Lin Feng saw through his makeshift teacher's dilemma at a glance. He immediately stepped forward to shield her at her side, looking at Dugu Bo with a faint smile.
"You must be joking, Senior. We never intended to take it by force."
"But I have something I'd like to trade for it. Something you absolutely won't be able to refuse."
His voice brimmed with confidence.
Dugu Bo stroked the little jade-green snake coiled around his forearm. It flicked its tongue, letting out threatening hisses.
He scoffed, his eyes full of contempt.
"Brat, you're young, but you certainly talk big."
"There aren't many things in this world I can't refuse. Can you produce a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone?"
"Enough nonsense. Never mind that you don't have one—even if you did, I wouldn't trade this treasure ground for anything."
"Oh? Is that so?"
Lin Feng chuckled, then put on a look of admiration.
"What a pity. It seems this treasure ground simply isn't meant for us."
"I never imagined you had seen so thoroughly through life and death that you could disregard even your own life, Senior. You truly have my admiration."
As he spoke, he turned and made as if to leave.
"Teacher, since Senior won't budge, let's go."
Those words struck Dugu Bo squarely in his most vulnerable spot. His jade-green pupils abruptly contracted, and he demanded sharply:
"Brat, what exactly do you know?"
His formidable, dark-green soul power erupted with a thunderous blast, scattering the surrounding poisonous miasma half a kilometer away. The force shredded the leaves in the forest, sending their fragments fluttering down.
His sudden, violent loss of control startled Qian Renxue, Pufferfish, She Long, and the others.
They could not fathom how a single remark from Lin Feng had made Dugu Bo lose his composure