“What?” Wuming Xingyun and the other three turned ashen at Master Liangqiu’s words.
Linghu Hongfei had secured only two Boundary Swords, with no chance of claiming the remaining three.
If the number of Boundary Swords collected determined the odds of success, then two out of five was far from promising.
“Don’t panic. Heaven’s been kind to us this time—it’ll surprise us yet,” Master Liangqiu said, his gaze shifting to the Rat Zodiac entrance.
Liangqiu Chengfeng and the others followed his look, puzzled. They didn’t grasp his meaning or the source of his confidence.
Yet, seeing Master Liangqiu’s calm, calculated demeanor—so devoid of fear, so in control—their chilled hearts began to thaw.
At this point, they had no choice but to trust him.
Inside the formation, however, the young geniuses were far more rattled.
Facing a Supreme Realm monster, even Linghu Hongfei was outmatched. They stood no chance.
“Brother Hongfei, what do we do?” Linghu Yueyue whispered, her usual arrogance replaced by timidity.
“Everyone, hold still. It hasn’t noticed us yet—don’t provoke it,” Linghu Hongfei warned via secret transmission, his caution palpable.
He was on edge, eyeing the thirty-thousand-meter titan piercing the sky.
His wariness made sense to all.
The juniors inside were more terrified than he was.
A Supreme Realm being could snuff them out with a sneeze.
“Big Brother Hongfei, something’s moving on its foot,” someone pointed out.
All eyes turned to the monster’s foot, where space twisted and spun, boundary power spilling from the vortex.
A boundary gate formed, and everyone’s expressions shifted.
A figure plummeted from it, crashing onto the monster’s foot.
And save for Linghu Hongfei, nearly everyone inside recognized him.
“Chu Feng… how did he just appear here?”
It was indeed Chu Feng.
His sudden arrival stunned not just those inside but also Liangqiu Chengfeng and the others outside.
The formation’s only entrances were the twelve zodiac gates—no other way in.
How had Chu Feng entered, and through a spontaneously opened boundary gate no less? It was outrageously bold!
Liangqiu Chengfeng and the four instinctively looked to Master Liangqiu.
“Keep watching—you’ll understand,” he said.
They turned back to Chu Feng, sensing he might be Master Liangqiu’s ace.
“What’s wrong with Chu Feng? Why’s he covered in wounds?”
Soon, they noticed his dire state.
Bruised and battered, he was unconscious.
Yet his injuries healed at an astonishing rate, and he stirred awake.
“Brother, don’t move!” Linghu Hongfei’s urgent transmission reached Chu Feng’s ears.
But Chu Feng seemed deaf to it. He stood, legs wobbly from weakness, then collapsed with a thud.
The monster was colossal—its foot alone a small mountain. Chu Feng, a speck atop it, should’ve been negligible.
Yet when he sat, the creature let out a low growl.
A mere rumble, but louder than a million thunderclaps, it pierced the juniors’ ears painfully.
They panicked, firing off secret warnings to Chu Feng, begging him to stop, terrified he’d enrage the beast and doom them all.
But Chu Feng ignored them.
Not his fault, really.
In the hidden passage, he’d endured torment. Though awake now, his mind was foggy. Their transmissions buzzed like flies in his ears.
A strange sensation coursed through him, as if he’d undergone some transformation.
Finally, his gaze brightened. He looked up, taking in his surroundings.
Linghu Yueyue, Wuma Shengjie, the Liangqiu sisters, Tantai Yue’er—even Linghu Hongfei. And, of course, the Supreme Realm monster.
“I see,” he muttered, a grin spreading wide.
The trials in the passage had been brutal, but now he understood why.
With that realization, he leapt, soaring thirty thousand meters to land atop the monster’s head.
“Is he insane?”
“What’s he doing? Can’t he hear us?”
The sight horrified everyone, especially the juniors inside, their faces drained of color.
A Supreme Realm monster—and while they scrambled to avoid provoking it, Chu Feng seemed hellbent on doing the opposite.
“Chu Feng, get down! That’s a Supreme Realm beast—if you piss it off, we’re all screwed!”
“Brother Chu Feng, don’t act rashly—the consequences are unthinkable!”
“Chu Feng, what are you doing? Get down, or you’ll get my sister and me killed!”
Desperate, they bombarded him with transmissions, even Linghu Hongfei and the Liangqiu sisters joining in.
Now fully lucid, Chu Feng heard every word clearly.
Their fear and panic bled through each message.
Standing on the monster’s head, he flashed them a faint smile, raised his fist, and did something that left them all dumbstruck.
*Swish—*
His fist slammed down with a deafening *boom*, striking the monster’s skull.
The juniors froze, faces ashen, eyes brimming with despair.
No exaggeration—they braced for death the moment he struck.
A bunch of Celestial and Martial Immortals provoking a Supreme Realm beast? If that wasn’t suicide, what was?
*Rumble—*
Then came a piercing roar. The monster’s body shattered.
Golden light rained down like a storm.
“This… this can’t be real, right?”
No one could believe their eyes.
It looked for all the world like Chu Feng had obliterated a Supreme Realm monster with one punch!!!
