"To be honest... I've also been wanting to exchange blows with Senior Huangfu Haoyue. After all, he's the one who defeated the previous Lord of the Demon Sect."
"The current situation, while not what I wished for, is also a rare opportunity to experience Senior Huangfu Haoyue's methods firsthand."
However, what no one had expected was that even though everyone could tell these Burning Heaven Flames were several times more ferocious than before, Chu Feng showed no trace of fear. On the contrary, a look of anticipation surfaced within his narrowed eyes.
Huangfu Haoyue was powerful — Chu Feng knew that well. On the Nine Provinces Continent, Huangfu Haoyue was the strongest person he had ever encountered, especially after hearing Qiu Canfeng recount the events of the Eastern Sea.
Chu Feng was even more certain that during the Remnant Night Demon Sect's most glorious peak, the strongest person in the Eastern Sea Region had not been the feared Lord of the Demon Sect, but Huangfu Haoyue himself. At the age of thirty, Huangfu Haoyue had been able to fight the Lord of the Demon Sect to a standstill, and the him of today was undoubtedly far superior.
To this day, Chu Feng was hailed as the greatest genius of the Eastern Sea Region, but Huangfu Haoyue was an undefeated legend. So Chu Feng wanted to use the cultivation granted by the Immortal Transformation Mystic Art to test just how strong this undefeated legend truly was.
"Chu Feng, be careful! These Burning Heaven Flames have nine tiers. What Huangfu Haoyue used earlier was only the first tier. Now he's using the fifth tier."
"With each tier, the power of the Burning Heaven Flames increases ninefold. The fifth tier's power is dozens of times greater than the first — you absolutely cannot let your guard down!" Seeing that Chu Feng had no intention of dodging and was instead preparing to take the attack head-on, Qiushui Fuyan cried out loudly, warning him.
"The Burning Heaven Flames that Huangfu Haoyue commands are this powerful? That's several times more terrifying than what the master of the Burning Heaven Holy Sect could produce!" Hearing this, the older generation experts of the Remnant Night Demon Sect, including Qiu Canfeng, were all stunned.
In the past, the Lord of the Demon Sect had been known as the strongest in the Eastern Sea Region, and in the eyes of the world, the only one who could rival him was not the Ethereal Fairy, but the master of the Burning Heaven Holy Sect.
Strictly speaking, the master of the Burning Heaven Holy Sect might not have been the Lord of the Demon Sect's equal, but he was still formidable. His Burning Heaven Flames were unmatched, and more importantly, his King Armament — the Burning Heaven Flames Fan — was an exceptionally powerful weapon. When combined with the Burning Heaven Mystic Art of the Burning Heaven Holy Sect, it became unstoppable, rivaling even the Demon Sealing Sword.
Yet now, the Burning Heaven Flames that Huangfu Haoyue wielded didn't rely on any external power whatsoever, yet still surpassed the flames that the master of the Burning Heaven Holy Sect had produced with the Burning Heaven Flames Fan. One could only imagine just how powerful Huangfu Haoyue's Burning Heaven Flames truly were.
"Whoosh!" Just as everyone was still reeling from the awe-inspiring flames, the Burning Heaven Flames came crashing down. At that critical moment, Chu Feng made a startling move — he sheathed the Demon Sealing Sword behind his back and threw a single punch directly at the overwhelming wall of fire.
"Boom!"
With that punch, winds howled and clouds scattered. Towering waves rose across the sea, and the very heavens and earth descended into chaos. Most importantly, under that single punch, the terrifying Burning Heaven Flames were blown back entirely toward their source.
"Rumble!"
Huangfu Haoyue's eyes flashed, and the deflected Burning Heaven Flames surged back toward Chu Feng once more, their power multiplied several times over. The flames expanded in every direction.
Yet even so, Chu Feng showed no fear. This time, he threw nine consecutive punches, each one more devastating than the last. Under the might of those sweeping blows — enough to level mountains, rupture rivers, and slay tens of thousands — Huangfu Haoyue's Burning Heaven Flames were repelled yet again.
But Huangfu Haoyue was no ordinary opponent. Just as Qiushui Fuyan had said, the Burning Heaven Flames he commanded truly had nine tiers. If the sixth didn't work, he'd use the seventh. If the seventh didn't work, the eighth. And each tier's power increased ninefold over the one before.
In the end, even Chu Feng began to feel tremendous pressure. Especially when contending against Huangfu Haoyue's ninth-tier Burning Heaven Flames — the sheer force warped the void for thousands of miles and caused the sea below to boil.
If not for the many powerful experts among the spectators who had set up barriers to protect everyone, the heat alone would have been enough to reduce every person present to ashes.
So under these terrifying flames, Chu Feng had no choice but to call upon the Demon Sealing Sword. It was the king of King Armaments, and its power was extraordinary. When Chu Feng's cultivation rose from fourth-grade Martial King to fifth-grade Martial King, the sword's might grew accordingly.
"Now this is a truly earth-shattering battle. To think that in my lifetime I could witness such a fight — I could die without regrets."
As Chu Feng and Huangfu Haoyue traded blow after blow, attack and defense shifting back and forth, the spectators sheltered behind their defensive barriers felt their blood boil with excitement. They were awestruck by the overwhelming strength of both fighters.
In the Eastern Sea Region, Martial Kings were already at the pinnacle. For at least ten thousand years, no Martial Emperor had appeared, so no one alive today had ever witnessed the majesty of a Martial Emperor.
But today, after seeing the battle between Chu Feng and Huangfu Haoyue, their hearts were shaken to the core, for they had never witnessed anything this intense.
Although they knew this was still far below the level of a Martial Emperor, in their eyes, being able to witness such a battle was already a tremendous fortune. Even risking their lives to watch it firsthand was worth it.
"Whoosh!" But at that moment, Huangfu Haoyue flipped his palm, and a white fan appeared.
The fan was enormous — a full meter and a half long — and entirely white, shimmering with an ethereal glow. It wasn't made of paper; it looked more like translucent jade.
"Whoosh!" Suddenly, Huangfu Haoyue twisted his wrist, and the massive fan unfurled. From its surface, tongues of flame sprang to life.
The flames were peculiar, crawling and slithering across the white fan like fire serpents. At that moment, a tremendous aura radiated from Huangfu Haoyue's body. This was a King Armament — and no ordinary one at that.
"That's the Burning Heaven Flames Fan!!!"
"Could it be that Huangfu Haoyue has already become the master of the Burning Heaven Holy Sect?"
The moment they recognized the fan, everyone present gasped in disbelief. They knew what that fan was — a King Armament that only the master of the Burning Heaven Holy Sect was permitted to wield.
This King Armament was similar to the Demon Sealing Sword — not only immensely powerful, but carrying profound significance. Only the master of the Burning Heaven Holy Sect could use it. In other words, whoever held this weapon was the master of the Burning Heaven Holy Sect.
So to be precise, the one currently battling Chu Feng was not just Huangfu Haoyue — he was the Lord of the Burning Heaven.
PS: Yesterday's fourth update.