The five-colored sword qi missed, and Chu Feng felt a pang of heartache. That was his full-powered strike!
There was no time to dwell on it. Feeling the emptiness of true qi inside his body, he quickly took out a bottle of pills and swallowed them, using Little Bai as a cane while he slowly recovered his true qi.
Chewing the pills in his mouth, he noted there was no chicken flavor, but they were crunchy. He wondered how many times the protein content was compared to beef.
It was always like this. Every time he was about to finish off Lin Ruo, some kind of accident would occur. It felt like secretly appreciating the beauty of human motion under the covers, reaching the point where you’re about to climax but can’t quite get there…it was frustrating and suffocating.
Although that wasn’t Chu Feng’s current situation, the feeling was similar. As expected of a protagonist…he was truly hard to kill.
But with Zixin’er’s arrival, the situation had now turned overwhelmingly favorable for Chu Feng’s side.
Chu Feng summed up the current situation. Alright, Sister Wan’er was fighting that grandpa of Lin Ruo, Master was locked in a stalemate with the bratty old monster, and as for the two on the ground who were talking with air leaking from their mouths, he didn’t know who they were.
As for Lin Ruo, since Ghost Nether’s divine soul was weak at the moment, he had begun gradually draining Lin Ruo’s true qi and soul power to maintain his battle against Ji Yuhuang.
On Lin Ruo’s side, there were two crippled and one half-ruined, leaving only two with real fighting strength. On Chu Feng’s side, everyone was at full strength. And aside from himself, they were all big shots.
With this? I seriously can’t even imagine how we’d lose. The advantage is mine.
Although he really wanted to finish off Lin Ruo right now, his true qi was completely depleted and wouldn’t recover anytime soon. As for having someone else kill Lin Ruo, that wasn’t possible either. Lin Ruo was still protected by the heavenly destiny. No one but Chu Feng could kill him.
***
“Little one, what happened?”
Zixin’er walked over and asked. She had only stepped out for a short while. How had everything turned into such chaos when she came back?!
“Ahem, Aunt Zi, it’s like this…”
Chu Feng began explaining at length, quickly laying out the whole situation.
Zixin’er nodded after hearing it. With her arrival, both Ghost Nether and Ghost Hand felt the pressure intensify.
While Chu Feng was explaining, Ghost Hand naturally noticed Ghost Nether. He hadn’t expected the old fellow to truly still be alive. He had thought Lin Ruo’s words were only half true.
Ghost Nether glanced at his old friend. Today’s situation looked like a dead end, but there was still a slim chance of survival and that hope lay with Ghost Hand.
So Ghost Nether transmitted his voice:
– Ghost Hand, it’s been a long time. In today’s situation, I’m afraid you’re the one who must break this deadlock.
Ghost Hand heard his words.
Ghost Nether, what do you mean?
Ghost Nether replied:
– Ghost Hand, surely you know….if you use that move against Chu Feng, we can all escape. At worst, we’ll lose our physical bodies, like this old man has. Otherwise… we’ll all die here.
Hearing Ghost Nether say this, Ghost Hand naturally understood what move he was referring to. But once that technique was used, whether he would ever be able to recover his physical body again would be hard to say.
Seeing Ghost Hand hesitate, Ghost Nether spoke bluntly:
– Ghost Hand! With Lin Ruo here….this boy is favored by the heavenly destiny. With him, you and I will definitely be able to restore our bodies!
While Ghost Nether and Ghost Hand were transmitting messages, Chu Feng had already finished explaining the general situation.
“That’s the situation, Aunt Zi.”
Wow, I actually finished all that in one breath. Looks like my lung capacity has improved quite a bit.
As for how it improved…of course it was through “training” with them. More precisely, kissing practice. Nothing wrong with that.
Ji Yuhuang glanced at the two twisted, vaguely human figures writhing on the ground. Her beautiful eyes turned toward Ghost Nether as she struck out with a massive palm infused with terrifying true qi.
Boom!
