The sudden voice from behind jolted Chu Feng. He whirled around at once.
Yet there was nothing there.
He was certain, however, that he had just heard someone call out to him.
“May I ask who was speaking to me just now?”
“Senior?”
“Will you please show yourself?”
Chu Feng called out, hoping to summon the person who had addressed him.
Within the vast hall, only his own echo answered. Nothing else stirred.
Unwilling to give up, he raised his voice louder and louder.
“You little brat, you certainly run fast enough.”
At last came a reply, but the moment he heard it, Chu Feng’s heart sank.
It was the voices of the Black and White Evil Spirits.
Turning back, he saw that they had indeed reached the entrance to the great hall.
They were blocking his only way out.
“How did you get here so quickly?”
At the sight of them, Chu Feng’s brows knitted tightly.
By his calculations, the corridor was extremely long. They should not have arrived so soon.
“Brat, you escaped pretty fast yourself just now.”
“How did you manage it? You must have some supreme treasure on you, right?”
“Hand over that treasure and we two can take you safely out of here.”
“Otherwise… heh heh…”
The Black and White Evil Spirits stared at Chu Feng with malicious intent.
“A supreme treasure?”
“I already told you, Chu Hanxian is my grandfather.”
“In my grandfather’s domain, I can naturally come and go as I please. Why would I need a treasure?”
“Don’t forget, if not for me, neither of you could even have entered this place.”
Chu Feng declared gravely.
Against these two old monsters, intimidation was the only card he had left to play.
“Brat, even now you’re still trying to bluff your way through.”
“Do you really think the two of us will believe you any longer?”
The Black and White Evil Spirits sneered repeatedly. They no longer believed a word he said.
Rumble, rumble, rumble.
Suddenly, deep rumbles sounded from overhead.
Immediately afterwards, the ceiling of the hall began to shift.
Bronze bricks slid aside.
Then, countless figures dropped down from above.
In the blink of an eye, over a thousand figures filled the hall.
Every one of them was a human-bodied, wolf-headed monster.
They formed a tight circle, trapping Chu Feng in the centre.
“Brat, aren’t you the master of this place?”
“Let’s see if you can escape this time now that you’re completely surrounded.”
At this sight, gleeful, gloating smiles lifted the corners of the Black and White Evil Spirits’ mouths.
Swish.
Yet in the very next instant, every single monster dropped to their knees in perfect unison.
Not only did they clasp their fists in salute, they spoke all at once.
For a moment, their deep, powerful voices reverberated throughout the hall.
“We pay our respects to the Master!!!”
…
The scene left Chu Feng utterly stunned.
As for the Black and White Evil Spirits, their expressions became even more colourful.
What was going on?
Moments ago these monsters had wanted to kill this brat.
Now they were kneeling on the ground and calling him Master?
Master?
Could it be that he really was the master of this place?
Swish, swish, swish.
The next moment, the thousand kneeling monsters rose as one.
Not only did they stand, they all turned their gazes simultaneously onto the Black and White Evil Spirits.
“Those who offend the Master shall be killed without mercy!!!”
As the thousand monsters roared in unison, overwhelming killing intent surged towards the two elders.
“We hold these tokens! How dare you disregard rank and seniority?”
Seeing the danger, the Black and White Evil Spirits hurriedly brandished their tokens again.
“Those who offend the Master shall be killed without mercy!!!”
Yet this time, far from retreating at the sight of the tokens, the monsters’ killing intent grew even denser.
When they spoke again, a thousand waves of pressure crashed down onto the two elders at once.
Arghhh.
Unable to withstand that pressure, the Black and White Evil Spirits collapsed to the ground like dead dogs, completely immobilised.
The force was so great that their physical bodies began to crack and splinter.
“Young hero, we were wrong! Please spare us!”
The two elders began begging Chu Feng for mercy.
They now knew they had been mistaken. This Chu Feng truly was the master of this place.
But faced with their pleas, Chu Feng himself was at a loss.
Even he did not yet understand what was happening.
Swish.
In that instant, the monsters closed in. Drawing the long blades from their waists, they slashed down at the two men.
In a flash, blood sprayed everywhere.
When the monsters finally stopped, the Black and White Evil Spirits were covered in blade wounds, soaked in blood, utterly unrecognisable. They were completely and irrevocably dead.
The monsters sheathed their blades, saluted Chu Feng once more, then leapt into the air and vanished back into the ceiling.
Even the terrifying aura disappeared without a trace.
If not for the corpses of the Black and White Evil Spirits still lying there, Chu Feng would scarcely believe those monsters had ever appeared.
Everything had happened too suddenly, like a dream, like an illusion.
Especially the fact that they had called him Master.
What on earth was going on?
The monsters that appeared at the entrance earlier had clearly intended to kill him.
He had only survived thanks to the divine deer’s power.
The monsters here, apart from being far more numerous, were identical in aura and appearance to those at the entrance.
How had they suddenly acknowledged him as their master?
Could the master of this place really be his grandfather?
Yet when Chu Feng scanned his surroundings, no other figure appeared.
The magnificent hall remained empty. Apart from himself, there was no living soul.
Of course, there were also two others, the now-dead Black and White Evil Spirits.
Chu Feng walked over to the corpses.
Though they were dead, their source energy remained.
These two had been extremely powerful, far stronger than the Dragon Clan Chief and the others.
Their source energy must not be wasted.
Chu Feng took out special containers and collected both men’s source energy, planning to give it to Lady Queen for cultivation once she awoke.
After that, he removed their Cosmos Sacks.
Given their strength, the Black and White Evil Spirits were bound to possess many treasures.
When he picked up their Cosmos Sacks, he discovered protective formations on them, formations that only the two of them could open.
But now that they were dead, the formations had become extremely fragile.
Using his spirit techniques, Chu Feng quickly broke them.
And when he saw what lay inside their Cosmos Sacks, even he grew excited.
“These two old monsters really were something.”
“They collected so many incredible items.”
Chu Feng became truly exhilarated.
The treasures inside the Cosmos Sacks were indeed plentiful.
There were Venerable taboo martial skills, rare curios, miraculous pills and medicines.
There were also various cultivation resources.
Most importantly, there was a black battle-axe and a white sickle.
The aura emitted by these two weapons was extraordinary, far surpassing half-complete Venerable armaments.
They were genuine Venerable armaments, true Venerable armaments.
Although neither weapon came close to the Ancient Era’s Heroic Sword that Chu Feng had obtained from the Ancient Era’s Burial Soldier Tomb, they were still undeniably Venerable armaments.
Venerable armaments were priceless treasures. Just these two alone were worth a fortune beyond measure.
Unfortunately, despite their power, both weapons carried restrictions.
Chu Feng could not wield them at all.
He guessed that only Martial Venerable experts could unleash their power.
Regardless, Chu Feng claimed every single treasure inside the two Cosmos Sacks for himself.
Although he had so far discovered nothing else of value in this secret ground, the contents of these Cosmos Sacks alone already made the journey worthwhile.
“This old one has been waiting here for quite some time.”
At that moment, another voice rang out from the depths of the hall.
It was the exact same voice that had called to Chu Feng earlier.
Hearing it again, Chu Feng spun around at once, terrified of missing anything.
This time, he finally saw who had been speaking, what manner of sacred being it truly was!!!
