"This…"
"Am I hallucinating?"
Everyone around felt it was beyond belief.
That was a different flame.
Ordinary people wouldn't even dare to touch it.
But Yang Cheng actually swallowed it straight into his mouth?
The reason he dared was because he possessed the Samadhi True Fire.
Compared to Samadhi True Fire, the Azure Lotus Demonic Flame was nothing at all.
Last time, Zhang Shifan's different flame had already been devoured by him.
Now Zuo Qiuyu had brought him another meal.
In the blink of an eye, the Azure Lotus Demonic Flame was completely swallowed by Yang Cheng.
At once, Zuo Qiuyu's spirit suffered a heart-ripping pain.
It felt as if someone had dug out her organs.
"Puh!"
She spat out blood, face pale. Her body swayed and collapsed backward onto the mat behind her.
She realized she had lost the Azure Lotus Demonic Flame.
That terrifying spiritual backlash brought her inhuman torment.
"Senior sister!"
Murong Yun cried out in shock.
Yang Cheng didn't stop moving.
Swish!
No one even saw how he moved. In the next instant, he appeared behind Monk Benkong without warning.
Benkong, locked in battle with Lin Shu, suddenly felt his hair stand on end, a deadly crisis closing in.
But it was already too late to react.
A fist imprint slammed into him.
Benkong cultivated the path of the flesh body, his defenses immense.
But at this moment, Yang Cheng's punch pierced straight through his body, his heart crushed into powder.
Benkong stiffened, then collapsed heavily.
He was killed in a single punch.
Next was Granny Tian.
She tried to flee, but it was too late.
Yang Cheng hurled a punch at her from afar.
Though she had run far, half her body exploded under that punch. She crashed down lifeless.
Jin Yi was utterly horrified, burning his blood to escape with a desperate technique.
Yang Cheng pointed a finger at him.
Jin Yi hurriedly raised his iron fan to block, but the fan was pierced through.
Puh!
Everyone clearly heard his dantian being shattered, his qi flooding out uncontrollably.
Everyone understood—Jin Yi was crippled.
But by then, he had already fled to the edge of the crowd.
Yang Cheng didn't chase. That mercy left Jin Yi with his life.
The square fell silent.
In the blink of an eye, Monk Benkong, Granny Tian, Jin Yi, and Zuo Qiuyu—these experts—were either dead or crippled.
The strength Yang Cheng displayed shocked everyone to the core.
Lin Shu quietly returned to Yang Cheng's side.
At a glance, she looked like nothing more than an ordinary maid, completely unlike the expert who had just fought Benkong evenly.
Yang Cheng looked at Chu Xianzhi. "These people caused trouble at your Chu family's Dao Assembly. I dealt with them for you. You don't have a problem with that, do you?"
Chu Xianzhi's face was ugly, but he didn't dare voice any dissatisfaction.
The corpses of Monk Benkong and Granny Tian still lay there, eyes open as if staring at him.
"Of course not," Chu Xianzhi said through clenched teeth.
"Good. Then let's talk about your Chu family."
Yang Cheng said, "I trusted your Chu family, so I came to join this Dao Assembly. Instead, I ran into such deadly danger. As the host, how will your Chu family compensate me?"
The crowd was speechless.
This guy killed so ruthlessly, and now he still wanted compensation?
Chu Xianzhi's eyes turned dark. "What does Your Excellency want?"
"I heard the Chu family has a young phoenix corpse. That will do as compensation."
Yang Cheng spoke.
Chu Xianzhi's expression changed drastically.
The people around were also shocked. None expected Yang Cheng's appetite to be so huge.
The Chu family's strength largely came from possessing that young phoenix corpse.
The corpse emitted phoenix Dao aura, equal to a cultivation booster.
By asking for it, Yang Cheng was clearly trying to dig up the Chu family's foundation. No way would the Chu family agree.
Sure enough, Chu Xianzhi said coldly, "Do you think that's possible?"
"Not possible? Then you'll have to die," Yang Cheng replied calmly.
Lin Shu's gaze had already locked onto Chu Xianzhi.
Chu Xianzhi's body stiffened.
"On Chu family grounds, you covet our clan's town-securing treasure, and you even say you'll kill my Chu family disciples. Who gave you such courage?"
A cold voice suddenly sounded.
Hearing it, Chu Xianzhi instantly relaxed.
Everyone then saw a purple-robed youth with sword brows and starry eyes, noble bearing, appear.
Behind him followed Chu Meng's father, Chu Daoxing.
But it was obvious Chu Daoxing's status wasn't even close to his.
"Who is that?" someone asked.
"The Chu family's prodigy, also the number one genius of the Western Regions. At thirty years old, he's a peak Martial Saint—Chu Xuzhi," another person explained.
The ones who had asked, and those who didn't know Chu Xuzhi, all held their breath when they heard that.
The strongest of those Yang Cheng defeated earlier was only a Martial Emperor Ninth Layer.
Chu Xuzhi was a Martial Saint—and not just that, but a peak Martial Saint.
That level wasn't even in the same world as those before.
It felt like sheep fighting in a pen, when suddenly an elephant charged in.
Most who knew of Chu Xuzhi already had burning eyes of fanaticism.
This was the most dazzling genius in a thousand years in the Western Regions.
Now, they were lucky enough to witness his arrival.
"Brother."
Chu Xianzhi faced Chu Xuzhi with reverence all over her face.
Though he was Chu Xuzhi's younger brother, seeing him felt like a junior seeing an elder.
Chu Xuzhi looked at him. "You disappoint me too much. Just a small matter, and you handled it so badly."
Chu Xianzhi lowered his head nervously. "Brother, it wasn't that I wanted to oppose this man. He's too greedy. His conditions were too much. He even wanted the young phoenix corpse of our Chu family…"
"Fool."
Chu Xuzhi said, "You still don't see where you were wrong. My Chu family has always acted upright and aboveboard. Why is it that when it comes to you, everything becomes petty tricks?
If you wanted that divine sword, you could have acted in the name of the Chu family. Why go gathering all kinds of messy, low-level people?"
Chu Xianzhi was stunned. "Those people…"
"In front of me, don't play dumb. And there's no need to lie to anyone either," Chu Xuzhi said. "If you did it, you did it. As a member of the Chu family, never make the mistake of not daring to admit what you've done."
Chu Xianzhi looked ashamed. "Brother, I know I was wrong."
Then Chu Xuzhi turned to Yang Cheng. "Hand over the divine sword without conditions. My Chu family can forgive you. Otherwise, you'll be seen as provoking the Chu family."
Ding!
[Host has encountered Chu Xuzhi. He also revealed that those sinister figures before were sent by Chu Xianzhi to kill the host.]
[Monk Benkong, Granny Tian, Jin Yi, and Zuo Qiuyu—aside from Granny Tian who was a Martial Sovereign, the others were Martial True Gods. The Chu family laid this killing trap with ruthless intent.]
[But they didn't know that the Empress of the Dark Night, Lin Shu, was by the host's side.]
[The Empress of the Dark Night is a Yang God powerhouse. It was natural for Monk Benkong and the others' siege to fail. Even if Chu Xuzhi comes, he still won't pose any threat to the host.]