The violent energy made Ghost Nether’s already faint soul grow even more transparent.
“Ghost Hand!”
Ghost Nether roared loudly.
Ghost Hand gritted his teeth and shouted, “I’ll fight you to the death!”
After shouting those words, he burned all the essence blood within his body. His speed surged as he lunged toward Chu Feng.
“Not good! Feng’er!”
Lu Xiyue hurriedly flung the sword in her hand toward Ghost Hand, her figure shooting forward as well.
Ji Yuhuang, who had been fighting Ghost Nether nearby, immediately stopped and rushed toward her little husband.
Zixin’er was the closest to Chu Feng. The moment she saw Ghost Hand lunging over, she pulled Chu Feng behind her in an instant.
Boom!
A huge pillar of blood-red light shot into the sky. Even within the grand hall personally refined by Zixin’er, it seemed unable to withstand the self-destruction of an eighth-rank cultivator. The blast pierced straight through the hall, and the entire Yaochi Holy Land could see the towering crimson column rising into the heavens.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The elders in the core region saw the pillar of light, their faces turning pale. That direction…it was where the Holy Master was!
Worried for the Holy Master’s safety, the elders rushed over at top speed. When they arrived, they all sucked in a sharp breath.
The grand hall personally refined by the Holy Master had actually been blasted through! And judging from the sinister aura that had leaked from the blood-red pillar just now, it was the work of demonic cultivators!
Demonic cultivators had infiltrated the core region of Yaochi Holy Land, even fighting the Holy Master and causing such a huge disturbance. Yet the elders hadn’t known a thing. If word of this got out, Yaochi Holy Land would lose all face.
As the blood aura gradually dispersed, the scene inside the hall came into view.
Lu Xiyue, Ji Yuhuang, and Zixin’er stood surrounding Chu Feng, protecting him in the center. Not a trace of the explosion’s impact seemed to have touched them.
“Holy Master.”
A beautiful woman descended from the sky; it was the Venerable Hua Hai who had previously gone to surround and eliminate Zhou Ji and the others.
When she saw the young man surrounded by three women, Venerable Hua Hai’s brows furrowed. How could there be a man in the core region of the Yaochi Holy Land?
The other elders were also filled with doubt when they saw the young man. In the Holy Land’s core region, where men were strictly forbidden, a man had actually appeared and at the Holy Master’s side!
Chu Feng sensed the gazes of the big shots around him and instantly felt immense pressure. Just their auras alone were enough to make him feel terrified.
Although he did not mind being the center of attention, this was not the kind of attention he wanted!
***
On a certain sea island, space tore open, and three bedraggled figures fell out. It was the Blood Demon Twins and Lin Ruo. As for Ghost Hand? Oh, he had ended up just like Ghost Nether.
Venerable Ghost Hand relied on the power of his physical body’s self-destruction to forcibly carve out a slim chance of survival from a certain death situation. More importantly, he had lunged toward Chu Feng, causing the three women to rush to shield him. Otherwise, with Zixin’er present, even blowing up his physical body would not have made it easy for him to escape.
“Many thanks,” the Blood Demon Elder said, cupping his hands toward Venerable Ghost Hand.
As he spoke, his words leaked through his teeth; Zixin’er had beaten him so badly that most of them were nearly knocked out.
Because Ghost Nether had overdrawn from her, Lin Ruo had fallen unconscious. To put it bluntly, the power bank had run out of charge.
“Ghost Nether, what do you plan to do next?”
“First, we build up our strength. Once we recover our physical bodies, we’ll settle this score all at once. But for now, we can spread a piece of news…say that the greatest treasure in the Sky-Mending Secret Realm, the Five-Colored Stone, was obtained by a disciple of the Heaven’s Pinnacle Sect named Chu Feng.”
A cold glint flickered in Ghost Nether’s eyes.
Once this old man recovers his physical body, I will surely repay this humiliation!
But for now, it’s better to lie low and focus on rebuilding our strength.
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