Lin Feng fled desperately. Relying on the last Qi Restoration Pill he had and his incredible willpower, he finally escaped Great Bamboo Peak.
"Hoo~~"
Outside Great Bamboo Peak was a bamboo forest. Feeling that the killing intent behind him hadn't appeared, Lin Feng sat down against a rock and gasped for air.
"Master, thank you for earlier. If you hadn't acted in time, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to leave Great Bamboo Peak."
"..."
There was no response from within the Soul-Nurturing Ring.
"Master, what's wrong? Did you use too much spiritual energy earlier?"
"Stop, Lin Feng. Stop practicing those evil techniques. You've seen it yourself; the Mystic Sects won't tolerate an evil cultivator."
Lin Feng's expression immediately darkened upon hearing this.
"I thought Master knew me best. I didn't expect you to think of me this way."
"..."
"Because of this face, I was mocked by my clan since childhood, suppressed by the neighbors. Everyone isolated me. My childhood was spent in such an environment.
That day, when I was beaten to near death by the Lin clan and thrown into a cesspit, I vowed that I would rise above everyone. I would make those who harmed me pay the price.
Merciful heavens, the Profound Darkness Treasure Record gave me a glimmer of hope. I could only rely on it to get everything I desired."
"But those innocent people didn't provoke you. Why did you kill them!"
"They aren't innocent!"
Lin Feng's expression gradually became twisted and ferocious.
"They, who were clearly far inferior to me in talent, could easily enjoy everything I couldn't get as a child. Do you know what it feels like to be trampled underfoot by a group of ants!"
"I hate the injustice of this world, I hate the disdainful looks they'll give me in the future when they look at my ugly face. So, they deserve to die!"
"Are you crazy? Lin Feng?"
"Yes, I am crazy!"
"When I join the Qingyun Sect, feeling the gazes of everyone around me, I finally felt the meaning of living.
This is the life I want. The Qingyun Sect is just the beginning. Damn it, I was just one step away. Who exactly is that Shen Zhao! Why did he have to ruin my plan."
"..."
Silence descended once more within the Soul-Nurturing Ring.
The more Lin Feng spoke, the more contorted his expression became, the more unwilling he felt.
He had once had a dream, a dream where he had truly become a Qingyun Sect disciple, inheriting thousands of years of Qingyun Sect's legacy, and gaining the unanimous adoration of all the disciples. Everything in the dream seemed so real.
However, now he understood that a dream was, after all, just a dream.
After the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, Lin Feng vaguely heard numerous footsteps coming from the direction of Great Bamboo Peak, so he decisively got up and walked towards the depths of the bamboo forest.
Whoosh!
Just as he was focused on moving forward, a palm strike came whistling through the air towards him.
Lin Feng, using the Seven Star Steps, barely dodged the attack. Immediately, he grasped the Evil Blade and roared, "Who is it!"
The next moment, Su Yunying slowly emerged from a part of the bamboo forest, dragging the Lone Goose Spear.
Lin Feng's eyes lit up when he saw the woman opposite him.
"What a beauty!"
He swallowed hard. He had thought Lu Xuanji was already beautiful, but compared to the woman before him, she was far inferior.
However, Su Yunying's beautiful face was now incredibly grim, her clear eyes filled with unprecedented resentment, which made Lin Feng shudder.
Su Yunying stopped twenty paces away from Lin Feng, clenching the long spear in her hand. A phantom of the Mysterious Phoenix appeared behind her.
"What is that?"
Lin Feng's pupils contracted.
Su Yunying's red lips parted slightly: "Do you know what it's like to have your bloodline drained, to watch yourself die in despair?"
Lin Feng frowned upon hearing this: "Young lady, what are you talking about? I don't understand?"
Su Yunying ignored him, continuing word by word: "Do you know how painful it is to have your tendons and bones ripped away!?"
"Do you know how cruel and helpless it is to have your core essence dug out and become a cripple, left to rot in the wilderness!?"
With each question, Su Yunying took a step forward.
Lin Feng was clearly intimidated by Su Yunying's momentum, and began to retreat continuously.
