“Fine, let him do it.”
With no other choice, someone finally compromised.
After that, more and more people followed suit, agreeing to the terms.
Under these circumstances, even Song Boqiu said nothing more, silently consenting.
“If all the seniors agree, then I’ll start breaking the formation.”
As Chu Feng spoke, he stowed away the cultivation resources, then turned around to begin preparing the formation-breaking array.
However, the moment Chu Feng turned, a strange smirk crept onto Song Boqiu’s lips.
In fact, it wasn’t just Song Boqiu; many others present flashed a cold glint in their eyes.
These were, after all, towering figures who dominated their realms, and they weren’t about to let a junior threaten them without consequence.
So, despite outwardly agreeing to all of Chu Feng’s demands now,
Once Chu Feng completed what they wanted him to do, regardless of the outcome, they’d demand an reckoning from him.
If Chu Feng was the boss now,
Then later, they’d take that role back.
What they didn’t realize was that their subtle facial expressions had all been caught by Chu Feng.
Seeing their reactions, Chu Feng felt no panic; instead, a faint smirk tugged at his own lips.
Because their responses matched his predictions perfectly.
Chu Feng had long known that after doing this, these people wouldn’t let him off easily.
And the reason Chu Feng dared to act so boldly rested on two points.
First, these insect-like cultivation resources were immensely beneficial to those at the Venerable realm.
If these people knew just how valuable those resources were, they’d never have handed them over.
Chu Feng, risking the wrath of these big shots to secure these resources, wasn’t doing it for himself, but for the Chu Heavenly Clan’s leader.
Li Taiyi, the Supreme Elder of the Li Heavenly Clan, had the power to wipe out the Chu Heavenly Clan single-handedly.
If, in the future, they faced the entire Li Heavenly Clan, the fate awaiting the Chu Heavenly Clan was easy to imagine.
So Chu Feng saw this as a rare opportunity, one he had to seize to help the Chu Heavenly Clan leader boost their cultivation. Only if the leader grew stronger could the clan itself strengthen.
This risk was one Chu Feng had to take.
That was one reason he dared to do this.
But Chu Feng had also anticipated from the start that these people might renege, even with Liangqiu Chengfeng present to keep them somewhat in check.
However, Liangqiu Chengfeng was already gravely injured and had lost his combat strength, so some bold souls might disregard him for their own gain.
The second reason Chu Feng dared to proceed despite foreseeing the aftermath’s dangers was this:
Beyond teaching Chu Feng how to break the formation, Liangqiu Chengfeng had also told him that the protective array guarding the treasure could be repurposed. Once broken, its defensive power could be retained and transformed into an offensive killing force.
Though the converted killing power wouldn’t be as strong as the original defense, it would still far exceed what anyone present could withstand.
With that killing array in hand, anyone who dared harm Chu Feng would be courting their own doom.
But to gain that killing array’s power, one crucial step was required: he had to break the formation first. Otherwise, what awaited Chu Feng was the vengeance of these big shots.
Understanding everything, Chu Feng had no choice but to go all in, pouring every effort into cracking the formation.
Fortunately, with Liangqiu Chengfeng’s guidance, Chu Feng’s progress was remarkably smooth.
At that moment, the formation-breaking array Chu Feng had set up clashed with the treasure’s protective array, light bursting forth, energy surging, even causing the vast hall to tremble faintly.
Everyone knew Chu Feng had reached the critical juncture of breaking the formation.
Buzz—
Suddenly, a groove appeared in the center of the breaking array.
Seeing this, Chu Feng leapt forward, landing before the groove.
Once there, he pulled a stone from his Qiankun pouch—the very stone Liangqiu Chengfeng had given him.
“What’s Chu Feng doing with that stone?”
The crowd, unaware of the stone’s purpose, began to question it, since to them it looked like nothing more than an utterly ordinary pebble.
But the next moment, as Chu Feng slotted the stone into the groove, everyone’s expressions changed drastically.
At that instant, the protective array’s power weakened by more than half, its structure twisting and distorting, teetering on the verge of collapse.
“That stone, it has such an effect?”
Only then did they realize the stone’s extraordinary power.
Though they harbored deep resentment toward Chu Feng, they couldn’t help but marvel: Chu Feng was indeed a prodigy, no wonder Liangqiu Chengfeng held him in such high regard and believed he could break this formation.
While the crowd watched in wide-eyed astonishment, the weakened Liangqiu Chengfeng remained calm and composed, as all this fell within his expectations.
Yet even so, his gaze toward Chu Feng brimmed with admiration, for Chu Feng had accomplished something even Liangqiu Lanyue and Liangqiu Hongyue, the two sisters, could not.
Buzz—
But suddenly, strange runes surged across the protective array, and at the same time, another groove appeared.
Seeing this new groove, Liangqiu Chengfeng, previously calm, underwent a dramatic shift in expression, his face filled with alarm as if disaster loomed.
Simultaneously, he cried out in shock, shouting at Chu Feng:
“Chu Feng, retreat now!!!”
