Sect Prodigy

Lin Feng's furious strike came crashing down, his palm force fierce and his true essence surging, landing squarely against Wang Teng's chest!

"Bang!"

A muffled boom rang out, and waves of air scattered in all directions.

However, Lin Feng's expression changed dramatically.

He felt as though he had struck a piece of tempered gold refined through a thousand hammerings. His palm force vanished into the sea, unable to shake Wang Teng in the slightest!

At some point, a faint golden halo had enveloped Wang Teng's body. It rippled slightly, dissolving the entirety of that palm force powerful enough to split mountains and shatter rocks.

Wang Teng's figure remained utterly unmoved. Even the hem of his clothes was not disheveled.

He lowered his head and glanced at Lin Feng's palm pressed against his chest, the corner of his mouth curling into an utterly mocking arc.

"That's all the strength you have?" He lightly dusted off nonexistent specks of dirt. "You're not even worthy of tickling me. How could a frog in a well like you possibly imagine the mysteries of the Mysterious Cloud Body Tempering Art?"

Lin Feng's heart sank.

Wang Teng's strength had exceeded his expectations.

This bizarre body-tempering technique had astonishing defensive power!

Breaking through it would likely be difficult in a short time.

Continuing to entangle himself here would only waste time.

His younger sister was in grave danger! Wang Teng's threat was no baseless claim!

In the blink of an eye, Lin Feng had weighed the pros and cons.

Killing Wang Teng was inevitable, but not now!

Saving his younger sister, Lin Wan, took priority over everything else!

"Your life will remain in safekeeping for now." Lin Feng withdrew his palm, his gaze as cold as ten-thousand-year-old ice. He glared deeply at Wang Teng, as though he wanted to burn Wang Teng's arrogance at this very moment into his soul. "When I return, I'll take your head!"

Before his voice had even faded, his body was already in motion. As fast as a ghost, he transformed into a streak of light and shot straight toward the western part of the city!

"Trying to run? Like a stray dog!" Wang Teng did not give chase. He merely stood with his hands behind his back, gazing in the direction Lin Feng had disappeared. His mocking voice carried in every direction. "Go on, go collect your poor sister's corpse. Perhaps you'll even make it in time to see her one last time! Hahaha!"

That brazen, venomous laughter clung to Lin Feng like a maggot burrowing into bone, relentlessly scorching his reason and driving his worry for his sister and hatred for Wang Teng to their utmost limits!

Outside a remote, dilapidated residence in the western district under the Northern Garrison Command.

Several martial artists dressed in tight-fitting outfits currently surrounded the residence. Their auras were fierce and their eyes mocking as they pointed toward the tottering house and whispered among themselves.

"That little wench inside is Lin Feng's sister, Lin Wan? I heard she's a mortal who can't cultivate?"

"That's right! She's quite pretty, but what a pity she ended up with a brother who doesn't know when he's courting death and dared offend Young Master Wang Teng!"

"Young Master Wang ordered us to give Lin Feng a 'surprise.' Tear down this broken courtyard and 'invite' the little beauty out! When the time comes, hehe..."

"Move faster! Don't let that girl inside escape! I heard that brat Lin Feng is over at the assembly hall courting death. He's probably already been crushed to death by Young Master Wang Teng by now, right?"

Their filthy words, mixed with Zhang Kuang laughter, rang clearly in Lin Feng's ears as he rushed toward them!

His eyes nearly split with fury, and his heart felt as though an invisible hand had seized it in a death grip!

Wang Teng! As expected, this bastard had arranged it!

"Boom!"

A thunderous crash rang out!

One of the heavily built martial artists grinned viciously as he circulated his true essence and slammed his fist into the residence's already-rotten load-bearing pillar!

Wood and stone flew everywhere!

The residence, already tottering in the wind and rain, let out a grating groan. Huge cracks began to spread across the walls, while roof tiles pattered down in a steady stream!

"Not good! The house is going to collapse!"

"Wan'er!" Lin Feng roared inwardly. He accelerated once more, almost becoming a straight line tearing through the air!

"Crack... boom—!"

With a deafening crash, the long-neglected residence could no longer hold up and collapsed with a thunderous roar!

Dust billowed into the sky, while broken wood and shattered bricks rolled across the ground!

"My sister!" Lin Feng's heart and guts shattered, and his vision was instantly blurred by the billowing dust.

At this critical juncture, he saw it!

Just before the collapsed beams and roof tiles were about to bury the frail figure curled up in the corner—

"Whoosh!"

Lin Feng's figure burst into the ruins as if teleporting. He pulled the terrified Lin Wan tightly into his arms while condensing true essence in his other hand and striking upward with tremendous force!

"Boom!"

His palm force surged, shaking away several enormous beams and countless roof tiles bearing down from above and clearing a small safe area.

As the dust thinned, it revealed Lin Feng tightly embracing his younger sister.

Lin Wan's face was as pale as paper, and her whole body trembled. She had clearly been badly frightened, but fortunately, she was unharmed.

"Tsk, you're pretty fast." The burly martial artist withdrew his fist. Together with the others, he leisurely surrounded Lin Feng and his sister, their faces filled with the mocking amusement of cats playing with mice.

"So this is Lin Feng? Looks like you didn't make it in time to collect your sister's corpse, but you did make it in time to play the hero and save the beauty? What a pity—you've come here to die!"

"You're carrying a burden and still think you can turn the world upside down?"

"Just obediently surrender and offer up the little beauty. Maybe the brothers will even grant you a quick death!"

One taunt after another stabbed at Lin Feng like poisonous needles.

He gently moved his sister behind him, using his not-particularly-broad back to shield her from all malice and danger.

His gaze was terrifyingly calm. It was the deathly silence before a storm, the icy chill of killing intent condensed to its utmost extreme.

There was no need for words. Only slaughter could wash away this humiliation and hatred!

He slowly raised his eyes, his gaze sweeping across the four approaching martial artists as though they were already dead.

The four men's auras were linked, and their true essence was profound. All of them were actually experts who had opened several meridians. They should be powerful fighters Wang Teng had brought back from the sect, and their strength was even greater than the Nalan Family Head's!

Just as the true essence within Lin Feng's body began circulating frantically, preparing to suppress and kill all four of them with thunderous force at the fastest possible speed, regardless of the cost—

Ding! Detected the host's intense killing intent. Quest triggered: Suppress and Kill the Provoking Martial Artists!

Quest objective: Kill four prodigies of the Mysterious Cloud Sect

Quest success reward: 2,500 Slaughter Points!

The system's icy notification, like a declaration from the Grim Reaper, rang out in Lin Feng's mind.

Lin Feng's gaze instantly locked onto the four men before him.

The slaughter began.