Dare to touch my maid? Seeking death!

Huo Teng's voice echoed across the sea, filled with a condescending superiority, as if asking Qiong Xiao to leave Lin Feng was a tremendous favor.

The few followers behind him eagerly chimed in, looking at Lin Feng as if he were an eyesore, like a piece of trash.

However, no matter how they praised and belittled, the two people on the scene remained in their listless state.

Qiong Xiao's face was cold, not even sparing them an extra glance.

Beside her, Lin Feng remained silent from beginning to end, as if the magnificent Immortal Boat before them and the noisy cultivators were nothing but air.

This utter disregard was more infuriating than any fierce retort.

The confident smile on Huo Teng's face finally vanished bit by bit, replaced by a dark, sullen rage.

What was his status?

Young Master of the Fire Spirit Immortal Sect, and a guest elder of the East Sea Dragon Palace!

In this sea area, who wouldn't respectfully call him "Young Master Huo" upon seeing him?

His主动 initiating conversation was already giving this woman immense face; how dare she be so unappreciative?

And that mortal ant beside her, how dare he pretend to be deaf and mute?

He was simply courting death!

A surge of offended anger burned fiercely in Huo Teng's chest, incinerating his last shred of feigned composure.

Since they refused the toast, they would have to drink the forfeit!

A naked lust and brutality flashed in Huo Teng's eyes as he signaled to two guards beside him, both at the Golden Immortal cultivation level.

The meaning was clear.

Crippled the man, and bring the woman over!

"Heh heh, Young Master, just you watch!"

One of the guards, a burly man with a face full of coarse flesh, immediately understood.

He let out a sinister grin, took a step forward, and the pressure belonging to a Golden Immortal expert erupted, crushing down towards Lin Feng and Qiong Xiao.

"Fairy, it's your great fortune from eight lifetimes that our Young Master fancies you! Don't mistake kindness for weakness!"

"Since the Fairy won't come up willingly, we'll have to invite you!"

The other guard, with a sharp mouth and monkey-like cheeks, also let out a strange laugh. The two, one on the left and one on the right, transformed into streams of light and pounced towards Qiong Xiao like hungry tigers.

In their eyes, this was simply a task that couldn't be easier.

A female cultivator, her aura seemed strong, but she was definitely no match for the combined efforts of two Golden Immortals.

As for the man?

He was just a mortal. The mere pressure of a Golden Immortal was enough to make his soul collapse and kill him on the spot.

Two sinful hands, flashing with immortal light, from left and right, carrying mockery and greed, reached directly for Qiong Xiao's fair, jade-like wrist.

Their lewd posture clearly intended to take liberties while apprehending her.

On the Immortal Boat, the corner of Huo Teng's mouth curved into a cruel and self-satisfied sneer once more.

He could already see the exquisite fairy falling into his hands the next second, while that annoying mortal would turn into a cold corpse, sinking into the East Sea to feed the fish.

Qiong Xiao's pretty face instantly turned ice-cold.

Mere two Golden Immortals dared to act presumptuously before her?

If not for her Master being present, she would have already taken out her magic treasures and annihilated these ignorant fools.

But at this moment, she subconsciously shrank further into Lin Feng's embrace.

Because she knew, with Master here, it wasn't her turn to act.

Just as those two hands were about to touch Qiong Xiao's sleeve.

Just as those two Golden Immortal guards wore triumphant sneers on their faces.

Lin Feng, who had been silent all along, as if he didn't exist in this world, finally spoke.

His voice was calm, not loud, without any emotional fluctuation.

It was as if he were stating the simplest of facts.

"You dare touch my Maidservant?"

"Courting death!"

The moment his voice fell, Lin Feng still had his arm around Qiong Xiao's waist, not having moved an inch.

However, an invisible, intangible, yet terrifyingly indescribable pressure instantly enveloped the entire world, centered on him!

There was no earth-shattering momentum, no phenomena of Laws manifesting.

