Lu Cheng opened his eyes.
Feng Qi and the other two had appeared in front of him at some point.
The shock in all three of their eyes was impossible to hide.
He had entered the late stage of Strength Refining in just over twenty days.
In their experience, it was unprecedented!
Feng Zhan reached out and patted Lu Cheng on the shoulder, nodding repeatedly.
"Good. Truly excellent!"
Feng Ji also smiled and said,
"We thought you were just full of ambition. Turns out you really had the strength to back it up."
"Since that's the case, we can put our minds at ease."
"There's something we may as well tell you now."
Lu Cheng had always been curious about what it was like to transmit one's voice directly into someone's ear, and what it felt like to hear it.
Now he had experienced it for himself.
Feng Ji had used the technique of voice transmission for those few sentences. Lu Cheng saw his mouth moving, but there was nothing unusual about it. The voice reaching his ears was faint and muffled.
It was like two people speaking softly, only breathing out, their vocal cords not vibrating at all.
"The Chen Family and Lin Martial Arts Hall approached Shen Yi two days ago and joined the competition, offering the same stakes."
"Now it's effectively a contest among four parties. As for how the final matches will be held, they may involve both defending the ring and issuing challenges."
Lu Cheng was startled.
The Chen Family and Lin Martial Arts Hall had threatened the Long Wind Escort Agency before.
He hadn't expected them to lose patience after all.
Lu Cheng was about to reply when Feng Ji's voice transmission sounded in his ear again.
"No need to answer. Just knowing this