Liangqiu Chengfeng’s shout to run caught everyone’s attention.
At that moment, all eyes instinctively turned to Liangqiu Chengfeng, including Chu Feng, who stood before the formation.
“Little friend Chu Feng, I miscalculated, this formation has two key breaking points, if they can’t be solved
, it’ll be hard to break.”
“Retreat now, or you’ll suffer a backlash.”
Fearing Chu Feng didn’t understand, Liangqiu Chengfeng explained why he urged him to withdraw.
After Liangqiu Chengfeng spoke, Chu Feng didn’t seem overly tense, but the other prominent figures from various clans grew visibly anxious in an instant.
Liangqiu Chengfeng miscalculated?
Chu Feng needed to abandon the formation-breaking immediately?
Didn’t that mean Chu Feng’s attempt would fail?
And that they’d truly have no way to claim the treasure within the formation?
Yet, just as the crowd looked on with worry, Chu Feng said to Liangqiu Chengfeng, “Senior, don’t worry, Chu Feng came prepared.”
With that, Chu Feng’s hand brushed his Qiankun pouch, and an object appeared in his grasp.
“What’s that?”
Seeing what Chu Feng held, Liangqiu Chengfeng, previously fraught with concern, shifted his gaze, a spark of unexpected delight flashing in his worried eyes.
Because what Chu Feng held was a stone.
That stone bore a striking resemblance to the one Liangqiu Chengfeng had found within the boundary gate.
“Could it be?”
The moment he saw the stone, a thought struck Liangqiu Chengfeng, he suspected Chu Feng might have also found a key to breaking the formation within the boundary gate.
And that key was this stone.
As Liangqiu Chengfeng entertained this idea, Chu Feng placed the stone into the formation’s groove.
Buzz—
In an instant, a blinding light erupted, turning everyone’s vision white, rendering them unable to see anything.
All they could hear were sounds of shattering exploding from Chu Feng’s direction.
The booming noise persisted for quite a while.
Instinctively, people thought Chu Feng might have succeeded, that the formation might be broken.
They all wanted to rush to Chu Feng’s side immediately, eager to be the first to reach the treasure within the formation.
But they were powerless to act.
It turned out the white brilliance wasn’t just light, it carried a powerful binding force, now… everyone present was restrained.
They couldn’t move at all.
At that moment, the only one unbound was Chu Feng.
Not only was he free, but his vision wasn’t clouded by the white glare either.
That force couldn’t restrain him, nor could the white light obscure his sight.
Because Chu Feng stood at the formation’s core.
At that moment, boundary energy surged around Chu Feng, an immensely powerful force capable of annihilating everyone present.
And right now, that power was under Chu Feng’s command, as it all flowed toward him.
This was happening because of the two stones in Chu Feng’s hands.
Those two stones were the keys to breaking the formation, but now they had undergone a drastic transformation.
Their color remained unchanged, but they had turned into streams of energy, merging into Chu Feng’s palms.
Ultimately, those two streams of energy formed two symbolic seals imprinted on Chu Feng’s hands.
And that power became fully his to control.
If Chu Feng wished, he could, at that moment, use the formation’s power to wipe out everyone present and claim the treasure for himself.
But he didn’t, instead, he activated the formation to conceal this immense power, and at the same time… the binding force holding the others dissipated.
Along with that force vanished the white light that had blinded everyone.
“It’s broken, little friend Chu Feng, you actually did it.”
“Little friend Chu Feng, you’re incredible, if your grandfather and father could see you now, they’d surely be proud.”
Now filled with joy, the crowd lavished praise on Chu Feng without reservation.
When they saw with their own eyes the protective boundary dissipate and the treasure laid bare before them, their view of Chu Feng shifted once more, even their anger toward him fading.
Yet, the crowd still rushed to the treasure first, using their sensory techniques to immediately gauge its power.
“Little friend Chu Feng, I never imagined you’d also know the boundary gate held the key to breaking this formation, I truly underestimated you.”
By now, Liangqiu Chengfeng could stand, supported by Liangqiu Hongyue and Liangqiu Lanyue, and approached Chu Feng.
He remained terribly weak, almost like a dying man, but his face was alight with a joyful smile.
Though he’d long recognized Chu Feng’s exceptional talent, Chu Feng had still surprised him.
“Little friend Chu Feng, you failed to break the formation, and you damaged the treasure, you owe us an explanation.”
But just then, an angry voice rang out from the treasure’s direction.
It was Song Boqiu, glaring at Chu Feng with fury.
“Senior, why do you say that?” Chu Feng asked.
“I can’t sense the slightest trace of martial cultivation from this treasure, you’ve ruined it,” Song Boqiu said.
“Brother Song, let it go, it wasn’t easy for little friend Chu Feng either.”
“Yeah.”
Yet, after Song Boqiu spoke, some of the big shots who’d been sensing the treasure alongside him spoke up.
They’d only briefly examined the treasure with Song Boqiu, but in that short time, they’d gained immense benefits.
Liangqiu Chengfeng hadn’t lied, this was indeed an extraordinarily rare cultivation resource, valuable enough to spark a bloodbath in the Ancestral Martial Star Region.
And Song Boqiu claimed he couldn’t comprehend any martial cultivation from it, wasn’t that nonsense?
He was clearly picking a fight, deliberately targeting Chu Feng.
So they urged Song Boqiu to drop it.
Because this cultivation resource was so exceptional that even those who’d initially planned to trouble Chu Feng changed their minds.
They felt Chu Feng’s contributions truly warranted the cultivation resources they’d given him.
“Shut up, this has nothing to do with you, if anyone dares speak again, don’t blame me for being rude.” Song Boqiu’s rage-filled eyes swept over those who’d tried to劝说 him.
At that, those who’d spoken lowered their heads and fell silent.
They understood Song Boqiu was dead-set on dealing with Chu Feng.
If they pressed further, they’d be in trouble too, after all, Song Boqiu even dared to take on Li Taiyi, let alone them.
“Song Boqiu, this treasure is extraordinary, I’ve never seen a cultivation resource so rich with martial cultivation, and you say you can’t comprehend it?”
“Spouting such nonsense, doesn’t your conscience ache?” the Wuma Heavenly Clan leader asked coldly.
He’d been tending to the Chu Heavenly Clan leader’s injuries and hadn’t approached the treasure immediately, only coming over when Song Boqiu started harassing Chu Feng, wanting to see for himself.
And what he found convinced him that Song Boqiu was deliberately making trouble for Chu Feng.