"Pay with your life for what you've done!"
With a sharp cry, Su Yunying decisively raised her spear and thrust it towards Lin Feng with unbelievable speed.
"Damn, I've run into a madwoman!"
Lin Feng was caught off guard and could only meet the attack hastily.
However, Su Yunying's spear techniques were fierce, each move merciless. After only a few exchanges, Lin Feng was left with only the strength to parry.
Seeing that he would surely die here if this continued, he roared and used blood to sacrifice the blade.
Immediately, the Evil Blade transformed into a skeletal evil shadow, and with a single slash, it actually unleashed the power of Daoist Charm.
Clang!
Amidst the crisscrossing blade energy, it had already struck Su Yunying's delicate body.
However, Su Yunying was completely unharmed. A phantom aura armor appeared around her, blocking the fatal blow. It was the Dragon Scale Armor that Shen Zhao had given her.
"Impossible!"
Lin Feng's face was filled with disbelief.
"Give me your life!"
The move didn't stop, and the spear arrived first.
After more than ten moves, Su Yunying's attacks became increasingly fierce. Lin Feng, unable to dodge in time, was hit by three spear strikes in a row.
But fortunately, none of them hit any vital points.
"Lunatic!"
Seeing himself cornered, Lin Feng suddenly took out a pill and decisively popped it into his mouth.
The next moment, Lin Feng's aura surged, forcibly raising his cultivation to the peak of the Nascent Yuan Realm.
With the increase in cultivation, the power of the Evil Blade in his hand became even more intense. Amidst the clash of blade and spear, Lin Feng actually showed signs of turning the tables.
At this moment, Su Yunying spun the Lone Goose Spear in her hand. The next moment, the cloth wrapped around the spearhead immediately turned into scattered fragments.
Instantly, the world's winds and clouds changed, a sign of the world phenomenon produced by an Emperor-Grade Spiritual Weapon.
On Great Bamboo Peak…
"A world phenomenon? What's going on?"
"That's a sign of an Emperor-Grade Spiritual Weapon appearing!"
"What! An Emperor-Grade Spiritual Weapon?!"
"Where is it?!"
"Great Bamboo Peak!"
Countless disciples of the Qingyun Sect immediately flew towards the bamboo forest.
At the same time, the chief disciples of the seven major sects also sensed the changes in the world and rushed towards the bamboo forest.
Within the bamboo forest, Lin Feng, witnessing the spearhead with its fiery red aura, was already shocked beyond measure.
"You actually possess an Emperor-Grade Spiritual Weapon?"
"Die!"
The spear techniques unleashed by the Emperor-Grade Spiritual Weapon each contained powerful Daoist Charm, suppressing Lin Feng to the point where he couldn't even parry.
His Evil Blade, a top-grade Earth-rank weapon, was utterly unable to exert any evil force against the Emperor-Grade Lone Goose Spear, suppressed as if it were mere scrap iron.
Clang!
The Lone Goose Spear swept across, and Lin Feng instinctively raised his blade to block.
The Evil Blade shattered instantly upon the collision of the two spiritual weapons.
Unable to dwell on the sorrow of the Evil Blade's destruction, Lin Feng, under the assault of the Daoist Charm, felt his qi and blood churning, with multiple internal injuries piling up.
"Die, die, die! Why won't you die! Die, ah~ hahahaha~"
Su Yunying's smile was now crazed and demonic, completely different from her usual pure and sunny demeanor. Her attacks were purely offensive, as if she were gradually being consumed by a heart demon.
Seeing the effects of the medicine wearing off, and with Su Yunying seemingly possessed and intent on killing him, Lin Feng had no choice but to shout again, "Master! Save me!"
The next moment, the Soul-Nurturing Ring shone brightly, and the Woman in Green's spirit body once again stood before Lin Feng.
With a raised sword, she blocked a fatal blow for Lin Feng.
However, the backlash from the Emperor-Grade Spiritual Weapon forced the cold and elegant Woman in Green to retreat more than ten steps.
"Get out of the way!"
