"What a outrage! They actually dared to assassinate the princess. I'll go report this to the patriarch right away." Once they reached a safe location, the peace faction Martial Emperor said, his voice filled with fury.
"Report it now? What good would that do? You have no evidence — do you think they'd believe you?"
"Besides, if you go report it now, Yaojiao Ba will learn that his son and subordinates have met with misfortune, and he'll certainly request permission to come rescue Yaojiao Xue Ran."
"To preserve the bigger picture, the Elder Council would agree to let him come. At that point, your report would essentially be the same as saving Yaojiao Xue Ran and his men," Chu Feng said.
"Then what should we do? Are we just going to take this loss for nothing?" The Martial Emperor was unwilling to accept it.
"Take a loss? Heh, I wouldn't say that. Once they're dead, we can say whatever we want. After all, they won't be around to refute it," Chu Feng said.
"That's right — Chu Feng, you really are clever." Yaojiao Tingyu praised Chu Feng's thinking with open admiration.
At that moment, the peace faction Martial Emperor's eyes brightened as well, and the way he looked at Chu Feng grew noticeably different.
On the surface, his expression hadn't changed much, but inside, a storm was raging.
Chu Feng had not only been the first to detect that Yaojiao Xue Ran was plotting against them, but had also immediately devised a countermeasure, successfully turning the tables on Yaojiao Xue Ran's group and achieving an impossible victory.
After all, the other side had a second-grade Martial Emperor. If it had come to a real fight, none of them would have stood a chance.
Yet now that second-grade Martial Emperor could do nothing but shield Yaojiao Xue Ran while struggling to survive among the Hellfire Insects, waiting for death in agony.
And even now, Chu Feng hadn't rushed off to report Yaojiao Xue Ran's wrongdoing. Instead, he had considered everything from every angle with thoroughness that was, in a short span of time, nothing short of perfect.
But if Chu Feng were some ancient monster who had lived for ten thousand years, that would be one thing. He was still a young man not even thirty years old — younger than the Martial Emperor by several thousand years.
Compared to that, the Martial Emperor truly felt that he had wasted his extra millennia.
"This human brat is genuinely frightening. Thank goodness he's an ally and not an enemy. Otherwise... I don't even dare think about it." At that thought, the Martial Emperor drew in a sharp breath and, looking at this junior whose cultivation was still far below his own, found genuine fear flickering in his eyes.
"Chu Feng, where do we go now?" Yaojiao Tingyu asked. She was leaving everything to Chu Feng's arrangements now — only that gave her any sense of security.
"We do what needs to be done. We head to the Inheritance Pool," Chu Feng said.
"Mm." Yaojiao Tingyu's eyes lit up with joy. After everything that had happened, her confidence in Chu Feng had grown even stronger. She felt that relying on Chu Feng this time very well might lead to successfully obtaining the Dragon King's inheritance.
Because the path to the Inheritance Pool was a safe route, Chu Feng wasn't able to observe any of the Black Dragon King's methods along the way.
Even though their destination was clearly mapped out, at their speed it still took a full hour of traveling before they had yet to arrive at the Inheritance Pool. That alone gave one a sense of just how vast this Emperor's Treasury truly was.
"We should be getting close, right?" Chu Feng suddenly asked.
"We are getting close, but there's still some distance. How did you know?" Yaojiao Tingyu asked, her face full of curiosity, because Chu Feng's expression didn't look like a guess — he seemed certain.
But the walls here had the property of blocking Mental Power, so the observational methods used by a Spirit World Master had very limited utility here. Even if Chu Feng possessed heaven-defying sensing abilities, at this distance he shouldn't have been able to detect the Inheritance Pool yet.
"An aura similar to yours — I can faintly sense it. But this aura is far too powerful, much stronger than even your Supreme Elders. They're simply not comparable. I imagine it must be emanating from the Beast Emperor's inheritance pool," Chu Feng said.
"Why can't we sense it?" Yaojiao Tingyu and the Martial Emperor were both quite astonished. They were Yaojiao King Beasts and couldn't detect it, yet Chu Feng had.
"Heh..." Chu Feng offered a faint smile without elaborating further. After all, this wasn't something he could easily explain. Perhaps it was simply a gap in talent. It wouldn't do for him to boast about how extraordinary his gifts were in front of them.
Because Chu Feng felt that he needed to maintain that good quality of humility.