled, he still sneered inwardly.
He couldn't dodge this strike, but he could concentrate all of his defensive power at the exact point of Chu Feng's attack.
Just like that previous lightning-fast spear thrust, he would block it head-on — and at the same time, launch a counterattack of his own.
The outcome, was already decided.
But in the very next instant, his expression underwent a drastic change. The spear that should have struck his face had vanished without a trace. Instead, he felt blood gushing from his neck, something having pierced clean through.
It was Chu Feng's divine weapon spear.
"What?"
Every single onlooker's face went rigid. If they hadn't been able to follow the earlier exchanges, everyone could see clearly now.
Chu Feng and the black monster stood frozen in the void, both completely still.
The spear in Chu Feng's hand — Yuxian — had already pierced straight through the black monster's neck.
"Senior, you've lost."
Chu Feng gripped the spear with one hand and spoke in a steady voice.
The black monster offered no resistance. Instead, he let out a bitter laugh.
"Not only can you simultaneously unleash four Divine Restriction martial techniques…"
"But you even had a hidden trick like this up your sleeve."
"That's a spear technique you've cultivated for a long time, isn't it?" the black monster asked.
"Senior has a keen eye. This technique is called Formless — it is indeed a spear art this junior has spent ages mastering," Chu Feng replied.
"Bullshit — what ages of mastering?"
"You freak of a monster, how did you just pull that out of nowhere?"
Ye Xiancheng was the first to object, though he wasn't truly angry — the words came with a grin, and a very excited one at that.
He wasn't the only one. Nearly everyone was buzzing with excitement.
They knew…
Chu Feng had won.
"Chu Feng, you do indeed have the right to claim Thunderfire Ancestor's divine weapon. But I still owe you one final lesson."
"This lesson is called: the human heart is unfathomable."
Whoosh— The moment those words fell, the black monster transformed into a maelstrom of flame and aura, engulfing Chu Feng within it.
And the storm rapidly expanded.
Zhao Laoba's figure went tumbling out from behind the barrier gate, blown a considerable distance away.
It wasn't that he had escaped on his own.
The black vortex had engulfed the entire world — and simply blown him out.