Ling Yue'er Wants to Fuck Lin Feng?

Lin Feng was feeling irritable.

This irritability stemmed from the loneliness of standing too high to bear the cold, from the emptiness of seeking defeat in solitude.

To put it more plainly, he had farmed every low-level mob on the server by himself. His experience bar was practically growing mold, yet he could not find anywhere to level up.

He glanced at his status panel, and the tedium that belonged to the strong grew a little thicker in his heart.

[Host: Lin Feng]

[Realm: Half-step Dan Yuan Realm]

[Art: Nine Yang Limitless Art (Beginner)]

[Martial Skill: Abyssal Path Three Slashes (Beginner)]

[Movement Technique: Treading Snow Without Trace (Beginner)]

[Crit Multiplier: 135x]

[Crit Points: 102350]

"Ugh..."

Lin Feng let out a long sigh. This was already the seventeenth time he had sighed this month.

Ever since he had treated the Li Family's assassins like an all-you-can-eat buffet—chopping down one when one came, and slaughtering a pair when two came—

The underworld of Nan Yan Commandery City seemed to have entered a law-abiding society overnight. Not even a thug snatching candied hawthorn from children in broad daylight could be found.

Over the past few days, the "takeout heads" he had painstakingly captured were all insignificant little thieves or petty demons Huang Fugui had dug out from every nook and cranny. The Crit Points they provided were not even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.

Even so, with small streams gathering into a river, his Crit Multiplier had steadily risen to 135x, while his Crit Points had finally broken through the hundred-thousand mark.

"Master, you should be content."

Huang Fugui squatted on Lin Feng's shoulder, fanning him with its tail as it advised in the tone of a well-fed man who did not know the hunger of the starving.

"With your strength, you're the sky of Nan Yan Commandery now. If you so much as stamp your foot, the whole commandery city will tremble three times. I think you can lie flat now—take in that little lass from the City Lord's Mansion and live a shameless, carefree life every day. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"

Lin Feng ignored its crude nonsense.

"It's enough for me to break through to the Dan Yuan Realm."

"Then what are you waiting for?"

Huang Fugui's eyes lit up. "Master, once you break through, you'll be able to walk sideways through Nan Yan Commandery!"

"You don't understand."

Lin Feng shook his head, a trace of gravity flashing through his eyes.

"On the path of martial arts, breaking through from the True Qi Realm to the Dan Yuan Realm is a leap in one's life level, from the inside out. At that time, the qi vortex inside a martial artist's body resonates with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, condensing a Dan Yuan Golden Core within the dantian."

"Though the process is not as exaggerated as those storybooks claim, with nine heavens of divine lightning descending upon the world, the resonance of heaven and earth is real. Once the breakthrough begins, all spiritual energy within ten li will gather toward me, forming a massive spiritual-energy vortex. At that point, every expert above the Dan Yuan Realm in Nan Yan Commandery will sense my presence immediately."

Huang Fugui was left dumbfounded, nodding as though it understood but did not quite understand.

"Master, you mean... the commotion will be too big and scare the children?"

Lin Feng shot it a glance and said coldly, "It will alert the snake in the grass."

He rose and walked to the window, gazing toward the City Lord's Mansion and the Li Family estate with deep eyes.

"That big fish hiding in the shadows still hasn't revealed its true tail. If I break through now, it would be like lighting a torch that shot into the sky in the pitch-black night, telling everyone: 'I'm here, come look at me!'"

"If the mastermind behind the scenes sees my strength soar, it will surely burrow even deeper into hiding. By then, it will be difficult to drag it out again."

A hunter-like sneer curled at Lin Feng's lips.

In any case, using Crit Points to improve martial arts took only an instant.

Rather than increase the risk of exposure, he might as well save it for the most crucial moment.

When the prey was at its proudest and least prepared, he would give it a surprise it would never forget for eternity.

Huang Fugui was utterly convinced. Its master's scheming ran even deeper than the tunnels it had dug beneath Black Wind City.

Just then, Zhao Tie and Li Rui came rushing in again in a frantic panic.

"Brother Lin! Brother Lin! That little pepper... no, Miss Ling, she... she's stirring up trouble again!"

Lin Feng frowned. "Did she bring flowers again?"

This month, it was not only the lack of Crit Points that had been bothering him, but also Ling Yue'er.

She had gone all out in chasing him from behind.

Flowers, money, fine horses...

She had used every means at her disposal.

"No, no, no!"

Zhao Tie shook his head like a rattle-drum. "This time she didn't bring flowers. She issued a challenge!"

"A challenge?"

"That's right!"

Li Rui hurriedly said, "After seven days of secluded cultivation, Miss Ling's cultivation advanced greatly, and she successfully broke through to the third level of the True Qi Realm! The moment she emerged today, she announced it to the entire city, saying... saying that your rejection was the greatest insult to her martial heart! She wants to fight for her dignity!"

"She has issued you an official Demon Suppression Division martial challenge! The time is three days from now! The place is the central martial arena of the commandery city!"

"And..."

Zhao Tie's expression turned exceptionally strange. "She also declared that if she loses this battle, she will give up on you completely and never pester you again. But if she wins... you... you'll have to marry her!"

Lin Feng: "..."

The news was like a massive bomb, instantly detonating across all of Nan Yan Commandery.

One moment, everyone had still been savoring the love story of the domineering King Yama and the pretty young heiress.

The next moment, the entire tone changed abruptly, jumping straight from a romance drama to a hot-blooded martial combat show!

"My heavens! Did I hear that right? The City Lord's daughter is challenging King Yama Lin?"

"This plot is way too exciting! This is love turning into hate—the rhythm of lovers killing each other!"

"I'm taking bets! I wager Lord Lin can beat the City Lord's daughter so badly she'll run home crying for her mother in a single move! Odds are one-to-one-point-one; they can't go any higher!"

For a time, the entire commandery city boiled over. Everyone craned their necks in anticipation, waiting to witness the most dramatic and most closely watched "battle of the century" in Nan Yan Commandery's history.

"Brother Lin, what do you think about this..." Zhao Tie asked cautiously.

Everyone believed that Lin Feng would surely do as he had when rejecting Ling Yue'er last time and simply ignore such an unreasonable challenge.

Yet after hearing everything, Lin Feng merely asked calmly,

"Did she really say that if she loses, she'll never bother me again?"

"Absolutely true! Everyone in the city heard it!"

"Good."

Lin Feng nodded, an expression of immense relief appearing on his face, as if a tremendous burden had finally been resolved.

"I accept."