It was as if this world, this space-time, had been put on pause at this moment.

The waves froze.

The sea breeze ceased.

Even the clouds in the sky were motionless, as if they had turned into a static scroll painting.

The two Golden Immortal guards who were lunging towards Qiong Xiao suddenly froze, their sneers turning rigid.

Their bodies, as if they had slammed into an invisible wall forged from divine metal, instantly became fixed in mid-air.

Their lunging posture, their outstretched arms, even the lewd expressions on their faces, remained perfectly preserved.

Still.

Time seemed to have lost all meaning for them.

"Hmm?"

On the Immortal Boat, Huo Teng's cold smirk also froze.

He looked at the bizarre scene with confusion, his brows furrowed tightly.

What was going on?

Why had Old Zhang and Old Li stopped?

"What are you doing? Hurry up and bring the person up!"

Huo Teng snapped impatiently.

However, the two Golden Immortal guards remained suspended in mid-air like sculptures, completely unresponsive to his command.

No, it wasn't that they were unresponsive.

It was that... they were utterly incapable of responding!

A bone-chilling fear, like a cold wind blowing from the deepest abyss, instantly swept through their entire souls.

To their utter horror, they discovered that the spiritual power within them, the Golden Immortal spiritual power that surged like a mighty river, had become more stagnant than a pool of dead water at that moment!

Their Primordial Spirits were completely imprisoned by a terrifying power that was irresistible, incomprehensible, and unimaginable, rendering even a single thought incapable of movement!

Their pride in their comprehension of the Laws of heaven and earth was brutally erased by that power, as if they had never possessed it!

In that instant, they were no longer the high and mighty Golden Immortals they once were.

They had become two complete mortals! No, worse than mortals!

They had become two conscious stones, stripped of everything except their ability to think!

What kind of power was this?

What kind of Spiritual Power was this?

Their consciousness screamed madly in endless fear.

With great difficulty, inch by inch, their gazes turned towards the man who had remained indifferent from beginning to end.

Before, in their eyes, he was an ant they could crush with a flick of their fingers.

But now, when their eyes met Lin Feng's again, they no longer saw a person.

They saw an abyss.

A chaotic, eternally silent abyss that had swallowed all light, all laws, and all life!

That was their natural predator!

A being of a higher order, absolutely and overwhelmingly superior in terms of life form!

It was like an ant gazing at the heavens, or a mortal glimpsing a deity!

Beyond the most primal, purest fear stemming from their life instincts, no other emotion could arise in their hearts.

"What's going on..."

On the Immortal Boat, Huo Teng and his several lackeys finally sensed that something was wrong.

The complexions of the two Golden Immortal guards turned visibly pale at an alarming rate, their eyes wide open, bloodshot, as if they had witnessed the most terrifying sight in the world.

Thin trickles of black blood began to seep slowly from their seven orifices.

And the man they were facing, the man they had always regarded as a mortal ant, had merely spoken a single sentence.

He hadn't even moved a finger.

An indescribable chill climbed Huo Teng's spine, surging upwards towards the crown of his head.

He wasn't an idiot.

The power that could turn two Golden Immortal powerhouses into these living dead in an instant was far beyond his comprehension!

Grand Unity Golden Immortal?

No! Absolutely impossible!

Even a peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal wouldn't be able to do it so effortlessly!

Could it be... Grand Unity?

A Grand Unity Golden Immortal?

The mere thought made Huo Teng's scalp explode, his blood seeming to freeze.

I... I just tried to threaten and bribe a maidservant of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and even mocked that mighty being as a mortal ant?

It's over.

Those two words, like two colossal hammers weighing billions of pounds, smashed fiercely into Huo Teng's heart.

His legs began to tremble uncontrollably, his teeth chattering and clicking against each other.

And at that very moment, the man he had regarded as an ant finally, slowly, shifted his indifferent gaze from the two "statues" to the Immortal Boat.

To his face.