Su Yunying's eyes were bloodshot. Facing the obstruction of a strong opponent, she was willing to surpass her limits, mobilizing all her cultivation, and forcing her Mysterious Phoenix bloodline to ignite.
Immediately, the Mysterious Phoenix reappeared, its flames of fury surging towards the Woman in Green.
The Woman in Green only frowned slightly, her cold and aloof expression not changing in the slightest. With a mere swing of her sword, space twisted, and the heavens and earth trembled. The bamboo forest was reduced to nothingness with a single blow.
After that one move, the Woman in Green was surprised to see that Su Yunying hadn't retreated even a single step.
Su Yunying's eyes were bloodshot, and her face was extremely pale. Her cultivation had also risen from the sixth rank of the Soul Sea to the seventh rank in the clash just now.
"If you try to stop me, you'll die too!"
With a sweep of the Lone Goose Spear, the Mysterious Phoenix phantom swirled around, forcing even the Woman in Green to retreat several steps.
"Master! Kill her!"
Lin Feng immediately urged the spirit of the Woman in Green.
But the Woman in Green just shook her head indifferently.
She was only a wisp of remnant soul now, and against Su Yunying, who had awakened the Mysterious Phoenix bloodline and was wielding an Emperor-Grade Spiritual Weapon, she had no confidence of a quick victory.
To be precise, the girl in front of him was a more terrifying opponent than Liang Hao.
The key was, she already showed signs of going berserk.
"You won't let me? Then you die too, hahahaha~~"
Su Yunying's miserable laughter made Lin Feng's scalp tingle. He looked at the Woman in Green uncertainly, as if asking her if she could ensure his safety.
Just then, Shen Zhao, who had noticed the commotion in the bamboo forest, arrived in time.
Seeing this scene, his pupils shrank instantly: "Girl, what are you doing?"
"I want to pull out his tendons, drain his blood, and cut off his limbs. I want him to suffer! Ahahaha…"
Hearing such insane words, Shen Zhao shouted, "How disgusting!" and immediately ran towards Su Yunying.
He knew that if he was any later, this girl would likely fall victim to Qi Deviation and be ruined completely.
Just as the Lone Goose Spear and the woman in green's sword beam crossed paths once more, Shen Zhao positioned himself directly between them. With one hand, he gripped the Lone Goose Spear's blade, and with the other, he blocked the chilling light, preventing a tragedy from unfolding.
"It's you?"
When the woman in green looked up at Shen Zhao, her originally icy face was momentarily stunned, and then her dark, gloomy pupils instantly brightened.
"Get back!"
Shen Zhao roared, and the South Bright Flames within him erupted, instantly forcing the two of them back.
"Go!"
Lin Feng seized the opportunity and immediately made his escape.
Before the Woman in Green could say anything, her spirit body immediately dissipated, turning into a ray of spiritual light that chased after Lin Feng in the direction he had fled.
"Don't run, I want to kill you! Kill you! Kill, kill, kill, kill!"
With the target escaping, Su Yunying's killing intent surged, as if she didn't recognize Shen Zhao, and directly swung her spear to attack him.
"Holy shit!"
Shen Zhao didn't have time to worry about Lin Feng; what he needed to do now was to calm down Su Yunying.
After exchanging a few blows, he embraced Su Yunying and shouted, "Girl, wake up! Wake up!"
"Let go of me! Let go of me!"
"If you continue like this, you'll become a demon!"
"So what if I'm possessed! I want to kill him!"
"I promise you, I will help you kill him, but you must calm down now!"
Seeing the girl in his arms struggling, Shen Zhao steeled his heart. He directly channeled the South Bright Flames, turning them into two spiritual weapons at his fingertips, and pressed them against her temples.
The South Bright energy entered her body, and the frantic Su Yunying immediately calmed down.
"Big Brother Shen…"
After regaining consciousness, Su Yunying stared blankly at the Shen Zhao in front of her. After calling out softly, she lost consciousness again.
"There, it's okay, it's okay."
Shen Zhao gently comforted Su Yunying and finally breathed a long sigh of relief.
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