"Do you even deserve to remain on the Imperial Fighting Team!?"
Yu Tianheng spoke with absolute certainty.
He raised two fingers and pointed at Ji Feng.
Ji Feng frowned.
He understood instantly.
There was no need to think about it.
The soldiers stationed on the street outside the hotel were from the Earl Mansion.
The moment he went out, he would be arrested and punished.
"Stop!"
Seeing Ji Feng heading for the hotel's entrance,
Yu Tianheng stood tall and proud.
He said coldly, "Although Teacher Qin Ming isn't here today, I'm speaking on behalf of the entire Imperial Fighting Team when I kick you off the team!"
Having said that,
he made no effort to hide his feelings.
He pointed at Ji Feng.
"Good!"
The Shi Mo brothers and the others were all on Yu Tianheng's side.
Hearing this,
they were naturally pleased.
Dugu Yan, however, looked at Yu Tianheng in surprise.
Tianheng usually never held grudges like this.
Ever since Ji Feng joined the team,
he seemed unhappy every day.
He seemed to have become much more narrow-minded.
"But everything Tianheng decides is right. I'll support him no matter what."
That was what Dugu Yan thought.
Only Ye Lingling remained silent.
When she heard their captain, Yu Tianheng, say he was kicking Ji Feng off the team,
she was shocked.
She lifted her cool gaze,
looking at Ji Feng in disbelief.
"You're kicking me off the team? Aren't you supposed to compete at the Soto Great Soul Arena in a couple of days? You..."
Ji Feng wasn't surprised.
But just as he began to speak,
Yu Tianheng cut him off. "There's no need for a nobody like you to worry about that. I'm level 39, and Yan Yan is level 38. Even the weakest member of the team is level 36. Everyone here is stronger than you."
"So..."
Before he could finish,
Ji Feng understood.
But he wasn't angry.
Ji Feng wasn't one to brood over every grievance.
Everything was for the sake of becoming stronger.
Staying on the Imperial Fighting Team wouldn't help him much.
So,
after thinking it through,
he nodded. "All right."
Then,
he left at once.
But he went out through the back door.
"Hm?"
Seeing that Ji Feng hadn't even argued before leaving,
Yu Tianheng hadn't expected him to agree so readily.
But that lack of resistance, his simply going along with Yu Tianheng's wishes,
made Yu Tianheng feel even more annoyed. "Hmph! He was useless to begin with. I even helped him obtain his Soul Ring. Once he leaves the team, he'll be nothing!"
"It was joining the Imperial Fighting Team that gave him the ridiculous impression he was strong!"
His tone was flippant.
After saying that,
he shoved both hands into his pockets. "It's fine. Under my leadership, the team will sweep all of Suotuo City in a few days!"
He spoke in a low voice,
wearing an expression of unshakable resolve.
Ji Feng left the hotel
and slipped into an alley in Suotuo City.
He wore a long robe beneath a black cloak,
which was large enough to conceal his entire head and body.
"So I offended the Earl of Suotuo City. Who found out? Or did someone inform on me?"
At the thought,
Ji Feng furrowed his brows.
Then the image of that little bastard, Tang San, surfaced in his mind.
"I only saw Tang San yesterday. No one else saw me. It must have been him."
"Why, you little scumbag! I never bothered you, and you still went behind my back to set me up!"
"Just you wait!"
Ji Feng silently committed Tang San's name to memory.
At the same time,
he thought of how Yu Tianheng, full of himself, had kicked him off the Imperial Fighting Team.
He sneered. "Kicked off the team? I could take a few dogs and still beat your so-called Heaven Dou Royal Team!"
At the thought,
he composed himself.
He would first train until he reached level 40.
Then he'd come back for them.
"There's not much to do in Suotuo City. But since Yu Tianheng and Tang San both picked a fight with me, I'll give you two a little surprise before I leave the Heaven Dou Empire."
Ji Feng muttered to himself.
A faint smile curled at the corner of his mouth.
He would definitely be at the match between the Imperial Fighting Team and Shrek Academy at the Suotuo Great Soul Arena.
And he would turn the tables on them in one fell swoop.
Whoosh!
"Who's there?"
Just after he left the city outskirts,
a voice sounded
from behind him.
His nerves tightened.
He spun around,
and saw a graceful figure.
"Ye Lingling!?"
Ji Feng's expression shifted from surprise to astonishment.
Of the entire Imperial Fighting Team, she was the only one without prejudice against him.
After all, the two of them had spent a night together in the Soul Hunting Forest.
"Come back with me."
Finally,
she spoke.
Ever since he'd met Ye Lingling,
they'd barely exchanged a word.
A look of surprise crossed Ji Feng's face. After a moment's thought, he shook his head. "No. I have something I need to take care of."
When he finished,
Ye Lingling's face stiffened at once.
She hadn't expected
to be turned down.
When she looked up again,
Ji Feng was already leaving.
Whoosh!
Her expression turned cool once more.
And she chased after him.
She pursued him for more than a thousand meters beyond the city.
At last,
she stood there, lost in the forest, staring at the thick undergrowth.
Ji Feng had vanished without a trace.
In the end, she sighed
and chose to head back.
"He's gone?"
But once Ye Lingling's figure had disappeared into the forest,
a figure dropped from the tree where she had just stopped.
It was Ji Feng.
"Looks like Ye Lingling wanted me to stay."
"She wanted me to stay but wouldn't say so? Is she always this cold?"
At the thought,
Ji Feng wore a strange expression.
Meanwhile,
at the Earl Mansion,
"Esteemed Titled Douluo, I've looked into it, but I couldn't find the person anywhere in the city. What do you think...?"
The Earl, who usually held himself in such high regard, rubbed his hands together,
wearing an ingratiating smile.
He bowed and scraped before a middle-aged man in a black robe, his beard unkempt.
The man listened
without a trace of emotion.
Yet the oppressive force he exuded weighed so heavily on the Earl that he didn't dare speak. Even his breathing grew labored.
"Get out!"
The weathered-looking man
spat out a single word.
The other man finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Yes, yes, yes! Thank you, Titled Douluo. I'll get out..."
Then,
the Earl took his household servants
and scrambled away on hands and knees.
In his place,
the middle-aged man in the black robe remained on the high seat, his eyes flickering with uncertainty.
Behind him, crimson lightning flashed,
releasing a terrifying pressure that even a Titled Douluo would greatly fear.
On the other side.
Ji Feng had no idea.
That after he left a moment earlier,
everything that happened next at the City Lord Earl Mansion.
After leaving Suotuo City and entering the Star Dou Great Forest,
he had cloaked himself from head to toe in black.
Even his entire face was hidden behind a black mask, leaving only the bow in his hands visible.
Whoosh!
In the forest,
an arrow flew past,
and a Hundred-Year Soul Beast fell dead.
"It's time to head to the Soul Hunting Forest and hunt down that 4,000-year-old Three-Headed Demon-Devouring Spider I encountered before!"
Beneath his mask,
a glint flashed in Ji Feng's dark eyes.
Killing intent spilled from him!
The Soul Hunting Forest
was located in Fasinuo Province.
By carriage,
the journey would take seven days.
If he traveled on a flying Soul Beast,
he could reach the Soul Hunting Forest in just two days.
"Once I break through to level 40, it'll be time to make a trip to the Sunset Forest."
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